Chapter 6: The Strength of a Hero and a lost sign
Link stabbed one Re-dead killing it instantly, retracted the blade and slashed another across the chest. Even armed with just a sword Link was a impossibly dangerous enemy. Link killed many more of the creatures but he was getting tired.
Suddenly a voice called out, "Down you vile thing! Back to the shadows from whence you came." It was the voice of someone Link knew well. But it couldn't be... he had died. Link looked to his left towards the voice. Xilic stood there sword in hand.
Link ran to him, "Xilic is that you but, how?"
Xilic smiled, "You had a potion in your pack." Link simply smiled too. His brother, the only man Link would not have been happier to have here, was back. They were going to get the crap beat out of them and they didn't know it. A crowd of beast surrounded them. Link slammed one's head down and stabbed it in the back Xilic shot a troll in the neck. Xilic and Link hooked arms spun and Link jumped and the troll's back and stabbed it in the back of the head. Meanwhile Xilic was fighting off two Re-deads at once, grabbing one's sword he thrust the evil blade into the second Re-dead and beheaded the first. The troll Link was on toppled to the ground, throwing him off and rolling towards Xilic.
Link leapt up and kicked a beast in the face, then stabbed it. Link jumped and then landed in the middle of a group of enemies, charging up his magic energy and released a spin attack. Link flipped in the middle of a different part of this army and released a ring of a fire that was so blazing hot that it burned anything that got near it and instantly exploded, yet it didn't burn Link. Xilic was currently battling with the man who was amazingly still alive, and had regained his blade. Link ran forward but a wave of vile Re-deads stood between him and Xilic. The man's wounds were gone, how? All Link's attack's left no mark, all that was missing was his arm. Link ran forward slashing into two people, friends or foes he neither knew nor cared all that mattered was he save Xilic.
He ran forward and screamed, "I killed you once you want to die again?" Waiting for no reply Link stabbed the man in the gut, grabbed the black blade again and beheaded the man. A pain surged thorough his left hand. Link ran forward Xilic had been stabbed in the neck but he'd be ok. Link looked at his hand the pain had subsided and Link ripped off his glove and saw with dismay that the Triforce signal that was given to the Hero of Time had disappeared.
Link grabbed Xilic and rose his forehead to his brother's. "Xilic it is over they have lost their commander. I have won us the battle. I have saved Hyrule." Link said.
"Yes, but at what price brother? You are going to die because your task has been finished. I will die one day from causes from battle and my sprit will go to the warrior's hall of fame to rest forever, but you being never truly a man of a chosen destiny, it is not possible to tell where you will end up."
"Then I will fight until the Goddesses take me away from this land!" Link said. Then he whistled for Snowfire and picked up Xilic. As Snowfire stopped Link hoisted his spirt brother on her back and climbed up afterwards. Snowfire rode away from the battle and Link made her stop. He lifted Xilic off and set him down he hadn't the time to heal his wounds Xilic would heal fine. Link hopped onto Snowfire and rode into the fight. One monster fell to the Master Sword shortly followed by three more. Link jumped off Snowfire and sent her out of the battle while slashing through a troll foot. Link felt pain stab him again and looked down and saw that he had become slightly transparent. The power that was taking Link from this earth must be working double time. Link split a Re-dead in half and slashed through two archers.
Then Link overheard a horseman talking to Zelda, "Do you really think we can win, your highness?"
"As long as we have Link I don't think we can lose." Zelda responded. The pain spreading through Link's semi-transparent body seemed to double. Link snarled and fought on, killing several more enemies. The pain within his body steadily increased until Link had to kneel from it. Link dropped his sword and grabbed his head. He looked at his right hand and saw that it was barely noticeable. He was almost dead, grabbing his sword he killed two fiends. Link fought for Hyrule's freedom, and for Zelda. To protect her, Link knew if he killed enough of the monsters that Zelda would be safe. So, Link smashed one archer's face in before stabbing him. Pain shot through him again. Link tried to keep fighting but suddenly the Master Sword clattered to the ground. A portal opened and winds grew and became stronger than a tornado of wind hurled Link into the vortex.
Lights flashed through his mind. Link had no idea what was going on. He opened his eyes and looked at his body. It was no longer transparent, but he was wearing white clothing not his normal green tunic. He then realized he was laying down on the ground. Sitting up, Link also was missing the weight of the Master sword on his back. He stood and surveyed his surroundings. He was standing on a gigantic pillar in what Link assumed was the sky considering all the clouds were around him. More of these pillars stood next to each other as though they were begging him to jump to the next one.
Link took a deep breath and jumped to the nearest pillar. He managed the jump with ease, though it was no less then twelve feet. Link then caught sight of a man on one of the giant sticks of stone not far away. Link leapt from pillar to pillar until he was on the one next to the man. Link jumped to the man's pillar and saw that he was laying on his side apparently sleeping. But something was wrong, the man's side didn't rise and fall as it does when one inhales and exhales. Link pulled him onto his back a glimpsed the man's face and it was covered in blood.
Then Link realized that the man hadn't been on a pillar but that the last stone that Link had jumped off of turned out to lead into what looked like a crude battlefield. Swords and arrows lay everywhere, this place seemed so odd and known, of course, this was Hyrule field Link hadn't recognized it with out the drawbridge. Link looked at the dead faces and saw that they were of townspeople and Re-deads and other fiends among them lay the man Link had beheaded to save Xilic. Link look over the edge of the (apparently floating) field and saw the real battlefield. The fight was going well enough they were winning Link spotted Xilic and Zelda in the mass of people.
What did this mean? Had he died when he flew through the vortex. He supposed he must have, suddenly a voice broke through, "Link, you have been brought here by the three goddesses. You are needed here for there is new and saddening things happening in the after world. You must pass your father's challenge." Link didn't speak from fear and indignation.
Link stood at the opening of the vortex again with the winds picking up. "Do you accept the task that has been laid before you?" Asked the voice.
"Yes." Link spoke scared. Link had never experienced fear like this. Even facing Ganondorf had not brought this fear.
"Being given your life again is an honor that has never been given to anyone else. You will go to Hyrule until you pass your father's challenge and not a moment longer." The voice said. Link took a deep breath a ran into the entrance if the cavern facing him.