Summary: Hyrule is in turmoil once again. The Hero of Time is gone. A new evil arises, but not in the way people would expect...
A boy from a farm must answer to his calling and make the decision to begin his journey, or to deny his destiny and watch Hyrule be destroyed.
Categories: Fan Fiction Characters: Link, Malon, Princess Zelda, Saria
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 8 Completed: No
Word count: 13525 Read: 23976
Published: Oct 04, 2011 Updated: Nov 30, 2012
Chapter 6: Skills by MadSkillz
Finn sighed, it was his turn to bring home food and supplies. He had a list of what to buy and the amount of rupees needed to buy them. He looked around, on almost every wall was their wanted posters, it made him kind of scared to go out and buy things, what if he was caught? He quickly shook his head and dismissed the thought, if Leia could do it, so could he. The streets were filled with market stalls selling all kinds of things, from all kinds of places, Arthur had told them that it was the Festival of Time and things would be busy. The place was even busier than the Castle Town Market and people pushed past Finn, not even taking a second glance as to why there is a strange person with a cloak on and the hood pulled over his head, covering most of his face.
He made his way over to a stall that was all kinds of food: fish, beef, pork, chicken...you name it. It smelled delicious. A man pushed him out of the way and he stumbled back, hitting another person and knocking both him and the stranger to the ground.
His hood was knocked up a little so you could see more of his face, and possibly even recognise him from one of the posters. The person he knocked over was a girl, she wore important-looking clothes, which told him that she was rich and she had brown hair and brown eyes, she had a cute face and looked to be around Finn's age, maybe a little younger.
They stared at each other.
Will she notice that I'm the guy on the poster? Finn thought as they both stared at each other for an awkward amount of time. Until she noticed something and started to blush.
"Um...," Finn started. "Can I help you?"
"Huh? I...uh...yes!" She replied, looking embarrassed. "But first..." she held out her hand. "I'm Natalie, daughter of Mayor Kafei and his wife Anju, what's yours?" she smiled.
"My name is Fi-" Finn started but stopped himself upon realising that he couldn't give up his real name. "My name is Andrew, pleased to meet you."
He shook her hand and helped her up. But she didn't let go and only realised until Finn raised his eyebrow.
"Could you help take my bags with me to my house?" She asked and Finn hesitated for a moment and pulls his hood down before taking the bags.
She makes her way through the market to the west of town towards a rather large building and enters it, holding the door open for him. Finn hesitates again before sighing and going through the door. The interior of the house was grand. There were two staircases, one to his right and one to his left, each going to the same corridor, it was open faced, you could see if someone was walking down the stairs or not. A huge crystal chandelier is hung off of the ceiling and the walls are painted white. Finn looked around wide-eyed.
"I'm home!" Natalie calls and some footsteps could be heard.
"Welcome back Natalie!" Welcomes a voice familiar to Finn. "Who's that with you?"
"Thanks Zelda," she replied, Finn turns around fast and sees the form of the Princess walking down the stairs slowly. "That's my friend, Andrew, he helped me with my bags."
"H-hello Princess," Finn greeted, nervously. The Princess' look on her face turns from welcoming to curious.
"Your voice sounds familiar, have we met?" Zelda asked. Finn shakes his head quickly.
"You must have me confused with someone else," Finn replied, quickly and opened the door. "Its been nice meeting you Natalie, and you, Princess."
Finn quickly left the house, slamming the door.
"Sir," Malcolm called. "Where are we going first?"
"We're headed for the closest land to Hyrule," Barry replied. "Termina."
Barry divided his men into four groups of five.
"Listen up!" Barry ordered. "Each group here is going to be designated a land or area to go to. I will be heading west to Termina with my group." Barry pointed to the group that had his right-hand men, Lewis and Malcolm."Group 2, you will stay in Hyrule and search every inch of it. Group 3, you will go east to Lanaryu, be careful because they aren't going to let you in straight away because a few Holodrum spies have been spotted and they're on edge and Group 4, you will go to Holodrum, the same thing will happen to you as I told Group 3. After spending a maximum of six months, minimum four, come back to Hyrule and report to Lord Drake. Now get going!"
Each group saddled their horses and immediately went full-speed to their assigned destination.
Leia beat Finn down in yet another training session. Arthur sighed and shook his head. "That's it for today. Finn stay behind I need to talk to you."
When Leia left the room, he waited a while before speaking quietly.
"I'm going to teach you some moves," he said quietly. "First, a simple magic blast, focus energy into the palm of your hand."
Finn concentrated on the palm of his hand and blue energy started to form there.
