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Link wished somebody would just kill him. He was walking down the halls of Hyrule Castle, the place where he had so desperately wanted to go since leaving the forest…and now……he wanted to be anywhere but there. Or at the very least out of Meeko's constant glare. Link let loose a heavy sigh.

Ever since Meeko saw me being helped by Izunoo earlier that morning, the hero thought to himself, she's been out for blood! Link look back at Meeko and she somehow increased the glare!! Sigh……but what made matters worse was what happen at the meeting with the princess……

40 minutes earlier…

Link was rapturous happy and fill with joy. Finally…after all the side advantages…Link was going to meet Zelda!! As Izunoo lead him down the path with Meeko, Link couldn't help but notice the changes to the castle (or what's going to change). The area around the castle was free of buildings and the landscaped was well kept with trees, flowers, and short-trimmed grass. Hills of earth and rock were the main defense of the castle, with an eight foot-tall wall with iron spikes lain around the structure. A moat completed the castle's protections…though to Link the castle was a very weak stronghold.

After seeing the great walls around Castle Town, it was odd to see the actual castle in such a way. Perhaps the king didn't concern himself with his own safety, but the safety of his subjects. Thus, his focus was on the whole town's protection…as oppose to the nobles of Link's day who only care about their own lives. As Izunoo, Meeko and Link reached the main gate of the castle, two guards stopped them…

"Hold fast!!" One of the guards said. His attire was very different from the guards Link was use to, with bucket helmets and thigh-high shorts (…shorts?...), "Captain Izunoo! What business do you have with these civilians? And why are you bringing them to the castle?"

"Mmhh…do I need a reason to be friends with 'civilians', soldier?!" Izunoo replied in stern voice.

"N-No, sir! B-But y-you know that entrance has to be done by appointment only, sir!"

"It's alright!" Izunoo said calmly with a wave of his hand, "If anyone asks…I'll tell them that their delivering food!"

Link and Meeko both were flabbergasted by Izunoo's response. Was that his plan to get them in?! No way in Hell could that work!!

"Yes, sir." The guard answered, "Open the gates!!"

"WHAT?!" Both Meeko and Link exclaimed. They continued on their way and past across the moat into the castle.

"What the hell was that!!" Link demanded from Izunoo as the three past out of hearing distance, "That must have been the worst excuse I've very heard!!"

"…To be frank…I didn't think this far head…" Link was speechless yet again as Izunoo sheepishly rubbed his neck.

"Oh, Izunoo-kun…" Meeko sighed…it was good think that he was pretty…

The three pressed on through the twisting corridors until they exited into the castle gardens. The gardens burst with vegetation…trees, bushes, flowers, and large assortment of plants and vines fill every space, including the walls. And it was all set in clean-cut order around a path of stone.

As they carried on forward, Meeko tried to remember all the names of the colorful flowers they past: hydrangea, lemon blossom, veronica, anemone, meadowsweet, marjo-…marjo…marjo…mama? Meeko needed to pay more attention in biology classes.

The path lead to a bridge crossing a small stream and connected to a little island. The island held a tiny edifice made up of four pillars bracing a round roof 10 feet in the air. Inside the structure, there was stood Impa and sitting close by was the princess of destiny herself……

"Impa…Princess…I found the two you were looking for!" Izunoo escorted Link and Meeko across the bridge and to the structure, "You already know Meeko…and this is Link…"

"Nice to meet you, Princess!!" Link said to…Impa?

"Link!!" Meeko hissed and hit the back of Link's head, "That's Impa, the princess's caretaker!"

"Oh…" Link turned his attentions to ten-year-old sitting and staring back at him. There was something…off about meeting her at this age. After hearing all the tales of the princess of destiny being the most beautiful maiden of her time and ways Link always imagined meeting her…but like this? Meeko hammered Link's head again, knocking Link back to reality, "Sorry about that! I just thought the princess of Hyrule would be…taller! Ha ha-OW!!"

"I am please to meet you…Link…" Zelda said as she stood and bowed her head. Looking back up, Link could see that was confused about something, "……"

"What…?"

"Don't take offense to her reaction, Link…" Impa jumped in, "It's just that with that outfit and the name 'Link'…you can't blame her."

"…Mmhh…now that you mention it…" Izunoo started, "It is a little weird that you and the little kid share the same fashion tastes…"

"Y-Yeah!! Well…" Great…this had to come up again. But should he lie? If anyone in Hyrule needed to know what was going on they were right here, Link thought, "The thing is…the Link you know…is to me…my Great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather…"

"WHAT?!" Meeko inquired…painful loud, "How could somebody be that old!!"

Sigh……she didn't get it. But the princess and Impa picked up on it……

"So…you must be from the future…over 300 years!" Zelda concluded. Link laughed little while rubbing the back his neck…

"Yeah…I think I needed a few more greats! It's probably more like 700 years!"

