Alright guys, I'm finally back. I decided to take a break from writing for a bit to just relax and cool down for a bit. And after all that, I think I'm ready to get back to writing! I'm surprised that I managed to finish this before Halloween too, so consider this a little treat for all you guys! Enjoy!

Chapter 34: Duel of Power

Logan's POV

Let's not beat around the bush here; I was pissed.

I was pissed that Adri just left to go fight Zant alone, I was pissed that she was destroying the entire volcano, I was pissed that she just took Link's shield with her to fight Zant, the list could go on and on! But the thing I was most pissed about was how I should've seen this coming a mile away!

Yes, I knew that separating Lora and Adri right after they found each other again would make her mad, but I didn't think she would go this far! She left us in the dust because she was already mad at me, and that combined with her hatred for Zant made all of THIS completely predictable! But I didn't see it coming, and now it's because of me that Link and I had to try and track her down through a crumbling volcano!

Link and I worked our way through the Goron Mines, looking in every room to try and find Adri and Zant. If we were lucky, we could've found Din or the other Triforce bearer too. But based on what was going on right then, I didn't think our luck would improve that much.

To make matters worse, the fight between Adri and Zant was causing the entire volcano to cave in, and that only made trying to find the two a lot harder. Doors were blocked so we had to dig our way through, sometimes just leading us to another dead end. Platforms were being destroyed, so I had to use what little magic I had to get us around. But that made things worse for us, because the less magic energy I had, the more tired and slow I became! And possibly worst of all, the falling debris were making the lava splash and start to rise! So if we didn't find the two fast, the whole place would completely flood with lava with us inside it!

One of the upsides here was that there weren't any enemies trying to kill us, so we didn't have to stop and waste our time on fighting anything. It was probably for the best, since I could barely use any more magic and Link could only be on the offensive the whole time. When I saw Adri, I was going to slap her stupid face as hard as I could. Maybe I would do more, I wasn't sure.

After searching all of the rooms that we could get into, Link and I made it to the room where the Goron Mines boss would be, the big rolling door crumbled and broken on the ground from the shaking volcano. And to our luck, Adri and Zant were both there! But against our luck, they were fighting each other to the highest levels of insanity, and just looking at it started to make my eyes hurt from looking around everywhere at once. The two were going blow for blow at the speed of light, even going at it in the air! They were going to levels of Dragon Ball fighting!

After recovering from our shock, Link and I ran in ready to (try) and help Adri. I got out the Wind Waker and Link got out his sword. Unfortunately for him, his Shield was nowhere to be found. Another reason for me to smack Adri across the face after all this was over.

"ZANT!" Link yelled at the top of his lungs. The two stopped fighting and hovered in the air, both furious that we interrupted their fight.

"Logan?! Link?!" Adri took a second to process what was going on, but then Zant took a cheap shot and threw his scimitar at Adri! She barely managed to dodge out of the way, getting away with just a ripped shirt, and the blade flew to the other side of the room getting lodged in the wall. Seeing an opportunity, I started to charge up an attack and Link started to charge at Zant, ready to stick his sword through his gut! But right when we were about to attack, a light blue glowing wall appeared in front of both of us, blocking both of our attacks!

Link fell on his back, his sword clattering to the ground next to him. I clenched my fist so hard that it felt like the Wind Waker would snap under the pressure! I glared at her through her own shield and yelled "What the hell Adri?!"

Both of her hands were outstretched and glowing light blue, she was the one that made the shields. She didn't seem happy about this either. Adri swayed her hands to her left, and the walls started to move towards us. They didn't hurt, but both me and Link were shoved back outside of the boss room! We landed in some rubble outside from the wall that, wasn't exactly comfortable to say the least.

Link started to recover, but as he did he started to panic. He looked around for his sword, and eventually he found it. In the boss room, on the other side of the barrier. Link ran up to the barrier and looked through, as his sword laid on the ground. Link started to pound on Adri's shield, trying to open it. He already lost his shield, and now he was about to lose the Master Sword too!

My left arm started to bruise, so I put a hand on it to try and soothe the pain. But then I realized that something of mine was gone too. I looked at my hands, and then dug around in the rubble to try and find it. But then, having a realization, I turned to the boss room's door. A little ways away from Link's sword, it was lying there.

My Wind Waker.

I ran up to the barrier and started to pound on it with Link, trying to get past Adri's shield so I could get my weapon back! I didn't have any sort of special powers where I could just, use the force to bring it back to me! All of my power was from the Wind Waker, and without it, I'm useless! Powerless!

