It was pitch black inside, so much so that even the lantern wasn't much help. I handed it over to Link and then followed him through the place. I wondered if there were any spiders, but it chilled me to the bones, so it was better to stop thinking about it. I bumped into Link when he gave an abrupt stop.
"What is-"
"Sh. I hear a voice." Link whispered, cutting me off. I glared at him even though he wasn't looking my way. He blew out the lantern and then waited for a moment. Eventually I heard it too, but only just. I recognised the voice, and no doubt Link did too.
"...Take it to Diababa he said... It'd be easy he said." Fyn's voice resounded through the darkness. There were muttering rambles that were then heard. Link chuckled slightly and then we saw Fyn come out of the shadows and go to leave the temple. I raised my eyebrows and Link relit the lantern.
"Hey, Fyn, what are you doing here?" Link asked with one hand holding the lantern as he relit it. Fyn span around with shock in his emerald shining eyes, after that set in, a very smug smirk was then set on his face. Link coughed awkwardly. "Well?"
"Is it any of your business, Link?" He growled with the same smirk on his face.
"...Yea, it is. I'm heading in here, and who is this Diababa?" Link asked with his eyes sharpened.
"...Hmph, You'll see soon enough who it is." Fyn laughed.
I stared at Link with slightly widened eyes. Maybe Fyn wasn't as kind as he let on to the females. How had I not seen this before? Ah, I was blinded by the fact he was a knight and Link was a goat herder. I'd never given any thought on why Link would choose a career like that when he could've been anything from a cheese maker to a knight... But why a goat herder...? Maybe if I got closer to him, I'd be able to ask. No, that wouldn't work because I'm not even supposed to know anything about him. The same went for him and me, but he never knew anything about me from the start anyway.
"Will I? I wasn't aware I'd come into contact with anything in a temple." Link said sarcastically. Wow, they really did hate each other... and hang on one second; Hylians knew how to be sarcastic? Well hell.
"...With any luck you'll be dead in the morning, or missing like the village children and Ilia." Fyn said harshly, his eyes narrowing. I noticed how his ears weren't as pointy as Link or mine, how odd and suspiciously interesting.
"Or alive and returning to Ordon to kick a-"
"Link, stop." I cut him off.
"Yeah, listen to your boyfriend, Greenie." Fyn said, "Anyway, I'll maybe see you around, if you survive. If not, I'll tell everyone that you died by falling off a tree."
Link seemed to see me shift a little bit at that. It was only a threat, but falling from a tree was almost a cowards death or an 'accidental death', when Link was actually courageous and planning on fighting things in a great big nasty temple. What was Fyn's problem? I mean, jeez.
"We'll see about that." Link said, and then Fyn snorted and walked off. His spear was on his back, kind of like the way Link had his sword. The Green Hero didn't look away from Fyn until he was gone out of his sight. We waited for a few moments.
"Well, he was rather nasty..." I commented with a sigh, heading in towards the temple ahead of Link. He stayed behind for a moment and then caught up to me. We put out the lantern as soon as we arrived in a much lighter area. Link frowned and gave me back the lantern. I put it in my larger back, shouldered it, and then we moved on.
After a few of those odd plant monsters, a caged monkey was placed very oddly in front of us. Link skilfully cut the wooden cage and monkey cried as it got free. I noticed it was the same monkey that stole Link's lantern. Well, she cheered and then climbed up a set of vines. I froze. There were spiders crawling on the set of vines... Ew.
A wild Midna appeared, and stared up at the monkey as she went to leave the room. "Hey! That's the monkey that stole your lantern." She exclaimed.
"I know." Link replied.
The monkey then began to- "Doesn't it look like she's beckoning you? Aren't you the popular one? Eee hee!" Midna laughed loudly then disappeared as Link turned to glare at her. He cracked a small smile when she was gone.
"...I just hope I don't have to go back there soon... Well, Ivan, let's hurry on." Link said, clicking his shoulder and fixing his weird hat.
