Akko, Diana, Hellene and Marianne, have already gone through the journey by the master sword going along with Sucy and Lotte, where they finally arrived at the point where the warrior of Luna Nova finally arrived at the high point of the beginning of the journey, but that still will have more to happen ahead, the imminent danger of war, the third war between the kingdoms ofAppleton and Wedinburgh was about to happen, that without anyone realising it, but that will soon be noticed, but it may end up being too late.
On the borders between the kingdoms of Wedinburgh and Appleton, Lord Hanbridge's troops were already beginning to walk inside the enemy kingdom, an army of 200,000 very well armed men, who were walking as if they were going to sweep all that territory out of existence, passing over everything that came in front of them.
"Come on my men, the day is already getting dark, soon our attack will be very well realised" Said Andrew.
Night was falling, so far they had not seen any Wedinburgh troops, nor had they seen people on the road, but that's a lot because almost no one took that route and also because it was at dangerous dusk, which soon things were getting more tense with Appleton's soldiers getting scared as night fell.
Some of the soldiers were very suspicious about Appleton's boss actually being able to get the night creatures to show up to help, which they had no idea that the boy was actually correct with these claims of his.
"Look, there are allied troops appearing" said Andrew as monsters appeared below the ground.
"Are you sure they're with us?" Said the general as soon as the boy told everyone to stop seeing the creatures coming out of the ground.
Several skeletons, zombies, monsters of different types were appearing and showing their faces, these creatures were watching that huge army from the front, which then bowed right in front of the head of Appleton when recognising him showing that he was really with the spirit of Ganondorf.
"Very well now let's move on to Kakariko, it will be a surprise attack on the city, there will be no trace of a Wedinburgh soldier left!" Said Andrew to those monsters who were turning around and starting to walk in the direction that Appleton's troops were going.
"My lord this is spectacular, you are really managing to control these troops, this is amazing, we will be able to win the war like this" Said the general.
"Let us advance my men, victory is walking with us!" Said Hanbridge commanding his army.
Little by little the troops advanced in the middle of the night walking closer to the kingdom of Kakariko what there the lady Dorlin had already received a message by telepathy and went to send her grandson to deliver the message to the queens about the attack that is coming, but was still very worried about everything that could devastate her land.
In a few hours in the middle of that night the troops all arrive on the outskirts of Kakariko, due to the protection magic the monsters can not enter the city, but they were making a siege, while Andrew's very numerous troops were beginning to enter the place.
"Attack! Destroy the troops and surrender the people to our power, we will camp around here, don't let anyone escape from Kakariko, those are my orders!" The chief of Appleton said.
The troops were very overwhelmingly numerous, in Kakariko they had just over a thousand soldiers guarding, which they did not even realise, having to surrender to the troops of the enemy kingdom, but the cruelest was yet to come, the people of the city could not escape and flee, the siege of monsters ensured that they did not get far, which was when the time came for the troops to surrender the city.
The thousand soldiers of Kakariko were soon standing in the middle of the city's central square tied and bound, even trembling before the overwhelming troops coming from Appleton.
"This is just our first town, you are now obedient to Andrew Hanbridge the lord of Appleton, anyone who questions will join the soldiers of Wedinburgh" Said the general.
"Let me show you what will happen if you disobey me! These troops are already considered traitors, send them to the monsters" Andrew said.
The soldiers cried out for mercy, but nothing served, the dark-haired man just looked with contempt at the troops of Wedinburgh, taking the few men left just outside the magical protections of the city, where precisely the monsters were feeding on those people, who were echoing screams throughout the city of those various
people.
With that the soldiers were soon accommodated throughout the city, making camps and even invading houses, in the case of the head of Appleton he was not even in the house of the mayor of the city, but in a specific house, where Dorlin lives, when entering there already realises that Frank is not present only the old lady.
"Where is your grandson?" The lord asks.
"He went back to his grandfather" said the lady.
