Ok, sorry about the delay on this chapter.... I had everything ready, I WAS ABOUT TO FINISH IT TOO! When my mom had to delete EVERY SINGLE THING in the computer. Basically what I'm saying is that my mom had to restart the computer and everything was erased!
Navi: That just isn't fair!
I know that it isn't! And just guess how many viruses that we had in the computer?
Navi: You aren't going to believe it!
FIFTY-FIVE! How can...? GRR!
Navi: She was almost finished too! Sniffle so close....
Ok, I own nothing of Zelda and never will but the script, Milo, Kilo, Milan, Kalona, Lale, Kale, Wes, and Tali are mine so if you take any of that I get to sue you and buy a new computer! o
Chapter Eighteen: Wrong GhostZelda walked quietly down the hall as the other two ghosts followed quietly behind her. One question was bugging her, and she knew that it wouldn't go away until she asked.
"Milan, has Link arrived here in the Temple?" Zelda finally asked after her curiosity won over her stubbornness. Or perhaps, one part of her said, its your heart that won and not the curiosity?
"He has arrived, I can feel his life energy. He is doing well; I do not feel anything pulling on his life."
Zelda nodded just as Kalona asked a question.
"Who is this man? Is he old?"
"No, he's maybe just about a year older then I am."
"Hmm.... Who is he to you?" Kalona asked with pure curiosity.
"We are fighting partners, we came here with the same ambition. But we had to leave to re-supply and rest. And after a few days... I left before he did."
"Oh, why?"
"I forgot about him or something... I wasn't thinking strait."
Zelda sighed and nearly bumped into the door at the end of the hallway. She blinked and then shook her head as she opened it.
This time it was a garden outside filled with flowers and many plants that for once didn't look like they would pop up and try to eat her. The sun was to the west but the tall stones walls didn't block it out. Zelda felt her heart lift and she took in a deep breath of air.
"It's so... wonderful." Milan whispered. "I haven't been outside ever since we all died...."
Kalona slowly floated forward and lifted up her arms and tilted her head to the sky. Zelda watched for a moment and then picked a spot on the green ground to sit down on. She looked back just as Milan bent to the ground and looked at the flowers. Zelda smiled and then started getting out some food out of her pack and started eating. She took out some water and let the coolness of it quench her thirst. She sighed and continued, her stomach now controlling her.
"Oh! Beautiful! The sky has never looked so blue! The grass so green! The flowers are so sweet...." Kalona floated around the garden in circles singing something as Milan stood up and laughed and started floating around the garden along with Kalona singing as well.
Zelda ate some of the food that Link had given, and she ate it with her mind focused on him. She tried to get him out as she always did, but for some reason she didn't try as hard as she usually did to get him out of her head.
After taking in another mouthful of water she put away her canteen. She lay down, and used her pack as a pillow as she closed her eyes. She could hear Milan and Kalona laughing with each other as she slowly slipped into sleep.
Link walked into another room, circular and stone gray walls.
"Nothing is in here, guess that we should keep on going." Link told the Korkori ghosts that floated around him. Wes stood (or floated) next to Link, waving his arms and humming.
Link walked all the way across the room and opened the door to the next room.
Link walked in and immediately felt his stomach twist. He was in a hallway, but towards the end it opened up more. He couldn't tell why his stomach had acted like so, but something was obviously wrong. He could feel it.
He walked to the end of the hallway where it opened up and saw what he had felt that was so mysterious.
This room was square, smaller then normal, but the thing about it was, was that it appeared that Link wasn't on the floor but on the ceiling.
"This has to be an illusion." Link finally said, then he heard small little giggles. Turning around, he saw that the Korkori ghosts were upside down. Or was it he that was the one upside down?
"It is you who is the wrong way!" Giggled Kilo.
Link frowned and felt his head and realized that he wasn't wearing his hat anymore, and then he also noticed that the bottom of his tunic was going up instead of down. And just to make the moment even grander, his sword slipped out his sheath.
Kicking himself, Link reclaimed his sword and walked back to get his hat. Picking it up and putting his hat back on his sword slipped out again. Link sighed and grabbed his sword, this time simply keeping his hand on the handle.
"How could this happen? I don't get it!" Link gritted his teeth and walked back to the waiting ghosts.
"It is the riddle of this room," said a voice out of no-where. Link jumped and looked around. "Come out and look to your left, there's a glass floor that'll keep you from falling."
Link slowly stepped out, first testing to make sure that it was sturdy. Assured that it was, he stepped fully onto it and looked to his left. It was a ghost, but to Link's complete disbelief and horror it was a sister.
"My name is Liana, yours?"
Link stared for a moment as the others gasped and the zoomed over and started hugging the portrait the held the brown-haired light-eyed beauty.
