Legend of Zelda : Next Generation
Chapter 5 : Jealous Royalty.
We left Koriki village within the hour. Link was leading Epona as we walked out into the bright light of the field. "Oh this is gonna take all day isn't it." Alex complained. Link had given him a short sword that he had brought in Termina. It now hung from his waist in a well preserved sheath.
"Yes." I said to him as I whacked him on the head. "So don't complain, you'll just make it harder for the rest of us." He shut up as Debbie giggled. We had decided to see queen Zelda and take the detour through the city.
Setting out we spent most of the day walking fast as we tried to reach the other side of the field before nightfall. I didn't fancy sleeping outside on the hard ground. We talked a little when we started but soon our talking became boring as we ran out of things to tell Link about our world. I told him of my incredibly strange relatives and my home.
Soon enough we ended up introducing him to the game I spy. That was all we did the whole way. We reached the great drawbridge that marked the entrance to Hyrule castle town just before sunset. The guards gave us mixed looks. Curiosity, Loathing, awe and respect. Opening my mind the way Saria had taught me I listened to the feelings of those round me. But at the same time I studied those with me.
Debbie, Warned by link, was being cautious about how she let her feelings show. She looked a lot like one of the Gerudo. But not that she minded that. Alex was fascinated with the sights around him. His head whizzed from side to side as he took in every detail. But as for link? Link had with drawn into him self. He was still conscious of his surroundings but his thoughts and expression where guarded.
Closing my mind once more I looked about the market square. The occasional person nodded to link, who acknowledged them with a nod of his own. Many stared as we passed. I could feel their eyes pressing into the back of my head.
The four of us found relief from prying eyes as we walked through the hills that surrounded Hyrule castle. "Be careful how you act in the castle." He repeated "I used to live there when I was champion but I sort of exciled my self after the last time we fought Baldor to get away from Zelda so I have no idea how they'll act to my being there." he said sheepishly. "Let alone you."
We walked up to the gate that crossed the path. The guards on the other side took a while to respond to our call. A particularly fat man was the one to answer. He came out of the guard house grumbling something about a dream when he looked up and saw us.
"By the goddesses!" he wheezed at the sight of us "Link you've returned. Are you going to stay here again?" The fat man was getting excited. "No I'm sorry but I won't be staying long. I've only come to escort my friends to see Zelda then I'm taking them to a safe house in the Gerudo valley."
"Well then by all means go in Link." The gate keeper was cheerful as he let us in. Once out of the man's hearing I whispered to Debbie, "That was just scary. What is that guy on." Debbie giggled earning a look of warning from link.
People came and went by us as we strolled up the path and into an open lawn. The Castle stood before us. It was twice as majestic in real life. Greetings to Link became more numerous as we approached the second draw bridge. I stole a glance at Link and noticed with out fail the guarded look that he wore. The interior of the castle was furnished in royal blue and gold with bright tapestries covering the walls. Tall windows let light flood into the corridor and the whole place gave off an aura of peace and happiness.
But I felt I'll at ease. Something about the castle was less tangible, aside from the stone walls. But the air had something hard backing the peace. People and servants that lingered in the main hall but drew to the side as we strode toward the giant double doors of the throne room.
They where opened as we approached by unseen means and we entered the domain of queen Zelda. She sat on the dais at the head of the hall wearing the crown of Hyrule and beside her was a man in the some type of magnificent clothes he, I gathered, was the new king.
The crowd of people split as link strode boldly up to the dais and bowed deeply to the pair. We stood back against the crowed that had closed in behind us as he addressed them in my stead. "Greeting's majesty's." He started formally. "I hope you excuse my long absence from your court."
Zelda was looking at him with glowing eye's while the king barely looked at him. A kept a civil face but to my sight he was a sour green with envy and loathing. His sight passed from Link to me standing behind and an expression to quick for me to read crossed his face. What ever it had been it bore only ill wishes.
His eye's then wandered to Alex and Debbie in tern. I could see him straining to see Debbie's face under the hood. I glared icily at him trying to come up with something to make him avoid us. I couldn't but he turned back to the conversation between Link and Zelda.
"I've been lucky enough to find something that will help Hyrule's cause greatly but it need's to be discussed at a later time..." He was saying. He and Zelda talked a little more before she ordered the servants to attend to us and Link. He had had to remind her we where there and we where soon walking down the vast corridors to the guest quarters in one of the towers.
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"I don't like that king." My comment was blunt as I paced round my room with Alex and Debbie for an audience. Debbie nodded in agreement, while Alex spoke up. "I watched him the whole time. He's a bloody pervert." Debbie for some reason found this funny. She rolled back onto my bed and laughed hard.
