AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALRIGHTY, THEN!!!!!!!! Sixth chapter!!! This one is, how shall I say, VITAL to the story. This is where the *quest*, so to speak, starts. Not really a QUEST, but, the PLOT, more like. I still need to perfect the last battle thingy scene, though, and the small one. You guys don't know what I'm talking about, but, whatever.........I just want to say that I may have to go back and change stuff. Not likely, but if I do, I'll tell you all. Does anybody have tips on how to do a battle scene thingy!? I CAN'T QUITE SEEM TO GET IT AT ALL!! And, not really so much a BATTLE. Very confusing, even for ME! Sorry if I'm boring you. So, I'll shut up, and HERE'S THE CHAPTER!!!!!!
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"Are you sure about this-?" Michelle called after the other girls, but was cut off by an annoyed Aholya.
"JUST jump, will you!?" she told her.
"Okay, um.........AAAAAAAAIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!" she called as she ran back a few steps and made a running jump off the edge. She landed safely on the other side, if a little hard. "Ow," she complained as she got up.
The group, now made of Michelle, Rynita, Aholya, Chrystie, and Katrina, had made their way through most of the Lost Woods outside of Katrina's village, and all the way to the very beginning of the Sacred Forest Meadow. The part they were in was like a maze. Katrina had said that inside the maze was full of Deku creature, little monstrous things that would shoot nuts at you. Katrina supposed they were put there to protect the temple, but the fact that five teenage girls could find their way around them made it seem ridiculous. Katrina had showed the girls that there was a little notch in the wall that lead to platforms above the maze, which was a good place to put your foot so you could climb up.
When they first got up, Michelle had seen the other girls easily jump the first platform, but was unsure, herself about going over. When she did jump, she felt okay. She thought that it was pretty strange, because she had never been bothered much by heights before.....
The group had made their way, occasionally having to make a jump for it, over the maze and all the way to the ladder leading down off the top platforms. Everyone got down okay, and then walked over to a staircase that went slightly up.
"That leads to the Forest Temple," Katrina supplied. "I've been here before, but not in a while. I remember that there's a little courtyard before you go in, though."
The girls walked up a staircase. They reached the step where they could almost see what was over the staircase. Then, suddenly, Michelle seemed to lose her footing, and fell backwards onto the step below her.
"Dang! SOMETHING HIT ME!!" she shouted as the felt her shoulder. "Just GREAT! I'm gonna get a bruise there! WHAT WAS THAT!?"
"Oh, I guess I did forget that part!" Katrina called as she pulled the other girls down onto the steps. "There are a couple of those Deku creatures up there right before the Temple entrance. We'll have to go around them." She cautiously peeked her head over the top of the stairs, and a Deku nut came flying just inches from her head. "Okay, so, it's not gonna be easy..."
Before she could even finish her sentence, she saw Michelle getting really mad. She was clenching her fist, and it looked like the veins on it were going to pop off. She suddenly jumped up and walked over to the top of the stairs. She reached the top, and a nut came flying straight at her head. With a look of extreme concentration and anger, she reached out her hand and grabbed it right out of midair.
The other girls had just about fell over by now. None of them had even seen her act like that before.
"ALRIGHT!! Which one of you Din damned things shot at me!? WHICH ONE OF YOU HIT ME!!?" Michelle screamed.
The things suddenly hid in their grass burrows, although Michelle was sure she could see the grass shaking.
"Cowards!" she said, but more softly than before.
Michelle turned her head back to the girls. Before that look left her face, Chrystie noticed something that she thought the other girls must not have noticed. Tiny, almost invisible, on the center of her forehead was a triangle, made of three smaller ones. The one at the top had a tinge of red. Before Chrystie could wonder if she was seeing things, it was gone. Michelle smiled.
"So, then. Come on!" she shouted, before turning around and walking slowly away from them.
"Is that the same girl who wouldn't jump with us just five minutes ago!?" Aholya asked in a harsh whisper.
"I'd like to say no, but I think it is," Rynita responded.
Chrystie jogged over to where Michelle was. "Hey! What was that just now?" she asked her.
Michelle seemed to think about this. "I'd like to tell you. Wish I knew. But, I think it has to do with a certain dream...." Michelle shrugged.
Chrystie wondered if she should tell her what she saw. She decided not to, although she still had this feeling that is wasn't just nothing that she had seen just then.
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"Open, stupid door, come ON!" Aholya yelled as she tried to pull open the door to the Forest Temple. The five had gone through the small clearing before the Temple, gone up the stairs, and through the door into it. (A/N: Geeze, someone finally got smart and fixed that staircase!) Through another small courtyard, and to another door, which was stuck. Well, not for long.....as Aholya pulled on it, she fell backwards as it flung open. "There," she said, getting up.
Michelle walked through first, and stopped in mid step, and stared as a huge, ugly, spider-like thing dropped from the ceiling in front of them.
"Please, tell me I'm not the only one that sees a giant spider hanging from the ceiling," she said, turning around. The other girls had stopped too.
