Wow, so here we are, Arbiter's Grounds. My brother really likes this temple, along with the Temple of Time. It's okay to me, but it's reaaallly long! Ugh. Dx But whatever.

Oh my God, I remember when I first played the second half of the battle against Stallord, and I heard the music for it, I was all "Hey...I recognize that music..." and then as it progressed I realized it was the same music from the King Dodongo and Vovalgia battles from Ocarina of Time! I was so surprised and all like, "Awesome!" and stuff. I like the way it was composed for TP, it sounded a lot cooler.

But I do like the original, don't get me wrong. XD

Oh, and I love how Midna opens the doors of the dungeon with her hand hair. XD I remember once I was a wolf for some portion of the dungeon, and I came to a door, and I saw that you could open it as a wolf, so I was curious and tried it, and Midna opens the door! Haha! XD Nice!

Anyway, onward!

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We came into Arbiter's Grounds, which didn't look much like a prison. There was quicksand almost everywhere, and a lot of rooms, from what I could see.

There was a small tub that contained lantern oil, so I used that to refill my lantern and put some in a bottle for later. That was handy. It was a good thing since I had to use my lantern in some dark rooms and to light torches.

Up ahead in what I guessed was the "main" room, there was a doorway ahead, and a few other doors going left and right, and some above us.

Before we could go on, four lanterns suddenly floated into the room. Since I wasn't in my wolf form, I guessed they were carried by poes. The lanterns were differently shaped.

But then they floated to the torches near the large doorway up ahead, lit with blue fire, and the lanterns swiped at the fire, taking them. A sliding door then came down, shutting away the doorway. Great.

Three of the lanterns slinked away, but one remained. So I transformed into a wolf and honed my senses. Sure enough, they were poes, but a different kind of poe. These guys had long, legless bodies, a hooded cloak, and each holding a lantern with their hands. They also had creepy faces, eye sockets and a wide-open mouth. Very creepy.

We killed the poe, and like the others from before, it drew a soul and we removed it. It lay there on the floor, screaming out before it went limp. The lantern then broke, and the blue flame went flying back to its original torch. Now we had to get the other three.

I then saw that the poe was emitting a scent, so I sniffed it and learned the scent of the poes. I could see why, so we could track down the other three in order to keep going.

The scents led in three different directions, so I picked on and we continued on our way.

We later ran into this strange monster, that I think was known as ReDead. It walked stiffly like a mummy, and it would cry out a deafening, piercing shriek in order to make you freeze, and then it would raise its sword and slice at you.

Just as it did on me, Midna popped out of the shadows and shoved me out of the way when the creature's sword came crashing down. I would've been sliced in half or have lost my head at best if it weren't for her.

"Be careful Link, you'll have to attack that thing from a distance!" Midna scolded. "...Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." I told her. "Thanks for that, I would've been dead if it weren't for you."

"Right." I could tell she was feeling a bit embarrassed, which was pretty cute. "C'mon Link, let's go find the rest of the poes!"

With some bomb arrows, I killed the ReDead and we continued in searching for the first poe.

It was easy trying to find the first two poes, but when we came to the third one, this one had three copies, including itself, surround us, and we had to find the real one.

Luckily, it was easy, since the poes would flash purple in the closest thing to a solid form, and I knew which one was the real one.]

After we killed them all, we returned to the main room, seeing the blue flames return to their torches. Sure enough, the door raised up, allowing us to go through.

Oh, and guess who we found later on? Yep, Ooccoo. I still don't know how she was getting into the dungeons before us, but it didn't matter. We took her with us and continued on.

Later, we came to this dark room, which I guessed was the middle boss's room. There was a large, guillotine sword sunken partway into the ground, with a few ropes holding it down that contained special seals.

Suddenly, the ropes burned down and then the sword started to move...on its own. There was no one holding the sword! I wasn't sure if it was some kind of poe or not, but it was impossible to attack.

Taking a chance, I transformed into a wolf and honed my senses. Sure enough, there was some kind of a ghostly monster holding the sword. Like the poes, it would retain a solid form for a few seconds, which allowed me to attack it.

After I did, it retained its solid form to the naked eye, so I transformed back into my human form to battle it. The monster rose into the air, swirling around, and since I had no other way of getting it down, I shot it with an arrow. It would then try to attack me on the ground with its sword, and because it was large and long, it slowed him down. So I let my own sword have its say.

After repeating this process a couple of times, the monster let out an agonizing wail, the sword exploded, and its body dematerialized into tiny little bats that flew off away.

There was a small room adjoined to this one, so I went in and saw a chest. I guessed it was the item we'd achieve in the dungeon, like the others. So I went to it and popped the lid. It was the Spinner, an ancient rotating machine with a small button that activated the motor, where you would stand on it and it would spin around on the ground. It was also helpful for wall rails, and even attacking enemies.

I could see now that the only way out of here was to use the spinner along the jagged rails in the wall, so I kicked on the motor and used it along the wall. It was pretty cool!

Finally, after we'd tracked down the Boss Key and came to the Boss Chamer, we unlocked the large door, and went through.

