Author Note: So here is the second chapter. Hope you all enjoy finding out the couple.
Chapter 2: The Sorceress
Linked looked up at the towering temple he and Epona were approaching slowly. He had slowed Epona down to a steady walk to let her rest for the last part of their journey just incase the events turned sour and he would be forced to flee back to the army.
As he and Epona got closer to the temple, Link reached into his saddle bags pulling out two gleaming silver gauntlets (more like in Ocarina of Time), he had a plan and it was simple. Talk Cia into talking with him one on one with no weapons. Lana several days earlier had explained to them about Cia's staff and he was hoping he would be able to fend her off should things turn sour if she didn't have it. But she was a sorceress so she would not be defenceless so to try and protect himself, he felt his silver gauntlets would work.
As he slipped the gauntlets onto his hands the gemstones in them glowed filling the knight with more strength then he had normally had. With them he know he could lift boulders even bigger than himself and punch hard enough to crack another knight's breastplate.
Link righted himself in the saddle, as they got closer to the temple. Link stiffened seeing the horde of monsters inside the temple grounds causing him to stop just outside of the gate. He flung himself off of Epona and landed on the ground, keeping one hand on his beloved horse, as he turned his head looking at the monsters that were not coming close.
He lifted his head and yelled out into the temple grounds. "Cia! Come out! I wish to talk to you face to face!" He continued to yell out, hoping that her magic would know he was there and hear his yelling.
In front of Link a gout of black flames shot out of the ground, before dissipating as Cia appeared in front of the knight, scepter in hand.
"Link. Your here much earlier than I expected. Though I also did expect an army at your back, but it seems you came alone... Why?" Cia asked, as she scowled.
Link did his best to smile, not bothering to reach for the master sword that was slung across his back nor his shield. "I came to speak with you as I just said. I would like to try and find a peaceful solution to this fighting. Lana told me some stuff about you two, and I wanna know if what she said was true as well."
Cia glared at the knight, crossing her arms under her partial exposed bust. "Oh did she now? I'd bet you charmed her to tell you, as I know for a fact she would never willingly tell you some of our secrets."
"I didn't. All I did was ask her and try and make her see reason is all, which is the only reason I'm here... alone." Link said, before Epona nudged his ass, causing him to laugh. "Sorry, why only me and Epona are here." He said as he looked at Cia again. "All I ask is a chance to talk. Is that to much Cia?"
"And how am I to trust that, that is all you wish to do. You did travel and pull the master sword just to be able to match me." Cia said, lowing her arms down. From the tension in her arms Link could tell she would be able to attack at any moment.
"I have no will to fight you Cia, unless I have no choice in matter. I'm sure you know me better than I know myself. You've watched me for centuries, each time I was reborn." Link said, as he looked at Cia, a smile on his face.
Cia continued to stare at the hero, her eyes slowly softening looking at his smile. "Fine. We can talk, but you leave your sword here with your horse while we speak in private." She nearly commands.
"Only if you leave your scepter with Epona as well. Would be stupid of me, to unarm myself and not request the same thing." Link says, as he reaches behind himself and pulls the shield free from its hooks and slips it onto Epona's saddle.
Cia glares at Link before sighing and approaching the horse. "Very well then." She says slipping her scepter into the mare's saddle bags, the head of it sticking out.
Link smiles as he pulls the master sword and its sheath off his back, hanging them from Epona's saddle. "Alright then. I'm ready."
Cia turns to the hero and lifts her hand. She snaps her fingers as both her and Link disappear into black flames, only to reappear within another room in the temple. Within the room was a table and chair.
"This is a study I don't use very often. We can speak privately here." Cia says, as she takes a seat at the table.
Link looked around the room, before walking over and taking a seat at the table himself with Cia.
"So what did you wanna talk to me about? I don't believe that you know the true reason I started this." Cia says bluntly.
"You started this cause of me. Your broken heart is what lead you to be corrupted. You've had to watch me fall in love over and over again, even though you loved me, till finally... it was to much." Link says, looking down at his lap. "I wanted to say i'm sorry. I didn't know about your feelings or even you in general till now, but tell me." He said turning his head up to look at the woman, whose eyes were wide hearing the hero speak. "Why didn't you ever tell me? I'm sure you could have found a way to come to me and tell me."
