The Legend of Zelda: Sheik's Legacy
by GLJ
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in the Zelda franchise. They are all the property of Nintendo. Enjoy the story. ^_^
Author's Note: I am well aware of the fact that Sheik is in reality Zelda, and a female. However, in the next few chapters, she will be referred to as a male, since that, according to the actual game, is what everyone in Hyrule thinks she is.
1 Chapter 2: Two Kokiri for an Army Against Evil
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A solitary young man stood overlooking the once-beautiful Hyrule Castle. It was now dark and had an evil feeling to it. The castle stood on bare dirt and rock, instead of the grassy field that it had once been resting on. After almost seven years of being under the influence of the dark King Ganondorf, it was no wonder that the castle had changed so much.
The young man's eyes squinted slightly under his long blond bangs. The horrendous sight of Hyrule Castle gave rebirth to the feelings of hatred he had hid for years. He turned to walk away after taking one more glance at the castle. Walking down the path that headed towards the ruins of Hyrule Castle town, he turned his gaze to the top of the Temple of Time, which was visible over the tops of the destroyed buildings of the city.
"Oh, Link," he said, remembering the Kokiri boy that he had met seven years ago, before Ganondorf had taken over. "When will you return? Impa said that you were only to be trapped in the Sacred Realm until you are old enough to be the Hero of Time. It has been too long, Link. I'm not a hero like you. I'm just a princess. Please, Link, return soon. We need you."
Suddenly a deafening shriek sounded throughout the town's ruins, interrupting Sheik's thoughts about his past. He swung around to see a tall brown ReDead closing in on him. Sheik's taped hand darted to his waist, where he kept a long chain, his weapon of choice. He snapped it at the ReDead like a whip and the zombie creature backed a few paces. Two other ReDead came up from behind Sheik and grabbed him. But Sheik was quick as a flash. He kicked his left leg upwards high behind him, making a perfect straight line with his legs that extended about six feet in the air. The blow knocked the head off one of the ReDead, and the other one stumbled back. Sheik recovered his balance and spun in a circle, swinging the chain around him. The spinning cold metal sliced cleanly through the bodies of both the remaining ReDead. Sheik snatched the magic jar that he had gotten from the corpses, boosting his magic energy. He ran out of the town, and through Hyrule Field to the Kokiri Forest.
* * *
"Bring it on, hot shot," said Mido, the self-proclaimed boss of the Kokiri while facing a grinning Mad Scrub. Mido lunged at the bush, holding out a small knife. The Mad Scrub squeaked tauntingly and easily hopped out of the way.
"Rrrgh..." Mido growled in frustration, lunging again. The bush sidestepped and Mido stumbled into the side of Saria's house. He sat up and rubbed his head while saying, "What do you want, punk? Get out of here! You're not welcome here!"
The Mad Scrub only snickered in reply and scurried off the burrow through its flower and into its little underground den. Mido stood up and rubbed his head again. "Oww, that little brat really got me. It's all Link's fault!" He quickly began to do his favorite avtivity, blaming Link for all his troubles. Mido then faced the direction of the Great Deku Tree, which was now gray and dried up with death. It had taken several years, but the magical protection that the tree had granted had finally worn off. Monsters from the Lost Woods had begun coming to the safe part of the forest, where the Kokiri village was. Mido, of course, blamed this on Link, too. Link had "killed" the Great Deku Tree by destroying the evil Queen Gohma that Ganondorf had planted inside it. In return for this, the Deku Tree had given Link the Kokiri Emerald, the prize of the Kokiri.
"Darn it!" Mido said, throwing his puny knife onto the grass. The Kokiri Sword, the other prize of the Kokiri, had also been "stolen" by Link. "If that little weakling hadn't taken the sword, then I would be able to destroy all these little scrubs easily!"
"Hey, Mido. Why don't you shut up a little and start helping?" Saria said, obviously not having any trouble cutting up the Deku Babas with her dagger.
"Saria, you deal with these little scrubs over there. I can see that those Babas are a bit too much for a girl like you to handle." Mido stepped in front of the tall plant where Saria had been.
