Hello, everyone. I thank you for taking your time to read my story. I am such a huge Zelda fan, so why not start off my career here making my first fan fiction on my favorite game. This is like a sequel to Twilight Princess, and I have had this story on my mind for a long time now. This will be my one warning, that this story will have spoilers from the original game, so if you haven't played this game yet, go away. If not, then spoil yourselves rotten. I appreciate any and all reviews and criticism that can help improve my writing. I hope you enjoy this story.
The sun began to rise over the horizon of the kingdom of Hyrule, signaling the dawn of a new day. Once again, Hyrule expects a peaceful day like any other, people live their lives, Gorons wrestle, Zoras swims, and Princess Zelda governs her beloved people. It is nice, after the defeat of Ganondorf and Zant over a month ago, everything has gone back to the way things should be. Even so, the lives of three people were changed because of the recent events. Zelda understood that light cannot exist without darkness, Midna finally realized that the light dwellers have good within them, and the hero Link went on to save the whole kingdom from evil hands. In the end, the one link to the realm of the Twili people was shattered to prevent a disastrous event like that from ever happening again. Link was quite devastated to say the least, because of the fact that he may never see his sassy but good-hearted friend again, but he had to move on with his life. About a month later, peace had returned, but how long should that last?
"Princess Zelda," said a nursemaid to the sleeping princess, "It is time to awaken"
The princess slowly started to wake up from her sleep, even if she was still a bit tired a wished for 5 more minutes.
"Alright," she responded, "I shall be down in a minute."
"Do you require any assistance?"
"No assistance shall be necessary, thank you."
After preparing herself for the day, and finishing her morning meal, she got to work on he remaining reparations that still need to be done on the castle. Though it was blown to smithereens last month, it was well on its way to being fully restored thanks to the cooperation of her people.
"We still need a few repairs on the left hand of the castle, the castle still has debris left, easily fixed, and we need to hire more guards to protect us..." she paused for a second thinking of the cowardly guards of the past. "*sigh* Why do so many of our guards chicken out when we need them most. I should think about hiring guards from other species that won't cower in fear."
She stopped her work to gaze upon a painting she recently received by a grateful Hylian man: the hero rising to the front to face the King of Evil.
"I can't believe over a month has past since that time," Zelda thought. "Oh Link, I hope you are doing well since our darkest moment in Hyrule. Princess Midna, I hope that you too are doing well, and that you are ruling your kingdom with fairness."
Even though those two were busy with their lives now that evil has gone, she does think about them every so often. And why wouldn't she, they were her two closest friends during the whole mess. Finding herself bored with the remaining paperwork, she decided to head out to the balcony for fresh air. It was quite a bright day, with only a few clouds in the sky and the sun brilliantly shining. She could see her people down below, buying and selling, talking and laughing, and most of all, being happy.
"It does my heart good to see that my people are happy."
She looked at the sky to see the colorful birds flying overhead. Her eyes latched onto a peculiar bird, a black speck moving slowly. It seemed quite high in the sky too, so it had to be quite a big one.
"Wait a second," said Zelda, as she took a closer look at the bird. "It's small, but I can still see its wings. From what I know, birds don't have bat wings, and bats only come out during the night."
She had also noticed that the "bird" was starting to get bigger.
"Your Ladyship, you saw that black object in the sky, did you not," a random guard said from behind.
"I have, and that so called 'bird' is getting bigger as well," responded the princess.
"Zelda, that is no bird. Our team was able to identity it, a huge dragon is coming down upon us!"
"What!?"
And sure enough, she looked upon it and saw the dragon with her own eyes. And it was headed for town at a fast speed.
"Guards, we need to get the people to safety! Who knows what could happen to them when it lands," demanded Zelda in a worried, but stern voice.
She grabbed a paper and pen, just in case she needed to write to Link, and rushed to the throne room. Even if most dragons she ever knew were bad, that may not be the case this time. Still, she would be prepared if things went sour. She could only watch the people scream and panic as the dragon hurriedly approached the Earth in not even five minutes. The dragon landed at the town square with a loud thud, and Zelda was able to gaze upon it in its full glory. It was quite huge , to say the least, covering up most of town. It was a bright green dragon with light green chest plates and membranes. It was almost completely covered in red armor, and its tail end was a lantern. Its head and horns were covered by a red helmet that stopped to the middle of its snout, with a blue diamond cut gem in the middle between its eyes. It did nothing but gaze at everything surrounding it. Then the dragon spoke, a smile creeping on its face.
"My my, what a lovely little setup we have here," the dragon said with a feminine voice, indicating its gender. "You know, humans, I have looked upon this land from the sky, and from there I saw what you have to offer. Green plains, high mountains, clear waters, snowy peaks, deserts, and a castle in the middle of it all. I must say that you all have been blessed with a beautiful and rich land."
