Hey Guys! You guys review really fast. Just to let you know, I was going to make this one chapter long, but soon decided to just split it and make it 2 parts. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Me don't own no Zelda stuff.
Chapter 2: Doppelgangers
Even though Midna was asleep, her dreams were tormented with nightmares and horror.
Midna found herself in the middle of nowhere. All dark and cold, with nothing but herself in the darkness. She was completely surrounded by the darkness.
"Why?" a voice screamed. She turned around to find what looked like a twilight wall and Link on the floor screaming.
"Why did you leave me?" he asked.
"I… Link… Please, you must understand, I did this to—"
"That's all you say, and yet you love me, even though you left me. How could you," he shuddered in agony. That's when Midna noticed he was wounded in the leg.
"Oh Link. Let me fix that," she said drawing closer to him.
"Don't you dare, Midna. It's better this way," he said, tears in his eyes. He pulled out the master sword from its scabbard and aimed it for himself.
"Link, don't do it!" she screamed, tears rolling of her face and staining her makeup.
"This is what you did. Remember that…" he emphasized that last words.
"Link! PUT THE SWORD DOWN NOW!" she pleaded, but it was too late. He plunged it right into his abdomen. He fell to the ground with a thud and gurgled blood onto the ground. Midna tried to catch him, but he fell before she could. Tears in her eyes fell down onto the floor and onto Link. Within her hands, he disappeared and Veerle was in his place. She looked at him in shock, tears still rolling down her face, and dropped him to the ground. Then he started moving, looking at her, then opening his eyes.
"It's your entire fault. You are a disgrace to your kingdom, and the one you love. You don't deserve to be called princess," he said spitting at the ground near her.
"You don't belong here." "Go away." "What a disgrace to the royal family." "Let's hang her!" Midna looked around and Twili and Hylian citizens started shouting. Some even threw garbage at her. She couldn't believe what was happening to her. She glanced back at Veerle, who was suddenly gone. And all the people booing her turned into shadow beasts. One took her in its hand and threw her like a rag doll, making her fall on her face on the ground. When she got back up to fight, the energy charge was not aiming at the shadow beast. It was aiming for Link. He looked extremely insane, his sword still in his abdomen, and he had a wicked grin on his face. His laughter even sounded maniacal. Midna screamed and tried walking back but found that she couldn't by an invisible wall. The Link split into three (1) and the three of them raised their hands and violently swooshed them to the side, turning her into an imp. She tried not to think about trying to kill him, but she shot energy charges where Link was. But he was right in front of her when she stopped shooting. He still had his wicked grin, holding the master sword in his hand. He raised his sword, getting ready to plunge it into her, but Midna closed her eyes and saw her life flash before her. She saw the battles they both fought in, the time they slept in the inn together, and how Link was rescuing her and running across Hyrule to get her to Zelda. As she opened her eyes, knowing it was the end, Link was gone and Luke was standing twenty feet away.
"Wake up," he said. But Midna wasn't thinking right enough to hear him.
"Go away!" she said. Goddesses, please end this.
"Midna! Wake up!" he yelled.
"Wha… what happened," she said trying to understand her surroundings. She looked at herself making sure she was still her regular self and not her imp form. Yet it seemed the nightmare made her vision blurry for a few seconds.
"You had a nightmare. You kept thrashing around and screamed every second," he explained.
"But Link. He tried committing suicide. And then he tried to kill me!" she exclaimed, still not understanding what really happened.
"I know, I was there," he said.
"But… how were you there when it is my dream?" she asked, her vision clearing up.
"Well I tried to wake you up and tried to calm you down at four in the morning, but you wouldn't wake up. So I entered your dream, or nightmare, and woke you up there," Luke said.
"Was I screaming that loud?" Midna asked, getting out of her bed.
"Well I wasn't awake until of your guards tried to get the 'guest' to wake you up since they know you could kill them in your sleep. Yet, they didn't look too surprised about me," he said as Veerle walked into the room.
"Princess. Good you're awake. And Luke, thank you. Breakfast is waiting, would you like me to go get it or—"
"Yes, please bring it up here," she said breathing in and letting it all out with a sigh. Both Luke and Midna sat down at the table in her room waiting for it to pixalize there. Midna still couldn't get the idea of Link committing suicide in front of her to go away, or the idea of him killing her. The food took a few minutes for it to come on to the table, and once it did, Midna couldn't get over the food being grey mashed up crap.
"I think I lost my appetite," she said looking sick. Luke laughed and tried to eat the food, but found he didn't like it either. But his disgust look on his face soon turned into a smile.
"Midna," he said.
"Yes?"
