Here's something I felt like saying. Did you know that *gasp* I DON'T OWN ZELDA!?!?? But, I do own my girls, so don't mess with them!! ^-^
Okay, enough oddness!! Here is the chapter!!
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Michelle called out into the blackness, not really expecting an answer, but trying, nonetheless. She was almost surprised when an echo answered her call....Almost. Although nothing but herself answered her, she could feel another, oddly familiar presence here. It was something that seemed to be praying off the shadows, off the fear of whatever other helpless souls might be trapped in this void of blackness.
"Where....?" she began.
"Past," something whispered. It could have been inside of her head, or it could have been right up next to her ear. Heck, it could have been a hundred miles away for how vague it sounded.
A gust of wind blew past her, heralded by something bright. Before she even had a chance to turn around to look at it, it was gone.
She shrugged and turned back to where she thought she had been looking. She almost wished that she hadn't picked this direction, however. She saw a darker shadow that was discernible even against the blackness, though how anything could get more dark than it already was, she didn't know.
"Who...?" she started to ask, but the thing beat her to it.
"You know."
That was the only thing it said. But the thing about it that startled her was that she did know. For one clear moment since this whole thing began, she knew exactly what was going on. This thing was whatever had sent them to wherever they ended up through that blue wormhole. Though, how or why they did she didn't have a clue.
Before she even had a chance to ask what she was going to, the shadow answered her.
"The Triforce."
'Yeah, the Triforce. Isn't that the damned relic that got us all into this mess in the first place?' she thought.
The shadow nodded, although at what she wasn't sure at first. With a sudden jolt of realization, she knew that the shadow had read her thoughts.
"I want it. So do you."
She did? Michelle thought about it for a second. Technically, it should have been hers...And Aholya's, Chrystie's and Katrina's. But did she really want it? The Goddesses had said that they needed it for something, but she couldn't call being told to get something actually wanting it.
Michelle finally had a chance to voice her thought, although she thought she already knew the answer.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"The future," it said, beginning to laugh maniacally. The shadow suddenly lifted one of its, no...her hands, and shot some dark energy straight for Michelle's head.
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Michelle's instinct told her to get out of the way, although the sudden flood of light into her eyes made her brain tell her to stop panicking because that bizarre experience had been just a dream. If she had not been in total darkness just before, she would have realized that the light was considerably dim. Nevertheless, feeling very disoriented, Michelle tumbled to the ground and took the blankets with her. She landed rather ungracefully on the floor.
"Holy crap!" she muttered fiercely, trying to disentangle herself from the soft sheets that surrounded her. The thought crossed her mind of where they came from and what was she doing sleeping in them, but her heart was beating to fast to allow her mind to think of it.
She heard someone groan across the room, which was followed by a thump as something obviously hit the floor.
"Ow..." the someone whined, and Michelle recognized the voice to be Aholya's. She didn't hear her move any more, and suspected that she didn't care about getting up from the floor anytime soon.
She unexpectedly heard someone giggle across the room as she attempted to stand up.
"Like sister like sister..." the voice said in between giggling.
Michelle turned her head around to face Rynita, who was sitting lazily on the end of her bed. "Oh, ha, ha, ha, I'm dying of laugher," she said dryly, laying her still-aching head back against the pillow on the bed. Before she could think of another sarcastic comment, she halfway sat up and quickly glanced around the room. "Where the hell are we?" she asked nobody in particular.
She was about to get an answer when a large, round woman with dark hair threw open the door and walked briskly into the room they were in, carrying what looked like an armful of clothes.
She stopped briefly, glancing at the three of the five girls who were awake. "Ah, ye're awake!" she said in a joyful and accented voice. "Started to get a bit worried about ye, we was," the woman continued, walked up to a still sleeping Chrystie.
Michelle had to blink at the odd intruder, although she really didn't seem like a threat to any of them. The woman put a hand up to the girl's forehead, and seemed to look slightly relieved when she took it away.
Rynita decided to say something at this. "Was she sick?" She gestured to Chrystie at this question.
The woman blinked, then laughed slightly. "Ye were all unconscious, but this one had a fever. It's broken now, though."
