So yes I am back with the sequel/prequel of my 'Light and Darkness' series. It takes place 150 years after the last one... Yes I know big jump, so be prepared to be filled in on a lot of shit before we get to the funny stuff.

The prequel will come in later, it will basically be Link writing in his journal like the last chapter of 'Light and Darkness,' and it will just be going over stuff like how Link and Kai met.

So enjoy, and once again, I hope all my old friends find this!

Link shambled back into his room. It had been a long day, and the hero was exhausted. I never thought being a King would be so hard. He began pulling off his clothes, wincing as his stiff muscles throbbed in protest.

"You okay, princess?" Kai appeared from out of the shadows and pulled the tired king onto a well needed hug. He didn't like how all the stress was taking the brightness out of Link's eyes. He gave the hero a chaste kiss before helping him remove the rest of his clothes.

The day to celebrate Lore's death was tomorrow.

One hundred and fifty years.

Link still couldn't believe it had been that long ago that Shigen had been kidnapped and they were forced to go on a grand adventure to the land of Kaithlaka to save his ass. It felt like it had been only yesterday that Ganondorf pushed the evil Queen out of the tower window.

He leaned on Kai as his husband helped him walk over to their bed and slowly crawled onto it.

Kai was beside him in a matter of seconds, snuggled into his side, offering as much comfort as he could.

Link had become King of Kaithlaka and the Five Kingdoms soon after Lore had been killed. Shigen had been in charge of the throne until he found someone he deemed worthy to rule, but none of the nobles, who ruled over their sections of the five kingdoms, were capable. They were either a greedy bastard, or a tyrant.

Finally Link had agreed to step in and help.

"I know I'm inexperienced, and I have no idea how to rule a kingdom, but I'm better than nothing, or Lore for that matter."

Link let his eyes slid closed. Beside him, Kai was already snoring quietly. The worst part about being King is the fact that I can't tell anyone that I have a husband. It's bad enough that we're about to have civil war because of my sudden appearance on the throne, but to have a husband? That would be the apocalypse.

Talk of a civil war had broken out after Link had taken up the throne. Even though Shigen had claimed him as his heir, the people still weren't happy.

The nobles were the ones who put up most of the fuss. They claimed Shigen had no right to the throne in the first place since he had already died, and the vampires were also siding with the nobles against them.

This had been going on for 150 years, but so far no one had made a move to take the throne. But something's changing, I can sense it, they're up to something.

Not that it would be easy to launch an attack on them since they had decided to keep Lore's Castle Daen as the capital. It was always cloudy there which made it easier for the Haniam who lived with them and the swamps were still around which made it very difficult for an army to march up on them.

The doors to his room swung open loudly, and Link, who had been dozing, jumped up fully awake.

"Shigen?"

Shigen, who was now the General of Link's army and one of his most trusted advisers, stood in the doorway, still as death. His one good eye was on Link, the expression on his face remained blank. "Sexy... I can't take it anymore..."

"Huh?"

Kai groaned and sat up, giving Shigen a glare that would send a puppy running for cover. "Fuck off, Emo; can't you see we're trying to sleep? It's bad enough I don't get enough sex, don't make me bitch about not getting enough sleep."

Ignoring how angry the shadow sounded, Shigen leapt onto the bed and dove under the blankets on the other side of Link, wrapping his arms around the still confused hero. "I miss my Ryuk..."

Link sighed and pet his head, finally realizing what his problem was. "You were the one who let him leave, General; if I recall properly." He shivered at the drop of temperature between their bodies. I should really get a blanket between us...

Shigen was only wearing loose fitting pants, so it was very chilly to sleep next to him.

Kai rolled his eyes and snuggled himself more firmly into his husband. "Whatever, just keep your hands off my man's junk and I'll let you live, for now." He closed his eyes and quickly fell back to sleep.

Shigen sighed, his breath blowing the hair out of his left eye, revealing a long ugly scar and a silver eye. "And I did indeed let him be taken to Hyrule... only because Ganondorf was so insistent that he be the one to go..."

Link brushed a finger over Shigen's blind eye. "Yeah, that was a bit creepy; he appears out of nowhere and demands to take Ryuk back to Hyrule for some kind of mission. Then throws him over his shoulder and disappears."

