Saved from the Twister
By: Lovely girl 10
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot of this story. The game and the manga belongs to Nintendo.
I know that this chapter is shorter than the other chapters you read, but I am saving up some of that energy for the next chapters to come, and they will be filled with more action and other things as we get closer to the ending of this story. I hope you like what I put into this chapter.
Chapter 10- Hatred and Love
Inside of the Sealed Temple, Impa and Groose were just chatting until a portal appeared in front of them. They turned their attention to the portal as Link and Zelda walked out of it.
Impa was the first to say something when she noticed the upgraded sword in Link's possession. "You managed to find the flames without any trouble; I knew that you could do it." She smiled and crossed her arms.
"We did have a little bit of trouble, Impa." Zelda mentioned, making the ninja wonder what the trouble was. "I believe that Link is possessed by the Lost Hero."
"Why would you say that, Zelda?" Groose asked, looking back from Link to Impa and to Zelda.
Zelda explained after taking a small breath. "Lately, whenever he gets the chance, the Lost Hero possesses Link and attempts to kill him. Why would he do that? What would he gain from doing that?"
Impa nodded, understanding the situation, whereas Groose softly gasped in shock as his eyes widened in surprise.
"Did you try to find out what his reason was, Zelda?" Impa urged as she crossed her arms.
Zelda looked away before responding. "Unfortunately yes, he said in his very words that he never asked for Hylia to keep him here, in the living world where he is reborn, and then he asked why he was here instead of the afterlife, where he claims that he rightfully belongs there."
Impa stayed silent for a few moments until she spoke. "I think I understand what he might be doing." She walked over to where Link was and studied his shadow, "I think we should go into the past to figure out the problem for ourselves."
Link immediately knew what she wanted; to go through the Gate of Time, to the distant past where it all started. He drew out his sword and summoned his Skyward Strike on the gate.
As soon as the gate was ready to teleport them to the past, Zelda looked back at the door which led to the pit. "Shouldn't we make sure that Demise doesn't attack us before we leave?"
"That's already taken care of, Zelda." Groose assured by patting her shoulder. "Impa had taught me how to properly seal the spike that holds him in place. He won't be coming up anytime soon." He slowly walked up with the girls as the gate opened.
He then explained about how Impa gotten him to stop doubting himself on his skills, and how she taught him most things that were almost impossible for him to try. Both Link and Zelda were very impressed that the big bully had changed his attitude.
Taking a deep breath, Link dashed inside of the gate, as well as Impa, disappearing into the realm of the past. Zelda and Groose followed behind as they traveled into the past. Where hopefully their questions about the relationship between the goddess and the hero will be revealed.
Temple of Hylia
The gate closed as soon as Zelda and Groose were out, with Link and Impa watching them before they studied the place.
"I have a feeling that the gate didn't work guys," Link noticed in confusion. "We are still in the temple."
"We are," Impa said as she took a seat on the steps. "This is the past era of the Sealed Temple, which was known to be the Temple of Hylia. And the Gate is true to its name, we are in the distant past, where the goddess Hylia had just sealed away Demise and sent the outcrop of land that would one day be Skyloft."
Zelda said nothing as she looked around the room. She was probably dumbstruck that this temple was her past life's place of worship. Her search was halted as soon as she heard Impa uttering a spell that brought in the presence of both the Lost Hero and the Goddess.
Both Link and Zelda faded deep inside of their minds as their ancestors took hold of their bodies. It almost seems like they were watching what was happening in front of them. For Impa, she could tell that the young adults minds were somewhere else as she watches her old friends who were getting use to the switch.
The only way she could tell that she was looking at the Lost Hero and the Goddess was not only the shadows, but the glows in their eyes. Hylia usually has a bright sky blue color along with her Chosen Hero. Impa calmly stated. "Welcome back to the living, Your Grace, and Link."
For a moment, the present Link was confused by what she said, but realized silently that she was talking about the past Link that was standing before her. The Link that was possessing his body, however, had different ideas on his reunion with the goddess and the ninja. As the main hero watched, he almost gasped in shock and horror when the Chosen Hero tried to unsheathe the Master Sword and stab himself before Impa pulled it out of his reach. The Chosen Hero didn't back down when he took out the bombs from his pocket, unfortunately for him, he didn't get to use it because Groose took it away as well and trapped him in his strong grip. The Chosen Hero struggled in Groose's arms as he shouted. "Let me go!"
