I've just recently thought of some really good ideas for the upcoming chapters. I'm really trying to put in all the humor and romance-ish stuff I can, but I find I have to put other stuff first, sometimes, when I explain things. But, you'll still enjoy it. One of the upcoming chapters that I've started to write is one of the most (I think) kinda emotional-ish things I've ever written. I dunno if you'll think so, but...Oh, well! Yeah. So, I guess here is the chapter.
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Sacred Realm.......Triforce....Goddesses.........Blue........Wisdom....Ganon........
All of these seemingly random thoughts flew in and out of the still unconscious April's mind. Unknowing, she had been put in a bed in one of the upstairs rooms in Malon's house. Attempts to wake her up were unsuccessful, much to the disappointment of everyone present. No one knew what had happened except the Princess, and even she was clouded in this matter.
When April slowly and tiredly opened her eyes, she first noticed soft morning sunlight creeping shyly through a window. She moved her arms and legs around, and felt soft blankets surrounding her. Being too tired to sit up very fast, she forced herself to sit up and search her surroundings.
The first thing she noticed was that the floor, ceiling, and walls around her were wood. Not stone.
"Oh, yippie-skippie," she said, somewhat disappointed that the events of last night had most definitely not been a dream. When she thought of that, it seemed funny. "A dream within a dream. Well, not quite, but...yeah," she said.
She was not going to even try to make sense of what had happened last night. She knew she could do that when she didn't feel as if she was going to fall back into dreamland any second. And she would have someone help her. At the moment, it hurt her brain more than an algebra test first period.
The more she looked at the room, the more she realized it must have been a girl's room. Malon's room, most likely. Not that it mattered much, there was nobody there that she could see.
April somewhat reluctantly sat up all the way and put her feet on the cold, polished wood floor. She noticed that she was not wearing the same clothes she had had on the night before. Had she not been half asleep, she might have wondered who had put the nightdress on her and been embarrassed about it.
She made her way over to the door and opened it slowly. She noticed that the door was one of a few off a hallway that ended in a flight of stairs. Seeing no other real options, she walked over to the stairs and half felt her way down them.
The first thing she saw when she saw when she reached the bottom floor was two feminine figures seated in the room. They were by the fireplace, and their backs were to her. But she immediately recognized one of them as Impa. The other, a fiery redhead, could only be a certain ranch girl.
She also noticed that they seemed to be sitting waiting for something, almost anxiously.
April blinked tiredly and pulled her hair back behind her ears. "What's everyone all sitting around for?" she asked.
Malon jumped up right away and spun around when she heard the princess's voice. Before April could react, Malon had run over to her and almost lifted her up off the floor when she hugged her.
"We were waitin' for you to get up, silly! What happen'd last night!? Why'd you go unconscious!? WHAT HAPPENED!? Tell me!" Malon shouted at her over her shoulder. She suddenly pushed April about an arms distance away, still holding on to her, and said, "You scared me half to death! Don't ever do anythin' like that again!"
April, for lack of anything to say at the barrage of statements, stared surprised for a moment. It was then that Impa stood up and spoke. "What she means to say is that we're glad you're awake," the woman said with some amusement.
"That, too!" Malon added as she let go of April and smiled.
April tried to think of a response of some kind. But, for lack of anything better to say, she said the first thing that came to her mind that didn't involve last night. "I'm hungry."
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April and Malon sat on the roof of the stable at the ranch later that day. Some time after they had eaten lunch and April had had a chance to wake up more, Malon had asked April if she wanted to see something. April agreed to go, but first she asked Impa how much longer they could stay there before they had to leave for somewhere safer. If there was even such a place.
"Don't worry," Impa had said. "It's not time to worry yet."
So, April had gone with Malon outside. When they left the house, April asked what Malon had wanted to show her as the other girl began to climb up to the roof of the stable.
"The clouds," Malon had said, not bothering to turn around.
April let her head fall to the side. "Can't you see them just as easily from the ground?"
This time Malon did turn around. "Where's th' fun in that?" she had asked.
April blinked, then shrugged and followed her.
What she did notice that, although this roof wasn't as high as the one at Hyrule Castle and would prevent you from seeing the full sunset, they could see for what seemed like miles around. The ranch seemed to be right smack in the middle of Hyrule field, which also added to what they could see.
It was also windy today, and being up on the roof, April felt as if she was going to fall over at any moment. But she soon found help in Malon to steady herself.
April saw that, if she laid totally on her back, the sky looked like a bowl covering everything. Like she was an ant underneath a blue bowl with marshmallows in it that just wouldn't fall, no matter how much they moved towards the west. The marshmallows being the clouds.