"Oh…!" Zelda replied with wide eyes. She could never have guess by looking at Link that he could be traveler from the distant future!!

"Princess Zelda…there's something we need to talk about…" Link now held somber expression and a serious tone, "An evil man is plotting to revive an ancient weapon and destroy existence as we know it…"

"Rinkar!!" Meeko cried out in recognition, Link turned back to her and nodded. That man who killed Ganondorf…nearly killed both Link and her……who killed Rauru…

"Rinkar's a monomaniac who wants to 'purify' the world of injustice. He plans on use the power of Eternity to do so…using the Chronos Scepter…"

"The Chronos Scepter!!" Impa cried, "Is he mad!! You could destroy the whole world with such a weapon!!"

"……He did……" Meeko retorted quietly for Link.

"The Chronos Scepter…" Impa continued, "…the legendary weapon of mass-destruction…said to be able to obliterate whole armies in a blink of an eye……It was constructed by the Oocca as means to bring peace…"

"The Oocca!!" Link exclaimed in shock.

"…Who would think that such a noble race would create something like that…" Izunoo commented in a more composed tone. Meeko was still on the 'Link's grandpa' part……

"Please!" Zelda cried, "You must stop this Rinkar from obtaining his goal! You three are Hyrule's only hope!"……wait…one…two…the three of them? But Link quickly caught on…

"I…don't think Meeko needs to go with us, princess. She's been through enough with the two of us traveling into Hyrule's destroyed future. She doesn't need to come with us."

Meeko gasped when she heard Link's statement. She know his game…he wanted to get Izunoo to himself again!! But she wouldn't let that happen, she had her mission!!

"Link might be right…" Impa affirmed. OH NO!! "Meeko's destiny to go on her own journey could have been fulfilled by what Link said of traveling to the future. What do you think, princ-"

"NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!" Meeko scream interrupted Impa, "You can't just let Izunoo-kun and Link go by themselves!!"

"M-Meeko…!" Impa said, Zelda and her were both visible fazed for the girl's outburst, "I-I never know you were so committed to Hyrule…"

Link was too such about that……

"…We might need her…" Izunoo related, "…from what I know of the legend, there's three parts of the scepter that were scattered to three temples…"

"If there's only three parts, then Rinkar already has one!" Link declared, grabbing everyone's attention, "He took the Dominion Rod I brought with me from the future!!"

"That would only leave the Staff of Enlightenment and the Elemental Egg…" Impa concluded, "…we haven't much time left…"

"Where are the last two temples?"

"One in the vast desert and one by the ocean…" Zelda answered.

"Temple in the desert…you mean the Arbiter's Grounds?" Link asked.

"No! She means the Spirit Temple, right?" Meeko countered.

"You're both wrong…" Izunoo spoke up, "…the temple in the vast desert the princess is taking about is the Temple of the Blowing Sands…"

"Then…the temple by the ocean…" Meeko started, her finger tapped her chin as try to remember, "…It's um…Oceanus's Throne!"

This was it!! This was where Link would start the real adventure. He wouldn't let anything get in his way in stopping Rinkar!! Link would end the madman before he could harm their world…

"…If we're doing this we need to split up…" Izunoo stated. Link agreed, they could cover half the ground quicker that way, "…Link…you and Meeko go to Oceanus's Throne…I'll go to the desert…"

"WHAT!!" Meeko shrieked as Impa gazed over to her brother. She knew this wasn't a strategy……Ganondorf was in the desert and Izunoo didn't what them in the way…"Izunoo-kun!! Why do I have to go with Link!!" Link narrowed his eyes at the maiden…

"Go with Link, Meeko…" Izunoo said as he turned away and walk back towards the castle, "…and Link…take care of Meeko…"

Before Link could say a thing, Izunoo disappeared from view…damn sheikah…Link had to accept it…he was going with Meeko. With a heavy sigh, Link turned back to the young Maiden of Light……and found her glaring at him like he killed her cat…great…sigh…

20 minutes later

Impa was leading the two down to the armory, saying that there were some special items there that Link and Meeko could use. Link looked back at Meeko once again…still glaring…just making sure. Link didn't know why Meeko hated him so much (Hell, I don't really know and I'm writing this damn thing!!). It could be that…no. Well…Link could always ask…

"Hey…uh, Meeko?"

"What." Meeko replied irritably (Link shouldn't have asked).

"Did I…do something wrong…?" Meeko stopped dead in her traces and Link twisted around to her.

"Did you seriously just ask me that" (what did I tell you) "Did you seriously…just ask me…IF YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG!!"

"………yes-" the second Link said that, Meeko pounded Link with giant mallet (…where did…?!) which plowed Link's head into the stone floor.

