Disclaimer:
Guess what? GASP! I don't own Zelda!
I made a nice RPG Maker 2003 game involving
Link graphics however, and it is incredibly
hard. o.O It's not a traditional RPG though,
more of just a small eight stage project to
see if I could make games sendable to people who
don't have RPG Maker 2003 or RPG Player. Sadly,
no one has test it yet, as I have 56k, and the
game is 9mb. Mother of all that is magically delicious. o.O;
Oh, and wow, this is one of the longest chapters in the story
so far. Go me!
Author's Note:
Chapter Six... Well uh, let's see, Link's killed innocent
people - freaking mutilated them uncharacteristically - Garland
is now a power-hungry Redead of sorts, and Shadow Link looks
a lot like Link now for some reason. That can't be good. The
story's moving along fast paced now, perhaps too much I've
noticed but... yeah. Perhaps a chapter of Epilogy goodness
will occur if evil is ever vanquished, but for now, we'll
continue with the short peaceful period of Hyrule (well, for
Link atleast.), and war between two very powerful evils...
Apologies if parts of the last chapters have been hard to read,
it's because DOCUMENT MANAGER BITES!
sigh It always ruins the way you write a story. So I'll do my
best to improve upon it this time. Wish me luck.
)Serenade of Water(
Chapter Six
King of Darkness
The winds of the fierce storm had died away, and the sky was
mildly lighter now, however it still rained - an almost soothing downpour
considering how the weather had just been. Hyrule Castle was in an uproar
about a vicious thief who had cruelly slaughtered eight guards, the Malon
ranch was waking up to being their morning chores, and the Kokiri children
continued playing as if nothing was wrong outside of their little forest.
Fortunately, due to Zelda's immense magical powers and Link's
conquest over Ganondorf, the safety of Hyrule had been restored, and the
Deku Tree was alive and well, as were his children. Of coarse, chaos seems
to have returned to Hyrule despite Ganondorf's absense, but for now everyone
was enjoying a short time of peace - the calm before the storm.
Inside one of the many children's treehouses, one that has been
empty for atleast a year, a young Zoran princess slowly opened her eyes,
lying down in the small bed inside the large treetrunk home. "Where..
where am I...?" she muttered as she slowly sat up on the matress, the bright
sunlight pouring into the cozy little place nearly blinding. She stretched
out, groaning slightly. "Stupid shadow thing, kidnapping me without giving
me so much as a little glass of water..." she fumed as she rubbed her dry
skin a little bit, her throat feeling as if she hadn't had a drink in
weeks. The young princess slowly walked out of the treehouse and into the
small clearing in the forest, putting a hand up to help shield her eyes
from the sunlight.
"Water!" she cried as soon as she could see, taking off running
across a few yards of grass before leaping into the river, thoroughly
enjoying the cool stream as she opened her mouth to take a long drink of it.
The young princess smiled as she surfaced, feeling refreshed and ready
for anything as she took off swimming down the river to help wake herself
up a bit more.
Meanwhile, in the middle of Hyrule Field...
The rain continued pouring as if it would never end, the storm clouds
seeming to focus directly over the field and out of the Kokiri forests and several
other places. It was as if a dark shadow had loomed over the Field to make way for
the coming of the pair of sinister beings heading towards one another at that
very moment. The wicked, skeletal gerudo prince Garland trudged through the mud
towards the middle of the field on one side, as the sadistic Shadow Link strode
across the field from the other, both oblivious to one another at the moment, and
both wanting to begin their conquest from the center.
And of coarse, as fate would have it, the two finally drew near and saw
eachother eye to eye.
"The Gerudo imbecile..." Shadow Link said with a scowl as he stopped in his
tracks, staring up at the new menace that lie before him.
"The shadow scum..." Garland said in his distorted, raspy voice. "You look
different since the last time I saw you."
"As do you, apparently." the shadow said with a smirk. "The years not
treating you well, I presume?"
"On the contrary, I've never felt better!" the prince said with a
loud guffaw. "You, on the other hand, look positively... normal."
"Looks can be decieving." Shadow Link said with a sadistic smile, revealing
his teeth to be razor sharp and shaped like a Shark's.
"I've become far more powerful since the last time we met." Garland
said with a bony smirk. "I have complete power over the Redead!"
The ground began shaking as countless zombies began climbing out of
their graves along hyrule field and around all of Hyrule, marching to form an
army behind Garland. The Gerudo Prince stood proudly as he looked at the
massive army he'd just summoned. "Hyrule is mine!"
