Hidden Life Chapter 1
Everything is a Lie
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According to Hyrule legends, the Queen of Hyrule's singing could be heard all over the land of Hyrule, no matter where you are. Villagers said that her voice was beautiful and that it sounded like an angel. All Hyruleans loved listening to the beautiful songs she sang, and when the Queen died she was missed and will always be missed by all.
The King of Hyrule was heartbroken after his true love left him and his newborn daughter alone in the land of the living. Some would say that the King never forgave his daughter for taking away the love of his life, that can possibly be true but everyone knew that the King was never the same after his wife's death. Some historians say that the King secretly murdered his daughter when she was a newborn in a fit of rage over his wife's death, others say that she was sent far away from the kingdom to live a life of solitude. None of these scenarios have ever been proven.
Ever since that fateful day not many Hyruleans are allowed inside Hyrule Castle anymore. Some people who have been inside the castle on some sort of business said they've seen the princess and that the King is hiding her away from all of Hyrule because he had a witch curse the princess for taking the life of her mother and is ashamed at what he has done. Some say the curse is that the princess's beauty and youth was giving to the witch as payment and that the princess is ashamed of being seen because of her ugliness so she hides in the castle. Others say that she was turned into a toad and they say when a toad is croaking it's the princess trying to sing just like her mother.
All of these are possible, but no one will ever no what truly happened to the princess after the Queen's untimely death.
"Where is my daughter at? You, go find her maid and tell her to come here, now." the King of Hyrule yelled at one of the castle servants.
The King paced back and forth until the servant and maid came rushing back into the front foyer.
"Where have you been, Sarah?" he asked the maid with a glare.
"My lord, I was going to wake up the princess." Sarah said with a curtsy.
"You haven't woken the princess yet? I told you to wake her two hours ago. Why did you disobey me?" he said with a glare.
"I'm sorry my lord, but the princess looked so peaceful that I didn't want to wake her." Sarah said.
The King put his head into his hand in frustration, "Just go wake her before our guests arrive and make sure she wears the dress I picked out for her." he ordered.
"Yes my lord." she curtsied before rushing off to wake the princess.
"Dammit" he muttered.
"My lord..." a valet said with a bow.
"What is it?" he asked.
"The King of Termina's coach has arrived." the valet said.
"Thank you Stephan, you are dismissed" he said the valet bowed before leaving.
A few minutes later the King of Termina came in and walked over to greet his old friend.
"King Harkinian, old friend, how have you been?" the King of Termina said hugging the other king in greeting.
"Fine King Kana, anyway, how have you and your family been?" King Harkinian asked with a grin.
"Good good, wait my wife and son isn't here yet?" Kana answered.
"I'm afraid I haven't seen or heard of their arrival yet." Harkinian said.
"Strange...I left before they did in a different coach, they should already be here by now, though." Kana said.
"I'm sure they are fine, they must have been delayed somewhere along the way." Harkinian said.
"Yeah...your probably right." Kana said.
Stephan walked back up to the two conversing kings.
"My lord, the Queen and Prince of Termina has just arrived." Stephan said with a bow.
"Thank you." Harkinian said before Stephan left.
A few minutes later a beautiful woman walked in with a tall handsome young man.
"Ariana, where have you been, are you two alright?" Kana asked running over to hug them.
"Where are fine Kana, we just stopped to talk to an old friend of mine and we lost track of time." Ariana said.
"Thank the goddesses..." Kana said.
"Welcome to Hyrule." Harkinian said coming over to greet the queen and prince.
"Thank you King Harkinian, I am Queen Ariana and this is our son Prince Roy." she said.
All of the servants and maids froze in place when the queen said her name.
"Ariana..." Harkinian whispered in a state of shock.
"Are you okay, Harkinian?" Kana asked with worried etched on his face.
He got knocked out of his daze, "Yeah...that...was my wife's name...I haven't h-heard that name in y-years..." he said.
