Hello, beautiful readers. I'm back with another chapter. I warn to all of you, it's a dark chapter. And not your normal dark chapter, it's a REALLY dark chapter. Love you, and good luck.

Chapter 4: Loneliness

It seemed to be a downward spiral for Zelda since Samus had left. Who could she share with all those great times? Who'd scold her for her actions? Who would be there when she wanted to have fun? Nobody. She was alone, completely alone. That night, Zelda couldn't sleep. That feeling of an empty room bothered her. Her mind tortured her.

"Loneliness is the only thing I know now. I don't see myself in a future without my family. Why be here when my family is gone? Why not just… go?"

Zelda thoughts didn't leave her until late at night and when she fell asleep, everything she thought would come up in her mind.

It's dark. Why am I alone in this dark space? It's like a black hole, I can't get out.

"Zelda!"

"Sam? SAM! Is that you! Answer me!"

"Zelda!"

"Don't just say my name! Come here sis!"

I'll run. If the only thing I can hear is her voice and I don't see her, I'll just look for her.

"What's this? Samus Aran! Come here right now and help me!"

What's this I'm hitting? Is this… glass? How is it possible?

"Sam! Get me out of this dark glass room!"

Samus is waving at me.

"Hi Zelly!"

"Sam! Get me out of here! This seems to be a glass room or something. Look!"

I hit the glass, but she doesn't move. Why is she standing there? Why don't you come and help me sis?

"Zelda! Come play with me Zelda!"

Then a black shadow that figures a hand comes. What are you doing to my sister?

"Zelda! Come help me! Don't let the hand take me away! Zelda! Zelda!"

"Samus, I'll help you! Resist sis!"

I hit the glass wall, once. It doesn't budge. I hit it again; it makes a crack. I move a couple of steps back, and with all my strength run towards the glass wall. It brakes.

"Don't worry Sam-"

The floor cracks. Everything brakes.

"Sam, help me get up there with you! SAM!"

"Zelda, don't go!"

"Samus don't leave me please!" She screams loudly. Maria and Helen come in the room, horrified.

"Zelda! Wake up!" Maria shook her violently while Helen watched from afar, terrified.

"Samus don't go! Don't let me fall!"

"ZELDA!" Her eyes burst open. Seconds later her eyes filled with tears. She started crying loudly and embraced Maria tightly.

"She's gone Maria…" She trailed off. Maria held her close and Helen quickly approached her to embrace Zelda as well.

"It's okay Zelda, it's okay dear…"

"No it's not Maria… she's gone…"

"Zelda, go to sleep now. It's late. Try thinking in something else, okay?"

"I can't Helen… it invades my mind…"

"Try Zelda, you can do it." Helen said as Zelda's cries turned to sob's. Zelda nodded lightly.

"That's the girl we know." Helen said as she and Maria hugged Zelda for one last time before leaving the room. For a couple of minutes, Zelda stood still, staring into the abyss. Snow was asleep. Everyone was. Then her imagination fooled her.

"Oh Zelda…"

"Wha-What was that?"

"She's gone Zelda… gone… forever…"

"No she isn't! She'll come visit me… I know it."

"Of course she won't. Can't you see it? Samus left with a happy family. She forgot you. You'll never have your precious family. Ever… again."

"Liar! She's my sister! She'll never forget me!"

"Why would she want to contact you? You're irrelevant. She has a brother who is much more important than you… you are an orphan. You have no importance."

"Stop! Leave me alone!"

"Oh, can't stand the truth? Loneliness is invading you Zelda White…"

"Go away!" Zelda hid under her covers and covered her ears while she silently cried herself to sleep.

"She won't forget me… I'm her sister… She'll never forget me…" She repeated over and over until sleep won her.

The next morning Zelda refused to eat breakfast with the rest. She would spend most of her day on the living room couch, thinking or in her dormitory, crying. She wouldn't smile. She wouldn't laugh. At times she would play for a while with Snow; but no use. This went on for a couple of months. She would do the same, every day. Helen and Maria started to get worried. Zelda's nightmares were getting constant. Sometimes, she would talk alone telling someone to be quiet.

"She is going to remember me! Stop it!" No one answered.

"That's what you've said for three months Zelda White… face it… she's gone. You aren't important anymore."

"Can't you leave me alone? She'll write me a card when she has the time!" Again no one answered.

