The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time part 10
Destiny finally fulfilled
A cold, howling wind blew about the deserted town. Dark figures stood lurking in shadows. A figure lay on sickly dead grass outside the towering building. Any light that floated around the figure cast black evil shadows that danced on walls. Dark shadows covering anything and everything, toying with and torturing lights weak protestations. Nothing bright and friendly shone out through the darkness, no comforting aura to give strength and hope. No diamond like stars glinted in the sky, no moon broke the inky blackness and at dawn no roaring aurora of the sun would part and break and shatter ghostly figures of clouds.
Link lay on the grass in front of the Temple of Time, trapped in a deep sleep. Icy numbness travelled throughout the air in the abandoned market town. Navi hovered nearby, keeping watch as the wounded Link slept.
Link stirred in his sleep and slowly woke up, wounds suddenly throbbing and muscles aching. He shook his head, stretched, yawned and blinked trying to wake up properly. He had finally defeated the Spirit Temple and was ready to defeat Ganondorf. He had been transported to outside the temple of Time and had been told to go inside when he woke up. Navi flew down to him, her light fully waking him up.
“Come on Link, we’ve gotta go inside” she chirped
“Ummph” was the only response Link could make, annoyed at Navi for making him move so quickly after he had woken up.
He pulled his Sword, Shield, Bow and Quiver onto his back and lethargically stood up and moved towards the Temple.
Link entered the temple to see a figure standing by the altar, he recognised it as Sheik. Link walked up to him and stood waiting for him to speak. Sheik said nothing however, just raised his hand. A Triforce symbol faded into visibility and started glowing, shining with golden light.
Links mouth dropped open with shock as golden lines crossed Sheik’s body and his whole body became enshrouded by it. Link stood, watching in amazement as Sheik’s glowing body changed shape and gradually faded into a visible form again. Suddenly standing before him was a seventeen year old woman. She had long flowing golden hair down to her waist, pale snow white fair skin, deep sapphire blue eyes and a perfect curved, petite feminine figure.
“Zelda?” Link breathed, questioning
The woman nodded and smiled at him.
Link couldn’t believe it, it was Zelda! She was here, and safe, and the most beautiful woman he had seen in his entire life.
She smiled at him once more and began to speak softly to him, explaining about her disguise as the Sheikah, the temples and sages and at last the final piece of the puzzle, the Triforce pieces.
“What do you mean, what about the Triforce?” Link asked, not quite understanding.
“When you opened the door of time Ganondorf entered the sacred realm, as did you, and took the Triforce of Power. With one of the Triforce pieces taken the Triforce, obviously, was no longer whole” she explained.
“Oh, right… so the other two pieces of the Triforce had to go to someone as well”
“Exactly, the Triforce pieces of Wisdom and Courage need someone to guard them, so they go to the people who entered the sacred realm and who have the strongest of those traits… which means that I have the Triforce of Wisdom” she held her right hand up to show off the Triforce mark, proving her point “and you have the Triforce of Courage” she glanced at his left hand. Link looked down at it too, and slipped off the Golden gauntlet he was wearing, and there on the back off his hand, was a faintly glowing Triforce mark.
“It also happens that I am the last sage too, the leader of all the others, which is the reason I had to teach all the Ocarina songs” She stated.
Link nodded his head in understanding and opened his mouth to speak when he heard a quiet rumbling that was growing increasingly louder. Zelda had heard it too and was listening intently, her head tipped so that her ear closest to the sound could hear better.
A moment later and the rumbling turned into a laugh, deep, low, evil and ominous…Ganondorf’s laugh. He had discovered the princess was in the Temple of Time and… there was a flash of light around Zelda, a pink crystal formed encasing her, there was another blinding flash… and she was gone.
Link immediately turned and ran out of the temple, turning right sharply at the town and heading up towards Ganondorf’s dark fortress.
As he reached the top of the slight hill he skidded to a halt, staring at the sight of the fortress, floating over a pit of lava.
“Oh this is just perfect” he exclaimed “Now what am I supposed to do?”
