Ch 13

The gloomy, lit hallway Ashley runs down gets cold. She shivers. The Master sword in her right hand is lighter. It seemed to "know" what kind of weight she likes to hold. Breathing heavily, she slows down into a walk. She eyes a door the same as hers. There are bars at the top of the door and she peers in. Nothing is in the room. It's the same as hers. She then walks to the end of the hallway and opens the door which is metal. She peers through. Seeing that the coast is clear, she gallantly walks in. The room is brightly lit with torches and there is a big table. She guesses it to be a dining room table. She keeps walking and all of a sudden there is a big platter of food on the table. Without thinking, because of her astonishingly bad food-craving hunger, she bolts towards the table and starts eating some grapes. She doesn't hear footsteps behind her as she happily eats a bunch of green grapes, her favorite. A hand seizes her mouth and the grapes fall onto the floor as Ashley freaks out. She screams but the hand muffles her screams. Ashley looks up with wide-eyes. She doesn't recognize the young male face but sees it smiling. She stops screaming and gasps. The hand drops from her face. Ashley quietly asks, "Who are you? Why are you smiling?" The brown haired boy says, "I'm Roy. I'm smiling because I found you." "What are those grapes doing on the table?" "That's a trap from Ganondorf. He knows you're here. Now come on! We have to get out of here!" "Huh? Why are you here?" Roy starts walking and Ashley catches up, "I'm here to find you. I guess you've already done the hard part." "What?" "Getting out." "Oh!" she laughs. Roy opens the door, looks inside, and suddenly closes it shut. Gesturing the slice-head-off thing on his throat. Ashley looks at him and knows that it's Ganondorf. Roy pulls out his sword, determined to kill. Ashley holds the Master sword at ready. They both stand a few feet back. The door swings open and Ganondorf emerges. The Master sword glows its usual blue-ish gold color. Ashley sees it and stares at it. Roy has already been thrown to the ground with Ganondorf's power, groaning in pain. Ashley looks up and sees Ganondorf coming towards her. She swings the Master sword bravely at him and he gracefully moves aside and grins. Ashley gets pissed off. She jumps up in the air and seems to float. There is a light surrounding her feet. Sweet! I can fly! She thinks. And darts down at the stunned Ganondorf. He stops her with his magic and throws her toward the ground on her left shoulder. She stays there, her shoulder throbbing in pain. Roy gets up and sees Ashley. He eyes Ganondorf madly and starts to battle him. Soon Ashley hears "two" swords clinging together. She slowly looks up and sees Ganondorf with a BIG brown sword, almost his height. Its blade is thick and brown and the tip is kind of a half circle. Ashley never knew that Ganondorf had a sword, until now. She watches Roy struggle and get weak as Ganondorf's powerful blows get stronger. She lowers her head again. She hears a THUD! And looks up. Roy is on the ground with blood oozing down his left leg. He grimaces looking at his big wound. The blood seems to flow out with ease. Ashley thinks about when she healed Amanda's cut. She'll do the same to Roy as soon as Ganondorf was eliminated. She gets up slowly as Ganondorf speaks, "What a surprise to have you out. It seems that Nabooru is loosing it. Ahh well, I guess I have to kill you to obtain your Triforce." Ashley steps back a couple steps, shaking her head. "No? Haha. You can't fool me with that!" Ganondorf points at the mended, glowing Master sword. Ashley looks at it. She looks at Roy who is moaning in pain and holding his leg. She powers up the Master sword with her Light magic and whips the sword at Ganondorf. The sword shoots at the speed of light, Ganondorf sees it too soon, and catches it just before it hits him in the chest. "Nice try. Oh, and thanks for the Master sword," he smiles. Ashley yells, "Oh no you don't!!!" And fires a big ball of light towards Ganondorf's back as he turns to leave. It hits him and he falls to the ground and moans in pain. Ashley's eyes brighten and she smiles. She runs towards Ganondorf and takes the Master sword that he has dropped. Next, she runs to Roy, who is now in a pool of red blood and starts to mend him. He flinches as she touches his cut. The blood disappears from the floor and goes into the cut on his leg. Ashley finally lifts off her hand and Roy gets up with some trouble. Ashley turns around as Roy's finger points behind her, trembling. Too late, a cold humongous hand seizes Ashley off of the ground and held her up towards the high ceiling. Ashley can barely breathe. She tries to pry off the cold fingers with her small hands. But they just get tighter. She almost faints but then the grasp gets lighter and there is a powerful yell that comes from Ganondorf. He lets go from Ashley and she falls to the floor. She looks up and sees Ganondorf holding his hand. It's red, like he has just touched a hot stovetop. Roy has the Master sword in his hand and throws it at Ganondorf but he disappears in mid air, leaving an echo of evil laughter and his last message, "I'll be back!" Ashley stands on the floor and congratulates Roy about doing a great job fending Ganondorf away from her. He does the same. "Where do we go now?" Ashley asks Roy. "I do not know," Roy replies. "Great," Ashley sits on the leather dining room chair. "Well we have to get out of here anyway." "Yeah. But how, out of that door? No." "It's worth the try." "I guess..." "Come on!" "Alright!" And Ashley gets off of the chair and bolts to the door Ganondorf came through. Roy follows her