"It's hot. I'm thirsty. When are we going to get there? Are we there yet?" Michelle complain, teasingly.
"Stop complaining so much," Rynita snapped.
"Jeez, I'm just kidding. You really can't take a joke, can you?" Michelle asked. Rynita ignored her as she walked in ahead of the other girl.
"You said we were going to see some of the native people. What did you call them, gorins or something?" asked Michelle.
"Gorons. They're a race of rock people," said Rynita.
"Rock people? Oh, you mean, like, in the movie, "The Never Ending Story"?" inquired Michelle.
"As if I have ANY idea what that is," Rynita muttered under her breath. "Oh, watch out," she warned.
"What? EEK!" Michelle shrieked as a large brown object rolled past, just missing her. "You didn't tell me there were killer boulders up here!!"
"You didn't ask," Rynita responded, amused. "Besides, that wasn't a bolder. It was a Goron."
"Oh, my God. You're taking me up to visit a bunch of things that are out to run me over?! You're CRAZY!"
"I thought you said you weren't scared of anything."
"I'm not. It's just that I really didn't want to be ripped away from my home and die all in the same day," Michelle said, sarcastically. "I'm NOT scared!" she repeated, when she saw Rynita smirking.
"Anyway, we're here already. That entrance way leads into Goron Village. You can go in first," said Rynita.
'Yeah, sure. Some rock creature is going to come rolling out right into me right when I walk in; that's why she wants me to go in first,' Michelle thought as she stepped in front of Rynita. As she walked through the entrance, it became dark. She walked down a fairly steep incline, then emerged in a cave lit by dull torch light. "Cool!" she exclaimed, as she ran forward to look down to the lower levels of the underground village.
"I thought you said it was hot a minute ago," Rynita said, confused.
"Jeez! 'Cool' as in neat, not 'cool' as in cold," she tried to explain.
"Your dialect is very strange," Rynita said, rolling her eyes.
"Whatever. I'm going to go look around, 'k?" Michelle said.
"Go ahead, be my guest," said Rynita.
* * *
A few hours later, the girls emerged from the trail that led to Kakariko Village on to the field Michelle had seen earlier that day. "We call this Hyrule Field," Rynita stated.
"How creative," Michelle said, in a pretend-bored fashion. "And let me guess; the enclosed thing over there is 'Hyrule Castle Town'?"
"How did you know?"
"Lucky guess," Michelle said, smiling. "So, where to next?"
"We could go into the town if you wanted to,"
"Okay, but let me warn you; if some big, stupid guards start to chase us, it's not my fault," Michelle said seriously.
"What have you been doing since you got here?!" Rynita asked.
"Oh, not much. Just being chased until I thought my lungs would come out, getting slammed into a bridge, getting run over by rocks......" Michelle trailed off.
"You didn't answer my question, though. Do you want to go in?"
"Sure, why not?" The girls began to walk toward the place. As they got closer, Michelle could see that the bridge was up, just inviting in travelers and merchants. With that, Michelle started to wonder if there were any shops in this place, which there probably were. She began to feel that she was the only girl in this entire place who was wearing pants. She needed some native garb.
As Michelle thought, a young man called to her companion. "Rynita! Who's your friend?" As he got closer to the two, he noticed Michelle's ears. "I didn't know you liked to hang out with Gerudo."
Michelle snapped her head to look at Rynita. "I have no clue what that is, but it didn't sound like a
compliment," she said under her breath.
"You always get the strangest friends. And what are those weird clothes she's wearing? Why can't you hang out with normal people?" the young man said.
Michelle's eyes widened and she turned and glared at the man. * Okay. You can insult my ears and my species, but you leave my clothes OUT of this discussion! * Michelle thought while gritting her teeth. But, before she could say or do anything, Rynita had walked up to him and was staring him down. Even though he was a good head taller than she was, she seemed to be looking down at him. Then, with a lightning-quick motion, she kicked her leg behind and under his, causing him to fall backward onto the ground. "Oh," she said, with pretend innocence, "you tripped," she said, with more fierceness this time. He looked at her for a minute, and then opened his mouth to say something. Before he did, Rynita made a fist and held it up to her chest. He decided better against it, and got up and walked away. "Jackass," she mumbled under her breath as he got out of hearing range.
"Wow. You are one serious chick. Note to self, don't mess with this girl," Michelle said quietly.
"Nobody, NOBODY, insults me or my friends," Rynita said by way of explanation.
"Hey, you would consider me a friend? Cool!"
"Sure, why not?" Rynita responded as she smiled triumphantly.
They had walked inside the gate before Michelle realized it. They emerged from the bridge onto a courtyard-like setting filled with crowds of people. Michelle's eyes were immediately drawn to a large, rectangle structure off to the far right. It was elaborately decorated and seemed to be a cathedral. "What's that?" Michelle said
pointing to the building.
