Chapter 3:

Link sat upon his throne in deep thought. He didn't know what to do, for once he was confused. Where had Xilic gone? What was he doing? Why couldn't Link simply sense him and kill him?

"Attachment is just a restraining bond." He said aloud. Link leapt up and started pacing the floor. Link got up and dressed into a white undershirt and put a black tonic over it. Then he put on his white pants, and put on black leather boots. He clipped on a white belt, with a sliver blade with a black hilt clipped to it. Then he put on a long black cloak with sliver fastenings and a Triforce on the back. Then Link put a black hat much like his old one, on top of his head.

"Now to send him into hiding." Link called in his generals, a mix of Gorons and soldiers, and told them about the needed people.

"Kill the Zoras if you want but bring Xilic to me alive." The men nodded. With in an hour merely an hour Xilic was kneeling in chains in front of Link.

"So the rebel has been caught."

"I'd of come here anyway remember this?" And Xilic pulled out of his sheath a beautiful silver blade. Though it took him a little while to do it the sword was unmistakable. The Master Sword.

"So my old role has been past unto you, has it?" Asked Link.

"I am the Hero of Time."

"You bare that as though it is a title worthy of a god." Link mocked. Xilic's bonds broke seemingly of their own accord, and he suddenly charged at Link with a speed and power the like of which Link had never faced. He drew his blade and blocked Xilic's first strike, surprised that he'd almost been hit. Xilic was pushing his attack, Link gave ground willingly he'd let Xilic wear himself out. Xilic's blows started to become faster and more accurate, more deadly. However Link had the powers of the two ex-most powerful men in the universe in his favor and blocked every blow, starting to move his blade in a classic dance. Their blades became blurs and nobody watching could possibly help for fear of falling to either blade. Link got lucky and managed a kick on Xilic's chest.

"You need to feel what power really is." Link flung himself into Xilic's life source, Xilic caught unaware took the move in full. He let Xilic feel everything that was within his power. Xilic suddenly flung Link out.

"I have no desire to feel your damn corruption." Xilic then started to attack so fast and hard that many beads of sweat were appearing on his forehead. Xilic's was wearing a green tonic, one that looked like Link's. The only difference in their old cloths was that Xilic had no hat and wore a cloak around his shoulders, blue with two crossed blades for a coat of arms on the back. Link moved his skills up to his near full potential to keep the Master Sword at bay. Xilic was using all the skills of the Hero of Time and was at his full power now. Link was now using all of his considerable abilities. Their blades were wiping so fast that both felt the wind from the other's blade. Link's calm smile wasn't any longer on his face, it had been replaced by a grim snarl. Xilic had a look in his eyes that was of fire, one that any man but Link wouldn't have had the nerve to look at. Link ice blue eyes looked as though his mere glance would kill. Link shifted his style to an older one that was particularly useful against a single foe, it was abandoned by most in favor of another one that stood up to many in the war. However Xilic had foreseen just such a possibility, and called in his Zoras to attack Link, almost all were killed upon entering, but about ten made it through and started attacking Link. Link shifted back to his old style and killed the Zoras, then Xilic didn't give him a chance to change his stance.

The pair were starting to release impossible amounts of magic expected of anyone else. The large pillars cracked from the shear power of the magic. Xilic didn't know what to do other than continue this pointless duel, and hope that Link lost first, for there was almost no way to get out of it save death. Link was still in shock, nobody, nobody had ever really come close to matching his power. Now Xilic, bearing a title of the weak, had matched him in power speed and skill overall. Link stopped giving ground and held his stance. Xilic did likewise and both felt their arms stinging. One of Link's guards decided to try and help his master. He was killed in about two seconds, with twelve slashes across his face and nine more along his back and one through his face. The rest actually sat to watch, though some couldn't take it and lost all order running out of the castle dropped all their gear. Link tried to kick Xilic but Xilic's fist came to block the move, Xilic tried to punch Link in the chest but Link used a swipe leg cut to make Xilic release him. Suddenly half the men who feared for the castle ran forward, though the men messed up when the men moved to fast to see and accidently took both Xilic's and Link's blade from each owners hand, though half of the men were killed in the attempt.

