Time for the first dungeon. I'm not to good at combat sequences yet, but it came out good, I think.
I awoke early in the morning, at about sunrise. I dragged myself out of bed (which was way too comfortable to leave), and did a quick inventory. Afterward, I walked into the bathroom to find Zelda brushing her long, golden hair.
She looked at me. "Good morning, Link."
"Morning, Prin- err, Zelda." I corrected myself. I grabbed a toothbrush and began to clean my teeth of food and other things.
"Are you ready?" I asked.
"I think so. I'd like some background information about the temple though."
"That's probably for the best."
We finished quickly, and made our way to the Temple, where we saw the two men who told us the legend the other day standing in front of it, just down the stairs.
I scanned my memory for their names. "Hullo, Prof... James, was it? And Gommorah?"
"Proffesors Jones and Gommor. And hello to you as well, Hero, Princess."
Proff. Jones answered.
"We were wondering, what can you tell us about the Temple? So we know what we're getting into."
"We've never been inside ourselves, so we couldn't tell you much, other than the gem you are looking for is guarded by a some sort of shadow being. We can't tell you anything else." Gommor informed.
"Thank you. At least we know there's going to be a fight." Zelda thanked.
"Good luck on your journey. Your world depends on it." The proffesors said in unison.
We headed up the stairs and into the temple, preparing for anything.
ZELDA
The first thing I noticed was the lighting. There was almost none, save for one pedestal of fire in the center. There were two other unlit pedestals on either side of the room, and a door that was blocked off by metal bars.
"Well now what?" Link grumbled.
"Calm down, it's a puzzle."
He looked at me angry for a moment, and then had a sudden change in expression. "I see what your getting at. We probably need to light the other two pedestals." He looked around the room. "Wood." He said. "We need wood. To light the other pedestals." He started moving around. I went in another direction, also looking for wood.
I came up against the left wall, and started feeling my hand along it, to see if there were any loose boards of wood invisible to us. I had pulled my hand about half way round when it knocked something over. I bent iver to grab it, and noticed immediately what is was. A wooden pole.
"Found it!" I called.
"Light the other pedestals!" Link called.
I walked up to the pedestal of fire, and lit the tip of my pole. I brought it to one of the unlit pedestals, and lit it. I then did the same to the other.
The room brightened up, and the metal bars blocking the door raised.
We started walking over to the door when a being translucent appeared out of nowhere.
"Poe!" I yelled.
We dashed to different sides of the room.
"Don't let it focus in one target!" Link ordered.
I grabbed my sword from its sheath, and waited for Link to strike. He sliced at the Poe, but it moved back, and into my own swinging blade. It cloaked itself, and I jumped back, staying away from the area. Link was opposite of me, circling around. It reappeared, and Link jumped at it, and brought his blade down upon it, killing it.
He looked at me. "Let's move on."
I nodded, and we opened up the door, and found ourselves in a room with a beam of light on our side of the room, and an eye shaped symbol over a blocked door in front of us. There was another door to our right that had chains and a lock over it. Next to the right wall was a couple of mirrors.
I looked at Link. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"We reflect the light into the eye with the mirrors?" He asked.
"Yup."
We each grabbed a mirror. Link went over to the where the light reached the wall, and I went to the wall where we came from. Link reflected the light into my mirror, and I reflected it into the eye. The door was unblocked.
We went over to the door, and stepped through.
LINK
The door opened to a barely lit hallway complete with skulls hanging from the walls. The hallway was short, and at the end, there was a doorway.
We entered the doorway, and were presented by four piles of bones, and no other exit. There was also a small chest in the center. I walked over to open the chest, but it vanished, the door became blocked off behind us, and the piles of bones formed into errily human shapes.
"Mini-Stalfos!" I called out. I raised my shield, and Zelda did the same.
We began circling the beasts in opposite directions. They came at us with bone clubs, swinging them wildly in different directions. One hit me, and the Stalfos' arm went back. I swung my sword through it's rib-cage, and the skeleton crumbled into dust. Another came from my left. I pounded it with my shield, and decapitated it. The bones crumbled again.
