LEGEND OF ZELDA: SECOND RELIC OF HYRULE
Chapter One: Damsel in distress
Link was getting tired of walking around all night. After all this training and he was supposed to look for some herb, or at least that was what Master Craven said.
"You know," Navi said, hovering above Link's head. "It's a test of endurance, of responsibility and of how you take orders."
"Great." Link groaned. "An obedience test!"
Navi chuckled to herself. "You're the best student he's had for a long time, Link. Of course he'll push you to do better than your best."
Link sighed deeply. "I know.and what's more, Princess Zelda and her father need me to attend with them a court meeting, as a bodyguard."
"Well.what's wrong with that?"
"I dunno.there's that creepy Gerudo King there, he's only sworn fealty to the King for what, a few months, but he creeps me out."
"He does look a little strange.but maybe because he's like a different race to use, maybe we freak him out as well." Navi suggested.
Link nodded. He was only eighteen at this time, trying to complete his training with his Master. He was always told to be prepared for the future, whatever that meant.
"Stop a minute, I hear something." Navi said after a while.
Link stopped. "I think I hear it too."
As he stopped, he was about to turn when a punch came his way, so he ducked and struck who ever it was in the gut. A deep groan sounded and the assailant crashed to the floor. Link looked around him to see two other men.
"An ambush!" Navi cried in panic.
Link drew his sword, and the other two drew theirs.
"Well.the Kings young bodyguard wants to fight us, does he?" The short one to the right said.
"If you want me, come and get me, I'll show you something you won't forget." Link growled in a challenge.
The one on the left chuckled. "That so, huh? Don't you know kids shouldn't be out this late?"
"I'm at your service." Link said, suddenly charging for them.
The two figured that a two on one would over power Link, and their underestimation cost them dearly.
But the fight was over in ten minutes. Link held one at sword point.
"Now who are you and who sent you?" Link demanded.
"We don't even know their name.always met in secret.in the shadows.I swear it." The short man said. "You may as well kill us, when they find out we failed, they'll kill us anyway."
"Just get up and get out of my sight." Link said, and they scurried away like scolded cats.
"Somebody sent them after you.but who could have done it?" Navi asked, hovering by Link's ear."
Link shook his head. "I don't know, but we certainly took care of them. Perhaps they'll be back."
Link made his way up the steps to Kakariko Village when he bumped into somebody who was rushing down and they both fell over with the force. Link managed not to tumble down the steps, but the stranger didn't.
Link looked down to see them curled at the bottom of the steps. "Hey! You there, are you alright?"
Link got no response so he charged down, almost falling again. Navi shed a little light so they could see, it was a girl about Link's age, maybe a few years younger, she had long chestnut hair kept in a tight French plait, she was battered and bruised very badly, it wasn't possible that falling down the stairs did that, she was injured before.
"What happened to her?" Navi breathed. "We'd better get to that cabin by Kokoniko.she needs serious medical attention after a fall like that."
Link didn't even argue, he picked her up, and as he did a huge double edged broad sword slipped from the scabbard at the woman's waist and slammed loudly to the floor.
"Whoa!" Link gasped. "That's some heavy duty weaponry!"
"Try and put it back in her scabbard. A weapon like that isn't easy to come by, it must mean a lot to her, an heir loom no doubt." Navi said.
Link went to pick up the sword when he jerk back as soon as he touched it. "Ouch!"
"What?" Nave asked.
"Static shock!" Link answered.
"Then the sword must have some kind of magic properties then!" Navi gasped. "Try again!"
Link carefully picked it up, the sword glowed briefly then it subsided and allowed Link to draw it back into the scabbard.
~*****************************~
Link had laid the mysterious girl down on a bed upstairs and left her, Navi tried her best to heal her as best she could and then they left her until she awakened. Link had the fire on downstairs. The log cabin was quite small, even if it had two floors. Built mostly from wood, it was even rumoured to have been carved right from a huge tree stump.
"Link.?" Navi said quietly.
"Yeah?" Link answered.
"Those injuries on her.came from being physically beaten up." Navi said at length.
Link took a sip of some warmed tea. "Maybe she was running away form somebody. But anyway, what's your point, Navi?"
"Maybe those three men attacked her." Navi said.
"Maybe.but there could be hundreds more people as well. Thieves and muggers for one.and.rapists." Link suddenly frowned. "We just have to hope that it isn't the case."
Navi sighed and settled down on the arm of the chair that Link was in. "Although I can't deny it. I can't know until she's more awake."
Link couldn't stop frowning and scowling. Se might have that impressive sword, but having a sword didn't always mean you knew how to use it, some people carried swords because of their sentimental value, others as a deterrent to attackers.some because they just liked the idea of a little cold steel to protect them, pretty much like a talisman.
