Author's note: Due to demands... I have decided to keep this fan fiction on! (cheer everyone!) To celebrate, this is the climatic chapter, EVERYTHING just topples over... and trust me... it will scare you...
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Chapter 5: The Shadow Uncovered
When Zelda awoke she still felt as if the night before was a dream. The sweet kisses Link had given her seemed to be only figments of her imagination, a lost memory yet to be brought up from the soils of the earth. However, she soon realized it was all real... this brought her much relief, realizing that she and Link would spend the rest of their lives together with each other. She quietly arose from her bed and gracefully walked toward the window, which still had its drapes blocking the light from entering the room. Zelda slid both of them open letting the light shine down on her, making her pale skin look as if it was glowing and her eyes sparkling as if they were the endless deep sea of love.
However, her relief was soon taken away when she heard a cry from Zared rushing into the room and breathing rather scarcely. He ran into Zelda's arms and clung onto her tightly. Her eyes grew wide for a moment as she placed her hand on his back and knelt to his level, and trying to calm him down. Zelda tried to ask him what ailed him, but she only was left with responses of deep inhales and exhales. Eventually, Zelda had calmed Zared down to the point where he wobbled and fainted in her arms.
Zelda clung tightly onto her little brother, trying to wake him up, but he still remained sleeping in her grasp. Despair hit her when a servant came into her room, scurrying across the floor and to Zelda. Her eyes carried deep concern as she held her hand to her chest, while breathing heavily.
"Milady..." She managed to gasp out, "Someone in this castle is hurt... or dead... blood was found in the hallways..."
Before the servant could finish, Zelda had gently placed Zared on her bed and quickly walked out of her room. She somehow knew who it was, but hoped that it wouldn't be. As Zelda quickly walked down the hallways, she let out quiet groans and faint whispers left her lips. Once she saw the trail of blood, she collapsed against the wall before continuing on again. Tears began to stream down her cheeks when she saw the blood was heading toward Link's room, but she still maintained the same speed in walking, she did not hesitate. However, hesitation came to her when she had reached his door and reluctantly placed her hand on the doorknob and slowly turned it.
Terror came to her when she had looked down on the ground. When she had drifted her eyes from strait in front of her to the ground, she gasped and placed her hands over her mouth. Shaking her head, more tears streamed down her cheeks as she rushed toward the one she loved, Link. Link lay in his blood on the hard cold floor, he had received a stab wound in his chest area.
Zelda could not speak, only cry as she took him and cradled him in her arms. A servant had come to the doorframe only to see the mourning princess crying over her beloved. He had rushed to get some help as Zelda still remained holding him, stroking her fingers through his blonde hair, and giving him kisses on the cheek in a dim hope that he may be made whole. She whispered into his ear, after hearing quiet, but hoarse breathing coming from him.
"Link, hold on..." she said before her voice broke, "Hold on..."
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Link's wounds were treated to immediately, and Zelda had stayed by his side all through the day, without any food or rest, for she was not bound with thirst or hunger. Link lay in his bed, breathing quietly as Zelda had her hand on his, gently stroking the top of it with her thumb. His eyes were gently closed as his head was being engulfed by the white feather pillow. His long, golden bangs brushed the sides of his face. When Link had grimaced in pain, Zelda set both of her hands on him, and gently rubbed his cheek.
The front of Zelda's blouse was covered with the red blood of Link, but would not change, for she refused for Link to be left alone. She knew he needed her and now was a more crucial time for that than any other. Zelda continued to hold his hand as he breathed scarce and slow breaths. It seemed any moment he would pass, but Zelda refused to believe so. She couldn't lift her eyes from him, it seemed her gaze was locked upon his gently shut eyes.
Patiently, she waited for him to wake up, and when she had only seen him squirm once, Zelda perked up, waiting for his next action. His deep sea blue eyes opened and looked to Zelda. Link's lips were the color of his pale skin, and small traces of dried blood were still around his mouth and forehead.
"Link..." was all Zelda could say.
To her surprise, Link did not smile at her, instead he turned away and slowly clenched his sheets, but he had gripped tighter onto Zelda's hand, as if he was going to loose her. Zelda's piercing eyes grew less wide, but grew with a deep concern.
"Are you going to leave me...?" She hesitantly said, praying for him to say no.
To her relief, he shook his head, "I'll hold on for you." He said hoarsely.
However, Zelda could see deep within him he was troubled by something, but what exactly was it? Even though he had opened himself to her, Link still held a deep dark secret from her, as if he was hiding something... or someone... was he doing it unconsciously or purposely? Questions began to fill her mind as she still gazed upon Link's face. Her thoughts had vanished when he turned his head toward her and spoke gently, in the same monotone voice he had spoken in as of late.
"You can leave... I'll be fine."
