Legend of Link: Hyrule Overlord
Disclaimer: I don't own Overlord or the Legend of Zelda
Chapter 3: The Tower Circlet
Portrait Room
Link is pacing back and forth in the Portrait Room that he's now trapped in since the lock on the door is magical, and the only way to unlock that door is with an item called the "Tower Circlet". But there are 2 problems: one, Link can't get to it since he is trapped in this room. And 2, he has no idea where the circlet is. Also Link is not alone, he is accompanied by a little sentient shadow whose been following him ever since he arrived at the tower to kill a fleeting gang of Moblins. The moblins are dead, but Link is still trapped in the Tower and needs to find a way out.
So Link keeps pacing back and forth, trying to find a way out but the tension is getting to him. He tries to ease the tension by looking at the portraits one by one, he takes his time looking at them and the longer he stares at them, the more familiar he is to them.
It's if he's looking not just paintings but mirrors, each of the portraits are wearing almost identical clothing, the armour pieces maybe different but the only things that are identical are the gauntlets, the green hooded tunics and the circlet made of blackened steel and with a red diamond shaped jewel. Link placed his hand on his forehead, now he feels naked without the circlet like the other Overlords, and it be useful around to open magic locked doors.
It felt like hours in that room but the time that passes is unknown since there are no windows in this room because it's at the inner section. Link has been looking at the portraits a thousand times, but mostly he's focusing on the Green Baron's portrait and the bust in front of it. He is unsure but he has a strong feeling around this portrait, as if he knew him or something. Link crouches down and sits in front of that very portrait and fix his eyes upon it. But the prolonged staring at that portrait is starting to take it's toll when his eyelids grew heavy and he suddenly collapses into a rather uncomfortable slumber. The little shadow noticed this and wisp towards him if he's alright.
The shadow is relieved when soft quiet snores is heard.
It has been a long night for Link, and he is not in harm's way so it's best for him to rest for a while before continuing his quest in this dark derelict tower.
Outside the Tower
Rusl has made camp outside the tower gates, he is keeping his campfire burning and getting ready to call it a night himself. He cannot leave without Link, who remains trapped in the tower, but he is confident that Link will get out with no problems. He pulled out a wooden ocarina and starts playing a soft melody to pass the time. Now normally this place is not an ideal camping side, with all the death polluting this forsaken land.
While Rusl continues playing his ocarina, he starts to remember the war that happened in here. He can still hear the conflict that happened 20 years ago.
(Flashback: 20 years ago)
The sound of war is loud in this desolate, the armies of Hyrule clash swords against the armies of the Green Baron and his loyalist, Hylians and humans who serve the Green Baron and believe that he should rule Hyrule to make it strong, and not to this weak pacifist king who begrudgingly commands his armies to defeat the Green Baron.
Young Rusl charges at his enemies, slaughtering those who are trying to kill him with every swing and slash with his sword, and every bash with his metal shield. His enemies never stood a chance, Rusl was indeed a skilled, relentless warrior that no one should mess with. He frowns at his enemies and prepares to fight them.
CLANG
CLANG
Rusl clash blades against his enemies while blocking other blades with his shield. Fighting to survive this war is all he can do in his young life. And praying that this war may end.
BOOM
Rusl heard a boom and turns to see the Green Baron, clad in a green hooded tunic, dark braces, gauntlets, greaves and pauldrons. His face hidden by the shadows formed by his hood but his mouth and nose shrouded by a bandana. Only his glowing yellow eyes are visible and tufts of blond hair poking out of the hood. He is armed to the teeth with a various weapons from his sword to his bow and arrow. He just exited the tower and dashes towards the commanders of his enemies.
King Hyrule, a benevolent but foolish pacifist man. He, like his predecessors, believe that the Overlords are a threat, not just to his kingdom but to the entire world as well.
Sheikah Matriarch Impa III, an old but skilled Sheikah warrior and the 3rd who hold the name "Impa".
And Prince Ganondorf, Gerudo Prince and he only male Gerudo in his kingdom since males are extremely rare in his race since the entire Greudo race is made entirely of females.
Rusl watches the Green Baron charging with the intent to kill, breaking through the Hylian army just to get to get near them. King Hyrule is succumbed by fear at the charging Overlord, but Impa and Ganondorf drawn out their swords the moment the Green Baron revealed himself.
However, the battle continues and Rusl keeps on fighting his enemies. Only hoping that this war would end.
(Flashback ends)
Rusl shook his head to end the flashback, that war was indeed a tragic one, but he was lucky to have survived it. He rekindles the campfire one more before laying down to sleep.
"Please be alright in there, Link" said Rusl before slowly lowering his eyes and drifts to sleep.
Dark Tower: Portrait Room(Morning)
Morning has come but Link still softly snores in his sleep. However, the sleep isn't peaceful despite the calm expression on his face. He is having a nightmare; he doesn't show it but it is haunting him. But the more he has these nightmares, the more he realises that they aren't really nightmares, but memories from a past life or something. The realization happened the moment Link set foot in the tower, he can feel himself change, his brain is pulsing violently as if a cluster of repressed memories is trying to break out from his subconscious. He is growing sadistic, prove from the way he slain those moblins, he felt home in this tower and didn't know why.
