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Finally a new chapter for you, my patient readers!

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First Contact

It had been several weeks since Ganondorf had taken power, he spread darkness over the land and had more than the support from Hyrule's people, he finally managed to control a slight part of every man and woman in the country, excepting the farm not to far from the castle "The family there are very well ignorant of the situation outside their walls, and even if they were to find out what I've done, they would go to bankruptcy and starvation, no matter what side they support they'll have to submit to my rule" he pondered with satisfaction, he smirked and looked above, the castle tower revealing a moon painted in blood.

He stood from his throne and walked the broken halls to Zelda's chamber, the door had been destroyed long ago so he didn't bother waiting by it, he passed through and stood in the middle of the room, eyes glaring at the princess sitting by the window "Does it please you?" he asked her, approaching at the window and staring at his dark masterpiece outside, Zelda didn't respond, the air around her seemingly numb, Ganondorf grinned "Have I broken you so that not even a word comes out?" he laughed.

Zelda did not move, "He will defeat you" she answered in the coldest voice she could muster.

Ganondorf raised a brow "Oh, the boy? What exactly makes you think that I have nothing in store for him?"

"Evil can only act when blindly driven by something" she stated "You do not think" she bit back, turning from the window she glared at him intensely, emotion rushing through her eyes "He will defeat you" she repeated, Zelda suddenly felt a painful grip on her shoulders, but before she could register what caused the pain she felt an even harder shock of pain all over her back.

She cringed painfully and realized her eyes were closed shut, she opened them slowly to find herself face to face with Ganondorf, his large hands still gripping painfully to her shoulders as she pushed her further against what she now realized was the wall, she glared back matching his eyes "Have I broken you so that not even a word comes out?" she groaned audibly as she felt the same pattern of pain in her shoulders and back, knowing that her mockery had caused Ganondorf to snap, she felt satisfied despite the pain.

"Be careful princess" Ganondorf spat, getting closer to her face, his voice barely above a whisper "There is nothing a man like me is not capable of…" he threatened, Zelda's heart raced at this last statement, she didn't know what Ganondorf was truly capable of when pushed to the edge, and she didn't know how much mockery could drive him to it, her body shook unwillingly from fear at the very knowledge of how dangerously close he was, at this Ganondorf smirked "Do not fret princess, I could never kill you"

He loosened his grip on her and walked about the room as he spoke, leaving her lying on her knees in a corner "Your beauty and wisdom is truly a gift, there is no other woman like you to my knowledge, and that is what makes you truly desirable" every word he spoke struck fear into her.

"What is he saying?" she thought to herself as she tried to recover the courage to stand up.

"Which is why you are the perfect bait for any man in Hyrule, including-" he turned to her, sick satisfaction clear in his eyes "-your dear Hero" he finished.

Zelda's eyes widened slightly, but she refused to let him know how afraid she truly was "Link gets driven by the desire to help people in need, a pursuit that is fruitful and noble, unlike you" she dared to answer, still afraid of what reaction he would take upon her words.

Ganondorf merely laughed "It is truly sad how locked you've been in these walls, you truly do not know the nature of men, do you princess? Even though you're daily surrounded by no fewer than twenty men" he kept walking around the room "As pure as you think his heart is, he is still a man, and all men are fish drawn by your beauty, and that-" He turned to her and walked to her corner, knealing in front of her and gripping her chin forcefully, she gripped his hand to try and pry herself from him but the more she tried the tighter his grip became, Ganondorf forced her to look directly into his eyes as he spoke "-is why your Hero will come, and when he does… You will see him die at your feet" he let her go and stood up "Isn't it magnificent? His love for you is what will drive a sword through his heart!" he laughed loudly, the echo traveling far across the castle halls, Zelda stared in pure fear, unable to hide it any longer "Maybe you were right to think he would come after all Zelda" he said her name in disrespect and walked out the room, Zelda clutched her chest to where her racing heart was, breathing heavily as she tried to stand up, she didn't want to admit it, but this could truly be Links final hour.

