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Week 24

Zelda

"My power only lasts for so long, and then it takes a long time to recharge." The Goddess explained calmly to Zelda. The younger girl just shrugged her shoulders.

"That's fantastic, but I want to get this over with and get back to my own time." Zelda replied curtly. It had been two weeks now since the Goddess had shown her the vision. Two weeks of limbo, waiting for something to happen. For anything to happen.

"Hush child!" the Goddess scolded "I think I have enough power to show you a little bit, if you are that impatient."

"Okay." Zelda stood up and brushed her skirt down. She felt weird, not having her bulging stomach.

"Well. Close your eyes and we shall begin."

When Zelda reopened her eyes, she was by herself. She looked around, and found herself in the little village she had seen snippets of the last time. This was the village close to the plot of land that became Skyloft.

Zelda walked up to a large woman chatting with another woman.

"Excuse me." Zelda started "I was wondering if you could tell me the name of this village." Zelda waited for a reply, but the woman just ignored her and went on chatting. Zelda thought her rude, and went to find someone else to ask. She saw a young man leaning up against a cart, and went to ask him. The same thing happened though, and she was ignored.

'It's almost like I'm invisible.' Zelda though, and turned to walk away. She caught her foot on something, and fell over.

"Ow!" she exclaimed, looking around. People were just carrying on their daily business, not even paying attention to her or stopping to help her up.

"They can't see you." The Goddess said suddenly, her voice making Zelda jump. She climbed to her feet, and brushed her dress down.

"I figured as much." Zelda grumbled "I'm not going to waste any more time. Where are we, and why are we here?"

"All will be revealed shortly." The Goddess replied, and a shadow passed across her face. Zelda looked at her confused, and the Goddess pointed to a house down the street. Zelda shrugged her shoulders, and started to walk towards it.

Nothing out of the ordinary was happening, and just as Zelda turned to say some witty remark to the Goddess, there was a loud boom and a flash of lightning shot across the sky.

"What's happening?" Zelda shouted, and the Goddess floated to her side. People were running left and right in a blind panic.

Suddenly, a beautiful girl with long hair so blonde it was almost white stepped out of the house the Goddess had pointed to. Even with the commotion, she glided out and looked around, her aquamarine eyes surveying everything carefully.

"HUMANS." A loud voice boomed, making Zelda cover her ears. The panic rose, but the girl just stood there.

"Who are you, and what do you want with our village?" The girl asked. Her voice was strange. It was steady, and demanded you listen to her. It was like she was years older than she actually was.

"WE HAVE COME TO SPEAK OF THE PROPHECY." The voice boomed again "WE HAVE COME TO SPEAK TO THE ONE NAMED LILIA."

The girl visibly relaxed, and all the anger from her face disappeared in an instant. She became emotionless. She took a deep breath, and spoke.

"Yes. Speaking."

"EARLIER TODAY, THE PREVIOUS GODDESS DISSAPERED. HER SOUL WAS SUPPOSED TO SPLIT UP INTO PIECES AND SEPARATE, BUT INSTEAD IT WAS FORCED UPON A MORTAL BEING. THIS BEING IS YOU. YOU ARE TO BE OUR NEW GODDESS."

The girl's face stayed blank, and she nodded.

"I will take up the position."

Zelda looked up at the Goddess, realization dawning on her.

"She's you." Zelda said. The Goddess nodded.

"Yes. That day was my 16th birthday. The last time I was called by my human name. The last time I saw my friends. The last time I saw my family." She turned away.

Zelda stayed silent. The Goddess sighed.

"After that, I went to live in the temple. No-one came to visit me, not even to pray. It was very lonely." She sighed again "And then, she started to visit me."

The scene shifted, and the two were inside the temple. Zelda could see a young woman sat on her own. After a while, another woman entered, and bowed down to the young woman.

"My Lady." The woman said. When she stood, Zelda quickly identified her as Impa.

