Chapter fifteen: Majora's Wrath
The oiled door flew off it's hinges as Link's fist made contact with it, spinning out into the air. The Hero of Time emerged out into the rain, on top of Majora's Tower, holding The Master Sword in both hands. Since his shield had been destroyed by Saja's magic, he had only the sword for protection now.
Majora stood in the middle of the large arena. The rain pounding down from the black sky above them poured down his ghastly face, and his completely white eyes were shining with controlled malice... he looked ready to tear Link to pieces, which he intended on doing.
The clouds above them were so dark that the entire world around them made it appear to be the middle of night. Though Link knew the hour was late, night had not become dark yet... these clouds had been made by the forces of evil.
The entire rooftop, which was about thirty feet wide in all directions, had crates strewn all over. Body parts hung out of the top... legions body parts. Some still even clutched swords. Link realized through his anger and pain that Majora had killed them for his own amusement.
"Welcome back, Hero of Time," said Majora, his snake-like tongue poking out of his mouth. He clutched only one sword, like Link. "I suppose you have come to kill me, have you?"
"You will pay for Darunia's death, Majora," Link yelled over the crackling of thunder above them. The rain pounded down harder than ever, and Majora only smiled in response. He raised a hand, long, spidery fingers groping, and a sword shot out from where Link had just emerged from. The sword that had impaled Darunia whizzed out from behind Link and raced through the air, flinging droplets of blood onto the ground, where they were quickly washed away by the rain. Majora caught it, and swung both his dual blades around, smiling sinisterly.
"Two against one, I'm afraid," he grinned.
"You fucking bastard!" screamed Link, his eyes glowing so intensely that had anyone been looking, they would have been instantly blinded. "How can you do this! How can you just kill someone and feel nothing for other people's suffering!"
"Death is what I do, hero," snarled Majora. "If you must know, I quite enjoy the taste of blood... and I quite enjoy watching people die. I enjoyed it especially when I killed that Fire Sage. His death was one I had been planning for a long time. Since I met you two out on the fields those many many weeks ago."
Majora twirled his swords expertly, and said "if you want to fight me, then come get it."
"I'LL KILL YOU!" hollered Link, and he ran forward, swinging The Master Sword around, putting all his pain and rage into the swing. Majora blocked the swing, and Link felt a foot connect with his stomach. He doubled over as the wind flew out of him, then gasped in pain as a sword lashed across his face, cutting from the top of his right cheek to the top of his neck. Blood flew from his face, and he fell back, yelling in agony. Majora towered above him, grinning. He looked down at the blood still crusting the blade from Darunia's body, then licked it, slurping the blood off, his eyes wide, as though enjoying every second of it.
This caused Link's anger to reach such a ferocious level that the pure magic of the Triforce and the Sapphires picked him up from the ground and drove him forward at Majora. The tyrant blocked every swing that came at him, and he only smiled, completely at ease. His arms moved in a flurry as Link pulled out all the stops, recklessly combining and modifying his moves. But to no avail... Majora would not make an opening for him.
Pain suddenly erupted on both sides of Link's face, and he gasped as he saw the sword pull away, blood flying from their surfaces. He stumbled backward, clutching two deep cuts across his face.
"If you refuse to even make this fun, we can end it right now," whispered Majora's malicious voice. Link looked up, only to see that he had disappeared...
Ignoring the deep slashes across his face, Link stumbled over to a crate, and grabbed a sword from a dead legions hand. Now wielding both swords, he looked around, searching for the incarnate's evil features. In his mind, he knew that mere physical blows would not hamper Majora. Zelda's pyrotechnik beams were their best bet as of now. He could not defeat Majora on his own.
"ZELDA!" he called, knowing even as he said her name that he was putting the woman he loved more than anything into danger. But he had no choice. His anger at Majora overpowered him at the moment.
As soon as her name left his lips, however, a flash of lightning briefly illuminated their surroundings, and he looked up to see a flicker of movement.
