Here's what happened between my previous story and this story:
- Nightmare and the Schwartztrom defeated the Koreans and Soul Edge devoured the souls of the dead
- Nightmare's airship was destroyed in the battle against the Koreans while Nightmare was in it, so Nightmare was damaged and lost his wings, tails, and the other stuff.
Now here's the story:
Link's Nightmare Adventure
It was an extremely hot day in the middle of a huge, wide desert. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky, and the burning sun was scorching the sand of the desert. On the enormous land of seemingly nothing but infinite sand, a boy with blonde hair, pointed ears, blue eyes, wearing a green tunic, a green hat, white tights and dark brown boots was riding a horse with dark red fur. On the boy's back was a shield with some triangle symbols and a bird symbol on it, and a sword with a purple hilt. These weapons were known as the Master Sword and Hylian Shield. The boy rode through the endless desert, and it didn't seem he'll give up anytime soon. And his name was Link. He had travelled to this world to save his homeland, Hyrule when pieces of the evil demonic blade, Soul Edge was gathering there. So he decided to travel to this world to destroy the evil blade once and for all...with the great faith he had in his Master Sword, the legendary blade of evil's bane that was wielded by many ancient legendary heroes in Hyrule before.
Link continued riding through the desert on his horse, which was named Epona. Sunset eventually came, and Link was still riding his horse across nothing but the sand of the great desert.
The Sun had set. Without the Sun's pressure, the heat of the desert escaped quickly, and it was now as cold as ever. But Link was used to all this. He gazed up at the stars that were everywhere up in the cloudless night sky. The night sky was beautiful with all the stars accompanied by a gigantic full moon. In the horizon, Link saw a few pyramids in the middle of the desert. Link smiled, but he knew he had no time to go there.
Link was sleepy as he rode Epona through the night. So he didn't notice when he wasn't riding in a desert anymore until the Sun rose. Link found himself riding up a grassy hill. He looked back, but there was no sight of the desert he was travelling through before. When Link rode to the top of the hill, he saw the Sun rising in the horizon. The light given by the rising Sun revealed all the beautiful trees and forests in the distance. Link stopped Epona and jumped off him. He layed on the grassy hill, breathing as he looked at the beautiful sunrise. He didn't notice when he dozed off, as he didn't get any sleep at all the previous few nights.
When he woke up, the Sun had risen completely. It was right up in the sky, and the birds were chirping in the surrounding forests. It looked like it was around noon...
"Crap...!" Link said to himself as he jumped on Epona in less than one second, and then he rode on quickly. He knew he had no time to waste, so he rode down the hill and through the forests. The world Link was in right now was very similar to Hyrule, with the creatures of this world being the only different things.
When the Sun was setting, Link was riding Epona along the side of a river, and it looked beautiful. He saw some fish jumping out of the water, then landing back in. Link didn't get to enjoy the scene of the sunset for long before it was completely dark.
After about an hour, Link arrived before an eerie sight. Unlike the previous night, the sky was cloudy, but clear enough for the full moon to be seen. Link saw a huge castle with a big statue of Nightmare built on the top. The castle was surrounded by a lake of lava, and the only way to enter the castle was to cross a drawbridge, which went over the lava.
Link jumped off his horse slowly as he looked at the gloomy castle.
"Epona, you stay here, okay? I'll be back before dawn..." Link said quitely to Epona, and then he headed towards the castle.
Link crossed the drawbridge. It was much longer than it seems to be. When he arrived at the front door of the castle, he saw a label above the door, "Schwartztrom". Link had no idea what this word meant, and he knew it wasn't really important, so he just entered the door. The door was a large double door with a picture of Soul Edge painted on it. Link was in the castle. He looked around the walls, and he saw many paintings of Nightmare.
Suddenly, a Lizardman jumped at Link and tried to bite him. Link did a foward roll on the floor and he went under the jumping Lizardman. The Lizardman then turned around, charged at Link and tried to stab him with it's spear. But Link did a backflip over the Lizardman and landed behind it. He then did a foward roll towards the Lizardman and stabbed it on the back and through the heart, killing it. As Link drew the Master Sword from the Lizardman's lifeless body, he looked forward and saw a door with a picture of Nightmare's sword painted on it. Link went through the door, and he was in a room with four paintings of Nightmare on the sides of the walls, a door on the opposite wall which was sealed by a metal fence, and a golem holding a rapier.
"Who do you think you are, elfboy!" the golem shouted at Link as it spun it's rapier around, dashed at Link and tried to stab him. But Link blocked with his Hylian Shield. The golem then did a low horizontal slash at Link's feet, but Link jumped over the golem's attack and did a Swordplant on it, damaging it and knocking it down. Link then bounced off the golem, did another Swordplant on it, and then he bounced off again and did a third Swordplant on the golem's face, killing it. Link then saw a switch on the ground. He stood on it and the door that was sealed unsealed. He then walked off the switch and at the door, but as soon as he walked off the switch, it bounced back up and the door sealed again. Link then thought for a moment. He stood on the switch, unsealing the door. Then he took out his hookshot and grabbed the lifeless body of the golem he killed earlier, and he pulled it onto the switch. With the golem on the switch, Link walked through the unsealed door.
He was now in a room filled with lava, but there were some pillars on the lava. Link jumped from pillar to pillar, until he reached a platform which looked like an arena. Link jumped onto it and saw a golem with a staff.
"Your hour of death!" the golem said to Link as it swung it's staff at him. Link blocked with his Master Sword, but he was still knocked off the platform. He was about to fall into molten lava! But he saved himself by shooting an Ice Arrow below his feet, creating a platform, which he landed on. He then shot more Ice Arrows at the lava, making platforms for himself to walk on. Eventually, he heard a battle cry.
He turned around and saw something. It was the golem with the staff! It jumped at him and tried to hit him on the head with a vertical strike! Link had his bow and arrow out, ready to shoot an Ice Arrow when he saw the golem. Link shot a normal arrow at the golem square in the heart, killing it. The golem fell into the molten lava and melted. Link continued to shoot Ice Arrows until he reached the platform at the end. There was a chest, so he opened it and found a small key. He walked through an already unlocked door that was in front of him and he found himself in a room with a huge pit in the middle. In the middle of the pit was a huge statue of a golem holding an axe. The golem's heart could be seen sticking out of it's chest, and this was a statue of the famous golem of massacre, Astaroth. Link threw his grappling hook at the Astaroth statue's axe, and then he swung to the platform on the other side of the pit. But there was a Lizardman there. When Link swung to the other side, the Lizardman tried to stab him with it's long sword, but Link tucked and did a front flip, dodging the slash by a hair. Link swang back to the other side, then back to the side with the Lizardman again. This time, he swung with more force. He then undid his grappling hook, jumped at the Lizardman and kicked it in the face, knocking it down. Link then tried to do a downward vertical slash at the Lizardman, but it rolled and got up. Link then walked back one step, dashed forward and stabbed the Lizardman. It blocked with it's long sword, but it was knocked into the pit and it died. Link then climbed up a ladder. When he reached the top, there was a locked door. Link used the key he found previously to unlock the door, and then he entered it.
