The Torch is Passed.
Chapter 5
Back in Ganondorf's castle, Cody did everything he could think of to try and break out of his little prison that he was held captive in. He was being watched by an iron knuckle. "I want my lawyer! I want my mommy!" Cody yelled. The iron knuckle rolled his eyes. I don't think he though he could take another ounce of Cody. "I have the right to a phone call! I have the right to my lawyer! I have the right to remain silent ... but ... but I don't want to!" The iron knuckle had had enough.
"QUIET!" Cody jumped back with a look of fright. The iron knuckle started pacing around Cody's cell. Cody watched as the iron knuckle paced.
"What are you doing?"
"Guarding you."
"Why?"
"Because I was told to."
"Why?"
"Because I was the only one stupid enough to take this post ..."
"Why?"
"Because I wasn't thinking."
"Why?"
"SHUT UP!" Cody laughed as he knew he was pushing the iron knuckle's buttons.
"Hey, Mister ..."
"What ..."
"I have to go to the bathroom."
"You're gonna have to wait."
"No, seriously, Mister! I gotta go!"
"Tough!" Cody started his 'innocent child – like' cry. The iron knuckle opened the cell door, and grabbed Cody's arm.
Meanwhile, I was having a hard enough time trying to stay focused without all the distractions my wife and best friend gave me. I kneeled over, trying to catch my breath.
"Link, are you okay?" Zelda asked. It took a while for me to answer her.
"I'm fine ..."
"If you're fine, how come you're not walking?" Shawn asked me.
"The question is how come you didn't keep going?" Shawn's only a soldier, while I'm the general. So he has to obey all of my commands.
"But, Link –"
"That's an order!" Shawn looked at me like he wanted to kill me. The only time I ever gave him an order and expected him to follow it was when we were on the battlefield. Other then that, I've never given him an order like that. I think he was more surprised that I didn't get up myself.
"... Okay. Fine." Shawn said, softly. He went to catch up with Angelous. I stood up, shaking my head. Zelda could tell that I was getting weaker by the second, although, she didn't say anything. To make matters worse, Ganondorf was watching me through his magical mirror. He also, could see that I was getting weaker. He snickered to himself.
"This may be the opportunity I've been looking for." Suddenly, a bunch of redeads, stalfos, and moblins surrounded us.
"Oh, great. Just what we need ..." I said. Angelous mostly focused on the redeads while Shawn took care of the moblins. I tried to fight the stalfos.
"Who are you supposed to be?" I asked. The stalfos sniffed the air.
"... Old forest spice?"
"I hate my life ..." The stalfos and I started battling. Soon, I fell to the ground. The stalfos was about to strike me when Zelda used one of her magical beams and killed the stalfos. I glared at her.
"What did you do that for?!"
"Excuse me, but I was saving your life!"
"News flash, Sweet – heart! I save your life! Not the other way around!" I walked past her, Shawn, and Angelous.
"Angelous, what has gotten into him?"
"His struggle to keep his sanity in this world is forcing him to use all his energy on it."
"So, what does that have to do with his attitude?"
"Link uses his energy to hide his feelings, have you noticed that?" Shawn and Zelda shook their heads. "As Link uses his strength to keep his sanity, there's none left for his emotions. If we can get Cody back, I'm sure Link will come to his senses."
"I sure hope so. Because his attitude is getting on my nerves! It's one thing to deal with him at work, but outside of work is something else!"
Meanwhile, Cody and the iron knuckle had a good time together. Cody stared at the iron knuckle while it glared at him. "What are you looking at?"
"Your head's big and pointed."
"Thank you for noticing that."
"I'm a kid. It's my job to notice things." Just then, a moblin came in and whispered something in the iron knuckle's ear. It got up and grabbed Cody's wrist. "Not liking this!" The iron knuckle took Cody to Ganondorf's ... "office." There, he left him.
"So, Child ... I guess I have to thank you for setting me free." Cody was terrified. He didn't know if Ganondorf wanted something from him, or if he simply wanted to kill him.
"W – who are you?"
"I think you know who I am."
"Yeah, all I know is that you're the old guy who kidnapped me."
"But do you know why I kidnapped you?"
"No idea."
"Well, let me tell you, Child. You have a gift. A few ... special gifts. Gifts your parents gave you when you were born."
"... Like what?" Ganondorf came into the light. Now, Cody was even more terrified.
"Like the fact that you can move things with your mind."
"I've never done that."
"You have, M'boy. Your mother and father have hidden that power from you. You have inherited all of your family's powers. And in doing so, the powers that your mother has given you mixed with the powers that your father has given you, and created new powers for yourself."
"No idea what that means!" Ganondorf rolled his eyes.
"In other words ..." He threw some kind of Dark World fruit at Cody. Cody raised his arms to protect himself, and found that nothing hit him. When he lowered his arms, he could see the fruit floating in front of him.
"How did you do that?"
"I didn't. You did."
"Do you know what else I can do?" Cody had no idea what he was getting himself into. All he wanted to know was how to use his powers. Ganondorf let out a sinister smile.
