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Chapter 22: Broken Promise
Link sighed as he leaned against the banister. Night had fallen quickly and Zelda had shut herself up in his room. He absentmindedly pulled at the buttons on his tunic. He wasn't the only one upset about the canceled wedding. Aryll was equally upset, since it was also her wedding day. She was sitting on one of the soft couches in the parlor, watching Link mope.
"Link!" she called. He looked up with a weak smile as he went toward her.
"What?" he asked.
"I just wanted to know... maybe I shouldn't ask... but I can't stand the thought of Rosemarie committing suicide... I remember her at the ball. She was so happy and stuff. What happened?" Link sighed as he sat down next to his sister.
"Well, I am not exactly sure, but I'll tell you the most I know. Well, you see, there once was this man named Gannondorf."
"I think I remember Mother telling us about him. He wanted to take over Hyrule a few centuries or something ago. Back then, when the legendary Hero of Time slew him. I know, I remember."
"Anyway, I don't know what happened but apparently when the Hero of Time killed him, he didn't die. He came back now and was trying to kill Zel. He must've gone through Rosemarie first, because she managed to stop him. But, she had to sacrifice her own life to do it."
"That's awful! What happened to Gannondorf?"
"I don't know. Maybe he was here. Maybe he wasn't. I can guess he probably went into hiding, now that his plan didn't work. He might appear again, a while later. We have to be ready."
"Oh......... but there's still something I don't get. How would Rosemarie's sacrifice be able to save Zelda?"
"From what Zelda told me before she shut herself away was that a mysterious figure in her dream told her that she had some essence of the Triforce within her, and a special dagger was able to draw it out. I pieced together that the dagger Rosemarie had was able to do that if it stabbed her. But, Rosemarie... maybe she stole it and couldn't destroy it. In the end, she had to kill herself. Maybe that destroyed its power. I don't know. We had it tested, but it didn't show any source of power. It was just a simple old dagger. If there was any spell on it, Rosemarie's sacrifice must have countered it." Link felt silent. He felt better by getting all that out, but deep inside he still loved Rosemarie. It was hard to talk about her death.
"Oh..." Aryll trailed off. She put an arm around her brother and they both sat there.
"I can't believe she's gone..." Link whispered. Aryll nodded. After a few minutes, Aryll looked over at her brother.
"I want you to promise me something," she said. Link shrugged. "Will you promise that you will always be with me, forever. Promise that you, Zelda, Marth, and I will always be a family and no one will ever leave anybody, and no one will ever make us either."
"I promise. Now, let's go to sleep."
"Wait, first let's go up and make Zelda promise too."
"Okay."
.........
A few minutes later, the pair went up to Link's room, where Zelda was staying. Link knocked on the door.
"Hey, Zel. May I come in?" The two waited as no response came. "Zel?" Link carefully opened the door. He peered inside and found that the room was empty.
"That's strange," he remarked, opening the door further. He and Aryll ventured into the room. Link went over and checked the closet while Aryll went right to the bed. She picked up the diary that lay on it and opened to the first page.
" 'Saved by a Prince'? What kind of story is this?" She flipped a few pages. Link smiled slightly as he saw the diary. "Hey, Link! It has your name in it."
"I know," he said, walking over to her. "It was Rosemarie's diary. She wrote a story about me rescuing her. I thought it was really good. She was always talented..." Link broke off, trying to force back the lump in his throat.
"So where's Zelda?" Aryll asked. Link looked around as if he expected her to come out of the wall at any moment.
"I don't know. Let's ask." The two hurried out of the room and down the stairs. After running through a couple of hallways, they emerged into the main ballroom. The wedding decorations were being taken down, since the two weddings were postponed till after the funeral. They saw the king and queen near one of the doorways.
"Mother!" Aryll called. "Have you seen Zelda?" The king and queen looked at each other.
"No," the queen replied. "Not since this afternoon. I don't even think she came down for dinner. Link, you told me she was in your room."
"That's what I thought," Link said. "But she's not there any more." The king and queen glanced at each other again.
"That's strange," the king noted. "How could she disappear like that? Did you search for her?"
"Not really," Link admitted. "We looked in my room and then came straight down here."
"Well, she could have gone to see... Rosemarie," the queen said.
"Yes. She could have. We should check just in case," decided the king.
"I'll come with you, my dear."
.........
After a few more minutes, the four royals hurried to the room where Rosemarie had been found dead. Link held up his hand to knock, but found that his hand wouldn't budge.
"This is just like last time," he muttered, only loud enough for the other three to here. "Last Time... that name has so many meanings. I remember when that name was reserved for the time Rosemarie tripped..." Silence followed. An uneasy feeling came upon the four royals.
