The Legend of Zelda: The Sage of Time

by himeguchii

this story takes place during the period in Hyrule warriors when the wind waker crew get thrown into the mix. this story is about what happens to link when the two dimensions are clashed together and how he ends up in the past. The story is better than the summary i promise. minor spoilers in hyrule warriors, but not much. i hope you enjoy.

14. Chapter 13 the shadow temple

Chapter 13: The shadow temple.

Link woke up with Kai sprawled out all over him. Link tried to move Kai, but Kai kicked him in response. Link's eye twitched, he then kicked Kai out of bed, surprisingly not wakening him. Link got out of bed and stepped over Kai, he then headed down stairs. He sniffed the air and could smell bacon and eggs cooking on the stove. He looked into the kitchen and surprisingly not, Anju was cooking. He then heard some shuffling and saw Kai sluggishly walking down the stairs.

"Morning, Kai." Link greeted. Kai only hummed in response. He then sniffed the air and awakened from his sleeping state.

"I smell *sniff* *sniff* bacon and eggs!" Kai cried out. Link laughed as Kai ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Link saw Sari and Cecily talking on the dining table and walked over to them to join their chat.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Kai had asked if he could help cook.

"Can I help? I want to cook Link something because he has helped me through the hard times and without him, I wouldn't have made it this far." Anju smiled and nodded her head. Kai beamed and grabbed an egg and smashed it into the pan after Anju put its contents onto a plate. Anju cringed as she saw the egg shells inside the yolk. Anju was about to assist Kai, but he stopped her, claiming he could do it himself. Anju nodded and went to check up on Link and the two fairies. Link turned and saw that Anju had walked out of the kitchen.

"Morning, Anju!" Link greeted.

"Morning Link, Sari and Cecily." Link looked around for Kai.

"Where's Kai?" Anju pointed to the kitchen.

"He's cooking!" Sari and Cecily then turned pale and gasped. Link looked at them in confusion.

"Kai's cooking?" When Anju nodded, Sari and Cecily looked at each other and quickly rushed to the kitchen, but before they could reach it, an explosion was heard. Link, Anju, Sari and Cecily rushed into the kitchen and saw Kai covered in smoke with a plate of burnt eggs and a bacon strip that seemed a little too crispy. Kai turned around and smiled.

"Oh, hey guys! Link, I made you breakfast as thanks for helping me!" Kai pushed the burnt bacon and eggs into Link's hands. Link looked at the breakfast and gulped. He then gave Kai a nervous smile and walked to the dining table and sat down. He looked at Kai and when he saw Kai's smile, he sighed and grabbed a spoonful of burnt egg. Sari and Cecily looked at Link nervously as he ate the burnt egg. Link froze and dropped the spoon, he started coughing heavily and passed out.

"Link!" Anju, Kai, Sari and Cecily surrounded Link as he fell off the chair. Next thing Link knew was that he was awake in bed. He looked around and saw his sister.

"Aryll?" Link's vision then cleared and he saw Anju hovering over him. He looked behind her and could see Sari and Cecily scolding Kai as he sat on his knees and bowed his head in apology. Link then got up. "What happened?"

"You passed out due to Kai's cooking." Anju explained.

"Oh, that's right." Kai and the two fairies saw that Link was awake and ran to him.

"Link, you're awake!" Kai cried and jumped on Link, suffocating him in a hug. Link tried to push Kai off.

"C-can't breathe!" Kai apologized and got off him. Anju smiled and went down stairs to serve breakfast. Link and Kai followed Anju downstairs and set up the table. Kai looked around for Kafei, but couldn't see him.

"I don't see Kafei, where is he?" Anju walked in with a few plates of perfectly cooked eggs and bacon and set the plates in front of Link and Kai.

"Kafei usually gets up early for work." She then walked into the kitchen and grabbed some salad for the two fairies and a plate of eggs and bacon for herself. They said their prayers and started eating breakfast. Once they were finished, Anju took the plates and started washing them. Link and Kai went outside to get their dry cloths. They then ran into the bathroom to get changed, they walked out and put the cloths they borrowed into the wash basket. They ran upstairs and grabbed their things and ran back downstairs to Anju, who had finished washing the dishes and was drying her hands. "Are you boys heading out now?" Link and Kai nodded their heads.

"Yep, we're heading to the graveyard." Link claimed. Anju looked at them sceptically.