“Nothing” Navi squeaked “Just watch”
Link looked back to the lava and saw a streak of green to his right. A bridge was being formed through the sages power, green, red, blue, purple, orange and yellow merging into each other to create a solid platform.
Link walked towards it and gingerly put his foot on it, testing its strength.
“I don’t care how powerful the sages are, I do not like this” Link muttered, slowly taking steps and realising that if he did this he would stay on the bridge longer. He stopped looked around, drew his sword and shield… and ran, straight into the fortress.
An inky blackness engulfed Link as he walked into the forbidding stronghold of Ganondorf. The air lay around, thick, heavy and dusty matching the dismal malevolent feeling of the castle. Everything seemed to pulse with evil energy, from the floor beneath his feet to the air and narrow corridor walls which brushed his shoulders. In the far distance a dim flicker of lamps could be seen, and a clear light streaking across the room ahead. Link quickened his pace, breaking into a run. The room was slightly illuminated by six streaks of light, green, red, blue, purple and orange all converging to a point on the ceiling and the other end sinking into a wall above a door, a large yellow beam stood in the middle of them all. On each door their was the symbols of each separate sage with their colour above it. At the far side of the room a beam of black, that seemed to glow and pulse with malicious energy struck into a large door with Ganon’s face on it.
“We have to go into each room and defeat it to break the barrier so we can get up to Ganon” Navi informed, her voice shaking.
“Never” was Link’s sarcastic response.
He headed down the steps to each room defeating any enemy that was stupid enough to attack him (all of them then). In the forest room there were Stalfos, Wolfos, Bubbles (the floating skulls) floor masters and Poes. In the fire room there were all the creatures Link had fought in the fire temple and so on with all the rooms.
When Link was just entering the spirit room Navi piped up.
“And in this room Link we’ll have to face…” Navi started in a patronising tone, but she didn’t get to finish her sentence due to Link grabbing her and slamming the tiny fairy into a wall.
“Three points Navi.” Link growled, fed up with her “One, it is not ‘we will’ it’s ‘you will’ meaning me, you don’t do anything. Two, I already know what will be in here. Three, if you patronise me one more time, you will find yourself in a bottle on my shelf at home or worse still about to be hit by a fly swatter.”
He let Navi go and she let out an indignant little ‘humph’ and disappeared down his tunic again.
Link continued on his way through the spirit room fighting his enemies as he went until he reached the exit.
The final sage barrier, orange, faded from sight as Link left the room. Cautiously, he walked towards the door with Ganondorf’s (extremely ugly) face on it, he stopped in front of it staring into the portraits eyes for a moment, a scowl forming on his face in hatred. He looked up to the barrier that was above him, still shining but seeming to have dulled, the yellow barrier standing in the middle of the room suddenly pulsed brightly, and Link walked up to it, it continued to pulse and Link stood perplexed as to why nothing was happening.
He suddenly got an idea and took the Master Sword, placing it in the middle of the beam of light. At first nothing happened, but he stood back and waited anyway. After a few seconds the light began to pulse again, brighter and brighter until the beam began to grow and the room was filled with the yellow light. Link closed his eyes until the light passed, when he looked at the door to Ganondorf’s chambers, the black beam had gone. Taking the Master Sword in hand again he headed for the door to confront Ganondorf.
Link climbed the stairs, going higher, and deeper into the fortress, low notes form an organ filled his ears, as he climbed, he stopped after about ten flights of steps and sank to the floor.
Link breathed heavily as he sat on the step, listening to the notes and gritting his teeth. In his moment of rest he took a moment to think about everything, the present, past and future, his adventure and how his life could have been different.
His main thought however was “How did it come to this? How did things get so bad?”
He sat with his head in his hands, his legs were screaming for rest, while the rest of his body screamed in pain as well. The music was grating his ears and thoughts swirled in his head “How did it come to this?”
He suddenly stopped thinking and stood up, thinking only of the welfare of Hyrule and Zelda, nothing else mattered for the moment, and he started to climb again.