It took days to reach just the entrance to the castle. It's just too bad that I couldn't use my powers as I would have been able to, if I were not too weak from the dark essences of the Dark World. "We're ... almost there ..." I stated. Shawn stayed very quiet for a while. I didn't even bother to ask why that was. Zelda came up and hugged me.
"Finally, I can see my baby's face again." Little did we know that the sweet innocent child that we had raised was no where to be found. That innocent child had been turned into the most dreadful enemy that I could ever go against. How could I fight him? Not the fact that he was only a seven year old boy, but the fact that he is my own flesh and blood. The one who I swore that no harm would ever come to the day he was born. The one I watched grow up, and who looked exactly like me. Zelda and I always knew that Cody was powerful. When Zelda was pregnant with him, even inside of his mother's stomach, he could sense danger. That unborn child used the powers that we gave him to protect us from danger. And now, he would be used to spread danger. Angelous told me of a prophecy that had been carried out the day Cody was born, that told of a key that would lock all evil in its place. For the longest time, I thought I was that key. But I was wrong, for I knew that the seal that Zelda, the sages and I placed on Ganondorf would not last forever. The seal that the key would set is said to be a permanent solution. That key ... is Cody. I didn't want to believe Angelous when he told me this, but no matter how much I wanted to deny it, I knew it was true. There's so much I need to tell him. I can only hope that I'm not too late to save my only son. ...
Something just wasn't right. I had lost my son, and about to lose my wife. I wasn't going to lose my best friend in the process. I took Shawn's arm and pulled him away. "Dude, what's your problem?"
"Hey, you wanted to be the general here. So I'm awaiting your commands. What do we do, Chief?" I gave a long deep sigh.
"Look, back there ... I didn't know what I was saying. I couldn't control my actions.
"Right. Well, after this, I'm gonna take an absence from the chase, Boss."
"You can't do that!"
"I can and I'm gonna!"
"Alright, then why don't you just start by getting the hell outta here!?" Shawn stared at me for a second.
"You know what? I think that's the only thing we've agreed on since we've been in this world!" Shawn left, pounding.
"Shawn!" I called. He didn't even bother to stop. I rolled my eyes, not bothering to go after him. I walked back up to Zelda and Angelous.
"Where's Shawn?" Angelous asked.
"He's not coming back ..." Zelda and Angelous gasped.
"What happened?"
"Nothing. Let's just go get Cody." Angelous grabbed my arm as I tried to walk past him.
"I am utterly sick and tired of your attitude lately, Link! I have put up with it thus far hoping that you would learn how to control your emotions and your senses at the same time! Now I know how you feel about losing your son. All of us are feeling it. You are not the only one who cared for the boy, Link! Under no circumstances will you take it out on either Zelda or me." Angelous said, giving me a deep long look.
"You don't have the right to get all 'parenty' on me anymore, Angelous." He looked at me without showing any signs that he was hurt. It irritates me when he does that. And yet, I knew he was hurt.
"I will remember that when Cody is your age, and he says that to you." Angelous walked to the drawbridge. This had to stop. Not only did I lose my son, I lost my father, and my best friend. Ganondorf's plan to slowly eat me away was working. And I couldn't let that happen. Before Zelda caught up with Angelous, I spun her around and kissed her tightly. I could tell that she enjoyed it.
"That's the Link I fell in love with. Where have you been?"
"I just want you to know that no matter what happens I'll always love you. In life or death." Zelda smiled and hugged me. We walked up to Angelous' side inside the Castle court.
"GANONDORF!" I yelled. As if on cue, there he was, standing in his balcony. The iron knuckle standing next to him signaled for an entire army of iron knuckles to surround us. Unfortunatly, there were too many iron knuckles at the same time, all wearing tin armor. As they marched, Zelda, Angelous, Ganondorf, the iron knuckle next to him, and I all covered our ears.
"I hope it's worth the noise!" When they settled around us, Ganondorf spoke. "Well, well, well. It's about time! Alright, who put a bet on three days? You won!" He said, sarcastically.
"You know why we're here, Ganondorf! Let my son go, of face the threat of death!" Ganondorf was always one for having the last word. Not as bad as one of my more stressful foes, but pretty bad.
"I think you might want to ask the boy yourself." There was a smokescreen that filled the bottom floor. When the smoke cleared, there stood Cody.
"Cody!" Zelda shouted. She wanted to go over to him, but Angelous and I stopped her.
"Wait, Zelda. That is not Cody." Angelous informed her. I looked into the child's eyes. It was Cody's body, but something was different. He wasn't the same happy and energetic little boy that Zelda and I raised. I started walking toward him
"... Cody?" He just stared at me with a hateful look upon his face.
"... You lied to me ..." I jumped. I could hear Ganondorf up on his balcony, snickering.
"This should be enjoyable." I looked at him. "Isn't this a sight? There's your son, Link. Go ahead. Take him." My gaze reached Cody again as I let out my hand for his.
"Cody, give me your hand; we're going home." Cody stepped back.
"My parents told me never to take rides from strangers." Zelda gasped.
