A/N Chapter Three, I hope you like it! This next week is going to be pretty crazy, but I will update as much as I can! I'm hoping to get Chapter Four up either tomorrow or within the next couple of days. Enjoy!
While Link was having a peaceful discussion with Zelda, Midna was busy being dragged through some kind of uncomfortable vortex.
She was traveling at speeds she never even imagined exist, and she was overcome with a tsunami of nausea. At least when Midna warped, it was at a comfortable pace where she could hear her own thoughts in her head. Now the only thought running through Midna's head was, "Kill me now!"
She didn't know how long the torture lasted, all she could see was black, with occasional flashes of purple that spotted her vision, and a sliver of blinding white when she decided to try and open her eyes. Not a good idea. Just the gravitational force alone on her eyelids was too much to handle.
Were those knives that were ripping up her lungs? Possibly. Midna tried to let out the deep breath she had managed to gulp before being forced into the mirror. No, it couldn't be knives, otherwise there would be a wetness seeping from her insides, and she wouldn't have felt relief from breathing.
Midna suddenly got the sensation she was falling down. Falling, and falling, until air caught up with her, and Midna was suspended in mid-air, her lithe frame spread out like a starfish. Afraid to open her eyes, she slowly peeked out of one. After seeing it was safe and there was nothing that could potentially blind her, Midna opened her eyes fully, glancing around in wonder.
She recognized the crystalline water. The trickling of the small waterfall. Three inches of sand that led into moss green grass. Two horses, one brown, one white. Two figures standing beside each other at the waters edge, both blonde. Midna glanced to her sides, but found nothing but a whiteness that seemed to stretch on for miles, almost as if she was sticking her head into a pool of water, and the scene was unfolding beneath her.
A familiar voice sent Midna's face back into the pool.
"I just don't understand what I did wrong."
That voice. It was deep, and manly in the most ways, but musical. As if there was an angel strumming one of his vocal chords like a harp. It was a voice more beautiful than Midna had ever heard before, and one she would come running to after one second. That voice, was Link's voice.
"It was never your fault, Link."
Midna recognized the second voice as well. She had heard it just a while earlier. The trilling, high-pitched tone that had a ringing voice of authority and power lurking behind it.
What would Zelda be doing at Ordon Spring?
Midna panicked. What if Link moved on? What if he and Zelda fell in love the moment she broke the mirror? What if all it took was one look into Zelda's ocean blue eyes for Link to forget about Midna and continue on with his life? Midna shook her head free of all the thoughts of Link and Zelda. It would probably serve her right anyways. Midna was convinced she was set out to live a cursed life after her act of selfishness.
As if Midna hadn't been crying enough today already, she felt her eyes once again fill with tears. Unable to move her suspended body, she couldn't even reach her hand up to stop the tear from falling. It landed in the spring, just like a raindrop from the sky, and Midna could see the water ripple slightly from her skyward position. That was weird. Normally something that small wouldn't even bother the balance of the water. Where Midna's teardrop had fallen was where the blackness of the water started to develop. It spread slowly, as if someone had leaked ink into the water.
"Look, Zelda," Link pointed to the water.
Swirling softly, the blackness gained momentum, spreading to each corner of the spring. Midna could see the black tiles of twilight gather from the darkened water levitate up into the sky, and towards where Midna was floating.
Link's head followed the tiles, and reached Midna's eyes. As she studied his face closer, she noticed Link wasn't looking at her, but through her. As if she was invisible.
"It's a portal," Link stated.
Midna noted the black and blue swirling that opened up beneath her, and suddenly she wasn't levitating anymore. She fell right through the portal, not even managing to do it properly as she had so many times before. This time, she flailed through the sky, waving her arms crazily as if it would stop her from falling. When Midna hit the water with a loud splash, all the blackness that had seeped through rushed back to her, and Midna felt a surge of power enter her body before calming down.
"Well that's never happened before," she murmered to herself, before noticing her clothes were now soaked through.
"Ugh!" Midna exclaimed, "Are you kidding me?"
She stood up on her slim legs and pulled off the black robe she had been wearing over her dress letting it land in the blue-again water with a plop.
Lifting her red eyes, she met Link's blue orbs.
Like fire and ice, Midna thought, sloshing through the water to Link and Zelda.
"Midna?" Link asked cautiously, as if she could be some sort of imposter, "Is that really you?"
"Of course it's really me, who else would it be?" She noted the rhyme in her words. Yes, because now was the time to be rhyming. Midna rolled her eyes internally.
"How did you get here, Midna?" Zelda tilted her head and looked at her quizically.
"Long story short, I went to visit the mirror and something pulled me into it," Midna summed up her painful journey. They didn't need to know about anything else.
A look flashed in Zelda's eyes, but it was gone so quick that Midna didn't have time to place the emotion.
"But that's impossible," Link frowned, "The Mirror of Twilight is broken."
He looked straight at Midna. Was that hostility in his eyes, or sadness? Midna couldn't tell. She had to stay as far away from Link, and his emotions as possible. She would never betray him again.
"Well that doesn't explain how I got here, now does it?" Midna snapped, wincing at how harshly the words came out.
Link took a small step back, knitting his eyebrows. Probably wondering why Midna was so annoyed.
"That doesn't explain why you were even at the mirror in the first place," Link countered.
Midna felt her stomach drop, and the heat rise to her cheeks.
"My motives for returning have nothing to do with this," Midna replied, taking another breath to continue, when Zelda interrupted.
"I know how joyous this reunion must be," Zelda raised an eyebrow sarcastically, "But I think we need to find out exactly how light and twilight reunited without the aid of a fully functional Mirror of Twilight."
"Of course," Midna agreed, stealing another glance at Link.
"You are more than welcome to stay at the castle, Midna," Zelda turned her attention to Link, "You as well, Link. We're going to need your assistance."
Link nodded willingly.
"Let's just find out what obstacles we're going to have overcome this time," he looked at Midna knowingly, causing her skin to crawl uncomfortably.
If love was a rollercoaster, she was in for a long ride.
