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A Princess to the Past

Chapter 3

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We all looked at each other in mere confusion and excitement. We didn't know what we were supposed to do or how to do it, but we knew something was going on, at this exact moment. But what?

"Do you remember where you got your necklaces?" Lant asked us.

"Hmm.. mine was handed down to me from my mother when I was born. I've worn it ever since." I explained.

"I think mine was, too." Maria said absent-mindedly.

We all stood in thought. No one knew what to say. Lant looked up to speak.

"Well...It's getting kind of late. Maybe we should all go home and sleep on it or something. I guess we can meet back here tomorrow sometime." He suggested, and shrugged his shoulders.

"Okay. Sounds good, I guess. Maria, are you going to your house or mine?" I asked.

"I might as well stay with you, so we can come back tomorrow, because I REALLY want to figure this out!" She replied.

"Alright. We will see you guys tomorrow then!" Mick said with a yawn. Maria and I walked out the door and untied our horses. We jumped on and shouted our goodbyes as we rode off into the setting sun.

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"'Night Epona." I smiled as I patted my horse's head lightly. Maria came out from an extra stall. As she closed the door, Anope's head appeared above it. The horses whinnied as we shut off the lights and left the barn.

We ate a quick dinner and got ready for bed. We talked a little before going out like a light.

"So... what do you think will come out of this?" Maria asked.

"I don't know." I replied with a small yawn.

"Well, it would help if we had some more clues or any information." Maria thought out loud.

"Hmmhm." I agreed quietly. Suddenly I remembered my dream. Would it be any help? Probably not. Although it was about the Hero and Princess. And it had only been last night that I had had the dream... Could it all be linked in some way? I closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.

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Four young figures were standing in a large field. It was nighttime and a few stars were twinkling in the sky. The four figures were getting closer, and were almost recognizable. One was a girl with long, light hair. She was wearing a dark colored tunic and cloak. She had a strange instrument in her hand. There was something red glinting around her neck. Another girl with long, dark hair was standing next to the first girl. She also had a dark tunic and cloak. On her back, the form of arrows was showing through the cape. A silvery shadow shown dimly around her neck. She was walking in quick, quiet steps. Beside them were two young boys. Both had short, light hair. They were wearing dark cloaks around them, but nothing else could be seen, other than the form of a thin sheath on one of the boy's backs. Small voices could be heard between them.

"What do we do now?" asked one of the boys.

The blonde girl looked around before answering, "I don't know. I remember... never mind... Maybe we should go towards that..." She pointed towards a large building across the green fields. The building was made of stone, and seemed to be a slightly crumbling wall. Beyond the wall was a larger stone building with tall towers. A few lights could be seen in the building, but they were dim.

The group nodded and quietly ran toward it. As they got closer, they noticed a bridge, and a moat around the outside wall. They were about to cross it when they heard someone crying. They looked around the corner and saw a young, red-blonde haired girl on the ground. She was hiding in the shadows, and was wearing rags for clothes.

"Who are you? What's wrong?" The blonde girl in the cloak asked the young girl. The others in the small group stood and watched. She stopped crying and began to answer.

"I...I am..."

"Ahh!" I woke up with a start. I rubbed my head to think of the dream. Suddenly I heard something stirring near my bed. I saw it roll over and it looked at me.

"What's wrong?" Maria mumbled.

"Nothing," I replied as I began to lay back down," Just a dream. I'll tell you about it in the morning."

"Okay." She again mumbled and rolled back over.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep again.

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A young girl stood in a room of what seemed like an old cottage house. On the inside, the house seemed very simple and peaceful. The girl had blonde hair, and was wearing a simple pink dress. On her head was a red jewel hanging on a thin chain, like a crown. She was looking around the room with her blue eyes. She seemed to be waiting. Suddenly but quietly, the door to the cottage opened. An older looking girl walked in. She had silvery hair, and was wearing unique armor. She smiled at the younger girl.

"You're late." The blonde girl said with a friendly smile.

"Sorry Princess." replied the woman, as she waved for the girl to follow her through the door and to the back door.

"Impa. I know I've told you. Always call me..." started the girl as she followed her outside.

"Zelda. I know. Ready?" Impa asked. Zelda nodded and she got into a fighting stance. She held her arms in front of her and closed her eyes in concentration. Her hands slightly moved, and they sparked. A magic burst of energy flew from her hands and hit the tree ahead of her. She opened her eyes and noticed the mark on the tree. She smiled to herself.

In front of Impa, Zelda practiced many more spells. Again, where the fire flew from her hands. Then she practiced one where she spun and warped herself about 30 feet away. The third spell she tried was again spinning. As she spun, a blue crystal appeared around her, as if to protect her. As she spun, a dim triangle mark could be seen on her right hand. She finally got to her last spell. She stood, and turned. The air around her seemed to sparkle, and she glowed brightly, the light starting from her right hand and surrounding her. As the light died, a new body could be seen. She now had short blonde hair, and a strange outfit. It covered her face, and it had a strange eye marking on the front. Impa and the strange new body of Zelda nodded at each other.

Then everything faded to black.

Zelda was caught in a pink crystal. She was slightly floating above the ground, in a dimly lit room. Suddenly the doors burst open. A young man in green appeared. A ball of light seemed to be flying around his head. He pulled the sword from the sheath on his back. A man stood up from the shadows. He had red hair and dark skin. He was wearing black armor and a cape. He looked at the man.

