I swore I'd finish this.
So, I know it kinda sorta took me like a year to start the re-write, but after playing through Majora's Mask 3D, I felt guity for not finishing this.
As promised, here's the rewrite.
"Can't we just sit down and talk about it?" I ask Zelda.
"No, Link. There's nothing to talk about." She hollars. "You're going."
A couple of the castle guards shake in fear of the angry princess storming throught the halls. I have to speed walk, almost jog to catch up to my furious wife.
"You know what I don't understand?" She starts. "I don't understand why you don't want to spend our anniversary like a normal couple!" Her pace picks up, I'm suprised she can walk that fast in heels.
"I never said that! Please don't change my words around!" I tell her. "I just don't want to go there."
Zelda comes to a sudden complete stop, causing me to bump into her by accident. "S-Sorr-"
"Termina is the perfect place to go!" My wife snaps at me. "It's beautiful, you had said so yourself! Besides, the festival will be happening when we go, I'd love to be there for it. Be there WITH my husband for OUR anniversary!"
"But Zelda, I-"
"Link!" She interupts me. I close my mouth, knowing she'll become even more angry with me if I were to interupt her. "We're being expected to arrive tomorrow... Please... Just go and pack your bags."
I sigh in defeat as I nod my head yes. Together, but in silence, we both walk to our shared bedroom and enter.
...
"No Link," Zelda says, digging through the wardrobe. "Please take this outfit insted of that old, commoner-like one. You don't need to fit in with the rest of Clocktown, you're suppose to look like the future King." She rips the outfit I had chosen out of my hands and replaced it with a more royal-like one.
Slightly bothered, I accept the new outfit and place that into my bag insted.
"I know you don't wanna go but it's only for three days." She tells me. "It will go by faster than you think because of all the fun we'll be having together!"
Zelda, now in a better mood, begins smiling and twirling around the room. Her dress expands and dances in the air. Seeing her like this makes me feel happy, but it hurts to know that her mood will switch from the Happy Zelda that I married to the angry woman I barely know soon enough.
Maybe this little trip will have her in a good mood the entire time? I sure hope so. I don't know if I could handle the stress of going back to Termina mixed with the stress of dealing with an upset Zelda. Besides, it's only for three days. Three days is barely enough time to celebrate.
Three days is barely enough time to celebrate.
Three days is barely enough time.
Three days is barely... Barely enough t-time.
"And I must leave this place in three days."
That's barely enough time.
"Link!" My head shoots up and Zelda calls my name. "What's your problem? Stop staring off into space. I'm going to go bathe before we sleep, and I expect that bag of yours to be packed by the time I'm back!"
"O-Of course." I respond to her. She nods and exits our bedroom.
Seven years ago, I spent a lot of time in a land called Termina searching for a lost friend of mine. Insted of finding this friend, I spend three days saving the people of this land. I risked my life, fought the nastiest of creatures, had my body painfully become reconstructed into different beings to be able to preform non-human tasks. Ventures through demon-filled dungeons, and also, I had even had to take a few lives. That's not quite everything, but one can only imagine how this experiance could effect a person.
Don't think it stops there, no. It did only last three days, but I've relived these three days over and over again. If I had messed up somewhere along the jorney, or was running out of time, I'd have to reset everything and begin to save the land over again.
It may have just been three days for everybody else, but by the time I recived the Hero title and saved that land, I had been living in that cycle for weeks.
After I had finished saving the land, I left as soon as I could. On top of the experiance itself, what makes this whole thing even worse is the fact that I hadn't found my friend that went missing so long ago...
A sharp pain in my chest apperred as these memories fell back apon me. Quickly, I throw some clothes into the bag, set it aside and lay down in Zelda's and my bed.
I know it's pretty early to be in bed but Zelda had planned to arrive around 6am anyways. It would be best to get a lot of rest before this trip. I'll need as much rest as I can get, I know I won't be sleeping much in Termina.
...
"Even if they were to come now, they wouldn't be able to handle me... Hee, Hee. Just look above you... If it's something that can be stopped, then just try to stop it!"
