He's heard of it. Link has heard of the Arbiter's Grounds. His sister had told him about it when he was little; the stories that he thought were fake, the stories about the people before him, but he was wrong. They were real. He wasn't sure how much of it was real, but he was going to believe every bit of it if things kept playing out this way.

"Let's go." Ryell jumped onto the first boulder and ran across, easily clearing the area. On the last one, he turned around. "Come on guys. It's not that hard. You won't fall. Let's get past this before we make any more plans."

Zelda and Link nodded. Together they jumped across the boulders. Whenever Zelda was about to slip, Link would grab her hand and pull her back up. The princess, though terrified and almost frozen in fear, managed to get across and to the last boulder. Ryell nodded. They jumped over to the ledge and turned around. Had they seriously jumped across all of those? There had to be more than ten. Link then noticed the patters on the floor.

There was a huge circle, but it was hard to see when it was mostly covered with sand. Where they were standing, there were crumbled pieces of the staircase. It was so destroyed that it would have been impossible to climb. Small stumps of what looked to be pillars stood, two on each side. Link got on his hands and knees and looked over to get a better view. Where the stairs had once been was a small little cave.

"Hey, I see something!" Link exclaimed. He jumped down before Ryell could stop him and held onto the ledge. He swung inside and landed in front of a small chest. "…What's a treasure chest doing here? It's covered with dust! I think there's like, four inches of dust and webs and all that gunk."

"Then clean it off." Ryell said. He and Zelda were now looking and into the cave. "I think this thing has been here since they built it. That's a really long time."

"Wow!" Link brushed off all the dust and grime. When he finished, a faded brown chest could finally be seen. He opened it. On the inside was…he didn't know what it was. "Can you come down here Ryell?" In no time at all, Ryell was down there. "What's this?" Link asked.

"I don't know…" Ryell pulled the unusually item out and looked at it. "It seems as if this were deliberately placed some time ago. It's…" He frowned. "No clue. It looks like a an arrow or something, but…it isn't." He handed it back to Link.

Zelda looked down then looked up. There was a gasp from her. Ryell and Link jumped and ran out as far as they could before the quicksand that broke through the brick prevented them from going any farther. They looked up. Something was heading straight for Zelda. Ryell attacked with his claw shot-like hand, but it went right through. Link took the item and threw it. It hit whatever it was, it looked like a human, on the head and it fell to the ground.

"You're kidding me," Link breathed. Ryell grabbed the item for him and handed it back. "I threw a thousand year old dagger-thing and all it does is stop ghosts? And there's only one!"

"You don't know what it is yet," Ryell snapped. He pulled himself up and helped Link get up there. "It may be completely useless for all we know."

"It kinda looks like a short spear," Zelda said. "Can I see it?" Link let Zelda take it. Though it had been in a chest, it had still, somehow, gotten very dusty, as if the chest had been opened for a while. "I know what it is! It's a Light Arrow! But it's broken."

"But it doesn't even look like an arrow!" Ryell and Link exclaimed.

"It's is," Zelda explained. "It's just broken at one end. I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot more of these. They may not glow like they should, but they still push away evil!"

Oh great! Now the hero gets Light Arrows! I just love Light Arrows!

Link and Zelda heard Time sigh.

Shield doesn't like Light Arrows, Time told them.

Link and Zelda looked at each other. "Shield?" they asked.

"Huh?" Ryell looked at Zelda.

"N-nothing!" Link exclaimed.

Here's the shortened story, Time said. I gave them all nicknames and Ganondorf's name is now Shield because Wolfo, you'll see him later, uses him as a shield against Zelda's Light Arrows.

Both kids burst out laughing. Ryell gave them a funny look but headed over to the door.

Link followed. I won't ask, he told them.

It's better you didn't.

Oh! Hey L- Time, do you know how that wolf thing appeared?

That wolf thing is actually a chimera. A weird one. But yes, I do. I was watching it come. It's much like what happened to Wolfo, another Link. This evil guy revived a monster named Stallord that had died in Arbiter's Grounds. But apparently this chimera-

"Link, are you coming?" Ryell asked.

Link jumped. "Uh, yeah!" He followed Ryell into the next room. Can you continue please?

Certainly. Apparently this chimera had lived here before, but when it ran out of food and couldn't find a way out, it died. When Zain came about an hour ago, the chimera was stirring. It had gone unconscious, not died. Zain just pulled it out of its coma and opened a way for it.

"That's just great!" Link exclaimed sarcastically.

Ryell and Zelda looked at him.

"Er…talking to uh…"

"Time," Ryell said. He nodded. How did he know? This guy was crazy, Link concluded. "So, now we're in some big circular room."

