The Legend of Zelda: Children of the Stars

by Kumitzin Mixtli

Chapter I: Shooting Star

Seven years after the Ocarina of Time (and Majora’s Mask) ending:

Hyrule Castle

Princess Zelda laid on her royal bed staring at the night sky through the window, her mind  lingering on thoughts of Link and their past adventures.

She missed him. That was no secret, not for anyone but Link himself.

That night she wished to see him again, pacing around restlessly through the castle’s corridors, looking for something to do.

He was a free spirit, only at ease when in movement or fighting evil. She knew he wouldn’t stay. Not in the castle, nor in a single place for more than a day or two.

A light in the sky caught her attention:

 A shooting star slowly crossing the night sky. It’s light as bright as the moon.

She ran to open the window and witness the strange event. There she made a wish to the dying star.

“Oh! Star of wonder, Star of light;

Shall your shine my heart’s dearest wish grant;

Bring my hero, my love back to me;

Bring to me my prince to sway away my sorrow.”

At that very moment the falling star divided in two.

For another person, hundredths of miles away, had made a wish at the same exact time…

Lost Woods

The hero of time ripped his sword out of the Wolfos corpses and let out a sigh of relief.

Took a seat on the ground and stared at the night sky.

He had been looking for adventure until those Wolfos appeared and started attacking him.

Now he was relieved… but it wasn’t enough.

Not by a long-shot.

He longed the trill of going through mazes and puzzles all the time, the felling of adrenaline rushing throughout his body whenever he faces a new Boss.

He even kinda missed ol’ Ganondorf’s sinister laughter.

But he knew that was the past, Hyrule was at peace now and heroes weren’t needed any more.

A sudden light in the sky caught his attention; rose to his feet while staring at the strange light.

Then one of Zelda’s old tales struck him: “If you make a wish – in the proper manner – to a shooting star, it shall become true.”

Without second thought he stated in loud voice:

“Oh! Star of wonder, Star of light;

Shall your shine my heart’s dearest wish grant;

Give me adventure, never-ending, everlasting adventure;

To live my life full heartedly.”

To his disbelief the star changed course and divided in two lesser pieces. While he observed the two star fragments fell to earth.

“That’s it!” he said to himself “My great adventure has just begun!” and started laughing until his stomach hurt so much he started to cry.

Gerudo Fortress

Nabooru sited lazily at the heart of the training grounds waiting for something to happen.

The idle life she led now that Ganondorf was gone was killing her. Even Stealing from Hylians stopped being a sport, Link always appeared to save the day, leading her sisters back into the desert empty-handed.

She was wondering how to get him out of the way when a sudden and loud explosion  broke her concentration,  and the following tremor sent her tumbling down to the floor.

As sudden as it started, everything went silent again. Yet she felt something was wrong… very wrong.

Her legs carried her out of the training ground and into the watch tower, where many of her sisters were already… all staring toward the same direction: The Spirit Temple.

She tried to teleport and found it to be an impossible task.

An instant later she was hurrying back to the temple, following a Poe across the sand storm.

When Nabooru arrived at the temple, she couldn’t believe her eyes: All that remained of the temple was a bunch of rubble surrounding a big crater in the ground.

At it’s bottom laid a big black round rock.

Not knowing what to expect she draw her dagger and stepped closer.

She was but a step away from the rock when it starter sizzling, whirling and cracking; A big crack formed on it’s surface and vapor shot out of it, blowing big chunks of the stone.

As soon as the vapor cleared out she took one more step and peered inside the rock.

What she saw inside, no-one would believe.

Chapter II: Friend or foe?

Nearly two months had passed since the Shooting star incident and the Hero of time had already found his wish to be quite annoying.

There hadn’t been any day or night that didn’t pass by that he wasn’t fending off Stalfos, wolfos, Skulltullas and other forest creatures that simply had gone out of control.

Even Poes seemed to start gathering just to attack him. Everything was going crazy.

To make matters worse he had started hearing ill rumors about Gerudos venturing every night into Hylian grounds and attacking the citizens.

“Leaded by Lord Ganondorf himself” said a peasant in a pub in Termina.

“Fairy tales, if you ask me. If it was really him dear Princess Zelda would have already been taken hostage.”