"You are lying to me madam, you better tell me or I will have to make you speak only in another reality" Andrew said.
"He's not here anymore, he won't owe you obedience Andrew, leave our kingdom alone" Dorlin said.
"You have a lot of courage for an old lady, you really have no fear of dying, but I wasn't born yesterday, I know you must have spoken telepathically to your ex-husband, I know that old man must have told you too much" said the intimidating Hanbridge.
"Yes, he did say too much, my boy will tell all the Wedinburgh troops that you came in a cowardly attack, you can't stay forever attacking like this, the bigger troops are near the castle, you may be many, but they are more" Said the older one.
"Oh so that's it, he's the only one who got away before his time, damn Alan and his open mouth, I guess he won't be bothered about knowing that his dear ex-wife won't be with him anymore" Said Andrew who simply stabbed the lady in the chest with his sword.
He then went to install himself in the city hall, changing all the banners to Appleton flags and also already putting one of his men to take the lead, still leaving the mayor in office, but more like a puppet who will do everything according to the kingdom of Appleton.
Far from there Frank arrived at the village of Londinium already desperate since he had trotted with the horse dodging the maximum of the monsters that chased him through the entrance of the city, thus managing to reach a little injured and the soldiers soon barred him for that suspicious attitude.
""What are you doing, boy?" said the soldier.
"It's an emergency! Appleton is attacking, Appleton is attacking, it's too many men, it's too many, I'm not lying they just arrived in Kakariko, I managed to escape and you are next please warn the queens" Said the desperate blond.
"You are sure of such an emergency, my boy, you know that a false report can earn you an arrest" said the soldier.
"If I was lying I wouldn't arrive in town injured, I wouldn't risk the night, please you need to listen to me, it's an emergency" Said the boy who even put his hand on his wounds.
"Well, I guess I can believe that, since you can apparently be a boy from Kakariko" said the soldier.
"Believe me, I don't want to leave here without warning if you don't believe me then I will go to the next village to warn you that the attack is coming" Said the boy walking away, but soon felt a hand on his shoulder.
"We will send a message to the queens about the attacks, soon we will be able to protect Appleton" Said the soldier.
With that Frank even went to a hotel to settle there while Appleton's troops rested in Kakariko which was her first stop, while the soldiers of the village of Londinium were sending a message with carrier pigeons to the villages nearby about the boy's warning, even to the queen.
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The next day begins, right at dawn Appleton's troops are already starting to rest, organise themselves for a next attack this time Hanbridge planned a constant 24-hour advance through the territory of Wedinburgh, which would cover the villages of Londinium and Mann, already being at least just a single day from the capital, just missing the city of Dundee where it is already more fortified.
In the morning at Wedinburgh Castle the message of the carrier pigeon arrived at the window and soon Queen Laura realises, even more so that the pigeon had flown so much and constantly that it ended up dying from what it was forcing.
"Majesties we are under attack from Appleton, a blond boy named Frank who came from the city of Kakariko came to tell us that his city was overrun by numerous troops from Appleton, we will need reinforcements"
"Love..." said the worried Queen Bernadette as she noticed her wife crumpling the sheet of paper.
"We need to start defending, he's coming?" McLaren said.
"What? Have they already started attacking?" Asks the even more worried Cavendish.
"Unfortunately yes, they reached Kakariko, I don't know how, they must have attacked almost at dusk and were fast, it takes a long time to reach Kakariko, if they go at this pace it will take us two days to be hit, we will need to strengthen ourselves, before they catch the girls off guard" Said the redhead.
"Let's get organised, we are numerous, here in Wedinburgh there are already 50,000 troops ready to fight, in Dundee there are 20,000, apart from Croix and Ursula arriving tomorrow, they will soon be able to get the girls to escape from here" Said the one with platinum blonde hair.
"For the Triforce, we're really going to have to give it our all?" Queen Laura said.
