CHAPTER 2

As Sage was heading down the castle halls with Zelda and Link, is was in a state of upheaval. The smell of fear and hate tainted the air as servants, nobles, soldiers, and knights rushed around in preparation for the oncoming melee. The sound of metal armor clanking on the cobble stone floor made the corridors sound like a thunderstorm. The tapestries hanging on the walls of past battles didn't seem to be helping anyone's mood either Sage thought as he rushed toward the front gate.
Link cocked his eyebrow at Sage asking, "Are you sure you can handle this Sage, I mean you've never faced these, for lack of a better word, things before."
Staring straight foreword, it seemed to Link that Sage was off in another world, then as he was about to ask again, Sage's lips curled into a rather disturbing smile. "Open this thing and ye'll find out." Sage said pointing to the drawbridge. His answer was a little too calm for Link's taste, however.
"Ha!, just don't let that confidence be the death of you, you will see that Ganon is not to be dealt with lightly, boy."
The two of them turned around to see Gaul'ramm on his dun mare smiling at them down his crooked nose that reminded Sage of an eagle's beak. "Gaul'ramm," Link said with an exasperated sigh, "just give the order to open the gates!"
"As you command, Link" Gaul'ramm smiled oily as he turned his mare around and rode of with a small contingent of soldiers.
"An' just who was that?" Sage asked nodding his head at the departing general.
"No one important." Link said with a sneer.
The two fell silent as the caged city gates came up and the drawbridge hit the ground with a thunderous thud that flew up dirt as it hit the ground.