Okay, after playing with this for probably almost a million times since I wrote it… I am finally happy with it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Chapter 29

Hiding in the Shadows

I looked over at the guy in black. He couldn't hide away in the dark even if he wanted to. And he most certainly looked like he wanted to. Perhaps it was a good thing that he couldn't teleport away.

"When we first met, you had a very cocky presence with a god complex. Now you are a scared little boy hiding behind a mask." He glared at me. I walked to him and glared up at him. "I've been hanging out with a guy who's almost exactly like you, I've seen that look and face before so don't even think that you can try and lie your ass out of this. Besides, your acting is terrible."

"We aren't friends and I've tried killing your friend for a long time, so why should you care?"

I didn't know how to answer as my glare dropped. Why should I care about his problems? If anything I should be welcoming them as they would have distracted him, but... What the hell was wrong with me? Maybe I valued my life as he was leading the way. "I can't have my way out of this place with his head up in the clouds." I said my idea out loud; it still didn't sit well out loud.

He placed his hand on my head turning my sight downwards blocking me from seeing his face. "Stop making that face when you are trying to understand things that are beyond your control."

Something flashed in my mind like a memory of the same action. I got dizzy as I grabbed his wrist in the same fashion that happened in the flash moment, only instead of what I saw of continuing to remove the hand; I used it to keep balance. "What'd you say?"

"I said st-"

I waited for him to continue, but after a second I removed his hand to see a shocked and scared look on his face as he looked down at me. Another flash of a memory went through my mind as he tried to pull his hand away, but I didn't let go.

"Tell me what the hell is going on!" I shouted at him. I waited as he continued to say nothing. "Dammit, you have the answers to the questions I need answers to. Why won't you give them to me?!"

"Because I don't know all the answers! Everything that I thought I knew just doesn't make sense anymore!"

"Then start with stuff that you do know!" I wanted to ask about the memory flashes, but I wanted my other question answered first. "What's wrong?!"

He looked reluctant to answer, but growled in annoyance. "We can talk as we walk."

I narrowed my eyes, but he sounded genuine so I let go of his wrist. He walked forward and we slipped through another fake wall. On the other side was another hallway with the same skulls and blood, only voices came from them talking about my death and suffering while I stuck around. I ignored them and waited for him to start. At least four flashes went through my mind and I was getting really tired of them. They weren't my own experiences and I didn't know where they were coming from.

"Is there something else I can call you instead of Dark Link? It doesn't slip off the tongue all that well anymore." I asked breaking the tension that I got from him. "Not from your presence or from these stupid flashes in my mind."

He stopped and slightly turned to me which caused another flash of a memory that wasn't my own. "What you are getting are memories from your past life. Since we are in a ghost realm, I'm guessing that you are more prone to them because a living person is not meant to be here and your mind is weakened. And when I accidently caused a reaction, it became the key to whatever lock that was on those memories and they unlock."

"That doesn't make any sense. I didn't live these memories; I shouldn't have anything locked up."

"They probably wouldn't be coming back to you all at once or at all if your Triforce piece had actually stayed in Hyrule. All the other incarnations of the hero of the goddess never had the memories of their former lives. On the other hand, the memories of the mortal Hylia incarnations are sometimes given slowly through dreams and over many years if their exertion with the incarnation of Demise is bad enough. Some are given a little, some everything. With that said everything that has been done over the millennia by the incarnations of Demise are all given to them usually over a short period of time.

"Which leads us back to the forth since it hasn't had another welder since the time Hyrule and Earth were separated its power is weakened. And to top it off, you're extremely stubborn with a strong stone slab blocking your mind from the outer elements which doesn't help. This was its only chance to dump everything it was trying to give over the last week including abilities, senses, and a little bit of what the other three pieces of the Triforce give to their wielders. You wouldn't have to be using me as a guide through this place if it came to you naturally over a short period of time of at the most two days. But as I said before, it hasn't been used in a long time nor has it had the magic of Hyrule to overcome your mind's defenses."

"Wonderful," I answered as slight sarcasm slipped into it. "And you're special because?"

"Well I'm obviously the shadow of the little green guy upstairs." Dark Link replied with a grin as he turned around again and started walking. "I know everything because I am everything the soul of the hero was and is over several timelines and even a little bit into the future, but that's only because your world created games of those events and I was there for a short time while being summoned, but I doubt you noticed I was there."

"No, I didn't."

"Shadows are strange things; they hide the terrors and secrets of a person."

"I'm just going to call you Shadow." I said trying to get off the philosophical road.

