I´m so sorry for the super late update... But I had many test, but now I´m finished for the year! And on top of that I had my driving test... Fortunately I passed!... barely... But I did it!
But honestly I would have had the time to update. I am horrible person, because I waited for the 50th review for this story and wanted to update after it... but then since 5th April I only needed one tiny review to 50. And I got it yesterday! Thank you very much tortorbinks92 for leaving the 50th review!
Of course I want to thank all the other reviewers, namely Shadow Lordl, LoveandZeLink, Xaotl Omega, donttouchmykyoya818, , kharmachaos, The Sileo Patronus, Fraya, Gameblaster12, Super Mikey Bros64, Dawn Ashlyn Winters, pop, Silver Wolf 261. You guys are awesome!
Zelda will be making an apearance in future chapters... I hope. But first I want to concentrate on Link and Midna.
I didn´t see the resemblance between Ezlo and Ezio until it was pointed out by Insane. certifiably! But you are right... Ezlo was annoying and so is Ezio... But the name Ezio is Italian and means eagle. I thought it was fitting because Ezio is a proud boy and hunts, he also has an ego of a king. In fact the whole family´s names have a Italian touch... I think.
Disclaimer: I don´t own Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
Chapter No. 8
Link PoV
After Ilia brought me back to my place, she had insisted on treating my wound, but I kindly declined. It would be really troublesome, if Ilia found out that the cause of my wound was not a bite of a wolf but an arrow. Then I would have a hell of explaining to do and I was not up for that. However my friendly dismissal brought me into my current predicament. It would be so much easier if Ilia wasn't someone who made a mountain out of a dustspeck.
"No, Link! I'll have none of that! You are obviously hurt and I'm going to do something about it!", Ilia shouted with arms akimbo, leaning forward to look directly into my eyes.
I quickly averted my eyes and began fidgeting on my chair. I felt like a little child! "Are you my mum? NO! I don´t want you poking there. And I can take care of myself! I survived many of these wounds. No need to worry." I said while pushing her gently out of my personal space.
"You don't have to play the though hero any more! It's perfectly fine for your wounds to be treated by now!" Ilia slapped my hands away and fetched new fresh bandages from the shelves.
"But I'm perfectly fine! See?" I shouted while jumping onto my feet.
"I only want to help you!" Ilia yelled while throwing the bandages down onto the floor.
"If you want to help me so badly you can help me with moving my stuff to your dad's. I can't believe he dumped me with them!" I said with exaggeration. I already held my lantern in my hand and had began to climb down into the basement. "Honestly there is no way a pregnant woman would aprechiate all these ladders, but no! They can live with Link! He has way to much space, so why not use it and turn it into an inn!"
"What's eating you? I think that they are a very nice family. Especially this Ezio seems very polite and considerate." Ilia said while moving towards the ladder.
I nearly fell down, after I heard this. "You can't be serious! He is the worst out of the whole bunch! I never encountered such a spoiled, arrogant brat! I'd rather dive into the next stinging nettle field than hear his voice again." I sighed and lit the torch to illuminate the room.
"He is really nice! He is even helping with hunting the beast that got you and he has a horse!" Ilia defended the brat.
"The fact that he has a horse speaks very much in his favour, right? If the guy has a horse, he must be sent by the goddesses!" I turned to face her but she just stared speechless at my stuff.
"What do you store in here? This is really much." Ilia whispered while turning around. "Wait. How do you plan to transport that... or that?" she asked while staring at the Ironboots and the Ball and Chain. "These must weigh tons!"
"Actually they're not that heavy. The only problem would be getting them up the ladder. Down is no problem, but up... . Anyway, we are two, right. This should be a piece of goat-cheese!" I stated as I rolled my injured shoulder. "Let's begin with the heavy stuff. It'll be easier when we are exhausted to carry the light stuff."
Ilia just nodded and together we began to move my stuff to Major Bo's house.
Midna PoV
It's been weeks since I and Nuvra began searching, but we hadn't found anything. It was really frustrating, especially with my hormones riding a kargaroc (this "bird" you ride when playing the Balloon Popping Game), and the big problem was, that my pregnancy was getting kind of obvious. Thank the goddesses for making most of the councillors dumb! But although they were addle-brained time was running short.
With each passing day Nuvra and I doubled our efforts to find or even think of a solution, but there didn't seem to be one! So I was really frustrated and my nerves were frayed. When I lay in my bed I was often starting to loose hope, but when my hands rested on my stomach and I felt the tiny movements, I just couldn't give up. I would do my very best to save my baby!
I turned another dusty page that didn't help me either. If there only was something! I skimmed through the next pages and came to the conclusion that I would find nothing in this book. So I slammed it shut with an irritated sigh: "Why do I even bother to look in a cooking book?"
I stared at Nuvra. We had become close friends while reading the dusty books searching for a way to the Light Realm. She told me much of herself. She had been born into an average family with enough money to educate Nuvra in reading and calculating. Because she was considered a genius by her teachers she even had the chance to learn magic, a privilege that was reserved for the rich. But Nuvra had found her passion with the books. It was sheer luck, in her opinion that she ended up in the biggest library in the Twilight. And although the library was really big, Nuvra and I had already read the most promising books. We were beginning to run out of options.
