Aloy releases her tearblast arrow and it strikes the Calamity Ganon in the face. The arrow makes the telltale droning buzz and explodes, stunning the Calamity Ganon. Link attacks with the Master Sword and loud ringing clangs fill the air as he repeatedly strikes the Calamity Ganon. Link backs away and Aloy follows up with the release of her last tearblast arrow, hitting the Calamity Ganon to stun it once again so that Link can repeat his attack.

The Calamity Ganon recovers and this time swings its massive orange sword in the attempt to hit them both, but Link manages to dodge by rolling as does Aloy when that huge orange blade passes over them.

That sword looks like it could knock out my Shield Weaver with just one blow! She thought apprehensively.

The Calamity Ganon attempts to grab her with its claw bladed hand, but she manages to hold it back with her hunter bow. Link slashes that hand, causing it to release her, then swings his Hylian Shield just in time to deflect the pincers that were about to tear into him. Link follows through with a swing of the Master Sword to unleash a cresent shaped blast of energy at the Calamity Ganon to stun it.

Time to use the ancient arrows! Aloy thought while quickly nocking one in her bow. Better use them one at a time so I don't run out too soon!

Aloy launches several arrows in succession, all of which hit the Calamity Ganon to stun it. It next lifts its huge orange sword high into the air and brings it down in a chop, creating trails of fire. One of which does hit Aloy, causing her Shield Weaver to absorb some damage.

Link rushes in once again with the Master Sword. He hacks and slashes the Calamity Ganon some more, and is forced to retreat as he almost gets struck by the scythe-like ancient blade on one of the Calamity Ganon's appendages.

The Calamity Ganon next races toward the wall and crawls up it, while still facing the duo.

"I really was expecting it to do that!" Aloy yelled as she has another arrow ready.

The Calamity Ganon moves along the wall, then stops to take aim with its cannon for a leg. It shoots a beam at Link, who manages to deflect the beam elsewhere in time as the Calamity Ganon turns out to be a quicker shot than the Guardians, or even its Blights. Aloy launches several more arrows at Calamity Ganon, which in turn takes potshots at her with blasts of blue bolts from its cannon, then at Link, alternating between the two. One of those bolts hits Aloy to send her flying, her Shield Weaver absorbing the impact.

The Calamity Ganon swings its huge orange sword twice, creating two tornadoes. The duo run far away from them and around in order to avoid them. The Calamity Ganon takes that opportunity to do pot shots with its cannon once again, forcing the duo to run to the other side of the chamber. The Calamity Ganon catches up with them as it crawls along the wall, all while shooting at them. It next jumps off the wall and lands to create a small explosion in its immediate vicinity, but the duo are far enough from it.

The Calamity Ganon takes aim at Link once again with its cannon, and Aloy runs close with another ancient arrow and releases, but the Calamity Ganon is quicker as it holds up its huge orange sword and the arrow explodes harmlessly against its blade. It shoots Link, who manages to shield himself.

Aloy suddenly goes flying from a massive blow of the Calamity Ganon's orange sword on a backhand. She goes flying all the way across the room and ends up hitting the wall painfully and gets the wind knocked out of her because of her Shield Weaver having been drained by that sword blow. She gasps as she struggles to stand.

So I was right . . . ! Damn . . . ! Any harder and that . . . would've knocked me out . . . or worse . . . ! Shield's down . . . ! Gotta . . . keep moving or . . . I'll be killed!

Aloy witnesses the Calamity Ganon now holding Link aloft in its normal arm, effectively pinning his arms against his body to prevent him from swinging the Master Sword. She takes a deep breath and hoists her bow while clumsily nocking another arrow.

She releases, then just as quickly manages to grab that arrow by its very end before it is almost free of her bow. The Calamity Ganon had raised Link to use as a shield.

If . . . I had been an instant too late . . . ! As that horrifying image looms in her mind.

