Her Courage, His Wrath

By: Lovely girl 10

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but this story.

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Chapter 4- His crush, Her legend

'Father North, why won't you tell me about the Golden Goddesses?' I asked curiously. He and I were watching the land that would soon be called Termina. After long hard years of getting the place back together with their guidance, the Four Giants, my creators, were beginning to feel uneasy about the new generation, almost as if they couldn't be trusted with the secret they have kept for hundreds of years.

'Oni, you know what might happen if we tell you about them out here.' He warned with precaution.

'C'mon father! We are invisible here; the people out here can't hear us.' I urged with excitement.

'Alright son, I will tell you.' He began. 'Long before you came along into our lives, there were three very powerful people that were important to us. Long time ago, our people had a long hatred of these people who we called our friends, they are the Golden Goddesses of Hyrule.

The reason why I and your other fathers have kept them a secret is because we are afraid that our people would try to degrade them once again.'

'Who are they, father? What are their names?' I asked.

'Din is the leader of the Golden Goddesses, and is the goddess of Power. Nayru, the youngest, is wiser among the wise, yet very powerful as well with her Wisdom. And then there is…Farore, the goddess with great Courage and one born with no fear in her heart.' He explained bit by bit of the information that he told.

'No fear?' Confusion entered my voice as I asked.

'Well, she is the Goddess of Courage for a reason, son. She can't possibly be the Goddess of Fear if she was born without it.' Father North told.

Ever since that conversation, I was honestly intrigued by the Goddess of Courage long before Majora thought about taking over the world by spreading fear among our people.

I opened my eyes as I stood over the gate that led to the Great Bay Ocean, my mind, body and soul was still under the trance of that memory I had from long ago. I thought about getting a head start to where my other creator; Lord West, was imprisoned, but my overwhelming thoughts about Farore kept me in place like a statue.

I admit, ever since I learned about the goddesses from my creators, I held a secret crush on the Goddess of Courage. Not even Majora knew about that.

I turned to face the west side of Clocktown and looked from top to bottom if there was any sign of the boy or the goddess, but to my surprise and shock, he was going toward the road that led to the ranch instead of where I was standing. 'What the heck!' I yelled in my thoughts and rushed over to where he was going.

"I knew that Link couldn't get past the gate that led to the Ocean, so I have sent him to the ranch to find his horse." Farore said as she appeared right by the log.

"Good point." I nodded in agreement. "May I ask how did your hero manage to get here?"

She signed, "I didn't actually plan for Link to go into Termina, because he was going to do something else before the 'evil Skullkid' planned on bumping into him. Link's main mission was to search for his long lost friend who he parted ways with when he completed one part of the legend that was told in the country of Hyrule, where my sisters and I reside."

"And, who was this friend of his?" I asked, curious to know more.

"Navi, the fairy that he partnered with when the King of Evil attacked our land and almost completely destroyed it. After when the battle was over, I don't know why, but she disappeared from him after he was sent back through times flow." She answered.

"Do you think you can tell me the whole story, I mean, when you have the time?" I said with a hint of amusement in my voice. I was going to ask her to tell me right now, but after our last argument at the mountains, I decided not to rush the young lady in an impolite manner.

"Maybe as soon as the whole situation in Termina is over, then I will be happy to tell you." She said as she looked toward the sky where the moon is.

I then remembered what she said earlier about the Skull child and pointed out, "The Skullkid isn't exactly evil as you speak…" I gained a confused expression from her face as I continued, "He is actually under a spell by my rival's mask, so it is Majora who is causing your hero the trouble, not the Skull child."

"How is that even possible?" She asked before she slapped herself in the face with her hand. "So that explains why the moon will be crashing down, but I do think that we can stop the madness before it gets any worse."

"And how are you going to do that?" I asked, worried that she doesn't know how to stop a power hungry demon from taking over the world.

"By simply calling the Giants to the Clock-tower and they will stop the Skullkid." She said in a calm tone of voice.

"Didn't I tell you that Majora is the one doing the destruction and that he is just using the Skull child as his puppet to do most of the dirty work for him?" She remained silent for a few moments as she considered my opinion before she stated.

"I have known that from before because we had the same problem, long before Hyrule was a country to begin with." Her voice wavered in a whisper as she turned away for a moment. "Back when Hylia sacrificed her eternal life for our people and to protect our main source of power."

She returned her gaze back at me and said. "While Link is taking care of the ranch business, I think I can tell you about our legend. You did say you wanted to know why I have that connection to him, didn't you?" When I nodded, she took a breath. "Then listen carefully, Oni. I will start from the very beginning of the legend that our people had long forgotten."

