After breakfast, Link and I saddled the horses and headed for the castle. With one last look back, I waved to Ruto as she disappeared into the tunnel leading back to Zora's Domain. "I think we should get going." Link stated as he glanced over at me. I secured Link jr in his portable carrier, then booted Star Dancer in the legs Stratski: For god's sake, stop booting the horses' in the legs! Vance: I hope they both decide to throw them. Would serve 'em right. and followed Link. Snow kicked up behind our horse's powerful hooves as they dug into the ground, unearthing it. Helmholz: So they have claws on their hooves? Eh? Leaving the Lost Woods and entering Hyrule field, I saw that snow still blanketed most of everything and a slight winter chill lingered in the air. I felt my body heat up as the cold tingled my senses. Vance: Spider senses tingling! Stratski: Yeah... how long has it been since they had nookie? All: ... Helmholz: Ho! Stratski: Slut! Vance: Trrrrrrrrrollop! Getting nervous, I urged my mare to move faster. I watched as Hyrule castle started to loom over us. Approaching it, the drawbridge lowered and we proceeded to cross. The sound of our horse's hooves made a clopping sound as we crossed the wood bridge. Upon entering the Market Place, I heard it bustling with activity as people went about their daily wares. Helmholz: Went about their daily wares? What, they're stepping all over the nice dinnerplates? We slowed our horses to a trot and headed for the gates to the castle, the sound of their hooves made a clicking sound on the stone pathway as we went. Helmholz: She's sure got a thing for the sound that horses' hooves make on stone. Stratski: It's her latest fixation, much like 'raced threw me'. When we reached the first gate, I saw that my good old friend Perrino was on duty. Vance: Oooh, yes, I heard about him. Her first customer! Helmholz: Customer? Stratski: JennaMarySue was a... merchant before she roped Link into marriage. Vance: In other words, a ho! Helmholz: I see... "Hello my old friend how are you?" I called out to him. Smiling back at me he spoke. "Hello Mistress Jenna, I've been fine." "Do you wish to see the Princess today?" Nodding in response, he raised the gate and allowed us to pass. "Thanks my friend." I said as we rode past. Vance: Yeah, and drop by my quarters later, I'll give you a "special" treat. We went up the small path that lead to the main gate. When we reached it, the guards opened it then went to summon Princess Zelda. Upon her arrival, she wore a surprised look. Stratski: Is that all? Vance: I wouldn't mind seeing her in just a surprised look. Helmholz: Perverts, both of you. "What brought you here in this terrible cold?" She questioned. Vance: Well, you see... Stratski: We had this problem with the sheep and we needed to-- Helmholz: Ok, that's enough. Sheep jokes are now banned, too. "Zelda, we have to talk, it's important." Link said sternly. Her expression changing, she called the stable hands to take our horses to the Royal Stable, then led us inside. Vance: Well, such hospitality, to be lead into the stables after the horses. Stratski: Watch your step! That last one's a doozy! Then we were taken to the study. Once there, Zelda ordered for the servants to bring refreshments, and warm blankets. Link and I sat down on a cushioned couch while Zelda sat in a chair across from us. "So...tell me what is of such great importance that you two came all the way here in the chilling cold with your little son?" Zelda questioned, worry cracking in her voice. Vance: Cracking voice. That must sound horrible. Stratski: Hey, if I had to sit here through all this crap, my voice would be cracking, too. "Its about Jenna, Princess...we had a very...ummm...disturbing encounter in the Water Temple yesterday." Link said solemnly. Stratski: I doubt Zelda reeeeeally wants to hear about what you two were doing to each other in the Water Temple. Vance: Especially as disturbing as it really was. "WHAT?!...Water Temple, what were you two doing there?" Zelda cried, her eyes wide with shock. "It's a long story my friend, do you have time?" I asked. "I have all the time in the world." Zelda replied crossing her arms. After we told her about our encounter with Dark Link, and about my supposed control over the elements. Helmholz: ... yeah... after all that what...? She left the sentence dangling. Typical, I suppose. I watched as Zelda's eyes widened, pure shock and terror filled into them. "Dark Link...control over the elements...Jenna's body on fire!?" "What the hell...?" Zelda said in a choked voice. Stratski: There, there, Zelda. We're just as baffled as you are, but sadly you're in a Mary Sue. Vance: Just roll with it, she won't let you do otherwise. "Zelda my friend, I still don't quite understand it myself." "That is why we are here, you being a sage, almost as powerful as Rauru, we thought you could help." I said, then my eyes lowered, turning towards the fireplace and staring down into the flames. "If I really have such power...I'm afraid I might not be able to control it." I heard Zelda rustle, then rise and walk over to me. Gently she placed a hand on my shoulder, and I looked up at her, her blue eyes glowing with concern. "Don't worry my friend, we will find out if such power runs All: Threw threw your veins, and if you do, then I will help you master control over it." Smiling, she looked into my eyes and a wash of calm ran All: threw threw me. I looked back over at Link and establishing a connection between us, I begun to talk to him telepathically. Helmholz: While she still sticks to the same stupid errors, like 'begun' and 'race threw', she also manages to find new ways to butcher the English language. Vance: Gotta hand it to her, she's one of a kind. Stratski: Thank God. "Don't worry my sweet love...Zelda knows what she's doing." "I have full confidence in her abilities." Link said, his voice floating