Hyrulian
Nights
Scene
13: The Exchange of Power
(Cut to inside Ganondorf's chambers. Ganondorf and Kaepora enter.)
KAEPORA: We gotta get outta here! We gotta get... I gotta start packing, your highness. Only essentials. (Kaepora
starts throwing things out of his cage. Ganondorf smiles broadly.) Travel light! Bring the guns,
the weapons, the knives, (Stops and takes out a picture of himself and
Ganondorf) and how about this picture? I don't know... I think I'm making a weird face in it. (Ganondorf starts to laugh wildly.) Oh, boy, he's gone nuts. He's cracked. (Kaepora flies down to him and knocks on his head.) Ganondorf? Ganondorf? Get a grip,
Ganondorf! (Ganondorf grabs him
around the neck.) Good grip!
GANONDORF: Prince Linqui is nothing more than that
ragged urchin Link. He has the
Triforce, Kaepora.
KAEPORA: Why that miserable...
GANONDORF: But you are going to relieve him of it!
KAEPORA: Me?
(Cut
to outside the palace. Link is looking
at the gardens.)
LINK: King? They want me to be king?
(Farore
comes out of Triforce.)
FARORE: Huzzah! Hail the conquering hero! (Turns
into a one-man band. She sees Link walk
away with his head hung. She stops,
scratches her head, comes up with an idea, and zooms over to Link. She holds up her hands like a director
scoping a picture and we look through them.) Link, you've just won the heart of the princess. What are you gonna do next? (Link looks at him, then walks away in
sadness to the bed, where he falls on it and sighs. Farore again is confused, then goes to him and pulls out a script
labeled "Hyrulian Nights." Whispering.) Psst, your line is, "I'm going to free
Farore." Anytime.
LINK: Farore... I can't.
FARORE: Sure you can. (She grabs Link's head and uses him as a mock ventriloquist's
dummy.) You just go "Farore, I wish
you free." (Link pulls away.)
LINK: I'm serious. Look, I'm sorry... I really am. But they want to make me king... no! They want to make Prince
Linqui king. Without you, I'm just
Link.
FARORE: Link, you won!
LINK: Because of you! The only reason anyone thinks I'm anything is because of
you. What if they find out I'm not
really a prince? (Quietly) What if Zelda finds out? I'll lose her. Farore, I can't keep this up on my own. I can't wish you free.
FARORE: (Sarcastically) Hey, I understand. After all, you've lied to everyone else. Hey, I was beginning to feel left out. Now, if you'll excuse me, master. (She says the last word in disgust, then
poofs back into the Triforce.)
(Navi
and Carpet are watching from the window.)
NAVI: Ohhh.
LINK: Farore, I'm really sorry. (A tongue comes out of the middle
triangle and raspberries him.) Well,
fine. (He slams a pillow on top of
the Triforce.) Then just stay in
there! (He looks at Navi and
Carpet.) What are you guys looking
at? (They both leave.) Look, I... I'm sorry. Wait, Navi... wait... I'm sorry, I didn't... wait, c'mon. (He sighs.) What am I doing? Farore's
right... I gotta tell Zelda the truth.
ZELDA: (From a distance) Linqui, oh Linqui… will you come here?
LINK: (Putting on his cap) Well, here goes. (He walks into the garden.) Zelda? Where are you?
(We
see Kaepora wearing a beak and standing on stilts next to a flamingo in the
pond. He is imitating Zelda's voice.)
KAEPORA: Ahem... in the menagerie, hurry.
LINK: I'm coming.
(We
see Link hurry past, not noticing the birds. Kaepora laughs, then turns back and looks into the face of a flamingo,
who is panting.)
FLAMINGO: D'uh!
KAEPORA: Ya got a problem, pinky? (He sweeps the bird's feet out from under
it. Kaepora runs into the palace and
finds the Triforce under the pillow.) Boy, Ganondorf's gonna be happy to see you! (Stretches his face like Ganondorf and imitates him.) Good work, Kaepora! (Normal) Ah, go on. (Ganondorf) No, really... on a scale of one to ten, you
are an eleven! (Normal) Ah, Ganondorf, you're too kind. I'm embarrassed, I'm blushing. (He flies away with the Triforce.)
(Cut
to the palace entrance. The King is
standing on top, making an announcement to the people.)
KING: People of Hyrule, my daughter has finally
chosen a suitor!
(Cut
to behind the curtain, where Zelda is peeking. Link appears at the bottom of the stairs.)
LINK: Zelda?
ZELDA: Linqui, where have you been?
LINK: There's something I've got to tell you.
ZELDA: The whole kingdom has turned out for
father's announcement!
LINK: No! But Zelda, listen to me, please!
ZELDA: Good luck! (She pushes him out onto the platform with the King, where he
overlooks the entire crowd.)
KING: Linqui Sarasrahla!
LINK: Oh, boy...
(Far
above, Kaepora and Ganondorf watch through a window.)
KAEPORA: Look at them, cheering that little
pipsqueak.
GANONDORF: Let them cheer.
(He
lifts the Triforce and rubs it. Farore
comes out.)
FARORE: You know Link, I'm getting (turns and
sees Ganondorf) really... I don't
think you're him. (She descends and
consults a playbill.) Tonight, the
role of Link will be played by a tall, dark, and sinister ugly man.
GANONDORF: I am your master now. (He throws Farore to the ground and puts
his foot on her face.)
FARORE: I was afraid of that.
GANONDORF: Goddess, grant me my first wish. I wish to rule on high, as king!
