LoZ! GX

Chapter 7 – The Hylian Memory

(A/N: Sorry if some of this is a bit confusing, I'll try harder!)

Zelda sat by the ocean shore and played a sad orchestrated song in her head. It was slow and mostly flute and violin high notes that came low and high like a very slow roller coaster. She thought of her brother when she played this song; how he almost died…it was a terrible memory; a terrible day in Hyrule, period. The moment she set eyes on her newborn baby brother when she was 4 was remarkable.

He looked healthy, and beautiful, like a baby should, but looks can be deceiving. He was very unhealthy, still is, in fact. That dreadful day, she knew would haunt her forever. It stands over her like the sky, and reminds her everyday how she almost lost a family member that she didn't even get the chance to meet. Alas, a ray of light had shone upon the Hylian family that day. She remembered from the start.

Zelda listened in on her parents who were arguing in the dining room. Her unborn baby brother was the topic here…sadly, her father didn't want to keep his own child. Since Zelda was only a small child, no more than four, it was a little hard to understand everything they said.

One thing, Zelda also couldn't hear very well, but she was very intelligent for a child. Something her father might have said, she didn't hear; something her mother might have said, she didn't quite understand.

"No! Absolutely not!" her mother screamed. Zelda was behind a wall, so she couldn't see her gesture, only heard their voices.

"He is a mistake, Lorelei." Her father said sternly, almost commanding.

"Mistake? How could you say that?" Zelda's mother—Lorelei—asked quietly.

"Mistake…it was an accident…" he'd said again.

"Stop it Envo!" Lorelei screamed. Zelda got a lot of her traits and genes.

"So how long will it be?" he asked.

Lorelei said nothing, but only exhaled loud enough for Zelda to hear behind the wall.

"How long will we have the mistake in our house?" he asked loudly and harshly.

"Envo Hylia! He is not a mistake, it was just…" she paused.

Silence.

"Just…" she trailed off, "he's-"

"A mistake, Lorelei." Envo told her.

"A little unexpected!" she finished, "but I will not put this child into abortion! You never know who he'll turn out to be."

"Be reasonable Lory," Envo put in.

"Don't 'Lory' me Envo! Abortion is wrong, I have made up my mind and I will NOT put this baby to death…ever!" Lorelei exclaimed.

Zelda figured out then what abortion meant. Her father wanted to put her brother to death because he thought he might be a flaw. How revolting! He never showed that to Zelda.

She peered over the wall, and watched what happened. The back of her Father's head was showing, and Zelda's mother's back was turned to him.

"I will never give him up." She said quietly and stubbornly as she turned back to Envo. Zelda moved a bit farther back behind the wall, but only so much to where she could barely see. Lorelei didn't notice; she smiled and kept both hands on her belly which was humongous by the way.

"Who will he turn out to be then?" Envo asked rudely, arms crossed.

"Whoever he wants to be. Link…" Lorelei said and smiled even wider.

"Ah so if he wants to be a disrespectful, ignorant, wretched brat, you'll be alright with that?" He shouted.

Lorelei's smile disappeared. Does he not care about her happiness? At that moment, Zelda described her own father as a revolting jerk!

"Why are you doing this to me? He's your son, too, Envo! Does that not matter to you!?" She screamed at her 'so called' husband who is supposed to love her forever.

"My son? Don't look at me like that Lory! They all came from you!" he yelled harshly.

Line crossed…. Lorelei gaped, and put her hand up to her mouth to muffle her gasp. She shut her eyes tight and looked away. You would guess, tears came from her eyes, then.

"You are horrible, Envo," Lorelei admitted, "you took advantage of my fragile heart, and at that, I'm letting go." She told him with tears streaming down either side of her face, but her voice was strong.

Envo was puzzled, "what? Lory…" he almost begged.

"Get out of my house Envo. You are no longer welcome here." She told him without a hint of sadness on her face.

"Wha???"

"Get out," Lorelei said quietly, "Get out!" she screamed. And again, "Get out! Out! Now! Get out!"

Envo took a last look at his crying wife, and left the house slowly.

Lorelei stood there in the dimly lit dining room. She pulled up a chair and sat down in it, her head in one palm and elbow on the dining table. It was a very large table, which had a royal blue table cloth on the top of it. The edges had hung on the sides of the table.

"Mama…" Zelda came in.

Lorelei jumped and smiled at the sight of her daughter and eldest child. She knelt beside Zelda, and brushed her hair.

"Sweetie…are you alright?" Lorelei asked behind her small tears.

"No. Why aren't you? What happen?" she asked.

"I am fine, sweetheart. I just corrected a mistake of mine." She smiled.

"What mistake?" Zelda asked.

Lorelei shook her head, "never mind, hun."

A small silence filled the room. Zelda gazed around and saw a couple of the landscape artworks on the walls. One was a plain with a river in front and in the background had many small and large hills.

The other was Lake Hylia. Zelda could tell because there was a couple of zoran and the small rocks that were known as the Mother and Child Rocks. They were marked with spirals that overlapped each other several times.

Zelda forgot the rest. She didn't remember what else her mother told her, but she remembered the paintings, the argument, and her mother's reaction. She stared out at the waves which pushed and pulled along the shore. The blue water had made its beautiful sound and moved back and forth, back forth from Zelda's feet to her entire body. She was getting soaked and she didn't care.

The moon was coming up and the sun was going down, furthermore, it was getting cold, and Zelda was all wet. She was shaking in the cold sand and gentle water.

"You cold out here?" a familiar voice asked.

Zelda turned toward the voice. It was Atticus. He walked behind her and sat beside, but behind her, so he wouldn't get wet. He held something in his hand, but Zelda didn't want to know what it was.

"I brought you a towel. You want it? It's pretty chilly out tonight." He told her softly and caring.

