Chapter 2: Future
Despite my gratefulness to be home and safe, the main thing that was on my mind was the Master Sword. I just knew that the strange balls of light and the shadow that had crept across the floor had something to do with it having lost its power. I also felt that I would be surprised if the others didn't think that as well. Thankfully, it seemed as though they did, so it was okay. Unfortunately, thinking about nothing but the others and the Master Sword did make my grades slip a little bit.
The only thing that was keeping my passing was how much help I got from not only Zelda, but the other people who knew what was going on: Chelsea, Andrew, Ethan, and Mr. Marchand. The simple fact that there was a teacher on my side helped far more than any of the other in the grades department. Then again, he still didn't know everything. I also discovered the hard way that the only reason that Ethan and Andrew had gotten a high enough grade to go on the trip that had happened the previous year was because they had cheated, so they were actually no help at all. In fact, after a while, Ethan started getting offended if I even asked him anything.
So, my help was very limited and whenever my family got news of how I was doing, I would get an angry e-mail or something from my mother about it. Therefore, I had a lot of pressure. However, I just shrugged it off, knowing full well that what I was actually doing was for the greater good of everybody, even if they didn't know about it. Also, as time went on, I noticed that I had become much more submissive, like slave Link. Plus, I also felt an overwhelming urge to protect those who were precious to me, just like… knight Link.
Eventually, I realized that it would only make sense for each of us to have picked up some traits of each other. After all, the three of us were all one and the same, right? Therefore, I didn't read that much into it, so to speak. On the other had, I made sure to spend as much of my time as possible researching lore, just in case. Zelda, however, was always two steps ahead of me thanks to her telekinetic connection with the other Zeldas. I was shocked, though, to discover that, despite the three of them existing in different dimensions from each other, they apparently all had a common ancestor from when time wasn't split.
Honestly, my mind was blown by that, but I actually found it believable for some odd reason. Frankly, I found that I could believe almost anything after all that I had been through. Heck, if a sword was magic and it lost its power, the first thing that I thought about was how I could possibly get its power restored, instead of how it could even be magical in the first place. Then, it became all that I could think about, eventually. Well, at least it would help everyone, eventually, so I figured that I couldn't be blamed for think that way. Either way, it made me very excited when Zelda seemed to want to talk to me about it…