Hello my readers! Isn't it a great day?
Navi: You seem happier then usual.
That's because I am! Commander Link is back! I'M SO HAPPY!
Navi: Commander Link... who is.... Wait, isn't he that guy that kept on giving you death threats if you didn't update fast enough? And didn't he also give money to your three other muses Hail, Sleet, and Gust to do something horrible to you?
Yes! That's him!
Navi: And you're happy that he's reviewing again?
Of course I am! I love each and every reviewer! Well, maybe not someone that's flamed me....
Navi: Has anyone ever flamed you?
Yes, in fact someone has. He was a reviewer for my Soul Calibur II fic and he told me that my story sucked and that I knew squat about Zelda!
Navi: That's mean!
Actually, we're really good e-mail friends now!
Navi: I'm not even going to ask how that happened.
Ehehehehe....
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Chapter Nineteen: Last Sister
Sheik got a yellow rose for Kalona, and a red rose for Milan. He shaved off the thorns, and then gently blew on it so they would be able to touch it. Both Kalona and Milan were fancying over their roses, as Tali simply touched it with a smile on her face.
"Time to get going, I hope that you enjoy your roses. Do not answer that." He told them just as they opened their mouths, they closed and they all smiled at Sheik.
Sheik walked over to the door and opened it, hearing and seeing nothing he walked on.
"You are going to stay in that form Mi- I mean sir?" asked Kalona.
"Yes, I shall keep this form. I should save my magic for the last sister, for she shall be the last free."
"You sound cryptic." Milan told him. (Cryptic... ha!)
Sheik laughed as he walked down the hall.
"I sound cryptic? All Sheikah act cryptic, for they live in the shadows and must be cryptic. So that it how I act, as cryptic as I can be."
"The Sheikah.... I can remember them." Tali remarked. "They came to the Forest Temple to help us with containing the magic since none of had any. Us Korkori had been chosen by the Deku Tree to help as well. Korkori hold the forest, the Gorons hold the fire, the Gerado hold spirit, the Sheikah hold shadow, and Nayru holds time."
Sheik looked at Tali curiously as he stopped by the door.
"How do you know all of that?" he asked.
"It is something that you must know to be a guardian of the temple." Milan replied.
"How can it be that only Nayru holds time?"
"Nayru holds time for she is the wisest and the one most fit for holding time. Farore and Din do not have the wisdom to control time."
Sheik nodded, his hand on the doorknob. He thought for a moment and Milan said something as well.
"It was Nayru that thought of creating the Temples. At least, that is what it is said. She is the thinker, Farore is the provider, and Din is the one that has the strength. Without each other the Three Great Goddesses would not be so great. They built Hyrule together, Din the foundation, Farore the nurturer, and Nayru the one to give us air."
Sheik nodded, he had heard something close to this before, although it must have been a long time ago for he never remembered ever hearing anyone telling him so.
He opened the door and walked though it, and continued on waiting for Kale to tell him when to stop.
It was a good four or five hours before he heard Kale tell him,
'Stop, to your left. Blast the wall and a door will appear. Once in there, you shall be turned upside down and it will appear that you will fall if you go out into the room but there will be glass to stop you from falling.'
"Aha, we go left." Sheik told the others, and he knew that to blast the wall he needed to once again be the wandering sorceress Zelda.
In a flash of light, Zelda was there once more.
"Alright, let's get rolling!" Zelda told the others with a smile.
"You really are good with that acting thing." Milan remarked, Zelda laughed and then threw a ball of magic and blasted away a piece of the wall.
Zelda smiled to herself as she walked forward, placing her hand on the cold doorknob she twisted it and opened the door.
She immediately walked forward and felt herself being twisted or something as such but found that it didn't bother her much. She stepped onto the glass without hesitation, and she jumped up when she heard two familiar voices yell her name.
