Chapter 5: The Mirror of Light
As Minas opened his eyes, two blurry shadows loomed over him.
'Am I dead?' Minas asked the shadows.
As he finished the sentence the blurriness started to recede and he began to recognise one of the figures. He recognised it as Midna; the other person was unknown to him.
'Highness! The townsfolk, they have over-run the castle. The guard couldn't handle it.' Minas cried; he was clearly distraught.
'Minas, slow down, explain properly.' Midna calmed him. 'Link, can you make some tea or something please.'
Link nodded and ran across the room to boil some water, whilst Midna sat Minas down on the side of Link's bed.
'No-one could find you and we began to get very worried for your well-being, so the counsel called for a public speaking, in which the head counsel member told the townsfolk that you were missing and that there was no back-up alternative, this agitated the people, and they started to revolt. I hid in the castle and the townsfolk formed a mob, they started to move towards the castle. The town guard held them for as long as they could, but they were eventually over-run, I heard them break down the main gate, so I ran and hid in the storage room, were some of the royal heirlooms are kept.' Minas spoke very quickly, he was clearly still worried.
'That's understandable, but what I would like to know is how did you get here to the light realm?' Midna questioned.
'Well... In the storage room is a mirror, which acts as a portal between the two realms, it is called the Mirror of Light, it has an identical sister mirror here in the light realm called the Mirror of Twilight.' Minas said with his head bowed slightly.
'Both Link and I know too well about the Mirror of Twilight, and we both know that it no longer exists... I shattered it when I returned.' Midna replied. Link brought over a cup of tea and handed it to Minas.
Minas looked up, shocked. 'You destroyed the Mirror of Twilight?! How are we supposed to return? How are you going to help us to calm the townsfolk if we are stuck here?' Minas shouted; he was clearly upset.
'I know what I was doing! I had helped Link fight a great evil power and my emotions and ethics were confusing me of feelings that I have, it felt correct at the time, but I have regretted it ever since.' Midna shouted back at Minas. 'Wait a second, you knew about both mirrors and I only knew about the one that was here. It was you; you sent me back here didn't you?'
'I put a sedative in the water that you had with your soup, I then sent you through the mirror. You were only gone for a few hours; I thought that would be enough time for you to set your affairs in order. But then things got worse with the mob. Then I was struck from behind in the back of my head with a blunt object when I was in the storage room. Then I wake up and I'm here.' Minas said quickly.
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The castle walls were still barely standing after the attack of the mob, the entire city guard lay dead or wounded in the entrance hall, the mob had worked its way to the upper levels of the castle and was not going to stop until they reached the throne room and searched thoroughly for Princess Midna. The Royal Guard stood at arms behind the barricaded door of the throne room, ready to protect the final part of the castle from invasion. The Royal Guard originally aided the town guard in the lower levels, but when the defensive line broke, they fell back to the last safe room and blocked the door with anything that would hold it shut.
Silence filled the room and the sounds of an angry mob had faded from the halls, the silence in the room was broken when one of the guards; Tarkash spoke up.
'How far through the castle was the mob when we locked the door?'
'They were in the entrance hall and the town guard were low in number.' The Captain of the Royal Guard, Lars, replied. 'This barricade will hold' he reassured his troops, 'Not one of us shall fall here today, we shall protect the throne room.' Lars had a very determined look in his eyes.
When Lars finished speaking a heavy thud came from the door, the mob had reached the hall outside the throne room. The guard prepared themselves for the mob. The mob took what seemed like an age to break down the door, but when they did they screamed and ran at the guards.
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Minas took the tea off of Link, 'So you are Link? I have heard a lot about you sir.'
'Really?' Link asked, looking over at Midna.
a/n: I am so sorry that I didn't update this in like forever, I have been at college and absolutely swamped with work and I just got a 7 week holiday :D which means more updates more often. Sorry again. Look forward to the next chapter, but I need reviews to keep me writing (or typing as the case may be).