It took a long time to get the top, and needless to say Link was pretty pee-d off about the climb. He now stood outside the door of Ganon’s chambers, taking deep breaths and steadying himself before he plunged into that hell-hole to find goddess knows what. He took one final deep breath, drew the Master Sword and prepared to show Ganon what the Hero of Time could do.
Link threw his weight onto the heavy door, and it slowly creaked open. Link regained his balance and looked at the scene in front of him.
Zelda was standing in a pink crystal that was hovering high in the air; her face broke into a smile as she saw him. Link looked up to her and smiled, bowing his head to her at the same time, but the smile faded from his face when he looked at Ganondorf. He was still sitting at the huge organ and just finishing the music he was playing, he glanced down at his hand and turned with a smirk to face Link.
“Ah, so the great Hero of Time appears at last” his sarcastic smirk told Link all he needed to know
“What do you want you moon faced assassin of joy?” Link spat out at him, seeing if he could get a reaction.
Ganon’s smirk promptly faded at Link’s words, but he replied anyway
“You know what I want” and he gave a little flourish with his hand, sending waves of energy towards Link. Link threw his hand up, his Triforce blocking the energy, he still felt himself being pushed back slightly though.
“That’s it” Ganon smirked again, using his powers to pick up Link and throw him across the room. Link slammed into the wall with a sickening crunch and fell to the floor. He was still conscious though and about to get up when Navi flew out.
“I’m sorry Link, but I can’t help you this time”
Link looked up at her
“I didn’t expect you to anyway”
He stood up again and as he did the room faded into a new one.
Link looked around again, noting the change. The walls were no longer iron and stone, but stained glass windows. Reds, yellows and oranges made up the window panes, looking like a flame gone wrong. The floor was crumbled in places and the room was so pathetically lit that Link could barely see anything.
Ganon was in the centre of the room, floating a couple of inches of the ground, just like the ghost version of himself.
“He’s already shown me how to beat him” Link thought
“And so we come to it at last” Ganon commented breaking the silence in the room. The room fell silent again, but to Link, the silence was deafening. His heart pounded frantically, a bird trying to escape a cage, he wanted to get the battle over and done with, but apparently Ganon had other ideas.
“Don’t let him know your nervous, don’t let him see your courage slip even a millimetre. He’ll take the moment of weakness and kill you” Link’s mind screamed at him and his heart still pounded in his chest, but he was determined not to let it show.
So Link stood tall and straight, his head high and face unreadable, poised for battle with sword and shield drawn ready for attack.
“Fine, let’s go…but I should warn you. I’m going to thrash you within an inch of your life… and then take that inch.” Ganon threatened
Link merely snorted, and rolled his shoulders before settling back into his battle stance. He looked up at Ganondorf, his face set firm and he watched as Ganondorf pulled back his hand creating a ball of energy in it before hurling it straight at Link. A cocky grin formed on Link’s face and he effortlessly swung the Master Sword, hitting the ball back at Ganon who deflected it back it Link. They hit the ball back and forth and it grew faster and faster until finally there was a scream of pain and a figure fell to the ground clutching at his chest and gasping. Before Link could get up though Ganondorf cast another ball of energy, pitch black in colour and puling with energy, he hurled it at Link , who screamed in agony again and… suddenly the floor began to crack and the Link disappeared down into a dark room.
Link landed on the floor with a heavy thud and gasped as a chunk of the floor from above hit his leg. He looked back at it for a moment and then back up at Ganon, who was sitting with his legs thrown over the edge of the pillar that was still standing in the centre and grinning, seeming to think that Link was already beaten.
The Hero of Time yanked himself free of the rock and crawled over to underneath the floor above, covering him in shadow.
“I’ll show him what the Hero of Time can do” Link thought to himself. He slipped his hover boots on and began climbing up the pillar. When he reached the floor above him, he found a loose slab and pushed it up, just enough to see. Ganon was sitting with his back to Link, apparently savouring his easy ‘victory’. With a silent nudge Link pushed the stone slab up and crawled through onto the floor and then silently crept to a corner of the room, directly behind Ganondorf, where he knew the floor was solid. He turned to look back at the unwitting ‘King of Evil’ and drew out his bow and a light arrow, nocking an arrow to the string.
