The author still doesn't own anything, especially the ability to write decent stories.
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"Link! Link! Come on, please!" Zelda shook her knight. The tears streaming down her face mixed with the rain, but it didn't matter. Everyone she knew could be dead right now and she could be joining them at any given moment.
She shook Link one more time in vain before facing the mechanical guardian before them. She felt only grief. Sorrow and grief. These emotions she had never felt so prominently shook her very core and she felt something crack.
Suddenly, she was surrounded by a holy, golden light. Involuntarily, she lifted her hand towards the guardian and the triforce shone with a brilliant light on her right hand. All around her she felt the reincarnations of the goddess Hylia guiding her power towards her target and before she knew it, they were gone, leaving her with her fallen knight and the remains of the mechanical beast.
Zelda stood dumbfounded for a moment before turning to her knight. She knelt by him, and hugged him close to her body. The princess never really appreciated Link by her side, but he was willing to risk his life for her protection.
Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Impa and Robbie making their way over to their general direction and she shouted for them. She frantically told them to take Link to the Shrine of Resurrection and took the Blade of Evil's Bane out of his sheath.
She watched them as they took her knight away and bade him a promise that they would see each other again. Once they were gone, she finally fell apart, sobbing over the Master Sword, listening to the comforting voice emanating from the cold metal.
Zelda finally stood and knew exactly what she was supposed to do, even if it made her wait a hundred years. She strode purposefully towards to Lost Woods to return the Master Sword to its pedestal. Then to seal herself with the Calamity, and wait.
Zelda awoke with a start in a pile of rubble. She lay there for a moment contemplating her dream, or she should say, nightmare. Behind her mask of calm, she was internally screaming out for some kind of comfort.
She sighed, when she left to seal herself with The Calamity, she did it so his malice wouldn't spread any further, but then she also found her father, the King, dead and the other champions sealed themselves with their respective blights, much like how she sealed herself with Ganon. They waited a hundred years for the hero to return.
She then wondered if any of them would wonder where she disappeared to. Zelda decided reminiscing time was over, stood up, and brushed the dirt off her pants. She examined her surroundings. It appeared to be a pine forest, but she couldn't explain the rubble around her. Maybe there was a statue there before.
Zelda looked up and saw the night sky, hopefully she wasn't asleep too long. She shivered a bit and brought out a great flameblade to keep herself warm. However, she hoped she wouldn't have to use it for it's intended purpose.
After the Calamity's defeat, Link insisted on finding her a pouch much like his own. She didn't see what was so special about it until he told the princess to put all her belongings in it. Zelda began walking as she smiled to herself, remembering Link's light laughter that floated through the air as he viewed her startled expression directed towards the physics-defying pouch.
The forest was very quiet, other than the occasional hoot of an owl, but she couldn't connect this forest to any other forests in Hyrule. It was too quiet, almost like the Lost woods, just not as foggy, plus there was an easy path to follow here.
Zelda kept walking, but when she heard snapping branches, she bolted up the nearest tree and hid among to pine needles, hoping the flameblade wouldn't betray her position. She saw a few humanoid shapes in the distance, approaching on the same path she was originally on.
She waited until the creatures were directly under her so she could observe them closely, after all, she didn't want to incinerate an innocent hylian, especially by their own princess.
As they stopped underneath her tree, she could barely contain a gasp of surprise. These people had round ears! She listened, but only caught a few phrases, thankfully in English, a language she understood. Zelda hoped all of these round eared beings spoke English as well.
There were four of these humans, two children and two older men. The children seemed to be the same age, but she could be wrong, at least she could tell they were siblings. The men however, were definitely twins. They both looked like exact replicas of each other.
Zelda squinted and decided she wanted a closer look. As they walked to where she came from she donned a special sheikah armor that she only wears to be referred to as Sheik. She read about how the past queens of Hyrule could use their magic to form an alter-ego and aid the hero in his quest.
She felt a little jealous that she wasn't able to help Link that way, but she squashed those feelings and drank a stealth potion just in case and readied her blade. Crouching behind the small group, Zelda concluded they were looking for some energy source or a large reading of it.
"I don't understand, Stan," one of the older men stated, "I knew there was something going to happen. I even saw the foreign energy gathering in this particular area, but when I went, there was nothing. Only a statue of that darned dream demon, Bill Cipher."
An excited gasp came from the two children. "I KNEW IT!" The boy whisper-yelled. The girl playfully punched his arm and they were both silenced by the man in the fez. The first man who spoke with the cracked glasses frowned.
"It can't be Bill, the energy just isn't the same. It's almost...otherworldly." He looked confused. The two children gasped again, but didn't say anything. "S'okay Ford," the fez-man began, "There's nothing that you can't solve!" Zelda assumed him to be an encouraging type of person.
She felt her stealth potion wear off, but they came to the clearing anyway. She climbed another tree and this time equipped the Twilight Bow. Link told her it felt like it belonged to her, it used to belong to one of the princesses of Hyrule long ago, and he wanted her to have it. She accepted it gratefully, glad to have a relic of the past in her possession.
Zelda tightened her grip on the bow. She would not fire, but if they attacked...well, she just hoped it wouldn't come to that. The man consulted a small machine at his hip, which was about the size of the sheikah slate, under his coat. He looked slightly surprised and confused.
"Stan," he called to the fez-man, "It says the energy from this place disappeared entirely, but now over here." He pointed to the general direction where the princess was perched. She tried not to fall from the tree.
