Chapter 11 - Ganondorf Attacks! - A Love Affair is Ignited!

After what seemed like several hours, Link finally reached the massive tree. It was shimmering in all colors of the rainbow and he felt completely safe.
A ball of glowing light was floating in the air, high up, and it began to slowly lower itself towards the ground.
Link stared at this tree for several minutes. He didn't know why, but he couldn't help but continue to look at it. Then Xerneas appeared from the glowing ball of light. "Hello, Hero of Wind." she greeted.

"You again." Link replied.

"I would like to let you know why I chose you to become a Pokémon and have the powers and abilities that you now possess."

"I'm like this because of you?"

"Yes. And I did it because our own Champion fell in battle. You were chosen because of this."

"Who was your Champion?"
"An Aerodactyl. Her spirit is here now, in the Tree of Life."

"I see."

"There is also something else you need to know about. Are you aware of Dark Matter yet?"
Link shook his head.
"No. I assume it is...world ending?"
Xerneas laughed.
"You Hero types know what is world ending and what is not...Yes. Dark Matter is in fact world ending. It-"
A roar resounded through the air and Xerneas snorted and pawed the ground with a hoof and answered with a bray in challenge.
It was Ganondorf.

The Tyranitar grinned.
"Finally. I found you, Xerneas. Surrender your power to me, and I might let you live.
Xerneas shook her head.
"No. I will not, and you shall do no harm to your adversary."
'Dorf smirked.
"Oh, I don't need to. In fact, I have the perfect solution."
He stepped out of the way and Zelda was standing there, well, floating, really, but yet she looked...different.
"Zelda!"
Link ran towards her but he was thrown back by some sort of force field.
"Don't even try it, Link, she works with me, now. All I have to do is give the word, and she'll stop at nothing to kill you."
A second later, the Gardevoir flew up to Link and hit him with Moonblast.
Link could only lay there, staring up at his friend in pain and confusion.
"Zelda? What….What are you doing?"
"She can't hear you. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't break my spell!"
All Link could do was try to negate as much damage as possible, it got to a point where he had to do something, and so he used Ice Fang. Zelda froze completely and that gave Link time to get away from her and over to Xerneas.
Then, Zelda unfroze and flew over to him, hit him again with Moonblast, and Link was down.
But yet he felt something be placed around his neck, and then he could feel himself changing, shifting….

He was a Feraligatr. The pain was gone now, replaced with confusion and anger, not towards Zelda, but at Ganondorf. However, Zelda was still attacking him, so he had to deal with that first. Zelda continued to pelt him with Moonblast and he was ever so slowly pushed backwards, eventually, he used Hydro Pump and Zelda flew across the clearing into Ganondorf. But then she got up and flew towards him again.
Why is this happening?! Why?!
"Zelda, my dear, why don't you let me handle this?" said the Tyranitar as he started to walk towards them.
Zelda's gaze met Link's and it was filled with horror and grief.
"I'm sorry." she whispered before Ganondorf was upon them and Zelda was sent flying backwards as the Demon King charged Link.
The two met with a flash of light and when the dust settled, the two had grabbed each others arms and were slowly pushing the other away.

Ganondorf was soon able to overpower Link, and push him into the also injured Xerneas. But Ganondorf didn't stop there, the Tyranitar pulled an arm back and used Thunder Fang.Link flew backwards and hit something soft, then he slammed into the Tree of Life's trunk and landed on his front when he fell.

Something was screaming. Then the screaming stopped and the ground shook.
Link stared upwards and he realized that the Tree of Life was dying.
He risked looking to his left and wished he hadn't - Xerneas had died a horrible death, all her bones were broken and she was burnt.
Blood was covering him. It wasn't his, it was Xerneas'.
Then, he felt as if he had been severely kicked everywhere at once and his vision went white from the pain.
"I won! At long last, I won!" Ganondorf roared in victory and Link dimly felt something enclose itself around him, like a hand. Judging by the scent alone, it was Yveltal.
His vision came back slowly; Ganondorf was surrounded by a massive army of various Pokémon, and they were all bowing down to him.

"I, the awesome and powerful Ganondorf, will take over both this world and my own and no one can possibly stop me!"
He walked up to Link, bent down, ripped the Time Gear from around his neck and held it aloft.
"I now have all five Time Gears, Xerneas and the Tree of Life are now dead, I have an army at my beck and call….And what do you have? Nothing."
Ganondorf started to laugh as Zelda walked up to him, then suddenly usd Moonblast, grabbed the Time Gear, threw it towards Link, who caught it, then Zelda ran up to him, and hit him with Moonblast as well. For all intents and purposes, Link was dead.

But yet, Zelda yelled something at him before that.
It didn't seem to mean much at that point, a harmless saying, but it wasn't until later, much later, that Link realized that both of them secretly harbored feelings for each other.
- She had yelled "I love you", and as Link was travelling back in time, still a Feraligatr at this point, he had no idea how to react.
...She….Loves me?
Oh, Farore.

Link had never felt the same way about her. In fact, a part of him felt he didn't like girls that way at all. But now he knew that he did in fact love Zelda.
A part of him knew that it was because he was older now, due to him undergoing Evolution, and that he possibly wouldn't feel like this when he deevolved, but a part of him wanted to.
Grandma was right. All I needed to do was wait until love found me, and it did. And it feels glorious. But I need to stop Ganondorf and save Zelda for there to be any chance...I have to get back to the past and find her.
Link felt as if he was floating for a second, then he slammed into the ground and everything was gone.