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Chapter 18: Sword Against Shield
"So.........hey.........how are you, Rose?" Link knew it was too late, but he still hid the ring behind his back. Zelda was surprised that Rosemarie had come out here. /She promised to have a positive attitude. A positive attitude........./
"It's true, then," Rosemarie said, trying not to make her voice sound shaky. "You did ask Zelda to marry you."
"I didn't. I'm going to. You see, I messed up and I don't........."
"Don't try to weed out some twisted lie!" Rosemarie suddenly turned angry. "I'm asking you a simple question."
"Actually, you said a statement."
"LINK! Are you? Or are you not?" Rosemarie crossed her arms.
"Talk about mood swings," Link whispered to Zelda.
"She gets it from her mom," Zelda replied.
"Are you?"
"Um.........yes........." Rosemarie smiled slightly, but very slightly.
"I see." She turned around and started back to her house.
"Wait!" Link called. He tried to run after her.
"Don't worry," Rosemarie yelled back. "I'm not angry or sad. I'm happy for you both!" She skipped away. Link turned back to Zelda.
"She's a mood swing monarch alright."
"She's keeping her happy attitude. You've got to love Rosemarie for that."
"So now, that that's over, will you marry me?" Link got down on one knee.
"Duh! Uh.........I mean, yes I will." The pair laughed. As they walked back to the castle hand in hand, they never noticed a shadow of a man hiding behind the tree. He whispered something and a figure wearing black rags rose up from the ground. The two figures stayed behind the tree, as silent as a stone, until they were sure all three had left the scene.
"Did you call me, Master?" the black figure asked. The other man nodded and pulled down the hood of his black cape.
"Yes, my trusty servant. Did you see that?"
"Of course, Master. I live in the Shadow of this tree. I see and hear everything. It seems the prince has found himself a bride and an angry girlfriend. I've seen those two before, Master."
"I'm sure you have. Listen, you know the Royal Family in the past, a long while ago, had the Triforce I sought in my past life. Well, there's the one that's the descendent of the family. According to the curse that I placed upon them when the Hero of Time killed me, every descendent of the Royal Line carries with them the essence of the Triforce."
"You placed a curse like that? I don't get it."
"Listen. If the Triforce was a physical object, then they'd have so many guards it would be easier to forge it. Instead, if it is within the Royal Family, then it wouldn't be guarded so easily. After all, in my curse, the family had no idea it was within them."
"I'm confused."
"ARHG! Okay, think of it this way. Long ago, when the Hero of Time and Princess Zelda were getting married, I tried to capture the Triforce. Unfortunately, when I tried to get rid of the Hero of Time, this stupid girl names Rosemarie intercepted my attack. Link got the chance to banish me from the earth once and for all, or so he thought. Little known to them, I placed a curse that made the Triforce itself combine itself with them. Now, if I kill one of them with the legendary Shadow Dagger, the poison within it will bring out the Triforce."
"You had the power to place a curse on an object that you didn't have?"
"Shadow! I AM LORD GANNONDORF, THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF EVIL. Of course I have that much power. Anyway, so now we must kill the descendent of the royal family, the last one, and we'll get the Triforce."
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go get Link."
"Not so fast, first we must - Link? What do you mean Link? I'm after Zelda here!"
"But Link is the prince. He's the Royal Line descendent."
"The descendant of the legendary Royal Line is what we need. The Royal Line that the legendary Princess Zelda was in slowly faded away. One of the descendents married out of the royal line, and therefore the family tree curved to the present path. In reality, all the real Hylian Royals are now nothing more than subjects of the king."
"I'm confused.........again."
"Argh! Let's just say Zelda is somehow connected to the Royal Family, and she has the Triforce essence within her, okay?"
"Okay."
"Now we've got to kill her."
"But how?"
"Using Rosemarie."
"Huh???"
"Confused? Don't worry, I won't waste my breath explaining. Let's just say I've got a plan that's going to turn Hyrule upside down."
.........
Night came amazingly fast as the sun leaped across the sky. Rosemarie hummed to herself as she tied the waist of her nightgown. She had tried to forget about Zelda marrying Link. She'd eventually have to accept it, but for right now she could think of other things.
As Rosemarie was just about to pull back the covers of her bed, she heard a quiet knock on her door. Rosemarie narrowed her eyes.
"Mom? Wildflower?" She waited for a response, but none came. "Who's there?" The door opened slightly. Rosemarie looked around for any source of weapon just in case. She didn't find one. The door opened more and the darkness crept into the room.
