Okay, time for chapter 7. I'm double updating!

(Don't own nothin but Lota)

From Previous Chapter

"Link, you came." she said quietly, smiling calmly. I laughed nervously, "Y-yeah, of course I did. Hey, have your eyes always been this color?" I asked, looking at her now purple eyes in deep question. I was mostly confused about the now dark black shading the inner rim on her eyes.

"Of course they have. Link, you've been around me so long now and you don't even know the color of my eyes? So dense." That did sound like something she would say, so I let it go. Though I was sure her eyes were, and always had been, emerald green.


Chapter 7

Shadow Temple 2/Impostor

Link's POV

We went back to our previous spot where Lota was abducted once but I kept closer watch on her, keeping her closer to me. We walked off the path and landed on another platform where two Spikes were swerving in a circle around a Beamos in the center.

I avoided the Beamos and Spikes and grabbed some silver rupees spread out around them. I exploded the Beamos and grabbed one more rupee in it's place. A door behind me opened up and we went through it. I looked back to see Lota staring at me, smiling. She hadn't spoken a word to me since we left the entrance.

We came upon another blue hallway and walked through it, ending up on another room with now rows of spikes falling from the ceiling. She told me how to get through it and I did, but I ended up scratched and cut because, though she said she was helping me, I knew she was pushing me into the spikes, though I never actualy saw her do it. When we finally got to the other side of the spikes, she was still smiling even though I was glaring at her. She didn't even blink. I walked into a cell and opened a chest, getting a bundle of arrows.

I climbed over a block I used to stop the spikes and jumped to a platform on my left, walked over the platform of the spikes and stepped on a switch on the other side, no thanks to Lota. She wasn't speaking again, just standing there with her silly smile. A chest popped up from the ground and I used my hookshot and flew to it and opened it, a key inside. I jumped back down, and watched Lota as she followed me with her eyes.

We went back to the room with the Beamos and Spikes and looked around a bit. Lota finally stepped forward and told me where to go. I carried her on my back and followed her directions, eventually getting to another chained door. I opened it and we went through. I set her down on the other side. I looked around and saw the many silver rupees, then two Redeads, each at the far left and right. A sudden sound of crying filled the room. I did my best too stay calm and ran at them, killing them off quickly. The crying died out as well. A chest appeared in the center and I went to it and opened it, gaining 5 rupees.

I used my Lens of Truth and saw some spikes surrounding me, glad I hand't touched them. I gathered all the rupees, by myself, and the bars over a door on the left of the entrance rose up. I grabbed Lota, now getting angry, and went through it, the bars covered the door again as it closed behind me. I climbed up some steps to the left and grabbed some big bombs from the top and threw them into a blue flaming giant skull.

after three seconds the skull exploded, a key flying out. I jumped down and got the key and looked up at Lota. Her eyes were narrowed, that annoying smile still on her face as her haunting eyes continued to stare me down. I groaned and killed off four bats, the bars on the door rose back up, and I went back through. I guided us back up to a door at the top of the room and we went through there.

We walked through another blue pathway and stopped at a turn, a giant fan was blowing at us, two Spikes were moving back and forth. I changed to my Iron Boots and dodged the Spikes, getting us to the other side safely. We turned and I fought another giant Skulltulla and we continued on. We came across another pit and I changed to my Hover Boots, gliding us over the hole and down that way onto another platform. "When are you going to decide to help me?" I almost shouted, turning to her. "Hm? You want me to tell you what to do and where to go?"

I nodded. "It's kinda what you've been doing this whole time." She looked like she just realized something. "Oh, of course! But you seem capable of doing this yourself, Hero of Time." I thought I heard anger seething out of her at the mention of my title but I shook it off. "Ugh, whatever." She continued smiling and followed me as I got us out of the fan full room and out the door on the other end. I sighed in relief, an eye hung on the wall was shooting fire at us and Lota didn't even mention it, even though I saw her looking it, it never even aimed for her and she was on my back.

The door was barred behind us and I set her down. The room was home to three Redeads(A/N in the game it's only two), one on the left, one on the right, and one in the center. The two at the sides stood up and I could instantly hear their ghostly moans, and the crying sounds. I killed them off and Lota ran off to the other, last, centered one.

