Chapter 10 Dark Spirit Ganon

I'm really sorry it took me so long to finish this chapter, but here it is! Ri2, you ask many questions. Lets see if I can answer all of them. Yes, some believe that once you are dead you stay dead, but I think that with supernatural intervention then the soul can be reconnected to the dead body. Like what Jesus did to Lazarus in the Bible. I never said that Dark energy couldn't do something to that equivalent, but I don't believe that Satan has the power to really reconnect a soul to a body. I believe when that happens an evil spirit (a demon, if you will) comes upon the dead body and takes control of it. That is mentioned in the book of Revalation. That is why Necromancy is considered evil. And when Jesus rose from the dead, he didn't "die" as we would call it. He ascended directly into heaven, which, in a way, is dying, but he did not die because of physical means. He "died" willingly. Satan probably wants us to think that Evil and Good share lots in common, but it just isn't so. People always refer to the "darks side" of man, and he "light side of man," but they never combine them together. That's because the two sides are so different from each other. And Navi knew about as much as Link did about the demon in the well. Ganon can't defeat the Lord of Light, because compared to the Lord of Light, Ganon is amazingly weak. The Lord of Light is omnipotent, remember, Ganon is just a fairy who turned to darkness. He just happens to be the leader of the Poes. So why would he be very strong? As for Ganon getting earth, the Lord of Light could have protected the people of the earth, but they told him not to. They liked Ganon, and what he was doing, even though he used his power to turn the world into darkness. The people forced the Lord of Light to allow Ganon to carry out his dark plans, and the Lord of Light stepped out of the way, and let Ganon, for he is a Gentleman, and Gentlemen leave when people ask them to. And the people had to believe in the Lord of Light for him to fill them with his spirit and repel the powers of darkness away from them. But the people would close themselves to the Lord of Light. The Lord of Light never stopped fighting Ganon, but he must allow the people of earth to follow darkness if that's what they choose. And if they follow darkness, then the darkness will consume them. Its like you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. If someone is sick, you can offer to cure them, but you can't force them to. If someone has cancer and you offer to give them Chemotherapy, some people will refuse to take it, and then will have to deal with the consequences later when the Cancer gets stronger. You can't force them to take Chemotherapy. If Ganon is taking over someone, the Lord of Light can offer to cast the darkness away, but the people can refuse this, and they will have to deal with the consequences later when Ganon gets strong in there world. THe Lord of Ligth can't force them to let him cast Ganon away. No, I never said man wasn't an animal, but we are given the gift (or curse) of choosing for ourselves how to live. Animals live the way they do because they are created to live that way, but we are given the ability to choose wether we will follow good or evil. Man, Gorons, Zora's, Kokiri are all the same, they just look different from each other. I made fairies servants of the Lord of Light, and Poes are Fallen Fairies. Ganon was once a fairy, but like the other poes, he turned against the Lord of Light, and became Ganon.

The Gatekeeper lifted his head up from the cold mud, before being knocked back down again. He groaned as the blows from the whip continued to strike his back.

"Stop!" a commanding voice suddenly shouted.

Heads turned to face the man who had spoken up. They saw a man dressed in a green tunic with a green hat.

"I know who that man is!" a lady in the crowd shouted. "He was one of the people who was with the Gatekeeper. He was in here a little while ago, but then he was covered with a brown cloak."

"Release the Gatekeeper," Link said. "He has done nothing wrong."

A spirit stepped through the crowd towards Link.

"The Gatekeeper is as good as dead. And you should have the wisdom to know that he must die."

Link looked into the eyes of the black haired spirit.

"I know who you are," Link said. "You are Nargasa. The Evil Spirit."

"Not so, Link," Nargasa said, with a cold glare. "I gave you a chance to survive. But you return to me. Leave this place, and never return. And I might just let you live."

"You are a murderer," Link said. "You are worthy of no title other than that. I will never leave this town under your command."

"Take this wretch away from here," Nargasa commanded, and two burly men grabbed Link roughly by the shoulders, and dragged him away.

"You will never triumph," the Gatekeeper said, rising to his feet painfully. "And you Nargasa, you know this. I die here, but your death will be much worse than mine. May he that has a clear conscious be the first to cut me. May the one who has no sins be the first to break me!"

Nargasa's eyes flared, and he ran forward and punched the Gatekeeper painfully in the jaw. The Gatekeeper groaned and tumbled back against the wall of a building. Nargasa then drew two daggers, and began slicing the sides of the Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper screamed in agony as the steel blades drew his blood and cut his flesh.

"Now you will die!" Nargasa shouted, before slicing the Gatekeeper's forehead, and sheathing his bloody daggers.