But then it hit him, it was scary at first but Link mentally understanding the meaning of those nightmares, however they appeared to be nightmares because they are actually memories of dark malevolent events that happened in the past, all across Hyrule. The screams, the horror, the monsters invading the peaceful villagers in the Hyrule provinces. It was foggy at first but then it suddenly got perfectly clear, Link doesn't appear as a victim…but the source.
Link suddenly woke up from a cold sweat, he woke up from a true nightmare, a nightmare of his death…well not really his death but he dreamt that he was someone else but himself at the same time, and he died slowly and painfully. But it's not just one death, the nightmare changes scenes of different events, being different people but himself dying by the hands of his enemies. Link starts muttering the name of the person in that killed him in that nightmare.
"King Hyrule…King Hyrule"
Link tightened his grip in anger when he said that person's name. Link who that person is, the King Hyrule…or rather the Kings from past events who share the name of Hyrule, passing down from father to son. Just like a certain princess who has a name pass down to the other and the next. But that's not all, in his nightmare, Link goes by his name. Even the King Hyrules from the past call him Link.
But why?
"Morning!"
The little shadow wisp sudden towards Link the moment he woke up and leans on his shoulder, he cannot feel the shadow touching him so it doesn't bother him.
"So what now?" said the little shadow
"I don't know, I combed this very room for anyway out but I found nothing" said Link as he still looks at the Green Baron's portrait. "Funny, I don't really know why I'm here, how I acted like this. It's if I belong here, destined to be here. Like I'm being tested"
"Yeah, it's funny. I never knew that you might be the next Overlord," said the little shadow "Everyone in Hyrule knew all about the tales of the Overlords, about them being an unstoppable force, so powerful that even the three goddesses fear them. But here you are, trapped in a room full of paintings, all identical than the rest."
"Yeah, shame we can't tell them apart since the names are scratched out" said Link
"Hmm, maybe I can fix that" said the Little shadow as it starts to snap it's fingers, the engravings engulf in pixelated shadows for a few seconds before it fades and the engravings comeback. "Here we go!"
"Thank yo…" said Link as he starts to read the name of the Green Baron until he suddenly paused in shock. The name of the Green Baron that's been revealed and that it he is called shocked Link in disbelief. "Oh merciful Farore, what madness is this?"
The name of the Green Baron…is Link.
Link couldn't believe his eyes at this, why does the Green Baron have the same name has he? Link then turns to the other portraits to read their names, they too bear the name Link.
What is happening? Why do the Overlords of Old have his name? does it have to do something about the nightmares he's having, the repressed memories trying to burst out from his brain? Link is hyperventilating, he is confused, getting angry at this.
"AAAAGH!" Link screams in anger and confusion, he is shrouded in a malevolent aura and blue lightning. Causing the portrait room to shake, the portraits are tilting, the busts are falling and breaking. Link unsheathes his sword and starts slashing at the portraits. "What madness is this! Why am I led to this Farore forsaking place? Why do I feel at ease here, why do I share the name of Hyrule's greatest evils. WHY am I wearing their garbs, why, why, WHY!"
The runestone in his pocket is reacting by Link's anger and confusion, Link can feel it pulsing and takes it out. He looks at it closely reading the runes which translate "Evil Presence", then the rune rumbles in his hand, a dark power surges though his hand and travelling in his body, the lightning shrouds him more, the sensation is intense but then it gets even more pleasurable. Link reaches out his gauntlet clad hand and a huge burst of lightning shoots out from his palm.
Link has learned Evil Presence!
Link slowly starts calming down as the dark magic flow around his body like a calm breeze, all this confusion is fading away, the shock of the fact that the Overlord in those portraits share his name suddenly stops. He breathes softly as his mind is at ease, but the discovery still burns in his mind, and the question constantly echoes in his brain: why does the Overlord's share my name?
The knowledge of that spell instantly entered his brain the moment that runestone feed dark magic in him. He knows what that spell does, which is lucky since the floor suddenly shake and skeletal hand burst out as more Stalfo rise up from the ground.
"I don't know what is going on, but I think I'll get the answers later on" said Link as he unsheathes his sword and starts hacking them to pieces, but no matter how many he kill, more rises up and the vast number starts to overwhelm him. Link kept slashing with his sword and bashing skulls with his shield.
Speaking of Skulls, the skull Link has slowly starts pulsing in blue lightning within his tunic. But he didn't notice, he's still trying to survive from the growing hoard of Stalfos, Link tries to summon the minions but they didn't answer his call, its if something is preventing the call to be called.
