Ganondorf suffered a mix of surprise and concern when the door opened and it was Link who entered the room. The hero prepared his sword and stepped to charge at Ganondorf, when he was stopped by his words.
"Do not be so hasty, boy," he said firmly. "Zelda has slept a long time, and I have seen her dreams." Link seemed to back down since Ganondorf was not harming the princess, and did not appear threatening. Ganondorf frantically reached out through his dark energy that consumed the castle to locate Dora. "Her dreams are filled with oceans as far as the eye can see, which none can swim across." At last, he located Dora's faint life. It was obvious her body had been violated by the power of the Master Sword. He glared at Link suddenly. "What did the King of Hyrule say? That the goddesses sealed Hyrule away? And then left behind the very fools who would one day awaken Hyrule? How ridiculous! Don't you see? Your goddesses destroyed you!" The power flowing through the castle would heal Dora eventually, but he needed a distraction that would give her more time. His anger mounted, because his wife had failed and she lay nearly dying in some room of his castle. "I have been waiting for one like you. The hero. You have slain my monsters, mortally wounded my queen. Do not betray my expectations, now that you have come so far."
Ganondorf disappeared, taking Zelda with him, to watch the epic battle from the rafters far above the floor. To Link, it would appear as though he transformed into some giant beast. Had it been a few decades earlier, he would have become that monster. Having dominated that part of himself in the Sacred Realm, he now controlled and manipulated Ganon as a puppet. The first form was defeated, but that was not entirely a surprise. Ganondorf laughed at Link's shock when that did not conclude the fight, and instead the puppet transformed again, keeping the same face and morphing its body into a spider. A whole new fight began, one that Link would not survive.
The hero struggled, but he was still victorious. Ganondorf's anger flared as the puppet transformed into its final form of a snake. While it had no special abilities, its intense speed made it difficult to aim and fire a light arrow at its vulnerable spot. Still a dozen arrows later, three direct hits that were no more than sheer luck, and his creation was obliterated. The only evidence this proved, was that this boy was indeed the Hero of Time reborn.