AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hi everyone. This note is to let you know that I will be putting my fan fiction entitled "The Weakest Link" on hold until the completion of "Sage of Innocence Saga".
Why?
Well, school has just started for me, and since I'm in high school now, I will have a lot more homework. TWL and SOIS take a lot of work to write, and I just can't keep up with school AND two weekly fan fiction serials. Even superheroes need a break every once and a while. Since TWL takes the most time to write, and I'm further along in SOIS, I will be continuing to write SOIS until it's done, then I'll begin writing TWL again.
PLEASE don't email me or review whining that I haven't updated TWL in a while, I KNOW. That's what this note is about. Also, I'm having some computer problems, and I'm unable to upload chapters of TWL on my home computer. As soon as SOIS is finished, I'll fix the problem.
Don't worry, I'll still be updating "Hey Ocarina!" every few weeks, and every once and a while I'll have something completely new and different. But I can't write TWO long, serial fan fics at the same time and expect them to be halfway decent or even worth reading. This will be best in the long run, and it will mean better fan fics from me. Thanks for understanding, everyone.
Questions or comments can be left in your review or sent to my email at galaxygirl7777@angelfire.com.

Keep Laughing!

~ Galaxy Girl "GG"

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Sage of Innocence Saga -or- Two Links and a Bunch of Authors
By Galaxy Girl

DISCLAIMER: For the fortieth time, I do not own LOZ, Link, Little Link, or the world of Hyrule. I DO own myself, Doseki, the seven other temples, and the following fan fic. Any and all authors who appear in my story are there for comedy effect only, and I'm not trying to make fun of you or embarrass you. Please don't take offense at what my nutty sense of humor may make you do...



Hi everybody! It's me again, your little Goron buddy LL! Last chapter, Link, Yumi and I traveled inside the wacky and weird Randomness Temple to rescue Sailor Zel, the Author Sage of Randomness. After doing the Hokey-Pokey, going on a crazy raft ride and puking my guts out, and fighting two evil dental hygienists with a bad Team Rocket rip-off for a motto, we finally received the Randomness Medallion, and the next temple clue!


"Ah, DEATH MOUNTAIN!" I sighed. "'Tis been so long since I have set foot on your beautiful, blessed soil!"
"What are you talking about?" Link groaned, rolling his eyes. "We've only been gone 4 days!"
"I've never been away from home without Dad that long before," I said.
Yumi sighed and watched the black and green 1s and 0s on the cloud above Death Mountain spin around. "I sure hope we can save the world... Otherwise, things will never be back to normal!"
"Sure we can," Link said positively, patting Epona on her neck.
The three of us and Epona were strolling casually towards my homeland of Death Mountain, but that's not where we were headed. We were going to Kakariko Village, where we hadn't been since the beginning of this whole big mess. I was in my Doseki form, in case you didn't know.

Since the Randomness Temple, Link had decided three things:
1. The next temple was going to be somewhere where there were dead things, as in Destiny's clue.
2. The only place he could think of with lots of dead things was the graveyard in Kakariko Village.
3. We had better get moving, because as of sunrise that morning, we only had 3 days until the world ended.

We crossed the bridge over Zora's River, and Link looked upriver briefly, shuddering. "Woo... I still can't believe Ruto... UGH!"
"It was yesterday, you big whiny butt!" Yumi said, rolling her eyes. "Get over it!"
"Easy for you to say Yumi, you didn't have Ruto's tentacle shoved down your throat."
"WHAT?" Yumi and I gasped.
"Well you see, the Zora anatomy is that... Um..." he noticed the green looks on our faces. "OK, maybe I'll leave that for later..."
"Thank you!" Yumi groaned.
By now, we had reached the steps leading up the mountain into Kakariko.
"OK now Epona girl, you stay here," Link said, patting her nose. The horse gave an appreciative (thanks, GG) whinny. "That's a girl."
"I'm HOME!" I cheered. "Well, almost. Link, could we go visit my daddy if we have time?"
"Maybe, Doseki. We are on a tight schedule."
And finally, we reached the limits of Kakariko Village.

