Chapter 17
I opened my eyes slightly and feeling my vision blurred I tried to roll over and doze off again, pulling up the blanket wrapped around me. Suddenly my mind snapped to and I remembered passing out. Quickly rolling back I fell hard to the floor throwing off the blanket and jumping to my feet my mind uselessly went into defensive mode. After realizing Midna wasn't even in the room I turned around and saw my "bed" had been the couch in Midna's room. I rotated my neck, it cracked as I brought it forward, right, back with no crack when I brought my head left causing me to assume I had slept on my right side. I stretched my arms high above my head and looked around, wow, this is Midna's room, it's even bigger then the one she gave me... well she is the ruler after all, I thought continuing my visual scan of the room. I noticed a drawer on the bedside table was cracked slightly and I walked over to close it. As I approached the dim light snuck inside revealing what appeared to be a small black book. My stupidity getting the better of me I opened the drawer a little more and removed the book, it had some odd writing on the front and was sealed, but the lock had no key. I stood there endlessly staring at the book until I suddenly realized what it was. I panicked fumbled with the book, nearly stuffed it back in the drawer and slammed it shut. I then freaked that I had slammed the drawer shut and ran over towards the couch to just sit and calm myself but ended up tripping on my sprawled out blanket and falling flat on my face.
I heard the door open and I decided to just lie there with my face to the ground for a minute. "Chris... are you... okay?" I heard Midna's voice asked worriedly from behind me.
"Yup, just enjoying the lovely floor," I said obviously lying.
"What were you doing just now?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." Midna looked at me with a look of suspicion.
"You know if you were going to do anything perverted you should have just let me have my way last night."
"I wasn... wait, you actually remember last night, you were bloody wasted!?"
"I was not, I would never allow myself to become so drunk, those drinks we were serving are a standard drink here in the Twilight, we are all very used to its strength, to you however it probably felt very strong."
"Uh... yea, I guess... it did. So..." I started to speak again but suddenly Midna let out a huge startled gasp. "What!?"
"Nononononono," Midna said running across the room to the drawer I had slammed shut. My eyes grew wide, ah I get it she keeps it slightly open so she knows if anyone has been in there,I thought as Midna pulled open the drawer and yanked out the book. "You didn't, please say you didn't..." she said taking a long pause to inspect the book. After a moment she sighed, "You didn't," she paused briefly and whirled around suddenly, "Do you know what this is, what were you doing touching it?!"
"As far as I can tell I think it's your diary and I only saw it cause I noticed the drawer was open a bit and when I went to close it I saw that and grabbed it out of curiosity I'm sorry Midna!" I said without even so much as a breath between words.
"Well you didn't open it, I doubt you could of even if you wanted to anyways, I sealed it with my own unique magic so it should only open for me."
"I'm sorry... hey wait, you knew it wouldn't have an effect on you, so you... you were testing me then?!"
Midna nodded and I felt slightly angered and yet worried, "I'm sorry but if you knew it wouldn't exactly be a great test, and don't be nervous you passed," she said winking at me. "Ah right, I came to tell you all the plans for the wedding are done and..."
"What!? That was damn fast!"
"Well to be honest since I was little I had dreamed of the day I would get married, and because of that I've always had ideas in the back of my head. Then shortly after Ganondorf was defeated I began thinking about my wedding and well only a few more things need to be set up and made so if it's fine by you the wedding can be the day after tomorrow?"
"Um, well... yea sure, that sounds fine to me." I said feeling my knees shaking.
"Xant's waiting for you in your room, after all I don't really want you wearing battle armor to our wedding." Midna said winking at me again as she left the room. Just as the door closed my knees buckled and fell out from underneath me causing me to fall to a sitting position. Wow... this is really happening, I'm... marrying Midna... in... in two days. Ah what on Earth, I barely met her and we're going to be husband and wife in probably less then forty-eight hours! Okay okay, cool it Chris, I'm sure it's just like other exciting moments, usually no excitement till right before, then a huge build up and its way easier then you think when it comes.I pushed myself to my feet and exited Midna's room heading straight for my room. I got some weird looks from people who saw me leaving Midna's room. It wasn't until I was in front of my door that I realized what they must have thought. Damn now there's going to be rumors going around, I thought opening the door.
"Your late, come come there is no time to dawdle, stand over here and don't move a muscle unless I tell you to!" Xant shouted grabbing me and dragging me over to a small round block, managing to shut the door as I came through. He forced me up on top of the block and into a stiff pose like a guard. "Tsk tsk, take off that armor or my measurements will be inacurate," he said and after overcoming the shock of everything that just happened I quickly removed the chest plate and chain mail. Xant began measuring me, legs, arms, chest, poking and prodding and pulling his measuring string or whatever it was far too tight around my chest. After he was done he quickly scribbled something down and was off through the door. What the hell just happened, I thought completely in shock at the speed of everything just now. The remainder of the day was uneventful and so that evening I decided to test out the cloning ability I planned to attempt to use to create a more permanent copy of me to stay with Midna when I had to leave. Focusing all my energy I managed to split myself, the clone was an exact match but lasted a meek ten minutes.
I tried changing my focus to the part of me that belonged here in the Twilight and again focusing I managed to split creating a clone that lasted longer but only about thirty minutes this time. After a few more tries and managing to improve my last clone to last one hour I decided to get some sleep.
I awoke late the next morning, but actually in the morning for once. I hopped out of bed expecting an uneventful day, of course I never got what I expected. My chest felt unusually tight this morning, I put my right hand balled in a fist over the left side of my chest hoping this would somehow calm the pain. After a minute or two though I heard something. I heard a faint whisper in my mind, "Ki-..."I smacked my ear thinking I was hearing things.
