Ugh… alright, people, honestly I didn't know what I was planning whenever I made the Goddesses give Link a consequence for his wish. The best one I could think of without killing him off was reviving Agatha and put him in a situation where he was married to her =P But eh, I have to make this semi-serious ya know. Well, anyways, I'm gunna attempt to give him a proper punishment, but if it en't to yer liking, then tell me what I should've done, and if anything comes to mind, then I'll rewrite this chapter and post it again. Fair enough?

Link floated in darkness, somewhere between being asleep and awake. He could feel his surroundings, but he couldn't see anything at all. Even his sense of feeling was diminished because of the cold. He started to stand up, but an instant later he groaned and laid back down in with a throbbing pain in his forehead. He felt like saying a few dirty words to help soothe his pain, but he fought the feeling away.

"Navi?" He looked around for her. He could barely move he was in such pain.

"I'm here Link," she said meekly. She appeared beside him and hugged his face. "Are you ok?"

He rubbed his temples, trying to make the pain go away. "I can stop the pain… it's like my brain is swelling up and is about to explode…"

She rubbed a hand over Link's forehead, like a mother would. "I can't work magic in this state. I've already tried to see where we were, but it's like I have no magic. All I can do is flutter around like a firefly."

He touched her with his finger tips and gave a half-half hearted smile. "You still feel warm though."

"Hello Link."

Link looked in the direction of the voice. It didn't sound human at all, and he couldn't place a gender on it. It was not one voice, but 3 together and countless other voices that made up the 3. All he could see was just the fainted glow that a faerie automatically shown with even at their weakest moment until they died.

"Who are you?" He grabbed for the handle of his sword, still not forgetting the throbbing pain.

"Do not ask questions, inferior being. We only want an answer to our question."

Link started to speak, but Navi bit him before he could say anything. Instead, he clenched his teeth and gave a swat at Navi for adding onto his pain.

"You have asked for powerful magic, bringing back to life someone who is dead. Even the most powerful magician would die trying to bring back the dead. For one to come back from death, there must be someone to replace them. If there isn't, then hell becomes unbalanced."

"What-"

"SILENCE!"

A blast of a gale targeted him directly, and the pain in his head immediately intensified. He gave a little cry out and returned his hand from his sword handle to his head. It was almost too much for him to bear.

"For each magic, there is a price to pay, and you chose to pay that price. You can not take back that call for magic. However," for a moment, the voices that seemed to come from all directions almost sounded sympathetic, and the pressure in his head eased a little, "we shall be merciful, for you are pure in your intentions. We shall let you choose whom it is that takes Zelda's place in the house of Hades. But be quick, for we are lacking in patience."

The pain in his brain subsided, and he was allowed to think clearly. He blinked, and started stuttering on his words. "No… no! Surely, I mean, there is – there has to be another way! I can't sacrifice anybody! I-"

"Then, Link, we suggest that you give yourself up. Make your decision so we may be done with this."

Link felt tears well up in his eyes. He didn't know what to do. He was terrified of dying, he was afraid to even experience what it felt like.

As if they read his thoughts, the voices spoke up again. "It's so fascinating when someone dies… they cry out, and make faces that seem to show signs of great ecstasy. They thrash so beautifully when they know that they're dying. We shall never know death, for we are timeless. We have even lost the pleasure of being able to feel things that we were once able to. We miss walking along our created worlds freely… but things change. And your life changed drastically when you entered actual servitude. Life is unfair, but it is then that you hold your head up high, and prove that you are a champion. So tell us, Link. Will it be a friend, foe, or yourself that takes the trip to the underworld this time?"

Navi felt a tear splash down onto her, and felt her insides twist in pain for him. She walked up to his ear, and started to say softly, "I will do this for you Link."

"What!?!" He started to cry out, "NO!" but it was cut of short as the pain promptly entered his head again and he cried out in another gasp of pain. He desperately tried to sit up, feeling every force of gravity going against him.

Navi flew away from him to where he couldn't reach her, and called out, "I will take the place of Zelda!"

Link cried in protest, but the voices ignored him. "You are a faerie, one of the higher beings of this world. Why do you wish to give your life for someone lesser than you?"

Navi put a hand to her heart and looked down at her feet. "I am not immortal, but I will live forever. I will never die either, unless someone had inflicted so much physical damage on me that my body wouldn't be able to handle it, but there is nothing in this world here that hates faeries that much. Atleast not yet. I have already lived a long life, far much longer than any human could. I would like to know what death fells like, and what better way to do it than in this way? And…" she glanced in Link's direction, who now had free tears pouring out like a little boy who had fallen and bumped his head, "I want him to be happy. I want him to be happy with his princess. That is all."

"So, this is done out of love," the voices started, but they did not finish the sentence. Instead, abruptly and harshly, they yelled, "It is done!" and Navi's light went out.