"Impa." The woman –the Goddess- smiled "You're here."

"Of course, My Lady. I promised I would come."

"I know you did, Impa. And please, stop with the My Lady."

"What else am I meant to call you?"

"Good point."

The Goddess patted the seat next to her, and Impa sat down.

"So." The Goddess started, deciding to ask about her friends from when she had been human "How is everyone? Aria? Shunichi?"

"Aria's doing well. She recently married." Impa nodded "And Shunichi…" Impa blushed "he's okay. Why do you ask?"

The Goddess shuffled nervously.

"No reason. I'm glad they're all doing well."

"Well…" Impa blushed even more "To tell you the truth…" She held out her hand, showing the Goddess the sparkly ring hugging her ring finger "I got engaged."

"Really?" The Goddess smiled "Congratulations! Who are you engaged to?"

Impa smiled.

"Shunichi."

The Goddess turned to Zelda.

"That was when my world started to fall apart. You see, I had… Loved Shunichi all my life… He had saved me once when I was in grave trouble… Knowing that he and my best friend were in love… it hurt. It hurt a lot."

The Goddess stood up sharply.

"You're engaged to him. Shunichi." She said, her voice level.

"Yes. Is there a problem?" Impa asked, slightly confused.

"Of course there's a problem!" The Goddess exploded "I love him! I'm supposed to be with him! Not you! Not anyone!"

"But My Lady! You know that it can't be so. You are the Goddess. He is a mortal."

"But why must it be you?" she shouted back "Why? Out of everyone it could be, it has to be you?"

Impa flinched slightly.

"I… I think I better leave." She said, standing up and walking towards the door.

"Fine!" The Goddess yelled after her "Leave! I hate you, and I hope nothing good ever happens to you two EVER!"

"I was so mad at her…" The Goddess sighed "I knew I shouldn't have lost it like that, but I couldn't handle it. I loved the feeling, though. Hate and love were two feelings that I was supposed to give up. I hadn't been that angry at anyone in ages."

"It must have been so lonely again after that, if Impa stopped visiting you."

"She did stop visiting me." The Goddess sighed deeply "I didn't see her for three years. Three long years. She was 23 when she next came to visit me, but I was still technically 16. I didn't age. Not at all."

"She went to visit you?"

"Yes. Let me show you."

The Goddess was sat on her own, weaving a white fabric on a loom she had conjured up. Out of the blue, she heard a voice.

"My Lady!" someone was saying "Please, let me in!"

The Goddess was surprised that someone would come to visit her, and also happy.

"Come in!" She called. She looked curiously at the door, waiting to see who it was. Her breath caught in the back of her throat when she saw who it was.

"Impa…" she breathed, standing up "Impa!"

The Goddess ran across the room, and flung her arms around the other woman.

"My Lady?"

"Oh, Impa! I'm sorry! I'm so, so, so sorry! I shouldn't have lost it like that. I shouldn't have shouted at you. Please, forgive me! Please!"

"Listen. I have something to ask of you." Impa said, her voice hollow. The Goddess looked up, and saw that her friend was pale. She looked so aged, sad.

"What is it?"

"When you told me that Shunichi and I would never be happy. Three years ago, when you said that..." Impa trailed off.

"Yes, I remember." The Goddess blinked. Impa sighed.

"Me and Shunichi… We got married. I fell pregnant. But then…" tears started to form in the woman's eyes "I lost the baby. There was no reason. It just happened. Shunichi understood… but I could tell that he was even sadder then I was. He wanted a child so badly…"

"I'm very sorry." The Goddess motioned to a seat, and the two sat down.

"We tried again and again… but it never works out." Impa started to sob "It's not fair! Everyone else is happy. Everyone else is healthy. Why am I so different? But of course, the old ladies started to talk. They say that I must've annoyed you. That you must've put a curse on me. Is that true?"

The Goddess reached out and put her arms around her sobbing friend.

