[ZGen] Valley of the Flood (T)

I don't know if anyone else has ever made one of these, but I couldn't resist. I already have another fanfic started, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna finish... Now, bask in all it's would-be glory. BASK I SAY!

Valley of the Flood
Chapter one: A boy among Zoras

*Whoosh! Clang!* The blue suited boy slashed his sword past me, then back and into my shield. I thrust my sword back at him, and he blocked. We dueled like this, dancing around the dead tree and collapsing doorways, our blades and shields a flurry of sliver, black and blue. At some point during the heated battle, I delivered a powerful enough blow to his sword to knock in straight into the tree, all the way up to the hilt. He reached behind his back, and unsheathed a larger, two handed blade, and lunged at me again. It became a struggle to defend against his attacks, and soon he knocked aside my sword and shield. Before I could defend, he spun around and struck me in the chest. I fell backwards, and through the water I only just was walking on. Just before I lost my vision, I watched him look down at me and smirk, just before he grabbed his sword from the tree.

I pulled myself up from my bed sweat running down my face and back. “*Sigh*, Why do I keep having that dream...” I swung out of bed, grabbed my guitar from against the wall, and walked over to my small window.

I looked out at the aquatic landscape it looked out on, and played a few notes. This always managed to calm me down. I had dreamt about this guy a few other times, but I had only told anyone about the recurring dream, and even then, I only told Ralek, a Zora who had been my friend for as long as I could remember.

“Have that dream again?” He said, right on que. He stood in my doorway, also dripping. He had been swimming early in the morning, like always.

“Yeah. You’re up earlier than usual today.” I said, only now noticing.

“Oh! Yeah, I saw some weird passage while using a new route yesterday, so I decided to check it out today. You gotta see it, it’s amazing what I found!”

“C’m on, just tell me!”

“No, It’s gotta be a surprise!”

“All right, I’m coming.” I got myself ready, pulled on my custom Zora armor, and followed him to a lake the basin. It was just like the dozens of others like it up here, northeast Hyrule, small geysers that had several branching rivers that led to the central lake, or ‘Zora’s Domain’ as outsiders called it.

This one was just closest to our rooms, and coincidentally, was the least used. He jumped in, and swam the opposite way, through a small opening near the rooms.

“How did I miss that?” I said, following. We traveled underground for several feet, then we reached a small chamber, with a single lit torch burning in the center. I assumed Ralek lit it on his first trip.

“You ready?” He asked, pointing to another tunnel, leading down like a water slide.

“Yeah.” He jumped down, and I followed. We slipped and slid down at least a mile, then were spit out a wall and landed in a small, clear body of water, full of rubble. We surfaced, and I looked around.

There were several natural chunks of land laying about, most of the big ones blocking off the water from going further down the valley. The way we came in was the only source of water here, but it gave quite a lot into the small area.

It was open to the skies, but looked like it hadn’t been accessed in a while. The rocks were dusty where the water didn’t hit, and the rubble just lay around; no-one had bothered to move it. I looked to the right, and saw collapsed cave where a waterfall might have been.

Suddenly, my mind exploded into a flurry of images, and I saw the area in the past. It was a maze of land, shooting up out of the ground and wrapping around the area. A waterfall roared down where the cave was. The hole I came in from was much bigger, but no water flowed out.

A young boy with blond hair and a green tunic walked up to the platform before the waterfall, pulled out a blue potato- shaped object, and played a catchy, eleven note tune. As if on command, the waterfall parted, and he jumped through and disappeared from view.

“Dude! DUDE!” I opened my eyes. Apparently I had passed out, because Ralek was shaking me awake.

“I’m up, I’m up.” I pulled myself up against a rock pillar, and stared at the collapsed passage. Could that have been, him? The guy from my dream?

“You okay?” Ralek asked, leaning next to me.

“Yeah. Had a dream, or vision or whatever.”

“Was ‘he’ in it?”

“Man, nothing escapes you, does it?”

“Ha ha, guess not.” We stood there, leaning against the pillar of rubble, until my stomach started growling.

“Man, I’m getting hungry.” I said

“Me too. Let’s go.” Ralek said, crawling back up the tunnel. I followed, and soon, we found our way back to the basin. We then swam down one of the main lake access rivers, and wound up in the central lake.