"These toys are too much for you. I will take them back now." A triangle mark appeared on his hand, and dark waves of magic appeared. It separated the strange fairy creature from the young man. On the back of the left hand of the green clothed man appeared a similar triangle mark. Zelda, from the pink crystal, gasped, and the triangle mark also appeared on her right hand. The dark man threw a ball of dark energy at the green man.

All faded.

"Now Link. Send him into the Sacred Realm. Kill him with the Master Sword. Hurry! I'll hold him with my magic!" Zelda was telling Link, the young man in green.

Zelda lifted her arms and began to glow. She faced towards the evil creature with the beam of light, and then fell to her knees in exhaustion. She watched as Link struck the giant, dark form with his glowing sword. All went bright as Ganondorf, the evil man, was sealed into the Sacred Realm.

Everything glowed white. A simple melody played in the background...

"Ahh!" I quickly sat up in bed with a muffled scream. I looked around me, then rubbed my head. I had had a dream. A few dreams, actually. But they were getting jumbled together. I turned over and took my diary from underneath my pillow. I wrote down about what happened in all of my dreams, and who was in them. Just as I finished, I heard the rooster crow outside, and something woke beside me.

"Good morning, sleepy head." I said to Maria.

"Oh boy. How long have you been up? What time is it?" Maria asked as she sat up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

"Don't worry. I haven't been up long. But there's something I think I should tell you."

"Now what is it?" she groaned.

"Well... it's about the mysteries we have been discovering. And that we are somehow involved in." I explained. She quickly leaned in to listen. "Last night, and recently, I have been having these weird dreams. And I think they might have something to do with the instrument, and necklaces and everything we've found. I don't really understand them, though. But before I tell you, I think we should go over to Lant's so I only have to explain this once."

She agreed, so we hurriedly changed our clothes and pulled our hair back. That was the fastest I had ever seen Maria get ready! We grabbed some breakfast, and I packed my diary. As we ran out the door, I told my parents I'd be home for dinner.

Once outside, after we called our horses from the pasture and saddled up, we took off across the back field. We arrived at Lant's house in less than 10 minutes, and tied our horses to a tree, where they could graze. We raced to the side door.

The door opened soon after we rang the doorbell, and Lant's mother answered the door soon after. "The boys are upstairs, girls. If you need anything, just holler."

We rushed upstairs and burst in on Lant and Mick. "Hey guys! Kelsa's been having some weird dreams, and she thinks they might tie into the mystery we've been trying to figure out."

I gave Maria an annoyed look, and Maria innocently looked back at me. I knew inside she was grinning and laughing. After we put our attention back on the not-so-wide-awake boys, I looked at my hand. It felt like it was vibrating or something, and I noticed a weird triangle mark on the back of my right hand. I just shook my head, and decided not to think much of it. I looked back up, and focused my attention back on Maria and the boys, who were now talking.

"Well. Nice to see you, too. Thanks for calling first!" Mick joked.

I took a step forward into the messy room to stand beside Maria. My dreams were no joke. At least I didn't think so.

"No seriously, this is really important. Last night, and the night before, even, I've had dreams that are related to our situation. First of all, the people in my dream looked similar to how we look, and the storyline is, I don't know, I just know it can answer some of our questions. Trust me on this." I rambled on and on.

"WAIT! We found something last night after you left. There was another box, in my attic. It had a diary in it. I'm not sure what language it's written in or anything, but I think it has something to do with all this, because it's not anything of my family's!" Lant interrupted.

"Okay, let's have a look." Maria agreed.

We all gathered around a small box as Lant opened it up and pulled out a small, pink, faded diary. We could tell it was ancient. "We tried everything we could do to get it open, but it just won't budge." Mick explained.

"Great. So you just got us excited for nothing. It won't do us any good closed." Maria complained.

I thought to myself. As I studied the cover of the old diary, I could make out faded musical notes. I remembered, in the ending of my most recent dream, there was a tune.. "Hey! Where did we put that instrument?" I exclaimed.

Without any questions, Mick rushed to the other box and pulled out the Ocarina of Time that we had found just the day before. I grabbed it out of his hands and put it to my mouth. I closed my eyes and began to play the tune from my dream. It came easy to me, flowing from my fingers, and creating a beautiful tune. As I played, the boy's eyes grew wide, and shortly after, so did Maria's. The boys pointed at my hand, their mouths hanging open. I stopped playing.

"What? What is it?" I said, confused.

"Your – your, ah, hand, Kelsa. Look at your hand." Lant stuttered, his eyes still wide.

I looked down at my hand and discovered the triangle symbol that I had ignored earlier. It was now glowing bright. Then I saw what Maria was looking at. The diary had opened. I had played Zelda's Lullaby, by memory, with the Ocarina of Time. I had opened Zelda's ancient diary...

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Hm. So whats going on? not really a cliffhanger, lucky you :) not so lucky for chapter 4, though. soo.. its still the beginning of the beginning.. I have a feeling this story will go far :) Oh. sorry to fans of Whole Legend, I'm working on it... I lost my notes for a while, and couldn't finish the next chapter.. but I found the player's manuel book thing to OoT. so i'm good now, and it will be up soon! Well... Hope you enjoyed! go on. review, and read next chapter, and review again!!

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