Disclaimer:

Don't own Legend of Zelda, own Cecelia and Valenn, Naturally owns Tila.

Author's Note:

Dreadfully sorry it's taken me so long to get started again. I fell out of my stride, and it's been nearly a month since the last update. Well, I'll work on the story more.

At the end of the previos chapter, I meant the first rays of moonlight, not dawn. The scene I have in my head will only work if it's sunrise.

Also, I realize that 'someone with information' believes in a different timeline than my own. Let me take a moment to describe me timeline, so you can better understand my story.

Okay, so there was Hyrule (Ocarina of Time). Then they sent Link to the past, and he went to Terimina (Majora's Mask). Then he grew up, and went back to Hyrule. He forgot that he had been the Hero of Time, so Zelda didn't bother him, and he led a normal life in Castle Town, then died.
Centuries later, Ganondorf escaped his 'prison', and began to wreak havoc across the new Hyrule. Or he could have been reincarnated. Anyway, that leads us up to Twilight Princess, where the new Link defeats Ganondorf once again. Centuries after that, Hyrule was flooded (Wind Waker). I believe that at that time, Ganondorf was reincarnated (again, possibly), and began to mess things up for like, the hundredth time. THat, or it was some n00b that stole his name. Either way, that's how I see it.

All my reviewers know who they are, and they know how much I treasure them.
Thanks everyone!

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The constant roar of water, and random splashes woke me that morning. Sliding up into a sitting position, I rubbed one of my eyes. After the sleep was nudged from my eyelids, I looked around at my surroundings.

I was sitting on a small hill that had a low cliff facing a large pool of water. A nearby waterfall was creating a current, which swept falling leaves and petals down to a small tunnel. The sun crested the lip of the thin valley, throwing golden silk down upon me, and the figures in the water.

Their scales lit up as if someone had turned on a light, and I was dazzled. They twisted and twirled through the water, claiming fish as their meals. Some stood on the banks of the pool, chatting merrily. Others stood gaurd near the tunnel, and another, brilliant white rectangle set into the wall. Looking up through the waterfall, I spotted figures racing up and down the powerful blast. A quick scan of the rock face opposite told me that Reese was tethered to a stalagmite, and was munching blissfully on a bale of hay.

One of the figures in the water had spotted me, and motioned to one of his fellows. She covered her mouth, and swam off to another group near the shore, and pointed at me. That group scattered, and repeated the process, until a sea of beautiful sparkling faces were sending spots of light dancing across my face. Slowly, I got to me feet. The mass was silent as I looked at all of them. We all stood there (some swimming, but what does that matter?), staring at each other.

With a nervous smile, I waved to them. Immeadiatly, ripples of conversation broke out amoung them.

"Is she the mate of the other human?"

"Strange...two at once."

"The one looks like the Hero who brought King Ralis back to us!"

Snippets of speech floated to me, some of which embarassed me. Turning on the spot, and I walked down the slope to the bank, where it dropped off. With a tentative hand, my fingertips brushed the surface of the water, and I cringed. It was bitterly cold.

One of the younger, more feminine looking Zoras swam over to me, her face a mask of curiousity. I plopped myself down on the ground, and scooped up a handful of water. We both looked at it for a moment, and then I tossed it at her. She laughed, and cringed away. Being very careful not to actually hit me, she splashed in my general direction. My reply was a laugh, and she swam all the way to where I sat.

"My name's Neera. What's yours?" she chirped, tilting her head to the side.

"Cecelia, but you can call me Cece if you like," I replied, stretching my arms out. A look of curiousity flickered across her face just before she asked, "Would you like to swim with us?"

"I'd love to, but the water's too cold for me," I replied, checking the temperture once more. Brrr, still cold.

"I have an idea! We did this for the other human, I'll be right back!" Before I could protest, she dissappeared under the water. I looked up, expecting the Zoras to still be watching me, but they had dissapated, and resumed their activites.

