Aaand I'm BA-ACK! :D Sorry it took me so long - I was kinda busy.
This chapter in mood alone (I don't know what the words to the song mean) seems perfect for the song Uchuu by Angela Aki. Enjoy!
Strange shapes wove through her dreams. They formed into a silhouette, and colour washed over it. It formed into an image. Peach. Peach was looking around with confusion and a growing dread. She stepped back slightly.
"Peach?" Zelda called, walking through mists towards her.
A winged creature stood beside Peach. Its eyes were glazed over, and it spoke in a tone that was most definitely not its own. The voice was booming and commanding, completely emotionless and entirely rigid. "Peach. Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Your fate may have been delayed, but you cannot escape destiny."
Peach suddenly turned toward Zelda. "Z-zelda?" Peach asked in a shaky voice.
"Peach," said Zelda. "What's going on? I'll answer your questions later. Tell me what this thing is talking about."
"Oh..." She said. "I thought I had escaped this. But I suppose it must follow me 'till I die. You see... when I was born, my mother told my father my fate, then died."
"What did she say?" Zelda asked. But mists obscured her vision again. When they parted, she was standing in a field.
Right in front of her was... a bomb. It was huge. It filled the clearing. There was a number... 5. But as Zelda watched it, the number didn't move. She assumed that meant it was minutes or hours. Mists came in across her vision again. Her instincts guided her feet, and she walked forward, though she couldn't see the ground, or even her feet.
Someone appeared in front of her. Mario. He was on his knees, and tears leaked down his face. She reached out, but he disappeared.
Mario appeared again, frozen with shock. Something flew towards him. Then, Zelda heard a scream.
Peach ran out of the shadows. "Mario!" she screamed. She pushed him out of the way, then was thrown back from the force as whatever it was hit her instead of Mario. Mario cried out, then they disappeared.
The next person she saw was Bowser. Darkness was all around him, he walked by himself. His stance, normally so conceited, now betrayed a deep, wearying sorrow. He faded.
Peach appeared again. She stood, frozen with shock, then collapsed to her knees. She shook with sobs. "I'm sorry... I thought of you as a traitor. I thought you'd forgotten about what it was to care... You should have told me."
She disappeared. The world around Zelda began to fade to darkness. A familiar voice whispered through the darkness. It was the voice of a Great fairy. No, not a fairy. A Fate. One of the nine. Female... Meilan. Fate Meilan. "Messenger Zelda..." it whispered. "I have another message for you. The message is: Secrets will come to light. One who all thought was a villain will be proved otherwise. Forgiveness may be given, or it may be withheld... "Remember this, Messenger of the Fates. Although things are written, you yourself know the true nature of fate. Things that were written out long ago are written in sand, not in stone. The future can be changed. That is important." "May I share this message, Fate Meilan?" Zelda called. "Yes." "Thank you." "Goodbye, Zelda. This will be the last time the Goddesses call on you. May you live happy, without the burden."
Zelda's eyes fluttered open.
"Zel?" Link asked. He knelt by her. "Are you alright? You were talking in your sleep."
"I was given another Message," Zelda said sleepily. "The last one I will be given, the Fate said."
"Really?" asked Link. "When was the last time this happened?"
"When I was a child," said Zelda. "Remember? The last one was a warning... about Ganondorf."
"Well, I hope this one's a bit less doom-laden than that one," Link laughed.
"It's for Peach," said Zelda. "Something about secrets... a traitor who will be revealed not so, and forgiveness... and the fact that fate is written in sand, not stone. The actions of one can change the fate of another..."
"Peach is sleeping," said Link. "Can it wait?"
Zelda thought hard. "I remember something about five hours... there's a problem. I don't think it can wait until morning. Something's going to happen in five hours. I saw a bomb... I don't know if it's figurative or literal, but it'll go off in five hours..." her eyes widened. "Link, the bomb's huge. It almost fills the clearing..."
Link's eyebrows went up. "That's serious. Is it near here?"
"I... think so," said Zelda. "If it goes off, it'll affect us all..."
Link helped Zelda to her feet. "Then we'd better get moving. Are you allowed to tell Peach?"
"Yes," said Zelda.
"Then I'll take you there. Then I'll wake Marth, and we'll set up a party to search for this thing."
"Right," said Zelda. She smiled ruefully. "That's two nights with almost no sleep."
"Don't worry," said Link. "We'll take care of this, and then we'll get a whole day just for you to sleep. And I'll get some real food for you." He hugged her quickly.
Zelda smiled. "Sounds good. Let's go."
The two, used to doing this kind of thing by now, went off to turn the camp upside down yet again.
^.^ Zelink brings me joy. :DDD
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