*Sips at mocha frappachino* Coffee makes the world go round!! ^___^ LET US BEGIN!!
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"Wow! Would you look at that??!?"
"Yeah..."
"Oh, so pretty!"
"Don't touch that!"
"I wonder if this is breakable...?"
"AAAAH!!"
"Just kidding!!"
"Note to self: Never trust Michelle around breakable objects, especially when they are owned by royalty!"
Michelle was having a field day making both Aholya and Rynita panic. The three of them had finally gotten up and dressed once Michelle decided she wanted to go explore the castle further. It was huge, to say the least. Even if they wanted to, by now the girls were so far into the castle that they wouldn't have been able to find the room they had originally found themselves in. Michelle wondered for a moment if they would be able to find Chrystie and Katrina anytime in the next ten years, but the thought quickly disappeared as she found more things to look at.
Things such as paintings, tapestries, ceramics, sculptures and very old looking furniture were some of the many things that the girls found interesting. Michelle had done a double take when she'd seen a painting with a rather lifelike depiction of the Three Goddesses on it, as had the two other girls. Michelle knew that she wouldn't be able to stay in serious mode for much longer, as she had already started to pick up yet another odd looking sculpture to look at.
"This place is a living history museum!" Michelle exclaimed while the girls walked into yet another hallway full of armor and war memorabilia.
"Yeah, and if you touch one more thing, WE are going to end up history.....Michelle!" Rynita snapped as the other girl reached out to touch a jeweled sword.
"What!? It's not like I'm gonna-" She heard footsteps coming around the corner opposite the one they had come, shrieked, and jumped away from the display. "I didn't do it! I didn't touch anything!" she said with over exaggerated innocence, backing away at the same time. Aholya had to grab her and pull her to the side before she backed into another display.
"Correct me if I'm wrong," a familiar voice said from around the corner. "But that sounds like something Michelle would say." At this point Chrystie and Katrina walked around the wall ahead of the other girls.
Michelle sighed in an exaggerated way and put her hands over her heart. "Don't scare me like that, people!"
Katrina spoke up. "I know that this has probably already been established, but we have no idea where we are, do we?"
"In the castle, no. But, in Hyrule? I think we do." Aholya continued, despite slightly confused looks from the two girls. "We think that we are in the past from the time we live in. Michelle had a dream about it. And from what has happened to us during these last few weeks, I think we have all learned to trust in the dreams we have."
"And I have also learned," Michelle added, almost in a sarcastic tone. "That if we plan to do anything about it, we'll need to figure out what's going on, like when we saw them for the first time." By this time, everyone knew what Michelle was talking about when she referred to the Goddesses as "them."
"The library," Chrystie suddenly interjected. "If I know anything that could help us, it would be in there. I've never been inside Hyrule castle, in our time, I mean. But, I do know of their expansive library which had been around for hundreds of years. It'll be here, no doubt about that."
"What are we waiting for then?" Rynita said.
"Let's go hunting for library!" Michelle said, leading everyone else forward into yet another corridor.
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Zelda sighed in frustration. She had been at this for hours, it seemed, and nothing seemed to want to work out. She shoved yet another book aside.
Earlier in the morning, she had had breakfast, and then had gone immediately into the library with Link and Malon. They seemed almost as curious about this legend that the girl's necklace, as well as Link's, had foretold. She thought it might have been starting to happen, because the appearance of these strange girls was certainly out of the ordinary in the they had the necklace in the first place. She thought the girls might have some idea of what was going on, but she knew her library would have more information on the subject, as well. Seeing as she didn't have anything terribly important to do that day, and it never hurt to be prepared for anything, she had allowed herself to look for information on it for these hours.
"The problem is..." Malon said, slamming shut yet another book, her face appearing over the volume with an almost comical look of exasperation. "...that this library is too damn big."
Zelda smirked slightly, as Malon's voiced thought mirrored her own thoughts.
"It is true, Zelda. There's a lot of books here than any information could be in, but I think the problem is that there's simply too much information to look through."
Zelda sighed again. "I know that." She got up from the table and went over to yet another bookshelf, grabbing one of the books off of it seemingly at random. "But the fact is that these girls might not know as much about this as we'd like them to. They might be more confused than anything else." She walked back to the table.
Malon muttered something under her breath, and then said to Link and Zelda, "Don't you guys ever wish that those prophetic dreams would come when you at least think you need them?"
They all seemed to sigh at this comment.
"...going to do anything, we'd need a....A ha!" A muffled voice was saying from behind the closed wooden doors of the library. "I have a feeling we've finally found it!"
"Thank you, Miss Obvious."
"We'd need an "A ha"?
"Oh, be quiet."
Malon shoved her current volume away from her and got up from the table to answer the door, half to ask what these people wanted and half to tell them off for disturbing her concentration. When she wrenched open one of the doors, she wasn't expected what she saw there.
She had started talking before she saw who was there, however.
"What do you want and what do you mean by....Oh!" She immediately stopped talking the moment she saw the five girls that stood at the door. "Hey, it's them! Zel!" She retreated back into the room and left five particularly confused people standing there.
"What?" Zelda said.
"Those girls are right outside there! I guess they're finally awake..."
"What are they saying?" Michelle asked, trying to get through Rynita and Aholya, who were right at the crack of the door, trying to listen to the conversation within it.
"Shh..." Aholya muttered, pushing Michelle away with her hand.
"Don't push me!" the redhead muttered, but backed off.
"Let them in, then!" someone said from within the room. Before the two girls had a chance to react, the door was again being wrenched open by Malon, and they nearly stumbled in.
