Title: Shadow Link
Chapter 1: Beyond Hyrule
Beyond Hyrule, there lies a dangerous place, where the shadow creatures lurk. One not entered by many. Somewhere in the barren land lives a broken soul that feeds off of hatred. He is the opposite of a hero that lives within Hyrule, the great land blessed by the goddesses. He is a spirit trapped by the evil that contains him. His name is Shadow Link.
Link lived in a small cottage located in the woods. He had already awakened all of the sages and had woken up from a deep sleep. Link got out of bed and went outside to mount his steed, Epona. Link rode out of the woods and into Hyrule field. He was ready to face Ganondorf, the evil holder of the triforce of power.
He traveled to Ganondorf's castle. After a series of traps he reached the top. He fought well and won the first part of the battle. But then Ganondorf powered up and morphed into his beast form, Ganon. He overpowered link and almost killed him. Link fell off of the tower and onto the ledge. Link, barely conscious managed to escape onto Epona and ride away. Tattered, Link returned to his own home.
Ganondorf noticed Link was stronger than the last time they met and knew he would come back stronger than Ganon himself. He had to prepare. Ganondorf traveled far beyond the borders of Hyrule into a wasteland known to him. He was searching for a certain being that he could take in and train to defeat Link. Ganondorf searched for many days, and then finally found who he was looking for. Shadow Link.
There was a dark side to every being, even Link. Somewhere out there was a good Ganondorf. Ganondorf approached the so called Shadow Link and as he did he looked up at him. "What business do you have with me thug?" spat Shadow. "I wanted to make you a wager" replied Ganondorf. "Who are you?" Shadow questioned. "I am the great Ganondorf the lord of evil" stated Ganon. "Well mister evil what is this wager you speak of?" asked Shadow. Ganon chuckled. "Well here's the deal I will bring you to my castle to train you to beat my enemy, YOUR opposite, Link.
"Hmmmmm what kind of training will you provide?" said Shadow. "It will be intense training that will make you more powerful than your mind could ever imagine" replyed Ganondorf. Shadow stood up. "I will come with you under one condition" said Shadow. "What is that?" asked Ganondorf. "Fight me" rasped Shadow.
Ganon Agreed and thought to himself "At Shadow Links current power I can beat him without lifting a finger" Ganondorf chuckled once more and turned to face Shadow. Shadow had his sword drawn and looked immensely intense. Shadow lunged at Ganondorf and merely bounced off of him. Ganondorf laughed, "Come at me once more" Ganondorf taunted. As told Shadow this time faked a straight forward attack and rolled behind Ganondorf to stab him in the back. However he was unsuccessful and only resulted with a sharp pain in his own back. He turned around to see the cause of it. No one was there he looked frantically for Ganondorf but didn't see him. Ganondorf laughed and Shadow looked up to see him floating above him in the air.
"Now let me demonstrate some of my own power" Ganondorf said in a smug tone. He released a wave of purple magic without even moving. It struck Shadow and knocked him out easily.
The next thing shadow new he was lying in a room with black brick walls and no door. "I see you have finally awoken" boomed the voice of Ganondorf.
Shadow looked around but saw no one. "I bet you are wondering where you are" spoke the voice" Shadow still was confused. "You are within my castle" Ganondorf went on "your training will start shortly, I suggest you get some rest or you may perish on the battle field!"The booming voice then vanished. Shadow lay there wondering what he got himself into. Hours later, the room suddenly changed into a gigantic battle field located at the highest point of his castle. The sky was gray and thundering, it fed Shadow. He turned around to see Ganondorf standing on the opposite side of the field. "Your first lesson will be on how to use magic" Ganondorf said. Shadow nodded and drew his sword and shield. "You won't need those" Ganondorf told him. Shadow put the weapons away. "I have given you a small amount of my own magic as a foundation for you to build on" Ganondorf said. Shadow held out his palm and purple magic shot out of it. Shadow was quite pleased with the power he gained already. "We will now focus on increasing your magic power and abilities" Ganondorf told him. "Take the hatred that fuels you and force it into your own power" Ganondorf instructed. Shadow did as told but failed. "WRONG!" Ganondorf shouted. Ganondorf lifted his hand and demonstrated slowly more magic emerged from his palm until it lit up the whole arena. "That was not even a fraction of a fraction of my power" he chuckled. "Now do it correctly this time or else there will be consequences" Ganondorf said. Shadow once again lifted his palm and forced all of his hatred into it. He failed, but before Gannon could do or say anything he tried again. He held out his palm and pushed himself harder than he had ever done in his life. Magic flared from his palm. "Good!" Ganondorf praised.
"Now that you have learned how to raise the power of your magic we will work on controlling it" Ganondorf told him. "Hold your palm out and once again increase your magic." "Then, you must control it by splitting the magic in half and having the same amount in your other palm" he instructed. Shadow held out his palm flared his magic power and split it in two. He held out his second palm and the second half of the magic jumped into it. Then he increased the power of both palms. Ganondorf was quite pleased.
"Now try throwing them at me" Ganondorf ordered. Shadow threw them at him but Ganondorf held out his own palms and caught them. "This is a little game I often play with the hero of time". Ganondorf smirked. "DEFLECT IT!" a millisecond after he said that he threw the magic at Shadow. Shadow used his palms to hit it right back towards Ganondorf. They repeated this for a long time until finally shadow was a little late on deflecting and was hit by the magic.
Ganondorf chuckled. "Now you must learn how to fly" Ganondorf told him. "Create magic in your two palms and flare them" "Then transfer the power to your soles and float" he ordered. Shadow did as told and rose an inch before falling. "Not powerful enough!" Ganondorf shouted. "Increase your magic power before transferring this time" Ganondorf ordered. Shadow once again created magic in the two of his palms and flared them like never before. Once the magic power was extremely huge he then transferred. He easily flew up 30 feet in the air. Ganondorf was pleased.
"That is enough for this session, your next one will be in two hours" Ganondorf stated. The room changed back to its original form of the black brick walls with no door. And Ganondorf vanished. Shadow hated this room he felt so contained.