The Madness of the Mask

Chapter two: Taking flight.

The battle raged across the chamber of sages. Ganondorf fought with his sword, and
fireball technique. Etregan only with his sword, and the sages themselves were hurling
power-balls at the god, to little avail. He would either dodge, deflect, or didn't even
flinch under the assault.

When Ganondorf gathered his mass of dark power overhead, he received an added boost
of energy from the gathered sages, which he channeled at the armored being.

Etregan only had to repel the beam a little more forcefully than a normal attack.

Thing's weren't looking good.

Ruto grabbed Saria by the shoulders at one point.

"Saria, listen to me, I have an idea."

"Yes, what?"

"I want you to leave, go and alert Zelda. She'll be able to get through to Link in there
along with all of us and the Triforce of wisdom, that's got to be the way!" Ruto
explained.

"All right, you keep him busy as long as possible."

* * * *

A moment after Saria teleported, she was at the castle courtyard, but Zelda was nowhere
to be found.

"Oh, great, just when we need her again, she's disappeared."

After about ten minutes of levitating and looking in the windows, she found the
princess, talking with some visiting noble.

Saria wrenched open the window.

"Zelda!"

Zelda looked up sharply. "Saria?" she said stunned at the sudden appearance.

"There's a BIG problem in the chamber of sages Zelda, we need your help!"

"What on earth is going on here?" The noble, a duke from a neighboring land,
exclaimed.

"Uh, sorry, pressing business." Zelda said, and teleported out the window, following
Saria.

They reappeared in the temple of time.

"Zelda, they're kind of busy in there, but it'll kill them, teleport them out here and we
can explain things before He gets out."

"Teleport the sages out?"

"Everyone but the person that feel's like Link." Saria said.

"Link? He's back?"

"Yes and no, but please just get them out of there!"

"Alright…" Zelda said, and snapped her fingers.

Suddenly, a single ball of energy flared in the room, and disappeared…

Revealing the crouching form of Ganondorf.

Zelda screamed.

"WHAT IS HE DOING OUT?" she yelled frantically.

"Where's all the other sages?" Saria demanded.

"Link… Etregan, killed them, almost had me too before you pulled me out." Ganondorf
explained, panting heavily. Sweat running down his face.

"Saria, please tell me WHAT IN THE NAME IF DIN IS GOING ON HERE!"

"Honestly, I'd like to tell you all about it princess, but we are al in a deep load of horse
SH*T if we don't get out of here right now!"

Suddenly, the pedestal of time glowed, and let out a beam of blue likght, and the sound
of link's voice, echoing with power, emanated from it.

"Oh, Ganon… Where'd you get off to? We didn't finish our little game yet!" came the
voice.

Saria grabbed Zelda's arm.

"Zelda, listen, Link's possessed, he's killed all the other sages, and released Ganon here
so he could kill him to and take the Triforce, we all have to GET OUT OF HERE!"

Zelda was too stunned to move. Saria let out a groan of frustration.

"Ganon, carry her!" She said.

The Gerudo grabbed Zelda and lifted her over his shoulder, where she galvanized into
action, kicking and screaming.

"Better stop that Princess, he already wants to kill us, best not to give our position
away."

They ran out of the building, the image of Ganon carrying off Zelda sending the people
in the town square into screams. While the guards blocked the gateway.

"HALT!" the captain yelled at the dark skinned man.

"OUTTA MY WAY!" Ganon yelled, and blasted the whole group with energy shots,
sending them sprawling.

The second they reached the field, Ganon whistled, and his black stallion galloped up,
as if out of thin air. He threw Zelda over it, mounted, and Saria leaps nimbly up to the
saddle. Ganon then gave his horse a sharp kick and it was off in a gallop.

"Alright Saria, where do you suggest we go?" Ganon said.

"Only thing that comes to mind is the forest, it's where Link went off to before THAT
happened to him!" Saria said

"The lost woods it is then!" Ganon said, and turned his stallion towards the east.

Meanwhile, Etregan had just gotten out of the sages realm, and was hovering above the
pedestal of time, his hands glowing brightly.

"Well well, looks like they're looking for Termina. Heh heh heh… good luck finding it!