A/N: The picture I have in use is from dA by an artist lychi and the picture's name is just simply Zelda.
Also, another note: I do NOT own the characters or places unless said otherwise. Nintendo has the rights. =P Honestly speaking, all I have is the idea for the story, few monsters, creatures and bit of changing the places. Oh, and couple of OCs here and there. ^^; I'm certain everyone can figure out which belongs to me and which doesn't. =)
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Summary: Dark loves music and some songs he hears gets his imagination flying. The dark Hylian also loves to play with his illusion magic. With these two combined, something unique is created. (This chapter is also found from dA.)
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Enjoy the chapter! ^.^
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Situations from their lives
CHAPTER 7: Angels by Within Temptation
Dark was standing in dimly lit room. He had been there often before while practicing with his illusion magic. This time around he had borrowed a CD-player... Well, he kept telling himself that he had borrowed it and would return it before she'd notice a thing. The silvery machine was close to a wall and luckily it didn't work the way of being put into a wall since he didn't have those odd little things in the walls where that tail of the music box thingy would be put.
He had been thinking about doing this for a long while. The pictures and plans had formed in his mind to be very clear thoughts. He knew exactly what he was doing. And for his luck the Shadows were willing to help him to pull this through. And he would seriously need the help from them.
Dark closed his eyes and the room started to change very slowly. Nonetheless it didn't take long before it showed a rocky ground, crashed down houses, very dark sky and a castle. The castle was none other than Ganon's Castle. When the dark Hylian opened his eyes one of the Shadows pressed the play-button of the borrowed thing that was disguised as a random rock and right after that the song started. Dark had created black wings into his back by illusion. Those wings looked like they were stained with blood and even looked quite broken from few places.
Sparkling angel
I believe
You are my saviour
In my time of need
Dark just stood there while keeping his eyes cast into the ground. His wings were hanging and the right wing was nearly ripped. The light sound of someone's steps got him to raise his gaze up. An angel was walking towards him with a gentle smile. He had golden hair, greenish wings and blue eyes. He offered his hand to the dark Hylian.
As Dark accepted the offered help from the angel, the back wall of the room lit up slightly and started to flash with short scenes. Most of them were blurred and no focus but one jumped up from there. The second meeting between Link and Dark at the Water Temple. As the dark Hylian refused to fight and just walked back to the dead tree, the Hero followed him after very short hesitation and sat down next to him. It was the changing point of Dark's life.
Blinded by faith,
I couldn't hear
All the whispers,
The warnings so clear
Dark followed the light angel. He led the dark Hylian into much lighter castle and once he had calmed down, the angel started to work with the broken wings. Dark winced but let the light angel heal him and slowly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the light angel had already left. The dark Hylian sighed bit sorrowfully.
The wall at the back was changing the scenes. Now it showed different kind of Shadows that Dark had met throughout his life. Yet, one kept coming back from scene to scene. A dragon. Not exactly the most nicest one but the dragon had many conversations with the dark Hylian. In these days he knew. He knew that each talk he had had with the dragon had been a warning and slight hint of the future. He just hadn't understood them.
I see the angels,
I'll lead them to your door
There's no escape now,
No mercy no more
Dark walked down on the path away from the castle the angel had brought him into. There was two angels waiting for him as he walked forward. They stood up very slowly and looked at him. The first one on Dark's left had black wings, dark clothes and red eyes. The other one was the same angel that he had met earlier and his coloration was much lighter compared to the other angel he was with. The lighter angel had quite colorful but yet greenish wings. His clothes were similarly light even though the darkness of the evening was darkening the colors quite a much. The dark Hylian himself had the wings the lighter angel had fixed for him. He nodded to the duo and they started to follow him. The trio walked to the door of Ganon's Castle.
No remorse 'cause I still remember
The smile when you tore me apart
The three angels walked into the castle but when they entered the only room there was, a flash of flames burst out of nowhere in middle of the area and a demon rose up from its hiding. The demon had leather wings on his back and horns on his head. It was much taller than the angels even with the second dark angel being taller than Dark and the light angel. Before any of the trio had a chance to react, the demon had already shot towards them and crashed with Dark. As suddenly as the attack had come the duo was already in the air and the demon broke the dark Hylian's wing while smiling sadistically.
As this happened, there was flash of pictures at the back of the wall. Most were too blurred and over way too quickly to realize what had happened in them. But one flash came forth very clearly. In it Dark was screaming as a sword slashed at him and got him to crash harshly into the cold rock floor.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start
You showed me dreams,
I wished they'd turn into real
The demon let him fall with only one wing working but not being enough to slow his fall. Dark closed his eyes as he waited for the impact. The whole scene was done in slow motion thanks to the Shadows. As he fell, there came new scenes into the wall. This time they were much clearer and showed how Dark tried over and over again to escape from the castle. Freedom was something that had been promised to him so many times.
You broke the promise
And made me realize
It was all just a lie
Dark crashed to the floor quite harshly. The two angels he had with him were fighting with the monsters the demon had called out to keep them occupied as the demon itself tore their brother apart. As the dark Hylian laid in the floor the situations in the wall changed. In most of them the dark Hylian was locked up into a small room. Few showed how he was left among monsters that certainly looked eager to get their hands on him.
Sparkling angel,
I couldn't see
Your dark intentions,
Your feelings for me
The two angels finally came to his side. The lighter one raised him off of the floor as carefully as possible. The darker one looked worried but also fully enraged. As the lighter one pulled Dark to his lap, the darker one stood up and turned towards the demon. The dark angel pulled out a sword and shot into the air to face the demon while screaming in rage.
Fallen angel,
Tell me why
What is the reason,
The thorn in your eye?