Link quickly pulled out his slingshot; I noticed it looked brand new. It'd be hard aiming with that, but Link was Link. He shot down the spiders and bent down to check if they were dead. When he was sure, he began to climb. I followed slowly at first, and nearly fell off of the vines. Frankly, I didn't fancy being Arthur or Martha today, so, I quickened my pace and then reached for my mask as we reached the monkey and a door. I studied the door for a moment because of the interesting reddish swirl on it.
The green Hero opened it with ease, and it rolled on a track to let us in, I raised my eyebrows and then looked around this new room. There were stairs leading onto the ground and then stairs leading to a platform in the middle of the room. The monkey followed us up there, whimpering. I turned to look at her, and I saw she was looking upward. It was my mistake to follow her gaze.
A giant spider was waiting on the ceiling, and it was too late to call Link back because the monster arachnid had already seen him below. The thing spun its web fast and was on the floor in a matter of milliseconds. Link gave a cry as the monster reared up and charged at him with its fangs. Link drew his sword as he rolled out of the way.
He tried to slice the skull-backed monster head-on, but his sword just bounced off as the monster spider reared up again and charged. I fingered my side satchel and pulled out a tiny hand-made bomb. Navi secretly lit it for me and I threw it at the Arachnid, a small explosion had Link covering his ears with a very pained expression on his face. I would apologize for being rash later as the spider charged at me. Fear gripped me first as I rolled on my side to dodge it. It caught my arm due to my late reaction. Link pounced on the backside of the monster swords first. Link grazed its underbelly and the monster curled up fearfully. I sliced at its belly when it was distracted with Link, and then it died, curling up fully and poofing into smoke. I looked at Link and he gave a nod.
"Not bad. I expect that Skulltula was put there deliberately to stop m- us." Link corrected himself, looking at the ceiling. He was looking to see if there were anymore monsters. There wasn't, so he looked around to see what there was to do. I approached the platform and he followed me to get up there again. There were three ways to get to three different doors. One was in front of us, but to get to it you'd have to be an extreme high-jumper. The other two doors... you'd need something to run along the string that led to them.
The monkey tapped my leg as she stood next to me. She pointed at the four torches that were stuck in the ground. I raised my eyebrows at the monkey; she chattered and gave a monkey-smile. I lit up my lantern and set the first torch alight. Link span around and looked like he was about to question the logic. I set the second and the third before he asked anything.
"Lytie... What are you doing?" Navi whispered as she crawled up my sleeve.
"What the monkey told me to do." I lit the fourth one and for a moment, nothing happened, but then three other wooden stair-like platforms rose up from the ground. The whole temple must be full of these stupid puzzles. The only clue on how to get passed them would be with the monkey's help. Speaking of monkeys, this one ran ahead.
"Nice one, Ivan." Link said, walking after the mammal. I reached up my sleeve and grabbed the fairy that squirmed out of my grasp, she smiled at me and I wondered what she was thinking as she watched 'Greenie' walked away.
"Hey, Lytie... I just want to tell you... Good luck! Oh, and you've gotta introduce me to him when you have the chance." Navi winked at Link even though he seemed to be studying the monkey and not looking this way.
I rolled my eyes at her, "You are so easily impressed by things."
"A girl's gotta a right to be a girl."
"You're a fairy..."
"...a female fairy." She argued. I just sighed at her and opened the bag. She plopped down into it and a little part of the bag ripped and showed a little light. I hid it with my hand, if I introduced Navi to him; he'd know for sure the name Ivan was a fake... and so was this fake personality that I made for myself. Maybe I didn't have to worry... But Link would still be shocked if he knew I was lying to him. Even the kindest can turn harsh.
"Hey Ivan, look at this..." Link beckoned me over, so I approached slowly, not trusting this temple anymore due to the giant arachnids... Yuck. I saw he was looking at a very refined chest, how odd; it looked similar to one of the ones in The Seer's basement. "...Do you need a key for it... or...?" Link looked at me for an answer.
"No, just open it. Back at Saskatchewan, we have chests all over the place just like this one, you just open them..." I showed him how, "like that." I shrugged, "Easy stuff."
"I see." He opened it with ease and then looked inside it carefully. It looked empty from where I stood, but Link took something out of it. To my surprise, it was a map. "Hey... It's... Enchanted?"