"I'm sorry old friend, that my wife's name brings back memories." Kana said putting a hand on the other king's shoulder in comfort.
"I'm sorry you can call me Aria if that makes you feel any better." Ariana said.
"No...t-that was m-my wife's n-nickname." Harkinian murmured.
"Oh..." Ariana and Kana said.
"I'm sorry..." Ariana said.
"No it's fine, I apologize for being distracted please forgive me" Harkinian asked.
"There is nothing for you to be forgiven for, old friend." Kana smiled.
"Anyway, where is your heir at? My son would like to meet him." Kana said putting a hand on his son's shoulder.
"I..." Harkinian was interrupted by the laughter of two people coming into the room.
Zelda's POV
Knock...Knock
"Princess...Princess wake up." Sarah said as she opened the door.
"Hmm...? Wha...Ohh..." I said sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Princess Zelda, your father requests your presence in the front foyer." Sarah said.
"Why...?" I yawned.
"We have the Royal Family of Termina as our guests, Princess." Sarah said.
"Oh yeah...they're suppose to arrive in two hours." I said getting out of the bed.
"No Princess they have already arrived at the castle, they are waiting with your father." Sarah said.
"My father is going to kill me. Sarah, help me hurry to get ready." I said rushing into the bathroom to take a quick bath.
I finished taking a bath in record time and rushed over to my wardrobe for my dress.
"Princess, your father wanted you to wear this dress." Sarah said holding up a big poofy pink dress.
"Seriously..." I said my eyes going wide.
"Yes your father requested that you wear this specific dress, Princess." Sarah said.
"Hahahaha...y-you got to be kidding me. My father is so not the person to be picking out clothes. He is so uncoordinated, I hope you didn't let him pick out his own clothes?" I said.
"No Princess, his clothes were chosen by his personal servant." Sarah responded.
"Good...good now let me see the dress my father picked out for me." I said she held it up for me to see the entire dress from top to bottom.
The dress was pink with sparkles all over the bodice and the skirt was as wide as a door with ruffles and lace intermingling all over the place.
"It looks like a three year old tried to make a dress and my father expects me to wear it!" I said with a slight frown.
"I'm sorry Princess, but that is what he requested."
I walked back over to my wardrobe to look through my dresses. I just ordered a new dress that I liked a lot so I pulled it out.
"This dress fits my style more than that one." I stated showing Sarah the dress.
"It is a magnificent dress, but your father..."
"My father doesn't know what fashion is so he should not be allowed to pick out clothing for anyone." I interrupted.
"He said that it was in fashion, though."
"I have no idea what fashion it is in if it is in any at all, but I decline the idea of wearing it." I said undressing quickly and quickly dressing once again into my preferred dress.
"As you wish, Princess..." Sarah said helping me to put on the dress.
Sarah brushed my long blond hair to get the tangles out and braided one strand of hair on each side of my head like I usually wear. (Twilight Princess outfit except she is blond in this story)
"All finished, Princess." Sarah said putting my brush away.
"Thank you, Sarah!" I said as I walked out of the room.
I walked down the long hallway and down a flight of stairs to get to the floor where I should be meeting my father. I walked down the hallway and took a left when my childhood friend saw me and walked up to me.
"Princess, I was going to go find you this morning, your late for your lesson" he smirked.
"Ohh, I'm sorry I totally forgot..." I said.
"You slept in didn't you?" he smiled.
"Isaac! Your being meeaaan!" I pouted.
"How so, Princess?" Isaac smirked crossing his arms in front of him.
"So what if I did? Anyways, I'm sorry but can we do it later, my father requested my presence." I said.
"'Your father requested your presence' that's what your going with as an excuse?" he stated with a lift of his eyebrow.
"Why would I make an excuse to do something that I begged my father to let me do for YEARS?" I stated putting my hands on my hips.
He shrugged, "Maybe your just getting too beautiful for me?" he teased.
