The Immortal Realm
Part four:
Link's funeral
Lance jumped from Epona on entrance to the castle courtyard, yet he already knew. Maybe it was how cold link was. Maybe it was how his chest stopped rising and falling, or maybe it was the immense feeling of courage that didn't seem to be his that told him. But he knew that his father was dead the minuet that it hit the grass. And the guards ran up.
Lance felt tears gather in the corners of his eyes as he touched his father's frozen check. The guards looked at prince lance and the king with stern, uncaring faces. Lance, noticing this, started to feel deep pain despite the fact he knew it was there job to act that way. They don't…care do they? It happens all the time…a king comes and goes…lance growled at them, bending over his fathers fallen body and letting go to his grief and pain, letting the tears come.
A day later, at the king's viewing, stared at his father, no emotions betraying themselves in his eyes. He was dressed in a black tunic that the royal maids made for him for such an occasion. Link lay there dressed in the same thing. Lance felt a deep anger and resentment for many people. The great fairy for not telling him what the crystal did, for perhaps it could have saved his father, anger for the guards and their not caring attitude, and hatred for Gannondorf and all evil.
Lance leaned over his father and took his frozen hand. "Ill avenge you father…" suddenly lance noticed a lot of commotion outside. Then he saw a man with no hair and a small white beard come in. he was dressed in a red and orange robe. All the guards were bowing as he came by. "There you are lance!" the stranger said. "Who are you?" lance said, drawing the sword and shield that he now carried with him everywhere. "I'm the sage of light." Lance gasped, immediately putting his weapons away and bowing, quickly.
"Rauru! What are you doing here?" Rauru smiled, mysteriously. "I've come to tell you what the item the great fairy gave you does." Link sighed, a frown forming on his face. "Rauru… I'm afraid your too late…" lance backed to the side so Rauru could see his father. Rauru smiled and explained to lance that the great fairy knew that this was going to happen and how that item was going to save his fathers life. "For you see lance that item takes you to the immortal realm and that is where everyone who gets killed goes," Rauru explained. "So… all I have to do is go there and bring my father back!" lance said, feeling a shimmer of hope rise within him.
"But remember lance, to go there you have to give up your humanity when you use the item again you shall regain it back but the only way for your father to get his humanity back is to defeat the one who killed him in a grand and final battle." Rauru patted lance on the back. "But you can do it. Come; let me show you how it works and what you must do.
***
At that very moment Gannondorf was busy resurrecting all the monsters that lance had killed before Gannondorf came back, cursing the kids luck with getting away. "Too bad all that kids hard work went to waste," Gannondorf said with an evil laugh. "Hyrule will be forever roamed by evil! And he will NOT escape me AGAIN!! Zelda will pay for her son and Link's doings."
***
Lance pulled on the oft fabric of his green traveling tunic, like his fathers, and his green cloak. Rauru's words were echoing in his head as he pulled on the rough leather of his gauntlets and strapped on his sword, now un-cursed, and the mirror shield. "The way to get to the immortal realm is to hold the crystal in the air and say yerst…" Rauru had said. Lance took a deep breath, holding the crystal above his head and, with one final glance around, whispered "yerst!"
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Part four:
Link's funeral
Lance jumped from Epona on entrance to the castle courtyard, yet he already knew. Maybe it was how cold link was. Maybe it was how his chest stopped rising and falling, or maybe it was the immense feeling of courage that didn't seem to be his that told him. But he knew that his father was dead the minuet that it hit the grass. And the guards ran up.
Lance felt tears gather in the corners of his eyes as he touched his father's frozen check. The guards looked at prince lance and the king with stern, uncaring faces. Lance, noticing this, started to feel deep pain despite the fact he knew it was there job to act that way. They don't…care do they? It happens all the time…a king comes and goes…lance growled at them, bending over his fathers fallen body and letting go to his grief and pain, letting the tears come.
A day later, at the king's viewing, stared at his father, no emotions betraying themselves in his eyes. He was dressed in a black tunic that the royal maids made for him for such an occasion. Link lay there dressed in the same thing. Lance felt a deep anger and resentment for many people. The great fairy for not telling him what the crystal did, for perhaps it could have saved his father, anger for the guards and their not caring attitude, and hatred for Gannondorf and all evil.
Lance leaned over his father and took his frozen hand. "Ill avenge you father…" suddenly lance noticed a lot of commotion outside. Then he saw a man with no hair and a small white beard come in. he was dressed in a red and orange robe. All the guards were bowing as he came by. "There you are lance!" the stranger said. "Who are you?" lance said, drawing the sword and shield that he now carried with him everywhere. "I'm the sage of light." Lance gasped, immediately putting his weapons away and bowing, quickly.
"Rauru! What are you doing here?" Rauru smiled, mysteriously. "I've come to tell you what the item the great fairy gave you does." Link sighed, a frown forming on his face. "Rauru… I'm afraid your too late…" lance backed to the side so Rauru could see his father. Rauru smiled and explained to lance that the great fairy knew that this was going to happen and how that item was going to save his fathers life. "For you see lance that item takes you to the immortal realm and that is where everyone who gets killed goes," Rauru explained. "So… all I have to do is go there and bring my father back!" lance said, feeling a shimmer of hope rise within him.
"But remember lance, to go there you have to give up your humanity when you use the item again you shall regain it back but the only way for your father to get his humanity back is to defeat the one who killed him in a grand and final battle." Rauru patted lance on the back. "But you can do it. Come; let me show you how it works and what you must do.
***
At that very moment Gannondorf was busy resurrecting all the monsters that lance had killed before Gannondorf came back, cursing the kids luck with getting away. "Too bad all that kids hard work went to waste," Gannondorf said with an evil laugh. "Hyrule will be forever roamed by evil! And he will NOT escape me AGAIN!! Zelda will pay for her son and Link's doings."
***
Lance pulled on the oft fabric of his green traveling tunic, like his fathers, and his green cloak. Rauru's words were echoing in his head as he pulled on the rough leather of his gauntlets and strapped on his sword, now un-cursed, and the mirror shield. "The way to get to the immortal realm is to hold the crystal in the air and say yerst…" Rauru had said. Lance took a deep breath, holding the crystal above his head and, with one final glance around, whispered "yerst!"
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