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The Terror

(Set during Ocarina of Time)

With the destruction of Hyrule Castle, Link can do nothing but run away from the burning town. As he flees from Ganondorf's army he spots Impa and Zelda ride a horse to flee as well. "Link take my hand!" Impa shouts as she held her hand for the young hero to grab on. The trio gallops away as they see the Demon King Ganondorf staring and laughing at the enflame town.

(Temple of Time)

Inside the temple, the trio are surrounding the Master Sword embedded on the pedestal and discussing a way to defeat Ganondorf. "Link you must travel forward in time. Grab the Master Sword and become the hero I know you can be." Princess Zelda said as she made the plan but her bodyguard Impa had a different idea. She neck chops the princess but catches her as she slips unconscious.

"Whoa why did you do that?!" Navi asks with Link wanting to know as well. "She must be sent through time. If Zelda dies or captured then that will be the end of the Hyrule royal line. This is the only way to protect her and Hyrule." Impa explains as she places her next to the pedestal.

"Rauru will protect her while we defend the kingdom against the monster horde." Impa suggest which the hero agrees, wanting revenge for attacking his home. "Take the Master Sword and let us go. We have a kingdom to protect." The Sheikah orders which Link nods and lifts the Master Sword as light appears and surrounds Zelda to be transported to Rauru to watch over her.

(7 years later)

The princess begins opening her eyes, groggy like she has sleep for years. She looks around and knows this temple. 'Why am I at the Temple of Time? Wasn't Link suppose-'

"Princess Zelda! Thank the Goddesses you have awaken!" Rauru cheers as he releases her from the crystial imprisonment. She looks at a mirror and notices her new look. She has grown and can't believe it. "B-but how? Link should have been the one sent to the temple."

"Princess, Impa and Link wanted to keep you safe. But now you must be the one to stop them." The Sage of Light warns which confuses Zelda. "What do you mean Rauru?"

Rauru looks scared but resolves himself and walks to the door outside. "You must see it to believe it." The Princess and Sage walk out of the Temple of Time and sees something that shocks Zelda to her core: Rows of women nailed to crosses, each one of them is dead and every one of them is Gerudo, a female society that sees Ganondorf as their hero.

"D-did Link and Impa do this?" She asks afraid as she can't believe that her friends would do such a thing. Rauru looks at the Gerudo with no hate but sadness and sorrow for them. Then he sees Zelda approach them to free the crucified corpses and buried them with respect. "I wish this never happened. After you were sealed in the temple, Link and Impa gather any loyal Hylian knights and warriors and began a campaign to defeat Ganondorf. But over time they saw their efforts as small and meaningless so they began a Terror Warfare. It got worse when Ganondorf attack and burned the Kokiri Forest. That change Link and he became a monster with Impa training him. They torture, mutilate, and execute anyone that was serving the Demon King. I tried so hard to stop them but they wouldn't listen. They even attack Gerudo Valley and massacre all the women there and use their corpses to crucify them."

After burying the Gerudo and listening to Rauru's story, Zelda is shocked and appalled that her friends would do something like this. She looks at the makeshift graves and cries for their lost lives. "Where are Link and Impa? I must go to them and stop this madness."

"They have capture Hyrule Castle and defeated Ganondorf. Good luck Princess, you may be the only hope left for Hyrule." Rauru explains which Zelda nods and walks to the castle. Preparing to stop her friends.

On her way, she sees many atrocities. From burning piles of Moblins to seeing a execution taking place. A knight is holding a crying man to the ground with a Judge reading his crimes. "You have been found guilty of aiding and assisting Ganondorf in his conquest 7 years ago! Your punishment is Death by Noose until your neck breaks!" He orders as the prisoner has a noose on his neck and the knight is about to activate the trap door and hang him.

The Princess cannot believe this sentence and even more once the people protest the hanging.

"He is innocent!"

"His family was kidnap and held hostage! He had no choice!"

"EVERYONE STOP!" She shouts which gets everyone's attention.

"Is that Princess Zelda?!"

"I thought Ganondorf kidnap her 7 years ago!"

"Stop this hanging immediately! We don't hang or murder our fellow Hylians!" She orders which cause the knight to release the captive as said person runs to the princess and hugs her with tears in his eyes. "Thank you Princess. Thank you."

