The Hylian Domain News Box

[Bcdefg123]

Phase: Writing

Figure we needed something to talk about here...

HDL 3 is coming, though it may still be far off. Before that time, I'd like to do two 'in-between' chapters, one taking place in Hyrule and one on Earth, both being released at the same time to set things up for the main story.

HDL 3 will properly end the series, unlike HDL 2 (and I guess 1)

I have always taken a position of no spoilers, and I will be extra tight-lipped about this one. Right from the get-go, you'll be suprised. Trust me.

Apart from that, if you have anybody you'd like to suggest from anywhere (anywhen?) in the Domain's history to be in this (that hasn't been in it so far), you can suggest it to me. No guarantees though.

This post has been edited by Bcdefg123 on Jun 17 2009, 05:12 PM

[Bcdefg123]

Interlude Chapters:

The Hylian Domain Legacy Interlude: Hyrule
Somebody snuck behind a rocky platform. “I’m going to kill him…” the shadowy figure muttered to itself, ready to jump up to the platform.
“Thank you for this great honor,” Bcdefg123 said on top of the platform, smiling and showing off a medal to a large group of Gorons. Suddenly the shadowy figure leapt up onto the stage.
“Wha-?” Bcdefg123 was caught off guard.
“WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?”
The Gorons were surprised. “Not only Bcdefg123, but Princess Zelda visits Death… er, Super Happy Non-Lethal Mountain on the day of the 10th Festival of the Hylian Domain!”
Zelda replied with clear confusion. “…Super Happy Non-Lethal Mountain? What the…”
“Well, this guy here asked us to change it,” the head of the Goron tribe said. The Gorons were mountain-dwellers, humanoid with a shell made of rocks on their backs that enabled them to imitate boulders when curled up. And they were yellow.
“Well, ‘Death Mountain’ wasn’t exactly good for tourism, so I pitched the idea…”
“And we like it! This guy, a good thinker, eh?”
“Never mind that…” Zelda said. “You’re supposed to be in the parade down THERE!” She pointed towards the distance, where Hyrule Castle Town could be seen. “The parade, remember?” Indeed, crowds of people could also be seen.
“…Oh… I, uh, did forget…”
“Well, then come on! We can still make it before it starts.”
“Bye, brudda!” one of the Gorons said as Bcdefg123 and Zelda ran down the mountain.
-----Hyrule Castle Town-----
“Honestly, you’re not one to forget about a parade,” Princess Zelda said on their horse-pulled float. Since the Home to the Project Legion headquarters was destroyed, ten Hylian years had passed. Bcdefg123 didn’t know that while he had only aged a year, everybody in Hyrule had aged ten. The question was only brought up after Bcdefg123 noticed that Zelda (a.k.a. Hylian Girl) was visibly older then she had been in the Hylian Domain painting that hung in the castle, while he had looked more or less the same. “Seriously, what were you really doing up there?”
“I was mapping that place out. Y’know I’m trying to make a map of Hyrule.”
“You sure it wasn’t the award that got you?” Zelda asked. They wheeled through the streets of people and waved to the parade-goers.
“Well, that was part of it, but now I think the map’s complete. I was saving Death Mountain… sorry, Super Happy Non-Lethal Mountain until last, because of all that climbing. But I really think I have a good map of the continent now. The king’ll love this,” he added.
As the float rolled on, Bcdefg123 looked out at all the people. He started to raise his hand to wave, but then with a realization that sent a thrilling jolt down his body, he jumped off the float and ran into the crowd.
“What are you-?” Zelda yelled at him.
“I saw Altik!” Bcdefg123 answered. He thought he saw a glimpse of him retreating away from the parade route. Not sparing a thought for anyone else, he headed off towards where he might have gone, off onto a side street. The road he ran down reached an end, and he could go either left or right. He looked down either side, but saw no sign of Altik.
“Dangit…” Bcdefg123 said. “Why?”
-----Hyrule Castle-----
“Ah, this is wonderful, just wonderful!” the King of Hyrule said about the map. “Yes, I’ll have this put in the Royal Library right away.”
“Thank you sir,” Bcdefg123 politely bowed.
“Now, there’s been a strange rumor that I’ve heard lately…” the king started, “The rumor goes that somebody has been looting shops in the Kakariko region. The strange part to this is that eyewitnesses say that the thief looks like Altik.”
“I just swore I saw somebody that looked like Altik during the parade! I tried to chase after him, but I lost him…”
“Yet something’s amiss,” Zelda said. “If Altik really was here, then where’s everybody else? Why did he run away? And furthermore, why was he stealing?”
“That’s what we need to find out,” the King said. “Find and detain the suspect Altik. You are dismissed, Bcdefg123.” Bcdefg123 and Zelda started to leave.
“You need to stay,” the King said to Zelda.
“He’s my friend too,” Zelda said.
“Zelda… you are a princess, yet it seems like you are never in the castle, where you belong.”
“Ten years in a different world changes people, I guess,” she said. “It’s not like I hate you, or this place, or anything, but I still don’t see myself as a queen, or princess, or whatever I am now. Not yet anyway. And besides, this is important.”
The King shifted in his throne and thought quietly. “Well... I suppose it’s all right. But come back safely.”