"Why on earth would you want to play in the graveyard?" Link and Kai only smiled, Anju sighed and shook her head. She then hugged the two boys, surprising them both. "Be careful, alright?" Link and Kai nodded their heads and waved goodbye to Anju, they then made their way to the graveyard. Inside the graveyard, Link and Kai saw two poes floating about. Kai quickly dispatched of them and watched as they turned into little purple flames. Kai then looked up towards the ledge.

"Um, how are we going to get up there?" Kai questioned. Link thought about it and then had an idea. He gestured for Kai to follow him and walked towards the ledge. He stood in front of the ledge and crouched down.

"Get on my shoulders and look at the ledge. That way, we should be able to teleport there." Kai nodded and climbed onto Link's shoulders. Link carefully lifted Kai up, Kai had had a full view and could see a pedestal with a weird purple marking. He then gestured for Link to put him down. Kai muttered Farore's wind and teleported him and Link to the top of the ledge. Link and Kai then walked towards down the steps and saw a gate with a weird symbol on it that resembled and eye with a tear drop on it. On the ground was a ritual circle and a dozen of torches surrounding the circle. Link and Kai looked towards the giant stone door.

"What's that symbol for?" Kai questioned.

"That symbol represents the Sheikah tribe, a tribe of shadow that once served the royal family. The tear is a symbol of their sadness because the royal family betrayed them." Cecily explained.

"How come I haven't heard of this tribe before?"

"Because they all perished a long time ago and the few Shiekah that exist are located in unknown places." Kai nodded in understanding and looked at the torches around him.

"So, do I light the torches or something?' Link nodded his head.

"Couldn't hurt to try." Kai nodded and gestured for everyone to step back. Once they did, Kai summoned a sphere of fire and lit the torches all at once. This caused the stone door to slide open and reveal the entrance to the shadow temple. Link looked on with determination and courage, Kai gulped and shivered with fear. They then walked into the shadow temple. Inside was a dark pit and a target. Kai looked down into the deep dark abyss and turned pale.

"Do not wanna fall down there." Kai muttered. Link aimed his long shot at the target and pulled himself to the other side of the abyss and climbed onto the ledge. Kai tried to teleport to the other side, but nothing happened. Link looked over to Kai.

"What's taking so long?" Kai looked at Link in panic.

"I-I can't seem to use any of my powers! The darkness in this temple must be so great that I can't even use my magic!" Link looked at Kai in shock.

"Well you're going to have to use the long shot to get over here." Kai shook his head furiously.

"N-no way! I'll fall!" Link sighed and used the long shot to get to the side Kai was on. Kai grabbed onto Link as he aimed the long shot.

"You will have to grab onto the ledge, understood?" Kai nodded and Link fired, the long shot brought Link and Kai to the other side. Link and Kai grabbed the ledge and pulled themselves up. Kai panted as he held his hand over his chest. He then heard a whisper. The Shadow will yield only to the one with the eye of truth, handed down in Kakariko village. Kai shakily took out the lens of truth and looked through it. He saw that the wall in front of him was corporeal and went through it, Link followed him. On the other side of the corporeal wall was a room with a torch, five skulls and a sign. Link and Kai walked over to the sign and read it. Only one who has sacred feet can cross the valley of the dead.

"Only one who has sacred feet can cross the valley of the dead? What does that mean?" Link muttered. Kai turned around.

"W-well I don't have sacred feet, so I guess we should get going." As Kai was walking towards the exit of the temple, Link grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.

"So, in other words, you're saying we should just give up?" Link asked as his bangs covered his eyes. Kai looked around nervously.

"N-no, I'm just saying how we can't progress any further because I don't have sacred feet!" Kai explained. Link looked at him with a fire in his eyes.

"Don't have sacred feet!? Nonsense! I'll just throw you over there if I have to!" Kai shook his head and sweat dropped. He then looked through the lens of truth and noticed another corporeal wall.

"I see a door through that wall." Kai stated as he pointed to the door. Link nodded and followed Kai through the corporeal wall and through the door. In the next room as Link and Kai were walking, Kai heard another whisper. One who gains the eye of truth will be able to see what is hidden in the darkness. Kai decided to keep the lens of truth on his eye and looked around. Link and Kai explored the catacombs until Kai heard another whisper. Shadow temple….here is gathered Hyrule's bloody history of greed and hatred. Kai covered his ears and started shaking. Link noticed Kai's shaking and looked at him.