"Cody, don't you recognize us, Baby?" Cody stared at his mother. Then, all of a sudden, Zelda flew through the air. I shimmered over to her side and caught her as she landed.
"So, you have unlocked your powers, have you, Cody?" Angelous asked. Cody glared at him. Then, the world stood still. I couldn't move. Neither could Zelda or Angelous. We couldn't move a muscle. Cody's freezing powers were more powerful then mine to a point. I just hope he hadn't learned his most powerful power. Ganondorf came down from his balcony to Cody's side.
"Very well done, Boy. And now, I believe I have some unfinished business with your father. Bind their powers and unfreeze them."
"Yes, Ganondorf." Cody obeyed the command that was given to him. He used the magical powers that Zelda had given him to bind our powers, and he used the time powers I gave him to unfreeze us. Unfortunatly, none of us could even stand. Not even Angelous. Yes, Cody was that powerful. Before I could do anything, Ganondorf held me by my neck and started choking me.
"You know, you're really starting to get on my last one, Buster!" I struggled to breathe. "After all the struggles that you've put me through, I'm going to enjoy killing you." I continued to struggle.
"And ... then what? What are you going to do with my family?" Once I take the Triforces from both you and Zelda, I will have no use for either one of you. Your son however will make a very powerful servant." Upon hearing this, I automatically knew that Ganondorf had put a mind control spell on Cody to control his powers. Ganondorf always used to put mind spells on me. At one time, he put me under a spell so deep, that I spent quite a while being his slave.
"You ... can't do this! ... I won't ... let you ... hurt him!"
"What are you going to do about it? You can barley fight." His grip around my neck started to squeeze harder, making it harder for me to breathe.
"Release him at once, Ganondorf! And maybe I will have mercy on your pathetic excuse for a life!" Angelous yelled.
"Why, Lord Angelous. I realize you can kill me in the flash of a light, but as long as you have no power right now, I can kill your son, and weaken you to a point where you will demise from the world of the living!" Ganondorf let out his ... traditional villain laugh.
"Please, Ganondorf! Please let them go!" Zelda pleaded.
"And of course, Princess Zelda." Ganondorf walked up to her, still holding my neck. Zelda gasped out of fright. "You have a choice, my dear. Join your husband in death, or watch your son serve me for eternity." Zelda gasped again. "I'm going to kill both of you; there's no stopping that."
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" A voice said. Just then, a figure pushed me out of Ganondorf's grip. I took a long deep breath.
"You ok?" I coughed a little.
"Yeah. Thanks, Shawn." I smiled.
"Hey, what are best friends for?"
"Didn't any of you notice another Hylian in the premises?!" Ganondorf yelled to his army.
"Well, he was very persuasive, Boss." One of them responded.
"Enough with this!" Angelous yelled. He threw an energy ball at Ganondorf. However, Ganondorf still had control of Cody's mind and made Cody used his fire - starting ability to set the energy ball on fire. It was no surprise. Ganondorf knew that Cody was the key. The key could be used for either good or evil. But Cody is not evil. I know he's not. If somehow, I could get to him, and free him from the spell.
"Attack!" Ganondorf yelled. Shawn, Angelous and I fought as many iron knuckles as we could. I changed into my god form. With two gods on our side, we took down the army. Ganondorf stood there, with his jaw hanging. Angelous was the one who spoke first.
"You have lost the battle, Ganondorf. And the boy over to where he belongs." Ganondorf smiled.
"Finders keepers." He threw an energy ball at me and Shawn, but I used my psychic barrier to reflect it. Angelous gathered up enough energy to take out Ganondorf in one shot. Angelous threw the magical energy that he had gathered at Ganondorf, but Ganondorf made Cody jump in the way of the energy. My heart stopped.
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Zelda and I screamed. Zelda ran to Cody's side with me following behind her. Angelous ran after me. Zelda held Cody in her arms. "No! Please! Please wake up, Baby!" Zelda cried. Cody was unconscious, covered in shadowy energy.
"I did not mean for this to happen! I would never do anything to hurt him!" Angelous said. Zelda didn't hear him. She was too busy crying.
"I know, Angelous. I realize that you didn't mean too ..." I said. Shawn walked over to us. Zelda continued to cry. On the inside, I did as well. But even more so, I was angry at Ganondorf. Angrier then I had ever been before. My white eyes were filled with anger and hatred, covered by my gold hair. My face showed no sympathy for my son, only pain. Anger and hatred filled my mind as I looked at Ganondorf. "First you kidnap my son, then you put a spell on him, then you kill him. You deserve to die." I said without any emotion except hatred for the creature in front of me.
"I will die only if you fight me." I stared at him, never removing my look of hatred.
"Now, I'm going to finish what I started eighteen years ago!" I waved my left hand, and telekinetically threw Ganondorf across his own "front lawn." I used this one psychic defense mechanism I use that causes my opponent to have a sever headache, and also do some damage, which I called psy blast. I didn't care that I was still weak from all of the negative feelings. All I wanted to do was kill Ganondorf. All of a sudden, I felt a very light feeling. I knew this feeling. It was Cody's feeling! I ran over to his side.