“You don’t need to worry about us,” Bcdefg123 said.
“…Perhaps I don’t,” he said, ending the conversation.
-----Kakariko Village-----
“So where do we begin?” Zelda asked as they walked into Kakariko Village. Nestled in canyon, one dirt road went through the village, with buildings of varying heights on either side. The first time Bcdefg123 visited the place, it vaguely brought to mind a wild west town.
“Let’s ask around the markets, and see who’s been robbed,” Bcdefg123 said. “Dangit! Why would Altik steal anything?”
“I don’t think it’s Altik,” Zelda said. “There isn’t a Home left in this world.”
“So we thought before we were brought here. And then those Project Legion folks had one. There could always be another, right?”
“Yeah… sure…” Zelda said. “Excuse me.” They arrived at the first shop they saw, which seemed to be a bomb shop.
“Eh? The princess, here? We’re terribly sorry, m’lady, but there’s nothing here to buy right now,” the store owner said.
“So you’re saying you were robbed, right?” Bcdefg123 said.
“You knew that?”
“Well, uh, we guessed, but…”
“Terrible, just terrible, the kind of luck I’ve been having. First my warehouse gets blown up, and just when I manage to collect a decent stock, they’re all STOLEN!” The store owner leaned over the counter. “Now I got to tell customers that I can’t sell anything, because I don’t HAVE anything. Tell me, how am I supposed to manage a bomb shop WITHOUT ANY BOMBS?” Bcdefg123 was pelted with spit from the force of the last few words.
“I don’t know,” Bcdefg123 said, wiping off his face. “Did you see who did it?”
“That’s the weird part. It was Altik I swore I saw, but didn’t he go back to that other world?”
“How were you robbed?” Zelda questioned.
“It was yesterday after I locked up the store. I happened to look back as I was leaving and saw Altik leaving with a big bag of my bombs. I couldn’t catch him, and he escaped. He could be anywhere.”
Why would he need bombs…? Bcdefg123 thought. “All right. I guess we’re done here…”
“Tell us if you see anything else,” Zelda said. “We might be awhile.”
“Or not…” Bcdefg123 said, looking out the doorway. The proprietor and Zelda looked outside.
“Thief!” Altik broke into a full-on sprint outside.
“Altik! ALTIK!” Bcdefg123 shouted. At last, the store manager managed to catch Altik and bring him to a stop.
“Got you! Is this the guy you’re talking about?”
“It’s…” Bcdefg123 and Zelda finally got a good look at him. Perhaps from the back, the guy looked like Altik, but from the front that was not the case. “It’s not Altik,” he said dejectedly. “It isn’t him.”
“Thought so…” Zelda said.
“Hero or not, you’re still a thief,” the store owner said. “Out with it. Did you steal those bombs?”
“Yes,” the fake Altik promptly confessed.
“Why?” Bcdefg123 asked him.
Suddenly Hyrule Castle quite literally blew up. They first saw it in the distance, a violent flash of fire, and then heard a cacophony of individual explosions that sounded almost like fireworks.
“No…” Zelda said weakly.
“C’mon!” Bcdefg123 yelled. “We have to go now. Make sure he doesn’t escape.”
“Got it,” the store owner said. But as soon as he looked down at him again, the fake Altik deliberately bit his tongue, choked on his own blood, and died, rendering the shopkeeper a complete failure in only five seconds.
He thought it would be a good idea to go to the castle instead.
-----Hyrule Castle Town-----
“Man, it looks bad… there’s no way anybody who was in the castle could have survived,” Bcdefg123 said. Groups of people occupied the town square, chatting about what had just happened
“Anybody seen my father?” Zelda asked around.
“I’m sorry, m’lady, but there seem to be no survivors from what I’ve heard.”
-----
“Well, that was a complete waste of time…” somebody leaning against the wall of a shop said, while looking at Zelda and Bcdefg123 as they ran by. “We missed the princess… and lost our puppet…”
The “somebody” looked like a man in his twenties, whose attire was best described as businesslike. However, he wasn’t acting the part fully.
“Oh well…” the man said as he started to leave the town, “We’ll have more soon enough.”
-----
“Hey, princess,” Bcdefg123 said. “If somebody wanted so badly to take down the castle, then they could have had the royal family as a target.”
“What are you saying?” Zelda asked.
“I’m saying you should go into hiding for a while, or something. You need to protect yourself until somebody finds out who the target was.
“Actually, that’ll be harder now,” the shop owner said.
“I told you to stay with the criminal!”
“He killed himself. There was nothing I could do, so I followed you here.”
“Crap, are you serious? Then we’ll never find out what he intended to do!”
Zelda spoke again. “So… where do we go?” Bcdefg123 did a double take. Hylian Girl was never this submissive. “If I’m really the only person in the Royal Family left, then I need to be safe.”
“I have a safe house up on the hillside,” the store owner said. “It’s pretty secluded, and nobody will find it unless they know exactly where it is. It’s on the other side of the mountain from Kakariko.”
“Alright… take us there,” Bcdefg123 said. And when we’ve done that, come back to the city and find any guards that might have survived the explosion.” And so they departed from the city, the smoldering wreckage in the horizon behind them.
To be continued…

