"It's getting close now right? We're almost there?"

Nabooru sighed "We get there when we get there Chariton. Keep a lookout in the sand instead of complaining. How do you put up with him Ganondorf?!'

Ganondorf smiled "He's actually quite pleasant outside the desert."

Suddenly the sand began to tremble violently, both Nabooru and Ganondorf turned pale.

Chariton gripped his dagger tightly "Why are you two scared?! Doesn't this happen normally?!"

Neither of them answered, instead they each grabbed one of Chariton's arms and began to run, pulling him along as best they could.

Barely feet behind them, three sandworms burst from the earth, and then a sandworm the size of a horse blasted from the sand, the grains stung the three like little missiles. The worms landed only inches behind them and they shot ahead through the sand, cutting them off from escape.

Zelda shot an arrow into one of the stone creatures, but it simply bounced off, she armed her next arrow with a bomb and the creature shattered, raining them with more acidic blood.

Two of the worms leapt through the air and Nabooru slashed them both into two pieces with her dagger, inches from her face.

Midna fired two bolts into the stone creatures and slammed twin ones into a creature while the magic was still in her fist.

Ganondorf slashed three worms with one fluid motion of his daggers, but another two bit him, drawing blood, before plunging back into the sand.

Link slashed two creatures and killed another with a bomb loaded arrow.

Then the giant Sandworm burst from the sand, hitting all three of them at once, they were knocked to the ground, one of Nabooru's hands was wedged under Ganondorf, the dagger pierced into his shoulder.

Ganondorf slashed five creatures into pieces with one swoop of his sword, then he grabbed another that was leaping at him and threw it into a seventh, both of them shattering.

There was an opening in the circle, and they were running from the sandworms. The smaller ones were either dead or wounded too badly to keep up, but the giant one was right behind them. It leapt, coming for the kill. Chariton tripped and the other two were pulled down with them.

Zelda put away her bow, they were two close to shoot at now, and drew her sword.

And suddenly it was quiet. Ganondorf opened his eyes and saw the sandworm's teeth inches from his face. He (to his shame) made a half yell before realizing the creature was limp. He turned his head and found that Chariton had his dagger embedded in the sandworm's throat. Ganondorf began to laugh as he pushed the dead sandworm off them.

"It looks like you won a battle Chariton! And we ran all the way to the spirit temple!"

Nabooru helped Chariton up, grinning "Well! It looks like three gerudo passed the test after all!"

Chariton started in surprise "Three? But I'm not-"

Ganondorf shook his head "You passed the test right along side us Chariton, welcome to the gerudo ranks brother!"

And then there were no more of the stone creatures, their blood had left red burns all over everyone, but they were alive.

Midna dismissed the bolts on her hands "All in favor of never doing that again say aye!"

Ganondorf smirked "What's the matter twilight princess? Scared of a few rocks?"

Then he blacked out.