"SCREW THE RULES I HAVE MONEY!!!" –Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series. It's priceless.
Hello! This chapter gave me some God-awful trouble! But it's gonna work out. Hehehe!!! I think my sister might actually murder me for this chapter. Good thing I'm not going home this weekend. She may not be five feet, but tiny Mexican women are SCARY as HELL!!!!!
This chapter is dedicated to Anmynous for sticking with this story and some creative feedback. I appreciate it! And now! *drumroll*:
Chapter Twenty One
I knew there was something wrong as soon as I set foot in Kakariko Village again. While Link went to see the children again, I went towards the middle of the village. I was right; there was a disturbance at the well, where I somehow knew that Impa had sealed a deep evil. The structure was wobbling dangerously as I approached. Midna came out of my shadow and attempted to get closer. I grabbed her hand, and pulled her back, and she smacked into my chest.
"Midna, get Link. Quickly. There is something terribly wrong here!" she nodded against my chest, and leapt from shadow to shadow, away from me. I peered into the well. A great red eye looked up at me, and a deep growling filled my ears. I backed away, even as I heard Link's footsteps behind me.
"Get back, Link!" I yelled. Suddenly a wave of evil grabbed me, and swung me around, bouncing me off of buildings, throwing and catching me. I tried to warp, but I couldn't. It finally flung me away, and I landed hard on my head and neck.
Disoriented with pain, I watched it do the exact same thing to Link. Midna wisely stayed in his shadow. Finally, it knocked him out cold against the well. I watched as the evil escaped, and headed to the Shadow Temple.
Once she was sure that there was no more danger, Midna jumped out of the shadows, and came to me.
"Sheik?" she asked tentatively, stroking my face. I was in a very awkward position on the ground, and my neck hurt badly. I groaned in reply. I couldn't make any intelligible speech.
Midna gently picked up my head, and placed me on her small lap, stroking my hair and my face. Her fingers travelled over my eyes, my cheek, my nose, my lips…
Without really knowing what I was doing, I kissed her fingers as they brushed against my mouth again. She paused, and placed her palm on my mouth, and I kissed her hand. She continued stroking my face, and began giving me little kisses on my forehead, my eyes, my cheek, nose…
Suddenly I was aware of everything. I sat up quickly. Midna looked surprised. I swayed where I was, and I put a hand to my neck.
"Ugh," I grunted. Midna floated up to my face, concern on her expressive face.
"Sheik? Are you alright?" she asked me softly.
"Not really, but I'll live," I mumbled. She placed her hands on my face tenderly, gazing unflinchingly into my eyes as intensely as I was gazing at her. After Link and my conversation at Renado's before we went to the Water Temple, I was much more aware of my feelings and actions toward Midna. When I searched myself, I realized that as much as I was doing this for Zelda, I also fought with my heart for Midna. I loved Zelda, my sister of my soul, but I had come to realize that I loved Midna with such intensity that was only rivaled by Zelda's love for Link.
I stroked Midna's face, her skin so soft to the touch, but I turned away from her. I would never spurn her, but we couldn't pursue a romance if Link, Zelda and Hyrule were in danger at every moment. We couldn't afford distractions.
I got up to see to Link. He had a bad bruise on his head, but other than that, he seemed fine. With Sheikah magic, I drew water from the ground, and poured it on his forehead. Midna hovered anxiously next to my shoulder. Link groaned, and his eyes fluttered open.
"Looks like you're coming around. Link, a terrible thing has happened. The evil shadow spirit has been released! Impa, one of the last of the Sheikah, had sealed the evil shadow spirit in the bottom of the well, but the force of the evil spirit got so strong the seal of the well broke, and it escaped into the world. I believe Impa is imprisoned elsewhere, and cannot seal the evil again. Link, Impa is one of the six sages. Destroy the evil shadow spirit, and save Impa!" Link nodded and got to his feet, swayed slightly, and grabbed my shoulder. He looked at me as if to say go on. "There is an entrance to the Shadow Temple beneath the graveyard behind this village. The only thing I can do for you is teach you the melody that will lead you to the Shadow Temple. This is the melody that will draw you into the infinite darkness that absorbs even time. Listen to this, the Nocturne of Shadow."