"Why, what's wrong with Dark Link?"

It worked.

"Like I said it doesn't slip out right, got a different proposal."

"I like my original name Link." He commented, but I wondered if it was really a whine.

"Already tested that out back in Kokiri Forest; it makes things way too confusing."

"I'm not being named after an emo hedgehog for convenience; you got two options, pick one."

"I don't have an answer right now; go by whatever you feel comfortable with." I replied as we came to a door.

"I'll wait."

I rolled my eyes, "Well while you wait, we got off topic."

"Right…" he answered unhappily as he opened the door. On the other side was another dark room with several small walkways and sheer cliffs with no bottom to see. There were glints of sharp blades that looked strangely like several guillotines and another blade that acted a bit like a light house appearing for a moment as it seemed to disappear and then reappear again on the other side to swing around. "Ah, a great place to talk, yes of course, death at every turn!" He shouted mockingly.

"Are you done throwing a temper tantrum or do you want to throw a rock as well?" I questioned him without amusement. Even though he was being surprisingly nice, he was back to pissing me off again.

"Tsk. Just watch your step when going through the self-operating guillotines. Neither I nor a potion can save your severed limb or split body." He walked and didn't even rush against the speeding blade that came down behind him. I jumped through it as the blade was going up. Gravity and I didn't get along most of the time and I wasn't going to think it was going to be any nicer in the realm we were in. "I guess you can say what is wrong with me is that everything I've been told, doesn't match up with what my new memory flashes are showing me. Back in the Redead room, I didn't notice how natural they were until I was doing everything at the same time and speed the memory came to me. They scare me and I don't know why."

I was surprised that he told me that they scared him. I was going to tell him that the memories scared me too, actually they terrified me. But, I thought twice about it and decided he would only get angry for sympathizing with him. He wasn't Link.

"After the day in the graveyard, I have been questioning a lot of things and Leviathan noticed. She didn't say anything, but I figured she knew; she's a very observant woman."

"Is she now?"

"She noticed that an ant invaded her space and incinerated it a hundred feet away. The ant was three millimeters long."

"She's got issues."

"Everyone's got issues, she doesn't like bugs in her space."

"I see."

We came up to the partial hidden spinning blade and he stopped in front of it. "When I count to three-"

"I think I can time a spinning blade."

"Three."

I was surprised by the sudden announcement and he grabbed my hand. He raced through the blade when suddenly the speed picked up on it. My eyes widened as it came at me ten times faster than it was a second before. "Jesus!" I squeaked as I jumped over the blade that just missed the guy in front of me.

"This place is run by evil spirits; physics and timing don't exist when they are trying to kill you. Don't think for a second that something works the way it does by looking at it once here."

I nodded, though I didn't say anything to his scolding. Something caught my eye behind him and I took a step back. Dark Link pulled me forward just as the wind from the speeding blade whipped at my boots.

"What the hell-?!" He started to shout at me.

"There's a creepy little girl from a horror movie covered in blood right behind you." I whispered quickly, barely loud enough for him to hear.

He pulled me closer. His heart beat was steady in my ear. I moved my hand out of the way so I wouldn't touch him by accident with it. His other hand went by my face and he drew his sword as he spun around at an incredible speed. The creepy girl, who looked about ten, stood there with blood speckled across her face and dripping from her fingers and ball dress. There was something unnerving about the girl as a simple smile was placed on her face.

"Tee-hee, the look on your face when I popped right in front of you was so good, it almost killed you, but sadly it didn't." the little girl said and the voice connected to the same one that had wanted to taste our blood.

"Get out of here; you aren't getting what you want." Dark Link growled in annoyance.

"We'll see; hehe." The girl giggled before disappearing. She reappeared again only to be thrown back by Dark Link deflecting her with his sword. The girl got off the ground.

"I'll admit, your good, but this just makes this much more fun." The girl laughed.

"And I'm blowing up your home so you can get sent to Hell, enjoy it while it lasts." I commented back not sure of what kind of a face to place on. My voice came out like someone burning their house down thinking it was the only solution to a bunch of baby spiders that came off of their spider-mother's back when dropped… slightly psychotic was the best answer I think.

The girl smiled before turning around and skipping through a wall in front of us. There were a few seconds of silence besides the spinning blade of doom before Dark Link released me.

"She'll be back to terrorize you some more. Whoever she is, you pissed her and the other spirits here seem terrified of getting in the way of her kill."

"Can't be that bad, she's just a little girl."

"Just a little girl." He smirked with a bit of sadistic laugh behind it. "Nice job for getting the most dangerous and psychologically disturbed spirit in all of Hyrule."

