A young Kat found herself once again in Hyrule, but this time standing before a closed drawbridge to the castle with a blond boy wearing a green tunic and hat. She was no longer wearing her pajamas, but had a tunic herself, a bright turquoise, her favorite color.
"Link, I feel like something is very wrong." Kat found herself saying before she felt it. A sudden feeling of dread washed over her and she knew something was going to happen.
"Kat! Get out of the way!" Link grabbed her hand and pulled her from in front of the moat just as the drawbridge lowered and Kat heard the pounding of hooves. A beautiful, decorated, white horse appeared, its hooves echoed as it galloped across the bridge. Sitting astride was Zelda's guardian, Impa, and in front of her was Zelda. Zelda looked frightened as she looked back at Link, then threw something blue over her shoulder, where it landed in the moat. When Kat looked back to Zelda, she had disappeared from sight over a hill.
A moment later, they heard yelling and the sound of another horse. A huge black horse emerged covered in dark armor as if going to war. Upon the horse was an equally intimidating man, dressed all in black with bright red hair.
"Damn! Where did they go?!" The man shook his fist in anger, but then he noticed Link and Kat standing nearby. "Hey! Boy, did you see a horse go by?"
Link glared at the man. He let go of Kat's hand and pulled his sword from its scabbard. "No! Link!" Kat called to him, but was afraid to follow as he stood in front of the man, ignoring her pleas.
The man grinned and charged with his horse.
"Link!" Kat woke up, gasping. "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind was coming from her cell phone. Quickly turning off the alarm, she thought about her dream. Link doesn't die, she reassured herself. It would have ruined the whole game. Besides he's only a character in a game. Despite that she still felt very close to him after her dream, especially when he held her hand like a big brother ready to protect her and she couldn't stop thinking about him throughout the school day.
"Kat! Yo, earth to Kat!" Raina waved her hand in front of Kat's face and Kat jumped.
"Oh, Raina, sorry I'm a little bit out of it today." She picked up her pen and stared at the blank page in front of her. Whenever she tried to think about the poem she was supposed to be writing her mind kept wandering off. Link's determined expression as the huge black horse charged him kept replaying.
"A little out of it. You're out of focus, jumpy, and completely clueless. Not just a little out of it." Raina grinned. "So spill." Raina then turned serious. "Was it another dream about Link?"
"..Yeah, but it was different this time. Remember the scene with Ganondorf chasing Zelda and Impa..?"
"Yeah and then she throws the ocarina into the moat for Link..."
"Well…" Kat proceeded to tell Raina about the rest of the dream and how she fit in.
"Man that's so weird. I wonder why you're having these dreams."
"I don't know…but they feel almost…like…memories, yet I'm having trouble remembering. Oh well, forget it. Help me with this poem. What are we supposed to be writing about again?" Raina opened her mouth as if she was going to say something else, but then looked at Kat's empty paper.
"We're supposed to copy the format of one of the romantic poems we just read. Same amount of lines and words, but it also needs the elements, you know man and nature?" Raina showed her own, already completed poem, talking about wolves.
"Oh right." Still slightly focused on the dream from the night before and her love of horses, Kat quickly wrote a poem, barely finishing before the bell, signaling the end of school.
Freedom
Like a midnight sky,
Galloping hooves echo as he runs,
The stallion holds his head high,
He knows he is beautiful.
No bridle adorns his head,
No saddle weighs upon his back,
No fences to hold him in,
Nothing to stop him.
He hesitates, stopping his mad dash,
A human, a man with a rope,
The man speaks softly,
Attempting to draw him near.
The stallion rears and trumpets,
He knows better than to come,
Off he goes, running anew,
Without freedom, he could not live.
At least she only went to school half the day as a senior, but she could barely drive home and when she got home she fell upon her bed, exhausted. She felt like she hadn't slept the night before at all. Today was her day off so she had the afternoon to herself, until dinner time. I'll just take a little nap before dinner, she thought. Ten minutes later she drifted off, wondering if she would dream again of Hyrule.
DaringFlame: Woohoo, new chapter for this story that I haven't worked on in months. I feel proud, especially when chapter 3 is almost done, just needs a little editing, then I'll post it. I like foreshadowing and this chapter has a lot of it. I know the dialogue or the scene isn't really with the game.(I really haven't played the game in years) But thats just to emphasize my point that Kat hasn't played in a long time so she won't be a know-it-all. And well since she is an addition to the story that would mean that things wouldn't be the same anyway. I haven't totally decided how I'm going to do the temples, so any suggestions would be great.