Links eyes slowly fluttered open, he could feel a huge weight on his legs. He lifted his head to look around, but deeply regretted it. Jolts of pain sprang through his head. He let out a small yelp. He put a hand on his forehead in an attempt to ease the pain. There was a sticky liquid covering his forehead, he wiped some off and inspected it. Blood.
That's when last night events came back to him. The army of fire, the Moon. He pushed himself up. Despite the pain seeping through his body.
Looking around, he saw the destruction cause by the fall of the moon. Rubble laid scattered everywhere, the burnt remains of what appeared to be trees were nothing but a mere shells of bark. The clocktown wall was destroyed.
"Tatl, look at this" he said to his companion in a raspy voice. When there was no reply, link looked around. "Tatl?" no reply. He began to worry. "Tatl where are you?" he heard a small flutter of wings coming from the ground. He gasped, there was Tatl, half dead. Her usual yellow glow, reduced to a flicker, her wings cut and scraped, only one seemed to work, as it flapped in a failed attempt to fly.
Link picked her up with one of his hands and held her close to his face. "Tatl" praying for a response.
"Link?". He smiles, "you're alive".
"For now, what has happened to clock town?"
"It's destroyed" he replies.
"Well then what are you waiting for, go and check for survivors you idiot!" she says regaining some of her normal tone.
"I cant, my leg is stuck" he says pointing to the boulder crushing one of his legs.
"C'mon I've seen you lift bigger. You're not becoming a wuss are you?" She taunts
"I cant I feel dizzy"
"Try"
Giving a brief nod he attempts to push the boulder of his leg. He gives it a push, no effect. He tries again harder this time, still no effect. He gives a defeated sigh
"This is the hero of time? goddesses save us" Tatl says to the heavens, link gives a small growl, no one mocks him, before he grabs the boulder with surprising force, and pushes with his good hand. It starts to budge. Every muscle in links arm feel like they have just been crush by a Dodongo, he lets out a gasp of relief as the rock slowly comes of his leg.
Link falls backwards into the burnt grass, taking deep breaths of air.
"Ha! what was that about been as wuss?" he asks to Tatl, who is lying on his shoulder. When there's no reply he looks at her. She has gone pale.
"Link" she says.
"Hmm" he asks.
"You're leg" she stated.
Link looks down to his leg and his face pales to. He didn't often look at his legs, but he knew this much.
His leg was not supposed to be, in that position.
"Holy shit!" he screamed "what are we going to do, it's broken, there's no way were going to get out of here now!" hot tears start to build up in his eyes.
"I'm never going to get home" he says in a whisper. The tears start to fall freely down his face.
Tatl then realized something she had often forgotten about Link, he was only a boy. He may have faced more hardships than many would ever face, and he had fought creatures far bigger than him, he had fought alone when enemies far outnumbered him, and came out victorious, but he was still only a young boy.
Then she realized she would have to do something she had vowed she would never do.
"Link there is a way to heal you" his crying turned to small whimpers as he looked at her. His eyes gleaming with hope
"What is it?" he asked
"Fairy magic can heal any wound" she replies in an empty voice
"But where are we going to find a fairy out here?" then it clicked.
"No Tatl don't do it"
"I must" then a sparkling light materialized from the main part of her body, and crept forward towards Links chest. "Goodbye Link, just do one thing for me, save what's left of Termina" was all she said before the light began to pulsate. Links wounds began to heal, his leg slowly snapped back into place, cuts closed with incredible speed. Then the light, as quick as it came, disappeared.
All the pain link felt was gone. As he looked towards Tatl, he gasped, Tatl's body lay lifelessly on the ground.
He stood up, and gently picked her corpse off the ground. And stared at it. "Why" he asked, that was all he said, that was all that needed to be said. Then the wind picked up and Tatl's body disintegrated to fairy dust and blew away with the wind.
"Goodbye Tatl, I hope you're in a better place now" and he turned and walked towards the remains of clock town. To make sure Tatl didn't die in vain.
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So Tatl is now dead in the next chapter link investigates clock town, it should be up by tomorrow latest. Please review.
