The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Through Ages
Prologue Part 2: The Second Echo
The day my daughter was born was the happiest I've felt in my life, to see my beaming husband as he presents me my baby girl after I recovered was a sight to see. Normally he's such a serious man, but today was a day of great levity. We heard the bells ringing for hours, people having a festival in celebration, the enjoyment throughout Hyrule made all that pain more than worth it.
Although his smile wasn't just for the birth of our child, I looked upon her hand as she slept silently, it was rare to see an infant so reserved. On the back of her hand sat a glowing symbol of the Triforce, with two dull sections and one bright glowing section, the Triforce of Wisdom.
A small part of me felt kind of sad, I had so many ideas for names: Penelope, Delilah, Lily… But there is only one name for this child and it was picked for us long long before.
"Its Zelda, Zelda is our child." My husband beamed
I began to feel a mixture of feelings, when he asked me what was wrong, I explained to him I was aware of our history. When zelda is born, Link is born as well and when courage and wisdom come together. Ganon is sure to follow. And our lives end. There is no story where the parents of Zelda remain alive, and terrible things are bound to happen to our daughter.
My husband's face dropped, he knew the history as well as every royal family is taught that Zelda might be born to them, but was too headstrong to just accept it as fact. He assured me that they will find a way to prevent it, or stave off the oncoming storm or do anything in his power to keep this family safe.
I didn't really believe him. I believed he would try, but I felt it would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. But some good news came when we were visited by the elders of the Sheikah tribe, the most trusted tribe and family in all of Hyrule. A new Chief had been chosen, and by our side she will stay to protect and raise our daughter with us. We already knew who this chief was, but we allowed her to introduce herself as Impa of the Sheikah.
She was a tall, muscular woman with tanned skin, she could have passed for a Gerudo if it weren't for her white hair and clear Sheikah heritage. She donned a large blade on her back, not the first time an Impa has wielded a Gorons knife. Yet she stood a rather intimidating presence. When I brought up my worry, she reassured me as well. The Sheikah tribe had been developing new ideas to assist in the oncoming storm. She had the request to begin training Zelda herself.
This brought us some amount of confusion, in the past some zeldas knew how to fight, a couple were even great at it. But its uncommon and unorthodox for the situation to be that way, we figured her talents and innate wisdom would be better suited for becoming a scholar or Arcanist. However, Impa assured us that it would not be us that leads the fight against Ganon, our destiny may lay elsewhere, Link and Zelda will have to meet Ganon in the field together. Wisdom and Courage must overcome Power together.
His power has grown to great this time.
We allowed her to study and train as she grew older. She began training under Impa at quite the young age. Exercise, stealth, various weapons and oddly enough, music. A previous Zelda conjured light and used a harp to produce magic attacks that supplemented her abilities. But this time she trained more like a man, with armor and longswords and an Ocarina rather than a harp, rapier and enchanted leathers designed to protect her better. Impa said it was all inservice of making her stronger, faster, and more skilled than previous Zeldas. Both Link and Zelda would need to be the strongest they've ever been to fight this version of Ganon.
This worried me still, but my husband and I began working toward a solution as well. Finding old temples and medallions from a long time past, things that could help us seal away or drastically hurt ganon. Old Guardian technology has been found and repurposed into new weapons, armor and tech. We know that Ganon took over the Old tech in the past, so we took a different direction with it.
No matter what, we will be prepared for this.
As Zelda grew, she was a very studious child, very curious and athletic, she took to the Sheikah training rather well. She was a bit put upon, but over all the girl seemed happy and enamored with her teacher.
I pray that this will all be worth it in the end.
-Prologue Part 2: Complete-
Sorry this one was a little shorter but I felt it better to be brief than prattle on and spin my wheels. I hope you all enjoyed it, don't forget to review if you'd like, and I hope you read the Final part of the prologue before we get into the actual story.