"ZELDA!" Milo and Kilo cried energetically at the same time. They went forward and smashed into her with hugs. Zelda shook her head bewildered as Kalona, Milan and Tali floated in behind Zelda.
"Uh, hello." Zelda replied shocked, and then when Milo and Kilo saw Kalona and Tali they let go of Zelda and zoomed over as other Korkori ghosts zoomed over as well.
Zelda got the impact when Link was standing right in front of her with a big smile on his face.
"Zelda!"
"Link!"
Link was struck dumb when Zelda had marched in without even realizing that he was there, but right at that moment it didn't matter. He was keeping himself from hugging Zelda right then, but he didn't hide his excitement to see her.
"Zelda!"
"Link!"
Link smiled from ear to ear and Zelda laughed.
"Nice to see you Link." Zelda told him.
"Great to see you Zelda! Why'd you leave without me?"
Zelda blushed but didn't look down.
"I was wrapped up in the moment and wasn't think strait."
"And you also took one of my belts."
Zelda smiled and put a hand on Link's belt that was around her waist.
"I promise to get you one." She told him firmly with a smile.
"Oh, is this the young woman you told me about?" Liana asked Link, he nodded as Zelda looked at her.
"You're the last sister?" Zelda asked, Liana nodded and the smile on her face went larger.
"You can free me?" she asked, Zelda smiled and nodded. "Oh! I feel young again.... But where is Kale?"
"Here." Kale said from Zelda's mouth, Link jumped, remembering that Kale was inside of Zelda. Liana tilted her head to the side and then smiled.
"Oh! You are inside of Zelda? How convenient for you!" Liana exclaimed.
The ghosts that Zelda had gathered went over to Liana now, and they all smiled and laughed together.
Zelda could feel that Kale wanted to join them all, to be able to see them all not through Zelda's eyes but her own.
'You want out?' Zelda asked.
'Oh, Zelda....'
'What? You've already led me to the last sister Kale, you should go.'
'Zelda....'
Zelda felt a small jab in her chest, her hand went up to her chest and she felt Kale starting to leave her body. She could hear Link saying,
"What's wrong Zelda?"
In a small flash of light like when Zelda turned into Sheik, Kale flew out of Zelda's body and into her ghost-like-self. She shook her head and then looked around.
Zelda smiled as Kale floated over to the others, her dark brown hair slowly waving. It felt odd not having another spirit inside of her body, but at the same time it was a relief.
Link looked as Kale zipped out of Zelda's body, and saw Kale as Kale for the first time. He smiled and then looked at Zelda.
Zelda smiled at him and then leaned forward and fell into Link's arms. He caught her, but stumbled a little since he hadn't expected that to happen. Zelda immediately stood back up and shook her head.
"Sorry Link, I had a head rush."
"O-OK." Link told her, he had liked the feel of Zelda in his arms, it had only been a moment but it felt like time had gone just a bit slower then usual.
Zelda looked around, and that's when her circlet fell off her head and hit the floor, or the better way to say it would be the ceiling.
"Oh no! My circlet!" Zelda looked at her circlet, a frown on her face. She reached up to grab it, but unfortunately she was barely too short to touch it. Her fingers were not even a hundredth of an inch, but she just couldn't get it!
Link reached over and took it down and handed it to Zelda with a smile.
"Thank you!" She exclaimed as she took it and then tucked it in her, or really Link's, belt so it wouldn't become airborne again.
Link blushed and felt slightly light-headed, glad that he could do something to make Zelda happy.
Then, Zelda looked around the room, hoping to see something that would help her figure out what to do to free Liana.
"There's nothing here!" Zelda cried after ten minutes of looking about the room. "Nothing but glass and us!"
Link looked at Zelda instantly, smiling.
"What?" she asked when she looked at him.
"Glass!" Link told her, she frowned and tilted her head to the left.
"Glass? What about it?"
"The glass! You've got to break the glass!"
Link watched as Zelda thought for a second and then nodded.
