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Part 1 of The Heart of Hyrule
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2020-09-19
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2025-09-05
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The Heart of Hyrule

Summary:

Link, Zelda and Laya are three close friends, each occupied with their own duties and problems. While Zelda tries her hardest to awaken her sealing power, with Link ever by her side, Laya is being researched for her magical, elemental powers. No one, including Laya herself, knows why she has these powers, nor does she know where she came from; she just arrived at the castle one day, knowing nothing besides her name.

Eventually, Laya's researchers discover something about her which could endanger everyone in the kingdom, and she is forced to take cover in Hyrule Forest.

Shortly after this, Ganon breaks free.

While Link and Zelda fight on the battlefield, Laya awaits her fate in the forest, but when Zelda arrives and informs her that she and Link may be gone for years, the distress causes Laya's powers to explode, and she falls into a deep slumber.

Link and Laya wake up after a hundred years—deprived of all their memories—and coincidentally meet again, unaware of their shared past. When they discover they woke up at the same time, they decide to journey together, aiming to rescue the princess and figure out their lives in the process.

But they find much more than they bargained for.

Notes:

The idea for this story came when I started fantisizing about Link not having to make the long journey through Hyrule by himself. Breath of the Wild is my favourite game of all time, so I found a lot of joy in brainstorming ideas and creating this fic! Although this project is 100% self-indulgent, I'm sharing it here in case others might like it. <3

I tried to stay as close to the game/canon lore as possible, but please let me know if you find any mistakes or irregularities! And of course, if I've written anything offensive, please inform me and I'll change it immediately.

I know not everyone likes reading about OCs (I rarely do it myself), but please give it a try if the premise interests you! I wrote this with a lot of love for the game, and I hope it shines through. <3

Chapter 1: Prologue

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The legend of Hyrule is known to all. It features the knight with the sword that seals the darkness, the princess who descends from the Goddess, and the dark creature of Malice, who can only be contained by the ancient sealing power. The legend is an endless cycle: the creature’s strength grows until it breaks free, and is then defeated and sealed away again by the knight and the princess. Time and time again.

But few know of the other legend; perhaps because it is a most ancient tale, hardly retold—perhaps because one of its protagonists never returned to Hyrule after her first appearance. Whatever the cause, only two of the legend’s most significant figures remained in memory. The knight and the Goddess’ descendant were never forgotten, but the third person was lost in the legend’s abandoned history. She was the elemental sorceress, an ancient being whose powers stem from Hyrule’s deepest core. She was born from the land and destined to protect it.

According to legend, the knight, the princess and the sorceress form that which is called the Heart of Hyrule.