New Coat, Old Acquaintances
Trotting through the gap between a few trees, Ganondorf soon found himself in a small clearing. From within which came the voices of his two old acquaintances, now unwilling impromptu dimensional traveling companions.
The moment he laid eyes upon them however he found himself stopping and blinking in surprise at the sight before his eyes, a sense of bemusement filling him as he observed his fellow Wielders of the Triforce.
They both had clearly also been affected by the dimensional travel, having been transformed into equally furry quadrupeds. Though clearly smaller than his own form by nearly a head, they still possessed two small furry ears atop their heads, small muzzles on their faces and sported manes and tails just like him. Not to mention they too now had the three golden triangles that made up the mark of the Triforce emblazoned upon their flanks.
However, that was where the similarities between them were cut short.
For while his body was that of a very thickly proportioned and slightly alien looking normal pony, both Zelda and Link had different extra appendages upon their bodies that made him ponder if they were perhaps different branches of the same species.
Zelda had been turned into a pristine white pony, her coat shining as though it were freshly fallen snow, and her mane and tail sporting a golden blond color. But what truly differentiated her from both males was the small, fluted spiral horn resting atop her forehead, giving her the appearance of a miniature unicorn.
Link instead had a forest green coat of fur covering his body, which made Ganondorf chuckle at the fact the green obsessed hero was now actually green himself, and an equally golden blonde mane and tail. And while his forehead had no new protrusions sprouting from it, extending from his sides were a pair of feathery green wings, making him look like a miniature pegasus.
“How curious,” he commented while walking into the clearing, immediately gaining the attention of the irate looking wielder of Wisdom and the placidly waiting wielder of Courage.
“Ganondorf! You sand brained Neanderthal! What did you do?!” Zelda all but snarled, attempting to charge straight towards him only to stumble with her new unfamiliar appendages and nearly fall face first on the ground. Link saved her from the fall at the last moment by grabbing her with one of his fore-hooves, a slightly perplexed and surprised look appearing on his features for a moment as he did the action.
Nodding her head in thanks towards the now distracted looking Hero, Zelda once again turned towards the still smiling King of Thieves, her anger reaching new heights.
“I know this is your fault! So explain to me why, by the love of the Three Goddesses, are we miniature, pastel colored horses!?” she shouted towards him, large eyes narrowed at him and her barrel heaving in and out as she breathed deeply in anger.
“Ponies, actually, not miniature horses,” he calmly explained, noting that curiously enough both their eyes, and probably his as well for that matter, now seemed to occupy the majority of their faces.
“What?” she asked in confusion, not really understanding exactly what he was talking about.
“Our muzzles and hooves are too short, and our bodies and limbs too thick for us to be horses. Not to mention our size is far too small for an adult horse, while the proportions of our limbs are not right for us to be foals,” the Lord of Darkness calmly replied, explaining the differences between their bodies and those of a horse. “Therefore we can only be ponies, not miniature horses.”
“And you know the difference between a horse and a pony why exactly?” Zelda asked in a sickeningly sweet tone of voice, taking in deep breaths in an attempt to rein in her anger.
“Please don’t insult me, Princess,” Ganondorf huffed in slight annoyance before proudly placing one of his fore-hooves against his chest. “In eight out of ten lives I end up being a Gerudo, and proud of it! And if there is one thing we Gerudo pride ourselves in, it is our horsemanship and ability to raise quality horses! Having raised my fair share of equines of various breeds throughout the ages I can securely say that we are ponies, and not horses.”
“Very well, allow me to rephrase my question,” she replied with fake calm while giving him a smile that showed far too many teeth. “Explain to me exactly, why are we miniature pastel colored ponies?”
Moving his hoof from his chest towards his chin while giving the question the necessary weight it deserved, while idly noting that Link was distractedly examining something on the ground, he thought about how to best answer her. After another moment and having selected an answer, he turned towards Zelda’s silently fuming form before cheerfully replying.
“I’m not really sure, but if I had to guess I would say that our bodies, while still remaining in slight flux due to the rough dimensional travel, had their biological patterns overwritten by this reality’s natural laws,” he explained, knowing that the wielder of the Triforce of Wisdom, being a more than accomplished mage herself, would easily understand the concept. “Not really surprising, since our bodies being adapted to their new reality was a definite possibility of interacting with a whole new set of natural laws, well either that or being utterly destroyed in a cataclysmic implosion caused by completely incompatible types or energy interacting with each other. But then again one can only do such much in regards to safeguards and fail-safes when dealing with dimensional travel of this scale.”
