Hey Guys! Are you all excited for the second temple? Yeah you are, I can smell it.
Dreamer- … What?
Teller- Never mind that. Just ignore it.
Dreamer- I don't think I can!
Teller- Try.
Dreamer- …
Teller- Ahem! Anyways, Shout outs!
Somebody (Guest)- Yeah, I kinda thought so. Well.. Truthfully, I'm still debating it, but for now, yes, he is blind in his left eye. Sorries for him.
Dreamer- Sorries?
Teller- Hush. That is so cool! Is it a book your making, or one your reading? Either way I wanna read it!
Dreamer- Teller. You're side tracking.
Teller- Right! Sorry! Alright, lets get this show on the road!
On with the story!
The sun settled in the west, casting a blackish-purple sky in the east, the first few stars shining brightly as twilight fell upon the land. Shadow, Blue, Green and Shelda walked up to the steps of the temple, the entrance of where the next Link rested. Shelda watched as Blue and Green started up the steps, a thought coming to her as she called out,
"Wait!" both Links turned to her, Blue impatiently and Green curiously.
"What?" asked Blue, crossing his arms as he huffed in annoyance. Looking over to Shadow, Shelda could see his confusion as well and said to him,
"I have a sneaky suspicion that Twinrova sent more Dark Knights here after Blue and Green being free."
".. You might be right on that one Shel." said Shadow thoughtfully. Turning to the others, he warned them,
"There were a few Dark Knights at Blue's temple, so be prepared for a few in this one too." nodding in confirmation, the four of them ascended the stairs together, Shadow Blue and Shelda with their swords drawn and Green with his ears perked and alert. As they approached the entrance, the four of them nodded to one another before entering the temple side by side.
The first room started out as a narrow hallway, forcing them to walk in a single file as they went through. At the end of the hallway was the first room, it was filled with sand, old, broken pillars sticking up from it, skulls laying here and there where the pillars were no that far away from the sand that whirlpool to the bottom, sand poring down from the ceiling to prevent the sand level from dropping. At the end of the room was the doorway, a gate-like door closed and locked, the symbol of the Triforce on top of an ancient bird sat above the doorway.
"That's a lot of sand." commented Blue as they all stood on the small part of flooring that held all of them on.
"Did the sand just move?!" asked Shelda frightfully as the sand, in fact, did move around like some creature was underneath its gritty surface.
"Yep." said Shadow as he to watched the sand move around in two separate places.
"That's welcoming." said Blue deadpanned, noticing the skulls laying about. Shelda saw how Green rolled his eyes, probably saying something to Blue as he did so.
"Hey, you never know." said Blue directed to Green. Shelda shook her head, not really wanting to know what the topic was. Scanning the area, Shelda noted how what was left of the pillars were sturdy, and how the skulls were only on the lower ones closer to the sand.
"If we jump from pillar to pillar," she said, before looking over to Shadow as she voice her thoughts, "Then we can get by without getting eaten or possibly suffocated by getting trapped in that whirlpool."
"When did you get smart?" asked Blue, overhearing what she said. Shelda watched as Shadow rolled his eyes at Blue and said,
"Since she was created to be Zelda's dark side." looking back to Shelda, he added, "That is a good idea, but there is one flaw."
"What's that?" she asked, looking back at the room, not seeing what it was. She heard Shadow sigh as he explained with one question,
"How are we going to get to the first one?" Shelda stopped, wide eye in realization, as she looked over to the closest one. It was just out of jumping reach.
"Well then." she said, back to the thinking board. Shelda stared at the pillar as her head tried to think of a solution. This thinking, however, was broken by Blue running by her, sword drawn. Shelda watched in shock as Blue used his sword like a pole and vaulted over the sand and onto the pillar, where he rolled in order to prevent himself from getting hurt. Both Shadow and Shelda stood there, jaws open as Blue stood and brushed the dust off. Looking back at them, he gave them a cocky smile before saying,
"Well, looks like she's not the only one who's got ideas. By the way, you'll catch bugs with your mouth open like that." He added as Shelda shook her head out of the shock. Judging the distance first, Shelda gripped her sword tight before backing up, and rushing forward, sticking her sword down before coping what Blue did and used the momentum to vault across the sand. But, one thing none of them counted for was how her sword was made thinner for speed in one hand, not thicker for one or possibly two like theirs, hence why what happened next did. Halfway in the vaulting, Shelda heard a sickening snap before her whole body was jerked and brought down, right into the sand.
"Shit!" was all she could say before she landed into the sand, the current already making her lower half covered.
"Shelda!" called Shadow as he stood at the edge, watching fearfully as she was carried by the current towards the whirlpool of sand. Shelda tried to swim like as if she was in water, but the sand was to thick to mover her legs, and she was brought closer to the whirlpool.