Nuvra peeked from her book and said: "Midna. We need to check everything. You know, the most interesting facts are mostly hidden well. In plain sight! A cooking book might just be our ticket into the Light world! Perhaps there is a code. Have you tried to arrange the first letters of every recipe into a hint. When I looked for a code in "The Amazing Tale of a Curious Dustspeck" I got "Coffee should be served at body-temperature." I'm sure something is hidden in there!"
"Yeah, yeah. Sure." I opened the book at a random page and read aloud. "Making a wonderful sandwich- in Twilian style! Seriously, any hidden meaning detected?"
"Perhaps you need to examine the page in a different way... like this!" Nuvra stood up and took the book from me. Then she held one page against the light. Immediately the letters from the backside mixed with those from Making a wonderful sandwich- in Twilian style. The result was... gibberish. "Okay I admit it. This cooking book is completely useless!" Nuvra shouted and threw it to the ground. Because of that a little piece of paper flew silently out of the space between two pages.
Incredulously, both of us stared at it. An old yellowish parchment with many snippy dark lines flew to the ground, where it raised a tiny dust cloud. Nuvra approached it slowly and lifted it up carefully as if it would disappear any moment. After a short time of reading it Nuvra smiled enthusiastically: "Princess. I think we just got your ticket!"
Link PoV
Sighing I stretched my back and regarded the chests and weapons, that were piled up in the corner of Bo's training-room. It had taken Ilia and I nearly until sundown to transport everything here and what I hadn't expected: it had been quite exhausting. Physically, it hadn't taken a heavy toll on me, it had on Ilia who sat panting on a chest, no to me it was mentally exhausting.
Everything held a memory of her... Midna. I laid my eyes on the Ordon Shield, which she once used as a mask, a rather funny sight. And again I couldn't help it, but the choke the feelings that came up again. Longing, loneliness, love. I looked away from the pile of memories and went towards the exit.
"Wait, Link! Where are you going I was about to invite you to dinner, because father burdened you with taking Ezio's family in, although we would have had enough space and usually take guests in. I feel kind of bad..." Ilia shouted after me and stood up.
"Thanks for the offer, Ilia. But I'm tired. I'd rather go to sleep now. Tomorrow I need to rise early." I explained while turning my head towards her. "Goodnight, Ilia."
The air outside had gotten fresher and the sun's rays were turning Ordon's houses into an orange shade. Light bounced from the water of the stream, while I had to shield my eyes from the sun barely peeking over the horizon. Twilight. I shook my head to clear it from any thoughts and memories of her and began walking towards my house. I wanted to relax now and perhaps enjoy the silence of night.
But on my way home I couldn't help, but overhear the conversation between Bo, Rusl and Ezio. The conversation's topic seemed to be the wolf-me, so I hid behind a bush to be not found out.
"You sure that you've gotten it, lad? Are you even sure that you saw it? Because I didn't see anything related to a monster in the forest." Bo asked in a suspicious voice. "Perhaps you only wanted attention from Ilia?"
"No, sir!" Ezio shook his head vehemently, while his shiny dark curly hair flew in all directions, hiding his face. Such a pretty boy, he is probably using some kind of over-expensive soap from the Zoras to keep his hair so glossy. I scoffed and turned away.
"Sir! We really need to continue searching. The monster might be hiding somewhere. Perhaps it is very near, lurking in the shadows, planning his next move and then attacking us when we expect it the least." Ezio pleaded and took his bow. "I'll kill it for injuring a defenceless boy, even if I don't like him! I'll kill it for trying to attack my family! If I hadn't stopped it, it might have killed my mother with her unborn baby or my father..."
Rusl interrupted Ezio with a low voice, trying to calm the obvious excited boy down. "As inspiring and altruistic this speech was, I hate to point out that this monster you speak off, might be a little less violent than you make it seem and..."
"But the wolf... it attacks defenceless people. You can't just let it roam free." Ezio shouted.
"The only person that has been attacked so far is Link. And Link is far from being a defenceless person. I would guess that he probably angered the wolf somehow and got caught out of guard. But the fact remains that it has attacked a person and you are right that this is a problem. The wolf is somewhere out there and it has proven to be a danger to our village, but we shouldn't hunt it down actively. It's too cunning to not notice our traps or hunting parties. No we need to catch it off guard. If we actively hunt the wolf it will notice and it will watch every step it takes. If we act that we've given up, it is most likely that it will let it guard down and that's the moment we will strike." Rusl explained.
A reasonable tactic, I must say, Rusl. But, now that I knew the plan, I won't let my guard down. I thought. It was really fortunate that I overheard this conversation, because if I hadn't known the hunting-party would give up on purpose they could have caught me off guard. Thank the godesses. That would have been a mess!
"Rusl as logical as this tactic is, I just can't do this, because I have a hunter's pride! I'll not lure the beast into false security to strike it in its back! I will fight it like a real man!" Ezio exclaimed while pumping his fist. "If we hesitate it'lll claim another victim!"
