"Oh, hello. Are you alright?"
Lara turned to see a red haired, blue eyed girl. She wore a light green tunic with pink trim, dark leather boots. Her hair was held up in a pony-tail with a ring of white blossoms.
"Yes, I'm fine," Lara said. "Where are we?"
"Hyrule Castle dungeon," the girl laughed. "In all it's new found dark glory! I'm Sunran, by the way. Sun for short. You must be from Earth, am I right?"
"I am. How did you know?"
"I live there now. Used to live in Feudal Japan, but I met someone who took me to earth and now we're partners. What's your name?"
"Lara. You lived in Feudal Japan?"
"Yup. It's one of the dimensons linked with Earth."
"How long have you been here?"
"Oh not long, two days at the most. You just appeared here, I suspect Agahnim took you. Doing some sort of ritual."
"Agahnim...Did he kidnap you too?"
"Yeah. Took me right under Luke's nose."
"Luke?"
"My partner."
"Wait. If we're in Hyrule, and Agahnim is doing some sort of ritual then... Dangit!"
"What?"
"We're in the Hyrule of Link to the Past!"
"Oh, you're a gamer?"
"In a way, more like I'm a Zelda fan." Lara stood up and walked up the barred wall. "We've got the find some way out of here."
She slipped her hand through the bars in the door and held tightly to the lock.
"Seems rather rusty," she said. "A good tug should bring it right out." She pulled downward and the lock snapped in two. "There we go."
Lara unlatched the door and pushed it open. No one was in the dungeon.
"Sun, come on," she said.
They walked down the long corridor, passing several other cells with men at the barred walls.
"Hey, honey," one of them said. "If ya lemme outta here, I'll give ya all the jewels in the world!"
"Ignore them," Sun sighed. "None of them have any money. They're all here to be executed in the next few days."
They climbed up a spiral staircase to the first floor of the castle. The floor was white marble with a red rug running down the middle. There wasn't a guard in sight.
"We can get out through the sewer system," Lara said. "It's in the throne room."
"But that's where Agahnim is," Sun moaned. "We couldn't get past him, not in a million years!"
"Nor could you notice me standing right behind you," a gruff voice snarled.
Lara and Sun whirled around to find themselves facing Agahnim. His hood was down, showing his skin completely white and he had no hair.
"No way..." Lara began. "You're a Twili!"
"Indeed I am," Agahnim laughed. "I'm giving you a five second start to run for it. So, get moving."
"Sun, hurry!"
Lara and Sun bolted down the hallway in the direction of the stairs. They turned the corner, ran up the stairs two at a time and came to the second floor before they heard Agahnim's fast footsteps.
They came to another corridor then a large room, the main hall. A large door led outside to the courtyard and across the from the door was a staircase, leading to the throne room.
"Up the stairs!" Sun exclaimed.
They raced for the stairs and bolted up them, taking two at a time. They came to the throne room where two large oak chairs with dark green pillows stood. Behind the two thrones was a large tapestry.
The tapestry moved and Agahnim stepped out from the hidden path. Sun raised a hand and a wave of pink smoke shot at the dark wizard. The smoke vanished before it reached him.
"Run," Sun said. "Run!"
They ran for the stairs but stopped when they heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Agahnim came up from behind them and grabbed both. A blue object slashed the dark wizard's shoulder.
"Let them go," a voice demanded.
The dark wizard released the two, then vanished in a burst of black smoke. Lara and Sun turned to the stairs. Two boys stood in front of them. One was the boy from the park except he now wore a gray tunic. The other boy had brown hair, dark eyes, wore a green tunic and in his hand was wooden, blue boomerang.
"'Bout time you got here, Luke," Sun laughed.
"Got a bit held up," the black haired boy replied.
The other boy stepped up to Lara and put the weapon into his bag. He leaned forward slightly, bringing his face close to her's.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah," Lara replied.
"I missed ya." He wrapped his arms around Lara, holding her in a tight hug.
"Missed you, too."
"Sam," Luke began. "There's time for that later, we gotta get out of here."
"Right," Sam replied. He let go of Lara. "Behind the tapestry."
They walked around the two thrones and pulled back the large tapestry. The passage beyond was pitch dark. Sam pulled out a lantern from his bag and lit it. The path was illuminated by the light, but only so much of the floor was shown.