Author's Note: For some stupid reason fanfiction won't let me break up the different sections between Tomi and Link, so I place dashes (-) to indicate that the story has switched to the other person. You'll be able to tell the difference of the point of views but I apolgize in advance for any confusions or inconveniences. Hope you enjoy.

Part 6 The Black Wizard

Tomi looked over the castle town. The distant candle lights flickered on the window sills. He watched a few people walk around. Sometimes the town dogs followed them. It had gotten colder. The once pleasant breeze was starting to pick up. A colder wind swished through the leaves on the trees and shook free a few that landed on him.

He stood completely still, watching everything. He was worried that his darkness had the same plan as he did. He knew the power was a beacon and Link and Zelda were brimming with it. The nights were the most dangerous of course; the denseness of night fed the dark followers hunger. If his darkness appeared, he only hoped that he would be strong enough.

He watched a guard pace back and forth in front of the town's drawbridge. The guard seemed tired and unenthusiastic. Tomi could understand why, but he didn't approve of it. It explained the reason he got through the castle gates so easily. This town had been free from harm for so long that everyone seemed to have gotten soft. Even Link.

That's when he saw it. The faint illumination of the torches and candles were all abruptly gone. Everything was plunged into blackness. The only light came from the moon, Tomi's eyes, and the inner glow of his robe.

The wind was becoming so fierce that the leaves were coming loose and shooting past him like bullets. His robe waved violently, but his hood always stayed up obscuring his face.

Tomi reached for his sword but just when his hand touched the handle he was shot back by a blast of energy. Tomi landed not too far away. He hadn't even seen it coming. How was he hit by energy when he hadn't heard a spell being cast? He tried to stand again but right when he got up he was hit again.

What is this? Tomi asked himself. As if on cue he heard footsteps coming toward him. He hoped it was Link who had come back to check on him, but he knew that was unlikely. Tomi looked up to see a figure hidden behind a black robe. They were identical; their robes, height, eyes. The only things different was their swords and the color of their robes. You might say they looked like a yin-yang, but a yin-yang cannot truly tell how opposite and yet the same these two were.

Tomi stood and this time wasn't flown back. They locked eyes, glow with glow. The black wizard smirked malevolently.

"Interesting that you chose to come here," Dark Tomi said. "Asking a fourteen year old boy for help…I never thought you would become that desperate."

"You know who he is, if I can't destroy you then he can." Light Tomi stated confidently.

"And if he can't? What will happen then?" Dark Tomi asked.

"I have no doubt that he can." Light Tomi assured him.

"Yes you do…" Dark Tomi said condescendingly. "You have doubt and you know as well as I that doubt is contagious. It will rub off on him and if he is doubtful his mind will be clouded. He will be easy prey" Light Tomi just stared at him. "You're planning something aren't you?"

The white wizard's eyes widened and swiftly narrowed again. "You can't read my mind." Light Tomi said.

"But I can read emotions and voices." Dark Tomi said with a small chuckle.

"What? But we never…" Light Tomi stuttered.

"Yes, we never did learn how to do that. But I did." The black wizard grinned. "I have learned much. I have mastered the level of non verbal spells. I have sat, read, practiced over and over again. But you have not. You just stick with your old basics and don't bother learning new things. You hunt me night and day; you search for something you cannot have. You are fighting a battle that cannot be won."

His words meant nothing. Tomi must not listen; his darkness was trying to scare him, to anger him. But then he realized something. "Why are you here?" he asked.

"I have learned the one spell that literally makes me unlimited in power and I thought it would be most enjoyable to use on one of the most renowned warriors known. Link really is a strong one for his age, Zelda too." Dark Tomi explained.

"I know the same spell." Light Tomi said simply.

"But you don't use it correctly. If I had the both Zelda and Link within me, no one could surpass me then."

"You are not immortal, you would die eventually."

"Would I? With the power of the Hero of Time and the leader of Sages I could control time and all the elements of life so I could live forever." Dark Tomi explained.

"That can't happen." Light Tomi said calmly. "Link's mind and heart are too strong to be used by you." Dark Tomi's response, to his surprise, was laughter.

"Of course he is! That's why I need to break him down, to let his emotions make is judgments murky." Dark Tomi said. "I need to take something he can't see clearly without."

Light Tomi's eyes widened with fear. "Zelda."

"Yes, Zelda." The darkness replied, again condescendingly.

"I can't let that happen." Light Tomi said determined. He drew his sword with one fluid movement and pointed the blade at his malicious side.

The black wizard merely shrugged. "It has already begun." He drew his sword slowly and lined it up with the other. "You'll see."

Quick as lightning, the two wizards clanged their sword together. One or the other attacked while the other parried and blocked. There were moments when the pearl white and jet black of the blade seemed to be invisible as if the were together. They were moving so fast Light Tomi was getting a bit shaken. The single second of his guard lowering allowed the darkness to slice across his chest and kick him with such force he was thrown back. When he hit the ground the air in his lungs had disappeared and he was gapping.

He needed to get back up. He may not be as powerful, but be had to try.

-Meanwhile, Link and Zelda were happily occupied with sweet kisses. They nuzzled and held each other in a hug that felt like the harmony of heaven's song. They didn't even hear the wind get harsher outside, they only cared about what was happening for them in that moment.

