Whoo, look at them votes. Yep, seems more of you want lemon(now anyway). I will leave the poll up for 1 more week starting next Monday.
Okay on to the story.
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Lota's POV
I watched Nabooru as she slipped on the gauntlets and modeled them. "Now about my end of the deal." I felt Link freeze up next to me and I punched him on the arm. "Um, Nabooru, before that, do you mind if we borrow the gauntlets?" I asked. "Are you nuts? These-" She looked into my eyes and her expression softened. "I guess it's the least I could do, you did save me from those hags." I smiled and took the gauntlet's as she handed them to me. "Let's go, Link." I said, going down the steps, he followed. "Wait, where are you going?" asked Nabooru. "We have to come back seven years from now, but don't worry about it, just meet us back here in seven years exactly." Naborru stepped a bit closer, "Hey kid, just remember to wash your eyes up, there getting kinda grey around the edges." she said, and I froze. That didn't sound good, at least not to me. "I will, thanks." I said before running out of the temple.
I checked my reflection on the silver plate of the gauntlet's, there was indeed a shadow growing around them. Link quickly took us back to the spirit temple, I glared at him the whole way though. He better not think I forgot. When we got there, we rushed to the Master Sword, I held onto Link as he quickly pulled it from the pedestal, the blue and white lights quickly blinding us. "This will be the last time we have to do this." my voice echoed through the temple as I closed my eyes for the quick, yet long, seven year sleep.
I slowly opened eyes, only to sigh in disgust. I was in the Gerudo get up again, my tunic was nowhere in my sight. I quickly turned around and screamed, my voice high-pitch. "Damn it, Link!" Link was standing there, looking down at me. "Sorry I scared you, but are you okay?" I looked at him confused as my heartbeat slowed down, "Yeah, why do you ask?" He ever-so-gently placed his hand on my cheek and rubbed under my eye with his thumb. "You have this black shadow growing under your eyes, like you haven't slept for days, yet you've slept for seven years." He laughed softly and gave me a gentle smile that made my face burn like an oven. "I'm fine, don't worry about it."
Truth in the matter, I wasn't fine, I was bad. And getting worse.
I smiled at Link, then suddenly felt like a nerve in my head snapped as I remembered something, and I slapped him. "Hey, what the heck was that for?!" He said, holding his hand against his red cheek. It was a reflex. "For being so typical! The deal with Nabooru, ring a bell?" He quickly hid his face and whistled away my words. I stormed off with a 'Humph!', not speaking anymore to Mr. I Wear Man Skirts for a Living, Fairy Boy.
"Lota, you aren't jealous are you?" Link said behind me. I wanted to punch him in the face so badly.
I turned around quickly, my arms crossed. "What the hell do you think?!" He stepped back, even though we were pretty far away from each other.
I wanted to just scream out how I felt to him, "I really like you!", but I couldn't say it. I was loving the boy before me, and I couldn't even tell him.
My anger flushed away, "Link, I'm sorry I yelled, let's just go okay?" I whispered. Link only stared at me, red faced.
He nodded and walked over to me, ocarina already in his mouth. He started playing the little tune as he used his free hand to interlock fingers with mine. I looked up at him, sadly his beautiful eyes were closed, I sighed and looked at our hands. I felt the orange-brown-ish light lift us, followed by the feeling of a soft pair of lips gently pressing against mine as the temple surroundings came out of view.
When we finally arrived at the Spirit Temple, Link ended up knocking me down, breaking the kiss he tried so hard to make cute, but I was thankful. He leaned down again and kissed me, I closed my eyes, but I could feel his eyes on me the whole time. I was lost, blank minded. I opened my eyes when he broke the kiss, and touched his lips, "They're like heaven..." I whispered, and he blushed. I took note of what I just said and wiggled out from under him, clearing my throat. "We should get going." We both stood up and walked into the temple, red faced.
I looked around for a bit, only to run up the stairs in full panic. "Nabooru? Nabooru?!" Where could she be, did Twinrova get to her?. Link quickly stood beside me, sword in hand.
"Nabooru isn't here. She should be here by this time." I was worried about her mostly because she was a sage, we needed her. "Maybe she forgot or she's off on another theft hunt." I shook my head.
"Well we can't wait, either way." Link quickly put on the silver gauntlets. "Push that block over there." I told him, pointing to a large block in the wall that blocked the passage for us, it had a crescent moon design on it, and something else I couldn't really make out. He pushed the block slowly, but he got it far each step. When he got far enough, the block sank into the floor and became part of it. I looked into the next room, trying to remember how I did this. I looked around a bit and nodded.
There was a Beamos in the center platform, a spike going around it. There was a chained door behind the Beamos, two sets of stairs on either side of it leading to barred doors. Link plucked out a bomb and lit it, how he did it was a mystery. He threw it at the Beamos, knocking it's head off and blowing up it's body, it's head blowing up before it hit the ground.
"Good, hit that switch up there." He looked up at the ceiling, an upside down diamond shaped switch hung from it. Link took out his hookshot at hit his target, opening barred doors on either sides of the room.
