Ok. . . I'm sorry about the cliffhangers. I've had HEAPS of e-mails about them and I'm really and truly very sorry…

I want to say that this chapter won't be a cliffhanger but I can't promise that this chapter won't.

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Didn't Know Till Then

(Yeah… I changed the title)

Chapter 5

Hyrle Castle Falls

Malon watched Link hug Zelda for support while the platform beneath them trembled violently. She felt extremely angry and peeved. ~I'd give anything to be her right now~

Looking around, making sure that people couldn't see her blush she saw Impa and realised that the that the Sage of Shadows was frowning.

 "What's wrong now?" Malon glared at the older woman, demanding an answer. "Link's killed Ganondorf! What's wrong now?"

The sheikah looked at Malon sternly. "Link has another battle, Ganondorf is not really dead, so he will come back."

Malon shrugged. "Well Link beat him before, he'll just have to beat him again."

"How can you be sure he isn't stronger?" Nabooru replied instead of Impa.

"Are you always so negative? Link WILL beat Ganondorf, I know it!"

Impa shrugged. "Believe what you will."

Malon glared at her and turned to look at the scene before her.

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After the castle had stopped shaking Zelda looked around carefully, Link watched as her body glowed, she was using her magic to see what was happening.

 "Link! Listen to me! This tower will collapse soon! With his last breath Ganondorf is trying to crush us in the ruins of the tower. We need to hurry and escape! Follow me!"

Link nodded and watched as Zelda ran down what looked like an outer stairway. As Link followed Zelda he heard a huge explosion behind him.

He turned around and saw a boulder smash into the ground behind him. Looking up at the sky, he couldn't tell where the boulders were falling from. ~ It must be Ganondorf's magic! ~

He stopped running; Zelda was performing some magic. He heard her muttering a spell and watched as iron bars that had been blocking the doorway unlocked. He followed the princess through into the darkening corridor.

As they entered the room Link saw that pieces of the ceiling had collapsed and some parts of the room were on fire. He caught up to Zelda and removed his sword from its sheath; she would definitely need protection while inside the collapsing castle.

Link followed Zelda into the room. She looked around for an exit,

"There it is!" She grabbed fistfuls of her dress so that she could lift it up of the ground, so that she could run faster and easier. But as she ran a ring of fire blocked her off and surrounded her. 

 Link heard a crashing noised behind him and turned around quickly.

He saw two Stalfos; they were eyeing him closely, probably looking to see if he was any real danger.

~Oh Farore! Why now? We're going to be in a lot of trouble if the castle collapses before I can destroy the Stalfos~

Link hurriedly jumped to the side as one of the Stalfos lunged forward, thrusting his sword into the place where Link had been a split second before.

Link waited for the Stalfos to drop his guard, making sure that the Stalfos's back was unprotected Link swung his sword in an arc shape, slicing the Stalfos in its back.

It roared in pain and began to attack him blindly, trying to stab Link but not really trying to aim at him properly. Link jumped out the way and jabbed forward. The second Stalfos, who had been circling Link jumped forward. Link ducked out the way, grabbing his longshot he aimed for the first Stalfos.

Link aimed for its stomach and it turned blue, it had been paralysed by the longshot. Link ran forward and hacked at it repeatedly until it crumbled to the floor its remains turned to blue flames that burnt away.

Link looked around for the second one. It had remained still watching him fight the previous one. Link tried to shoot it with the longshot but unfortunately it dodged it. Link groaned in frustration, this one was smarter.

Link began to attack it repeatedly, so it wouldn't be able to dodge an arrow and a blow from the sword at the same time.  Just when Link thought it was the right time he hooked his foot around its shin and pulled the leg back tripping it over onto it's back.

Link grabbed out his bow and shot the Stalfos with an ice arrow. Just as he thought, it wasn't ready after being tripped up. The Stalfos froze into a giant ice cube; Link stabbed the centre of the ice cube, hitting the Stalfos's ribs.

The Stalfos scrambled away, freed from its icy tomb. It roared in pain and began to do the same as the previous one. It attacked him blindly, repeatedly attacking but not aiming. Link thrust his sword forward and stabbed it neatly in it's stomach.

It crumbled pieces and the ring of fire surrounding Zelda disappeared.

She smiled, "Thank you Link, but we must hurry before the castle collapses."

She tossed a few recovery hearts to him and began to hurry away, looking for an exit.

Link hurried after her, it had taken him sometime to regain his breath. He was running out of energy. Taking out his bottle he gulped down the entire blue potion and sighed as he felt the magic energize his battle weary body.

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Malon sighed in relief as Link killed the second Stalfos. She had become so worried, what if Ganondorf really was stronger? What was Link going to do? He was already covered in cuts and bruises from his battle with Ganondorf. He must be in a lot of pain.

Saria who had seen the worry on Malon's face smiled.

"Don't worry, Link will be fine; just ignore what Impa and Nabooru say, they always think negatively." She smiled cheerfully while trying to glare at Impa and Nabooru.

~Don't make her feel upset, she will lose confidence and then she won't be able to gather up the strength to seal the gate properly~ She used her magic to talk to them without Malon hearing.

Nabooru winked and smiled at her, Impa just shrugged and turned away to look at Link and Zelda leaving the castle.

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Link sighed. They had finally arrived out of the castle. Zelda grabbed Link by the arm and pulled him further away from the castle.

Link gasped, they had just made it. Before the castle doorway a ReDead ( I thing that's wrong; I've forgot the name I've been to busy play my Game Cube) had frozen him, and was about to attack. Thankfully Zelda blasted it with some magic power and it burnt to a crisp releasing Link from it's curse.

He smiled at Zelda, who was watching the crumbling castle with a worried expression.

"We did it! We got rid of Ganondorf!" He smiled at her expecting her to return one, but she didn't.

She turned to him. "I don't think so, can't you sense it? His magic is still here, and if his magic remains then he is not dead."

"Maybe he's just breathing his last breaths, he might die soon."

Zelda shrugged. "If he is, then let's wait for his magic to disappear altogether."

Link smiled at her. "Ok, it's not like I've got anything else to do."

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Geez…how boring!

 Even I hate that ending…I wish I could've made the ending more interesting *coughcoughcliffhangercoughcough*

Oh well…

Tell me whatcha think!