Shigen growled. "He's lucky I was too stunned to catch him... I would have eaten him..."

On the other side of the snuggle pile Kai mumbled out. "In the good or bad way?"

Shigen rolled his eyes and tried to resist the urge to punch the sleeping shadow. "Who would have known shadow could even be annoying in his sleep...?"

"Damn... fucking crooked."

Link laughed as Shigen flung himself at Kai.

Shan watched the scene before him with curious, narrowed eyes. It was late in the afternoon; the sun was in clear sight, not a cloud in the sky to provide any shelter at all.

Not that Shan minded, his tanned skin and yellow eyes told you immediately that he was a Gerudian, a desert dweller, so the hot summer sun didn't faze him.

But he doubted his new friend felt the same way, being one of the Haniam and all...

You see, Haniam are nocturnal creatures, they rarely come out in the sun, willingly that is.

But what brought Shan and his friends out here was the large gathering of people in the middle of castle town, and they weren't there celebrating any merry event.

It was an execution. An execution of a very well known person.

The Hero of the Goddesses.

The hero looked very tired standing on the large stage that had been set up for the event. His hair was dirty and stuck to his sweaty face, his green tunic torn and sad looking. His eyes were closed, and if you weren't looking too hard, you would say he had somewhat of a peaceful expression.

The queen sat in a makeshift throne on the stage, her eyes narrowed and weary. And beside her sat the new king of Hyrule Talbin. His expression, unlike the others was smug.

It didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on, the hero was about to be sentenced to death under false accusations. The villagers must have also caught on; they were yelling angry insults at the Royal families, some even taken under custody because they were getting too wound up.

The Captain of the Hyrulian army stepped forward and cleared his throat. "Today we are all here to witness the death of a traitor." Another outburst of rage. "He is charged with rape." Some people were gathering up rocks and throwing them at the guards.

Shan huffed. There was no way in the seven hells that the hero raped anyone. It was all a ruse.

The captain placed the rope around the hero's neck and checked to make sure everything was in place, if it wasn't, it would be a slow and painful death.

Where the hell is Ryuk? He should have done his job by now.

They were running out of time, soon Link would be dead.

Then, just as the captain pulled down on the lever, an arrow flew a crossed the sky and severed the rope, landing with a thunk against the wood behind it.

Link fell to the ground with a yelp, and the guards scrambled.

This was Shan's cue, with a leap he was falling off the roof, he rolled once he hit the ground to prevent himself from breaking any bones. He ran through the crowd, pushing people aside when they got in the way, and then finally he came to the hero who was lying limp on the ground.

The king was walking briskly towards him while drawing his sword, probably planning to finish the hero off while he was down.

Shan unsheathed his scimitars and caught the blade in between his two, sparks exploded from where the blades met. Shan growled at the man and bared his fangs causing the king's strength to falter for a few seconds giving Shan the opportunity to shove him across the clearing.

With the king taken care of, he flitted over to Link's side and felt for a pulse. It was still there, Ryuk's timing with the bow was nothing less of perfection. He sheathed one of his blades and lifted the small body and flung him over his shoulder making sure to keep one arm on him, and the other grasping onto his second blade.

The place was in chaos, people were screaming and running for their lives, soldiers were disoriented, not sure of who to attack.

Shan couldn't help but chuckle at their helplessness. He made his way towards the darkness of the alleyways, panting as he met up with Ryuk.

Ryuk only acknowledge his presence with a curt nod, and then they made their way back towards the Haniam's old home, the Shadow Temple.

"You could have fucked the whole plan up with your tardiness!" Kai yelled, her lilac hair was sizzling with electricity, or anger...

Ryuk snapped at her face which had gotten too close to his. "Don't fuck with me, bitch. And besides, nothing happened to the stupid hero, so who gives a damn if I was late or not?"

Shan pushed himself in between the two. "Kai, calm yourself; Ryuk did fine." He placed the hero gently on the floor, making sure he didn't jostle him around too much. "Go find Kyou and Zeon please; I think the hero needs medical attention."

Kai 'humphed' and stomped off, reluctant to take orders from a demon, but did so none the less.