Zelda clung on to every word the dragon said, feeling slightly good for what she said. Although, her eyes stayed latched onto the devious look in her eyes.
"Word is that this place called Hyrule... is that what it is called? Yeah, it is, is known as the Golden Land. And also two baddies were recently removed here too. Perfect, now that there are no dark blotches in my way, I would like to inform you all that I will be living here henceforth. Oh, and my home WILL be in the castle!"
The Hylians gasped, some ran in fear, others talked amongst themselves in a worried tone.
"I was afraid she was going to be a bad dragon," said Zelda in a concerned voice.
"You can't live in the castle," a brave guard said to the dragon. "The princess would never allow it, you scaly fiend!"
It just stared down at him with an unamused look on her face. Then she opened her mouth, and Zelda could see green goo forming inside. Then she just spat on the brave little guard. When it cleared up, all that was left of him was a skeleton and the remnants of his clothes. People started panicking , and Zelda was horrified.
"Let this be a lesson to all of you," boomed the dragon, "If you do anything to upset me, or disobey me, I shall spit acid upon your miserable bodies! Actually that reminds me, I haven't introduced myself, have I? Remember this well, all of you. My name is Astrid the Acid dragon, and from here on out this land is my own!"
Knowing this, Zelda had started to write a letter to the one person that can help them all, simple, but urgent. Just as she finished, and put it on one of her delivery birds, a hawk, for the recipient, she saw Astrid heading her direction. All Zelda could was rush to her throne. Then Hyrule's new enemy entered the room, which she was barely able to fit into.
"So you are the ruler of this land, am I not mistaken," said Astrid as she approached the fair princess. "It is an honor to make your acquaintance, I must say."
"Why are you doing this," Zelda responded, demanding an answer.
"Why? First of all, a question like that is quite cliché, I have heard that oh so many times. Secondly, I need a new place to live. All the other lands I've been to didn't last very long under my rule, so I moved on to here. This land is quite fertile, and I can live here for some decades, or maybe a century if I'm lucky.
"That is quite a greedy little plan you have in mind. You're expecting many species to bow to your whim just like that? As the ruler of Hyrule, I shall not approve of your planned tyrannical rule. Someone will put an end to you, and if you don't want that to happen, then-"
Astrid slammed her tail next to the princess, putting a stop to her little 'your not doing this I don't approve' speech.
"You know, for a pretty little girl like yourself, you do have a big mouth haven't you. Don't bore me with such long speeches, please," Astrid told her straight.
"All I'm trying to say is that you are not welcome to barge in here and claim this land as your own just like that," Zelda retorted.
"And all I'm trying to say is that you don't have much of a choice," mocked Astrid, "I'm bigger and more powerful than you. Any attempt to destroy me will only be in vain. But I will tell you this, you have some spunk, I can see it in those blue eyes. Not very many rulers stand their ground much like you do. Because of this, I shall make you a deal."
Zelda did like the spunk comment, but she wasn't liking where this conversation was headed.
"I normally kill the ruler when I take over the kingdom, but just for you, I shall make you my servant. What do you say, Princess Zelda?"
"As much as like your consideration, I still oppose your taking over this kingdom," Zelda said, standing her ground.
"Now you listen here you little pest," Astrid snapped, "You should be thankful that I am sparing your damn life! When I'm sparing YOUR life, I'm sparing THEIR'S too! If you keep on disagreeing with me, then I'll kill YOU, and your whole kingdom! Do you understand me," she roared, some acidic goop landing in random places near Zelda.
Zelda was speechless. She realized that she was being put into the same position as she was all that time ago, being confronted by the Usurper King Zant. Once again her people's lives were on the line. She knew that Link can do something about this since she sent the letter, but If she disagreed now...it would have been for nothing.
"Well," said the impatient dragon.
Knowing that her options are slim, Zelda reluctantly replied to the huge menace in front of her.
"I...I understand, Astrid."
"Hahaha, now you see things my way," she said in a much more pleased tone. "Now, I hope you don't mind If I sleep in the gardens. I do like my fresh air after all. Oh, and since this is my first day as ruler in Hyrule, would you make me a big cake to celebrate? I don't mind what flavor, but it has to be as tall as you. Thanks, doll!"
And with that, Astrid exited the building and went into the garden. Zelda could hear some parts of the castle collapse as sh settled in.
"*sigh* There goes the progress in our castle's reparations," she sighed in defeat. "Well, this cake isn't going to make itself, I might as well do it if it will keep her in a good mood. This will only last until Link defeats her anyway, just be patient, Zelda."
With that she headed down to where the kitchen was, all the while she could hear her people, once happy and carefree, screaming with fright at the new menace.
AN: For those of you that have already read this chapter, I have made some changes. I've looked back at it and realized that there were several errors and added a few things. I thought I could re-upload this chapter so it doesn't look cruddy and full of errors compared to the rest of the story. If you've read this before, I hope this chapter looks a bit better than before.