Timeless Wonders

Chapter 4

"We will find you! And justice will be served. You will pay for what you did under the hands of the laws that govern these lands! And you will regret that you ever choose to mess with my family!"

Ganon leaned further back into the plush arm chair. He smiled at flat screen television in front of him with the close up image of the Princess Alicia. He rolled his tongue around his lips while watching the LIVE report.

"Soon Zelda…soon." he murmured while brushing his greasy hair back from his eyes. Anger arousal him to the point that he wanted to go out and find the so called Princess of the Brodex family at that very moment. But there were other pressing mattes he needed to pay attention to. He watched the news report until the princess walked away from the podium and he clicked the television off at that point.

He finished off the last of the liquored that was in his silver flask before tossing it away and closing his eyes. He inhaled deeply and willed himself to sleep only to dream of his many years of floating in empty universal that Link had cast him into.

His peaceful moment alone in the over sized living room was ruined when two, small 8 year old girls walked in. They stood before him, tiny smiles on their faces that showed nothing more then innocent. Of course, they both were identical twins with slight differences. One of the young girls had long, blonde, almost white hair that fell like silk to her waist and blue eyes that sparkled like the sea. The other, just as beautiful, but with bright red hair with hazel eyes that were so bright, they almost appeared red.

But Ganon knew better when he saw these two. They may have looked innocent enough and young, but when they spoke, the sound of old, crackly elders' voices came from their mouths. Their names…Kotake and Koume.

"Have you good news for me witches?" Ganon asked while smiling at the two.

"The Cards are not being very helpful." the blond haired girl named Kotake replied. "They do not give us a clear answer at the moment."

"But…" added Koume. "…If we had the Hero of Time within our hands, the Cards will be more certain on our victory. For now, nothing is certain."

"And what of the Golden Goddess? Have we found her yet?"

Kotake smile brightly at the next set of questions. The smile was one that would fool anyone if they didn't know how old the soul inside her body was. Or rather, the fact that the soul that owned the body to begin with was killed to make room for her own.

"Yes. Nayru will soon be ours. We will have all the Golden Goddesses by the end of the week. Our plans are in motion; we are close to winning this game."

Ganon nodded. "This is good. Until we have all 3 of the Goddesses, I remain as a mortal man."

He held up his right hand and pulled the black leather glove off. In the center below his knuckles was the faint glowing of a triangle. He frowned deeply at the marking.

"I have two problems on my hands. First, in order to defeat that Boy, I need to be immortal. Once the Goddesses are together, it will be only a matter of time before he remembers everything. That Boy will also regain his full power and Courage is one power that will give me pure hell."

Ganon tightened his hand in a fist and glared at the twin witches. "However - there is a huge fucking problem. That Boy can tap into his powers and doesn't even know it! That shot he made at my ear shouldn't have been possible! In fact, he should have been still on the ground in pain! It was the power of Courage that kept him going and will make his powerful in whatever weapon he puts his hands on! So the problem here is - should I wait till I'm immortal and then go after him? If I do that, I risk him remembering the past. Or should I take the chance and try and go after him now before he becomes stronger and remembers?"

"This is not a choice we can make for you." Koume said while shaking her head. "The Card will not answer these problems either. This, Ganondorf, is something you must do on your own."

The twin witches bowed and headed out the door. As they walked passed Nabooru, who was standing outside of the door, they bowed to her before walking down the hallway and out of site.

Nabooru entered the room and took her place in front of Ganon as they had done. But she crossed her arms and twisted her purple lips in a frown. "So tell me, why are you so worried about Link remembering the past? Who cares if he does or doesn't."

Ganon sighed and shook his head. "You don't get it. If that Boy remembers, history will repeat it self. Zelda will never remember the past on her own. It will be that Boy who will awaken the memoirs buried in her head. If that happens, we can kiss the chances of winning this war goodbye."

"And what's so bad about that? Why is it a bad day if she remembers?" Nabooru question.

"Because…" Ganon stood from his chair and headed towards the door. "…Zelda is more powerful then me. Having the power of immortally will mean nothing compared to her. If she remembers, she will regain every ounce of that power of Wisdom back."

"How powerful can Wisdom be?"

"You have no idea…"

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Alicia smiled at the cool breeze that blew her hair around her face. The pale, purple dress she was wearing seemed to move along with the many straws of wheat that surrounded her on top of the hill she stood on. Turning her face upward; the sky was a perfect color of blue with a few puffs of white clouds. Even the weather was as perfect as everything around her. For miles around, there was nothing but rolling hills and the sounds of the blowing wind. To Alicia, this was what she looked forward to when it came to finding peace.

The tugging of her dress made her turn her attention away from the sky and down to a small boy. He might have been 3 or 4, with messy blonde hair and chubby cheeks. He smiled and held up a single white daisy as far as his little arm could reach.

"Why, thank you." Alicia laughed as she reached down to grab the flower. As her hand reached for his, she froze when she saw blood suddenly dripping from between his fingers. The color of the blood seemed brighter as it dripped down his pale arm.

