I mean, you all know what happened in the game. There's no need to tell the details, because it's not important to the story.
Much, much sooner than she would have thought possible, Link had defeated the last of the Temples.
It had only taken all of four months, but it was finished. And Zelda, disguised as Sheik, waited for the Hero of Time in the Temple of Time, so she could finally reveal the truth behind everything.
She was deathly afraid of what was to come.
At various times during the last three years, she had come to forget the she had once been a thirteen year old girl named April. (And the only way, she supposed, that she would remember his fact in the future would be in the writings she had left herself in her journal.) But whenever she did, she remembered that she didn't have any idea what was to pass after she revealed herself to the Hero of Time.
If she even did get that chance.
But as she saw him running into the Temple like his life depended on it, she stepped out of the shadows, and was ready to reveal her plight.
"I've been waiting for you, Hero of Time," Sheik said, stepping behind Link as he entered the Temple.
"Sheik?" Link called, turning around and looking somewhat confused.
"First of all," the Sheikah said, stepping forward, "I know that you were probably expecting to find someone else here. However, there are things which you need to know first."
"You are aware of the legends of the Triforce."
Link nodded.
"What you might not be aware of is that Ganondorf, the King of Evil, does not own it in its entirety."
Link's eyes widened with something like relief. And confusion.
Something which she had seen all too often in those eyes.
But she was going to remedy that, very shortly.
"On the night Ganondorf invaded Hyrule Castle, he also entered the Sacred Realm after you had opened it."
Link winced slightly.
"However, he didn't gain all of the Triforce. As legend says, if one with en evil heart should touch the sacred triangle, only the force in which he believes most will be granted to him. And Ganondorf only received the Triforce of Power."
Link was being oddly silent.
"And if you haven't guessed.... The Triforce of Courage. The holder of that Triforce is..." A pause for effect. "You, Link."
At that moment, there was a small flash of light from Link's left hand, and there was abruptly a softly glowing triangle there, etched into his hand like a tattoo, only it was visible even through his gauntlets.
"And the Holder of the Triforce of Wisdom," Sheik continued. "Would be none other than the newly awakened Seventh Sage... Destined to be the leader of them all."
With that, Sheik held up a gloved hand to reveal a glowing triangle similar to Link's. It grew brighter, however, and within a moment, it was too bright for Link to be able to look at it.
But when he looked back, he almost tripped from the shock.
In the place that Sheik had stood only moments before, there now stood a young woman, about his age and only half a head shorter than he was. She was dressed elaborately in fine clothes; a white skirt and lavender tunic-like covering, long white gloves, and gold-tinted shoulder armor that told of her readiness for danger.
Her hair was a brilliant shade of dark gold, and it was held back from her face with a royal diadem. And everywhere, she was covered in the symbols of the Hylian Royal Line.
She smiled a half smile, nervously wondering what he was thinking. And after a silence, he managed to say, "Zelda?"
Smiling wider, she affirmed, "That's me."
"I- I mean, you... Wow," he stumbled, looking closely at her for a moment.
"I apologize for having to meet with you in disguise like this," Zelda said, lowering her own gaze. "But until my powers as the Seventh Sage were awakened, it wasn't safe for me to be seen as myself."
"Understandable," Link said automatically, still in a state of extreme surprise.
"But now..." she said, wondering where she could begin.
She decided to take a different approach, explaining what had happened seven years ago. "Back when I had first started us on this whole mess, I didn't really think about the consequences that it might have." She continued staring at the floor, suddenly feeling very guilty that she had taken his childhood away from him. "And I was so young... I couldn't really understand that an evil like Ganondorf could have emerged to take what I had sought to protect."
She dared to look up, noticing that he still wasn't looking at her.
"...Are you mad?" she asked, without thinking.
He abruptly looked up, blond hair flying with the quick motion. "Of course not. Why would you ask?"
She stuttered slightly, not knowing exactly why.
"Because... I dragged you into this whole thing."
"Hey," he said, grinning reassuringly at her in a fashion that reminded her very much of the little Kokiri she had met so long ago. "That was Destiny, not you."
Zelda cracked a small smile, her eyes a bit bright with unshed tears of relief and confusion.