“So, what you are saying is that you flung us into a new dimension on purpose, despite all the risks inherent with such an action, knowing perfectly well this could happen,” she questioned him, her voice as cold as an arctic wind and a faint twitch developing in her left eye. “And that this was actually one of the more fortunate possibilities you envisioned happening amidst several that could have befallen us, since there was a very distinct chance of us simply imploding or worse due to your harebrained scheme. Is that about right?”
“Well… that’s a gross oversimplification of a carefully and well thought pla…” he started to say, only to be cut short as, with a bellow of rage, a blue glow materialized around Zelda’s horn before being swiftly thrown towards him with both the speed and strength of a Goron rolling out at top speed.
Feeling like a large boulder had just been thrown against his chest Ganondorf was thrown backwards through the air, before impacting one of the large trees around the clearing with an explosive cracking noise and loudly falling towards the ground.
“Din’s fury, that’s what I call a hit! As far as I can remember it used to take you far longer than that to gather so much magical energy!” he grumbled in a slightly flattering tone of voice, shaking off the pain and rising back to his hooves with a roguish grin. “I see you have been training, well done!”
“That… was actually far easier than I expected it to be, actually,” was Zelda’s hesitant reply as she stared cross eyed at the tip of her horn, her anger temporarily pushed aside in favor of curiosity regarding how she had managed to gather so much magic so quickly without any type of chant or spell. “It was almost as if the magic was rushing forth to respond to my intentions. Quite unlike how magic naturally behaves back in Hyrule.”
“Hmm, well that’s interesting, wonder what it could mean?” He pondered it thoughtfully, brushing off what little dust had gathered upon his coat only to notice he didn’t have even a single bruise to show that he had just been hurled against a large oak tree by the equivalent of a magical sucker punch, not to mention that he was no longer feeling any pain due to the high speed impact. “And speaking of interesting, I seem to be completely fine despite my impromptu flight and its rather abrupt stop.”
“But that’s impossible,” Zelda commented in slight disbelief, anger now well and truly set aside in favor of curiosity as she slowly approached Ganondorf with uncertain steps in order to better study his apparent lack of wounds. “Even back in your old body such a high speed impact would leave at least some visible signs of bruising, and that’s if you were lucky!”
“Guess this body is just that tough!” he boisterously proclaimed, the idea that his new, far smaller, body could actually be physically stronger than his old one deeply pleasing him.
“You two want to talk about impossibilities?” Link calmly interjected, reminding the other two that he was still in the clearing with them and making them both turn towards him.
“Then how about this for an impossibility?” he calmly spoke, a tinge of bemusement clear in his tone of voice, while gesturing with his left forehoof back and forth, drawing the attention of them both towards said appendage. Immediately both of them widened their eyes in surprise at what they were seeing.
“How does that even work?” Ganondorf curiously inquired while Zelda at his side simply opened and closed her mouth without making a sound.
“I have no idea,” the green coated pony simply replied while shrugging with his wings, before turning his gaze back towards the small stone that he was somehow grasping with his left hoof, his completely flat, fingerless, left hoof which had nothing to grasp things with. “I simply noticed that I somehow grabbed Zelda while she was falling despite not having anything to grab her with, and here we are.”
“Curiouser and curiouser,” Ganondorf stated with a bemused smile, before looking towards the ground in search of a rock so that he could try the trick himself.
Meanwhile Zelda had finally managed to shake off her surprised stupor, only to see both of her companions, the mighty Lord of Darkness and the stalwart Chosen Hero, staring intently at a pair of rocks they were now somehow grasping with their flat hooves while sporting looks of intense focus, and promptly proceeded to face-hoof.
After a few more minutes exploring their newfound, and apparently unexplainable, ability to grasp things without appropriate grasping appendages, Link finally decided that it was time to move on to more pertinent matters.
And so he turned towards his regular nemesis and old time foe, a serious look on his face, as he asked the King of Thieves a question regarding their newfound situation.
“So Ganondorf, do you have any idea what happened to my sword?” he calmly inquired, gaining a thoughtful look from the wielder of Power and an incredulous one from the wielder of Wisdom.
“We have just been transformed into another species, after being unwillingly dragged out of our world, and you are asking him about your sword?” Zelda asked in disbelief, staring at the green pony with questioning eyes.
