A/N: Hey! So Rose Starglen, once again, first to review for my newest chapter! Yay! Thanks also to Master of the Hellish Yard and WhiteXIII. Okay, so um yeah! I think I might try to incorporate Midna, Tetra, and Mido into it. But most likely not in this chapter. Any other suggestions? Let me know. X_X
Chapter Four:
Link sighed as he walked into to Renado's class ten minutes early. A few eyebrows were raised as he took his seat and banged his head on the table. He hadn't had any sleep in the past two days, and instead of just staying locked up in his house until last minute, he left his house as soon as he thought it was a good time.
"Mornin' Sleeping Beauty." Sheik chuckled as he walked away from Professor Renado's desk and took his seat next to Link. "What are you doing here, on time?"
"Woke up early, decided I would attempt at making it to school at a decent time." Link sighed again, lifting his head up so that he could see Sheik, but instead he saw the ninja that often replaced his friend. Once the bell rang, Link started dozing off, hoping Renado wouldn't catch him.
"Your time is coming," Link bolted up from his desk.
"Yes Link?" Renado asked raising an eyebrow. Link looked around at the class and gasped. All their appearances had changed, he rubbed his eyes, but it didn't change.
"Sooner than you think." The voice he realized was in his head. He looked at Professor Renado, and felt completely embarrassed.
"Sorry sir, I fell asleep and thought the bell had rang for next period. Sorry." Students then began laughing, but all Link saw were these creatures. Renado sighed.
"Well thank you for being honest." Renado held back his smirk as he shook his head disapprovingly. "Please take your seat Link." He then turned back to the board as Link sat down.
"Do not fear the truth." Link restrained himself from leaving the classroom at that second, but it wouldn't really do him any good. Well no one else was hearing the voice, right? He glanced around at the creatures at the desks, glanced at the girls with swords, and glanced at the ninja beside him. Everyone seemed to not hear it. So he was crazy. He sees things, he hears things. Well I guess I should head to the asylum after this. He shook his head and glanced around. Nothing had changed. It was like his vision had permanently stayed like this. The bell rang finally and Link and Sheik made their way to Professor Shad's. Link was constantly looking at the floor, avoiding all eye contact with anyone in the hallway, afraid his vision still hadn't returned to normal. Second period went by slowly, full of different creatures and weird voices.
XX
Zelda Hylian sighed as she walked into her third period classroom. She hated how weird her dreams were becoming. "The history of light and shadow will be written in blood." What did that even mean? Why was she seeing these things? What was happening to her brain? Why did it insist on giving her these weird dreams?
"They are not dreams." She looked around the classroom, and then shrugged, figuring it was only her imagination. "Now is the time you must find the truth." Zelda shook her head and squinted her eyes to focus on her teacher. "The boy in green will lead you to the truth." Zelda let out a small gasp and looked around. No one seemed to be paying any attention to the voice. Was it in her head?
XX
Sheik had a lot on his mind. But mostly one thing: the Bearers of the Triforce were human? More to the point, it could be anyone? He glanced around at his classmates. Surely they had to be older, right? Or were they younger? He bit back his laughter as he imagined some idiot five year old running around, claiming he had power.
After school, Sheik didn't even wait for Link and went to Telma's as fast as he could. Everyone had already gathered and he wondered how two of his teachers always got there so fast, but then he remembered that they both had seventh period off.
"Afternoon, Sheik." Rusl smiled as he turned back to the others.
"I have a question." Sheik asked loudly. Everyone glanced over at him, waiting. "Do you have any leads on the whole Triforce people? Like who they would look like? Age range? Anything?"
"Honestly, if we knew anything, don't you think we would have gotten somewhere by now?" Ashei scoffed as she turned her attention impatiently away from Sheik.
"Ashei, behave." Auru stated calmly. "No Sheik, it is rather hard to narrow it down. But sources from other sectors have said that they haven't seen anything weird in the towns they're located in." He sighed. "It could take years to locate them, if they are even alive still."