"Uh, Link."
She laughed and smiled at him, but then the smile turned to a frown.
"Unfortunate I can feel that you have no magic... so you can't free me. I guess that I must wait another century or two before another with your skill and courage can come in here.... And they would have to have magic as well. Not good at all."
Link shook his head and snapped back into his normal self.
"I may not have magic," he began. "But I have a fighting partner who does. She's somewhere in this Temple... I just don't where. I didn't lose her, but...." Link told the ghost the story of how many other ghosts they had freed and how they had taken time to rest. But then how Zelda had run off before he had, so he had no idea where she was.
"Interesting." Liana told Link. "What is her name? You haven't told me."
"Zelda, her name is Zelda."
"What a beautiful name! I love it. Never heard it before, it is just as unique as yours."
Link blushed and then smiled at her.
"Zelda..." he said. "I don't where she is, but we're bond to meet somewhere in this crazy Temple. And Kale will tell her where to go, so she should come here."
Link smiled at his words, he hadn't even thought about that before he had said it. The words had just spilled out his mouth!
Liana smiled and clapped happily.
"Then I shall be out soon! I can't wait to stretch out these stiff arms!"
Zelda woke a good two hours later, Kalona and Milan's laughing bringing her awake. Opening her eyes she stretched and sat up looking at the others still laughing together. They weren't dancing, but were pointing and laughing at other things as if children. It must have that affect after not seeing sunlight in such a long, long time. Zelda didn't blame them; she had felt giddy when the sunlight had first touched her face.
Drinking some water again and putting it away she stood up slowly, getting some real stretching done.
She was about to tell the others that they needed to get going when she found that she wanted to stay just a bit longer when a thought came into her mind. She wanted to read.
Sitting down again she looked through her pack again and found the book that Impa had given her at the bottom of her pack. Nearly jumping with joy she opened it up, it took her a while to find the page but eventually she had it and had her nose stuck in the book almost as if it was glued. She read quickly, a trick that she had gotten when she was about ten or nine, she had always read. It had been something that she had done all of her life, and something that she enjoyed. And something that Impa approved of as well.
She read and read, the hours passing by. Both living and the dead weren't keeping track of the time, both wrapped up in their joy. Whether it was reading, or whether it was looking at flowers or pointing at something that you remember you hide there and never remembered where you had put it; both were having joy and happiness flowing through their souls.
Zelda had read at least four five hours before she realized that she needed to get going. She put her book away hastily, and then took out some water to drink. She didn't have a headache; her brain had grown used to reading for long periods of time. After finishing she put her canteen away and swung her pack over her back and then stood up.
"I feel horrible for telling the both of you this," Zelda told Milan and Kalona as she walked over. "But we should leave. You all may stay, but I must go."
Milan turned around and stood up from her crouched position, as did Kalona. Both of them made one of the most sorrowful looks that she had ever seen, but then they seemed to force a smile onto their faces.
"We will not leave your side! You are the one to free us!" Kalona exclaimed as she stretched her arms out to Zelda. "Oh! You are truly a kind person to tell us to stay here, but we will stay with you Milady!"
Zelda smiled and thought over 'Milady' for moment.
"Kalona is right, we won't stay here." Milan said with a nod.
Zelda laughed and then hugged Kalona who gasped. After a moment Zelda let her go and hugged Milan, who gasped as well. Zelda let go of Milan and then smiled at the two.
"I did not know that we could touch!" Kalona cried out as she touched her arms. "My arms tingle with the touch of your life, it feels wonderful!" She laughed and did a small spin in the air.
Zelda nodded and looked around, searching for the exit. There didn't seem to be one, but how could that be? All that there was, was an old well off in the corner.'
The old well that had to be the exit! There was nothing else, and how could there be a dead end? Zelda hadn't run into any before, and maybe this would be the first one. But she should at least check the well first.
She walked over; seeing that the top of the well wasn't covered she leaned over the edge and looked down.
She couldn't see the bottom; all that she saw was a portal of never-ending darkness. It didn't seem reassuring, but it was the only place to go except for back. And she wasn't planning on going that way.
Without even knowing what she was doing, she raised her hand up as if she was going to touch a wall and a light appeared.
"Well that was convenient." Zelda said to herself, "I didn't even need to say a spell! It must all of that magic that the Deku Tree gave me!" She said this more to the ghosts that appeared at both sides then to her.
"Amazing! It truly is beautiful!" remarked Kalona as she stared at the light as if it was her link to going to the Great Goddesses. Milan shook her head and then peered over the well.
Zelda tested to see if her magic could do something that she wished that she could do ever since she had learned how to make a tiny speck of light.
