Legend of Zelda…The Elemental Dragons?
Ch. 3 Whipping into the woods
Swish…CRACK!
Huff…Huff…CRACK!
A
girl with platinum blonde hair wiped sweat of her face as her whip
knocked over the last target. Her red eyes slowly faded into a soft
brown color. She switched her whip to her left hand, so she could
check her watch.
"8:35…I guess I should quit for the night. I
do have school tomorrow."
She coiled the whip and attached it
to her belt, on her right hip. She brushed the dust and shards of
wood off of her black training gi and hakama. Her mother always
complained about her being so tomboyish. No need to give her more to
complain about by going into the house with filthy clothes. She bent
down to collect a broom off of the floor; She needed to sweep up the
dojo since she had destroyed so many targets. As she bent forward, a
string of brown hair fell from behind her ear. She spoke as she
brushed it back into place.
"Ugh. Why does my hair have to be
so different? Platinum Blonde hair in the midst of all those
dark-haired Japanese kids…and to top it all off, instead of being
all one color, it just has to have that one weird streak of brown in
it!" She sighed. "The only one who was ever like me was Ryu…but
her parents just had
to take that job in America! I wonder how she's doing…"
She
finished cleaning the dojo and walked the short distance to her room.
She glanced out the window, glaring at the awful neon lights
scattered through Tokyo. She was glad that her house was connected to
a dojo, so she could train whenever she wanted, but in the middle of
the city, it just made her even more of an oddball. Her mother called
out from down the hall.
"EMIKO HAZANE! GET READY FOR BED; YOU
HAVE SCHOOL TOMMOROW!"
"YES MOTHER!" Emiko grinned as her
eyes changed to electric blue, and she whispered something else.
"…but you did say to 'get ready for bed,' not go
to bed. That means I can play Zelda before I go to sleep!"
Emiko
saw that her Gamecube was still plugged in from the last time she
used it. She grinned and picked up the controller while pressing the
power switch to the Gamecube. Her grin widened even further as the
title screen began to pop up for Orcarina of Time, her and Ryu's
favorite game. Her grin faded to confusion as all power went out in
the house.
"…Huh? What happened?"
Emiko's now brown
eyes stared as a bright green dot appeared on the screen. It slowly
grew larger until it encompassed the entire screen. She dropped the
controller and reached out to touch the screen. As soon as her
hesitant fingers touched the green, a large gust of wind blew through
the room. She screamed as she was sucked into the TV.
She felt
like she was falling. Falling where she did not know. Suddenly her
feet touched the ground. Looking around, it appeared as though Emiko
had landed in some sort of temple.
"This looks strangely
familiar…"
A deep voice called out to her, seemingly echoing
through the temple.
"It should…this is your
temple. Well, that is not entirely true. You share it with the forest
sage, Saria."
"SARIA! …but that would mean I'm in the
forest temple…"
"Yes. You are the Dragon of Earth. Evil is
approaching, and your time to help the Hero is near. I must seal you
until the Hero and his current accomplice come for you. Otherwise the
Evil might reach you before they do."
"Help the Hero…You
mean Link? If it's to help him then I'll do whatever it takes to
save Hyrule!"
"Then close your eyes. I will seal you deep in
the temple, where only he will be able to reach you."
"Will
this…hurt?"
"No. It will be like going to sleep after a
long day. When the Hero comes, you will be awakened."
"Alright
then."
Emiko closed her eyes, and a bright green light encased
her as she was taken to the deepest depths of the temple.
"So
begins another chapter of Hyrule's vast history. …I only hope you
are ready for this one, Hero."