We kept banging on the shield, but then another shield popped up in front of it and shoved us back into the rubble! Through Adri's barrier, I could hear her yelling a muffled yell at us.

"STAY OUT OF THIS! He's mine."

Adri's POV

After I shoved the two back outside, the fight was back on automatically! Zant forced out his hand, and when I heard a scratching noise behind me, I boosted my flames and dodged to the right! Zant's blade flew back into his hand, and he charged at me again. I took a deep breath, and channeled most of my energy into my speed to match Zant's.

I dodged out of Zant's slashing zone, flying backwards into the wall behind me. I hit the wall, and when Zant tried to jab his blade into my mouth, I cut off my flames and fell back down to the ground. I focused my energy into my strength and shot a fireball up to Zant, its flames glowing a hot pink. Zant flew out of the way, since my speed was back to normal he seemed to disappear, vanishing into thin air.

Acting out of instinct, I put all of my energy into defense, preparing for any attack that would come my way. Which was less than a second later. Zant appeared in front of me, having a demon-like grin on his face. I put up my hands and blocked my face as Zant swung his blade at my face. Normally it probably would have cut my arm into two, but it just bounced off of my arm like it was some sort of thick metal! The only thing missing was some sparks flying.

Zant appeared and disappeared around me, and I kept blocking his attacks with my own two hands. I saw him out of the corner of my eye, I blocked right. I heard something behind me, I turned around and blocked his attack again. I had to put all my energy into blocking his attacks, that he cornered me in the middle of the room, appearing almost everywhere at once!

'No thank you!' I thought, and I decided to let him try out one of my tricks! I waited for him to try and attack again, he seemed to take his time for this last round. When I heard a demonic giggle behind me, I quickly spun around and thrust out an outstretched palm! Snow white crystals shot out from my hand, and when they hit Zant, he froze in mid-air! His entire body turned a shade of light blue from my attack.

Frozen, Zant looked around in a panic, only able to move his eyes. His creepy smile was really getting on my nerves. So I decided to kick it right off his stupid face. I winded up a kick, starting to transfer my energy into strength. Then, using some of my flames for a boost, I landed a strong high kick straight into Zant's jaw! His teeth slammed together and cracked before he unfroze and got launched up into the air! He hit the ceiling, leaving a couple cracks there too along some dust. I shook my leg out a little bit.

I was waiting for him to fall back down, but after a couple seconds, I thought he was stuck up there. I flung a fireball up to where I saw him land, clearing the dust. But while there was an outline of where he crashed, I didn't see any trace of him at all.

"ADRI!" I heard Logan's muffled yell behind my shield. I started to groan, but then he yelled, "BEHIND YOU!"

I turned around, and was hit with a scalding burning feeling right to my chest! It felt like somebody poured boiling hot wax right on my stomach! It was one of Zant's magic attacks, a red orb had hit me and a glowing red spot on my shirt was what it left behind. Zant was up on top of one of the room's pillars, laughing for his revenge. It didn't kill me or go through me, it just landed on me. And there was about a dozen more heading my way.

Round after round hit my body, I don't really want to go into much detail about it. Just thinking about how that felt starts giving me blisters. But almost all of the rounds Zant shot at me hit me, and I was barely able to lift up my hands. But after Zant stumbled a little on the wobbly pillar, I managed to lift up my arms, and form them into an X.

A pink barrier appeared in front of me right before Zant regained his balance. It faded out of sight before Zant could see it, so I got right to healing my wounds. Red splotches were all over my body, the only clean part remaining was my right hand and my head. Tears were in my eyes from the pain, and I felt like I was being dipped in lava! But thankfully, my soothing green light helped clear away Zant's attack remains, like the pain was being wiped off of my body.

It was a long process getting all of the liquid pain off of my body, so Zant tried to use that time to attack again! He shot more red pain attacks from the top of the pillar, and it seemed like it would be a clear shot. But I wasn't nervous, I just smiled and kept healing myself. About seven of his red orbs were launched, but right when they were about to hit me, the pink barrier reappeared, and the red pain orbs bounced right off of it!

I wiped away most of the liquid pain off of my chest and right leg when Zant's attack was bounced back. After the last pain orb was reflected, the barrier shattered into tiny little pink shards. But it was okay, I didn't need it after that. I could see Zant's twisted smile turn surprised when the attacks got reflected. He started to try and jump off, but he lost his balance again, and his own attacks hit him in his chest! 'Got a taste of his own medicine.' I thought in a cool voice.

