The Lost Legend

Part VI – A Plan Ruined

The dragon's fire red eyes were burning with fury. Link looked at him in utter believe. The dragon was mad and he was as well. The dragon was smashing he's feet on the ground making huge holes in the ground. Link's eyes lay glued to the dragons. He couldn't believe it. He's whole planned had been ruined. Zelda would know now that he didn't really kill the dragon and that he had lied to her. She would most likely call of the wedding.

She would break up with him! She would never talk to him again! No! No! Link could never leave without her. He loved her. He had spent a year with this beautiful woman, putting up with the woman thought good and the bad. And for a perfect relationship with her to just shatter in a second in front of his eyes, hurt more than a dagger being stabbed in his heart.

Link's eye where full of tears. He knew he shouldn't of ever have been forced into this whole lie to get a hold of the triangle. He shouldn't have ever let the shady man control himself. He's life was going to go downhill and it was his entire fault. He had no point to live anymore. He knew he would lose the love of his love and lose the respect from everyone in town. He looked over to the dragon to see now that a few knights were successful killing the dragon. If only he could've killed the dragon then all of this would have never happened.

Link was thinking "how?" How he could've ever lie to her. He knew that a month or so ago he would rather die than betray their trust. Then why did he? Did the relationship somehow go downhill? No, it couldn't have. Maybe it fell apart whilst being invisible? But as Link continued to think possibilities, more ideas came to his mind. Maybe it was him and that, that made him do it.

He was always there. Egging him on. Telling him it would help him. Saying it would make him stronger. He was always hiding but could always be seen. Link was afraid of him... no he wasn't. He made himself afraid of him to hide the fact that greed was over coming him. Greed made him a gambler. A gambler that risked the thing he loved the most to get another luxury. He was looking at the dragon whilst he thought. It was helping him think. It was helping his emotions get out. Helping him find out what was what.

He's keen focus on the dragon was broken by the sound of a horse neighing. It came closer to him; he could hear its movements coming towards him. The horse approached him. He couldn't see the rider as it was too dark. The horse stopped a few metres in front him. The man on the horse began talking...

"Quickly, get on the horse..." he said before a long pause of silence began.

Link thought for awhile. The man or woman was anonymous. He didn't know who they were. They might be a sweet loving person, or a mass murderer who wanted to take Link to their house to slice him up. But for Link he knew you had to keep on gambling. You couldn't pull out once you had lost.

He mounted himself onto the horse and the horse began riding off. He gave a smile as they began riding off: it was a short one; it was one that didn't last long. As the horse stopped at its destination 

– the tall castle of Hyrule, he held a nervous pause. The two got off the horse and began walking towards Hyrule Castle.

The castle was deadlocked. The dark man pulled out an item from his bag that they both were familiar with. It was a clawshot. They went to the back of the castle. There were dead vines there that slowly climbed up the castle, and dead flowers that hanged over the dusty dirt. It was like a graveyard, because it gave that haunting and eerie look, but its dark colours made it a place that in a strange way you had to look at. As he stopped noting tiny textures on the ground he looked up to see the anonymous man lung the legendary item upwards. It hooked onto the windows ledge. He commanded Link to climb up it. Link looked up at the long rope that seemed to be a never ending route towards the window.

When his hands gripped onto the rope he began to gradually make his way up the rope towards the window, he wondered why he was doing this. He had no need to do it. He had no one threatening him to do it. He had no emotions left, he had lost everything. He couldn't think straight. As he's hand began to struggle to climb higher up, he wondered whether or not to just let go. He had no reason to live. No one would care of what became of him.

Rain began pouring of the man. The cold rain drops fell on him like stones. They were hard, and had a lot of force. The man's arms were tired; he could now feel the pain of the climb. He would've given up, had it not been for a hand that reached out to help him. He grabbed onto it and the hand slowly began to pull him up. The person's hands were wet; they couldn't have been from the rain as the person had been inside. Link speculated they were wet because the person had been crying. The person had cried onto their hands, and there tears had made their hands very slippery.

The person was pulling with all their might. Once Link had made it inside the house he took a deep breath. After a few breathes he removed his gloves to see that they his hands were covered in blisters. His eyes turned around to look out the window; he saw the man who had told him to get up to the castle was now beginning to climb up the rope. The owner of this tower, Zelda was her name (the man didn't even want to remember her) had not yet seen the other man. She was now prowling along the room, in a spy like manner.

Link new the woman was Zelda. Even though she was wearing a dark black cloak that only let her warm brown eyes be seen. The woman adjusted her hood, making it hide more of her face. She wanted to stay anonymous even though she knew the man knew a lot of stuff about her. Once the large bolt of lightning ended she turned towards the man. As she approached him she pulled of her hood and revealed her identity.

Link was right – it was queen Zelda. Before when she was hidden behind her hood he assumed it was Zelda. The only reason he didn't believe it was her was because he was surprised. He was surprised at her kind deed. He was surprised the girl still had another kindness to spare his life after what she had just learnt. A part of Link felt warm inside, knowing the girl still loved him made him feel so much better. All his bitterness that came from his thought of Zelda leaving just like that vanished. He knew now she wasn't as bitter with him as he expected.

"Hello," she said in a cold soft voice. "I didn't expect you to visit me so soon... And I was hoping you didn't."



"Look Zelda, I'm sorry. I got bullied into it. I'm not saying it isn't completely my fault but I really am angry at what I did." Link really felt there was one chance to redeem himself. This was it. He would plead for as long as he could for her forgiveness.

"You say you're sorry but I don't know if I can trust you Link. If you marry me, you'll become the king and that's a huge responsibility to hold."

"I promise I'll never lie to you again," he begged hard for her forgiveness. "I really think you and I are meant to be."

Zelda gave a sympathetic look. The queen had problems with being to compassionate. She would forgive people to easy. But she knew this time she would have to hold strong.

"I'm sorry Link but it's over..."

Author's Notes: Sorry life's been in the way. I promise the next chapter will come out quicker.