We hurried through the right door, a giant gap blocked us from the other side in this room. I saw a Triforce sign on the floor. We slowly stepped near it, it seemed odd that it was empty around here, until a Wolfos suddenly appeared from the floor in front of us, scaring us both to death. The Wolfos ran to the safer ground by the wall, where death wasn't behind him and slashed it's claw at Link, though he sidestepped out of the way, leaving me open to the sudden tackle the Wolfos gave me. It whispered, "Traitor...", as it came close, "After what Lord Ganondorf did for you..."
It knocked me down hard on the ground, dragging me toward the edge with the momentum. I gasped, watching the quicksand now beneath my head. I turned back to the Wolfos and kicked it in the stomach, throwing it a foot in the air. The Wolfos dug it's claws into my back to hold on, but it flew over my head, sinking into the sand almost rapidly. I hissed, "Son of a-" the claw marks on me stung.
Link quickly caught hold of my ankles as I slipped half way over the edge, and pulled me up. "That damn pest, are you hurt?" he asked, I shook my head. He walked away from me and inspecting the mark on the floor. I sighed and took this time to close the claw wounds on my back.
Link stood over the Triforce and played Zelda's Lullaby and a chest appeared across the room. Link used his hookshot to get to it and open it, a compass in it. "Woopdy doo." I always despised those bastard compasses. Going through so much in a temple just to get a damn compass?! Screw that, I have walkthroughs.
Link stood there, looking for a way to get back. There was a way to climb on the side of the ledge, but judging by the fact that the pit was deeper and scarier looking up close, not to mention how fast the Wolfos sank-why were there steps on the damn wall then? "Try the Hover Boots!" I yelled, as I realized we were at least six feet apart.
He pulled out the boots from his invisible sack and slipped them on, got a head start, ran, glided, rolled, and fell, barely grabbing onto the edge. He pulled himself up and brushed away sand on his hands. "Are you okay?" I asked him quietly, he nodded. He walked ahead and out of the room, as I stared at the sand pit, and thought about what the Wolfos had said. I knew what he meant, and he surely wasn't the first one to call me a traitor.
We entered the left room now, it was full of giant rolling rocks and silver rupees. We scattered to avoid the rocks and grab at the rupees, I got stuck in a few of the holes that the rocks were rolling back and forth in, it was not comfortable. After the last rupee, I was beat up a bit. I couldn't blend with the shadows to hide, not with Link around.
A door on the other side of the room was now accessible. We hurried through only to find a small chest. I hated when the game did that, too. I watched Link as he pulled a key out of the chest, and I could have sworn I heard the "DUH DUH DUH DUUUUUU" song in the distance. "Huh, weird." I said to myself. We left the room just as a Like Like fell from the ceiling. We opened a locked door in the middle of the Beamos room and went through.
We went through a small hall way and up a wall, the room there had little sleeping suns decorating the walls in a curved line, a snake statue mirror in the center. "Hm, If I remember correctly, we have to get the mirror to reflect light on these suns, but only one of them is the-" I stopped, suddenly being grabbed by what felt like on invisible hand and being slammed on the walls, going higher every time. After my head impacted with the walls about three times, I was sure everything was spinning. "What's going on?!" Shouted Link. "Look for the truth..." I last said before colliding with the ceiling, and loosing feeling. "You monsters are really against me, rather than the Hero, like you should be." I growled at the invisible hand. "Only out of jealousy, my Queen." I heard it say before everything went black.
When I began to open my eyes, the first thing I noticed was Link. He was carrying me over small ledges to a locked door. "Link?" I whispered. He turned to me, looking relieved. "You're awake! I thought you would never open you're eyes." He held me closer, I looked at him in question, "Why would you think that?" He looked pained, "Your head was bleeding and you weren't breathing, you've been out for a long time. Navi told me to just abandon you, but I couldn't." I smiled at him. "Thanks for that." He didn't let me down, however. "Hm, a Green Clad Prince." I said, smiling at Link, he blushed as he unlocked the door.
Two Beamos were keeping watch on a wall with moving panels, spikes covered it's ends. Link set me down and threw bombs at both Beamos, blowing them up. "Don't waste your time with that wall." I said, standing up like a drunk old woman. "You can just hookshot to the top." And that's what we did. Link grabbed onto me. I blushed. He took out two more Beamos once we got up, and went through the door ahead, me at his heels. There was barred door ahead and a staircase to the left. The door infront of us had the triforce marked on the floor in front of it. Link played Zelda's Lullaby, the bars lifted and we went through.
There were little goopy things covered in fire slithering around the floor, Link took them out quickly. There were also doors, many doors on the walls, and a golden-blue chest being protected by fire, an ice block floating over it. "The doors are all fake just blow them all up." I said. So he started throwing bombs around, explosion after explosion. It wasn't until the last door exploded that we noticed a switch had been behind the third door.