He throws his arms up into the sky. A horrible screech echos through the cold night air and suddenly, the world begins to shake.
Hit him...
Transform into a Deku Scrub and hit him!
My body is frozen in pure terror.
HIT HIM!
I can feel the time draining as the moon moved closer and closer. At this rate, I'll be crushed in a matter of seconds.
"Link! Hey, Link! Why don't you do something!?" My fairy partner asks.
Shock, my body is in shock. Practically paralized. Tears swell up in my eyes.
"Link!"
...
"LINK!" I hear Zelda calling out to me as she shakes me.
I gasp as I sit up. My hair is drenched in sweat, my entire body feels hot, and it's hard to breath.
"Link?" She repeats my name. Through the darkness of our room, I can still see her expression is worried.
"No," I shake my head. "I don't want to go."
"Link... Calm down." She tells me, pushing me back into a laying position. "It won't be like that, I promise." She repositions some of the blankets and snuggles herself against me.
"You don't understand." My voice cracks as I had been crying.
She remains silent for a few moments. I have my hopes on her changing her mind about the trip and deciding on a new location.
"We... We'll head back home at the crack of sunlight after the carnival."
Of course, no matter what, Zelda gets her way.
Zelda is used to getting her way, after her mind is set on something, its set. Not many people are willing to say no to the Princess, soon to be queen of Hyrule. I suppose she's used to getting her way with me, as well. I have a thing for doing a lot for others, even if it means I have to go out of my way to do so. I just like to see other people happy, I guess I should have seen something like this situation come up one day.
At least a half hour had past, and we have just been lying in the dark together. There were a few times I had my doubts about her being awake, but her constant moving around had reassured me she's not asleep yet.
"Link..." Zelda quietly calls out in the dark.
"Hm?" I answer. A wave of tiredness had just hit, I didn't quite feel like talking.
"Do you think that... Maybe this trip would be the perfect place to concieve?"
Woah... Where did this come from? "C-Concieve?!" I repeat.
"Yeah... I was just thinking... We've known each other for a long time, and married just under a year ago... Maybe this could bring us closer together?" Zelda suggested.
My eyes widened as I look at everything but Zelda. We've been together for awhile but never actually... But now she suddenly wants a child?
Besides responsibility, I don't think we're capable of being good parents. I know how Zelda grew up, her parents barely had time for her and she had somebody else raise her. I wouldn't want that for my own child, I'd want to be there for them.
Even if we wern't living in a castle, didn't have to run a kingdom soon, we still wouldn't make good parents. We argue. Bringing a child into this world with parents that can't even spend a day without fighting, I couldn't live with myself if my child were to grow up in that kind of enviorment.
She's giving me only a few days to decide if I want this for the rest of my life...
"Link...?" She quietly calls out again.
Take that out of the question, she wants to on our anniversary. For starters, we've never... Done anything of the sort. We're already married so I can't say we were waiting but... it just never happened. She's so busy all the time that it never works out. And I? It might sound strange for me to say it but I don't think about it all that much. Well, obviously I think of it, that's only natural, but I've just never felt the need to sleep with anybody, and that includes my wife.
"Link?" She questions again. I don't answer, though. I really don't know what to tell her. I pray that she just assumes I fell asleep.
"Link?"
...
"Link!" Zelda hollars at me. "Come on, sleepyhead! Get up! It's time to go!" She says, yanking the blanket off of me.
Slowly, I sit up and rub my eyes. I know that she'd never let me lay back down for 'Five more minuites' so I just agree and get up. Maybe I'll just sleep on the way there...
After getting dressed and eatting, we are escorted to the carrige that will be taking us to Clocktown. We sit in our seats and a guard closes and locks the door.
Zelda leans over to me, "You know, you could have worn something a little nicer than that. Especially for our arrival."
I'm wearing my green tunic. It's a re-make of the one I had worn durring my adventures and such. This one is touched up and royalized. It's the outfit I am known for, and I thought it would be nice to wear such a knight-like outfit, but apparently not.
Insted of responding, I sigh. Those comments are slightly insulting...