Zant toppled the pillar and fell to the ground, causing his platform to fall and crumble. It wasn't exactly the most stable thing in the world. I didn't bother laughing as I heard him scream in pain, I just continued to wipe off Zant's liquid pain from my body, almost finished. I just had to get around my neck and I would be done. Meanwhile, Zant was rolling around on the ground, still screaming.

I finished wiping away Zant's liquid pain from my neck, and stood up, feeling like I just got out of a nice warm shower! I loved my healing magic, it does wonders in healing wounds while feeling soothing at the same time! Although, it used up quite a bit of my energy. Not too much to where I was tired, but enough to feel an actual difference. But it didn't matter to me at the time, I was just ready to finish the job.

I rolled my shoulders and cracked my neck, ready to get back into the action. I strided over to Zant, who was still squirming on the ground. I could finish the fight right then and there if I was lucky enough! I walked over the Wind Waker and Master Sword, not paying it too much mind, but also not trying to step on either one. I could hear a shatter to my right, the barrier I made to keep Link and Logan out broke. I simply just made a new one and pushed them out again.

"OH COME ON!" the two yelled through the barrier.

As I got closer to Zant, I got a fireball ready at my fingertips, making sure that it was extremely powerful. The flames flickered a dark purple as they danced across the tips of my fingers. Just for the sake of adding style, I decided to make my hands into a finger gun, where my fire was the ammo! But when I stood right above the squirmer, I realized something.

None of the remains of his pain attacks were on him.

I quickly regretted my decisions!

The ground beneath me started to rise up into the air, and looking down at the floor, I realized I wasn't on the floor at all! I was on a giant stone red hand! I looked over the edge and pounded on the glowing fist. Below, Zant stopped screaming and looked up at me, the devilish smile of his returning.

"YOU SON OF A"-

The hand sped up as it rose to the ceiling, but then jolted to a stop, sending me flying! I slammed against the ceiling where Zant landed earlier, making the top crumble even more! As I fell back down to the floor, the hand slammed against me and I flew down seven times faster! Then landing on my back, I could feel the ground around me morph to make a me-shaped hole.

A little dazed from the impact, I tried and failed to stand up. The hole that I made in the ground was comically shaped perfectly like I was, and it was almost impossible to move! Starting with my left arm, I tried to lift it up while wiggling it left and right. When I finally got it to pop out of the ground, it was a very short victory. The red hand overhead was starting to rise up again, ready to slam down on my body and send me deep into the volcano!

Thinking quickly, I started to channel all of my energy into strength, leaving a tiny bit for speed and defense too. The red glowing hand reached the ceiling, and after Zant let out a "HA!", it plummeted down onto me. I put my arm back down to the ground to wind up, and right when the hand was about to hit me, I punched it as hard as I could!

The stone fist cracked in the air when our hands collided, and crumbled away like multiple tiny, dusty pebbles. Due to me focusing mainly on strength however, the punch hurt like hell! I raised myself out of the hole and started to shake my fist in pain, some of the stone parts even made cuts and bruises in my hand!

"IS THERE ANYTHING OF MINE YOU WON'T DESTROY?!" Zant yelled in anger. Rising out of the me-hole and evening out my stats, I was in a little playful mood. I made a tiny fireball on my pointer finger.

"Well, maybe I'll burn your suit or whatever that is. It doesn't even look that good with your face, and it even looks like you got it two sizes too big! What? Twili-Mart don't accept refunds?"

That got to him alright, the sides of his mouth curved downwards so much, it looked like it would make a perfect circle if it continued! His right eye twitched, and I could see a tiny part of his fist clench. I laughed that part off, stretching out my arms and legs from the stiffness. But I stopped in my tracks when Zant began to glow with the light of a campfire. A sort of aura appeared around him that was completely bright orange, and crackled like sparklers!

'This isn't gonna be good.'

Zant grabbed one of the stone pillars and lifted it up into the air, like it was nothing! I slowly stepped back a couple feet, brushing through some of the rubble that was from Zant's stone hand. I kept backing up as Zant began to monologue.

"How DARE you insult my clothing! This was a royal garb that was made specifically for a king! And if not for that insolent woman Midna, it would have fulfilled its true purpose! I made this all by myself, by hand! Do you know how long it took for me to LEARN how to SEW?! MONTHS! I DID THIS ALL BY HAND FOR MONTHS!"

