*stands up on a chair* I OWN ZELDA!!!! BWAHAHAHAAAA! I HAVE FINALLY GOTTEN MY INSANE HANDS ON THE RIGHTS TO IT!!!!!! EHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEEEEEE-
April: *shoves a sock in SailorZelda's mouth* Two words. Mountain. Dew. Ignore her, onegai.
SailorZelda: *spits out sock* Okay, so I don't own Zelda. However.......
April: -_-() Do you like the taste of sock?
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'Part of the problem,' April thought, cursing her curiosity. 'is that the only thing you managed to do by being here was further confuse yourself. And forget curiosity...It's now "transfixed with the idea." What are they talking about, anyway!?' She was beginning to get annoyed with the fact that she wasn't able to hear through the door.
After she had stood there considering for a good minute, she followed after the boy she had come across. He had been running, but it wasn't hard to figure out where he was going. Her path lead her to one of the only two buildings in this place that she had been inside of, that one room structure in which she had landed after going through the portal to this dimension.
It would be way too obvious if she opened the door and tried to hear what was going on, and she knew she hadn't been invited to this meeting. So the girl decided to listen through the door. She had only heard a few words, but one of them send her mind into a whirlwind of ideas. Not a word, necessarily, but a name.
Sheik.
It had been obvious that it was the name of that kid from the way it had been used. She tried to listen to anything else that might give her an idea of what was going on in there, but she had a feeling that she would be finding out soon enough anyway. Along with that thought, she began to wonder more about this person. She'd been curious about him ever since he'd shown up in the game at home. She wondered why his name was Sheik, seeing as the race of people was called Sheikah. She'd have to ask when she got the chance.
She heard some people moving around in the room, and decided it was a better idea to leave now than be caught at the door. She walked off to the side casually and headed towards a random building.
Mere minutes later, she felt someone tap her shoulder and say, "Hello, again."
She squeaked as she whirled around. She hadn't even heard anybody come up behind her, and that was the thing that had startled her. The person standing there, Sheik, looked like he expected an answer from her.
"Hi," she said cautiously.
"They told me to introduce myself to you. I'm Sheik, but I think you knew that already, seeing as you were listening to us before," he said, gesturing to the building behind them.
She blinked, surprised. "H-how did you...?"
"I didn't." He shrugged. "It just seemed like something I would do. Since you asked me how I knew that, you must have been."
She watched as he started to walk away, looking like he expected her to follow him. She blinked again and looked to the side, trying to decide what she was thinking. 'It's too early for this,' she though as she followed him quickly.
"Hey, you! Where are you going all the sudden?" she asked, catching up.
"I'm going over to talk to Vaiya. We're talking about you, and I suppose that you're allowed to be there."
She nearly muttered something that she might have regretted later, something to the effect of 'why are you people always so interesting in me and destiny and all of that-'. Instead, she rolled her eyes and sighed in an exaggerated way.
"You don't really care much for first impressions, do you?" she asked dryly.
"Not really." He shrugged.
She sighed again, even though she attempted not to. "Sheik, then? Interesting name. Is it a nickname?" she asked, trying to make conversation.
"Of sorts," he answered.
"Oh? What's your real name?"
"Wouldn't you like to know."
She made a face. She knew some kids who didn't like their real names and never even told their friends what they were. She figured it was like that in every place.
"I don't know enough about really anyone here to know the way they think," she started slowly. "Or the way they usually act. But it seems to me like you people just have a lot on your minds right now. Am I right, or do you just always kind of...how should I say, um, ignore people like this? Not so much...but...."
She trailed off as he stopped walking and looked back at her. "It would be much easier to talk to you if, yes, I had less on my mind and I had gotten up earlier than I did. So, can I let myself wake up and then have another try at a 'first impression'?"
April smiled. "Yes, good idea. I agree." If it were an anime, she thought, she would have been sweatdropping.
They started to walk again as April began to wonder if she seemed as annoying as this when she hadn't had enough sleep.
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April had made up her mind that a lack of sleep and a lack of food caused the human, er...Hylian brain to believe that it had nothing else to say besides the exact point. It figured that it didn't have a reason to skip around anything. She wondered sometimes if someone's mind could get annoyed with itself, because she knew when she was tired that she got bored of the way her brain worked, and if anyone asked her anything she just wished to tell them what it was and then tell them to shut up.
Lately, it seemed, her mind liked to wander around on its own without her consent. She had somewhat been trying to pay attention to what Vaiya and Sheik were saying as they sat around the table in Impa's house. But she couldn't help wonder at the change both two went through in the presence of food. She remembered something she'd heard in some book from her classes that one of people's greatest weaknesses seemed to be the need to fill their stomachs.
After all this, she tried to make sense of anything that had happened to her recently. None of it seemed to follow any kind of pattern. The only thing she was conclude from her past several minutes of thinking was the she would hopefully be able to get to know both Vaiya and Sheik better in the near future. Which she thought was odd because she usually didn't like to give people more than one chance when she got to know them.
She then finally decided that her mind had now fully and truly checked out.
"Zelda," she heard someone mutter.
"Eh?" she mumbled as she looked towards the two.
"Have you been paying attention to anything she's been saying?" Sheik asked, gesturing towards Vaiya.
