Thanks for reviewing the last chapter. Yeah, it was kinda angsty I know but that's the way it had to be, ok? Good. Anyway I guess we are nearing the end, it's shorter than the last one, huh? Yup.

Things are about to get hectic people! Look out for reappearances from characters all over! Goddesses, deaths galore!

You know this is going to be an anti-climax. I know it...

Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda

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I was following him. HIM. He was going to kill me. Why was I following him? Because my body was doing something that I didn't want it to do. I think he was controlling it but he said nothing. Yet his face showed it all.

He'd driven them away from me, made me kiss him...Link...say things. And now I was alone. He'd told me I would end up alone. And I did. Because of him.

So now I was walking with him. To my death.

We passed long stretches of tunnel, I heard no echo of life from the others but Stalfos walked past every so often. It was scary that they walked by so close and yet didn't attack or anything like I expected.

After a while of walking around the tunnels we opened up into a...hall, a giant hall. I don't know how else to describe it.

The floor was around the size of a concert hall minus the seats and from the edges a huge curved dome stretched up into the rock above to create a cathedral effect. Light was coming from somewhere but I couldn't tell, the ceiling just stretched away into the air. Like the Snowhead Temple in the game, that but bigger and made of a yellowish stone and perfectly smooth.

In the centre of the floor was carved a huge (I mean HUGE) platform. Just raise a foot off the ground, from the shape of it, a triangle, it was a triforce symbol. Huge. Massive. Other words meaning large. It was a place for a ritual I gathered. Especially for one purpose I guess, killing me.

As my body followed after Link I stared up at the room, could it be called a room, and wondered what was going to happen next and how long I'd have to wait to find out. I didn't want to.

Dark Link seemed on a buzz and keen to explain everything about what was going on in this room and the plan however.

"This room is where the action is going to take place" he cried sounding like some film buff, leaping onto the triforce platform "Soon my master will be free with his queen, free to take over Termina and Hyrule!"

He paused for effect, and seemed put out when I was apparently too fearful to say anything.

"My master, Gannondorf" he continued "And the witch Reika will break through the seal of the sages using the blood of one seer. You. And will be freed from their captivity. Seer's are gateways after all"

I stared at him, so like Link, for once his face lit up with excitement and joy. I wondered if that was how he looked when he killed someone.

"So...we will begin in a few moments"

That soon? I stared at him and then found my body had returned to my control. Unused to the work of keeping up for a moment I sat down quickly on the floor. Off the platform, staring up at this man who was going to kill me.

"I need to ready the ritual of course" Link said, more to himself than to me "A knife...where do I get a good ritual knife? Oh, too late for that, use my dagger. What a rush this is going to be. I wish we could have a more stylish setting"

I was afraid, and upset. My friends had deserted me, I was about to die, and even worse my friends would resent me even more for letting out their worst enemies. Great. I rubbed my arms, trying to comfort myself. Would dying hurt? What would it be like.

My head suddenly plunged into the questions of 'is there life after death?' and all that jazz. I was afraid of dying, no one wants to die. Some might be ok with dying but I didn't want to, not yet. I'd been ready to kill myself earlier but things change.

Would my mum and dad miss me?

How would Lucy get back?

Would she die later?

What would Link do in this sort of situation? Nothing, he wouldn't get himself into this sort of situation. My childhood wasn't meant to prepare me for this. I had a sudden thought, my flashbacks, or dreams of my childhood. Had they meant something? Possibly? Had I know I was going to die.

Link seemed to have decided on how to kill me and I found myself being pulled up by my collar to stand. But my legs wouldn't work, they turned to jelly and he found he had to lift me up and hold me to pull me up onto the platform. Lying me down so he could have a breather. Yet he didn't breath. Obviously his muscles were tired. No breath.

