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Chapter 23 New Life...
The sweet smell of home baked bread opened her eyes to a new place. Malon sat up in a small straw bed and looked all around her. It was a small simple cottage filled with beautiful wildflowers and some hand carved wooden furniture. The scents of flowers entwined with the scents of food that made her feel very welcome. She looked down and found herself in a plain white night gown and two wool blankets.
She stood up to walk to the kitchen but suddenly felt very dizzy and fell back in bed. A few minutes later an old woman came out of the kitchen humming a soft tune. She was a little short, her dark brown hair was turning grey, and her features were tired looking but gentle and sweet. Her brown eyes fell upon the girl holding her head sitting up on the bed. "Oh my, your awake already? I thought you to be asleep. I have not yet prepared you a bath. No wait you still need your rest. I am assuming you were never that pale even for a fine looking young lady as yourself."
She sat on a chair next to the bed and put her pudgy warm hand on Malon's forehead. "Just as I assumed. Still a little feverish. Lie back down I will bring you some warm milk and a piece of apple pie. Hopefully you will eat some of it." Malon looked up to the woman and gave her a strange look. "What is it sweaty?" The woman asked confused.
"N-nothing. I uh, didn't think...other people could be so kind to a stranger like me..." The woman smiled and sat back down taking Malon's hands in hers. "I was coming back from my small journey to Meluvet. I had gone to visit my son and my daughter in law, when I saw you lying on the ground like some old rag doll. I noticed you were starved and dehydrated so I brought you here to my home. I don't custom to leave people there in the middle of the road especially not such a young pretty lady." She smiled and stood up to adjust the pillows so Malon could rest her back against the wall.
"Now, let us introduce ourselves. My name is Daeni Vilpe, but you may call me Mrs. Daeni." Malon's eyes widened and she smiled brightly. "You're Mrs. Daeni?" The lady looked at her strangely but nodded, smiling sweetly. "You are the one Ray told me to look for. Wow I can't believe I found you that quickly! My name's Malon, Malon Aran. I come from...well...that's not important but he helped me, Ray, and told me to search for you. He said you'd help me."
"Help you in what dear?" Malon smiled and took her hand in her own. "I don't know how exactly to put this. But I have a past that I wish not to live in any longer. I only ask that you let me stay helping you with whatever you wish until I can live on my own. If you will allow me the chance that is." Her eyes saddened again and her smile was fading but in her heart she hoped she would allow her to stay.
"Why of course you can stay. A woman at my age can no longer do things right anymore. I could use young help around the house and outside. However you don't need to find your own place to live, you can stay here with me as long as you wish. But you must do everything I say and help around this old place that is the only thing I ask from you." Malon's eyes glistened with joy she hugged the woman and laughed thanking her so much.
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"Link what are you going to do?" Link glanced up at the worried princess sitting by his side. "Nothing, what do you want me to do. I already agreed I would do nothing for everyone's safety." Zelda sighed and touched his shoulder. "I wasn't referring to that. People are spreading the secret around. Everyone will remember the old times soon. The sages are trying to erase everyone's memories but there are too many. Not even our wedding is important anymore. The more time we waste the stronger Ganon gets in the realm. He will awaken soon!?" Her voice had changed from calm to frantic.
"Then I will just defeat him again. There is no wasting of seven years anymore I'll just stop him as I did that day." Zelda rolled her eyes and turned his head towards her. "Don't you get it? Fear is spreading! Fear is feeding him strength! The war your father claims to bring if we do not wed does not even compare to what will come if he awakens. He will be stronger than before! If you do defeat him it will probably kill you!" Link looked at her with a lazy expression and shook of her hands. "Good. Then maybe if I ask him to kill my father and then to die with me my life will be complete. I won't have to worry about anything anymore because I will be dead."
Zelda grew angry and slapped him hard across the face. "Now you are just being synical-" "Then how do you propose we stop him from rising? By encouraging the people that, I, the hero of time will stop him again? That he won't be coming back? That he can't touch this quote on quote holy land? What?!" Zelda glared at him and stood up. "No, Hero, just make a speech and give them courage. Yes, lie and say that you will defeat him once more give them strength instead of fear. Because, he is already out there somewhere."