“Not my first time being transformed into another creature against my will Zelda, or being suddenly transported to another realm/plane/world/whatever without prior warning,” the wielder of the Triforce of Courage nonchalantly replied with a shrug of his wings. “Trust me, you get used to it. Not to mention it kind of loses most of its shock value after the first half a dozen times.
“Sure, I have never been a pastel colored winged pony before, but it was probably bound to happen one of these days anyway. Compared to that, I’m far more worried about where the Master Sword ended up, or even where the rest of my stuff disappeared to. Especially since some of the things I was carrying around really shouldn’t be left unsupervised.”
“So it wasn’t only me, huh? My sword, armor and everything else is also kind of gone.” Ganondorf grumbled thoughtfully in reply, one hoof massaging his chin.
“I’m sad to say that I’ve no idea really. They could either have been left behind on Hyrule when the spell took effect, have been scattered throughout the void between dimensions during our travel, or even been dumped somewhere else on this realm,” he replied while deep in thought, pondering about it for a moment before simply shaking his head. “So in this case your guess is as good as mine.”
“Figures, of course it couldn’t be that easy.” Link replied with a resigned sigh. “All that time wasted gathering my equipment, now for nothing. Things can never be nice and easy after all.”
“Yeah, I know how you feel. I’m going to miss that sword myself,” the Lord of Darkness said in a sympathetic tone of voice, moving towards the green coated pegasus and gently patting him on the back. “Real pity too. I was quite certain that my Night Bringer would be able to give your Master Sword a run for its money!”
“I can’t believe you two! Here we are, in alien bodies in a completely unknown new dimension! And you are mourning about lost swords!” Zelda exclaimed incredulously upon seeing both males commiserating about their lost blades for a few moments longer.
“Do you have any idea how hard it is to forge a Void Steel blade properly? It’s a delicate and precise process, demanding dozens of extremely rare ingredients and dozens more extremely intricate spells cast at very precise moments of the forging process! It took me months to make that sword!” Ganondorf grumbled in annoyance, giving the Princess a disbelieving stare, as if saying she should know this already.
“As for the Kid’s sword, sure he didn’t forge it himself. But if what normally happens held true, he probably had to undergo half a dozen extremely long and ridiculously complex quests to ‘earn the right’ to wield that thing!” He continued to rant, Link at his side nodding his head in agreement with his words.
Looking at the identical expressions both the green coated pegasus and the dark brown pony were sporting Zelda couldn’t help but huff in annoyance as she rolled her eyes and simply mumbled. “Boys…”
Ganondorf and Link traded a bemused look at that, before with an inquiring tilt of the head of the first and an acquiescing shrug of his wings from the latter, Ganondorf decided to move on.
“So now, first things first,” Ganondorf cheerfully proclaimed as he clapped his fore hooves. “Did any of you see a river, lake or any other kind of body of water before we landed?”
Trotting between the trees of the forest, easily finding the easiest path forward, Ganondorf kept his head pointing resolutely ahead, doing his very best to ignore the hole in the back of his head the white coated unicorn following him with unsure steps was trying to carve out with sheer willpower.
“I can’t believe we are doing this!” Zelda angrily muttered as she carefully trotted through the forest alongside Ganondorf, her muzzle scrunched up in annoyance as she followed the larger brown pony while trying not to trip.
“It’s the very basics of survival, Princess. We have to find water before anything else, everybody knows that,” Ganondorf simply replied while purposely missing the point. “Considering how many times you had to go into hiding or run away in one manner or another in our past lives, I would think you would know about that by now.”
“That’s not what I’m talking about and you know it!” she shot back with an angry huff. “I can’t believe how after everything you did, not to mention dragging both Link and myself into this whole mess and nearly killing us in the process in the first place, you are now acting like nothing ever happened!”
“What do you want me to do? Pull out my mane in distress; perhaps have a little mental breakdown?” he sarcastically asked while rolling his eyes. “We both know that any show of remorse along those lines from me would be nothing but cheap theatrics. So why should I insult both my dignity and your intelligence with it?
“And stop pretending you are not happy I managed to get us away from that whole damned mess that used to constitute our destinies!” he firmly stated, stopping in his tracks and wheeling around to stare Zelda straight in the eyes. “How many times did you helplessly watch as everything collapsed all around you, knowing something like that was coming but unable to do anything about it? How many times did you watch your parents die before your eyes? Point in fact, was there even a life upon which your parents survived long enough to see you reach adulthood?”
