Did you like the song? It’s one of my favourites since I heard it from an Irish, but well, let’s continue our story.
All the sages, including Zelda, believed that Sheik was exploring the area; but let me tell you it was a filthy lie. Did you have curiosity about what Sheik was doing? Or what the hell happened to him? If you did, you will know in this chapter.
Returning to the party…
“Not this time…”Link said “This time I’m goin’ to sing a song”
In the moment before Link started o sing, Sheik folded his arms putting attention in every thing that the hero was saying.
“This isn’t funny” the Sheikah muttered for himself “I don’t like him and thought I helped him on his quest”
He frowned when Link started to sing, his bloody eyes followed the boy’s body in every movement.
“What a waste of time”
Suddenly, a cold breeze of the wind made Sheik shiver with cold.
“Damn cold” he grumbled.
But in the lapse of the breeze, the young Sheikah heard whisperings saying his name.
“Sheik…come here…”
Sheik sharpened his ears, listening to the strange voices of the wind.
“Sheik…come here…Sheik…”
“Who’s calling me?” he asked to the air. No one answered. “Where are you?”
The voices started to move away, the Sheikah followed them to the Lost Woods.
The forest was dark, darker than ever, Sheik only could see the tiny fairies flying around him. The sounds of the imp’s flouts were causing echo in the un-ending woods.
“Who’s there?” asked again the Sheikah “If you are a monster and want to eat me, face me!” he drawn two blades in each hand and got prepared for any unexpected attack. But suddenly, he remembered the words of the princess Zelda, the day in when she was showing Sheik the places around Hyrule:
“This is Lost Woods, the infinite and mysterious forest; if a man without a Kokiri fairy enters to these woods, he’ll turn into a monster. So you never must enter there without the proper protection”
Sheik nodded at the moment.
“Its right, if I don’t go out of this forest, I’ll turn into a monster” he spun around for looking the exit, but he realized there were four tunnels of wood. Which one was the correct path for going outside?
“Damn it” he said after three intentions to going outside, but he reached the same place “I think I’m going to climb that tree and see where the exit is”
But before Sheik could make a movement, a dry voice spoke to him:
“I can show you the exit if you want”
The Sheikah spun his head and he saw a young man, identical to the prince Digory. The same black hair and the same complexion but this time, his eyes were green and he was smirking.
Sheik didn’t said nothing, he just stood there without speaking.
“How much time has passed Sheik, since the last time I saw you?” requested the man darkly “Maybe…seven years?” he stared at Sheik smirking more.
“Are you Uasal?” asked Sheik.
“C’mon my Sheikah, don’t confuse me with my stupid brother” he showed his teeth “I am Taekim Digory, his twin”
“Taekim! What are you doing here? And…and…how, did you keep you alive all these years? I thought you were death” wanted to know Sheik, surprised. He met this man when he served to the evil lord.
“If you ask me, what I’m doing here, I’ll respond you” Digory’s brother clarified his throat “I’m here because I want that you join us for serve the lord once again” said Taekim slowly.
“Join us?” Sheik frowned, Taekim was alone.
“Yes, us” completed a very heavy voice. From the woods, a tall and a strong figure appeared.
“Morth!” exclaimed Sheik, still surprised.
A man with a fierce face, dark skin and a powerful body appeared from the woods. His eyes were like the lion, he got tattoos in all his body, long brown hair and arms of steel. I could say he was a beast man.
“Looks like you haven’t forget me” Morth said showing his almost fang-teeth “I believed that be with that fools had made you lose your memory, ‘was wrong”
Sheik was unable to speak; these two odd characters appeared in his life when he worked with him.
“We were following you” said Morth.
“Every day” commented Taekim.
“Every minute” added the other.
After some minutes of a pacific silence, Sheik spoke:
“But, why serve him, he is…”
“Dead?” a male voice completed him and for the third time, a new character appeared from the woods.
Sheik looked at the new character, at he stood open mouth.
