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A man clad entirely in black leather moved through a dense crowd. He carried a knife on his belt and a grappling hook in his hands. The street he was navigating emptied out into a large market square. He made his way into a far corner where he was out of sight. Glancing around, he threw his grappling hook onto the top of the wall and began to climb. At the top, he drew his knife and crouched low. He kept his eyes fixed on the podium. After about a minute, the King of Hyrule stepped up to begin his speech. The man stood up, drew his knife and was about to throw it when the strangest thing happened. A beam of light shone from out of nowhere, blinding him. He lost his footing and fell from the wall, letting out a yell. George, the general of Hyrule's army heard it and sprinted to where the man fell. "Well, I'll be damned," George said as he lifted the man's mask. "This Gerudo could have killed the king if he hadn't tripped! Increase the security!"
The King had just begun his speech when he was cut off. "People of Hyrule! I st..." "Your majesty!" yelled George, across the market. "Get back inside the castle! We caught a Gerudo assassin, but there might be more!" As soon as George had finished his sentence, screams erupted from the crowd and people started running in every direction. The only people who didn't run were a blonde-haired girl and a sickly looking boy towards the back of the market square. The boy had turned over and was vomiting out a red potion he had tried to digest earlier, and the girl was yelling at him about eating habits.
"I told you not to eat those nuts and drink that potion!" Zelda yelled at Link. "Now look at you!" Link vomited again and stood up. His eyes were bloodshot. "Wha- whats going on over th-th-th-there?" he asked, raising a finger in the direction of the fallen Gerudo and the Hyrulean guards. "Don't ask me." Link looked at Zelda with a pout on his face. "Fine, I won't. But I'm going over to find out." Link sprinted towards the Gerudo but had taken no more than two steps before he tripped on a rock and fell over. He stood up and looked at Zelda. Blood was streaming from his nose, and his shirt was ripped. "I'm fine, I'm fine," he said as he started limping in the direction of the fallen assassin.
Naryu inserted her key into the safe, and Farore pulled open the door. Din walked in and grabbed what she needed. The three goddesses sat down around a table whose surface had a stunning likeness to Hyrule's landscape. Din placed the three parts of the Triforce on her lap. "Now, all I have to do is drop each third onto this table where I want it to appear in Hyrule. Sounds easy enough." "Be careful, though," warned Naryu, "or else you might give the Triforce to the wrong person." "Good point," said Farore. "Perhaps I should drop the pieces. I have better eyesight." Din glared at both of them. "I'm going to drop the pieces, and that's final." Din looked at the part of the table that resembled Hyrule Market, and she saw that crowds were running to their homes. She appeared confused by this, but then she noticed that George was still there. She let out a sigh of relief. "Now, I'll give the Triforce of courage to George, then I'll bring him up here. I'll give two other guards the rest of the pieces. You two can have them." Naryu and Farore looked at each other and giggled. "Ok." said Din, "Here it goes!" She raised her hand and dropped the Triforce pieces right where George and his guards were standing.
Link had finally limped over to the Gerudo, and the all the crowds had fled the market. Zelda was a few feet behind him, but Link decided to check out the assassin anyway. "Whoa," Link said as he noticed the silver knife in the Gerudo's hand. Link pulled it out and swung it around a bit. The glint of silver caught George's eye and he whirled around to see Link swinging a knife. "Hey, you!" he yelled as he charged at Link, "Drop your weapon! You're not getting to the king today, you filthy Gerudo!" George drew his sword and slashed at Link with all his might. Link, appalled at what was happening, stepped backwards and fell on his back. George's slash missed by an inch. Link reached out with his knife to stab George, but he realized that it was too short. Link rolled between George's legs, just barely avoiding a downward sword thrust. George turned around and raised his sword high. "You die today, Gerudo!" he yelled. Link, curled up in a ball with his eyes jammed shut, could barely squeak out a plea. "I'm not a Gerudo!" George stood there, confused for a second. Link opened his eyes and sighed with relief. Immediately a large golden triangle fell out of the sky and whacked Link on the head, rendering him unconscious.
Zelda watched the scene, and she couldn't believe that her brother was dodging a General's attacks. She realized that it was her brother, though, when he curled up in a ball and begged for mercy. "What a coward," she thought, "He could really do with some courage. Wait a second... he's my brother! I've got to save him!" As she was thinking this, she watched a large golden triangle fall from the sky and smack into Link's head, disappearing as it touched him. A second later, the same thing happened to the passed-out Gerudo. This amazed her, but only for a second. She was then knocked unconscious by a golden triangle of her own.
George watched the whole thing with a confused look on his face. "This has got to be the weirdest day of my life,' he thought to himself as he turned around and headed back to the castle. "Hey, where do you think you're going, punk?" George heard the threat and turned around to see Link standing up with his knife in his hand. "Come on, let's see what you've got, loser." George's face grew red as he unsheathed his sword. "You'll regret that, Gerudo!" he screamed as he charged at Link. Zelda had just woken up when she noticed that Link was challenging the Hyrulean General. "Damn. I guess I shouldn't have wished he had more courage. Courage and stupidity don't mix," she thought as she pushed herself up and rushed over to Link. "Link, run! He's going to kill you!" "Yeah, right. Just watch this." Link winked at her and faced the General. George closed his eyes and thrust his sword straight into Link with all his might. When he opened his eyes, though, Link wasn't there. "Curse, You, Gerudo!" he screamed as he fell to his knees. He looked around and noticed that the unconscious Gerudo and the girl had disappeared, too. "This is definitely the weirdest day of my life," he said out loud as he turned around and headed back to the castle.
Din looked at the three people she had summoned up to her palace. They were completely different than she had imagined them to be. "Hmmm... that must be George," she said, looking at the unconscious Gerudo. "No, wait... he has the Triforce of Power. Well, the girl can't be, so... This teenager? No way." She looked at the back of Link's hand and saw the Triforce of Courage imprinted there. "No... How could I have missed? Naryu," she called out, "Wake up these three. I'd like to talk to them."
It seems that Din's plan didn't work out! What will the Goddess do to the three Triforce-Bearers? What will Link do, now that he's been bestowed with powers he never should have been bestowed with? And who is this mysterious Gerudo? You'll find out in the next chapter!