"How much farther in is this temple?" Ed said as he followed his guide: a young goron called Lin.

"Not much farther, goro-goro!" Lin said. Ed stumbled through another set of brush and found himself in a clearing. The tree canopy opened up to the now red sky and the sun was setting behind a tall wood and stone structure. There were vines and moss clinging to the stone as nature seemed to be attempting to reclaim the land and the temple. On the ground in front of the ornate doorway was a tiled patio which had a triangle symbol on it. An upright golden triangle had an inverted black triangle inside of it trisecting it into three golden triangles.

"Do you know what this symbol is called?" Ed said.

"Goro-goro! That's the triforce! Symbol of the Golden Goddesses, goro!" Lin said. Ed pulled a small notebook out of his pocket and wrote a few things down as well as observations about where he found himself.

"Well, this is where I go on alone, I suppose. Unless you'd want to come with-me." Ed turned to see the goron was long gone, "Geeze, I can tell you're really torn up about not accompanying me." Ed walked right up to the door and searched for a mechanism to open it. He found a lever cleverly hidden inside a moss-covered stone statue of a little girl. Funnily enough, the moss seemed like it was purposefully grown on her with how it covered the statue: moss grew on her hair and dress but no where else.

Ed stepped into the foreboding building and shivered: he could FEEL something was in there. Ed made a couple notes before he looked around the main room. He got a feeling of deja vu as he looked at the three doors arranged on the wall ahead of him. One was locked, two were not. Ed pulled out a lock pick (now that he was down his alchemy, he had to have a way to get in and out of places in a tight spot), and approached the lock. He carefully went to to work on the lock and it took nearly ten minutes until it clicked open. Ed tucked the pick in his jacket and pulled the lock and chains off the door, only to jump back whenever a set of bars slammed down, the distinct click of a lock was heard and Ed saw there was a lock on this obstacle too.

"Geesh! I get it, I have to find the stupid key!" Ed said dusting himself off. He studied the other two doors. The door to the left of the room had a more worn track than the door to the right.

'Either that means this is the correct one or people have gone forward and back a lot of times with it,' Ed thought. Ed decided to go for the door on the right, figuring a place that was a puzzle likely had people going in the wrong door more often than the right one. As soon as he entered the door he had to dodge the snapping jaws of a plant?! Ed draw the sword and stood back from the snapping reach of the killer plant.

'Deku Babas, the reports called them. What kind of twisted person makes a man eating plant?' Ed thought as he analyzed the monster flora's pattern of movement before he rolled past it's mouth and slashed its stem like body destroying it instantly, because even though the head seemed tough, the body was still stem like. After Ed defeated the deku baba, it exploded into strange smoke.

"What the hell?!" Left behind was the shredded remains of a much smaller plant. Ed poked it with the tip of his sword before he sheathed the weapon. Ed made a few notes and slammed his notebook shut with a growl.

'This thing bypassed the laws-DAMNIT! It's gotta be a stone used, meaning there's an alchemist involved!' Ed thought as he shoved his notebook back into his jacket pocket. He barely heard the second deku baba move in time. He rolled forwards and drew the sword slashing its stem off in one move. Ed stopped and blinked. The third one was more easily dealt with. After all, whenever someone gets used to fighting homunculi, garden variety monsters were a step down, so to speak. Ed checked around for anymore and found there were none, but one of them didn't revert to a smaller plant, instead it dried out after the plume of strange smoke. Ed prodded the head with his sword and it split apart to reveal a set of seeds. Ed grabbed one but it slipped from his hands and EXPLODED. Ed shook his head to clear the after effect of the organic flash bang.

'Could have used these against Pride,' Ed thought as he, carefully slipped a couple into his coat pockets for further study.

Central Command, Office of Brigadier General Roy Mustang,

Mustang, under the watchful eye of Hawkeye, worked his way through his paperwork. He'd expected Ed's call to come hours ago yelling at him for giving him a wild goose chase like he used to or anything to let him know Ed was alright.

"Sir, if you're that worried about Edward, maybe you should just call him," Hawkeye said. Mustang looked up to find his Hylian captain staring at him.

"Fine," he said before he picked up his phone, "Connect me to Kakaro Village."

"Kakaro Sheriff station, Sheriff Malona speaking."

"This is Brigadier General Mustang at Central, I'm following up the reports that your superiors passed along to Western Command who then passed it along to us," Mustang said.

"Oh, thank you sir! We have another report to add. We were going to send out a telegram but this is much better. Sir, a Hylian actually appeared! Just like the old stories always said!"

"This Hylian wouldn't happen to have blond hair and gold eyes, would he?" Mustang said.

"Yes, actually. Did you send him?"

"He was already headed west on a quest for knowledge and I may have mentioned your town was interesting," Mustang said.

"Last report had him heading into the temple, but that was hours ago."

"You are to call Central with any news concerning him immediately, do you understand?" Mustang said.

"Yes, sir. Is he that important?"