Link shot the switch with an arrow and a second block of ice appeared, right under a hookshot target. Link went up and stepped on a switch on the first block, the fire around the chest disappeared, and I went in and opened it, taking the Boss Key from inside. "Okay, now all we need to do is find the door to those hags." I growled.
After a few more obstacles and mirrors, we were in front of the boss door. "I thought this temple was easy, I guess I forgot." I panted. Link was just as tired, "I was expecting it to be easy too." He opened the Boss door and we stepped in. The room was carpeted red, pillars following the carpet, Twinrova floated in front of something, blocking it from our view.
"You made it, Hero of Time." Said Koume. I stepped out from behind Link and glared at them, "What did you do to Nabooru, you damn hags!" They both gasped. "You, you're that witch from before!" Said Kotake, "But you're older, seven years to be exact." said Koume. Link stared at me, "What do they mean witch? I thought you guys hid behind the statue when they came it." The twin hags let out a screechy laugh. "Is that what she told you? My dear Hero, that girl-" I threw a rock at Kotake, "Shut up! Don't you DARE tell him anything!"
They laughed again, "We don't want to waste our time anyway, we have a surprise for you!" They left through the door behind them, leaving a heavily armored Iron Knuckle to us.
"Crap." I said, as it stood up and shook it's fists, groaning. It looked surprised and looked side to side, a giant axe suddenly appeared in it's hands, and it groaned again. Link and I separated, hiding from it behind pillars. I took Link's Megaton Hammer with me, we took turns hitting the Iron Knuckle, it's armor was weakening for sure. It was my turn now. I ran behind the Iron Knuckle and smashed the Megaton Hammer against it, the helmet broke off.
Link came out and stood next to my frozen self. All of the Iron Knuckle's armor soon fell off, and Nabooru fell to her knees. "Huh, wh-where am I?" The twin hags came back. "Oh, Koume, it seems she snapped out of it." Kotake laughed, "I think we have to brainwash her a bit more." Nabooru got up and ran right past us, I tried to reach out for her, but she vanished in a flash of light. The twin hags vanished into the next room over.
I growled and ran through the door, Link followed me. We climbed up the edge of a giant platform and walked towards the middle. "Look at these stupid kids! They came all the way here just to offer themselves as sacrifices to the great Ganondorf...."
The hags rose from the ground.
"With my flame, I will burn them to the bone!" Said Kotake, her hair set on fire.
"With my frost, I will freeze them to their souls!" Said Koume, her hair turning to crystal ice.
"Link, there's nothing I can do here, but oh how I wish to hurt them!" He smiled, "I could lend you the Master Sword." I almost jumped three feet when he held it out to me, "No! I..I mean I can't, the Blade of Evil's Bane was only meant to be used by the Hero of Time." I used as an excuse.
For some reason, the light I knew resided in the Master Sword, frightened me.
The battle began smoothly, I stood on a platform away from the center field, directing Link to reflect Twinrova's attacks at the opposite sister, rather than the one attacking, with his mirror shield. Sometimes they literally walked into it, too easy. After a few hits, they got angry. "Enough with these games!" "It's time to get serious!" I jumped to the battle platform and ran to Link's side. "Be ready." The wrinkle sisters spun around each other, getting closer and closer, until they pretty much smooshed together, forming a young but overly make-upped woman. She was wearing a white Gerudo uniform and held a small rod in her hand, Twinrova's separate icy and fiery hair became twin tails for the woman. She smiled brightly and winked at us.
I gagged. "Great Jesus, what has science done?" I said, Link gave me a strange look. "Who did what?" I shook my head.
The new Twinrova only three flashes of ice and fire at us, randomizing the element. "Try to hit the same element three times with your shield, then bounce it back." One blast of ice, the mirror shield was flashing light blue. Two, the flashing was faster. One of fire, we dodged it. She threw one more blast of ice, Link jumped for it and hit it with his shield, the flashing grew rappid. Link ran towards the floating lady and bounced the ice her way, she flew back and fell to one of the surrounding mini platforms. "Go for it!" Link ran to her and slashed her once, twice, three times, then stabbed.
Twinrova let out a cry and floated to the center platform, dangling in midair. She spun around and split into the two witches, they floated a foot over the center of the platform, a bright light came down over them and halos appeared over their heads. They started talking a bit, then yelling, then screaming at each other about who was older or younger, but I ignored them completely. "We'll be back!!" They yelled as they floated upward. "In the sequel." I scoffed, laughing at them slightly.
I sighed and turned to Link, "Looks like we're finally done here." The portal in the distance appeared for us. "I guess we should go, Nabooru is waiting." I said quietly. We stepped into the portal, quickly being encased by the crystal. "Good job, Link." I whispered. He threw his arms around me, and I did the same to him, as the familiar white light blinded us.
Okay! Done, yay! I will try to split the originally one full chapter into the two next, because I didn't write as much as I wanted to for this chapter. I didn't want to keep anyone waiting, and I got a new review! Yay, thank you so much, I appreciate the good comment! Look forward to the next chapters my loyal readers.