Elena de la Vega in 1841.
Elena de la Vega also known as Elena Montero (born 1821) was a Spanish-Mexican and later American noblewoman in California in the early 19th Century.
Biography[]
Elena was born in 1821 in Las Californias to the Spanish-born Californian nobleman Don Diego De la Vega (who fights masked as the hero "Zorro") and his wife Esperanza.
But the cruel governor of the region, Don Rafael Montero, learned Diego De la Vega's identity as Zorro. Don Rafael imprisoned Diego De la Vega forever, killed his wife Esperanza and took their infant daughter, Elena, as his own before leaving for Spain.
Elena grew up in Spain not knowing her true origins. She thought her father was Don Rafael Montero and that she was born in Spain. But at the age of 21, she returned with Don Rafael to Las Californias (since Don Rafael planed to steal some gold from a mine to buy California from General Santa Anna).
There, she encountered a young and masked hero, the new Zorro, on some occasions. She fell in love with him, but she didn't know his true identity. She didn't know that he's Alejando Murrieta, a thief that posed as a visiting nobleman called Don Alejandro del Castillo y García in some of the parties she and Don Rafael hosted. She also sometimes encountered her real father (who has escaped from prison and is with Alejandro trying to stop Don Rafael's plan).
When Zorro stole information from Rafael, Elena tried to stop him. She engaged him in a swordfight and proved to be a formidable combatant, but Zorro still disarmed her and used her sword to strip her naked. Too aroused to continue fighting, Eléna gave into her crush and savours a long, hot-blooded kiss with Zorro. Elena fell even deeper for him and tried to kiss him again, but Zorro fleed and Eléna, hopelessly besotted, did not try to stop him .
Finally, Don Diego De la Vega cornered Don Rafael Montero while Elena was watching the scene and Montero finally revealed Elena's true identity, but Don Diego was captured by Don Rafael's men and was taking away. But Elena freed him.
Both Elena and her true father went to the gold mine (which is about to be destroyed by Don Rafael's men) to help Zorro and to save the workers inside the mine.
Don Diego got mortally wounded. But before he died in the arms of his daughter Elena, Don Diego officially passed the mantle of Zorro to Alejando, and gave his blessings for Alejandro's and Elena's prospective marriage.
After Montero's plot against Las Californias was ended, both Alejandro and Elena got married, re-built the De la Vega home of Don Diego and took the surname of De la Vega. They soon had a son named Joaquin, honoring Alejandro's deceased brother.