Hiya, I'm back :P how are all of you? Still loving Zelda? Still enjoying my story? WELL WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!
This might turn into a fluff :P
(1) Substitute for Jesus freaking Chris
Chapter 29
Dark Hyrule
I breathed in slowly, transforming my fans back and placing them in my pocket. Vaati turned around to face me, a slightly insane smile covering his whole face.
"At last," he was clearly bathing in his glory. "At long last, I am finally King!" For one second he looked like a little boy about to get sweets, but soon it was gone. "I am King Vaati, Ruler of Dark Hyrule!" He laughed then, and noticed the three links in front of him. "But first I need to attend to the pesky worms who would trifle with me." And just like that, five dark nuts and a few stalfos appeared, and carried them off. They all gave a struggle, but the new guards were too powerful to attack in their weakened state.
I suddenly remembered that Jasmine, Raven and Shadow were still up in the wind palace. I asked Vaati about them.
"Oh yes," he replied. "The traitors. Might as well deal with them now" With that he turned on his heel, and sat on the velvet lined throne. "Stand behind me Violet, I don't want you so near them when they arrive."
I blinked for a second, surprised at the request. I then walked up to him, and stood by the throne.
As soon as he was sure I was out of the way, he teleported the three into the room in front of him. They arrived startled, and I noticed something. Jasmine's eyes were now completely red. Recalling what I saw when I had gone half crazy, I suspected that she was possessed. It was the only explanation. Somehow my ancestor's spirit had taken over Jasmine, and using her for her own device.
Raven was as proud as ever, and seemed to not notice Jasmine's eye colour change. Was it new? I doubted it. But as soon as Raven arrived, she immediately stood by Jasmine's side, both protecting each other. I missed the friendship we had, but there was nothing I could do about it now.
And Shadow. I could see in his eyes the fear and horror, anxiety nipping at his heels. I had to take my consequence for my action, and now he had to take this. And because he took all the blame, it was highly plausible that he would get a harsh punishment. Again, guilt slithered in me, another unwanted emotion.
"Nice tattoo, Violet." Sneered Jasmine, her smile as sinister as Vaati's. She then yelped in pain when Vaati shot a dark energy ball at her.
"You will only speak unless spoken to, under the order of the new king." That shut her up. "Now there is matters to sort, with your latest rebellion. I'm sure you'll find it just if I lock you away, never to return to civilization? Or maybe I'll just make you my servants, erasing your memories." He thought upon the matter, enjoying how he had complete control over their lives. "No, I'll simply break you, locking you away until you beg for release."
"We'll never do such a thing!" Raven shouted, and she reminded me of the Blue Link. "No matter what you do, we'll never succumb to your rule!"
"Oh, we'll see about that." She smiled, and with that, my previous friends were gone. "Violet," he continued, "may you please leave the room?" I nodded as a reply, and to spare myself the awkward journey across the hall, I teleported to I was on the other side of the newly-attached doors on the hall. I began to walk down the corridor, deciding to explore the new territory. Only a few moments later I heard Shadow's screams echo down the hall, and I tensed up a bit, pausing in the hallway. Should I go back? No, that was out of the question. I forced myself to walk, the howls of the boy bouncing around in my head.
I had gotten myself as far away from the hall as I could, the palace even bigger than I imagined. I had looked in many rooms to find empty chambers, libraries, studies, and even a music room. However, the feeling of this place wasn't like the wind palace, it didn't feel right to be here. I sighed. I was just being too paranoid.
I wondered when I would get to spend time with Vaati next. What would he actually do, now that he was King? I couldn't imagine him just sitting on the throne all day. Would he manage the people, or just leave it to ruin? If he really wanted to rule Hyrule that badly, he would have to tend for the citizens, and let order come to light for them. Otherwise, there wouldn't really be any kingdom to rule, if they all just died. My curiosity turning into a craving of knowledge, I decided to visit the nearest library, and try to find a book upon the subject.
It was a full five hours later, when Vaati came barging into the library, after I was already on my third book covering the rules of Royalty, how to manage the kingdom and the full ancestry of Zelda's family. I analyzed what other rulers did wrong, and what others did right. I looked up from my reading, a little surprised.
"So you've hidden yourself in here." He then saw me reading, and picked up one book from my stack. "Why are you reading all this?" He asked.
I shrugged, and stood up from the chair which I located as my new-found reading spot. "I was curious. Is there something you wanted?"
