A/N: Yup, we're already in to chapter three. I skooshed the first two
together 'cuz they were so short, and chapter four is plastered to three as
well. Hey, less loading time for you, right?
Chapter 3
"No!" I shouted instantly.
"It's true," Peach whispered. She looked as if she regretted having to be the one to tell me this. "He's loose in Hyrule somewhere."
"You can't be serious," I said weakly, but the look in her eyes told me that she was not lying or playing some cruel joke.
"Well, I can handle him," I took care of him last time, didn't I?"
"That's just the problem," Peach said. "He's spent all these years in the Sacred Realm steadily gaining power. Now that the gate between worlds has been opened, he's stronger."
"I'll take care of him," I said again, trying to sound confident. I wasn't succeeding.
"Though I don't know how he got out, Ganondorf is loose once more, somewhere in Hyrule," she continued. ''They need you. They-"
***
"Aaah!" I woke up with a shout.
"Whoa!" I heard a startled cry answering my frightened one. "Hey!" said the voice. It sounded oddly familiar."You scared me! C'mon Link, Hyrule needs you!"
"N-N-Navi?" I asked shakily.
"You bet!" she answered. "It's me!"
"It's great to see you again!" I cried. "But, where have you been all these seven years?"
"No time for that now," Navi answered. "Princess Zelda wants to see you. She says it's urgent." I whipped out my fairy ocarina.
"You know, I really miss the Ocarina of Time," I commented as I began to play the Prelude of Light, a mysterious melody that would warp me to the Temple of Time.
I started running the moment I hit the cold stone floor of the Temple of Time.
"Hey!" Navi exclaimed. "Wait for me!" As I waited for Navi to catch up, I wondered what could possibly be so important that Princess Zelda needed to get Navi to come fetch me.
"Slow down, Linky!" puffed Navi as she finally caught up. I'm sure my face turned bright red. Navi took one look at me and nearly fell out of the air laughing.
"You know, Link," she said laughing. "The last time I saw you in that particular shade of maroon it was when you accidentally walked in on that gut taking a bath!"
"You know, I could arrange for you to die laughing," I muttered as the two of us walked to Princess Zelda's castle.
As I stepped into the castle of the Royal Family, I looked around and saw Princess Zelda waiting for me.
"Hello Link," she said. "I have something to tell you. Something important."
"Is this about your kitchen sink again?" I sighed. "You know, Zelda, I can only fix the thing so many times."
"But-"
"This is what, the third time?" I continued. "I mean it just keeps breaking down again, or springing a leak."
"But Link, I-"
"No buts about it. We have to get that sink fixed permanently. Mario's a plumber, right? Maybe I could give him a call and-"
"Are you quite finished?" the princess broke in. "This is not about my sink, it's more important than that."
"Well, that's good, because I was really not looking forward to sticking my arm down there to dislodge-" the look on Zelda's face stopped me dead.
"Finally," she said. "As I was about to say before you started blabbing on about the sink, this is about Ganondorf." *That* got my attention.
"That's better," Zelda sighed. "As I was saying, Ganondorf may have somehow escaped from the sacred realm. We don't know how, why or even if he's out for sure. What we do know is that a lot of strange, unexplained things are happening. Lake Hylia has run dry again. Death Mountain is once again ablaze. Or to be more precise, the ring of clouds around Death Mountain is on fire again. The other sages have noticed odd things happening in their temples, too."
"Is that all of it?" I asked.
"Yes," she replied. "Hey! What are you doing?" she demanded as I pulled my ocarina out.
'I'm going to the Forest Temple," I said. "You know, the Minuet of the Forest?"
"Duh," Navi added. "
"Wait!" Zelda shouted. But it was too late. I had finished playing the song even as Navi spoke and was being transported to the Lost Woods before Zelda could even finish her one-word sentence.
I started looking around as soon as I landed on the "warp pad" of the Forest Temple. Warp pads are the quickest way to travel from place to place, or to be more precise, form Temple to temple, because each warp pad is located near a temple. This one, for example, was in the Lost Woods, the closest location to the Forest Temple. By playing each temple's specific song on the ocarina, the user is instantly transported to the temple's warp pad.
"Saria?" I called out. I didn't have to look for long, however. Saria was sitting on a nearby stump, playing her ocarina. "Saria, I need-"
I didn't get the chance to finish, because at that moment, Zelda materialized on the warp pad that I was currently standing on, pushing me out of the way. Which, consequently, made fall hard on my butt.
"Oww." I commented.
Zelda looked around. "Link!" she called out. "You forgot som-" she looked down. "Oh, there you are."