“And who was responsible for doing those things more often than not?!” she angrily retorted, walking straight towards him until their muzzles were nearly touching. “Who was it that destroyed everything in his path in his mad quest for power?!”
“You know far too well that just like you I had little choice in the matter, Princess!” he snorted angrily, piercing golden eyes staring straight into defiant azure orbs. “Not to mention that even if I had never done any of that, something else would inevitably occur in order to force the story to unfold along the lines the gods desired! Or have you forgotten about Demise’s fucking curse?! Or how your, oh so precious, gods did nothing to try and prevent it or even minimize it’s effects?!
“Just look at Link! Almost always he is a freaking orphan! And on the rare few times he actually has a relative still alive, they always die while he is still young in an appropriately dramatic manner!” he firmly stated in an irritated tone. “And that’s despite the fact I normally only meet him far later after that ever happens!
“So stop trying to throw everything that ever went wrong in that accursed realm down at my hooves!” he loudly proclaimed, causing Zelda to release an angry huff.
“He does have a point Zelda,” a conciliatory voice came from above them, breaking their staring contest. “But you also should really try and be a little more tactful Ganondorf, after all, Zelda also does have a point regarding the fact you are guilty regarding quite a few things.”
Looking upwards they watched as the green colored pegasus gently drifted with the breeze towards them, gracefully landing right alongside both ponies as if he had been born with wings.
“Now stop antagonizing each other, for better or for worse we are in this together, so deal with it,” he sternly stated, staring both of them down until they turned their faces away with angry snorts. “Good, now, I can confirm that there is a large river a couple of miles north of here, so that solves our need for water. Afterwards we can follow it and see where it leads.”
“I still can’t believe how fast you managed to figure out how to use your wings to fly,” Zelda said in a slightly miffed manner while trying to change the subject, knowing that Link was right but not wanting to say it out loud. Although, truth be told, the fact she was still stumbling around occasionally due to being unused to walking on four legs while Link was acting as if he had been born with his new body was not helping her mood in the slightest.
“I have to agree with her on this one, Kid. While I know that you tend to have your body transformed into other forms more often than not, and that that could explain why you are so at ease being a quadruped. I don’t think I remember you ever being anything that could truly fly. Or well, at least fly with wings, that is,” Ganondorf said in a wondering tone of voice, his anger shoved aside for the moment. “I remember you being wolves, bunnies, Zoras, Gorons and Deku Scrubs, just to name a few, but never any kind of bird.”
“I must admit that I’m curious too. For while we both learned how to navigate wind currents and other useful information regarding how to travel the skies back on Skyloft with our Loftwings, that wouldn’t really translate well to how to use actual wings,” Zelda agreed, her own curiosity also shoving her anger aside as she stared at the green coated pegasus wonderingly. “It’s almost as if you had had wings already at some point. So how did you learn how to fly, Link?”
Giving the two ponies who had been quarreling with each other mere moments ago but now were serenely standing side by side eagerly waiting for his answer a look, with a small eye roll, he simply answered two words before turning around and starting to walk towards the river.
“Hyoi Pears,” he simply stated, much to the confusion of both the white unicorn and the brown pony that were now following him.
“Hyoi Pears? Wait, weren’t they those really wonky looking fruits that were a thing back when Hyrule was almost completely flooded over?” Ganondorf asked in confusion, wondering how they could give anyone experience with flying with actual wings.
“Oh, I see! That makes so much sense!” Zelda happily exclaimed as the pieces of the puzzle started to fit together. “They allowed people to mind control any seagull that ate them for short periods of time. And during that time you could actually experience how the birds used their wings to fly! That’s actually very clever!”
“Naturally occurring fruits that allowed people to mind control seagulls… I had nearly forgotten about that,” Ganondorf grumbled in an odd mix of irritation and befuddlement. “And some wonder why I decided to rebel against the gods. Not only were most of them completely useless, but also quite a few of them were utterly insane!”
“Not all of them were that bad,” Zelda tried to protest, but anyone who knew the Princess could tell that said protest was halfhearted at best.
“Setting aside Nayru, Farore and Din, tell me about one living god or goddess who is both helpful and sane,” he challenged her with a knowing smirk.
“The Goddess of Time.” Zelda triumphantly replied, giving Ganondorf a self satisfied smile.