"...Not so much..." she admitted.
Vaiya sighed.
"All really I was attempting to get across was that there are people here who will be able to help get you used to combat type situations and using magic. And helping you with understanding the Triforce you carry."
April's eyes widened a bit at saying this. Did everyone seem to know about her having the Triforce? Was it okay to just go telling everyone?
"Don't worry about the people who know of your Triforce, Zelda." Sheik told her. "I knew from Vaiya telling me about it, when both she and I had seen it in a dream. Now the Elders know, so does Impa. She's seemed kind of confused as to why she didn't know already, though..."
"Well," April muttered. "It seems that I didn't exactly really tell anyone about that so...um..."
"It's of no importance now." Vaiya stood up from the table and turned towards the stairs. She continued to talk, though, as she climbed them. "What I really want to know, however, is where this came from."
"What is she talking about?" Sheik asked.
April had a feeling that Vaiya was talking about the book. With a panic, she tried to remember if she had even brought it to this place. She knew she had it at Lon Lon Ranch, and when they were in the Shadow Temple...
"This," Vaiya suddenly said from the stairs, hold the heavy volume under her arm. She walked to the table and dropped it carelessly. It fell open to the first page, one of the few with writing on it.
"Oh, that." April nearly spat out, reading over the Legend she knew so well. "I found it in Hyrule Castle's library. I really don't know what's the point of it though, I mean, more that half of the pages are blank..."
April trailed off as Vaiya flipped through the pages quickly, noting the oddly great amount of words there. Another odd thing that April hadn't noticed a moment before was that they were no longer in the ancient Hylian dialect she remembered, but written in what she understood to be some Sheikah language.
"Doesn't look to me like the pages are very blank." Sheik mumbled.
"I swear that book is possessed." April deadpanned.
Vaiya looked at her, amused. "Really, now?" She suddenly slammed the book shut, which April was almost glad of. "From what I can tell, it's the same book that used to reside in a library here, composed of writings, prophecies and spells of past Sheikah generations, the most notable author being the Seer from whom my name comes." She seemed to stop to think for a moment. "I don't know how it ended up in Hyrule, but stranger things have happened."
"Tell me about it." April rolled her eyes. She couldn't help be curious, though, as she pulled the heavy volume closer to her. She opened it to the first page, which held the Legend written in ancient Hylian. The next page, however, which had before held the warning to her and Malon, was not longer there. That page was full of writings in a Sheikah language she recognized through the Triforce. She again turned through the pages, seeing them all written in it, as well. She shook her head.
"There used to be, after the passage on the first page, about six pages full of writing and a few pictures, and the language was an ancient Hylian one. But now," she paused, glancing at the flowing letters on the pages. "There's only this. There used to be a warning on there...for me that ended up with me and my friend floating in thin air."
Vaiya considered this. "It might have just been there for that purpose and then somehow disappeared when the proper writings appeared in the book."
"Oh, you make it sound so simple..." April said, putting her head on the table.
"Most likely," Vaiya continued. "It was a spell that was used to get you "floating in thin air." Though I don't know how you could have activated it without knowing how to do magic..." She shrugged slightly.
"Though it seems like soon I might. I think that book, the possessed thing, really found me because in some way what has happened was already known. And now there is stuff in it relating to what I'm supposed to be learning here, or so I think."
"That seems right." She nodded, then looked over at Sheik. "You've been relatively quiet."
"I'm just thinking about how long she is going to have to actually learn all of this stuff."
"Seven years," April and Vaiya responded at the same time, automatically.
He glanced at the two of them. "Right...But when it's over, will any of us actually be able to do anything about the future of Hyrule?"
"Somebody already is," April uttered, as if she almost hadn't meant to say it. "In some way or another."
Vaiya recognized the look in the girl's eyes immediately from her own experience. "You're having the feeling of Time happening all at once." The Princess looked up at her. "And you fell helpless about it. Anyone would, given what burden you have. And how attached you seem to be to the Hero of Time." She bit her tongue slightly. "Anyway, I see no reason why we should waste time. Tomorrow, let's begin the training. The less you think about things you can't control, and the more about things you can, that helpless feeling will all but disappear." She got up from the table, again. "Do what you want for today. In the morning, be prepared to work." She left the room and April heard the door shut lightly.
She looked at the wall to where the door had been as if she could see through it. She hadn't really even been aware of the helpless feeling Vaiya was talking about, but now that someone mentioned it to her she could feel it clearly. She suddenly wanted to do something, anything that wasn't just sitting and waiting for seven years to pass.
"Seems like a lot to think about," she heard Sheik say.
She sighed, and looked toward him.
"I agree."
"I'm really not much good for these kinds of conversations," he admitted. "But eventually I know you're probably going to need help, and almost anyone here would be willing to give it."
She half smiled. "That's nice to know."
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**Yes, the mood of this story has most definitely changed. I'm trying here, though. *sigh* Is anyone confused? I am. Ehehee....No really, if anyone is confused, tell me. I might have to go back in the story and change a few things. Most likely not much, but I'm going to have to see with what's coming up in the story. Okay, so, I'm sorry for the lack of updates! And thanks for reading, and please review!! I will HOPEFULLY be updating soon! ^_^()
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