I felt my body pull as I climbed up hoping not to fall or collapse from exhaustion.

"Hurry up!" Asuna yelled at me from atop the cliff. We had come to this rocky cliff because I remembered that there was an old man who gave an actual sword to you if you had enough hearts. Hopefully he will give it to us because we are adventurers as I have no clue how he will tell how many "hearts" we have. I climbed over the ledge and sat there panting, "Come on let's hurry."

"Can we hold on a minute to let me catch my breath?"

"Tch! Lightweight."

"Hey!" After a few minutes we continued moving till we came to a body of water that over turned into a waterfall. We were here. We entered the cave to see a man sitting there. He was ancient and looked like a stiff wind would knock him over. He looked at us and held up his hand when suddenly a beam of bright energy hit me. I didn't stumble back though, when I opened my eyes I saw my body was glowing with that bright light I had gathered from the bosses of the dungeons, but this light grew as bright as the three of those lights combined. The old man smiled.

"You have been through a lot." He said with a withered voice, "I feel confident in giving this to you." He handed me a sheathed blade and as it fell into my hands I felt the weight of the blade, a real blade. I un-sheathed it and swung it getting a feel for this new weight.

"Thank you." I said bowing my head. He stepped back sitting down with a smile.

"Save this world please." It was weird to hear someone ask that of me. I had always wanted to be a hero but this felt surreal and worse than I expected. With what I saw of this world it made it harder to continue fighting and to be asked to save this world felt like and impossible task.

"Hey, Soren." I turned to Asuna and she pointed outside to the now red sky. Sundown was upon us soon. Going out in the dark was a death sentence. If these monsters were aggressive during the day I could only imagine how bloodthirsty they are during the night.

"Hey old man can we stay he-!?" When I turned around the old man was gone, like he was never there to begin with, "Where did he go?"

"This world is magical, he might have transported away." Asuna was guessing. It wasn't crazy to think about but it was strange, "Well it looks like we're stuck in this cave until morning." I pulled out the candle and lit it to give us some light to sit by. I pulled out some of the nuts and berries I had collected and gave some to Asuna as we ate in silence.

"Hey, how did you end up here?" I asked trying to make small talk, she looked away and went silent for a bit.

"I don't want to talk about it." She looked at me with a straight face devoide of any emotion, "What about you?" she asked. I explained how it happened, from the point I got home to when I was transported to this world, "So you have an over demanding family and you were sent here? Seems tame." She made it sound like I was ungrateful and spoiled with how she summed it up.

"Well, that's not all." I said and she looked back at me, "My sister isn't exactly a good person, she's demanding, pushy, rude, selfish and always thinking about herself and my dad is no better, since he was bedridden with diabetes he doesn't even leave the house." I felt myself get angrier as I told her my story, "Because of my sister We have had drugs trafficked through our house and her friends have used her to attain their own goals leaving her with the consequences and police and yet she continues to treat me like trash, someone worse than she is and my dads medical bills have all but destroyed us financially leaving my mom to pick up two jobs just to get by and they still ask for more, like they deserve it… dammit!" I slammed my fist down on the cave floor feeling the tingle of pain, "Sometimes, I wish things were different." I looked at her and she had a look of concern on her face, "Sorry, I got a little emotional there."

"No, it's understandable. I-I'm sorry...for asking about it." She looked away avoiding eye-contact with me, "We should get some sleep for tomorrow." Asuna rolled over curling into a ball to keep warm. I took my trench cloak off and threw it coat her and laid down on the other side of the cave, "Thanks… about my story-"

"It's okay, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." She went quiet after that as I fell asleep. Luckily I didn't dream that night if I had I would have had "that" dream again.

When I woke up sunlight was pouring into the cave blinding me as I stood up. When I looked around I saw that Asuna was leaning against the cave opening.

"Ready to go?" She tossed me my trench cloak and I quickly gathered my things and joined her as she left the cave. Our next destination was the fourth dungeon otherwise known as the snake dungeon.

We made our way around the waters edge to find the island the dungeon was on. After a few hours we saw an island sitting alone in the water. I pulled out the raft I had obtained from the last dungeon and we got on and rode across the water to the island.

"How do these things fit in your utility belt?" Asuna asked. It was a valid question, some of the things I had picked up seemed crazy to carry without it affecting me.

"I think it's an infinite utility belt."

"What does that mean?"

"It means it can hold an unlimited amount of things."

"But how is that possible."

"Maybe this world has different rules."

"Different rules?" this had been on my mind for a while, it seemed strange that the creatures were just vanishing while bodies of people were left. As we approached the island zoras began to surround our raft.

"Crap! We're surrounded!" Asuna yelled pulling out her sword. As she swung the zoras back away from her swing range and began to spit fireballs.

"Look out!" I grabbed Asuna's hand and pulled her down as they fired above us.

"What do we do? We can't keep moving if they keep shooting." Asuna pointed out.

"Let's try long range." I pulled out the bow I had acquired from the first dungeon.

"We don't have any arrows."

"If the rules for this world are different then maybe this will work." I took out a green rupee and touched it to the bow and it suddenly turned into a wooden arrow.

"How did you-"

"Whenever you shoot an arrow in the game it uses one rupee. So I thought-"

"Less explaining more shooting!" I stood up and pulled the arrow back on the bow string. When I let go the arrow flew at the zora and hit it square in the head and it disappeared, "Keep going!" I pulled back another arrow and shot at another zora but this one went over it. I looked down to see Asuna give me a dead stare.

"I'm not a master at this okay!?"

"Give me that!" Asuna wrestled the bow from me and loaded an arrow and shot hitting another zora, then another and another. Eventually she had taken out all of the zoras and sat down with a relieved sigh.

"Where did you learn to shoot like that?"

"Wii Archery, not much to do when you sit in bed all day." Wait, what did she say? I looked over and she looked down at the bow in her hands running her hands along the wood, "Well, let's keep moving." I dropped it for the moment and we continued toward the temple. When we got to land I placed the raft back in my belt and we looked at the large structure. I know I had seen this before but it felt different from the last three, maybe because I was with Asuna this time or maybe because after this I would have four of the eight pieces of the triforce of wisdom. This has been strange though, being stuck in this world seemed strange but I was moving through it so naturally. Hell, I had spent the first day traveling to three dungeons and meeting people. But I still don't know why I'm here. Who sent me here? Why? And why Asuna too? Someone was pulling the strings but I had no way of finding out who it was or where they were; all I can do is follow the story I knew. Hopefully everything will become clearer the more we advance, "Come on, let's head in." Asuna and I entered the dungeon to face whatever was waiting for us inside.