"Yeah, I'm here," I said, quickly picking myself off the ground. "So, what is so important that you had to come knock me on my butt to tell me?" I inquired.
"Did I do that? Sorry." she apologized, quickly changing the subject. "Anyway, what I need to tell you or rather give you, is this." She pulled an egg-shaped object out. "The Ocarina of Time?" I asked, somewhat awed. I mean, I hadn't seen that thing in seven years!
"Yes" she said. "If all of these odd events are leading to what I think they are leading to, you may need it. Take it." I took it.
"I must go now," she said. She threw a deku nut, temporarily blinding me. When I looked up again, she was gone.
"Link!" someone called. It was Saria. I walked over to her. "I was hoping you'd come," she said. "Something is wrong in the Forest Temple."
Chapter 4
"What's wrong in the Forest Temple?" I asked.
"Well," she began, "It's as if Phantom Ganon is back. The Poe Sisters stole those torches, you know, the torches that operate the elevator. There are monsters running amok in the temple itself, too."
"What kinds of monsters?" I interrupted.
"Skulltullas, Octoroks, Wallmasters." she went on to list almost every kind of enemy I had ever heard of, give or take a couple. "And since the elevator isn't working, I can't even check the basement floor, so I don't know if this is Phantom Ganon's fault."
"Nothing I can't handle," I said, although the prospect of so many enemies gathered all in one Temple was a little unnerving. "I'll be back before sundown," I promised as I headed towards the Forest Temple.
One problem, though. The huge stone staircase that had once lead to the Temple's front door, had long ago crumbled away, leaving no obvious way inside, except maybe climbing up the tree which stood beside the place where the old staircase used to be.
However, this tree was not climbing material. It had only one branch, which was attached to almost the very top of the tree. The branch hung over the top of the staircase, providing a perfect hookshot target. This seemed to be the only way in. Since I had been to the Forest Temple before, (well not technically, but anyway,) I was aware that this was in fact the only way in.
I aimed my hookshot at the branch and fired. It pulled my up to the branch, enabling me to safely jump to the top of the staircase, which was now the only part still remaining. This left me beside the door. I was about to step inside, when I heard Saria calling me.
"Wait Link!" she called.
"Yes?"
"There's a certain Wolfos you should watch out for. He's a little bigger than the other wolfos, and has bright blue eyes.
"Why, is it more dangerous than the others?"
"No, nothing like that. He's my friend."
"Your . . . friend," I repeated.
"Yes. His name is Mishrak. I managed to tame him a while back. He's as harmless as a cucco now." "Cuccos aren't that harmless," I pointed out.
"Well, if you aren't poking them with a sword they are!" I blushed a little at that, but I think I was high enough up that she couldn't see me.
"Anyways, he's the leader of his pack, which should help you out if you happen to run into that particular pack of wolfos. Oh, and Link?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"Be careful, okay?"
"I will," I assured her, and stepped inside the passageway leading to the front courtyard of the Forest Temple.
***
I wasn't inside the courtyard for two minutes when I found the welcoming committee. A pack of about four wolfos greeted me at the doorstep, and I knew that this wasn't just out of courtesy.
"You don't suppose one of them is Mishrak?" I asked Navi. I really wasn't in the mood to fight wolfos. They are masters at blocking sword attacks; you have to hit them while they are attacking or retreating. And their annoying howls are distracting, trying to confuse you. They aren't hard to beat if you time your attacks right, but if you are in a hurry, the best thing to do is to just avoid them. This didn't seem to be an option, however. These four wolfos seemed to be set on keeping me from entering.
"Nope," Navi answered. "No oversized wolfos with blue eyes in that pack."
The wolfos that must have been the leader grunted, signaling the others to attack. The two foremost wolfos lunged at me, while another one backed up a little, becoming camouflaged in the shadows. I fended them off fairly easily, but they weren't dead yet, just evasive, blocking most of my attacks. I tried to focus on blocking the one and attacking the other. It looked as if I had the first one, when the third wolfos joined in. Three at once! I used a sword spin, emitting a blast of magic in a circular pattern around me. Everything was a blur of sword and teeth, claws and fur. And blood. Hopefully not mine, but I was to caught up in the battle to feel pain at the moment.
Finally, it was over. The three wolfos let out a howl of defeat and vanished in a cloud of blue smoke. "Whew!" said Navi. "They almost had a fair fight. No match for you, of course."
"Yeah," I gasped. I gave myself a once over. Nothing badly damaged, maybe a couple of scratches. But wait. Weren't there four of them? What had happened to the last wolfos?
Suddenly, a noise behind me! I turned slowly, expecting to see the fourth wolfos. Instead, I was almost face to face with a moblin, ready to bring down his club. I jumped out of the way just in time, grimacing at the dent the club had made in the ground. That could have been me.