Saria tried to hide a little giggle. She knew that Mido was having a hard time with the Mad Scrubs, but really, the Babas were tougher than the little bushes. She wondered why Mido, who was such a coward, had even volunteered for the job of destroying the monster invasion. "Probably to try to impress me," she thought as she fearlessly thrust her hand into the Mad Scrub's burrow. She pulled it out by the leaves on its head and cut it into twigs with her dagger.
"Aaaah!" Mido screamed as he was assaulted with Deku nuts from all sides. Three Mad Scrubs and the Deku Baba were attacking him together. Saria rushed to his aid, but another Deku Baba erupted from the ground in front of her and attacked her. Another came from behind, trapping her between them. She tried to fight back, but the dagger was knocked from her hands. Unable to defend herself, she curled up as the Babas pounded her with their massive plant buds.
Suddenly, all the Deku Babas and Mad Scrubs burned up in blue fireballs and vanished. Saria slowly stood up and picked up her dagger. Mido still lay on the ground, weeping uncontrollably. Saria lightly nudged him with her boot to show him that it was over. He stood up trembling and looked around, only to hide again at the sight of a thin, muscular young man wearing a tight blue and white body suit with a red bleeding eye emblem on his chest.
"Who are you?" Saria asked, surprised to see a Hylian in the forest, but not threatened. Mido shook with terror, dropping his confident guise, as he had never seen a Hylian before.
"My name is Sheik," the stranger said. "I have come here to recruit warriors for the battle against Ganondorf." His voice was oddly feminine for a man, however, it was too masculine for a woman.
"I'm sorry, but we do not know who this Ganondorf is, nor do we know much about you," Saria replied to the mysterious character.
"I have already told you that my name is Sheik, and as one of the last living Sheikah, I am a freedom fighter. Ganondorf is an evil man from the Gerudo Valley to the West and he has taken over Hyrule Castle." Sheik paused to land a powerful side kick in the face of an advancing Mad Scrub, and then continued his story. "My...mother Impa and I have been training and recruiting an army for most of the past seven years. But there are not enough people for us to take on Ganondorf, since he has the Triforce of Power. I come here to ask you to join us in the fight to maintain justice and good in the world."
Saria stared intently into Sheik's eyes. They seemed to be hiding something. "What should make us believe that you're telling the truth?"
"A boy named Link used to live here. I am a good friend of his."
"Link?" Saria said, with images of his long-lost friend drifting back to her memory. "What happened to him?"
"Nothing bad, I assure you. He has been sealed away for the past seven years. I believe that he will be returning to us very soon."
Mido finally spoke up. "Link? Link?! If he's a friend of yours, then I'm not helping you! He's so full of himself and arrogant that he'll probably try and take on this Ganondorf guy himself. I say let Link get himself killed, and I won't be part of it."
Suddenly Mido was rubbing a large red spot on his cheek where Saria had slapped him. "You're the arrogant one, Mido," Saria said. "If you're not going to help, go home and take a nap, since you're no good at fighting off the forest monsters either." Mido remained where he was. Saria ignored him and turned to Sheik. "Okay, what do we have to do? As Kokiri, we can't leave the forest, but I'll help you in any way I can."
"Thank you, young lady," Sheik said. "However, there is a way to leave the forest."
"What?" Mido said, not believing the stranger at all. "That's not possible! Don't listen to him, Saria, he's trying to trick us."
"This is no trick," Sheik said. "I am a Sheikah, and therefore I speak the truth. There has been one other Kokiri to leave the forest, and I know him quite well."
"Link," Saria said hopefully.
Sheik shook his head. "No, Saria. Link is not that Kokiri. I am talking about someone who left the forest when you were only a baby. His name is Kohran, and he currently lives in my village, Kakariko."
"What?" Saria and Mido said together. They had never heard of a Kokiri before leaving the forest except Link, who Mido had assumed was dead until Sheik had mentioned him.
"How does he survive?" Saria asked. "I thought a Kokiri would die if not protected by the forest."
