Razor Blade Eyes
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Razor Blade Eyes
Demented Moon
See me here in the air
Not holding onto anywhere
But holding on so beware
I have secrets I won't share
See me here pushing you
If I then deny I do
Contemplate our wish away
If I ask you not to stay
Link woke. He lay face up on the grass in the Shades' glen. His mind whirled with the events of the previous night. But mostly, Kaos's death stuck out in his mind. The Shades swirled about him, talking in their whispered voices. Link tried to sit up, but his body felt heavy. Slowly, and with much effort, he sat up. The Shades whispered more and more, as if mocking the hero. Link wanted to escape, to go back to a life not knowing that happened under the moonlight…
…he wouldn't be mocked then…
"Enough!"
All Shades turned to a very angered Phendra. She descended, wings outstretched. The Shades gathered around her.
"Link has spilled more blood than your very souls. Kaos gave her life for him, and you respect her by mocking him!"
A whispered question…
"Shut up! He has suffered enough at the hands of the Brehul, and Gaia rescued him! Show some respect!"
Phendra stood firm, and her Shades dispersed, ashamed. The Shade Queen fluttered over and helped Link to his uncertain feet. He couldn't even look at her, he felt guilty for letting Kaos die. Phendra took his hand.
"Kaos had a lot to say to you that she could never voice."
Link looked puzzled. Phendra led him deeper and deeper into the glen. There was a sacred place, where only the chosen may enter. Phendra and Link stepped deeper and deeper into it until they came upon a pool with water of glass. Phendra spoke again.
"Kaos looked up to you ever since she was a pup. The Gaoru told stories of a 'Hero of Time' to their children. She was very excited to meet you, but there was something deeper as well."
Link looked even more confused. Phendra reached into the glass water and pulled out a silver pendant with an inverted Triforce and the symbol for Kaos's pack on it. Link held it gently, as if it would break.
"Kaos told me once…she wanted you…" Phendra's voice trailed off. Link looked at her with worried eyes.
"Kaos wanted you to survive, even if she did not. She almost committed suicide after what Veldre did to her, so when she found out what happened to you…"
"She…" Link couldn't speak. There was something in his throat, like a knot.
"She was ready to die for you in a moment's notice. She would have given everything for you, and she did. Kaos did want something though…a wish that no one could grant though…"
"What? What, if anything, could I have done for her?" Link asked with pleading eyes, holding the pendant close to his chest.
There was silence.
"Kaos was a deformed child, the offspring of two werewolves. Strictly forbidden and scorned by all, Kaos's deformity was her own soul. A normal Gaoru will reincarnate after ten years or so, but Kaos will never come back." Phendra dodged the question.
Tears began to fall from Link's eyes. He dropped to his knees and stared at his hands, at his inability to save someone.
"I…I could have…" He started.
"No. You couldn't have saved her."
Angry eyes filled with tears looked up at the Shade Queen. She placed once hand on his shoulder as he rose.
"Sometimes, a hero needs saving."
They left the glen, Link still feeling terrible. The silver pendant hung around his neck like a ward. The Shades saw it and their attitudes instantly changed. Link was about to ask, but Phendra was one step ahead, as usual.
"Kaos could find anything inside a soul. The pendant means that she found something special inside of you." Link wanted to ask more, but Phendra wouldn't answer him.
She would tell him when the time came.
Three Shade sentries materialized before them. They spoke in panicked, whispered voices. Phendra nodded. Link looked at her with questioning eyes. Phendra snapped her fingers and several shades appeared. She turned to Link.
"Are you mentally stable enough to fight?" She asked.
Link nodded.
"Then be ready. They are coming."
Waves upon waves of Shades poured past them, vanishing into the great black tree. But more Shades appeared beside them, the warriors. When the last fledgling Shade passed them, a silence of a storm settled amongst them. Link listened, hearing far off cries of rage and feeling a lust for blood. He drew the Master Sword, eyes darkening. Phendra placed one hand on his shoulder.
"It is not wise to fight in anger." She said.
It was beginning. The Brehul began emerging. They were crazed, leaderless and disorganized. They constantly fluttered around in their Chronolt forms. They screamed insults and weak bargains at Phendra, but she never wavered. She spread her bone wings, something about her changing. Link could feel it.
"As the Guardians of the Feather Dragon, what do we hold in our right hands?" Phendra asked.
"Orbs containing our soul lay in our bone hand…" Whispered voices answered.
"As Guardians of Kaos and her resting soul, what do we hold in our left hands?"
"Whispers of her heart pass through our hand and into our self…"
"Gaia…Queen of Victory…"
"Pray for us!"
Phendra shouted and she and Link charged forwards, waves of Shades behind them. They met the Brehul head-on. It was utter chaos.
Link ducked to escape a blow aimed for his throat. He flipped the Master Sword and stabbed upwards. The Brehul screamed and became ash. Link smirked and jumped to the next one. There were screams from Brehul and Shades as both were returning to their makers. There simply seemed to be no end of the Brehul though. They continued to come.
But Link saw it.