The queens were soon dressed, going to the soldiers' quarters to inform them that the invasion was about to take place, which with that several emergency fires were fired at specific points throughout the land of Hyrule, which released a red smoke.
That was the emergency system that triggered only once, and had a whole path of interconnected tubes that triggered a compartment with fireworks and then a thick red smoke, each point being 1km from each other along the road routes through the lands of Wedinburgh already indicating the emergency situation, even an alert was ringing throughout the city, communicating people to take shelter in their homes and protect themselves from imminent danger, gather resources, hide valuable things that a war is coming, whoever is willing to fight for Wedinburgh that appeared to defend the place.
In Kakariko, the troops were already beginning to advance and in this they notice that a sound is echoing in the surroundings, when walking along the roads they notice that there is a red smoke coming out, which already indicated the seriousness of the situation, giving a smile on the face of Hanbridge who realises that his attack is working too well.
"It seems that Frank has indeed managed to warn the Queen of Wedinburgh about the attack, but now it is too late, our troops will decimate everything on the way" said the lord.
"My lord we are conquering all the way ahead, we are truly invincible, you were right to go all out against us" Said the general.
"We're going to go all the way through Londinium and then through Mann, until there's only Dundee left and the way is clear to get to the capital" said a smiling Andrew.
"Woah impressive my lord" Said the general.
The troops were advancing the warnings echoed throughout the land of Hyrule, after the emergency was given, mail pigeons were sent from the capital towards the other cities warning the troops to go towards Wedinburgh to corner the troops of Appleton who were being relentless until then.
About a thousand men stayed in Kakariko taking care of dominating the city, the other 199 thousand were still advancing, in a few hours they arrived at Londinium, the troops of that place were no match for the huge army, that village with 500 soldiers was nothing and was swept away as if it were nothing, completely looted, with the troops advancing even more.
"Londinium is now ruins, well they've wiped a town completely out of existence, but no word on that blond Frank, he's probably run off" Said the lord of Appleton.
Dusk that day was coming, night was falling, Wedinburgh's troops had no idea that enemy troops were also attacking at night, but they would soon find out when Mann's village was gradually being spotted, night was falling and it was already at least a good 15 hours of non-stop advance through enemy lands.
"We are almost where we want to be, our next stop will be Dundee, we can get very close and they will not bother us" Said the lord with a smile on his face.
Appleton's troops were advancing through the city, the few 400 soldiers could not do anything, the inhabitants also felt the impact and that village was also looted and completely destroyed, with nothing left, with all those resources left over serving for the soldiers who after consuming everything were moving on, night by night on the road.
Hours passed and at dawn Andrew's troops arrived on the outskirts of Dundee, one of the largest cities in the kingdom, they surrounded well into the night and set up camp right there, which the men near the walls looked shocked.
"They will find that we can stay safe at night, val they know what awaits them" Hanbridge said.
Messages were soon being sent from Dundee to Wedinburgh by carrier pigeon, which arrived in the capital in the morning and soon the Queen was seeing what had arrived in the throne room, when she saw it she was amazed.
"My queens, they can camp at night, the monsters are with them, the monsters were protecting their camp as guards by dawn, it will be a matter of time before they come to the capital"
"Damn it, they're even stronger than we thought, my love, we'll have to do everything we can to save the girls" said a nervous Queen Laura.
"Where are they?" asks the worried Queen Bernadette.
"They can get here soon, they are in Dundee, to Wedinburgh is less than a day's journey, if they can attack at night it is even worse... Where are Chariot and Croix!" Said the desperate McLaren.
In this desperation, the two travellers arrive with everything ready, already taking the necessary things for the escape, which hit a relief on the part of the majesties, on the other hand the concern on the battlefield was very evident.
"Glad you've arrived, go straight to the path where the girls are, get my daughters immediately, they may be at risk" said the red-haired majesty to the two.
