Chapter Twenty-Five:
Follow Me Down

A/n: This update comes at a very strange time, and I apologize. xD' Also sorry about the lag in updates! I promise the rest of the story will be updated without skipping another year, honest. xD My love of OoT simply shines through in this story, doesn't it? :3 The Temple of Time won't be too long; it'll either end this chapter or the next. Enjoy!

Disclaimer - I only own my OCs!

'Baby, baby, here we are all crazy/
You don't have to worry/
Na, na, na-na-na.'

-"Follow Me Down" by 30H!3 ft. Neon Hitch

"Midna, what exactly makes you think that a fragment of the mirror's here?" It was not the first time that Link had asked the question, but he continued to repeat himself only because the imp refused to answer. She hovered a little ahead of him and pretended that the walls were very interesting to her. With his voice raised a little louder, he called, "Midna!"

At long last, she stopped examining the walls and stopped about a foot in front of him. "I'm not sure," she admitted, "seeing as how we haven't met any beasts in here yet, but doesn't it seem like the perfect place to hide such a thing? Very hidden. I wonder if anything else was ever hidden here before."

His reply only sufficed of a, "hm." Link's eyes continuously scanned their surroundings, searching for a shock of pale hair or the hem of a white dress sweeping around a corner, but he had seen nothing so far. Glenna was in here; she had to be.

XxxxxX

The Temple of Time somehow managed to appear as if it had recently been built. Unlike all previous temples, this one's architecture was in pristine shape. Its only major flaws were that it was covered with dust and smelled somewhat stale. And, for whatever reason, Glenna continued to see depictions of sages wielding a rod. There were no books in the castle dedicated to the Temple of Time, though some mentioned it, briefly, it was widely thought that it was a mythical place. So far, she was willing to agree. As they walked up an empty staircase, Glenna paused on one of the landings to get a look through the window, but it appeared to be made of frosted glass, and she couldn't see. "To be a fairy guide to a Kokiri, you must be pretty old," she remarked conversationally as she continued to squint through the glass. It was an altogether different experience for her to be talking to a fairy, and even stranger to have said fairy as a companion.

Once again, Navi bobbed up and down to reveal her annoyance. "I've been here for a very long time, and I haven't seen any people for a while."

"Well, I'd say. The Kokiri have been gone for Goddesses know how long. The Great Deku Tree is withered and contains the Forest Temple now." The news seemed to surprise, and upset, Navi, whose wings deflated a little. Glenna promptly changed the subject. "But, uh, how'd you get here anyway?"

Navi seemed to deflate even more at the question. "I went on a journey with a Kokiri - but not-a-Kokiri - boy a long time ago. It was a duty given to me by the Great Deku Tree. At the end of our adventure, we separated. I went through the window in the Temple of Time… and found a whole other temple inside! I've been here since."

"Why did you separate?" Glenna was relieved to have some company; talking to her made it so much easier not to think about anything.

Again, the fairy seemed not to enjoy the question. "He… and I…" Out of the corner of her eye, it appeared that Navi had turned a little pinker. "He wasn't really a Kokiri, so I had to leave him once we finished."

"But you didn't go back to the forest…"

Navi, who had been bouncing up and down in an erratic fashion, abruptly changed the subject. "How did you get here? When I came here with L- him, we never found this place!"

"I'm not too sure," she admitted. "I was hiding in an area that made it hard to see into the sword chamber, but I think he just… put the Master Sword into a pedestal."

Again, Navi jumped, but it was in order to show her concern. "The Master Sword? He? Who took the Master Sword? And L- he, put the sword into the pedestal multiple times and all that happened was he… Was he…"

Glenna's curiosity was drawn by the fairy's sudden change in demeanor. "What? What happened? C'mon, Navi, you can trust me!"

