The Fate of the First Hero of Light
"No, Geir please!""Zelda I am sorry, these are the clothes Great Mother Hurmihilda asked me to purchase."
"Geir why cannot I wear any clothes underneath this robe?!""Zelda dark magics are formed more easily around a naked body." Zelda starts crying. "Really Geir?!" "No, I am joking. Zelda here is your wide brimmed hat and take this wooden stick as well." "NO! GEIR! PLEASE HELP ME! I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS!" "Zelda I will wait outside. You get changed."
After many moments, a figure exits the dressing room. The figure is wearing a hooded blue robe covering the wearers body completely. On the figure's head is a very large leather wide brim pointed hat. The wearers face is completely concealed. The salesman "Absolutely Fantastic! Here are the wooden clogs as well!" I whisper something to the salesman. He nods I am handed some extra clothing. "Zelda you can at least wear this underneath the robes." I hand her sleep wear with various magic symbols on.
Finally, we are outside again. "Zelda how ar..." I am being beaten from behind with a weapon on my head. I move to fight. It is Zelda. "Zelda what is..." She is attacking me even more furiously hitting me as hard as she can with her Mages staff. "GEIR, WHY DO I HAVE TO DO THIS!"
Days prior
"Geir what should I do?"
"Zelda you should learn Dark Magic."
"WHAT!?"
"GEIR THIS NO TIME FOR FOOLISHNESS. YOU CANNOT REALLY SUGGEST OUR MAJESTY LEARN THE TWISTED ARTS!""Geir you would not joke about something like this. What do you mean?" asks the Fire Mage. "PLEASE GEIR! DO NOT ENSNARE ME IN ONE OF YOUR SCHEMES!"
"Zelda I am not scheming. When we went to the Dwarven World I realized it. "WHAT DID YOU LEARN GEIR?" "Knight, if something is not done. Zelda will one day be the death of us all." I am grabbed by my neck and lifted up. The Knight is going to kill me.
Zelda grabs him and hangs on his arm to pull it down. "FORGIVE ME YOUR MAJESTY!" "Thank you sir Hunfrey, but please forgive Geir. He would not say something like this carelessly."
"YES YOUR MAJESTY! GEIR I...""Knight forget about all that." I signal to the Dark Elf she moves and comforts the Knight. "I could have relayed it better, but this is a serious concern.""Geir what do you mean, I will be the death of you?" "Zelda it is the nature of your magics. They expand almost infinitely."
"Geir but these powers of her Highness has helped us on so many quests how could it be a bad thing?" "Fire Mage you saw the strength of her powers on the plants inside the Dwarven World. Massive rocks were broken. The earth was shattered by the infinite growth, that Zelda's life energies caused." "Geir it was the grass that was growing, that caused the cracking." "Zelda you are correct. If the grass had grown naturally, would the rock have been cracked in such a fashion?" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN GEIR GROWN NATURALLY?"
"Knight if the grass had grown over many days. The roots would not have cracked the rock. When you walk in the streets and see grass growing between the stonework. You will see the stones, have not been broken." "Geir, I am not sure I understand? ""Zelda because your life energies enabled such massive growth, in such a short period of time. The rock was broken by the force of the sudden expansion."
"No, Geir this cannot be true can it!" "So you realized Fire Mage."
"MY FRIEND PLEASE EXPLAIN! THERE IS NO WAY HER MAJESTY! CAN LEAD TO OUR DOOM!" "Sir Hunfrey, her Highness might not do it willingly. Geir is there no other way? I cannot on my life allow her to become tainted with the dark arts!" "PLEASE EXPLAIN I AM FRIGHTENED! ""Zelda you cannot control those life energies your body gives off. If we were to face an enemy. Who can use that power to heal itself of have a way to harness it. We would not be able to defeat it."
"Geir, that cannot be true!" "Zelda we have used your powers, to heal the sick at Kakariko Temple and to grow flora in the Dwarven World. How did you feel after standing in the water at both instances?" "I did not feel tired at all. I understand now Geir. If we were to face an enemy in a body of water. If it could heal itself using my energies, we would not be able to win."
"YOUR MAJESTY THAT CANNOT BE!"
"Sir Hunfrey...""Geir why does her Highness need to learn Black Magic?" asks the Fire Mage. "When she was controlled, she produced a caustic liquid continually. Even though the acid would definitely be the worst case that could happen to us. If only for a moment we could defeat the enemy, while it could not heal itself. Seeing as she is a powerful mage that specializes in healing magics or also known as White Magics, the opposite to that would be Dark Magic.""Geir please no." "Zelda do not worry to much. We just need to find an incantation or spell. That could disrupt the unbalances in your body." "UNBALANCES?!" "Knight even a powerful magic user like my Grandmother. Does not give off any energies outside of herself."
"Geir I remember you had mentioned something or the like before. For a magic user to be as imperceivably as possible. You would have to keep the magics you release, as closely as possible to yourself." "That is correct Fire Mage." "I AM NOT A MAGIC USER. PLEASE EXPLAIN IN A WAY THAT EVEN I CAN UNDERSTAND."
