Hey everyone! *Yawns* Man, I'm still tired from yesterday. I went to Universal, and me and my dad walked around for the entire day! Believe me, it is really tiring. Either way, I want to make a little announcement. After I finish this story, I will be starting two new things. The first will be, "Ask my OCs"! a little project that I have been waiting to do. Basically, you will be able to ask my story OCs some questions about their journey, and maybe how they felt about some people! So it will be just a little interview fanfic. (And new OCs will be added whenever I make one) The second announcement will be my next REAL story, "TOME's Hylean". For those who have never heard of TOME, go check it out on Christopher Niosi's channel on youtube! It will be put inside the LoZ story forum because I couldn't find another place to put it. And get this, some of the ideas and characters will be from my fanfiction friends! I won't say who yet, but it will be announced sometime around the end of this story, so yeah. It will be a while. Now, with that out of the way, let's get to the story!
Chapter 6; Flashbacks
Aden's POV
"Oh my gods", Princess Midna was hugging me, and was crying into my shoulder. It was just so sudden, I saved her from that weird guy, and she just suddenly hugged me. Multiple thoughts ran through my mind at once. "Why did she-well she probably hugged me because I saved her, right?" "But she only did that after I took off my hood." "She recognized me because I was the ally, which was what the voice and Great Fairy said." "She knows me, but how much?"
"Aden!" she chocked through her sob. My eyes widened, I already knew she would know me, but I didn't think she would react like this! "I barely even know her though, how much does she know about me?" I thought. I relaxed a little and embraced it, hugging her back. Something ticked in the back of my head, but I didn't know what it was. I would sort that out later.
"Princess Midna, are you okay?" I asked. She sniffled a little, and pulled herself out a little. I could get a better look at her face now, and it definitely looked familiar. Her face was a pale blue, with purple lips. Her eyes were a crimson red, with a yellow/gold exterior. She had, something at the center of her forehead, it was just confusing to describe. It was a silver crest that had a red gem in the center. Her hair was a shade of orange that looked like a fire, and was tied together at the front from something carved of stone.
She was crying golden tears, which threw me off for a second. She looked at me and said, "Aden, I'm fine. I just can't believe that you're here!" she said, with a joyous expression on her face. It looked like she had finally saw someone that she hasn't met since childhood. I-hang on a second. "What if I am that person?"
"Where have you been, how did you get here?" she asked. That first question, I didn't know myself. I finally decided to answer.
"Princess Midna"-
"Just. Call me Midna." She interrupted. "I have never liked to be called by a title anyways."
"Okay, sorry Midna." I said. "But I don't know where I have been exactly." Midna's expression changed from happy, to confused. "What do you mean?" she said. Her tears stopped flowing, but I knew that it wouldn't be that way for long. Since I knew what would happen after I say this.
"Midna, you may know me, but I can't remember anything. What happened, my past, and my friends. I can't remember anything about you." She gasped, and her hands went from my shoulders to her mouth. I could already see the tears starting to flow in her eyes. She fell to her knees, and hunched over.
She started to cry once again, creating a tiny golden puddle underneath her face. I kneeled down towards her, and put a hand on her back. I couldn't imagine how she was feeling right now. She had just met someone she hasn't seen in, probably forever, and he doesn't remember her. That person, was me.
"Midna, I'm sorry that I can't remember. Though, that wasn't my fault. I don't know whose it is. But I hope that I can remember soon." She didn't stop crying, she stayed where she was. I began to feel sorrowful, I was making this woman cry, just for telling the truth. I didn't exactly like that truth either though.
"Midna, please stop crying, I'm sorry." She still didn't stop crying, even after I said that. So, I knew what I had to do. I lifted her up by the shoulders, and held her in front of me. She had her eyes narrow, golden tears still running down her cheeks. I then pulled her into a tight hug, some tears starting to come down my face as well.
"Listen Midna, I don't know why I don't remember, but I hope I will soon. I will remember, I promise."
Midna's POV
'He couldn't remember, after all of those good times we had playing together, he doesn't remember a thing?' I thought to myself. I was hunched over, crying into my hands as my tears seeped through the open spaces. I could hear Aden talking to me, but I couldn't hear him over my sobs.
'He doesn't remember our friendship? He doesn't remember, me?' I could hear Aden talking again, but his voice just made me cry even more. When my golden tears were so bright that I had to let them fall to the floor, Aden grabbed me by the shoulders and lifted me up.
My eyes were still fuzzy from my own tears, but I saw a sorrowful look on Aden's face. He then pulled me close to him, gripping me in a tight hug. I sniffed a little, and started to stop crying. I could finally hear Aden speak again. "Listen Midna, I don't know why I don't remember, but I hope I will soon. I will remember, I promise."
His own voice sounded like he was going to start crying any second as well. I decided to speak back saying, "Y-you pro-omise?"
"I promise Midna." He said.
'What if this is a promise that he can't keep?' I thought. But I had to trust him, he was one of my only friends! I pulled him out of our hug as I finally started to stop crying. A smile crept across my face as soon as I saw his. "Thank you."
"Princess Midna?"
I looked behind me, and saw two guards that were injured here and there. I heard Aden gasp from behind me as we stood up. "Sir, you're alright!" Aden said. I looked over to him and said, "You know him Aden?" He nodded.