She focused her magic on the light, thinking about it going down....
It went down, to her delight and kept on going down. Lighting the sides of the well it went down slowly. Unfortunately, as it went farther and farther down Zelda still couldn't see the bottom. It was almost out of sight until Zelda pulled it back up, happy that she didn't have to hold the light any longer.
It drifted up the well faster then it had gone down, and soon it was floating just above the well to the side to let Zelda go down.
"Well, time to see what's at the bottom." Zelda told the others as she swung over the side of the well and felt for something to support her weight on. She found an iron bar, and when put her weight on it she found that it did not break. All wells had iron bars on the side, in case something dear to you fell down the well.
She started down, her light going down so it could guide Zelda's feet so she would not slip. Milan and Kalona drifted down slowly after Zelda, making sure not accidentally crowd each other.
Zelda went down, farther and farther, but soon Zelda felt her feet touch the bottom of the well, that had gone by faster then she thought it would.
Kalona and Milan almost ran into Zelda, actually, the fact is is that they did. After running into each other and Zelda swearing, they all got down safely with Zelda's light letting them know where they were going.
"Well, this looks like a cozy." Zelda remarked as she looked about the stonewalls, slightly shivering from the cold. There was something like a river next to her, murmuring quietly to itself.
Zelda walked forward, her footsteps echoing after her. Kalona and Milan followed, both cautiously.
'Having a nice time, Zelda?'
'Kale! What happened to you?'
'Being in your body makes me sleepy, for a reason I do not know.'
'How close to the next ghost?'
'You are not far.' Kale replied, and that was all that she said.
Zelda nodded, and then quickened her pace, hoping to get to her destination without a problem.
It didn't take long until they made it to the end of the well, with a portrait waiting for them with a small torch burning next to it. Unfortunately, it wasn't what any of the three expected.
A Korkori ghost sat in the portrait instead of a sister, she was looking nervously at Zelda, rubbing her little hands like a rag.
"Wh-who are you?" The little girl asked in a quiet voice, shrinking in her chair as Zelda came a bit closer.
"My name is Zelda...." Zelda whispered as looked at the little Korkori with light blue hair and green eyes, along with a green tunic. She looked scared to... well... I can't say death, for she was already dead!
"Tali!" Kalona cried, she flew into Zelda, knocking Zelda over. It didn't faze Kalona though, she ignored it and pressed her hands up against the invisible barrier that 'Tali' was trapped in. "Tali! Tali! Tali! Tali! Tali! Tali! Here you are! Oh how I have missed you!"
Kalona started getting excited, talking like her life depended on it. She was taking in deep breaths as well, Zelda just stared at Kalona, amazed.
"Kalona!" Milan cried after a minute went by of Kalona talking and everyone, even Tali, staring at her. "You're going to hyperventilate! Stop talking!"
Milan put her hand over Kalona's mouth, and finally Kalona stopped talking... although the few seconds she kept on going, not noticing that Milan's hand was over her mouth.
Zelda shook her head and chuckled to herself as she stood up and looked around. She stopped laughing as she saw an illustration of the sun on the wall.
Zelda got it instantly, and she walked up to Tali's portrait and took off of the wall. Tali screamed as she fell off of her chair and onto a side of her prison.
"Sorry Tali." Zelda told her as she walked back to the ladder that was off in the distance, her light trailing behind her.
"Milady!" Kalona cried as she followed Zelda. "I believe in everyone wondrous skill that you have but what are you doing?"
"You'll see, Kalona." Zelda replied as she kept on walking. Tali was grabbing her chair, which hadn't moved, it appeared that it was somehow stuck to where in was.
Milan followed as well, Kalona making a fuss as she fiddled with her hair.
After Zelda was thinking about locking Kalona in the well, she made it to the ladder. It would be tough climbing the ladder with only one hand, but she had to do it. Grabbing an iron bar with one hand, and her foot on one, Zelda pulled herself and Tali up. Although, she went off to the side and almost fell off, but she kept a grip as her feet dangled. She let herself drop, and then tried to climb the ladder again with same results.
Sighing, Zelda looked longingly at the ladder. It was obvious that she wouldn't be able to make up in her present form....
"I have no choice." She whispered to herself. Even though she had told Kale her secret, she didn't want to tell the others. She had been finding herself telling Kale things that she wouldn't tell others... and she didn't want to share this secret with the others at all.
"Uh.... Kalona, Milan, don't... freak out."
"Why would we Milady?" Kalona asked with a curious face. Zelda sighed and put Tali's portrait down softly, although she couldn't avoid Tali screaming again as she shifted.
Zelda got ready to perform her spell, but just as she was about to say it Kale interrupted her.
'Use no words Zelda, just like the light. It will come.'
