The Best Lies

by AnonaLee

Link enters Hyrule Royal Academy to expose the Yiga spies that have been lurking there. The only catch is that Link - who is a girl - must go undercover as a boy, even rooming with a guy named Vaati. As legends become reality and her mission quickly grows more dangerous, her identity is soon not the only thing she must protect. FemLink x Vaati, modern AU, T to be safe.

1. Prologue

Author's Note: Hey, everyone! Thanks for reading my first fanfiction (well, the first I've had the guts/motivation to publish). I am just doing this for fun whenever I get stuck with my other writing projects, so it will be updated irregularly with no set schedule and no set length. Please rate and review! The more love the story receives, the more motivated I get to write! Also, sorry for the super short prologue! Chapter 1 will be up very soon, and I promise it will be longer than this sorry excuse of a chapter.

Prologue

The Legend had a beginning, stretching back ages into a past no one could remember any longer. The Legend was a curse and a blessing to the people of Hyrule, a dire prophecy of apocalypse and a redeeming promise of a savior. Unending, the cycle repeated itself, never quite the same each cycle, yet always recognizable. Sometimes the people of Hyrule would remember the Legend; other times it seemed to fade from all memory, until destruction struck again. But always, without fail, a Hero would rise, armed with Courage and the spirit of the Heroes past, to save Hyrule. And at the Hero's side was the Princess, blessed with Wisdom and the blood of the Goddess.

Always, without fail, the Hero and the Princess were named Link and Zelda.

Eventually their names survived through time, and it became popular to name boys Link and to name girls Zelda. Hyrule passed some centuries in peace, not forgetting the Legend, but no longer believing in it. The monarchy was replaced with a bureaucracy, though the royal family retained considerable influence. The Hylians lived in harmony with the Zora, Rito, Gorons, and Gerudo. It was a prosperous time. Technology flourished as it never had before in Hyrule. The Legend, with its apocalypse, seemed like only a fairy tale, and the people treated it as such. The Three Goddesses, the Tri-Force, the Hero, and all the tales that made up the Legend were relegated to the realm of mythology.

However, the Legend would never end. One hot summer night, a baby girl with blond hair and blue eyes was found in Kakariko City by a woman named Impa, a young Sheikah, left on her doorstep. Tucked into the child's blanket was a note:

Please take care of Link.

No one knew it at that time, but the cycle had begun again.