"Glenna, watch out!" She turned in the general direction she assumed Navi was looking in just in time to see a pair of Lizalfos dashing toward her. Glenna promptly unsheathed her sword and swung it with two hands. The familiar rhythm of battle distracted her, and she almost welcomed it. The first Lizalfos easily dodged her burly swing, while the second had to duck in order to keep its head. Never had she wanted to stab her sword into anything more than she did at that moment. It seemed that Navi's constant bobbing served as a decent distraction, as the Lizalfos weren't quite sure what to make of her. Taking advantage of their wandering eyes, Glenna plunged her sword through the chest of the first and, quickly, into the side of the other. They fell atop each other before dissolving into nothingness. With an exhilarated sigh, she wiped the sheen of sweat off of her forehead with the back of her hand.

Navi appeared to be considering Glenna. "I've never seen… a girl fight like that before!"

"Thanks. I've never held a fight on a staircase before, so that was interesting, but I've never seen another girl fight like me before," admitted Glenna without arrogance. "Zelda's not bad, though. She definitely wasn't a bad mentor."

"The Princess? Things have changed since I first entered this temple…" decided Navi.

Glenna nodded. "That'll happen when you've been isolated for about one-hundred years. What were you going to say before those Lizalfos cut us off?"

After a moment of hesitation, she answered, "Plunging the Master Sword back into its pedestal, or taking it out, is supposed to change time. Putting it back into the pedestal made us go into the past, and taking it out did the opposite."

"There definitely was something strange about walking through the doorway. Everything looked black and white, and the flow of time even seemed off. I don't even know what time period we're in right now, but it's not the one in which I started. If you could ever leave this place, I bet the Kokiri and Great Deku Tree would be fine. Even your friend might be okay."

Navi bobbled quickly. "D'you really think so? I'm starting to think I might be ready to go back home, but…"

"But what?"

"…I'm ashamed. I've been gone for so long that, even if I can go back, I don't even know if I'd be wanted."

"Your friend would want you, if nothing else. Friends… always forgive." Navi seemed to be watching Glenna with skepticism, but the girl's attention was focused on the room hey had just entered.

"Hey, listen! I know what to do!" Navi was shouting, but Glenna had already walked away, past two golden switches that were likely supposed to open the golden gate on the east side of the room. She stuck the toe of her boot into one of the gaps of the gate and lifted herself atop it, pulling her boot out before her ankle became twisted. Then, she dropped onto the other side, leaving Navi to float in the center of the room with a bewildered expression.

XxX

Link tentatively entered the next room with Midna floating somewhat behind him. He had already taken notice of the gang of Lizalfos skulking throughout the room, and he was attempted to make a quick strategy in his head. It would have been so simple, he thought, for Midna to assist, but she seemed only interested in observing him. As soon as he stepped off the last stair and into the room, the Lizalfos froze in their tracks and stared at him, which might have been comical if, a second later, the group hadn't surged at him as a whole.

He lifted the Master Sword quickly, blocking most of the weapons from hitting him, but one of the reptiles had a thought to stab beneath the sword. With a grunt, Link lowered the sword only slightly and took a few steps backwards. 'So much for a plan.' As quickly as he could, he drew the sword somewhat behind him and spun it in an arc before the Lizalfos had a chance to surge in on him again. The ones that did get too close were immediately hurtled across the room and into a window. A line of greenish blood dripped down the wall as one of the Lizalfos slid onto a step and disintegrated.

When the final two Lizalfos approached him, he hit the closest one in the face with his shield and leaped over them both to promptly stab them in the backs. "Not bad for a gang of Lizalfos," remarked Link in reference to the minor slash he had on his abdomen.

"Don't get too cocky, watch out!" Link whirled around and noticed that he had bumped into a tribal-like, short statue wielding a hammer and small shield.

Link raised an eyebrow, unsure of what he was supposed to fear. "What? A statue?"

With an exaggerated sigh, Midna remarked monotonously, "No, the thing behind you." Again, Link turned and found a creature he had somehow managed to miss, which was odd considering it was slightly taller than himself. It wore a helmet with a long horn atop it and fierce-looking teeth (though Link was not sure if they belonged to the helmet or the creature beneath it), as well as thick armor. The sharp edge of its spear was pointed directly at Link's throat.