The Hylian Domain Legacy Interlude: Earth
“Dangit!” Brian rolled back in his chair, very angry with himself.
“Still can’t find it, huh?” Tory said. He appeared in the doorway.
“No, I can’t.” Brian was at his computer desk. “I’ve looked everywhere on this stupid thing, and I’ve asked everybody else to look too, but we’ve never found the source of that glitch, and…” The phone started ringing.
“I got it,” Tory said. “Keep working.”
Hey, Brian posted on the Hylian Domain, did anybody find anything?
No, as usual, Altik replied a minute later.
I’ve thrown every virus detection program at this thing, but no luck, Zephyr replied.
Well, this isn’t your usual virus… Brian said. He was referring to the glitch that brought them to the land of Hyrule two times already. They knew not of its location nor how to implement it.
“Hey, tell everybody to meet up at the town center,” Tory said, off the phone.
“The town center?” Brian cast a quizzical look in Tory’s direction. “Why?”
“Mac’s back,” Tory said.
-----Thrillsville Town Center-----
“Mac!” Brian and Tory arrived first.
“Wow. Good to see you both again!” Mac was the founder of the Hylian Domain, and consequently well respected by the entire group.
“Mission trip went well then?” Tory asked him.
“Oh yeah. Can’t believe I was gone for two whole years.”
“It’s you!” Zephyr came next, followed by Link0976. “Wow, it’s been a while…”
“Indeed,” Mac said. “So how are you all holding up?”
“Well, uh…”
“It’s a long story…”
“Altik’s here,” Link0976 said. From down the road came Altik, followed by a tall, lanky teenager wearing an extremely out-of-place floppy green hat that closely resembled a windsock.
“Who’s he? I don’t remember him…” Mac said, pointing to Link.
“That’s uh, Link,” Brian said.
“No, really, who is he? And I think we’re missing somebody. Where’s Bcdefg123?”
“I said it was a long story…” Zephyr muttered as Brian embarked on the story of the Domain in Hyrule.
-----1 hour later-----
“…And so Link stayed in our world, and Bcdefg123 ran away to Hyrule. Link’s been growing really fast, and we’ve been trying to find a way to get back to Hyrule. To switch Link for Bcdefg123. But we’ve been going at it for a year.” Brian finished. Everybody except him and Mac were bored. Link even fell asleep.
“Is this true…?” Everybody nodded. Mac took a deep breath.
“Well… then I’ll help you figure out what’s wrong with the forum, I guess…” Mac said. “Amazing, though…”
“Isn’t it?” Link0976 said. “Let’s go, it’s getting late.” They all left. Link, still sleeping, was left behind.
-----Brian’s house-----
“There’s nothing here,” Mac said after a thorough check of the Domain’s Admin Control Panel. “This is all the same code from when I made a backup before I left two years ago. Board wrappers, image links, they’re all exactly the same. Are you sure you aren’t all going crazy on me?”
“No, we’re telling the truth here,” Link0976 said.
“All right, so even if you are,” Mac backtracked, “what made you all think that it was something in the forum?”
“As a matter of fact, there’s nothing that suggested that,” Brian said. “But it was only all of us in the Domain, so we just assumed that that was the case.”
“And now we’re farther from the answer…” Altik said.
“Not necessarily…” Mac said. “At least now you know that the domain isn’t the problem.”
“Yeah, but what the heck is?” Zephyr asked.
“Hey, uh, guys?” Tory said. “You better come see this…”
“What is it, Tory?” Everybody decided to stop cramping the computer room and to start cramping the living room instead. The TV was tuned to a local news station.
“…Behind me, you can see a citizen wearing an awful green windsock for a hat being removed from Thrillsville Circle in a body bag. The citizen, is of course, dead…”
The room was suddenly full of cries of confusion and the like.
“Who forgot him THIS time?” someone said.
“Look, just listen!” Brian said, seemingly unaware of the oxymoron he had just created.
“…are saying he appears to have been stabbed to death,” the reporter continued, “but police are at a loss over who would commit a crime in broad daylight, and are asking the public to come forth with any information…”
-----Thrillsville Streets-----
A few people had assembled in front of Hank’s TVs and were watching the exact same thing through the window. Most of them were wondering how a murder like that could have been committed in the daylight hours, and especially at the city center, around which the city’s police force, town hall, and every shop that mattered (Uh… except Hank’s of course… yeah…) were all situated.
But one wasn’t.
This one person knew how Link was killed.
And he had information that would greatly help the police in finding the criminal.
However, since he himself had committed the crime, something told him that going to the police would be a really stupid thing to do.
It didn’t matter now. He had a job to do, and it had been done. He walked off.
At this point it would create a very chilling air of suspense and, oh, I don’t know, a general evilness to mention that if a member of the Hylian Domain had been there, they would have recognized the criminal to look uncannily like Marcus.
And they would have been spot on, too.
To be continued…