Link tried reaching back for his blade, but Xilic struck out at Link with fire magic. Link quickly extinguished the flames with his own magic. The smoke was gathering around Link's face but he cleared it away, just in time to see the bottom of Xilic's boot. The impact of the kick sent him skidding along the floor. Link flipped backwards in the same direction he'd been moving, landing square on his feet. Xilic came running at him again but Link grabbed Xilic's wrists and flung this foe over his head. Xilic used the move and started flipping over and over landing near Link's throne. Link didn't let him rest and ran onward using his speed he jumped up to come down to smash Xilic's head in, but Xilic rolled to his right dodging the blow. Link made a careful landing and Xilic jumped at him to hit him with a flying kick. Link preform a high backflip without moving backwards and landed on Xilic's head, as Xilic landed Link backflipped to land on him again, but Xilic did a backwards roll to avoid the second attack.

Link turned and sent a flying fireball at Xilic, whom deflected it into the ceiling. Xilic spun around and forced rocks to fly at Link. Link grabbed a section of wall and put it in front of the attacking stones, once they were all stuck in the wall Link sent the wall toppling down towards Xilic. Xilic jumped high landing behind the wall and before the bricks even landed he was attacking Link with punches and kicks again. Link blocked and attacked as though in a pattern. Xilic responded likewise. The fight became more deadly than with swords. Somehow, both were growing more powerful as they fought. It was something completely new, unusual. Link flipped high in the air landing far behind Xilic. Then he yelled aloud one of the three death words, as the power started to come towards Xilic he jumped over the spell and kicked Link hard in the gut. Link kneeled over and bashed his head into Xilic's knee bending it backwards. Xilic yelled and sank to the floor. Link was the first to regain his footing, but not more than a split second before Xilic. Xilic moved to punch Link and Link grabbed his wrist, then Link tried to hit Xilic but Xilic grabbed his wrist. Both tried to free themselves, but neither was successful. Then Link swung his forehead forward to hit Xilic's head, but Xilic stopped him. Then Link started using his knees to attack, Where Xilic kept matching him.

"You betrayed us all brother. It was all your fault! You betrayed us! Betrayed the Goddesses. Betrayed Zelda, betrayed the Hylian Riders." he added so quietly that Link almost didn't hear him. "And me."

"HA!" Link laughed fully and with real mirth. "So you are unhappy because you lost someone who was your... what? Friend? Fool. Power took me made me stronger." said he getting up with his foot on Xilic's chest.

"So much good it did you for now the true strength of the Hero of Time has left you."

"What power was there is that?"

"The power to always be strong enough to beat who needs to be beat, there was a reason you never used to lose, evil has a limit to power. This form lets you be as strong as you need to for as long as you need to."

"Really? Even if that was true, what about afterward? What then? You become weak and worthless." the king of darkness said. Xilic didn't answer but punched Link in the knee before jumping up and running for his sword. Link managed to get his first, he then moved and held his blade against Xilic's neck, just as Xilic's hand closed around the Master Sword.

"Dead brother."

"Please, please, don't kill me, you won't please. I was your brother."

"You are right. You were my brother. Now you are my foe and dead." With that Link's dark blade stabbed into the heart of the man who'd served him. Link then walked to his throne, Now none could challenge him. He sat on his dark throne within this dark castle, there he ruled to the end of his days. The Master Sword couldn't stay in a place surrounded by such evil. It didn't last one hour after it's master's death. It shattered into a million pieces. Hyrule fell into the dark ages. Link ruled his empire.

End

Yeah boo hoo, Good guys dead, bad guy lives and wins, Live with it. Sorry I can't be more sympathetic to this but it's a story I bent the rules and I wrote a story you don't like well forget you then.