Link yelled out a battle cry while he battles these skeletal fiends and stretch out his gauntlet and casts his new spell at the Stalfo Hoard. The lightning causes a chain reaction between them, the Gauntlet and the skull in Link's pocket. The Stalfo Skull starts floating out of Link's pocket and hovers up above him, it starts gathering the other skulls like a magnet, even if attacked to the spines of active Stalfos. Link just steps back as he was this, a cluster of skulls keeps growing until it's the size of a boulder, and after a few minutes, the cluster stopped gathering and keeps hovering. "What the hell?"
But that's not all, the Stalfos stop attacking Link and starts kneeling to him.
"Whoa…what just happened?" said Link, now confused when the Stalfo are acting different, they are acting like…the minions. The skull cluster starts to descend and Link reaches out to it, the cluster compresses and cracks until it shatters into pieces, in it's place is a piece of armour, a pauldron that resembles a jaw-less Stalfo Skull no resting on his left shoulder.
Link has obtained the Stalfo Pauldron! Now he has control over the undead Stalfo.
Link turns his attention to the Stalfo and then raise his gauntlet to execute a command to them. "Get me out of here!."
The Stalfo bows to Link and heads to the Green Baron portrait and unhook it off the wall, exposing a strange panel with a handprint on it. Link approaches the panel, his gauntlet starts pulse and react to it.
Link looks at his gauntlet and reaches out to the panel to press his palm upon it, but the gauntlet pulses even more and it suddenly slams to the handprint and engulfs in blue electric magic. This causes the floor to rumble and split open to reveal a flight of stairs that does down.
The Little shadow wisp by Link's shoulder to look at the stairs with Link, it widens the exposed eye with awe and amazement.
"Wow, a secret in the tower. A bit cliché but still amazing."
"Let's just go, I want answers and out of this damn enjoyable tower," said Link as he starts climbing down the stairs to leave the portrait room with the little shadow and his new legion of Stalfos.
Catacombs
Link descends to the lower section of the tower, straight down to the catacombs. It's dark down at the catacombs but fortunately Link has plenty of oil left in his lantern to see through the darkness, the little shadow is nowhere to be seen in this dark place but it is near, actually sitting on Link's shoulder, just minding its own business while Link ventres through the catacombs. Link shift his eyes at the walls, decorated with skulls, skeletons of the dead soldiers lay to rest and ancient clay urns filled with cremated remains.
The walk through the catacombs is not bad, a bit spooky since Link has the Stalfo accompany him but not bad since the skeletal fiends are now loyal to him. The path Link is on leads him to the centre of the Catabombs, large chamber decorated with tall statues of beautiful maidens with brass braziers in their arms. The Braziers instantly lit up the moment Link set his foot in this chamber.
Link looks around to see which way to go next in his search for the Tower Circlet. But there is one problem: there are number our paths that leads to other chambers. The catacomb interior is segmented with numerous chambers where each have a few number of sarcophagi are resting. The circlet is in one of those sarcophagi, and there were so many Overlords each resting in a sarcophagus, it'll be like finding a needle in a haystack.
But before he could even start his search for the circlet, high cackle echoes in the chamber.
"heh heh heh! Oh goody! A mortal to play with, heh heh heh heh!"
Link looks up to see who spoke to him, up in the ceiling he sees what appears to be a creature that looks like a dark purple Eyesoar with 6 bat wings and a sinister red eye.
"So you're here to claim the Tower Circlet," said the Eyesoar-like creature. "Well you can't have it, I am the guardian of the Tower's possessions. The Green Baron has ordered me to protect them all, at ALL costs. Turn back now or meet your doom!"
Meet your doom? Really Vaati thought the little shadow as it rolled its exposed eye.
That's right, this creature is Vaati. Apparently it is the guardian of the Dark Tower's treasures, ordered by the Green Baron to protect them from thieves and intruders, no matter who they are.
"So you're still here, huh? Heh heh heh, you must be brave or stupid to stay here, mortal!" said Vaati as he hovers above Link. "But you will not find the Circlet, it's well hidden and broke into pieces. heh heh heh. You're doomed, DOOMED heh heh heh!
Vaati cackles loudly before vanishing in a cloud of darkness and a pair of wall masters merge out from the walls.
Ok, now Vaati is going overboard with thisthought the little shadow, Doesn't he know that this boy is the new Overlord?
The Wallmasters descends down from the walls and crawl towards Link, the young Hylian draw out his sword and shield as these giant hands approach him.
"You must hurry and find the circlet," warned the little shadow with worry in its voice. "If those Wallmasters catch you, they'll drag you out of the catacombs and take you back to the portrait room"
"Well I best start my search then" said Link as he raises his gauntlet summon his Browns, but nothing happened. "What the hell?"
"heh, heh, heh, you cannot summon your minions in this place. It's magically sealed" Vaati's voice echoes with a mocking laugh. "You're doomed, DOOMED HEH HEH HEH!"
"Damn it" said Link while be jumps back from a lunge attack from a Wallmaster. Link forces it back by slashing it at the palm, but it only immobilized it for a few second but it's enough for Link to get a distance from the advancing Wallmasters. Link frowned at this, he can't summon his minions here, Vaati placed a magic seal to prevent it. But then he realised something, he has the Stalfo with him. "Ah, of course!"
