Night…

As the sun set and the moon took its place, pitch black engulfed Hyrule Castle. The towns people had all settled in for the night after a long day's work, and the town gate's had already been drawn to keep the unwanted out for the night. Still guards had been set up at the gate and scattered throughout the entire town just incase any tried to attack at night. They could never be too careful ever since the princess had resumed her role as leader of the Castle.

It had been years since Gannon had ruled the city, and since then the destroyed town had been rebuilt to resemble its once beautiful castle. Many houses had to be rebuilt after many of Gannon's followers had destroyed the previous ones, and a new castle was rebuilt upon the ruins of its predecessor. It was planned to build a castle bigger and better then the previous, but with the landscape bare and construction still occurring throughout the town, the towering castle looked out of place. With its golden trimming outlining the castles brilliance, stained glass windows depicting a hero clad in green, and beautiful white washed stone constructing the outer walls of the fortress, the castle did not look as if it belonged in this empty village.

The Princess though knew that one day the town and castle would regain its name, but she knew that it would still be years before the town reached that point. It had already been two years of rebuilding and with scattered attacks of the remains of Gannon's army, it seemed that it would take forever to rebuild the city. Even with Link heading the search for the remaining soldiers, she knew that it would also take time to obliterate the last remains of Gannondorf. Unfortunately with the soldiers still out there, she knew that they would never truly be able to finish construction, but at the time it seemed as if her beliefs were false. No attacks had taken place so far, and with every new letter from Link on the continuous searches it seemed as if he and the soldiers were about to finish their journey, diminishing the last of the once elaborate army of Gannondorf.

Morale was a high in the town and with the gradual news of Link and his soldiers, the towns-people started to work more vigorously trying to gain their old peaceful lives back, and on the other side of the world Link felt the same way. His soldiers were defeating their foes with ease now, and though their journey had been occurring for about a straight six months, they were still alert and tedious when it came to protecting their friends and family from the last of Gannondorf's army.

The army created for the town of Hyrule was a group of top notch warriors, and they had lost only two men so far in their battles, and even now they were still on the top of their game. During their battles they found ways of entertaining themselves by seeing who could defeat the most warriors, but they never did lose sight of their true goals of protecting Hyrule. It had been thought that it would take a year to two to find all of Gannondorf's minions, but now Link believed that they would be finished in only about a month. Hopes were high that they would finally be able to go home, and as they set up camp for the night Link spotted shadow in the distance... He could not tell from where he was what the shadow was, but he felt a shiver run through his spine as the shadow glared directly at him.

Not wanting to scare whatever it was away he slowly groped for his sliver and bow which he had laid down beside him, and as his hands reached his sliver he drew an arrow. He then slid the arrow into the torch lighting it on fire. He then swiftly slipped the arrow onto the string of his bow and drew back aiming carefully yet quickly. Then after aiming he let go of the arrow, and as it flew through the air it illuminated its path, and as it reached the shadow the figure ominously disappeared… It must have been just his imagination.

As he stood up to do his midnight patrol of the camp, he found that all soldiers were now sound asleep. They must have all been exhausted from the battle with the Deelers (poisonous spiders) and the Dodongos that had been scattered throughout the forest. They had fought on and off through the entire day, and finally they had found a bare area where they were able to set up a temporary camp for the night.

Now though, at the middle of the night, no foes were in sight and all was quiet. He circled around the camp a few times, but failing in finding any disturbance or foe, he slipped back into his tent and distinguished the torch lit outside his bed…

Within seconds he was asleep.

Many miles away, in Hyrule Castle, a man emerged from an ally, making sure to avoid the guards that were patrolling the area. This man, swiftly moved from one ally to another, and as he reached the town's walls he ran face first into a guard.

"Wuh! I-Its…", but before the Guard was able to finish his sentence the man drew his sword from its hilt and silenced the guard with a smirk.

"I really need to work on my stealth," the man thought to himself as he quickly hid the man behind a gathering of bushes.

The next morning the guard was found by a child that accidentally kicked his ball into the bush. Many of the princesses soldiers were dispatched to search for the assassin that had murdered the unlucky guard, but the search came up dry. They never did discover who murdered the guard that night.