"Are you going to do this with any dignity at all?" Dark Link asked, hands on hips "I don't take any pleasure in killing...well, I do. But you know, this is a ritual and you're supposed to have some dignity"

I looked at my hands, and felt my bruise from Sao. I was alone. I felt tears well up in my eyes all over again and my vision blurred. I felt myself being hauled up again and arms holding my up around my waist and dragging me out into the center of what must have been the triforce mark.

My body felt weak and I found myself sobbing out "I don't want to die"

Who does?

I'd been ready to but how quickly things change. Was I really so selfish?

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die"

I pushed the hands and body in front of me and tried to get away from him. But they were stronger than I'd realised and I just wore myself out. I rested my head on his shoulder, crying, sobbing, sniffing. Hoping that maybe he'd take pity on me. Fat chance, how low was I? I was begging, and earlier I'd been ready to die? I felt awful but that else could I do? What would you do?

I felt a hand on my head and realised Dark Link was still holding me up...he was stroking my hair! With the knife still in his hand! I bit my lip. So this was it. And no one to save me.

"No one wants to die, little girl"

I jumped. Was he being kind? His lungs with no air did not move below me, even after my struggle against him while I was breathing heavily from crying and trying to fight. I blinked and looked at his ear, I couldn't see his face so I looked at his ear and his golden hair and listened.

"No one ever wants to die" he said quietly "But fate has a way of killing all of us. I will go when Link die"

"Then why try to kill him?" I croaked

"Because that's our fate. It's what we were created for" he replied, did I detect a trace of sadness in his voice? Suddenly I felt the cold ice rush through me again and I was cold as he said "I...saw your childhood with him"

I blinked "What?"

"You dream about it" he replied, I felt his gauntleted hand rest on my head again "I made you, so I could see what you've been through"

That's what they had been? He'd been searching my memories, but why? My dreams had been from him wanting to find out about me? It was beginning to make sense, he had been able to get in my head. I imagined him sitting there going through 'photo albums' while I slept, seeing me replay them.

"Little one" he continued sadly, the coldness in my growing "You've seen and felt suffering haven't you? I am made of suffering, you see? I...felt yours, I lived them. I...felt them. I felt everything you felt for him, my other. I..."

I pushed away from him and tried to pull away from him, not even caring if he was spilling out something important before my death scene. He's stronger than he looks, he held me fast and I found him holding my neck fast, and the knife to my throat, like when a mugger is about to kill his victim.

He did nothing.

I began to cry again, hysterically and he did nothing. Did he enjoy this?

Made of suffering. I was numb from the cold.

My face wet from the tears that didn't seem to stop, the coldness seemed to make them come faster. Was it him? Was he doing this?

"I'm cold" he whispered to me "So cold. I'm tired...lonely...cold...And you felt so warm, even when the blood poured from you. I felt something"

Blood? When he'd stabbed me? This coldness was him, wasn't it. I closed my eyes and began to concentrate on the cold. There it was. Seeping into me from my back, Dark Link's sadness...his loneliness, all of these negatives that made him up. The opposite of Link. He didn't breathe, Link did, Dark Link didn't feel, Link did. But that was wrong. Dark Link did feel, he was passing what he felt on to me somehow.

"I felt something" Dark Link continued "And it made me feel...warm...nothing I've ever felt has been warm. Only wrong and cold. But you were dead. I'd killed you. For once I felt even colder even though the warm had just flooded me. So I healed you and it came back"

I listened to his voice as I waited for the steel to cross my neck. Would he get to the killing?

"Even after all you've suffered you're still warm. I wanted to know why, why couldn't I be warm too? I...wanted....to feel how you felt for my other. I think because my other lost the ability to return it...I found it in me"

I drew a sharp breath. What was he getting at?

Suddenly I found my cheek was wet, and not from me. I felt another. Water was dropping on me. Twisting my head I found water was rushing down his face. He wasn't breathing, but crying. How could he cry?

He seemed to be and he couldn't speak it seemed he was so overcome with these tears that had sprouted, and he seemed as amazed as I was that he was crying.

