Interigation and Suffering


Link ran into the king’s room only to find him on the floor bleeding. Link went to his side and checked for a pulse. Blood was flowing and he was still breathing but he needed assistance immediately.

“Impa!!!” Link called… no response. “Impa!!” he called again. No response. He called three more times and still no response.

He ran outside into Hyrule Market hoping to find a doctor. Hyrule Market was just like the castle. It was lifeless and everything was killed. And the things that weren’t killed had long left. He ran back into the king’s room hoping to find some way to heal him. He thought of nothing.

“Wait,” he said to himself. “That book Michael gave to Zelda years ago!”

He ran up into Zelda’s room. The blood on the floor had stained into the carpet. He looked on Zelda’s bed and saw two books. He opened one of them and looked all throughout it.

“Damn it!” he said to himself as he realized that all of the language was enfaillan. But on the back of the book he noticed the incantation and the effects of a healing spell in Hylian. “How fortunate,” he said to himself as he memorized the incantation.

He ran back down into the king’s room, knelt at his side, closed his eyes, and said the incantation, “Uana, Yamir, Geldor”… no response. He said it again… no response. He said it more frequently. Saying it over and over again. Though on his last try. He said the incantation one last time. “Uana, Yamir, Geldor” Then suddenly the effect worked. The king’s blood disappeared, and the paleness retracted. Link knew he said the spell but it didn’t come from his hand. He looked back and saw Michael with half a smile on his face, his arm outstretched as if he had just launched a spell.

“You always come at crucial moments,” said Link beginning to smile.

“Hey that’s just the way I work,” said Michael.

“Listen, Michael… we have a problem.”

“What is it?”

“Zelda, she’s been… she’s been kidnapped…”

“Okay, yeah… that’s a bit of an issue. What are the clues we have?”

“Well, Zelda is missing, that’s the biggest clue. Blood splatter is found on the carpet in her room. And we recently destroyed the plots for the evil king… what else is new?

“Well, said Michael, she also knows about the philosopher’s stone doesn’t she?

“Yeah,” said Link. “So… what does it add up too?”

“I know where Zelda is,” said Michael.

“I do too but where is his castle?”

“Well look for a dark scary palace on top of a big hill with a huge lightning storm. Ya can’t miss it!” said Michael with one eye closed.

“Yeah that just about gives it away, but where in ‘Hyrule’?”

“North of Kethro,” said Michael.

“Yeah, we’re going on another adventure. I’m going to need something a little bigger than this sword and shield. They’re tiny. Can you get me another one?”

Michael pulled out a sword from the wall that he lodged in a few years ago when he met Link.

“A token of remembrance from yours truly,” said Michael with a smile on his face.

“Yeah, back when you beat the crap out of me,” said Link growing a half smile.

“Yep,” said Michael, “good times they were!”

“I’m also going to need a shield, I think this thing shrank,” said Link.

“Nah,” said Michael, “you just grew.”

Michael then took another shield off the wall and handed it to Link. “This might come in useful.”

***

Zelda was blindfolded by the time she got to Kethro. She was taken up an extremely long flight of stairs and entered through a massive door. She walked for about three hundred yards until she reached the throne. The blindfold was stripped off her face making skin peal off with it. She began to cry fearing what they might do to her. She was forced to kneel before him.

“You know about the philosopher’s stone,” said Diatheleser. Tell me… where is it now?”

“I-I don’t know, said Zelda trying to regain her composure.”

“Lies!!!!” yelled Dia’ as he threw his hand onto her forehead and yelled, “Ilamithandir”.

She felt an extremely harsh and sharp serge of pain flow down her spinal cord.

She screamed in pain as the tears flowed even faster. The onyx chains that were forcing her wrists together were beginning to tear off her skin there too making it only worse. She fell onto her side in pain.

“Pathetic mortal,” said Dia’, “you’re the largest infidel I’ve ever tortured.”

“I-I am no mortal,” said Zelda, “I have drunk from the fountain of youth. And I am no infidel either.”

