Yeah. So I'm telling you now, I'm sorry for any annoyance and inconvenience I have caused by delaying any of my stories. Hey, it's hard to have five stories going at once! So, yeah. Sorry.
Enough of my ranting! NEW CHAPTER, YAY! This one will most likely be good, as I have just recently begun to get back into my fun story-mode kind of mood. That made no sense, but I DON'T CARE! ^-^
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, here's she be! My new chapter!
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White. Empty and white, it absorbs even Time itself. Empty, but for one. One who did not forget those hundreds of years ago. One that refused to believe its time was up, when Time was what bound it in the beginning. Not quite human, definitely not god. The creature, the demon waits for its chance. The chance that will present itself through the most unlikely source. Aware, it waits. An eternity is not so long when one has a destiny...
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Michelle, hearing the words over and over in her head, almost refused to believe them. "The destiny of two worlds depends on you five....If that happens, Hyrule.....and Earth are doomed."
It's hard not to believe something when all you see, hear, and feel points to it. One's destiny is what you make it, although the universe and all that is will have its say in everything. There's destiny, which can be altered by the slight change of the mind, then there's Destiny. What the forces in the universe, whatever they be, know before it all happens. And when Destinies intertwine, the destinies of the individuals are not totally lost, but are also twisted.
"Why did it have to be me?" is all that Michelle could say to what she knew was true. She did not deny her past, how could she at this point? But, her mind told her that she couldn't play the super-hero.
"I'm only sixteen," she thought.
*And he was ten,* she heard a voice say in her mind.
Farore. Of course.
"Sure, try to make me feel bad about it, why don't you!?" she asked, looking up and breaking her ravine.
"That's the last thing I'm trying to do. It's a lot to have the destiny of anything on your hands. Be it something as big as the destiny of a world," the goddess said, looking at the five girls. "Or something as small scale as a hopeless romance." She cast a glance as Aholya, who looked away.
"What we can tell you," Din added. "...is that you won't need to look far to begin Destiny's battle. Something 'close to home' will help you to start." She, also, looked at Aholya.
"There is a sorceress," Nayru said. "...who summons Ganon, even as we speak. She cannot, with her power, bring him fully back into our realm. You will meet her twice, that's what I can tell you. Be prepared to see a familiar face." She, again, cast a slight glance as Aholya.
"WHY does everyone keep looking at ME!?" she asked, annoyed by now.
Din smiled slightly. "Because someone you know will help you, and you need to remember everything we've said here. Nothing is pointless, nothing happens by accident. Remember that."
"Can I say something?" Katrina asked. "I wanted to know, how will we know when we're on the right path? Will we know what to do, or if we do find out, how to do it?"
"Help is not far from your reach." Farore answered.
Din turned importantly to them. "It is time that we parted, for now. We will see you again." Before anyone could say anything, the goddess made a motion with her arms, and the group of girls were engulfed in an orb of white light.
They found themselves moving through what looked all too similar to outer space. "So maybe they weren't kidding when they said the 'Heart of the Universe'," Michelle said to the other four girls. They laughed slightly, then felt themselves land softly on a certain forest floor. Well, all except for Michelle. Distracted, her decent stopped midair, whereafter she fell to the ground a little harder than she would have liked.
"Ow," she said as she sat up.
"Very graceful," Aholya said, sarcastically.
"Hey," Michelle cut in. "Just because you're my sister doesn't mean you have to start acting all weird on me. Well, if you weren't before," she added.
Before Aholya could find a comeback, Chrystie said, "Hey, does that make you guys twins?"
Michelle opened her mouth to respond, but looked at Aholya first, who had done the same thing. She immediately shut her mouth before turning her head to look at anything else.
They heard a childish giggle from behind them. Rynita, who had been oddly quiet for a while, turned first and saw the Sage standing behind them. "Saria," she said.
"So do you understand, now?" Saria asked them.
"Mostly," Chrystie said.
"Well, that makes.....one of us," Katrina said when nobody else answered.
