Chapter fourteen: The Decision

Zelda along with Impa walked to the Temple of Time. Zelda was worried about something and she wanted to discuss it with the sages. The Sage of Shadows had no problem with this and decided to come with her, to save her the problem of teleportation that all the sages had to do to get to the Sacred Realm. Once inside they used their magic to teleport themselves into the Sacred Realm. They met up with the Sage of Light, Rauru.

"What is that you seek Princess of Hyrule and Sage of Shadows?" he asked. Impa took her spot on the platform of Shadows and let Zelda tell the other Sage what was bothering her.

"Well Rauru, a strange darkness has appeared and yet it seems familiar. What I'm saying is that it's bothering me and that we should discuss it with the other Sages." She said. Rauru nodded his head.

"Yes, this strange disturbance is indeed something we must look into, I will summon the rest of the Sages." Rauru said, starting to glow a bright yellow. Soon after many different colored lights appeared over their platforms. The Sage of Fire was the first to appear.

"Why have you summond us Sage of Light?" he asked. Rauru looked at the Goron leader.

"I have summond you because something is bothering me and the princess." He said. Darunia finally noticed that the princess was in the Sacred Realm and bowed to her.

"I'm sorry I didn't notice you before princess." He said. Zelda smiled at the Goron.

"It's quite alright. It's nothing to worry about. But there is something we need to talk about." She said. The other Sages had already appeared.

"Well princess are going to tell us what is on your mind or are you going to stand there looking pretty?" Nabooru, the Sage of Spirits said. Impa glared at the Garudo and looked like she was going to throw a knife at her. A light cough was heard and all the Sages looked at Rauru.

"Now is not the time to fight. Now princess would you kindly tell us what is bothering you?" he said. Zelda nodded and looked from one Sage to the other.

"What is on my mind is that I think an ally has turned into an enemy. I don't know who though. And I have a feeling that we will have to team up with an enemy to stop this new foe, I think we need to negotiate with Ganondorf." Zelda said. At the King of Evil's name most of the Sages looked at Zelda astounded. They were about to get into a yelling protest when a small, unsure noise was heard. They all looked at Saria, the Sage of Life (1).

"Um… I agree with Zelda. I was in the Forest Temple when I felt a very powerful dark force come form the West. I had a bad feeling about it and I was about to come and tell you, but I see that the Princess did first. But I think we should negotiate with the King of Evil." She said. The other Sages looked at each other in realization. They had felt the same thing and yet hadn't thought of it as a threat; they now knew that they should have.

"As long as he doesn't hurt my fiancé I'm fine with it." Ruto said. Nabooru rolled her eyes. Ruto and her supposed fiancé.

"It looks like I have no choice so I'll do it." She said.

"If it will help stop this new enemy then I'm for it." Darunia said crossing his arms across his chest. The Sages all said that they agreed and began the process of summoning Ganondorf. When they were done he stood in the middle of the Tricorce mark. He looked around and saw the princess. He soon realized that he was surrounded by the sages, people he so terribly hated.

"What do you want?" Ganondorf said, knowing full well that the only reason that they would summon him is that they wanted something.

"We want to negotiate with you." Zelda said. Ganondorf looked at the princess. Negotiate? With them?

"Why do you want to negotiate?"

"We need your help, and we know we'll only get it if we negotiate." Nabooru said. The used to be King of Evil looked at the Garudo and glared at her.

"Before we even think about negotiating what do you need my help with?"

"We fear a new enemy has appeared and he seems stronger than you and Majora put together. We don't know who though, but we do know that he used to be an ally." Rauru said.

"Fine, what are you going to give me if I do this?"

"We'll let you do what ever you want with Link for an entire month but on one condition." Zelda said.

"And what would that be?"

"That you can't hurt any of us."

"Sounds good to me, as long as I can get out of this hell hole."

End chapter fourteen.

(1) I didn't like the sound of Sage of Forest so I decide that Sage of Life would be good. I mean green is pretty much the color of life.