Ok for those of you who are actually following this story I give you the next chapter hahaha longest fanfic I have ever written and posted. Note Fedra is pronounced: 'fey-dra'
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Chapter Two
I woke and instantly wished I had not even bothered to go to sleep. The covers on my bed were all old and musty, that would never change. Nothing seemed out of place but a feeling that something was not quite right was present. The dark room around me kept me hoping that things would be different when I opened my door to the endless corridors that were where I was located. Rolling over I glanced around and looked out the window, screeching as I saw the height of the sun. Instantly I began to run around, grabbing everything at a very frantic manner hoping that my lord had slept long enough not to notice my absence.
"FEDRA!!!"
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Sitting in a well used chair, in a room to myself, I looked back over the last few days. Pure ridding that is all we did, it made my butt hurt just remembering it, but we were finally here. Where ever here is, I had not even heard of Arias before Impa told me we were going to this place. Impa, as I have noticed, is not one of many words and she seems to know a lot of what is going on in you mind too.
She told me this hidden Sheilkah village of Arias was a good three days ride north of Castle Town and was not even a part of Hyrule, well it was at one point in time but that was a very long time ago. Man it was hard to listen to that particular history lesson that Zelda spouted off randomly She just went on and o-
"Link?" Slightly startled by the fact that I was thinking about her and she just showed up, I kind of jumped just a bit and took a second to control my wildly beating heart before I turned around to face the princess.
"Your highn-"
"Would you quit saying that every time I address you? I can't be known as a princess here and besides I don't like those titles anyway." I watched as Zelda bunched her hands up in her skirt like she was trying to tell me something that was not nice to hear. As I wondered what it was, it seemed like she changed her mind, or she just didn't have the courage, to tell me and left just as suddenly as she had arrived. I continued thinking about things although I know that thinking about things you can't change is a hopeless situation that only leads to "what if's" and paranoia. But I continued anyway.
"Link, could I have a moment of your time? For a split second I thought it was Zelda coming back to tell me what she had decided not to. But then I heard a distinctly older tone in the voice and knew it must be Impa. Please don't let this turn out to be another history lesson, I muttered softly as I told her to come in and take a seat next to me in an equally old and used chair.
"Impa, what was Zelda going to tell me when she came in just a moment ago, surely you saw her leave?" I asked her this right away. I have been like this for as long as I can remember, even when I was younger I was never one to let questions dwell in my mind. I have always been a very curious person. The Great Deku Tree, Nayru bless it , knew that the best, for I was always asking it simple questions that I should have learn t from personal experience but did not have the patience to wait for.
" I sent her in here to give you these ruppies."Impa held out a bag of money that, honestly, seemed like the whole royal family's fortune. "She was also to tell you to go get some personal things that you will need. We are going to be staying here for a long while." I took a moment to look around at the small shack that Impa had brought us to and thought it odd that this would be a permenent eshtablishment.
"How long is long, Impa?" I didn't think I wanted to know her answer but I asked anyway.
"Well that is all dependent on you, Link, if you master the training fast then we could only be here three years, but that is a perfect scenario. I estimate at least six years. Before you are ready to even try and wield the Master Sword." Six years, that seemed a very long time. The Master Sword, the only thing I knew about the legendary sword was that I had once wielded it as no one ever had.
As Impa rose to leave, I remembered the question I asked her the other night when we first started to ride.
"Impa? How did you and Zelda know to bring me back to that presice moment?" Impa took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I did not know what to make of this, was she going to tell me or was she going to blow it off again?
"The princess you see..." Ah so she is going to tell me. I'm glad, I don't like people keeping things from me. Like that one time Mido told me someone in the village liked me but he would not say who. I had to listen in to one of his conversations with his brother to find out that it was no one, he had tried to play a joke on me but it fell through. "And that is how we knew that that moment was the defining moment in the time line." Ah Din I did it again. Nayru, what did she say? I have no idea. I must start listening.
"Master Link you must begin to pay full attention to the things I say, for everyone of them will ultamitly affect what will happen in the future. Now don't worry I did not actually say why we knew, I just started and watched as your eyes glazed over and after a period of time I just interrupted your thoughts and made you think that you had missed everything." Impa turned and silently left, leaving me to wonderer if she had known the other time as well.
I must get some sleep if I am to begin training as soon as possible. But I could not think so I just looked around and took in the layout of the room that was to become mine for quite some time. That thought in my mind I laid down in the bed and left my self to think about all the what if's and why's of this trip so far.
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The weeks after that horrible morning that I slept in were long and difficult. Because of my foolishness I was made to wake up a full 2 hours earlier every day to make up for it. My lord was indeed harsh, in my eyes, for that was not the only punishment I received for my apparent "lack of duty", I was put on grudge work until further notice and had many a beating in the days after.
My mother , whom I barley ever see any way, because of her busy schedule and her fostering other children in the castle, I myself being too old to be living in the same quarters as her anymore, was especially distant these last few weeks. She has all her duties as head woman but usually she comes to see me before she goes to bed. But something was keeping her from even saying hello to me in the halls these days.
Continuing on my many laborious tasks that my lord had sent me on that particular day, man he's been keeping me going and going the last few weeks, I came across an old friend, she was on her own business, but she stopped to say hello today.
"Hi, Miff" I called out as she slowed in mid flight to give a morning greeting. "How are things in the fairy spring these days?" She flitted a little closer to see who it was that had called her and made her come out of the trance she apparently was in.
"Hello, Fedra, things are going well with me, but I must be on my way I have an important message I must deliver to your mother." And with that the small sprite flitted away and disappeared on the horizon. I wondered what type of message Miff had for my mother that could not wait till we had finished one of our little mid morning talks
Finishing all of the difficult tasks first, the only one I had left was to tell the men on duty at the east gate that they were relived for the morning. I walked along the east wall noting all of the new growth that had accumulated in the passing months and had not noticed the odd feeling in the air. The air around me had the oddest feeling that something was wrong and I should not continue but I never listened to those type of feelings because they were mostly never important. Looking back I regret not understanding what those feelings were and heeding them as necessary.
I arrived at the east guard station only to come across a most horrifying site. The entire place looked like a battle field and not a peacefully guard station. Ruby red blood smeared all along the walls, marred and battered flesh strewn everywhere, the bodies of the men were so badly massacred that I could not even tell which one was my old friend and favorite person John. That scene will be forever embedded in my mind, I didn't know at the time what had happened but I knew that I must tell someone before whoever it was that did this got any closer to the castle.
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