Ganon looked at the sudden light on the wall in front of him.
“What the…?” He looked down to the rock where Link’s leg had been. “That means…”
He turned quickly, and got a glimpse of Link holding a light arrow to the string of his bow, before he was engulfed by pain and light as the arrow hit him.
Link dashed over to the downed, large figure of Ganondorf and plunged the Master Sword deep into his heart, the sword plunging through the thick armour as though it were nothing more than paper.
Ganon looked up at Link, a snarl forming on his face as he looked up at him.
“I can’t believe that I, the great King of Evil have been beaten by this kid” he said to himself
Link pulled the sword out of Ganondorf’s chest and watched him sink to the ground.
“This isn’t over yet Link” he growled out as he coughed up blood. Link watched him for a few seconds and then found himself back in Ganondorf’s chambers, Zelda’s crystal gently lowering to the ground in front of him.
“Zelda…” he breathed, unable to believe she was here and it was over.
She smiled at him, but a sudden jerk of the castle and a rumble made he smiled disappear.
“Link, he’s trying to bring down the castle with his last breaths…we’ve got to get out of here quickly or we’ll be buried alive” she shrieked. “Follow me!”
Link ran after to her over to the door as she used her magic to open the lock…
Ganondorf lay on the floor in the room him and Link had fought in. Blood pooled around him, but he held his hands in the air, using his powers to bring down his fortress.
“As long as though two goody two shoes brats don’t survive, I’m content. I’m going to kill them, it may be the last thing I’ll do, but I’m going to do it” he growled out to himself, increasing his concentration to bring down the castle even faster.
Link and Zelda fled, forcing their legs to go even faster as they ran through the collapsing castle, Zelda screaming magic spells to open gates and doors, while Link used his sword to cut down anything stupid enough to get in his and Zelda’s way.
They ran across a thin metal bridge that vibrated under their feet as the castle shook. A large piece of stone suddenly slammed itself into the walkway making a three foot gap in the path. Link slid to a halt, and looked down at the ground below, hundreds of feet down. He looked back up at Zelda, who was standing on the opposite side of the gap.
“GO!” he shouted at her “Leave me here and get out!”
“I’m not going anywhere without you Link” she screamed back at him
“Listen to me! Every second you stand there is another chance to kill you. Go on and I’ll try to catch you up!”
“But…”
“Go!”
She stood for a second, looking torn, then turned and ran. As she did, another piece of rock slammed into the walkway behind Link. He turned quickly to see how much it had knocked off. But when he turned around he was face to face with a re-dead. He bit back a scream of surprise when he saw it.
“It must have been next to me, in the shadows”
The re-dead stared at him blankly for a moment, and then jumped over Link, landing on his back and sinking its fangs into his neck, drinking the blood that was running down the back of Link’s neck. Link screamed in agony, pain radiating from his neck as the re-dead bit him, drinking his blood and then driving its fangs in further until it hit the bone. He struggled, grabbing the re-dead’s arms and throwing it off in some sort of creepy somersault. However, as he had pulled the zombie of him, it had closed it jaws, sinking the bottom row of fangs into his flesh as well; as a result it had ripped a huge piece of skin from his neck. Link looked down at the stunned zombie as it lay on the ground, disgusted by the sight of his flesh still in its jaws; he angrily dug the sword into its body and then kicked it away. He turned back to the gap in front of him, he took a step back and a deep breath, placing his hand on the wall beside him, and he took another breath, steeled himself and jumped using the wall as leverage.
