"Uggh, when is he going to come back?"
"He's been in there for hours already! How long does it take to steal three stupid triangles?"
"Hush sisters, here he comes..."
Valtor casually walked out of the Temple of Time empty-handed. The three girls who had been waiting for him stood confused, wondering why he had a smile on his face if he didn't have the Triforce. The girl with the curly hair spoke first. "So? Where is it?"
Valtor laughed, "All in good time, Stormy." He held up one of his hands, a symbol glowing on the back. "Realix rejected me as the rightful holder of the Triforce, so it only gave me a third of it."
"What are you going to do now?" the brunette asked next.
Valtor smirked and put his hands on the girl's shoulders. "Not just me, Darcy. We. The Gerudos are going to regain power of all of Hyrule, and we're going to do it together." He stepped back to look at the three sisters who had supported him through his quest for power. "I have tasks for each of you." The three perked up. "Darcy, go to Kokiri Forest. There's a sage there. Eliminate her."
Darcy grinned, "I'll fill the forest with dark monsters! Those Kokiri dweebs will be too scared to fight back!" She smirked before she bounded off to her destination.
"Stormy," Valtor addressed next. "Death Mountain has been dormant for too long. Can you do something about that?"
"Of course, Valtor!" Stormy assured him. "What about those ogre losers?"
Valtor shrugged, "I don't care what happens to them. My business is with the royalties, and they have no such thing in their primitive race."
Stormy cackled evilly, "Then I'll bring them with me! I bet they'd love to see an active volcano first hand!" She dashed off faster than her sister did. The only two left were Valtor and the silver-haired witch.
Valtor walked up to her, "I thought you would have been more concerned by my lack of the Triforce."
"I trust you," Icy said nonchalantly. "That's what you're doing, right? Finding the other two pieces?"
"You know me too well, Icy," Valtor laughed.
"So what am I doing?" the ice witch asked.
"I want Zora's Domain completely frozen. Make sure the Zora Princess is the last one. I want her to see the agony of the merpeople as they lose all sense of feeling."
Icy grinned. Just the assignment she wanted. She began to head off before turning around and asking Valtor one more question. "Lord Valtor, which piece of the Triforce were you given?"
He gestured to the mark on his hand. "Power, as would be expected by one of the Gerudos."
Icy waltzed back over and stopped in front of him. "Lord Valtor, you must have much power now," she started, "and since you have been given so much, you must have a bit to spare for your favorite witch..."
Valtor smirked, "You want me to lend you some off my power? You don't think you could freeze the domain on your own?" he challenged her.
"The faster I freeze the domain, the faster we can release him," she reminded him with a devious smile.
Valtor rubbed his chin in thought before closing his eyes and laying his hands on Icy's shoulders. "By the Triforce's power, I grant you disenchantment magic. Use it in your plaguing of Zora's Domain," he recited while power flowed into her.
"Thank you, Valtor," she said, bowing. The disenchanted ice witch flew off on her new power to set to work on Zora's domain.
Valtor shook his head as he walked back to the castle. "All of Hyrule will be mine. It was too easy." He laughed evilly as he set to work on remodeling Hyrule Castle for his own purposes.
Darcy walked over the rope bridge leading to Kokiri Forest. "What a loser race," she laughed before walking through the forest entrance. Just as she expected, a bunch of green-clad forest children were running around and doing other stupid stuff. One of them was tending to plants. What on earth? Oh well, it wasn't her business how these people wasted their lives. She held out her hands and murmured a few words about monsters and darkness. From out of the ground grew monstrous plants, targeting the small kids and attempting to devour them. She cackled as the kids frantically ran around trying to avoid their doom when she noticed two of them trying to escape into another part of the forest. "Looks like I'm going to need the heavy artillery for those two!" she laughed. "Moblin army! Arise!" she yelled. Beasts rose from the ground and followed the two Kokiri into the Lost Woods. "I'll tell Valtor that they're as good as dead! Then I'll be his favorite!" she grinned before running back to Gerudo Valley.
"Flora, why are we running?" Riven huffed as he and Flora dashed through the Lost Woods.
Flora looked at him gravely, "It's the Forest Temple! Can't you feel it? It's the same feeling I had when the Great Deku Tree died. There's a curse, and I'm going to break it!"