"Let's just open the door," Aryll said nervously. Link nodded, trying to get rid of the lump in his throat. He grasped the doorknob and thrust the door open. His eyes widened and his knees buckled. The king and queen cried out in horror, while Aryll was stuck motionless with shock. The four of them looked upon the floor where Zelda lay, a dagger stabbed into her heart and a pool of blood around her. None of them spoke.
Finally, Aryll crouched next to the kneeling Link and buried her head in his shoulder. He could hear her sobbing. He was crying too, tears rolling down his cheeks. Link tried to wipe his eyes with his sleeve, but his arm just stopped over his eyes. The queen grasped her husband's arm very tightly, but the two of them were too surprised to notice. Two serving maids passed by the doorway. They backtracked to see what was going on.
"What in Din's name... OH! Your highness! What happened?"
"Get the guards, Myla, and hurry!"
.........
"WHY? WHY? WHY?" Link yelled, pacing his room. The grief- stricken king and queen watched him as they calmed Aryll down. Tears rushed down Link's face in frenzy, but he was too angry to notice.
"WHY?" he stopped pacing, crossing his arms over his chest and put his head down. He squeezed his eyes shut. Aryll rubbed her eyes frantically. The four royals looked at each other. They were not the only ones who were sad. The whole of Hyrule had heard about the death of both girls by this time and they were all mourning. None mourned more than Link, who had lost both of his loves on the same day. Yesterday seemed so far away, with the two girls in his arms as they patrolled the castle. Now, his heart felt empty.
"Link..." Aryll said softly, her voice all shaky from crying. She shrugged off her mother's arms and walked over to her brother, putting an arm around his waist. Link wiggled out of her arm and swiftly walked to the door. He flung it open.
"The promise..." Aryll reminded weakly. Link whipped around.
"Zelda broke her end of the promise! Now both she and Rosemarie are gone! The promise is no good, Aryll. I'm sorry. I can't abide by it." Link walked off. Aryll stood in the middle of the room, looking after him.
.........
Link didn't know where he was going for sure. He remembered leaving his room, and all of a sudden he was in front of Rosemarie's. With a sigh, he opened the door. The two girls he had treasured most lay upon the bed. The dagger had been placed between them. Link took it and walked over to the window.
"It was all happy then..." Link thought. "When I first met them. Why is it that everything had to end so tragically? So what if the evil is stopped? The evil has claimed both of my friends. Why is life so unfair?" Link looked outside into the night sky. The moon shone brightly in the cloudless sky. For a moment, Link felt a sense of fear wash over him.
"The three of us were never meant to be. I'm sorry, Aryll, that I broke your promise, but I cannot stay on this Earth without them." Link closed his eyes and positioned the dagger over his heart. He closed his eyes and thrust the dagger into his body.
Pain swept through him like fire. His heart burned. He fell to his knees as the world around him started to blur and fade. Once in a while, his vision would clear, and then fade again. All the while, the pain increased until Link had to fall over. Finally, the world grew dark.......................................................................................
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Me: SOB!!! I JUST KILLED LINK!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Saria, Malon, Ruto, and Zelda: HOW COULD YOU?
Me: WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Din, Farore, and Nayru: Oh, suck it up! He's still alive, jeez!
Me: What?
Link: I'm still alive. Remember, this is just a story we are acting out!
Me: Really? Then tell me, how did you get the dagger to look like it really was inside your body.
Link: Nope, can't tell. Movie producer's secret.
Me: This ain't a movie! Ohhhhhh, forget trying to reason with them.
Anywayz, that's the last real chapter in the story. It kind of ended like something else should happen, but then again, the prologue ended like this for Rosemarie. There's still an epilogue, but since that's going to be pretty long, I'll just include all the thanks in this chapter.
First, I want to thank Long Fangs because she kind of helped the sadness in the prologue and gave me the idea of how to kill Rosemarie... not that I wanted to. Plus, she had to bear listening to all my ideas for this story at our lunch table! Thank you!
Next, my thanks go out to Ani1, the first reviewer of this story!! Yay!
Finally, my thanks go out to all my other reviewers. I would list you all if there weren't so many. You guys really supported me. After all, this story was originally only going to be one chapter long and it had only two reviews. I am so grateful. And also to the people who put this story on their favorites and me as their favorite author! Thank you!
Oh, I can't forget to thank Link, Zelda, Aryll, Marth, Wildflower, Rosemarie, and all their parents for being in my story!! Big round of applause for a job well done!
Now, there's only the epilogue left so stay tuned! Review!
