Ch 14

An arrow flies through the air striking Roy in the chest. Ashley screams. She can't believe what just happened to Roy. He just saved her life from the battle with Ganondorf. Roy falls to the floor, his hand clutching the arrow. He says, "Go find Link. Okay? I'll be... fine." Tears well up in Ashley's eyes, "No. I can't-" The next arrow flies through the air and Ashley sees it. She dodges it and sees the same Gerudo woman. Nabooru. She is trying to kill Ashley to get her Triforce of Light. Ashley starts to make a huge ball of light, but right before she shoots it another arrow flies towards her and hits her. The arrow implants itself in Ashley's shoulder. Ashley screams, horrified. She looks at the smiling Nabooru and falls down in pain. She tries to pull the arrow out of her shoulder but it won't come out. She tries again and finally it comes out. With blood pouring down her shoulder, Ashley gets up and tries to make another ball of light. She finally hits Nabooru. She flies out of the stained glass window behind her as she gets hit. Ashley runs up to the shattered window and looks out. Nabooru is gone. It's daytime. The sun has just risen about six hours ago. She thinks. She heals her arm and looks back at Roy who is almost dead from all of the blood he has lost. She runs toward him to heal him also. She starts to pull the arrow out of him but he stops her. "Don't...I'm fine. Go... save Link," he says. "No. I don't want you to die, Roy. I don't want any one to die!" Ashley screams. "Except Ganondorf." Roy laughs weakly. "I have to heal you," she starts to pull the arrow out again. "NO! Don't! GO!" Roy pushes Ashley so she stumbles to the ground. "But-" "GO!" Ashley runs away into the hallway. Roy looks at the wound and pulls out the arrow in his chest, throws it out of the window, and curses at Ganondorf. He puts his hand on his chest and heals himself. He wants to keep this a secret from Ashley so she doesn't go all over him. I wonder how old she is? Roy thinks. She's pretty cute. He smiles, gets up, and walks down the hallway Ashley went down. Ashley keeps running until she gets tired and slows down. She looks behind herself. No Roy. I know he didn't die. She thinks. She smiles and keeps walking down the hallway into a stairway. She sighs. At least it's down. And she walks down the long stairway. Roy catches up fairly quick and reaches the long stairway and sees Ashley walking down it humming a song. She's good. I wonder if she sings? He thinks. He runs down toward her and pokes her on her shoulder. She turns around and slaps him. "Oh my God! I'm so sorry! It's you! Sorry! Oh my God! Are you okay?" She asks, surprised. "Yeah! I'm fine!" He laughs. "But it kinda stings." "Sorry." "It's okay. Hey! You were singing-" "Humming. I can't sing." "What?" "Ganondorf took my voice for some odd reason." "Oh no!" "What?" "I know why!" "Why? Please! Tell me!" "You need your voice to get Link." "WHAT!?" "Yeah, I'm sorry. I got there and I couldn't get in because this Gerudo asked me to sing for her. I'm like, what? And she says that I need Shana's voice to get in. So I guess that's you, the Legendary Shana." "Legendary?" "Oh, ha. Well, it's a long story. Should I tell you?" "Yeah. I'm ready. I want to know how you guys, like, found me. And picked me out of all of these other people. I'm just a lazy girl. I'm not that physical. Hehe." "Oh, don't worry. Okay. So, here goes: There's this legend that says that a little girl, named Shana, with magical powers restored the land when it was in turmoil. She was too small and little to carry these powers and sent them to your planet, Earth. It found you. You were the same age as her back here. As soon as she had sent her powers to Earth, Ganondorf had killed her. And we had to find you on Earth to find the powers Ganondorf was so longing to take for years." "How old was the she?" "She was at least 5, or so the legend tells." "Oh, I see. So I have her power?" "Yes. It's kind of hard to tell because Shana, that gave you her powers, had blond hair." "Hey!" Ashley slugs him in the shoulder. "It's true," he says rubbing his shoulder. "I like my hair, thank you very much!" She laces her fingers through her straightened silky brown hair. "I bet so, because it's so beautiful." "Thanks! I take good care of my hair," she smiles. Roy runs forward and laughs as he runs down the stairs. Ashley shrugs and runs after him. Roy stops dead in his tracks. Ashley doesn't see him, runs into him, and falls onto the floor. "What's wrong?" She asks, getting up, rubbing her butt. "We're... here." "Here, where?" "At the entrance of the castle." "Cool! Lemme open the door!" And she runs up to Roy and opens the door. They both look outside with wide eyes. A girl screams. Ashley automatically runs out of the castle to find out who has screamed. Roy follows cautiously. Ashley trips over a huge rock she didn't see and scrapes her chin on the ground. "Owwww..." she moans. Roy runs up to her, picks her up, and runs down the hill and when he reaches the end, he puts Ashley on her feet and looks at the castle. Ashley brushes herself off and finally looks up at the castle. "Damn!" She says. "I know...," Roy says in awe. The castle is huge. It's all black and on a giant rock floating in the middle of a crater full of molten lava. Ashley pulls Roy's hand and exits down the path to the Market.

