Gerudo King
Prologue: Ganondorf's Return
By Twin Kats / twinkats / Twin-Kats / Ash Sullivan

The Gerudo King was defeated. Link, the Hero of Time, had fought him in his castle seven years in the future and bested the Evil King. He freed the Princess Zelda and stopped the plot for the man to have the Tri-Force all to himself, successfully keeping the broken pieces separated.

The towering structure crashed down around Zelda and Link as they fled, the last vestiges of Ganondorf's power destroying it. He swore to kill them too if he had to die. He would not die alone in this pathetic world, bested by the hands of an untried brat. That too ultimately failed. Zelda and Link escaped.

Ganon decided to rear his head in turn, pulling on the Tri-Force of Power. He removed Link of the Master Sword—he would not allow the boy the advantage of Evil's Bane like Ganondorf had. Yet still somehow the little brat was able to beat him, retrieve the Master Sword, and beat him again. Zelda's interference was unwarranted; he was already done for when Link had knocked him down for the third time.

Zelda then called upon the Sages power, and the Goddesses themselves. Gerudo Thief and Evil King both felt the power course around him, wrapping him tight with Light, Shadow, Water, Fire, Forest, Spirit, and Time. They blinded and blindsided him and sealed him away within the Sacred Realm that his touch had corrupted.

Ganondorf swore revenge.

YOU...
CURSE YOU...ZELDA!
CURSE YOU...SAGES!
CURSE YOU...LINK!
Someday...
When this seal is broken...
That is when I will destroy your descendants!
As long as the Tri-Force of Power is in my hand...

A thousand year passed, two thousand years, and the world shifted and changed. The Zora were gone, the Goron were gone, even the Gerudo in the Desert, the Kokiri in the Forest, and the Hylian's of Hyrule simply vanished. No more were people born with pointed ears, in ocean waters, or thrived upon eating rocks and thieving. No more was there just one continent split into regions, and no more was there a Monarchy.

Everything that was ceased to be.

Instead came Cetra, children born with the ability to understand the cries of the earth. Then came humans, the Cetra's deaf and blind cousins. A race of lion-like creatures, birds known as Chocobo, and several varieties of monsters. The world changed and adapted.

But the bloodlines of old still survived.

New evil came to the land, and was summarily contained, and once more freed as the world grew, changed, and aged. Much of the old was gone, lost to time, including the Legend of the Tri-Force, the three Goddesses, and the Hero of Time.

Within the Sacred Realm, surrounded by white and bound by the Sages diminishing power, Ganondorf still existed. He still held the Tri-Force of Power in his hand. He was consumed by his thirst for revenge. It was in silence after those first centuries that he began to chip away at his bonds, planning and plotting. He did not escape, not at first, and not for a long, long while.

Not until the world changed, not until August 11th, [μ] εyλ, 1986.

Unfortunately Ganondorf didn't return as, well, the fully powered Gerudo Thief, Evil King. No, he returned as a squalling newborn baby with a tuft of blond hair and blue eyes that, if you looked really carefully, shifted to gold with the turn of his emotions.

His name became Cloud Strife.
(and in later years he'd be a hero)

Fate, Ganondorf decided, absolutely loathed him.

Summary: Hundreds of thousands of years ago the six sages sealed Ganondorf into the Sacred Realm. Ganondorf swore he'd have his revenge. But the seal was stronger than anyone could predict, and when it did break...well, everything had changed. Even Ganondorf. /FF7 crossover/fusion/

This story idea honestly came about the exact second I finally beat Ocarina of Time 3D. The image of the Sages sealing Ganondorf away, that white expanse world, immediately jumped my mind to Cloud Strife in a similar set of imagery, if in a completely differen't context. As minds are won't to do when they see connect images, however, it concocted this little cocktail.

And so, I present to you the first ever Ganondorf is Cloud Strife tale. Give it a shot, I assure you, if nothing else you'll find it amusing. Hopefully. Don't go yelling at me if you don't though. That just means you don't share my brand of humor.

-Twin Kats