"I found myself loving you, little girl" he said bitterly "Isn't it strange how fate works out?...And now I have to kill you. Funny"

He turned my round and face me, his blue eyes crystal in the light and the tears just rolling down his face. Nothing else. Just water. My body was numb...but...it was fading...

A blast of a hot feeling blasted through me from Link as he said "I'll make it quick" and plunged the knife into my neck.

A bright light flooded the domed room and I couldn't see anymore.

He loved me?

He'd killed me.

Fate certainly worked in mysterious ways.

Fate.

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I was dead.

I'm sure of it.

But then I wasn't.

As soon as I'd hit the floor I felt him fall with me and suddenly pull me back up to him. Dark Link.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" he wept in his breathless, sorry, wrecked state. How could he feel this emotion? Was Link hardened towards me and that's why?

I was pulled into his arms and my face was wet with his tears.

"I'm sorry"

And then I couldn't hear anymore. I was dead.

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"You have gotten yourself into a state. Again. What are we going to do with you?"

I sat up. That voice. I recognised it. Spinning around, amazed at the lack of blood everywhere. Who was speaking? The whole surrounding was white, bright white light.

"Over here"

I span to face it and there she was. In a blaze of fire and red. Din. Come to help me it seemed. She was beautiful as before and her hair the colour of flames drifted in an invisible breeze.

"Din?"

"That's me" she said and smiled "You've let them out then?"

"Well..."

Din sighed and said "And you've also given that poor boy a soul"

I started "What?"

"The thing down there you were just with? Dark Link? You've given him a soul, sort of. It's complicated" she paused "You made him feel something other than hate"

"You can feel him?" I asked

"Of course, everything is connected with me and my sisters" she replied smiling

"Oh" I said "What...did I do to him?"

"The hero of time got married didn't he?"

"Well..."

"So he doesn't have the ability to love you anymore in the way that you wanted" I blushed "So it got passed to Dark Link, even if he didn't know it. And when he killed you, it somehow got...ignited, so to speak and bang! There you have it. The loyal servant of Gannondorf, born and bred to kill the Hero of Time and be ruthless to all forms of life great and small and feel nothing was suddenly in love. And in a dilemma it seems"

"A dilemma?"

"Kill you and serve his master? Or not kill you and face death of disobedience"

Din looked at me and said "It seems not five minutes ago you were 14...young, saving Hyrule. And now you're here. To save Termina. And yet you're the one who needs saving" she hesitated (as if goddesses hesitate!) "Do you love him?"

"Love who?"

"Dark Link of course"

"NO"

"Why not?"

"He's evil...and just...killed me" I replied, unsure suddenly. That coldness had been him, I felt sorry for him. And then the hot feeling, was it love? His love for me I had felt?

"People change" Din sighed "You ought to know that. He may not be human, but his feelings are human. He's feeling them alright. I can feel his grief and rage from here"

"What do you mean?"

"Killing the love of your life?" Din stopped, as if listening "He's going to give hell for that"

"To who?"

"Everyone" Din replied "And the Hero of Time will give as good as he gets I expect"

"What can I do?" I was confused, all this from a goddess and I was dead, wasn't I? "I'm dead"

"Not yet, there's a heartbeat still in your chest. You will be dead in a few moments though. So get back to your body or something and tell Dark Link to stop the gate opening!"

"WHAT?" it was all happening so fast

"You go unconscious, you open a gate everywhere, yes?" Din looked exasperated I was so slow at figuring out things

"Yes"

"So go get him to keep you awake"

"Oh"

The light faded and I heard the last comment of Din was "All he wants is to be Link now"

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I awoke out of the light with a cough and watery splutter. Copper in my mouth, choking me and I somehow made the move to clamp my hand around the wound in my neck.

"DARK LINK" I gurgled as loud as I could, My entire body seemed numb and I was dizzy from blood loss, I coughed and half drowned for a moment in the copper taste

I suddenly felt a hand around me and a bundle of cloth was wrapped around the hand clamped around my neck.