"I haven't intentionally done it. I haven't, I can promise you. But I release you from your binds anyway. I wish you all the happiness in the world, and more. I wish you and Shunichi have a healthy child, and that you stay together forever."

Impa started to cry even harder, and The Goddess hugged her, letting her cry it out.

"So you made it all better then?" Zelda asked, twirling a stand of golden hair.

"Yes. Or so I thought." The Goddess shuddered "My magic is running out, but I have one last thing to show you."

The Goddess finished the last few seams on a new dress, and hung it up, admiring it.

"It's perfect." She said to herself "I'll wear it tomorrow. It is supposedly my birthday after all. If I was still ageing I would be…" She quickly calculated it "25. 25 years old. Wow. It's been 9 years already…"

She trailed off into a world of her own, and was only brought back when the door was shoved open.

"My Lady!" Impa cried happily. The Goddess turned around, and smiled when she saw her friend. Her smile grew when she saw the tiny bundle in the woman's arms.

"Impa! You came! And who's this?"

"This here is my daughter, Hylia. She's beautiful, isn't she?"

"Yes. She's lovely." The Goddess felt a pang of jealously, but shoved it back "Her name is lovely too. Why Hylia?"

"I love birds." Impa admitted "I really do, and I remember when I was little, I went out into the forest with my Mama, and she showed me a beautiful bird named the Green Hylia… It's a song bird, in case you didn't know, and their song is so beautiful. I couldn't help but name her that."

"It's a beautiful name." The Goddess repeated.

Suddenly, a wave of pain passed over the Goddess, and she fell to her knees. Impa gasped.

"My Lady! What is wrong? Are you sick?"

"No, I was fine a moment ago…" she tried to stand, only to be knocked back to her feet "I don't know what's going on-"

Without warning, a strong tremor in the ground cut The Goddess off. The whole temple shook, and rocks started to dislodge from the roof.

"Impa, quick! Get you and Hylia outside!" The Goddess yelled, starting to panic that her friend and child would be hurt if they stayed her any longer.

"Not without you!" Impa replied. She balanced her babe in one arm, and linked the other one with The Goddess's arm, pulling her up and out of the temple. As a reflex, the Goddess closed her eyes, expecting it to be bright outside, and having not seen sunlight for many a year, she expected it to blind her.

However, it was not light outside. It was pitch black.

"Is it night time?" The Goddess asked, looking at Impa. Impa shook her head, fear showing clearly on her face. The baby started to cry.

"No. It's not. It's midday."

The Goddess quickly put two and two together, and sprung up.

"Quickly! We need to get to the town! We need to gather as many living beings as we can!" She turned and started to run in the direction of the town.

"My Lady!" Impa said, running after her "Why? What is going on?"

"Listen to me. I was told that this day would come." The Goddess tried to keep her voice level "Demise is coming."

"Demise?"

"He is made of pure evil. He will stop at nothing to take over the surface."

Impa gasped, and tried to comfort her screaming child.

"We need to warn them! Now!"

The two sprinted back to the town. When they got there, mostly everyone was out on the streets, looking up in confusion at the dark sky after the earthquake.

"Listen!" The Goddess shouted. People looked at her "I am the Goddess! I come bearing bad news! Demise is coming! He wants to take over the surface! He will stop at nothing to get rid of all of us!"

There were a few murmurs from the crowd, but then a single person stood up. He was male and young. He had blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Shunichi…" The Goddess breathed to herself.

"We should listen to them!" He shouted "The Goddess and Impa know what they are talking about!" He smiled at the two women "What do you want us to do?"

"We will need to fight." The Goddess said "I didn't want it to come to this, but we have to defend ourselves. Any able-bodied person, please stay here. If you are unable to fight, please head to the Goddess statue, and stay there. It will be safer there."

