Disclaimer

I do not own Legend of Zelda, or Black Sabbath, but I do own Cecelia, Valenn, Shima, Shira, Kila and Menani. If you wish to use any of them in a story of yours, please ask me. Ask Naturally Artistic if you wish to use Tila or Tradgidian in any of your stories. Sorry if I spelt that wrong again Artistic.

Author's Note

Well lookie here! Another chapter! I'd like to say some thing about a couple of the characters I was just talking about.
Shira, Shima, and Menani all reflect friends of mine in real life. Shira and Shima are gerudos, Kila is a deku shrub and Menani is a Twili Hylian thingy. Don't ask.

Well, I'm back now. For good. Sorry, but you're all stuck with me, and my horrible cliffhangers. Apparently Artistic didn't like the ending of the last chapter. What? I like to get creative.

Speaking of creative, if you hadn't noticed, I've changed the title of the story from 'Am I dreaming?' to 'Requiem of a Dream'. For those of you who didn't make any connection about the new title, it's a slight spin off from 'Requiem for a Dream' by Blind Guardian. I absolutely love that song, it actually on the website.

Speaking of which, I don't think anyone's even so much as glanced at it. Eh, whatever. I need to work on the story, not my site.

Okay, here I go.

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A few days had passed since the initial meeting of Link. I'd smuggled him to my house, right underneath the super sensitive nose of my Mother. He couldn't come to school with Halley and me, but I couldn't let him just roam around by himself.

"How do we get him back to Hyrule?" Halley asked me over lunch one day. Damon was listening to his Black Sabbath CD, so neither of us were worried about him eavesdropping on us.

"I don't know. If I had the answer, Link would already be back there," I replied, slightly agitated. That was the seventh time she'd asked that question. It seemed there really was no answer to that. He's from a video game. He'd given me a full account of his life, growing up alone, the whole shebang. It was him. I mean, it made sense that I might have dreamed about Hyrule, and it had seemed like months had passed while I slept, but it was just a dream. Right? Link was no dream.

The rest of the day passed quickly, and I returned home via Damon. We chatted for a few moments before he continued on home. My Mother wasn't home from her job yet, but she'd be home soon to go to her night job.

"Link? I'm back," I called out into the quiet apartment. The complex was usually shaking from all the noise he was making. But that day it was eeriely silent. "Link?"

All the light seemed to have vanished from the small abode. The door to my room was firmly shut, but the was a silvery glow coming from the crack underneath. I grabbed a nearby broom, and crept towards the door. Throwing it open, I bradished my broom in front of me, prepared to attack.

There was no one in the room.

"Shoot!" Shouting at the top of my lungs, I searched my room from top to bottom. Under the bed, in my closet, behind the door, everywhere. Link was gone.

My homework was already done, so I flopped myself down onto my bed, fully clothed. Slowly, very slowly, I began to drift off into the realm of dreams. But just before I went unconscious, I saw a golden glow emitting from somewhere extremely close to where I laid.

Images of the desert flashed into my mind. A girl was riding across the shifting ground on a tawny warhorse. I couldn't see her face, even when I looked closely. She had covered her face in a white veil, and was dressed in very little clothing.

Then my mind flashed to the grounds of a strange building, that towered over the desert. The surrounding ground was not the desolate waste I was expecting, but a foilage covered oasis. A small spring gurgled nearby, and as I peered into one of the windows, I caught sight of a man. He had purple hair. A deep purple, yet it shined with some silver undertone. His eyes were a fierce ice blue. He was speaking quietly with a young woman, who was chained to a large four poster bed. I couldn't make out what they were saying before everything blurred, then went black.

Drip...drip...plunk, the sounds of fallings droplets reached my ears. I stretched out, rubbing my back. It seemed that sleeping against the pillar had not been such a good idea. A quick glance at the sky told me that dawn was approaching, but it would be awhile. With a sigh, I stood up. Dark Link was no where around, but the Zoras were already out and about.

There was something cold on my neck, and my fingers found there way to a small oval pendant.

"You can go back, you know. You don't have to get all weepy about it." The voice seemed to come from the locket, but I knew it was my mind playing tricks on me. Unclasping it so I could look at the picture, I heard the sound of footsteps behind me. Unfazed, thinking it was only Dark Link, I opened the locket. The golden triforce was still there, but the picture had changed. Instead of Link and I laughing at the ranch, it showed a picture of a wolf-like canine. It had brilliant amber eyes, and was reddish-brown in color, a lot like my current hair color.

