Well I'm glad you guys didn't give up on me. I actually had an idea for this chapter just after I'd published the other although I don't know how long it will take to crank this one out!
So anyway, I'm high on FMV scenes from the Final Fantasy X-2 game, I don't own a playstation 2...or a playstation (Nintendo girl all the way) but I'm a sucker for pretty videos. And this new game seems to be plucking at my heart, I have the slow theme song in my head. Perfect. It's quite lonely though...
Sorry once again about the lacking in updates!
I really want to write something sad now, so look out!
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I'd found him again, if my heart was any louder it would have sung. I was a little upset that Dark Link hadn't received my hug but that feeling was overwhelmed by my gladness for finding Link again. It seemed like I had another layer of protection from the enemy. Sure I was infatuated practically with the enemy but that didn't mean he wasn't going to kill me.
I was sleepy in the dark now, it made sense, I hadn't slept ever since Dark Link had come into my dream, and if you counted the unconsciousness as sleeping then that as well. And the dark seemed to make me drowsy. I couldn't risk opening my head again, not now. It would let him know where I was and what was going on. I couldn't risk it.
Why did everything seem to be building up to one pivotal moment? That's the way life is I guess.
Still, I had found Link again and that was a blessing in itself. I had gladly handed over the reins of this mission, he had the most experience.
I was holding his hand too.
I blushed silently in the dark, what I wouldn't have given a few years ago for this. But, 14 year olds don't have their hands held by guys. At least I didn't, never been kissed or had a boyfriend. And I was nearly 18...well...I wasn't QUITE into spinsterhood yet.
That's what Lucy had been better at than me, getting guys to crowd around her. Not that I wanted them 'crowding' exactly, but it would be nice to actually get some attention. And here I was, getting attention, and it was from somebody evil.
But had Sao been giving me attention before I'd made him upset/mad/other volatile emotion? No, he'd said Lucy was cute. But then he had seemed concerned with the bomb-chu incident, and he had told me frequently about his family.
I thought about that again, he was so young! How could he have a dead wife and child? It was like some sort of film.
My head span in my drowsiness and adrenaline from the upcoming darkness and the surrounding black.
Link didn't speak, he was just concentrating on the job, to get Lucy and the others out, and, I suspect, to kill Dark Link.
It must have been a lucky day the day we walked around in those tunnels. Lucky in some ways but not in others obviously it seemed. Since I'd managed to find Link and soon we would have the fortune to find something else. Totally unexpected, but that didn't mean it was good luck.
"Ah s***" something (i.e. the curse) echoed around us
"Freeze" Link hissed and pushed me against the wall
It was comforting having him there in the dark, with all his weapons and with absolutely no hard feelings against me whatsoever, unlike Sao seemed to have. I really did seem to blunder a lot with him, even so, it didn't mean I wasn't worried about him all the same.
We waited and soon a couple of blundering footsteps came in our direction, whispering and falling every so often.
They came closer and closer and I could feel Link's shoulder tense up next to me in wait for the attackers.
But they weren't attackers.
One walked right into me and said loudly "I thought I told you to walk behind me"
"I am!"
Letting out a yelp, I grinned and reached out to grasp the voice firmly in a hug and a pile of fluffy hair went up my nostrils.
The person screamed and flailed out at me until I put my hand over their mouth and said firmly "Lucy you stupid thing it's us"
The screaming stopped and then the hug was returned wildly and my friend let off a whoop of "Kafei they've come to get us!"
"Kafei?" Link said in disbelief "What are you doing here?"
"Who are you people?" Kafei said in reply "I should be the one to ask you that!" he sneezed and coughed explosively
"Still got a cold, huh?" I asked into the dark playfully
"Pneumonia actually" came the reply "Hey, are you think girl who got stabbed?"
"Stabbed?" Link enquired, instantly beginning to feel me up for wounds until I shoved him away
"Yeah, but that's gone now" I replied, ignoring the disbelieving snort from Link
"I thought you were dead" Lucy sniffed, "And we've been walking for days..."