He shouted a warning to Phendra, but there was no way she would evade in time. Link jumped, putting himself and his blade between a massive Brehul and Phendra. She turned in time to see Link's shield splinter…
To see the Master Sword shatter…
To see the Brehul's brawny arm go straight through Link's chest…
Blood rained upon Phendra and anything around her. She snatched Link from the Brehul before severing its head. She shouted to her Shades, and they began to fall back. One by one, they vanished into the tree, leaving the angered Brehul outside.
Link lay on a grand stone table, clutching Phendra's hand as if it would save him. Phendra watched his eyes close as he slipped out of consciousness. She turned to her Shades. She removed her barbed-wire crown and set it down. The Shades watched as she let go of Link's hand.
The crown floated over the wound. Phendra held her arms out and the crown began to spin. The massive wound slowly closed, and Link remained unconscious. Phendra fell back. The Shades caught her, asking her if she wanted to end. She shook her head. This was something that she needed to do.
"Kaos…now…we see if you were right." She whispered.
She took the crown and set it aside. She placed her hands over Link's chest and they waited as the words came.
Before the beginning, it existed
After the end, it will exist again
It resides here
It resides in the soul
Before the beginning, it was here
After the end, it will have been reborn
It will begin here
It begins in the soul
It is to be born now
Gaia, let it manifest
Emotions and wishings of the soul
Let it be rebirthed here
Before the beginning, it was dormant
After the end, it will live
The soul has created you
Live
I, Phendra, Queen of the Shades
Guardians of the Feather Dragon
I, Phendra, by binding contract of the soul,
Command you, wake!
Release!
Everything seemed to swirl. Link's body twitched as an orb of light appeared over his heart. Phendra concentrated harder. The Shades watched with uncertainty.
That which resides in the soul,
Be reborn here!
Link's body arched backwards as the handle of a sword appeared. Phendra grasped it and slowly pulled it out. The light died and Link's body lay still once more, though his breathing became heavy. Phendra looked at the sword that she now held in her hand.
It had a great red eye that looked around, and Phendra could feel blood pulse through the blade. The hilt was made of bones, and veins wrapped themselves around every bit except the blade. Bone and flesh and blood was the blade, reflective of the soul. This was a chaotic sword, created by the soul. This is what Kaos sensed.
This was both death and life.
Phendra turned, sword in hand. Shades tried to follow her but she pushed them away.
"This is where I depart, where I face the battle alone."
"But…your crown…"
"That crown will choose a new leader for you. I simply request for everyone to remember me."
Phendra went outside, into the swarms of Brehul around the tree. She was good with a sword, but she knew that she was outnumbered. Many fell to the blade before one bad step separated Phendra's head from her body. The sword fell, stuck itself into the ground and refused to budge.
Gaia…you know what wish lies deep inside my heart…I need not ask…
White light began to surround Link's body. It levitated, and life seemed to return to him.
Link swirled inside himself. He felt alone, very alone. In the emptiness around him, there seemed like nothing would save him.
"You give in too easily, didn't I tell you to not do that?"
Link looked up to see Kaos. She reached out her hand for him, but Link was uncertain.
"Kaos…I…I'm so sorry…"
"Sorry for my death? No need. You survived, and you will continue to survive."
Link still felt uncertain. He fidgeted with the silver pendant, unsure of what to say. Kaos rolled her eyes and looked down at him. She cracked her knuckles and extended her hand again. Link hesitated.
"Look, are you gonna come back or not?" She asked.
Link chewed his lower lip and continued to fidget.
"Link, don't worry about me. I am fine, and at the moment, you need to wake."
Link hesitated again.
"I just feel…"
"Link, you are not stupid, worthless, or pathetic. In fact, you were the first actual person to not shun me. I was rejected by my race and taken in by the Shades. Just meeting you and letting someone accept me made my life complete."
No hesitation. Link took her hand and she pulled him out.
Link woke. He pushed himself up and hopped off the table. The Shades looked at him. He looked around for Phendra, but upon hearing what happened to her, he just shook his head to rid himself of the thoughts. A whispered voice asked him what he was going to do.
"I will fight." Link said.
"Then we shall fight with you."
Link and the Shades stood on the now blighted land. Link took the sword that he had birthed and Phendra had woken. His eyes darkened and they raced into battle.
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
This is not enough
It had been ten months since Link's involvement with the Gaoru, Brehul and the Shades. A new leader of the Shades had been chosen, a male by the name of Kreyril. Link had physically healed, but he still bore scars.
Link looked at himself in the mirror. He traced his hand over a few of the scars on his chest. Memories were there, harrowing emotions waited just below the surface. The pendant hung limply against his skin, reflecting innocently in the light. Link touched it once before putting his white shirt on.
Once fully dressed, Link looked at the now sleeping sword in the sheath that the Master Sword once rested. It had no name, but it needed none. Link ignored it at the moment and turned his attention to the strange whining sound at his door.
There was a little gray-black wolf pup sitting politely outside his door. Link was puzzled for a moment.
But then he saw the scars around its yellow-green eyes.
Link smiled and knelt down, holding his hand out. The wolf pup jumped into his arms, licking his face and wagging its tail. Tears of joy formed in both of their eyes.
"Kaos…"
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Tah' Dah!
Happy ending!
Thank you to everyone who gave me ideas.
If you enjoyed this…you would like…
Time of the Blackbird, Unending Strings, White Rabbit, and Borrowed Time
Again…thank you to everyone!