Then Link felt something. It was similar to the feeling he got when he knew the location of Tomi. He raised his head away from Zelda and looked towards the open door. He saw nothing. He turned back to Zelda and whispered in her ear, "Get down under the bed." Zelda looked at him with a quizzical look. "You have to trust me." He looked at her with such care and seriousness that she couldn't say no. They kissed each other once more and she scurried under her bed.

Link went back to his sword that was lying on the ground and drew it, leaving the scabbard on the floor. He cautiously stepped out into the corridor and looked left and right. No one was there. He had felt Tomi contact him; he got a feeling that told him, "Get ready."

He walked back to Zelda's bed and crouched down next to it. "Whatever happens, don't come out for anything." He didn't wait for a response and walked back out to the hallway, closing the door behind him.

He suddenly heard a faint whistle from his left. He moved his head just in time to see a knife fly by him. It landed a few yards away. Link looked for the source of the attack and saw a black armored beast coming at him with a sword drawn As it got closer Link saw that it was a skeleton. Link remembered the creatures Tomi told him about and readied himself. Link blocked the monster's shaky attacks and hastily sliced right through its neck, the skull fell to the floor. Link thought the fight was over when the skeleton swung its sword again. Link was surprised but quickly shook it off and slashed away at it. One crushing blow sliced right through the creature's armor and Link saw something. Right where any human's heart would be was a large black stone. It appeared to be onyx but Link didn't care about that. Taking a chance he stabbed at the stone. One by one every bone disconnected from the other and fell in a pile on the floor right next to the skull.

Link sighed with relief. But his rest was short lived when he saw four more of the same fiend coming at him from behind. He placed himself in front of Zelda's bedroom door and got in a fighting stance. All four of the beasts were coming at him, when he got an idea. All he had was his sword but he could still use magic. Right when the first skeleton was upon him Link ducked down and charged his sword with flaming energy. He spun around making a ring of fire around him. His enemies were burned, pushed back, and on the floor but not dead. Luckily the attack cracked part of their armor and Link charged. One at a time he stabbed the creatures in their black hearts. Each one falling at his feet.

This time Link didn't let his guard down. He looked up and down the passageway and to his horror he saw parties of these things coming at him from both directions. Link once again put himself between the doorway and the monsters. He would protect Zelda with his life.

-Tomi was bleeding and exhausted. His darkness moved so quickly he had a hard time seeing the sword's blade. Every combo with his sword lead up to a spell he couldn't see coming because his darkness never cried out the spell's name.

He was on the ground again and he tried to get up, but was having a hard time making his legs work. He looked up at his other half and saw him casting something else. Dark Tomi lifted his left arm, causing three stones from the nearest tower to hover over to him. When he lowered his arm again the three missiles pummeled Light Tomi making a gash in his temples.

Tomi's darkness then made his hand like a claw as lightning shown from his finger tips. The electricity ran through Light Tomi's body and he cried out in pain. "You're not presenting much of challenge are you?" Dark Tomi asked. He grabbed Light Tomi by the neck and with amazing strength threw him into the air and cast a fireball at him. Light Tomi grunted in agony and fell to the ground again.

Dark Tomi walked up to him and kicked him in his stomach. For a side treat he kicked his groin with the heel of his foot. "This is why you are not fit to protect anyone. Not Aliya, not Link, Zelda, not even yourself."

Light Tomi thought of something, it was the only thing he could think of. His body began to illuminate with a bright white light. He had to combine everyone that was inside him. "Oh, please, do you really think that will work?" Within seconds Light Tomi found the energy he needed, without thinking he fired the blast at his darkness.

The darkness had already prepared and but up a dome of protective dark energy. The attack merely bounced off the shield and faded into nothing.

Tomi had nothing left. He could only await his death to come.

-Link was picked up by another skeleton and was thrown through Zelda's doors landing on the stone floor.

No. I can't let them get her. Link picked himself up and charged again only to be met with a kick to his stomach and his head. He fell on his back and felt himself being picked up again and thrown across the room. He hit the opposite wall, head first and landed on the floor, unconscious.

-Surprisingly, there was no pain when Tomi felt a hand on his chest. He opened his eyes to see his darkness looking down at him.

"I'm not going to kill you. I want to make this a little interesting. Feel free to heal yourself when you find the strength." Dark Tomi said. He stood up and began walking away. "Maybe you should head down to the foyer; that would be a good place to fight wouldn't it?"

Tomi watched his darkness phase through the floor as if it weren't there. Tomi tried to sit up but couldn't. He could only wait until at least a small degree of his energy came back so he could heal himself.

Why did he leave me like this? He has something planned, that's obvious enough. Tomi pondered. I only hope that Link is alright. Tomi rested his head on the stone ceiling floor and tried to gather strength.

-Link awoke with everything sore. He could feel every injury he had endured. There were cuts and gashes all over his arms and chest. His right leg had been stabbed, but it wasn't very deep. He couldn't hear any stomps of the skeletons' boots, they must have gone.

Link opened his eyes and shot up into a sitting position, ignoring the pain in his chest. He crawled up to Zelda's bed and moved the blankets out of the way. He looked under her bed and saw nothing.

Link gritted his teeth. No. I let them get away. They couldn't have gotten far. He stood up regardless the protesting pain in his body and moved as fast as he could out to the hallway.

Before he could go any further he saw someone. It was Tomi, white robe and all.

End of Part 6