Sadness...Is the price for life to reach it's end... The beginning, to the end... We all feel it... We're all going to die...At the end of all our stories...Even if we win or lose...We'll die someday...

Byrne's pov.

I blocked the blade with my hand. "Hmph, I fought kids stronger than you." I smacked the blade to the side and lunged at the man to knock him down, but I only managed to knock off a lot of his armor. "I see, you aren't used for your skill or speed. You're used for durability and brute strength." I picked up the pace, hoping I could finish it before my opponent warmed up.

I waited for him to slash. since he had such a large weapon the only effective strikes are to slash vertically or horizontally.

He struck vertically and I jumped to the side and lashed out with my right hand, making energy slip between him and his armor. I unleashed it and the armor popped off, Wait! Not all of it!. I saw him tensing up with his left leg, I expected him to use his momentum to lunge with a vertical slash. I was waiting for his blade to raise so I could dodge, but he kicked with his right foot instead. I took the blow full on in the stomach. "Ugh." I braced, expecting him to slash while I was hunched over so I rolled to the side and avoided a horizontal slash by being closer to the floor then my opponent expected. I reacted to his momentary opening and jabbed at him with my gauntlet, causing him to lose all of his armor except his breastplate and shield, He was wearing a light chain-mail underneath and a light helmet. I dodged right since I've been dodging right often to throw him off. He was momentarily confused but reacted before I could attack. He slammed the shield into my face causing my face to bleed and my vision to blur.

"Ugh, I've underestimated you. You gain speed as you lose your armor but your strength still remains." I wiped the blood off my face and shook my head to get my vision back. "Shall we go again?" I asked. The darknut replied by slashing again. I dodged right again and hooked my gauntlet around the shield and slammed the shield ,arm and holder, to the ground. I ripped off the shield and smashed his breastplate to even things out. I lunged backward to let him get up. "It's dishonorable to fight an enemy on uneven terms." I realized my hypocrisy for when I fought the link from my time. Oh well. What's done is done.

The darknut struggled to his feet and brandished his sword again. "I'll give you one last chance." I put an edge to my tone. "You can redeem yourself by turning around and walking away."

The man just threw the large blade he had at me. I caught it with by gauntlet but it still had a lot of force behind it and made me slide back a couple of feet. "I see you've made your choice." I didn't want to do this but...

He pulled out his short sword and I got ready for a brutal technique.

He jumped forward and stabbed me in the stomach. "Grugh?" I spat out some blood. I still have a duty I told myself. I launched the end of my gauntlet as far as I could and wrapped the wire around the darknut and I as tight as I could. "Heh, This is goodbye." I stabbed the end of the gauntlet into his back and ripped the skin and pulled the gauntlet back and ripped myself along with him, over and over until we were both in tatters, but he was dead and I was on the brink.

"Hey I got he hearts- OH MY GODS!" Phosphura came in with some hearts and tried to get them to me as fast as she could. "Here are your hearts." She sputtered and started to give me some recovery hearts. "What happened? It looked like you were so reckless!" She was worrying about me...

"I couldn't save myself if I didn't change." I started. "I had to change how I viewed fighting. I didn't fight to get stronger this time. I fought to protect." I coughed, the hearts were only enough to barley keep me alive. "To protect people that are close to me." I coughed again, and got the rest of the blood out of my throat.

"You fought to...Protect me?" She asked, bewildered.

"You could put it that way. I need to rest. So let's go back to the entrance." I started to limp towards the way we came in but a chest appeared next to the entrance. I limped over to it and opened it...to have a fairy come out.

"Hey! Listen!" It said. Then it healed me and stayed by me. "I was trapped there for centuries! Hey! It was a little annoying. Watch out! Being-Listen!-stuck in there really affected my sanity-YO!- You know?"

I slowly put my hand on it and pushed it back in the chest and locked it. "Run!" I shouted and ran towards the other side of the room and kept going in the dungeon.

The last part I put will have no significant impact on the story. I just wanted to vent how annoying navi is. She even manages to get even more annoying in the 3ds version. PLEASE REVIEW! ;_; PLEASE! I haven't gotten a review since chapter 18 was new!