Days later Ganondorf and Maria were out walking in the garden. Suddenly Din appeared!
"Din, what are you doing here?"
Din looked at Maria.
"Time to go, Maria."
"Go? Go where?"
"You must come with me back to Sacred Realm."
Both Gerudos gasped, and Maria grabbed onto her father, who put his arms around her protectively.
"Why must she leave, Din?"
Din sighed.
"I'm sorry, Ganondorf, but that's how it must be."
Ganondorf frowned.
"You're the one who gave her to me!"
Din sighed again.
"I'm sorry, but she must come with me."
"I won't go!" Maria said.
Suddenly the sages appeared!
"Young Gerudo, you were placed in your father's care for only a temporary amount of time." they said to Maria.
Ganondorf looked at them.
"How do you know this?"
"Because we are the ones who arranged this."
"What?!"
The sages were the ones responsible for Maria coming into Ganondorf's life!
"You give me my daughter then take her away?!"
"Her time in your care was meant to be temporary."
"You call yourselves sages?! Ha! You give a man something that changes his life forever and means the most to him then take it away!"
"Peace, Dragmire."
Ganondorf scowled.
"I can't be at peace! Not without Maria in my life."
"You still have thoughts about your deception of her."
Maria jumped at her father's angered roar that followed.
"Open your eyes, you fools! Maria is the most important in my life and heart! I'd never decive her!"
"So you say, but you have done it before."
Maria looked at her father and was shocked at what she saw.
Ganondorf's face was horrible to see, twisted in a hateful glare that remained Din and the sages of him when in his blackest rage, his ruby eyes blazed with anger and hate, and his mouth held the most frightning sneer Maria had ever seen!
"I won't let you take her from me!"
"You have no choice, Ganondorf."
The former dark lord stood glaring at the sages.
"Remember what happened to you after the Hero of Time defeated you?" Din asked.
"The most horrible thing I have ever endured."
The Gerudo's head was slightly bowed.
"You'll endure it again if you don't let me take Maria."
"I'd rather endure it again then lose Maria."
Maria couldn't stand by any longer.
"No!" she said, running over to her father.
Ganondorf looked at her, his face no longer horrible to see.
Maria looked at Din.
"I'll go."
"Maria, no!"
Maria looked at her father sadly.
"I can't let you endure what you did all those years ago again because of me."
Ganondorf grabbed her shoulders and looked into her beautiful, blue eyes.
"And I can't let you go."
Maria pulled away from her father and walked towards Din, but Ganondorf grabbed her hand.
"Maria."
She looked into his eyes and hugged him one last time.
"I love you, Father."
Tears flooded Ganondorf's eyes as he realized that there was no way for him to talk Maria out of it.
"I love you, too, Maria."
Maria finally broke out of her father's embrace and walked over to Din. The moment she was next to her a ball of fire surrounded them!
"Din, what are you doing?!"
"You and sages fell for it so easily."
"Huh?"
Din smiled slyly.
"I really need your daughter as a sacrifice."
"No!"
Ganondorf threw himself against the ball and fell back, a little burned but not too bad.
"Foolish, Ganondorf, you can't break through this."
The ball began to go up to the heavens!
"Father!"
"Maria! No!"
In a moment they were gone.
Ganondorf turned to the sages.
"I need to save her."
The sages looked at him sadly.
"You cannot." said the head sage.
Ganondorf grabbed him and shook him, hard!
"She's my daughter! I can't just sit by and let her be sacrificed! You're the only ones who can help me save her!"