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He is dead, and I need another.
Another hero, another vessel, another useless pound of flesh to be carried out by the will of the Goddesses.
It is time for another.
To take his place.
Link, The Fallen Hero of Time.
He sleeps now, beyond this realm, beyond my reach.
Beyond the safety of Hyrule.
This realm hold's all of us now. All of the sages, we all live here now, sealed from the world. Only Saria and Darunia wander through worlds. Ruto, her grief left her mindless and she wanders through kingdoms. I see her briefly while I rest. She calls for a love that never returns, screeching at the moon, clawing at her heart. She bleeds almost every night now.
I am so weary of this displeasure of calling youth to serve. They are around round of misfortune, nothing but tools in acting out a will that really has no way. I am saddened by such a world. The way things are. I almost feel mortal feelings toward all this situation. More then my usual apathy.
He showed so much promise. He was such a tender boy resting for seven years, growing. Becoming ripe for will that has no way.
I sigh. This old body, this old spirit. I envy him. He was laid to rest. While I am here. This place…which has no music to fill me anymore.
I do nothing. I desire Music. I do nothing. But wait.
Waiting for the newest blood to spill.
The guide he had, sealed her fate when she chose her, and gave her the legends and heroic deeds to replace Link. She, Navi, has brought another for me to use. For the Goddesses to use in Hyrule. They create and leave. They leave it up to mortals and those who have transcended mortality like myself to carry out what they want. The will that has no way.
Just like Gods…
Zelda too wanted to be a Goddesses… and it was her greed that killed her. That kind Sheikah had all been for the plan.
The Hero was to save the kingdom, and those who helped along the way were to tear it asunder. While I watch and wait from this realm, this place. My chamber.
I sigh.
I sit on my throne and contemplate the newest of events. Link's shadow, commands the army in Siri. He leads those brave soldiers into victory before the peace was imposed by Impa's command. Impa…a fine queen she has become. Her people can even be seen now, The Sacred Hidden are a most wise and kind clan. Those crimson eyes a give away. Zanzar is holding his place as King of Zora's nicely. A bridge and waterway are building to increase trade between the sections in Hyrule.
More greed, more ambition.
Do these Hylians not learn? Can not the Zora's understand? Where are the Sheikah in their infinite wisdom?
It's dreary. The way everything repeats. It never changes. I was once too a lad, with ambition and greed. And by punishment I am to be enslaved forever to the Goddesses, for endangering the kingdom. But Ganondorf has the luxury to be sealed away forever. Link still, has the better of choices. I would too, like to sleep beyond time in the base of stars.
Oh…It comes…my new embodiment.
The chamber lights up, glows luminously, and emits a voice.
"You have led us to a dead end."
A young woman of fifteen summers.
Her long blonde hair flows around her. She's draped in a black tunic with gray leggings and armor. A black ribbon weaves through her hair and she has silver gauntlets. Her eyes sparkle. A flame hides in them. I clear my throat. At her side is a fine crafted blade, it shows power and has a airy beautiful calligraphy. Fairy magic. Forbidden in the hands of mortals. Her guide, has destroyed herself as a fairy.
"Rauru, what have you summoned us for?"
Her blue light surrounds her. Always so lovely. Always so forward, blunt. I hope her attachment to this one isn't as strong as Link.
"Navi… it has been such a long while." I begin.
"I am not known by that name. Refer to me as my kind." She speaks with anger and sorrow.
"Fairy then?" She nods. Accepts. "I respect you are well?"
"Rauru… I do not care for this talk." She radiates.
The woman does not act or move. Her face is that of cold steel, but her eyes betray her. The little flames dancing with life. She cannot. My fate for her would be too much.
She is the Phoenix that will die to be reborn. From ashes and ruin she will rise and summon all her courage to truly save Hyrule. The seal on Ganon is coming undone.
This truly is a great sin. Containing innocence. Sealing a fire meant to burn.
"Come now, old man you heard the fairy." She spoke. Her voice like honey bells dipped in acid. She eyes me boldly.
"Rauru, what will become of me?"
I close my eyes. My mind wanders always, always in the past.
"I will die won't I?"
"I summoned you to ask for a favor."
She flutters around, that fairy, and looks at me. Her eyes hold fear.
"No. Not her."
"You know then. Of what I ask?" I step forward. I didn't even notice myself standing.
"She has done no wrong."
The woman's eyes travel from her guide to me. "What favor?"
I dance around the subject. I battle how to tell her. Being too bold and brash would make me uneasy. But asking with conviction my think I am using her. Her eyes tell me so much yet not enough. I cannot read this young child.
