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"Hey, people?" April asked on a sudden impulse.
Everyone looked up at her.
There were four people at the table at the moment. April, Malon, Talon and Impa. They had been eating dinner, and up until then, it had been quiet. April secretly wondered if she was getting any better at cooking, which would mean that her cooking was at least tolerable, if not good.
But, aside that, April had always found quiet uncomfortable. Which might explain why she was constantly voicing her thoughts, even at the wrong times, sometimes. But, she also had suddenly had an idea.
"Does seven years sound like a long time to you?"
Malon stared ahead for a moment, before realizing what she was talking about and looking quickly over at her. Impa seemed to consider it for a second, before she turned to the Princess, too. Sometimes, the things that she would say were out of the blue and didn't really mean anything. But she could tell when the girl sometimes had an alternate motive for saying them. This statement sounded like one of those.
"Why?" she asked, somewhat suspiciously. April shrugged.
"Sometimes it could be," Talon suddenly said. "But, sometimes, seven years can seem like no time at all."
"How does that work?" April said.
"Well, for example, it seems like it's been me and Malon for so long, ever since her mother died."
Malon shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
"But, then, I can remember the day she was born like yesterday, a little more than ten years ago. Time is whatever you make of it."
"Hm," April thought. That did seem to be true she remembered clearly some days...
2:58
*Come ON, you stupid bell, RING!! RING!!!*
2:58, 15 seconds....
*AAH!*
But then there was also....
"Okay, just gimme five more minutes to sleep.....five more minutes..."
Seemingly two seconds later...
"April! GET UP!!"
*Grrrrrr...*
Yeah, time was annoying, sometimes. It never did what you wanted it to.
April realized something. "Hey! Now, it's too quiet, and this discussion is too serious! Let's talk about something else!"
"Like what?" Malon asked her.
"Dessert!" April said as she smiled broadly.
"Is food all you ever think about!?" Malon asked playfully, at which April stuck her tongue out.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it," Talon said as he got up.
April heard the door creak open, then he heard two people mumbling. Talon, obviously, and a woman's voice. She then heard Talon coming back to the table.
"Who is it?" she asked.
He looked to Impa instead of answering her right away. "Does anybody know that you're here?" he asked.
The woman looked alarmed, and shook her head.
"Well, there's an old woman at the door who says she knows you...and the Princess, too."
A look of understanding came into Impa's eyes, and then she got up and went to the door. April turned her head around in her chair to look at the doorway. A little too quickly, because in her surprise, she...guess what? She fell out of her chair.
Malon coughed, trying not to laugh too much. "Very graceful..." she said, under her breath.
April smiled towards the doorway, glared at Malon, the untangled herself from the chair.
"How is it that I always manage to make a spectacle of myself!?" April asked, to nobody in particular, as she got up.
"I don't know, but ya sure do a good job of it," Malon responded.
"Hey!"
"Ahem," came Impa's response from the doorway.
"Our Princess is very entertaining," said an old woman's voice, which April recognized almost immediately. She turned around to face the doorway, and was happy to see that the woman, Monoka, was smiling slightly.
"I remember you," she said, since nothing else came to her mind right away.
"Aye, and I remember you well, Destiny's Princess."
But then, something did come to April's mind, and she was voicing her thoughts before she realized what they meant. "Something's wrong, isn't it?" Her words surprised everyone, including herself. Well, all but Monoka.
"Because..." April started to say, but stopped when she saw what must have been another vision flash into her mind. She saw green, then what looked like Lon Lon from how an airplane might have seen it. Then there was red in and surrounding the ranch. Red meant danger, and although April didn't know where that knowledge had come from, she knew it was true. Then the scene below her flickered out and turned to blackness.
She didn't realize she had been closing her eyes until she opened them. And when she did, she saw that everyone was staring at her. "What?" she asked.
"I could ask you th' same," Malon said.
"I know what it is you saw," Monoka said to April. (A/N: MUAHA, Lord of the Rings! Isn't that what that one chick with blonde hair said!? I'm a copycat, yeah) "Because it is also what I have seen. That's why I had to come and warn you, and to remind you about the book."
"Book...?" April asked.
In the equation that was April's memory, the only thing that was needed to equal her remembrance of the Legend book was a "Hello?!" look from Monoka.