Link stormed out of the place, jumped on Epona and rode straight to the castle; yet all those continuous battles were delaying him.

“It’s as if they didn’t want me to get to the castle” he thought, becoming even more worried.

Two weeks later he finally made it to Lon Lon ranch, just to find out the incredible was true: The entire castle had been taken prisoner by the Gerudos, with Zelda and Malon in there. All guards had been slain and hanged from the outside walls of the city.

The hero could not believe his ears. That had to be one mean sad joke.

He had wished for adventure, yet that was too much.

“Far too much” he thought after seeing the bloody bodies of the royal guar hanging from the wall. The bridge was up and bolted from the inside. There was only another way to enter the city.

He took out Saria’s ocarina an played the ‘Song of time’ instantly teleporting him inside the Temple of time.

He saw the door to the chamber of the sages and the Evil realm sealed shut and let out a deep sigh of relief.

Then it was not Ganondorf. Yet if it wasn’t him, ¿who was the man leading he Gerudo? Their pride wouldn’t let them take orders from any other but their prince… then who?

A movement in the shadows got him back to his senses. That was no time to think, he had to get to the castle. He barely had time to raise his shield and block a piercing attack to his side.

The Gerudo assassin disappeared back into the shadows as he unsheathed his sword.

With his eyes peeled he searched the darken but could not find his enemy until she jumped out behind him. Quickly he turned around, magic charging rapidly into his sword.

As soon as he leaped to attack he unleashed a spin attack. The magic got her square in the chest, catapulting her against the wall and knocking her out.

“Good! You still have your reflexes.” Pronounced a familiar feminine voice.

“Navi!” the young hero shouted, turning to greet his Fairy friend. “For the love of Nayru, where have you been? Only the Goddesses’ know how much I’ve missed you!”

Navi circled around his life-long friend jumping in the air out of sheer joy. “I’ve missed you too!” declared sitting on his shoulder as she used to, so many years ago, and hugging his neck. “I’ve been here and there, but mostly looking after the new Deku tree. Can you believe that all he ever does is talk about Saria? Saria here, Saria there, Saria everywhere. We was driving me nuts!” Link chuckled; It was good having her back, even if that meant listening to her chit-chat for hours and happy days… again.

Link looked over his shoulder to find that the Gerudo had already escaped, leaving a small silvery key behind.

“Uh-oh” the Fairy said “Here we go again”. Link picked the key and placed it in his ‘special’ pocket for small keys.

The two friends exited the Temple, the empty streets remind them of the time Ganondorf had ruled over that very land. “Hopefully we won’t have to see that happen again” said Navi when Link explained his thoughts.

It was not until they reached the castle gates that the Fairy spotted a couple of Gerudo guards. Link found the vine and started climbing, he would have to – once again – enter the castle unseen.

“Look Link” whispered the fairy “There goes you attacker”

She sure was. A beaten up Gerudo crossed the castle gates below them and was accompanied by one of the guards directly to the castle.

A moment past and they saw all the other guards leave their posts to enter the castle.

They both looked dumb folded.

“Is it just me or Security sucks?” said the Fairy

“Suspicious and surely a trap” answered the teenager

“Then we should go another way”

They kept going trough he secret passageway they had used so long ago when the first met Zelda. And found a locked door leading to the big corridor.

Using his newly found key, he opened the door and entered the castle sword and shield at the ready.

To their surprise, there was no ‘welcoming’ party, they were greeted by a lone long corridor.

“Down the long corridor and up the first staircase is the throne room” Link knew.

All along the way they saw traces of fighting, and blood stain all along the walls and floor. Still, all silver and gold ware was there, still untouched.

Proceeding down the hall they heard voices, two of them they knew…

“Are you sure he will come, my lord?” asked Nabooru.

“Of course he will!” shouted Zelda “He always comes whenever I’m in danger.”

“She speaks the truth” answered another unknown voice. Female

“Do not worry, he will come.” Said a fourth voice. Male.

The sound of that voice sent shivers down the Hero’s spine.

“It can’t be” Navi shivered “He was supposed to be trapped inside the evil realm, plus-” She wasn’t able to end the phrase for dozen Gerudo guards and an equal number of Assassins surrounded them, pointing their spear at their throats.