They reach the market. "It's... dead," Ashley says in awe. "Oh my God," Roy stares. She keeps walking and sees statue-like zombies. She looks at them as they moan. She looks back at Roy, who is freaking out, "Hey Roy! Aren't these Re-Dea-" and she screams as one grabs onto her and tries to suck her soul out. Roy yanks out his sword and kills it. Ashley falls to the ground and says, "Lets get out of here before any more of these THINGS get me!" Ashley runs out of the Market and Roy runs after her. He looks back once more at the Market and sees the Temple of Time. "HEY! WAIT! COME BACK!" He yells to Ashley. Ashley stops, "What!?" "The Temple of Time is here! C'mon!" Ashley shrugs her shoulders and runs to Roy. She grabs his hand, "Don't let go, okay?" "I won't." They walk to the Temple without any trouble. "Wow! It's... boring." Roy laughs. "What? It is!" "I know." He takes Ashley to an altar. He sees three hollows with three stones in each of them. "The Kokiri's Emerald, the Goron's Ruby, and the Zora's Sapphire," he says. "I know that. Duh." "Oh yeah." "I've played the game!" "I know! I know! Okay?" "Hehe..." "So what do we do now?" "GET LINK!!" "But we don't have your voice yet." "Oh yeah. Damnit. Let's kill Ganondorf then to get it." "It was hard enough to try to escape from him." "Yeah. Uhh... Let's go ask someone...hey! Who was that girl who screamed anyway?" "I think it was-" "Let's go find out!" "But-" Ashley pulls on his hand as he was about to say something and says, "Come on! I can fly you out of the Market!" Roy stares blankly at Ashley and says, "Fly?" "Yeah! Come on!" They both run out of the Temple of Time and Ashley jumps into the air and a humming noise followed by a flash of light lifts her off of the ground and her feet light up. Roy is lifted off of the ground and taken to the air. They fly over the rooftops of the market houses and fly out of the town.

Roy sees Ashley's shirt flying up and tries to look in but Ashley kicks him in the chest and glares at him. Roy looks down, blushing. They finally fly to Gerudo fortress. Ashley touches down to the ground and throws Roy into the wall with her magic. "NEVER look into my shirt again you idiot!" Roy blushes and rubs his head, "Sorry." "GOD!" She starts walking towards a gate to go into the desert. The Gerudo woman nods as Ashley tells her that she needs to punish Roy in the desert. The Gerudo agrees to open the gate and Ashley motions Roy to the gate. He gets up and sees the Gerudo woman and backs away, shaking his head. Ashley runs up to him and grabs his shirt and pulls him to the gate and disappears into the desert. "I should have brought goggles," Ashley moans as she shields her eyes from the sand whipping into her face. "How did you get me in here anyway?" Roy asks. "I told the Gerudo to let me in so I can beat you up." "Wow. Nice convincing." "I wasn't convincing her." "What?" "Joke." "Ha-ha," Roy says, dramatically. "Oh, shut up." Something grabs Ashley by the waist and twirls her in the air. "PUT ME DOWN DORK!" Ashley yells. "It's not me!" Roy yells back. Ashley looks down and sees a ghost. She screams, "Ahh!!! Get it away from me!!!!" She starts kicking it frantically. Roy pulls out the Master sword Ashley gave to him to hold and yells to her, "Shoot your magic at the sword!" "Okay!" Ashley makes a ball of light and shoots it at the Master sword and it bounces off of the sword, hits the ghost, and the ghost disappears leaving a screech. She falls to the ground on her butt. She gets up, "What was that?" "It was a Poe," Roy answers. "Oh, I should've known." "No worries." "Man, you keep saving me! I want to save you some time!" "You will. Don't worry." "I guess." "Besides, you're saving someone right now." "Huh?" "Link." "Oh yeah" She laughs. The sandstorm dies down. Ashley looks up as a flash of black lightning strikes the ground and the entire area goes dark. Ashley whispers to Roy, "It must be Ganondorf." "Yeah," He whispers back. An echo of laughter comes and Ganondorf emerges. "Of course." Roy laughs. Ganondorf comes to Ashley as Roy gives her the Master sword, and pushes her down with a black ball of magic, knocking her unconscious. Roy knows what he wants now, takes the Master sword from Ashley, and swings it at Ganondorf. It hits the chain with the purple glowing ring. It falls into the sand and the purple glow disappears. The purple magic flows to Ashley's mouth and seeps in. Ganondorf punches Roy with a huge fist and Roy falls down into the sand. Ganondorf walks towards Ashley and picks her up by her left wrist. As soon as Ashley realizes that he's trying to take her Triforce, she kicks him in the stomach and he loosens his grip on her wrist. She kicks him again and he finally drops her into the sand. She quickly makes a ball of light and shoots it at him but he was too smart to take her little blasts of magic and deflects it right back at her. She gets hit and she falls down for only a couple of seconds being it her own magic. She gets back up and grabs the Master sword from Roy right before Ganondorf grabs her wrist again. He holds her up in the air and grins. Ashley swings the Master sword at Ganondorf's arm and finally draws blood from him. He throws her down into the sand in anger. Ashley looks up and sees him walking away, "Hey! Get back here! I'm not finished with you yet!" She powers up the Master sword with her Light magic and throws it at Ganondorf's back. He turns around with his sword drawn and deflects it back at Ashley. The sword lands, tip into the ground, by Ashley's head. Ashley flinches. "Missed me! Haha!" She gets up and picks up the sword. She gets in her ready stance with the Master sword in her right hand. It glows its usual blue-ish gold color. Ganondorf charges toward her and swings his big brown sword at her. Ashley blocks it. Ganondorf smiles. He knows she will get weak and he will finally get the Triforce of Light and rule all of Hyrule. Ashley swings the Master sword at Ganondorf again and he blocks it. Roy hears a clinging of swords and sees Ashley fighting Ganondorf. He stares, blankly. He smiles, "Go Shana!" Ganondorf looks at Roy. Ashley slashes at Ganondorf's arm and draws more blood. She smiles at Roy. Roy gets up and draws his own sword. Ganondorf sees this and takes out, yet another sword, but smaller, as big as the Master sword and starts fighting both of his enemies. Roy gets tired and Ashley does also, as Ganondorf's blows get harder. Roy gets fed up and finally swings so hard that he knocks Ganondorf off of his feet. He lands in the sand. Ashley powers up the Master sword in a second and jumps into the air and screams her battle scream and comes down on Ganondorf's chest with the sword in her hands. The blade goes into his chest and Ashley jumps off of him. She gives Roy a high-five. Suddenly a voice comes, "You have defeated only my copy. You soon will die, Shana. I will kill you if I have to obtain your precious Triforce. Now run, run as fast as you can to your little Linkie." "Idiot," Ashley moans. The dead fake Ganondorf disappears into thin air. The Master sword falls onto the ground. "LINKIE!?" Roy laughs so hard that he falls into the sand. "Shut up! Dork." He laughs harder. "SHUT UP!" She shoots a spark of lightning at him. "OWW!!" Roy jumps in the air. "That's what you get if you make fun of Link." Roy laughs, "It's still funny." "Shut up or I'll shoot you to another planet and you'll disintegrate in the atmosphere." "Ohhh, I'm scared." "Go away," Ashley walks away from him as the sandstorm picks up again. "'Go away'," Roy says in a girlish voice, picks up the Master sword, and he follows her in the sandstorm. Luckily, Ashley didn't hear him.

