Well, I'm glad that at least one person who reads this also reads MT and can relate. If not, most of you should! Oh, how I want book 2 to come out! Well, Fred/Piro's deadline is Monday, so... Anyway, I think the goddesses will see Kimiko in this chapter, then each group will get their own chapter (or maybe two to a chapter. We'll see how it goes) in this order: Saria/Fado, Zelda/Tael, Miku/Ruto, then Nabooru/You-Don't-Know-Who-(but I do, so please no more name suggestions) last. The last couple might come the next day. Maybe. Oh, and if you must make suggestions for Y-D-K-W's name, please note that all of the current Links' names have four letters and are related to the series. As is the name I already have picked out. Well, on with it!
Note: This is an interesting POV to write in!
Note2: I never gave a good description of the goddesses. Just think of them as looking just like the Oracles of Ages, Seasons, and Secrets (if you've never seen the official art for the three, go to www.zeldalegends.net), except Farore has short, child Saria-ish (remember, Saria's hair got longer when she grew up) hair and dresses differently. Oh, and Nayru's hair doesn't stick up in front.
Note3: This chapter starts just before the last one ends.
Father of Time
Chapter 11
Day Two Hundred Two: Late Morning
The Goddesses: Nayru's POV
Lon Lon Ranch
My sisters and I were on our way to see little Kimiko, the one who hides so much power that not even she knew about. We were walking to the house on Lon Lon Ranch, when we ran into Link's blue clad brother. "Hi, Miku," I said. It was funny to see the look on his face when a total stranger spoke his name. Besides, there's no way he could have not felt our power.
"How did you know my name? Do I know you?" Who doesn't know us? Well, okay. I'll admit that we haven't spoken to many mortals since we created Hyrule, but people still pray to us. That's sorta like knowing us...
"Well, everyone knows of us. And you are one of the only two who haven't met us out of the fifteen that are connected through Link."
"You haven't answered my first question yet." Like Farore told Link, some Hylians have outsmarted us. I had to resist the urge to stick out my tongue at him, but we still hadn't explained to him that we aren't what everyone thinks we are. "And who is the other?"
"The other is Kimiko. I'm Nayru. These are my sisters, Din and Farore." Well, that made his jaw drop.
"You can't possibly be..."
"The golden goddesses? Yup. I guess Link didn't tell you about his conversation with Farore. I know you need to get back to Lake Hylia, so we'll explain it to you later. Is Kimiko as cute as she's supposed to be?"
"Wouldn't you know that, being the goddess of wisdom?" It annoys me sometimes that people seem to think that just because I'm the goddess of wisdom, I know everything. Let me tell you, nobody knows everything.
"Some things you have to see for yourself. Well, see ya later, Miku!" I figured I'd save him a walk, so I sent him to his front door.
"Are you finished, sis?" Din always was impatient.
"Yeah. Come on." We knocked on the door. When Link opened it and saw Farore, it wasn't too hard for him to figure out who me and Din were. He almost jumped out of his skin. It would take him a while to get used to us, but he would eventually.
"Umm... Hi. What's up?"
"Not much. There is something that we need to talk to you about, but we want to see Kimiko first!" He seemed to ease up when Farore started talking to him.
"All right. She just woke up. It's in here." He showed us to Kimiko's room. We looked at her and knew instantly that everything had happened just as we thought. I know that there were no mortals who could see it, but the three of us could see her power in those clear, blue eyes.
"Link, would you give this to Kimiko when she's sixteen?" I handed him one of those infamous gold letters from me and my sisters. Link jumped when he saw it, which is understandable, considering some of the things we told him in those letters. I mean, we told him that Malon loved him, that he had created an unstable universe, that Termina's temples were cursed again, that time travel was possible in Hyrule without using the Master Sword, and that he would have to stop searching for his brother!
"All right. But why don't you want to give it to her yourself?"
"Well, we really don't want to let her know at too young an age that we're the golden goddesses. I mean, it's hard even for you to accept that you're friends with the most powerful beings in known existence, and you're almost twenty! Imagine what it would be like for a small child. But there is something I'll give her now." I took out a small gold bracelet with a Triforce charm hanging from it. "Wear this always, little Kimiko. As you grow, it will grow to fit you."
"Nayru? Can I ask you something?"
"Sure, Link. What is it?"
"Why don't you want to tell us why Kimiko is so important?"
"I don't want to change anything. She has to be raised like a normal girl. Until she is sixteen. I will tell you these two things, though. First, it has to do with you and Malon holding my sisters' parts of the Triforce. Second, she will stop aging when she turns sixteen. Don't worry about it. Nothing bad will happen to her. Only good."
"All right."
"Nayru? We have to be going, now, don't we?" Farore has always been the one who watches the clock.
"Yeah. Din? You coming?"
"Uh-huh. Let's go."
"Bye, Link, Malon, little Kimiko. We'll come visit again soon." Thinking back, before this, we had to keep up false personalities for Link. Not only when we talked to Link and the others, but when we were talking about anything that had to do with him. Until then, Link had made our lives strange. Now, he was making them normal.
Just before we left the realm of Hyrule, I dropped a man on the bridge over the canyon outside Gerudo Valley, but I'm sure you'll hear about him from someone else soon enough. My sisters and I departed for that place beyond the Sacred Realm, where time passes differently. While you're there, the seconds pass more slowly, and the years pass more quickly. Everyone down in Hyrule seemed to move like turtles, but it had been only fifteen years since we created it. Amazing that we could create a place so wonderful when we were only five years old, but at the same time, that might be the explanation. Complex, huh? That's why I envy the Hyrulians sometimes...
