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OK! I finally gots a Beta reader! WHOO! Thank you KOGA37! So if there is any more grammar mistakes you blame her ok? Lol jk!
thanks to shadowshippo also!
So anyway, forgive the lateness again!
On wit da fic!
After my shocking discovery in the garden, I made my way out of the small area of flowers and followed my Master's instructions through the castle with anger and sadness as my fuel to continue my search for the Ocarina of Time. Since Ganon once made an alliance with the past king, he knew his way around this place.
'Turn to your left at the next hallway, there is a treasure room guarded with four soldiers, do you see them?'
With my back against the wall, I slightly turned my head and peaked over the corner to see the guards in front of a large door.
"Yes, but now what? I'm unarmed" I whispered, I felt Ganon's evil gaze upon me.
'You fool, have I taught you nothing?' he growled, I sighed and tried to remember what I once was trying so hard to forget.
Taking a small rock from my pocket that I used against a few other guards, I threw it against the opposite wall and waited.
"What was that?" I heard one guard ask another.
"I'll check it out" another said, I swear these guards are so stupid. Relying on my sense of hearing, I waited for the clanking of armored shoes to closer.
Soon enough, the guard walked right passed me and looked around very confused; I waited another moment before he turned to face me.
"Hey wh…."
Grabbing the man's mouth and pulling him towards me, I placed my hands on both sides of his head and turned it in a way that a head should never turn. The sound of his neck crack made me smile; I think I had missed being this way. Falling limp in my arms, I dropped his body carelessly and grabbed his spear.
'And to think I lost all hope in you' his insane laughter echoed into my head.
I ignored him, and looked down at the spear I held in my hands. This was going to get ugly.
"Whose there?" the other guards became aware of the missing guard's disappearance. Taking a deep breath, I stepped out of the corner of the hallway and readied my spear at the unsuspecting soldiers.
"Get her!" one screamed and the remaining three that stood in my way charged at me with their own spears. I felt my face curl into a fierce scowl and gripped the spear a bit tighter.
'Kill them'I jumped into a sprint and plunged my spear into one guard and the other misfortunate one which was right behind the first kill, the two men screamed in pain and dangled helplessly with their stomachs threaded in the spear. I dropped the spear, ignoring the cries of pain, and faced the last one. The fear in his eyes only made me smirk with sin; making me more confident that nothing would stand in my way.
Showing his last bit of courage, he tried to get me with his weapon; I moved out of the way with not much of a problem and took the dagger that rested in one of his pockets. Too easy, the dagger sliced his throat cleanly in half and he died instantly.
'HAHAHAA! You see Shadow? I know you're enjoying this as much as me'No, I won't admit it, at least to him. I was enjoying this but….I still….felt…something….
'Take his keys and get the Ocarina! The others are aware of your presence'I nodded and bent down to the guard that was nearly decapitated and grabbed his keys that hung on his belt. Taking the largest key into my hand, I unlocked the door and opened it slowly, and there it was, on a white pillar with various other treasures surrounding it, the blue ocarina rested in the center perch on the pillar.
"Too easy…."
Walking all the way into the room, and stood into front of the Ocarina of Time.
'Pick it up, I will teach you the song that will release me from this hell'Hesitantly I picked it up it looked so important and beautiful, even I was afraid to harm it in any way. With the ocarina in my hand I examined it; it looked only slightly different from the ocarina I received from…..from….who gave me the Ocarina again?
….Who was it?….I forgot? How could I forget?
My head suddenly felt numb with one free hand I placed it on my head in hopes of freedom from such strange pain.
"Wha…?"
'I erased your memory….well most of it anyway'
"W-what?" I screamed, my memory? No wonder, I was so focused in getting the ocarina I didn't feel anything.
'Enough of this Shadow, you no longer need memories of the past, think of this as starting fresh'I was left speechless, trying to search my mind for any signs of memory. They were faint but some remained, like Nabooru I remembered but most likely because he wanted her back with him. Zelda and her decision to locked me up and kill me, I remembered that…..and the image of her and someone else kissing? Why can't I remember that? Isn't the reason I'm back to what I once was?