"What's wrong, Kai?"

"I can hear the poor souls trapped in this temple." Kai then heard more whispers. What is hidden in the darkness… tricks full of ill will… you can't see the way forward… Kai ignored the whispers and saw a door behind a corporeal wall. "I see another door." Link and Kai walked through the door and was met with a Redead in a small room. The exit was blocked by bars, so they couldn't get out. Link attacked the Redead and Kai shot down the two keese in the corner of the room. A chest then appeared after the monsters fell dead. Link opened the chest and took out a map. Link pocketed the map and walked out of the room with Kai following behind. They then walked through another corporeal wall, leading them further into the catacombs. Kai looked through the lens of truth and saw another door. Kai pointed to it and Link nodded, he and Kai walked through the door and saw six hands. Kai groaned. "Not another dead hand!"

"We'll use the same strategy as last time, okay?" Kai nodded and approached one of the hands.

"Please be gentle." Kai pleaded, one of the hands grabbed Kai and dead hand appeared. Link didn't waste any time and ran up to dead hand, he then cut through its neck and dismembered its head from its body. The dead hand fell to the ground, dead. The hands disappeared and Kai was freed. A chest appeared and Kai ran over to it to open it. inside was a pair of boots with wings on them. Kai looked at them in confusion and looked to Cecily and Sari for an answer, the two fairies shrugged. Link walked over to Kai and looked inside the chest, he saw a note. Link picked up the note and read it out loud.

"The hover boots. With these mysterious boots, one can hover above the ground." Link put on the boots and slipped. Kai and Sari laughed at Link and he gave them a glare. Link took off the boots and put them in Kai's satchel.

"We should head back to the room with the pit. I think those boots are what the sign was referring to when it said 'sacred feet'" Cecily claimed. Link and Kai nodded and walked back to the room with the sign and the five skulls. Kai and Link looked at the gate with the tongue and saw that it was closed.

"How are we going to get in there?" Link questioned. As Link was looking around, Kai went to lean on the bird statue when he suddenly heard a voice. Make my beak face the skull of truth. Kai jumped away from the statue. He then looked at Link.

"Did you hear that?" Link shook his head. "The statue spoke! It said 'Make my beak face the skull of truth!"

"The skull of truth?" Link then turned towards the five skulls surrounding the statue. "Try using the lens of truth." Kai looked through the lens of truth and saw that all of the skulls were corporeal, except for one.

"Not all of the skulls are real! The second one on the left is real, the others are fake."

"What happens if we get it wrong?" Sari asked. Kai listened to the statues whispers and turned pale.

"The alternative…..is descent into deep darkness." Link, Sari and Cecily turned pale.

"We'd better pick the right one." Sari stated.

"Agreed." Link and Cecily agreed. "Kai, while Link is pushing the statue, you're going to have to guide him to the right skeleton." Kai nodded and Link started to turn the statue's beak. Once he reached the second skull, Kai told him to stop. Not long after, they all heard a gate opening and looked to the gate with the tongue. Link and Kai ran to the edge of the valley of the dead and looked towards the gate.

"How are we going to get us both there?" Kai asked. Link scratched his head in thought until he thought of an idea.

"One of us could go first and then hand a boot each to Sari and Cecily to give to the next person."

"That sounds good." Sari commented.

"Wait, wait. What if the boots don't work!?" Kai questioned. Link waved Kai off.

"I'm pretty sure they'll work. I'll go first and show you." Link equipped the hover boots and ran over the dark pit to the other side. Link turned around and did a 'see?' gesture. Kai rolled his eyes. Sari and Cecily grabbed the boots from Link and handed it to Kai. Kai put the boots on and looked into the pit and gulped. He stepped back for a running start, then ran as fast as he could across the dark pit. Kai ran into Link, knocking the both of them down. Link grinned at Kai as he was panting. "See? Told you it would work!" Kai nodded and shakily got up.

"I hate this temple." Kai claimed as he started walking down the tunnel with Link following behind him. at the bottom of the tunnel was a beamos and three dirt filled pathways. Link took out a bomb and threw it at the beamos, blowing it up. Kai then put the lens of truth to his eye and saw that two of the dirt filled pathways were corporeal. "The pathways on the left and right are fake, the one in the middle is real." Link nodded and placed a bomb in front of the real pathway. The bomb exploded and revealed a locked door.