We had been here before, but last time... well, things were a bit different... This time... the whole village was in chaos!
Yumi looked around anxiously. "Is there anything wrong here?"
"Nope. Hundreds of psycho authors running amok, everything's normal," Link murmured.
Yep, all of the authors we had seen before, plus a few more were all running rampant through town.
The houses looked like they had been through a big battle, and the townspeople were outside in a big group hassling some woman in the center of the village.
"WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?"
"Who are these people?"
"Make them go away, mistress!"
"I'm working as hard as I can to make them leave, good people. We must be patient! All will turn out in the end!"

We passed by Female Mikau and Dekugirl, who were strolling through town. I think they were still arguing over the fish.
"You Zoras are so hard to deal with!"
"You Deku Scrubs are so stubborn! UGH!"
A man wearing a toga, a Bunny Hood, and a pair of sandals rushed into town right behind us carrying letters. "Scuze me, pardon me, coming through..."
Upon hearing him say that, Misty Dawn stuck her head out from behind a cottage. Her eyes widened, and she shrieked. "RUNNING MAN, MY LOVE!"
He screamed. "AAGGGH! NOT YOU AGAIN! AAGGGHHH!"
Then the Running Man and the self-proclaimed Running Girl sped off out of the village, the latter chasing the former.
Matio64 was still playing his music box, and Epona the Lost Sage of Life had joined the party as a carpenter woman. Racing around with a box of tools, she kept stopping to nail boards in random places on the cottages, and the residents would run out and yell.
Candy stumbled out of the Bazaar with an armful of weaponry. "Oh brother! Ever since Fianna disappeared, the boss has been making me do all the work around here! GRRR!"
Zelda in a Crystal had given up on her Potion Shop business, and had started a career as... a circus barker?
"HURRY, HURRY! STEP RIGHT UP AND SEE THE AMAZING THREE FOOT WOMAN EATING CUCCO!"
She pulled back a large curtain, to reveal poor Granny the Potion Shop lady banging on a large glass beaker and yelling. A small fried Cucco was next to her.
"Aw, come on!" Zelda in a Crystal screamed. "You gotta eat the Cucco!"
"I'M A VEGETARIAN!" Granny yelled back.
Down the Death Mountain Trail strutted Darmani, with his shoulders broad and a big fake white beard on him like he was the REAL Darmani.
Topaz, who was still an old woman, was wandering around the village muttering vague stories and "Oh, when I was a kid, this whole village..."
Ryo-Chan had changed into a big puffy pair of parachute pants. She raced up to us. "ARE YOU GERUDOS?" she wailed desperately.
"Um, no," I said awkwardly.
"OH POO! I'LL FIND YOU, MY BELOVED GANONDORF-CHAN!"
She scampered off.
Link raised his eyebrows. "Wow, she really is crazy."
Ice Sage was racing around the village, dressed in an ornate black robe with blue on it. She kept yelling, "KOUME? KOUME, WHERE ARE YOU?"
Gunner47 had climbed up onto a roof, and was pointing at the peak of Death Mountain and screaming, "LOOK! SOMETHING'S GOING ON AT DEATH MOUNTAIN!"
Oh, if only you knew, Gunner... If only you knew...

"But Mistress, they're tearing apart our village!"
"What's wrong with them? Why won't they listen to us?"
"Please, Mistress! Make them leave my poor Cuccos alone!"
"My cows have stopped giving milk since they came!"
"Now, I told you, I'm working as hard as I can to turn things back to normal!"
The crowd dissipated away from the woman in the square, and Link gasped. "Impa!
A familiar-looking woman with silver hair in short black shorts and black body armor, with leather shoulder straps and an eye painted on the armor stood in the center of the village. Her face and eyes were painted, and she had a large knife at her waist.
"Impa!" Link shouted out, racing towards her. He stopped and turned to us. "Come on you guys, I know her!"
Impa! She was the Sage of Shadow and the leader of Kakariko Village. She and my dad did a lot of trading bombs for arrows and stuff like that. She had known me since I was just a little Goron.
"Impa!" Link yelled again.
The woman turned towards us. "Why, if it isn't the Hero of Time! How are you, lad?"
"Fine, just peachy," he said, as Yumi and I ran up to join him.
"Oh? Who is this handsome young lad?" she asked.
"This is Yumi, and Doseki." Link said. "Oh wait, LL do you know Impa?"
"Impa, it's me! Little Link of the Gorons! Darunia's son!"
"That voice sounds familiar," Impa said, thinking. "Oh! LL! What on Earth has happened to you?"
"Long story..." I muttered. "Here. INNOCENCE MEDALION RETURN!" I held up my medallion and turned back into myself.

