THIS WAS A DOUBLE UPDATE DAY. PLEASE GO BACK AND READ CHAPTER 25 IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY CAME HERE BEFORE READING THAT ONE. this has been a PSA.

fleets: Hello brave souls. Here I am going to discuss and show a preview of Demonbound Sheikah's sequel, Soulbound Princess. I've traditionally posted teaser previews after I finish stories so you guys know that I'll be showing up again sometime soon! The preview I am going to show this time will not be posted in the final version of Soulbound, so it'll be a bit of a treat in that only people who've bothered to read this extra chapter will ever get the perspective of the character I will be writing (first person POV whoo)

The story takes place a few months after the events of Demonbound. While Demonbound never had a pairing tag, this one will, and it will be [VaatixSheik]. Notice how I did not say VaaZel, though there will be some of that, too. Yes, Sheik and Zelda are the same person, but I do write them slightly, slightly differently and, well, this will make more sense once I write the dynamics in Soulbound.
ANYWAYS, if you don't like that pairing, I would not recommend the sequel because I'm planning on including it.

This story won't be following any sort of timeline (it's an AU) and I'll be throwing in characters/concepts that vaguely work for the intended plot (e.g. I'm pretending that the Dark World is just another name for Lorule, regardless of what it actually is in canon. Similarly, the Dark Interlopers from Twilight Princess that were banished to the Dark World are Sheikah defectors - there's some kind of fan theory out there on that, which I liked and decided to use). Oh I also talk about a bunch of random ideas with the Triforce and the Lightforce etc. etc. that I kind of just BS and roll with it. Warning you now.

(pffft this preview ended up way shorter than I thought. I can't say anymore without going into major spoilers though whoops)

Now that that's out of the way, here's the preview of my next project, Soulbound Princess :)

Soulbound Princess

Few things surprise me, and yet I find myself to be completely at a loss of words. Fewer things yet frighten me, and yet the quill shakes as I write.

Within the last hour, I have lost everything. Everything that had been granted to me by the Wishing Cap, gone, in an instant.

Yes, you are currently reading the tiny scratches of a creature no taller than the size of your thumb. I, Vaati, the Sorcerer of Winds, am the Sorcerer of Winds no longer. I am a Minish.

If I had known that the assassin would have such power, I would have been more careful with my dealings with them. I saw them stalking the princess's rooms, no doubt to lay a trap while the princess was away, and so I'd gone to confront them. When I approached the assassin, I was surprised to find that their clothes vaguely reminded me of the Sheikah, and this connection was further strengthened when I fought them.

Their movements… they were learned in the Sheikah arts.

I'd cornered the assassin and was ready to incapacitate them, but then they'd pulled out some kind of mask, ancient in design. It appeared to be made of stone with two tall horns, and a carved eye hid half of the wearer's face. As soon as the assassin wore the mask, it somehow… sucked out all of my power, almost like it was draining the very life out of me.

Truthfully, it actually did drain the very life out of me.

I… ugh I hate to admit it, but I would have died. The mask had absorbed all of the power, turning me back into a Minish, and then went further by absorbing Force. Every living thing has a bit of Force, an energy that allows living things to, well, live. Without it, I began to die.

I'm still alive, as I'm sure you've gathered. However, it came at a great cost. When Sheik found me, he split his Triforce and shared it with me so that I could remain alive. Now we share flickers of each other's thoughts and emotions, which is a nuisance, but is nothing compared to the other consequence of this action.

The Triforce was never meant to be shared between two people.

… You understand what that means, don't you? It means that now, the two of us are living on borrowed time. One day, perhaps in a few years or maybe even tomorrow, the Triforce is going to pull back to one of us so that it becomes whole again. In one person.

And when that happens, one of us is going to die.

You cannot cheat death. One of us was supposed to die today. I was supposed to die today.

Sheik is too self-sacrificing for his own good. I may not be able to do much now that I am a 3-inch-tall mousey little thing, but I'm going to do everything I can to figure out a way to fix this.

Because goddesses be damned if I allow Sheik to die.