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Who: Link and Pit
What: Archery!
When: November 6th, sometime in the morning
Where: The archery range
Warnings: Pfff it's just Link and Pit

Link had just finished setting up the archery targets for medium-distance archery, and was now waiting for Pit to arrive. He couldn't wait to see Pit's light arrows in action! Of course, Link had brought his own bow and arrows, so that they could just do some regular archery afterwords.

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With a whimsical flourish Pit settled onto the bench next to him, carried like a feather by his anticipation. Once Link spoke, he began listening intently.

Link started out as a casual laborer, from the sound of it. Immediately he pictured the lush rows of crops and farmland speckled with sheep and goats, the whole picture could be gazed upon from the heavens. The idea was romanticized to Pit, who had never once participated but had looked on from a detached and uncommunicable spot at the lives of such happy people. Pit was charmed.

"It took care of the goats there," he continued.

After a while of talking, Link's story turned out to be rather long, yet far from dull, as he explained about how his friends had been taken away by the Bulblins, and how he had met Midna and traveled throughout all of Hyrule, collecting items to help on their quest to save his friends, and, eventually, save Hyrule. He soon got to explaining Ganondorf's evil plot, not knowing that Ganondorf was one of the teachers at the very school.

And Pit listened with 100% interest, being swept away by such heroism and feeling his admiration for Link peak to heights previously unreached. He made plenty of small side comments and noises of reverence, ohs and ahhs and slight gasps when the story got good. He also learned that Midna and Link were good friends and had shared the adventure, as well as Zelda, too. Wow, all of these revelations were such a thrill to behold for him. He knew so many amazing adventurers... It delighted him.

Then... there was the final issue with Ganondorf. "Wait. Ganondorf..." The angel swallowed. "You don't mean the same Ganondorf that teaches at this school, do you? Because I know he's a little suspicious sometimes, but I never really thought he'd-" It was like someone dropped a brick on his skull.

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Link paused, trying to figure out if there was some sort of misunderstanding between the two of them, and if Pit was talking about a different Ganondorf. Although, who else had a name like 'Ganondorf'? He could only think of one person, and that was the Dark Lord that had attempted to shroud all of Hyrule in eternal darkness.

"But... Ganondorf is dead!" He exclaimed. Even though Ganondorf had survived imprisonment, coming back from the dead seemed nearly impossible, even for the holder of the Triforce of Power. And if had turned out that Ganondorf could escape death, what would they be able to do if he had decided to once again rise up and continue with his plans?

Pit bit his lip a little, stopped, and shook his head. "No no, he's alive. Haven't you seen him before?" Surely Link had glimpsed Ganondorf around the school before, but there was the off-chance that he had not. "If this Ganondorf is the same Ganondorf you spoke of, then you would have been able to recognize him, right?"

"I haven't seen him here, but I'd recognize him if I saw him..." Although, now that he thought about it, Link didn't really attend many classes, if at all. Most of the times he left his dorm was to either explore the campus or go out to train. It wasn't that long ago that he found out that they were actually supposed to be learning things from this place.

Maybe it would be best to face Ganondorf again. Seeing this man for himself would help him be able to determine whether or not this was the same Ganondorf that he had fought not that long ago.

"What class does he teach?"

"Sex Education, I know that," he replied with an imperceptible shudder. Memories best left forgotten scrolled through his head.

"Sex... Education...?" Link knew what that was... but now that he thought about it, he never remembered being taught about it at Ordon Village. Huh. He would go to the class if Ganondorf wasn't the one teaching it.

Well, at least what Ganondorf was teaching didn't seem especially evil or anything. "How is his class?" He asked, suspecting that Pit had attended it at one point.

"It's..." The way his mouth pulled into a longer line across one side of his face may have betrayed some of his feelings on the subject before he needed to speak a word. "Interesting. Sometimes a little weird, because Professor Ganondorf's teaching methods are a little, hmm... unique? I never really know what to expect."

"Is... it a bad unique?" Mostly, he wanted to know if Ganondorf used any cruel teaching methods or something similar. Although, it still felt strange to be talking about Ganondorf as if he was just some teacher at the school, and that he didn't try to engulf all of Hyrule in darkness.

"It's hard to say. Sometimes, maybe," he muttered, kicking his foot at a focused spot on the ground and not looking Link in the eyes. "But... as long as we're learning?"

Link muttered a quiet "Ohh..." as he thought about Pit's reaction to his mentioning of the class. Pit didn't really make it sound that great... Maybe it would be best if he didn't attend the class.

"Well," Link started, hoping to make things less awkward for Pit by changing the subject. "Ganondorf hasn't hurt anyone at the school, right?"

Now, Pit had to take a moment out ponder this, which didn't seem like such a ___ sign. Tapping the side of his jawline, he flipped through all the memories he had of Ganondorf.

"Hmmmm... Hmm! I guess by petty standards he has. I mean, one time he kidnapped me and made me a part of his swim underwear cult. And then there was this one time when he couldn't control his powers and monsters ran wild around the school- we beat them all, of course. That was like, a year ago! But other than that, he just likes to play pranks, I think."

Link's eyes narrowed a bit as he thought about Pit's answer. So, it sounded like the Ganondorf at this school wasn't a very great guy, yet he wasn't nearly as horrible of a person- if that's what one could even call him- as the Ganondorf he had fought. That meant that there was no way that they could be the same Ganondorf, right? Maybe 'Ganondorf' was just a common Gerudo name...

Wait, swim underwear cult? "Wh-" Link began, but just as soon cut himself off. A part of him was curious about this 'swim underwear cult', but from the sound of it, it didn't sound like something that was very...

Well, anyway, maybe that was enough about Ganondorf. He had hoped that he had left the Dark Lord behind when he had defeated him, but apparently he hadn't. The only way he could find out more about the Ganondorf at this school was if he saw him in person, especially since asking Pit all of these questions seemed to be making him uncomfortable.

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