"Cleaver Link! I don't know why I couldn't figure that out myself!"
Link smiled and then grabbed the hilt of his sword tighter.
"I'll try to break it first." Link told Zelda, she shook her head and then explained.
"But only magic can free the sisters, this glass must be enchanted. You can try though."
Link nodded and then pointed at the glass beneath his feet and then slammed his sword as hard as he could into the glass.
The glass had to be enchanted, for Link's sword bounced off like it was rubber and then hit and stayed on the ceiling. Zelda laughed hysterically as Link blushed and grabbed his sword, glaring at it even though it had been his own fault.
She kept on laughing, and Link blushed even more.
"Hey! You give it a try!" Link cried after feeling that he had been laughed at enough.
"Alright.... Fine." Zelda chuckled, she stopped laughing and then faced her palms at the floor, but just as her hands started glowing she started cracking up again.
"The way that you looked!" Zelda pointed at Link and bent over. "Your face was worth more rupees then you'll ever earn!"
Link's frowned deepened and he blushed even deeper.
"It isn't that funny!" He fumed.
Zelda straitened her back and out her hand over her mouth still giggling. Link could tell that she was trying her best to stop, but it obviously wasn't working.
"I'm... s-sorry...." She got out, still chuckling.
Link just frowned, but at least his blush lessened.
Link watched as her laugh died out finally, and she was finally able to look at him again without cracking up. Although he could see the laughter that danced in her eyes.
"Alright, my turn." Zelda told him with a smile.
"Humph." Link replied.
Her hands glowed slightly, and after a few moments she let her magic out in a blast.
The glass broke as quickly as the magic touched it, and Link and Zelda fell down along with it.
Zelda gasped as she fell down, watching as some pieces of glass fell down faster then they did. And then realized something as she fell, something horrible.
The glass falling down faster then she would land on the floor just a little bit before she did, an both her and Link would land on the glass, piercing their skin instantly.
In those few seconds of terror, Zelda fought for the spell to create a shield. She found it, but knew that there wouldn't be enough time for it to be able to cover both her and Link.
She knew what she would, and hoped that she would be able to live through this.
Casting the spell for a shield, she sent it over to Link just as they hit the floor.
Zelda held her cry of pain when she felt the glass go through her skin, although she gasped and gritted her teeth.
She glanced over at Link, who was shaking his head as he sat up from the floor as small pieces of glass fell off of his green tunic. She smiled despite her pain, glad that Link was all right.
Link looked over at Zelda, guessing that whatever she had created had covered her too. But when he saw her body lying there on the floor, he cursed and crawled/ran over to Zelda.
"Zelda!"
Link bent over her and put his hand gently on her back. Wisps of golden hair was covering her face, making Link even more nervous because he couldn't see her eyes to make sure that they weren't permanently closed.
He picked her up gently, being careful not to press in any glass that was already stuck into her skin. He laid her on his lap and held her head up carefully, her eyes were closed....
"Zelda?" Link asked, she opened her eyes slightly and smiled at him.
"Why the hell are you holding me?" She asked him.
Link smiled and sighed, but then his face went serious.
"Why didn't you protect yourself as well?" Link demanded, Zelda laughed as she looked at him.
"Not enough time." She told him as she started to close her eyes.
"No! Don't close your eyes! You're going to make me nervous like that!"
"You sound like my guardian." She told him with a hiss, although she kept her eyes open.
As gently as he could he started to pick out the glass that was in Zelda's skin. There wasn't that much as he thought there would be, but the bad thing was, was that they were large pieces of glass, long and thin.
Authors Note: I'm going to try something different; I'm probably not going to do something like this again. You're going to see things from Link's Point Of View. Got that? You better.
Link POV:
I pluck the glass out of Zelda's skin, as gently as my hands can do it. I'm scared to death right now, hoping that Zelda won't.... no, I won't say it. Because she won't be. She won't leave me, I wouldn't let her anyway.
