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The Goddesses' Gift	By : maceom Category: Zelda > General Views: 22472 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own The Legend of Zelda game series, nor any of the characters. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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I opened my eyes to find the beautiful spring slowly dissolving from existence. Our love was at last realized in full, but I still held him tight. I wouldn’t let him go, for I never wanted this moment to end. I knew, from his warm steadfast embrace, that he felt the same. Link and I now hovered just above our earthly bodies which rested peacefully in the alcove. As we peered down at our sleeping, mortal selves, we were both reminded of the harsh realities of physical existence, which seemed so far away as we danced in the heavens. I had forgotten that I was dying. I normally would have wept at the notion that my existence - no – the memory of our spiritual transcendence might be lost. However, our deep bonding imbued me with new conviction that my hero will always triumph.
One last time, we glared intently into each others eyes, and exchanged a final, heartfelt kiss. He wore a beautiful smile - which I couldn’t help but return - as he took my hand and stroked it tenderly. It glowed softly to his touch. We looked down once more at our material selves, and reoccupied our corporeal beings.

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The moon still hung high over Hyrule when the two lovers awakened. Link became reacquainted with his beastly form, while poor Midna was again too ill to travel independently. Link gently placed her on his back, and the two rode once more in search of Hyrule’s princess.
Midna would be healed through Zelda’s sacrifice.
The master sword would accept Link as its wielder.
Zant would be conquered.
And the Evil One…
He, too, would be vanquished.
Midna’s curse was lifted, and peace was restored to the worlds of light and twilight yet again.

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At the conclusion of these events, Midna and Link rested together silently in the shallow pool of Ordon Spring. The sun was setting and the now peaceful twilight would blanket Hyrule for a short time, placating even most vicious of field beasts. Though her appearance had changed drastically back to her true physical form, the genuine love they possessed for one another had not lessened in the least. They sat close, but Link dared not speak, for Midna had received a divine message – an instruction from the Goddesses. Though Link could not hear what they said, he felt their vibration through his soul. She dolefully meditated on their words, and upon realizing - upon accepting - her fate, she carefully placed her hand on Link’s cheek. At once, the message traveled through her body and into his mind. Now, he understood.
Twilight subsided, and darkness loomed heavy over their spirits as they prayed in the warm spring, hand in hand, their heads hung low.
Pensive, silent breaths.
Flowing, mild waters.
Apathetic, empty air.
Morning.

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Midna was to return to twilight, to watch over her own people. Though her heart was pure, she still could not be forgiven for the ancient sins of her ancestors, for the use of the fused shadow. And so, the Goddesses commanded her to leave behind the light realm for the holy ones; she did not belong.
Link, Midna, and Zelda congregated around the twilight mirror, the only existing portal to the twilight realm. She tried to feign a lighthearted poise, for there was no place for misery in this indifferent universe. Holding back her flaring emotions, Midna spoke sweetly; she tried to justify to all - and mostly to herself - the awful reality of what she must do, by the word of the Goddesses.
“Well…I guess this is farewell, huh?
Light and shadow can’t mix, as we all know.”
But she did not believe this.
The time came for her departure.
With a single tear and a “see you later,” Midna would seal their fates forever. The mirror had served its purpose, so now she was to shatter it and never return to the light. She knew that Link would eternally be in her thoughts. As a faint white glow washed over her body, Link helplessly stared; he had become blind to the events that took place before him. As her consciousness became clouded and hushed, she could no longer hold on to her false composure. The tears left her in streams as she was transported across dimensions, and gently placed on the soft, familiar turf that was her twilight home. She lay collapsed on the solid ground, painfully mourning the love she had lost. When her tears ran dry, she had nowhere else to turn but the dark solace of sleep.
And there she remained.

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Link had become deaf. Zelda brought him to his empty village in silence – rather, she spoke, but he did not hear. He shed no tear, and he could not speak. He did not recognize Zelda or the fields across which they traveled. He truthfully didn’t even really see them, for in his half-conscious daze, he was dumb. He saw light and figures, but no thoughts entered his brain. His face was frozen and his soul was barren. Zelda proceeded to lead him back to the gentle waters of Ordon spring, and she left him alone to heal.
He leaned against the raised bank, and not a thought touched his head, his life now devoid of meaning.
The day faded, and twilight washed over Hyrule once again. As it swept across the spring and lunged into Link’s body, visions of Midna swiftly clutched at his vacant heart and drained it for all that remained. He succumbed to a sudden spell of sleep, and he now lay supine in the calm waters – the streak of a single tear on his face, now soft.
A large part of Zelda, too, was left in Midna’s possession from her prior sacrifice. As twilight blanketed the world, Zelda’s mind was transported to the parallel realm. Her body was paralyzed. When darkness again traversed the land, she danced mad in the open fields, singing loud and unintelligibly. She lost herself to the moonless, starless night.
Time halted.

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The Goddesses were deeply saddened as they witnessed the unraveling of these disconcerting events. Midna could not leave twilight, for this would defile all that was holy in the light realm. But her exile was the cause of such grief and suffering…
They did take pity.
Hundreds of years passed in which the laws of entropy were suspended. Wind ceased to blow, creatures did not stir or age, and even the erratic waters had frozen. A violent burst of blinding neon streaks set the universe back into motion, and the divinities were pleased.
They reasoned that Midna, despite being a descendent of the tribe banished from Hyrule ages ago, still deserved much compensation for her selflessness, obedience, and purity of mind and spirit. Though she could never return to light, the Goddesses had rewarded both Midna and Link with a holy blessing.

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The two awakened in their respective worlds, and were very much healed. They resumed their passive livelihoods, far from evil’s presence. Their minds were at rest, their bodies were at peace, and they once again knew bliss. The benevolent Goddesses had arranged that each evening, when serene twilight flowed through the fields of Hyrule, they would transport the lovers’ souls to the divine realm where they rested. The two could once again exchange sweet words, feelings, and sensations - lose themselves in fits of passion and fervent desire, and fall asleep in each other’s arms.
She would see him later, after all.
THE END
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