"Damn, it's locked. We'll need a key." Sari stated. Cecily pointed towards the left pathway.

"Let's go through there." Link and Kai walked through the corporeal wall and through the door. In the next room, Link and Kai saw a statue turning with blades pointed outwards and some silver rupees. Link and Kai sighed.

"Not this again." Link groaned. Link and Kai then started to collect the silver rupees. Link had to use the long shot to grab the last silver rupee, a chest then appeared. Link and Kai dodged the spinning blades and ran over to the chest and found a key.

"Great! Now that we have the key, we'll be able to get through that locked door!" Cecily exclaimed. Link and Kai headed back to the previous room and unlocked the locked door, then walked through it. On the other side if the door was a hallway, Link and Kai travelled through the hall way until they were stopped by a skulltula. Link calmly took out is long shot and shot the spider down. As Link and Kai progressed through the hallway, they were stopped by two more skulltulas, which Link took down swiftly. Link and Kai then jumped down a ledge and saw two guillotines. Link and Kai turned pale.

"Why would they even have something like this in a temple!?" Kai overreacted. Link shrugged and ran through the first guillotine. Kai shook his head and ran after Link. Link and Kai narrowly dodged the second guillotine. Link and Kai then continued down the hall way until they reached another set of guillotines, except these ones were much faster.

"We've got to be more careful with these ones." Link stated. Kai nodded in agreement. Link and Kai waited for the perfect timing and ran through the guillotine. The second one was a bit slower than the previous one and they went through without too many troubles. The third one had the same speed as the first one. Link and Kai dodged the guillotine and landed on a platform. Then out of nowhere, a stalfos appeared. Link and Kai circled the stalfos and attacked it from both sides. The stalfos blocked Link's attack with its shield, but left itself open to Kai's attacks. Kai slashed the stalfos across the back using the sword of time. The stalfos screamed in pain, it then turned around and slashed at Kai. Kai used both of his swords to block the oncoming attack while Link slashed at the Stalfos's back. The stalfos screamed in pain and went to slash at Link until Kai kicked it off the edge and into the abyss.

"Nice one!" Sari cheered.

"Heh, heh." Kai smiled bashfully. Link and Kai then looked towards a platform that was being raised and dropped by chains.

"We should jump onto that platform when the chains pull it up." Link suggested. Kai nodded. Link and Kai waited for the platform to drop and when the chains pulled the platform up, Link and Kai jumped onto the platform. Link and Kai then jumped to the next bit of land and saw a guillotine on the right and two spike traps going around in a circle with a beamos in the middle. Littered on the ground are silver rupees, Link and Kai dodged the spikes and collected the silver rupees until a gate opened. Link and Kai walked through the short hallway until they reached a room that had spikes lifting and falling.

"We'd have to be very quick to get past those things!" Kai stated. Cecily shook her head.

"No matter how fast we are, we still wouldn't be able to get past those things with the way they fall. It simply doesn't give us enough opening!" Cecily stated. Link looked around and noticed that one of the walls looked different to the others.

"Hey, Kai. Use the lens of truth and look at that wall." Link ordered. Kai looked through the lens of truth and at the wall.

"I see a block!" Kai claimed. Kai put down the eye of truth and he and Link pulled the block out of its place.

"With this, we should be able to block those spikes!" Sari exclaimed. Link and Kai started pushing towards the spikes, preventing the spikes from piercing Link and Kai. Once they got to the centre point, Link and Kai ran around to the other side and started to pull the block towards them, until Kai saw a chest in a cell. Kai ran over to the chest, making their progress stop.

"Kai, what are you doing!?" Link yelled out.

"I saw a chest!" Kai then opened the chest and saw a bundle of arrows. Kai picked up the bundle and put them in his quiver. He then ran back over to Link and continued pulling the block towards him. Link and Kai climbed the block once they couldn't pull the block any further and ran across the spikes roof. Link and Kai could see a chest on the right and a switch on the left. Kai ran over to the chest while Link stepped on the switch. Link could see a chest fall in the corner of the room, Kai opened the chest and saw five rupees. He frowned and pocketed the rupees. Link and Kai then jumped onto the second spike's roof and almost fell off when it dropped suddenly. Link and Kai jumped to the chest once the spikes lifted. Link opened the chest and found a key. Link pocketed the key and headed back to the previous room with Kai in tow.

"Do you see any doors that would require a locked key?" Cecily asked. Link looked around and saw a locked door across the abyss.