I pulled out Zelda's harp, and Link the Ocarina of Time. Pain still clouded his eyes, but he shook his head, and put the instrument to his lips. I played a melody that sang of darkness and underlying danger. I shuddered to play it. Link played it back to me, and also shuddered as the Ocarina sparkled with recognition.
"Let me take care of the village! I'll be there soon!" I told him. He nodded.
"Alright. Let's go, Midna!" and he ran off. With one last glance at me, Midna darted after him.
"Right behind you!" she called, and dove into his shadow.
I turned the other way, to Renado's home. I needed to place guards around him and the children, to make sure they were safe, in case the evil did not content itself with the Shadow Temple.
I skidded to a halt outside of the house and knocked on the door rather urgently. Luda peered out at me, and smiled her sweet smile.
"Is everyone in there?" I asked her. She nodded.
"May I come in and speak with Renado? It's a matter of importance." She nodded again, and opened the door for me to come in, and she ran upstairs to get Renado. Colin peered out of a doorway farther down the hall, and came running to greet me.
"Hi, Sheik! We just saw Link!" he said happily, bouncing on his toes.
"I thought so, but I had to come by. You need to be very courageous for what I'm about to tell you all," I told Colin seriously. He gulped, but nodded bravely.
Renado came down the stairs, both Luda and Ilia following him.
"Sheik, it is very good to see you again. What brings you here?" he made a little bow to me. I bowed back to him.
"You are in danger of the monster of the Shadow Temple," I told him bluntly.
"That evil was sealed in the well years ago by Impa," he answered.
"It was, but with the Twilight so strong, it has been able to break free. I have come to request permission to put magical guards around you and the children to keep you safe in case it is not content with its influence over the Shadow Temple. It is best not to underestimate this ancient evil." Colin's eyes were wide with shock and horror.
"Are we going to die?" he asked in a small voice. I knelt to be eye level with him.
"No, Colin, it's just a precaution, to keep you safe. Chances are, Link will rid the Temple of the evil before it can turn its eyes here," Colin looked doubtful, but hopeful.
"I give you permission. I promised the children's parents that I would keep them safe no matter what, and this precaution must be taken," Renado answered.
"Thank you," I said. I turned to Colin who stood bravely, "Shall I start with you, brave Colin?"
He nodded. I offered him my hands, and he placed his small ones in mine. I began to chant in Sheikah, placing different guards around him. Swirls of blue circled him, and then I was done. Colin looked around a bit bemused.
"That's it?" he asked me.
"That's it," I confirmed. He smiled widely.
"I didn't feel anything!"
"Good, you shouldn't have."
Colin raced off to get Talo, Malo, and Beth. I turned to Ilia, who stared at me uncertainly.
"I won't hurt you, I promise," I reassured her. She hesitantly put her hands in mine. Again, I chanted in Sheikah, and blue swirled around her, and I was done. She smiled timidly at me.
I turned to Luda, who eagerly held out her hands to me. Taking them and smiling again, I chanted in Sheikah, and she giggled as the blue magic swirled around her. When I was done she spoke in a high, sweet voice. "Thank you!"
Next was Renado who quietly took my hands and my spell. Then Talo and Beth came down the hall, following Colin.
First I took Beth's hands, and she bit her lip as the magic swirled around her, but smiled when it was over. Talo reluctantly took my hands, and when I was done, wiped his hands on his pants, muttering something about "cooties."
Finally, Malo came waddling down the hall, and I took his small pudgy hands. He was remarkably quiet during the whole thing, and didn't say a word when I was finished. I went to the Bomb Shop and did the same with Barnes who looked immensely relieved. Satisfied with my work, I departed the shop, and went towards the graveyard, and the Shadow Temple.
It was stone cold, and it felt like a million eyes were watching me. The cold penetrated to my very bones, and I shivered. It was like fingers inside me. Then I heard a shout.
"Link?" I asked the air. It just shimmered, and remained mockingly silent. I warped to where I heard the voice come from.
I finally found Link pressed against a wall, staring in horror at the space right in front of him.