"hmm?" He hummed, distracted. "oh yes. I came to ask if you wanted me to teach you some magic."
My eyes widened in surprise. I never thought Vaati would offer tutorial lessons on magic. "Sure. There's been a few things I wanted to try out."
"Excellent." He smiled, and held out his arm. "Lesson number one: Can you teleport us to my headquarters?"
I placed my hand on the crook of his elbow. "I have no idea where that is."
"Pity. I guess we're going to walk." He mumbled grudgingly.
I squinted my eyes. It was unlike Vaati to walk anywhere. "Why don't you teleport us to your headquarters?" Vaati opened the door for us, and we started walking down the corridor.
"Because that would mean that I would be using magic, not you. I thought of it as a little test, but you have failed already." We came to a corner, and paused. It was a fork. Vaati seemed hesitant at which direction do go, but settled quickly on the right hallway.
"You don't know where you're going, do you?" I asked, a small smile playing at my lips.
"Of course I do." He snapped. "It's my own palace, I know where my own headquarters are" Without even thinking on the second time, he turned and climbed a set of stairs. I rolled my eyes. How could he have possibly learnt the layout of the castle in one day? I was about to say this, but decided not to. Either he actually found the headquarters in the end, or he got us hopelessly lost and as a result the scenario would be quite funny.
Grinning, I took his hand and let him lead me. A little surprised, he looked at me from the corner of his eye for a second, but then continued focusing on the path ahead.
"So," I began with a teasing tone, "what are you going to teach me?"
"Whatever you want really, so long as it's reasonable." He replied, and turned left once we had reached the top of the staircase.
"Can I learn how to make any object appear at command? Or, or learn how to disguise myself?" I was giddy on the thought of all the possibilities. I could learn more about controlling the wind, or even try out other elementals.
"We'll start off with something small, who knows how much trouble you could cause with the ability to do those things." He laughed, and I smiled along.
"I think of it as 'keeping the place lively'. Wouldn't it be boring if I wasn't here?" I squeezed his hand slightly, and our pace in walking slowed when we came to a dead end. The corridor ended, with two doors opposite each other. One torch was hung up on the wall, no other sources of light or windows nearby. I looked behind us, weighing the possibilities where each room lead to. Just as I was about to pull Vaati back to the main corridors, I was yanked along myself. It seems Vaati had decided to turn to the right door, and was peering inside.
"Well? What's inside?" I asked, and tried to look in myself. However, Vaati pulled me along again, shutting the door and then going for the other on the left. The same process started, but this time he flung the door open after 3 seconds, and strolled into the room, dragging me along like a puppy.
"Hero of freaking time (1), Vaati! Would you stop that! You're going to dislocate my arm at this rate!" I sternly took my hand back from his grasp, and caressed it like an injured child.
He didn't even take noticed of me, he was busying himself by teleporting various objects around the room. I recognised some of them as his studies, or things he had placed on his desk back at the wind palace. It appeared he had chosen this room as a study of some sort.
The room was large but basic, with one large window on the northern wall, a few chairs placed here and there, and some frames of a bookcase with dust ridden objects barely recognisable. It seemed to be an empty storage room, not touched in years.
"Why did you pick this room?" I asked, Vaati still busy replacing old objects with the new. I trailed my finger across one of the shelves, a line of dust gathering on my fingertip.
"It's out of the way and I like it." I looked up. I would have never thought Vaati would like a distasteful room such as this. A sudden seizure of coughing gripped me, the dust getting to the back of my throat. He then ran over to the window, opened it wide, and made a huge gust of wind blast all the dust away from the room. After that had been done, he made a vintage table appear right in the middle of the room, the legs decorated with intricate carving.
I looked around. Vaati had placed more bookshelves along the wall, not only containing a huge range of volumes, but also potions and other mysterious objects. I hear Vaati close the windows with a dull thud, and I turned my head to him.
"This room will be where you practice magic. If you utterly fail on your own, the drastic consequences will not be too close to any major rooms."
"Cheers mate, your enthusiasm and support really helps." I smiled. "So, can I learn how to make objects appear?" I asked, my voice hopeful.
"No." I deflated. "Instead, I wanted to focus on your control over the wind, before anything else. Of course, you will never be as good as me, being the most powerful mage in the world, but you can try." I rolled my eyes, but said nothing. "First, I want you to do as follows." He then walked to one side of the table, and gestured for me to stand on the other side.
He then held his hand out, palm up. A ball of air appeared above his hand, and it grew in size. It soon engulfed the whole table, along with me and Vaati in it.