“Not good” cried Link as Navi was trapped inside a bottle, and he was stripped of all his equipment and handcuffed.

They were led into the throne room, where the owner of the male voice waited.

He was made to kneel in front of the throne. On it was a tall man, covered by a long dark cloak that kept all of him, but his mouth, in shadows. To his right on a lower, less adorned chair sited Nabooru, looking beautiful in one of Zelda’s favorite dresses, with silver and gold accessories. Hyrule’s Crown laid on her hands.

To the his left Link saw a woman of light-tanned skin and bright red hair an eyes, her hand resting on the man’s shoulder. Behind them, guarded by two assassins, handcuffed and tied to a chair sat Zelda.

“Hail! Hero of time” said the male voice under the cloak and burst into laughing. Nabooru and the girl smirked

The man stopped laughing and rose to his feet. “Stand” and the guards made Link stand. He stepped closer to Link.

The hero then noticed that even in broad daylight he wasn’t able to focus the man before him. He could see his twisted smile, but under the cloak, there was nothing but blackness.

“So this shrimp is the Hero of Hyrule?” asked the man turning to face Nabooru.

“Yes, my lord.”

“Is it true?” asked the red headed girl to the Princess

“He is. And were he not handcuffed, you would already be lying on the floor Ganondorf!”

“Is that so?” the man said in disbelief, and stared into Link’s eyes.

As soon as this happened, the hero of Hyrule felt and overwhelming pressure over his body, it was so strong that his legs failed him and he fell to his knees.

“Release him” said the man. All the girl’s jaws fell to the floor.

“B-B-But, my lord!” interrupted Nabooru.

“Release him at once!” he yelled “and put his stuff where he can reach them” now even Link was amazaed.

He was set a-foot  and released.

“Are you fit for the challenge?” Link was about to answer that he was, when the red-haired girl stepped up-front

“As ever” she answered. Unsheathing twin curved daggers from behind her.

The man smiled satisfied. “All of you, leave us.” He ordered and then stepped over to Nabooru, whose gaze had never leaved him. “Lead them back to the desert, my queen. I shall be there in no time.”

Link and Zelda’s eyes were round as plates when the man placed his lips over the sage’s forehead. She nodded and gave the orders to leave immediately with the treasure.

The Gerudos left and closed the doors behind them, then the man clasped his hands around Zelda’s chair and lifter her as if she was but a bag of feathers.

“How dare you!” cried the princess “Put me down this instant or you- you- you will face Link’s anger.” Not listening, the man opened a window and stepped on the edge.

Link mover to reach them but was forced to backtrack, as a sword came dancing on him. He barely avoided the slash, yet his Kokiri tunic was cut.

“Hold it there fairy boy” said the woman “you’ll have to pass through me first.” Stepping between them.

“I thrust you’ll be able to  handle him while I’m gone” said the man from the window.

“By the goddesses, you aren’t really going to jump, right?” shrieked the princess turning pale.

“Yes princess, we are.” he answered politely. Looking at link he said: “Hero of Time, if you wish to rescue your princess you will have to find us first. Atana, be sure to take the lead.”

“Yes sir!” As soon as the girl answered he jumped outside the window.

All link could hear afterwards was Zelda’s ear-piercing shout.

“Ok fairy boy, grab your stuff and fight me” Surprised as he was of all that was happening, Links simply did what he was told. All his equipment was there: Bombs, arrows, bow, sword, biggoron sword, long-shot, everything.

He couldn’t understand his nemesis’ actions. Old Ganondorf would simply put a sword through his chest and be over with.

If the fact that the man-hating Gerudo obeyed him wasn’t astonishing enough, Nabooru, one of the sages that had imprisoned him, had gladly bowed to that man.

And now even the girl in front of him, not Gerudo by the looks of it, neither her skin was dark, nor her battle stance was that of a thief, and yet she had been with them, obeying the same man’s orders as if they were law.

“Who are you” he said without thinking

“My name is my own, Mr. Hero; and only a man stronger than me shall have it.” Said smiling bewitchingly

He approached to free Navi.

“Thank you!” said the fairy. She was about to say that she would follow the others when the girl started attacking “Look out!”

Link turned 180° preparing shield and sword in an instant barely having time to block.

