*Weeps* sorry I made the last chapter so sad and very weird! Out of my usual style I guess. If you really like Lucy then don't be disheartened! Did you really think I'd leave it there? The whole story? Of course not *booms out* I'M HUNGRY FOR REVENGE!!!! Ah hem...yes. So. Let's get on; we are now on the road to the ending! And at twenty chapters I am not surprised!
I must have fallen asleep on Lucy's broadsword, as I woke up to a sharp handle sticking into my side, I jerked up and rubbed the sore spot painfully. Regretfully the memory of the previous events was still fresh in my head.
"Your awake" Link said walking over, "Come on, let's get to temple quickly"
I followed numbly up to the temple. My legs had pins and needles from sleeping in an awkward position. Link seemed fine considering what had happened. I fingered Lucy's sword in my hands as we entered the temple.
It was a huge musty entrance hall. Brown stone and painted tiles. The high ceilings were barely visible in the gloom. I stared at it all gloomily; didn't they know how to clean in this place? But then, considering it was in the desert, they couldn't really hire a cleaner.
"Let's find this thing then" I said and started up a staircase that went up to a higher level
"Right" Link came up behind me
In the centre of the floor on a platform a ball of light was floating serenely. A small fairy sat looking at us carefully.
"You were a LOT smaller last time I saw you," she said eyeing me
"Navi!" Link burst out and grabbed the fairy and hugged her fiercely
"Hey!" she cried, "Watch the wings, watch the wings!"
"I can't believe your back!" he yelled and hugged her even more against her squeaky protests "Where did you go?"
"Oh long story" Navi said, whizzing around the room "But now I have to help you guys out!"
"Why?" I asked
"Because you don't have time to ride to the castle, I'll have to transport you!" she replied
"What's happened?" Link asked carefully
"The situation is getting worse, a lot worse" Navi stopped whizzing around "In fact, while you've been isolated for two days out here, the armies of every tribe in Hyrule have been wiping themselves out on the battlefield"
Link stumbled to put his hand on a wall to steady himself "You're kidding" he said flatly
"Uh-uh" Navi shook her wings gracefully, "And the epicentre of the chaos is the somewhere..."
"Where?" I asked
"Well it's somewhere that's for sure!" Navi beamed
I grabbed Navi "Where?"
"Alright, alright" she squealed, "Somewhere in the sacred realm or something"
"The sacred realm?" Link said straightening up "Ganondorf?"
"Nope, the power isn't as big as his at the moment" Navi replied factually "But it's growing. It seems to be feeding off the chaos it's caused in Hyrule. Even the opposite world Termina feels it's affects"
I scowled, so there was someone behind this.
"Well, let's get you to the castle" Navi glowed brighter and the temple faded to white fog
Just as suddenly our feet felt rock beneath them and we were on the grass verge outside Hyrule Castle.
"That was..." Link began
"Quicker than I thought it would be" I finished
"Yeah, well I guess games make it seem longer" Navi smiled, and flew up to a hole in a the rock face "Well through here then"
"That?" I repeated
"Yeah" Link replied, "You have to crawl, the holes a little small"
"Great, a hole. Just what I needed" I shrugged and followed
The tunnel wasn't that long and even though our trip was full of curses and shouts, we reached the other side without many bruises.
"You're here" Zelda stood next to the fairy fountain
"Zelda?" Navi said, "What are you doing here?"
"You came in that?" I cried in disbelief at Zelda's long pure white dress that showed no trace of the dirt in the tunnel
"Yes" Zelda replied, "I was just discussing with the fairy here what's going on"
We looked over to the pool, the fairy had already been summoned and was looking quizzically at us.
"Wasn't there another one?" she asked confused
"Yes" Link said gravely
I looked at the floor and dug my fingernails into my palms.
"There was...an accident" Link supplied when Zelda looked at him for answers "She..."