"You're still alive" I heard Link but knew it was his other self, I struggled to focus on him

I tried to speak again but my mouth only gurgled, obviously the down point of being stabbed in the neck. I felt like I was drowning, my lungs being cut off by the warm liquid.

He mopped my mouth and held my neck tighter.

"I thought you were dead" he said

Yeah well.

No.

He obviously wasn't looking to the fact that I was dying and that he had to keep me awake. And I couldn't tell him, could I? Wait. When he'd gotten into my head, I was unconscious, could I let him in now?

Could I let him in?

~Dark Link~ I thought hard ~can you hear me?~

He stopped jabbering for a moment and stopped.

That had caught his attention.

~Listen, you need to keep me awake~ I told him as hard as I could think

"You-you're in my head..." he replied out loud

~yes but not for long if you don't keep me awake with something useful~

~oh~ he'd gotten the hang of it, surprisingly, I'd have thought since he'd invaded so many times he's understand mind speaking or whatever ~hang tight then~

I have to admit his thinking voice was cute. But here I was...dying...

My eyes began to close and I jolted awake as he shook me quite hard. He started going on at me about how I was supposed to be dying to let his master out. But his heart wasn't in it. Was Din right? He seemed to be genuinely frantic.

For a moment I thought I had an out of body experience and I saw myself, blood all over the lighted platform and being cradled and shook and bullied and cajoled awake by this man who had stabbed me in the first place.

How strange.

He had been right. Fate did work in mysterious ways.

And Din had returned to help me, but not as actively as she had before, did she think as I was older I could do more now? In the past she'd inhabited Lucy and fought off Reika and sealed her away. Now she was just watching.

Dark Link had a soul? Almost, close to it, he'd never be human truly but was he a Pinocchio with emotions? Perhaps.

Considering I was dying my head seemed to be spinning with all these thoughts that seemed to intellectual for death. Or maybe you finally know everything as you die.

In any case I couldn't feel my legs.

So tired...

No, can't go to sleep.

Can't.

Shaken again, more words were jabbered at me. I couldn't even hear them properly now. Din's faith in me was misplaced, Link would have to save the day again. I'd probably lost most of my blood now, how much more would it take?

Pain.

Strange, I couldn't feel it before.

And yet no pain. Mental pain maybe. But my body was feeling strange. Light. I felt like I did when I'd been saved from the bomb-chu.

Suddenly I could see again.

Dark Link was over me like he had been, looking hysterical, and his eyes were closed.

I didn't feel so light headed.

As I looked up at him I realised he was healing me.

Why?

He was disobeying his masters! He said he couldn't do that, so why was he? I was beginning to feel my legs again, and my fingers were wriggling when I told them too. I still couldn't talk but if I had perhaps it would have broken his concentration.

And every moment I felt better, the light on the floor around me dimmed. The gateway was closing!

Dark Link opened his eyes and looked straight down at me, his eyes were glazed.

It had been his pain coming through to me?

He smiled hesitantly and then dropped me suddenly has he pressed his hands to his neck. Horrifyingly blood began to seep through his fingers. I sat up quickly (amazed that I could move but that was overshadowed by this other event) and grabbed Dark Link's shoulders.

"What's wrong?" I said, for some reason terrified

Dark Link smiled, I could see the beads of sweat appearing on his forehead as he replied "Don't worry"

"No! Tell me"

Dark Link shuddered and fell against me, once again dying my clothes blood red and he went limp. I grabbed his neck with one hand, feeling the coppery liquid pulse against my palm like it had before, I held him against me to try and keep pressure on the wound.

He wasn't human. Why was he bleeding?

As if reading my mind he gasped "I couldn't...save...you..."

"What? No, look, I'm here" I said exasperated, what was he talking about?

"So I transferred it to me" he managed

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So, that's the first part of the ending! Sorry it's so rushed, I'm in the middle of exam period. Read, review and be happy all!