I squeezed her shoulder and said "I'm still quite alive"
"Is it still snowing?" I blocked up Kafei asked
I realised and thought back, I hadn't seen snow since before the bomb-chu, it had been getting thinner and thinner so gradually that I hadn't noticed when it was gone. And I had had a lot on my mind.
"Dark Link must be letting up now you're here" Link said reasonably, "After all, what else does he want?"
I nodded, unaware that in the dark no one would see me agree like that.
"How many people are hurt?" I asked
"Not many, just a few cuts and bruises mostly" Lucy replied
"Yeah, he hasn't killed anyone, that Boss has been pretty reasonable, giving us food and medicine and water and stuff. We've been treated pretty well...after the attack and all..." Kafei chimed in
"Yeah" Lucy said and then added darkly "We've just managed to sneak away after that head man, what's his name, Shigeru? After Shigeru caused a distraction to those skeleton things"
"Stalfos" Link automatically corrected
"Whatever" Lucy continued anyway" We were coming to get help, and, well, here you are!"
"Sao should be I here somewhere, you didn't pass him did you?" I asked
"Who? That guy? Nope, seen no one but you in these dark tunnels"
Right. So he'd by-passed them, maybe he was in a fight already, maybe he was caught, or dead. Too many possibilities.
We began to walk onward, despite Lucy and Kafei wanting to get out, we felt that they should come along to avoid getting in trouble. Too bad we were leading them into more trouble, but at least Link would protect us all. I hoped. We just carried on in a line, Link at the front, Kafei at the back. I didn't want to argue but it did seem terribly sexist. But then, this place was sort of stuck in a cleaner medieval time so maybe that made sense.
The dark felt at least a little less constricting with the others with us so that was a good thing. But it still seemed to have lurking potholes and several times we all had to be rescued from the pitfalls, Link included, how humbling for him.
Noises became more frequent in the dark. Screams, scarily, and other sounds of yelling. Link mused in a whisper that maybe Sao was having more luck than he'd thought he'd have. I hoped he had had more luck than we'd thought he would have had. I wanted him to survive.
It turned out we'd see him as well sooner than we had hoped.
As we turned a corner, in our slow, winding trail, we came blinking into a circular round room with several exits leading off it. I couldn't tell where the light was, but after being in the dark so long it took a while to get used to the brightness again. When I did, I was astonished to see Sao, with a raised eyebrow at our peculiar crew (think about it, someone with pneumonia, a girl with puffy hair, one who wants to look like she knows what she looks like and a big buff guy older than all three of them in half armour).
"I guess you followed" he said absently and turned back to the tunnels
"Guess so" I replied airily
"Great" Link said smiling, "We can join up now, the more the merrier"
"Sure" Sao shrugged "If you can tell us which way to go"
Link looked at all the passageways, all leading to darkness and shrugged as well "I have no idea"
I sighed, this was going to be a long wait.
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Suddenly, my head was filled with another place. My dream plain suddenly filled all the corners of the room and I wasn't in the same place as before. The wind was still as clear as I remembered and the sky twinkled and rippled along with the breeze. The grass as green as ever rippled in unison and swayed past my legs.
"Where are you?"
I spun around to find Dark Link with his arms crossed and looking at me with annoyance.
"What?" I got out
"Where are you? Someone hasn't been asleep for a while" Link said, frowning "I wish to know where you are"
I grinned, "Oops, sorry, I forgot. Lack of sleep you know" I folded my arms to mirror him "I beat you at that game"
He scowled "What's with you?" if I wasn't mistaken he looked a little upset
"Nothing" I replied, "I'm just talking with the amount of respect that you deserve. For some who's going to kill me"
A blast of realisation crossed his face and suddenly the room with the tunnels and everyone in it passed across my sight again and as soon as it had happened I was back on the plain. His face darkened and the upset look disappeared to be replaced with one of anger.
