Ok, like I said, within two weeks I was going to put up the next chapter. Heres some more added confusion for the heck of it XD I'm finally getting into the main storyline! YAY FOR MEANFUL-...ness. Well, enjoy ^^
-TPOV-
Man, Link was work. His arm was completely broken, conveniently his left one too. What had happened? He shouldn't have been that injured from the fist boss, unless maybe he broke his arm before the battle. That would have sucked since the fight involved over bow usage.
It was horrible just seeing my friend and the future Hero of Hyrule sitting on the bed helpless and unconscious. We were out of red potion so there wasn't much else we could do until the morning when we could go to town and get more.
I jumped out of the tree I was in and changed the subject of my thoughts, heading back towards the trees, keeping an eye on the path I took because people naturally wonder left in forests. Soon I had reached an eerie clearing, a large hill in the center of it.
The thing wasn't barren, grass and flowers littered all of the clearing and it was a beautiful cloudless night. Happy that I had found a nice spot to sit and look at the stars, I climbed up and sat on top; slowly drifting to sleep.
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A small girl is walking towards the hill, another around her age following. Suddenly they turn and walk around the base of it, a cave coming into view in the hillside.
Millions of tiny symbols line the entrance, the second girl reaches out and touches one as it glows, disappears, then more larger ones appear in it's place. She traces one of them and then all the symbols vanish and she enters the cave.
The first girl waits outside, an aura of confidence surrounds her, then out of the cave stumbles the other child, bruised, battered, and bleeding. She runs up to her injured friend and starts crying.
"I knew we shouldn't..." the wounded child gasped.
"It's my fault! No, you can't die!"
"No, I suggested we should go. I thought I might be ready... I guess I was just wrong for once."
"Your never wrong! And it was still my fault! I never objected!"
The second girl slowly let her eyes drift shut, coughing up some blood, then she smiled. "It doesn't matter. Just what ever you do, don't enter that cave."
Suddenly she started to glow, balls of light rising from her body. Carefully she stood, three figures appeared around her, blue, green, and red. The girl smiled gingerly and then faded completely, her crying friend left behind.
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I sat up and gasped, swiftly looking around. That place... It looked like here. I crawled slowly to the other side of the hill, all the plants around it were dead and it dropped off suddenly. I jumped down to the flat ground and turned back towards the hillside. A cave was there, hundreds upon thousands of miniature symbols surrounding it.
What does it mean?
A twig cracked, and my hand instinctively went for my sword, which was left at home. I dropped into a defensive position and stared into the darkness, a figure stepped out.
It was a human, one of undefinable age, gender, or race by just looking at them. Black bandages were wrapped around both arms, ending at a strange symbol on his right shoulder. His cape was midnight blue and connected in the center with two clips, one above the other, the top being slightly smaller. They had traveling clothes on, a slightly lighter blue medieval shirt and baggy black pants. I couldn't see their face because the cape had a hood and it was pulled up over it.
"Greetings, what are you doing here this afternoon?" A male voice, that at least confirms gender. It sounded soft and controlled, not evil and untrustable, so I decided not to run; however, I held my stance.
"Exploring..." I answered hesitantly.
He laughed, "'Tis quiet an odd place to wonder, a little spooky wouldn't you say?"
"What's it to ya?" I answered aggressively.
He chuckled again, "Do not fear, I am not a foe. I've come to help,"
Now I was interested. "How so?"
The man fished around in his pocket and pulled out a small vial, a red liquid inside, and extended his arm so I could reach it. I just stared at it for a moment.
"What? Do you not need it?" he asked.
"Why would you help me, and what would I need I for anyway?" I challenged.
"Is your friend not injured? Last I saw his arm was in a pretty bad condition."
I froze, "How did you know about that?"
"I see and know many things, now, will you accept this?"
"How do I know it's not poisonous?"
He smiled good-heartedly and took a swing of it, then re-corked it, "Why would I poison myself?"
"Good point," I agreed, taking the potion from him. I looked down at it and saw it slowly refill itself.
"Your friend will need all of it,"
"Thank you," I said, still looking at the vial, mystified. When I looked back up he was gone.
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When I got back to the house, everyone was still awake, even if it was very late. Well, I shouldn't say everyone, Link was still out like a light.
I entered the room in which he was still sound asleep, and Sheik sat up in his chair and looked over at me with confusion.
"Where did you obtain that?"