"It's a...Skull.....something, um, Skulluta.....no...whatever. It's some monster that was supposed to have been extinct," Chrystie said.
"Very nice. Now, does somebody have a big rock I can throw at it!?" Michelle asked, backing away. Before anybody could answer her, something flew right past her head, and suddenly, something was sticking out of the spider as it fell crashing to the ground and disappeared in a burst of green flame. "Freak," Michelle exclaimed in disbelief.
Aholya stood behind them, looking like she had just thrown a Frisbee or something. Michelle snapped her head back in the direction the spider had been. A dagger, she corrected herself.
Rynita finally found her voice to say something. "What!? How'd you do THAT!?" she asked her.
"Practice," she said as she put her arm down and smiled at them. "Well, are we still going in?" she asked as she walked ahead to retrieve her blade.
"Not if there are any more, whatevers..." Michelle muttered under her breath before following the girls through the hall to a large and dully lite room. Vines seemed to come out of nowhere and hung from the ceiling, branching off along the walls in some unrecognizable pattern. Doors surrounded the room and staircases lead to other parts of the Temple.
Katrina stated as she walked, "I haven't been here in so long." She trailed her hand along the banister of the stairs leading down to the main part of the room. "You guys!" she called to them. "Lets go over to the outer courtyards! Around this time, these really rare flowers grow there." She walked over to one of the many doorways, while everyone followed her.
Rynita followed behind everyone. As she was about to pass through the arch that lead to the courtyards outside, she head a child's laugh, and that same voice, it seemed, whispered 'hero'. Rynita snapped her head in that direction, and saw nothing. She shook her head as she followed the others to the outside.
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"So pretty," Katrina breathed as she looked over the changes of the courtyards outside. Vines and ivy overgrew practically everything, and flowers grew halfway up the wall and all over the grass. It made for a fairy tale effect when their were little firefly like things flying around everywhere.
"Yeah, real nice," Michelle noted.
Rynita heard that laughing again, and again turned her head to see. Chrystie noticed, and said, "Is something wrong?"
"No," she said. "Did someone laugh just now?" The girls shook their heads. "Hm."
Katrina noticed something in the grass. "Did any of you drop something?" she asked as she bent down to pick it up. Nobody had. Katrina held it up more in the light. It was a round pendant attached to a long silver chain. It had a small crystal in the center, and had carvings along the outside.
"Lemme see," Michelle asked as she noticed the crystal. She grabbed it out of the other girls hands. "It says something. Hey, legend girl! Chrystie, this looks a lot like Hylian to me," Michelle said, wondering how she knew that is looked like Hylian, and startled that she did.
"Here," Chrystie said as she took it from Michelle. "It's an ancient Hylian dialect. I don't know what it says, though." She handed it back to Michelle.
"Hm." Michelle wondered what it could say.
Rynita's sensitive hearing again picked up laughing. "Okay. I distinctly head it, that time. It's so NOT funny, and I want to know right now what it is." That other girls just stared back at her.
"Don't ask me. I'm probably the LAST person here who you should ask about hearing stuff," Michelle said.
Rynita wasn't listening, and she turned around to follow the sound.
"HEY!! Are you listening to me!?" Michelle asked indignantly.
Rynita had already disappeared around the corner and back into the main room of the Temple. She was walking quickly, because the laughing could stop any second and she wanted to know what it was.
"YOU!! Wait up!" Michelle called as she looked around the corner and ran after her, the other girls following her. She saw the other girl disappear into one of the many doors lining the room, and ducked in after her.
Rynita saw a small, dark figure in the middle of the room. It could have been a girl, it could have been a poe, at that moment. She walked up to it, its back was turned, and she put out her hand to grab its shoulder.
The other girls came in just in time to see the air around the dark figure shudder and the thing faded out, and seemed to bring air with it as it flew out of the room right between the legs of the girls at the door.
"Well," Aholya provided. "That was.....interesting."
"Did that thing just disappear!?" Michelle asked.
"No! We all were just seeing things," Katrina said, sarcastically.
"That thing looked familiar," Chrystie said, looking in the direction it had gone.
"Yes, I happen to know LOTS of small, scary things that disappear in thin air," Michelle trailed off.
"What was that thing?" Rynita whispered to herself.
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After a little bit more of the Temple, everyone had gotten quite, should I say, freaked out. Everything seemed to have weird shadows, and other things seemed to be changing places. They left the Temple without a thought to go back anytime soon.
Michelle opened the door that lead to the area right outside the Temple. As she did, and started to step out, something materialized right in front of her and caused her to almost fall back onto Chrystie.
"It's that shadow," Rynita realized as it jumped down, not bothering to use the stairs, to the floor below. Rynita pushed ahead of the other girls and jumped down after it.
Michelle, who had just about fallen over again when Rynita rushed past her, looked over the edge to see Rynita standing there, and a shadow hidden by the stairs. She jumped down after her.
