Candle

I still don't know why it's called Candle...

But it's early

Anyways...

This is the shock/depression chappy

And the truth...

Missing truth and forever

Kissing love and true your heart

Hold me tight with your arms so true

I believe in the chance of tomorrow's reality

I want to keep on hating lies

(Revolutionary Girl Utena end theme song)

And bla...

So...

Shall we begin?

Light the candles

And let us proceed

Down once more

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Candle

Emptiness: Can You Hear Me?

The monster you're feeding, your lack of perception
The things you will do to fulfill addictions
The light at the end of your tunnel is closing
What is it that your so afraid of exposing
You'd give it all up for what there for the taking
Whatever it takes to keep your hands from shaking

When Link woke, the soft glow of candles surrounded him. He was on his knees, his ankles bound together by heavy iron chains. His arms were chained on either side of him, above his head. The end of the chains were nailed to the walls of the small stone chasm...obviously where the halls he had fallen into ended. But there was no visible door.

Link lifted his head to further inspect the room. There were candles, lit and hordes of them. The woman was kneeling before a stone throne, and on that throne was a man. He wore black armor, had pale skin, black hair and empty black eyes. His ears were slightly pointed, and he had demon horns protruding from his head.

Link's eyes spied a pile of his weapons and other useful items, sword, shield, ocarina and other random crap he had obtained. He sighed softly and returned his stare to the woman and demon.

"Nice to see that you're awake." The demon said, his voice like ice.

"The other symbols have vanished now." The woman said, holding a snake-cross pendant, similar to the one Link had found.

"Good. Now I can concentrate everything here."

The demon rose, the woman rising with him. He seemed to glide over the stone floor littered with bone fragments and jagged rocks. His black eyes met with Link's, looking more like obsidian mirrors.

"This is the famed Hero of Time. A fairy boy raised in the forest. He knows nothing of what is about to be told." The woman said, her voice as emotionless as Nexus.

"Who are you? What am I doing here?" Link demanded, pulling against the chains.

"Who I am is not important. What matters now is what you know, or rather, what you don't know." The demon said.

"What are you talking about?"

An uneasy silence fell over them for a moment. The demon was trying to think of the most painful way to tell his tale.

"What were you told about the past, about the war and about why you were raised as you were, fairy boy?" The demon asked, a smile playing his pale face.

"I was told that my mother was trying to escape the war with me when I was barely a year old. She was injured and left me in the care of the Great Deku Tree. She died shortly after."

Another silence. The demon's smile grew wider, and two small knives appeared in his hands. Link's eyes widened slightly, focusing on the blades.

"Many and many a year ago, in the heat of the Great War, the only way a soldier could relax in points of quiet was to take a young girl and the two would go off and...make sweet music together. Soon, this became customary for the girls to sell themselves to the soldiers for a night or so..."

Link's focus shifted from the knives to the tale this demon was telling.

"When one of the girls became pregnant, most would leave their children to the jackals at night. But one girl, not wanting to make it known that she fed her child to the wild dogs of the towns, took her son to the forest. She wrapped him in cloth and threw him as far and as hard as she could, hoping that he would die. She then returned to her duties of sexing soldiers."

Link's eyes widened when he heard this. He had made the connection...but it...it couldn't be true.

"Liar! My mother is dead! She died protecting me from the war!" Link shouted, angry tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

The knives that Link had momentarily forgotten about were now used. The demon drove them through Link's palms, and pinned his hands to the stone. Link cried out once, now glaring at the demon with hate in his eyes. The demon loomed over Link, caressing his face in his hands.

"All this time...you never knew your mother was a whore."

The demon got closer.

"What if I told you that your mother was still alive?"

Tears escaped from Links eyes, running rivers down his face.

At that moment, one of the walls blew out to a doorway. Nexus was standing there, sword in her left hand and her right hand raised and ready. Her eyes were dark, and even though she hadn't heard the conversation, she didn't like how this scene looked. She stepped over the rubble she created, ready to kick some ass.

"What did you do to him!" She demanded, eyes now blazing.

The demon just laughed and snapped his fingers. The woman walked over, sword in hand. He took it from her and then shooed her back.

He jumped at Nexus, leaving Link limp and in shock. His great black sword swung at Nexus. She dodged, bringing her sword down on the demon's shoulder. Green blood spurted from the wound. The black sword came again. Nexus rolled under the blade and she slashed at his heel. His foot lashed out, knocking Nexus back. She pushed herself up, looking more like a cat at the moment, but wide open for an attack.

The blade came down at her, but Nexus was ready.

She swung her right hand up, black sword connecting with her gauntlet. There was a metallic "KLIIIING" sound as the sword bounced off her gauntlet and the demon lost his balance momentarily. Nexus was on her feet again, grinning and ready.

"Dragon scale armor, a gift from the God-Slayer Dragon himself." She said.

The demon grinned before rushing Nexus. She may have dragon armor, but there was little she could do with a head-on attack. Nexus dodged, but the demon's hand lashed out at her throat, catching her and slamming her into the floor. With her in his grasp, he proceeded to throw her around the room like a rag doll.

"I don't die this easily." Nexus hissed, pushing herself up after connecting with the wall.

Getting to her feet, she jumped from the demon's attack and landed squarely in front of Link, like a shield. The demon looked at her before laughing.

"If that is all you wish to take, then by all means, take him. He knows now." The demon said before bowing and vanishing into a plume of smoke. The woman remained, turning to look at them in scorn.

Nexus ignored her and turned her attention to Link, eyes still streaming tears. After wrenching the knives from Link's hands, Nexus took the knife that was strapped to her thigh and picked the locks to the chains. After Link had recovered all his lost items, Nexus helped him up the hallway she had found/created and out of the Shadow temple.

Link collapsed to the grass of the graveyard, obviously not wanting to go anywhere. Nexus knelt next to him.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.

"No."

"Do you want me to leave?"

"No..."

"Are you going to be okay?"

Link didn't answer. He looked away, tears still streaming from his eyes, like blood from a wound that would never heal. Nexus flopped onto her back, staring up at the skies above her. Link laid down next to her, wiping the tears from his eyes. Nexus was about to move over, so there was some distance between them but Link stopped her.

"I know now. The symbols, everything was just to get us to the temple. That wasn't a major demon, just someone to spill the truth."

Nexus fell silent for a moment before continuing.

"I just don't know who that woman is." She said. Link shuddered.

"She...she was...is...my..."

"What? Your what?"

"My mother."

Nexus was about to stand, but Link grabbed her hand. Nexus got as far as sitting on her knees.

"Can we stay like this just a little longer?" He asked in a whisper.

Nexus nodded, and sat with Link resting his head in her lap. She sighed and looked up at the sky.

"Well, there is just one thing I can do...but that will have to wait for tomorrow..."

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Chap three end!

And it's not over yet!