I heard a sound of anger come from her as she kicked it down, it fell to the floor and try to get up. She only kept hitting it until it finally gave up, and withered. I stared at her, she was freaking me out more than the Redeads were. She turned to me and smiled again like if she had not just murdered something with her bare hands. Navi floated to one of the familiar ghostly picture on the wall and spoke to me what it was trying to say.

"Those who have sacred feet should let the wind guide them. Then, they will be led to the hidden path. That's what they are saying!"

We went back and walked along the fanned path and I removed the Iron Boots where I thought was right, sure enough we were sent off through the wall. We went through another door and fought two Gibdo, the sudden crying filled the room again. The mummies were worse than Redeads but we got through them. A chest appeared but I only gained three more rupees out of it. The crying once again dyed out. I begining to suspect something of the sound.

I looked around. "What now?" She grabbed a bomb, lit it for me and pushed me toward a mound of dirt in a corner. I dropped the bomb and got away from it quickly. I jumped as the bomb exploded and rolled on the floor. "What were you thinking?!" I yelled at her, she only smiled. "There's nothing there! You could have seriously wounded me!" She only laughed at this, it was all very creepy. "I got up and took a closer look at the corner and felt around, wood. I used my lens of truth and saw a chest. I opened it and grabbed a key and used it to open the chained door blocking our way out. "Lota, come on." I said at the door to her, she was staring off into space, where the Gibdo once were.

She looked back at me, her eyes looked black for half a second but I thought it my imagination, and she ran to me. We closed the door behind us, a giant boat ahead of us. "Woah! What is that?" I heard a creep giggle and then she spoke, "A ferry to the underworld." said Lota. I gave her a weird look. "What is wrong with you? You're acting strange, honestly." I said, moving forward, she followed me. I looked over the side of the boat, nothing but fog and endless black.

I turned back and saw a ladder too short to reach the floor on the side of a platform to the right of the door, and a giant block up against a wall on the far left. I suddenly got an idea. "Stay there, and do not move." I warned her, feeling over suspicious and left to the block. She stood there just as I said. I pushed the mass all the way to the ladder and climbed it, helping Lota up after. We went up the ladder and climbed on the platform, moved to our left and jumped onto the ferry.

I played Zelda's Lullaby on my ocarina and bells on the boat began to ring, the boat rocked and started moving in an up and down motion. A Stalfos suddenly came up in front of me and attacked me, I blocked it with my shield and attacked it back once it was off guard. It jumped at me and I back flipped out of the way. I attacked it again, finishing it off just for another Stalfos to show up.

The stalfos stared Lota up and down and nodded. It grunted and jumped at me. I held it back with my chield and stared at Lota, who said, and did, nothing. I fought off the stalfos and killed it off aswell. "What the hell was that about? It communicated with you?" Lota shrugged. "It wanted to know if it could kill you. And I said yes, but it was weak." she said to me, dryly, her smile finally faded. I was too distracted by Navi to yell at her.

"Link, the ships sinking! Abandon ship! Get onto a safe platform!" I jumped off the ship, bringing Lota with me, and landed on safely on the nearest platform. I looked at another half of land across from me, and pulled out my bow. I shot an arrow at some bombs at the foot of an eagle statue and let go. The arrow exploded a group of bombs and the eagle statue came tumbleing down and created a pathway to the other side. I grabbed Lota by the arm and we went through a door. She told me what to do to get past the maze that was the room.

We walked through a door on the far corner and I gasped. There were wall spikes moving in on us. I used Din's fire and they burned away, only made of wood. Two Redeads were on either side of me now. The sudden cries I heard before echoed to me again. I ran to my left and killed the sitting Redead before it got up. I opened a chest it was blocking and got 5 rupees. "This temple really isn't helping my riches.." I looked to the other side, the Redead was standing but wasn't moving, only looking at me. I walked to it, my sword ready.

The Redead cocked it's head to the left, the sudden cries stopped. I stopped and looked at it, no Redead had ever looked at me this way. I stepped closer to it 'til our distance was a foot. "Link!" I heard Lota's voice, but when I turned to her her mouth had not moved. The Redead ran to me and..hugged me? "What the!" I tried to get it off but it didn't let go, but it wasn't hurting me. "Link, what are you doing? It's me." The Redead looked at me in confusion. "Remember?" I looked at it in confusion. "Wait, is the Redead speaking?" I turned to Lota, she had on a horrid frown and she was nodding.

