Tales from Hyrule Chapter 3
AN
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SnowPeak Manor
Waking up in the cold is never fun. The fire went out sometime in the night, and its positively freezing. I think I'm lucky to still have all of my fingers and toes, and I'm not dead, so all positives. But we have a long trek down the mountain. No matter how much I wish I could use magic to speed that up, I have no skill for that, and the best my amulet and signet ring can do is increase the skills I already have, and give me a larger pool of mana that I can draw from.
I mutter under my breath and try to draw some mana to me and what I draw feels cold. Damn, even my magic is cold, well if I keep laying here then I'm going to keep being cold. Sitting up I Draw the wolf fur cloak closer and stir the flames back to life. Nurturing a new fire to life I make a bit of noise and Link sits up grabbing at his sword. Thank god I'm not next to him, and thank god he doesn't have the master sword with him, I have heard to many stories about that sword, and I don't want to see if they are true or not.
Tossing a piece of break and then a piece of cheese at Link I start to eat my cold breakfast. I see Link glare at me and I can't help but say something to him. "What, did you expect a nice breakfast every day? We don't have too much firewood left and I want to get off this bloody mountain before night falls, I need to get back to Hyrule to get some different clothes to deal with the desert. So eat quickly and let's go."
"Sorry I didn't realize you were suck a bitch, I love the weather up here, it's so crisp and clean. Why would you want to go to a hot and sandy desert?"
"At least in the desert my balls wont freeze off, which explains a lot about you."
"Ha ha, very funny. Don't even go there. Let's eat and go."
"What's wrong Link, did I strike a nerve?"
"Shut up and let's get going."
Damn, guess he woke up in a bad mood, not sure what I said that was wrong but if he doesn't want to talk about it then who cares, it's his shit, let him deal with it. And if there is some problem there, then uh, not my place to help him.
Eating quickly, we gather up our stuff and walk to the edge of the courtyard. Link tosses me an ice leaf and jumps onto one and heads down, fucking hell. Well let's go, I guess if he can do that then I can.
More sliding and crazy death defying jumps. These seem like something Link is a big fan of, I'm not sure why but I guess it's a flaw of his. I prefer to keep my feet on the ground and keep my foes in front of me. Unless I'm in the woods, or at least not over giant chasms where certain death lurks.
At the foot of SnowPeak
Finally, we reach the bottom of the mountain and part ways, Link still doesn't talk, not sure what his problem is, but I guess he needs to cool off, I ride off to the castle as fast as possible, half the day still left, which should give me time to reach the castle in time to eat a meal and sleep in a real bed. And see Annie, my lovely soon to be wife.
My noble steed wastes no time bringing me back to the castle. Even in our haste we still do not manage to arrive back until it is nearly the customary time for the castle to go to sleep. Which means I better hurry if I want any food.
Food, is good, no matter how little or how cold. I have heard, and I feel it's true, that hunger is the best sauce. And truly it is. There is no doubt about that.
My love is tired. She barely asks me anything before she pulls me towards the bed. I'm happy at that as well, because I don't want to talk about anything. Too much stuff is going on that I don't understand that I need to question what is happening.
Something is at hand here. Or someone. I don't know what or who. But something feels amiss. Everything that can go wrong seems to be going wrong, which makes me suspicious, normally the fates are not this overt, which makes me feel like there are other hands at work here. And more than one. There seems to be a fairly delicate hand that is shaping our side of things. And on the other hand, someone fairly blunt and overt is working in the shadows. Whoever these shadowy controllers of the land are, there seems to be at least two groups of them.
The Sacred Realm
"Shade. Did you do that?" Oh dear lord she seems angry, that's normal but still, scary.
"Do what? You seem to know me and my actions much better than I seem to." Oh please let her not notice what I did.
"I can see your hand in this. The whole realization of Halfstan that there are other hands in play here than the ones he can see. Mortals aren't supposed to be able to see the big picture like that. You risk everything for what? Some childish game that will lead to nothing?"
"Ok let me explain. He already had the pieces in his head, I simply gave him a way to look at it differently, he honestly would do my job a whole lot better. And he needs to see all the pieces, he already is an amazing tactician, and with the understanding I gave him he will be much better."
"There's more isn't there?" Oh dear, can't she just let it go.
"Fine yes. I foresaw that he needed more. He wouldn't be strong enough. So I gave him more power, he won't be able to use it yet, but I have a plan to solve that. Maybe if you would let me explain before you yell at me, you might actually realize how good my plan is."