"Yeah, but I don't see any way to get to it." Kai equipped the lens of truth and saw a platform across from the guillotine and another platform travelling from left to right.

"I see a platform over there!" Kai stated as he pointed to the said platforms. Link followed Kai as he jumped onto the invisible platforms while dodging the guillotine. Link and Kai then jumped onto the travelling platform and then to the locked door. Link unlocked the door and walked into the next room. In the next room, Kai could hear moaning from his left and right and saw two Redeads. Kai froze up and turned pale. Link patted Kai's shoulder.

"Don't worry, I've got this." Link then started walking towards the Redead on the left until he ran into something sharp. "Ow! What the-?" Link looked in front of him and didn't see anything. Kai equipped the lens of truth and saw invisible spikes.

"Be careful, Link! There are invisible spikes everywhere!" Kai warned. Link nodded and carefully manoeuvred around the spikes under Kai's guidance. Link then disposed of the Redead and moved onto the other while grabbing some silver rupees on the way. Link swiftly killed the Redead and gave Kai the OK signal. Kai manoeuvred around the spikes and went to Link and collected the rest of the silver rupees. The bars to the door on the left lifted, Link and Kai went to the door and opened it. In the next room was a huge skull with a spike trap in front of it. Link and Kai climbed up the ledges and looked into the skull and saw blue flames.

"Woah, I wonder if those blue flames are ice flames." Link wondered.

"Who knows, only one way to find out." As Kai said this, he picked up a bomb flower and through it into the skull. Link, Sari and Cecily looked at Kai as if he were nuts.

"You idiot! What the hell did you think you were going to accomplish by doing that!?" Sari yelled. Not a moment later after she said that, the skull exploded, revealing a key. Kai grinned at Sari as she had her mouth wide open, she then closed her mouth and looked at Kai.

"Say another word and those will be the last words you will ever say." Kai gulped, Link hopped off the edge and picked up the key, he then left the room with Kai following behind. Link looked up at the locked door and saw no way of getting up there. He then turned to Kai.

"Can you use the lens of truth to see if there is some kind of target that the long shot can latch onto?" Kai nodded and looked through the lens of truth, he looked up and could see a target just above the door.

"I see a target up there!" Link nodded and aimed the long shot at the target, he then grabbed Kai and pulled them both up. In the next room was a hallway with spike traps and a fan. Link and Kai avoided the spike traps and continued down the hallway until the fan turned on and started blowing Link and Kai away.

"Woah!" Link and Kai yelled as they flew into the back of the wall.

"Oof!" Link and Kai fell onto the ground and looked at the fan. The fan then turned off. Link and Kai quickly ran past the fan and saw another. A skulltula then appeared in front of Link and Kai, Link disposed of the skulltula and ran past the fan before it could turn on. Link and Kai saw another fan on the other side of a pit. Above it was a wooden pillar. I could use that pillar to get across. Link then aimed the long shot at the wooden pillar and grabbed Kai. He then used the long shot to pull himself and Kai over the dark abyss, the fan then turned on, blowing Link and Kai away.

"Aaah! Link! hold on!" Kai shouted. Link tightened his grip on the long shot and held on until the fan turned off. Link and Kai dropped to the ground and ran to the next room. In the next room that had a narrow path with one fan on one wall and two fans on the other wall.

"You've got to be kidding me." Link groaned. Link and Kai then saw an eye above a door, Kai drew his bow and fired at the eye. Nothing happened. Kai looked at the eye in confusion.

"Nothing happened. Did I miss or something?" Kai questioned.

"The door's not locked so it doesn't matter too much. Let's just go to the next room." Link suggested and started running to the door. Kai followed after him. As Link and Kai were running, the eye above the door started shooting balls of fire. Link and Kai gasped and started dodging the balls of fire. They then quickly ran through the door just as the fans turned on. The next room consisted of two Redeads. Kai shivered and took out his swords as did Link. Link attacked the one on the left and Kai attacked the one on the right. With both Redeads slain, Link and Kai looked around the room and saw nothing.

"Well, this was a waste of time." Sari sighed. Link and Kai nodded and left the room. As they were making their way back to the room with the guillotines, a fan turned on and blew Link and Kai off the edge and into a corporeal room. Link and Kai screamed as they were flung to the side, when they landed, they sighed in relief.