"Good, now release that energy and hit that training dummy,"
Finn flicked his wrist and released the energy at the training dummy across the room. It hit it in the head and left a small burn mark there. He frowned.
"Its okay Finn, you'll get better, and as your magic gets stronger and stronger, the colour changes, white is the weakest, blue is the one above that, next is yellow, then green, then darker blue, then orange, then red and last but not least purple," Arthur explained. "People like Drake though, use black magic, which is the strongest out of them all and it doesn't follow the colour rule, there is no way of telling which black magic user is stronger than the other."
Finn nodded, looking at the palm of his hand.
"Leia's magic colour is green, and that will hurt someone of your skill level, but there is another technique I'd like to teach you that should help you not get hit by her attacks," Arthur said. "This is a simple speed technique, to do this, just focus your magic to your legs and it will enhance the speed it goes at, this will take up a lot of your energy at first but then you'll get used to it and take it to higher levels. I'm going to fire white coloured magic at you, do what I said and you should be fine."
Arthur stretched his palm out at Finn and started focusing white magic, Finn focused on his legs, feeling the power go to them, Arthur shot the magic, which fired as quick as an arrow, Finn moved to his right, his vision blurring for a minute and then coming into focus. The white magic sailed past him and hit the wall behind him. Arthur grinned.
"Great! You learn quickly! By the way, Leia has stepped that ability up a lot, you'll see the next time you two spar," Arthur smiled. "Next up, unarmed combat, when you see a low kick like this," Arthur swung his leg low at Finn's leg but stopped just before hitting him and then swung again a little higher but underneath his waist. "You kick it away with your leg, use the sole of your foot and aim for my shin." Arthur did a low kick beneath Finn's knee and he parried it by kicking his shin, moving Arthur's leg away. "Alright, this next kick you use the top of your foot and aim either for my shin or behind it." Arthur swung his leg higher this time, below Finn's waist and Finn kicked behind Arthur's leg, forcing Arthur's leg away. "Brilliant, now for kicks above your waist, block with two hands, or both of your arms, like this, kick me, aim for the side of my body." Finn swung his leg around and Arthur blocked with both of his arms. "Okay now onto punches, this is really parrying the opponents punches, creating an opening where you can hit their body or their face, that's all you need to know, well its all I know and it gets me through my unarmed battles. I'm going to call Leia back and let you two spar and then, I'm going to do something special."
Arthur left the room for a minute and then returned with Leia. She stood opposite Finn and took a fighting stance, Finn did the same.
"No face hits and magic is allowed. Begin,"
Leia charged at Finn and kicked him in his chest, fast. Finn stumbled backwards. So quick he thought and charged at Leia, he did a low kick at her, which she parried and punched him the chest, too quick for him to even move to block it. Finn moved backwards and coughed.
"You're slow with your attacks, let me show you how its meant to be," Leia said and rushed at him. Finn shot a magic blast at her. She disappeared. Finn looked around the room, she was nowhere to be seen. Arthur sighed, he knew this was going to happen. Someone behind Finn said,"Blue? Aw, come on I expected better than that."h
Finn felt a sharp pain in his back and fell to the ground. Leia faced Arthur. "I believe our spar is-"
She was interrupted by Finn locking his legs around hers, twisting to the side, making her fall to the ground. Finn shot his magic at her stomach, she clutched her stomach and rolled over onto her feet. She clenched her teeth and growled, charging Finn, disappearing just before she got to him. Finn knew what she would do and focused his magic into his legs and moved to the left, dodging a kick made by Leia. He turned his hand sideways and made a swing from above his left shoulder horizontally, shooting a curved blue magic blast, which Leia ducked underneath and tackled Finn onto the ground. She got up quickly and kicked him in his side and stomach. Repeatedly. Finn charged some magic in his legs and swung them around, releasing his blue magic wherever it went and tripped Leia, but she recovered by breaking the fall with her hands and pushing off with them, just as Finn got back up Leia's feet hit him in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Leia was standing on his chest, breathing hard.
Arthur brought Leia off of Finn's chest and announced that she had won the fight and helped Finn up, and healed the both of them of their wounds.
"Next training exercise, teamwork. The both of you against me in a terrain of my choice, if you manage to beat me I will teach you a secret and deadly technique," Arthur announced and used his magic to make a jungle landscape. Arthur was not in front of them any more, he had gone. His voice echoed from above them.
"You'll have to find me, I'm treating this as a real battle between enemies, you should too,"
Leia sighed, turning to Finn. "Stay hidden and help me out when you think I need help, okay?"
Finn nodded. As they walked forward, they noticed some weapons on the ground, Arthur had left them there for their choice. There was a bow and a quiver full of arrows, two scimitars, a broadsword and some deku nuts.
