Chapter 1 Yorda explains all...
Ico and Yorda sat on the shore for hours just trying to decide on what they should do next. The evil queen was dead and all the souls were free but on thing troubled Ico.
"Yorda how did you escape, and why are you in this form?"
"Well, You see...you know that me and my mother in the castle were only spirits right? Well when I was brought to my mother my soul and body were separated, my mother only needed a new form to be reborn. I guess my body must have washed up here and when my soul no longer needed to stay it returned to my body."
"Wow so that whole time it was only your spirit?" Ico said has he scanned the beach for any sign of civilization.
"Yes, That is the reason I could not protect myself" Yorda stood up and wiped the sand off of her tattered dress.
"We better get going, we have to find shelter before night." Ico said picking up a stick and heading into the woods, Yorda quickly followed. They walked and walked as the night slowly dimmed and the darkness engulfed them.
"Ico, I am tired I don't think I can walk anymore," Yorda said sitting down on a rock.
"Do you want to make camp?" Ico sat down next to her but before he could even start to make some what of a bed out of leaves she had laid her head on his shoulder and was fast asleep.
"Great now what am I suppose to do," Ico said trying to get into some comfortable position without waking Yorda up. The morning came and Yorda awoke to drops of dew falling on her face. She looked over at Ico who was still snoring away in some weird position.
"Wow some people can sleep anywhere," She thought. She quietly got up. "Ack I feel so dirty" she sighed.
Ico awoke with a gasp he looked around only to find the Yorda had wandered off.
"Oh no, not again" he exclaimed
"When is that girl going to realize that it is to dangerous to go out on her own" He wandered through the forest trying to pick up any sort of clue to where she could have gone. He walked and walked until he heard the sound of a small waterfall.
"Good I am so thirsty" He thought. He followed the sound until he came to the waterfall; it was much smaller then he had first thought. He bent down to drink of the river when her was startled by a scream. He looked up only to see a blur of white running towards the trees.
"What the hell?" he thought. Ico stood up and walked cautiously toward the trees.
"What do you think you are doing you pervert!" Yorda exclaimed slapping him much harder then he thought she was capable of.
"I...I.I was not spying it is just that, well when I awoke you were gone so I decided to look for you because you could be in danger..." Ico broke off noticing that Yorda was still pissed.
"I didn't see anything I swear, I only wanted a drink of water I had no idea you were....well....he he" Ico said trying not to blush and laugh at the same time.
"Very well I forgive you" Yorda said in a placid tone.
"But there was nothing to forgive" Ico argued Yorda gave him a look of death and that is when Ico learned a very important rule, you don't argue with a woman when she forgives you.
"Shall we be off" Ico said trying to win her back.
"I guess where are we going anyway?" Yorda asked grabbing Icos hand.
"Well I really don't know but we have to end up somewhere right?" Ico said pushing a tree branch away. They walked in silence until they reached a clearing. In the middle of he clearing there was a small shrine. As they approached the shrine began to glow and blue lightning shot out of it and hit Yorda.
"And Idle shrine in the middle of a forest" Ico thought as he watched the light get brighter and brighter. After the light dimmed there was a ghost of a man floating above the shrine.
"My dear Yorda" the man said. "It has been ten years since we last parted do you remember?"
Yorda looked at him "Father?" She said stepping closer.
"Yes Yorda I am so glad you made it out of the castle" He said.
"What has happened father I don't remember a thing before my soul and body were separated."
"You don't remember the six years you spent with me in the village?" He asked.
"Well I can feel the memory in the back of my mind but it is hidden and I cannot remember the details." Yorda felt a tear run down her cheek.
"Father what has happened to you?" She asked afraid of what the truth might be.
"Your mother imprisoned me the day she took you away, The Queen had eaten all her soul away and she was no longer your mother, I tried to protect you, I am so sorry I failed." Yorda could feel the tears welling up inside her.
"Father what happened to make my mother...like that?"
"Your Mother was the best healer our village had, one day she found the queen laying almost dead along the road, the queen spoke flowery words and convinced your mother to take her back to her castle and heal her." A tear rolled out of his eye as he spoke. "Your mother left for many months when she returned she said that the queen is dead and she would take over, she also handed me you, she had been pregnant when she left. She told me to keep you safe and that she may not be able to stay herself, she told me not to trust her from this day forward." Yorda's fathers voice broke.
"Please Father tell me what is going on, where is the village?" Yorda asked persuading him on.
"Your mother attack the village it is in ruin only a few survived most were trapped like me, please Yorda save them you are the only one now who can free us let our souls rest." The light grew dim and her father started to fade.
"Goodbye my sweet, please save the rest it may be difficult the queen still lives" And with that her father was gone. Yorda fell to her knees
"Father...wait I cant do this alone" Yorda sobbed.
"Yorda, your not alone I will always be there for you we will do this together there is nothing to fear" Ico said bending down beside her.
Yorda looked up her face soaked and red with tears. "How can you be so sure we can do it there must be millions out there."
"Yorda said. Ico grabbed her hand "We can and we will Yorda I believe we can."