"He is protected by the forest," Sheik said. "Fairies. In his free time, he collects fairies and he uses their life power to live. He frequently asks travelers to sell him something that they may have in a bottle, hoping that he might get a fairy."
"So he...takes the lives of fairies?"
"Yes. However, you must remember that fairies exist to help Kokiri. They are pleased to aid him. And of course, the moment a fairy gives its life to renew the life of a person, that fairy is brought back to life at once at its fairy fountain of origin. If you bring along a couple bottles of fairies, you will be able to help against Ganondorf."
"Why do you want us?" Saria asked.
"You are a friend of Link, and as friends of our hero, you are surely on the side of light."
"I'm no friend of Link's!" Mido exclaimed, but he didn't rush off to his home. Instead, he grumpily tagged along as Sheik and Saria entered the Lost Woods to capture some fairies.
* * *
Ganondorf paced around one of the many rooms in his castle. He had a bad feeling about the boy named Link. He knew that the time for Link's return was near, and he knew that he had something about it. Suddenly, with a spark of an idea, he disappeared and showed up again in a room on the top floor. There were spell books and potions of all kinds scattered about the room. It was the room of Hyrule Castle's royal wizard, who was now long gone.
"Hmmm..." Ganondorf, deep in thought, looked through the pages of the many books he had magically made to hover in front of him. "The right spell has to be in one of these somewhere."
After he had searched through all of the books, he angrily stormed out of the room and went to the library. There, he looked through all of the spell and sorcery books he could find, but still, the spell he was searching for was not to be found. When he was about to give up hope, he saw one last book he hadn't looked through yet. It was entitled, "Dark Spells and Evil Sorceries".
Ganondorf grinned.
* * *
The cold metal of Sheik's chain bit deep in the side of a gigantic Moblin. The huge doglike monster grunted and fell in a burning blue fireball. Sheik stepped over the scorched ground where it had fallen and continued through the maze of the Sacred Forest Meadow, followed by Saria and Mido.
"I can't believe that these beasts are here," Saria said. "The only things that used to be here were Mad Scrubs and a single Wolfos."
"Times have changed," Sheik said as he finished off a Moblin with a storm of needlelike darts. "Let's get going." He speedily climbed up a ladder and stood on top of one of the walls of the maze. Saria climbed up after him, and then Mido. Sheik pointed down at a hole in the ground blocked off from outside by the walls. "There's a fairy fountain. Get your empty bottles ready, and follow me."
Sheik and Saria fearlessly jumped down the hole, and Mido hesitantly scrambled down after them. After walking through an exquisite passage, they reached the fountain. It was beautiful. There were plenty of fairies flying around above the clear water, which was about five inches deep. There were white stone pillars around it, and Saria thought that she could hear a peaceful music emanating from the fountain itself.
Sheik stood in the center of the fountain and allowed the fairies to surround him. A few disappeared after voluntarily giving their life energy to him. He swung a bottle and caught a fairy, then swung again and caught another. After a few more seconds, he stepped out of the water and stood next to Saria, holding four bottles in his hand, each containing a fairy. Saria went in and did the same, but with a little more difficulty. After a fairy gave its life energy to her, she felt completely peaceful and content for a moment, as if time had stopped and left her in between. After collecting her four fairies, she got out and Mido went in.
He had a hard time catching the playful sprites, which darted around him, seeing his grumpy mood and trying to cheer him up. He slipped on the smooth surface under the water and splashed around before getting up, only to fall down again after being frightened by a playful fairy. After a few minutes, he only managed to catch one fairy and found himself trudging out of the water, completely wet from head to toe.
Saria laughed. "How can you be so wet after playing in only one inch of water?!"
Sheik took Mido's remaining three bottles and caught a fairy for each one in a second. "Here. Now let's go."
"Go where?" Mido asked.
"Well, we have the fairies, so you two can leave the forest. We're going to Death Mountain to recruit some Gorons for our army."
Saria and Mido had never left the forest before, and upon the phrase "Death Mountain", they began to feel like they'd made a mistake in agreeing to help Sheik.