Neera returned moments later, a seaweed wrapped package in her hands. She was smiled as she handed it to me. I cautiously unwrapped the package, and found a mask nestled in the moist weed. It was a Zora mask, right down to the glittering scales.

"We make them for hylian friends of the Zoras, so they can reach us much more easily," she explained as she climbed out of the water. "Come on," she whined, grabbing my free hand, and pulling me back up the hill. "I'll keep watch, just put it on already!" She was getting impatient, and I quickly thrust the mask onto my face, and tied the ribbon behind my head.

Oh my god...I felt as though my insides were being burned, my skin ripped from my body, every nerve screaming out in agony. I thought I would seriously die, for the second day in a row.

...Then it stopped. I inhaled sharply, and coughed. My eyes wrenched themselves open, and I gasped once more. Everything except my red dress, which I was still wearing, had taken on a more prominent blue-ish tint. Neera was looking at me, smiling smuggly.

"What?" I inquired, tilting my head at her behaviour.

"You might want to take off your clothes. All of them," She warned, and for a moment a started. If I took my clothes off, I would be naked. Simple as that. She caught my suprise, and nodded at my hand. When I looked at it, I uttered a little scream.

My hands were covered in the same scales the adorned the Zoras. I followed Neera's advice, and wrenched all of my clothes off, right down to my undergarments. Those came off as well, in a heartbeat. Neera smlied, and pulled me over to the cliff. She transitioned from running straight into her dive.

I was hesitant, but I leapt off after her. My hands first, I pierced the surface of the water, and gasped. It had gone from bitterly cold to pleasently warm! It took me a few more minutes to come to the second realization.

I was breathing underwater.

At first, I freaked. Then I was geeked. But when the other Zoras gave me strange looks, I was like, whatever.

Neera swan over to me, and smiled.
"It's fun, isn't it?" she asked, and knew the answer before I had time tonod vigorously. "Come on, I want to take you to see the Royal Chamber. I'm sure King Ralis would love to meet you, Queen Anali as well!"

Together, we easily darted up through the tunnel of water spouting from the spring at the head of Zora's Domain. Neera pulled me out of the current before we had time to swim through the wrought iron gate to the Royal Chamber. She ran down the flight of stairs, and returned a few minutes later, several things in her hands. One was a pair of golden hoop earrings, inlaid with a single ruby in each. The next was a golden anklet, several markings set into it's surface. The last was a simple silver chain necklace, with a small pendant dangling from it. In the pendant rested a gem that, at one moment, sparkled green, but at the next, flashed orange! It was absolutely beautiful.

Neera ignored my protests as she pierced the flesh of the...things, that hung in front of my face. Suprisngly, it didn't hurt at all, and a pair of earrings dangled elegantly from my 'ears', for lack of a better term. She fastened the necklace, and the anklet.

"I want these back later, you're just borrowing them to meet the King and Queen," she told me sternly. I nodded, and we proceded back into the water, and through the gates.

Guards stood watch both above and below water, I found out quickly. We continued through the water slowly, and I glanced downward. The deep basin was filled with brilliant colors and plants. The glittering forms of Zoran youths flitted in and amoungst the underwater foilage.

Neera and I surfaced quietly, and slid out of the water gracefully.
On one of the two thrones in front of us, I recognized the older, handsome Ralis, and beside him was a gorgeous, intelligent looking Zora, smiled brightly at us.

"Who have you brought us, Neera?" Ralis inquired, in his soft, yet strong voice.

"She says her name is Cecelia. I gave her one of the Zora Friend Masks in my possession. Drenad presented the other hylian with one of his, it seemed the lad did not have the Zora Tunic with him," she finished, and inhaled, laughing a little. Smiling, I nodded to confirm her story.

"Welcome to Zora's Domain!" Anali exclaimed, clapping her hands. Ralis chuckled, and looked at her. The love in his eyes rivaled that of Uli and Rusl.

"Thank you so much," I murmered softly, bowing my head. Neera started talking animately to both Ralis and Anali, so they didn't realize my silence. I was preoccupied over Valenn, Link, Tila, and of course, Dark Link. How bizarre, that Valenn should be chasing me. Truthfully, I had no idea, not an inkling of why he was persuing me.

