Note: Somebody tell me if I got Ganon right...
Ganondorf……He stood there…in front of Link and Meeko with the sinister smirk that Link remember from their first meeting, the same fiery colored eyes and dark skin…the same feeling of dread that hung around him…an identical man to the oppressor that Link had confronted to save Hyrule. With colossal arms crossed over his chest, Ganondorf surveyed the two newcomers as the band of monstrous Lizalfos hissed in waiting for their coming kill. The evil master laughed once again at the fearful looks that both Meeko and Link shared……
"Geh heh heh! To think…the Hero of Time would grace my humble domain…It is an honor!!" Ganondorf sarcastic tone caused Link's core to burn. Thinking back on what he did…what he will do to Midna……kill him once wasn't enough for Link, "If you have any value for your lives, then do not resist my will…"
Link couldn't keep his rage bottle up anymore. Taking hold of his only weapon, his sword, Link ran at full velocity and intended to impale the dark king through the heart. Ganondorf being surprise by the sudden outburst took a step back, though soon recollected himself and stood as stiff as steel…as Link thrust forward. A great war-cry bellowed out of Link's lungs as the blade speared through the devil's black armor and exited out of his back, creating a sickening sound of crushing bone and squishing flesh. Then an unexpected noise came to Link's ears……a snicker.
"If you are done with childish displays, then maybe we can go on…" Link reared back in horror. He had succeeded in piece Ganondorf's chest, cutting through his armor and thick hide… and the bastard was still alive! With a smile across his face, Ganondorf continued his mock, "Oh my! It seems that you have forgotten your little sword in your tiny rampage, boy…"
Grabbing the base of halt, Ganondorf proceeded to pull Link's sword from his chest. The stomach-turning sounds of flesh and bones reacting to blade's entry follow it as the blade was towed out. The entire scene buckled down on Meeko's psyche, her innocent mind couldn't bear this new world of battle. She turned her sights away and prayed for an answer to end this madness as Ganondorf persisted with retracting the wedged weapon. As the sword existed, Link noticed utter lack of blood…not even a single drop came out!
"Ah, there…" Ganondorf exhaled as he presented the sword, "Oh! What's this!! Not a trace of blood anywhere on the blade? Well…I was always considered heartless…geh heh heh…"
Link was once again filled rage, but now knew that he could do nothing against the monster in front of him. Taking a look behind him, Link saw Meeko, still recoiled in fear and disgust, which instantly changed his anger into guilt. Link needed a way to help both Meeko and himself…not to seek revenge. There was only one choose in Link's mind…
"Meeko…I need you to do exactly as I say and do, alright?" Meeko glance at Link as he kept his eyes strained on the demons in front of them. Preparing for whatever her role to be, Meeko listen carefully the hero's edict, "………RUN!!"
"Wha-" but there was not time for Meeko reply as Link grabbed the dumbfounded girl and sped off. After crossing the dark wastelands for some distance, Meeko found her voice again, "Aren't you suppose to stay behind and fight to the death, Hero Boy?!"
"If you got a problem then you can always go back!!" Link retorted back as they continued to run.
"WHAT KIND OF HERO OF TIME ARE YOU!!"
"THE NOT DEAD KIND!!"
The pair stopped their pace when a grinning Ganondorf appeared in front of them……
"There is nowhere for you to run!!" The Gerudo lord called out.
"FIGHT HIM!!" Meeko screamed as she pushed Link forward.
"WITH WHAT?! MY BOOT?!"
"FINE!! I'LL DO IT!!" Shoving Link out her path, Meeko raised her hands and stretched out her arms. Forming her fingers into a triangle, Meeko began to chant, "Hallowed Mothers who art in the skies; Listen to thy's need forth cry. In the life of plants and animals that grow; Let the Thous' might forever flow. Deliver thy the strength of the wind! Din's Howl!!"