As soon as Link entered the room, some spikes came up and sealed the door he just came in from. Link was in a room with blue carpet, purple walls and paintings of Nightmare on the walls. On the opposite wall was another sealed door. Link saw a girl in green holding a big ringblade facing away from him.
"Hey...!" Link called out to the girl. He thought she was kidnapped by the evil that lurked in this castle. But to his surprise, the girl turned around and laughed evily.
"Hahahahahahahaa! Who do you think you are? Who did you think I was? Ahahahahahahaha! Fool! I shall kill you and serve your soul to my master!" the girl laughed as she ran at Link and tried to slash him with her ringblade. But Link blocked with his sword.
"Who are you?" Link asked the girl.
"I am Tira. Are you not of this Earth?" the girl said, looking at Link's pointed ears as she tried to kick Link between the legs. But Link hit her leg with his knee, and she fell down.
"Whoever you are!" Link said as he jumped at Tira and tried to kill her with a powerful jumping vertical splitter with his Master Sword. But Tira blocked with her ringblade. Link then landed behind Tira, did a forward roll on the ground and got up. Tira turned around and tried to do a vertical slash Link's back, but Link did a Spin Attack, and their attacks collided. Tira then kicked Link on the back, knocking him down. Tira then did a vertical slash at Link, who was on the ground. But Link rolled forward, dodged the slash and got up. Tira thrusted her ringblade at Link, but Link did a backflip and landed behind her. Link then slashed Tira on the back. She was bleeding badly, and she fell down.
"What are you trying to do, man? Do you just kill anyone you see or something?" Tira asked Link with a fake innocence. But Link didn't answer and just did a vertical slash at Tira, who blocked with her ringblade while she was laying on the floor, badly hurt. Tira then pushed Link backward. "Answer me, retard!" she shouted, but Link ignored the insult and just did a roll towards Tira, and when he finished, he did an upward jumping thrust at her, making her stomach bleed. She slid up the wall, hit a painting of Nightmare and then she fell down, unconcious. The Nightmare painting she hit before then fell on her head, making it bleed rapidly. Link then saw a switch on the place where the Nightmare painting once was. He hit the switch, and both doors in the room unsealed. Link went through the door opposite to the one he came through.
Link found himself in a dark room with many doors. But all the doors except for the one he came in from were sealed. In the middle of the room was a switch. Link tried to stand on it, but nothing happen, so he took out his Megaton Hammer and smacked it hard. The switch was driven into the ground, and then all the doors in the room unsealed. Then a creature came out of every door in the room except for the one Link came in from and the one directly opposite of that one. There were three golems holding spiky clubs and three Lizardmen holding nunchakus.
A Lizardman jumped at Link and tried to bite him, but Link, who was still holding his Megaton Hammer, smashed the Lizardman's head with it, killing it. The Lizardman's head was squashed on the ground as thin as paper, and blood were coming out of it rapidly like a river. But Link didn't notice when another Lizardman hit him on the head from behind with it's nunchaku. Link fell down on the ground. A golem then tried to crush him with it's club, but Link put his Megaton Hammer back, pulled out his Master Sword and used it to block the golem's attack. Then Link rolled under the golem's leg, turned and and bashed the back of it's head with the hilt of his Master Sword. The golem stumbled forward and fell down, landing on a Lizardman, crushing it. Another golem swung it's club at Link, but he blocked with his sword. Link then stepped back and stabbed the golem in the heart, killing it. After that, Link put his sword and shield back, and he pulled out his bow and arrow. He shot a Light Arrow at another golem, destroying it and making it vanish into thin air instantly. But before he could fire another one at an enemy, a Lizardman headbutted him from behind, knocking him down. Link then got up and slashed the Lizardman on the face with his Master Sword, knocking it down and making a huge mark on it's face. Then Link jumped at the Lizardman and split it in half with a vertical slash. Meanwhile, the golem which was knocked down before just got up. It ran at Link, spun around and tried to smash his face with it's club. But Link ducked, dodged and kicked the golem between the legs, causing it to bend down in pain. He pulled out a bomb as he kicked the golem, and then he threw the bomb at it, blowing it to pieces. Link then went through the door that was directly opposite to the one he came in the room from.
In the next room, Link saw a statue of Nightmare. Two red beams shot out of the statue's eyes at Link, but he blocked with his shield. Then he rolled out of the way. The beams followed him, but he ran as fast as he could behind the statue. Behind the statues were two more Nightmare statues. Both of them were facing each other, and they're blasting red beams at each other's eyes. This acted like a barrier, so Link couldn't get past. Link then looked up and saw a platform with a switch on it high up near one of the Nightmare statues' head. So Link threw his grappling hook at the hilt of one of the Nightmare statue's Soul Edge and climbed up to it.
When Link reached the top, he jumped on the palm of Nightmare's demonic right claw. Then Link saw a circular symbol on the wall near the platform with the switch, so he threw his hookshot at it and pulled himself up to it. There Link saw the switch he saw before. He also saw a locked door and a small statue of a Lizardman. Link lifted the statue and put it on the switch, making the two Nightmare statues stop shooting beams.
Link jumped back down and walked between the two Nightmare statues that were no longer shooting beams. Then there was a corridor with candles and paintings of Nightmare on the sides, and Link walked through it. At the end was a door, which Link then entered.
In this room, Link saw three powerful skeletons holding spiky clubs. These are Stalfoses. On the opposite wall of the room was a brick wall with Nightmare painted on it.
Link threw a bomb in the middle of the three Stalfos. The bomb exploded, blowing the Stafalos into pieces of bones. The heads of the Stalfos were then bouncing around. Link then took out his boomerang and threw it at the Stafalos' heads. Right after he threw the boomerang, he pulled out his bow and arrow and he shot an arrow at the first Stafalo head that was hit by the boomerang, killing it. Link then caught his boomerang with his left hand while holding his bow with his right hand. As Link put his boomerang away, the pieces of the other two Stalfos rejoined together. Link then shot a Light Arrow at the two Stafalos, destroying them forever. He then picked up one of the Stalfos' spiky clubs and threw it at the brick wall with Nightmare painted on it, shattering it to pieces. It revealed another corridor similar to the previous one. But at the end there was a ladder. Link went to the end, climbed up the ladder and reached a small platform with a door next to it.