Oh, yeah. I dyed my hair while I was on Earth. It took another moment for another thought to hit me.

"...I'm back!" I squealed happily. The footsteps got closer, and I turned on the spot, a smile stretching across my face. It didn't take a single second for the smile to falter.

"So am I," Valenn muttered. He was smiling cruelly as he raised his palm to face me. A brilliant flace of violet light blinded me, and everything went black once again.

The was intense pain, worse than when I put them mask on. Every molecule, every cell of my body was reconfigurating itself, changing. All of my nerves burned, my bones shook, and changed shape. My body shrunk, then elongated. I felt my nose and mouth stretch outwards, away from me.

Then everything went black. I was numb, and cold. There was silence, yet there was also a deafening roar.

"Wake up! Wake up!" A voice reached me through my semi-consciousness, and I felt a small pair of hands shaking me roughly. My eyes opened, yet everything was blurred. Blinking repeatedly seemed to rememdy that. A small black and white imp stood before me, wearing half a helmet.

"Midna?" I inquired, yet my voice seemed to have changed. No longer the smooth, moderately high pitched sound I was used to, it came out as a singsong sort of...well, bark.

"Good dog," She said, smiling. A quick pat to my head, and she disappeared. I thought over what she said for a moment.

"Wait...I'm not a dog!" My voice seemed more like a bark then ever, and I heard her laughing off in the distance.

"Vaati, will you please silence that mutt? It's barking's giving me a headache," a girl whined, just outside the room I was in. Her voice was alluring, or so it seemed.

"Please Vaati? I don't like the idea of sleeping with vermin next door," another one complained, lacing the word 'vermin' with malice and distaste.

"Ladies," a cool, masculine voice said. "It is no ordinary animal. Let me show you, for this is one amazing creature."

The door opened, and dusty light spilled into the otherwise dim room. Cringing, I thrust my head away from the door.

"Come my pet; say something," The man coaxed, trying to sound kind and gentle.

"Oh shove it you ignorant man!" I snapped, growling at him. The girls gasped, and then giggled nervously.

"Oooh! She just insulted Vaati!" One of the chimed, acting like a school girl.

Vaati, I presumed he was called, shook his head at me. "I can't condone to that behavior. You'd better shape up missy, or I might have to put you outside."

"What do think I am, some kind of dog?" I barked, lunging at him. A chain hindered my leap, and I whipped around midair, and landed roughly on the floor.

"Actually, yes. That is precisely what I think you are," he said, his tone no longer playful, just inpassive. "Come ladies, there is nothing left for us to see here."

"Vaati?" One of them asked, nervously.

"What is it Shima?"

"May I stay for a moment? The beast cannot harm me; it is chained. Besides, I wish to see if it knows anything other than insults," she giggled, sounding much less fake then the other girls.

"Very well." With that, Vaati and the other four left the room, leaving me alone with the girl, Shima.

We waited in silence. Her gaze drilled holes into my skin, unnerving me. Seeing as I refused to break the calm, she spoke first.

"You aren't naturally like this, are you?" she inquired, sitting on the floor beside me. Her face was sad, like she pitied me.

"I don't know what you mean. I am myself, Human."

"No. You aren't Human, Hylian, Gerudo, Zora, Goron, or anything I've every speak intelligently. You're...well, a wolf, in a sense."

"What!?"

She pulled a mirror out of her bag, and held it up to my face.

I wasn't myself. I...well, Shima had pretty much summed it up into one word. I was a wolf.

"No..." Groaning pathetically, I placed my front paws over my muzzle, in attempt to hide. Shima scratched me behind the ears, in an act of comfort. Oh my god, it's like a massage for your head! If, or when, I get a dog, I'm scratching it behind the ears until my hand falls off!

Shima stood, and left the room, obviously realizing I wished to be alone. Almost immeadiately, Midna reappeared, leaning casually against my side.

"I told you not to get all weepy, you came back didn't you? Besides, I gave that Shiekah a locket too. That's how I got here."

My ears perked up, and I turned my head to look at her.

"Another Mirror?"

"Sort of. The breaking of the Mirror wasn't exactly what the Goddesses wanted to happen...so...they kind of made a new one. But, the pompous idiot here, Vaati he calls himself, he's trying to enter the Twilight Realm. We're actually in the Gerudo Desert right now."

"Oooookay. So I take it that means Zelda sent you here?"

