The old man stood on the roof of the castle safe in the knowledge that he and the other were the only ones who knew he was here. The other was the only one who was wary of the plan.
The flawless scheme was his own thinking and he had suggested it to the old man a few chronological months ago.
The basic gist of it was that if either of them was killed, a time paradox would be created resulting in the dead one not being there in the first place to get killed, and so wouldn't. The advantage of this was that the one that got killed, and therefore didn't, would be able to sneak up on the killer and get revenge for being killed and therefore not getting killed.
A hundred metres below and about five miles away a teenage boy dressed in green departed from the lost woods completely unaware of the events that fate had laid out in front of him. He knew something was going wrong somewhere, but as he had found out a few weeks ago in the distant future, it was solved.
Link's original fear of Ganon returning had subsided and he was now looking forward to a peaceful few months.
What he was not expecting as he entered into the Kokiri village was a familiar voice behind him.
"Link!" called the voice. "Link!"
He turned round to see Orca holding what looked like another Master Sword.
"Link, I changed my mind. It didn't work sending just you back."
"What do you mean?" asked Link, not really surprised at Orca's appearance.
"The timelines didn't reset, Link. The scriptures still say that the pig man has a two hundred year reign!"
"Then that means…"
"Yes! You can't face him alone and win."
"I was thinking more along the lines of he has returned."
The two teenagers rode across Hyrule field on Epona. Orca didn't know where they were going, but link seemed to know. Link was taking them to Death Mountain.
If Orca was right, then they both needed some training if they were to fight Ganon.
Orca had fallen asleep by the time they reached Goron City. Link woke him up and explained the plan. They were to get some training today then rest in Kakariko. Over the next few days they would build up their strength training with the Gorons and keep a look out for any sign of Ganon and his minions.
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For those people who don't know, the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines Gorons as: a race of people from the land of Hyrule. They live at the summit of Death Mountain.
Gorons are so hard, they eat rocks for breakfast. Don't ask why.
For a whole month there was no sign of anything out of the ordinary. Then there was about two weeks with even less signs.
After about a few days, the two were beginning to speculate that Ganon would not show up this century.
Then one afternoon there was something that made them think otherwise.
Link was training with Darunia, the leader of the Gorons, in the crater of the volcano when all of a sudden there was an explosion in the distance. They both looked to where it came from – Hyrule castle.
For a moment there was nothing. Then the whole castle collapsed in on itself, creating a huge crater where it once stood tall. Link could see from where he was standing that the crater was full of molten lava.
A few moments later and a huge metal fortress was rising out of the hole. Link recognised it from when he first slew the evil beast. But the mighty towers didn't stop there. They kept on rising as if something else was pushing them upwards. This was because something else was pushing them upwards.
At this point the towers were roughly three times higher than Hyrule castle once was.
The gargantuan colossus of a structure was wider at the base now. It was now pushing up the surrounding land, which avalanched its way down the palace's mammoth sides.
It eventually stopped, having demolished Hyrule Castle Town and the river flowing past towards Lake Hylia.
If this wasn't Ganon's work then neither Link nor Orca nor Darunia could think who else it could be.
The building when seen from the top (assuming it was possible to get that high) was shaped in a huge triforce. There were three metal towers, each as high as the late Hyrule Castle, and one titanic round black stone adverbfully evil looking adjectiveful tower in the centre. Above two of the three small, or rather less huge towers were golden spheres of light. The other had a green one.
If Link knew what a satellite dish looked like, he would have said that the three towers had a similar structure on top, all pointing towards the summit of the mountainous structure. The two with golden spheres hovering above them had pure white beams of something coming out.
The symbolism built up to a point where Link realised that Ganon needed him dead in order to make the other sphere golden.
Link was the bearer of the triforce of courage. He could only assume that Ganon, the bearer of the triforce of power had seized the triforce of wisdom from princess Zelda, most likely raping and killing her in the process.
The old man and the other stood atop the summit of the monstrous construction and looked down on their kingdom.
Soon the old man would send out the shadows the other had provided him with to seek and capture the final bearer. Only then would the other be able to power up the vast machine at the heart for which this giant palace was constructed.
Then their kingdom would be infinitely expanded.