In The Minds Of Heros
Chapter Three: Into The Darkness
You know when your in trouble. You get that nagging feeling in the back of your head, and to my surprise I finally can feel it. Something tells me that Ganondorf is back...but he's not.
After the battle with Dark Link, my group and I walked on into the castle, where there was no one left. Not a bird, or a fly. I could sense intense evil and it covered this whole peace of land. Heck anyone could feel it.
There was a steady storm cloud over us, reeping lightning whenever it go the chance. The leaves on the trees began dieing out and falling to the ground, making the whole castle square evn more spooky. But the darkest clouds of all, were the clouds around Hyrule Castle.
Slowly, we walked, with our swords and daggers in .hand, ready for anything that might attack us on our way to the castle. Something tells me that Ganondorf is in there...somewhere.
Kaiten looked at the sky, and for once noticing a crow flying across the sky. Quickly he looked at me, noticing what the crow meant.
I looked back at the girls and frowned a bit, edging my head towards the Inn." You girls go somewhere safe...and watch out for redeads."
Malon made a moody face," Whats a redead?" She asked with wonder. Kaiten knew better to talk about the dark omens that wander the graves of many, but it was the curiosity that inspired him to say something.
" They are the undead...Ganon must have killed some people, and with his triforce, brought them back to life." We all listened to him, also keeping an eye out for anything suspicous.
Suddenly we saw another crow above our heads, flieing into the nearby alleyway. Me and Kaiten followed, swords ready. Slowly we walked into the alley, looking at the crow above our heads as it landed on a window seal. We had walked into a dead end, and there was nothing here. We looked around one more time and turned back to the streets, when suddenly a zombie like creature stood there standing straight. We could still smell the skin rotting off of it's flesh and the fresh blood that spilled from it's corpse.
"Redead!" I yelled covering my eyes so I wouldn't be paralized. But it was too late, I had already looked at the monsters purple gem eyes and was intranced. Kaiten kept his eyes covered and jumped on me as I shivered, scared and petrifyed. We slammed down hard to the ground, and when I came too, we quickly pulled out our bows and shot the creature in both of it's eyes before it could do us anymore harm. Kaiten swept in and sliced the redeads head clean off.
"Wow that was close!" I yelled, still shivering, but I felt this weird sensation to laugh, and i did laugh...because this was another adventure.
"And just what the hell are you laughing for! We almost got killed!" Navi flew around the corner and crash landed on my shoulder, looking me from eye to eye.
"Link are you ok! I heard you yelp and came to see what was wrong!" Me and Kaiten looked at each other and back at Navi.
"Well your kinda late there huh Nav?" I said playfully, getting to my feet and beginning to walk out of the alley followed by Kaiten.
We had met the girls on our way back to the town square, wondering where we should go next. Malon pointed towards the castle and I looked, seeing a reddish glow coming from around the outsides."Well...geuss thats our destination."
"Yeah, wonder whats waiting for us over there." Said a stretching Kaiten." Whatever it is, it sure doesn't look good."
Sylvana, who hadn't talked the whole time finally spoke up, surprising all of us," Ganondorfs there...I can feel it in my bones. This is the only place in Hyrule that has that evil aura."
Lightning struck again on our way down the Hyrule Castle trail. I had to admit it did scare me a little, but not enough to make me wanna run. I may be a hero, but heros get scared sometimes don't they?
We had reached the castle, and lucky for us the drawbridge was down, as if he was inviting us in!I looked at the entrance, debating with myself of whether or not we should enter this way. I knew Ganondorf well and I knew that he was a sly one, and he would use anything to set a trap for us.
" I say we go," I let out after a short while of thinking." Theres no telling what will await us. But I'm sure we'll find out when we enter."
Everyone nodded, and we went on into the darkness. The torchs were lit, lighting up the whole castle with nothing but fire light. We walked down some stairs and made a right, walking into a round room with two doors on each side, one of them being the one that we walked through.As we walked over the skull simble in the middle of the floor the walk way behind us closed up quickly, locking us in the room.
"Hey!" I yelled angerly." Let us out!" My calls were answered with a four blue flames rising around us slowly forming into large skeletons with red blades. They cackled loudly, making the bones in their cheeks clatter together. In a way I though it was pretty funny, but I soon stopped smiling when the creatures began closing in on us from all four sides.
