Author's Note: I called it Eight Sacred Skills because hidden wouldn't sound right in the story.

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"Yes, I'm finally ready to fight Ganondorf and save Hyrule!" Link said, back in Castle Town after learning the Great Spin. So he started to go through Hyrule Castle. He fought many enemies, solved many puzzles, narrowly escaped many bombs due to the help of his friends, and finally defeated the guard at the door to Ganon's Tower.

He was incredibly surprised when he had to fight an alienated Princess Zelda, and then when a giant pig appeared, and then disappeared, and then appeared again. Then Hyrule Castle exploded and Zelda and him ended up in Hyrule Field. They chased Ganon around and then ended up knocking him off his horse.

But then he got up.

"An impressive looking blade," Ganondorf said as he took his sword out from its sheath, it glowing extremely brightly. "But nothing more. Would you hear my desire?

"To take this foul blade… and use it to blot out the light forever!" He then proceeded to walk towards Link, who was now standing on the ground. Zelda tried to charge in, still on Epona, but Ganondorf put up a giant force field and blocked her path. It was just him and Link.

They charged at each other. Ganondorf's sword crashed into the Master Sword. It hit so hard in fact, that it made what is probably the loudest metal hitting metal sound you have ever heard. Ganondorf slipped his sword away and slammed it down on Link's foot EXTREMELY hard.

"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Link screamed in pain while Ganondorf exploded with laughter.

Link hobbled over to Ganondorf and punched him in the eye with his Hylian Shield. This time, Ganon howled with pain while Link laughed his head off. Ganon recovered and swung his sword at Link's head. Link instinctively ducked, probably missing the giant, glowing blade by half an instant; he knew this because of the extremely loud WHOOSH noise that came from right next to his ear. And the fact that he looked down and saw the tip of his green hat on the ground. That made him really angry.

"YOU KILLED MY HAT!" Link screamed to the amusement of Zelda, and then charged at Ganon with all his might. Ganon kicked him in the chest as soon as he got close enough and Link flew back and hit the force field, which electrocuted him. He fell to the ground, unable to move.

"It seems that even the Hero of Twilight could not defeat me," Ganondorf said while looking at Link with disgust. "Not that I'm surprised." He picked up Link's sword and shield and somehow made them disappear. He also did this with Princess Zelda, which made Epona run off.

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Link woke up to see a flaming Hyrule Field, no Ganon, no force field, no Epona… and no Zelda. He still could hardly move, and he didn't want to move anyway. Even if he did, there wasn't much left to go to. Just a bunch of grass and a large, golden, glowing wolf.

"Wait," Link realized. "A large, golden, glowing wolf? But I learned all of the Sacred Skills."

No Link, there were actually eight. You must find the strength to get over here and learn the eighth, or Hyrule doesn't even have the slightest chance!

"Who said that?" Link asked before realizing how stupid a question it was. He then struggled to crawl over to the wolf. When he finally did, he instantly felt completely healed, before realizing that he was now standing in front of that weird ghost warrior thing, who was holding an empty bottle over him.

"Fairy's tears," the ghost said. "Before you learn the last Skill, I feel like I should tell you this."

"What?" Link asked.

"Link… I am your father," the strange warrior (or Link's supposed father) revealed mysteriously.

"WHAT?" Link screamed, now standing up. "There's no w-" he started before seeing his shield. He suddenly remembered seeing that shield when he was a boy. It was his father's.

"Dad."

"Yes, son?"

"What is the eighth Skill?"

"That's my boy!" Link's father exclaimed. "But wait, you don't have a sword or a shield!"

After realizing his father was right, Link screamed, "STUPID GANONDORF!"

"Don't worry, you can borrow a spare," Link's father handed him a spare sword. "But the Skill will not work without a certain sword. I shall teach you it anyway.

"First, you need to get your opponent to look at you. Good. Then EXTREMELY quickly, get behind your opponent and hold your sword like it is a bat, getting ready to hit a ball. Good, good. Then as soon as your opponent turns around and sees you, slice their head off before they can respond. Their reflexes can't be quick enough to defend; it's not possible.

"But you can only do this with… the Twilight Sword," Link's father finished.

"But where can I find this sword?" Link asked.

"Look in the place where you would least expect something of Twilight to be," Link's father responded, before making Link appear back in Hyrule Field, which was not flaming anymore.

Thanks, Dad.

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Chapter two coming soon!