"Who's there?" Rosemarie asked, her voice shaky. The door was open all the way, yet she couldn't see anything. The window rattled, sending goose bumps down Rosemarie's spine.
Suddenly, something drove Rosemarie down into her bed. Two hands pinned her arms out to the side, spread out like make a snow-angel. Another hand gripped her mouth shut so she couldn't scream. Rosemarie panicked as she saw only shadows. But soon, something else came into her vision. A pair of red eyes appeared right in front of her face.
"Frightened?" a voice pierced the darkness, ragged and evil. "Do not worry. If you do not scream, I will let you go." Rosemarie felt the hand over her mouth slide away. The hands on her wrists loosened a little.
"Who are you?" Rosemarie demanded.
"I am someone who can give you an opportunity to get back with your love." The red eyes glowed as they came closer to Rosemarie's face. She felt a strange feeling inside her. She felt like she was drawn to those eyes, like invisible threads chained her to them.
"Tell me, what do you want?" Rosemarie asked. The red eyes glimmered for a moment. Rosemarie was mesmerized by them.
"I want you.........to do me a favor."
"A favor?" Rosemarie queried, her voice starting to sound dreamy. "What favor? I would do anything. Just, don't move the eyes." The red light flooded her sight. The eyes moved slightly away. Rosemarie got up from the bed to follow it. It filled her with peace and erased her worries.
"Hold out your hand." Rosemarie obeyed, feeling glad to. She felt something cold and long drop into it. It had a solid hilt and a sharp blade.
"A sword!"
"More like a dagger, more really. It's a very special dagger, might I add."
"Does it have special powers?" Rosemarie was drawn toward the eyes once more. The raspy voice chuckled.
"Of course it does. For one thing, all you have to do is give it a target. Say a name to it, and it will try to kill no other than that person. Another thing, if you hit it against any object that is not a person, it will melt that object without even getting scratched. Last of all, if you hold it in your hand, it will help you strike whatever person you wished to. If you tell it a name, you'll find it really hard to kill anybody but that person with this blade." Rosemarie didn't really pay attention to what the voice was saying. The dagger had begun to glow too. It called out to her in the same red light as the pair of eyes. Rosemarie was sucked into their mesmerizing force.
"Can I try it?" she asked, hoping the eyes would let her. She heard he mysterious chuckle again.
"Not now, but let me show you how to work it." A hand took the sword from Rosemarie's hand. She wanted to grasp it back, hold it forever, but her longing for the eye and wanting to do whatever it wanted made her keep her hands by her side.
"Sword of Evil, Destroyer of Holy Light, I use my power to give you a new target, search and seek Princess Zelda, descendent of the royal line. Within her plant your blade, and plant it deep........." The sword glowed yellow, and finally turned back red. When it was handed back to Rosemarie, she felt it vibrate in her hands.
"Wow!"
"You see.........now you have a very important mission." Rosemarie felt the familiar tug as the eyes glowed furiously beside her own. She looked into them with deep interest.
"I will do whatever you ask," Rosemarie said in a very faint voice.
"Your friend Zelda holds something within her of great importance. Take this dagger, and stab her heart with it. Only then will I be able to retrieve what I need."
"Yes........." Rosemarie felt the darkness slowly fade away. The eyes grew dim.
"NO! Don't leave........."
"I will come when you have completed your mission. If you fail, you will never see me again!" The eyes vanished. Rosemarie felt her world come back to her. Her knees buckled, and she fainted onto the bed, her right hand still gripping the dagger.
.........
"Oh! Congratulations!" Link's mother exclaimed. "This is just in time!" Link had just told the news to his parents about Zelda's acceptance to his proposal. "The wedding for Aryll is coming in one week. How about we get you married on the same day?"
"So-so soon?" Zelda asked.
"I have to get married the same day as Marth?" Link asked incredulously.
"Now, now, I know this is sudden but it would save us the time. Don't you think?" Link sighed.
"I think that's a perfect idea!" The king announced. "We should tell the townspeople."
"First, I think I better tell my parents," Zelda said. "They'd be wanting to know about this." With the royals' permission, she set off to her home again.
.........
"So," Gannondorf said, watching from behind the alley as Zelda made her way home. "My life's work is about to come true."
"Since you had two lives to do it in, anyway."
"Shut up! Let me celebrate for my brilliance in achieving my goal. I've finally set the sword against the shield."
"Master.........it's a dagger. And I saw no shield."
