A/N: I like trains. They give you time to think and type. I promise, next chapter I will react to you guys, but now I don't have Internet access to check all the reviews. Sorry. And if you guys are wondering how I can't get on the Internet to check reviews, but I can to post, I'm waiting to post until I get to a WiFi connection. Nonetheless, here's Chapter 22.

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One Year's Eternity

Chapter 22

December 31, 1:04 A.M.

The only thing I saw was the mask. A village, fire, and the mask.

Caught in the middle of the flames, I ran to wherever looked like the fires hadn't touched. No matter where I went, the inferno spread soon after. And standing in the middle of the burning village stood a tall, pale man in decorated armor. Painted features and glowing white eyes burned into my memory like the fires burned the town. But I knew who was behind the mask.

"LINK! SNAP OUT OF IT!" I screamed into the night. The smoke and ashes overtook me and I fell to the ground coughing.

The man ran at me, sword drawn and shining. He swung before he even reached me, a line of blue energy protruding from the tip of the blade. It flew towards me with great speed.

Too fast for me to dodge.

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I awoke to someone shaking me.

"Zel! Snap out of it!" a voice cried in my ear.

I jerked upright, sending the person off of my bed in surprise. I took at cautious breath in, afraid that I might breathe in smoke. As I shakily exhaled, the person raised themself above my bed, hand on their head, obviously from hitting it on the floor.

"Thanks, Z. Just how I want to spend my New Year's Eve; tending to a bump on the back of my head," the person barked.

"Sorry, Mid," I half-heartidly replyed.

"Another nightmare?"

I looked at my hands and figited with them. I whirled around in my bed, making my feet dangle off the side, and stood up, still keeping my balance on the bedpost. Sweat dripped off of my petite nose. Or was it tears?

Midna reached for something on my desk. It was Nabu's locket.

"Are you still going to keep this?"

I found myself cold, because the window was slightly cracked open. I wrapped a blanket around Midna, her confusion clearly stated, and opened the window completely. I asked for the locket, and she handed it to me. I looked inside the small crest one last time. I saw the picture of Nabu and I when we were children. The only reason I was hesitant to chuck it out the window was because of the other picture: my mother slightly before she died. A loose tear streamed down my cheek. I tore the tiny picture out and set it on my desk. I approached the window, the winter wind not giving me any comfort, and threw the tiny locket into the storm. I quickly shut the window before I caught frostbite.

"A picture of you? That's what you save?"

I whipped around to see her looking at my mother's picture.

She would have been about my age...

Midna's face contorted into one of further confusion. "Who is this?"

I bowed my head and grabbed my arms, half looking for warmth, half looking for comfort. I sucked in a slow breath and let it out just as slowly.

"That was my mother, Zelda."

Midna's green eyes turned sad. She took the blanket off of her shoulders and wrapped it around me. She gave me a sad smile, one I reluctantly returned. I turned to the small, leather pouch on my wall. I lifted it off it's hook and took out it's contents. The royal blue instrument glowed with an eeire yet comforting light.

"If it weren't for her," I chuckled, "I wouldn't know how to play this thing."

I raised the small instrument to my lips and started playing a song I hadn't heard since she died. She sang or hummed it every night to help me fall asleep. The calming tune rang through our dorm room, Midna's attitide changing from sad to tired. As the last note played, I saw a book that Midna had stuffed onto whatever shelf she felt like putting it on started to glow. I reached for the Book, my Triforce, the ocarina, and the parchment in my hands all sharing a similar blue glow. I started to open it, but when I touched the Book, it started to flip through the pages on it's own. It went to the chapter on the Legend of Time, where the Hero went through time itself to protect Hyrule in his own time. The Princess Zelda taught him the song of the Royal Family, which he couldn't have proceded on his journey without. Back then, the song was simply called 'Zelda's Lullaby'. When I looked in the Book, it said that the notes had magical properties. I was going to laugh at it, saying that it would be impossible, if it weren't for the fact that the Book knew what page this information was on and flipped right to it without any help.

"That song," Midna mumbled to herself. "Zelda, you know how the Hero and Princess were always reincarnated?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well, I'm pretty sure you and Link are Princess and Hero incarnate!"

"I figured that out a long time ago, Mid."

"Well, you're not the only ones who get reincarnated."

My face slightly contorted into one of confusion.

"Well," she stated, "everyone knows that the Hero and the Princess always reincarnate. Once one dies, another is born. Well, it's the same way with a few other people, like the Evil King. Or the Princess's Sheikah guide, or the Twilight…" she got quieter until the point where I couldn't hear her.

"Twilight what?" I asked dumbly.

"Twi-Twili-"

"Spit it out!"

"Twilight Princess!" she screamed, throwing her hands in the air. She started hyperventilating quietly, her shaky breaths sounding more like sobs. "The Twilight Princess always gets reincarnated. And..."

She stormed into our bathroom. She grabbed a make-up toilette and started wiping off a thick layer of foundation. The black skin it had been before was turning blue, yet her scar remained. The blue crossed all over her face. She started washing her hands, them turning blue, too. Finally, she grabbed a contacts container and took out the bright green in her eyes, revealing a bright crimson, almost like Sheik's. She then grabbed a piece of hair and started clawing at it, her hands turning black from the dye. Her hair underneath was a bright, fire-like orange.

"I'm the Twilight Princess incarnate!" she yelled. "The reason I was hiding it was because I never wanted to be! I felt like part of a giant puzzle! I was beaten when my father found out, where I got this." She grabbed her right cheek, where her scar still showed prominently, covering half of her face. "When the Hero of Twilight killed him that day, I was only one hundred and six years old, about a toddler if I was Hylian. That Hero wasn't the brightest; he didn't know that I was there. What was even weirder, Midna, the actually noticed Twilight Princess, was with him. I didn't know how it was possible, that two incarnates of the same person were alive at the same time. I didn't know how it was possible then, and I still don't."

She stomped out of the bathroom, and back to her bed.

"Go back to sleep," she ordered. "The New Year's party is later, and we don't want to be falling asleep during it."

I obliged gladly.

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A/N: Sorry for that sucky ending. But now you know. And something is going to happen in the next chapter! And guess what? Sheik, Darunia, and Ruto are all playable in Hyrule Warriors! And Gohma is a confirmed enemy. So all o' you arachnophobes, watch out. See y'all next time! Please review! Two words is better than none!