Chapter X Epilogue?
Lance him self now turned and walked back, not to the inn, but past it. He left town, short two fairies and his pack. He didn't really need any of the things in his pack he now realized. Potion, bombs, nuts, milk (the stupid, stupid milk), his pictures. . . such trivial things. He could do with out them. At least he had remembered his ocarina in his back pocket. But come to think of it, what use was that either? He had no one to call, no calls to wait for, and nowhere to go.
A fleeting image of Lena flashed through his head. Although brief and unexpected, Lance immediately recognized it as his ultimate foe. What puzzled him most was that he had never seen Lena before. Of course, he'd heard very detailed and often wild descriptions of this much-hated Geradu leader. His head now throbbed heavily. Stopping in mid step, he put his hand to his painful forehead. The image flashed again, but this time came more clearly.
The image he received was not that of his memory, but one that was happening simultaneously, a live view of the goings-on in Hyrule. The vision featured his beloved castle, the place for which he was headed. The picture before him though showed no castle. Ashes and rubble were what appeared, remnants of the rock and the foundations of the buildings in the square were all that remained. No survivors could be seen. But one person was there standing among the destruction. Lena. She stood, smiling . . . smiling of all things.
As quickly as it had begun, it ended and the vision vanished from his thoughts. Suddenly Lance knew at once that his parents where no longer amongst the living. Lance understood that everything would be different now. And he knew exactly what he had to do, and this time, he would do it alone. He would do it without any fairies, without friends, acquaintances, the many people he'd met along the way, and most of all without Mandy. That chapter in his life had ended, and he was more than ready to start a new one.
For in this story he is the narrator, and that was just the prologue.