Impa scolded. "Link, this is no time to fight us! I summoned you here for a reason and one reason only; to find out what is the matter with you. Why are you trying to kill yourself?"
The Chosen Hero looked at her in a glare, stopping his struggling for a moment. "Because I am not needed to save your precious world any longer!"
Impa scoffed at his answer as Hylia watched in silence from behind her. "You are needed here, Link. That is the main reason why the prophecy calls for you is to finish Demise from where you left off."
"Why should I follow what the prophecy states?" The Chosen Hero spat. "There are plenty of other hero's that the goddess should chose instead of me!" His glare was focused on the girl behind Impa. Hatred and betrayal were mixing in his gaze as Hylia walked over to him.
"But I didn't chose anyone else." Hylia answered softly. "I chose you because I knew that you could do the job correctly." She clasped her hands in front of her, pity and sorrow were in her gaze.
"Why am I here instead of the afterlife, goddess?" He hissed.
Hylia flinched when he hissed her title in disgust, "I saved you before death claimed your soul, Link. I wanted you to survive the injury you had, but I decided to have you reborn into another life, this life that we are living in today." Little did she knew that the Chosen Hero broke away from Groose's grip and did the one thing that the group could not possibly imagine.
He slapped her across her face, hard enough to pushed her away and make her fall to the ground.
"I did not want to be saved!" He yelled in disgust and rage. "Not by my friends, not by being reborn into another lifetime, and not by you either!" This time, both Link and Zelda gasped as they finally realized why Link's ancestor wanted to kill himself. Because he never asked to be saved by the goddess, and tried to go into the afterlife without her spell blocking his path. "You just wanted me back just so that you can save your land from being destroyed by the Demon King! Maybe I should have let him destroy you a long time ago."
Hylia got herself back up from the ground, ignoring the heat from the slap that was given to her. "That was not the only reason I brought you back..."
He took a few steps toward her and gripped the hem of her clothing, lifting her from the ground as he looked down on her. "Save your excuses, goddess! You used me! You never cared about my well being, and never will. You only brought me back so that you could use me again for your little plan!"
"I brought you back because I loved you!" Hylia cried, making the Chosen Hero freeze in his tracks as he stared at her. "There, I said it, okay? I wanted you back because I am in love with you. I always loved you, even in this life! Without you, my life is nothing. Back in the past here, I would have rather died than being in a world without you. That is why I gave up my title and my immortal body so that I could be with you."
"You know fully well that a goddess and a mortal cannot fall in love with each other." The Lost Hero sneered. "That includes you and me. You should have left me alone after when I died." He pushed her back a few feet away from him as he lets her go, turning his gaze away from her and proceeded to try to retrieve his sword to do his attempted suicide once more.
However, fate was cruel to him when Impa kept it away from him. Instead of concentrating his hatred on the ninja, without looking back at the goddess, the past Link asked. "If you were a high and mighty goddess, Hylia, then why didn't you just destroy Demise in the first place? That way, you didn't have to worry about your land, your people, and all the other things you cared deeply about."
Hylia fell silent as she looked down on the ground to try to come up with an answer, the force of reality behind those words stabbed her heart. Impa glared at the Lost Hero, wondering why is he being so disrespectful to his goddess. "I know that my actions in the past were inexcusable, and I know that I cannot redeem what I did long ago, but in this timeline, both you and I can change that if we just work together." Hylia begged the Lost Hero.
He yelled. "Forget it! I will not work with you any longer, goddess! Just end my suffering already!" Impa, having had enough of the Lost Hero's foolishness, knocked him out cold by hitting him in the head, also bringing back the present hero Link to his senses again. She did the same with Hylia, but in a kind matter, before the original Zelda was returned to her body.
Groose muttered in disbelief as he went over to check if his friends were feeling okay. "Now that is something I don't want to see ever again. I never knew that the Past Hero somehow had a dislike for the goddess."
