Sitting on the top of the Desert Colossus I watch the stars. "Koume will be angry if she catches you up here again" says a voice from behind. I turn to look at the speaker. Floating three feet away is a small black creature similar in appearance to a fairy. The only thing that showed that he wasn't one is that he has no wings.
Koume and Kotake had made him my guardian when they had first taken to the desert. He was also the one who has played the most active role in my magic training. Koume and Kotake had said they would teach me but they hadn't, they had left that to my reluctant guardian.
I do not know what Alze is for he has never told me. "Why do you care? I thought you liked to watch them punish me." I ask the sadistic little creature. "Oh I do" purrs Alze "But this time I need you in one piece and not covered in bruises."
It was true enough the witches were never lenient with their punishments and I have been punished in the past. Nabooru had almost declared war on the witches when she had found out. But that was years ago. The witches wouldn't dare to beat me now.
"It was a mistake for them to leave you with me" says Alze breaking me from my contemplation. "What?" I ask confused. "I have taught you magic that those two could never master. I taught you to fly with no broom, I taught you to harness the powers of light as well as darkness." He says watching me. I can't make out his face but I know he is smiling.
"Ganondorf I now ask that you repay me by setting me free" he says as he rushes towards my face. Stopping only a couple inches from my nose he says "what do you say?" What can I say he is my teacher but the Gerudo are directly linked with the witches? Opposing them could have serious ramifications for my people.
Alze hovers in front of me impatience evident on his diminutive face. "I…I can't help you Alze, I'm sorry." "Well than Ganondorf than I'm sorry as well" he replies. "For what?" I ask. Suddenly Alze slams into my chest knocking the wind from me.
A great pain inters my chest as Alze forces his way into my chest. I fall from the Colossus pain ripping through me as I plummet to my death. "Sorry but you are no use to me dead" says a voice in my head. My fall stops suddenly five feet from the desert floor.
"Ganondorf what were you thinking!" yells two voices from the direction of the Colossus. My head turns of its own accord. I can't move my body! "Sorry ladies but Ganondorf isn't here right now" says my mouth but with the distinct voice of Alze.
"Alze! Leave his body this instant or we will remove you by force!" yell the witches in unison. "Humph" says Alze as he rockets my body towards the witches. They try to stop him but fail as my fists take each of them in the head. Only with great effort do I hold back the killing blows.
"Already getting back use of your body I see?" he says looking at the two unconscious witches. "I guess they'll just have to live than. But we will be leaving" With that he springs into the air, we fly across the desert at breakneck speed.
Miles pass by quickly as I try to take back my body. An oasis comes into view as dawn approaches. Alze lands and I suddenly have control of my body again. Exhaustion overtakes me however and I fall down asleep.
I wake near late evening, my entire body hurting. "Why?" I ask only half expecting a response." I needed to escape and this was how I could achieve my goal" says the voice of Alze in my head. Why had he left me here in the middle of the desert if he needs me?
"Your body needed to rest so I stopped" he replies. "What! I didn't say anything" I say in alarm. "I'm in your head Ganondorf I can read all of your thoughts." So I don't need to speak to talk to you? "Exactly my boy" he replies to my silent question.
"Where are you are you taking me anyway?" I ask. "We are going to the land of Ghak on the other side of the desert" he replies. "That's impossible no one can cross the desert." I say, my trust in Alze's sanity lessening. "Your father did it."
"My…my father?" I say. After the death of my mother I had become much more interested in my other parent. Koume and Kotake had told me nothing, claiming that they had never met him. "Yes Ganondorf I have met you father" he say in answer to my unspoken question.
"Will you tell me of him?" I ask. "Of course but you must help me first" Alze says. "I'll even show you him"
Suddenly the image of a man in flowing robes flows into my head. He is tall like I am and has the same red hair, but he isn't as dark I must have got that from my mother.
As quickly as the vision came it was gone leaving me with a desire to know more. "I shall tell you all about him as soon as you help me" he says once more reading my mind. "All right, what do you need me to do?" I ask Alze.
"First we get to Ghak" he says. "All right but I need food first" I reply looking around the small oasis. Alze suddenly takes control of my right arm and lifts it towards a nearby tree. Light springs from my hand and blows up the tree. "Food" Alze says simply and go silent.
I walk over to the tree and look down. There is an odd creature tangled in the roots. "Food" I say and pull the dead creature from the roots. Using the blasted tree I make a fire and cook the ugly critter. "Do you know what this thing is Alze?" I ask. "Was, is more accurate and it's a baby lizalfos" he replies flatly. "A baby! What about the parents?" I reply. "Off hunting, that's why you should eat quickly if you don't want to fight.
Shortly after I am again flying across the desert. I couldn't help but feel a little bad for the parents of the baby lizard. But it was rather delicious so I guess I can't feel too bad. Smiling with my belly full I continue to fly towards the distant land of Ghak.
"We will be near the border soon" Alze says, breaking the silence. "What should I expect?" I ask him. "They're desert people on the border so little different than you own people. Besides the fact that there will be more men" he responds, than remains silent.
The sun is at its peak before I see any sign of people. "Drop from the sky now! They will shoot at you if they see you flying!" yells Alze in mind. I falter and land causing a good deal of sand to go flying. "Now walk slowly and keep your hand visible. They will want to know why you are a stranger and what you are doing out here. Tell them you are a sage in training and were in the desert as part of you training" he tells me carefully.
"And don't speak out loud to me anymore people will think you're insane. If you must ask me something think it." Alright I can do that, I say in my mind. I walk towards the village. And sure enough several bows point directly at me.
I prepare to say what Alze told me to when an old man steps forward. "Gano is that you?" he says. "No you are too young, perhaps his son. Boy, are you Gano's son?" asks the old man. "Um I don't know. I don't know my father's name." "Kill the old man" says Alze in my mind.
What? Why? Without warning Alze takes hold of my body and I rush forward. With a swipe of my arm the old man's head snaps to the right, the loud cracking sound telling me that his neck is broken. Arrows fly at me and bounce harmlessly of a barrier.
I try to fight it, but I cannot. I lunge forward killing all in my path. Man, woman, child, animal it doesn't matter all die by my fists or my magic. Alze lets me go when the last person dies. A child no more than six, his life cut short by violence. And I don't care. I liked the thrill of the kill, of watching their eyes fade and their blood pour. Their screams are like music and their silence is rapture.
A smile plays across my lips as I stand in the center of the destroyed village. Alze had made me kill them so he could keep my father as leverage. The old man had known my father and Alze couldn't let him give me the knowledge. I don't resent Alze, I thank him he has given me a gift and a road that will make the prize sweeter. I will learn of my father Gano in time till then I will do as Alze says.
Deep in Ganondorf's mind Alze smiles and laughs knowing that he has awoken a monster.