Dont own Zelda. LINK I CHOOSE YOU! 8D
Chapter 15: New Master
An older zora came into the room lifting Lief from the soft comforters of the bed and carried him to a room not too far away from Ruto's, Rani watched before he disappeared into the room then followed Aine, she was very suspicious of this fairy and wasn't going to let her out of her sight.
Aine simply flew through a large tunnel and came into a large opening with a platform a few feet ahead, a walk way went left to another opening as well as one on the right leading up to where a larger zora sat guarding another opening with the gold crown tipped slightly on his head.
"Greetings sir," Aine said. The king looked down at her unblinkingly, "We've come from another time period... if we may, could we possibly stay here to gain our surroundings and our plan of action?"
Again the king did nothing but stare, finally he shifted where he sat and looked to a smaller man standing next to him with a blue sharpened spear.
"A different time?" The king's voice boomed throughout the room, "Such as a prophecy in our tribe has stated, I knew something was to come, but so soon?"
"Actually sir, it's been several years. Your tribe was trying to prevent dark creatures from entering your domain." Aine stated, "We don't ask much sir."
The king wore a long red cape over his shoulders, he was much bigger then regular zoras throughout the domain, but showed good leadership whenever a problem arose. He eyed Aine and Rani suspiciously obviously thinking.
Lief woke to the soft sound of trickling water, he looked around feeling the silk blankets around him as he sat up. The door opened and a beautiful lady walked in, her crown looked like scaled hair coming down to her shoulders, her dress was a melon color embroidered with fine silks and gems. A young boy stood behind her with his hand clutching part of her skirt.
She strode over to him, "I heard a human boy appeared out of nowhere in the zora's domain." she smiled, "You're young, but hold good confidence." Her son was about 11 to lief and seemed quite shy.
"Who are you?" Lief questioned.
The zora smiled, "My name is Queen Rutela, I watch over the zoras inhabiting Lake Hylia near the castle of Hyrule. My son and I arrived earlier than we expected so I thought we'd take a detour around place before meeting the king and his daughter."
"Oh." Lief looked down and noticed his smaller hands, thats when he pulled the covers aside and stood up noticing his age, "It worked..."
"What did?" The young prince asked.
Startled Lief looked over, "Nothing, just something that happened to me in a dream."
Rutela smiled and stood, "It was nice to meet you, I never asked for your name,"
"Lief,"
"Well then, Lief, I hope we meet again soon." She led her son from the room closing the door softly.
Rani followed Aine through the blue tunnels, the king had told them they could stay for however long they needed. It was more of a last minute decision since a lovely zora woman had entered the room unaware of the two fairies already in audience with the king. He had issued their stay then dismissed them and smiled happily as his daughter Ruto had entered the room.
"Listen, we don't need you Aine. You can go back in that music box now, thanks for everything." Rani was set in mind to shoo her away.
"I can't." Aine replied.
"Why not?"
"The music box is gone."
"Say what now?"
Aine sighed and stopped midair in front of Lief's closed door, "I can't because every time some one uses it to time travel it disappears somewhere in the area. By area I mean many miles, or inches, or feet, or meters, or kilometers. It's gone, the only way to use it again is to find it again. Which means you'll be stuck with me for awhile, because I have to find what I was meant to guard."
Rani felt absolutely sick.
Lief opened the door just to get wacked in the face again, he fell back with a happy fairy clinging to his nose and muttering all kinds of things.
"You're awake! I'm so glad! are you feeling any better? How about your wounds, are they healed?" Aine said speedily, Lief could hardly make any sense of her.
"Please get off my nose," He told her.
"Yeah thats my job..." Rani muttered, fuming.
"I'm Aine, we're going be traveling buddies from now on!" She twirled in the air sending little sparkles of magic outward.
"Where's the music box?" Lief asked.
Rani told him what she had learned while Aine explored the room, both of them knew this would take awhile so they might make the most of their time. Throughout the hours in the small room, zoras brought in platters of foods that tasted of seaweed, salty sea snails, and occasionally an eel somewhere in a recipe, they all tasted great saving room for a dessert that had some kind of jellyfish type substance.
"Hey Rani. Maybe we could...go back." Lief finally brought it up, he didn't know whether to tell her, but it was really important and he knew she'd know what he was talking about.
"No, I don't think that's the best idea Lie-"
"What a fabulous idea!"
Both of them looked at her as if she had intruded on the biggest secret anyone could have.
"You don't even know what we are talking about Aine, now butt out. Lief, I really don't thin-" Rani tried again.
"I know you two are thinking about going back to Outset island where Lief was born." That sent a big chill through the room. Obviously, no secrets could be kept from her.
Rani knew that if they went back to Outset, Lief would see his living family. She knew he would want to stay and forget about the rest of his task and decide to live in peace. She also understood that Lief has been living without the large guilt in his heart for the last five years already knowing that his family, every living relative to him, were dead and couldn't be brought back to life. That is why it was of great importance to stay clear of the sea unless it was necessary to find the music box and accomplish what they were supposed to set out to do.
"By boat?" He smiled unsure of himself, "We could find a ship leaving the harbor."
Rani came back into the conversation after a few moments, realizing that they were deciding a way to get there. The Rito tribe didn't live in these parts, they always lived out at sea, taking on the job of transporting mail to the closer islands.
