The Fate of the First Hero of Light
It has been five mooncycles since I have returned to my time.
Most of the sick and injured have been healed and treated.
This suncycle's harvest will barely be enough to sustain the country.
"Zelda I am leaving for the Kingdom of Vodrone, I will return shortly."
"Geir please no more. These prices they are asking of you."
"They saw an opportunity, they are taking advantage of it."
"Still Geir you have sold everything you own. There must be some other way."
"Zelda the people's welfare is more important than my trinkets and possessions."
Geir leaves the throne room.
"How could this have happened!"
"What do you mean your Highness?" asks the Fire Mage.
"His whole life's work has been undone..."
"YOUR MAJESTY WHAT DO YOU MEAN UNDONE?" asks the Knight.
"Everything he has ever worked for, he has either sold or given up on the contracts."
"Your Highness I do not understand? Contracts he has given up?"
"The businesses he started. He closed them or dissolved them all."
"YOUR MAJESTY CAN HE NOT REOPEN THEM WHEN THE KINGDOM HAS RECOVERED?"
"Sir Hunfrey that is not possible. The competitors he had been facing, had adapted to battling him. They have without a doubt taken those contracts."
"YOUR MAJESTY HOW DIRE IS IT REALLY?"
"Everything Geir has done or achieved up till this time in his life, has been lost."
"THAT CANNOT BE TRUE!"
"If only I had been stronger. This is disastrous. In my whole life I have never failed like this before."
"Forgive my boldness Your Highness is that not going too far. That we were unprepared cannot be blamed upon Yourself alone."
"Sir Izdryn what do you mean?"
"Your Highness you are the ruler but your subordinates also failed you. You cannot blame yourself for our own incompetence."
"Sir Izdryn..."
"Your Highness why has Geir left?"
"He went to buy food for the people."
"FOOD!"
"Yes, the situation is so serious he is buying up food in bulk. The other countries have seen this and have increased prices so drastically no sane person would pay that price!"
"CAN IT TRULY BE SUCH AN AMOUNT?"
"The lands in the east are selling their foodstuff at..."
The Knight has to brace himself.
"HOW COULD THAT BE! WE MUST STOP HIM THE KINGDOM WILL BE RUINED IF WE ARE FORCED TO PAY THOSE PRICES!"
"Sir Hunfrey he is only spending his own money. I offered to help, he would not let me."
"Your Highness why would he do something as foolish as that? Surely the treasuries funds will be able to buy many more times the amount?"
"He told me we should be ready for any new disaster. We cannot even spend one rupee of our own, that was what he told me."
"GEIR WAS I WRONG ABOUT YOU?" asks the Knight staring into the distance. Zelda takes her thumb and puts it in her mouth, biting on her nail.
"Your Highness what is the matter?"
"If worse comes to worse, he will have to relinquish his right to be the Warchief."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!? EXCUSE ME YOUR MAJESTY I MEANT TO ASK WHAT YOU MEANT!"
"Yes, Sir Hunfrey there are murmurings that the Elders feel he favours the Kingdom above the Tulok tribe."
The Knight is gnashing his teeth together so hard you can hear it. His face is purple with rage.
"Your Highness please excuse Sir Hunfrey and myself for short moments. We would like to appeal to the Elders on his behalf!"
"Please do! Can I rely on you?"
"YOUR MAJESTY WE WILL APPEAL TO THEM WITH ALL OUR VIOLE... HEARTS!"
"Yes, your Highness we will convince them! Do not worry!"
"I thank you deeply."
The Knight and Fire Mage leave the throne room slowly, they look as if they want to run somewhere.
"Let me take a walk." Zelda stands up from the throne. She sees a card on the floor. She picks it up there is a number one on the paper card. It has the picture of a drawn fantasy animal and some numbers and words.
"This is one of those pokenom playing cards. Geir was always fixated with them when he was younger. Even a stingy person like him would always buy these trivial cards looking for rare ones. WAIT! This is a number one! It says it on the serial number! I must not let this be damaged, I will return it as soon as possible when he comes back."
Time passes...
The vehicles carrying the foodstuffs enter the castle's storeroom.
"I wonder if Geir will come to see us today?" says Zelda, the Knight and Fire Mage nod.
"Zelda."
"GEIR! YOU HAVE RETURNED!" screams a happy Zelda.
"What is going on? Was I gone for so long?"
"No, I am just glad to see you."
"Oh I see. Zelda I cannot seem to find Sir Gerrick, Sir Bartel and Sir Renferd are they stationed somewhere else?"
The Knight and the Fire Mage look away.
Zelda looks at the floor.
"I see I had thought this might happen sooner or later. The food has been delivered. Please approve these plans, give the orders for the distributions of the food to the villages."
"Yes, thank you Geir."
Geir walks towards the doors.
Zelda remembers.
"GEIR LOOK YOU DROPPED THIS!"
She hands him the card.
"This is the first pokenom card from the other world."
Zelda's looks and what she sees breaks her heart.
Geir started sobbing.
He is holding the card, the tears are falling on the paper card.