Link entered, and he saw a Lizardman holding two pistols and a golem holding two twin blades. The Lizardman started shooting Link with it's two pistols, but Link blocked the shots with his Hylian Shield. Meanwhile, the golem was coming at him. The golem walked up to him, spun around and did an "x" with it's two swords, but Link rolled out of the way, dodging both the golem's attack and the Lizardman's bullets. The Lizardman continued firing at Link, but Link rolled on the ground and dodged the bullets. The golem then tried to crush Link by doing a thrust towards the ground at Link, but Link rolled under the attack and dodged it by just a hair. Then Link hid behind the golem, which had it's swords stuck in the ground, and then the Lizardman's bullets hit the golem, killing it. The Lizardman then shot Link again, but Link hit the bullet with his sword, reflecting it back at the Lizardman, damaging it and causing it to drop it's weapons. Link then ran at the Lizardman and killed it by swinging both his sword and his shield at it's head. After the Lizardman died, a chest appeared. Link opened it and found a small key.
Link went back to the room with the Nightmare statues shooting beams out of their eyes. He used his grappling hook and hookshot to reach the locked door next to the switch with the Lizardman statue placed on it by Link. He then used the small key he found and opened the door. As soon as he stepped into the room, the door behind him was sealed by two twin axes that came out of the sides of the door, and the twin axes was sealing the door in the shape of an "x".
Link looked around the room a bit. He was in an arena with a green orb at the center, and the arena was surrounded by green water. Around the walls of the room were many candles. On the opposite wall of the room was another door, but it was locked. The most noticeable thing in the room was a big, tall golem holding an axe. This golem looked exactly like one of the statues Link saw earlier in this castle. And this golem was Astaroth.
"Exterminate!" Astaroth shouted, swining it's enormous axe around.
"Haaaaa...!" Link shouted as he got into a fighting position.
"Scream!" Astaroth shouted as it held the of it's axe and swung it at Link's legs. Link sidestepped and dodged, but Astaroth hit Link with it's shoulder, knocking him down. Astaroth then did a sweep kick at Link with it's huge foot, knocking him closer to the edge of the arena. Link then rolled backwards and got up. Astaroth was about to hit Link with it's axe, but Link interupted it's attack by slashing it on the stomach twice.
"Worms!" Astaroth yelled as it jumped at Link, trying to hit him with it's stomach and hoping to knock him into the green water. But Link tried to do a slide kick at Astaroth that moment, and Astaroth jumped over Link and missed him.
"Take this!" Astaroth shouted as it did two low sweeping spin attacks at Link. Link and Astaroth were facing away from each other, but Link saw Astaroth's attack with the corner of his eye, so he jumped the first sweep. But on the second sweep, Link landed on Astaroth's axe, and he tripped over. He got up by doing a forward roll away from Astaroth. Astaroth then turned around and did a horizontal swing at Link, but Link blocked with his both his sword and his shield. Astaroth then did two vertical slashes at him. But he blocked the first hit and dodged the second by doing a backflip. As soon as he landed, he lept forward and hit Astaroth on the head with his knee, and Astaroth fell down. Link tried to do a Swordplant on it's heart, which was sticking out, but it punched Link, sending him flying 50 feet up in the air, hit the ceiling, and then he fell back down on the edge of the arena with a thump. Astaroth then ran at Link, and as soon as Link got up, it kicked him, knocking him off the arena. But Link saw a rock the shape of an upside down "L" up in the ceiling. So he took out his grappling hook, grabbed it, and the force from Astaroth's kick made him swing backward. He then swung back at Astaroth and kicked his facee, knocking him down. As it got up, it hit Link with the handle of it's axe, knocking him down. As soon as Link got up, it jumped at him and hit him with it's stomach, knocking him down again. This time he was near the edge. As soon as he got up again, Astaroth rested it's axe on the ground in front of itself and then pushed it at Link. But Link jumped over the attack and delivered a powerful vertical hit to Astaroth's head with his trusted Master Sword. Astaroth then looked at Link really angrily.
"Go to hell!" Astaroth screamed in an angry voice as it hit Link hard with the flat part of it's axe. Link went flying off the arena, but he grabbed onto a candle which was attached to the wall with his grappling hook to avoid falling into the green water. Astaroth then walked over to the edge of the arena where Link was off. It swung it's axe at Link's grappling hook, hoping to cut it so Link will fall into the water, but even it's giant axe couldn't reach Link or the grappling hook. Then Link took out his hookshot, grabbed Astaroth and pulled it towards him. Then when Astaroth was right next to him, Link put his hookshot back, and Astaroth fell into the water.
"You swine!" Astaroth shouted in the water before sinking to the bottom out of Link's sight. When Astaroth dissapeared into the seemingly infinite deep water, the door Link came in from unsealed, and a chest appeared on the green orb in the middle of the arena. Link swung back to the arena with his grappling hook, opened the chest and found a small key. He used it to open the locked door that was directly opposite to the one he came into the room from.
In this room, he saw four doors. One was the same he came in from, and the other three were on the other three sides of the room. But the one directly opposite to the one he came in from and the one to his left were locked, so Link went through the door on his right.
In this room, he was standing on the outside ring of an enormous room full of tombs on the side. In the middle of the room was a pool of water, and in the middle of the pool was a platform with a big tomb on it. Link saw a switch. He stood on it, and a bridge that went across the water and to the middle platform appeared. Link crossed the bridge, opened the tomb and saw a ReDead holding a small key. Link took the key from the ReDead's hand, but the ReDead climbed up from the tomb, grabbed Link and squeezed him. Link bashed the ReDead on the head angrily with his Hylian Shield, knocking it back into it's tomb. Before it could climb back up, Link placed a bomb in the tomb with the ReDead, put the lid back on the tomb, and then he ran across the bridge and headed towards the door. The tomb with the ReDead then exploded, and the ReDead was blown into pieces.
But before Link could go through the door, some spikes came up and sealed it. Link went back to the middle platform of the room to try and find another exit, but there weren't any. But what's worse was that ReDeads came out of every single tomb in the room and came at Link! After a long and tedious time, Link finally killed all the ReDeads with none other than his Master Sword! After all the ReDeads were defeated, the door was unsealed, and Link went back through it. He tried to open the locked door that was directly opposite to the one he first came in from with the small key he found in the ReDead's tomb, but it didn't work. So he used the key to open the only other locked door in the room.
As soon as Link entered this room, a bat hit him, and he realized the whole room was completely crowded by bats, and it was so crowded that he could see nothing but a crowd of bats flying around! And he could hear nothing but the near-deafening noises the bats made! He did a horizontal slash, killing about six bats in one hit. Then he did a Spin Attack while all the bats in the room were flying at him, and the bats were all being chopped up. When all the bats had died, Link stopped. The whole room was filled with the blood of the bats which Link had killed, and his sword, shield and tunic were also completely covered in blood. In the middle of the room, Link saw a rock in the middle of the room, so he place a bomb next to it, moved out of the way and waited for the bomb to explode. The bomb exploded, blowing up the rock, and revealing a hole under it. As soon as the smoke faded away, many bats came out of the hole. Link killed them all with his sword, and then he walked over to the hole and saw a ladder. He climbed down, and he was in a pitch-black room.