A child.
As was he.
I sigh.
Bold and brash it is then. She cannot fight this.
I walk forward to her and grasp her hands. "Will you save the world my dear?" I ask gently and polite.
Her cold gaze.
Nothing like her name, Summer. She should be called Winter or furthermore Steel.
Summer looks at her fairy. "Like Link eh Navi?"
Navi's eyes light up in a sorrow I have never seen on a fairy. Her mortal feelings? She truly is the Cursed One among her kind. Little silver tears drop unto the floor.
I go on.
"I ask that you remain here, asleep for five summers, winters, and springs. On your fifth fall you will awaken to your true potential. Ganon is gaining leverage in his prison." I sighed. "You are the only one left of that ancient bloodline."
Her eyes widened. "So Link was a relative of mine?"
I smile at her. "He was a cousin of yours."
She takes this into thought. Navi flutters around her head yelling.
"Don't! Don't let them use you!" She yelps and bats her wings hard. "Remember Link! Remember wanting to be free! Remember never being a caged bird! They will cage you, they will take your flight! They will seal your soul, you will never fly skies ever again!You will wallow! Think! Do not damn yourself child!"
Damn fairy.
I sigh.
"She has no choice." I sigh again. "It is fate."
It is the will. It is the way.
"She has a choice old fool! She has an entire life of beginnings! All you wish for is her end! Let the dead sleep! Let Link's legacy die with him!" Navi flies around, and goes to rest on Summer's shoulder.
"This has nothing to do with Link, Navi. Let him go. It is you who are trying to resurrect the dead through her." I say slowly.
Summer carefully observes the both of us bickering. She studies, those careful cool eyes looking at the both of us. She makes me nervous, even in my power and state of mind. Her gaze breaks me. She looks at me as if she knows everything. She looks at me like he had done.
"Link, you will leave behind the greatest tale to tell."
"Believe me when I say this old sage. This tale of whom you speak of, with all heroic deeds and destroying evil, that has me as the main sap, will fall and crumble with me. When I leave this chamber, I will take the Master Sword and finish the last task at hand. A Hero of Time… you are mistaken."
The last day I saw him. The last day he lived his long waited tale. The last day I had a way. A will. A heart.
"Sage," I look to see Summer approaching me. "I will finish what he could not do?"
I nod.
"And for that, what will my reward be? Will I suffer and wallow as he did? Will I be used and abused like the Goddesses had him? Will my soul be delivered? You have many plans and fates to twist into long legends Old Sage Rauru, but tell me, where will my inner peace be? In death? If so, then I gladly accept. I've lived a short life, but I have seen and done and lived through things you cannot imagine. I know I will die early. This is my fate. But I want an inner peace that Link could never achieve."
She walks away from me and looks up at the tops of the chamber. The glyphs on top are protective symbols to sustain this unearthly realm. I pause and wait for her. She closes her eyes. They float and glow with ancient powers, she stares and emits a soft energy. It was light and airy and was getting stronger. I blinked and waited for what she was about to do.
"Navi, I call you that, because I will not betray you. Understand. Just this. Your mortality should help you understand what I am about to do."
Summer brings her arms up and chants aloud. Her eyes blaze and she glows an energy that I cannot contain. The spell she casting… I've heard it once before. I've heard the cries and pain it causes. I know this forbidden dark, soft spell. She casts with such a soft voice. She lets it go with gentle and soothing words, flowing so smoothly.
It's…
No…
How could she know?
This spell, died with the Old Ones so long ago, how…?
"SUMMER DON'T!"
She levitates and the chambers shakes uncontrollably, her chanting continues and her voice flows. The ancient language she speaks makes my blood freeze and all I can do is be still and listen to the cries of Navi. This dead language is pain to my ears.
Dear child, I hope she understand this spell.
I hope Summer knows what she is doing.
She cannot get back her soul, which she is releasing from her body. She knows.
She knows, she will only end up like Link. So we may use her body, but she sets her soul free to the heaven above.
The chamber stops shaking and bright white light fills my eyes. I cannot hear anything but my own mind, slowly slipping away. I feel as if I am falling.
Cushioned on air, melting into a memory. To be set back on steady and easy ground is not permissible.
Link… Dear boy…
"I miss my life, Wise Sage. I miss being able to breathe."
"Link do not fret. This is only a bad patch."
"Must you be so stupid old fool? This is more then that. You and your Gods have made me older then I already am. I am older then you, the land and this entire world. I despise you for it."
Link.
It was for the good of the people. It had to be you.
"It had to be done…" I sigh and close my eyes. "You were the only one. You were chosen."