The dark angel and the demon locked into a fierce fight. The demon pulled out a sword out of nowhere and the weapons clashed together. As the two fought in midair, the wall showed new parts. They weren't as clear as before but it was still easy to realize that it was flashes of Link fighting against different kind of monsters, mainly the bosses of different Temples. Few of the flashes showed some of the Sages too.
I see the angels
I'll lead them to your door
There's no escape now
No mercy no more
Slowly there came more of angels into the room. They had resemblances towards the people Dark knew. Haru was in there as well as couple of Princesses he had learned to know. Carefully, with the light angel's and one female angel's help, Dark stood up to watch the still going fight. The female next to him had wings that were mix of blue and green. She also had a crown that had two markings on it, the Triforce and a dragonfly.
No remorse 'cause I still remember
The smile when you tore me apart
Suddenly the demon struck hard against the dark angel. The hit got the angel start to fall downwards back first. Dark shot forward without caring of the fact that he couldn't fly. The lighter angel flew past him very swiftly to catch the falling angel. The dark Hylian returned back to the floor to wait for the two other angels to come down. As the duo lowered down to the floor, Dark ran straight to them in full worry.
The scenes in the wall changed once again. This time it only showed one thing in there. And that was the time when Ganondorf killed the young Dragmog the dark Hylian had found.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start
You showed me dreams,
I wished they'd turn into real
You broke the promise
And made me realize
It was all just a lie
Dark screamed in pure anger and shot to his wings. He ignored the agonizing pain in his broken wing as he flew to face the demon. The dark Hylian was crying and he didn't listen at all to the shouts for him to return back. He was fully blinded by the rage and hurt as he attacked against the demon with the full knowledge of not being able to win this fight.
The blurred scenes turned into flashes of pictures. A fight with monsters. Dark locked up in extremely small room. The dark Hylian being locked into the Water Temple. Accepting the fact that there was no way out of what he was living through.
Could have been forever
Now we have reached the end
Dark fought as fiercely as he could. He took very foolish and few even deadly risks as he tried to bring the demon down. Eventually the enemy got a grip of him and ripped the broken wing fully off of him. As that happened, the two other angels shot to their wings and attacked. As the duo fought together against the demon, couple of angels came to catch the dark Hylian.
The pictures turned into ongoing scene. It was the fight between Link and Ganondorf. It was surprisingly accurate even though it was done out of memory of what the Hero had told to Dark long ago.
This world may have failed you
It doesn't give you a reason why
You could have chosen
A different path in life
The two female angels carefully landed to the floor and helped Dark to sit down. He was bleeding quite heavily from the wound. Other one of the angels carefully placed her hand over the wound and started to heal it. It wouldn't bring the wing back but it would stop the bleeding and shut the gash.
The scene in the wall changed again. This time it showed two different scenes. One on the left showed what kind of hell Ganondorf had put Hyrule in. In the right side's scene was what could've been if Ganondorf hadn't taken the leadership by force and lies, or at least he could've ruled differently. The scenes were a thorough opposites to each other.
The smile when you tore me apart
The demon broke through the attacks and dived down. The enemy struck the two females off of the way before already taking Dark up from the floor. The two female angels shrieked but luckily weren't hurt as they crashed to the floor and stared horrified how the demon took the dark Hylian into the air. Once back in the air the demon ripped off the remaining wing from the dark Hylian. Right after that it let him fall. The two angels that had been fighting with the demon dived after Dark and caught him before he would've crashed to the floor.
The two scenes at the wall became one again and changed. It showed very swift flashes of both Ganondorf and the monsters striking the dark Hylian down. The scenes changed so quickly that it was hard to know if one had even seen a thing.
You took my heart,
Deceived me right from the start
You showed me dreams,
I wished they'd turn into real
You broke the promise
And made me realize
It was all just a lie
The two angels carefully lowered down to the floor. Dark refused to be laid down and instead he stood there while taking help from both of the angels next to him. It was clear that the duo was more than worried for his sake. The demon was smirking as it hovered in the air while waiting for the next attack.
Dark closed his eyes and the scenes in the wall turned into quick flashes. Each of them were showing times when Ganondorf deceived him and lied to him over and over again. All the given promises never came into reality.
Could have been forever
Now we have reached the end
The dark Hylian nodded and the two angels raised him into the air. Dark closed his eyes and slowly the two angels merged into him. Once he opened his eyes he had wings in back but they weren't his own. The left wing was bit bigger than the right one and it was black like his own wings had been. The right wing was greenish with slight mix of other colors. The demon was even more shocked when the dark Hylian pulled out two swords instead of one. After that he attacked and performed attacks that the two other angels knew. The fight was over much faster than could've believed.
Once the demon had crashed to the floor with two swords through its chest and vanished, Dark slowly lowered himself down to the floor. The two angels came back out which caused the dark Hylian to crash to all four on the floor. The angels gasped in slight shock and crouched down next to him. Carefully the duo helped him back to his feet.
Dark smiled as he closed his eyes and let the angels keep him upright. "I'm not alone. I got family and friends." He thought, opened his eyes and grinned a bit in near smirk. "But you were always alone. That's why you fell. Monsters aren't reliable... But family is."
As he closed his eyes again, the illusion started to vanish and Dark crashed to his knees. He wasn't hurt at all but he was panting a bit while smiling. "I got my revenge... Through the only way I can get it..." The dark Hylian thought and chuckled a bit. The Shadows came in front of him and nodded once before they already left. Dark just simply nodded back. "And didn't even need to pay to them." He thought with a slight grin.
Once he had calmed down long enough, the dark Hylian stood up and went to put the CD-player off. After that he checked the room before starting to leave it. At the door he gave one last look at the room, let the fires die, closed the door and left to return the odd device he had borrowed without having asked for the rights. "I just hope I won't get into trouble over this..."
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