Hey! I'm back! I'm very sorry for kinda bailing on this story for a few months, but I got a bit side tracked with something called my life (and my little brother losing my flash drive to this book..) so… hehe.. Yeah..
On with the story!
The sun rose in the distance, slowly rising above the trees and houses, casting out the shadows of the previous night. The higher and higher it rose, the more people started to come out of their houses, starting a new day. At one small, two story, wood and stone house; one of the second story window were open, showing a blonde teenager boy resting his head on his crossed arms as they laid across the windowsill. He quietly watched as Hyrule's Castle Town became busier and busier by the minute, it's small cobblestone streets becoming harder and harder to see as many people rushed around, getting to their jobs before they were late. The boy let out a relaxed sigh as he looked on at the routine of the mourning. His blue eyes wandered over to Hyrule Castle where, even from the distance he was at, could see them already starting to finish repairing one of the wings from the battle that was only days ago.
"Hey!" called a older man's voice from downstairs, "It's time to get up, Link! Can't sleep in today! C'mon!" Link rolled his eyes as he went over to his bedside table to grab his signature green hat and tunic. As he hopped down the stairs, he looked up at his father. Who, may he add, was the Captain of the Hylian Knights. His shoulder long blond hair crowned his dirt-stained face, his checks and chin being scuffed from the last day or two of not shaving. Link made a mental note that he was probably as dirt-stained as his father from his journey across Hyrule. It wasn't but six days ago did Link vanquish Wind Mage Vaati and King of Darkness Ganon by using the power of the Four Swords. By pulling the Four Swords from its pedestal, Link had split into his four personalities. There was Green, Blue, Red, and Violet, or Vio for short. Green was Link's leadership side, Blue was his short temper, Red was his optimistic side, and lastly, Vio was his intelligent. At first, they did not get along. At all. In any way. However, after an incident where they were separated, the Links realized how important teamwork was and together they were able to rescue the six maidens from their crystal prisons and Princess Zelda from the evil Wind Mage Vaati. Before Zelda was freed, however, the King of Darkness Ganon came and tried to destroyed the Links, but by working together with Zelda, they were able to defeat both Vaati and Ganon. Of course, Link could never take the credit for defeating Vaati; true, a Link did destroy him, but it wasn't one of the four. It was their dark side, Shadow, who in the end choose the good side, but was destroyed by the very thing he used to defeat Vaati; The Dark Mirror, a fountain of dark power that was both Shadow and Vaati's life source. Shadow himself literally smashed the mirror to bits, causing both his and Vaati's life to end. Link mentally shock his head, ridding the thoughts. He looked up at his dad with a smile as he started to walk by him, saying,
"Says the man who was up after me." Link looked back right as his dad opened his mouth to speak, but Link beat him to it.
"I woke up right before dawn, and have already ate." Link couldn't help but let out a small chuckle as he looked back at his father. All the Captain did was shake his head with a small grin.
"If you going to wake up so early," said Captain as he walked by Link to the door "the least you could do is wake me up instead of sitting up in your room." Link rolled his eyes as he followed his father out the door onto the mourning air. Link made sure that he grabbed his sword at the door before going to catch up with his dad. They walked side by side through the streets as they made their way to Hyrule Castle, exchanging small talk here and there. As they walked up to the East Gate, both Link and Captain gave a greeting nod toward the guard at post, the guard returning the nod. Link and his dad walked down the many halls, planning to make their way to the training yard, but stopped short from a scream coming from the direction of Princess Zelda's chamber. Sharing a look with his father, both Captain and Link bolted down the halls and up the stairs until they reached Zelda's chamber and found, to both their relief, Zelda sitting up in her bed with her bodyguard, Impa, beside her. Zelda's golden hair was messy and her sky blue eyes showed fear as she looked over at Link. Her bodyguard Impa was one of the last Sheikahs of Hyrule with her pure white hair and blood red eyes. Link always found her in her blue and black skin tight one piece, no matter where or when he saw her. Link's train of thoughts was interrupted by his father's concerning voice.
"Is everything alright, Princess?" Zelda, whom by now has calmed down, looked up at Captain and Link, giving a strict nod.
