A/N: Wow, like…Wow. It's been forever since I uploaded; let along, wrote a fanfiction. But I ain't gonna lie. I've been playing alotta Legend of Zelda lately and it gave me tons of idea…not to mention, actual motivation to ACTUALLY write. Lol Seriously tho, it does feels good to finally have that motivation to write again like I did when I was young. Hah. Anywoo, allow me to introduce my newest creation. "Legend of Zelda: The Sacred Gauntlet" cool title, right? ;3
Disclaimer: I don't own any Zelda characters…Well, except for Link's adopted little sister Rin…and that…still a kinda. Lol
Legend of Zelda: The Sacred Gauntlet
Chapter 1: The Pastiche of the Past
In the beginning, there were three sources of power that fuel the land of Hyrule. A power bestow by the goddess. This power was called the Triforce.
This power…this…Triforce, it had the power to grant anybody who had it in its possession anything it desired. The then ruler of the kingdom of Hyrule, Princess Zelda, used the Triforce to bring peace and prosperity to their land.
Everything seemed good…for awhile anyways. Eventually this brought about the selfishness and evilness in man. Hearing about the Triforce's power, these men wanted to use its power for their own self-seeking needs; not caring about who gets hurt in their wake.
This brought about war and conflict in the land of Hyrule. Not wanting the Triforce to fall in the hands of the wrong, Princess Zelda ready her troops. Even the princess herself went into war against the horror that beset her land.
As the war for the Triforce continued, it started to look bleak for Zelda and her army. Her side quickly founded themselves vastly outnumbered, and vastly outmaneuvered.
Zelda was completely taken aback by the affair. Most of the skilled soldiers that was once part of her army were now sided with the ones who wanted to use the Triforce for their own greed. This made her current situation…let's say…nearly impossible.
Her army had already suffer alotta casualties. Zelda was now down to her few last remain active soldiers and the leader of the marauders were beginning to make their march toward the caste.
It was for certain, Zelda knew that this battle was WAY outta her reach, so she decide to take a different approach on to protect the Triforce. So she summon the three maidens that live within the castle walls.
These maidens were one adult and two children; mother and daughters. All the maiden wore a brooch that signified their elemental power. When their broche lit that mean their maiden powers were active.
The mother maiden broche was green; which signified wind. The eldest daughter broche lit with a blue glow; the color signified water and the second eldest daughter maiden broche lit with red, which signified fire.
Interestingly enough, their broche color matched their hair color. The maiden mother did have one more daughter with her, but her broche didn't lit, as her powers weren't develop let. She was still very young; she was 4.
By the way, her hair color was the same as her mother. Also, the other two maiden daughters, they're 12 and 10.
Anyways, from the orders of the princess, the three maidens were told to use their powers to shatter the Triforce into three pieces and contain them; as commanded the maidens used a small barrier for each piece as containment.
Back onto the battlefield, Zelda could see her enemies ominously approaching her castle keep. She knew what they wanted; a surrender from her and her remaining army.
The men were now basically on the doorstep of Zelda's castle and just as she thought, they order a surrender and the power of the gods.
Zelda pleaded with the leaders that this power wasn't meant to be misused. However her pleads fell on deaf ears as the men laughed pushing Zelda aside.
With one more attempted to stop the men, Zelda informed them that Triforce wasn't complete anymore, that she shattered to prevent them for using it. With the Triforce shattered, it could no longer grant their wishes.
But however, instead of making the men listen and give up on their plan, it just infuriated them. One of the men even slapped Zelda. Others threaten her and even put a blade to her neck.
They demand that Zelda make the Triforce hold again…However, the princess was unwavering. Suddenly one of the man stepped forth; it was the true leader of this crusade. A man with an evil, callous grin on his face.
Zelda immediately recognized this man. This man, he was a close friend to the royal family. One that even Zelda, herself, was very close to.
Surprised and fighting back tears, she asked what he was doing siding with them. She demanded that he answered. However, the man just ignored her completely.
Instead this man gave Zelda an ultimatum of his own, "…Wench, make the Triforce complete again." he said with absolutely no remorse in his voice. "…or should I take these men up to where the baby is?"
Hearing those words…it made Zelda breakdown in tears. This supposed man was gonna be her future husband and new king of Hyrule. And the baby he was referring to was their baby girl; a newborn baby girl.
Seeing Zelda had absolutely no will to fight any longer, the leader; with a snap of his finger, commanded that the others raid the castle for the Triforce pieces and that they bring him the baby.
Just as commanded, the men rummage and pilfer throughout the castle, killing anybody who stood in their way. Men, women, children…it didn't matter. They were ruthless.
Meanwhile inside their room, the maiden mother could sense that the castle was beginning to be taken over. She knew that if the solider barged in she couldn't defend herself and her children. So she decided that desperate measure were needed to be taken.
