CHAPTER 3

Colin got up and saw Ganon charging towards him. He escaped from the horns just in time. Rusl rose and tossed a sword to Colin. "There is a time to run, but it is NOT going to be today!" Colin caught the sword in its sheath, and drew it. He slashed at the demon with all his might, but couldn't even scratch him. Rusl managed to distract the demon long enough for Colin to find a weak spot: the tail. He took his sword and slashed at the tail 3 times before managing to cut it off. The demon reared its head, and brought its claws down on its opponent, almost. Colin defended himself just in time, and threw the demon aside. Finally, he finished of the demon by stabbing him in the back. Everyone eventually got up and applauded the father and son duo. The demon reverted back to the shape of Malo, and one person thought Colin was a killer. "Ashfizah kafuc lita fazak rikta rezkac Ganondorf," shouted Malo in his dying breath. Then he started to glow orange, and a massive surge coursed through his body. Colin pulled the sword out of Malo's chest and ran away, telling others to do the same. But without warning Malo exploded into a huge shockwave of fire. Beth was screaming when she saw her parents consumed by the explosion. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Colin wrenched her away just before the flames engulfed the entire village.

Rusl addressed to the people, "Friends, we have been through hard times, we have lost loved ones to the grave or outside world, and we have seen monsters running through this village. But, no tragedy or disaster could ever compare to this. Despite today being filled with despair, we must trek onward, to wherever fate leads us. We must not let this moment seize control. We must look to the future, and make it brighter!" The crowd cheered in unison.

The next thing people did was pick up anything that was theirs, pile it into a few caravans, and move to the Faron Woods. Colin was still trying to calm down Beth, but she kept saying, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, LOSING SOMEONE YOU LOVE!" He responded, "Actually, I lost my mom to an unknown disease 2 years ago." A tear was forming in his eye. "The doctor called it a tumor, breast cancer he said." Colin closed his eyes, his voice was breaking up. "She said she wanted to see my face again. She loved me and my brother, and she was going to see him now." He broke down, and it was Beth who had to calm him down. She wrapped her arms around him and whispered in his ear, "I'll be here for you." Colin looked up, dried his eyes, and helped Beth pack up her stuff. Finally, he went back to his house, gathered his belongings into a caravan led by Silver, and waited for the rest of the crew.

When they were ready, Rusl led the villagers to the woods. They camped out near the spring of Faron. "We should be well protected tonight. I don't know about tomorrow." Beth asked Colin, "Will we?" He responded with, "Of course, we will." They went to sleep almost instantaneously.

Colin woke up to a heavenly sound. He followed it to the spring, and he saw a glowing orb rise from the water and take the form of a monkey with a long tail. "Oh brave hero," it called, "Come to my spring." Colin obeyed its instructions. "I am Faron, one of the spirits of light, and protector of these forests. My younger sibling, Ordon, is about to die just after you go. To protect him, I need you to burn the only bridge that connects his providence to the rest of the world."

"Why? The village is still back there. As well as my house."

"You need them?"

"We were planning to rebuild it soon."

"Something tells me you won't."

Colin finally agreed to burn the bridge, after he emptied his house. He wasn't sure if he was doing the right thing by sealing off his home, but as Faron put it, it had to be done.

In a distant desert, the lifeless figure was starting to move his fingers. He could feel his hands again. After 10 years of being dead, after two of my servants died, life returns to me. I shall finish what I started long ago. Ganondorf was awakening.