"Do you like, chocolate?" he asked. The sound ringed in her ears, making her start jumping up and down in excitement. She could barely contain her joy.
"Oh I love chocolate! Do you have any? Please share it with me!" she demanded holding her hand out and shaking it.
"Ok, Ok! Hold your horses! Here," he said holding a piece of chocolate in his hand and giving her a piece. As she bit into it, her taste buds suddenly turned from the disgust of Twili food that was on the table to the sweetness of chocolate.
"Soooooo good," she said stressing the last word. Luke couldn't help himself but smiled. Once they were done with their chocolate, Luke asked her, "So what do you want to do today?"
"Well, I have a political discussion on the bill of isolation about the rogue twili," she said.
"You royal people have all the fun," he said in a sarcastic tone.
"Well you know politics and debates. Oh how I love my job," she smiled also being sarcastic.
Luke laughed and got out of the chair, "Do you guys have any training areas?"
"Yes, in the courtyard, why?"
"I'm going to practice a little, want to join? Oh wait, you're busy discussing politics," he laughed.
Midna sighed, "Yeah yeah. Better get going or the council will hit me with some books of history."
Ugh, stupid politics. Midna had a hard time trying to enjoy herself in the discussion of isolating the indoctrinated twili, but she couldn't help herself to just sleep.
Boring… just do this and you get it over with, but if you do that you get this. Why does politics be so boring. Why can't we just show them what's really happening. Midna sighed, glancing around the room at the council. She decided to fall into her chair and out of complete boredom, she created a small energy charge and started twirling it around on her finger.
"I think we should just annihilate them," one of the councilors said.
"Let's let the princess decide," said another. All councilors turned to the princess, but Midna was fixated on the ball.
"Princess," the same councilor said. "PRINCESS!"
"Wha…" she looked up at the councilors in confusion, her ball of energy gone.
"What do you think about this bill? Do you think we should pass it or deny it?" he asked impatiently.
She straightened up into her chair, "Well… um… I think you should deny it." She didn't care now, she just wanted to go. But her opinion put lots of the councilors whispering to each other, making her think she said the wrong thing.
"I think we should discuss this more princess, since most of the council thinks we should pass it. Continuing on…"
Oh come on! She thought. She now wished she said yes. Even thought this is about her people, she still didn't want to deal with it. I wonder what Luke is doing.
Concentrate… Concentrate… *Swoosh*
"Yes," Luke said. He was practicing his aiming on the bow but soon decided to aim for longer distances. After a few hours, he was shooting at three-hundred meters. Even though he is a battle mage, he still tried practicing other weapons of choice.
He pulled back the string on his silver and black bow and within it, a red crystal began to glow. And right before he let go, an arrow appeared in the bow. He didn't understand entirely how it worked, but he knew it was an advantage than having a quiver on his back and pulling out arrows. One good advantage is that he didn't have to waste time getting an arrow; it would just appear in the bow.
As he locked on to the fake dummy afar pulling his bow string, he heard a noise right behind him. Reacting, his bow turned into the black sword he had and swung it into the direction of his assailant. But he knew better to just cut some random person, so he stopped it before cutting the person's head off. When he looked, it was Midna who was in front of the blade.
"My, what a weapon we have here," she poked the sharp edge of the sword. "Is that another magic trick?" she said ending the sentence with giggles.
"Shouldn't you be in politics?" he asked lowering the blade down.
"I left early," she smiled, "But seriously, how did you do that?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure at all either. Me and my dad were exploring the caves once near Lake Hylia, and well, a chest inside had this blade and a note." He held out his hand and the note appeared. Opening it up, he recited what was said.
Dear Explorer,
If you have discovered this sword, then you have in your possession the sword known as Laminano Motondos, meaning Altering Blade in Ancient Hylian. The blade itself has a red crystal that allows the user to call upon the weapon they chose. However, you may notice that there is a missing piece in this artifact. I have spent the rest of my life searching for the missing piece, and never found it. I write this as I die in here from the bite of the guardian where I shall keep it here to anyone who finds this. Please, as a wish to me. Find the missing piece, and discover what this weapon is really capable of.
Sincerely,
RB
Midna could not believe it. A sword that could shape itself into another weapon?
"Can I hold it?" she asked holding out her hand.
He nodded and gave her the sword, wondering if it would respond to her. As she gripped the sword, the crystal shined brightly a gold flash.
"Think of the weapon and the weapon will appear in front of you," Luke explained. Midna concentrated, trying to change the blade into a bow, but the sword didn't change. She tried harder, concentrating on an easy boomerang, but still nothing happened. "Looks like it's made for you," she murmured handing back the sword. Once Luke gripped it back, a flash of bright lights shined off the sword, making it hard to see what was happening. After it stopped, what was in Luke's hand was a bow.
