The Legend of Midna

Chapter 1: Distant Memories

Doesn't it look wonderful? The landscape of the twilight world. Staring up at the sky with my hands on the balcony rail I wonder how much has happened since my departure from the world of light.

"Link"

By now he has long since been dead. Here in the twilight world only a year may have gone by, but in the world of light hundreds or thousands of years may have gone by. When I destroyed the mirror of twilight our worlds were no longer connected and time was thrown apart. I am the Twilight Princess and my name is Midna.

Not long ago Zant my father's adviser gained unlimited unknown power. We though he was abusing the shadow power of our tribe but, his power came from something else. We learned later that his new power came from the Dark Lord Gannon the prince of darkness. Not much was known about Gannon so I had my advisers study his past.

Zant wanted to be a ruler but became a puppet Gannon used him to return to life. Zants new power almost destroyed my kingdom. In his lust to rule he cursed me to be an imp and banished me to the world of light. When in the light I had no choice but to use the power of the fused shadow to stay alive. Zant started to replace the light of the world with pieces of twilight. Then Link, the hero of light got dragged into this mess and although he save my life and the world of light. I can't bring myself forget what adventures Link and I went though.

My hand clenched into a fist and hit the black rail. I was right to destroy the mirror! But even as I repeat the words in my mind I can't bring myself to say it out loud.

I looked up again at the clouds and I could swear that I saw Links face. "Link, did you miss me?" I asked the cloud but the answer never came back to me. Tears started to well up in my eyes as I thought of him. The tears fell down my cheeks as I thought of Link and the only thing I could say was the one thing I never wanted to admit. "Link, I miss you!" I let out a scream and my knees collapsed.

Some guards herd my scream and ran to my side. "Princess are you alright?" the question boomed in my head NO, no I was not alright. I wiped my tears away and felt my heart fall as I returned to standing on my feet.

"I'm fine!" I said sternly turning to him. "Have you found anything on the legends of the hero of light… or about Gannon and his powers?" I griped my hands together.

The guard paused. "We have Princess… are you sure you're al-"

"I'm fine" I interrupted. "And I have told you many times before to call me Midna." I corrected. "What have you found?" I asked looking at is face.

"We have found an older legend about Gannon and someone else known as the hero of time." The guard shifted his eyes and moved his hands directly to his sides. "Dexis the head researcher knows more than I do."

I looked at the door way off the balcony. "Then I will see him, now." Without word I left the balcony with the guard following my softly. The black stairway seemed to take a lifetime to end. The narrow light above me seemed to darken as I walked closer to the room with the information that would hurt me forever. The guard ran in front of me to open the door. I stepped inside. A man sat behind a desk reading a book in a second language.

"My guard says you have news for me." I said walking to the seat next to the table.

The man looked up from his book. "Ha-uh yes, yes I do." He reached for a book on his right.

"Dexis right." I ran my fingers over the table collecting a large amount of dust on my figures.

He looked at me like he was stunned that I knew his name. "Yes" he stuttered. "um-uh Princess Midna I have found everything on Gannon available in the twilight realm" he paused.

"Proceed" I moved my hand in the air, people always responded to it.

"Wel-well while looking in Gannon's past I found that the first one to try and kill him was the hero of time and with some speculation we found that the hero of light and the hero of time may be the same person. But we can't find the hero of lights name… he is unknown."

My eye widened "What is the name of the hero of time?"

"Uh his name is four letters L-I-N-K Link" Dexis read from his book.

My heart pounded at the sound of his name. Link could be a reincarnation of the hero of time. Of course he was, he was the hero of light what was different if he was also the hero of time. "What happened to Link? What is his story?"

"Uh he was a Hylian boy his mother left him to the Deku tree lord of the Kokiri. She died and he grew up, then he left the forest with the Deku trees fairy Navi. And when the world was threatened by Gannon he saved the world with the help of Zelda and the master sword. They locked him in the sacred realm. Link later returned the master sword and Navi left without a word. Link left Zelda and said he would return after he found his true friend Navi. But ended up falling into Clocktown and saving then becoming friends with the Skull-Kid who was possessed by Majora's Mask (a mask made from the remains of a beast that could go in and out of dimensions at will.) He never found Navi and died on his way back to Zelda."

I was stunned at what I was hearing about the hero of time. He saved the world twice and found misfortune. Did my Link also die lonely and what was the sacred realm. "They locked Gannon in the sacred realm what is that."

Dexis scrambled for a book and handed it to me. "Th-There's a picture." Then he pointed at a picture on the right page. It was a blue chamber with for waterfalls and a platform in the middle. Six plates lined the platform all different colors and with a symbol on each. And to my amazement the triforce in the middle. The caption said: This is a picture of the sacred realm sage chamber which was destroyed when Gannon the owner of the triforce of power regained his power and escaped. Gannon was locked in the chamber by the hands of Princess Zelda, Link, and the six sages.

I handed the book back. "Is there a picture of Link?" He turned a page and handed a page back to me. It looked just like my Link from every detail. Again the caption said. Link the hero of time one of the eight who banished Gannon to the sacred realm. When Gannon escaped it was said that Gannon found him and killed him along with the six sages. No body's was ever found. "What happened to Gannon?" He turned one more page and Gannon picture was right there and as I read the caption the peaces fell into place. Gannon the never-ending-enemy after escaping from the sacred realm drained the power from the six sages taking ultimate power until captured by the six mirror gods. He was stabbed by the sword of pure light and then used it to kill one of the mirror gods but froze when he noticed the light scare in his chest destroying his body. With no other option the five remaining gods used the mirror of twilight to ultimately ban him from the world of light. "And so they sent him here." I stated and turned the page back to Link's picture. I tore out the page and through the book down returned to my balcony. Links image in the clouds had gone. I looked at the paper in my hand and without warning my tears fell again. "Link, the hero of time, the hero of light, and the hero of my heart." I released the paper and it fell to the balcony floor. "I don't know what to do. Link help me. Please!" But his picture looked the same, no answers came to me. I picked up the picture from the floor and folded it. I saw the twilight moon come from the dusk and felt closer to the world of light. I thought of going to bed but his image would not leave my mind. Still, I decided to go to my room. My body fell apart and lifted two floors then into my bed chambers. I reformed on my bed, unfolded his picture and with one last tear said

"Good-Night my Link"