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Chapter Ten: Look Who It Is
Link and I walked through the door, and found ourselves in a room with vines hanging from the ceiling, and Skulltulas blocking the main path across the room. When Link shot the vines with his Slingshot, they uncurled, and we swung across them. When we landed on the other side of the room, a Quadro Baba sprang up in front of me, so I killed it. We didn't worry about the Skulltulas just yet, and walked out of the room. Sitting on a branch in front of us was a chest. Link walked forward, bent over, and opened it up; inside were two copies of the Dungeon Map.
After looking at the maps for a second, Link and I walked back into the room we were in before, and I ran up to the first Skulltula. I slashed at the giant spider with my sword, knocked it over on its back, did a Fatal Blow, and killed it. Then, I pulled out my own Slingshot, put a seed in it, and fired at a crystal switch. Water flooded the room, and I told Link that we should go back to the room we were in before. So, we walked out of the room, and jumped down into the water. I swam over to a vine wall, and climbed back up onto solid ground. A few seconds later, Link joined me. I spotted another vine wall, and we climbed that as well. Link and I came to another door, opened it up, and walked inside.
We were in another room that had eyes in it. But this time, there were two eyes instead of one. However, I knew that wouldn't make much difference, so I walked over to the middle of the room, pulled out my sword, and held it up. The eyes opened, and followed my sword's movements. I spun my sword around in circles, and the eyes eventually got confused and died, revealing a chest. Link walked forward, and opened the chest to get a small key. He put the key in his pouch, and then we walked back to the room we were in before.
Link and I continued forward, and made our way over to a locked door on the other side of the room. When we got there, Link took the small key out of his pouch, put it in the lock, and turned it. The lock clattered to the ground, and we walked through the door. We were now in a huge room containing lots of Rupees, enemies, and switches. I already knew where we had to go next, so I ran forward, pulled out my Slingshot, and fired at the crystal switch in front of me. The seed hit the switch, and the door below it was unlocked. I knew Link and I were ready to fight the Stalfos inside, so I lifted the door up, and we walked inside.
As soon as Link and I were inside the room, the door slammed shut behind us. Bars covered it, preventing an exit. I stared at the pile of bones in the middle of the room, and watched as they rose off the ground, forming a Stalfos. Link and I immediately pulled out our swords at the sight of the monster. and charged at it. We took turns slashing at the skeleton, and managed to hit it a few times.
After we landed a couple of hits on it, the Stalfos suddenly slashed its own swords at us in a counterattack. It managed to hit both of us in the chest, and sent us backward a few feet. I sat up from the blow, and felt a huge pain in my chest. But, I ignored it, stood up, and charged at the Stalfos again. It held both of its swords up, trying to block my attack. However, I still managed to slash my sword in the right direction, dealing more damage. When the Stalfos tried to counterattack again, I dodged both of its swords, and looked over at Link. He was back on his feet, ready to fight.
Link and I charged again, and hit the monster a few more times. The Stalfos obviously had had enough, and it crumpled into a pile of bones, defeated. I caught my breath for a second after the monster was gone, and looked around the room. The Stalfos dropped a couple of hearts, and there were more hearts around the room as well. I picked up some, and so did Link. However, even with the hearts, I was still in pain from the first attack the Stalfos landed on us, and Link looked the same as I did.
After the adrenaline rush wore off, I felt the pain in my chest intensify, and pulled my tunic away from my body. There was a huge gash on my chest, and it was still bleeding harshly. The cut wasn't deep, thanks to the hearts. But, it went across my whole chest, and it hurt like hell. I quickly put my tunic back on before I passed out from the blood. Oh, and that's another thing I forgot to mention: I don't like the sight of blood. I can take the sight of a little blood, but I hate horror movie-type gashes where the stuff just comes oozing out. I noticed that my green tunic started to become stained red, but the bleeding eventually stopped. Link and I were completely out of breath, and we were still in pain. So, we decided to sit down for a while and wait the injury off.
Link and I were so worn out that we didn't even notice the chest appear in the middle of the room. I eventually noticed it, and stood back up. I walked over to the chest, and opened it up. Inside were two Beetles; one was green and gold and the other was blue and silver. The Beetles themselves were attached to a bracelet-like thing that I guessed was used to control it. The Beetle was one of my favorite items in Skyward Sword. It looked really cool, and it was used to solve a lot of creative puzzles in the game as well. I strapped the blue-silver Beetle onto my wrist, and it started flapping its wings; I loved it.
Link noticed the new items, stood up, and walked over to me. "What are those?" he asked. I looked back at him, and smiled. "These are Beetles. You basically fly them around to make it hit switches and collect things for you," I said, handing Link the green-gold Beetle. He put it on, and the Beetle started flapping its wings as well. Link and I stood there in the middle of the room, admiring our new items, and after a few seconds, Fi popped out of Link's sword and informed us about our new Beetles.
"You have acquired new items. Analysis of these object's insect-like profiles and wings indicates they can fly. Tilt your arm to remotely pilot the devices. The sharp structure on the front of the devices can sever threads and deliver a blow to smaller objects. To launch the devices, hold out your arm to ready it for takeoff, then press the button on the devices," she said. After she was done explaining, she flew back into Link's sword.
