Ooooooh the ending to the last chapter was suspenseful wasn't it? Well I left it there to punish you! Ha ha! Well...not really. Thanks for reading this far; hopefully we're well on our way to the climax of this story and the ending. But will it be a happy one? You'll have to carry on reading and find out won't you. I'm thinking of making this a trilogy, or at least having a sequel. I have planned out it all in my head. Ah well, not to keep you in suspense or anything *grins*
'No!" I screamed as Lucy fell down into the darkness below
My eyes saw her fall out of sight; I heard her scream and then nothing. Nothing at all.
"Lucy....Lucy...Lucy!" I started to scramble down the hole after her
"No" Link pulled me back
"Let me go!" I screamed in frustration, "Lucy, don't worry, I'm coming to get you"
"You can't" Link shook me hard
I stared at him; his face was set in a hardened fashion. I stared up. He'd let her go, he'd let her hand go. He's made her fall...
"You...." I growled and started to hit him "You let her fall, it's your fault! How could you? We were helping you save Hyrule, and you killed her!!"
I thumped and kicked him over and over again, my breathing coming out harsh and ragged. It wasn't possible...how could this be the end? My blows became more futile as he just kept blocking and stopping each one. In the end I collapsed in tears against him. She was gone.
Link put his arms round me "I'm sorry...I tried to stop it...."
I felt the soft patter of water on my hair, Link was crying too. But his voice gave nothing away.
"It's over...I can't do it..." I whispered through the flood that had emerged from my eyes
I let the salty water soak into Link's shirt and breathed in the grief that had seemed to envelope us in minutes. The hope that had burnt so brightly when Link had been healed now was snuffed out into nothing and my world felt dead in the midst of the sand and breeze. Even the blue sky had gone a deeper shade as if feeling our pain as well.
I stared down the pit from the corner of my eyes. It seemed blurred like a smudge of dirt on a piece of paper that you wanted to read. It had taken my friend and torn me down the middle. I picked up sand from behind me and hurled it at the hole, with difficulty as I was still being held by Link.
I started to sob even more and drew into myself to feel the pain that was tearing at me. A soft weight on my head told me that I wasn't alone and at least that was one thing I could hold on to.
"We have to go on" Link said after a while, "And she'd want us to"
"I can't. Not now, it's too soon" I looked up at him, my eyes were sore "I can't do this...it isn't a game...why didn't I realise?"
"What do you mean?"
"I still had a thought in the back of my mind that I was dreaming. That in a moment I'd wake and this would be over. I'd be sleeping in on a Saturday and Lucy...and Lucy....and...Lucy..."
"You don't have to say it, I know what you mean" Link said softly
"And Lucy would be coming over" I felt more tears emerge as my vision clouded for a moment, I blinked and let them fall "And we'd watch TV, and eat and joke. And my insanity would still be in the past and...we'd be safe, and happy"
"It isn't a dream"
"Not now, now I know that it is real and people die" I wiped my eyes
" We can stay here for a while if you want" Link lay down on the sand and turned away
I stared at the hole for a while.
It was strange; the burning grief in my chest was gradually freezing over. Freezing over and being replaced...replaced by ice-cold hatred. This wasn't an accident. I had known it from the moment the sand dropped. It was too smooth a hole to be an accident; the sand would have dropped when we'd walked on it yesterday. No, this was a trap. To separate us.
And I would destroy the ones who had taken my friend.
For it was as if a family member had been ripped from my life. But I couldn't let this thought affect me so suddenly. I'd never felt this true and pure hatred before and it scared me slightly. I breathed deeply.
I grew colder in the hot sunlight as the rage subsided slightly.
I'd subdue this feeling until I knew who had done it and why. I'd make them pay. But for now I had a mission. To save Hyrule. But then it would be to deliver justice.
I noticed Lucy's broadsword near the pit. She must have dropped it when...I picked it up and ran my hand along the blade. I cut my finger and drew a small amount of blood. I let it run down onto the sand by the pit.
'I vow to avenge you friend; no one has the right to rip a part of me away and destroy it. No one'
'No!" I screamed as Lucy fell down into the darkness below
My eyes saw her fall out of sight; I heard her scream and then nothing. Nothing at all.
"Lucy....Lucy...Lucy!" I started to scramble down the hole after her
"No" Link pulled me back
"Let me go!" I screamed in frustration, "Lucy, don't worry, I'm coming to get you"
"You can't" Link shook me hard
I stared at him; his face was set in a hardened fashion. I stared up. He'd let her go, he'd let her hand go. He's made her fall...
"You...." I growled and started to hit him "You let her fall, it's your fault! How could you? We were helping you save Hyrule, and you killed her!!"
I thumped and kicked him over and over again, my breathing coming out harsh and ragged. It wasn't possible...how could this be the end? My blows became more futile as he just kept blocking and stopping each one. In the end I collapsed in tears against him. She was gone.
Link put his arms round me "I'm sorry...I tried to stop it...."
I felt the soft patter of water on my hair, Link was crying too. But his voice gave nothing away.
"It's over...I can't do it..." I whispered through the flood that had emerged from my eyes
I let the salty water soak into Link's shirt and breathed in the grief that had seemed to envelope us in minutes. The hope that had burnt so brightly when Link had been healed now was snuffed out into nothing and my world felt dead in the midst of the sand and breeze. Even the blue sky had gone a deeper shade as if feeling our pain as well.
I stared down the pit from the corner of my eyes. It seemed blurred like a smudge of dirt on a piece of paper that you wanted to read. It had taken my friend and torn me down the middle. I picked up sand from behind me and hurled it at the hole, with difficulty as I was still being held by Link.
I started to sob even more and drew into myself to feel the pain that was tearing at me. A soft weight on my head told me that I wasn't alone and at least that was one thing I could hold on to.
"We have to go on" Link said after a while, "And she'd want us to"
"I can't. Not now, it's too soon" I looked up at him, my eyes were sore "I can't do this...it isn't a game...why didn't I realise?"
"What do you mean?"
"I still had a thought in the back of my mind that I was dreaming. That in a moment I'd wake and this would be over. I'd be sleeping in on a Saturday and Lucy...and Lucy....and...Lucy..."
"You don't have to say it, I know what you mean" Link said softly
"And Lucy would be coming over" I felt more tears emerge as my vision clouded for a moment, I blinked and let them fall "And we'd watch TV, and eat and joke. And my insanity would still be in the past and...we'd be safe, and happy"
"It isn't a dream"
"Not now, now I know that it is real and people die" I wiped my eyes
" We can stay here for a while if you want" Link lay down on the sand and turned away
I stared at the hole for a while.
It was strange; the burning grief in my chest was gradually freezing over. Freezing over and being replaced...replaced by ice-cold hatred. This wasn't an accident. I had known it from the moment the sand dropped. It was too smooth a hole to be an accident; the sand would have dropped when we'd walked on it yesterday. No, this was a trap. To separate us.
And I would destroy the ones who had taken my friend.
For it was as if a family member had been ripped from my life. But I couldn't let this thought affect me so suddenly. I'd never felt this true and pure hatred before and it scared me slightly. I breathed deeply.
I grew colder in the hot sunlight as the rage subsided slightly.
I'd subdue this feeling until I knew who had done it and why. I'd make them pay. But for now I had a mission. To save Hyrule. But then it would be to deliver justice.
I noticed Lucy's broadsword near the pit. She must have dropped it when...I picked it up and ran my hand along the blade. I cut my finger and drew a small amount of blood. I let it run down onto the sand by the pit.
'I vow to avenge you friend; no one has the right to rip a part of me away and destroy it. No one'