"Please…"
"Please be okay," I thought desperately as I opened the large doors and ran quickly to the precipice of the spiraling hole.
Yet, just as I reached the edge, a fence of diamonds suddenly appeared, preventing me from leaping down.
I placed my hand on the fence and looked downwards to the ground below and sure enough, he was there.
"No…" I whispered to myself as I watched Ghirahim literally dancing around her unconscious body, proud of his success in tearing us apart.
He was too proud, almost shockingly so, his movements jarringly perverse.
I wanted more than anything to get her away from him as my eyebrows furrowed with anger.
I let out a panicked exhale as I watched him extricate golden magic from her very soul.
"Zelda!" I cried out, my eyes riddled with the sight of Ghirahim lifting her off the ground, her whole being subjected to his magic.
Heavy panicked breaths started to overcome me, forcing me to take a couple steps back.
The sound of rambling footsteps grew nearer, shaking the very earth as they approached me.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath as my mind reeled,
"I can do this."
"For this land."
"For Zelda."
An odd, yet familiar swelling of determination started to boil inside me as my breathing steadied.
"For love."
As I opened my eyes, I quickly grabbed the hilt of my sheathed sword, simultaneously looking behind me with furrowed eyebrows at the hordes of enemies and their snarling faces.
It didn't matter how many of those sharp blades met my own or how much those burning, evil eyes were intent on destroying my unbreakable determination or my resilient courage.
I was determined that my very life would be spent protecting this land and protecting her from the growing evil.
"You're far too quick boy!" Ghirahim said when I had finally reached him at the bottom of the hole. I stood outside the fence he had encircled himself in with Zelda, my battle stance ready and waiting, anxious for him to meet his end at the edge of my blade.
I walked closer, keeping my determined expression as slashed my sword downwards, ready to strike at him any moment.
"I realize a simple child like you knows nothing of magic, but spells like this take time snd a steady hand! Can't you wait quietly like a good boy? HMM? You petulant brat…You've pushed me too far. I've waited my whole existence for this! This is my moment!"
"You know what? Fine!" he exclaimed with frustration as he threw Zelda in the air.
"Zelda!" I thought in a panic, the act prompting a surprised and worried exhale from my lungs. I watched intently with concerned eyes as she stayed suspended in the air. My breathing quickened along with my heartbeat.
"Is she okay?"
"If you're so intent on hurrying to your grave," I heard Ghirahim continue as I kept my eyes locked onto her figure, "I'll be happy to show you the way!"
"Is she in pain?"
"Is she awake?"
"This time there will be no heroic escape."
"Is she even alive?"
"I was a fool to tool with you and let you walk away with your life before, but I won't make that mistake again."
"If he killed her…if she dies because of this…"
"How dare he endanger her?" I thought as I looked back to Ghirahim, the rage inside me showing itself in my angered expression.
I watched as darkened diamonds of black surrounded him before it completely enveloped him, creating a gust of surging dark power.
"That I promise!" he yelled from within.
Suddenly, a large circular platform emerged from beneath both of us as it rose further and further into the air, but I stood my ground, every fiber of my being somehow more courageous than I'd ever felt.
I readied my sword as he emerged from the stream of darkness, completely transformed into a being with reflective, black skin, with an almost metal-like sheen to its' texture. The surface of his skin was patterned with the white lines of various diamonds, matching the oddly shaped top of his head.
"He looks almost familiar," I thought as I looked upon his figure.
"…like…well, he actually looks like Fi…"
"If only I'd put you in your place from the beginning," his voice said, deepened by the change in his form, "Show a human a little mercy and the next thing you know, he thinks himself your equal! Given my station, I had to maintain some semblance of dignity, so I let you run with your life…twice, even. Such a guilty pleasure…"
"But instead of scurrying away like any creature with a basic instinct to survive," he continued, his anger fuming more intensely with every word, "you just kept coming back again…and again…and again. I've let a mere boy make a fool of me for the last time."
My eyes widened when he, for the slightest moment, turned into an obsidian black sword with curved spikes at its' edges and a blood red diamond at its' very center.
"He's…he's a…sword…"
"You stand before a demon…or should I say, a weapon without mercy!" he exclaimed when his form returned.
"He really is…like Fi…a spirit of a sword…"
"Yet meant for destruction, for chaos, meant to stand against the land that Fi has served to uphold , that I have fought to protect, that Zelda has sacrificed so much for."
My eyebrows furrowed as he continued,
"For you, boy, I've prepared a most appropriate and humiliating death. I even have a pet name for it—I call it the endless plunge! First, I will take my time bludgeoning you, and when I grow bored of it, I will drive you to the edge and deliver a last strike to send you falling to your doom! I'll delight in casting your body into this pit and snuffing out the flame of your life! Your broken body will serve as fine sustenance for the demon king!"
"His master…" I ascertained before he engaged me in combat.