The Legend of Zelda: Union of Evil Powers

by Martian Tempest

One year after the events of Majora's Mask, Link makes a safe return to Hyrule and is reunited with his friends. However, two of the villains which Link has slain have formed an alliance through the power of one and are ready to take their revenge. Can Link and his friends stop them before it's too late?

57. Chapter 57: The Final Strike

Chapter 57: The Final Strike

Garo Ganjora couldn't believe it. He SERIOUSLY couldn't believe it! Was he truly being beaten after only such a short time in existence?! Why was his power failing him; he should be having that meddling group on their knees or otherwise dead at their feet, not being at their mercy! Enraged at what had happened to him, he promptly charged at the group, intending to strike them down. Link was the first to react and, for the first time, he actually struck Garo Ganjora in the face with his fist after jumping up to hit him there, being backed up by the Triforce of Courage. In retaliation, Garo Ganjora kicked him in the stomach, before using a tendril to intercept Saria and Rauru respectively before getting hit by Zelda. Striking the Hyrulean Princess in the stomach as well, Garo Ganjora then smacked Impa to the side, blocked an attack by Ruto before being kicked in the face by Nabooru, only to be swept off her feet by a sweeping kick, after which Garo Ganjora leapt at her, causing both the Evil King and the Gerudo Leader to roll over the ground for a moment, before Nabooru kicked him up in the air, after which Darunia grabbed the menace's face and smashed it into the ground, before jumping up further, taking him with him and smashed his face on the ground again, making it skid over the ground for a bit before Darunia stepped on Garo Ganjora's left arm with his right foot, after which he began to punch Garo Ganjora's face repeatedly, damaging the mask even more as the Goron Leader delivered a brutal smackdown on the menace.
"Doesn't feel too good to be on the receiving end of a beating, huh?!" Darunia snarled as he kept going, "well, you deserve EVERY HIT of it!"
After a few more hits however, Garo Ganjora viciously clocked Darunia in the face, rolling around and turning the tables, now beginning to pound on Darunia.
"You are not worthy! NONE OF YOU ARE!" He growled as he punched the Goron leader a few times more, before Darunia grabbed his face and held him up so he could get up from the ground, just as the other Sages and Link approached rapidly.

