Here's the next chapter! It contains some more exposition and history of Zelda and Hylia, so I hope you enjoy! :3 I don't own the Legend of Zelda :P


He wakes up the next morning, and ignoring Fi's instructions to go to the next area, seeks out Pipit and spends a few hours with his close friend. Once he's done spending time with the boy, he listens to Fi and heads towards the yellow beam of light in the sky, curious what this next area will be.

He lands on a platform overlooking the area and he looks at it curiously, not liking the dry heat creeping up over his skin. Fi explains that this is Lanayru Mine and explains that it was once a green and grassy area, now turned into a desert. He climbs down the ladder and curiously goes around the giant structure he was on, finding a goddess cube. He then proceeds onwards into the mine proper, pushing the minecart forward and dispatching some basic enemies. He quickly learns that the yellow chuchu generate electricity, though he discovered this by being shocked by one.

He arrives in an area open to the sky and there's a large blue stone in the middle of it. He runs up to the stone and hits it with his sword, his eyes widening when it glows brightly, levitating slightly, the world around him filled with lush green grass and the robots coming to life. He looks around, awestruck by how cool it is. He continues on once he's done being distracted by the effects of the Timeshift Stone.

He eventually gets out of the mine and into the actual desert area, not impressed by the dry feeling in the air. He definitely likes Faron the most of the three regions, as it was a normal climate, similar to the one of Skyloft. He continues to explore the area, at one point getting his Beetle upgraded to a Hook Beetle by one of the ancient robots. He finds another goddess cube and is getting tired of having to run through the sand so that he won't sink.

He sighs in relief when he reaches the next area as there's no more patches of quicksand in this direction. After solving a few more puzzles, he arrives at the giant wall, which is crumbled. He talks to Gorko for a bit, getting an explanation of what happened to the wall. Link sighs as it looked to be the only way into the temple, but he ends up finding out that he can go through the mining facility to get there as well.

After quite a bit of backtracking and new exploration, he finds himself at the beginning of the mining facility. He goes through the process of turning the generators on and grins to himself when he finds another piece of heart. Deciding that he can go back to the sky for any other treasures after the dungeon, he eats the heart piece to get some more energy before entering the Lanayru Mining Facility.

Dark appears instantly when he arrives in the main room and they traverse the temple, slower this time as Dark doesn't know it as well as he did the others. He couldn't get in while the generators weren't on, so he'll try his best to make sure that Link finds every bit of treasure that he can in the temple. When they're not busy fighting, they're chatting amicably, both of them needing the company. After a bit of exploration that gives them two red rupees from chests, they get the gust bellows.

They continue to explore the facility, using the gust bellows in most of the puzzles that follow. They eventually find the dungeon map and continue to explore. They find another couple of red rupees on their quest to find the carving for this dungeon's boss door. They find the Ancient Circuit after a little more exploration, Link managing to get shocked a few more times by the enemies. He is really starting to hate this place, due to the feeling of the heat combined with the pain of being shocked over and over again.

He then enters the boss room, Dark following right beside him. Together, they defeat Moldarach and get the heart container, Link eating it tiredly. He feels his strength increase, but it does nothing to increase his energy level, which is drained after defeating the boss. He rides the minecart to the exit of the dungeon and leaves, hearing Zelda's singing voice faintly echo to him. He smiles slightly at the sound, always having loved hearing her sing as it was usually when her eyes were sky blue that she'd do so.

She turns when the song is finished and grins at him, her eyes a bright sky blue from the song. They start to run towards each other before the crumbled part of the wall explodes. Ghirahim's laughter echoes in the space surrounding them and he leaps forward, turning and smiling softly at Link before scowling at Zelda. She frowns slightly as her eyes fade to black, the effect from the song fading. She smirks cruelly at him and Ghirahim leaps forward, the blond coming to defend Zelda. She tells Zelda to go on and Zelda sends her harp over to Link, saying that he'll need it in the future.