"Link? Are you alright?" I asked him. He pointed to the ground.
"They murdered Zelda!" he screamed in terror. I looked down. Nothing.
"Link, there's nothing there," I said quietly. I knew from the Sheikah book that Impa had given me that the Shadow Temple attempted to drive men insane by illusions and trickery. I saw nothing, but Link apparently did. Midna remained in his shadow.
"I want nothing to do with this Temple," she said in a shaky voice. I moved towards Link, and he shrieked.
"Link! Have you taken leave of your senses? You watched Zelda sacrifice herself for Midna! It isn't possible for this Temple to have murdered her!" I shook him. He still had that wide-eyed panicked expression on his face. With no other choice in front of me, I drew my fist back, and punched him in the jaw, making him collapse to the ground. Dazed, he looked at the ground, then looked up at me.
"Sorry," he muttered sheepishly.
"It's alright, Link. Now, keep your senses intact, and let's go. What have you found here?" He pulled out a rather large magnifying glass.
"The Lens of Truth," and he tapped his boots with the Master Sword, "and the hover boots. They're strange!"
"Alright, let's keep searching," I said calmly, even though my heart was pounding, and we pressed on.
It was eerily silent, and each small noise seemed magnified to several decibels louder. Link and I often used the Lens of Truth, for there were trick walls, trick doors, trick floors, trick obstacles, and trick monsters. Several times, had not Link warned me, I would have tumbled into the abyss of the Temple. Midna whimpered in Link's shadow.
"What's wrong, Midna?" I asked her.
"You don't want to know what's down there," she said tearfully. We let the subject rest.
This temple took our weaknesses and turned them against us. Twice I saw Midna's true form, dead and mangled, and three times being tortured badly. But unlike Link or the real Midna, I kept my wits, and often I would attack the mirage, or walk past it.
One treacherous room, Midna was sobbing in my shadow, and Link was shaken, pale, and sweating. He was more nervous than I had ever seen him. But in this room, there were ReDeads in every corner, and they all turned to Link. The one closest to him came towards him with its arms spread wide, as if to embrace him. To mine and Midna's horror, Link dropped the Master Sword and his shield, and cried, "Zelda!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuugh," the ReDead groaned, shuffling towards Link, who looked happier than I have ever seen him.
"Link no, that's not Zelda! Zelda's gone! Zelda's dead! It's a ReDead! Not Zelda!" I yelled. Link turned his eyes towards me. Midna gasped in horror. His pupils were dilated to almost pinpricks, and his irises turned white. I was actually afraid of him for a moment before I remembered he wouldn't actually hurt me.
I was terribly, terribly wrong about that.
Link took up the Master Sword that he had dropped, and slowly began to advance on me.
"Link, what are you doing? You do realize I'm Sheik, right?" I asked him, but I stupidly didn't move.
"Zant, you'll pay for what you've done to her!" he yelled at me. I was so shocked, that I couldn't move if I wanted to. Then I felt cold, then really warm, then cold, then empty and a lot of pain.
I looked down at myself, and I realized that Link had in fact, attacked me. I had a cut from my right shoulder down to my left hip, and I was bleeding heavily.
"Link, I am not Zant, and you know this to be true!" I yelled at him. It was really hard to breathe…
"Don't lie. I see you there, Zant, and I'll make you pay for everything you did to her!" he yelled as he rushed at me. I barely had time to take out my own short sword to deflect his blow that surely would have killed me.
I warped behind him as he attempted to stab me, and before he could turn around, I had destroyed the ReDead who Link had thought to be Zelda. I warped to each of the other ReDeads, and destroyed them too before he could think they were someone else. But I was wrong.
"Midna!" He yelled as I destroyed the second one. He rushed at me but I warped. So tired…
"Sheik!" he cried as I destroyed the third. I turned to him, thinking it was me he was talking to, but no, he was looking at the ReDead. This wound hurts…Let me sleep…
"Father!" he screamed as I killed the last one. I tried to turn to him, but I had lost so much blood…I fell to the ground…On my hands and knees.