First kicking Darunia in the stomach before punching him to the side, Garo Ganjora first stopped Link and Saria's advance short by elbowing them in their faces which almost broke their noses, before striking Zelda in her back after spinning around her own strike, using the momentum to grab the princess and tossed her against Impa. After that, Garo Ganjora delivered another vicious ground smash that knocked the group off their feet, before he turned his attention to Nabooru and slugged her in the stomach, causing Nabooru to scream out, before she retaliated by cutting him across the face with her own blades, right before Garo Ganjora smacked them out of her hands and kicked her away, after which he avoided several attacks of Rauru before knocking him to the side and kicking Ruto in her back to send her flying against Darunia.
"You are nothing!" Garo Ganjora declared.
"Shut your face!" Zelda sneered as she got up.
"You all should know your places and remain in obscurity for all eternity!"
"SHUT UP!" Link and Zelda both hollered, striking Garo Ganjora in the chin with a knee strike with aid of Darunia.
Garo Ganjora grunted as he was kicked before grabbing Link and Zelda by their heads and bashed them against each other, only for Saria to deliver a Back Slash that forced him to release her friends, before he turned to her.
"We've had ENOUGH!" Saria shouted as she showered her enemy with an array of her Cutting Leaves attack, causing Garo Ganjora to grunt in discomfort, before smacking Saria to the side.
"Not until you lie dead at my feet!" He snarled, readying his tendrils to attack once more, first swiping at the group using the tendrils as whips again, managing to strike the group, although Darunia managed to ignore the pain by letting them strike his rock-hard back, rending the tendrils useless on them, before sending a fire blast over to strike Garo Ganjora and make him cease his assault instantly.
"Impudent fools! Don't you realize you can't win against me?!" He snarled.
"Says the one whom is having trouble against us!" Link snapped back as he charged in again, only to be stopped short when Garo Ganjora planted his left foot in his face, before spin-kicking around and catching Zelda in the side, only to receive a similar kick in the face by Impa.
He recovered swiftly and clocked the Sheikah woman in the left cheek with a tendril, before smacking Darunia and Rauru aside, delivering gut punches to Link, Saria, Zelda and Ruto in rapid succession, before using a tendril to grab Nabooru by her neck and hoist her up in the air, the Gerudo leader struggling to breathe and get the tendril off. Zelda managed to bail her out using her own sword to strike at the tendril holding Nabooru, causing Garo Ganjora to drop her before receiving a Silver Bomb Arrow in the face courtesy of Link. The chaotic situation of this battle made it apparent that both sides were in a fight as if they were making their own respective last stands; both sides had suffered numerous injuries, but neither side was backing down and intent to land the final death blow on their respective adversaries. Darunia was eventually knocked out cold after Garo Ganjora delivered a vicious kick in the back of his head, before taking Rauru out with a kick in the gut, leaving the elder Sage out of commission as well. He then proceeded to smack Impa against Nabooru, causing them to tumble over Saria and Ruto, who both yelped as the four fell to the ground. This distracted both Link and Zelda, who were then in turn grabbed tightly by their necks through two tendrils which Garo Ganjora held back for the moment, before they were hoisted in the air, being brought towards Garo Ganjora's face, who looked amused as both Link and Zelda struggled against the grip.
"You two have been a thorn in my side for FAR too long. It's high time you understand that this time, I get what's coming to me and you will be left in this area to be forgotten by time. It matters not to me what you do in here then. Now, hand over the Triforce Pieces you have taken for yourself and give me what I desire!" Garo Ganjora said in a nearly deranged voice as both children's faces were becoming a bit red and also slightly blue, indicating they were now beginning to suffer from a lack of air.
Impa woke up from her dazedness and saw that the two were placed in a near inescapable chokehold, both of them threatening to choke to death as their movements were beginning to weaken.
"GIVE THEM TO ME!" Garo Ganjora demanded, just as the backs of Link and Zelda's hands began to glow and pulse, indicating that he was about to succeed!
Both Link and Zelda panicked as they could feel Garo Ganjora beginning to extract their respective Triforce Pieces, struggling as best as they could, holding onto their respective Triforce Pieces for as long as they possibly could, but the lack of air wasn't doing them any good as their movements slowed down, much to Garo Ganjora's delight. While Impa struggled to get free, not wanting to fail her duties as Zelda's attendant, despite being unable to get Nabooru off of her for the moment, another of the Sages recovered swiftly and saw Link and Zelda in Garo Ganjora's grasp, even watching as the two children were about to go limp in his grasp. Having none of this, he rolled up and charged up a Goron Roll, before smashing into the menace like a spiked boulder crashing into him, causing Garo Ganjora to drop both Link and Zelda, with the two children taking in fresh gulps of air that they were almost deprived of, gasping and coughing loudly as they sat together on hands and knees, trying to get themselves back together. As Impa came to them after she finally pulled herself out from underneath Nabooru's unconscious body, she saw that both children still had their respective pieces, but this was only barely in time, causing her to breathe a sigh of relief. Shaking his head, Link saw that Darunia was locked in a fierce fist-fight with Garo Ganjora, who was now getting borderline insane from being deprived of his victory like this, just when he was so close to win the whole thing. While Zelda herself tended to Nabooru, Link boldly charged ahead to assist his Sworn Brother, dashing up to the menace and leaping up towards him. Garo Ganjora didn't see him coming until the last moment and was shocked to find Link's head collided with his, cracking his facial mask even further while Link fell to the ground and Garo Ganjora was forced backwards. Link himself fell on the ground as well, grunting in pain as he did, before being helped up by Darunia himself.
"Thanks, Brother." Darunia said, nodding.
Link acknowledged this with a nod and a smile, just as the other Sages came to join them, each of them having recovered a little so Saria could proceed with her own healing spell once more. Just then, the entire group heard Garo Ganjora scream, causing them to cover their ears as the piercing howl was similar to when the Majora-possessed Skull Kid howled to let the moon proceed with its descend to the Clock Tower during his own confrontation with Link in Termina that year ago.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME?! I AM THE KING OF EVIL, THE RULER OF DARKNESS! I WILL NOT LET MYSELF BE BEATEN BY A GROUP OF MEDDLING KIDS AND ADULTS!" Garo Ganjora roared in an extreme pissed off fashion, his red eyes growing intensely fierce due to the madness he was experiencing, the madness of being humiliated again.
As Link and the Sages watched on, they saw that a battle aura had appeared around the menace, causing them to get ready again.
"All the time have the eight of you interfered in my plans. All I wanted was to rule the world and live in a place other than that hellish desert I was raised in, but you all thwarted my plans time and time again! I WON'T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE!" Garo Ganjora howled as he powered up now out of desperation, but his power increase wasn't noticeable… was he actually getting weaker now?
Nonetheless, Link and the Sages each took a battle stance, knowing that a cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal, so they took no chances and waited for what Garo Ganjora's next move would be.

