Ok, next bit…I know what you're thinking.

This is gonna be good. Well, you're right.

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Conquer Yourself!

"Day fifteen hundred, thirty five." Link wrote in a mini notebook. "I'm still stuck in the Water Temple. I've also been married to a Zora. I ran out of bombs. I'm eighteen and still haven't shaven once in my life. How can this get any worse?"

Navi rolled her eyes (That is, saying she has eyes) and bumped into Link's back. "Hey! Hurry up!"

"I've been hurrying for fifteen hundred, thirty five days!" Link tried unsuccessfully to phase through the wall. "I haven't seen daylight for years!"

"It's been two hours," Navi chirped.

"Well, it sure feels like fifteen hundred, thirty five days." Link muttered, discarding the notebook and pen he was complaining/writing in.

"Just move! The sooner we get out of here, the better!"

"Yeah, wet boots are the worst." Link growled, throwing open the door to the next room.

A hazy mist greeted them, a small island in the center of the room. A thin layer of water covered the ground, and everything was reflected perfectly in a slightly darker hue.

"Whoa, I'm out! I did it!" Link cheered. He frolicked a bit and climbed the tree, swinging from its branches and casting a gleeful reflection. "Whee!"

"Uhm…" Navi squeaked. "That door over there! It's barred! But its reflection isn't!"

Link stopped swinging from the tree and went over to said door on the opposite side of the room. "Hmm…strange. Maybe I'm supposed to switch worlds or something." He pointed at the door's reflection. "Abracadabra!"

"Link, don't move!" Navi screeched.

Said hero froze. "What is it?! Is there a spider on my back?!"

"Link, your reflection! It's gone!"

Link wiggled his arm a bit, surprised to see he didn't even cast a shadow anymore. "That's weird…"

"But…but…you just had one a second ago! After you jumped down from the tree…! It vanished!"

"The tree?" Link slowly turned to stare back at the tree…

…and came face-to-face with himself.

"YYEEEAAAHHH!" the Hero screamed, nearly throwing his sword in his haste to run away from his murderous shadow/reflection dude, who calmly stared him down with red eyes. As Navi watched, he seemed to be growing more solid…

"Navi!? What do I do?!" Link backed up as fast as his double advanced.

"That's Dark Link, Link! Conquer yourself!"

"Yeah, that doesn't sound weird at all…"

"I'll just hang out on top of this tree." Navi rested atop the accursed tree and before long, Dark Navi appeared. It was even more annoying than the first. The two fairies began a brutal battle.

Back to our easily surprised Hero, Link was attempting to half-heartedly slash out at his dark self, but his evil double was too fast. He leapt atop his blade and delivered and nasty slash to the back of Link's neck, sending the hero stumbling back. With a deep-voiced, "HEYA!", Dark Link slashed out again, Link barely blocking the attack.

"How come you have a more manly voice?!" Link whined. "You're supposed to be me!"

Dark Link either didn't hear him or didn't care. He slashed out again, sending Link back into the corner. "NAAAAVI!" In a panic, he drew out the Mega-Ton Hammer and swung like mad, eventually hitting Dark and sending him falling through the reflective surface.

It was quiet for a few seconds, as Navi had already defeated her evil self.

"That went well!" Link beamed. "That was actually a lot of fun!" He strode around the room triumphantly. "I could do that again!"

"Looks like you're gonna have to!" Navi flew into a corner.

"Wha…?" Link turned and ducked just in time as Dark threw his Dark Master Sword at his head. "I WAS KIDDING! I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU AGAIN! I'M SCARED! HOW DID YOU EVEN COME BACK?!"

Dark again ignored him and retrieved his sword. Link decided to man up and actually fight this time, and the two began a fruitless sword clashing battle, in which they just made a lot of noise and nothing really happened. Meanwhile, Navi began a journal.

"Day fifteen hundred and thirty six…" she wrote. "I haven't seen the sun in years. Link is a moron, and I regret ever listening to the Great Deku Tree."

Meanwhile, the two Links seemed to be having a battle over who could yell the loudest, in which Dark, with his deeper, more manly-er voice, was winning.

"COULD YOU KEEP IT DOWN?!" Navi shouted. She then went back to writing. "Dark Link is very much like Link himself…loud and obnoxious."

Both Links stopped fighting at this comment and stared at the fairy. "We're obnoxious?" Link asked.

Navi ignored him and kept writing. "Also I have learned he has a crush on Zelda. I found his stash of love letters the other day."

"I do not!" Link blushed. Dark put a hand on his shoulder as if to say, 'That's all right, I, too, have a special someone in my life I'm too shy to approach.'

"And when will he grow up? ...Oops, he already did." Navi finished.

Link cast Dark a look, which he returned. The two of them hefted their swords, not at each other, but at the fairy.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Navi screeched as Dark grabbed her and stuffed her in the open bottle Link had.

"For the record, it was not fifteen hundred and thirty six days!" Link said. "It was two hours and thirty minutes!" he stashed the bottle in his pack.

Unfortunately, at this time, Dark began to melt into the other world. He gave a little wave and vanished, once again becoming Link's reflection.

"Nooo!" Link shouted. "Just when I made a friend…!"

"He'll always be with you." Navi growled. "He is your reflection and shadow, after all."

The door that was once barred was open, the one in the reflection, barred.

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I actually hated the Forest Temple more than the Water Temple. I loved the Dark Link battle, though. It was awesome.

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Hasta la Vista, Readers!

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