Riven grabbed her arm to stop her. "Break a curse? Flora, you can't! It's too dangerous!"
Flora pulled away and looked Riven right in the eyes. "I don't understand why I feel the way that I do, but I think it's my destiny to break the curse. You have to accept that," she said sternly.
"Then I'm breaking it with you!" Riven decided.
"No!" Flora put her arm out to stop him from running. "I need to break the curse by myself. If you want to help, you can stand guard and make sure no monsters enter the Sacred Forest Meadow," she told him.
Riven was about to retort angrily, but decided against it and slowly nodded, "I trust you, Flora. I just don't want you to get hurt,"
Flora smiled, "I'll be fine. I don't like getting angry with you, but I know that this is my purpose for living. I don't want to lose you before you find yours," she smiled before heading deeper into the forest.
"My purpose..." Riven murmured before standing guard near one of the Lost Woods pathways. "My purpose is to protect you, Flora."
Stormy flew up to the very top of Death Mountain and raised her arms, storm clouds materializing around her. She spun her arms around, and the clouds became a cyclone, shaking the volcano to its fiery core. "Just a little more, and Valtor will know that I'm his strongest witch!" Stormy threw her arms down, and the clouds flew down into the volcano, disrupting its equilibrium and causing it to rumble even more. She peered down and saw the magma rising inside. "Only a matter of time before Death Mountain blows its top! Wait until Valtor hears this!" she grinned before sliding down the mountain to return to Gerudo Valley.
"Big Brother?" What are we going to do?" the Gorons asked their leader.
Knut addressed them gravely, "We will need to do everything in our power to stop the volcano. Its power fuels the dragon within, and if it escapes, it will kill all living things, burning them to a crisp, even us!"
The Gorons gasped, and Knut waved his arms to calm them down. "The strongest of us will go in and they to restrain the volcano for as long as we can! We must not let the dragon out!" The other Gorons nodded and followed Knut into the rumbling Earth Temple.
Icy grinned as she made it to Lake Hylia. Sitting right where he was last time, was her beloved Tritannus. She had met him on a mission from Valtor in Lake Hylia, and they saw each other there often, away from the eyes of the merpeople and the Gerudos. She lowered down next to him and asked, "What's wrong this time?"
Tritannus smiled weakly at Icy, before alerting her, "They found Aisha. My parents are gushing over her again. I am so done with them!" he yelled in frustration before Icy tried to soothe him.
"I brought you something," she grinned before holding out a glowing hand. "It's disenchantment power from Valtor."
Tritannus looked at her glowing green hand for a while, taking in the magnitude of the gift she was giving him. With this power, he could finally surpass his parents and take over Zora's Domain. He could rule on his own! He looked back at Icy, who was still smiling at him. He smiled back and reached for her hand to obtain the power.
"Gerudo witch!" a small voice yelled. Out from the passageway to Zora's domain swam out Princess Aisha, going to see her cousin. "Tritannus! Look out!"
Tritannus looked back at his cousin, who was preparing to fight. He only smirked, "You're going to be the first one to witness my true power, Aisha!" The merman grabbed Icy's hand and absorbed the power. His blue body began to glow green. It pulsed and writhed as he drew out the full potential from the power. His eyes began to glow red as his build became larger. He was turning into a disenchanted monster.
"You cursed him!" Aisha snarled. "I won't let you get away with this!" she yelled, throwing her boomerang at the witch. Icy only smirked and froze the piece of wood midair. Stunned, Aisha slowed down, giving Tritannus the opportunity to strike. He lunged at her, catching her off-guard. He tackled her and held her arms behind her back so she couldn't fight. "Let me go!" she yelled.
"No can do," Icy snickered, "You'd miss all the fun!" Flying high above the lake she sent an ice blast through the passageway to Zora's Domain. It exploded when inside, covering the domain in a blanket of snow. The abnormal snow got colder, and began to freeze the water solid. Everyone, even the king and queen, was trapped beneath the ice. The only water-dwellers left were Aisha and the mutated Tritannus. Icy turned to the girl and cackled. "Your precious family is frozen in there, and you couldn't do anything to help them! You're worthless!"
Aisha squirmed, trying to break free, but Tritannus's mutant powers were too strong for her. He laughed and threw her over to the island, where she fell limp almost instantly. Icy was sure she was done for, but Tritannus held up a hand. "Let her struggle," he said sadistically before the young princess stirred. She used her hands to push herself up to her knees, and from there she shakily stood up. She made an attempt to charge at them before Tritannus motioned, "Now."