"Link, what's the matter?" Zelda asked.
"... He's alive. I can feel him!" Angelous looked at his grandson, lying in his mother's arms.
"Link, Zelda, stand back." Zelda and I looked at him. "If he is alive, as Link says he is, then maybe a good shock might bring him back." Angelous made a good point. Neither Zelda, nor I could argue with him. I held Zelda away from Cody as Angelous attempted to awaken our son. Angelous gathered a very small amount of electrical energy. Too powerful for Cody, but small for Angelous. Angelous allowed the millions of tiny electrons be absorbed into Cody's body. Zelda buried her face in my shoulder. Just then, Cody's eyes opened. I gasped. Zelda started crying with tears of joy.
"Cody!" She exclaimed.
"Mother? ... Dad? ... Grandpa Angelous? ... Uncle Shawn? ... What's going on? Wait, I remember. I was kidnapped." I kneeled down next to him.
"That's right, Son. Do you remember how you got here?" Cody looked away from me.
"Because I did what you told me not to, and went back to that temple."
"That's right." I looked at him. Cody threw his arms around me and we hugged for a long time.
"I'm sorry, Dad."
"It's okay. I'm here now. Everything's gonna be alright."
"I guess I'm in big trouble, huh?"
"Well, the agreement was that if you disobeyed me again, you'd be grounded for a week and a half, right?" Cody nodded. "And, did you like being kidnapped?" Cody shook his head. I chuckled silently. "Then I guess you've had enough punishment for a while."
"Really? Thanks, Dad!" We hugged again. Zelda literally pried me off of him so she could hug and kiss him. She hugged him so tightly, that I thought she'd break his bones.
"Cody! Oh, my baby! I'm so happy you're alright!" Zelda cried as she hugged him.
"Mother, I'm fine! Stop kissing me!" Ganondorf cleared his throat.
"Hello! I'm still alive, here!" Angelous and I looked at each other. I quickly stopped time with my time powers and transformed into my god half. Angelous used his powers to summon his sisters. The first to appear was Din.
"Angelous! How many times have I told you never to summon me to the Dark World! ... Especially when my hair is a mess!"
"Don't worry, Din. I'm sure your hair can't be any worse then the hair on some of the monsters in this world ... Or for that matter, any better." Angelous smirked. Din glared at him. The next to appear was Nayru.
"What's the matter? There must be something that is life threatening to mortals, or else we wouldn't all be here." Angelous had to hold her back. And of course, the last to appear was Farore.
"Finally! I thought you forgot about me!" Farore elbowed Angelous in the stomach. All four of us surrounded Ganondorf, as Shawn, Zelda, and Cody watched. I unfroze time.
"It's one thing to mess with me, Ganie. It's another to mess with my family." I said. Angelous and his sisters laughed.
"I knew you were bad news ever since you tried to use my Triforce to make yourself buff." Din said. Ganondorf tried to move, but Angelous kicked him with mighty force. Being the God of Time, I can control time. Not only time, but the weather as well. I made it so that there was a powerful thunderstorm. Zelda clutched Cody.
"It's not nice to piss off Father Time." I added with a smile.
"This time, Ganondorf, when we seal you, you'll never be heard from again!" Nayru said. Angelous put a hand o her shoulder.
"And that is a promise." Farore used her powers of nature to force the ground beneath Ganondorf to crumble and fall. He fell deep within the pit. All three of my aunts, my father, and I used our energy to seal the pit shut tight. To a point where it would never be open again.
"Finally! I thought I'd never get rid of him!" I said. Cody tugged on my tunic.
"Dad ... can we go home now?" I picked him up.
"Of course." A few minutes later, we reached the castle. Zelda stretched her arms.
"Good to be home." I came up behind her and hugged her.
"Yes it is."
"Mother, Dad. Can I ask you something?" Zelda and I both looked at him. "When I was in that place, I did some things that were really ... weird." Zelda giggled.
"They were not weird, Cody. They were your powers."
"Powers? What powers?" I walked away from Zelda and kneeled in front of Cody.
"Something we should have told you sooner." I took Cody's right glove off to show him that he held half the Triforce of Wisdom, and half the Triforce of Courage. "With this, you are given powers that surpass even your mother and I. You can do everything we can do, and even some things we can't do."
"Like what?"
"Here. Let me show you." I took out a little needle and pricked Cody's finger.
"Ow, Dad!"
"No, it's okay. Just watch." Cody watched as the wound on his finger just disappeared.
"Wow ..."
"You have the power to heal yourself."
"But ... I can't control it. What's gonna happen if I use them to hurt someone?"
"Don't worry. I'll help you to learn your powers. And your grandfather will help as well.
"You will? Thanks, Dad!" Cody said. I guess this experience was to teach me not to be so overprotective of my child. Both Angelous and Zelda tell me that I am. Even though I'm not comfortable with it, I'll try and give him more freedom. You never stop growing as a person, and you never stop learning. This experience taught me that I have to learn to not only trust my son, but to trust that he'll use his powers thoughtfully.
