Author note: this is the ending of arc 1: the plateau. Next arc will cover kaikoro Village, hateno village and a few shrines that are easy to see and get to game wise.
Also I'm sorry for not doing this in a while but I hope this chapter is to your liking. Please leave comments, feedback
Zelda's POV
Its been two days since linkle was bestowed upon us by the goddess Hylia. She's... Energetic I should say coming from a time and place that is filled with terrible fates. Of course this is a mask she's wearing as I can see the looks she casts at kyros. Females are nothing but sex slaves to males, and the races of Hyrule so small in numbershe was the last free female, her band of sisters she commanded, was betrayed by her second in command, the supposed hero chosen by the master sword. Her own twin brother betrayed her and that was why she was nude. A prisoner of war, stripped of her dignity, waiting for the men to come in and give her a fate worse than death.
I shudder thinking about my possible fate in that world but I can't dwell on it. Three reasons, the first is gaining supplies for the journey off the plateau, such as smoking meats, gathering herbs, and destroying the monsters of calamity Gannon. Second is creating more paragliders and making sure they wouldn't just " mysteriously" break like that bastard was planning for mine. Mineru's knowledge on this is surprising but she wouldn't elaborate on how she knows. Third is my anxiety, I'm afraid of leaving this plateau, afraid of what is down below.
I slightly jump as I feel a hand clasps my shoulder. I look over and see linkle there smiling at me with a small sad smile. " So princess what's on your mind," asks linkle as I sigh. " It's just how will people react to me," I say softly looking down below from the edge of the plateau," how was your princess?"
" It wasn't good, she was the first of the casualties when calamity Gannon returned. Her fate was not good, string up in Castle Town in front of everyone being repeatedly raped by men, then monsters," says linkle shuddering slightly as I see tears fall from her eyes.
" I'm sorry, we're you two close," I ask as she slowly nods.
" She was my best friend, her and her betrothed which happens to be named kyros. He was made to watch as his fiancee was raped before he was executed and his body used as food to keep zelda fed. She was made to eat her own fiancee."
I shudder trying not to think about their fate anymore as she continues," I'm not angry or wary of kyros. I'm just not trying to breakdown because of a promise."
" What was that promise?" I ask as she start walking away.
" Zel was going to share kyros with me when she wedded. We three were supposed to be a couple before shit hit the fan." Says Linkle walking towards kyros and mineru who are finishing the paragliders.
Several days later
Kyros pov
" So everyone has a paraglider," I ask as everyone pulls one out their paraglider dead panning at me for such an obvious question to ask. I sigh and look out off the edge of the plateau and I run before jumping off the edge. Spreading my wings gliding down. I hear a whoop from linkle as she also jumps right after me and then Zelda followed by Mineru. I glide down and I see two moblins, and several bokoblins around a large wooden ballista loading a red barrel. The moblins launch the barrel at me which I barrel roll perfectly dodging the barrel before I use ultrahand and grab it mid-roll and sling it back into the large ballista blowing it up sending the moblins and bokoblins flying or running in panic as some succumbed to the fire.
Horns blow and more barrels fly into the air from hidden ballistae. I prepare to dodge and roll when I hear linkleshout out " shattered star shot" and fires her newly made dual crossbows. The shots all strike the barrels and they explode mid flight and the arrows shatter scattering into the ruins causing more explosions destroying the hidden ballistae. We soon all land at the bottom and all around us is several ruined buildings along with the destroyed ballista that I took out.
" Be on gaurd," says Zelda unsheathing her longsword and Mineru loading the heavy bowgun. I pull out my boko reaper and travelers shield and linkle readies her dual crossbows. We look around hearing the crackling of fire and the cries of bokoblins, our breathing becoming heavy as I feel the ground thump at a steady rhythm.
Mrooooooaaaar
A moblin roars from a ruined tower before it starts beating a large post in steady rhythm and another moblin answers as I hear grinding of gears and along a building top a bokoblin is raised up on a platform. Loaded on the platform is another ballista but this one is loaded with regular arrow ammo but it's a crank. ( Think Jack the giant slayer repeating ballista they use to defend the castle.) Several more ballistae appear on other buildings each manned by more bokoblins. We look around at the ballistae and I stop when I hear scraping and feel the ground thump harder. Looking behind me I see a armored moblin carrying a large bone hammer that could be mistaken for a giants club from Skyrim.
" This doesn't look good," says Zelda as she reaches for her slate to teleport us back to the plateau. As we look at our adversaries a whistle is heard and I push Zelda out of the way as a arrow goes through my stomach and I fall to the ground. The fletching is red and black with inverted sheikah script written across the shaft. Zelda shouts as both Mineru and linkle rapidly fire taking out the ballistae while Zelda perfectly parries the armored moblin before slashing the monster. The moblin flies out of its armor but otherwise unharmed. A insane laughter fills my ears as a man dressed in black and red bodysuit appears with two sickles behind Zelda. He rushes at Zelda but is stopped as a F. Traveler naginata pierce his body from the felyne guards of Zelda who finally arrive as they were using giant leafs as gliders. The would be assassin grunts and vanishes in red smoke and sealing tags dropping a couple of bananas, rupees and both sickles.
I get up pulling out the arrow after snapping the arrow head. I patch my wound with Hyrule herbs salve we prepared before hand and I see Zelda spirit slash around the moblins hammer and decapitates the monster as both moblin in the towers were blown up by linkle and Mineru. Zelda turns towards me and smiles like she enjoyed herself but I can tell its relief.
" Well, that was a welcoming party," she says before placing the longsword in it's sheathe," I hope they weren't to upset we didn't like the party favors."
I stare at her as linkle just starts laughing at the joke and I shake my head. Mineru sighs but mumbles," thank the goddesses she's not doing the puns yet."
I walk over and collect the vicious sickles and mighty bananas from the pile left by the yiga. Zelda grabs the six rupees, three green, a blue, a yellow and a red. Total value is 38 rupees.
" I guess this is our currency," says Zelda as she pockets the gems that seem to be about 2" in length and 1" in width and a .5" thickness. I nod as the felynes gather around her looking at the shiny gems. She looks at us and nods before saying," let's go."
Rupee guide
Green=1
Blue=5
Yellow=10
Red=20
Purple=50
Silver=100
Gold=300