Icy blasted the Zora princess with the last of her power, freezing the girl completely solid. Icy caught a glimpse of hopelessness in the princess's eyes before she herself blacked out and fell over from magical exhaustion. Tritannus caught her and brought her back upstream to Gerudo Valley. He set her lifeless body on a cliffside patrol point, knowing that Gerudos would be there to check it soon. They would find her and take her to safety. "I'll be waiting for you at the Water Temple, Icy," the mutant said before kissing her cheek and swimming back to Lake Hylia.
Seven years later, Valtor ruled Hyrule, but he still did not possess all three pieces of the Triforce.
"Have you found any sign of them yet?" Valtor asked the three witches, annoyed.
Stormy spoke up first, "I've looked everywhere, Lord Valtor! The Hylian princess is nowhere to be found!"
"You should be looking harder!" he snapped before turning to Darcy, "And you...any luck with the hero of legend?"
Darcy shook her head, "I'm starting to think it's just that-a legend," she said snarkily.
Valtor narrowed his eyes at the smart-alack of a witch, "If the legend of the Triforce foretold a hero of legend, I would expect you to believe that it is true."
"I'm sorry, Lord Valtor," Darcy apologized. "I will continue my search."
Valtor nodded sternly before turning to the final witch. "Icy..." he addressed.
Icy looked up, trying to mask any fear in her eyes. She could tell by the way he looked at her that he knew she had been slacking off. "Yes, Lord Valtor?" she asked quietly.
"Have you found that traitor yet?" he asked her. "Or were you too busy hanging around the lake too find her?" he accused.
Icy looked down at her feet, "It won't happen again, Lord Valtor."
"It better not," he said darkly. "If Naboorloom succeeds in leading a rebellion, we may not be able to retain control of Hyrule! Do you understand the urgency of the situation?" he barked at the silver-haired witch.
"Yes Lord Valtor," she said quietly.
"Leave my presence," he told the three as he spun around and pounded a few keys on his elegant pipe organ. They did as he said, returning to their searches.
During those seven years not one of the three tribes had any progress. Flora had not exited the Forest Temple for seven years, and Riven had stayed in the Lost Woods, determined to stop any intruder that came his way. The Gorons had held off the volcanic eruption as long as they could, but they were realizing that their efforts were falling short of succeeding. It wouldn't be much longer before the volcano blew its top. "Knut knows we need help," the Goron leader prayed. "Great Golden Goddesses, help us, so that the world you created is not destroyed..."
Fairy wings beat through the air as a teenage girl zipped towards Lake Hylia. She had vines wrapped around her legs, and her skirt was made of leaves. Adorned in her purple-streaked, blonde hair was a pink rose. She held her hand up to it and sighed. "If this fails, then life as we know it may cease." She fluttered down to the island in the middle of the lake where the Zora princess remained frozen for seven years. She had aged considerably, subconsciously using her own magic power to expand the ice. "The sage," the fairy murmured as she waved her hands over the ice, sprinkling dust over it. The ice began to melt, and Aisha blinked for the first time in seven years.
Once she was fully freed, she looked up to the fairy. "I am in your debt for saving me," she said before the fairy raised her hand.
"This isn't the time to worry about such things. The Water Temple has been cursed by Tritannus, and you have the power to stop him," she sternly told the princess. "Go to the Water Temple, and wait for help. I will be sending someone," she said before turning and taking off.
Aisha had so many questions to ask the strange fairy, but once she saw her leaving, she figured she only had time for one. "Who are you?" she yelled out after the girl.
The fairy stopped midair and turned to face the princess. "I am the last of the Earth Varies. I am Lithia."
A/N: *Blows trumpet* This was officially the longest chapter! I wrote most of it during a long car ride, and I had so much material floating around, it turned out much longer than I had anticipated. I think my notorious shipper side showed a bit in this chapter...
If there was one thing I felt Ocarina of Time lacked, it would be an adequate description of what happened during the seven years of time that the hero was in the Sacred Realm. I wouldn't call this chapter an adequate description either, but it got the job done. Next time, Timmy wakes up and sees Hyrule in a totally different light! Feel free to leave a review! Daisy out!