I got to Link on all fours, and as he lifted the Master Sword to kill me, I pulled the Lens of Truth out of his belt, and pushed it up to his face. His expression changed from fury to horror as he saw that I was the one who had taken his blows.
"Sheik!" he yelled, and he dropped the Master Sword, and knelt in front of me. I think he almost cried for a moment.
"Link, you moron, you do need to think with your head more instead of your eyes!" I yelled at him, then everything went completely black.
I awoke a long time later. I hadn't my cowl, tunic, or shirt on, and my pants had been pulled down a ways, to get to the rest of my wound on my hip. However, it left little to the imagination.
With a little deduction, I concluded that Link had carried me out of the Temple, and I was at Renado's home.
I slowly sat up, trying not to wince at the stitching on my torso, and letting the blanket fall off of me. I let an involuntary groan escape, but I was sitting now. I saw the damage done to my clothing. I could easily fix it with Sheikah magic.
Using my finger as if it was a needle, I directed the magic to mend the broken fibers on my tunic, shirt, and pants. When I finished, my clothing looked as if they had never been touched by the Master Sword.
I felt my wound. It was deep, that much I could tell from how deep the pain was penetrating. He might have hit a rib or two.
However, I could heal myself with my Sheikah magic too. If I couldn't, then I could draw on the Triforce power that was still in my hand.
Taking a very deep breath, I pressed my fingers to the wound. I winced, trying not to cry out, but that didn't stop a grunt from escaping.
I used a lot of energy, healing skin, cartilage, ligaments, and muscle, and a few ribs. It took about an hour, and at the end, I just had a faint scar with only a little scar tissue underneath. Suddenly, Midna popped out of my shadow. I dropped onto my bed and scrambled for a blanket to throw over myself.
Wordlessly, Midna stopped me, and lowered my hand, making me release the blanket.
"Lay down," she commanded. I raised an eyebrow at her, and she copied me, folding her arms. "Lay down, Sheik."
"Why?" I asked slowly.
"Just do it, Sheik. I need to make sure you healed yourself all the way. And remove the stitching," she said. She pushed me back down on the bed.
"Where's Link?" I asked her.
"He's resting. That Temple had a very bad effect on his reasoning. He keeps seeing things that aren't, so Renado gave him a sleeping potion, and sent him to bed. Renado said he'll be fine after he's rested," Midna answered, placing her palms flat on my chest, following the scar. She slowly followed it down, occasionally stopping to heal something that I had overlooked. Her hands travelled down the length of my torso, and I shuddered under her touch. She was gentle, but I was embarrassed, because as a Sheikah, and a man, I was not supposed to reveal as much as I was revealing to her unless she was my wife. But I honestly wouldn't have minded if—
I stopped my train of thought. We can't be together, I told myself firmly. But it was futile arguing with my heart. It longed for her. I wanted her. I wanted her to love me the way I loved her. I wanted to leave everything just to be with her. I'd give everything I had to be with her…
No. I can't. I sound like a love-struck fool. It's true, I love her, but I am not an idiot. I realize that we cannot be together at all. Until Zant is defeated and Midna is restored to her throne, I cannot tell her I love her. Although I am certain she feels the same, we realize the danger we put ourselves, and unlike Link and Zelda, we are prudent about our romance, if what one calls what Midna and I have a romance. We do not parade it, unlike Link and Zelda, however they can be forgiven because when they declared their love, Hyrule was not in danger of eternal twilight.
I was brought back from my musings by Midna, who's hands were lingering over my hip bone, at the waist of my pants, which to get to the rest of the wound, had been pulled down, almost to the point of exposing my modesty. Midna's eyes were boring into mine, and they were crackling with a fire. Her fingers were tracing invisible patterns on my skin, and my face and body were growing hot from her touch. She slid closer to me, and lay on top of my stomach and chest, still tracing those patterns on my bare skin. Her bare skin on mine was making me flush, and made my breath quicken.
"Midna…" I whispered in a low voice. She smiled uncertainly.
"Sheik, I—I…" she whispered, but her voice trailed off. I placed a hand on her back; her skin was hot, and she trembled a little. But she didn't spurn me. On the contrary, she was coming closer.