"God dammit," I whined slightly. "Give me a white flag, I want to go home."

"Well you can't go home unless you can suddenly teleport through dimensions."

I decided to not continue the pointless argument as silence fell. We both looked around.

"Uh-oh." Dark Link said unexpectedly.

I made a bored expression. "Don't tell me, we are going in the same direction she just went."

"Yup."

"Is she setting up another death trap?"

"Most likely."

"Bring it on."

We walked and went through the wall the little girl went through to find a room with many white hands sticking up from the ground. Blood dripped down from their arms as they motionlessly stuck up like trees that were seven feet tall. The entrance locked behind us with metal rods. The only other exit in the room was a door that also had metal bars across it.

"Well isn't this just fucking peachy, they got one of these down here." Dark Link commented sarcastically. "I wonder how big this one is with twenty arms."

"Probably big enough to bite a person in half." I commented looking down at the base.

There was a trick with the Lens of Truth to see the shadow of the creature, but we didn't have it and I doubted Dark Link had x-ray vision for the ground. Blackness caught my eye as I looked down and saw a shadow growing at an incredible rate.

"Shit!" I shouted as I shoved Dark Link hard enough to move him several feet.

We hit the ground just as something also hit the ground. I turned around as a simple, ugly, purple and giant hand seemed to be recovering from the drop. I looked and noticed my leg was still near it and before I could move it, the hand grabbed it tightly digging its nails into my leg. I cringed holding back a scream as I pulled out my sword and slashed its fingers off as it started to lift me. I dropped to the floor as the hand with no fingers landed on top of me. I grabbed it by the thumb and tossed it at the white hands the best I could from my sitting position. Two of them grabbed the broken hand and a giant white creature with no forearms also covered in blood came from the ground. As it got closer it lowered its giant mouth that dripped with saliva and blood and bit around the hand swallowing it in one bite. The creature was much worse in person than it had in that game. I guess Nintendo had downplayed its gore.

Dark Link ran passed me and slashed at it while dodging the hands that tried to grab him. The creature tried to retreat when a hand grabbed a hold of the Dark Link's sword hand. Another one grabbed his face and the creature stopped retreating.

"Of course it comes down to this." I breathed to myself as I got off the ground.

I dodged one of the white hands and hacked at the hands that were holding Dark Link. A feeling of dread came over me as the low lighting was blocked. I growled at the tree hands; they were more powerful than what they should have been. The creature's head dropped just as I got Dark Link's hand free. I grabbed his arm with both of my hands causing him to shout in surprise and the Master Sword went into the open mouth that went for him and through the top of its head. I pulled it out by tugging on his arm and the creature started melting. I collapsed onto the ground as I tried to regulate my breathing and adapt to the pain from my leg and head. The hand let go of Dark Link's face and he dropped down next to me breathing heavily.

After a few minutes Dark Link finally looked at me with a bit of anger as well as annoyance. "Don't ever do that again without a bit of warning."

"Desperate situations call for desperate measures. There was no way my sword would have killed it before it decided to bite you in half." I retorted. "Not to mention, you're my only way I'm getting out of here."

"Telling me where to swing and stab works just as well." He growled rolling his eyes.

"Like I would have known that you would have actually listened to me."

"I might have,"

I raised an eye brow.

"Whatever." He said and looked at my leg. "Are you alright to move?"

"Just a flesh wound, I can still continue." I replied pulling out a disgusting red potion and shook it slightly.

"Good 'cause I'm not carrying you."

"You're such an ass." I grumbled downing it. I hoped Link was having a better time.

"Don't forget it."

00000

Several hours of torture went by as there wasn't a break from anything; it made asking questions very difficult. We took a breather in a cleaned out room.

"So, since we have no monsters to deal with again; why did Leviathan want you to come here?" I asked him, he was slowly becoming tolerable.

"Leviathan wanted me to come here to collect an ingredient I had never heard. As soon as I entered the temple, the door shut behind me and I couldn't teleport anywhere." He answered as we walked through the next door. "Needless to say, it didn't take me long to realize the ingredient never existed to begin with."

The creepy halls were becoming even more horrifying through each door as limbs were sticking out and hands tried to grab us. I ignored them by brushed them off, I was already covered in blood, and more blood wasn't going to change anything.

"Did she know that we were going to be here?"

"I doubt it, she seemed extremely occupied which is why I came here in the first place. But of course it was all a trap, and then I heard you two. I didn't think you guys would actually come here that quickly after the desert."

