Sorceress: (Sobbing)

Dark Link: There, there. It'll be all right…I think.

Link: Error Code 35 would have been a great story if they hadn't infected most of the good Brawl characters. And they started with me.

Dark Link: Sorceress doesn't own Zelda or Error Code 35.

Azelynn woke up in a small, dim, musty cell, similar to the one she'd thrown Link in. Only, she didn't stay there long. Moblins entered, and unchained her as easily as if the chains had been mere twigs. As much as she would have loved to make a break for it, she deduced that the risk of being crushed by one of their clubs was too great. So she forced herself to remain still as the Moblins picked her up and carried her through the corridor. Instead, she focused on figuring out where in Din's name she was.

It was infested with Fire Keese, she knew that. Two Beemos guarded the entrance to the main chamber, which was carpeted in red and blue.

Then it hit her. She was in Ganondorf's castle.

She hadn't seen Ganondorf since she had received the wound her necklace now covered.

She raised her hand to find comfort in her necklace, only to find that it wasn't there. All she could feel was the welt where she'd been hit seventeen-and-a-half year ago.

The King of Evil had confiscated the only thing she had left.

No. She had Link. Link, the only person whom she really trusted, the only one who surpassed Naboroo in kindness.

Unless the witches had killed him. Tears came to Azelynn's eyes when she thought of it. If he was dead, it was her fault, her fault! There were so many things she wanted to tell him, so many things she wanted to say, like the fact that she actually really, really, liked-

"Azelynn." She looked up, straight into Ganondorf's face.

o~0o0~o

Link flinched as something was dropped roughly into his cell. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a bowl of some sort of chowder. Despite having gone three day without food, Link found that his appetite had ran off screaming. He ate anyway, only to find that terror and the process of digestion hated each other, and what was once chowder was now chowder with bile in it. Right back in the bowl it came in.

After dry heaving for a bit, he straightened up and shook his head to clear it. Azelynn's been captured, and it's all my fault. If I hadn't made friends with her, she wouldn't have had to go through this. Sweet mother of Nayru, how could I have been so stupid? Now I'll never have a chance to tell her that I love- His train of thoughts was interrupted with that word. Love. He was surprised that he was still capable of the emotion. He'd had his heart broken once, when he'd realized that he and Saria could never be. It had caused him almost unendurable pain, but it was nothing, nothing compared to this. Just as his heart had begun to reseal itself, it had shattered into a thousand pieces, and blood was still oozing out of the cracks.

With this thought, Link curled up into a ball and cried.

o~o0o~o

Azelynn struggled futilely against the invisible force holding her down. Ganondorf smiled coldly down at her as he raised a hand and brought it down forcefully.

Azelynn cried out in pain as a gash appeared on her left arm. Ganondorf repeated the motion, and the twin of the injury on Azelynn's left arm was inflicted upon her right. A pool of crimson was forming under her. She was going to die here, right on the cold stone floor. In her dying delirium, she whispered the name of the person she wanted to be thinking of when the end came. "Link…"

A blinding white flash and a blur of blue and white. All of a sudden she was being held up by strong arms. Another flash of white, and the circular stone room was fading, and black dots were forming at the edges of her vision. The last sound she heard before she completely lost consciousness was Ganondorf's shout of fury. Then all was black.

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Link's last few sobs dissipated as a crack sounded very nearby. He looked towards the noise and found Sheik supporting a very pale Azelynn. The Sheikah set her down gently before stepping back and saying, "Fear is but an illusion, while love is as real as time. It finds everyone eventually, and you must embrace it joyfully. I will see you again…" With that, he (or she?) stepped back and with the characteristic Deku Nut flash, Sheik disappeared.

Link then turned his attention to Azelynn. She had lost a lot of blood already, and it showed no sign of stopping. In his terror, he did the only thing he could.

"Navi! I need you!" The light blue fairy flew out of his hat with a cross expression on her face.

"Oh, now you want me? I'm amazed."

"Navi, shut up and heal her, right now!" Link had never given an order so sternly, indeed, never given an order at all.

"Why should I?"

This was too much for Link, and instantly Navi was in his grip, his face centimeters from hers. His face was contorted in a scowl she had never seen on a human face, let alone Link's. When he spoke, it was in a dangerous whisper. "Navi, I am your companion, and if you to want to be alive in two seconds, I suggest you listen." With that, he released her, scowl still imprinted on his face. Under his glare, Navi relented and spun in tight, dizzying circles around Azelynn. Color flooded back into her face, and her gashes began to close and disappear.

The terrifying expression on Links face fled, to be replaced by one of complete gratitude, which faded to be filled in by one of utter shame.

"Thanks, Navi…I'm sorry I yelled at you…I was just worried."

"It's okay. I would do the same in your place. And I really shouldn't have been so cross. It's not your fault that you're blindly and passionately in love."

"Where did love come into this?'

"Come on, fairy boy. It's completely obvious."

"Yeah, and I've never seen you ogling Mido's fairy."

"But Firen is cute…"

The two's gentle teasing brought Azelynn back to her senses. She raised her head and found her necklace, clenched in her fist.

Sorceress: Well, second-to-last chapter.

Link: You know it.

Dark Link: Oh yeah! I forgot something! Sorceress wants LinkLuver3 to know that she can use our Author's Notes, but she has to give due credit to their creator.

Sorceress: Yep. Well folks, you know what you gotta do.

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