“The one who once trapped the Kid for seven years in a magical coma after unilaterally deciding he was too small to wield the Master Sword? Despite the fact said action allowed me to breach into the Sacred Realm and lay havoc and destruction on the land practically unopposed for said seven years?” he shot back with a large grin, which grew only larger as a frown crossed the Princess features upon remembering that little fiasco.
“She may not be much of a deep thinker, but her heart is normally in the right place, and at least she tended to try to help,” Link piped in, turning his head backwards to look at them with a small smile. “If not for her aid, I would have never managed to save Termina after all.”
“Oh yeah, that time the Goddess of Time turned that little blue ocarina of yours into an even bigger macguffin than it originally was,” Ganondorf commented in a tone of realization, a small playful smile slowly blossoming on his features.
“And then you proceeded to try and test just how much strain the time stream could actually take before imploding due to the number of paradoxes you were causing! There had to be dozens of you running around that place simultaneously when you finally managed to fix that mess up!” he joked, earning an amused scoff from the green coated pony and actually managing to get a small snicker from the white coated unicorn at his side.
“But I asked for a god or goddess who was both helpful AND sane,” he continued in a playful tone of voice. “And while I’ll freely admit she was helpful, which is far more than what can be said about most of those oafs, she was most definitely not completely sane. So that doesn’t count.”
“Fair enough.” The wielder of the Triforce of Courage acquiesced easily enough, staring once again straight ahead as he guided them towards the river.
“You know, truth be told I never truly knew how to feel about that particular adventure of yours,” Ganondorf said conversationally, earning a few interested glances from his two companions.
“On one hand, for once I wasn’t the damned bad guy, which was awesome; but on the other, they replaced me with a freaking Skull Kid of all things!” he grumbled in playful annoyance, a smirk firm on his features “Oh, sure, in the end it turned out that the true mastermind was the really creepy mask all along, but even so, being replaced with a Skull Kid of all things even if just temporarily was just demeaning!”
“So you were replaced by a completely incompetent and nonthreatening looking villain for a while, that’s nothing,” Zelda answered with a small smirk of her own. “Do you have any idea how embarrassed I was the first time I was forced to pretend to be a man in order to remain hidden? Or when I realized that that particular stunt had somehow become a trend?”
“Oh, please, that was nothing,” Link joked right back. “You want to talk about demeaning? Try being turned into a tiny pink rabbit! Now that was demeaning!”
That particular example was more than enough to get both Zelda and Ganondorf to laugh out loud. And from there their conversation devolved into good natured ribbing and name calling, as they remembered particularly embarrassing moments of their many past lives while walking towards the river.
The wounds of the past were not healed, not by a long shot. The rift between the Hero, the Princess and the Dark Lord was still standing between them, just as deep and foreboding as ever.
But for the moment, they chose to set the past aside and simply enjoy the moment while it lasted. For to those who had lived as long as they had lived, and seen all that they had seen, that was sometimes the only way to keep walking forward.
And yet, as a lighthearted atmosphere fell upon the group as they passed between the trees, walking side by side for once without fear or apprehension, one could say that as far as first steps went, this was more than enough.
9029538
And that's when they are not a combination of all three categories!
By the way, the new chapter is up.
Accuracy? Screw that noise, this is too funny.
9029475
Yeah, but it's not like he or his curse are all powerful or something, if that were the case he'd have just used that to not get killed. Ganondorf is still his own man separate from Demise.
I have a feeling Zelda will be doing a lot of that in this fic. Comes with being the voice of reason
I smell dungeon crawls in our trio's futures!
Wait, so Link has to do fetch quests and trials of worth to get his ultimate weapon, while Ganondorf has to craft his from a very complicated recipe that probably involved way too much effort to acquire the necessary ingredients and most likely required him to have the QTE reflexes of a god in the forging process? They really were living in an Adventure/RPG!
Wow. Ganondorf acknowledges the macguffin. Good show.
This is a Platinum story mate! Keep up the good work!
9029568
Demise was the LITERAL KING OF DEMONS. His power at its peak, which was DURING his original war against the Goddess Hylia, was easily able stand up to her. She needed help to beat him. It is pretty much canon by Word Of God that Demise's Curse is practically responsible for the cycle of reincarnation. PERIOD.
at the risk of sounding like an addict, MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please
Hey dude we are our own worst critics. SO KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF...Just kidding, but seriously you are doing some good work here.
I really like the dialogue between the three, and i freaking love how Ganon and Link are just in awe about their hoof grabbing abilities.
this makes me smile took all 3 of em being on a new world at the same time to stop trying to kill each other
9029564
Glad you liked it.
