Hello my fellow readers! How ya doin'? Ready? Well, here we go! I warn you, it's a very sad chapter. I know what I'm telling you. Good luck!
Chapter 3: Separation and a New Beginning
The next morning, the sun shined with all it's might on "The House of Hyrule". Zelda woke up to see Snow cuddled right beside her in the bed. She turned around to see Samus snoring serenely on the bed beside her.
"What would I do without her, she's like my sister. She's… my family."
Zelda quickly interrupted her thoughts by getting out of bed and grabbing her pillow. Then she hit Samus' head with it and sat on Samus' stomach. Samus yelped for air and wrestled Zelda off her stomach. Seconds later, both girls were wrestling on the bed, hitting one another with pillows until both girls fell and started laughing. Then Helen came in.
"Well good morning girls! Come down there's waffles! Plus, we've got an announcement to make!" She said with a smile on her face. Both girls looked at each other and bounced rapidly out of bed. Zelda grabbed Snow in her arms and they went together downstairs, only to be awaited by the rest who were waiting for their waffles to be served; Maria had in one hand a plate full of waffles and the other with a jar of milk.
"Helen, what do you give a fox to eat?" Zelda asked.
"It's a baby, so we'll give it warm milk in a baby bottle." Maria gave the bottle to Snow so that it could eat while the rest ate waffles.
After everybody had breakfast Helen and Maria sat everybody in the living room. Helen cleared her throat loudly so everybody could hear.
"We have an announcement to make. We're receiving people eager to adopt you." She said. "And we need everybody to wear their best clothes, okay? Now go! We'll be receiving them in a couple of hours!" Maria exclaimed.
Samus and Zelda nodded and left for their room. Maria and Helen had already placed them fancy gowns on their beds. Zelda wore a pink dress with dark blue edges and braided her hair. Samus wore a white dress with black edges and put her hair up in a ponytail. Both girls wore black shiny shoes.
"Ugh! I HATE braiding my hair! And these shoes! I hope I can take them off soon!" Zelda shouted.
"Why?" Samus asked. "It suits you well." Zelda smiled to the compliment. Then Maria came into the room.
"They're here!" She shouted. Everybody came out of their rooms and went to the living room. The couple had a boy with them, around thirteen years old with a red shirt and blue overalls.
"Everybody, I'd like to present to you Mr. and Mrs. Villager and their boy James Villager." Everybody waved and the timid boy waved back. Suddenly Zelda smirked. She had an idea. Why get adopted? She and Samus could live on forever here and be together forever. She turned towards Samus, and whispered.
"Sam, this boy seems to be prankable-"
"Zelda, you're NOT going to prank the boy we just met."
"You and I know we wouldn't like to get adopted, and not getting adopted is doing a prank. You up?"
"No! I don't want to get adopted, but you do the prank if you want." Zelda nodded happily.
"Children! Go all to your rooms, we're going to show the Villagers where you live. Go on now!" Helen said. Everybody excused themselves and ran off. Zelda and Samus ran to their room where Snow awaited them anxiously.
"Okay, this is the plan. I'll do something simple. I'm going to fill this bucket with cold water and when they enter the room to interrogate, the bucket will fall on top of the family!"
"Zelda, you're so going to regret this, you know that right?" Zelda laughed off Samus' question and took out the bucket from under her bed.
"Why do you have a bucket under your bed?"
"You never know when this will come in handy for pranks." Samus lifted her eyebrow while she watched Zelda fill the bucket with cold water.
"Perfect!" Zelda exclaimed. Samus face palmed and stared at her brown haired friend. Then Helen and Maria came in the room with the couple and the young boy. Zelda hid the bucket under the bed hastily.
"Girls, we're showing the rooms you sleep in. Present yourselves." Helen stated.
"Hi, I'm Zelda White, I'm twelve years old."
"And I'm Samus Aran. I'm twelve years old as well." The couple nodded.
