Chapter 1

Link woke up on his fifteenth birthday in his temporary home just outside Hyrule castle. He got up and looked out the window.
The sun was bright and it cast shadows over the field which was covered by a green blanket of grass. Link was just leaving his house when stepped on an envelope which had been slid under his door. It was from princess Zelda. Link was glad that someone had remembered his birthday, so he eagerly tore the envelope open and found a piece of paper with some writing on it.

He read what was on it and it said:
Link, I had a strange dream where a plague of darkness came from the shadow temple. It destroyed everything in its path. In my dream I was told that a boy that wore green and carried a sword and shield would be able to destroy the evil. Meet me outside of the castle as soon as possible,
Princess Zelda

There must be something bad going on again. Link hoped that this would not take as long as his quest to destroy Ganondorf and Majora’s Mask. Link remembered how dark and eerie the shadow temple was. Never the less, he must go. Link shuddered as he grabbed his sword and shield. He hoped this would be the last major quest in his life. When he saw Zelda, she wasn’t wearing her usual pink dress; she had an old, plain light blue dress on. He squinted to see if it really was the princess, sure enough it was her.

“Link, you’re finally here. You must have gotten my letter,” said Zelda

“Yes I did.”

“Good, now let’s go to that temple.”

They didn’t talk to each other until Link finally broke the silence by the time they were walking up the stairs to the Kakarico Village. “I have been here before, this is not the most pleasant place in Hyrule I will tell you that much.”

“The shadow temple? What on Earth were you doing there?

“Wait a minute,” Link thought, why doesn’t she know why I was there? She transformed into Sheik and helped me get the six medallions, why can’t she remember such and event. I know I was the one who traveled to the future via the door of time so I must be the only one who remembers the future.”

“Hello, are you still alive, Link?” Zelda said lightheartedly.

“Oh, uh, yeah I went there because my friend and I made a bet and the person to loose the bet had to go to the temple.”

“How long did you stay in there?”

“Not long, it gave me the creeps and it didn’t smell too good. Good thing I don’t have mold allergies. I could have stayed longer but I had no need to be there.”

When they entered the graveyard link remembered that it was difficult to get up into the entry way.

“Great, were going to need to find a way to get up there.”

“So that’s where the shadow temple is.”

Link looked to his right and saw an old rickety shack. Maybe he could use something from there.

“Wait a second I will be right back,” Link said. He turned the doorknob and the door fell down. The place looked abandoned. Link looked around and sure enough there was a ladder. He carried the ladder over to where they needed to go.

“Are you sure that thing will hold,” said Zelda.

“I’ll be the guinea pig. If it can hold me it can hold you,” Link said as he put the ladder on the edge of the rock face. Link went up first as he said he would do. Zelda followed, when she was at the top link offered her a hand and helped her up. They slowly walked down the stairs and entered the shadow temple.

Right when they got inside two ReDeads charged after them. Link drew his sword and Zelda shot a huge blast of energy at one and it disintegrated into a pile of ashes. Link charged up a spin attack and cut the other in half.

“Okay their gone lets go here,” said Zelda as she pointed to a doorway.

Link turned a look of disgust toward the redead. He still had haunting memories of them trying to strangle the life out of him. It just laid there staring at him. He walked over and gave it a kick in the face. He turned away to see a door he hadn’t seen when he was on his quest to defeat Ganondorf.

“That’s funny,” said Link “I don’t remember that passage from before.”

“Then we will have to be extra careful.”

So they went through the door and look down a long corridor. Link drew his sword and went ahead of Zelda. Strangely, there was nothing but a few bones and shattered pots. At the end they reached a giant room with a large fancy mirror. It was gold and silver and there was a strange stone which glowed bright read embedded in the bottom of the mirror.

“Link, look over there,” said Zelda as she pointed to the mirror.

“Something’s not right,” said Link.

“Let’s go look at it, and stay alert.”

As they moved closer to the mirror an image appeared and became move visible as they moved forward. As they got to the mirror they saw an image of Hyrule being engulfed in dark flames. A voice came out and said, “Only you three can determine the fate of Hyrule. Step into the future and end the darkness that is sure to come.”

