Short Disclaimer : I apologise for the first chapter. For some weird reason has made some error while uploading my file, and because of that many sentences are destroyed. I deeply apologise for this and try to do it better for the next chapters.
Chapter 2 – The burden of a hero
The beeping of a guardians target system sounded through the air as Link sprinted behind a broken piece of stone for cover. Shortly before he ducked himself behind it the guardian fired. The shot missing Link and exploding on his cover. He quickle drew his bow and shot a bomb arrow right in the guardians eye, which resultet in it exploding.
He took a short breath while he searched through his back and chucked a health potion. One of the flying ones got him good earlier and hit his shoulder. He had to be more carefull.
He had been here for a few hours, dodging guardians and killing the monsters that housed here. He fought himself higher and higher up the castle. Strangly , since he entered here, the sky hasn't changed. It was covered in a golden light, probably comming from Zeldas sealing magic, he assumed. He tooke out the Sheikah slate and checked the map.
He was pretty far up the castle. On his way he often times had to climb through broken passageways or destroyed tunnels. Ganons outbreak 100 years ago really demolished the once so proud structure.
Now he was nearly at his destination , being the throne room of the castle. Overhead he could see the targeting beams of the divine beasts pointing directly at it, so this had to be it. Link stood up from behind his cover and continued his way up the slope.
A few guardians attacked him with their beams, but as he got nearer to his goal, he became more and more relentless, shooting arrow after arrow from his bow, not even pausing for a single second.
He released a hell of attacks upon Ganons minions. Soon he could revenge his dear Mipha and finally bring peace to hyrule. Nothing would keep him from getting revenge on the incarnation of hatred.
There wasnt a single beeing right now that could stand in the way of the Hero of Courage as he advanced the street, dispatching enemys left and right.
Finally, ontop of the slope he reached the goal of his long journey. Before him lay the throne room of hyrule castle.
Before he entered it he sat down on the stairs and rested a short while. Zelda had kept Ganon in check for over 100 years. A few more minutes wouldnt make a big difference anymore. He grabbed in his bag and took out a few mighty bananas he ate while waiting there.
He could see a big part of hyrule from here. This spot was so high up, Link always thought it is a bit cooler up here than in the rest of the castle. But that could also be his imagination.
His gaze wandered around the view infront of him. In the far distance he could make out the Great Plateu , where he awoke from the Shrine of Ressurection. Next to it he could barely make out Lake Hylia. His gaze wandered around but as always stayed stuck as soon as he saw Vah Ruta. As it had happened countless times before, and probably will for all eternity, whenever he saw Ruta feelings of guilt and sadness entered his mind. He couldn't protect Mipha that day the calamity struck and he would never forgive him for that.
Tears began once again filling his eyes as they had done for countless times as he thought about his beloved Zora. Altough he knew tears wouldn't bring her back, he cried. Nothing changed that fact. Nobody knew about this. That the Hero of courage broke down in tears sometimes multiple times a day. He made a good job in hiding it. He did not want anyone, especially not Prince Sidon or King Dorephan, to know how heart broken he is. It is part of the burden he carries. The burden of a failure.
He continued to sob for a few more minutes until he wiped of his tears with his arm and stood up. He could cry for as much as he wanted when Ganon is finished. So for now he fixed all his thoughts on bringing him to his end.
For the last time he checked his equipment. Counted his arrows, ckecked his shield, and made sure the mastersword was well fixed on his back.
He shortly thought about it and then removed his cape, showing his light blue champion tunic. The cape would only hinder him in combat.
With everything ready he took a deep breath and entered the throne room.
He walked slowly, searching every corner until he stood in the midle of the room. He couldn't make out anything unusal, aside from the destruction of this place, when suddenly he heared a quit whisper.
„...nk" „...ink" „Link!"
He immediatly recognized that voice as Princess Zeldas.
„I am sorry Link, i can't hold him off longer..."
Suddenly he heard a sound and looked to the ceiling. A giant , purple cocon hanging from it, which looked as it was a combination of flesh and sheikah technologie. He wondered how he could have overlooked something like this as blue lines spread across the cocon. Shortly after a blue laser cut through the cocon and shot across the room, only nearly missing him at one point.
The laser stopped and the cocon broke open to reveal a gigantic beast, looking similar to the Blights that attacked the divine beasts, emerging from it.
He could not get a good look at it because as it made contact with the ground, the floor cracked and broke underneath them while they both fell down a long tunnel.
