((Disclaimer: The Zelda characters aren't mine, but Kiren, and Impa II,
Katin are.))
REVENGE ~Some years later~
In a realm beyond the land and water of Hyrule, a young woman, flawlessly perfect, sat beside a small lake in a lush forest glade. A multitude of green curls cascaded down her back as Farore, Goddess of Courage, studied the picture on the glassy surface of the pool. The water showed her a teenage boy, red haired and strong, fencing with his Mistresses in the Gerudo Fortress. Farore trailed a delicate hand over the surface, and amid little sparkles and glimmering, the view changed. Inside Hyrule Castle Town, a small girl with long golden hair played with the fountain. Farore smiled a faultless smile and blew across the surface. Ripples distorted the image for a moment, and the girl's hair blew in a warm wind.
The Goddess laughed lightly and got to her feet. Strong footsteps in her forest heralded the arrival of her sister, Din, Goddess of Power.
"Put that Gerudo boy back on, will you?"
Farore obliged, and Din stood, hands on hips, watching. Her red hair was the exact same shade as the boy's, and she grinned, satisfied with the picture. Unlike the loose attire of her gentle sisters, Din chose to garb herself in tight fitting clothing that revealed her athletic brown-skinned body as much as possible. This also gave her greater freedom to move about. Her dark fiery eyes and her hair, kept free of her face by a tight ponytail, meant she could easily pass for one of her chosen people: the Gerudo.
Softer footsteps came through the trees as the third Goddess Nayru came towards them. Goddess of Wisdom, Nayru wore her straight blue hair long and half tied back with a seashell. Blue eyed and slender, she wore a loose dress of varying shades of sea colours, and her feet were always bare. Nayru frequently walked in Hyrule as a Zora so often that her skin had started to take on a bluish tint.
Farore chose a long dress-like tunic after the manner of the Kokiri, her people. Her feet were bare too, and she had green-tinted skin and green eyes.
"Seen enough?" she asked, kneeling and reaching out to view the girl again.
"Yes, I suppose so," Din stepped back from the pool and sat on a rock, toying with the end of her ponytail.
Farore tickled the surface again with her fingers, and Nayru knelt beside her to see. The child, no more than eleven, was now munching on an apple in the arms of her mother. Nayru smiled,
"The little Princess?" she enquired.
Farore nodded fondly, "The same age as the young Hero of Time. She has her mother's eyes and her father's determination." She looked up suddenly at Din, "Are you sure we are doing the right thing here? Princess Impa may not be able to handle this."
"May, may not, who can tell. I'm surprised at you, Farore. Wasn't it you to suggest this course of events?"
Farore lowered her gaze to the water again, "Yes. but now I'm not so sure."
Din slipped from the rock, "Well it's really too late to turn back on it now. I'm off to the Valley. I have an appearance to make and revenge to ignite. Farewell."
Din cast a relative of the Deku Nut to the soil and vanished in a flash. Nayru and Farore exchanged glances, and then Farore changed the vision to watch Din's work.
***
Kiren was sitting on the hard floor of his chamber, recovering from the training session. He'd still not managed to break through his Mistresses' defences. Sweat glistened on his forehead, and the customary black training clothes clung to his skin. He looked at his hands. Strong, nimble fingered; tinged green and tanned by the desert sun. He was a true Gerudo, and he would make Katin proud of him. The striking Warrior pressed him harder and harder during each training session. She gave him little encouragement, but he was fired by an urge to impress her and tried so hard to draw a positive comment from her.
Lost in his thoughts, he jumped involuntarily as a rich voice spoke to him close to his ear,
"Kiren."
His head snapped up and he found himself face to face with the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. A red haze filled the room, isolating them from the noise of the Fortress. Fire burned in her dark eyes.
Din got straight to the point, "Did you ever wonder why you have blue eyes, boy?"
Kiren nodded, struck dumb by her beauty. He felt himself caught in her gaze.
Din nodded, "And did you ever wonder where you came from? A hundred years have not passed since the last male child was born here."