Link felt embarrassed that he just forgotten his new Stalfos, so he stretch out his gauntlet to control them, the Stalfo respond and salutes to Link.
"Search through every sarcophagus, bring me the Circlet pieces!" said Link while he decides to keep the Wallmasters busy.
The Stalfo salutes and scatters across the catacombs to search for the broken circlet pieces. The skeletal fiends all start ripping off the lids of every sarcophagus in this dark dank tomb. Link remains in the main chamber, keeping the Wallmasters busy, Link is accompanied with a few Stalfo as backup. The giant hands try to grab Link but failed when the Stalfo sacrifice themselves in their master's place. The search for the circlets is slow, the sarcophagi lids are heavy and made of solid stone. And unfortunately when the Stalfo did find the pieces of the circlet, a secondary trap is sprung as a swarm of Poes appear with their ghastly lanterns and scythes attack the Stalfos to defend the circlet pieces.
You could hear Vaati's cackles in the darkness as he watches in the shadows, his single red eye beams with excitement as he watches this battle for the circlet pieces.
But despite the difficulty of the situation, Link pushes through. The circlet pieces are found, all he needs to do is gather them and leave this place. He dashes to where the circlet pieces are, dodged every attack from the Wallmasters, evade the scythe slash from the Poes. He starts gathering all the pieces of the circlet one by one.
Vaati noticed this and stops his cackling, he narrowed his eyes and fades away, along with the Wallmasters and the Poes.
Link has obtained the circlet fragments!
"So you managed to find the circlet, eh?" said Vaati's voice echoing in the now empty catacombs. "Well good for you, but it looks like the circlet is in pieces, and you can't use it to unlock those magical locks. Too bad, you're going to be trapped in here forever heh heh heh, FOREVER!"
Link frowned at this, Vaati is right, the circlet is broken and it is useless in this way. How on Hyrule can Link use this to get out, he thought. He pockets the pieces and searches for a way out of the catacombs, but not by the way he was when he entered.
BANG
BANG
The sound of banging is faintly heard, like a hammer banging on metal, Link lifts his head up to see that the noise is coming from the other side of the wall, he placed his left ear to hear it.
BANG!
BANG!
The noise is definitely coming from the other side, and the wall is thinner than the others.
"Break it down" Link commands the Stalfos to knock that wall down.
The Stalfo obey, they charge at the wall to break it down, resulting in numberous scattering of bones with each Stalfo charges in the wall. But despite the Stalfos breaking apart by their charge, the impact is causing the wall to crumble as the bricks topple down, along with the skulls that are decorated on it. The wall is knocked down, revealing a hidden path with a flight of stairs at the end.
BANG!
BANG!
The noise got louder than before, it is coming from up the stairs. Link wasted no time walking through this hidden path and up the flight of stairs.
But what is making that noise?
Tower Forge
Link reached the top of the stairs and entered a room with such unbearable that he was forced to take off his tunic and chainmail, exposing his lean strong chest. Link turns his head to have a look at where the path has lead him to. The room is dim, the only light is the glowing smelted irons in the burning furnaces and glowing forged weapons and armours in stone moulds. This room is the dark tower's forges, and the source of that banging is from a minion wearing a welding mask, leather apron and gloves, and wielding a forging hammer that he uses to bang the hot glowing weapons in shape while it's still soft from the intense heat.
This blacksmith is busy forging weapons and crafting them with no breaks whatsoever. The furnaces are constantly being refilled with scrap metal and ores for more production in the forge. The loud bangs are heard in rhythms, putting every sword, axe, mace in shape before cooling it in water before it gets stored in the armoury later.
"Hmm, ain't this convenient. Now you can get that circlet fixed." said the little shadow emerging out from Link's shadow and leaning on his bare shoulder, the little shadow couldn't help but blush when it's hands is above his pec. Okay, stay focused. You have a job to do, think about your revenge. Revenge is all that matters.
Fortunately, Link couldn't feel the little shadow's hands on him and starts walking towards the minion blacksmith. He can hear it mumbling irritably while he works, it has been working nonstop for Din know how long.
"Giblet always forge this; Giblet always forge that. No stop for Giblet!"
The minion blacksmith known as Giblet finished banging on a glowing hot axe and cools it with water before tossing it in pile of weapons and armour. Then giblet stops as he felt someone behind him and turns to see Link, Giblet suddenly bow down to Link.
"Master, you have come for Giblet's service" said Giblet "I have waited too long for Master's return, and with new body too"
Link is confused at this, what did the minion mean by "new body"? Giblet noticed the confused look on the hylian's face, he only chuckled.
"Oh, you not awake yet," said Giblet "Master needs circlet to help wake up. Does Master have circlet?"
Link presents the pieces to Giblet, the blacksmith snatches them off Link and starts forging it without delay. The forging didn't take long for giblet, he stuck the pieces together with molten iron and hammers it in shape. Then he dunks it in the molten iron again to strengthen it as it has been a while since the circlet was worn.