The only thing he could see in this darkness was two torches of fire, and he also saw a flame that seemed to be floating around by itself. At first Link thought it was a ghost, but when he got closer to the flame, he saw that it was a Lizardman holding a rod with a fire at the end of it. Link stood still in the darkness as he watched the Lizardman walking around. The light given by the fire made the Lizardman visible to Link, but he knew the Lizardman couldn't see him in this darkness. So Link just took out his bow and arrow and aimed at the Lizardman carefully, taking his time as he knew the Lizardman couldn't see him. He knew that if he wasn't careful and missed with an arrow, the Lizardman would know that he was there.
After aiming for a while, Link knew that he HAD to fire at the Lizardman eventually. So he waited for the Lizardman to walk to where he was aiming, and then he fired a Light Arrow at the Lizardman, making it vanish into thin air in one hit.
Link then took the Lizardman's rod. The flame had gone out when it hit the ground, so he went back to one of the torches to light it back. He used the light given by the fire to guide himself through the darkness. Eventually, he found a door. He opened it and he was in a much brighter room than before. But there was a golem holding a rifle in the middle of the room!
"Intruder alert!" the golem said as it pointed it's rifle at Link. Link threw his rod which he found from the Lizardman at the golem, but the golem shot the rod, blowing it up into pieces. The golem then shot Link, who blocked with his shield, but the force of the bullet from the rifle was so strong that he was knocked back. The golem shot Link again, and Link had no choice but to block it with his shield. He was knocked back, but that was better than being shot. Link then stood there, waiting for the golem to shoot him. The golem fired at him, but Link ducked, dodging the bullet completely. As the golem loaded the next bullet, Link did a forward roll towards the golem. He dodged the next bullet by jumping to the side. He then rolled towards the golem again as it loaded the next bullet. This time, he was close enough to the golem to slash it! So Link slashed the golem repeatly until it died.
Link then saw a door in front of him, so he entered the door to find two huge statues. They were Armos Knights! The statues came to life and hopped towards Link. When one of them got close to him, spikes came out near the bottom of the Armos Knight, trying to stab Link. But Link did a backflip and dodged the spikes. He then pulled out a bomb and threw it into the statue's mouth. The statue then spun around as it hopped towards Link. But before it could reach him, it exploded. Link did the same thing to kill the second Armos Knight, and when it exploded, it left behind a small key.
Link took the key, went back to the room with the four doors and used the key to open the only remaining locked door in that room. As soon as he entered, the door was sealed by some vines. Link tried to cut them with his sword, but as soon as they're cut, they grow back straight away. Link turned around and looked at the room. The floor of the whole room is completely covered in nothing but tall grass, and there are four tall trees in the room. On the opposite wall of the room is a door, but it's also sealed by vines.
Suddenly, Link heard a dinosaur-like roar. After that, something landed onto the tall grass from one of the treetops. It was a Lizardman, and it was much bigger than any other Lizardmen he had ever seen in this castle. The Lizardman had green scales, wore armor around it's stomach and it held a short sword and a shield. This Lizardman was originality a knight named Aeon Calcos, but was transformed into a Lizardman, which now obeys the orders of Nightmare.
"Raaarrgghhh!" the Lizardman roared at Link as it jumped closer to him. Link took a step back and tried to stab the Lizardman, but it blocked with it's sword and shield. The force of the attack knocked the huge Lizardman a few steps back, stunning it a bit. This gave Link the chance to pull out his bow and arrow. So Link did that and fired a Light Arrow at the Lizardman, but it did a backflip and avoided being killed in one hit. Link was about to fire another one, but the Lizardman jumped at Link and kicked both of his shin. Then it did a backflip and kicked Link on the chin, causing him to do a backflip himself before falling on his face!
The Lizardman then did a forward roll towards Link, jumped up and tried to kill him with a downward stab. But Link rolled back, got up and dodged the stab. Link then ran at the Lizardman and tried to do a vertical slash, but the Lizardman blocked with it's shield. The Lizardman then tried to bite Link, but Link bashed it on the nose with his shield. The Lizardman then spun around, did a downward strike at Link's shield with it's own shield and then it headbutted him, knocking him down. Then the Lizardman did a forward roll at Link. When it finished, it stomped on him. But Link jumped up from the floor and kicked the Lizardman's face, knocking it down. Link pulled up a bomb and threw it at the Lizardman, but it rolled back, dodged the bomb and got up. The bomb then exploded, destroying all the tall grass within the explosion.
"Harggh!" the Lizardman roared as it dashed at Link and tried to stab him with it's short sword, but Link blocked with his shield. The Lizardman then stood on one foot, spun around a few times really fast and then it kicked Link with the foot that was up in the air, knocking him down. The Lizardman then did a sweep kick, knocking Link back even more. Link then got up as he did a powerful horizontal slash at the Lizardman, but it blocked with it's sword. Link then ran at the Lizardman and tried to bash it with a horizontal swing with his sword and shield. The Lizardman blocked with both it's weapons, but it was knocked down. Link tried to do a Swordplant on the Lizardman, but the Lizardman's armor on it's stomach protected it. Then it got up and headbutted Link, knocking him back.
"Tsaaaat!" Link shouted as he rolled towards the Lizardman, then he jumped up and did an upward thrust at it as he got up. The Lizardman blocked, but Link did a low kick as soon as he landed and tripped the Lizardman. Link then lifted his leet foot and did a downward horizontal slash with his Master Sword at the Lizardman, but it's armor protected it. It then got up and hit Link with it's tail, knocking him back. The Lizardman did a jumping Spin Attack at Link, but he blocked. Then Link did his own jumping Spin Attack and slashed the Lizardman on the leg, making it bleed. The Lizardman was now angry. It tried to bite Link, but Link did a backflip and the Lizardman missed. Then it kept trying to bite Link, who kept backflipping until he was backed against one of the tall trees in the room. Link kicked the Lizardman on the leg which was bleeding, and then he pulled out a bomb as he kicked. Then he placed the bomb next to the tree, and then he pulled himself up to the top of that tree with his hookshot. When the Lizardman got up, it climbed up the tree to attack Link, but the bomb next to the tree exploded, and the tree fell down. Before the tree hit the ground, Link pulled himself to another tree in the room with his hookshot, and then the tree which the Lizardman was climbing fell down and landed on the Lizardman. Link wasn't sure if it was dead, but both doors in the room unsealed when the tree landed on the Lizardman, so he went through the door opposite to the one he came in from and advanced through the castle.
