Roy ran in the shadows of darkness through Hyrule Field to the Kokiri Forest. The noir ambience was dominated by low-key lighting... and deep shadows, creating feelings of disorientation, loneliness and entrapment. He raced by Lon Lon Ranch, darted past anything in his way, and dashed from the castle fading away into the distant shade of the moon's light.

No one interfered because no one was there to do so. Roy quickly made it to the entrance. He knew where to find it by looking over the map of Hyrule many times to find where Zelda and Link may have been hiding. He always hated this place because all of its inhabitants were immortal and stayed young forever, but not Roy, he hated the idea of aging.

The forest entrance was quiet. The crossing of the bridge was also uneventful. But when he was in the main forest, he searched frantically for Link. Sword in hand, he charged into people's houses without permission or warning.

One house was Mido's. When Roy burst in, Mido screamed, "Hey pal, you can't just walk into people's houses like that! Only Link can!"

"Link! Where's Link!" Roy asked in deep breaths. His eyes were red, but not his usual red color, they were red with evil and terror. When Roy found that there was no Link there, he left. Mido, suddenly taking concern for his rival of the forest, went outside.

"Link! Where's Link!" Roy yelled to himself, and the others around him. He soon went into another house. Saria's house.

"Where is he!" Roy yelled upon entering Saria's home.

Saria stood up from her journal and asked, "Who do you think you are? Coming into people's houses like that?"

"Shut up! I want Link! I'm going to kill Link!"

"Kill Link? Why?"

Roy left the house without giving her an answer. For some reason, Saria already knew.

Everyone in the chapel muttered amongst themselves in confusion at what had happened. Zelda, recovering from her fall, ran up to Impa.

"Impa, I have to go get him," said Zelda, panicky.

"I know. You have to get Link, not Roy. Don't you see that?" asked Impa.

"I was blinded by how much I loved actually loved him. Tell everyone to stay calm and don't do anything." Impa nodded and Zelda darted through the parted crowed. Before she left through the door, she called up to the king, "Father, I'm sorry. But I love Link." She said it smiling.

Zelda held the sides of her dress as it swayed back and forth as she ran. She came out of the chapel and looked around for a faster way to travel than by running. She found one of the knight's horses. But there was a problem. The knight was still on it.

"I need to borrow this!" Zelda said, pushing the knight off. He hit the floor with a thud. Zelda mounted the horse and rode off through the castle market, trampling everything in her path, which made her grateful that there were no children playing around at dark. As Zelda rode off to the forest, she saw dark clouds parted by a light. "This can't be good," she thought as she went off to the forest.

Saria and Mido both knowing that Roy was serious about the killing were running off to Link's house. But he wasn't there. Then, they noticed stacked papers of building blueprints for a house.

"Those must be for Tarron's house!" Saria said, pointing to the stack.

"Who's Tarron?" asked Mido.

"Never mind that! Link's in serious danger, we have to warn him!"

"We do?" Saria pulled Mido by the arm and told him to her find Link.

Link and Tarron were joyfully building Tarron's new home.

"You know, you don't have to help me," said Tarron. He lifted a huge rock and used his powers etch away some rock and make it into a wall. "I can do this by myself."

"I know that," said Link, "but when I was younger and new here, the Kokiri kids helped me out with my house. I guess I feel obligated to help a newcomer too."

"Well I appreciate your help but-"

"Link! Link!" called Saria.

"Saria? What's wrong?" asked Link. When Saria caught up to him, Link knelt down to see eye to eye with her.

"A man says he's going to kill you! You have to hide!"

"Yeah," said Mido, "He looked mad too."

"What did he look like?" asked Link.

"He had red hair and red eyes," said Saria.

"And he was wearing a white outfit, it was fancy and dressy," added Mido.

"It's Roy," said Tarron.

"I know," said Link.

Just as Link finished his sentence, Roy came up from the distance with his sword in his right hand. He was very angry and had a truly horrifying expression on his face. Like it wouldn't go away until he killed someone.

"Hello there, Link," said Roy with a deranged and evil smile. He looked as if he was straining to keep calm.

"Hello Roy," Link said without showing an ounce of fear of apprehension. "Don't you have a wedding to attend?"

"Draw your weapon!" Roy didn't just say it, he demanded it.

"What?"

"I SAID DRAW YOUR WEAPON!"

