A Shadow's Past by Calacirya
Summary: Every one has heard the tale of how Link was brought to Kokiri forest. But the winds no longer whisper the tale of his brother Kane, the shadowy version of Link that resides inside the Water Temple. How was he locked in there? Why would he be evil...
Categories: Fan Fiction Characters: Link (OoT & MM)
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 2 Completed: No Word count: 1468 Read: 26442 Published: Mar 08, 2004 Updated: Aug 27, 2004

1. Chapter one by Calacirya

2. Chapter two by Calacirya

Chapter one by Calacirya
Don't worry guys. This is just the begining.

Times in Hyrule were prosperous. There had been many celebrations in Hyrule Castle town lately. The King and Queen were celebrating the birth of their daughter, Princess Zelda. The townspeople had been treated to a feast at the castle on the day of Zelda’s birth. Now decorations filled the town. Pink and white flowers decorated even the alleyways. It was a joyous time.
It was the happiest time of Brone’s life. But this had nothing to do with the Royal Family’s good fortune. His beautiful wife Lita had just given birth to twin boys, named Link and Kane. Brone was a castle guard. Even he wasn’t of high ranking he was liked by all. Even the King himself was fond of Brone. He was always smiling or telling a witty joke.
Brone’s patrol was over and he was headed home. He had bought Lita beautiful flowers. Roses and daisies adorned the bouquet. He approached his house. It was a quaint place. A nicely tended garden was out front. He opened the door.
“Shh,” Lita whispered. “I just put the boys to sleep. I don’t want them waking up again.”
“Alright I’ll be quiet. I brought you these,” he handed her the flowers. “You know they’re not as beautiful as you are.”
“You flatter me, my love.”
He wrapped his arms around her. “I love you...” A thunderous smash sounded in the distance.”
“What was that,” Lita was the first one to react. Her Sheikah blood made her that way.
Brone didn’t answer her. He opened the door and went outside. A horrible sight met his eyes. There was a huge fire near the castle. Flames towered high and licked the castle walls. He ran back inside.
“I know you have to go... Brone... be careful.”
He kissed her on her forehead and ran towards the castle. As he drew closer he could hear screams. There was no apparent way to get inside the walls. The fire covered the great wooden door. There were no other guards in sight. He glanced around and his eyes fell upon the moat. Diving into the water he began to swim. He spotted a hole in the wall a foot above the water. He surfaced and grabbed the ledge. His fingers kept slipping. When he got a firm hold he pulled himself up onto it and he squeezed through the small hole.
He still heard the screaming. “Who’s there!” he called. Still he saw no one. He entered the main hall of the castle. The screams grew louder. He flew up the steps and entered the throne room. There on the floor a woman lay. A skeleton monster with a sword stood over her. Brone dispatched the monster fairly easily. Only two slashes with his sword took it down. Brone picked up the woman. He noticed a Triforce symbol that adorned her crown.
“My queen...” he gasped.
“It’s too late for me...”
“No it’s not... I’ll get you out of here.”
“You must save yourself.”
“What has happened here Milady...?”
“It was g... gan... gan...” Then she was silenced. The Queen of Hyrule died.
Brone laid her body on the floor. He turned and left. He left the castle the way he entered.
Lita saw as the fire spread to the town. She gathered her crying sons and carried them out of the house. Brone was running towards her.
“We must leave.” She called.
“Come with me to the stables.” Lita followed Brone. But she couldn’t run that fast because of the two children. Brone stopped her. “Here let me take Kane.”
The knight’s stables were far enough from the castle that they didn’t catch on fire. Brone took a night black horse. He brought out Lita’s snow white horse, named Sheik. Lita and Brone mounted their horses and raced towards the town gates. It was almost nightfall. After crossing the drawbridge a group of Redeads stood in their way. They emitted a horrible shriek. Sheik was a very reliable horse, trained by the Sheikah; it had no problem with the zombies. Brone’s horse on the other hand started to buck and Brone almost fell off. He had only one hand to hold the reins, for Kane was in his other arm.
Chapter two by Calacirya
Lita turned around and saw Brone and his horse in distress, she quickly turned Sheik around and charged the monsters. The large white horse trampled the Redeads into the ground. "Brone, hurry, they may get back up!"

Brone grunted as he yanked on the reins to get the horse to slow down. In a few seconds the horse calmed and began again at a trot. "Good girl," he said as he patted it's head. Brone turned his head to look at Lita and he couldn't see her. In fact, he couldn't see anything. The world seemed to have gone dark, the stars extinguished, his sight gone. "Lita! Where are you!," he yelled through the darkness.

"I'm here Brone!" she called back, her voice was coming a ways away from him to his left. "This dark cloud, it's something vile. Lita snapped her fingers and a small light appeared in a pendant on her chest. Though the light wasn't strong enough to break through the dark fog. "Can you see my light!" she called out.

"I... I can't see anything... no light!" he hollered.

Lita cringed, Brone's voice seemed farther off now. They two horses were slowly wandering away instead of finding eachother. "Stop your horse Brone! I need to find you first!" She heard him call to her his approval of the plan. The sound of his voice seemed to be coming from her left, so Lita turned her horse in that direction and began trotting. "Keep calling out to me Brone! I need to hear where you are!"

"Alright!" Suddenly a disgusting noise of ripping flesh rang in Brone's ears and he felt blood spatter his face. In less that a second his horse took off at a fast gallop. Something... some monster had attacked the horse. Brone pulled back on the reins as hard as he could but the beast would not slow. "Lita! Help! I can't stop it!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. But he couldn't hear anything back from her. The only sounds to be heard was that of the horse's hooves and the meek crying of Kane.

Brone's horse was in pain, the monster had made a huge gash in the poor beast's side. In it's panic it had begun running and wouldn't stop, even if it could see nothing. After a few minutes of galloping the animal crashed into a ditch and Brone was taken down with it, still grasping the baby boy to his chest. The sickening crack of the horse's neck as it hit the ground announced it's death.

Brone yelped in pain as the large animal's weight was thrown onto his leg. He could feel the warm gush of blood coming from his crushed leg, but it was rapidly becoming numb. Kane had begun bawling in his arms. It had all happened so fast, what had happened to Lita? What could he possibly do now, he had to save his son. These were the thoughts racing through Brone's head as he began to bleed to death. He quickly gazed up at the sky and realized that the stars could be seen. The dark fog had lifted.

Brone laid Kane on the ground to his side and tried to jerk his leg free. All that was to be had was a sharp pain that raced up his side. He panted and tried again to dislodge himself out from under the dead horse. Sweat was dripping from his face as he began to feel increasingly cold. Brone stopped pulling himself in grim realization. He couldn't do this, he was stuck, and he was dying. All he could think about was Kane. The poor baby that will die beside him if he cannot get free. So after resting for a minute or so Brone began once again to free himself.

Soon enough Brone became to weak to pull, he had gotten no where for all of his effort. He laid back on the ground and stared up at the stars. He picked up Kane and cradled the wimpering child in his arms. "I'm so sorry... my boy... I only wish you could have had better..." Tears streamed down the sides of Brone's face as his vision slowly faded into darkness.
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