We swam casually up the large river to the left of the room, and stood up in the shallow waters of the gathering hall. This was like our dining hall, and six long, thin stones had been placed years ago as tables. Our diet consisted of mainly fish, fruit and some mushrooms. Occasionally, we got spices, but it was rare.

We swung by the counter that stood before the kitchen, where our best chefs turned these simple ingredients into delicious dishes. I picked up an apple, as did Ralek. We sat down and ate, then traveled up to the throne room. This was an unofficial gathering room, where the king gave us daily announcements and news.

He was the only one who ever left the river these days, and it was only to meet with the king of Hyrule and the chief of the Gorons. Everyone conversed about these things here, and Ralek and I liked to hang out near the entrance to keep up with important stuff, but also stay in the shadows to keep up the image that we don’t care.

A profound amount of nothing interesting, just like always as of late. I had a hunch that something WAS going on, something we weren’t supposed to know about, but I didn’t dare try to bug our king about it. It just wasn’t worth his temper.

After I was sure there was nothing interesting, I went through the cave to the left in the chamber, then turned right at the fork that presented itself.
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So? What do you guys think? Trust me, it gets actionier.

i like it. so far, for chapter 1 it's pretty short, but i like how you made the zora's the main characters. drop me a message when chapter 2 gets out. btw, if you get time, pls leave a comment on my story: LoZ WW from our world to theirs! thanks! (pls leave me a message when chp 2 gets out, in all seriousness)

Thanks! The main character isn't actually a zora, but that'll become clear in the next few chapters.

Here. No comment.
Chapter 2: missionaries

I entered into blinding daylight, into the holy grounds of the Zora’s fountain. This was our main religion, although we did believe in the three goddesses like the rest of Hrylue. Ever since the deity of our race, lord Jabu- Jabu, rose to the heavens after the great freeze 100 or so years ago, we prayed to him once a week to protect us from another disaster like that.

I paid my due respects, then left. Even though I wasn’t truly a Zora, they required anyone living here to do so. I casually made my way back through throne room, to the basin, and to my room.

About an hour later, a Zora messenger came up to my door. “What’s up?” I said, approaching him.

“The king requests your presence. Yours and Ralek’s.” He said.

Dear god... I thought. What did Ralek do this time? It was sarcastic, of course. Ralek and I never got in any real trouble. That the king wanted us for something was troubling, however.

“All right, We’ll be up in fifteen or so minutes.” I said.

“Very well. I’ll inform him at once.” He said, and jumped back into a pool swimming toward the throne room. I walked to Ralek’s room, which was a few doors down.

“Hey, the king want’s us for something.” I said, inviting myself in. He was in the corner, practicing with his fin-blades on a dummy.

“What for?” He asked

“How should I know? Some messenger just came up to my room.”

“All right, better not keep him waiting.”

We once again traveled down to the central lake, then stopped in the corridor before the throne. We were a few minutes early, and the king was talking with someone.

“Wait.” I said in a whisper. “Let’s see what they’re talking about.”

“Sounds good.” We pressed up against the wall, and crept forward as much as we could, while remaining in the shadows.

“But sir,” A zora said, most likely his confidant. “Wouldn’t it be less risky to wait for-”

“I’ve taken risk enough waiting this long!” The king shouted. “We’ll be doomed if we wait any longer!”

“But the legend says that the hero will-”

“A LEGEND will not save my kingdom! We’ve waited enough, and must take fate into our own hands!”

“I suppose you’re right...”

“... As you know, the forces in all the temples are growing, and the Hylian knights have already fought back some troops from the one in Kakariko. If we let them grow, they will attack. And unite. And should that happen... He might return.”

The king’s confidant could not stifle a gasp. “Then we must do something! Anything!” He said, now panicking.

“My motivation exactly.”

“Then you have my support, my lord.”

I motioned for Ralek to back up, and I followed. When we were a good 10 feet away, we walked in, casual and right-on-time. “You requested us, my lord?” I said.

“Yes. I have an extremely important mission to ask of you.” He said, grim. “Firstly, markus, I want you to go to the zora shop, and tell the owner I sent you to get a sword. He will give you a fine blade, made specially for non-Zoras.”

