Zelda's BIG Mistake ~*~*~*~ By: LinkGirl
Chapter 3: A Dream Comes True
Author's Note: I only own Dan, Ricky, Justan, and Sanddra.
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~*~*~The King's Point of View (Zelda's father)
"Hand over the ocarina," the man said in a cold voice.
"What...I don't know what your talking about," I said trying not to sound scared. Was the evil in the forest coming from this man?
"Heh Heh Heh, I think you know well enough what I am talking about," he said in the same cold voice. "Now, hand over the Ocarina of Time!"
"No, you will have to kill me in order to get it," I said as I turned my horse around and galloped the other way.
"Fine," I heard him shout as he gave chase.
I heard the gallop of another horse behind me. Then screams filled the air. The screams had come from the men who had been escorting me. I didn't want to look back; I didn't need to see their horrible fate. I galloped on, through the trees.
"You can not escape death," the man shouted to me.
He was catching up to me. I wasn't going to make it out of the forest...alive. No, I needed to try. Then I heard a sound behind me. I looked back and saw some sort of blast heading straight for me. I screamed out in pain and fell off my horse.
The man stepped down from his horse and looked down at me, "Never defy the King of Evil."
"No..." I gasped. How could I have let this happen...Then I felt no more.
~*~*~Link's Point of View
It was the end of the day and we were playing hide and seek in the market.
"I found you Zelda," I said to her as she came out from behind a bush. "Okay, I found everyone. Now can we do something else?"
"Yeah, yeah..." Ricky said. He was really bored.
"What can we play?" asked Justan.
"I don't know..." I was cut off.
"SOMEONE, GET PRINCESS ZELDA!" We heard someone call. Then a guard walked in to the market. He was helping a seriously wounded man walk.
I heard a gasp from Zelda. She ran up to the guard, we followed.
"What's wrong," Zelda asked in a very worried tone.
"Zel..da..." the wounded man's said. His voice was very rasp and he looked like he had a hard time keeping his eyes open.
"Someone get a doctor," Zelda said urgently.
"No...time..." the wounded man said again in the same raspy voice.
By this time a crowd was gathering around us but everyone was silent. Then I saw my mom. She was pushing through the crowd.
"Link," my mom called to me, then she stopped. She was looking at Zelda with a strange expression on her face.
~*~*~Zelda's Point of View
I was looking at the wounded solider. He was one of the men who had gone with my father...how I knew this, I cannot answer.
"Your...father..." the wounded man said. "He's..." the man paused; he looked scared to tell me the truth. "Dead..."
It hit me hard. The word 'dead' kept echoing in my mind. I was unaware of a small scream coming from my mouth.
"A man...in...black..." the solider gave a groan, "He demanded...an...ocarina..."
I couldn't hear anymore...I was crying. My father was dead. Nothing mattered anymore. I collapsed on the ground, my head in my hands. I felt a hand on my shoulder, I jerked away. No one could help me...no one knew what I had done...I...Me...I didn't care anymore. I ran, I don't know where, I just ran. Hoping that I could run away from everything...
~*~*~Link's Point of View
"ZELDA!" I called. She was running right into Hyrule Field. I tried to run after her but I felt my mom's hand on my shoulder.
"Link, I need to tell you something..." she said, her voice trailing off.
Reluctantly, I went with my mom to our house. Ricky, Justan, Dan, and Sandra followed me. As we entered she lead us to the couch. We all sat and I looked at my mom. To my disbelief she had tears in her eyes.
"Link...I need to tell you a story..." she said, trying to keep from crying.
"Should we leave?" Sanddra asked.
"No, you don't need to," she said as she looked at me. "Link, a long time ago when you were just a baby there was a war in Hyrule. At that time I was trying to keep you safe but I had gotten hurt. All that mattered was getting you to safety. I was desperate, I fled to the Kokiri Forest."
I couldn't believe it...My mom had gone to the Kokiri Forest? One of the places where Hylian's weren't allowed to go to.
My mother continued, "When I got there I had no strength left. But a girl in a white dress, just like Zelda's, helped me. She nursed me back to health, with help from the Kokiri. Right before she left she told me her name was...Zel..."
I just sat there. I was still trying to intake what my mom had just said.
"Zel...you mean Zelda?" Dan asked in a horse voice.
"How is that possible?!" I burst out, "Zelda's the same age as us..."
"Link, remember that story I used to tell you at night. The one about the Triforce," she asked. "Do you remember the part about the instrument."
I did remember. In the story there was an instrument that allowed you to go back and forth trough time. Did Zelda have that instrument? Did she somehow change my past? I was so confused.
"We have to find Zelda," I finally said after a few minutes of silence. I need to find out what she had done.
All six of us, my mom, Dan, Sandra, Justan, Ricky, and me, ran out of the house and to Hyrule Field.
~*~*~Zelda's Point of View
I had been wandering around for hours and it was already dark. I didn't care anymore. All was lost. I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I headed back to Hyrule Castle. For some strange reason the drawbridge was down. I didn't really pay attention to it though. I just wanted to sleep. I felt drained.
As I walked I realized it was raining. The rain wasn't coming down that hard though. I walked into the castle and headed for my room.
"Zelda, I know what happened to your father," I heard Impa's voice. "Do you want to talk about it?"
I was about to say no when I thought better of it, "Yeah...OK." We went and sat down in the garden. "Impa, you once told me that you wanted to change a lot of things in your past. What if you did get a chance to change it...but when you did, you ended up making a mistake. What are you supposed to do?"
"Zelda, we all make mistakes and we all learn from them. You'll just have to be more careful, and not make that mistake again. Now, you should get to bed, you've had a long day," she said in a gentle tone.
Before I could say anything we heard loud crash. Smoke filled the air. And when it cleared there stood my worst fear, Ganondorf. He walked toward me, but Impa got in front of me, blocking me from site.
"GET AWAY!!" she cried out.
"No," I heard him say in a cold hard voice. He took out his sword and swung. Impa had no time to react. She fell to the ground.
"NO..." I heard myself scream as I backed away.
"You're coming with me," he said in the same cold voice. I tried to run but he grabbed me by the arm and jerked me toward him. He took me to his horse, just outside the castle and mounted it. He started to gallop off into the night air, with me clinging on for my life.
~*~*~Link's Point of View
We had been searching for Zelda but had not been able to find her. The rain was coming down harder and we had no choice but to go back to Hyrule Market.
"Hurry up," Justan said.
We finally made it to the drawbridge only to find that it was up.
"No...we're trapped out here," Sanddra complained, in a small voice.
"What are we going to do?" I asked my mother.
Before she could answer the drawbridge began to lower. Out galloped a man on a horse, a man in black. He was holding a girl. I squinted, only to see that the girl was Zelda! Then I remembered my dream. This was exactly what had happened in my dream.
The man stopped and looked at us. Then I heard Zelda cry out, "LINK, I'M SORRY..." She never got to finish because the man galloped off into the darkness.
"He's headed for the Kokiri Forest!" my mom called out, as she started running after the man. My friends and me all followed.
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This story is getting more and more sadder...But don't worry, everything's going to be all right!