Diatheleser’s eyes went wide as she said this. “Do you know about the stone?”

No answer…

He forced his arm back onto her forehead and said the incantation “Ilamithandir!!!!” Except this time it hurt much more than it had before.

Zelda screamed in pain. Tears began to roll down her face faster as the pain settled. She finally closed her eyes falling into an unconscious state.

***

As Link and Michael walked into Kethro they noticed a cross in the distance. They ran up to the cross fearing that Zelda might have been killed. She wasn’t killed. But she was on the cross. She wasn’t wearing her normal dress. She was wearing a gray tunic. A gray tunic in Endfall signified that your soul had been defeated. Endfall wear their clothes by what mood they are in not how much you care about yourself.

“No,” said Michael. He ran up and undid the onyx chains that were keeping her up.

She fell down from the cross into Link’s open arms.

“We need to get her hospitalized!” said Link.

They rented a room at a nearby inn to stay the night. Hoping that Zelda would have regained her energy by morning. They knew they couldn’t stay in one place for long.

Zelda slowly opened her eyes. Link was sitting on a chair next to her bed. And Michael was standing by a window looking out onto the night-view of Kethro.

“Can’t we do anything for her?” asked Link.

“No,” said Michael. “If we use medicine on her the poison on the onyx chains will mix with the medicine making a massive problem.”

“So all we can do is watch her pain?” asked Link disappointed.

“Yes,” said Michael, “I’m afraid that it is all we can do.”

“L-Li-Link?” said Zelda slowly turning her head towards his.

Link smiled and nodded.

“Zelda, we need to know exactly what happened to you. Can you tell us?

“Well,” Zelda began, “At the castle black knights took over. They kidnapped me and blindfolded me in Kethro. They took me up a large flight of stairs. It was raining… or something. I was taken through this extremely large doorway and a long throne room. There Diatheleser asked me the location of the Philosopher’s stone. I said I didn’t know, he extremely hurt me with this spell. I don’t remember what it was called though. Then he called me pathetic. He then asked me about the stone. I didn’t answer. He hurt me again but much more extremely than he did before. I then went unconscious. I re-awoke in a different room. Some creature ordered that I should be stripped and put in a gray tunic. They then noticed I was awake and knocked me out. Then I woke up just now…”

“Diatheleser… hurt… you!?!?!?!” said Link infuriated. “I’m so sorry I couldn’t help Zelda I was”-Zelda interrupted him.

“It’s okay Link, it wasn’t your fault…”

She slowly lay her head back down and turned her head away from Link.

“Will she be okay?” asked Link?

“The poison is setting in,” said Michael. “She’ll have a very rough night. But by morning she should be alright.”

She slowly closed her eyes, hoping Michael wasn’t right.

“Good night,” said Link as he kissed her cheek.

***

That night Zelda had an awful dream:

She had awoken in Hyrule field. All around her was dark evil. It was perpetual darkness. In the distance she saw three lights. They were green, red, and blue. She ran up to them and she saw the goddesses each in their own individual light. They had black eyes and evil grins though.

“W-What is going?" she asked.

“You believed in the wrong creator mortal!!!” said Nayru. “Now all of earth shall pay!!!”

“The one you love, the hero, has died,” said Din, I hope you’re disappointed. Because we like unhappy deaths!!!!

***

Zelda awoke immediately. She was frightened. The dream seemed… prophetic. If this were to happen, they would have a major problem.

“Zelda, are you all right?” asked Link from his bed. It was 1:00 in the morning so it seemed odd.

“I had… a prophetic dream.”

“What was it about?”

Zelda then explained the dream she had just minutes before.

“I highly doubt it’s prophetic,” said Link. “Michael said that you were intoxicated with poison. It was just a dream.”

“It wasn’t a dream,” said Zelda. “I think it was a prophecy, it’s not like we haven’t had those before!”

“I still think you’re wrong, but neither of us can prove it, we’ll just have to wait.”

They both went back to sleep and woke up refreshed the next morning…