Link looked up at her immediately and with his glare demanded an explanation. "The Goddesses needed a balance. It has to do with balance. Ganon was not always evil, but greed was what contaminated his heart. In order to avoid chaos they sent his evil side to the realm but returned his good side and placed him somewhere in the world. If fear gives him enough strength his evil side will take over his good side again and...well...you know the rest." Link's jaw tightened and he stood slowly.
With one last glance he began to walk out the door. "Where are you going?" He stopped and turned his head back. "To give that speech."
-------------AT DAENI'S HOME---TWO MONTH'S LATER-------------------
"Daeni? I'm back from the shop. I came with what you asked...Daeni?" She walked across the house and went out the second door. There stood the old lady feeding the cuckoos or chickens as they were called in Aetho. "Hello Malon. Did you bring everything?" Malon nodded and smiled hugging the old woman. In less than two months the woman had turned into a motherly figure to her. She adored the sweet woman and would do anything for her. "Did you talk to Darteigh again?" Malon laughed walking toward the cows and petting them.
"Yes, as always. He is so charming and very funny for a village guard. Most of them are so serious." Daeni laughed and began to feed the goats next. "Ah dear child, he is not a village guard. He may pretend to be one but he is not. He loves this village; it is where his mother was originally born and where he was raised. He is a knight and a proud one, but he will do anything for these people." Malon eyed her strangely and walked along side her. "So he is a knight from where?" Daeni laughed again and smiled.
"I have grown so use to you I forget your not from here. He is from our Kingdom, Noreyes. He is one of the many sons of the legendary Knights of Noreyes. He is loyal to the King, our beloved King Danrios. I cannot believe I did not tell you. They say that our Kingdom is one of the strongest and well known in the world, but I know very little of that. What I can tell you however is that many of the other King's have tried to arrange marriages with out King's daughter but she is often ill. It is a sad story with her, so beautiful and strange is her appearance she is a temptation to most princes. If I didn't know any better I'd say she was you in disguise. Your appearance is almost uncanny to hers. I'm surprised no one's said anything about that in the village, but then again we are not the gossipy type."
Malon was surprised she would say something like that about her but didn't say anything instead she followed the woman inside the house and began dinner. "Tell me something Malon, if I ask you now will you tell me where you are from? Will you tell me what is that horrible past that you are so head on in forgetting? I know a recollection of it will be a pain for everything that you are trying not to repeat but...well...I have lived long hard life and I have noticed that the princess' reoccurring illness' are not natural. I even have the audacity to think that you may-"
"That I may be the Princess? No, I'm not. My past is far from having me be anything royal and I am certainly not an escaped princess. I suppose that telling you of my past will do me no harm since being away from it has done me some good. It may even help me understand some things a little better." Malon sighed and looked away from the woman's eyes. She began stirring the boiling beans and added a pinch of salt. from Hyrule. The holy land of the Goddesses and my old home. I lived in the only ranch smack down the middle of the land. I lived with my father and uncle since my mother passed away when I was six. Twelve years later my father passed and I was left with my uncle. When I was nine years old I met a boy who came from a forest. He was so shy and kind I could not help but like him. Years passed and I fell in love with him, but what I did not know was that his life and mine were never meant to be. Some strange occurrences happened and now it's as though I lived a double life." Daeni eyed her strangely and walked up to her. "What do you mean by that?"
"I suppose his reign never reached farther than Hyrule, but, you see the boy I fell in love with was not born to be a normal boy. He was born to be a hero, the legendary Hero of Time. When he opened the sacred door within the Temple of Time to save the triforce from being used by the evil Ganondorf, he was followed. Since then he was sealed away, the follower being Ganondorf grabbed hold of the triforce and ruled Hyrule for seven long torturing years. My uncle turned on my father and I, he took control of the ranch and made me his servant while my father was exiled from it. Until...He came back. He saved me and my uncle from the evil surrounding our home, he returned my father and brought happiness back. He visited often until he stopped that was when Hyrule was saved. He had destroyed Ganondorf and the land was brought back to peace. In that life he and I were together. He had confessed his love to me during his visits and we were happy but after he defeated Ganondorf all of that was erased from not just my mind but everyone's. It was as though remembering Ganondorf and fearing him could resurrect him worse than before. And so life was changed." Tears were forming at the corner of her eyes. She turned to face Daeni whose face expressed utter shock.
