I've had various little projects in the writing realm, some of which go on hiatus, others get completed, and some abandoned.
The first big one I guess was a modern Zelda called The Legend of Zelda: The Forgotten Past. Basically, in the 1980's, Hyrule has begun (as it seems to do often) taking the events of its past with a grain of salt. So when a guy in a Hawaiian shirt, jeans, and shades just walks in like he owns the place and the Triforce of Power mysteriously disappears, nobody really cares that much. Nobody that is except the nation's young princess, Zelda (but she's schizophrenic anyways). Well, somehow, Her former nanny (who has long since been committed) learns of the location of yet another skeptic: some kid named "Link" of all things. He's not convinced there's any real danger either, and even when he is, and Ganon starts killing victims, nobody outside of the enslaved world will believe them... well, almost nobody.
This, however, never really left the ground. The concept was semi-inspired by the Jewish Holocaust, but could have used some more... I dunno, solidity. plus it never actually got written in the novel style (you know, Paragraphs and description and shit). However...
There was another Zelda story which had a surprisingly high success: A sequel to Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. This was the only game in the series officially marked as a numbered sequel, so I took the liberty of naming the story "Zelda 3". Amazingly, nobody confused it with A Link to the Past.
Zelda III: The Secret of
GANON continues the adventures of the original generation when a plot is executed to store and hide the Triforce in the neighboring kingdom of Calatia, with Link as the bodyguard and, to the public eye, merely a representative and hometown hero (Link was born here.) However, this plan fails and Link is ordered to recollect the Triforce and sneak it back over to Hyrule. (learning what Hyrule did could lead to an international incident.) However, Link has a bit of unfinished business in this town, regarding what happened to his parents and why he can't stop thinking he had an older brother... ...also, Ganon haunts Link's dreams, poking him and seemingly encouraging him to ignore his orders and concentrate on his personal vendetta.
Now, this one actually was completed. You can read it here:
http://www.thehylia.com/forums/empty-t1871.0.html My third project, which eventually died out, was my personal stab at the "Search for Schala" scenario. Magus has settled down and tried to make friends amongst a colony of refugees in 12,000 BC. Unfortunately, bounty hunters come looking for "Janus", and burn down the colonists' home. In a rage, Magus learns what they were planning, but also scares away the friends he worked so hard to make. Once again on his own, Magus, alongside his changeling pet, Alfador, contemplates finding out where those hunters came from and why they wanted Janus... ...not long before he realizes someone has stolen his amulet. Following a tip, he sails to a nearby city, where he finds a young dancer girl has stolen it, and chases her. She tosses the amulet in a Nu's mouth and jumps in, a gate forming inside the Nu (crazy huh?) Pretty much the rest of the fic is Magus apprehending this brat, and the two of them working together to figure out what those bounty hunters were up to in both 600 AD and 12,000 BC.
This one effectively died, but had it seen completion, then during a dire situation with a sealed "Zeal" door, Magus would have asked the girl (her name's Terri) to "use her pendant and open the door". Terri eventually agrees, but has no idea how Magus would have known she had Schala's pendant. She and Magus argue for a few moments after this. She asks him how he could have known about it, and he tells her.
"Don't insult me", Magus says. "I knew you were Schala the moment I saw you."
To this, she admits, but instead of a heartwarming family time, from that moment on they pretty much just bitch at each other about all things. (Usually Magus is to blame.) However, at the end of the story's resolution, Magus attains some wisdom and offers a heartfelt apology for treating her so bad.
...as I said, that one pretty much died, for better or for worse.
Now, I'm working on a long-term continuation of Captain N.
Twenty years have passed since local youth "Kevin Keene" disappeared after buying a strange television. When a young man going into college comes across the same box, he too becomes victim to it, and finds another world on the other end. A world where, yes, video games are real. In his first few days there, this boy defeats Ridley, meets Link, makes good friends with Mario, and even starts a relationship of some sort with Samus Aran...
...but where is Kevin Keene?? Where is the original Captain N during all this!? After Mother Brain was ultimately defeated, he said he was going back to him home world, promising he would stop by and visit often. However, he is nowhere to be found either here or on Earth. Now, when the world needs a Game Master more than ever, Ridley has re assumed power over the space pirates and essentially drove out all other villains in terms of competition, annoying Dr. Wily and absolutely ruining poor Bowser (Ganon is deceased.) Is this new kid the only thing standing in Ridley's way?
This series takes a lot of liberties. It's more or less based on the actual games than it is the series, and there's a lot of discontinuity between here and the show. Instead of a pompous jackass, Link is a kind of dorky but lovable nut, Mario actually has a part, and Samus, instead of being an overbearing psycho lady in a walking gold tank, is a shy girl who, when away from the comfort of her power suit, hides herself in a big green sweater she is almost always seen with. She and the new guy do develop an interest in one another, but she's very afraid to express it, not sure what Ridley would do if he found out.
Book I: The New Captain N is completed, now working on book II: Operation JET.