In that instance, Aloy lunges forward and twists on a reflex to face a blue blur that is flying toward her side. She manages to stop whatever it was from hitting her, only to go flying as the blow is jarred through her bow. It was the Calamity Ganon's scythe-like sword that she had managed to block at its base, preventing the blade from cleaving her bow or herself in two. She rolls along the floor, then hazards a look to see that it has its claw bladed hand raised high as the Calamity Ganon stares down at her. Aloy leaps away once again just as that claw bladed hand slashes into the floor with a crunch, cleaving stone and sending up flecks of rock. She is forced to keep rolling away, all while barely managing to avoid getting grabbed or slashed by that claw bladed hand that goes up and down in quick succession.

The attack suddenly stops as she hears a roar eminating from the Calamity Ganon and she manages to roll to her feet to gain her footing while turning to face it. Link struggles in the grip of its normal arm as the Master Sword in his hand glows brighter, causing the Calamity Ganon to wince and look away.

With a shout of rage, Link unleashes a whirlwind of electricity that is Urbosa's Fury as the spirit of the Gerudo Champion rises to cause the Calamity Ganon to shriek and drop him. Link rolls away and to his feet as he runs up alongside Aloy.

"That was much too close!" Aloy shouted with relief.

The Calamity Ganon roars again and this time an orange field of light envelopes it then disappears, leaving it glowing orange. Aloy releases another arrow at the Calamity Ganon, only for the arrow to explode harmlessly against it. Link tells Aloy that it now has a forcefield like Daruk's Shield.

"Great! So how're we gonna fight it!" Aloy exclaimed.

The Calamity Ganon crawls up on the wall once again, then next throws its ancient spear at them. It then creates a ball of fire that grows by the second and releases it at the duo, growing bigger by the second. Aloy launches an arrow at the fireball, causing it to explode and almost knock Aloy and Link off their feet. The duo just barely avoid getting crushed by the Calamity Ganon when it jumped off the wall at them as they had to run and throw themselves far and roll. Aloy turns in time to see the red beam from its cannon shining on herself, growing thicker by the second. There is a blue flash and it quickly gets deflected as Link had managed to stand between her and its cannon to deflect the beam back at the Calamity Ganon. The beam destroys the Calamity Ganon's shield and stun it. Aloy, with her spear now out, and Link run over to hack, slash, and stab the Calamity Ganon. To Aloy it feels as if she is stabbing a stone wall.

The Calamity Ganon gets up and reforms its forcefield, then climbs up the wall yet again. Link is quick to run toward the Calamity Ganon as it stays on the lower part of the wall. The Calamity Ganon swings its huge orange sword and Link brings up Daruk's Shield, causing it to be parried and destroys the Calamity Ganon's forcefield while cancelling out Link's own forcefield in the process. The Calamity Ganon falls to the floor and Aloy is quick to join in Link's attack by unleashing more arrows upon it while being careful to aim at the side away from Link so that he will not be struck by the blasts.

Aloy discovers that she has run out of arrows and is forced to put away her bow and watch as Link keeps hacking and slashing the Calamity Ganon. The ringing clangs of the sword striking the abomination repeatedly fills the air.

The Calamity Ganon gets up, but starts bleeding Malice. Link backs away to stand next to Aloy.

"Please let that be it!" Aloy exclaimed to Link.

The Calamity Ganon screeches as Malice continues gushing out like waterfalls from several places of its being. It finally explodes into a ball of rapidly expanding bright purple light. The duo shield their eyes as the blastwave washes over them. Upon dimming, Aloy and Link look to see the Calamity Ganon now in the form of a seething cloud of Malice. The cloud rises upward and is gone.

"Is it . . . over?!" Aloy gasped.

That is when she notices light motes appearing around Link and herself. Bright light overwhelms her eyes and the next thing she is aware of is being outside on Hyrule Field with Link alongside her. They face Hyrule Castle, now no longer shrouded in Malice. There is even a horse nearby.

Aloy suddenly gasps and tenses with a fearful expression as a growing feeling of horror seems to slide across her, staring from the back of her head.

"Link," she rasped in a tone to match her feeling. "Are you feeling what I'm feeling right now?"

Link admits it so in that same tone and together they slowly turn around to see the cloud of Malice behind them. This time of greater intensity than it was back when it was engulfing Hyrule Castle as it radiates an even stronger feeling of hatred and rage that seems to burn through the duo.

