The Legend of Zelda: A.C.I.D. Reign over Hyrule

Chapter 2: The King and Phayrule Castle

Again, for fear of crashing my train of thought, I won't note anything here.

Ech: (hijacks train of thought) I'm borrowing it!

Crap. Well, if you're a fan of someone's return that died in The Wind Waker, this chapter's for you!

Link woke up slowly, first seeing that he now was laying on a different, yet oddly familiar stone floor, and then seeing the feet of another walk over to him. "Link! Get up Link!"

Link blinked his eyes. That voice, it couldn't be...

"Link! Pull yourself together!"

Link looked up at the figure. It was just who he thought it was, Daphnes Hyrule! "Link? Are you all right?" Link, ignoring his own pain, got up immediately and hugged the former King. "Well, this is quite a hello. Link, how long has it been that Ganon's been drowned here?"

Link looked to where Daphnes gestured, the stone in the shape of the old Gerudo thief. It was covered now in algae, greened from its nearly decade-long stay at the bottom of the sea. The Master Sword, however, still shone brightly in the sunlight falling on it. It still held its power, the power of the Blade of Evil's Bane. No sword in the world was like it, even in its disrepair before Ganondorf's final defeat. "Eight years, King Hyrule. Eight long years of sailing the sea without you to guide me." Daphnes chuckled. "Well, I guess I won't need to guide you across any more seas, especially in the condition of the boat."

"The King of Red Lions! It's– it's–" Link stammered, picking up the broken tiller and mast. "I thought it was a magic ship, it never broke when we were going to stop Ganondorf!"

"Ah, Link, it was a magic ship." Hyrule explained. "But when I stayed in Hyrule with Ganondorf, my power to protect it and speak through it was broken. I remained down here, never to see the world above the waves again, but also to keep watch over Ganon." The king placed a hand on the Master Sword's hilt. "But like before, I didn't know of a flaw in one of the most sacred Hylian treasures."

"The Triforce!"

"Yes." King Hyrule continued. "Much like when the Master Sword lost its power when Ganon's monsters killed Laruto and Fado, the Triforce was yet incomplete when I made my wish."

"But, how..."

"...did Phaydees obtain the legendary fourth and final piece of it? I do not know. All that I do know is that when she united the Triforce of Power left behind in the Forsaken Fortress with the Triforce of Darkness she had, Din's power was reawakened." Hyrule pulled the legendary blade out of the statue of Ganondorf, much to Link's surprise. "The Goddess's power is what created the land of Hyrule, not the sea. Using the Master Sword, Link, Hero of Winds, you must get the other two pieces of the Triforce before Phaydees does, and send her back from whence she came!"

The still-young hero of only 20 took the Master Sword again in his hands, ready to wield it again in the face of evil. Little did the hero know just how hard it would be this time around.

Meanwhile, miles away from where Link and Daphnes had their talk, and where Link had agreed to stop the new villainess in Hyrule, the goat villainess herself was busy in her newly-renamed and repainted Phayrule Castle.

"You! Pig! Get your hands off that stupid stick and get to work painting this castle!"

A Moblin looked up from what he was doing, slicing bread delicately with his scythe. "Hunh?" This lady looks nothing like Master Ganon. The dumb Moblin thought to himself. But she yells like him. I guess Master has left her in charge of us.

"Don't just stand there and look stupid! I want this castle black as night by night or you'll go nighty-night forever!"

The pig-like Moblin sighed as he picked up a can of black paint, which Phaydees had magically conjured up when she arrived. "You see this?" she said, "This is black! I want this paint on all of the castle's walls ASAP or it's your ass!" Not even Ganondorf had made his great grandfather paint the castle black, all he had to do was guard the Lost Woods and Sacred Forest Meadow, whatever or wherever those places were.

Phaydees laughed at the Moblins' and Bokoblins' suffering as they tried to paint the higher walls but kept falling from their poorly constructed ladders. She felt good knowing that she had this kind of control, especially after losing A.C.I.D. to Ripto. I'll get back there one day, Ripto, you'll see. And then I'll avenge Corky! A tear formed in Phaydees' eye as she remembered her ram boyfriend. They had spent years together, Ripto always being jealous of Corky. It wasn't that she never liked Ripto; it was just that she was with Corky, and it wouldn't work out between them with the extreme height difference. Phaydees thought on her home in Avalar, its black spires still fresh in her mind. But while she continued with that thought, the blackness began to take over her mind. Phaydees fell silently to the newly-made black carpet in her castle, fainted from some mysterious force.

You are mine now, Phaydees...

No! I won't let you take my mind into yours like the Gerudo King!

My mind is his, naïve goat! As is the mind behind a mystical mask...

All I want to do is go home! Why do you want my necklace?

That question will be answered when you bow to my power, Phaydees. Only then can you truly understand the wants of Ganon, King of Evil!

Phaydees awoke from her brief slumber, sprawled on the floor. Her fiery black dress was like a blanket in the cold castle courtyard, keeping the cool Hylian wind from giving her goosebumps. Still, in the manner in which she dressed, the Hylian weather was by far colder than the normal Avalarian weather she was used to. "I guess I'll turn in... Especially after that weird dream I had..." She walked back into her castle, making sure that there was nobody watching her, a habit since her childhood. "Ganondorf..." She said softly, thinking still about her dreamlike state. She looked up at the stars and saw one shoot by, illuminating her vision for a spit second. "I wish... I wish I knew how to get home..."

Oh, you will... a disembodied spirit said from the castle's hedges. You will...

Well, there's your second chapter!

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