[Altik_0]

Story is looking good. I was worried there for a second, though, that you were trying to frame me as a criminal. I'd have to make some editorial changes to correct for that. ;)

[Bcdefg123]

A criminal? Never!

Unfortunately, I regret typing these Interlude chapters, because especially for the Hyrule one, there's going to be a lot of things to explain when HDL 3 comes around. Too many questions right now :p

[Altik_0]

Nah, it's just cliffhangers and plot development. It's natural progression for a story. Don't worry about it, people will get their questions answered when the actual story is released.

[Bcdefg123]

Due to the renewed hope that SOAP will get finished by the end of summer after all, I have decided to start HDL 3 now. I'll do the chapters as time permits, while still giving priority to SOAP. In the meantime, here's a prologue.

The Hylian Domain Legacy 3 Prologue: And So It Begins Again… Again…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
This is actually not just an introduction so much as the reality of the parallel universes of Earth and Hyrule.
On Earth, it was the best of times. Earlier this year, 2015, the leaders of several major countries signed an all-encompassing ‘Treaty of Absolute Peace’ after getting together and discovering that there was no such thing already in existence. The treaty simply said that ‘The countries involved shall do no harm now and forever.’
The treaty mysteriously disappeared the next day, but the sharp decrease in crime, the immediate end of two major wars and a sharp increase in the viewership of family-friendly television were all duly noted.
In the fantasy-like world of Hyrule, the biggest town is Castle Town, where as you might have already guessed, the castle and royal family of Hyrule reside.
Or rather, and this is the part that brings us to the worst of times, used to reside.
Since the unfortunate death of King Hyrule the 56th, leaving no heir behind, the royal family quite literally ceased to exist, and leadership was deferred to a family that had no relation to the previous royal family, but nevertheless had had a history of being in either the castle or the Hylian Army quite often.
While eight years had passed since the closing of the Project Legion portal* on Earth, eighty Hylian years have passed in that same amount of time. While the past eighty years had been peaceful due to Ganon’s defeat**, another grave evil was ready to grip the land under its presumably very grave and evil grip***.

