hey guy I'm back. Sooo I wasn't sure if I could get this out within a week of the first chapter but I think I managed to. Now I would like to say that there are several places in this chapter where I go against the lore. I know Zelda's mother died when she was six but like I said in the last chapter I'm not staying faithful to the canon lore.
Zelda awoke in a dark room illuminated by only two candles.
One was next to the bed she was in and the other was by the bed next to her's.
As her eyes adjusted to the rooms dim light light she noticed that the person in the bed next to hers was Talon.
At first he appeared to be sleeping but then his eyes fluttered open and he looked around the room quickly. His eyes finally settled on her.
"Where are we?" he asked not taking his eyes off of her.
"I'm not entirely sure, but if I had to guess I would say the castle infirmary." She couldn't help but think that his eyes were extremely familiar. But no matter how hard she thought she couldn't think of where she had seen them.
"Well I guess there are worse places to be." Talon sat up in his bed and pulled off his blankets. His entire chest had been covered in bandages. The sight of it stung Zelda. She knew that she was partly responsible for his injury.
"How does it feel?" She asked as he tried flexing and twisting around.
"It's not that bad really." he said trying to give her what she assumed was a smile. His effort was in vain as he grimaced and put one of his hands on his stomach.
"I'm sorry about that." Zelda said. Seeing the pain he was in made her feel worse.
"Don't apologize," he said looking up at the ceiling. "It's not your fault. If it's anyone's it's mine and Link's.
This confused her. Why would he blame himself for me getting stabbed and Link turning his back to the fight?
"How isn't it my fault?"
Talon smiled again, this time succeeding. "You did your part well with the cover fire. I should have been able to block that knife and Link shouldn't have let himself get distracted so easily."
"You think Link was distracted too easily?" she thought that Link's reaction had been fine. She was the one who should have been more careful.
"I know Link has strong connection with you and is your personnel guard, but in that instance you weren't the princess. You were a soldier and Link should have kept that in mind while fighting. You are always supposed to do what you can for a fellow soldier, but not if it endangers another one."
Zelda thought it over and realized that his words did make sense. She was a fellow soldier and he could have helped her after the fight. After all, if she had been hurt badly enough to put her life at risk then the ravens could have helped.
"So why are you to blame?" she asked still not understanding that accusation.
He looked out the window as if he was searching for something. "I should have been able to block that knife. It was a cheap tactic that I should have seen coming."
"Oh." was all Zelda could say. She didn't agree with him but she could see why he might blame himself for letting a comrade get hurt. Hadn't that general said he had been a captain?
They sat in silence for a while, neither of them knowing what to say.
Eventually Zelda slipped back into the land of dreams, but the dream she saw didn't make any sense.
All it kept flashing between memories that weren't hers. First she saw a her and Talon in the castle gardens when they kids. They were laughing and playing together.
What is this? She wondered. The scene in front of her was one she didn't remember and yet it felt familiar.
Then the scene changed and she saw Talon walking away from castle town carrying a pack over his shoulder.
Why am I seeing these scenes? None of this was making sense to her.
The changed again, this time it showed Talon crying over the body of someone who appeared to be dying. Zelda looked closer and realized person was the former queen.
Mom? This scene was one she hadn't wanted to see. The death of her mother had been the worst thing that had ever happened to her. After her death there had been no one there for her. That was until Link had come along.
The next scene was one that she knew all too well. Except that this one was from Talon's perspective. It was at Kara Kara Bazaar. She saw Link yelling for her to run before being attacked by half a dozen or so yiga. She ran off and as she disappeared three more yiga appeared from behind the hotel and began to chase after her. Talon, who had been sitting on top of the hotel jumped down and landed next to Link.
"Go!" was all he said before engaging to other yiga in combat. Link stabbed one before turning and running after them.
The scene changed once more and Zelda wanted to shake herself awake at what she saw.
It was a scene of her after she failed to bring down Ganon. Her and Link were sitting in a field not far from where Link had fallen. Lying in her arms badly wounded Talon.
His chest was covered in blood and burn marks. Link was trying to bandage him but he raised his arm to stop him. He then gave Zelda a apologetic look and said something she couldn't quite make out before he lifted his hand to her forehead. There was a glow of purple light, then his hand fell to his side and he became unmoving.
Zelda awoke with a jolt. She figured that it must have been early morning because there was light coming through the windows and the sky was a light grey.
Sitting a chair by Talon's bed was a girl with the same skin and hair as him. Her eyes where a beautiful azure blue. The girl was hold Talon's hand but her eyes were focused in Zelda. She smiled at her and stood up to move in between the beds.
"Bad dream huh?" she asked.
"Yeah, who are you." Zelda didn't want to be mean but she couldn't help but wonder who this girl was and what she was doing at the infirmary.
The girl just smiled not appearing surprised by the question at all. "The names Lilith. I guess you could call me Talon's partner."