9029568
Heh, that's true. But at the same time if he did nothing then things would still go to hell all around him, so that would hardly be what one could call a good choice. And Demise's strength was such that Hylia, the strongest Goddess of the Zelda-universe died simply sealing him, so his curse should not be underestimated.
9029590
Glad you liked it.
9029592
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
9029600
Not to mention that even with help, she still had to sacrifice her immortality and divinity in order to simply seal Demise.
9029607
Will try and help with that in a timely manner.
Glorious! I like that they are so bonded through thier shared experiences! It makes a lot of sense. I expect Link is going to put his cooking skills he got in Breath of the Wild to good use soon. Looking forward to them meeting others and for Link and Zelda to start their many lifetime romance again. Maybe Ganon will finally find a love in this new world.
"That's racist." *Bling!* (I'm kidding)
Okay, maybe he's got a point.
I am so glad I played (almost) all of the games...I reeeeeally understand what they're going through. But I never thought Hyoi Pears would help Link fly haha. Can't wait for the next update! :D
hello, enjoying the story, but one thing bugged me this chapter. the word 'freaking' felt wrong coming from ganondorf, though honestly i'd probably have been able to ignore it, except you had him use it a lot of times in very quick succession. maybe mix some other interjections into that sequence? other than that, looking forward to where the story is going!
This is looking pretty great so far, can't wait for the next chapters!
Also, I'm waiting for the first 'Excuuuuse me, Prin-cess!'
9029617
Heh, yeah, I really liked how that scene shaped up too.
Glad you are liking the story.
9029619
For a certain definition of "trying to kill each other" that is.
9029633
Yeah, when you know each other for as long as they do, knowing each other's quirks and habits kinda becomes inevitable.
And while I won't focus too much on the Romance department, the odd, on again off again, relationship between Link and Zelda (now a Pegasus and a Unicorn, two tribes that are more often than not at each other's throats on this era) will make itself know and cause some interesting situations latter on.
9029652
When you consider their freaky appearance,
desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mu/image/1519/18/1519180123847.png
alongside their effects and how you can buy them virtually anywhere on Wind Waker, meaning they are stupidly common?
Yeah, he kinda does have a point.
9029665
I personally played: A Link to the Past; Ocarina of Time; Majora's Mask; Oracle of Ages; Wind Waker; Twilight Princess; and Skyward Sword.
So I know what you mean. There is a LOT of subtext when you gather the whole Zelda series together, doesn't it?
9029680
Glad you liked it.
9029679
Hadn't even noticed it before you pointed out.
Will take care to try and not overuse it in future chapters.
9029691
Oooh, when are you writing this taking place? I suspect we'll find out. Pre-modern would be interesting. But modern allows for a lot of fun too. I assume we'll find out as it goes along.
Still! Zelda and Link have known and loved each other for so long. Some lifetimes they never married, others they did, others he died before they ever got together, and so on. Its fascinating to consider the implications. Don't be afraid to add a little romance! It spices up a story!
While it is good that these three have gained their freedom, I fear the Gods may burn Hyrule out of spite.
Some excellent moments and the use of the Hyoi pears to give Link flight experience was very clever. I am curious how all three remember things from the separate timelines. Are you treating Hyrule Warriors and the actions of Cia as a unifying event for the series? That would be an interesting way to resolve the split and given it's time/dimension traveling motif very fitting.
Couple things that stuck out to me. Having Ganondorf use modern words and expressions like 'freaking', 'bad guy' and 'macguffin' is very distracting. It doesn't fit his character voice and pulls me out of the story. Also, he is acting awfully chummy to what are his ancient enemies. I would assume that this is because without Demise's Hatred driving him and infesting him, he no long has any hard feelings against them. However, it would help to spell that out in-story. Perhaps have Ganondorf talk about how different it is not to have his emotions tainted by a constant, simmering hatred. Plus it would provide an explanation to Link and Zelda why they should trust him rather than expect him to stab them in the back and conquer this new land. Zelda is reasonably suspicious of him in this chapter, but Link doesn't seem to question Ganondorf's sudden change at all.
Anyway, it was a good chapter and I look forward to more.
You know who all those other gods and goddesses were? Hint: NINTENDO!!!
9029741
...the long description and multiple comments have literally stated that this occurs pre-Heart's Warming. The actual event, not the holiday.