"Are you two done fooling around?" Imp asked from the end of the hall. A large, wooden door sat next to her. Meeko and Impa enter into a small room…Link trailed in a few seconds later.

The armory walls were lined with weapons of various sizes and types…almost as many as Link had. Impa guided the two to a large cabinet at the back of the room and produced a key……

"Few know this…but the young Link had his own adventure before he helped stop Ganondorf's raid on the castle…one with an equal amount of time-travel and dungeon trekking as your's…"

Impa opened the cabinet, revealing an assortment of equipment that defied explanation (play the damn game). Link's eyes shone at the sight. So…many…choices!! Meeko never understand why guys needed their 'toys' so badly. Link pick up a large, steel hammer from the cabinet…it was so heavy he needed both hands to lift it!

"That's the Megaton Hammer…" Impa said to Link as he gave the weapon few test swings, "I've heard this it's good with troublesome switches-"

As Impa finished, a shape object flew past Impa's shoulder, nicked Link's ear, and hit the wall before flying back into the device Meeko held. Smiling sheepishly and rubbing the back of her head, Meeko replaced the device back speedily.

"Don't know if we need all this" Link related to Impa, "I find that temples and dungeons supply you with the items you need…however stupid that sounds…" He replaced the hammer back to its spot and continued to look through the cabinet, "…What I really need is…a bow!!"

"Mmhh…the Fairy bow…" Impa voiced as Link pulled out the weapon, "If you what a bow then you better not take that one…"

"What wrong with it?" Link asked as looked the bow over. It looked fine…it just needed to be restrung…

"No one has being able to restring the bow since the younger Link left it here-" Impa and Meeko both gasped when they looked back at Link…

"What?" Link stared back at the two, baffled…as he held out the newly restrung bow.

"…You really are a hero, aren't you…" Impa said back to Link…

Meeko was amazed to say the least. She remembered hearing how the weekly warrior or knight had tried and failed to restring the Fairy bow. This guy…, the girl thought silently, he was something else……still a perv though!

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The Sun held high in the heavens, its rays rained down onto the shifting dunes below. The lands were an inferno during the midday and all were wise to escape the lashings of the sunlight. Among the hills of sand and the heat of the Sun, there stood a structure of fabric and cloth. No larger than 25 feet wide and no higher than average size man, humble tent sat comfortable between to obtruding stones.

The desert winds blow hard, but tent stood strong…within it sat a man who had lost everything. Dressed no better than a begger, Ganondorf stare deeply into cup of cooled coffee he had in his hands……It should have been wine, he thought. It should have been fermented Hyrulean grapes that sat in his cup…in his chalice of gold…not this dish of tin. Ganondorf surveyed around him…a kingdom of rags…riches of garbage……his empire…lost before it began!! Leaping up from his mat, Ganondorf chucked the coffee cup against the tent pole…causing Aliena to jump and gasp. Kafei sat near by, utterly unfazed.

"Lord Ganondorf…" Kafei said in a calm voice, "Please try to control your rage. We have limited supplies as is…"

"Kafei! Do not speak to me in such a patronizing way!" Ganondorf hollered back, as he grabbed Kafei by the collar and hauled him up, "Must I stay in this squalor as I am hunted by my subjects!! THEY SHOULD BE DEAD!!"

"Please…sire…!" Kafei managed to chock up, "We had to…leave…or you'd be…dead…"

"GEHAUGGH!!" Ganondorf bellowed was dropped the sheikah…he was right…and the knowledge tore into Ganondorf deeper than iron collar around his neck, "Whoever said that it was better to rule in Hell……"

"My Lord, you do not need to live in this way!" Aliena exclaimed from behind, "The Spirit Temple is still an open harbor to his Majesty…your own foster mothers, the Twinrova sisters, still guard its entrance!"

"No…it is not open to me…" Ganondorf retorted, "…Hyrule's relations with the Gerudo ruling bitch keeps them at bay…but…that princess and her 'nanny' have no doubt of sent agents to spy now my workings……No…the pit gives us security…Geh heh…Hail the pit! Geh heh heh!!"

"Then what shall we do, my Lord?" Kafei mocked as he rubbed his neck, "Sit here…and wait?!" Ganondorf glared back at the sheikah, eyes narrowed……

"……When I raided Hyrule Castle…I crossed the threshold thinking that I would meet no residence……I found an ARMY, waiting for me!! And why? Two children caught heed of my plans and I WAS RUINED!!"

"Are you thinking of take revenge on the children, Sire?" Aliena asked, she wasn't too keen on devising plots to kill toddlers…it would boring to say the least…

"Geh heh heh…No, that can wait…" Ganondorf said with smile, but the smile soon disappeared, "…our prey will be the first man who defeated me in single combat…"

"Your f-father, my Lord?!" Ganondorf confirmed Aliena's query with a nod. Kafei was puzzled…

"Lord Ganondorf's…father…?"