A slow rasping rumble emerges from that cloud that makes the duo feel as if sand paper is being slowly rubbed across their brains. The voice of Zelda is heard as the Malice begins to take on a horrifying shape.

GANON . . . GANON . . . GANON WAS BORN OUT OF A DARK PAST. HE IS A PURE EMBODIMENT OF THE ANCIENT EVIL THAT IS REBORN TIME AND TIME AGAIN . . . HE HAS GIVEN UP ON REINCARNATION AND ASSUMED HIS PURE, ENRAGED FORM. IF SET FREE UPON OUR WORLD THE DESTRUCTION WILL BE UNLIKE ANYTHING EVER SEEN BEFORE.

Standing before Aloy and Link is the Dark Beast Ganon. Its form is that of a boar the size of a Horus. The duo have to squint to look at it due to the brilliance of both its blazing purple mane that runs down its back and its glowering purple eyes that seem to pierce their souls. The Dark Beast Ganon utters a roar that sounds like a thunderclap that feels even more terrible than the roar it gave as the Calamity Ganon.

"I," Aloy gasped feebly with a horrified look as her courage barely hangs by a thread, "I don't think our weapons are gonna hurt it anymore!"

The voice of Zelda is heard once again as something shining floats down from out of seemingly nowhere.

I ENTRUST YOU BOTH WITH THE BOW OF LIGHT-A POWERFUL WEAPON IN THE FACE OF EVIL. LINK . . . YOU MAY NOT YET BE AT A POINT WHERE YOU HAVE FULLY RECOVERED YOUR POWER OR ALL OF YOUR MEMORIES . . . BUT COURAGE NEED NOT BE REMEMBERED . . . FOR IT IS NEVER FORGOTTEN . . . ALOY . . . YOU WERE SNATCHED FROM YOUR WORLD. A WORLD THAT SUFFERED LIKE OURS DID . . . BUT YOUR PRESENCE HERE IS NO ACCIDENT.

Between the duo and the Dark Beast Ganon is a silvery bow that resembles a cresent moon worked with intricate design and nocked with a silver arrow with a cresent moon tip.

The Dark Beast Ganon tenses up as a brightness appears in its mouth, showing that it is about to attack them. Link yells for Aloy to get on the horse with him as he jumps up onto its back. Aloy runs over as well and springs up, then lands on its back too behind Link.

"Leave the shooting to me!" Aloy shouted. "Now get to that bow!"

Link puts the horse into motion and it gallops toward the bow. Aloy can feel the rippling motion of muscle underneath her, along with the horse's warmth. It is not like riding a Broadback as they felt cool underneath her and their synthetic muscles much firmer. Moreover, this is a living creature instead of a machine, so it will not be as predictable. Aloy stretches down with an outstretched arm with hand wide open and fingers splayed as they get closer to the Bow of Light by the second. There is another thunderous roar from Dark Beast Ganon that threatens to shake her courage, along with an increasing brightness.

"Got it!" Aloy shouted as she finally snatches up the Bow of Light as fast as she can.

Link turns the horse away just as a bright beam of purple light strikes the ground behind them where they had been. They can feel the intense heat of that beam.

"That beam would've vaporized even me with my Shield Weaver at full power! Keep us along its side!"

Link makes the horse gallop past the Dark Beast Ganon, down its flank toward its rear.

"Alright!" Aloy exclaimed as she takes general aim at the Dark Beast Ganon with the Bow of Light. "This should be easy!"

She releases and the arrow flies into the Dark Beast Ganon's body, but nothing happens.

"Well of course it won't be easy!" Aloy exclaimed sarcastically. "How stupid of me to think it would!"

Another arrow appears in the bow, ready to be shot.

"Now that's convenient!" Aloy exclaimed happily as she stares at that new arrow.

Link rides behind but away from the Dark Beast Ganon, which spews another purple beam of light, burning up the vegetation before it. It raises its head so that the beam shoots at an upward diagonal. Link slows the horse to a canter as they turn around to have a look at the horror before them. Rain now falls.