The End.
Chapter 5
Back in Ganondorf's castle, Cody did everything he could think of to try and break out of his little prison that he was held captive in. He was being watched by an iron knuckle. "I want my lawyer! I want my mommy!" Cody yelled. The iron knuckle rolled his eyes. I don't think he though he could take another ounce of Cody. "I have the right to a phone call! I have the right to my lawyer! I have the right to remain silent ... but ... but I don't want to!" The iron knuckle had had enough.
"QUIET!" Cody jumped back with a look of fright. The iron knuckle started pacing around Cody's cell. Cody watched as the iron knuckle paced.
"What are you doing?"
"Guarding you."
"Why?"
"Because I was told to."
"Why?"
"Because I was the only one stupid enough to take this post ..."
"Why?"
"Because I wasn't thinking."
"Why?"
"SHUT UP!" Cody laughed as he knew he was pushing the iron knuckle's buttons.
"Hey, Mister ..."
"What ..."
"I have to go to the bathroom."
"You're gonna have to wait."
"No, seriously, Mister! I gotta go!"
"Tough!" Cody started his 'innocent child – like' cry. The iron knuckle opened the cell door, and grabbed Cody's arm.
Meanwhile, I was having a hard enough time trying to stay focused without all the distractions my wife and best friend gave me. I kneeled over, trying to catch my breath.
"Link, are you okay?" Zelda asked. It took a while for me to answer her.
"I'm fine ..."
"If you're fine, how come you're not walking?" Shawn asked me.
"The question is how come you didn't keep going?" Shawn's only a soldier, while I'm the general. So he has to obey all of my commands.
"But, Link –"
"That's an order!" Shawn looked at me like he wanted to kill me. The only time I ever gave him an order and expected him to follow it was when we were on the battlefield. Other then that, I've never given him an order like that. I think he was more surprised that I didn't get up myself.
"... Okay. Fine." Shawn said, softly. He went to catch up with Angelous. I stood up, shaking my head. Zelda could tell that I was getting weaker by the second, although, she didn't say anything. To make matters worse, Ganondorf was watching me through his magical mirror. He also, could see that I was getting weaker. He snickered to himself.
"This may be the opportunity I've been looking for." Suddenly, a bunch of redeads, stalfos, and moblins surrounded us.
"Oh, great. Just what we need ..." I said. Angelous mostly focused on the redeads while Shawn took care of the moblins. I tried to fight the stalfos.
"Who are you supposed to be?" I asked. The stalfos sniffed the air.
"... Old forest spice?"
"I hate my life ..." The stalfos and I started battling. Soon, I fell to the ground. The stalfos was about to strike me when Zelda used one of her magical beams and killed the stalfos. I glared at her.
"What did you do that for?!"
"Excuse me, but I was saving your life!"
"News flash, Sweet – heart! I save your life! Not the other way around!" I walked past her, Shawn, and Angelous.
"Angelous, what has gotten into him?"
"His struggle to keep his sanity in this world is forcing him to use all his energy on it."
"So, what does that have to do with his attitude?"
"Link uses his energy to hide his feelings, have you noticed that?" Shawn and Zelda shook their heads. "As Link uses his strength to keep his sanity, there's none left for his emotions. If we can get Cody back, I'm sure Link will come to his senses."
"I sure hope so. Because his attitude is getting on my nerves! It's one thing to deal with him at work, but outside of work is something else!"
Meanwhile, Cody and the iron knuckle had a good time together. Cody stared at the iron knuckle while it glared at him. "What are you looking at?"
"Your head's big and pointed."
"Thank you for noticing that."
"I'm a kid. It's my job to notice things." Just then, a moblin came in and whispered something in the iron knuckle's ear. It got up and grabbed Cody's wrist. "Not liking this!" The iron knuckle took Cody to Ganondorf's ... "office." There, he left him.
"So, Child ... I guess I have to thank you for setting me free." Cody was terrified. He didn't know if Ganondorf wanted something from him, or if he simply wanted to kill him.
"W – who are you?"
"I think you know who I am."
"Yeah, all I know is that you're the old guy who kidnapped me."
"But do you know why I kidnapped you?"
"No idea."
"Well, let me tell you, Child. You have a gift. A few ... special gifts. Gifts your parents gave you when you were born."
"... Like what?" Ganondorf came into the light. Now, Cody was even more terrified.
"Like the fact that you can move things with your mind."
"I've never done that."
"You have, M'boy. Your mother and father have hidden that power from you. You have inherited all of your family's powers. And in doing so, the powers that your mother has given you mixed with the powers that your father has given you, and created new powers for yourself."
"No idea what that means!" Ganondorf rolled his eyes.
"In other words ..." He threw some kind of Dark World fruit at Cody. Cody raised his arms to protect himself, and found that nothing hit him. When he lowered his arms, he could see the fruit floating in front of him.
"How did you do that?"
"I didn't. You did."
"Do you know what else I can do?" Cody had no idea what he was getting himself into. All he wanted to know was how to use his powers. Ganondorf let out a sinister smile.