"Look out!" called Blue, fear in his voice as well, as he pointed to the two moving creatures in the sand that had noticed her presence. Cursing under her breath, Shelda pulled her right arm out of the sand, revealing just what went wrong; her sword had snapped completely in half, and she still held tightly to the base half. Taking notice of this, Shelda narrowed her eyes as she watched the creatures coming, she now not even trying to move towards the floor anymore. Shelda watched as they got closer and closer, and waited until the closest one of the two jumped up, revealing them to be a weird larva that whole front opened into those creepy, triangle like mouths, one tooth on each end, and its eyes right behind them. Reacting quickly, Shelda took her broken sword and swiped to the side, cutting the first in half right as the second jumped up, it earning the same fate as the last. With those out of the way, and her now think rationally, Shelda looked to the right to see the pillar beside the one Blue stood on not far from her. Gripping her broken sword tightly, Shelda reached out and stabbed it into a patch of packed dirt that was on the pillar, pulling herself closer and gripping onto the stone with her other hand.
"Blue!" she called out, felling the current start pulling her away. Now knowing what she was doing, Shelda watched as Blue jumped over to the pillar she held onto, and reached down and grabbed her arm.
"I got ya!" he called , pulling her out of the sand and onto the safety of the pillar. Shadow must have vaulted over, for he was not far behind as she stood on her hands and knees trying to calm her racing heart.
"Are you ok Shel?" He asked as he crouched down beside her, a hand resting on her back worriedly. Shelda nodded breathlessly as she took big, deep breaths as the adrenaline wore away. She could hear Blue in the distance, talking to Green from where the wolf boy was on the main floor. Looking up, she could see their problem immediately; Green couldn't vault over. Taking one more deep breath, Shelda crawled closer to the edge, making sure it won't break beneath her before calling out,
"Green!" she said, gain both his and Blue's attention, "Jump as far as you can toward Blue, if you can get at least halfway, we'll be able to pull you up when the current pulls you over, or, if your close enough, Blue can pull you up." She could clearly see how hesitant Green was as he nodded, backing up as he faced Blue, taking a deep breath before leaping across the sand, right at the edge of the pillar where only his front paws caught it. Scrambling, Green tried to get a foothold as Blue grabbed under his legs and pulled him up, bringing the wolf Link onto the pillar. Sighing in relief, Shelda stood up as both Blue and Green got ready to jump over to where her and Shadow stood. Taking a deep breath, Shelda turned and ran across the pillar before jumping to the next, glancing back, and seeing the others not far behind. Catching Shadow's eye. Shelda couldn't help but smile a bit to him, earning one in return from the shadow boy. In a single file line, starting with Shelda and ending with Blue, the four of them jumped from one pillar to the next until Shelda landed onto one of the islands on the other side, and waited for the others to join. The four of them quickly walked over the small sand gap that separated them from the gate, Green just simply hopping over it. Shelda turned to Shadow as both he and Green looked at the gate and couldn't help but ask,
"So, going to rant again with there being a locked gate?" She just couldn't help but snicker at the look she received from said Dark Link.
"No." replied Shadow firmly. Shelda opened her mouth to say more, but stopped when some blue caught her attention, and caused her to double look over to the left of her.
"Blue, what are you doing?" she asked as she watched said Link standing on his hands and knees on the other side of a iron fence, trying to reach for something. Looking over to the left a bit as Blue spoke, Shelda saw a opening on the fence where he was able to get through.
"I saw this level thing over here, so I'm trying to grab it." he said in the most obvious voice ever, like, 'How did you not know that?' kind of voice. Shaking her head, Shelda merely crossed her arms as they waited for Blue to grab the level.
"Do you need help?" asked Shadow as he too watched from where he stood along with Green. Shelda heard Blue scoff as he looked over, not seeing where his hand was reaching.
"Jeez, you and Green both don't like sitting around and watching the great and mighty Blue do something, huh? You gotta-"
"Blue, look out!" yelled Shelda the minute she saw them emerging. Small, skeletons started to rise from the sand, sword and shield in their hands, one rising right where Blue's hand was.
"Whoa!" said Blue as he jumped up and drew his sword, immediately swinging it at the closest one, which fell into a pile of bones and sunk back into the sands, it companions soon joining it. After that quick rush of adrenaline went by, the four of them stood there silently, until,
"What in the hell is with this place and having monsters in the sand?!" shouted Shadow angrily as he threw his arms into the air.
"Aaaaaanndd, there's the rant we were looking for!" said Shelda chirpily.