"I quiver in fear." Shadow Link said with a smirk, the shadows of the
storm clouds above seeming to merge and become a deeper, darker shadow behind
him, as thousands upon thousands of pairs of shining crimson eyes blinked open
from the ground, an army of Shadows appearing behind the dark hylian. Garland
scowled, the green flames inside of his skeletal eye sockets burning with
rage.
"Your pathetic shadows don't stand a chance! My creatures of the
redead are immortal!" he spat at Shadow Link.
"Of coarse you know that this means war." the dark one said with a
cackle as his armies began cheering in raspy, distorted voices as he drew
his blade. "My army is every bit as immortal as yours. It appears it will become
a duel of the generals; once one of us dies, our army will fall and Hyrule will
belong to the victor."
"Sounds good to me." Garland said, pulling out his long flaming blade.
"May the best man win."
"I plan to." Shadow Link said with a twisted smirk, pulling out his
still-shadowy blade, the armies of the Redead letting out their howling, tormented
cries as the armies advanced on one another.
"C'mon, swim faster, we've almost caught up!" one of the Kokiri Children
shouted to his friends as the small group of children pursued the Zoran princess,
desperately trying to win a swimming race around the Kokiri River. Ruto looked back
at the kids, smiling as she kept her pace moderately slow - for her, atleast - so
the children would stand a chance. She looked forwards and noticed the finish line
was drawing near, and quickly sped up right as the kids got to her feet, jumping up
like a dolphin and diving over the finish line.
After a few moments, she surfaced with a proud grin of triumph. "You little
ones want a rematch?" she said, before opening her eyes and realizing she was being
ignored - they'd all left her. She blinked and looked around. "C'mon, I was being
easy on them! Ungrateful little.." she muttered, before realizing almost everyone
in the Kokiri forest were off hiding behind various things, staring towards the
entrance to their safe haven. She looked towards the same direction, gasping as she
saw a young man slowly walking into the villiage covered in crimson stains. "What
the heck...?" she muttered softly as she stepped out of the river and began slowly
walking towards the newcomer, her nails extending slowly into short claws in case
it was a threat. As she drew closer, however, she gasped in horror as she watched
the stumbling Hylian coming towards her, whom she recognized as...
"Link!" she cried, pouncing Link playfully into the soft grass and hugging
him, before noticing the dried on blood wasn't just from whatever evils he'd no
doubt had to face to get here. She felt the warm wound on his shoulder and gasped as
she sat up, a small crowd of Kokiri standing around them. "What in the name of the
Trinity happened to you!" she exclaimed.
"I'm fine.." coughed Link, his weakened voice not helping his lie sound
any more convincing.
"You most certainly are NOT!" Ruto said sternly, running over to grab her
rucksack quickly before rushing back to Link's side, pulling out a small bottle
filled with red liquid. "Drink this, it'll atleast stop the bleeding."
Ruto held the bottle up to Link's lips as he sipped it, emptying its
contents quickly before collapsing on the ground once more, breathing heavily.
"What happened to you?" Ruto asked, taking out a wet washcloth and cleaning
his wounds.
"Don't worry about me..." Link said, a bit of strength returned to his voice.
"Just.. leave me alone, I'm not worth it."
"What're you talking about?"
"I'm a murderer!" Link said, raising his voice at Ruto for the first time since
she had met him. "I'm no hero... not anymore..."
"Link, just because you had to kill some bad guys doesn't mean--"
"They weren't bad guys... they were hylian guards..." Link said quietly,
his voice weaker once more.
"Well.." Ruto began, her heart sinking as she thought of the Hylian as a
murderer, quickly trying to think of an excuse to make them both feel better, "...
well, you had no choice, right? Obviously.. obviously they got in the way of
whatever that demented shadow creature was making you do..."
"There's always another way out... I just didn't try hard enough..." Link
muttered. "I'm nothing but a murderer..."
And as the lost hero sat, miserably defeated by himself, darkness
engulfed the land of Hyrule as war raged in its massive fields, beginning to
spread out to other parts of the country. Everywhere you looked, the hideous
reanimated corpses of the Redead were locked in mindless war against the
dark shadows, shining red eyes glowing through the shade of the storm clouds.
And in a certain area that seemed to be moving by the second, the armies seemed
focused on killing only one of two certain targets who were currently in a fight
to the death, struggling between themselves and their opposition's minions.
"Your shadows are not so nearly as invincible as you claim." Garland
said, cracking his whiplike blade and thrashing it around himself, every
shadow caught in its fiery reach incinerated like normal mortals.