"Oh, that book," she said quickly.
"What book?" Malon asked from across the room.
"This is getting a little repetitive," April mumbled. "Oh, I'll show you later..." she said to Malon. "Hey, are you listening?"
"It's my house," Malon said.
"It's your...?" April thought. "Well, this is MY conversation!"
"Well, so what!?"
"I don't know!!"
Malon shrugged, picked up her plate, and walked towards the kitchen.
"So, yeah..." April said. "I guess we'll be watching out for whatever is going to happen."
"Of course," Monoka replied. "But you won't have to worry just yet. You'll have enough time."
"Enough time for what?" April said.
"Oh, I think you'll be able to figure that out," the old woman told her. With that, she reached into her cloak and pulled something out. Without seeming to move her arm or body at all, she disappeared in a flash of white light via dekunut, April realized after the initial shock.
April moved her arm slightly up and down as if she were throwing one herself, unconsciously copying what she had seen both Impa and Sheik do before. "That is SO cool," she said quietly.
There was suddenly a crash, like breaking glass, from the left of the doorway. Malon had dropped her plate.
April snapped her eyes in that direction. "I thought you were putting your plate away?"
"Opps," Malon said, shoving the pieces aside with her foot and retreating into the kitchen.
* * *
"What is it? What's in it?"
"I actually have no clue."
"Where'd you get it from?"
"The castle library."
"Why'd ya take it?"
"I dunno."
"What's it called?"
"You promise not to say anything about it?"
"Yep."
"The Legend of Zelda."
The title of both the book and her beloved "game" flew off April's tongue easily as she answered Malon's bombard of questions. Malon had stopped walking around the room for a second and stood still. She suddenly just shook her head and continued her orbit around April's bed, thinking it was another one of those "destiny" things.
Malon had volunteered to "help" the princess find the book , but the only real thing she was doing was walking around talking to her. That didn't matter very much to the blonde, though.
"Where'd I put this thing!?" April asked herself as she dug around under Malon's bed. "What's UNDER here?!" she asked, directed more at Malon than at herself.
She clearly remembered the book being by the bed that first morning here. Being only the third day, she didn't think anyone would have moved it, seeing as she and Malon were the only ones up here, and Malon hadn't even known of the book's existence until that night.
"Oh, duh," she told herself as she reached under the pillow and felt the leathery cover of the green book. She pulled it out and mentally kicked herself for not remembering to pull it out and look at it before just then. In fact, she had specifically put the book under that pillow on the first day to remind herself to look at it.
"Oh, well," she said out loud. "Hey, it's a lot for a kid to think about!"
"Are you talkin' to yourself?" Malon asked her.
"What can I say, I need help," April said in mock seriousness.
"So, what's with that book?"
"Hm," April sighed, turning to the first page. She had never gotten past that point in the book, and she figured now was as good a time as any to start looking at the rest of it. She didn't want to regret not preventing some disaster from happening when she could have by simply reading something.
On the first page was a lot of writing. Not being very interested in the written word, and meaning to come back to them later, April started to flip through the pages. She came across more writing and a few assorted pictures that blurred with the flipping of the pages. But, once April got to the seventh page, the pattern disappeared. The pages were blank.
"W-whoa!" April said, tossing the book onto the bed.
"What?" Malon asked.
"That book is possessed! The rest of the pages are blank!! What is UP with that?!"
Malon gave April an odd look and went to pick up the book for herself. She looked at the pages, not really reading anything, until she reached the seventh page, she stopped for a moment before quickly running the pages of the book through her finger from the back of the book. They were all blank. She slammed it shut and held it out to April.
"So, take the thing and read it! Or, at least, what's already there," Malon told her.
"How pointless!" April said, ripping the book from Malon's hand and sitting down on the bed. "Let's see...." she said to herself. "Read that already..." she said, indicating the passage on the first page. "Ah, here." The next page had a lot of writing on it, which April began to read to herself. Well, she only got to the first two words before Malon interrupted her.
"What's it say?" Malon asked.
"Can you not read it yourself?" April asked her.
"Well, for one thing, it's upside down."
"From where your standing," April said, turning the book to her.
Malon looked at the writing for a moment, before quirking her eyebrow and looking up at the princess.
