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The air was rushing past. Zelda had disappeared into a green light, grabbed by the arm and presumably teleported somewhere. She would be fine. Link though? She would not.
She thought it was quite unfair, seeing as she was going to die, right after finding out more about her past self. The corpse had re-ignited a part of her old memories, and now she wouldn't even get to think them through.
She wouldn't get to think of her little foster sister, who had been in Castle Town the night of the Calamity. She wouldn't get to think about how the Divine Beasts had a fail safe for if the Champions were to perish. She wouldn't get to think about how she now knew how to activate it. She wouldn't get to think of how her foster sister had activated the Master Cycle as her Divine Beast before Link had. She wouldn't get to think-
Why was she still thinking?
Twisting her body to look down beneath her she realized that she wasn't falling anymore. It seemed as if a flurry rush was happening, but reversed, she wasn't moving, but the world was. She could see giant chunks of stone falling, the castle rising, and even the master sword teetering on the edge of the chasm that had been left behind.
And then the magic she didn't know existed came to life.
Blue and gold light, intertwining and winding through the air, surrounded her. She felt herself start to disintegrate, like when she used the teleportation ability on the slate.
The slate!
The slate was falling directly towards her, well not directly. If she were able to move she would be able to reach it, but the magic that was teleporting her Hylia knows where wasn't allowing that.
That didn't stop her from reaching out. And then, the magic bent to her will. A small shot of mostly blue power flew towards the Sheikah Slate. Just as her vision went golden-blue.
Then black.
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Link was a generally hard person to scare if he did say so himself.
Now, being hit by a person falling from the sky wasn't new. The Skyloftians did it all the time. The difference this time?
This person was unconscious. Light was making a pair of massive wings on their back, golden and blue, sparkling with an indescribable air of pure power.
Power that felt like Hylia, like Zelda. Which should not be possible.
The part that was even weirder though? This power was tethered. Zelda could only control it when Hylia guided her. This power was free, this power wasn't gifted, or passed down, this power wasn't blood. It was chosen.
Not chosen like Zelda.
Not chosen like him, where his destiny has been written, even now before it had happened.
Chosen by defying death hundreds of times, facing down threats without a thought, choosing the most impossible path because it was right.
It was chosen like it would never be used. Just for the fear it would hurt someone. It was chosen like it decided itself. Like it wanted this person and no one else.
And then the light swirled towards him.
“One day, you will understand, but today is not that day.”
The voice was silky smooth, but also rough and worn like it had spoken these words hundreds of times.
“I am sorry child, but you must forget.”
Then as the light hit him, his mind complied, and he felt his consciousness slip away.
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Zelda had been following Link on her Loftwing, Blu, for a while now. But feeling the sudden rush of Goddess magic mixed with something else had her sneaking forgotten.
She zoomed forward on Blu just in time to see Golden and Blue light smack Link- and someone else apparently -Right off of Crimson.
"Link!" She called, diving off of Blu with a reckless abandon only Link showed occasionally.
Seeing that both her lov- FRIEND and the stranger were unconscious, she dived faster, reaching them at the same time Blu and Crimson did.
Grabbing hold of Blu's saddle and the stranger's hand, she hoisted herself and the man up.
Shouting at Blu to make sure the man stayed there, she jumped onto Crimson and reached for Link, grabbing his hand as well and pulling him onto Crimson with her.
She then leaned down and spoke gently into Crimson's ear, "You did good, bud, you did good." She raised her head towards Blu, "I've got to keep the other person on Blu, he probably doesn't have good balance seeing as he somehow fell. Kay?"
When she got a trill in response, she took it as a yes.
Trusting Crimson to take Link safely back towards Skyloft, she hopped back to Blu and settled down next to the man, who she then harnessed in as a precaution.
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In the kingdom of Hyrule, it was an Era of Peace. There were no Wars to be won, not monsters to be slayed, and no threats to the Crown. Even the Yiga Clan had taken a break from the relentless attacking!
And all because the past Hero and Princess had won.
For generations now the Crown had one daughter without fail. It was part of the Royal Bloodline, or so that's how the stories said.
The only recorded mentions of a Second Princess were of the Hero of Legend. A Hero who has been thrown out of the Castle for existing, seeing as a second Princess was a bad omen in the kingdom of Hyrule.
A bad omen that was proven true by that very Princess. So they made the Hero of Legend a boy against her will. Not being able to ever have children meant she couldn't taint the bloodline.
But still, the Hero of Legend was the only Hero to ever go on more than four quests. The Hero of Legend was the only Hero whose seal on Ganon broke within her lifetime. Why?
Because a Second Princess couldn't control the Triforce of Wisdom. The only reason that the Era of Ruin came to be was because the Triforce was split evenly between the two Sisters.
And now the Era of Peace, was going to have twins. Two baby girls.
One they would name Zelda, the other Link. After the Hero of Legend, who had been bound to fail just as this little girl would.
But when the Princesses were born, their mother, the only person in all of Hyrule that could feel the power of the Triforce, died.
And with her died hope.
King Rhoam Bospheromus Hyrule had chosen the Daughter that came first by two minutes, to be Zelda.
The other daughter, Link, had been subject to a surgery that removed her ability to have children. Then, she was told she was a boy with the Triforce of Courage.
By the time she was there she could already hold a sword in almost every different position, do almost every single swing possible, and had invented multiple new ways too.
But she was the only one who could control time itself.
Though she would never tell anybody, she had long since realized she could control the golden rays of light. She used them and learned from them, and eventually they showed her how to give her power to Zelda.
Zelda needed it so that way she could stop whatever damage Link caused.
So Link taught her. Taught her every move and type of what she had taught herself. Yet it was not enough. Zelda had been the one born with the actual Wisdom part of the Triforce of Wisdom. Link had been born with the powers.
Though no one would believe them.
Two kids? One who the king himself decided was the Princess born to save them, and one who was supposedly the Hero? Why would they believe a boy had wisdom?
They wouldn't. And that was what truly led to the end of Hyrule.