"And there wasn't anything two kids like us could have done to stop this all from happening," Link continued, throwing his arms up in a gesture of acceptance.
"Now there is something, though," Zelda said, suddenly acutely aware of why she had come here today. "We can beat Ganondorf with the powers of the Sages that you have awakened."
Link only nodded, and Zelda could see the fire of hatred begin to burn in those crystalline blue eyes.
"We can beat Ganondorf," she said, softly.
"Good," he said. "I was hoping I didn't run around for this long just to watch him corrupt Hyrule some more."
"And there's something I forgot!" she said suddenly, stepping back. "There's a weapon that you can use to slow him down while we do our part to seal him in the Dark Realm. The sacred weapon that no evil can escape... The Arrow of Light!"
Putting both arms up in the air, more for show than anything else, really, Zelda summoned the Light Arrows from a pocket of space she had been using to store them.
About a year before, she had come across the spell for enchanting arrows with the Power of Light. One day, on a page of the Book, it had just appeared. It never happened that way for no reason, so Zelda decided to use it to her advantage.
The arrow appeared with a flash of, what else?, light. And it hovered in the air between them before deciding that it wanted to hover in Link's direction. It stayed there for a moment, as the Hero didn't dare to move.
"Take it, you dummy," Zelda prompted.
With that, Link reached out and took the glowing object, putting the arrow into a quiver at his back.
"That should go well with the other two," April said, slightly ironic.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, wondering how she knew that there were other magic arrows in his possession.
But then... 'Duh,' he thought. 'Triforce of Wisdom.'
And after another brief silence, Link asked, "So, how are we going to go about defeating his Royal Lowliness?"
Zelda smiled, launching into a plan of action. "Well-"
Unfortunately, her explanation was cut far too short, as the Temple of Time seemed to lurch to the side.
"What the-!?" Zelda shouted, falling forward after tripping over her skirt, only to have Link catch her arms and prevent her from flying to the floor.
"What is that!?" Link shouted above the grinding noise of moving stones.
"I don't kn-!"
But suddenly, she did.
With a low, gradually intensifying laugh, a dark presence made itself known. And the laughter almost turned into outright cackling as Zelda unconsciously held closer to the one supporting her.
"No. No no no no..." she said, growing pale. "Not now... Not after all of that...."
As the voice finally decided to speak, Zelda shook.
"I knew I would find you, traitor, if I let this kid run around for a while."
Link stepped back from Zelda, looking around the Temple and shouting, "Ganondorf! Show yourself!"
"I'd almost applaud your efforts, traitors..." Zelda twitched at the second mention of the word. "But did you really think there was anything you could have done to stop me?"
With that, a pink energy surrounded the Hylian Princess, shrinking into the form of a crystal.
Zelda didn't say anything, as the energy of the pink crystal sent shock waves of pain through her body. Her eyes rolled back in their sockets, and she was motionless.
"Din damn it!" Link shouted, jumping toward it and pounding it in an attempt to shatter what looked like glass, but wasn't.
"Come to my castle if you're brave enough, and face me, Hero!" Ganondorf laughed, his voice gradually fading away as the crystal containing Zelda floated up and disappeared into oblivion.
Link shouted wordlessly up at what was already gone, and it was useless.
When she awoke, it was to a head-splitting pain and the droning music of a badly played organ.
"What in the seven hells....?" April muttered, holding her head, realizing that she was standing inside something that looked rather like a diamond.
"Welcome to my Court, Princess Zelda," said a voice to her right.
She tried to turn her head quickly, but all she managed to do was to make herself dizzy. However, she didn't fall, as the energy in the crystal kept her standing up.
"Don't overexert yourself, my lady," he said in pure sarcasm. "You'll need that energy when that lovely Triforce is ripped out of you."
"Link's gonna kick your ass," she said without hesitation.
The Dark King only laughed cruelly as he continued his dark song.
"I'm sure that's what you and your Sages want to believe," he explained. "But I know something that you don't."
"Oh?" the Princess asked. "And what's that?"
"That you will not be able to kill me."
Zelda narrowed her eyes in anger and frustration.
And they both waited.
I'm evil. Hahahaha!