“That’s strange, it said you three,” said Zelda suspiciously.

“Heh heh heh. I will end no darkness!!!” Said a familiar voice from behind. It was Ganondorf. “You will not defeat me.”

“Link jump into the mirror!” Zelda yelled as she did so herself.

Link jumped and Ganondorf threw a spell at the mirror and it hit just as Link was going through. He felt as though he was being sucked back into the mirror for a second then he flew out of the mirror into the future. Link looked at his older self for a moment and then looked back to see the mirror with his younger self on the other side who was standing in front of Ganondorf. Ganondorf lunged at the mirror but it was shattered by a spell from Zelda.

“Okay, now we have to save the world, but everything seems okay now,” said Link.

Chapter 2

While Link and Zelda were out to find a reason to save Hyrule Link’s younger version was still at the Shadow Temple. Since Link had been split in half between the mirrors when Zelda hit it with a spell the Link left behind with Ganondorf had no memories. He did have some morals, a basic vocabulary, and the feelings and emotions of a natural human being.

“Hello, Link”

“Hi… who are you anyway.”

“I am Ganondorf, the king of evil,” he replied.

“Ganondorf,” Link muttered to himself.

“You do realize that you are powerful, do you not?”

“Not really I do feel somewhat powerful.”

“Good, now imagine how powerful you could be if you joined me. Our combined strength could wipe out all who oppose us like a vast wildfire and we could build an empire among the ashes.”

“Power, I like the sound of that,” Link said as a smile crept across his face.

“It looks as though you can begin your training.”

“Sounds good.”

“Okay,” said Ganondorf as he snapped his fingers which made three Hylian guards charge at him with their spears. Link defeated them with a little struggle.

“Now let’s give you some new weapons.”

Ganondorf gave Link two swords with five spikes on the bottom, one pointed down and the other four pointed off to the side and had the shadow symbol (the upside down triangle with the dots on the side) down near the handle. The handle was black and the swords were light, sharp and indestructible. The evil within the shadow temple was concealed within the swords. He was also equipped with a shield that was similar to the Hylian shield but it had a lightning bolt hitting the triforce but only the triforce of power was lit up the other two triforces were grey and two birds were carrying the triforces toward the gray spots.

“These new weapons shall be useful to you,” said Ganondorf, “Now we will try this again,” he said as he snapped his fingers again and three more Hylian guards came at him with their spears. Link cut the spears in half with one swing, smashed one guard against the wall with his shied knocking him unconscious. He threw his shield on the ground and drew his second sword. After slashing and stabbing his enemies a few times he had won.

“Hey these weapons are useful!” said Link.

“I knew they would be,” said Ganondorf laughing proudly.

“I wanted to ask you, what do these designs on the shield mean?

“Before the world was ever created there were 3 goddesses one named Din, the goddess of power, Nayru, the goddess of wisdom, and Farore, the goddess of courage. Those three triangles on your shield symbolize their power.”

“But only one is lightened up, how come the other two aren’t?”

“Well, the one that is lightened up is the triforce of power. That is what we have access to.”

“Triforce, that word sounds strangely familiar to me for some reason. Are those triangles the birds are carrying symbolize the triforce of wisdom and courage?”

“Yes, those triforces are held by Link and Zelda, who live in the future, they are the only ones who can stop us.”

“Then what do those birds carrying the triforces symbolize?” Link asked.

“Us,” Ganondorf replied with an evil smile.

“But if they are in the future how are we going to get them.”

“The Ocarina of Time you carry will get us there.”

Link looked down and saw the ocarina tied to his belt. He picked it up and examined it. “The song of time will get us to the future.”

Suddenly Link had a feeling that he knew what the song of time was. He took the ocarina up to his mouth and played the song of time.

“Excellent,” Ganondorf thought to himself. “Now, let us get back to your training.”

“Alright.”