I shifted so that I was half sitting up, and my hand kept her on my chest. My heart hammered in my chest, and it pounded harder the longer she was touching me.
I put a hand to her face, stroking her cheek, putting as much affection in the gesture as I could. She moved up my chest, putting her face near mine.
Without thinking about it, I kissed her fingers, her palm, her hand. I felt her heart speed up as mine was, but I didn't matter. What mattered was that the woman I loved was with me, and I loved her.
Her great eyes searched my face, for what, I do not know.
"Sheik…" she whispered. I kissed her forehead. She moaned with emotion. Was it longing?
"Midna, I lo—" I tried to say, but it didn't come out. She had kissed my neck gently, as that was as far as she could reach. Goddesses, I loved her, imp or no. It was hard restraining myself, not allowing myself to—I'm not even sure what.
She was lying on my shoulder so that our faces were close. They were so close that our noses were barely brushing against each others. Our eyes were half closed, and we were both hoping for what we had longed to happen for so long…since finishing school, even since she was betrothed to Zant.
I continued to stroke her face; I turned towards her as I pulled her towards me. Her eyes were closed, waiting. I moved towards her. Her breath was warm on my lips.
I felt her lips gently touch mine. They were softer than cherry blossoms, and there was nothing on my mind, except to kiss her…
The door opened, and our eyes snapped open. She dove into my shadow, and I sat up in the bed. I saw Link leaning against the door frame, looking exhausted, but grinning in such a way, that I knew I was not going to be able to explain my way out of this one.
"Feel better, Link?" I managed to say. He continued to grin in that annoying knowing way.
"Much better, Sheik. I see you have been getting some special treatment, am I right?" he said slyly. My face flushed.
"I just healed myself, and Midna made sure I didn't miss anything," I mumbled. Link's grin got bigger.
"I'm sure she had to check," Link chuckled.
"You nearly cleaved me in two! It was deep! I overlooked some things!" I protested. I had never been so flustered.
"I didn't mean to, you know," Link mumbled miserably.
"I know. Come here," I beckoned to him. I took his hands, and chanted in Sheikah, and blue swirled around him.
"What was that?"
"A spell to protect you from the Temple. I put the same spell around Renado and the children."
"Oh."
I looked into my shadow, "Midna."
She jumped out of my shadow, trying not to blush as deeply as I was. She was failing it miserably. I took her hands in mine, and I placed the same spell around her. Reluctantly, we let go of each other. The reluctance did not go unnoticed by Link. He just grinned knowingly.
Midna left the room. She gave no excuse, she just left. Link turned to me as soon as he couldn't see her anymore.
"So what really happened in here, Sheik?" he asked me, a hint of his grin tugging at the corners of his mouth.
"I woke up, and I guess Renado sewed me up, but I healed myself with Sheikah magic. Midna came out of my shadow and with her own magic, healed what I had missed. And I was going to—" I stopped, too embarrassed to continue.
"Were you going to kiss her when I interrupted?" Link asked gently. I nodded, blushing deeply. I wished I could stop blushing. Link started to laugh uproariously.
"You know, you wouldn't be laughing if it was you and Zelda in my place," I pointed out as I put my shirt and tunic back on. He stopped laughing mid-chuckle.
"I'm sorry, Sheik. But you two are so obviously in love and no matter how much you love her or she loves you and no matter how many moments you have together, you say nothing! I don't understand," Link said, shaking his head. I sighed.
"Link, Hyrule is in dire peril. If it wasn't, the situation would be different. Zelda would still be alive. Midna would be in her true form and not that of an imp. I would barely exist. And you would still sit on your throne. If Hyrule wasn't being threatened by this tyrant, you would be free to marry Zelda, the daughter of a wealthy merchant and a court lady. I would still be inside of her soul, and we never would have met at the university. But that is not how the goddesses have allowed fate to play out. And in the course of fate, I fell in love with Midna, and you fell in love with Zelda. I won't jeopardize Midna or Hyrule by being imprudent and professing my undying love for her!" I nearly ended shouting. Link looked taken aback.
"Sheik, how long have you been in love with her?" he asked me.
"Probably since we met at finishing school, so much more than a year," I answered. He blanched.