Link rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I figured that out," he said.

"I was just saying, because that room we were just in had a wall collapse from the weight of the sand above it. That was also a circular room. Ever hear about the Poes?"

Link and Zelda nodded.

"That was the room that the Poe souls opened. It unlocked this room. It held the Death Sword. This was originally the halfway point, from what the stories tell. But now the Poes are gone and there are boulders blocking all other paths."

Link blinked in surprise. "This was where that giant sword was held?" he asked. Ryell nodded.

"Correct," he said. "Let's check around here for anymore chests and then keep going. That's pretty much the only other path." Ryell pointed towards the door on the other end of the room.

Link shivered. He didn't want to know how any living creature could call this place home.

"Can we sit down and think?" Link asked. "I'm getting a headache."

Zelda gulped. "I don't think you're getting a headache…" she said. Link and Ryell looked in the direction she was looking. Something was walking into the room and the door had no been shut. Its skull was almost upside down, its bones bent and broken in odd places. In one hand it was dragging a huge sword, one that was bigger than Link himself.

It was groaning. The familiar, terrifying groan. A screech.

Link! Time exclaimed. Link, don't black out! No!

Ryell and Zelda fell to their knees, hands covering their ears. There wasn't just one Redead. There were five. And these ones were huge, like, ten feet tall and their screeches were a lot more powerful than the scary, small ones from before. Link couldn't handle it anymore. His eyes closed and he fell forward. The last thing he heard was Time and his friends telling him to stay awake.

"Why!" Lineback V exclaimed and shook the barks of his cage. "Why does my family always get thrown in cages!"

His father, his grandfather, and others before them had all passed down their stories about being thrown in a cage. It didn't matter who they were with; the King of Hyrule City, in a securely protected place, or deep in the ocean with something from the Zoras. No matter what they did, some way, some how, they'd always gotten thrown in a cage.

"Sssilence!" the chimera snapped. He pushed the cage over with his long, strong tail and watched as it rolled over a few times, knocking the wind out of his prey. "You do not talk! Zain hasss given me a fine meal." He growled. That growl turned into a laugh.

Lineback cursed. "You stupid dog!" he exclaimed.

"Do I look like a dog to you!" the chimera growled. He put his huge face close to the bars of the cage.

Lineback had to agree that this thing actually didn't look like a dog. With scales for fur, wings, bird claws, and a snake tail, no one even knew what it was anymore. Certainly didn't look like a dog. Or a bird. Or a dragon. Or a wolf. It was a something, and that something was a chimera, freaky scary. Oh. He was talking to himself again.

"When can I go?" Lineback asked.

"After I eat you."

"Won't I be dead."

"I don't know."

"Are you stupid?"

"I don't know."

Lineback laughed quietly. This could be fun, being stuck with a really stupid chimera that looked strong and scary, but was actually pretty dang dumb. Maybe, just maybe, he could stall until he found a way out of here. He heard that Chimera, that's what he'll call it, was going to give the others a chance to get in there. Half of this place was destroyed, but it was so huge, being a former prison, that it could still take days.

"Hey Mr. Chimera…wanna play a game…? It's called 20 Questions…"

Link groaned. He opened his eyes, but the light in the room made him close them again. It was very bright for a dungeon with no windows. Every wall seemed to have at least ten torches, and there were a lot of walls.

Something by him moved. The kid jumped up and unsheathed his sword, knocking something away. He didn't know what it was. He could feel it but couldn't see it. A tiny squeak, then a scream, and then a puff of…purple stuff, kind of like Twilight. Link sat back down, feeling very light headed. He didn't know where he was, and he had, once again, lost his friends. They weren't in the room. He knew that because they'd either be bickering, talking, or…bickering.

"Man, why did I just ask to be lead to that island?" Link asked and looked up, as if wishing the Goddesses he'd heard so much about would help him or do something. "This is horrible! All I want is Kay back!" He fell backwards and sat down, pouting. "And now I'm stuck in the middle of a prison!"

He pushed something away from him. It must've been what attacked him earlier. Then something laughed. It was an odd laugh, like a little imp.

"I know where we can find your friends."

Link saw a shadow. Then it disappeared and reappeared above him.

"It's quite easy!"

It disappeared again.

"Just follow the sounds of the moaning!"

He reappeared in front of Link's face.

"It's as easy as 1-2-3!" It snapped its small fingers.

Wait. It was an imp!

"W-who are you?" Link asked and backed up.

The imp thing became surrounded in shadows. When the shadows melted away it revealed a young boy. He had messy, orange hair with green streaks and pale blue skin. He wore a cloak that didn't have sleeves and black gloves. The boy had a huge smile and large black and red patches of skin all over. Blue lines ran everywhere.

