Let's just get to the chase.
Chapter 26: Four Sacred Gifts
Aden's POV
After what felt like only seconds floating in the air, I could feel my shoes press down back onto the ground. But instead of the flat stone from Yeta's home, it was bumpy with pebbles scattered here and there. The blue glow faded away, and was replaced with an orange like glow of a sunset. I looked around, seeing canyon like walls, we were back near the hidden village!
The others were behind me, Logan, Zelda, and Adri. Although, there was no sign of Yeto or Yeta, I hoped that they were ok.
"Where are we?" Logan asked.
Before I could answer that question, there was a green glow not far in front of us. It was just past the entrance of the Hidden Village, just about as far from it as we were. As it faded away, I could see three figures, with one lying on the ground. Since the three were facing towards the sun, I could see what they looked like clearly from where we were. But right as I recognized the one laying on the ground first, I immediately started to run. I didn't care about my soggy shoes, I just ran right to her, almost at an all-out sprint.
I got right to them, and skidded to a stop in front of them, kneeling down to Midna. She was breathing very sharply and quickly, in pain. Gritting her teeth, she tried to keep herself from yelling. Her hands were balled up into fists, but when she saw me, she released them. Then I saw what was wrong.
One of her fingers were clean off, like somebody chopped it, and she was bleeding, blue blood? I didn't question that at the time, I was too busy focusing on Midna herself.
"hhh, hAden", she said.
"Shh, just hang on." I said. I kept looking at her for a few more seconds. Her hair was enlarged, in a way similar to her injured hand. And just like it, one of the fingers were missing. I don't think she told me about this yet.
"Aden?!" One of the other two suddenly said. It was a girl, with long hair going down to her shoulders. She was wearing a green cloak, and her hood was down. The other person was Link, holding a new sword, which I assumed was what they want to look for. The Master Sword, I think it was called. I looked to the girl.
"Look, I'm sure you know me, but I don't know you. But can we talk later please?" I said quickly. I went right back to Midna, holding out my right hand, focusing energy into it. I created a Memory Orb, and encased it around her hand. Once it was around it completely, I touched it, there was the glowing, and it turned back to normal, as did her breathing. She began to get up, right as I heard the other three stop behind me.
"You ok Midna?" I asked, and she gave back a reassuring, "yeah." Her hair, began to shake, drawing my attention to it. It kept shaking, and suddenly stopped. It then began to quickly grow back hair in the spot where it was lost, growing back a "Hair finger". Once it was back fully, it shrunk back to her old hair. Needless to say, I was really confused.
We stared into each other's eyes, and everything was silent. A bright light then started to appear in her eyes, giving off a big smile. Then practically tackled me in a hug! She started to cry on my shoulder, so I hugged her back, tighter than she was. I gave off a little smile, and closed my eyes, savoring it. It felt, really good.
"I thought, you guys were dead!" She said. I laughed a little.
"Seems like a pattern now, huh?" I said with a sigh. We let go, and both stood up. I then heard an "Oof!" From my left, Adri just quickly hugged the girl that Midna and Link came with, saying, "Loraaa!" I guessed her name was Lora.
"Hehey, Adri!" Lora said cheerfully. "You're ok!" I could hear some foot steps behind me, and Lora gasped. "Logan, you're here too!" Midna gave a quiet gasp, at the mention of his name.
"Logan?" She looked behind me, so I did the same. Logan smiled and waved, saying, "Hey Midna, how's it goin'?"
"Logan!" She said, putting her hands together. "It's so great to see you again!"
'Wait what?' I thought. I looked back and forth between the two, extremely confused. I would get it if Logan or Lora knew me, but how the heck did Logan know Midna?! Link and Zelda felt the same way, both spouting out a "What?!"
"Midna, how the Farore do ya know him?!" Link said. She looked back to him and said, "That's, going to be hard to explain. But the short version is that we used to be old friends. But please Link, watch your language."
"But"- Link stopped mid-sentence, something caught his eye, and everybody else's too. The green and blue lights came back to our left, separated. They were pretty bright, so I had to shield my eyes a little bit. The blue cloud-like things that came out of Yeto's body began to appear within the light, as did a similar green type cloud. That one must've came from whatever Link and Midna fought. The two clouds formed separately, into what looked like, bodies. They got bigger and bigger, until the light from both died down. I was finally able to see clearly.
And in the place of where the clouds were, were two women.
Those two women (or rather, goddesses), were Nayru and Farore.
I recognized them from one of my dreams, where Hylia talked to me. Part of me wanted to kneel for them and bow, but all I did was stare, just like I did with the Great Fairy. It sure feels like a while since then actually. The two were floating in mid-air, with their hands on their chest, like a sort of mummy, their eyes were closed as well. They both floated down and touched the ground, opening their eyes.
