So I Don’t Forget Again: A Breath of The Wild fanfiction
One thing at a time. Just go from the beginning.
I think I can remember it all. Sidon and Kass helped jog my memory a bit, but I think I’ll save the aftermath for the next entry. So much had happened in so little time. My memory is still a bit fuzzy, but I want to make sure I don’t lose anything like bigger events so some details might be a bit... off or unclear.
It was still raining. We took shelter for some time, a few days or more when a storm came by. I did some training. In that time I thought a lot. If indeed the sword was there, I had to go straight to the Calamity, I didn’t want to bring Bossa Nova with me, but whenever I tried going towards the domain he’d refuse to budge. We ended up racing past the tower.
Trees lined the path all the way to the forest. It seemed rather discrete what with the land around the little way raised like walls to hide it. Much like how the island which the forest flourished on is a sheer drop to the large lake way below.
Without realizing it we were there. This strange fog surrounded us. Glowing specks drift around in it and swirl like patterns twist and turn making my sight a haze, I could hardly see my hand even when I held it right before my face. Even Bossa Nova was a bit apprehensive once we realized we were lost. No matter how I try, I can’t remember how we got in it, we just… got there, gradually and suddenly at the same time. Despite the moving fog the air was stagnant. There were ruins, but… they didn’t appear decaying, more so like they were cared for, or forgotten by even time itself with how long it had stood there. Though there was much greenery, none of the trees had any leaves, they were all barren. This warped laughter also kept ringing in my ears. Following it only seemed to make our situation worse. We just kept wandering, with no direction in mind, just looking for a sign of… anything.
How long had it been, I wonder? The fog never dissipated or got any thicker, it never seemed to get darker or lighter either. It was maddening just about how stagnant everything, but the fog was. Without light I simply would have taken Bossa Nova’s lead on when to rest and eat, but… he never did. I should have noticed the time, but I never did.
I did hear something eventually. I think it was music, a flute or something. And I thought I saw another animal, a big furry one so maybe a bear or wolf. We raced after it, then suddenly there was sunlight, rays beaming down from out between the leaves and branches. The fog was gone, the sight was crystal clear. That beast’s roar rang out again, but unlike at Kakariko, it was rather muffled like it was so far away. Bossa Nova immediately began to graze on anything he could get at like he hadn’t eaten in so long… like when I was getting sick and trapped him in the shrine. That’s when I noticed it, that throbbing, lightning pain shooting through my arm and side. My arm couldn’t stop trembling, even taking my medicine didn’t help, but it’s not a painkiller, just prevent my infection from spreading so I shouldn’t have expected much, but still… I thought I was going to throw-up from that hot, convulsing, twitching pain.
I wandered further into the clearing, hoping I could find one of the plants Calisa had taught me had pain killing effects. But I quickly forgot it. There was a stone path, it didn’t seem man made, but like it occurred naturally, and it led to a blade, a softly glowing one with a blue hilt and handguard, plunged into the ground on a pedestal.
I can’t seem to figure out what I was feeling. Disbelief, neutrality, relief, anxious, joyous. There, hidden in the forest, was a blade, one with an unnatural shine.
I tried pulling it, the more I did though, an agonizing, unbearable pain unlike anything I had ever felt before coursed through me, I swear that sword was stealing my life from me the more I tried.
I was suddenly told to stop just before by far the largest roar and earthquake boomed, I swore I also heard cracking, like the ground was splitting apart.
I think for a moment I hurt so much everywhere it was numb? My head rang, and swam, I couldn’t breathe, I felt like I was deep underwater with no sign of the surface anywhere, I couldn’t even see.
I came back to my senses hearing a voice.
I’m too late, it told me. The Calamity sensed the one thing that could stop it was attempting to awaken and it too awoke to defend itself.
The sun rays that once lit the woods was now gone, the sky pitch black.
In the gigantic tree, branches filled with soft, little pink flowers, was a face. It noted I finally decided to return, though… return may not be the right word since I’m not the same as the one who came a hundred years ago. I heard more of that laughter, but I couldn’t see who it came from… The Deku Tree asked if I could no longer see the spirits, if not… it wasn’t surprising. I had changed a lot, too much perhaps. It had watch over Hyrule since before the kingdom even existed. It told me how the sword before me was made by a goddess, how only the chosen knight can wield it, how it can seal darkness, how the hero wielded it a hundred years ago, how I’m not that hero, not anymore. I lack the one thing needed, something I had lost
I lost it by that tower before this forest. The hero must face anything with courage by their side, and I refused to face that tower time and time again. Some power dwells in me, but it’s being blocked because I no longer embody it.