I bumped into one of the stone pillars behind me, running out of room to run. As I put my right hand around the pillar for support, an idea formed in my head. Grinning, I snapped back at Zant, "Well I guess that explains why it looks like it came from the dump."

That did it. Zant flung the stone pillar at me with all his might, coming at me with the speed of a missile! I quickly transferred a bunch of energy into speed, making the pillar slow down to a manageable speed. It was still coming at me, hard, but I could at least manage to counter it! All my magic energy was a little above half its normal level, so I had enough to counter Zant's attack!

I waved my left hand through the air, slowly to the left, then sharply back to the right! In front of me appeared another barrier, it looked like the shield I put up to keep Link and Logan out, but this time it was bright yellow. It doesn't sound that special, but trust me it was! You'll see soon enough.

I stabilized my stats, and time went back to its normal speed. As the pillar raced towards my yellow barrier, I spun around the pillar and started to raise my strength back up! I grabbed the pillar and started to try and lift it, while my yellow barrier started to take its effect.

The yellow wall started to shimmer and shake a little, and right before Zant's pillar hit, a glowing yellow pillar identical to Zant's appeared! It zoomed right into Zant's pillar, and both of the two were destroyed! Zant's crumbled into little chunks and fell to the ground, nowhere near me. Meanwhile my counter attack broke apart and shimmered away like fireflies.

By the time that was over with, I managed to get my strength up to an extremely high level! I held the stone pillar high above my head, it feeling lighter than a school book! On the other side of the room, Zant looked surprised at how I managed to counter his attack, and his fire-aura started to fade as well! So I used that opening for myself!

I held the pillar in my hand like a javelin, and after winding up for a second, I threw it hurtling at Zant, spinning like a perfect football spiral! Zant's aura flared back to life, and he quickly dove out of the way before he got smushed between a wall and a hard place. The pillar hit the wall and crumbled, leaving some cracks in the far wall as well.

Zant tried that a couple more times, but it always ended out the same. He threw a pillar, I countered it with my magic, then it got destroyed. After that going on until there were only two pillars left, I got tired of playing on the defense. So after I countered Zant's fifth attack, I summoned more strength and lifted another pillar above my head! This time, I held it like a baseball bat, and ran at Zant as fast as I could!

Zant was prepared for me to rush him and got out his blade. He slashed at me when I got close, but I managed dodge backwards before it hit. My grip on the pillar started to slip, so I put both hands back on it to make sure it didn't fall. Zant saw that as an opening, and his aura flared brighter than it did before! He sent out a flurry of swings and slashes, and the way I had to dodge looked like a person playing Master Mode on DDR! I had to cut some of my defense energy into speed energy so I could keep up, but that would make things very risky if I got hit! He would cut my arm like a slice of carrot cake!

Zant kept pushing me to the other end of the room, not leaving me for any sort of opening to attack or use magic! I couldn't let go of the pillar either because he could just use it against me! So I was stuck just dodging Zant's attacks until he tired himself out, and with him powered up on Din's magic, who knows how long that would last! I tried to think of a plan, but it's pretty hard to think when a crazed maniac is trying to kill you!

Thankfully, some deus ex machina overlord smiled down on me that day.

For the second time, Logan and Link broke my shield blocking the room's entrance. We both ignored them at first, still going on with our regularly scheduled fight to the death. But this time, instead of the duo rushing in to try and help, Link threw a stone at Zant's head with incredible aim! Zant stopped where he was and dropped his blade, holding his head from the stone's pain. We both stared at the two, rocks in hand and ready to throw! But instead of letting them throw their rocks, I used their diversion for myself!

I held the pillar with one hand, and used the other to point right between Zant's eyes. Pointing at him with my pointer finger, and pressing my thumb and middle finger together, ready to use some magic. Zant yelled at the boys, "WOULD YOU MIND?!" while putting on the most annoyed face ever. He bent down to swipe up his blade, possible to go and rush them. But before he could do that, I gave Zant an attention grabbing whistle. He looked up right at my finger, and closing my eyes, I snapped.

Through my eyelids, I could see a flash of bright white light! It lasted for less than a second, but I could hear Zant and Link yelp in surprise. I got nothing from Logan though, I think he must've known what was coming and closed his eyes. I opened my eyes back up and looked around. Zant was kneeling on the ground, completely dazed from my flash attack, his eyes looking at absolutely nothing. I smiled at my success.