How'd you like that? Writing from Nayru's perspective was probably the strangest thing I've ever done with this fic, unless you count that time when I switched to the romance genre in the first place. But to all of you, this is one of the strangest. I think. I don't know, I'm not you, so I can't say. Well, I must continue with this, and I'm not in an 'author's note' kind of mood right now. Later!
Note: This is an interesting POV to write in!
Note2: I never gave a good description of the goddesses. Just think of them as looking just like the Oracles of Ages, Seasons, and Secrets (if you've never seen the official art for the three, go to www.zeldalegends.net), except Farore has short, child Saria-ish (remember, Saria's hair got longer when she grew up) hair and dresses differently. Oh, and Nayru's hair doesn't stick up in front.
Note3: This chapter starts just before the last one ends.
Father of Time
Chapter 11
Day Two Hundred Two: Late Morning
The Goddesses: Nayru's POV
Lon Lon Ranch
My sisters and I were on our way to see little Kimiko, the one who hides so much power that not even she knew about. We were walking to the house on Lon Lon Ranch, when we ran into Link's blue clad brother. "Hi, Miku," I said. It was funny to see the look on his face when a total stranger spoke his name. Besides, there's no way he could have not felt our power.
"How did you know my name? Do I know you?" Who doesn't know us? Well, okay. I'll admit that we haven't spoken to many mortals since we created Hyrule, but people still pray to us. That's sorta like knowing us...
"Well, everyone knows of us. And you are one of the only two who haven't met us out of the fifteen that are connected through Link."
"You haven't answered my first question yet." Like Farore told Link, some Hylians have outsmarted us. I had to resist the urge to stick out my tongue at him, but we still hadn't explained to him that we aren't what everyone thinks we are. "And who is the other?"
"The other is Kimiko. I'm Nayru. These are my sisters, Din and Farore." Well, that made his jaw drop.
"You can't possibly be..."
"The golden goddesses? Yup. I guess Link didn't tell you about his conversation with Farore. I know you need to get back to Lake Hylia, so we'll explain it to you later. Is Kimiko as cute as she's supposed to be?"
"Wouldn't you know that, being the goddess of wisdom?" It annoys me sometimes that people seem to think that just because I'm the goddess of wisdom, I know everything. Let me tell you, nobody knows everything.
"Some things you have to see for yourself. Well, see ya later, Miku!" I figured I'd save him a walk, so I sent him to his front door.
"Are you finished, sis?" Din always was impatient.
"Yeah. Come on." We knocked on the door. When Link opened it and saw Farore, it wasn't too hard for him to figure out who me and Din were. He almost jumped out of his skin. It would take him a while to get used to us, but he would eventually.
"Umm... Hi. What's up?"
"Not much. There is something that we need to talk to you about, but we want to see Kimiko first!" He seemed to ease up when Farore started talking to him.
"All right. She just woke up. It's in here." He showed us to Kimiko's room. We looked at her and knew instantly that everything had happened just as we thought. I know that there were no mortals who could see it, but the three of us could see her power in those clear, blue eyes.
"Link, would you give this to Kimiko when she's sixteen?" I handed him one of those infamous gold letters from me and my sisters. Link jumped when he saw it, which is understandable, considering some of the things we told him in those letters. I mean, we told him that Malon loved him, that he had created an unstable universe, that Termina's temples were cursed again, that time travel was possible in Hyrule without using the Master Sword, and that he would have to stop searching for his brother!
"All right. But why don't you want to give it to her yourself?"
"Well, we really don't want to let her know at too young an age that we're the golden goddesses. I mean, it's hard even for you to accept that you're friends with the most powerful beings in known existence, and you're almost twenty! Imagine what it would be like for a small child. But there is something I'll give her now." I took out a small gold bracelet with a Triforce charm hanging from it. "Wear this always, little Kimiko. As you grow, it will grow to fit you."
"Nayru? Can I ask you something?"
"Sure, Link. What is it?"
"Why don't you want to tell us why Kimiko is so important?"
"I don't want to change anything. She has to be raised like a normal girl. Until she is sixteen. I will tell you these two things, though. First, it has to do with you and Malon holding my sisters' parts of the Triforce. Second, she will stop aging when she turns sixteen. Don't worry about it. Nothing bad will happen to her. Only good."
"All right."
"Nayru? We have to be going, now, don't we?" Farore has always been the one who watches the clock.
"Yeah. Din? You coming?"
"Uh-huh. Let's go."
"Bye, Link, Malon, little Kimiko. We'll come visit again soon." Thinking back, before this, we had to keep up false personalities for Link. Not only when we talked to Link and the others, but when we were talking about anything that had to do with him. Until then, Link had made our lives strange. Now, he was making them normal.
Just before we left the realm of Hyrule, I dropped a man on the bridge over the canyon outside Gerudo Valley, but I'm sure you'll hear about him from someone else soon enough. My sisters and I departed for that place beyond the Sacred Realm, where time passes differently. While you're there, the seconds pass more slowly, and the years pass more quickly. Everyone down in Hyrule seemed to move like turtles, but it had been only fifteen years since we created it. Amazing that we could create a place so wonderful when we were only five years old, but at the same time, that might be the explanation. Complex, huh? That's why I envy the Hyrulians sometimes...
How'd you like that? Writing from Nayru's perspective was probably the strangest thing I've ever done with this fic, unless you count that time when I switched to the romance genre in the first place. But to all of you, this is one of the strangest. I think. I don't know, I'm not you, so I can't say. Well, I must continue with this, and I'm not in an 'author's note' kind of mood right now. Later!