After awhile Ashley looks behind her to see if Roy is following. She sees him right behind her. "I said, GO AWAY!" She yells at him. "Don't you need the Master sword? Huh? Huh? Huh?" Roy swings the Master sword back and fourth at Ashley. She grabs it from him. "Ohhh, grouchy, huh?" "You're so immature for your age," Ashley says. "Am not." "Are too." "D-2." "Shut up," Ashley slaps him on the arm "Owie! Stupid girl," Roy blows on his stinging arm. "You're such a baby." "When it comes to girls. Hehe." Ashley starts walking again and Roy follows. "Would you STOP following me!?" She yells at him. "No" Roy says. "Why?" "Because...Uhh." "Why, you idiot? Come on! It can't be that bad!" "Fine! 'Cause you're..." Roy mumbles the next word. "What? What did you say?" "Uhh... I can't say." "Hurry up and bleep it out for me!" "You're cute! Happy now? Geez!" Ashley bursts out laughing. "Hey! You and your little 'Linkie'" She hits him. "What?" Roy asks, rubbing his sore arm. "Stop that!" "Fine! You stop hitting me and I'll stop saying how much you like you little Linkie." Ashley raises her hand as Roy says his sentence to slap him again but Roy grabs her wrist before she hits him. She puts her hand down as Roy lets go of it, "Deal." "YAY!!! I'm free!!" Ashley stomps in front of him and Roy follows close behind her.

"This is boring," Roy says after a couple of minutes as they walk in the sand. The storm has died down almost all of the way. "You're boring," Ashley says back at him. "Why don't we fly? It would be easier traveling too." Roy jumps for joy, "Yay! Yeah! Let's fly!" Ashley looks at him as he has a sugar high, "NO, NOT with you. You can walk." "WHAT!?" "Yes. Without you," she glares at him. Roy stops dead and whines, "WHY?" "Because, I don't want to carry a hyper little immature boy like you!" "I'm NOT immature!" "Fine! How old are you then?" "How old are YOU?" "I'm fifteen." "I'm seventeen. Hehe." "Oh God," Ashley moans, embarrassed. "You act like me when I was thirteen. Oh man." "What? Is that bad?" "YES!" "Oh. Okay, I'll be good the rest of the way," he makes a halo over his head with his hands. "Riiiiggghhttt." "I WILL!!" "Okay," Ashley comes to him and grabs his hand. They lift off and fly to where Ashley thinks is the way to the Spirit Temple.