"You will not interfere any further with my rule, cretins! Your lives mean nothing to me! I will take what is coming to me and you can all rot together in this endless void, never to return to my world again!" Garo Ganjora snarled, clearly having lost his mind.
"You have no world, Ganjora," Ruto retorted, "all you have is this sick, twisted dream of having one, while you know your plans have failed and your world is non-existent!"
"SHUT UP, ZORA WOMAN!"
"I shall not! You've lost and you know it, so stop whining like a crybaby and admit your defeat!"
"That's it, I'll take pleasure in tearing off your flesh or otherwise fry you to death!"
"Not on my watch!" Link said, growling as his facial markings flashed brightly for a split second, as if they were fueling him with power, coupled with the addition of the Triforce of Courage on the back of his right hand.
Garo Ganjora growled, getting angrier with the second.
"I will rule this world whether you like it or not, have at you!" He snapped, preparing his tendrils for a new assault.

Using his tendrils and his fists, Garo Ganjora went postal on the entire group, first clocking Zelda and Saria in the face, elbowing Impa in the stomach, smacking Rauru, Nabooru and Ruto around with his tendrils, before kicking Darunia in the side. However his rampage was cut short as Link used the opportunity to hop on Darunia's arm as he reeled back before jumping forward to Garo Ganjora, grabbing the latter's outstretched leg with his left hand, pulling himself towards the menace before clocking him in the face with a fierce punch, having dropped his sword after Garo Ganjora had hit him in the stomach earlier. Skidding backwards a little, Garo Ganjora looked like he completely lost it, intending to punch the heads of the entire group off. But then Link did something crazy of his own, standing in position, but not making a single move to block the incoming strike. In fact, Link was reeling backwards himself, as if preparing to charge in turn. As Link then moved his head forward however, his forehead met Garo Ganjora's fist, but Link didn't budge at all! It was as if he had performed a headbutt on the fist, which was evident as a sudden shockwave reeled through the outstretched arm of Garo Ganjora, sending his insides in a further turmoil, in particular on the other hand.
"ARGH! N… No…" Garo Ganjora said as he stepped backwards, his body now shaking all over, having it difficult to maintain his balance… as if he was about to collapse.
While some of the Sages on their turn blinked at this sudden action, the only exceptions being Zelda, Saria, Darunia and Nabooru, they recomposed themselves within seconds upon seeing their nemesis staggering, his legs wobbling as he collapsed to the ground, indicating that he was getting weaker. Battered, bloodied, seriously injured, but not broken in the slightest, Link and the Sages kept approaching their enemy, intending to end it for real.
"You've been a fool for wanting to rule Hyrule, Termina and the world!" Zelda said as she approached it, her royal attire in tatters and her hat absent.
"Your hunger for power has cost you in the end, look at where you are now!" Nabooru snarled, ignoring the fact that some of her jewelry were either cracked or destroyed.
"You even let people of your OWN KIND suffer, what kind of ruler does that to his own people?!" Ruto snapped subconsciously nursing one of the fins on her arms as she approached him.
"You dare to… talk like this?!" Garo Ganjora growled in his turn, only to be met with a fierce straight punch courtesy of Darunia, sending the menace stumbling and falling backwards a couple of meters, landing on his hands and feet.
"We dare, since you've made our lives miserable ever since you showed your TRUE colors!" Impa said as the group continued to approach the menace as he tried to get up and failing.
"You think you could get away with what you did? Well, you thought WRONG, mister!" Darunia said.
"Now all the innocent people whom were either cursed or killed by your hands will be avenged!" Link said.
Garo Ganjora still tried to get up, ignoring the fact that his power was beginning to fail him.
"H… How can these morons… be so strong?!" He asked as he tried to get up, only to receive a vicious uppercut by Saria, sending him backwards and down to the ground again.
"That strength… is supposed to be mine… I am the King of Evil… you all... should be down, bowing… down in front of me… I will not let you deflect my will, you hear me?! I WON'T LET YOU!" He said, finally getting up and mustering all of his remaining powers, as a sickly dark purple aura surrounded him, his crimson red eyes now glowing blood-red, his tendrils and fists at the ready, before promptly launching a desperation charge at the entire group, striking each and every one of them simultaneously in their faces; his fists met Darunia and Rauru's faces, while the others were hit in the face by his tendrils, but the entire group didn't let out as much of a single grunt, not even when they were forced back a little due to the force of the impact…

