A/n: I know, I know, I've already got two stories in progress, but this story was calling to me to write it…And I wanted to start it while it was still fresh in my mind…
Don't ask where this came from…I just thought of it while I was bored in school, and I wanted to get it down while I still could…So…Here…
Disclaimer:I don't own Zelda, so whatever…
Chapter 1: Welcome to My Story
"Immobilized by fear/ And soon to blinded by tears/ I can stop the pain if I will it all away" – "Whisper" by Evanescence
I really don't know what she's accomplishing by doing this… I mean, I really don't… How is this supposed to help? All of this seems to have absolutely no sense to it whatsoever…
I mean, come on… How does locking me in this room help? Last time I checked, locking "insane" people in a windowless, colorless room didn't seem to help them achieve sanity, right? (There are magic barriers, just for affect…)
I get it already… I'm insane…I'm awful…I am a horrible, betraying bastard destined to go to hell…I get it…
But still…
Now I'm supposed to sit here in this pathetic excuse for a room trying to sort out my thoughts and somehow come to the fantastic revolution that everything I did was wrong…
It's not that easy, Zelda dear…No, not at all…But why contradict a princess? (I know from experience that it's quite painful…)
So…Where do I go from here? Not there's much left to ponder…
I did some bad things, and now I'm here…In a bland, room with a small amount of light with a rickety excuse for a bed and that's it…
Oh…And apparently I get a meal twice a day… It's kind of them, isn't it? All it is the stuff that they scrounge up in the leftover corner of the castle's kitchen…
But I'm not special right now, and so, therefore, I don't deserve something descent to eat. Though, food is the least of my concerns right now…
What do I do now? I guess I'm supposed to think about what I did… Everything I did…I mean, a lot of little things led up to a big thing, and that big "thing" can't be fixed…
Last time I checked, death is irreparable, right?
Well, unless I missed my guess…Since, these days, a lot of things seem to be going topsy-turvy lately…
I swear… Was I just destined to go from one thing to the other? I start off as the fabled "Hero of Time" and then end up here, in the castle slums… I'm just one of those bugs, one of those evil, stinging; venomous bugs that Princess Zelda needs to squish in order contain purity in this oh-so grand kingdom of Hyrule…
How does the Hero of Time sink so low, you ask?
It's simple really…
Not all heroes are meant to live grand lives…Not all are supposed to be armored, chivalrous gentlemen… Not all heroes are supposed to live happily ever-after…Not all are great, kind, selfless men who would give their very lives for the country…
Some are just destined to sink…Sink as far as they can go…Some heroes break the very code of honor in which they are expected to go by…
I'm not at all what the legends say… I don't consider myself gentlemanly or selfless in anyway…By no means do I consider that congenial to my nature…
It never was, never will be…
I'm just that random kid, that random orphan, "no-fairy" kid who was selected to that job because it was convenient… (At least, in my mind…)
I guess I'm that heartless creep who breaks that façade… I'm just realistic. And now I'm rambling…
But I guess I've got nothing better to do…
To speak the truth, I don't really know how I sunk so low… It's as if, one day, something struck a cord in me, and I just went down hill from there… It's as if one day, I just jumped off of the deep end with both eyes shut…
But I guess there's nothing more to say…
I'm just insane… I don't know... Is insane really the right way of putting it? Or is there some different word for it? One of the confusing medical terms?
Do I care? Will I just settle for insane? That seems as basic of a way to put it… "Insane" is just the first word that comes to mind…
Insane… I just don't like how that sounds… It bugs me… Maybe I'm just being pessimistic again…I don't know…Pet peeve of mine…
According to Princess Zelda, the regal, understanding person that she is, decided to put me in the Goddess-forsaken room, expecting me to sort out my thoughts and emerge the great hero I was supposed to be…
Yeah…Right… When that happens, it will be raining fire, and Ruto will stop chasing me…
And that will NEVER happen…
My mind is nothing but a labyrinth maze…It's a place where there are constant turns and twists… It's constantly confusing, and nothing ever makes sense…
And just when you think you have me figured out, I go and screw you over again…
Fantastic, right?
I confuse myself… I think Zelda believes that by making me sit here in this boring room, I can emerge normally and explain my actions, having some predestined reason for doing it...
If I can't even understand myself, what makes her thinks she can understand me?
My actions were entirely my decisions, and not some premonition… It was entirely something I chose to do… No ifs, ands, or buts about it…
Goddesses if you can hear me, please help me…
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Thanks….Any-hoo… How do I do this? Just talk out loud, to myself?
Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity…
And if I did that, then maybe I would be considered insane… Besides the guards standing outside my door would be quite freaked out, now wouldn't they? I think that's what they're expecting…
For me to talk about it so they have solidified proof that I'm insane…
…………………
Look at me…I, Link, the Hero of Time, chosen by the Goddesses, am rambling, yet again…
Great…
Just dandy…
All I can say is one thing…
This is going to be one very annoying, very tiring, very….dreadful, if you will… This will be like hell…
And maybe it is… Maybe I am in hell…
A/n: There it is folks, this is the start of yet again, another new story… I am just test-driving it… The entire story is told in Link's POV… It's cynical, yes…But I want to see if I can get Link in a new light…
This is a teaser chapter of sorts…Nothing is really explained, since Link doesn't say what he did…All you know is that is was bad enough for Zelda to punish him…
Please review, folks!