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Bringing out the Worst in Lorule

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“Wh-what more can I do?” I said, breathing heavily.

“So it was you who had me imprisoned in that painting, Princess Hilda?” Princess Zelda asked, gentle even during this accusation.

“Obviously,” I snapped.

Hyrule’s hero, Link, turned to me, ready to strike, but Zelda held him back.

“Please, Princess Hilda,” she pleaded. “No one understands the sacred duty a princess has to her people more that I, but you can’t---”

“You understand nothing!” I shouted. “Your kingdom has been under the protection of your Triforce…”

“But that doesn’t---”

“This isn’t over!” I yelled. “I must have it!”

Link was about to strike. Concentrating the last of my power, I threw the Master Sword from his grasp. While he was in shock, I picked it up.

“The tables have turned, hero of Hyrule,” I declared.

He held his Hylian Shield up, but magical as it was, it couldn’t survive a strong slash of the Master Sword. Link, now defenseless, would be dead. His Triforce would be mine.

I struck him down, and his blood stained his green tunic. Next, it was Zelda’s turn to die.

Her dying words rang in my ears, “I understood…”

With her down, I had all three pieces of Hyrule’s Triforce. Yuga’s--- rather Ganon’s Triforce was mine too. Link slayed him for me.

“Wait!” a familiar voice begged. “This has to stop!”

Ravio, the so-called hero who went AWOL, stumbled into the room. He looked at the bodies of Link and Zelda, then at me.

“Your Royal Highness… What happened here?”

“You vanished on me! Why do you come crawling back?” I demanded.

“Forgive me, Your Highness. I’m a coward at heart. There was no way that I had the courage to stand up to Yuga… and you,” he shook his head. “But I knew to go to Hyrule. I knew they’d have a hero who could help me.”

He looked into my eyes, searching them for guilt. There was none, and I refused to back down.

“Another betrayal?! This hero has proven useful to me, but you… You wanted him to defeat me?!”

He hung his head in shame. “I’m sorry, my princess. But it was with the best of intentions.”

“Look at me,” I commanded.

Looking into my eyes, he said, “I wish the best for our kingdom, but by ruining another…? You’ve brought out the absolute worst in Lorule.”

“You’d rather see Lorule crumble?!”

“No, of course not. But there must be another way…”

“No… There is none.”

“The reason your ancestors destroyed our Triforce was to stop such chaos!”

“That’s not---”

“Look around you. This is exactly what happened with our Triforce!”

“Still---”

“Princess Hilda, I just wanted to save you from all this.”

I slapped him with my free hand. I couldn’t help it. His words couldn’t be true.

“I may not have done the right thing, but I wasn’t wrong,” I shouted. “You truly are a traitor, aren’t you?”

“A traitor…” he echoed.

“Yes. You and anyone else who disagrees with me. You deserve the worst I can do to you.”

“But---”

“Silence!” I ordered. “You shall be imprisoned forever, left to rot in my dungeons. Without your bracelet.”

“Princess Hilda, think about it,” Ravio pleaded. “Think about what you’ve---”

“I’ll lock you away personally if you don’t shut up.”

“Hilda… please,” Ravio says in a small voice. “Think…”
If Ravio came a minute later...
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