"Thanks for the warning," mumbled Link through gritted teeth as the thing growled at him. Its spear was too long, so its body was about a foot away from him, thus completely out of reach. Link hatched a quick plan, as he backed up completely against the statue and rolled onto the ground and behind the creature, which looked around for him with clear confusion. Link quickly sank his blade beneath the creature's armor and into its brown fur, and it fell to the ground, though not defeated. At the same time, the statue before it was beginning to glow blue markings. It waved around its hammer, carelessly attacking and defeating its comrade with a blow to the back in the process, and steadily made its way toward Link.

Midna did a 360 in the air in order to get a good look at the statue. "I guess that thing is a threat. Who'd have thought? Why don't you try what you just did with the Moblin?" Link did not question how she knew the name of the beast he and the Armos had slain and simply rolled around behind it. When he reached its back, Link leapt up and noticed a blue crystal, which he promptly shattered with the tip of his sword. The Armos began to jump around wildly as shafts of white light escaped its body. "I suggest you move!" remarked Midna although she grabbed Link's hand and wrenched him out of harm's way, just in time for the Armos to explode, sending bits of rock all over the room.

"I guess that makes up for the lack of help," said Link as he looked from where the Armos had been standing to Midna floating beside him.

"You're welcome," she replied with a grin and, guiltily, he was reminded of Glenna.

XxX

Navi seemed skeptical of Glenna's motives and, as soon as they were in another staircase, she rounded on her. "How did you get into this temple? You mentioned a 'he' putting the Master Sword into the pedestal…"

Glenna raised her eyebrows as she backed into a corner, and into a cold window, to get a better look at the buzzing fairy. "My old friend," she started in an defensive tone. "I sort of followed him here but, mostly, I was… sent here to sabotage him."

Something on the fairy seemed to chime as she bounced up and down in the air. "That's awful! Why would you do something like that?"

"The person who sent me has threatened my loved ones! And, besides, my friend has betrayed me in the worst way possible. He doesn't even deserve to be called my friend!" Though her tone the pitch of her voice was hot, it was beyond obvious that even Glenna barely believed her words.

Navi assaulted her personal space for a second time. 'She's quite pushy,' decided Glenna. "How? Did he attack you? Hurt you?"

With pursed lips, she responded, "I've been informed that he sacrificed my sister's soul to restore his own friend."

"Informed by a close confident of yours?"

"…Well, no…"

"Then, who?"

Glenna chewed on her lower lip and lowered her eyes to the tiled floor. Was she really being interrogated by a fairy? "An… enemy. Our main enemy, actually." Her voice was too matter-of-fact.

"WHAT?" Navi's voice was shockingly loud, and Glenna shot about a foot into the air. "You would believe the words of your enemy over the words of your friend?" When she did not get an answer, she continued suspiciously, "did you even ask your friend about it?" Another pause, followed by a surprised, "You didn't!"

"There was a lot of yelling going on. Midna and I might have been too busy accusing each other for Link to even say anything," admitted Glenna, and Navi's jolt at Link's name went unnoticed.

Navi fluttered her wings frantically. "This is awful! Your friend isn't even guilty, and you went on accusing him and getting mad! Horrible! I've never, ever seen it in my life. I've seen horrible things, but even Ganondorf never betrayed his own!"

Glenna's jaw might have dropped. "Did you just compare me to one of the most villainous men that Hyrule has ever known?"

"You deserve it," came Navi's smug reply.

The words were like a slap to the face, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for Glenna to hide her outrage and control her temper. "I can't believe it; I'm being scolded by a fairy! Well, fine. What do you suggest I do?" Finally, her temple boiled over, and she spat, "You ran out on your friend, too, after all."

Navi seemed to turn a shade pinker once more. "But that was different. I did it for his own good. Did you?"

