D-Chan
Zelda
Link stayed by the stream silent. Zelda sat next to him. Ruto sat on the other site. Saria was safely back up recuperating from the distance from her home.
Nabooru was back in the Fairy Springs trying to figure out what Leena had known. Link needed to figure out a way to get to Hyrulea find the King and free him.
Sitting there looking at the weak flow of water he remember when he had first seen her.
* "That can't be! It's in the pedestal. You can't have the sword." He has said.
"How did you think I traveled from Hyrulea to Hyrule. I pulled the Master Sword and made a wish." She had smiled. *
He suddenly stood up. "What Link?" Zelda questioned.
"He knows! He knows how to get to her world!" Ruto said her gills flapping.
"Yes! Yes I do!" He smiled.
"Tell them she was brave. Tell them she was the best. Tell the King she loved him." Ruto said quickly and disappeared into the stream back to her realm.
Link looked in disbelief at the stream. It was true. What would their world say when they found out their Heroine of Time had died? They it was not of old age, that it was the bad guy, that they no longer had protection. How would the King act since he friend was dead? No he wouldn't care, he curse her after all.
"Link... do you want me to come with you." She asked.
He looked at her and felt he did not recognize her. He thought of Leena and thought he would cry. 'Leena... I think I just started to like you. Why did you go and die. I wouldn't have died... why did you let me handle it?'
He shrugged Zelda off and walked quietly alone back to town to the pedestal.
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"Please... take me to the world of Hyrulea, take me to the Lake of Hyrulea. I want to have council with their King." Link said.
The light that always shinned when he pulled the sword seemed different somehow. Falling to the floor he found soft grass beneath him. Looking up he found himself at the entrance to the Zora domain. He made his way there slowly.
He walked up familiar, yet alien hallways and met with the King. In her world it was not a overly large King he saw but a thin young Queen.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" She asked in a regal tone.
"Who are you?" Link asked back.
"I am Queen Ruto. I asked again who ARE you." She demanded.
"I am Link of Hyrule, Their warrior of Time. I have come to talk you about your warrior of time Leena." Link said in a toneless voice.
"Oh yes, the Duchess of the Lake Temples... how is she?" Ruto asked politely.
"She's dead. I wish to command the uses of one of your man to go awake the King from the Chamber of Ice. I request to go with them. I can I have a mask that makes me a Zora, I just need to know where to go." Link said just a stiff with authority as the Queen.
"She is..." Ruto said looking just a bit upset, "very well. Prince Omber come take Hero Link to his, the King's resting place."
Link wanted to hit himself. He forgot that in this world he was King. Here Link was King and Hero Link didn't exist.
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"Follow me!" Omber said leading Zora Link deeper into the lake to the Temple.
"A little to the right and to the heart of the Water Temple..." Omber muttered.
Link watched as a faint light emanated from a rock to the right of the door to the temple.
Link followed Omber in. It was cold, very cold and he found he had to suck up all his water into his body in order not to turn into a block of ice.
"King awake." Omber said leaning down and kissing the King softly.
The King sat up and looked directly at Link.
"Strange... I don't recall ever wanted to wear clothes like that." The King said tilting his head.
"You might not but I do." Link answered back.
"So, she succeeded. Where is she, where's my Leena." The King smiled.
Link looked quietly at the King. He didn't seem like the guy who would curse someone. He didn't even seem like the guy who would run like Saria said he had.
"She's dead." Link answered.
The King didn't show any signs of hearing. He just continued to smile. "Did she get her job done? Is Margorock dead?"
Link nodded, "The guy who wanted to rule our worlds, yeah."
The King nodded, "Then I have to return to my throne."
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"King I'm sorry to disturbed you but I want to kill the Peddler... to destroy the only hope that Margorock may use to return." Link said.
The King sat silently for a moment, "Kill him. Bring me the child, the peddler, and the Queen of the forest people."
Waiting Link watched as they were herded in. The child a little and innocent, the peddler look like he was constantly scheming, and the Queen looked happy with everyone.
"You didn't head my warning!" The Queen said.
"Did you like my hell horse?" The Peddler grinned!
"Is Leena okay! I used a lot of her to help you." The girl frowned.
Link was shocked.
* "Don't touch her! Please don't touch her! I beg of you!" Cried out a familiar female voice. * The Queen had known the Shadow passed through touch.
"You knew and you didn't tell her!" Link hissed.
The Queen nodded.
* Pulling her Master Sword free she smiled, "Death be no heed! Your Master Shoshea calls you! AWAKE!" *
Link looked at the peddler, "Your name is Shoshea."
The peddler smirked.
* Leena woke up strangely before the crack of dawn. The sand was still raging outside. She looked at Link and his white lips. His skin was dry against her skin. She almost turned complete black as she concentrated her body fluids to her mouth. She put her hands onto Link's lips and forced his mouth open. *
"You almost killed her helping me!" Link said to the child.
"You had a better chance of getting the job done... I'm sorry." The girl said.
Link nodded, "Well then. I'll get the job done!" He pulled his sword free and cut the Peddler's head of before he could be stopped.
"Three heart with one sword." Link said coldly.
The child collapsed to the floor in shook and in a bitter mood that the world had let her see a man die.
The Queen choked back a sob at the fact she disliked Link for killing a man in cold blood.
"Leena is dead so there is no completely lonely heart." Link said to the King.
The King nodded his eyes tired and sad. "You are right."
Falling down beside the throne Link started to cry, "She was the only mortal girl I fell in love with. I was just starting to see how I would live the rest of my life with her when she died. When she gave it all up for you."
"For us Link... we are the same person just in different worlds. I'm sure she loved us both... here you can have her royal court ring. I have a lifetime full of memories of her. You have but a few days... take her ring." The King said draping his hand over the throne to Link.
"Thank you King. Here is the Master Sword of this world... I wish you had another Hero to protect you." Link said.
"Don't worry all it taken care of. That's why the fairies called her so young. They kept calling her out. Not a week went by when she didn't have to go romping through time to fix something... now I know why. She didn't have as long a life as you will. She didn't get enough to time breath because she didn't have. Another Hero will be born in the future I'm sure... but I wanted to keep her as my own. To rise her up on a throne and call her my Queen." King Link signed.
"I know... I wanted to do that myself... except it were more like... take to the forest and never leave. Live happily ever after and do wonderful world saving adventures together." Link smiled tears still running down her face. He look over to the weeping girl and silent Queen and the body laying in a pool of it's own blood. He didn't mind it one bit. He just wished, as did the King, there was a young blue black blushing Zora here to witness her two favorite man crying like babies.
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"You're back Link where have you been..." Zelda said three weeks later.
"Nothing. I've been laying in the water pretending to be a Zora doing nothing." Link admitted. He had spent three lonely weeks with King helping get Hyrulea back together.
"I'm glad you're back I need your help..." Zelda frowned taking his hands in hers.
Link nodded, glad things were back to the way they were before. Because in adventure and battle you didn't have time to wish you were dead with your loved one.
(That was the original ending. I added this part after I finished the book Fallen Angels. Sorry if it ruins the end.)
He looked out the window, it was raining. He could imagine seeing Leena standing there looking at him waving at the boy that was Prince in another world and asking him to come out and play in the rain. The Prince would say yes and they would end the day under a tree kissing.
Where was his under the tree rainy day kiss?
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The End...
Yeah I suck I know.
D-Chan