"Isaac! Stop teasing me, but I'm serious my father requested that I meet him in the front foyer. You know me better than anyone else, you know I would rather go riding with you than being in the mighty presence of the king." I said raising my arms in a sarcastic way.
I started walking again with Isaac walking by my side, "True...but he's your father, though."
"What is that suppose to mean?" I asked confused.
"Nothing..." he said making us both slip into silence as we continued walking down the hall.
We turned left at the next intersection before he spoke again, "So how has your morning been?"
"Fine...my father picked out a dress for me to wear at this meeting." I sighed.
"Well he picked out a nice dress, then it's a bloody miracle." he said putting his hands in his pant's pockets.
I giggled, "No, he didn't choose this dress, I ordered this one myself." I said smoothing out an invisible wrinkle.
"Ohh...what did the dress look like?" he asked.
"It looked like a three year old spilled sparkles on it and just mixed different fabrics together." I said.
"It was that bad?" he asked, I nodded and we both burst out laughing like idiots as we walked into the front foyer.
We walked up to my father still laughing.
"You must be Harkinian's son, I'm Kana the King of Termina." Kana said shaking Isaac's hand.
"Your majesty..." Isaac trailed off nervously.
I giggled at Isaac's reaction.
"This must be your fiancée?" Kana asked.
"She's j-just a c-close f-friend" Isaac stuttered making Kana laugh.
"Sure you two are just 'friends'" Kana smirked.
I broke out laughing again, my father giving me a glare.
"Your majesty you are mistaken, we are just friends." I said.
"You are a very beautiful young woman, Roy you should find a girl like her." Kana smirked.
"Your father's right." Ariana said.
"Whatever...I don't even know why I'm here for?" Prince Roy said.
"Hyrule is a beautiful kingdom and look beautiful woman." Kana said emphasizing me with his hand.
The Prince finally looks at me from head to toe, making Isaac glare at him which my father noticed.
"Thank you your majesty for the comment, let me introduce myself properly, though. I am Zelda the Princess of Hyrule, it is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." I curtsied.
"You mean..." Kana and Ariana trailed off.
"This is my daughter to popular belief that I have a son or that I murdered my own child." Harkinian stated.
"Father..." I said.
"It's alright, but I am very disappointed in you, Zelda, you didn't correct the King of Termina right away." Harkinian said with a dismissive wave of his hand.
"I'm sorry father..." I said lowering my head in shame.
"It isn't Zelda's fault, I should have corrected the King instead of going with it, please forgive me, you may punish me in any way you see fit." Isaac said with a deep bow of shame and remorse.
"It is alright." Kana said with a smile "You could have fooled anyone."
"I am very disappointed..." Harkinian said.
"Father please don't do anything to Isaac..." I pleaded.
"Zelda don't..." Isaac stated coldly.
"Don't what? I am not letting you take the blame for me...I will not stand by and see my friend be punished for something I did, especially being punished by my father that will not happen to you, Isaac." I stated.
"I deserve the punishment, if you were my friend you would let it be." Isaac stated turning to glare at me.
"Than maybe we are not friends, but you are a citizen of Hyrule and because you live on Hyrule soil I won't let anything happen to you because of me." I said glaring at him to.
"Everyone just calm down, no punishments Harkinian, and you two are still friends. Problems solved..." Kana said putting his hands on his hips in success.
"Hahahaha...Kana you are hilarious sometimes." Harkinian laughed.
Isaac and I stared at my father.
"You laughed..." we stated in complete shock before hugging each other.
"It's not a big deal" Harkinian said dismissing the statement.
"Well, this has been an interesting last hour or so." Roy said looking at his watch.
"Now father, why am I here?"
"Don't ask me, Harkinan and your mother requested that you came." Kana said.
"Father, how do you know the Queen of Termina?" I asked.
"I knew him before he married your mother." Ariana said surprising all of us.
"Really?" I asked.
"Ariana, we knew each other that long ago?" Harkinian asked.