"What happened, we saw the smoke on the way, it seems that it really happened..." Said the worried Ursula.
"It happened and it happened a lot, don't hesitate a second for that, go to them as fast as you can before Appleton gets to the princesses first" Said the platinum blonde haired majesty.
The two soon salute, pick up their horses and trot quickly towards the exit of Wedinburgh, making a trip south, since the troops on the east side continued to suffer at the hands of Appleton who was with a large troop and still with a strategy of leaving no survivors until then.
There were few casualties relative to the number of soldiers they had, as Appleton's army still had 198,500 men still active and willing.
The war for the fields in front of Dundee was beginning and in this was where even with a dominant strategy, the soldiers of Dundee risked everything, also the city did not yield and were all dragging even the enemies to the forest where some people even had the dominion of the place, but even so with a hard battle that lasted hours and hours, of pure bloodbath, the city of Dundee had been conquered, 43 thousand people from Wedinburgh died in the conflict, soldiers and even some civilians who fought until the end, there were none left to tell the story, but Appleton suffered many casualties as well and 32 thousand soldiers from Andrew's troop died which still left an overwhelming number of 166 thousand troops who decided to take a rest for Dundee, but not the lord.
"From here you assume general the day is getting dark, I used a black raven to see the situation of Wedinburgh and I saw two horses leaving the city towards the south were not troops, they looked like ordinary people, they are too suspicious, they left just from the royal castle and from what I saw they are women that my spy has already identified for training the warrior" Said Andrew.
"What are you saying my lord, you think I can lead from here on? And the attack on Wedinburgh, we are less than a day away from getting there" said the general.
"My prize is on the way, our troops are quite numerous and we have a strategic place this fortified city of Dundee can be our strategic point, it can hold a while, I will go out to chase these two, I can not miss the
chance, it is not as if the enemy troops are numerous and know how to make a siege, we have the monsters on our side" Said Hanbridge.
"All right, sir, I'll keep an eye on the troops here, on your orders, when I get back I'll attack Wedinburgh" said the general.
With that the boy turns that black crow in his arms into a horse and starts trotting at high speed, with everything through the lands of Wedinburgh towards where he had just seen the two leaving there, even seeing some Wedinburgh troops, but caring little, since the dusk was coming and he also attacked the troops easily with his weapons.
[...]
Appleton's troops were stationed in Dundee, where the wounded were being cared for, and the fear took over the troops of being attacked at any moment, even more so because they were outnumbered and it would still take a few days for a large reinforcement to come, even more so that at night the enemy troops were invincible.
The next day was coming, on the way Ursula and Croix were resting, unaware that they were being followed by the lord who even arrived quickly near both, but was still following very quietly in the lurking watching them without raising so many suspicions, was in the most watching the way and following the night, using his creature that turns into several animals and even lets him better observe the surroundings.
"Well, it looks like they'll be arriving at another resting point soon, time to move on a bit" Hanbridge said after observing and with that he left with his horse to get closer to the pair.
Far from there the silence of Appleton's troops in Dundee increased tensions, the queens did not want to make any attack yet, some reinforcements were soon arriving camping nearby, doing so in a way that protect themselves from monsters without any risk, but there was still the obvious risk that were numerous enemy camped troops that were protected by monsters, the camp was large enough to be outside the occupied city. Over time Ursula and Croix were getting closer to their destination, going in the direction that the quartet's wagon was, the girls even saw the smoke along the way and were already very apprehensive of what happened, arriving at dusk in another stop of travellers.
"Are we doing the right thing by going home?" Hellene asks.
"We need to stay safe, if we stay out here we could be captured somehow" said Diana.
"I never thought I would see something like this, it's been a day since these things appeared, did Appleton really invade Wedinburgh and we lost, there are still our troops here" Said Akko.
"We are well protected" said Marianne, and indeed they were surrounded by troops escorting them, already aware of the danger.
"Well, even though we have soldiers protecting us, it could still be a risk we don't realise" said Princess Cavendish.