"Oh my, that is horrible. So that is what you meant by double life..." Malon nodded and walked to the window. "My life was rewritten, I met him still of course. However it was sort of different. He always seemed to be hiding something from me and I could never get him to tell me. As fate went I fell in love again but four years prior to the day our lives were rewritten he disappeared again. He returned six years later but by then I no longer recognized him. He had a new identity and a new life. It turns out he was the lost son of a powerful King. A little after I figured out it was him and not some stranger his father summoned him to the castle of Hyrule were he was staying. We had become a couple or so I thought. When I visited the market place there was to be an important announcement, it was there that I learned of his engagement to the princess of Hyrule, it was there that my love for him was mixed with hate." She began to sob and stopped the story. Daeni rushed to her side and embraced the trembling girl. She took her to the straw bed and sat her down as she sat down across from her.
"Then what happened?" Malon looked up at the kind woman and smiled, "Maybe I should continue this some other time Daeni. I'm a little exhausted...sorry about this." Daeni smiled and nodded. She unfolded the covers to the bed and tucked Malon in. "Rest up, you can tell me the rest tomorrow. Yes?" Malon nodded and laid her head on the pillow closing her eyes. Daeni smiled and walked to the kitchen.
She opened one of the letters Malon had brought back with her. She opened it and read the contents.
Dear Cousin Daeni,
How have you been fairing in the peasant life? I still don't understand why you love that life so much; you do know that there is always room for you here in my home. I do bring you the gravest news, the reason why I broke my promise not to write to you. My daughter, Paige, is dead. She passed away last night...and I wish you to attend the funeral. I am trying to keep this a secret for as long as I can. Only my wife, my most trusted general, yourself and I know of this. Please let it stay this way. I will await for your arrival upon the fortnight of this day.
Love Your cousin Danrios
She set the letter aside and sat down in her chair. 'I have only one way to keep her death a secret. Unfortunately we may have to use force as a way for her to agree. Although she must not know the truth...
---------------WITH THE GENERALS---------------------------------------
"Fiory, can I ask you something?" Fiory looked up to the eyes of his friend Camry. "First tell me how you are feeling." he smiled. Camry sat across the table from his friend. "I'm fine. Two months of rest and your back to new." he laughed." But now tell me, friend, where you ever in love with Malon? Because ever since that day I...well...you haven't been quite yourself." Fiory looked up again and set his lips on his entwined fingers. "You could say that I once was, but I know that she is far too deeply in love with Link. They were meant to be Camry, if it wasn't for...certain obstacles they would be together at this moment." Fiory sighed and fixed his gaze on the training soldiers. "Fiory let me tell you something strange about this. If the certain person would not have separated them, you would have never met her. So why meet her? Why fall for her? There must be a reason..."
Camry stood and walked to his friend. "Think about it and then make your decision. I'm sure we will cover." He patted his friend on the back and left him there to think about what he had said. Fiory furrowed his eyebrows and sighed. 'I have to do this, if I don't I may never know what I want to know...' with that he stood and walked to his tent. Moments later he came out with his belongings packed heading toward the stables. "Come Belieyas. We ride!"
-------------THE NEXT DAY WITH LINK----------------------------
"Beloved people of Hyrule! Listen! I am here to inform you as to why you are now remembering a lifetime different from the one you have been living! I can only ask that you forgive for us not informing you but we could not before! It was said that if the fear spread among Hyrule and its people the Evil King would rise again! But I am here to tell you otherwise! I am here to tell you all to have NO FEAR!! I am the Hero of Time, your hero. The hero that defeated the Evil King before and would do it AGAIN!! I will put a stop to his malevolent powers before they even spread as before! He should not cause fear within your hearts as long as I am alive to stop him! And I WILL STOP HIM SHOULD HE RISE FORTH FROM THE REALM WHICH HE WAS SENT TO BY THE GODESSES, THE SAGES AND I!!!!" The crowd cheered away at Link's speech relief releasing fear from their hearts and minds. They had a defender, they always had. And with him no evil could distraught their hearts again.
