Link (Hero of the Sky)/Synopsis

The story of the Hero of the Sky incarnation of Link from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
==Biography==
Link in this game lives in the floating island of Skyloft and is depicted as a student of the Knight Academy who learns the ropes of knighthood and flying a Loftwing. He is the best friend of Zelda, who’s depicted as a normal girl instead of a princess which her future incarnations are. After an incident where Link’s Crimson Loftwing is missing, he makes a request to the headmaster to delay the Wing Ceremony before he goes out to search for it. After learning that Groose and his friends are responsible for its disappearance, Link borrows a sword from the Training Ground to get behind the waterfall and is able to free it from the wooden binds. Zelda gives him a tutorial about Loftwing riding before they return in time for the Wing Ceremony. Despite Groose’s attempts at hindering his chances at winning, Link is successful and is able to graduate to the senior class and Zelda rewards him with a Sailcloth that he can use to float down safely without taking damage. After that, Link joins Zelda in their flight together, but they suddenly encounter a black whirlwind that pulls Zelda and her Loftwing to the surface and Link is blown away. Upon waking up, Link is met with the sword spirit named Fi, who guides him into the Goddess Statue where the Goddess Sword lies. Link puts the Emerald Tablet on the wall and opens the way to the Faron Providence. She joins him on his journey to the surface world below the clouds to begin his search for Zelda.
He meets with the mysterious old woman who sends him to Faron Woods and befriends the timid Kikwis and their leader who give him directions to the Skyview Temple where Zelda is headed. A mysterious figure silently watches him delve deeper into the forest before vanishing. After getting past the puzzles of the temple, Link is soon met with the caped young man, who introduces himself as Ghirahim and he was also pursuing Zelda to accomplish his own agenda and is enraged that she managed to evade him after he used the black whirlwind to abduct her. After defeating Ghirahim, he spares Link, but warns that if he gets in the way again, he won't hesitate to be as merciless as he could on him. When Link arrives at the Skyview Spring, Zelda had already vanished and Fi suspects that she is on her way to Eldin Volcano to cleanse herself there at the spring there. 
Link takes the Ruby Tablet to open the way to the Eldin Providence where he meets the underground dwelling Mogmas, who tell of a person clad in black have passed through the area and eventually learns that Zelda was captured by the monsters and dragged into the Earth Temple. Link hunts for five pieces of the key to enter the temple and save her. After making it through, he and Fi noticed a broken chain indicating that Zelda was stuck to and had escaped with the help of the black-cladded young woman. He meets with Ghirahim again, who sics Scaldera on him in retribution for getting involved despite his earlier warning, but Link was victorious with the use of Bombs at his disposal.
He had a brief reunion with Zelda, but the woman stops her and reminds her that she needs to keep going with her divine mission before proceeding to scold Link for wasting his time before following Zelda through the portal she created. Fi confirms that Zelda is making her way to Lanayru Desert to access the Gate of Time and Link takes the Amber Tablet to take inside the Goddess Statue to place it with the rest of the Tablets to open the way to the Lanayru Providence, which used to be lush and green and inhabited by the mining ancient robots before the sudden change of climate plagued the land to the point where its natural resources have gone and the Robots breaking down as a result and activating the Timeshift Stones was one of the ways that can turn back the clock on certain areas around it. Because the Temple of Time's entrance was blocked by fallen debris, Link had to activate three generators and crack the code to access the Mining Facility. After defeating Moldarach, Link finds Zelda and Impa at the Gate of Time wrapping up their mission in the present time and are suddenly ambushed by Ghirahim, who used his dark magic to bar Link from helping them and Impa quickly blocks his attack while Zelda passes the Goddess Harp to Link as she no longer has any use of it. Link notices that the barrier that kept him from proceeding is weakened enough for him to cross over. Ghirahim breaks Impa's barrier and was quickly intercepted by Link and gives Zelda and Impa time to go through the Gate of Time; Zelda promises that they will meet again before Impa pulls her in and used a magic bomb to destroy the Gate of Time to prevent Ghirahim from pursuing them, which Ghirahim promises that he will make sure that Link that he will subject him to a fate worse than death. As Zelda is in the past and in good hands, Fi could no longer detect her presence anywhere, rendering the dowsing for the girl redundant.