A couple of "woah"s and "huh?"s came out, but I didn't do that, since I understood who they were. Nayru looked at her hands, and took a deep breath looking up into the air, like it was the first time in years since she's been outside. As for Farore, she looked around quickly, and getting a wide grin on her face. And right when she saw Nayru, she ran up to her and gave her a big hug!
"Sister Nayru!" She yelled excitedly, surprising the goddess of Wisdom. She looked down and smiled, rubbing the back of her head lovingly. It almost seemed like Farore was a jumpy, happy child while Nayru was a loving big sister, it made me smile
"Hello sister Farore, I am very glad that you are safe." She said. Farore looked up to her, saying partly happy, and confused.
"So, our plan worked?" She asked. Nayru gave a little laugh, and looked over to us with a kind smile. Farore looked at us as well, and said, "Oh!" She let go of Nayru, stepped towards us, clasping her hands together, and said, "Heroes, thank you very much!"
Zelda, Midna and Link were still confused, but Adri, Logan, Lora and I were all calm and happy. Zelda stepped forward, asking, "You two, you are calling each other Nayru and Farore. Could you two actually be, the goddesses of Wisdom and Courage?"
"Yes princess Zelda, you are correct" Nayru said, making Zelda out a hand up to her mouth. "You do have my piece of the Triforce, after all. Although, I suppose all of you have figured it out by now, yes?"
There were some "yeahs", a "kinda obvious" and other things. Link decided to speak up however.
"Yeah, but I guess we just thought ya'd look a lil' more, godly." He tried to explain. Farore suddenly looked very ticked off.
"Hey, that's really rude! Haven't you ever heard the phrase, 'don't judge a book by its cover'?!" She yelled at Link, stomping her foot. He recoiled back quickly, afraid that Farore might use her powers to punish him or something. Nayru quickly stopped her, kneeling down and saying surprisingly calmly , "Now Farore, be nice. They just saved us, I think you should treat them with more respect."
Farore sighed, calming down. "Sorry." She said. Nayru smiled.
"My apologies, Farore can be quick tempered at times. But I am sure that she forgives you Link." Farore, looking at the ground, nodded shamefully. She stood back up, and continued to talk.
"We cannot stay here for long, we do not have much power to sustain these forms, and The Fierce Deity could soon find us. So I shall try to make this meeting as brief as possible. I assume that Aden told you all most of the story? Spare Lora and Logan." Everyone around me nodded, except for Logan and Lora of course.
"Good. Now, The Fierce Deity is too strong to defeat currently in your states, and he grows stronger each minute, extracting power from the goddess Hylia. You all must get stronger, and find just two more people. Our sister of Power, Din, and the other bearer of the Triforce of Power. However, we do not know who it is. When we split the Triforce into eight pieces, they spread to whoever their piece represented the most. Only Din knows, and currently, she is held in Death Mountain, by Zant."
I could hear some growls in our group, coming from Link, Midna, and some others. I could tell that they had a bad relationship with him in the past. Nayru continued. "While we cannot help you all in person, we can at least give you gifts that will help you in your journey. Now, Logan and Princess Zelda, could you step forward please?"
Logan and Zelda stepped in front of our crowd, and to Nayru. They stopped just a couple feet from her. From here, even though it probably wasn't really that important, I could see that Nayru was actually a little taller than Zelda, who was the tallest of our group. Huh.
Nayru turned to Zelda. "Princess Zelda, ever since your rescue from your burning castle, you have only relied on your Arrows of Light, and perseverance to get this far. While that is very impressive, there will be a point where you will have to go into close quarters combat, and there, you cannot rely on you Arrows alone. So, I will give you this."
Nayru closed her eyes, and held her hands out, as if she was holding something very long and delicate. Light began to form in the empty space between, until it too began to take shape like the colored clouds and the two goddesses had. The light faded, and Nayru was suddenly holding something similar to a very thin sword. Zelda gasped, "Could this be, my rapier?"
"That is correct Zelda, but it is much more than that now." She brought it close to Zelda, so she could take it. "I used my magic to strengthen it, so it can withstand longer. But there is more. Try to hold it like you would for your Bow of Light."
Zelda was confused at first, not sure what to do. She held it out straight in front of her, and brought her left hand up, as if there was an invisible string. Suddenly, the rapier began to take a different form. The blade began to get encased in a golden like shell, curving backwards like a giant C. A string then appeared in between, linking the two points. The rapier had turned into her Bow of Light!