"You know, I don't think I've every taken the time to just look at the sky before," April said.
"Ya should. Don't take the world f'r granted," Malon said. "And by that way, there's a lotta things it seems you've never taken the time to do. For 'xample, tellin' me why you knew about me 'n my dad being at Hyrule Castle and I should have been gone. Like, tellin' me why you.....um, jumped outta your window." Malon shrugged.
"Hm," April grumbled indignantly as she sat up. "Well, you never told me why you were still at the castle. So, MAYBE if you tell me, the I'll tell you something..."
Malon smirked. "Okay, Princess."
"Don't call me that, please."
"And, why ever not?" Malon asked in a kind of overly sarcastic sweetness.
"Because, you talk first."
"Okay. Well, that day, I s'ppose...However you knew 'bout me and m' dad, I guess you knew that he fell asleep and I was looking for h'm. Well, as I was walking around the caslte town lookin' for him, this kid who looked like he had no idea where he was goin' asked me if I knew where the castle was. I think he was that kid you were talkin' 'bout when we were at the castle."
"Link," April said.
Malon looked at her and smiled slightly. Just when she was going to continue, April said, "You called him something different, didn't you?"
Malon glanced at her again. April merely smiled. "How'd ya know all this stuff?" Malon asked.
"I have my ways," April said. Malon continued, as she was hoping for an explanation........"later", as the Princess would say.
"So, anyway, I told h'm where it was. After a while, I started to get bored. 't was still fairly early in the morning, and I knew my dad must've fallen asleep by the castle. Again. So, I went towards the road which leads to the castle.
"Ya see, they know who I am and will usually let me in at the gate. When 'm with my dad. So, I was kinda stuck. I went back towards the beginnin' of the road, hopin' my idiot father would wake up and find me there. I glanced back over at the castle, wonderin' if that kid had had the same problem gettin' in that I was havin'.
"Just then, I could have sworn I saw somethin' off in the distance towards the castle. It was green. And I could have sworn 't was a kid." Malon smiled.
"So, I guess my curios'ty got the better of me that time. He must'a found some way past all the guards, that is if they weren't the ones who let h'm in. Which, for some reason, I doubted. So, t' find a way in, and also to pass time, I tried to look for some way in. I don't know if you've really taken the time to look what it's like on the outside lookin' in, but it looked impossible.
"What I saw was that there were cliffs, some trees, and a whole mess of guards. Didn't really see how I could get past it all. But, after some observation, I realized that there were several vines growing on the cliffs."
"Don't tell me you...." April started.
"Yep. I tried to climb 'em. After several.....okay, well. A LOT of unsuccessful attempts, I managed to scale a wall.
"When I did, I thought, "Now what?" I didn't really see how I could get past any of the guards on the grounds. They weren't blind. But, to my more that fortunate fortune, I noticed that, by the cliff face I was on, there were trees.....all in a row at the edges of the ground. I s'pposed it was s'pposed to look nice."
"But it must also be useful for getting into the castle with," April concluded.
"Bingo. Anyway, after I managed to work my way to the last tree, I realized there was a fence leadin' right into the area right outside the castle, and it was right under the tree. I kinda jumped down onto it, and made my way over to a bunch 'a what could be nothin' other than Lon Lon milk crates.
"My dad was of course gone by then. I hadn't fully realized it, but the sun was already gone on the horizon, with only a little bit of light left.
"You see, I'm usually down 'n up with the sun. I was tired from so much sneaking 'round, so I sat down to rest by the crates, to wait for........I actually don't know what I thought I was waitin' for. But, the next thing I knew, I was awake, and it must've been midmorning.
"I saw something when I looked up at a window, saw something on the balc'ny, and the rest is history." Malon shrugged again. "Your turn."
April sighed. She wanted to ask Malon what she was about to ask, but it seemed strange.
"Malon?"
"Hm?" the girl answered.
"Well, you didn't...tell anybody about when I jumped off the balcony, did you? Or about...when I...." This was really hard for her. "When..I......"
Malon understood. "Nope," she said simply.
April looked at her almost incredibly. "Why?" she finally asked.
Malon seemed almost surprised. "Well, I didn't....don't really have any reason to. I mean, what you do is yours and the royal family's business. Maybe not even that. Your business. Think 'bout it."
April regarded her. Malon continued, "When I think about it, I probably wasn't, shouldn't have even known. But ya know what? I'm glad I did. I don't know how much sense you have, but I imagine being the princess that you have some. Whatever it is that'd make you lose it all....well. That's really none of my business, at all"
Malon got up, seemingly forgot about her plan to get answers out of the princess. She made as if to leave, but April stopped her by grabbing her sleeve. "I've gotta tell someone, I'll to crazy. You're not gonna believe me, but what can I do?"