The Maiden mother was gonna use her power to shatter the three pieces of the Triforce. This would, in turn, destroy the very thing the men were after, ending this war. She release the Triforce pieces from the barrier and was just about to destroy them, when one of the pieces started to glow brightly.
Surprised, the maiden mother watched as the glowing piece of the Triforce went inside Zelda's newborn baby (who the maidens happened to be overseeing at the time. Lol)
The baby's hand glowed for awhile before the light dimmed out. The maiden mother was confused; she didn't understand why that piece decided to go into the baby princess…
Two pieces remained, once she release them from their barriers, they were non responsive. The maiden mother thought, as long as the pieces aren't together that it couldn't grant anybody wishes.
So with her powers, the mother maiden decided to send one piece of the Triforce off and transfer the last piece within her eldest daughters. Doing this took a heavy told on the mother maiden; as she never input so much magic in one sit down. The Triforce's power WAY exceeded her owns, she could feel her very self slowly fading.
Her children looked on worried. The maiden mother reassure her children that everything was okay and to take the baby and find her mother and then find somewhere safe to hide.
The three girls still were unsure, they didn't wanna leave their mother. The youngest daughter even threw herself into her mother's arms screaming for her not to leave.
The mother maiden smiled warmly at her youngest daughter as she put her hand on her face. "Do not shed a tear, my little one." she says in a calm voice reassuring voice. "Everything's gonna okay…I might leave you in body, but I'll always be with you…in spirit…"
Her mother's parting words, before departing from this world. But unbeknownst to the youngest daughter, their mother had transfer the last amount of her power into her, unlocking her maiden power, which in return lit her brooch; which was now green, as well.
The eldest of the three sisters decided it was time to carry out what their mother said and to find princess Zelda and give her baby. The eldest sister knew of an underground passage, they could avoid all the soldiers on the surface.
As the three girls transverse deep through the cold underground passage, they were suddenly ambushed by a few renegade soldiers; it seemed that Zelda's "fiancé" told all the men of the secret passages that peoples could use to escape from.
Now the girls, with no kinda combat skills, had no way of defending themselves and found themselves quickly at the mercy of the goons.
Quickly noticing that the maiden were with a baby, the soldiers put two and two together and knew it was Zelda's baby. The men went on the attack, when suddenly a man clad in armor swoop in and quickly made easy work of the them.
Seeing that the girls were with a baby, the Hylian Knight asked what the girls were doing. The maidens then told the man that were on a mission to reunite this baby with Zelda, that it was her baby.
Not wanting the girls to go out there in the fray, the man took it upon him to deliver the baby to Zelda. The eldest maiden wasn't sure to trust the man, but they knew if he was bad guy he would had took the baby by force already. That, and they didn't stand a chance against the madness that was going on out there.
So accompanied with the knight in front; he was holding the baby and the girls not too far behind; the small group trek on as they looked frantically for Princess Zelda.
Zelda, who was know beginning to let reality set in; that the man she once loved betrayed and declared war on her homeland…she turned and saw the shape her castle was in. She could see the renegades raiding her castle as they desperately looked for the Triforce pieces.
Suddenly she sensed something and saw the Hylian knight coming outta the passage first; still holding onto her baby.
Seeing this angered Zelda and she went on full attack mode. Basically wrestling with the knight to get her baby back from him. It was a huge misunderstanding, the knight even pleaded to Zelda to calm down and that he came on behalf of the maidens.
But Zelda didn't let up; she was getting fed up with what was going on; half of her own military turned on her, the man she supposed loved crushed her heart and even threaten their baby's life, she just couldn't take anymore. Her magic attacks were so ferocious, that she actual cracked his helmet some.
Suddenly the three maidens come out running to the aid of the knight, pleaded for Zelda to calm down and that he wasn't the enemy. They told her that he helped them as they escaped the castle.
Finally back to her senses and her baby reunited in her arms, Zelda asks the maidens the whereabouts of their mother. But they just put their heads down and cried softly. Zelda apologizes and goes to console the children, she also apologize to the knight for the misconception.
The knight tells Zelda the apologies can wait, that they need to get from out in the open. But before they can even attempt to flee, Zelda's fiancé appears with his sword blocking their way. He stood there, smirking maliciously.
It seems he had preempted them; he knew it was a chance that Zelda would get their baby before he could retrieve it and the Triforce pieces, as well.
He callously gives Zelda the same ultimatum; the Triforce pieces or the death of their child. (that sounds crazy as hell out loud, huh?)
Without even a second thought the Hylian knight rushes at the renegade leader at blinding speed, but he is beaten easily; his armor split in halve and cuts and bruises all over his body.
Zelda's former lover walks over the Hylian knight half-conscious body; you could see the knight in the background struggling to stand to his feet.
Zelda's ex lover approaches her, her baby and the maiden children. He grips his blade tights and starts to smirks, even chuckling a bit under his breath.
Zelda hands her baby to the maiden as she stands in front of them; also at the same time slowly backing away from her enemy. Finally, without hesitate, he goes on the attack.
