To Starll: Midna tried to tell her that she didn't do it, but she was still recovering from the shock that Zelda said that to her that she couldn't finish her sentence.
To Twilight Commando for Chapter 8: See, Link didn't have a fairy. No potions, no bee larva or any of that whatnot that gives you life.
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Midna continued to stare dumbfounded at the Mirror of Twilight. How did the Twili find Zelda? She turned around to see a bunch of sheepish looking people avoiding her eyes.
"Why?!" Midna bellowed to the crowd, making sure everyone heard her. "The princess of Hyrule. What were you thinking?!"
She looked at everyone, who kept their heads down.
"Why did you do this?"
No response.
"I can keep you standing here all night without sleep until I receive an answer!"
Some mumbling took place, and Midna wasn't sure if that was just moaning or that they just didn't feel like saying their answer to her out loud.
No one told her an answer straight, so Midna closed her eyes and counted to ten. Whoever said that counting to ten would calm you down, they're nuts. All it did was give her ten different punishments suitable for this. She opened them again and stared at her people.
"I cannot believe these are the same people I saw when I was cursed. Those people had hope and strength. Where are they? Are the people standing before me still the same?"
Unsurprisingly, there was no answer.
"You broke the allegiance between Hyrule and the Twilight Realm. If a war is what you want, a war is what you'll get, but I will take no part in it. If you want to go fight the Hylians and basically commit suicide, fine."
Some people looked excited, but Midna put on her best menacing, death glare. "If you are going to fight them, get out of my presence. Shame thee."
Midna didn't know why she started talking so formally, but it worked. The Twili who looked excited let their faces fall. Some hunched their shoulders and hid their faces behind their hair.
"Go back to your houses and hope we won't all be killed."
Slowly but surely, the Twili walked their way back to their houses. Midna felt like she was going to scream, and just wished she was a little kid again so she could. Then Midna could pound the walls and kick and scream and throw a temper tantrum. Of course, she wouldn't have to deal with stubborn, disobedient people. Not that she wanted to.
How will the Hylians take this? Will they be stubborn, disobedient people as well? And what did Zelda mean by what she said? If you can't handle your country, leave it to someone who can. Was Zelda so cocky that she thinks she could run two countries at the same time?
Questions swirled around in her mind, and Midna longed only for someone to hug her- for someone to lean on. She sprinted back to her palace, threw herself onto her bed and cried her heart out into a pillow so people wouldn't hear.
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During her crying, Midna fell asleep. She felt more tired now than when she fell asleep, and Midna yawned and stretched. She cracked her neck and her back, knowing that it was horrible for her, but didn't care.
She went to her favorite mirror hanging on the wall- a replica of the Mirror of Twilight. She gazed into it and looked at herself.
Midna saw the same girl she always did when she looked into this mirror, but something about her was different. When she had looked into the mirror a while ago, she saw Midna. Midna, the princess of Twilight. Same old, same old. Then she looked into it and she saw a hideous, gangly imp. Now she looks at it and she sees Midna, the princess of Twilight. Yet this Midna seems to have more experience, has grown wiser. She thought about all of the days, weeks, months she spent with Link in the light world, and thought about how that had changed her forever.
She had strangely developed… something. New emotions, yet Midna couldn't name it. Her heart wished to see something, but what was it? Was it just her imagination? Or was the pain in her heart real?
She thought hard, shutting her eyes tight.
What do I want?
Midna had it on the tip of her tongue, but a quiet knock came on the door. Midna almost snarled at the man who came in for disrupting her thinking, but she restrained herself.
"I have good news and bad news," the man replied with a very depressing tone. Midna almost groaned.
"The bad news…?"
"Some Twili went to fight the Hylians…" Midna's eyes narrowed, and the man gulped, "and found some of the Twili teens."
"This… this is the bad news…?" Midna croaked.
"Yes. They reported that there… there was no… pulse…" The man wiped his arm across his eyes. Clearly his child was one of those teenagers.
"They were… dead."
"Yes," the man squeaked.
Midna felt her heart squeeze tightly. She kept it to herself, but she knew she did it. "Oh… um… yes. Thank… you. Dismissed."
The guard nodded and walked out the door, sniffling.
Midna killed them. She killed them all, and didn't mean to. Midna rushed to her old and tattered spell book sitting on her bookshelf. She opened it and dust rose out of the pages. She flipped to the 'V' section, then found the 'Vo', then the 'Vor.'
She found three different ones.
Vortation (Vor-tay-shun)- Cleaning spell. Sends out vortex-like waves and puts everything back into place.
Vormacia Bindayo (Vor-may-she-uh Bind-ay-yo)- Love spell. Sends out vortex-like waves and makes people fall in love with the first person they see. Note- only works with people who are inside the waves at the time.
Vorvagia (Vor-vah-she-ah) Killing curse. Kills all that is around the user, except the closet thing to the person. Warning- can get out of hand. May destroy everything in its path- including landforms and bodies of water. Can only protect one thing.
I… I killed them… I killed them all. Twenty lives lost on one night… and it's all my fault!
Midna didn't care anymore. She cried until she couldn't cry anymore. No one bothered to walk in and comfort her, and it didn't matter anymore that the guard never told Midna the good news. Nothing could possibly be good enough to get rid of this pain.
She had never experienced this kind of pure torture. She went through humiliation, deportation, and all of those things with long suffixes. She also went through betrayal, and feeling like a teenager herself- getting her first kiss.
No, not even a kiss could make Midna feel rid of all the guilt. Midna now had her secret, and she knew she would never share it with anyone. Not unless she wanted to be hanged. No, she didn't feel like dying tonight.
With dark humor, she smiled to herself, and sat upright. Her pillow was soaked from her tears, and Midna blushed a little when a man walked in and saw her pillow.
"I am sorry, the other guard did not tell you any good news, did he?"
Midna swallowed silently. "No, he did not."
"Well, you need to come downstairs. There is something waiting for you," the guard smirked to her.
"May you tell me what it is?"
"I have been sworn to secrecy, and I do not break promises."
Midna nodded, feeling ashamed of herself. She followed the guard down the stairs, with great suspicion, especially when they asked her to put a blind fold on.
"No way. I refuse to put this on," Midna said severely.
The guards surrounding her didn't even look surprised. They just nodded and continued walking.
The guards were so tall Midna couldn't see between them- just the back and side of their chests. She felt so stupid- like a child. Oh, the irony.
They finally reached the bottom of the steps. And even when Midna was on a higher step than they, they were still taller than her.
"With great honor and pleasure, we give you the Princess of Twilight, Princess Midna." The two guards in front of her parted, and Midna glared at everyone who met her eye. This was not feeling fun for her.
Then her eyes flew open when she saw a man standing in the left corner of the room. He...
Link!
Link smiled sheepishly when he met her eye, and Midna felt like running over to him. Link! He's better! Midna's eyes glazed over his flesh wound, and she could barely make out the outlines of where it was. It looked fine; that spring water was pretty good stuff!
Then Midna thought back to before- how Midna saved him and killed the others. Why should Midna be happy?! She saved one man and killed twenty others! How horrible! It was treason!
With narrowed eyes, she shook her head. "Get out of my palace," Midna sneered, then walked back up the stairs- feeling eyes boring holes into her.
