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Chapter 12: To Hyrule We Go

Ghirahim's gloved hand was still holding my head up to look at him. The touch was gentle enough but there was no warmth in it at all. The other man, who I soon discovered to be Dark Link from Shadow growling something under his breath that would have given a pirate a heart attack, relieved a bit of the pressure of his foot on my back.

"You know you can't fight your way out of this," the Demon Lord purred, "Do be a good girl and save yourself and your friends quite a bit of pain."

Now this is the point in the story where the heroine does something impossibly brave and incredible like awakening some hidden power or something. Well, I did do something, I froze.

"Are you afraid?" he asked, moving his hand across my face and causing me to flinch, "Relax, as I told you earlier, if you come quietly I won't do anything to hurt you."

I stared at the sword in his hand and shivered a bit. Then I did the dumbest thing possible.

"Okay," I squeaked.

(A bit later)

Dark Link held my arms behind my back as we trudged through a now closed Modern Hyrule. The others were being held by other creatures. Dark Link fell into step beside the Dark Nut that was holding onto Lya.

"Hey," she whispered, "You have a plan or something right?"

I shook my head. "I never have a plan."

Lya nodded, "I guess that's understandable. I don't think I would have stood up to Ghirahim very well either."

Another Dark Nut that was holding onto Ginger came up to my other side. "What were you thinking?" she demanded, "how could you just nod like that! This guy is a freakin' psychopath!"

I swallowed hard and looked at my feet in shame. "That sword is really shiny up close," I mumbled under my breath.

Ginger's glare softened a bit but didn't entirely disappear. I really couldn't blame her for being angry with me. After all, I had pretty much yanked her along with me with that nod and that one word.

I glanced around, this part of the park looked familiar. I shuffled a bit, trying to get a better look when Dark Link's knee came up and thwacked me warningly between the shoulder blades but not hard enough to be seriously painful.

"OUCH!" I shouted, "I was just looking around!"

"Well don't," he said calmly. I had always pictured him as a silent type of person, I guess my imagination was correct.

A building loomed ahead of us. Something clicked in my brain and I realized exactly where we were headed. The Palace of Twilight that Matt had been so enthused about.

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Needless to say, when Matt had brought us here I thought this was the best thing since sliced bread. Now everything about this building gave me the shivers. I could tell Lya felt the same way from how she was continuously glancing around.

Ghirahim approached the door to the throne room, which swung open with a simple snap of his fingers. Dark Link and the Dark Nuts marched inside, towing the five of us along with them.

The throne room, which I was hyperly excited about before, made my blood run cold. The first time we had entered this room, when Kevin had sat on that throne and done the King of Twilight impression, I thought the detail and the exact replification of the room had been amazing, now this all seemed much TOO exact to the original and the throne was occupied by someone who was definitely NOT Kevin.

"Holy geeze," I squeaked, my voice barely above a whisper, "Zant."

I could tell when the King of Twilight focused his attention on us, even though his helmet obscured his eyes. His eyes darted over each and every one of us and when they rested on me, I swear the room's temperature dropped a good thirty degrees.

"Are these the ones?" he inquired. His voice was much more calm and much less spazzing then I had imagined it.

"Of course these are the ones," Ghirahim said, barely containing his temper, "You honestly think that I would make such a huge mistake?"

Zant raised a hand for Ghirahim to calm down. "I didn't mean to imply that you made a mistake," he continued in his calm voice, "I was just curious!" his voice grew a bit higher pitched when he said this last part. There's the spazzing voice that I heard in my head while I played TP.

"Never mind that," Ghirahim said, "Is it still open?"

"Of course it's still open!" Zant ranted, "Who would have come by to close it?"

Ghirahim's fists were clenched by his sides and were trembling slightly. He did not like Zant much, that was apparent.

"Bring them up here," Zant said, motioning to our captors.

"All of them?" Dark Link inquired in his icy tone.

"Just one will do," Zant nodded.

I was roughly pushed from behind up the stairs to Zant's throne and shoved to the floor none too gently. Zant examined me for a few moments, making me feel more like one of the bugs in science class than I ever cared to.

"Light dwellers," he muttered, "Soon my god shall be rid of them all."

Ghirahim rolled his eyes. "Enough of this god nonsense of yours!" he spat, finally losing his temper.

Zant leapt out of the throne, very nearly crushing my hand with his foot. "IT'S NOT NONSENSE!" he roared, "IT'S FACT I TELL YOU!"

"Dark Link, bring her along," he ordered, dismissing Zant's outburst, "Without all of them we might as well not have any."

Dark Link jerked me towards the stairs again and marched me to where ever the portal was located.

"YOU'LL SEE!" Zant continued to rage behind us, "MY GOD SHALL SHOW HIMSELF! AND WHEN HE DOES, YOU'LL ALL SEE!"

The door slammed behind us, cutting him off in the middle of his speech. The web sites were right, he IS insane.

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The portal appeared to be a hole in the stone wall pulsing with blinding white light. I was roughly shoved from behind and very nearly fell into it.

The Dark Nuts had released their grip on the others and were pushing them towards the portal as well.

"Got a plan now?" Lya asked hopefully.

"I thought I told you," I squeaked, "I never have a plan!"

"That's reassuring," Dakota said, turning pale in the face.

"HEY!" someone shouted from the doorway.

Everyone in the room turned to face the direction the voice had come from. There was just enough room for me to see through the group of villains. A familiar looking boy with messy hair and a green tunic stood in the doorway.

"Matt?" I shouted, "What the heck are you doing here?"

"And what's with your get-up?" Ginger asked.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were—" Lya stopped, "Oh my."

"He's Twilight Princess, Link!" we both shouted at the same time.

Ghirahim clapped his hands. "Bravo!" he shouted, "What a show! But it seems that the mask has been removed, boy!"

Matt—er—Link scowled and glared at the demon. "Too right," he said, "I believe I hear the final curtain call, Ghirahim."

The two stood in battle ready positions. Before the fireworks could begin, we were shoved hard from behind and went tumbling through the portal.

Link shouted something inaudible at the demon lord and that's the last thing I remember seeing before I blacked out.

Thanks for reading and remember to vote on the poll! Also, this will be my OWN OC (so don't worry Piezelle). What's a good way to injure an oc? Nothing too graphic please, I just need a suggestion.