Malon stopped and looked at the girl, understanding the newfound urgency and drama in her voice. She was no longer the Princess of Hyrule just then, she was a girl who needed someone to listen to her.
And April confirmed this by saying, "I'm not really the princess."
"What d'you mean? Well, sure ya are! Listen, I've heard that your parents were killed, and I'm really sorry, but..."
"No, Malon hear me out," April said. "I mean, I'm not really Zelda. Princess Zelda, that's not me."
Malon stared, but decided to listen.
April sighed. "I come from a, I guess you could say different dimension. There, it would be like the future to here. My name's really April, and I'm a thirteen year old from Oregon."
"Never heard 'a that," Malon said.
"You wouldn't have. But you see, there, this world, Hyrule, it's a game."
"A game?" Malon repeated, almost laughing.
"Yeah. Hyrule is a world created by the company called Nintendo. Which by the way, is what I call the best company on the face of the planet. They made a game called 'The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time." It's a video game, you play it with a little controller on the TV.......Oh, it's really hard to explain to you. But, anyway, the story line of the game is almost exactly what is happening now. You know Ganondorf I showed you the other day? Well, he's the bad guy in the game. And I knew about you and your dad because you were in the game.
"But the point of the matter is, I was playing that game one night. In the morning, when I woke up, I WAS Zelda, the Princess of Hyrule. I had inhabited her body. I thought it was a dream, all the way up until I woke up that midnight. I met Link, and I knew what to do because of the game.
"At home, on the game I hadn't finished it, yet. You don't know this, but Link, in seven years, is going to become the Hero of Time." April paused.
Malon gaped. "The...the.....THE Hero....?"
"Yeah."
"Whoa,"
"Anyway," April continued. "The whole game is played with you playing as him. It's a role playing game. So, you see, you know what happens to Zelda, up to a certain point. But, I only ever played to where I knew what happened to her up until she escapes from the castle. I won't see Link for more than seven years, because the Sacred Realm's got him locked up until his body ages to become seventeen.
"And, I don't know what happened to Zelda." At this point, a shaking became apparent in her voice. "I don't know what to do. Malon," She stopped to try to compose herself. Her attempt failed as tears built up in her eyes. "I don't know what to do! I'm so scared..."
Malon considered the scene that was playing out before her. She knew the girl had no reason to lie to her. She had nothing to hide, there wasn't any reason. And, this was real emotion that she was pouring out. To her, no less.
"Why?" was the first thing Malon said.
April tried to stop and look at Malon as she wiped her eyes. "Huh?" she asked, shakily.
"Why tell me? Why not that woman, Impa?"
April thought for a second, which was hard at the moment. "Because you didn't tell anyone about my other secrets. Because you're a girl, just like me. Because," April stood up. "...maybe you're the only person I can trust in this alien place."
Malon regarded the girl who was recovering quickly. "I would tell ya not to worry," Malon said. "But I know I can't. The fact in this matter is," She also stood up. "...that you don't have to worry alone. You can count on one thing, I know for certain." Malon sought the other girl's hand and took it in her own. "You c'n count on my friendship. I believe you in this, I don't have a reason not to. I can tell you that you can count on my help whenever I can give it."
Malon quickly let go and turned around. She jumped gracefully off the roof and landed on her feet. She called up to April.
"Well, c'mon! We've got stuff to do 'fore we gotta help with dinner!" With that, she disappeared into the stable atop which April still stood.
April looked down at the spot where Malon had just been. Something she never expected here, she'd made a friend who'd promised to help her, even though they were both clue less in all the matters at hand.
April smiled and jumped down after the now not-so-bubbly redhead she'd thought she'd known.
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**Hm. I thought I was going to put the next part in this chapter, but I REALLY wanted to put this up earlier. The next part is long enough to put in one chapter, anyway.
Well, I liked this chapter. I like Malon! She's so cute! Okay, maybe she's a little weird, like me!, but she's okay. When she's talking, you know I spelt those words like that on purpose so you'd remember that she kind of has a Southern-ish accent. Like a Southern Bell without the huge dress! HA!
So, I hope you liked this chapter. You know now that Malon won't be just some person, she has an important part. Emotional support for April!
April: I DON'T NEED THAT!!!!!
SailorZelda: SURE you don't.
Anyway........please review. I like reviews. I LIKE THEM I SAY!!!! Yeah. Oh, I forget who it was who asked how old April is, but I put it in this chapter to remind you! (She's 13)
So, again, REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!! People, I says, PLEASE REVIEW THIS STORY!!!!!
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