**Loooooookit! Another chapter! (After I finally got done with flippin' finals and all that crap...) AND WE ARE ALMOST THROUGH HERE PEOPLE!!!!! I think there might be three more chapters. Then we'll have to see.....*thinks* This chapter gets a little weird. You have been warned. *j/k* So, enjoy!
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Din felt the rift in the Time in Hyrule, as did her Sisters. They'd known that this was coming. They'd known from the first instant Dyvonia had arrived in Hyrule that this moment would come. They, being who They were, could see the events being played out. They saw the way the Sorceress tried to twist the minds of their girls, and how they mostly resisted but for the small portion of their minds, like in everyone before them who learned of Chaos, that asked them if everything they had learned from time they were children was true. The Universe did have a different origin than most thought, as least those in Hyrule. But the servants of Chaos liked to twist most things far out of proportion.
She watched these things play out before Her, hoping that their minds wouldn't be swayed to far. She knew that the Sorceress knew what was to be done with the Triforce in order for Hyrule to be restored. She thought that the girls knew, and even if they didn't they would find out soon enough. Even though She had most of the Triforce, the Creature held that last piece, which held the delicate threads of the paradox that was Hyrule from totally breaking. It was possible to take those pieces, but they were going to need help. Then there was the matter of binding the Sorceress after She was defeated so She would not be able to take them again, even with her depleted strength.
All these predictable things that probably would have come to pass, that would have been able to bring Hyrule back. But not everything is able to be foreseen.
And when Din felt the sudden, horrible halt in Time's flow, She knew something had gone terribly wrong.
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She was falling. Falling to an infinite darkness....Or was she floating, suspended above it....Whatever it was that had put her here was torturing her mind with what actually could be down in the darkness. There was light from above, she thought. But something blocked the light. It was a ghost like figure, shadowy and semi-translucent, but could quite seem to find a form it liked. Finally, it settled into one she knew well by now.
"I knew you'd find your way here. It calls to you, obviously, now that your...." Ilisya trailed off.
"What are you talking about?" Michelle asked.
She didn't even realize that Ilisya had a knife until it was embedded in her stomach. At first she was confused, then suddenly extremely aware of the cold metal. Someone screamed, and she fell.
Michelle jumped back from Ilisya, shaking her head to rid it of that unbidden flash of a vision.
"...Now that you're....dead?" Ilisya smirked.
The redhead stared at her, not quite comprehending.
"It does call you. You can tell from the frantic look in your eyes. The Triforce of Power doesn't want to be with the Creature, but it doesn't want to come to me, either. It wants to be put back into the Heart of the Universe, because it is incredibly aware of the paradox I have created. Even more so than you are. But this is Chaos, so nothing is really what is seems."
"We're...inside of Chaos?" Michelle asked.
"It is everywhere, so It's here, too."
"But why did you say I found this place?"
"Because the part of you that is connected to the Triforce pulled your essence here, instead of bringing you directly to Death."
"Wait a second..." she glared at Ilisya. "I'm not dead, then?"
"Not technically. You are kind of on the brink between, and can't decide what you are. And so now, you can help me get the Triforc-"
"WHY THE HELL would I help you!?" Michelle yelled angrily, finally gaining back some of herself after recovering from the shock.
Ilisya smirked, then turned around and looked behind her. Michelle noticed that the darkness seemed to waver and a scene appeared into the abyss. She noticed that at first they were familiar scenes, of Hyrule and then Earth, and then of some other places and alien beings that her mind hadn't even bothered to imagine before.
The dark haired girl snapped, and the images were gone.
"That's why."
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Aholya stared in disbelief, her eyes focusing in and out at the place where Michelle and Ilisya had been seconds before. They had all known Ilisya wasn't up to anything good, and now....She was vaguely aware of something terrible that had just happened, but her mind would not register it.
The other girls looked confused as she felt, as if they couldn't believe what they knew was true. Rynita had a sudden urge to attempt to get all the Triforce pieces so they could try and regain Michelle to this Realm, but then she remembered that Ilisya had them.
