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A/n: OMG! Thank you so much dudes for the reviews to this! I hope I gather more as the story progresses… 7 reviews for one chapter? Nifty! I have that much for 2 on one of my other stories! I'm giddy with excitement that I have motivation to continue this!

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Chapter 2: Off the Deep End

"As I took him in my arms he screamed I'm not insane! / I'm just looking for someone to understand my pain…"- "The Devil in the Wishing Well" by Five for Fighting

The room I'm in is very dark right now… I can't see very much.

Fantastic, eh?

Well, not my way of spending an evening alone, that's for sure…

But I've grown used to this…It's like this every night; cold, dreary, dark… It sort of grows on you…And when you're crazy like me, you begin to think it's kind of homey… The darkness of the room seems to suit me quite well, actually… It makes things more interesting…And it's much easier to sleep this way…

But I can't sleep anyway so…

I just lean against the wall, sitting upright on my pathetic excuse for a bed, and listen to the noises of the castle outside my room…

You see, the oh-so great Princess of Hyrule decided it unfit and unhelpful to seal me in a dungeon, so she locked me in a small, confined room in the far corners of the castle instead…

As I've said before, It's supposed to help…And it's not…Jeez, who chose her to be princess anyway?

My thoughts stop as I hear voices outside my room…

Speak of the devil; it seems the ruler of my misery has come to grace me with her regal presence…

"Link…" I hear her whisper as the door creaks open… I turn my head, so only my blue eyes peak out from behind my blanket of shadows… Zelda walks in, garbed in her pink and off-white royal gowns, and clutched in her hand is a candle… The flames light up the dark room, so we can see each other more clearly…

"Have you come to see if my insanity has cleared up, princess?" I say sharply, rolling my eyes. "Last time I checked, small rooms only make things worse."

"Must you be so cynical?" Zelda responds back, now clasping the candle in both hands.

"Yes…What are you frustrated with me, princess?"

"…"

"You know you're only proving my point, right?"

"You can be so…aggravating nowadays, Link…" Zelda's eyes grow downcast for a second.

"Listen; face it princess, the knight-in-shining-armor that you once knew has gone out the window…" I use hand gestures to prove my point. "As in he's jumped off the deep end…What you see now is what you get…"

"It pains me to see you in this condition, Link…"

"…"

"You had so much going for you Link: recognition, a happy life, and a wonderful future…But…Why did you go and do what you did?"

"Maybe I got frustrated, princess…."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is not everyone wants to be recognized, like you princess…" I was growing very sick of her constant questioning of my mental wellbeing and my decision; very, very, very annoyed. "You know, I didn't want to be known…The constant attention wore me out…"

"It was all rightfully yours, Link… No one could deny that you, the Hero of Time, had saved us all…And that you deserved the very best for all you've done… You've saved us quite a lot…"

"Yeah…Whatever…"

"Yes! You've don't a lot for not just Hyrule and myself, but for Termina too!"

"And I care?"

"You should, you cynical bastard!"

"…" I smirked a bit at the fact that I was now angering the dear, sweet princess. "Are you angry, princess?"

"Yes! I'm angry and troubled…Why?"

"Why did you have to go and do what you did?"

"You know, princess, let me explain something to you…. I could have frankly cared less if Ganondorf had taken over Hyrule for good! Or if Termina had gotten crushed… Not my problem…"

"Then why did you do those wonderful things?"

"To get you off of my back! Nayru! I wouldn't have given a damn if this world had been shrouded in darkness! I wouldn't have done anything if the Deku Tree and that annoying ball of light hadn't made me!"

"What's your excuse for saving Termina then?"

"I did it because I had another annoying ball of light attached to my side! My Din, I wanted to get away from heroism, not walk right into it again…"

"That still doesn't justify what you did, Link…You're lucky I don't execute you for it! I just want to understand why…"

"You're going to have to give up sooner or later, princess..." I turn my head to meet her violet-blue eyes…They're mixed up with a mixture of sadness, worry, frustration, and anger… It's almost fun to make her angry…

"How come it's that every time I try to come in here and help you, you back away from my help?" Zelda questioned after a long silence… She looked down, staring at the bright flame of the candle; stepped back as a bit of candle wax dripped to the ground.

"I don't need counseling, princess…" I looked at her. "I just want to be alone…"

"Well, as a prisoner, I can come and go to you as I please…" Zelda says sharply.

"Woo-hoo…" I twirl my finger, sarcasm dripping from my voice.
"I'll be back, Link…" Zelda twirls around, her skirts flying around with her. "You really have gone off the deep end, haven't you? You actually used to be nice…"

"I jumped off the deep end a long time ago, princess…And when I did, I did it with both eyes closed!" I declare, turning my head to the opposite side of me, away from her.

"…" Zelda lets out a bit of a troubled squeak as she exits the room.

Silence fills the room again… Actually, I prefer silence over this, but I'm weird…so…

Whatever…Again…

Am I supposed to sit her now and contemplate her wise words, realizing the error of my ways…?

I can't do that…

Everything I used to be is gone now…All there is now is who I am right now…

The Hero of Time is only a myth now…Maybe it always was a myth…And I was just the foolish kook parading Hyrule like I was this fabled hero…

It makes sense in my mind now…

Was I lied to? A broken person like me shouldn't have the title "hero". Psychopath maybe, but not hero…

You know, I know how to use a sword, so why didn't I kill myself?

Jeez…I'm a moron, I really am…

I shake my head… And slowly fall down into a horizontal position as sleep begins catch up with me…

And it finally does…

The air is dry… Time has seemed to have stopped completely…

Did I just do that?

And did it feel good?

I drop my sword as I stare at the blood on the ground… I'm in shock…I didn't just do that…Heroes don't do that kind of thing…They stop people who do this…

I guess whoever said that was wrong because I just did that… I slowly lean against the tree behind me, and sink to the ground… I propped my arms on my knees and stare blankly at my bloodstained hands… The blood drops to the ground in little droplets, making "plop" noises when they hit the grass…

I don't feel bad…I don't have a sudden wave of guilt…I don't hold any regret about it at all…It was as if I lost my mind for just a few minutes and went crazy…

I lost control…

And it felt nice… Sort of… Now, I was just confused… Not like this was something I did on a daily basis, like a hobby or something…

Saving the world was my hobby…

And apparently, I had found a new one…

I just sit a look of nothingness on my face… I turn both ways…No one is coming… It's just silent… No animals making noises… Just nothing…

Fit the moment, I guess…

But it felt weird…In a good way…

Damn, what the hell is wrong with me?

Something new…and strange…And maybe good… Who knows?

I open my eyes… I remember that moment…

A weird feeling… Not good, but not bad either… It was an in-between feeling and I wondered if I would ever feel it again…

It was then that the Hero of Time died completely… I jumped off the deep end with feet tied…

And I don't regret it…

That is why Zelda's words will do little to help me come to regret it…And I won't come to realization by her words…No…

Last time I checked, realization and resurrection weren't the same thing…

A/n: There you have it… Am I leaving you on the edge of your seats with what happened?

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