"Hello Mr. Lionking!" Ed called when they returned to their boat, completely forgetting who voiced it. "Eds, listen well. The fact that the Mastersword lost the power to repel evil suggests to me that something has happened to the sages who infused the blade with the gods' power."

"Sages?" Eddy asked, sewing his shirt back together from where Tetra's blade had split it, "You never said nothing about no sages!"

"That's "anything about any," Eddy." Double d corrected, "You were saying?"

"The sages should be here in Hyrule, in the Wind temple to the north and the Earth temple to the south, praying to the gods."

"Spices can pray to gods?" Ed asked as the boat continued

"You must head to the two temples to see what has happened to the sages and attempt to find a way to recover the power to repel evil."

"Well that shouldn't be too hard: find the sages, ask for their help, maybe even get some lemonade out of the de-"

"It would be easy, except it seems Gannon has blocked our path from down here in Hyrule to the temples."

"Then all is lost . . . unless . . ."

"You catch on quickly; Double d. there is another entrance to each temple on the mountain tops, which are now islands above the sea. I shall mark these places with your sea chart."

"In that case we should leave, before Gannon discovers our whereabouts." Double d finished as the three stepped into the hull of their boat and back into the over world.

While they sailed to the northern Wind temple, the king of red lions asked Double d what he knew about the legend of the hero. "I actually know a bit more about the legend than most people, then names of the people, places, lost races-"

"Do you know about the piece of triforce given to the hero?"

"He was given part of it too?"

"Yes, it was a Tri-force after all. His was the Triforce of courage

He guarded it well, just as well as Zelda did. But when he was called to embark on another adventure and leave Hyrule,"

"You can leave Hyrule?" Double d asked, not meaning to interrupt.

"Yes; there are many lands beyond this one, and it is my hope that one day you see them, when this tale is done. But when that happened he was separated from the Triforce, thus it split into eight pieces and scattered across Hyrule. Even I do not know where they rest, but they are somewhere in this great sea. The Triforce of courage will open the doorway to Hyrule again. You must find it."

"Me?! But I don't know the first thing about courage! My knees start to shake at the mere sight of a miniblin-"

"I've said it before my friend: Courage is not the absence of fear, just as wisdom is not the absence of ignorance and power is not the absence of weakness. They are merely resistances, ways of dealing with their opposites. Each of you holds courage, and wisdom, and power, but together it shines brighter than the Triforce itself."

"Mr. Lionhead is the Wind temple supposed to be gusty."

"Why yes, Ed. It is supposed to be quite gusty."

"I think we are here."

The entrance to the wind temple would probably look completely normal, if not for the giant octorok statue, whose breezes blew the trees and grass sideways. "Man, this thing blows hot air faster then Kevin and Gannon combined." Eddy smiled as the boat came to a stop, "Let's see what the sages haft to say about it." The Eds left the king of red lion's hull and climbed onto the wind temple's sandy shores, but as soon as their feet hit the grassland beyond the wind knocked them off the island and into the water. "Drat! Friends, I do believe the temple is currently in-accessible."

"In-accessa-? But what about the sage guy?"

"We could try the Earth spice-guy."

"I'm afraid that is our only option."

"COME ON ED; PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT!" Eddy called to Ed, who was trying to lift a huge stone head that blocked the path to the earth temple. Both the wind and earth temples were as far north and as far south as possible, respectively, so the Eds were close to outset at this time. "Geez, what's with this thing?"

"I'm afraid that judging by the size of this rock and its composition we'd need 50,000 joules of force to lift it, or the strength of everyone we've met thus far on our journey."

"We could throw a bigger rock at it!"

"Ed that would take even more force. For now I think we should try to find a way to obtain the strength to pass these thresholds."

"Sounds good. But first," Eddy dragged his friends back into their boat and charted a course north, "I've got a frog to pound."

Cyclos' cyclone spun wildly across the sea as the Eds prepared to do battle with him. "Remember Ed, sail beside the cyclone, not into it like last time."

"Gotcha Double d!" Ed replied, rigging the sails. Eddy pulled out several arrows from his quiver and loaded one into his bow, "This oughta fix 'em!"

