Disclaimer: I do not own Zelda. I have no rights whatsoever to use the words Link, Gerudo, Zelda,
Ganandorf, or Hyrule. But if you squeal on me, so help me God I'll kill you.
"Shiro, wake up!" My father shouted as he ran into my room. "I'm up! I'm up!" I groaned.
"C'mon hurry get dressed," he urged me. "Todays the big day!." "What big day?" I asked him.
"The day that you get tested!" All that left my mouth was a small "wha-" before he realized I had
no idea what he was talking about. His face formed an expression of almost comical horror and he
darted out of the room. I was confused as hell by now and I followed my father back to his room
where he shut the door and started arguing with my mother. THis was what I could make out:
"What do you mean you didn't tell him?"
"Well, I wanted to spare him the anxiety."
"Take it from me, this isn't exactly something a boy wants dumped on him out of nowhere!"
Now I was worried. I heard my mother say something about someone named Ruto. But wasn't
she the queen of the Zoras?
Then, my father opened the door and I fell over onto his feet. "Son, your mother wants to
talk to you about something." I walked in and sat down next to Naborou as she began to tell me
a story.
"Many hundreds of years ago, when Hyrule was just a land of fire there were four godesses."
"Yeah mom I know the whole story of the triforce and the creation of hyrule. It's been my
bedtime story since I was three years old. Wait... did you say four godesses?"
"Yes. Now stop interupting me. You know about Din, Nayru, and Fayore, but the fourth
Godess, Naja, wasn't as powerful as the others. After they had given their gifts to Hyrule all
that Naja was left with were the desert wastelands. But she still wanted to leave her mark, so
she decided to create a race of desert people. But, she wanted these people to be firece warriors.
So, in order to rule these people and train them as warriors, Naja had to split into two. Unfortunately,
as often is in these kinds of tales, Her twin was pure evil. In a struggle to contain her twin in
the Evil Realm, Naja had no other chice but to sacrafice herself in order to save her people. THe
Gerudos built the Desert colossus as a tribute to her. That is why the Colossus has two sides.
The woman with the snake around her is Naja's twin. According to legend, every gerudo king must
attempt to overcome the challenges laid out in the Spirit temple. At the top, there is a platform
where the king must sit to be judged. If he is the one, Naja will return and become his bride."
At that point, my mother noticed the horrified look on my face. "Don't worry, even if you are the
one you won't have to marry Naja until you are ready." That helped... a little bit. "And now, it
is your time to attempt the challenges in the spirit temple."
The crowd around the Colossus was huge. Apperently, every Gerudo but me knew about this.
They prated to make a path to the entrance of the temple for my parents and me. I was about to
enter the temple when my father stopped me. "Here, these may come in handy." He then handed me
two of his most prized treasures: the hookshot and the master sword. I thanked him and entered
the temple. THe first room of the temple was where most of the worshiping actually took place.
There was a large passageway to the right that led two a room with three doors. I decided to
take the center door, the larger of the three. Through the door was a long staircase. At the top,
was a statue of a wolf. I stared at it for a little too long however, as the statue began to
change from granite and stone to flesh and fur. I drew the master sword and held it out as the
wolf pounced, and the wolf was pierced through. It fell to the ground and once again became a statue.
As I walked into the next room, I saw the opposite side of the colossus. It looked a lot like the front,
except there was a snake coiled around her. In front of the colossus was a group of dark figures
who instantly scattered when I entered. These must be the worshipers of twin that I had heard
about. I would have to proceed with caution, they were supposedly extremely hostile. Aa I took
the next step, a dart whizzed past my ear and struck the wall behind me. I picked up the dart and
examined it. I then made a horrible discovery. I jumped of the platform I was on and ran to to the
end of the room, narrowly dodging twenty or so darts. Then I discovered that I was trapped. THe
only door I could use to escape was on a ledge I couldn't reach. But I got an idea! I took out
the hookshot and shot it at the cieling above the door. It stuck and I was pulled up. I went
through the rest of the temple with little incident, until I got to a room with pillars on the
side of a carpet leading to a throne at the back of the room. Sitting on the throne was a suit of
armor. It could only have been worn by a very large man and was holding a gigantic battleaxe.
I looked behind the throne and there was a door. But, the door was protected by iron bars that I
couldn't move by myself. I tried hacking at them with the master sword but to no avail. I thought
maybe the axe could break the bars. I tried to grab the axe, when I heard a loud yell and the
suit of armor stood up. This would have surprised my if I hadn't seen all the other weird things
in the temple. It swung the axe at me and I ducked just in time. I ran behind one of the pillars.
Luckily for me this thing moved like a turtle. As I was going over my options, the pillar behind
me shattered and about fifteen little blue and yellow thing popped out. I ran from the armor with
one of the mouse-looking things in my hand as I tried to figure out what it was supposed to do.
As I was handling it, I inadvertadely pressed a button and it dropped to the floor and started
running toward the axe-wielding suit of armor. When it made contact, it blew up. So these things
were explosives! I grabbed a few more of these thing and sent them all towards the armor. After
four or five of them, there was nothing left of it. I heard a strange noise. I went to check on
the door and the bars were gone. The next room contained a giant mirror looking over a small platform.
On the platform was the Gerudo's spiritual leader, Nanchta.
"Sit on the platform," she instructed me, and i did. After about five minutes of nothing
the platform began to move. It was lowered by the chains that held it to the ceiling. When it
stopped moving, I was in the first room of the temple. Right back where I started. I walked out
to see everyone staring up at the colossus. I looked up too, and saw that the whole thing was shaking.
the left hand of the statue actually closed. I was excited and proud that I was the one, but I
didn't really like the idea of being forced to marry someone. But, all those feelings went away
when the hand opened and I saw Naja for the first time.
Well, only one more chapter left, and it's gonna be a doozy! AS you have probably guessed, it
involves Naja's twin and... well I'm not saying any more. Please review !