Hey guys! Sorry it took so long, my beta and I both have been very busy. Let's jump right into the first official chapter, after I thanked the amazing people who reviewed. Thanks to DestinyPrincess289, llinkismelol, ShadowNinja1011, TheSunsetWolf, TheMysteriousDude, BlueFrenchHorn97, Bleachshowlover1 and ZeldaFan for doing so! Thanks to BlueFrenchHorn97 for beta reading.
A few weeks and it would really begin. A few weeks, and my official quest would start. A few weeks and Link would awaken. It had been seven years. Seven years of anxiety, trouble and destruction. Impa and I were just outside of Castle Town, the whole city had fallen. Luckily, I had been right and almost all of the citizens had got just enough time to flee to Kakariko Village. It was located on the northeastern portion of Hyrule, right next to Hyrule Castle Town and at the foothills of Death Mountain. It was founded by the Sheikah, and Impa was considered the leader there until she was selected to be my attendant, and with that she left the village open to other races too. Though I became her biggest priority then, she still kept a watching eye over Kakariko. Until Link came along, Impa was the only one who ever believed my visions.
For seven years, we had remained in a forest that no one ever knew existed; only the Sheikah ever did. At first, I thought we would flee to Kakariko, but Impa said that it was too dangerous and risky. We had a small wooden house, and we had stayed there for seven years straight. I was sure that I couldn't leave Link all by himself in this.
I still remember when we first met. I was confused as how he got past my guards, but I when I saw that fairy of his, I knew that my dreams were true. He was indeed from the forest, and he had the first Spiritual stone, the Kokiri emerald. I told him about my dreams. How I saw dark storm clouds billowing over Hyrule, but that suddenly a ray of light shot out of the forest, parted the clouds and lit up the ground. The light turned into a child holding a green stone, followed by a fairy. I knew it was him. When he told me his name, it sounded strangely familiar. I now realized that that was probably the fact that we were yet another incarnation of the ancient hero and the princess of destiny. Then I told him the legend of the goddesses, and the Triforce. I also told him how to open the Sacred Realm, and I told him about how I thought that the dark clouds were a symbol for Ganondorf. If my dad would only have believed me… Link did exactly as I had said, and he went looking for the spiritual stones.
He had helped me, and I wanted to help him back. It had also quickly become clear that I couldn't just walk in as myself. Ganondorf or one of his helpers would immediately spot me, and I would be captured.
But Impa had a plan. I would become one of her kind: a Sheikah. And not a regular one, no. I had to become a Sheikah man; a man. At first, I thought Impa was joking, though she hardly ever does that, but I quickly realised she was being serious. I had asked her how for the love of Nayru I would ever manage to do something like that, and then she had asked me to just think about the question I had just asked, because she said I already knew the answer. She was referring to my wisdom, my own piece of the Triforce, to be exact. Yes, I was the holder of the Triforce of wisdom, as I had learned when I first started to get the visions. Impa had taught me all about it; the whole back story about the Sacred Realm, and how Ganondorf had started all of this. He held the Triforce of power; I held the Triforce of wisdom and none other than Link held the Triforce of Courage. That's why he was the chosen one to settle all of this. That's why he had to become the Hero of Time. After Impa had told me everything I realised that Link didn't know a single thing about the whole Sacred Realm story. And that's also why I had to tell him as my alter ego.
In the years that followed, Impa had taught me anything I had to know about Hyrule as the princess. I had protested, saying that I wasn't the princess of Hyrule anymore and that I didn't want to be called by that name. But Impa had sighed and told me that these were very relevant and important things. It had taken her a year to teach me all about the land of Hyrule, its rich history and its many inhabitants and races. The year after that was focused on the story of the Triforce only, and all the incarnations of the holders of the pieces, with me, Link and Ganondorf being the most recent ones. The following four and a half years were spent training me in the ways of a Sheikah, and figuring out how to disguise myself. Those years were definitely required to make a flawless plan. I would need to use my Triforce of Wisdom to change my skin colour, my eyes, my hair and my voice to make me pass as a Sheikah man. I would refer to myself as Sheik, as I had decided. I liked the sound of it. It sounded simple, but it had a certain tone to it that I found very interesting. Impa had used old books that had always been in the possession of the Sheikah and the Royal family to find out how I could use my Triforce to the best of my ability. She also found a way to turn Deku nuts into a magical item that could teleport me a few meters away. It might sound useless, but every time I would meet Link, I couldn't just walk away. He could follow me. Now that I think of it, I think Link will be the hardest to keep my secret from.