"Excuse me, Your Majesties..." I muttered before turning around, and diving head first into the water. My sensitive ears picked up a song through the water, being performed somewhere down below.

I became gripped by the music, and I did a barrel roll in the water, twisting about all the while. My feet propelled me down to the bottom of the crater, where I began to dance. There were other Zoras my own age dancing amoungst the grass, but only one approached me.

He was handsome, there was no doubt about that. His eyes were an bright, dancing green, and he was smiling. He darted towards me, then away. I took a few quick steps toward him, then snapped back away. He darted in again, but swam around me in a circle. I spun, watching him. He arced upwards, still twisting in circles. Laughing playfully, I darted up through the circle, then darted away. His train of thought had been broken, and he peered curiously after me. I smiled, and darted away, down towards the waterfall. He pursued me down the powerful current, and we were soon joined by another two youths. It seemed the music's source was the main pool; many Zoran youths were darting around, dancing in a sense. Many fled their partners to join the group following me. Startled, I sped up and turned sharply. I was now headed towards the bank I had woken up near. With one powerful thrust of my feet, in shot out of the water, and landed gracefully on the shore. Expecting them to follow me, I turned around to face them, but only a fraction of the group remained, and more were breaking away, back underwater as I stood there. The very first youth's face was set in horrified terror, and the remaining group fled at last.

"What was that about?" I voiced aloud to no one in particular.

"It's one of their yearly festivals; it usually decides their mate for that year." Came a quiet voice from behind me. I turned more slowly this time, and immeadiatly recognized the crimson eyes of Dark Link. He was smiling, but very slightly.

"That answers one question, but raises so many more," I sighed, throwing my hands up in the air. He chuckled, and looked at me.

"Am I correct in asuming that one of those questions would be 'why come after me? I'm not that good looking'?"

"Eh...maybeh." Crossing my arms, I looked away, felling my cheeks warm. Dark Link laughed, a little more freely.
"What?"

"Your scales...they turned red!"

My eyes widened, and I blushed even harder. Aparently he knew this, and laughed again.

"Nyah!" I stuck my tounge out at him, and dove back into the water. Downward I drove myself, knowing that he had dived in after me. A few of the previous Zora were looking at me, all with an expression stating that they would like nothing more than to be Dark Link.

Dark Link's fingertips grazed my unadorned ankle, snapping me out of my reverie. Darting quickly to the side, our chase renewed itself.

The day continued on much like that, with periods of him hiding, then ambushing me.

When the sun began to set, the Zoras flitted away, to underwater cave and caverns, where they slept. Dark Link and I had removed our masks long ago, and sat on the small rock outcrop at the top of the waterfall. Twilight fell, and an eerie glow was cast upon Zora's Domain.

Ghost-like figure danced across the surface of the water, showing past events. One figure, or rather two, out of the mass caught my eye.

A wolf, and a small imp were running across the water's surface, aparently working towards some goal. They jumped around the waterfall, climbing higher and higher.

I looked to see if Dark Link was watching any of it, but his eyes were unfocused as he stared into space.

The wolf landed right on top of us, standing right between Dark Link and me. The imp on the wolf's back looked dead at me, and winked.

Just then, the spell was broken, and night truely fell.

The wolf dissappeared, but the imp lingered for just a moment more. She jumped off of what had been the wolf's back, and landed right beside my head. When she spoke, I heard nothing at first but strange noises. The imp realized I did not understand, and repeated herself, slightly impatient.

"Do not linger here," she warned, then vanished. I held my breath, waiting to see if the night held any more suprises. All was calm.

Dark Link shook his head, breaking out of his reverie. He then looked at me, possibly wondering why I was so jittery. As a response, I just shook my head, and stood up. I was tired, and needed to sleep.

Dark Link did not follow me as I walked slowly down the stairs. Drowsy as I was, my mind was alarmingly clear. I spotted Reese nearby, and went to him. Neighing softly, he nuzzled my cheek.