"Woah, flashback from day one,"
"Just answer me,"
"I found it..."
"Now your giving me deju vu,"
"Whatever, give it to him," I handed him the bottle and he walked over to Link, sitting down carefully on the bed and giving him the potion, rubbing his throat to make him swallow. After about a minute his arm glowed, retained it's original shape, then faded again.
Sheik poked his arm.
"And what did that accomplish?"
"I don't know, I felt like it would do something."
"Poking an injured limb would do that why?"
"It's not injured anymore,"
"That is not the point."
Suddenly Link gasped and sat up, his right hand going for his left arm, then when he noticed it was painless he released it and looked puzzled.
"What happened? Where did he go??" he asked anxiously.
"You wake up and your broken arm is magically fixed, and that's the first thing you ask?"
"Where did he go?!?"
"Phantom Ganon is gone."
"I know he's gone, but where is he?"
"I don't know where phantoms go when they die,"
"Not Phantom Ganon, the other guy,"
"What other guy?" Sheik asked.
"The one who saved me, where is he?"
"No one was with you Link," I responded, wondering if he had lost it.
"There was! He helped me, I wouldn't have won the battle otherwise!"
Sheik was about to counter him, starting to say he needed more rest, but I held out a hand, signaling him to stop. "What did he look like..?"
"Black bandages on his arms... and a dark blue cloak."
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-RPOV-
As I walked down stairs, the first thing I saw was Link awake, Tora seeming ready to pass-out, and Sheik staring at her oddly.
"Hey, what'd I miss?"
Sheik glanced over at me, and looked back at Tora, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," it was obvious it wasn't nothing, but no one commented against it.
I looked over at the table, an empty vial siting on the nightstand with a piece of paper attached to it, "What does that say?" I asked.
"Hmm?"
"There's a note on that bottle... what does it say?"
"What note?"
I walked over and grabbed the note off the bottle frustratingly as I looked it over, "this note-"
I stopped dead. This note had the same strange symbols as the one back in the plane wreckage. Neither I could read.
"What?" Tora came over and grabbed it from my hands, then her eyes went blank and she spoke in a possessed tone.
"Who Death follows, Midnight aids. Your last moments written in Stone, Your last words echoed in Vain. Your path to victory long, the path to follow not far."
I paused for a moment, "You can read that?"
She blinked and the controlled look was gone, "I remember that, that is the language that Nintendo had said was Ancient Hylian, I had memorized it and thought that they didn't use it here,"
"Huh?"
"Long story,"
Then words started forming under the symbols, this time in our own language. Tora began to read again, "Your true enemy soon arrives, the fate of your friend was controlled by the same force, his lone battle no accident."
I ran up the stairs as quickly as I could, taking the letter with me as she finished. When I got to my room I pulled the letter that I had confiscated from the plane crash out of the drawer and looked back and forth between the two. The symbols were the same.
Only at the bottom instead of words I could understand, it had burned away.
Published 6-10-09
Well, summer break starts for us Friday, Friday being our last day but all we do is check in then get on the bus to go to Oaks Park X3 I'm going straight towards the Screaming Eagle (my favorite ride).
BeyondBirthday187: Yeah, I know . shes not to OoC in this chapter though is she? I tried to fix it some, but it's hard in the more plotty and serious chapters.
The Silent Orion: A lot of things involving me are weird XD making Link sound stupid can be fun occasionally, but I don't like picking on one person too much.
yuyu4848: Thanks, I think the paradox items were a good thing to add to give more originality. My sister has been nagging me that the story is unoriginal ^^; I'm sorry it felt kind of rushed, and this one might as well, but I have had a problem with that lately, if I get an idea I want to get it typed out so I don't forget it I can do that sometimes.
Over the summer I'll have plenty of time to type so I should get some chapters up sooner than normal, but the week immediately after the 4th of July I'm going to a week long camp which I attend every year, but this will be my last year so I'm sad about that T.T anyway, technology isn't allowed there so I'll have to work on a rough draft while I'm there. I go to bed pretty late so I don't think I'll have a shortage of time unless all of the activities wear me out.
Oh, and If your an artist I'm having a contest on DeviantART(dot)com (remove the dot and put in a . instead obviously XD ) my user name is Shadowy-Eclipse. A couple of my friends are doing it but no one else on DA really reads it ^^; the things you can enter can either be the mysterious man, a scene from any chapter, the cave, or the Tri-Tree Grove. Let me know If your interested!
