This story is going to be a mix of a lot of stuff. I know how it is going to end, but I need to figure out what happens in between. It will most likely be REALLY long when I'm done, because I'd get all paranoid if I didn't add all the stuff I wanted to add. So, enough of that.
April: DO WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO ANY MORE OF YOUR MINDLESS BABBLE!?
Me: IT'S NOT MINDLESS, YOU SUICIDAL MORON!!!
April: Shut up.
Me: Make me. Anyway, here is the chapter. This one isn't as weird as the last one. Sorry about that. :)
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"Honey, aren't you hungry?" a worried king of Hyrule asked his daughter at the breakfast table.
April though about this for a moment. She was hungry. She just was sick to her stomach sick of everything. She wanted to sleep, even though she had just woken up. Sleep didn't usually leave her feeling as tired as she was. She looked at him with an expression which said, "Are you a complete and total idiot, or do I have to tell you the answer to that question?"
"Can I be excused?" she asked, getting up. She was already half way out of the room when she got an affirmative answer.
April didn't know why she was going there, but she did anyway. As she stepped out into the midmorning sun, the tropical-like garden setting covered in a prism dew greeted her in the round courtyard. It was beautiful, however, April hardly noticed it. She couldn't think about anything but the night before. Malon had left early that morning. It left her almost alone.
*Suicide. You almost committed suicide,* her mind told her, over and over. It made her want to throw up. She flopped down onto the grass. It was wet, most likely going through her clothes, but she didn't care.
As soon as she closed her eyes, a vision disturbed her mid peace of mind. There were dark, thundering storm clouds. Only that, and then a silhouette. She saw a horse with two riders, and another, darker horse follow after it. She didn't even have to second guess herself about who they were. The first riders were Zelda, well, herself, and Impa riding away from the caste, and the other was Ganondorf following them. She wondered why she would be seeing this, all the while looking on at it from above somewhere. She realized she had been looking down, then looked to her side to see another silhouette come out of the shadows just as she looked up.
As it came into what little light there was, she saw what seemed to be an adult version of the Princess Zelda. She hadn't seen the end of the game to know for sure, but she somehow could tell that's who it was. What was the real kicker was that it spoke to her.
"April," she said, in a voice fitting all the regal beauty she possessed.
"What the hell do you want?" April asked, not feeling at all willing to talk to her.
"Aren't we cranky this morning?" she asked, with a small smile.
"Try waking up one morning and figuring out that your entire life is being taken away from you and you have to grow up as somebody else. Also, try adding three years onto your life, me knowing that I've already been ten years old and I'll never get to be me again. Then, tell me how gracious you feel."
Zelda lost all humor at this. "You don't know how lucky you were that Malon was there last night."
"Hm." April shrugged indifferently and looked away. "I don't see what I'm supposed to do now," she said.
"Do you still see this as just a game?" Zelda asked, almost sounding angry.
April looked back and considered this. Did she think this was still a game? Her brain was still having trouble adjusting to the fact that she wasn't still a hormonally driven teen, but her body had almost gotten used to it. She didn't really know the answer to that question. She had switched identities, but she was still herself in a way. How could any of this be real, is what her mind told her.
"Well, I can tell you right here, right now that this is as real as it gets," Zelda told her.
"So, what!? Now, you can read minds!?"
"There's an advantage to you being me, in a way."
"Well, that doesn't change the fact that I won't be able to do this. I can't," April said, looking away again.
Zelda walked over to her at this point. April shuddered internally at the intensity in the other girls stare. "You can, and you WILL do this, because destiny is certainly not just a game," she said, face to face with April.
April jumped, looking again at her supposed future self, as the image cracked, and whiteness surrounded everything.
Her eyes flew open after that little dream sequence. It must have lasted for longer than she thought it did, because she noticed the sun cast its light farther into the courtyard. It was strangely quiet, and not even the birds seemed to inhabit the trees just then. April looked up at the sky. The perfect, blue, cloudless sky. It was ridiculous, she thought. Why was everything else to calm and peaceful when she felt as if her emotions were going to fly right out of her and destroy whatever got in their way!?
