Okayy… whoever read this before, don't shout at me, and please don't murder me ! I know… I had promised, a long time ago, to continue this story… but I kind of had a hard time and everything… and then I remembered it, and read it… and I don't know, I don't think it was the way I imagined it. So, what I'm going to do is… I'll read it, change whatever I don't like about it, and update the new versions of the next chapters soon ^^

I know I'd be mad if anyone did that to a story I was reading, but I think most people have read this a long time ago anyway, they probably don't remember everything…

I just hope I won't be dead by tomorrow (be nice people!) and I hope you enjoy the new version of A Lost Future !

Please review (and be nice, don't kill me) =D

Disclaimer: The Legend of Link… sorry, Zelda, belongs to Nintendo not to me =)

Chapter 1

-Memories of a Queen-

It had to be this feeling.

Complete Happiness.

Her warm heart beating in a steady pace, her stomach occasionally turning upside down, the smile that refused to leave her lips. It had to be this, she thought as she snuggled closer to her companion. Her long, wet hair making her shiver as it touched her fair skin.

She felt his strong arm tighten around her shoulder, and felt her own arms pull the warmth of his body closer. She couldn't help but shiver again as the wind blew fiercely, making the wet fabrics of their clothes colder against their bodies.

She slowly opened her dark blue eyes, making a certain effort as the first rays of sunlight glittered in the lake's clean margins. That sight was so comforting to her. Every time she felt tired in her duties as a princess, she would picture Lake Hylia's clean surface in her mind, the sun rising in the horizon, and his arms around her, and would be ready for anything. She breathed deeply, welcoming the water's clean scent in her nostrils, before closing her eyes again.

"Thank you, Link…Thank you so much…" she whispered against his chest, as she opened her eyes again to look at him.

Zelda had never been this happy in her sixteen years of life. Not even the moments when her father would read her stories in her childhood meant as much to her.

His eyes opened slowly and made their way to her pale face. She could feel her insides burning as he smiled questionably.

"For…?" asked the boy, as he rushed his hands through her damp hair.

She smiled at him, trying to flatten his untidy blond hair, as his bright blue eyes followed her hand. He gently grabbed her wrist and placed her hand on his poorly-shaved face. She caressed the muscles of his cheek as he pulled her closer with his other arm. He leaned closer to her face as she silently closed her dark orbs and her cherry colored lips slightly parted welcoming his. His warm lips captured hers on a warm kiss, and she felt as if she would vanish. His right hand let go of her wrist and made its way to her face. She shivered under his touch, and couldn't help but long for his lips as he broke the kiss.

Link and Zelda were young at age, but they had lived intensely every second of their lives. They had changed the course of history when they saved the entire land of Hyrule from the hands of the evil king, Ganondorf. They where the only ones that knew what would have happened if they had not detained the King of the Thieves. After the last battle, Zelda used the Ocarina of Time to take them back seven years, giving Link his childhood back. And although seven years younger, the boy couldn't find the child in himself, and chose instead to free distant kingdoms of evil threats. Until he returned to his kingdom, and to his princess.

Zelda and Link had always shared a deep friendship that went beyond common affection. After Link returned from his journey, and they laid eyes on each other again, their friendship blossomed into the purest love.

"For…?" he asked again, a smirk playing on his lips.

"You know what I mean..." Zelda said, as laid her head on Link's shoulder.

She was sure he knew what she meant. He had always found a way of snatching the princess from under the Hyrulian guard's noses. He had shown her the places where he had been. He would tell her the stories of his adventures, the one of the masks and the moon was her favorite. He had shown her the Lost Woods, and taught her not to get lost. He had shown her the mountain where the Gorons lived, and the waterfall that led to the Zora's Domain, his house, at the Kokiri Forest and the place that calmed her the most, Lake Hylia. She had lived her whole life under Impa's wings, and would never be aloud to do anything. Her nanny would tell her the stories about the places beyond the castle walls, and she would always imagine herself living the adventures.

Until Link came into her life. And they fought Ganondorf together. And when she thought, after going back in time, that she was really destined to live a lonely life, bricked inside the castle walls, he had returned. She loved being with him. The freedom their love brought to her. The feeling of being loved for who she was, and not because of a title. The Princess of Hyrule, heir to the throne, only daughter of the great King Harkinian. She could only imagine what her father would say if he knew of her night trips around the kingdom.

She shrugged as the wind blew again and shook the thoughts away. She just wanted to cherish a couple of hours with Link before he would have to take her back to the castle, with none but Impa realizing she was gone.

"Zelda..." Link started, as he gently embraced her.

