Hello Fascination (Link x Oc)

Chpt 7

My hand found Ruto’s in the darkness. We couldn’t see, but we were alive. Suddenly, the entire room was lit up with blue. A large beautiful crystal formed around us, and we let it. We knew these crystals meant safety. They were sent from Nayru herself, and she would protect us. However, I didn’t expect to actually meet her.

“Ruto. Jeanette.” An other-worldly feminine voice said, “Relax, you girls are safe here.”

I opened my eyes, just now realizing I had shut them. Standing in-front of Ruto and I was a beautiful woman. She had hair as white as snow, and eyes as beautiful and blue as the Carribean sea. She was dressed in a dress very similar in fashion to mine, except deep blue, with a gold sash. On her arms were thin gold bracelets.

“Ruto, please, have a seat, rest.” The woman said gesturing to the ground with one petite pale hand, “Jeanette, please come with me. We have much to discuss.”

She held out the same pale hand to take mine in. I knew this woman was Nayru, one of the three goddesses of Hyrule. I placed my hand in her delicate grasp, and she led me around the surreal world that the goddesses called their own.

“I am Nayru,” She said as we walked along the ether-world gardens, “You’ll meet Farore and Din soon enough.”

“Really?!” I blurted out, suddenly ashamed of my behavior in-front of my favorite goddess.

She laughed, a light, airy sound, “No need to be ashamed, your excitement is understandable.”

We sat down on a bench that seemed to form out of thin air.

“Now, it’s a good thing you stayed on that platform. It gives me a chance to finally talk to you. Jeanette, dear one, there are a lot of things you must understand, and they will be hard to hear.” She said, still holding my hand, but now in both of hers. Her blue eyes clouded over with sadness.

“Are you my mother or something?” I asked, not trying to be rude, but it seemed so cliche.

“No, but I knew her. She was a good woman, as was your friend Aiko’s mother.”

“How can you know our mothers if we’re from an entirely different realm, dimension, thing?” I asked, slightly uneasy.

“That’s just it Jeanette, your mother was a Hylian. As was Aiko’s mother. They were the last people to watch over the Temple of Time before the royal family took over. The last of the high priestesses.” She said, gazing up into the never-ending sky, “After the royal family took over, they were banished, banished to a land beyond Hyrule. Since they were of a line straight from us goddesses, we continued to watch them. Eventually Ganondorf caught up with them. They refused to share the secrets of the Triforce, Sages, and Spiritual Stones with him.

He captured them, and tortured them, before attempting to banish them to the nether-realm. Us goddesses intervened. It cost us a great deal of our ability to interact with Hyrule, but we saved them, and sent them to earth. There they learned to lead normals lives, and both fell in love, got married and had two beautiful daughters that became best-friends, just like they were.”

Nayru didn’t have to tell me how it ended, I already knew. My mother, and Aiko’s, had gone out for their usual weekend movie and dinner night. They didn’t come home. The next day, our fathers received phone calls, saying they were needed at the city morgue. They had to identify the bodies. My father had never gotten over it, Aiko’s father went emotionally numb.

“I’m sorry you have to find all of this out so quickly Jeanette, and I’m sorry your mother couldn’t tell you this herself.” Nayru said as her voice cracked, and a single tear slipped down her cheek, becoming a sapphire, and falling through the ground, into Hyrule.