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"Creeeeeeeeeepy," Michelle made a weird voice as the quartet made their way through the Lost Woods.
"Shut up," everyone said.
How did they get here all the sudden, you ask? Well, for one, this author's running low on ideas, as previously stated. :) The other reason: they decided to go there because they all, except for Michelle, had heard scary legends about people who never came back from the Lost Woods. And, well, being the psycho teens they are, they decided to check it out. So, here they are.
"Does anybody have ANY clue where we're going!?" Michelle asked.
"No, you moron. That's why they call it the LOST Woods," Aholya stated.
"Ah, I-don't see.....anything," Michelle said as she and they other walked through a dark passage. It remained dark for a while, then suddenly, a flash of light intruded on them from a tunnel ahead.
"Stupid, idiotic light! It's trying to make me go blind!" Michelle shielded her eyes from the light ahead. "Oh, whoa, HEY!" She looked ahead and saw a gate which was an entrance to a village. It was similar to the Kokiri Village they had walked through earlier, only..... there were more buildings, and adults were there. The Kokiri Village, as you most likely know, is all little kids. Well, this one is different.
"Maybe this is what happens when people get lost in this forest," Michelle said, quietly. "THEY HAVE TO BE STUCK HERE IN THIS FREAKISH LITTLE PLACE, because they're all morons and they can't figure out how to get out of here!"
"Oh, no, actually. It's much more complicated, and not quite so stupid as that."
A voice from behind them made them all jump. The silky smooth voice continued to talk as the four slowly turned around to greet it. "You know, we never get visitors way out here. You don't look like you're from around here, either. Who are you?"
Michelle decided to speak up. "I think the question should be, who are you? So, who are you, Miss I-Have-To-Go-Sneak-Up-Behind-Unsuspecting-Teens-And-Scare-The-Living-Daylights-Out-Of-Them!!"
"Well, if you need to know, I'm Katrina." Katrina, the voice now identified as, was your average blue eyed blonde. And yet, there was something about her that was not so average. She looked to be around the girls' age, but that was nothing special. Something around her felt, odd...childish, maybe. She seemed to be wearing forest cloths similar to many of the other people around her. And the really weird thing about her appearance was, when she smiled, her eyes visible changed to a shade of blue green. "So, who are you?"
"Well, I'm Michelle. And this," she said, gesturing to her friends. "...is my freakish band of teen maniacs. Rynita, who you maybe know, Aholya, and Crystaline, or Chrystie, as we call her."
"Hi," everyone except Michelle said, almost simultaneously.
"Michelle, the only maniac around here is you," Aholya pointed out.
"There, you may be right."
"Oh, wow. Are you guys twins?" Katrina asked Michelle and Aholya.
"I LOOK NOTHING LIKE HER!!!" both of them shouted at the same time.
"And, NO, we are not related," Aholya supplied.
"Oh. Well, you guys, welcome to my village," Katrina said.
"Thanks. Wait, before we do anything, I'm all curious now. What's the reason you guys have a town out here in the middle of the Lost Woods?" Michelle asked.
"Yeah. I've heard legends of a lost race of people, other than the Kokiri, who lived in the Lost Woods, but I was sure it was just a legend. I guess I was proved wrong," Chrystie stated.
"Legends are for people who don't know how to handle the truth....." Katrina said, distantly.
"What is THAT supposed to mean!?" Michelle asked.
Katrina looked back at them, and she smiled again. "You know, I'm not really even sure."
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A warm fire blazed in the fireplace of Katrina's house, and all the girls sat close to it in the evening dimness. Katrina was having a difficult time trying to explain to the four girls about her people.
"The Kokiri," Katrina said.
"What about them?" Rynita asked.
"More like, what about US," she had said.
"'Us' what!?" Michelle tried visibly not to be too confused.
"'They' is more like 'us'. They are us. It's hard to explain. We are of Kokiri descendants, but somehow, some of them somehow figured out how to grow up. To lose innocents." She was still trying to make sense of it, herself. "Maybe because I'm still a child, practically. I don't understand it totally," she said, more to herself.
The other girls could only nod. This stuff, Michelle noted, was way over their heads. All she knew was that these people were here, here and now. It didn't matter much else, save for curiosity's sake.
"So, then," Michelle tried to think of something else to say. "You got anything else interesting in this confusing maze of a forest?"
"Some warp points, and the Forest Temple, if you're interested," Katrina offered.
"Temples," Chrystie mused.
"There's supposed to be five of 'em, right?" Rynita asked.
"YOU of all people should know the answer to that," Aholya said.
"Just because she's related to the Hero of Time doesn't mean she knows all about Hyrule's history and junk," Michelle defended.
Conversation went on much like this until the early hours of the morning. Around two, the girls realized it was late, finally. The fire had long since died out. The girls fell asleep, then and there.
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Gray. Everything was gray. Michelle tried to stop and think of where she was. She couldn't help but think she'd been here before. She felt a familiar presence close in on her. She could have sworn she'd felt it all before.
Suddenly, three bright beams, green, red, and blue, shot out of the swirling gray mass that was everything and transformed into a triangle formed of three smaller ones.
"The....Triforce," Michelle muttered. It was coming back. Everything. The story about her, and her......cousins, would you call them? Whoever it was, had wanted her to find the other girls. She wondered why she would be here again.