Garo Ganjora smirked, thinking he had finally managed to deal damage to the group. But his smirk turned to utter shock as he saw Link grabbing the tendril with his bare hands… and was his appearance changing color?! Garo Ganjora now began to sweat as Link's normal appearance began to change as the facial marks began to glow one last time, this time changing him into a child-like version of the Fierce Deity, complete with the empty eyes, the white hair, the light-cyan colored tunic, black leggings and the boots and gauntlets, but this time without the body armor itself, this coupled with Link actually pulling the tendril from his face… which for the first time contained nothing more than pure, undiluted rage and hatred for him… and had his canines grown into fangs?! A sense of dread came over Garo Ganjora as the now-awoken Fierce Deity Link held the tendril firmly in his grasp, before tearing it right off and casting it aside like it was nothing. Garo Ganjora gasped at this, but his shock intensified when he spotted Zelda undergoing a similar change, as if she had inherited part of the Fierce Deity's power, just like Link himself! But before he could even react on that, he saw that each of the sages were having similar changes as well, right before they too severed whatever tendrils had hit them or otherwise snapping Garo Ganjora's wrists.
"We'll never forgive you for what you've done!" Both Fierce Deity Link and Zelda said in unison as they got ready.
"N… no… it… it can't be!" He said, right before the changed Darunia and Rauru slugged Garo Ganjora in the stomach, making his eyes go wide, after which the now-turned Fierce Deity Nabooru and Impa delivered a vicious uppercut that cracked the mask even more, almost shattering it even.
Finally, Fierce Deity Ruto, Saria, Zelda and Link each then struck Garo Ganjora in the face, hard enough to destroy the facial mask and send him flying away, before each of them took a moment to recollect themselves for a moment, observing their changed forms… just as a bright light came from Garo Ganjora's right hand, right before a triangle-shaped object was flung from it and floated towards the Fierce Deity Group. This was the one thing that Garo Ganjora held on as his primary source of power, intending to use it to cause the heroes' downfall and obtain the True Triforce, but now it was swiftly taken from him… The Triforce of Power. This relic flew towards the Fierce Deity Group, before it manifested itself on Link's hand for the time being, even if it was just to keep it safe and out of Ganjora's grasp.