"Yes, everything is fine, but if its okay with you Captain, I wish to talk to your son, Link, and Impa privately." Link looked up at the mention of his name, curious of why Zelda wished to talk to him. Captain, who was just as curious as his son, looked between the two for no more then a second before putting his right hand over his heart, bowing speaking in a voice of authority.
"If it's what you wish, Princess, I shall grant it." at that Captain turned to walk out but not before he looked at Link.
"When the Princess is finished with you," he said to his son, "meet me at the training yard."
"Yes, Father." said Link, giving a slight bow to his father as the said man walked out, closing the door behind him.
"Link." said Princess Zelda getting Link to look over to her, curiosity obviously in his eyes.
"Yes Princess?" he asked, walking over to her bedside, opposite of Impa. "What troubles you?" Zelda, at first, was reluctant to speak, but after Impa put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, Zelda took a deep breath to calm herself before speaking.
"Just now, I had a dream, a dream more freighting then the one of Vaati! I.. I was in Hyrule Field, standing there enjoying the sunlight, when suddenly.. A.. a dark cloud came out form nowhere behind me. Right when I turned around to look at it.. It.. It went right through me! At first I thought it killed me,.. But I didn't feel any pain and turned to look at it… and I saw a figure in the cloud… I.. couldn't see it clearly but as I stared at it, it turned and charged.. But not at me… it attacked two bigger, darker clouds that.. That surrounded me… I could see the figure trying to protect me,.. But it was weak… I could tell… right before the clouds consumed me, I… I heard a voice… it was so far away I couldn't tell who or what it was, but the words spoke clearly… with guilt.. It said.. 'Don't worry, I WILL get your heroes back to save you.' before I could do anything else… the two other figures lunged at me, their eyes red and dark with hatred…. that's when I woke up.." her voice was nothing but a whisper by the time she finished her tale. Link was quiet surprised at her dream, one part really got his interest, and looking up at Impa, he asked in a low voice,
"What do you think the figure meant by 'I will get your heroes back'? Do.. Do you think the 'heroes' is me using the Four Swords?" he looked from Impa to Zelda, feeling a unnerving feeling in the pit of his stomach. He kept looking at them as he went on.
"Does this mean another evil will rise that I can't defeat? And if that's true, who's the figure? I-" he cut off by Zelda placing a hand on his shoulder, saying in a reassuring voice;
"One question at a time Link, we shouldn't overwhelm ourselves by giving more questions than answers." Link, who already had a million questions in his head, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them, he looked at Zelda with concern and fear edged in his voice.
"Does this mean something will happen to me where I won't be able to help Hyrule?"
"By how it sounds," said Impa, earning all of Link's nervous attention, "yes, it just might mean that." Link could feel the thumping of his heart against his chest, surprised the two women didn't hear it. He quietly stood there as he continued to think on this. If that was true, then that means something happened to him to make him incapable of fighting. But what on earth could make him stand down? And when he did, would that figure in Zelda's dream be able to take his place? Who was the figure? Could it be Shadow, even if he disappeared in the light? But who else could it be? There are no other dark beings who would help them. But even if they were able to take his place, how soon into the future would this prediction happen? The last one was just minutes after Zelda's vision. Would this one happen before the end of the day? Or the end of the year? Link wasn't sure, he stopped his thoughts when he realized he was walking down the halls, not far from Zelda's chamber. He must has been sent out without realizing it. Well, no need to keep his father waiting anymore. But one question still rang in his head through the whole day;
If he wasn't the hero this time, then who was?