"I'm John Villager, and this is my wife Anne, and my son James." Zelda grinned while Samus smiled. "We're looking for someone who is nice, and accepts care from others. And if the person can get along with our son, it's fine with us." Zelda yawned in boredom while Samus still smiled. Then they spotted Snow.
"Oh, what is it?" Anne asked.
"It's my pet fox, Snow."
"Does it bite, Zelda?"
"Not at all ma'am." The couple pet the baby fox which happily licked their digits and played for a couple of seconds with James, until they left the room. Zelda grunted and took out the bucket full of very cold water. She took out a book so that she could put the bucket on the door and tied the bucket to the rope to place it on the ceiling. Just when she was about to get out of her room and put up the prank, Maria called everyone back in the living room. When everyone was in the living room, the couple joined with Helen behind.
"The family has decided they want to ask a couple of questions to our little girl Samus Aran!"
The room was silent and everyone turned to Zelda and Samus, who were together. Samus turned at Zelda who was pale and had her mouth wide open, with tears in her eyes. Samus patted her shoulder.
"It's going to be ok Zel, I'll be right back." She whispered. Zelda shut her mouth and nodded, still with tears in her eyes.
"O-okay." She managed to say. Then Samus left towards the couple which received her happily. They left into a small room where they would interrogate her and decide if they would take her home or not. Zelda hoped they wouldn't. Maria told everyone off to their dormitory's, and saw Zelda. Before she could approach Zelda to express her concern, Zelda stomped away to her room, crying.
"Stupid family. Why are you taking MY family away from me? She's my best friend, she's my sister! We've done everything together! Why now? Why when we promised to be best friends forever? Why!"
Zelda had close to her room a large tree. She got out of the window and climbed on a branch of the tree. She got off of the tree and ran away.
"Why should I stay here anyway? I won't see my family again. I'll find a tree to live in or something I'm sure." Just when she arrived to the woods, she went deeper in the woods until she fell on the floor, crying.
"Why my best friend? Why didn't you choose someone else, there's twenty-three of us! Why specifically her? WHY!" She cried out loudly. She screamed and cried for a couple of minutes until she heard something.
"Was that… music? It sounds so peaceful…" She said between sobs. She heard some twigs crack, until she saw a tall masculine figure.
"Whoa! Why is such a pretty girl here?" He asked. Zelda quickly got up, wiped off her tears and dress and stood up straight.
"What are you doing here?" She asked still between sobs. Fresh tears damped her flushed cheeks. He got closer to her.
"I was playing my Ocarina, until I heard some cries in the forest…" Zelda stared at the boy, he seemed a bit older than her, wore a green shirt, white pants, brown boots, brown belt, brown gloves and a green pointy hat. His hair was blonde and had blue eyes, so blue you could stare in them all day. In his hand he had a light blue Ocarina. "Say, what's your name young lady?"
"I'm Zelda White. By any instance are you a prince or something? Oh, and what's your name?"
"Zelda, what a beautiful name. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl." He said. "I'm not a prince, but you can call me that if you want!" He said along with a smile and a subtle laugh.
"Great, I don't know his name, but he's a prince."
"Well, now that you won't tell me your name and you're a prince-"He cut her off.
"Instead of just calling me 'Prince' why don't you call me 'My Prince'?" He said with a smirk. Zelda blushed and turned into a deep shade of red.
"Well 'My Prince'" She said doing quotation marks in the air, "How old are you?"
"I'm fourteen and you beautiful?" Zelda blushed again at the word.
"I'm twelve thanks for asking."
"And why is such a wonderful girl doing alone, crying in the woods?" And Zelda turned pale again and told him her story as they both sat down on a tree stump. Yes, it wasn't the best thing telling her story to a complete stranger who was fancying her in the middle of the woods, but it was someone who had a different opinion from others she knew.
"Who knows Zelda, you might see her again, don't you think?"
"But what if I don't?"