"Wha-What do we do now?!" Aloy gasped as a sense of hopelessness creeps into her. "Hades was a passive evil and housed in a device that I could destroy. But this is an active evil we're up against that has no weaknesses!"

That is when the voice of Zelda is heard once again.

THAT ENERGY COVERING GANON'S BODY IS CALLED MALICE. NONE OF YOUR ATTACKS WILL GET THROUGH AS HE NOW IS . . . I WILL HOLD THE MALICE BACK AS MUCH AS I CAN, BUT MY POWER IS WANING. ATTACK ANY GLOWING POINTS THAT YOU SEE . . . ! MAY YOU BE VICTORIOUS!

Zelda goes silent once again. The Dark Beast Ganon begins turning in their direction. It is slow, but each footstep is like a rumble of thunder that sends a slight quake through the ground with each trample.

"Come on, Zelda! You said you were gonna do something about it!" Aloy pleaded.

As if in answer, three large intricatedly crafted circles with triangles in them appear on its side.

SHOOT A GLOWING AREA!

"Right! Let's go Link!" Aloy proclaimed hopefully as she hoists the Bow of Light.

Link makes the horse gallop toward the Dark Beast Ganon and go down its side to prevent their selves from getting in its range of fire. Upon getting close, Aloy takes aim at one of the targets, then releases. The arrow strikes it, causing it to melt away. She grins and hopes for another arrow to appear. Another one does so that Aloy can take aim at another target, release, and that arrow hits true. Another arrow appears and she repeats to strike the last one.

GANON'S POWER IS WEAKENING!

The duo ride around the back and on the other side, but there are no glowing spots to target. Link again slows the horse to a canter so as not to tire it out. The Dark Beast Ganon continues to slowly turn toward them.

"Anytime now, Zelda!" Aloy called.

I'M HOLDING BACK THE MALICE!

As three more of those previous targets appear and Link has the horse gallop once again up alongside the Dark Beast Ganon. Aloy shoots each of the targets.

IT'S WORKING!

Link canters the horse in pace with the Dark Beast Ganon's turning toward them as it continues spewing that purple beam of destruction that burns the landscape before it in a line.

HURRY, ALOY!

Another glowing area appears on the abomination, only this time on its underbelly.

"Link, stop the horse!" Aloy shouted, causing Link to do so.

Aloy jumps off and runs up to the Dark Beast Ganon as Link yells at her to be careful. She runs as fast as she can toward the Dark Beast Ganon and just as she is about to run underneath it, she does a slide while aiming upward and releases the arrow. She hits the target and Zelda is heard.

WE'RE SO CLOSE!

Aloy gets up and runs back to Link before the Dark Beast Ganon can react to her presence underneath it. Link canters toward her and stops long enough for Aloy to spring up and onto its back behind him. Link admonishes Aloy that it was a foolish move as he puts the horse into a canter once again.

"It was the only way to get a clear shot!" Aloy countered. "And besides, I've done that hundreds of times before on large machines!"

Link steers the horse away from the Dark Beast Ganon so as not to come under its direct line of fire. Aloy now thinks to scan Dark Beast Ganon and ends up seeing something inside it. A faint glow of light perks her curiosity.

I wonder what that is? I didn't see that before when it was in that other form.

Seconds pass as nothing else happens, save for the Dark Beast Ganon shuffling around to get sight of them and fry them with its beam.

"Ah, Zelda, if you can hear me!" Aloy called. "Right about now would be a good time to make another target appear!"

There is only silence, until Zelda finally speaks.

LINK! ALOY! LOOK UP THERE!

A bright light shines on top near its head.

THAT'S THE VERY CORE OF GANON'S BEING! DO WHAT YOU MUST, LINK! ALOY!

"It looks like I'll have to attack it from above!" Aloy said.

Link then tells her that he got this and will use Revali's Gale to get up there. He next gets off the horse and turns to hold out his hands for Aloy to give him the Bow of Light. Aloy gets off the horse to stand before Link.

"This I wanna see!" Aloy stated as she hands him the bow.