The moblin swung his club again, but I dodged and hit him with the hookshot, and he was down instantly. He disappeared in yet another cloud of smoke, leaving behind a bottle of potion. I grabbed it and stepped inside the front door.
Chapter 3
"No!" I shouted instantly.
"It's true," Peach whispered. She looked as if she regretted having to be the one to tell me this. "He's loose in Hyrule somewhere."
"You can't be serious," I said weakly, but the look in her eyes told me that she was not lying or playing some cruel joke.
"Well, I can handle him," I took care of him last time, didn't I?"
"That's just the problem," Peach said. "He's spent all these years in the Sacred Realm steadily gaining power. Now that the gate between worlds has been opened, he's stronger."
"I'll take care of him," I said again, trying to sound confident. I wasn't succeeding.
"Though I don't know how he got out, Ganondorf is loose once more, somewhere in Hyrule," she continued. ''They need you. They-"
***
"Aaah!" I woke up with a shout.
"Whoa!" I heard a startled cry answering my frightened one. "Hey!" said the voice. It sounded oddly familiar."You scared me! C'mon Link, Hyrule needs you!"
"N-N-Navi?" I asked shakily.
"You bet!" she answered. "It's me!"
"It's great to see you again!" I cried. "But, where have you been all these seven years?"
"No time for that now," Navi answered. "Princess Zelda wants to see you. She says it's urgent." I whipped out my fairy ocarina.
"You know, I really miss the Ocarina of Time," I commented as I began to play the Prelude of Light, a mysterious melody that would warp me to the Temple of Time.
I started running the moment I hit the cold stone floor of the Temple of Time.
"Hey!" Navi exclaimed. "Wait for me!" As I waited for Navi to catch up, I wondered what could possibly be so important that Princess Zelda needed to get Navi to come fetch me.
"Slow down, Linky!" puffed Navi as she finally caught up. I'm sure my face turned bright red. Navi took one look at me and nearly fell out of the air laughing.
"You know, Link," she said laughing. "The last time I saw you in that particular shade of maroon it was when you accidentally walked in on that gut taking a bath!"
"You know, I could arrange for you to die laughing," I muttered as the two of us walked to Princess Zelda's castle.
As I stepped into the castle of the Royal Family, I looked around and saw Princess Zelda waiting for me.
"Hello Link," she said. "I have something to tell you. Something important."
"Is this about your kitchen sink again?" I sighed. "You know, Zelda, I can only fix the thing so many times."
"But-"
"This is what, the third time?" I continued. "I mean it just keeps breaking down again, or springing a leak."
"But Link, I-"
"No buts about it. We have to get that sink fixed permanently. Mario's a plumber, right? Maybe I could give him a call and-"
"Are you quite finished?" the princess broke in. "This is not about my sink, it's more important than that."
"Well, that's good, because I was really not looking forward to sticking my arm down there to dislodge-" the look on Zelda's face stopped me dead.
"Finally," she said. "As I was about to say before you started blabbing on about the sink, this is about Ganondorf." *That* got my attention.
"That's better," Zelda sighed. "As I was saying, Ganondorf may have somehow escaped from the sacred realm. We don't know how, why or even if he's out for sure. What we do know is that a lot of strange, unexplained things are happening. Lake Hylia has run dry again. Death Mountain is once again ablaze. Or to be more precise, the ring of clouds around Death Mountain is on fire again. The other sages have noticed odd things happening in their temples, too."
"Is that all of it?" I asked.
"Yes," she replied. "Hey! What are you doing?" she demanded as I pulled my ocarina out.
'I'm going to the Forest Temple," I said. "You know, the Minuet of the Forest?"
"Duh," Navi added. "
"Wait!" Zelda shouted. But it was too late. I had finished playing the song even as Navi spoke and was being transported to the Lost Woods before Zelda could even finish her one-word sentence.
I started looking around as soon as I landed on the "warp pad" of the Forest Temple. Warp pads are the quickest way to travel from place to place, or to be more precise, form Temple to temple, because each warp pad is located near a temple. This one, for example, was in the Lost Woods, the closest location to the Forest Temple. By playing each temple's specific song on the ocarina, the user is instantly transported to the temple's warp pad.
"Saria?" I called out. I didn't have to look for long, however. Saria was sitting on a nearby stump, playing her ocarina. "Saria, I need-"
I didn't get the chance to finish, because at that moment, Zelda materialized on the warp pad that I was currently standing on, pushing me out of the way. Which, consequently, made fall hard on my butt.
"Oww." I commented.