Gradually they were getting to a place, but stopped on the way where simply Ursula and Croix appear on the road, they get off their horses and go past the soldiers, which the girls find strange their presence, even more dressed like that, kind of disguising.
"What are you doing here? Princesses should not be approached so closely" the soldier said, pointing his spear at Callistis.
"I am the astrologer Ursula Callistis, my wife and I have a royal order to take the princesses safely to another place" Said the blue-haired one who also shows her credentials.
The confused girls still on top of the wagon, see her walking towards them who still stand still, already Croix waits on the other horse, but suddenly they feel a figure passing by them, a dark figure, hitting the soldiers who end up falling to the ground, dead which amazed just the eight girls.
"What is that?" They said confused.
"Let's go, girls, we have to get out of here" said the bespectacled woman.
"Don't go that far, surrender to me or you will pay dearly for it" Said a male voice that appeared in the middle of the figure and coming out of the trees revealed himself to be the lord.
A man of 1.80m tall, dark hair, which was a little short, green eyes, wearing a dress worthy of royalty, walking with his cape wide open and was taking slow steps towards the girls who were soon taking their weapons to fight against the man who was just laughing.
"You're pathetic, this won't come close to hurting me or doing anything, it'll be like tickling me, give yourselves to me soon, I just want my prizes" Said the lord of Appleton who stood with his arms crossed.
A very thin breeze passed between the girls and the lord who was on his black horse, he was intimidating the girls, but soon the blue-haired girl throws her glasses on the floor and a magic passes through her hair that becomes reddish revealing something that causes astonishment in all present, as soon as she takes out her sword she shows who she really is and gives just enough face for the lord to stop crossing his arms and have to defend himself from a cut that almost catches him in full.
"Chariot?" All the girls said in amazement.
"Yes it's her, Ursula was Chariot all along, we had to hide for her identity because of that accident, but now there's no need to hide, let's help her with that, please run away" Croix said.
"I'm not going to stand here and watch Chariot get killed by this guy" Akko said with the master sword that was already throwing a cut towards the boy who was equivocating by floating backwards.
"Oh I see there are old faces around here, I see they are not weak at all, but I will have to show that I am the pure one... I am Ganondorf!" Said the boy who held out his hand to give a wave of spells that catches the group in full like a current of wind.
They are falling back, some are injured, the horses are neighing, trying to run away, the girls are getting up, the lord of Appleton is attacking past them, who ended up only feeling the power of the blows, without being fatally wounded, which he was soon arriving at the first victim, Marianne.
"Let her go, you bastard" said Hellene, who stood up with the gauntlets in her hands.
"I will take everything from you princesses, especially those you love and are close to" Hanbridge said.
"I said let her go! Ahhhhhh!" said the furious princess who started to go up with the gauntlet with everything, which everyone tried to shout at her not to do that and with that the boy just makes an attack with the sword.
Exactly on McLaren's arm the cut is catching, leaving a part and then blood was falling, the redhead fell to the ground screaming in pain and then seeing Andrew give a blow to Marianne's stomach that was later even saved when Atsuko used an arrow on him who ended up feeling the impacts and taking the blade from Leclerc who agonised in pain just like her friend.
"Mari! Mari... Marianne! No! No!" said the desperate purple-eyed girl, weeping as she went towards her friend.
"Hellene... I have to say something... I think it might be my last time saying this, but... I love you, I wish... To be able to... Marry... With you..." Said the brown-eyed one crying and spitting blood.
"Mari... No! No! Don't die! I won't let you!" Said Hellene who was already dizzy and almost fainting from blood loss.
The last thing she could see before losing consciousness was just her friend handing over the red scarf she always wore, giving it to her and then opening a smile while crying and placing her hand on her belly with that wound, being helped by Lotte and Sucy who passed a potion with the wound and was also losing consciousness.