"Nope. I smelled wolf, and thought it might have been Link. But it was you. Either way, I think I can help you get out."

"How?"

"We can warp, or I can help you escape the fun way."

"Hmm...I want to have some fun. Besides, if we run into trouble, you can just warp us out of here."

"Sweet. I'll get the door."

Curse you apposable thumbs. Curse you.

The door creaked open, and Midna peeked outside the door quickly, then plopped herself down on my back.

"You know, that kind of hurts," I said nonchalantly. She replied by kicking me in the sides, and I bolted out the door.

Suprisingly enough, it was very easy to get out. None of the guards noticed as I darted around corners, or crawled under tables. Anyway, we eventually got out. The place where I had been taken, Vaati's fortress, was the same place I had seen earlier. Midna tugged on my ears sharply, and the floated up into the air. Bits and pieces of myself flew up into her newly created portal, and I found myself engulfed by the Twilight.

Literally. Midna had warped me into the Twilight Realm. She kicked me in the sides, propelled me from the platform I was currently on to the next, then the next, etc. After a few minutes of doing that, she tugged sharply on my right ear, and I ended up jumping of the platform into nothingness.

We hurtled through darkness, wind rushing past us, until I collided with the ground. The result was a muted thud, and a rather agitated me. But no, Midna just had me run off again. We had apparently landed in Faron Woods, and she was patting my back, in one of the gentler attempts to get me to move.

"I swear, if you keep doing that, I am going to break your skinny little leg." My fur bristled as I growled my threat. I couldn't see her, but I no longer felt her patting me. "Good."

Head held high, I began trotting off towards Ordon Village. When we passed the spring, Beth caught sight of me. Midna vanished instantly, and Beth came thundering over to where I stood.

"Doggie!" she squealed, sqeezing her tiny arms around my neck. Growling, I warned her off. Of course, just letting go wouldn't have been good enough, so she ran away from me, screaming all the while.

"Smooth," Midna whispered in my ear.

"Shut up."

She disappeared once more, and I trotted happily into the village, acting a lot like a stray dog. Mouth open in a blissful smile, tail waging, the works.

"Who are you supposed to be?" A girl asked to my left. When I turned to see who it was, I only saw Epona. "Aren't you going to answer my question?" She inquired.

"Eh...Cecelia."

"The human girl?"

"I'm not human anymore," I said wryly, looking up at the door to Link's home.

"Did you need to see Link? He's here, but I don't think you'll be able to talk to him," she warned. I smiled.

"I'm not so sure about that."

Settling myself square in front of his house, and started howling The Prelude of Time. For a moment, I felt the air around change, the density of the air thicken, but as soon as the feeling came, it went.

The windows to the top floor flew open, and Link's head appeared. He had seemed angry at first, but when he caught sight of me, his expression changed to disbelief.

Trying to seem like myself, or rather, my human self, I barked at him and jerked me head over my shoulder. When he just sat that, his mouth hanging open slightly, I repeated the act, adding a bit of a growl to the bark.

He shut the windows, and disappered from veiw. At first I thought he wasn't going to come out, but I was wrong.

Sword in hand, he opened the door, and jumped down in front of me. Instinctively, I tucked my tail between my hinnd legs and scooted back a foot or two. He seemed to take this as a sign of non-agression, and lowered his sword.

I could see Midna sitting in a nearby tree out of my periphial vision. She was looking particularly smug.

"Oh come on!" I cried out, wheeling to look at her. "Do you think I enjoy barking around like an idiotic pet?!"

The smug look vanished as she glanced over at Link. When I turned, his face was plastered with shock.

"Please tell me that wolf didn't just talk," he begged to know one in particular.

"That wolf didn't just talk," Midna said, floating down from her perch.

Link was gaping at her, and I was wondering how this situation was going to pan out.

Seriously though. I had a couple of problems with the way Link and Midna were reunited.

A) I was a dog, B) Midna turned up out of the blue...err, Twilight, C) Dark Link was nowhere to be seen, D) That might mean the end of my flirting with Link, and E) That my day had pretty much sucked so far.

Hmm...what will happen next?

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Author's Note

Sorry Bamber, I know how you hate zeh cliffies. But I couldn't think of anything else to write!
HimmelsDraculina, I'd like to thank you for being such an awesome writer, it really inspires me.
To everyone else, thanks for reading, hope you'll review, and I'll talk to you all very soon!
Bye!