I had failed before I had even known it. The hero must not be allowed to speak for actions speak more than words, for he is a servant to the goddess, the princess, and queen of the royal family. He is courage, and
I don’t have that. Not any more according to the Deku Tree and the Master Sword. That was why I was lost in those woods and its warped time took it’s toll, I wasn’t supposed to be able to get here, but it seemed some incarnation of the past took pity on me according to the Deku Tree.
Once more the ground trembled, but this time a light illuminated the world.
My mind went blank. Hearing all that so suddenly, it donning on me the end was coming, I just couldn’t think. I got atop Bossa Nova and we immediately rode back into the fog and next thing I knew we were zipping past that accursed tower.
Suddenly I was being called from above. Kass stopped before us. He asked me where I had been, he had been searching all over, he knew finding me would be difficult, but I usually stop at some town not after too long, however it were as if I had disappeared from Hyrule entirely for the past several months. That was when I finally realized it, how much longer my hair was, the patches of snow that blanketed the once lush greenery and that horrid chill in the air.
Kass told me he had something he thought I should have, but then was not the time. I needed to go! I told Kass the end was here, that I had to fight. That… that I failed already. My vision began blurring, my chest tightening, but I pushed through it, telling Kass I can’t get the Master Sword, but I had to try still. I just had too. When I had placed my hand on his shoulders when speaking I noticed Sidon’s scale, the one in my armor. A thought came to me then… I told Kass, that I came this far without the Master Sword, that I came this far not as a hero but a simple traveler, so maybe I can end this as a traveler and not the chosen hero.
He seemed a little startled to be suddenly bombarded by all this, but he simply nodded. I gave him my letters to Sidon, Riju, Yunobo and him and Teba. I asked him to race to those towns and any others on the way like Kakariko and Hateno, and warn everyone to prepare for the worst, set up all their defenses. He agreed, telling me he’d reach everyone before I could even make it to the castle with Bossa Nova. Before he’d let me leave though he pulled me into a tight hug and asked me if I felt prepared for this. I guess… I could have at least kept part of my promise to him. It feels so long ago now when I made that, and my joyous emotions from then. I
Clutching him as tightly as I could, burring my face into those soft, warm feathers thinking this would be the last time.
I admitted I don’t, I was so scared, but that did not matter. I HAD to save everyone no matter what, and I was going to do everything I could. I hated seeing how worried and hurt he looked when I managed to rip myself away from his tender, comforting embrace. I think he tried following for a moment before remembering his mission and left for Death Mountain.
The red lights that the Divine Beasts pointed toward the castle, out of nowhere they exploded in size and turned blue, like whatever the guardians shoot. Soon though it was just those red lines again. Periodically they’d shoot, piercing holes into that impenetrable smog.
We ran, we just ran and ran and ran, we stopped for nothing, not even when we were spotted by guardians, not even when those armies of monsters began appearing, not even when everything began to act more and more aggressively, not even when the ground jolted, knocking us over, not even when we could no longer see, the glow from the stones from the Domain, the purple in the malice and the random bursts of light from the caste was our only light we kept running. I didn’t even notice the danger I was placing Bossa Nova in. I wasn’t thinking, just moving, and I think he may have been doing the same too. Hesitating or thinking for a moment would have killed us, we could only rely on instinct, I absolutely could not get stuck in my head again, just let any possible thoughts pass. We only made it by getting the things to shoot one another in the crossfire, the explosions from them also provided some much-needed light. A pair of great metal doors served as the gate to the castle, thankfully with the slate we could get in easily, and I was able to rip it off it’s hinges and chuck it at the guardians, knocking a few out.
I should have held on to it, inside was a guardian I’ve never seen before, they’re big, can’t move but make up for that with a huge range. Thankfully there are many bodies of water, caves, tunnels, and other such things and places to hide in.
The inside of the castle, it’s unlike anything I’ve faced before. Guardians of all sorts on the attack not just roaming, monsters appearing out of nowhere, entering a room only to be locked in and forced into combat to escape, the grounds being a maze that twist, turn, flip over, inside the castle, outside of it, and even under it, dead ends left and right, malice creeping all over the place even randomly bursting out from cracks in the ceiling, walls and floor, to survive we could not stop for even a moment.
Then it happened. After one last roar that light tried holding it back, the Divine Beasts shot, but it escaped, breaking through the castle walls, sending it all flying away and crumbling to dust almost crushing us in the process. That misshapen beast, the Calamity. It was gigantic. Almost insect like, uncountable arms, each with a weapon from clubs, to swords, to spears, like me. An amalgamation of malice and that ancient technology. Even a head with a red mane and beard. Less of a head and more a decaying skull with missing teeth. The mere sight of it almost made me sick let alone that rotting stench. It was similar too and nothing alike the nightmares. It relentlessly chased us as if not noticing anything else, crashing and stumbling through anything in its path.