"Alright" Zelda touched his hand tenderly and looked at me soothingly "We will provide the proper memorial service when the task is complete. I am sorry, truly I am, but this job needs doing. Terrible news has arrived from the plains"
"What's happened?" I asked
"Every army the races of Hyrule sent onto the plain, have not only been destroyed, but every soldier left has disappeared from the plain. There is no trace of battle out there. Even the ranch has reported as such. Everyone is completely confused and accusing each other of kidnapping. Stupid people. The don't understand they are being manipulated"
"Explain that again slowly," I said looking at Navi, "Last we heard the armies were all dead"
"Well" Zelda said "You heard right, the armies are all dead, when we last saw them anyway. But we went onto the field to collect the dead an hour ago and there was nothing! No blood, no weapons, no nothing!"
"That is weird," the fairy said
"Definitely" Link agreed, "We still have another two fairies to visit at the fire temple"
"Done" Zelda said, "I went there as soon as the news came in, we can't waste time now. Something is up. I dreamt that the dead would fade and be blown away, only to return in a tornado"
"Maybe you should have told us that first..." I said quietly
"Yeah, you should have" Navi said, "And I though I was up to date. Ah well, dreams are important"
"Damn straight" the great fairy nodded
"So what do we do now?" Link asked smacking his gauntlets together
"I have no idea," Zelda said quietly
"What?" we all chanted and looked at her
"I don't know" she replied to our looks "Honestly this thing has never really happened before"
"Of course not" I snapped folding my arms "Otherwise the Hero Of Time would have sorted by now, over and over again by millions of gamers all over the world"
"Yes, I have a few ideas to help you though" Zelda continued
"To help us?" I repeated, "But you haven't told us what to yet"
"A little input please" Link agreed
"Well..." Zelda shuffled her feet and smiled nervously, "I think the problems are coming from the sacred realm"
"The sacred realm?" My jaw dropped "Ganondorf?"
"No, I told you it wasn't" Navi said holding her nose high "I'm always right"
"Yeah right"
"What did you say?"
"Shut up" Link said crossly "Listen to Zelda"
I shut up.
"We need you to go into the sacred realm and find out whats going on"
"This is confusing me even more" I held my head, "First, we have to wake up all the fairies, then you tell us that we don't need to see the final two, then you say all the armies have disappeared and aren't fighting anymore and now you telling us we have to go into the sacred realm. My I ask what for?"
"Isn't it obvious?" the great fairy said smiling "Someone is causing all this from the sacred realm. We don't know whom, it could even be the goddesses, we don't know. We would like you to see what's up and stop it"
"The dead will rise again if my dream was correct" Zelda said gravely "We can't let this happen, they'll destroy Hyrule"
"They always do," I muttered
"So I'm sending you to the sacred realm" Zelda said matter of factly, now all the fairies are free~"
"Hold on" I interrupted, "That was our task, how come you finished it?"
Link put his hand over my mouth "No need to argue kiddo, let's just finish the new one"
I bit him. He yelped and let go scowling.
"Fine" I looked at Zelda "What do we do?"
"For starters, we go to the temple of time" Zelda said
"Great, let's go" I started to crawl back through the tunnel I could hear Zelda and Link talking to the fairy and Navi.
"She needs to switch to de-caf" the fairy said
"Maybe..." Zelda replied
"No, she's upset, can't you see it?" I heard him say "And very angry, after...what happened I guess everything seems unimportant"
"Yes" Navi said "Plus she can hear everything you guys are saying from the tunnel you know"
I flushed in the dark and crawled quickly to the end of the tunnel and heard the scuffle of feet following me.
As soon as I got outside, I heard Link beside me. Then more sounds of cursing. I looked behind me. Zelda came coughing and spluttering out from the hole. To my amusement the dress wasn't quite so perfect anymore. But what was coming out her mouth was even more unlike her.
"F***ing hole, no b***** princess should put with this, what am I? I b***** commoner?"
I guess holes didn't suit a princess with a bad case of PMS and stress syndrome.
