Part Two
When the wind blows and the trees rustle, when the grass bows and flowers sway. There in a meadow, in soft green grass. Lay Link, tattered and bloody. Link fought with the calamity long ago, he asks "Why am i here? *Cough* How am i back?"
Link looks at his crippled body and cannot move a muscle, he begins to feel intense pain. "This isn't real!" link said as he tried to convince himself.
Clouds began to roll across the sky, Slowly darkness descended. Thunderclaps and rain began to fall. Then red, red eyes that burned like hellfire began to close in.
"Go away!" link shouted, as he tried to desperately crawl away. "You're just a figment of my imagination!"
The eyes came closer, and slowly began to reveal the shape of the creature who wore them.
"Wait… you're!"
"An explosion" the dark being began to say, "And then a shrilling scream. The 'beast' was defeated. Just as i had thought it was over, i heard a noise out in Hyrule Field. Dark smoke from all over began to be sucked into a black hole, the Gannonblight began to regenerate itself into its true form. I rushed out to Hyrule field only to see the Great Calamity which is said to be created from the pure hatred and malicious intent of all living things."
"Stop!" Link tried to interrupt, "Don't come any closer!"
The dark being kept walking closer to link, as he continued to speak, "Gravely injured i manage to get on my trusted steed. Zelda attempted to aid me by granting me the Sacred Bow, alas; i could not keep my grip on the bow and could not draw the string. The Calamity was burning the field and wreaking havoc in its wake. I could not stop there, I had do something, as a last resort i asked upon my dead friend Revali to grant me a strong uplift. With the ounce of strength i had left in me, i held my para-glider and began to sail skywards. Directly above the Calamity i released my grip and began to fall to my death, holding in my hands the barely shimmering Master Sword. I plunged into the darkness of the calamity itself.
Falling into deep darkness i was consumed by the void. My mind cloudy and my thoughts scrambled, i began to hear the whisperings of the dead. Suddenly my mind was filled with the memories of others, bad memories, filled with desperation and hate. It was so much and too hard not to succumb to my emotions. What is this i feel in me? Hate, Agony, Writhing, Loathing, Anger, and Sorrow… I have all of these feelings in me and they are all boiling on the surface, Are these my feelings or the feelings of all those who begat unjust deaths? I could not control myself, There are no words for the pain and horror i felt at that moment. I wished i was dead, then i saw it; shimmering in the distance a small flickering light. I tried to move in the direction of the light but quickly realized that i could not move. Then the fear, the claustrophobia, the gasping for air as if i was drowning hit me in a spastic burst. 'I don't want this' I screamed in my mind with pure desperation. How long have i been in this void? I do not know. Who am i, What am i?
Then i heard a voice, a dark voice that rasped as if it could not breathe,
'You are nothing, you are empty, My catalyst.'
As i began to realize what was speaking i understood that this is it, this is the Great Calamity. Voices began to resound in my head. I was shown memories of the Calamity, memories from its view, all the evil it did, all the hate. My heart started to harden and my emotions began to quell. As of that moment my soul linked with the great calamity and we became as one, and i its catalyst. I am now 2 sides of the same coin. Is this my fate? To destroy and be destroyed?
In the last attempt to keep my own mind intact, I let out my soul in a shout so loud my emotions rebounded across all of Hyrule. Time seemed to stop, no that is incorrect, time was no longer coherent or valid. After all of the injustice done by the Calamity, i wanted to right its wrongs. The flickering light still there, i managed to wriggle my way to it and touch it with the tip of my index finger. i shouted as loud as i could and said
'I pray to thee Goddesses of old, please.. Help me right the wrongs!'
The once faded light then beamed a brilliant White, making the source out to be the Master Sword. In a loud but soothing unison voice i heard
'We have heard your plea, You will be forever cursed with the memories and feelings of others, you will become the Calamity itself. But for this you are the savior of all life in not only Hyrule, but for all the world. In time you can truly defeat the calamity so it will never again return. With this gift we depart... Make the world a better place.'
The Darkness around me began to recede. In the middle of the Inner Sanctum of Hyrule Castle i lay, Soiled in black from the Blight of the Calamity. My hair pure white from the strain and stress of my body. My eyes like a Blazing fire from the hatred of every living thing. Thus the birth of me, some call me Dark Link, but my true self is The Great Calamity, and my new name Rakasa, Monster in another tongue."
