Link…ome bac…lease…I love yo… A voice drifted around Link and he opened his eyes to find himself in a dark, dense fog. The words echoed in the space around him. He tried following the sound, but he could not move his feet. As he looked down he saw he was standing in a black sludge that was slowly engulfing his being. Link struggled against the sludge, trying as best he could to rip away from it but with no avail.
The sludge sucked him in bit by bit until Link was completely submerged in blackness again. As he sat in the blackness, Link could feel a sudden pain that spread like fire in his abdomen. He tried to cry out in pain but ended up only gulping in a mouthful of sludge. The voice echoed again around him but now it was even more muffled. No, he thought. I can't go this way. Link tried to swim against what he believed was the direction the sludge was pulling him.
The sludge was thick and pulled at his skin and muscles, threatening to tear him apart. Pain swelled in his abdomen again and spread across his body as he continued his struggle. A small light finally broke through the sludge. Link took advantage of this break in the sludge to pull him up and into the light…
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Midna's face was stained with tears and she sobbed over Link's motionless body. She had watched in horror as the Prince's sword pierced her lover. When the two had fallen apart from each other she had raced down to them and pushed the prince even farther away. Midna looked over at the bloody sword she'd pulled from Link and was now carefully trying to use whatever healing magic she could to bring him back.
She looked back at his face and she choked on another sob. How could I have let this happen? I should never have let him fight Tansei, she scolded herself. "Link, come back to me, please," she begged him. "Please, I love you."
Finally Midna stopped the healing process; Link had been still for too long. She threw herself down and sobbed into his bloody tunic, praying to the Goddesses of Light that by some miracle they should take pity on him and bring him back. "You can't take him!" she screamed. "It's not his time to go!" Her face was stained with tears and blood, but she kept a hold of Link's green tunic and looked upon his face.
"Unh…" Midna sat up in disbelief. Link groaned again and this time his arms twitched. She quickly sat him up and held him in her lap.
"Link?" she whispered tearfully.
Link's eyes fluttered open and it took him a minute to focus on her. "Am I…dead?" he wheezed. Midna shook her head and smiled.
"You were so close," she told him. "I thought I'd lost you."
