The hero of time lay on the ground sweating and panting. Xilic ran to Link and put his arm under Link's shoulders to hoist him up into a sitting position.
"What happened?" Asked Xilic. Link looked down at the ground and raised his hands before bringing them crashing down so that the floor split and a large portal appeared in the gap.
Link whistled for Snowfire, and rode hard into the portal calling back, "I have to close the man who runs the other world of hell!" Xilic stared at him then the portal closed and neither could see each other. What Link could see was a long aged pathway with spurts of fire off to the left and right the were up to fifty feet high. He didn't pay attention to that though he rode along the path to the building at the end of the trail. He leapt off of Snowfire and ran to his certain doom. The Hero of Time had eyes only for the man who was the first thing to come into sight. He had pure white hair, dark black eyes and was clothed in a dark blue robe. He was holding what was a handful of blue flames tinged with green.
"Your death will make me immortal Hero of Time." Said the man.
"Who are you?" Asked Link. The man laughed hard.
"I am the master of life, of all life, I am such a master that I have seen into death, and death is a matter of time, therefore I saw that to not suffer old age and an eventual death I must stop time, and who should come after me but the Hero of Time the only man known to have power over it's slow powers of decay, only he doesn't know how to wield it."
"I don't wield that power. I never want to stop the rule of time. Or do anything else to it's normal flow for that matter." Responded Link.
"This is why you will always be under my power of magic. You know the basics of magic but you don't know anything near it's full power, you know the elemental basics, but magic goes far beyond that. It controls age, speed, speech, skill and time. Over all uses it controls time and the power of Time's magic has been presented to you." Said the man.
"As for my name, it is one you could remember easily enough. If you haven't heard it before you won't forget it ever. It is... Zetherity!" (A/N that is Zah-thee-tree)
"So you wish to kill me to have control over my power? Then you are far more foolish then I thought." Link said. The man threw his hand forward and a blood red sword seemed to fly from his palm. Link then released that an entire body was flying at him and Link knew the man trying to strike him down now. It was Grehadel. Or at least a shadow of him and he held none of Xilic's kindness. Grehadel struck at Link hard and Link backed off arm stinging. He held up the Master Sword to blow yet another fatal blow delivered by Grehadel.
"Old fool." Said Zetherity. Link suddenly realized just how magic worked. Once you killed a foe you then could steal their magical abilities, but it opened paths to greed, suffering and power. Link knew now more than ever he needed strength. He focused on the Shadow's magic and let it fill him, he let it intertwine with his own magic power. He looked at Grehadel and used his new-found magic to increase his speed and quickly destroyed his foe. Grehadel's head became separated from his torso. Unable to deny himself now Link absorbed Grehadel's powers. He felt his power grow and he swung with invisible speed struck at the overlord Master. The blow was blocked with minimal effort.
"You know nothing of power." And with the last word the man blasted Link back into a column and Link saw blood drip into his eyes. He stood steading himself into a classic stance of sword fencing. The man struck at him but Link parried the blow and reposted catching the man in the hip. Link had shifted his style to one of makari. It was more precise and not as random as usual sword fighting the foe Link was facing wasn't a swordsman he was a wizard, one to wield magic not one to brandish a sword though every magician worth his staff knew that to not carry a sword was plain stupidity. Link kept using his speed and accuracy to press the man back not giving him a chance to regain firm ground long enough to gather himself to unleash a magic attack. Zetherity might outclass Link in magic but Link far outclassed the man in skill with a blade.
Link pushed Zetherity back near the wall and Link grabbed at bit of his new power to bring the wall down to crush the man. However half-way to their target the large blocks of stone stopped, and headed to a new one, Link. The Hero was too surprised to stop the first and was hit in the chest. The second hit him as he was suffering recoil from the first. However Link managed to dodge the third and used the Master Sword to cut the fourth in half. The last of the block Link jumped on and used wind magic to come flying and Zetherity.
"Heltie." Called Zetherity and Link's rock exploded. Link used the impact to fly into the air rolling over and over at a dangerous speed changing his landing into a spin attack at the last second. The man, caught by surprise caught the attack in full. He lay on the ground holding his bleeding chest where there was an angry burn. Link dashed onward with the rush of victory in his mind. His sword flew point-first into the ground and stuck there solid. Link grabbed the man and used magic to blast him with a darker energy blast.
"I have discovered power. Do you think you can stand in my way?" Link asked. The man sent a stream of spells and Link but all were dodged or deflected with the upmost ease. Link had become the most powerful man in the universe. He ran back to the Master Sword and grasped the handle. An electric shock surged through the blade and burned his hand and he pulled back in shock. Oh well who needed the damn sword anyway, if it didn't like men with power that was it's issue.
"Now die." He sent three dark energy blasts at the man and called lighting from the heavens. All attacks hit the target. He lay wheezing on the ground. Link used magic to call an abandoned sword to his grip and stabbed the man in the neck. Zetherity now lay dead with his life's supply of magic up for grabs.
"LINK." The cry was from Zelda's lips. She had chased him down after Xilic told her what happened.
"Leave, I am power, I need nobody."
"Do you really believe that?"