Chapter 2

During the night, Link could barely sleep. Wondering if his friends would start becoming suicidal, too. Or even if he'd start being suicidal. Every time he'd fall to sleep, he'd have a nightmare involving one of his friends committing suicide in horrible, grotesque ways. Rather it was Saria gutting herself like a fish, or Zelda gouging her own eyes out. They were all horrible, and each time, Link would wake up, screaming not to do it, only to find that it was a dream.

"Why am I having these dreams, now? I doubt my friends would commit suicide. There's just no way. They're too happy with their lives to just throw it away like that," he said to himself, "yeah… tomorrow, I'll just check up on them."

Link was slowly falling back to sleep, when he was awoken by the breaking of glass.

"WAH!" he yelled, as a bird flew at his head, "Ow!" he yelled, falling off of the bed. "What the hell was that about?" he asked, picking up the, now dead bird. "A note," he said, noticing a piece of paper stuck to the poor bird's leg. He lit the candle next to his bed, unrolled the piece of paper, and read it out loud. "Good-bye," Link read, questioningly. "Good-bye? What the… what's… blood?" he said, as he noticed that the piece of paper was stained with blood. "Um… signed by… Saria." he read. "Saria wrote this? Good-bye? What does she mean… and why's it covered in… blood… oh no… SARIA!" he yelled, as he realized what this was. It was a note, basically saying that she's going to kill herself… or worse… that she already did. Link bolted out the door, grabbed his sword, didn't even bother to get dressed, and ran to his dear friend's house. "Hopefully, I'm not too late!" he said.

Finally, he reached Saria's house on the other side of Kakariko village. He started knocking, loudly. "Saria?! Saria?! SARIA!!" he yelled, loudly. "Open up!" he shouted. "Damn it!" he said, as he unsheathed his sword, and cut at the door. "Cut faster, damn it!" he commanded his sword. Finally, he swung with all his might, which brought the door the rest of the way down, and ran inside. He turned a ghostly pale color when he saw Saria, on the floor, in a pool of her own blood.

"NO!" he shouted, running to her side. "You can't be dead! You just can't be!" he said, as he leaned his head close to hers. She was still breathing. "Saria! Hold in there! I'm going to get you help!" he told her, as he lifted her body up, and quickly made his way to Kakariko Village hospital.

Link had to sit in the waiting room, while the doctors operated on Saria. "Even Saria tried to commit suicide. Something isn't right," Link said to himself, "odd that I received that note shortly after that nightmare."

"You may see Saria, now," the doctor said to Link.

"Is she okay?" Link asked.

"Yes, she'll be fine. Don't worry."

Link walked into the operation room to find Saria sleeping.

Link was nearly tearing up. "Saria… I don't know what I would of done if you had died. You're on of my best friends, so I couldn't stand losing you…" Link muttered to himself.

"Get out of Hyrule!" said a creepy sounding, deep voice.

"Huh? Who said that?" Link said, opening his eyes, and saw that Saria was staring at him.

"You must leave, unless you want to die," she said, in that exact voice.

"Saria? Is that… you?" Link asked.

"There is a curse! A curse lingering over the land. You must leave, unless you wish to end up like the others," she said.

"A curse? What… do you mean?"

"A curse that causes those within Hyrule to commit suicide. Leave, while you still can," she said. "If you don't, you will DIE!" she started laughing, "you will all DIE!"

"AHHHHHHH!" Link sat up, screaming. "Huh? It was only a dream?" he said, realizing that he had fallen to sleep next to Saria's bed. "But it seemed so real."

"Excuse me, sir, but I heard screaming. Are you alright?" a nurse said, poking her head into the room.

"Yes… sorry… I accidentally fell to sleep and had a bad dream," Link responded.

"Oh. Okay then. Just, make sure not to let it happen again… I mean, the screaming part. You're disturbing the other patients," the nurse said, as she left.

"Alright. I won't," Link promised. "But… I'm not sure if it WAS a dream… it felt so… real…" Link pondered, as he got up to leave. "Well, Saria," he said, turning around, "see ya tomorrow."