A second later, two fists slammed his stomach and mouth, and he flew over ten feet, landing back down on the wet ground, crying out in agony as pain lanced through his body. The vile face of Majora appeared through the darkness, stalking toward him steadily, bloody swords raised, ready to deal a death blow...
Bright blue light flashed, and an enormous BANG went off in Link's ears. Majora hurtled backward, surprise coloring his face as he was thrown through the air.
Zelda had appeared up on the roof of the tower. She rushed over to Link, and pulled his rain drenched body to his feet. She noted the deep slashes across his face with sympathy, but saved her comments. Their real problem was in front of them.
Link and Zelda stood side by side, facing the demon incarnate that was slowly rising back up, still clutching his blades.
"Ah, another subject to toy with... "
His body became a blur, and both Zelda and Link ducked just in time as two blades whistled above their heads, striking out viciously. Link whirled around, swinging both blades very fast. Majora stood there, but quickly stopped both of his blades. He was about to move them aside and stab through Link's chest, when another BANG went off, and he was forced to raise a sword to deflect another beam sent his way by Zelda. Link took the opprotunity to recklessly batter against Majora's sword that wasn't fighting against the hail of beams. Zelda fired quickly and accurately, knowing that this was Link's only chance to find an opening.
Even with the beams coming at him rapid fire, Majora was still managing to hold Link off. The Hero of Time brought both blades around, using a sword technique he had learnt not too long before this entire mess had started. He caught Majora's blade between both of his, moving it down and out of the way. Then, lightning fast, he slashed out at Majora's face with one sword, then the next before Majora could bring his blade back up.
Majora's high pitched scream echoed through the rain and fog as Link dealt him several cuts with his swords, and he yelled again as he was slammed hard with several of Zelda's beams. Link continued cutting across Majora's body, his rage overpowering him, making it impossible to think. All he concentrated on was the deep cuts he was inflicting upon Majora. He whirled around, bring The Master Sword around quickly, and cut extremely hard across the evil demons face. The slash cut Majora's nose clean off, and swiped across his entire face, squirting black blood everywhere. Majora screamed in agony, clutching at his face, then whipped the sword hilt around, slamming Link in the side of the head with it.
White stars popped in front of Link's eyes, and he collapsed to the surface of the tower, dazed, blinking blood from his eyes. Dimly, he saw Majora's feet leave the ground, and he saw Zelda's feet padding over to him. A second later, he felt himself being lifted up again. He could tell that blood was rolling down the side of his head, but knew that it was not a serious wound. He was still alive, but badly dazed.
Zelda, supporting him, turned to look at his face.
"Oh goddesses, Link, can you still fight?" she said, seeing all the blood smeared on his face. He just nodded, not trusting himself to speak.
They both looked around the clearing, but saw nothing but blood stained crates. The roll of thunder above them gave them no comfort. Majora was hiding.
Zelda let go of Link reluctantly, and they nodded to each other. They began walking across the rooftop, back to back. Zelda kept her hands raised, ready to ward off Majora as soon as he came into view, and Link held both of his swords up. The Master Sword was glowing with blue light, reacting to the intense evil lurking on the rooftop nearby.
An unnatural silence enveloped the rooftop. The thunder overhead was quiet, as though afraid to sound too loudly. As Zelda and Link approached a pile of crates, they thought they could hear the screams and yells from the battle miles below them.
Suddenly, lightning flared, and thunder crackled violently overhead, and the entire place was illuminated. A dark hulking mass was lit up on top of the pile of crates. Two blank white eyes pierced through the darkness from the middle of the hulking beast. A nanosecond after the lightning revealed it, the beast leapt into the air so quickly it was as though it had just disappeared, and Zelda and Link felt pain lance across their heads. Both flew into the pile of crates, smashing boards and body parts everywhere. Groaning, Link looked up through the rain, clutching Zelda at his side, and saw a terrible sight.
