Dis: I don't own any Zelda stuff.
This is during Twilight Princess.
Three
Ch 10-Cracks in the Sky
Black was now spreading across the sky. The usual blue that coated the sky became streaked by dark cracks rushing between clouds, roaring over everything with a horribly loud, breaking sound. It was like a sheet of fractured glass.
Directly under each sombre crack, the ground was affected. It started with the grass, just as green as always, until the devouring shadow spilling out of each crack turned each grass blade gray, before they turned to dust. Next was the earth and the stone underneath. They disappeared without a trace and left bottomless fissures in the land.
A figure in a ruined, dark purple outfit floated above the castle town's courtyard, laughing at the sight. A black and violet tendril escaped her hand and blasted into the clouds, ripping open another crack that affect the ground once again. After creating another sky fissure, her laugh escalated into a screaming cackle.
Far away from the new destruction, deep in the forests, four beings appeared. The three goddesses and Zelda had warped into a clearing inside a vanishing ball of red, the power of Din.
The princess, who had been hunched forward, slowly lifted her head to the sights around her. Strange, misty, almost glowing woods surrounded them which shifted into tall, yet thin grass. The grass gave way to the perfectly flat stone circle they stood on, and Zelda saw a small protrusion in the center. One with the triforce on it. The master sword's pedestal.
She was about to open her mouth, but then the memories of what they'd left came pouring into her head, silencing her. She felt a knot of pain in her chest, realizing what, or who, was left behind. By his own call.
The three goddess were just as quiet, though Din and Nayru were completely still. Din stared into the trees above them, or maybe just looked away from the others, while Nayru watched with her own sorrow as Farore kneeled into a ball on the stone. They couldn't see her, but Farore's small sobs were enough to twist Zelda and Nayru's heart. The only one who didn't seem as bothered by it was Din, but they couldn't see her face either.
"Din?" The blue goddess' voice broke through the painful silence. "What do we do?"
The red goddess didn't turn, or look at them, or even speak. Nayru found it unnerving. "Sister?"
Finally, her head turned. Her face was red, but not with the kind of sadness that may have been covering Farore's face. She didn't say a word and stepped over to them, looking down at the green goddess. Din glanced back up to Nayru, who gave her a questioning glance, and suddenly grabbed her.
"What are you doing?!" Nayru wanted to shrug it off, but Din's grip was too strong for it. Nayru expected one of her sister's more dangerous moments, until Din shoved her down and against Farore.
The little green goddess immediately wrapped her arms around Nayru and sobbed louder, burying her face into her sister's dress. The princess took a step closer and reached out to Din. "Goddess, are you alright?"
Before the hand touched, she spun around. The very first thing Zelda registered was the bright, yet dark, red glow burning from Din's eyes. They finally understood the red face she had earlier as a vicious scowl. "Alright doesn't matter. Roen needs to die."
Nayru's face snapped up at the horribly blunt statement with shock and Din turned back. "Farore, I understand that it all hurts, but we need to take her out before she eats the planet. With the princess here, it shouldn't be as tough as last time."
Zelda felt her eyes widen. "The planet?! In how long?"
Din stared up into the air again, seemingly whispering to herself for several seconds. "Probably a day, or less. I can feel the materials coming apart and disappearing."
A blanket of stillness covered the forest in waves. Out of the sounds they were hearing just seconds ago, nothing but their own speaking and Farore's quiet inhales remained. All birds and bugs had left, just as a loud cracking filled the sky, and then a voice.
"Hello there! All you little living things, hiding in your homes and caves and away from the dangers that exist in your world. I hope you can hear me, because I have fun news! You're all going to die, in just less than a day!"
The four of them froze and watched up above them as the sky darkened. Nayru watched more closely as she saw something they didn't. Bits of atmosphere above the sky were beginning to break apart and light itself was being fractured against the edges of the cracks. She hadn't even noticed that Farore stopped shaking finally.
"That's right! I'm going to return this place you call your world back to the empty, lifeless blank point it was before your golden goddesses appeared. Did you all know I lived, or unlived, here first? Wait, of course you didn't, because they TOOK IT FROM ME! I lived here first! I watched other worlds blink in and out like a colorful little pestilence, and those three wanted my sleeping spot! WHY?! Actually, I don't know. Narcissism isn't something I know, seeing as how I don't think like you or them. Anyway, I want my place back, and I'm going to erase you for it. Goodbye, Hyrule!"