"Nor is your pitiful walking morgue." Shadow Link said with a smirk,
slicing another Redead's head off, doing a spinning leap off the head of
another to snap their neck as he flew towards Garland, dropping bombs to
decimate a group of zombies that were giving chase. The Gerudo Prince cackled
madly as he finished twirling his whip around, snapping it together into a
solid blade just in time to block Shadow Link's obsidian sword. The two swiftly
began exchanging blows, striking high and low, occasionally having to spin around
to slaughter meddlers as quick as they could to bring their swords back around
and continue the duel.
Shadow Link turned around to stab another Redead, slicing it and some of
its buddies in half quickly as he heard the snapping apart of Garland's sword,
quickly bringing his ebony blade around to parry as the whip latched around the
blade, trying to jerk it from Shadow Link's strong grasp as the two generals
drew closer.
"Give up, you pitiful creature." Garland said, the green flames for eyes
inside his skull burning fiercely. "I am the son of Ganondorf, and you are
merely the currupt side of a pathetic hero."
"I am the pure essense of every dark emotion inside of the Hylian," Shadow
Link said, his eyes shining crimson as he smirked at Garland's twisted skeletal
face, "the same one who helped banish your pitiful father from this realm,
if I recall correctly..."
"Where he is no doubt gaining power to return with a vengeance!" Garland
snarled, holding a hand back to send green flames raging in a circle behind
them, quickly spreading in a shockwave to eradicate both side's armies and
create a wide dueling ring for just the two of them. He suddenly jerked the
shadowy blade of the Dark Link away, the blade sticking in the ground away
from the two as Garland snapped his whip back around, the long blade slithering
in his hands like a serpent.
Shadow Link scowled, pulling out a long black bow and stringing an arrow
in the blink of an eye, firing straight at Garland's skull. The insane prince
cackled slightly as he cracked the whip into the arrow, splintering it into long
slivers of darkness, cracking the whip back and forth as Shadow Link shot bolt
after bolt his way, stopping each arrow as fast as they were fired.
As Garland shattered another arrow, he jerked his other arm towards Shadow
Link, the arm snapping off and shooting at the dark warrior, grabbing his bow and
using one long, claw-like finger to slice the string. "Wretched skeleton.." Shadow
Link said in disgust as he grabbed hold of the lost arm, rolling out of the way
just in time to avoid a long whipping strike from Garland's blade.
"Stop moving, you pathetic creature!" Garland cried as he continued whipping
his long, fiery blade at the Shadow Link, who kept rolling out of the way just in
time to barely avoid it. The Gerudo Prince cackled as he quickly swept the ground
with his whip, expecting to surprise the Shadow to no avail as Shadow Link leapt
into the air to dodge once more, landing right in front of the Prince.
"Need a hand?" Shadow Link smirked, slapping Garland across his skeletal
face with his own bony hand. Garland scowled and quickly tried to flail the whip
around to entanlge Shadow Link, who melted into a pool of darkness on the ground
quickly as the whip encircled Garland, wrapping around him and breaking his
skeleton to pieces.
Shadow Link laughed, tossing the blackened arm down with the remaints of
Garland. "Now, now, pull yourself together. Going to pieces in the middle of
battle, shameful behavior for a general, wouldn't you say?"
Garland's skull growled as his bones flew into the air, swiftly reassembling
as he landed on the opposite side of the field, cracking his whiplike sword as
Shadow Link calmly walked to his and drew it from the ground once more. "You're
tougher than you look..." growled the prince, "but it won't be enough to save
your pitiful life."
"Big words for an anorexic prince." said Shadow Link, taking stance with
his blade and preparing for another round. "Why not get rid of your cowardly
ring of flames and let us rejoin our loyal minions in their war?"
"It's your funeral." Garland cackled as he snapped his boney fingers,
the flames fading away as the moans and hissings of the armies drew closer, countless
red eyes and souless stares piercing through the newfound darkness.
"Amusing words coming from a walking skeleton." Shadow Link smirked as he
held his sword backwards, stabbing one of Garland's countless zombies in the gut
and beginning to slaughter the Redead as his shadows leapt at Garland.