Meanwhile, Zelda was having trouble dealing with her two Stalfos. The were attackeing her together, and she couldn't get a strike out without giving her opponents an opening. I charged at the beings and jumped. "Hiyaaahh!" My blade went clean through one, and it crumbled. My distraction gave Zelda an opening. She stabbed the other Stalfos through its abdomen, and it too crumbled.
The chest reappeared in the center, and the door was unblocked. I walked into the center and opened the chest. Inside was a little sliver key.
"We can use that key to open the door in the other room." Zelda said.
I nodded in agreement, and we went back to the other room.
The room was still empty, aside from the three lit pedestals. I put the key into the lock and twisted. The lock was unlocked and the chains fell, allowing the door to be opened. The next room was a slightly longer hallway with big rat in the center. It ran at us and I swung my sword,knocking it back. It ran at us again, and Zelda stabbed forward, killing it before it even reached us.
We went down the hall and into the next room. The room had two light sources similar to the previous room. There were another two eyes over a door to our left, but there were no mirrors to reflect with. Finally, there was a door to our right.
We want through the door on our right. It was a long room, with no other exits. The door behind us shut immediately, and two Poes appeared.
I grabbed my sword, and jumped at one Poe. I brought my sword down on it, and the Poe vanished. I rolled back, waiting for it to reappear. When it finally did, I swung, and the Poe fell to the ground, defeated.
I looked over at Zelda. She smiled. "Took you long enough."
"Meh. Mine vanished."
"Excuses, excuses. You're just mad that I'm a better fighter than you."
"Says the one who couldn't kill a Stalfos."
"Not fair! They double teamed me!"
"How does it feel? Oh wait, that came out wrong..."
She laughed. I blushed. A large chest appeared in the middle of the room.
I walked over and opened it. Inside was a Bow, with a few arrows.
"A Bow? Useful, I guess" I muttered.
"I suppose." Zelda said.
We moved on into the next room.
"We still have no way to open the door." I reminded.
"Not until we find a way to move those lights, no." Zelda agreed.
"Well..." A thought came to me. I fired my bow at the light. The light moved onto the eye above the door.
"It worked." I yelled, happy in what I accomplished.
"That was unexpected." Zelda said, simply.
I fired my bow at the other light source, and it moved into position as well. The door opened.
We moved on. The next room was a very long hallway, with a misshapen human in the center.
"Is that a ReDead?" Zelda asked.
"No, it's smaller. It also hasn't screamed at us." I replied.
I crept forward, not wanting to alert it. The moment I got with in two yards of it, however, the beast looked up and moaned. It stood up and crept closer. I swung my blade at it, cutting off its arm, watching the blood spew out. It kept walking, so I cut off it's other arm. It kept walking. I stabbed my sword in its chest. It kept walking. A jumped back and fired at arrow into its head. The beast finally crumpled over and died.
I grabbed my sword from its chest, and panted.
"That was close." I said.
"Yeah. You almost died."
"What the shit was that thing?" I asked, still out of breath.
"I don't know. Let's move on."
I nodded in agreement. The next room was a small room with a pedastal of fire, and a blocked door
"Now what?" I muttered.
"I would assume the key to opening the door has to do with the fire." Zelda speculated.
"I'll try putting it out. Maybe the door is light sensitive." I theorized.
I walked over and swung my sword at the fire. It went out in a puff of smoke, and as the light disappeared, we heard the door open. A faint light came from where the door was, and so we made our way to where the light came from. There was another long hallway, but with nothing in it. We made our way to the door on the end. It was blocked off, with an eye above it.
"I don't see any light sources." I said.
"Maybe one is blocked off. Look around." Zelda responded.
I looked up, where the light source would have to be. There was a boarded up window. I fired an arrow at it, and the wood fell, revealing the light of day onto the eye. The door opened.
We moved into a gigantic L shaped room, with windows letting in light from outside. There was a ledge on the far side do the room, with a stair case going up on top of it. There was a large chest in front of us, and some unlit pedestals. I walked over to the large chest. Inside, there was a large, golden key, and a lantern.
"Try lighting the pedestals with the lantern." I threw the lantern to Zelda.