"And you've said nothing!" he gasped. I nodded and started to get dressed. He shook his head, completely mystified.
As soon as we found Midna, we headed back to the Shadow Temple. It was just as eerie as before, but this time, Link didn't lose his head and try to run me through.
We fought one of the most disgusting creatures I had ever laid eyes on. It was zombie-like, with six hands that grabbed us and sucked out our energy. With a few well placed blows, Link was able to get rid of it while one of the hands had attached to my face.
"Ugh! That was revolting!" I yelled. Link nodded enthusiastically in agreement.
We rode a goddess-forsaken ferry that jingled eerily while it moved. I felt as if I was being ferried over the river Styx by Charon.
We made it to a maze room full of the nasty hand monsters. But the weird thing was that it was raining in that temple! Strange!
We wished that we had the Glasses of Truth instead of just a lens. It would have been easier for us. But Link could tell the ReDeads from Midna and me, and likewise, we made it to a room with an ornate box.
"YAY!!! We're almost out!" Midna sang from Link's shadow. He looked exhaustedly thrilled.
"Right. Now. Where is the monster room?" I asked. Link opened his mouth to answer, but frowned, and closed his mouth again.
"Well, I don't really know. Did you happen to see it at any point?" he asked me. I shook my head. We looked in his shadow.
"Midna?" we asked simultaneously.
She jumped out and shrugged her shoulders. "No idea. Sorry." Link rolled his neck in frustration.
"Great! Now we wander aimlessly and wait for either me or Sheik to kill the other," Link joked, and headed back out to the Temple.
"This temple has got to be the most dangerous," I said as I dodged another bladed scooter thing. Then I looked over the Styx-like river and saw a door.
"Link, do you have one more small key?" I asked, running onto a statue we collapsed into a bridge. Link checked his pockets.
"Yes!" he held it out triumphantly. We ran across, and into a room. The monster was just beyond this pit.
Easy for me. I warped across. Link ran from invisible platform to invisible platform till he was beside me. Grinning exhaustedly, we opened the door.
Walking inside, we saw nothing. I was walking ahead of him, and did not see the giant hole in front of me until I nearly fell in. Link—not watching where he was going—bumped into me, and we both fell down, Midna giggling at us from our shadows.
Instead of hard ground, we landed on something soft and yielding, like a trampoline of sorts. Link and I stood up.
"Great, now we have to get back up there," Link groaned. Then something hit what we were standing on, and we bounced into the air.
"What in Farore's—" Link started to say, and we were launched into the air again. It was like we were on a drum of some sort. I turned around.
"Link, that's what in Farore's holy name," I answered, and he turned around, and we were eye to eye with the evil of the shadow temple—
"Bongo Bongo!" I yelled, and dove out of the way of a hand that was clearly intent on squashing me flat.
"Argh! What do we do!" he yelled. Midna jumped out of my shadow.
"Hit his hands! Then get his eye!" she screeched, and dove back into my shadow as I pulled out throwing knives.
"You get the right hand, I've got the left!" Link yelled, shooting the left hand with a bomb arrow. His aim was true, and it hurt his hand badly. While it sniffed over its left hand, I threw a large knife into his other hand, and he started sniffling even more.
"What a crybaby," Midna mumbled from my shadow. Then Link shot his eye, and he collapsed onto the drum. Link and I rushed his eye, and slashed him as much as we could. Blinking rapidly, he got up, and started to pound harder on the drum, making aiming much harder. And he didn't hesitate to try to squash us, or punch us.
Four times we shot his hands, and four times we hit his eye. Finally with a slash, Bongo Bongo reared up, screeching something awful, making us cover our ears. It pounded the drum harder and harder, throwing us in the air and onto each other, and finally, it collapsed, and dissolved into purple gel, and burned away. The evil was truly gone.
Link and I grinned, and bent over to catch our breaths. Midna jumped out of my shadow and nearly strangled us with tight squeezes.
"Now we can get out of this goddess-forsaken temple!" she sang. A blue light surrounded us, and we were again transported to the Chamber of Sages.
There, a purple light glowed across from us, and Impa appeared.