We both glared at her then gave up letting her laugh. "I know what you mean." I said empatheticly in reply. "I wonder if I could come up with something to teach him a lesson." I fell in to a thought filled silence as we all though of our own grievances. "I know." Alex was struck with sudden inspiration, "We could always cast some kind of curse to keep him from looking at anyone."
His suggestion opened my mind to hundreds of ideas. My words came out unbidden as a recited something for them to remember.
Hide in shadows, Hide from sight Teach a lesson taught by fright Eye's apon unwilling tormented by pain Till the spell be lifted again.
"Perfect." said Debbie as she emerged from he frantic giggling. "He's not going to know what hit him." I smiled at her. I was about to reply when a knock came at the door. Link entered when Alex answered followed closely by Queen Zelda and a tall woman with silver hair and plates off armour covering most of her upper body.
"Greetings Queen Zelda," I bowed to her then nodded to Impa. "And you to sage of shadow." I correctly identified the Sheikah. The queen's uptight body guard tensed at the words but nodded back. "Well it seems you already know these two." He went on to introduce us.
"Zelda, this is Stephanie, Alex and Debbie. They where brought to Hyrule by Baldor via a magic portal. Saria and I found them in the lost woods three days ago. But with them we found something that's been missing for the last year."
At that point he had walked them over to the chairs in one corner and sat down. We were standing round them and as he'd finished speaking I pulled off my gauntlet once more and showed it to the Queen and Sheikah. Zelda was amazed as she looked closer at the mark. Impa remained impervious standing beside the queen's chair.
"How did you get the piece of the Triforce?" She asked keeping Disappointment out of her voice. "It was supposed to return to me. I could feel it and I was sure that if the person holding it where to come in contact with me it would return." a sour note escaped in her voice, "But it won't will it." She concluded bitterly.
Link and Impa looked concerned as I with drew my hand and replaced the gauntlet. "I don't know any more than you do about how I got it but with an attitude like that your dooming yourself to misery." She stared at me with wide eye's before I clamped a hand over my mouth in horror wondering what had made me say such a thing.
Link tried to distract the others from me as I took a few tentive steps back. Impa stilled Zelda before she could rise and I took my hands away from my face. Debbie was shaking hard with silent laughter that made her hod fall back from her face. Zelda looked as angry as a child cheated of sweets as she submitted to Impa and link's reasoning.
I made a point of keeping me mouth shut and my hands behind my back. Alex looked a little anxious but hid it well.
Zelda and Impa left soon after that. Impa had given me an apologetic look as she left the room. Once they where gone I slumped in a vacated seat and stared at the fire burning in the grate. "I should he known she was going to do that." Link was saying. "Zelda is now threatened by your presence here. I'll be glad to leave tomorrow. I don't want to get caught up in this again."
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The door swung open quietly on well oiled hinges and a figure slipped into the room. I watched the outline of the person as it passed against the light from the waning moon that shone weakly through the window. It crossed the room swiftly to stand beside my bed as I watched through narrowed eye's. It bent over reaching a hand out to touch the lump in the blankets.
"Looking for some one." I stepped out of the shadows and lit a candle illuminating the shocked face of the intruder. He remained silent as I stood there. He was dressed in the uniform of one of the servants but as I looked at his face I recognised a well bred look in his face. "What is your business in my room in the middle of the night." I demanded. The man was obviously a little tipsy as he tottered over to stand before me. I recognised him immediately. It was the King!
Angrily I started chanting the spell.
"Hide in shadows, Hide from sight..."
His eye's widened in fear.
"Teach a lesson taught by fright..."
He scrabbled away from me franticly trying to reach the door.
"Eye's apon unwilling tormented by pain..."
I bent my will on him to finish the spell.
"Till the spell be lifted again!"
He howled in fright and ran out the door the moment I released him. Seconds later Link was at the open door with Debbie and Alex right behind. "What happened?" They asked. "Intruder." I said simply. Debbie and Alex looked at me with sudden understanding. "What were the effects?" They changed the question and understanding crept into Link's face as he came to know just where the spell he had felt being cast had come from.
He had a serious look on his face as we explained our fore thinking. "You didn't have to go and curse him like that." he said as the laughter in his eye's belied his serious expression. I shrugged, "I don't care what happens to him. From now on I'll just turn into a writhing monster every time he looks at me or any other woman." Alex even found the urge to laugh irresistible.
Link pulled him back to earth. "Well we'd better be leaving now before he can get some of the guard together and come after Stephanie." I was already way ahead of him. "Lets get going then." I said quite willing to leave the castle after the reaction of the queen and the curse on the king.
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Well royalty shouldn't act like this! A jealous Queen and a seriously demented king. Maybe it's a good thing that Stephanie placed the curse on him. Find out if our hero's escape in the next chapter, 6: A Home found.
