A/N: Thanks to ZeldaRubix and Kirkysaurus for their reviews!

Thanks ZR! I'm glad my story is making you feel nostalgic about the old days. I'm actually honoured XD I can't really believe I made someone feel nostalgia :P

Oh, and I'm glad you 'LOL'ed' at Zelda in the Desert, Kirkysaurus. That was my attempt at a bit of humour :D

Again, thanks to TheZeldaDungeon for their walkthroughs on YouTube which help me stay on track.

This chapter was inspired by 'Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Piano Medley' by JordanDupuis101 on YouTube. Check out his stuff!

Forgive any typos, please. This one was a toughie!

Zelda has been trapped by Ganondorf! How will she fare?

Read on!

Chapter 33 - Crystal

Zelda awoke abruptly as the crystal housing her bumped against a wall. Her head fell on the side of it and bounced off sharply causing her to gasp out. Not long afterward, a loud cackling seemingly out of nowhere reverberated around the crystal's pink walls.

'Oops,' it sneered. 'Did I wake the poor princess from her nap?'

Zelda instantly recognised the voice. It was Ganondorf's. She quickly recapped on the recent events. Whilst Link and she were talking Ganon sealed her in this crystal. If the swooping scenery had any explanation, she was flying over the decimated marketplace toward Hyrule Castle.

'What the hell did you do Ganondorf?' Zelda shouted abruptly.

'Ooh, touchy aren't we?' the voice teased. 'I haven't done anything yet. But when your precious hero comes to rescue you the three Triforce pieces will be reunited, and my wish of conquering the world will come into fruition!'

Zelda cursed. With no way to tell Link about Ganondorf's plans, the hero would fall into his trap. If, somehow, Link were to be defeated, that would be it. No second chances. Ganondorf's reign will spread around the world and no-one will stand in his way.

'Oh, feeling defeated already? It's natural.'

Zelda shook herself out of her pessimistic mood. Ganondorf wasn't going to be stopped with her thinking like that.

'Link is going to defeat you, wretch,' Zelda announced proudly. 'Your plans will never be realised.'

'Perhaps you don't know how powerful I am,' the voice shimmered.

'I do. But Link is the hero chosen by the Gods. You will never win against him when the Goddesses are on his side! Even if you somehow managed to obtain the completed Triforce he will find a way to destroy you!'

'You seem to have a very... simple view of this matter, Zelda. Not looking into the complications of things are we?'

The crystal suddenly veered left and Zelda hit her head on the side again.

'What the hell!' she shouted fiercely.

'I'm just showing you the error of your thinking, my dear.' The voice was condescending. Zelda scowled.

'And what exactly is my thinking Ganondorf?'

'You are not realistic. You think that the side of good will always triumph over evil. This is a view shared by many of you people. It's all you ever hear about in your stupid stories.'

There was a pause in the speech as the crystal stopped.

'That's exactly the thinking these soldiers had.'

Zelda raised an eyebrow in confusion and peered into the open area before her, which looked like it used to be a battlefield.

And instantly regretted it.

Soldiers were strewn across the ground and were, of course, dead. There must have been at least two hundred, perhaps more. They lay across each other haphazardly, blood sprayed across their wounds and the areas surrounding them. Some of their limbs were lacerated and, on rare instances, were completely amputated. Their faces were young, scared; most of their faces were frozen in a scream. But it wasn't this sight that made Zelda ill. It was the Redeads limping among them, stepping on severed arms and outright crushing them. There were also some chewing on the raw skin of the men, spitting out hunks of muscle. Others that surrounded them fought for that saliva-covered piece as if there wasn't enough to go around. As they fought, they tore at each other with the infamously raking nails they had, and the screeches of pain pierced the crystal's surface and reached Zelda's ears, causing her brain to lurch and her stomach to heave and her mouth to gag.

Zelda resisted the urge to throw up. What she didn't need was her feet to be swimming in vomit.

'See?' The voice hadn't talked in a while. 'ALL of these men had just the same thinking as you and look what happened.'

What he said next made Zelda shudder.

'Even though you share this thinking, you may not end up the same way. That is if you weren't to resist...'

That voice was slathered in horrid venom, cold and unforgiving. It was truly the speech of a killer. Zelda remained silent.

'You see my point, then,' the voice sighed. 'There is absolutely no use for that kind of thinking, especially in war. It's all about skill, luck...'

The voice paused to make the last point stand out.

'...And power.'

The crystal shuddered into life as if it was being pulled by invisible horses and sped back in the direction of Hyrule Castle. Zelda sighed and sat down, knowing she was most likely heading to her doom and unless Link came out of nowhere and shattered the crystal there was nothing anyone could do about it.

'That's a lot better.'

The voice sounded like it was coming from a smirking mouth.

'I can feel it: your aura. It's becomingly increasingly negative by the minute.'

Zelda's eyebrows made an upside-down arch as she bristled angrily. The voice only served to anger her more.

'And now it's glowing red. As red as your father when he used to shout. Tell me, what is it that angers you?'