"It's 'n ancient Hylian," she said, curiously. "Well, from what I c'n make of it. I kinda know what it looks like."
"Really?" April inquired, turning the book back to herself. Surely, the letters weren't English. 'But should they be?' April asked herself. She turned back to the first page, the passage. It seemed to be in that same language. April hadn't even realized it before, which startled her slightly, because she could read it fluently.
"Why, so it is..." April said. "That's funny!"
"Why?" Malon asked.
"I didn't even know I could speak regular Hylian, let alone read it, or not even thinking ancient Hylian!"
"Well, you're speakin' Hylian right now, so doesn't that tell you something? As for readin' it, the title of this book is in Hylian, from what I saw, and you knew what it said."
April sat back on the bed. She was speaking another language? "I think I'm speaking English, or is that just what my mind is hearing."
"I don't know what "English" sounds like, but I can understand what you're sayin', so I assume you're speakin' Hylian."
"How bizarre," was April's only response. "And I have no clue in the Dark Realm where I learned how to read an ancient language." April thought for a moment. "Ah," she realized. "The Triforce."
."What about it?" Malon asked.
Not having told anyone she had talked to one of the Goddesses, let along gotten a part of their Triforce, April didn't plan on doing so just yet. "Nothing."
'But what about reading it before you'd even gotten the piece?' a part of herself asked. 'How did you read it then?' April planned to find out, sooner or later.
"Right," Malon said. "Well, seein' as you're the only one who can read what it says, why don't you do that?"
"Oh, yeah."
April opened the book to the second page and prepared to read.
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***Oh, look. I ended it here. EVIL! Okay. I'm not talking a lot. I thought I'd give you guys a decently long chapter for having to wait so long to get another one. So, eh. This one isn't too bad, neh?
I just felt like typing this. And my writer's block is mysteriously........You get the picture. *I will not jinx it by saying that it's....yeah.*
Weird little things. Like April and ancient Hylian. What's up with that? Hm, your guess is as good as mine! *J/K!!*
Hopefully we'll see another chapter soon. I think it's going to be interesting!
Thanks for your patience!!
SailorZelda~
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"Hey, people?" April asked on a sudden impulse.
Everyone looked up at her.
There were four people at the table at the moment. April, Malon, Talon and Impa. They had been eating dinner, and up until then, it had been quiet. April secretly wondered if she was getting any better at cooking, which would mean that her cooking was at least tolerable, if not good.
But, aside that, April had always found quiet uncomfortable. Which might explain why she was constantly voicing her thoughts, even at the wrong times, sometimes. But, she also had suddenly had an idea.
"Does seven years sound like a long time to you?"
Malon stared ahead for a moment, before realizing what she was talking about and looking quickly over at her. Impa seemed to consider it for a second, before she turned to the Princess, too. Sometimes, the things that she would say were out of the blue and didn't really mean anything. But she could tell when the girl sometimes had an alternate motive for saying them. This statement sounded like one of those.
"Why?" she asked, somewhat suspiciously. April shrugged.
"Sometimes it could be," Talon suddenly said. "But, sometimes, seven years can seem like no time at all."
"How does that work?" April said.
"Well, for example, it seems like it's been me and Malon for so long, ever since her mother died."
Malon shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
"But, then, I can remember the day she was born like yesterday, a little more than ten years ago. Time is whatever you make of it."
"Hm," April thought. That did seem to be true she remembered clearly some days...
2:58
*Come ON, you stupid bell, RING!! RING!!!*
2:58, 15 seconds....
*AAH!*
But then there was also....
"Okay, just gimme five more minutes to sleep.....five more minutes..."
Seemingly two seconds later...
"April! GET UP!!"
*Grrrrrr...*
Yeah, time was annoying, sometimes. It never did what you wanted it to.
April realized something. "Hey! Now, it's too quiet, and this discussion is too serious! Let's talk about something else!"
"Like what?" Malon asked her.
"Dessert!" April said as she smiled broadly.
"Is food all you ever think about!?" Malon asked playfully, at which April stuck her tongue out.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it," Talon said as he got up.
April heard the door creak open, then he heard two people mumbling. Talon, obviously, and a woman's voice. She then heard Talon coming back to the table.
"Who is it?" she asked.