I had never changed fully into Sheik before. I first had to figure out how to do the separate parts before I could do it all together. I needed to pray to Nayru, and I had to picture how I wanted to look. It took some practice, and the eyes, hair and skin colour were fairly easy. But my voice was another thing. No matter how hard I tried, I still sounded like me, because I couldn't picture another male's voice, after spending years in isolation, let create one of my own. But somehow, I managed to do it. It was weird, to open my mouth and make sound but not to hear my own feminine voice. But I never thought that that was the least of my problems.
I had a costume, because I obviously couldn't walk in dressed in my formal princess clothes. Not that I ever wore those. I had needed a costume that would be comfortable and easy to travel and, if needed, battle with. I had made my own, and it was basically a blue jumpsuit with boots. My chest was covered in a white piece of fabric, and it had the red symbol of the Sheikah on it. The symbol was an eye in the middle with three triangular lashes on top and a tear drop coming down from the pupil. But the costume couldn't hide the fact that I was a female. I was seventeen years old, so I had formed breasts. I had got lots of muscles from the training, but my forearms looked very thin and fragile, and my face was the worst. It looked so horribly feminine. I had no other option then to use breast bindings, shoulder pads and I would wrap a fabric that looked like bandages around my forearms and my face to hide them.
I would see Link the first time when he would wake up from the Chamber of Sages where he was kept asleep for the past seven years. He was protected and guarded by Rauru, the Sage of Light. The Seven Sages were a group powerful allies of Link, who would help him on his quest. The sages who would give Link the six Medallions. Each represented one of the six races of Hyrule: Hylian, Kokiri, Goron, Zora, Sheikah and Gerudo. All of the Sages, with the exception of one, were familiar to Link. And I was their leader. I had no other choice, and I didn't mind it either. Impa went around as soon as Link was sealed away, telling them about their fate. Some weren't happy with it, but they luckily all accepted. They all lived close to the temples Link would need to tackle. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into the temples, and Link was the only one that could. That was where I came into the picture.
Every time Link would enter a temple, I would stand there first to teach him a song. Not a normal one though, It would be a warp song. Another thing I had learned when I was training was how to play the harp. I loved it because it had a beautiful angelic sound to it, and I even liked it more than the ocarina, to admit. The warp songs would only have their effect though when they were played on the Ocarina of Time. Whenever one would play a song, they would be warped to a place that song belonged to. For instance, the first song I would teach him was called the 'Minuet of Forest' and if Link or I would play it, it would warp us to the Sacred Forest Meadow near the Kokiri Forest. It would aid him even more.
But now, most of the sages were in distress with the chaos Ganondorf had caused. Every time Link would beat a temple, which was his main goal, he would free a Sage and they would add their powers to his. But if they weren't there to help him, everything could go wrong. When Link had awakened, I had to make sure all the Sages were ready and safe. No one had told me to do so, but I wanted them to be, as their leader. I would first need to see Saria, a Kokori. She was Link's childhood friend, and I bet that he would be surprised to find her back again; not only her, but whole Kokori forest. They would never have changed. They would always look like children. But Link grew up with them, so I figured it would be kind of a shock to finally realize he had never been a real Kokori. My plan was to go to her before Link would be awakened, but Impa had told me that there was no need to do that. Saria had told Impa that her and Link apparently had their own means of communication. It was a song she had taught him when they were kids. Whenever Link would play it, Saria would be able to hear what he had to say and vice versa. So she would be able to tell him herself what he needed to do. I would still see Link at the beginning of the forest temple though; I had to.
I was nervous even thinking that I would see him soon. I knew exactly what to do. I knew what to say, I knew which song I needed to teach him. I would see him again, and he would see me too. But he wouldn't know it was me. He would never know. That thought made me a bit sad, but I knew why I needed to do this. I needed to save my kingdom.