~*~*~*~*~*POOF*~*~*~*~*~

Impa smiled and rubbed my head when she saw me. "Why, Darunia's little boy has grown up to be the Sage of Innocence..."
"You know about the Sage of Innocence?" Link gasped.
"An ancient Sheikah legend tells of the son of a great warrior who could change shape, and fought along side the Hero of Time." Impa nodded. "And no need to explain the virus to me... I foresaw it in a dream last week... It's terrible!"
As soon as she said that, Sensei raced by us, wearing Sheikah-like clothing. He stopped and bowed. "OH GREAT IMPA! I BOW TO YOU, AS YOUR HUMBLE SHEIKAH WARRIOR SERVANT! I AM OFF TO FIGHT EVIL! HOOOOCHA!"

Impa rolled her eyes, and nodded. "Aye, the Princess has been terribly worried... especially when several girls showed up at the castle a few days ago demanding to be let in, and that they were the princesses of Hyrule!"
"Did you tell Zelda your dream?" asked Yumi.
"No... I was afraid it would worry her sick. But I suppose I should have told the future queen and Sage of Light..."
"Impa, we're here looking for the Fifth Author Sage." Link told her.
"Fifth? Already? Aye, you two have been working hard."
Black Pegasus raced by us, carrying a saddle. "NEIGH!" she neighed.
"I really, really hope she doesn't remember any of this when she wakes up..." I sighed.
From up by the windmill, we heard someone screaming "AYYYY! I AM THE GREAT SAGE OF SHADOW! BOW TO MEEEEE! AAHHAHAHAHAAA!"
It was Shadow Gamer. I guess he thought she was a Sheikah too.
"This is nuts!" Yumi cried.
A guy pushed by us, holding a large sword. He had mud splattered all over his face.
"FIERCE DE-ITY!" Psycho Link screamed out, and he tried to cut Link in half.
Link grabbed his shoulders and pointed him in the direction of the village exit. "Hey Look, Fierce Deity! It's a couple of monsters!"
Psycho Link screamed, and raced off.
Impa nodded. "I'd just been to the mountain to ask your father for help, LL. But it seems Death Mountain has been overrun by people who think they are Gorons... I spoke with Nabooru and little Saria in the Chamber of Sages, and it seems that the desert and the forest have been affected too... And there are so many Sheikah-wannabes here, it's insane!"
Link raised an eyebrow. "Sheikah?"
"But aren't you the last of the Sheikahs?" Yumi asked.
"Besides my nephew Sheik, and a small tribe of us in a location I can't reveal, yes... You have seen almost all of the so-called Sheikah already. All but one girl... she sits in the graveyard all day guarding this strange boy with purple hair, and she wears Sheikah-like clothing, too..."
We all gasped.
"Destiny's last clue was 'This shrine is hidden away, Beneath the dead's keeper, So come on baby, Don't fear the reaper'" Link told Impa.
Her eyes widened, and her eye makeup made them look really big. "Oh my..."
"What did the girl say her name was?" I asked.
"Niniel," Impa said. "She should still be in the graveyard... but I have foreseen danger for her..."
"OH NO!" Link and I cried.
"Niniel will be in an awful lot of trouble if she's the next Sage and we leave her alone for too long!" Link said.
"We gotta go!" I gasped.
"You go, lads. I'll take care of things in the village, you hurry to the graveyard!" Impa said, nodding.
"Thanks for the help, Impa!" Yumi cheered.
Impa looked at Yumi strangely. "Aye, the lass doesn't look like any fairy I've ever seen..."
"She's not," Link and I whispered.
"Oh... I see... Now, get moving! This world needs saving, and you two are the only ones who can do it!"

Link and Yumi sped off towards the graveyard. I slugged off behind.
"Come on, LL! We don't have all day!" Link whined.
"Um... I think I'll just wait out here..."
"Don't be silly!" Yumi said, rolling her eyes. "You have to come!"
"I hate graveyards! I told you that!"
"Come ON!" Yumi snapped.
"I don't want to!"
Yumi flew over next to my head, and knocked into it several times.
"OW! OW! OW! STOP IT!" I moaned.
"You stop it! Now you be a good boy and get inside this graveyard!" she said.