Before time began, before all spirits and life existed, the world that was to be Hyrule was in chaos. Thunderstorms ravaged the earth as the figure of a woman with hair that burned like the flames came out from the very ground where the lightning struck. This figure was my eldest sister named Din, the Goddess of Power and of fire when she cultivated the land and created the red earth, and shaped the formless land with mountains, and other things that the earth gave her to create, the one mountain she is most famous for creating was the Death Mountain.

With her part of the world created, Din knew that she needed help with making the citizens that would follow our teachings and such, so she summoned an element aside from fire to create a new deity to do the job. This is how I was born. Along with the leaves from the trees, it mixed with the wind and made my body from thin air.

When I opened my eyes for the first time, I didn't know who I was and what I was supposed to do, until Din told me. "You are Farore, my sister goddess. You are to be the Goddess of Courage, Wind and Life. Your first task is to create life forms for the world that I have made."

"But how can I do that? I don't even know how to create any life." I once asked in confusion. She told me that with my rich soul, I would make the life forms that can uphold our teachings and our laws.

The Gorons were the first creatures that I helped Din create from the very rocks that were surrounded by Death Mountain, which was long ago called Eldin Volcanoe, and then from the very ground, I summoned my power to create the mole digging creatures called Mogmas. When I went to the lakes, and rivers I formed the Parella, a jellyfish-like creature with the ability to understand speech. And from the forests, I used the plants and shaped them into a peaceful half animal half plant-like creature called the Kikwi's. Finally when it came to creating humans, I managed to shape them without any trouble.

The next thing I knew was when Din urged me to come sit next to her by the lake as she played with the water. I asked her what did she need of my assistance, but instead of answering my question, she dunked her hand into the water and pulled out what looked like a young woman with an otherworldly glow of blue in her hair and eyes. "This is our newest recruit, Farore. Nayru is her name, and she will give our people what they need from her wisdom, she will also be the Goddess of Water once she learns to control her abilities."

Once my younger sister learned what to do, she poured all of her wisdom to bring law into the world that we created. At first, the people that we created from our minds and souls didn't understand about our existence. So Din decided to create one more person to help us in our cause.

This time with the light from the sun, the fluff from the clouds, and the feathers of a normal everyday bird, Din formed another goddess into our liking. With long hair that shined like the sun and eyes as blue as the sky, a determined look on her face as well as the spirit of happiness that she had yet to show to the world, also a white dress that seemed to flow down the ground she was standing on. She was known as the White Goddess, Hylia.

Din figured that if Hylia went to tell our people about us, they would begin to worship us for the deeds we did for them. However, it didn't go according to plan as we thought.

Our people called us the 'gods of old', whereas Hylia was made as their patron goddess. I hardly understood how that happened but as soon as Hylia was back into our realm, she spoke in a modest voice. "You may not be worshipped for now by our people, but there will come a time when I won't be there to protect them. A time where the memory of me will fade from existence, a time where you will be in the spotlight for all ages to come." Din soon realized that Hylia was predicting the future that had yet to become true in real life. She became what we called the Goddess of Prophecies, one who sees the future.

Then there came a time when we made a visit to another type of land which wasn't claimed by us. This place was Termina in its earliest stage of civilization. The Four Giants took notice of our presence and greeted us in a friendly manner, not long after our first encounter with the Giants, we became close friends. Din usually likes to talk about the landscapes with Lord North, Nayru chats with Lord East about the laws of the world; I play around with Lord South in the fields, while Hylia kept watch of the citizens with Lord West.

How little did we know that our friendship would soon be threatened by the very people who idolized the Giants, the next day when we came to visit, Din discovered that somebody had tainted the places to banish any particular beings from entering into Termina.

"Go back from whence you came, evil deities!" One ancient shouted.

"You are no longer welcome here!" Another yelled threateningly. "Get out!"

We did our best to protect ourselves from the insults before the Giants shielded us from the very beings that they created.

"These goddesses are not evil." North explained. "What possessed your minds to go against them?"

"Don't you mean 'what possessed your minds oh great and powerful giants?'" One ancient asked. "We are protecting your land from those vile, vain, and evil goddesses, and you are telling us that they aren't evil," He then spat onto the floor in rage. "These goddesses have possessed your minds to destroy our land, and we are here to get rid of them before they make a bigger mess than they already have created."

"If you want to destroy our friends, you have to get through us to do it!" West announced before the group of ancients charged.

Even though they did their best to protect us from them, the giants couldn't do anything to change their minds about us. Din sent some of the cruelest ancients into the Evil Realm where they would be tortured for all of eternity, Hylia herself broke away from our group and presented herself to the people, and her glaring made the ancients freeze in their tracks.

