April: UNLESS YOU PULL THE CORK OFF THIS BOTTLE, YOU DAMN, STUPID PERSON!!
SailorZelda: Oh, can't you think of a better insult than that!? Moron.
Anyways........Yay! People liked my last chapter. I'm happy, I liked it, too!
This note is for Gon: Hey, you know I was messing around with Ruto. I seriously have nothing against her, the only thing I made (or tried to make ^~^) annoying on her was dancing. I promise when she appears in the future of my story (which she will), I will be nicer to her! Gomen!
Enough babble! Let's see a chapter!
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April's hair, dress, and skin were soaking wet, a fact which she hadn't fully realized until this moment. When she and Impa had entered the stable of Lon Lon Ranch, April sighed and started to breath rapidly. The events of the night had started to catch up with her.
"Well....." she began, quite out of breath, "....at least......we're...safe for now." She sighed, again.
"For now," Impa said, a little bit more calm than April had been. "You thought pretty quickly back there. And another thing, how did you know we needed to go to the library?"
"Um," April thought. In all her frantic thinking, she reasoned that it wouldn't hurt to tell her about the old lady in the library. The only thing she was worried about was telling her that she wasn't actually Zelda; that for all she knew, the real Zelda could be playing N64, HER N64...trying to win one player mode on Super Smash Bros. Not likely, she thought, but the fact remains that I am not the same person I was a week and a half ago.
She decided that she would tell her only the story of the library and the lady she'd meet there. "Well, you know the day that Malon was at the castle?" she asked. Impa nodded. "Hm, before she came into the castle, that morning, I went into the library. When I was there, I found a book, it was called..." She faltered. 'Should I tell her the real title? she wondered. It would be pretty weird. She knew she wanted to look at the book herself before she showed it to anyone else.
".....The Legend," April finished evasively. "Anyway, I pulled it out because....I dunno, because it looked cool."
"Cool?" Impa asked with one eyebrow raised.
April mentally kicked herself, and said, . "Interesting. When I pulled it out, I heard this sound, and found out that it had opened up this wall. It opened more after I touched it. I heard this person behind me, and I turned around. It was this little old lady. She had silvery hair up in a bun, she was kinda short, she also had......" She was going to say an Irish accent, but decided quickly against it. "...odd shaped eyes." True enough, she thought. "And a different sort of accent."
It was here that April noticed something like recognition somewhere in the expression Impa wore.
"Anyway, she told me that I shouldn't go in the tunnel that the open wall created until the 'time was right'. I didn't know what she meant at that point. But, I figured it had something to do with my visions and Ganondorf, so I left it alone."
April paused and thought about it. It was becoming easier over these couple of days, for some reason, to talk with the seemingly intimidating Sheikah woman. She felt that, although a warrior and future Sage, as well as a protector of the Royal Family, somewhere under that mask she was a maternal sort of figure for the Zelda she knew.
She had come to find that the queen she had come to know was not "her" real mother. Zelda's mother had died during childbirth, but the king had apparently remarried a couple years later. Although it seemed to April that the queen tried her best to be a mother for the Princess, Impa had always been closer to her.
April added as an afterthought, "When I asked her who she was, she said I would find out soon. That everything would reveal itself. I looked at the corridor, but when I turned around again, she was gone. It's like she just disappeared."
"Monoka," Impa said in a whisper.
"What?" April asked.
Impa looked right at April. "The woman you met; her name is Monoka."
"Who is she?" April asked. It seemed obvious that Impa knew her from somewhere.
"She and I are two of the few remaining Sheikahs in the land of Hyrule."
"I thought you were the only one left. Well, except for..." April immediately shut her mouth. She was going to say except for Sheik, the odd character from The Ocarina of Time that kept popping up before every temple to help Link.
"Except for who?" Impa asked, curious.
'Ah, crap,' April thought. "Um, never mind. So, anyway, what's so special about Mona.....whatever?"
"The Sheikahs have a legend that tells of a Princess of Destiny, who, along with the Hero of Time and the Six Wise Ones, will seal the Dark Creature in the Realm of the Goddesses."
April's expression of confusion would have fit perfectly on an anime TV show. "Huh? What does that have to do with her, or me? I don't get even get that legend!"
(A/N: She's being dense because of the night's events. April: HEY!)
