The young man opened his eyes staring up at rafters in his small room. "I miss my old room." The man thought to himself remembering
the room he had spent all of his life in, until he moved to this new place about four years ago. He remembered the sudden move, it had started
as a normal day but then just as the sun set the old hag woman and her personal guards came to take him from the Gerudo Fortress. It stuck
him as odd that the Gerudo women were fighting the old woman to keep him, but their efforts were futile for the old woman magic was far too
powerful for even the Gerudo to win. They approached the huge prison in the deepest part of the desert, The Arbiter's Grounds. From what the
young man understood, The Arbiter's Grounds was built by the original Gerudo's right after The Great War, the prison like building however
housed no prisoners in it, except for him of course. From what he had been told by the "good" Gerudo's of the Fortress, this place was made
when the Gerudo were a noble race, proud defenders of the ways of the Goddesses. They said this place was made to hold the greatest of
threats to the Goddesses, but what was this place holding besides himself and a few rogue Gerudo? The man sighed turning his head to the
window watching as the sun begun to pour in through the bars. "Three, two, one…" He thought as the bars outside of his door clanged open and
a Gerudo woman entered. She didn't say a word as she approached the man her eyes, like always, are filled with a look of fear and distaste. She
undoes the shackles that hold the man to the bed and steps back allowing him to rise. He takes his clothes from the table and pulls them on
over his undergarments covering his lean, yet muscular figure, as well as the scars that cover his body. He then silently follows the Gerudo
woman to the same room as he has gone to for the last four years. He walks to the center of the room taking a seat at the table before him. The
old hag known as "Sorceress Garandella" her bright yellow eyes stared at him with unrelenting hatred. A chess set sits on the seat before them,
the old hag takes the first move.
Five hours later the young man has declared victory as he has every other game. The young man knew she has another reason for these
games. During his time in the Gerudo Fortress, he had eventually been allowed access to the library, it was there he learned of magic and the
ancient legends of old. One art of magic was simply referred to as Puppet mastery, the young man knew the old hag was simply trying to distract
him so she could gain access to his mind. Even though he knew of nothing outside of the desert (and he didn't know much of the desert either)
he could feel her powers pressing against the walls of his mind. Even though he dealt with this every day, he never acted against her. Three
years ago he had attacked and killed a few of the guards, but was detained in the end. That night he had a dream a Sheikah woman he didn't
recognize promising him that his freedom would be brought before him in time, but to wait until she came to him again in another dream. He
had yet to see her again. His mind moved to a favorite memory from the library. His favorite story, it was about the three weapons of the
beginning. During the first war the Goddess Hylia created a blade known as The Master Sword for the first hero, this sword had the soul of Fi a
being of pure goodness. In opposition her enemy created a dark sword containing the twin to Fi a chaotic soul named Ghirahim. The book
explained that along with the two swords there was a weapon crafted by a race called the Sheikah. A staff filled with the magic left over after
the creation of the two swords, both Light and Darkness controlled within what the book called "The Staff of Shadows." The soul inhabiting the
staff was a woman named Impa'lesolluxsheik apparently the name meant "Spirit of Light, Darkness and Shadows." This woman was the most
powerful Sheikah ever known and was considered a hero among her people and a race known as the Hylians many centuries ago. (The era
before Hyrule was founded).
The young man shifted his thoughts back to the woman watching as her eyes narrowed in anger at her failed attempt to enter his mind, or beat him
at chess. "Nothing has changed here child, now do you intend to speak today?" Garandella asked her voice was harsh, bitter and cold. The man simply stared
at her, as he always does. She stared at him for a few minutes as if though she thought he would crumble before her gaze… He wouldn't. She sighed
surprising the man, normally she would just call a guard and have them escort him back to his room. She rose from her chair standing tall even in her
advanced age. "I have grown tired of these games boy, I am afraid that if you will not cooperate I will have no choice but to kill you, do you understand?" She
threated. The man stared at her his face blank as always, but inside he was calculating his chances, he hated to admit he wouldn't win. Unlike the guards he
had killed, he wouldn't be able to catch this woman off guard and he knew she was very powerful. When he didn't reply she nodded to him and then raised
her hand pointing her palm to him. An orb of darkness formed and grew larger and larger before her. "Do you really wish to die?" She asked her voice was
shaky from the use of magic. The man still didn't move. She sighed, "Good bye then boy I guess I was wrong about you, you are as worthless as your pathetic
family was." The man's eyes widened in surprise, he had never heard mention of a family before, he had assumed he had been kidnapped by the Gerudo, and
his family had been killed. He looked up to her their eyes locking. "Ah, there is someone in there." The woman cackled over joyed by getting even the
smallest of reactions. "Your family is dead I am afraid child, during the war your mother abandoned you and fled to the forest and your father died on the
fields of Hyrule, trying to flee with you to safety." She muttered sounding remorseful, but the man could see she wasn't. "Such a pathetic man, sworn to
protect his kingdom, but he fled like a coward when the fighting began, he chose you an insignificant child over all of Hyrule, the nation he became a knight
to protect." She stared at the young man hoping for another expression preferably one of shock or sorrow, but he simply stared at her his eyes cold and
uncaring. She tried to sense his thoughts, but the power he didn't even know he possessed was much too strong for her, this enraged the woman. Little did
she know on the inside the man was swirling with new and unrecognizable emotions. "My father a knight? He gave his life to save me? What of my mother,
did she really abandon me or perhaps she died with him? What if all of this is a lie, what if my father wasn't really a knight? What if…" The man was snapped
out of his thoughts when he heard Garandella shouting in anger. "We took you in, raised you and what have you done in return? Nothing! You are absolutely
worthless! Guards takes this pathetic boy back to his room!" She flicked her wrist, dispelling the darkness before her palm. Two guards enter the room and
quickly escort the boy back to his room.