Without any thought, Zelda pushes the maiden children from harm's way, in the process taking all of the damage from her ex lover's attack. The children watches in horror as he whales on her body; shattering her armor with quick and precise blows.
He then, in one final strike, puts all his strength in his attack. An attack which he slashes Zelda away from him.
Her body goes rolling into the ground and laids there seemingly lifeless…The knight screams if she's okay as he crawls toward her, but she's barely responsive.
Beaten, bloody and barely clinging onto life…Zelda watches as the cold hearted man approaches her body. Looking dead into the eyes of the man she fell in love with; she could finally see it, his true nature revealed…a cold, ruthless, evil, detached individual.
Zelda's former lover, Emanuel, finally lets Zelda in on his true intention; the reason behind the attack of the castle and his reason for the Triforce.
He tells her he wants to use to the power of the gods to remake the whole kingdom in his image; a destroy, rebuilt kinda thing. He merely used Zelda's family as a stepping stone to get close to Royal Family's most valuable treasure. He then goes on to say, that he never loved her and that their "relationship" was merely a ruse. Even the baby; which he said he never planned, just happened…
Hearing this just completely shut Zelda down, only thing she could think of was to just closed her eyes and weep. This man, she grew up with since they were children were saying all these…evil things. Broken, battered and was about to lose everything…she just decided to accept her fate…
Now standing over Zelda, his sword facing downward towards her body…Emanuel was reading his final attack; and attack to impale...When he was suddenly hit by a green light.
Cringing in pain, he turns to see the source of the attack, it was the youngest maiden, the one who just got her powers. She seemed to be in like some kinda trance and was using the power of the brooch to contain Emanuel's movement…
Emanuel struggled desperately, but couldn't move at all. As he continued to struggle the voice of their late mother came out of their baby sister's mouth. Zelda and the other two maiden was taken aback.
She then says for the two sister to quickly surround Emanuel. As instructed the other two sisters surround Emanuel. Next, she tells the sisters to release the Triforce piece that have residing within them.
At this point, Zelda, even Emanuel looks surprised. The little maidens then starts focusing their energy, summoning the Triforce piece. Emanuel looks in horror; one of the piece he was searching for was inside the children this whole time.
Now, with her final command, the trance state little girl tells her big sisters to trap Emanuel inside the Triforce shard before finally fainting.
Harnessing their maiden powers into the Triforce piece, the shard starts to glow violently as it hovers over to Emanuel.
Emanuel looks up in horror as the piece starts to make his whole body distort and pulsate. Many of his own men watches as the shard slowly vacuums his body inside it. You could hear him scream out in pain as the Triforce piece suck him more and more inside it…
As Emanuel's last second of freedom was just about up, he took a quick glimpse at his baby girl; who was being held by the eldest maiden while she did the ritual. He noticed that her forehand had the Triforce symbol on it and was glowing slightly. This was something he never seen on the baby before.
After completely absorbing Emanuel the Triforce piece, the two maidens quickly contain the tainted piece inside a mini barrier.
Watching their commander lose the battle forced the men to flee in fear; fear of being absorb inside the Triforce piece.
The maidens quickly rushes over to Zelda's side. They're holding her baby, while the Hylian knight holds the maidens fainted youngest sister in his arms.
They asked if Zelda's okay, but not worrying about herself, she only ask about her baby's well-being. The maidens respond by saying that the baby's fine, but she now house one of the Triforce pieces in her…
Zelda looks at her baby and sees the symbol of the Triforce on her; she also notices that only one piece of the whole Triforce is glowing on it. She asks the maidens what happened to the final piece.
The maidens say their mother sent it off somewhere, they have no idea where. Zelda nods her head and tries to sits up, but the pain is just too great…she can feel herself slipping away.
The knight goes over to Zelda to help her, but she just smiles at him warmly shaking her head. She asked the knight to do a huge favor for her.
The knight nods, as he's ready to fulfill anything she ask of him. However, what comes next doesn't only surprise him, but even the maidens…she asks him to take her baby with him, but don't let her know she comes from her royal bloodline.
The knight just stands there quiet for awhile, not really knowing what to say or do, a task so huge and the knight already had a four year old son at home himself.
But Zelda reassures that everything's okay. She says she doesn't want to burden her child with the task of taking over Hyrule at such a young age. She says the maidens will take over for overseers for the kingdom of Hyrule. They might be young themselves, but they're extremely wise for their age.
The knight nods and takes on Zelda's final request. The knight then goes to ask what of the baby's name. She tells him her name is Zelda as well, but she'll prefer if he gives her a different name.
The knight lifts up the blonde hair baby girl and looks at her; the Triforce piece on her hand still glowing. As he goes down to ask her mother another question he notices she's gone; seemingly disappeared. Only thing left was a giant book…
A/N: I hope u really like chapter one. Tho it was more of a prologue than anything else. Next chapter will introduce the main character, Link and his family.
