Thanks to the suggestion of one of my reviewers, I figured I should go into a little background to the Fierce Deity. I don't want you to get confused so I have integrated it into the story. I'm quite proud of the chapter title if I do say so myself. This chapter is going to be short, but I'll make it up with a longer chapter next.
"I suppose it all begins with the Fierce Deity's birth. When the three goddesses were born, there was quite a massive surge of power within the Sacred Realm. Now, when the goddesses were formed, the energy that was put off was of two types. Dark, and Light. Now this energy wasn't going to just sit around and do nothing. In fact it did quiet the opposite. It formed into the ulitimate warrior. The Fierce Deity.
The goddesses didn't like this. They knew that the Fierce Deity, or Oni Link was too powerful for his own good. So when they went to create Hyrule, He was left behind. The warrior though, was too powerful to be left behind. He ripped open the seal between dimentions and went to Hyrule. The goddesses were afraid. Oni Link though convinced them of his neutrality. After all, a being born of equal dark and light, he wasn't evil, nor good. He just did things as he thought they should be done. It was his doing that allowed humans to protect themselves. He created evil and good, and the seperation between them.
Of course, after a while, the gods and godesses powers declined. All that was except the Fierce Deity. This was very troubleing for the rest of the deities. So the Fierce Deity did the only thing he knew would be fair. He incarnated himself. He took half his power and sent it down to the earth. So the first Hyrulian Fierce Deity was born. When he was born, some said the universe finally had balance. Good, Evil and a free will to make the choice. Light, dark and a world to hold it in. The Fierce Deity was the true force behind Hyrule. The goddesses created life, but Oni Link gave it power, will and sides to choose.
Even in the beggining though, shadow wasn't trusted. It hid too many things. But as the saying goes, Not all shadow is evil, not all-"
"Light can be trusted." Finished Link. Drache smiled and nodded to Link.
"Right. Light can also hide the true path. One has to balance them to really know things. I learned this from the third incarnation of the Deity.
"Who's the latest?" asked Malon.
"Well, because he has the makings of the Legendary Hybrid blade, Fusion, I'm going to suppose the Feirce Deity's incarnate is...Link."
Zelda and Malon gasped. "So you're saying the ultimate warrior is incarnated in Link?" asked Zelda.
"Right you are. But...something is wrong. When I worked for the third incarnation of the Deity, he I noticed that when I tried to sense his energy, he was equal parts light and dark. Link on the other hand is only light, while the mask he carries is pure shadow...It's almost like someone split the Deity up...
"Well I'm sure that even if Link was the true Feirce Deity, there should be no reason for him to go on this big adventure! I mean he's a great enough warrior as it is!" Zelda shot out quickly.
"No Zelda. It's all the more reason I should search for the armor of the Deity." Link replied. "Drache, I have a question to ask you. You said all shadow isn't evil. How do you figure Gannondorf?"
"Are you saying that Gannondorf was evil?"
"Yeah...but what do you think?"
"I think you've been had. Gannondorf isn't evil. He may be hot headed and bad with some moral descsions, but Gannon isn't evil at all." Drache replied, his face serious.
"Wh-what the hell?! Then explain why he attacked and tried to conqure Hyrule!"
"Revenge, plain and simple. Gannondorf was trying to get help for the Gerudos because they were dying by the hundreds. Someone said they'd help him, but ended up betraying him. Like I said, he's hotheaded. He got angry and attacked Hyrule because of his peoples misfortune. Believe it or not, Gannondorf wasn't evil. All he wanted was his people to prosper."
Link was stunned. Could this be part of the manipulation of the royalty and the sages? "So that means...he was innocent..."
"Believe me, I'd like to smack the person who betrayed him with my latern until they caught fire, but I don't know who."
"Well it couldn't have been Zelda. If I know her, she'd be willing to help Gannon if she knew his true motives." Link replied, causing Zelda to get a half blushing, half guilty look. She hid her face before anyone could see it though.
"Well the past is the past and we can't do anything about it even if we tried. For now it's best if we continue our mission. We should contact the Oracle. You get three questions from the Oracle and that's all. I'll show you to the Oracle right now."
