Look everyone! It's been only a week and I updated! I feel so proud, since this is like a record for this story. I think I deserve a pat on the back for that (and some soda). Anyways, please enjoy this chapter.

A small sound could be heard as Zelda and Link gingerly brought their glasses together. In any other situation, their toast would be one of celebration and cheer, but this morning their faces were grim as the two cups, which held water to help ease their pill down their throat, met. They swallowed their pills with one large gulp than set their glasses upon a counter, unable to meet each other's eyes.

"Good luck," Zelda said breaking the piercing silence. Link nodded, and Zelda didn't know what else to say. She hadn't thought about having to hurt Link and now she really didn't want to, especially not after the way he had treated her the day before. It had occurred to her before that it was possible to not hurt him, but this meant losing the battle and she was in no way ready to quit, not after so many people had been eliminated.

A large hand grasped Zelda's shoulder and she jumped at the sudden intrusion to her thoughts. She swiveled around to see who had touched her.

"GANNONDORF!" Zelda cried out unable to keep herself from shouting in surprise. The tall man snickered. "W-what are you…?"

"Haven't you heard? I'm joining your little battle."

Zelda crossed her arms defiantly. "Says who?" she demanded, shifting her weight to her left leg.

"Why, the Nintendo Bros. of course," Gannondorf replied coolly.

Zelda was about to protest when the announcer spoke first to the audience. "Are you ready for our smashers?" The audience cheered as the arena doors opened.

"I guess that's our queue," Link acknowledged as he took Zelda's hand and pulled her out, the princess still looking at Gannondorf in disbelief. As the fighters entered the arena, which now resembled the ruins of Hyrule Temple (how fitting), the crowd appeared to scream louder but the noise could not be heard once the door of the arena had closed. Both Zelda and Link looked at each other in disbelief.

"I hope its not a problem that I asked for a sound-proof arena. I find the crowd distracting."

"Uh," Link began, "Well actually…"

"Good."

Though the outside noise was blocked, the 'go alarm' had been channeled through so the fighters could tell that the match had begun. At first, the battle seemed almost calm with each participant eyeing the other, Zelda with cautiousness and Gannondorf with malicious confidence, (Link just impatient). However, the tranquility ended abruptly as Zelda found her rival targeting her first.

Gannondorf threw a punch, slow but powerful, at Zelda's stomach, but she dodged it easily. Now it was her turn. She ducked and went for a low kick. Gannondorf jumped, avoiding the blow as easily as she had his. It was obvious that their opponents were not the novice fighter they had expected.

Zelda thanked the goddesses above that she had learned combat moves as Gannondorf's attack method left her no time for magic. His blows came so fast, she barely had time to attack before dodging or blocking the next of his punches. At last, Zelda did a handspring backwards to get away from her opponent for at least a few moments. When she landed, she immediately closed her eyes and chanted a quick incantation. Gannondorf was struck down by an unseen force and his head slammed against a large stone. He sat up and felt the blood that was now trickling down the side of his cheek. His face, at first shocked by the power contained inside Zelda, turned to one of amusement.

"I see you have been taught well, Zelda. But do you really think your little tricks can save you when you are faced with true power?"

Gannondorf stood solid as rock, his burning eyes deep in concentration as he chanted. As a mage, she was able to understand the long string of words despite the speed they were uttered. As purple light shone deep in his eyes and began to envelop his hands she recognized the spell he was enchanting. The victim would suffer from burning spasms in their lungs, and eventually die from the inability to breath. This was not a spell attempted by a wizard who lacked confidence, nor was it used without evil intent. Unfortunately, Zelda only knew of one counter charm and she had yet to even speak it, let alone use it against a mage as powerful as Gannondorf.

Zelda closed her eyes, ready to attempt the counter, but she opened them abruptly as she heard Gannondorf give a small grunt as he was hit with an arrow in his shoulder. Link grinned proudly and Zelda looked around noticing arrows several yards away from where she and Gannondorf were standing. Apparently Link had been attacking; he just didn't have very good aim. Gannondorf pulled the arrow out of the leather on his armor.

Both Zelda and Link backed up, waiting for the eminent fury that they knew the arrow had evoked. But the fury did not come. Instead, he simply snapped the arrow in half as he sighed and said, "I've had enough of this."