"You can now swiftly switch between your rapier and your Bow of Light whenever you must." Zelda flicked the rapier back down, and it changed back to normal. She looked up at Nayru for a couple seconds, then getting down onto one knee, bowing like a knight.
"Thank you Goddess of Wisdom, for this gift. I will try my best to succeed in our quest." Nayru smiled, and replied with a "thank you". Zelda got up, and stepped back.
"Now, Logan, could you please step forward?" Nayru said. Logan stepped forward.
"I must applaud your skills thus far Logan. You have only used quick thinking and your baton to help your friends, and defeat the possessed Yeto, keeping me prisoner. However, one cannot evade combat forever. It will be inevitable, and you must be prepared for when the time comes. So, may I see your Wind Waker?"
Logan did so, taking out the wood case holding it. He plucked the Wind Waker out of it, and gave it to Nayru.
"While this is the true Wind Waker, this is not the one familiar to you." She pinched the top with the tips of her fingers, then using her other hand to hold it properly. "You have had a different Wind Waker, but coming to this world has changed it to this. So as my gift, I shall change it, to its former form."
Logan's eyes widened, when Nayru finished talking. She took her free hand, and positioned it around the bottom of the Wind Waker. She let go of it, and it started to float in mid-air. Nayru's hands began to circle around the baton, like if she was rotating a ball. A shell of blue light encased it, and surrounded it completely. She then lightly tapped the top of the "Light egg", and it popped like a bubble, and inside the "bubble" was…
Just the same baton as before..?
At least, it looked that way. Nayru made the baton float back into Logan's open hands. He didn't look confused though, but his mouth was open in awe.
"I have transformed the Wind Waker to its other form, why don't you try it for yourself." Logan closed his mouth and took it. He turned to the left and walked a little, far enough so that whatever he did was far enough from everyone. He then brought the Wind Waker up to his shoulder like I would when I was about to cast a pointed shockwave.
He then flicked it down, leaving it pointed on a section of faraway ground.
BOOOOM!
A small, but strong cyclone suddenly appeared, striking the ground making the loud sound. It was really strong, that my cloak flew off my back! I quickly grabbed it before it flew off, I was thankful that I was still wearing my, weird clothes on beneath it (The ones I was wearing when I first woke up in the Great Fairy's cave).
Midna saw this, and quickly held onto hers, and as did Lora and her, cloak. I saw some weird symbol on the back for a quick second, but I didn't know what it was. I would just ask her about it later.
Logan then flicked the baton up, and the cyclone disappeared. He brought it down slowly, and looked at it in his hands. He just, looked at it really happily. He then whispered something to himself, which I couldn't hear. Then he put it back in the case, and back into his pocket. He turned back to the Goddess of Wisdom.
"Thank you Nayru. We'll all try as hard as we can to defeat The Fierce Deity, and turn everything back to normal." He stepped back into the crowd. Nayru looked over to Farore and said, "Now, you may present your gifts."
She nodded, and then said happily, "Link, please step forward."
He did. "Link, ever since Zant attacked your village," he looked down at the ground angrily. "you only had your iron sword to fight. Now that you have the Master Sword, I think it's time to give you the proper shield to go with it."
Farore closed her eyes and smiled, holding out her hands like Nayru did when creating Zelda's rapier. What happened was also similar to Nayru and Zelda's rapier, there was light coming together, and it began to take shape. Then the light faded away, and in Farore's hands was a shield. But for some reason, it looked strangely familiar.
"Here is the Hylian Shield, you already know what this is, so maybe we should skip the talking here." Farore looked up to Link (and I also just realized that Link was taller than Farore. She was actually the size of a small girl.) and gave her the shield. He took it and tried it back on.
"Thank ya Farore, it's been a long time since I had this, it'll really help!" Link turned around and walked back to the group, and I saw Farore grit her teeth, mumbling something under her breath. I guess she just didn't like Link that much in person.
"I guess I'm next then." Lora said, stepping to Farore before she called her up. Farore calmed down, taking a deep breath. She looked up at Lora, but didn't talk. She looked back down, closing her eyes angrily.
"You know what," she suddenly said. She floated upwards quickly, to Lora's height. "there!" she calmed down again. She must not like being smaller than a bunch of other people. She took a really deep breath.
"Ok. Lora, I'm just going to skip the talk, we've been out here for long enough. Here." She said, sounding really tired of talking. She snapped her fingers, and Lora then began to change, into something NONE of us expected!
Her hair began to split apart, and turn into a light greenish color. Her cloak flew off, so we could get a look at her whole body. Her clothes were almost like mine, the pants and the shirt and whatnot. But then they started to get covered in, green slime?! 'Where the heck did THAT come from?!' I thought. Lora was surprised too, but a lot, differently than us. Instead of being extremely confused, she looked back to us (probably more specifically Logan and Adri) and smiled really big, showing us her, pointy teeth?!