*See HDL 2
**See HDL 1
***See HDL 3, which conveniently hasn’t been written yet.

[Altik_0]

Only six years until world peace – really? Not that I'm stifling your creative vision or anything, I am just surprised is all.

Also, they tried to do that in the late 20's – It's called the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which essentially declared war an illegal form of international relations. Then WWII started. XD

[Bcdefg123]

It's just for the sake of comedy really. It doesn't have any effect on the plot.

I could have gone a step further and said that Obama proposed that treaty, but that would spark a political discussion which I don't really want to get into right now :p

[Altik_0]

Well you got your political discussion anyway.

Just kidding. Anyway, when can we expect a first chapter?

[Bcdefg123]

It goes a little something like this: My priority right now is finishing SOAP, as I believe I've mentioned. The last two chapters of that took me two days a piece. However, whenever I finish a SOAP chapter, I'll take a day to write for HDL 3. Yesterday, I got the first page of Chapter 1 done. Today, I'm just slacking off. I think I've earned that right. However, I'm still not really sure how I want the first chapter to end up, so I don't really know.

Short answer: 1-2 weeks :p

[shamelessplug]By the way, if you visit the BoMM Twitter account (see my sig), you'll see that every time I sit down and write, I make a post about what story it is, how much I got done, and sometimes what scenes, as well as other news that sometimes doesn't reach BoMM itself. Right then and there.[/shamelessplug]

This post has been edited by Bcdefg123 on Jun 21 2009, 03:50 PM

[Altik_0]

'Aight, sounds good. (By the way, I wasn't trying to pressure you – I read your announcement – I was just curious on your schedule, that's all)

Peh, that would mean watching twitter. I'm not even willing to do that for the Iranian Election Scandal.

[Bcdefg123]

No problem at all. The HDL series is my favorite thing to write. I even snuck in another page yesterday while I was supposed to be resting :p It's just too bad there's nobody around anymore to read it like when it was just beginning.

[Altik_0]

Well, you know, things happen, people leave forums - it's the way of life.

You could post it on other sites. I'm sure somewhere it'll get some attention as Fan Fiction.

[Bcdefg123]

I just registered on fanfiction.net, unfortunately it seems I have to wait until tommorow night at the earliest to post stories (anti-spam measure)

Also, the crossovers section on that site is worth checking out, if only to laugh at. They have a large array of crossovers, and all you need to do is find the two universes you want mixed... for example, in Zelda alone, I can find crossover fanfics with Kingdom Hearts, CSI: Miami(?), Resident Evil, and (dear god) Yu-Gi-Oh. Really alarming stuff :p

