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"Uhm, Mr. Link." Kinov looks at his teacher, hoping to get a response. But it seems teacher is very focused on a spot on the wall. So he tries again. "Mr Link."
"Oh, sorry Kinov." Link looks at the young boy who looks to young to already be in school. "I seem to have gotten distracted there. What was it you wanted to know?"
"Was it hard learning magic? I'm not really good at it."
Link kneels down a bit to get a equal height with the boy. "For some people it takes a while to figure out what style suits them best. If the one you are currently being taught seems hard it might simply be because it's not the right one for you. You passed the entry test, you have the ability, you will find what is best for you."
Kinov brights right up at those words. "Thank you Mr Link, now I'll be off to the cafeteria they're having seafood paella today and it's my favorite."
"Then off you go."
Link collapses in his chair, looking cross at the beautiful red haired girl hovering before his desk.
"I could have comforted the boy myself thank you very much. And why is it you can talk to other people through me but not talk to me?" He drops his head back. "I hope Zelda comes back soon. If I knew substituting for her classes meant also having to deal with her ghosts I would have so declined."
The girl smiles softly as if to apologize.
"Well it's not really your fault." Link sighs. "Guess being dead can't be all that easy on any person."
His stomach let's out a loud rumble, reminding him that he had given his lunch away to a student who's parents couldn't afford the school lunch. Luckily one of his students had gifted him an apple this morning.
He pulls out his sword, just to check if there isn't any spell or potion put upon it. When it comes back clear he quickly takes a bite out of it.
The door to his classroom opens and Professor Revali and his younger brother Teba come in.
"Ah good Mister Link, you are here. There was a matter I wished to discuss with you concerning the class you gave this morning to the third years."
Link pulls up a brow. "Go on."
"Do you think it was wise to tell the students such a fantastic tale about water sprites? we prefer to teach them the reality of magic, not that dribble one can find in any cheap book."
"Just because you can't see them Revali, doesn't mean they don't exist. I told the kids why learning the spells they are learning are important and how they could come in handy when you least expect them." He opens his door and makes it clear he wants them out.
Upon passing Teba quickly whispers so that Revali can't hear, "Tulin loved the story, poorly Rev was in my office when he came telling me about it. I'll tell him to check next time." Link smiles at his friend then closes the door.
The ghost girl is hovering the half-eaten apple about a foot above the desk.
"You should have done that when they were here. Revali has been telling any listening ear that Zelda is just making up her ghosts to get attention. He would have done anything to prove I was messing with him."
Two days later Link arrives to his classroom finding a red haired girl sitting behind his desk, she smiles brightly at him. "He Linny, Finley said you were his temp teacher while Zelda was out. I juts had to check."
He blinks at her a few times. Then recalls her from some of the photo's Zelda had shown him after his accident. "You are Kodah right? Or are you Mipha? No Zelda said Kodah called me Linny, so you must be Kodah."
Kodah looks at the hand he sticks out to her. "Oh, you really don't remember anything do you?"
"Nope, sorry. Zelda tried her best with every potion and spell she could. As did Purah and Impa." He drops his hand slowly. "Whatever I was hit with, my memory is one major scramble of forgotten. But I've re-learned a lot and am okay now."
He smiles cheerfully. "So your kid is Finley huh, he's a nice one. A bit of a trouble maker in the making I would say. But one that will grow up just fine in the end."
"I'm glad to hear you say that. If you ever want to hear me talk about old times, just drop by my house. I have photo-albums galore."
Link smiles at her and promises her to do that as soon as his schedule allows him to. When he closes the door he turns to find the ghost hovering only inches from his face, her features almost clear enough for him to distinguish from the haze.
"Are you somebody I knew before? Is that why you keep following me?"
The ghost nods slowly before fading out when the first bell sounds. Link decides to make some haste to get a message to Zelda. It seems it is more important than he thought.
The remainder of his substituting goes off without much chaos, and the chaos that was there wasn't even his fault. But on his last day he is all to glad to say that it is over but that he was also going to miss every student he had had.