The desert, how did he know about what happened in the desert? Link didn't have that in his memory except for what I told him. The hallway turned as the limbs started to smell and we were walking through blood filled what I guessed was a mixture of many arteries, veins, and intestines. I would have thrown up right there and then as we walked through, but I was concentrated on what Dark Link had said. We came to a large door that was free of all the gore. The door was different from the rest of the doors I had seen and I got the same feeling of dread and even a vibe of chaos like the serpent gave off in Arbiter's Grounds.

I stopped walking and it caught his attention as he turned around. "How do you know about what happened in the desert?"

"Memory re-"

"Link didn't and still doesn't remember the hard part about the desert, he was unconscious not to long after snake number two stabbed him a second time and he doesn't even remember being stabbed a first time until I told him what happened!" I snapped. "Stop with the lies and half-truths and tell me the whole truth."

He didn't answer again as he found a pretty place to look at on the ground. The truth dawned on me as I saw a similar look on Dean back in the volcano, longing to tell the truth without being embarrassed. "You were there, you saw the whole thing."

He continued not to speak as his eyebrows furrowed.

"You were also the shadow I saw in the corner in Saria's house. Why were you there?!"

He clenched his jaw which only proceeded to piss me off.

"Why were you hiding there both in the desert and at Saria's house when I had that nightmare?!"

"It wasn't a nightmare!" He suddenly said like he couldn't keep quiet anymore. "That really happened."

My eyes grew wide as the nightmare came back to me. I took a step back away from him. He was the right height to match the height I saw the dream at. "What do you mean? He's not really…"

"He's here and last I checked he was back at Rusl's house, but that was several days ago and he wasn't doing so well."

"He can't be… you watched him get attacked and did nothing?!"

"I couldn't do anything! Dean is an opponent I don't know very well and I wasn't going to walk in there blindly! Also, if I did attack him in defense of your father the link I created would have been destroyed and you would have been clueless on to what had happened! But I guess it doesn't matter as you thought it was a nightmare!"

"So what? You could have at least helped him with the Skulltulas! He's scared to death of spiders and you let him wander around in those woods for hours!"

"I did try to help, but it's not like those Ordon fools would actually go investigate with a little bit of gunfire! There are a lot of monsters out there that they would rather not provoke. And when they did decide to check out what the noise was that I helped broadcast to them, they had to fight against several other beasts that were slowly making their way to your father because I couldn't keep up a shield in the forest forever." He answered with each sentence getting less and less yelling.

"Why did you help him?" I finally managed to get out after a few moments of trying to process that my enemy had protected my father.

"The memory flashes... I wouldn't have thought twice about ignoring your father, but since the graveyard. My loyalties and priorities have been changing with each one. But as the memories keep coming back, some of the images have things taken out of them. I think someone purposely tampered with the memories."

"Leviathan?"

"No,"

"No?"

"She knew that they were erased, but she didn't do it. She couldn't have as she didn't have to power to do so and the fact she wasn't in this world when it happened."

"Then who did it?"

"No clue, but they are most likely long dead." Dark Link said as he shook his head. "Not all the memories have returned to me yet, this place has helped. All I know is that I have had the urge to save your ass every time you get yourself in a life and death situation. And lately, it has been quite often."

"And you went from sweet to a dick real fast."

"Before we kill a kid, I need, on behalf of these fucking memories, to apologize about the serpents; if I had known about your phobia and these memories when I created them-"

"Stop," I interrupted him. "I don't care, they are dead now and that's all that matters. Nobody died."

He sighed.

"Just stop acting weird and go back to being a ruthless asshole. You're ruining the mood to rip this spirit into a thousand pieces."

He raised an eyebrow at me. "And they say I'm insane."

"I just don't like it when creepy little girls think they can get away with torturing people for the past three hours."

A sadistic grin appeared on his face as we went to the door. "If that's what the princess wants."

I rolled my eyes. "This is a big door."

"Should we knock?" There was a pause as he looked at me. "Nah."

He kicked in the doors with such a force that the doors flew opened and slammed against the walls shaking the building.

"It's rude to kick in a door without a warrant." The girl giggled sitting in a chair in the middle of the room with other stuff animals around a table like she was having a tea party with them. "Isn't that right Electra?"

"I'm pretty sure we don't care." I replied cockily. "So if you could just fuck off, that would be great."

"Oh how I have waited for the day of you coming to me, it's been too long since a follower of Demise has killed a Hero of Themis." Her eyes turn golden-yellow and they started to glow. She stood up from her seat as a sadistic grin, making Dark Link's a soft smile in comparison, appeared on her lips. "And trust me when I say I will make it a long agonizing death that you will wish to die ages before I'm finished with you."

