Mirror of Nightmare
Chapter 36: Day IV; Iris's Notebook
-At Hyrule Castle; Secret Garden
Link, Rucas and Navi arrive at the Hyrule Castle; Secret Garden in the morning of Day IV. When they enter the Secret Garden, they meet Princess Zelda.
"Welcome back, Link, Rucas, Navi… Wait, where are Maxnet, Terrus and Soryl?" Zelda asks.
Rucas and Navi start telling Zelda about their adventure in Thystic Village, Gianet Desert and the Landwind Ruins.
"…I hope that you will finally find the peace in Soulyn, Terrus, Soryl, Maxnet…" Zelda says.
Link shows Zelda a piece of the Mirror of Nightmare.
"So, we have three of them, and… Diasol and her friends will come back with another one… And another one is with Iris… The question is where are the rest three?" Rucas says.
"Anyway, I think that Diasol's group will not come back for a while, so you should rest." Zelda says.
Link, Rucas and Navi go back to the town area, and then they go into the inn and reserve a room. After that, Link and Rucas go to their room for a rest while Navi is flying around the room.
-The dream
Hm?
I remember this…
I am in the war, fighting other strange creatures that turn out to be Pokemon…
It is like my first dream…
My first dream since I come back to Hyrule…
I still fight, no one can even harm me.
But then, thing changes when someone slashes at my arm…
The bleed is very small, but I feel that I have lost all of my power.
I collapse on the ground. I try to stop the bleeding, but somehow, it doesn't stop!
The red blood spills from my body, draining my power and my life force…
I am dying…
Hm?
Although it is in the battlefield, but I see a gleam from the sky…
But… Strange… Apart from me… No one seems to notice that gleam…
The gleam starts to move toward me… Before it stops in front of me…
And then… I hear the voice… The voice… that I had never dreamt that I will have a chance to hear in this world…
"… You are suffering from your terrible fate, aren't you? Well… Because you possessed a great power, even greater than everyone in this world… You are the most knowledgeable Pokemon in this world… I shall grant you this power… Use it wisely and it will help you to overcome this terrible fate…"
-Awakening
Link wakes up, he looks around the room… He can see the light of the evening sun from the window in this room...
'Hm… This is the evening of Day IV… We only have three days left… But what wake me up?" Link says before he remembers his dream.
'Again? This is the 7th time… In this dream… It is the sequel to the 1st one and the 4th one.' Link thinks before he writes the note of the dream down in his notebook.
After he finishes writing the note, Rucas and Navi appear and tell Link to go back to Hyrule Castle secret garden together. Link wastes no time and plays the Prelude of Light to warp to the secret garden.
In the Secret Garden, Link, Navi and Rucas realize that Diasol and Yterval are finally return… But… Where is Xynnia?
"Welcome back, everyone!" Rucas says.
"You get it, right?" Navi asks.
Diasol picks a piece of the Mirror of Nightmare from her back and gives it to Link.
"Now, it is the 4th one…" Navi says.
"Anyway, where is Xynnia?" Rucas asks.
Diasol and Yterval look at each other, before they speak with a sad voice.
"She… She died…"
"WHAT!" Everyone says.
"After we got the piece of the Mirror of Nightmare, we were preparing to leave the Afterlife, but Xynnia suddenly disappears, we tried to find her… And…" Yterval says.
"Sniff… Sniff… The Darkian (The residents in the Darkon) told us that they saw a strange man in the black robe pushed Xynnia into the River of Sin!" Diasol says.
"What?! The River of Sin?!" Rucas says.
"We quickly go to the River of Sin… And this is what we had found…" Yterval says and shows everyone Xynnia's crown.
"Sniff… Sniff… Why… Why is must be her to suffer from a fate like this?!" Diasol cries.
"The strange man that pushed Xynnia into the River of Sin… That must be…" Yterval says.
"Right. He appeared at the Hyrule Castle, Mystery Mansion, Lost Undersea City and even Landwind Ruins…" Rucas says.
"But we didn't run into him while we were trying to find the piece of Mirror of Nightmare…" Yterval says.
"…So… It has a very high probability that he will appear in the Afterlife, but he couldn't find the piece of Mirror of Nightmare. And after he saw you had it, he tried to revenge you and then… Xynnia is the victim." Zelda says.
"RRRRR!" Diasol suddenly cries out.
