Chapter 9

"YOU KILLED MY FATHER!!" Aloysius screamed. He then made a running, full- force charge at Ganondorf. Ganondorf, not paying attention to Aloysius at the time, had no way to protect himself. Aloysius used every sword technique that Link taught him, fueled by his new-found anger of Ganondorf. Aloysius was able to dodge and get out of the way of many attacks because he was not burdened with a lot of equipment. He knew what he said could be considered a lie, but Aloysius didn't do it on purpose, he had been brainwashed by Ganondorf.

Aloysius jabbed the sword into Ganondorf's black heart. Magic erupted from him as all of his powers went back to their rightful owners. As the magic was going, Aloysius could see a gold wire-like thing between him and Ganondorf. It suddenly snapped. He figured that Ganondorf's control over him had disappeared. Aloysius was surprised as the former King of Evil dropped beside Link. Link had told him the stories of how hard Ganondorf was to defeat. Aloysius took the sword out, amazed at how the blade came out shining and as stunning as every.

He looked at the two bodies as their red and black lives mixed together on the floor. "What do I do? What do I do?" he asked himself over and over. The answer came to him. He went over to Link, and sure enough, there was the other bottle there, not with a fairy in it, but blue potion. "I knew it!" Aloysius lifted Link's head. He uncorked the bottle and tilting Link's head back, poured the liquid down his throat. "Please work, please work, please work," he said, saying a silent prayer to the three Golden Goddesses.

Link first closed his eyes, blinked, and opened them all the way. Aloysius let go of the tears that had been building up inside him. "Thank the Goddesses you're okay," he said, emotions taking the best of him. Link looked beside him and saw Ganondorf there, dead.

"Aloy, did you?" Link asked. Aloysius nodded. Link looked around him and figured out what must have went on. He stood up, regaining his balance.

"Wait a moment, Aloy, ahh!" Link cried as the ground started shaking.

"What's happening?" Aloysius asked.

"Ganondorf is trying to destroy us by making the castle crash in on us. He's tried this trick before. We've got to find the way out of here, now!"

They quickly grabbed their arsenal and Link and Aloysius ran through the twisting corridors and cavernous rooms. Aloysius was actually able to help because he knew what the castle was like. He had actually been in the Sacred Realm for days, being brainwashed by Ganondorf into thinking that Ganondorf was his father and that Link was the reason he had never got to see him. Now that he knew the true story, however, he hated Ganondorf even more.

Aloysius's heart raced as he heard a loud groan. A support beam was rocked off its foundation and landed with a thud between him and Link. It was huge, and Aloysius could not jump over it because it was too big. He could not climb it because it was slippery. "Link! Wait!" he shouted, but heard no reply. Aloysius thought he heard something in the midst of the castle tearing itself apart. He turned around and saw a circle of blue light. It was magic, he could sense it. Hoping it wasn't another trick by the King of Evil, he ran for the light.

"Odd," he thought, as he was spinning in a blue crystal. He then found himself in front of a demolished castle. "Who?" he thought. Then, another important thought came to him. "Link!"

"I'm right here, Aloy." Aloysius turned and was surprised that Link had been standing next to him the whole time.

"How in," Aloysius didn't complete his sentence.

"Navi didn't come with me. She must have flew back to the castle and told Zelda. Zelda probably made a port for you too, huh?" Link started to go back towards the rubble.

"Yeah, if that's what the blue thingy was. Why are you going back there?"

Aloysius asked. He saw Link look at his left hand and shake his head.

"Ganondorf must be fairly weak. What exactly happened while I was," He paused, "Dead?"

The sentence gave Aloysius the creeps, but he told how magic had erupted from Ganondorf, and the magical wire that had snapped. Link nodded, then took another look at the rubble.

"My hand isn't glowing too well. Ganondorf is so weak that he won't even try to attack right now. Hopefully Zelda and the other Sages can get us back to Hyrule."

Aloysius shuddered as he looked around. The sky was black, and yet there

were no rain clouds. As he looked in the distance, darker shadows plagued the land. An awful feeling of foreboding made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He had always thought that the Sacred Realm was a nice place. He was thinking about what the Sacred Realm should look like when his thoughts were interrupted once again.

"It's sad, isn't it?" Link asked. Aloysius jerked back to the grim reality that surrounded him. "The day the Triforce separated, the Sacred Realm became a world of evil, because Ganondorf was the one who got his hands on it. If only," Link trailed off. Aloysius noticed that Link looked distant for a few moments before continuing. "Someday," he trailed off, then, "Look, there's a port!"

Both ran for the shining blue light that lead them home.