For a split second, Zelda thought he was going to quit. But instead he pulled out of his pocket a ball, half white half red. "I wanted to kill you myself, but there is a time limit so I suppose I'll have to compensate."

"What?" Zelda and Link cried simultaneously. "You can't kill us in here, we took the pills. We'll just awake good as new," Zelda stated.

"Ever heard of the term placebo?"

Zelda's mouth opened in shock. Link just stood confused. "What's a placebo?" he asked his girlfriend.

"It's a fake. He gave us a fake drug. The pill we took didn't do anything," she answered.

"That means he can kill us!" Link's eyes widened.

"That's right, Linky-boy!" Gannondorf called out. "Which reminds me," he said as he dropped the ball then pulled a red notebook out of his back pocket. It read on the cover 'life goals'. "Let's see," he said as he thumbed through it. "Date an Asian celebrity, no. Learn to crochet, no. Visit Guam, no." He continued to flip through the pages until he reached almost the last page. "Ah here it is. Kill Link and Zelda." He checked the page off then closed the book and stuffed it back into his pocket.

Link and Zelda exchanged glances then shrugged. They looked back at Gannondorf who was attempting to open the ball, but with no success, giving them time to talk.

"Link, you fought him before. How did you do it?"

Link was eager to answer. "See, the trick is outsmarting him. It's a subtle tactic, but I find-"

Link was interrupted as he and Zelda were for a moment blinded by a bright light. When the glow had faded, they saw a caterpillar so large his antennae grazed the top of the glass dome covering the arena. Gannondorf laughed at the deer-in-the-headlight expressions of his adversaries. "It's just a little present from my fraternity-brother, Ash."

"Oh snap, it's a giant Caterpie!" Link shouted.

Zelda turned to him confused. "A what?"

"Don't you watch the show? It's a Caretpie, you know…Ooh you're my best friend in a world we must defend," he sang. After Link finished singing the whole theme song, Zelda's expression remained confused. Apparently this elf didn't get up every Saturday at six to watch cartoons. "It's a pokemon," Link explained exasperated. He looked back at the giant monster. "Though in the cartoon show it's generally about 2 feet tall," he added.

The conversation ended abruptly as Link and Zelda jumped away avoiding a large glob of web that the creature had shot out from its mouth. When Zelda got to her feet, she readied herself to take on Caterpie, but Gannondorf had different plans. Before she even noticed him attacking, a small ball of purple light struck her in the forehead. Her body began to walk uncontrollably towards a large stone pillar. Mind control. Zelda silently cursed as she tried to force herself to stand still. But the spell was too strong, and struggle though she might, she found herself banging her head repeatedly against a pillar. She could feel the warm trickle of blood on her the side of her forehead.

Zelda had hoped that after the mind control wore off and she was sufficiently bruised, Gannondorf would target Link instead. However the dark wizard apparently had a score to settle with Zelda and her death was the only thing that would satisfy him. As soon as she was released from the mind control spell, Gannondorf levitated several stone support beams and raised them ominously above Zelda. When he lifted the spell and they came crashing down to earth, it took a great deal of her strength to conjure her own charm to move them away. One struck Gannondorf knocking him onto his back giving Zelda enough time to spring over to her opponent and throw several punches to his face and a swift kick to the groin. Ouch.

When Gannondorf recovered from Zelda's sudden attack, he was not happy. The confident smirk across his face moments before had vanished now and his eyes glowed in fury. Of course, what do you expect when you kick a man in the crotch while wearing heels?

His voice a throaty stampede of words, his teeth gritted in rage, Gannondorf unleashed a beam of purple fire that hit Zelda squarely in the chest. She was thrust back several yards. It would have been much farther, but she hurdled into another stone pillar. A loud crack sounded as her neck hit the pillar with such force that it snapped to the side. Her body fell to the ground limply.

Gannondorf in one large leap came to Zelda. She was lying on her back with her knees bent and pointing to one side and her arms sprawled out, one across her chest. He turned her onto her side and he saw his inkling was correct: her neck had snapped as she hit the column. He used his thumb to pry open her eyelids. The whites of her eyes were pasty and her pupils stared forward blindly.

Gannondorf grazed her cheek with the back of his hand. He sighed almost regretfully. "You have more power than you ever could have known. It's a shame you chose the wrong side. If only you had joined me…" He trailed off and looked down at Zelda one more time before turning away from the lifeless body.

A/N: Don't yell at me too much!