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Author's note: Thank you all for the positive reviews for the last chapter! Again, please try to leave a note or comment on my writing to help me out a bit, as this is my first story.
by GLJ
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in the Zelda franchise. They are all the property of Nintendo. Enjoy the story. ^_^
Author's Note: I am well aware of the fact that Sheik is in reality Zelda, and a female. However, in the next few chapters, she will be referred to as a male, since that, according to the actual game, is what everyone in Hyrule thinks she is.
1 Chapter 2: Two Kokiri for an Army Against Evil
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A solitary young man stood overlooking the once-beautiful Hyrule Castle. It was now dark and had an evil feeling to it. The castle stood on bare dirt and rock, instead of the grassy field that it had once been resting on. After almost seven years of being under the influence of the dark King Ganondorf, it was no wonder that the castle had changed so much.
The young man's eyes squinted slightly under his long blond bangs. The horrendous sight of Hyrule Castle gave rebirth to the feelings of hatred he had hid for years. He turned to walk away after taking one more glance at the castle. Walking down the path that headed towards the ruins of Hyrule Castle town, he turned his gaze to the top of the Temple of Time, which was visible over the tops of the destroyed buildings of the city.
"Oh, Link," he said, remembering the Kokiri boy that he had met seven years ago, before Ganondorf had taken over. "When will you return? Impa said that you were only to be trapped in the Sacred Realm until you are old enough to be the Hero of Time. It has been too long, Link. I'm not a hero like you. I'm just a princess. Please, Link, return soon. We need you."
Suddenly a deafening shriek sounded throughout the town's ruins, interrupting Sheik's thoughts about his past. He swung around to see a tall brown ReDead closing in on him. Sheik's taped hand darted to his waist, where he kept a long chain, his weapon of choice. He snapped it at the ReDead like a whip and the zombie creature backed a few paces. Two other ReDead came up from behind Sheik and grabbed him. But Sheik was quick as a flash. He kicked his left leg upwards high behind him, making a perfect straight line with his legs that extended about six feet in the air. The blow knocked the head off one of the ReDead, and the other one stumbled back. Sheik recovered his balance and spun in a circle, swinging the chain around him. The spinning cold metal sliced cleanly through the bodies of both the remaining ReDead. Sheik snatched the magic jar that he had gotten from the corpses, boosting his magic energy. He ran out of the town, and through Hyrule Field to the Kokiri Forest.
* * *
"Bring it on, hot shot," said Mido, the self-proclaimed boss of the Kokiri while facing a grinning Mad Scrub. Mido lunged at the bush, holding out a small knife. The Mad Scrub squeaked tauntingly and easily hopped out of the way.
"Rrrgh..." Mido growled in frustration, lunging again. The bush sidestepped and Mido stumbled into the side of Saria's house. He sat up and rubbed his head while saying, "What do you want, punk? Get out of here! You're not welcome here!"
The Mad Scrub only snickered in reply and scurried off the burrow through its flower and into its little underground den. Mido stood up and rubbed his head again. "Oww, that little brat really got me. It's all Link's fault!" He quickly began to do his favorite avtivity, blaming Link for all his troubles. Mido then faced the direction of the Great Deku Tree, which was now gray and dried up with death. It had taken several years, but the magical protection that the tree had granted had finally worn off. Monsters from the Lost Woods had begun coming to the safe part of the forest, where the Kokiri village was. Mido, of course, blamed this on Link, too. Link had "killed" the Great Deku Tree by destroying the evil Queen Gohma that Ganondorf had planted inside it. In return for this, the Deku Tree had given Link the Kokiri Emerald, the prize of the Kokiri.
"Darn it!" Mido said, throwing his puny knife onto the grass. The Kokiri Sword, the other prize of the Kokiri, had also been "stolen" by Link. "If that little weakling hadn't taken the sword, then I would be able to destroy all these little scrubs easily!"
"Hey, Mido. Why don't you shut up a little and start helping?" Saria said, obviously not having any trouble cutting up the Deku Babas with her dagger.
"Saria, you deal with these little scrubs over there. I can see that those Babas are a bit too much for a girl like you to handle." Mido stepped in front of the tall plant where Saria had been.
