"So you finally decided to come after all?"

She turned to face him, her face hidden by the dancing shadows created by the burning fortress. Before him stood Nabooru, the proud and fierce leader of the Gerudo, but most importantly, the mighty Spirit Sage.

"Don't believe your pitiful illusions; I did not come to see you"

Link smirked when he saw hurt flicker over her face, no matter how briefly.

"You've changed…"She said, as if stating a plain fact, while she walked closer to him, too close for Link's comfort.

"It's a pity that it's not for the better though……What happened to you kid? Last time I saw you when you were 17, you were a Gannon beating, super sexy saving Hyrule machine....Have you even been eating well? You look as if you've lost a couple of pounds, and I'm not talking about puppy fat…"

"How dare you try to smother me with your unwanted affections…Who do you think you are, woman? You're not my mother"

Nabooru flinched at that. If only he knew what she had wanted to tell him for quite a while now. But Link wasn't done yet, he was just getting started.

"How would you feel if you saved thousands upon thousands of people, risk you're life, the only thing you have left, a million times for the likes of those who at the end of the day turn away from you in disdain? How would you feel if you continuously go through so much pain and suffering that you wouldn't have wished it upon your worst enemy? Go through hell and back every day? To have people making assumptions about you without even knowing you? "

"Sheez kiddo, calm down. I didn't ask for your whole life story….Listen up kid, we don't have a lot of time, and I'm only going to tell you what you have to know once, so you'd better pay attention. Do you honestly think that you're the only one who feels alone all the time? Look at princess Zelda; she's jammed up into that pretty little castle of her, wearing those pretty little dresses, having her whole life planned out. Does anyone care for her instead of her title? And what about me? Do you honestly think people understand why I, of all people, am the Spirit Sage?"

She sat down and pulled a very reluctant Link with her. He responded to that with a small growl but continued to listen anyway.

"Nobody ever understood. It's been a long time since everyone actually remembered what this place was truly for. See that plateau over there? "

She pointed to a small stone plateau on a sort of stone tower.

"It used to be the place that connected our world with theirs, the world of the dead. They say that the first Spirit Sage used her powers given to her by the goddesses to break the link, thus saving us from a premature death. That very Sage passed down her powers shortly after, and travelled through the dessert, her purpose unknown. Her apprentice, who received her powers, took the role of the Spirit Sage upon her. Along with her powers came the ability to see the dead when they crossed the border between our world and theirs. For centuries, they've served as the guides to appoint a new Spirit Sage, after the current one passed away. The apprentice's bloodline became thin and impure and within a few centuries, her descendants no longer had the ability to see the ghosts, or poes as you call them.

You might think, why is she telling me all of this? It serves a purpose.

The altar and the temple had long since been banned from my peoples mind. There is something you need to know about us Gerudo though. We're not just one tribe. There are multiple, but there shall remain only one man.

My mom belonged to a different tribe of Gerudo, the Terminian branch. She found a Hylian boyfriend and followed him to Hyrule. Once he dumped her, she came here, not being able to bear the shame she would receive is she returned to her own family. She was pregnant of his child you see, she was pregnant of me.

I was a normal child, I had my fair share of friends, did well in everything I did, yet I was never satisfied. I even knew Gannondorf well before he went nuts. I even knew your mother…but that's something that's better left in the past.

You see, I didn't always have the ability to see ghosts…..no…I was quite ordinary…That changed tragically after the events of the unification war….

Lying deadly wounded, near the river of sand, I could fee that my time was running out and darkness was surrounding me like a blanket. I had long lost my ability to feel my pain. Suddenly, I felt as if I wasn't alone anymore. With my last strengths, I opened my eyes….I saw her… Her of all people…The one I had betrayed for a man, the one who had taken away my love….The one I had killed to get my revenge…I saw your mother Link "

Faster then lighting, Link unsheathed his sword and buried its blade deep into Nabooru's exposed stomach.

Falling on her knees, Nabooru found herself in a position she had never imagined she would be. Kneeling in front of a man, a boy none the less…. Nabooru mustered up her quickly draining strength to see eye to eye with her killer, as a last act of defiance…

"You remind me so much of your father. Handsome, in a ruthlessly wild way. Untameable, strong, and yet oh so fragile. Oh if only you could see how much you look like Gan..nondorf…"

As Link walked away, leaving the dying Nabooru behind, he could still hear her whispering: "never forget that she's with you…I can …see…. Her…."

A bright light pierced the darkness surrounding the Oasis, but Link didn't notice.

Ming had finally brought her long lost friend home, away from all her worldly pain.

Using the spirit guide to safely cross the river of sand, Link watched the blackened fortress, and in some disgusting way, he felt proud.

His footsteps pierced through the nightly quietness. Surrounded by darkness, a seed of darkness was planted in his mind.

He would need the light of another to nurture said seed.

From where she stood, Ming watched him, her son, walk away. Turning on her heals, she walked back to the spirit dace. Her job as a spirit guide to the oasis would have to wait another day; she wasn't going to leave her son alone anymore….

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Something woke Rauru from his pleasant dreams. A feeling of dread washed over him, and against his normal ways, the light sage decided to check upon the seal, to lose said feeling of dread.

The moment he stumbled into the chamber, he saw that something was wrong. Instead of its normal orange glow, the pedestal was black.

And that's when he knew his worst nightmare had just been confirmed.

The seal had been broken, and Gannondorf was out, planning his own merry way to pull Hyrule in an era of darkness again.

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A/n : I'm sorry that it took such a long time for me to update. I wasn't quite sure whether or not to post this chapter at all, but last night, I've decided, oh what the hell…

I'd like it very much is you'd review this chapter. I basically have my story lined out now, so it should feel a bit less abstract (or so I hope). I'm still learning a lot while writing, and reading of course. As you might have noticed, my native language isn't English, so I'm prone to make mistakes.

I hope that that doesn't stop people from reading this story though…

Anyway, if I don't update before Christmas, I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

~~ Destiny's charm ~~