"You said you hate my suffering, and you understood, and you'd take care of me. You'd always be there, well where are you now?"
-'Haligh Haligh A Lie Haligh' by Bright Eyes
I woke up early in the morning, with the sun not even staining the sky with warm colours. I didn't like the way I felt right now. It was like I knew something bad was going to happen. I got off of my bed and walked into the room Link said he'd be in, only to see that he wasn't there. My eyebrows pulled together and I walked out of his room and down the stairs that led to the outdoors, only to bump into a little girl with tan skin and dark brown hair cut evenly.
"I'm sorry," she muttered as I helped her up.
"No, it's my fault. Sorry. Have you perhaps seen Link around…?" I didn't remember her name, and she seemed to catch on quickly.
"I'm Luda," she said politely. "So it's true what happened…" I heard her mutter, looking down for a moment. She looked back up at me. "Link went on with his journey. He wanted me to tell you to stay here and…" her eyebrows came together and she took a step back from me.
"Something wrong?" I asked. Was something on my face or something?
Luda opened her lips to say something, but only took my hand and pulled me to the building where Ilia and I had our little throw-down, and where that man from yesterday was standing, speaking with a boy who looked no more than 25. The man - I think his name was Renado – looked at me, and his eyes, too, widened. That just added to my confusion, but when I looked down at Luda, I saw my hand, which was gray and seemed to be cracking. I looked over to Renado and he was still, though he took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a moment, then came walking over to me with a calm expression. "So this is what happens to those who are touched by the beasts…" he muttered as he walked around me. "Where did they hit you?" He asked, and I pointed to my head, and he leaned in slightly, then gasped and leaned back again. "That wound is black and that is where the… cracks, start," he looked down. "Link is away at the worst time… Luda, take her to the spring. See if that helps at all," he looked to his daughter who nodded and led me out of the building and to the calming waters.
"Here, sit," she said, motioning for me to sit in the spring which I obeyed, and she ran back to the inn, only to come back out with a wash cloth. She dipped it in the waters and gently started patting my head. "Does it hurt at all?" She asked quietly.
I shook my head. "Not even slightly."
She sighed through her nose and continued to wash my wound, and I looked down to my hands that were in my lap, half of them in the water. Nothing was happening. They were still gray and cracked. I let them drop and I just sat there as Luda tended to my head for the next half an hour, at least.
"It's not healing…" she muttered, leaning back on her knees.
"That's alright," I shrugged. "I didn't really expect it to, anyway," we looked up when we heard heavy footsteps and saw Link on Epona dashing into the village, making his horse stop at the edge of the spring. He patted the side of her face, and when he looked at me, his eyes widened with fear. He rushed over to my side and had his lips parted as if he wanted to speak, but nothing came out.
"Is this what happened?" He finally asked, looking at me with a look of absolute horror.
"Yes," Luda replied, "The Spirit's waters aren't healing her like they should be, however." She reported with a more depressed tone.
A sigh came from Link. "Luda, please give me a moment with her," he looked over to her when she was going to protest, so instead she closed her mouth, nodded, and left.
Link shifts slightly, and then sits down in the water, closing his eyes as his health is returned back to normal. He opens his crystal blue eyes again and stares at me. Or rather, the markings on my face. His eyes don't show anything but sympathy and worry for me. "I'm so sorry…" He breathed.
"For what? It was my own fault…" I muttered, looking down at my hands still soaking in the waters. My arms are now completely black from the 'cracks', ending around my upper arms, then starting again from the main would, covering my left cheek. "I can't feel anything, so that's good… right?" I looked up at him in a hopeful manner, and he gave me one of the weakest smiles I've ever seen him muster.
"Of course. I wouldn't want you to be in pain," he breathed, leaning in to kiss my forehead. "Come on, I'll take you to bed," he took my hand in his and led me back to the room where I slept the day before, helping me lay down and covered me with the sheets. "It's getting late," he murmured, stroking the back of my hand with his thumb. He stayed like that for a while until he tried to get up and leave, but my grip on his hand tightened.
