Work Text:
Lightning crashed down around the dueling pair high in the sky. Storm clouds grew and swirled around them, spitting down rain and rain and rain. Link was slipping, crashing, shocking. This fight looked nearly impossible- a literal demon god against some no one boy- but Link wasn't about to give up, after everything he'd been through.
He charged a Skyward Strike, but the elemental forces leapt down and lit his blade with lightning. He struck Demise, yet again, but suddenly the storm.. disappeared.
Extraordinary. You stand as a paragon
of your kind, human.
Demise did not have a real voice. He projected evil everywhere, and some of the darkness formed a guttural, telepathic rasp that crawled through Link's ears and emblazoned itself in his brain.
You fight like no man or demon I have
ever known. Though this is not the end. My hate...never perishes. It is born
anew in a cycle with no end!
Link shuddered, trying to sheath his sword.
I will rise again!
Those like you... Those who share the
blood of the goddess and the spirit of
the hero... They are eternally bound to
this curse.
Link frowned. Something... was coming...
An incarnation of my hatred shall
ever follow your kind, dooming them to
wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness
for all time!
oh. The blackness surrounding the edges of his vision and pounding headache wasn't a result of the battle
Almost twenty different heroes, facing different hardships to fight the same evil, over and over again.
So Demise... wasn't fibbing
Some short, some dark haired, all wielding a sword shining with light.
Zelda had been reincarnated as well, some put into sleep, some in stasis, some in a past long gone. A glowing golden power was reincarnated and pulled down through the ages.
Demise was reincarnated in these lives, as well, as a man named Ganondorf... or a monster, named Ganon.
These possibilities are endless... but they end somewhere.
They are the future... they are the past.
This is the power of the dark god.
This is the Curse of Demise.