"I am Piyori, at your service!"

"WTF?"

Piyori burst out laughing. He pulled Link to his feet and brushed dirt off his back. "You're a mess," he said. "Then again, the Twili hate dirt…" Piyori shook his head. "Well, I am from the Twilight Realm. I can turn into an imp at will and travel between worlds."

"How's that gonna help me?"

"It will help you because I can teleport! And after a thousand years of perfecting it, we can now warp anywhere without the help of a portal."

Link frowned and scratched the side of his head. "I think I'm going crazy," he said softly. "First I willingly leave my home to search for Ka, then I get trapped here, and now I'm talking to a crazy imp." He laughed. "Wait, add talking to myself to the list."

Silence.

Piyori raised an eyebrow. "You know, most people I meet are a lot more sane than you," he said blankly.

"Hey! You don't seem very sane yourself! And I'm not insane, I'm just south of sane."

"He's insane." Piyori twirled on one foot and shadows surrounded him again. He had black and red splotches everywhere on his white body and huge yellow eyes that, just like in human form, had no pupil. With a wave of his hand, he floated forward and landed on Link's head. "I'm sure you'll get a bit of déjà vu, but trust me, my ancestors have helped the Heroes for more years than I can count."

Link tried shaking the kid off. In fact, he did get a bit of déjà vu with this kid around. It scared him, made him feel uneasy, and he didn't need this right now. All he needed was to get out of here. Then it really smacked him in the face. One of his best friends was trapped with a giant chimera. His eyes grew wide and he ran to the nearest door, not bothering to remember that there was a freak on his head.

"I've gotta find everyone!" he exclaimed as he sheathed his sword and ran towards the nearest door. There was a huge statue in this room, one with a woman sitting and what looked like a snake curling around her body. This had to be the heart of the dungeon. Now he needed to find a map-

"Oh! Would this help you?" Piyori snapped his fingers. When the door opened and Link stepped through, something hovered in the air. It was boxes connected by lines and what looked to be a map. Link's mouth fell open.

"You read my mind or something?" Link asked.

"No, but I know this temple well enough to know that you are definitely going the wrong way. Take a good look at it."

Link stared at it. Now he was so confused that he would just listen to Piyori. He turned and headed back to the room with the statue and walked into a different room opposite of the one he was just in. The map had disappeared.

"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Link asked with a slight whine in his voice.

"Yes, I'm positive," Piyori said. "I've only been trapped here for a really long time. I heard some kid named Zain and my….great, great, great, great…lots more greats, great aunt Rhea and some Zora named Klondi talk about their next plans about six months ago. They said that they were going to revive some monster thing. And to do that, the seals had to be broken."

Link skidded to a halt. "You don't mean…"

Piyori nodded. "Yes," he said. "Those small crystals you got were the seals. Zain used certain…magic to make pitfalls everywhere. Those poor kids." He shook his head. Apparently he wasn't as young as Link thought! "Zain was hoping that Kandor would mention three missing kids and that you'd go rescue them, but it didn't happen. It happened a different way, but what's done is done."

"It's my…?"

"What? No, no! It's not your fault," Piyori said. "The seal was already a third of the way broken, so even if you hadn't of come, Zain could've still revived or woken Kimira. It would've taken longer, but like I said earlier, what's done is done. Shall we go find your friends?"

Link nodded.

So they set off on a terrible, long, perilous- wait, what the hell am I talking about! This whole fan fiction is a long, terrible, perilous journey! Umm….-

Link went left, he went right, he turned this spinney thing that opened doors and closed doors. Piyori was no help like he said he would be. Whenever Link asked for help, Piyori would just show him the map. If anything was irritating to him at the moment, nothing irritated him more than the freaking imp. At first it was cool, but it started getting tedious.

"Okay, seriously, you've gotta help me or something," Link complained. "It's so hard trying to get through here!"

Piyori sighed. "Alright, alright. I'll help you a bit," he said. He changed into a human and began pushing the spinney thing in the middle of the room. A door appeared and they went through.

He lead Link through many halls. Link picked up many small things along the way; they were tiny, golden rods. He thought that they looked similar to the Light Arrows, so he picked them up. With the amount he picked up along the way, it seemed as if a huge battle had been fought here. Not only were there tiny, golden rods, but there were simple, dusty pieces of normal arrows, sword slashes on the walls, and what looked to be claw marks all over the ceiling. This was the only room that was filled with these marks though.

It was huge. There were finally dead Redead remains strewn across the floor.

Link suddenly jumped. He heard a cough, but Piyori hadn't heard it.

What the hell is Zain? Is he related to Zant and I don't know it?

