Chapter 4: Betrayal and Brothers

When Link saw Zelda she was in a bad state. She was bleeding across the temple and hip. He smashed off the lock with the dagger, which broke promptly. Link stood there as Zelda looked up. A wide smile came to her face.

"Am I dreaming again? In my dreams you came to rescue me. Yes this must be a dream, you're too injured to be real, or you would be dead." Link walked to her and knelt next to her.

"This is real." Link said. Struggling not to pass out he grasped her hand tenderly as though she had broken arms, not him.

"This must be real. Then you're mortally hurt. There are no others left they were killed. I will get you out of here." So she did. Zelda brought him out of the building and called for Snowfire. Soon the horse came and Link gratefully got on her back. And Snowfire rode off. Link questioned Zelda along the way though he could barely speak. Zelda told Link that only he and she were riders now. Sorrow filled Link when he heard this. When they came to the cave where the Gerudos were they quickly picked Link up and started putting potions in his mouth, and Link quickly fell asleep. When Link woke up his arms no longer hurt. He waved his arm. He felt as good as new. He got up and started pacing.

I have to find some new weapons or I can't help out at all. Then Link learned he had been unconscious for more than a year. That meant he was now 15 turning 16 next week. He needed a better sword. There was only one sword Link wanted in his grip. The Master Sword.

Link set out first thing in the morning for Hyrule town. Zelda Insisted that she be brought along because it wasn't good for Link to be in the Temple alone again. Link agreed then whistled for Snowfire. As she came trotting Link thought about what he would need to buy in town.

The main thing is a shield and bow. Everything else I need can be found in the fields. So Link rode into town. Zelda clutched tightly to Links shirt and fell asleep. She apparently hadn't been riding long. Link had Snowfire stop at the gate looked in and swore so angrily that Zelda gave a start in her sleep. The town was not empty. It was piled full of Re-deads. He dis-mounted and walked in. The Re-deads approached him and tried to bite into his neck. Link was far too fast for them and ran into the Temple.

He walked up to the great Sword and grasped the handle and pulled it out. At once images flashed through Link's head of there own accord and though Link remembered feeling thousand of feelings from the pictures he now felt only one thing. Anger… All the time people asked him what he wanted, he wanted only Revenge… Revenge for Epona's Death… Revenge for Mikio's Murder… Revenge for Zelda's pain… Revenge for the riders… Revenge for all that he had endured.

Link spoke out and he spike truth in every letter, "The Hero of Time is re-born with one passion. Revenge." He walked out of the Temple and the Re-deads came again. This time instead of running away Link stood tall all fear gone. A Re-dead slashed out at him. He raised the blade and cut off the arm stabbed down into the beast's back. Blood spurted from the wound and Link sliced off another Enemy head.

Link turned and blocked a blade from cutting him. He felt a Re-dead was going to attack him from behind. Before the attack landed Link flipped over the Re-dead in front of him and stabbed behind him killing two Re-deads instantly. Link then jumped high and flipped then placed his sword under him. It landed in a Re-deads head and Link pull out the sword and the body crumpled under him.

Slicing through three Re-deads Link kicked out a bomb behind him. It blew up a good five, he saw five of them head toward the gate. He pulled out his bow and focused on the element fire. A flame leapt up on the tip of the arrow and Link released the string. The arrow hit the middle Re-dead and exploded killing the other four.

Link normally would be afraid of all these Re-dead but now he enjoyed the physical challenge. He be-headed another foe and saw a figure holding a dagger. Zelda came through slashing off a Re-dead's leg and ran on using magic to kill three more. Apparently Zelda's experience after Gannon's castle had made her a powerful fighter.

Link brought his sword through another Re-deads gut. Then Link focused on fire the power of Din, slammed his palm into the ground and caused a huge explosion of fire killing half of the remaining Re-deads. Link turned to face no less then fifteen armed Re-deads and six phantoms. Phantoms were not like anything Link had ever faced before. They set balls of flaming fire at him that he had to flip over and then face-plant them, and as if that wasn't hard enough the Re-deads made it impossible to strike the phantoms.

He parried blows from all directions backing up quickly. Link stabbed the lead phantom. At the same time he was burned and stabbed by many sword-points. Link cried out in pain and cut through a phantom and two Re-deads. Zelda struck down three of the Re-deads that were on Link. Link used Din's fire and ran out of the market with Zelda hot on his heels. He hopped on Snowfire and pulled Zelda up in front of him.