"Because of my oaths." Cia said, as she looked away. "I swore never to interfere in the timeline. Besides, you would never love me. I highly doubt you would have even given me the chance."
"Yet here you are interfering as we speak." Link says, bluntly, before giving Cia a warm smile. "Also your wrong about something."
Cia looked back towards Link, blinking confused.
"You said I would have never given you a chance in a way." The hero says, leaning back in a chair. "Yet I ask you... Why would I not give you a chance? Lana said you loved me, and you are very beautiful. I have no reason not to atleast give you a chance."
The sorceress's eyes widen with each word the man spoke, before her eyes harden, the outer edges of her eyes glowing red. "And now, all you want is to see me dead." Cia growls, standing up from her chair causing it to fall to the floor. "I see how it is, well if I can't..."
"No. Your wrong. I do not want to see you dead." Link says quickly interrupting her as he stood up from his chair. "Cia... what I wanted to talk to you about today was to see if you wanted to try this." He said, his voice softening. "I may not love you right now, but whos to say I won't fall in love? I know nothing about you, and I do want to give you a chance."
Cia relaxes slowly hearing that the man she had been in love with for so long wanted to at least try. "You're not trying to trick me... Are you Link?" Cia asked looking into the man's eyes from where she stood.
The hero shook his head at the woman. "No." He says flatly, taking a step towards the white haired woman. "I'm not trying to trick you. I want to truly give you a chance, but you need to do something for me, so I can trust you."
"What?" Cia asks looking at the hero.
"I need you to get rid of all these monsters you summoned and return Hyrule to how it should be." Link said kindly as he stopped in front of the woman.
Cia slowly nodded her head, snapping her fingers to transport them back to Epona. As they reappeared Cia said. "I need my scepter."
She walks over to the horse and slowly took back her scepter, just as the hero followed behind her to retrieve his sword and shield.
Cia looks around the temple seeing it swarming with the monsters she summoned before looking back at the man behind her. She smiles softly as she raises her scepter into the air, as she floods the temple with her magic causing each monster within it to disappear and return to where they came from. She lowers the staff and pants from the magic she used, before stiffening feeling a hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks Cia. Once you..." Link starts to say before the Triforce begins to glow brightly on the back of his left hand, as the Triforce Cia held in her hand started to glow as well.
"Oh no... My spell is ending." Cia says dismayed as she looked at the glowing triforce.
"What spell?" The knight asks, looking to the sorceress.
"Ganondorf was released, and I used the Triforce of Power to augment my powers to seal him, but apparently he is to strong and is breaking free." Cia says, looking down at her hand. "I don't think I have enough power to best him, and this proves I can't seal him away either."
"You might not be able to best him on your own but..." Link says as he adjusts the silver gauntlets on his hands. "We... are not alone. We are both here, and with the Master Sword we can fight him off." he says, looking over at Cia, a smile on his face. "I mean... if we can't work together then how can us even start to work?"
The white haired woman smiles back and nods. "You are right Link. Together we can stop him." She says confidently, before a dark laughter starts to echo around them.
Link slaps Epona's side. "Go girl." He says urgently, not wanting the mare to get hurt. As he finished, the mare reared up and took off back towards the direction that they had come from.
In front of the hero and sorceress a dark shadow appears on the ground as a figure starts to slowly pull itself from it. A large man with fire red hair and dark armor rose up from the shadow with a grin on his face.
"Nice try Cia, but even you with all your magic can't seal me away." The large man said laughing.
"Perhaps not Ganondorf, but this time it's not just me. Link is by my side this time, and we will defeat you." Cia says, sneering at the man.
Ganondorf turns his head to the hero, whom had yet to pull the sword from his back.
"And you think he will make a difference? Even with the full triforce you had no power over me, to seal me before you had to distract me by sending wisdom and courage away, and using that small window you used the triforce of power to seal me." Ganondorf says, turning his sight back to Cia. "Even with him here you two stand no chance." He said as a sword appeared in each of his hands from the darkness.