"She's gone Zelda…"

"Stop!" Zelda shouted in her room. Quietly, Maria and Helen were spying her from the doorknob.

"Zelda hasn't been coping well with Samus' departure Helen… what are we going to do?"

"I'm afraid there isn't that much to do for her. She needs to accept her reality, which is Samus isn't here anymore."

"Do you mean like taking her to a psychologist?"

"Maria, we don't have enough money to pay her that. But we can try helping her out ourselves. Is it a deal?"

"I think it is Helen." Maria and Helen quietly opened the door to Zelda's dormitory, where Snow was taking a brief nap. Zelda stared profoundly into the window that revealed the Hyrulian prairies and the forest. She wore a mid-length white skirt so dirty that it could be confused with gray. She wore a white coat and a white shirt. She miraculously did her hair, but from the amount of time she laid crying in her bed, her hair was in knots.

"Zelda dear, can we come in?" Helen whispered.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear you come in." Zelda said, still looking at the window with the sunset reflecting on her pale white skin. Her voice was emotionless.

"Zelda, we've seen you haven't been coping well with Samus' departure and we just-"

"Oh, I see. You have been watching me from afar." She said, with a tear falling from her cheek.

"Yes. And we just wanted to see if we could help you." Helen answered. Maria stood beside her, silent. Her heart broke from seeing Zelda in such conditions.

"How would you help me?" Zelda said, turning around to them, with tears falling from her blue eyes. "There's no way to help me. I am alone; after all, I'm just an orphan."

"Zelda dear, don't say that!" Maria exclaimed.

"It's impossible to hide the truth from me Maria. Nobody can."

"Zelda, listen to us. Why don't you take a walk outside?"

"It won't help me; unless my prince wore to be there."

Helen and Maria worried even more about her. Who was this 'prince' she was talking about? She was going insane.

"You know what? Zelda, it's time you took a walk outside, you barely even get out of your room. Everybody is worried about you." Maria said, pushing Zelda all the way downstairs until she met with the wooden door that led outside.

"Not even the light strokes of the sun on me will help."

"Try Zelda, just try." Maria pushed gently Zelda until she was out the door. Zelda walked silently on the gravel road.

She walked slowly and peacefully, looking at her surroundings. Then a thought popped into her mind.

"If I found my prince when I was in the worst situation, I'm pretty sure he can help me now." Zelda said as she spoke to herself. She started running towards the woods. She ran with all the power she had in her, that bit of fate that told her that her prince was there. From the living room window stood Maria, staring at the girl that ran towards the woods with nothing stopping her. Then she remembered. Zelda had mentioned something about a prince. But that didn't concern her. She was losing her mind. She shook the thought off and went to do the household work with Helen.

Zelda ran; the only thing that she had in mind. Running. Running away from her problems, running towards something much better that would help her forget about the terrible life she lived. When she arrived at the deepest points of the woods, she sat on the grass and waited.

Five minutes passed. Nothing came.

Ten minutes passed. No one in sight.

Thirty minutes. She was losing her mind.

She got up and started walking around, waiting to hear those same musical tunes that came from his light blue ocarina. She heard the birds sing their songs, trees dancing in the wind but nothing came. Then when she thought she was lost, she heard it. The same musical notes, and then there she saw him. His smile, bright as always, his blonde hair lost in the wind and his green clothing moving in sync with his hair.

"What's the matter Zelda? You seem lost."

"I was looking for you. You helped me during Samus' departure, help me now."

"How can I help you beautiful?" He replied, making Zelda blush.

"My thoughts drown me, they keep telling me that Samus forgot me, that I'm just a useless orphan. And at rare times, they tell me to leave this world. To just… let go of it all." She said, with fresh tears falling from her damped cheeks on the grass. The prince kissed them away and held her hand.

"Don't cry beautiful." He said gently. "But, how could I help you? You are the one that controls your thoughts; you are the one that feels that way. Not your thoughts." He added. "Don't torture yourself, she will write to you. I promise. Promise me you'll smile. Can you keep that?" Zelda nodded and for the first times in months, she smiled genuinely. Her prince smiled back. Then noise was heard from the bushes. Out of nowhere appeared Maria and Helen, agitated.

"Zelda, you've been out for hours! It's nighttime! Where were you?" Helen exclaimed.