Once again, however, Logan started to rush over to me and try to convince me to stop. And for the third time, I created a blue barrier and shoved the two back outside. Link was still dazed and didn't get up from the rubble right away however. But I didn't care about him, I got my pillar ready and got into a batting stance. Putting both hands back on the pillar, I imagined it like a baseball bat, and wound up for a swing. Zant blinked rapidly for a few seconds, trying to regain his eyesight. Unfortunately for him, he managed to do that right as I hit a homerun!

Zant went soaring to the other side of the room, breaking through the other remaining pillar in the process! He crashed into the opposite wall, leaving a wall of dust around him as he tried to recover. Smiling, I took a look at my big, stone baseball bat! After that impact from Zant, it didn't look to good. There were cracks almost entirely surrounding it, and some of the other pieces were already breaking off! Seeing it now as useless, I just tossed it aside, adding to all of the current rubble on the ground.

I took a deep breath and evened out my stats. I was starting to get tired from all of the fighting. My magic energy was starting to get dangerously low, only about 10% was left! I wasted most of my energy carrying that large pillar around, and there wasn't any way for me to get that energy back! I had to finish the fight soon, or things would turn for the worse, FAST!

More muffled yells came from the other side of the shield, and severely annoyed, I marched up to the barrier and confronted Logan myself. He looked pissed, and was pounding on the barrier with all his might. Link was starting to recover from my flash attack. Logan yelled some more things at the top of his lungs, but I cut him off, pointing my finger right at his face.

"Listen Logan, this is between ME and ZANT! Just US! Neither of us want you two to barge in and make things MORE chaotic!" Logan banged on the barrier again and again as I spoke. Behind him, Link started to regain his eyesight. "That madman insulted me, taking the lowest blow that he could blow, he MOCKED me for how I COULDN'T SAVE MY FRIEND! I'm going to be the one to make him PAY for what he said! I don't want YOU OR LINK to stop this, no matter what you do or say, ZANT DIES TODA"-

"ADRI LOOK OUT!" Link shouted, pointing behind me. He managed to fully recover from my Flash attack and was back on his feet, with a look of great distress on his face! I turned around and faced a bright glow of blackish-red light. It was a large clear orb of pure magic energy, completely black not counting the red symbols completely covering the entire thing! The orb was getting as large as the entire room, almost touching the top of the ceiling! Through the cracks of the symbols, I could see Zant, his aura surrounding him like he was already burning alive!

There would be no way to dodge this attack, not any way in the slightest. The explosion would not only completely engulf the room in Zant's energy, it could engulf the entire mines! Just to be safe, I put up a pink barrier around the entrance to make sure Link and Logan wouldn't get the worst of the attack. I cracked my knuckles and neck, then took a look at my Triforce mark.

"Din, I'm gonna need my old powers back for a quick second!" I said to the mark. My piece glowed fire red in reply, and I could feel my Hylian energy flow once again through my body! Light flames surrounded me, giving me an aura just like Zant's! 'Let's do this!' I shifted my legs, bent my knees, and cupped my hands together. Then, I started to let out an oh so familiar yell.

"KAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"-

Zant's attack kept growing until it reached the ceiling, it was now the size of a three story house!

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"-

I could hear Logan and Link yelling through the barrier "C'MON, GET OUTTA THERE!" and "ADRI STOP!" My aura around me continued to glow brighter, until it became hard to see through regular eyes. But at the peak of my power, my vision went red, everything around me was painted with the color of fire! But I didn't care, I almost had enough power! With a battle cry, Zant launched his attack my way, and I suddenly got a sense of Déjà vu. With no other thing to do but to go along with it, I let loose.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

A large red beam of energy burst out of my cupped hands and rocketed to Zant's oncoming attack! The two collided and pushed against each other with equal force! But I could feel my energy draining from me fast, more than a quarter of what I had before was completely gone! Put I kept pushing, I got this far I wasn't going to give up now damn it!

Zant let out another battle cry and the magic ball started to pulse like a heartbeat! With each pulse, a wave of energy shot out from the magic ball and forced me back a couple inches. But I kept holding my ground for as long as I could! My magic energy kept dropping like boulders, and I could feel my beam start to weaken.