Majora had morphed. His body had grown monstrous, pumping with muscles. His entire body had grown to at least twice it's normal size. He was at least twelve feet tall now, and his skin had turned a devilish, demonic red. His arms were now formed into two long whips, and his head was nothing more than a lump at the top of the huge mass. His two white eyes still shone angrily, and though it did not speak, Zelda and Link both knew that it was very angry, and very ready to kill them both. It had turned into Majora's Wrath, the evil incarnate that Link had faced those many years ago inside the moon above Termina.
"GET UP!" Link yelled suddenly, realizing what Majora's Wrath was about to do. He threw Zelda from the crates and dove away just as both of the whips smashed down on the crates, breaking them apart, sending loose timber everywhere, raining down onto the dangeroud battleground.
Sliding dangerously across the slippery surface of the tower, Link held both his blades up, shaking his head to relieve the pain of getting whipped. Zelda stood several yards away, her hands raised, ready to release the spells.
Majora's whips lashed out, and Link leapt over one of the deadly tentacles. The other swung at his head, and he ducked it, but had no time to react, for the first one whipped around again, faster than concieved, and slammed him in the torso. He felt a rib crack, and was thrown several feet onto the ground, sliding yet again. Despite the terrible pain, he pulled himself up to his feet again, refusing the pain that his body sent him. He defied it, and looked up at Majora's huge being, writhing with evil power.
I Zelda... /I he thought frantically, his eyes whizzing around everywhere, but there was no sign of the Queen. I Where did she go! /I
These panicked thoughts were quickly disuaded as Majora's whips flashed out again, just as the lightning lit up the dark sky once more. He parried many swings, and began to move slowly toward Majora's central body. The whips were long and lethal, but he hoped to parry long enough to get close enough to strike out at the enemy he hated so much. This task was much worse than he thought, as he quickly got hit several times in the sides, but still managed to stay on his feet. He moved steadily closer, and Majora increased his blows, desperate to stop him.
Link was naught but ten feet from Majora's form, his arms pumping furiously, deflecting the blows, when one of the whips came too slow, and he had a split second to react. He swung The Master Sword around, and swiped at the treacherous weapon. Majora howled in pain as Link inflicted a deep wound in the whip, and lowered the weapons for just a second.
That was all Link needed.
He dove forward stabbing out with both The Master Sword and the sword he had taken from the legions body... unfortunately, the legion sword smote upon Majora's skin before The Master Sword did. The poorly made sword melted upon contact with the evil skin of Majora, and dissolved into nothing. Link looked at it, horrified, then felt both whips slam him hard in the face, neck and shoulders. He flew over twenty feet into the air, then back down to the ground, landing right next to a pile of crates, in a pool of a legions congealed blood.
He looked up, high into the heavens above his tortured frame, through the thick rain flying down into his eyes, and saw a flash of lightning erupt right above him...
Not lightning, he realized. Zelda's beautiful form leapt from atop the crates, blasting out numerous beams. They all met their mark, striking into Majora's head in quick precesion. Majora was driven backward by the hail of magic, but then flung a whip around, slamming Zelda out of the air and into a pile of crates. She yelled in pain as she struck them. Link grew so angry at Majora that it became impossible to hold in...
Link leapt to his feet, the Sapphire's and the Triforce burning in his chest. Zelda peered up through a haze of pain to see her hero stalking toward Majora's Wrath, with only a single sword... she tried to call out to him, but her voice was gone...
Majora quickly brought Link down with a swipe at his ankles, tripping him up maliciously. Link tried to back away, but Majora held him in place on the wet surface of the tower. Then a whip came down fast, and slammed Link across the arena, to the very edge of the tower. Link lay there, panting and coughing up blood.
Then Majora landed down on top of him, pinning him to the ground with a foot...
And Link took the worst scourging he could have ever imagined.