Sylvana slipped out of sight, quickly appearing behind one of the skeletons, and taking it's head off with a small knife from her side. I also engaged, keeping Malon behind me the whole time. I had to make sure she was alright. Well theres this feeling that I have, now that I am engaged, I feel I have to protect her, always. Even though I knew she could pretty much protect herself.
Kaiten blocked a death blow with his sheild and rammed the skeleton to the wall, breaking it's rib cage. The monster completly shattered, falling to the ground in blue flame. Malon pulled out her bow and cocked it with a quick arrow while I took down another skull-being. I quickly disconnected it's left leg while she let her arrow fly right between the eyes. Finally the last one fell into blue flame.
The doors opened and we continued on into the castle. The next chamber was weird, a room with three stone pillers and another door at the end. Torch's were lit on the wall, making the room a little dim, considering there were only three. I heard a noise up above and I could also hear Kaiten cursing under his breath at this facter.
"It...sounds like..." We all looked up into the darkness that surrouned the ceiling. A green scaly being with a tail fell, followed by four more! Navi flew out from under my hat and quickly got into position, blinding the creatures with her light, followed by me, slashing right through it's forhead. Blood spattered out onto my face as I turned to meet the next creature that stood in our way.
As the discusting thing swung at me with it's sword, it was stopped by a swift arrow coming from Malons own bow. She winked at me and loaded another arrow.
We finished the evil beings and saw the bars slide up and once again we walked through them, expecting another surprise like the last one. I noticed Sylvana shivering a bit at the site of those creatures. She was way to young after all, only twelve. Well to say the truth we were all young, no older than sixteen.
Once again we walked through another door of the castle, This time we were at the hallways leading to the throne room, the room that I felt Ganons presence the most. We continued walking down the enourmous hallway and finally reached the throne room doors that stretched to be as big as the entrance to Lon Lon Ranch it's self!
Slowly, I opened the door, followed by Sylvana, Malon, and Kaiten all in that order. The throne room was immense, with a rug coming from the doors to the chair that the king normally sat in. But this time, I saw something much worse sitting in that chair. It was none other than Ganondorf the king of evil. By his side was the creature that I fought outside of the castle. His red blood shot eyes still glowing brightly.
We continued walking until we got to the point where normally a person would bow to the king, but I would never bow to Ganon. I took a look around, looking at the ghostly gaurds lining up and down the the rug on each side, with their swords in the right hand and sheilds in the left. I could see that if we were to engage in combat right now we would be slaughtered brutally.
Ganondorf was spinning a golden cup in his hand, watching us approach him. A smile slithered up onto his face as he took a glance at Dark Link beside him. He edged his head towards us and the dark one walked down the steps in front of, stopping our path." My master wish's that you go no further." I frowned, I wasn't one to be ordered around.
Ganon just sat there, looking at us and letting another smirk come onto his face. Slowly I watched as his lips moved, also keeping sharp eyes on Dark Link." Ah Link, it is a pleasure to see you. I wasn starting to worry I would never see you again."
I looked at him, keeping my hand close to my sword." Well Ganon I never expected you to come back. Didn't really give you an invitation."
Dark Link took another step closer to Link, making us back up a step. Ganon snapped his finger one time, making Dark Link stop his forward movement. In truth i didn't think he wanted to hurt us...there was something about the way his eyes would glance from side to side that didn't seem right.
Ganondorf snapped his fingers another time, and the ghostly figures around the room began moving in on all of us. I unsheathed my sword, but I didn't think it would be to helpful with all of these creatures. Ganon smiled," Now I shall have fun watching you die."
"Link what do we do?" Asked Sylvana, backing up more and more into a little huddle. I shook my head, I didn't know what to do. We had to act fast or we were going to be ghost meat!
Suddenly from around the room, a small dagger was thrown at Dark Link who was leading the masacre. Ganondorf's eyes widened and began searching the room, while a shadow came down beside us and threw what was called a deku nut at the floor.
The only thing I could see was Ganondorfs shocked face as the light slowly lifted us off the ground and out of the castle.