It took days to reach just the entrance to the castle. It's just too bad that I couldn't use my powers as I would have been able to, if I were not too weak from the dark essences of the Dark World. "We're ... almost there ..." I stated. Shawn stayed very quiet for a while. I didn't even bother to ask why that was. Zelda came up and hugged me.
"Finally, I can see my baby's face again." Little did we know that the sweet innocent child that we had raised was no where to be found. That innocent child had been turned into the most dreadful enemy that I could ever go against. How could I fight him? Not the fact that he was only a seven year old boy, but the fact that he is my own flesh and blood. The one who I swore that no harm would ever come to the day he was born. The one I watched grow up, and who looked exactly like me. Zelda and I always knew that Cody was powerful. When Zelda was pregnant with him, even inside of his mother's stomach, he could sense danger. That unborn child used the powers that we gave him to protect us from danger. And now, he would be used to spread danger. Angelous told me of a prophecy that had been carried out the day Cody was born, that told of a key that would lock all evil in its place. For the longest time, I thought I was that key. But I was wrong, for I knew that the seal that Zelda, the sages and I placed on Ganondorf would not last forever. The seal that the key would set is said to be a permanent solution. That key ... is Cody. I didn't want to believe Angelous when he told me this, but no matter how much I wanted to deny it, I knew it was true. There's so much I need to tell him. I can only hope that I'm not too late to save my only son. ...
Something just wasn't right. I had lost my son, and about to lose my wife. I wasn't going to lose my best friend in the process. I took Shawn's arm and pulled him away. "Dude, what's your problem?"
"Hey, you wanted to be the general here. So I'm awaiting your commands. What do we do, Chief?" I gave a long deep sigh.
"Look, back there ... I didn't know what I was saying. I couldn't control my actions.
"Right. Well, after this, I'm gonna take an absence from the chase, Boss."
"You can't do that!"
"I can and I'm gonna!"
"Alright, then why don't you just start by getting the hell outta here!?" Shawn stared at me for a second.
"You know what? I think that's the only thing we've agreed on since we've been in this world!" Shawn left, pounding.
"Shawn!" I called. He didn't even bother to stop. I rolled my eyes, not bothering to go after him. I walked back up to Zelda and Angelous.
"Where's Shawn?" Angelous asked.
"He's not coming back ..." Zelda and Angelous gasped.
"What happened?"
"Nothing. Let's just go get Cody." Angelous grabbed my arm as I tried to walk past him.
"I am utterly sick and tired of your attitude lately, Link! I have put up with it thus far hoping that you would learn how to control your emotions and your senses at the same time! Now I know how you feel about losing your son. All of us are feeling it. You are not the only one who cared for the boy, Link! Under no circumstances will you take it out on either Zelda or me." Angelous said, giving me a deep long look.
"You don't have the right to get all 'parenty' on me anymore, Angelous." He looked at me without showing any signs that he was hurt. It irritates me when he does that. And yet, I knew he was hurt.
"I will remember that when Cody is your age, and he says that to you." Angelous walked to the drawbridge. This had to stop. Not only did I lose my son, I lost my father, and my best friend. Ganondorf's plan to slowly eat me away was working. And I couldn't let that happen. Before Zelda caught up with Angelous, I spun her around and kissed her tightly. I could tell that she enjoyed it.
"That's the Link I fell in love with. Where have you been?"
"I just want you to know that no matter what happens I'll always love you. In life or death." Zelda smiled and hugged me. We walked up to Angelous' side inside the Castle court.
"GANONDORF!" I yelled. As if on cue, there he was, standing in his balcony. The iron knuckle standing next to him signaled for an entire army of iron knuckles to surround us. Unfortunatly, there were too many iron knuckles at the same time, all wearing tin armor. As they marched, Zelda, Angelous, Ganondorf, the iron knuckle next to him, and I all covered our ears.
"I hope it's worth the noise!" When they settled around us, Ganondorf spoke. "Well, well, well. It's about time! Alright, who put a bet on three days? You won!" He said, sarcastically.
"You know why we're here, Ganondorf! Let my son go, of face the threat of death!" Ganondorf was always one for having the last word. Not as bad as one of my more stressful foes, but pretty bad.
"I think you might want to ask the boy yourself." There was a smokescreen that filled the bottom floor. When the smoke cleared, there stood Cody.
"Cody!" Zelda shouted. She wanted to go over to him, but Angelous and I stopped her.
"Wait, Zelda. That is not Cody." Angelous informed her. I looked into the child's eyes. It was Cody's body, but something was different. He wasn't the same happy and energetic little boy that Zelda and I raised. I started walking toward him
"... Cody?" He just stared at me with a hateful look upon his face.
"... You lied to me ..." I jumped. I could hear Ganondorf up on his balcony, snickering.
"This should be enjoyable." I looked at him. "Isn't this a sight? There's your son, Link. Go ahead. Take him." My gaze reached Cody again as I let out my hand for his.
"Cody, give me your hand; we're going home." Cody stepped back.
"My parents told me never to take rides from strangers." Zelda gasped.