The Gatekeeper tumbled back against the wall, and moaned. Nargasa stepped backwards, and drew a bow and fitted an arrow on the end. The condemned man looked up, almost expecting this. Then, Nargasa loosed a shaft into the Gatekeeper's wrist. The arrow broke right through the Gatekeeper's bone, and went into the cold wooden wall behind him. The Gatekeeper opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Nargasa inserted a new shaft, and fired it into the Gatekeeper's other wrist. It too, was nailed brutally to the wall. This time the Gatekeeper's eyes rolled back, and a soft moan came from his mouth. The second shaft had split through the main vein in his arm. Blood poured from the wound, its tainted red stain crossing his flesh. He hung from his arms, which had both been stabbed to the wall. The Gatekeeper began to feel dizzy and weak as the blood from the vein in his hand began to leave his body. His eyes darkened, and he could feel himself slipping away.

"Lie there in your blood and your misery," Nargasa said. "Die Gatekeeper! Die!"

Suddenly three of the Spirits began to change. Their human forms fell away, and they became Poes once again. The people in the crowd were shocked to see this, but they did nothing about it. The three dark beings floated up to the dying Gatekeeper, and drew their Hergon Blades. They then began hacking at his body, scarring his soul, but doing no damage to his flesh.

"Leave the body!" Nargasa shouted. "May your soul be damned!"

"No!" the Gatekeeper shouted, and fixed the three Poes with an icy glare. They stopped, and backed away in fear.

"I declare to you this day Nargasa, that you have not won!"

Nargasa did not speak.

"I die, but in my place, I leave a future for those who did not fall into your dark scheme. They live, because I die. And you can never stop this. If only I could live long enough to see them survive, but I can't. You have not even killed me. You have cut my body, but my soul holds on. I do not die by your hand. I go willingly. For I never break a promise. You promised me those people would escape. And I promised you that I would die. But not by your hand. Not by your hand!"

The Gatekeeper's eyes flashed, as his voice tone rose. He then calmed down, and leaned his head back before smiling at his enemy.

"Farewell Nargasa. It is time to complete my part of the bargain."

The Gatekeeper then leaned his head back, and moved no more. He closed his eyes, and allowed himself to slip fully away. His soul had been broken from his body. A gust of wind blew by, carrying with it the leaves which had fallen from the trees, and the soul of the dead Gatekeeper. The soul of the man who had triumphed in his own death. The soul of the man who died willingly for his friends. And as the spirit of the torch holder, the Gatekeeper, blew away with the wind, the flesh of each evil spirit in the crowd crawled as they felt the icy touch of light caress them lightly. Nargasa's soul was even lightly scarred by the moving spirit.

"He has gone," Nargasa said. "He is dead!"

Then with an angry roar, Nargasa ran to the dead corpse, and began shaking it viciously with his hands.

"Curse you! Curse you Gatekeeper! You who died willingly! You who found a way to harm me while still upholding our deal! May you be damned to the deepest pit of Hell!"

Nargasa drew his daggers, and began hacking viciously at the dead flesh of the Gatekeeper.

"Die you... you... accursed Witness of the Lord of Light! May your bones rot in the cold depths of the sea! I hate you! I hate you! And yet in the end you triumph! Burn! I tell you! Burn in the depths of Hades! BURN WITH ALL THE EVIL SPIRITS WHOM YOU CAST AWAY!"

But the dead man just slumped backwards, and did not react to the blows from the Gatekeeper. Nargasa's anger then left his eyes, and he threw his daggers to the ground. He then reached out, and grabbed both of the Gatekeeper's arms. He then yanked them viciously, tearing them off of the arrows which went into the cold wood behind the dead man. The corpse teetered forward, before falling in a bloody heap on the ground. Blood continued to pour from the wounds.

"Take that man into the Graveyard and seal him in the ground," Nargasa said with contempt. "Bury him in the domain of the Poes!"

Nargasa then turned, and walked off away from the corpse. The crowd dispersed, leaving only two people. A red haired girl and a man with a green cap stood before the dead body of the Gatekeeper and wept. He was gone now. He was gone. The man put a comforting arm around the girl, and slowly lead her away.

"I only wish I could have done more," Link said.

"There was nothing we could do," Malon said. "We were hopelessly outnumbered. And they almost killed you for speaking up."

"Yeah," Link winced, feeling his sore back from the lashes he had received. "But I suppose it is such that those who stand for what is right often suffer. And those who stand for what is wrong will rule the world. But they will not rule over the world of the dead."

Some people then came to take the body away, and Link and Malon walked off towards the graveyard.

"Lord Ganondorf!" the Gerudo girl shouted at the still body of the King of Hyrule. "Are you alright?"

"What's wrong Kiera," a servant girl said, walking over to the other gerudo.

"He isn't moving," Kiera said. "He just lays there as if he is dead."

"Leave him," the servant said. "He often goes into trances and communes with the spiritual world."

"That kind of makes you wonder," Kiera said.

"Wonder about what?"

"It makes you wonder why was he born so early. In Gerudo society a male is born every five hundred years. He came early. And have you ever noticed his name. It sounds like... Ganon. You know, the Dark Creature from afar."