Link reacted quick and drew his paraglider , while avoiding pieces of ruble that were falling next to him. Suddenly the tunnel wided in a massive cavern, covered from walls to floor in sheikah symbols. It seemed to be made out of the same material as the shrines and the divine beasts.
He glided along one of the walls while he got a better look at the abomination below him.
Like all the Blights its body was a combination of purple malice and sheikah technologie. Having multiple arms and legs. Its body had the distant look of a spider , with a big abdomen. One of its arms was completly made out of a giant burning axe, while in others it had glowing spears and knives. While he glided further down his heart and mind began realizing that this abomination was the thing responsible for killing Mipha, and destroying all of Hyrule.
His muscles tensed up as an amount of pure hatred and godly rage filled his mind. On the edge of his mind he noticed that his sword vibrated on his back, in reaction to the enemy it was made to destroy. At this point in time Links mind was only filled with the one thing he wanted since he freed the spirit of his loved one from Ganons grip. Revenge.
With that he landed in front of the the thing he sought to vanquish. The creatures head turned around to face him. It had two yellow glowing eyes and something that almost seemed like a red beard and hair. The creature rose up as it noticed the weapon on Links back and let out a blood freezing scream.
Just as it wanted to smash him with its giant axe it stayed still in the motion. The beast looked upward as Link know what the it was sensing, a triumphal grin crossing his face. He had heared it as soon as he landed and also looked up. On top of the tunnel , they fell downwards , one could see a gigantic , blue energy beam building from four sides of the throne room. Link could swear the creature before him shook slightly in fear as the energy beam shot down the tunnel, hitting Calamity Ganon directly and exploding in thousands of thousands of lasers exploding all over the creature as it screamed and bellowed in agony, it screams even overlapping the sounds of the gigantic explosions as wounds were struken all over its body. This went on for a few more seconds until the beams grew smaller and vanished into nothing, as if they had never been there.
The calamity was greatly injured by the combined power of the four divine beasts. Injured, but not destroyed. For that was the part where Links work begone.
The creature slowly rose up again, with massive wounds around its entire body, and faced the wielder of the mastersword, only to be immediatly hit by a bomb arrow.
Link would not give this thing any chance to react as he instantly loaded another bomb arrow and fired. He sprinted across the room bombarding the calamity with bomb arrows. The beast only shortly startled rose up and prepared to smash Link with its burning axe.
Link avoided the swing by jumping over it and than instantly went over in a flury rush, drawing the mastersword faster than even he could realize and began slashing at Ganon, each strike field with an enormous amount of rage and hatred towards the thing that destroyed everything he loved. He filled every slash with all the power he could bring up. After about a dozen strikes Link jumped back, drawing his bow, and again unleashing a hellfire of explosions upon the beast.
The abomination striked again with its axe, but as Link avoided it this time he brought his shield up just in time to deflect an energy beam, which went into the ceiling. As Link landed he again heared the beeping of a guardian laser and dodged it fast enough to not get hit. He rolled over the ground and sprinted onwards as soon as he stood while again bombarding Ganon with arrows, the bomb arrows he brought now used up.
Calamity Ganon again prepared to swipe with his axe, while Link avoided it, but it was to calcuable. While he jumped over the axe he brought out his shield, reflecting the incoming laser beam, and this time directly back to its sender. The beam exploded and the hero once again used his opportunity to charge at the beast, each strike of his sword faster and stronger than the one before it. Finally the abomination bellowed above him and seemed to change its tactic. Link could only nearly avoid the firey explosion that orriginated from his foe, who now was protected by a armor of fire. The beast sprinted to one of the walls and climbed it, while simultaneously bombarding Link with energy beams.
Link was forced to dodge a fair bit of them as the creature increased its fire rate, not wanting to give him a break. He rolled and dodged around the arena, trying to get into a new postion to fight , while escaping the bombardment of light.
Finally for a short second he got in a dead corner of the beasts vision. As it reajusted and fired again at Link, he had his shield up and deflected the energy beam back to Ganon. It was hit directly by its own weapon losing the grip on the wall and fell to the ground, its armor vanishing, as Link once again drew his sword. He got a few more hits in until the calamity hit him with one of its arms, while he wasn't carefull enough, and flung him across the room.
Link landed badly on the stone ground, his air pressed out of his lungs as he urged his body to stand up again, knowing his enemy wouldn't want to give him a break. And he was right. He barely avoided a pillar of flames shot at him, and returned his gaze on the calamity.