Link bowed at the crowd as they cheered louder. As he stood straight once more he pulled out the legendary sword and held it parallel to the sky gaining more claps and cheers from the Hyrulians below. He then sheathed and turned to leave. Zelda stood next to his horse Epona and looked serious. He gave her sarcastic smile and said in the same tone as his smile, "Satisfied? Fear has left and now overconfidence has taken its place." He saddled Epona and left towards the field...towards the ranch passing the still cheering crowd.
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"Epona, you are the only remaining link that I have to Malon. One of the only pieces of evidence that she was real and not some figment of my lonely imagination. It seems that no one cares that she is gone. Only those who truly knew her...if only she was still here. I could still remember the times I annoyed her just to see her cute flushed face. That little twitch on her right eye when she didn't like something. Her over reacting expressions. Her smiles that warmed and cheered anyone up. Even me...I miss her so much..." Tears glistened with the sunlight on his cheeks, Epona neighed and nudged his face with her nose. "I know, I vowed to forget my love for her but I can't...I can't forget her...I am afraid that this love is beyond my control. It's always been beyond my control.
-----------WITH MALON AT DAENI'S FIELD'S--------------
"You have grown quite fond of my horses I see." Daeni smiled at Malon.
"Oh, I've always loved horses. They have always been my favorite animal. It's what I use to take care of the most at my old home." Malon continued brushing the dark brown coat of the mare at her side. "Well, Lanei likes you just the same. I must tell you that I have to visit my cousin for an important event. Can I trust you with this old place while I'm gone?"
Malon turned her gaze to Daeni and nodded smiling. "How long will you be gone?" she asked placing her attention back on the horse.
"It will be quite a while. He lives in the Kingdom of Noreyes, it's far from Aetho. I will be almost two month's. I'll send letters, but for now I must be off. I need to get there as soon as possible, please, prepare Nora for me while I pack my things."
"Will do ma'am." she said as she headed to the saddles on the side. Daeni walked to the house and prepared for her trip.
That Night
Malon waved goodbye to Daeni outside the cottage door. When the carriage disappeared into the horizon of the old road Malon walked back inside and sat in front of the fire. She warmed her hands and pulled out one of the books on the small bookshelf. The book was called Tears from a Fairytale. 'No Author? Hmmm?' Malon wondered why the title page had no author and looked at the rest of the pages. 'Blank? Oh, she must want to write story, how lovely. What a sad title thought...reminds me of my life. How it started as a fairytale but ended up in tears...
---------WITH FIORY-----------------------------------------------------
"Ray, do you know if the King has a lady prisoner?" Fiory asked the young man in haste. Ray looked at him in surprise and took Fiory to the side. "He had one recently, a very young looking one. She had red hair, dark blue eyes, a little depressed looking. Kind of pale but because she hadn't eaten a whole bunch." Fiory smiled and asked Ray, "And? What did he do with her?" Ray cleared his throat and continued. "He wanted to send her away, so he sent me and...another soldier to take her to Bosquias. He had instructed us to abandon her somewhere in the middle of the forest. I thought it wrong so I instructed her to leave for Aetho. If you can remember where Lady Daeni lives that's where I sent her. Mark my words I don't know if she made it but if that's who you're looking for she's probably there." Fiory nodded and took on the serious facade again. He thanked his old friend Ray and left for Aetho.
'I should be there by tomorrow evening. Malon, please be there'
Starlighter: HI!!! I hope you all liked this chapter!! Whew it took me a lot to decide on what I should put in it or not. But if you can guess what's going to happen next then go ahead put your predictions!!lol Basically more pain and suffering lol JK!! Wow thank God my illnesses are over can you believe it first the flu and as of yesterday food poisoning. ICK!!! lol ok well REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! OOP!! Ok I G2G Sesshy is still in the toilet....with food poisoning....-.- I told him not to eat that...
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