"Please stay," I begged. "I… I don't want to wake up alone." I looked away out of embarrassment, but Link didn't seem to mind. He smiled lightly at me, and gently poked me, telling me to scoot over, which I did. He lay down beside me and was on his side, watching me with a gentle gaze. He moved his hand to lightly stroke my hair. "Try to sleep."
"Will you be here when I wake up?" I asked, looking up at him.
Link chuckled. "Of course."
I smiled lightly, and found the darkness of slumber pull me further and further into its hold.
Switching to Link's POV
I woke up to the soft sound of birds chirping and the kids playing outside. I sat up slowly and stretched my stiff muscles, still a little sore from the Temple of Time. I stretched my jaws in a yawn and looked around, then down at a sleeping figure next to me. At first I didn't recognize the person, but then it hit me.
This person was Noel. But… how? She looked nothing like she did just two days ago. The Noel I knew had chocolate brown hair and peach skin, with red cheeks.
The girl before me now had silver hair and skin pale as snow; her tinted cheeks no longer there. The cracked markings were now only covering her hands like gloves permanently covering her flesh.
I leaped out of the bed and flew downstairs and out of the building, screaming Renado's name from my position on the small porch.
I saw the larger man come rushing over to me, his eyes worried considering I just screamed, which is something I rarely do. "Link? What is it?" He sounded tired, as well.
I grabbed his sleeve and pulled him inside, trying to explain what had happened to Noel, but instead, the only sound that came out of me just sounded like gibberish.
"Link, calm down," the man rested his hand over mine, trying to calm me down with just a simple touch.
"But… Alek…" My breathing started getting fast and uneven with my worry for Noel. "Just… come on!" I exclaimed, bringing Renado the rest of the way and into the room where Noel continued to sleep.
"Oh, my…" Renado murmured, looking down at the female. "She looks a lot like…" He trailed off, making me worry even more.
"Who?" I asked desperately, sitting down next to Noel and lifting her head gently to put it on my lap, stroking her hair and taking her hand in mine once again.
"She looks like a female that has been spoken about time and time again…" He muttered, mostly to himself. "They say that she will rise again, and this time… She will destroy us." He looked over to me as if he thought I knew what she was going to do.
"What? No! Alek would never do anything…" I thought about what she was drawing back in the woods, with the dragon demolishing a village. That couldn't have been some type of vision… right? I looked down at the female and my grip tightened slightly. She didn't even stir and I was pretty sure I was cutting off her circulation.
"Link," Renado rested his hand over mine, silently asking me to not crush the female's hand. As soon as I loosened my grip, the older man continued with his theory. "If she is the female who has been spoken of, then I fear for the worst," he ignored the look I gave him. "That she is related to an evil being, and will eventually have to be slain." He looked at me, and my shoulders dropped. "She will have to be slain by the Master Sword. By you, Link." His eyes showed sympathy even though his tone was as cold as ice.
My eyes widened at what he said, and I looked down to the new version of Noel. She couldn't possibly be evil. Faron said that she was a descendant of my ancestor's companion. I asked Renado if that held any significance, and he shrugged his broad shoulders. "I wouldn't know such a thing." He then turned and left me alone with the sleeping female, still lying in my lap.
I lifted her head up to my shoulder and cradled the girl, quietly rocking back and forth as if to soothe her, even though I was only soothing myself. "She can't do that. She just can't…"
Back to Noel's POV
I was dreaming, completely surrounded in darkness. The only way I could describe it is if you were floating on top of water, though you didn't have to arch your back in order to stay afloat. I couldn't hear anything, though it wasn't exactly silence. I can't describe how I felt during this time period. I felt so relaxed, though I would be ready to attack anyone if called for.
