Ch. 8

The Princess of Twilight

By: Cutegirlmayra (So... it's been awhile. sorry for the delay, things happened and are happening as well... hope you enjoy this story though. if your reading this far, then you must be right? Shout outs to all who think I'm torturing Zelda.. cause in all honesty..

I haven't even started yet.)

Ganon picked up the completely knocked out Princess and slung her over his shoulder. He turned back to the two men, "Come. The ceremony will begin now."

"Now?" the two men both spoke in unsion, as if they were almost dreading the thought.

"But, Ganon-" Dark Link began, shifting back to his almost humanly appearance. He was cut off by Ganon's large and alongigated sword that swiped at him and stopped right at his nose.

"Really, Shadow. I'm beginning to wonder where your loyalities lie. Has this wrench revived the feelings of the true hero in you? In such a case, I would have no need of you, And you know what happens next." Ganon ticked his sword to the side, making Dark Link flinch slightly. He looked at the limp body of Zelda and then down. His eyes were hidden by his black hair over his face, as he lifted his hand to his heart in a fist, and knelt to Ganon's feet.

"Now, why would I betray myself by letting my other's feelings control me? I serve he who owns my soul. Which would be you, Lord Ganondorf."

Ganon huffed a light laugh, and then walked out of the shadow realm and back into the lighted area. The whole field shifted as the dark vortex behind Shard and Dark Link disappeared as they entered it too. Shard folding his arms as Dark Link got up and walked a head of him, both watching intensily at the scene playing out before them. The lightened area shifted as well, the walls became that of some kind of bubble as the outside world was then shown. They had entered the Crystal that Ganon had used to communicate with Shard and Dark Link before. "The girl will not be limp for long, Chain her to the pillars of Deceit, Greed, Anger, and Envy." Ganon commanded, pointing to each pillar with different markings on it. He placed Zelda down in the circled center of the ruin, and she gently rolled to her back. The two men looked at eachother, a moment of unwillingness, however they looked away and with expressionless faces they chained each one of Zelda's limps up to one of the four pillars. "How long have I awaited this moment?" Ganon begun to speak. "At long last, liberty!" Both Dark Link and Shard listened, but there faces held no glory in this act. They knew that, unbenounce to Zelda, she had a sacred power within her, passed down from the royal blood line of Hyrule from generation to generation. She was literally the life source of the land, a cycle of power was equally disturbuted from her and the land itself in perfect balance. As Ganon began the ceremony, Zelda's body was lifted into the air, a beautiful and intricite strings of bright and seemingly tangable mist came gracefully down into the center circle of the ceremony ruin. Suddenly, the cycle was right before the men's eyes, as they saw the earth suddenly give off that same pattern of strings that whipped back and forth as they flew into Zelda's body, and her power flew down to it. "Behold, the ancient bond of Hyrule. A legend of pure and untoucable power that has never been messed with for billions of years." He slowly swiped his hand through the strings, they flew off into mist at the direction he had moved his hand through them, but then rejoined into thier elegant dances. "Life Force. With this very force, all of Hyrule and the power of Gods will be at my finger tips. I will be able to grant myself life once more!" He opened his arms out wide, the strings shook and formed into gaggid lines that suddenly began to bend toward him. "Come to me, anicent power of this blessed land. Come, and bring me my to my glory!" Zelda whinced and let out small whimpers of pain, tossing her head side to side as the bubble like mirror showed the castle growing dark and crumbling. The land was feeling the power loosen as well, and with Zelda being there life source, began to feel the illness of the beginnings of death. The plants surround the castle begun to wither away, it's once jungle like surrounds slowly dimmed into a brown and dieing world. The lines looked so close to touch, until Ganon's very eyes glew with there shine. But before coming into contact with him, Ganon thrusted his unsheathed sword into Shard.

"GACK!"

The prince of this accused land looked weakly and shakeningly up at Ganon. "W-Wha.." his eyes shook with horror, his mouth gaped open and closed as blood gushed from his being.