"Cody, don't you recognize us, Baby?" Cody stared at his mother. Then, all of a sudden, Zelda flew through the air. I shimmered over to her side and caught her as she landed.
"So, you have unlocked your powers, have you, Cody?" Angelous asked. Cody glared at him. Then, the world stood still. I couldn't move. Neither could Zelda or Angelous. We couldn't move a muscle. Cody's freezing powers were more powerful then mine to a point. I just hope he hadn't learned his most powerful power. Ganondorf came down from his balcony to Cody's side.
"Very well done, Boy. And now, I believe I have some unfinished business with your father. Bind their powers and unfreeze them."
"Yes, Ganondorf." Cody obeyed the command that was given to him. He used the magical powers that Zelda had given him to bind our powers, and he used the time powers I gave him to unfreeze us. Unfortunatly, none of us could even stand. Not even Angelous. Yes, Cody was that powerful. Before I could do anything, Ganondorf held me by my neck and started choking me.
"You know, you're really starting to get on my last one, Buster!" I struggled to breathe. "After all the struggles that you've put me through, I'm going to enjoy killing you." I continued to struggle.
"And ... then what? What are you going to do with my family?" Once I take the Triforces from both you and Zelda, I will have no use for either one of you. Your son however will make a very powerful servant." Upon hearing this, I automatically knew that Ganondorf had put a mind control spell on Cody to control his powers. Ganondorf always used to put mind spells on me. At one time, he put me under a spell so deep, that I spent quite a while being his slave.
"You ... can't do this! ... I won't ... let you ... hurt him!"
"What are you going to do about it? You can barley fight." His grip around my neck started to squeeze harder, making it harder for me to breathe.
"Release him at once, Ganondorf! And maybe I will have mercy on your pathetic excuse for a life!" Angelous yelled.
"Why, Lord Angelous. I realize you can kill me in the flash of a light, but as long as you have no power right now, I can kill your son, and weaken you to a point where you will demise from the world of the living!" Ganondorf let out his ... traditional villain laugh.
"Please, Ganondorf! Please let them go!" Zelda pleaded.
"And of course, Princess Zelda." Ganondorf walked up to her, still holding my neck. Zelda gasped out of fright. "You have a choice, my dear. Join your husband in death, or watch your son serve me for eternity." Zelda gasped again. "I'm going to kill both of you; there's no stopping that."
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" A voice said. Just then, a figure pushed me out of Ganondorf's grip. I took a long deep breath.
"You ok?" I coughed a little.
"Yeah. Thanks, Shawn." I smiled.
"Hey, what are best friends for?"
"Didn't any of you notice another Hylian in the premises?!" Ganondorf yelled to his army.
"Well, he was very persuasive, Boss." One of them responded.
"Enough with this!" Angelous yelled. He threw an energy ball at Ganondorf. However, Ganondorf still had control of Cody's mind and made Cody used his fire - starting ability to set the energy ball on fire. It was no surprise. Ganondorf knew that Cody was the key. The key could be used for either good or evil. But Cody is not evil. I know he's not. If somehow, I could get to him, and free him from the spell.
"Attack!" Ganondorf yelled. Shawn, Angelous and I fought as many iron knuckles as we could. I changed into my god form. With two gods on our side, we took down the army. Ganondorf stood there, with his jaw hanging. Angelous was the one who spoke first.
"You have lost the battle, Ganondorf. And the boy over to where he belongs." Ganondorf smiled.
"Finders keepers." He threw an energy ball at me and Shawn, but I used my psychic barrier to reflect it. Angelous gathered up enough energy to take out Ganondorf in one shot. Angelous threw the magical energy that he had gathered at Ganondorf, but Ganondorf made Cody jump in the way of the energy. My heart stopped.
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Zelda and I screamed. Zelda ran to Cody's side with me following behind her. Angelous ran after me. Zelda held Cody in her arms. "No! Please! Please wake up, Baby!" Zelda cried. Cody was unconscious, covered in shadowy energy.
"I did not mean for this to happen! I would never do anything to hurt him!" Angelous said. Zelda didn't hear him. She was too busy crying.
"I know, Angelous. I realize that you didn't mean too ..." I said. Shawn walked over to us. Zelda continued to cry. On the inside, I did as well. But even more so, I was angry at Ganondorf. Angrier then I had ever been before. My white eyes were filled with anger and hatred, covered by my gold hair. My face showed no sympathy for my son, only pain. Anger and hatred filled my mind as I looked at Ganondorf. "First you kidnap my son, then you put a spell on him, then you kill him. You deserve to die." I said without any emotion except hatred for the creature in front of me.
"I will die only if you fight me." I stared at him, never removing my look of hatred.
"Now, I'm going to finish what I started eighteen years ago!" I waved my left hand, and telekinetically threw Ganondorf across his own "front lawn." I used this one psychic defense mechanism I use that causes my opponent to have a sever headache, and also do some damage, which I called psy blast. I didn't care that I was still weak from all of the negative feelings. All I wanted to do was kill Ganondorf. All of a sudden, I felt a very light feeling. I knew this feeling. It was Cody's feeling! I ran over to his side.