She didn't have time to consider this as she heard people approaching her from the entrance to the courtyard.
".....don't care what you say, just find her!" a voice growled.
She knew that voice. She already hated it.
She decided she didn't very much feel like talking to who she knew it was, and she didn't feel like leaving. So, she crept behind a few small trees and looked through the branches. As she did, she saw a woman with a bronze complexion walk in with a tall man in black armor. Ganondorf.
Had April completely lost her sanity, she would have liked to kill him right then and right there. She would have liked to because she thought if maybe what happened in the game had ended, she would be able to go home. And with that came the realization that she wouldn't be able to go home for more than seven years if what she thought was true. At the moment, she wanted to think about anything but that, so she listened in on their conversation.
Ganon looked nervous about something, and he was obviously trying to hide it from the Gerudo woman accompanying him. April, however, could see clearly through his pretend calm. She always had been good at seeing right through people.
"Milord, we've got our girls at all the key points in Hyrule, she's nowhere to be found," the woman replied.
"Then you need to be looking harder," he muttered as he walked slightly ahead of her.
"I realize that this is of great importance to you..." she attempted.
"Oh, do you? If you knew that, then you'd have found her by now!" he hollered, turning back to her.
"But we've looked everywhere," the protested.
"She didn't just disappear! She's got to be somewhere, and you are going to find her! You looked everywhere you said?"
"Yes," she said, now seeming to become unsure of herself.
"What about the desert? The Spirit Temple?"
The Gerudo woman seemed to falter for a moment as she realized that nobody had thought of that. It was at this point that April realized they must've been talking about Nabooru. "Well, the desert.....no one can cross it alone, and it would be pointless to....."
She was silenced as Ganon backhanded her across the face. "You idiot! I'm surrounded by incompetence!" he yelled.
April's eyes popped open at this. She was never someone who would let another person be picked on, or worse. That was NOT the way you treated a woman.
Before she realized what she was doing, April stood up from her hiding place and called to him, "Hey, you! Leave her alone! Do you realize how much bigger that her you are!?" Only after she had said it did she seem to see what she was saying, and she immediately felt like hiding again when he turned to face her. Her mouth had been slightly hanging open, but she snapped it shut when he started to walk toward her. She wanted to run away at this point, or at least back down when he was standing over her, but she kept her composure.
"What are you doing here, Princess?" he asked in a growl.
April glared defiantly at him, with a lot more courage than she felt, and replied, "There's no need for formalities, Ganon. I know perfectly well what you're up to. And, I'd suggest you make sure there's nobody listening in on your conversations about 'important' things such as your problems with Nabooru before you go giving away all of your secrets." She'd said this all in one breath, and she waited for his response, which was surprise. It looked like he would have stepped back from her when his eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to say something.
He closed it before telling her, "You may think you know a lot, girl. But you and I both know, that is if you really do know, that no pesky little princess will be able to stop it. Nobody can." He seemed triumphant as he turned back to his companion and pulled her up to her feet.
After they were out of hearing range, April said, "That's where you're wrong. That's where my friend Link comes in." She smiled to herself. Maybe being stuck here wouldn't be so bad after all...
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***Somebody tell me to stop being weird.
April: STOP BEING WEIRD!!!
Me: SHUT THE FREAK UP!!!!!
Oh, well. I'm trying to get past all this heavy stuff, don't worry. Next chapter will be less, um, depressing? I don't know if you'd call if depressing, whatever the heck.....
This chapter was REALLY short. I did that on purpose because I know if I had done all the events I was gonna do, this chapter would have been longer that the last chapter, which was long, too. I needed just this small chapter to get some things across. Hey, I needed to get April at least semi un-depressed!
April: HEY!!!!!
Pay no attention to that nut behind the curtain.
April: I RESENT that statement!!!!!!
Oh, go jump off a building. Oh, wait........you did already........
April: SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'll stop being a freak! For now......hehee.
So, hasta la bye-bye, nice people who will review this story or else!
~SailorZelda