"There we go, for you" said Gibelt as he presents the now complete circlet to Link.
Link takes the circlet and puts it over his head. Then suddenly, Link's eyes rolled back the moment the circlet is on his head, he is having a vision. All those visions are flashing, like he is reliving through them one by one.
(Flashback: Hyrule's birth)
Hyrule Castle: Throne Room
The first vision takes Link back where Hyrule was first born, along with it's kingdom. The castle was just construction and a coronation is being performed to the first king with the name Hyrule. The King is being crowned by a sheikah elder named Impa, witnessing the coronation is the first Hylian settlers, roughly a few hundreds. Witnessing the coronation is a Link, the first Link, wearing a green tunic and cap, wielding his sword and shield, but he is old and grey, that is because it has been many a decade since the Hylians returned from the sky after the world is cleared of the demons and the death of their Demon Lord and Demon King, which Link is responsible for. He is praised as a hero, a great warrior chosen by the Goddesses.
But despite his heroic deed, he was never chosen to be Hyrule's king since the goddesses never approve it, despite his sacrifice. Instead, the goddesses bestow Link's friend Zelda to be Hyrule's ruler, sadly Link never got the chance to be with Zelda while she was Hyrule's first Queen and got a family of her own. But sadly Zelda passed away and now the title passed on to her son, Prince Hyrule as king.
"By the will of Goddess Farore, Din and Nayru, I crown thee King of Hyrule" said Impa as she placed the Hyrule crown on his head.
All of Hyrule applaud to their new King, including the King's sister princess Zelda, who now bear the name of her late mother and inherited her beauty and appearance. Well, all but Link who just stares emotions at the scene and decided to leave without everyone knowing. All but Zelda, she noticed Link leaving and decides to follow him without her brother knowing.
Hyrule Castle: Courtyards
Link is relaxing in the courtyards, enjoying the peace and quiet outside. He takes out his lyre, it was a gift that the late Queen Zelda gave to him a long time ago. He starts playing a song called "The ballad of the Goddess", playing this brings a tear to his eyes, Zelda use to play this.
/en daʃeʋu no be̞ ʃʊndu/
/tye̞ ʃʊtu ke̞wɛnu sale̞/
/en daʃeʋu no be̞ dʊʃu/
/tye̞ ʃʊtu no be̞ dezu dotʃe̞/
While Link play this melody that fills him with such melancholy, he didn't notice Princess Zelda arriving at the courtyard and listened to Link's lyre playing. She watched Link play for 5 more minutes until the aging warrior noticed the princess and stopped.
"Oh, hello you're highness" said Link bowing to Zelda.
"I know that song," said Princess Zelda. "My mother use to play it to me when I was a kid."
Link smiled and nods.
"The ballad of the Goddess, it was your mother's favourite song" said Link "She always play it back when her and I live up in Skyloft, way before Hyrule was formed. *sigh* after all these years, I still can't believe she's gone…but it won't be long until I will see her again."
"Please don't say that, Sir Link" said Princess Zelda placing her hand on his shoulder. "I doubt my mother would've wanted you to think about death."
Link couldn't help but smile at the princess, she reminds him of Zelda.
"You're so like your mother" said Link as he stands up. "But you should know that I am an old man, my adventuring days are over. It's time for me to leave and enjoy my retirement."
"But you'll be alone, Sir Link" said Princess Zelda "You don't have any family, and your friends have passed on also."
"Aye, but I'm fine with it" said Link as he takes his leave. "Give the King my regards for me"
Time-skip: Link's cottage
Link walks away and leaves the castle, that is the last time the Princess saw Link that day. The aging warrior has spent his remaining years in retirement, living in a simple cottage within the Eldin Province, near the Sheikah village of Kakariko. Link has gotten much older but still limber, he is chopping up some firewood to restock since winter is drawing near. He does live a simple life, he does get kind visits from the local Sheikah, including Impa and her granddaughter who shares her name. but right now, Link's visitor isn't the one with pleasantries, King Hyrule has come to bring dire news to Link.
"Princess Zelda has been kidnapped?" said Link in shock at the King's news.
"I'm afraid so" said King Hyrule with his face lowered in sorrow. With the King is Captain Impa, the elder Impa's granddaughter who is captain of the guard and royal bodyguard. She has a flawless resemblance of the Impa Link knew way back in his prime, no doubt her descendent, and also share her name. "The kidnapper managed to get pass Captain Impa in and out of the castle, she only noticed when things are too quiet in Zelda's bedchambers. By the time she raised the alarm, it was already too late."
"I-I am sorry for your loss, your majesty" said Link as he sighed sadly. "But why aren't you going after the prep who took the princess."
"We did, but we cannot get through" said King Hyrule frowning. "The kidnapper resides in some ancient but eerie tower that is protected by a magical barrier. And that's why I came here, I need your help, Link."