Din gritted her teeth when a thought occured to her. "Wait! Roen moved. She's not above the castle anymore."
She was watching Nayru and Farore, who was at least up to looking around again and only now realizing she was in the place that used to hold the sword. The green goddess stood and walked away from Nayru, staring at the pedestal with tired looking eyes, until they heard her voice. "I'm going back to the castle."
Hands grabbed hold of her shoulders and spun her around to see Nayru's worried face. "You can't do that! What if there's something wrong with that place now?"
"I want to go too." The blue goddess twisted and watched the princess' hardened, and still fearful expression. "I need to see if the people are okay."
She looked to Din for help. "Sister, tell them it's dangerous there. I can hear the strings of space warping there, and there's no way of knowing if there's even any land left."
The tall red goddess turned her gaze down a few inches to Zelda's shorter self, then to Farore. "There is still some chunks of earth and stone left. Are you sure, princess?"
Zelda nodded before her own thoughts could turn her away, and Din spoke to Farore next. "Sister, you should know what you might see there. That boy, Link, he-"
"What?! He's what, dead?" The small goddess of life forced her cane to return to her and nearly glared at Din. "I can fix him if he is, you know that!"
Din moved some red hair out of her face and sighed. "No, not just that."
"Well I'm going there. I have to see!" Farore tapped the cane against the stone of the pedestal platform and began to glow. Apparently the goddess of power decided to give in and stepped over to her, placing a hand on her shoulder, then signaling to Zelda and Nayru to step closer. Nayru took hold of Farore and Zelda moved close enough for Din's hand to reach her shoulder. The green glow brightened, and they all vanished.
They reappeared in a pop of green light, in front of what they could barely recognize was the castle. After that, nothing was recognizable anymore. The tops of the castle's towers were twisted ad distorted like something seen through a lens, and the ground around them was broken and floating in pieces. Black was pouring out from under each break in the ground and barely anything remained of the fountain in the center of the busiest part of the town.
"W-where is he?!"
Their attention to the shattered town was brought back to Farore, who was snapping her head around at everything visible. Aside from the various floating rocks hanging around, there were several piles of rubble scattered everywhere that she guessed hid what she searched for.
Her green eyes froze at the sight of something red, leading toward one mound of broken buildings like a scarlet trail. Everyone guessed the same thing of what the trail was, and swallowed their dread. Except Din, because she already knew from staring straight through the rubble.
As soon as Farore took off toward it, Din warned her. "Sister, if you want to see, just prepare yourself."
She stopped, but not at the warning. Something glinted, mixed in with the broken stone around the fountain area. Multiple somethings, like little pieces of glass, or metal.
Farore crouched to examine the odd things, and found from their shape and color that they were pieces of broken metal. From the unearthly shine, she instantly recognized it with a deeper dread settling in. "I think...I found the master sword."
The only one with any surprise left was the only mortal of the group, Zelda. Both Din and Nayru held a quiet expression of either stoicness or weariness, both knowing that what happened here also may have happened to the holy blade.
The little goddess drew her eyes back to the blood trail and stepped closer to the pile of rocks, then moved one aside with a light push. That the first thing she saw wasn't blood was nice, but the sight of green fabric hit just as hard. More rocks were shoved away and clacked against the stone ground so that she could see Link more clearly, and now she could make out half his face.
Every emotion competed for attention inside her when she cleared enough rubble away to see all of him. Tears broke out again, ultimately, when she could understand his appearance. Crimson lines ran down his face and mouth, staining the green tunic red in several places along his torso, and the inpression in his chest revealed what ended his fight. Then there were the arms. The ruined one that was broken in Link's strike against Roen was the same as before, but not the other. It was gone, blown off completely.
His eyes, probably lacking any shine of life, were closed. The thought that he was only sleeping crossed Farore's mind, but she knew from her own power that his life was gone.
A thin hand belonging to her reached over his face gently and felt around for something unseen, before Farore's eyes snapped open wide. "W-where is it?!"
"Where's what?" The princess felt her own heart squeezing dread of Link's image too, but wanted to at least help Farore however she could.
The green goddess jumped up and spun around. "His soul! Where is it?!"
Not far off from the castle, in the large fields of the Eldin province, a long stream of dots made their way down across the plains. It was one huge caravan of people, gathered from different towns and carrying their things, all prepared from a long travel.