"Are we ready?" Double d asked his two serious-faced friends, "Right then, let's proceed." The sails opened, and their boat sailed into the outer pull of the cyclone. Cyclos rose up from the depths chuckling, so high that the Eds could just barely see his face. Eddy took aim with his bow and fired many times, only occasionally missing. Finally Cyclos gave in, and he stopped his cyclone. He floated down to the water, showing that he was bigger than the stone head at the entrance of the Earth temple. "That's a heck of an arm you've got there!" he commended to Eddy.

"Oh, uh, thanks . . ." Eddy commented, turning from angry to confused as Cyclos changed to about the size of the king of red lions. "And what an eye! No one's ever been able to spot me in there before!"

"We could all see you!" Ed commented as Double d stepped forward.

"Mr. Cyclos, we are in quite a predicament. We need to gain entrance to the earth and wind temples, but both are blocked beyond reaching. Is there any way to reach them?"

"Indeed there is, young wind waker, but first you must obtain the power to cool the hottest fires and melt the coldest ice."

"Sounds neat!" Eddy smiled, "Where do we find it?"

"The power lies in side an island called mother and child's isle, but to get there you will need this power. Pay attention." Cyclos rose into the air on his cloud, and flew in four directions at once: Down, right, left and up. "Directions!" Ed shouted happily as Double d pulled out the wind waker, "now let's see . . ." He mumbled as he repeated the tune with the magical baton. "That tune's called the ballad of gales," Cyclos added when Doubled d finished it, "with it you can use my cyclones to go anywhere! See you down the road!" Cyclos blew away in a gust of wind, much like his brother, and the Eds never saw either of them ever again.

"Well let's see," Double d pulled out the sea-chart and checked it for mother and child isle, "it appears we can warp to several locations on the great sea, but very few are marked on our map."

"We should start looking for those fish-guys. Anyways, let's try that place first!" Eddy said, pointing to an island in the far corner of the map. Double d played the tune and chose the island when the map came up, and when he did a powerful cyclone lifted their boat into the sky, spinning them recklessly as it did so.

"Dizzy, I'm dizzy!" Double d stumbled around on the boat as they landed. "I think I'm gonna throw up!" Eddy moaned as he shook it off. The three stared at a pile of rocks in the center of a spring, where their boat floated currently. A small fairy flew amongst several purple sparks that turned into many. "Man this world is cool." Eddy whispered as the sparks concentrated into a thin stream, then burst; revealing a strange spirit. It looked like a young girl, about the same age as the Eds, but she was a pale blue, all except for her dress, hair, and pupil-less eyes, which were a light green. In her hands was a doll, one that looked like a great fairy. She chuckled lightly at them, then asked Eddy, "Tell me, little boy . . . can you control the wind?"

"Uhh, yeah, sorta . . . not as good as he can." He pointed his thumb at Double d, than asked him, "Double d, what is she?"

"I believe that is the Queen of the fairies, there are numerous stories about her powerful magic." The queen chuckled and began speaking again, "So young, to have such power. How did you know to find me here?"

"The giant frog-man we beat up told us!" Ed answered, smiling stupidly.

"Well, as your smart friend told you, I am the queen of the fairy world."

"And you think we're young!" Eddy said.

"What is the matter, my child? Does that not surprise you? Young ones . . ."

"I guess we expected you to be a bit . . . older." Double d added, while the fairy continued. "I like you. And so, I shall give new power to that bow you wield."

"Hey, just what we're looking for!" Eddy pulled out his bow and held it up, "So, how's this gonna work?" he asked, as the fairy queen held up her great-fairy doll, without touching it. Using her magic, she separated it into two fairies, one trailed by red sparks and the other by blue. "So, do they just pass through the-OW!" Eddy shouted as the blue one flew into his shoulder. "That was my udder, you stupi-OW!" he was interrupted by the red one doing the same to his other shoulder. "Eddy, your arrows are hot and cold!" Ed announced, juggling the burning and freezing arrows. "Ed, don't touch my stuff!" Eddy barked, placing the special arrows next to the normal ones.

The fairy queen floated down towards the boat, "Ice arrows can freeze the hottest flames, and fire arrows can melt the coldest ice."

"Now the only problem is connecting that back to our predicament at the temples." Double d wondered.

"The fairies in this fountain will ease your wariness. Use them as you need to."