Link grasps the harp, noticing a piece of paper wrapped around one of the strings. Deciding to look at it once Zelda and the woman leave, he tucks it into one of his pouches. Zelda heads to the gate as Ghirahim finally manages to break the woman's defensive spell. Link runs forward and places a hand on Ghirahim's shoulder, stopping him from attacking the woman. Zelda and the woman look on in shock but they escape through the gate, destroying it in the process.

Ghirahim growls softly but shakes his head, looking softly at Link. He creates some chairs for him, Link, and Dark to all sit in and they do, looking at each other. Link remembers the note on the string and pulls the harp out of his pouch, unwrapping the paper from the string. His eyes widen as he reads the note before he hands it to Dark to read as well.

"Link, I'm so sorry for everything that I've done to you in the past. I was not in control of my own body. Hylia has been controlling me and she's a lot worse than we thought. The only times I've been in control of my body were when my eyes changed and I know that you figured that out. You have to figure out a way to stop her, any way that you can. And once again...I'm sorry."

Dark hands the note to Ghirahim, who nods as he reads that, deciding to go ahead and tell Link about the true history. Dark nods, knowing what the other has planned and Ghirahim snaps, turning the chair he's sitting in into a couch before gesturing to Link to sit beside him. He pulls the smaller boy close and looking into the bright blue eyes of the hero, somehow so full of life despite everything that's happened to him. And, yes, Ghirahim knows as that was one of the conversation topics between him and Dark whenever Link was sleeping.

"Sky child, would you like to know the true history of the war between the demons and Hylia's army?" Link nods quietly, snuggling a bit closer to the demon lord as he trusts the man already. Ghirahim smiles and allows Link to lay down, knowing that he's tired, his head resting softly in the demon's lap. Ghirahim starts to pet Link's hair comfortingly, knowing that the boy will need the comfort during the history lesson.

"It started a few thousand years ago, when the world was at peace. There were no wars back then, everything was happy and no one had reason to be angry. Hylia ruled the humans with love and grace while my master did the same with the demons. But one day, she started making claims that the demons were evil and that our hearts were filled with darkness just because we love to use dark magic. The humans slowly believed her and she led them into a war against their friends and sometimes even their loved ones, as before this war it was accepted for a demon and a human to be in love, no matter their status,"

"The part about her sealing the remaining humans on Skyloft and sealing the Demon King away is true, as she did exactly that. She became dreadfully wounded from fighting with Demise and decided that she would need a hero and herself reincarnated to officially kill Demise, who she'd sworn as her enemy by that point. That's where you and Zelda come in, she made it so that she would be able to control her reincarnated self's body whenever she chose and jealousy made it easy to get into Zelda's heart. She decided to weaken you by having your parents killed, and then your once close friend abuse you verbally, physically, and sexually. She knew that once you did your duty you would have no one else to go to so she'd be able to extinguish your life with your own permission,"

Link's eyes widen as Ghirahim continues, "Yes, Dark, here, overheard her confessing to her little servant that she has that her final plan was to kill you, as you were only a pawn in her game. She never expected, or cared really, that you had Dark and Pipit, as she believed them to be useless and that they wouldn't give you a reason to live, but they have. You wouldn't want to die because it would hurt them, would you?" Link shakes his head softly, tears streaming down his face in betrayal from the goddess that he had been raised to think was perfect and kind.

"And there's her fault. Now you'll be able to save Zelda, though it'll take some patience as you have to completely go through the mission that she created." Link's eyes light up softly at the realization that she could help Zelda go back to her old self.

Link sits up and snuggles closer to Ghirahim, who wraps an arm around him. He nuzzles into the demon's neck and closes his eyes again, trying to get a grip on his emotions. Ghirahim notices before saying, "If you feeling like crying, sky child, go ahead. Holding in your emotions won't help you any, I would know…" He chuckles sheepishly, knowing that he always explodes whenever he holds back his emotions.

Link nods and starts crying into Ghirahim's neck, allowing the demon to comfort him softly. The demon just rocks him softly, Dark going into Link's shadow to give them some privacy. He can ignore anything of the normal world when in the shadows, so he does so, knowing that he'll be able to tell if Link falls asleep.