"Whew, that was close!" Kai stated as he wiped some sweat from his forehead. Link nodded.

"Yeah, too close." Link then looked up and saw a door. "Hey, look Kai. A door!" Kai looked up and smiled. Link and Kai walked through the door. In the next room, there were two gibdos and two spike traps. Link and Kai dodged the spike traps and killed the Gibdos. After they killed the gibdos, a chest appeared. Kai ran over to the chest and opened it to find five rupees, he looked at the rupees in confusion and gave Link a questioning look. Link shrugged his shoulders and looked around the room. "Hm, I don't see any chests. Try using the lens of truth, there might be a hidden door or room." Kai nodded and looked through the lens of truth, he looked around and didn't see anything.

"I don't see anything." Kai stated. Link frowned and felt around the room.

"There's got to be something." He then saw a pile of dirt in the corner of the room and walked over to it. He brushed away the dirt which revealed a chest. He smiled and opened the chest and found a key. Link walked over to the door and unlocked it, he then opened it and walked through with Kai following behind. In the next room was a ship with bells at the bottom.

"Woah, look at this huge ship!" Kai exclaimed as he ran to the ship and looked at it in awe, Link shrugged his shoulders.

"Eh, it's not as big as the ship I've been on." Link stated. He then saw a ladder leading to the ship, but was too high to reach. He then saw a block and gestured to Kai to help him move the block. He and Kai moved the block and climbed up the ladder and onto the ship. On the ship, Link and Kai could see the triforce symbol.

"Play Zelda's lullaby." Cecily told. Kai put the ocarina to his lips and played Zelda's lullaby. The bells on the ship rang and the ship started moving forwards. Link looked around and felt the familiarity of being on a ship, Kai doubled over as a wave of nausea hit him. Link heard Kai groan and looked towards him.

"What's the matter, Kai? Do you have sea sickness?" Link asked. Kai nodded his head. Sari and Cecily sighed.

"Kai's never been good with moving vehicles." Cecily stated as Sari nodded her head. Link was about to comfort Kai, but was interrupted when a stalfos jumped onto the ship.

"Crap!" Link readied his sword and shield and fought against the stalfos. As he was fighting the stalfos off, another stalfos jumped onto the ship. Link looked at the second stalfos with panic in his eyes. "Dammit, another one!?" Link then turned to Kai. "Kai! I would really like your assistance right about now!" Kai responded with a groan and threw up over the side of the boat. Cecily used healing magic on Kai as Sari cringed. Sari then looked towards Link who was fighting off two stalfos. Sari then saw that one of the stalfos was near the edge, she fluttered her wings and pushed the stalfos of the edge. Link struck the last stalfos on the head, killing it. He then turned to Sari with a grateful look. "Thanks, you saved me." Sari huffed and turned away while blushing.

"W-well, I was only helping you because Kai was too useless!" Link laughed, he then felt the ship stop and start to shake.

"The ship is sinking! We need to get off here now!" Cecily cried out. Link gasped and grabbed Kai. He then jumped off the ship with Kai in his arms as the ship fell into the abyss. Link put Kai on the ground and rubbed his back.

"You okay, buddy?" Link asked. Kai nodded and wiped his mouth.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine. Just a little motion sick." Kai stated. He then got up and pointed to a door. "We should go through that door and see what we can find." Link nodded and walked through the door. In the next room, Link and Kai could see handful of floor masters. (AN: Ha! See what I did there!?) Link walked towards one of the floor masters with his blade drawn, he then ran into something.

"Ow, what the?" Link felt around and felt a sturdy surface. "There's something here!" Kai looked through the lens of truth.

"It's a wall." Kai stated. Link groaned and followed Kai through the invisible maze, defeating the floor masters on the way. Link and Kai eventually stopped at a door. Kai took out the map and looked at it. "According to this map, there are three other doors."

"Then one of these doors must hold the big key!" Link exclaimed. Kai nodded and walked into the first room. In the next room was nothing, but pots. Link and Kai were about to leave until something hit Link, knocking him over.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Kai and Sari laughed at Link as he tried to get back up, but kept getting knocked over. He then glared at Kai and Sari.

"Will you two idiots stop laughing and help me!?" Link shouted. Kai and Sari's laughs died down and Kai looked through the lens of truth. He saw a floor master and pointed to it.