Why would he want me to have a sword...? I thought.

“Next, I need you both to take the portal deep in the central lake, and use it to go to lake Hylia. There, you must dive to the depths, to the water temple. A massive dark force is rising there, with the power of our greatest treasure to fuel them. Kill them all, then bring the sapphire back to me.”

I was shocked, but still I said: “As you wish, my lord.”

“Then you are dismissed.” We left through the entranceway, both stunned.

kewl. so this is after Link comes, or before? i get it, it makes alot of sense, but this one was a little confusing.

After link. Probably about 80-90 years after OoT. Not sure exactly.

again, no comments. but I guarantee, you will be confused.

Chapter 3: To the temple

When Ralek finally regained his voice, he whispered: “Can you believe this?”

“It’s not easy.” I responded.

“But why did it have to be US?”

“Must be something to do with the fact I’m Hylian.”

“Okay, but why did he send ME too?”

“Because he knows I’d drag you along regardless.”

“Ahh... Oh thanks!” He said sarcastically, punching me in the arm. We had reached the shop, and walked in. The owner was shelving a new Zora tunic.

“Hey. The king sent us.” I said, walking up to the counter.

“Oh, hey Mark. Hang on.” He said, going into his storeroom. Everyone here knew my name, me being the only Hylian living here. He came back out, and handed me a sword.

It was rather short, curved, and pale blue. It looked like it was designed to fight just like Zora fin-blades. There were small, round rubies on either side of the pommel. “Like it?” He asked.

“Yeah.” I said, swinging it around, weighing it up. “Yeah, it’s great!” I spun it once with a twirl of my hand.

“Good.” He handed me a sheath for it, I swung them both over my shoulder, and we left. We jumped into the central lake, and swam to the very bottom. Ralek moved forward and moved a rock away from a small tunnel.

We swam through the tunnel for a good five minutes, then surfaced in a vast lake. We swam to an island with a large, dead tree, and sat, surveying the landscape.

There was another small island, and a bridge connecting the two and the mainland. There was a small building with a water wheel there, and another, larger building built into the wall to the right, connected to the mainland by another bridge.

Again, unfamiliar images flowed through my mind, and again the green clothed figure was there. I watched him, as a child, come through the same passage as we had, dive to grab something, and leave.

I saw him as an adult, diving down to the bottom of the drained lake, and come back up as it filled back up. He conversed with a ninja-like person right by the tree I sat at, and the images ended. I hadn’t passed out this time.

“You ready?” Ralek asked, standing up.

“Yep. Let’s dive.” We jumped into the water, swimming to a depression next to the island. There was a doorway wedged into the wall here. We swam through, and entered into a dry chamber. It was huge, with a square tower leading from the very top to three stories down.

“What now?” I asked. “I don’t think we can jump over to the tower...”

“All right.” Ralek said. “There’s a doorway and a tunnel on the bottom floor.” He pointed to them both. “You head through the tunnel, I’ll go the other way, and we’ll meet back here when we find something.”

“Sounds good.” I said. We jumped down , and split up. I walked down the damp cavern, until I heard a slight noise from ahead. I whipped out my sword, and crept into a room with a massive waterfall coming down from several yards up.

There were several platforms moving down the falls, and an ancient switch sitting next to the door. I pulled it, with great effort, and the platforms began to rise. I climbed aboard the nearest one, and rode it all the way up the falls and walked through a door.

I was now in a room full of fallen dog-head statues bridging platforms above a bed of water. I clambered up to the path to the right of the door, and saw another door with two dog head statues on either side. My heart rate inexplicably went up, an I cautiously opened the door, gripping my sword so hard my knuckles hurt.

When I saw the place I had entered, I was confused. I had exited a door surrounded only by a ruined wall. Across from it, another just like it stood, barred off. A dead tree stood solitary on an island in between the two.

