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| Chapter Eight: Starting Over Again |
| My homecoming was bittersweet, to put it mildly. I was a completely different person now.When I got back to Rose Garden, I was greeted by an ailing Jono and a very disappointed Aunt Kally, among other unpleasant surprises. Ewan, it turned out, was my first cousin, the son of my birth father's twin sister. We would be the best of friends after learning this news, but our time grew short. Two years after my homecoming, he would be murdered by one of the Red Dragon's men. In the meanwhile, I began to |
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| learn more and more about my destiny as a Triforce Guardian. I was sent to a mission to learn about my latent powers, given to me by the old tattoo on my left hand. My identity as a Triforce Guardian was kept a complete secret, for fear that one of the Red Dragon's men would come looking for me. During that time, I learned more about him too. He was a real threat, not some phantom as we had once believed him to be. There were far more potent phantoms now. My relationship with Jono was never quite the same. I don't think he could ever trust me not to run away again. We never talked about what happened. I couldn't live with the shame of Jono knowing it. |
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| Fate had other plans for my life anyway. It was three years after my return to Hyrule when the invasion began with a night known as "the night Zora harbor burned." I remember waking up to find Amanda standing over me. She told me to hurry out of bed and along with her, Jono and I rode to North Castle, illuminated by the fire of the harbor. It was a warning. On the way to the castle |
| Jono fell off of his horse. He had been poisoned by the Red Dragon's left hand man suffered a massive stroke, dying the next hour. I found myself comforted by the most unlikely person. Aden was in the castle. Amanda introduced him to me as my half brother, a fact he had neglected to mention during our last encounter. There was no time for me to grieve. Almost immediately after Jono's death, I was introduced to a woman named Lysia. Lysia, it turned out, was the head of a great rebellion against the empire of the Red Dragon. Her headquarters were located in North Castle and she was beginning to assemble a team of warriors to serve as last resort. The biggest |
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| surprise was that, for a leader, Lysia had chosen Philip Summer, Adriana's drunken lout of a brother, now sobered up and serving the rebellion. I was placed on this team, known as the Guardians of Tomorrow, as second in command, along with Aden, Adriana, and four new people I had never met, a girl named Ariadne and the Fanel Siblings: Mia, Jesse, and Sito. Now, I'll admit, I'm not the easiest person to get a long with. The first few months were rough. We had a hard time with the whole |
| teamwork thing, but as the situation grew more and more dire, team came together more and more. Hyrule's situation was desperate before long. Our fall was absolutely inevitable, so Lysia finally made her choice. She decided to send the Guardians twenty years into the past, in a vain attempt to put an end to the Red Dragon by stopping his begining. Before we left, she told us everything we needed to know. I never got to say goodbye to Amanda. |