The Hero´s song
Unlike the hero, the princess isn't blessed with ignorance. The moment she comes of age, she remembers. Ages of memories which aren't hers float into her mind, flooding her own, until they sink to the bottom. That's when she becomes the Princess Zelda.
Of all her memories, there is one that is the clearest. It's of a boy, sometimes 10, sometimes 17 clad in forest green clothes with a fairy along his side. She knows him, yet she does not. The current Zelda hasn't known him, couldn't have known him, for he was a friend of Princess Zelda the first, who had ruled Hyrule tons of decades ago.
Yet it was him that she dreamed of, every night.
He would come to her, as the teenager he once was, wearing the hero's outfit and bearing the mighty sword. Yet in her dreams, he didn't come to save her, he didn't come for acts of violence.
Sitting with her, in the ancient courtyard deeply hidden within the palace, he plays a song, just for her.
He would play a song so sad and woeful that it made her cry in her sleep. A song so sad, she could almost taste all the memories that composed it. Yet as the magical blue ocarina, lost so long ago, glistered in the night, she knew that everything would be alright.
The hero had never abandoned them. He had only just lost the battle against time. He had deeply loved his princess and done his best to save her country multiple times, but in the end, he was just a mortal man like every other.
And now, so many years have passed and all that's left of you is your song and your sword. All your hard work has been in vain for the fair Goddesses have deserted the once glorious land of Hyrule, sinking it deep beneath the ocean, waiting for the next hero to wake.
For that's she's certain of.
There will be another hero, for the hero never abandons his princess.
But the hero won't be him.