"Will do!" Ed smiled real wide, as the fairy addressed Eddy, "Child, I must tell you, you are just my type!" she giggled, and everyone, even the king of red lions, noticed Eddy's blushing. "Yeah, sure ok." He mumbled as the fairy queen disappeared, "Can we get out of here now?" Double d warped them, which was still unpleasant, to dragon roost. The tune they heard coming from the island was different, but they ignored it so their minds could process the next step.

"Gentlemen, we have come far in locating the secrets of these temples." Double d commended as they landed in the great sea. "Yeah, but I don't think an arrow'll do much against those winds, or that giant head." Eddy admitted, "So now what."

"I can assume that the secret to getting past the obstacles we've seen lies in finding a treasure, most likely encased in fire and ice. The question now is finding these places." Double d thought about it a moment, before Ed pointed south, "What about that island that's on fire?" sure enough, steam was pouring off the face of this volcanic rock. "Brilliant Ed! Now, a coarse south, please."

"I will wake him up!" Ed shouted, opening the sails.

"Man, I'm sweltering over here!" Eddy complained, taking out an ice arrow. "I'm afraid if we got any closer, we'd combust!" Double d fanned himself with his hand. "Yeah, and we'd burn up, too!" the ice arrow sunk into a pillar of fire, which froze as promised. The island cooled drastically, but was still warm to the touch. "I'm afraid this cool spell can't last long; I suggest we raid the island and leave quickly." They climbed up the mountain quickly, avoiding the kragoroks as they could. Inside was a lake of lava, much like the inside of dragon roost cavern. The Eds crossed the cooled magma spots on the lava to the other side, each killing some fire keese along the way, and at the end, they also fought two magtails. "It's dragon roost all over again!" Eddy complained, dispatching of one final keese. "Help me guys!" Ed called, tugging at two golden braclets on his arms. "Ed? Where on earth did you get those?"

"They were in that box over there. I can't get 'em off!" He pointed to an open chest under a golden arch. "I don't remember a treasure chest." Eddy mumbled, looking inside the chest for more treasure, while Double d and Ed stepped near another stone head, much like the one at the entrance to the Earth temple. "Ed, I'm certain this is what we're looking for. Try lifting this." Ed's smiled, forgetting about the bands on his arms and raising the rock effortlessly, "I am Captain Ed! Strongest monster hunter in the universe!"

"Indeed you are, Ed. Now we should be able to at least investigate the Earth temple."

"Finally, no more messing around." Eddy sighed as the three stepped into a glowing light that would free them from the island's interior.

"All right Ed, remember to lift with your knees, not your back."

"But I thought I lifted stuff with my hands."

"Figure of speech, idiot. Just lift that rock." They made it back to the Earth temple quickly (Thanks to their ability to warp.), and now they could finally gain entrance. "Hup-hup!" Ed, shouted, lifting the rock and tossing it aside easily. The three stepped inside the temple, which was nothing more than two lit torches and a stone wall with markings on it. "Aren't temples a little more . . . I dunno . . . fancier?"

"Maybe they're closed for renovations?" Ed and Eddy wondered as Double d read the markings on the stone wall, "Earth god's lyric: Down, down, center, right, left, center. Sounds easy enough." He played the tune well, as the other Eds noticed. "Never thought we'd need the 6/4th thingy." Ed scratched his head when the song ended. When it ended, the mark of the triforce, which stood at the top of the door, began glowing with magic of old. "Perhaps there is more to this temple than this stone wall." Double d squinted at the glowing mark, as a gust of wind behind them alerted them that they were not alone.

"Why do you people keep materializing out of nothing?" Eddy asked, annoyed. Behind them stood a strange blue see-through humanoid, its hair and arms resembled fins and it was dressed in a purple gown and a golden headdress. In her hands she held a matching lyre. "It's our avatar, Double d!" Ed smiled at the ghostly creature. "Actually Ed, this is a Zora, But I thought they were extinct!" the ghost then spoke, "Oh great hero, chosen by the master sword. My name is Laruto."

"You mean like that one song with the cowboy?"

"That's Laredo, you idiot." Eddy roughly corrected as Laruto continued, "I am a Zora sage. For an age, I offered my prayers here in the earth temple, praying that the power to repel evil would ever remain in the master sword."