threw my mind. "I believe you my love, she has always had great abilities." "I just hope that this isn't much on her. " I called back to him. "Just trust in her my wife, she knows what she's doing. " Link responded. "I love you Link." I cooed softly into his mind. "I love you too my sweet heart." I felt Link's presence fill into me, as he warmed my body, warmed my soul and at that point I was in peace. "Don't forget my love, I will always be here for you." Saying a few more words we broke our special connection and rejoined the speaking world. Zelda, Link and I wrapped ourselves in our cloaks, called Impa to care for little Link, then headed out into the palace garden. We walked threw the ankle deep snow and sat down on the marble benches. Link sat next to me, and Zelda across from me. I wrapped my cloak tighter around my body trying to keep out the chill. Then I directed my attention to Zelda. "First off...we need to establish a connection between you and the power." Zelda finally said. "Lets work with the fire element first." "I want you to focus, clear your mind of all thoughts Helmholz: That won't be difficult. It's not like she's got a mind to think with anyway. and concentrate on a single flame." She said calmly. I closed my eyes and slowly my mind cleared of all thoughts. I felt the void open up around me, sending me into a darkness. I floated around in the blackness, searching for the flame. I watched, waited, then suddenly I saw a glow as a small flame begun to rise. "Do you see it?" Zelda inquired. "Yes...yes I do." I responded as I watched the flame in my mind slowly start to dance. "Now concentrate on it, make it a part of you." Zelda stated again. I stared at the flame...focused on it, tried to make it a part of me. Then I reached out for it, tried to touch it. When my hand grazed over it, I felt a burning sensation, and jerked my hand back. "OUCH...dammit." Vance: Well everyone knows you don't play with fire, you dumb bint. I cried as the flame flickered out and the void shattered. "What happened?" Zelda asked, watching me cradle my hand. "It burnt me when I tried to touch it." I returned angrily, cradling my throbbing hand. "Hmmm...you physically felt something, but you didn't concentrate on it enough to control it." "Lets try it again." I cleared my mind of all thoughts and the void opened up around me once more. Again I tried to concentrate on the flame that rose up in my mind. Focused on making it a part of me. This time I felt its warmth against my skin as it flickered wildly in front of me. Once more I reached for it as I slowly lowered my hands beneath it and taking it gently into my hands. I felt its heat on my palms as I slowly took hold of it. Helmholz: Slowly this, slowly that. You know, that's what just irritates me most about this chick. She tries writing out this detailed paragraph and ends up telling us the same thing repeatedly. Then I brought it close to me, peered into its reddish glow, saw my own reflection dancing among it. As I held the warm flame in my hands, it danced wildly across my fingers as it became a part of me, a part of my very being. Vance: Latest phrase for her to latch onto: Dances. Stratski: At least she's spelling it right. Then I heard a voice call out to me. "Jenna....look." I opened my eyes and saw an amazing sight. There on my finger tips were two flames dancing across them. My eyes grew big as I looked from Zelda to Link, who were just as wide eyed as me. "Oh...my Goddesses...I did it." "I really did it." I cried as a tear ran down my cheek. "Then its true...you really do have elemental powers." Zelda returned shocked. Helmholz: I predicted this. Stratski: Sort of, you predicted she'd be descended from some bizarre race. Helmholz: Just you watch. I looked at her then to my hands. I watched as the flames danced across my fingertips, its glow reflecting off the palms of my hands. I played with it, moved my fingers around as the flames danced from one finger to another. I giggled as the flames moved with my hands, and jumped when I flicked a finger. Then suddenly the flames flickered out and a small fire rose in the palms of my hands. "What happened?" Zelda asked worried. I looked at her slowly graying eyes then faltered to the small fire in my hand. "I just thought of a small fire in my hands then poof...the flames on my fingertips went out and this rose up in my hands." Vance: So if we think really hard of you self combusting, you'll burst into flames? Helmholz: You're not a Mary Sue, Vance, sorry. Vance: Damn. "Jenna... Zelda clasped her hands over he mouth, you really do have control over the elements." "The power was really inside you all this time...it just took something drastic to happen in your life for it to activate." I stared at her wide eyed, unable to move. "You mean I was born with this ability?" I said my voice raspy from shock. "It's a possibility, or maybe something happened to you during your life where you acquired it from somewhere." "Do you have any recollection of anything strange that happened to you before your encounter in the Water Temple?" Zelda asked. I thought for a moment. Tried to remember if I ever had anything really strange happen to before my encounter with Dark Link. Vance: Well of course you can't remember. Stratski: I wouldn't remember being dropped on my head as a baby either, I suppose. But the only thing I remembered where something drastic ever happened to me, was when my parents died. "Nothing has happened that I remember, only thing is when my parents died when I was a little girl." I returned solemnly "Hmmm...do you think your parents ever had any special abilities?" Zelda questioned. "Well I remember when we would have dry spells on the farm where I'm from, my mother would sing to the sky and it would rain." "I also remember that my father was always good with the earth." "Our farm always was prosperous, the crops my father