The whips came in from all sides. Majora howled, the lightning crackled as the whips pulverised him, never ceasing their swings. He was slammed from head to toe, getting knocked senseless. He felt his bones crack underneath the hail of terrible blows, and just waited patiently for the death blow. He waited, knowing that there was nothing left. Nothing.
The gerudo's army was probably defeated, Darunia was dead, and Zelda would likely be killed too once Majora was finished with him, along with Malon and Saja. I End it, Majora, /I thought Link, his mind a haze of pain and suffering. I End this unbearable strain. Let me go to the goddesses now... /I
I And I'll see Darunia again... /I
And then, as his body and mind filled with emotion, tears welling up in his eyes at the thought of his brothers death, Majora leapt away from Link's tortured body, hissing in pain.
A flash of blinding blue light erupted behind Majora's form, and Link saw Majora stumble, and trip over his own foot. Link rolled out of the way as Majora crashed down onto the ground.
Blinded by pain, anguish, and sorrow, Link pulled himself to his feet. The Triforce and the Sapphire's were the only things keeping him on his feet... Zelda lay on the ground, drenched in water, her face tilted up. She had fired a beam into the back of Majora's head...
Link ran forward, toward Majora, who was picking himself up again. Link saw the whips coming, but the energy burning in his chest from the Triforce and the Sapphire's was overwhelming. He parried every single swipe at his body with inhuman speed, running full tilt toward Majora. Majora's eyes widened in fear as he saw his nemesis's eyes glowing fiery green, blue and red, mixed. The goddesses were feeding him the last of their power.
Link skid to a halt ten feet from Majora, parrying every single whip sent his way. He blocked them, blood streaming down his face, his arms moving up and down in a sinuous pattern impossible to follow. Majora tried as hard as he could to slam Link away, but he could not. Majora brought both his whips toward Link's head, hoping to crush his brain in.
Link raised The Master Sword, and whirled around, cutting both whips in half. Majora yelled so loudly that the sky above him exploded in a shower of lightning and thunder. The cry of evil anguish fueled Link's spirit and will, and he whirled around one final time, calling upon the last dregs of his strength. He whipped The Master Sword through the air, and let go, collapsing to the ground.
As though watching from a second sight, he saw the sacred blade whip through the air faster than ever, cutting through the wind, fly straight and true...
And stab with a jolt, right through Majora's forehead.
A full two seconds passed, with everything completely silent.
And then there was nothing.
The entire top roof of Majora's Tower exploded in a ball of white, tearing the crates to oblivion. Majora's body was rent to pieces in the huge explosion, and the rain stopped completely, as did the lightning. All the legions down in the market disintegrated in that one second, and the last of the black buildings that had been born out of treachery disintegrated as well.
The tower began to collapse, slowly pushing in on itself, moving downward, sending dust and rubble up everywhere. The gerudo's all cheered, screaming at the top of their voices a victory croon, all except for Nabooru and Arya. They stood together, watching the final fortress of evil fall, staring through tears mixed with the rain.
"Could it be?" whispered Nabooru, hardly daring to believe her own voice. "Could Link have done it?"
Arya, blinking back tears of joy, said "I think he has, milady."
The two warriors embraced each other, sobbing in happiness and exhaustion.
As the tower fell below them, five heroes of legend stayed floating high above the wreckage of Majora's Fortress. Link, Zelda, Saja, Malon, and Darunia's body all stayed floating in the air on a sparkling cloud of white, a throne for the victorious. The red sky died, and the bright blue sky was reborn. Peaks of sun shone through, shining glorious daylight upon the survivors.
As the five heroes were slowly bored down toward the wreckage of Majora's Fortress, Saja and Malon crept across the air toward Zelda and Link. Both of them were unconscious. Zelda had her arms wrapped around Link's unconscious form, her face resting on his shoulder blades. Link still clutched The Master Sword, scarlet with Majora's blood, both his arms wrapped around Darunia's body, finally earning the right to just lay there and weep in his sleep.
