Chapter 4
Praise, gratitude, boredom

The halls were lavishly decorated with familiar pictures. All the same, yet vastly different from the last. A prince dressed in royal purple strolled down to his all too familiar room. For almost a hundred centuries he had walk that one hall. He remembered the fire, the flood, and the remolding. He remembered his pictures being lost, repainted, and put back up. All said hero, a title that has worn thin on him in the first century He was evil once, yet still remained in favor of the gods. He was blond, brunette, and once pink. He was young, old, and once a girl. He was one of four, an only child, and a twin. He was short, tall, thin, but never fat. He was skilled as a fighter, as a mage, and a prisoner. Many praised him during those days of old and they still do. Every time he had awoke from his slumber, crowds would gather in reverence They treated him as a king, just short of a divine entity In fact in the county just beyond the boarder of sanity, he is both a god and demon.

People revered him, most feared him. He was an outcast, a deviant of commoners. He wasn't someone to cross, nor someone light conversation was easy with. He was isolated, alone, empty His mission over for now, he did not belong. This ever lasting death he felt, would never let him roam the plains of the afterlife. He was stuck by an ancient wish of a goddess that has lost her way and memory. He remembered every day, she couldn't think past three months at a time. He sat with the depression of what he did. Where his keeper remains radiant of her life. She was oblivious to the pain he endured every second. So many times he had saw his lovers pass, yet himself never achieving the same eternal bliss. He was broken and doomed to be alone for the rest of time itself.

"Aw, come on Link!" The fairy that traveled with him in this present life. "Cheer up! Your a prince and a hero now. I know you like the forest, but look!" She buzzed around a bunch of fruit in a bowl that was brought to his room. "No more foraging or hunting for food! Plus you are with your own kind now, isn't wonderful?"

The young man sighed as he looked out the large window to a balcony overlooking a abandon court-yard. He thought of his first mount and adventure, when his first partner fell into a never ending slumber. He thought of when the castle was first built in his second adventure, the court-yard out his window was made just for him to garden. His third was when he was forbidden from entering without escort. After his forth adventure, the yard had been paved with flag stone and the ground salted. In his fifth potted plants were brought in. The sixth was when a fountain was built, and the seventh was when the pipes burst, cutting off all water to the yard. In the eighth the plants and fountain were removed. Ever since then the place was abandon, only the dead ivy clung to the white walls now.

"I wish they would do something with that ugly court-yard." Navi whined as she flew back to the food. "Don't the attendants realize how ugly that is?"

Link continued to stare out the window to the center of the bare yard. Once he had raised a mighty tree there. That was before the castle was made. The fruit could cure any illness and once save the life of a thunderous spirit. The temple it was grown in was tore down, for the castle and so was the life tree cut down. He missed that tree. When it was standing he'd talk to it, share his inner most secrets He felt something was listening back to him. Like someone understood him. Every time he spoke to it about his problems the tree would take his woes and worry away. Like the Great Denku Tree was to the Kokiri, that tree was the closest thing to a parent he had back then. Even when he was reborn he returned to that sacred tree. But as the wood was split and the roots ripped from the ground, so was his voice and heart removed. Unlike the Hylians that chopped his tree down, he heard the desperate cries of pain the thousand year old tree screamed out. Seeing such changes happening to the last piece of the original forest he fell in love with die away, left himself just as dead inside.

AN:

Oopsies my last Author's Note's spoiler warning was on the wrong chapter! Well just change fourth to sixth and you'll be fine. This chapter was about Link's attraction to nature and how he viewed it! Sorry for misleading you if you read the last AN! ^_^"