Disclaimer: I OWN ZELDA!
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Sniffle...This chapter is so sad...I was listening to sad music...Sniff...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! JUST KIDDING I DON'T OWN ZELDA!
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Link stared at where Malon had been. Then the Gerudo snickered and shouted "GO!" The arrow was fired, but Link quickly shoved Zelda out of the way. In a rage, he took out his Light Arrow. The Gerudos were dead within seconds. Then Link and Zelda rushed to the edge that Malon had been hanging to.
Link stared blankly at it, and Zelda started to cry. Link just gazed at the raging waters. He looked for all the world like a lost child. Zelda couldn't bear it. She put her arms around him, still crying quietly. Several tears ran down Link's face, and fell down into the valley, maybe rejoining the water flowing below.
No matter how hard he tried, Link couldn't forget that last smile that Malon had given him. Tears were still in her eyes, but she looked serene. So calm. Almost like she didn't know that she was going to die. Her face was glowing with a faint happiness, and her whole body relaxed. Then her fingers slipped off the edge.
Link could still see her plunging down into the valley. He could almost imagine her happy smile, mixed with slight fear but overall calm. Why? He asked himself. She had just remembered who she was...Malon. But she never knew that she would soon be not Malon, but dead.
Dead. The word echoed in his ears. Finally the numbness left him with that one word. Dead. Malon was dead.
Link let out a cry of despair and rage. Zelda's crying increased, and soon Link just broke down. They held on to each other, and just wept. Link loved Zelda like a best friend, but no one could ever replace Malon. No one.
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Finally Link looked down into the water. "Zelda? I'm going down to find...her...body..." Link said hoarsely. Zelda nodded, and Link grabbed a nearby chicken. He floated down safely, feeling guilty that he was falling the way Malon had, but he was going to live through it.
He landed softly. Looking around, he saw a limp form in the water. It was snagged on a rock, and that was the only thing that kept it there. As Link got closer, he saw red air swirling around in the water. Malon.
Link knelt down next to it, and lifted it from the water. It was Malon, all right. Her limbs hung lifelessly, as her red hair did. But there was that smile, permanently engraved on her pale face. He held her close to him, and cried silently. Sinking to his knees, he felt that he couldn't go on. Link looked up to the sky and prayed to Nayru that she would give his heart back.
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