"Link, what is that.." I turned to face the monster. "She's been fooling you! I know you think I'm a Redead but it's just one of her tricks! She's not even a real she!" I pushed the damned creature away from me and pointed my sword to it's neck. "Don't play us fools, monster. We know you're just under Ganondorf's control!" Lota said to it. I was getting confused now. "Link, kill it. It cannot be trusted." I hesitated. "Don't do it, Link! She's lying to you." said the Redead.

"Do it now!"

I lifted my sword and brought it down toward the Redead, it's hands caught my sword and held it in place. It's dead brown fingers wrapped around it tightly. "Are you trying to kill me, you idiot! Take a look at her! How stupid are you!?" I turned around, still pushing my sword down against the Redead though it still held it back, and looked at the Lota behind me. I looked at her closely, those haunting purple eyes and deep black rims. Then who is that? I turned back to the monster in front of me, it slid it's right hand across the blade, blood stained the blade of the Master Sword as it moved it's hand to the very tip. Blood.. "Honestly Link, it's like-", it sank to it's knees, "-you can't even figure this out without me. But you did a good job getting here."

I moved my Master Sword away from the Redead and looked at it. It was looking at me, holding it's hand in the other. I took out my Lens of Truth and saw the real, emerald eyed Lota, smiling sheepishly at me, her pale hands tainted red. No black rimmed eyes. "See? It's the truth.." I heard a great snarl behind me and turned around. What I thought was Lota was now hideously deformed beyond recognition. It's eyes were black sockets oozing more black, it's body hunched over and huge, arms one drooping to the floor while the other was perfect length and it's nails 5 inches, it's mouth opened to six rows of teeth, and it's skin peeled, as it floated at me. I dropped the lens, still seeing the monster.

The Lota behind me took my Master Sword and ran at it's fake, jamming the sword through it's chest. The monster stopped moving and looked down at the Redead as it's body became that of Lota's. "You damned girl, Lord Ganondorf will not forgive traitors!" It spoke with a monstrous tongue and a normal one at the same time. "I was never one of you!." She said, cutting her way out through the monsters head, it's upper body was now in half. It growled one last time before it turned to ash and vanished.

She put down my sword and slowly turned to face me, she was giving me a death glare. I gulped. "You seriously confused me for that?!" she said angrily,pointing at the stop where the monster once stood. I walked back slowly. "Heh, we all make mistakes..right?"

Her face softened into worry, "That was a grave mistake, I told you to be careful around here. She could have killed you, then where would the world be?" I walked up to her and held her right hand, the bleeding had stopped and the wound was closing. I looked at her. She was looking down, was she doing this, does she know she was doing it?

"This temple is a dark, confusing place, where the dead will go to any lengths to make you one of their own. This happened to be the perfect chance and we fell for it." I closed my eyes and hugged her. "I'm sorry. Will you find it in your hear to forgive me?" She laughed nervously, "Sure. I have something to give you, Hero." She walked to a gold engraved chest and pulled out the key to the Boss door and handed it to me.

"I was guarding this as a Redead. Now that I've been one, I don't think I'm scared of them anymore..." I hugged her again and we left the room. "And don't worry, I won't try to kill you."

We ended back in the maze room and walked to a door on the far corner and made it to another room, similar to the flaming skull room only there were three skulls and they were spinning. We climbed up the steps and picked up a bomb each, they lit on their own and we threw them into the skulls heads, looking like maniacs. They all ended up exploding them all. A ton of rupees scattered from the last one. We looked at each other and smirked, each running down the steps at our side and grabbing the rupees before they could disappear.

She led me through the maze again, to a door at the other end of where we were and we went through it. The damned room was way scary, I had almost no words to describe it. It was very cold, blood was on the floor and Navi was motioning to something under two wood stocks making an 'X' in the center. "Careful, use the lens." I looked through the Lens of Truth and saw a Floor Master flying at me. I grabbed my sword with my left hand and slashed at it, it split into three smaller hands.

I cut one of them down while another grabbed Lota my the neck. "Son of a-!" she yelled as it choked her. She pulled it off and slammed it on the ground, stepping on it. "Go to hell!" I stepped around her to kill the other hand, making sure not to catch her at a bad time. "Link, kill this one too." I walked to her and she moved her foot, I jammed my sword into it and it disappeared. A chest appeared in the center of the room and I opened it. I got a regular key and we left the room.