He looked to Impa instead of answering her right away. "Does anybody know that you're here?" he asked.
The woman looked alarmed, and shook her head.
"Well, there's an old woman at the door who says she knows you...and the Princess, too."
A look of understanding came into Impa's eyes, and then she got up and went to the door. April turned her head around in her chair to look at the doorway. A little too quickly, because in her surprise, she...guess what? She fell out of her chair.
Malon coughed, trying not to laugh too much. "Very graceful..." she said, under her breath.
April smiled towards the doorway, glared at Malon, the untangled herself from the chair.
"How is it that I always manage to make a spectacle of myself!?" April asked, to nobody in particular, as she got up.
"I don't know, but ya sure do a good job of it," Malon responded.
"Hey!"
"Ahem," came Impa's response from the doorway.
"Our Princess is very entertaining," said an old woman's voice, which April recognized almost immediately. She turned around to face the doorway, and was happy to see that the woman, Monoka, was smiling slightly.
"I remember you," she said, since nothing else came to her mind right away.
"Aye, and I remember you well, Destiny's Princess."
But then, something did come to April's mind, and she was voicing her thoughts before she realized what they meant. "Something's wrong, isn't it?" Her words surprised everyone, including herself. Well, all but Monoka.
"Because..." April started to say, but stopped when she saw what must have been another vision flash into her mind. She saw green, then what looked like Lon Lon from how an airplane might have seen it. Then there was red in and surrounding the ranch. Red meant danger, and although April didn't know where that knowledge had come from, she knew it was true. Then the scene below her flickered out and turned to blackness.
She didn't realize she had been closing her eyes until she opened them. And when she did, she saw that everyone was staring at her. "What?" she asked.
"I could ask you th' same," Malon said.
"I know what it is you saw," Monoka said to April. (A/N: MUAHA, Lord of the Rings! Isn't that what that one chick with blonde hair said!? I'm a copycat, yeah) "Because it is also what I have seen. That's why I had to come and warn you, and to remind you about the book."
"Book...?" April asked.
In the equation that was April's memory, the only thing that was needed to equal her remembrance of the Legend book was a "Hello?!" look from Monoka.
"Oh, that book," she said quickly.
"What book?" Malon asked from across the room.
"This is getting a little repetitive," April mumbled. "Oh, I'll show you later..." she said to Malon. "Hey, are you listening?"
"It's my house," Malon said.
"It's your...?" April thought. "Well, this is MY conversation!"
"Well, so what!?"
"I don't know!!"
Malon shrugged, picked up her plate, and walked towards the kitchen.
"So, yeah..." April said. "I guess we'll be watching out for whatever is going to happen."
"Of course," Monoka replied. "But you won't have to worry just yet. You'll have enough time."
"Enough time for what?" April said.
"Oh, I think you'll be able to figure that out," the old woman told her. With that, she reached into her cloak and pulled something out. Without seeming to move her arm or body at all, she disappeared in a flash of white light via dekunut, April realized after the initial shock.
April moved her arm slightly up and down as if she were throwing one herself, unconsciously copying what she had seen both Impa and Sheik do before. "That is SO cool," she said quietly.
There was suddenly a crash, like breaking glass, from the left of the doorway. Malon had dropped her plate.
April snapped her eyes in that direction. "I thought you were putting your plate away?"
"Opps," Malon said, shoving the pieces aside with her foot and retreating into the kitchen.
* * *
"What is it? What's in it?"
"I actually have no clue."
"Where'd you get it from?"
"The castle library."
"Why'd ya take it?"
"I dunno."
"What's it called?"
"You promise not to say anything about it?"
"Yep."
"The Legend of Zelda."
The title of both the book and her beloved "game" flew off April's tongue easily as she answered Malon's bombard of questions. Malon had stopped walking around the room for a second and stood still. She suddenly just shook her head and continued her orbit around April's bed, thinking it was another one of those "destiny" things.
Malon had volunteered to "help" the princess find the book , but the only real thing she was doing was walking around talking to her. That didn't matter very much to the blonde, though.
"Where'd I put this thing!?" April asked herself as she dug around under Malon's bed. "What's UNDER here?!" she asked, directed more at Malon than at herself.