The two sat in silence for a while staring into the fire thinking.
~*****************************~
~Dream Start~
"Hey! Wake up, girl." The voice said. "You want another beating?"
She looked up. "You play dirty to the end!"
He laughed. "You don't know how wrong you are, I deserve this victory, you shamed me at the tournament girl, and I'm gonna make you pay in pain and blood all the way."
~Dream end~
She awoke bolting upright and crying out in pain as she did. She was breathing heavily, and she wiped her forehead, her chestnut fringe messed up, she attempted to fix it a little.
"I can't believe I have bed hair!" She whispered. "I guess I'm in.Hyrule now."
She looked around, unaware of where she was. In some kind of bedroom. The bed was pretty basic, a basic carved side table, a chair at the end of the bed and the room was mostly bare other than a few pots.
"Where am I.Kina." She jumped with fright for a moment, and she scrunched up again in pain. "Aghhh... Damn it! Kina, where are you?"
At the far side of the room she saw her sword glow in response to her voice and she relaxed. Her whole body was on fire it hurt so much.
"The steps.I must've been knocked down.my ribs kill." She said to herself.
She stood up slowly and awkwardly and then she heard the crash downstairs and she moved her head to the side to avoid a dagger thrown at her. In the room walked a huge man.
"And what can I do for you?" She asked.
"Nobody can know we were here, strict orders from our boss." He replied.
"What a big surprise you'll get." She said.
In the mans hand he fanned out four more dagger ready to throw at her. "Indeed."
"Show me what you can do, big boy, I need the exercise." She said, getting to a ready stance.
"I love fiery women." He said. "You could come with me and I'd never tell..."
"Screw you, lover boy. Fight or push over. I'm not a whore you know."
He laughed and threw a knife with amazing speed.
In a split second reaction the girl moved and then caught the knife, throwing it back, hitting the man under the collar bone.
"Kina! Send him back!" She called and the sword reacted with a blip of energy and the man tumbled back, out the door and rolled down the steps to his death.
The girl went down the stairs to see Link at the bottom, looking amazed. Although her entire body flamed with pain she made it down the steps. All she wanted to do was sleep.the idea got the better of her, she went to close her eyes and it hurt so much just to fight and open them again.
Then she felt Kina hover at her side and as she grasped the hilt Kina supplied her with enough energy to take away the fatigue and pain.
"Are you alright?" Link asked.
"I'll do for now.how many are down here?" She asked.
"I just took care of one, I think there's two more around down there." Link pointed down towards a larder area.
Navi came whizzing in. "There's two down there.we have to get out of here.and.hey!" Navi flew over to the girl, bobbing up and down inspecting her. "How can you have any energy to stand up?"
"I don't, but my sword helps me." She replied.
"We have to leave here, we can't fight in an enclosed space with you as you are." Link said.
"Okay.and after maybe I can get some answers. I'm willing to wait. You seem like a pretty trustworthy character." She said.
"What's your name?" Navi asked as they headed for the door.
"Katina." She replied.
They burst out the door and were aware that who ever had been in the house was following them.
Katina stopped, her legs were burning again, even though Kina was trying, she couldn't get over her weariness.
With a pain staking jump Katina was in a tree like a cat, and she swung around on a branch very close to slipping off because her hands weren't taking to kindly to complying with her. She groaned in pain as her legs slammed into the two assailants and knocked them down, she too fell to the floor, her legs shuddering under the pain.
"Hey!" Link ran over to her and helped her up. "You shouldn't be pushing yourself like that!"
Navi hovered over the men, who were unconscious. "That was some hit!"
She looked down at Katina's shoes and blipped in amazement. "They're steel capped! No wonder!"
Link looked down at her with anew kind of respect. "Your boots must be damn heavy, I can't believe you could actually stand in them after how injured and tired you are!"
"There they are!" Came a shout.
Link and Katina looked up and saw two other men armed with swords running up to them.
"How many of them are there?" Navi gasped.
Katina and Link both held their swords out ready.
"You stand back, okay?" Link said.
"And let you have all the fun? Never!" Katina said, grinning.
Then they charged in together. They managed to get separated and Katina ended up having two to deal with at once. She gritted her teeth under her pain of having to keep up, she shouldn't be doing this.
With a vicious battle cry she hammered her sword into one of her opponents and the magic in it electrocuted it's user and sent him flying into the other beside him and got him shocked too.
Link cut down his opponent and then turned to look at Katina. She stood tall for a moment, swayed and then.toppled over, spreading her length on the ground in front of her, her sword dropped from her hand beside her.
Navi hovered over to her. "HEY!" Then she went back over to Link. "She's out. She over worked herself."
Link nodded and picked Katina up. She certainly knew how to use that sword, that made it even more interesting as to how she's managed to get as beaten up as she had done.