Zelda suddenly stopped when she heard Link scream. She had ran about three more layers and was right underneath where Link was standing. She shouted to him but the wind carried the sound of her voice away and Link’s next scream drowned her second cry out, she looked around in desperation, there was nothing she could use to climb up to him and the castle was still collapsing. The next thing she knew was there was a zombie’s body lying, twitching on the floor in front of her, a clump of bloody flesh clasped between its jaws. She noted with particular disgust that there were still a few strands of Link’s blonde hair attached to it. She wrinkled her nose up at the sight and used her magic to hurl the body into the lava still so far below. She took in a sudden gasp as she saw Link launch himself across the gap in the metal walkway.
Link landed on the piece of metal with a sudden thud and gasp, the edges of the ripped metal digging deep into his legs, but he still pulled himself up ignoring the scrape of metal against bone and blood dripping down his legs. He stood up his bloody, wounded legs shaking, but he thought nothing of it and continued to run.
Zelda saw Link jump, but didn’t see if he landed safely or not. A huge stalfos that she had no chance of winning against, with her current state of exhaustion, was standing behind her. At that point another huge chunk of rock smashed into it, but more were standing a little way behind and she fled.
Link tore through the building, desperate to catch up with Zelda before something happened to her. Three levels down and a bunch of stalfos were crowded around the body of another. He stayed back, he couldn’t fight them all…but then he heard the worlds: Zelda, Kill. With a sudden spring of hope that she was still alive, he charged through the stalfos, running his sword into two and knocking the others into the lava below. If Zelda was still alive there was a chance they could get out together. He charged into a room and saw Zelda surrounded by flames and stalfos he killed them with arrows before they even knew he was there. He ran over to Zelda and caught her as she collapsed; she opened her eyes and looked up at him.
“Link…You’re alive” she said apparently surprised. Link smiled and nodded at her and hoisted her up, putting his right arm, complete with shield around her waist. Zelda put her left hand on Link’s left shoulder, grasping it for support.
“Are we secure?” he asked
“Yes, can we go?”
“Sure”
They started running again, Zelda opening doors for them, still clutching to Link. She glanced continually at the patch of flesh missing form the back of his neck and grimaced, quickly turning her head away from Link when he noticed her looking at it. Blood was streaming from the wound, but Link didn’t seem to notice, and soaking into the soft material of the gloves on Zelda’s arm. She suddenly noticed they had stopped running, and that Link was looking at her with a strange mixture of looks on his face. There seemed to be impatience, expectance and a sort of amusement drawn into his features, why though she couldn’t tell until he flinched his head towards the door. She muttered an apology to him and opened the door.
“Ok” Link thought “Why is she just staring at my neck, I know it’s horrible but this is the way out” He flinched his head to the door and she seemed to come back, she muttered some sort of apology and opened the door for him.
The two figures struggled out of the castle. Zelda suddenly broke from Link’s grip and ran to a patch that was very slightly lighter than other patch around. Link ran towards her, with his head turned to look back at the collapsing castle, he reached her, stood for a moment …and collapsed to the floor.
“LINK!” Zelda shrieked as he collapsed and sank to her knees beside him.
Link lay looking up at the sky for a moment and then sat up as Zelda knelt beside him.
“I’m OK” he gasped out and then smiled at her, then looked back at the castle, enjoying watching it collapse.
There was a low creak of iron and one by one the four pillars holding the layers of the castle up, fell and shattered into large blocks of iron and stone on the ground. The top layer of the castle, the tower where Link and Ganondorf had fought highlighted by its coloured windows, sank into the layer below it. That one then sank into the other until all that was left was a large, metal, slightly domed piece of land, littered with rubble.
A huge pile of rubble sat in the middle of the area.
Link let his head drop back in exhaustion, resting. A huge explosion brought him back and he looked to where the noise had originated, a bright flash followed the noise and a small ball of light continued to hover in the midst of the pile of rubble.
“Oh, great. What now?” Link groaned as he stood up, picking up the Master Sword and Hylian Shield.
He walked slowly, warily towards the pile, unsure of what he would find. As he approached the pile, the ragged figure of Ganondorf burst out and stood before him, glaring at the young Hero. Link let a growl of annoyance escape his throat.