"Don't tell me you're beginning to believe in the Lord of Light," the servant girl said. "Don't believe in old superstitious rot. That crap is so old age. No one believes in that anymore."

"Yeah, I suppose."

The servant smiled.

"Ganondorf's mother was a strict Ganonian. She believed in the Lord of Light, but chose to take the opposing side. So when her child was born she announced to the Gerudo that he was Ganon come in the form of a man, and named him after the mythical being."

"But what if she was right?"

"She wasn't," the servant girl said. "There is no Ganon, no Lord of Light. Its all that simple."

The two girls walked away from the body of Ganondorf. At the sound of the skeptical words of the servant, Ganondorf's mouth curled up into a smile. So easily deceived! Those thoughts, so much like how Link's had been two days before. Now so different.

It endured the pain, the heat, and the terror. It was waiting for him. Yes, the creature knew exactly what it would do when he came. It would crush him apart, and cast him down into the pit of fire which floated below it. The spirit's mouth slowly moved open into a smile as it heard sounds of skepticism from the physical world. Music to its ears. Ganon was its name, once the most beautiful fairy in the universe. Then he fell to its pride, and took up the bizarre, frightful face of Ganon. The Dark one. So many years had passed since that fateful day when Ganon turned against his creator. So many countless years since war had occurred. So many years since he had been overwhelmed, and cast away easily. But he was not gone, not yet. Only banished. Man had disobeyed the commands of the Lord of Light, and thus they allowed Ganon to enter their world. Soon he had poisoned them, leading the people of the earth away from the powers of Light. When the Lord of Light came to cast the Dark one away, the people of the earth resisted, calling the Lord of Light a demon, and claiming Ganon as their King. They told the Lord of Light to leave their world, that it was now in their hands. And the Lord of Light stepped away. But the people did not rule their world, it fell into the hands of Ganon. They had allowed this, therefore the Lord of Light allowed Ganon to take the world.

Above the fires of Hell, the demon, Ganon, stood, waiting. Then he saw a hazy spirit step over the sphere of flame towards him. Ganon smiled, and took a step towards his enemy.

'You came,' Ganon said.

'Of course I came,' the strange spirit replied. 'I keep my promises.'

'Really, well I don't. When I defeat you, I will return to the world above and put an end to your friends.'

'They are protected.'

'I will find a way. But now, I must cast you into the fires of Hell.'

'You will never succeed in that..'

'I am stronger than you think I am.'

'You are weak.'

The dark spirit Ganon leaped towards his foe. He extended his arms, and two swords materialized in his hands. But his enemy sidestepped out of the way, and sent a stream of light into Ganon. Ganon's swords went spiraling off into the fire pit below.

'How did you...'

'You think the Lord of Light would refuse to help me.'

'Curse the Lord of...'

'Blessed be the Lord of Light!'

Do not say his name!'

The strange spirit leaped upon Ganon, and wrestled him to the ground. Ganon fought back, viciously tearing at his enemy's skull. But the spirit was stronger. Fear gripped Ganon's heart as his enemy slammed him down, and wrapped shining white chains around him. Ganon was stronger than all. He had never lost a fight.

'You are a blade of grass before the Lord of Light!' the shining spirit shouted.

'Please,' Ganon begged, in tears. 'Don't throw me down into the fire. Have mercy!'

'Mercy,' the spirit said. 'That's something you never showed. But I will not cast you into Hell.'

Ganon looked up at his enemy in surprise.

'You won't?'

'No. You are not a threat to the Lord of Light. You can never defeat him. And with this deal we struck, you are even weaker than you were before.'

'What?'

'You effectively damned every person in Kakariko village who followed your Poes. But now that we have struck this deal, you forfeit all control of Kakariko village.'

'That's a lie!'

'You swore that if I defeated you, then the Lord of Light would acquire your lands.'

'No! He will not take Hyrule! That would stop his plan for the earth. His plan to allow me to rule when the hearts of man turned against the Lord of Light.'

'Yes. To show them who they are following when they do not follow the Lord of Light. To show them who you truly are. No, he will not reclaim Hyrule, not yet. But you are here by banished from Kakariko. Never return, or you will be cast into the Abyss. But you are now under order to give up your control of Hyrule when the Lord of Light commands. If you do not, then you will be prematurely cast into the fire. And you know that the Lord of Light is strong enough to do this!'

The spirit then broke the bright shining chains, and released Ganon.

'Where are you going?' Ganon shouted as the spirit turned and began walking away.

'I have fought to achieve salvation for my people. Now I will return to the world above. But you will remain here until tomorrow night.'

Ganon was wise enough not to argue.

Wow. Glad I got all that out. And I answered your questions Ri2. Good. I feel happy now. Gotta go write my other stories. Oh, and for those of you who are Halo fans, or Metroid fans, I just started a Halo/Metroid Fusion story, so if you could check that out and review it for me, I would appreciate it. Good bye everybody.