I'd just like to say I'm not dead. Sorry for the really long update but i've been going through some rough times in school, (high school sucks). But I'm back, no more writers block either. So without anymore delay here's the next chapter.

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"How has it come to this?"

"Isn't it simple dear brother? We put our trust in the wrong people. We should have just sent Chronos's puppet like we did last time"

"And cause another disaster? Worse things can happen then a moon colliding with a town"

"That wasn't our fault brother; we couldn't have known what he was going to do"

"It's still our fault; we need to make sure we can stop it again"

"It'll take a lot for the pact to be broken, darkness can't fool us anymore"

"Darkness already has a knight brother, and a king. All we have are four pawns, how do expect us to beat a king with an army of millions?"

"It's not our job to find a way to beat them; our pawns will do that for us. All we need to do is supply them with a reason to be fighting. Think about it this way brother, we have more than 3 days this time"

"Well you do have a point, but when they arrive it might be already too late. We need to supply them with time, maybe manipulate the pawns a little?"

"How much time do you think they will need?"

"How much time you do you think we can give them?"

"The main pawn has serious injuries; he'll be out for a good two weeks. But after that we send him to his battlefield and let the war begin"

"Our war, I hope this is our last mistake brother. I'm not sure how many more times we can tempt fate with our countless mistakes"

"We can fight brother; we can fight until our last breath has been taken from us as we fight for our life"

"Maybe your right, and maybe this time we'll get a happy ending"

"And the last one wasn't?"

"For us it was, but not for the pawn"

"The pawn was happy in the end; he gained many friends after all"

"Happy is loosely defined dear brother, let's just hope this time we all can get our deepest wishes"

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Link could be seen from his bed with his face being squashed by his pillow as his right hand hung over the edge of his bed. Snoring could be heard from every part of the city. The boy had bandages wrapped around his chest with some blood seeping through them. The room looked like it was falling apart as every so often a piece of the ceiling would fall to the ground. Suddenly, a sharp ringing sound pierced the semi-quite atmosphere like a knife cutting through butter. Link immediately threw the pillow that his face was being squished by right at the source of the sound hoping it was going to stop-it didn't. Link groaned but slowly made his way over to the sound hoping he was going to be able to stop it. HE slowly picked up the bright red phone and slowly groaned into it "Hello Link speaking"

"Hey Mr. Hero, did you hear the news?" the voice asked.

"Dark I'm going to kill you if it's not past ten, and what can be some important that you had to wake me up when I'm supposed to be resting?" Link asked bitterly.

"You've been resting for two weeks Link; I think you've had enough rest. Get your sorry ass out of bed" said Dark happily.

"What did you call to say Dark? I'm not in the mood to argue with you" said Link with frustration in his voice.

"We're going to Clock Town!" Dark exclaimed happily.

"I already knew that, if that's really what you called to say you won't be going to Clock Town anytime soon" said Link bitterly; it was obvious he was getting angry at nothing.

"We're going in two days genius, the school moved up the trip" Dark explained.

"Two Days?! What the hell! Why did they move up the trip?" Link shouted through the phone.

"No idea, Darmani thought it had something to do with all the recent activities and Deity. Anyway I'll be over in an hour to help you pack for the trip" said Dark quickly. Link hung up the phone then collapsed onto his bed wondering why the date was changed so suddenly. As soon as Link's body hit the bed he was asleep, something about loud conversations and a cut up your chest makes you sleepy; who knew. The clock was ticking and the house was silent all was quite in the household, one of the last days before a war would begin taking all the serenity with it. No one would be able to see it coming and only one person would be able to stop it.

"Link! Wake up! Get your ass out of bed!" Dark screamed at him as he shook his entire body. Link grunted, he then rolled over but seemed to forget that he was on the edge of his bed. He hit the ground with a large 'Thump'.

"Dark?" said Link quietly as he rolled his body over so he could look Dark in the eyes.

"Yes Mr. Hero?" said Dark arrogantly as he looked into Link's eyes.

"I hate you" Link commented half-joking half-serious. Dark smiled at Link knowing he was joking.

"Come on Mr. Hero, we have to pack your stuff" said Dark loudly as he pulled his friend up off the ground. Link sighed then grabbed a dark green suitcase out of his closet. The suitcase was worn and torn with use and the color seemed to be fading. Link carefully opened it not sure what was going to come out of it, his friends had a really bad sense of humor. Expecting to see a rat jump out of the suitcase he fell to the ground the moment the suitcase was fully opened. After waiting a few seconds he sighed in relief his friends had spared him…this time at least. He slowly examined the inside of his suitcase hoping there wasn't a dead animal in there. A dull, worn, and torn photo laid in the suitcase, the picture was of five kids all wearing different masks; Link, Dark, Darmani, Mikau, Deity were all in the picture. In the corner of the picture was a person except the picture was ripped there making it impossible to tell who it was.

"That was before he left wasn't it Link?" Dark asked quietly as he looked at the picture over Link's shoulder.

"Yea…it was…" Link responded softly as he continued to look at the picture.

"We should have done something Link, we shouldn't have just turned our backs on him" Dark responded as his eyes seemed to start to water.

"We couldn't have done anything Dark, Darmani was on his second offence, Mikau just started touring with his band, I had Vin, and you were in jail that night. We couldn't do anything Dark you know that" Link responded sharply as he rose from the ground.

"We should have tried anyway! He would have done the same for us!" Dark shouted at Link who just lowered his head in response. "We shouldn't have let them take him away Link! You weren't there when he was shouting and crying out for help!"

"Dark…you know as well as I do if we had done anything to try and stop them from taking him we would have been sent to Gerudo Valley along with him. We couldn't do anything" Link explained but Dark didn't listen to any of it he just stared at the floor.

"Link…promise me that if Deity is in that position again we'll do everything to help him" Dark asked quietly as he continued to look at the floor.

"I promise Dark, now we should get back to packing before we forget" said Link fairly quickly hoping all the sadness in the room would go away.

The day continued on but the sadness still lingered in the air like a foul odor that wouldn't go away. Everything was about to change for the better and for the worse.

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Foreshadowing much? The next chapter will be up by Sunday, spring break rules.