Chapter 24
Final Battle Part II: Revelation

"Let us pass into the earth realm!" Din snapped at Farore.

"I will do no such thing," Farore replied calmly. "You two pushed me to cast this spell, what happens in the earth realm is not for us to worry about or interfere with."

"The boy is dying, do you not understand that?" Nayru asked with a note of agitation in her voice.

"He never should have gone to fight Zen," she stated bluntly.

"Zen has already taken so many lives, what you are doing is ridiculous!" Din exclaimed, her golden eyes held the fires of a bitter anger. "If you hadn't made the spell so strong, I would have already blasted through that barrier of yours!"

"You two have already done more than enough, get over it because I'm not letting you through." Farore turned and began to walk off.

"Don't resort to violence, my hot-headed sister," Nayru whispered to Din. "She has motives for doing this, we just need to figure out what they are."

Din took a deep breath to calm herself and then replied, "And I just might know what it is…" To the retreating Farore she said, "You should not make others suffer just because you are mad at me."

Farore froze and turned to face Din, "Now why would I be mad at you, besides the fact that you two are getting on my nerves right now?"

"You still love him, that's why."

"If you are talking about Zen, then you are far from right."

"I'm not talking about Zen, I'm talking about Kaepora."

Nayru quickly assessed the meaning behind Din's words, "Do you think keeping Zen alive will please him? Just because he is the father doesn't mean anything, you banished him into the form of an owl when you first discovered Din had conceived a child."

Farore stayed silent.

"It's not my fault he loved me and not you," Din jibed at Farore.

"Oh really, huh? You knew I had feelings for him and what did you do? You swept him right from under my nose and got pregnant! You are not going into the earth realm to destroy Zen, not unless you have permission from Kaepora. You may not still be loyal to him, but I am. Whether he loves me or not, I will not allow you to give Zen a death sentence without his saying in the matter."

"Not gonna happen," Din replied stubbornly.

"This is going to get us nowhere. Farore, because of you, Kaepora was never involved in his son's life so there's no way we can give him any say in the matter." Nayru said reasonably. If you are not going to let us pass into the earth realm to stop Zen, then you will have the blood of many innocents in your hands, sole responsibility for the destruction of Hyrule, and on top of all that, that blood of a legendary Hero fated to do great things in your hands as well. If you don't let us go, then you should go in our place."

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Zen had Link slammed one last time into the wall where he once more collapsed to the ground. This time however, Link didn't move.

"Have you had enough yet boy?" Zen yelled mockingly at him, a cruel grin visible on his features.

There was no answer…Zen's haunting laugh rang out as he strode towards Link to see if he was really dead.

Something deep within Zelda seemed to snap her from whatever spell Zen had her under…maybe it was seeing Link being battered senselessly…or maybe Zen's magic, the magic of a god, had failed to completely control her?

She blinked a few times from the confusion of regaining her awareness and own thoughts…until she saw Link's limp form and Zen's malicious grin as he walked towards Link's body. "Link!' she cried and hurried to him, dashing right past Zen only to slide onto the floor and stop herself in time to be able to hold Link's body to her. "Link…"

Zen was stunned…he was so stunned that he stopped walking and merely gaped at her.

A tear rolled down her cheek as she frantically nudged his broken body. "Link…please don't die on me…get up…Link…" The only sign that he was even alive was the fragmented rising of his chest every now and then. "LINK!" she screamed out brokenheartedly. "Get up! Please…You have to!"

Zen snapped out of his disgruntled state and growled, "Get away from him Zelda so I can deliver the final blow…I wouldn't want you to meet the same fate as him."

"You…you wouldn't dare!"

"There's nothing I wouldn't dare doing."

"Then if he must die, kill me as well!"

Zen chuckled and Zelda then felt some invisible force pulling her away…she was unable to fight it and much to her dismay, was pulled back right to Zen's side. A red beam appeared in his hand as he charged it up to deliver the last fatal blow. Link gave a painful moan and began stirring.

Hope flooded through Zelda, he was recovering, moving!...Somewhat…but that was good enough for her. She had to stall Zen…but how? She racked her brain frantically for a plan and acted on the first thing that came to mind.

Link managed to sit up as Zen prepared to release the beam that would bring about his end. He was shocked to see Zelda…and her eyes…they were normal again. "Zel--…" he was about to give a shout of joy until he saw the beam in Zen's hand and then what Zelda did next.

She leapt up, and she kissed him. She placed her lips on the lips of Zen, wrapping her arms around him. The beam immediately dissipated in Zen's hand and he kissed her right back, unsuspecting that this was a trick to save Link.

Link was horrified at first, but then he saw the desperate look in Zelda's eye and knew why she had done what she did. She was giving him a chance…to survive and get away? Or to act against Zen? He vied for the latter one and exerted effort to stand. How his body screamed in protest at him, but he fought through it. He had his Zelda back; he would fight through anything to keep that.

He was now standing, his sword was too far from reach, but he could improvise with what he had. Link dug something out of his pocket and threw it at Zen. Zen however, jerked away from Zelda at that moment and his hands shot up in a protective barrier. Whatever it was bounced off harmlessly…but then exploded into flames on the ground. Zelda screamed as the wave of fire wavered towards her as well as Zen. It hit Zen, but passed harmlessly over her.

Instead of an expression of pain, there was an expression of annoyance and anguish on Zen's features, "You impudent boy!" Zen lurched forward and delivered a sharp thrust of his fist at Link. Link tapped into the power of the Pegasus Boots and made a speedy enough dodge to avoid damage from that attack. However, Zen had immediately followed up this attack with another punch and this one didn't miss…it nailed Link right in his chest. He let out a grunt of pain and then toppled over and fell backwards.

Zen turned and slapped Zelda hard across the face, she was instantly knocked over and joined Link on the ground.

"This is absolutely pathetic," Zen said in agitation. "You weren't supposed to break through that spell…and you…" he trailed off and glared down at Link. "Are about to meet your end!"

Vera…lost in her shock and confusion had stayed to the sidelines, quiet and forgotten. How she hated herself. In the beginning it had all been about her getting her life back, she never knew Link finding about what she had been doing would sting so much now that he seemed to hate her. She had become totally oblivious to her surroundings because of this feeling of remorse. Well, that is until she heard that last thing Zen had said.

Her gaze abruptly darted to the sprawled out forms of Link and Zelda, and then Zen's figure that towered over them. The look in his eye told her he was ready to kill someone, and she had a feeling that that someone…was Link.

She was technically not supposed to be alive today, there had to be something she could do…after all, what did she have to lose? The biggest question though, was what exactly could she do?

She soon knew what she could do though…and she flapped her wings furiously and with determination, darting towards Zen. Distractions were always good…distractions could always buy people time.

Before she reached Zen, there was a sudden blinding flash of light and she feared for the worse…but what appeared when the light faded away was certainly far from what she had expected…

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Seahawks lost…poo…Then again, I didn't care who won the Superbowl lol…it gave me an excuse to invite two of my friends over. Jupiter-Lightning brought her camcorder and we made a fake news show thing…it was hilarious: )

Thank you so much reviewers (don't forget to check out replies!) and now I have to go to sleep so I'm not dead tired for school tomorrow.

-blondie91

Disclaimer: Go find this in the other chapters if you want one, I'm too lazy right now.