The room was very round, with a sand pit. Inside the sand pit were the skull and arms to a fossilized monster. On the other side of the pit opposite from us, was a barred door that lead someplace else, probably to the Mirror of Twilight.

Suddenly, an evil chuckle rang through the dark room, and then Zant suddenly appeared on the fossil's skull. I angrily drew my sword, glaring hatefully at him. So he wanted to fight. That was fine with me, I could finally kill him after what he did to Midna.

"You still live..." Zant said mockingly. "How astonishing. No wonder some call you "hero". But this is truly a bittersweet reunion. ...Truly! For I fear this is the last time I see you alive!"

Before we could do anything, Zant suddenly brought his hands before him and summoned the strange, red orbed power like from before. It then became a long, dark sword with red markings along the blade. He plunged the blade into the skull of the fossil, with the red energy lines running through it.

Zant then disappeared, and Midna popped out of the shadows, shaking her fist at the ceiling.

"You coward! Come back here and fight like a man!" She yelled.

I did agree with her, but something else then caught my attention. I noticed the fossil's eyes glow red.

I placed a hand on Midna's shoulder, and then pointed down toward the fossil. She saw what I'd seen and gasped.

The fossilized monster moved its head, slowly picking itself up from the sand. I saw now that the sword had given it life! Its top half rose up from the sand, and roared in our faces. It was Stallord, a legendary monster that had been dead for many years.

Only its top half was risen above the sand, so it couldn't get up and walk. But it was still dangerous, since it had a large body, long arms, and was shooting strange black fire from its mouth. Luckily, it was stationary so we were able to avoid its blows.

I saw we could use the spinner along the edge of the pit to avoid from sinking into the sand, so I kicked on the motor and we went around, with Midna grabbing onto my shoulder so she wouldn't go flying off.

"Link, we have to do something about the sword on its head, it's the source of its life and power!" Midna said, pointing toward it.

"How are we going to do that? I'm not that tall, and the sword is all the way on its head! We'd have to get him down to our level somehow!" I told her.

Midna looked around the fossilized monster and then pointed to its spine. "Its spine! If we could somehow break down its spine, it'll fall down and we'll be able to withdraw the sword!"

Studying the monster, I could see it was our best-and only-good option.

"OK, I'll do that. Get in the shadows, I don't want you getting hurt." I said.

With a nod, Midna disappeared back into my shadow and I leaped into action.

Using the spinner, I made my way down into the sand pit toward the end of its spine. It was already weak, so it was easy to tear through it with the spinner's help. The spine cracked, and Stallord's upper body fell more into the sand. It worked!

We had to repeat the process a few times, but it was harder after this point since strange monster rose up from the sand as we approached, wearing shaggy cloaks with swords and shields. Luckily one hit from the spinner sent them back to the graves.

Finally, we cracked Stallord's spine enough, and it fell into the sand, its eyes going out and becoming lifeless again.

The sand sunk down into the ground, where Stallord's skull lay, pretty lifeless. There was also one of those holes in the floor that I used the spinner on. So I went over and used the spinner in the hole. The round ground around us then rose up into the air, revealing to be a long platform, with jagged edges along it that I could use the spinner on. We were back up to the level of the entrance, and the other doorway.

Now what? We had to cross over to get to the doorway, but there was a long gap.

"Link! Behind you!" Midna suddenly yelled.

I quickly turned around, and saw Stallord's head floating above the ground behind me. It was still alive! I drew my sword, and it lunged at me. I fell off the platform, and down onto the ground. Luckily, it was sand so it didn't take much off of me.

Once I got up, I saw that Stallord's head had come down to our level, and then it went around to the other side. So I kicked the spinner into gear and used it along the platform, going up, and around.

After a few moments, I then saw Stallord's head facing us, having beaten us around the side. It shot a fire ball at me, and I used the spinner to kick off the side, locking onto the opposite wall that also had ledges. Stallord fired again, and I kicked off to the other wall, getting closer and closer. Before it could open its mouth to fire again, I launched toward it on the spinner, knocking into its face.

The skull fell to the ground, and I hopped off the spinner, going at it and drawing my sword, stabbing at the sword lodged into its head, trying to dislodge it. I managed to get a few good hits before Stallord regained itself and then flew around the platform out of sight again. So I kicked the motor into gear and hurried after it on the spinner.

I repeated the process a couple of more times, and then finally, I jabbed the Master Sword deep into Stallord's forehead where the sword was lodged in. The skull then roared in agony before it bounded off away down off the platform. I rode up to the top, just as the sword exploded into the nothing, as did its head.

A stone pathway then came out from the wall, connecting to the platform, and the other doorway raised up to reveal the entrance to the next room, where the Mirror of Twilight was.

Midna popped out of the shadows. "All right, Link, let's go! We're close to the Mirror of Twilight..."

I nodded, and then we went across the bridge over to the doorway where we went through. We were one step closer to the Mirror of Twilight, to defeating Zant.

Of course, that's exactly what we thought back in the Lakebed Temple when we got the last Fused Shadow.