Chapter 2: Ghost of Christmas Past
The last time we stopped was when the ghost of Snake bursted into Ganondorf's house. "Do you not fear me?" asks the ghost of Snake in a loud and eerie voice.
"Of course not!" replies Ganondorf. "You're my dead partner and not some stranger. Plus, you don't look like a ghost."
"You better believe it, but I am a ghost."
"Then why didn't you just walk through the door but blast it into pieces instead? And how did you do that anyway?"
"What's the use of a grenade if you don't use it?"
"So why are you here anyway?" asks Ganondorf.
"To warn you of things that will come," answers Snake. "I have been a bad man during my living days, and so I suffered in the afterlife." He holds up the chains strapped around his body and says, "See these chains? They are bound to me like a heavy burden. I have to live a life like this to make up for my crimes!"
"But you were a good man!" Ganondorf tells him. "You were so protective of your money!"
"Money! Bah! I only cared about money, and this is what I got in return!" says Snake in an angry voice. "I have lots of money and I refused to give it to the poor. Not only that, I even did evil tricks to them! Do you remember the time I placed a cherry bomb in the cupcake and gave it to that little pauper several years ago? I had taken an innocent life for my own pleasure!"
"Oh forget that!" says Ganondorf. "Just remember the great times we had together. Like the time when we were holding hands and skipping around in a flower meadow happily and the time where we went on a road rage through the street with several cops behind our tail, and we led them into a dynamite factory and blew them into the sky. Ah, those were great times!"
"Enough!" shouts Snake loudly. "If you do not repent, you will fall into the same fate as me, or perhaps even worse!"
"So what can I do about it?" asks Ganondorf while picking his nose, as if he has no interest.
Snake raises three fingers and says to him, "Tonight you will be visited by three spirits! They will tell you what to do and you must listen to them! That is the only way you can escape your current fate!"
"Yeah, yeah… Yawn…"
"Remember, this is your only chance. Repent and live a new life. Do not take the same path as me," says Snake. After this, he walks towards the window and jumps out, and the sound of crashing is heard shortly after. This makes you wonder if he really is a ghost.
"Oh boy, what a day… Off to bed," mumbles Ganondorf, and he pops back into bed and falls asleep shortly after.
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That midnight, Ganondorf is still snoozing loudly. Unknown to him, a mysterious figure approaches his bed, and when the figure is near, he smacks Ganondorf in the forehead hard.
CONG!
"Yeow!" cries Ganondorf, shooting up from bed. "What's the big idea?!" He turns to the attacker and sees Young Link sitting on his bed. "Who are you?"
"Surely you know I'm coming," says YL. "I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
"You don't look like a ghost."
"Whether you believe or not, I have to take you to see something."
"So Snake was right after all. Fine, take me to see whatever it is and make it snappy!"
YL holds out his hand and tells Ganondorf to grab onto it tightly. Ganondorf does so and they both walk towards the window. "Hey! The door is on the other side!" Ganondorf tells him.
"We're not using the door," YL tells him.
YL jumps out the window and, amazingly, they both fly into the air! "Whoa! I'm flying!" exclaims Ganondorf.
"Now I'm going to take you to see your past," YL tells him. He stretches out one hand and a time portal appears in the sky, and they both fly inside.
After traveling through the time passage, they emerge back in Onett, but the city looks rather old compared to the previous one.
"Where are we?" asks Ganondorf.
"This is Onett several years ago," says YL. "This is the time when you were born."
"But I wasn't born in Onett! I was born in Gerudo Desert!"
"True, but you grew up in Onett because Gerudo Desert had only female population, and they didn't want you to grow up in an environment like that and to prevent you from becoming a pimp too."
YL takes Ganondorf through the skies of Onett and shows him what the place looks like during those days. "Now let us fast forward into time," says YL.
He takes Ganondorf into Onett, which has changed appearance in a blink of an eye. They land in front of a building and Ganondorf recognizes it. "I know this place! This is my elementary school!" he says. He looks through the window and sees a younger version of himself standing outside the classroom and with a bucket on his head.
"You were so different from other students," YL reminds him. "Other students were all attentive and hard workers, but you were extremely energetic and always talked about taking over the world. And your younger form is being punished to stand there right now."
"Ah, good old days…" says Ganondorf happily.
Next, YL takes him fast forward in time again, and they land in front of another building. "I know this place too!" says Ganondorf. "This is where I found my first job!"
"And Christmas is being celebrated at this moment too," YL tells him.
Ganondorf looks into the window and sees his former business fellows dancing, singing, and eating happily. He spots a pink puffball and a green dinosaur wolfing the foods like mad. "I remember Yoshi and Kirby! They were the biggest eaters back in those times," says Ganondorf.
"But do you remember that you rarely had any friends?" YL asks him. He points to the corner of the room where Ganondorf, in his younger days, is sitting alone in the corner and eating pie.
"I wasn't very social at that time, so I had few friends…" says Ganondorf in a sad voice. "I wish I had made some friend back then."
"But you do have one! Don't you remember?" YL points to a girl who is approaching past Ganondorf.
"Hello, Ganondorf! Are you alone? Let's dance together!" the girl says to him.
"I remember! She's Zelda, the only girl who took notice of me!" says Ganondorf. "She was a great girl!"
Past Ganondorf gets up and dances with Zelda, but because he is bad at dancing, he falls on top of Zelda and flattens her.
"Those were fun times…" says Ganondorf.
"But the fun time didn't last long. When you grew older, you began to care less about her and more on money," YL reminds him. Then they are transported further into the future.
Now they are inside a sweatshop, and Ganondorf immediately recognizes it. "This is my office! But in the past, of course," says Ganondorf. He sees a younger version of himself, though older then the one he saw just now, sitting on the table and counting money and other jewelries.
"That is you, and see how much you've changed!" YL tells him. "You have more wrinkles on your face and you are becoming bald too!"
"Mind your own business!"
The door opens and Zelda comes in and asks him, "Ganondorf, I'm still waiting for your reply on whether or not you want to go to the fun fair with me."
"Leave me alone, you wench!" replies past Ganondorf in a rude voice. "Can't you see I'm busy counting my fortune? Go and find yourself someone else and enjoy your damned fun!"
"But you promised me!"
"So what? When did I ever say I loved you? Get out of my sight before I kick a kitten!"
At hearing these cruel words, Zelda weeps bitterly and runs out. When outside, she says to herself, "That Ganon! How cruel he is! Anyway, I know another man who will care for me!" She runs to a blond young man holding a big sword and embraces him happily. "Cloud! I love you!"
Link pops out from nowhere and cries, "Zelda! Why not me?!?!?!?!!"
Aeris shows up, sees the scene, and runs off crying bitterly. "This isn't how the story goes…" mutters Cloud.
And past Ganondorf continues to count his fortune and laugh madly, ignoring the foursome out there.
"What terrible sight! I cannot believe I was such a terrible man back then!" cries Ganondorf.
"But that was really you," YL tells him. "Do you regret what you had done?"
"Take me away! I can't stand this anymore!"
"But I still have more to show you!"
"Leave me alone and get out of my sight!" shouts Ganondorf, and he punches Young Link in the head and smashes him through the floor.
After this, the surrounding scene fades away and Ganondorf finds himself back in his bedroom. "What a dream…" he tells himself.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Cloud first appeared in Darkling and later in Super Smash Racing 2.
Aeris was in Super Smash Racing 2 and her name was mentioned in Those Who Deserve Beatings.