Chapter One: Damsel in distress
Link was getting tired of walking around all night. After all this training and he was supposed to look for some herb, or at least that was what Master Craven said.
"You know," Navi said, hovering above Link's head. "It's a test of endurance, of responsibility and of how you take orders."
"Great." Link groaned. "An obedience test!"
Navi chuckled to herself. "You're the best student he's had for a long time, Link. Of course he'll push you to do better than your best."
Link sighed deeply. "I know.and what's more, Princess Zelda and her father need me to attend with them a court meeting, as a bodyguard."
"Well.what's wrong with that?"
"I dunno.there's that creepy Gerudo King there, he's only sworn fealty to the King for what, a few months, but he creeps me out."
"He does look a little strange.but maybe because he's like a different race to use, maybe we freak him out as well." Navi suggested.
Link nodded. He was only eighteen at this time, trying to complete his training with his Master. He was always told to be prepared for the future, whatever that meant.
"Stop a minute, I hear something." Navi said after a while.
Link stopped. "I think I hear it too."
As he stopped, he was about to turn when a punch came his way, so he ducked and struck who ever it was in the gut. A deep groan sounded and the assailant crashed to the floor. Link looked around him to see two other men.
"An ambush!" Navi cried in panic.
Link drew his sword, and the other two drew theirs.
"Well.the Kings young bodyguard wants to fight us, does he?" The short one to the right said.
"If you want me, come and get me, I'll show you something you won't forget." Link growled in a challenge.
The one on the left chuckled. "That so, huh? Don't you know kids shouldn't be out this late?"
"I'm at your service." Link said, suddenly charging for them.
The two figured that a two on one would over power Link, and their underestimation cost them dearly.
But the fight was over in ten minutes. Link held one at sword point.
"Now who are you and who sent you?" Link demanded.
"We don't even know their name.always met in secret.in the shadows.I swear it." The short man said. "You may as well kill us, when they find out we failed, they'll kill us anyway."
"Just get up and get out of my sight." Link said, and they scurried away like scolded cats.
"Somebody sent them after you.but who could have done it?" Navi asked, hovering by Link's ear."
Link shook his head. "I don't know, but we certainly took care of them. Perhaps they'll be back."
Link made his way up the steps to Kakariko Village when he bumped into somebody who was rushing down and they both fell over with the force. Link managed not to tumble down the steps, but the stranger didn't.
Link looked down to see them curled at the bottom of the steps. "Hey! You there, are you alright?"
Link got no response so he charged down, almost falling again. Navi shed a little light so they could see, it was a girl about Link's age, maybe a few years younger, she had long chestnut hair kept in a tight French plait, she was battered and bruised very badly, it wasn't possible that falling down the stairs did that, she was injured before.
"What happened to her?" Navi breathed. "We'd better get to that cabin by Kokoniko.she needs serious medical attention after a fall like that."
Link didn't even argue, he picked her up, and as he did a huge double edged broad sword slipped from the scabbard at the woman's waist and slammed loudly to the floor.
"Whoa!" Link gasped. "That's some heavy duty weaponry!"
"Try and put it back in her scabbard. A weapon like that isn't easy to come by, it must mean a lot to her, an heir loom no doubt." Navi said.
Link went to pick up the sword when he jerk back as soon as he touched it. "Ouch!"
"What?" Nave asked.
"Static shock!" Link answered.
"Then the sword must have some kind of magic properties then!" Navi gasped. "Try again!"
Link carefully picked it up, the sword glowed briefly then it subsided and allowed Link to draw it back into the scabbard.
~*****************************~
Link had laid the mysterious girl down on a bed upstairs and left her, Navi tried her best to heal her as best she could and then they left her until she awakened. Link had the fire on downstairs. The log cabin was quite small, even if it had two floors. Built mostly from wood, it was even rumoured to have been carved right from a huge tree stump.
"Link.?" Navi said quietly.
"Yeah?" Link answered.
"Those injuries on her.came from being physically beaten up." Navi said at length.
Link took a sip of some warmed tea. "Maybe she was running away form somebody. But anyway, what's your point, Navi?"
"Maybe those three men attacked her." Navi said.
"Maybe.but there could be hundreds more people as well. Thieves and muggers for one.and.rapists." Link suddenly frowned. "We just have to hope that it isn't the case."
Navi sighed and settled down on the arm of the chair that Link was in. "Although I can't deny it. I can't know until she's more awake."
Link couldn't stop frowning and scowling. Se might have that impressive sword, but having a sword didn't always mean you knew how to use it, some people carried swords because of their sentimental value, others as a deterrent to attackers.some because they just liked the idea of a little cold steel to protect them, pretty much like a talisman.
The two sat in silence for a while staring into the fire thinking.
