The Legend of Zelda: Time of Darkness
Chapter 12: Recovery
By Master Gamer

Disclaimer: Nintendo owns ALL characters in this fic.


Flashback to Last Time:

"No!!! I can't lose!" Ganondorf cried out in both pain and defeat.

"Link I promise you'll pay for this!!! If I go down you can sure as heck bet that I'm taking you with me!!!"

Ganondorf charged up every Last ounce of strength he had. Then, too quickly to block, Ganondorf charged at Link and tackled him, sending him into a wall, before the king of Evil fell dead for eternity.

Link dizzily stood up, everything seemed to be a total distortion of shapes and colors. Sounds sounded like incoherent gibberish. Then he fell completely unconscious…

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Link was happily running through Hyrule Field, it was close to sunset, the sun reflected off the fresh smelling grass and everything else in the field. He saw Zelda, she was a kid again. Link looked down at his own hands and saw that he too, was a kid again.

What was Zelda doing outside of Hyrule Castle?

Link laid down next to her

"Hi Link!" She greeted.

"Hi, Zelda!" Link cheerfully replied.

Link laid down on the grass and watched the sun set.

Right now, it couldn't get any better. What was heaven compared to this? Or was this heaven? He soon got his answer.

Link sat up only to be greeted by a cold, dark pain in his head.

"Link, Link…" A seemingly familiar voice called out.
Link opened his eyes. He was no longer in Ganon's castle, he was… he was in his own home! But how? What happened?

He was lying down on his own bed. Bandages covered his head, left shoulder, right elbow and part of his left leg.

His head hurt everywhere, as did the rest of his body. Link attempted to sit up, but he was forced to lie down again, as everything hurt even worse.

"How is he?" a familiar voice asked, as she came through the door.

Link turned his head just barely enough so he could see who was speaking.

"What the heck? Saria, and the rest of the sages? You're all alive! But… But… How? I watched you all die, with the rest of the sages back in Ganon's castle, so how could you all be alive?" Link asked, weakness present in his voice.

"Link, when the triforce fell from Ganon's clutches and back into the Sacred Realm, the Sages were revived, they appeared from the depths of the rubble completely unhurt!" Zelda explained.

"But, how did I get here, and how did you know this was my house?" Link asked Zelda.

"Well, me and the rest of the sages carried you over to Lon Lon Ranch, where Talon, Ingo and Malon let us rent a horse. Saria then showed us where you lived." Zelda answered.

Link fought desperately to keep his eyes open, but lost, and fell asleep.

Link was forced to stay in bed for two weeks.

Link never knew that Ganondorf made three wishes at the top of the tower. The first being to crush Link and Zelda in the tower's rubble, the second was to survive the tower's collapse, and the third, to revive and fully energize a former minion to seek out and kill Link if he were to escape the castle alive..

During this two week period, Link didn't know that this dark force was becoming fully energized and ready to seek out and kill Link. He also didn't know that the dark force was just about ready to kill Link…