Chapter Six

            Princess Zelda stared at the calm scenery of the Hyrule landscape, her sad blue eyes glassy with tears. It hurt so much, and she felt so disturbed.

"My highness, Xanath is here to have a word with you," Paer said, "Shall I allow him in?"

"Yes," she said in a dry voice. The advisor moved away from the door and allowed Xanath to join Zelda on the balcony. The man hesitated a bit before speaking.

"The guards have imprisoned Link in the dungeons just as you requested," he said softly. But the princess didn't care, or seem as if she didn't. He knew then what was wrong. "You're upset about Link aren't you? Look, we all didn't know about this. It took us all by surprise—"

"He killed those defenceless people Xanath," she whispered. "He…ate them…I don't know if I can look at his face anymore and not see that beast."

"I know, it's all down right disturbing," he said, looking sad. "But aren't you being a bit harsh on the poor guy? Link sure is a ravenous beast, but he's the same person deep down." Princess Zelda turned around, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"He's not Link anymore!" she cried. "And he'll never be! The Link I knew wouldn't succumb to dark desires like that. He's the sort of person who will fight and keep fighting until he dies." Her outburst shocked the man. In all the years of serving the princess he had never seen her act in such a manner. As a princess it was most inappropriate.

"With all due respect my highness but wouldn't it be better to see him rather than accuse him of being something he's not? You know as well as I do that Link saved you from Nisih did he not?" It was more of a statement than a question. Zelda's eyes averted to the left. There was no escaping the obvious, but she couldn't forgive him for killing those people.

"Say what you want to Xanath, but I can't forgive him for what he's done. He should have came and told us when things started going haywire; in a way, he allowed it all to happen because he thinks he can handle things all on his own. He may have been the Hero of Time, but he can't save everything that needs saving," she snarled. "And I can't see why you still think he's the same being within. You saw how badly mutilated those bodies were. Those bodies shouldn't look like that if he were holding back." Xanath frowned, folding his arms across each other.

"Do you hate Link, or what he's become," he asked calmly, the total opposite of her. "Because I think your anger is directed to the wrong person."

"At the moment I feel infuriated at both. Even more so I'm beginning to hate," she said curtly. "Do you have any idea what this could mean? The land of Hyrule will be governed by fear and insecurity since I 'allow' an underling to kill them. They'll lose their trust and loyalty for me." Xanath chuckled at her reply despite the knowledge she could have his head for it.

"So this is more of a favouritism thing than anything else. You're afraid that they will overthrow you?" the very thought made him chuckle again. Princess Zelda clenched her fists so hard that her knuckles were becoming white.

"Are you mad? I should have stopped this problem when it was progressing instead of relying on Link to do so. I was just waiting for it to breeze over. He is to blame for all this," she shouted.

"I think I've heard quite enough. It is obvious that you care little of Link when he's the culprit and you're more concerned on how the public sees you as," Xanath said. "I apologise, but you're the only beast here, not Link. You're a princess and you should take responsibility in these things and think rationally. In the mean time think carefully over what you've said and see if there is any right in it." After that he left the princess alone on the balcony, and the tight tension that had been growing between the two.

"Goddesses I hate her!" Nisih screamed as she tended her wounds. After breaking out of the castle she had retreated to a secluded area of the Hyrule field, and had decided to plot revenge on her. "If it were not for her and her bitch-assed guards Link would have easily complied." Her obsession for him wasn't something that was new, the fact that she was a werewolf made things worst, or even deemed dangerous. Nisih had always admired Link since she first heard of him, an innocent Kokiri dweller who knew nothing of the outside world. She watched as he grew into a formidable fighter and defeated Ganondorf. After that she had swooned for him, but someone stood in the way, someone who was too close to him. Princess Zelda almost always seemed to be around, and it drove her mad, so mad that the only way she could get to Link was to destroy Zelda.

The meeting in the forest had happened by pure coincidence. Whilst she had been walking in the most deep set parts of the Lost Woods she saw him only a few metres away. Finally she had caught up with him and was starting to get him to hang around with her, well that was until he explained Princess Zelda had called for his help. Hearing that name had snapped something in her mind. She had changed into a wolf and attacked Link, saying that he would have no choice but to be with her. She succeeded biting him with a deadly amount of bloody foam. Only blood contact will give him the same abilities that she possessed.

"Bah, even with that he still resists me," she sighed, tightening a bandage around her wrist with her teeth. "But without Zelda, there will be no need for him to stay. And then he'll be all mine…"

However she knew that she didn't want the same thing that happened last night to happen again. She could still feel the pain in her neck. She needed another motive, yes, perhaps to concoct a plan to lure Zelda far away from the castle. Then everything will fall into place.