"I'll take the scimitars and the deku nuts, you take the bow and the sword," Leia said and they took their weapons and put them on. Finn put the sword on his waist and the quiver on his back. He held the bow with his left hand and an arrow underneath the bow with right. Leia put the scimitars on her back and the nuts in her pocket. They walked through the bushes and leaves, always looking around for any sign of Arthur. After ten minutes of walking around, they heard some rustling near a bush. Leia put her hands on the handles of her scimitars, and Finn pulled back the string on his bow and aimed at the bush.
Leia jumped out of the way of an arrow. "He's here, hide!" she hissed.
Finn hid behind a tree and saw Leia dodge some arrows shot at her from somewhere upwards. Finn looked up and saw a foot on a branch. Finn aimed and shot an arrow at the foot. The foot disappeared. Finn switched weapons to his sword. He saw a swing from the corner of his eye, he blocked it with sword, turning to face the assailant, he saw Arthur with a grin on his face, a deku nut came from nowhere and exploded. When the light faded Arthur was gone.
"Damn, he's probably gone hiding again," Leia growled. The two of them walked further until they came to a large clearing, Arthur was stood there.
Finn fired an arrow and Arthur disappeared, reappearing behind Leia, who turned around but got kicked in the chest, making her stumble backwards, he disappeared and reappeared in the air charging a red magic blast above Leia. Finn charged his legs with magic power, moved over to Leia and grabbed her, moving her out of the way of the blast.
He looked at where Arthur was, he was gone. He reappeared in the middle of them and Arthur spun, his red magic spinning around him knocking the both of them in the air. Arthur reappeared underneath Finn kicking him in the air. Leia came out of nowhere and kicked Arthur in the face, she disappeared and grabbed Finn in mid-air and settled him on the ground.
Arthur took out his bow, notched three arrows and shot them all at once, Leia blocked one arrow that was going her way by putting her scimitars in an x position and Finn used his bow to fire at Arthur, who was now engaged in combat with Leia but he always found a way to dodge them.
"I'm going to end this now," Arthur told Leia. He kicked her away and set a magic forcefield around Finn and Leia, he appeared over the top of them and charged white energy. He shot it down at them and disappeared but the magic attack went on until it finished.
Finn and Leia were on the ground, and the scene changed back to the training hall.
"No fair!" Leia shouted. "You went too hard on us!"
"And you think the enemy will go easy on you?" Arthur growled. "I fought at the level Drake would fight you if you faced him now, in fact, I think I went a little easier."
Leia growled and stormed out of the room.
"To be honest, I think that was overkill," Finn chimed in.
"Don't worry, I'll teach you two some combos when you both have magic colour that is dark blue," Arthur replied.
Zelda sighed as she listened to Natalie go on and on about a boy she saw in the market. Its not like she didn't care, she was happy for her but she grew tired of her constant talk about him. Something told her to ask about him.
"What did he look like? I didn't get to see his face earlier," Zelda asked.
"Well he had wavy, brown hair and the most loveliest green eyes ever! Did I mention he looked to be around our age?" Natalie replied, quickly. Zelda thought over this, she had seen brown hair and green eyes before...on the boy that held her hostage, who was in her dream. That was why his voice sounded familiar and seemed to be in a hurry to leave.
"I'll be right back," Zelda said and left the room, she turned to her right and walked down the hallway to Mayor Kafei's office, she opened the door and there he was, sitting at his large desk, he seemed to be in deep thought. There were people from the Hyrule Police Force as well, she noticed that there was Detective Barry and his two right hand men, Lewis and Malcolm, along with three others.
"Mayor Kafei," Zelda said as she walked in."I have some news."
"What is it?" Mayor Kafei replied.
"The people on the wanted posters, they're still in Termina, they haven't left yet," She said.
"Who told you this?" Kafei asked. Zelda hesitated, if she told him that her daughter liked one of them...
"Someone on the street," Zelda lied.
"Great news, we're here just in time then," Barry said, cheerfully and pointed at one of his men. "You there, send ravens to our soldiers in the other lands, tell them to go back to Hyrule and tell the 'King' that Zelda is safe and the criminals are in Termina. Also Mayor, allow me to handle the guards here, I'll tell them to look out for any body in a cloak or look suspicious."
"How did you know that he was in a cloak?" Zelda asked.
"My profession gives me great skills and experience, and many criminals wear cloaks to allow themselves to not be seen easily," Barry easily replied. Kafei seemed impressed.
"Very well Detective, I give you authority over our guards until we find these criminals," Kafei announced.
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