I don’t mind Ganon being chummy with Zelda and Link, seeing as he’s “off the clock” forever, but I DO mind him using modern language. So, does this take place after Breath of the Wild?
9029871
Doh. Teach me not to read.
Nice story so far, though having Ganon say `freaking` instead of `damnable` or `damned` or some other word that is more...mature sounding is odd to me. I'd have taken `fucking` as well, not sure why he using the lesser word. Unless it something humorous like
'He may have done great evil, but how dare you imply he would say fucking! HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!'
9028799 Ah, but you forget, Rey is Ultimate Sue with the power of Disney Corp. She instantly and inexplicably becomes master of the Triforce as well, because she's Rey.
9029686
I just hope Ganon say's it first that wood be a lot Funnyer, than if Link was to say it.
Another good chapter keep it up and I'm definitely going to favorite this.
9029526
It did but it still has it differences. Mostly with Vaati, but still.
Like this guy said: 9029686
Also we gotta have a shuddering reference to the CD-i games.
Wow just wow man this is getting REAL GOOD, Though it would kind of be funny/weird that there sword's would be at a certain tree x shape style in front of it
When you spin a good story, people WILL come. 2/3 to read and love the story while the last 1/3 just to show how much a douche society that we have
9029686 Ugh! Flash backs of the cartoon! Flash backs of the cartoon! Flash backs of the cartoon! Flash backs of the cartoon!
And that's a like and follow!
9029810
I agree on Ganondorf's speech, but I feel like the three's interactions right now isn't wrong.
Link to me has mostly been a "Whatever happens, just go with the flow" kinda character. He gets yanked out of being a young peasant boy to a hero with the Master Sword fighting against the world ending evil within the span of a month or so. He constantly gets put onto quests and told to go hither and yon to do this and do that with barely a word of complaint. "This is what's happening now? ... Yeah, okay, sure."
As for Ganon, he's been planning this for centuries. Multiple reincarnations. He knows that Link and Zelda aren't his true enemy. They're pawns trapped in this just the same as he is, and probably the only people that would understand what he's going through. Almost kindred. After hundreds of years, seeing it just as a cycle that's forced everyone into their roles to play, I doubt he's going to hold any particular malice towards them.
Well, I'm a man of my word/ follow coming your way mate!
I like this story. Mostly cause this makes sense. Given they each are connected to their past lives it makes sense that eventually Ganondorf of the three would eventually tire of being the amusement for the gods. sans the three sisters that made the triforce in the first place, and spend time during each incarnation planning a way to break the cycle. It also makes sense that he would bring along the other two cause even if they are technically his enemies realistically they are the closest things he has to companions cause the three know each other so well after all the times they've had to fight each other. Also the part about Link and Ganondorf mourning their lost equipment also makes sense. Ganondorf likely had to make all his stuff himself and given the likely rare materials it wasn't inexpensive or easy to gather the stuff or make the items. Link on the other hand to gather his gear has to go through trial after trial dealing with monsters, obstacles, puzzles, and a slightly powerful monster in order to get 1 item of the many he'll need for his journey to fight Ganondorf along with proving his worth to even use the master sword in each life by going through a chunk of those trials without it, Oot being the exception as a majority of the dungeons were in fact based in the future part where he had the sword. Hell out of all of the items he dropped only the master sword is the safest. Especially if it landed and pierced into something solid like a stone since there is the whole 'Only a Worthy Hero may wield the Blade of Evil's Bane' thing. However Link tends to at least always have a supply of bombs and arrows, normal or magical, on him and those do need supervision. Given your not stating if this was a custom point in the timeline I can't say what other items Link will have save the bow/arrows and the bombs cause he tends to always get those.
it's the little attention to detail that makes this feel so grounded. My only criticism is that Ganondorf referring to the blue ocarina as a macguffin pulled me out of the story a bit.
9029741
This is taking place shortly before the First Hearts Warming Eve. You know, when Clover the Clever, Private Pansy and Smart Cookie prevented an ice age and the extinction of the Three Tribes?
9029797
Just Hyrule?
9029810
That's an interesting idea, I will consider it.
And that's because I always saw Link as a very "roll with the punches" kind of guy.
I mean, he literally goes from village pariah to hero risking his life to save the world in a span of days in Ocarina for instance!
9029853
9029871
Indeed.
9029872
Truthfully speaking I'm basing them on an amalgama of all their gaming appearances and not one game in particular, so from a technical
point of view I guess you could say this takes places after all the current games so to speak.