"Hard to find a ship near Hyrule, sure it's the most famous kingdom throughout all the lands, but none explore to these parts unless they have official business with the princess. Plus it will be extra hard since somehow Ganon has been resurrected earlier then when he did." Aine said.
"What do you mean?" Lief asked.
"Well from now, Ganondorf was resurrected from his mind prison by a servant of his, five years from now, but since we have been to that time and came back, that same servant has been able to reach him, he'll be able to do more damage. I just want to warn you that when you go back to the original time period...things won't be as you remembered them."
This was troubling news, time travel would be difficult, they could clean out a monster infested place during one time, but then the other might turn out the same anyway by building up through all the years he would be absent.
"What do we do?"
Rani huffed and stood on his knee, "Lief, I don't think it's the best idea to go back. That day might have already happened, you may end up going back to a destroyed island."
"Please Rani, I learned from Queen Rutela earlier that today is one week before my birthday, I'm still eleven years old right now."
Rani bit her lip, "I really don't think you should go."
"Rani, Lief already decided." Aine pushed, now where were we?"
"Figuring out a way to rid the world of ganon while cleaning out the darkness in the multiple temples."
"Well clearly it seems you've gotten mixed up in alot, your only hope now is to find the music box and figure out a way to defeat Ganon then go back and clean up the mess he's made."
"That will take so long though..." His mind whirled with ideas, there must be some way to figure this situation out, "The Master Sword, that could help."
"No one knows if it still exists, last time it was seen was years ago when the last Hero of Time destroyed the darkness and freed the land of Twilight. Some say it was hidden with the Four Sword, others say it was forged together creating the Fourth Element." Aine explained, she seemed proud of herself for knowing so much.
"Then we'll just have to find it now won't we?" He stood up and picked up a pile of clothes and walked behind a blue and red wall like thing. When he came back out he was wearing a tunic similar to the red one, but was decorated with more designs across the belt and chest. A small mask came around his neck loosely letting him pull it over his face whenever he went into the water. The zora who had given it to him had told him that it would let him breathe underwater for a short time.
Aine squealed, "So Handsome!"
"You look good in blue." Rani said, "Stop that squealing aine and lets go!" She smacked the little fairy upside the head then grabbed the back of her shirt collar and dragged her out the door with Lief close behind.
Ruto stopped them halfway to the exit, "You can't leave yet, you haven't even been here two days!" She took Lief's hand, "Plus i've ask daddy if I could marry you instead." she smiled staring at lief expectantly as if he was supposed to smile back or jump for joy.
"That's nice...but I have other things that are extremely important that I need to see to princess." He put a hand on her shoulder and followed Aine and Rani again through the tunnels.
Ruto looked very ticked, she stormed off pushing Ralis aside when he tried talking to her, "Daddy!"
Shadow sat cross-legged on a tree branch, one moment he had released Ganon from his state of mind thinking he had gone through a deja vu or something and the next he was trapped in a large room covered in water maybe inches off the floor and a dark tree in the center. His eyes glinted as he watched the water's surface staring into his own reflection.
Surprisingly he could remember a lot, but it confused him since he had been an older version of himself. Not much news came to him in the room, no sound, no people, not even a shadow creature. When he jumped off his tree and stepped on the watery surface he wasn't upright, but upside down looking up at the tree, and on his side the tree was a shadowy spectar.
After what seemed like days he had concluded that somehow Lief had used the Ocarina to time travel and escape from the icey room. Then he concluded that in this room he was trapped in contained two different worlds, one was the original, the other was the twilight realm. He had spent a lot of time in the twilight and noticed small black particles floating in the air, the tree was touchable still and he didn't feel upside down. It was just like entering a mirrored world. He could easily get used to it.
After what seemed like days to him, he heard something enter the large room, he looked down in the water seeing the soles of two black boots. He stepped onto the water letting himself feel the same upside down feeling in his stomach before it subsided and he was standing in front of the visitor.
"What do you want?" He jumped, his voice was much younger, not the deep, threatening voice like before.
"Not much." The stranger said, he was dressed in purple robes of various shades, he wore a hat like his own, pointed and yet again purple. His eyes were red, and a gold rim on his hat circled around with a red ruby in the center. A black mark was right under his left eye and he had the resemblance of a child.
"Like I said again," Shadow grew angrier with his voice, "What do you want?" He noticed this guy was maybe two years older than him, he had a selfish smerk on his face as he stood there with high confidence.
"I came looking for you, Tzila." His voice made him sound as though he thought he was all high and mighty, "I ran into an aquaintance of yours and took something from him, I'm sure you won't be able to refuse my request when you find out what it was."
"Oh yeah?" His face darkened. If he had to he wouldn't speak again. He'd learn sign language or Dragon Text and let people read what he wanted to say.
The stranger chuckled and circled his finger in a triforce design in the air and an image appeared of an ancient fragile mirror. Shadow just about stopped breathing, his heart pounded in his chest as he watched the image crumble into small gold shards onto the ground then disappear in a puff of smoke.
"My name is Vaati. Serve me Laufeia, god of destruction and evil." His grin curved upward revealing to small fangs.
Shadow stared him down, then gritted his own fangs together and nodded holding out his arm. Vaati took it and used magic to destroy Ganon's seal and replace it with a dark triforce embedded in his hand.
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