With a bounce in my step I enter the maze.
A strong wind coming from my right made me shiver. That's what always happens before it sings. As I hear the tune, my eyes shut close and I listen. I love coming here; it always puts my mind at ease. The song has this soft feeling to it, like it tugs you to it, leading you inside…
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As Zelda closes her eyes, her breathing becomes soft and the chilly wind doesn't even register in her mind. It's like she's sleepwalking, but in more of a sense that she knows where to go. The song is no ordinary song, it's a song meant to lead others to their doom. But the person who made this maze intended no harm. It was a man who lived his life sailing the seas, always up for adventures and sinking pirate boats. Then one night in the ocean, he heard it. A soft melodic tune that tugged at him making him want to come closer and hear it more clearly. The song had the effect of lulling a person to sleep and leading you to its source. The source however was a maiden damned to be a prisoner who can breathe underwater but can't interact with others unless they drown. Day after day she remains in her chains in the bottom of the ocean, singing her heart out and trapping anybody within her range. When the man in his sleep dived into the ocean, she held him down there until he barely had any more air left in him. A silent death. She looked down at her chains, other men and women were down there suffering as she had been all these years. She looked at the man she held in her arms and placed a hand over his heart and saw it. The man opened his eyes and looked at her. She looked at him, and decided that he may live. But before he left her, she gave him her necklace that had the melodic power she used to capture everyone. And she told him this:
"This necklace has the power to make the people around hearing range lulled to sleep and come toward it. I've decided to let you live because what I felt in your heart was pure. For people whose hearts are pure, the song will not take to their doom. But be careful with it, don't let it fall in the wrong hands, make it have a protective barrier around it so that people won't use it to harm others…as I have done."
And with that, she put it in his hand, and she dies. After the event, the sailor quickly went to shore and thought of a way so no one can be harmed by it. He had a friend who was a magician and asked him to work on the song and made it so it only plays for those who have pure hearts, and the magician also made the unique maze. He made the maze built around a fountain, and the sailor dug a hole in the center of the fountain and put the necklace there and put cement on it to secure it won't get stolen or used for wrongdoings. After the sailor died, the necklace did something odd to the fountain; it made it a magical fountain and transformed it. It made it into a fountain where, when you drink from it, it gives you a wish. But for people who don't have pure hearts, it gives them their worst nightmare.
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As the melodic song comes to an end my heart sighs in content at hearing the song. I open my eyes to see the magical fountain again, only to find someone else relishing the last few notes of the song.
"You can come here too?"
The prince in obvious shock to see someone else here whirls around and sees me.
"Z-Zelda..yes, I can come here, if I'm a nuisance, I'll leave…"He made a move to the exit which was behind him.
"N-no! Marth, come here…" he moved over to me, eyes searching my face for any signs of discontent.
"I quite like staying in your company…" I blushed. I looked at him. He smiled at me and I felt reassured.
"Since when have you been coming here?" I asked him. I was curious to know how he entered, and find some answers as to what is in common between us and being able to enter the maze and find the fountain.
"Last week, I had a rough time from Link. Due to…" he looked away from me "…certain reasons, and so I got frustrated and came upon this maze." He turned away from me and looked at the glowing fountain. I was so tired and confused and that's when the song reached my ears it didn't seem too long until I opened my eyes at the end of the tune and saw this…" he gestured at the fountain "it took my breath away, its beauty…"
I can see how it's mesmerizing, the aura it makes, like the northern lights, but even brighter. The fountain's water was a crimson red. And the fountain itself was snow white, like it's been recently polished to its full potential. Such contrasting colors made you stare at it for long periods of time, that's the thing. It's so mesmerizing, it's dangerous. The fountain had little markings all over it, making it seem exotic and beautiful. And the thing is, is that those markings glowed different colors of the rainbow. It's too surreal.
"Yes, but understand that even beautiful things like that can be dangerous." I cautioned him. He looked thoughtful, and replied back
"Yes, like your magic, that can be dangerous…" I looked at him with questioning eyes.
"I-I mean, magic is beautiful..no? And dangerous at the same time…hehe.." *sweatdrop at back of head*
"Yes, good connection." Though I can tell that's not what you wanted to say but merely a cover up. Marth quickly wanted a new topic to discuss upon and found one lingering in his head.
"And you? How did you come across this?" he asked me. The reality of it all hit my head. I haven't slept a wink since a week ago. I sighed in retrospect. Marth took it the wrong way.
"Did I say something wrong?" I looked at him. His caring colbat eyes were too much for me though, and I told him on how I wasn't able to sleep this past week. His face held concern for me and I could tell that something is going on in that head of his.
"Hmm, tell me Zelda have you heard the story about this fountain?" I blinked. There was a story? I shaked my head.
"Come over here." He took my hand and leaded me towards the other side of the fountain. I blushed, his hand felt so right in my hand. Like a perfect fit. We crouched down and laid on our backs, and looked up underneath the fountain. It was then that I saw it, in another language it read the story about this fountain and what was inside it that held its secret to the enchanting song that leads us to it.