The graveyard looked exactly as it did when we had last been here, right before we discovered GG.
Only... there was something different...
We could hear soft humming from the far side of the rows and rows of headstones. And we could also hear someone grunting and screaming.
Link snuck over behind the large headstone at the front of the graveyard, and motioned for us to follow. "Come here, let's see who it is!"
We snuck over near him, and very quietly peeked over the back of the headstone.
At the far end of the graveyard, there sat a lovely young lady a little older than GG. She was dressed in Sheikah clothes like Impa's, and she had sparkling bluish-white hair. There was a blue tiara on her head, and she seemed to be drawing a picture while she sang.
She was an author, I knew it! But which one? I couldn't tell from this far away.
The grunting was coming from a young man tied to a chair and gagged right next to the girl. He had short purple hair, and red eyes like mine...
"That's... KAFEI!" Link gasped. "The guy from Termina, Kafei! What's he doing here?"
Yumi shrugged. "Maybe he's taking a vacation?"
"He's tied to that chair and gagged," Link said sternly. "I don't think so..."
"I know!" I gasped. "That author! It's Wintyr!"
"Why did she tie up Kafei?" Yumi asked.
"Yeah, what's up with that?" Link repeated, impatiently.
"Wintyr has a thing about pretty boys with long hair... Kafei is like her dream guy! Her alter-ego must have kidnapped him!"
"Hold still!" Wintyr snapped at Kafei. "I can't sketch you if you don't hold still!"
The gag fell out of Kafei's mouth. "I DON'T WANT TO BE SKETCHED!" he screamed. "I WANT TO BE LET GO!"
"Aw, now is that any way to treat your future wife?" she asked. "A Sheikah man would never do that to me!"
"You're not my future wife!" Kafei yelled. "Just because things didn't work out with Anju doesn't mean I want to marry you!"
Wintyr gasped. "But Kafei, look!"
She held up her hand. A sparkly diamond ring was on her left hand ring finger.
"I DIDN'T GIVE THAT TO YOU!" Kafei yelled. "That ring belongs to my girlfriend!"
"I am your girlfriend, you silly goose!" Wintyr cooed.
"You are not! Wintyr is my girlfriend, you're just some psycho who looks like her!"
"I already told you, there's no such person as Wintyr. What kind of name is that? Now my name..."
"What kind of stupid name is Niniel?" he groaned. "You're not Wintyr, you're someone named Niniel and Wintyr is the only girl for me!"
"Hey, I gagged you for a reason, Kafee-Waffee!"
"Oh jeez, please don't call me that ever again..."
Wintyr or Niniel as she was going by stood up and replaced the gag in Kafei's mouth.
Then she went back to humming and sketching. And Kafei went back to grunting and whining.

"This is very bad..." Link murmured.
"I wanna go home!" I wailed. "I hate graveyards!"
"Get a hold of yourself, LL! We haven't been approached by any evil undead creatures yet, have we?" Yumi pointed out.
Suddenly, a very weird chill filled the air.
Dark clouds seemed to roll in, and we heard rustling behind us.
"We gotta go over and talk to Wintyr..." Link said.
"Link, what was that noise?" I gasped fearfully.
"It's nothing."
"It was something!"
All of a sudden, we heard two evil laughs. One was slightly high, and one was kind of low.
"TERRY AND KIM! BACK FROM THE DEAD TO KILL US!" Yumi shrieked.
There were two flashes of light from behind us, and we heard the two voices giggling maniacally.
We both spun around, and screamed.

On the left side behind us was a girl, only she didn't look normal... she had pale skin and wore a purple hood over her head, and she was wearing torn up clothes and carrying a lantern.
On the right was a boy, and he looked a lot like the girl, with a hood, torn up clothes, and a lantern.
"Intrudersss in our graveyard..." the girl said evilly.
"Yessss, we must teach them a lesssssson!" the boy laughed.
"POES!" Yumi cried.
Not just any Poes, they were authors! The boy was Mister Crash, and the girl was Saridaru-Chan...
"You two go away!" Link yelled bravely. "Leave us alone, or my sword will find you!"
"He sayssssssss he hasssss a sssssssword!" Saridaru laughed.
"Sssssssswordsssss cannot hurt usssssss!" Mister Crash grinned.
"GO AWAY!" I shrieked.
Both Author Poes giggled, and Mister Crash slowly drifted towards me. "Boo!" he said.
I screamed and tried to back away.
"He'ssssss afraid of little old me!" Mister Crash chuckled.
"Aw, poor little guy... we'll be your friendssssssss!" Saridaru cooed mockingly.
"I don't want no Poes for friends!" I yelled, holding up the Innocence Medallion.

