Chapter 3

Link awoke early the next morning, still pondering the dream he had.

"Four more suicides accrued last night, plus one attempted suicide. We'll have more at 10:00," the radio announcer said.

"More suicides… that's just great…" Link said, still thinking. "I'm really starting to think that these dreams are not just dreams, but messages. Warning me. Something bad… really bad, is going down," Link said to himself. "So… if these dreams are messages, I might be able to prevent certain deaths from happening… and if that last one I had was true, as well, then that means that all of this is really happening from a curse… but what curse?"

"Link…" came a voice from outside his door.

"Huh? Zelda?" he called back.

"Yes. It's me," came the voice, sounding tired and distraught.

"Come in," Link told her.

The door opened, slowly, and Zelda came walking in, nearly tripping.

"What happened to you?!" Link asked her, "why are you all pale?"

"Link… I've been having thoughts… terrible thoughts," she responded.

"Thoughts? Uh… what kind of thoughts?" he asked.

"Thoughts of… death…" she said, breaking into tears.

"Death?! What do you mean?" he asked, again.

"I think I want to die…" she whispered.

"DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!" he shouted, slapping her.

"Ow… why did you do that?" she asked, looking at Link, all teary eyed.

"Listen to me! Don't you even THINK about killing yourself," he said.

"Why not? I feel… all miserable. Yet, I don't know why…"

"The last thing I need is for one of my friend's to kill themselves! Saria already attempted to kill herself. I'm not going to let the same thing happen to you!" Link said, sternly.

Zelda just stared at him.

"Promise me! Promise me that you won't kill yourself!" he shouted.

"But…"

"PROMISE!"

"I… promise…" she said, slowly leaving the room, and shutting the door behind her.

"I'd better follow her, to make sure she really doesn't try anything stupid," he said, as he tried to open his door. "What the? Hey! Why won't the door open!?" he yelled, trying to make it budge.

"Sorry, Link, but I cannot let you stop me from crossing over," Zelda responded, from the other side of the door. "That's why I cannot let you out. The door is pad locked from this side. By the time you escape, I will be gone. I'm sorry, Link," she said, with tears trickling down her face.

"Zelda! Don't do this! This is crazy!" he said.

"Good-bye," she said, as she turned her back, heading back towards Hyrule Castle.

"No!" he shouted, trying everything he could to bust the door down. "Someone! Help! Let me out of here!" he shouted, as loud as possible. Suddenly, he turned to his sword. "I must cut the door down, then…" he said, grabbing it, and slicing at the door with all of his might. "Damn… it… break, you god damn door." he commanded, hoping that it would make the process move faster. It didn't.

Each swing of his sword seemed like it would be the last, until finally, he did reach the last, and the door came crumbling down.

"Zelda!?" Link shouted, knowing that she must be long gone, by now. "Wait… let me think for a second… Zelda killed herself in my dream, by hanging herself in the throne room of Hyrule Castle. That must be where she's going!" Link realized, running towards Hyrule Castle.

Finally, Link reached the huge doors of Hyrule Castle.

"I hate these things… they're so hard to open…" he said to himself, as he started pushing on the door. They slowly started to open, just as Link saw Zelda standing on a chair in the middle of the room, holding the noose of a rope. She slowly put the noose around her neck. "No! Wait!" he shouted, running as fast as he could.

"Good-bye, Link," Zelda said, blowing one final kiss to him, before kicking the chair out from underneath her. Her neck could be heard, snapping, through the entire throne room.

"ZELDA!!!" Link shouted, starting to feel the tears streaming from his eyes. "No… I'm too late. Zelda's… dead."