"I know that!" blurted Kiren suddenly. Din raised an eyebrow. Eager to impress her, Kiren continued, outlining his plans for the future, "The last male child was Ganondorf. They tell me I am special, and I know this. I have greater strength than Ganondorf had when he was my age. I will train, grow strong, and then begin my rule of Hyrule." His eyes shone.
Din threw back her head and laughed, "Ha! Yet the future King does not know his ancestry. What if I told you that you could be King anyway, without storming the castle..?"
Kiren leaned closer, "What? That's ridiculous."
Din grinned, "Would you like to know where you came from, boy?"
Kiren stopped in mid nod, "Y-- wait, how do I know you are telling the truth? What right have you to enter my quarters and tell me my past?"
He stood up and reached for his broadsword. Din sprang to her feet as well.
"Don't be a fool. I have powers you can only dream about."
"Let's see them then!" Kiren charged with the speed of a wildcat. He had not been lying - he was an excellent swordsman. However, Din ducked under the thrust. She darted a little way off as Kiren collided with the wall with a clang. He shook himself as Din sniggered,
"Come on boy, give me a challenge."
Kiren glared at her. He let his sword into his right hand, raised his left and clenched it. From the ceiling several medium sized rocks tumbled in a cloud of dust. Quick as wildfire, Din raised her arms, and a shield of Din's Fire blossomed around her.
Kiren dropped his sword in amazement. Din smirked, standing in a hazy sunbeam as the rocks and fire vanished in tendrils of smoke, "Not bad."
"Who are you..?" stammered Kiren. Din bowed,
"To you, I am Din. You may have heard the name." she added, dryly. Kiren fell to his knees for the first time in his seventeen years. Din hid a smile, "Get up, I have things to tell you."
Kiren did so, and sat on the bench against the wall. Din joined him and her voice became quiet and secretive, "About your ruling. You have no need to storm the castle because you are the rightful Prince of Hyrule. You are the son of Lord Ganondorf, and the Queen Zelda, and next in line to the throne."
She paused to let this news sink in. Kiren sat with his mouth open. Then with lightning speed, he twisted and brought his hand up, slapping the Goddess across the cheek. "How dare you lie to me!"
Din gasped in amazement, snarled, and pulled the Gerudo boy to the floor, twisting his left arm up behind him and pressing her knee into the small of his back. Kiren struggled vainly as the breath left his lungs. Din hissed into his ear, "Think I'm lying? Why would I lie?" She rolled him over easily and brought her face uncomfortably close to his,
"I think it would be best for you to go it alone here, don't you? I shall forget my offer of help; I have no desire to aid such an ungrateful little spawn of a Thief. Farewell."
Din leapt up and cast a Deku Nut to the stone floor. Kiren blinked as she vanished in a flash.
***
Farore looked up from the water, surprise on her face. Din materialised on her rock a few feet away, fuming. Nayru hid a smile, "What happened? Weren't you supposed to give him more of a hint?"
"The filthy little rat! I'm not helping anyone who touches me in that way!" A scowling Din jumped from the rock, storming away into the forest.
Farore sighed and turned back to the pool. The boy would need careful monitoring so Nayru knew when to step in.
***
Kiren rested on the floor for a second, focusing on his next task. Then he picked himself up, grabbed his broadsword and re-sheathed it and stalked from the room. He knocked into Katin as he passed in the stone corridor, and when he neglected to apologise, she stormed after him, "Kiren! Where in Din's name are you going?"
Kiren lashed himself about, "Don't swear by the Goddess! I just met her, here, and now I'm going to reclaim the throne of Hyrule."
Katin laughed, "Yeah, sure, royal-boy. Don't come crying back when the guards slice you up. There's extra security now the Princess Impa is out and about."
Kiren made his way out of the Fortress and across the newly mended bridge, a plan formulating in his mind. He needed transport - he couldn't be bothered trudging across Hyrule Field when there was murder to be carried out. His blue gaze swept the grassland and fell upon Lon Lon Ranch not so far away. He smirked and strode off. . .