"I know why you are so against us, and I know that you may not understand fully about why we stayed in our realm instead of living among you like how the giants have, but this fighting has got to stop." Her voice echoed throughout the realm of Termina as time seemed to slow down. "If you do not repent for your sins you commited to destroy us, I will have no choice but to make you forget that we ever existed in your realm."

Without waiting for the ancients reply, Hylia took out her most powerful instrument, the harp, and played a mysterious song that both entranced and hypnotized us. Time seemed to be in reverse as she played.

The ancients memory of us faded in an instant as they went about their usual ways without knowing who we really are, all except for Hylia's power which gave her a new title that Termina speaks about more often than the stories of the 'evil goddesses'; the Goddess of Time.

We sadly had to leave our close friends behind as we worked on a secret passageway which separated Termina from our nameless continent. Nayru and I made the passageway so difficult that even the surviving ancients could figure out which way we went to.

Din and Nayru sadly shook their heads as the tears rolled down from their cheeks. Hylia and I just watched them with despair hidden in our eyes. "Do not fear sisters, the ancients will not keep us out forever. There will come a day when you will redeem yourselves by saving the land that despised you." My youngest sister told as she kept her gaze onto mine. I knew that she was talking about how I would be the one to do it, yet I never understood until further notice.

Not long after her prediction, Hylia became interested with hanging out with the mortals that worshipped her. In fact, she looked like she was one of them instead of as a goddess; she even began to grow feelings for a certain man who caught her attention. She later called him her Chosen Hero, when she received another vision from the future.

"It seems that later on in the future, Farore, you will choose my Chosen Hero as a holder of your power." She recited from memory.

I scoffed with disbelief at what she said and told her that I don't see how I would choose him to hold my power of courage, but she reassured me that I would change my mind as soon as I seen how he is the perfect match over all of the others. Even Nayru tried to take Hylia away from the Chosen Hero that she was connecting with, but Hylia would have none of that.

My sisters and I later on created our legendary relic that had been passed from generation to generation as we left for our home that we call 'the Sacred Realm'. Hylia, despite our callings for her to return to the heavens with us, decided on her own accord to stay with the mortals. Not only that, but she felt as if she was needed to protect our biggest creation that we ever made; the legendary Triforce, which holds all of our powers of Power, Wisdom, and Courage.

My sisters and I tried again to call Hylia back to us, but it was no use. Suddenly, we all noticed that the ground began to shake and out of the pit came an army of demons that surrounded my youngest sister.

"Give us the holy relic!" One demon commanded while the other demons tried to push Hylia out of the way to get what they were after, Hylia on the other hand wasn't going to give up after a lot of successful slashes with her sword to silence the demons.

"And why would I give you demons the relic that my sisters worked so hard on, nobody but the mortals can use the relic for the greater good of our world." She stated before their king came out from the crowd. He had a large stature body with black scales, plus flaming red hair as if it could be mistaken for fire.

This person, or demon, was the Demon King; Demise.

"Just give me and my army your relic, goddess, and we will spare you from the misery." Demise commanded in his calm and collected voice.

"No." was Hylia's answer before the whole place was in chaos once more. Some people had lost their lives, others fled to safety and prayed for salvation from the unspeakable war that was happening from outside. Upon hearing our peoples pleas, Hylia raised her sword skyward and a parchment of the land broke away from the Surface before it floated far away from Demise's reach, even our Triforce was taken up into the sky as well. She then made a barrier so that the land she created was protected from the war that was taking place on our land.

War raged on as me and my sisters could do nothing but watch. Even though our youngest sister was winning the battle, we felt in the air that something bad was about to happen before our very eyes.

After Hylia managed to seal the Demon King into the ground with all of her power, we went down to where she was to congratulate her for her efforts to protect our people and our relic that contains our power.

"Hylia, sweetie, you can come home with us now." Din told in a kind voice, not noticing that Hylia wasn't moving, part of her face was covered with the shadows along with her dress as she stared at the sealing spike that she had created.

"Sister, didn't you hear Din? It's time for you to come home!" Nayru urged with excitement as she tried to make her sister move by grabbing her hand.

The Goddess of Wisdom gasped in horror when, her own hand passed through her younger sister's. She tried to grab it again, but it was no use. Her knees gave up and crashed into the ground, crying in a loud scream of despair for her sister.

Din and I then realized what was happening to our sister; she was dying, or more likely fading away from existence, never to be seen again. Her voice called out one last time before she was never seen again.