A whirlwind of golden light swirled around Meeko, with sparks of red flashing about and with an earsplitting shriek that seem to come from all directions, the storm continence itself in between Meeko's fingers. Then the light rained out in a funnel shaped beam toward Ganondorf. The accumulation of energy hit the King of Evil head-on and sent him flying far towards horizon. Link was awestruck.
"…why didn't you do that before…?" Link asked to an equally amazed Meeko.
"…if I knew I could…I would've…"
Unfortunately, the duo couldn't enjoy Meeko's work for long…the Lizalfo had caught up. Link burst into action, jumping forward to fend off the creatures with only weapon he had, his body. Diving down at the first Lizalfo's legs, Link knocking the fiend down, then twirled his body around, and knocked a second Lizalfo to the ground……Meeko, meanwhile, had retaken her speedy pace, hightailing it the hell out of there (smart girl) with several continued Lizalfo after her (not to lucky, though). As Link was pushing himself up, he saw the Lizalfo beside him doing the same and slammed his fist down into the brute's jaw, breaking it. Seeing the other Lizalfo rising as well, Link gave it a few swift kicks until the second Lizalfo received a similar result as the first. With the two lizards hollered and quavered on the earth, Link started after Meeko and the rest of the Lizalfos. As Link surpassed the rise of a hill, he saw Meeko on her knees with the Lizalfos all around her……and Ganondorf had returned.
"I have had enough of these kiddy games, boy!" Ganondorf exclaimed. He then placed his immense hand over Meeko's head, "Surrender now…or I will crash her skull!!"
But before Link could return an answer, he heard an inhuman grunt from behind. Turning around, Link found his face meeting the blunt surface of a blade, knocking him out cold……
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Darkness was setting in as Izunoo walked down the halls of Hyrule Castle to his private quarters. He had just finished recounting his mission to Lake Hylia that the king insisted on and all Izunoo could see at that time was himself in his comfortable bed. Too bad for him…
"Izunoo…" Twisting around at his own name, Izunoo found his elder sister, Impa, "I finally found you. I thought you'd be down in the mess hall enjoying there special Plum Spelt Tart…"
"Oh 'ha, ha', sis" Izunoo said flatly, "You know what happens when I eat plums."
"Mmh! Yes……Last time, you were in the toilet for wee-"
"Ok, ok!! What to do you want!"
"Izunoo! I'm shocked!" Impa replied as she walked closer to Izunoo and then spoke in a whisper, "But now that you mention it…there is a little matter that I'd like for you to do. Go to the Gerudo Desert and check up on a few things."
"A little matter…you say?" Izunoo asked sarcastically, but Impa had returned to her more serious state by now.
"Izunoo…something terrible has happened…and the royal court has their hands tied by bureaucracy. But if we don't act now then something horrific might happen…"
"And if we do act now something horrific might just as likely happen" Izunoo also take a somber tone, "Sigh Impa…it's late…and I didn't slept that much out in fields. So whatever it is, it's going have to wait until later."
When Izunoo was halfway down the hall when Impa risked the unseen ears of hearing, "Izunoo……its Ganondorf…"
It was then that Izunoo stopped dead in his tracks and listen to what Impa had to say……
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"Hey……HEY WAKE UP!!"
A stinging sensation ran across Link's face causing Link to shoot up from his prone position (…she slapped him…). He found Meeko beside him and the both them in a jail cell, an unhappy looking Lizalfo glaring at them. The cell was cut off from the outside and made of enormous stone blocks that seemed unbreakable. The only light came from the iron-bar door of the entrance, but even that was faint. There was nothing to telling Link how long Meeko and he had been there……
"Finally you're awake…" Meeko sighed.
"Have I been out that long?" Link asked.
"We only got here a little bit ago…since they knocked you out."
Well that was good for Link to hear, he didn't want to stay in this hellhole any longer than the two of them had to. Ganondorf…that bastard…he had to rear his ugly face up. It was hard to believe that beast could have been chosen to hold the Gods' Power…it was hard enough for Link to believe he held the Gods' Courage. Whatever the reason, Ganondorf was on a level that Link could hope to equal at this time, so he was beyond Link's reach. Link thoughts were interrupted by Meeko's voice……
"What do you think that guy's going to do to us…" Meeko timidly question, legs press next to her chest tightly, "You know he might start torturing us at any moment!"