"He was the person that told me you were in here! Thanks again Sir!" he said to the guard. The left guard smiled and said, "You can just call me Nigh." "And you can call me Dey", the guard on the right said. I have never really gotten to learning my guards names, I guess this was a good time to learn them.
"Nigh, Dey, this is Aden. He is the person that saved me, so he should have a room to rest tonight." I said. They both nodded and waved their hands over to us, gesturing to follow. I followed Nigh, and Aden followed Dey. We had to get separate rooms, because they had to search for his room while I had mine. After a walk through the hallway, we reached my room.
"I shall stay out here and guard, in case Zant comes back. If he does, teleport out of here with your magic." Nigh said. I nodded and went into my room. I sat down on my bed, and laid my head down on my pillow. 'I wonder how he did get here. Oh well, I'll ask during breakfast.' I thought to myself as I fell asleep.
Midna's flashback
I was floating in nothing at first, then an image popped up in front of me. It was of me sitting in my room when I was only seven years old. My parents forbade me to play with the common kids, worrying that something would happen. They were always extremely paranoid way back then.
There was a grunt, and the seven year old me turned around towards the window. A hand suddenly came up along with another one. The seven year old me backed up from the window as a head popped up from the window. It was another young kid, just about the other me's age.
He crawled through the window, sweat dripping down his face. He had fire-like hair like mine. His face was unlike other Twilis', it was the shade of a normal Hylean's skin, but with black markings here and there. His eyes were yellow, but with a black exterior. The seven year old me walked over to him and looked down on him.
"Mister, are you okay?" the higher voiced me asked. The boy looked at Midna, and tensed up. He then sat up and scooted back.
"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry miss, I didn't know you were here!" he said, looking a little panicked. The small me just smiled and said, "it's okay, but what are you doing here?"
"Well, some of the bullies down there know how to use magic, and they use it to constantly bully me every day. Today's punishment was levitating me all the way up here. I just climbed the closest window I could see. Sorry again." He said.
"You came from down there? I feel sorry for you. I'm afraid of heights myself! I can bring you back down if you want." Little me said. The boy shook his head, looking scared once again. "Please don't, they will just come back for me again! Can I just stay up here for a little while longer?"
The little me nodded, glad that she got a new friend. "Sure! I'm just glad I have somebody else to talk to besides the guards!"
"Wait, guards?" the boy asked. The little me looked embarrassed now, looking away. "Yeah, mom and dad were always overprotective of me. But just forget about that!" the little me said. "Either way, my name is Midna, what's yours?" she said as she held out her hand. The boy looked at it for a second then shook it with a smile on his face.
"My name is Aden!" the boy said. Then I woke up.
Aden's POV
Dey escorted me to one of the few rooms that were left standing. He opened the door, and I said "Thanks!" as I walked in. It was livable, there was a window, another room for a private toilet, a dresser, and a window. Now much, but I was fine with that.
"I will stand guard in case Zant comes back." Dey said. 'Zant huh? So that was that maniach's name!' I thought to myself. I nodded back to him, and he closed the door. I layed down my basket and took off my cloak, bringing me back to my T-shirt and Jeans. I would need to change these, I did not want to explain the whole English thing again.
But I didn't have time for that, I was really tired from today. I traveled across the desert while riding a rampaging boar, I scaled a tower filled with murderous creatures, and I saved Midna from that psycho Zant! It seemed like it dragged on for ages!
I laid down on the bed, and instantly went to sleep.
Aden's flashback
Just like my first dream, I was floating through blackness. Then, a moving image popped up in front of me. A man and a woman were sitting on their couch, watching TV. It was extremely unlike the world, or rather, worlds I was currently in! When suddenly, there was a knock at their door. They both stood up, wondering who would be at their house so late at night. When they opened the door, they were met with a young boy, drenched from the current rain.
He wore rugged clothes, that almost seemed native to their time! They were made of black cloth, and it was torn here and there. He was extremely pale, probably from the storm that was going on outside. The boy's hair was a strange shade of orange, sort of like mine. His eyes were almost the exact shade of his hair, with a regular white exterior from the parents. Just from the look of it, he seemed like he was nine years old!
The boy looked up to the pair and said, "I don't know where I am. Can you please help?" The woman gasped and started to walk towards the boy, but the man stopped her.
"What are you doing here young man?" the man said. The boy, with tears in her eyes, said, "I don't know, I just woke up on the ground outside! I don't know where I am!" The man looked at the boy in the eyes for a couple seconds, then nodded.
"Okay, I just wanted to make sure you were telling the truth. I'll go and get a towel." The man said, and headed off in the other direction. The woman brought the boy in, and closed the door. The man came back with a towel, and wrapped it around the boy. The boy didn't even notice this, however, because he was too amazed at what the house had to offer.
To almost everyone, a TV was just a TV. But to the boy, it was a flat black box that had moving people and sound coming from it! To everyone else, lightbulbs were lightbulbs. To the boy however, they were multiple glowing sols, the light from where he came from. Wherever he looked, he was downright amazed.
"So kid, what is your name?" the man asked the boy. The boy looked up to him with a joyus grin on his face and said, "My name is Aden!"
Then I woke up.
More questions to be answered, but no answers to be found. What do Aden and Midna have in store for them the next day? Wait for chapter seven to find out! Until then, I hope you guys have a nice spring break! Bye Bye!