"You're the sage?" Double d asked, alarmed to see the person he was searching for dead, "How did this happen?"

"Unfortunately, due to Gannondorf's evil designs, the Master-sword you hold has lost its power."

"Stupid Gannon-dork." Eddy grumbled as the sage carried on, "After his defeat at the hands of the hero of time, Gannondorf was sealed away . . . but not for all time. He was revived, and he returned to Hyrule in a red wrath. He attacked this temple and stole my soul, knowing he had to remove the power contained in that enchanted blade."

"That fiend," Double d whimpered at the story, "I shudder to think of what would have happened if the Rito's had not saved us from him."

"In order to return the power to repel evil to your sword, you must find another to take my stead in this temple and ask the gods for their assistance."

"But who will be our avatar, misses Laredo?" Double d sighed, "Laruto, Ed."

"Chili is tasty!" Laruto answered Ed's question dutifully, "you must find the one who carries on my bloodline, the one who holds this sacred instrument. Nothing can stop the flow of time or the passing of generations . . . but the fate carried within my bloodline endures the ravages of all years. It survives. That song you just conducted is one which will open the eyes of the new sage and awaken within that sage the melody that will carry our prayer to the gods. The door that blocks your way can only be opened when the sage plays that song."

"So this wall is actually a door, who knew?" Double d asked rhetorically.

"May the winds of fortune blow with you." Laruto said as she disappeared. Then the Eds realized something important, "Laruto? You never told us who we were looking for!" Eddy called to a phantom that wasn't there.

Without a clear idea of who they were looking for, the Eds searched the great sea for Laruto's heir. Double d's approach of asking all the fishmen across the sea completed their map, but got them no answers. And while they got plenty of rupees, heart containers and item upgrades (Projectile weapons such as bombs and arrows now held 99 of each, and their wallet was greatly expanded.) no promising leads came up. In fact, major setbacks often found them in unlikely places . . .

"WE'RE NEVER GONNA FIND THAT STUPID SAGE!" Eddy shouted in frustration as they entered the auction house, home of the richest man in windfall. "Nonsense Eddy! We just haft to keep looking . . ." Double d turned around to an odd surprise: the poor man from Tingle's jail cell, standing in the finest clothes, looking disdainfully at them. "You there, halt!" he shouted hoarsely at the three heroes.

"My apologies for intruding sir, but would you happen to know where we can find-" Double d was interrupted by the now rich man.

"Oh, you're just some wretched street urchins. I thought you were post men."

"Urchins?!?" Eddy was deeply insulted, "I've got enough rupees to last a lifetime here!"

"Be thankful, because if you were postmen, I would have shooed you out of here before you could say "boo!"

"Boo? who?" Ed asked stupidly as the man continued, "But say . . . you look rather familiar for street urchins. Have we perhaps met before someplace?"

"Surely you must recognize us?" Double d offered, "From the day Ed inadvertently freed Tingle?"

"Yeah, you know . . . "Ed, monster hunter, WE GET IT, YOU'RE POOR!"

"Ah yes, you're the idiots who can't even rescue a little girl from a simple fortress. Those pirates, however could." Eddy burned up in anger, while the other Eds shrugged off this assumption, "Yes, Maggie has been returned safely to me, she's even managed to collect enough treasure to make us fabulously wealthy. If you wish, I'll let you speak to her." The man laughed creepily as the Eds stepped to where Maggie, now in an elegant dress stared sadly out a window.

"Oh, to think that I would survive my ordeal and return to this town," she mumbled, staring out her window, "and to think I would ever be able to live in such a beautiful, opulent house. It's like a dream come true!"

"Umm . . . excuse me, but we need to ask you somethi-"

"But no! NO! It's a nightmare! Without HIM by my side it's like a rainstorm raging inside my heart!"

"Ed, if we ever give out an award for the best interrupter of Double d, she wins." Ed whispered behind his hand.

"He was so kind to me in the Forsaken Fortress. That sweet boy who gave me all those expensive necklaces when I fled from that cursed island."

"That's funny . . . I don't remember any boys residing in the Forsaken fortress either time we were there."

"'Cept for us. And if anyone wants my treasure they'll haft to pry it from my cold, dead hands!"