"Let me tell you the whole legend. Maybe you'll be able to make some connections." Impa began,
"The Legend tells of a child who would be destined to save this land,
Before it falls to destruction under the Dark Creature's hand,
A dream shared by two who would the Six unite,
A dream that would foresee and begin their timeless fight,
The Realm of the Goddesses does hold the Sacred Treasure,
Which would bring the end but for the heart that it would measure,
Dark clouds would obtain only one part of the Three,
And what was left would then be hidden by more than what you see,
The Hero held by Time, and the Princess by disguise,
Must succeed in the quest or it will bring the world's demise,
There are those that would help them both to find the right way,
Although the Princess will be the only one the hear what the Shadow would say,
A warrior of mystery arises and through the Creature's cry,
Would assist the child to overcome the Time that passes by,
In the end a great deal will rely on Destiny and Fate,
But if the two succeed, the world shall be spared from the Dark Realm's gate,
The journey will be filled with all the world's fear and doubt,
Though the two will conquer Time before their time is out."
She paused to catch her breath, and to look at the princess. Zelda, who had obviously been listening, was now searching through a green book that Impa did not recognize.
As soon as April had heard the words, "The Legend," at the beginning of the poem, she had retrieved the book from the floor and opened it. On the first page, like most books, it had the title written, but oddly no author. April looked on the first page of the book and found the exact poem which Impa had recited for her. She turned the book to show Impa.
"Look familiar?" she asked.
Impa took the book from her. "This is the book that you said opened the wall up, right?"
"Yeah. I hadn't looked in it until now. I don't know what's in the rest of it," she said as she took the book back, subconsciously hiding the title.
"Anyway, I think it's starting now," Impa said,
"What is?" April asked.
"The Legend. I think it's starting to become reality. That's why I didn't disbelieve the dreams you had been having were prophecy. The clouds and the boy from your dream reminded my a lot of this legend. So, I'd told Monoka about it."
"Who is she, anyway?" April asked, genuinely curious.
"She is a descendant of those who foretold this legend originally, one of the elders of our race. She has held this legend close since she was a little girl."
"Hm," April thought. "Is she a prophet or something?" After saying this, April wondered where it had come from.
Impa regarded the princess. "Her intuition and feelings on these matters surpass even yours, Zelda. Since you were born, she had felt that The Legend was not far away from coming true."
"So that's why she knew all that stuff," April thought out loud. "Will we be seeing her again?"
"I'm sure of it," Impa said. "I have a feeling that she knows how to hide you from Ganondorf, for however long we will need to."
"Oh," April said, at a loss. Things were starting to get serious.
"I think you should go to bed. We'll be useless until we can think properly," Impa said.
"Okay," she said as she sunk down to the floor. She had been tired the whole time tonight, but as she sat down on the floor, she felt like a brick falling down a hill. She was asleep seconds after her head touched the floor.
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After a moment, April became aware of the darkness that was consuming her subconscious. Everything was pure black. She tried to wave her hand in front of her face, but then realized that she didn't have a hand to wave in this form. She was just kind of...there.
*How weird,* she thought. She could hear her voice echoing eerily throughout the blackness when she thought. *Even weirder,* she said as she heard her thoughts again echo and disappear into the seemingly endless black.
Then suddenly, she wasn't in blackness. She noticed 'herself' drifting down from somewhere , and then she saw the interior of some ornately decorated building that was strangely familiar. She looked down and saw a black and white checkered pattern tile floor, and walls of some mirror like off white stone. Further inspection revealed an alter of some kind, and a stone door with an emblem that resembled the sun.
*The Temple of Time!* she realized. She saw that the alter lacked three certain stones, and the door was not open. So, this picture she was seeing was before the Spiritual Stones had been put there by Link. She wondered what she would be dreaming this for.
She suddenly realized that she wasn't dreaming it, she was seeing it. This was what was happening right now, in the present.
Her attention diverted to the door to the Temple as she heard footsteps approaching from behind her. She turned to the doorway of the Temple, and she saw a boy in green emerge from the dark entrance.
*Link. Hey, Link!* she attempted to call out, but then realized that she most likely couldn't. She wasn't even really there, so she quit.
But what surprised her was when he stopped short and looked up at the ceiling, not far from where she was.
*Wha!?* April heard what would have been the equivalent to a startled squeak come from her. So, maybe she was there, after all. *In some form, anyway,* she thought, somewhat shocked.
She finally realized that Link was frantically looking around the Temple for the source of this random voice.
*Damn it!* she thought. *What's going on!?* She then tried to stop thinking 'out loud'.
