A black hand reached into the pockets of its dark tunic and pulled put a small picture. Unlike everything the creature wore, this framed picture wasn't black. It was a tiny drawing of a nice-looking woman clad in a modest, yellow dress and long, brown hair.
The picture was moving.
The drawn woman smiled when she saw the dark face with the glowing, red eyes. "I am glad that you haven't abandoned your humanity completely, son."
"I am no longer a Hylian," Dark Link growled. "Your son doesn't exist any more."
"But still you look at my picture, don't you?" she asked while tilting your head. "Doesn't that mean you still have some feelings for me, your old mother?"
"I am... a monster!" he murmured. "I didn't want you to see me like this, but I couldn't wait any more day, knowing that your picture was still in my pocket..."
"But I have known about what happened to you ever since that fateful day," she replied in a sad voice. "I may only be a picture, and I have been in your pocket for all those days, but I have witnessed everything that has happened to you. And while I am happy to see you again, I bemourn your fate. You know it is not too late to change your plans, don't you?"
"My mind is set," Dark Link frowned. "I will kill him." He closed his eyes. "When he is dead, he won't be able to travel back in time, and nothing of this will have ever happened..."
"You can't cheat fate like this, son..." his mother said in a grave voice. "How do you know he will be the one to defeat you?"
"My plan is impeccable!" Dark Link grumbled. "He won't be able to resist my lure, and then... he will fall into my trap!" He clenched his fist. "And then I will make him pay..."
"His actions might be the cause for your death..." she said. "Or they will be, once he travels back to the past. But can you honestly say that he killed you?"
"Of course!" her son snapped. "It's his fault that Ganondorf was able to ruin our kingdom, right? The king's death... Princess Zelda's disappearance... Kodachi's corruption... all of this is his fault!"
The picture image shook her head. "I know I can't stop you," she sadly said. "But I cannot understand why you are siding with the one you hate? Ganondorf was the one who invaded our kingdom, after all."
"That doesn't matter..." Dark Link whispered. "Once he is dead, nothing of this will ever happen..."
She sighed, wishing that her son would realize that Ganondorf would have never allowed him to cheat destiny, especially not since it would take the Triforce of Power away from him. "If you hate him so much, why did you take his image?" she asked.
"If you really have witnessed everything, you should know that I had no choice," he grumbled. "To survive, my spirit had to possess his shadow..."
"Maybe, but Ganondorf did offer you the ability of transformation. You could have turned back to normal if you had accepted."
"I don't want to accept anything from that monster..." Dark Link growled.
"Really? Is that the only reason? Maybe there is something else besides your hatred towards those two men... can it be that you feel a certain kind of... closeness to him?"
"To HIM?" Dark Link almost yelled. "Don't make me laugh! He is the reason I have lost everything!"
He then sighed and clutched the picture to his chest. "But don't worry, Mother... I will make sure that everything what happened will be nothing more than a bad dream... and you will live again."
And he put the picture back into his pocket.
A tendril of water came sneaking out of the small pool in the room he was kneeling in. The tentacle touched his shoulder, and he received the mental image of four persons that have entered the temple.
"Yes, I know!" he nodded. "They are here. Patience, Morpha!" He grinned. "Everything is proceeding according to plan. While I will have my revenge... you can feed upon his friends."
The water tentacle retracted itself, and Dark Link closed his eyes.
'Master!' he thought.
It wasn't long until he heard the deep voice in his mind. 'What are you bothering me for?'
'They are here. The Hero of Time and his friends have arrived.'
'Yes, I know. Proceed as planned and inform me as soon as they are dead. Bring his body to me after your work is done, and don't forget the younger Zora princess.'
'Of course not, master!' Dark Link replied.
When the dark voice had left his mind, he opened his glowing eyes again. Ganondorf was aware of the fact that he hated him, and Dark Link knew that Ganondorf knew it.
He grinned. As long as Ganondorf didn't know his true intentions, everything was fine...
"History will change, and I will live again..." he murmured. "And the first thing I will do is to make sure that everyone who helped Ganondorf will be taken care of... including Tatewaki Kuno!" He cackled. "The fool believed he killed me that day... but such a weak blow would have never been enough to destroy me like that. No, only Link's treachery when he abandoned the kingdom was enough to shatter my identity..."
He held up his black hand and stared at it. "Only he could have turned me into this... his dark doppelganger... into DARK LINK!"
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