In the next room, there was a door on both sides of Link. The left door was locked, but the right one wasn't. On the wall directly opposite to the door Link entered the room from was a huge brick wall with Nightmare painted on it. Link also saw two golems. One held two nunchakus and the other one had a zweihander sword.
"Wrong castle, bastard!" the golems shouted at Link and then they attacked him. The golem with the two nunchakus ran at Link at him him with it's two nunchakus, but Link blocked the left nunchaku with his Master Sword and he blocked the right one with his Hylian Shield. Then he kicked the golem between the legs, causing it to bend down in pain. After Link finished kicking, he did a backflip, and as soon as he landed, he jumped forward a knocked the golem down with his knee. The golem also dropped it's weapons. But the other golem hit Link on the stomach with the flat part of it's zweihander sword, knocking him down. Link got up, picked up the other golem's nunchakus and threw one at golem that just hit him. But the golem hit the nunchaku with it's zweihander sword, and it went straight back at Link. Link ducked, and the nunchaku hit the other golem right on the head, and it was killed by it's own weapon. Then Link, who was still ducking, threw his remaining nunchaku at the other golem's legs, and it tripped over. Then Link ran at the golem and killed it by doing a Swordplant on it's head. Then Link picked up the dead golem's zweihander sword and threw it at the brick wall in the room, shattering it into pieces. Some stairs were revealed behind the brick wall. Link walked up the stairs, looking at some paintings of Nightmare hanghing on the walls. At the end, he saw a huge double door with Nightmare painted on it, but it was locked. So Link went back down the stairs and entered the door that was on the right of him when he first entered this room.
It was just a small room which Link just entered. In the middle of the room was a pool of water, and a Lizardman holding no weapons was circling it.
Suddenly, the Lizardman spotted Link. It jumped at Link and tried to slash him with it's claws, but Link jumped to the side and the Lizardman accidently slashed a wall in the room, making a deep mark in it. Then Link rolled at the Lizardman and stabbed it in the stomach, and it was pushed against the wall by the attack's force. Then he started stabbing the Lizardman repeatly while it was driven against the wall, and the Lizardman's blood was flying out of it's totured body. But Link's clothes didn't get any dirtier, as it was already covered in blood when he fought the bats before. After about twenty stabs, the Lizardman fell dead. It's corpse was completely covered in blood, and it looked like a Lizardman no longer.
Link then walked to the pool of water, and he saw his blood-covered clothes in the water's reflection. He also saw a tunnel under the water, so he took a deep breath, dived into the water and swam through the tunnel. The water also made Link's clothes clean again.
When he resurfaced, he was in a cave-like tunnel with many tombs on the side. Everytime he walked past a tomb, a ReDead crawled out of it, and Link had to kill it with his Master Sword, though it was so easy to kill them, their looks were frightening. At the end of the tunnel, a vampire crawled out of the tomb. Link tried to kill it with his Master Sword, but the vampire's skin and flesh were as hard as diamond.
"Ahahahahahaha! Vampires are invincible, foolish mortal!" the vampire laughed, showing it's sharp tooth. Then it grabbed Link and tried to bite his neck and suck his blood. Link couldn't resist the the vampire's superhuman strength, so he spat at the vampire's eye, and the vampire let go of him.
"Is this what you want?" the vampire said to Link as it pulled out a small key from it's pocket. Link tried to stab the vampire's hand that was holding the key, but the vampire caught his Master Sword with it's other hand and threw it behind itself, and the Master Sword was stuck in the wall. Link tried to run away from the vampire, and when he was about to leave, the vampire said "No running away from me!" as it flew at Link.
"How will you like this?" Link said, almost laughing as he pulled out his bow and arrow and shot a Light Arrow at the vampire.
"Rarrrrghgghhhhh!" the vampire screamed as it went flying and hit the back wall of the tunnel. As it went flying there, it was on fire. Then it transformed into a huge creature that was a cross between a dark dragon and a bat, and it flew at Link. But Link shot another Light Arrow at it. The creature screamed in pain, and then it burned until it was just a skeleton on fire. Link took a deep breath in relief. He walked to the bat's corpse and picked up the small key it had. He also pulled his Master Sword out of the wall, and then he went back to the room that used to have two golems and a brick wall.
Link used the small key he found to open the only remaining locked door in this room. He entered the room and saw three Lizardmen, two holding double side swords and one holding two pistols. There was also a golem holding a rifle and another one holding a bow and an arrow. The golem with the rifle aimed at Link, but Link pulled out his hookshot and grabbed a Lizardman that was holding a double sided sword. The hookshot pulled the Lizardman in front of Link, and the golem with the rifle accidently shot the Lizardman on the head, killing it. The Lizardman with two pistols shot at Link, but Link hit the bullets with the Master Sword and they went straight at the golem with the rifle, killing it. Then the golem with the bow and arrow started shooting at Link, while the Lizardman with the pistols also shot at him. But Link hid behind his shield and blocked their attacks. The other Lizardman that was holdind a double sided blade jumped and Link and tried to slash him, but he rolled under the Lizardman, dodging the Lizardman's attack, the bullets AND the arrows. Then the Lizardman with the double sided blade was hit by a bullet in the head and an arrow in the heart, and it died. The remaining Lizardman and golem watched the other Lizardman die for a few seconds. This gave Link enough time to hide behind the golem. Now neither the golem nor the Lizardman knew where Link was. When Link saw the Lizardman looking away, he stabbed the golem through the heart from behind with his Master Sword, killing it. The golem let out a cry when it died. The Lizardman then quickly ran to the golem to try and help it up. But before the golem fell down, Link took out his bow and arrow. When the Lizardman finally came up to the golem, the golem had just fallen down, and the Lizardman could see Link behind the golem for just a split second before it was killed instantly by a Light Arrow. After the Lizardman vanished, a huge chest appeared in the middle of the room.
Link then collected all the arrows the golem had, as he had wasted quite some arrows in this castle. He also pulled the arrows that was stuck in his Hylian Shield out. He walked over to the chest, opened it and found a big key. The top of the big key was carved in the shape of Nightmare.
Link then went back to the previous room, went up the stairs and opened the big locked double door with the big key.
In this room, Link was on a huge arena surrounded by lava. On the arena was a picture of Soul Edge painted on it, and around the walls of the room were candles and paintings of Nightmare.
Seven knights stood on the arena before Link. They all held zweihander swords, and they all held them vertically in front of them. The four knights on the side wore white armor with bull horns on their helm. Their zweihander swords had a white hilt, and on their back were some laces that kept their armor together. These knights are Darknuts.
The two knights standing on the sides of the one in the middle looked like the Darknuts, but they wore black armor, red capes and they had shields called Bucklers. These are Mighty Darknuts, a stronger version of the Darknuts.
