Oh crap I forgot. I rate this around 10+ because I write really good depression scenes 0_o
I write from Link's perspective unless I say otherwise. I hate writing in 3rd person because a lot of times I end up focusing on one character most of the time anyway. Thank god for a small amount of dialogue, because I need to work on that some. And I do not explain why Link talks... :/ Uh... Hollywood Artistic Liscense? (Sort of an inside joke.)
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I sank down in despair, leaning back against the wall. Most people came to the Cross War Monument to mourn losses. I came to let go of mine.
Of course, it's never that easy.
All my wasted chances, all my failures, came back to me at one time. My torn memories flared up as I grabbed the crystal shard around my neck. With its power, I had tried to take away all my memories of every moment I had spent as the hero. Every moment with... her.
I remembered realizing with panic that I couldn't remember her name.
I stood up abruptly, walking toward the guarded door. I felt the stares of the crowd, heard some of the whispers. Only a select few could go to the site where the mirror had been. Luckily, I had a bit of influence with Zelda.
I pushed past the guards, opened the door, and almost smiled as the blowing sand from the exposed mountaintop blew into my face, stinging and scraping. The sand clung to my hair and clothes as I walked forward, boots leaving slight imprints where I walked. I laid my hand on the black metal frame where the mirror had once stood. The powdered crystals had long since been blown away with the sand and only one shard had survived. I closed my eyes, a tear falling, and punched the column the frame stood on. Images flashed past my eyes. A clash of white steel and gold blades. A pair of blood red eyes sparkling with tears. Crystal powder floating in the wind.
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(I put lyrics from songs in this story. It takes more creativity to adapt those lyrics than to write your story based on them. That's why the lyrics will be slightly different.)
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Bang bang go the coffin nails
like a breath exhaled
They're gone forever
It seems like just yesterday
How did I miss the red flags raised
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Zelda laid a hand on my shoulder.
"Link? Are you okay?" she asked. I turned to glare.
"Do I look okay?" I asked angrily. "Do I look like I'm EVER going to be okay again?"
She smiled bitterly.
"When were you okay?" she asked. I grunted in reply, returning to my quiet comtemplation.
One day, one quick decision, had split two worlds forever.
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What god would damn a heart?
What god drove us apart?
What god could
make it stop,
let this end,
This year's pushed me to the edge,
Spiralling farther
Wishing for death,
On the way down screaming
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Zelda walked back through the doors. She stopped before she left.
"Link... don't lose yourself. Not for this." she said. I shrugged.
"I just want to be left alone." I said softly. Then I swore loudly.
"How soon is later?" I asked, laying one hand on the dark metal. "I'll wait forever if I have to."
A strangely familiar woman's voice, soft and somehow melodic, rang across the mountaintop.
"Blame me. It's nothing less than I deserve..." she said gently. A picture, a face that my mind associated with that voice, flashed across my eyes. I shook my head.
'It can't be her' I told myself.
"I need your help!" she said, her voice almost on the edge of panic. "I had thought separating our realms would make us safer, but I failed."
"Tell me about it. I don't think this side's ever been more boring." I said.
"Listen to me!" she said. "My own kingdom is under siege from... something. I don't know what it is, but if this lasts much longer we could be looking at second Cross War!"
Honestly, that that wasn't such a big deal to me. It'd mean I could go to the other side again.
But it would also mean picking up that title of "hero" again.
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Bang bang from these four walls,
Ringing through these halls,
My thoughts are loaded
Push me and I'll push back!
Done asking, I demand!
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A loud screech brought me back to the conversation at hand.
Shouts of "Another one!" and "Kill it!" rang thought the connection.
"So what am I supposed to do?" I asked. "You broke the only portal to the other side!"
"Not the only portal anymore." she said softly. "One of the first obstacles we overcame together." I froze. Of COURSE!
"The canyon!" we both said at the same time.
Of course I was so close to what I wanted most. How I'd never guessed, I didn't know. It was so obvious!
"Our unknown enemy obviously knows this, because the canyon is now heavily guarded by shadowy creatures even stronger than what you've ever fought before.
"Good. I've needed a challenge." I said, turning and walking out of the monument.
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And that seems like a good place to end Chapter 1for now. I'm running out of letters
by RokStar9001 » September 20th, 2011, 11:58 pm 
