~~~~ Atem's Pov ~~~~
Just soon after Zelda fell asleep it was night. "My king, we must find a place to rest for the night," said Shada. "Very well then, where is the nearest village from here," I asked. "The nearest village is less than a mile from here, the same direction we're headed." "Fine, we will rest there." We continued to the village when we were stopped by a man little older than 40 stopped us a few feet from the village. "Who go there," asked the man. "It's the Pharaoh and his men. We need a place to rest for the night," I replied. "Of course my king." "Don't mind me asking but are you protecting something right now," asked a young girl. Was I making it that obvious then I thought about it again. I was. I was about to explain why when the wind blew the cloak open exposing Zelda. "By the gods! It's Zelda! Imohtep, go get father. Now," said the girl.
"Is she ok," asked the girl. "Yes she is exhausted so she is resting. How do you know her," I asked. "Never mind that follow me quickly." I followed her wanting to know how she knew Zelda. I cover Zelda back up who is still sound asleep against me. Atem what is going on, she thought sleeply. Just rest, we are going to spend the night at a village so you could go to sleep love, I thought. I felt her mind disappear again. We stop in front of a house and an older man came running out to me. "You found her? You found Zelda?" I nod and reviel Zelda to the old man. "Bring her in. You may share my house tonight." "Thank you." I lightly lifted her on the horse so I could get my other leg on the other side of the horse so I could just slide off. Once off, I felt Zelda get closer then relax like it made her want to shift. Slowly I went in the house and he lead me to another room with an extra bed. I gently place her on the bed. "Is she injured," asked the old man.
"Yes she was burned on her sholder. How do you know her," I asked him. "She lived here for a long time until Ganondorf found her here. She left to protect the village and led him away so we could be safe from his wrath. She ran out of the village with no supplies and as she planned he followed her. She has been missing ever since." "My father found her in the desert and brought her to the palace. She has been with me ever since."
"Well, lets check out that sholder of her's." I went to her right side and untied the hood. Slowly I removed it and she started to moan. I placed my hand on her forehead to try to calm her. I went back to removing the hood and once it was only under her sholder, I gently lifted her sholder. Her breathing sped up whenever her sholder was being moved. "Well, that is a pretty bad burn. You did a good job caring for it," said the old man. He went to get a clean cloth and got it wet. He placed it on the burn, she started to breath faster and tried to move away from it. I place my hands on her face saying, "Zelda, it's fine, you're safe." He quickly bound it under her arm and she started to get used to it. "She really trusts you. She never did that to anyone before. We usualy had to get people to hold her down to bandage her up," said the man after he was done.
"Well she don't do that for me. She will act defecivly but she won't attack me. I am the only one she trusts." "Why she knows every one in this village." "When my father found her, she was unconsious for two days. When she awoke, she had no memory of her past or who she was for that matter." "So she may not remember us then will she?" "Afraid not. All she has from her past is a few dreams, her powers, and instincts." A young girl said, "Is she ok?" I knelt down and said, "Yes, she is just resting." "Ok will she be able to play with me?" I frowned, I didn't know what to tell this little girl. "Sky, Zelda might not remember who we are. She lost her memory and may not reconize you," said the man. "She won't remember me? Then who will she remember?" "All she has memory of is this young man." I stood up and looked at Zelda. She looked comfortable here and I held her hand so she would at least know my presence was with her. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," Sky said. "Why," I asked. "Last time some one did that, she slapped them." The next thing surprised us all, Zelda responded to me holding her hand. She squeezed it. "Wow, look. She usualy wakes up and slaps the person right now." I gently stroke her face and she got closer to my hand.
"Pharaoh, we must eat, you need your strength if you are going to be traveling," said the man. "Fine," I replied. I wasn't that hungry but this man was right, I need my strenghth in order to continue. They had some small buns of bread so I grabbed one. After I ate one, I went to sleep with Zelda but the old man stopped me, "My king, her sholder might cause her pain if something touched it wrong. We have a room near there if you like." Not wanting to upset them I nod. They lead me to the room and leave me alone for the night. I lay on the bed to go to sleep hoping that Zelda is still asleep by morning. Even though I want to see her awake, I know how she will react without me by her side and she will be on the defencive.
As I wake up the next morning, I didn't sense Zelda in my mind. I get up and go to Zelda to meet the old man. "How well did you sleep, Pharaoh," he asked. "Good, restless but good." "She hasn't woken up yet so we might have to change her bandages." "That is probably a good idea. She will react differently when she is awake then she would asleep." We changed her bandages with no difficultly; the only thing that was difficult was lifting her sholder to remove the bandages and she moaned. I didn't like causing her pain but it was nessary. After a new bandage was applied, someone came in and said, "Come on you two, time to eat." I look at Zelda and then I felt a hand on my sholder. "She'll be fine, she must have been more exhausted then you thought. Come and eat then you could stay with her." I nodded and went in the other room. Sky was there at a small table and the old man called her over. He whispers something to her and she ran to Zelda's room. I went to go after her but the old man grabbed my arm.
