The Hero lay on the cold castle floor, desperately trying to stay awake as blood poured from his wounds. "Link?! Link!! You can't die now, we're so close!" Navi, Link's fairy companion, flew frantically around him as she tried to motivate him to keep moving. If Link died, Hyrule would be forever ruled by the madman whom the Gerudo worshipped as their God-King. The desperate fairy screamed at the boy, hoping the fear in her voice would be enough to stir him into action as it had been in the heart of Death Mountain, but she quickly realized there was nothing she could do.

A booming laugh echoed through the chamber as Ganondorf approached, wearing a wicked smile as his leather boots thudded on the cold stone floor of the highest room in his castle. "Finally, after seven long years, the Triforce of Courage is mine.." With these words, the Gerudo King lifted Link's lifeless corpse by its left hand, crushing its bones in his vice-like grip. As he did so a bright, yellow light radiated from the back of Ganondorf's hand, with the Triforce of Courage filling out the final of the three pieces he possessed. It was over, he had won and Hyrule was doomed.

Navi hid around Link's belt, latching herself onto the finely crafted ocarina the boy had been given by Princess Zelda near the start of his adventure. With a hard tug the fairy managed to pull it free, struggling to hold it. "What's this, The Hero had a friend?" Ganondorf dropped Link's corpse, letting it crumple at his feet. "Well I can't let you live, can I?" Navi squeaked out in fear and flew away as quickly as she could, just narrowly avoiding a blast of dark energy Ganondorf sent after her. She could hear him barreling after her, there wasn't much time.. she had to find out where he was keeping the Princess.

By the time Navi had gotten outside the castle she heard the brick and mortar cracking behind her, the entire structure exploding brilliantly as an earth-quaking roar rung through the night. Ganondorf had transformed himself into a terrifying beast, larger than any man and three times as intimidating. Fortunately for the fairy she was able to use her small frame and quick thinking to move with the eruption, hiding herself in a small pile of rubble as Ganon The Beast sniffed about for her without success.

"Navi.. over here." A serene whisper caught Navi's attention, somewhere just behind Ganondorf. Straining her sight, the fairy could just barely make out a translucent blue crystal floating in the sky as it dissipated, a figure dropping from it onto the ground. Was that.. could it be? She had to get closer to be sure. Moving in time with Ganon's stomps to mask the sound of her dragging the ocarina she carried, Navi managed to flit between pile of rocks until she got a better view of the figure on the other side of the destroyed castle. The robes, the hair, the crown.. the person was unmistakeable as Princess Zelda herself!

While Ganon's back was turned Navi flew over to the Princess, dropping the ocarina by her feet as tenderly as she could. "Princess! I had almost feared he'd killed you! Are you hurt?!" Zelda gave Navi a pained grin, pulling up the hem of her dress to show her a badly scraped knee. "Only from that fall just now, but it takes a lot more than that to kill me." Zelda gave a forced, hushed laugh in an attempt to bring some levity to their grim situation. "Is Link with you?"

Navi stayed silent for a moment, unable to bring herself to say it. "L-Link.. no.. he's.." A sob was caught in the fairy's throat, and she couldn't finish the thought. Zelda's crooked smile turned into a somber frown, as she picked up the ocarina and cradled it to her bosom. "I see.. then it's up to you. Come here Navi." The fairy did as she was told, flying in close to the Princess. "H.. how can I possibly help?"

"By guiding him once more, my sweet Navi." Zelda pursed her lips and blew into the ocarina, the notes ringing out above the sounds of Ganon's rampaging. As Zelda played the Song of Time the Beast turned his head, beady eyes fixating on Navi and Zelda as drool fell from his gaping maw. Wasting no time, Ganon bellowed out and leapt for them, a massive claw enclosing around the two women with intent to kill. Navi shut her eyes tight.

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