The Fate of the First Hero of Light
In the Royal castle's throne room.
Zelda is sitting on the throne, the Knight and Fire Mage are listening attentively to a story being told.
"After I was done praying, then a severed bloody arm fell on my lap, that was when Geir had found me!"
"THE SCOUNDREL FORCING HER MAJESTY TO REATTACH HIS ARM! THEN LEAVING WITHOUT EVEN A WORD OF GRATITUDE FOR YOUR MAJESTY'S BLESSING!"
"Unbelievable Your Highness can he not stoop any lower!" says the Fire Mage shaking his head.
"Sir Izdryn, Sir Hunfrey I feel the same!"
Loud steps are heard, an evil dark presence is coming from outside of the entrance of the throne room's stairway.
The darkness starts pooling into the room.
"DEFEND HER MAJESTY!" the Knight withdraws a normal steel zweihander.
"I am prepared!" the Fire Mages flames are burning around his hands, he stands ready.
"HELP ME!" Zelda screams she seem to be frightened!?
The one remaining door that is not being held open by the unbreakable doorstop mjolnir, is kicked open.
It breaks free from its hinges, it flies into the back off the throne room.
CRASH
The door shatters into fire wood, many expensive trinkets lay broken.
A tall handsome man enters, he is wearing a traditional dress, a white parka covered in red stains.
His face is purple with rage and the pulsing veins on his forehead is visible.
Geir is furious.
"ZELDA!"
"AAAAAAEEEEEIIIIII! PLEASE STOP!"
"Forget about all that bullshit! Where is this person? Where are you hiding them?!"
"Stop, Geir I do not know what you mean?"
"GODDAMMIT!"
BAM
Geir hits the wall. The wall cracks, the line of the crack extends upwards towards the roof.
All the Knights and servants run into the throne room, they have their weapons drawn. They stand to protect the Queen they face Geir.
"Geir what is wrong?" asks Edith the head of the maids, she moves towards him, she takes his hand and gently strokes it.
"SOMEONE HAS BEEN ROBBING US!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" screams everyone in the throne room.
"GEIR HOW..." speaks the Knight.
"BE QUIET BREADBIN! I HAVE TO THINK!"
"BREADBIN!?"
"Geir what do you mean?!" asks Edith.
"IT WAS THE TWIN RED DRAGON VASES!"
"I inspected them today Geir they are not missing." says a puzzled Edith.
"SOMEONE SWITCHED THEM!"
BAM
Geir punches the wall again, the thought of someone robbing him of his stolen goods, fueling his frustrations and rage.
"BAHAHAHAHA! WHAT A FOOL!" says the Knight laughing condescendingly.
"Yes, Geir how can you be so upset over something as trivial as that!" laughs the Fire Mage
"Yes, Geir why are you so worried?" asks Zelda, she does not look him directly in his eyes.
Suddenly Edith falls on her knees, "HOLY MOTHER! PLEASE HELP US FIND THIS FOE!" she puts her hands to her chest and starts feverously and loudly praying.
"EDITH!" Zelda is shocked at her reaction.
Edith is the only person Zelda has known to almost always show complete calmness, even in the most dire of circumstances.
"ZELDA, BREADBIN, CANDLE LIGHT WHERE ARE YOU HIDING THE THIEF?"
"HIDING THE THIEF!?" screams the surprised party.
Two persons enter the throne room one is dressed in the House of Dominitus's red fashions, the other wears the traditional parka of the Tulok Tribe.
"Warchief! We found some clues!" "Yes, Claurilles, Lord Estonix has formulated plans, please let us leave."
"YES!" The dark energies and rage follows Geir down the stairs.
"Holy Mother, thank you, Amen." Edith opens her eyes and stands up. She wants to move to attend to her duties.
"Edith."
"Yes, Your Majesty?"
"Why is Geir so upset?"
"Your Highness the Red Dragon vases are very powerful weapons. Everyone in the Capitol knows not to touch them."
"WEAPONS?!" screams Zelda.
"Geir did not tell us all there is to know, only that if the vases were to touch each other. The resulting catastrophe could destroy the Kingdom."
Zelda immediately passes out.
"YOUR MAJESTY!" "Quick bring the healers!"
Zelda wakes in the medical wing of the castle, it is completely still and silent.
It felt good didn't it...
"Please be quiet."
Yes, Zelda do not listen to him.
You cannot fight it anymore, you know what you are...