I began to get a little creeped out, stepping back a little. Around her eyes was some sort of black markings, and her ears were pointed like triangles! This was all happening in a matter of ten seconds or so, by the way. Something began to appear on her back, like some sort of container? The ink then got off of the clothes, somehow, and was transformed into new clothes!
Her shoes were light green and black, with a strange light blue glow on the sides. Her shirt was transformed into some sort of vest that was light green and silver, and had a long sleeve shirt under it. Her shorts were now similar to her shoes, light green and black. Lastly, her hair turned into, TENTACLES?!
She stopped transforming, and just stood there. Looking at her hands, then her clothes, and touching the black markings around her eyes. She then quickly hugged Farore, yelling, something. Not only did the transformation change her appearance, but her voice as well! Nobody had any idea of what she was saying. Farore gave a nervous sounding, "hehe, you're welcome." In response.
Maybe she didn't like how the ink was touching her, or something else. Either way, she was sort of happy when she let go. She looked back to us, quite happy, but her expression quickly changed when she saw some of us. Logan and Adri were happy, but the rest of us, were a little scared. Link, just in case, had his hand on the handle of his sheathed sword, Zelda had her rapier ready, and Midna and I were looking at each other nervously.
Lora quickly looked around on the ground to find her cloak, and quickly put it back on when she did. She covered up her hair tentacle, things, and looked down embarrassed. The strange, black markings around her eyes disappeared, and she sighed.
"S-sorry about that." She said, in our language. Farore floated in front of her defensively, saying "Hey, she said sorry, put your weapons away!" They did, sort of. Link let go of his sword, and Zelda, she didn't have a place to put it.
"What the HECK was that?!" I yelled. She said quietly, but just loud enough for all of us to hear, "An, inkling. I shouldn't have done that."
"Look, all you need to know, is that she is on YOUR side, and the powers that I GAVE HER will help you! So stop being so scared of her, and just"-
"Farore, please!" Nayru cut her off angrily. 'Note to self: Don't anger Farore.' I thought. Farore gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, getting really angry. Nayru was certainly proving to be the motherly type. She turned to us while Farore plopped back onto the ground to stomp her feet.
"Perhaps that is our cue to leave, before Farore has a complete outburst. I'm sure that you can talk amongst yourselves to explain yourselves to each other and calm down. We will dissolve into energy and reside in your pieces of the Triforce, be careful everyone!"
"Hey, wait!" I yelled, quickly stepping out of the group. I still wanted to ask if they could do anything about my amnesia and fix it! But it was too late, Nayru began to dissolve into the cloud pieces from before. Farore quickly turned around after the Goddess of Wisdom dissolved.
"AND ANOTHER THING"- she was cut off by, herself ironically. She started to dissolve as well, turning into the clouds before she could finish her sentence. The clouds quickly went for Zelda, Logan, Link, and Lora. The blue clouds went into Logan and Zelda's hands, and the green ones with Lora and Link. They dissolved into their hands, until all of the clouds were gone.
We were all silent for a couple seconds, and I let out a sigh. They probably weren't coming out for a while, so I can't ask them now. They were gone. Midna stepped up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"It's okay Aden, I'm sure that you'll get your memories back eventually." She said. I looked back at her and said, "thanks." In response.
'Wait…' I looked behind Midna, and behind everyone else, and into the tunnel to the Hidden Village. The kids (Including the ones from Ordon, Kakariko, and Agitha) were there, spying on us! As soon as they saw me, they decided that they might as well just come and ask what just happened.
"Who were they?" Talo asked curiously. Everyone turned around to see the kids, everyone.
"They were the goddesses? Interesting…" Malo said suspiciously.
"They were so, pretty!" Agitha said, with Beth nodding in agreement.
"Will they be back?" Colin asked. We all looked at each other, not exactly sure what to say.
"Perhaps it would be best to explain, all of us." Zelda said, looking back to all of us for the last part. "Let's all go back into the village, then we can all explain." She turned to walk back through the tunnel, gesturing for all of us to follow. This would take a LOT of explaining, for all of us.
And I really wanted to hear what some of us had to say.
So yeah, sorry for making this late again. But hey, Merry late Christmas everyone! Hopefully this would make up for all of the waiting, maybe. Anyways, just want to say one last thing, my Tumblr blog is now "Twilightprince102" (yes I know about the typo). I'm trying to do something special, so check out my page if you want. Anyways, R,R&S everyone, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Later!