Chapter 18-
As the four of them entered Papara, Link looked around nervously, expecting a monster ambush at any moment. He had to keep reminding himself to trust Din's judgement, and keep moving forward. Ralf stayed close to Nayru, keeing a protective watch over her, while Din wandered ever forward, a lost look on her face. She seemed to know excatly where they where they were going, so the others could only follow.
As they silently rode the elevator to the lower floor, Nayru's long ears suddenly perked up. "Link.... I feel a powerful presence down here." Following the mesemerized Din forward the columned halls of the palace, they soon came out of the Darkness, and into a large, well-lit chamber. There, they saw hundreds of Fairys flying around a large Fairy Fountain. The water fromthe small reflectice pool reflected off the ceiling, creating a beautiful moving pattern of blue.
"Amazing." Ralf gawked.
"I've been to many fairy fountains before." Link wispered. "Even the fountain of Venus, Queen of all Fairies. But I've seen anyting like this."
And there, from the center of the pool, emerged a great fairy- one unlike any that the Hero had ever seen. She wore a sublime red skirt, and had a pair of glowing transluscent wings coming out her back. Ears longer than any Hylian's, and red hair the color of Autum leaves. Both her wings and the room seemed to shift to the four colors of the Seasons. Awestruck, the four adventurers swore they had never seen a creature this lovely before in all of thier lives.
"Greetings, Oracles of the Ages and Seasons. Greetings, hero of cataclysm's eve. I have long been expecting you."
"Who.... who are you?" Din asked softly. "You feel so familar..."
"I should feel familiar to you, my child." The fairy said with a soft Smile. "For I am the Great Fairy of Seasons, the source of your power."
The four adventurers stood in shock for a moment, before Link bent down on one knee in reverence. "Great Fairy, we are deeply honored by your presence. We had no idea your fairy fountain was here. We came to Papara Palace to find-"
"My Fountain changes locations as often as the seasons change." The Fairy replied sadly. "And the transformation masks that you seek have been taken by your shadow."
The Hero cursed uder his breath, while Nayru asked. "But what does he intend to use them for?"
The water in the pool rippled, and created an image of Shadow Link's monstorous cloud. "He has stolen all the enchanted atifacts of Hyrule's past, in order to make this evil malignancy." The image rippled, and shifted to show the destruction of Southern Hyrule.
"Great Faeore!" Ralf wailed. "All those people!"
"Saralsha..." Link said sadly, staring at the image.
Din fought back against her sadness, and wiped her tear-stained face. "Great Fairy, how can we stop this evil from consuming Hyrule?"
"The power to stop this blight lies whithin my chosen Oracle, named for the goddess Din - it lies within you, my child." The great Fairy replied. "You must dispel the storm of evil with a mighty torrent of justice."
"We need to get to Death Mountian!" Link yelled. "I'm gonna take that shadowy freak down once and for all!"
"No need to rush out the door my Hero." The Great Fairy told him. "I, myself, shall transport you there."
Witout another word, the four adventurers then vanished in a flash of light.
-death mountain-
"Intruders! Intruders! Kill them! Destroy them"
"Look out, everyone! We're here, and we've got company!"
Link and the others had appreared near the entrance to the Tower of Hera, and all hell had immediately broken loose. Link and Ralf drew thier swords, and leaped straight into battle against the charging swarm of moblins and crashed on blade, and monster after monster vanished in explosions of smoke. Nayru held up an Ethier medallion- and launched a powerful barrage of light blasts that vaporized a horde of Keese warming down on them from the skies.
"Be careful, Nayru!" Ralf called out, stabbing a Bokoblin through the chest. "I don't want to lose you!"
"You too, Ralf!" Nayru replied, zapping an Iron Knucle. "Annoying as you may be, I don't wan't to lose you, ethier!"
Ralf looked up at her in shock, then grinned, and dove back into the meele in a righteous fury.
It was then that shadow Link emerged from the Tower, and began to approach the group. Link fulled away from the main fight, and marched up to his shadowy twin.
"Don't be stupid, boy." The Shadow scowled. "Many of your ancestors tried to vanquish me, and many more have perished on my blade!"
"I'm going to kill you, Shadow Link, for all the lives you've taken, and all the people you've hurt. " The Hero snarled. "I swear this time I'm going to kill you."
"We'll see about that!" the Shadow snarled back.
The two of them dove at each other, thier swords smashing up against each other with a clap of thunder. Link dodged a swing of the Shadow's blade, then rolled out behind him to cut him with a back slice. The Shadow parried the blow then jumped on the Hero's sword.
"That the best you've got?" Shadow Link snarled, slashing the Hero across the face.
"Aragh!" The Hero cried out, jumping backwards, and knocking the shadow off of his sword. Shadow Link lunged forward again, Forcing Link's the Hero back. "I'm not through yet!" Tossing his shield away, Link pulled out a Magic Hammer in his right hand. "I got this from the goron Tribe in Labyrinia... though I'm sure you recognize it!"
"The Megaton Hammer!" Shadow Link hissed. He Slashed the Hero again, and Link blocked him with the Master Swordand the Hammer. Link then slammed the ground with the Hammer, sending out a Shcokwave, and knocked the Shadow off of his feet.
Seizing the adventage, the Hero lunged at his shadowy opponent, and shatterted his shield with the Hammer. Knocking Shadow Link's sword away, he stood over the defeated monster.
"I know of your crimes throughout history." Link slashed at the Shadow across the arm. "This is for the hero of time!" He slashed him across the leg. "This is for the Hero of Wind's sister, Aryll!" He then stabbed him in the Abodemen and the jugular, spilling his black blood eveywhere. "And that's for the destuction of Karakiko and Katsuto towns!"
"AAAGGRAAAAHH!" Shaow Link wailed in Agony, as the Master sword chopped into him again and again. "Stop it! Just finish me, and end this torture!"
Standing over the Shadow with his sword drawn, Link looked like he was about to do just that. But then, he suddenly looked away, and walked away from Shadow Link.
"Wait, what're you-" It was then that Shadow Link noticed the Dark Mirror lying against a rock. T\He realized with horror that the Thrunbderbird and the other generals must have gotten it out of the Tower, and brought it out here.
They had betrayed him.
The twilight Mirror was already gone forever, destroyed by Midna long ago! If this one was shattered too....
"NO!" Shadow Link screamed in a panic "DON'T!" "I'll let you live this time, Shadow Link." The Hero said calmly raising his hammer high over his head. He brought the hammer down on the Mirror of Darkness, shattering into a thousand unretrivable pieces. "But you had best take care of this life, for it is your last."
The Hero walked away, and left the wounded shadow to crawl away, drenched in a pool of his own blood.
Atop the Mountain, Din began to chant, summoning up a great wind that blew across Hyrule. The wind began to battle against the great cloud of death, and pushed back and forth against it in a great battle of nature itself. Finally, the Mighty wind began to push it out of the valley, and up towards the peaks of Death Mountain.
"Everybody, lets get out of here, Now!"
Link, Din, Nayru, and Ralf all fled into one of the Caves on Death Mountian. The cloud climed high onto the mountain's peak, and devoured the army of monsters that had taken refuge on the peak. Moblins, Goriyas, and Darknuts cried out in agony, and turned to dust. Even the mighty Tower of Hera came down with a mighty crash, dissolving into nothing as it fell.
Finally, having spent he last of it's rage, the great living cloud dissolved into nothing, and dissapated. The battle had finally come to an end.