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Oh my. I've had this update on my computer for about a week now. I wrote half of it, but then the rest refused to flow.
We are now going to be following Zelda at two weeks at a time, because (As I said before) There are not enough events left in the game to cover her pregnancy. So I improvised a bit XD
Anyway, blah blah blah enjoy ^o^
Week 22
Zelda
"Really. When are you going to stop sulking around and do something?"
Zelda glared up at the speaker, and then went back to staring at the wall. She been here two weeks now, but in the human world it had been only a day.
Time moved differently here.
"Maybe if you hadn't of ripped everything that I have away from me, I might be a little more likely to cooperate with you." Zelda venomously spat.
Two weeks. Two weeks since the Goddess had taken control of her body, and taken her away from her beloved Link. Zelda's hand fell on her now flat stomach.
Two weeks since the Goddess had taken away her babes.
"I had to do it, you know." The Goddess replied, ignoring the girls rude comment "Time is different here. If I didn't take them away, you would've been ready to give birth before they were ready, and then nothing would be right." The Goddess sighed. She held up her hand, and two little balls of blue crystal appeared. They were full of light, and spun in gentle circles in her palm.
"These are your children." The Goddess said "They are safe, and growing at the same rate as you are. When the time comes, I will implant them back into your body. But for now, please let me take care of them."
Zelda glanced over, but didn't get up.
"That about Link?" She snapped "You took him away too."
"Link. The young lad who is the hero of this tale." The Goddess rolled her eyes "He was leading you astray. I could see your thoughts, you know. I know you wanted to leave and go back with him. I couldn't let you do that."
"And what about my friends back home?"
"They are safe. However, a lot has changed to them and your home while you have been down here."
"What kind of things?" Zelda shot up "Have you hurt them? I swear, if you have-"
"No, no!" the Goddess cut her off "I have not hurt them. Anyway, I see you are now standing. Would you like to cooperate now?"
"How does standing equate to me wanting to cooperate?" Zelda snorted. Anger flashed in the Goddess's eyes.
"Child." She said, her temper rising "If you wish to reclaim what I have taken, you must cooperate. The sooner you do so, the sooner I can return what is gone. Do I make myself clear?"
Zelda scuffed the floor with her sandal, and nodded.
"Fine." She said "I will cooperate."
"Excellent!" The Goddess replied, her good mood back.
"So. What do I have to do?"
"First, we need to see your past. What makes you, you."
Zelda looked up at the Goddess.
"Why do you need to see my past?" There were a lot of bad things in her past.
"To find out your future, we need to look at your past. And for you to understand the future, we need to understand your past. Does it make sense?"
Zelda nodded. No, it didn't. But she wasn't going to admit to that.
"Good." The Goddess swept over, and placed a hand on the girl's shoulder "Let's get started then."
Zelda nodded reluctantly, and closed her eyes. The Goddess muttered a few words, and when Zelda opened her eyes, she was floating above Skyloft.
"Skyloft!" Zelda exclaimed happily. The Goddess nodded.
"Yes. Skyloft is where a large amount of your relative were born and raised. Anyway, shall we got on with the first memory?"
Zelda breathed deeply.
"Yes."
"Okay."
The two swept down, and into a house. 'This is Link's house.' Zelda thought. She could see a woman sat at the dining table. She had her head in her hands, and she was crying. There was another woman sat next to her, comforting her.
"I told him not to go!" The crying woman said through her tears "I told him not to!"
"I know." The other woman soothed, rubbing her friend's back "I know you did."
"But now he's gone, and left me with this one to look after!" She sat up and motioned to her belly. Zelda realised the crying woman was pregnant, and with a pang, she realised who these women were.
It was her and Link's mothers.
Oh yeah. That was right. Link's father had been involved in a flying accident whilst his mother was still pregnant with him. They had never found the body.
"You know who they are now." The Goddess said, making Zelda jump.
"Of course I know them! She's my own mother!" Zelda looked at her mother with a great sadness. She had passed away when Zelda was still very small, and had no real memory of her. Seeing her now was just... Well, she had no real words for this feeling.
Suddenly, The Goddess had whisked her out of the room, and away.
"Hey!" Zelda angrily exclaimed "Why did you do that?"
"We have to move on, now. I know you want to see your mother, but we have to move. There is one more thing I want to show you tonight."
Zelda suppressed her anger and nodded. She closed her eyes, and the flying feeling was back. When she opened them, they were stood on Skyloft, but it looked much different.
"Why are we here?" Zelda asked, looking about.
"Work it out." The Goddess replied, and Zelda shot her a look. Regardless, she looked around, trying to figure out what was different here.
Suddenly, the ground pulsed, and Zelda saw a flash of something. It was Skyloft, but it wasn't in the sky. It was down on the surface, surrounded by trees. There was a little village as well.
Zelda looked around, and the ground pulsed again. This time, the flash of a vision was longer, and Zelda gasped with realisation.
"This is the village that Demise attacked." She said "This is the place where the Goddess lived. This is the land that became Skyloft."
The Goddess nodded, and opened her mouth as if to say more. However, the scene before them faltered, and the two were plunged into darkness.
"My power is running out..." The Goddess said "I must return us to the place we were."
Zelda nodded, and closed her eyes for a final time. Before she knew it, they were back in the cave-like place.
"Why did you show me Link's mother in tears and Skyloft before it was sent into the sky?" Zelda asked.
The Goddess smiled at her.