"Shut up Shel." was Shadow's immediate response, dropping his arms. Shrugging her shoulders, Shelda gave a mere "Alright" before going silent again as they went back to watching Blue. For a bit, nothing was said, until-
"Got it!" shouted out Blue victoriously. Pulling on the level hooked to a chain, there was a loud clunk before the old gate-like door retreated back into the walls, opening the rest of the temple to them.
"All in a job well done by the mighty Blue Link! You may applauded now." said Blue cockily.
"Congrats, you opened a gate, your kingdom must be proud of you." replied Shelda deadpanned as she followed Shadow towards the stairs ahead.
"Hey! Last I recall I was the one who got us over here."
"And also broke my sword." added Shelda before stopping and looking back at him,
"By the way, you owe me a new one." with that, she turned and came up beside Shadow at what looked like another door, which was covered in chains and a lock.
"Are you kidding me?!" yelled Shadow. Shelda looked around, trying to find anything that could unlock it, but saw something else that caught her attention.
"Hey what's that?" She asked. Before the others could see what it was or answer her question, Shelda was already walking over to the corner to the left, where a few tiny ancient pots sat, and a big, bowl-like thing with handles stood, a orange like substance in it.
"Is this food?" she asked as she stuck her finger in it, coating it with the stuff, now allowing the others to see it.
"Um, Sheld, I don't think-" Shadow tried to warn, but was to late by Shelda sticking it in her mouth, immediately spitting it out and coughing, saying all the way,
"No food, not food!" she spit out the last of it, disgusted by the taste. By now, Shadow had come over to look at it more closely as both Blue and Green rolled on the floor laughing from Shelda's little, 'show'.
"This is lantern oil." said Shadow as he looked at it. Shelda wiped her mouth with her arm as he said that, not able to get the taste out.
"Yeah, nice. Give me the canteen." demanded Shelda, holding her hand out, which Shadow just simply rolled his eyes before giving her the canteen full of melted snow they had gotten before leaving the Snowy Peaks. As Shelda took a sip, she noticed Blue and Green still on the floor, trying their best to calm down.
"Oh, oh my gosh!" said Blue between breaths, "That was priceless!" a bit ticked at this, Shelda held the water in her mouth as she approached the two unaware Links. After standing there for a minute, Shelda sprayed the water-oil mixture out at them, causing Blue to shout and Green to yelp in surprise.
"Hey!" exclaimed Blue as she stood up, but was interrupted before he could say more,
"Guys, stop acting like children." said Shadow as he came over to join them.
"She's the child!" said Blue as he pointed a finger at Shelda, who at the moment was looking away. She didn't want to get into an argument and had turned away so she didn't have to keep staring at Blue, and noticed that on the opposite side of the wall was a doorway with what looked like rotting wood covering it.
"She's new to the Light Realm, Blue." countered Shadow simply. "Shel hasn't been in the Light Realm before this whole thing, so cut her a break." Shelda wasn't really paying attention to them, and couldn't help but see a very dim light coming from the other side of the wood.
"Yeah, and this is my first time being in this temple, and you don't see me taste testing random stuff I see." a thought popped into Shelda's head as she turned to Blue, not hearing what he had said and simply grabbed and unsheathed his sword, causing both him and Shadow to jump away.
"I was joking!" exclaimed Blue as he stared at her with wide eyes. Shelda looked at him blankly, blinking a couple time before asking deadpanned,
"What?" looking at Shadow and Blue, she pointed to the wood covered doorway before explaining in the same simple voice,
"I saw the rotting wood and thought I could break it with a sword." it was only then did she see them relax. Thinking it was just from all the sudden, Shelda simply shrugged her shoulders before going over to the doorway, and swinging the sword at the wood, turning it to splinters. Leaving the sword behind on the floor by Green, Shelda walked into the room, smiling a bit at seeing a chest sitting on the far side.
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Shadow couldn't help but set a hand over his still racing heart as Shelda went into the other room, taking deep breaths as he tried to calm it down. Closing his eyes, Shadow tried to rid himself of the thoughts that flashed through his mind the second Shelda drew that sword. Shadow stood there for a moment before feeling a hand on his shoulder, and opened his eyes and looked over to see it was Blue.
"You 'right, man?" Blue asked in a whisper. Taking one last deep breath, Shadow nodded before looking over to where Shelda was returning from. Dropping his hand from his chest, Shadow straightened his posture as Shelda came up with a key in one hand, and a lantern in the other. Shadow couldn't help but feel a chill in his spine as she smiled boldly, showing her tiny fangs. Once their eyes met, however, her smile dropped, and Shelda tilted her in question and asked right before she tossed the key to him,
"You ok Shad? You look a bit more pale then usual.." her voice trailed off as Shadow caught the key, nodding to answer her before adding,
"Just don't do that again."