"Noel…" I heard a soft, feminine voice call me, the voice coming from above me. I opened my eyes and saw a woman floating above me (A/N: Think of Fi at the beginning of Skyward Sword), and she looked so familiar. Her eyes were a mix of forest green and crystal blue, her skin white as snow and her hair a beautiful silver colour. She had no expression, though I knew that she wouldn't hurt me. She floated down towards me and started speaking again.
"Do you know who I am?" She asked quietly.
I thought for a few seconds. Should I know the answer? She looked incredibly familiar, though I couldn't give her a name. I shook my head.
The woman chuckled, the sound a lovely, musical-esque sound. "You do not remember your own characters name?" She wondered aloud.
My eyebrows knit.
"My name is Yvaine. With that nasty hit you received from the Shadow Beast, I would think that you would only forget events that happened in your real life. You must know something, Noel. Your mother back in your homeland is not your real mother. Have you ever wondered why your ears are now pointed instead of round like back in your homeland?"
I felt my ears self-consciously, feeling the soft point of the skin.
"You are not originally from Earth, Noel. I will most likely regret telling you this, but you did not create me. I was real in these so called 'games'. You are my descendant. You will—" Her voice is lost to static, as if someone flipped the switch on a TV and was sent to white noise. She tried speaking again, but the noise kept growing louder until my ears stung. I tried covering them to stop the pain, but nothing worked. The noise was coming from inside my head. It grew so unbearable that I thought I was dead from the attack, considering I wasn't waking up. The noise continued growing louder and louder, until I finally—
"Ah!" I shot up into a sitting position of the bed, my eyes wide with alarm and fear of what just happened. My breathing was hard and staggered, the feeling similar as to when you finish running a marathon, even though I didn't feel tired.
I looked around the room, feeling unfamiliar with the area. I stood up and tried gaining my balance again, stumbling here and there occasionally as I walked about.
The room was small and felt heavy, like when you walk into an awkward moment and everything is tense. There was a small, circular window on the other side of the room, and when I peered out, I saw a dusty looking village. I was high up, and I couldn't see any way of getting out considering everything was dark. I was assuming it was around 1 in the morning. I remembered that I have fire powers thanks to Din, so I held a small flame over my right hand, searching the room. There was a door leading to the outside, but when I took hold of the handle, it wouldn't budge. I growled slightly, feeling something rub up against my head. I moved my left hand up to my head to feel whatever was touching my head, shocked to feel something scaly. I looked around for a mirror, but couldn't find any, so I dismissed the strange thing on my head. I continued walking around, though once my legs were working again, I felt something drag behind me, slightly pulling on the back of my pelvis bone. I turned around and saw a long, black and scaly tail with sharp spikes going down the middle. I wanted to scream, but I was too shocked that I actually had a tail coming out of my backbone. I felt the room getting smaller and smaller, and since the door was shut tight, I took the only other way, and burst through the small window. I thought it would be a certain death considering I was about six stories up, but I never hit the ground. Something came out of my back and lifted me up into the air, keeping me out of harms way. I didn't know who or what saved me, but when I looked behind me to see my savior, I instead saw two black dragon wings coming out of my back and flapping every now and then to keep me afloat.
I couldn't exactly contain how shocked I was at everything that was coming out of my body, and so my wings gave out on me, sending me crashing into Eldin's spiritual spring. I saw a light come on in a tall, circular building and doors open, then a small-ish boy dressed in green came rushing out, surprised when he saw me on my rear, soaked in water. "Noel!" He exclaimed, dropping the lantern he held and rushing over to me.
"Get back!" I snapped, leaping to my feet and holding fire in my hands, warning him. I didn't know who he was or how he knew my name, and I didn't exactly want to stay and find out. I saw a hurt expression cross his face which confused me.
"Noel…?" He asked quietly, taking a step towards me. I stepped back and pinned my new ears.
"Stay back." I warned, the flames in my hands growing in size. The boy before me looked so confused and heartbroken that I felt a pang of pity, though I couldn't bring myself to let the boy come any further. "Who are you?" I demanded.