"All will become clear, Zelda." She reached out and patted the younger girl's head "All will become clear."
Horii
"Horii!" Keitorin yelled, banging on her friend's door "Horii, come out here right now! I know you're in there!"
"Go away!" Horii replied, giving herself away "I'm not going! I swore to myself I would never do that again! Ever!"
"I will tell everyone you're engaged!" Keitorin threatened quietly. She smiled as she head rushed footsteps thud towards to door, turned, and started to shout "HEY EVERYONE! HORII IS-"
Her sentence was cut off as Horii unlocked the door, threw it open and clapped her hand over her friend's mouth.
"Do you promise not to talk?" Horii asked. Keitorin nodded, and Horii removed her hand.
"Well, at least you came out." Keitorin replied, smiling. Horii went to slam the door, but Keitorin pushed it open.
"Anyway! Come on! Pumm and Kina invited you specially! Kina even prepared you both a duet to sing! How can you turn that down?"
"Kei!" Horii replied exasperatedly "I swore after last time I would never do a karaoke ever again. And I don't tend to break that tonight."
"Come on!" Keitorin playfully nudged her friend, but then went all serious "I heard that Karane will be making an appearance. She's bringing along her son, too."
Horii stopped trying to shut the door with or without Keitorin in it and listened.
"What?" She exclaimed "Karane is going to the Lumpy Pumpkin with her son tonight?"
"Well, that's what I heard, anyway." Keitorin played with a piece of her hair "I guess you won't know unless you go."
Horii rolled her eyes, and sighed in defeat.
"Fine." She said. Keitorin's eyes lit up "I'll go."
Two hours later, Horii regretted it. She was stood just off stage with Kina, the regular singer, who was reminding her again about her lyrics.
"Remember!" She said "You go up here, cut off here, and we sing together here." She said, pointing to the lyrics sheet. Horii rolled her eyes and nodded.
"Yep, Kina. I got it." She replied. Kina smiled faintly, and the two got up on stage.
"Hey out there!" Kina said into the microphone. The bar went quiet "Me and Horii here have a surprise for you tonight! We're going to be singing a song that I wrote a while ago! So please enjoy!"
A cheer went up, and Horii scanned the audience nervously. She was looking for a certain red-headed teen with a small baby.
Kina nodded to the band, and they started playing. The start came up, and Kina started to sing, her voice powerful:
"I knew who he was
When I took his name
But some how no one
Is just not the same at night"
"He knows the danger
But he does what he does
He calls it duty
But I call it love
So here I am
While he's gone
To some foreign land"
Horii joined in, and the two harmonised on the chorus:
"And I cry
Because I'm alone
And the nights get so cold and long
And I try not to think he won't come home
But I'm sleeping with the telephone"
Horii opened her mouth to sing the next line, when her voice caught. She stood like a rabbit in the head lights. The music stopped, and everyone looked at her.
"Karane." She said. The red-headed girl looked up, babe in arms. She smiled, and looked right into Horii's eyes.
"Horii." She replied warmly. The person stood next to Karane realised who she was, and shrunk away from her.
"Oh, look. It's that slut." Someone said. A blush swept across Karane's face and her smile faltered a bit, but she didn't break eye contact with Horii.
Horii jumped off the stage, and lightly grabbed Karane's shoulder, as not to disturb the sleeping Lee. She weaved her through the crowd, and outside. They were practically alone.
"Karane!" Horii exclaimed "What are you doing here?"
"What?" Karane looked hurt "I spend every single day alone with Lee on my little island. I heard you would be singing, so I came over."
"But you're not supposed to fly, either."
"Yeah well, my Loftwing was getting lonely too."
Horii looked at the girl. She sighed.
"I missed you, Horii." Karane said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes "I haven't seen you in so long. You promised to come every single day, but you haven't for weeks now. Why not?"
Horii swallowed, and absent-mindedly put her hand with her engagement ring behind her back. Not many people had noticed her wearing it, and those who did didn't say anything about it. After all, it was not uncommon for girls her age to get engaged. After all, Karane had been engaged to Pipit for years before she had come into the picture.
It was just slightly embarrassing when people knew about it. And even though planned engagements were allowed, actual romance between students at the Skyloft Academy was not allowed. Everyone who knew about her and Pipit's engagement just figured that it was a planned one.
"I know you're engaged to him." Karane replied, noticing Horii's movement "And I know it's not a planned one. I know you're breaking the rules."
"Karane-"
"I won't tell anyone." Karane replied. Lee woke up, and started to cry "I won't tell, promise. Just keep coming to see me. Please."
Horii looked over at the girl. She was pale, with bags under her eyes. She looked skinnier then ever, and her expression whilst trying to comfort her child was one of deject.
"Okay." Horii replied "I promised. I promise I will come visit you. How about we go to your place right now?"
Karane immediately perked up.
"Really?" She asked. Horii nodded.
"Let's go."
Before I move onto names, I just wanna say something. I know I haven't been responding to reviews for a while now, but this is mostly because of my chronic lazyness. If you want me to start to reply to reviews again, please say! And also, avmatoran, you left a review and I want to contact you, but I don't know if that is your pen name so I don't want to make a stupid mistake . Please tell me if that is your penname so I can contact you! That's all ^.^
Names!
Girls!
Aria
Celeste
Boys!
Eric
Skyler
Hold up a sec there! We seem to be down to our last two names! This means that after the next chapter, we will have our names! This week, please vote for which name you want to see as the first name! Thanks for voting!