"Still?" Sheik asked.
"Well, it is possible that whoever is behind this already has full possession of the Triforce and disposed of the three once he had what he wanted. Or there's another possibility…" Renado trailed off, while the others stared blankly at him, aside from Auru. Sheik figured that no one else had heard what the other theory might be. Auru nodded at Renado to tell them. "Well, Auru and I believe that there may be a possibility of one of the bearers being the one behind it all." Renado sighed. "But it is highly unlikely, considering the goddesses would never let one of their own be like this." All of them sighed, sitting at the table with the map of the town before them.
XX
Midna stepped out of the car, examining the town she was sure had all the answers.
"We're here, Tetra." She nodded to the girl who sat in the passenger seat, who was blaring the radio. "Could you turn that down?" She sneered. I was not meant to handle children. Or an eighteen year old for that matter. She thought bitterly to herself. Tetra turned it down with a loud sigh.
"Midna I'm bored, I thought we were heading to Telma's Bar?" Tetra complained.
"We are, it's just, I'm not exactly sure where it is." Midna confessed as she scanned the town once more. "You know, they should really have a big map of the town, like they do in malls." Midna thought out loud.
"Isn't it on a back road or something? I can hardly remember." Tetra shook her head. "I was three the last time I was there. Shouldn't you have the better memory of the place anyway?" Tetra scoffed. Midna was mentally smacking the girl in her head.
"I guess we will just drive around a bit until we find it. How big can the town be?"
Pretty damn big. Midna sighed as she thought to herself an hour later.
"I'm telling you, Middy," Midna cringed at the nickname. "Try a back road." Tetra sighed as she took out a lollipop from her pocket and began licking it.
"You know what, fine, I will take a back road." Midna sneered as she turned on the first side street she saw. It was the fourth building on the street. Midna let out a scream in frustration while Tetra laughed. It was a quaint little two story building. It looked like it had been abandoned and then reopened with only fixing the major problems. A sign on the pathway to the building read Telma's Bar. Midna was still sulking as Tetra smirked and walked ahead. Tetra paused at the door, debating whether or not she should knock, but Midna pushed passed her and opened the door.
"I'm sorry, but we're close—Midna?" Telma gasped. "I haven't seen you since—well it's been a long time!" Telma laughed and brought Midna into an unwanted hug. "Who is this with you?" Telma asked gesturing to Tetra.
"I'm hurt." Tetra smirked. "Oh come on! Auntie T you can't even recognize your own niece?"
Tetra gave her signature wink that drove Midna up the wall to Telma.
"Tetra?" Telma gasped and grabbed her in a hug. "Sheik get in here! Your cousin's here!"
"What?" Sheik asked as he rounded the corner. "Oh hey Tetra, it's been awhile." Sheik nodded to her and she returned the nod to him. Sheik sighed. It's been twelve years since he's seen his cousin.
"I didn't realize you had a niece as well?" Ashei asked as she peered her head around the corner.
"Yes well, you see, I was the godmother of Sheik and Midna was the godmother of Tetra. And whenever my brother and his wife died, Midna had already had plans to move, so she took little baby Tetra," Telma squeezed Tetra's cheek which caused Midna to snicker. "with her."
"So isn't that Sheik's sister? Not cousin?" Ashei asked.
"Well no, I lost my sister and her husband and my brother and his wife during the, um…" Telma trailed off, hurt in her eyes, but she quickly covered up as she made an abrupt subject change. "Why are you guys back?"
"Well um, you see—" Midna started but was cut off by Tetra.
"Midna found this creepy mirror shard and wanted to ask you guys about it." Tetra smirked as Midna slapped her on the back of the head.
"It's not creepy, it's just not normal looking either." Midna scoffed as she looked away.
"Why don't you come in here and we'll take a look at it." Rusl called from the main bar area. Once they were all at the table Midna dug the shard out of her purse and set it on the table. The shard gleamed in a creepy way indeed, yet it had some magnificent beauty to it. Midna touched it fondly, before looking at the other's expressions.