***
REVENGE ~Some years later~
In a realm beyond the land and water of Hyrule, a young woman, flawlessly perfect, sat beside a small lake in a lush forest glade. A multitude of green curls cascaded down her back as Farore, Goddess of Courage, studied the picture on the glassy surface of the pool. The water showed her a teenage boy, red haired and strong, fencing with his Mistresses in the Gerudo Fortress. Farore trailed a delicate hand over the surface, and amid little sparkles and glimmering, the view changed. Inside Hyrule Castle Town, a small girl with long golden hair played with the fountain. Farore smiled a faultless smile and blew across the surface. Ripples distorted the image for a moment, and the girl's hair blew in a warm wind.
The Goddess laughed lightly and got to her feet. Strong footsteps in her forest heralded the arrival of her sister, Din, Goddess of Power.
"Put that Gerudo boy back on, will you?"
Farore obliged, and Din stood, hands on hips, watching. Her red hair was the exact same shade as the boy's, and she grinned, satisfied with the picture. Unlike the loose attire of her gentle sisters, Din chose to garb herself in tight fitting clothing that revealed her athletic brown-skinned body as much as possible. This also gave her greater freedom to move about. Her dark fiery eyes and her hair, kept free of her face by a tight ponytail, meant she could easily pass for one of her chosen people: the Gerudo.
Softer footsteps came through the trees as the third Goddess Nayru came towards them. Goddess of Wisdom, Nayru wore her straight blue hair long and half tied back with a seashell. Blue eyed and slender, she wore a loose dress of varying shades of sea colours, and her feet were always bare. Nayru frequently walked in Hyrule as a Zora so often that her skin had started to take on a bluish tint.
Farore chose a long dress-like tunic after the manner of the Kokiri, her people. Her feet were bare too, and she had green-tinted skin and green eyes.
"Seen enough?" she asked, kneeling and reaching out to view the girl again.
"Yes, I suppose so," Din stepped back from the pool and sat on a rock, toying with the end of her ponytail.
Farore tickled the surface again with her fingers, and Nayru knelt beside her to see. The child, no more than eleven, was now munching on an apple in the arms of her mother. Nayru smiled,
"The little Princess?" she enquired.
Farore nodded fondly, "The same age as the young Hero of Time. She has her mother's eyes and her father's determination." She looked up suddenly at Din, "Are you sure we are doing the right thing here? Princess Impa may not be able to handle this."
"May, may not, who can tell. I'm surprised at you, Farore. Wasn't it you to suggest this course of events?"
Farore lowered her gaze to the water again, "Yes. but now I'm not so sure."
Din slipped from the rock, "Well it's really too late to turn back on it now. I'm off to the Valley. I have an appearance to make and revenge to ignite. Farewell."
Din cast a relative of the Deku Nut to the soil and vanished in a flash. Nayru and Farore exchanged glances, and then Farore changed the vision to watch Din's work.
***
Kiren was sitting on the hard floor of his chamber, recovering from the training session. He'd still not managed to break through his Mistresses' defences. Sweat glistened on his forehead, and the customary black training clothes clung to his skin. He looked at his hands. Strong, nimble fingered; tinged green and tanned by the desert sun. He was a true Gerudo, and he would make Katin proud of him. The striking Warrior pressed him harder and harder during each training session. She gave him little encouragement, but he was fired by an urge to impress her and tried so hard to draw a positive comment from her.
Lost in his thoughts, he jumped involuntarily as a rich voice spoke to him close to his ear,
"Kiren."
His head snapped up and he found himself face to face with the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. A red haze filled the room, isolating them from the noise of the Fortress. Fire burned in her dark eyes.
Din got straight to the point, "Did you ever wonder why you have blue eyes, boy?"
Kiren nodded, struck dumb by her beauty. He felt himself caught in her gaze.
Din nodded, "And did you ever wonder where you came from? A hundred years have not passed since the last male child was born here."