She just keeps on staring at me with her eyes, that's the only thing that's really reassuring me that she isn't just an empty shell. I can feel the eyes of the ghosts behind me, and for the first time I really wish that they weren't there. I wish that they weren't watching me, it makes me feel uncomfortable.
Kale floats over, and so does Lale.
"Oh," Kale whispers. "Right when I leave your body something dreadful happens!"
"It's alright." Zelda tells her, her voice reassuring me even more. "A little glass can't stop me."
I smile despite my worry and pain and frustration, I laugh at myself, because if Saria has landed on glass like this I wouldn't have worried half as much. I have no idea how it's possible to have more feelings for Zelda then Saria. I don't know why I feel like this, sometimes when I'm with her I feel like I'm floating or something, and when she barely gets a scratch I turn into this worry wart who can't relax until she's back on her feet without as much as a drop of blood on her skin.
What's happened to me? Eesh....
Author's Note: Haha... here's Zelda Point of View. I'm such a sucker!
Zelda's POV:
I wish that I wasn't in Link's arm right now.... I can feel this odd feeling in my stomach right now, and I think that it's coming from the loss of blood that I'm starting to feel... but another part of me is telling that it isn't. So which side is right damn it?
I'm so glad that Link wasn't hurt, although I can tell that he's pissed off at me though. He's so handsome when he has that look on his fa- shut up Zelda!
I have to get up! I can't just lay here in his Link's arms! Ok, get up... get up... crap my muscles aren't doing anything! What's wrong with me? I just can't move....
I really wish that Kale would stop looking at me like that! She's looks so guilty....
"Kale," I tell her in a frustrated voice. "It isn't your fault! Stop beating yourself."
She smiles at, and that gets me even more annoyed.
"I don't think that anything that you say can get me to stop worrying." Kale tells me in her wise voice. I frown and turn my head into Link's chest by accident; I move my head quickly to the other way and blush.
I flinch when Link's pulls out a piece of glass that was stuck in VERY firmly into my skin.
"Zelda! Are you alright?" Link asks as if I had just been stabbed in the stomach.
"I'm fine, don't worry." I tell him freely letting the annoyance show in my tone. Stop worrying about me already! I swear! This isn't the end of the world... shesh....
Author's Note: That must have come out badly... oh well. I wanted to try something new, and so I did. I'm not going to do this again, and if I do it won't be any time soon!
Link pulled out what appeared to be the last piece of glass; looking at Zelda's turned head he asked a question.
"Do you feel any other glass?" he asks with a soft tone, Zelda looks at him and shakes her head as she tries to sit up. She fails miserably, falling back on Link's lap with a look of pain distinct on her face. "I'll carry you! Don't try to move...."
Before she could object Link picks her up, and to his surprise when they were up she didn't say anything then either.
"We should get going." Lale remarks. "We have the last sister, now to complete the spell to let us leave the Temple you must complete the last task."
"What's that?" Link asks.
"I don't know." Lale told him slowly. "None of us know, only that it is a chamber that no ghost may enter. It is where all of the flames are, there should be something there to take you to the last challenge."
Link nodded, taking all of this information in.
"I'm sorry." Zelda told Link, he looked down at her in surprise.
"Sorry for what?" Link asked surprised.
"I can't move." She replied depressed. "I can't help."
"Zelda!" Link laughed. "If you weren't here then I wouldn't have been able to free to the three sisters, you've done more then enough! And I'm sure that there's a Fairies Fountain somewhere around here."
Zelda nodded at what Link told her, although the last part she didn't believe.
"Get going Hat Boy." She told him, he laughed again.
"Is that my nickname?"
"Just for a few times Hat Boy." She replied weakly.
Zelda let her eyes sink as Link started moving again, and heard him saying something but couldn't hear the rest of it as she fell asleep.
"There's another door down here! Let's get going!" Link cried as he set off towards the door.
