Using her magical abilities, Veran levitated the magical crystal that contained Konatsu to the ceiling of the room.
"There you go! And pipe down!"
The Deku ninja banged against the walls of his prison. "You evil witch... just you wait, the forest isn't as helpless as you think!"
"I beg to differ," the sorceress of the shadows smirked. "Against the powers of darkness, pretty much everyone and everything is helpless."
She turned around to face a dark shadow that was standing in a corner of the room. "Have you finished the trap already?"
"Just a few more minutes," the figure grumbled. "This is delicate magical work, you should know that it takes some time."
"I thought you were such a formidable master of the black arts," Veran mocked.
The figure angrily turned around... and Konatsu gasped when he recognized the face. He had never seen him before, but he heard how Business Scrubs from other parts of Hyrule have talked about him.
"Ganondorf..." he whispered.
The tall, armored man looked upwards. "Not quite, little Deku! I am merely an extension of my master's dark abilities. He's afraid he has no time for the likes of you little forest dweller, so he sent me to take care of everything."
Turning to Veran, he said: "And you should know that my powers diminish, the further I am apart from my master."
"Well, it still should be enough to set up a few stupid paintings," the sorceress huffed.
Phantom Ganon took a step closer to her. "Be careful what you say, Veran! You might be one of my master's generals... but I am an extension of his will. In other words, know your place, witch!"
Veran grimaced at those words, but she kept her composure. She had no choice but to obey that wretched phantom for now.
"As you command..." she grumbled as she lowered her head.
She then looked around the room. "She must be here by now, I can feel her powers. Where are those accursed ghosts?"
As if on cue, a dark shape came floating through the walls of the chamber.
"We have captured her, my lady..." the female ghost said with a grimace. "Azusa is taking her to the prison chamber."
"Very good, servant!" Veran smiled. She smirked when she saw how the ghost was squirming under the humiliation it had to endure. "I'll be there in a minute. We will need her to be encased in a crystal as well, or else she might escape."
She looked up at the crystal in which Konatsu was encased. "No one can escape from a magical prison... not even a ninja."
She looked back at the white-haired Poe in front of her. "You and your sisters will return to the main hall and stay on guard... who knows who might come to save her."
Asuka, formerly known as the 'White Lily', lowered her head. "As you command..."
Veran wagged a finger. "Tut-tut... that wasn't quite accurate... Let's try it again, shall we?"
Asuka groaned. "As you command... my mistress."
"Very good, servant!" the former princess of Hyrule smirked.
Back in life, Asuka Saginomiya had been a member of aristocracy, the spoiled daughter of a rich merchant... and Princess Kodachi's rival for the affection of Captain Mikado.
She died in an unfortunate carriage accident near Gerudo Valley... and thanks to her feelings of hatred and jealousy of the younger princess of Hyrule, her spirit lived on. And when the witch elders of the Gerudo tribe found her, they forced her into the servitude under their lord Ganondorf.
And now, after she had been forced to corrupt the spirit of Princess Kodachi... a task she had performed with joy... she learned to her dismay that she had to serve under the command of the very same person whose mind she had twisted to serve the forces of evil.
Veran waved her former rival away, and Asuka had to complain. Damn those obedience curses the Gerudo witches had put on her. One day, she would find a way to escape their evil magic... and then she would have her complete revenge.
But for now, she had to work with three incompetent spirits that were forced upon her as 'team mates'.
After the white-dressed Poe had floated through several chambers and corridors of the Forest Temple, she reached the prison chamber in which a certain-green haired girl was sitting behind bars.
A pink-clad Poe turned around in mid-air. "Asuka! Lookie what I found! A new friend for us to play with!"
"Yeah, whatever..." the White Lily grumbled. "Listen, Azusa... Mistress Veran will come down here very soon to take the Kokiri with her. She told us to guard the temple entrance afterwards. Have you checked the girl for any weapons?"
"She only had this with her," Azusa said and gestured towards a small pile of items lying on a nearby table.
Asuka looked through the stuff. "Magic Beans... Deku Nuts... a bottle... and a Fairy Ocarina... that's all?"
Azusa nodded. "Yup!"
"And where is her fairy? Those blasted Kokiri never leave their house with one of those accursed bugs."
"She was all alone," Azusa shrugged. "I was disappointed, really... I was hoping to find a playmate for little Jerome." And she gestured towards the bottle, which now contained an irritated, purple-glowing fairy.
"I'm not Jerome!" the male fairy shouted. "My name is Tael, how often do I have to repeat that? Get me out of here!"
"Tael!" Saria shouted in surprise. "They got you as well?"
"I suppose I had the same idea as you..." Tatl's brother sighed and slumped down on the bottom of his bottle. "I wanted to hide in here to escape the Moblins... And then that ghost girl grabbed me!" He gestured at Asuka.
"Sorry, but everyone who interferes with our master's plan will have to be punished," the White Lily smiled. She might not agree with Ganondorf in all things, but his ways of dealing with meddlers were quite admirable.
"Now where are the other two?" she asked. "We are all supposed to be here when Mistress Veran comes down here." Again, she had to wince, as the obedience spell was forcing her to call Kodachi her mistress.
"Well, Mariko is busy looking at that painting of General Onox, upstairs... I don't know where our fourth sister is, though."
"We are NOT sisters!" the white-haired spirit snarled in annoyance.
"But this is the name elder Koume gave us," Azusa protested. "And I like to think of us as sisters, Asuka... Why, I already love you three as if you were my family."
"Whatever..." Asuka mumbled. She looked around the room. Several peaces of furniture were standing around. "Tsubasa, where are you?"
A pony-tailed head came popping out of a cupboard. Asuka had no idea how that weird Poe was able to disguise himself like that.
"You called, Asuka-sama?" Tsubasa asked in a sweet voice. The brown-haired spirit then came floating out of the cupboard.
Azusa shook her head as she looked at the pink, frilled dress Tsubasa was clad in. How could that boy look so much cuter than her with that dress?
Asuka gestured upwards with her finger. "Go up there and tell Mariko to come down here! The mistress wants us to guard the entrance room."
The cross-dressing Poe nodded with a smile. "Anything for you, Asuka-sama!"
"Don't call me that!" she shouted after him, as he vanished through the ceiling.
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