I need to spend the rest of my life thanking him. Without Bossa Nova, his speed and steadiness no matter the crumbling, decaying, uneven terrain, his bravery for charging into danger even leaping through windows and off high areas he never faltered or stopped.
If it wasn’t for him… I’m not sure I’d even be here right now.
Even if I was hero, surely even someone like that could not handle literal armies of monsters, and guardians while trying to fend off that thing.
It had a long range, able to just keep wildly swinging it’s weapons, guaranteed to hit something even if it wasn’t us. I tried sticking to mostly using Rivali’s bow and arrows but it was just too fast, scudding around, even on the walls and ceiling like a cockroach. I was on my feet atop a bridge, fighting it in hand to hand combat. I kept relentlessly going after that head, without it, it surely would die, that’s what I thought at least. Still though, my infected arm kept freezing up so most my attacks didn’t land. I tried to mostly defend myself with my uninjured arm but it got to me, smacking me with a club, sending me flying across the ground, bouncing across it like a thrown stone on a lake’s surface till I landed in a river, or that was what it felt like at least. I had no idea what was up or down, all I knew was I need air. I was able to quickly figure it out though when one of those immovable guardians shot at me and luckily missed. When I finally resurfaced it was after Bossa Nova! Using the slate I froze Boulder Breaker in the air then hit it as many times as I could, sending it crashing right into the thing’s face giving Bossa Nova a chance to get away! It immediately charged after me, but before it could swing down that mighty hammer a part of the tower above it collapsed, by where Bossa Nova was, he was still bucking at more of the scaffolding making more crumble down.
That was just the chance I needed. I was able to get in many blows before it erupted from the rubble. It had been injured enough though, if I just kept attacking, not giving it a chance to run off and go for another more distances attack, I could do it. All my weapons disintegrated on impact with it, reminds me now of adding salt to water and how it just dissipates. All weapons were like that except for the ones I inherited, even then the black and purple gunk stuck to them except for Mipha’s trident. It was the only one that didn’t retain any of that poison.
And I did. It screamed, writhed, jets of malice shooting out of it like blood. Then it fell along with the rain. The monsters suddenly began disappearing, the guardians shut down. For a moment, all that seemed to live, was the pouring rain and ferocious wind. I was out of breath, and each one I took trembled, due to my body starting to give out or seeing that beast so still I don’t know, and I’m not sure I ever will. I was stuck in place, so tempted to approach it, but my body unable too, the first time I was able to get a good proper look at it, and… that fear and dread seizing my body, freezing it, while sending my heart and breath into a racing panic, sight blurring from tears or rain, something inside me was begging and screaming to run, but I just couldn’t. Bossa Nova kept pulling on my tunic more and more frantically with each passing moment, but I couldn’t, like the weight of the world was crushing in on me.
Bossa Nova managed to knock me onto the ground. There was malice on my boot, just a little splatter on the boot it was, in an instant, eating through it leaving a hole… in the middle of the boot… I could see the ground beneath my foot through that hole. I desperately tried eating anything I had on hand but just as soon as that hole healed it melted away again. Before I could even scream it suddenly burst to life that beast, fleeing the castle, leaving destruction in it’s wake. I tried chasing after it but my foot, that wracking pain from the hole shot up through my leg. Bossa Nova helped me get on his saddle and we chased after it.
The field was a true nightmare. The thing grew in size, rivaling that of the Divine Beasts. Boar like in appearance purplish-pink flames burst from it, bringing along that horrendous smoke from which hoards of monsters of all types came marching out. Specks of blue light from all across Hyrule came rushing towards it, guardians, all after us to protect that thing. With it’s every step a fountain on malice erupted from the ground raining down momentarily decaying monster and guardian alike. It was merciless. It craved but one thing. Destruction at any cost.
We couldn’t even get near it. Wave after wave of monsters, guardians shooting us at a distance allowing openings of attack on us. No matter what we were always open to attack. Blades slashed; clubs pounded; Bossa Nova couldn’t keep charging ahead anymore. I couldn’t even stand on my own, I needed to lean on him for support, leaving us both exposed.
I couldn’t do this. I just scraped by the last battle but now having to go up against literal armies I just couldn’t it was too much.
Of course, when he flashed me that smile, telling me it was going to be okay, that all seemed to be meaningless. Before that claymore could strike, there he stood before us taking down any enemy that drew near. Sidon stood tall looking out toward the Calamity. He apologized for being late, but he was so glad for to him it appeared he made it just in time. He thanked me and Bossa Nova for being able to hold out for this long on our own, and now, it was time to finally finish this.
I could hear a war song sung over the melodies of an accordion blaring out over the chaos, and in the not too far distance I could see a new army charging in, several actually all coming from different directions. Sidon asked me if I didn’t believe his words before, that I wasn’t in this alone this time, that I was never going to have to bare the fate of the whole world on my shoulders on my own again. We were going to all fight together and win!
