Chapter1: What happens now?
My first story yet! I need at least 6 more reviews that are GOOD to put on the next chapter… tee hee!
It was all over, the adventure completed. I saved the kingdom, Hyrule, and Ilia but what was left now? Was I just to go home and live the life I once had? It didn't seem right at all. Midna had left through the portal to her home making my heart ache suddenly. I had been accustomed to her always being there with me and she was like my conscious. She knew my hopes and my dreams. She felt the sorrow that I held from the adventure and she shared the restless nights with me. She always had something to say even when it wasn't a very nice comment but still having someone there to talk to made the adventure just a little bit more bearable. She was beside me when I fought Ganondorf and she never gave up but to think of her not being here hurts. I thought that Ganondorf had successfully killed her and that made me inconsolable. I killed Ganondorf with one powerful thrust through his stomach out of the revenge that had surfaced but I knew that it wouldn't being Midna back until I walked up the hill to see her standing there but she wasn't the same. She wasn't a creature but a beautiful woman or at least that's what I think she was. Se had grown to be as tall as Zelda and although her skin was still patterned with black, white, and green designs, she has beautiful brown hair that she tied in the front and wore a black cloak that she had the hood over her face. It couldn't have been the same Midna but it was and I couldn't believe my eyes. I had greedily thought she would stay with me and go to live in Ordon but that would have been a mistake. She didn't belong in Hyrule or anywhere else on earth. She belonged in the shadow realm and I just had to cope with it. Zelda had told me that she would be able to come back but that was also not true for Midna broke the portal with her magical tear then left to never return. She had said that she would never want anyone to get hurt from the creatures in her realm.
Here I am now standing beside Zelda wishing that Midna was here even though she would never be.
"You must not ache for her passing," Zelda said wiping the dust from her thick skirts. "She is home now and happy that you are safe. You should be more honored then anything that you have saved her from Ganondorf's grasp."
"I just can't help thinking that she would stay…" I said with a sad smile. "… With me."
"You know that could never happen Link," Zelda said trying to cheer me up some. "But what about this llia girl you thought about so much?"
"I don't know," I confessed. Compared to Midna she just didn't seem to compare. Did I sound selfish because my adventure was over?
"Link, you are the only one who knows what you want," Zelda said. Now I need to get back to the castle." She put her arms around me in a sudden embrace. Shocked I looked down at her head that was pressed against my chest and then everything around me went blank except for Zelda who had never let go. Her hair jetted everywhere as we fell into pure darkness, faster and faster and faster until we were dropping at an alarming speed.
"What is happening?" I screamed out as we dropped on and on.
"Just shut up?" She said holding her concentration. They fell and fell and fell into the darkness until it felt like they had been doing it hours on end until they stopped and the darkness around them disappeared into the Hyrule field. I felt weird on my legs but more importantly I was just glad to be on the ground. I panted sucking in the fresh air for suddenly I felt really tired. I noticed that Zelda was not holding me anymore and I turned to see that she had fainted in the grass.
"Zelda!" I said falling to my knees beside her. I placed my hands on her Shoulders and shook her back and forth. "Zelda wake up!"
"What…"She said peeking her eyes open. "What do you want."
"Were in the middle of Hyrule field," I said a little relieved that she was all right.
"Damn it," She said angrily while propping herself up on her right arm. "I should have known that you wouldn't have enough energy to get us all the way to the castle."
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"I used my magic to get me to you in the first place but I had to have the highest energy possible or I wouldn't have made it," She said looking at me sadly. "Once I had warped then I wouldn't be able to warp back until fully energized which could take days so I thought that I could borrow your energy and that would be enough to get us both to the castle but forgot that you are weak from fighting Ganondorf. I could only take so much energy from you and you didn't have enough so we ended up in the middle of the field."
"It isn't that bad," I said recognizing exactly where we were. "This is short work for my Epona."
"Could you ride me home possible?" She asked hopfully.