She clearly remembered the book being by the bed that first morning here. Being only the third day, she didn't think anyone would have moved it, seeing as she and Malon were the only ones up here, and Malon hadn't even known of the book's existence until that night.
"Oh, duh," she told herself as she reached under the pillow and felt the leathery cover of the green book. She pulled it out and mentally kicked herself for not remembering to pull it out and look at it before just then. In fact, she had specifically put the book under that pillow on the first day to remind herself to look at it.
"Oh, well," she said out loud. "Hey, it's a lot for a kid to think about!"
"Are you talkin' to yourself?" Malon asked her.
"What can I say, I need help," April said in mock seriousness.
"So, what's with that book?"
"Hm," April sighed, turning to the first page. She had never gotten past that point in the book, and she figured now was as good a time as any to start looking at the rest of it. She didn't want to regret not preventing some disaster from happening when she could have by simply reading something.
On the first page was a lot of writing. Not being very interested in the written word, and meaning to come back to them later, April started to flip through the pages. She came across more writing and a few assorted pictures that blurred with the flipping of the pages. But, once April got to the seventh page, the pattern disappeared. The pages were blank.
"W-whoa!" April said, tossing the book onto the bed.
"What?" Malon asked.
"That book is possessed! The rest of the pages are blank!! What is UP with that?!"
Malon gave April an odd look and went to pick up the book for herself. She looked at the pages, not really reading anything, until she reached the seventh page, she stopped for a moment before quickly running the pages of the book through her finger from the back of the book. They were all blank. She slammed it shut and held it out to April.
"So, take the thing and read it! Or, at least, what's already there," Malon told her.
"How pointless!" April said, ripping the book from Malon's hand and sitting down on the bed. "Let's see...." she said to herself. "Read that already..." she said, indicating the passage on the first page. "Ah, here." The next page had a lot of writing on it, which April began to read to herself. Well, she only got to the first two words before Malon interrupted her.
"What's it say?" Malon asked.
"Can you not read it yourself?" April asked her.
"Well, for one thing, it's upside down."
"From where your standing," April said, turning the book to her.
Malon looked at the writing for a moment, before quirking her eyebrow and looking up at the princess.
"It's 'n ancient Hylian," she said, curiously. "Well, from what I c'n make of it. I kinda know what it looks like."
"Really?" April inquired, turning the book back to herself. Surely, the letters weren't English. 'But should they be?' April asked herself. She turned back to the first page, the passage. It seemed to be in that same language. April hadn't even realized it before, which startled her slightly, because she could read it fluently.
"Why, so it is..." April said. "That's funny!"
"Why?" Malon asked.
"I didn't even know I could speak regular Hylian, let alone read it, or not even thinking ancient Hylian!"
"Well, you're speakin' Hylian right now, so doesn't that tell you something? As for readin' it, the title of this book is in Hylian, from what I saw, and you knew what it said."
April sat back on the bed. She was speaking another language? "I think I'm speaking English, or is that just what my mind is hearing."
"I don't know what "English" sounds like, but I can understand what you're sayin', so I assume you're speakin' Hylian."
"How bizarre," was April's only response. "And I have no clue in the Dark Realm where I learned how to read an ancient language." April thought for a moment. "Ah," she realized. "The Triforce."
."What about it?" Malon asked.
Not having told anyone she had talked to one of the Goddesses, let along gotten a part of their Triforce, April didn't plan on doing so just yet. "Nothing."
'But what about reading it before you'd even gotten the piece?' a part of herself asked. 'How did you read it then?' April planned to find out, sooner or later.
"Right," Malon said. "Well, seein' as you're the only one who can read what it says, why don't you do that?"
"Oh, yeah."
April opened the book to the second page and prepared to read.
* * *
***Oh, look. I ended it here. EVIL! Okay. I'm not talking a lot. I thought I'd give you guys a decently long chapter for having to wait so long to get another one. So, eh. This one isn't too bad, neh?
I just felt like typing this. And my writer's block is mysteriously........You get the picture. *I will not jinx it by saying that it's....yeah.*
Weird little things. Like April and ancient Hylian. What's up with that? Hm, your guess is as good as mine! *J/K!!*
Hopefully we'll see another chapter soon. I think it's going to be interesting!
Thanks for your patience!!
SailorZelda~