She led me to yet another door across form where we were now and we entered, ending back in the room with the fallen eagle statue. We walked over it and went to a small hole dug in the wall, a door to the end of it. I unlocked the door and we went in there. I used the Lens of Truth and carried Lota on my back, leading us over invisible paths to the boss door that waited for us on the other side. I put her down when we reached the platform of the door. I looked at her and she nodded. I unlocked the door and it opened itself for us, we went in at the same time.

The room was suddenly dark, everything looked blue. A giant hole was in the center of the room. "Down there is the boss. Are you ready?" she turned to me and I nodded. I held her hand, slightly feeling the bump on her palm and we jumped in. When we felt land, we ended up bouncing back into the air. I held onto all of her and we landed together in the center of the platform. "What is this?" I stepped on it and it made a musical sound. "It's a giant bongo drum. This boss is Bongo Bongo." she answered me as a giant severed hand, followed by another came down on the drum and began playing, bouncing us with every note.

We looked up to see a hideous body, separated form it's hands, a giant red eye was the bottom of the body, a faceless stub was the top, a decaying flesh covered spin was the base. The body slowly disappeared but the hands remain. "Use the lens through this battle, you will seriously need it." I brought the lens and the body of Bongo Bongo was clearly visible to me again, but the eye was closed. "Hit the hands with arrows." I did just that and they began shaking as if it would help the pain go away. The eye opened and I aimed an arrow at it and let it go as it moved toward me.

Bongo Bongo fell backward and I cut repeatedly at it's eye as it only twitched. After a few hits it got back up and repeated it's moves, as did I. "Link, what's going on right now. Where is he?" I was cutting at the eye for the third time in our cycle. "It's a he?" I spoke between pants. "Legend has it this was once a man that could see the truth! His home once stood where the well is now. He was sealed off in there. This is the shadow that attacked you and Sheik back at the village!" she really knew her stuff. "Good to know." I said, finishing the monster off. It became visible even to Lota as it wriggled and twitched before us until it completely decayed, falling to the ground and melting onto it's bongo and disappearing.

The blue light appeared in the center of the drum. "Let's go, you have to get something important." We walked into the light and floated in mid-air, I held onto her and were encased in the familiar blue crystal. I held onto Lota, tightly and we were sent to the Chamber of the Sages.

I looked down at Lota who was still in my arms, her eyes were open and she was glowing a green-blue shade of light, but she was transparent. "What's going on?" She looked at herself. "I'm.." Her voice was an echo. I remembered what Navi told me the time before, "I'm not really here.." I kept my arms around her, though they were begining to go through her.

"The boy with the noble Zelda's Ocarina...As I expected, you have come." We both looked up. "I am Impa, one of the Sheikah. I am Princess Zelda's caretaker, and I am also the Sage who guards the Shadow Temple. We Sheikah have served the royalty of Hyrule from generation to generation as attendants. However... On that day seven years ago, Ganondorf suddenly attacked... and Hyrule Castle surrendered after a short time." Lota nodded. "Yes, I know."

"Ganondorf's target was one of the keys to the Sacred Realm...the hidden treasure of the Royal Family..." "The Ocarina of Time!" They both said in unison. "My duty bound me to take Zelda out of Ganondorf's reach. When last I saw you, as we made our escape from the castle, you were just a lad... Now I see that you have become a fine hero... There's nothing to worry about...The Princess is safe now. Soon, you'll meet Princess Zelda face-to-face, and she will explain everything..." I bit my lip, nervous that I would soon meet her.

"That is when we, the six Wise Ones, will seal up the Evil King and return peace to Hyrule. I have to stay here... You go to Princess Zelda's side and protect her on my behalf. Now I put my power, which should be helpful to you, into this Medallion!" The purple medallion flew down to us, we each held onto it with one hand. Everything suddenly when white in our eyes.

"Please look out for the Princess!"

We were guided down to the triforce plate in the graveyard. It had stopped raining and the dark clouds had gone away. Lota had stopped glowing and was fully solid. I was relieved. We left the graveyard but we ended up staying the night at the village. The next morning, we were off for the home of the Gerudo.

Finally! It's 3:00 A.M.! Well I hope you liked it, it stopped making sense to me after the first couple words but hopefully it can still be understood. Please R&R.