The young girl blinked open her eyes, sitting up in her own bed, severing her surroundings; a small bedroom with a twin bed. Vanity on the wall same as the door, opposite of the bed, and with an elegant black tinted glass mirror, its frame was a dirty gold color with many different creatures engraved. There was one part at the very top where all around it was a perfect circle, in the middle was a unusual symbol from ancient Hyrulian; shadow. Shelda let out a sigh of relief seeing no damage of her own private Dark Mirror. She was afraid one mourning she would wake up and see the mirror damaged, telling her she was as good as dead. She got out of her bed, walking over to the mirror to look at her reflection. Her long, dark purple hair and chrisom eyes against pale skin showed back to her. She observed herself some more, her outfit being nothing more then a short, green-gray shirt with a belt wrapped tightly around her mid ribcage, the buckle holding the same shadow symbol as her mirror. She took her hands and straighten her knee long green-gray skirt and turned to sit on her bed, pulling dark brown boots from underneath and one by one, put the right-below-the-knee boots on. She then stood, again looking at the mirror. Curiosity got to her as Shelda walked back to it, this time waving her hand over the mirror. Her reflection rippled until it was replaced by a bird eyes view of a training yard, a knight and young boy fighting with wooden poles. Shelda immediately took the young, green clothed boy as Link, who, as Shelda would guess, was actually beating the knight. Not by much though, the knight sometimes made some good advances surprising Link. Shelda winced when Link was jabbed pretty hard in the gut by the knight's pole, making the boy double over and drop to his hands and knees in pain. Shelda made note at how the Captain, she guessed, hurried over and hovered over Link, then carefully helping him walk over to a bench to catch his breath. 'probably his father.' thought Shelda 'if that's true, then I need to be careful of what I do..' What surprised Shelda was that when Link lifted his head to the knight who hit him Link's face held a wide grin, even if it was obvious he was still hurting in the gut area, he got up and picking his discarded pole to restart a round with the knight. Shelda stopped the mirror by another wave of her hand, making her own reflection reappear. Shelda closed her eyes for a moment, taking a deep breath. She has to vanquish- no, murder- that boy, who was strong, courageous, and loved. Why? Because her creator told her to.
'Shadow didn't follow his creator's orders' said the nice, genital voice in her head.
"in the end," said her dark side "but at first, he was worse than you, he was a evil little thing.. You could easily replace him."
'But he never killed! Ever! This is going to far, you shouldn't do this! That is Shadow's light side, if you kill him, Shadow won't have anymore strength to live. If Link dies, so does your friend!' Shelda sighed, knowing her good side was right. But her dark side still made her question her motives.
'well,' Shelda thought as she opened her door and walked out into the halls 'there is one person who could help.' she made her way down the halls, turning and climbing up stairs until shereached the tallest room in the whole castle. Shelda took a deep breath before pushing the door open, getting hit by a huge gust of wind. She closed her eyes until it died down, opening them to walk in before closing them behind herself. She looked around the circular room. It was bigger then her own room, to the right were two separate beds and a bookshelf on the wall opposite of the door, filled with ancient books and random papers pecking out between the books. On the left of the door was a cluttered filled desk of papers and bottles, where a figure with a lavender cape and hair stood, its back to Shelda. Shelda rolled her eyes in amusement at her friends obliviousness of her appearance. Typical. She walked over, saying in a mocking hurt voice,
"What? No hello? Wow Vaati, I thought you were better than that. *tsk* tsk*" by the time she made the 'shame-on-you' sound, she was already right behind Vaati, which had him jump in surprise when he turned around to face her. Shelda couldn't help but laugh at his surprised and shocked pale face, his own red eyes wide. After a minute of laughing, Shelda looked at Vaati again to see his arm crossed and eyes now narrowed in annoyance, making her laughing stopped immediately. Shelda was a bit worried at how mad Vaati looked at her, but instead of trying to cover her tracks, why not make more?
"Aww," she said, crossing her own arms and talking like as if she was talking to a baby, "is Vaati PMSing again?" Vaati couldn't help but give a small grin at her as he uncrossed his arms, Shelda following suit, and set them on his hips, worry and concern written on his face.
"No," he said, observing Shelda, his concern frown deepening, "but I was visited by a certain someone today telling me what they plain on you to do." at that, Shelda let out a sigh, getting quiet annoyed at how they didn't even trust her to tell her own companions. She took another sigh as she calmed her nerves, looking at Vaati, said person still looking at her in worry and concern, crossing her arms again.
"Yeah," she said as she walked over to the beds, sitting down on the made one, "that's kinda why I came here, I need your input on this." she looked over at Vaati, who had sat down beside her, his concern frown still present as he spoke.
"Well, my input is; don't do it." Shelda let out a snort of amusement as she sarcastically said, looking away.
"Yeah, thanks, I totally wasn't thinking that."
"Then what do you need my help with?" asked Vaati, looking at her now more curious then worried. Shelda left out another sigh as she looked back to Vaati, her eyes showing confusion and worry.
"How do I avoid doing this and not get massacred by them" she then jabbed a thumb to the door to emphasize her point. Vaati let out a slight chuckle at that, calming down quickly as he became serious again.