Ganondorf’s form started to change, in the same way that Sheik had turned into Zelda, but this time instead of a person Link was glad to see, he was horrified.
A huge beast that resembled a warthog stood before him. It was large about 11 foot, thick muscles lined its body, great tusks grew out of its face and it had eyes like white flames. Merciless and utterly malicious.
In each hand, similar to the size of a dragon’s foot, was a huge golden trident, the edges cruelly jagged and the points sharper than a spear or arrow head.
Link looked up at this creature, Ganon, his mouth dropped open and eyes wide. For the first time in his life he was utterly terrified and it showed on his face.
“So much for not letting my fear show” Link thought, still staring at the beast in front of him.
He took a step back from the creature and as he did, it swung one of its huge tridents at him.
The trident slammed into Link, knocking the air out of him and impaling his side. He let a scream tear out of his throat as he was lifted into the air on the trident’s forks but as Ganon lifted the trident vertical he slide down further, becoming completely impaled at totally helpless. Ganon lifted a huge hand, dropping the other trident, and brought it to Link’s face. The 2 foot long claws scraped across Link’s cheek and jaw line, a hairsbreadth away from spilling his blood. The claws moved away from his face, Ganon seeming to be bored by Link’s reaction. But without warning the claws slammed savagely into his head, scraping across his face, leaving huge bloody lacerations, and then slamming again into his chest and stomach and finally into both wrists. Link screamed again, loud enough for the world to hear, the scream seeming to tear the skin from the back of his throat.
“That re-deads bite wasn’t agony, this is” Link thought through the pain.
His body was marked by lacerations from Ganon’s claws, his right wrist hung limply, broken from the force of Ganon’s attack.
Link looked down at his body. He was covered in crimson blood, bruises, scabs (cracked and newly formed) and cuts. Blood was gushing from his neck, legs, face and torso, bruises were already forming around the wounds and else where. He looked to his right wrist, hanging limp and broken and then his left.
“Something’s wrong here” Link thought. He stared at his left hand for a moment and the realization hit him like a ton of bricks.
“SWORD! Where’s the Master Sword. Without it I’ve got no chance”
He turned his head painfully, causing more blood to come from the wound on the back of his neck, and saw the Master Sword planted firmly in the ground, next to where Zelda was standing. A huge ring of fire had sprung up, cutting Link and Ganon off from Zelda. With a vicious move Ganon turned the trident and threw Link off it, his leg landing in the fire. Link yelped and pulled his leg out, looking to Zelda. Her face was paler than usual and he noticed, with a sudden pang of guilt, that she was crying…because of the injuries he was suffering from. He turned his attention back to Ganon and pulled himself painfully up off the blistering ground.
“I’ve got no chance” Link thought suddenly, panic sitting at the edges of his mind, trying to push themselves deeper
“NO! I CAN’T LOOSE NOW! NOT AFTER ALL I’VE COME THROUGH! IT CAN’T, WON’T END LIKE THIS!!!”
Link studied Ganon carefully, his hide was as thick and tough as any armour created, and Link couldn’t use the Master Sword now. He looked for a weakness and noticed; right at the base of Ganon’s tail was a fleshy purple area. He ran forward towards Ganon stopped in front of him and took out the Light arrows and his Bow. He took careful aim, right between Ganon’s eyes and fired. With a flash of light Ganon was brought to his knees and Link ran round the back of him, slamming the Megaton hammer onto the purple patch. Ganon howled and Link ran to his front side again.
The battle lingered on, Link scoring hits, but weakening fast. With a stroke of luck a hit brought the dancing flames surrounding him and Ganon down. He ran at full speed towards Zelda and turned quickly grabbing the Master Sword as he skidded round back towards Ganon. With her remaining energy, Zelda held Ganon in place whilst Link rushed at him full speed and with a cry of victory for Hyrule, Link plunged the gleaming blade into Ganon’s heart once again.
With a cry from Ganon, it was over. Victory was Link’s and Hyrule’s.
Link closed his eyes at the feeling of it all finally being over and welcomed it. He had finally fulfilled his destiny.
