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Time travel is relative.
It exists. Oh, yes. It's not even a question of whether it's physically possible or not. It's just a matter of how one goes about completing it.
For example. If one were to go to the past, fix something that they wanted to have accomplished, and come back to the future, that certain little event in the past would have fixed whatever it was that one wanted fixing in the future. However, what if that thing one wanted fixing in the present was already fixed in the present, but it was just a matter of one having to go back into the past to make it true in the past that lead to the present, thus keeping the universe from forming a paradox?
And if both these methods of time travel were in existence at the same time, are they both the one that is available for people to use, or is only one supposed to be used and the other one creating a paradox? Or, do things happen in the past based on how they react with the future that they are coming in contact with? Are there alternate realities with the same past, but because of time travel, have different futures?
Confused?
So was I, before I realized that thinking about the damn subject too much was not worth my sanity.
Still, it isn't as if I don't think about the implications of all this time traveling for their sake.
They're off right now. Saving the world, or something to that extent. Each one, their own task to complete. Given to them by the Goddesses, their destiny.
Bah. Destiny.
Yes, I'm a Sheikah, and I'm supposed to understand all of this mystical nonsense that everyone else just takes for granted as the underlying laws of the universe. I think I've hung around Zelda long enough to realize that all of these laws are incredibly relative. Except... when it comes to her, everything is relative except one's Absolute Destiny.
People would probably pay to hear the Princess of Hyrule spout of like she does about destiny and DESTINY, Fate and Nayru and all the mess of knowledge that the Triforce of Wisdom has implanted in that little head of hers. I, for one, would not like to make her mad while she is talking about this subject fervently, as she would be quite likely to take somebody's head off. Most likely mine.
A bit of an odd creature, our Princess. Or, Queen, should I say? Technically, if the heir to the throne has no parent's, aren't they, then, actually in possession of the throne? ...That's just a bit scary to think of this little girl running around, ruling a country...
She's thirteen and something, now. It's almost as if she's counting down the days until she turns seventeen, because she knows that shortly after that time, she's going to get a mental call from the Goddesses, telling her exactly how she's going to get to see Link again. That's going to be in about... four years. Then, she and Link, as she has put it on various occasions, "can go beat up Ganondorf."
Hm. Link. Nothing more than a kid, three years ago.... The same age as Zelda, maybe a bit older. And now, they're supposed to save the world.
And I'm their age.
...
Can't say that I envy them in the slightest.
But I digress.
The point of this time travel babble was that... Well, it's hard to explain my point, exactly. After Vaiya and Zelda had set out to go put another seal on another temple, the Spirit Temple to be exact, Impa and I had done what we'd always done while they were out for the day or two. Just sit around and wait.
So it came as quite a surprise to us that Zelda and Vaiya came back half a day later, Zelda fuming and cursing at random intervals. She kept spouting something off about "that stupid idiot ruining everything," though I don't think any of us were exactly sure what she meant by that at the time. Vaiya looked almost as bewildered as us, but we all knew that she had some semblance of an idea of what was going on in the Princess's mind.
I don't think any of us entirely understands it. But I'm going to give my best summary.
The issue at hand is the seals. The Seals, the ones that we still here in the world of the waking are supposed to put on the Temples to keep them from getting too corrupted with Ganon's minions whilst the Hero of Time is sealed in the sacred realm. Zelda and Vaiya had taken this task upon themselves after we had learned this little bit of information from a little fairy named Mori.
On, and at this same time we'd learned that Zelda was the Seventh Sage.
Only the Hero of Time can awaken all of the Sages. Because of this, well... We obviously need them all alive in order to awaken them. A Seal would have helped with that, very much. The first three temples, Forest, Fire, and Water, the two of them successfully put Seals on, while their Sages are protected by whatever circumstances overtake them during these seven years. They will be awakened by the Hero of Time, Link, when he awakens. Zelda, being the Seventh, only gets to awaken fully when all of the others are awakened. And then they all get to use their mystical, magical powers to throw Ganon into the Dark Realm.
The last two temples needed seals. For some reason, they needed to wait a certain amount of time in between these seals, because the land can only output so much magically energy at a time. So they went to the Spirit Temple, as they would with any other temple. Of course, they went armed with Vaiya's knowledge of contacting people in spirit and all of that, as Zelda had 'seen' something about the Sage, a Gerudo woman named Nabooru, not being at the temple or anywhere that would be of any use to them. The problem turned up in the fact that not only was Nabooru not there, she was trapped in a place completely separate from our reality; almost as if someone had brainwashed her.
Zelda, of course, knew exactly about these circumstances.
The Triforce of Wisdom, Nayru, visions, actually going to both the Spirit and Shadow Temples while they were out for that half a day... all of these and gods know what else led her to understand that the last two Temples are involved in a rather delicate web of time travel. The Princess knows that Link will, in the future, past, present, whatever, go to these temples at different times to accomplish different things. This creates, to put it bluntly, a magically mess for anyone who wants to perform any kind of big spell. And not only do they have this disorderly magic residue to deal with pushing aside; apparently, if one does anything to tamped with the time vortex in the slightest until a time at which it is finished in its entirety, which for this situation would be after Link awakens both the Sages of these Temples, the whole "magical mess" will throw that reality into one giant paradox.