"I don't know, but I could hear the march of more guards coming this way."
'There is a secret passage in this room under the chest in the corner, quickly!'
Link's POV:
"Queen Zelda!" a soldier cried out and burst into the room. Zelda and I were still talking in the balcony and turned around facing the distressed guard.
"What's wrong?" she asked, the guard stopped to catch his breath and looked up at us again.
"Someone has stolen the Ocarina of Time!"
'Shadow…'I thought
"W-what?" all the blood in her face drained, we both feared the same thing. Ganon would return soon.
"Wait a second where is the prisoner?"
"She has vanished; we have guards all over the castle. We can't find her, there is no doubt she has it"
"Search the area, have guards at the Temple as well, quickly!"
"Yes, your majesty!" the guard bowed and ran off.
We exchanged glances, this wasn't good. Not one bit.
"I knew it! I told you! Ganon's minions can't be trusted!" she screamed and stomped off towards the door. I froze, she was right. I trusted Shadow and look what happened….."
I hung my head, this is my entire fault. I felt Zelda's gloved hand on my shoulder, I looked up at her.
"I'm sorry Link, but we have to stop her before she gets to the temple"
"Right, I'll deal with her myself" I nodded and we both ran down the halls towards the treasure room. By the time we got there, a few nurses and other guards were already there running all over the place.
"Make room! Queen Zelda is here!" someone screamed, at that moment, everyone moved out of our way and revealed the damage that was done.
"By the goddesses…."
Four men were on the floor dead. Two of them were stuck together by a spear in their stomachs, another with his head twisted and the last one with a deep slit in his throat, pouring blood into the hall that some servants were desperately trying to clean.
"Get these men out of here they died trying to protect the key the Sacred Realm. We will have a memorial service after she is captured"
Her voice was nearly reduced to a whisper; I knew she didn't like being in charge and seeing her people die for her.
It took a minute but we finally made it into the treasure room and stared at the empty pillar where the blue ocarina was supposed to be.
"Where could she have gone? There is no other way out of here…." I said out loud, looking around the treasure room. Zelda seemed to freeze in place.
"Bastard…." She whispered and ran to one certain chest and opened it, she shook her head and ran to another chest and opened that one.
"Zelda, what's wrong?"
"…….Ganon….one of the first things he did when he made alliance with my father was create secret passageways in certain rooms" she said and continued to check all the chests in the rooms.
"Why would your father agree to that?" I wondered, the King was a very smart man but was easily deceived.
"Ganon told him that extra passageways mean emergency exits" she said with disgust, she couldn't believe her father fell for that. But I did and slapped my forehead.
"Ah ha! Found it!" she grinned and stared down at the bottom of one chest. I ran over to her and looked over her shoulder.
"Your father agreed to this?" I asked and looked at an empty chest with a hole leading….well…I guess we'll find out.
"I'll go down, I'll meet you at the temple" I said and readied myself to jump in.
"Wait, take this" I looked back and caught the sword she threw at me.
"Be careful, don't try fighting Ganon by yourself" she warned, I laughed and jumped in the hole.
WHOA! What the? This wasn't a passageway it was a slide!...COOL!
(couldn't help it! I know I would do the same!)
Back to Shadow's POV:'Faster! More are coming!'
The closer I reached the temple the more desperately and paranoid Ganon became, screaming in my head orders and demands. I continued to ignore him, and stepped over more dead bodies of Zelda's army, too easy.
Carelessly dropping the sword I stole from a random guard, I continued through the Hyrule market and towards the temple that was now in full view.
The shouts of men came closer, coming this way. I sighed and began running into the temple, entering the large building was one thing but opening the huge door on the other side was another. The temple was big and a long red carpet led to a stand that held three beautiful stones. As I walked towards them, the sound of my own footsteps echoed, no one else was here….yet. Stand in front of the three spiritual stones; I took out the Ocarina of time.
'There is no use teaching it to you, I will do it myself'"Wait, what?"