The Hylian Domain Legacy 3 Chapter 1- 70 Years Later
“Ready sir?” Two men were talking within Hyrule Castle. One of them was the new King-to-be.
“Yes.” The two men proceeded to the castle balcony. The outside of the castle was swarmed with people, waiting to watch the coronation of their new King.
“Hylians!” The Prince spoke. The chatter died down. “These are not the circumstances under which I wish to rule. Yet today I must take up the crown, to inherit it from my father, who, as all of you should know, died peacefully in his sleep yesterday from rapidly deteriorating health. I would have very much liked him to have seen me inherit the throne because he lived to a ripe old age, but sadly that is not the case. And so today, I, Prince Regis the 3rd, promise all of you that I will do my best to uphold the popular practices of my father, and in doing so, pave the way for a better Hyrule.” The crowd screamed and cheered for him. Two other people, one carrying a pillow with a jewel-encrusted gold crown on it, stepped up to the King-to-be. The other person took the crown, and put it on the Prince’s head.
“It is my honor to present your new King, King Regis the 3rd!” And so the new King was crowned.
-----
Far away, there was one particular person who had a good reason to oppose the new King’s coronation. He had his share of problems.
One of them was that his name was Vercingetorix Regis. He had no idea of the origin of the name, or what possessed his parents, the old King and Queen, to name him so.
His second problem was also one related to his birth, in that he was a twin. A twin to the current King.
His third problem was that he felt he was worthy of being a King, even moreso than his twin brother. He, however, was born a few minutes before Vercingetorix, and won that right. As Vercingetorix’s father would often say, “Tough nuts.”
His fourth problem is that he often complained about problems one and three to his parents, who never budged from their positions on these matters, and made Vercingetorix rather unpopular compared to his older brother.
His fifth problem was that, five years ago, he was accused of perpetrating a murder he simply did not commit. Although the courts eventually let him go on the basis that he was never proven guilty, he was never able to explain his innocence either, lowering his status within Hyrule even more and sealed his non-kingly fate.
And so Vercingetorix mulled around his estate in Castle Town, trying not to take notice of the crowds outside.
“Just a little more,” somebody else in the room said. He looked like a man in his twenties, whose attire was best described as businesslike. However, he wasn’t acting the part fully. ‘Shrewd’ would have been a word that most easily came to mind.
“I hope you’re right, Dylan,” Vercingetorix said.
“I assure you, within the week, you will be King.”
-----
Kakariko Town
At a reasonable distance away from Hyrule, a reasonable little shack dwelled just outside of the center of Kakariko town, reasonably nestled in the shadows of Super Happy Non-Lethal Mountain*. In it lived a lone, but reasonable guy. Or so he thought.
Bcdefg123 was angry. The reason for which was not related to the new King’s coronation. The new King he could live with. It wasn’t even that the first King Regis, upon ascension to the throne, passed a ‘law’ which confined Bcdefg123 and Zelda to Kakariko and the mountain surrounding it, for safety’s sake after the explosion at Hyrule Castle 70 years previously.
No, the reason was that it had never been repealed. King Regis had died forgetting about the arrangement entirely. And Bcdefg123 just figured that out. Not like it was a problem anymore, really. But still, it’s the kind of thing that tends to get on your nerves.
For the past 70 years, Bcdefg123 lived a peaceful live in Kakariko. Because of the fact that people from earth age more slowly in Hyrule, it meant that most of his friends from when he originally settled in Kakariko were dead. Dead, or just really old. Bcdefg123, by comparison, looked about 25 years old now. For safety’s sake, he refrained from revealing the fact that he was one of the Heroes from the Hylian Domain to even his friends. He was surprised, given the fact that he had barely aged while everybody else had passed their entire lives, that nobody had figured the truth out.
So Bcdefg123 just sat there, being angry. It was now that he looked upwards at his ceiling, sighing to release his stress.
And that was when he noticed a small piece of technology attached to his ceiling.
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Castle Town- Vercingetorix’s Estate
“Ah, you’re back,” Dylan said.
“I did it.” A young female with heavily tanned skin entered the estate.