Link started shaking a bit, the grip around his sword and shield slowly loosing, but he wasn't the only one weakend. Ganon had many wounds across his entire body, some of his limbs hanging loosly to the side, or shaking as result to the injuries he suffered.
Both knew, the next few attacks would finish this battle. There was silence in the arena as both opponents observed each other, looking for an opening in their defense. If you listened closely you could hear the wind blowing through the destroyed windows of the throne room above them.
Then the Calamity was the first to strike, trying to take its oponent by surprise in yet again slashing at him with its giant axe. Link, looking as if he had been surprised only nearly jumped over it.
He could swear, that in this moment a triumphal grin played across the face of the abomination, as it fired its laser beam at Link while he was in the air. And he could also swear on his eternal love for Mipha that he saw the same grin vanish in an instant as Link took out the shild he hid behind his back and reflected the energy beam directly back at Ganon. He landed shortly after that and threw the shield away as he gripped the mastersword with both hands, charging at his stunned enemy. Shortly before him Link tensed up his legs and jumped as high as he could in the air.
He let all of his emotions, his sorrow, his rage, his hatred, his guilt, his courrage and his undying love for Mipha guide his final strike as he sunk the sword that seals the darkness deep within the head of the calamity.
The beast letting out a blood boiling scream as it twisted and twitched arround in agony while flinging him away from it. Link rolled himself up and tunrned arround as he looked with satisfaction as the wounds of the creature broke open and purple malice errupted from all over its body while it broke down to the floor. It tried to reach Link with one of his arms before it exploded in a gigantic, purple storm.
He watched as the particles of malice arround the cavern gathered in the midle and shot out through the tunnel above him. He wanted to charge after the cloud as he was engulfed by a bright golden light, which carried him out of the chamber.
He awoke standing next to his horse on Hyrule Fields, while he witnessed the cloud of malice storming down from the castle on the field, where it than began to form a black and purple storm, as Link once again heared the voice of the Princess.
„Ganon" „Ganon" „Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again..." „He has given up on reincarnation and assumed its pure enraged form"
While Zelda said that giant hooves broke out of the cloud. Purple flames engoulfing everything as a gigantic horned head, resembling that of a boar, errupted from the tornado of malice, letting out a scream that, no doubt could be heared across entire hyrule.
„If set free upon our world the destruction will be unlike everything we ever seen before."
The cloud dispatched and revealed and enormous, boar shaped, beast. Purple flames engoulfing the entire beasts as it lowerd its head and locked onto Link.
„I entrust you with the Bow of Light – a powerful weapon in the face of evil" he heared Zelda saying as a golden light formed above him and a golden shining bow descended towards the ground.
„Link...you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories..." Zelda said as Link began walking to his horse and mounted it.
„But courage need not be remmembered...For it is never forgotten."
With that Link began riding towards the Dark Beast Ganon. Before that he bent slightly down in his saddle as he grabed the Bow of Light. While he grabed hold of it he immeaditly turned right and avoided a massive fire breath, the Dark beast had created, only dodging it slightly while he once again heared Zeldas voice explaning him what to do.
„That energy covering Ganon's body is called Malice. None of your attacks will get through as he now is...I will hold the Malice back as much as I can, but my power is waning. Attack any glowing points that you see! May you be victorious!"
With that Link began riding across Ganons left flank, avoiding another purple breath. As he rode past the beast, great circles of golden light, with the symbol of the holy Triforce in them, appeared all over his body. Link let go of the reins as he loaded the Bow of Light with an arrow and fired. As soon as the arrow had left the string it was engoulfed in a golden light. While it flew towards its target hitting perfectly in the midle of the triforce.
Link could hear a scream of agony coming from the beast as his arrow hit its mark, the circle disappearing, but leaving the Triforce branded ontop of Ganons body. He took hold of the reins with one hand while he steered around one of Ganons hoves, shoting another one of the golden marks and again hitting it, leaving a branded triforce and a scream of agony of the beast.
„Ganons power is weakening!" he heared Zelda say as he grabed hold of the reins and rode beneath the beast as he targeted another golden circle. Before he could get a clear shot the beast turned and tried to attack him with another fire breath. He once again had luck on his side and avoided it nearly.
He rode arround the beast as he continued to shoot at the circles, each time he hit one rewarding him with a blood boiling scream from the creature. After a few more times the beasts head sunk to the ground as he rode past it, then he heared Zelda screaming.
„Link, look up!"
As he followed her advice he saw a gigantic golden crack on the back of Ganon's head pulsating in an even stronger golden light then the circles.
