Aaaaaaaaaalrighty, then! (Can you guess where I got that from?) It's time for chapter two. I am REALLY hoping that you guys will enjoy this chapter. I think it's pretty good. BUT, I haven't gotten very many reviews yet..... *starts to go find some weapons to threaten the readers with.*
April: Hey! Come back here, you freak! You have to start the story! And, NO, absolutely NONONONO threatening the readers! They won't review if you do that, you pooch! (That is my word;) Don't ask me where I got it from.)
Me: Why !? They already know I'm crazy!!! Okay, I'll shut up. Hey, April, GET BACK IN THAT STORY! HOW DID YOU GET OUT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!??
April: It's your story, moron!
Me: Hmmm......You prove a good point, there.........
Okay, enough of this. Just felt like putting random little bull into my story because I'm all hyped up on sugar, and it's, like, really late. SOOOOOO, here ya go! The second chapter!!
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April stirred in her sleep, and it seemed as though she was trying to throw every blanket down on the floor possible while in her unconscious state. Her feverish slumber was plagued by disturbing dreams of angry storm clouds, a giant field, a man in black armor........Why did this all seem so familiar!? The part of her brain still controlled by her asked.
Her restless night would now be cut short by an early morning.
"Princess!" someone called for April.
"Shut up, Maggie. You're not the queen..." April mumbled, still half asleep.
"What did you say? Zelda, we don't have time for this. You have to get up," that voice said again.
"Maggie, how many times have I told you not to call me that? I'll admit that I'm obsessed with that game, but, geez! It's summer! Can't you just let me SLEEP!" she said, putting the pillow over her head.
"Who on Din's good earth is Maggie!?" the voice asked.
April was startled at this comment. Her sister had only every played the game a couple times. She wouldn't know about the three Goddesses of Hyrule from the game: Din, Farore, and Nayru. Why was she denying she was Maggie, anyway? April tried to find an answer for these questions, but all the found was someone yanking the comforter off her. She cringed at the new intrusion of cold morning air, and pulled the pillow slowly off her head to look at her annoying sibling.
When her eyes were open to her surroundings, she did not, however, see what she expected to see. She first greeted the headboard of an unfamiliar canopy bed. It sported many elegant carvings, and had an all too familiar symbol, the Triforce, on it. "What the hell......?" she asked out loud. She further looked around to see, instead of a desk, two dressers, and her walk in closet, she saw a round room which held a low vanity table of a rich red, many tall bookshelves, a few chests, a large window which lead to a balcony, and a closet that could most likely hold her room. "Good God!" she shouted as she bolted up out of the bed.
"Goddesses, Zelda, you act more like a blonde every day!" the voice shouted while throwing some cloth material at her, while April was still turned around. "Get dressed! We've got to get going!"
"I'm not a blonde, you fruit!" April shouted as she grabbed some of her unruly and sleep tangled hair. It was longer than it was, she noticed while pulling it, and a golden yellow. "HOLY CRAP! I'M A BLONDE!!" she shouted in very shocked surprise.
"You've only been for the last ten years, Highness," that same voice, exasperated, and sickeningly patient. "Can you please get dressed now?"
"Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God...." April was totally oblivious to anything and everything the voice was saying. She was just in a psycho daze, wondering if she was still dreaming. 'That's it. I'm dreaming. Yeah, I can't possibly be going crazy, not now....." she thought as she quickly rocked herself back and forth.
"Zelda!" the voice, who April still had not seen, snapped. The person possessing the voice grabbed the now-blonde April by the shoulders and turned her to face it. "Are you having those nightmares again?" it asked her worriedly.
At first, April didn't see who she was now staring face to face with. She just stupidly stuttered, "N-n-ni-nightmares!? That's it! Th-this is a-a nightmare!" She looked around wildly and frantically, smiling like a maniac. (A/N: Of course, she is a maniac, so anytime she smiled would be smiling like a maniac. Hehehehehe.....
April: HEY! That was cold, you b****!
Me: Don't call me that!! You owe your existence to ME, so SHUT UP OR PAY THE CONSEQUENCES!!
April: What did you do with those weapons?
Me: GRRRRRRR! I'm gonna delete you if you aren't quiet!
April: *Silence*............)
"Zelda, please don't be going crazy on me! I need to get you to come down. Be ready in ten minutes. I'll come up to get you when it's time," the new person said.
'What the heck. I'll just play along, if this is a stupid, freaking nightmare,' she thought.
"Uh..all right. I'll be done when you come back," she said, still not paying attention.
The new figure left her to attend to her clothes and walked out the rather large double doors. April looked back at the clothes that had been thrown onto the deep purple canopy bed. She turned around to put them on, seeing no other option, except to wake herself up. But, since she rarely had dreams where she could control herself, she decided it would be neat to just play along for a while.