Even when my body is on the verge of collapsing that man can bring me back to life, ignite a raging fire in my soul that can’t be stopped.
We blazed a path through the monsters desperate to draw closer to the raging beast, Kass kept just overhead of up, still playing attempting to keep up motivation for one and all, deftly avoiding all arrows or beams of light. However not all distanced attacks were aimed for him. I tried getting before Sidon, holding out my shield to block that beam of light, but it never came. Instead I heard a yelp, that orange glow around him cracked, Yunobo kneeling before us wincing in pain. Yunobo with tears in the corners of his eyes asked what I was doing, that I should have waited to fight with them, because I didn’t I was so bloodied and bruised. Sidon said Yunobo seemed to have good judgement about how reckless I can be, but my talking too could wait till after battle. Yunobo seemed confused to see Sidon, I suppose that would probably have been his first time seeing a Zora, but he nodded and asked if we just needed to defeat the giant beast, then everything else would stop and we’ll have won.
The storm kept raging making battle all the more difficult, being knocked around, vision blurred from both the water and wind. Soon booming crashes could be heard, sudden bursts of light illuminating the entirety of the battlefield blinding everyone, leaving roaring fire in it’s wake. It was so close, so ferocious, like the very storm I first met Sidon in. Thunder clapped, lightning struck almost constantly… till it seemed to stop. It still happened, but nowhere near us. Riju was glad to see there were others with me, the more people by my side to help protect one another, the less likely I was to take unnecessary damage. Calisa and Buliara were with her. Though they took up protecting our rear I can see she’s improved so much… even using some Hylian techniques. It… was really touching to see. Though even in the heat of battle I noticed the common thread of them coming to protect me from myself, I guess I really am that reckless though…
I truly am, it was bound to have repercussions someday, at least it didn’t any sooner than now.
We were getting there, we were so close. One last push and we’d finally be able to face the Calamity. However the monsters and guardians were now in a frenzy, even attacking one another if it meant even getting a tiny nick on us. Even with our own armies getting through was so difficult. However he swooped in, seemingly out of nowhere, raining bomb arrows from above, Teba opening the way for us.
A huge circle was formed around the thing our armies trying to hold back the monsters and guardians so we could focus solely on the Calamity. No matter how intense those monsters got Kass was able to keep everyone motivated, circling around and around, playing and singing away getting them to keep going just a bit longer.
This was it; it was finally the end. Riju asked if we had any plans as to how to fell the thing. Like the guardians it had these glowing eye things all over its body, we needed to aim for those. They absolutely covered the thing, on its back, legs, stomach, neck, literally everywhere. All we could do was whittle it down little by little, avoid it’s feet at all costs, run when springs of malice sprung up. With all of us together we were able to make quick work of those eyes, each and every last one disappearing one by one. Many of the eyes wouldn’t break to arrows so we had to get creative to do it. Kass and Teba would carry Calisa, Riju, Buliara, and I over to get the ones on the back, they even switched over to use spears as well. Yunobo would use the rubble to his advantage as ramps to jump off of, me freezing him with the slate and Sidon hitting Daruk’s Shield sending Yunobo crashing into the thing, it heavily damages his shield the malice but he doesn’t get hurt which was the most important thing.
Eventually they were all gone. However with a defining roar more of those eyes appeared on it’s forehead, these ones were all bunched up together, bulging out all trying to fit into one little space. The Calamity began charging, rampaging in a blind panic thrashing about. He had to do something, anything to stop it before it could get to the surrounding armies. Kass and Teba took Riju, Calisa, and Buliara to the skys, while I froze a large stone, Yunobo, Sidon riding it, hitting it from underneath to launch ourselves upward.
It wasn’t enough. It still lived, and it was charging a beam attack, it was going to kill everyone, we wouldn’t have been able to get away in time.
I tried leaping off Yunobo’s shield to reach it, but it wasn’t enough. I was just falling.
Then I heard that snarky voice telling me that I surely wasn’t going to keep all the glory for myself as a gale of wind shot up from under me. I heard herd her determination as lightning struck the beast, managing to get it to halt in its attack for a moment, telling me it wouldn’t escape this time. Then I heard that boisterous encouragement, telling me I got this as an orange glow surrounded me. I heard her praise, her words seemingly coursing through me giving my exhausted, battered body the last push it needed, telling me I had done so well to finally make it here. Then as I plunged my blade down into the beast I heard them all, calling out for me to finish this once and for all.
Pain unlike anything I have ever experience before
That’s all I can remember after that before waking up here, back home.
I know I was told what happened next but I rather Sidon tell it. Thinking too much about it hurts my head.
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