How had they found her? Two months, and not even the faintest of hint that they'd been tracking her, but now here they were hot on her trail with nowhere left for her to run. Sure, she had her sacred bow, but how was she going to fight off an entire company of Guardians? Unlike link, she definitely wasn't a one woman army… and there were so many of them, what if she couldn't make it? 'Then they'd get me too… just like link.'
Link… It it felt too soon to count him among the fallen, but there was no denying that he was gone. 'But maybe, maybe he wasn't gone...?' said a small voice inside. But no, she couldn't entertain such thoughts right now. "You just need to face it, he's gone, just like everyone else!" zelda told herself sternly as she tried to stay ahead of the Guardians. But that is a feat easier said than done.
They were closing in on her, she could feel it, and it wasn't all that hard to tell. Zelda knew that if they got too close she would hear this rift of piano notes, and sure enough, there they'd be. But they weren't going to get that close to her; at least, not without a fight. 'And if that's what it comes too then it's going to be on MY terms!' She thought as she turned around to face the coming company of Guardians.
Notching an arrow, she counted ten maybe twelve of them and…something else riding one, something small? 'What is that, a bokoblin? I can't tell… they're too far away.' whatever it was,zelda was sure it was bad news. In Fact, the whole company was bad news, and was coming up on her fast.
Fast was right, no sooner had she come to this realization then they were all within range! Ready for them, zelda let fly two arrows right into the nearest Guardian's eye. It buckled and was soon trampled by the rest of the company as they surged forward and locked onto zelda.
Well she was locked onto them too. One of nine, two of, three of, NO four of nine guardians down! She felled them left and right, decimating their numbers, when suddenly, IT decided to step in. That thing riding the Guardian earlier; It launched itself from it's ride, straight into the middle of the action!
When It landed It created a small cloud of dust which hid it pretty well, so well that all zelda could see of it was two glowing blue were asymmetrically set so it looked as if one orbited the other, much like how the moon orbits earth. Both eyes were similar to a Guardian's singular eye in make but they were also relatively smaller in size. The two eyes were also set at a height relative to that of a human's eye level; this IT was a someone not a something.
'But who?' zelda thought, as she trained her bow on the remaining Guardians and the figure. She didn't get to finish that train of thought though, as the figure started Its attack.
Its speed was blinding: in a flash It was gone. It had leapt high over her and brought forth Its weapon, what looked like a gun built into Its arm, mid-flight and aimed it at her before she could even react.
The gun, more like CANNON, flowed smoothly into the arm and reached its end where the hand should be. Like all Sheikah tech, it was made of a smooth pottery-like material with raised whirls and curls that glowed with an unnatural light colored, in this case, reddish-pink. At its tip, the muzzle glowed a harsh blue as it charged up it's attack.
'Oh no you don't!' panicked zelda, as she let loose an arrow at the figure. It parried the shot with a glowing bolt from Its arm. A bolt that met the arrow mid-flight and blew it up! 'Did IT seriously just do that!?', Zelda was shocked, 'I've only ever seen Link do something like that…'
But as shocked as she was that didn't stop her jaw from dropping farther when wind blew in.
It rustled the cloak the figure wore, enough to dislodge it's hood and throw the cape open a bit. Zelda spotted a familiar shade of blue under that cape, and as the figure pulled Its hood back up, she saw pointed ears.
'N-now that can't be right! No one wears that color but the royal family… or those closest to us…'. Thusly confused, zelda didn't pay much attention to the remaining company of Guardians. This inattention let one sneak up on her, or at least it would have if she hadn't heard the warning rift and moved out of the way. Unfortunately, she only ended up moving from the frying pan and into flames, as her dodge took her right into the figure's arms.
Feeling around to see what she'd backed into, zelda thought, 'Hmmm… this feels like link…'. However, 'Doesn't look much like him though…' she thought as she looked up to see two bright Guardian-esque eyes look down at her with malice.
'Well, I can't just let This happen…', "Excuse me, you can let go now!" she said, sending a pulse of Holy energy thru him so he'd let go. "Aack!", he grunted, as he fell to the ground.
Seeing how effective that was, zelda started eyeing the rest of the company of Guardians. "Would anyone else like some?" she dared them, seeing them back off in warrieness. "No? Well that a shame really-" she paused, gathering more energy. "- Because I have plenty for all of you!" she announced as she sent out a huge wave of holy energy!
The wave quickly caught and encompassed the entire company of Guardians, shutting them down and purging their system's of the Calamity's taint. It also caught link too, purging his system of taint, but not shutting him down.
No, instead of shutdown, link was supercharged and started to glow with a solid blue light. He then started to unwind in coded strands, floating up through a portal that couldn't be seen.
'Now what have I done?' zelda thought, as she watched him go once more.