"I know that!" blurted Kiren suddenly. Din raised an eyebrow. Eager to impress her, Kiren continued, outlining his plans for the future, "The last male child was Ganondorf. They tell me I am special, and I know this. I have greater strength than Ganondorf had when he was my age. I will train, grow strong, and then begin my rule of Hyrule." His eyes shone.
Din threw back her head and laughed, "Ha! Yet the future King does not know his ancestry. What if I told you that you could be King anyway, without storming the castle..?"
Kiren leaned closer, "What? That's ridiculous."
Din grinned, "Would you like to know where you came from, boy?"
Kiren stopped in mid nod, "Y-- wait, how do I know you are telling the truth? What right have you to enter my quarters and tell me my past?"
He stood up and reached for his broadsword. Din sprang to her feet as well.
"Don't be a fool. I have powers you can only dream about."
"Let's see them then!" Kiren charged with the speed of a wildcat. He had not been lying - he was an excellent swordsman. However, Din ducked under the thrust. She darted a little way off as Kiren collided with the wall with a clang. He shook himself as Din sniggered,
"Come on boy, give me a challenge."
Kiren glared at her. He let his sword into his right hand, raised his left and clenched it. From the ceiling several medium sized rocks tumbled in a cloud of dust. Quick as wildfire, Din raised her arms, and a shield of Din's Fire blossomed around her.
Kiren dropped his sword in amazement. Din smirked, standing in a hazy sunbeam as the rocks and fire vanished in tendrils of smoke, "Not bad."
"Who are you..?" stammered Kiren. Din bowed,
"To you, I am Din. You may have heard the name." she added, dryly. Kiren fell to his knees for the first time in his seventeen years. Din hid a smile, "Get up, I have things to tell you."
Kiren did so, and sat on the bench against the wall. Din joined him and her voice became quiet and secretive, "About your ruling. You have no need to storm the castle because you are the rightful Prince of Hyrule. You are the son of Lord Ganondorf, and the Queen Zelda, and next in line to the throne."
She paused to let this news sink in. Kiren sat with his mouth open. Then with lightning speed, he twisted and brought his hand up, slapping the Goddess across the cheek. "How dare you lie to me!"
Din gasped in amazement, snarled, and pulled the Gerudo boy to the floor, twisting his left arm up behind him and pressing her knee into the small of his back. Kiren struggled vainly as the breath left his lungs. Din hissed into his ear, "Think I'm lying? Why would I lie?" She rolled him over easily and brought her face uncomfortably close to his,
"I think it would be best for you to go it alone here, don't you? I shall forget my offer of help; I have no desire to aid such an ungrateful little spawn of a Thief. Farewell."
Din leapt up and cast a Deku Nut to the stone floor. Kiren blinked as she vanished in a flash.
***
Farore looked up from the water, surprise on her face. Din materialised on her rock a few feet away, fuming. Nayru hid a smile, "What happened? Weren't you supposed to give him more of a hint?"
"The filthy little rat! I'm not helping anyone who touches me in that way!" A scowling Din jumped from the rock, storming away into the forest.
Farore sighed and turned back to the pool. The boy would need careful monitoring so Nayru knew when to step in.
***
Kiren rested on the floor for a second, focusing on his next task. Then he picked himself up, grabbed his broadsword and re-sheathed it and stalked from the room. He knocked into Katin as he passed in the stone corridor, and when he neglected to apologise, she stormed after him, "Kiren! Where in Din's name are you going?"
Kiren lashed himself about, "Don't swear by the Goddess! I just met her, here, and now I'm going to reclaim the throne of Hyrule."
Katin laughed, "Yeah, sure, royal-boy. Don't come crying back when the guards slice you up. There's extra security now the Princess Impa is out and about."
Kiren made his way out of the Fortress and across the newly mended bridge, a plan formulating in his mind. He needed transport - he couldn't be bothered trudging across Hyrule Field when there was murder to be carried out. His blue gaze swept the grassland and fell upon Lon Lon Ranch not so far away. He smirked and strode off. . .
***