Triforce Shards
A collection of one-shots covering all things Zelda
A.N. This was written last year, just as Twilight Princess was officially named and shown to the world at E3 '05. Being unable to download the video as I was teaching in Thailand, I doodled and drabbled instead to take the edge off my craving.
3. Twilight
The darkness outside was constrictive,
smothering like the thickest of blankets on the hottest of nights.
Sometimes she wondered whether it was just her imagination or whether
it really was getting harder to breathe. Sometimes she didn't even
care.
She had failed.
They had said that her birth was a good
omen, that her ancestress had come again to restore the kingdom to
its glory days. Those where the days when Hyrule had shone like a
beacon, brighter than the noon-day sun, a goal for other kingdoms to
aspire to.
Now, they couldn't keep far enough away.
Her
kingdom was dying slowly in front of her eyes. She had failed it,
failed her people, her family, her noble namesake who would surely be
weeping at the squalor her carefully nurtured paradise had
disintegrated into. The noon was over, now Hyrule approached its
twilight, soon to be swallowed for all eternity by the oppressive
darkness that she could not for all her power destroy.
And so the
Twilight Princess wept.