A/N: Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.


A Normal Knight

Chapter 4- The Front, Part 2

"HAAAH!"

Link cries as his sword makes contact with the enemy. The Iron Knuckle feels the blade through its stomach. It cries of horrible pain, stopping its swing midway and crumbling onto itself.

For some sick reason, Link just wants to kill his enemy mercilessly. He feels it. He feels his Gilded Sword pierced through the monster's armor and Link can feel the uneven grooves of the inside by the sword. He slices his opponent diagonally. Blood and gore fly out and spill on the ground. Link pants, unbelieving as to what he did.

"Watch out!" He feels a hand pull him back, making his body miss contact with a club.

"Zid?"

"Man, you have to stay focus!" Zid said before stabbing the enemy soldier in the stomach.

"Link!" he hears Miru's voice. "We're right here by your side!"

"I… I killed somebody…" Link says these words.

"I know, Link, but you are going to get killed yourself if you don't snap out of it!" Zid said. "These are monsters, not us! This ain't no civil war!"

"Right… Right!"

Link feels his energy restored. These are nothing more than meaningless monsters. Link cuts them down one by one. He uses everything he knows of, every technique, from shielding to maneuvering, even some things he hasn't known of. A spear comes towards him. Link side steps and slashes the monster in the back. An axe flies through the air at him. Link rolls forward and stabs in the guts. A sword from an enemy to kill him. Link blocks with his shield and cuts off the monster's head. Death… He is a Death dealer, he feels.

"Middle! They're breaking through the middle, comrades! The line's collapsed!"

The middle of the line has been breached, for the enemy is directly attacking it. They don't have much of a strategy, but with these numbers, who needs them?

"Archers! Concentrate fire on the middle!"

Arrows flying everywhere from Link's side now focuses on the middle, dropping the monsters like flies. Still, they do need help…

"Guys!" Link calls for his two comrades. "Head toward the middle!"

"Say what now?" he hears Zid's surprised voice.

"The middle! We've got to defend it!"

"Right! I'm heading over there!"

"Miru! Where are you!"

Link sees him, his purple hair about. He's about to run up and call when the soldier takes an axe to the shoulder and falls.

"Miru!"

"What?" Miru's voice appears behind him.

Link turns around, finding Miru fine and dandy. The other soldier, he looks more closely, is but a purple hair, too…

"Miru, head up to the middle! Reinforce it! Zid's already on his way!"

"You got it!"

Wading through the soldiers like sharp grass, they find the middle, covered with a great amount of bodies. They find Zid, just in time to see him stab two monsters in one move.

"Hah, you can't touch me!" Zid gloats as he pulls out his sword. "For I am the great Zid!"

"Zid!"

"Hey, Link! You're just in time!"

"What can we do here!" Miru demands.

"Keep holding this line!" Link commands. "They should get the catapult to aim here in a moment!"

Fending off Ganondorf's soldiers coming from goddess knows where, Link feels the pull of exhaustion on his body. If they don't relieve the middle soon…

"Catapult! It's ready!"

"Towards the middle! Break the assault on the middle! Fire!"

RAM! The rocks clear the monsters just behind the one Link's taking care of. Relief… for now. Some down, more to come.

"They are still coming, comrades!"

"Keeping fighting! Don't let them overrun us!"

Link mercilessly stabs his sword through the head of a Moblin. The body droops to death. The head slides clean off his sword. Kill… His instincts are starting to force him to kill relentlessly. One after another, he relieves his enemies of their mortal shackles. But, wait…

"Hey, they're retreating!" Zid notices their strategy.

"What?" Miru said as he gores a Lizalfos.

"By the Goddess, they are!" Link sees them running back.

The enemy is turning tail and retreating. Link could not express his welfare. He survived. But, why was the battle so short?

"Hah hah! Comrades, we have shown them courage beyond their grasp!" a general comments. "We were able to make them retreat, the so-called invincible army of Ganondorf!"

Link sighs. "We did it… It's over…"

… Or, it could not be over…

"Wait…" Miru notices the army turning around. "They're… coming back?"

"What?" Zid peers at the horizon. "They… they are!"

"… What's that they're carrying?"

Each enemy soldier is holding a metal ball with a fuse on it. And they're charging back towards them, madness in their eyes.

"Archers! Finish them!"

Again, arrows take ascent. But, stricken, blood stopping fear grips the soldiers as the arrows make contact with the monsters. One arrow hits the metal ball of a monster. Next thing they know, an explosion takes place, killing the holder.

"Oh my goddess! They're carrying Bombs!"

"Holy shit…" Zid curses.

"They're… They're going to blow us up!" Miru realizes.

"Archers! Stop them!"

"Goddess… Goddess…" Link's breathing goes rapid. "They're actually that insane…"

"What do we do?" a scared voice burst out. "There's too many of them!"

"Retreat!" a general orders. "Retreat! Back into the stone walls, comrades!"

"Retreat! There's no use trying to attack!"

"Go…! Go, go, go!"

"Dammit!" Zid curses again as our three soldiers run back to the drawbridge. "They're fighting dirty!"

"Ganondorf's got a strategy up his sleeve all along!" Miru said. "I should have known…"

"Dammit to hell…" Link said. "I thought it was all over. Those were fine men we've lost on the field…"

They reach the drawbridge, just as it is about to start going up. They slide down the wet wooden board, to the rest of the legion hanging back there.

"Fire! Keep firing!"

Archers from the mounded wall outside and the main wall can be heard doing their best to try to suppress the threat. But, it is to of no use. Link could hear explosions, and then the terrible screams of men dying from them. They can't hold them off much longer. Then, the worst to come. The sound of wood hitting the ground, next to the drawbridge. They're going to blow up the drawbridge.

"No…" Miru said. "It can't end this way…"

BANG! The drawbridge creaks to the explosions. BANG! BANG! BANG! A terrifying alterative to a ram… The rain, the Bombs, the monsters, Death… Oh, terrifying are they to the hearts of men right now…

"It shouldn't," Zid replies to him. "I've heard messengers are sent out to the Gorons to help us. Where the hell are they?"

"Guys…" Link calls them. "It's been nice knowing you all."

"Hell no, Link!" Zid responds. "You keep that attitude, and hope won't help you!"

"They're coming at us with Bombs right now, Zid! What do you think?"

"The Gorons will come, I know that!"

"Link…" Miru said softly, "we promised ourselves we would fight for Hyrule until our last breath. And this is not the way we should go down!"

"I'm sorry, guys… It's just… I'm going to miss everything when I'm gone…"

"You're NOT going to be gone, Link!" Zid emphasizes. "We will live to see the end of the day!"

"Look, Link." Miru puts a hand on him. "We're here for you, just as you're here for us, right?"

Link's face lightens a bit. Miru's right; they are here for him, right now at this moment. That's what friends are for. That's what comrades are there for. They will stand together, or fall the same.

"You two really need to shut up," Link said, "because we're going to go through this together. But, if Death won't taint you much, I might as well join."

"There you go, man!" Zid slaps Link on the back.

"For what we're fighting for, right, guys?" Miru reminds.

"Hell yeah! For what we're fighting for!" Zid repeats.

"For what we're fighting for!" Link repeats after.

BANG! The drawbridge breaks open to the will of the explosives. The enemy is now pouring in… Link rushes in, fighting, in hope the Gorons would come, and that he would live to see another day, and maybe, to see Malon once more.