~*~*~*~*~*~*POOF*~*~*~*~*~

I pulled out the Little Giant. "Go away!"
"He isssss neither Goron nor human..." Saridaru said, puzzled.
"No! I'm a Goron! I'm just... better equipped this way!" I said, holding up the Little Giant threateningly. "Now go away and stop scaring Yumi before I beat you up!"
"SCARING YUMI?" Yumi laughed.
"Go ahead, try ussssssss..." Mister Crash smiled.
"That's enough!" Link yelled. He pulled out his sword, and tried to slice through Saridaru.
His sword moved right through her!
"SHE REALLY IS A POE!" Yumi shrieked.
"RUN!" I yelled.
The three of us attempted to split, but Mister Crash appeared in front of us and shook his lantern threateningly.
"Ohhhhh... help usssss! We need your help, sssssssilly humansssss!" Mister Crash wailed.
Saridaru appeared near us, too. "Pleasssssse! Help usssss! We were only joking!"
"Why do you need our help?" asked Link.
"Coeur de Glace! Coeur de Glace!" Saridaru and Mister Crash moaned. Their voices drove chills down my neck.
"What?" Yumi and Link echoed.
"Coeur de Glace! Coeur de Glace!" they repeated.
"What does that mean?" I asked frantically.
"She! She cursssssssed usssssss!" Saridaru cried.
"We were brother and sssssissssster who traveled and ssssssold medicine and dog leasssssshesssss!" Mister Crash groaned.
"We wandered into the graveyard, and we found her lair!" Saridaru cried sadly.
"Coeur de Glace! Coeur de Glace!" Mister Crash yelled.
"OK, OK, enough with the Core dee Glass, please!" Link said.
"Coeur de Glace, you sssssstupid idiot!" Saridaru and Mister Crash cried.
Link blushed, and Mister Crash continued. "She cursssssed ussss! She transsssformed ussss into Poessssss!"
"Sssssave ussss! Pleasssssse!" Saridaru finished.
The two of them bowed.
"Who is Coeur de Glace? Where is her lair?" I asked quickly.
"Two sssstonessssss are down, two sssstonesssss is right!" Mister Crash cried.
"But who is she?" Yumi asked again.
"Evil! Evil!" Saridaru yelled.
I rolled my eyes. "Gee, no kidding."
"Dessstroy Coeur de Glace, sssssave Miko and Nika!" Mister Crash and Saridaru (AKA Miko and Nika) cried.
"Her weaknesssss isssss..." began Saridaru, when suddenly, a rock flew through the air, almost hitting her.
Mister Crash and Saridaru vanished, and we heard a voice yelling. "HEY! Stupid Poes! Leave them alone!"