"Oh this better be good Shade. Though you have already done it so I can't do much. You better have something good planned or I'm going to make you pay."
"Ok fine, take a look and see my plan, and then make your decision."
Hyrule Castle the next day
I had planned to leave before dawn, but my love had other ideas. She wanted to know everything and made me explain all the thoughts I had last night.
Even then she just wanted to have me close. Because when I do leave for the desert I will probably be there for a long time. It will take time to convince the Gerudo to re open relations with Hyrule.
When I finally get free from the affection of my wife. I head to the quartermaster to get fitted for desert garb. Long, loose and light weight, they feel pretty good and defiantly make me feel cooler. I keep my sword and grab a smaller one.
After getting garbed in new desert attire, I head to the one person I never wanted to see again. Lady Malmora. The castle expert in teleportation but if I want to get anywhere near the Gerudo without three days of travel, I have to deal with her snide comments and outright hate.
We have a long past, mostly she tried to make a pass at me and tried to bring me under her wing to be, and these are her words, "A perfect gentleman, fit to serve as the loyal lapdog to any ruler." Which meant that she saw men as simply tools to advance her power. That and I may have dismissed a handful of guards that were in her pocket for matters of gross incompetence and corruption. That and the fact that I publicly turned down her offer of marriage to me, stating my previous oath to the office of Hyrule wouldn't allow me to serve any who seeks to elevate herself over the position that they have been allocated. Seeing as she has a tiny bit of land and I have all that land and a bloody castle, she just has a small manor house.
I think I may have caught her in a good day, she didn't try to deny my request unless one of the royal family orders her to. But I did have to deal with her insults the whole time.
"So, my Lord." She says with as much of a sneer as she can. "Why would you of all people be wanting to go see the Gerudo. Realized that you can't be a true man for the princess because you lack the training you should have gotten from a certain someone? Or are your urges too strong for you to control? If you had only taken my offer, I would have given you a true way to deal with those urges."
"I doubt one such as yourself, who has lain with countless men by all accounts, and probably countless more if rumors are to believed, would actually understand true love, or the devotion I feel towards the woman I am to be wedded to."
"You don't even know what you have done you stupid man, do you?"
"What are you talking about?"
"The whole reason there is a war, Lady Annie was promised to Prince General Qrox. The son of the ruler of Termina. Just because you came along, that was broken and the hostilities started. I wasn't the reason. He was a horrible person, and would have been a horrible husband for Annie. He was not loyal, and even though he is what, 19, he already has at least 2 bastard sons, by different women. I don't care about the peace, my oath to Hyrule would prevent me from serving him. He would order me to break an oath that I swore with the King of Hyrule, to be passed down both our bloodlines, which states that he will never order me or my family to do anything we find truly and morally wrong. That's the only way he was able to convince me to accept this position."
"So you do confess you are more loyal to yourself than to the crown. And that you would betray your ruler if it goes against what you think? That sounds like treason to me."
"It is not treason. I have free will. He told me as long as he lives he for one will never try to do anything that will break my oath. And even so, it's not a betrayal if they break the oath first, then I will instead be free, and I can make my own decisions. Without an oath of loyalty to Hyrule, I get to do nearly whatever I need to do to solve the problem."
"Fine get out of my sight knave."
With a rush of magic and power I feel myself getting yanked away into the void, fairly painfully, seems someone is a little angry. The utter cold of the void between worlds feels less cold than usual, almost as if I'm protected by something.
With a both physical and mental pull, the void parts around me and spits me out into the desert. The wonderful cleansing heat of the desert warms my skin and purges the cold from my body. The burning rays of the sun momentarily blinds me, and as my vision clears and I see in the distance a fortress built into a cliff, and what looks like green things around it.
Wrapping a cloth around my head and making my head cooler, and begin my trek to the distant fortress, walking throughout the night, as no one in their right mind would walk in the desert during the day.
As I reach the fortress I hear sounds around me, and I hear a spinning sound and even as I drop it slams into my head. And all goes dark.
AN
Well, that's another chapter, which was fun as normal. I'm posting stuff so fast because I actually have a true love for this story. That and I have a muse which is allowing me to pump out this story in short order. Again if you see any mistakes I have made or something that you don't understand, then tell me/ask me. I will fix it or tell you to a limited extent, because stuff that I can see that will be confusing will most likely be foreshadowing of the end, or later chapters.
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