"Sort of! Remember, my loved ones' lives are at stake! If I turn on Zant's orders now and help Link," another flinch went unseen, "nothing good will come of it. He will hurt the people I love, and I've only just found those people."

"You mentioned the Princess before," Navi's tone seemed oddly bitter at the mention of Zelda. "You must be friends with her. Of course she can protect those people! The royal family is closely associated with the Goddesses!"

Glenna shook her head as she moved past Navi and continued up the stairs. "You can't be suggesting that the Triforce of Wisdom will help us? That's Wisdom, not Power; it can't protect anyone."

Navi flew before her face again. "You'll never know until you try, unless you want to give up on your Link? If that's the case, then you should just admit that rather than pretending!"

"Have you always been this annoying and pushy, or is this something that's sprung from you being alone for so long?" asked Glenna irritably, successfully shutting Navi up and quelling her own temper. "I'm sorry, that was… Sorry. I will consider what you said. Now, if you could help me with something, I'd sincerely appreciate it. You know the first room in this temple? The one with the statue on the north side?" Navi seemed to nod. "Do you know how to get past it?"

"Sure, you need the other statue!"

"Brilliant! And where's the other statue?"

Still cheerful, Navi answered, "I have no clue! It seemed to just disappear… I haven't seen it in a while! Maybe it went walking off by itself?"

Glenna shuddered at the thought of a statue that large taking a stroll around the temple. "That's a cute thought, but really. You haven't seen a sign of it?"

"Nope! I guess we'll have to search the whole temple! And it may not be tall, but it has a lot of rooms!"

"Of course it does." Glenna's posture visibly deflated. "Well, great idea…" And she continued the climb at a much slower pace. When Navi suddenly disappeared out of her peripheral vision, she stopped and turned around.

"I think… that you need a way to control the statue, too! There's some type of heavenly rod that brings statues to life."

"Okay, do you know where that is?"

"No idea!"

Glenna sighed and rubbed her temples with full knowledge that this was going to be a long trip. "Do you even know what's behind those statues?"

"Oh, sure!" Glenna felt slight relief at this. "A room with a lot of dangerous objects, like swinging scythes! And, behind that, is a door that leads to the basement. I saw a gigantic spider in there once and never went back. It almost reminded me of Queen Gohma, only it had a giant eye on its back." Navi delivered the news much too cheerfully.

Feeling utterly defeated, she muttered, "I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there."

XxX

"This place is teeming with everything imaginable," came Link's exasperated remark as he and Midna found themselves in a very open room with a corral of the most disgusting-looking spiders and several Beamos. Though they had seen no enemies upon first entering, they had now come upon quite a few different types. "You're probably right about the mirror, in that case."

"See? You should trust me more often, eee hee hee! I'm starting to get aggravated," noted the twili in an abrupt fashion, though it was difficult to tell by her previous chipper tone. "No statue yet, and we don't really know where the shard is. It would be helpful if these useless things," she gestured to the enemies, "could talk."

Link chuckled bitterly. "As if they would say anything." As if on cue, a trio of Lizalfos dashed at him, but with one swipe, they all fell to the ground. Holding up the blade once they were gone, he ran his hand over it. The Master Sword had truly amazing power; he was not sure if he could ever go back to using his Ordon sword again. Taking his attention off of the blade, Link took in the remainder of the room, which wasn't much; there was a golden gate on the east side, a less magnificent-looking one on the north with a lantern floating behind it, and a large staircase to the west. The staircase might have once reached down to where a white Beamos now stood, but it was blackened and ruined now. A strange statue somewhat resembling the Armos, though much taller, stood off to the side of the ornate gate, but it seemed to be a simple statue. Other than that, the room looked spectacular, much better than any temple he'd been in so far. "This place is so advanced-looking, and it's completely closed off. How could anyone have built it? Who would have even used it?"

Midna floated in front of his face and waved her hands. "Hey, don't you even remember why we're here? We need to find that mirror shard, and who knows how much time we have to find the rest before they disappear?"

"'Disappear'?"