A small girl fell to the ground in fatigue, barely keeping her face from hitting the grass. Her mom, who was holding her even smaller brother, turned and ran back to help lift her up again. The woman used one arm to hold the much smaller boy and her other to lightly hold her daughter's face up by the chin. "Siina, everyone's tired, but we can't stay here."
The little girl looked up tiredly. "I know, mama, but where are we going?"
Seeing her daughter was alright, the mother helped her stand before the two started along again. "Somewhere else, but we can't stay in Hyrule. Not with that."
The two turned to stare into the sky, always careful of the gigantic fissure spreading across it and the ground under it. One shorter stretching crack, pointed in their direction, suddenly moved. It extended and split the sky even farther until it was right over them, just as something shot down from it and into the ground next to the caravan.
Smoke kicked up into a cloud for several seconds, almost masking a strange purple glow that they couldn't understand. Finally, the smoke cleared, and revealed Roen to be standing there. Except they didn't know her.
Three guards ran up to her with spears aimed forward at the woman in the tattered violet robe. A tall and lanky guard spoke with a quivering voice. "W-who are you?! Leave now!"
The figure with the long, stringy hair raised her face to them slowly, and let them see the vicious grin. She never spoke, but the wailing sound of black power erupting from her like light blotted everything out.
"I'm telling you, souls don't just disappear!"
The green goddess paced almost madly back and forth, only letting the tapping of her cane on the stone ground sound out. She had to keep herself from looking back at the bulge of stone and keep the tears from coming back.
Just moments ago, Din lifted the body of Farore's chosen from the rubble covering him and flicked a pinky finger to force the ground open. She placed him into the hole and made the ground grow over him, leaving nothing more than a swelling of earth to mark his resting place.
The princess sat on one of the middle sized chunks of white stone to think, only interrupting when necessary. "Can't souls move? Do ghosts always have bodies?"
Farore pressed the cane against the white triangle on her forehead hard just to keep herself from spinning around. "No, but there's always a string from the soul to the body or where the body used to be. I can't see the string."
She stopped pacing, and tapped the cane on the ground harder. "And a soul can't be destroyed! Where is it?!"
Din's voice broke in bluntly. "What if it already passed on?"
Now, Farore really did spin around, and surprised them with a furious stare. She opened her mouth to scream, but a thunderous explosion cut her off. The attention of all four snapped to the sight of something in the distance, over what they knew was one of the larger fields. Like a black spider, a second fracture point appeared in the sky and spread multiple black cracks across the sky.
Zelda's hand slapped over her mouth and she swallowed a gasp. Din sighed and looked back at the burial mound, noting how Farore was done pacing. She was crouched down and gathering something up. In a little bag she held clinked pieces of the shattered sword, though Din didn't feel like she understood. "Sister, why pick them up?"
Without turning, she talked back with a hard tone. "I'm going to rebuild the sword and bring him back. I just need to find his soul."
"We don't have time. We need a plan to deal with Roen now, not later." The small girl in green didn't listen or stop, bringing Din to reach to her. "Farore-"
Another sound of surprise came from Zelda, though Din didn't immediately look. The princess turned to the blue goddess and held up the back of her hand. "The triforce emblem in gone!"
The red goddess froze, then spun around. Nayru was already looking over Zelda's hand like she was searching for a grain of something, anything. Her hand was completely blank. "That...that's not possible. Din, Farore, those marks can't just vanish."
The red one was shocked into speechlessness by the idea, but Farore remained motionless. Thay could only barely hear the words she uttered. "Everything's disappearing, along with the realm hiding the triforce."
All three of them looked around desparately, trying not to focus on the splitting sky. Of course that still left them a dead friend, a broken sword, and a vanishing planet to try and not focus on.
In the field that the unmaker visited, she stood now on empty land. Dead soil, missing all grass that previously sprouted from it, stretched to nearly every corner of the field. Even the caravan she flew down to meet with was now gone, leaving nothing behind, not even a piece of cloth. The violet goddess exhaled a breath in a moment of deafening calmness and looked to the sky. Every crack was now creating their own fracture points, and even connected each one. She spread her arms wide, as if begging for the sky's attention. "Not long left."
In another place, completely different from Hyrule, everything glowed. This place, or realm, was all light and no people to live there, but housed one thing. An object made of three golden triangles sat here, glowing brighter than the rest of the world and turning itself toward something.
Someone who shouldn't be there stepped forward and stopped only a foot from the sacred triangles. This person wore a green tunic.
The next one is the end.