"I won't allow you to do any such thing." Dark Link stated as he drew the black Master Sword.

"Aw, so sweet, but like all sweet things, they are devoured into the cruel reality." The little girl answered with a giggle, the tea party disappeared. "So, who wants to have their soul ripped out first?"

I was about to get ready for an attack as I grabbed my gun when suddenly a ringing sound went through the room. The little girl looked as surprised as I felt when I pulled out the noise making machine and answered the holophone. "Zelda?!"

Zelda appeared in front of me with an impressed look on her face. "So that's how you do three way calling."

"Three way?" I started before turning to my left and saw Link standing there not looking to happy at the guy over to my right. I smiled, relieved to see that he was alright. "Link!"

He blinked like he just realized I was there and gave a slight wave before actually taking a look at me. "You're a mess."

"If you had a holophone on you why the hell didn't you call?!" Dark Link spat out. "Electra has been worried sick about you! Hell, why didn't you answer the damn phone?!"

I didn't think it was that noticeable as I kept that thought about Link going through the Shadow Temple by himself in the back of my mind and snuck in calls on the way with answers. But apparently I was wrong when I thought Dark Link hadn't noticed.

"I have been trying to call because a sick bastard like you was with her! And if you looking inside that head of yours; you'll notice that I had not received any calls because this stupid place is blocking all magic contact!" Link growled in anger. "It took forever to actually get any line to connect."

"I used a bit of outside magic to get the call to connect and then we tried to figure out a three way call, which took a little bit longer." Zelda stated eyeing Dark Link slightly before turning to me. "I hope your travel through this realm hasn't been too hard."

"Just three hours of gore, huggers, and a psychopath." I commented and I watched them turned to Dark Link. "No, well yes he's a psycho, but not him. Her."

They turned to where I was pointing and Link tilted his head to the side. "A little girl has been torturing you for three plus hours?"

"How about you come down here? I'd like to meet you in person. Tee-hee." The girl giggled licking her lips. "I need someone to play with me when I'm not playing with little Electra and the little shadow."

"I'm not a very good playmate." Link, Dark Link and I said at the exact same time which slightly disturbed me. Zelda's face had an even more disturbed look.

"Be careful with her." Zelda said wiping away the look and breaking the weirdness that occurred. "She may be a little girl, but her name is Victoria the oldest evil, human-ish spirit in all of Hyrule. She controls this realm."

"Human-ish?" I asked her. "How can she be human-ish?"

"She's been considered what you call a demi-god."

"And I thought you just pissed off the scariest one," Dark Link replied placing a hand on my shoulder. "Good job."

I sighed as I turned back to Zelda and a pissed off Link. "This chick mentioned something about four sacrifices earlier saying I was one of them. I don't know what she was talking about, but maybe you two can help brainst-"

The connection cut out suddenly as my holophone was slashed into tiny bits that fell out of my hand. The holograms of Zelda and Link disappeared instantly.

"That's enough information sharing for one day." The little girl said though there wasn't a giggle in her voice anymore.

"I obviously danced on a touchy subject." I muttered to Dark Link beside me. "Do you know anything about any sacrifices?"

"I wasn't given any information on that." He answered as a sadistic grin came back to his face, "Maybe she can fill us in."

"You will not succeed." The girl said as two giant balls of light appeared in her hands. "No traitors or beings in the over world will win against my will to see my lord and lady rise to rule everything and if take out that boy and queen before playing with you, then so be it."

I growled as I took my sword out. This thing needed to die so Link and Zelda could be safe. I didn't know what Link was doing in the realm above, but I had a feeling he was nearing the boss fight. He didn't need a psychotic little girl to attend to afterwards if he got hurt again. "Victoria, you are dying again here and now."

"We'll see, as I am Victoria, And since being here my power has only grown. I doubt that a goddess can lose if I am the personification of victory in this realm."

"Well isn't-"

"Don't even start." I growled interrupting Dark Link as I narrowed my eyes at the ghost. "I already killed a god recently, and I don't have a problem of doing it again."

A smirk appeared on her face and she threw the balls of light at us. I rolled out of the way and started running in the opposite direction of Dark Link. Victoria was high above the ground as she continued firing balls of light. Another ball of light came at me and I dodged out of the way. It exploded behind me causing little balls of light to hit me from behind sending me to the floor. My vision faded in and out as I tried to get my bounds back. I looked up just in time to roll out of the way of another ball of light that was aimed at my head. I got up just as she fired another ball of light at me and I hit it back with my sword. It hit her from behind and she crashed to the ground. Dark Link was closer to her and slashed at her repeatedly and then was thrown away from her by a bright light.

