Chapter 21

Dark Fox stared at the frightened princess with his dagger now almost making contact with the left side of her neck as he whispered, "I do not know why you're so afraid. You're death will be quick and painless…even though I made sure to dig this dagger into a very powerful poison before I came to the throne room earlier today."

The anthro fox became quite confused when he saw the Hylian noble stop her shaking and slowly close her eyes. And with her body now relaxed one of his ears twitched when she said, "Very well. If this how my life will end, then so be it."

"What, how come you aren't shaking anymore? Have you decided to give up already?" The red eyed vulpine demanded, as he brought the dagger a bit closer to her skin.

"No, that is not it." Zelda answered back with, while she raised her head to look at him face to face. Dark Fox stared into her blue eyes as she went on with, "I am not afraid anymore because I know you won't be able to kill me."

The vulpine let out a growl of anger before he shot back with, "And what makes you think I won't kill you!"

"Because if you are indeed a clone of Fox, then you must have feelings for me just like your original correct?" Zelda calmly answered with, as she continued to look into his red eyes.

Hearing such a thing caused the dark vulpine to move the dagger away from the brunette's neck while also closing his eyes and turning his head away from her. "Darn it, I can't bring myself to kill her. Why can't I do it?" The fox thought to himself, before he reopened his eyes and turned slightly to look at the princess.

While he stared at her though he heard the warlock's voice which was now filled with annoyance as he demanded, "Why are you hesitating? In fact if I remember right I had ordered you to get rid of the princess when you had arrived here at the castle."

The anthro fox moved his gaze from Zelda over to his creator as he simply responded back with, "Yes, you are right. I disobeyed your orders after I saw how beautiful the princess was." He started to walk towards the warlock while he added, "And so I have decided to make her mine. Of course I will make this happen once I not only get rid of my original….but you as well, Ganondorf."

The vulpine stopped his walking and pointed his dagger at the King of Evil who just laughed with amusement, "You are quite the interesting one. I never considered you falling for the princess." He proceeded to swing the sword that was in his hand a few times bofore he added, "However, I suppose this is to be expecting from a clone of a weakling. You are truly pathetic, Dark Fox."

Hearing such comments caused the anthro fox to bear his fangs while he coldly uttered, "So I'm pathetic, huh?" He quickly ran up to the orange eyed man with great speed before stabbing him in the neck with the poisoned dagger. He smirked when he saw the slightly surprised look on the Gerudo's face while he added, "Well, how pathetic how am I now!"

Dark Fox pulled the weapon out of the greenish tan skinned man's neck expecting the poison to kill him instantly. Instead of seeing his eyes losing their color he saw the King of Evil chuckle once again causing him to slowly back away while he asked in disbelief, "No, that can't be right. You should have dropped dead by now from such a strong type of poison."

"You are an utter fool! Did you honestly think something as weak as poison would be enough to kill me?" The Gerudo shot back with anger in his voice.

The vulpine's expression became that of irritation as he used his great speed to grab a nearby sword. And once the weapon was in his hands he slowed down his pace and run towards the warlock until their swords connected with one another. While the two struggled to see who would be the most dominate Dark Fox removed one of his hands from the hilt of his sword and right away dark magic formed around it. He quickly jumped back a bit before he released it towards Ganondorf. Instead of trying to dodge the attack though the warlock just stood in place letting the magical attack hit him right in the chest. To the clone's dismay his attack seemed to do absolutely no damage what so ever.

The dark brown and white furred fox growled in frustration when he heard the Gerudo let out another laugh before he commented with, "You call that an attack?" The fake Fox watched as he raised his left hand into the air and within minutes a ball of light had formed above it. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your attack will be considered nothing compared to mine."

The red eyed fox prepared himself for the attack when it was sent flying in his direction. He waited until the right moment before he rolled out of the attacks line of fire. He turned his head to see the orb of light hit a nearby wall causing it to break apart. His ears twitched when he heard the sound of another orb of light magic being formed. The fox knew he would not be able to dodge this attack like he had the previous one. So he quickly turned around and put one of his arms in front of his body to endure the light magic attack.

Once the orb made contact with his skin however, it felt as though his arm was being burned which caused the vulpine to drop his sword and let out a scream from the pain that was shooting through his body. He tried to calm himself after the light magic disappeared leaving a large amount of smoke and burn marks on his arm. While he lowered his arm though he glared at the King of Evil as he let out, "Tch, is all you can do?"

He heard no response from Ganondorf which caused the fake to grab the hilt of his sword again with his burnt arms. The red eyed fox ran towards the orange haired man with anger in his eyes. When his sword was about to make contact with the warlock's armor though he saw a gloved hand grab the blade with ease before tossing it to the side. And while Dark Fox stared at the weapon he knew it was over when he felt the Gerudo's sword go through his body until it was sticking out of his back.