Chapter 2

"I don't know how I got roped into this." I sighed softly looking over at Link. We were seated against the shrine that, that crazy old man told us about. I lean my head back and look over at my partner in this, his eyes are closed. His face is relaxed and he looks so peaceful, the wind is gently caressing his hair. A strange feeling courses through my veins as I look at him. I want to touch him, I want to feel his silky skin against my fingertips.

"Link?" I questioned softly. He looks like hes asleep, I cant help the need coursing through me I place a hand on his cheek and lean my forehead against his. His shallow breaths are ghosting over my lips. I run my fingers down his cheek and watch as Link blinks a couple times before looking up at me with tired eyes.

"Dark… mmm." He makes a sound that sounds like a whimper as he presses his cheek into mine.

"Its time to wake up, love." The words seem so natural when directed at Link, it feels right to call him that.

"Just a little longer please?" I try not to shiver as he whispers the words in my ear.

"Okay, but stay here, I'm going to go see if I can find you some weapons. We don't know what we will encounter in there. He nods pulling away from me and laying on the grass. I stand taking my wood cutters axe and heading towards the camp of monsters I saw on the way here.

"Be safe." Are the last words I hear from my blonde-haired companion as he immediately falls back asleep. When I get to their camp I count four of them 3 around a fire and the fourth looking out for the rest of the group. I can see strange horns attached to their belts and I can only assume that if I get caught they will let everyone know of my presence. I crouch down heading for the lookout tower, he doesn't turn to me and I manage to make it to his ladder. I make my way up as quietly as I can, only when I step on to the platform does it hear me. It turns around swiftly grabbing for the horn, but I am much quicker with a swipe from my axe hes falling off tower. I jump after him ducking into a roll when I reach the ground.

My body is running on pure instinct now, I run at the group of goblins and manage to take one down while the other two scramble for their weapons. One grabs one and takes a swipe at me, I can see a shield sitting close to the fire and I don't think. I dive for it grabbing it and lifting it up to cover me from the goblins attack. That thing hes swinging around it Fucking heavy, it sends painful vibrations through the shield and up my arms. When it goes to raise its weapon, and drop it back down on me again I roll to the side and manage to regain my footing. This time rather than wasting any time with the shield I throw it at the goblins head momentarily disorienting it enough to strike with the axe this time. Down it goes leaving one left that in its anger has picked up a rock over its head and intends to throw it at me before it has the chance I throw my last weapon at it being the axe making it take a hit from both that and the rock before it burns away leaving nothing but organs and horns behind. I gather the objects because who knows what the could be used for here. I also take their weapons finding Link and I some bows and Arrows. I look up seeing a chest on one of the nearby towers I feel curious. I climb up the tower kicking open the chest to find a traveler's sword. I cant help but smile at the find because I think Link would like it. I head back to where I left Link sleeping only to find that hes awake now looking towards the castle once more.

"Dark you came back?" I nod dropping the weapons I had found for him at a heap by his feet.

"Take these they should help us with whatever is waiting for us down there." Link nods and starts taking the weapons and new shield I have given him. We head to the opening of the shrine and Link brings the sheikah slate up laying it over the pillar. We watch as the bricks covering the door begin to disappear leaving only an elevator into the darkness. We both look at each other for a moment before heading inside. I shiver as a strange voice whispers to us.

"To you who sets foot in this shrine. I am Oman Au. In the name of the goddess Hylia I offer this trial." We both step in the room Link going straight for another pillar where he can use the sheikah slate. I walk to the two metal platforms sitting between the exit and a barred door.

"Dark! It says that a rune has been extracted. I can manipulate metallic objects." I wave him over and point at the two metal platforms. Link uses the sheikah slate to get a lock on one before he begins lifting it up out of the floor. I stare in awe at the new power he has been given. He moves them aside revealing a strange passage way leading underground. I jump straight in but link uses the ladder. I swim straight to the other side while Link offers me a hand when I reach the end. This time our path is guarded by giant stone blocks. Link uses his new Magnesia power to lift a stone and tear down the blocks hiding his bath. That's when we see it, it resembles the beast we found outside the temple. Smaller in stature but the same kind of beast all the same.

"Link, I don't know how we can take that thing on if it sees us. I step up on to the blocks that had been blocking our way immediately catching its attention. I see strange red laser aimed at me and I don't move just stare at it.

"DARK!" Link grabs my arm pulling me off the brick and into his arms as the explosion erupts on the brick I had been standing on. Link Is looking up at the blast then his eyes shift to me as he gasps for air. He stands up using the sheikah slate to take the metal brick hed used to knock the wall down. He uses it to slam into the guardian, two hits is all it takes for the thing to explode spraying the room with screws and gears. Link picks them all up while I stare at him shocked. He walks back over to me and offers me a hand that I take allowing him to lift me from the ground. When I'm standing, Link wraps his arms around me in a tight hug that I return. I was so close to dying just now only to be saved by him. We stand there for what feels like forever just holding onto each other. When he pulls away he doesn't say a word he just continues using his new power to help us across the platforms.