"Sure. Zant might decide he wants to keep the remaining shards on him, or hide them where we can't find them. He might send Glenna to watch over them for all we know, not that I'm too worried about that; you can easily take her." Midna's voice had become significantly bitter at the mention of the blonde, and Link's blood ran cold at the thought of having to 'take' Glenna.

Still, that seemed a bit strange to him. "Why wouldn't she just take the shards for herself?"

"You humans," she said with a fonder tone and smile, "can't touch the mirror shards. You're much too fragile for such a thing. It's not a pleasant thing, the mirror; it's quite evil, or so I have heard. I haven't seen evidence of it so far, all I know is that a human cannot touch it. So don't. Got it?" He nodded and an air of awkward silence passed between him. Midna was staring at him intently and seemed aware that he wanted to say something. "Go ahead."

"With what?"

Midna sighed and mumbled something about humans. "Say what you want to say. It's not like you to keep your thoughts hidden."

"Alright," he agreed tentatively. "It's just… When we were in Kakariko, you seemed so keen on the fact that Glenna had done nothing wrong, and she wasn't our enemy. You wanted to help her."

When he forced himself to look into her eyes, they were narrowed and her expression was that of outrage. "She tried to attack us! Don't you think that changes anything?"

"Yes, and no," he agreed. "Is this about that or the principal?"

"A little of both," answered Midna in a growl.

"I think it's more about pride, really."

Midna's eyes narrowed further. "Link, she's a loose cannon!"

"She's afraid," he argued.

With another sigh, Midna closed her eyes and massaged her temples. "I don't want to fight about this right now. I want to find the Mirror Shard. Can we just do that and worry about the rest later? Please?" Her tone had drifted from bitter and accusative to pleading, and he had no choice but to agree.

"Alright." (A/n: There's about to be a huge skip of the Temple… which is mostly because everyone's played the game, and nothing's changed, so there's no point to include it. Sorry. D: )

XxX

Though it took a while yet, Glenna and Navi eventually reached the room with the spider corral. Something felt off in the room, but she could not place it. "Clearly, we're following in Link's footsteps, not that I ever had any doubts about that before. No locked doors or keys for us to find… Nothing could be easier."

"Maybe he's found the statue and rod by now!"

"Maybe," agreed Glenna, who was becoming less and less sure of her role in the temple the longer she lingered. It was becoming increasingly obvious to her that she did not want to fight against Midna and Link, and she certainly did not want to help Zant, but she did not want him to hurt anyone. This was a creature that could bring Zelda to her knees and bury peaceful Hyrule into twilight. He was not one to be double crossed.

"Finally here, are you? Link and Midna are already quite ahead; you're lagging." She jumped at the sound of Zant's voice - both surprised and unsurprised to see him standing by the corral of spiders with too-large thoraxes; he seemed to almost be admiring the insects.

Glenna had quickly whispered for Navi to hide as soon as Zant's presence became known to her. It was eerie for him to appear the moment where she was thinking about him the hardest. "I didn't expect you to be here," she partially lied as she watched the tip of Navi's wing poke out from behind a nearby jar.

Zant chuckled. "But how could that be? You think I don't know what you've been saying?" A smile slowly spread across his face, the only part of him visible with the helmet slid back slightly. "Ah, so you really didn't think that I heard your every word. A pity. I truly thought you were more intelligent than that, especially considering we just held a conversation in the Grove. I suppose you thought that you were better at blocking your mind than you actually are."

Glenna took half a step toward him. "I don't know what you think you heard, but…" 'But, what?' She was fresh out of excuses, but Zant was still wearing a killer smile.

In the next moment, his arm moved without her being able to track it properly, and she promptly found herself on the floor in the following second. He had only smacked her across the face, which was only revealing the tiniest portion of his power. Glaring up at him from the floor, Glenna realized that he was teasing her and, at the same time, attempting to remind her just how powerful he was, particularly in comparison to her. Zant simply wore his smile, which looked much more deranged now. "Hey!" shouted Navi with an amazing amount of force behind it. She flew out from behind the jar and into Zant's face with a surprising amount of speed. "You can't do that to Glenna!"