A giggle went through the room as she floated back into the air. Several balls of light, much larger than the two she had been throwing around, appeared around her. They all flew away from her at a quick speed. I managed to hit one back at her before having to dodge the exploding balls of light that gave away to even more little balls of light. The room became a large ping pong ball reaction. Dark Link placed himself in a corner with his shield up as the balls hit it and then disappeared. I on the other hand, didn't have an indestructible shield, let alone a shield anymore and started firing at the balls of light with my gun. It worked for the most part until the creepy little girl shot more balls of light everywhere. I sent another ball of light at her which she hit back at me twice as fast. I barely got out of the way hitting the ground as it exploded behind me causing dust, stone and bone to fall on top of me from the wall it hit.

"This would be a lot easier if she was in a range were we could hack her into pieces!" Dark Link shouted as he got out from behind his shield and sent another light ball back at her.

I groaned as I got up feeling my leg not wanting to continue the battle. I looked up at Victoria and she grinned sadistically down at me. If she really was a component of the goddess of victory because she was a demi-god and her powers had grown to a god-like status then, she already knew of my weakened left leg. Victoria summoned more balls of light around her and fired them all at me. I quickly ran as the balls one by one started diving into the ground. I stopped running and slashed at the two balls of light back up at her while the other ones crashed where I would have been running.

"Enough of this shit." I said mostly to myself as I put my sword away and pulled out the Clawshot. I aimed it at her while she was distracted by the balls of light hitting her and fired. It grabbed a hold of her and she came towards me. A smirk of victory appeared on my face as I sliced her with my sword as she got near me. She blasted out a wave of light making me let go of her and slammed me into a wall uncomfortably. "Grab her with the clawshot!" I shouted as I stood up again, my hand pulsed and I held onto the wall for support. I was getting tired of my hand pulsing every time I was placed in a boss battle. I didn't want to know how bad it could get in the realm where my mind was not as strong as it was in the realm of the living. The sound of a girl screaming caught my ears. I turned to and saw Dark Link slashing her as she arrived in front of him.

"Play time's over!" The girl screeched and I had to cover my ears from the noise as a ringing noise went through them like an explosion just went off.

I only imaged on how loud it was as I was on the other side the room. I uncovered my ears as Dark Link was thrown in my direction head first, without any signs of slowing down. I moved in front of him, away from the wall and attempted to block his way to the wall. He crashed into me and I crashed into the wall ten feet away. I screamed as pain went through me as I slumped onto the floor with Dark Link on top of me. I looked at what was causing the pain besides the dead weight on my chest and a stone wall and saw his hand was on my wounded leg. There was silence for a few minutes from the little girl as I struggled underneath the dead weight of an unconscious Dark Link. Giggling filled the room and I froze in panic. I looked as best as I could in the direction with my sight blurring from the pain. Victoria had a smile with rage in her eyes as two giant scythes appeared in her hands. I tried to move again. I tried using my free arm to push him off of me, but it was a huge mistake as I forgot in my panic that the Triforce piece was on it and caused me to screech. I dropped what I did have of him back down as I tried to breathe properly again. The longer he kept his hand where it was the harder it was to stay conscious let alone breath. I preferred the drowning in blood more and more with each second that went by.

"You need… to get up." I managed to get out as the little girl started towards us in a slow walk. "Dammit Dark Link get up!"

He shifted and I sighed slightly before wincing as the pain intensified. He got off of me quickly removing his hand first easing the pain slightly. He looked down at me for a second before turning to Victoria, placing his shield in front of him. The sound of the scythe hitting the shield met my ears as I took a couple of deep breaths and I closed my eyes. That could have been really bad. I opened my eyes again and saw a scythe coming down on my head. I rolled out of the way and stumbled to a standing position. I didn't know how much longer I was able to keep it up. I grabbed the clawshot from my pouch again and fired it at her. She deflected it with one of the scythes while she attacked Dark Link with the other. I ran to her putting away the clawshot and drawing my gun. I fired at her, but she deflected each bullet away.

"Your weapons won't get passed me." She giggled as she almost slashed me in half. A ball of light appeared in front of her face and she fired it. It hit the ground right in front of my feet sending me flying and onto the ground back where I started.

"Are you alright?" Dark Link asked as he fought against the other scythe.

"We have to get close to her. She depends on large, ranged weapons." I answered sitting up and moved beside him in behind the shield.