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"It's been very well over a month! How long does it take to get it right!?" Tetra demanded as she saw the progress -Or rather lack of it- that her pirates had accomplished, so far not one was even capable of riding a horse, she was growing desperate "This is useless!" she dropped to the floor, sitting in sign of defeat, she turned her head to look at Link who was calmingly stroking Epona's hair, Tetra stood up and walked over to him "Why are you so calm?" she placed her hands on her hips.

Link looked at her and smiled "Epona missed being here, she looks happy"

Tetra eyed the beast and then turned to Link "In case you haven't noticed, we haven't made progress at all since we started" she crossed her arms.

Link placed the brush down and dusted his hands a bit "I've noticed, and I've also noticed that they are trying hard, we can't push them more than what their limits can bare"

Tetra scoffed "Their limits are too short for my liking, at this rate they will never be at our level"

Link scratched his head slightly "We are at a very high level… It's not easy to reach our level in merely weeks"

Tetra looked back at her pirates and sighted "Then what do we do? The longer we stay here the wider Ganondorf's evil spreads, we can't just sit here and wait until they learn how to even climb onto a horse" she tried to reason with Link.

Link pondered her words for a few moments and then nodded "You're right, but we're still at a high disadvantage if we try to take on Ganondorf by ourselves"

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Link started to ponder on his future plans when something in the back of his mind voiced

Link? Can you hear me?

Link lifted his head and looked at the sky "Saria?"

Link, there is a grave disturbance in the temples

Link frowned, his gaze deeply concentrated in the dark sky above him, Tetra looked at his expression and looked at the sky as well "What's wrong?" she asked.

They had seen the sky turn this dark tinge a few weeks ago, so this shouldn't be news to him, "What's wrong?" Link asked Saria

The great evil that Ganondorf spread has reached the temples, not just ours, but those of far lands as well. We have received desperate calls from the spirits beyond Hyrule to call upon you to help them

Link looked down still frowning, which made Tetra looked down as well "What is it?" she turned her stare at him.

"I can't go help them now, I must defeat Ganondorf first" Link concluded

But Link… Zelda…

Link's head snapped up "What's wrong? Is she ok?" hearing no answer right away he grew frustrated, finally his answer came

Link… Something's happened to her, we are not sure what, but we can feel her presence in every temple, it's weak, but we know that's her energy, Link you have to find out what happened to her

Link nodded "I will" he said audibly, making Tetra frown.

"You will what? What the heck's going on with you!?" she demanded.

Link looked at her, slightly taken back by her tone "I'm sorry" he said and ran back to the house.

Tetra following him quickly "Hey! You haven't told me what just happened back there!" she said as they both entered the house, Link walked to the room he was given by Malon and started rummaging through his stuff but before he could grab any item Tetra had moved the chest away from him, shutting it tightly "You're not going anywhere until I know what's gotten into you"

Link stood up and looked at her apologetically "I'm sorry, I've received word from the sages, it seems there is chaos at the temples all over the nations and…" He frowned "Something happened to the princess, her energy is scattered all over these temples, I have to go and check this out, who knows what happened to the princess" he finished.

Tetra looked at him for a moment then opened the chest herself, rummaging through his stuff, Link looked at her in surprise and confusion "So are these weapons any good?" Link smiled and rummaged with her, trying to see which weapons could be useful to him.

"Um… What are you doing?" Link and Tetra turned to Malon as she stood at the door.

They both looked at each other "There has been a change of plans…" started Tetra.

"Are you going to save Zelda now?" asked Malon, slightly walking forward, clearly interested in their plans.

"Sort of…" continued Tetra.

Malon walked closer "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Tetra looked at Link trying to get him to bail them out of it "Malon… We appreciate all that you've done for us, we understand you want to help out more but you have done more than what we can repay you" he tried to let her down as gently as he could, he didn't want to hurt her, but he couldn't have her running around the way he always did, he had lost count of the times he bled, got bruised, scratched and burnt to let any of that happen to her if he let her come along.