"Who do you think RB could stand for?"
"I don't know, but enough about the past. Since you came all the way down here to see what I was doing, how about a little dueling?" he challenged, quickly changing the bow into the black sword and aimed it at her face.
"You are so going to lose," she smiled mischievously starting up her energy charge. Both stood there, eyeing each other of their movements, watching for any sudden attacks. Luke was the first to strike though, swinging the sword down low to try and trip Midna. But Midna jumped into the air, avoiding the first move. She charged up her dark energy blast and shot it straight at Luke. He quickly evaded the attack, but the second time, he decided to do something different.
He swung his sword so it matched with the energy blast, sending it back at Midna. She knew she had to act fast, so she brought water out of the small fountain near by and created a barrier to shield her from the blast. Yet, Luke was smarter. Once the blast it her barrier, a small amount of steam arose from where Midna was standing. In a way, it was blinding to her, but Luke wouldn't be able to see her. She tried to see where Luke was, but soon fire balls coming out of his hands shot right at her. She ducked, watching as the fire bolt cleared the steam. When she got back up, she saw Luke with his hand up aiming at her.
He smiled and laughed, "You done yet?"
She was getting tired, both physically and mentally (from the magic attacks). She knew she couldn't keep this up, but she decided to do one last thing.
"Put your hand down," she said pulling hers up.
"Not a chance," he responded, starting up another bolt of energy in his hand.
"Fine, try and defeat me then," she said, starting her own energy up.
He smirked then yelled "Let's see if you can avoid this!" sending a huge bolt of energy straight at her. At the same time, she shot a burning flame bolt, hitting the lightening bolt Luke shot at him. Both collided, and the two forces started to become bigger and bigger. (2) Soon, Luke couldn't do it with one hand alone, and raised his other hand, helping out with the magical force. The magical beams colliding were so strong that they ripped of peaces of the courtyard, making the pieces float around the ball forming in the middle.
"Luke! We need to stop!" Midna yelled, but Luke couldn't hear her over the sound of tile and bricks ripping apart. That's when Luke decided to end it.
"Ver Teelecth!" he yelled, sending yet another blast of energy through his first, creating the ball of energy to explode. The shock wave pushed both of them to the back of the wall nearest themselves, making the buildings around them to collapse. All that was left of the courtyard was the rubble and debris around that was once a building. Both stood up, observing the damage they had done in a matter of seconds.
"Well, that was… intense," Luke said, glaring at the once-had-been- building.
"I don't think I'd like to fight you as an enemy," Midna replied.
"Yeah. How about you say we call it a day?" Luke declared.
"Yes, I think that would be nice. But do you have any other foods to eat. I'm starving," she said hearing her stomach growl.
Luke laughed and opened his mouth to say something, but he noticed two guards staring at them both. One of them ran up to Midna checking to see if she was alright, and the other quickly following him.
"Guys, I'm fine. It was just a little… Fun, you could say," she said. The guards both looked at each other nodded in agreement.
"Princess. Someone wishes to challenge you," one guard said.
"And he wants you at the gates at sunset…" the other one said.
"…Tomorrow. He wishes to know if you decline or not."
Odd, Midna thought. She looked at Luke who nodded, knowing it was quite strange for someone to challenge royalty.
"Tell him I accept his challenge. And can you get someone to clean all this up," she insisted gesturing to the destroyed building. Both nodded and ran off to tell the stranger the princess accepts.
"Well, I'm going to hit the hay," Luke yawned and smiled teleporting away once again. Midna sighed too, knowing she was too tired and that she needed some sleep to fight the challenger tomorrow.
The guards who recently talked to Midna came out of the gates to find the stranger near a rock.
"The princess accepts your offer," one guard said.
"Good," the stranger said, "Now, Kilem, kill this prick."
The guard tried to look around to find a 'Kilem,' but when he looked to the guard on his side, a ghost was in his place. The guard looked horrified, and tried to run, but the ghost quickly went into the guard's body, taking control of him. Once it adjusted to its new body, it stood up. "What do you wish, master," the doppelganger said kneeling down in front of its master.
"Rally the army. We invade tonight."
Oooooooooh cliffhanger, I think. Don't you just hate cliffhangers, well I do, but I decided to make the story more interesting by making the story end like this. Anyway, the next chapter should be out soon. I don't think I explained the battle to well, but that's for you to decide…
I thought of this when I watched that creepy vision the last light spirit showed to Link. Just think of that…
I watched Iron Man 2 recently and thought the idea of two beams colliding was a great idea… And no I'm not stealing it. I just tweaked it XD