"Don't worry, I have her keeping and eye on her whenever I eat or have to do other things." A woman said, "Don't give him that feeling Ironheart, can't you tell he is protective of her?" "I could tell Kakra, I was trying to reassure him." I closed my eyes and sighed. "Something wrong Pharaoh," asked Kakra. "No, I am not that hungry right now and I want to be alone right now. I mean no disrespect to you guys, I'm greatful for everything you're doing."
Pharaoh, this is about Zelda, isn't it," asked Ironheart. I nod. "Then take as much time as you need. We will let you know when she has woken up." "Thank you, Ironheart." I leave to get some fresh air but stay close to Zelda. I find a large rock to sit on and looked at the clouds. "My king, are you well," asked Seto. "Yes, Seto. Everything is fine." "How is Zelda?" "Still resting and it is making me on edge." "Well she'll be fine. She always is." "I know, I just can't see her like that." "I know, none of us could. She risks so much for a kingdom that she isn't really a part of." "She may not be a part of it yet she is a major part of it. I don't know much about her past but I know she is part of my future."
Just then I feel her mind start to make itself known. I got up and started to run to the house. "What's wrong my king," shouted Seto following behind me. "It's Zelda, she is starting to wake up!" As I approched the house, Sky came out and said, "Zelda's up and she is on the defencive." "Ok I will calm her down."
~~~~Your POV ~~~~
You wake up in a new room with people surrounding you. You did a back flip off the bed and got on the defencive. A little girl ran out of the room and you were left with two older people, a man and a woman. They came closer to you and you moved as far as you could from them. "It is ok child, you're safe here," said the man. You were in front of the door way and you were growling to warn them. "Zelda," said a voice behind you and you turn around quickly only to find Atem. "You're safe. Lets let these people leave and I will explain to you." Atem grabs your waist and puts himself between you and the other people. He lead you to the bed and the people left.
You relax and sigh. You turn to Atem who had a smile on his face. "What," you asked. "I missed you." You tried hug him around the neck but your sholder hurt. "What's wrong," he asked. "I forgot about my sholder. By the way where are we anyway?" "We are at a village a couple miles from Kul-Elna." You hug him around the chest and he tried to hug you without hurting your sholder. "Oh, I forgot to tell you something," Atem started, "This village is where you used to live. When we got here, they reconized you imediatly after the wind blew the cloak off you." "That explains why this room looks familar." The old man came in and Atem held you around the waist. "Zelda, do you remember me," he asked. He approached you slowly and you replied, "I'm afraid not. I don't remember who you are, I am so sorry." "Don't be. It's not your fault you lost your memory. This village owes you so we will help you regain your memory." "Thank you." The young girl that ran out came in and stood by the man. The man said, "My name is Ironheart, I am the leader of this village. And this is Sky." She stepped out from behind Ironheart and looked as if to ask to him something. He knelt down to hear what she had to say and he nods.
She ran to you and hugged you around the stomach. It took you by surprise so Ironheart explained, "She sees you as her mother because her real mother abandoned her and you took her in. You raised her and many others in this village." "What do you mean many people in this village? And how long did I live here?" "You were the elder in this village for many centries. Last year we offered the position of village leader but you refused. "You look down at Sky who was now crying. You rubher back to try to calm her and thought, This poor girl, I wish I could remember her but I can't. Atem replied, Don't worry about it. You'll remember her when it is ready. Your body will probably fall back into habbit with her. "I hope you're right, Atem," you replied and every one looked confused. "What," you asked. "You hope who is right," asked Ironheart. "Oh, it's hard to explain, I will tell you later." "Very well, I think it is about time to change her bandages." "Fine." Sky releases the hug and Atem helps you to the bed. He sits on your left side while Ironheart went to your right. "Sky, it would be best if you leave the room for a while, just as I am removing her bandages," said Ironheart. "No, I want to stay here. I don't want to leave, I want to be here for her." "The way you could behere for her is to be in another room." You added, "Sky I admire your courage but you don't need to be here." She looks at you with disbelief but you nod to encourage her to leave. She nods in defeat and leaves. "She missed you a lot," said Atem. "No, she misses the person who raised her, not some woman who doesn't know who she is." "That's not true, you have the sense of responsability. You know what's important when you see it."
