Fires of the past
			By:  Fragraham Lincon
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	The flames of war consume the land.  The ancient nation of hylia has fallen
and greed consumes its people.  These are the wars of old.  Not a world fit to bring
new life into.  

	Through a battlefield cannon fire, and arrows fly.  Soldiers on both sides
in an instant have their lives snuffed out.  Each knows that death is but a chance
of where an arrow or shell should land.  Thousands of soldiers charge in hopes that they 
will be in the handfull to walk away.  These are the fires the forge and destroy nations.

	The Gerudo are making quick work of the shiekah whom are protecting
the Hylians.  An old Hylian wearing a tattered cape and tarnished crown is 
directing his troops.  Forward!  FOR HYLIA!"  

	As his cry sends his troops further into the fray a solid black horse leaps over
the battlements.  Atop it rides a black armored gerudo with flaming read hair.
"Fool.  Hylia is no more.  This land belongs to me now."  with a clean swipe of his sword
The black armored Gerudo fells the kingly Hylian.  He steps down from his hoarse. and
reaches for the crown fallen from the King's head and places it atop his head.

	"BOW TO ME!  KING GANNONDORF!"  He demands.  Some soldiers bow others remain
staring in disbelief as others prepare to charge.  But before anything decisive can happen
another Hylian wearing shining armor lays his sword into Gannondorf's side.
"AAAGGGHHH!!!  How dare you oppose me!"  Gannon graps the blade of the sword and pulls it
from his side and pushes it knocking th Hylian Knight down.  "I thought your line had
died out."  

	The knight stands defiantly  "No not yet."  "Then I shall assist you.
LET ME HELP YOU DIE!"  Gannon charges with his own sword in hand as the battle ensues.

	Blades richochet off of one another and the song of two desperate warriors
is sung in the cry of colliding steel.  Each blow from Gannondorf weakens the knight
as Gannondorf pushes is superior strength against the smaller elfen warrior.  
Gannondorf finally pushes the knighs sword to the side long enough to make a second stroke
into his chest.  The Knight staggers back.  He discards his shattered chestplate revealing the
deep wound Gannondorf had made.  "You will not rule this land so long as I draw breath"
"you're already a corpse.  YOU JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET!"  Gannondorf smashes the Knights sword out
of his hand.  "Any last words Hylian?"  Says Gannondorf mockingly.

	Rain began to pour.  The flames of the battlefield were deminnishing.  And
yet the knight stood.  Another mustached chubbier Hylian approached him.  "GET BACK BROTHER!"
"But...He'll kill you."  "As he said.  I'm as good as dead now anyway.  I have one last
request.  Take my sword and shield.  See to it that they make their way to kohkiri forrest
and then live in peace."  "Brother come with me.  You can't defeat him.  The reinforcements
are on their way already."  "No I cannot.  Some things a man must do."

	The knight points to his sword and takes the spear from his brothers hand.
He approaches Gannondorf.  Rain and sweat matted his hair.  Blood poured from his wound still and
washed to the already blood stained earth.  Gannondorf cast aside his armor as it
had grown heavy from the soaking.  The Hylian Knight made one last charge, spear facing
forward and a heart full of hope.  

	Gonnondorf sneered.  In one horrizontal stroke Gannondorf's sword carried 
through the Knight's spear and deep into his chest.  The Knight fell back as he spat blood 
into the air.  Gannondorf droped his sword.  He too exhausted and cold.  But the Knight
felt a different kind of coldness now.  The final coldness.  And yet he smiled.  
"What are you so happy about?"  Inqured Gannondorf frustrated.  The elfen knight 
choked out the words as best he could.  "My son lives on."  His eyes then lay back in his
head and closed as his golden locked head splashed into the mud.  Gannondorf himself felt
strange.  He had won the battle and yet felt the greater victory was not his own.

	Then he knew.  He saw the fat Hylian fleeing on horseback alongside another.
A woman holding a child in her arms.  That's why the Knight fought so bravely.  But
Gannondorf was not one to be beaten in ANY respect.  "ARCHERS!"  He commanded.

	A volley of airows went flying.  They flew in a single mass in a cloud that 
looked like a swarm of locusts descending on a field.  The arrows flew up and then arched down.
Their death hum allerting the keen ears of the Hylians attempting to escape.

	They were close.  The Knights brother dismounted and raised his shield and commanded
the woman with child to continue ahead.  The arrows fell and the fat hylian did his
best to hide under his brother's shield and hoped that his sister in law and young nephew
would make it.  When the arrows landed The shield did its job but not even the Knights 
brother could see what had happened to the young woman or her child.  Much less Gannondorf
or his soldiers.  It was probably something no one would know.  No one ever comes back from
the Kohkiri woods.

	Gannondorf walked back still feeling uneasy.  He reached to the ground for the kings
crown.  But he found another hand reaching for it.  A young man.  He looked much like a younger
version of the king he had only a short while ago felled.  "You can call me King Hyrule Ganondorf"
Gannondorf answered this by picking up his sword.  However he froze for a moment.  His
hearing wasn't as keen as a Hylians but he knew the sounds he heard.  THunderous trembling
of the ground.  The stream nearby hissing.  Gorons....Zoras....He in moments found himself
face to face with the armies of Gorons and Zora's united behind this new young king.
"Meet my sword brothers.  Dahrunia the elder goron.  And King Zora."  "What is this? an aliance?"
Demanded Gannondorf.  "This is the natural way of things King Gannondorf.  Hylians
guardians of the light, Zora guardians of water, Gorons born of fire, shiekah the people 
of the shadow, and will you be with us or against us mighty Gerudo riders of the wind?"

	"What are you offering?"  Gannondorf asked  "I am offering...peace.  When these
forces fight one another there is chaos.  But the forces of life do not wish to fight it we
who make them fight."  The young king extended his hand.  "which will it be?"  "Ganondorf turned
his back.  "Gerudo....fall back.  King Hurule you have won this day.  I will agree to peace."

	Ganondorf shethed his sword and mounted his horse.  The Gerudo filed behind him as
he rode off over the horizon back toward Gerudo canyon.  

	King Hyrule stepped over to the body of the fallen knight.  "Brave warrior.  Rest
in peace.  Our prayers are with your wife and young son."   The Knight's brother walks
to morn his passing.  "Sir what was your Nephew's name again?"  The King asked.
The Knight's brother wiped away his tears and replied "Link."
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