Here's another installment of this new story that I'm strangely becoming attached to. Hope you enjoy
Chapter Eight
Link glanced around the area. "It looks like we'll have to do this temple step by step again. If I remember everything correctly, we can get through this rather quickly."
"Alright. Just tell me what you need me to do."
"We go straight first because one of the keys we need is that way." Link moved through a door directly north of our starting point. Upon entering the next hallway, I saw this skull engulfed in purple flames spinning in circles.
"Watch this." Link raised his shield towards the creature. The creature's flames disappearing upon touching the shield, and it started bouncing around the room. Link pulled out his bow and killed it. "To defeat these monsters, you must first extinguish the flames. Then, you can kill him."
"Wouldn't it be better if you had the sword?"
"You seem to wield a sword better than a bow. I'm fine with a bow until we get further in. I know I left a smaller sword or dagger hidden in a bush, or I might have dropped it in the water. It's hard to remember them all."
I smiled. "I'll take the dagger when we find it."
Link nodded and opened the next door. "Inside here are two Stalfos. They looked like skeletons with shields. You fight them like soldiers. Wait for an opening and then strike. They are honor bound so they won't attack you until you stand poised and ready for an attack. Let me take these on for the first time. Hand me the sword. Just stand back by the door and don't attempt to attack."
"Okay." Link moved into the room, holding his sword with his left hand and his shield in his right. The two creatures appeared out of the shadows. The first creature approached Link while the second one stood back. The Stalfo circled around the two only glancing at me once. I posed no threat so he ignored me. Link defeated the first Stalfo with no problem and moved to the next one. Once both were defeated, a chest appeared and inside was a small key.
"You're a great fighter," I commented as Link handed me back the sword.
"Thank you," he replied sheepishly. We returned to the main room and turned left. A block with a sun on it stood in our way. Link played a new melody on his instrument and the block vanished revealing a new door. I didn't question him because I've heard of musical locked doors before this.
When we entered this room, it looked like a giant garden. Link reached into a small stream and pulled out something that looked like a child's sword. "This was mine when I was your age."
I took the sword and handed Link back his. Now I felt more comfortable knowing that he could defend himself against close range attacks. Link shot down a spider that was crawling along the vines without me noticing that he moved. We climbed up those vines to the door at the top. I felt like we were running around in circles, but I wasn't going to say anything. He knew this temple better than I did.
The next room had another one of those skulls floating around the room. Link moved swifter than me and took the skull down. He was amazing. I could see why he traveled alone. He lifted a map out of the chest and continued through the door. "It looks like all the doors have been locked again." Link looked over the edge of the balcony. "Can you swim?"
"Yeah."
"You think you can make a dive into that stream?"
"Is it deep enough?"
"Yes. I did it before." Link hookshot over to the other balcony as I stepped up on the railing.
"Head for that well. I'll be right behind you." I dove into the stream which was bitter cold. Pulling myself out of the water, I heard Link splash behind me. We walked to the well and climbed down it using the vine. At the end of the long underground tunnel was another chest with a key in it.
We climbed out of the other well and walked back into the main room. "What the?" I looked back to see all four candles lit and what looked like an elevator in the center of the candles.
"How did that happen?" I asked walking over to the candles. I was about to reach out to one of them when someone grabbed my arm and yanked it behind my back.
"Who are you?" the voice hissed in my ear.
"My name is Sora. Ow. I'm not a threat."
"Zelda, stop. He can help us." Zelda? I felt her grip lessen on my arm. I turned around and saw a woman with short blonde hair dressed in a blue and white jumpsuit. She didn't look like a princess at all. No wonder no one could find her.
"Link? But, how? I heard you were dead."
"Far from it," Link mumbled, approaching her. "Why was the temple locked?"
"Ganondorf hid the light arrows on the basement floor."
"How did you light all the candles without opening all the doors?"
"I was already inside when Ganondorf locked this place back up. How did you survive?"
Link's light seemed to fade out of his eyes. "Oh my God./What did he do to you?" Zelda asked, worried about his reaction to her first question.
"I-" Link started.
"He was locked away. They made a mistake of locking me in with him. I have this KeyBlade that unlocks almost any door."
Zelda glanced at me. "Then come with me." She grabbed my arm and dragged me towards the elevator. Link gave me a small smile and followed us. I hated lying, but Link didn't seem like he was ready to talk about it to her. Plus here and now wasn't the time to talk about the past.
The elevator stopped in the middle of the basement. We walked towards a large door with a chain, locking it shut. I looked at the lock. I wasn't sure if it would work, but it was worth a shot.
I whipped my wrists and the KeyBlade formed. A beam of light shot from the tip and entered into the keyhole. Within a few seconds, the lock opened and the chains fell off the door. "It worked," I said excitedly.
The door slowly creped open to reveal what looked like a museum with similar empty paintings circling the room. "I defeated this guardian," Link said.
"Then why does it sense like someone is watching us."
"It's a new guardian. Similar to the first one," Zelda answered.
We stepped into the center of the room when bars shot up, blocking us from escaping. Evil laughter filled the room as a ghost man appeared, sitting on a ghost horse. Link drew his sword as I pulled out mine. Zelda back away, seeming to position herself behind us. The horse reared and galloped into one of the paintings. "Oh no," I said as I stood back to back with Link.
"Watch the paintings closely. He can appear out of either one of them." Link slashed at the horse rider coming out of the paining before I could even see him. He quickly put his sword away and took his bow out. "I'll strike him first with the arrow. You attack him with the sword once he's closer to the ground," Link whispered to me.
I nodded and saw the horse rider coming out of the painting directly in front of me. I quickly grabbed Link's arm and spun him around. He hit the man but just barely. I ran up to him and managed to land a few blows before he escaped back into the painting.
The rider came out the painting closer to Link. We hit him again but instead of escaping to a painting again, the horse remained still. I glanced over at Zelda. She was no longer in her blue and white jumpsuit but in a pink gown. Her longer blonde hair swayed in the wind that her spell was creating. The monster was bound under her power, becoming a vulnerable target.
Link slide his sword out of the sheath and stabbed the creature. He trashed under the sword until he was nothing but dust. Lying on the floor under the remains was a shinning orb. Zelda picked it up and handed it to Link. "This will turn all your arrows to light arrows once activated," she told him.
I blinked and stood in the background, feeling out of place all the sudden. What did they need me for anymore? I unlocked the door, and Link can defeat Ganondorf with Zelda's help. I was no longer needed. I glanced back, seeing the entranceway no longer blocked. Deciding to let these two have peace, I walked away to find my own way home.
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YAY all done with that chapter. The king for that temple cannot be killed that way LOL. Don't try it like that. Thanks for reading please review
Angel Dove