"What?!" Everyone says.
"Mysterious Demon! The next time that I met you, I will kill you!" Diasol roars.
"Yes… Killing Xynnia is unforgivable crime…" Yterval says.
"So, in order to meet him again, we must find the rest four pieces of Mirror of Nightmare." Navi says.
"But… Where are they?" Rucas asks.
After Rucas finishes talking, someone appears in front of everyone.
"Iris! Oh! Thank Lumina! You are safe!" Zelda says after Iris appears.
"Everyone, I am sorry for being late, but I have a very important thing to do first…" Iris says.
"What is that important thing?" Yterval asks.
"First, Link, take this from me…" Iris says and gives Link another piece of Mirror of Nightmare.
"Now we have five of them…" Navi says. But…
"Iris!" Zelda says, because Iris starts to fade away!
"Hm? It looks like that my time is over…" Iris says.
"Why it must be you?!" Zelda says.
"Hey! Zelda! Don't feel bad! I know that I am destined to die in the first place… So do not worry about it…" Iris says.
"Iris…" Everyone says.
"By the way, the important thing that I had done is the thing that is relevant to the location of the rest three pieces of Mirror of Nightmare… But under this circumstance… I think that it would be better for me to give you this…" Iris says and hands over a notebook to Link.
"I wrote the location of all pieces of Mirror of Nightmare into that book and the detail about them. Read it wisely and you will succeed." Iris says.
"Thank you, Iris. We will not let you disappear in vain…" Rucas says.
"That's a good word… Finally… Ravenoir… My beloved… I will join you soon…" Iris says before she vanishes from the world…
"…" Everyone falls into the moment of silence… Several friends of them died in the short time… Since the Sacred Children, the mercenaries, Princess Xynnia… And even Iris.
Link opens the notebook to read it.
The first piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the Hyrule Castle. It is the invaluable treasure of Hyrule Royal Family, so I believe that one of Hyrule Family is guarding it…
The second piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the great city that once is the glories city in the Irtha before it sank into the seabed. I believe that the group of Pokemon who travel around the world and help everyone from the natural disaster… The group of Pokemon who held justice over everything, are guarding it…
The third piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the deep forest of Irtha… It is the maze where most living creatures that enter it will never make it through the end… The guardian of this piece of Mirror of Nightmare is the savage heart Pokemon, which is me, Iris the Mewtwo…
The fourth piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the ancient ruins that was built to worship the guardian of sky before it was buried under the sandstorm and beneath the bottom of the well… I believe that the guardian of the sky, the bird with seven-color wings who possessed the power to revive the death from the ash, is guarding it…
The fifth piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the Afterlife, the land of the lost soul who their life ends from the world… It is located in the place where three worlds of the Afterlife are meeting together… I believe that the guardian of the Afterlife, the order Pokemon, is guarding it…
The sixth piece of Mirror of Nightmare is under the protection of the blessed kingdom of the dragon god… It is the blessed land of those who are the dragon type Pokemon, but the hell for us the non-dragon Pokemon… I believe that the lost king of that kingdom is guarding it… I also asked my friend to aid you in finding this piece…
The seventh piece of Mirror of Nightmare is located in the most brutal and most cruel land in Irtha with the eternal blizzard and snowstorm… No one who ever go into that land has come back alive… I heard the legend of the snow king who is the ruler of that cursed land… He will curse anyone who enter that land and never leave it under seven days… So… I think that the snow king is guarding it…
The eighth piece of the Mirror of Nightmare, which is the last and the most important piece of the Mirror of Nightmare because it is the middle part of the Mirror of Nightmare… On the other hand… It is the piece of the Mirror of Nightmare that holds the greatest power and curse of the Mirror of Nightmare… It is located in the darkest part of the legend which no one ever discovers it… The guardian of the last piece of the Mirror of Nightmare is…
The message ends here. It looks like that someone had torn the last part of the message away…
To Be Continue…
LD: So, the location of all pieces of the Mirror of Nightmare has been revealed…
Pokedragon: Hm… The kingdom that is blessed by the dragon god… Hey! The dragon god… isn't it you, LD?
LD: Yes. For the reader, I am the fictional character from Pokedragon's fanfiction who is the dragon god.
Pokedragon: So… You will get your role soon, LD.
LD: Finally!