"Zelda, we need to change your bandages," said Ironheart. You lean your head against Atem's sholder and Ironheart started to remove the bandages. Every time you flinched you wanted to try and stop him so Atem held your head to his sholder. Once the bandage was off, Ironheart cleaned it. You were now growlng loudly at Ironheart and Atem was trying to keep you calm as much as he could. As soon as the new bandage was applied, Atem released your head and puts his hand on your side. Sky comes in and lays in between you and Atem. You just laughed and Atem joined in with you. You put your arm over the girl and Atem puts his arm over the both of you. Wow, I feel like we are a family,you thought. He replies, Yeah, maybe when we help end this with Bakura we can bring her to the palace. You look up at Atem and he kissed you on the lips.
"Zelda," Ironheart started, "You might be on bedrest for a while because of your sholder. "You sensed darkness all of a sudden and it was close. It wasn't Bakura's darkness or Ganondorf's darkness, it was someone else. "Zelda, what's wrong," asked Atem. I don't know but something is coming here. I fear it may be here already, you thought. "Sky stay close to me ok," you said gently. She nods and slowly you got up getting ready for a fight. "Zelda, you must rest," pleaded Ironheart. "Don't worry about me, I will be fine."
Just then a young man came in and stood in front of you. He just stood and stared at you. You stared back until you noticed something was wrong, you were not able to sense this guy's presence. You stiffen up because Sky and Atem were behind you. He pulled a sword out of no where and started to swing it at you. Instinctivly you pushed Sky and Atem out of the way and started to dodge the sword. Every time he swung the sword you dodged it and even though it hurt your sholder to move it but it was nessary. Before you could change into your warrior form, he hit your burnt sholder with the flat of his sword.
You screamed and holding your sholder, you fell on your back. You slammed your shut and after you fell, you opened them only to see him point the sword at your neck. You tried to move back but you weren't able to use your right arm and your left was holding you up and along with holding sholder. "Ramses, what are you doing," shouted Ironheart. "Returning the favor,she abandond me and now I am getting my revenge." "She raised you, if it weren't you be here now. She saved you and this whole village. That's why she left all of a sudden. She left to protect this village." Zelda, are you ok, thought Atem. You replied, Yes, I think so but there is something wrong here. Can you sense this man presence at all? He waited for a minute and replied, No,I can't.
"Good-bye Zelda and thanks for nothing," shouted Ramses. He held the sword up high about to kill you until Atem tackled him. "Atem," you shouted and you tried to get up but you weren't able to. All you could do was watch helplessly as Atem was fighting Ramses. Ramses threw Atem into a wall and you shouted, "No, Atem!" A voice came in your head and said, "Use your hookshot." Midna give me the hookshot. All of a sudden a small hookshot came out of no where and you shot it at Ramses with your left hand. He tried to dodge it but it hit his ear knocking out a small jewl. As the jewl was removed, Ramses past out.
Sky ran up to you and Atem got up to do the same. "Are you ok," you asked Atem. "Yes I am fine. How is your sholder?" "Hurts but nothing I can't handle. Sky are you hurt?" Sky replied, "No, I am more worried about you." "I will be ok." Ironheart brings the small jewl to you and asked, "What is this?" You took it and said, "I don't know but it may be best if you destroy it so no one else would get hurt." You changed into your warrior form and Atem took the sword to use the hilt to crush the jewl. Once back to normal Atem helped you sit up.
"That was weird. Why wasn't I able to sense that guy's presence," you wondered. "I don't know but its over now. Our main concern is your sholder because the way he hit it," said Atem. Atem helps you up to a knee before he winced. "Atem, are you sure you're ok," you asked. "I think so. I will be fine and you need the help now anyways." "Are you sure? You look like your seriously injured." He tried to help you up again but he almost fell if you didn't put your left hand on his chest to catch him. "Ok, you need help. Sky help him on the and put him on his stomach." "Ok Zelda," she replied. She put him the bed on his stomach and you slowly get up and go to the bed. Slowly you lift his shirt to uncover a large scrape. "Ironheart, I need your help," you asked gently.
Ironheart comes over to you and sees the scrape. "Zelda, we can't care for this unless he is sleeping," he said. "I could get him to sleep. Just give me some time to do it." "Fine. Just try to hurry." "Ok." Ironheart leaves and you were left with Sky and Atem. "Atem, are you ok." "Well I could feel my back a lot better now." "I wouldn't doubt it. You have to fall asleep for a while, at least while I clean your wound." "I'll try." Just then, your mark started to glow but not the bottem right, it was the bottem left. "Zelda, what's going on?" "My mark is glowing but not the right part that helps me heal, the other one." "What does that mean?" A triangle appeared on his hand and it started to glow in unison with yours. The wound on his back and your sholder started to heal. "What is going on," shouted Atem over the loud hum of the triangles. "I don't know!" The triforce started to glow non-stop and bright enough to hurt yours and Atem's eyes. "Sky hurry, get help." The bright light seemed to be taking you some where but where?