Nevertheless Malon insisted "I want to help, you always do selfless things to so many people, I want to help you this time"

Link looked back at Tetra "I don't know what to do either.." she whispered to him.

Link sighted "I know you feel trapped here, but I can't let you tag along, it's too dangerous for you to get in any of these temples, and I will never forgive myself if something happened to you"

Malon looked down "But I could heal you guys…"

"It's ok! We're packing enough medicine to help us" tried Tetra.

Malon finally gave in and sighted "At least promise you'll be back safe"

Tetra and Link smiled as they nodded in unison "Promise" said Link as they grabbed the necessary weapons and stood up "We'll be back sooner than you think" he placed a gloved hand on her shoulder, she looked down and nodded, as they exited the door she ran to her room and stood in front of the window watching them prepare everything else for their trip.

Malon sighted "He answers her call so quickly, never wasting a second to her aid…" she thought aloud "This is her time of need and I understand he needs to leave… But even if she calls him to see how he's doing he goes running to her without a second thought…" Malon sat down on the seat by the window, watching Link avoid an argument with Tetra about how they would travel "Maybe it's just me… Maybe if I called him he would answer my call as well…" she concluded, nodding to herself she stood up, walking to the door to help them pack.

Once everything was ready Link climbed onto Epona and made her walk around to test if the weight was too much for her, when he made sure Epona was fine he hopped down and waited for Tetra to choose a horse.

Tetra walked through the rows of available horses, making mental notes on the ones that looked fit to take the journey, she finally stopped at a caramel colored horse, detailing it she smiled "This one will do" she pet its neck, Malon nodded and moved the horse from its stable, giving the reigns to Tetra so she could take it outside, she prepared it just like Epona and climbed on "What's our first stop?"

She looked over at Link as he climbed onto Epona "Forest Temple, it's deep inside the Lost Woods" he said as he made Epona walk to Tetra.

"We'll come back soon, and you guys take good care of Malon!" she told her pirate crew, they all yelled in agreement which made Malon laugh.

"Remember your promise!" she reminded Link.

He smiled "Sure" he said and rode off followed soon by Tetra, the blood red moon lighting their path to the forest.

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The sound of hooves was the only soft noise around the forest as Link led the way, Tetra following not too far behind, she looked around entranced by the beauty that was the Lost Woods, she looked around to try and find any differences between a few moments ago and now and it dazzled her to find everything almost identical, she turned to see Link calmly making turns every now and then "Hey" she started, Link turned his head slightly to let her know he was listening "How do you know your way around this place? Everything looks completely identical to me"

Link laughed "I've lived here almost my entire life so knowing my way around is very easy to me"

Tetra crossed her arms "If I didn't know better I'd say you are as lost as I am" Link just smiled as they kept walking through, arriving not much later at stone steps that led to a broken stone palace covered in vines, Tetra looked at it and raised a brow "This is the forest temple?" Link nodded and got down Epona, followed by Tetra, her expression not too convinced about the Temple's nature.

Link opened the door and cautiously walked inside, the temple suddenly becoming dark, Link and Tetra could hear noises coming from the depths, they pulled their swords out and walked slowly deeper "I wonder what kind of beast lurks-" Tetra was suddenly pulled to the ceiling by a tentacle, her blade slipping from her hand and falling near Link's side, she was swung around as a screech was heard from the whole in the center of the temple's main room, Link quickly grabbed Tetra's sword and lunged it at the tentacle hitting it perfectly, the tentacle cut in two leaving Tetra to fall from the ceiling, Link jumped and caught her quickly before hitting the ground "Link! I saw it! I saw the thing! It is covered in steel!" Link let go of her "Quick! It comes!" she warned, Link readied his sword and watched as the creature lifted its torso from the hole, its centipede-like body lifting to the ceiling, showing Link the claws all over the body, the head nothing but layers of teeth that went beyond its throat, it lunged at Link and he jumped, nearly avoiding the teeth, he looked at Tetra as she climbed the creature's back, trying to get a hold of her blade lunged in the ceiling, the creature realized her pursuit and started thrashing about, making Tetra almost fall.