"What can I do?" said Link
"We need you to draw the Master Sword one last time" said King Hyrule.
Link frowned at this and turns away.
"You know we can't do that, it's too soon for the sword to be drawn out. The Demon King's aura hasn't faded yet. Drawing the sword will cause him to be reincarnated and bring the entire world into ruin." Said Link
Captain Impa suddenly step forward to Link.
"What choice do we have, the Princess is in grave danger" said Impa before she turns to the King, as if she is asking him permission for something. The King nods at her before she speaks, though reluctant to say. "The Princess now wields the Triforce of Wisdom"
Link widen his eyes at this and turns to the Shiekah Captain as if she was jesting.
"You're not serious," said Link "Why would Zelda have the Triforce of Wisdom"
"Because she was chosen by the goddess to possess the sacred Triforce, but that's not all" said King Hyrule. "The other triforces are missing from the Sacred Temple of Time, I assume that they are sent to the other chosen ones. And that makes it dangerous, I understand Zelda but if the other 2 pieces of the triforce fell to the wrong hands, it will be disaterous for the kingdom, especially if some possess all 3 pieces."
I see" said Link as he frowns at this, he doesn't like this but it's clear that Hyrule is in danger and he is needed to save it one again. "Very well, I'll help you. We must get the Master sword"
"Right" said King Hyrule nodding at the old hero.
(end of flashback)
Link snaps out of his flashback and leans on the wall, he just saw an event that might answer his question. He witnessed a memory of an old warrior who is also called Link, but the memory was half viewed, and it didn't tell him much. Why would this be about the Overlords?
"Hey, are you alright?"
Link turns to the little shadow and nods.
"Yeah, yeah I'll be alright Midna" said Link while rubbing his head.
The little shadow known as Midna gasped in shock at this, how did Link know her name.
"Whoa, how did you know my name?" said Midna still in shock. "I never told you my name"
Link realised something, Midna didn't tell him her name yet he knows it. How is that possible.
"I-I don't know" said Link as he approached the locked door, and the lock is indeed magical. "But I'll soon find out."
Link placed his gauntlet clad hand on the magic lock and it suddenly dissolves away into nothing. Link smiles satisfactory at this and opens the door to leave the tower forges.
"Let's get the hell out of here" said Link walking through the door with Midna following him.
Throne Room
Link and Midna left the forge and arrives at the throne room, right at the centre of the tower. It is a large circular room, decorated with demon statures holding burning braziers, candelabras and tall thick pillars that reach up to the ceiling. And also at the end of the room, between 2 flights of stairs are a large wooden throne with a wolf motif and hollow triforce ornament above the throne, save for one triforce piece on the top. The Triforce of power, which grants the wielder use of mystical powers.
The Triforce radiates its golden light at Link, forcing him to cover his eyes but the back of his hand is imprinted by the magic when the mark of the Triforce is shown.
Link then starts to walk towards the throne, while he walks to it the minions scurry out of the shadows and stand between Link's path to the throne. Link's head pulses more as he gets closer to the throne and the triforce, causing him to have a vision.
(Flashback: Hyrule's birth)
The aged hero, young Hylian King and Sheikah Captain broke through the magic barrier that shrouds the dark tower with the help of the Master Sword. The 3 warriors fight off the minions and head towards the throne room. In the throne room, Princess Zelda is levitating above the throne and sitting on that throne is mysterious knight wearing dark armour. His skin is dark blue with glowing tribal marking on his arms. On the back of his hand is the mark of the Triforce, and the Triforce of Power is place above the throne, radiating in a golden glow.
"You're too late, the second triforce is now mine!" said the Mysterious Knight as raise his hand to cast his spell on the Princess, extracting the Triforce of Wisdom out of her body. "Soon I will have all 3 pieces and rule this new kingdom!"
"AAAAGHHH!" screams Princess Zelda as the magic is ripping out the Triforce out of her body.
The King saw this and charges at the knight, but we was pushed back by a burst of blue lightning and crashes into the floor.
"Fool! No one can match the powers of the Overlord!" said the Knight who calls himself the Overlord, he continues his extraction on the Princess. "No weak King will stop me on my conquest, no more Paladins to destroy my reign, no more empires that will oppose me, and especially no more foolish heroes will get in my way!"
"You're majesty!" exclaims Impa and Link the moment King Hyrule was struck. Link frowns at this and slowly approaches the throne with the Master sword and his Shield.
Impa saw this but she decides to tend to the King's injuries.
The evil knight saw Link approach him, he merely smirks at the aged hero.
"You should know better, Old man!" said the Overlord as he starts blasting his dark magic at him.
But the magic bounces off when Link used his shield to defend himself and continued to walk forward. The knight growns but fortunately he as finished extracting the 2nd Triforce and his mark has changed to show 2 triforces on his hand.
