Chap 8: Links Awakening
(A/N) Hello everyone! It came to my attention, while reading chapter 7, that I was slightly inconsistent. I said there were ten in the tent where Dimesia was initially held, then said there were twelve. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. I also stated that Link and Dark Link were in the Zora camp. They are in fact 200 meters south. Hope you enjoy!
Italics means thoughts or someone is speaking sharply, or it means someone has spoken Hylian. It can also mean a flashback. Bold means an author's note, which I will seldom use. Underlined text implies importance. I am unlikely to remember that. Have fun!
Oh, and I don't own any piece of The Legend of Zelda. I own, literally, more air than Zelda.
"What the fuck?!" Link screamed when he saw the huge amount of dead Zora soldiers. Dark didn't understand what Link said, but he came running when he heard the scream. He stopped dead in his tracks when he came upon the sight of the massacred Zora. Some were dismembered, some were decapitated, some were cut, and some were twisted in strange ways. It sickened both of them greatly. Dark held his stomach while Link released the contents of his stomach. "Who did this?" Dark asked with a light tone, feeling as though simply raising his voice might make him puke. "Who do you think?" Link responded. "Oh Gods…" Link said. He began walking forward while Dark looked on confusedly. Link began to walk on the perimeter of the bodies. He began to shake his head as he reached the formation that looked like an "I". After a bit more tracing he began vigorously shaking his head while muttering "no." "No, no, no, no, No, No, NO, NO!" he screamed.
"What?" Dark asked. Link dropped to his knees and began to sob deeply. Dark crouched down beside him and asked what bothered him so much. "It says 'Saria'," he said. The two then heard a high-pitched laughter from nearby. They both instinctively rose and drew their weapons to find Dimesia standing not twenty feet away. "Hello Link, Dark," she said while nodding to both. Link rushed towards her, but stopped dead in his tracks when Dimesia conjured Saria from the Netherworld she had been placed in. "Saria!" Link exclaimed. Saria's ears perked up and she lifted her head slightly to see Link. "Link!" she shouted. Link sprinted forward but again stopped when he noticed that Dimesia was hurting Saria. "Don't hurt her!" he shouted. Link was seething with rage, unbelievably angry at Dimesia, and with fear for what Dimesia'd do with Saria.
Dimesia dropped Saria who, after days of not eating, didn't have the strength to stand. She just struggled to her knees. Link dropped his sword and shield and rushed to Saria's aid. He helped her up and began to walk away when he felt a searing pain in his right shoulder. He yelled and looked right to see what was causing the pain, and his eyes widened when he saw that he was assisting a Re-Dead. He punched it in the stomach and kicked it away, producing two feminine groans of pain. "Dark! Help!" he shouted. He looked to where Dark should've been but instead found a fast approaching huge Stalchild. He began backing away and tripped on a spare corpse. He then began to crawl away while gradually rising to a sprint. The Stalchild was chasing Link ruthlessly, and bit the Re-Dead in half just because it could.
By now Link had already run the distance of a football field, and the Stalchild was hot on his trail. "No! Get away!" he screamed at it. He turned to see how far away it was and tripped on a log for not paying attention. The Stalchild quickly closed in and picked Link up in his hand. "No! Din, Nayru, Farore, please help!" he screamed. But no help came. The Stalchild shoved Link into his mouth and ate him slowly, making sure Link suffered.
"What's wrong with him?" Ruto asked Dark as the two watched Link having an amazingly terrible dream. "I don't know. He's been sweating profusely for a long time, and he started thrashing and doing all this other shit. I have no clue what's going on in his head, but it's really fucking with him." Ruto frowned and began to walk away with tears stinging her eyes. She suddenly felt a hand grab her arm. She turned to see Dark, smiling for the first time since she'd first met him. "He's gonna be okay. I swear," he said. "You swear too much," she replied. They both chuckled and Ruto felt some of the weight Links injuries had placed on her shoulders disappear.
The two spent some time like this before Dark suddenly reacted on pure impulse. He pulled her closer, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her. She was surprised at his sudden actions, but did not object. The stayed like this for the next seven seconds. When they finally, slowly, pulled apart, both felt immeasurably better than they had a few minutes ago. "I have to go put ice on him. I'll be right back," Dark said as he turned away. He did just that, and was back forty seconds later. The two sat on the walls of their tent, holding each other in their arms, enjoying each other's company.
They slept there, so deep in each other's embrace that neither woke when the storm began, nor noticed the dark, wet figure slink in through the slightly open flap that served as a door. It looked towards the two lovers and smiled, not a sweet smile, but an insane smile, one that showed two razor sharp fangs. Its eyes twinkled brilliantly with insanity. It shook its head, still smiling, at the two "guards". It walked over to Link, who had recently regained consciousness but not speech or movement. It picked him up and walked back out the 'door'. In the moonlight one could very clearly see that the creature was in fact Dimesia (shocker). Where she was hauling Link off to, nobody knew. Why it was after Link, nobody knew. When she would kill him, nobody knew. Simply put, nobody knew anything about this evil demigod.
When Dark woke first, because he always wakes up first, he felt a strange lack of presence in the tent. He cast his eyes at the spot where Link should've been and saw that he was missing. He gasped and stood up quickly and violently, throwing Ruto off him in the process. "Link?! Link?! Where are you Link?!" he shouted outside. "What happened?" Ruto asked. "Link's missing!" Dark shouted. The storm had since stopped, but the wet ground had yet to dry. Dark noticed this and brought it up to Ruto. "We have to follow the trail," he said. "It probably leads to some sort of terrible dungeon. If you go, I'm not." Dark was noticeably annoyed by this. "Fine then! Stay, go back to the Zora Domain, or go jump into the canyon! I don't fuckin' care! I'm leaving to get him, regardless of whatever shitty decisions you make!" Ruto was visibly hurt by this and stormed past Dark, scowling. Dark crouched and sighed deeply. He stood up and began to follow the trail of footprints, thankful that they seemed to follow a fairly linear path. They led him down the mountain (the events of the Zora camp and the events following that before the DarkxRuto section were a dream), through Hyrule Field to a hole in the ground.
Nothing could prepare him for the sight he would see when he finally hit the ground.
Holy crap! What happened to Link?! Where is he, what will happen to him?! Is he even still alive? What did Dark see? . Stay tuned to find out. If you guys have theories as to what happened, PM me about it. I posted this a bit early because I wanted to see what you guys thought of where it was going, and where it's been. The root of Dimesia is "Dim" which is close to the "Dem" in Dementia. Just a fun fact. Please review, it lets me know whether or not I suck. It also lets me know if I rule, which I'd love to hear about. Until then, if there are no questions, I'm out. Peace.