My beta, Kingdommast, is amazing! Just had to get that out there. ;) Anyway, I'm very glad that you guys like that this story has come back, but I've noticed that only one of the people who read this story reviewed it so far... seriously, people? *sigh* Oh well, here's the next three chapters. Yes, I'm keeping the exact same upload schedule with this story as I did with the last one. :/
Chapter 4: Emotions
Some of the best news that I had heard in a long time had to have come from Zelda at that point. Honestly, what she had said made me so happy.
"*sigh* despite all of our searching over these past few months, it seems as though all we needed to do was prod around a little bit. As it turns out, the princess in future's dimension felt something out of the ordinary lately, so the other princess and I told her to look into it. Imagine my surprise when what she described rang a bell with the other princess as a feeling of sacred power. So, because she was the only one to have felt it, the three of us agreed to let you all go to that dimension first in order to check it out."
I was so overjoyed to be able to go back, that I almost threw my hands up and into the air in celebration. It wasn't like living under Zelda's care was bad or anything; it was just that I really wanted to see the other Links again. I had realized a little bit late that being enslaved for a few months prior must have been rather traumatic for someone who had never been enslaved before. Heck, I only brushed it off because I had been enslaved for all of my life before Zelda had taken me in and let me attempt to sew time back together with the other Links. They, on the other hand, had probably never had to deal with slavery before, so it could very well be traumatic for them.
Either way, I just wanted to see my best friends again. The concept of true friendship was kind of unknown to most slaves because we just had to work together to keep each other going. There was no time for true friendship to work its way into there. However, I knew what it was like and I wanted all of the hylians of my dimension to be able to feel that. We had been slaves for fart too long and it was time for change.
However, this change would only be able to come if the other two Links and I sewed time back together. This would allow armies to come from the other two dimensions in order to free the hylians of this one. Hopefully, it would work and the other hylians would catch on. As I thought that, another thought entered my head: the other hylians that were with my when I was at the chamber of the gods and when I had first discovered the other dimensions couldn't have forgotten about that, could they? I then realized that I hadn't seen them since those events way back when. If I had remembered correctly, then I had remembered their names as 'Sara', 'Kieren', 'Mitchell', and 'Zane'.
Over the following couple of days, I had asked about them in pure curiosity and Zelda had told me that the only thing that she knew about them at that point was that Kieren and Zane were dead. It made me a little sad, but I had never really gotten to know them and I had seen many other people die before, so I didn't really have any sort of emotional turmoil over them. Instead, I focused solely on what was to come. I focused on preparations to go to future Link's dimension.