Chapter 7-
Link woke up in a sort of infirmary. Gannondorf was sleeping on a nearby bed; there were several other people resting peacefully on the rows of beds that filled the room. An attendant walked back and forth, looking in on the sleeping people. Link sat up to collect his thoughts, and remembered the visions he had had.
He remembered the chamber of questions, he remembered Gannondorf falling into a dead faint, and then he remembered his own question put before the Oracle.
"What is my destiny?"
One of the oracle, a woman beyond years that Link could count, stood to face him.
"Fate, or destiny forest child? They are different. Would you know what may, or could have been, or would you know where you will end?"
Link thought for a moment, he knew what had been meant to be; he should have been a kokiri living out innumerable days in the forest.
"Where will I end? Where does my fate lie?"
"Receive this vision with me." Said the old woman.
Link was running hard through a wood. Beside him was a beautiful woman, carrying a bundle of food and cloths; something was after them… Something truly terrible. They heard the sound of a horse and rider hacking their way through the forest. Link shouted to the woman, and drew his sword. He turned to face the direction of the horseman.
Suddenly all fear was gone, Link was borne away by the winds and saw himself again from a birds-eye view. This time he was standing before a great temple in the desert; a great stone relief of the goddess Rova was carved into the temple entrance. A young Sheikah man stood there talking with Link. Then there was a cloud of smoke, and the Sheikah disappeared.
The vision once-again whirled away, and this time link saw himself face-to-face with a gigantic stalfos.
"Let it be hewn into your mind." the six voices of the Oracle came from stalfos, and from everywhere. It echoed throughout the endless plain that Link and his foe stood on to face each other. The mantra repeated itself and echo louder each time as the two warriors clashed their blades together. After what seemed like an eternity of battle, Link finally disarmed the stalfos and whirled his sword around to cut deep into the monster's side. Just as bone and steel were to connect; the stalfos spun out of the way, and drew a second sword. Before Link could react, the stalfos pierced Link's armor and buried the sword deep in the shoulder.
Suddenly, they were no longer upon an empty, endless plain; they were in the midst of a wood, and Link was pinned against a tree. Link struggled against the sword that held him, but it was no use; the stalfos was stronger.
"I am sorry that I cannot allow you to live… You would have become a great king you know." The stalfos paused a moment to push the sword in deeper,"…I had to choose; if you had become king; you would have been a threat to me and my family."
Link screamed as a series of kicks shattered his knees, and his full weight now rested upon the sword that was buried in his shoulder.
"I suppose that hurt… Well, let me help that." said the stalfos as he pulled the sword out and let Link fall to the earth.
Specter Link, that is, the Link who had posed the question before the Oracle, watched in horror as the brought his sword down upon the back of his older self. There was heard a loud CRACK, then Link, of the vision, was still.
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