Zelda could tell he was getting frustrated as he paced back and forth around the clearing. She equipped her normal blue tunic and boots, but kept the bow out. They all started to look around the clearing and a few old stumps as she quietly slid down her tree.
She strode to the edge of the clearing, put her hands on her hips, and waited for the to notice her. The first one to catch sight of her was the youngest boy and he stood stock-still with a deer-in-guardian's-way sort of look. His sister noticed him and followed his line of sight, but she reacted a bit differently.
The girl squealed, which caught the attention of the two older men. They seemed just as surprised as the boy, and no one moved for a good few seconds. After all, it is a bit shocking to find a young woman with pointed ears in strange clothes with a giant flaming sword on her back and a bow, seemingly made of light, slung on her shoulder.
The man with cracked glasses made a motion that obviously told the others not to attack and walked up to Zelda. He stuck out his hand and Zelda shook it, noticing six fingers instead of five. "Well, uh, my name's Stanford this is my family, um, who are you?" Ford asked in his thick, gravelly voice.
"Zelda of Hyrule," she replied in her light and fair accent, "May I inquire as to where I am?" Ford immediately straightened, her voice, the way she talked, reminded him somewhat of royalty.
"Oh, this is Gravity Falls, Oregon. Uh, I've never heard of a place called Hyrule before." Ford stumbled his words out. Suddenly, the other older man pushed past Ford and stuck out his hand. These guys sucked at diplomacy.
"Sorry 'bout Sixer, here, he has problems talking to women. Anywho, I'm Stanley Pines, this is the Pines family, Dipper, Mabel, and my nerdy twin Ford." Stanley stated bluntly. Zelda put on a sweet smile and shook his hand as she waved to the two children. Ford was trying to discreetly, and failing miserably, check his machine without Zelda's knowledge. However, once his saw the results on his contraption, he looked up and pointed a shaky finger at the princess.
"Y-you were the source of energy," he stuttered out. They all looked at her in surprise as she shrugged. "You could say that, I suppose." she said. Ford broke out in a grin.
"We have a lot to talk about," he said. Zelda immediately nodded in agreement. "Yes," she began, "But, first things first, you said you have never heard of Hyrule before, correct?" They all nodded and Zelda frowned. "Well I have never heard of Gravity Falls either, so my guess is there is some form of magic which brought me here, to this world."
The small group in front of her exchanged worried glances and the boy mouthed something suspiciously like "Bill Cipher." Zelda sighed, and ran through a few theories in her head, where are the Sheikah when you need them?
Suddenly, the boy walked up to her and asked, "Does this seem familiar to you?" He held up a small piece of paper with a drawing of the triforce on it. Zelda gasped and took a step back. They all looked at her expectantly and she just showed them the back of her right hand.
Feeling the light power humming through her, she summoned just enough energy to show them the triforce, not too much or else she would accidentally incinerate them. Ford's machine under his coat started beeping and he widened his eyes. He frantically took it off before throwing it across the clearing, where it blew up in a tiny explosion.
He grinned sheepishly at them. "Sorry, your power overloaded it." Ford said. Zelda smiled before a small blur ran up to her and hugged her knees.
"Mabel, you don't just hug random一ugh." The boy, Dipper sighed and facepalmed after muttering a quick 'sorry' to Zelda.
"Grunkle Stan and Ford! Can she stay with us please? She's obviously not from this world, she's an elf," "Hylian," Zelda corrected. Mabel continued, "And she looks like a princess. You can't refuse royalty, can you?" The Grunkles sighed.
"Mabel we were going to let her stay at the Shack anyway, besides," Ford said, "She can tell us all about her own world and you can tell her about ours." Mabel brightened and let go of Zelda's leg.
Zelda knelt on one knee, so she was at eye level with Mabel. "You are correct, Mabel, I am the princess of Hyrule, and that symbol your brother showed me is a sacred power that only three people in our land possess." Zelda stood, "But, I would like to know how you can across the symbol in the first place. There is only one triforce, and since we're not in Hyrule, you can't possibly have it here."
"We saw this symbol in the sky with a bright flash of light. Your appearance might have something to do with that event," Ford explained. Dipper nodded in confirmation as Mabel shivered.
Stan noticed and scooped her up into her arms. Mabel laughed as he started to march from the clearing calling over his shoulder, "C'mon, let's talk in the Shack, we're all freezing here, don't deny it Ford, and it's late you all need some sleep."
Ford and Dipper reluctantly agreed and started out of the clearing with Zelda close behind. But, before they could get very far, they all heard a loud swirling sound behind them. They all turned around, but Zelda immediately wished she hadn't.
Letting out a bone-rattling shriek, a waterblight readied it's ancient spear.
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Okay, there are some things I have to explain that are or might be in this fic, so here I go.
一 I couldn't find a reliable source saying if there were any round eared humans in Hyrule or not, so I just assumed there were only pointed eared hylians. Also, human doesn't mean a round eared person, it just means you have a humanoid form.
一 I think it would be really cool if each of the races of Hyrule had their own language and English was the one they used to communicate to all species. Only important people learned each of the languages.
一 Zelda can turn into Sheik, she also has relatively strong magic.
一 Teba, Riju, Sidon, Yunobo are alive. Making an appearance in this fic, however, remains to be seen.
If you have any other questions, don't be afraid to ask and please correct me on grammar if I make any mistakes. And one more thing, my fic, my rules. If you don't like what I'm doing, don't even read it. Anyways, please review!
~KindredShadow