He was tall, strong, dark-skinned; he had yellow eyes, red hair, with a long and curved nose; not old, not young. He was powerful, he was dark, and he was…Ganondorf, king of the evil.
“Master!” Sheik shouted and he bowed the man at the moment.
The Gerudo king made a sign with the hand, and the Sheikah rose.
“But how did you…you’re suppose to be in the evil realm” said Sheik.
Ganondorf moved his finger at the sides, denying.
“Not anymore, being in the evil realm, it is like being in the middle of nothing” he said simply “It was humillant, but it was the only way for going out” he looked at the silvers stars of the blue-dark sky and said:
“Nine days ago, I was sitting on the evil realm thinking on how to escape, when suddenly I heard a voice from the nothing; it was from Rauru’s.
Ganondorf… he said me…Do you have something to do with Zelda’s strange illness... no, why you ask?... I questioned…We are suspecting that she got another person inside her… another person, immediately I thought about you Sheik… I don’t even have power to throw the princess, a course…I responded…Maybe if you get me out of here…I could give her a course.
There’s a strong, sacred power surrounding the chamber of the sages that you’d not be able to resist; it’s a power of good souls…Rauru said me with all security.
>>But in that moment a wonderful idea passed through my mind, my power was nothing in the evil realm…but in the chamber of the sages…it could be more powerful; so I planned to become a… sage.
Ganondorf put more emphasis on the word “sage”, Sheik thought How?
“Don’t look me like that; if you want to know How, I’ll explain you” the wizard clarified his throat and said: “I begged to the sages, for make me a sage…for long time. All the sages denied me until they accepted.”
“And you were a sage so?” asked Sheik.
“I’m still a sage, a dark one better said” Announced Ganon “Of course I was watched over by that fools and, logically, I didn’t make something evil” he saw to the dark sky and continued: “Even they purified my soul and I was know as The Dark Sage; but one day…the sages went out of the chamber and they let me alone, so I took this great opportunity and I escaped.”
Sheik didn’t know if he must show happiness to his master or…show preoccupation for Hyrule. Taekim and Morth were watching his master with a big smile on their face.
“And they aren’t looking for you?” commented Sheik, but Ganon’s finger denied the question.
“The have fourteen days looking for me, but they still doesn’t find me” he said “And they won’t”
Sheik nodded.
“And what are the orders of my lord?” asked Taekim bowing.
“Wait…wait until the luck give us the opportunity for attack Hyrule” the wizard respond “But the first time I’m going to do is…kill the princess Zelda and the fool Hero of Time…as I promised” Ganondorf stared at Morth “You will get more followers; Taekim keep you eyes on Uasal I think he’s so weak for this, and tell your father that the plan’s still on foot. And you Sheik…”Ganondorf peered at Sheik who was confused and with questions without answers inside his mind “I let you the most hard task of my plan…watch the princess closely and also watch the Hero of Time, everything they do you’ll let me know”
Sheik gave his back at Ganon and got away from him.
Taekim and Mort started to follow him, but Ganondorf stopped them. He reached Sheik’s shoulder and muttered him to his ear:
“I haven’t forgot how you betrayed me…turned into the princess…now I’m asking you this seriously, trusting in you”
“But the good sprit of the princess was so powerful and I couldn’t with it”
“I don’t care…but you’re Sheik himself and I still believe that you want…revenge…for the Hylians”
Sheik stood unable to speak, but suddenly Ganondorf put his hand on Sheik’s back and the young man felt cold and pain running through all his body, like thousand of knives stabbing him. Then, darkness and evil invaded his blood.
“Do you swear me you’ll do this?” asked Ganondorf.
“Yes master” a shady voice answered “If you want, I can kill whoever you want”
“Excellent”
Ganondorf bewitched Sheik and now he controlled him.
“Hyrule finals days…are soon…so soon that we are going to give them a surprise” Ganon breathed a big amount o air and he roared in laugh.
“Ganondorf, King of Evil is back”