The next few hours were full of chaos. Among the able-bodied were men, woman and teenagers. Ill, pregnant, people too old and people too young gathered up their belongings and ventured to the Goddess statue. Other races, the Mogma, Gorons and Kikwi came to help, along with the Robots.

They were ready by the time he came.

It all happened quickly. First the ground shook, and then a great big tear ripped its way down the middle of the town, and darkness poured out. It formed into an army, and the fighting started.

The noise was terrible. There was screams of anger, pain and triumph. There was the noise of blade on blade, blade on wood, blade on skin. People, Mogma, Gorons, Kikwi and Robots became little less than twists of lifeless being.

The Goddess fought hard alongside the beings that remained loyal to her. She witnessed many a life taken away, but continued to fight.

All at once, it went dark. A large shape forced its way up out of the gash in the earth, and let out a scream that was enough to send you insane. The shape shifted, and became a large man, with bulging muscles. He breathed out, and turned to the Goddess.

"I have been waiting to meet you." He said. Everything seemed to go silent when he spoke "I have been waiting to kill you."

And with that, he flew forwards. The Goddess barely had enough time to bring her own weapon up in front of her.

The two battled long and hard. The Goddess knew that if she didn't do something soon, it would be over.

She stepped back, and almost fell over something. She looked down to see what it was, and held in a shriek.

It was a body.

Shunichi's body.

She looked around, and caught sight of Impa. Blood was flowing freely from a wound in her shoulder, yet she continued to fight.

People were falling left and right.

The earth was beginning to stain red.

"ENOUGH!" The Goddess shouted, and everything froze.

"Enough." She said again. She dropped her weapon, and conjured up a bright light. It glowed within her hands, and allowed everyone on the side of good to be animated.

"Listen to me." The Goddess said to them "We don't have much time. This is a losing battle. Those that wish to live, please head to the Goddess statue. I will send it to the sky. Those who wish to stay and die, please, stand by me."

No-one moved. Finally, a single woman stepped forwards.

Impa.

"My Lady…" She said, getting down on one knee "I have one request. My daughter… Please, see that my daughter is safe. See that she gets a good life… see that she gets a mother." She choked on tears "And a father. Tell her I promise her, I will see her again."

The Goddess closed her eyes, and nodded.

"I promise, I will see to it."

The Goddess left them to regain strength, and started to place the enchantment on the earth around the Goddess statue. She remembered what Impa had asked, and quickly located the babe.

"Please." The Goddess said to the woman who was holding her "Please, look after this child. Raise her as your own. Just make sure she is okay."

"I will." The woman nodded "I will name her Herule, after my mother."

"You showed me this before, when I went to the temple in Eldin!" Zelda exclaimed "Though it was me handing the baby over."

"It was you as the Goddess handing the child over." The Goddess explained.

The Goddess wanted to scream at the woman that the child's name was Hylia, and she was not her child, but Impa's. But she promised Impa, and so she kept quiet.

She quickly finished the enchantment, and sent the earth spiralling up into the sky. Just as the dark beings were coming back to life, she placed a cloud barrier, separating the people of the sky from the surface.

The Goddess felt the spell on the dark beings shatter, and turned back into the war. She came face-to-face with Demise, and shouted as loud as she could:

"MY NAME IS THE GODDESS HYLIA. I WILL DESTROY YOU!"

The vision faded, and The Goddess and Zelda were sat in the cavern again.

"I… I don't know what to say." Zelda said "You've been through so much… I'm so sorry…"

"It's fine, child. Don't worry about it."

"But I do have something to ask."

"Speak."

"Herule… I have heard that name before… Where have I heard it?"

The Goddess smiled.

"Herule –The new name of the baby Hylia, taken to the sky by that woman - was your ten-times great grandmother. In other words,"

"Impa and I are related by blood." Zelda's eyes widened.

"Yes. Impa is your eleven-times great grandmother."

Zelda smiled softly.

"So I guess she did get to meet her child again, after all."

"Yes." The Goddess smiled "I guess she did."

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