"IMPA!" I yelled happily, and raced to embrace my mother figure. She was dressed in her Sheikah clothing, and was tall and athletic, the way Sheikah were supposed to be.
She held me tight, and kissed my head, whispering "My dearest Sheik" over and over. How I missed her! I didn't want to leave her, but I knew that she and I would be reunited someday. Just not now. So I would hold on to her as long as I could.
She looked over my shoulder at Link and smiled. "The boy with the noble Zelda's heart…as I have expected, you have come." She smiled at me, as though I was her son, and I held her all the tighter. I didn't want to relinquish her for one moment!
"I am Impa, one of the last of the Sheikah, and Sheik's surrogate mother. I was Zelda's nurse and caretaker, and I am also the Sage who guards the Shadow Temple." Link smiled largely at the mention of Zelda, even though his ears were flushed red. Last time he had met Impa, Zelda and he were trying to sneak a snack. I remembered that because Zelda had saved some kiwi for me.
"We Sheikah have served the royalty of Hyrule from generation to generation as attendants. However…" her hold on me slackened, and I laid my head on her shoulder, and she stroked my hair as she did when I had been born. I am a man in looks and mind, but in heart and soul, I am very, very young. "However on that day Zant suddenly attacked and Hyrule was cast into Twilight, I was not with either Sheik or Zelda. I couldn't protect them. But I had given them a tool to defeat Zant. A book, and in the book, information about the Ocarina of Time, which you now have. My duty bound me to take Zelda and Sheik and flee with them far from the twilight, but that day, Sheik and Zelda left, and I could not reach them fast enough. The last I saw of them was the sadness in their eyes after they learned that Parisa would not undo Zelda's curse."
Link looked confused. "Curse? What curse?"
"Sheik will tell you, for I have not much time here. When last I saw you, you were a boy in the role of king. Now I see that you have become a fine hero…" She bit her lip and seemed to be thinking. Then she smiled.
"There is nothing to worry about…Zelda is safe for now. Far from the reach of Zant, but unfortunately, you too. Soon you will meet Zelda face-to-face and she can explain everything, I hope. The Triforce is with her still." I stood and went back to stand at Link's side after giving Impa a kiss. She was smiling, but there were tears in her eyes. "Go to Zelda's side and protect her on my behalf."
"Goodbye, Sheik. You have grown into a wonderful man. Please take care of our Zelda!" was the last thing I heard. I smiled.
We returned to the graveyard, and Link jumped up and whooped.
"We are out of that awful temple! And there is still hope for Zelda! Come on, Sheik! Let's go sleep for another two days, eat like Epona does, and then on to the last temple!" Link shouted happily.
We were still laughing as we knocked on Renado's door, exhausted, but hopeful.
There was still hope for her…
ZOMG WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THIS CHAPTER!!!! I think some of you might come after me for that. Selestyna, if you start calling me to demand me to post, a) I'll be annoyed, b) you will finally have your fone on! c) I won't answer, and d) I'll just send annoying text messages.
Anyway, please please please don't kill me for nearly killing Sheik. I love Sheik, but he's a big boy and can take care of himself. And admit it, people do some dumb crap when they are in love, and Link and I are no exception.
I'm starting a new fic called "The Prince of Gerudo." It's based on the movie "The Prince of Egypt," which is based on Exodus. Link is adopted by the royal family of the Gerudos, grows up thinking that Ganondorf is his brother, learns that he's Hylian, and BOOM! Moses, Legend of Zelda style. I think it's pretty cool! I'll be posting it soon, so keep an eye out.
Now, REVIEW!!!!! I know who doesn't review!!!! I know who you are, and I know where you live. People who review this chapter get pie of their choice next chapter. PIE, people, PIE!!!!!!! If you don't, I'll send Link's fangirls on you. Mwahahahahaha!!!! REVIEW!!!!!! Can I stress that enough?
~La Principessa Dell'Opera
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"These girls, they're gonna kill me, Harry!" Ron, from the movie trailer for "Half-Blood Prince." *Fangirl squeal!!!*
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That is the last time I will Fangirl Squeal.
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Make sure you specify what kind of pie you want!