"So I've noticed, but so far everything we have tried, she's learned to deflect."

"We need to confuse her. My weapons don't do the same amount of damage that the Master Sword and she knows it. What if we switched swords and went at her at the same time?"

"So she would go after me more than you."

"Exactly, but it would be obvious that we have different swords."

"Then let's create a distraction." He said as he used his free arm to pull out the piccolo from his pouch. "Also, how good is your aim a bow?"

"No different from my aim with my guns."

He pulled out his bow and arrows. I noticed that there were bombs attached to them. "Start firing to keep her busy with the bomb arrows. As soon as I finish the song, close your eyes so you aren't stunned or blinded."

I nodded as I stood up and aimed the arrow at her. The bomb started fizzling and I fired grabbing another arrow and firing. Through the explosions and Victoria laughing, I barely heard Dark Link playing the sun song for the fifteen hundredth time that day. I dropped to a crouch as he finished the song and closed my eyes. A bright light filled the dark room quickly and I open my eyes as I heard Victoria scream and curse in a different language. I passed my sword to Dark Link and he gave me the Master Sword. We charged at her with barely any noise and were almost there before she noticed we were rushing her. She aimed both her scythes at Dark Link who deflected them away with a cackle that send chills down my spine. She barely turned to me when I jumped and came down on her. A black and purple light appeared on the sword as I the sword touched her forehead. The light exploded from the sword and torn her into pieces sending blood splatter all over the room with an echo of her screams. I landed only to use the sword as a cane as my leg gave out. I was feeling slightly dizzy as my surrounds were fuzzy.

"I can't tell if I like the bright gold light or the black and purple light that keeps coming from this sword when I use it." I stated feeling accomplished. My head pulsed suddenly and I cringed. My other leg gave out and I crumbled to the ground.

"Electra!" Dark Link shouted in a panic as he rushed towards me.

I sat up slightly getting some of my sight back from the fuzziness. "I'm fine, just woozy."

He removed his glove and placed the non-marked hand on my forehead. "You have a fever; we need to get you back to the other realm."

"If it's just a fever, I'll live. I've had fevers before; modern medicine is a wonderful thing with a great immune system."

"You used the Master Sword too much over the last few days at full power, it was never meant to be used by any other person but the chosen hero." He said as he placed his glove back on. "Not only that, the living aren't supposed to be down here; the fever is caused by both of those factors."

I nodded not having anything to say as he stood up and grabbed the Master Sword off the ground. I went to say something when I suddenly started cough violently. Something wet hit my fingers. I looked at it and found blood speckled across my hand. "What the hell…?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing-"

"Is that your blood? How long was I unconscious for?"

"I don't know, a five minutes. Enough time for Victoria to recover."

He looked around the room and stopped in one direction before turning to me. "Time to go."

"Just give me a few-"

"You don't have that." He answered as he threw me over his shoulder.

"Ah! Hey! I can walk if you just gave me a few minutes."

"Something I worked out over the last few hours of being down here is that every time our pieces touched each other, it created a reaction of rejection." Dark Link replied as he started running for a wall in the room. "They are never to be put back together thus an earth girl can only have your piece with the right bloodline while I was given the other half by default from Leviathan as she couldn't keep her half. Only someone who can was chosen by the gods to carry a Triforce piece can be given other the half. Since your half of piece has yet to be awaked completely you can't handle having the other half."

"Okay and what the hell does that have to do with anything?"

"Because we are down here you are weakened and when my piece was touching you for as long as it did, some of it entered your body and you're rejecting it. It's destroying your body from the inside. How to word this into the knowledge of your world; I guess it would be like radiation poisoning according to that encyclopedia."

"Oh lovely." I muttered as we entered a dark hall.

"Once we get back, you should be able to recover from the effects with a potion and a bath in the spirit spring."

I shut my eyes as I winced in pain and suddenly had the urge to throw up. "Can you put me down for a second?"

"Just hang on we are almost out of here."

I didn't say anything else as I tried to think about not throwing up. The pattern that he ran at felt familiar as a memory tried to reach my head, but it disappeared as he made a sharp turn. My whole body pulsed in pain and I screamed slightly before I blacked out for a second. I coughed and blood left leaving blood pools behind. I grabbed his tunic to support my bouncing body which helped a bit. His speed picked up as he sprinted and a bright light blinded me. The feeling of falling came afterwards as I opened my eyes to see the ground two maybe three stories below getting closer. Dark Link moved me off his shoulder into a cradle, tucking in my head into his shoulder as a pain ran through my body again. He touched me with his hand, but I didn't have the energy to make a noise. He landed it out with a hard roll to a kneeling position with me slumped over slightly against his leg. The feelings of thousands of souls were dropped to only a few undead spirits. I was breathing heavily, but the pain was very slowly easing.