"You're here, aren't you?" Link asked suddenly, striding up to me and grabbing my arms "Do you think you can possibly kill me? Even with the hero of time? Fool, I'm not even human"
I pulled my wrist away, this guy was angry now.
"You can't kill me" he said loudly and then was about to say something else, before reconsidering and saying quietly "Anyway...I told you those men couldn't protect you..."
I didn't like the look in his eyes, they were staring intently at me, but they held none of Link's warmth. Was this the person I had fooled myself into liking? Someone cruel? If he was a part of Link then how could that be? Yet his eyes looked like they held a betrayal. I hadn't betrayed him by coming here had I?
He thought for a moment and then he grinned wolfishly and said "They can't protect you if you're alone"
"I'm not alone, you're alone Link," I said coldly
"You soon will be" he replied in a strange voice "Are you coming to kill me?"
I suddenly found my mouth and voice were speaking on their own and I heard myself say, "I'm not going to kill Dark Link, I feel too much for him"
And a far away voice in my ear yelled, protesting. Was it Lucy? Someone was protesting this statement, I felt my own head and mind rejecting it as well but it did nothing.
"Good girl" he said quietly
Hold on my wrists relaxed and in a flash his eyes were back to the way I'd seen them before, a cold shade but with something indescribable in them.
I found my eyes were beginning to fill up. The feeling was cold, a deep sadness and a loneliness, a longing for something. It was painful, my head was spinning and the tears began to leak out, what was I feeling? Or was I feeling someone else?
He brushed a tear away and said, his eyes flashing to something different again, it seemed he had many shades of blue for many moods that he felt "Don't cry, this is what has to be"
He pulled my arm towards him and I found my face was nearing his. I couldn't stop this feeling of sadness, was Dark Link filling me with sadness, a vision of things to come?
The person without breath suddenly leaned in and kissed me lightly on the lips before pulling away. I found it hard to breath and closed my eyes to pull myself together. Opening them I found that I was pulling myself away from someone.
Link.
I was back in the round and bright room. With everyone staring at me.
I had kissed Link.
I felt a tear slide down my cheek, my lips were salty, I'd been crying here too.
"So" Sao said coldly "The truth comes out"
I spun round to face him, looking at Link and finding him dumbstruck, his hand to his mouth, trying to figure out what had just happened. I'd kissed him, I found I was mirroring him, my hand over my mouth, I suddenly found it hard to breathe.
"Oh god" I whispered, blinking away more tears
"You're not going to kill him?" Lucy asked, horrified "After what he did? What he's GOING to do?"
I'd said it here as well. Dark Link had made me say it here. The vision had been him controlling me not just a dream. I'd kissed Link. Feeling sick I rubbed my arms to rid myself of the cold feeling.
The cold feeling left me, it had been control. That cold feeling had been his control of me. No wonder it had made me feel so odd.
Sao looked livid with anger "I knew you were up to something when you said violence wasn't the only way. You'd been communicating with him, hadn't you? How did you do it?" his face blanked and then he realised "The unconsciousness. You were communicating with him through that weren't you?" he looked betrayed and angry and hurt all into one "I'm surprised he hasn't attacked us already with his spy in our midst!"
"Hey" Lucy protested at the term
"Shut up, I know what's going on," Sao snapped before growling in my direction "I can see when someone's not loyal to the side of good"
"Is this true?"
I looked at Link, finding my breathing was coming harshly, my eyes were wet with tears. I could still feel the pressure of the kiss on my lips. I touched them with my fingers, it had been them both, and I had kissed both of them under Dark Link's control. Link and Dark Link, but who has kissed back if it was a vision?
They all looked at me, some with confusion and hurt, some angry and looking at me with contempt. Yet they were all away from me.
So I was alone now. That's what he'd wanted.
He'd taken them away all at once with this movement.
"It's...I..." I started to say, not finding words to explain
"Have you been talking with him?" Link asked solemnly
"Yes" I whispered, choking slightly and feeling my eyes shed new tears, how could I lie?
