Chapter1

Those who live in darkness

Seto had been walking all night but he finally reached Kakariko village. He walked in the town entrance and fainted, he had a hard time with the Stal children. Seto was cut all over, his right arm was broken, his chest was shattered, and he had a large gash on his stomach.

Seto could hear some very quiet whispers. He managed to pick out a few words, something about tattoos, chaos and, an anonymous woman. Seto slept for three days straight, yet for all he had witnessed in his life those three days passed with out a nightmare. Seto woke to a very good aroma in the air. He recognized it as stew, a very distinct stew, made only by the woman who owned the inn. He sat up and groaned.

"Oh you're up!" said the owner. " You know, I was worried about you, But Impa said you would be fine." She kept talking to Seto as she served up a bowl of soup for him. He ate like a rabid animal; he ate so much in fact that he ended up eating the whole pot of stew himself.

Seto jumped up and did some quick punches and kicks to test how his body felt. He was completely healed. Seto looked down at his arms and chest to see his tattoos, they were odd to most people but for some reason Seto couldn't imagine himself with out them. Seto quickly took off the bandages and stretched all of his muscles. He was ready to leave, but to where?

He started out the door but was stopped by the owner. "Wait! Impa said she wanted to talk to you, she'll be here soon." Seto had no idea who this Impa was. He considered leaving anyways, but had a strange feeling that she had something to offer him.

After about two hours a woman with white hair walked in the door. Seto thought her appearance strange, as she was rather young to have silver hair as she did. " Hello, I assume you're Seto?" she looked at him with her dark blue eyes. Seto felt something strange about her. She wasn't like a normal person she was different, and not just in appearance. It was some thing more, something deeper than her appearance.

Seto replied rather hesitantly. " Yes and I'm guessing you're Impa? You had something to talk to me about?" she nodded and replied " yes but I'd like more privacy, so if you'd follow me."

She lead him to the graveyard, the very one in which he encountered the Poe. Impa walked up to a large grave stone and played and odd melody on her ocarina. A large ball of dark energy appeared and blew a hole in the ground leading to a small tunnel.

"Here, this is where I stay." Said Impa. They walked down the tunnel to a dead end; she then pulled out her ocarina again and played the same melody, but this time backwards. A door opened in the dead end, it lead to a large underground structure equivalent to a mansion. She led Seto through a maze of halls and doors, through many rooms of stone. Many of these rooms had people all seemed alike to Impa.

"Who are these people?" asked Seto. " They are my people, we are those that live in darkness, we are called the shiekah." They continued walking. They eventually came to a large door with a large red eye painted on it. "This is it." said Impa.

The door belonged to a small library. It was full of old books, and it had a table with two chairs. Impa grabbed a black book with gold writing on it. The writing was in an archaic language, Seto couldn't read most of it but it felt some how familiar, he could make out the word Thantosian on the cover. Thantosians were a civilization that believed in the teachings of Thantos, the lord of chaos.

" Let me see your tattoos." Asked Impa. Seto took off his tunic. Impa look at them as if she was reading a book. Seto looked at the page at the page of the book that she was comparing to his tattoos; they were exactly alike. " Ah, it is as I thought." Said Impa.

"What? What is it?" asked Seto. " This scripture matches your tattoos." Answered Impa. "Yeah I was looking, but what does it say." replied Seto. Impa was hesitant to answer.

" It is a prophecy, made by Garda, the greatest priest of the Thantosians. It predicts that seven years after a great hero triumphs in his quest to save the world, his nemesis will show himself and spread shadow and evil over the world. He will seek the help of Sariloth, the deity of Order and Thantos' greatest enemy. But the Knight of Thantos will attempt to keep the world balanced."

"Balanced?" Asked Seto. "Yes. Our world is a giant balancing act. There are many points of balance; Light and dark, good and evil, and in this instance order and chaos." Explained Impa.

" So why do I have these tattoos?" asked Seto. "Because you are Thantos' squire." Said a male shiekah leaning by the door. " So, Impa this is Seto, eh? The name's Kard." Kard was a young shiekah, about 18; he was cryptic and critical of everyone except Impa, he had red eyes and long silver hair. " Me, a squire? No way!" exclaimed Seto. "It's true, you have the possibility to become the knight of chaos. But now you need rest and training for what is to come. Kard, show him to his room." Said Impa.

Kard put his hand to his chest and bowed. Seto followed Kard to a small room Furnished only with a bed. "Here, this shall be your quarters while you stay here." Said Kard in a rather cold manner.

"Uh, thanks." Said Seto "whatever" remarked Kard. Seto was tired; they had talked for some time in that library. Seto took off his boots because he already had his tunic off. He laid in the bed and immediately dozed off.