"Just hearing his name lifts my spirits . . . Moe, the wonderful moblin from the forsaken fortress."

"Moblin?!?!?!?" the three Eds asked, shocked. It's fairly hard to fall in love with your captor, let alone when he's half-pig. "Are you quite certain it's wise to trust a moblin?" Double d almost said out loud, but stopped himself on the word "sure"

"Oh Moe! Why, Moe?" she whined awkwardly, "I'm always writing heartfelt letters with my overflowing emotions, but why don't you answer me, Moe?"

"Gee I dunno, maybe because he's half pig?" Eddy mumbled, but this time Double d said nothing. Suddenly she seemed to notice the Eds

"This is bad, oh terribly bad! I've already drifted off into my own dream world."

"She is not of this world, Guys!" Ed warned his embarrassed friends.

"Now then, we have a small inquir-"

"By the way, I have a request for you three. Could you take this letter I've just finished inking and deliver it to the postbox? Please? I beg of you!" the Eds were hesitant, all but Ed. "a friend in need is a friend we- uh, I forget the rest." Ed laughed, recklessly jamming the letter into his delivery bag. "The postbox, don't you dare forget! But you must promise not to read it, the secret of a girl's heart is only to be shared when she desires."

"Not to mention it is illegal." Double d pointed out as the three left, wary of the anti-postmen father. "Double d, what just happened?"

"I believe we are now part of a hidden love story between a girl we rescued from our sworn enemy and said enemy's minion. For charity."

"Oh. Remind me to kill Ed later."

Ed found the red postbox down the street, near where the King of red lions waited in the harbor. He ran back a few paces and jumped into the box, distorting its shape into his. "Hello? Hello?" he called before freeing his head from the box, "Yup, it's a mailbox!"

"Ed, that's not how a mailbox is used!" Double d scolded as Ed climbed out, "Now if you would be so kind as to dispense of the letter."

"Oh yeah!" Ed pulled out the crumpled letter and shoved it inside the almost-ruined box, "Now what?"

"Well, I was thinking that now, with this ethics-breaching deed done, we could either ask others around town or we could try asking the Maggie abode for hints about the whereabouts of Laruto's descendent."

"What, back to the snotty guy and his crazy daughter?"

"I'm afraid we're close to running out of leads."

"Following the leader, the leader, the leader, we're following the leader, wherever she may go!"

"Come on, Ed." Eddy grumbled as the three started asking people.

Finally after 24 hours they tried the Maggie residence again, only to come when an argument had begun, ". . . Honestly, you just don't understand, do you? Open your ears!" Pleaded a Rito postman to Maggie's father. "Silence! I'm telling you we don't allow postmen here! Begone, Begone!"

"Don't be ridiculous! I went through great trials and tribulations to go all the way to the Forsaken fortress and retrieve Moe's letter.

"SILENCE! Begone! Begone!"

"Then please, be reasonable! Can you At least sign for the letter?"

"SILENCE! Begone! Begone!"

"JUST ACKNOLEDGE I WAS HERE!" the infuriated Postman begged, which was once again answered with a "SILENCE! Begone! Begone!"

"Raaaawrk! Foolish man!" the postman turned to leave, "now you have made me angry, I cannot even look you in the face any longer, or fear I might . . . I must go somewhere to cool my feathers." He left then, and that's when Double d thought of something. "A well traveled Rito like him might know who Laruto's descendent. Hopefully we'll be able to speak to him outside of here." Double d and the Eds followed the Rito to the Café where Kevin and Nazz found the Eds again.

"I still can't believe this place doesn't sell jawbreakers." Eddy mumbled, remembering yesterday when he asked. The postman stood next to the counter taking deep breaths. "We heard what happened in Maggie's house," Double d started, clearing his throat, "We were wondering if you could help us with something . . ."

"Oh, it's you three. I'm Sorry you had to witness me fly off the handle like that. I'm most embarrassed. That man just . . . never mind."