“Well, your reputation as the best Gerudo thief was well-earned!” The Gerudo were a race in Hyrule that lived the farthest out from Castle Town, in the harsh deserts, preferring to live with little outside intervention in the way of government, or anything else, for that matter. Their race was made up of entirely females, except for a single male that is born every hundred years or so. Leaving the million-dollar question of how their tribe survives. Most Hylians had an unflattering, to say the least, view of the Gerudos because their last male born happened to be Ganon, the infamous scourge of Hyrule and widely rumored polygamist. “We were right to seek you out. So you placed the tracking device, as I asked?”
“Of course, I attached it inside his house, as you asked,” the girl said. Dylan shook his head disapprovingly.
“What?” the girl asked, offended.
“It doesn’t go in his house, it goes on HIM,” Dylan said.
“I can do that, no problem!” she said.
“Fine,” Dylan said. “You’ve got five hours, or the deal’s off. No money. The important thing is that he doesn’t know about the device.”
After she left, Vercingetorix spoke up. “So why do we need her? She’s an impulsive little brat… And what’s a tracking device?”
“A tracking device is a device that can track people’s whereabouts. We need Echo, impulsive or not, because she is supposedly the best thief out there. She already proved it to us by locating Bcdefg123, AND getting into his house to place the device unnoticed. That takes skill.”
“Perhaps, but why is Bcdefg123 so important?” Vercingetorix asked Dylan.
“Well, Manny…”
“It’s VERCINGETORIX!” he yelled. Vercingetorix’s sixth problem, now that we’ve come to it, was other people making up shorter names for him that often had nothing to do with his actual name.
“Whatever. Bcdefg123 is one of the Heroes of the Hylian Domain.”
Vercingetorix gaped at him. “You’re kidding, right? I thought they all went to that other dimension…” Public knowledge about the Hylian Domain in Hyrule was at best, incomplete.
“They did, except our fellow we’re trying to track. My contact tells me he stayed in Hyrule.”
“Again with your contact… who is it,” Vercingetorix asked.
“Does it matter?”
“I have a right to know.”
“Anyway, I’m trying to have a tracking signal attached to Bcdefg123,” Dylan continued on, ignoring Vercingetorix completely. “It’s important because he’s a hero, and he’ll likely stand in our way.”
“Hmm. I see now…” Vercingetorix contemplated this.
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Kakariko Town
Bcdefg123 turned the gadget over and looked at it. This is NOT Hylian, he thought. But… what is it? And how did it get in my house? He put it down, stumped by it. That makes two unsolvable mysteries… this thing, and that fake Altik 70 years ago who deliberately killed himself before saying anything. In truth, he had given up on the Altik thing as something he would never be able to solve. He left the strange device on the table and stood up to get a glass of fresh Lon Lon Milk™. I think I need to pay a visit to the King. Maybe he’ll know something. Plus, I think it’s high time I get my confinement officially ended…
He turned around, and noticed that the device had vanished. He looked around to see if it fell on the floor.
No.
He searched his pockets to see if he had put in one of them and forgot he did.
No again. That’s really weird… Finally, after he was sure he searched all the places it could have possibly been, he gave up and started his great journey to Castle Town. In reality, Castle Town was only about a mile or two from Kakariko, and could be easily seen once outside the village.
“…and have fun!” A girl walked out from the house across from Bcdefg123’s.
“Hello, Zelda,” Bcdefg123 said to the girl. She was not related to the princess Zelda, or the royal family for that matter, in any way. Only after King Regis took the throne did the popularity of Zelda as a girl’s name skyrocket. At least in Kakariko it did, and indeed it was hard to say the name Zelda in Kakariko out loud without accidentally gaining the attention of no less than thirty-seven other women. Another notable statistic about Kakariko is that no more than thirty-eight females lived there.
“Oh, hello Brian,” Zelda said. Bcdefg123 had used his real name in his dealings with the townsfolk to make it easier to live in peace. “What’s going on?”
“Oh, I need to travel to Castle Town for something.”
“Oh really… I was going to Castle Town too,” she said in an almost maddeningly gentle kind of way. “For a friend’s party.”
“Interesting,” Bcdefg123 said. And so they continued on in silence. At least, they did for about thirty more seconds until they met another young woman on the path out of the city. She immediately spotted Bcdefg123 and waved and sputtered wildly.
“Bcdefg123!” she said. “It… It’s him!”
“What?” Bcdefg123 said. “No wait, you must be…” And before he could say ‘mistaken’, she started to hug him.
“Bcdefg123, the… hero?” Zelda said quietly to herself.
“Ahh, I want your autograph!” the girl said, taking out some a pencil and ripping a piece of paper from a notepad.
“Uh…” Bcdefg123 said. If it’ll get you to go away, sure… He signed his name on the piece of paper, and handed it back to the girl.
“Yeah! I’ve got the signature of a hero!” The girl bounced away into town, leaving Bcdefg123 quite embarrassed. Too embarrassed, in fact, to notice that something had just been slipped into his pocket.