As soon as she was out of sight, Shan turned on Ryuk. "You did exactly what we needed you to do, I'm glad my father retrieved you, things could have been a lot messier than they were."

Ryuk rolled his eyes and sighed. "Whatever, as long as this means I can get my ass back to my home I don't care, I'm getting tired of Kai already, fucking bitch." He crouched down and reached out to poke the hero's cheek. "Why is he sleeping?"

Shan crouched down beside him and brushed his fingers gently over Link's forehead. "Hyrulians are fragile, both mentally and physically. When he fell he must have believed that he was about to die and fainted."

"Jeez... He's nothing like the previous hero, Link is a badass." He poked Link's nose a little too roughly, and the hero's eye slowly blinked open.

Link stared up into the darkness for a few seconds before letting out a small whimper. I knew I was going to go to the underworld. He cringed as he felt his arm throbbing, obviously broken. Well what should I expect? It is the painful, torturous one. He sat up slowly holding his arm and froze when he felt the presence of another person beside him. Two to be exact.

"You alright, boy?" The first voice sounded to his right, it sounded angry. Link inched away from it, only to bump into another solid form on his left.

"Don't be scared, Link; if we wanted to kill you, you would be dead already." This voice was exotic with a thick accent he quickly identified as Gerudian.

Wait... I thought I was dead? Link used his good arm to reach up and place two fingers on his neck, feeling for a pulse. He sighed in relief when he felt the light fluttering under his fingertips. "Where am I?" He held his hand in front of his face, noting that it was dark enough that he couldn't see it.

"You're in the shadow temple." A cold hand clasped his, the skin was much cooler than that of a normal Hyrulian's, almost dead like. "Don't worry, mommy and girly man will be here soon. He'll fix your arm up."

Shan stood and used his magic to create a ball of fire in his hand, lighting the room up so that the Hyrulian could see. "I'll go light some candles."

Two men entered then, one with long blond hair and another one with short blonde hair, the shorter haired one looked similar to him, and the hero blinked at him, confused.

"You must be Link, the new hero," the long Blonde haired one eyed him happily. "You do look awfully similar to our Link..." There was a barely audible sound of foot falls as he stepped toward him and then his hand was on his forehead, the cool flesh made him shiver.

"Your Link?" The hero clutched his broken arm to his chest. Either I am dead or these people are delusional.

Zeon knelt down beside him and gestured toward his arm. "I can heal that for you," without waiting for consent he placed his hand on Link's broken arm and pink flames leapt out at him, making him jump away.

Ryuk grabbed him and held him still. "Calm the fuck down, you're such a spazz."

Done with healing his arm, Zeon took his place beside Kai once more, giving the kid some room.

Kyou and Ryuk also backed away.

All of them starred at the young hero, whose face was turning red from the awkwardness of the situation.

Luckily Shan chose that moment to return from lighting the candles and sat on a nearby rock, breaking the silence. "Well now that we've solved one problem, we just have to worry about Zelda now.

Ryuk pulled out his bow and swung it around bored. "I still don't know what the fuck is going on, why the flying fuck was Zelda trying to kill the hero anyway, I thought she liked us?"

Shan shook his head. "This is not the same Zelda you knew, you're talking about the late queen Zelda, she died 60 years ago but is now reborn, much like your hero here."

"That still doesn't explain she wanted to kill him, I thought they were on the same side?" Ryuk glared at the hero, and Link returned it.

Zeon sighed and sat down, pulling Kaichou into his lap. "We might as well start from the beginning."

"Zelda and Link were both reborn 18 years ago. Me, Kai and Kyou have been keeping an eye on them, because we all know when a hero and Princess are reborn, that means that trouble will soon be approaching Hyrule. Princess Zelda was acting just fine until she turned 15 and married that snobbish king, I think he's poisoned her mind or maybe placed a spell on her, she started acting like a tyrant and even tried to start a war with Ganondorf who has still remained peaceful, even after all the attacks on his people."

"When she and the hero did finally meet, she..." He trailed off, looking at Link who was listening intently.

Link continued for him. "When she figured out that I was the chosen hero, and that I didn't have a Triforce, she called me a follower of the traitor and tried to have me executed, which thankfully you saved me from."