"Geir here let me take that, if it gets wet it will be ruined." says the crying Zelda.
"Yes, you are right Zelda. Thank you I will be leaving now."
"Yes, Geir."
He wipes his face.
Zelda wishes she never saw this.
He looks exactly the same as he always does. He does not even look as if he was crying. He stands up straight and like always walks with total confidence out of the room.
"YOUR MAJESTY IF YOU COULD PLEASE APPROVE THESE PLANS?" asks the Knight holding the orders.
"I cannot believe these prices!" speaks the Fire Mage.
Zelda is thinking.
"I am so glad they did not see."
The Knight is clenching his fist tightly and gripping the papers, his visor is closed. The Fire Mage does not look towards the Queen.
Like always just as her mother taught her. She locks this away in her heart.
"Yes, let me see those papers."
Zelda starts filling in the forms.
The end of the day...
Zelda retires to her room.
She puts her hand to her dress, she feels a paper card.
"This is the pokenom card I must get rid of this card."
The next day.
"Sir Hunfrey, Sir Izdryn I have to attend to a most urgent matter. I need to go alone."
"YOUR MAJESTY!" "Please reconsider Your Highness we are your protectors. We could not accept that!"
"I thought you might say that. I have to return this card to the other world. Or it will hurt Geir even more."
"HURT HIM YOUR MAJESTY!"
"Yes, Geir will undoubtedly be forced to return this card. His sense of justice will compel him."
"Your Highness I do not understand?"
"All things must be balanced. He would never allow anything to travel between worlds, that could possibly lead to a disaster, even the most trivial of a thing that could lead to an imbalance. I will return this card to myself, so that it may find its true owner."
"Still Your Highness even then please let us come with."
"You are already there to protect me."
"YOUR MAJESTY WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
"You would stay the same no matter the world or time. If my twin were here you would also protect her."
"Your Highness..."
Many times pass...
Zelda looks at the Capitol she is dumbstruck it is so massive there are so many people. The streets are clean, there are no beggars, all the structures look newly built.
"THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!"
She is talking aloud.
The people look at her.
She closes her cloak's hood, she starts walking towards the castle.
Geir is walking up the stairs to the throne room.
"TELL ME WHERE HE IS!"
He unsheathes his broadsword and kicks the door open.
"ZELDA!"
"GEIR!"
"SHUT UP IDIOT!"
Two Zelda's look at him...
One is sitting on the throne, the other one is wearing a cloak and her face is purple.
"TELL ME WHERE HE IS!"
"I do not owe you an explanation." says Esdeath.
"Owe me an explanation? You abandoned him! You will tell me where Bhelem is! I will have my revenge."
"REVENGE YOUR MAJESTY!"
"That I had to see the person I respect the most break down and cry in front of me. This pain in my chest will not go away, even if my heart never recovers, this Bhelem will not live to regret his mistakes."
"NO, GEIR..." says the Dark Elf she is starting to tear up.
"BE QUIET YOU HARPY! That you did not kill your twin and me to take him back. You have no right to even think of him anymore!"
"Zelda..." says the Dark Elf.
"You should leave Zelda. I will not tell you where Bhelem is." says Geir.
"Did it look like I was talking to you?"
"Zelda I will make you leave...
A clay centipede rushes towards Geir and is grabbing him so tightly around his neck. His face is turning blue.
"Geir while you have been away on holiday things have changed. Do not assume I am the same person as before. You have been dead for many times if you do not tell me what I want to know. I will make sure, you will stay dead this time."
"GEIR NO!" screams Zelda.
"CHIDORI!" a lighting bolt pierces the clay and the creature covering Geir's body, it is going limp.
Zelda lifts her hand to her face extending her index and middle finger.
"KATSU!"
Inside the clay there are flashes of light. The clay mass expands and covers Geir again it solidifies into a rock like cover.
"I developed this Jutsu incase someday you wanted to kill me. You cannot escape."
"CHIDORI!" the lighting bolt pierces the rock like mass. The rock does not break.
"Tell me where I can find this Bhelem?"
"Zelda I will take you there." says Esdeath.
"Grandmother!"
"Geir she will never stop hounding us, till she has had her revenge."
"Thank you Teela."
A world later...
The building is destroyed. Glass and rubble lay everywhere.
"WHERE ARE YOU HIDING MACHINE?"
Zelda sees many lights flashing. She forms a clay shield in front of her the projectiles are absorbed into the clay mass.
"PREPARE YOURSELF!"
"Come out with your hands up!" the authorities outside are calling towards her.
Massive clay shapes rush out towards them.
There is a bright flash, the backblast of the explosion pushes with force against her.
Zelda's ears are ringing.
She need not even look, everyone has been killed. She sees the cowering humanoid and grabs him.
Short times later...
The broken machine lays on the ground in many pieces.
"I had thought my heart would heal if I destroyed you. But it seems taking a doll apart could never stop this pain."
"WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT?" says the severely broken Bhelem.
"You do not need to know that puppet."
"I HAVE TO WARN MY FRIENDS!"