"Do not fear for my life, sisters. For I will return to protect your Triforce and our people. The seal I placed on Demise will not hold for long because of his thirst for power, so I am asking you to help out my hero when his soul returns to the world along with me. Create your songs for my harp to play to find the trials that I have set for my hero. Do this in memory of me.."

Our lives were never the same again after our sister had passed away. We did all that we could to make sure that Hylia didn't die in vain as we composed our songs and left the rest of her plan into motion. I thought that she was just joking and that she would return to us in the Sacred Realm, but each time I checked, there was no sign of her anywhere.

It was until many years later in the mortal's time; we spotted a normal mortal girl that resembled Hylia in appearance, and personality.

Din almost thought that it was impossible to believe that this mortal was our sister. Nayru thought that the mortal was just making fun of us for losing our sister to the war that happened back at the Surface, but I completely understood what Hylia was saying in her prophecy from long ago.

Hylia did return, but as a mortal with the powers she once had carried. But the disappointing part was that she didn't remember who she was or why she had those powers. She also went under a new name for herself; Zelda.

Time passed and we goddesses just checked on our newly reborn sister as the years passed. The only thing we remembered as time passed was when Hylia's Chosen Hero's incarnation; Link, had defeated Demise and released our sisters soul from his hold.

We thought that the whole war with the demons would be over; however, Demise wasn't done yet. Instead of trying to kill the boy, who I was beginning to have a connection from his valiance and honor to protect the Triforce and our sister from certain destruction, he placed a curse on both himself, Link and Hylia's incarnation; Zelda.

"My hate... never perishes. It is born anew in a cycle with no end! I will rise again! Those like you... Those who share the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero... They are eternally bound to this curse. An incarnation of my hatred shall ever follow your kind, dooming them to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time!" He recited before he laughed like a maniac and passed away into the darkness.

Those words made my own body shiver, but not enough to make me fear them, because no matter how hard I try to be afraid of something, I can't feel it. I told Din and Nayru of the situation that was about to happen in the future and they decided to finish where Hylia started, placing the Triforce into a temple where only the worthiest hero could find it, while we considered to name our nameless country under the memory of Hylia; Hyrule.

Not only that, but our late youngest sister was right when we finally got appreciated from our deeds to making the kingdom, the Goron's praising Din for her power and strength, the newly aquatic creatures called the Zora's recognize Nayru for her wisdom and organized some parts of the government that upholded the laws of Hyrule, and me, well, the new creatures called the Deku's and the Kokiri praised me for giving them the life I gave to them as well as worshipping me for my courage.

But, I felt as if I was…screwed.

Din and Nayru get to have the larger and well known races while I was stuck picking up the pieces from the other half of races that are overshadowed by theirs. I also felt that I was overshadowed by my older and younger sister.

That was until I noticed a young boy in the Kokiri Forest that looked a lot like the same boy that destroyed Demise. I almost felt like I had to hold back the need to puke, because I knew that if Link was back, then Demise's incarnation was back as well along with Hylia's next descendant.

I watched silently as Link went about his way to go see the princess Zelda while collecting the spiritual stones to find the Triforce once again. Sometimes Din and I caught Nayru trying to be sure that it was impossible for Link to get past the guards or making it difficult for the boy to get through the monsters that blocked his way.

But after all of the trouble to retrieve the stones, as well as getting into the Temple of Time to pull the Master Sword from its pedestal, we watched in horror when Ganon, Demise's creation, broke into the Sacred Realm and stolen the Triforce of Power.

He also tried to steal the other parts but was only left with Din's essence inside of her Triforce. From that moment on, Din yelled into the air in a long petrifying scream that shook the mountain, for she never wished to have her power fall into the hands of Ganondorf, the King of Thieves and the King of Evil.

At the same time, Nayru felt that her essence was passed onto the princess of Hyrule, which she was excited to know that she gets to watch over her sister's descendants from now on. But I knew long ago that she was planning on trying to keep Hylia's spirit alive, for she was the only goddess among us that hasn't taken the hint that Hylia wasn't going to come back as a goddess, while Din and I decided that with each generation that comes by the Royal Family of Hyrule, Hylia's spirit will fade from existence, never to be a powerful immortal ever again, only a mortal with magical abilities.

When I felt that my part of the Triforce chose its protector the moment I felt it. I knew exactly who it had chosen… Despite my disbelief in Hylia's prophecy, it came true when her hero was chosen to guard my power. And he was remembered for it as well, alongside the King of Evil and the Princess of Destiny. Yet somehow I knew, just like his demon ancestor, Ganondorf wanted to take the Triforce for his own destructive needs as he kidnapped the princess and lured Link right to his fortress where their battle was.

