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Last Goodbye
Darkness.
It is not the only thing I see. I see anything and everything, from the brightly orbiting sun, to the pale blue moon. I see all who are imprisoned here with me in this rustic part of the universe, people who cling to the very heart of darkness in order for life and limb.
I hear everything here. A multitude of screams, shouts and cries full of pain and sorrow hammer my brittle conscience and torment my spirit.
I have resided here, in this damned world… I cannot recall the number of years I have suffered in solitude and silence, but I know it isn’t enough for penance of my careless actions.
This place is so different from the world of Hyrule, where people live in harmony after the green-clad hero defeats the source of evil.
Whenever the lush green fields turn to twilight, there is always someone wearing the Hero’s tunic, ready to battle with his ever-powerful blade and his omnipresent shield.
I sit alone in one of the Realm’s corners, weighted by steel shackles that glues me to the stone walls and separates me from the others.
Why? Is it because of my pale skin? Is it because my eyes grow crimson in the dark? Is it because I am different? Is it because I was once Evil?
I know nothing will happen to me. Even the moon and stars in the dark blue sky don’t give a damn for me. I have lost my sense of time. I have been freed from its boundaries. I don’t grow nor change, but I know that I’m still sane. I feel that others, like me. are still alive. I feel their souls breath, their white essence sending me into shivers of delight. But I know that the people in Hyrule cannot feel me. I am aware that to them, I am nothing.
I feel pain of injustice here. They always torture me., hurling balls of magic at me until I feel the magical fire consume my skin. Even if times heals all, the wounds lying in my heart cannot recover.
With the defeat of Ganondorf and his demented monsters, the portal, once closed, now opens once more. The Realm, in order to sustain itself, must release two, no more, no less. Two prisoners must be released and sent back to Hyrule, as an equal exchange for the two lost. Two for two…
I had half-expected that I’ll have spent my life here in this prison. Yet, for reasons unknown, they wanted me free. Whether it be luck, or the will of the Almighty Goddess, I still do not know.
As I cross the gap between the two worlds, a force constricts my heart. Time once again has me in its clutches, after so many moments I cannot even begin to number. The air is sweeter here, the light blue clouds wispy in form. The lush grass swaying softly in the gentle breeze, comforting me and beckoning me to lie and rest.
Guilt enters my mind now. I remember my prowess with the blade and knife, my skill in the wind and the dark, my deceit, my lies…
It all looks so different to me. This, the trees, the leaves, the sky, all different from the map I had once held in these cursed fingers of mine. They…
No. I am Zero the demon. Once good, now horror. I do not remember my age, all I know of are the autumn winds and leaves of the 29th…
I choose my life. I forge its path. My heart, my lifeblood howls for revenge, now, in this peaceful time of my life…
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As long as They continue to exist. I cannot awake from my nightmare. You are my darkness ...
Stats: STR1/DEF2/AGI4/INT3/SPI3
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