"Oh no! You're hurt!" she grasped and pried the flower from his hand while trying to find the wound.

"I'm not hurt." the little boy laughed and shook his head. "You are!" And he pointed towards her stomach.

Alicia followed his finger and grasped when she saw a dark, red circle of blood that was slowly getting bigger from the center of her abdomen. Next came the pain that shot up to her chest and down her arms.

She pulled away from the small child and double over in pain on the tall wheat. She covered her wound with her arms while trying to figure out how did this happen. When she peered up to look at the boy again, he was no longer standing there. Instead, he was replaced with Ganon.

But there was something different about him. He didn't look as young as Alicia had seen him before. He now was older with shorter hair that ran around his chin and connected with the side burns on his face. The next thing her eyes saw the bloody knife in hand that he suddenly dropped and took a staggering step back from.

The biggest surprise of all was the look on Ganon's face. He looked down at Alicia with panic and fear, as if he had made a truly bad mistake. He shook his head and covered his mouth with one hand.

"I…I'm sorry!" he murmured from between his fingers.

I don't understand…why does he look so shock? Doesn't he want to kill me? Alicia wondered.

The dream was suddenly shattered as Alicia jerked awake with a scream caught in her throat. She ripped the sheets away from her as she sat and looked down at her short sleeping shirt. There was no blood and the pain that she had felt in the dream was gone too.

Alicia put a hand on her sweaty forehead while trying to slow her breathing. It had been many years since she had had a nightmare that seemed as real as that.

"I need some water…" she murmured to herself as she swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood.

But she had only taken 3 steps towards the door before pain shot up from the back of her head and down between her eyes. Alicia let out a painful cry and reach for something, anything to balance herself on. Black dots danced before her eyes and she knew what was going to happening next.

She was able to grab the banister at the foot of the bed. But her legs crumpled beneath her as she fell to the floor.

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"Hay! …Hay! Listen!"

Richard sighed loudly as he rolled his eyes towards Tina. "You truly are annoying, has anyone ever told you that Tina?"

Tina stuck her tongue out at him and continued wiping down the bar. She was a short woman for the age for 23 and could easily pass for 15. Her hair was cut short in a pixie like style, which made her brown eyes seem large. She was cute and attractive, but with a wicked attitude that kept most men away from her. As a bar tender, Richard had witness many nights when she threw bottles of drinks at customers and snapped at anyone who asked for her number.

On nights like tonight, Richard came to the bar to sit and chat with her. She was one of the few people he felt he could open up to, but saw her as nothing more then a friend. Late nights during the week, the bar was only filled with a few men and lonely women who left as the night dragged on. These were the perfect nights for Richard to talk to Tina.

"I can't believe this. I mean, I really can't believe she had the cops come and take me away from the house." Richard said while staring at the bottle of Bud Light in front of him.

"Your still getting paid right? So what's the big deal?!" Tina asked while tugging on her short black dress and leaning over the bar across from him. "Look at this way, you no longer what to work unless you want to."

Richard shook his head. "That man is still going to be after her."

"She's got more then enough people to watch her back."

"But there's something…not right about that guy." he went on. "Like…I don't know. When I looked at him, I got this really sick feeling. I wanted to kill him even before he shot all the other bodyguards. All my life, I have wanted to work for the Royal Family. And finally, I get the chance to really do what I'm here for! What I feel like I was born to do! But then I get fired!"

"Your stressing to much over this." Tina reached under the bar and slammed a shot glass next to his beer and filled it with a clear liquor. "Drink up, get drunk, and I'll take you home. Down the stress of your life away with the clear drug I serve here."

Richard smile as she walked away and towards the back room of the bar with a tray filled with dirty glasses. She might have been one of the most annoying people he knew, but Tina was there for him like no other. She believed that drinking was the only way to relieve stress. And sometimes, she was right.

He knew that he needed to find some kind of way to get over the fact that he no longer worked for the Royal Family. But there was always that feeling of dread that made him want to find some kind of way to keep an eye on Princess Alicia no matter what.

Picking up the shot, Richard downed it and drank more of his beer behind it. Lost in though, he took drank a few more beers before pressing his face to the cool bar and sleeping until the end of Tina's shift.

It wasn't long before she went about the bar, cleaning things up and shutting off the neon Open sign and waving good to the last reaming drunks. She nudged Richard with her elbow as she passed by him with a set of keys in her hand and a broom in the other.

"Wake up Rich, time to go. I just gotta lock the back door and were out." Tina replied as she walked towards the back room and out of sight.

Yawning, Richard rolled out the stool and rubbed the back of his head; his chin leant blonde hair fluffed around his head. Pulling off his suit jacket, he loosened the tie on his collar and un-tucked the shirt. The bed in his apartment was sounding awfully good right about now and for the moment, he didn't want to think about what he was going to do when he awoke the next morning with no job to go to.

I won't think about it. Not right now. I'll be too tempted to go back and beg once again.

