Chapter 3: Isis Potter is Princess Zelda?!
Yep, I know I haven't updated in a while. But I have been busy playing Breath of the WIld! Well, sort of. RL is my real excuse and other stories. I started one of my many planned SW/HP xovers, and I am happy with the reactions I'm getting from it. While everyone will not enjoy it, some will. I take great pride in trying to make my stories as likeable as possible, but it is only an enjoyment, at the moment.
Either the trio hadn't realised how late it was, or the last part of the journey took a lot longer than Tom, Isis, and Ginny was expecting; because it was quite late when they arrived in the town around the castle, called Castle Town, according to the sign out front. That was obvious from the colour of the sky, and how the people were acting as they went about their lives.
The town looked like it was from a bit older era then Diagon Alley. In other words, Medieval times with a slightly more modern look, and this place was without magic. But it had Muggle things, some of which Tom nor Isis had ever seen before.
"It is quite late; maybe we should check into a hotel for the night?" Ginny suggested. Being just eleven-years-old, and not having done much walking in her short life, she was very tired and aching.
"Maybe a good idea, it does seem a bit late for visiting kings. To be polite, anyway," Tom nodded.
"There would be a lot of hotels though, or I would have thought anyway: how do we know which one would be a good choice?" Ginny asked.
"We ask someone. How about a guard?" Isis suggested.
"Good idea," Tom nodded. He had the feeling Isis was thinking something to the effect of 'of course we ask someone, stupid.'
Tom immediately walked over to the nearest guard. He had brown hair, and looked a few years older than Isis, and slightly older than Tom, so sixteen or fifteen-years-old, Ginny would have picked the boy.
"What do you want?" the guard asked gruffly. His blue eyes were trained on the ground just in front of him.
"And Tom said I was grumpy," Isis whispered to Ginny, causing Ginny to giggle.
"Well, we were wondering about the best hotel in this town, that is not expensive," Tom said, rolling his eyes at the two girls.
"Can't help you there," the guard muttered.
"He's been difficult," Tom muttered to the two girls. He started to plot the boy's torture.
"You do, too! You spend every day in this town! You have friends, family, you might ave stayed in one yourself! And you would have certainly heard whispers! So stop lying and spill the beans!" Isis said, taking charge. She gave the guard a stern glare. She put her hands on her hips.
"I said—wait, what's that mark?" the guard asked, noticing something. He then grabbed Isis' right hand and tried to look at it.
"Hey! Let go!" Isis exclaimed in disgust, and fear. The only time she was normally touched, was by her uncle when he was going to beat her up. And apart from that, Isis didn't like strangers touching her. Who knows where they've been!
"Come with me," the guard said excitedly.
"Why?" Isis asked testily.
"Just do as I say," the guard said, trying to drag Isis off. But she stood her ground, and she managed to hold it, despite being a small twelve-year-old, and being dragged by a boy older than her.
"Tell us where we're going, and promise Tom and Ginny will be with me all the time, then I'll come," Isis said making a stand.
"We're going to the castle and that is final," the guard said. Then he went to drag Isis more, but she quickly snapped her hand away and moved to follow him, so the guard began to walk on with Tom and Ginny running to walk next to Isis.
"Why do we need to go there? We have not done anything wrong! We wanted to visit the king anyway, but still!" Ginny exclaimed, panicked.
"You have not done anything wrong, it's that mark," the guard explained.
"What about it?" Tom asked.
"It's the mark of the Triforce. My name is Link, by the way," the guard, Link said.
"I'm Isis Potter. But what is the Triforce when it's at home?" Isis asked, in her normal grumpy self-voice.
"Isis, be nice," Tom warned. Luckily Link spoke before she could respond.
"It is something special to the royal family, and very few wear that symbol on their hands. The King shall explain more when we get there," Link explained.
"Right. How do you know the king will tell us more, Guard Link? Tom Riddle," Tom asked.
"When he sees your friend, Isis, and the mark, he will have to," Link said not being very helpful. Then he asked Ginny, "What's your name?"
"Ginny Weasley, Link," Ginny said with a small nod.
"Nice to meet you three," Link said with a small smile. The three travellers made a note of how cheerful Link seemed now from earlier when they first met him.
Link observed the travellers as they walked. The three seemed to be friends or on friendly terms, but if he looked closely, he could see hidden things. Such as Ginny being scared of Tom, and a lack of familiarity between Isis and the other two. Then Isis and Tom were always almost at each other's throats: there was a certain tension he could tell that from, then some of the remarks.