"Ok Snowfire get us to the cave. Show us the meaning of haste." Link said to the horse. Snowfire ran off towards Zora's Domain.

Link looked at her and said angrily, "Snowfire the cave is back there!" Snowfire acted like she couldn't hear him and continued on at her reckless pace. Dashing as fast as she could she quickly ran out of bow range and jumped through the water barrier dividing the Zoras and the Hylians.

At least I can find the Zoras now. Though it was quickly apparent that there was no one alive in the domain. A few bodies were on the ground but not nearly enough to be the entire population of Zoras.

"They must be hidden on Lake Haliya somewhere." Zelda said. Link told Snowfire to head to the Lake but the horse didn't listen. Snowfire ran up the stairs and ran into the ice cavern. All of the living Zoras were there.

"Link."

Crap oh crap oh crap. I need to do some running. Thought Link. Link ran faster and faster. The Zora running at him was his 'wife' a mess up girl named Ruto.

He hopped on Snowfire and rode out of the cavern shouting, "New enemy flee Hyrule, now!" Snowfire rode off to the old cave. Link got off her and walked in the cave and saw many dead bodies and one... one that was the figure of a woman. This figure was laughing.

"This lot put up a good fight they killed my best guards. This one..." She said pointing to a body. It was Xilic."Now he put up quite a fight. He alone killed almost half my guards and got a slash across my back. But i gave him better than I got. He was a die hard It took nearly 4 arrows and a dagger stab to bring him down."

"I traveled with you to death mountain!" Link cried.

"It's good to see that a man of 16 seems to be a real smart one. I tricked him gave out his location killed all his army and he just knows I traveled to the stupid mountain with him." She mocked.

Link drew his sword and sliced at her head. She caught the blow on her dagger, Link looked into her eyes and saw that same look as the black clothed man before Link killed him. Full of lust for murder. She tried to kick him, and he side-stepped the kick as Zelda stabbed the woman in the hip The woman back-flipped into the cave wall and shot Link in the shoulder then in his left arm. Unstopped Link plucked out the arrows and shot at her and missed by an inch. The woman shot another arrow at him then threw a spear dripping poison from the head.

The arrow missed but the spear hit Link in the left hip. Link ran on pulling out the spear and tossing it aside. Link raised his sword ready to strike as Zelda was firing magic at the Gerudo woman. As Link swung down the woman side-stepped it and shot him in his right hip.

One of the bodies was moving. Link spun around instantly and saw it was Xilic, not quite so dead.

Xilic ran forward sword out calling, "Commander, jump." Link did but as he was in the air a dagger and an arrow hit his back. Xilic resumed Link's battle with the woman. Zelda came and shot at her but missed.

"Zelda... get to the Zora's we can handle this they need you." Zelda nodded and gave Link a swift kiss.

"For luck." Then she ran off. Link rose and blocked a swipe that the woman swung at Xilic. Xilic sank to his knees to rest. Link spun to his left and stabbed her right hand, but the hit wasn't bad and she gave him a cut down his neck. Xilic shot her in the shoulder as she stuck the dagger in Link's arm. Link slashed down and cut off a few of her toes.

Xilic was forced to hold her off as Link fell down. The woman threw a massive bomb down and it caused a large rock pile to tumble down. Link began shifting aside rocks. He heard fighting from the other side that meant Xilic was still alive. Link moved more rock around he now saw Xilic. Moving rock around quickly Link saw it all. Xilic was spinning his sword fast to block blows coming at him. But Link saw it in Xilic's eyes. He was tired and in pain.

Xilic looked at Link who had just forced his way through a small hole. "For you." Then he jumped onto the Gerudo woman and said, "Do it now I can't hold her long." Link be-headed the woman as she stabbed Xilic in the gut and shot link with another poison arrow. Xilic sank down and closed his eyes.

As Link ran to Xilic, he spoke. "I would fellow you to the end of the earth vow or no vow. My commander, my friend, my king, I name you my brother through spirit if you accept my blessing."

Link kneeled and said, "I would be honored to receive it."

"Then do and I will be with you always." Said Xilic placing his hand over Link's chest.

"Goodbye my brother I will be with you through sprit always."

"No, I'll not leave you here I going to heal you."

"I am already in your debt over time brother."

"No now I owe you my life and I will not let a friend, my brother die." Link placed his hand over Xilic's chest and started healing Xilic's wounds.