I Ganondorf! No! /I Link thought. I It cannot be! /I

But it was. Somehow, he had broken free of the Sacred Realm and had entered Hyrule once more. And now he was after the kingdom once again.

"Ah, Link, a pleasure to see you again. You have no idea how long I've waited for this," he boomed in his deep voice. He floated over to him. Link wiped blood from his lip and looked the King of Evil straight in the eye.

"Ganondorf. It's been years," he replied. "Twenty, to be exact," said Ganondorf. He looked at Link casually, but his eyes burned with hatred and contempt.

"Yes, my friend—" "Don't call me that! Stop pretending and let's get this over with!" Link shouted.

"Why, Link, I'm offended!" Ganondorf said in mock hurt. "I expected that of all people, the King of Hyrule would be a gentleman and welcome his guests!"

"Well then," Link said as he climbed onto his horse. "Welcome back," and he struck out with his sword. It caught Ganondorf off guard, but he quickly blocked with his armored forearms.

Ganondorf wiped the smile off his face and it turned to a scowl of pure loathing. He called forth his own horse and sat atop it. He then drew a massive sword that was as big up and down as Ganondorf, who was at least seven feet tall. The sword curved in both directions at the top (it's the one on Super Smash Bros. Melee).

Link cried out and snapped Epona's reins. She whinnied and charged forth. Link could feel her hatred for this man burning through the saddle. She hated him almost as much as he did.

Link stuck his sword out to the side and let the Spin Attack charge within the blade. As soon as Ganondorf was within range, he unleashed the attack, spinning it around his head and shoulders.

In an unbelievable presentation of speed and reflexes, Ganondorf parried the attack and answered with one of his own. The dark, evil blade caught Link right in between his hip and ribcage, sending him soaring off his horse. He tumbled on the cobbled plaza, blood trailing behind him.

The sword had sent a charge of evil energy through his body and knocked him unconscious instantly.

Ganondorf laughed mirthlessly and his horse slowly trotted over to him.

He looked at the Hylian soldiers. "Look at your great king now. Look at the Hero of Time lay on the ground, weak and helpless. Look how he bleeds on the ground, the symbol of his weakness. He is pitiful.

"I, Ganondorf, have returned to reign over Hyrule once again as King of Evil. Know now that I am the law!" he shouted. The Hylian men cowered under him as he slowly floated over Hyrule Market.

Suddenly Ganondorf felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. It wasn't much, but it was enough to catch his attention.

Some young child had escaped from the shelter and was throwing rocks at him. He looked remarkably like Link…

"Well, well, what have we here?" he boomed. He floated over to the young child, who looked at him squarely. "I like you, kid. You're just like your father."

"Don't talk about my dad stupid head!" Robin yelled. Ganondorf's tolerance for children was not well, and it had just depleted.

Without a word, he charged his fist with dark energy and was about to unleash it when he felt something much sharper enter his shoulder. He cried out and reached for the large, wooden shaft sticking from his shoulder. He then turned to his right.

Another child, much older, about seventeen, looked at him with a bow in his hands, still aimed at Ganondorf.

"Why, you must be Link's I other /I son. He and the Princess must have gotten busy in the past twenty years. Why, you remind me exactly of him at your age. In fact, he was about your age when I first fought him. He was quite a challenge, I'll say. He even managed to defeat me."

Lance drew his sword and pointed it at Ganondorf. "What makes you think he won't do it again?" he said. Ganondorf cackled sincerely.

"Boy, naïveté does not suit you," he said and he floated to the center of the Market.

He was about to speak when Lance said, "You'd know all about naïveté, wouldn't you Ganondorf, or else you'd probably still be King of Evil."

Ganondorf wheeled around in mid-air to look at Lance. His eyes burned with anger, and Lance swore he could see purple fire in his eyes.

"You've got a lot of nerve, kid," he said simply. Lance just stared back, sword at his side. Ganondorf floated back over to him, getting up nose to nose to him.

"I could kill you, right here, right now, boy. I suggest you watch your tongue," he said. Lance lashed out with his sword and the blow was parried unbelievably fast. But this time Lance knew what was coming, so he blocked the counter attack and the duel began. Lance was more prepared than his father had been, but wasn't as good. So the swordfight didn't last long before Ganondorf sent the teenager soaring into a large building.

Ganondorf didn't even turn around before he felt the most excruciating pain he'd ever felt, and he knew that pain. It was a light arrow.

He turned and saw Queen Zelda wielding the same bow her son had used to distract him from Robin.

Ganondorf's arms stretched out to his sides and he bellowed in pain. He then cried out as he created a black hole to teleport him back to the Gerudo Desert, "This is war, Link!"

And the hole sucked him and the rest of his troops into the desert.

Zelda rushed over to her husband and asked Robin to wake Lance, for the blow had knocked him unconscious as well.

"Link, Link wake up! Oh no, your side! Link, I—" her breath caught in her throat, "gaah, your side! Ahhh, medic!" she screamed.

Almost instantly a man wearing a suit of armor and a helmet with a red cross on it rushed to her side.

"What is it, your Highness?" he asked.

"Take the king to the Hall of Healing and keep him there until his wound has completely healed! Move!" she cried. The medic nodded and waved his hand over to three other ones. They had brought the royal stretcher just in case and placed Link on it, then rushed him over to the Hall of Healing on the Castle Grounds right by the Fairy Fountain.