"What I am?"
Yes, you remember in the other world...
Don't listen to him Zelda! You have to fight it! Fight your urges! You have to stop stealing!
Zelda remember when you were a sky pirate. That is your life, your new reason for living...
"My new reason for living?"
Zelda! No don't listen to him! Remember what Edith said there could have been a...
A catastrophe? Geir is just full of hot air...
Zelda giggles to herself.
Zelda? Zelda's righteous left hand's palm's lips form a worried frown.
Zelda knows it is true, Geir is just all talk. Those vases didn't have anything dangerous about them, it was just lies to keep people from stealing them, to keep "US" from stealing them. says Zelda's evil right hand's palm, it is smiling maliciously.
"Yes, you are right it is true it is all lies! What will I take tonight?"
No, Zelda you can still...
"Be quiet! This is who I am now!"
Yes, Zelda finally you have seen the truth what will we take next?
"I cannot wait! Geir told me never to touch the pearls of wisdom from the Kingdom of Vlonedes, I think I will wear them secretly and run around the castle tonight."
Zelda stop. says the evil right hand the lips are showing a worried frown.
"Not you too! I cannot wait I will take the golden haystack needle he told me I am not allowed to touch! I will repair the tear in my seams with that needle!"
Zelda, no, stop now!
"Even you righty? Seems I am too wild of a pirate for even you to handle!"
Zelda look behind you! screams the right hand.
Zelda turns her head, she sees a face almost upon her staring at her, the eyes of the person look otherworldly they shine like a feline's in the night. Dark energies surround the figure.
"AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Zelda screams even louder than last she had screamed the loudest.
CRASH
The wall to the infirmary's room is broken open. The Knight and Fire Mage enter, they stand ready for battle.
The Knight goes for an overhead strike.
He moves to kill the dark figure, it is almost upon him, suddenly his blade is stopped mid swing. He pulls with all his might it does not want to move.
The Fire Mage casts FIRA it is a level one fire spell. Before the flames can reach the suspicious figure they are frozen in time, the encased flames fall onto the floor they have been preserved in a block of crystal.
"ZELDA!" the dangerous figure speaks to Zelda.
"YES! PLEASE DO NOT HARM ME!"
"Zelda should I ask for my Grandmother to write you a prescription?"
"That voice! Geir is it you?"
"Yes, it is."
"FIEND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER MAJESTY!" speaks the Knight.
"Geir is there no boundary you would not cross!" screams the Fire Mage.
After hearing these words Zelda has recovered, she will take control of this happenstance.
"YES! What are you doing here? Visiting hours are over!" says Zelda with a smug smile.
"I have been listening to you."
"NOOOOOOOOOO! What did you hear?!" Zelda's smugness has now been completely dissipated.
"Everything."
"Geir wait I can explain!"
"Zelda it is too late for that."
"NO, PLEASE! Just listen before I knew what was happening, I already did it."
"YOUR MAJESTY?!" the Knight looks very confused.
"Your Highness what are you saying?" asks the Fire Mage.
Zelda wants to start crying, the guilt that she has been hiding is finally starting to rear its unpleasant head.
"Geir, please just listen!"
"No, Zelda this has gone on for far too long." Geir takes out his crystal, he manipulates the colours on the clear crystal.
Zelda instantly recognizes one of the patterns on it.
It is the authorities!
Geir waves to the Knight and Fire Mage they begrudgingly comply. He whispers to them. The Knight is so shocked he braces himself against the wall, he looks to Zelda with tears in his eyes. The Fire Mage looks away tears are falling on the tiled floor.
"Zelda you will stay in this room, till they come to apprehend you."
"GEIR! NO, PLEASE LISTEN IT IS NOT LIKE THAT!"
Geir shakes his head side to side
"The time for talk has finished. If you resist you will be restrained. I told Breadbin and Candlelight to return to the throne room."
"GEIR PLEASE HEAR MY SIDE OF THE STORY!"
"ENOUGH!"
"..."
"I have things to do, you will stay here!" Geir exits the room and closes the doors. He freezes the broken walls closed with an unbreakable crystal.
Short moments pass...
"I have to flee!" Zelda runs to the door she grips and twists the door knob as hard and fast as she can.
SNAP
Zelda stares at the broken knob in her hand. Her mind is racing like a great beast in a contest, running through all the possible outcomes. They all lead to the same conclusion "Queen Zelda Her Majesty of Thievery and Theft."