The next thing you knew you and Atem were falling. You noticed that the mark on your hand was glowing like something triggered it. All of a sudden, you were floating in the air in a new kingdom. "Zelda, where are we," asked Atem. "I think the triforce teleported us to another place, perhaps another time." You look around and get closer to Atem in case anything happened. You heard an explosion so you try to protect Atem but it was too far below you. When you look, there was two women on a white horse and getting chased by a man on a black horse. As you get a closer look at one of the women on the horse, you notice it was you. "Zelda, look who is on the horse. It's you," said Atem. "I know, we must be in Hyrule during my time." "I seen that woman before in that little village where I found you. She must have been your protector when you were princess." "I never saw her before so how..." "You were having a nightmare so I used the link we had to see what was going on. She was protecting you from Ganondorf." You look back down and Ganondorf got shot with an arrow of light but not from you. The arrow came from behind him. There was a young boy in green chasing Ganondorf. He sped past Ganondorf and was up with you. "Good job Link, we need to get out of here though," said the other you.
Just as the images began they ended. You woke up with someone holding your torso up. "Ironheart, he is coming around," someone shouted. "So is she. Come on Zelda." Slowly you sat up and so did Atem. Breathing heavily you asked Atem, "Atem, are you alright?" He was breathing just as heavily as you were and but when he was able to talk again he said, "What happened?" "We were shown, images from my past I think. My last confontation with Ganondorf before my kingdom was destroyed." You got up and went to the bed that Atem was. You brought up his shirt and there was nothing but left over blood. "Wow, Atem your back is healed. But how?" "Our link. One part could have been triggered by the wisdom you were shairing with me and my courage to do it must have triggered your healing and the vision." "Must have." Ironheart came up with wet cloths and youstarted to clean Atem's back.
Once the rag touched Atem's back, he flinched but not because it hurt him, it was cold to him. "Sorry, guess I should have warned you." "Don't worry about it, I knew they were cold, I didn't know just how cold." By the time you finished, the sun was almost down and everyone was tired. "Zelda," started Ironheart, "do you want to sleep in your old house? It might make you more comfortable to be here." You turned toAtem and he nodded in encouragement. "Yes, please," you replied, "and thank you for every thing." "No, thank you, you saved our village and we were worried about you when you went missing. None of us had much sleep unless we were exhausted from the day's work. Now that we know that you are safe we can all sleep easy."
"Well I am sorry to alarm every one and thank you for helping Atem." He nods and leads you and Atem to your old house. He leaves so you could get comfortable in your old house. You look around to get used to your suroundings. They kept your house clean and made sure your bed was made and it had a sheet over it. "Wow, it looks good. I wonder how long I was gone from here," you said. "At least a week, that's as long as you been with me." "Well, I might not remember my past but I haven't been this happy for years."
"You have seemed a little more happy here," said Atem. He sat on your bed and you stood in front of him. He puts his hands on your waist and pulls you closer to him. "It's getting late. You need your rest, my love and I need my own," you said gently. "Yes, I figured that you wouldn't be tired." "Yeah, but I am tired though."
You start to kiss him and as you did, he was pulling you closer to him. You stop kissing him long enough for him to pull you on the bed on top of him. You go back to kissing him until you heard something at the front door. "Stop," you said jumping back and hitting the wall with your back. "Sorry," he said right when your back hit the wall. "Something is coming," after you disappeared faded in to the shadows. You watched what was going on though his eyes. It was Sky just coming into your bed room. "It's ok Zelda, you could come out now," said Atem gently with a smile on his face. She looks around to try and find you. She stood in front of where you vanished from Atem's sight. "I don't see Zelda anywhere." You step out from behind her and say, "I am right behind you, Sky."
She turns around quickly to find you smiling. "You promised you would show me how to do that," she said laughing. "I did, did I? Well maybe after we settle this maybe I will teach you in the palace, how would you like that?" "Realy? You mean it?" "Yeah, after we settle the problem at hand do you want to come with us to the palace?" "Yeah." "But it is up to you if you want to go could go. You could even live there if you want." "Of course, will I be able to visit?" "Yes, I won't deny you you that right." "The reason I came here is I wanted to sleep in your house tonight. I lived here with you until you left. I will sleep in my room which is nearby. Please, Zelda, please?" You looked at Atem and he nods. "Of course." "Thank you, I will let you two rest." Sky walked out of your room and into her's. "My love, lets get to sleep. You need it." You nod and went to lay on the bed. This time you and Atem fell asleep at the same time together.