grew were always the best in our village." I looked back down at the small glowing fire in my hands as its gentle warmth, warmed the chill from my body. Helmholz: Here it comes... "Jenna...there is no other explanation." "Your parents must have had some elemental powers, and it transferred to you." "But both of them seemed to only have one power." "Your mother with the power of water, and your father with the power of earth." "But one thing still has me baffled, how did you come to possess the power of wind and fire?" Zelda asked in amassment. Helmholz: Another word to add to the Link's Queen dictionary of Butchered and Mangled English. Amassment. I watched the puzzled looks that appeared on Zelda and Link's faces. Never had they encountered someone in Hyrule with control over the elements. Stories of Hylian's possessing elemental powers only existed in the dark ages of Hyrule. Vance: And the anals of Mary Sue fantasies, obviously. Most thought that the people who possessed such powers were thought to have died out hundreds of years ago. Helmholz: ... Well there's another one for the grammar books. Vance: For every disturbing grammar mistake she makes, an English teacher falls down the stairs. Stratski: That's a lot of falling teachers... Stories for told Helmholz: There's another one for the dictionary. *facepalms* Vance: And another teacher down the stairs. Someone make her stop! Think of the poor teachers! that if one who possess powers over the elements should ever show up in Hyrule, then the land will truly be blessed. Protected by the one with powers of the ancients. But no one ever thought the stories were true. It was told to be only a myth, but now that one did show up, would this be Hyrule's great protector? With the thought that Gannon might somehow return, would I be the one to protect Hyrule from such darkness? Helmholz: Bingo, I told you. Stratski: Gag me. This story was already lame, but now she's really dug herself deep into the Mary Sue cliche. I looked at Link and Zelda, who were staring at me with blank stares. "I believe that when she was born, the powers of earth and water transferred from her parents, but she must have been born with her own set of powers." "That would explain her power over fire and wind." Link added his calm stare upon my face. Zelda just looked from me to him. Her face expressionless. Then her gaze landed on the small fire in my hands. "Jenna...there are stories that once in the dark ages of Hyrule, there were Hylians that once possessed powers over the elements, but it was believed that they all died out in the time of the (10)Great War of the Lands." "This devastating war befell Hyrule hundreds of years ago, killing half of Hyrule's population." "But it was believed that it was the (11)" Silverlites" or elemental users, that were the ones who saved Hyrule and ended the Great War." "The stories also state that if a "Silverlite" should ever return to Hyrule, the land would be blessed with peace and prosperity." Helmholz: Now what was the point of repeating that in dialogue if we were already told all of it with an inner monologue? Stratski: Guess you were right... she's gotta be one of the Silverlites. Vance: *snort* How convenient. Zelda's gaze fell on me, her expression warm yet serious. "I'm not too sure if you could be a descended of the Silverlites, but one thing is sure, you are an elemental user." Zelda said her eyes reflecting the glow of the fire still burning in my hands. "I think we should continue the training of your powers, Jenna." "We need to make sure you can fully control the elements." I nodded in agreement but one thought flashed into my mind. "Zelda my friend, I have one question." "I just thought of something, you said that my parents transferred their powers to me when I was conceived, but what about our son?" "Do you think its possible that Link jr. might have acquired the powers as well?" I said as Link looked at me with shock. "I never thought of that...yes it might just be possible." "But he may still be too young to tell." "Even though if that is possible, the thought of Silverlites still existing is one of the greatest things to happen to Hyrule." Then Zelda's gaze shifted to Link. "You truly have a very special wife Link." "A possible descended of the great Silverlites." Zelda said happily. Vance: Ugh. This is seriously getting sappy. Stratski: She's taking it to new levels, that's for sure. Can you dangle the puppets and make them croon about how special you are some more there, JennaMarySue? Helmholz: Her life must be seriously pitiful to have these kinds of dreams. I watched as Link's gaze shifted to me. His powerful arms embraced me as his gentle lips kissed mine. For a moment I was in another world as Link's gentle kiss warmed my soul. And I knew at that moment, that even if I was one of the Silverlites, Link would always be with me, always be at my side. I looked into Link's eyes one last time then looked back to Zelda. The fire danced in my hand as if it was alive, causing her expression to change into a happy one. I giggled as I did tricks with my new found power. I was now more then I had become. I became something different. Some one of great power and of legend. It was later determined that I was a descended of the great Silverlite race. My powers were of the great elements. I was trained under Zelda and I became someone of great power. Now I'm one of Hyrule's most powerful protectors, here to help the "Hero of Time" my love, protect the land from evil. Under the training of the Sages, I became one of the Sacred Realm, the one chosen by the Goddesses to protect the Legendary Triforce Helmholz: Power, power, power. Listen to this tripe. Stratski: Disgusting. She comes in, latches onto Link, assumes the position of the most powerful thing in all Hyrule and everyone just adores her, of course. Vance: Time to blow them all up! Mwahahahahahahaha!