"That's it then" Sao said commandingly, "Leave her to her treacherous seer ways, no wonder she caused a war. Let's go save Termina from the likes of her" he strode off into the darkness of a tunnel
"Sao" I called after him
Kafei and Lucy followed uncertainly. I couldn't believe her, she shot me a 'I'm sorry' look and left. My 'best friend' had left me. The evidence against me was undeniable sure but then...didn't friendship mean something more? I sent her a smile all the same to show her I didn't hate her.
It was me and Link left.
He looked at me and said, "You kissed me..."
I wiped my eyes.
"Or was it him you thought you were kissing?"
I couldn't look at him, I had thought it was him, but not in the way he thought it was. It was painful, that cold feeling that I had felt came back with a rush. Link looked hurt, he clenched his fists and looked toward the tunnel the others had gone into.
"I don't want to believe it," he said quietly
"Then don't" I pleaded, "Don't you think you know me? How could I do this?"
"I don't know" he admitted "But here it is, and if you're going to stop us killing him then you can't follow us"
I wiped my eyes "Please don't leave me, this is what he wanted"
"He wanted this?" Link laughed bitterly "I'm sure he did, he always did want what I have...or had anyway"
Link turned around slowly and walked toward the tunnel.
"LINK!" I yelled, he stopped momentarily "I...couldn't...stop it, please believe me"
He didn't reply, but walking into the darkness.
I felt my chest constricting and sank to the dusty floor, crying, I couldn't even see through my hysterics. I was alone, he'd gotten what he wanted. I curled into a ball and bawled. This was it, I was going to die. No one to stop it, god knows I couldn't, who was I kidding?
"I'm going to die" I screamed hitting the floor in rage, choking on salt water and sadness and whispered quietly to the ground "Don't they care?"
They might have done, not anymore, they thought I'd betrayed them. And maybe I had. I'd fallen for the enemy, I'd hurt Link more than any of them. I could have stayed with him years ago and instead I left, and when I returned, once more I didn't choose him but an evil version.
How did he feel when I kissed him?
Had he felt that I was thinking of someone else?
I hadn't meant to think of anyone else. But Link was taken, how could I not think of anyone else? Perhaps if it had been someone other than Dark Link he would have let it slide, but not this. This was betrayal.
I was as bad as they said I was, and now I couldn't do anything.
Wiping my mouth with my hand I sat up, sobbing, and drew my sword. The time when Sao had come I'd been drowning myself. Was it safer for everyone if I was dead? I seemed to cause nothing but trouble.
I looked at the metal, biting my lip. Suicide was wrong. I wanted to go home. But who knew? Maybe if you died here you were sent home.
I pulled the blade, which was too large for me anyway, and held it to my neck. Was this the quickest way? I didn't really care, I ought to suffer for betraying.
About to move the blade across my throat, never believing it would come to this, I felt a hand grab my wrist and ice shot up my arm.
Yelping I shot back away from the blade and stared up at my attacker.
A shadowed figure, blood red glowing orbs for eyes in a barely human shape. Yet it was familiar. The one who had cut me down and the one who had made me alone. Dark Link in his true form.
"Get away from me" I screamed and hit out at him
The form morphed and there was the Dark Link I recognised in front of me.
"I told you they couldn't protect you" he said softly
"Don't look like that" I replied, yanking my wrist away "Don't you look like him!"
Dark Link grinned and said smiling widely "But isn't this what you want me to look like?"
Did I?
I didn't know what I wanted at the moment.
"Come on" Link said and I felt my body beginning to move by itself "Let's go get started"
"Started?" I asked, suddenly fearful
He looked at me as though I was the stupidest person in the world "You're about to die, or had you forgotten?"
"No" I whispered and tried to stop my body from walking after him
I couldn't, so I uselessly went to him through a dark tunnel.
