Fan Fiction Friday: The Chosen One Chronicles – Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

“What’s wrong?” Dalal asked aloud. “Did they catch us?”

“No,” Kiyoko responded, gravely. “It’s worse.”

“Oh, that hurts!” a loud, comically conniving voice sounded throughout the canyon. “Come on, old friend! You don’t mean that.”

“What is it? Who are they?” asked Dalal.

“Stay in there, honey,” Kiyoko directed. “I’ll get us out of this. I promise.”

“What’s there to get out of, buddy, ol’ boy?” the voice called out again. “You got something against the hospitality of old friends?”

Kiyoko growled, pounding a fist against the carriage. He got up and descended to the ground. “I don’t think I’d call this hospitality, Kohga.”

“Nonsense, Kiyoko! Come on, pal! Let us help you out!” the voice, Kohga, gestured.

“We don’t need your help.”

“Sure you do! Or would you prefer we leave you to those ladies? Might even save us a few men! Gerudo women are nothing to mess with, you know.”

“You’re damn right, you sick coward!” Dalal’s voice rang from within the carriage.

“Oho! She speaks!” Kohga exclaimed with sarcastic excitement. “How are you, my dear? Surely you, a Gerudo, know how terrible your people can be! Don’t you think you ought to tell your boyfriend there to accept our help? Or should I have my men withdraw and leave you to the whim of those warriors you were so desperate to flee?

“Leave us, Kohga! Let us go!” Kiyoko commanded. “Let us go, and we’ll forget this ever happened. We won’t tell the Hylians; we won’t tell the Sheikah.”

“Oh, if only I could trust that you wouldn’t!” Kohga retorted. “But you broke our trust when you betrayed us and fled to live among those pale-skinned, silver heads!

“The Yiga are evil, Kohga. And besides, I can’t trust you.”

“And why is that?”

“Because you’re evil!”

“Oh? What makes us evil? What makes those sell-outs that kneel to the Hylian regime better than us?”

“This isn’t about them! The Sheikah have nothing to do with this!”

“Boy…” There was a poof sound, and then another, as Kohga appeared behind Kiyoko, his hands on his shoulders. “They became a part of this the moment you defected to their clan.”

Kiyoko twirled around, pushing Kohga back. He drew a knife, and held it before Kohga’s face.

“Foolish boy…” Kohga laughed. He grabbed Kiyoko’s wrist and squeezed. Kiyoko winced in pain and dropped the knife, which Kohga stopped from hitting the ground with his hand as he let go of Kiyoko. “Life with those Sheikah really must have dumbed you down.”

“The only fool here is you, Kohga.”

“That so?”

Kohga poofed away, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. Moments later, another poof was heard, muffled.

“Still think we Yiga are the only fools here?” Kohga’s slightly muffled voice rang out, followed by a loud, feminine shriek.

“Dalal!” Kiyoko quickly made for the carriage door, but before he could, there sounded a poof and then another off in the distance as he opened the door to find the carriage empty.

Kohga appeared at the end of the gap that Kiyoko and Dalal entered, Dalal held against his muscular form with an arm beneath her breasts and Kiyoko’s knife to her neck.

“Dalal!” Kiyoko screamed out at the sight of this.

“Kiyoko!” Dalal shouted back.

“Let her go, Kohga!”

“I can handle myself,” Dalal grimaced, threating Kohga.

“Oh? But can your baby?” Kohga moved the knife down to her stomach.

“You wouldn’t.” Dalal said.

“Of course not,” Kohga said, before moving the knife back up. “Or would I?” He teased, before moving it back down.

“Stop!” Kiyoko yelled out. “I’ll come with you. Just let her go.”

“Oh, foolish boy…” Kohga sighed. “It’s not just you I want– it’s your child!”

“What could you want with my child?” Dalal snarled.

“What couldn’t I want? They’re a perfect mix of Yiga and Gerudo blood, the perfect subject to bring about our Lord, Calamity Ganon’s, revival.

“Time and again have the Yiga failed to revive Ganon! What makes you think it’ll work this time?!” Kiyoko yelled.

“My boy, I can’t just go giving our plans away, now, can I?” Kohga taunted. “Though as for your question, I think what I’ve said should suffice.”

A silence spread. Kiyoko was at a loss of words, and Dalal knew better than to fight back and risk her babe’s life. Silently, she prayed to the Goddess of the Sand that help might soon come. And, help would come, though perhaps not for her.

Quickly, the rumbling of hooves sprang into the night, breaking the silence. A Yiga foot soldier magically appeared beside Koga.

“My Lord,” they spoke, “warriors approach. We must act quickly.”

“Hmm,” Kohga pondered. “Yes, indeed. Time is of the essence. Kiyoko! The Gerudo warriors are almost here, and we Yiga do not fancy ourselves to start a fight. Join us–”

“You started a fight the moment you trapped us here in this gap!” Kiyoko retorted.

“Such harsh words for one trying to save your child’s life!” Kohga gave a, “Tsk tsk,” before continuing. “The time is now, boy. Come with us, or we shall leave you, wife, and babe to the mercy of the your pursuers… and last I checked, you meant to get away from them.”

“Like he’ll we’ll go with you!”

“So be it. We really wanted to help. I really wanted to help. So much potential in your child… What a shame it is to see it go to waste. Well, men! Let’s get out of here!”

One by one, the Yiga soldiers began to disappear in a series of poofs, leaving miniature plumes of smoke.

The sound of hooves grew ever nearer. A faint, masculinely feminine yelling could be heard from their direction.

“Last chance, boy. Us, or them.”

“Kiyoko, just do as he says!” Dalal plead with a yell.

“No! We can make it to Fort Hateno.”

“There! I think I see them!” shouted an approaching voice form the direction of the hooves.

“I sincerely doubt that,” Kohga teased.

“Please!” Dalal yelled.

Kiyoko clenched his fist and punched the air below it. “All right… we’ll come,” he said, giving in.

“Atta boy, Kiyoko. Atta boy,” Kohga applauded. “It’s so nice to have you back.”

Kohga poofed away, Dalal along with him. The two appeared next to Kiyoko. Kohga grabbed onto him. Kiyoko tried to wrestle free, but Kohga’s grip was too tight. “Don’t be so difficult! It’s the only way out of here,” he informed. Three then disappeared. Moments later, the Gerudo pursuers arrived.

Two of the warriors dismounted their horses and went to check the carriage, swords drawn in defense. They simultaneously opened the doors on either side, only to find it empty. They each checked beneath. Nothing.

“Captain,” one of the women spoke, “they’re…”

“Gone,” affirmed the captain. “Of course they are. They can’t have gone far! Quickly, we must find them. You two, make for Fort Hateno. I’ll go to Kakariko. Two of you will guard the gap. The rest of you, search the area in between. Come back here once your missions fail, or you’ve got Dalal.”

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Shortly after they disappeared from the Dueling Peaks gap, Kiyoko and Dalal arrived with Kohga and the other Yiga in a far more barren mountain gap. One Kiyoko was all to familiar with.

“Welcome home, boy,” Kohga said. “Welcome home.”

To Be Continued…

 

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John Piland is a writer and editor for Zelda Dungeon. He’s been working on this story for a long time, so he hopes you enjoy it. He enjoys fiction and writing screenplays, stage plays, short stories, novels, and poetry. He’s been an avid Zelda fan for years, and loves the hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV just as much, so hit him up if you play and would like to go adventuring together. Follow John on social media @John_Piland_.