She grabbed some of them, and started to attempt at putting them on. In the gray, early morning light, she could see that they were definitely not twenty-first century. In fact, they looked almost medieval. As she slipped on the long, white skirt and light blue, long-sleeved top, she noticed that these clothes had many layers. After these two things, there was a purple shirt-like thing that had a long little rectangle banner hanging down in the front ending in a point. It had a red eagle on it, and the......Triforce? She pondered this as she put on a gold belt, and nice pair of shoes, and a Egyptian style, hat-like head covering that had a long, hanging down section in the back. The whole thing covered up all her hair except for two small portions right above her ears. She also found among these two gold, band like bracelets and a gold necklace with a gold crest at the end, which had a red jewel in it. It, too, looked very familiar. As she put these on, the wondered, 'What's up with the Triforce!? That thing only exists in the Zelda game......'
"ZELDA! Oh, geez, I'm Zelda!!" she shouted, finally realizing this. She looked in a full sized mirror on the wall. She had previously been a thirteen year old brunet living in Organ, now she was the ten year old, blonde Princess of Hyrule!
"COOOOL!" she shouted. She had always admired the character of Zelda, and now she actually WAS her. "It's kinda a shame that it's a dream, though......" she thought out loud. "Oh, and that lady just a minute ago must've been......"
"Impa!" she stated when the young Sheikah woman came back into her room. More correctly, Princess Zelda's room.
"So, I see you're not going crazy on me," she gave a half smile to the young Princess. "Now, let's hurry up! Your father is waiting for you," she beckoned April to follow her.
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April walked, mouth agape, down the large and ornate halls of what seemed to be Hyrule Castle. When she had seen it in the game for the first time, she had wondered what it would be like to walk inside of it. There was a maze of twisted passages, secret passages, and doors leading off to many other parts of the Castle. There were large, marble columns holding up the ceiling in some places and stone walls that were so high in some places, it was hard to see the top from the lack of lighting. The early gray light and light from some torches and assorted candles made it seem very old and intriguing, to her at least. Tapestries of some familiar and not so familiar figures adorned the walls, and decorations like them were all over the place. She continued to follow the Sheikah through all these hallways.
'If I'm Zelda, I wonder what part of the game I'm in? I wonder, has she, or rather, I, met Link yet?' she thought to herself. 'This is going to be cool, even if it is only a dream........'
"Uh, hey, Impa?" April asked.
"Yes?"
"Why does the King, er, my father want to talk to me right now? What's going on today?" she asked.
"Don't you remember? Today is when we will finally make official the peace treaty with the Gerudo King. Your father wanted you to be present when this happens."
"Gerudo King? Oh, you mean that slime bucket, Ganondorf!?" she said quietly, but loud enough for Impa to pick it up with her sharp hearing.
"I know you've said that you've had bad feelings about this treaty, but, Zelda, will you just give it a chance? Nothing has come true from your vision yet, has it?" the Sheikah asked her.
"Not YET," she answered. "You just wait and see......" she told her.
"Right, Zelda," Impa said, rolling her eyes.
They walked a small ways further, and then reached the throne room. April figured that it was only fitting for the room to be so large, ornate, and filled with people. 'Not only people,' she realized. There were Hylians, Gorons, the occasional Zora, even some Gerudo, in the large room. As she entered the large double doors, many people acknowledged her presence and made small bows or curtsies to the young Princess. April, wanting to act like a princess, and not knowing exactly what to do, nodded her head and continued to walk forward.
April immediately saw the throne, it was extremely hard to miss. And situated on it, April supposed, was the King of Hyrule. He seemed to be a young man, he looked like a good person, too. April wondered if she should go over to him, and her wondering was immediately confirmed as the king first noticed the princess, then motioned for her to come up.
'I hope he doesn't ask me something about Zelda's life...' April thought. 'I wouldn't want to make a fool out of myself, or, really, HER. Oh, scary. I just had a thought about, like, what if Zelda and I switched places, like in 'Freaky Friday'.' April pictured Zelda, looking like April, at her school or something. "SCARY!" she said out loud, albeit quietly.
"Zelda!" the King said, merrily, as she walked up to him.
"Um, hi," she said, not really knowing what else to say.
"Quite a turn out, huh? Even your little friend, Princess Ruto, came. She's over there, if you wanted to see her." The King motioned over to a far side of the room, where April saw a small Zora, Ruto, most likely, holding on to the hand of another Zora.
'How cute,' she thought. 'Ruto isn't as scary as she is in the game.' Her thoughts were interrupted by something in her head which seemed to be the tiniest flash of a vision. She saw a bright flash of green and a garden-like courtyard for a millisecond in her mind's eye. 'What the......?' she thought.
"Why so quiet, Zel?" the King asked her, snapping her back from the shock of the intruding vision. "You usually have a lot more to say."
"Oh, I just, and.....well........um.....Can I go outside for a minute?" she asked.
"But you'll miss the guest of honor!" he told her.
'As if I'd want to see HIM,' she thought, changing the expression on her face for a brief second to disgust. Before anyone noticed, April said, " I promise I'll be back before anything happens......" she almost whined.
"Well, all right. Hurry up, though, okay?"