"Link, what's the matter?" Zelda asked.
"... He's alive. I can feel him!" Angelous looked at his grandson, lying in his mother's arms.
"Link, Zelda, stand back." Zelda and I looked at him. "If he is alive, as Link says he is, then maybe a good shock might bring him back." Angelous made a good point. Neither Zelda, nor I could argue with him. I held Zelda away from Cody as Angelous attempted to awaken our son. Angelous gathered a very small amount of electrical energy. Too powerful for Cody, but small for Angelous. Angelous allowed the millions of tiny electrons be absorbed into Cody's body. Zelda buried her face in my shoulder. Just then, Cody's eyes opened. I gasped. Zelda started crying with tears of joy.
"Cody!" She exclaimed.
"Mother? ... Dad? ... Grandpa Angelous? ... Uncle Shawn? ... What's going on? Wait, I remember. I was kidnapped." I kneeled down next to him.
"That's right, Son. Do you remember how you got here?" Cody looked away from me.
"Because I did what you told me not to, and went back to that temple."
"That's right." I looked at him. Cody threw his arms around me and we hugged for a long time.
"I'm sorry, Dad."
"It's okay. I'm here now. Everything's gonna be alright."
"I guess I'm in big trouble, huh?"
"Well, the agreement was that if you disobeyed me again, you'd be grounded for a week and a half, right?" Cody nodded. "And, did you like being kidnapped?" Cody shook his head. I chuckled silently. "Then I guess you've had enough punishment for a while."
"Really? Thanks, Dad!" We hugged again. Zelda literally pried me off of him so she could hug and kiss him. She hugged him so tightly, that I thought she'd break his bones.
"Cody! Oh, my baby! I'm so happy you're alright!" Zelda cried as she hugged him.
"Mother, I'm fine! Stop kissing me!" Ganondorf cleared his throat.
"Hello! I'm still alive, here!" Angelous and I looked at each other. I quickly stopped time with my time powers and transformed into my god half. Angelous used his powers to summon his sisters. The first to appear was Din.
"Angelous! How many times have I told you never to summon me to the Dark World! ... Especially when my hair is a mess!"
"Don't worry, Din. I'm sure your hair can't be any worse then the hair on some of the monsters in this world ... Or for that matter, any better." Angelous smirked. Din glared at him. The next to appear was Nayru.
"What's the matter? There must be something that is life threatening to mortals, or else we wouldn't all be here." Angelous had to hold her back. And of course, the last to appear was Farore.
"Finally! I thought you forgot about me!" Farore elbowed Angelous in the stomach. All four of us surrounded Ganondorf, as Shawn, Zelda, and Cody watched. I unfroze time.
"It's one thing to mess with me, Ganie. It's another to mess with my family." I said. Angelous and his sisters laughed.
"I knew you were bad news ever since you tried to use my Triforce to make yourself buff." Din said. Ganondorf tried to move, but Angelous kicked him with mighty force. Being the God of Time, I can control time. Not only time, but the weather as well. I made it so that there was a powerful thunderstorm. Zelda clutched Cody.
"It's not nice to piss off Father Time." I added with a smile.
"This time, Ganondorf, when we seal you, you'll never be heard from again!" Nayru said. Angelous put a hand o her shoulder.
"And that is a promise." Farore used her powers of nature to force the ground beneath Ganondorf to crumble and fall. He fell deep within the pit. All three of my aunts, my father, and I used our energy to seal the pit shut tight. To a point where it would never be open again.
"Finally! I thought I'd never get rid of him!" I said. Cody tugged on my tunic.
"Dad ... can we go home now?" I picked him up.
"Of course." A few minutes later, we reached the castle. Zelda stretched her arms.
"Good to be home." I came up behind her and hugged her.
"Yes it is."
"Mother, Dad. Can I ask you something?" Zelda and I both looked at him. "When I was in that place, I did some things that were really ... weird." Zelda giggled.
"They were not weird, Cody. They were your powers."
"Powers? What powers?" I walked away from Zelda and kneeled in front of Cody.
"Something we should have told you sooner." I took Cody's right glove off to show him that he held half the Triforce of Wisdom, and half the Triforce of Courage. "With this, you are given powers that surpass even your mother and I. You can do everything we can do, and even some things we can't do."
"Like what?"
"Here. Let me show you." I took out a little needle and pricked Cody's finger.
"Ow, Dad!"
"No, it's okay. Just watch." Cody watched as the wound on his finger just disappeared.
"Wow ..."
"You have the power to heal yourself."
"But ... I can't control it. What's gonna happen if I use them to hurt someone?"
"Don't worry. I'll help you to learn your powers. And your grandfather will help as well.
"You will? Thanks, Dad!" Cody said. I guess this experience was to teach me not to be so overprotective of my child. Both Angelous and Zelda tell me that I am. Even though I'm not comfortable with it, I'll try and give him more freedom. You never stop growing as a person, and you never stop learning. This experience taught me that I have to learn to not only trust my son, but to trust that he'll use his powers thoughtfully.
The End.