Link, still looking around, said, "Zelda?"
*Um,* she thought. *Yeah. How'd you know?*
"Let's see. There's this ominous voice talking coming from who knows where, and she sounds like you, and she's cursing for no apparent reason.....yeah. It's you. But, where...?" he asked.
*To be honest,* she thought. *...I haven't a clue. I'm asleep!*
"Okaaay."
*That's what I thought. I don't get it! So, but......maybe I'm NOT dreaming! What just happened?*
"I don't know. You and Impa rode off, and Ganondorf followed you..."
*We're safe, though,* she thought.
"Where are you guys?"
*Uh...Well, I don't think I can say. Even the walls have ears.*
"Oh."
*Hey, why'd you come in here?*
"I got the Ocarina from the moat, and I remembered that legend you told me. So, I thought it seemed like the best place to go. You want to protect the Triforce, right?"
She winced, because that really wouldn't be what happened. *Hm. I guess, you should open the Door...*
"The Door.....?"
If April could have rolled her eyes, she would have. "The stone door directly in front of you. Go over to that alter thingy."
He did so, and as he approached it, the three Spiritual Stones suddenly appeared right over the hollow spaces in the alter. They hovered with a great show of flashing lights of the respective colors before they finally settled down into the three spaces.
"Whoa," Link marveled.
*Ditto.* April stared at the scene.
"What now?"
*Play the Song of Time.*
"And that goes...how?"
*Crap! Um, I can't really......* Before April finished, she found herself standing on the floor of the Temple right behind Link. She looked down and found that she inhabited ghostly copy of Zelda's body. She looked at Link with a confused expression.
"Huh?"
"Um, no clue, not a clue," she answered, finding that she could talk. "Where's the Ocarina?"
"Here," he said, showing it to her.
"Gimme," she said as she grabbed it from him. She was hoping that she would be able to hold the thing without it dropping to the floor, and was glad when she found she could. "How weird," she said, as she saw her transparent hand holding the small blue instrument.
"Well?" Link asked her.
"Oh, sorry," she said.
'Hm,' she thought as she put it up to her mouth. 'I wonder how you...?' But before she could finish, she found herself fingering the holes on the small Ocarina in a fluid motion, as if she had done it all her life. Strange, considering that she'd never seen, let alone played, this instrument before in her life.
*Your life,* she heard a voice say in her mind. She glanced around only for a second, finding the voice familiar, but choosing to ignore it.
April, only stopping a moment to hesitate, began to play the Song of Time. The simple seventeen note song rang clear and true through the Temple, echoing for a moment after the last note was played.
Another moment, and April opened her eyes and looked up to find the stone door behind the alter opening, groaning with great drama. She smiled to herself.
Before she could say or do anything, she found herself looking down at the whole scene from somewhere above, again.
*GAH! HOW ANNOYING!!!* she thought, intending to voice her opinion.
"Where'd you go?" Link asked.
*No clue in all of hell!* April said, more than irritated.
Link laughed to himself as she picked up the Ocarina where it had, luckily, safely dropped onto the floor.
"So, I guess I go in there, huh?" Link asked her.
*Yeah. Um, I guess, this might be good-bye,* she thought.
"Yes."
April collected herself before thinking, *Well, go then, Hero! Face your destiny!*
He smiled before entering the dark hallway that stood where the door had been moments ago.
April watched until she couldn't see him anymore. She knew what would happen next. He would pull the Master Sword from the pedestal, and then Ganondorf would......
*Ganondorf!* April had completely forgot about him during this whole time. *Where is he? I didn't blindly give away any information, did I!?* she thought frantically.
No, no she didn't. She realized that everything was still okay with that situation. Well, sure. It wasn't okay that Ganonjerk was going to get the Triforce, but that was something different. She just didn't want him to have any more information that would give him an advantage over them. The only information she had revealed was that she was safe. But, he knew that already, didn't he?
April suddenly noticed her vision of the Temple blurring as she found herself floating in another surrounding. She saw what seemed to be sunset colored clouds as far as she could see. Then, she saw several red, green, and blue beams. She then saw, not yards in front of her, the Triforce. The legendary triangle that April knew all too well the horrors it would bring Hyrule. She reeled backwards, if spirits can, when she felt its immense force. It was overwhelming.
