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Chapter 25- A Small Quest Before the Big Battle

Freesia couldn't believe her eyes at first. Hugo and Link were back, healthy, happy-looking, and alive.

"Hello Freesia! Hello Sebastian! Where is everyone?" asked the excited Hero, his blue eyes looking around the room.

"Link… you can see?" Freesia asked him, looking into his eyes. They weren't a clouded blue anymore. In fact, they were a piercing, bright sky blue.

"You bet! It was so weird too. After Zelda had given birth to our triplets- oh, by the way, they're all boys. Zelda says they have my eyes, but they have her forehead. Anyways," Link shook his head and carried on to the subject before he got distracted, "she had discovered I was blind when I ran into the door on the way into the bedroom."

"You should've been there," grinned Hugo. "His face after hitting the door was hilarious."

Link nodded, his happiness radiating off of him and making the room bright. "It's true. Anyways, I held our first born, my sight came right back! It was amazing! Zelda and I named our triplets Aidan, Sherlock (1), and James."

"James?" asked Sebastian, raising an eyebrow.

Link's smile grew and he shrugged. "What can I say? I popped into my head the moment I held him. Zelda said the same name as soon as I opened my mouth to tell her."

Freesia looked away, confused, but tried to convince herself that it was only coincidence.

Link sighed and perked up like a happy puppy. "So… where's Dark and everyone else? I can't imagine that he'd leave you two here alone without a reason?"

Freesia eyes watered suddenly and she made a high-pitched squeak that reminded Sebastian of an injured mouse. Link looked at her in shock and was about to question her, until Sebastian let out a nervous laugh.

"Heh heh, well, you guys just came from a long trip, so well show you where the rooms are at!" Sebastian suggested loudly. "Freesia, do you think you can handle cleaning up this place while I explain and settle the boys down?"

She nodded and began picking up the tubs as Sebastian hurried the newcomers out of the room. As Sebastian shoved the other two boys into the boys' bedroom, Hugo began to question Sebastian's suspicious actions.

"What's going on?" asked Hugo, his eyes widening in fear.

"Dark Link left Freesia," blurted out Sebastian in a whisper.

Link's eyes widened. "He did what?"

~.…Meanwhile….~

Freesia shoved the half-way filled leftover ice cream tubs into the fridge and put the spoons into the sink. Watering the sticky spoons down in hardly-running water, Freesia's thoughts began to wander slightly.

Dark Link, Sebastian, Link's eyesight, this place?

It was all too much to take in at once.

She had intended coming back with a big bang and saving Mario, Romeo, and Link and leaving. She didn't know that she'd have to save half of the inhabitants in the Smash World… Freesia sighed in defeat when the water from the sink gave out completely.

Everything was silent now, except for the small muffles coming from the boys' room. Freesia was about to knock on the door and slightly intrude until her ears picked up a different sound.

Music…?

It came from the girls' room and the melody pulled Freesia into the other room.

"Hello?" she called out, confused at first. She opened the door. The sun was about to set and the warm breeze swept in one last time. The curtains blew around, as if they were pointing to something on the bed desk and Freesia looked to see that the Lover's Music Box was playing. "Oh, it's you," she whispered. She didn't bother questioning how it opened- she already knew that the box had two dead, loving spirits in it. But when she came closer to the box, she only saw one of the spirits.

It was the girl spirit, who stood expectantly as Freesia approached it. As Freesia bent down, she noticed that the girl was alone. Her eyebrows drawing together into confusion again, she bent down in front of the box.

"Where's your lover boy?" asked Freesia.

The ghost girl flew into the air and pointed at the box and the balcony window.

Freesia shook her head. "I don't understand what you're trying to tell me."

The ghost girl crossed her arms and tapped her foot impatiently.

"I BELIEVE HAYDEN IS TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO GO TO THE BALCONY WITH THE BOX, DARLING!"

Freesia fell hard on her butt and shook an angry fist in the air. "Farore, good Goddesses! You wanna lower the volume of your voice next time!"

"Heehee! Sorry about that Freesia! Farore has a hard time remembering that you're not a Hylian!" Nayru giggled.

"So what, Hylians (2) are deaf?" Freesia questioned, slightly irritated.

"No, they just have slightly crappy hearing. They can't hear us as well as you can. And since your gift is to hear us so clearly, we often forget that, and we shout," spoke Din's completely deadpanned voice.

"I see. So what were you talking about with the ghost?"

"Well, she's-"

"Don't you dare, Farore! You got to tell Freesia what to do last time when I was away!" Nayru hissed. "I get to do this now!"

Freesia rolled her eyes and heard Farore's despaired sigh. "Alright, alright… Oh, and before I go to straighten more things out, I'm sorry, Freesia, about what happened to you and Dark."

