"I really hate this place." Navi remarked as she and Link entered the shadow temple.
"I know, but I need to get to the bottom of this." Link replied. The song started playing again. Navi shivered and her light dimmed.
"Link, can we please go home?" she asked.
"Last time we came here, you told me to be brave and get it over with, now I'm telling you to." Link said harshly.
"You sure have matured since then…." Navi remarked. The two stopped in their tracks at the sound of a dark and evil laughter that they knew too well.
"I knew it. I knew you would play right into my trap," Dark Link said as he hid in the shadows, "Now allow me to make this a night you won't forget, ever. Who is the next Alice?" Navi stiffened and began to shake.
"Link, you're a really good friend of mine. You really are," she said, turning to Link, "But this has gone too far! You're on your own from now on!" Then the little fairy zipped away, leaving a scared, lonely hero. The only thing Link could do was to keep going. His heroic instinct kept telling him to. He then came to see his group of old friends.
"The next Alice," Sheik began, "Who will it be?" Malon sighed, shaking her head.
"You really are an idiot, aren't you? I believe it's pretty obvious that it's Link!" She exclaimed, whacking the sheikah on the back of his head. The princess began to lose her patience.
"ENOUGH! Though we know that it'll be Link who takes his role as the next Alice, I believe you two fail to see that he might outsmart us!" she burst, leaving Malon and Sheik to mumble to themselves.
"But, princess," Saria began, "I don't think you quite understand our position. You see, even if the hero does outsmart us, we still have Master to put things back in order!"
"Yeah, Dark Link can do anything! He is so cool!" Mido said happily. Zelda just sighed in reply.
"Fine," she said, defeated, "we'll just let everything go as it does. But I am blaming you two if anything goes wrong." And with that, the five headed deeper into the dungeon. Link quietly walked up to the table they had been at to see a tattered story book.
"What is this?" Link asked himself. Just as he began to open it, a strong wind blew, opening it to the exact page titled Alice of Human Sacrifice. When he looked back at the book, he noticed it was covered in a red substance. As he leaned in for a closer look, somebody pushed him forward.
"Where am I?" Link asked as he came to. He noticed a rabbit jumping into its burrow.
"So cute…must hug…little bunny…" (At this point, I'm thinking Link has issues. But who doesn't love a cute little bunny? X3) he chased after the "little bunny" and ended up falling into a large hole. He was out cold for some time. When he awoke, he was in a dark space surrounded by the people that lured him there.
"Ah, how pathetic of you!" Sheik said, angrily. He sighed then continued, "Anyways, let us catch up on the storyline, shall we? I was the first Alice, slaughtering countless monsters, then I was locked away in the forest for the rest of my life." With that last line, Sheik's look darkened as he tried to calm himself.
"And I was the second Alice, singing beautiful songs for everyone to hear," Malon chimed in, continuing the story, "But not everyone enjoyed my endless singing, no. Mr. Ingo shot me down because I couldn't stop." The farm girl began to cry.
"I was the third Alice. Everybody loved and respected me because I was so cute," Zelda continued childishly. Then her expression became even darker than Sheik's, an evil smile visible, "And then I realized that I would become an old hag, and thus I killed my father, the king, to make sure that my reign was eternal!" Zelda's evil laughter echoed in Link's ears.
"We were the fourth Alice," Saria said, grabbing Mido's hand, "childish and naïve, we wandered into Wonderland."
"Yes, and we were lured to Sheik, who then slaughtered us like the monsters in the fields," Mido finished, casting a death glare to Sheik.
"But, who is the fifth and final Alice, you ask?" Dark Link's voice came from behind Link. Our hero turned around to face his dark side. "Who else but the one who saved them all, Link." Link fell backwards, too scared to do anything else. "You and I are the fifth Alice, Link. Please, take my hand." Link stiffened. "I said take my hand," Dark Link ordered.
Link felt smaller than a flea. He had no idea what to do, or any idea of what would happen. Our hero was frozen with fear. While in shock, Link was struck across the face. He looked up to see Dark Link's hand in a fist.
"Really, I had to punch you to get your attention. How dense can a person get?" Dark Link said, unclenching his hand and holding it out to Link. "Now, take my hand." Something finally clicked in Link's brain.
"I get it now," he started, standing up, "you're not evil at all are you?" Dark Link was about to make a quick remark when Link cut him off. "You just want your dreams to be free of bloodshed, so you tried having people recreate your fairytales to have a happy ending."
"No," Dark Link said, staring at the ground, "No," a soft yet maniacal laughter began to come from him, "it's the exact opposite. I don't have dreams, so I have people create my dreams of bloodshed, just to see them suffer." Link began to back away. "One more dream, and my world will be complete. No………they say dreams are precious. Everyone must become an Alice in my dream! Everyone!"
"N-no! Master! You must calm down!" Sheik ran over to Dark Link.
"Sheik, you were just a piggyback for Zelda's soul, weren't you? In reality, weren't you just a forgotten dream? An undreamed dream?" Sheik stopped as his master continued, "I saved you from being forgotten. Shouldn't you be giving back to me? You do owe me one."
"Y-yes, of course master. How could I be so ungrateful?" Dark Link put his hand on Sheiks shoulder.
"Don't feel bad, you just now begin to see the world. And as for you," Dark Link turned to the young hero, "your eyes still need to be opened." If you were sitting in the graveyard at that moment, you would have heard Link's shriek of terror and would have seen him bolt out of the temple.
"No! No! I don't want to die! But if I had stayed, I would have made someone happy. No! Bad mind! You don't think those things! What? Everything's going red…" Link said crazily to himself. Navi flew up to him.
"Link? Are you okay?" she asked, waiting for a normal reply.
"Everything's going red, like blood, the horrible sight of blood."
"Link, you're starting to scare me." Link went silent.
"Like the blood inside my body…"
"Link… stop it! You're scaring me!" Link reached for his sword. "LINK!"
"I need to become an Alice… to make him happy…" Navi fluttered backwards. Link took his sword and stabbed it straight into his own heart.
"Link…?" Navi saw a small note in Link's hand.
The fifth Alice was a hero clad in green
Only trying to make people happy
Led into Wonderland by the lost Alices
He had found a lonely little dream
What the final Alice hadn't seen
Was the dark veil surrounding the scene
He was now a coward lost to the darkness
The dream of wonderland's terror is now at an end.
"Or is it?" a menacing voice came from the shadows.
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How did you like the final chapter?HH H