Leaning against a nearby pillar, I looked out at the moon. Was Link looking at it too? Wondering where I had dissapeared to? I felt so horrible, I'd never even gotten to say good-bye to him.

Torn in two, between Link and Dark Link, I began to cry. What was I to do? I cared about each of them, but I would only end up with one.

Tears still flowing down my face, I fell asleep on the ground, leaning against the pillar.

I slipped into the familiar world of my dreams, and found myself in a long hallway, surrounded by other humans my own age. They were all moving about, jostling me about the room. Confused, I called out for someone. For a moment, I spotted a head of honey blonde hair walking away from me, and in the opposite direction, a head of ebony. My cry was pitiful, and I fell to my knees, crying.

Tweet, titter-titter, ka-cheep. I awoke to the pleasent sound of birds. The sound of a car passed by my open window, and I strectched out pleasently. Hopping out of bed, I changed into my favorite outfit, the one specifically organized to make him jealous.

Then I realized, I was no longer in Hyrule. Sobs gripped me, and I fell to the floor, crying freely. Through my sobs, I heard something land on the floor, and walk over to me. A small pair of hands fastened a necklace around my neck, and patted my head softly.

"You can go back, you know. You don't have to get all weepy about it," A female voice complained, and I heard her walking away.

I looked up, but no one was there. I grasped the small pendant hanging from the chain around my neck. It was a locket. My hands shaking, I opened it, and I gasped as I spotted a golden triforce set into soft velvet, and a picture on the opposite side. A picture of a girl and a boy, laughing atop a handsome chestnut horse. She had light brown hair highlighted black, that rippled in the wind. He was wearing a green tunic, and a strange hat. At first, I didn't recognize the two people. Then it hit me; it was Link, regular Link, and me, laughing at the ranch.

Still shaken over the appearance of the locket, I got dressed, and tightened the chain of the locket so it was tight, like a choker. The pendant fell at the base of my neck, resting in the small hollow between my collarbones.

My Mother had already left for her day job, and I would have to get a ride from Damon, my best guy friend. After waiting impatiently on the curb for fifteen minutes, he arrived on his bright red crotch rocket. I was acustomed to this, and slid the black helmet her handed to me on carefully, so as not to ruin my hair. Like always, it took exactly fifteen minutes to reach our destination.

He dropped me off near the enterance, and went to go park his bike. Then I was alone again, like I always was. At school, I rarely saw my friends. Halley had all but on of her classes in Building C, and Damon had most of his in Building A and C. Mine were all in Building A.

The vacumm of the lobby broke me from my reverie, as did the wave of gossip. It seemed that news of my break-up had spread quickly, for most eyes were on me. Some of those who weren't looking at me were looking at Derrick. He had entered through the East enterance, and I the North. We glanced at each other for a moment, and I caught a flash of awe on his face. Smiling, I nearly danced across the room, into the Awards hallway. Halley caught up to me, and looked at me curiously.

"What?"

"I had a really strange dream last night. You were in it," she said, looking at me strangely.

"I had a weird dream as well, and you were in it too. Perhaps we had the same dream," I mused, twirling the locket in my fingers. She took hold of my wrist, and pulled me down the hallway, away from the cafetoria, where most people congregated in the morning.

"Okay, listen. I dreamt about Hyrule last night. Hyrule. I can only guess that you did as well."

"And if I did?"

"Well, that means that something strange is going on here, doesn't it?"

"Eh, not really. I was playing Twilight Princess for like, five hours last night."

"Hello there."

Halley and I looked down the hallway, and saw a boy with honey blonde hair, and deep blue eyes. We gaped for a moment.

Link was on Earth. In the flesh, standing next to us.

If that wasn't a dream, I'm pretty sure I'd unconsciously become addicted to some illegal substance.

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Author's Note:

So? Like it? It's a bit longer, and it took me two days to write. Anyway, read and review, like always. Tip your waitresses, and don't forget to take a cookie on your way out!
Thank you, and have a nice day!