Next thing I knew, my body was under his control. My hands brought the Ocarina to my lips and I supplied the air that was needed to bring the sound to life, my fingers danced on the holes of the blue Ocarina and a song was played. Somehow I felt that somewhere in my mind, I knew this song, I remembered hearing someone play it in my sleep, but whom? I can't remember anymore.
(insert Song of Time here)
The very second the last note was played, Ganon gave me control over my body again and the door of Time was being opened….what the….?
"GAH!" My muscles tightened and I fell to my knees clutching my stomach. I dropped the Ocarina but I didn't care, I couldn't focus. Something was happening to my body and it was too much pain to handle.
"G-ganon!" I screamed, insane laughter filled the room instead of my head. Jerking my head back up, despite the pain it caused, I was face to face with Ganon in the flesh.
"That's Master Ganon to you Shadow" he growled," Now give it back to me"
He extended his hand out to me but not to help me but to receive the Triforce. The same pain I felt when the Triforce was given to me returned when I felt power leave my hand, finally it all stopped and my body fell limp and collapsed.
"HAHAHAA! NOW IS THE TIME FOR REVENGE!" he screamed and laughed like a maniac. I stayed where I was, trying to get my breathing right but something else was happening also, now my body was changing…? Oh no…..the deal I made….it's been broken….wait….the…deal?
"By the goddesses….Link…." it all came back to me, now I remember what was going on now I remember why I was doing all this.
"What have I done?" I whispered to myself as I reverted back to my old male body.
When the transformation was complete, I still refused to move from the fetal position on the red carpet in the middle of the temple. I could hear Ganon's large footsteps pounding down the stairs; I sighed and looked at my hands. They were no longer slim and delicate but large and strong, running my old fingers through my hair….my short black hair, I checked the rest of my body. Back to the way I "remember" I guess and sure enough.
No more boobs. Who would've thought I would miss them the most for some reason?
"Get up you fool, we have a battle to win" he growled and grabbed my tunic to pull me up. I forced on my feet and looked up at Ganon.
"Take this"
With his powers regained, a black blade appeared from his hands, I recognized it immediately, and it was the dark Master sword. As I took it from his hands I knew it was the same one I used against Link those years ago in the Water temple.
"I want his blood on this blade this time" he growled, I didn't bother looking up at him, my eyes rested on the blade.
"Yes Master Ganon" I muttered, just the name out of his mouth was like venom but I couldn't spit it out now, I've gone too far. There was no way I could get out of what I have done, not this time.
"There they are!" my attention was brought towards the entrance……and there they were.
"Shadow!" cried out Link with his sword.
"Ganon!" gasped Zelda and her frightened look plastered her face.
"Oh hell….." and the soldiers behind her ready to fight, but from here they all looked like they were ready to run very far away.
"Well well well, looks who's here. The Hero of time and the princess" Ganon snarled, his grin was hard to miss and I had my back facing him too.
I felt Link's eyes on me, I couldn't help but frown at his face; for all the work I had done for him, he threw it back at my face and here he was. But….then again….if I look back on it….
I think I've made a VERY big mistake.
If I know Zelda well enough….there is no way she would turn her back on her husband or honor as Queen. Link knows that as well, what have I done?
"Ganon…." Zelda growled," I've had enough of you for one lifetime!"
"Now now princess, don't you think it is unfair? I mean two against fifty? Let me even it out a bit"
Next thing we all knew, Ganon's out stretched hand destroyed every single one of Zelda's soldiers in a flash of bright light. Even I was frightened at this point, I didn't even know he could do that and by the looks on Link and Zelda, they didn't know he could do that either.
"See? Two on two, fair right?" he laughed.
I could feel the fear coming from the remaining two who opposed Ganon, a part of me wanted to be on that side of the room but I knew I couldn't. There has to be something I can do, but what?
"Alright Shadow" I stiffened up at the sound of my name being called," This is your last chance" he snarled.
I looked up at Link with my emotionless eyes and drew my sword, time has a funny way of repeating itself I suppose.
"Yes Master Ganon"
Okie dokie! Lets see what I get! FIGHT SCENE next chapter! And loads of drama of course!
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