Phase 1: Rebirth

"So, close…"

The room seemed warm, very warmly decorated compared to the rest of the complex, but still the salty wind still made everything a bit colder.

"Yet, so far."

Ganondorf had been standing for what felt like hours watching a black swath of magic forming a portal, frothing and bubbling on his rug. After all, it took three hundred years this cycle for the under-versal cosmos to a line, this time, was his only chance since the world changed.
"Maybe you just don't want to come back, I know how you don't like endings…" He scratched his beard, surprising himself with how numb he felt compared to the last time he managed this.
"Maybe I'm just selfish… You always told me it's better to let sleeping dogs lie…"
He leaned over the portal with a grimace, "In this situation, I just can't see how."

Storm clouds churned the seas as rain pelted down, something unnatural was clearly overwhelming the balances and every island didn't sleep easy that night.
Ganon felt something beyond the darkness clasp on to his hand, it felt large and cover in rough scales, clawing desperately at him. He tried to shake it away without bringing it onto the surface, but he began to feel weak as he panicked.
The large entity almost dragged him into the hell that was beyond the portal, but suddenly it felt like the Thing was wrenched away from him. Ganondorf began to question himself, if he was just wasting his time, if everything was just hopeless.
But then something touched his hand delicately, its graceful fingers tracing the side of his thumb, the small soft hand gently taking hold of his fingers. He felt like it could possibly be the right one, but he was hesitant. Something was off.
Of course as the thought crossed his mind, the gentle entity seemed to have been flung away and another heartilly clasped his hand in it's stead, although it still felt like it was struggling with something else.0
Without out even thinking about the possibility of dragging up his death from a portal to purgatory, he pulled, soon falling on his back a good distance from the abyss that was now fountaining with a symphony of dark fog and pained moans.

Ganondorf pulled himself together, sitting up, checking his hand was still intact. He found himself panting, realising what little power he still possessed was sucked from him. He looked over at the fog, finding the foam now formed a pale body, it twitched and shivered in its exposure to the new world. Ganon stood, waiting to see if the creature was who he'd hoped, or was a complete mistake.
The creature, was now beginning to not seem like a feral cave dwelling, instead the sickly white skin seemed to grow thicker over its bones, as it violently stretched, popping them back into a comfortable state. It stood, half lumbered as it scratched at It's head, Ganondorf couldn't see its front yet, but the creatures back looked lean and graceful like that of a woman, well toned muscles contorted and flexed as It stretched its shoulder blades. Soon after scratching violently, under the scalp, dark auburn hair came in tughs as It scrapped blood and skin away. It called out in sobs of what seemed like pained laughter, scratching the flesh away, from what Ganon gathered, Its face was also covered in a layer of binding skin.

After what seemed like forever of painful laughter, flesh shedding and sickening contortions - Though outside of Ganon's reality it was actually about fifteen minutes-She fell to the ground, shivering, cradling her new exposed body in a state of teary eyed shock.
"It- it's so… It's so cold…" The young woman said, finding her rough voice, "It's all… So cold…"

Ganondorf cautiously took off his robe and crept over to her, finding her eyes were still shut tight, before gently covering her up.
"...Ren..?" He asked unsure if she was still there. Hoping it wasn't just some creature that took on the form of what he really wanted to see.
Her eyes shot open, their intense grey seemed to pierce the warmth of the room, for a moment everything seemed like ice. She looked at the robe, before her gaze meandered up to Ganondorf.

"Why?" She asked with a certain sting to her tone. The woman rolled over into a huddle before mustering the strength to stand.
"WHY!?" She roared, covering herself with the extremely large robe and stumbling as her legs gave out from her weight at random. Ganondorf didn't understand the reason for her rage enough to respond before she whipped around to face him.
"Why? Again? WHY!? Tell me!" Her voice cracked as she stumbled to him, Ganon slowly stepped back as her anger and sadness began to claw at him.

"Renita, stay back. Ren, just stay where you are, you're far too unstable to be-"
"WHY!? WHY DO I HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!? Don't you realise what this does to me? Don't you realise how I hate, three- it's always three times, Gods be damned this is the last time!" She cried out snarling, before refusing to fall and flinging her failing body on him.

Ganon caught her, her cold body racked with sobs.
"I… I don't understand…" He muttered, touching her hot soaking hair, realising it was because of the flesh and blood.
"...Don't you know how much I hate to watch you die…?" She cried into him, as the sinking realisation began to dawn on him.
"Don't you know, three strikes, and you're out..? It's always in threes… Ganon it's the third time you've had me back… if you're going to do something to get yourself killed, you aren't coming back, don't you understand? There isn't any prison of the God's to bust out of, there isn't any jail time in desolate realms, this is the last line. Ganon, I hate endings… Don't you get it…" She fell into a whisper, soon her violent sobs stopped completely, leaving Ganondorf to listen to the pounding rain outside. Overwhelming sadness seemed to pull at him even more, surprising him despite how well he thought he had buried it.