"It's an invisible floor master!" Kai exclaimed. Link took out his sword and disposed of the floor master. A chest then appeared, Link ran over to the chest and opened it to find a silver key. Satisfied, Link and Kai left the room and headed towards the next. In the next room, there were wooden spiked walls that were closing in on them.

"Oh, no! The spiked walls are closing in on us!" Cecily panicked.

"Don't worry, leave this to me! Gather around me!" Kai ordered. Link, Sari and Cecily gathered around Kai as he summoned a wave of fire. The fire spread to the stakes, burning them. Among the ashes, Link and Kai could see two Redeads that lay dead in front of a small chest and the chest holding the big key. Link ran over to the small chest and opened it to find five rupees, Kai ran over to the jewelled chest and took out the big key. Link and Kai cheered and headed back to the previous room. Kai then led Link and co to the exit.

"Hold on, Kai. What about the last room?" Link questioned.

"We've got what we need, we don't need to explore that last room. And besides," Kai looked at Link. "I have a feeling that we would have waisted our time." Link nodded in understanding and followed Kai through the door that led to where the ship sank. They then looked over to the other side of the chasm and looked at the locked door.

"How are we going to get to the other side?" Cecily questioned.

"I don't know, but Link and Kai definitely won't be able to use the hover boots to get to the other side." Sari stated. Link and co looked around to see if there was anything to use as a bridge. Kai then noticed a couple of bomb flowers blooming next to a stone pillar and got an idea. He drew his bow and fired an arrow at a bomb flower, causing it to explode and knock the pillar over towards Link and Kai. Link was looking at the pots until he noticed the pillar falling towards him, Link jumped out of the way just as the pillar fell where he was previously standing. Link then looked over to Kai who was cheering and fisting the air as he jumped in glee.

"Kai, what in Hyrule did you just do!?" Link asked, exasperated. Kai looked over to Link and smiled.

"I just created a bridge for us to get to the other side!" Kai stated proudly. Link sighed, then smiled. He and Kai walked over the newly formed bridge and unlocked the door. On the other side of the door was a room with the door leading to the boss monster of this temple and an abyss separating them from the door. Kai took out the lens of truth.

"Please let there be an invisible path." Kai prayed. He then looked through the lens of truth and saw a series of pathways. "Yes!" Kai cheered and walked along the pathways with Link following behind. Kai took out the big key and unlocked the door. On the other side, there was nothing but a hole. Link and Kai looked into the hole and gulped.

"That's an awfully long fall." Link stated. Kai nodded and grabbed Sari before she could push him.

"Ha!" Kai then slipped and fell into the hole. "Why!?" Kai screamed as he fell into the hole. Link looked into the hole and smacked his forehead. He then jumped into the hole. Link and Kai landed onto a giant bongo. Link and Kai bounced and landed on their behinds. Link and Kai shakily stood up.

"Good thing this giant bongo broke our fall!" Link exclaimed. Kai nodded.

"Yeah, but why is there a giant bongo in a place like this?" Kai questioned. Link and Kai then noticed giant hands and turned towards them, they gaped as they stared at the giant pair of hands.

"Holy shit! We've got to fight against that!?" Sari exclaimed. Cecily frowned at Sari.

"Sari, no swearing!" Cecily scolded. Sari gave Cecily a look. Kai looked at the hands and the bongo, he then got a gleam in his eyes.

"I've got it!" Kai announced.

"What is it, Kai?" Link questioned.

"You know how the monster plays the bongos?" Link nodded his head. "Well, what if it's is a music lover?"

"What?" Kai took out his ocarina and walked in front of the monster.

"Hello mister bongo bongo! Do you want to play some music with me?" The monster raised its hand and slammed down on top of Kai. The monster then raised its hand and revealed a flattened Kai. Kai shakily got up and walked to Link. "I was wrong, let's kill it." Link shook his head in disappointment and looked at the hand monster.

"There's got to be a weak spot somewhere." Link stated as he looked at the hands.

"Try looking at it with the eye of truth!" Cecily suggested. Kai nodded and looked at it with the eye of truth and gasped.

"I see an eyeball!" Kai stated.

"That eyeball must be the weak spot! Try shooting it!" Link explained. Kai shook his head.

"I can't! It has its eye shut!"

