Hyrule 2

A group of warriors were sat around a fire in front of a horse and jail wagon. Link held his hand up, and he and Zelda stopped their horses. They listened to the sound of foreign tongues come from the swordsmen at the bottom of the hill. Zelda looked at Link. He shrugged. "I do not recognise their language. They may be members of the Yiga Clan. Be careful." The warriors at the bottom of the hill looked up as they watched the horses trot towards them. "Why do you camp out here in the middle of nowhere?" Link shouted. The warrior who wore a tiara in his blue hair uttered something in the language Link could not understand. "What did you say?"

"Forgive Marth," the one with blue hair and a headband said. "He told you to mind your own business."

"Why so defensive? Are you hiding something?"

"We don't have to tell you anything," Ike said.

"Link," Zelda said. "Look." She pointed at the jail wagon where they could see a girl with purple hair huddled up inside.

Link pulled out his blade. The Fire Emblem warriors all pulled out their blades. Ness and Zelda both forged elements in their hands. "Well, you're not Yiga," Link said. "You would have revealed your true form by now."

The warrior with the red hair asked for confirmation on what Link said. "I don't know, Roy," Corrin said. "I don't know what Yiga means either."

"Who are you, and why have you kidnapped a little girl?" Link demanded.

"Kidnapped?" Lucina said. "We've taken her prisoner for destroying our land. You should be thanking us that she has not done the same to your beloved fields."

"What are you talking about?"

"A purple dome swept through the sky and submerged our land," Robin said. "We had no idea what the source of the power was, until we found this girl spraying the purple stuff everywhere. We took her weapon if you don't believe us."

"I didn't destroy anybody's land!" the Inkling cried from inside the wagon. "Please, you have to help me."

"What say you, Link?" Zelda asked.

Link dismounted his horse. "May I see the weapon you speak of?" Ike gave him a gun, and he turned away and aimed it at the distant horizon. Purple ink flew out of the barrel and painted the grass.

"That doesn't seem harmful," Zelda said.

Link closed his eyes, trying to remember. "I don't know," he said. "I can see the purple dome they speak of. Whether it was caused by this gun or not I cannot be certain." He opened his eyes. "Best to keep her locked up as a precaution."

The Inkling whaled in the background. "Never mind you pointing your finger at us. What about you?" Lucina said, pointing at Zelda. "Why do you travel around carrying an unconscious boy with blazing eyes?"

"My friend is sick," Ness said.

"Is that true, boy, or do you lie because you fear these people who keep you against your will?"

"You've got it all wrong. They are trying to help me. Me and Lucas stumbled across a shrine. The next thing I knew, his eyes were glazed over with the blue lights you see now."

"A force possesses the boy," Link said. "A powerful deity that I fear may be behind the reason your land was taken from you." He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the two male warriors with blue hair. "Come to think of it… yes, I have a memory of you both." Ike translated what Link said to Marth. "Yes, I see a brief vision of us surrounded by shadow bugs… no—no, we were fighting an army of robots… an army of Primids."

Marth asked for confirmation on what Link said. "I don't know, Marth," Ike said. "I don't know what Primids are either."

"You have to trust Link's words," Zelda said. "He has special memories."

Lucina huffed. "I have special memories of my father, but you don't see me dwelling on it." Several warriors coughed in the background.

"Listen," Link said. He stumbled as his head began to shake.

"Are you alright, Link?"

He panted for breath. "I'm fine. I just… I just need you to…"

LISTEN!