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How was that chapter? I'm so sorry it takes so long at the moment, not my fault! Honestly! So read and review all!
So anyway, I'm high on FMV scenes from the Final Fantasy X-2 game, I don't own a playstation 2...or a playstation (Nintendo girl all the way) but I'm a sucker for pretty videos. And this new game seems to be plucking at my heart, I have the slow theme song in my head. Perfect. It's quite lonely though...
Sorry once again about the lacking in updates!
I really want to write something sad now, so look out!
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I'd found him again, if my heart was any louder it would have sung. I was a little upset that Dark Link hadn't received my hug but that feeling was overwhelmed by my gladness for finding Link again. It seemed like I had another layer of protection from the enemy. Sure I was infatuated practically with the enemy but that didn't mean he wasn't going to kill me.
I was sleepy in the dark now, it made sense, I hadn't slept ever since Dark Link had come into my dream, and if you counted the unconsciousness as sleeping then that as well. And the dark seemed to make me drowsy. I couldn't risk opening my head again, not now. It would let him know where I was and what was going on. I couldn't risk it.
Why did everything seem to be building up to one pivotal moment? That's the way life is I guess.
Still, I had found Link again and that was a blessing in itself. I had gladly handed over the reins of this mission, he had the most experience.
I was holding his hand too.
I blushed silently in the dark, what I wouldn't have given a few years ago for this. But, 14 year olds don't have their hands held by guys. At least I didn't, never been kissed or had a boyfriend. And I was nearly 18...well...I wasn't QUITE into spinsterhood yet.
That's what Lucy had been better at than me, getting guys to crowd around her. Not that I wanted them 'crowding' exactly, but it would be nice to actually get some attention. And here I was, getting attention, and it was from somebody evil.
But had Sao been giving me attention before I'd made him upset/mad/other volatile emotion? No, he'd said Lucy was cute. But then he had seemed concerned with the bomb-chu incident, and he had told me frequently about his family.
I thought about that again, he was so young! How could he have a dead wife and child? It was like some sort of film.
My head span in my drowsiness and adrenaline from the upcoming darkness and the surrounding black.
Link didn't speak, he was just concentrating on the job, to get Lucy and the others out, and, I suspect, to kill Dark Link.
It must have been a lucky day the day we walked around in those tunnels. Lucky in some ways but not in others obviously it seemed. Since I'd managed to find Link and soon we would have the fortune to find something else. Totally unexpected, but that didn't mean it was good luck.
"Ah s***" something (i.e. the curse) echoed around us
"Freeze" Link hissed and pushed me against the wall
It was comforting having him there in the dark, with all his weapons and with absolutely no hard feelings against me whatsoever, unlike Sao seemed to have. I really did seem to blunder a lot with him, even so, it didn't mean I wasn't worried about him all the same.
We waited and soon a couple of blundering footsteps came in our direction, whispering and falling every so often.
They came closer and closer and I could feel Link's shoulder tense up next to me in wait for the attackers.
But they weren't attackers.
One walked right into me and said loudly "I thought I told you to walk behind me"
"I am!"
Letting out a yelp, I grinned and reached out to grasp the voice firmly in a hug and a pile of fluffy hair went up my nostrils.
The person screamed and flailed out at me until I put my hand over their mouth and said firmly "Lucy you stupid thing it's us"
The screaming stopped and then the hug was returned wildly and my friend let off a whoop of "Kafei they've come to get us!"
"Kafei?" Link said in disbelief "What are you doing here?"
"Who are you people?" Kafei said in reply "I should be the one to ask you that!" he sneezed and coughed explosively
"Still got a cold, huh?" I asked into the dark playfully
"Pneumonia actually" came the reply "Hey, are you think girl who got stabbed?"
"Stabbed?" Link enquired, instantly beginning to feel me up for wounds until I shoved him away
"Yeah, but that's gone now" I replied, ignoring the disbelieving snort from Link
"I thought you were dead" Lucy sniffed, "And we've been walking for days..."
