Alaina
I am very very very very sorry about this incredibly long wait. I'm even more sorry if this chapter is also shorter than the others. I just figured the ending of it was good where it was. But as soon as I upload this, I'll be working on Chapter 11.
And from the past chapters about how Ganondorf could sense Alaina's magic but could not see her, I figured out some good explanations about the Triforce's powers.
The Triforce of Power grants the user unlimited power, and it is very hard to kill said person, explaining why Ganondorf is never dead.
The Triforce of Courage is somewhat the same, except less power, but still hard to kill, which may suggest why Link has ten thousand little hearts. =P. It also grants the user the ability to master any weapon he finds in mere seconds.
The Triforce of Wisdom can read minds and is the best at detecting people, which is why Ganondorf wishes he had it. Alaina's disguise can block her from being detected since she is not truely Alaina, which is whom Ganondorf is looking for. The Triforce of Wisdom can break through those disguises, to simply put.
All three Triforces can detect magic regardless, so Ganondorf was able to sense it and realize that Alaina was somewhere in Hyrule.
Chapter 10
"Well that meeting went well!" Aiden commented as he and Alaina made their way into what Aiden made his living quarters. He tried his best to make it as comfortable as possible. It had been tidied up, and candles were placed all over to give it a comforting glow. A large rug created by the Kokiris ("a gift for saving them," he explained) covered most of the floor and a large map of Hyrule took up a portion of one of the walls, with markings indicating the different camps and red lines showing underground routes to take if needed.
"Yeah," Alaina said thoughtfully. "Hopefully Miles and your father have a safe journey."
"Miles will be fine," Aiden reassured her, well aware that Miles had the more dangerous traveling of the two. He pointed to the map. "Here's a secret route he'll be taking. No one should catch him. And since southern Hyrule is mostly made up of the Lost Woods, nobody will be going in there anytime soon. Dad probably asked Saria the way so he wouldn't get lost."
"How far is Hilia anyway?" Alaina wondered.
"Honestly, not that far," Aiden answered. "The reason why it seems like they're so far is because they had never traveled through the Lost Woods when they used to come here for meetings and such. They'd have to make giant loops and enter through Lake Hylia."
"Huh. I never knew that," she said. "Then again why would I wonder such petty stuff like that when I was little."
Aiden chuckled. "Well at least this journey will be quicker. They're sure to help us out now!"
Alaina stopped dead in her tracks. "Wait. How come Hilia never helped us out before!" she questioned, her eyes narrowing into dangerous slits.
Aiden looked nervous as her sudden change of attitude. "Well, because-"
"They became our allies! The least they could do is help try to set the prisoners free!" she continued shrilly.
"But-"
"Maybe most of my kingdom wouldn't be destroyed right now!" she snapped, the Triforce under her bandages warningly glowing.
"Alaina-"
"Maybe more people would still be alive!" Something seemed to be forming in her hand.
"What the hell-?"
BAM!
"Goddamn it!" Alaina continued to lash out. Aiden glanced back at the giant hole in the wall that her blast of fire made. On the other side of the wall where the courtyard was, a group of Kokiris looked at them, looking terrified. Mido was glaring at them, his hair singed.
Aiden grabbed her by the shoulders and looked at her. "Think about this, Alaina. Ganondorf is a bloody wizard, and he has the Triforce of Power. You and I didn't inherit our pieces until now! We had no proper motivation to get Hilia to help us at the time! We didn't want their help yet! Whose to say that if we tried to free all the prisoners before, Ganondorf wouldn't just strike back, and even worse than before. Nobody would be able to stop him! It would've just been a huge waste of time! And it wouldn't look too good if we didn't have some sort of ruler with us if we did end up asking them for help beforehand!"
Alaina just stared daggers at him, waiting him to continue.
"We knew you would be coming back! We were certain that you would have the Triforce of Wisdom! We had no choice but to wait, so then when we do strike, Ganondorf would have something to fear! All of this would give us a huge advantage, making it the perfect moment to ask Hilia to help us. We had to make sure everything would go according to plan!"
"Alaina," he said more softly. "If we asked Hilia to assist us before, they would lose a lot more lives. Ganondorf would probably go after them too. There would be no stopping him. We wouldn't want to do that." He paused. "How come you had never asked Calatia to help Hyrule while you were there?"
Alaina looked down. "It wasn't the right time…" she said quietly. There was silence after that.
Aiden attempted to lighten the mood, now that she seemed calm. "Are you sure you have the Wisdom piece?" he joked. "I thought you would've known that. Maybe it's from your dad-"
He quickly realized that was a bad mistake before was blasted backwards through the hole that was made previously. The Kokiris scampered out of the way, hiding behind bushes, but were so amazed at what was taking place that they peered over them, eager to see what unfolded.
