"Talk"

/Mental talk/

Chapter 1

You always were a fool Vaati…

No

I told you, raw power will get you nowhere…

Shut up

Now look at you. You're dying and all you can do is argue with a figment of your imagination. Something pieced together by memories of your old master.

Go away. Leave me alone.

Such a pity. You had so much potential.

I'm not going to die… I'm not… going…

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Link laughed. Zelda grabbed a chalice filled with water and splashed it over him "Stop it! The dancer just stumbled. Don't make her feel bad, this is supposed to be a celebration for her too"

"I'm sorry. I guess I'm just really happy." Link grinned sheepishly "Vaati's finally going to die. No more generations of royal family members and legendary heroes having to seal him away over and over. He'll just be gone"

Zelda nodded "The thought of never again having to check that seal makes me happy too, but try to behave yourself and-" she leaned closer and said quietly "go check on him."

Link frown and nodded. The Foursword had been broken during the battle with Vaati, and the way to repair it had been long forgotten. This seemed like a huge problem, but Vaati had received a mortal wound by this time and conveniently knew no healing magic. Link and Zelda had hidden him in the courtyard while he slowly faded away, since their means of ending it quickly had been destroyed. Everyone else thought he was already dead.

He gasped upon seeing the body. What was once a large black bat-like creature was now a pale Hylian boy. Link reached out and gently touched the boy's cheek. Red eye's snapped open and narrowed at Link "You-" the boy coughed, spitting out blood as he did so "You're not… I'm won't… die… yet…" the boy hissed.

Link scowled "Well, you aren't going to live much longer" he told Vaati, watching them mage roll over and vomit up a dangerously large amount of blood "It's over Vaati, you lose"

Vaati growled and reached out with the last of his strength grabbed Link and began to cast a spell. Frightened by this, Link stepped back. Vaati fell over and stopped breathing.

Link took a few deep breaths and checked to make sure there was no blood on his tunic before going back inside.

"There you are" Zelda smiled at Link "You took a little longer than expected"

"I had a very brief conversation with him. He's dead, by the way"

"What's wrong?" Zelda frown "You look a little…"

"Vaati changed forms again" Link said "I don't know, maybe it was just to shake me before he passed on, maybe it was his original one and he couldn't maintain the one he was in when I fought him anymore. He looked… he looked human Zelda, I killed someone who was born human"

"And turned into a demon" Zelda pointed out "If Vaati was ever human or something similar he hasn't been that for a long time"

"Yeah… I guess"

"Now sit and eat. This celebration is in honor of your victory. Enjoy it"

Link smiled and nodded, taking a seat next to Zelda and waiting for the food to come. "He tried to cast a spell" Link added "But he died before he could finish it I think. I mean, nothing happened so…"

"Good, I'd hate for him to place some lasting curse or something" Zelda said before picking her food off a tray held by a passing servant.

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Rune Caster: Keep reading. It gets better, I promise. And Vaati fangirls, which is 99. percent of my readers (don't ask what the . is) DON'T KILL ME CUZZ VAATI'S STILL IN THE STORY!!!