They traveled for hours, Zelda would wake every few hours but most of the time she slept. It scared Link when she slept, but he shoved that thought aside telling him that she was too stubborn to let herself leave.
Link found the statue that he and Zelda had used to teleport out of the temple. Link decided to stop there and rest, his legs telling him that it was time to stop. He gently set Zelda down and pulled his pack off his back and then he pulled out some food. He ate quickly, and woke Zelda up to give her some food as well. She ate a little, and then fell asleep after a few bites. Link blinked and then put away the food, wishing that Zelda would eat all of the food that they had and jump up and say something rude to him. Anything that would show that she was fine and wasn't hurt. Anything!
As Link picked her up, he noticed something shinning on her clothes. Placing his fingers on one of the spots he found that it was blood, it sent a chill up his spine, and he felt worry and fright set in. What could he do? He didn't have anything that he could use to help her! And all of the potions that Zelda had he didn't know what they were. This was horrible, what could he do?
"Lale, do you know of a Fairy Fountain close by?" Link asked as he picked Zelda up.
"I used to, it's hidden, and so I can't remember where it is. I'm sorry."
"I know one close by." Kale told Link as she lifted a ghostly finger and pointed to the door. "It is only a few minutes away. Follow me."
Link obeyed, quietly following Kale. He held Zelda closely to him, wishing that he could take away her hurts and give it to him.
Lale floated and Link followed, and in a few minutes she went up to a wall and went through it. Link stared for a moment, and then he took his foot and found that it went through the wall.
"How cleverly hidden!" Kalona said to herself as she drifted through. Link followed her, and to his relief he found a fountain in the center of the room filled with Pink Fairies who zoomed over to Zelda and started flying around them sending their healing magic through her body.
Zelda opened her eyes and looked at Link.
"Where are we?" she asked, her voice sounding as it had before she had fallen upon the glass. Link only smiled at her, she frowned. "Hello Hat Boy?"
"We're close to where we need to be." He replied.
"Well then put me down!" She cried, she rolled out of his arms and hit the floor but jumped back up as if nothing had happened. "Let's get going! Come on!"
Link nodded, but then looked at all of the Pink Fairies floating around. He didn't want to be in another situation where he couldn't do anything to heal Zelda again. He needed to catch a fairy.
"Do you have an empty bottle?" He asked Zelda just as she was turning around.
"Yeah, why?" she replied.
"May I have it?"
"Sure." She pulled off her pack and went through it, glad that she had placed a charm on it not to rip. She pulled out an empty bottle and gave it to Link and put her pack back on her back.
Link waited until a Pink Fairy was close by and then he caught it in the bottle. The fairy didn't do anything, exept sigh and know that it had been caught.
"Now let's get going." He told Zelda as he put the bottle in his pack. She nodded and then set off, with everyone following her. "Zelda! Let's go the other way."
She frowned at him but nodded, letting him take the lead.
He went back to the room of the statue, and everyone teleported to the beginning of the Temple. They went into the Temple, and found that there was something sticking out of the ground in the center of the four flames that had returned to their home.
Zelda checked to make sure that she had all of her magic, and found that she had all of it. Happy, she looked at Link.
"Ready Hat Boy?"
"Isn't that name only used once in a while?" He asked.
"You're right, but I don't care."
Link laughed and then replied: "I'm ready, you?"
"Ready as I'll ever be."
Then they both turned to the ghosts floating behind them.
"I hope to see you all again." Zelda told them, Link nodded.
"Oh Milady! Oh dear Sir! Please be careful!" Kalona told them. They nodded and gave each of the ghosts a special good-bye.
Then, they went to the strange pillar that was carved to where it could fit a few people under it. Stepping onto it, they watched as the ground went above them, and looked at the ghosts that watched them leave.
Ok, that was a bad chapter I know, but I HAD to finish it! It's 11:13, so I need to get to bed because it's a school night! Hope you like the chapter! RR!
So Until Next Time,
CrypticElf....