"Don't worry. I don't think Ganondorf has a reason or a desire to torture us." Link said, but his words of comfort had the opposite effect.
"GANONDORF!! Not the same Ganondorf thatalmosttookoverthecastleandkilltheroyalfamily, Ganondorf!!" So she has heard of him, "We are both so DEAD!!"
"Well, when you put it that why!" Link replied, rubbing his neck sheepishly, "I guess it does look a little bad!"
"A LITTLE!!" Meeko screamed, but Link ignored her. There was something that was bothering him since the two of them got to the wasteland. One thing in particular…
"Hey…you now that mountain that you can see behind the Temple of Time…the one with the halo of clouds?"
"You mean…Death Mountain?" Meeko posed.
"……Yeah…I guess…" Link was a little shock at the difference between the two eras' mountains, but put it aside, "Well…I think…we might have…traveled through time…"
"What?"
"I remember what the mountain looked like before I went into the Temple…and I remember what the tallest mountain I saw when we came here…and other than the halo…there the same…"
"Let me get this straight…" the young and skeptical maiden started, "You want me to believe that we're in some kind of future Hyrule?"
"We were in the Temple of Time…"
"That hardly means it has that kind of power. What kind of idiot puts those to two things together?!"
"…Well I thought it was good narrative twist…"
"…………" Meeko didn't feel like joking around, "If you don't have anything smart to say…then just shut up!!"
"I can believe this" Link whispered as sled himself to the cell wall, lending his back against it. He then started to take off the gantlet on his left wrist, "I'm stuck in a dungeon of my archenemy, with a stuck-up girl who thinks she knows everything…"
"I'm right here you know…" Meeko said point-blank, but then she noticed Link fumbling with his hand, "Is something wrong with your hand?"
"…Yeah…I punched one of those damn lizards back outside. Damn it…their jaws are like rocks!" Hitting a minion of evil with just ones fist wasn't work of a genius, but Meeko was impressed that it worked.
"Here, let me look…" As she took Link's left hand gentle her hands, Meeko immediately distinguished Link's special mark plastered on the back. Her eyes wide in recognition…this was the man that was going to help Meeko on her journey?! "The…The Triforce?!"
"Oh…that. I've had that since I was born." But Link's words were lost the void as Meeko's tantrum began…
"No, no, NO!! How could I be paired with such a lame, muscle-bounded guy like HIM?!"
"I'm right here you know…" Link mimicking Meeko's earlier tone, "You should stop freaking out for no reason, you know."
But, once again, Link's message fell on deaf ears as Meeko crouched in the cell corner, a black cloud of gloom hung over her. A little much in Link's opinion…what did he do anyway? Girls just didn't make any logical sense to Link, he's had trouble with fairer gender since Ilia started having her 'Special Time of the Month' and it has just been a downhill roll ever after. Example: One of the lowest points for Link was when a…mature woman kept flirting and flirting with Link for over an hour (mature as in old enough to be Link's mother!!).
The sound of a rusted door opening alerted Link to the new arrivals…more Lizalfos. The beastmen gathered around the cell door as the original guard unlatched it…
"Where are you taking us!" Link declared as he rose, Meeko remained in her lamenting state.
Link only retort was a roster of cries for the lizards as they piled in, but Link could guess where they were head…Now that Link was awake, Ganondorf could enjoy the full extent of Link's company……Link and Meeko were going to see the dark lord…
Authors Note: Ok...the ending to this chapter...kinda sucks, but! My eyes feel like they're melting out of my head...so screw you guys...I'm posting it!
Edited 9/17/2008: On the second look at the ending...not to bad. This one definitely needed editing, how the hell did people understand this one? So please review, I would still like impressions on all the chapters (preferally the characters).
