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Chapter Thirty Four

~Link's POV~

I stare at Ganondorf, my whole body filled with hate for him. This is the man that's basically ruined my life. I'm more than ready to be rid of him.

"I'll show you, alright." I turn back to Nicky. She's frowning with worry. But I put on a smile for her sake. "I'll be fine, how many times have I done this before and won, right?"

She smiles weakly. "Most of the games."

"See?" I say. "It'll be fine. Over before you know it."

"Yeah." She agrees, but the worry doesn't leave her face. She kisses me. I could get used to that. "Just be careful, Ganondorf is pretty powerful."

"I will."

"Enough!" Ganondorf shouts. Another one of those invisible barriers comes between Nicky and I, coming between my hand in hers. Navi flutters by my shoulder. At least I'll have her with me. I smile at Nicole one last time, and then turn to Ganondorf.

"Let's get this over with." I say.

I take the first swing at him and he blocks. Then he swings and I block. The fight instantly becomes heated and strenuous. He swings hard at my left side. I block with my shield. The instant his sword comes in contact with it my arm goes numb. I grit my teeth in pain and swing back. I get a good shot at his left arm, making a deep cut. He yells in pain and swings at my arm in return. He misses, but instead he ends up hitting my right thigh. I groan as the blood trickles from the wound. But we keep going. Within minutes the throne room is destroyed. The room fills with shouts of hate from Ganondorf and I and shouts of encouragement directed at me from Nicky and Navi. This is so much worse than the fight with Dark Link. I barely manage to fend off a swing to my head. I'm tired. I just want this to be over with.

After repeating this for a while Ganondorf suddenly switches tactics. He lashes out at my leg with the flat of his sword, catching me off guard. It throws me off balance and I crash to the ground. I hear Nicky and Navi yell in the background, but the sword pointed at my throat is currently demanding my full attention.

"The goddess' Chosen Hero." Ganondorf sneers. "More like the goddess' chosen failure."

I set my jaw and stare daggers at him. "It's my duty to defeat you, and I will do exactly that."

He laughs. "I doubt you can do that with my sword in your stomach." He lifts the sword and goes to plunge it in my stomach, but stops suddenly. His eyes grow wide. I stare at him, confused, but then my eyes go wide too. Countless memories overwhelm my mind.

...I remember.

I remember everything.

I remember all my past lives, all of things I've done, the men I've become. I remember being heroes in vastly different situations, all at young ages. Every single moment of my lives...

Midna shattering the Mirror of Twilight, Zelda congratulating me on winning the Wing Ceremony, waking up after a 7 year sleep to find myself as an adult, the Master Sword sinking into the Great Sea, the terrified land of Termina. I remember everything. I remember being each one of those heroes.

I can clearly hear Demise's dying words, "You fight like no man or demon I have ever known. Though this is not the end. My hate... never perishes. It is born anew in a cycle with no end! I will rise again! Those like you... Those who share the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero... They are eternally bound to this curse. An incarnation of my hatred shall forever follow your kind, dooming them to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time!" He lived up to his promise, all right. Here I am, the spirit of the hero, facing off with him once again.

I remember defeating Ganondorf many different times. This hasn't ever happened before, I've never had this much knowledge and advantage in one life. Something tells me that restoring my memories is the goddesses way of helping me in my fight. I recall all the different methods I used to kill him, which one would work best in this fight. I know how to end this now.

Suddenly, I feel a thousand years old. I guess it's because I'm actually older than that.

~Ganondorf's POV~

Ganondorf sneered at the boy. He thinks he's a hero, he thought, when in reality he's just a boy. He was on the ground at the tip of Ganondorf's sword. Defenseless and defeated. Definitely not a hero.

And yet a fire still burned in the boy's eyes. A fire that made it obvious that the boy wasn't planning on giving up so easily, that he still believed he had a chance. Ganondorf smiled wickedly.

Not if he could help it, he didn't.

He lifted his sword to finally kill the pest, delighting in the screams of terror from the girl and the fairy, when he suddenly froze. What was happening?

He was overtaken by strange images from past lives. His past lives, he realized with a start. Multiple hims. He remembered now, how could he have forgotten? He was once the King of the Gerudos, feared by all. He could clearly see himself as the powerful Demise, whom the goddess Hylia herself could barely defeat. She only managed it with the help of that chosen Hero of hers...

The boy hero who now stood in front of him, challenging him once again.

Yes, he could see it now. He recalled the many battles he'd engaged in with this boy. His burning hate for him. And the outcome of them all troubled him greatly. The boy won, every time. Be it with the help of the goddesses or by himself he always defeated Ganondorf. No, no, not after all the work he'd put into this all. He couldn't have it spoiled by one boy who the goddesses saw worthy. There must have been one time he had the upper hand...

An smile split Ganondorf's face. There had been one time, his greatest achievement. The defeat of the Hero of Time.

He grabbed the Princess at the last moment, threatening to kill her, forcing the boy to drop his weapons. Then, he ran him through with his sword. It brought sheer delight to his heart to see the Hero's eyes widen in shock and pain as Ganon twisted the sword inside his abdomen. The Princess and the fairy screamed in horror at the blood flowing from the wound. They rushed over to him, in his final moments of life. Ganon laughed.

"Zelda... I'm so sorry... I failed..." The hero whispered.

"No Link, no." The princess said through her tears. "You are a hero. You went through things that grown men would have trembled just thinking about. You fought so bravely. You risked everything for my kingdom and I, Link, and I can't thank you enough for that. You're going to a better, beautiful place..." Her voice faltered. "You'll be remembered as the greatest hero in the history of Hyrule, I'll make sure of that." She sobbed. "This is my fault. I'm the one who threw you the Ocarina, I got you into this. And now because of me you're dying."

The hero took her hand. "Zelda, this is my destiny... this was my choice... I wouldn't have it any other way... I'm happy..." He coughed up blood and yelled in pain. Then he turned to Ganon. The fire was still there, burning bright even as he died. "You may have killed me Ganon... but you'll never win... someone will always be there to stop you... I'll... never... truly... be... gone..." With those words, the great Hero of Time took his last breath. The fire died out.

Strange, how similar the circumstances were. The girl and the fairy stood off to the side. He could tell the boy would do anything to keep the girl safe. Even die. Ganondorf smiled. Perhaps history would repeat itself...