Yay im back sort of. Ok this chapter and the next one have been revised. So please don't hate me. I would like to thank HopelessMaiden for taking the time to revise my stories. Thx.

Chapter 2

"So, Princess... How do you like your new castle?" Victor taunted Zelda, gazing into her fearful eyes. Zelda shivered. His eyes seemed to pierce through her defences, and see into her very soul.

"I think you are a fool to do this." She spat defiantly at him, "You will be defeated." She added confidently. She glared at Victor like she wanted to slap the hell out of him.

"Ha!" Victor barked, "You think your precious Link will save you?" He roared with laugher, "You're very funny, Princess! He is most likely dead! As well as all the other soldiers." He growled lowly, bringing his face within half an inch of her's.

"I-I don't believe you." Zelda stuttered, unable to move back.

"Please, Princess!" Victor said, exasperated, "You think I would hire the best band of mercenaries for nothing? Ha! You are amusing!"

"So..." Zelda put two and two together, "That's why they're attacking Termina? To create a diversion so you could take over Hyrule?" Victor brushed his ice-cold lips against hers, making her cringe in horror. He pulled away, licking his lips.

"You are very smart, Princess." He purred, "To bad you will not live to see the mutilated body of Link when I receive it from Xross." Zelda gasped in fear as she realized what he had said.

'Why would he want to kill me?'

"You're probably wondering exactly why I am going to kill you." Victor said with an evil grin, scaring the life out of Zelda. Could he read minds? Zelda simply stared at him in horror, too terrified to move, as he went on.

"Because, if you live, there is a chance that you could escape and start a rebellion..." He took her chin in his hand, and tilted her face upwards to look at him, "But I wont take that chance. Enjoy your last week of life, Princess." With that he dropped her chin, and left Zelda in her room.

'Oh no! Link, you must stay alive for Hyrule!'

AT TERMINA FIELD

"Are you ready Richard?" Link asked, quite bored with the situation at hand. He was itching to fight.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Richard sighed. They walked up with the rest of the soldiers to listen to what the commander had to say.

"Today we will put a stop to the Blue Dragons!" The commander declared, "Let us go!" There was a cheer, and the soldiers started to march towards Clock Town. When they got there the town was eerily empty. All the buildings were still intact. It looked like a ghost town.

"What the hell? This is weird..." Link muttered while he was looking around. "Where are they?" No sooner had he voiced the query, than a loud scream was heard echoing through out the town. A soldier dropped to his knees with an arrow through his chest. The others looked around nervously. Where had the arrow come from?

"Look out!" The commander yelled, pointing to the top of the buildings. The mercenary leader Xross took this chance to show himself.

He was on the roof of the Stock Pot Inn. His wild blue hair waving in the wind, Link could see he had lifeless orbs as eyes, with dark tanned skin. His black cape billowed out behind him. A blue dragon emblem was shining on his black breastplate.

"Attack!" Xross ordered. The mercenaries that were hidden inside the buildings burst out into the streets, and surrounded the soldiers. The clashing of swords and shields, and the cries of dying men, could be heard a mile away. Link was having little trouble dispersing the warriors. Richard was doing just as well.

"My Lord, the one in the green tunic is Link." A mercinary scout informed Xross. Xross sneered at the man that called himself a hero, and jumped down from the roof, landing on a Hyrulian soldier. The soldier died instantly, as Xross had landed on his head, breaking the man's neck.

Xross started to walk towards Link, killing any soldier that got in his way. Link saw that Xross was making his way through the fray towards him and quickly finished off the soldier he was fighting. He charged at Xross. He sweeped his sword in an arc at Xross, but the man easily avoided it.

"What are you doing here?" Link demanded. Xross said nothing, keeping a straight face. He slashed his sword at Link. Link barley evaded the attack in time. As it was, Xross's sword nicked his right arm, making his shield useless.

'Wow... He's really fast.'

Xross lunged at Link again. Link got up his sword in time to save his head from being decapitated. Xross kept Link on defense, constantly flailing his sword at him.

'C'mon, Link! You gotta get on offense!'

Link looked around wildly to see if he could do something about his current situation. He had found it. When Xross slashed to cut him into two, Link jumped out of the way and the sword was lodged into a wooden post.

'Heh, that should hold him for a while... What?'

Xross had broken the post with his right fist, and freed his sword. He slashed at an unprepared Link and the sword made contact. Link felt a searing, burning pain, right across his face. A few seconds after, he began to taste blood trickling from the wound.

Link almost screamed in pain as he fell to the floor. Xross capitalized on Links current position. He slashed Link across the other side of the face, making a cross on his face. Link's eyes bagan to get hazy, and he fell unconscious from blood loss and overwhelming pain.

Richard saw what happened to his friend and charged towards Xross. Richard was only knocked back by a ball of light from Xross's hand.

"Let's go. Our job here is done." Xross ordered his troops. They left, leaving the Hyrulian soldiers to 200 men. A 300-man casualty. It was a heavy blow for Hyrule that day.