Link decides to return to the Sealed Grounds to learn the ropes of playing the Goddess's Harp from the old woman and to let her know what happened, but Groose suddenly intercepts Link's descent, resulting in a rough landing. Groose is utterly surprised by his new surroundings and Link assures him given that he had already gotten used to the Surface earlier. Groose then suggests that Link return to Skyloft while he finds Zelda and goes into the Sealed Temple and meets the old sage who tells him otherwise, much to Groose's vexation and Link gets her up to speed on the incident at the Temple of Time and wishes to learn how to use the Goddess Harp and upon mastering it, he plays the Ballad of the Goddess to summon the dormant Gate but is interrupted by a sudden rumbling from the ground and the sage suggests that Link go to the bottom of the Sealed Grounds to check on the seal noting that the quakes aren't natural. The Imprisoned breaks free from its bonds once Link approaches it and while he could not destroy it, the least he could do was drive its sealing spike on its head back in to seal it away for a time being, saving the Sealed Temple from destruction. Groose learns what he's up against and realized that Link was meant to do this mission to save the world on a grander scale and slips into depression over his own lack of purpose. The Old Sage lets Link know that he must first collect three Sacred Flames, as the Goddess Sword is not strong enough to open the Gate of Time, to power up his sword and he must return to three locations to access them.
Link returns to the Sky and goes through the clues for his next mission, he heads for the Thunderhead to access the Isle of Songs and learns the song "Farore's Courage" needed for the Faron Silent Realm which he must collect the Tears of Farore while avoiding various Guardians and Sentries along the way and acquires the Dragon's Scale that permits him to swim underwater and access Lake Floria and meets the Water Dragon, Faron, who was attacked by Ghirahim to give Link a hard time fulfilling his mission. After gaining the Sacred Water from Skyview Spring, Link returns and uses it to heal Faron's wounds and tells him that Farore's Flame is in Ancient Cistern. Once he completed the challenges, Link meets with the bored and frustrated Ghirahim corrupts Koloktos before leaving the vicinity, but Link defeats it and enters the room with Farore's Flame, which fuses with Link's Goddess Sword, upgrading it to Goddess Longsword. Link then returns to the Isle of Songs to learn "Nayru's Wisdom" and completes the Silent Realm challenge at Lanayru Desert to acquire the Clawshots to cross over the most dangerous areas and gaps and uses it to access the Shipyard and meets Skipper, who needs help in retrieving his ship that was stolen by skeletal pirates and save his imprisoned fellow crewmates. After some searching, Link is able to find the Sand Ship that housed Nayru's Flame and succeeds in defeating the pirate captain Scervo, freeing Skipper's crewmates, and defeating the monstrous Tentalus, Nayru's Flame then powers up Link's Goddess Longsword into the Goddess White Sword, allowing for dowsing for more objects. Link returns to the Isle of Songs once more and learns "Din's Power" to access the Eldin Silent Realm challenge and receives the Fireshield Earrings to protect him from the extreme heat of Eldin Volcano's crator allowing him access to Volcano Summit at any given time and remain there as long as he wishes. Link eventually has to escort Scrapper to the Volcano Summit to dump the basin of water (borrowed from Faron) into a frog statue's mouth due to it being too high for him to reach on his own to access the Fire Sanctuary. Once he conquered the challenges there, he encounters Ghirahim once again where he had learned of the existence of another Gate of Time that he might use to access the past and offers to spare Link if he revealed its location to him, which Link refuses as he doesn't want to endanger his dear friend before they go into battle and bests him. Link enters a room where Din's Flame resides and powers it up to its true form, the Master Sword. 