"Tell me young man, what happen to your family?"

"T-they were found by Link but he killed them when they were revealed to be my family. I didn't want to help Ganondorf but he took my family. Please help us Princess..." Is all the man can say with tears in his eyes.

"This is not the Hyrule I know! We care for our fellow man and woman! We don't torture nor execute!" Zelda declares with everyone cheering for the heroine. "I will stop this Reign of Terror! Link and Impa must be brought to justice for these atrocities!"

With a cheering crowd behind her, she walks straight to Hyrule Castle. She makes it to the castle and every guard station is shocked that their missing princess is entering the gate. In the Throne Room, sitting on her throne is Impa who is shock to see her old friend. "Zelda! Thank the Goddess you have awaken. As you have no doubt seen, Hyrule has survive and we have fought back Ganondorf's Invasion." The Sheikah announces expecting Zelda to thank her for her service but...

*SMACK*

Her reward is being slap in the face by the princess. "How could you Impa?! How could you make Hyrule suffer and hurt everyone?!" She demands to her former best friend and bodyguard.

"Zelda, this was our only choice. We tried to help everyone from the Moblin horde and Gerudo raids but we were outnumber and needed to put the fear to our enemies. There were spies and we needed to weed them out."

"SPIES?! We are a civilize kingdom. We don't massarce our citizens! We don't arrest and execute our people! We don't-"

"AAAAGGGGHHHH!"

Zelda's rant ends when shouting can be heard from below. "Impa what was that?"

"That would be our hero interrogating Ganondorf and a intruder in the dungeon." Impa admits with no guilt.

The Princess looks at her friend with sorrow in her eyes. "It is clear you will not stop. Then I must do what is necessary. By the power of the Hylian Monarchy, I am placing you and Link under arrest. Knights secure her!" With that order, the knights are reacting at a instant and place their blades and spears to Impa's neck and begins to chain her.

"Princess please! What we did was awful but it was needed to eliminate Ganondorf!"

"No actions is justified in torture and abuse. Someone get Link and tell him to come her now!"

(Below the castle, Dungeon)

Inside are multiply cells and many of them are full of people that died due to shock or commited suicide to escape the pain. However there are 2 occupied cells with one of them being a intruder that came with armor unknown to many blacksmiths, who is currently passed out after a session of water boarding and the 2nd is Ganondorf who is the one that yelled earlier due to him being branded with the triforce symbol on his chest. He looks into his torturer's eyes and sees no hint of giving up. 'This damn brat! How can he be more ruthless then me?! The Demon King! I swear to all the Goddesses, when I escape I will make this seem like a picnic when I'm done with you Link!'

"Subject is close to passing out Master. Perhaps we should leave him and get a healer for him." A robotic female voice suggest to the one holding the branding iron. This was Link and he has not change at all during the 7 years. The only difference is a green medallion on his neck and his eyes hold no blue kindness but is a cold grey that promises no mercy. He nods as he puts the iron away and walks back to the throne room to report the confessions he made.

"It would seem Master Link that the holder of the Triforce of wisdom has awaken and is in the castle." She states as they leave the dungeon, leaving the intruder and Ganondorf inside their cells. However the intruder gets up and coughs up some water. "Gghhkk!"

"You were playing dead?!" The Demon King asks as they get up.

"Yes, now to get my armor and get out of here. But first to deal with you."

(Throne Room)

Link walks into the throne room and sees his trainer Impa kneel down and chained down next to the returning princess. Zelda looks at her old friend and can't believe it, he hasn't change or age at all. He still looks like he was 7 years ago. Beside him is a blue fairy-like spirit and looks "Greetings Princess Zelda. It is a pleasure to meet you in this incarnation. I am Fi."

Zelda is surprise and confuse at the spirit that appears next to Link. "You are Fi? But I thought your spirit fused with the Master Sword to make it stronger against evil."

"I was but then I came back 5 years ago. Back to this form." The spirit explains with Impa adding to the story: "We fought for 2 years and had no results, no wins just losing soldiers after soldiers. Then the Burning of Kokiri Forest happen and Saria lost her life defending the land and her people. Before she died, she gave Link her Forest Medallion as a last gift. The Medallion change him somehow and turn him into a Kokiri and now he is the Sage of the Forest. We both knew at that point that we had to be more cruel and ruthless against Ganondorf if we were going to win."