The knight in the middle looked the freakiest. It wore azure armor, it had a zweihander sword with an eye and flesh on it, a huge, brown demonic right arm, bat wings on the helm and long, blood red hair came out of a hole in his helm. But unlike the Mighty Darknuts, this knight didn't have a shield. And this knight is none other than the Azure Nightmare, and his sword is the very sword that Link came to this world to destroy - Soul Edge.
Suddenly, the four Darknuts moved, but the other three knights stayed in their position. The Darknuts came at Link, determined to take his life. Link rolled between one of the Darknut's legs, then he did a Spin Attack when he got up, cutting the laces on it's back, and the Darknut's armor fell off. Then Link kicked the Darknut between the legs as he pulled out a bomb. Then he blew the Darknut up into pieces with the bomb. Then another Darknut came at him with a horizontal swing of it's zweihander sword, but Link ducked the hit. Then he jumped up and kicked the Darknut's head, knocking it down. The Darknut wasn't harmed at all, but it was just knocked down. Then another Darknut came behind him with a horizontal swing, but Link did a backflip and landed behind it. Then he cut the laces on the Darknut's back with a vertical cut, causing it to drop it's armor. Then he stabbed the Darknut on the left shoulder, making it bleed, drop it's sword and fall down. Another Darknut came at him with a vertical slash, but he sidestepped and dodged. Then he grabbed the Darknut, sat on it's shoulders and started spanking it's back with his sword. Link's sword hit the Darknut's laces on the back of it's armor, and it's armor fell off. Then Link did a backflip to get off the Darknut's shoulder. He stepped back, then dashed forward and stabbed the Darknut on the back through the heart, killing it. After that, he pulled out his bow and arrow and shot the only remaining Darknut that had armor on with a Light Arrow. The Light Arrow caused that Darknut to dissapear along with it's armor. But then the Darknut that Link previously stabbed on the shoulder came behind him and punched him on the back, knocking him down. Link got up and started slashing at the Darknut until it died.
After it died, the two Mighty Darknuts came to attack Link, but Nightmare just stood still. The two Mighty Darknuts walked side by side at Link as if there was no danger. Link then started running on the spot, getting faster and faster every split second. After about three seconds, Link dashed forward between the two Mighty Darknuts with his sword in front of him. The attack was so powerful that sparks of flame were created when his Master Sword hit the Mighty Darknuts' armor. The Mighty Darknuts were knocked down, and Link stopped behind them. Then Link turned around and rolled towards one of the Mighty Darknuts from behind. By the time he got there, the Mighty Darknut had gotten up. Link did a horizontal slash at the Mighty Darknut when he finished rolling, chopping up it's cape. But then the Mighty Darknut elbowed Link, knocking him back, and he fell down. Then he jumped and kicked the Mighty Darknut on the face that elbowed him as he got up, and the Mighty Darknut was knocked down, but it wasn't harmed. Link saw a shadow of the other Mighty Darknut behind him with the corner of his eye, so he turned around and bashed it on the head with his Hylian Shield, knocking it down too. The Mighty Darknut that Link kicked previously got up and did a vertical slash at Link, but he sidestepped. Then he ran at the Mighty Darknut, did a horizontal slash on it, then he ducked, spun around and did an upward vertical slash, making the Mighty Darknut do a backflip and land on it's face. Then he jumped at it and did a vertical splitter with his sword, cutting the laces on it's back, and it's armor fell off. When the Mighty Darknut got up, Link rolled at it, and then he did a jumping upward sword thrust at it, launching it into the air. Link did the same move again, launching it higher up in the air. He did this one more time, and the Mighty Darknut fell into the lava that surrounded the arena.
Link was now near the edge of the arena. The other Mighty Darknut came up to him from behind and tried to knock him off the edge with it's Buckler, but Link jumped to the side and dodged, and then he landed facing the Mighty Darknut. He grabbed the Mighty Darknut's arm, did a front flip as he twisted it's arm and then he turned around and threw the Mighty Darknut off the edge of the arena and into the boiling lava.
Link turned around and saw Nightmare, who was still standing with Soul Edge held vertically in front of him. Link took out his bow and arrow and shot a Light Arrow at Nightmare, but Nightmare chopped the Light Arrow in half with a quick move.
"Foolish..." Nightmare said as he rested Soul Edge on the ground and stared at Link with his blood-red eyes, and then he started walking slowly at Link. "Hahahahahahaha...so...do you really believe you have the power to defeat the wielder of the ultimate weapon? Fwahahahahahaha! How pathetic!"
Link then put his bow and arrow away and drew out his Master Sword and Hylian Shield. Upon seeing the Master Sword, Nightmare stopped walking.
"That blade... Foolish...must I say again... A weak soul like yourself is just as good with a toothpick as it is with that weapon. But no matter if a soul is weak or not, the leader of the Schwartztrom shows no mercy...for the ultimate weapon... Soul Edge must once again be restored" Aaaa, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa...!"
Link jumped angrily when he heard Nightmare mention "Soul Edge".
"Soul Edge?" Link asked Nightmare as he held his sword and shield firmly.
"You're not of this Earth...and I already knew that a minute ago!" Nightmare said. "You wouldn't want to know something you regret to know...so if you're any smart, I'd say you should just kneel before me, be killed and rest in peace within my sword!"
"I'm sorry, but I already know what Soul Edge is, and if you're any smart, I'd say you should just offer your sword and let it be sealed away by the blade before you!" said Link as he held his Master Sword in front if him.
"Thank you for the soul that you're about to offer to me, and also for the fact that you're about to do as you're told!" Nightmare said to Link as he got into a fighting position. Link did the same, and the battle begins!
"Got you!" Nightmare said as he poked Link with Soul Edge. Link blocked with his Master Sword and Hylian Shield, but he was knocked down. Nightmare then did a vertical slash at Link, but Link rolled backwards and got up, dodging the slash.
"This is it!" said Nightmare as he spun around and tried to do a vertical slash on Link again. Link blocked the hit. Then he did two horizontal slashes at Nightmare, but Nightmare's azure armor protected him. Nightmare then did two horizontal swings with Soul Edge at Link, but Link ducked them. When Nightmare finished his attack, Link jumped up and kicked Nightmare's face with both of his feet, knocking him down.
"Kak-teeya!" Link shouted as he did a Swordplant on Nightmare. But Nightmare's armor protected him again. Then Nightmare grabbed Link with his demon claw and lifted him from the ground as he got up from the ground himself.
"Die!" Nightmare said as he hit Link on the head with the hilt of Soul Edge, and then throwing him back.
"This is it!" said Nightmare again as he spun around tried to do a low horizontal swing at Link, but Link rolled back, dodged the swing and got up.