April suddenly felt a different force, not far from her. Her eyes darted around, searching for its origin. Then she saw him. Ganondorf approached the Triforce, floating as she was. She was not one to stand going unnoticed in a situation like this, and if there was any way she was going to keep him from getting the triangle, she would find it now.
So, she did the first thing that came to her mind. She called out to him. *Hey, moron!* She noticed she still voiced her words in thought.
Ganondorf turned around and saw her. So, apparently, she did have a form to those who saw her. His expression laughed at her. *What are you going to do, little princess?* he asked, in her mind.
*I-I-I.....* She was at a loss. She had no clue what she was going to do. In fact, she didn't even know what she was doing here.
She suddenly felt something. Deep down in the depths of her spirit, a power that bubbled up filling her like nothing she had felt before. She felt wisdom of the ages, and knowledge that she didn't even know existed. Her surprised expression went unnoticed by Ganondorf, as he turned away to claim his prize.
*I'm going to take it from you,* she found herself saying.
*What!?* he asked, turning back to face the grim-faced princess.
*I said,* she thought slowly and deliberately. *I'm going to take it from you.* She regarded him coolly, all the time wondering where all this energy she felt was coming from, and also what the heck she was doing.
*How do you plan to do that?* he asked, smirking at her.
April felt herself saying the things that followed, knowing she was saying them willingly, but wondering where all the speech had come from. She only partly knew what was going on.
*In the name of the Goddess Nayru,* she heard herself 'say'. *....I promise you, Ganon, that you will not win this.* In the face of Ganondorf's surprised expression, she held up her right hand, forming a fist. She felt the energy inside her continue to rise.
Ganondorf hurriedly had turned back to the Triforce, and reached out to touch it.
Mere seconds before his hand made contact with the three triangles, April felt something hot on the back of her fist. Just as he made contact with the Triforce, April yelled in determination as she felt energy blaze from in front of her. She continued to yell as she saw a blue ray shoot towards her, a triangle pattern in the end moving toward her. It hit her as she felt a white hot triangle connect with her fist, and then a blue light engulfed her.
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April awoke with a start an sat right up as she felt an intense pain shoot through her head. She screamed in pain and surprise as she grabbed her head and fell forward on her knees. The white hot feeling on the back of her right hand went almost unnoticed.
Impa woke up beside Zelda and quickly held the girl in her arms.
"What is it, Zelda, what's wrong!?" she asked hurriedly, right before the princess cried out shortly, and fell back into the unconscious.
A certain ranch girl tumbled out of bed and fell in a rather ungraceful heap on the floor when she heard someone scream in what sounded like pain. She sat up and gripped the edge of her bed as she pulled herself up, again. She heard another cry, fairly quieter. She noticed that it was coming from the stables.
"What in the name of all Din's earth...?" she muttered as she grabbed her boots and literally fell out the door, still in her nightgown. She fumbled down the stairs, pulling on the boots, and shot out the front door. She reached the door to the stable and yanked it open.
Impa sat on the floor, Zelda still unconscious in her arms. She had no idea what was going on. At that moment, the door to the stables flew open, revealing the slightly less dramatic storm still going on, and also the shadow of a girl.
Malon immediately stopped as she saw Zelda, seemingly asleep, in the arms of who Malon identified as Zelda's Sheikah guardian.
"Wha' the...? You two, what are you doin' here? Wait, not important! C'm inside!" she said as she rushed over to them and helped Impa take the fitfully sleeping Zelda inside Malon's house.
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April: WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!???
SailorZelda: CALM DOWN!!! It's okay!
April: YOU can say that, you're not unconscious for who knows WHAT reason!
SailorZelda: :: filing her nails :: If you remember, readers, she never saw the scene where Link meets Zelda again, so she doesn't know that the Triforce split up and she has the Triforce of Wisdom.
April: I have WHAT, now!??!?!?
SailorZelda: *casually* Opps. :: uses that memory eraser thing ::
Ha, ha. Anyway, that was my messed up version of what happened to Zelda after she escaped, and how the Sacred Realm got opened, what happened to Zelda when she got the Triforce. Yeah. Just so you know, I will explain the whole bit with her being in the Sacred Realm in upcoming chapters, but remember the she DIDN'T get the Triforce because she was there, she only subconsciously helped to direct what happened to the other two pieces.
:: Everyone is oblivious :: Don't worry, I'll explain!
So, bye for now, I hope you will come back when I put up a new chapter, which will be soon! REVIEW!!!!!
Chowness!
SailorZelda~