Auther: Flying Platipi

Title: Gilded Cadge

Warnings: at the moment, none. But I do these things by chapter. So, in this chapter there is no (insert warning type thing). But next chapter there may be.

Ship: it begins off as link/Zelda, but I have NEVER liked that pairing. 10 to 1 it'll be slash.

A/N: This Is directly after Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeI haven't defeated the game (I'm stuck on the monster Gannondorph) so I really don't know what happens after link defeats both Gannondorph and Gannon. So if something's off kilter, it's not my writing skills that are lacking, but my gaming skills) I've had this floating around my head for what seems like half a year…. You can tell that I don't update much. (Oh no! All the readers fled!) It is safe to say that if I don't update a story in a full year though, that I probably won't be coming back to it. My Dream me Away story is not going quite as well as I had expected it to go… I also never got reviews… I think. I'm not sure how to cheek them….

Disclaimer: Any character, trademark, plot, or scene associated with Legend of Zelda is not mine. Anything else is mine.

----Chapter 1----

--Dark Shadow--

'For one who is bound to save the world, you have little faith in it.' He had said

'They have little faith in me,' had been my reply. 'I don't have to like them to save them, and they don't have to like me to be saved. I am honor bound to protect them.'

'Maybe they do not deserve your honor.' The shadow had whispered.

I had shut him out, shut him in. But it was the truth.

As I walked through the water temple, weaving through the maze, methodically destroying the evil, he came to me again.

'You waste good deeds on those who hide from you.' He whispered, catering to my selfish side, even though that side was himself. 'I will tell you what will happen in the end: they will destroy you. And take the fame for themselves. Erase even your memories; make you just the little Kohiri boy that grew up.'

'Not true!' I yelled back at the persistent voce. 'The princess cares for me. She wouldn't do something that cruel.' Even I knew my logic was faulty.

'Royalty is born to manipulate. Are you scared of the truth? Do you love her?'

He laughed. 'You set your goals so low, when you could aim for such greatness. Steal the two triforces and rule the world. Nothing would be out of your grasp. Our grasp.'

I almost snorted at his stupidity. Courage could not defeat pure power alone. And wisdom could spot deceit miles away.

'How would I, or we, do this?' I asked, my vice wreathed in sarcasm.

I opened a door, knowing I now faced another danger. As I splashed into a mist filled room, the thoughts of domination and dark shadows that lurked in my own mind fled. This was, by far the strangest room I had come to so far. The mist was so thick in the air that I could not see any of the surrounding walls, only a lone island and tree in the middle. The whole place stank of magic.

I walked to the island, and seeing no foe, only the opposite door, continued. When the door would not open, my heart sunk. In my mission of light, I had been trapped.

'It would be easy.' The voice I had forgotten responded to an equally lost question.

As I walked to the island in the middle of the room, my mind searched for my own words, moments before. My thoughts were rudely interrupted by the kiss of sharp metal on my nape.

"We fight," an oddly loud voice declared, ringing in my ears instead of the usual soft whisper in my mind I had grown to view as normal. "See who's the most powerful, most cunning, most courageous. Then the other dies."

I turned carefully to see this twin my mind had created, knowing who, or rather, what was there. My shadow, seen before only in my mind and dreams was smirking at me mater-of-fact-ly. His black tunic, phantom of my blue, made his white skin and hair glow. The only color in this black twin of me was his eyes, as red as Sheik's. Those eyes, so red, held a spark of madness in their depth.

This demon I had created smiled at me, bearing each one of his teeth.

"Engard," he whispered into the echoes words spoken and water splashing, and we fought.

I won that battle in the strange room. But my shadowy twin was right.