A/N:I hope you enjoy this. It's not as long as the first, but I'll make up for it with the next chapter
Chapter 2: Hearts and Heartless
"Now, for the next step" Xaldin spoke to Ganondorf, guiding him through the ritual, but what would come of it?
Link and his new allies arrived at Telmas bar, Shad was speaking with the two stranger guests while Link, sitting at a table spoke to the third."So" Link spoke to the visitor "You're some kind of hero then?" Sora smiled and put his hands behind his back "You got that right" he said, his boyish face lighting up like a candle. "Well then kid I'll leave you here to help guard the princess" Sora stood straight up with his hands on the table they were sitting at "No way" he told Link outright "There's no way that you can defeat the Heartless by yourself!" This time it was Links turn to stand up, he placed a hand on Soras shoulder and shoved him roughly back down into his chair "Stay here kid, or I'll make sure you aren't strong enough to travel, even far enough to see the castle"
"Link" Rusl approached the two speaking in a soothing tone "This isn't like you" Link turned to him, eyes filled with the cold set in from the years "You don't understand the weight that I hold, I have lived for longer than all your histories tell their tales" Zelda walked over to the hero of time before anyone spoke, all frozen with fear that Link had gone mad "Stop it Hero" she said his title with disdain, as though she was disgusted with calling him by that title. "You left him before, why can't you leave him be now?" Hero merely looked at her and said "I did not leave him, I was ripped from his body, by those Heartless" "What?" Sora bolted up with shock "The Heartless...Took your Heart?" Hero chuckled "Yes I suppose you could say that" Sora looked to Donald and Goofy and nodded.
"I guess we both have to do some explaining" Sora then proceeded to tell them of the Heartless. That they were embodiments of the darkness in the Heart and that they took peoples hearts to create more Heartless and, also of another enemy. The Nobodies, a Nobody is created when a person with a strong Heart,whether evil or good, is turned into a heartless. At the end of the explanation Hero looked aggravated "DAMMIT!" he screamed, pounding his fist into the table "That darkness, Ganondorf must have become a Heartless" Zelda looked puzzled "But you can defeat him, can't you?" Hero only chuckled "Oh, this just makes it easier to kill him, I can defeat Darkness, but I have no idea how to kill a Nobody" Zelda looked at him questioningly "But, Ganondorf has a weak Heart, he let himself be corrupted by the Triforce Of Power"
Hero turned to her and said "Your history lost thatmuch?" Zelda was slightly taken aback "Wha-" Hero cut her off with a raised hand "Nothing can corrupt that man, he has the strongest HeartI have ever known" Sora inched closer "Then that means..." Hero nodded "Yes, it su-" but was interrupted by Sora "That you need my help after all Hero" he said the title mockingly. Hero looked at him scathingly simply saying "I don't work with others anymore" Sora looked confused "Any More?" he asked, unsure if it was a safe question to ask. Hero closed his eyes in remembrance before speaking "Every companion I have ever had, has gone away, eventually I stopped taking help, it made me stronger"
"But" Sora began "If you have friends with you, then you can lend each other your power" Links eyes suddenly snapped up, no longer the ice-cold eyes from before, instead his Azure eyes, filled with the pride of a noble wolf, returned. "Sora" he said, the sparkle of youth once again in his voice. "That power, during our fight you transformed, the power drove away the other Heartaway from mine" Sora looked at him thoughtfully as Link continued. "What was that strange power?" Sora smiled and said "That was the power of friendship" every eye in the room was focused on Sora as he continued "The Hearts of me and my friends merge for a time, and their power is added to mine" Link looked at him and said "I don't think the hero ever intends to leave my body"
Zelda walked closer to him with concern "What do you mean Link?" Link took off his left glove to reveal the once-dull mark, of the Triforce Of Courage, now the three triangles were luminous, and the right-most triangle gave off a slight glow. Rusl moved closer to get a better look at it and gave Link a puzzled look, "I..." Link began, as everyone focused their attention on him "I have been remembering the memories of the Hero Of Time" Everyone looked concerned at his words "But maybe, just maybe, the power he can no longer know, will drive him out" Sora looked at him with understanding "You mean..." Link nodded, and then suddenly his eyes were ice. "We are going to the castle" he said as he turned to leave, Sora then walked around to block his path "We huh?" he said sarcastically.
"I don't have the Master Sword" Hero replied "Your sword, has some strange power correct?" Sora put out his hand and the ornate blade appeared in a flash of light, the many-bladed sword caught the light in many ways. "The Keyblade" he said Shad walked over to inspect the Keyblade. "Never before have I seen or heard of such a sword, Keyblade you called it?' Hero turned to Shad and grasped him by the throat. "We don't have time for this, you worthless scholar" he said throwing him to the floor. "Now Kid, lets go now, or I'll just kill you and take the Keyblade for my own" At his words every eye in the bar turned to him with scathing and hatred, all save for Sora, whose eyes held only concern. "Then we go" he said leveling Hero with a look.
Zelda stopped Hero with a touch to his arm "Will you leave Links body after you kill Ganondorf?" Hero turned to her and said "I will have no reason to stay after that is done" Zelda fixed him with a look. "You didn't answer the question" she stated, Hero chuckled and said "I will leave your hero be once I am finished with Ganon" At that he left, not seeming to notice the hate-filled looks from the others in the bar. Sora, Donald, and Goofy followed him out.
Ganondorf stood, forcing blood from the bodies of the innocent townspeople lying around the throne room to form a circle with strange symbols in and around the middle of the room.
"Ganondorf" Xaldin spoke to the Heartless man "Once the circle is complete...."
Hero, Sora, Donald, and Goofy trod through the empty Castle Town, no-one was in sight. Goofy was looking around wondering aloud "Gawrsh, I wonder where all the people went, they were all over when we got here" Hero, not looking at Goofy said "Ganon has killed almost all of them" Sora stepped in front of him "How would you know that?" he asked the cold-hearted man, who looked disgusted "When you get to be as ancient as I am, you can feel the presence of life, It must have happened while I was outside of this body, because nearly every life presence was gone when I got back"
They walked to the Castles gates in silence, the weight of of what happened to the people creating a strained silence. Suddenly a swarm of Heartlessappeared all around them, to many to handle it seemed. Sora, Keyblade in hand, faced them with Donald and Goofy, while Hero just made a ghost-image blue crystal appear in mid-air, he put his hand through it and large blue crystals formed around Sora, Donald, and Goofy. "What?" Sora asked Hero, who just said "Nayrus Love" another ghost image popped into existence, a red crystal, "Dins Fire" he said as a massive amount of fire began to form around him. More Heartless, attracted by the build-up of magic began to swarm, Hundreds, perhaps thousands of heartless appeared, and Hero was surrounded by an immensely powerful inferno. Suddenly a Heartless tried to attack him, and Hero released the flames, causing an explosion that shook the entire town, obliterating the heartless, destroying the walls near the gate, and sending the gate itself flying into the Castle, breaking a large part of the exterior walls on impact.
Hero then released the protective magic, revealing the destruction to Sora and the others, their vision had been blocked by the light from the explosion. Sora looked around at the blackened stone, or, what was left of it. The path to the gates was surrounded by walls, leading up to the gated bridge that led to the main gates. The walls had been destroyed, The path was blackened, as was the bridge, and both sets of gates had been blown wide off. Hero looked at the shocked Sora, telling him "I could have done better, but I had to keep you three alive, since you're my best chance of getting my sword back" he chuckled, then said "I told you, it made me stronger"
A/N: Any suggestions for the name of Ganondorfs Nobody are welcome.