Impa agreed. "I sort of never realized that the reunion would turn out like this. I half expected for the Lost Hero to embrace Her Grace and have his signature smile all over his face. He should have been happy that he gets to finish where he left off with the Demon King."
"But instead," Link finished. "He wanted none of it. He just wanted to be dead, for good." He noticed that Impa opened the huge door where there was a small chamber with nothing else but the light that showered from a upper window. There was also a small alter with a few steps as Link examined the room with curiosity, Zelda did the same. "So, what do we do now, Impa? It is quite obvious that the Lost Hero refuses to do anything about the prophecy, and since Hylia looked very upset when he told her that she shouldn't have saved him."
Impa nodded as she slowly walked up to the top of the alter, "You and Zelda's ancestors will be put to sleep for a thousand years to keep the seal as strong as possible to keep Demise from breaking through." Link and Zelda both jumped as Impa told them to look at their hands. "You also have the power to separate your souls from your ancestors."
Link then remembered that he and Zelda didn't check their hands yet as he raised his hand up to examine what had changed. Sure enough, his hand held the mark of the Triforce of Courage, and a half triangle of the Triforce of Power. Zelda raised her hand up and saw the other half of the Triforce of Power that is right beside her Triforce of Wisdom.
"But, how are we to help out our own timeline when our ancestors are to be put to sleep?" Zelda asked, not understanding what Impa wants her and Link to do.
"There is a trick that both you and Link can do while they are asleep, Your Grace." Impa said. "I am going to separate Hylia and the Lost Hero's souls that are within your bodies and have them hold the seal while you and Link can go find the ultimate relic that Demise had been searching. You both and your ancestors can still communicate while they are holding the seal. They will help you in the next part of your journey."
"But as I remember correctly, when I was Hylia, I hid it somewhere complicated where nobody, not even my chosen hero would ever figure out." Zelda recalled. "Link, I think we have to ask somebody about the legend of the Triforce."
Link nodded. "Agreed. But first, lets give our ancestors a good night sleep that they really need." He raised his hand into the air, wishing upon his power to extract the Lost Hero from his body and imprisoned it within a very large orange crystal. The body of the Lost Hero could be seen resting peacefully as if there was nothing wrong with him in the first place. His cape fluttered as if the wind was there.
Zelda came up to the crystal and did the same thing as Link did and pulled the spirit of Hylia out of her body, the body of the goddess was way more beautiful than Zelda realized. With long hair that reached the end of her white dress, the dress itself fluttered as if she was surrounded by the wind. Both of their eyes were closed as they began to doze off in the slumber that awaited them while their powers merged to keep the seal intact, refusing to budge for the Demon King.
Zelda and Link looked at Impa, wondering what would happen to their ancestors as they were slumbering. Impa reassured them with a wave of her hand. "Do not fear for them, Link and Zelda. I will watch over their spirits as you two complete the task that is to be fulfilled. Groose will escort you back to the future."
"But, what will happen to you, Impa?" Zelda asked hesitantly. She didn't want to leave her friend to fend for herself in the past. Zelda would not forgive herself if something bad had happened to her.
"Just go back to your own timeline!" Impa commanded. And the hero and spirit maiden left her in her own timeline, rather reluctantly as they worried about what would happen to her. Inside of the crystal, the Lost Hero cringed in his sleep, and Hylia's tears could be seen flowing out of her eyes.
Author's Note: Sorry, this chapter is probably short, but I am going to make the biggest parts of the journey to be a bit more interesting than what had happened in the game. I have been thinking about what might happen in the final battle scenes, Link, along with Zelda, fighting Demise together and such.
And for those of you that wonder what the heck was wrong with the Chosen Hero, would it ever occur to anybody that if the reason he was trying to commit suicide was because he didn't want to be reborn as the Link we all know him to be in the game? He should have learned that he was brought back on the earth for a reason... And he hurt Hylia's feelings pretty bad. Would he and her ever make up for their mistakes and work together for a change?
Review whenever you like and I will work on the next chapter. In case you might be wondering how I know some of the dialogue from the game and the manga, I read the information from the manga on the Zeldapedia website, and I play the Skyward Sword game while I work on the chapters.