7: Temple Confusion
Gold and Lyra hopped off their parked train.
"This is a very odd pyramid," Gold pointed out.
"Agreed," Lyra said.
They decided to enter the door with swords drawn. Of course Lyra went first; she had a real sword and Gold did not.
When they entered, they were very surprised. Inside the pyramid, there was sand, a boulder, patterns on the floor, and some logs. With a bit of argument, they split up to search for Link.
Gold walked to the left and saw some targets with arrows in them. It seemed that Link had been there, yet no footprints were visible in the sand.
Meanwhile, Lyra ran to the right side of the temple in search of Link. Instead, she saw a narrow alley. She walked along it, but suddenly, without warning, a boulder rolled straight toward her. She quickly scanned the area for a place to hide and found a little space on the side. She ran to it and to her surprise, the floor opened beneath her, revealing a huge pit. Lyra grabbed the edge of the pitfall and held on tightly as the boulder passed. Then, she saw at least five more. "Help!" she yelled.
On the other side of the temple, Gold heard her cry and ran towards her voice. When he reached the alley, he saw a boulder racing toward him. He quickly sidestepped to avoid collision and started to run to where Lyra's voice was coming from. He dodged a couple more rocks and saw Lyra.
Gold reached out his hand but quickly withdrew it as a boulder rolled between them. He tried again and grabbed Lyra. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two more boulders. He yanked Lyra's hand even harder. When they both thought they were goners, Gold used all of his strength and lifted Lyra out of the hole. Lyra barely had time to relax her hand because they still had boulders to avoid. They ran back to the temple entrance and caught their breath.
"Thank you, Gold," Lyra said gratefully.
Gold grinned. "No problem!"
They waited a little and then went down a staircase to the next floor. On the next floor, they saw three lovely blue pots.
"What are those for?" Gold asked.
Lyra rolled her eyes. "For decoration, of course," she answered.
They walked into another room and were shocked by the instances in this room. There was a large square with sand in it and two big blocks with colorful decorations on their sides. There were also four switches in the ground, two pink and two blue. Gold wondered why they were there.
Lyra ran up to one and pushed. "Oomff!" she grunted. "This is way too heavy to push. What are they for, anyway?"
Gold shrugged, and they continued their search to the left side of the temple. As Gold walked around the corner, he froze, putting a finger to his lips. Lyra silently and stealthily peeked around the corner and saw two skeletons, both armed with sharp blades.
"What do we do?" she whispered to Gold.
"I guess we attack them," Gold replied. He waited for the right moment and lunged at a skeleton, armed with his pool cue. The skeleton swiftly jumped to avoid the stick and swung its blade at Gold. He deflected the slice and stabbed at it, only to make it jump yet again.
He motioned to Lyra and she spun around in a circle with her sword, but the skeleton dodged her cut. It wielded its sword like a skilled swordsman.
Lyra and Gold advanced on it, forcing it to retreat. Unfortunately, the other ninja skeleton was moving toward them.
"It's now or never, Gold!" Lyra commanded. They brought their swords down on the warrior's skull, causing it to fall down and disappear in a cloud of purple smoke.
Gold spun around to fight the other skeleton. Gold did a spin attack, forcing the ninja skeleton warrior to jump back. It spun its sword around and swung it crazily, giving Lyra a chance to slash at its back. Then, both Lyra and Gold stabbed it and it vanished.
"High-five!" Gold said.
They hi-fived each other, no longer just friends, but partners on the battlefield.