I squeezed her shoulder and said "I'm still quite alive"
"Is it still snowing?" I blocked up Kafei asked
I realised and thought back, I hadn't seen snow since before the bomb-chu, it had been getting thinner and thinner so gradually that I hadn't noticed when it was gone. And I had had a lot on my mind.
"Dark Link must be letting up now you're here" Link said reasonably, "After all, what else does he want?"
I nodded, unaware that in the dark no one would see me agree like that.
"How many people are hurt?" I asked
"Not many, just a few cuts and bruises mostly" Lucy replied
"Yeah, he hasn't killed anyone, that Boss has been pretty reasonable, giving us food and medicine and water and stuff. We've been treated pretty well...after the attack and all..." Kafei chimed in
"Yeah" Lucy said and then added darkly "We've just managed to sneak away after that head man, what's his name, Shigeru? After Shigeru caused a distraction to those skeleton things"
"Stalfos" Link automatically corrected
"Whatever" Lucy continued anyway" We were coming to get help, and, well, here you are!"
"Sao should be I here somewhere, you didn't pass him did you?" I asked
"Who? That guy? Nope, seen no one but you in these dark tunnels"
Right. So he'd by-passed them, maybe he was in a fight already, maybe he was caught, or dead. Too many possibilities.
We began to walk onward, despite Lucy and Kafei wanting to get out, we felt that they should come along to avoid getting in trouble. Too bad we were leading them into more trouble, but at least Link would protect us all. I hoped. We just carried on in a line, Link at the front, Kafei at the back. I didn't want to argue but it did seem terribly sexist. But then, this place was sort of stuck in a cleaner medieval time so maybe that made sense.
The dark felt at least a little less constricting with the others with us so that was a good thing. But it still seemed to have lurking potholes and several times we all had to be rescued from the pitfalls, Link included, how humbling for him.
Noises became more frequent in the dark. Screams, scarily, and other sounds of yelling. Link mused in a whisper that maybe Sao was having more luck than he'd thought he'd have. I hoped he had had more luck than we'd thought he would have had. I wanted him to survive.
It turned out we'd see him as well sooner than we had hoped.
As we turned a corner, in our slow, winding trail, we came blinking into a circular round room with several exits leading off it. I couldn't tell where the light was, but after being in the dark so long it took a while to get used to the brightness again. When I did, I was astonished to see Sao, with a raised eyebrow at our peculiar crew (think about it, someone with pneumonia, a girl with puffy hair, one who wants to look like she knows what she looks like and a big buff guy older than all three of them in half armour).
"I guess you followed" he said absently and turned back to the tunnels
"Guess so" I replied airily
"Great" Link said smiling, "We can join up now, the more the merrier"
"Sure" Sao shrugged "If you can tell us which way to go"
Link looked at all the passageways, all leading to darkness and shrugged as well "I have no idea"
I sighed, this was going to be a long wait.
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Suddenly, my head was filled with another place. My dream plain suddenly filled all the corners of the room and I wasn't in the same place as before. The wind was still as clear as I remembered and the sky twinkled and rippled along with the breeze. The grass as green as ever rippled in unison and swayed past my legs.
"Where are you?"
I spun around to find Dark Link with his arms crossed and looking at me with annoyance.
"What?" I got out
"Where are you? Someone hasn't been asleep for a while" Link said, frowning "I wish to know where you are"
I grinned, "Oops, sorry, I forgot. Lack of sleep you know" I folded my arms to mirror him "I beat you at that game"
He scowled "What's with you?" if I wasn't mistaken he looked a little upset
"Nothing" I replied, "I'm just talking with the amount of respect that you deserve. For some who's going to kill me"
A blast of realisation crossed his face and suddenly the room with the tunnels and everyone in it passed across my sight again and as soon as it had happened I was back on the plain. His face darkened and the upset look disappeared to be replaced with one of anger.