When Link opened his eyes again Ganon was gone, leaving the remnants of the fight behind.
A moment later he and Zelda were in the clouds, watching the people of Hyrule rejoice in the peace.
“Link…” Zelda said softly, breaking his gaze away from the villagers at the ranch partying.
He looked at her and smiled, something he felt he hadn’t done, not truly anyway, in seven years.
“Link…I want to apologise” Zelda whispered
“For what?” he asked walking towards her
“For making you miss those seven years of your life, it was stupid of me to think that a couple of children could take on Ganon, even with the Triforce”
Link just stood, looking at her.
“I want to return you to your true time, to relive the seven years you lost”
Link looked at her, shock and sadness etched into his features.
“But … I don’t want to leave”
“But you have to. Why don’t you want to go?”
“Because I don’t want to leave you or this time”
“We’ll see each other again Link, you know that in your heart don’t you”
“Yes, but … do I have to go now”
“No”
Link turned and watched the land below, smiling at the madly dancing lumbering Gorons, the slim tanned Gerudo women, the Hylians, his own race, the Kokiri’s (and a very depressed looking Mido) and finally the tall Zora’s and the contrast they all made with each other. He smiled, making sure that the sight would stay in his memory forever, He turned slightly and saw, with a sudden gasp, all of Hyrule and he marvelled at his homeland. The beauty of it.
The tall, proud Death Mountain, looking commandingly over Hyrule, the large ring of fire that had once surrounded its peak gone, small Kakariko village, nestled cosily in its shadow.
The small Zora River running throughout Hyrule, and its gushing waterfall and fountain, giving life
The lush green, life filled Kokiri forest and lost woods, his childhood home.
The clear, blue, pure, sparkling lake Hylia.
The dry dusty, desert in Gerudo valley but still held beauty in its golden sands.
Hyrule field, its great expanse covering Hyrule.
And finally Hyrule castle, returned to its magnificent grey splendour.
Link looked at it all together, the whole country, protected by the goddesses, sages and him the Hero of Time.
He turned back to Zelda, who now had the other sages standing behind her. Light, Forest, Fire, Water, Shadow, Spirit and Time. He was suddenly overwhelmed by the feeling of gladness and wonder, after seeing Hyrule in all its glory and now the sages, each different people, different races and personalities but each working to the same cause.
The ancient form of Rauru, Sage of Light, whom no-one knew the race of. The tiny Saria, Link’s best friend, who would live forever in her immortal Kokiri form, the Sage of Forest. The massive rock like Darunia the Goron, who had even named his son, Link after the Hero of Time, the Sage of Fire. The slim, tall form of Princess Ruto a Zora, who held and unrequited love for him, she was the Sage of Water. The mysterious Impa, whom no-one knew much about apart from the fact she was one of the last of the dying Sheikah race, the sage of Shadow. Nabooru the Gerudo who had betrayed her own King, Ganondorf to help Hyrule, the sage of Spirit And finally, Zelda, the Princess of Hyrule, sage of Time. And there were no words for her.
He nodded to all the sages, silently thanking them for all their help. They all smiled and left. Save Zelda.
She stood watching Link and he approached her.
“Link…”
“hush”
Link leaned towards her
“Before I go, I wan to say, I’ve just realised how much I love you” he whispered into her ear.
Zelda looked at him , but before she could say anything… he kissed her. They stood like that for a minute or more, just kissing.
Link broke away, handing the Ocarina to Zelda. She took it but for a moment, she let her hand linger in his. Quietly and sadly she played the song of Time and watched Link disappear.
Link found himself back in the temple of Time.
He drew the Master Sword and watched it shimmer in the light for a final time
“There’s always that probably” he thought and plunged the Master Sword back into its pedestal.
As Link was pulled back to his original time, he remembered everything, his final thought before he turned into a child again was
“We’ll see each other again, Zelda”…..
I would like to thank the people that e-mailed me, with regards to the story and ideas. Reviews will still be appreciated and so would any ideas for a new story.
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