"'M," she nodded, and turned to find the only person who could help her in this situation. Impa.
She was not difficult to find among the crowd of people. April noticed that there weren't any other Sheikahs in the room, and wondered why that was. Whatever the reason, April found Impa right away.
"Impa!" she called to her from a ways across the room. Impa acknowledged her, but continued with her conversation for a short while. April, not wanting to act unlike Zelda would have, just waited for a moment.
When Impa was finally done talking to some guests, she asked the Princess, "What did you need, Zelda?"
"Oh. Well, I kinda need to go outside for a minute. I need to go to the...um....." Impa gave her an odd stare while she tried to finish her sentence. "Oh, yeah! The castle courtyard. You know, the round one that has a window into this room?"
"Yes, but why would you want to go there, when this meeting is about to start?"
"I told my dad that I would be back before anything important happened. I have two reasons. You know that vision I've been having?" Impa nodded. "Well, I think it's starting to come true." She thought of her tiny vision a few minutes ago. It was most certainly telling her that she would meet Link very soon. 'I am SO glad I pay attention when I play this game...' she thought.
"And, your other reason?"
"My backup reason, in case you don't agree with me: I'm the Princess of Hyrule and I can do whatever the heck I want! I need to go outside, PLEASE!" April noticed a few people around her staring at her, so she decided to shut up.
"I was going to agree with your first reason. I just wanted to see what dumb excuse you came up with, otherwise," Impa laughed.
"Grrr..." April clenched her teeth. "You need to come with me, Impa."
"Why?"
"Just...trust me on this one, okay?" she motioned for Impa to show her to the courtyard.
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Impa had lead April down many corridors similar to the ones she had walked down earlier this morning. She saw a little bit more of the amazing castle, and she loved every inch of it. When she finally did reach the corridor that lead to the courtyard, Impa stopped walking.
"Zel, I'm going to stay back here. I'll know when you need me," Impa said, with more than a hint of hidden knowledge.
"Okay, but, are you sure?"
"Positive," Impa nodded.
"Only fools are positive," April contradicted.
"Are you sure?" Impa shot back.
"I'm positive. HEY! I fell for it. That wasn't fair!!" she shouted. (A/N: I got that from the movie, 'Fern Gully', which I don't own either. DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME!)
"Well, anyway, like I said, I'll know when you need me." With that, Impa walked away from the Princess.
'She wasn't that annoying in the game...' April thought as she walked into the bright sunlight of the courtyard. She looked at her new surroundings, and saw that the courtyard here was much different than in the game. It was round, open to the sky at the top, had grass and flowers and a window, but that was where the similarities stopped. It was MUCH larger than in the game. There were many type of flowers and exotic plants, most of which April had never seen before. The door with which she entered the yard was another difference. There weren't any doors in the game. She saw a tall arch that most likely lead to other parts of different courtyards, and most likely where Link would enter from. She saw a tiny stream which curled around the walls of the yard, and lead out through some small grates to who knew where. April noticed the window, which was large and ornate, with colored glass at the top. It was just thin enough for her to see into the throne room where she had been, but just thick enough to keep her from being seen. She also noticed that there was no little cement stand thing under the window that the Zelda in the game had been standing on. There was a brick sidewalk, but nothing like that stand.
April noticed that there was a small tree, most likely large enough for her to sit in, just to the left of the window. Something told her to get comfortable, she would be watching most of the treaty making from outside of the window. Since there was no little stand or a bench for her to sit on, she walked up, and sat in a low branch of the tree, that was oddly just perfect for her to sit and see in the window. She got comfortable and looked into the window.
Right when she looked in the window, she saw the large double doors inside the throne room open. A man, tall, dark, redhead, and scary, at that, entered. "God, it's Ganondorf. I can feel from out here," she said out loud. She could feel, right down to the pit of her stomach, that he was up to no good. "Strange, for a dream, this feels so real." She watched him walk down the parted crowd of people, and walk up to the King. The King looked happy, like 'Finally, we can settle this,' or something. April knew otherwise.
"Excuse me, miss?" A voice from behind her startled April a lot. She whirled around in the tree to see who had caused the voice, although she had a pretty good idea who it was.......
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MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!! I left it RIGHT HERE JUST TO BE EVIL!!! AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
April: *gasp* SailorZelda, you b****! Why did you leave it here!!?
Me: *goes silent and scary. April cringes* Didn't I tell you to be quiet and not ever call me that again!? ::Reaches for the 'Delete' button.::
April: AAAAAHHHHHHHH!! NONONONONONONONONO!! Please!! I beg you forgiveness!! Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: OKAY!! ::Gets away from the 'Delete' button, and gives April a big hug::
April: You're......squishing ..........me!!
Me: Opps!! Anyways, people, I leave you here. The next chapter shouldn't take too long to put up, I hope. No, I don't think it will. And, PLEASE REVIEW! Don't make me throw a fit like April!! Even if you already have reviewed, I appreciate LOTS of comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay!! Hasta luego, amigos!!