"Geh heh heh…Yes……I was child then…no older then fourteen, but taller and stronger than anyone in the tribe" Ganondorf mused over the memories of his younger years…then frowned, "My first meeting with my father……Did he shower me with gifts? Put a cloak around my shoulders and a ring on my finger? He met me with his fists! Spat on me as I lay broke on the ground…BEGGING!! Then killed my mother and sisters…" There was moment of sorrow in Ganondorf's eyes…his body communicated weakness for second, before returning back rage, "…I will show my father the same kindness…I will kill the bastard!! And prove to the gods and the entire WORLD that I am greater!!"

"Ha…sounds like an identity problem, but I'm with you…" Kafei said with a sinister grin, "If I knew my father, I'd probably do the same!"

"Geh heh heh!!" Ganondorf walked over to his cup and refilled it with cold coffee, "A toast!! To those who step out of their fathers' shadows…and to those who get what is to come to them!!"

Aliena and Kafei both took up their own cups of coffee. Raising the cups high and shouting out a cheer, the three validated the toast with a sip from their drinks. Suddenly a shriek from outside alerted Ganondorf and his two followers to a new visitor, running out of the tent the three found a band of thirty creatures inching for a fight. With glowing eyes and cow-like horns, it was plain to see who they were…

"Bulblins! How interesting!!" Ganondorf announced then downed the rest of his coffee. Holding the empty cup in his colossal hand, the tin dish dissolved as a crimson ball shone that took the cup's place, "Shall we have a little fun, then……"

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"Are we there yet?! This pack is killing me!!"

Meeko and Link had been tracking through Hyrule Field for less then an hour…and Meeko had been carrying her pack for only 20 minutes. After restringing the Fairy bow, Link taken the boomerang the younger Link had left and a new Hylian shield (a little heavier than his last one, but still good). Link also had a week of supplies AND his sword with him, so why was Meeko complaining?

"What exactly did you put in there?"

"Things that I wouldn't want to tell you in detail." No way would I'm give this perv his kicks, Meeko thought.

"Then don't tell me in detail…" Link replied flatly, he was definitely getting sick of the girls implications.

"Well…I've got some rope, medical supplies, some snacks, my class-books for studying, two weeks of fresh clothes, two lanterns, and my dairy…EEK!" She didn't want to tell Link that last one!!

"Sigh…will first off, you won't need so many clothes. I've heard that most people bring up to three pair of clothes and just keep washing them and wearing them in a cycle. Hell, I don't even do that! I just wash my clothes when they get dirty!"

"Well maybe if you want to STINK, then that's ok!!" (No wonder she hated Link, he probably smelled like dirty sock!!), "And another thing-"

Meeko abruptly stopped as they neared an outcrop of stone. A path cut through the stone, with a sign hanging above it reading 'Lon Lon Ranch'. So they did reach their destination…

"Well, this is that Lon Lon place…" Link announced, "Impa said that we could some horses from here and then stay here the night." It was a little annoying that they would waste so much daylight of their all ready short timetable, but in a few hours they would have to stop for the night anyway. As Link started up the path, Meeko halted him…

"Hey, wait! Remember how the princess and Impa reacted to your name? Maybe we shouldn't use it around people." Oh no…Link knew where this was going…"We should come up with something else…"

"I already have one…ha ha ha…" Link responded awkwardly as he rubbed his neck, "Midmir!"

"……" Meeko face contorted with silent frustration, "……I'm not move from this spot until you pick ANOTHER name……"

As tempting as the offer was, Link couldn't leave her here…but thinking up names isn't like figuring out dungeon puzzles. Last time, Link was under pressure…and was thinking about Midna, but much hadn't change since then. 'Midmar' still sounded good to Link (whatever the reason) and that name was off the list! Merciful Nayru, this was STUPID!! Time-travel sucks!!

"Hey, listen…" Meeko piped in after seeing Link's difficulty, "How about using your father's name…or your uncle's…or something."

"Ah……yeah…" A look of gloom overcame Link's features, "I…never really had any family like that…I've always lived by myself…"

"Oh……" Meeko couldn't imagine living through life with any family…she wouldn't be half the person she was without them, "I-I'm sorry…I didn't know-"

"It's ok!" Link quickly cut in with fake smile across his face, "I had an entire village to raise me!! And I turned out ok!" That was it! Link knew the name he wanted to be called! "So, you can call me Ordon!!"

"Then Ordon it is!" Meeko replied and the two continued on into the ranch……


Author's Note: I really like writing Ganondorf...but I can never imagine myself writing a fanfic just with him...Now that I think about it, I just like writing and thinking like a villain. That's why I have all the Grand Theft Autos...will most of them, anyway.

Edited 9/27/08: Nothing to say really.