This is the first chapter of my latest Zelda fanfic. It was going to be another one-shot but then I saw how big the story was and i broke it into chapters. Please R&R.

As the hooded and cloaked figure of Link approached the castle of Ganondorf he took a moment to stand and look at the sheer size and magnitude of the place. The base of the person solely responsible for the all the death and destruction that had befallen Hyrule.

Link clenched his fist as he felt the anger of what had been done by one man and his creations, the amount of lives that had been lost, the families that he had destroyed and homes he had destroyed, including his own. Now it was time to make him pay.

He started walking towards the gates of the castle, the heavy rain pounding down around him, he was glad that he had worn his cloak. He reached the castle gates and after taking a deep breath he pushed open the gates and made his way inside.

Link found himself in a long, dimly lit, stone hallway. Lighting lit up the hall momentarily and in this moment Link saw that the room was not as empty as he thought is was. The door slammed shut behind as he took another step inside the dark hallway and the thunder rolled.

'Cheap trick' Link thought to himself before he continued down the hallway. Link readied himself as he knew what awaited him. Then, without warning, a creature fell from the darkness of the ceiling and stopped its rapid descent before it hit the floor. It stayed there hovering in front of Link, staring at him.

The creature was a Skulltula. Link withdrew his sword as the Skulltula started its familiar attack pattern, which began with it feigning terror and turning around revealing its soft underbelly, Link took this opportunity to strike and thrust his sword right through the Skulltula. The creature screeched and writhed, impaled on the Master Sword, the sword of evils bane, before decaying into blue flames.

Link continued onward, sword still drawn and sliced in two another Skulltula before it even had a chance to start its attack. Then Link sheathed his sword and took out his bow with an arrow already nocked in readiness as yet another Skulltula plunged from the darkness, Link loosed the arrow and hit it during its fall and pinned it to the wall as it disintegrated.

Link walked onwards and through a stone archway at the end of the hall and into another room, where he was met with an all too familiar voice.

'Ah, Hero. How nice of you to sort out my little bug problem.' said Ganondorf mockingly.

Link unsheathed his sword.

'Do you think that we will do battle here, sorry to disappoint you but I have an arena specially set aside for our battle.'

'That is if you make it that far!' he sneered.

Then he left through the crimson door behind him.

No sooner had he left than four Stalfos appeared two carrying blood red, jagged swords and the others holding large spiked clubs. One of the sword wielding Stalfos charged at Link.

Link stood his ground and at the last moment he side stepped out if the way of the charging creature. As the creature charged by him, slashed his sword at the Stalfos and as it continued its charge it slowly disintegrated into blue flames.

As Link watched the Stalfos disintegrate and as he did so the second of the sword carrying Stalfos attacked him from behind. But Link was wise to the attack, as he had heard the Stalfos's armour rattle and back flipped over the Stalfos.

While in midair link decided to lose his cloak and dropped it onto the Stalfos, which started to flail about in an attempt, to get rid of the cloak that had impeded his vision.

Link landed behind the struggling Stalfos and thrust the sword up through the ribcage and into its head he then quickly withdrew the blade and turned to face the remaining Stalfos as he heard the second slain Stalfos burn away.

Link saw they had moved to the base of the stairs, both carrying heavy clubs which required them to be held with both hands.

'This is going to be easy' thought Link, seeing as how his foes looked like regular Stalfos and were weighed down with heavy weapons. Link charged at the Stalfos, he ran right up to one of the Stalfos and before it had a chance to react had sliced it horizontally through the middle, but to Links surprise and horror the Stalfos was still standing. He attacked again and again but to no avail, he was so busy attacking that he did not see what the Stalfos was doing.

After the third attack Link decided that another course of action was needed that's when, out the corner of his eye, he saw the huge wooden club coming straight at him. Before he had a chance to react the club hit him, hard, in the side and knocked him across the room and onto his back.

Link slowly got back up, holding his side a decided to repay the blow he had gotten with one of his own. He took out a bomb and hurled it at the Stalfos, who were chuckling evilly at Link, and watched as they disappeared in the smoke of the resulting blast.

As the smoke cleared Link saw the bones of the Stalfos littering the ground, but the skulls were leaping around the ground. Link quickly ran up and cleaved the first skull in two and plunged his sword down through the second impaling it to the ground. Link sheathed his sword as the bones exploded in a cloud of purple smoke and walked up the stairs and through the crimson door.

Link was now at the base of a large stone spiral staircase. Link started to walk up the staircase when he realised where he was and should be on his guard. No sooner had this thought crossed his mind, when an arrow shot out of the wall grazing the back of his leg.

'If that's the way you want to play it.' thought Link as he began to run up the staircase, the arrows whizzing by him.

After running up the stair case for what seemed like an eternity he reached the top of the stairs. In front of him was a large black door, he looked back at the way he came and as he stepped closer a wall of fire erupted in front of his eyes. Link stumbled backwards from the shock of almost losing his eyebrows and after taking a moment to recover from his run up the stairs, Link carried on through the door.