Shadow Link shot his hookshot through several zombies, latching onto them and
slinging them into their allies, ripping the hook out of them as Garland begain whipping
the shadowy fiends around him, entangling them and ripping them to shreds two at a
time, both of them stopping their senseless slaughtering of eachother's endless forces
to clash their blades together, pushing the two swords fiercly against one another, sparks
illuminating the dark battlefield. "I refuse to let myself be overpowered by a
creature of your kind!" Garland snarled, his skeletal features somehow able to twist
its eye sockets into a glare as their swords slashed against the other's, each one
turning to hold off the oncoming waves of armies heading towards them before turning
to begin swiping their blades with one another at blinding speeds.
"And I refuse to be slain by an arrogant, egotistical maniac such as yourself."
Shadow Link said, his crimson eyes narrowing as he stabbed at Garland, only to have
his sword enveloped by a whip-like blade and jerked out of his hands. Shadow Link
smirked. "You like having an unfair advantage, don't you?"
"If the opportunity presents itself, why not?" Garland said with a cackle,
swinging his swordwhip around, ready to strike Shadow Link down.
"Cowardly tactics, but why not, I'll play your game." Shadow Link said with
a cruel smirk, pulling out a long, shadowy version of Biggoron's Sword. He held the
blade high in the air, his eyes shining red brighter than any other shadow's on the
field.
"Ego dico super obscurum voco an eternus exercitus quod attero totus quisnam
obviam ire mihi!" Shadow Link yelled in an unnatural voice. The darkness of the storm
seemed to intensify as millions of red eyes shined from out of nowhere, the leader of
them all continuing his chanting. Garland stared around, millions of pairs of crimson
eyes staring back. "Crush them." Shadow Link said icily.
A horrific, spine-chilling hiss echoed throughout all of Hyrule, and in moments
the tides of the battle turned. Every single shadow on the field moved to quickly
slaughter their horribly outnumbered foes, leaving a large ring open for Garland and
Shadow Link to duel, countless shining red eyes watching them, the redead not even
visible from the swarm of darkness overtaking them. Shadow Link grinned sadistically
as he twirled his massive shadowy blade around to build momentum, taking a few steps
closer to Garland. "Let's see if you can pull yourself together when I grind every
last one of your bones to dust."
Garland growled, slamming his blade into the ground, the long, whiplike blades
sinking deeper every second. Shadow Link looked at the sword, bewildered at first,
before yelling in pain as a fiery blade shot up from the ground, stabbing his left
foot. "Always resorting to cheap trickery..." Shadow Link muttered as the blade sunk
back into the ground swiftly and, in mere moments, shot out again, just barely missing
his right leg. The blade continued stabbing and sinking into the ground, Shadow Link
rolling and leaping away, barely dodging each stab.
"To claim to have such power, you whine far too much." Garland said with a
cackle, the edges of his blade licking at Shadow Link's ankle as it ripped back into
the ground to continue its assault. Shadow Link grinned as he suddenly swung his
massive sword into the whiplike blade as it sprung from the ground, entangling it
around the large blade and suddenly jerking it upwards and out of Garland's skeletal
grasp, the blade wrapping around Shadow Link's as if becoming a part of it.
"Tonight you die, son of Ganondorf." Shadow Link said with a smirk as he
drew closer to the Gerudo Prince.
"Go ahead, kill me if you dare." Garland said with a cackle as Shadow Link
drew near. "Or are you afraid of what will happen when you do?"
"You poor, dilluded fool." Shadow Link said with a sadistic grin. "Allow me
to end your quiet suffering."
And with one swift slice, Garland's skull was split in two, an eerie cackling
echoing throughout Hyrule as his skull exploded into a ring of flames, forming odd
symbols in flames all around Garland's corpse.
"What the..?" Shadow Link muttered as his shadows hissed from the bright
lights, the green flames flaring up and turning purple as the symbol was completed.
"What manner of sorcery is this?"
He stared into the flames as he saw a dark figure rising from them to stand
tall, his eyes shining through the darkness - not the sort of enchanted glow of Garland's,
or the shining glow of the Shadows, but a deep, sinister glare as the purple flames
reflected from his gaze.
"You... you can't be here..." Shadow Link said, his calm, cool confidence broken
for a mere moment as he gazed in horror upon the newcomer.
"I see planting a seed in this realm before I left has finally paid off..." the
man said with a dark chuckle as the purple flames faded away. His voice was neither
raspy, distorted, or unnatural in any way, but something about it sent cold chills
down your spine none the less. He glared around at the millions of eyes staring back
at him with a look of disinterest. "It looks like my work was almost done for me... pity
something interrupted him."
"Actually, this army of eternal darkness would be mine." Shadow Link said,
looking down at his sword as Garland's blade broke apart into a smoking hilt with three
stones implanted in it. "And what do you mean your work was almost done for you? I'm
sorry to inform you of this, but as you can tell, Hyrule is under new management." Shadow
Link said with a smirk, much of his army hissing in laughter.