Forest Temple

"DAMNIT!" Ed said dodging another gout of flame breath from the freaking lizard chimera thing he was fighting. It was proving harder to take down than the plants had been. It didn't speak or even seem to have been spliced with human, but Ed couldn't rule it out. Ed blocked another stream of fire with his sword and managed to dodge past the thing's gauntleted fist and land a slash with his sword on it's back sending it forward onto the ground. Ed landed another blow to its back with his foot sending it flying across the small room where it slammed into a wall and exploded into a plume of black smoke leaving behind a dead lizard.

Ed made it to a final chamber of the string of doors he'd started with a chest sitting in the center. He inspected it to find it wasn't sealed by a lock. Ed flung it up and jumped back, half expecting a trap. Instead, there was a shield sitting nestled in the chest. The metal looked pristine, and the shield looked only slightly worn. Ed studied the crest. He knew he'd seen it before but he was having trouble placing it. What stood out to him was the triforce was featured on this shield. On a whim, he slung it on his left arm and it fit perfectly. There was even a notch for it to attach to the scabbard.

"Damn, no key." Ed said before he walked out of the room and made his way back to the main room and entered the door to the left. In it there was a chest on a pedestal in a small alcove. In the middle of the room was a skeleton in pieces with armor and two swords in the mix. Ed shrugged as he walked towards the chest. A cage slammed down and the skeleton began to tremble. Ed drew his sword as the bones reassembled into a skeletal warrior wielding two blades, red glowing eyes staring at him.

"What sick bastard bound a soul to a skeleton!" Ed yelled. The skeleton made no response and began to attack Ed. He barely blocked with the shield, not used to having one. It landed a blow on his left leg, but the front guard plate deflected most of it and there was only cosmetic damage. The next his got Ed on his right shoulder. Before it could land a third hit, Ed managed to knock one blade free from the skeleton, along with its arm. It continued forcing Ed to block until he could attack and it lost its other arm.

"Give it up, you've lost!" Ed said. The skeleton screamed at him, a sound that made Ed's insides freeze before it charged him. Ed wasn't aware he'd swung his sword until the skeleton was cleaved in two. It exploded in purple smoke as the cage receded. Ed peeled off his jacket and examined the wound. It wasn't bad, but he'd need to get it seen to whenever he made it back to civilization. It had mostly stopped bleeding so Ed put his jacket back on and walked over to the chest he'd nearly died to get. In it was a key. Ed grabbed the key and stormed back through the chambers.

"Can any sick person just have a normal lair? Is that too much to ask that I don't have to go tromping through underground labyrinths or monster filled ruins?" Ed said as he jammed the key into the lock and opened the way to the room only to find three more doors ahead of him.

This time the central door had a slightly different lock on it. It was almost shaped like a demon's head. 'This reminds me of something...'

The door on the left was locked up like the previous center door had been and the door on the right was unlocked. Ed went through the open door to find a room with moving platforms floating in some sort of murky liquid.

It was only the training he'd received from Izumi that helped him dodge a round rocky projectile being spat at him by the weirdest damn octopus he'd ever seen. A second rock thing was blocked by the shield and it bounced right back at the thing causing it to poof away in a black smoke plume.

'That black smoke has to be part of how these things are made into something else, but how?' Ed thought as he carefully hopped from platform to platform. He didn't want to test his buoyancy with an artificial limb, even if it WAS the lighter kind. There was a door in front of him and he opened it to find a small room with two doors.

'How does the nut who's behind all this not get lost in his own hideout?' Ed wondered. He took the more worn door this time, and found a giant freaking spider hanging in front of him. It attacked him, forcing him to block with the shield while blindly stabbing at the creature. He heard a squeal and popping-whoosh he associated with these things exploding. Left behind was a squashed tarantula and nothing else. Ed kept an eye out for more as he went. Another one descended in front of him and he smashed it with the shield which made it flip and expose it's soft belly just long enough for Ed to slash it. It exploded like the other but this one left nothing behind.

Ed managed to find the next door: ten feet above the ground. There was a giant stone block nearby. So, Ed climbed up the block and calculated the distance and how far he'd need to run to get enough momentum whenever he jumped to reach the ladder. Otherwise, landing would definitely damage something. With that the former alchemist took off running across the top of the block and leapt into the air. He wheeled his arms forward whenever it looked like he wasn't going to make it and BARELY grabbed onto the bottom rung.

It was only whenever he was hanging from the ladder that he noticed groves in the ground: the block was movable. Ed climbed up to the doorway only to duck being dive bombed by some weird species of bat. Ed entered the next room and in the center was a chest. Ed drew his sword and approached cautiously, lest any other skeletons appear. He opened it to reveal the key to the other door. He groaned. This meant trying to drop back DOWN to get back to the previous chamber. Winry will kill me if I bust this leg.

MP: Funny story, I almost forgot to update this. My apologies.

Yeah, I had to put in an "anti-lock pick ward." Otherwise, Ed would have gotten through the temple WAY too easily.

Lin the Goron- Was almost "Link the Goron." But, since the Hero is "Ed," I figured it would have been too weird calling the Goron "Link."

Brigadier General Roy Mustang- In the aftermath of the Promised Day, Roy was promoted.

Captain Riza Hawkeye- Riza was promoted too. I also made her a Hylian in this fusion piece because I thought it would be fitting.