"I will flee the Kingdom for now, then when everyone has forgotten, I will return."
Zelda wants to use her hands detonating clay but she senses Geir has frozen the door as well. She studies the room around her. A small enclosed space with no windows and only a door leading inwards. Zelda shivers and goes to adjust the temperature, she looks upwards, immediately it strikes her.
"How glad I am, I used to hide in the smallest of spaces when we were playing the game of hide when I was young."
Zelda is moving through an enclosed metal space. She crawls through the pipes which carry the cold air throughout the castle's interior, as she moves the suspended pipes makes loud clangs and metallic pops noises.
"Geir will never find me now. I must just reach the cold room. Then I will escape trough the secret exit!"
Zelda crawls for some distance, as she passes over the halls and rooms, there are vents that she can see through.
Zelda is thinking...
"Those person who commit the crime of spying on naked woman and the like, I can now understand the appe..."
Zelda stops herself and clears her mind.
She continues to crawl in front of her is a pipe that splits into three directions.
I just need to go straight then I will be free!
Zelda hears a distant voice in the left pipes direction.
"Estonix please not here."
"...Ugh..."
Zelda is thinking "He has probably fooled one of the maids with his lies."
Zelda moves forwards pass the side pipes.
"Mjrn my beloved I cannot restrain myself."
"MJRN!" Zelda holds her hand to her mouth.
"WHO GOES THERE? SHOW YOURSELF!"
The Knights patrolling underneath the pipe where Zelda is in have been alerted, they are searching the area.
Zelda waits for 99 moments...
"It must have been my imagination."
The Knights return to their posts.
Zelda slowly crawls backward to the three way split she moves on the left pipe.
She sees a vent in front of her it looks as if steam is rising up from it.
"Please Estonix what would the spirit of the wood say!"
"Mjrn not another word come closer to me."
"Estonix!"
Zelda has never moved this carefully in her life, she crawls with perfect precision. The loud creaking and clanging sound she had made while moving silently is gone. Absolute stillness. She reaches the vent she looks through it.
There is a tall handsome man and a half naked tall woman with the ears of a hare.
Zelda is so shocked at seeing this she almost bites through her finger trying to stay quiet.
She takes in the scene, they are standing in one of the large cupboards used for the linens. The door has been tied up with the many sheets inside. She doubts anyone would be able to open it. Estonix is fully clothed and the Viera named Mjrn is almost completely naked.
"Estonix please we cannot." Mjrn takes of more of her clothes.
"Mjrn please come to me." Estonix stands frozen in place.
After short moments and Zelda face palming herself many times at Estonix's inability to read the mood.
The romance begins, as if you could imagine a tale of love from a great piece of literary so too is their love.
Zelda has been staring attentively taking in each and every moment. She has her hand on her mouth her face is red and her ears are glowing.
Suddenly the door is flung open.
"ESTONIX!"
"CLAURILLY! I AM BUSY AT THE MOMENT!"
"Forgive me! The thief has been apprehended I will begin the torture, I mean interrogation soon. If you would like to be present it will start at..."
Zelda is still covering her mouth she almost speaks, but stops in time.
"TORTURE!?"
Before Geir leaves he looks to the suspended pipe.
Zelda thought for a moment he sensed her.
"I have completely mastered my zetsu there is no way he could find me."
Zelda decides she has seen enough for today. She slowly moves backwards, to where the three pipe bend is.
"I just need to take the pipe to the right."
Zelda crawls for some distance.
"Have I not been passed here before?"
Zelda reaches a pipe connection she was sure she had been to. The way to the other pipe was closed of.
"I must have imagined it, maybe I should wait for 99 moments!" she wants to laugh at her own joke but decides to move onwards.
Finally she see the cold rooms exit.
She is almost out of the pipe.
The end where she is crawling through, breaks off from the main pipe, she slides out of it before it crashes to the floor.
She falls on something that is soft, yet still firm.
She takes in her surroundings.
She is back where she started, she is in her room again!
"NOOOOO!"
Immediately she looks to the pipe it has broken off and the metal folded flat on itself she will not be able to enter anymore!
"AHEM!"
Zelda looks the room it is full of people in white medical dress.
Zelda understands immediately.
"PLEASE DO NOT TORTURE ME! I WILL CONFESS!"
"It is worse than we had even suspected! Hold her down!"
Zelda tries to fight but she is restrained and fastened to a bed she is rolled out of the room.