"Knight the life energies a magic user gives off, imagine it as a strong odour. The closer you get to a mage the stronger the smell. Because Zelda is constantly giving out this energy. It is a smell so potent you could smell it for many distances. That is why I never bother with surprise attacks when questing with you. Even the most inexperienced of a mage will sense us immediately."
Zelda is instantly red faced her ears are glowing red.
"BUT HOW DOES THIS PERTAIN TO UNBALANCES?" "If you imagine a persons life energies as an empty cup. When it is full it is balanced. A mage is harvesting the life energies of the earth around themselves. So a mages cup is always overflowing even if only slightly. So we can say it is unbalanced. Zelda's cup would be the same as my little sister's dolls cup, when it is held in the rain, in a storm."
"Geir are you sure? Can I not just learn to control this energy?" "Zelda that is to dangerous, you might die." "HER MAJESTY COULD DIE?!""Geir how can you say that?" "Zelda where will you store that energy? My wife and Grandmother have exceptionally large breasts." "GEIR! DO MAGES STORE THEIR MA..." I am thrown by an object against the head. I know it is my wife, I can feel her cold stare. Everyone laughs at my misfortune.
The air has been cleared a bit. "Zelda you will have to learn magics to disrupt this process. Only if for a single instant." "GEIR STILL WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS." "Knight what do you think I have done to protect the peoples of my Tribe?" "Geir we know your way of doing things. The people look up to the Queen, if we do this, then surely.." "Fire Mage, Knight and Zelda you can walk in the light and live a life of honour. While the nations people live in darkness, the forces of darkness feeding upon them.""Geir! That is going too far!" "If we are all killed, because you did not want to dirty your hands. Who will protect the Kingdom's people?" "I DO..."
"Zelda do you remember what I told you when we were on your Forgiveness Tour when I killed the child?" "YOU KILLED A CHILD!?" "Geir can you not stoop any lower!" "You told me they would not stay weak forever. Also that if your Tribes children were there they would have been killed."
"EVEN THAT CANNOT EXCUSE THOSE ACTIONS!" "Knight I made the right choice, not the just one. If I had let him live. They would have without a doubt attacked my Tribe again. They would realize they cannot defeat me, so they would strike the infirm or the young ones in my Tribe." "Are you not just making excuses for your despicable actions!?"
"You live in the darkness, while we live in the light. Is that what you meant that time Geir?""Yes, Zelda." "YOUR MAJESTY DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIS WORDS. CLEARLY HE IS NOT SOMEONE TO TRUST." "Sir Hunfrey if there was a war and a child would attack me. Would you let him live?" "ABSOLUTELY NOT! "
"Sir Hunfrey, Geir is always at war. Even though we cannot see it. The Tribes they fight are not bound to our Kingdom's rule. The Tulok tribe itself is an autonomous Kingdom, even though it is small one."
"This cannot really be true your Highness!" "Sir Izdryn I had only thought about this now." "STILL HIS ACTIONS CANNOT BE EXCUSED!"
"Our quests benefit the Kingdom and its people, not the Tulok."
"SURELY THEY BENEFIT FROM OUR PROTECTION!" "Sir Hunfrey I had heard from Teela, when Geir brought me to their estate after the beasts attack on myself. The TADUC Union was seeking to strengthen its ties with the Royal Houses. The Elders wanted to confirm, if Geir had been poisoned. He was bound with blood magic. They were moving to constrain Teela. I was almost killed, luckily I was beating a fiend and threw him through a window. Distracting Geir's elders."
"Your Highness what do you mean?" "All of the Tulok Tribe's Elders have fighting strength equal to or even greater than Teela's." "SURELY THAT CANNOT BE TRUE!" "Your Highness that seems to be a fable!""Sir Hunfrey, sir Izdryn, Teela was shaking out of fear because she knew. They would restrain her and kill her family. She did not lie to me.""IF HER LADYSHIP WAS SCARED THEN IT MUST BE TRUE!"
"Your Highness what does this tell us?"
"Sir Izdryn if the Kingdom is invaded. The Tulok would only after many years and great losses from the enemy, be conquered even if such a feat is possible." "IS THIS NOT AN EXAGGERATION!" "Sir Hunfrey if all the Kingdom's soldiers were to face Teela and if she would fight them in earnest. What would happen?"
"IT WOUL BE DISASTROUS! HALF OF OUR MEN WOULD DIE!"
"Then why help us Geir if it does not benefit or protect the Tulok?""Fire Mage sometimes you ask the most foolish of questions. Seeing people suffer while not do anything, I have the power to stop their sufferings. For what purpose are you going on the quests then?""Geir I..."
"Looks like, I might have been wrong about you. Zelda you decide what is more important to you. Your perceived "righteousness" or the Kingdom's peoples welfare. I will not make any excuses for you anymore. You seem to just be "honourable" on the outside, when the difficult happens you hide. Then when I solve it, you chastise or criticize me for not being "just" or making "virtuous" choices.
"Zelda we are leaving tomorrow with or without you." "Geir, no I...""GEIR PLEASE WAIT...""Geir let me explain..."
"Vivi we are leaving."
The Dark Elf is smiling broadly.
Finish.