Garo Ganjora then floated up, the tendrils severed and his hands practically useless.
"This… is not my destiny…" He lamented/wailed, a portal at a distance behind him opening as if he was trying to escape.
"You haven't… seen the last… of me… I will get you… back for this!" He said as he floated towards the portal.
However, Fierce Deity Link was having none of that and immediately picked up his Golden Double Helix Sword, feeling its power flowing through him as he got ready to strike one more time.
"This is your end!" He snarled, first running towards Garo Ganjora's position, before smashing his sword onto the ground, lifting himself up and launching himself towards the now shocked menace, taking his sword with him.
Within a matter of seconds, Fierce Deity Link was upon Garo Ganjora and brought his sword down upon him again, this time at the side of Garo Ganjora's neck. Immediately a golden aura surrounded both warriors, but it was launched against Garo Ganjora's position, as if another beam was fired towards him. Once again Link could feel his veins pulsing throughout his body as he put the pressure on his nemesis in front of him, but he didn't care; as long as he could do his part in returning peace and prosperity to Hyrule, he would gladly make the sacrifices that were required of him. As if on cue and wanting to be sure that the threat was finally over, each of the Sages launched themselves towards Link's position, once again assisting him in his effort to bring the oversized sword to where they wanted it. With them too, the pressure increased on their bodies as much as it had with Link, but because of them sharing the effort equally, they could handle it. It took only about 30 seconds or so, before the sword was finally brought down, cutting through Garo Ganjora as a knife through butter. While the strike wasn't enough to vivisect the menace, it did succeed in cutting Majora's Mask in two, effectively disrupting or destroying the final bits of power which Garo Ganjora had relied on. Garo Ganjora's eyes went wide at this realization, feeling the last of his powers leaving him rapidly.

With an agonizing howl, Garo Ganjora was for a moment sent flying backwards as his body destabilized, dark energy surrounding him like an aura, while beams of light were shining out of him as if the core of his body became visible, just as Link and the Sages were sent flying towards the ground on their turn, but positioned in a way where they could see Garo Ganjora's body destabilizing rapidly with the second.
"CURSE YOU! CURSE YOU ALL! I HOPE YOU WILL ALL DIE A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH! YOU HEAR ME?! CURSE YOU ALL TO HELL!" He howled as his voice also became distorted, trying his best to curse at the falling heroes, before he finally went silent.
With a massive explosion, Garo Ganjora's body burst asunder, sending dark magic and energy in a shockwave in all directions outward, visible through a big circle which enlarged itself horizontally until it dispersed to naught like a circle in the water. At the same moment, whatever dark magic and energy Garo Ganjora used to have was also dispelling rapidly, just as the force of the shockwave sent Link and the Sages tumbling towards and over the ground, the Golden Double Helix Sword clattering over the ground, while at the same time the entire group returned back to normal. As each of them landed on their backs and looked up towards the air where Garo Ganjora was, all they could see was the dissipating energy and magic, with no single trace of the menace remaining behind. While at first remaining apprehensive and alert, the group visibly relaxed after nothing else happened over the next few minutes. It was finally over. Once the realization kicked in, Link suddenly chuckled, before weakly laughing in triumph, despite blood streaming from his mouth as well as numerous other injuries he had suffered beginning to finally take their toll on him.
"We… we finally… did it…" He said, before he finally passed out while a smile remained set across his face.
Zelda on her turn crawled at his side, seeing him pass out, but hearing what he said.
"That… we did…" She said, before she too lost her consciousness, with the other Sages following shortly.
In fact, each of the Sages also held a smile on their faces before passing out from their injuries, knowing that the threat that Ganjora posed was now no more and would likely never be a threat again for the rest of their lives. As they laid there unconscious, the area around them seemed to clear up, the clouds that had gathered within the endless void clearing, as if the weather improved along with the situation at hand. A gentle breeze swayed over the whole area and, were it not for the blood mixing with the water here and there, the sight was as if Link and the Sages were lying on top of a polished mirror…