We spun around to see Niniel (AKA Wintyr) with a handful of rocks, standing next to her chair. "Hey, are you all right?" she cried out.
"Fine!" Link yelled back.
"Why don't you guys come over here? I need someone to talk to anyway!" Niniel said.
"Now's our chance!" Link grinned.
"But Link, what about Mister Crash and Saridaru?" I asked. "Shouldn't we help them?"
"We can't, Doseki. We don't know where Coeur de Glace's lair is, and we need to awaken the next Sage!"
"They said 'Two stones are down, two stones is right!'" I said. "Isn't that where they said?"
"We'll see if we have time to," Link told me. "Then we'll help them."
Niniel stood up to greet us. "Hey, sorry about those Poes. Those two seem to enjoy harassing people who come to pay their respects in the graveyard,"
"It's all right," I said.
"I'm Niniel of the Sheikah, the great artist of shadows!" Wintyr said. "And that's my boyfriend, Kafei. I'm sketching him."
"Why is he tied to that chair, then?" asked Yumi.
"Because he kept running. He swears that I'm not his girlfriend, and that his girlfriend is somebody named Wintyr." She took her voice down a few octaves and started some baby-talk. "But he's my wittle Kafee-Wafee no matter what he says!"
Link nodded. "Interesting."
Suddenly, Niniel looked at Link, and her mouth slowly spread into a playful grin. "Heyyy... you're not handsome, you're GORGEOUS! What's your name?"
"Uh... uh... Link..." Link stuttered.
"Oh really... how old are you, Link?" she asked.
"20," he said. I could see him crossing his fingers behind his back.
"REALLY? ME TOO!" she shrieked. Wow, she really was in a fantasy world. She thought she was 5 years older than she was.
"Uh..."
"DO YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND?" Niniel asked quickly.
Link saw Kafei out of the corner of his eye, screaming and kicking and grunting.
"Uh, I-"
"He's taken." I said smoothly.
"By who?" Niniel said, a hint of disappointment in her voice.
"The Zora Princess Ruto!" I grinned.
Link gasped and threw me a Look. "No, no, no, I..."
He took another look at Kafei, tied to the chair. Link sighed pathetically. "The wedding's... next... month..."
"Aww, I'm so happy for you!" she cooed. Then she saw me. "HOW ABOUT YOU, SWEETIE?"
"Uh..."
"He's Doseki." Link said slyly.
"How old are you?" she asked hopefully.
"14," I said.
"Awww... you're too young. BUT IT'S NOT FAIR! YOU'RE EVEN CUTER THAN LINK!" she wailed.
"HE IS NOT!" Link snapped.
"Oh well... in a couple of years, it won't matter..." Niniel grinned at me.
"Uh... Sorry lady, I'm taken too..." I said. "I have a girlfriend. And besides, I'm a Goron!"
Niniel raised her eyebrows, and burst out laughing. "Oh, sure you are!"
"No, really!" I said, showing her my tattoo. "I'm a GORON!"
"HEEP!" she squeaked. She studied my face carefully. "Um, OK whatever you say, Doseki... it's all right. KAFEIIIIIIII is the only guy for me!"
As she said his name, we saw him split for the end of the graveyard. His ropes lay across the ground near the chair.
Niniel gasped. "HEY! GET BACK HERE! I'M NOT DONE YET!"
Then, she looked at us quickly. "Sorry, gotta go!" and ran off after her boyfriend.

"She was... weird." Link said, scratching his head.
"Hey, how did the ropes get untied?" Yumi asked somewhat angrily.
We heard two familiar voices laughing, and we saw Crash and Saridaru standing near Kafei's chair.
"Rude human interrupted ussss!" Saridaru snapped. "Coeur de Glace guards her lair... and the Heart of Ice guards the Temple!"
"WHAT TEMPLE?" Link gasped.
"We continue where we left off," Crash snapped.
"But... what temple?" begged Link.
"That somewhere elssssse... we speak of Coeur de Glace's lair, now!" he said.
Saridaru struck a dramatic pose. "Coeur de Glace has but one weaknesssss! It issssss-"

Just as Saridaru started to say what Coeur de Glace's weakness was, we heard someone shout our names.
"Link! Doseki!"
Saridaru and Crash both sighed angrily, and vanished. Down, off of a high ledge behind where Wintyr had been sketching jumped Sheik.
"We meet again, boys," Sheik said, giving a low bow. "I see you have learned what has become of Kakariko Village from my Aunt Impa..."
"It sure is crazy around here," I commented.
"Certainly is. Now, since you have found the location of the next temple, I will teach you the next song after a long elaborately planned philosophical speech..."
Link sighed.
Sheik pulled out that little stringed thing and cleared his throat. "It is something that we develop over time: True emotion. For family, for friends, even for young love. Emotion is the glue that holds together the bonds of the family and the heart, and the paint that expresses the inner feelings of the heart. Listen to this, the Monody of Emotion!"
"Monody!" I repeated. "That game is fun."
Sheik looked at me in disbelief, and I think he was frowning, if it weren't for his mask. "Not Monopoly, Monody. Oh jeez, just play the song!"

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Link repeated the song on Ocarina, and I repeated it on drum. Yumi also repeated it, singing very badly off-key.
Sheik put the stringed thingy away. "Good job. Now you've learned the Monody of Emotion, which you will need to open the door to the Emotion Temple."
"Where is the Emotion Temple entrance? Here in the graveyard, but where?" asked Link.
"Two figures of light who have been shrouded in darkness by Coeur de Glace know of the location." Sheik said. "You must talk to them before you can enter the temple and rescue the Sage of Emotion by defeating the Heart of Ice. Anyway, that's all for now. Good luck with the Fifth Temple, and I'll see you again at the Sixth. Farewell, my friends!"
He stepped back a few feet and threw that marble-like thing, and disappeared.

