The Triforce Generations

Ilia was in the upstairs of the house, trying to put Link's baby sister to sleep when she heard the front door slam shut. Startled, she jumped a little and the movement caused Niko to become fully awake, crying. Ilia tried to shush the child while rocking her back and forth as she walked down the stairs (put in place of the ladder in the game) to see Link in front of the door. She automaticly looked worried when she saw his expression, especially with the stories of whats been going on around the village and woods. "Link? Are you ok? What happened?"

Nalia had already thought of that plan. She reached down and tore her already tattered skirt off up to her knees so she could easily and more quicly move she then took the cloak Mark had handed to her. Honestly she thought it would look a little conspicuous for someone to be walking through town with a black cloak on in the middle of the day but at least she could keep her face hidden. She worried about her family and also her friends, Ben and his friends but she decided now wasn't the time to worry about that. For now she had no choice but to trust Mark and then she would go find her family... including her brother. "Ok, lets go." she said as she fastened the cloak around her sholders.

 

Nalia followed Mark without much hesitation. This wasn't the first time she had wandered Hyrule Castle Town in disguise oddly enough... just never under so grim of cercomstanses. She walked past Mark and then turned a corner down one of the more quiet allyways. She walked a little more slowly so that he could catch up, unsure if she wanted to trust him completely or not still.

Ilia looked really upset but seeing as she was barely getting Niko to be quiet and go to sleep she decided not to yell. Instead she nodded and let him try to attend to his wounds in peace for a moment as she paced through the house until she was absolutely certain that Niko was asleep. She walked upstairs and put her back in her crib and then walked back downstairs, not exactly suprised that she wasn't near as angry as she had been before and kind of grateful she had waited until now to say anything. 'Age has made me slow down' she thought to herself irritably as she reached out to help him. She was still quiet for a long time, deciding that he had been punished enough by the looks of his wounds and besides, guilt usually worked on her husband all the time. "I'm glad you're ok." she finally said after a moment "There have been weird things happening all over the woods lately. Heck... there was an animal in the village just this morning that-" she stopped herself from talking, he had had enough excitement for one day without having to know that Rusl was dead and that his dad and a few other men from the village were going to go after the animal that had done it.

 

Ilia put the cloth she had been using to help Link down and also stood up. Cursing herself internally for her loud mouth. She sighed "Something was in the village today. No one actually got a glimpse of it but whatever it was, it got Rusl." she said sadly "Thats all I know for sure. Your father went to see if he could get some more information."
Just then, Ilia once again was startled when the front door boomed open. "Ilia? Is everyone ok?" she heard her husband call as he was already on his way into the room Ilia and Link where in. Ilia surely hoped that the sound hadn't woken up Niko. "Link we're in here. Everyones fine." she said as she saw him enter. He looked worried but his expression quickly changed as he looked at his wife and son.
"Link are you alright?" Ilia said cautiously.
Link nodded "Yes. We ended up tracking the animal that had attacked Rusl. I was sure it's path led to this house." he shook his head. "Apparently we were wrong."

Nalia looked at Ben and hesitated. Here she was with this strange man she never met before who clamed to be helping her and no one would know if something actualy went wrong. Nalia had confedince in her self defense but she was no fool, you cant ever underestimate a friend or a foe. She paused and then took a moment to look at Ben, wondering if he could see through the shadows of her hood, then she gave Mark a slight nod and took off farther into the ally.

 

Ilia screamed when the door suddenly slammed open and Link flew across the room. Upstairs Niko woke up and began crying but the commotion was too loud for anyone to hear. Ilia ran to Link and saw him unconcious on the ground and knelt next to him trying to wake him up. She saw movement from the corner of her eye and saw her son running at the black monster in the doorway "No! L...!" but it was too late as a part of the ceiling over Link's head caved in and another black monster jumped through it, landing on top of her son.
Ilia saw her husband's sword on the ground and picked it up. She managed to knock the monster away but the two of them turned her attention on her and one made a step toward her. Just then Ilia heard commotion upstairs and heard Niko's screams of terror and cries. Ilia panicked and ran upstairs, her heart pounding loudly in her chest as she saw a third creature standing over the crib on the other side from the door. Ilia ran to the crib and pulled Niko out and with a gasp kicked the crib over at the creature knocking it back a few steps but didn't do much damage. Ilia knew she had to go get Link to wake up. She went to the door to the stairs but the other two creatures were already there. Ilia stepped back, her eye's wide as she clutched her whimpering daughter closer and looked around. There was no escape. She was cornered.
*Blackout*

*Later*
The village looked completely different. There was a strange mist about the entire town and houses were caved in and broken. There wasn't a person in sight. Link's house was one of the worst. All that remained of the home was a couple of walls and the floor, one fraction of the ceiling was also there but it looked as if it would cave in any moment now. Ilia was gone along with Niko there was deathly silence and two figures lay on the ground unconcious. As Link woke up and sat up, he looked around and then suddenly felt a familiar pain deep in his gut. With a startled groan he tried to stand up. "Wh..." he panted, his face going pale and he could feel himself transforming "Aaahgh!" he groaned as his knees buckled and he fell on all fours. After all these years he had forgotten how much it hurt to transform but it only lasted a second before his scream turned into a howl and a large wolflike dog stood in the place of where Link once knelt. The wolf looked around and then took off to the crumbling staircase of his home but he reached the top to see that the staircase ended with nothing. He could see broken cradle on the black and white ground yards below him. "Ilia! Link!" he tried to call but it came out as a rough bark.
Annoyance grew in his chest and with a deep growl he padded back down the stairs and then saw his son lying on the ground unconcious under a stack of wood shards. He walked over to his son with a bad feeling in his chest daring not expect the worst. He pushed the rubble off of Link with his head and paw and then rested a massive paw on his chest. He growled again softly and tried to nudge Link with his nose. He could tell he was alive.

As Mark and Nalia got to the outer gates of the city she was suprised to see a woman standing in the middle of the bridge. She was just standing there facing away from the city. Her long black hair was hanging down to right between her sholders in a slightly messy state. She frowned and looked at Mark, unsure what to think of the woman. She stood as still as a statue.

 

As Nalia and Mark passed the strange woman she looked straight forward, her eyes were odd looking to Nalia. They were very pretty... but there was no color in them they were a silvery white color. Nalia wondered immediately if there was something wrong with them.

"You aren't as discreet as you think you are, Mark." she said his name without hesitation. Nalia was wondering if they knew eachother but then she said something that really suprised her "I saw you comming days away."

She ignored the suprise that she was sure both people were feeling and continued talking. She could tell it was Mark and Nalia because there were only two of them she could 'see' them in a way using the shape of the air around them "Having her out in the open like that is dangerous for both of you. He's looking for her you know."

 

Nalia was a bit annoyed that they were talking about her like she wasn't there but she held her tongue for the moment.

The strange woman at first didn't answer Mark. She walked past Mark and Nalia and toward the edge of the bridge. By now Nalia was sure this chick was blind so she had a sudden urge to go grab her hand to stop her from accidently falling off the bridge but the woman stopped just short and then turned and looked off in one direction, motioning Mark and Nalia to be silent as if she heard something. Then with starteling speed and acuracy, she reached behind a nearby crate and grabbed Ben's sholder and pulled him out of hiding. She looked in Mark's direction again "Because you didn't notice a comon boy following you. How do you expect to take the princess of Hyrule to wherever it is you're going without a little help."

"Ben!" Nalia said.