The wind stung Links face as it whipped past, the brine seemed to be rushing up to greet him faster than he had anticipated

The wind stung Links face as it whipped past, the brine seemed to be rushing up to greet him faster than he had anticipated. He fumbled in his mind for the well of magic that was hidden there but couldn't find it.

"LINK, DO SOMETHING!!" Navi shouted, hanging on to the pommel of the Master Sword as the wind had swept his hat off and nearly her with it. Link finally found the small spark he needed and he began to slow his descent but he could already tell that it wasn't going to be enough. He braced himself as he collided with the sea's glassy surface.

All the air was immediately forced from his lungs and he gasped to refill them, getting instead a mouthful of salty water, the water he had fallen into was quite shallow but he was relatively sure he was alive although he was in too much pain to move, he floated to the surface a process that seemed to take an eternity. As his head finally broke the water he coughed spitting out most of the water he'd swallowed along with a good portion of his breakfast, Navi flitted down to him and alighted on his chest.

"Are you alright?" she asked frantically. Link groaned in response. "I guess that's a 'no'." she said, sitting cross-legged on his collar which was probably broken but Link was in too much shock to feel much of anything now, he merely floated on the sea letting the waves carry him farther out. As he floated he saw the gleaming hilt of Lucas's sword as it descended down to the ocean's crushing depths, he struggled to move his arm but he managed to grasp the buckle of its belt.

Just as he thought he would pass out from the pain his head bumped against something hard and before he knew it hands of varying sizes though none larger than a child were pulling him onto a dingy carved into the shape of a swan. A rather large fairy that Link thought might have nearly reached his waist had he been standing loomed over him.

"Sleep now, you're among friends." He said in a surprisingly deep but rich voice. Link's vision faded to darkness and he saw his final vision of Zelda, panicked with tears shining in the dawn.

Don't worry Zelda, I'm going to return,

I'm going to return and make all this right.

Zelda returned to her chambers, she hadn't spoken, she hadn't formed a single thought since Link's death, she was numb. Her eyes happened to alight on the small wooden box Link had given her for the Trinity festival; she opened the lid gingerly to reveal an exquisitely crafted ring, had he been there when she had opened it she would have probably kissed him then and there but in her current state she just set it aside, she would process it later. Also inside the box was a rolled note:

Zelda,

There is no gift in Hyrule that would explain how I feel about you, I have never met a woman who could make me feel more afraid, more awestruck, more unimportant and less sure of anything than you. I'm lost when you're not by my side and even more so when you are, I fell like I'm falling apart but I've never been more sure of any path I've ever set upon than the one I am about to take…

I love you Zelda…

And if you'll give me the chance I'll spend the rest of my life……

Zelda could read no more for the tears blurring her vision, the letter slid out of her hands.

"Link," she whispered to an empty room, "I would've said yes."

Well that's that, the end of Part One for those of you who liked the action of my last story but read this anyway, I thank you and I promise the next one will be much more action packed. For those of you that like happy stories, Sorry, you may want to wait until part three, (spoiler alert...retroactively) that being said I hope you do read the next part as it will be the bulk of the story so seeya in part two! (PS i promise part two won't bum you out too much.)