My blood ran cold. It’s here... Just as the realization hit me, a dark figure rose out of the water in front of me. He looked like a shadowy reflection of myself. He lolled his head, cracking his neck, and he gave off a huge flash of light.
When I regained my vision, I nearly screamed. He had taken the form of the green tuniced boy, but retained his red eyes and demented grin. He unsheathed his sword, and I lunged at him.
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*Whoosh! Clang!* The green tuniced boy slashed his sword past me, then back into my blocking sword. I thrust my sword at him, and he blocked. We dueled like this, dancing around the dead tree and collapsing doorways, our blades and his sheild a flurry of silver and blue.

Finally, I struck at his sheild hand, causing him to drop it. Not waiting for him to grab it, I knocked his sword out of his left hand. I grabbed the front of his tunic, near his neck, and jerked his head inches from my own.

“ Who wins now? ” I whispered viciously, and drove my sword through his chest. He stood motionless for two or three agonizing seconds, then evaporated into dark flecks, which sank into the water. his weapons did the same.

“That’ll show you, fates.” I said, as the bars on the doors rose, and I walked through the second one.

The idea seems cool. I see how you got the idea from that fake Zelda artwork on google. That picture was done with cool editing, but the background was from a early 2000 book that won several awards. Anyways, it's kind of different how the Zora's are the main characters.

yeah, I took into play all the fake info. and as I said, the narrator is in fact a Hylian, hence the zora armor he uses.

Chapter 4

I checked the room to the north of the battlefield, and once seeing it contained nothing but dust and a broken chest, I backtracked to the entrance room. After 15 minutes of waiting, Ralek showed up, clutching some sort of device with a spike on the end.

“You find anything?” He asked.

“Nah. Just fought some shadow thing. You?”

“Just this!” He held up the item in his hand. “It’s some kind of grappling hook. Watch!” He looked around the room, aimed at a dog-head statue on the top floor of a one side, and in an instant, shot up to it.

"Woah. What's up there?"

"A busted door. Huh. Looks recent. Come up here!" He threw the grappling hook down, and after failing twice, I managed to grapple up. The door was wrecked, with a two foot, perfectly round hole cutting right through. Everything else was untouched.

"What could've done this?" I asked, picking up a loose shard of wood.

"Guess that's what we're here to figure out. Let's go." He pushed aside some of the rubble, and we continued through.
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We were now in a room with a slope sitting between us and a huge door. There were three spiky shapes patrolling the slope. We grappled up, and climbed through a similar hole in this door.

We now stood on a platform circling a pit, with four pillars in the center. A gooey blue mass was piled up in the corner opposite us. It had a small red sphere in its center, and pulsed gently with strands of dark energy.

"That must be it." I whispered, unsheathing my sword. It shifted, and stood, roughly humanoid in shape. Ralek readied his fin-blades, and it stumbled towards us.

We charged at it, slashing and stabbing, but no matter how much we hit it, it would continue in it's zombie like attack: stumbling and flailing its arms to hit us.

"This isn't working!" I yelled, as I cut part of its arm off, and it seeped back into the body through the legs.

"...I've got an idea. Keep doing what you're doing!" He backed away from the fight, and climbed up the ledge. I kept fruitlessly chopping at it, until Ralek yelled : "Duck!"

I did, and the chain from the grappling hook drove into the blob and yanked the red core out of it. Ralek slashed at it, and it fell apart. The blob stumbled back, then melted and seeped into the ground. The tatters of the core floated together, and glowed a bright blue.

It shone and expanded, then the light died out, and left a Zora girl of about our age in its place. I recognized her and bowed, but Ralek just continued to stand and stare.

"Hey. What's a pretty girl like you doing here?" He said. She laughed.

"Heh. Trying to do what you just did." Ralek looked confused, then realized just who he was talking to. He hurriedly bowed. "Oh, knock that off." Ruto said, motioning for us to stand.

"So, you were trying to kill that thing too?"

"Yeah, Zelda had the same idea your king did. She personally asked us sages to quell these uprisings in all the temples, but it looks like the others weren't successful either. Your king chose well, it seems."

"Thanks. So, what now?" I asked.

"Nothing different. I'll go ahead back to castle town and tell Zelda what happened. You do the same with your king. We'll figure everything out then. Oh, here." She tossed me the zora sapphire; three round blue stones connected by gold.

"Right. Thanks." I said. We made our way out of the temple, and Ruto shot into the sky in a burst of blue light.

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I know it's a bit short, but I think it's got enough content.