Link was in shock when he saw her do it. She took her free hand, made a fist and punched into the side of the cliff. He saw the pain in her eyes and the blood on her hand. It was now a good three inches into the cliff. He knew she broke it.

She forced a foot hold for her left foot and pulled up on her broken right hand. She got a better hold on Link's hand with her left and he pulled her the rest of the way up. The skin was slightly peeled back and limp. He gave her a healing potion but she would not take it.

"Not now, we have to give that monster a final blow." Zelda took Link's hookshot and aimed at the creature's head, between the eyes. She took her sword out and aimed it just right. She then shot the hookshot and shoved her blade into the creature's head. She then jumped off the monster and ran for cover. The monster lashed about in pain for a second. Then it stopped. It fell to the ground and stopped moving. Zelda grabbed her hand and staggered away. The sun came out and the blood on her armor and dress shone a deep and evil red. She was weak. Link ran to her aid. He caught her just before she fell to the ground in exhaustion. She drank the potion and lay down. She didn't care about anything anymore. Her parents were dead; the little girl who took her place was dead, she failed. A tear fell down her face. She could tell the potion was working for she was getting her energy back again. She sat up and placed her head in her hands.

"I failed them."

"No."

Zelda looked up at Link, he was smiling.

Zelda got very angry, "How can you say that? They didn't make it out of the fortress, there's no way! Just before I saw you I was with them, there was no way they made it out alive. They're dead and it's all my fault." She began to cry once more. Link stood up and hugged her.

Zelda pulled away this time. "I don't want your sympathy, Link. Not this time." Zelda ran away toward the village. She passed Maseth who ran after her. She pulled herself onto the horse and rode to the village. She could tell that Link was not far behind her on his horse. "Get away! I don't want your sympathy!"

"But Zelda, Wait!"

She reached the village and got water at the well. She splashed some on her face and saw the blood. She continued to wash her face. But the more she washed the more blood there seemed to be. She turned to see the other people in the village. They all stared at her. She wiped her face again, the blood seemed to be pouring from her face. She gabbed her dress and tried wiping it off with something more dry. Soon, her dress was soaked with blood. Was it hers? Or was it the blood of all the innocent who died on her behalf? She became very frightened. The blood was not hers but it was all over her. She became drenched in the blood, and she began to cry out in fear and anguish. She fell to her knees and screamed, "Make it stop, dear goddesses make it stop!" The blood ran on the ground around her and she could no longer hear the people of the village. She could only hear the cries of the monsters in the fortress. She could see it then. The building collapsing, the monsters, the creatures, the people. The monsters turned into people. They were unfamiliar to her, but they were there. The sounds became more human. They were dreadful and evil. She put her hands on her ears and screamed, "NO! Stop it, I can't stand it!" She opened her eyes hoping that it was gone. She could feel the blood, smell the dead flesh, hear the screams of dying innocent people, and she could see evil.

Gruesome monsters began to dance around her and pull at her hair and dress laughing.

"Look at the pretty princess, covered in the blood of her people."

"Get out of my mind!"

"She can see them dying because of her selfish desires!"

"Stop it, that's not true!"

"And the boy that she loves so much doesn't even care that she's being tormented so much!"

"SHUT UP!" Zelda fell to the ground and screamed as loud as she could. "LINK! Save me from this evil!"

She ran out to the desert, for she could see the monsters chasing her. She found a small oasis of water. She placed her hands in the water, it was boiling hot. She jumped back. The monsters around her, the evil demons, pulled at her as if she were to fall into the hot water. "NO," she cired, "Stop this!"

The demons did not stop, they pulled harder and harder and she was getting closer and closer to the water.

Then, she fell in.