It all seemed relatively harmless now that it was lively again. The conveyor belts, as expected, were going rather quickly, covered in strange stones that Tya didn't really care to figure out. The only thing that caught her eye was the strange statues that oscillated as if keeping watch.

On the other end of the conveyor belt, she could see Link waiting and watching her.

From her spot, she could see the majority of the room. There were three belts- one nearest her, which had one of those strange statues on either side, and evidently a ladder on the side closest to her. That would be convenient, so she didn't have to fall down the belt in order to get back to Link, though crossing the belt in itself would be difficult. It was going the way opposite of the one she needed to go.

On either end of all the belts was a barrier of what appeared to be electricity. She'd need to steer clear of that lest she get a nasty shock like Link.

She could see on the far side, there were stairs to the other belt, which would be good since Link apparently wasn't able to climb much.

Near the middle of the room, directly in her view, she could see what appeared to be a lever. She couldn't quite tell what it went to, but she would guess that it was necessary.

The far side of the room, where Link stood, there was another ledge, on which there was an area blocked off by a gate. She'd assumed that's where they needed to go. She couldn't see past it very well, but she could see that it didn't appear to have a ladder on this side. There was no visible way to get up to it as it was, meaning they were either supposed to make one, or it wasn't where they needed to be.

She moved to the edge of the platform with the switch so she could look down. Across the first belt, there seemed to be another ladder, one which would let her on a path to the lever she likely needed to pull.

She'd noticed those piles of rubble were up and running once again, and because of that she was wary of actually getting down. The way they moved is what concerned her—again, it was as if they were on guard. She worried they'd alert something terrible and have it attack her if they caught sight of her.

They had an odd glowing side, which she assumed to be the front. That made sense to her, the lit up side would be the side to pay attention to. So she'd need to avoid or destroy that…

Avoid. Her aim wasn't good enough to destroy.

But there were two. How was she supposed to avoid one without running into the other?

Maybe if she wasn't so useless she'd be able to do this well, or even get rid of those things.

No, focus.

She watched the way they moved, realizing if she followed one, she'd run directly into the apparent gaze of the second. The only way to get across would be to destroy them, especially with the belt going so fast between them. She risked getting caught in their sight, falling, or getting pushed into the electric barrier.

Examining this further, she seemed to realize something.

Brow furrowed, and she looked around, noticing there was no way for Link to get to her when she got to the door on the other side. The ledge on which it sat was much too high for him to climb up, not to mention climbing already seemed to be a problem. She certainly wouldn't be able to pull him up, she could barely pull herself up.

She bit down on the inside of her lip, trying her best to figure out a way to make it work, but to no avail.

When she realized that, she backed away from the edge she'd climbed up to get there, and moved to the one that faced Link.

"Link—" She called, only to realize there wasn't much reason. His attention had been either on her or his arm the entire time. "We need to turn it off." For a moment he seemed confused, and she couldn't tell whether that was due to the noise obscuring what she was saying, or the nature of what she said. But he nodded, and she realized he just didn't really realize what she had, probably because the entire room wasn't at all visible to him from his position.

The mage stepped back onto the button, opening the cage once more, and Link used the beetle to switch the stone again.

The room calmed again, sand and dust moving to drape over all the broken down equipment, and she sighed, taking a look at it all again.

Tya made her way down and over to the still belt, and watched as Link hesitantly crossed.

"What's wr-wrong?"

"I don't think there's a way for you to come across to the door we need to go to, and I don't know what to do about these odd statue things." She motioned to the broken bits on either side of her. "They seem as if they are watching for something."

Link drew back a bit then, looking around the room and realizing Tya seemed to be right about there not being a path across.

"I think you've got to climb up…" Just saying that made her feel guilty. She should have done better, she should be stronger, something to help him up so he didn't have to be in pain.

He let out a quiet sigh, looking at his arm once more before nodding.

She got a bit closer to the edge, brushing a stray piece of golden hair back into the bun.

"Maybe I can help so there's less pressure on your arm."

"How? You-You need both a-arms to climb too."