"Sorry about the landing."

I slightly shook my head and it caused me to get even dizzier.

"Electra!" Link's voice echoed the room as running steps entered my hearing.

I looked over to see Link rushing towards us. Another bright light came suddenly and I found myself lying on a dirt ground. I sat up to the sounds of metal striking metal and my eyes adjusted to the lighting. I looked around and noticed that I was back in the graveyard near the entrance. I turned to the noise and saw Dark Link and Link fighting each other. I attempted to stand with the help with the gravestone and the urge to throw up came again. I ignored it as started towards them. I got a few steps before my leg gave out and I grabbed the closest gravestone.

"That's enough!" I shouted at them. They stopped as they both turned to me with the same look of surprise on their face. "Stop fighting, you are both on the same side."

"Impossible." They both said as they sent a glare at each other.

"You might think you're enemies, but you are the same person."

"That's the reason why; one of us can only exist!" Link said raising his voice slightly.

I flinched, but continued. "There has to be a reason for both of you to exist and I don't think it's for one of you to kill the other."

"Since when did you side with him?"

"He isn't the nicest person on the block, and isn't a hero by a long shot." I started. "But, he told me that Leviathan set a trap for him in the Shadow Temple, and he also was the one who showed me what happened to my dad. He-" I couldn't finish as I started coughing violently again, more blood landed on my fingers.

"What do you mean? What happened to Don?"

"That nightmare she told you about wasn't a nightmare, but a direct link to what I was seeing." Dark Link answered. "But I doubt you actually believe me though. Like she said, I'm not you. I have my own priorities."

"You're right; I don't believe you." Link growled at him.

"And saving Electra on more than on occasion doesn't help either I'm guessing."

"I'm grateful for your help, but everything that I know states that you aren't to be trusted."

"Well, I'm not exactly sane, with that said." Dark Link started before glaring at Link. "I don't really give a shit on what you think you know, something is happening and you are being blinded by your pride."

"Like you're one to talk."

"He's not lying about having a change of heart." A female voice entered the discussion. I turned to it and saw Delilah, Jason, Shad and the five knights. "While we were in the City in the Sky, we got some information from the Ooccoos. They told Shad about a ritual and Leviathan plans on sacrificing every person who holds a Triforce piece."

"That includes Dark Link as he holds the other half of the Triforce of Justice and a shadow version of the Triforce of Courage." Jason continued. "You two were separated when the world was separated all those years ago, but we don't know why. But I'm sure Leviathan knows."

"Also, Mr. Dark, can I call you that?" Shad asked.

Dark Link looked back at me; I shrugged.

He rolled his eyes, but nodded back at Shad.

"Excellent, Mr. Dark and Electra have probably been experiencing memory flashes about the past which has also led me to believe that he has been telling the truth. Since the day we were in the graveyard, when Electra and you made contact, it caused a lock that was placed on the split pieces to unlock as they needed to be whole for a moment to actually release the memories that were hidden away for the reason of keeping the new world of Earth and Hyrule at peace from Leviathan. On top of this, until the true powers of both halves of the pieces are completely unlocked, they will continue to try and reconnect themselves causing a reaction of rejection to both wielders."

"How do you know this?" Dark Link asked defensively.

"He spent hours with the Ooccoos." Jason replied. "They preached and he practically made a book on the subject.

"What happens after they are both unlocked?" Link asked.

"Then if the wielders wish it so, it will reform into a whole piece to Electra as she is the true wielder of that piece."

There was silence before Dark Link put his sword away and turned to Link tossing the piccolo at him. "Her body is rejecting the power of the other half and needs to be treated with some potions and either the spirit spring or the hot spring, but the spirit spring would be faster."

"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Link asked still not placing his sword away as he pocketed the instrument.

Dark Link turned to me ignoring Link all together. "The last medallion is in the Kokiri Forest; get it and then find Leviathan. You can use the medallions to your advantage, but I doubt she will be alive by the time you get to her."

I went to ask him where Leviathan was hiding, but he teleported away. I sighed. I had forgotten to get an answer about why he was hiding in the dark in the desert and at Saria's house. Suddenly, I cringed as my chest, hand, and head pulsed. I dropped onto the dusty ground and passed out.

One, little two, little three little- … I'm not going to spoil anything. Next chapter: Royal Decree

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