Fan Fiction ❯ I found my other half ❯ Making up his mind ( Chapter 3 )

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It wasn't exactly easy to get Dark Link inside Impa's house. The little boy kicked and struggled for all he was worth.

Between all the sobbing and screaming, Link could make out a few words like: "I want my daddy" and "Let me go!" But the gerudo queen had taken off her velvet gloves and was merciless.

She dragged him inside with gritted teeth and hard words.

"L-Let go of m-meee! "The shadow begged as he was dragged over the doorstep.

The tall Shadow sage stared at her friend as if the queen and the hero of time suddenly had grown another head on their shoulders.

"Let go!"

Naboruu did just that, she dropped-Or more like tossed- him down. Dark Link landed with his full weight on the dusty floor with a pained 'oof', and immediately curled up in a defensive ball,

His eyes tightly shut while he rubbed his sides, trying to soothe the soaring pain his body was assaulted by.

His small body shook with silent sobs as the child called for the gerudo king, who was doomed in the sacred realm.

"D-daddy!"

" Quiet! The whole town will think that we're violating you or something!" Naboruu hissed through clenched teeth, even if it wasn't possible that anyone could hear her through the thick stone walls of Impas house.

"Naboruu, what are you doing!?" Impa yelled and covered her mouth which had fallen open by the shock.

"isn't that D-"

"Dark Link, yes!" Link hurried and closed the door behind himself, hoping that no one had seen him with the gerodu.

He had a good reputation in the little Village,

People looked upon him as a kind and young man,

What would they think if they saw him looking at Naboruu while she beat up Dark Link, which was in their eyes, a small and helpless child.

Impa shook her head in disbelief.

"Link, please, don't tell me that you HELPED her!" She asked.

Link chewed on his lip and looked down on the floor, the carpet had suddenly become so much more interesting than Impa's accusing eyes. He wrung his hands nervously behind his back

"N-No…Or Yes..I kinda.. Chased him into the Village.."

Link quickly continued when he saw the devastated look in Impas eyes.

"B-But I didn't know that s-she wanted him!" He said, referring to the gerudo queen, who was now towering over Dark Link with a insane look in her eyes.

"Tell me WHERE it is!" She yelled and raised her fist, ready to take another strike at him.

Link closed his eyes and ducked his head down between his shoulders, ready to block out Dark Link's cry.

But there came none.

He opened his eyes and found out that Impa no longer was standing in front of him, but had rushed over to Naboruu and was now holding the wrist of the gerudo's raised hand, in her own iron grip. Then she turned her head in Link's direction and gave the hero of time a glare so cold that Link cringed.

"I can't believe this! Naboruu, you I cannot blame, Because you DO-NOT-KNOW-BETTER!" She spat at the queen, making Naboruu frown deeply and tear her hand out of the fellow sage's grip.

"But you Link, you do!

He may be one of Ganondorf's minions, but he's a child for Din's sake! Naboruu Beat him up, and you just stood there and watched!?"

Link let his head fall, he felt so ashamed.

When Impa said it in that way it sounded so terribly wrong..

Naborru growled loudly.

The sound made Dark Link whimper and bury his head deeper into the crook of his arm, while warm fresh blood steamed out of his mouth.

"Impa! He's a demon! He-He's a being created only to kill and destroy!" Naboruu reminded the shadow sage, who crossed her arms and gave the queen the same cold stare as she had given Link. But unlike the Hero of time, she did not regret her actions and was unaffected by it.

"He is a child" Impa said firmly. Making Naboruu growl in frustration.

"I don't care if he's a bloody child, he killed plenty of my girls! Would a child do that?!!" The Gerudo snapped at the small ball curled up on the floor.

Dark link whimpered and went quiet,

Not daring to make another sound that could provoke the mad woman, But even how much he tried, sobs escaped his throat and made his body shake.

The shadow child covered his mouth with his bloody hand.

"There, you see Impa? All you need to do is shout a little and they'll shut up" The sage shook her head and crossed her arms tightly over her chest.

" I'm sorry, but I can't say that I agree" The Impa bent down to Dark Link and laid a comforting hand on his back, but looked very sad when Dark Link flinched and let out a weak cry of fear

"You're not feeling sorry for that thing are you?" Nabooru asked and wrinkled her nose in disgust.

Link was feeling sick, as if someone had punched him in the gut, the contains of his stomach twisted and turned. How in the world did he get himself into this mess?He wanted to hide from the cold and disappointed eyes of impa, and when the white haired woman finally spoke to him, he winced and looked away.

"Where did you find him?" she asked

" At the Shooting Bazaar" The hero of time told her quietly. Link heard his dark twin inhale sharply twice before he went frighteningly still. Link frowned in concern for the little guy and tried to look past Impa.

"He just fainted, Don't worry. "She told him. Link liked his dry lips and swallowed hard before stuttering out a very bad lie;

"Who said I was worried?"

Impa didn't answer him, she just sighed and stood up from the dusty floor

"You must have thousands of questions" she guessed. And as she expected, Link nodded. "Well, what do you want to know?" She asked

Link thought for a while, then he opened his mouth and tilted his head towards the unconscious child. "How come he's not dead?" Link was sure of that he had killed his alter ego in the water temple 8 years ago.

He had gotten his Longshot as a proof of it.

"Because" Naboruu started and crossed her arms tightly under her breasts. "You're not" The answer was simple.

"He is your shadow, he can't die, unless you do first!" she told him.

"ehh..." Link swallowed, That meant that if Naboruu really wanted to kill Dark Link, she had to kill him too!

The hero of time liked his dry lips and processed with his next question.

"okay, why does he keep on calling Ganondorf 'dad'??"

