Zelda belongs to Ninetndo.
Please read this before reading the actual story.
WARNING: The BEGINNING of this story CONTAINS SPOILERS! It gives away the ending! Please do not read this story if you have not finished Twilight Princess! Read it only if you have finished or if you just don't care about the ending of the game!!
Anything in italic is the character's thoughts.
This will be my first Zelda fic, any problems, or suggestions would be awesome. Please review! Thank you.
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He could still remember how she looked in those final moments. Her eyes saddened, but filled with a strong will. He understood why she did it. Why she broke the mirror connecting her realm and his, into a million pieces. Ironic, that's the way he felt when he saw what she was about to do. It was for the best, though. But he couldn't stop thinking about her.
He knew she was about to say, 'I love you' to him, she had already said it a million times before that. In different ways, when they were fighting together, saving each other's lives. Most of all, the moment she sacrificed herself for him.
He knew he really loved her too. It wasn't because of her beauty. He loved her before he saw the 'real' her. But of course, what he saw, when they were on their adventure, saving the two realms, that was the real her. That was what he fell in love with.
Link was currently living with Ilia. They were married, had a young son named Boyce. He loved the two of them. He cared for Ilia deeply. She was one of his closest friends, but she didn't deserve this. She didn't deserve her husband, constantly thinking of another woman. Of a woman he truly loved. He felt bad for Ilia. But he gave her all the love he could.
The mirror was broken.
He'll never see Midna again.
There was no magic in the world that could put that mirror back together again, and he already started a family with Ilia, he couldn't just get up and go out on an adventure, looking for another way into the Shadow world.
How would he even say that to Ilia? "Sorry honey, but I'm going to go see if I can find a portal to the Shadow world so I can be with the woman I truly love." Yeah, right. He scoffed in his head.
Hyrule was in relative peace since Link had once again sealed Ganondorf away, all those six years ago.
Was Link glad? Happy at the peace everyone was enjoying? Sure, of course he was, but a different part of him was itching for Ganondorf to escape. Then, maybe he could be the hero again, and maybe… Midna would help him.
That part of him was itching. It grew stronger and stronger each day. He tried to scratch it, tried to hide, bury, suffocate it. But it was still there, always there. Taunting him.
He wanted to see Midna.
He needed to see Midna.
He was dying without her.
He often found himself, thinking back to when she would say, "I don't see what's so wrong with it. It's quite beautiful." Referring to her world of shadows. And now, Link wanted that. He wanted to be immersed in the shadows. The Twilight. The pieces of shadow and darkness floating around him. Drifting. An easy feeling. The echoes vibrating through his head.
But he had a son, and a wife, who did care deeply for. He wasn't going to abandon them. He wasn't that kind of person.
So, he cared for Ilia.
He treated her well.
He taught Boyce how to farm.
He taught him how to ride a horse.
Herd goats.
And sometimes, on his days off, Link would take Epona out of Ordon, and he would ride all over Hyrule. Reminiscing about the adventure he had, had. He would go and visit all the places he had gone to. Although it wasn't often he got to visit all the friends he had made, he did send mail. Of course it went through the postman and even though he said he was the fastest, he did tend to make stops at certain places.
Link seemed to remember him from a different time.
He was probably just going crazy.
He waited. Waited for when Ganondorf, would be released.
Once an ordinary person is thrust into war, they never come back the same, do they?
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If you liked the story, please review. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue this story, with school, and my other stories I'm currently writing, I might not finish this. But if you want me to, of course, I'll just have to finish it, won't I? Thanks everyone!
Sincerely,
DirtyVelvet