"Yes ?" Zelda asked, gently kissing his bare arm and smiling at him

"I have…received a letter…from a friend in Outset..." he started tentatively, as she let go of the embrace to stare madly at him

"Oh no! Your are not, Link… Please don't tell me you are going to Outset... It's in the middle of a war!" Zelda said, as she glared at the boys light blue eyes

"You know it's not that simple…" he shifted from his sitting position, uncomfortably "I have to go Zelda... that's why I brought you here… so that I could tell you…" He held her as she shook her head furiously. "I really have to go, Zelda... I would never go to Outset if I really didn't believe it to be a matter of life and death!" he explained.

The anger that was within her made her shake as her stomach started to sink. She knew that little piece of information, and that's what made her worried sick. It really was beginning to be too good to be true. Link hugged her again, as warm tears began forming in her eyes. Zelda was having a bad feeling about this. She felt as she would never see Link again.

"Link... please, tell me you will be careful..." she whispered, kissing Link's cheek. She had a dreaded feeling in her chest.

"Of course I'll be careful, Zelda... do you really think I would ever leave you for somebody else..?" he joked, as he snaked his right arm around the small of her back.

"I'm serious Link…If something happens to you, I don't know what I'll do!" Zelda panicked, holding tightly to his arm

"Nothing's going to happen to me, Zelda…" Link said, taking her face in his hands.

He looked intently in her eyes, and she melted into that stare. He gently kissed her lips as she closed her eyes, silent tears rolling down her cheek.

Zelda deepened the kiss. She knew she wouldn't be seeing Link in a long time, and she was going to make those few next moments worth it.

They would never forget that night. She would never forget his words, before tiredness took over her and she fell asleep.

"I'll love you forever…"

...

"NO!" her lungs hurt, she felt dizzy, her eyes cried tears of complete desperation, as she shouted at her nanny, collapsing to the floor.

Impa was lying! She wasn't telling her the truth, she couldn't…Link couldn't be...he couldn't…he told her he would come back for her…he couldn't be dead…

"I'm sorry, Princess…" the Sheikah told her, as she hugged the girl tightly "There was nothing I could do… the soldier found him yesterday..."

"Are you sure it was him? Couldn't it be somebody else that looked like him…you saw him? Did you see him?" Zelda asked, choking tears

Impa's sad eyes looked into her own, before she forced the shaking girl up.

"Friedrich!" Impa called, loudly.

A young man came into the room. He had a built up body, jet-black hair and sweet brown eyes. His dirty suit told her instantly he was a soldier from Outset.

"Princess Zelda" he bowed.

Zelda bowed in return, controlling herself for the moment. Impa moved next to Zelda, and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"This is Friedrich, Princess…he was the one who found him…" Impa told her, as she squeezed the girl's shoulder gently.

"I'm sorry Princess, I heard he was a great friend of yours…" the man said, his gaze on the floor

"Are you sure it was him? How can you be sure?" Zelda asked him. He was wrong, and Impa was wrong. It wasn't Link…he had promised her. She inhaled deeply, trying to control her shaking voice.

Friedrich took a piece of green cloth from his bag and offered it gently. Zelda took it from his hand. It was blood stained and clearly had been slashed by a sword. The princess felt as if that same sword was slashing through her own skin. She coughed as tears flowed from her eyes into the small piece of fabric.

"Link.." Zelda whispered, as she fell to her knees again.

"Come on Princess, you really don't want to cry like this in the middle of the throne room…let me help you up…" said the young man, as he took her hand.

Friedrich took Zelda to her room. He told her how he had lost many close friends in battles. Zelda also learned that Friedrich wasn't just a common soldier, he was one of the four Lords of Outset.

Outset had no king. Four elected Lords commanded the Kingdom from its four corners.

She did want to know about the young man standing before her. She didn't care to know about anything at all. She could only remember the last day she had been with Link, and his words before he left. And it was that strong memory that took over her thoughts even after the Outset Lord left that day.

And there where only a few words she could think before unconsciousness took over her, and she fell asleep.

'I will love you forever'

...

"Mother?" she heard his voice, before feeling his gentle touch on her elbow.

She slowly opened her dark blue eyes, letting the blur come to focus as the boy looked back at her sweetly.

She calmly stretched her arms as the boy laughed at her. She loved her son's laugh. She loved everything about him.

"I'm so sorry to disturb you… you look so tired… but with the meeting going on…" he said as he ran his fingers through his hair, grinning.

She felt a rush go over her. The meeting!

"I'm sorry, darling. Am I really late? I can't believe I fell asleep today!" Zelda asked the young man, as she rushed form under the covers and into her closet, finding an appropriate garment.

"Yes, mother, I'm afraid you are a bit late. Father is holding it for you, but you are the rightful Queen, so hurry up!" Zelda' son told her, as he kissed his mother's cheek "Go on…" he told her, shoving her to the bathroom, before turning to leave.