...
"We're almost here!" I can make out throught a tired daze. "Link! Wake up, look! There it is!"
By the time we arrive, the sun had finally raised. It's so much nicer to see the sun rather than the moon here!
'Dawn of the First Day'
I instantly wake up and my eyes fling open.
What? What's going on? No, stop this.
'72 hours remain'
"Stop." I acciendentally say out loud.
"Sorry!" Zelda says, sarcastically. "Somebody's a bit cranky this morning... I'm just excited, and you should be too!"
No, Zelda. I'm really, really not.
...
Guards handle our bags as we get up and out of our seats.
"Common!" Zelda takes my arm. "They will handle our stuff, lets go in!"
She pulls me inside the walls protecting the town. People are running all around the town, even at 6am. It's a pretty lively place.
Because you wouldn't let them die.
"Wow, look at this place! Even the prepreations for the fesival already look great!" Zelda says in awe as we enter the town from the south.
The clock tower... It's huge. It's ticks are so loud.
The moon... The moon is gone.
The moon... I-it tries to crash on that tower.
World... It would end...
That tower, the moon would crash onto it and kill everything.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"
"Don't be rude," Zelda leans over to me. "If somebody greets you, it's common sense to greet them back!"
I snap back into reality and notice there are people all around Zelda and I. Some are new, but I do reconize others. It will be hard for me to face somebody in this town and push aside our last encounter to focus on now.
Forcing a very strained smile, I do greet those around me.
...
Time slipped by and I had managed to break away from Zelda to check out our room we will be staying in at the Stock Pot Inn. She prefered to stay by the Clock Tower and talk to people.
I walk into the Inn with two guards following close behind. I had offered to carry my own things, but they refused to have the future King of Hyrule carry his own belongings.
Working at the front desk was a face I could never forget. "Hello Anju..." I shyly greet her.
Anju looks up from the desk and stares at me for a few moments before it clicked. "Link... You're Link, aren't you?!" She seems surprised. I nod, and she begins to smile.
"I had hear many rumors about your visit, but I didn't know to believe them or not! I can't believe you're actuall here!" Her eyes sparkled the longer she stared. "Oh right! Your reservation! Uh, let's see... Here you are!" She hands me the keys to the room. "Your room will be the Hero's Chamber... Erm... It used to be called the 'Knife Chamber' but that was changed since your last stay. Enjoy!" She tells me. I nod and start walking.
"Oh, Link!" She calls after me. I stop, handing one of the guards the key so they can place my wife's and my things in the room.
"Yes?" I question.
"I know you might be busy in town and such, but if you can find the time, I was wondering if maybe you and your wife would like to have diner with my husband and I sometime during your stay?" Anju asks me.
It does sound like a nice offer, and I'm curious of how he is doing... Kafei and I had done quite a bit of talking the last time I had been around, and he was definatly one of the only people I have ever felt he kind of had the same experiance as I... With the whole body and mind age thing, at least. He has been an adult who was turned into a child where as when I was a child, I had to take on the body of an adult.
"Yeah," I say to her. "That would be great."
...
I get into the room just as the guards leave. It's just how I remember it.
The temptation to sleep almost draws me to the bed, but I know that if I were to fall asleep again, Zelda would have my head. I turn from the bed and something else catches my attention.
The chest is still in the room. When I was here seven years ago, somebody had left a $100 rupee in that chest. I had taken it too, the one who left it must have been very upset.
Curious of what my luck may bring this time, I walk over to the chest. It's not locked or anything so I open it. What lays inside almost puts me into shock.
Inside the chest is an ocarina. Not just any ocarina, though.
I pick it up to examine it. Every little part of it looks identical, but it can't be. I got rid of the Ocarina of Time a long time ago, there's no way somebody found it and placed it in this chest for when I returned.
It can't be the real thing, there's no way.
"Then listen to me. Please play this song that I am about to perform, and remember it well... "
What are you talking about?
"This is a melody that heals evil magic and troubled spirits, turning them into masks.
Stop this...
"I am sure it will be of assistance to you in the future."
Stop...