"Oh?" I looked over his shoulder and peered at the map. Two of the rooms were green, and I could only guess that they were the ones we had been inside. Two yellow arrows indicated us because as Link stood up and turned to face me, the bigger arrow turned. The monkey chattered to try and get our attention to the door. Why was everyone so impatient?
Link opened the door after handing the map to me; I folded it and then stuck it in between me and my belt. I walked after him and felt a cold breeze hit me. I took a quick glimpse around and then Greenie gave a slight gasp. I turned my head in his direction. The female monkey ran across the large white bridge, but I was focused on the breeze still.
I heard a loud squeak and then saw a much bigger monkey run down the path from the other side of the bridge. It held something in its hands, but it was too far away to see what it was. Link's eyes widened.
"Oh look, the monkey found its friend, let's go." I growled heartlessly, walking out towards the bridge. Then, the female monkey gave its chatter, jumped into the air and began to run back towards us. I stepped out onto the bridge, but then a hand pulled me back.
The large monkey threw whatever he had and it sliced the ropes that held the bridge upright, then the bridge fell almost immediately. If Link hadn't pulled me back, I would've fallen into the chasm below. I glared at the large monkey, who caught-what I now realized as a Boomerang- his weapon again. With a monkey-ish laugh, it smacked its baboonish butt as it turned away and ran off. There was no way to get across it but to fly. But we couldn't fly, so... Well, we couldn't get there, obviously.
"Hey, little monkey, you okay?" I asked the monkey as it climbed up and glared at the big monkey as it jumped away. The monkey sighed, drooping its head. What was the larger monkey's problem?
"Now what... hmm..." Link mumbled and then watched the monkey run to the door we just came out of. She beckoned him over again. Suddenly, Midna appeared, but this time, she briefly glared at me. That wasn't a fantastic thing either; I was supposed to be getting on her good side...
"Oh! What's going on?! Has there been a monkey fight?!" She looked at the bridge and puffed a cheek out stubbornly for a moment before collapsing into a frown, "Oh no! We can't go any farther. We may as well go back. I don't know what's going on, but it seems like she wants to take you somewhere, so maybe you should just follow her." She vanished and Link gave a small and awkward sigh.
He opened the door and we walked through it in silence. We walked down the steps and then looked around for a moment. He turned to go left, and I was just about to question how he was supposed to do that when the monkey leaped onto the pole and then hung upside-down on the rope that led to the other side. She beckoned Link over, and I quickly grabbed his shield. He turned and stared at me suspiciously but didn't question anything. There was no way I was about to do what Link was doing.
He leaped off of the platform, aiming for the monkey. I bit my lip as the monkey reached out and grabbed Link, swung him to the other side and then landed next to him. I breathed out a deep breath and then looked at the two confused mammals.
"Hold the monkey up so she can lower the rope so it is on a slant." I told him, he gave a nod and the monkey seemingly was confused for a moment, but then held the rope down so it slanted towards them. I jumped up and the shield went over the rope, so I grabbed it on the other side with my spare hand, and balanced myself out so that I slid down the rope like it was a ski-elevator. I got to them just fine... almost... the problem was that I crashed into Link and the monkey so that we all became a mess on the floor.
The monkey was the first one to untangle herself from the mess. Link groaned underneath me, so I quickly stood up, trying to keep a straight face. As soon as Link stood up and glared at me, I burst into laughter. It threw him off too, and so he began to laugh as well.
"That was pure talent, Ivan." Link choked through his struggled breath. When we managed to stop laughing so much, his face got sort of serious. "I must ask you... Why are you hoping to find this light spirit?"
"...Aren't they supposed to help the troubled?" I asked, feigning ignorance in the simplest of ways. He just frowned at me.
"I don't think so... They seem to rarely show themselves." Link said with a frown.
"...I'll keep searching then; I won't give up until I find one." I said letting a smirk out, he just laughed and shrugged his broad shoulders. This time, I opened the door and was greeted with pure darkness. I let out a giant sigh and lit the lantern. "Fantastic." I said sarcastically and then took a step inside the door shut behind us all, so we felt sort of trapped. What a perfect way to enter the fourth room of the temple.