We all walked out of the foyer to a private recreational room for more privacy from the maids and servants running all over the place.
"I should probably take my leave." Isaac said.
"No, there is no need to leave we just are having such a good time talking with you and I'm sure you don't want to leave the Princess with Roy as company. Roy trying to keep someone company is an awfully bad idea, he isn't very talkative with someone he just met." Kana said.
"Father!" Roy said as he sat down beside his mother and father on the opposite couch from where my father, Isaac and I sat down at.
Kana broke out with a hearty chuckle while Ariana giggled at Roy's response and his pout.
"Anyway, back to when I knew your father..." Ariana stated I nodded for her to go on.
"Not many people know this but I was born and raised here in Hyrule." Ariana said.
"Wow..." I trailed off.
"I didn't know that." Kana said.
"Interesting...well I would have left if I were you too." Roy said grimly.
"ROY, THAT IS UNCALLED FOR!" Kana said furiously.
"I'm sorry on my son's behalf, there was no reason for describing your homeland so harshly" Kana said to Harkinian.
"It's fine, it's his opinion." Harkinian said with a dismissive wave.
"Well he hasn't even seen any of Hyrule to describe it in such a disgusting way" Isaac said coldly trying to defend Hyrule's reputation.
"I hope, Prince Roy, that you at least give Hyrule a chance to redeem itself before you leave us." I said with a smile.
"Anyway, I had no choice...I decided that leaving Hyrule was for the best. I was deeply in love with an important man that one day would be important to all of Hyrule. I was young and stupid and one thing lead to another..." Ariana trailed off.
"Please tell me that father is actually my father, mother." Roy semi-whispered knocking his father out of his semi-dazed state.
"Ariana...!" Kana trailed off.
"Don't worry you two, it has nothing to do with you because technically I haven't married your father yet." Ariana said to Roy and her husband.
"We...I made a mistake, I loved him so much I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him, but I didn't want the responsiblity of being his wife and a...mother at such a young age." Ariana said.
"Ariana..." Harkinian trailed off with his eyes wide in shock like he just realized something.
"Harkinian, I can't keep it from my family anymore...my families need me...no I need them." Ariana said.
"Ariana, what is the meaning of all of this, explain!" Kana yelled.
She sighed before speaking once more, "Kana, I was married to Harkinian before I moved to Termina to live with you."
"WHAT!" Roy yelled.
I sat there in shock of all of this new information.
"Zelda, I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, truly I am, but I...you were...dammit" she muttered.
"I had an affair with both of your fathers at the same time that's why I traveled so much. Before I met and married Harkinian, I had you Roy and then I married Kana, but I later went on a 'trip' to Hyrule and married Harkinian and soon after I had you Zelda. I'm so sorry..." Ariana said ending in a whisper.
We all sat there speechless...
"Zelda..." Harkinian said putting his hand on top of my own.
"You lied to me..." I murmured with my eyes wide in complete shock.
"I thought it was the best course of action at the time, but I realize now that I was wrong." Harkinian said.
I pulled my hand away from his and stood up quickly.
"Zelda..." Harkinian and Ariana said.
"You lied to me...you lied to all of Hyrule about its Queen...YOU SAID SHE DIED BECAUSE OF ME! I'VE ALWAYS BEEN BLAMED FOR HER DEATH...PEOPLE HATE ME BECAUSE OF IT, THEY TALK ABOUT ME LIKE I DON'T EXIST...LIKE I'M TRASH. EVERYONE LOVED HER BUT SHE ABANDONED THEM...AND I'VE BEEN BLAMED FOR IT MY WHOLE LIFE AND ALL OF IT IS A LIE!" I murmured before I started to yell hysterically.
"Zelda, I'm sorry." Harkinian said standing up next to me.
"SORRY...SORRY!? I-I can't do this..." I yelled my voice going to a whisper before leaving the room stunned.