"Is that a fact?" the tall caped man said, his mouth twisting into a cruel smirk
as well, holding a hand out to his left as purple flames encircled his arm, shooting
out in a wide spread of violet fire, incinerating nearly a quarter of the millions of
shadow creatures. His cruel smirk never faded as Shadow Link glared at him, the caped
man's face eerily illuminated by the purple flames that lingered where a good portion
of the army once stood. "I don't think you realise who you're dealing with."
"Get him!" yelled Shadow Link as the rest of his army hissed and jumped at
the tall Gerudo, who's hands and feet burst into raging purple flames as he
began merely fistfighting the shadows, fending them off with an obnoxious ease,
blast after purple blast exploding in the darkness as he incinerated Shadow Link's
army ten at a time. "Can't you do anything right?" Shadow Link hissed as he ran
into the fray, sword in hand, the Gerudo King's cold-hearted laughter filling the
air with a much more sinister effect than even Garland's once had, lightning
illuminating the battle with a deafening roar of thunder.
Meanwhile, back in the Kokiri Villiage, the storm had spread and was now
passing over them, rain showering over the forests as the storm grew a little
worse. Several of the Kokiri looked troubled in their little villiage, but
only one person there had bothered following the source of their concern
into the lost woods. "Link, you can't just run away!" the young woman called into
the forests. She made another turn in the labrynth of trees, following a faint
trail of blood, a little of the crimson still staining her pearly white skin.
"You know I've always beat you in hide and seek!" she continued, swiftly striding
through the woods in pursuit of the young hylian. Thunder rumbled in the distance
as she noticed the trail of blood getting a little thicker. "He must be slowing
down.." Ruto said quietly to herself as she turned another corner and ducked through
a large, hollow log and into a small clearing, the tall trees overhead the only
thing keeping the downpour above down to a small sprinkle here. She slowly walked
into the clearing, lightning flashing to better her view of the area as she saw
a young blue-clad Hylian sitting on a treestump, slumped over with his head
buried in his arms. Ruto shook her head as she slowly walked towards him, hating
to see him this way.
The zoran princess sat down beside Link, patting his back softly. "Link,
just because the weather's bad you don't have to cry about it." she said, trying
to cheer him up a bit. She heard a slight chuckle escape the Hylian, but other
than that Link remained quiet. After a long, awkward silence, Ruto spoke up
once more.
"If you hadn't defended yourself, you would have died. I can tell that
from those wounds..."
"But I should have been able to do something to escape them... I didn't
have to kill them like the shadow said..." Link muttered.
"So he did make you kill them..." Ruto said with a sigh. "'Kill them or
die here,' he probably said." she finished, trying to immitate an evil voice
similar to Shadow Links, but failing somewhat to do anything but make Link almost
laugh once more.
"No.. he didn't threaten my life." Link said, sobering up from his
near laughter once again. "He threatened yours."
"He what?" Ruto said, slightly surprised.
"He said if I didn't kill them all," Link continued, keeping his face
hidden, "he would kill you..."
There was another long silence as Ruto muttered something along the
lines of "I'd like to see him try," before she spoke up again.
"Well you know what? I'm glad." she said, causing Link to finally
look up at stare at her, bewildered.
"Glad? You're glad I slaughtered eight innocent people who did nothing
but defend their king!" Link exclaimed.
"No, but I'm glad if that ... thing ... was going to make you do it
anyway, he threatened my life instead of yours."
"Why?" Link said, as confused as ever.
"Think of how hard it was for you, you're still torn up..." Ruto said
softly. "If he hadn't threatened me.. you would have died to prevent
hurting them..."
"Atleast I would have taken him down with me.." Link said, looking down
at the ground.
"That doesn't matter, I never would have seen you again!" she said a bit
louder. "I'd never get to tackle you, never get to tease you about your pointy
ears..." she said, her voice breaking just slightly. ".. I'd never get to have
any more adventures with you..."
Link smiled a bit as he looked up at Ruto again. "I guess I'm kind of glad it
happened this way too... I'd never get to say--"
"I love you?" Ruto interrupted with a slight smile. Link blinked, his
face a bit reddened.
"Um... th-that ... how did you.."
Ruto chuckled a bit. "You never thought it was odd how the rest of my
people stared at us? You're an open book." she laughed a bit, brushing a bit
of Link's blond locks out of his face.