After Fi was gone, I turned back to look at the door. It was still locked, so I turned to Link. "Link, we need to use these Beetles to find a way out of here. Let me see if I can get the door open," I said. Link nodded, and I held out my arm. I pressed a small button on the bracelet, and my Beetle flew away. I made it fly out of the room, and then I turned my arm to the right. My Beetle disappeared out of sight. I wondered how I was going to see where it was going, but as soon as it dissappeared, I saw a little projection come out of my bracelet; it showed a view of the Beetle flying in the air, exactly like what you would have seen in the game. "Cool," I whispered. Now that I could see where the Beetle was going, I tilted my arm to the right some more, and piloted it over to the crystal switch that I had struck before. The Beetle smacked into the switch, and the door was once again unlocked.
Eventually, the Beetle flew back to my arm, landed on its bracelet, and stopped fluttering its wings. I smiled. "That was freaking awesome," I said. I put the Beetle back in my pouch, and turned to leave. But, Link stopped me. He said he wanted to try out his Beetle before we left, so I let him. Link practiced flying his Beetle around the room until it ran out of juice, and after he was done, we walked out of the room. We ran over to a locked door, and I got out my Beetle again. I flew it into the little cavern where the crystal switch was, and activated it. The door in front of Link and I opened, and we walked through it. We were now in a room with a broken staircase. I told Link we should go into the next room, and he agreed with me. We walked forward, and when we entered the next room, the door was immediately covered with bars.
Link and I were now in a room with three eyes in it. I knew what we had to do, so I told Link that I would go complete the puzzle in this room, and that he should kill the Skulltula on the ceiling. Link started to attack the spider, and I climbed a plant wall to get onto higher ground. I ran over to a red crate hanging from the ceiling, and took out my Beetle. I aimed it at the thread holding the crate up, and let it go. When the Beetle cut the thread, the crate landed right in front of me. I walked over to the crate, and pushed it down to the ground. Then, I lowered myself onto the ground. Link had already killed the Skulltula, so I started to push the crate to the middle of the room, and he helped me push it into the right spot.
When the crate was in the right spot, I climbed on top of it, and took out my sword. All three eyes noticed my sword, so I started waving it around in circles. The eyes got confused, and died, opening a chest. Link walked forward, and opened the chest that the eyes were guarding to find another small key. After Link got the key, I jumped onto the ground. "Okay, Link. Let's go," I said. We walked out of the room, and were back in the room with the broken staircase. Link saw a crystal switch in the back of the room, and pulled out his Beetle. He guided it to the switch, and the room became flooded with water.
Link ran forward and jumped into the water. I followed him, and we swam to the other side of the room. We killed a Skulltula, slashed some trees out of the way, climbed through a hole in the ground, and ended up back at the entrance to the room. Link and I walked out the door, and were back in the main room of the temple. We walked over to a tightrope, and saw a few Deku-babas on the ceiling, so we used our Beetles to kill them. After they were dead, we walked across the tightrope, opened the locked door, and went inside.
The door locked shut behind us as soon as we entered the room, so we walked down the hallway, and cut down some wooden boards in our way. I could see a Staldra in the next room, so I warned Link about it. "Link, that's a Staldra. They can't be destroyed easily. If you chop off only one or two of their heads, they'll regenerate. You need to hit all three heads at once to kill it," I said. Link turned to me, and nodded. "Okay. That doesn't seem too hard," he replied. I smiled. "We'll see, Link,"I thought; the only way you were really able to kill a Staldra was if you got lucky, and all of its heads lined up perfectly. Anyway, Link and I ran into the next room, and the Staldra spotted us. It charged at me, and I had to use my shield to block it. I tried to slash at all of its heads, but my sword only found two of them.
The Staldra backed up for a second, and two new heads immediately grew on it. "Damn," I muttered. I turned to Link, and he decided to give it a go. He ran towards the Staldra, and got really lucky. The three heads of the monster lined up in a perfect line, and Link killed the Staldra with a single slash of his sword. Once the monster was gone, he turned to me. "See, Samuel? That wasn't hard," he bragged. I scoffed, jealous. "You actually got lucky, Link. They almost never line up like that. But, it's dead now, so let's keep going," I replied. Link nodded, and we walked through the door to the final room of the temple.
Link and I continued forward, and I saw a Skulltula blocking our path. So, I took out my Beetle, and used it to cut the Skulltula's thread, sending it into the abyss below. Link jumped across the abyss, managing to grab hold of the ledge. He pulled himself up, and waited for me to jump. "Come on, Samuel. Jump across," he beckoned.
I nodded, took a step back, ran forward, and jumped. I grabbed the ledge with both hands, and started to pull myself up. However, I suddenly felt my hand slip, and I was now holding onto nothing; I started to fall into the abyss. "LINK!" I screamed, holding my hands out. Link reached forward, and somehow grabbed my hands with a millisecond to spare. He quickly pulled me up onto the ledge, and I stood there for a second, breathing heavily.