„That's the very core of Ganon's being! Do what you must, Link!"
With that he rode infront of Ganon's head and fell for a bait of the beast. As soon as he rode before him the beast gathered its energy and released a purple laser from its mouth swinging it from the ground up in the sky.
Link could only jump of his horse as he saw the attack the beast planned. His horse kept running onwards and Link only barely avoided the beam, using his paraglider. As he saw the head coming back down he used his opportunity.
The laser hat set a good part of the grass infront of it on fire. Link jumped over it and opened his paraglider and immeaditly was cared skywards by the warm air. As he reached the top of his flight he saw the golden crack opening and an gigantic orange eye behind it. He knew what he had to do, as he released the grip from his paraglider and drew the Bow of Light.
Time seemed to slow down as he laid an arrow on the bowstring and aimed. A bombardment of thoughts ran through his head but he could only think of one thing as he released the string. His beloved Zora Mipha. Finally her spirit could rest in peace.
And with that thought time seemed to start again as he opened his paraglider and witnessed the arrow he shot piercing the eye directly in the middle.
The Dark Beast Ganon led out a bellowing scream as a golden ball of light shot out of his forehead. As the light succeded Link saw no other floating in the air then Princess Zelda. As she slowly descended towards the ground, Ganons's eyes focused on her.
By the time Zelda landed the beast collapsed to the ground, its head now on pair with that of the princess. Zelda looked up at the beast as it twisted and twitched when suddenly a golden light errupted from her. Ganon tried to avoide the light while the flames engoulfing him increased in intensity and he switched back in the cloudy form Link first laid eyes upon the beast as it rose upwards letting out another bellowing scream, that once again could be heared across hyrule.
The calamity drifted around and shot sharply over Zeldas head. As it turned arround and again shot towards her Zelda raised her hand, creating a massive golden explosion with the Triforce in it. The beast immeadiatly tried to drift upwards and escape this golden ball of light, but couldnt leave the ever increasing explosion.
With a final scream the Calamity errupted into nothingness. The golden light ball vanishing as fast as it had come.
The sky that had been purple since Ganong changed his form now started opening as the first rays of Sunlight hit the Hyrule plains. In the far east Link could see the first dawn without the Calamity existing on this world. When suddenly his attention was drawn back to Zelda who started speaking to him.
„I've been keeping watch over you all this time...I've witnessed your struggles to return to us as well as your trials in battle."
„I always thought-no, I always believed—that yoiu would find a way to defeat Ganon." She turned arround to him as she said her next words.
„I never lost faith in you over these many years..."
„Thank you , Link...the hero of Hyrule." she said, a golden smile forming on her lips.
But for Link, her words and her smile were simply to much. He couldn't hold it anymore and as such fell to his knees.
„Link! Are you okay?!" Zelda screamed as she ran towards him.
„I am no hero Zelda" was the first sentence that he said to her in over 100 years.
„A hero wouldn't break a promise he made to the persons near to him. A hero wouldn't forget the persons near to him. A hero wouldn't stand idle as his loved ones are killed! A hero would not do that! And still I have done it!" he screamed in between his sobbs.
Zelda stood still near him, surprised by his emotional outbreak.
„Link, what-?" she stutert before he interupted her.
„I made a promise to her! I made a promise that I would always protect her! That I would never leave her side or let any harm come to her! I promised her to protect her with my life! And still I broke that promise! I did nothing as Mipha was killed by one of Ganons abominations inside of Vah Ruta! I am nothing but...but...but a failure!" he screamed out before he crumbled to the ground and completly lost it in in his cries. He had failed the one person who believed in him. And he could never get rid of this guilt. He would bear it for all eternity.
Zelda stood by his side, completly shocked seeing the bearer of the Triforce of Courage, the chosen one of the mastersword and the hero of hyrule crying his eyes out on the ground beneath her. She had never seen Link like this and didn't know what to do.
She remembered the time Link fought agains the guardians in ash swamp as he protected her. After that she also broke down in tears in his arms while she succumbed to her fears. With that in mind she bowed down to the crying wreck, that was Link and took him in her arms. Like she did 100 years ago Link immediatly fell in her arms, throwing them both on the ground while he slammed his head in her shoulder, seeming to cry even more.
She gently stroke his hair and tried to comfort him but nothing seemed to work, as his sobbs only got stronger. She lay with him there for another few minutes until his sobbs became quieter as she suddenly noticed something.