"Who…" The boy looked so depressed at my question that I thought he'd break down in tears at any moment. I wanted to quench the flames in my hands and rush to his side, though something was holding me back. "You mean you… don't remember me?" His eyes searched mine in the small light we had (aside from the moon light), desperate to find something. He took one more step towards me and I turned my left arm to a small shop (or I assumed. There were pictures of a friggin' baby all over it so I don't know what the hell it was), my eyes narrowing.
"Take another step and I'll burn that building down." That made the boy stop dead in his tracks. He glanced to the building, but other than that, he never took his eyes off of me. He held his hands up in surrender.
"Tell me where I am." I ordered.
"Kakariko Village." He answered obediently.
"What's your name?"
"…Link." Sadness entered his eyes for a moment as he answered.
The name sounded so familiar to me, but I couldn't remember why for the life of me. "Why am I here?"
"You were attacked by Shadow Beasts back in my homeland, and I took you here to try and stop you from dying."
"You know me?"
The sadness returned to his eyes. "Yes. We were dating and fighting villains together, trying to defeat a Twilit man named Zant. We're, or… I'm close to getting the last shard of a mirror needed to get to his home realm, and destroy him. You were my companion and girlfriend. I didn't know how you got here, but you appeared out of no where with a boy from my village after he ran off into the woods. I thought that if I didn't get to him in time, that he would've been killed. But you saved him. After that—"
I groaned. "I don't need your sob story, boy."
He flinched slightly at what I called him. "Look, at least rest for the night. If you want, I can explain everything in the morning. I'll answer any questions you have for me to the best of my ability, and if you don't want to remain my… companion, then I'll leave you alone."
I narrowed my eyes at the boy, hesitant to agree. Though something inside of me was begging for me to trust him, so I lowered my arms and rid of the flames. "Alright. But if you try anything," I pointed a warning finger at him.
"You'll end me. I've gotten that threat before, and I know it well. Don't worry, I won't do anything. Please, follow me." He turned around and started walking back to where I was held, looking down at his feet in sadness. He led me into a room that seemed familiar though I couldn't put my finger on it, so I just sat down on the bed and sighed.
"If you need anything then I'll be in the next room over." He leaned down as if he wanted to say something else to me, though quickly pulled back and walked off, his shoulders slumped.
"Why is that boy so sad…?" I asked myself quietly, turning onto my side and quickly falling asleep, my black wings wrapping around myself.
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Ugh, I'm so so sorry this took me forever to upload. Dx The honest reason behind this is writers block. I'm serious. Like, I'd open the document and think of things I can do, but I wouldn't know how to write them down. So yesterday evening, I sat myself down and FORCED myself to write. Even if I didn't like it, I'd just write until I couldn't think of anything anymore. And I did the same today, so VOILA.
If anything's confusing then feel free to drop me a PM and ask questions and whatnot. Oh, and I was originally gonna have Noel be a descendant of Ghirahim(ohmygodIlovehimsomuchI'mkindaobsessedwithhim), but then I figured that she'd have to be a sword and stuff and I just didn't wanna go through that. :T
Oh, and one other reason I haven't been uploading: I've been playing Skyward Sword NONSTOP. Seriously. I've been playing that for hours a day, and I've just recently beat it. And holy CRAP, I love Ghirahim. He's my absolute favorite character ever. I'm probably gonna have to fix my story a bit to make Yvaine and the OOT Link be from Skyward Sword instead to make it seem more interesting, considering I thought that the first Zelda game was OOT ((**shot**))
so yeah, I'm gonna change that eventually, then write Yve's fanfic and such.
For those of you who have added this to your favourites or alerts, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (letmeanointthelustinsideyou), review. It really means the world to me whenever I get feedback on what my readers like. It helps me change some things to make it more enjoyable.
So that concludes my really long A/N. Have a nice day/evening/night. Loves to all.