Saria tried to hide a little giggle. She knew that Mido was having a hard time with the Mad Scrubs, but really, the Babas were tougher than the little bushes. She wondered why Mido, who was such a coward, had even volunteered for the job of destroying the monster invasion. "Probably to try to impress me," she thought as she fearlessly thrust her hand into the Mad Scrub's burrow. She pulled it out by the leaves on its head and cut it into twigs with her dagger.
"Aaaah!" Mido screamed as he was assaulted with Deku nuts from all sides. Three Mad Scrubs and the Deku Baba were attacking him together. Saria rushed to his aid, but another Deku Baba erupted from the ground in front of her and attacked her. Another came from behind, trapping her between them. She tried to fight back, but the dagger was knocked from her hands. Unable to defend herself, she curled up as the Babas pounded her with their massive plant buds.
Suddenly, all the Deku Babas and Mad Scrubs burned up in blue fireballs and vanished. Saria slowly stood up and picked up her dagger. Mido still lay on the ground, weeping uncontrollably. Saria lightly nudged him with her boot to show him that it was over. He stood up trembling and looked around, only to hide again at the sight of a thin, muscular young man wearing a tight blue and white body suit with a red bleeding eye emblem on his chest.
"Who are you?" Saria asked, surprised to see a Hylian in the forest, but not threatened. Mido shook with terror, dropping his confident guise, as he had never seen a Hylian before.
"My name is Sheik," the stranger said. "I have come here to recruit warriors for the battle against Ganondorf." His voice was oddly feminine for a man, however, it was too masculine for a woman.
"I'm sorry, but we do not know who this Ganondorf is, nor do we know much about you," Saria replied to the mysterious character.
"I have already told you that my name is Sheik, and as one of the last living Sheikah, I am a freedom fighter. Ganondorf is an evil man from the Gerudo Valley to the West and he has taken over Hyrule Castle." Sheik paused to land a powerful side kick in the face of an advancing Mad Scrub, and then continued his story. "My...mother Impa and I have been training and recruiting an army for most of the past seven years. But there are not enough people for us to take on Ganondorf, since he has the Triforce of Power. I come here to ask you to join us in the fight to maintain justice and good in the world."
Saria stared intently into Sheik's eyes. They seemed to be hiding something. "What should make us believe that you're telling the truth?"
"A boy named Link used to live here. I am a good friend of his."
"Link?" Saria said, with images of his long-lost friend drifting back to her memory. "What happened to him?"
"Nothing bad, I assure you. He has been sealed away for the past seven years. I believe that he will be returning to us very soon."
Mido finally spoke up. "Link? Link?! If he's a friend of yours, then I'm not helping you! He's so full of himself and arrogant that he'll probably try and take on this Ganondorf guy himself. I say let Link get himself killed, and I won't be part of it."
Suddenly Mido was rubbing a large red spot on his cheek where Saria had slapped him. "You're the arrogant one, Mido," Saria said. "If you're not going to help, go home and take a nap, since you're no good at fighting off the forest monsters either." Mido remained where he was. Saria ignored him and turned to Sheik. "Okay, what do we have to do? As Kokiri, we can't leave the forest, but I'll help you in any way I can."
"Thank you, young lady," Sheik said. "However, there is a way to leave the forest."
"What?" Mido said, not believing the stranger at all. "That's not possible! Don't listen to him, Saria, he's trying to trick us."
"This is no trick," Sheik said. "I am a Sheikah, and therefore I speak the truth. There has been one other Kokiri to leave the forest, and I know him quite well."
"Link," Saria said hopefully.
Sheik shook his head. "No, Saria. Link is not that Kokiri. I am talking about someone who left the forest when you were only a baby. His name is Kohran, and he currently lives in my village, Kakariko."
"What?" Saria and Mido said together. They had never heard of a Kokiri before leaving the forest except Link, who Mido had assumed was dead until Sheik had mentioned him.
"How does he survive?" Saria asked. "I thought a Kokiri would die if not protected by the forest."
"He is protected by the forest," Sheik said. "Fairies. In his free time, he collects fairies and he uses their life power to live. He frequently asks travelers to sell him something that they may have in a bottle, hoping that he might get a fairy."