How I know what that it's like to be chosen. To be given the life you never wanted.
"NO SUMMER!"
Open eyes.
Sitting on my throne.
Blink.
Her body, floats down. It comes down so slow, her arms and legs wrapped tightly around her. She unfolds. And falls without a single noise. My chamber is in perfect condition despite all that commotion.
Navi, sobs. Her native tongue is displayed and she clicks her tongue in absolute sorrow, she speaks so fast I cannot get a word.
She is caressing Summer's soft and peaceful face.
The soulless body.
The child gave herself up. Just for this task.
I rise and walk slowly, my robes dragging on the floor. Navi takes no notice as she cries more.
"Why…you fool!... We could have gone…Run away from all this… I loved you… I wanted to serve you…Stupid girl!... Your just as dumb as him!"
My soul pulls to her wretched sobs.
Her baby tears fall on Summer's soft cheek.
"Old Wise Sage…I have a question for you."
"Yes my son?"
"How is fate decided?"
"Fate? By the Goddesses no doubt."
"So you mean to tell me, that our creators, map out each life a path to follow?"
"Yes and we cannot stray from it."
"Even if it made us unhappy."
"The will of the Goddesses always has a way to make one happy. You should know that."
"I don't. I wouldn't…Perhaps… Sage Rauru, I think my path is blocked by large heavy stones. I only need to knock them down. The only thing that keeps me from doing just that is the fact, I have no arms."
Standing here. Looking on this sight. Hearing this madness. Makes me realize the wisdom he was speaking to me.
"She was just a child." Navi has stopped crying. "She had so much."
I sigh.
"This is-"
"Fate? Is his fate everyone else's? Is everyone supposed to suffer for the good of these Hylians? You made her give up. You."
I am stunned.
Navi's wings flutter and she beckons to me. She looks at me with cold hard eyes. She speaks, laced with fire and brimstone.
"Do what you will with the body, you cannot destroy her inside out any longer. I know what you will do. You will place a soul in her. She knew this. All you need is her blood. Grow. Harvest her for the time being."
She turns to leave.
"And where will you go Navi?"
He back is to me.
"Beyond."
The answer is so chilling.
She flies away.
Leaving Summer's lifeless body. I lose my eyes and chat. Her body disappears into the ground. I cannot deal with this now.
I am old. My soul is old. And the old carry on with the old ways and old lives. Passing them onto the young and making them as old as you have become.
I see now, sitting on this throne. I understand Link more now. I feel Navi's mind beating in my heart. I know Summers dead eye affected me more then anything after that death dealing spell. I know this and yet.
I have no arms.
Link had them, I just tied them behind his back. He merely wiggled out of the bind and found himself on the other side of that wall. On that path. His walking now I know, smiling and running to the impending happiness.
While I am here.
The will that puts the way into a world where there is no way because the will is tainted.
I am tainted and I am nothing more then a puppet being strung along by my creators. I am nothing more then a tool in making this world right for them. This place, this silent place has no music.
Saria plays no more.
I do not hear the songs of a lonely ranch girl.
No Kokiri to dance about and laugh the giggles of a child.
My music is gone.
Dead with him. The music doesn't play any longer. How I crave the sweet whisper of a heavenly tune, filled with sweet verse and captivating score, notes dancing on the wind carrying to my solitude.
I sigh.
The music is gone and my path isn't just large stones.
It's not simple as that.
My path is blocked by a wall I had built myself. I am cannot pass. I can only stand and wait. I can only return day after day to stare at a carefully chiseled wall. Beautiful to the eyes and magnificent to the touch. This wall has so much in it. This wall is me.
And in a simple script a word is formed.
Dream.
I am forbidden for the life I had been chosen for.
How we all become a fool for destiny.
How I will spend the rest of my days dreaming.
Hearing, begging for the music. A delicate sound to hold me there for a moment. I just want one moment. Clarity.
Music.
How the music used to play here.
Oh Link, if you could only hear it.
That gorgeous song, that played nightfall and sinful desire.
To be mortal again.
Have music.
Dreams.
I cannot pass. I sit on my beautiful throne in my exquisite chamber and I cannot pass to hear the succulent sound of music.
Doomed to dream.
I sigh.
The will that has no way. More centuries of it. More solitude.
More of myself dreaming of a path I could never walk, a road not traveled and not an option.
Dream on Old Sage.
Dream.
For him.
Wow. Guys,
I'm sad to say that this fic is almost done. But do not fret! I will write more for Zelda, next is a Link and Malon pairing! Angst of course….it was requested and I like requests from a fan/reader…..I'd like to think ur all fans.
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