Sneering to himself as he felt pitiful for thinking about begging, Richard made his way to the over size windows as the lights clicked off. The street lights outside the door was only thing that lit the bar. However, there wasn't any other shops along the road, just trees and road. The bar was located outside of the main city and had a good roll of business compared to others.

Reaching up, Richard had started to pull the steel bars to the windows down. But he stopped as a large, black Hummer with it's lights off, rolled up and stopped in front of the bar on the side of the road. Since the bar was somewhat far from the road, there was no way to see who was in the vehicle. It did strike him as odd and matters only worsened when a second and then a third Hummer, all black with lights off, parked along the side of the road behind each other.

"What the fuck…?" he murmured while squinting to see what was going on and who the people were.

The doors to the Hummers seemed to open all at once. As quickly as the door opened, dark figures leapt and ran towards the bar impossibly fast. Richard's heart kicked into over drive and he dashed towards the back of the bar.

"TINA!" he shouted just before there was an explosion of glass in the front of the bar. There was no time to think about who these people were or why they were there. All he knew was he needed to find Tina and they needed to leave!

Running down the hall was a panic, wide eyed Tina.

"Richard! What is -,"

"No time! Let's go!" Richard said as he kept running while grabbing Tina's wrist and ran towards the exit in the back of the bar. He wanted to run back to the mangers office and grab the gun he knew that was kept in the safe. But there was no time to wait for Tina to open it.

Bursting out into the night, Richard continued to run while pulling Tina along into the thick woods behind the bar. The frosty, winter air hit them both and made it harder to breath, but their legs moved until they could move no more. Finding an over size tree, they both stopped and hide behind it, completely out of breath.

Richard peeked around the sides of the tree to see if they were being followed and wouldn't dare look away.

"Richard - what the fuck - what's going on?" Tina whispered while shivering. The tiny black dress and thin jacket she wore was no help at all.

"I don't know." he hissed back while keep an eye around them. "Three Hummers road up next to the bar and guys jumped out. Did the Maxie pay the rent this time?"

"Go to Hell Rich, this is no time for jokes!"

Richard shook his head. "We need to keep moving just in case…"

He stopped mid sentence as his ears begin to ring. They became louder until suddenly, pain burst from the back of his neck as if he had been stabbed. He grunted in pain and fell to his knees while holding his head. He knew this was no headache as his cried out from the sheer pain that exploded in his head with no warning.

"Richard?! What's wrong?!"

He looked up to see Tina at his side with a worried look on her face. He tried to reply, but the pain stolen his words and all he could do was hold on to the tree for support while hoping the pain would subside.

"Get up! Get up Richard! Their coming!" Tina gasped suddenly as her tone changed to panic as she looked passed Richard and saw the men in black jogging suits running towards them. She pulled and jerked on his arm while trying desperately to help him up.

Richard knew he needed to get up and run with her further away. But by the time he pushed himself up on both knees, a screaming Tina was snatched away from him. He saw the shine on a black boot only seconds before it kissed his nose which made a tiny popping sound. Falling backwards, the kick did nothing for the pain, but his eyes looked up at Tina.

From his upside down view and blurry vision, Tina held by one man from behind. He trapped her arms and no matter how much she swore and struggled, his grip wouldn't loosen. But her fighting slowly stopped as she looked up and it was Ganon who came into his view sight.

Get up! Get up, get up, get UP!

Richards head screamed at him. But as blood rolled down the side of his cheek from his nose, the pain stabbing headache made him paralyzed.

Ganon, who didn't appear to even care that he was laying there, walked up to Tina.

"Navi…looking good." he murmured in a deep voice while letting his eyes rudely look over her.

"Who the fuck is Navi?! Get the fuck away from me!" Tina snapped as she showed no fear now. Just pure anger that Richard was proud that she had.

But Ganon smiled sickly at Tina and reached out to touch her neck. "My, my, and your attitude hasn't changed a bit. But you sure are a sweet piece of candy I would love to try."

Richard watched in horror as Ganon's hand touched her thigh and slide upward until it its disappeared under the short, black dress. Tina became fanatic as she struggled and squeezed her tights shut. For the first time, Richard saw fear in her eyes as Ganon started to undo his own pants with his other hand.

"S-stop it!" he managed to say each painful word, but no one seemed to hear him. The world around him was fading into a hazy blackness with only Tina's screams in the back ground. But soon, they were gone as well.

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Author's Note:

Mwhahaha! A cliff hanger! I am so evil! Sorry it took me longer then normal to pump a chapter out. But you see, I had to buy a whole new set of guns; which took a lot of explaining to do when I asked for a Bazooka, and I was busy watching the skys for Santa. I was going to rob him of what he had in gifts and sell the stupid stuff on Ebay!! Mmm! But he tricked me once again this year and I didn't see him. What a sneaky, fat man he is!

Anywho - tuck the kiddies into bed because the story is about to become the mature rating I gave it. I will say it now and then later, I am sorry if I offend anyone with my horny ways of telling a story. But hay, it's a sickness!

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