The giant, pulsing orb slowly crept closer, having seemingly no end to Zant's power! As the orb grew closer, the waves grew stronger, pushing me back into my own barriers! The ball was only a couple feet away now, and my energy was almost completely gone. The beam from my hands shrunk down to the size of a kid's baseball bat. The dark side of my mind began to take over my thoughts.

'This is it, huh? I'll never be able to see anybody else back at home ever again. Steven, Marie, Aden…Mom… Dad…. Lora'-

Those final names snapped me out of my idiotic mind, and gave me one last surge of power! With what remained, I used up all of my magic for one final surge of energy, and my beam grew tenfold! The beam just barely grazed the ceiling like Zant's attack, and greatly pushed back against it! "I WILL SEE THEM AGAIN!I'M NOT DYING HERE GOD DAMN IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"

The orb got pushed all the way to the back wall, where Zant was still standing, trying all he could to do something to stop his own attack from obliterating him! But in the end, it was no use! When Zant's attack hit the far wall, it exploded into a gigantic cyclone of Twilit Particles! They swirled around Zant and flung him around in the air! The vortex started to pull me in, but I kept my feet firmly planted on the ground and didn't move an inch.

I watched as Zant got flung from wall to wall, ground to ceiling, over and over and over again by his own attack! Some of the rubble from the broken pillars got sucked up too, and when they got into the mix the entire cyclone turned into a Twili blender! Around and around the stones went, crashing into Zant, scraping him, tearing his stupid clothes into shreds! It felt good to watch.

After what felt like two whole satisfying minutes of watching Zant spin around in his own little blender, the tornado dispersed. All the pillar pieces and Zant went flying in all directions, but I didn't even have to move to not get hit. Zant was still on the other side of the room, lying on his back and breathing heavily. His stupid clothes were completely torn up, his sleeves were practically gone!

This was the perfect opportunity.

I started to slowly walk over to Zant, thinking about all the ways I could finish this maniac off. However, most of these ways involved some of my magic, and all of that was gone from my final attack. So a handful of those were thrown completely out the window! However, as I reached the center of the room, I walked by something that would be perfect.

Link's sword.

I bent down and picked it up, the sword's grip felt good in my hand. It wasn't too heavy, but it was just light enough to where swinging the sword just in the air felt satisfying! It felt like with this sword, you could cut the air right before it could go into somebody's mouth! 'Perfect.'

I kept walking to Zant, who seemingly was unaware that I was on my way. I could hear faint pounds from the shield I put up at the door, but I didn't even bother listening to them. Zant's murderous rampage, his cruel torture to the people of Hyrule, and his low blow to me, would all be paid back with just one, quick, thrust.

I loomed over Zant, Master Sword in my right hand. It was only at this moment Zant realized just how screwed he was. He yelped and flipped onto his stomach, trying to crawl away from me with just one of his hands, all the while pathetically begging for me to spare him.

"Wait, WAIT! You don't have to kill me, I can help! I can help you kill my go- I mean the Fierce Deity! He's all powerful, and you're going to need all the help you can get, so you need me!"

"You disgust me." I kicked Zant right in his side, causing him to flip back over on his back. I planted a foot on his chest, preventing him from moving. I could see every single little scrape and injury on his stupid little face. Blue blood was dripping almost everywhere, making his face look like a shade of ocean blue. I gripped Link's sword tighter.

"For all of the lives you've taken…" I gripped the Master Sword with both hands.

"For all of the people who still torture because of your actions…" I flipped the sword to a downward position.

"And for everyone can live in peace once again!" I raised the sword above my head! I could see the fear in Zant's pathetic, orange marble eyes.

"THIS! ENDS! NOW!"

Zant covered his face with his hands as I thrust the sword down onto his face! Like that would even help. But as it turns out, it actually did. When I saw a familiar fire red glow stare at me right in the face, I stopped in my tracks. I was completely speechless, and my arms swung down limp to their sides. Link's sword clattered to the ground.

I could hear my barrier shatter behind me, and the two run up behind me to see what was wrong. But I couldn't respond, just looking at how stupid I was to not realize it sooner threw me into shock. The two boys' voices turned muffled, and I could barely hear a single thing that they could say. I fell off of Zant and onto my knees. 'There's no way. There's, no way.' Only one thing Link said got through my muffled ears. A gasp, along with the same feeling of shock I had.

"But, but how?! Why him?!"

I felt the same thing Link was feeling. Out of all the people that could have had the other Triforce of Power half.

It had to be Zant.