He pulls out his sword, swings it overhead and has all his stuff packed in the boxes he brought them in. The ghost hovering beside him.
By now the girl is almost completely recognizable to Link, and after a quick search he understands who she is and why Kodah had looked so hurt.
"Well Mipha, you'll be glad to know that I'll be going straight to Zelda after this. She's finally home and recharged so she will be able to help us now." He smiles at the ghost of the girl everyone apparently had thought he was going to marry. Although try as he might he couldn't remember her.
When he steps out he looks over the fields where students are playing around with harmless spells just to entertain themselves. It makes him smile to see magic being such a boring ordinary part of people's lives.
He turns right to go to his car, only to see Mipha go left beckoning for him to follow her.
She had tried to make him go places before but there had always been something else going on at the time. This time he simply sends a message to Zelda that he had to do something before and he would see her soon.
But instead of the message going right towards Zelda's place it goes right past Mipha and moves to where she was going.
"Guess we'll see Zelda there than. You know where she is?" Mipha nods.
Link follows both Mipha and in a way the message into the school's pool house. He hadn't gone in there as he might have lost his memories, he did still remember being terrified of water for some reason.
He sees Mipha hovering near a door, like she is scared to move past it. Link opens his mouth to ask her what is stopping her when he hears the two voices from within the large pool area.
"It would not be right Zelda. He was going to marry my sister. She loved him dearly, it would be wrong." A shiver runs down Link's back, he knows that voice. He even knows it belongs to Mipha's younger sister and a powerful water mage in his own right, and he might not remember it, but he knows this person. His chest stings hearing the hurt in his voice.
"Yes she loved him, everyone knew that. But Link was not in love with her. They were not a couple like that. You are only hurting yourself by denying the truth. The depth of your emotions are to great and they are messing with your magic." Zelda's voice is calm and reassuring, but Link can hear the plea in it as well. "Please Sidon. This is not what Mipha would have wanted for either of you."
"You do not know that. You have been looking for her spirit everywhere since the accident, she has left and took her story with her."
"Actually she's right here." Both of them turn at him hastily when he steps through the door, knowing that Mipha will have followed. "Been here since the moment I started subbing for Zelda."
He looks at Mipha, who has her eyes set on her younger brother. "I guess she has something she needs to say. Zelda do your thing."
"Of course."
Link always loves looking at Zelda performing her magic, it always makes her look so serene, almost as if she is praying. The complete opposite of Link's own magic that needs a sword in his hand to even function.
The whole room starts to glow with a haze similar as he had seen around Mipha this whole time, small droplets of water rise from the ground forming a mist. This mist envelops Mipha's ghost form for a second then drops showing Mipha almost looking corporeal.
"Mipha." Sidon looks at his sister, the sister he thought he would never look upon ever again. Knowing the rules of keeping distance he nearly steps forward to hug hr after all, his hands are trembling to touch her, even for one last time.
"Shush little brother. I am sorry my passing hurt you so deeply." Mipha sighs. "I did not bother being found as there was, so far as I know nothing left for me here to complete. Had I known of Link's amnesia I would have come back sooner."
She smiles, stretching her hand to have it hover about an inch from Sidon's face. "See our last night, I told Link that I loved him. That I would not mind for the rumors to be true. He turned me down."
"He what? But why? You were perfect for him." Sidon actually sounds angry.
"I was not dear little brother, and he knew it. Once he was done telling me his side of the story, and how he truly felt." Mipha sighs. "I accepted it and even gave him my blessing to pursuit the one he loved. The one I know he still loves even though he no longer remembers.
Zelda is right little tadpole it's not fair for wither of you, and I never wanted to see either of you miserable. So as I told Link that night, I am telling you know, you have my blessing to be happy with the one you love. May the magic of this world guide your happiness."
With a small nod to all three of them Mipha simply fades out of sight.
"Well seeing what was just said, I'll be off." Zelda grabs her bag from the floor and nearly runs to the door. "Try to behave okay, we are on school grounds."