“So…” Zelda said. “Are you…”
“Yeah… actually, I’d like to show you something in the castle. If you have the time, that is,” Bcdefg123 said.
“That’d be nice,” she said. “Sure.”
“Wait!” Bcdefg123 said. They stopped. “What the… they don’t have pencils in Hyrule!” He looked back, but the girl had disappeared.
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Vercingetorix’s Estate
“Two more hours,” Dylan said. He searched his pockets. “Hey, Chris…”
“It’s Vercingetorix!” came an angry reply from down the hall.
“Have you seen my pencil anywhere?!”
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Hyrule Castle
“I’m Bcdefg123. This is Zelda. We need to see the King,” he said to a guard keeping watch at the gates. After doing a double take at Bcdefg123, he went inside. A minute later he came out.
“You have been granted an audience with the king.”
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“So… the famous hero returns,” King Regis the 3rd said. “I’m familiar with the records that say you disappeared into Kakariko. We’ve never heard so much as a peep out of you since.”
“Yeah… about that…” Bcdefg123 said. “Your grandfather confined me to Kakariko 70 years ago for safety reasons. I don’t think there’s any real need for that anymore. So could you… uh… do something about that?”
“Consider it done. Is that all?”
“One more thing. Can you grant us access into the royal gallery?”
“Didn’t you know? My father made the gallery public. You don’t need my permission to go in. Even if you did, though, it wouldn’t be a problem.”
“Thanks.” Bcdefg123 and Zelda both bowed and departed to the gallery.
“What do you need to show me in the gallery?” Zelda said once they entered.
“This.” They stopped in front a large painting that showed six people smiling.
“One of them looks like…”
“Me. I know,” Bcdefg123 said. “This is the Hylian Domain.”
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Vercingetorix’s Estate
“Ah, there you are,” Vercingetorix said.
“Mission accomplished!” Echo said. “I disguised myself and slipped the thing into the guy’s pocket. I even had a bit of fun doing it… Although… that device may not have been necessary.”
“What are you talking about?” an irritated Dylan said.
“Bcdefg123’s in Castle Town right now. I followed him here.”
“Impossible. He’s been in Kakariko nonstop for 70 years, why move now?” Dylan asked.
“I don’t know. But he’s in the castle right now,” Echo said.
“Hmmph.” Dylan held up his wristwatch. “Send in three battle units. Hyrule Castle, right now.” He tossed Echo a small pouch. She opened it, and revealed the pouch’s contents: A single large green rupee, a gem that served as money in Hyrule. This particular large rupee was worth 200 regular rupees. “You might hear from me again soon, Echo.” She disappeared out the door.
“Echo… hah!” Dylan said. “Couldn’t be any more obvious in picking a false name, couldn’t we?”
“Now what?” Vercingetorix asked.
“We wait, and see what happens,” Dylan said.
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Castle Gallery
“So… you stayed in Hyrule, but what about the rest of your friends?” Zelda asked.
“They all went back to Earth,” Bcdefg123. “Well, the last Princess Zelda didn’t. She stayed… but after the attack on the castle, she left for Kakariko with me. Eventually, she died, and… well…”
“You miss them?”
“Yeah,” Bcdefg123 said, looking up at the picture. “I was a bit caught up in the moment when I made my decision to stay here… I mean, excitement and adventure and all that, but now I kinda regret it.”
“There’s no way back and forth between the worlds?”
“I convinced myself there wasn’t. I went all over Hyrule shortly after I decided to stay here, looking for another portal. But now I’m not so sure… some weird things have been happening.”
Suddenly, three people walked into the gallery through another door, each brandishing twin swords. One of the people had blood on his swords.
“Bcdefg123!” one of them yelled.
“What do you want?” Bcdefg123 yelled back.
“Your life!”
“Run!” Bcdefg123 said to Zelda. Once she was gone, Bcdefg123 spotted a sword in a glass case. He kicked the case, shattering it, and grabbed the sword, unsheathing it. It felt rather unwieldy. This is what I get for 70 years without wielding a sword… Bcdefg123 thought. Oh well! He rushed towards the three people, and stopped when he discovered, like the criminal 70 years previously, they all looked like Altik.
END of Chapter 1

*See HDL Interlude

Everyone else will come in soon enough... I briefly thought of coming up with some kind of storyline for everyone on Earth, but then I decided that since nobody's active anymore, it's their loss (Altik, you influenced the plot, so that's good enough, right? :p)

This post has been edited by Bcdefg123 on Jun 25 2009, 03:03 PM

[Altik_0]

You say that as though you resent me for it. I was just curious about the story!

Good, by the way. I'm interested to find how the 70 year gap has changed all the rest of the characters.