She is brought to a waiting area, she speaks and pleads to the "authorities" they do not respond.
Inside the room many blood curdling screams are heard.
Finally it is still, a bloodied person is wheeled out on a wheelchair a bloody cloth covers the persons head.
"Bring her in!"
Zelda has accepted her fate.
It started because she could not control her urges, she had to steal. Now it is the end for her...
She is wheeled into a bright room.
"Let me see here, the Queen of Hyrule Zeldany or also known as Mirarieth, my name is Doctor Frankensein I specialize in medicine that analyzes the mind. Recently a student of mine that was under my tenure at the academy contacted me. He said he was extremely worried about you and that I should come immediately. I must apologize, the country I was living in at that moment was in the midts of a great war which made travel impossible."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" screams the bound Zelda.
"Yes, I came as soon as possible."
"Then you are not going to torture me?"
"Why would I do that?" asks the puzzled Doctor.
"To get me to confess."
"Confess? Oh you must have meant of the previous patient."
""Previous patient."?"
"Yes, Oddmund had said, the man claimed he was a hardened spy that could resist any tortures. My student asked if I would care to observe a traditional Tulok tribe interrogation. It was very informative."
"Informative?!"
"Yes, how to ascertain truth from false when using his tribes forced interrogation methods. Very informative indeed."
"Why am I here?" asks a confused Zelda.
"Oddmund called for me to examine you."
"EXAMINE?!"
"Do not be alarmed. He merely wishes to find out if your mind has not been altered or damaged, by physical trauma or from a magical attack on some of your recent adventures. Please just lay still for short moments."
A device is produced and put on Zelda's head. Many tests are done.
"Thank you, the tests are finished there is nothing to be alarmed about Your Highness."
A man enters the room.
"Professor Frankensein what is the verdict can the damage be undone, must I arrange for a new cerebrum."
The Doctor laughs...
"Her Highness is in a good state of health. She will not suffer permanent damage from the explosion."
Geir lets out a sigh of relief.
"EXPLOSION!?" screams Zelda.
"Zelda when we where in Ivalice till when could you remember?"
"When we left the sandsea tavern and we were heading home...WHAT?...that is all I can remember?"
"We can talk later, thank the Doctor we are leaving."
Zelda thanks the Doctor, she follows Geir.
They walk many distances.
"Geir I have something to confess."
"Zelda?"
"IT WAS ME! I was the one who stole the vases!"
"What are you talking about?"
"The Red Dragon vases it was me."
"Red Dragon?"
"Yes, the ones that can cause a catastrophe."
"Zelda the Red Dragon vases are underground in a vault guarded by dwarven golems and magical beasts. The ones in the castle are ones I bought for a few rupees at an auction once."
""An auction" What about the pearls of wisdom from the Kingdom of Vlonedes?"
"The results of men who incurred the wrath of powerful witches, each pearl, is the result of the kidney stone the curses cast on the men produced."
"EEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIII!" Zelda feels her neck's hair stand up straight at this revelation.
"The golden haystack needle?"
"It is coated in a poison so strong, it can paralyze a person for halve a mooncycle. All the while the person suffers with a searing pain running through their bodies."
"WHAT!? WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT IN THE CASTLE?!"
"Where else should I put it? Here we have arrived."
Zelda looks to the building, Hyrule Clinic of Medicines and Mental Wellness, they enter.
They reach one of the hallways inside the expansive building and walk down it.
Geir reaches one of the doors and stops.
"Zelda this is the one."
Zelda looks at a wooden door there is a name plate.
On it is writ
DR E. Tulok
PHD Psychiatiry.
"Geir you cannot be serious!"
"Zelda It has to end, you talking to your imaginary friends is affecting everyone around you, even my wife prays to the dark elf's dark god to smite the foe who put a curse upon your mind."
"Really!" Zelda is so glad at hearing this.
"Well forget about all that."
Geir knocks on the door.
"Coming." speaks a cheerful voice.
Geir's Grandmother opens the door.
"Zelda, Geir told me you talk to your hands, please let me help you."
"NOOOO! GEIR WHAT IS THIS?!"
"Zelda talking to your hands is not normal, it must be stopped."
Zelda is forced into the room.
She is instructed and lays on a coach.
"Now Zelda tell me when it all began."
Zelda has accepted her fate, through tears of embarrassment she speaks...
"It all began when..."
Finish.