The situation seemed relatively hopeless. Chrystie and Katrina stared at their surroundings, seemingly trying to think of anything to do other than sit their and wait for the realm to cave in on itself, which seemed like it would be happening because of the shaking of the walls and falling of debris from the ceiling.
"Is this what it comes down to...?" Aholya asked nobody in particular.
"I don't think so," murmured a detached voice that seemed to come from all around.
Suddenly, before the group of girls, two shadowy silhouettes that vaguely resembled Link and Zelda appeared.
The girls' eyes widened as they stared.
"We thought you were dead!" Katrina suddenly said.
"Since this Realm does not exist on any technical sense of Time, our essoins was able to find you," the shadowy Link said.
"And we have a last bit of strength that we can use to locate the Triforce parts, however little good it might do," Zelda continued.
"Then let's go," was Rynita's response.
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Ilisya opened her eyes from when they had been closed, smirking and casting a condescending glance at Michelle.
"They took the bait. Fools," she continued to smirk.
"What exactly did you do?" Michelle asked her.
Ilisya snorted lightly and turned away from Michelle in the darkness. "I used Zelda and Link....their souls anyway....To get your pals to help them perform the spell. Don't get me wrong, they really are the Princess and the fairy boy Hero, only when they do locate the Triforce parts, they won't be helping themselves, but me. And you too, Dyvonia, if you're willing to get the Triforce of Power for me, yet." She almost sneered that last part out.
Michelle stared past her in the darkness, crossing her arms. She obviously had not changed her mind.
"If you won't help me, girl..." Ilisya started, but then thought better of her statement. She smiled again, starting up her train of through in a different direction. "You know that they will die anyway. Perhaps if you help me I can let them live. For a while, anyway." She appeared instantaneously at Michelle's side.
Michelle simply looked at her before saying, "Stop trying to screw with my mind."
Ilisya simply laughed at that. It was a cackling sort of laugh that echoed in the darkness but then seemed to fall flat after a few mere seconds. The insane fire that had burning in the dark haired girl's eyes before she took them to this realm returned.
"They're finding it now. You won't have any choice, you know. He'll find you. The Creature. It's so obvious that you are partly a cause of all the problems that are now befalling Hyrule. I mean, your Mother did create the Triforce." She laughed again, and Michelle had an urge to slap her. "But being the demi-goddess you are, you can easily snatch that damn relic from him."
Michelle tried hard to follow the logic, but she was to annoyed with he person who had technically killed her at this point to really care what her warped mind was thinking.
Ilisya and Michelle were thrown apart as the darkness around them jerked. Michelle had a cold feeling in her gut, while Ilisya continued to smirk.
"Didn't think they would be so quick..." the sorceress mumbled, oddly happy.
Then, suddenly, Michelle found herself being jerked forward into a blinding light. She pressed at her temples with her hands, as it felt that her head was going to explode. She felt suddenly that Ilisya had moved away from her, though she was still somewhere nearby. What she hadn't been expecting, though, what what she saw when she looked up.
She was face to face with the final form of Ganon.
Stepping back immedietly, she turned on her heel and started to run. She didn't even think about it. She just ran.
On her part, she was rather happy when she ran nose first into Rynita.
"Eeeeek!!" she squeaked when she was thrown backwards onto the 'floor.' She looked up and saw Rynita standing there, and looked back to see that everyone else was standing several meters behind her.
"Wha...?" she asked, being most confused.
Rynita, however, looked above and past Michelle, to the Creatre that was slowly approaching. There was an odd steel tint in her eyes, and she was holding a swords that was oddly familiar.
"We get the Triforece, we can leave," Rynita said to Michelle without even looking at her. But then she did look down, and Michelle saw a glimpse of the girl in her through her narrowed eyes. She added, with a slight amount of irony, "You're the daughter of a Goddess. I get to pay Hero."
Michelle found that she couldn't stop herself from smiling.