"I'm sure all of you do," she said, before looking meaning at Michelle. "You only don't want to."
Michelle narrowed her eyes and said under her breath, "Try putting the destiny of the world in your hands."
"I did," Saria replied coolly.
Katrina, who had just barely started to laugh, was silenced by Michelle when she threw a rather unfriendly stare at her.
Saria, noticing all the girls raging hormones ready to spring at any moment, offered, "There's tension in the ranks! Why don't you all relax for a while? Get out of this forest?"
"What good does that do anyone? Well, except for keeping us all from killing each other," Rynita said, looking at Michelle, Aholya and Katrina.
"Trust me," Saria said, accenting the 'trust'.
"Okay, anything to keep them from biting the other's head off," Katrina added. Two ice cold stares met that comment, so she decided to keep her trap shut.
"Hyrule Field is a nice place to start.," Saria cut in.
Michelle met her eyes with a level gaze. "You're really suspicious, Sage. Real suspicious."
Saria merely smiled. "What you will find out, is what I know. And more."
"Why does everyone talk in riddles?" Rynita asked.
"Because they like to drive my insane," Michelle said with a faked smile.
"Of course," the Sage replied. Michelle raised both eyebrows. "Can no one tell when I'm kidding?"
"No, obviously not," Aholya said.
Saria narrowed her eyes. "Go."
"Going!" Michelle said as she grabbed Rynita's arm and dragged her with her. Everyone else followed.
The Forest Sage's look softened as the girls left the Sacred Forest Meadow.
"May the Goddesses be with you," she said right before she flickered out, leaving only a dull green light where she had been.
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"Ah!" Michelle sighed, holding her arms behind her head, as they left the forest. "What's up with all this?"
"We have to save the world. Ha," Chrystie mused, following Michelle.
"You guys all seem to have some important role," Rynita said. "You all are reincarnated daughters of the Three Goddesses. What does that make me?"
"You get to play Hero," Katrina said, smiling slightly.
"Be serious."
"I am," she said, looking up innocently and tilting her head to the side.
"Ha, ha."
"This is like some RPG type fantasy manga," Michelle said.
"Huh?" everyone else said in unison.
Michelle sighed, again. "Never mind."
As the five girls stepped out into the bright sunlight outside the forest, they all shielded their eyes with their hands. In comparison to the forest canopy, the shade less field was blinding.
"Does anybody have the slightest clue where we're going?" Aholya asked.
"Did anybody realize that all the clues everybody gave us pointed to you knowing where we're going?" Michelle asked, sarcastically.
"Someone I KNOW knows where we're going, not me."
"You're as clue less as the rest of us," Chrystie said, somewhat sadly.
At that moment, Rynita noticed something dark fly over them. It was so fast, nobody else noticed it. And it was definitely not a bird.
After rounding the corner at the small cliffs at the very edge of the forest, Aholya, who was in the front, suddenly squeaked in surprise, stepped back quickly, and ran right into Michelle, who almost fell over. (A/N: Was that a run-on sentence?)
"Aie!" Michelle said as she almost toppled over, but was caught by Rynita right behind her.
"WHAT is the matter with you!?" Michelle asked.
"There's a..a...a.....!" Aholya didn't seem to be able to finish her sentence.
"Huh? Spit it out!" Michelle said.
"I saw, right there, there was nothing! But then, this girl just...appeared there!" she said, waving her arms around.
"And this means, what to us?" Katrina asked.
"Come here, I'll show you," she said, stepping out of the cliffs.
The redhead stopped short, staring ahead of her. Not far away from them, about ten yards or so, was a Hylian girl who couldn't have been any older than the five of them. She was dressed in a dark blue, purple and black dress with a rather revealing slit in the side. Almost the rest of her body was covered in the long sleeved dress, on the back of which was a cloak with an unfamiliar design on the back. It was a circle with two broken spaces in it, in the center of which was a sun-like pattern. Three separate triangles surrounded it and were spread out equally. Shiny black hair hung around her face, stopping in the middle of her back.