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to kill you and make it look like I it was my entire fault."

Link unsheathed his sword from behind his back and held it in front of him with both of his hands, below his waist.

Tarron took a few rocks from the ground, "I've got your back, Link," he said.

"No!" Link yelled to Tarron, "I have to do this alone. If I ask for help, I'd be at an unfair advantage."

Tarron put the rocks down. "Besides, our boy can handle this on his own," said Saria.

Link and Roy began to slowly encircle each other. Roy's hands were gripping the blade's hilt so hard, it made a mold to his hands perfectly, pushing dents into the hollow of his fingers.

"Roy, why do you wish to fight?" asked Link, still showing no fear.

"You took my kingdom and my fiancée, so now, I'm going to take your life!" yelled Roy as he advanced on Link. Link was quick, however, he brought up his sword and countered the attack by hitting Roy in the face with his elbow.

Roy let out a scream from his broken nose. He put his left hand over it to try to stop the bleeding. It was no use for that.

"You've just made the biggest mistake of your life!" said Roy, "Coincidently, your last!" he said that calmly and in an attitude. Roy held his sword up high above his head. Link was about fifteen feet away from him. In a ghostly voice Roy recited, "Hasha Dono Mei! Flaming Blade of Steel!" He drew the sword down with an amazing force. Then, out of the ground came streaks of fire. It came so fast, Link could only stand hopelessly as he would get burned like the day they encountered the Tiger for the first time. The Tiger? Yes, the Tiger's sister gave him the metal, the metal that could change form when commanded!

Link pulled it from out of his gauntlet and yelled to the shiny substance, "Shield! A really big one at that!"

The metal quickly changed its form into a shield that diverted the attack. It wasn't enough to avoid the attack completely, but it was enough for Link to escape a direct attack. The force was so strong that he got knocked back a couple of feet. The flames burst and disappeared into the air.

Before Link could regain balance, Roy, again summoned a powerful attack. This time, it was ice that came for Link. Once again, he used the shield for protection. But this time, it almost froze his hand onto the metal itself.

Roy laughed at him menacingly as he tried to release the grip form the stronghold of the ice. Link managed to break free. Roy was more powerful than any demon he has ever faced. He wasn't particularly stronger than Ganondorf, but Ganondorf wasn't a demon, he was a human, unlike his alter ego, Ganon. Link would have to use caution when battling him.

"So, you've managed to endure me this far, have you?" said Roy, with an evil smirk. "Well enough's enough. No more playing around. You saw fire and ice. But there is one more missing. Can you figure it out?"

"Fire….ice….." Link thought a moment. "Light!"

"That's right!" As Roy held up his sword to the heavens, dark clouds began forming, parted by where his sword stood. A flash of light came down and drowned his sword in light. Roy was murmuring some ancient form of language below his breath, but Link couldn't hear or understand it.

The light disappeared but the dark clouds remained. His sword had lightning streaks surrounding it. Even the force that it was holding seemed to knock Saria, Mido, and Tarron back, but Link was able to hold his ground. "You see, Link, my gods are more powerful than yours will ever be!" With that, Roy drew his sword down once more and the force of it knocked down trees, houses, and anything else that was close enough.

Link closed his eyes tight as he knew what his fate was. His hand was still too numb from the ice to grip anything. His legs didn't seem to move at all, as if something in his body was eating him alive, making him unable to do anything at what was about to happen.

As he stood there, awaiting his death, which seemed to take forever, he looked back at his past at when he was happy, with Zelda. "Zelda," he whispered.

The blast didn't come. The sound of the lightning sounded like it was hitting against something plastic. Link opened his eyes. He saw the he was in a blue diamond that completely absorbed the attack. "Where did that come from?" everyone seemed to think.

And, as sure as Link was standing in the forest, Zelda, still in her beautiful white wedding dress, put up Nayru's love to protect Link.

"Hey you," she said to Roy with attitude, "hands off my man!"

Roy, enraged with anger, charged at Zelda with his sword. He almost went to slice her in half, but was intercepted by a wall that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Thanks Tarron!" said Link, whose hands and legs were mobile again. "Now let's take this guy out!"

Link explained to Tarron and Zelda what he wanted to do. His plan was to get Tarron in the air while Zelda was going to use her sage powers to freeze Roy, and Link would take him out.

