Heart of the Yiga (Princess Zelda x Male Reader)

No more messing around

"Oh you're finally here." Master Kohga laughed as I walked into his thrown room.

"You knew I was coming." I said, pointing my blade at him.

"Of course I did, the foot soldiers reported you had arrived. I thought they would be able to stop you." Kohga said, throwing his banana peel to the side.

"Well you underestimate your greatest student, my master." I told him mockingly.

"You were my greatest student but no more, you are a traitor." He snarled, getting to his feet.

I got into a battle stance, my eyes glancing round the barely lit room, checking for any potential threats in hiding but it seemed like it was just me and Kohga and that's exactly what I wanted. "I may be a traitor, but that doesn't make me any less great."

Kohga crossed his arms and shook his head, "Touché." He agreed, although he was clearly reluctant to do so.

"Come on the Master, let's dance." Kohga hopped down from his thrown, throwing a powerful kick into my chest with his stubby right leg.

I stumbled back as Master Kohga flipped round in the air, landing on his feet with a bow, as if this  fight was some kind of performance. He giggled to himself before placing his hands together. I saw energy begin to form between his hands before several small, spiked metal balls appeared from puffs of red smoke.

The balls levitated in the air and circled round Kohga, bobbing slowly up and down in the air as they circled him. Each time the metal balls completed a lap round Kohga, they doubled in speed until they were merely a blur of silver circling the Master of the Yiga Clan.

I had seen him use this kind of sorcery before but he had never used it on me. 

Suddenly Kohga pulled his hands apart and the balls began to shoot off from their previous repetitive motion. I reached for the shield on my back but I was too slow to stop the first ball that graved by my leg, one of the spikes digging and slicing into my thigh as it passed by.

Fortunately Kohga didn't have the best aim and so he only just hit me with the first of the three and I was able to block the second two balls once I had pulled my shield from my back.

I watched as Master Kohga stomped at the ground angrily as the metal balls hit my shield and fell to the ground with a light thud. "This is only the beginning Y/n! There's plenty more where that came from!!!" Kohga cried and laughed hysterically.

"I look forward to it." I smirked. Yes I was cocky but why shouldn't I be? I outperformed every other member of the Yiga Clan so why should Master Kohga be any different?

Princess Zelda's P.O.V

The walk up to the entrance of the Yiga Clan hideout was almost haunting. The road was littered with the unconscious bodies of Yiga foot soldiers and blade masters. You would have been forgiven if you thought they were dead as their bodies looked so lifeless and battered that it was hard to imagine how they were even still alive.

Y/n had clearly spared these soldiers' lives; after all, he used to be one of them so he knew what it was like. Although Y/n showing mercy to the foot soldiers gave me hope and faith in his character, I still feared that Master Kohga would not share the same fate as his underlings.

Fortunately for us, the journey to the Yiga Clan hideout was easy. Y/n had already done all the work for us and cleared our path so we could catch up to him, before he did something he would regret.

As we entered the base, I was met with an eerie silence. This hide out had no life in it, like the whole base had been placed under some kind of sleeping curse. Unconscious bodies decorated the rooms like furniture and art and supply crates had been opened and pillaged.

I imagined that when Y/n entered the hideout, all the soldiers scrambled to get arrows and weapons to fight him off with and in all this commotion, supply crates had been torn open and emptied. But despite the number of soldiers, and the amount of supplies they had, Y/n had been determined to reach Master Kohga and so they had all been knocked down. They were all merely stepping stones in Y/n's journey to the top.

Y/n's P.O.V

The once dark room was now lit by the beams of sunlight that shone into the room through holes we had made in the walls.

Many of Master Kohga's spiked metal balls had been defeated into the walls and many more had completely missed me and smashed straight into the walls instead.

We were both worn out, sweating under skintight red suits that helped to camouflage that we were both bleeding just as much as we were sweating. Although our red suits hid the stain of blood on our bodies, they couldn't hide the scent that filled our lungs.

Every breath was blood or sweat or dust from the collapsing walls or maybe even the smell of rotting banana peels. Every smell was so distinctive and yet they were all disgusting.

Me and Kohga had both stopped fighting for a moment; we were both hunched over, hands on knees and panting heavily. Kohga's coughing sounded laboured and clogged with blood and my vision spun at the smells that filled my lungs. "How did my parents die Kohga?" I managed to wheeze out through laboured breaths.

I looked up and Kohga did the same; our eyes would have met if he hadn't been wearing his mask. "I've told you this many times my child. Some kind of monster, Bokoblin or something like that."

I shook my head and clenched my fists tightly. I grated my teeth as my tongue dried with a thin layer of blood. "No! No more messing around, I want the truth Master!" I shouted. It hurt to shout but I had to make it clear to him that I wasn't messing around. Master Kohga had spent his whole life messing around so breaking that habit, even for just a moment, wouldn't be easy.

"Your parents... Your parents were commoners, just some lost Hylian travellers. They can a little too close to our hideout." Kohga explained while expertly avoiding the initial question.

"What did you do to them?" I asked, though tears were forming in my eyes.

"I would have let them go but they made a mockery of us. They called us foolish for our way of life... So I taught them a lesson." Kohga wouldn't look anywhere near me now.

"What did you do?!" I repeated the question, emphasising every world with a slight tone of aggression and anger.

"I killed them... I killed your parents Y/n, so I could raise you as my own."