What a stupid idea. A stupid suggestion. How could she be of assistance to him?

She had to think, that's how.

"If you have something to lean back against, you shouldn't fall, right?" She moved closer to the edge as if she was preparing to get down. She slipped the pack off her shoulders, thinking over how exactly she could manage to keep him up. It was a short climb, so it shouldn't have been overly difficult…

Link simply nodded in response, and Tya then started down the vines. When she got down, she got behind him and nudged him toward the vines.

"You'll have to stay close to the wall, but you will be able to lean back against me."

"And y-you'll be able to st-stay up?"

"If I'm holding onto it, it'll be easier, will it not? Not to mention it'll only be for a few seconds at a time."

Link paused as if he was trying to make sense of that, but then after a second he nodded his head. He still seemed a bit cautious, and as if he didn't quite know how it would end, but it was worth a try at least.

He moved to the vines, his uninured hand taking a firm hold of them. He looked back toward Tya, who just offered a smile as comfort.

He remained close to the wall, which allowed Tya to grab a hold of the vines on either side of him. He pulled himself up, finding a secure place for his feet, and Tya waited for him to move up a bit so she could follow.

It took a second, and probably looked wonderfully awkward the entire time they were doing it, but they managed to get to the top.

Crawling up, Tya immediately went to his front and pointed to his arm. He looked at it then smiled, silently letting her know it was fine.

"So these odd statues. I don't know what to do about them. But you can make it up a ladder, right?"

He had before, so both of them were relatively sure he could again.

Once again, the switch was triggered and the two looked around to figure out what needed to be done. Without having to find a way to get Link to her, everything seemed much easier.

Somehow, he was able to put together that someone needed to slash through the glowing blue middle of the statues and then thrust his sword into the lit up front. How exactly he thought of that, Tya wasn't sure, she was just glad the things were out of the way without causing any harm that she could see.

They had to cross the moving belt, which, needless to say, made them both a little nervous. There was a lot of hesitation before either of them went across, because they knew stepping on it to test it was going to be a bad idea. They had to just go and they had to do it whilst avoiding the second statue.

Down a ladder, and across another belt, they got up to the lever they needed to pull only to find that the gate they opened did not have a door behind it. Instead, there was just a small chest. It was relatively disappointing, but at least they got something out of it.

They had to really cross a belt this time—Run down an active conveyor belt going in the opposite direction while avoiding the strange rocks on it.

It was difficult for them both, and hell on Link's lungs, but they got across.

The chest they uncovered held a red rupee. For all the trouble they went through to get it, she wished it would have been a little more, but she supposed it would do.

Fortunately there were stairs for them this time, leading up to the last remaining belt. They could see clearly the lever they needed and the door that it would open.

They crossed the belt, pulled the lever, then road back, and prepared to jump before hitting the barrier of electricity that awaited them should they be too slow.

The door was open, and they were allowed into the next room.

It had an odd set up. There were multiple large blocks lining the floor, and paths in between them. Some of which were blocked off by little metal strips, lined with holes. She couldn't tell what they did from where they were, but she had no desire to find out. Everything seemed dangerous, and though she was actively doing things, she was still much too tired to be curious.

They had to jump across the blocks to get to the other side, where they found a chest that contained yet another strange object. Fortunately, it came with instructions.

They were to pull a lever, and it would let out a heavy gust of wind that would do what wind often did—blow things away.

Quite useful, because many of those gross little bug like creatures awaited them on the boxes they needed to cross, and a mound of sand blocked the next door.

The door took them back to a room they'd already seen. It seemed to be the main hub right after the crossroads. But they still couldn't find anything they could do in that room, even with the new item they acquired—called "Gust Bellows".

They returned to the crossroads and used the bellows to unbury a box that they could place on top of a switch. The switch opened a gate to the next door, and they carried on.

The room they entered was annoying.

It was almost completely made up of sinksand, save for a couple broken platforms here and there. Those were what helped them survived, because by the time they reached each one they were too exhausted to continue. They had to break at each one, and kill more of those ugly bugs.