"It is the Temple of Time. Do you remember the story I told you earlier? Well, that's where it all starts," Rynita responded. "Do you want to go..." she started, but stopped when she saw Michelle wander off toward the many booths and shops that bordered the town square.
"If I have one rule while traveling, it's 'shop first, then sight-see," Michelle explained. "Do they have any places where I could buy some clothes that aren't so..." she looked at herself. "...twenty first century?" she finished.
"Yes. There are a few stores over there."
Michelle and Rynita walked toward the stores. Michelle went into a few, and finally found a place she liked. Before she came out from trying on her new dress, she warned Rynita, "If you laugh at me, I swear, you'll regret it." She walked out sporting a just past knee-length, blue dress with a subtle change to red at the bottom. "So?" she asked Rynita.
"It's nice. How much is it?"
"I don't know. I didn't ask. Hey, shop guy! It this enough for the dress?" Michelle asked as she placed a twenty dollar bill on the counter.
"What is this?" the shop keeper asked. "The dress is one hundred rupees."
Michelle turned to Rynita and blinked a few times. "Rupee?"
Rynita sighed, rolled her eyes and placed a few of the strange, crystal shaped Hylian currency on the counter. Then she turned to Michelle. "Let's go."
"Thanks for, uh, paying for that for me."
"Well, I didn't want any more people making fun of my 'friend'," she said with a small smile. "Besides, you can pay me back."
"Hey!" Michelle called as Rynita started to walk out the door.
* * *
A while later, Michelle and Rynita found themselves walking through the quiet courtyard in front of the Temple of Time. "We have things kind of like this, back on Earth. We call them cathedrals," Michelle stated.
"That's interesting," Rynita said, obviously not paying attention. She was fixed on the Temple.
"Hello," Michelle said as she waved her hand in front of the other girls face. "Hey! I'm talking to you! EARTH TO NITA!"
"Oh," Rynita said as she snapped back into reality. "Sorry. I was just thinking about Link and Princess Zelda. What must it have been like to accidentally unleash the wrath of Ganondorf on this world? Using this Temple?"
"Even that name gives me the creeps," Michelle said as she shivered slightly. "Doesn't it scare you sometimes? You said that people say what's-his-face said he would come back to destroy Link's descendants. Meaning, you."
"I could take him!" Rynita said, with confidence that was obviously not there.
"Sure, you could," Michelle said sarcastically.
As the conversation died down, the girls found themselves walking through the doorway of the Temple of
Time. They walked through the dark entrance, and emerged in a large, echo-filled room with off-white bricks lining the floor and the walls. The ceiling was so high, it was too dark to see it. An odd song was being sung by a chorus hidden somewhere in the Temple. In front of them lay a large circle emblem on the floor with three triangles linked together to form a larger triangle. Until now, Michelle hadn't noticed that the triangles were on almost everything she had seen. The room stretched out in front of them, with a red carpet laying across the top half of the room. In front of that was an alter of some kind, with three hollow spaces and an inscription in the strange letters Michelle had seen on the sign in front of Kakariko. There were stairs leading back from the alter to a doorway with another inscription, this time, of a circle with rays coming out of it. Above the doorway was another emblem of the golden triangles.
"What's up with the triangles all over everything?" Michelle whispered, quietly. Something about the heavy presence of the place demanded the same kind of respect as a church or a library.
"It's the Triforce. Do you remember the thing that Ganondorf was trying to get? Well, that was it. In the Realm the Sages trapped him in, he still holds the Triforce of Power. With Link and Zelda gone, I don't know what happened to the Triforces of Wisdom or Courage," Rynita said, also in a whisper.
"Oh. That doorway, where does it go?" Michelle inquired.
"It is the..."
"Door of Time?" Michelle interrupted.
Rynita blinked. "Right. Anyway, it leads to the chamber that holds the Master Sword, in the......." Rynita gestured for Michelle to finish her thought.
*Okay, think 'Sword in the Stone', here...* "Uh, the, um, Pedestal of Time?" Michelle questioned.
"Hmm, right. From that chamber, you can get to the Chamber of Sages in the Sacred Realm, where the Triforce supposedly was. Or is. I am not sure. After everything with Ganondorf, nobody really knows for sure."
"It all seems like a big fairy tale or something ," Michelle said, skeptically, yet almost believing.
"I know. Well, do you just want to stand in the doorway forever, or do you want to go in?" Rynita questioned.
"Oh, yeah, sure," Michelle said.
The girls walked farther into the Temple. Michelle could see that the walls and floor were not just marble bricks, but also had ornate decorations and patterns engraved on them. A Michelle observed at the eerily familiar structure, her vision blurred, and everything went white.
She found herself floating in an all-white surrounding with an oddly warm and comforting aura filling the presence. She felt calm and relaxed, and in touch with everything. She closed her eyes......*wait, eyes?* she thought with a very slight surge of panic. She realized that here, wherever 'here' was, she was just a form of consciousness in the pure-white abyss.