"Awww . . . every birdman has his day!" Ed assured, giving the Rito a comforting (If not unspeakably painful) pat on the back until Ed slapped his hand away. "To tell you the truth though . . . I came this letter, addressed to Maggie from a Moblin named Moe, but as you saw her stubborn father won't permit me to give it to her. What a stubborn, meddling old man, refusing to accept letters from the post man! Whoever heard of such nonsense?! "

"The guy's a jerk," Eddy snorted, slurping the cheapest drink the café sold, that is, a cup of filtered sea water, "Money does something to people, let me tell you." Double d gave him an accusing glance as the Rito continued. "I went to great trouble to go all the way to the Forsaken Fortress, and it was a most frightening ordeal, let me tell you."

"We've been there too, actually," Double d shuddered, remembering Gannon, "It is certainly not a joyful place."

"But I have other deliveries waiting to be made! I cannot mope here forever." Ed, who seemed to be thinking in his own slow way, grabbed the letter and proclaimed, "I will deliver this letter to the heart broken Maggie! Or my name is Bob!" he ran out the door, slamming it hard and breaking several things, before opening it again, "And it's not!" and breaking everything else in the room with another hard slam.

"Actually that could work," the postman smiled a little, which is difficult to do when one has a beak, "That stubborn old man may not allow postmen inside his home, but surely you three could get inside without raising alarm, couldn't you?"

"Ah, why not, just to annoy the old fart!" Eddy agreed, following Ed without the destruction. Double d followed, but then remembered why he was doing this in the first place. "Oh, by the way: What do you know about a sage named Laruto?"

"I personally know nothing," Double d turned to leave, discouraged, when he added, "Perhaps Valoo's attendant, Medli might. After all, she does work directly for Valoo." That's when Double d remembered it, from when they warped to Dragon roost from mother and child isle. The different music being played on the island, it was played by a lyre!

"Eddy! I know who our new sage is!" Double d raced down the stairs of the Café to tell Eddy what he learned as Ed happily bounded across the street, crashing into a windmill/ lighthouse the Eds fixed last night for a treasure, knocking it over. "Uh-oh." Ed pushed on the bottom of the windmill, standing it up again, albeit with crooked sails. He and the other Eds entered the old man's house like before, and snuck past him to his daughter, who was still pining for Moe by the window. "Delivery for Maggie!" Ed said, almost loud enough for her father to hear, "It is stinky-er than I am!" Ed held out the putrid letter, making Double d wince and Maggie gape, "Is- is that?! Could it be? The letter from Moe I saw in my dreams?!"

"You see letters in your dreams?" Eddy asked flatly as Maggie took the letter, reading it feverishly, "This is Moe. I . . . like . . . you . . . Ma . . . ggie . . ."

"Where have I heard that shaky way of talking before?" Eddy rhetorically asked, glancing at a Double d that didn't notice.

"So . . . much . . . that . . . I . . . want . . . to . . . eat you . . . for dinner." The Eds, who each had somewhat of a smile at the moment, now stared at the letter horrified, "Um, Maggie, there's something you should know about the dietary preferences of Mobl-" She ignored Double d and went on a love fueled rant "Did you hear that, Those words? This means, I mean it must mean, can it be? Is this his marriage proposal?"

"More like a supper proposal." Eddy whispered to his friends.

"At last my feelings have been conveyed to Moe, at last he knows how I feel!"

"This is just like the end of the movie I dated a mutant pig-viking!" Ed remembered perfectly. "This is the happiest day of my life! From here on out, today will be the anniversary of love between me and Moe!"

Double d sighed "c'est la vie."

"I like Sailor Venus too, Double d!" Maggie just then remembered them, "I must thank you for your role in this. To commemorate my anniversary of true love, I give you this." She handed them a piece of heart.

"Sweet! It's the last one we needed!" Eddy fit the fourth piece into the notch the first three created, making a full heart container. "Treasure it always!" she sang happily as the Eds left.

"So, we ready to find that sage?" Eddy asked, walking calmly down the streets of windfall. "I certainly am," Double d huffed, looking back at the auction house, "Love certainly is a strange thing . . ."

"You'd know!" Eddy smirked at his friend.

"Excuse me?" Double d asked as Eddy sped off for the boat, "This adventure's almost over, you better start making that casserole!"

Ed laughed and followed quickly, "Casserole gives me gas!"

"Can we stick to the matter at hand?" Double d called as the three piled onto the king of red lions and set their course for Dragon roost.