Link looked at Rakasa, and Rakasa's skin began to crack and dissipate. He grabs links hand and lifts him to his feet.
Rakasa softly says "You are me, and i am you, we are the same, yet we are total opposites."
Rakasa then pressed his forehead against links and began to disappear.
"I am from your other reality, what would have happened if you had succumb to the darkness of the calamity. But i found peace in time, i had a family, and died protecting them. The goddesses blessed me to talk with you, even if it is in a dream. Look at yourself."
Link looked at where at his chest for his wounds, but could not find them.
"My time has come, but i will see you again, in another form. I will not know of my old self, i will reincarnate. But i do know we will meet. Give this ring to a wanderer, a wanderer named Jchet. Tell him, the Goddess Hylia says 'I am Sorry' "
Link woke up in a shock. He looked around and slowly calmed down. He was back in his room in Zora's Domain.
"What is it Raz? Are you not feeling well?" Seggin said.
"Raz?" Link said,
"Hrm? Don't try to fool me youngin, you're the one with the weird naming sense."
It started to come back to him. He stood up and asked "Seggin, how did i get here? I was in the Eldin province…"
"Ahh, that would be your new friend, he said he brought you here after you suddenly collapsed." Seggin then went to the upstairs railing and shouted down to the bottom floor," EEY! Sonny, our sleeper is awake."
A short shuffle was heard on the floor below, then footsteps began to tread up the stairs.
A man who looked like he was in his early twenties; dark brown hair, blue eyes, 6'1" tall, Hylian armor, greaves, boots, with a Hylian hood. His face seemed to give a trustworthy look, friendly yet stern.
"Ahh, you're awake. I was worried when you suddenly collapsed in front of me, i don't think it was because you were frightened of me though." said the man. While letting out a sigh of relief.
Raz tilts his head to his left and asks,"Who are you?"
"Oh, that's right, you haven't seen me in this form. My name is Jchet, i am the Dragon that you saw five days ago."
"Five days ago!" Raz shouted, he turned to Seggin. Seggin shrugged and Raz continued," how is it possible you are a Dragon?"
Jchet replies, "I am not a Dragon, however roughly 800 years ago i fought in a Great War, I transformed into a dragon to gain more strength. But i was betrayed and ended up being sealed…" Jchet lowers his head as if the thought hurt.
Jchet continues, "Next thing i know, i felt an incredible pain in my mouth, and found a peculiar child dangling from the sword. I did not want to hurt the child by trying to remove him with my claws, so i tried to dangle him off."
"And that's where i came in?" Raz then asked.
"Yes, you came in and received the boy then i was able to relive my pain by drawing out the sword. However after i spoke you fell to the earth. And did not wake until just now. I then returned to my original form and met with your companion Gaddison. We returned the children to safety and i apologized to the city for causing a ruckus. Then we travel back here with you."
"Then where is Gaddison now?"
"She was beside you almost the entire time you were unconscious. But she left recently to gather some ingredients so we could eat. She should be back anytime now."
The meeting broke up and they all sauntered their way downstairs, Raz went outside. It was late afternoon and the sun has only a few hours before it sets. Raz breaths in a deep sigh, he looks around outside for Gaddison. To his left down the pathway he can see her in the distance, she is carrying a sack and walking closer to the house. Raz walks towards her, she sees him and smiles. Gaddison then began to walk faster to meet Raz.
"Raz! You are ok!?" Gaddison says as she examines his face.
"Yes I'm alright Gaddi, i had a weird dream is all."
"A dream? Was it a Vision?"
"A Vision? Well I'm not sure, it was more of a nightmare." Raz says as he puts his hands into his pockets. "Lets go inside."
"Alright, oh and i've got your favorite food! Want to guess?"
"Oh... how did you ever catch a wild Seggin?
Gaddison laughs and begins to walk inside, she turns and sees Raz paused there. She then asked, "You coming in?"
"Yeah Yeah, i will be there in a moment, go ahead without me."
"OK~"
Gaddison goes inside and Raz closes the door still outside. Raz slowly draws his hand out of his pocket and sees the Ring.
"It was real..."