"I must have a physical body of flesh and bones inorder to absorb this power. It's not called, 'Life' force for nothing." Ganon withdrew his sword and slashed at Shard again, making him fall to the ground in a bloody mess. Shadow watched in surpise, but did nothing to stop Ganon. He simply moved himself away from the scene and contuined to be a specator of the wicked doings happening before him. As the last breath was about to escape Shard's lips for good, Ganon lifted his body up with one arm, and the lights swirled into him, having been broken as Shard was now in the center of the line of cycle. Ganon laughed, as he took his sword and pierced his chest open, a dark grim shadow mist of a ball was withdraw from it, and he lunged it into Shard's body. Shard's body morphed and split into another creature. As it wiped the blood from it's sheded body it was another Ganon. "I would of told you of this, Shard. But how could I ruin the fun of seeing your petrified face from all those times you thought you were so high above me? Now you see, you can never control the Dark Lord Ganondorf!"

Link walked aimlessly through the long tunnels, as he and Navi had entered into some, underground mosh where a swamp dwelt with a horrible stench. Link made a face at the water's edge, the cliff was about as high as his knees would go, but that doesn't mean he still couldn't smell the foul body of water. "Ugh! What is this place? Ganon's private bathroom!?" Navi gagged at the pollution all around her. "What was the next clue?" she asked in desperation.

"Tunnel that no man...eh.. see..." Link was coughing out his words, plugging his nose tighter. "Navi, your no man. Can you maybe..?"

"Yes, Link. I'm no man, very oberverent of you." Navi scarastically spit out, she fluttered around the walls of earth, but saw nothing. She flew back to Link's shoulder, "Nope. Not even a crack to blast a bomb through." She flapped her wings delicately, then looked up at Link. "Hey... you okay? You look a little distant. Is this place getting to you? Need some air?" she hopped over a little to his cheek. "You know, tree's aren't the only things with fresh air..." She fluttered softly over his face. He looked at her with a face like, 'WHAT?!' and fanned her away.

"It's not that!" he spat out, not liking how flirty Navi had become. "Hey, I know it's no use. That's why I figure I got nothing to lose if I never gained anything in the first place." Navi settled back down on his shoulder. He looked at her, as if scolding her with eyes and then just shook his head. "It's just.. I keep feeling like there's something I need to protect.. that something... important is being tampered with. I keep hearing these different voices in my head, telling me to quit stalling and move on. It's odd.. and a bit frightening.." He held his head down in thought for a moment. "I been having these voices for a while now."

"And Zelda just joined the mix then?" Navi asked, but a hint of hostlity still was surrounding her words. "Well, that's so not werid. I hope they're good voices, and not something we, or rather you, should fear." Navi said, as she took off and flew around again. There was a few torches to the side, and Link Lit them all with Din's fire, trying to lighten the load of responsiblity on Navi to be his only source of light, but he figured she must of liked all the attention it gave her anyway. In the swamp water, moved a sleek body of a large and long creature. It's tounge emerged from the water every now and then, just smelling for it's prey. When it got a scent of something other than it's lagoon of a home, it dipped it's head up slightly. As it saw through a murky watered scene, a boy dressed in green and his little turquise fairy flying in front of him. It smirked under it's muddy abiss and moved closer into the bank for the kill. Link heard a small wave crash gently agianst the cliff's edge and it made him freeze. He looked questioningly around, but his expression was strong, his instincts had grown strong from his first adventure against evil and he knew all to well this unease feeling. He held his hands over his sword's hilt, and Navi turned around, "What's up? Do you see something?"

All at once, the monster arose from the swampy, brown water and snapped at Link with a mighty jaw. Link had drawn his blade though, and the Leviathan's mouth was slashed right below it's twitching tounge. It cried out in pain, as it slithered out of it's mossy river and striked at Link over and over again. Link dodged and swiped, but he knew he needed more than his sword this time. He pulled out his sheild, and rotated his arm slightly, getting ready to defend when necessary. And it was necessary, the beast hissed and flung it's huge head at Link, Link took the offesive and embraced the blow by countering it with his shield, then he flung the Leviathan's nose off of it with enough force to make it move it's head back a bit and wiggle it's head a bit to regain it's composer from the block that gave it pain. Link striked now, over and over again as the Leviathan was being forced back into it's river. It tried to strike, but Link would hold up his shield and bash it's head into it whenever it stroke close enough to him. The shield's hits made the large snake dizzy and it's vision blurry. It held out his tounge again, sniffing for the hero's position. "LINK! It's tounge! Chop off it's tounge!" Navi cried out, hovering over the tounge as it lurched out again. Link nodded and striked with his battle cry, the beast roared as it's tounge flung off from the rest of it. Now the mythical creature was furious, it dashed back into it's river, the displacement of water slowly quieting down as it's body recoiled under the water. "Whew.. I think it gave up." Navi said, hovering a few good feet over the water. Link shook his head, when he peered over the water's edge, he suddenly realized the Monster's new target.