If he hadn't gotten it wrong, then it was the gerudo king the little shadow meant when he called.

"Because Ganondorf raised him" Impa said "He the one who was going to be the prince of darkness after Ganondorf would become king.

Believe it or not, but Ganondorf really loved that boy."

Link heard Naboruu snort loudly.

"I'm pretty sure that you 're wondering why he is a child?"

Link nodded.

"He has an age spell on him" Nabooru said "Ganondorf didn't want him to age after he turned 17, so he put a spell on him, granting him eternal youth, but when Zelda sent you back in time, so was he, and therefore turned into a child again. With the age-spell on him, he didn't get older as the years passed." She explained, and continued with clenched teeth.

"And now, most recently, he found a pendant in my Temple,

It has the power to remove any curse or spell cast over a person, and the little bastard stole it!" Naboruu threw a hateful glare in Dark Links direction.

"He's aging, And when he grows up on his own.. We're afraid that he'll try releasing Ganondorf from the sacred realm"

Impa finished with a sigh.

"What are you going to do?"

"Well." Impa hung her head "We have to find some one who can raise him to be a good boy.. or-" She bit her lip" We'll have to kill him."

"What!?"

Link shook his head.

No that wouldn't be right, Impa had just told him that it was the wrong thing to do, and now she was telling him that there was a possibility that they had to do it after all.

Impa smiled sadly while she nodded. "It's sad, because Dark Link may become a truly good person, both strong and kind, just like you. He IS your shadow and has all your qualities, both good and bad, but Ganondorf only thought him to play on the bad ones, he has never had a chance to prove the goodness in his heart."

"Pah! I say we kill him right here and now!" Nabooru meant while drawing out her gerudo sword. It was shaped like a half moon with a golden shaft with red shining rubies.

Link stumbled backwards.

"What!? N-No! Then you have to kill me too!"

He saw the gerudo female reconsider briefly before raising the sword again.

"Ok, not kill him, just hurt him!" Naboruu said.

The harsh words shocked Link, What had happened to Naboruu? how could she even joke about hurting a child just for the fun of it!?

"What has gotten into you!?" Impa yelled angrily and grabbed the gerudo's arm and brought it down hard on her knee so the sword fell to the floor. "Why do you hate him so?" The shadow sage asked" I know he WAS a evil creature, but now… He's just a child!" Nabooru snorted

" I know! But I do not trust something my brother created!" Nabooru yelled. Impa let go of the gerudos wrist and kicked the sword away.

"Ganondorf didn't create him! He comes from Eluryh" She told them, and continued before they could ask what `Elyruh' was.

"Elyruh is the parallel universe of Hyrule.

It's the home world of the shadow people, Dark Link's people. Every single Hyrulian has a `twin' in Elyruh, who ages and goes through the same changes as his or hers brother or sister in Hyrule. If the person in Hyrule dies, so does the twin in Elyruh."

Impa groaned and rubbed her temples, she could feel a strong headache tense up between her eyes.

"Dark Link is your shadow twin, Link.

He was captured and taken away from his parents at the age of two, and then brought to Ganondorf, because he knew Dark Link was the only one who had a chance standing up to you."

"Why can't he just go back??" Link asked

"Because I do not know HOW"

"Then how do you know all this?" Naboruu crossed her arms and eyed the shadow sage skeptically.

"Because that's my job! I'm the Shadow sage!"

Link rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Weeell.. If you're sure that he may become a good man. I think we should try!" Link meant. Impa smiled.

"Yes!" she agreed " Thank you, Link!"

But unfortunately the Gerudo queen didn't.

"No! Have you both gone mad!?" she yelled and quickly and pulled a knife out of one of her boots. "He'll never change! He'll ALWAYS be evil!" She walked towards the small shadow, ready to stab and her mind set on inflecting as much pain as possible to the small body.

Link grabbed her and twisted her hand behind her back, the action forced a low cry from Naboruu, and the knife was dropped.

"Link! Stop this madness! He he's an evil being, he has no feelings! He almost killed you, don't you remember?! He's a monster raised by my brother to fulfill his wishes!" Naboruu trashed wildly against Links grip.

The hero of time yelped as she heeled him in the ankle.

"I do remember, Naboruu!" He assured the sage before he flung her away from Dark Link, who they almost stepped on

Dark Link remained asleep, his face held a strange tranquility to it, making the boy almost seem dead, like a frozen statue killed by the cold winter. Link blinked almost expecting frost smoke to steam out of the little boy's mouth anytime.

Link bent down and touched the pale face, it was soft and very warm, like blinked in surprise, he had expected Dark Link's skin to be it to be cold and hard like porcelain…

Link smiled a warm smile.

Oh, yes, he could defiantly picture Dark Link as a kind and happy child, he only needed someone to teach him the difference between right and wrong.

Naboruu saw the warm smile form on Link's lips, and she paniced.

"N-no, Link! You met him in the water temple! You saw him! Do you want him to grow up and turn into that evil creature again??" She asked, she knew that if she had to fight the Hero of time, she would loose badly.

"No, but if he is raised by the proper person, he won't!

Everybody deserves a new chance!" Link couldn't believe it, He suddenly had an urge to protect the sleeping child.

Something inside of him had awakened, an instinct that he never had felt before.

The gerudo gave up with a furious scream.

"FINE! But don't come to me when he's running around killing innocent people!!"

Link scowled at her before gathering Dark Link's limp body carefully into his arms.

Link swallowed a hard lump in his throat.

Was he going to regret the decision he now was making?

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea?? He cast a nervous glance to the sleeping child and made up his mind.

"He won't. I'll be his parent."

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End of chapter 3

A/N:

Oh, Link! You DO care!

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