*You've found them, Dyvonia. Or, maybe, they found you.*
'That voice again.' Michelle thought.
*YOU!! WHO ARE YOU!?* she asked it. She wasn't going to leave this time without knowing who she had been talking to. But then, she wondered if she would remember this, come the time she woke up. Screw being polite. She wanted answers.
*I think you can figure that out.* It sounded amused. Or, rather, FELT amused.
*Don't play games with me!* she called out with her mind. Had she had a body, it would have been trembling with the knowledge she was bearing, and the need to know who this was.
It paused. It seemed to be taken aback with how urgent she sounded.
*Din. Goddess of Power.*
'Crap. Did I just insult a goddess?' she thought worriedly.
It seemed almost to laugh. *Don't worry about it. Take the girls. Keep them with you. You'll know what you need to do when that time comes around.*
*You know, I dislike that. Please, stay out of my thoughts! It's disturbing! And another thing, why did I need to find the girls in the FIRST place!?*
*That, I cannot tell you. It's time for you to wake up.*
*Are we going to do THIS again!? I wake up, and you're gone, and I don't know what in the Dark Realm I'm supposed to be doing!?*
'Holy crud. Did I just say 'what in the Dark Realm'?' Michelle though, with panic.
*You're remembering. Parts of yourself are coming back.*
*Good for me.* Michelle had this last coherent thought before her mind blacked out, and she was staring at the ceiling of a small house.
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Michelle bolted up, surveyed her surroundings, and then slowly laid back down as she realized the dream she had. Last time she'd had that kind of a dream, she hadn't even been sure what had happened. This time, there was no way she could deny that something fishy was going on.
Michelle noticed that Chrystie was up too, she was sitting up trying to make a fire. Michelle crawled over to the fireplace, and sat down.
"Good morning," Chrystie said.
"Hi. Why are you up so early?" Michelle asked.
"I'm usually up with the sun," she answered.
"Hm. Something I wish I could do. Say, you know about legends and stuff, right?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know something about the Goddesses that are supposedly in Hyrule?"
"Din, Nayru and Farore. Yeah. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, a dream I had. Something, and I was talking to um, what's her name, Din."
"YOU were talking to DIN!?" Chrystie asked, immediately stopping what she was doing.
"Yeah. Really weird, though. I most likely wouldn't be able to explain it to you even if I tried to. All I know is that something is going on, and I need to stick close to you guys."
"What about us?"
"I dunno."
"We don't take dreams like that lightly here," Chrystie said, returning to making the fire. "I had a dream, similar I think. I was going to tell you about it earlier, when I first met you. I forgot. I was in this gray place. Everything was gray. Then, this feeling came. It felt like a person, but.....different. It said I should watch out for someone from Earth. I guess it meant you."
"My dream was a lot like that. The gray part. Who was it that you were talking to, in your dream?"
"I don't know. They never told me."
"That's because you have to ask," Michelle remembered. "Have you had that dream again? Or one similar?"
Chrystie seemed to consider this for a while. "Yes. Last night."
"Are you serious?"
"'M." She nodded. "Only, it didn't say to look out for someone from Earth, but to stick close to the 'others'. Meaning, you guys, I guess. I saw the Triforce in it, too."
"Me, too. I wonder if anyone else here has had dreams like that. I wonder, do you think you were talking to one of the Goddesses, like I was?"
"Now, what would the Goddesses want with me?"
"Well, what would they want with me, either? I think the other girls must've had a dream like that, too. You did, and I did. There's something about you, me, and the others, that I haven't quite figured out yet. It has something to do with the Goddesses, and....what was it? A seal!? Something about Ganondorf. It scares me, though, because you know about Rynita. If whatever I'm dreaming about is anything at all, and something does happen with Ganondorf, she's gonna be the first one he goes after."
"Oh, really?" The two girls turned to find a half-asleep Rynita sitting right behind them. "You know, I've been hearing that ALL my life, and, frankly, I'm sick of it. Do you think it scares me!? No." With that, she laid back down, and was almost immediately asleep.
"Okay." Michelle didn't quite know what else to say.
"You know what's scary?" A voice coming from across the room made Michelle jump. "I had a dream almost exactly like the two of those," Aholya sat up.
"Me, too." Katrina came in from outside of the hallway holding a cup of some hot liquid.
"You guys were all listening?" Michelle asked.
"Yep." the other two girls answered.
"So, that makes four of us," Michelle pointed out, casting a glance toward Rynita.
"All of us, then, had that dream?" Chrystie asked. It was more of a statement than a question, though.
"Weird. You know," Michelle said. "I had another dream, right before I came here. From Earth, but in my dream, I was in Hyrule. And, I saw you," she pointed to Aholya. "...in it. You called me sister."
"Huh. THAT'S weird." Aholya got up, and crossed the room to be nearer to the fireplace.
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***Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Isn't that interesting!? Something's going on, here. Everyone except for Rynita is having theses freaky dreams. Next chapter, the girls meet a very familiar (to us, anyway) figure, and they figure out what their dreams mean, almost. You have to stay tuned and see!!
Okay. Here's my little reminder. R E V I E W, or ELSE!!!!!!!!! THE ALIEN SHIPS WILL COME AND INVADE US ALL!!! YOU'LL ONLY HAVE YOURSELVES TO BLAME!!! Okay.
Thank you all for reading. :) Hasta la vista, peoples!! :)