No Time For Diplomacy

Nayru's POV

It was over at last.

Ganondorf had finally been defeated again, and while we knew that he would come back, we also knew that it would be quite a while before he came back. For now at least, our work was done. As we gazed into the scrying pool showing Arbiter's Grounds, I happened to chance upon what Midna was about to do. She was standing on the magic staircase from which the Mirror would send her to the Twilight realm. I saw a single tear fall from her eye, which she pushed towards the Mirror. I would've ignored this except the tear didn't fall. But that meant…NO! That was not what we had in mind! She isn't supposed to do that! We have to do something, except…we can't directly interfere. Hmm…what to do…What to do… Aha! I know! "Sisters," I said urgently, "I think Midna is going to break the Mirror! We must send someone to stop it."

"But who?" Din said, confusion evident on her face.

Then Farore spoke up, "Maybe we could send on of the old man's people."

I smiled despite the urgency of the situation, "Good idea, Farore. Why didn't I think of that earlier. Heh, and I'm supposed to be the goddess of Wisdom." I said, opening up a portal as I did so.

Michael POV

This was not a normal day.

For some reason, while I was leaving High School, some guys wearing football jerseys started chasing me. Oh crap, I thought to myself, What did I do to piss these guys off? Against all logic, I turned around and started walking towards them as though nothing unusual was happening. Clearly surprised, the football jersey guys slowed down to a walk as we closed the distance. "Hello", I said pleasantly, "Is there something you'd like to see me about?"

"Umm, well…why aren't you running away from us?" one of them said. Just as I had expected; all brawn and no brains whatsoever.

"Last time I checked, it was a free country." I replied smartly.

"Well, well, well. The fresh meat is actually brave enough to talk back to seniors." Another one said. Now they were standing close enough to be intimidating.

Oh, now it makes sense. This is just the standard Seniors Vs. Freshman style bullying. Well, good thing these three hadn't considered their prey more carefully.

Acting as though I'd seen someone behind us, I called out, "Hey, Mr. Bryant!" Mr. Bryant was the Vice-principle. As all three of them whirled around, I quickly sprinted away, crossed the low fence, and ran for the intersection. The police officer directing traffic there let me through immediately and I looked back to see that the seniors had finally noticed that their prey had escaped them. Seeing me on the other side of the intersection, one of them yelled "Hey!" as I headed towards the Civics center across the road. I decided that I would have a little more fun with them and went around to the back of the Civics center instead of inside it.

As I sprinted for the fountain in the Civics center's courtyard, I thought about where I would go if they found me here. The open air theater usually was a good place to avoid people, I could also go to the playground nearby. Suddenly, I heard an uproar close by and peeked out from behind the statues in the fountain. Sure enough, they had found my first hiding place, which would mandate me to disappear to my second one. The open air theater then.

As I ran to it, I heard shouts behind me of "Run while you still can, nimrod!" and "That's right! Flee before the terrifying seniors!". Ok, that last one really didn't make sense, but what the heck. As I jumped onto the actual stage I decided to hide in one of the conveniently placed side halls from which the actors would usually appear incognito. As I ran into the side hall, I looked over my shoulder at the seniors and didn't notice the soft light glowing in there until it was too late…

Ganesh295: Sorry if this doesn't get you hooked and at least hang on for a bit of a while, a bit of a while being around the thirteenth or fourteenth chapters. Hopefully, I will be able to make this easier to sink into by that time.