"Let's go" and a very ruffled Zelda led the way to the temple.
What a weird chapter I just wrote ^_^ ah never mind, it sets the stage for later!
I must have fallen asleep on Lucy's broadsword, as I woke up to a sharp handle sticking into my side, I jerked up and rubbed the sore spot painfully. Regretfully the memory of the previous events was still fresh in my head.
"Your awake" Link said walking over, "Come on, let's get to temple quickly"
I followed numbly up to the temple. My legs had pins and needles from sleeping in an awkward position. Link seemed fine considering what had happened. I fingered Lucy's sword in my hands as we entered the temple.
It was a huge musty entrance hall. Brown stone and painted tiles. The high ceilings were barely visible in the gloom. I stared at it all gloomily; didn't they know how to clean in this place? But then, considering it was in the desert, they couldn't really hire a cleaner.
"Let's find this thing then" I said and started up a staircase that went up to a higher level
"Right" Link came up behind me
In the centre of the floor on a platform a ball of light was floating serenely. A small fairy sat looking at us carefully.
"You were a LOT smaller last time I saw you," she said eyeing me
"Navi!" Link burst out and grabbed the fairy and hugged her fiercely
"Hey!" she cried, "Watch the wings, watch the wings!"
"I can't believe your back!" he yelled and hugged her even more against her squeaky protests "Where did you go?"
"Oh long story" Navi said, whizzing around the room "But now I have to help you guys out!"
"Why?" I asked
"Because you don't have time to ride to the castle, I'll have to transport you!" she replied
"What's happened?" Link asked carefully
"The situation is getting worse, a lot worse" Navi stopped whizzing around "In fact, while you've been isolated for two days out here, the armies of every tribe in Hyrule have been wiping themselves out on the battlefield"
Link stumbled to put his hand on a wall to steady himself "You're kidding" he said flatly
"Uh-uh" Navi shook her wings gracefully, "And the epicentre of the chaos is the somewhere..."
"Where?" I asked
"Well it's somewhere that's for sure!" Navi beamed
I grabbed Navi "Where?"
"Alright, alright" she squealed, "Somewhere in the sacred realm or something"
"The sacred realm?" Link said straightening up "Ganondorf?"
"Nope, the power isn't as big as his at the moment" Navi replied factually "But it's growing. It seems to be feeding off the chaos it's caused in Hyrule. Even the opposite world Termina feels it's affects"
I scowled, so there was someone behind this.
"Well, let's get you to the castle" Navi glowed brighter and the temple faded to white fog
Just as suddenly our feet felt rock beneath them and we were on the grass verge outside Hyrule Castle.
"That was..." Link began
"Quicker than I thought it would be" I finished
"Yeah, well I guess games make it seem longer" Navi smiled, and flew up to a hole in a the rock face "Well through here then"
"That?" I repeated
"Yeah" Link replied, "You have to crawl, the holes a little small"
"Great, a hole. Just what I needed" I shrugged and followed
The tunnel wasn't that long and even though our trip was full of curses and shouts, we reached the other side without many bruises.
"You're here" Zelda stood next to the fairy fountain
"Zelda?" Navi said, "What are you doing here?"
"You came in that?" I cried in disbelief at Zelda's long pure white dress that showed no trace of the dirt in the tunnel
"Yes" Zelda replied, "I was just discussing with the fairy here what's going on"
We looked over to the pool, the fairy had already been summoned and was looking quizzically at us.
"Wasn't there another one?" she asked confused
"Yes" Link said gravely
I looked at the floor and dug my fingernails into my palms.
"There was...an accident" Link supplied when Zelda looked at him for answers "She..."
