Alright, before I begin writing this, I must do something very important. Cut my damn fingernails……. Now that I've taken care of that, I had a thought a couple hours ago. For those of you who have Lime wire or whatever, you can download songs. For each chapter I write, I'm going to post a new song that you should download. I always listen to music to help me captivate a better meaning of the story. It also helps me concentrate more. You know the drill. Read, review, enjoy.

Song: Vertigo / as performed by John 5

Chapter 2

"I hate planes…" Zelda whined as she sat down in her seat by the window.

"They're not that bad," Serj stated, in a as-a-matter-of-factly tone.

"You just don't get sometimes, do you?"

"No, I guess not," he replied, stuffing the rest of their baggage in the compartment above the seats.

"Remember when we went to New York?" she reminisced.

"Oh get over it already would you? It's done with and in the past," he muttered as he threw himself down in the seat next to her.

"Fine, I'll shut up."

It was now three in the morning, just about time for them to take off. The whole thing that happened with Link six years ago wasn't the only thing that bugged her about planes. After her mom died in a car crash, she trusted the safety of planes less and less.

Serj rolled his eyes a bit as his sister stared out the window, watching all of the passing landing strip lights pass. Serj slid a set of headphones over his ears and flicked on his Ipod. He knew that listening to John 5's Damaged wasn't the best thing to listen as he was reaching thousands of feet in the air, but he liked the song too much.

It was a good five hours before they were to reach Austin. Hotel reservations had already been made. They had already planned to do as little as possible that day, maybe go see a movie or hit one of the local malls. For some reason, plane rides wore Serj out.

Zelda wasn't too great at getting up that early in the morning, so it didn't take her too long fall asleep. Her eyelids became heavy and he eyes weary. She drifted off into deep slumber after just a few moments time.

"Check this one out."

Fingers flew about the fretboard like a spider dancing about on hot coals. His fingers moved so fast you couldn't hardly even tell what was going on. It was more like a blur fluttered about on the soft maple wood.

"That's incredible," she said.

"Thanks. I came up with it over the last couple weeks. I like it a lot… it's got some good flare too it, don't you think?"

"Yeah, it really does."

It was Link. Zelda was beside him. They were in a park somewhere; somewhere she had never been. The leaves whistled by softly, and the trees billowed with soft wind. There was a slight breeze that lightly brushed her hair over her face. There was no one else there…

Just her and Link. Just the way that she had always thought things should have been. He sat there with an acoustic guitar propped up against his chest, his fingers still furiously blazing about; his face in deep concentration as the god played the masterful melody.

He finally stopped and set his guitar down in the soft grass next to the tree that they leaned up against. She smiled at him. Nothing else in the world mattered now. She was there with him. The one she loved. She could feel them getting closer… closer… closer…

Zelda lurched forward suddenly. Her mind spun with so many things as she heard screams and shouts. Her brother was not beside her. What was going on? No, not Serj… Link this time…

He was covered in blood, his eyes and mouth wide open. Zelda shook him crazily as tears began to run down her rosy cheeks.

She screamed his name over and over again. Fire burst from the other side of the plane, creating a gaping hole. Passengers screamed and cried as they were sucked out into the dark night. She clutched onto Link's shirt as the hole widened and the plane spun down towards the earth below. With all her might, she was not strong enough to keep him near. He too soon followed the rest of the passengers.

True terror set into the pit of her stomach. He was gone. Everyone was gone. She was the only one left. All alone. Another tear ran down her face as the flames engulfed her…

"Zelda!"

Zelda jumped up at the sound of her voice. She frantically looked around, her eyes darting from seat to seat. Everything was fine. The passengers were still there, her brother at her side. No fire, no holes, no death… no Link.

"We're here finally," Serj informed, his hand on her shoulder.

She quickly wrapped her arms around him, squeezing him to the point to where he was about to pop. She sobbed like none other, so glad her brother was right there with her. Serj gasped for air as the bear hug choked the oxygen out of his lungs.

"Zelda? What's wrong?" he worriedly asked through gasps of air.

"Can we get off this thing yet?" she cried.

Serj hurriedly grabbed their things and jetted out of the plane quickly. He was starting to get worried, real worried. The moment they were out of the terminal, she sat down in the nearest chair and put her hands in her face. She wasn't sobbing like crazy anymore, but she was still crying a bit. Serj threw the baggage down in the chair next to her and got down on one knee in front of her.

"Zelda, what the fuck?" he pushed, wanting to know what was going on.

"I… I… need some water," she stuttered through her cries.