Link then returns to the Sealed Grounds where he noticed that a rail and catapult had been constructed by Groose, who had snapped out of his depressed state and resolved to contribute to a greater good even if it isn't as grand as Link's mission. Link speaks with the old sage and shows her the Master Sword but when he tried to open the Gate, The Imprisoned breaks free, forcing Link to drive it back, this time with the prepared Groose's help with his catapult, dubbed the Groosenator. After they managed to seal it away, Link is able to open the Gate of Time to travel to the distant past shortly after Demise was sealed away by Hylia and meets with Impa and Zelda again. Impa tells him that Zelda is in the back room preparing for the final part of her own mission. Zelda is happy to see Link once again before going on the tale of Hylia's fight against Demise when he sought a sacred power to rule the land with terror and sealing him away as a large chunk of earth being propelled into the sky with the surviving Hylians, but since the seal would only hold for a thousand years, Hylia made several preparations to permanently destroy Demise and since the gods could not use the Triforce yet Demise can, she resolves to reincarnate as a young mortal girl who must fulfil her destiny to prevent the apocalypse from occuring, revealing that she herself as Hylia's incarnation and reveal that she, as Hylia, chose Link knowing that he would not hesitate to put his life on the line to protect his friends and apologized for using him for such a dangerous task and informs him that The Imprisoned is only Demise's weakened form and since Link had driven it back not once but twice, she thanked him for what he had done and uses her power to enhance the Master Sword's power to the max, becoming the True Master Sword. In the meantime, Zelda seals herself in a crystal to enter into a deep sleep to keep Demise's seal intact and strong, but she tells Link to find the Triforce and wish for Demise's destruction, which only then would she be able to wake up in their own time. After an emotional good-bye, Link returns to the present and the old sage tells him that Zelda is still safe and alive, and he must search for answers of how to access the Triforce.
Link returns to Skyloft to speak to Gaepora about the Triforce which the headmaster isn't knowledgeable about, but he does know of the sky spirit Levias who is known for being a living encyclopedia who might know about it and usually lives in the Thunderhead. Instructor Owlan is aware of Levias's recent strange behavior and suspects that he is possessed by some creature and teaches Link the Spiral Strike, which only fully trained Loftwing riders are capable of doing and insists that Link seek the Lumpy Pumpkin owner to give him a large basin of Pumpkin Soup so he can deliver a yearly offering to Levias to get him to show up. Upon arrival on a small isle with an everlasting rainbow, Levias appears and was possessed by a parasite called Bilocyte and Link uses the Spiral Strike to take out the eyes and takes out its main body with a Skyward Strike, effectively killing it. Levias snaps out of the trance and thanks Link for his help in destroying the parasite and tells him to search for the dragons that inhabit each providence for their parts of the "Song of the Hero". Link returns to the Sealed Grounds and Groose informs Link that The Imprisoned is escaping once again and he must act quickly. After sealing it away once more, Link is informed that Faron Woods is flooded and cannot take the normal route there due to the risk of the flood spreading into the Sealed Grounds, and Groose used the Groosenator to launch Link into the area. Inside the Great Tree, Faron appears and explains that she flooded the woods to flush out the monsters that were plaguing the woods and terrorizing the Kikwis and tests him with collecting the Tadtones. After he had done so, Faron sings her part of the Song of the Hero and Link traverses to Eldin Volcano, which suddenly erupts, blowing Link off-course and loses his equipment including the Master Sword, losing contact with Fi. After escaping imprisonment with the help of a Mogma, Link resorts to stealth to get around the patrolling monsters and gradually recovers his missing equipment. After reuniting with Fi and getting the Master Sword back, Link meets with the Fire Dragon, Eldin who caused the eruption to end the monster attacks on the region and apologizes to Link for putting him through a lot because of what he did and sings his part of the "Song of the Hero" to make up for it. After that, Link travels to the Lanayru Desert and travels to Lanayru Gorge where he