Ryuk glanced at the kid's hands. "You don't have a Triforce? That's fucked up."

Zeon nodded in agreement. "I think it's because Link decided to keep it. He told me that before, after that second battle with Ganondorf where his lost Zelda, he left Hyrule and discarded the Triforce, and since he didn't this time around, I'm guessing that's why the reborn hero doesn't have one, and why Zelda thinks he's a traitor and tried to kill him."

Ryuk slapped himself in the face. "That's what you get for fucking with time then."

"So what's going to happen now?" Kyou asked Shan quietly, "what is your father going to do with this hero?"

"And when can I go the fuck home?" Ryuk asked no one in particular.

"Father is sending this hero back with Ryuk to Kaithlaka to keep him safe. Father thinks there's about to be a war between our two worlds."

Link raised his hand. "I don't even know you people; do I even get a say in any of this?"

"No." They all said in unison.

Link pushed Shylo back with his sword, side stepping when the young man retaliated by slashing toward his chest.

They circled each other around the training court; neither of them seemed to notice the crowd that had gathered to watch.

"Stop concentrating so hard, you'll never be able to see my weak spots if you keep thinking about how you're going to attack next."

Shylo grit his teeth and tried to relax his mind, but his head wouldn't stop buzzing!

He saw his father raise his right arm, preparing to swing his sword leaving his ribs slightly open, but he didn't know how on earth to get there before the Master Sword hit him first, so instead he blocked.

Link's mouth pulled into a frown; he couldn't understand why Shylo was having such a hard time relying on his instincts and reflex's in a battle. "I left myself wide open; why didn't you hit me?"

Shylo stepped back and held his sword in a ready position. "You would have hit me first."

"That's what your shield is for."

"Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad..."

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"

Without another word, Shylo sheathed his sword and turned his back on his father, walking out of the ring mumbling to himself.

Link shook his head and sheathed his sword as well, staring at his son's retreating form. "Oh Shigen, you're so lucky to have a son who doesn't throw hissy fit like his mother every five minutes." He smiled down at his shadow, knowing that Kai could hear him, and was probably throwing one of said hissy fits.

Shigen moved past the dispersing crowd and went to stand next to Link in the ring. "No my son is actually kind of cute... even if he does swear his head off at me when I do something that embarrasses him..."

Link chuckled and made his way out of the ring and back into the castle with Shigen not far behind.

"My Lord Link!"

Both men turned around to see one of the royal guards sprinting towards them.

"Ah, Roxven, what's the emergency?" Link asked the young man who looked like he was about to pass out upon reaching them.

Link didn't blame him, that armour looked heavy.

Roxven flicked his gray hair out of his eyes with a growl and handed Link the scroll he was holding, his piercing green eyes were glowing. "This is for you, it's from the Five Nobles; they want to make some sort of agreement with you."

"I see..." Link took the scroll from him and eyed it cautiously. "Thank you for bringing it to me."

Roxven bowed low. "It's not a problem, my King."

Link gestured for Shigen to follow him and quickly walked to his room. I wonder what they want now? This day is turning out to be epically suck-ish.

Once they were in the room and behind closed doors, Kai appeared and glomped the King. "What do you think they want? You think their ready to give into your sexiness and come crawling forth to lick your boots?"

Link sighed happily, as if the thought pleased him. "That would be wonderful, but it's probably more along the lines of 'we've found another loop hole in your claim to the throne, please give up your crown immediately!'"

Shigen shook his head, trying not to smile at their goofy show.

He opened the scroll a bit dramatically and read.

Kai could tell that it wasn't good; all the color from Link's face was draining away. "What's wrong, Princess? Did they raid your underwear drawer or something? Planning to sell them all on craigslist?" He licked the hero's cheek, trying to get some reaction from him.

Link held the scroll in front of Kai. "It's a treaty; they agreed that they'll accept my rule."

Shigen narrowed his eyes. "What do you have to do in return...?"

"It's a marriage contract," he held it up for Shigen to see. "I have to marry the Princess of Korvat."

First chapter, done!

I'll be posting little bio's of all the Haniam that will be in this fic so you can keep track of them, they will be coming into the story soon!

Ja~