Chapter 22: Broken Promise
Link sighed as he leaned against the banister. Night had fallen quickly and Zelda had shut herself up in his room. He absentmindedly pulled at the buttons on his tunic. He wasn't the only one upset about the canceled wedding. Aryll was equally upset, since it was also her wedding day. She was sitting on one of the soft couches in the parlor, watching Link mope.
"Link!" she called. He looked up with a weak smile as he went toward her.
"What?" he asked.
"I just wanted to know... maybe I shouldn't ask... but I can't stand the thought of Rosemarie committing suicide... I remember her at the ball. She was so happy and stuff. What happened?" Link sighed as he sat down next to his sister.
"Well, I am not exactly sure, but I'll tell you the most I know. Well, you see, there once was this man named Gannondorf."
"I think I remember Mother telling us about him. He wanted to take over Hyrule a few centuries or something ago. Back then, when the legendary Hero of Time slew him. I know, I remember."
"Anyway, I don't know what happened but apparently when the Hero of Time killed him, he didn't die. He came back now and was trying to kill Zel. He must've gone through Rosemarie first, because she managed to stop him. But, she had to sacrifice her own life to do it."
"That's awful! What happened to Gannondorf?"
"I don't know. Maybe he was here. Maybe he wasn't. I can guess he probably went into hiding, now that his plan didn't work. He might appear again, a while later. We have to be ready."
"Oh......... but there's still something I don't get. How would Rosemarie's sacrifice be able to save Zelda?"
"From what Zelda told me before she shut herself away was that a mysterious figure in her dream told her that she had some essence of the Triforce within her, and a special dagger was able to draw it out. I pieced together that the dagger Rosemarie had was able to do that if it stabbed her. But, Rosemarie... maybe she stole it and couldn't destroy it. In the end, she had to kill herself. Maybe that destroyed its power. I don't know. We had it tested, but it didn't show any source of power. It was just a simple old dagger. If there was any spell on it, Rosemarie's sacrifice must have countered it." Link felt silent. He felt better by getting all that out, but deep inside he still loved Rosemarie. It was hard to talk about her death.
"Oh..." Aryll trailed off. She put an arm around her brother and they both sat there.
"I can't believe she's gone..." Link whispered. Aryll nodded. After a few minutes, Aryll looked over at her brother.
"I want you to promise me something," she said. Link shrugged. "Will you promise that you will always be with me, forever. Promise that you, Zelda, Marth, and I will always be a family and no one will ever leave anybody, and no one will ever make us either."
"I promise. Now, let's go to sleep."
"Wait, first let's go up and make Zelda promise too."
"Okay."
.........
A few minutes later, the pair went up to Link's room, where Zelda was staying. Link knocked on the door.
"Hey, Zel. May I come in?" The two waited as no response came. "Zel?" Link carefully opened the door. He peered inside and found that the room was empty.
"That's strange," he remarked, opening the door further. He and Aryll ventured into the room. Link went over and checked the closet while Aryll went right to the bed. She picked up the diary that lay on it and opened to the first page.
" 'Saved by a Prince'? What kind of story is this?" She flipped a few pages. Link smiled slightly as he saw the diary. "Hey, Link! It has your name in it."
"I know," he said, walking over to her. "It was Rosemarie's diary. She wrote a story about me rescuing her. I thought it was really good. She was always talented..." Link broke off, trying to force back the lump in his throat.
"So where's Zelda?" Aryll asked. Link looked around as if he expected her to come out of the wall at any moment.
"I don't know. Let's ask." The two hurried out of the room and down the stairs. After running through a couple of hallways, they emerged into the main ballroom. The wedding decorations were being taken down, since the two weddings were postponed till after the funeral. They saw the king and queen near one of the doorways.
"Mother!" Aryll called. "Have you seen Zelda?" The king and queen looked at each other.
"No," the queen replied. "Not since this afternoon. I don't even think she came down for dinner. Link, you told me she was in your room."
"That's what I thought," Link said. "But she's not there any more." The king and queen glanced at each other again.
"That's strange," the king noted. "How could she disappear like that? Did you search for her?"
"Not really," Link admitted. "We looked in my room and then came straight down here."
"Well, she could have gone to see... Rosemarie," the queen said.
"Yes. She could have. We should check just in case," decided the king.
"I'll come with you, my dear."
.........
After a few more minutes, the four royals hurried to the room where Rosemarie had been found dead. Link held up his hand to knock, but found that his hand wouldn't budge.
"This is just like last time," he muttered, only loud enough for the other three to here. "Last Time... that name has so many meanings. I remember when that name was reserved for the time Rosemarie tripped..." Silence followed. An uneasy feeling came upon the four royals.
