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^.^ Chapter 12 ^.^ - The Confrontation

Zelda turned red. It wasn't hard to tell she was angry. Ignoring Link's question, she took his hand and went to another pair of large oak doors.

"FATHER!!!" she yelled as she pushed the doors open.

Many guards ran towards Zelda, their lances pointing to Link's neck as his hood fell off.

"LEAVE HIM!" Zelda screamed as she let out a wave of magic that made all the guards freeze in their positions.

"Zelda! My daughter! I am so glad tht you have returned to me! I see that you have out smarted your capturer!" the king said, beaming as he hugged Zelda.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Zelda screamed shrilly as she pushed her father away.

"I… I don't understand!" the king said as he stumbled backwards.

Standing over him, Zelda looked straight into his eyes, "Link… did… not… capture… me… HE SAVED MY LIFE!!!!"

"Nonsense!" the king shouted as he stood up, "Clearly, he has cast a mind-control spell on you!"

"No he hasn't, Father! I know the truth now! I know that you tunred the time backwards and that you sent Link away from Hyrule. You don't have to lie anymore because I KNOW EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE KEPT FROM ME!!" Zelda screamed.

"The… truth?" the king asked as fear came across his face, "What truth, child?"

"DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW!" Zelda yelled angrily.

"You… know?" the king asked.

"It's about time you realised!" Zelda screamed.

"But… how? SARIA!" the king saw Saria standing in the doorway.

"No, not her, Father," Zelda said before the king could do anything.

"Then who?" the king asked.

"It was I," a voice came from behind the throne.

"Rauru?" the king asked in fury, "It was you?"

Rauru nodded solemnly, "I always told you that your selfishness was going to be your downfall. Look what you have done to yourself. You were so self absorbed that it cost you your own daughter."

"You… traitor!!!" the king spluttered in rage as he ran towards the sage.

"Stop it!" Zelda screamed, "Leave Rauru alone! It isn't his fault that you are so selfish!"

Link stood in the middle of the throne room, next to Zelda, puzzled. He didn't know what to do. He didn't even know why he was here. Looking at Zelda's face, he could tell she was very angry.

He lightly touched her hand, "Calm down."

Zelda sighed, "I wish I could, but I can never forgive my father for what he has done to me… to us. He is the one to blame and he is blaming others for his faults!"

Link nodded and looked back to the doorway, where Saria was standing. He smiled at her, urging her to come forward, which she did.

To Link and Zelda, Saria felt like a child. An insignificant child. She knew that she wan't really. In fact, she was a little older than Link. But it didn't show on the outside. The only people who knew her real age were her and Link. The Kokiri never spoke of their age. It wasn't necesarry or anything worth talking about and Link… she doubted that he even remembered who she was. Sure, he knew her name, but a name was just that. The memories they had shared before he was forced to leave… and even before the king turned the time back… those memories would never return. Time was like a mind controller. Making you forget of the had-beens and remembering only what is going on. And of course, Link would have wanted to forget about Hyrule. Who knows what the king had done to him… what he had threatened Link with before he was abandoned in the woods.

Saria's thoughts were interrupted by a hand being placed on her shoulder, "Hey, what's wrong?"

Saria looked up. The owner of the hand and the voice was Link. Sniffing a little, she shook her head, "Nothing. It's nothing important."

Link smiled, Saria could tell that he knew she was upset.

"Link, I don't know how you got your filthy hands on my daughter, or how you could convince my most trustworthy advisor to help you, but I gurantee that you will not get away with this!" the king yelled.

"Don't drag Link into this!" Zelda screamed loudly.

Ignoring his daughter, the king continued, "Link, from now on, you are banished from Hyrule. Place a foot in my kingdom and you will certainly die. As for you, Zelda, to minimise the risk of this happening again, you are now forbidden to leave the castle. I am going to make security even tighter and there will be at least two guards outside your room at all times."

"What?!?!" Zelda screamed, "You can't do this! You can't baanish Link! And you can't do that to me!!!"

"Watch me," the king told her as he called upon some guards to take Link away.

"LINK!!!!" Zelda screamed as she watched the guards drag him away, taking Saria with them.

"Zelda!!" Link shouted back, wincing in pain as the guards purposefully knocked him into a wall.

"Take the princess to her room," the king told some guards as he left.

"You can't do this to me," Zelda said as the guards grabbed hold of her hands, "Let go of me!!!"

"King's orders," the guards said as they forced Zelda up the stairs.

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