finds the skeletal remains of Lanayru and he must transport a minecart containing a Timeshift Crystal to the spot in order to speak with him. With the active Timeshift Crystal in Lanayru Gorge, Lanayru is brought back to life, but is revealed that he is suffering from a terrible illness with frequent coughing fits that prevent him from singing his part and asks Link for the Life Fruit that could cure all sorts of disease. Due to the poor soil of Lanayru, the Life Tree could not flourish and since it would take a thousand years for it to grow, Link takes it to the Sealed Grounds and travels back in time to plant it at the spot. He returns to the present to find it producing a single Life Fruit and takes it to Lanayru. Now fully recovered, Lanayru sings his part of the "Song of the Hero" and Link then returns to Levias to give him the news and Levias shares his part of the "Song of the Hero". Link heads to Skyloft's Light Tower to play the song to conquer the last Silent Realm challenge to obtain the Goddess Stone to place on the statue's missing socket which fires cannonballs at the bottom part of the island that holds the Goddess Statue, opening the way to the Sky Keep where the Triforce rests. After completing the puzzles within the keep, Link assembles the Triforce and wishes for Demise's total destruction and the Goddess Statue descends towards the Sealed Grounds just as The Imprisoned breaks out and is soon crushed by the isle. 
Fi informs Link of Demise's obliteration and that Zelda's seal is no longer needed and Link wastes no time to go to the backroom to greet Zelda, who breaks out of the crystal upon awakening. All was well, until Ghirahim strikes both Link and Zelda down and abducts the latter, revealing that he will use Zelda's spirit to awaken Demise in the past and Link pursues them through the Gate of Time. To stall Link to get more time for the demonic ritual to run its full course, Ghirahim bars the spiraling cliffs with barriers and sends a monster horde to deal with him, but Link doesn't back down as he charges through them. Upon reaching Ghirahim and Zelda's level, Ghirahim suffers a breakdown over Link being involved, to the point where he recognized that Link was a true threat to his plans and reveals himself that he is a weapon without mercy, Demise's sword and takes on a form similar to Fi, and quickly goes into battle, but is defeated. Ghirahim informs Link that the ritual to revive Demise had continued the whole time and Zelda's life energy is painfully drained by The Imprisoned and reverts to its original form, Demise. The revived monster forced Ghirahim to return to his original form, to the former's pleasure and tosses Zelda's lifeless body aside, only for Groose to arrive and catch her before she was killed by the impact and informs Link that there is still time to save Zelda's spirit before it's completely absorbed, and Demise goes through a dark portal and waits Link's arrival. Through another dimension, Link battles Demise and eventually defeats him and absorbed into the Master Sword. Link returns to the Temple of Hylia where Zelda's life energy was completely restored and is so relieved that it was finally over before breaking down. They prepare to return to the present and Fi asks Link that he returns the Master Sword to its pedestal to complete Hylia's mission and informs that she will enter into an everlasting sleep which she will not awaken and was able to experience happiness throughout their journey before going into dormancy. After Link places the Master Sword in the pedestal, Zelda pleads with Impa to come with them into the present, but Impa refuses as she could not allow Demise to return and therefore must remain in the past to watch over it and promises that they will meet again, and Zelda gives Impa her bracelet to remember her by. Link, Zelda, and Groose return to their own time and the Gate of Time is destroyed from both ends. They notice that the old sage was Impa the whole time evidenced by the bracelet she wore and being told that they met again before suddenly vanishing, leaving them distraught, but the door to the back room opens to reveal the Master Sword that had remained there.
In the epilogue, Gaepora, accompanied by Cawlin and Strich arrive on the surface to greet the trio and Groose returns to Skyloft with them as he bade Link and Zelda farewell. Zelda decides to live on the surface to watch over the Triforce and asks Link what he plans to do. Both Link and Zelda's Loftwings return to the Sky without their riders, implying that Link decides to stay with Zelda to protect the Triforce with her.
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