Zelda got up from the table to greet the girls who were entering the library. "Welcome, strangers," she said, using her formal Princess like voice. "As you might already know, you are in Hyrule Castle. You were brought here by Malon of Lon Lon Ranch, and its a good thing that you were. I am Princess Zelda."
The girls all seemed to be surprised, but nobody seemed to show it more than Rynita.
'Princess Zelda...' she mused in her thoughts. 'That means that, if Zelda's alive...then...'
"Actually, we were all quite curious about you girls. You see, not only were you just lying around Hyrule like you'd lost a fight, but you had a certain article of jewelry that greatly interested us."
Michelle's hand went absently to her chest, where the necklace usually rested. She didn't know why she kept it, or why nobody had objected to her keeping it. But, when she felt that it was not there, she nearly panicked.
The Princess turned behind her to a table and seemed to pick something up off of it. She actually turned around with two somethings, which were mirror copies of each other. Michelle recognized them immediately as the necklace. The odd thing was that one of them was glowing softly.
"They've been doing this ever since we put them together." Zelda explained. She really hadn't given the other girls very much of a change to say anything, but the girls themselves were in need of answers about their situation and didn't exactly know what to say to the Princess. "The one that was yours has been glowing, and I have a feeling that its because they are one and the same. Because I suspect..." She paused briefly. "...That you are not from here."
"There, you would be right, Majesty." Katrina finally spoke up. "We think that this is the past, well...The past of our time."
"And that legend," Aholya said, gesturing towards the two necklaces. "Is what got us into this whole mess."
Rynita, however, was hardly paying attention to the conversation at all. She was lost in her own thoughts.
"Then, perhaps you could enlighten us on what is happening," Zelda said. "Oh, yes. And by us, I mean my group. You saw Malon before, she's there." She gestured to Malon and smiled. "And then Link, who you might know as the Hero of Time."
Link seemed to laugh self-consciously. "Zel...You don't have to say that..."
"What?" Zelda said, for once losing her Princess tone. She knew that Link didn't often like to be refereed to as a hero, but Zelda was tired of it. She simply rolled her eyes. "Nayru," she muttered under her breath, and turned back to the girls.
At this point, Rynita heard them saying something about looking for information, and someone was calling her for something about telling the group about their quest. However, her mind was too far off.
Blind terror was all she had when it jumped out at her. But she wasn't allowed to give it a second thought when she felt its attack suddenly stop. She opened her eyes, and saw it face to face with her. And it was dead.
Something behind it had staked it through with a sword. A very familiar someone.
Though she hadn't understood the first time she'd had the dream why the figure was familiar, now she knew. The person from her dream was the Hero of Time. She remembered explaining to Michelle the addition to that dream, when she had almost said her suspicions of that that was who she had thought the familiar presence was.
Her vision seemed to swim as she nearly felt herself falling forward. She felt someone grab her arm and haul her into a chair. She felt that it was Michelle. The other girls didn't seem to notice that she was not all there, because they had begun to tell the story of how they had ended up in the past. She could hear them, and by now she was able to tell the story in her sleep, so she added in her bits in between Michelle's talking about the beginning, when she had first met her.
Although she was partially within her own thoughts, and partially entered in the conversation between the two groups, she couldn't help but continue to glance at Link every few moments. In her time, his name was legend. And, yet, here her ancestor was, sitting there in the flesh.
Although everyone else had been listening to the conversation, Malon had been absently glancing through a book to her right. Suddenly, she pulled it closer to her and seemed to be rereading something. She blinked and looked up.
"I think I found something..." she said slowly.
"That's...Wait, huh?" Michelle asked, not really paying attention to what she was saying at first.
"Something...About that legend. It says a translation of the ancient language that's on the necklace."
She was answered by a chorus of, "Really?"
"Let me see," Zelda said. She took the book towards her, and quickly read over the page. She seemed to slow down at some points, though. Everyone was watching her, and they were all fairly startled when she suddenly looked up and muttered one word which made everyone's hair stand on end.
"Ganon."
Nobody really knew what to say after that, but Zelda seemed all too willing to enlighten them.
"'To seal the demon...' and a bunch of other things here in this book that just scream that this is what this whole thing is about." She lowered her voice slightly. "I had a vision recently that I didn't remember until just now. I know that when I had it, I thought I was just being paranoid because I'd often have nightmares about it coming back. Though, I don't know how it could happen unless someone broke the seal. Although in this case, Death Mountain was involved in my vision."
Chrystie blinked, seemingly coming to some conclusion. "It said something about 'past, present, and future.' That sounds a lot like what is happening. We did come to the past, and when that happens the dream is supposed to happen. Well, a lot of our dreams had to do with the Triforce..." She shook her head, not really knowing what she was even saying anymore.
"In my vision," Zelda continued. "...something happened with Death Mountain and some outside force that caused Ganon to be released." She closed her eyes, seemingly trying to remember or to have the vision again. "But it wasn't here, it was...a different place which somehow affected us anyway. But, unless we're there to stop it from happening..." Her eyes snapped open, and she quickly stood up from the table. "Then that's what we're going to do." She suddenly turned and started to head out the door.
Malon looked after the suddenly very vague Princess of Hyrule, and then got up to go after her.
"Hey, Zelda! What are you talking about!?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Link said, absently grabbing both necklaces of the table. "We're going to Death Mountain."
Michelle, Rynita, Aholya, Chrystie and Katrina glanced at each other before getting up to follow the others.
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**Well? What do you think? Are you confused? If you are, please tell me!! I need you guys to know what's going on. Are you still liking this? And do you remember waaaay back in the beginning where Michelle said there was something weird about Death Mountain? It's come back to haunt them! Do you want the next chapter? Why am I asking so many questions!?
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