"A talking fairy?" mumbled Zant, amused. "Be gone!" He swiped at Navi with his hand and easily flung her across the room. Once he was satisfied with Navi hitting the wall and sliding to the floor, Zant approached and hovered over Glenna. "Don't move, don't retaliate, don't even think of it." He slowly tilted his head to the side. "I could snap you in half so easily… I would only have to reach out and…" His free hand, which had been reaching toward Glenna, crunched the air. "Snap.

"Now, let me tell you something that even your pitiful mind should be able to contemplate. Our minds, dearest, are connected. I hear your thoughts, regardless of whether or not you'd like me to. And I am always listening because you are not to be trusted. You would turn on me for your own selfishness? That is fine, but I cannot say that your loved ones would be spared…"

Before either of them could say more, a new voice joined Zant's, a shout: "Zant!" A voice in her head, no doubt the twili before her, seemed to order her to bolt from the room, but she stayed put instead. She turned her head toward the top of the staircase and spotted none other than Link standing there. Where Midna was at the moment, she did not know. As he appeared, a noise echoed from somewhere above while the twin of the statue in the first room appeared from beneath a golden bell-like transporter. A light blue rod with a ball of green light floating between three pieces flanking off the top was clenched in Link's hand, and Glenna had an inkling about what it was.

Though Zant easily could have moved behind Link and attacked him, or even attacked him from where he stood, he did nothing, and Link came running down the stairs. He promptly filled the little space there was between Glenna and the twili with the rod still grasped. "Are you planning on harming me with that toy?" wondered Zant as he examined the strange-looking weapon. Glenna wondered why Midna was not resurfacing from Link's shadow as, surely, she would have liked to face him. Before Link had the opportunity to respond, the rod flew out of his hand and skirted across the room, collapsing outside of the gate with the floating lantern. "Let us all see if you two are still quite so capable at fighting on the same side, hm? Come!"

Instead of raising his arms in a sort of challenging gesture, Zant did the most foolish thing possible: he turned his back toward them and began to walk away. Sure it was a trap, Link nor Glenna made a move to attack, and Zant paused by the odd, tall statue standing on the other side of the room. He waved his hand, and green lines became illuminated on the dark stone. Link had no doubts about what the creature it was as, surely, it was some type of Armos. Zant's form flickered in and out of existence before he glanced back at them, briefly, and disappeared for good. "A copy," remarked Navi, seemingly surprising Link.

"What do you mean?" asked Glenna as she turned her head toward the fairy.

"He was sort of translucent… I don't know what your regular… Zant, you called him? I don't know what he looks like, but I don't think his body flickers like that, does it?"

"It doesn't," agreed Link before holding a hand out to Glenna, helping her to her feet. No animosity was felt, and neither mentioned what had been going on between them since the Arbiter's Ground incident. They trained their eyes on the Armos Titan, which was taking clumsy steps toward them with its hands outstretched. "Do you have any idea what that is?"

Glenna shook her head. "Not the faintest idea, but it looks… sort of like an Armos, doesn't it? Just bigger, and stranger. It has a gem on its chest, so if we could just hit that…" Without another word, Link handed his bow and an arrow to her. She notched the arrow into the bow and fired it at the statue, but it seemed to simply bounce off of the Armos Titan's body. "…Then, what?"

The statue was beginning to get too close, and Glenna finally had the opportunity to truly take in the appearance of the Master Sword as Link held it beside him. After a moment, he rushed at the Armos Titan, and swung his sword at it, but its hands were quicker than his. It brought its hand down too quickly and sent Link flying into the white Beamos, which broke down from the force to reveal another group of spiders with overly-large abdomens. "The rod," grunted Link as the spiders crawled atop him.

"Get the rod, he said!" Navi whispered to Glenna without necessity.