Chapter 5 : Jealous Royalty.
We left Koriki village within the hour. Link was leading Epona as we walked out into the bright light of the field. "Oh this is gonna take all day isn't it." Alex complained. Link had given him a short sword that he had brought in Termina. It now hung from his waist in a well preserved sheath.
"Yes." I said to him as I whacked him on the head. "So don't complain, you'll just make it harder for the rest of us." He shut up as Debbie giggled. We had decided to see queen Zelda and take the detour through the city.
Setting out we spent most of the day walking fast as we tried to reach the other side of the field before nightfall. I didn't fancy sleeping outside on the hard ground. We talked a little when we started but soon our talking became boring as we ran out of things to tell Link about our world. I told him of my incredibly strange relatives and my home.
Soon enough we ended up introducing him to the game I spy. That was all we did the whole way. We reached the great drawbridge that marked the entrance to Hyrule castle town just before sunset. The guards gave us mixed looks. Curiosity, Loathing, awe and respect. Opening my mind the way Saria had taught me I listened to the feelings of those round me. But at the same time I studied those with me.
Debbie, Warned by link, was being cautious about how she let her feelings show. She looked a lot like one of the Gerudo. But not that she minded that. Alex was fascinated with the sights around him. His head whizzed from side to side as he took in every detail. But as for link? Link had with drawn into him self. He was still conscious of his surroundings but his thoughts and expression where guarded.
Closing my mind once more I looked about the market square. The occasional person nodded to link, who acknowledged them with a nod of his own. Many stared as we passed. I could feel their eyes pressing into the back of my head.
The four of us found relief from prying eyes as we walked through the hills that surrounded Hyrule castle. "Be careful how you act in the castle." He repeated "I used to live there when I was champion but I sort of exciled my self after the last time we fought Baldor to get away from Zelda so I have no idea how they'll act to my being there." he said sheepishly. "Let alone you."
We walked up to the gate that crossed the path. The guards on the other side took a while to respond to our call. A particularly fat man was the one to answer. He came out of the guard house grumbling something about a dream when he looked up and saw us.
"By the goddesses!" he wheezed at the sight of us "Link you've returned. Are you going to stay here again?" The fat man was getting excited. "No I'm sorry but I won't be staying long. I've only come to escort my friends to see Zelda then I'm taking them to a safe house in the Gerudo valley."
"Well then by all means go in Link." The gate keeper was cheerful as he let us in. Once out of the man's hearing I whispered to Debbie, "That was just scary. What is that guy on." Debbie giggled earning a look of warning from link.
People came and went by us as we strolled up the path and into an open lawn. The Castle stood before us. It was twice as majestic in real life. Greetings to Link became more numerous as we approached the second draw bridge. I stole a glance at Link and noticed with out fail the guarded look that he wore. The interior of the castle was furnished in royal blue and gold with bright tapestries covering the walls. Tall windows let light flood into the corridor and the whole place gave off an aura of peace and happiness.
But I felt I'll at ease. Something about the castle was less tangible, aside from the stone walls. But the air had something hard backing the peace. People and servants that lingered in the main hall but drew to the side as we strode toward the giant double doors of the throne room.
They where opened as we approached by unseen means and we entered the domain of queen Zelda. She sat on the dais at the head of the hall wearing the crown of Hyrule and beside her was a man in the some type of magnificent clothes he, I gathered, was the new king.
The crowd of people split as link strode boldly up to the dais and bowed deeply to the pair. We stood back against the crowed that had closed in behind us as he addressed them in my stead. "Greeting's majesty's." He started formally. "I hope you excuse my long absence from your court."
Zelda was looking at him with glowing eye's while the king barely looked at him. A kept a civil face but to my sight he was a sour green with envy and loathing. His sight passed from Link to me standing behind and an expression to quick for me to read crossed his face. What ever it had been it bore only ill wishes.
His eye's then wandered to Alex and Debbie in tern. I could see him straining to see Debbie's face under the hood. I glared icily at him trying to come up with something to make him avoid us. I couldn't but he turned back to the conversation between Link and Zelda.
"I've been lucky enough to find something that will help Hyrule's cause greatly but it need's to be discussed at a later time..." He was saying. He and Zelda talked a little more before she ordered the servants to attend to us and Link. He had had to remind her we where there and we where soon walking down the vast corridors to the guest quarters in one of the towers.
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"I don't like that king." My comment was blunt as I paced round my room with Alex and Debbie for an audience. Debbie nodded in agreement, while Alex spoke up. "I watched him the whole time. He's a bloody pervert." Debbie for some reason found this funny. She rolled back onto my bed and laughed hard.