When they reached the other side, they found a gate much like the one in the main hub. It wouldn't budge.

But there was another platform remaining there, which they begrudgingly crossed the sands to explore.

The bellows uncovered a time shift stone, which as usual, lit up the room. Those broken platforms sat along rails, though at first they couldn't figure out how to move them. They soon discovered the little propellers on the top, and used the bellows to move them along.

The gate could be opened much easier with the times shifted, especially when they noticed a propeller on that as well.

There was another statue which Link brought down, though this one was a bit more difficult. It was taller than the last two, and they discovered that it did not call anything terrible to get them, but instead it shot out bouts of electricity. Fortunately, neither were hit this time.

After the statue, there was a strange orb like thing that shot out flaming rocks it seemed, but Tya was able to shoot it down in only a couple tries.

More platforms moved by the bellows, statues, and gated doors that they had to open led them to a room that panicked Tya for a brief moment.

She hadn't thought about those skeletal monstrosities in a couple days, but the moment those bars slammed down behind her, the fear came back as if it were fresh. Fortunately, the enemy was easy to see. It was simply those three headed creatures.

Two of them. Tya handled one while Link handled the other. Or that was the plan, but it was difficult to take out all three heads at the same time with a fire ball. She more or less distracted it while Link killed the other one.

With the threat dispatched, they got to look around the room. Link easily caught on to what needed to be done next, but Tya was distracted by a much larger pile of rubble and the fact that the door had not yet opened.

It seemed to lie in front of another door, meaning they couldn't get to it. She could only assume that they'd find a time shift stone somewhere in the room, and that mess would reconstruct itself.

Sure enough, they did.

While Tya was distracted by what that mess could be, Link had been moving a large block around to allow them to get up on a ledge.

On the ledge, they found another gate blocking a chest and a good bit of sand.

They used the gust bellows to get rid of the sand, uncovering a stone just as she'd suspected.

They couldn't open the gate yet, but they could shoot the stone with the slingshot.

When the times changed, Tya moved to the edge they'd just climbed up and looked down at the pile of rubble to see what it had become.

It was another statue, or machine perhaps. But it was incredibly unsettling to look at.

It had a large smile and wide, glowing eyes as well as a propeller on its head and spikes around its bottom.

Despite the unease, they moved down back onto the floor it was on.

The floor seemed to mark the distance the thing would notice you at, because the moment they stepped into it, the thing tilted toward them.

Given its lack of limbs, Tya assumed it was immobile, but she was wrong. After noticing them, it began to leap toward them.

While Tya was being distracted by it's human-like appearance, Link was quickly figuring out what needed to be done to it. The propeller on its head suggested the bellows, so he used them. This caused that smile to open up, uncovering human like teeth and a gem.

After being opened so much, it stopped, and the light in its eyes died.

Link slowly handed the bellows to Tya, wary of whether or not the thing was disabled. He was going to go for the gem, but before he could get too close, the mouth slammed shut again and the eyes lit up. It immediately began to leap toward them again.

This time Tya used the bellows to disable it, and Link quickly went for the gem, opting to just hit the thing instead of grab it. It seemed to work, but only for that side.

The mouth fell shut again, and it turned around then. This side had a much less amused expression, which didn't make her any less uncomfortable.

Again, the propeller was raised, and Link thrusted the sword into the gem in its mouth. It seemed to malfunction then, before shutting down entirely.

Both of them froze for a moment, trying to see whether or not it would pick up again. Luckily for them, it didn't

The door it stood in front of was now uncovered, and judging by the sounds, the gate up top had also opened.

The chest behind it held a map, which they decided to look at in the next room.

The door led to the same place all the others had. The main hub room after the crossroads.

This time though, they were on a different side of one of the gates they couldn't move.

There was a button they used to open the gate, meaning they could now access it from the parts they'd been to previously. But they didn't move forward.

The side they were on had quite a bit of potential, and quite a bit of sinksand.

They decided they could take a small break to look over the map they'd found, not to mention eat and drink.