The duo hurry away from the horse and Link kneels down with Aloy by his side. He jumps, prompting Aloy to do so and both whip out their respective paragliders to be carried high into the air by Revali's Gale. They now have a bird's eye view of the Dark Beast Ganon as they glide toward it. They notice a bright slit on its back. Aloy watches as Link whips out the Bow of Light and takes several shots in rapid succession. The slit on the Dark Beast Ganon's back opens wide to reveal a black eye with a vertical pupil wreathed in yellow. They hear Zelda.

NOW, LINK!

Link releases another arrow and it strikes the eye, causing the Dark Beast Ganon to roar in pain. The duo land and watch the Dark Beast Ganon continuing to writher and roar in pain. A bright light shoots up from out of its back.

The light fades to reveal Zelda.

"It's her!" Aloy gasped to Link while pointing at her.

They watch as Zelda slowly descends to the ground before the Dark Beast Ganon. She looks up at the entity that she was imprisoned within for the past one hundred years. A blast of bright light radiates from Zelda, making Aloy and Link squint and look away for a moment. The Dark Beast Ganon roars and begins disintegrating into black purplish mist, taking on the form it had when it was flying around outside and within the perimeter of Hyrule Castle. It roars and swoops low over the trio and rises. Zelda raises her hand high and a glow eminates from her open palm. A burst of light expands like an explosion, passing over Aloy and Link to cause them to wince, but they can still see through it. The duo can see three triangles within that light hovering near Zelda so that it forms a larger inverted triangle within the empty area between the three triangles. The light continues expanding and the Calamity Ganon tries to avoid it, but gets caught by the light and dissolves.

The light instantly shrinks into a small ball in midair above Zelda, leaving flashing dots before Aloy's eyes. The dots clear and Aloy is able to see the now darkened ball fade away into nothing. The sky begins to clear as the day brightens. Zelda looks at Hyrule Castle.

"Now it is over!" Aloy rasped with relief, then she and Link walk up to Zelda.

"I've been keeping watch over the both of you all this time," Zelda said with her back still to them. "I've witnessed your struggles to return to us as well as your trials in battle. I always thought-no, I always believed-that you two would find a way to defeat Ganon."

Zelda turns around to regard them. Aloy is keen to record her in her focus.

"I never lost faith in you, Link, over these years . . . And I didn't lose faith in you either, Aloy . . . Thank you, Link, Aloy . . . The heroes of Hyrule. Link, may I ask . . . Do you really remember me?"

There is a moment of silence as Link inhales and opens his mouth.

Zelda is the name he speaks, causing Zelda to smile.

That tree was right, she really does have a smile like the sun. Aloy noted.

"Ah, not to spoil the mood or sound selfish," Aloy next said as she briefly raises her hand. "But what about me . . . ? When do I get to go back to my world?"

"That will be right now, Aloy," Zelda answered.

Aloy notices light motes starting to appear around herself, but not Link.

"Oh, so I guess this is it then," Aloy said to Link and makes sure to get one last recording of him on her focus. "Well . . . It was fun while it lasted."

Link smiles sadly as he too tells her that he is also thankful for her help.

"Goodbye Link," Aloy said sadly.

Link also bids Aloy a sad goodbye. Light is now all that Aloy can see.

Aloy gasps intensely as if suffocating and almost hits the ground face first, but her reflexes prevent that as she throws her hands out at the oncoming ground. She remains on her hands and knees as her heart beats quickly. It was the same as back when she had first entered Hyrule.

She takes a deep breath and stands while blinking hard to dispel the last of the light motes from her eyes. Her vision clears and can now see that she is at the ruins of her "mother's" home. She looks up at the sky for a moment to see that it is a clear morning and looks back down at the grave. She notices that the coloration of the dirt matches the rest of the landscape.

That discoloration and compression. Aloy mused. Something like that takes days to accomplish.

"Was I really gone for a month?!" Aloy said with bemusement.

She turns her attention to her satchels and starts rummaging through them to find food that was prepared in Hyrule, along with a single rupee of purple coloration that she takes out. She stares at it for a moment, then clasps it between her hands and holds it against her chest as she stares up at the sky with a feeling that something wonderful had come to an end.