"It's a metaphor, Shadow. Rosemarie is like a sword cause she has the dagger, true. But out shield is Princess Zelda, who is keeping the Triforce against us. But this time, the sword will break the shield! A new evil force will reign as I take control of Hyrule. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Chapter 18: Sword Against Shield
"So.........hey.........how are you, Rose?" Link knew it was too late, but he still hid the ring behind his back. Zelda was surprised that Rosemarie had come out here. /She promised to have a positive attitude. A positive attitude........./
"It's true, then," Rosemarie said, trying not to make her voice sound shaky. "You did ask Zelda to marry you."
"I didn't. I'm going to. You see, I messed up and I don't........."
"Don't try to weed out some twisted lie!" Rosemarie suddenly turned angry. "I'm asking you a simple question."
"Actually, you said a statement."
"LINK! Are you? Or are you not?" Rosemarie crossed her arms.
"Talk about mood swings," Link whispered to Zelda.
"She gets it from her mom," Zelda replied.
"Are you?"
"Um.........yes........." Rosemarie smiled slightly, but very slightly.
"I see." She turned around and started back to her house.
"Wait!" Link called. He tried to run after her.
"Don't worry," Rosemarie yelled back. "I'm not angry or sad. I'm happy for you both!" She skipped away. Link turned back to Zelda.
"She's a mood swing monarch alright."
"She's keeping her happy attitude. You've got to love Rosemarie for that."
"So now, that that's over, will you marry me?" Link got down on one knee.
"Duh! Uh.........I mean, yes I will." The pair laughed. As they walked back to the castle hand in hand, they never noticed a shadow of a man hiding behind the tree. He whispered something and a figure wearing black rags rose up from the ground. The two figures stayed behind the tree, as silent as a stone, until they were sure all three had left the scene.
"Did you call me, Master?" the black figure asked. The other man nodded and pulled down the hood of his black cape.
"Yes, my trusty servant. Did you see that?"
"Of course, Master. I live in the Shadow of this tree. I see and hear everything. It seems the prince has found himself a bride and an angry girlfriend. I've seen those two before, Master."
"I'm sure you have. Listen, you know the Royal Family in the past, a long while ago, had the Triforce I sought in my past life. Well, there's the one that's the descendent of the family. According to the curse that I placed upon them when the Hero of Time killed me, every descendent of the Royal Line carries with them the essence of the Triforce."
"You placed a curse like that? I don't get it."
"Listen. If the Triforce was a physical object, then they'd have so many guards it would be easier to forge it. Instead, if it is within the Royal Family, then it wouldn't be guarded so easily. After all, in my curse, the family had no idea it was within them."
"I'm confused."
"ARHG! Okay, think of it this way. Long ago, when the Hero of Time and Princess Zelda were getting married, I tried to capture the Triforce. Unfortunately, when I tried to get rid of the Hero of Time, this stupid girl names Rosemarie intercepted my attack. Link got the chance to banish me from the earth once and for all, or so he thought. Little known to them, I placed a curse that made the Triforce itself combine itself with them. Now, if I kill one of them with the legendary Shadow Dagger, the poison within it will bring out the Triforce."
"You had the power to place a curse on an object that you didn't have?"
"Shadow! I AM LORD GANNONDORF, THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF EVIL. Of course I have that much power. Anyway, so now we must kill the descendent of the royal family, the last one, and we'll get the Triforce."
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go get Link."
"Not so fast, first we must - Link? What do you mean Link? I'm after Zelda here!"
"But Link is the prince. He's the Royal Line descendent."
"The descendant of the legendary Royal Line is what we need. The Royal Line that the legendary Princess Zelda was in slowly faded away. One of the descendents married out of the royal line, and therefore the family tree curved to the present path. In reality, all the real Hylian Royals are now nothing more than subjects of the king."
"I'm confused.........again."
"Argh! Let's just say Zelda is somehow connected to the Royal Family, and she has the Triforce essence within her, okay?"
"Okay."
"Now we've got to kill her."
"But how?"
"Using Rosemarie."
"Huh???"
"Confused? Don't worry, I won't waste my breath explaining. Let's just say I've got a plan that's going to turn Hyrule upside down."
.........
Night came amazingly fast as the sun leaped across the sky. Rosemarie hummed to herself as she tied the waist of her nightgown. She had tried to forget about Zelda marrying Link. She'd eventually have to accept it, but for right now she could think of other things.
As Rosemarie was just about to pull back the covers of her bed, she heard a quiet knock on her door. Rosemarie narrowed her eyes.
"Mom? Wildflower?" She waited for a response, but none came. "Who's there?" The door opened slightly. Rosemarie looked around for any source of weapon just in case. She didn't find one. The door opened more and the darkness crept into the room.