"Tell them what happened Middy, tell them how you found it." Tetra sighed as she continued to lick her lollipop.
"I, I was over at this guy, Zant's house,"
"On a date!" Tetra laughed.
"Not a date, he's my coworker." Midna corrected, "He's crazy anyway. Back to the story though, so he was taking forever in the kitchen, and so I, I started snooping." Midna sighed. "And well, while I was snooping, I came across this shard, and I," She sighed. "I don't know, it felt like something had drawn me to it, like it was mine to take, as if he had stolen it." She sighed once more. "So before I knew what happened, I had taken this mirror shard, told Zant Tetra had called and needed me home, and drove off with it."
"It's also brought nothing but bad luck upon us." Tetra sighed. "Three days ago, someone broke into our apartment, same day Midna gets fired from her job, the next day I find out I'm failing three classes, and we were chased out of our apartment completely yesterday."
"By who?" Renado asked sympathetically.
"Not who, what." Tetra scoffed.
"They were these black beasts with red lines all on them." Midna shivered. "But no matter, this thing is totally yours to keep now. We want nothing to do with it." Midna said but the look in her eyes told everyone she was still fascinated by it.
"Nothing." Tetra reiterated. The others looked at it with suspicion, and then Auru nodded.
"Very well, I'm sure we could find some use of it. This Zant, you said he was crazy?" Auru asked.
"Well yeah, but it's mostly because he drinks so much coffee and gets hyper off of it." Midna nodded. "At least that's what he said. But when he drinks too much he starts bouncing off the walls." Midna shrugged.
"She's not using it as a figure of speech; he literally, bounces off the walls." Tetra added. Midna nodded. Auru and Renado became deep in thought while Shad was blushing every time Midna looked at him. Ashei began laughing having noticed what was making Shad blush, which caused him to turn even redder. Impa shook her head and eyed the mirror. Sheik and Tetra would glance occasionally at each other and nod.
"So um, what's new with you guys?" Midna asked.
XX
"You did WHAT?" Ganon screamed as his most loyal subject stood before him, wearing a worried expression and throwing his hands up in sorrow.
"I don't know how it happened! My lord, please forgive me, it was there when I had company over—" Zant stuttered.
"What company? Who was over? Zant I told you, NEVER have anyone over unless it is myself or one of your comrades." He gestured to the fellow people in the room, who were smirking.
"This is why he has women who work for him." One of the thieves snickered to the others.
"Her name was Midna, but I don't see—"
"MIDNA?" Ganon roared and then slammed his fist up against the wall in anger. "Out." Ganon whispered. "NOW!" Zant ran for the door. "EVERYONE!" He screamed. The women scurried after Zant and closed the door behind them. "Midna. Midna. MIDNA!" He screamed once more. That meddling Princess, I swear if she starts screwing up my plans again. "UGH!" Ganon slammed his fist against the wall once more. The wall was left with a dent as Ganon began angrily pacing.
"Father." Eldame came through the door, putting in an earring as she walked up to him. "Is that what you're wearing?"
"What?" He turned to her. "What do you mean?"
"We have that dumb award ceremony of yours, remember?" Eldame scoffed. "You're being awarded Man of the Year or whatever the hell the Mayor is giving you an award for." Eldame didn't attempt to suppress her eye roll when she said it.
"Oh? Right, right. I will be ready in a bit." Ganon sighed. Eldame began to walk off. "Don't curse." Ganon added as an afterthought, but Eldame simply raised her hand and waved it off. Midna, huh? Looks like there is a new player to the game. Eldame smirked as she walked out of the room.
A/N: Hey guys! I managed to put Tetra and Midna into the story! Yay! I wonder who could be speaking to Link and Zelda? Hmm? Please continue to review and tell me if you want a character, I will try! I think I might post a smaller chapter within the hour…maybe. Thanks lots! :P