Well, as I suspected, this will be the last chapter. There will NOT be a sequel, no matter how much anyone begs me to write one. I hated writing this story, and I will NOT write another related to it. Ever. Period.

Chapter 6

Escape

Link and Zelda stood on the balcony, watching the guards in the dim light below. Link was unfazed by the height of their position. Zelda, however, had never looked down before. She was always afraid of heights. Looking down now, she was terrified.

"Link..." She stuttered, "I... I don't think I can do it!" She clung to his arm as if her life depended on it.

"Shh..." He gave her a swift hug, and stroked her hair as he waited for her to calm down, "It's OK. We'll find another way."

So they made their way to the other side of the room, to where Zelda's door was. Link cautiously opened it, and stuck his head outside. The corridor was empty. But it wouldn't be for long. Link could hear footsteps coming towards them, clanking as a metal boot made contact with the ground. He quickly pulled his head back in the room, and closed the door with a snap.

"The guards come every fifteen minutes or so." Zelda pointed out, and Link nodded.

"Alright." He sat there, pondering what to do, "Is there any time that they won't be outside?"

"No." Zelda said, wondering why he asked her that.

"Well, there is another way, but it's dangerous, and you won't like it." He regarded her levelly.

"What is it?" Zelda asked, a bit of fear in her voice. Whenever Link said something was dangerous, it was when any normal person would end up dead.

"We could jump into the moat."

"No!" Zelda screamed. They both panicked when there was a knock at the door.

"Princess?" A voice called, "Are you alright? I heard a scream!"

"I-I'm fine!" Zelda called out, "I just had a nightmare! I'm fine, really! Continue on your rounds!"

"As you wish!" The man called, and the clanking of metal on stone began once again.

"I am not jumping off my balcony!" Zelda hissed, thinking that her love was insane.

"Well, you can't climb down." He listed off, getting frustrated, "We'll get caught going through the corridors, and you refuse to jump! How in the name of Hyrule do you plan we get out?"

"I don't know." Zelda sighed, and leant on the side of the bookshelf. Obvioulsy, she had never done that before, because she was just as shocked as Link was at what happened when it moved.

"This is perfect." Link said, trying to see into the tunnel that the shelf had been concealing, "Do you know where it leads?"

"No," Zelda looked at it, "I didn't even know that it existed."

"Well," Link said, grabbing a candle, "There's only one way to find out." And with that, he began walking into the tunnel, with Zelda not far behind. He stepped on a loose stone, and the shelf closed behind them. Now there was only one way to go. Forward.

"Link, I don't like this." Zelda whimpered, following him. Their only source of light was the candle, and the tunnel was small and full of spiders.

"Well, we can't go back."

They walked for ages. It seemed like days to them. The silence between them was deafening, and the darkness made them afraid. Especially Zelda. She was terrified. Any fear that Link had was dulled down to a mere sense of uneasyness by the Triforce of Courage.

Zelda walked into Link as he stopped at a dead end.

"What is it, Link?" She asked. Link was not responding to her. He was muttering under his breath.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" He chastised himself, "Why didn't I think of it before? Ugh! I'm so stupid!"

"You're not stupid, Link." Zelda said sternly, "Now, what's going on?"

"I know how to get out of here." Link looked at her in the dim light of the candle, "I should have thought of it before."

"What is it?" Link held up the Ocarina of Time. Zelda's eyes widened in cunfusion, but then she understood.

"But the guards would have heard us." She said logically, "They would be searching for you. You would be executed. No one else knows those melodies." Link nodded.

"Where do you want to go?" He asked, a hint of playfullness to his voice. Zelda thought for a minute.

"I'd like to see the Lake again." Link nodded. She put her arms around him, and he played the Serenade of Water. The notes bounced off the walls, and magnified several times. The echo and volume distorted the notes, but Link knew what he was up to.

The song finished, and the pair of them were spirited away to Lake Hylia.

"Where do we go now?" Zelda looked at Link in confusion, from the island in the middle of the lake.

"They won't look for us here, will they?" Link asked tiredly. Zelda shook her beautiful head.

"No, why?"

"We'll make camp here tonight."

Zelda smiled, and drew him into a kiss. Link responded much more freely than he had the day before. He was the one to break the kiss.

"Tomorrow, I'll take you on an adventure." He whispered. Zelda smiled. That was good enough for her.

Well, I hated it, but I know that people liked it, so I've finished it on a happy note. Remember, I said NO SEQUEL!

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