"Xant, Xant," I called hoping if he didn't come someone would hear my call and interpret I needed help.
"Ki-..."
"SOMEONE!" The door opened a crack.
"KILL!"
"Ah, no... RUN AWAY!" I clasped my head as the voice yelled over and over again.
"KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL EVERYTHING!" suddenly my arms went limp, even though I was still trying to hold my head. My body stood up with my head hanging slightly.
"Chris, what's wrong?" Midna's voice cut through the veil this voice created on my mind. I clutched my head feeling the voice trying to take back control.
"Midna... get... away. Somethings... taking... GRAH... my mind!" I said pushing past her out into the hall.
"Chris!" Midna yelled rushing towards me.
I lost control again and the voice hit Midna across the face causing her to fall back, "Stay away!" my body yelled in a voice that was clearly half not mine and I think Midna could tell as the look on her face was not on of fright, anger, or sadness. It was one of determination or resolve. My body ran off and I could tell Midna would follow, my gut just told me. Still fighting against this thing I intensified its rage to no end as it burst into the main hall where Midna had toasted me. There were many servants walking about but they all stopped as the door was swung wide open and Midna's king-to-be let out a huge terrifying roar. I continued my struggle and found the rage I had envoked had now caused this thing controlling me to use some chairs for stress relief, picking them up and hurling them across the room.
"So the brute finally decides to show his true colours!" I heard a voice shout from across the room. My body still not under my control turned and I saw Xant standing there with a small sword, two halves a chair beside him and a young female servant hiding behind him. With another large roar I turned picked up a whole table and threw it directly at Xant who was surprisingly agile and shred the table before it could cause harm to anyone. However before his blade even rested at his side I was in front of him. "Wha..." Xant started but was completely cut off as my hand went around his neck. Xant flailed wildly managing to hit me across the face with the tip of the blade causing a gash across my face. With aloud roar I had thrown Xant to the wall and was about to rush him once again.
"STOP WHERE YOU ARE," a voice shouted from across the room. My whole body froze and shuttered as I looked over ans saw Midna running over.
"KILL HER" the voice shouted again within my head. I felt my arm raise and struggle against my will to hit Midna. She drew closer and closer until she threw her arms out and around me embracing me despite the fact I had been acting completely insane. I felt the voice in my head shake and recede and I nearly collapsed.
"Midna... I... I'm... so sorry," I gasped feeling completely dehydrated. I shakily got to my feet and stumbled over to where Xant was slumped on the floor. I slumped down to my knees and checked to make sure he was still breathing, "I'm sorry... Xant. I can't explain my actions... nor can I excuse them," I said lifting the injured Twili to his feet as he awoke. "Midna," I said louder, my voice restored to its normal volume, "I'm not so sure you marrying me is such a good idea, whoever or whatever just took control had no mercy or concern for anyone here."
"But I love you, I can't live without you," Midna said almost crying.
"Marrying me would be selfish, you would be putting yourself and your entire kingdom in danger, the solution to this problem is simple... I'll leave." I said turning towards the door.
"NO," Midna yelled causing the whole room to look at her. Tears were welling up in her eyes, she shook her head causing little sparkles to fly through the air, "You can't leave, not now." Midna was glaring at me with unwavering resolve, she would chase me to the ends of the Twilight and back.
"Midna, you realize that Xant is not the only protester to yours and my marriage, if you marry me there is a chance the people will revolt to get you removed from the throne... are you willing to sacrifice everything just to be with me?"
"If they want me removed just because of the king I choose then they do not deserve my rule!"
"Then I'll stay."
"I won't let... wait what?" Midna said taken aback.
"If I truly mean that much to you I will not make you sacrifice that much just to be with me. In fact I'll do my best to make those who doubt me believe I'm good for this kingdom." I said smiling at Midna. "Now then... I feel... tired, I do believe I'll get an extra long sleep before tomorrow... starting to get butterflies in my stomach."
Midna's eyes and cheeks were soaked with tears, I wiped them as I walked by. Upon my exit of the room Midna immeadiately began chattering with Xant. I let a small 'hmph' escape my lips as I closed the door to my room. "So you really think marrying the princess of this dark world to be a wise idea?" a voice behind me asked and I swirled to see a floating replica of my father.
My jaw dropped and then I remembered my initial arrival to the Twilight. "What do you want?" I asked the thing I thought to be fake.
"What you don't even care about your old man's opinion anymore?"
"Your not him... he... he died! All because of me too..."
"I'm not dead, how could I be? I'm right here in front of you son."
"But..." I looked at the man who claimed to be my father and began to feel he wasn't lying.
"Okay, if your truly my father... I won't ask about the past or anything I ever told you, those could be searched easily... if you truly are my dad... what should I do now?" I nearly yelled.
"Hm... well, your an adult now, that's truly up to you, however it's no lie that your body will not last here forever, much like my own, turns out our whole family has a complicated death process where we kinda don't really ever die..."
"Huh?"
"Another time my boy, another time" he said, a portal suddenly appearing next to him and sucking him out of my room, closing as soon as he was gone.
"Heh, well that was him all right, only my dad would know not to give me a straight suggestion, since everything he ever told me to do I became reluctant to do." I said throwing up the covers to my bed and hoping in. Dozing off almost immeadiatly my sleep was very restless as I tossed and turned and mumbled in my sleep.
Well, sorry it's been so long... lots to do so little time to do it all. Having some trouble writing. Just really wanna get to the good part but I don't wanna rush this stuff it's important too, I'll update again A.S.A.P