Link just clings to Ghirahim, letting all of his emotions out with crying that slowly progresses to sobbing. Ghirahim holds him there, stroking his back softly, one hand going up and petting Link's head softly. Soothed by the feelings, Link slowly calms down, his crying lessening at the comfort the demon's giving him. After a bit, he stops crying completely and just waits for his breathing to settle on its own, rather than forcing it to. Ghirahim pulls away slightly and pecks Link on the forehead, causing the boy to blush and Ghirahim to chuckle softly. "Sleep, my sky child. I've got you." Link lays down in Ghirahim's lap again and closes his eyes, sleep quickly overtaking him.

Dark exits his shadow at that time, wanting to keep Ghirahim company. He can see a change in their relationship immediately, despite Link not being awake. He justs ignores it, not really minding it as Ghirahim wouldn't force Link into doing anything he doesn't want to do.

They chat for the hours that Link is asleep, neither of them needing much right now, as Dark sleeps when he's in Link's shadow and Ghirahim slept earlier. Link eventually wakes up and stretches before snuggling into Ghirahim. The demon lord chuckles but pulls the boy closer as he starts eating food from one of his pouches. Ghirahim swipes a piece before feeding it to Link, causing his face to flame a bright red. Dark laughs at this, not used to seeing his lighter half embarrassed.

After he eats, Link stands up and assumes that Ghirahim is about to leave since he usually does once Link wakes up. Ghirahim stands up as well, however, he doesn't leave. He looks at Link curiously before asking, "Mind if I come with you for a little bit? I have nothing else to do but look for clues for another Time Gate since the damn goddess's servant blew this one up."

Link chuckles and nods, leading the demon over to a bird statue. He looks at him cheekily before saying, "Hold on."

Ghirahim looks at him confused but a gust of wind shoots Link upward, Ghirahim grabbing him at the last second. Link calls his loftwing once he's up in the sky and Crimson allows Ghirahim on as well behind Link. Link flies them through the sky, Dark going to get the chests from the goddess cubes as he usually does.

When he arrives on Skyloft, Link tells Ghirahim that he can explore while Link goes and helps people to get gratitude crystals. The demon nods, wide-eyed, and he sets off, looking around curiously. Link eventually gets thirty total crystals and heads to Batreaux, assuming that'd be an important number. He gives Link the big wallet and Link also gets a cursed medal, which he puts away in the item check as he doubts that he wants it in his pouch.

Dark returns to him then, handing over a silver rupee, a heart medal, and a piece of heart. Link then goes to help Fledge, having heard from someone else that his friend needs some stamina potion. Link has Dark go find Ghirahim as there's likely not that much left to do in Skyloft in the means of helping his friends. He buys two bottles of stamina potion, asking Luv to give him an extra bottle. She does so and he goes to find Fledge. "Hey, Fledge. I heard that you were looking for a potion that'll help you when you work out to get more stamina, so here." He hands the potion to Fledge, who blushes slightly but accepts it. He thanks Link and Link heads to Beedle's Airshop to buy a few things.

He decides that spending a whole day on Skyloft won't impede his mission much, and ever since his last conversation with Ghirahim, Fi has been oddly quiet. He calls Dark to him, who brings Ghirahim and they spend the day on Skyloft together, Pipit even joining them at one point for a few hours. It slowly becomes nighttime and Link heads to his room at the academy, leading Ghirahim there. Dark goes inside Link's shadow since he's about to go to sleep, but Link blushes as he realizes that Ghirahim won't have a place to sleep.

Ghirahim chuckles softly and says, "I can summon a bed of my own if you'd like, sky child."

Link looks at him shyly before saying, "I...actually wouldn't mind you sleeping in the same bed as me."

Ghirahim raises an eyebrow at that, but crawls into Link's bed, scooting up against the wall. Link takes off his gear and grabs his flute, sitting up against the headboard before playing a few songs. Ghirahim listens happily, surprised at the sky child's talent with the instrument, wondering precisely where he learned the music. Link puts the flute away once he's tired and he lays down, snuggling into Ghirahim.

Ghirahim looks at him with a sleepy, shocked expression, but wraps an arm around Link and they both fall asleep, comforted by the other's warmth.


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