"Do what?" she asked as she came closer, worry clear on her face as she added, "Explaining myself?"
"No, always do that." said Shadow, finding interest in the floor. "but.. don't do the other thing again. Ever." Shadow finally look at Shelda in the eyes, watching as realization dawn on her and she face palmed as she apologized,
"Soorrrryyy." Shadow, releasing a breath he didn't know he was holding, said simply,
"It's fine. Lets just keep going." Shadow headed towards the locked door key in hand, but was interrupted by Shelda suddenly jumping up and down, asking like an excited kid,
"Oh! Oh! Can we bring this lantern? Please?" Shadow felt his mind go blank as he watched her. There was Zelda's dark side, jumping up and down like a little kid, asking if she can bring a lantern. Truth be told, Shadow wasn't sure how to take that.
"Um.. Sure." replied Shadow, but couldn't help but grin a bit as she gave a little sound of joy as she ran over and filled the lantern with the oil before taking the attached lighting mechanism and lighting it. Shaking his head at that, Shadow put the key into the lock, easily unlocking it, and grabbed it the best he could before finally lifting it up, opening it to the next room. Holding it up fro the others, Shadow couldn't help but feel good that Shelda found that lantern, for the next room held no lighting in in, making Shelda the lead as they walked into the room. From what the light gave, it was a simple square room, sand flowing through the place here and there, skulls scattered around the place. The four of them walked into the room, two out of the four had their swords drawn. At first nothing happened, and they just stood in the center of the room, and Shadow was about to keep moving, but was cut short by the shadows of at least a couple dozen of those skeletons from earlier rose from the sands. Shadow swung his sword at the closest one, and immediately went for the next, Blue and Green not far behind in the fighting.
"Oh, look; enemies. It would be nice to fight them if my sword wasn't broken!" said Shelda completely directing it to Blue.
"I said I was sorry!" exclaimed Blue.
"No you didn't!"
"I'm sorry!"
"There ya go!" said Shelda, whacking one of the skeletons that came up to her with the lantern towards Green, who quickly pounced on it and destroyed it. "I was waiting for that!" Shadow couldn't help but smile at them as he destroyed the last of the monsters. Taking a deep breath, he looked over at the others through the dim lighting and asked,
"Everyone ok?" and in return, he got Blue saying,
"What is it with you and Green saying stuff at almost the same time?! It's not right!" Shadow shrugged his shoulders, confirmed that Blue was alright before going back to Shelda.
"You good?" he asked as Blue and Green apparently bickered in the background.
"Yep." replied Shelda with a smile. "This lantern came in useful, huh?"
"Sure did." agreed Shadow, smiling himself. "C'mon, lets get moving." he added a bit louder so the other two could hear. They sized their argument as they went over and opened the next door, into the next room. It was a bit more lighted than the last room, but not by much, and had a bluish-purple glow to it coming from the four dim lighted flames coming from the other side. The ceilings were a lot higher in this room that the others, and multiple pillars went all the way to the dark roof, some chipped and cracked, but none destroyed like the ones in the other room. At the side where the flames resigned, a set of stairs rose up, and lead to where a set of doors sat almost as tall as the walls, four faceless statues sitting at the base of them. The reddish light Shelda's lantern let out gave the room an empty atmosphere.
"It looks like this is the only place in the whole temple that still looks like it did from before." said Shadow as his voice echoed off the walls as they all slowly walked towards the stairs, looking around in awe. As they ascended the stairs, Shadow noticed that, as they passed them, Shelda's lantern seemed to make the flames turn into a blood red, like they were suddenly awoken by the lantern, but went back to the bluish-purple color once they passed. Not seeing anything important about that, Shadow merely followed the others as they stopped in front of the door.
"Well." said Shelda, looking up at the door. "This must be it." looking back at the others, Shadow watched as she gave them a mysterious smile as she added,
"Who wants to make Twinrova eat their fucking words?"
Shadow should have expected the others to agree with her.
Omg! I can't believe it took me so long to do this one! I'm so sorry, but well, I got something that prevented me from writing.
It's called writer's block. It sucks.
Dreamer- Yep.
Teller- Any who! Next chapter is the fight you all have been waiting for! Which Link will it be? Which monster will they fight? Well… you probably know that answer by now… but still! Answers will be answered in the next chapter, which, everyone, will be out halfway mark!
Dreamer- Wait, really?
Teller- More or less. But there will be either 34 or more chapters in this story, so.. Yeah. OH! And with the thought of the end of this story, don't forget to vote of my poll of which fanfic I'll do next on my profile! And with that, see ya guys next time!
TELLER OUT!