"I must admit it, you are tough to resist my power, but you're too late!" said the Overlord as he starts channelling his new Golden power and transforms into a hulking beast that's 10 feet tall, long sharp claws and tusks, his feet reshape into cloven hooves and his face reshapes into a demonic pig with a long auburn mane. His skin is still blue but his glowing tribal marks spread across his body, on his chest is a mark that looks like the incomplete symbol of the triforce. He reaches out his clawed hand and a large battleaxe appeared in his grasp. "But with 2 of the triforces in my grasp, I am unstoppable!"
"I don't think so" said Link as he draw out his Master Sword and charges at the transformed Overlord.
The clash between Link's sword and the Overlord's battleaxe caused an aftershock, making the interior of the tower to quake. But while the Aged Hero fights the beast, Imp swiftly rushes to save Zelda and carries her back to where the injured king was. The transformed Overlord saw this and attempts to charge at the Sheikah Captain and the royal siblings. But Link stopped the charge by grabbing his tusks and wrestles him.
"Get out of here, I'll deal with him!" said Link wrestling with the transformed Overlord.
"But what about you?" said King Hyrule painfully while Impa helps him up.
"It doesn't matter about me, you must return to the castle." Said Link as he twist the beast onto his side, he draws out his sword and rushes to slay him. "Go, I'm come back, I promise"
Impa and the King reluctantly nods at Link and hesistantly leaves the throne room, Zelda slowly regains conscious and saw Link battle against the Overlord. She was about to call out to him but never got the chance, they left the old hero to his final battle.
"Yaaghh!" Link yelled out his battle cry and charges at the downed beast, but the Overlord got back on his feet and impaled him with his tusks. Link stops his charge the moment he was impaled, the Overlord smirks triumphantly and tosses the old hero into the wall.
Link collapses on his side and bled out from his wound, he shifts his eyes at the beast approaching him. Link tries to get up but the wound too painful for him to even move, also his old body betrays him.
The Overlord laughs as he stands on his hooved legs and slowly approaches the dying hero.
"You are a fool, old man" said the Overlord "Do you really think that facing me will save that pathetic king and his kingdom, I have 2 of the triforce pieces, I am close to being a god! What power do you have to counter my own? Nothing, you have nothing against me, you're just a pathetic old man, weakened by age, withered by time. Crippled by mortality itself, I don't know if you're either suicidal, foolish, or insane. But if you've gotten weary of living, then I shall ease your suffering for you."
Link grits his teeth and snarls at the beast. He sits up and kept his sword in his grip. He slowly stands up and struggles to lift the master sword. The Overlord scoffs at the ld hero's stubbornness and raised his battleaxe to end his life.
"Enough of this, time to die!" said the Overlord as he swings his axe at Link, Link prepares for the impact, unaware that the back of his left hand glows to reveal the triforce mark.
CLANG
The Axe clases with the Master sword, but this time it causes a cyclone mixed with Link's Triforce's golden power and the Overlord's tainted Golden Power of his 2 triforces. Link's master sword is starting to break, meaning the evil of the Demon King is leaking from the cracks and starts to wisp towards Link with a vengeance. Link saw this evil and panics,
No! thought Link as the evil starts attacking his soul, and to make matters worse, this attracts the Overlord's evil power and slowly leaves the Overlord's body and entering Link's, causing the Overlord to grow weak. The Overlord didn't notice this as he is distracted by the thought of killing Link. But Link is aware and already trapped, physically and spiritually, he can feel the 2 evils plaguing his pure soul, poisoning his spirit, he is at another battle to prevent it from corrupting his soul. Link has to hurry, so he gathered what he as have remaining of his strength and pushes the Overlord back, he forces the beast to back off to leave an opening and strikes at where he's at his vulnerable.
SLASH!
Link finished off the Overlord with a fatal blow, not even the power of the 2 Triforces can withstand the power of the master sword, which shatters after that final attack. With the blade shattered, the Demon King's evil is free, polluting the entire room and attacking Link. The Old Hero is coughing out a black substance as the evil is not poisoning his body. He reach out his hand and prayed for the goddesses to save him.
"Farore, Din, Nayru, help… me" said Link as he drop to his knees, the evil is overwhelming and killing him slowly and painfully.
"Heh, you pitiful goddesses won't hear you here, Old man"
Link turns his head to see the Overlord revert from his beastly form and back to his human form, armourless and dying.
"The Goddesses of your culture fear the Overlords, just like all of the deities of other kingdoms." Said the Overlord. "And besides, they are powerless to save you from all that evil. Your only hope is to beg for a quick death, for that evil from Demon King Demise is toxic to the soul, not even I or my predecessors could stand it."
The Overlord used his final breath by laughing and watching a few more minute of Link's suffering.
"That is a fitting end for you Heroes, a death you truly deserve" those are the final words of the Overlord. And with the Overlord's death, the tower starts to crumble for it is being supported by his foul magic. All Link can do is hope that the fallen debris would crush him and stop this suffering, but then a portal of darkness opens underneath the dying hero and drags him down before the tower falls beneath him.
