The next morning, Link, Michael, and Zelda went up toward the Athaldu castle. Their plan was to spy on the enemy and see what move they would do next.

“Michael,” Zelda began, “I think I had a prophetic dream last night.”

“And I doubt she had one,” said Link raising one eyebrow.

“The poison on the chain can cause some prophesizing to occur in dreams,” said Michael. “There is a very good chance that the dream she had will happen. And I believe it will happen… What was the dream about?”

“It was about the goddesses,” Zelda began, “They had turned the world into total darkness… then they said Link died, and that they enjoyed my pain… Why would they do that though?”

“I think why they would do that is because of their jealousy,” said Michael. “They had come after Endfall was destroyed thinking that Amnir would not barge into their Hyrule. But as soon as he tries to retake the land, they will, get sort of… you know, pissed off, let's call it. Then they will try to take over the world.”

“I don’t want the goddesses to betray their own people, it doesn’t seem like it would fit in. Do you know what I’m talking about?”

“Er… no not really,” said Link, “Well it doesn’t matter we’ve got a bigger problem than just prophetic dreams.” Link happened to get in an eye’s range of a guard. The guard called for help and out came about one hundred men.

“This could be a bit of a problem,” said Michael with his left eye twitching. “Um, I’d figured that you two might have had enough intellectual capacity not to tell you this but, hide!!!!!!”

Michael climbed up a tree and aimed his bow at a leading guard heading towards them. As soon as they were within a hundred yard’s range he fired. The leading guard died. Michael then pulled out 20 arrows and launched the barrage, twenty-one guards down, and seventy-nine to go. He pulled out 10 more arrows and launched. Eight of them hit but the other two soldiers lifted their shields. As soon as they were within a ten-yard’s range Michael jumped out of the tree and did a spin attack in the middle of the 63-soldier group. The spin attack killed six people. He jumped into the air and used the soldiers’ head as a walking path. He made it to the top of a tree and fired more arrows, killing ten more soldiers. This left 47 soldiers left.

Link jumped out from within a pile of rocks and fired ten arrows as quickly as possible. He hit eight soldiers leaving thirty-nine left. He lifted himself up onto the pile of rocks and did a jump attack. He killed three soldiers. One of the larger soldiers grabbed him by the neck and threw him against a wall. His head banged hard against the onyx stone knocking him out cold.

Zelda however was having an easy time fending off the enemy. She had killed 16 soldiers with heavens light. This left only 23 soldiers left. But now it was time for her most powerful incantation. She knelt down to the floor and put both hands down. She screamed “Diasen, Klemu, Mikairo, tygma!” This was the incantation for “hellfire.”
Suddenly where all the knights were holes formed under them and fire spewed out killing the rest. She was exhausted now.

Michael extended his arm to help Zelda onto her feet. Link was nowhere to be found though. It was as if he was defeated and then disappeared.

“Where did Link go,” asked Zelda.

“Link, he was K.O.’d and then taken inside the temple. “Just the way we planned.”

Link was dragged into the temple. Unbeknownst to the people dragging him he was still totally conscious. He was listening to what they had said.

“My belly aches,” said a monster on the left. “Let’s eat him.”

“He is not for eating!” said the monster on the right.

“Oh c’mon, he’s bruised up just the way I like it!”

“The devil will know what to do with him, in the meantime, try to keep yourself from devouring the mortal.”

“Yes master.”

Link, being dragged by his wrists, was beginning to ache at the forearm. They had been traveling up the same staircase for ten minutes now and it was beginning to get a little irritating.

Michael had suited up like one of the soldiers from before. He took its armor and its clothing. He walked up to where Link was being dragged and said “Men, we are planning an attack on Kakariko Village, report to the warlord immediately.” The two soldiers turned their backs to go to the warlord. Michael took out two arrows and shot them both. He then unchained Link from his wristband and helped him up.

“You certainly took my sweat time,” said Link. “A few more minutes and I might have been in one of those troll’s belly.”

“Yeah, it’s good to see you too,” said Michael, “but we’re not done yet. We still have to make it look like we didn’t kill them.”

Michael and Link then dragged the bodies outside and buried them within the pile of rocks Link jumped out of earlier. They ran back inside. Link again forced himself to look like he was unconscious while Michael dragged him in. They entered the large door and walked through the extremely large throne room.

Michael was face to face with Dia’ for the second time. He felt an urge to just pull out his sword and lunge at him. He resisted the temptation though.

“You may leave,” said Dia’ speaking to Michael.

Michael left the throne room and killed the two trolls that opened the door to the throne room. He listened to Link and Dia’s conversation.

“You are Link, are you not?” asked Diatheleser.

Link wouldn’t answer, he had to act like he was unconscious.

“You are still unconscious! Then I shall awake you!!!”

He lunged his hand onto Links forehead and yelled the incantation “Ilamithandir!!!!”

Link felt the surge of pain going down his spinal cord.

He immediately opened his eyes wide and crunched his teeth together. A cut formed on the inside of his mouth. Blood was flooding in his mouth and he spit it out in Dia’s direction.

“Respect less runt!!!!” Dia’ yelled infuriated.

Michael forced open the doors and in the distance he could barely see Dia’. He got out his bow and pulled back as hard as he could and let go. The arrow was blessed with the “heaven’s light” incantation. The arrow hit Dia’ straight in the heart. The shadow body that Dia’ had was cracked and light rays forced out from within him. Dia’ screamed in pain as the light took over his miserable body.

Michael dragged Link out of the temple and laid him down on the gray rock outside.

Link was beginning to fade. The Ilamithandir spell was three times more powerful than the spell that Zelda had been cursed by.

After two more minutes of dragging Link into Kethro he finally became unconscious.

“That’s twice that Dia’ had done a number on our group,” said Zelda.

Michael then carried Link on his back and they walked into the Kokiri Forest.

***

Diatheleser was healed five hours later.

A soldier came up to him and said, “You ordered a man that said you should speak to the warlord. A ‘human’ looking soldier told me that and I reported to him, but he said that there was no such order.”

“Hmmm,” said Diatheleser. “The mortals gave me an idea! Have the soldiers ready for a major attack by morning. We will take Hyrule Market down!!! They will know what ‘tru’ pain feels like!!!”

***

Michael set up camp. He gave Link some medicine to heal his pain.

“Damn it, that hurt!!!” said Link regaining consciousness.

“It only lasts for ten hours,” said Michael looking down at Link. “The medicine quickens the healing time. You have two more hours of pain.”

“I didn’t know it would hurt ‘that’ much,” said Link sitting up.

“Shit it still hurts!!! That bastard!

“Don’t worry about it,” said Michael. “It’s just a pain spell, it ain’t gonna kill ya!”

“I know but still it hurts!”

“I’ve felt it before,” said Michael, “you get used to the pain.”

Link tried going to sleep but the pain was too harsh. He couldn’t do anything about it.

After the two hours time the pain had stopped. Though he still feared that the pain would occur again. He stayed up late that night and went to sleep at 2:00 AM.

***

Diatheleser’s army was now ready for combat. It consisted of ten thousand men, five mountain trolls, and a dragon.

“I do not need the philosopher’s stone to take over the world,” said Dia’. “It would just make it easier. But still, have men search for information on it at all times…”