We both glared at her then gave up letting her laugh. "I know what you mean." I said empatheticly in reply. "I wonder if I could come up with something to teach him a lesson." I fell in to a thought filled silence as we all though of our own grievances. "I know." Alex was struck with sudden inspiration, "We could always cast some kind of curse to keep him from looking at anyone."
His suggestion opened my mind to hundreds of ideas. My words came out unbidden as a recited something for them to remember.
Hide in shadows, Hide from sight Teach a lesson taught by fright Eye's apon unwilling tormented by pain Till the spell be lifted again.
"Perfect." said Debbie as she emerged from he frantic giggling. "He's not going to know what hit him." I smiled at her. I was about to reply when a knock came at the door. Link entered when Alex answered followed closely by Queen Zelda and a tall woman with silver hair and plates off armour covering most of her upper body.
"Greetings Queen Zelda," I bowed to her then nodded to Impa. "And you to sage of shadow." I correctly identified the Sheikah. The queen's uptight body guard tensed at the words but nodded back. "Well it seems you already know these two." He went on to introduce us.
"Zelda, this is Stephanie, Alex and Debbie. They where brought to Hyrule by Baldor via a magic portal. Saria and I found them in the lost woods three days ago. But with them we found something that's been missing for the last year."
At that point he had walked them over to the chairs in one corner and sat down. We were standing round them and as he'd finished speaking I pulled off my gauntlet once more and showed it to the Queen and Sheikah. Zelda was amazed as she looked closer at the mark. Impa remained impervious standing beside the queen's chair.
"How did you get the piece of the Triforce?" She asked keeping Disappointment out of her voice. "It was supposed to return to me. I could feel it and I was sure that if the person holding it where to come in contact with me it would return." a sour note escaped in her voice, "But it won't will it." She concluded bitterly.
Link and Impa looked concerned as I with drew my hand and replaced the gauntlet. "I don't know any more than you do about how I got it but with an attitude like that your dooming yourself to misery." She stared at me with wide eye's before I clamped a hand over my mouth in horror wondering what had made me say such a thing.
Link tried to distract the others from me as I took a few tentive steps back. Impa stilled Zelda before she could rise and I took my hands away from my face. Debbie was shaking hard with silent laughter that made her hod fall back from her face. Zelda looked as angry as a child cheated of sweets as she submitted to Impa and link's reasoning.
I made a point of keeping me mouth shut and my hands behind my back. Alex looked a little anxious but hid it well.
Zelda and Impa left soon after that. Impa had given me an apologetic look as she left the room. Once they where gone I slumped in a vacated seat and stared at the fire burning in the grate. "I should he known she was going to do that." Link was saying. "Zelda is now threatened by your presence here. I'll be glad to leave tomorrow. I don't want to get caught up in this again."
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The door swung open quietly on well oiled hinges and a figure slipped into the room. I watched the outline of the person as it passed against the light from the waning moon that shone weakly through the window. It crossed the room swiftly to stand beside my bed as I watched through narrowed eye's. It bent over reaching a hand out to touch the lump in the blankets.
"Looking for some one." I stepped out of the shadows and lit a candle illuminating the shocked face of the intruder. He remained silent as I stood there. He was dressed in the uniform of one of the servants but as I looked at his face I recognised a well bred look in his face. "What is your business in my room in the middle of the night." I demanded. The man was obviously a little tipsy as he tottered over to stand before me. I recognised him immediately. It was the King!
Angrily I started chanting the spell.
"Hide in shadows, Hide from sight..."
His eye's widened in fear.
"Teach a lesson taught by fright..."
He scrabbled away from me franticly trying to reach the door.
"Eye's apon unwilling tormented by pain..."
I bent my will on him to finish the spell.
"Till the spell be lifted again!"
He howled in fright and ran out the door the moment I released him. Seconds later Link was at the open door with Debbie and Alex right behind. "What happened?" They asked. "Intruder." I said simply. Debbie and Alex looked at me with sudden understanding. "What were the effects?" They changed the question and understanding crept into Link's face as he came to know just where the spell he had felt being cast had come from.
He had a serious look on his face as we explained our fore thinking. "You didn't have to go and curse him like that." he said as the laughter in his eye's belied his serious expression. I shrugged, "I don't care what happens to him. From now on I'll just turn into a writhing monster every time he looks at me or any other woman." Alex even found the urge to laugh irresistible.
Link pulled him back to earth. "Well we'd better be leaving now before he can get some of the guard together and come after Stephanie." I was already way ahead of him. "Lets get going then." I said quite willing to leave the castle after the reaction of the queen and the curse on the king.
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Well royalty shouldn't act like this! A jealous Queen and a seriously demented king. Maybe it's a good thing that Stephanie placed the curse on him. Find out if our hero's escape in the next chapter, 6: A Home found.