"So he...takes the lives of fairies?"
"Yes. However, you must remember that fairies exist to help Kokiri. They are pleased to aid him. And of course, the moment a fairy gives its life to renew the life of a person, that fairy is brought back to life at once at its fairy fountain of origin. If you bring along a couple bottles of fairies, you will be able to help against Ganondorf."
"Why do you want us?" Saria asked.
"You are a friend of Link, and as friends of our hero, you are surely on the side of light."
"I'm no friend of Link's!" Mido exclaimed, but he didn't rush off to his home. Instead, he grumpily tagged along as Sheik and Saria entered the Lost Woods to capture some fairies.
* * *
Ganondorf paced around one of the many rooms in his castle. He had a bad feeling about the boy named Link. He knew that the time for Link's return was near, and he knew that he had something about it. Suddenly, with a spark of an idea, he disappeared and showed up again in a room on the top floor. There were spell books and potions of all kinds scattered about the room. It was the room of Hyrule Castle's royal wizard, who was now long gone.
"Hmmm..." Ganondorf, deep in thought, looked through the pages of the many books he had magically made to hover in front of him. "The right spell has to be in one of these somewhere."
After he had searched through all of the books, he angrily stormed out of the room and went to the library. There, he looked through all of the spell and sorcery books he could find, but still, the spell he was searching for was not to be found. When he was about to give up hope, he saw one last book he hadn't looked through yet. It was entitled, "Dark Spells and Evil Sorceries".
Ganondorf grinned.
* * *
The cold metal of Sheik's chain bit deep in the side of a gigantic Moblin. The huge doglike monster grunted and fell in a burning blue fireball. Sheik stepped over the scorched ground where it had fallen and continued through the maze of the Sacred Forest Meadow, followed by Saria and Mido.
"I can't believe that these beasts are here," Saria said. "The only things that used to be here were Mad Scrubs and a single Wolfos."
"Times have changed," Sheik said as he finished off a Moblin with a storm of needlelike darts. "Let's get going." He speedily climbed up a ladder and stood on top of one of the walls of the maze. Saria climbed up after him, and then Mido. Sheik pointed down at a hole in the ground blocked off from outside by the walls. "There's a fairy fountain. Get your empty bottles ready, and follow me."
Sheik and Saria fearlessly jumped down the hole, and Mido hesitantly scrambled down after them. After walking through an exquisite passage, they reached the fountain. It was beautiful. There were plenty of fairies flying around above the clear water, which was about five inches deep. There were white stone pillars around it, and Saria thought that she could hear a peaceful music emanating from the fountain itself.
Sheik stood in the center of the fountain and allowed the fairies to surround him. A few disappeared after voluntarily giving their life energy to him. He swung a bottle and caught a fairy, then swung again and caught another. After a few more seconds, he stepped out of the water and stood next to Saria, holding four bottles in his hand, each containing a fairy. Saria went in and did the same, but with a little more difficulty. After a fairy gave its life energy to her, she felt completely peaceful and content for a moment, as if time had stopped and left her in between. After collecting her four fairies, she got out and Mido went in.
He had a hard time catching the playful sprites, which darted around him, seeing his grumpy mood and trying to cheer him up. He slipped on the smooth surface under the water and splashed around before getting up, only to fall down again after being frightened by a playful fairy. After a few minutes, he only managed to catch one fairy and found himself trudging out of the water, completely wet from head to toe.
Saria laughed. "How can you be so wet after playing in only one inch of water?!"
Sheik took Mido's remaining three bottles and caught a fairy for each one in a second. "Here. Now let's go."
"Go where?" Mido asked.
"Well, we have the fairies, so you two can leave the forest. We're going to Death Mountain to recruit some Gorons for our army."
Saria and Mido had never left the forest before, and upon the phrase "Death Mountain", they began to feel like they'd made a mistake in agreeing to help Sheik.
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Author's note: Thank you all for the positive reviews for the last chapter! Again, please try to leave a note or comment on my writing to help me out a bit, as this is my first story.