"Skharr!" Link yelled as he ran at Nightmare and did a downward vertical slash. Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge, and then he tried to hit Link with his spiky shoulder. But Link blocked with his Hylian Shield. Nightmare then headbutted Link with his bat-winged helm, but Link blocked that too. Then Nightmare put Soul Edge behind his back, hit Link with his knee and then kicked him with his other leg, knocking him down. Nightmare then slammed Soul Edge at Link, but Link rolled to the side on the ground and dodged. Link then got up and started stabbing Nightmare repeatly, but Nightmare blocked all the stabs with Soul Edge. But Link's last stab was powerful enough and Nightmare was knocked down. Link tried to attack Nightmare, who was on the floor. But Nightmare jumped up from the ground and kicked Link twice while in the air, and Link fell down. Nightmare then started stomping on Link repeatly.
"This is it!" Nightmare said as he finished his last stomp. Then Link got up and slashed Nightmare's armored stomach, knocking him down. As Nightmare got up, he did a low horizontal swing at Link. Link jumped over the swing, but Nightmare spun around and did another swing at him. This time, Link landed on Soul Edge, and he was tripped over.
"Suffer!" Nightmare ordered as he did an upward vertical slash with Soul Edge. But Link rolled backward on the ground and he dodged. Then Nightmare slammed Soul Edge back down at Link again, but he did a backflip and dodged. Then he jumped at Nightmare and hit him on the head with a crushing vertical slash. Nightmare's helm protected him, but he was knocked down. Nightmare then got up as he lifted Soul Edge up. The flat part of Soul Edge hit Link, sending him flying 50 feet up in the air, and he landed back onto the arena with a thump.
"Begone!" Nightmare shouted as he did a stab at Link with his Soul Edge at a downward angle. But Link rolled towards Nightmare, dodged Nightmare's attack and did a jumping upward sword thrust, launching Nightmare up in the air. Link did the same move again, launching Nightmare higher up. Link did the same move a third time, making Nightmare fly up really high. As soon as Nightmare landed back down onto the arena with a thump, Link did a Swordplant on him. After that, Link bounced off him, did another Swordplant, bounced off again and did a third one.
"Got you!" Nightmare said as he got up and did an uppercut to Link's chin with his demon arm, knocking him down. Nightmare's azure armor protected him from all the hits he would have suffered from. Then Nightmare lifted his foot above Link, who was on the floor. A split second after Link rolled back and got up, Nightmare stomped the ground hard, causing a small explosion which Link dodged by a hair. Then Nightmare held Soul Edge upside down and then started slashing at Link. Link kept doing backflips to dodge Nightmare's slashes, until he was backed against the edge of the arena. When he was, Nightmare was holding Soul Edge, which was resting on the ground next to him. Nightmare did a low horizontal swing at Link, but Link jumped over it. Nightmare spun around and did a mid swing at Link. Link blocked, but he was knocked off the edge of the arena. He was about to fall into molten lava when he took out his hookshot, grabbed the "eye" that was carved on Nightmare's azure armor and pulled himself up.
When Link reached Nightmare, he hit him on the face with his Hylian Shield, knocking him down. Link then stood on Nightmare, but Nightmare did a backflip and Link went flying into the middle of the arena.
"Die!" said Nightmare as he ran at Link, spun around and tried to split him in half with a vertical slash. Link blocked with both of his weapons, but he was still knocked down as the attack was so powerful.
"Tuya!" Link shouted as he got up and did a jumping Spin Attack on Nightmare knocking him down. But his armor protected him again. As Nightmare got up, he did a jump kick at Link, but Link blocked the kick with his Hylian Shield. Then Link grabbed Nightmare's arm, twisted it as he did a front flip. Then he turned around and threw Nightmare on the floor. As Nightmare got up, Link took out his Boomerang and threw it at Nightmare's leg, but Nightmare's armor rendered it useless. Link then caught his Boomerang and put it away.
"Die!" said Nightmare as he ran at Link, jumped and tried to kick him. Link blocked with both his weapons, but the attack was powerful enough to send him flying to the edge of the arena. Nightmare fell on face after doing this move, but he got up by rolling towards Link, who stepped back, dashed forward and stabbed Nightmare with his Master Sword. Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge, but Link's stab crushed Nightmare's gaurd. Then Link put his sword and shield behind his back and pulled out a bow and arrow. He shot a Light Arrow at Nightmare while he was stunned by the previous attack, and Nightmare was damaged badly. Link shot another one at Nightmare, but Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge. But then Soul Edge's eye turned red, and the demonic blade started shaking.
"Thank you for letting Soul Edge eat that arrows!" Link laughed as he shot another Light Arrow at Nightmare, who blocked with Soul Edge again. Nightmare then looked at Link angrily.
Suddenly, spikes came out of Soul Edge. It's flesh became darker and it's blood-red eye widened. Then Soul Edge opened up like a dinosaur's mouth, and it blasted fire at Link. Link did a Spin Attack to get rid of the fire around him.
"C'mon, ask your sword how it liked those Light Arrows!" Link laughed at Nightmare.
"Pathetic weak soul..." Nightmare said as he stared at Link angrily and pulling the two Light Arrows from Soul Edge's flesh. The evil blade opened it's dinosaur-like mouth and let out a cry that sounded like nothing of this Earth and Hyrule as Nightmare pulled the Light Arrows from it's flesh.
"Begone!" shouted Nightmare as he threw the two Light Arrows back at Link, but Link chopped them up with a horizontal slash of his Master Sword. Soul Edge then roared again, and it got bigger after it roared. Link then slowly aimed another Light Arrow at Soul Edge, but Nightmare moved Soul Edge out of the way, and the Light Arrow hit him, damaging him badly again. Link then shot a fully charged Light Arrow at Nightmare, and this caused a huge explosion of light that sent Nightmare flying to the other side of the arena. Nightmare got up slowly from the ground as he was weakened.
"Ahahahahahahahahahahaha! Go away!" Nightmare laughed as he pointed Soul Edge at Link. Soul Edge blasted wind out of it's mouth at Link, and the wind was blowing him off the edge of the arena. Link tried to shoot another Light Arrow at Nightmare, but it was blown back by the wind blowing out of Soul Edge. Link was blown off the arena, but he grabbed onto the edge before he could fall in the lava and die. When Link climbed back up, he saw Nightmare standing on the edge of the opposite side of the arena.
"Sword, give me strength!" Nightmare shouted as he pointed Soul Edge up at the sky. "Arrrrghhh!"
Suddenly, Nightmare started growing in size. As he grew, so did his armor and Soul Edge, and he also grew bat wings from his shoulder joints that made holes in his armor as they grew. The armor around his left hand also cracked, and a huge, brown demon claw identicle to his right hand grew out. A huge, spiky, brown muscular tail also grew out. When Nightmare was roughly twice his original size, he stopped growing. He was now a huge, tall demon!