When we reach the end link opens the doors for us and we see it a strange being surrounded in a square of blue light. We approach the being stepping up to the pedestal before them. Link lifts his hand placing it on a strange eye etched into the blue light. The light shatters then and the voice speaks once again to us.

"you have proven to possess the resolve of a true hero. I am Oman Au I am the creator of this shrine. I am a humble monk, blessed with the sight of the goddess Hylia and dedicated to helping those who seek to defeat Ganon. With your arrival, my duty is fulfilled. In the name of the goddess hylia allow me to bestow this gift upon you. Please accept this Spirit orb." The orb appears and seems to enter Links body while I stare surprised as the monk disintegrates before us.

"May the goddess smile upon you." We then are transported outside of the shrine only to see that strange old man paragliding towards us. "It seems you managed to get your hands on a spirit orb… well done." I glare at him stepping between him and Link.

"How did you know that?" Link places a hand on my shoulder to calm me. "Clairvoyance! Oho, or perhaps something similar. These shrines, those towers they are all connected to that slate on your hip. Its been a long time since I have seen the device. Its said that it belonged to an ancient tribe called the sheikah whose technology is said to have disappeared. Find me the three other treasures on this plateau and I shall give you my paraglider." I scoff at him pissed off that he thinks he can just change our deal.

"We have to get more now?" Link questions while the old man nods and waves him over to show him how to locate shrines with the sheikah slate.

"To you Dark I have a gift as well." I look over at the man hoping it's the paraglider but what he pulls out instead is surprising. It's a sheikah slate like Links but this one is so much different. Its All black and the eye that runs blue on his, on mine is all red. I stare at the slate surprised as I run my fingertips over the strange device.

"This will aid you on your journey, when you can no longer be with Link. It will allow you to aide him in his cause." When I take it in my hands I feel a memory over take me. Blood… so much fucking blood. This war to save the goddess once more, to protect her precious Hyrule. I fought harder than I ever have before, when the guardians turned on us it was bad enough. But no one expected that on the night that the blood moon rises that Ganon would be able to control me. He turned me against my beloved hero. He and I fought sustaining fatal injuries, I watched from the floor as we both bled out. Link didn't look surprised but he did look sad as he stared back at me. I wanted to apologize to explain that it wasn't me, but Gannon's control didn't waver. Zelda and Impa found Link just in time to save him. The looked at me with disgust, they had told Link not to trust me. That one day I would turn on them. They were right. I felt a tear slip past my eyelids as Impa carried Link away. Zelda meanwhile looked at me with such pity I felt as though I was going to be sick.

"You caused this, you cost us this war and our champion." I glare at her because I remember her cruelty to Link in the beginning.

"I love Link." I ground out.

"If it weren't for Ganon taking control, Link and I would have won." I coughed spraying the stone beneath me with blood.

"Impa is taking him to a place you will never find, I won't let you harm him anymore." Zelda yells at me. I know I still have chance to catch up with them, I focus the last of my energy on finding Links shadow and clinging to it. I hear Zelda's gasp as she calls back to Impa that I disappeared. I use his shadow to rest as Impa returns us back to the temple of time. It's not a long journey to reach it but I see her going passed the temple to a cave. She lays Link in a bed of water that begins to heal his wounds slowly, I can feel them sewing themselves back together.

When Impa leaves locking us inside this place, I let myself fall from Links shadow. I force myself to stand and I look like a bloody mess. Impa shed Link of his clothes and I force myself to do the same before crawling into the pool with my other half. If I die here let it be with the one I love. I gasp feeling the air return to my lungs as I look up at Link who is crouched over me looking more worried than I had ever seen him. I felt the tears rolling down my cheeks as I looked up at Link, the same Link who I remember almost killing. The one I turned on because of the beast in Hyrule castle. I reached up placing my hands on Links cheeks and pulling him down until his mouth is against mine. I kiss him hard, my lips bruising as his tongue slips into my mouth. He lays me back his body leaning over mine as he kisses my lips in return. When he pulls away he doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that we've kissed. He seems worried about me.

"Dark… are you okay now?" I shake my head looking up at him.

"I have to go…" He nods in understanding.

"Where do you want me to take you?" I shake my head at him as he moves back a little allowing me to sit up.

"I have to be away from you." He stares at me confused.

"You don't have to Dark we can…" I place my hand over his mouth and shake my head. Because if I allow him to keep talking to continue to try and convince me to stay I just might… Its too dangerous for that. I love Link and I have to let him go. I pull away from Link leaving him on the ground as he stares up at me sad and confused.

"Take care." I whisper pressing a kiss to his forehead before using the shadows to take me away from here… from him.

"DARK! DARK!" His calls for me are painful and the only leave a large wound in my heart. Link doesn't remember and I have to be away from him when he does. I can't stand those eyes filled with betrayal… I don't want Link to ever look at me like that again.