"NAVI! Look out!"

The Snake sprang out of the water, Navi just barely dodged as it curled back it's long body into the water again, waiting for another chance to strike. Link took his sword and held it skyward, like a voice had once told it too. Once he felt the power soar up in it, he pierced the water, it parted like the red sea as the Snake took the hit gladly and then stiked at Link. It tried to swallow him whole, now that he was lieing on the snake's mouth, holding his sword up to keep the jaw's from clashing down and eating him alive. The Leviathan shook it's head back and forth wildly, Navi screamed in fright to Link, and finally, Link got an idea. He crossed his arms and moved his sword the side, and slid down the Snake's throat. The snake lipped it's scaley lips with it's half cut off tounge, winking one eye as it tried to regain itself from the battle's struggles. But then it lurched it's head upward and let out a horrific cry as it's body was being shredded as Link passed down it's body. He had skinned the beast alive and from the inside. The beast fell limp as the mist in it's eyes enflamed it's pupils, but then withered away as the snake regained it's color of emerald eyes and then fell to the ground.

The water suddenly fell all around it, Navi let out a gasp, "Link..? LINK!" The water relaxed, and all was too quiet. "Oh, Link... no.. NOO!" Navi fell, or rather flumbled in the air, to the dirt filled floor. Her wings drooped as she cried, then flung herself over the water, seeking, searching. All at once, as she laid herself helplessly on a branch, gasping for air, came a sharp sword out of the water. Link swam his way back to the cliff's edge, and used a exposed root from a tree growing on the edge to get out of the nasty water.

He huffed and puffed, then looked up with a smile to Navi, "Well.. that was fun." Navi's wings fluttered violently as she bolted into him, crying shreeks of joy and worry.

"Your alive! I knew you wouldn't die! I just knew.. I just.." she contuined to weep, he sat up and stroked her pale blue and fuzzy body lovingly.

"All is well, Navi. I'm alright, I'm alright." he reasured her, but in the back of his mind, he couldn't help but feel he was still late for something. He needed to be somewhere else, fighting something else to protect something else. But he didn't know what. He knew he needed to find Zelda and protect her. He knew he needed to fight Ganon and destroy him like the heroes before him. But where was he to go? The castle? He leapt to his feet, though his body protested the action. Holding Navi he stated, "Come on, Navi! We've got to...to.." his body had won this fight, he fell back down to his former starting point on his face.

"LINK! Oh, I knew you weren't gonna be just suddenly fine! Where's that potion..." As Navi searched his bag, he rolled his head to the side to see a small tunnel, covered with moss and long beddings of willow tree leaves.

"Navi..."

"Not now, Link! I can't find the stinkin' potion!"

"Navi..."

"Although it ain't the only think stinkin'..."

"Navi..!"

"WHAT?!"

Link pointed to the Wall where the tunnel was, after Navi had turned around with a fierce stance and her wings all the way extended. She lowered them quickly and in a big rush, with a weak and fubbling voice she said, "Now, if you were standing, you'd never find that thing."

"Cave that no man see, because a man never just lays on his belly like this." Link thought out loud. "huh."

"Or...most likely, isn't small enough to see when standing." Navi added, thinking it silly how Link would think of the answer in that sense.

"Well, whatever the case, it looks like a cramped spot. You may need to go ahead." Link rolled himself up, though his body was already fighting him not too do so.

"Sure thing, happy to oblige!" Navi zipped in, and Link had to crawl and squeeze himself through the only way out. once in though, the earth made walls turned into stone, and when Link stuck his head out of the exit, he looked to see a swarm of moblins, holding Navi's frail body, and staring at him in disbelief.

"How'd the -snort- heck he'd get in here?!"

"How'd the heck YOU'D get in here!?" Link responded.

In all honesty, they looked to fat and large to fit through such a tight hole. "Link... they probably can disperse themselves into shadow mist like Dark Link can and most likely did." Navi spoke, but clearly she knew that poor Link was in for another pumbling, but this time from ugly, overlarge, and still awful smelling pig demons. Their name? dumb Moblins.