It was Wednesday and Link had just gotten out of his third class and was heading to get a soda and some chips from the snack shack in the cafeteria. As he was heading towards the small wagon full of a variety of snacks, a familiar figure stopped in front of him "Zelda, what are you doing here? I thought your father wanted you to go with him to see your dying grandfather." he said. The beautiful heiress smiled at him "My grandfather was put in the hospital and he's in ICU right now. But right now I need to talk to you about something." Link held both of his hands up and smiled slightly "Listen, if this is about me not asking you to the prom, there's a reason. You see…" Zelda interrupted him by putting her index finger over his mouth "It's not that," She looked around and stopped. Link looked in the direction that she was facing and saw the same guy he had seen at the garage the previous day. "Friend of yours?" he asked in a mocking manner. She smiled at him and raised her eyebrow "Not exactly. C'mon." She held him by his hands and dragged the young man to a corner not inhabited by any of their peers. "That guy over there…is evil." Link looked back at the tan boy then looked back at the milky blonde. "He's a Gerudo, so what? All Gerudos aren't evil, why the first Link made friends with a Gerudo and she helped him…." Zelda put her finger over his mouth again and continued. "No, he really is evil. His name is Nerrudon, and he's the son of Ganondorf." Link froze for a moment and then said, "Whoa, did you just say that that guy over there is the son of the King of Evil, Ganondorf? The one that all the Links have at one point defeated?" Zelda looked up at him with a grave look on her face "Yes, that's right." Link backed up half a step "Whoa," he paused in thought and finally spoke "Wait, Ganon is in the Sacred Realm held in by the Ivory Gate of the Sages. How did he get out?" he then paused again "And how do you know all of this?" Zelda sighed and began to tell him the truth, but right as she began her confession the bell signifying the class change rung. She looked up at the bell, then at Nerrudon, then back at Link "I'll tell you everything later, after school. Meet me behind the Temple of Time.
After the final class of the day Link headed out the double doors, but he was stopped. "Hey, are you blind?!" he screamed without looking and then he saw who it was. The tan figure held his hand out and smiled "Hi, I'm Nerrudon, you must be Link. I've heard of you." Link hesitated and then nervously took Nerrudon's hand and shook it. Link could tell that his hands were sweaty and couldn't think of what to say if the Gerudo boy mentioned it, he spent the entire time thinking of what ifs and so on. Finally, Nerrudon said with a slight smile "Hey, pal, you can let go of my hand now. People are starting to stare." "Huh?" Link looked down at his hand and realized that he had just been holding hands with Nerrudon "Oh, sorry about that. I got to thinking about other stuff." Both of the boys let go and Nerrudon shook his hand "You got quite a grip there, man. You should seriously consider not ever shaking anyone's hand ever again." The Gerudo smiled at his clever joke, but Link ignored it "Yea, thanks man, well….gotta go." He started to walk out the door, but Nerrudon put his hand in front of him. "Where you goin'?" Link looked at the eyes of the future enemy for the first time and noticed something odd. They were friendly eyes, or at least as friendly as the eyes of a Gerudo are. Without thinking Link said "Zelda." Nerrudon gave him a weird look, "Who?" Link, just realizing what he had said recovered "Going to meet Zelda." Link prayed to the goddess of courage that Nerrudon wouldn't ask to come. "Ok, see you later, Link." Link looked at him and sighed quietly "Ok, hope to see you later, dude, bye" As Link walked off toward the Temple of Time he cursed himself for everything stupid he had just done. "Bye, Link, next time I see you hopefully you won't be in such a hurry to live your life." Nerrudon smiled and laughed quietly. Link left the campus of his high school and headed in the direction of the Temple of Time. All the way there he looked behind him to make sure no one was following him, even though there wasn't anyone following him he did have a strange feeling that someone was watching his every move. He was right. In the Sacred Realm the Evil Gerudo watched and laughed to himself. "Stupid Hylian, you shall soon face the power of my reincarnation. Ha ha ha!" Link finally reached the Temple of Time and he sneaked past the guard and behind the old cathedral. He saw Zelda with six hooded figures. "Hey, Zelda! I'm here." He said getting the young heiress' attention. She looked back at him and smiled, he stopped in his tracks and smiled back. "Man," he thought to himself "She's beautiful." Zelda came up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek and winked at him "Thanks, you're pretty cute yourself." He smiled, then realizing that what he thought he had thought he had actually said, he turned crimson. Shaking the embarrassment he told Zelda of his meeting with Nerrudon and how his eyes seemed friendly. "And when I left I felt as though there was someone watching me." Zelda considered all he had said and then replied "Well, he was probably playing a part to earn your trust, because there is no way that the son of Ganon is in any way kind." Just then one of the hooded figures took his hood off showing a kind old man with a white beard that wrapped his face, slightly covering his mouth. He wore a yellow hood with an orange stripe on it and the sleeves covered his hands entirely. "Nerrudon, we believe is actually a reincarnation of Ganon,"
He looked at Link and held his hand out "You must be Link. My name is Rauru. I met your father many years ago." Link shook the wrinkled hand and then stopped "You're Rauru! My high school is named after you." Then he froze again "You met my father? But he died when I was three years old. He died of cancer." Link wiped the tears forming in his eyes and braced himself for any more words that would bring back memory of his father. "Yes, you see he didn't die from cancer. He died from protecting you from Ganon. Your father was a mighty warrior like his father before him and so on." Link looked at the old man, and then at the other five guised figures. "And who are they?" Rauru looked back at the figures and nodded. One by one, they unmasked themselves. This is the order: a small girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, a fat brown bearded creature, a tall fish-like creature, a tall tan woman with white hair, and finally a beautiful Gerudo.
A/N: At one point in this chapter I put Hyrulian instead of Hylian. I realized that after posting the chapter and I just today got around to fixing, what with Christmas shopping. Speaking of Christmas, I want to wish you all a merry one. Also, I'm considering writing a Zelda in Christmas story and I need feedback on whether or not I should do it. So, just put your opinion in your review. Thanks,
Killyouguy