A mixture of sweat and blood flowed steadily down the young womans body as she wandered, exposed, far from the dark tower which seemed to loom over the entire kingdom. Her once shining golden hair was now nothing more than a shaggy, knotty mess of strings. Finding a bit of ragety old cloth, she wrapped it around herself as a short tunic and ambled far from the tower. Ganondorfs followers would be after her soon, but she could bare with it for a while, at least long enough to make it to Karkariko village, she prayed.

She had some strength left after her...encounter with the dark lord. Karkariko was a three day journey from Hyrule Castle, now name Ganons castle. Without a steed, the young princess would have to journey by foot, which could proove to be a dangerous feat without a weapon.

"Maybe I could find a bow or sometihng," she thought aloud, a hopeful yet somewhat sad glint in her eyes. She wandered from the castle grounds into the city before it, the market place. Her mouth fell open in shock as the sight of the state of the town.

What looked like rotton corpses stood in each and every place immaginable, every creature moaning. Their destroyed and mutated faces moving all about, searching the now barren and rusty old town for any sigh of life.

Trying hard not to gag at the wreched sights, she decided it best to avoid the creatures. Unfortuantly, she did not do so well as she had planned. The girl bumbed into the brown, decayed body of the undead creature lurking before her, her breath seeming to escape her as the thing screamed and embraced her in a deadly hug, leeching the very life from her.

Feeling her eyes rolled back in her head, she knew she had to fight back. Happy thoughts filled her mind, memories of when she was young, memories of Impa, her father, thoughts of Link...

The Redead recoiled as if in pain and threw itself from her body. The princess, shivering in icey sweat, raced away from the dark, horrid town and escaped into Hyrule field.