"And you?" Link said as he began drawing closer to Ruto's face with a grin,
another soft rumbling of thunder filling the forests.
"I think you know the answer to that." Ruto said with a playful smirk,
closing her eyes as she slid her arms around Link's neck.
"Well, you know I'm a very bad guesser..." Link said quietly as his arms
found their way around her hips, their lips meeting as they embraced. Link's
felt like he was floating as he felt Ruto's lips brush against his own, and
the few seconds that passed felt like an eternity he wished would never end--
"Very touching.." coughed a familiar voice from the entrance to the
clearing, the pair abruptly ending their moment to turn and look at Link's evil
twin once again. The Shadow Link had an annoying smirk on his lips, seeming
completely unmoved by the few cuts on his body with a little bit of black blood
trickling out. "I'm terribly sorry to interrupt this example of raging hormones,
but Hyrule is rather doomed at the moment."
"Why are you always making life harder for me?" Link scowled, looking over
at his alter ego.
"For once, I'm not here to annoy you." Shadow Link replied.
"Really? I couldn't tell." Ruto said, glaring at the shadow.
"I came to inform you Garland is dead." Shadow Link said with a slightly
wicked grin. "Pathetic to the very end."
"And let me guess, now you're taking over Hyrule, blah blah blah." Link
said with a sigh, regretfully breaking his embrace on Ruto to pull out his
blade.
"No, Ganondorf is." Shadow Link muttered, annoyed.
Link blinked and stared at his other self. "Ganondorf's dead.." Link
said in disbelief.
"No, he was sealed away in another realm by the Sages - Just how bad
is your memory?" Shadow Link asked with a smirk. "I was scarcely even there
and I remember better than you.. Upon Garland's death, the Gerudo King was
summoned from wherever he was trapped and now he's going to 'reclaim what
is rightfully his,' whatever that means."
"Hyrule Castle..." Link said, sheathing his sword as Ruto stood
beside him. "We've got to stop him."
"My thoughts exactly. I have grown rather bored of being just another
sinister, monologue obsessed psychopath bent on global domination." Shadow
Link said with a light cackle as he extended a hand. "Let bygones be bygones?"
Link and Ruto both glared at the dark link, who kept his usual smirk as
he seemed unmoved by the glares - although he didn't seem as wicked, he still
had a certain darkness to him that couldn't be trusted.
"Not surprising I suppose." Dark Link shrugged as he put his hand down,
the other two walking past him towards Kokiri Villiage. Shadow Link turned and
followed them. "But considering Link is a part of me, I must say I'm happy
for you two."
"Why suck up to us now?" Ruto said, looking back at the dark link. "You've
done enough as it is."
"Just appreciating a romantic moment in a dark time." Shadow Link shrugged
once more. "The point is, we now have a common enemy." he said, holding up one
of his bloodied arms - the wounds were slowly healing themselves, but the ebony
blood probably wouldn't stop flowing until they were sealed completely. "I won't
rest until I see the arrogent king of the gerudo dead."
"Something we have in common I guess." Link said as they left the lost
woods and began heading towards the exit to the Kokiri Village.
"Oh, you might want to bring your larger sword." Shadow Link advised.
"I can barely pick that thing up now!" Link exclaimed, looking back at
his shadow.
"What larger sword?" Ruto asked, confused.
"Biggoron's hand-forged blade." Link said, looking towards his house. "I'll
do fine with the Kokiri Sword."
"A knife compared to Ganondorf's blade." Shadow Link cackled at the memory
of Kokiri's treasure. "The Biggoron's Sword is barely as big!"
"It might be a good idea, I hate to agree." Ruto said as the shadow swiftly
leapt into Link's house, leaping back down with a long sword wrapped in cloth. Ruto's
eyes widened as Shadow Link unwrapped the blade. "Gannon's sword is THAT big?"
"Bigger, actually." Shadow Link said, strapping the big sword to Link's back,
who strained to hold it up for a second as he got used to the weight again. "This
will even the odds however, as me and my alter ego are both excellent swordsman."
Shadow Link smirked a bit. "Of coarse, I'm better."
"We'll have to see about that once this is all over." Link said with a smirk
of his own as the three left for the dark, war-ravaged Hyrule Field, lightning
flashing in the distance as a dark cloud swirled over Hyrule Castle.
End Chapter
(A/N: Things always go from bad to worse, don't they? Link beat Ganondorf
before, and now there's two Links and a ticked off Zoran princess, so it'll
be easy, right? That's what you think...)