They kept going until they reached some big metal gates, which had two guards solely to itself. Link talked to the guards quickly, and they shouted something to someone somewhere above them, and the gates were opened.
"Come on," Link said, gesturing for Tom, Isis and Ginny to follow him. The trio moved on after Link.
They then had to walk up a steep path with guards every ten to twenty metres. If it had not been clear before, now it would be clear to an idiot this was the grounds around a castle. No other place would have so many guards: it was as simple as that.
After they had walked on a winding path for a while, they entered a building of sorts. They soon discovered it was a gatehouse – Link had the thought to give history on it. It was to see what business guests had and to keep back intruding armies, and other forces threatening the castle. That was obvious from the canons just above the gate. The side they entered the gatehouse from, there were canons above the entrance.
After that gatehouse, they had to go through one more, plus over a bridge or two, then they were at the actual castle part. "Long walk," Tom commented, puffing.
"Unfit are you, Tom?" Isis said smirking slightly. She had elevated breath but was not puffing.
"Please not another argument! Please guys," Ginny begged. She was puffing, like Tom.
"Let's rest just at here before going in," Link suggested, stopping just as the reached some gentle steps.
"Thank you," Tom and Ginny said gratefully.
"I take it you two do not do much exercise?" Link asked.
"No; our life styles don't require much walking: and I'm only eleven!" Ginny explained.
"I take it your both rich then?" Link said as a comment more than anything else.
"No, my family is not rich; I don't know about Tom though. Tom, are you rich?" Ginny asked him.
"I'm alrightly off: my uncle and grandfather from the better side tried their best to spend it all, but there still is a lot left," Tom said after a second or two passing.
"That's fortunate," Link nodded.
"I'm pretty well off: my family had done well for themselves, which is amazing considering when they got their fortune," Isis said, adding her bit.
"Been doing your research have you, Isis?" Tom asked, and Isis nodded.
"Now you know our financial situations, what about you, Link?" Ginny asked the blue-eyed young guard.
"Basically, I have no money at all. My father worked here until he died, and I expect I will do the same. Sorry, I sound a bit awkward, I do not talk much as a mere guard, and I have always been at least in training, so…" Link said. He did sound as though he was struggling to work out what to say, now he mentioned it.
"Do you want to do this forever?" Ginny asked, surprised someone would take a fate like that so easily.
"I have never thought about it to be honest. Anyway, you two seem to be rested, so we better press on to the Sanctum, where the royal family and court are. It is late enough as it is without delaying it any longer" Link said, offering Ginny a small smile before straightening up. Tom, Ginny and Isis all nodded, then with Link in the lead, they walked on.
"He seems to like Ginny a lot, doesn't he?" Isis commented to Tom. They were walking next to each other.
"Yes, he does," Tom nodded as they entered the sanctum.
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"Link, what the hell are you doing?! The king said no visitors, remember? No matter who they are!" A royal guard hissed at Link, as he, Isis, Ginny and Tom passed him.
"This girl has the sacred mark of the royal family," Link explained, walking past.
"Oh," the guard said, dumbfounded. Then he and the few other guards around followed the travellers, led by Link into the throne room. They were extremely confused.
"Guard Link! How dare you disturb me and Zelda!" a gruff man cried from the edge of the room. Link, Isis, Ginny, and Tom all flinched at the tone. The other guards did a bit too: they were better at hiding it though.
The gruff man sat upon the middle throne with two on each side: a blonde girl dressed in blue, who the same age as Isis sat on his left, and the throne to the right was empty.
Link, quickly followed by the rest of the group, bowed. Link said after he stood up, "The blonde girl I have with me, wears the symbol of the Triforce, on the back of her hand."
"Impossible! You tell me she has the symbol, which hangs behind me on her hand?!" the king cried, gesturing to it.
"Yes, I do," Isis said nervously. She had not been this nervous since she was six. That was the time she had climbed up into the attic when she fell off the ladder to get up there and broke her aunt's favourite old tea set. That followed by very painful spanking: the Dursleys hardly hit her like that any other time, but they didn't touch her any other time, either. The king was reminding her a lot of Vernon, which was why she was nervous. Ginny and Tom came up beside her to lend support.
"Then there is no mistake. Travellers, I am King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule. I once had two daughters, Zelda and Greta: the eldest being Zelda due to a tradition. The tradition goes: the oldest daughter would be called Zelda, and inherit a secret power. However, both girls had much more power than we expected, especially Zelda. She disappeared one day, kidnapped by unknown persons, or one of her powers warped her off, we do not know; but because we needed a Zelda, Greta became Zelda." The king paused, as he turned to look at his daughter.