Defend, defend, defend, parry, defend. The girl barely gave him time to breath between one attack and the other, she was so fast that when he thought he could attack, Navi advised him that she was already at his side, trying to go through his defenses. He did a back summersault and gained little time to attack her, yet she parried and sent him into defending stance one more time.

“At this rate, I won’t make it” he thought while defending. Suddenly, the girl left an opening, he ducked to avoid a horizontal slash throwing himself at her, shield-first, tackling her. She let her body loose and received the impact. Rolling backwards she was again on her feet.

“Improvisation. Check. Yet you lack speed to keep up with me. We will have to work on that.” Jumping with a might Link had never before seen, she flew 30ft over the ground landing exactly behind him and started attacking again.

*          *          * 

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” the princess’ shout still rang in his skull. She surely had one hell of a voice.

They where camping underground, inside one of the many holes in Hyrule field.

“You should eat” he said. Zelda was sitting in the cold dampness as far away from him as she could. He had released her form rope and chair, yet the handcuffs remained, and she was starting to loose the feeling in her hands. She wanted to escape, but restrained as she was, and with him blocking the only exit – apart from the fact that she was feeling very tired – her chances were null. “I’m not going to kill you, if that’s what you’re thinking.”

“Oh really? Well, for your information there will be no other way to obtain the Triforce piece from me. I’ll never be a part of your evil plot Ganondorf!”

“Remind me, which part of the Triforce do you possess?” he asked waving a chunk of recently cooked meat.

“Wisdom, you know it! This ‘innocent’ act of yours will get you no where!” she lifted her hands to show him the Triforce fragment glowing on her hand… only that it wasn’t glowing. “What!?”

“So tell me, Mrs. Wisdom, is that thing supposed to glow when any of the other two pieces are close? Is that not what resonation is?”

He was absolutely right. The fact that it wasn’t glowing, surely meant that Ganondorf was still sealed…

¿Could he escape from the evil realm leaving his Triforce piece behind? Absolutelly not. Besides, she couldn’t think of any good reason why he would ever part from the power he so much ambitioned.

¿Could this man really be other than Ganondorf?

But if so, then why did the Gerudo obeyed him? She knew for certain that only Link and Ganondorf had been allowed a certain amount of freedom among the Gerudo; the first for his actions, the second because of his birth. The only Gerudo male born in more than a hundred years.

He was silently observing her, Zelda could feel his gaze upon her, and it was driving her mad.

“So… who am I, my dear princess?” asked and smiled. He laid on the floor and fell asleep, leaving the princess wondering.

*          *          *

“This girl is good” Link thought after what had seem like hours of continuous fighting. Even tough she was an enemy he was forced to admit that he had rarely felt so alive in the past seven years.

He had to drop all his extra equipment to try and match her speed, and yet he kept struggling while she moved around him with the agility of a monkey and the grace of a cat.

Thy both were growing tired, he could barely feel the grip of his own hand on the sword, while his other arm was tired of having to block so much; she, on the other hand, was able to see her own movements growing slower by the moment.

“This is it” she though the moment link left an opening; she went for it.

The hero saw her movement and knew he wasn’t fast enough to block or parry it, so he just side-stepped and found that she too had been careless. He banged his shield once against her hand, and later against her shoulder with all his might. Both of her weapons flew out of her hands as she landed on her back. An instant later, she had Link pointing the tip of his sword against her throat.

“Well…done…fairy boy” she panted, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath “Now finish me.” She laid there waiting for everything to end, until a loud crash beside her made her open her eyes.

Link was on the floor, panting as hard as her.

“That was really good” he said finally looking at her

“How good?”

“The best ever” and both started laughing at their heart’s content.

“So… still want to know my name?” she turned to him teasingly, leaning on an elbow. The hero’s eyes met hers for a split second but instantly averted them, embarrassed. He had finally noticed her outfit: a black leather-like suit that covered almost her entire body, but hands and head, and so tight that it left almost nothing to the imagination.

“How indecent” he thought at first,  while a very rebellious part of him was actually glad, and amazed at her courage to dress like that.

“More than ever” he finally answered

“Ok” she said and fell silent.

He waited for the longest time, but the answer didn’t come. He turned to see her, and found her fast asleep; a smile painted on her face.

“Who are you, my dear friend?” he asked before following her lead.

To be continued…

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