"With my prince." She said peacefully.

"Zelda, you've been out here alone for hours…"

"No, I've been out here with my prince."

"No… we heard you talking alone from a couple of meters back. You weren't with anyone Zelda." Maria trailed off. Zelda's eyes shot wide open. She quickly got up and stepped back.

"Liars! I was here with my prince!" Helen was shocked at her reaction.

"Zelda, nobody was here. There is no prince. Here, let's go home." Helen answered. Maria wrapped her arms around Zelda, and the women left the woods. Zelda was quiet while she walked, trying to process everything she had done.

"I imagined my prince to make me feel better? He felt so real… even though he wasn't real… everything was a product of my imagination… my tormented mind made this up… how could it be?"

When they arrived back to the orphanage, everyone was fast asleep, and Zelda made the least noise possible while walking back up to her dormitory. Snow slept peacefully on her bed. Zelda put on quietly her night gown; a white with violet one. She tied her hair with a white ribbon and sat on her desk, putting her legs close together. She watched the moon that ever shined so bright through her window. And then, she cried. She would not let her mouth make a noise, only let her tears damp her cheeks. Without her noticing, Snow came close to her and got on her lap.

"Snow, I hope Samus never forgets me. I hope she sends something soon." She hugged Snow tightly. She then went to bed, now without having a nightmare and had a peaceful night.

The next morning, she woke up to Snow jumping on her bed up and down. Zelda smiled.

"Good morning Snow! Why are you so happy huh?" She said laughing. Snow proceeded to jump off the bed and run downstairs. Zelda jolted up from her bed and ran downstairs after Snow.

"Snow! Get back here! Now!" She ordered, but Snow ignored her and ran towards the kitchen. There was Maria and Helen making breakfast.

"Good morning Zelda! Good to see you better than yesterday! Why so early?"

"Well, Snow woke me up early by jumping on my bed."

"I guess he told you first our surprise, right Maria?" Maria nodded happily.

"What…?"

"We went to the post office early today with Snow and we got a letter for you. It's from Samus!" Helen took it out from a small blue bag that was on the table and took out a white paper with a red wax seal holding it together, handing it to Zelda. Zelda started crying.

"Dear, aren't you happy you got a letter from Samus?" Maria asked.

"It's not that, I'm crying of happiness! Thank you!" Zelda hugged both women and ran upstairs, with Snow behind her. She read the small cursive on the front of the card:

Samus Aran Villager to Zelda White

Orphanage House of Hyrule

H7Q 4Y1

Zelda couldn't believe it. It was really a card from her sister! She opened the card, revealing an elegant cursive handwriting, it was from Samus.

Dear Sister,

To start it off, I must say I miss you very much! Things are not the same with you not being here beside me. Let me tell you, the Villager family is really nice! They live in a huge house, they have waiters everywhere! I have a huge room, much better than what I had at the orphanage! My parents have given me the love I've wanted since I was little. And have I told you about James Villager? He is such a nice little "brother"! He might have seemed quiet when we met him at the orphanage, but he is very playful and kind to me. I really wish you were here to enjoy everything I am enjoying. We would play all day. Each time we're eating dinner, I tell them our stories of how we climbed trees, played in the sand, and even how we met Snow! They told me that one day you could come over! Wouldn't it be great? We would play all day and you would meet everyone! The day I arrived, there was party in my honor. Turns out my parents are very important people. Anyways, I miss you sis. I hope to see you soon!

Yours Truly,

Samus Aran Villager aka your Sister.

Zelda took a deep breath, and let it all sink in. Samus wasn't here anymore. She had a family, and it was time to move on. Yes, she will always keep in contact with someone she truly adored, but it was time to move on with life. Then a little note fell out of the envelope.

Dear Zelda White,

We are so sorry to say you got this letter late. The letter was sent two months ago. As a way for us to say we are sorry, the next card you will send shall be free.

Hyrule Mail.

Zelda then quickly took out of a drawer a pen and paper, and started writing. She was excited. She now had a reason to be happy.

That wraps it up! Oh my, this chapter is really long! I tried to make it shorter but that really didn't work. Anyways, what did you think? Sad, but at the same time happy! And if you didn't get the "let go of it all part", well it was about suicide. Yeah… So favorite, review, follow! I love you all. And it's getting darker, so watch out. Xoxo,

Carmengirl.