~*****************************~
~Dream Start~
"Hey! Wake up, girl." The voice said. "You want another beating?"
She looked up. "You play dirty to the end!"
He laughed. "You don't know how wrong you are, I deserve this victory, you shamed me at the tournament girl, and I'm gonna make you pay in pain and blood all the way."
~Dream end~
She awoke bolting upright and crying out in pain as she did. She was breathing heavily, and she wiped her forehead, her chestnut fringe messed up, she attempted to fix it a little.
"I can't believe I have bed hair!" She whispered. "I guess I'm in.Hyrule now."
She looked around, unaware of where she was. In some kind of bedroom. The bed was pretty basic, a basic carved side table, a chair at the end of the bed and the room was mostly bare other than a few pots.
"Where am I.Kina." She jumped with fright for a moment, and she scrunched up again in pain. "Aghhh... Damn it! Kina, where are you?"
At the far side of the room she saw her sword glow in response to her voice and she relaxed. Her whole body was on fire it hurt so much.
"The steps.I must've been knocked down.my ribs kill." She said to herself.
She stood up slowly and awkwardly and then she heard the crash downstairs and she moved her head to the side to avoid a dagger thrown at her. In the room walked a huge man.
"And what can I do for you?" She asked.
"Nobody can know we were here, strict orders from our boss." He replied.
"What a big surprise you'll get." She said.
In the mans hand he fanned out four more dagger ready to throw at her. "Indeed."
"Show me what you can do, big boy, I need the exercise." She said, getting to a ready stance.
"I love fiery women." He said. "You could come with me and I'd never tell..."
"Screw you, lover boy. Fight or push over. I'm not a whore you know."
He laughed and threw a knife with amazing speed.
In a split second reaction the girl moved and then caught the knife, throwing it back, hitting the man under the collar bone.
"Kina! Send him back!" She called and the sword reacted with a blip of energy and the man tumbled back, out the door and rolled down the steps to his death.
The girl went down the stairs to see Link at the bottom, looking amazed. Although her entire body flamed with pain she made it down the steps. All she wanted to do was sleep.the idea got the better of her, she went to close her eyes and it hurt so much just to fight and open them again.
Then she felt Kina hover at her side and as she grasped the hilt Kina supplied her with enough energy to take away the fatigue and pain.
"Are you alright?" Link asked.
"I'll do for now.how many are down here?" She asked.
"I just took care of one, I think there's two more around down there." Link pointed down towards a larder area.
Navi came whizzing in. "There's two down there.we have to get out of here.and.hey!" Navi flew over to the girl, bobbing up and down inspecting her. "How can you have any energy to stand up?"
"I don't, but my sword helps me." She replied.
"We have to leave here, we can't fight in an enclosed space with you as you are." Link said.
"Okay.and after maybe I can get some answers. I'm willing to wait. You seem like a pretty trustworthy character." She said.
"What's your name?" Navi asked as they headed for the door.
"Katina." She replied.
They burst out the door and were aware that who ever had been in the house was following them.
Katina stopped, her legs were burning again, even though Kina was trying, she couldn't get over her weariness.
With a pain staking jump Katina was in a tree like a cat, and she swung around on a branch very close to slipping off because her hands weren't taking to kindly to complying with her. She groaned in pain as her legs slammed into the two assailants and knocked them down, she too fell to the floor, her legs shuddering under the pain.
"Hey!" Link ran over to her and helped her up. "You shouldn't be pushing yourself like that!"
Navi hovered over the men, who were unconscious. "That was some hit!"
She looked down at Katina's shoes and blipped in amazement. "They're steel capped! No wonder!"
Link looked down at her with anew kind of respect. "Your boots must be damn heavy, I can't believe you could actually stand in them after how injured and tired you are!"
"There they are!" Came a shout.
Link and Katina looked up and saw two other men armed with swords running up to them.
"How many of them are there?" Navi gasped.
Katina and Link both held their swords out ready.
"You stand back, okay?" Link said.
"And let you have all the fun? Never!" Katina said, grinning.
Then they charged in together. They managed to get separated and Katina ended up having two to deal with at once. She gritted her teeth under her pain of having to keep up, she shouldn't be doing this.
With a vicious battle cry she hammered her sword into one of her opponents and the magic in it electrocuted it's user and sent him flying into the other beside him and got him shocked too.
Link cut down his opponent and then turned to look at Katina. She stood tall for a moment, swayed and then.toppled over, spreading her length on the ground in front of her, her sword dropped from her hand beside her.
Navi hovered over to her. "HEY!" Then she went back over to Link. "She's out. She over worked herself."
Link nodded and picked Katina up. She certainly knew how to use that sword, that made it even more interesting as to how she's managed to get as beaten up as she had done.