"Now," He spoke, his voice carrying around with the wind itself. "I want you to take control of this wind and make it flow the opposite direction."
I bit my lip, suddenly a little nervous. I tried to grasp the currents in the air, but nothing happened. "Try harder." He pushed.
I closed my eyes, and sought for my power. I calmed myself, and breathed in, feeling the wind around me, whipping my hair back.
I suddenly felt the wind waver, going haywire for one second, but then returning back to its original flow.
"Again" He commanded. I had gotten hold of my magic now, but it was too weak in its current state to do anything. I pushed it, making it gain strength. The wind wavered again, but in the short moment, I set my whole mind on the wind current, and willed it to change direction. It did for a second, but as soon as I lost concentration in my short victory, it turned back again.
"Do not lose focus. You have to command it, not will it." I felt annoyance build up inside me, but I let it go. Annoyance causes me to be rushed, and being rushed creates more mistakes.
I tried it again, but this time I took Vaati's advice and commanded it instead. It turned direction, but kept wavering in-between. Determined, I concentrated fully on it. I commanded it to change direction, and to my delight it stayed, but this time I didn't let it go. The wind then suddenly dropped, and I opened my eyes beaming. "I did it!"
"Such a small victory for you." He said, speaking with his usual mocking tone. The annoyance came back, but I permitted myself to keep the emotion. He flicked his hair, and I glimpsed another small T mark on his face under his fringe. Come to think of it, I had never seen his whole face before, he was always hiding behind his hair. "What?" He asked, and I only realised that I was smiling at him like an idiot.
Flustered, I snapped out of my little trance. "So can you teach me how to make objects appear?"
He sighed. "If I must." I squealed in delight, jumping on the spot. "Okay, okay, settle down. It's basic, it's like controlling the wind, but you think of the object you want and command it to appear. Look," A rose suddenly appeared on the table, the petals bright red. "see? Simples. Try and make a...cloud appear. One that's about to rain."
"Okay." It seemed pretty basic. I thought of the dark grey rain clouds, and then pictured it smaller, and concentrated my magic on it. Soon enough, the cloud appeared above me and Vaati, black and ominous. "Good." Vaati complemented, but looked back up when the cloud mewed thunder.
It looked like it was about to rain, but instead it started raining chibi toy links.
"The hell?" I exclaimed, and stepped out of the way, avoiding the falling Links. They collected on the floor and on the table, but they disappeared suddenly, and I looked up to see Vaati annoyed.
"What the heck was that?" he asked.
I laughed awkwardly. "I, uh, my imagination?" I smiled, trying to pull off a goofy smile.
"Control it, and try again. This time, make a ladle appear."
I blinked in surprise. "A ladle? If you say so..." I thought of the kitchen utensil, and concentrated my magic on it. I wondered what material ladles were made of, and thought metal. Before I could even control my thoughts, I thought of metal in huge slabs, and suddenly exactly that appeared. At least a ton of metal appeared on the table, and for a second both of us gawped in surprise, before the table collapsed under weight.
"Violet!" Vaati shouted.
"I'm sorry! I just thought of what ladles are made of, and then I thought of metal and before I knew it a ton of it appeared!" My words came out rapidly.
"You need to control your thoughts!" He put his hands up to his temples, and tried to calm himself. "Okay, last chance. This time, you choose what to create.
I smiled. I could make anything appear. I thought of my desired object, and concentrated fully on it. After a few seconds, I realised something was wrong. "It's not working."
"Well, what are you thinking of?"
I smiled like a child. "A unicorn."
Vaati laughed, making the T on his face move ever so slightly. "Something real, dear."
I tried again, but this time I thought of a vessel of water, which turned into fish, which turned into the sea. Suddenly water gushed into the room, along with fish, seaweed and shells. I put my arm up in defence, water splashing everywhere.
"GAAH!" Vaati shouted in repulsion and shock. What the hell is wrong with you?"
"I don't know!" There was now and ankle deep pool in the room, fish tickling my toes. Me and Vaati looked at each other for a moment, and then started laughing.
"I think that's enough magic for today." He smiled.
"Agreed." I smiled back, and we both swished out of the room, still laughing.
Aww, now that wasn't so bad :P
I had to cut it short, because I just realized I have been revising for my physics test, but completely forgotten about my biology one (which is in 2 days), and I still have to do music practice for my grade 5 D: I'm going to curl up in a corner and cry :'(