Standing there a few meters away from Rynita, was what seemed to be a child. A girl child. But, it couldn't be a child, Michelle thought. It was the size of a child, seemed to look like one, but closer inspection would reveal that the face was all wrong. It was too wise to be a child. And, the proportions seemed all wrong.
"So, finally they gather here," it said in a voice that did not fit it, at all. The shadow that looked like a child was dressed in a fashion similar to Katrina, and Michelle realized that they shared a similar childlike aura. She had blue eyes, and bizarrely green hair that fell right above her shoulders.
That other girls had just jumped behind Michelle. She turned to them and said, "Does anybody know who that is?" They shrugged.
Rynita seemed to find her voice and said, "Who are you?"
"I am she which guards the forest. Sage of the Forest, protected by the Goddess Farore. My name is Saria."
"You can't be a Sage. All the Sages are dead," Rynita said in a tone which suggested disgust.
Saria turned her head to the side. "Define dead," she said in a lilting, almost teasing voice.
"I'm not a dictionary," Rynita shot back, in a voice which clearly said she was not amused, at all.
"Can I say something?" Michelle asked. "Who's 'they'?"
"'To chase dreams, they gather all in a place confound by ancient legends. To see through the illusion, they discover the united dream. To reclaim what was theirs, they discard the created illusion. To seal the demon, they reach into the past. When the past, present, and future come together, that is when the dream becomes reality.' It's an ancient legend passed down even before the Gerudos first came to Hyrule, in a time when the first Sages were not yet cold in their graves," Saria explained.
"As interesting as that is, WHO IS THEY!?" Michelle asked, losing her patience.
"No, I've heard that before," Chrystie said to herself.
"Take a look at that medallion. The writing, I think that's what is says," Katrina said, though unsure.
"Is that your final answer!?" Michelle asked, getting annoyed. "WHO ARE THEY!?"
"You," Saria said simply.
"What?" Michelle said, turning to her slowly.
"You, that's what I said. You. As in, the five girls standing here in front of me."
"Yeah, right," Rynita said, seeming to back down although her words were not submissive. "A legend, about us? Ha. Do you know who we are even?" she asked.
"I know who you are. The question is, do you know who you are?" Saria said, slightly snapping .
Silence followed. Then Michelle spoke up. "I know I am confused. I get dropped into some weird dimension, get haunted by dreams from some pagan Goddess, meet these Hylian chicks, find out that I'm not the only one having dreams, and now some girl with green hair tells me that there's a legend about me and my friends when I'm not even from this planet!! THAT'S what I know I am."
"Did you also know that that 'pagan' Goddess happens to be the one that put you there? Well, Dy-?"
"Don't," Michelle cut her off coldly before she could finish her word. "...call me that. I know exactly what you were going to say. That's what *she* said. She said I was going to remember who I was. I know who I am. My name is Michelle, not Dyvonia. That's a dream. I don't care what that damn legend says. I am what I was for the last sixteen years."
Aholya had snapped her head in Michelle's direction. "I've heard that name before."
"Good for you."
"Did you even consider why you two looked so much alike?" Saria suddenly asked.
"Do I care!?" Michelle blurted out.
"You would if you did know," Saria said.
"Well, then. Enlighten us," Aholya said.
"Spit it out, Miss I Know Everything," Michelle said.
"Have you heard the name Aydrin?" Saria asked, ignoring Michelle.
Michelle thought she had, but before she could say this Aholya said, "Yes. It's..."
"Your name," Saria finished for her.
"Shut up," Michelle said. "You told us we weren't who we though we were. Who am I, then? Who is she!? Who are the other girls, then!? Tell us, if you said you knew! This crap is getting us nowhere."
"Do you really want to know?" Saria asked, without a hint of sarcasm.
"I, for one, do," Chrystie ventured. "If you do know."
"Katrina has been my name for the last sixteen years. If I have another name, another identity, I would like to be in on it," Katrina said.
"Do I even have to say anything?" Aholya asked.
"Bring it on," Michelle said.
Rynita was the only one who seemed unaware of everything that was going on. She would have asked Michelle what everyone was talking about, but she seemed too concentrated on the strange child Sage. So she just watched.
Saria nodded, and then turned around. She closed her eyes, and stared to glow in a green aura. In front of her, appeared a swirling tube of colors out of the ground. A cold breeze blew through the trees, and Saria turned back to them.
"Go on, unless you're afraid," Saria dared.
"I'm not afraid of you, or that pathetic excuse for a light show," Michelle said. She was the first one to step over to it, and before anyone could say anything, disappeared in a flash.
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***SailorZelda is tired now. AND, she knows exactly what is going to happen. Hehehehehe! I had a HUGE epiphany the other night. I was like, WOW! That's EXACTLY what's going to happen in my story. I still need help with the battle thingy. Hm. Maybe I'll get my tyrannical and annoying sibling to help. ^.^ Unless any of you have a suggestion; I'm open to anything and everything! :)
Please review. I'm out of odd and totally laughable threats. So, just review. You want me to have at least some encouragement, neh!? :)
Adios!
SailorZelda~