They all set to their positions. Tarron lifted Roy into the air and that is when everything Link had planned began to crumble. Roy jumped down before Zelda's freeze spell could hit him. He then came for Zelda instead of Link. Zelda was too preoccupied with the stop spell to see it coming. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw him with his blade in hand. In one mighty swoop, he came horizontally to slice her in half.

She heard the piece of metal clank against something hard. She turned her head, expecting it to be her bones, but it wasn't. It was an oddly shaped and connected to a rod. It was the Tiger! He saved Zelda.

"You insolent pest! What the fuck do you think you're doing?" asked Roy, holding the blade to his zanbatou.

"You! I will avenge," the Tiger's eyes glowed yellow, "my sister's death!" He pushed Roy back on his feet. "Yellow eyes are glowing like the neon lights."

"…..yellow eyes the spotlights of the city nights," Roy said the words calmly and menacingly.

"Why did come back?" asked Link from a few yards away.

"I realized that, it wasn't you who killed my sister. It was Roy. I learned that from the villagers. They told me that she had a fever. But Shiori didn't have a fever. She had tropical sickness. Roy put something in her that killed her. Roy or some other guy connected to Roy. I just found out and now her death will not be in vain!"

"Well, you coming back will be the last thing you ever do." Roy said as he summoned more power.

"Marin, get out of the way!" called Zelda. And as any obedient boy does, he listened to her and jumped to Link for protection.

Now everyone was in different places. Zelda was to the right of Link and Marin (the Tiger), Tarron was to her left and Roy was in the middle of all of them. They formed a circle around him.

Roy looked around in uncertainty. He wanted to draw his blade, but all summoned their powers to make him scared.

"Don't do it!" yelled Link raising his blade.

"It'll be the last thing you ever do!" Tarron raised a few rocks.

"I wouldn't mind blowing off some steam!" said the Tiger, "after all, I've got nothing to lose!" Roy remained still and silent.

Zelda readied her spells. "I'm sorry Roy, I can't marry you!" she said.

That was all Roy needed to hear. He lost all patience, mercy, and control. He dashed to Link, tackling him to the ground. All three people rushed to help him, but Roy took Link by the neck and stood up, holding his blade to his neck.

"Nobody move, or I'll slash it off!" Roy demanded.

"Drop your weapons," Zelda said, concerned.

"I don't have a weapon," said Tarron.

"Just put the rocks down!" said Marin, "idiot."

"Look Roy, you don't want to do this. It's not his fault. I don't love you and I never have!" yelled Zelda, feeling like a boulder was being lifted off her chest.

Now Roy knew it was time to end this once and for all. He threw Link far away from him, spraining his ankle. He ran to Zelda, and took her by the neck and held his blade in his other hand.

"It was all you! You take my kingdom, so I'll have to take your life!" said Roy. Link was too far away to get there in time to stop Roy from killing Zelda. He had to think fast.

Roy pulled his blade out to stab Zelda in the chest.

SLASH!

Blood covered Zelda's mouth. It continued to be surrounded by the red liquid as more came. Roy…..coughed more up. Zelda looked down, despite the blood being coughed up on her forehead. There was something sticking out of chest. She looked to Link who was still on the ground from his ankle. He held the longshot with his sword tied on from a piece of his tunic. He let go of the handle and the longshot brought the sword to just above the hook.

Roy's eyes went blank as he more blood began to spill out. He fell to the ground, motionless. Roy was would not get up again. Not now, not ever….

Link limped over to Zelda who also came to his aide. "Link. How did you know it would work?" asked Zelda.

"I didn't. Your safety was the most important to me," said Link.

Tears began to spill from Zelda's eyes. She cried against his chest as he held her close. He brought her down to the ground to rest. Marin and Tarron looked at each other in a truce to their fight earlier in Termina. They both walked away to leave Zelda alone.

Zelda lay on the ground asleep on Link's chest outside, only feet from Roy's dead body. Link tired eyes looked up at the moon coming out through the dark clouds that Roy had summoned. Link's slowly closed his eyes and drifted off to a sleep under the many stars……

Personal Message: I would've finished it here, but I want one more thing to happen. Besides, if I did finish it here, it wouldn't feel complete. Don't you agree? Well, anyway, a personal goal of mine in this story is to reach at least 10 reviews for each chapter. I think some of you can take the time to make just one comment. Anyway, be on the look out for the last chapter coming out soon. Thanks,

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