I left going back the way I came in complete silence still dazed, all of the servants and maids that walked by gave me weird looks because usually I would talk to them while they are working or going somewhere.
"Zelda...Zelda...are you alright?" Isaac said running up to me worry etched on his face, surprising the maids and servants.
"I-I d-don't k-know..." I murmured.
"That's understandable...we can reschedule your riding lesson some other time." Isaac said.
"No...I want to go now..." I said my eyes getting rid of the shock somewhat.
"Are you sure?" Isaac said "We can do it some other time when you feel better and know what is going on."
"Please..." I said taking his hand into my own "Your the only person that has always been there for me...you were the only one to be on my side...for so long...thank you for everything..."
"Okay...um...uh...l-let's g-go, t-then." Isaac stuttered looking at our entwined hands and fingers with a blush.
"Thank you...Isaac..." I smiled slightly as we walked hand in hand back to my room right quick to change into less noticeable clothes(Skyward Sword outfit) before walking down the hall to leave the castle and head to the stables.
Once we got out of the castle, all of the castle guards and castle town guards were outside in the front courtyard training and listening to their commanding officers. We walked up to them since they were kind of in the way of us going to the stables.
"Sir Isaac welcome!" the General of the army said.
"Thank you, General Narian!" Isaac half smiled shaking the general's hand in greeting.
"Who's the girl? Is she your girlfriend?" Narian smirked.
"She's..."
"I'm Zelda...Isaac's sister." I interrupted.
"You have a sister?" Narian asked Isaac, he nodded going along with my fake identity.
"Uh...yeah, she just never came up into conversation, that's why I didn't tell you." Isaac said.
"Isaac, are we going to go riding or not?" I asked.
"You don't keep a lady waiting, Isaac, get going!" Narian laughed as we walked into the stables smiling to ourselves.
"That was close..." I stated.
"Yeah, it was." Isaac said saddling up a chestnut brown horse and a white horse for us to use.
"Okay, are you ready?" Isaac asked waiting to help me up on the white horse.
I walked up to the horse and pulled myself up without his help, "Yep!" I smiled.
He laughed, "Let's go, then" he said climbing up on his horse before we walked out of the stables.
We walked slowly out of the castle gates into town. We kept the horses walking slowly in the crowds of people milling around Castle Town to other parts.
"This way." Isaac said leading us into a somewhat less populated street so we could start trotting.
Soon there were no people on the street.
"I'll race you!" I yelled as we made the horses speed up to a gallop.
"Your on!" Isaac yelled "Your going to lose!"
"No you will" I smirked both of us tied.
We kept like that when we saw two school buildings across the street from each other. It looked like both schools are over because the kids were pouring out of the gates.
We slowed down somewhat flying past the gates, me slightly in the lead, but the horses were tired so we ended our race. Me winning!
Link's POV
I walked out of school with my best friends, Sheik, Mido, and Aidan. We pasted our school sign on the gate that says "Hyrule Royal Academy" like the rest of the students at our school and the school across the street from us "Castle Town High School" when we saw two speeding horses past by us. A blond guy was behind a blond girl losing by a fraction.
They jumped off laughing and having a good time. Everyone from both schools just stood there watching them and listening to their conversation.
"We'll have to walk back that race tired out the horses" the blond guy said.
"I won, though against a professional rider!" the blond girl grinned.
"Maybe...I just let you win..." the guy said.
"It doesn't matter if you did or not you made me feel better...thanks!" the girl smiled.
They walked back towards all of us finally noticing their audience. They laughed at seeing all of us just standing there.
"Sorry about that...we were just messing around right, Isaac?" she asked the guy we all assume is Isaac.
"Yeah!" Isaac said.
"Well sis, we better head back." Isaac said to his 'sister'.
They walked past everyone, the girl looked over at Ganondorf and looked kind of scared, but then looked over to my friends and I and just stared at me until she couldn't anymore.
I feel like I knew her from somewhere...