Simply, if Zelda contacts any of these sages, all Dark Realm is going to break loose.
So after that, Zelda was sulking over the fact that she couldn't do anything constructive for the last two temples. She knows that the Nabooru woman's safe, and she still gets incredibly evasive when anyone mentions the Sage of Shadow.
We know she knows. She just doesn't want to tell us. Or, as like with some other... certain things we all know she knows, she thinks it better to keep that knowledge to herself.
At first, she kept muttering about the fact that it was "no wonder those Temples were so goddamn hard" and "the idiot Link having no concern over traveling through time," and leaving "a mess for her to clean up when it was all over" and blah blah blah.... I personally think she likes it when she talks about obscure things nobody else has any clue what she means by them.
I sigh.
This mess has to have a simple explanation. It's just that we're all too caught up in the heat of it that we can't look at it from an outsider's perspective.
Maybe that's why I'm explaining this to nobody. Or you.... or whoever. I don't know who in the Dark Realm I think I'm trying to explain this to.
Hyrule is in a mess of trouble because of Ganon. Zelda'd had visions about that when she still lived in the Castle. But then Ganon took over the Castle, her Hero of Time Link got trapped in the Sacred realm for a possible time of seven years, and Zelda was taken here, to this obscure dimension right outside of Hyrule, by her loyal nursemaid Impa. She trained in the arts of magic and music, ancient Sheikah practices and martial arts, even a spell to make her "disappear," all with the help of an obscure book from ancient Sheikah Seers, predecessors of Vaiya. Then, Zelda begins to try to save the world "directly," as she always puts it. She does as much as she can, and then when Destiny decides that She's going to make things complicated, our Queen throws a hissy fit.
Basically, right now.... In Vaiya's house, thing's are not happy.
Zelda is making herself incredibly busy with research and training. She said that even though she might not be able to do anything directly anymore, she wants to be prepared for whatever role the Goddesses would give her in our all-important future. There's been talk of Zelda taking up a disguise. Everyone finds it a perfectly acceptable idea; after all, it's been understood in the house every since the girl got here that she was going to be the one to guide Link, being the one who has the Triforce of Wisdom and basically knows everything, unintentionally or no. It'd make sense that if she doesn't want to be found by Ganondorf, she will have to disguise herself.
This talk of a disguise has lead to long hours of discussion over exactly what that will be. Ganondorf and his minions will be looking for a Hylian girl.
So of course, nobody would expect to look for the crown Princess of Hyrule in a Sheikah boy.
They want to use the disguise of a Sheikah boy.
So what could be better than using the identity of someone she's already connected with, and even knows? Whereas most Hylians will never know, or even hear of, their "mirror," "Other," there are a million names for it, Zelda knows hers.
That would be me.
Sheik of the Sheikah. Mirror to the Queen of Hyrule.
At first, and it had actually been Zelda who'd brought up the idea of her using my identity, I'd laughed at them. I mean, how would that work? But then, we started to piece it together. She would be in Hyrule; the real Sheik would be here.
In the beginning of planning, I'd had the absurd notion that we'd be switching bodies or something. I think, actually, so did she. It was Impa who originally suggested the use of a Sheikah disguise, and they came up with the idea of using my name and appearance. Seeing as nobody in Hyrule knows about me, and she already shares a general appearance with me, and has a similar soul or however you explain the Mirror businesses, would could be easier?
Now in the farther stages of planning this, they decided on using something called a Glamour. It's a spell that 'magically' appeared in the Book one day, as everything they need seems to. Vaiya had actually come across it, and realized that with all the training Zelda had already done, it shouldn't be too difficult to teach her the ways she would need to know to 'become' a young Sheikah man. At least, pretend to be one.
A Glamour basically consists of changing the outward appearance of a person to resemble someone else. However, it would only make that person look like that other someone to people's eyes. No actual change in ability, strength, gender, what have you, would actually take place. Zelda could summon the disguise and discard it with ease. Easy, right?
Except for all the planning and initial spell writing we have to do, it is.
With four years left to perfect the disguise, and for Zelda to learn all the skills she needs, it seems like we have a lot of time on our hands. But these things pass so quickly when one's actually got something to accomplish. And with Zelda's mind finally focused on something else she can do to assist her Hero "directly," she's actually quite exited about the time coming.
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I can't help but pity us all, just a little bit.
And even though I said things weren't exactly happy right now... That' just because of all the fighting we've been doing over this Glamour thing. Mood swinging, much? Yep.
But that's us. Your not-quite-so-happy, dysfunctional little group of a Queen, her nursemaid/warrior, a Seer, and a kid who happens to share a part of the Queen's soul. And we all get to help in saving the world. Indirectly or "directly."
I swear, Zelda's rubbing off on me.
I can't help but laugh.
We actually are quite the happy little group. And I don't think we would have it any other way.
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***Lalala..... In't this fun? Random little first person input from Sheik. Because I can. *cackle* But, you know, I've got so many new ideas for this story, now, that I don't think I'll have many problems. .....Also, I hope you didn't have problems understanding what I was trying to get across in this chapter... Meh. Oh, and I went back to other chapters and fixed some things, so you might wanna go back and reread parts of this story. Most notably in chapters 22 and 23, but there are a few other random places that I can't quite remember.
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