That voice…was completely different from the other voices he had be hearing for the past few weeks.

Fish… Time!

I told you not to freaking call me that!

I'm sorry, but that's the way it has to be for now. From what I can tell, these guys have horrible memories and three people with the same name will be…hard…to….

Yeah. You just now realized that your clone is listening?

He's not my clone!

Link freaked. T-T…Time?

Yes Link?

Who's talking?

That, my dear friend, would be a man called Fish.

Link!

Call me Time!

Link's head began to pound. "Guys…I'm getting a huge headache…" He groaned and put his hands on his temples.

Piyori, who had no clue what was going on, dragged him through the halls once more. He kicked away some wooden planks and walked into the small room that shouldn't even be called a room. There was a large tub filled with a lot of water. It looked fresh enough, clear and sparkly.

"Whoever left this was very skilled in magic," Piyori said. He snapped his fingers and a pile of sand nearby changed into a simple, plastic cup. "You look like you have a headache. You're not drinking enough."

Link gave him a "WTF?" look but took the cup anyway. He almost spit out his water.

I'm sorry, Link. I should introduce you to everyone first, yes? You just me- heard Fish. He was the evil guy during Wolfo, another Link's time. Wolfo is actually here right now.

Woof! There was some coughing, as if someone were clearing their throat. Er, sorry 'bout that. I'm Wolfo.

And the third Link we have with us is called Pirate.

Hi there!

Link drank his water, trying to act inconspicuous as Piyori glanced at him.

Tim continued. Ganondorf is now called Shield due to a very humorous chain of events. The Ganon from Wolfo's time is Fish, as you have already heard. Pirate's bad guy is named Puppet because…well, it's another chain of events.

Are there three pairs of you with the same names?

Why, yes It was a girl. I'm Zelda, the one who's been talking to you. Call me Wisdom. I say this because of what you said earlier. Us nine are here to help the three chosen….do something.

Why won't you tell me what it is?

Because you must figure that out on your own.

Fighting Zain, right?

Silence.

Link sighed as he took another drink of water.

Wolfo's Zelda is called Navi. She's the one you need to watch out for on this journey. The way she can help you is by firing Light Arrows. That's all I'll tell you. Pirate's Zelda is called Tetra.

Tetra!

"I've heard that name before!"

Piyori raised an eyebrow. "This temple's got you going nuts," he said.

"S-sorry!" Link squeaked.

Tetra was a pirate once.

That's it. Alright. Thanks for telling me. I think I should go before Piyori snaps at me…

I feel as if we can trust him, Time said. Stick with him.

Link slightly nodded and handed the cup to Piyori. He took it and it turned back into sand.

"Alchemy's most important rule," Piyori said and looked at Link. "To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost."

He changed into an imp and told Link to head to the room they were just at. Surprisingly, Link remembered the way. He kept in mind that if Time trusted Piyori, then he could, too. And he was right. The room illuminated when they stepped in.

"What-?"

"I could tell that Kimira was coming. We had to get out of here before he got here." Piyori floated off of Link's head and into the middle of the room. He twirled a few times and a wave of shadow dug into the ground. It began to shake. The quicksand began to form a whirlpool of quicksand where the shadows hit. "I'd step back if I were y-"

The loudest howl anyone could've ever heard in their life erupted from somewhere. The sand moved away, all of it making a perfectly smooth wall along the wall. Below, a huge pillar sat, one with many spiraling lines. It was a few feet above ground, but it had to be at least a hundred feet below, which meant it had to be at least a hundred feet tall from what he could see. Kimira the chimera stood there, growling. Quicker than an arrow, Kimira flew up and began trying to get link in its jaws. Tied to its foot was a cage. A cage where Lineback was in, being thrown against the bars like crazy.

Link jumped backwards, hoping to get back to the exit, but the sand shifted and created a wall there.

Sand Minion: Kimira

Shinzu: ;3; Oh my God. This has to be the fasted I've ever gotten a chapter up. But, the reason is because I've had a sudden...well, I'm suddenly re-obsessed with Twilight Princess, and with all this newly found inspiration, I got this whole thing typed up in just a few days.I'm very proud of it because I've had to do his dungeon by memory. Of course, I've looked at a map, but I made it easier on myself by making the room were Death Sword used to lurk the room that is on the other side of the door that the Poes unlock. P: I also made the room where the Poes lantern light returned to a circular room with many, many doors blocked by boulders. The walls were destroyed and quicksand had like, devoured the floor.

And, you guys'll really enjoy this; Piyori is the last major new character. =] Trust me. I've made about as many characters as I could right now. P: So, read, enjoy, review (reviews motivate me, SADLY. -_-' )!