"It's Saridaru and Crash," Link said.
"So now we have to find the Emotion Temple, beat the boss, and THEN find Coeur de Glace's lair and kill her too?"
"Looks like it," Link sighed.
There were two flashes of light, and Saridaru and Crash appeared for a third time.
"Humansssss are annoying!" Crash said, rolling his blank ghostly eyes.
"No kidding, Brother," Saridaru replied.
"Enough about Coeur de Glace, where's the Emotion Temple?" asked Link, somewhat impatiently.
"We already told you! Two stones are down, two stones is right!" Saridaru said.
"But you said that was where Coeur de-" I started.
"QUIET, MORTAL! Now, Coeur de Glace has but one weaknessssss..." Crash began.
"That weaknessssss issssss EMOTION!" the two Poes finished.
"Thank you. Very informative," Link said. "Now, can we please get going to the Temple?"
"The sssssooner you find the entrance, the sssssooner we will be free!" Saridaru cooed.
Then, the two ghosts vanished into thin air, this time by their own choice.

"What did they mean by 'Two stones are down, two stones is right?'" I asked Link.
"Maybe the stones they mean are gravestones, then we would have to follow the pattern of two down and two right..." he murmured.
Suddenly, we heard a gasp and a shriek of terror.
"WINTYR!" all three of us cried.
The cry had come from the front of the graveyard. We sped down to the front of the graveyard near the large gravestone out front, and we saw that the screamer was... KAFEI?
"She's gone!" Kafei screamed.
"Who is gone?" Link asked.
"Niniel! She was chasing after me and I ran in here to try and lose her, but once I passed that large gravestone, I heard a gasp and I spun around, and she was gone!"
"Slow down, slow down!" I said. "We don't understand you!"
"Hey, aren't you Link?" asked Kafei, more calm this time.
"Uh, yeah. What happened again? Slower, this time."
"Wow, I never got to tell you... Anju and I broke up. We never did have the wedding... well we did, but she forgot to come, and..."
"KAFEI! Not right now! Come on, let's hear what happened again!"
Kafei swallowed hard. "I was running from Niniel..."
"Yes?" I asked.
"She chased me back here in the graveyard..."
"YES?"
"Suddenly, I heard her gasp, and I turned around, and I saw her disappearing into a small hole just big enough to fit through right there..." he said, pointing in front of the gravestone.
"A shortcut in!" Link gasped.
"... which then closed up..."
"Aw, shoot."
"And then I screamed!" Kafei said. "Where did she go? Is she all right? I really don't like her, but if something were to happen to her because of me, I-"
"No, no, it wasn't you Kafei..." Link said.
"Hey Kafei, could I ask you something?" I interrupted.
"Sure. What?"
"What does 'Coeur de Glace' mean?"
Kafei thought for a second. "It means 'Heart of Ice'. Why?"
Our eyes widened. They were the same person!
"Oh please! You guys gotta help me! If anything happens to her, I'll just..."
"We... we have it under control," Link stammered.
"Oh good," Kafei said. "I'll just wait here..."
"Um, Kafei could you excuse us for a second?" Link asked him sweetly.
"Uh, sure." Kafei wandered back to his chair, picked up Wintyr's drawing, and sighed.
"THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON!" Yumi cried. "This cuts our work in half!"
"But Yumi, this is terrible!" Link cried. "Coeur de Glace or 'Heart of Ice' turned two innocent people into Poes! If she knows that Wintyr is the Sage who will help bring an end to her rule... WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE'LL DO TO HER?!"
"Instead of a Poe, she could mutate her into some kind of a DEMON! A BIG, REALLY EVIL DEMON!" I gasped.
AND WHAT WOULD SHE DO TO US? GOOD GRIEF! WHAT WOULD SHE DO TO US???



WHAT WILL SHE DO TO THEM? GOOD GRIEF! WHAT WILL SHE DO TO THEM? This Coeur de Glace sounds pretty evil, and powerful... Have Link and LL/Doseki finally met a villain they can't beat? And WHO IN THE WORLD IS CAUSING ALL THIS TROUBLE? Ganondorf again? OR SOMEONE ELSE?

Find the answers to some of your questions next chapter:

HEARTS OF ICE

-or-

EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN

And stay tuned for MORE Sage of Innocence Saga!