Hello again! Yes I know! Looking at these chapters...they are SUPER short! Hmmm, I guess you can look at it as a good thing, especially considering in all of my other stories, their chapters are REALLY looooooong! Well anyhow, enjoy Chapter 2!

Chapter 2

The Deception of Link

By this time, Dark Link had kidnapped Zelda and Link had gone to find them, but no one knew that Ganon had summoned Link's darker half to kidnap the princess of Hyrule. All that was known was that Link came to the castle, he must have slaughtered the soldiers that had guarded Zelda's tower, and then kidnapped her.

The next morning, King Harkinian, Zelda's father, gave an announcement to his people and to the other leaders of Hyrule. He sent one of his advisors with Impa to deliver the announcement to his kingdom.

"I am afraid I bring you all terrible news," the advisor said to the townspeople, "Our beloved Princess of Hyrule has been taken from the castle by..."

"You cannot say his name," whispered Impa as she interrupted the advisor, "We still haven't any idea if it was Link."

"There's plenty of evidence," he stated, "There were witnesses who saw Link slash the guards, even Agahnim saw him."

Impa could not believe anything that she had heard about Link. She knew Link did come by to the castle, but only to protect Zelda, not to kidnap her. It just didn't made sense. She left the advisor and headed back to the castle.

"There is only one who knows Zelda's whereabouts," the advisor continued to the people, "He is Zelda's kidnapper and is known as Link." The townspeople started talking amongst themselves. "Anyone that knows where Link and Zelda are, will be graciously rewarded by King Harkinian." The advisor turned away to leave, but then someone yelled out, "Dead or Alive?"

"Who said that?" the advisor asked. The crowd became quiet.

"Link, would his majesty like him dead or alive?" said the man; he was wearing a dark cape with dark boots, and the hood over head covered his face.

"I would assume that the King Harkinian wants him..." said the advisor, but before he finished, the man with the dark cape took off his hood. "Link..." the advisor whispered as Dark Link pulled out his bow and shot an arrow into the advisor's chest. All of the people screamed and ran into their houses. There were four soldiers on guard around the market, but Dark Link was too good for them. He did a spin attack and slashed three of the guards; the fourth one started to run to the castle to send more soldiers, but Dark Link shot an arrow into his back and the soldier fell to the ground.

Dark Link then took a broken peice of dry wood, covered it with cloth, lit it, and set fire on one of the houses. The meniacal feign laughed as he stole one of the horses and rode off.

Meanwhile, Link was in the west of the field looking for any horse trails. Then he remembered, 'Epona's song, why didn't I think of that before?' He took out his ocarina, closed his eyes, and played Epona's song. Out of nowhere, Epona appeared. She neighed and galloped towards Link.

"There you are girl," he said as he stroked her main. Link then looked up and noticed that there were clouds of smoke coming from the market in from of the castle.

"C'mon Epona!" said Link as he mounted Epona and rode off to the market as fast as he could.

When they reached the market, Link noticed that there were very few people outside. He stopped and got off of Epona, then walked up to an old woman to ask what happened, but just before he could, she screamed, "Help! Help! He came back! He came back!"

"Who came back?" Link asked, then all of a sudden he saw dozens of soldiers lined up at the entrances, "What's going on here?"

"Attack!" said the leader of the miniature army as the other soldiers ran towards Link attempting to kill him. Link turned to Epona and mounted her, but there was no way out. The soldiers were covering all of the entrances and it was merely hopeless. The Link got an idea.

"Close the bridge!" yelled one of the soldiers. The drawbridge started pulling up and it was almost half way to the top.

"Hiyaah!" he yelled as Epona rushed to the drawbridge that was closing. Epona reached the end of the lifting bridge and successfully jumped over the moat. They rode off through the field finding a place that would give them supplies so that they may continue looking for Zelda.

To Be Continued...