Zelda lost her self-control and clawed savagely at the crystal's surface. It shimmered at every impact but Zelda's hands felt like they were smashing into a brick wall, but she didn't really care. She wanted to scratch, punch and kick her way out of this floating prison so she could stick her foot in Ganondorf's goddessdamn throat.

'Now, now, that's quite enough,' the voice said. Zelda ignored it and continued attacking the pink translucent wall, not realising that it was all in vain.

Suddenly, a tremendous pain thundered up Zelda's arms and she screamed, collapsing onto the ground and involuntarily convulsing. She lifted her arms and found they were smoking and sparks were running up and down them, making an unpleasant buzzing sound as they travelled.

'Oh, that scream was brilliant, Zelda! Literal music to my ears. Do you mind doing it again?'

Zelda ground her teeth and tried to stand, but she found she couldn't. Her legs just didn't wanted to move.

'No? Well, that's a shame...' the voice had a hint of disappointment. 'It's not anything I can't hear later.'

Zelda clenched her fists and whimpered. As her fingers folded over and met her palms a small electric shock zipped through her arm, but she felt the urge to resist pulling them away. She wanted to show Ganondorf how much humans could live and endure, as long as their minds were not destroyed in the process. She wanted him to look upon her and shock her again, and draw back in surprise that she was still breathing, very much alive. Laugh at his shocked face and spit in it, and trample him down and kick him with her legs and cause any sort of pain to him that would equal the pain he had caused thousands.

The crystal was still carrying on to Hyrule Castle, oblivious to Zelda's thoughts of bloodshed. Eventually, the castle came into view and Zelda's jaw dropped. The walls were a horrid grey compared to the pure white they were when she was last there. The bridge connecting the castle entrance to the field was completely gone. In fact... the field was completely gone. But.. How? How does one get rid of a FIELD?

The moat surrounding the castle was also gone. Instead of a mere trench, the hole was now the size of a lake. And instead of water, the usual liquid that filled lakes, there was lava. It was as if Ganondorf wanted to cause as much pain to anyone as possible. Ironically, little skeletons of monsters floated in the viewing area of the windows at the side of the castle.

'I think that's enough,' the voice interjected the silence. The crystal swooped downward and into the entrance, which seemed hardly maintained. It zipped past the two Beamos, but not before they spotted it and fired a beam at the intruding object. Zelda flinched, but the lasers couldn't cut through the crystal's surface. She heaved a sigh of relief as the door opened by itself and the crystal carried on, uninterrupted.

The huge room looked grisly. Zelda joked in her mind that Ganon should get a better interior designer, but then figured it wasn't the best time to laugh.

There was a huge sculpture right in the middle of the room, which was decorated with a horrid-looking skull. It had a purple light around it, which Zelda concluded must have been a shield spell. It was being maintained by six different spears of light, all different colours. Oddly, they all resembled the colours of the pedestals that the Sages stood on in the Scared Realm. There was no time to think about it, however, as the crystal passed through the barrier with ease and advancing into the next room. It quickly zipped up the spiralling staircase and through the subsequent rooms, paying no attention to the monsters nestled in it. If they were anything to go by, Link was going to have a hard time getting to Ganon's room.

Suddenly, music filled Zelda's ears. It was played on an organ, a regal instrument that was expensive, only being owned and played by the most skilled and wealthy musicians. The melody itself sounded complex, but never missing a beat even though she had never heard it before. It was evil, morose and it made the hairs on the back of Zelda's neck stand up. Beautiful and horrid at the same time.

The song got louder and louder as the crystal got further and further up the staircase. Eventually, it was as if it was inside the crystal. Only a few seconds after this new development, and the crystal entered the grand throne room, or what used to be it. A robed figure was at the far end, playing the organ that Zelda had heard earlier. She suddenly noticed, as the crystal hovered over to the person, that the organ was actually her father's. His most beloved prized possession, this was the one item that he cherished. It was passed down through generations, and Zelda knew Daphnes loved his father. It also held significant sentimental value to Zelda as well. This was the same organ that Zelda had learned to play, her tiny fingers clumsily bashing the keys lightly. Zelda wanted to cry as she remembered her father laugh as she hit the wrong note, gently guiding her to the right one and looking upon her in admiration. And now it was subject to the blood-stained hands of a treacherous blackheart.

Ganon didn't speak to Zelda for a while, simply playing the same tune over and over. Zelda watched him with disgust and incredulity. How could, how COULD he? How could he do all these things? How could he kill thousands of innocent people all for the sake of a futile fantasy? Zelda hoped more than anything that when Link came to defeat him, he would do it in the most painful way possible.

Ganon seemed to catch on to her anger because he smirked, but his playing never wavered. Instead, he looked up at her with orange eyes, an evil grin plastered on his face.

'You'll be glad for what I have in store, Zelda. It will definitely be worth all this trouble I've been through.'

What he said next turned Zelda's mood upside-down, mere confusion in her mind.

'You should look into the history of the royal family. My rule will certainly be less bloody than theirs.'