Disclaimer: I do not own Zelda or any of the series characters. (Hey! It's a me! Light! The super awesome destroyer of evil! So new chapter, all right! Let's get on with it people. (P.S. I had help from Nessie, if I didn't include that in, she'd kill me.)
The Legend of Zelda
Reign of darkness
Chapter 2: Lost in the Sands-1
Link came to, in an entirely different place, water, everywhere, this wasn't the dessert that he had roamed for days on end, where was he?
Link turned as he heard a slight noise, only to meet green eyes, there was a woman in front of him, in some kind of weird white gown with golden markings in Hylian glyphs, her green hair smelled like fresh grass, she stood seven feet tall, bending down to look him in the eye.
She smiled.
It wasn't a smile that made you happy, it was one that promised utmost suffering and pain, it was beautiful, like death being beautiful, it was terrifying, yet captivating, he couldn't take his eyes off her smile.
"You will do…"
The woman spoke, her voice, sounding melodious, like the wind rushing through plains and birds chirping, but there was something else too, something more sinister, something that scared him more than anything did…
"W-w-who are you…?" Link asked, his voice miraculously returned, what was going on here?
The woman smiled even more, as it got more terrifying, what was she?
Wordlessly, she bought her left hand forward, reaching for Link's head.
"You will do…"
She said again as she touched the shaking boy's forehead, giggling.
"W-wha-what are you doing?" Link asked, as a strange tendril of green light shot out through her fingers, going through Link's head, the giggling descended into cackles, as the woman laughed, mad.
Link screamed, memories, decades worth of information, fighting skills, magic, all crammed into his head in a single moment, the tendrils multiplied as more information entered his head.
It hurt, like a sword going through your gut, taken out and inserted again and again, finally, it stopped, as link found himself in a white blank space, he collapsed and panted, the information was too much.
He stood up after he caught his breath, only to see three men stare back at him, they all had blue eyes and blonde hair like him. Two of them were dressed in a green tunic, while the other was in a blue one.
They looked no older than twenty, they stared at him, piercing blue eyes staring into his soul, as they took out their blade, and stabbed him.
He coughed out blood, as the three men took out their swords, slowly dissolving, the man dressed in blue turned to him, and mouthed.
"The shrine of resurrection, go…"
Then he too dissolved, into green light, disappearing into nothingness.
Link found himself back with the green-eyed woman. She smiled that terrifying smile, as she too, dissolved, this time into golden light.
"Survive…" She said, as Link found himself, being pulled out as if by some unseen force.
He woke up with a start, finding himself completely drenched. He was still in the dessert, in the oasis, his throat felt dry, and the wound across his chest hurt.
He gulped a bit of water and stood up, the sun was setting, he had to find out some kind of civilization soon, or else, he would die of his wounds and the harsh weather of the dessert.
The Gerudo tribe lived somewhere near the middle of the dessert, and the Vah Naboris was in the south western most corner of the dessert, if there was an oasis here, the village would be at most 8 to 10 miles from here to the north or the west.
Link started to walk. He hadn't eaten in two, or was it three days? His stomach protested in hunger, ignoring it, he started to move North West that was his best bet.
Night fell soon, Link felt the cold but dry breeze brush across him, and flinched in pain, it was colder than usual, being drenched in water wasn't much of a boon either, if anything, it made him feel a lot worse.
Ignoring the cold, he looked on to the direction he was moving in, hopefully, he would find the village before tomorrow.
Link moved for a few more hours, before exhaustion caught up to him and he collapsed the last thing he remembered was a man with a weird mask looking at him.
When he came to, Link was tied up to a pole inside some kind of room, filled with…bananas?
"Oh, ho, ho looks like our little prisoner is awake…" A voice called out, as Link turned to see the owner of the voice.
A masked man with an upturned Sheikah symbol on his face, stood before him, 'Yiga…' Link thought, as he glared at the man.
"Judging by the outfit, I'd say that you're from Kakariko…"he said as he lifted up Link's face.
"Not a bad specimen, now tell me boy, what are you doing here?"
Link looked at the man as his glare intensified. The man bought out a scythe, and bought it across Link's cheek, causing a small gash to open up.
"Tell me now, and I'll spare the torture…" he said, ignoring Link's glare.
At Link's silence, the man backhanded him.
"Speak boy!" the man said, Link didn't even flinch, that man was playing with him, he knew that he couldn't speak, but yet, he toyed with him, ignoring the fact that he was a child in a lot of pain.
