Disclaimer: Nintendo owns Legend of Zelda. Namco owns Soul Calibur.

Prologue: A New Legend Begins

Our story begins in Hyrule in the year… Well, actually the people of Hyrule don't number their years. This fact has greatly annoyed the Hyrulean historians ever since Hyrule was created, because it makes it very hard to determine in which order stuff happened.

Anyway, in our world it was 1591 AD, just so you'll know when this story takes place. Hyrule was once again threatened by the forces of evil. An evil wizard was causing chaos and destruction in the peaceful land of Hyrule. In order to stop this wizard, princess Zelda had summoned Link to the castle.

"Link, I'm glad you're here. You might have heard of the wizard that has been causing disasters all over Hyrule?"

"Yes, I have. I will immediately go on an epic quest to find three magical items in order to obtain the Master Sword and then find some more magical items before I fight this wizard."

"Um, Link. You're carrying the Master Sword and the wizard is standing in the castle garden setting fire to trees. You could just go there and fight him right away."

"Aww, but I wanted to go spelunking…"

"You can go spelunking all you want after you've saved Hyrule."

"Okay then…"

And with that Link went out of the castle to fight the wizard.

"Who dares approach the great and powerful Miothrak?"

"I'm Link and I'm going to defeat you!"

"Bwahahaha! I'd like to see you try!"

"Oh, I will."

With that Link went forward and stabbed Miothrak with his sword.

"Ow! That hurt!" Miothrak said and fell. The evil wizard had been defeated and as he lay on the ground, he said with a grin "You may have defeated me, but the greater evil that sent me will soon be victorious."

The greater evil? Link immediately realized that Miothrak must be speaking of Ganon, the king of evil, and without a word he set off for Ganon's lair.

"Link? What are you doing here?" the king of evil asked with a surprised expression.

"I am here to foil your evil schemes… again."

"What are you talking about? I'm not scheming anything… at the moment."

"Are you mocking me?"

"I'm serious. This is my week off. I might try to take over Hyrule again on Monday, but until then I'm just going to stay here and relax."

"I see… Well, I guess I'll leave then. I'm sorry for bothering you."

"Oh, that's okay. I hope you find whoever you're looking for," Ganon said as Link left his lair.

As Link returned to Hyrule Castle, Zelda told him that the royal interrogators had managed to get more info from the wizard.

"Apparently, the greater evil Miothrak spoke of is an evil sword," Zelda began.

"An evil sword?" Link responded.

"Yes, an evil sword. It is called Soul Edge."

"Soul Edge?"

"Right, he said it is from another world."

"Another world?"

"Stop that!" Zelda said with a clear tone of irritation in her voice.

"Sorry," Link said with a sad face.

"Anyway, you will need to go to this other world called Earth in order to find and destroy the evil sword called Soul Edge."

"All right."

"Also, the sword is currently shattered in many pieces. You will need to find and destroy all of them."

Link suddenly got a big smile on his face. "Ooh, I get to collect things! Now we're talking!"

"I thought you might react like that. Yes, you will get to collect things. Some of the pieces might even be in caves."

As Link heard this, he passed out from pure bliss.

As soon as he woke up, he rode off to the Lost Woods where the portals to other worlds usually are located and… realized he had no idea how to find the right one. Luckily he soon came upon Skull Kid.

"Eh-hee-hee… Are you lost?" asked Skull Kid.

"Yeah, kind of. I'm looking for the portal that leads to Earth," answered our green-clad hero.

"Oh, it's the third one on the left, between Mushroom Kingdom and Sylvarant."

"Thank you, Skull Kid!" said Link gratefully.

"Hee-hee-hee. I love to help," said Skull Kid and left.

Link entered the portal and felt the flow of magic taking him to another world.