"Ok Lilith, why am having these nightmares?" she asked hoping she would have a answer for her.
"Well having nightmares is normal for people that have been through the things you have." she said trying to reassure her.
"No that's not it." Zelda tried to explain. "The dreams aren't my memories, they appear to be Talon's."
"Oh," this seemed to surprise her. "It must have been the antidote he gave you. The magic in his blood could be having a reaction to your blood."
This answer sounded plausible, but it still left questions unanswered.
"Well, the problem is that the memories seem like ones I should remember. At least most of them do. Do you have any clue as to why that is?"
"What do you mean?" Lilith asked looking confused. "Have you forgotten sum of your memories with Talon?"
This question caught Zelda off guard. She didn't have any memories with Talon in them. As far as she was concerned Talon was a rebel leader who she had just met the other day.
"I don't have any memories with Talon."
"None?" Lilith's expression went from confusion to pure shock. "How is that possible? The only way to erase those kind of memories would be to have a person involved in them cast a memory wipe charm and even then it's extremely hard to make sure the memories are completely."
She stopped and turned to look at the sleeping from of Talon. "Oh you clever boy."
"What, what is it?" Everything she was saying was only further confusing Zelda. What had Talon done. Why was she supposed to remember him.
Lilith turned back to her grinning like a little kid. "Your memories involving Talon haven't been erased, they've just been walled off from your mind. The walls were probably set up by Talon himself."
"Why would he have wanted to do that and is there anything you can do to fix it?"
"I'm not quite sure as to why he would want to block your memories, that is something you'll have to ask him yourself." she laughed as she found the whole situation hilarious, which Zelda certain didn't. "And as to weather or not I can fix it. I most certainly can. You see it is much easier to destroy walls in the mind than it is to put them up."
She paused as though there was something she had just thought of.
"Instead of destroying the barriers I'm just going to crack them persay. This will make sure that the new memories will come back in a slow steady stream instead of flooding back in and overwhelming you."
"That would probably be best thanks." Zelda was glad Lilith had thought of that, because she never would have.
"Alright let's do this." She placed her hand on Zelda's forehead.
All Zelda saw was a flash of purple light like the one with Talon and then everything went black once more.
When she came to again she found that she was standing in the entry hall of the castle.
What am I doing here? She thought. She did have to wait long for the answer as all of the sudden beautiful lady with long flowing blonde fair entered.
"Mom?" Zelda couldn't believe her eyes. What was going on? What was her mother doing here? Zelda's head began to spin with questions.
Then she realized that she must be in one of the memories.
But what does this have to do with me or Talon?
Once again her silent question was answered almost immediately.
"Is he here?" her mother asked the two men guarding the door.
At that moment there was rapping on the doors. Both of the guards moved to open the doors. The doors opened and Talon entered.
This Talon was younger than the one Zelda knew. He looked to be about thirteen or fourteen. He was wearing his all too familiar smirk on his face.
Zelda's mother walked over to him smiling. "Are you here to work on some of your experiments in the labs?"
Talon smiled back. "Indeed I am. In fact should I should probably head there before she finds me."
Before anyone could say anything else they all heard a voice calling out from one of the side halls.
"Talon? Is that you?" Zelda rounded the corner grinning at Talon. "Did you come here to see me?"
Talon's face fell for a moment but the smile returned almost as quickly as it had disappeared. "Of course. What do you want to do?"
"Let's go out to the herb gardens and look for the ingredients to a stealth elixir." she said tugging on the sleeves of his jacket.
"And why would you want that elixir in particular?" He asked raising a eyebrow. He stole a glance at Queen Zelda. She just smiled at the two of them.
"It's for my own personal use, now stop asking so many questions and help me!" She began to walk back down the hall dragging a protesting Talon behind her.
They sat in the herb garden preparing the plants for the elixir and cracking joke.
As they sat there they discussed each others lives. Their current lives, their dreams, but mostly they talked about their ambitions for their lives.
"So why do you want to be a potion master?" Zelda asked him as they prepared the sunset fireflies for the elixir. "Don't you come from a long line of sheikah warriors? Some might say that the path of the warrior is in your blood."
"That may be true, but I don't want to devote my life to combat." he looked up at the clouds in the sky. "I want to use my skills to help other instead of hurt them. You know what I mean?"
She nodded looking up at the sky as well. "I get it. You want to follow a path different from the one that is expected of you and you can. That freedom must be wonderful."
"Well you want to study sheikah technologies, right?"
"Yeah, but my "destiny" says that I must devote my life to unlocking my power." she said bitterly.
"Maybe we'll discover a way for both of us to escape our destiny's"
She leaned over and placed her head on his shoulder. "I hope so."
The dream began to fade and Zelda felt herself awakening.
hey so I don't know how consistent I'm going to be with these updates. I would like to release chapters weekly and while I will try my best to do so life can get hectic so there maybe some time between chapters. anyways please review. I'm always open to criticism and will try to listen.
Thanks Delta