chapter two:

"Where have you been?!" Nabini, Ganondorf's mother shrieked that evening, the sky had already went to sleep and he was late coming home. Since that day about two months ago in the Castle town, he had been sneaking out of his villages confines to meet with the blond Hylian boy. His mother hadn't quite caught on to what he was getting himself into but she knew it wasn't something she would approve of and was constantly strengthening the security around the Valley. But as to be expected of the prince of thieves, he expertly managed every day to escape his home. Link the blond boy from the castle town had always waited for him at the back of the ranch that was near by.

"I've been out mother." He said calmly, his lips curling into a smug grin. Nabooru, a girl of similar age to Ganondorf glared at him, her weapon in hand.

"He's been sneaking into Hyrule Valley...He has moist earth clinging to his legs. " She whispered and he glared at her, she straightened her back with a smile. Nabini, his mother snapped her gaze up and down her son.

"You have. Why? What is there that you must make a mockery of me day after day?" She hissed, her dark face growing red with anger. Ganon took a step away from his mother.

"I am doing no harm. I just hate being stuck here all the time...I'm sick of the sand...and the dirt! Is it so wrong to want to see the outside world?" He beamed, his back straightening, his fists in balls at his sides. Nabini sighed shaking her head whistling for two of the other soldier women who then grabbed him by his upper arms.

"This way young prince." they instructed as they pulled him towards his fortress home. He didn't fight for he knew he would find a way out again before morning light.

Waking up to the pop of the fire Ganondorf sat up, taking in his surroundings. Dark Link was still awake and polishing his master's weapons for the next days use. He got up from the table, carrying the woolen blanket to his cot and laid down. It had been a long time since he thought on his child hood days. The days when his life was so simple. Looking up at his dark companion he sighed.

"Dark. Cut it out for tonight will you? The clanging hurts my head." Ganon murmured with another sigh as he rolled onto his side. He could hear his companion put down his work and take a seat next to the bed and began to play a soft tune on his ocarina. The tune was one that boy from his past once played, it was a tune that boy had once called the tune of the Gerudo. It was something his mother never accepted. His mother had always spurred the idea of accepting anything from the Hylians that wasn't stolen. His eyes began to close again, dragging him back into the past.

"You're going to be king one day right? Of the Dessert?" Link crooned, hanging idly from his legs in the tree. The boy had remained true to him for the past five years, growing considerably as Ganondorf himself did. Ganon had grown quite a few feet in his growth spurt, now wearing the Gerudo jewels and proper attire that the rest of his family adorned. Link hadn't grown quite as tall, was slim and lanky, with always untidy golden hair. He was far prettier than any of the girls back home, and it was starting to make Ganon's insides twist which he dutifully ignored. As link dangled his shirt slipped up, exposing his slim stomach as he swung back again forth blowing on his ocarina. Ganondorf sat down, his back against the tree's trunk.

"What is that tune you keep playing?" The gerudo boy teased looking up at his friend kindly, the boys lips smirked as he blew on his instrument for a few notes longer. It was a fast, urgent sounding tune with a melody that sounded beautifully rhythmic. Once the notes drew to a close the boy removed his lips from the ocarina and winked.

"Do you like it? It makes me think of you." He laughed softly flipping his body around to where he was sitting on his tree branch before hopping down and sitting beside his tanned friend. Ganon's red eyebrows raised.

"It does? How so?" he questioned, the blond's shoulder brushing against his own as he sat beside him.

"The notes are so raw and powerful, but they are so agilely placed, like a powerful force on an adventure through the desert." He blushed in his explanation. "I hope that doesn't sound odd..." He murmured looking up at his friend with twin sapphire eyes. Ganondorf shifted, something about the fact this boy composed a song for him made his heart do strange things.

"It is amazing...thank you. " He said shyly, looking off into the distance. His eyes were trained on the red stone that he knew his home lay hidden behind. With each passing year, he grew saddened by his journey home. Fewer and fewer children were born, all daughters of the sand goddess. The old were living shorter lives, and dieing too fast for the births to catch up. His people were stealing more frequently, and it troubled him. Even his beloved friend couldn't keep the worry from filling his thoughts as much as he used to. On top of things, his mother absolutely forbade any contact between the Gerudo, and the Hylian people. Hiding his friendship with the blond was becoming less of challenge and more like a miracle.

"You're distracted again...is everything alright? Is your mom making things hard on you again?" Link whispered, keeping his voice down, as he leaned closer to him. Link was always there for him when he needed it. He was the only one Ganon could confide in. Link was orphaned at a very young age, and had been raised by the many monks at the main church in the castle town. The monks often looked down on the blonds constant sneaking out of the safe confines of the town wall to do goddess knows what. The monks pushed him towards the knighthood, where he would serve the king, and as Ganondorf saw it...his soon to be enemy.

"She's pushing me to be more like them. To be more cruel, more unemotional. She wants me to start attacking caravans of shipment with the other soldiers. " He told him, his yellow eyes falling from the reddened rock and upon Link's face. Link's eyes saddened as he stared back at his friend. Ganondorf often wondered if the Hylian boy thought as he did, that this pure thing that they had, would one day shatter.

"Master Monk has spoken to the king for me...I am to begin training soon for the royal guard...so I may not be here everyday anymore..." He said just barely audible over the soft wind that blew past. And so their lives would begin. Ganondorf was to be pushed forward to assert himself as the Gerudo King, while Link, was pushed on to serve the Hyrulian King. Ganondorf shook his thoughts off of him and he stood, his hands on his weapon and pulled it, pointing its sharp blade at his friend.

"Let's see how you'll fair against one of my kind." He said lightly, his tone trying to hold onto their previous playful mood. Link smiled softly, not entirely lighting up his face as he stood, breaking off a branch from the tree and pointed it back at him like a sword. On his mark they both swung at each other, their weapons meeting with a thud. Link had always matched him in battle, he had no doubt the scrawny boy would make a fine guard. Swinging again he aimed for the blonds legs with the blunt edge of the blade, knocking him off his feet. The blond gasped falling onto his back staring up into Ganon's yellow gaze.

"You win. Are you happy?" Link laughed. Ganon's gaze never left the boys shining face as his laughter fell silent and they held each others look for a moment. They knew soon things would be different. It was only a matter of...how different?

Hi thank you for reading chapter two, I felt I needed to fill in some information that was missing for the story to move forward so I apologize if it was kind of boring! Thank you again! Also the tune he was playing is the Gerudo theme from the game XD