Missing Link

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Lost Lovers, and Missing Friends.

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What a nightmare? It was so real, and it scared Zelda so. It didn't help that Link was not lying beside her, like usual. She always woke up cradled in his arms, his warm unclad body snuggly against hers. Without any motion of haste, Zelda hopped out of bed. She threw on a long pink dress, to cover her own nude skin. She then decided to check if perhaps, Link was outside.

Maybe he was tending to the garden, maybe he was feeding Epona. A strong feeling of hope dwelled with inside her, as she cradled her round belly. She looked up at the sky as she left a wooden door. She was on a large balcony, in what seemed to be a fully functional tree house.

Link built this house, after Zelda ran from her castle, and they married. She could no longer be a princess now, not after everything she has been through. She wasn't used to living in a tree, but Link was. That fact in itself, made what could be a very unsettling home, into one that was comfortable. It was always that way. As long as she always had Link, she was always safe.

Zelda then made her way down a wooden crafted staircase. She recognized Link's great woodmanship, as she trotted down each step. She called out his name, and her siren like voice echoed back, and shimmied throughout a cool breeze.

Zelda waited for a response, anything. Desperately she needed to hear a cry of his voice. She called out once more, her nerves coming out at a prostigious venhemence. She waited their still as lake Hylia, when there was no wind ripping through the air. She waited more, and decided to call his name once more. Her eyes started to feel a small sting, as droplets of wet dew courses out of their corners. She still got no response.

Zelda had to go further now, she had to make sure her hero, and her lover was ok. That nightmare now seemed more real to her, and she now felt her heart ache, as it beat three times it should.

She traunched on through a small pathway, that led to their cucco pen. She grabbed some feed, and threw it to the pecking birds that patiently were waiting to get fed. Zelda sighed and then walked to a pump. She grabbed a bucket, then gathered water as she pulled a lever on the pump.

Zelda brought the heavy barrel over to a stable. Usually Link, would be doing this, as the barrel got heavy, but alas he was nowhere to be found.

She opened the stable, and Epona was also nowhere to be found. Zelda's throat started to burn even more. Where has he gone, and where is there prized horse. Zelda scurried off to a pasture, that Epona sometimes would go to. She loved the grass there, and the way the sun faced it in one spot, and there was a nice grove of shady trees on the next. Zelda searched, and Epona was still nowhere to be sound.

It was just getting harder and harder for her now. She couldn't believe it, was there some sort of realism behind her dream. It has happened before, a few times. Zelda had a gift, as did Link. That was something that helped shaped their relationship in the long run. Of course, there was much more then that even.

Zelda now crashed down to the earth on her knees. She started to burry her head deeply into her arms. She couldn't hold it in no more. Zelda was broken. She screamed out loud, and prayed to the goddesses above. Silence fell, as if her prayers became unheard of.

Then.....

There it was....

She heard it from far away, her heart skipped not one beat, nor two, but three.

It was a gallop, and a whinny. Zelda then wiped her cheeks and stood back up. Off in the distance there they where. A great gust of relief swept over Zelda. She ran straight towards her lover, and he could immediately see the dread on her face.

Link got Epona to stop, and immediately hopped off. The green hat on his head swayed with the wind, a gust then sweeping it off his head. He didn't go back for it, as he saw a look of pain in his dear wife's face. She ran towards him aswell. Her beautiful blonde hair swayed with the wind, as the sun sent sparkles of light off of it.

The two devoted companions crashed into one another, with an emotionally supportive embracement.

Zelda's face burried into Link's green tunic. His favorite tunic. It was obviously well worn, as there were many tares, stains, and an odd burnmark, and splotch of blood. She took in his scent, it calmed her. She immediately felt better, as if a sad and dark curse has been sapped out of her soul.

Link grabbed her face, so she could look up, and stare deep into her glistening blue eyes. He wiped her cheeks, drying them of the tears. He kissed her forehead, and his eyes searched for an answer to Zelda's sudden downturn.

She sniffled, and looked down, averting Links gaze. She then looked back up at him, his own eyes blue like hers, but with this odd green tinge around the centers.

"I had a nightmare, and I am afraid. It seemed just as real, as the ones I had as a kid. The same nightmares when we met. This time you died. Ganon also wanted our child. He..."

Zelda's face then turned back down towards the ground. Link grabbed her chin once more, and gave her a deep kiss.

"You can tell me anything, you know that." He then said, as he wiped the fresh tears now streaming down his wife's face.

"He stabbed me in my stomach, killing both me and the babe. It was all because I wouldn't tell him where you were. I didn't see you when I woke up, and it terrified me."

Link hugged Zelda even tighter and kissed the top of her head, he then looked back down at her wet and glistening face.

"I will always be here. I would never leave you behind, you know that. I will always come back for you. I am sorry, I left early to grab something for our child. It was supposed to be a surprise. I am again, so sorry to scare you."

Zelda was very quick to forgive, as Link was of course a man of his word. He did come back, as he always did. This time though, their was an uncertainty in her heart. The nightmare was just to real, too unimaginably real.