D-Chan
Zelda
"Zelda! I'm here! What did you want!" Link said rushing up to her. He reached out only to find his hands slapped back.
"Don't touch her! Please don't touch her! I beg of you!" Cried out a familiar female voice. Link turned to see a young woman with blue hair and blue eyes. She was dress in a blue tunic and hood. Beneath it was a soft blue leotard and a firm fitting pair of leather boots. On her back was the Master Sword.
"That can't be! It's in the pedestal. You can't have the sword." Link uttered.
"How did you think I traveled from Hyrulea to Hyrule. I pulled the Master Sword and made a wish." The girl smiled.
"Zelda. Who is this?" Link asked laying a hand on Zelda's shoulder.
"NO!" The girl gasped. She signed and fell to the ground weakly, "There's only two hearts left."
Zelda looked at the girl sadly, "Link, meet Leena Heroine of Time from Hyrulea. She was here to try to warn you. I guess she was to late."
The girl stood up, "No, I was here to get help. I was mistaken that the Shadow would not notice me leave. It attacked me on the way out. It followed me here and plans to recruit the four greatest hearts and take them back to kill the King."
Zelda seemed take back by the fact she was wrong in knowledge. "The four greatest hearts?" She questioned.
"Yes," the Leena said walking to the steps of the mini-bridge. "The four greatest hearts... they made a poem of it...The Four Great Hearts to Rule Hyrulea/ The most love for the lovers/ The most lonely for the loveless/ The most good for the people/ The most bad for the villains/ All to rule under the King's dark white shadow."
"Why did you come here for help? You brought it here." Link asked kindly.
"I came here to save the King. He is the best good heart. He's father's shadow is the Dark White Shadow the poem speaks of. The Shadow awoke when the old King met the loneliest heart. She didn't mean to wake the Shadow, but she was so sad..." Leena sighed.
"She? Was the she you?" Zelda asked leaning down to Leena.
"No I wasn't I don't think. But still the Shadow awoke when the King met me. He slit the King's throat with my sword before me and the Prince's very eyes. The Prince never forgave me. I work for him now. Doing his bidding like a slave, keeping him safe and feeding all his needs."
"Who is the Prince, Why is he not with you?" Link questioned.
"The Prince is not with me because I laid him to sleep in the great Temple of Ice. I could not protect him if I left, so I laid him to sleep where no one could get to him but a Zora, they are the only race secluded enough not to be effected by the Shadow."
"Then how did you get him there?"
"I am a Zora. When I dry off, I will return to my true form."
Link gasped. Living so long around all the races actually features took him a while to notice. She had blue tinted skin and her eyes looked fishy, not Hyrulian at all. He also noticed her damp clothes.
"Of course I have made the mistake of saying this in front of the Princess. She will be his soon and he will know where the King is. He will attack my people and use them to get the King, or he might even use me. I really might be the loneliest heart, but I doubt it." Leena said pulling off her hood.
Link looked at the girl. She looked crushed by her responsibility. Her eyes burn with sadness and her face with tight with stress.
"You loved him didn't you?" Came a voice.
Leena looked at Zelda confused for she had not spoken.
"You loved the Prince, the King, you were sad to lock him away, but he asked you to." Emerald said appearing in the courtyard.
Leena instantly began to cry. "Queen! Oh Queen forgive for not saving you! For saving your husband! For doing what I had to do to your son. I am so SORRY!" She screamed falling to Emerald's feet.
Emerald frowned looking down at Leena. "Stand before the Princess and Future Queen of Hyrule!"
Leena stopped crying and composed herself before Emerald. "Forgive me Princess. I am Leena of Hyrulea."
"Shut up, I know who you are! You will answer my question, You loved him did you not?" Emerald said her face hard.
"I-I yes, I did love the King, I do love the King. I will not tell him." Leena said looking away from Emerald.
Emerald's eyes softened, "Good, I expect proper manners from my Heroes. You are Link will go off and find the last two hearts. Which hearts are left?"
"The heart of loneliness and of evil." Leena answered shortly.
"Who are the heart of love, and good?" Emerald looking quickly at Zelda and Link.
"The Hero of Time is..." Leena looked at Link hard for a moment, "the most loving. I see many he holds to his heart. Princess Zelda..." again she looked hard, "is truly the heart of good, naive and foolish, justice and loyal, she is the heart they will seek. He will have both of them soon. In less then a week they will be doing his biding."
"What do you suggest we do?" Emerald said looking hard at Leena.
"I-I would look the Princess away as I did the King. No Zora will be controlled, they are neither the strongest or the weakest of anything. The Hero of Time... I can only take him to the far reaches of nowhere in hopes he does not meet the loneliest or the most evil. Should I?" Leena asked looking down at the ten year old Princess.
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Will she do it?
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