HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It's the moment you all might have been waiting for, OR the moment you might be dreading!! That's right! The FINAL chapter of The Legend of Zelda: Angel of Death (muttering: Book 1)!! ::multiple boos from audience:: MYAA!! Gomen ne, minna-sama, but all good things must come to an end. Besides, I'm not done YET!! Hey… it's been almost a year since I've been writing this story!! W00t!!! But now's not the time to get sentimental. There'll be a spoiler-slash-preview at the end of the epilogue, so sit tight all da way to the end!!
Epilogue:
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The Skull Kid ran into the market as soon as he heard the rumbling. There was a throng of people clustered around the site of the Temple of Time- but the temple itself had disappeared. Skull Kid pushed himself through the crowd until he saw the remains of the temple themselves, the debris lying on the ground like a littler of white, stone bodies.
"Wh-" The Skull Kid turned to the foreman next to him. "Did you find anyone?! There were people in there!!"
The foreman shook his head. "No. We arrived a few minutes ago and we're still searching no. We haven't found any bodies."
"No one?! No survivors?!" Tatl cried.
"Maybe they all got away…" Tael flew over the wreckage and into cracks.
"They have to have!!" The Skull Kid cried out even as a familiar scent from the wreckage touched him. "This… This is the scent of a Zora…Ruto!!"
The Skull Kid leapt into the ruins and darted around the rescuers. "And this… Link… Link was here not too long ago…!!" He lowered his hand from the rock he was touching and slumped against a slanted rock that could have been part of the ceiling.
"No… No way!!" Tatl whispered, landing on a small rock next to the Skull Kid. "They can't be gone…"
The Skull Kid sat very still for a long time, numb and deaf to the calls of the workers and the foreman. They didn't matter. What mattered was that everyone was gone.
'It can't be true…' The Skull Kid thought in desperation, 'Link… Zelda… Ralph, Nayru, Din, Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Nabooru, Impa, and Rauru… They're all… gone…?"
The crowd around the temple eventually dispersed, leaving the poor, broken forest child as alone as he had ever been in his life. It was sundown when any of the three finally moved. The Skull Kid raised his tear-blurred, orange eyes to the darkening sky above and let out a heartfelt scream of anguish.
Awwwwwwwww… how sad!! Well, like I said, it's been awesome writing this for you guys, and I'm glad I got so many reviews (simply b/c I got more than I expected- and I expected, like, 0). I'm glad you liked it so much!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!! ::is getting teary-eyed, ahem:: Excuse me. I'm getting emotional.
Oh! I promised you a spoiler-slash-preview, didn't I!! ::sorts papers, ahem::
We find Link and his friends, or most of them, chasing the Angel of Death and trying to adapt to life on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century!! BUT! There are some things they still do not understand!! Like who is the mysterious boy who goes by Midorikawa Mikau and how does he know who our protagonists truly are? Are Ruto, Darunia, and Rauru really dead? What is Din, Nayru, and Farore's secret? All these answers and probably more shall be answered in The Legend of Zelda: Angel of Death Book 2!!!!!
That said, see ya later!!
~ M