"WHAT IN THE DARK REALM!?" she yelled, spinning three-hundred-and-sixty degrees.
The bed was a twin bed, piled with machine made comforters in a pattern like a tiger's skin. There were posters on the walls of singers that she didn't recognize and movie stars who meant nothing at all to her. The morning light told her, only by the way it looked, that it was still early summer.
She was home.
On Earth.
April, Zelda of Hyrule only seconds before, started screaming at the top of her lungs.
She heard thundering footsteps down the hall, and her sister threw open the door.
The girl would have stopped screaming, but she only paused and then begun wailing again as she realized that she could not remember her sister's name.
"What's your problem!?" the dark-haired girl named Margarita yelled over her sister's bawling.
"WHERE AM I!?!?" April screamed.
"At home, stupid!!!"
That only provoked the girl's crying, and she collapsed suddenly onto the floor.
Her sister, now concerned for April's sanity, hesitantly crossed the floor and put a hand on her sister's back, even though the thirteen-year-old girl flinched at the contact.
"Hey..." Maggie said in a quieter voice. "Did you have a nightmare or something?"
The crying didn't cease, and April didn't answer.
"It's okay," the dark-haired one said, in what she hoped was a comforting voice. "You're home, now. You're awake... And everything's okay."
'No, it's not. No, I'm not... How could I be?' the girl thought, bitterly.
That afternoon, in the Greene house, Margarita, April, and their brother sat in the living room, watching April finally beat the final boss of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
And when the polygonal Ganondorf fell, and the miniature Link and Zelda ran through a collapsing Castle, and Ganon finally revealed himself from the rubble, all April did was stare at the screen.
"Yay," said she, when she re-obtained the Master Sword.
"Shouldn't you be just a bit more enthusiastic that th-" her brother began, but abruptly cut himself off when Maggie grabbed his arm, pointing to the N64 with a shaking hand.
"Ah... A-April...." Maggie stammered.
"Yeah?" the girl said, turning around.
"...Your controller isn't plugged in."
April's eyes widened, staring between her controller and the system. Her head spun, and she looked back at her siblings, who looked to be in a state between shock and horror.
She couldn't say anything. She could only repress the terrible desire to plug the control in.
Her siblings stared at her.
Plug it in
This time, April was sure that she heard the voice. And she knew exactly Who had given her that command, however silly and commercial-esque it may have sounded.
Without hesitation, April Greene reached forward and took the end of the wire, with the green plastic cover, into one hand, while she held the system in the other.
And she plugged it in.
"How bad is it?" Mrs. Greene, holding her family in one huddle by the side of a hospital bed.
"Though we aren't exactly sure of the causes, or the results, of this..." The doctor shook his head in confusion. "There's a good chance that probably she won't wake up."
The family drew in one breath, simultaneous shock.
"So you're saying...?" April's father asked.
"I'm saying that April will probably never wake up."
"I don't get it..." Maggie mumbled, the state of shock not worn off at all. "All she did was plug in the controller..."
"How could that have shocker her like that?" her brother asked.
"I honestly don't know," the doctor answered. "But what I do know is that whatever caused this put her brain into a state of completely shock. And I've never heard of electricity doing that...."
A bodiless spirit heard all of this from a gap between dimensions.
I died.... from plugging my controller in!? April laughed.
Aye, answered a voice.
Nayru? the spirit asked, spinning around.
Nayru, Goddess of Wisdom, smiled. You didn't think that Destiny was going to let you get away from your own destiny, did you?
I-I....
You obviously didn't think very clearly, the Goddess sighed. We only needed a way to end April's life. Once and for all. And the end of Ganon, in which Zelda effectively left a moment long gap in the dimensions, was a perfect opportunity for us to do this.
Thinking that that sounded rather heartless out of the context of her whole, extremely twisted existence, April asked, feeling very guilty that she couldn't do more for them, of even feel more sad that she was leaving them, And my family...?
They will recover, in time.
And electricity? April said, laughing once more.
The Goddess shrugged. Stranger things have happened.
And April, who was suddenly not April anymore, left that gap.
Her spirit fled, across planes and dimensions, to the place she had come to call home.
Zelda awoke in her courtyard, sitting on the limb of a tree and staring into a window of brilliant stained glass.
"Holy...!" she sputtered, stumbling backward.
She fell, and heard the sickening thud of her body hitting the ground, but she laughed anyway.
"I'm back!!!" she yelled, getting up and looking around the elaborate courtyard.
And then she looked down at her hands, at herself, and realized that she was once again the child Princess of Hyrule.
A sudden onslaught of light footsteps penetrated her train of thought, and she didn't have to turn around to see who it was.
But she did, anyway.
They stood there like that for all of a minute, the Princess of Destiny and the Hero of Time, blue gaze once again meeting blue gaze as the children took the moment to take in the sight of the other.
"Do you remember?" Zelda asked
Link only nodded.
She thus proceeded to run across the short distance, grab him into a rough hug, and knock them both to the ground.
"This reminds me vaguely of something" Link said, looking up at the Princess of Hyrule while she blushed a bright pink.
"Ahem," she muttered, jumping up and brushing herself off.
Link smiled, and she helped him up as well.
"So..." Link began.
"It worked," Zelda affirmed, not needing to know what he was thinking. "Hyrule is back to the way it was; only without Ganondork and all of that."
"Good."
Zelda stared at him playfully for a moment, before she said, "I told you I could make it work."
And they smirked simultaneously as Zelda suddenly sprung to life again, dragging them both into Hyrule Castle.
Well... That was, effectively, the end of it.
La la la?
Is anyone as confused as I am about this story? ............. Ah, well.
Enjoy the next chapter. The Epilogue.
And now, I thank everyone who's read this random fic. I did have fun working on it, and I'm glad that I've finally come to the end. (Glad that it's finally all updated!!!!!) Because giving up is for quitters!!
Thank you, everyone!!
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