9029957
I only noticed the oddity way after publishing the chapter.
I will try and pay more attention in future chapters.
9029973
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it.
9030033
I do have plans for the Master Sword, but not where they would find it. That would indeed be an interesting situation for it.
9030099
Ain't that the truth...
9030139
9030274
Thanks!
9030166
You pretty much nailed my take on both of them.
Ganondorf kinda sees Link and Zelda as the closest thing he has to friends, though he never would say so out loud. He may be a douche to them, but he really won't stand for others to do the same.
And I always saw Link as a very "roll with the punches' kinda guy. So to me his default reaction to weird shit happening is: "been there, done that, got the t-shirt".
9030284
A good summary of their mindsets.
And I will just say that I plan to have some fun with the lost armory that Link tends to carry around.
9030397
That bit was supposed to by a little joke for everybody that played Ocarina of Time. Where the story makes a huge deal out of the blue thing and it ends up it's only power by itself is making blue blocks apear at some places...
So, if they act so meta, then I have a question. Will they talk about it that their deaths, especially Link's, are always "resetted" so that the goddesses' theatre could go on? Because then they have to acknowledge that there is no second chance anymore in this new world/dimension, no god who simply presses the resett-button. Death is a final possibility.
Hehehe, what if that reincarnation ability followed the three to Equestria somehow? I can imagine after the main story finishes up, over the centuries Celestia and Luna begin to notice a trio of ALWAYS memorable figures that are quite similar to the previous trio keep appearing, over and over again. Possibly up until the current show timeline.
9030663
Not meta per-se, they are more genre-savvy than anything else simply due to having lived it all before.
And is not as much a reset button than something more along Avatar style reincarnation. They die and are immediately reborn again with their memories.
But yes, they will have to face the fact that death is no longer a gateway of sorts for them.
9030711
Yeah, that would be really amusing. Specially if they always had the Triforce cutey-marks as an 'identification code' of sorts and kept being reborn with one of each in each tribe..
Random Royal Guard: Your majesty the monster that was rampaging around was defeated.
Celestia: Send my thanks to Twilight and the girls.
Random Royal Guard: Actually, your grace, it was stopped by three prepubescent ponies, two stallions and a mare.
Celestia: ... they don't happen to be one of each tribe and have three golden triangles as their cutey-mark, do they?
Random Royal Guard: Yes, your majesty! Why do you ask?
Celestia: Oh, no reason...
9029374
No offense, but, were talking about hypothetically if ganon choose to stay in hyrule, not go too equestria.
9030458
Figures that would be the case. I mean why bother having him gather the small armory of gear and the four or more bottles filled with either potions/fairies/great fairy tears/rare chu slime/other bottle-able stuff cause I'm not listing everything that Link has put in bottles over the course of multiple games. That would be a long list. Also I forgot there being some heavy blunt weapon. Either a hammer as is the normal case or the fun exchange we got in Twilight Princess which was a ball and chain(It's only irony that this weapon came in a house with married yetis and the boss was the wife. You know the term I'm referring to).
9030897
Ain't that the truth...
zeldadungeon.net/Zelda06/Walkthrough/04/004.png
Seems to be real Fun story, looking forward to reading it.
I wonder if the two swords are stuck in the main square of ponyville with no one able to go near them, would be great way for them to just casually pick them up
9031000
Thanks!
But while the idea is indeed interesting, sadly Ponyville kinda doesn't exist yet at the time this story is taking place.
Hurt my foot after laughing so hard that I fell out of my seat. This is priceless
This story is beautiful and I am thoroughly hyped for more.
i have to say i am loving this so far; i want to say more, but there's nothing i could say that hasn't been pointed out already
Friendly criticism ahead.
This could do with some more thorough proofreading. A recurring issue I noticed in this and the previous chapter, you seem to jump between tenses and words used in first/second/third-person frequently, generally only for a single word though.
For example:
These two words have the wrong tense (as it is present-tense and first-person), so it should be "surprise" and "greet." But greet doesn't really fit here either so something else such as "(...) at the sight before him/before his eyes/etc." would fit better. There are a lot more instances of each throughout both chapters, so it appears to be a somewhat chronic issue, both of words being the wrong tense, and of fewer (or the wrong) words in a place where more or a phrase would flow better.
It should also be however instead of whoever, so normal spelling mistakes and typos are also present.