Zelda's steel expression softened to a smile and she nodded in a somewhat relieved way. If he had said he would be fine, he would be fine. She had risen from his side and went out the door and into the hallway. When Link had heard a soft click from the door closing, he shifted uneasily slightly and slowly rose from his bed flinching. Link's tough body could stand almost any pain, it seemed unnatural.
He moved his legs to the side of the bed and rose to his feet, holding onto his wound, which was bandaged tightly. Link looked around the room as if it were his first time there. He traipsed slowly toward the window and looked outside to see the pouring rain, and the dreadful overcast of the clouds of descending shadow. When Link turned toward his bed again, he had taken a bad step and had tripped on the ground. Groaning a little anguish, he lifted his head to see in front of him.
Something under the bed had caught his eye, and he curiously reached out for it. Suddenly, a spark of familiarity had hit him, as if he had been doing this before, but when. Now with his hand trembling, Link loomed closer toward the object and set his hands upon it and pulled it out. It was a sword... a sword stained with the color of blood. A sharp, dizzy pain shot through Link's head as he had seen this. Suddenly, memories flashed before him.
"Sir Link..." One servant had said to him, with several others behind her.
Link turned his head quickly toward her, his eyes glazed over with something unnatural. The servant had caught him walking down the hallways at a rather quick pace.
"Zelda wishes to see you..."
"I've already seen her..." He had harshly said.
"But Sir Link..."
The servants' eyes were widened when they had seen Link draw a sword from in front of him and point it toward them with a coat of evil over his eyes. They were too much in the state of shock to scream when they had thought they had seen his eyes glow a fierce red and as he charged at all of them. Later in the hours he had hung them.
The horrible memories came to Link all of the sudden, as if another side of himself had been recording them. He continued to stare at the sword as he slowly got up and walked backward until he had come to a wall. Link then walked toward the mirror and gazed upon it for a short while until he had seen the Shadow appear before him. Another memory flashed through his mind.
"Do you really care for her?" He remembered saying to himself.
"Yes..." Link replied to himself as if he were another person.
He was staring into the mirror, where he had seen the Shadow, Dark Link, staring at him with a piercing gaze. As Link moved, it moved. So his hand drifted to the sword beside him, already tainted with malice and blood. Link had risen to his feet and turning around.
"Well then... perhaps this will silence you... and keep you away from her!"
Link had thrust the sword into his chest area, and crying out in pain, he withdrew the sword and tossed it under his bed where it had last been. He then traveled outside of his room, trying to reach Zelda, but his other side had stopped him, and Link had reluctantly traveled back to his room.
Link continued to gaze into the mirror, which reflected his terrified and shocked face. Then behind him, he had seen the shadow there once again staring at him with the frightening red flaming eyes. It whispered in a slow and horrible voice, prompting Link.
"Kill her..."
Link's eyes became glazed over with evil. Once again he was possessed by the evil power that dwelt within him and he rose to his feet and slowly went toward the sword and picked it up off the ground and gazed at its bloodstained blade. A sneer came over his face, and that sneer evolved into a slight chuckle as it seemed his eyes glowed with a fiery red passion to kill.
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Zelda had walked passed the entry way to the Royal Hall, and it was there when she stopped when she felt a suspicious feeling come over her. Slowly she turned her head toward the large doors and eyed them awkwardly, thinking someone was there... waiting for her.
"Yes?" She said, as if someone had called out to her.
Zelda was now reaching toward the large handles on the doors. Slowly she opened the doors as they loudly creaked, revealing the vast and open room. Zelda slowly walked in, leaving the doors open behind her. She could hear the thunder roaring outside and the rain pounding on the windows almost in unison with her individual steps that echoed throughout the hall. She jumped when the doors had harshly slammed behind her, and chills began to run down her spine when she heard footsteps other than hers. Her head whirled side to side with her golden hair flying behind her. Her breathing became more and heavier as she stepped backward. Suddenly, Zelda had sensed movement behind her...
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Author's note: Yes, if you're asking, Link is basically schizophrenic... I know it's weird, but it's a VERY big twist in my opinion... anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Special thanks (YAY!!! FOUR PEOPLE REVIEWED!!!! :D)
Gigglegril13: Well, it won't be discontinued, and it's kinda too late because... you know it's at the climax... and if I discontinued it right now, people would be going crazy because of the big cliffy. Anyway, hope you liked this chapter! Thanks for the review!
LadyAkki45: Thanks! I won't be discontinuing this story! I guess it was kinda wrong for me to even consider it... But it would be nice to have a lot of people read and review, but I guess that's what every author wants. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter! Thanks for the review!
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Sarah: HEY!!! IT'S EPONA-CHAN!!! Hee hee! :D Hmm.... I guess I could add Sonic and Amy to my favorite couples list... Speaking of which was the last episode full of fluff?! Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for the review!