Link pulled out his bow and arrow and shot one at the creature "I'll distract it!" he yelled to her.

Tetra nodded and finished climbing the back, jumping and grabbing her sword before rolling to Link's side "Any weaknesses?"

"Only one" said Link and pointed to the creature's open mouth "Inside there's a soft spot, but in order to get it-" they docked another attack, tentacles included this time "-We have to let it nearly swallow one of us"

Tetra stared at him "You're kidding…" they docked again, she looked at Link once more, he wasn't kidding "Well I'm not letting that thing swallow me! Being digested wasn't part of the deal!"

"It's ok! I'll do it!" yelled Link as he ran from the creature's attack.

"Have you gone insane!? It'll kill you!"

"We don't have much time before it gets smart and changes strategy! I'll let it swallow me and you distract it from chewing!"

Tetra stared with even more disbelief "What!? No way! I-" before she could finish Link stopped dead in his tracks, letting the creature fall down completely on him, its mouth covering him whole, Tetra stared "He's suicidal!!" she grabbed a rock lying about and threw it to the creature "Hey you!" she yelled, the creature turned and screeched in anger, it started clawing at her but she dodged every attack, she tried looking inside the creature's mouth but found no trace of Link "Dear Goddesses… Has he been killed?" she asked herself as she kept throwing rocks at the creature, finally angered it cornered Tetra with its tentacles.

Opening its mouth it readied to eat her when it stopped just above her head, slime dropping from its teeth and falling on her "Disgusting…" she said to it more than to herself, and as the creature screeched and thrashed finally falling by her left she looked at its head, the blade of a sword poking from the steel body, she watched the creature's mouth move, a slime-covered Link making his way out, she looked at him "… Don't ever do that again…" Link grinned sheepishly "I got worried that you got swallowed" she crossed her arms.

"Thanks for the help" he told her and tried to take some of the slime off him, the creature vanished in a dark smoke, a white small sphere levitating from the hole and lighting the room in a dim light, Link extended his hand to catch it but it moved towards Link burying itself in his chest.

Link looked at himself and then at Tetra "What was that?" she asked him.

He stared at the spot where the sphere had entered "I think… It's Zelda…"

"… Well… In one way or another we got what we came here for, let's go to the next temple" she said and walked out, Link touched the place where the sphere had entered his body, he shook whatever thought was forming in his mind and walked from the temple, deciding to ponder on it another day.

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Author's notes: Finally had some time to write! And I did good use of it too, I've made up to… 7 more chapters as backup (that includes this one too) and since I finally managed to see which class is the most time-consuming I will be writing more often, hopefully.

I've been having so much fun with the new chapters too! And I can't wait to share my comments on them with you! Unfortunately though, that will have to wait, don't want to spoil it for you! I've also wanted to comment that due to the fact that I'm very forgetful I stopped placing who the title song belonged to… It's kind of late now so I won't start on it, but of course I do state that I am only borrowing the song title.

On a last note for now, I appreciate those who reviewed, those who shyly didn't comment but read anyways, and those who anonymously passed by and also read, you guys make me want to write more about my story! Thank you!

Reviews always are greatly appreciated

Amanita Virosa-Amaranthus-: It's a funny story really, you see I hadn't played Twilight Princess enough to know about Midna's nature, but with some help from someone who did, I managed to write the Twilight Princess chapters without fully playing the game, I had made RK from the characteristics of a friend and basically thought on what her actions would be like and all that, and it was only after I finished Twilight Princess that I had realized of all the similarities that Midna and RK have, imagine that! I had no idea I was making RK so similar to her!

Next Tuesday will be another update!

-Gravity