"Let's just open the door," Aryll said nervously. Link nodded, trying to get rid of the lump in his throat. He grasped the doorknob and thrust the door open. His eyes widened and his knees buckled. The king and queen cried out in horror, while Aryll was stuck motionless with shock. The four of them looked upon the floor where Zelda lay, a dagger stabbed into her heart and a pool of blood around her. None of them spoke.
Finally, Aryll crouched next to the kneeling Link and buried her head in his shoulder. He could hear her sobbing. He was crying too, tears rolling down his cheeks. Link tried to wipe his eyes with his sleeve, but his arm just stopped over his eyes. The queen grasped her husband's arm very tightly, but the two of them were too surprised to notice. Two serving maids passed by the doorway. They backtracked to see what was going on.
"What in Din's name... OH! Your highness! What happened?"
"Get the guards, Myla, and hurry!"
.........
"WHY? WHY? WHY?" Link yelled, pacing his room. The grief- stricken king and queen watched him as they calmed Aryll down. Tears rushed down Link's face in frenzy, but he was too angry to notice.
"WHY?" he stopped pacing, crossing his arms over his chest and put his head down. He squeezed his eyes shut. Aryll rubbed her eyes frantically. The four royals looked at each other. They were not the only ones who were sad. The whole of Hyrule had heard about the death of both girls by this time and they were all mourning. None mourned more than Link, who had lost both of his loves on the same day. Yesterday seemed so far away, with the two girls in his arms as they patrolled the castle. Now, his heart felt empty.
"Link..." Aryll said softly, her voice all shaky from crying. She shrugged off her mother's arms and walked over to her brother, putting an arm around his waist. Link wiggled out of her arm and swiftly walked to the door. He flung it open.
"The promise..." Aryll reminded weakly. Link whipped around.
"Zelda broke her end of the promise! Now both she and Rosemarie are gone! The promise is no good, Aryll. I'm sorry. I can't abide by it." Link walked off. Aryll stood in the middle of the room, looking after him.
.........
Link didn't know where he was going for sure. He remembered leaving his room, and all of a sudden he was in front of Rosemarie's. With a sigh, he opened the door. The two girls he had treasured most lay upon the bed. The dagger had been placed between them. Link took it and walked over to the window.
"It was all happy then..." Link thought. "When I first met them. Why is it that everything had to end so tragically? So what if the evil is stopped? The evil has claimed both of my friends. Why is life so unfair?" Link looked outside into the night sky. The moon shone brightly in the cloudless sky. For a moment, Link felt a sense of fear wash over him.
"The three of us were never meant to be. I'm sorry, Aryll, that I broke your promise, but I cannot stay on this Earth without them." Link closed his eyes and positioned the dagger over his heart. He closed his eyes and thrust the dagger into his body.
Pain swept through him like fire. His heart burned. He fell to his knees as the world around him started to blur and fade. Once in a while, his vision would clear, and then fade again. All the while, the pain increased until Link had to fall over. Finally, the world grew dark.......................................................................................
..............................................................................
Me: SOB!!! I JUST KILLED LINK!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Saria, Malon, Ruto, and Zelda: HOW COULD YOU?
Me: WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Din, Farore, and Nayru: Oh, suck it up! He's still alive, jeez!
Me: What?
Link: I'm still alive. Remember, this is just a story we are acting out!
Me: Really? Then tell me, how did you get the dagger to look like it really was inside your body.
Link: Nope, can't tell. Movie producer's secret.
Me: This ain't a movie! Ohhhhhh, forget trying to reason with them.
Anywayz, that's the last real chapter in the story. It kind of ended like something else should happen, but then again, the prologue ended like this for Rosemarie. There's still an epilogue, but since that's going to be pretty long, I'll just include all the thanks in this chapter.
First, I want to thank Long Fangs because she kind of helped the sadness in the prologue and gave me the idea of how to kill Rosemarie... not that I wanted to. Plus, she had to bear listening to all my ideas for this story at our lunch table! Thank you!
Next, my thanks go out to Ani1, the first reviewer of this story!! Yay!
Finally, my thanks go out to all my other reviewers. I would list you all if there weren't so many. You guys really supported me. After all, this story was originally only going to be one chapter long and it had only two reviews. I am so grateful. And also to the people who put this story on their favorites and me as their favorite author! Thank you!
Oh, I can't forget to thank Link, Zelda, Aryll, Marth, Wildflower, Rosemarie, and all their parents for being in my story!! Big round of applause for a job well done!
Now, there's only the epilogue left so stay tuned! Review!