"Now, calm down, boy. Rusl is an experienced hunter and fighter. He knows what he is doing. Let him handle this." Bo assured Ezio with a calming voice. "We have everything under control"
Ezio looked away and took in a breath: "No, you don't have anything under control, for how long has this monster been hurting the innocent? For how long haven't you done anything? And now when you have the chance you won't take it? You will only sit around and do nothing?"
"The wolf hasn't harmed anyone since today and we won't do nothing about it!" Rusl shouted and took a step towards Ezio. "I won't let anything harm my family."
"But it might be here! It might be preparing to attack us any moment? I might be hiding right there behind this bush!" Ezio shouted while pointing at my hiding spot.
I fidgeted nervously, the bushes rustled, shock was written on Ezio's, Rusl's, Bo's and presumingly my face, an arrow was pointed in my direction by Ezio and before I could react the arrow embedded itself into the ground not a feet next to me.
Shocked I stared at the still vibrating arrow. I had been shot nearly TWICE today by the SAME person. Seriously, I'm getting old.
"Who is there?" questioned Bo with a booming voice while Rusl held back Ezio from shooting another arrow.
Slowly with hands raised I stood up carefully and stepped out of my hiding place.
"Link! What did you do there? You could have been seriously hurt!" Rusl shouted and looked at Ezio and me reproachfully.
"Yeah, I see that." I mumbled while glancing nervously at the arrow. "Eh, I heard shouting and went to see who was making such a ruckus."
"Your curiosity will be your death someday, Link" Rusl sighed and turned to Ezio. "Why did you shoot? This bow is a weapon and to wield a weapon you have to take on responsibility! What would you have done if you killed Link?"
"My hand must have slipped." Ezio mumbled. "...I'm sorry..."
His hand slipped? As if he didn't do this on purpose! The first time he also didn't bother to make sure no one would be hurt. What an irresponsible brat!
"Tch. Spare your excuses. I'm going home." I glared at Ezio and went home. This kid somehow always managed to make my blood boil. Usually I kept a cool head and didn't bother because of a little slip-up, but I couldn't stand him. Was it his annoying voice, or his overconfident attitude, or his naivity? Angered I shoot a pebble away with my foot. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Why was I so angry? I didn't know. What I knew was that I really wanted to transform now. But I could barely stop myself from reaching out for the stone. I couldn't! They where searching for the wolf-me! I growled angrily. Now I couldn't let out my anger. Damn you, Ezio!
I stomped to my house, because I needed to be alone now. Gritting my teeth I rounded the corner and saw Ezio's father carrying his family's stuff into my house while his wife ordered where to put it.
Goodbye calmness and solitude! Hello my new life!
Midna PoV
I was so happy right now, because of a little old piece of paper. With trembling hands I held it while reading the ancient language of the Twili, that I learned as little child from my mum.
Cum viam impeditur, nova aperiebit.
Sine spectulo, via non est.
Si novam viam invenire vis, speculum indiges.
Speculum deletum erat?
Invene novum speculum!
Lacus te mentiritur.
Si speculum invenit, ea verba loquitur:
"Göttinnen, erhört mein Flehen.
Der Weg ist zerstört, nun in Scherben.
Aber unsere Welten sind zwei Seiten einer Münze,
und müssen vereint sein um eine Münze zu sein.
Daher stellt den Weg wieder her."
Via aperiebit, sed solum unus e familia regali aperire potest.
In terra umbrarum remanere debet,ut viam non perdatur.
(I´ll try to translate it into English here... Man, why is google translator unable to translate it properly...:
When the way is lost, a new one will appear.
Without a mirror, there isn´t a way.
If you want to find a new way, you´ll need a mirror.
The mirror has been destroyed?
Find a new mirror!
The lake mirrors you.
If you find the mirror, say these words:
"Goddesses, hear my solicitation.
The way is destroyed, now in shards.
But our worlds are two sides of one coin,
they must be united to be one coin.
Therefore restore the way!"
A way will open, but only one of the royal family can open it.
He must remain in the land of shadows, in order to avoid to lose the way.)
"Well it's quite cryptic. For the connection, we need a mirror... I understand that. But I don't think a normal mirror will do." concluded Nuvra as she read the paper again. "Hey, why are they suddenly talking about a lake mirroring you?"
"Perhaps they want to point out that a lake can be a mirror, too. But the secret of the mirror isn't what is worrying me. It's the last part. A royal family member is necessary to hold up the link. And right now I'm the only one." I whispered desperately. I couldn't go there. I couldn't go to see Link. Sobbing I burrowed my head in my hand and cried.
Nuvra put a comforting hand on my shoulder: "Don't worry we'll find a way. But now we can at least save your baby. That was your first priority, right, Midna?"
Soo. I really did it!
For those wanting to know what the ancient language is... it´s Latin and the speech is German. I had some problems with the google translator so I had to translate the text myself. And that was really hard... Anyway, now you even got a tri-lingual chapter. Be happy and review, please.