As she was absorbed in her surroundings, she felt another presence approach her. She didn't feel any danger emitting from this presence; if anything, she could only feel a strong spirit and an accepting and mother-like embrace from within the being.
Her surroundings changed into a chaotic mass of billowing gray storm clouds and lightning. She oddly didn't feel any danger, even now. She felt the other presence slowly descend upon her, and she could feel it speaking.
*Do you see it, Dyvonia? This chaos that once was our world, and here,* the presence gestured toward a sudden explosion of blue light that radiated from a center point. *...the Chosen Land of Hyrule. In the beginning, we three Golden Goddesses created the plane of existence on which you have recently stumbled. Our labors brought forth the world, and at it's heart the Chosen Land.*
The chaotic mess built up to form landscape and after a moment, life. Michelle could now see three golden figures with a red, a blue, and a green aura. The three golden figures, which were, as Michelle figured, the Golden Goddesses, suddenly departed from the newly created world, leaving in their wake three golden triangles; the Triforce.
*Our labors completed, we left for our Realm to watch over that which we had created. Eons of peace passes, until the arrival of the King of Evil.* Suddenly, three beams, one blue, one green, and one red, shot out of the Land. The golden area where the Triforce floated was interrupted by the dark aura of the red beam. *The Hero of Time and Princess of Destiny now awakened, the Sacred Realm that held the Golden Triangles was left open for the King by their childish mistake.*
Michelle could sense some slight anguish in the voice of the supposed deity, but no apparent anger at the remark. She now saw the land become affected with this dark aura. *The Seven Year Imprisoning War of Hyrule brought destruction for our creation, and we were suffered to behold this devastation as the Hero of Time was held in the Sacred Realm. But after, he was releases, he quickly disposed of the King's minions. The Hero had finished
Ganondorf and releases the Princess of Destiny. After Ganondorf revealed his true form of Ganon, the Hero defeated him. The Princess called the Sages to seal away the Incarnation of Evil to the Dark Realm.*
Michelle beheld the spectacular light show of the battle between the red and green beams, which seemed now to be the Hero of Time and the King of Evil. Afterwards, the blue beam, the Princess of Destiny, summoned six different auras of light, a red, an orange, a yellow, a green, a blue, and a purple. The Princess, now with golden light mixed in with her blue, along with the auras, encased the dark red beam, and it was transported away.
*The peace had returned to the Land once again. We Goddesses thought now it would be safe to send out our Daughters. Dyvonia, Aydrin, Farora and Nyrulas (A/N: See how much I SUCK at making up names! lol;D) were all sent away from the Goddesses' Realm to live among the creations of their Mothers. One was sent away to another of the newly created dimensions.*
Michelle could now see, from above the Sacred Realm, three auras, one magenta, one light green, and another, baby blue, descend upon Hyrule. Another magenta aura was sent in the opposite direction. 'Toward Earth,' Michelle thought with only partial horrorstricken realization that would not truly penetrate her skull until weeks later.
*But, now I can sense that the seal of the Dark Realm cast by the Six Sages growing weak. Something will happen, I can feel it will happen very soon. Dyvonia, you must find the other Girls and stop Ganon from winning over our Hyrule once again. The time draws nigh.*
(Michelle thought she could hear someone calling her by her real name, but very quietly and distant.)
*Wait, why do you keep calling me Dyvonia?* Michelle tried to convey to the deity as she felt it draw away from her. *Who are you?! I need to know!*
(This time, it was louder, and Michelle was almost certain she heard it.)
*You must trust in you heart.* the Goddess said as she grew farther away.
*Wait, please!* Michelle's effort was in vain as the other consciousness grew to nothing.
* * *
"MICHELLE!!" Rynita's voice was strangely far and distant, but grew closer as Michelle's consciousness came back to her. Rynita was shaking her, obviously worried.
"Michelle! Oh, Goddesses, please. MICHELLE!" Rynita yelled at her half conscious friend.
Michelle slowly opened her eyes and found herself on the floor of the Temple of Time. "Wh...wha...?" Michelle said dazedly. She vaguely remembered her vision, and felt a hanging feeling of something she needed to do.
"Michelle! A..are you all right?" Rynita said, a little quieter than before.
"Um, yeah why wouldn't I be?" Michelle said as her swarming dizziness disappeared slowly.
"We were walking in here, and you suddenly stopped. You just feel on your knees, and I think you were mumbling something, but I couldn't tell what it was. What just happened here?"
Michelle blinked. That dream, or vision, that she had.....Had just had? She was confused. She remember speaking to someone important, who told her something, and gave her a mission. She knew if it was important, she would remember. But right now, she just wanted to sleep. She felt strangely tired.
"What happened?" Rynita said again.
"I'm not exactly sure, but, I think......I don't know!" Michelle cried out in frustration.
"Well, if you figure it out," Rynita said, eyeing Michelle in an odd yet worried way. "...tell me. All right?"
"Sure."
The two girls stood up, and they walked out of the Temple.