~Kellie's POV~

"Something's coming!" I yelled.

"Shouldn't we retreat then?" Sam asked.

"Wait, what's coming?" Zelda asked, "I can't just stop a battle!" I grabbed my head and put my head to my knees. I kept getting flashes of dead bodies and monstrous creatures eating the corpses.

"We've got to stop it," I pleaded with Zelda, "We've got to get out of here! Everyone will die if we don't get out of here!"

"Sam?" Brazen asked concerningly. I turned to face her and gasped. Her normally lightly tanned skin turn sickly pale, and her eyes glowed a dark, poisonous purple.

"They're all gonna die!" Sam yelled, looking back at the Elfish City. Then, a huge explosion went off in the walls of the Elfish country, and black fire spread throughout their land, turning the beautiful emerald castle into a black torch. You could hear the people's innocent screams.

"Marleen!" a warrior cried somewhere nearby. Brazen immediately jumped on the man, his eyes filled with grief and sorrow.

"Stop it, you idiot! You go back there and you'll just die to!"

"My fiancée and baby are in there, now let me go!" Brazen froze, and Sam almost fainted. I finally understood who this man was.

It was one of Sam's older brothers.

The man ran towards the city, but just as he got just a few feet away, another explosion happened at the Hyrulian castle hundreds of miles away, but you could still see the black smoke engulfing the town. Zelda screamed and dropped to her knees, and Link just stood there, horrified. The realization hit me… there was nothing anyone could do. Anyone in those cities were dead.

This is what Leon was trying to tell us.

Johnny dropped to the ground and started sobbing

"My baby…" he mumbled. Sam ran to him, and hugged him,

"If Marleen is as strong as I think she is, she will be alright, Johnny." she said. Tears formed in my eyes, and I turned to Zelda and yelled,

"There must be something I can do! I controlled water one time, there must be someway I can stop the fire!"

"There's not enough water anywhere for this!" Zelda yelled, "There isn't any water around here anyway, you stupid girl!"

"Zelda, wait," Brazen said, "There is enough water."

"What?" Brazen jumped back on his horse and shouted.

"Stop the fighting! All water elves, attention now! Shoot all the water arrows you have at both cities now! Drop everything you're doing and do as I say!" The water elves followed his orders and shot the arrows into the sky, dispersing water on the Elfish City.

"Sam," I said, "try and put some of your magic in me so I can save the Hyrulian castle! I don't have enough magic in me anymore."

"You four!" Brazen yelled at four water elves, "Come help these two girls with the water magic over here!"

"Why on Earth would you help my people?" Zelda asked.

"A king without compassion is not a king at all. I will not stand here and let these people die, no matter what race they are." I can see a bright smile lurking on Sam's face, then the water elves came to our aid. They all put their hands on my shoulders and Sam grabbed my left hand. I put my right hand towards the Hyrulian City, praying that this would work. Then, after huge sounds in the sky, the four elves collapsed and Sam's hand trembled in mine. I started to feel sick, and my head started spinning.

"Just a little bit more, Kellie," Link said, "You can do it!"

In just that instant, a rain cloud covered the Hyrulian castle. Rain poured down, and it kept pouring on the castle until the black flames went out.

Sam and I collapsed on the field, trembling, panting, wheezing and coughing. Link ran to my side and Brazen ran to Sam. Brazen picked up Sam and carried her bridal style.

"Put me down!" she yelled.

"Quite you," he whispered, putting her on his horse. I coughed out a little more blood and it splattered onto the field. Link collected me into his arms and I sat on his lap as he cradled my face into his chest.

"Good job, Kellie. You did it! Rest up now, you need it." He kissed me lightly on the forehead and put me back on Epona. I grabbed his gloved hand and whispered,

"Please don't leave me."

"Wouldn't dream of it." he replied. Zelda and Brazen were on their horses and were consulting each other, a sleeping Sam in Brazen's arms, and the armies went back to there cities to try to stop the fire and attempt to find survivors. For the first time, I felt content holding the warriors hand. I always had been some tough guy… it was a nice feeling being protected. Could it possibly be that I was falling for him?

"Link," I whispered lightly, "would it be alright if I fell in love with you?" His face brightened up, but before he could reply, there was a maniacal laughter that rained through the field.

"Isn't that sweet?" a shadowy figure in the distance said sarcastically to us. Link gasped and the shadowy figure came into view and my mouth fell open. It was a shadowy version of Link, with devilish red eyes that sent cold chills down my spine.

"What are you?" I gasped.

"A hotter version of your boyfriend."

"Bullshit!" Link yelled.

"Sorry, Linky-poo, but your little cutie has to come with me."

"Like hell she is!" Link yelled as he pulled out his Mater Sword.