"Look, I know this might not be enough to comfort you at the moment, but I'm sure Samus will tell her new parents about you, and she'll come visit you every time she can. Okay?" Zelda nodded as new tears fell from her blue eyes. "Now don't cry beauty, who knows? What if she doesn't get adopted?" Zelda stopped for a bit and nodded. It was getting dark. How did she spend the whole day crying along with 'her prince' in the middle of the woods?
"Look, um… prince-"
"My prince, please."
"Okay 'My Prince', I should get going. I want to see what's up with Samus." The prince got close to her and grabbed with one hand her cheek and with another wrapped his hand around hers.
"I hope to see you soon, Zelda." She quickly blushed unwrapping her hand and took his hand off her cheek.
"I hope I see you too, My Prince." She bowed and ran off.
"What a dashing man. Who knew I would meet someone like him in the woods? Well, he saved me from my sudden depression. He is My Prince after all." She thought with a smile on her face. When she arrived home, she climbed the tree and entered the room. She knew her happiness wouldn't last forever, but for now she was in heaven. She had to see him soon. She left her room and went downstairs along with the rest. She sat on the gray worn out sofa of the living room and processed everything she had done, until Helen came into the room full of kids.
"They're taking Samus!" Everything the prince had just said vanished from her mind. She felt like just at the beginning: Sad, destructed.
"What? You can't! Not in a million years you'll take my family away from me! My sister! My friend! Never!"
Samus came out of the room along with the couple and James. Samus seemed nervous, while the family had a smile on their faces. Samus' eyes scanned the room looking for Zelda, who was crying again. Samus quickly saddened.
"Now, Samus dear go say goodbye to all of your friends and go pack up your stuff sweetie, okay? Anne said. Samus faked a smile and went towards her room, with Zelda behind her. When they entered the room, Zelda kept quiet. She sat down on her bed, with Snow peeking at Samus' luggage. Samus was deeply saddened to see her best friend this way.
"Don't go Sam." She cried.
"I have no choice, they want me. Don't worry! I'll write you letters every time I have the chance. Okay?"
"But you're my sister Sam. Don't go. I don't want to be alone." Samus ran up to Zelda and hugged her tight. Seconds later, both girls were crying. Then Maria called Samus, and both girls went downstairs. Samus took a quick tour of her home, the home that saved her from that cold winter blizzard when she was just one month old. Samus picked up her brown luggage from the floor and went out the door. There she saw the Villagers' car, a nice red Corvette. They had already said goodbye to everyone and were waiting for her to say goodbye to everyone. Samus put her brown suitcase in the trunk and went towards all the kids, Zelda, Maria and Helen who were going to see them part. She said goodbye to all twenty-one kids, deciding to leave Zelda until the end. When she approached Maria and Helen, she hugged both tight.
"Thank you. You took care of me and made me grow to what I am today. You saved me from the winter blizzard. Thank you. I'll never forget you." Maria and Helen hugged her again and started to tear up, letting a couple of tears spill on their flushed cheeks. Samus then stood in front of Zelda for a couple of seconds until. Both girls started to cry and pulled in for a hug.
"We'll be together forever, okay?" Samus said.
"Like the first day. I'll never forget you, Sam."
"And you won't. I'll visit if I can. Bye sis. Forever?" Samus held out her pinky to Zelda.
"Forever." She said wrapping her pinky in Samus' and pulled her for one last hug. Samus then turned around and got on the car with the happy family. They took off, all the family waving goodbye. Zelda waved goodbye, tears rushing down her face. And car left into the sunset, out of everyone's sight. Helen and Maria were crying. Zelda stood in the middle of the road, tears falling rapidly. Everyone went inside. Zelda stayed in the middle of the road, still crying.
"Bye, family."
That wraps it up guys! What do you think? Sad, huh? But on a better term, she met her prince! In the next chapter, we'll see what happens after Samus left and how this phases her. See you next time! Review, Follow or Favorite loves. Quick note: I warned this would be a dark story, and it's going to get darker moving on. Lots of love.