"Souls...come unto me!" Nightmare said as he held his sword vertically in front of himself, much like he did when Link first saw Nightmare.
"Wow, a familiar event..." Link muttered as he looked at Nightmare, who was now twice as tall as he is.
"I will show you...the greatest nightmare!" said Nightmare as he flew up from the arena with his newly grown demon wings, created a big hole through the ceiling of his castle as he flew through it, and then he landed on his castle's roof, next to the big statue of himself. Link's horse, Epona, which was walking around outside of the castle eating grass, took a few steps back as it looked at Nightmare at the top of the castle, laughing.
Meanwhile, Link was still in Nightmare's castle on the arena surrounded by lava. He threw his grappling hook at a candle on the wall, pulled himself to it, climbed up the rope and stood on the candle. He then threw his grappling hook at a candle that was higher up the wall and did the same. He did this a few times, until he reached the highest candle. Then he just threw his grappling hook at the edge of the hole on the ceiling which Nightmare created when he flew through it, swung over there, and then climbed up. When he got on his feet, he found himself on the roof of Nightmare's Castle.
"Huuut!" Link shouted as he fixed his hat and got into a fighting position.
"Offer your soul!" said Nightmare as he swung Soul Edge around at the sky. From Epona's angle, it looked like Nightmare just hit the full moon of the sky with Soul Edge.
Immediately after Nightmare finished slashing the air, lightning striked, rain started pouring from the sky, and thunder roared across the sky. It looked as if Nightmare's slashes at the sky summoned the thunderstorm. Nightmare, who was twice as tall as Link, did a sweep kick at Link, sending him flying high up in the sky, and he landed down onto the wet castle's roof with a thump. Nightmare then tried to crush Link with a downward vertical slash, but Link rolled as fast as he could between Nightmare's legs and dodged. Nightmare then tried to slam Link with his tail while they both had their backs against each other, but Link rolled out of the rail's reach by a mear grain of sand. Nightmare then turned around and did a roundhouse kick to Link's head from behind, sending him flying to the edge of the castle's roof. Then Link got up and threw his grappling hook at Nightmare's face. The hook caught Nightmare's helm, and then Link pulled his grappling hook, making him fall down. Link quickly rolled between Nightmare's and got behind him to avoid being crushed. Then Link took out his Megaton Hammer and slammed Nightmare's tail while he was on the floor. Nightmare then did an upward swing at Link with his tail as he got up, sending him flying high up in the sky, and it looked like he touched the full moon before he fell back down with a loud thump. Then Nightmare ducked as he slammed Soul Edge at Link, but Link rolled back and got up, dodging the slam. Nightmare then thrusted Soul Edge at Link as he got up from his ducking position, but Link lyed on the floor, and Nightmare's attack missed him. Now Nightmare had his right arm over his shoulder and holding Soul Edge behind his back. He slammed Soul Edge at Link again, but Link rolled to the side and dodged Nightmare's attack. Nightmare then took out his bow and arrow and shot a Light Arrow at Nightmare's face while he was lying on the grouund, and when Nightmare was hit, he flew off the castle's roof, and now he was flying in the air, facing Link. Link fired another Light Arrow at Nightmare, but Nightmare flew out of the way and dodged.
"Suffer!" said Nightmare as he started flapping his wings really fast. Then the rain that was pouring onto the castle suddenly froze into ice, and then a strong wind accompanied the ice and created a blizzard. But Link hid behind the big statue of Nightmare on the castle's roof, and he was safe from the blizzard. After a while, the blizzard stopped.
"Begone!" Nightmare shouted and then he roared, summoning lightning, which was followed by thunder. Then lightning struck the big statue of Nightmare, making it fall down on Link. But Link rolled as fast as he could and moved out of the way, so the statue didn't land on him. Nightmare then let out a long, deafening inhuman roar, and the lightning, thunder and rain stopped. The clouds in the sky started spreading, and as it spreaded, the moonlight got stronger. Nightmare roared again as the moonlight shone and reflected off his azure armor. Suddenly, Nightmare's helm became the exact color of the moonlight for a few seconds before it cracked into pieces. As the helm cracked, Nightmare's head became that of a werewolf's, and hair started growing on it's two demon arms and it's big, brown tail. Then Nightmare breathed in air and blasted fire out of it's mouth at Link. But Link quickly ran to the other end of the castle's roof, dodging the fire. Nightmare then opened it's mouth, revealing a dark ball which was getting bigger and bigger in it. Nightmare then blasted the dark ball at Link, but Link shot a Light Arrow at the dark ball, destroying it. He then saw Nightmare roaring again. He took this opportunity to shoot a Light Arrow at Nightmare's head. It hit him, creating a huge explosion of light, and Nightmare fell down out of Link's sight. But there wasn't any thump that indicated that Nightmare had hit the ground, so Link ran to the other end of the castle and looked down to see where Nightmare was. But as soon as he looked, Nightmare flew up and headbutted him, sending him flying high up in the sky, higher than the level the clouds normally go up to. Link knew he wouldn't survive this fall, so he took out his grappling hook, threw it at Nightmare and caught onto a spike on his demon arm while Link was still falling. He then used the grappling hook to swing on Nightmare's arm. There was enough force for him to do a full rotation around Nightmare's arm, so he swung back to the castle's roof, doing several backflips on his way there. When he landed, he did a backward roll on the ground and got up.
"How's that?" Link asked, almost laughing. He then threw the grappling hook at Nightmare again, as he still had it out. But Nightmare flew backwards and Link's grappling hook couldn't reach him. As Link put his grappling hook away, Nightmare started flapping his wings fast, blowing up a strong wind that lifted the dirt from the grass that surrounded the castle, causing a sandstorm that almost blinded Link. But Link put up his Hylian Shield and protected his eyes.
"Begone!" said Nightmare as he thrusted Soul Edge at Link at a downward angle. Link's shield protected him, but the attack was so powerful that he went flying over the horizon and dissapeared. Nightmare then started laughing evily for a long time, and his evil voice could be heard from afar. As Nightmare laughed, the horizon turned red, and the Sun was rising!
Meanwhile, Epona, which saw Link being sent flying, ran at the direction which Link went, as it didn't want to lose him! Coincidently, it was running towards the rising Sun!
On the next day, Link woke up found himself washed up next to a river that ran along a forest. And to his surprise, his horse, Epona was standing right next to him, eating grass! Link smiled and jumped on Epona. He then rode the beautiful horse along the side of the river, thinking of Nightmare and all the enemies he fought in Nightmare's Castle.
Link had no idea where he was going, but he had to find a town to stop at. So he just kept on riding his horse...