"Her," Aholya said.
"Who?" Michelle whispered to everyone else. They all shrugged.
"Hey," the girl said in a soft, slightly innocent yet seductive voice. "...I know you from somewhere." She gestured to Aholya. She noticed Michelle and cocked her head to the side. "Both of you."
"Er," Michelle said, looking away from the girl.
"I know who you are," Aholya said.
"You don't remember me, then?" the girl said, putting on a faked half smile.
"How could I forget?" she asked.
"Can I cut in and say; Who are you? And how do you know her? And, you don't know me, just to clear that up," offered.
"To answer your question," the girl said, airily. "My name is Ilisya."
"Wait.....I've heard that name before," Chrystie said, obviously trying to remember where from.
"You're that girl who works at the inn over by Lake Hylia, right?" Ilisya asked.
"Yes,"
"Hm," Ilisya smiled, again. "Yes, which would explain why you know my name."
Michelle started to see some connection at this point. She wondered if it had anything to do with...
"You've probably heard it from my b-" she decided better than to say what she was going to say when she looked quickly at Aholya. "Bryian," she finished.
"Oh," Michelle said. She saw what was going on. This was that girl she had heard about from Aholya when they were at the inn. It was just like a soap opera. Ilisya was the girlfriend of the guy everyone wanted, and Aholya played the jealous ex-girlfriend. And she and everyone else were the clue less onlookers.
She couldn't help the small smile from growing on her face as she looked from Ilisya to a pissed-off looking Aholya. She felt tension between these two. In Aholya, jealousy was apparent, while a certain kind of smug-ness was apparent with Ilisya. Although, Michelle realized, there was an awareness in her, too. Almost like prey hiding from a predator. If Ilisya knew Aholya at all, which she suspected she did, then she knew something about her that made her this way. Michelle thought it could be the fact that, if Aholya was anything like herself when she was mad and pushed to the limits, she could be...shall we say scary.
Something hung in the air during that short silence. It was that kind of feeling that makes all parties present go into their own little worlds, and makes the time seem to pass slower than it really is.
Ilisya, after noticing that she was staring at Aholya, attempted to break the tension. "Ah, so," she began. "Where are you all heading?"
"Um, actually...we don't really know," Rynita said.
"Really?" Ilisya said.
"Just, kinda...hanging around, I guess!" Michelle said, trying not to sound suspicious of anything.
"Hm," Ilisya considered. "There's a village up ahead of here. Iosia. It's where I live, actually. If you care to, you can come with me there."
"Sure, I guess," Michelle offered, seeing that no one else seemed to have anything to say.
"Then, follow me," Ilisya said, turning around and walking off, quickly.
"Well, your guess is as good as mine as to where we should go, but....Like Din said, nothing happens by accident. We should follow her," Chrystie said quietly.
"Well, why wouldn't we?" Aholya asked.
Everyone looked at her. "What!? I'm okay. Let's just go."
By mutual consent, everyone seemed to agree, so they followed the girl in black towards a cluster of buildings in the distance.
Rynita, however, stayed where she was for a moment, remembering the shadow she had seen earlier. And then Aholya saying that the girl they'd met had just appeared there. Everyone else seemed to forget this at the tension between the two girls. But Rynita remembered. And she wouldn't forget, either. She followed the other girls.
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**Hm. This chapter was hard to write. I dunno why. Jeeze, I don't really know where this story is going. I mean, I DO, but the mood doesn't seem to be feeling like it was going to at the beginning.
He, yeah. I'm sorry for the weird little thing between Aholya and Ilisya. I couldn't resist, though! Oh, and by that way, don't you just HATE her? Ha, I made her annoying on purpose. Both her and Bryian, do you want them to die, yet!? J/K! But, maybe you'll want Ilisya to die once you see what I have planned for her!
Yeah, so PLEASE review! I hope I'll be able to put up the next chapter soon!
Byeness!
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