"Who's there?" Rosemarie asked, her voice shaky. The door was open all the way, yet she couldn't see anything. The window rattled, sending goose bumps down Rosemarie's spine.
Suddenly, something drove Rosemarie down into her bed. Two hands pinned her arms out to the side, spread out like make a snow-angel. Another hand gripped her mouth shut so she couldn't scream. Rosemarie panicked as she saw only shadows. But soon, something else came into her vision. A pair of red eyes appeared right in front of her face.
"Frightened?" a voice pierced the darkness, ragged and evil. "Do not worry. If you do not scream, I will let you go." Rosemarie felt the hand over her mouth slide away. The hands on her wrists loosened a little.
"Who are you?" Rosemarie demanded.
"I am someone who can give you an opportunity to get back with your love." The red eyes glowed as they came closer to Rosemarie's face. She felt a strange feeling inside her. She felt like she was drawn to those eyes, like invisible threads chained her to them.
"Tell me, what do you want?" Rosemarie asked. The red eyes glimmered for a moment. Rosemarie was mesmerized by them.
"I want you.........to do me a favor."
"A favor?" Rosemarie queried, her voice starting to sound dreamy. "What favor? I would do anything. Just, don't move the eyes." The red light flooded her sight. The eyes moved slightly away. Rosemarie got up from the bed to follow it. It filled her with peace and erased her worries.
"Hold out your hand." Rosemarie obeyed, feeling glad to. She felt something cold and long drop into it. It had a solid hilt and a sharp blade.
"A sword!"
"More like a dagger, more really. It's a very special dagger, might I add."
"Does it have special powers?" Rosemarie was drawn toward the eyes once more. The raspy voice chuckled.
"Of course it does. For one thing, all you have to do is give it a target. Say a name to it, and it will try to kill no other than that person. Another thing, if you hit it against any object that is not a person, it will melt that object without even getting scratched. Last of all, if you hold it in your hand, it will help you strike whatever person you wished to. If you tell it a name, you'll find it really hard to kill anybody but that person with this blade." Rosemarie didn't really pay attention to what the voice was saying. The dagger had begun to glow too. It called out to her in the same red light as the pair of eyes. Rosemarie was sucked into their mesmerizing force.
"Can I try it?" she asked, hoping the eyes would let her. She heard he mysterious chuckle again.
"Not now, but let me show you how to work it." A hand took the sword from Rosemarie's hand. She wanted to grasp it back, hold it forever, but her longing for the eye and wanting to do whatever it wanted made her keep her hands by her side.
"Sword of Evil, Destroyer of Holy Light, I use my power to give you a new target, search and seek Princess Zelda, descendent of the royal line. Within her plant your blade, and plant it deep........." The sword glowed yellow, and finally turned back red. When it was handed back to Rosemarie, she felt it vibrate in her hands.
"Wow!"
"You see.........now you have a very important mission." Rosemarie felt the familiar tug as the eyes glowed furiously beside her own. She looked into them with deep interest.
"I will do whatever you ask," Rosemarie said in a very faint voice.
"Your friend Zelda holds something within her of great importance. Take this dagger, and stab her heart with it. Only then will I be able to retrieve what I need."
"Yes........." Rosemarie felt the darkness slowly fade away. The eyes grew dim.
"NO! Don't leave........."
"I will come when you have completed your mission. If you fail, you will never see me again!" The eyes vanished. Rosemarie felt her world come back to her. Her knees buckled, and she fainted onto the bed, her right hand still gripping the dagger.
.........
"Oh! Congratulations!" Link's mother exclaimed. "This is just in time!" Link had just told the news to his parents about Zelda's acceptance to his proposal. "The wedding for Aryll is coming in one week. How about we get you married on the same day?"
"So-so soon?" Zelda asked.
"I have to get married the same day as Marth?" Link asked incredulously.
"Now, now, I know this is sudden but it would save us the time. Don't you think?" Link sighed.
"I think that's a perfect idea!" The king announced. "We should tell the townspeople."
"First, I think I better tell my parents," Zelda said. "They'd be wanting to know about this." With the royals' permission, she set off to her home again.
.........
"So," Gannondorf said, watching from behind the alley as Zelda made her way home. "My life's work is about to come true."
"Since you had two lives to do it in, anyway."
"Shut up! Let me celebrate for my brilliance in achieving my goal. I've finally set the sword against the shield."
"Master.........it's a dagger. And I saw no shield."
"It's a metaphor, Shadow. Rosemarie is like a sword cause she has the dagger, true. But out shield is Princess Zelda, who is keeping the Triforce against us. But this time, the sword will break the shield! A new evil force will reign as I take control of Hyrule. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"