I was completely stunned. The only thing I could think to do was to turn to Link and start to thank him. "T-thank you so much, Link. If you had been any l-later than you were, I would be d-dead right now," I said. Couldn't find the strength to stay standing, so I sat down on the ground against the wall for a few seconds, not saying a word. Then, I literally started to cry.I tried to hold it in for as long as I could, but this was too much.
"I want to go home, right now. I didn't ask for any of this to happen!" I thought, sobbing.I've beaten this game four times, and I couldn't even complete the first temple in real life without almost dying! I could buy as many potions and shields as I wanted. I could catch as many Fairies as I saw fit. But in the end, none of it mattered. I wasn't a video game character; I didn't have infinite lives. I had one, and I was trying my damnedest to make it last as long as I could. I could prepare myself for whatever I wanted, but it was amazing to think that a fluke like what just happened could end my life.
I sat there, crying and thinking to myself. I sat there so long that I didn't hear Link sit beside me. "Hey, Samuel. Are you okay?" he asked me. I continued sitting there with my head in my knees, and didn't respond to him. After a while, Link continued. "You know, let me tell you something. Life...well, it's not exacty easy or fair, in case you didn't know already. I lost my parents when I was little, and now, the only person I have left to care for is Zelda, which is why I'm even going on this quest right now. I'm not even going to pretend that I know anything about your life, but it seems like you need a break from everything that's happening; I can tell. You miss your family and friends, and you want to see them again, right?" he asked.
I picked my head up, stopped crying, and gave a weak nod. "Yeah, Link. I do. I'm just so freaking upset. I miss my parents, and my friends as well. Don't get me wrong; I've loved every minute of this journey so far. It's been amazing. But, I just want to see them again. I... I think I do need a break," I replied. Link seemed to understand. "It's okay, Samuel. If you need to stop and think about things, stay here for a little while. I mean, this journey hasn't exactly been easy so far, and you almost died a few minutes ago. I'll go ahead and do whatever I can to get further in the temple, and when you feel like getting up, get up," Link replied. Then, he stood up and walked away. I was left alone.
I thought about the situation some more, and I eventually came to the conclusion that it wouldn't do me any good to keep complaining. I had gotten everything I needed to get out of my system out, and I was ready to keep going. So, I stood up. "Thank you, Link,"I thought; his words had given me the strength to keep going.
I walked forward, crossed over a tightrope, and stood in front of the huge boss door. After doing nothing for a moment, I walked over to a Bird Statue, and prayed at it for a while. After my prayer was done, I looked over on the other side of the room; Link had just gotten the Golden Carving, and was making his way back to me. When he was safely on the ground, he walked over to me and held up the Golden Carving. "What am I supposed to do with this? Why couldn't there just be a huge key or something?" he asked. I laughed. "I honestly don't know, Link," I replied.
Anyway, we walked over to the boss door, and I helped Link find the right way to put the Golden Carving in the door. When we eventually found the right way, Link held the Golden Carving up to the lock. and it floated out of his hand. It flew into the opening in the door, the lock spun around a few times, and the door opened, revealing the way to the boss chamber. I stared inbto the blackness ahead of us; I knew Ghirahim was waiting inside, so I turned to Link. I was going to ask him if he was ready, but he did that for me. "Are you ready, Samuel?" he asked. I nodded. "I'm ready as I'll ever be, Link," I replied. I took a deep breath, calmed myself down, and Link and I walked into the boss chamber together.
When we arrived inside the boss chamber, the door slammed shut behind us, and we were immediately blinded by a bright light. When it faded, Ghirahim stood there with his back turned to us. He was holding his black sword, and I knew he was trying to break the seal on the door so he could get to Zelda. But at the moment, I honestly wasn't thinking about what Ghirahim was trying to do. I honestly didn't care if he managed to get through the door and attack Zelda. The only thing I honestly cared about was the boy that was standing on Ghirahim's left. He had white skin, blond hair, and was dressed the same way Ghirahim was. Even though he looked different, what really tipped me off were the boy's rounded ears.
I thought back to what Sparrot had said. "This will not be the typical journey you have gone through before; that you shall soon see! The journey ahead shall be similar, sure, but there are some complications you will run into! The exact details, alas, are something I can't see clearly. But, be warned that this won't be an ordinary journey! Be sure of that!"he had said. I thought back to what Gaepora had said as well. "Although I already know what your full destiny is, Samuel, and what it is you will be required to do, I'm afraid I can't tell it to you, or you would go insane trying to stop it from happening,"he had said. Lastly, I thought about what Impa had said. "I cannot tell you who you must save and who you must defeat. However, I can tell you this: keep an eye out for complications in your journey, and try your best to make the right choices,"she had said.
"It all makes sense now. I finally figured out what one of the complications is," I thought. Suddenly, I heard a voice, and snapped out of my thoughts. "Well, look who it is," Ghirahim said softly. He and the other boy turned around to face Link and I, and I got a clear view of the boy's face. Now, there was absolutely no mistaking it. I couldn't deny it any longer. I was staring at the face of my friend, Jack Jensen.
This chapter was rewritten on 2/6/14.