Tied to firm cedar poles, Zelda cries, "Wait, Ganondorf. We are not afraid of you."
"No we're not!"
"You're not, princess Zelda?" Ganondorf sneers. "And how is that, Link? You should be afraid." A hard knuckled fist strikes Link's face. Crimson blood trickles down his cheek and gleams upon his lips.
The princess slips her hand out of the ropes constraining her and reveals a glass bottle with a stopper.
"Don't touch that!" Ganondorf pleads to her.
"Why, what's wrong with Zora Spring Oxygen? Oh, I'm sorry," she mocks "Gerudos are poisoned by it. One move, Ganondorf," Zelda warns him "And my finger slips this cap off and destroys the whole town."
"Do your worst."
"Oh, I will." She makes a move to flip out the stopper.
"Wait." But without any notice, Link had slipped from his ropes.
"No, I don't think we will." Enlacing fingers around the hilt of his rapier, he slices Ganondorf's spine and watches the man collapse.
"Link, get me down." By this time, all the Gerudos had fled and it was safe for him to cut Zelda loose. "I never thanked you properly for our last encounter. So I'm glad I could return the favor."
"All, it took was a little distraction to get me behind him, and thank you."
Zelda wraps her arms around his shoulders, and he returns the embrace. "I love you, Link. I always will."
His eyes open wide in shock. "No one's ever said that about me."
"Well, now I have." On her tiptoes, she puts her lips to his mouth and rests there. She can taste the blood as he closes his eyes.