"I am sorry, this whole time you have lived a lie," he told her. Greta's expression became covered in fury: she seemed to not care about the strangers in the court.
"You mean you have forced me to train relentlessly for something I was not born to do, and not only that, you gave me a false name?! How could you! I might be relieved that I am Greta, not Zelda, but I will not forgive you easily!" Zelda or Greta now, said as she rose, turning to her father.
"But where is Zelda now?" Ginny asked.
"What father was getting around to saying is that with the mark and this fact, your friend is my sister Zelda," Greta said icily, talking to Ginny, Isis and Tom now. The way she talked, reminded Ginny of Isis when she was being cold instead of grumpy.
"I am not a princess! And, my name is Isis! Not Zelda!" Isis cried. If there was one thing she never wanted to be, it was a princess.
"You are, there is no question about it," the king said.
"No, no," Isis cried softly. She couldn't be! It was too cruel! This man could not be her father! She would not believe it, she couldn't. In her distress, she remembered words:
"Glory for the future Queen, may the flower of silence grow and bloom on the day she takes the crown. If ever she separates from the throne, the magic of her ancestors and the Sheikah will bring her home."
"Glory for the future Queen, may the flower of silence grow and bloom on the day she takes the crown. If ever she separates from the throne, the magic of her ancestors and the Sheikah will bring her home," Isis said.
"What?" Tom asked.
"I just remembered those words," Isis explained after frowning for a moment.
"There is no doubt about it then! They are special words have only been told in a prophecy to the royal family, then said during the royal children's christening," the king said, getting quite excited.
"So I was right to bring them here after all," Link said slowly, breathing sighing in relief.
"Yes, and good work, Link! Now, what are your friends' names, Zelda?" the king asked.
"I will not answer you unless you call me Isis Potter!" Isis said, giving the king an icy glare. "This is Virginia Weasley, the first female in a while of the Weasleys, and Thomas Riddle JR, the heir to Slytherin."
"Luckily for you, my name is actually Thomas," Tom muttered to Isis. She just wore a smug grin.
The reason for Isis' formalness, was she knew a bit of the customs for introducing and speaking to royals from her history class when she went to a Muggle Primary School. Refer to people by their full names, and mention any titles they have. There was a lot more to learn, but that was what Isis was using at the moment.
"Alright, as you wish. Welcome, Virginia and Thomas," Greta nodded. Isis found Greta a bit off-putting: she seemed a bit cold to Isis for starters, not that Isis minded, but then looking at her was like looking at a slightly disarranged mirror. Greta's hair was basically white, her eyes were slightly darker than Isis', and then her facial features were also like Isis' but slightly different. It was very weird.
"Now, Link, you shall be rewarded properly. Miss Weasley and Mr Riddle, I ask you to stay for at least a while and if there is anything you need just say so," the king said clapping his hands.
"How about contacting Hogwarts? I want my parents to know I am alright, and I am sure people would be interested in hearing Isis is alive," Ginny said after a moment of thinking.
"That is the only thing they are interested in," Isis muttered darkly.
"That is very kind of you, your highness: I would appreciate that greatly, as I have nowhere to go," Tom said doing a little bow, and ignoring Isis.
With that in mind, the king nodded. "Good, good," he said. Then he called some maids and asked them to prepare some rooms for Isis, Tom and Ginny, then he told Greta and Link to show them around. The two obliged hurriedly.
So, we have crunch time! Until the return to Hogwarts, it will be character building, and adding the BOTW characters into the story for their later roles. I don't particularly like the King of Hyrule, so I plan to have him die an early death, he looked pretty old anyway, even in the memories.
What do you think of the reactions? there is more to come on how they think this will come to play. And what do you think Dumbledore's reaction to Tom be?
Greta: she is like canon Zelda, basically. Not really wanting to be in the role she is told she has to play. But Greta finds out she does not have to do that role anymore. So, she is happy, but at the same time a bit bitter about the whole thing. She and ISis will have ups and dowsna, but they will eventually have a sisterly relationship.
About roanitc relationships: It is safe to say I don't know much about it. I don't have a boyfriend, and nenver attend to. My parents are not what you would call normal husband and wife, if what I see on TV shows is anything to go by, so TV shows and guess work is involded for pairings.
Pairings so far:
Tom X Isis
Link X Mipha
Ginny X ?
Lisa X ?
Greta X ?
Ideas on filling the blank pairingd would be nice! And Lisa Turin I am refering to. She will play a part, as Isis " first friend. There will be some bitterness and tention at the start though.