Zelda wondered for a moment why it would be Kale who would know this, but shrugged it off remembering that Kale had never said anything unwise before.
Zelda took in a deep breath, and then called her Sheikah magic out. And in a flash of light, she was no longer Zelda the sorceress; he was Sheik, a survivor of the Sheikah.
Kalona screeched at the top of her lungs, and Sheik had to cover his ears in pain.
"Kalona!" Sheik yelled, it didn't work and Sheik yelled even louder: "KALONA!"
Kalona stopped screaming and looked at Sheik with bewildered eyes.
"Calm down," Sheik told her. "It's me, calm down."
"Milady! But you don't sound like a lady! Nor do you have to muscles of one!"
"I would explain... but I don't feel like it." Sheik replied. "But you have to promise me upon your death that you will NEVER tell anyone about this different form until you join the Three Great Goddesses in the heavens!"
"I shall," Kalona told him in a timid tone, Milan drifted up to Sheik and looked at him strait in the eyes.
"It is you Zelda..." Milan whispered, then she smiled and nodded. "I promise."
"You too Tali?" Sheik asked the little Korkori staring up with wide eyes. She quickly nodded and Sheik sighed. That had been easier then he had thought it would be, but what his concern should be would be to get Tali up the ladder and into the sunlight.
Picking Tali up, he looked up the tall ladder and then crouched down. Looking up, he jumped up higher then Link ever could and started doing wall kicks against the wall to jump up the well.
Sheik jumped out of the well soon enough, and as the sunlight touched Tali's portrait it exploded on Sheik's side, knocking him to the side and also all of the air that he had in his lungs. Even so, he landed on the ground without as much as a sound, and stood back up as if nothing had happened.
Tali looked around, and tiny smile spread across her face as she felt the sunlight hit it. She giggled and started looking around slowly.
Sheik smiled and reached up to scratch his head but stopped when he felt wraps on his head. He then felt his face and found that his scarf was there as well; even the little wraps on his fingers were still in place. He couldn't remember doing so, but he shrugged it off, happy that he didn't have to put it on and then take it off.
Kalona and Milan appeared out of the well as Tali looked at some roses.
"Milady! How can you jump so high?" Kalona exclaimed.
"Please, while I am Sheik I am a man, so please do not call me 'Milady'. It would jeopardize my secret."
"You turned into a man?" Kalona screamed, Sheik shook his head and sighed.
"No, I am still female although my voice has changes, along with my body. Although my face still remains the same, except with red eyes and tanned skin."
"Oh, so you didn't change you sex?" Kalona sighed and smiled. "Oh! I did not understand sir! But... you don't act like Zelda."
"It's something that has kicked in when I turn into this form, I change the way that I act and also if you have noticed I do not say, 'don't', I say 'do not'. It's just something that is done after many years of practice."
"Oh! What magnificent mind strength that you have!"
Sheik shook his head and than searched for Kale in his mind.
'Kale, may I ask where the next sister is?'
'You passed her.'
'WHAT?'
'You passed her, go back, it should take you four hours to get where she is. You must have passed a hidden doorway. I would have told you, but I was sleeping.'
'It is fine, I wouldn't have been able to find Kalona without you.'
Kale smiled along with Sheik, and then Sheik looked to the door that he had come through to get to the garden and then back to Tali.
"I am sorry to ruin your happiness, but we must continue." He told Tali, she turned around and smiled.
"I am ready, but may I please ask that we take a flower with us?"
Sheik nodded, a smile on his face.
"Which would you like, young one?" He asked, she laughed and then pointed at a white rose.
"I am older then you are!" Tali giggled as Sheik walked over and searched for the largest and most beautiful white rose that he could find. Once he did, he pulled out Nocturnal Edge. He cut the rose off of the stem, carefully avoiding the thorns. Once done, he quickly cut off the thorns and then lifted it up to Tali.
"I can't touch it." Tali told him sadly.
"Ah yes." Sheik remarked as he brought it back down to his face. Taking his shawl down he blew on it and then lifted the rose back up along with his shawl. "The breath of the Sheikah allows the dead to touch things that they usually can't."
Tali reached out and lightly took the rose from Sheik's hand. She touched its petals softly, and then a tear slowly trickled down her face.
"Thank you," She whispered. "I have never been so happy...."
Sheik bowed and then looked to Milan and Kalona.
"You ladies want a flower?" He asked.
AND THERE WAS THE DAMN CHAPTER!
Navi: Took you long enough to finished it.
Yes! I am done with it! Ah, and I wanted to thank for all of you for bearing with me! And also, I wanted to thank one of my reviewers for telling me that I am an elf! So happy!
Navi: I need to get back to Hyrule.
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