Thanks to all readviewers! Machina: Yep, I intended some of that! Never played a Zelda game though, so now I'm curious what I managed to inadvertently reference.
This is a short version of an idea that's rather dear to my heart.
Prompt: Battle
The darkness of evening under heavy trees. A wooded valley, overshadowed. The traitor bound against a trunk. A stone knife sparking on sharpening stone, and the twilit glint of white arms bared for killing.
"Prepare the victim," said the Witch.
And the knife was knocked from her hands by a rescue party.
The darkness of night in a moonlit clearing. A flickering circle of red torches, throwing twisted shadows. The Cat bound upon the Table. A stone knife sparking on sharpening stone, and the firelit glint of white arms bared for killing.
"You have lost your own life and you have not saved his," said the Witch. "Despair and die."
And the knife struck home.
The muted brightness of clouded daylight. A winding valley beneath a pale sky, casting only the faintest of shadows. The enemy's ranks dotted with gleaming white marble. A golden wand sparking in a steady hand, and the sunlit glint of white arms bared for killing.
The wand flashed, and a leopard was stone—and a sword flashed, and the wand was cloven in twain.
The Witch looked down at the traitor, who had been twice delivered from her knife and yet now stood a third time within its reach. Like lightning one hand shot out and grasped his throat, and the sword clattered to the earth as he choked. With the other hand she let fall the useless half of the wand. From her girdle she drew the stone knife, still stained with the Cat's blood. Her own blood ran with Charn's strength, and she lifted him easily from the ground until his face was near to hers.
"Once you have been rescued and once you have been ransomed," hissed the Witch. "There will be no third escape. I shall have your blood at last, and all of Narnia forever under my rule."
She thrust the knife into the boy, withdrew it, and threw him aside. There were other enemies yet to fight.