"Ah, yeah, about the whole heroic sword fighting crap.. Well, it just isn't working this time Linky. Victoria, do your magic!" A beautiful red elf glided down from a tree, and I heard Brazen instantly yell,

"Shit, everyone cover your ears!" It was too late by the time he said that. Victoria had pressed a silver flute to her lips and started playing a beautiful chime. I felt Link grabbing my hand harder, and he whispered,

"Don't… Don't touch her…" And he fell on the ground.

"Link! What… what …." I saw Brazen and Zelda collapse and I saw Sam was already asleep. Shadow Link stepped toward Epona and he almost had sadness in his eyes.

"Sorry, darling," he said, "It's just business." I lashed out in anger at him and fell off the horse. He caught me bridal style.

"You bastard!" I mumbled, "If you touch Link or any of my friends, I'll-…." And the next thing I can remember was nothing but blackness.

~Sam's POV~

I woke up, chained up to a wall and in a prison cell. I looked around the cell, and I saw a red elf girl in the same cell as me, but she wasn't chained up, and was smiling maliciously at me.

"Well, well, well, blondie is finally awake!" She walked up towards me and wiggled my chains, "Do these hurt at all?"

"Like hell!" I uttered.

"Good!" She said with acid in her tone, "I can't wait 'till I just strip you of your Triforce. That way, Brazen can be all mine, and he wouldn't have to be with some despicable human anymore!" I noticed she had said his name so… sweetly. It just struck me as awkward and creepy. Then again, (hypothetically speaking) I felt pretty hung-over, so none of this made sense to me at all. Which was even weirder, because I fell asleep on my own, then I felt worse than I did before when I woke up.

"Okay then… For one thing, somebody's jealous! For another, who are you, and where am I?"

"Uh… duh, Gannon and Zant's castle. I kidnapped you and my name is Victoria, princess of the red elves, and Brazen's soon-to-be fiancée."

"Are you making a fan-club for him or something, 'cause trust me, it's starting to get irritating."

"Oh, shut it! It doesn't matter what you say. I bet Brazen doesn't even open up to you." I remembered earlier the day of the battle when Brazen had lied to me about what had happened to him and to me all those years ago, but I was not about to let this chick see my weakness.

"Does he open up to you?" I asked sarcastically.

"He'll have no choice." she replied, "I mean, no one actually knows what the big bang is going to be, and there will be no other elves besides us, and he'll have to repopulate with me."

"Now I'm just thinking you're overly possessive. But I still have no clue what you're really talking about here."

"Ah, poor girl doesn't even know who she is. Why don't you let me help you with my song of memories?" She took out a silver flute and began to play. Suddenly the world around me faded. All at once, millions of images filled my head. I saw my mother and father's first meeting, the Underworld, some childhood memories with my brothers, the castle I lived in, how my father killed my mother by blowing up the ship I was in nine years ago. It all made perfect sense. My father did not die that night, he was the killer.

Then, an image of Brazen as nothing but a child bleeding to death on the cold stone floor, his green eyes filled with tears and true sorrow.

I don't want to die! he yelled, I want revenge! How could he do this to me? He turned his head towards his dead mother. She had long wavy hair that had the same color that Brazen's spiky hair had. Then the image changed and Brazen was putting his hands on the wall, and my father was carving a skull on his back. Brazen screamed and cried, but never told him to stop.

The image was too much for me.

"Stop it, please!" I cried, "I can't take it anymore! I was born lost and never had the pleasure of being found. Why would I want it now?"

"Sorry, sugar, but there's just one more thing I gotta show ya."

I saw what my Triforce could do. The world was rotten and dead underneath my feet, and I was standing on the bodies of the people I loved. The sky was a blood red with black clouds, and I can hear my father's evil laughter.

"You are death, Samantha." she whispered, "Would a loving girl like you want to do this? Why don't you just let us kill you and take it, so you won't face the burden?"

After everything she showed me, I was tempted to just tell her to take the stupid tattoo, but then I had a second thought and said

"Never! I know you would use it for the soul purpose of destroying the world. But if I'm in control, I can prevent that very thing from happening."

"Stupid girl." she said. Then reality hit me like a slap in the face, and she said,

"I tried being nice and offered you a painless death. But Gannon and Zant show no mercy."

"I highly doubt that they'll be able to lay a hand on me."

"Rot and die, princess." Then she left the prison cell and left me hanging there, my arms and legs burning from the chains and my mind overflowing with thoughts and my heart heavy with sorrow.


(A/N) Okay, so like almost everyone is skipping chapter 4. And all you people who read chapter 1 and said "eh, nevermind" or whatever, READ THE WHOLE THING! I bet you would like it if you were able to read all of chapter 1! If you read all of it to this point, you're officially awesome! And if you skip to the end, you officially suck! I mean, WHO DOES THAT?

In other news, I hope you enjoy, please review, and just so you know, the best part of this story for me was that I'm writting it with one of my best friends! Ta-Da! :D