"Alright" Zelda touched his hand tenderly and looked at me soothingly "We will provide the proper memorial service when the task is complete. I am sorry, truly I am, but this job needs doing. Terrible news has arrived from the plains"
"What's happened?" I asked
"Every army the races of Hyrule sent onto the plain, have not only been destroyed, but every soldier left has disappeared from the plain. There is no trace of battle out there. Even the ranch has reported as such. Everyone is completely confused and accusing each other of kidnapping. Stupid people. The don't understand they are being manipulated"
"Explain that again slowly," I said looking at Navi, "Last we heard the armies were all dead"
"Well" Zelda said "You heard right, the armies are all dead, when we last saw them anyway. But we went onto the field to collect the dead an hour ago and there was nothing! No blood, no weapons, no nothing!"
"That is weird," the fairy said
"Definitely" Link agreed, "We still have another two fairies to visit at the fire temple"
"Done" Zelda said, "I went there as soon as the news came in, we can't waste time now. Something is up. I dreamt that the dead would fade and be blown away, only to return in a tornado"
"Maybe you should have told us that first..." I said quietly
"Yeah, you should have" Navi said, "And I though I was up to date. Ah well, dreams are important"
"Damn straight" the great fairy nodded
"So what do we do now?" Link asked smacking his gauntlets together
"I have no idea," Zelda said quietly
"What?" we all chanted and looked at her
"I don't know" she replied to our looks "Honestly this thing has never really happened before"
"Of course not" I snapped folding my arms "Otherwise the Hero Of Time would have sorted by now, over and over again by millions of gamers all over the world"
"Yes, I have a few ideas to help you though" Zelda continued
"To help us?" I repeated, "But you haven't told us what to yet"
"A little input please" Link agreed
"Well..." Zelda shuffled her feet and smiled nervously, "I think the problems are coming from the sacred realm"
"The sacred realm?" My jaw dropped "Ganondorf?"
"No, I told you it wasn't" Navi said holding her nose high "I'm always right"
"Yeah right"
"What did you say?"
"Shut up" Link said crossly "Listen to Zelda"
I shut up.
"We need you to go into the sacred realm and find out whats going on"
"This is confusing me even more" I held my head, "First, we have to wake up all the fairies, then you tell us that we don't need to see the final two, then you say all the armies have disappeared and aren't fighting anymore and now you telling us we have to go into the sacred realm. My I ask what for?"
"Isn't it obvious?" the great fairy said smiling "Someone is causing all this from the sacred realm. We don't know whom, it could even be the goddesses, we don't know. We would like you to see what's up and stop it"
"The dead will rise again if my dream was correct" Zelda said gravely "We can't let this happen, they'll destroy Hyrule"
"They always do," I muttered
"So I'm sending you to the sacred realm" Zelda said matter of factly, now all the fairies are free~"
"Hold on" I interrupted, "That was our task, how come you finished it?"
Link put his hand over my mouth "No need to argue kiddo, let's just finish the new one"
I bit him. He yelped and let go scowling.
"Fine" I looked at Zelda "What do we do?"
"For starters, we go to the temple of time" Zelda said
"Great, let's go" I started to crawl back through the tunnel I could hear Zelda and Link talking to the fairy and Navi.
"She needs to switch to de-caf" the fairy said
"Maybe..." Zelda replied
"No, she's upset, can't you see it?" I heard him say "And very angry, after...what happened I guess everything seems unimportant"
"Yes" Navi said "Plus she can hear everything you guys are saying from the tunnel you know"
I flushed in the dark and crawled quickly to the end of the tunnel and heard the scuffle of feet following me.
As soon as I got outside, I heard Link beside me. Then more sounds of cursing. I looked behind me. Zelda came coughing and spluttering out from the hole. To my amusement the dress wasn't quite so perfect anymore. But what was coming out her mouth was even more unlike her.
"F***ing hole, no b***** princess should put with this, what am I? I b***** commoner?"
I guess holes didn't suit a princess with a bad case of PMS and stress syndrome.
"Let's go" and a very ruffled Zelda led the way to the temple.
What a weird chapter I just wrote ^_^ ah never mind, it sets the stage for later!