"That was kinda obvious."
"Whatever." I muttered.
She walked up to each if the pedestals and lit them. The windows closed, but a staircase leading upward appeared. We climbed the staircase to the ledge, and climbed the next set of stairs to the second floor.
Up here, there was a long, wide room with a Large Stalfos in the middle. I readied my shield, when Zelda called me off.
"Let me do it. I'll distract him, while you fire arrows." She strategized.
She readied her sword, and ran at it, while I brought out my bow, and notched an arrow, waiting for a good opportunity.
Zelda fought with the skill of a thousand heroes. She blocked at the best moments, and stunned the monster as much as possible, giving me the best oppprtunities to fire. After all was said and done, the Stalfos fell. Then we saw the door behind us.
You wouldn't think of a door as intimidating, but this one was. It was large and metal, with a keyhole for the large key I got earlier.
"Whatever's behind this door, I'm pretty sure it can't be good." Zelda reasoned.
Without any consideration, I opened the door, and we stepped through, into a large circular chamber.
A/N: Here's how boss battles will work. They open with the bosses name and title, like "Electric Anemone Barinade" like in Ocarina of Time, and will typically be in two stages. They will occasionally have more, and will usually be at the end of a dungeon chapter.
SHADOW CLONE DRAK LINK
Immediately after this, the door shut behind us, and the shadows around the room made its way to the center, forming a Hylian like being, but made of dark colors, like black and grey.
"Link?" Zelda called.
"Yes?" I responded.
"That thing looms exactly like you."
I took a moment to look at it. It DID look exactly like me.
I gave my bow to Zelda. "Use this." Then, I ran at it. I jumped, and it jumped. I swung, it swung. I blocked, it blocked. I circled, it circled. Zelda's arrows just went right through him, it, whatever.
"Link! It's an exact clone of you! Using your normal techniques won't work!" Zelda yelled.
"Then I won't use my normal techniques." I muttered.
I switched my sword hand and my shield hand. I now fought with my right, and blocked with my left.
The beast became confused. It tried to block my attacks, but it would always block as if I was using my other hand. I swiped at his chest, and he was forced back by my sword. He jumped at me, and I sidestepped. His sword was forced into the ground. I took this opportunity to whitle at his health. He grabbed his sword and bashed me to the ground. His eyes turned to Zelda. He ran hat her. She got her sword ready, but he was faster. He sliced at heepr stomach, and a long gash was opened. She screamed in pain.
"Zelda!" I screamed. I ran over to the being and stabbed him in the back.
He started to get desperate. It dropped its sword, and grabbed a second shield. It kept on blocking my attacks.
"Zelda! Ink so your hurt, but I need you to try firing an arrow!"
"They go through him, remember!?"
"Just try!"
She stumbled onto her feet, and did as I said. She fired an arrow. It hit the being straight in the head. I stabbed my sword through his chest, delivering the final blow. My clone exploded into shadows, and the room lit itself. Then, suddenly, two heart shaped objects came into being.
"I can't believe it!" Zelda said, in pain.
"What?" I asked
"These are Heart Containers! They magically increas the users Life Force permenantly, as well as fully healing them!" She was jumping up and down, squealing.
I realized what she was getting at. "Your wound!"
"Exactly!" She yelled.
"Lucky for us, there are two. One for us, one for you."
I helped her to her feet, and we walked of
Very to them. We grabbed the containers, and instantly I felt a surge of energy and other pleasant things coursing through me. I felt like I could take on Ganondorf right then and there. Zelda's gash was also gone, and she looked much better.
"That's better." She said in relief.
The wall opened up in front of us, revealing a small chamber with a Red Gemstone, as well as a green glowing circle, which I assumed was a magical portal.
"I guess that's the first gemstone we need to get the compass." I walked up to it and grabbed it. We turned to the energy portal, and stepped through.
We reappeared at the door to the temple, back in the city.
"One temple down, one to go." I said.
"And then, we can go home." Zelda agreed.
"Then, we kick Ganondorf's blue ass all the way back to wherever he came from.
"Agreed." Zelda said.
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