„Link...your...your sword!"
Even though he was completly distressed he still lifted his head from Zeldas shoulder and looked in the direction Zelda pointed. There straight in the air hovered the mastersword. He whiped his eyes to see clearer as a blue ball jumped from the hilt of the sword and began floating shortly before them. They both looked up at the sphere in awe. None of them had any idea what this was supposed to mean when suddenly a voice echoed from the sphere.
„Master. I know you are distressed right know, but please let me explain."
It looked as if the sphere was talking to Link.
„I am the spirit that lives within this sword. I have guided countless bearers of the mastersword before you. I am a direct servant to the Godess Hylia. You could say that i am her voice to speak with her loyal servants. And the Godess has a message for you."
Link and Zelda still both in awe continued to stare at the sphere.
„The burden the bearer of the mastersword has to carry is a heavy one. Even the Godess Hylia herself knows this. She has tried for countless Millenials to decreas that burden without effort.
So she thought of another way of lightening the lives of her loyal subjects. Once the evil, for which the mastersword has been required, is defeated the Godesses grants her subjects a wish. She grants them the deepest wishe of their heart regardless of what it may be. The Godess has witnessed your fight over the evil and your triumph and would like to congratulate you, and as it has been custom for millenials, to fulfill the deepest wish of your heart.
For some heros it had been hard, even for the Godess, to know for what they wish, without them telling. But in your case the Godess is pretty clear of what your deepest desire is. When our conversation ends, you have to stand up and observe your surrondings for your wish.
The godess also wants to praise her descendent, Zelda for the astonishing work she has done in sealing the evil. Altough she doesn't normally do this the Godess has allowed me to reveal one thing to you, Princess Zelda.
The being Ganon will not come forth for a very, very, very, long time do to your astonishing power. That is all I have to say. The Godess wishes both of you a happy and long live, for your deed has been done. And know that she always watches over you." The sphere stopped speaking after that and slowly flew towards the sword before Link stopped it.
„Wait, i have a question."
The sphere stoped.
„Yes , Master?"
„Do you have a name?"
„Yes. The Godess Hylia has given me the name Fi."
With that words the sphere went back to the sword. Before it entered it it once more stopped and spoke
„Goodby Master, may your life from now on be in peace" after that the sphere went into the floating sword and disappeard. With that the mastersword stopped floating and fell to the ground.
Link crawled over to where the sword lannded and examinated it. It still seemed to be the same sword he had drewn from the pedestal 100 years ago. But he would never have thought that it housed a beeing like this.
With that he took the sword and slide it in its sheath, before he stood up. He felt a little dizzy as he thought over the events that just happened as he remembered that the Godess had fullfilled a wish of his deepest desire and the spirit Fi told him to observe his surrondings. So he looked around.
There wasn't much to see. He saw grass over the entire plain. Here and there a few trees, and a few spots where the grass was burned from the attacks of Ganon. While he looked around Zelda stood up and also wandered her gaze across the scene.
„What do you think you are looking for?"
„I don't know. But Fi said that is shoud observe my surroundi..." he stopped as his eyes went over something unusal in the grass.
Zelda noticed links abrupt stopp and looked in the direction he was looking and also noticed it. Around 50 meters away from them was a red spot in the grass. He couldn't make out any features so he coninued walking in that direction.
As he got nearer and nearer he more and more noticed what was laying in the grass. This can't be he thought to himself as his pace increased. This can't be This can't be Thisn can't be! He thought over and over as he began running towards the spot.
Zelda had problems following him as he sprinted with a speed she has never seen before.
As she arrived she looked over to Link before she looked on the thing that lay in the grass and gasped as she noticed it.
Link stood their completly still watching over what laid before him. A figure with soft, smoth red and white skin. Fins on her arms and legs and a long fin coming from the figures head which lay next to here.
Silver bracelets with green and blue jewelry in them on the entire body and a blue tunic, wrapped arround her upper body and gills on her sides. The brest of the figure slowly rose and sank as Link still completly shocked looked over her.
Suddenly the figure opened her eyes, which revealed two amber coloured eyes, and looked at her sorrunding before noticing him. A sound of surprise coming from her mouth as she spoke a single word.
„Link?"
„Mipha"
So i think i pretty much topped the first chapter by the dozens. But i let you guys decide. As its the same i would like to read your reviews and critics, as long as they are well formulated, and i am eager to read of your reactions. My hand is uterly shagged after writing this chapter in one go so i will go to bed now. Goodbye :D