Aiden looked shocked as he sprung up from the ground, brushing dirt from his clothing. "What is WRONG with you?!" he yelled. "I was joking! I wasn't being mean about your parents!"
Alaina emerged from the shadows of the darker room, looking positively horrifying with balls of energy glowing on her hands. Even her ice blue eyes seemed to be glowing. "Just. Shut. UP!" she shrieked, shooting more beams at each word.
Being blessed with the Triforce of Courage, Aiden was also able to make magic, even though he wasn't trained in it yet. However, he was angry and scared (although he wouldn't admit it) enough to form energy of his own, and shot it at Alaina.
She looked stunned for a split second, but put her hands together and whipped them apart to create a barrier just in time to protect her from the beams he shot. Now even more angered that he would attack back, no matter what his intentions to do so were, she launched flames at him.
Not really knowing how he did it, Aiden caught him in his hand and formed them into a ball, chucking it back at her. "I'm sorry!" he shouted. "I really am! Please just calm down!"
"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!" she cried. "I DON'T EVEN HAVE MY PARENTS ANYMORE! YOU LOST NOTHING SINCE THE INVASION!"
Aiden's face turned to stone. How dare she think that I wasn't affected by this at all, he thought with fury. She sure realized it before.
"NO!" Aiden roared, unleashed a jet of energy that knocked the girl over. "While you were gone in peaceful Calatia, probably choosing to forget everything that happened and was happening, I was living through it! I saw the horror Ganondorf unleashed from day one! I watched Hyrule practically burn to the ground, and I saw people die!" He pointed to the Kokiris. "To see them slaving away in that hellhole Kokiri Forest had turned into, I wanted to run away from it all. You didn't have to go through any of it!"
"I didn't have a choice!" Alaina yelled.
"Holy crap, just shut up already!" Mido bellowed.
"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Alaina and Aiden roared back at him, shooting energy in the process. He let out a yelp and ran as far as he could away from them.
Aiden walked threateningly up to her, and pointed to his face and lifted up his sleeves to show her all of his wounds. "Would you want to go through all of this?" he asked her quietly.
Alaina didn't back down. "Yes," she spat. "This is my kingdom. If I had a choice, I would've been fighting alongside all of you and sacrificing my life to do the best I could under the circumstances. If I had a choice, I would be covered with the same wounds right now. I felt awful about having to hide. I didn't want to!" She was close to tears now. "I saw my parents die. Do you know what that does to you? It makes you want to fight! It makes you want revenge! How can say you wanted to run away?" She sank down to the ground. "I saw my parents die," she repeated weakly. "They're dead." She started to cry uncontrollably, finally letting out her emotions. Her feelings at the spring back in Calatia didn't even come close to how she was now.
It suddenly occurred to Aiden that Alaina was finally having a breakdown, and he then realized how incredibly selfish he was being. He knelt down and wrapped her in his arms. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he whispered repeatedly. Meanwhile, the Kokiris emerged from behind the bushes, and wisely left the courtyard to leave the two alone.
Except Mido. "Geez, about time," he complained.
Aiden quickly shot a jet of water at him, knocking Mido flat on his back and soaking him in the process. He stood up, sputtering and muttering obscenities, but he finally left.
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Alaina had ended up tiring herself out so much from the fighting and crying that she eventually fell asleep. Aiden carefully carried her through the hole back into his quarters and laid her on his sleeping mat, covering her with the blanket. He turned back to the gaping hole and scratched his head, sighing. Lila entered the room, looking very annoyed.
"What in Goddesses name happened?" she hissed. "I could hear shouting from the other side of this temple!" She noticed the hole. "Is that where one of those blasts came from?"
"Alaina and I had a fight," Aiden explained. "A huge one."
Lila raised her eyebrows. "Really, now?" she asked sarcastically.
"I'm pretty sure she had her big breakdown since Link and Zelda's deaths," he said.
Lila looked over at the sleeping girl, taking notice of her puffy eyes and tearstained face. "Five years is a long time to hold that in," she said shortly.
Something went off in Aiden's head. "You know, Lila. Ever since we found you three years ago, you never explained where you've been. Where's your mother and father?"
"No idea," Lila said dismissively.
"Where were you since the invasion began?" he wondered. Lila merely shrugged, but was clenching her fists in frustration.
"Come on Lila. You have to say something! You've been so guarded ever since you came back with us to the forest. What did you go through?" Aiden demanded to know.
This earned a hard slap from the teen, visibly surprising Aiden. "I told you," she growled. "I have no idea." She whipped around, her hair hitting him in the face, and walked out of the room.
Although back in Chapter 5, Alaina was upset back at the Nighta spring before the Goddesses came, she never had a chance to fully unleash all of her anger and any other emotion. Unfortunately for Aiden, he ended up being the catalyst. Also, it is becoming obvious now that Lila went through something devastating of her own.