"Thank you." Zelda chattered. Her hands were around her body, so she didn't take the towel from him, instead, Atticus wrapped it around her.

"The nurse said your brother is going to be fine." Atticus told Zelda, smiling.

Zelda smiled back, and he offered his hand to her; to help her up. Zelda reluctantly took it. His hand was so warm, it made her want to hug him for body warmth, and so she did.

Her feet were still in the wet sand, which collected water from time to time, but his body was so warm, and she was so cold.

Atticus didn't hug back for a moment, but in response, he patted her back and smiled slightly.

Zelda let go after a while of awkward silence. For a minute, she was in someone else's embrace. To her, it felt so…right, so much better then what she puts up with back in Hyrule.

Zelda stood in front of him, and moved so her feet weren't in the cold water. She smiled bashfully and looked away. Atticus didn't say, but he loved that smile she gave him. The two stood and eyed each other for a while before returning back inside the building.

Shortly afterward, it started raining, so Atticus and Zelda ran for the Academy. Luckily, Zelda couldn't get any wetter, and Atticus didn't get to wet. They were still silent at each other. Before anything else could happen, Zelda went for the Nurse's office.

Atticus followed slowly behind, eventually, he lost her. But he didn't stop going toward the nurse.

When Zelda entered, she saw Link lying in a white bed. Jaden and the gang were all on the same left wall.

"Zelda's back." Bastion pointed out.

"Hey, what about Atticus?" the blonde girl asked.

"I dunno. Zelda, did you see Atticus?" Hassleberry asked facing Zelda.

"Yes…he gave me this velvet towel." Zelda replied quietly.

"He gave Zelda a towel, Lexi." Hassleberry turned back to the blonde girl.

"Her name's Alexis, dino-brain!" Chazz stated rudely.

"Yes, but 'where' is he now?" Alexis asked impatiently at Hassleberry.

"The halls…somewhere." Zelda replied and walked toward Link.

Again, she remembered the sad song, and thee day she became an older sister. The day, she claimed a title, and almost lost it.

Zelda was at the Hylian Hospital, for a reason she not knows yet. She was sitting at the waiting room for a while, now. Suddenly, her mother burst through a door in a wheelchair. She carried a light green fabric. The look of her face, Zelda gazed, she could tell something was wrong. She was crying, but it wasn't happy crying.

Something vile was going on inside of Link. His blood was low. The doctors said he didn't have long. It was a terrible thought. Zelda was never going to be able to see a little brother to greet her home. Never, could she have someone younger than her to love and talk to like a friend, but more. At the moment, Zelda didn't know what any of this meant.

"There is a rare chance he will survive. Without a blood donation, he'll die. His heart needs a boost to pump blood in his body. It looks here he is very weak in the heart." The doctor told Lorelei.

She said nothing but sat there with her head in her hands.

"I'm sorry. Unless we find someone with the same blood type, and he's willing' to give away, I'm afraid, this will be an unsuccess." She said to her again.

Zelda remembered she wasn't there for the rest. Her mother told her to wait outside. By the time they came out, a small whine came out the door as well as Zelda's smiling, happy-crying mother and her father.

Envo had helped bring Link to the world. He is the reason why Link is alive now. Zelda knew that, and thus, he still treated Link like a mistake…. It pained Zelda so to see her father doing anything like that to anyone because she had always been an angel. 'Daddy's little girl' is exactly who she was, and now, she didn't care. The way he treated her brother was wrong.

Lorelei thought so too, that's why Envo and she took different paths. Today, Zelda doesn't know where her father is, and Lorelei is ill. A terrible fate has awaited her family ever since Link was born. A prophecy is what was inside Link. A myth, or a folktale that most people much less humans ever believed is what dwelled in him.

The mark on his left wrist, it was an oblique scar that cut through part of his vein. On the top-right side of the scar was a mark that meant holy means to Hyrule. The Triforce or Sacred Pyramid is what Hylians call it. Humans call it a curse.

On the left-bottom side of the scar was the real cursed mark. It was a circle with a small angle inside of it. It was like a part of the Triforce, except smaller and round at the end where it connected with the circle. The symbol meant 'Death of the Fallen'.

Link turned his head slightly and his face twitched. Everyone there heard a small moan escape his lips. It sounded mournful like he was hurt or sad. His eyebrows moved up and down as he slowly opened his eyes. When he clearly saw Zelda, he looked guilty and started tears.

"No, Link. No…" Zelda said gently and took him in her arms. He hid his face in her neck and shoulder so no one would see him.

Zelda hummed Link the soft violin and flutes of the song she thought of when she remembered him. Her voice got lower and louder as she went on, and then she got to the clarinets' parts, when it gets into the vengeful part of the song.

As she sang the last note, Link calmed down. He revealed his face and opened his eyes. There, he saw Jaden, Syrus, Bastion, Alexis, Atticus, Chazz, Hassleberry, and the nurse. Each of their facial expressions were different.

Jaden looked confused like he had no idea what was going on, and Syrus looked like he was about to cry with Link. Atticus and Alexis both looked concerned and also a bit puzzled. Chazz looked annoyed, and also a bit resentful. Hassleberry on the other hand was a little bit of all, as if he didn't know how to feel. Bastion seemed in awe, the same look he gave him before he passed out, and finally, the nurse looked scared and concerned.

These people…these humansLink thought bitterly, but then caught himself, aren't so bad. They seem to really care about us. Why would they do that? Don't they know Hylians and humans hate each other?

Link stopped thinking like that as soon as he saw a familiar face he was sure to have gotten rid of. A tall boy with shoulder-height, teal/blue hair came through the door. He didn't have an emotionless face. Instead it was full of horror and worry.

"Zane Truesdale…"