Without a strong and rightful mind, Ganon couldn't control his part of the Triforce, so he was defeated by Link's hand in battle, battle of man versus man or beast since Ganon tried one more time to defeat the hero in his beast form. After that battle, the King of Evil was sent into the Evil Realm, the one place where one of our Sacred Realm was before it was tainted with Ganon's powerful evil essence.

Link and the princess, after the battle, were standing in the air. Zelda, who was being controlled by Nayru as her puppet, began to tell Link that he needs to return to back to his original timeline when he was still a kid before all of the events happened in the first place, also telling him to go home to where he should be; the Kokiri Forest.

But I knew that after all of the trouble he went through, he no longer had a home to go back to. I was about to tell that girl in her thoughts that he doesn't want to go back, but I was too late, Link handed Zelda the Ocarina of Time and he disappeared from the future. However, even after Nayru thought that she won in protecting the last essence of Hylia, Link still returned to the princess which brought joy into my life.

Two years later, Link came into Termina, where you and I have recently met, Oni.

I fell silent as the story of my existence, along with my sisters, was complete. The wind seemed to fill the void of silence as I looked longingly at the male deity whom was silent throughout the story, eyes widened with surprise and curiousness as he locked my eyes with his.

I cleared my throat. "We should get over to the Ocean. Would you mind to inform me of what happened, Oni?" He suddenly broke out of his trance as he shook his head back and forth to get himself back to reality.

Without talking, he gestured to the gate that led to the Ocean, and dashed quickly to it as I followed behind. Interestingly enough, I didn't notice that Link came out of the West side of Clocktown, which meant that he went back to the first day. He used his ocarina to call on his horse, and when he got on he immediately went on his way to the Ocean.

I watched as the goddess made her path to where the boy would go. I could tell that the yellow fairy was looking toward the ocean as she urged the boy to go see what is wrong. The seagulls were surrounding a Zora warrior who was floating suspended in the water, who begged softly to the boy to take him to shore, where he eventually passed away.

That was until the boy played a strange song which Farore explained to me was the Song of Healing, "The warrior's spirit will probably help out the boy in his journey. Much like how the poor souls of the Deku Butlers son, and the Goron warrior." Once when she finished, I watched in amazement as the boy slowly turned into a Zora. He used his newfound power in the mask to get him inside of the Pirates Fortress to steal back the eggs that were stolen, he also had some assistance from the seahorse to take back the rest from the vicious sea snakes.

I told Farore where the temple was as we head over to the Zora Hall to set up that path for her hero. However, to my embarrassment and shock, Farore was having a difficult time of getting the island that was close to the Hall to move out of the way. Back when I was created, I remember that Father West had created this particular island for a reason that was unknown to me, plus he did say that the island was the main transportation to the temple.

Farore cursed under her breath each time she unsuccessfully tries to move the island that stood in place for reasons unknown. "Why is this thing not moving like I wanted it to?" She asked before she cursed once more and got herself to sit on the island in defeat. I quickly went up there to check on her to see if she was alright.

But before I could do that, both her and I were surrounded by water that seemed to have sprung up from nowhere. I couldn't see through the water as I kept myself in place to be sure that the power of the water wouldn't push me off. Once the water disappeared from my line of vision, I noticed that the island... was actually a huge turtle? And to add to that, Farore was in my arms, bridal style as her arms clung to my neck as if hanging on for dear life while my arms held onto her legs and her bottom.

"I thought that you weren't suppose to feel fear?" I remarked in a teasing manner as I looked at her.

"Shut it, Romeo boy! Just shut it!" She retorted with a growl as she got herself out of my hold and got off of the turtle to the solid island that it was right next to. I followed vice versa and watched as the turtle led Link to the temple that was waiting for him.

Authors note: I really hoped that you enjoyed this chapter where the full legend of the Golden Goddesses is revealed. I think that Hylia from Skyward Sword is actually the mysterious 'Goddess of Time' from Majora's Mask long before Skyward Sword's prologue came to be. This is my theory because of the objects (Ocarina of Time, Gate of Time, Song of Time) and interestingly enough, her descendant Princess Zelda from Ocarina of Time is the Sage of Time, so it might be possible that Hylia is the Goddess of Time... I am not sure about what you think, but you can review whenever you want.

Okay, we are almost done with the story and I am getting excited to write out the final boss battle between Majora's Mask and Oni Link. As how the game goes I like to retrieve the Fierce Deity's mask before I do the battle, as opposed to the long battle without it. So I will do my best for that chapter as soon as I can.