"I know, I can hear too!" she grumbled in response as she dashed around the titan and bent over to pick up the rod. Something collided with the side of her face, and she collapsed to the ground again. There was no gash, but she was quite sure that she would now have two ugly bruises on either side of her face in due time. "Damn Poe." Making sure she was a safe distance away from the gate - and Poe - before attempting to stand again, Glenna examined the rod. "What, in the name of the Goddesses, am I supposed to do with this?" She tried to wave it but, as far as she could tell, nothing happened. The light atop the rod had changed to a white color, but she doubted that this would help much.

The Armos Titan seemed torn between its victim lying vulnerably on the ground and the one staring at a "toy". It started for her, and she continued to wave it in hopes of achieving something. The light flowed back and forth between the rod and the room, but it didn't seem to break anything.

"Watch out!" chimed Navi a moment too late as the overgrown Armos swung both arms at Glenna. She went flying in the air, but upward, where she landed on a ring close to where Link's statue was stationed. "If the light leaves that rod, maybe it can enter empty spaces… Like the one the statue has!" Glenna followed Navi's train of thought and waved the rod. Once more, the orb exited the rod but, this time, it entered the hollow part of the statue and decorated it with white light. When she attempted to approach the statue, it backed away from her, and when she backed away, it followed her. She tried to fix the distance between them, but it was ineffective.

"No fun," growled Glenna.

Navi was in her face once again. "C'mon, you have to hurry before that thing hurts Link! Hurry!"

Glenna began to walk quickly, then. "Alright, I'm hurrying." She wasn't paying attention to her footing, and she slipped off of the side of the walkway and onto the ground. The statue plunged after her but did not, luckily, land atop her or anything else important. Though her limbs ached from the fall, particularly her wielding arm, Glenna stood closer to the statue and reanimated it. A thought occurred to her as they approached the Armos Titan, which had taken Link into its hands and was about to do something terrible to him, no doubt. 'Mimicry. This statue copies what the wielder does, so that means its hammer…' She abruptly swung the rod, and the statue slammed its hammer onto the Armos Titan's back which did little more than distract it into dropping Link and knocking all of the spiders onto their backs.

The Armos Titan turned towards its new adversary without much certainty on what to make of it. Glenna swung the rod again, and the hammer shattered the emerald on the Armos' chest, causing it to hop around and explode quite quickly. The blast sent pieces of the statue flying into Navi, Link, Glenna and destroyed the group of spiders. Link slowly stood, and he and Glenna stood at each other for a moment. Then, without another word, Glenna dropped the rod and bow and took off through the door she had entered just fifteen minutes earlier. Navi seemed torn about what to do and followed Glenna only at the last minute, leaving a very perplexed, angry Link standing behind.

Glenna did not stop running until she reached the first room of the Temple of Time. "Wait!" cried Navi, who only managed to catch up once Glenna paused outside of the corridor that would take her back to the sword chamber. "What was that? You can't just run away from him like that. He saved your life, probably!"

Still staring at the corridor, Glenna remarked, "Your friend's name was Link."

"Wh-what?" demanded the fairy, caught off guard.

"I never said that boy was Link, but you called him by that name. Of course, it was sort of obvious, but you had no doubts. When you spotted him, it was like you were seeing a familiar someone for the first time in years." Navi seemed abashed and could find nothing to say. "But I can't stay here. I need you to stay here and help him."

Navi floated into her face. "Why can't you stay?"

"Because there's something I have to do as soon as I can. I need you to take care of Link for me, please. I need you to help him as if you were helping your own Link. Can you do that?"

After a moment of uncertainty, Navi answered, "I will."

A/n: I have never had more difficulty writing a chapter in my life, I swear. Both the Moblin & Armos Titan are ideas I got from the beta trailer of TP, particularly the Armos Titan. I really love the Temple of Time and know I did not make it quite as awesome as I could have, but I have to try to cut the amount of chapters, at least a little. :P So, happy holidays, everyone! I will probably update at least once before the new year… we'll see. Enjoy your holidays (and review, too)!