"Your body is too weak this time, you need to take it slow…" He whispered, reassured that this was definitely the soul he had intended to get, everything about her hadn't changed since the last time, every single action settled perfectly with him.
"I didn't think it was possible for your voice to get even richer…" She grumbled and snickered with a cheerful grin before pulling away and getting her ballance. Ganondorf timidly watched as Ren fondly retreated into the depths of his robe, the collar of it reaching above her head.

She extended her arms, finding her hands in the swaths of cloth and sleeves, the set of nimble fingers outstretched in his direction.
"There's still a film over my eyes, I can barely see… Care to come down here?" She asked, rolling her fingers in a welcoming gesture. Ganon hesitated, but gradually kneeled before her, "Only because you asked nicely, don't think I'd just kneel before anyone." He scoffed with a smile, intrigued by her sudden incredulous chuckle and smirk.
"Funny, I remember you kneeling before quite a few, or it that just to get what you want?" Ren smiled, feeling the thick of his neck before finding a very scruffy jawline, noticing how the white of his smile grew wider even though she thought she was being rude. She continued up around his cheekbones and nose.
"I never knew your nose could manage to get larger too, God's be damned, I remember your mothers managing four hundred, what are you, like five hundred? At least your eyes haven't gotten larger, you Gerudo's sure do age funny." She snickered, blinking a few times as her new eyes adapted, finally able to see her old lover's compextion and fully grown beard.
"Five hundred and fifty-six I think, making you five hundred and forty-nine I believe. Of course you're keeping far better than me…" He grumbled fondly, thinking of parting the robe and stealing her away again, but this time he doubted she would be eager.

He could see how troubled she was.
"...Ganon, call me auspicious, but I'm serious with the whole three thing… three hits, three times, three stones, three gods, three powers, this is the third time you've had me and when I was gone, I've seen things; things you couldn't comprehend." Ren tried to smile at the comfort from his hug, but all she could manage was a quick smirk and a frown.
"This is all so much, everything is so different…" She whispered, looking around the room and up at him. As they parted Ganondorf stood and crossed his arms, walking behind as she stalked around to see the outside world. She peeked out of the door to the creaking balcony, the rain suddenly fell silent. He watched her amused by her hair wildly whipping around from the wind, noticing her eyes widen.
"I… Uh, Ganon?" She squeaked, "Where- where's land? Uh, Hyrule? There's just water, what, I hate water, geez, this can't be happening, three, and water, by the smell you can't drink it… Why are we in the middle of an ocean!?"

"It's a long story, Renita, just calm, let things sink in-"

"Don't talk about sinking to me, hell, it seems like the whole land sunk!"

"More or less…" He mumbled, smiling to reassure her as she spun around in disbelief, "I have a lot to tell you. Three hundred years worth, I might miss a couple of things though…"
"How… Did, THIS, happen?" She began to scratch at her head again and rubbing her eye furiously in a panic stricken habit, "No, just, go on and tell me everything, I've had a long time to let some things get at me, just, excuse me… I'm not myself… Actually I am, that was a lie sorry I-I- I… I've had a lot of decisions eat at me." Ren stuttered, she stopped scratching revealing a newly bloodshot eye and began biting her knuckle. Ganondorf began to worry for her mental state. Compared to how she use to be, she only seemed unstable and weak, almost beaten.
"Am I… I've lost, my sanity- I just want to hide…" She whimpered, despite all the familiarities, dread began to well up in the back of his mind. Ganon realised that she was beaten down, she only seemed like a ghost compared to who she use to be. He had felt and seen all these things before, but they were buried deep in her mind, now she was broken, they had broken free.

"Ren, but first, I don't want to overwhelm you but, what exactly happened, you know, over There?" He stepped back as she suddenly looked at him with a mad grin, instilling his dread further.
"If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret! Hah! I'm sorry, that's a lie, yet true, you're suppose to laugh." Her voice suddenly ended the sentence with a deadly tone, making Ganon evaluate just how nice the word "laugh" really was.

"No, in reality, if you knew, it would break all time space, and everything Ganny you naughty boy, you've been so bad how could we possibly trust you with all future outcomes to all relevant timelines, isn't it funny? Funny… Joke, a lie that is not yet is true for humorous reasons, makes people laugh, a sound I love… love a deep connection to an item or someone, something I don't feel often because it's cold, yet, a man from the desert knows how to warm it up, making my burden lighter, isn't it odd? Heart, yes, that's it, I remember now." Her expression became more peaceful again, but all that was just thrown at him still slipped away, "Wait, "We"?" He asked in confusion, "All of time and space? Relevant timelines?"

"I shouldn't have said that. Should NOT have said that, but Rowling references aside, all I can say is that, I'm personally going to kill every little blond or otherwise boy and or possible gender neutral in green. And I'm assuming you're going to collect every innocent girl until you find the smart parts of the triforce, yes? Well I can't stop you. Not you at least…"
All of this was completely foreign to Ganondorf but she was definitely becoming her old self again, she was just more fragile, the only catch was he couldn't tell if it were in a dangerous way.

"...What?" He managed to ask, only to be answered with a sigh and a reassuring, "Don't worry bout it."