"Sure," I said taking the horse whistle out of my pocket. I blew into the opening to let a light fluttery sound erupt from the instrument. Pressing my fingers on the wholes I played the song beautifully without error. I could hear hoof beats along the hard tiled flooring to see Epona here in perfect time. Picking Zelda up by her waist and placed her on Epona. I then jumped up behind her and pulled the reins back sending Epona into a full charge. We rode through the field at a constant pace. The sun was almost fully down but we rode on as the moon appeared over the horizon and the sun disappeared totally.
"It is a beautiful night," Zelda said dreamily. "Can we stop for just a bit? I would love just to see it for a while."
"Of course," I said pulling the reins back again. Epona slowed to stop right at a low cliff over a small lake. I jumped off quickly and helped Zelda down. She sat under a tree and stared at the stars eagerly.
"I love the stars," She said in spite of herself. "They talk to me and they are never judging of how I feel."
"That is a weird way to think about it." I said plucking a piece of grass and placing it between my thumbs. "You seem unhappy."
"I am," She said awkwardly. "I will have to go back into the castle again and do all the things I used to have to do. I'll be all alone once again."
"Alone," I said surprised. "You have all those servants, you couldn't possibly…"
"You know nothing," She said angrily. "I do nothing but work and work. I've done everything possible for this kingdom but never have I had the life that I've always wanted."
"What kind of life do you want?" I asked curiously.
"I wish to live a life of great adventure," She said staring up at the stars as if they could only fulfill her dreams. "I wish to ride to the ends of the world and back. I wish to have friends and a family. I wish I had love like some of the women in castle town but that is not what I am to receive. I'm just going to be Zelda, princess and nothing more."
I felt sympathetic for her. She was really all alone in this world. She doesn't even have parents or a family. All she ever had was herself and I regretted what I had said to her earlier.
"Don't feel to bad about my matters," Zelda said with a cheery smile. "Just enjoy the stars for this may be the last time I see them in a long time. Clouds seem to always hang over the castle."
"Why are you going back?" I blurted out. I didn't mean to say it but it just slipped out and I regretted it very much.
"I must…" She said sadly.
"Why don't we go on a short adventure for ourselves?" I asked surprising myself. "One last adventure so you can have what you really wanted."
"I'll never fully have what I really want," Zelda said wiping the drifts of hair. "I will never have love. I will never have a family."
"Love is a fickle thing," I said thinking about it. "The one you think you love can be totally wrong for you and then the one that is perfect for you, you can never have."
"You know much more then I on that subject," Zelda said thinking about it. "I'm not pretty enough for anyone to like me anyways…"
She couldn't have just said what I thought she said. I sat there with my mouth hung open. She thought that she wasn't pretty.
"Excuse me?" She asked looking at me gapping at her.
"How can you say you are ugly?" I asked astonished. "You are the most gorgeous girl I've ever…"
I stopped in dead sentence. I had told her too much. Her cheeks were bright pink.
"Thank…you," She said trying to hold back her surprise. "That… was a nice compliment."
I felt my cheeks burn and I hoped that she hadn't seen how red that I went. "Don't… mention it."
"Of course," She said as her cheeks started to fade back to the pale colour they used to be. "Where was I…"
"Um… should we go on an adventure?" I asked again.
"For how long?" Zelda asked. 'Yes,' I thought. She was actually thinking of going with me.
"As long as we want," I said with enthusiasm. "We could even leave hyrule if you desire."
"I would love that," She said putting her head down on her knees. "But I know that if I leave then I will never want to return. Life seems so enticing for someone of a peasant's stature."
"Most peasants wish they could be you…" I knew that was the wrong thing to say as soon as it passed through my lips but I couldn't hold back the comment. She had to understand that a peasant's life was of hard work and deep disappointment.
"Ironic isn't it," she said with an utterly sad expression. "But your right."
"I'm sorry," I said trying to comfort her.
"Don't be," She said standing up with pride in her eyes. "I have decided that we shall go on one last adventure. Will you join me?"
"Of course," I said with a smile.
