In a few minutes he would go through his ceremony to become a full fledged knight. He hadn't told anyone yet, he had gone through his coronation two years ago, on his fifteenth birthday. Which meant that all the gerudo would be loyal to the hylians.

For the thousandth time he wondered if he was doing the right thing. They would no longer be thieves, and he wasn't sure if they could survive. Sir Giffard had assured him that the king had promised to solve this issue, but no solution had been reached.

Ganondorf sighed and got up. There wasn't time to change his mind. He just had to trust that he was doing the right thing. He began to walk toward the ceremonial hall, and immersed in his thoughts as he was, he didn't realize someone was coming up behind him until he saw the flash of the sword coming at his neck.

He dropped to the ground, mentally cursing himself for letting his guard down. Living in Castle City had dimmed his gerudo training. The sword clanged on the stone wall behind him, chipping a flake of it away.

Ganondorf leapt to his feet and assessed his opponent. There were two of them, each dressed in full armor that hid their faces, the only distinction he could find between them was that the one who had just attacked him had a flaw along their chest plate. In the same moment Ganondorf realized how stupid it was not to at least bring a dagger with him, regardless of the fact weapons had been forbidden during the ceremony (he supposed someone must thing he would assassinate the king).

He leapt aside as the knight the flawed armor attacked again, the other knight was hanging back.

"Why are you attacking me?"

Flaw-armor was the one to respond "No gerudo will ever become a knight while I am alive."

There was something familiar about the voice, but before Ganondorf could think on it the sword came at his neck again and Ganondorf just barely dodged. Ganondorf realized quite quickly that these knights were out to kill him, not just teach him a lesson. And his only weapons were his fists.

The knight swung the sword, this time it was a clumsy swipe and it left an opening, Ganondorf took it without another thought.

His fist plunged into the knight's chest, sending him flying back into to wall. Ganondorf leapt back, ready for another attack, but the knight didn't move.

The flaw in the chest plate had split and buckled backward with the force of the blow, the jagged edge left had pierced through the knight's chest and strait into his heart. Blood now seeped from the wound.

Ganondorf started in horror, he had not meant to kill the man.

The knight's companion rushed to his side "By the goddesses! What have you done Ganondorf?!"
Ganondorf reeled back in renewed shock, for he recognized the voice, and realized where he had heard the now dead knight's voice before. The knight's companion removed both his and his dead comrade's helmet, confirming his suspicions.

The two knights were Chariton and Armel, and he had just killed Armel.

A small village stood In front of them, the buildings nostalgically similar to those in Ordon.

Midna sighed with relief "Finally! I thought we'd never see the other side of that blasted piece of rock!" she paused and gave a preemptive glare at Ganondorf "No I'm not afraid of rocks.

Ganondorf smirked. He had asked her that more times than he could count. Midna realized he had been ticked about his fear of the temple of time doors being pointed out, but it was just getting annoying.

Zelda interrupted before they could get into another argument "Perhaps we should look for somewhere to exchange our rupees. I'm sure they hold some value here and we'll need the money."

Before they could come up with an objection she headed off, hoping that they would follow.

Everyone in the village stared at them. Zelda walked up to the first person she saw. The woman was dressed in a red skirt with a white blouse with a basket on her arm filled with bread.

"Excuse me ma'am, we're looking for a place where we might sell a few rupees, gems, do you know where we might go?"

The lady nodded, smiling "Of course dear! You want the jeweler's place. It's right down the street and to the right."

"Thank you ma'am."

"No trouble darling, it's not often we get visitors from over the mountains."

The lady stared at them for a moment as they followed her directions before she went on her way.

Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf emptied their wallets in front of the jeweler, Midna had no rupees. Link had a lot of rupees but they were mostly blue and green, with a few yellow, and two red. Ganondorf barely had any, he hadn't brought many before he was executed and certainly didn't get any since, but he did manage to fish out one purple. Zelda's purse, however, was filled to the brim with orange and silver.

The jeweler examined the gems silently.

Finally he indicated Link's pile "five hundred gold." He pointed to Ganondorf's lone rupee "twenty five" and then Zelda's "five thousand."

Midna whistled "You carry a lot of cash Zelda!"

Zelda blushed "I'm not supposed to be seen with any thing but the highest value rupees."

Ganondorf raised an eyebrow "You shouldn't carry that much money around, pickpockets aim for those people faster than you can blink, and I'm speaking from experience."

Somehow, Zelda doubted he was the victim of the experience "I'll keep that in mind Ganondorf, thank you.

They had their rupees exchanged and left in search of a hotel to spend the night.