"Then try shooting at its hands and see what that does!" Kai nodded and shot at both of the hands as the hand monster was making an attempt at grabbing Kai. The monster screamed in pain and opened its eye. Kai aimed at the eye and shot at it. The hand monster screamed again and crashed onto the ground, now visible to Link. Link ran to the hand monster and slashed at it across its eye, temporarily blinding it. The bongo bongo then smashed its hands down onto the giant bongo, making Link and Kai go flying in the air. Link and Kai landed back on the bongos with a 'thud'. Link and Kai groaned and looked back at the monster. The monster made a grab for Link and Kai, but missed Kai and only grabbed Link.

"Link!" Kai, Sari and Cecily shouted. The monster started to squeeze Link as he banged his fist on the monster's hand, trying to force it to let him go.

"Aaaaargh!" Link screamed in pain as the monster squeezed him. Link then coughed up blood as his wound re-opened. Kai gasped and drew his bow. He lit the arrow on fire and fired at the bongo bongo. The monster screamed in pain and dropped Link. Kai then shot at the monster's eye, temporarily blinding it and rushed over to Link.

"Link! Are you okay!?" Kai shouted as he dropped beside Link. Link coughed up a bit more blood and held his hand over his wound. Kai could see the blood seeping through his clothing and gasped. "Link, your wound has opened up!" Link looked up at Kai and smiled.

"I-I'm *cough* *cough* o-okay. *cough*" Link coughed up more blood as Kai looked at him. Link then passed out.

"Link! Wake up, please!" Kai kept shaking Link, hoping for him to wake up, but he didn't. Link laid there, lifeless. Kai's eyes widened, he put his head on Link's chest. He didn't hear a heartbeat. Out of desperation, Kai laid Link on his back and started to give Link CPR. Kai blowed air into Link's system and pushed on his chest. Tears then started to roll down his eyes. "He's not waking up! Cecily, please do something!" Cecily shakily nodded and started to use her healing powers on Link. Sari turned around and saw that the monster had recovered.

"Kai! That thing is back!" Sari shouted. Kai looked at the monster and glared. He then stood up and summoned the swords of space and time. Kai then looked over towards the monster and gave it a death glare.

"It's time we ended this!" Kai shouted as he charged towards the monster. The bongo bongo slammed its hands at Kai, Kai dodged the oncoming attack by jumping on one of its hands. He pushed himself off and pierced the bongo bongo's eye. He then grabbed it and ripped it out. The bongo bongo screamed in pain and banged its fists on the giant bongo in a fit of rage. After its hissy fit, the bongo bongo turned to dust and disappeared into flames. A ball of light appeared and flew into Kai. Kai then ran towards Link, who was still unconscious. "How's he doing!?" Cecily sighed and looked at Kai.

"He will be fine. He seems to be in a slight coma though." Kai sighed in relief, then what Cecily said registered itself into Kai's mind.

"Wait, a slight coma!? How long will that last!?" Cecily shook her head.

"I don't know, but he needs rest." Kai was about to ask more questions when a cough from behind him caught his attention. Kai turned around and saw a woman with white hair and ruby red eyes like Kai's, she had white markings under her eyes and wore amour over her skin-tight body suit that went from her upper thighs to her broad shoulders. Kai's eyes widened when he realised that she was a sheikah. The lady had her arms crossed over her chest as she looked at Kai.

"We finally meet O sage of time. I am Impa, leader of the shiekas and the sage of shadow. You have done well in defeating the monster that raged in the temple of shadow." Impa praised. Kai looked down in sorrow.

"I didn't do it alone, Link deserves all the credit." Impa nodded her head in understanding.

"I see, as you know, I am here to inform you where you must head next, but you are not going to like it." Kai looked at Impa in confusion.

"Where do we need to go next?" Impa hesitated before answering.

"You must head to….the land where the Kitsune tribe was wiped out, the spirit temple in Gerudo valley." Kai's eyes widened at this.

"Gerudo… valley? But that's where…." Kai looked down in shock and trembled. Impa was about to comfort Kai, but started to disappear. Impa then looked at Link with a sad smile.

"That boy over there really does look like the hero of time." With those final words, Impa disappeared. Kai then looked over at Link and picked him up.

"Careful, Kai! Link's life may no longer be in danger, but he still needs immediate medical attention!" Cecily warned. Kai nodded.

"I know, that's why we're not going anywhere until Link is fully healed." Kai stated and teleported them out of the shadow temple and into Kakariko village.

AN: hello dear readers! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Some of you are probably hating on me right now for making Link injured, but I promise I will have the next chapter up very soon! See ya!