HEEELLOOOO! I'm back for another chapter! Now, I want to introduce everyone to what I think, is an underrated game series made by Nintendo. (At least, in my eyes) the game series is called Rhythm Heaven, and it all started out as a Japanese arcade game. It was really popular, so Nintendo decided to make a game out of it. There are three games. One for the GBA, one for the Wii, and one for the DS. I personally love these games, since I am pretty good at rhythm if I do say so myself. *COUGH* all superbs *COUGH*! When you can, give this series a good look at, especially if you really like music! Now, let's just get onto the story!
Chapter 9; The Pasts
Midna's POV
I think I'll just skip over the part where we first when to Link's house. Or Aden's first, and mine since two years ago. If I tried to talk about all of that now, it would probably take up all of your time. For an abridged version, let's just say there was lots of hugging, crying, (mostly from Link) and him trying to talk about what happened. I told him that it would have to wait until the morning because all of us were tired. Link insisted that I would sleep in his bed, and he would sleep on the lower level with Aden. I agreed, of course.
After all the good nights, I went to sleep. Sadly, just like last time I went to sleep, I had another flashback. It was a couple months after me and Aden first met, and I have first learned how to do simple magic. The first, was levitation, which was really convenient, since that for the past couple months, I had to sneak him through a secret passageway that I knew about, which was in the royal courtyard.
Although he didn't exactly like the idea at first, me levitating him up to my window, he agreed, since it was already difficult just to get through the royal courtyard with all the guards. We met almost every day, just talking or playing certain games that he made up! Sometimes, I would levitate myself down to where he was, and we would play with some of his friends!
Then came a day, probably a month or two after I learned levitation magic, where we were just playing around. Then these five bullies came to make fun of Aden and his friends, and abuse them with their magic. Aden and his friends told me to hide in his house, and I did. Levitation magic was the only magic I could do at the time, so I was defenseless.
I watched through the window as they bullied him and his friends, dragging him around on the ground with their magic, levitating him high into the sky, scaring him and his friends. I knew I had to do something, so I slipped out the door quietly. The bullies didn't manage to notice me, so I knew I had a chance to do something. Then, one of the bullies turned around and saw me. Just from my clothing, they laughed at me, said that I looked "oh so important".
"So who are you anyways?" said one of the bullies. With a shaking voice, I replied. "Mi-midna. I am Aden's friend, so let him go!" They mocked me even more, saying that I wasn't the real Princess Midna. That I was just impersonating her, and wasn't good enough to be her. I was on the verge of tears while the five bullies were laughing hysterically at me.
I then remembered a magic art that my teacher told me, "Was too advanced for me to do". I managed to get a peek at what I had to do though. So while the bullies were laughing at me, I tried out the magic art. I put my right hand over my left, while they were facing each other. I focused into the space that was in between my hands, and I could feel a spark between them.
I could hear some of the bullies stop laughing, and starting to say, "Hey kid, what do you think you are doing?" I could hear them being nervous, so I used this to my advantage. I did the final step of my current magic art, "Quickly separate your two hands to send out a powerful blast/shockwave". I did so, and with my eyes still closed, I separated them.
I can still remember their screams in pain, it was horrifying for me at the time. But I was determined to stand up for Aden and his friends, and these bullies have crossed the line. I opened my eyes, and I saw the five bullies lying down on the ground, cuts across their arms and chest. It wasn't fatal, but it still hurt for them. I told them to leave Aden, his friends, and me alone or I would do it again. They ran away, and I checked on Aden and his friends. Aside from a couple bruises, they were fine.
They all thanked me for helping them, but one of them backed away slowly. He was scared about what I just did, and he was afraid that I was going to hurt him too. I couldn't blame him, that would be scary in my eyes too. From that day on, I would go down with Aden and his friends when it was my curfew, and scare away the bullies. That was also the day, where me and Aden became best friends.
That was when I woke up, and I could smell warm pumpkin soup being made by Link.
Link's POV
I woke up with a yawn, stretching my back, arms, you get the point. I saw Aden still sleeping in a nearby chair, while I was sitting on the wall. I stood up, and breathed in the fresh morning air. I decided to make some pumpkin soup for breakfast today; after all, I did have two guests today. I walked over to the kitchen and gathered my supplies.
It had been so long since I had seen Midna, two years in fact! I could still remember that day she broke the Mirror, it was really sad seeing my good friend go. After that, I got really depressed, since she left. I eventually got over it though and just went on with the rest of my life in Ordon. Herding the goats, delivering things to Castle Town, and just talking with my friends. It went on like that for two years, and now I was 19.
'I wonder who that other guy is though.' I thought as I mixing the ingredients in the pot over my stove. I looked back to him, he was still sleeping in the chair. Just from here, I could hear his snoring. 'And I thought I had a sleeping problem.'