"And so you somehow freed Fi from the Master Sword." Zelda guesses which Impa nods and explains. "We thought a spirit as ancient as her must have knowledge on Ganondorf so we revive her. However to bring her back, we had to sacrifice a soul."

"It was Navi wasn't?" Zelda questions with shock in her face. "She is not here and you killed her didn't you?"

"We needed her. Navi volunteer to sacrifice herself to bring Fi back to life." Impa defends her actions and Link has no guilt in his face but Zelda has had enough of these actions.

"Link, you are under arrest for inhumane acts against Hyrule citizens." Zelda orders. Fi however can't allow this.

"Princess Zelda, they may have hurt people but they have defeated Ganondorf and keeping him lock up. We need our hero to save future threats."

"So you are defending them?!" Zelda demands to the spirit.

"To stop a cruel villain, you need a brutal hero to save the kingdom." Fi states as Link pulls out the Master Sword. "Link don't hurt her. She is just confuse and may need to be put under house arrest."

He nods and charges at the princess. The knights try to defend their monarch but are killed by Link. He gets close to her but a wall is destroyed by a unknown individual. Someone in a orange bulky armor and a arm cannon. They fire a blast that hits Link. Zelda looks at her rescuer. "Who are you?"

"I am Samus Aren and I was torture by him. I am back for revenge!" The unknown warrior yells with anger in her voice. She turns into a ball and rolls at her torturer. Zelda helps her by firing light arrows at her former friend. "Knights get Impa out of here! Samus and I will deal with him!"

Link prepares his Master Sword as it glows, ready to strike down Samus and capture Zelda.

OR DOES HE?

(Unknown Tower)

"Master are you okay?"

The former Link, now named Timore opens his eyes to see Fi staring at him. "Were you remembering Hyrule?"

He nods as he gets up from his chair. He remembers fighting Samus and Zelda, being a torturer, and losing Saria and Navi to Ganondorf. The only light he has left is Fi, his guardian angel. Now here he is, capture by this Sauron and force to serve him with other Links. One of them enters his room.

He looks like him if he grown up but is shirtless and wearing red baggy pants. On his back seems to be a tattoo symbol the Terror knows nothing about.

"Greetings Bellum, how can we help you?" Fi asks but the Warmonger just smiles and ask a question that makes Timore interested.

"Oh I'm good. But how about you two? Don't you want to be free of Sauron?

"How?"

I'm making a prison break. You in? Could be fun."

Profile:

Timore

The Terror

Appearance- Young Link is a child but has never age due to his Kokiri race. He wears a green tunic and green hat, making him a normal looking Link instead of blue his eye color is grey. His necklace is the Forest Medallion.

Personality- This Link has been called the cruelest of them due to a childlike fascination to torture and terror warfare. During the Gerudo Wars, Link has taken a more sadistic approach and brings despair to friend and foe. In fact, his favorite hobbies is studying and finding people's fears and phobias. He solely cares for Fi and treats her like his sister. She is good and calm but has a hard time displaying emotions due to her logical nature. She tries to curbs Link's erratic behavior with mixed results. He is also mute and silent and let's Fi talk on their behalf.

Powers- Master sword is his sole weapon: It is one of the most powerful sword due to the ability to destroy evil and corruption. The sword has also been upgrade by having the spirit inside the sword, Fi revive and remade. Becoming Sage of the Forest, he can control nature like trees and plants. He is a master of interrogation and psychological warfare.

3 reasons the Goddesses see him a failure- Sadistic, childish, and corrupted the Master Sword and Fi.

Author's note- And now that this story is over, I am going to put all these Links in future stories, how they dealed with their kidnapper and what they are doing. Here are summaries for the first 3 stories:

Tenebris the Dark: Goes to Ferelden to join the Grey Wardens to stop the Darkspawn. (Dragon Age Origins)

Utlagatus the Outlaws: The squad becomes Wizard Saints and goes to help the guilds against Oracion Seis. (Fairy Tail)

Latronem the Marauder: Pirate Queen heads to the South Pole to help the Water Tribe and Korra against Unalaq and Vaatu. (Avatar)