Zelda punches him so hard her wrist is broken.
"WHAT FRIENDS? HE LOST HIS CLOSEST ONES!"
"WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
BAM
She punches him in the face again.
"You do not even deserve to know. You were created to save this world you will never have the chance, to fulfill that task."
"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" Bhelem is struggling as much as he can, the clay creature is gripping him tightly, he cannot escape.
"GO TO HELL!" Zelda lifts her hand up.
"DIE!"
BAM
Zelda's vision goes dim.
"zelda, zelda ,zelda, Zelda, ZELDA!"
"WHAT IS IT!?"
"Wake up Zelda we have to leave quickly."
"GEIR IS IT REALLY YOU?"
"Yes, Zelda."
"ARE YOU MY GEIR?"
"Yes, I am Zelda."
"Thank goodness was this all just a bad dream?"
"No, Zelda you killed many people on your rampage. We have to leave here immediately!"
"WHAT!?"
"They are looking for us."
Zelda takes in her surroundings they are in a large wooden shed.
There is a large grain sack bound to the frame of a makeshift backpack.
Zelda senses many life energies close to where they are.
"Geir are these people looking for us?"
"Yes, when I give the signal we run."
"I understand."
Geir takes the backpack and puts it on.
"Zelda 3, 2, 1 let us go!"
They exit the shed and run as fast as they can.
Many worries and running and dodging bullets later...
They enter the throne room.
Zelda collapses on the floor face first.
"YOUR MAJESTY! GEIR YOU FIEND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" "Your Highness! Call the healer!"
Geir throws the backpack on the floor the metal parts inside it can be heard.
"WhErE aM I?"
"IT IS AN ENEMY!" The Knight moves to attack.
"KNIGHT!" He stops.
"WHY IS HE HERE GEIR?!" screams Zelda even though she is still laying face first on the ground.
"He is still my son."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY? IS THIS THE SON HER LADYSHIP SPOKE OF?"
"Yes, Knight or what is left of him."
"FaThEr Is It YoU?"
"Yes, Bhelem."
"wHy dId YoU nOt hElp mE?"
"I brought you back did I not?"
"..."
"Do not worry I will heal you soon."
"..."
Long moments later...
"Bhelem how do you feel?"
"I am much better father. How could you only heal me with magic?"
"Your soul has spread further into your being..."
A clay centipede rushes past Geir towards Bhelem.
"CHIDORI!"
The clay creature goes limp.
"EIIIIIIII" Bhelem screams out of fear.
"Zelda that is enough."
"I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!"
"Revenge Zelda?" asks Geir.
"YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW!" says a furious Zelda.
"Zelda I cannot accept that."
"HE HURT YOU! NOW I WILL HURT HIM!"
"Hurt me?"
"HE MADE YOU CRY!"
"Cry?"
"YES, WHEN I GAVE YOU THAT CARD!"
"I cannot remember Zelda, please forgive him."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"If you kill every person that has made me cry. There will be no one left in the Kingdom."
"Geir..."
A strange sound is heard, inside the throne room, a rift is formed in the air.
A tall figure appears and walks outside of the rip in the air.
It is a tall woman she has fair skin and braided blonde hair. She is wearing a large headdress made from coloured feathers and wearing traditional clothing that barely covers her pleasing body's shape. She moves closer and speaks.
"Hola elegido uno y sus amigos ¿cómo estás? ¡Yay!
"GODDAMMIT WHAT IS IT NOW?!" screams Geir.
"I am sorry wrong language let me try again."
"Hello chosen one and his friends how are you? YAY!"
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" screams an irate Zelda.
"My name is Quetzacoatl angry girl YAY!"
Geir puts his hand to his head
"The other Dwarfen World's Dwarfs fertility god of ancient times."
"YAY! I am humbled chosen one, that you know of me YAY!"
"Listen here I already told the Holy Mother and the Quartet I am going to the Dwarven Afterlife..."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY GEIR?!" screams everyone.
"YAY! The chosen one, defeats even the heavens YAY!"
Zelda is thinking.
This is the absolute worst time in my life. Not only am I feeling guilty because of me ruining Geir's life with my self pity. Now some other harlot wants to ensnare him in her troubles. I have to do something!
"Chosen one I have come to ask you..."
"GET OUT!" Zelda points towards the door.
"Angry girl?"
"It is Queen Zelda to you. GET OUT!"
"Chosen one?" the fertility god tries to speak.
"I TOLD YOU TO GET OUT! We are busy sort out your own problems!"
"Little..."
"I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE! Geir take the machine to the dungeon!"
"Zelda?"
"JUST DO IT!"
"Oh, ok Bhelem come."
"Father?" asks Bhelem
"GEIR NOW!" screams Zelda.
Geir takes Bhelem and leaves.
The fertility god is standing awkwardly in the throne room, she does not know what to do now.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? LEAVE!"
Geir comes back.
"GEIR I TOLD YO..."
"Zelda he is in a cell. You know this problem wont go away. How can we help you?"
"...yay...well you see..."
Finish.