Meanwhile Hanbridge was walking dazed in the middle of the woods after the arrow that was given by Kagari who kept throwing it towards the boy.
"Get out of here! Get out of here!" Said the one with the crimson eyes.
"What about you Akko?" Asks Cavendish.
"Diana! Get the hell out of here! I don't want you to die, you're the princesses! The kingdom of Wedinburgh depends on you!" Said the brownish one.
The stunned Andrew was even on his knees with so many arrows, which soon after Akko is surprised by a kiss from Princess Diana who demonstrates there all the love she had, then tears fall from the faces of the two who are kissing and a hand pushes the platinum blond hair.
Chariot is taking her to the horse I with that one points his hand to the other without being able to do anything, the other horse is also caught and Croix manages to put Hellene even unconscious on top of him and still stop the wound in the arm, with the girl tied they were trotting at full speed, what they were fleeing, but the warrior of Luna Nova had been distracted by something, she comes across Andrew's horse in front of her who came to the point of neighing on two legs which in desperation they fell to the ground and even fired another arrow.
"You don't give up, do you girl! Ahhhhh, these arrows hurt a lot, but they won't be enough, they will end one day" said the boy who ended up falling off his horse with the arrow hitting him right in the stomach.
"Lotte! Sucy! Take Marianne away! Go as far as you can I'll hold him!" Atsuko said.
"What about you Akko?" They said, already worried.
"I'll take care of myself here, it's my moment to defeat him once and for all" said the crimson-eyed one who kept shooting arrows.
"You can run away all you want, I don't care about you, my troops will soon occupy the whole... Hyrule..." Said the dark-haired one who was being hit by arrows.
(That nightmare I had... It's real, only things happened a little differently, I don't remember Hellene leaving without an arm, Marianne almost dying, Diana kissing me... They're getting out of here, I hope I can beat this guy with the power I have or at least manage to get away safely, worst of all he might end up following my friends so that could be a huge risk).
"Now you will know why I am the legendary warrior" said the confident Atsuko as she fired arrow after arrow.
Soon the arrows were running out, which left only the master sword, but when it came time to use Akko realised something in the worst way, wounded she could not use the cutting spell, which ended up only serving as a normal sword and soon the boy was coming out of the daze, which he was already getting a sadistic smile on the girl who was getting desperate that her attacks did not work.
"No no no!" Said the desperate Kagari.
"It seems that your master sword is nothing, you can try anything I will not be defeated by any of your little weapons" Said the lord who even received a boomerang and walked normally what the crimson-eyed one was just taking steps backwards.
She was trying everything, throwing bombs, paralysing with the boomerang, even throwing a shield towards him and nothing was solving, even getting close with the master sword trying to somehow hit something, but nothing worked, Andrew was just laughing with the various attempts of the shorter girl.
"You bastard! You bastard! You..." She said until she simply feels a finger on her forehead and ends up falling to the ground unconscious.
"You even gave a little trouble girl, but you can not run away forever, the victory of Wedinburgh is only a matter of time, well now it seems that at least saved your friends princesses from being captured and it seems that there is a romance between you and Princess Diana, a pity that soon they will be captured, it will be no use going back to Wedinburgh, my troops are already nearby" Said the boy who then went tying the girl all up and putting her on his horse, just as he was taking things, like the sword and the shield that he was already throwing away somewhere far from there.
Akko was unable to defeat Andrew as strong as he was the man is very powerful, which he arrived well by surprise in an unexpected attack by having precisely the power of ganondorf in hand and also a relative who helps him to observe well the way ahead, he can arrive surprising, in a war that is still going on.
The inevitable war between Appleton and Wedinburgh has begun, on one side a large army that is attacking with an advantage of being able to use the night in their favour, on the other the army that is outnumbered
and less numerous, but better prepared for attacks, with well-planned defences, but not everything can hold out forever and the queens are tremendously worried about what may happen from now on.
See you, war witches