"You're here, aren't you?" Link asked suddenly, striding up to me and grabbing my arms "Do you think you can possibly kill me? Even with the hero of time? Fool, I'm not even human"
I pulled my wrist away, this guy was angry now.
"You can't kill me" he said loudly and then was about to say something else, before reconsidering and saying quietly "Anyway...I told you those men couldn't protect you..."
I didn't like the look in his eyes, they were staring intently at me, but they held none of Link's warmth. Was this the person I had fooled myself into liking? Someone cruel? If he was a part of Link then how could that be? Yet his eyes looked like they held a betrayal. I hadn't betrayed him by coming here had I?
He thought for a moment and then he grinned wolfishly and said "They can't protect you if you're alone"
"I'm not alone, you're alone Link," I said coldly
"You soon will be" he replied in a strange voice "Are you coming to kill me?"
I suddenly found my mouth and voice were speaking on their own and I heard myself say, "I'm not going to kill Dark Link, I feel too much for him"
And a far away voice in my ear yelled, protesting. Was it Lucy? Someone was protesting this statement, I felt my own head and mind rejecting it as well but it did nothing.
"Good girl" he said quietly
Hold on my wrists relaxed and in a flash his eyes were back to the way I'd seen them before, a cold shade but with something indescribable in them.
I found my eyes were beginning to fill up. The feeling was cold, a deep sadness and a loneliness, a longing for something. It was painful, my head was spinning and the tears began to leak out, what was I feeling? Or was I feeling someone else?
He brushed a tear away and said, his eyes flashing to something different again, it seemed he had many shades of blue for many moods that he felt "Don't cry, this is what has to be"
He pulled my arm towards him and I found my face was nearing his. I couldn't stop this feeling of sadness, was Dark Link filling me with sadness, a vision of things to come?
The person without breath suddenly leaned in and kissed me lightly on the lips before pulling away. I found it hard to breath and closed my eyes to pull myself together. Opening them I found that I was pulling myself away from someone.
Link.
I was back in the round and bright room. With everyone staring at me.
I had kissed Link.
I felt a tear slide down my cheek, my lips were salty, I'd been crying here too.
"So" Sao said coldly "The truth comes out"
I spun round to face him, looking at Link and finding him dumbstruck, his hand to his mouth, trying to figure out what had just happened. I'd kissed him, I found I was mirroring him, my hand over my mouth, I suddenly found it hard to breathe.
"Oh god" I whispered, blinking away more tears
"You're not going to kill him?" Lucy asked, horrified "After what he did? What he's GOING to do?"
I'd said it here as well. Dark Link had made me say it here. The vision had been him controlling me not just a dream. I'd kissed Link. Feeling sick I rubbed my arms to rid myself of the cold feeling.
The cold feeling left me, it had been control. That cold feeling had been his control of me. No wonder it had made me feel so odd.
Sao looked livid with anger "I knew you were up to something when you said violence wasn't the only way. You'd been communicating with him, hadn't you? How did you do it?" his face blanked and then he realised "The unconsciousness. You were communicating with him through that weren't you?" he looked betrayed and angry and hurt all into one "I'm surprised he hasn't attacked us already with his spy in our midst!"
"Hey" Lucy protested at the term
"Shut up, I know what's going on," Sao snapped before growling in my direction "I can see when someone's not loyal to the side of good"
"Is this true?"
I looked at Link, finding my breathing was coming harshly, my eyes were wet with tears. I could still feel the pressure of the kiss on my lips. I touched them with my fingers, it had been them both, and I had kissed both of them under Dark Link's control. Link and Dark Link, but who has kissed back if it was a vision?
They all looked at me, some with confusion and hurt, some angry and looking at me with contempt. Yet they were all away from me.
So I was alone now. That's what he'd wanted.
He'd taken them away all at once with this movement.
"It's...I..." I started to say, not finding words to explain
"Have you been talking with him?" Link asked solemnly
"Yes" I whispered, choking slightly and feeling my eyes shed new tears, how could I lie?
