Chapter 2: Songs and nightmares

Link followed his daughter to the castle gates were some guards was waiting to escort her to Zelda. Jukan walked toward Link holding his right arm to his chest and bowed.

“I am sorry my lord. If I just knew it was a set up, I would have been on my way to help the princess.”

“Its not your fault Jukan... It’s mine. I shouldn’t left her alone, even she is 17.” Link said while looking at Rita walking into the castle. All that matters for Link was to keep Zelda and Rita safe from any danger in the world. The sun was almost down, the wind began to rage again. The wind carried a sound, it sounded like a song in Link’s ears, he turned around to face Jukan and slowly he closed his eyes to listen. It gave him memories of his past, when he used to play the Ocarina of Time to travel in every corner in Hyrule. He smiled for himself, he pictured himself standing outside the desert colossus playing at the ocarina.

“Link? Are you feeling okay?”

Link opened his eyes, it was the first time someone else except Zelda had called him by his name before. It was always King Link, my lord or my king.

“Yes… I am fine, just thinking.”

Memories faded slowly away, the song he thought he heard was replaced with the wind, and the moon was coming slowly up shining down at the castle before him. Jukans expression could tell Link he was worried for him, but Link didn’t care and walked slowly over the castle bridge.

Sand. Sand was all she could see, it was everywhere. Hot burning sand under her feet, the warm sun trying to burn her skin. She was standing in the middle of a desert.

She tried to scream but her throat was to dry, there was no water around. The only sounds she could hear was the wind and a strange song she never had heard before. Suddenly the area changed and she was now in a deep emerald green forest surrounded by fire flies and a new song that placed itself in hear heart. In front of her was a ruin or an entrance to another place but it was to high up for her to get inn. She looked over to a stump and saw a little red fairy but when she touched it the place changed once more.

Now there was a blue lake before her shining inn the moonlight. A song was filling the air around her, it was calm and touching. She looked at the water and saw herself like in a mirror then she saw a shadow hiding above her and when she turned the place turned dark and cold. There were strange signs on the walls and before her was an open entrance and torches lit up. The song made her skin freezes and she felt cold hands touch her, but she couldn’t see anyone behind. The room turned hot and she found herself standing inside a volcano with hot lava bubbling around. A new song filled her ears and placed itself into hear mind. Finally she managed to open her mouth.

“I am inside the Death Mountain.”

Her soft voice made an echo and slowly everything around her was covered by darkness even herself…

Rita woke up with a shocked look. She could only name one of the placed she had been in her dreams, Death Mountain, but the other ones didn’t wake anything inside her. The songs were still in hear ears, one by one she remembered everyone of the five songs she heard in the dream and it sounded they came from the courtyard below her bedroom. Without thinking about the guards around the castle, she walked out of her room to find out if she could find the source where the songs came from. Passing her parents bedroom and running through the throne room she found the entrance to the courtyard. The songs became louder as she walked around and suddenly she stopped. She pressed herself into the wall and looked over to the middle of the courtyard were the “Light shrine” lies sat someone on a stone and played the songs from hear dreams. Rita’s curiosity carried her away and she walked slowly over to the Light shrine. She stood right behind the person, when he stopped. Rita wanted to run but she also wanted to find out who he was. He stretched his arm out and she saw he held an ocarina in his hand.

“You dare to go against your parents rules princess?”

Rita felt a sort of guilt but she got it off.

“Who are you and what are you doing her?” She asked coolly.

He rose up with his back faced to her, he was covered in a black coat.

“I am a lonely stranger who walks endlessly around the world on a quest to get what I want.” He answered and turned around to face her, she couldn’t see his eyes but she knew it was the same guy from the Temple of time but this time she wasn’t afraid, if she started to scream the guards throughout the castle would come running to help their princess. The stranger took one step closer to her and stretched his arm after her but she dodged it.

“If I scream, the guards will come running here. You can’t win this time either.” The princess said with a grin.

“Do you think the guards can rescue you from me? My power is stronger than you can imagine, even stronger than the sages of Hyrule. Are you going to give yourself willingly to me or must I force you?”

Zelda opened her eyes slowly and pushed herself up from the bed. She walked slowly over to the window and gazed down at the courtyard. With a shocked mind, she opened the balcony doors and teleported down like a sheikah and ran over to her daughter. Zelda created a fireball and sent it toward the stranger but he disappeared.

“What were you doing?” Zelda asked angrily.

“I was just…”

“You know you aren’t allowed to walk outside the castle at night! Things like this would happen, you could have been kidnapped!” Zelda shouted.

“I am sorry mother. My curiosity carried me away.”

Zelda couldn’t be angry at Rita, it wasn’t really her fault. Zelda teleported Rita to her bedroom said good night and teleported herself to her own bedroom. Link was still sleeping, she couldn’t help but smile for herself, and she kissed his forehead and fell to sleep.