“This will test your evasive skills,” he said as he snapped his fingers causing five Hylian soldiers to appear. Three had bows and arrows and 2 had swords. They immediately surrounded him; he held his shield tightly in one hand and his sword in the other. Two of the soldiers with arrows ran in front of him and shot their arrows which were blocked by his shield. Another was behind him and prepared to put an arrow through his back at point blank range. Link rolled underneath him and stood up and slashed him across the back. Another charged at him with his sword and Link used his shield to knock it out of his hand. He also disabled a soldier’s bow by cutting it in half. The one who lost his sword tried to pick it up but Link finished him off. Link looked around he saw two dead, one with no weapon cowering in the corner, and one with an arrow and another with a sword. “Only two left,” he thought. He dropped his shield and drew his second sword. He ran at the one with the arrow pointed at him the soldier fired the arrow but Link simply took a step out of the way and he killed that one. The last one started dueling with him. Link blocked a couple swings from the man and cut his hand off. Link finished him so he wouldn’t have to die such a painful death.

“The boy is indeed powerful, but I must teach him to hate, yes, then he will be invincible,” Ganondorf thought to himself as a smile grabbed hold of the corners of his face.

“You will pay for what you did to my friends,” the soldier with the disabled bow said as he walked out of the temple. He had a look of hatred on his face.

“Why did you let him go, you must learn to use your aggression, let no one survive. You must kill your enemy with no mercy.”

“No, I am not like you, at first I thought being evil like you wasn’t so bad, but now I know, I will only fight in self defense,” Link said as he began to feel a lump in his throat.

“Leave if you are going to talk like that.”

Link turned around and walked out of the temple. The day was coming to an end. He walked through the village and was met by a boy his age. He had short brown hair and he was slightly shorter than Link. He wore an old dark blue shirt and tan pants.

“Hello my name is Zane,” he said in a friendly tone.

Link was glad because he felt that this may be a true friend. “Hello.”

“So where are you from?”

Link was confused by this question and he looked up at the sky and then he said, “Around.”

“Interesting, have you ever heard of Lake Hylia?”

“No I haven’t actually.”

“I’ll show it to you then.” He said as they walked town the stairs to Hyrule field.

“You must not get out much, your sure you never heard of La-” Zane was cut short by an arrow going through his head. He dropped into the stream and floated for a minute but was caught on a log and just stayed there. Link wondered who would do such a thing. Then he looked over to see the Hylian soldier who had walked out of the temple with a few others. They laughed and ran off to a small hut just outside the castle walls. Link began to feel remorse for his new friend. He looked down at Zane, who gave him a blank stare back; blood ran over his face which was completely pale.

“Why did they do this?” He thought with a tear in his eye. “I only did what I had to in that temple, how could they kill my friend.” Link’s sadness slowly became anger. “Zane could have been my best friend. Is that just the way it is, is there something out there that says I can’t have friends? Ganondorf certainly wasn’t a friend, I can’t kill without mercy. His anger became hate, which consumed the power Ganondorf lead him to believe he had. “If it weren’t for Ganondorf my friend wouldn’t be dead. What would he do? He would kill them without mercy that’s what he would do.” He turned his head back to the hut; his lip was quivering with anger.

“Kill them Link, you have nothing left,” said a voice in his head. He drew his sword and walked over to it. Another voice, just barely whispering told him to turn back and he was heading towards evil and destruction. He kicked the door down. Two people stood near the entrance he quickly cut off one’s head and spun his sword around and stabbed the other. As he looked around the room he saw them sitting at a table playing cards, they had no weapons. He paused for a moment to see if his anger was gone. It wasn’t. Link looked around the room as a wicked smile crept across his face. He went in to a rage of fury in hopes to let go of his anger before it destroyed him, he killed the rest of the Hylians. Dead bodies lied on the ground. Link looked around, unsatisfied. He was looking at one of the dead Hylians when he looked up into a mirror, which was broken. He saw his face, and it was the last way he wanted to see himself. Splashes of blood were on his face, he looked evil. Ganondorf appeared at the entrance of the hut. “It turns out the enemy is no better than us,” he said staring at the mirror, “teach me to be powerful Ganondorf, power and hatred is all I have left.