"That's it then" Sao said commandingly, "Leave her to her treacherous seer ways, no wonder she caused a war. Let's go save Termina from the likes of her" he strode off into the darkness of a tunnel
"Sao" I called after him
Kafei and Lucy followed uncertainly. I couldn't believe her, she shot me a 'I'm sorry' look and left. My 'best friend' had left me. The evidence against me was undeniable sure but then...didn't friendship mean something more? I sent her a smile all the same to show her I didn't hate her.
It was me and Link left.
He looked at me and said, "You kissed me..."
I wiped my eyes.
"Or was it him you thought you were kissing?"
I couldn't look at him, I had thought it was him, but not in the way he thought it was. It was painful, that cold feeling that I had felt came back with a rush. Link looked hurt, he clenched his fists and looked toward the tunnel the others had gone into.
"I don't want to believe it," he said quietly
"Then don't" I pleaded, "Don't you think you know me? How could I do this?"
"I don't know" he admitted "But here it is, and if you're going to stop us killing him then you can't follow us"
I wiped my eyes "Please don't leave me, this is what he wanted"
"He wanted this?" Link laughed bitterly "I'm sure he did, he always did want what I have...or had anyway"
Link turned around slowly and walked toward the tunnel.
"LINK!" I yelled, he stopped momentarily "I...couldn't...stop it, please believe me"
He didn't reply, but walking into the darkness.
I felt my chest constricting and sank to the dusty floor, crying, I couldn't even see through my hysterics. I was alone, he'd gotten what he wanted. I curled into a ball and bawled. This was it, I was going to die. No one to stop it, god knows I couldn't, who was I kidding?
"I'm going to die" I screamed hitting the floor in rage, choking on salt water and sadness and whispered quietly to the ground "Don't they care?"
They might have done, not anymore, they thought I'd betrayed them. And maybe I had. I'd fallen for the enemy, I'd hurt Link more than any of them. I could have stayed with him years ago and instead I left, and when I returned, once more I didn't choose him but an evil version.
How did he feel when I kissed him?
Had he felt that I was thinking of someone else?
I hadn't meant to think of anyone else. But Link was taken, how could I not think of anyone else? Perhaps if it had been someone other than Dark Link he would have let it slide, but not this. This was betrayal.
I was as bad as they said I was, and now I couldn't do anything.
Wiping my mouth with my hand I sat up, sobbing, and drew my sword. The time when Sao had come I'd been drowning myself. Was it safer for everyone if I was dead? I seemed to cause nothing but trouble.
I looked at the metal, biting my lip. Suicide was wrong. I wanted to go home. But who knew? Maybe if you died here you were sent home.
I pulled the blade, which was too large for me anyway, and held it to my neck. Was this the quickest way? I didn't really care, I ought to suffer for betraying.
About to move the blade across my throat, never believing it would come to this, I felt a hand grab my wrist and ice shot up my arm.
Yelping I shot back away from the blade and stared up at my attacker.
A shadowed figure, blood red glowing orbs for eyes in a barely human shape. Yet it was familiar. The one who had cut me down and the one who had made me alone. Dark Link in his true form.
"Get away from me" I screamed and hit out at him
The form morphed and there was the Dark Link I recognised in front of me.
"I told you they couldn't protect you" he said softly
"Don't look like that" I replied, yanking my wrist away "Don't you look like him!"
Dark Link grinned and said smiling widely "But isn't this what you want me to look like?"
Did I?
I didn't know what I wanted at the moment.
"Come on" Link said and I felt my body beginning to move by itself "Let's go get started"
"Started?" I asked, suddenly fearful
He looked at me as though I was the stupidest person in the world "You're about to die, or had you forgotten?"
"No" I whispered and tried to stop my body from walking after him
I couldn't, so I uselessly went to him through a dark tunnel.
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How was that chapter? I'm so sorry it takes so long at the moment, not my fault! Honestly! So read and review all!