Michelle wondered for a moment if Chrystie was sick before they got wherever they were, but then a more urgent thought crossed her mind. They had all been unconscious, and they were all at this same place, which was Din knew where.
"Where are we?" Michelle suddenly blurted out.
"Hyrule Castle, lady. Ye were brought here by that farm girl from Lon Lon, heaven knows what would have happened if ye hadn't."
Michelle didn't have time to wonder who "that farm girl" of what "Lon Lon" was before she asked another question...or three. "What are we doing here? How did anyone find us? What were we doing!?"
The women regarded Michelle's panic with amusement, however. "One questions at a time!"
Michelle sighed. "What are we doing here?"
The woman seemed to consider that thought for a moment. "We were hoping ye could tell us that," she finally said. Then, she turned around, gathering some things from the corner of the room. "Well, get dressed in those close I put over there when ye're feeling up to it. Oh, and don't bother waking yer friends. It seems like ye three've got harder heads than them, eh?" The woman laughed as she exited the room.
Michelle put her hands to her temples. That was certainly odd. "My head hurts..." she muttered out loud.
"I know that lady said we were in Hyrule castle, but..." Rynita started, then shrugged. "I don't know why we would be here. I think the last thing I remember was....That inn ....and then some kind of blue portal thing..." She narrowed her eyes slightly. "And the voices," she muttered.
"You of all people should remember that portal, Rynita," Aholya said, still on the floor and sounding slightly annoyed. "You were the one who made it stop."
Rynita blinked. She did remember something like that....Like telling the blue brightness surrounding them to stop, and that it did. That was when her memory blanked, and she remembered the voices.
Out of nowhere, Michelle pulled the memory of seeing all of them in the air before they started to fall.
"We fell from somewhere," she said. "Though why, I'm not sure."
"Well, that much is obvious," Rynita muttered. "The fact that nobody knows what we're doing here."
"Where....?" she began.
"Past," something whispered.
Michelle's head shot up. That little flash from her dream she had just had made her remember something she hadn't quite gotten a chance to think about within the dream.
"Past..." she repeated quietly.
"What?" Rynita asked.
"The past," she said more clearly. "I'm pretty sure that's where we are."
"Why do you say that?" Aholya said, finally deciding to get up from the ground.
"Well..." Michelle began. "I remember something from a dream I just had. There was a black shadow, and it said stuff that at first didn't make any sense, but I think I know now at least a little bit of what they meant. When I said "where" they said "past."
"And that means what?" Rynita asked.
"That we're in the past! Duh." Michelle shook her head. "Remember what they said about us needing to go into the past? That we needed the Triforce?"
'Not wanted?' her mind mocked her, although she chose to ignore it.
"Yeah," Aholya and Rynita said in unison.
"Well, they said something about someone Aholya knew helping us. The only person I can think of would be her." Michelle decided to accent the her instead of saying the name. "Though, how she could have helped us get here, or of she even knew we were needing to get here, I have not a clue."
"She's a witch, that's why," Aholya muttered.
Michelle cast her a sidelong glance, but decided not to say anything.
"Anyway," Rynita said, interrupting the silence. "I also remember them saying something about people being able to help us in the past. From what I know, people farther towards the time of the Hero of Time knew more about the Triforce. If anyone can help us, it would be the people here."
"Well," Michelle said, hopping off the bed with a newfound energy. "I for one wanna first take a look around this castle and then see if whoever lives here can help us!"
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Zelda stopped mid step, and then put her foot back on the floor. She could sense something different in the air of the castle, something that felt very oddly like the Triforce. Though she knew that it was impossible, for she, Link, and Ganon sealed in the Sacred Realm had the Triforce, she couldn't help feeling the same feeling. The part that she sensed of power unusually didn't feel threatening, unlike it did when she had sensed it within Ganon those years ago.
How long had it been exactly since he had been sealed? Four, five years? Well, four or five years on the other timeline; that is, the first time that she had been seventeen.
She shook her head and continued walking. It wasn't good to dwell on feelings and old memories when she had other places to be early this morning.
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Hmmm, very interesting. I have thought of the last part of the plot and all the way up till the ending!! MUAHAHAA! I'm glad that I know what I'm doing now...^___^(). People, stick with me and I should have this sucker done within eight more chapters!! Thank you bunches for reading!
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