Zelda smiled. She looked at her son. He had untidy blond hair, Zelda's hair color, and had deep dark-blue eyes, Zelda's eye color, but he didn't look like Zelda at all. He had a strong body and a childish smirk that always played on his face.

'the best son anyone could ever have..' Zelda thought, as she quickly got dressed in a beautiful white dress made of the purest Hylian silk, and embroidered with gold lines.

Her first-born, Zion, was a very together young man. Zelda remembered when he was born as if it had been the previous day. She had been a mother really early, only sixteen… both of her children were now older than she was when she first got pregnant.

Zion was perfect. He understood completely his duties and obligations as heir, and worked to help her with the matters of the kingdom. He would be a great king.

Zelda took a deep breath before looking at her image in the mirror. Some would say she was still so young, with two grown children already. She was about to become thirty-four, the youngest queen Hyrule had ever had. She looked at her once vivid dark blue orbs contrasting with her fair skin and her ruby lips. Some would say she was the most beautiful rose on the kingdom as they looked at her.

She could only see a ghost.

...

He quickened his pace as he turned the corner to the west tower of the castle. She was late. Not that it was something for him to be worried about, she was always late, but she knew today was important to their parents, and still had not cared to show her pretty face in the meeting room for the whole meeting.

She would miss the whole ceremony if he didn't find her fast. And rumors would start flying throughout the kingdom. People would start asking themselves why the princess wasn't present in the union ceremony between the kingdoms of Hyrule and Outset. She knew all of this… their parents had been planning this forever, and she still didn't care.

Zion exhaled in frustration. She was nowhere to be found. Not in the library, not in the gardens, he had even checked the stables! And then he found out her horse was missing… it was so like her…

He entered her room in time to hear her tired breath from the open window, where a rope lied tied to her bed. He looked at her carefully embroidered blue dress on top of her bed. 'And she still has to get ready…' he thought shaking his head and making his way to help the girl, who had just appeared outside the window, into the room.

She was wearing black leather pants, and a red tunic, carefully tightened around her waist by a black corset and black straps tied around her wrists to upper arms to keep sand from coming in her tunic. A healthy shade of pink over her fair complexion, as she looked at her brother, a smile playing on her face as her hazel eyes glittered.

"Selene, what do you think you were doing?" Zion asked her, not believing his own eyes.

His sister greeted him with a sweet smile, as if she couldn't see what she could possibly be doing wrong.

"I was just exploring the land" she said, as she begun to untie her long, auburn hair, previously tied in a loose braid.

"Do you know what day is today?" Zion asked her again. He could feel the frustrating feeling that took over him every time he needed to speak about her leaving the castle.

"Umm… let's see…It's the day I discovered a secret temple inside the Lost Woods…" She said smiling, and winking at him.

Selene, his younger sister, was very different from him. She clearly wasn't the kind of girl that could be held down inside a castle. Every night, Selene would jump off her window, get her steed, and leave the castle to explore Hyrule. Zion didn't know how she managed it, but she could easily evade the royal guards that were all over the castle anytime she wanted.

The seventeen year old matched her mother in beauty. She was easily recognized since she was Zelda's image, except for eye and hair color. How did she get through with her night escapes with her recognizable face. He couldn't believe her…He understood her urges to get out of the castle, but the Lost Woods?

"You didn't! You didn't dare go in those woods, Selene!" Zion shouted at her, worriedly "You know what happens to people who get lost there?"

"Well, I didn't get lost, did I?" she asked, her adventurer face beaming and her huge smile breaking all of his defenses.

"I forbid you to go out!" Zion told her, trying to sound convincing, and to keep himself from laughing at the whole situation.

"Am I?" her smile grew wider "Since when, have I not been forbidden to go out of the castle anyway?" she said raising an eyebrow

"Selene, please! Listen to me… you can get hurt!" he tried again, as the girl's smile grew larger

"If you only came with me, you would know…there are vast lakes, tall mountains, green fields…I feel...free…" she said, as she approached her brother, her smile turning into great amusement as she pictured the landscapes of their kingdom.

The castle's main clock banged, reminding him about the ceremony that was taking place without the crown prince and the princess, which he had already forgotten about. He looked at Selene, who had clearly forgotten.

"I must insist that you get dressed this instant, if you don't want to wake up the demons that sleep inside our father…" he told her, pointing at the dress.

Selene eyes widened.

"That was today? Get out of here! Tell them something to keep them from yelling at me later, please!" she told her brother, as she shoved him out of the room.

"You should thank the goddesses everyday you've got me…" he said laughing, turning back one more time to make sure Selene hadn't jumped out of the window again.

So, there, what do you guys think ? I personally think it's way better than the first versions… what do you guys think? Please let me know… I'm not going to promise anything… but I will update this really soon…

Thanks for reading,

Zelda F *