(End of Flashback)
Link regained his senses and head towards the throne, he placed his gauntlet clad hand on the wolf headed arm of the throne. He feels more at home when he starts to sit on it, this causes the tower to pulse with dark magic and it erupts like it was a volcano of magic. The Tower now awake and it's master has returned. The minions bow down to their new master, and Link just sits there while his army grovels at his feet.
"Well done, Link"
Link sat up straight and looks through the grovelling minions to see Rusl entering the throne room.
"I had a feeling that you might be him," said Rusl as he gave Link a small bow. "Considering that you do share his name."
Link said nothing for a while and chuckles at his mentor.
"You've gotten old, my friend" said Link
"Hey, 36 ain't old" said Rusl pulling a face. "I'm still younger than you, old man"
"Spiritually old, Rusl. But at least my body is young and handsome the moment it first got reborn as the new Overlord" said Link "And unlike the Goddesses those peace loving Hylians worship, my prayers were answered."
"So do you remember about that day?" said Rusl
"It's still hazy, I just regained my memories" said Link as he got up from his throne and walk pass his grovelling minions, he kicked those who are in his path. "That's funny about reincarnation, it makes you forget and takes time to remember every detail."
"I suspect that you'll begin your quest of conquering Hyrule" said Rusl
"That's right," said Link as he walks away to leave the tower. "But first, let's return home. We don't want everyone getting worried, now do we?"
"No, we don't" said Rusl "The Mayor would want a report on our mission"
"Moblins…couldn't you pick something else to lure me here, Rusl" said Link
"Hey, I was lucky to find those Moblins and even prompt them to take that gauntlet" said Rusl "Vaati was very stubborn for not giving it to me"
"Pay him no mind" said Link "He's just doing his duty, just like you"
Faron Woods
The journey back to Ordon Village is long for Link and Rusl, it took them until the evening to get back, considering that Link didn't have Epona with him on the way.
"So are you gonna come back to the tower as my commander, Rusl?" said Link
"Nah, that's a young man's game" said Rusl "besides, I have a family and I enjoy my retirement"
"I see, it's a real shame though" said Link
"Don't worry, I think you'll find a better replacement than I" said Rusl
"Maybe Colin when he's older" said Link
"I don't know, Colin doesn't seem to be warrior material" said Rusl "Perhaps Talo"
"I do admire Talo's spirit, but he isn't responsible since he's reckless and impulsive" said Link "But it's too soon to choose them since they are still children."
"True, I doubt Uli would approve to have my son have full command on the Overlord's armies at a young age, even in general." Said Rusl
"Doesn't she know about us?" said Link
"I don't see the point telling her, I don't want to risk her life with the truth" said Rusl "She's an innocent woman, never involved with us loyalists."
"Well don't worry about it, I'll find new allies to aid me on my quest" said Link until he noticed something wrong. It is too quiet, the sound of birds and the rustling of trees is mute, as if no life is active in the forest. This amount of silence isn't right and caused Link and Rusl to unsheathe their swords halfway. "Be on your guard, Rusl"
"Aye" said Rusl as he held his half sheathed sword.
Suddenly an ambush is made by a group of soldiers in blue heavy armour, wielding halberds and a shield. Link and Rusl full draw their swords and charges at their pursuers.
Link bashes with his shield and slashes with his sword, Rusl does the same but also block attacks with his shield. The battle didn't take long, considering that Link and Rusl are skilled swordsmen, each of the slain blue soldiers puff into smoke, leaving piles of armour falling on the floor.
"Those weren't normal soldiers," said Rusl "What is going on?"
"I don't know" said Link until he caught a smell and turns to the path he and Rusl are taking. "I can smell smoke, Ordon is under attack."
"Uli, Colin!" said Rusl as he rushes off to Ordon in distress, his family is in danger.
Link run after Rusl, if something happened to Ordon, he might need help.
End of chapter
Overlord Log
Name: Link
Age: 17
Race: Hylian
Hair: Blonde
Spells: Evil Presence
Eyes: Blue
Minions: Browns: Overlord's infantry.
Stalfos: Undead soldiers created by foul magic.
Weapons: Ordon Sword and Shield: Forged in Ordon, Link's current weapon
Armour: Green Baron's Tunic: clothing worn by Hyrule's Overlords
Chainmail vest: Armour worn underneath the tunic.
Overlord Gauntlet: A magic gauntlet used to summon minions and cast magic.
Tower Circlet: A circlet that connects the Overlords to the Tower.
Inventory: Slingshot: A harmless toy used to fire projectiles
Lantern: With this, Link will see through the dark.
Minion Hives: Brown Hive: For Spawning Browns
Stalfo Skull Pauldron: A piece of armour used to summon and spawn Stalfo.
Allies:
Rusl: Link's mentor in Ordon Village, he was at the war between King Hyrule and the Green Baron.
Midna: a mysterious shadow that follows Link and guides him.
Vaati: A mysterious creature assigned to guard the tower objects during Link's "absence".
Enemies: King of Hyrule: Over the generations, Link and his incarnations are at war against the Kings of Hyrule who hold the name of Hyrule.