Freesia felt the stab in her heart at the sound of his name. A depressed "me too" was her only reply on the matter.

The three goddesses were silent for awhile, until Nayru's voice came back in. "Take the box, Freesia, out to the balcony. There'll be a vine on the wall. Climb down it and follow the gates. Never mind about which direction- it'll lead you to the same place anyways," Nayru spoke.

Freesia nodded and looked to see the ghost girl pointing to the balcony doors. She did as the goddess told her to do and climbed down the vine. She looked back up to the Lover's Music box that continued to sing its heart-breakingly beautiful lullaby. And for once, Freesia understood the song. It sang to try and reveal to those that were broken that even if everything seemed dark and gloomy, there was always someone nearby to understand. Or, that's what she thought.

"Concentrate, Freesia! We don't have all night you know! Something very big is taking place right now and if you want to make your entrance badass you gotta do things on time!" scolded Nayru.

"Way to let the cat out of the bag, Nay," sighed Din in despair. "What am I going to do with you and your big MOUTH?"

There was an offended gasp. "Are you saying that I'm a big mouth?"

"What do you think-?"

"What's going on, Nayru? Din? Is everyone battling the Left Hand alright?"

"We can answer questions later! We're killing daylight here!" snapped Nayru, impatiently cutting off anyone that dared to speak over her. "Freesia! Follow the gate until you reach a small shed outside! I hope you have your dagger on you because you're definitely going to need it!"

Freesia nodded and decided not to waste anymore time. She ran along the gates, cutting her legs every now and then on sharp, dead vines that hung from the walls and covered the ground. She kept running until she tripped over a stone. To Freesia's horror, it was a tombstone. And out from the ground came a bony hand.

The dead were coming back to life…

"Don't just sit there! Get up, get up! Go, go, go!"

Freesia scrambled back up to her feet and spotted the shed in an instant. The thing actually wasn't that hard to miss. It was huge!

"Woah. You call that shed tiny?" Freesia asked Nayru in amazement.

"Sweetie," Nayru sighed sweetly, "from up here? Everything is tiny. Now hurry up, open the door BEFORE THE RE-DEAD'S GET YOU!"

"Oh right!" Freesia gasped out. She threw her body up against the shed door and stared at the lock. Pulling out her trusty dagger, she used the end of the long hilt to smash the lock to bits. Pushing open the door with all of her strength, she slammed the door again right as the re-dead lunged for her. Using a shovel to jam the door and keep it from opening, she backed away to see that her shovel technique had worked. Freesia paused for a moment and braced her hands on her knees. "I knew I shouldn't have eaten that ice cream…" There was a sudden, soft shuffle from behind and Freesia turned. She gasped.

There, lying in the middle of the room was another hand.

"The Master Hand," whispered Nayru. "In better shape than I imagined."

"Ugh, better is an overstatement, my dear friend."

Freesia couldn't believe it. The Master Hand was talking!

"Well, Freesia! Here's where I leave you! I assure you that the Master Hand will keep you in good shape as long as you stick with him. Oh! And I almost forgot!" Nayru let out a small laugh. "Do you see that gold strand pinning him?"

"Yes. What is that? It's so beautiful… Why is it pinning down the Master Hand so easily?" questioned Freesia.

"Well Freesia, that golden strand has a lot more power than you think it does. But it's very simple to destroy. A quick slash of a blade or something sharp should do the trick."

Freesia nodded and climbed on top of the large, dirty white hand. Staring at the golden strand for a moment, she noticed how brightly it glowed in the darkness. But without another thought on it, she slashed her dagger through the silky gold and watched it disappear within the blink of an eye.

"Woah!" Freesia gasped.

The Master Hand abruptly shot up into the air and cracked its knuckles. "Ahhh, thank you Miss Strike. Now we can shoot far ahead and pay my little brother a visit. Because now? It's payback time."

A/N: Blah, I hope you liked that more than I did. This chapter was surprisingly really short…. Ahh well… Read and review as most authors always say! I promise the next chapter will be lots better! And if it isn't… Ehh, I'll still give you kudos for still reading this! And please excuse all the missed misspellings. I'm such a moron when it comes to typing at twelve at night. T_T
R&R, please? :)

As for the numbers…

1) Aidan and Sherlock! Aidan's name just popped up in my head while I was writing this and it seemed fit… I also looked it up in this really old baby book and it said that the name Aiden meant "fire"! As for Sherlock, I named him that because I fully intend to make this boy the most colorful child you will ever read about. (I dare you to guess the color! xD!)

2) As for the 'Hylians are deaf part'… I read that their ears were long so that they could hear the Goddesses easier. Or something like that. But I honestly have no clue whether it was the Hylians or something else because I had read that there were different types of Hylians. 0_0 So if you know anything about that? Hopefully you can explain? :D Yaya? Okee-dokey!