I went back to the pumpkin soup, it was almost done now. But again, who was that guy? Did Midna meet him during that two years? Maybe he was the prince or the king of the Twilight realm, and I didn't know about it. I wouldn't blame her though if that was the case, saving Hyrule and the Twilight Realm and all that. After a couple minutes, the pumpkin soup was finally done. I got out three bowls and put pumpkin soup in all of them. I set them out on my wood table, and right as I did, I heard that other guy (What did Midna call him? Aden, was it?) wake up.
"Morn'n Aden." I said. I sat down on one of the chairs and sipped a little of my pumpkin soup. 'Still at top notch if I do say so myself' I thought. I saw Aden walk over to the table and sit down. Now that I got a good look at the guy, he sort of looked like Midna, which was really strange. He had the same colored hair as her, yellow and orange eyes, pointed ears, looked like her.
But he also looked very different as well. His face wasn't a pale shade of blue like normal Twili, it was a regular shade of Hylean skin. He was wearing a strange shirt underneath his cloak that had strange marking on it. One of those markings being the Triforce itself. He also kept carrying around a basket wherever he went, but I didn't know what was inside it. So what was he, a Twili or a Hylean?
But Aden was Midna's friend, and any friend of Midna was a friend of mine. He sat down at the table, looking at the pumpkin soup like it came from a distant world. "Good morning Link, what is this exactly?" he said.
"This Aden, is my famous pumpkn' soup, Ordon's finest right there." I said. He shrugged and picked up the bowl. He closed his eyes and took a sip from it, and his eyes lit up.
"Hey, this is really good!" he exclaimed, and before I could thank him, he went back to drinking it. I just sat there, open mouthed as he drank the entire thing in one sitting. He didn't even stop to take a breath! When he finished the entire thing, he slammed it down on the table, taking in a big gulp of air.
"You must've been perty hungry Aden." I said, still shocked. He just sat there, like it was just any old morning, that man has lungs of steel!
"Yeah, although, that wasn't enough. No offence though." He said. He then opened his basket and dug around in it for a while. He then took out three pieces of bread, and handed one to me.
"The best soup can only go with the best bread!" he said. I took it, and he put the other by Midna's bowl. I tried out the bread, and it tasted delicious! The outside of the bread was just hard enough to have a slight crunch, but still soft enough to not be completely stale! The inside of it was nice and fluffy, and the taste. Holy Hylia, the taste! It would be really hard to describe it all at once, but just think of it as my pumpkin soup, some of the ordon cheese, the best berries, all put into one delicious piece of bread!
"You wern't kiddn'! This is delicious!" I said. He smiled as he swallowed his piece and said, "Yup! Can't expect anything less from the Great Fairy!"
I almost chocked on my next piece of bread when he said that. Did he just say the Great Fairy gave her this?! How on earth does he know about her?! I thought the only people that even knew she existed was me and Midna! I swallowed my bread, and asked Aden, "Um, Aden? What did you just say exactly?"
"Yeah, I would like to know too please."
Both me and Aden turned over to Midna, who had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. We all said our good mornings as Midna sat down do have some of my soup and Aden's bread. (Which by the way, she also thought were both completely delicious)
"Well, I guess it is time to tell you guys my story so far." He said. I got into a comfortable position in my chair, and listened to Aden's story.
"I woke up in the Great Fairy's cave, and met her of course. I learned that for three days, I have been unconscious and she had been taking care of me the entire time. I was extremely grateful, but then I later found out that I could use magic. Sort of like this." He then closed his eyes as he held up one of his hands.
Nothing happened at first, but then I saw a tiny spark come from his hands. Then, a gray orb appeared inside of it, also having some strange markings on it. "These are what I like to call memory orbs." He said. "I don't know how they work, but they can also bring up elements of the past. In fact, I think I could…" he stopped in the middle of his sentence, and sort of dropped the orb onto his empty bowl. The orb became transparent, and inside of the bowl, there was a full bowl of my soup.
I was shocked, but Midna and Aden acted completely casual. He then smiled a little, and went to touch the bowl, and then there was a bright gray glow. When it went away, the full bowl of soup was there in its place. "Sweet! Seconds!" Aden then grabbed the bowl again and practically woofed it down!
"Whatever is inside the orb is something from either the distant past, or whatever was there recently." Midna said. I turned to her, and she had a serious look on her face. "He also knows other types of magic, but he can show you that later."
Aden slammed the bowl on the table again, and breathed in another gulp of air. "So anyways, the Great Fairy gave me this cloak, and this basket filled with some other things in it. I then left the cave and tried to find some other people. I started to walk over to a large tower to see what I could find. After a wild boar ride (Don't ask) I met the shade."
"Hang on a minute Aden, did you just say, the shade? Gold wolf, red eyes, brings yah to a strange place to teach you things?" I interrupted.