That only seemed to anger the man more, "Fine!" he shouted, "You won't speak, huh, well, I've got an excellent method to make anyone talk, just hold on for a moment!"
Link's screams of pain could be heard all over the dessert for some reason, keeping the children and adults alike in the Gerudo village awake the entire night, multiple guard patrols were disturbed and the chief of the tribe, with her bloodshot eyes ordered her guards to investigate the noise.
The guards, having no idea where the screaming of the child came from, wandered the Gerudo village for a day and then set out for the dessert, realizing that the noise came somewhere outside.
Meanwhile, Link, still tied to the pole, had blood dripping down his chest and legs he recalled what the man had said,
'What a pretty face you have, with such false innocence, I'd like to leave it alone, well at least for now, because, I have your entire child like body to scar, Sheikah."
He wasn't a Sheikah, this was a complete misunderstanding, he didn't even know how to wield a weapon…memories of years of swordsmanship crowded his mind.
Why was that there? He knew for sure that he'd never ever touched a sword, let alone lift one, what was going on?
"Well, well, well, look who is up. Did you have a good nap? Sleeping prince?" the man, well at least he looked like one, who link had begun to loathe, spoke, his voice full of venom.
"You better be, Sheikah, I can't have you dying on me, else the boss would kill me."
"I'm not a Sheikah! This is a big misunderstanding!" Link argued, well at least he tried to. Instead, it came out as, "Hyaah, hn, waaah!"
"You're happy enough to make jokes?" The man asked, bewildered, then regained his composure, "Well, that won't do at all, we'd have to break that out of you don't we?"
Link's eyes widened, no, no, not again, he was scared, 'He's going to kill me…no, this is worse than death…'
"Let's start with your arms shall we? This scalpel should be perfect." The man said, picking up a rusty scalpel from a tray.
Another set of screams haunted the dessert as Link was tortured.
"Aren't you going a little too far?" a woman wearing the Yiga mask asked the man who came out of the room Link was in.
"Heh, I know the brat's useless, but I also know who he is, why not play with him for a while until our master summons our savior."
"Heh, just don't kill him alright?"
"You know it."
Unknown to the two Yiga, the Gerudo women that that the chief had sent were eavesdropping on them.
"We've heard enough, should we free the boy?" one of them asked.
"No…we can't do anything directly, otherwise the lady might punish us, but we can cause a distraction and free his bindings, beyond that, we can't do anything."
The other Gerudo nodded, "I'll work on the distraction, you cut him free." She quickly sneaked past the Yiga guards while the other moved to Link's room.
Link woke up hearing an explosion, what in the world was that? Slowly vision returning, he turned to see a dark skinned woman cutting off his bindings.
"You're awake, good, as soon as I cut of these, run, and don't look back." She said as Link nodded.
As she cut off the final rope tying Link's arms, Link fell down on the floor, and stumblingly, stood up, only to fall back down again.
"We don't have time for this!" the woman whispered, seemingly agitated.
Link stumbled up again, this time not falling back down, slowly, he took a few steps, and then a bit faster, the woman nodded before rushing out herself.
Link got out of the Yiga base, as all of them were busy putting out the fire that was ravaging the hideout.
Stumbling across the dessert, he looked towards the setting sun. He had to go northeast to reach Kakariko. It was most probably at least a week away.
He was going to die here and he knew it, but he wouldn't go down without a fight, because, even if he wasn't a Sheikah, he still was a resident of Kakariko, and he never gave up.
"Excellent, truly a fine specimen…I can't wait to see you suffer…" a voice very familiar to him said inside his mind, he hated it, it was sweet, disgustingly so.
Meanwhile, back at the Yiga hideout, the man that had tortured Link for hours stood before a well-built man, who was wearing a cape.
"You've failed me, Roh…" the caped man said, "I don't take kindly to failure."
"Master Circa, I…"
"Silence wretch, you will pay, but not now, I need all men to go look for that menace and find him before he becomes a threat!"
"Yes master, I will leave now." Roh said as he disappeared, leaving behind paper tags.
"I'm sorry my lord, it seems he escaped…" the Yiga chief said to thin air, which shimmered for some reason.
"Yes, my lord, at once…" he said, paler than ever, and then he too disappeared leaving paper tags behind.
Yes, I said that I would increase the no of words, but I'm still building up the plot, so there isn't much information to work on, and unless there are any fights, the words won't go beyond 5 K, sorry, just wait till Link gets back to Kakariko Light's out!.