"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But there was one thing I thought." Shelda looked at him for a minute before making a jester as to say 'go on'. Vaati complied and stood up, so he was looking down a bit at Shelda.
"What about Shadow?" Shelda thought for a second, trying to understand what he meant by that, but when she couldn't find the reason, she looked back at him.
"What do you mean?" she asked, quite confused now.
"It's a simple question." said Vaati with a sigh, walking back to his desk, Shelda not far behind.
"If you bail on this… assassin mission, you won't be able to come back to the Dark Realm."
"Ok, what's this got 'a do with Shadow?' asked Shelda, confused curiosity edging her voice.
"Shelda," said Vaati, turning to look back at her, "If you can't come back, who's going to take care of Shadow? Ah." he added with a raised hand to silence Shelda's open mouth. "don't say I will, 'cuz I can't. I can't even leave my room, what makes you think I could go all the way to the far end of the dungeon?" at this he lowered his hand, allowing Shelda to speak. At first, she said nothing, Shelda just stood there, hand holding her chin in a jester of thinking. After a second, her eyes widen a bit as she looked up at Vaati, saying in a whisper,
"What if I took him with me?" Vaati, taken aback, shook his head and asked.
"What?!" Shelda, took a step closer, speaking a little louder, but not loud enough to penetrate the thick doors,
"What if I took Shadow? Maybe I convince them to allow Shadow to accompany me and then, we could warn Link about their plans!" Shelda looked so happy at finding a way to save both the hero and her friend's life, Vaati didn't want to ruin her enthusiasm, but still asked.
"What about your mirror? Once they find out you betrayed them, they will not hesitate to smash that thing." Shelda was quiet for a minute, her smile fading. After a minute, however, Shelda looked back at Vaati with a mischievous grin, saying in her trademark dark, low voice,
"What if it wasn't the real thing?"
"Wait, What?" Vaati was nothing but confused of her idea.
"What if I leave a mirror that looks like my mirror, but isn't?"
"Ok, I have to ask; what are you going to do with the real one?"
"Take it with me." Vaati couldn't help but choke on his own laughter at that.
"Hear me out," said Shelda, understanding she need to further explain herself. "all I have to do is take the glass, not the frame. And it's my personal mirror, which means I can change its appearance, shape. Size. All I have to do is make a chain of some sort and attach it to a locket with my real mirror in it. That way it will always be safe with me." Vaati was quiet for a moment, thinking this over. It was a good plain, that way, all she has to do is put a black tinted mirror in her room the day she leaves, making them believe it was her real mirror until it was to late. However..
"And Shadow's new mirror? It's the prison mirror; which means-"
"Which means they have access to it, I know. Maybe I could get them to link Shadow with my mirror somehow…" she trailed off as she went back to thinking, trying to plain through this new obstacle. Suddenly, Shelda snapped her fingers, a grin spreading over her face.
"I got it!" she exclaimed, rushing over to Vaati and said in a low, excited whisper;
"I can tell them to link him to my mirror, and to let me take him with me so I can earn Link's trust faster, and if he causes trouble, they can just smash my 'mirror'."
"Wait! But what if they object to this?" Vaati, kinda worried they would see through this plain, said fearfully.
"Pff!" said, Shelda, backing up, giving Vaati his personal space back, "they both know how stubborn and persistent I am. They know I wont back down. Besides, they will see it as a great plain to 'vanquish' Link, why would they say no?" Shelda turned around to look around as she continued, "do you have a tinted mirror I can take? It would be best if I put it up before she sees it, that way they won't see any differences after I leave." Vaati, still a little surprised at thinking that her plain actually might work, shook his head, leading Shelda over to the desk.
"Got one back here," he said, moving the desk a bit with difficulty. "Just be sure not to crack it."
"Well," said Shelda as she pulled out the mirror, being cautious of the edges, "if I did, it would be no use to me, then you'd be stuck with a grumpy friend and a broken mirror."
"Two things I need right now" mumbled Vaati sarcastically as Shelda walked by him, to the door, setting the mirror down
"Just be careful!" warned Vaati as she opened the door and picked up the mirror.
"When am I not? don't worry!"
"That's exactly why I'm worried" called out Vaati as Shelda left the room with a laugh, door closing behind her.
Well! Hope you enjoyed my delayed chapter! BYE!