"Yeah, that's him! You met hi"-
"Wait a second here, did you just say a golden wolf?" Midna interrupted. Aden nodded. "That wolf, saved your life!"
"What the heck er you two talking about?!" I yelled. Aden sighed and said, "Look, can I just finish my story please?" Midna and I calmed down, and just relaxed back into out chairs.
"Thank you. Now as I was saying, the shade taught me a new magic attack, known as the pointed shockwave. I woke up, and traveled up the large tower. I ran from some skeletons, fought a ghost with a lantern, and got a weird top thing that helped me to the top of-oh goddess dangit!" Aden yelled.
"What is it Aden?" Midna asked him. "I left it at the top of the tower, I should have brought it with us!"
"Hang on a minute. Did that 'Top thing' have a sun symbol on the top, helped you ride on walls, and made of some brass and iron?" I intervened. He looked at me and nodded.
"Aden, I have that in my basement." I said, pointing to the ladder leading down there.
"Oh, well you know. Memory orbs and all that." He said. I stopped talking and let him continue.
"I used my powers to restore the Mirror of Twilight, and I went through. Apparently, there was this guy named Zant that had terrorized the entire realm with the power of his 'New God', the Fierce Deity." I didn't interrupt him this time. I instead looked over to Midna, who was looking over to me with a look that said, 'He is telling the truth Link. He is back.'
"I managed to save her, and apparently, well, why don't you take it from here Midna?" Aden said. Midna nodded, and turned to me.
"You see Link, Aden is a good friend of mine before I met you. We were friends for a couple years, but then he just, disappeared. He doesn't remember this though, for he has amnesia. I pray that he will get back his memories soon. Anyways, we slept until the next day, were we discussed about the Mirror of Twilight being Aden's doing.
"Then we encountered Zant and the Fierce Deity, and the Fierce Deity certainly looks like a god Link. We managed to escape, but Aden got really injured in the process. The only reason he survived is because I teleported ourselves to the Light Spirit's spring. The purified water and the Shade rescued him. And well, now we are here."
"Zant and the Fierce Deity will be after us, no doubt. But hopefully, we can relax for now." Aden said. "Yeah, I get it. I have lots of questions, but I think I'll save em for later." I said.
"Okay, but what I want to know, is how did you two meet?" Aden exclaimed with an intrigued look on his face. I decided to tell the story this time.
"Well two years ago, there was something that we all call now, 'The Twilight Invasion'. Zant's forces overthrew Midna and took her throne, turning her into an imp." I heard Midna shudder in disgust as I said that, but I just pressed on. "They then took over Hyrule, overthrowing princess Zelda and turning almost all of Hyrule into Twilight. It turned people into spirits and were then terrorized by the different monsters. But I didn't turn into a spirit, but instead a wolf."
"Like this!" Midna yelled. Before I even had time to react, I could feel my bones shifting painfully into my wolf form. Once I did, I fell over, since I didn't exactly have that much training over the past two years. I looked over to Midna and growled.
"That is what you get for bringing that up Link!" she yelled. I growled again, then I heard the door behind me open.
"Hey Link, can I borrow some ru"- Oh great, it was Talo. The loudest yeller in all of Ordon that just found a growling wolf in my house. BRACE FOR IMPACT!
"AHHHHHH! THERE IS A WOLF IN LINK'S HOUSE! RUUUUN!" I whined as he said that, since my wolf ears were sensitive to yelling like that. I heard Talo and some of the other kids scream, and Talo jumping off of my little house ledge onto the ground, tumbling a little and running off.
'Oh great, now the kids are probably going to tell the entire village. Can you please turn me back now Midna?' I said to her telepathically. She sighed. "Oh fine, I'll turn you back. Stop whining." She took out the stone that could change me from my Hylean form to my wolf form. She tapped it onto my forehead and I changed back into my Hylean form.
"Well, I bett'r round up the kids. Thanks a lot Midna. I'll be back later." I said. I opened the door and hopped down onto the ground. I growled one more time as I heard Aden and Midna laughing from inside.
3rd person POV
Two figures overlooked Hyrule itself, finally found what (or more accurately who) they were looking for.
"I have finally found those two, they are in the Ordon Providence."
"Yes my god. Would you like me to send troops down there now?"
"Right away Zant. And remember, do not mess up. One slip up, and your head shall be on my wall!"
"Y-yes my god! I shall go right away!
"And remember this Zant. When you go, leave no survivors."
"Yes my god, I will go right away."
And one of the two figures teleported away.
OOOOOOOOOOOH I love a good cliffhanger! I'm glad I got to update this too! It has almost been a week since I have updated this story last. Anyways, I want to ask you guys something. What do you guys think is an extremely underrated game/game franchise that you think more people should respect? Put your answer in a review please. And remember to read, review, and show this to your friends! BYYYYYEEEE!