Serj looked around the airport quickly and noticed a vending machine. Quickly walking over to it, he rapidly dug around in his pocket for some spare change. Quickly stuffing the quarters in the machine, he nabbed a bottle of water and walked back over to his sister. He was beginning to feel a little antsy with all the people staring at his sister.

Taking a seat in the chair next to her that wasn't cramped with luggage, he popped open the bottle and handed it to her. Zelda's crying had stopped. Now, she just sat there, her face still buried in her hands and her hair in a mess. Tapping her shoulder with the bottle, he gestured for her to take the cool liquid.

Looking up from her hands with red eyes, Zelda took the bottle and drank a bit of the fresh water. Putting the bottle up against her neck to cool herself off, she leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes. Sighing heavily, she felt a little better than she had before.

"You gonna talk to me now?" Serj asked, becoming a little impatient.

"Just a really bad nightmare, don't worry about it," she replied.

"That was one hell of a nightmare. What was it?" he inquired.

"I was in a park… it was so peaceful. Just me and Link. It was the greatest feeling ever…"

"Doesn't sound too bad to me."

"Suddenly, I was back on the plane. Link was next to me, but… he was dead. Suddenly the plane exploded. Everyone started getting sucked out. I was the only one left until the fire got to me…"

Serj sat there a minute. What the hell do you say to something like that? He really had no idea what to do.

"That's pretty intense. Is there anything I can do?" he asked, not knowing what to say at all.

"Just get me to the hotel," she replied.

Serj nodded. He left her with all of their things while he went to nab a rental car. After making all the reservations he needed, he headed back to help his sister get all of the things and make their way through the busy airport to the rental area.

Their Chevy Cavalier awaited them with the attendant standing right next to him. Handing him the keys, the attendant whished them a good day and headed back into the airport.

As soon as Serj began driving down the road to the hotel, Zelda fell asleep again. Now he didn't even want her to sleep. If she was going to go through that sort of a hellish nightmare again, what was the point.

He himself was pretty tired too. It took a good thirty minutes to get through all the morning traffic in the busy city of Austin. Serj had bad road rage, so by the time he parked at the hotel, he was furious.

He awoke Zelda and led her into the room they were to stay in. By the time he came back to the room from getting the luggage out of the car, she was already asleep again. Frowning a bit, he shrugged it off and set all of their bags down next to the bathroom door. He climbed in the bed with his sister to get a bit of sleep as well. At least if he was that close to her, he would awake if she started spazzing out in her sleep again.

By the time he woke up, it was already dark outside. He found it tough to believe that he had been asleep for such a long time, but didn't really give a shit. He had wanted to sleep the whole day off anyways. He noticed that Zelda hadn't moved at all since he had gone to sleep. Not even a single strand of hair had moved on her head. Checking her pulse so make sure she was still breathing, he picked up his cell phone.

He felt a little stupid checking his sister's pulse, but hey. He had to watch out for her, eh? Searching through the call list in his phone, he dialed Mido's number.

"Yeah," Mido answered.

"Hey man, what's up," Serj asked.

"Not much, just watching a movie with the wife," Mido replied, referring to Saria.

"That's cool, what movie?"

"Final Destination."

This sent chills down Serj's spine. The fact that he and his sister had gotten off of flight 181 made things a little creepy, considering Zelda's weird dream. Shaking the thought out of his mind, he explained to Mido what happened.

"Dude, that's pretty weird," Mido stated, a little creeped out.

"Yeah, tell me about it. Kind of makes me wonder if something is going on with her. I'm not saying she's crazy or anything, but like you said, it's pretty weird," Serj concurred.

"Hm. Well, let me know how that concert goes man. And keep me posted on Zelda if anything else happens."

"Will do."

"Ight, later man."

"Later," Serj said before shutting his phone.

He sighed a bit as he looked around the almost pitch black room. As he sat on the edge of the hard hotel bed, he began to wonder if the dream meant something, or if it was just your average bad nightmare. Either way, it was creepy.

He turned his head over his shoulder and looked at his sister. Just like sleeping beauty. With another sigh, he gave a slight smile before pulling the blankets back over him and closing his eyes for another good nights sleep.

Well, if you haven't seen Final Destination, that last bit wouldn't have made much sense. So if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go watch it. Ha, well, I know this chapter was way the hell out there and doesn't make much sense now. But you all know me… Things develop slowly, but always make sense later. Well, send those reviews fast, I need them to get those juices flowing. Just about all of my last reviews stated that you were all curious as to how I'll pull this one off without Link in there. But never fear. Have I ever let you down?