Alone, he went.

Even though he made steady progress with his physicians, the memories of that day continued to haunt him, memories of the day on which HIS darkness completely held him, Link, within its grasp.

The mask had had powers that his mind could not comprehend.

But blaming it all on the mask would not help his cause, no.

IF he wanted to regain what he had lost, he would first have to acknowledge that he had in fact lost it. That, in the end there was no one else to blame then himself.

No matter how many excuses he could think of, it was him who had let it slip after all…\

He could still remember everything about his many quests, yet his days of darkness remained just that. Pure darkness, and he thanked his mind for it.

Oh how he longed for that ignorant state of bliss..

Every time Zelda visited him, he was reminded why he had to remember. For her, for them, for everything they had.

And he wouldn't back down this time.

After all he had gone through, he ended up the same way as he had started. Alone, unwanted, with a past better left unspoken. There was one change however.

In the begin, he had her, Saria, and a place to call his home. Now, he had none of that.

The boy travelled from town to town, country to country, fighting evil as he went.

But they never noticed him, not truly. The people he saved never noticed that under his hard and rough exterior, there still was a young boy, no matter how scarred he may have been. Some saw him as a legendary hero, some saw him as a monster. How could a child his age possibly withstand all he had gone through? He must have sold his soul to the deil.

The more miles he travelled, the more monsters he fought, the less people saw him as he was. Instead, they saw a monster, and for that, he couldn't blame them.

Whenever he entered a town, people would barricade their doors, keeping their children huddled close to them. Couldn't they see that he longed for someone that loved him, cared about him in the same way those people cared for their children?

And the whole way, the deity mask was poisoning his mind with thoughts of death and destruction. "He could make them pay for their foolishness." it whispered.

The voice in his head was harder to ignore with every mile he walked, every monster he fought, every town he visited.

And after 7 long years, he finally was allowed to return home, just as destiny was about to let him meet his doom.

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By the time he reached Hyrule, darkness had long since tainted his judging ability. As he walked through the country he had saved, his country, he saw that seven years of peace hadn't gone unexploited. New buildings and faces greeted him as he made his way forwards his unlikely destination.

Gerudo desert.

That very place had haunted his dreams ever since Princess Zelda had sent him back in time. He saw placed and faces there he was sure he hadn't seen through his own eyes. His curiosity got the best of him, he had to visit it again…It didn't help that it felt as if he was walking towards his impending doom though…

None the less, he figured out a plan to get into Gerudo Valley. So far, his brain had come up with two solutions :

Getting it down with a female Gerudo.

Sneaking in at night.

Somehow, option A didn't seem as attractive as it should have been, perhaps it was his possible death after the deed that made it seem that way. He didn't like option B either, but he simply didn't have any other options.

So Link hid, waiting for nighttime to come.

Luckilky for him, it was a cloudy night, hardly any moonlight shone through the darkness, hiding Link like a thick cloak. He managed to make his way past most of the guards, till he stumbled on another problem…

How on earth was he going to open the gate to the dessert without alerting someone of his presence?

He was already cursing himself and his luck when an idea struck him. He was going to force them to open the gate.

So he set their fortress ablaze….

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Within minutes, every Gerudo had fled and Link could safely pass the gate to the dessert. The mask told him not to feel sorry for setting their fortress ablaze. After all, they wore a bunch of stealing, murdering, dangerous females. The world would cheer if they were gone…

And then he saw her. Pale moonlight shone through her, showing Link that what he was seeing was no longer alive. It was a female his age, looking like a female version of himself.

Just paler.

Just as fast as he had seen her, she vanished.

With the help of the poe, he made his way to the Spirit temple, sitting down near the small oasis, only to find that he wasn't alone…..

A/n sorry, the first time I posted it, it was way too short and full of stupid mistakes…Hopefully, I fixed most of them.......