Zelda looked around. "Link!" she called out. "You forgot som-" she looked down. "Oh, there you are."
"Yeah, I'm here," I said, quickly picking myself off the ground. "So, what is so important that you had to come knock me on my butt to tell me?" I inquired.
"Did I do that? Sorry." she apologized, quickly changing the subject. "Anyway, what I need to tell you or rather give you, is this." She pulled an egg-shaped object out. "The Ocarina of Time?" I asked, somewhat awed. I mean, I hadn't seen that thing in seven years!
"Yes" she said. "If all of these odd events are leading to what I think they are leading to, you may need it. Take it." I took it.
"I must go now," she said. She threw a deku nut, temporarily blinding me. When I looked up again, she was gone.
"Link!" someone called. It was Saria. I walked over to her. "I was hoping you'd come," she said. "Something is wrong in the Forest Temple."
Chapter 4
"What's wrong in the Forest Temple?" I asked.
"Well," she began, "It's as if Phantom Ganon is back. The Poe Sisters stole those torches, you know, the torches that operate the elevator. There are monsters running amok in the temple itself, too."
"What kinds of monsters?" I interrupted.
"Skulltullas, Octoroks, Wallmasters." she went on to list almost every kind of enemy I had ever heard of, give or take a couple. "And since the elevator isn't working, I can't even check the basement floor, so I don't know if this is Phantom Ganon's fault."
"Nothing I can't handle," I said, although the prospect of so many enemies gathered all in one Temple was a little unnerving. "I'll be back before sundown," I promised as I headed towards the Forest Temple.
One problem, though. The huge stone staircase that had once lead to the Temple's front door, had long ago crumbled away, leaving no obvious way inside, except maybe climbing up the tree which stood beside the place where the old staircase used to be.
However, this tree was not climbing material. It had only one branch, which was attached to almost the very top of the tree. The branch hung over the top of the staircase, providing a perfect hookshot target. This seemed to be the only way in. Since I had been to the Forest Temple before, (well not technically, but anyway,) I was aware that this was in fact the only way in.
I aimed my hookshot at the branch and fired. It pulled my up to the branch, enabling me to safely jump to the top of the staircase, which was now the only part still remaining. This left me beside the door. I was about to step inside, when I heard Saria calling me.
"Wait Link!" she called.
"Yes?"
"There's a certain Wolfos you should watch out for. He's a little bigger than the other wolfos, and has bright blue eyes.
"Why, is it more dangerous than the others?"
"No, nothing like that. He's my friend."
"Your . . . friend," I repeated.
"Yes. His name is Mishrak. I managed to tame him a while back. He's as harmless as a cucco now." "Cuccos aren't that harmless," I pointed out.
"Well, if you aren't poking them with a sword they are!" I blushed a little at that, but I think I was high enough up that she couldn't see me.
"Anyways, he's the leader of his pack, which should help you out if you happen to run into that particular pack of wolfos. Oh, and Link?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"Be careful, okay?"
"I will," I assured her, and stepped inside the passageway leading to the front courtyard of the Forest Temple.
***
I wasn't inside the courtyard for two minutes when I found the welcoming committee. A pack of about four wolfos greeted me at the doorstep, and I knew that this wasn't just out of courtesy.
"You don't suppose one of them is Mishrak?" I asked Navi. I really wasn't in the mood to fight wolfos. They are masters at blocking sword attacks; you have to hit them while they are attacking or retreating. And their annoying howls are distracting, trying to confuse you. They aren't hard to beat if you time your attacks right, but if you are in a hurry, the best thing to do is to just avoid them. This didn't seem to be an option, however. These four wolfos seemed to be set on keeping me from entering.
"Nope," Navi answered. "No oversized wolfos with blue eyes in that pack."
The wolfos that must have been the leader grunted, signaling the others to attack. The two foremost wolfos lunged at me, while another one backed up a little, becoming camouflaged in the shadows. I fended them off fairly easily, but they weren't dead yet, just evasive, blocking most of my attacks. I tried to focus on blocking the one and attacking the other. It looked as if I had the first one, when the third wolfos joined in. Three at once! I used a sword spin, emitting a blast of magic in a circular pattern around me. Everything was a blur of sword and teeth, claws and fur. And blood. Hopefully not mine, but I was to caught up in the battle to feel pain at the moment.
Finally, it was over. The three wolfos let out a howl of defeat and vanished in a cloud of blue smoke. "Whew!" said Navi. "They almost had a fair fight. No match for you, of course."
"Yeah," I gasped. I gave myself a once over. Nothing badly damaged, maybe a couple of scratches. But wait. Weren't there four of them? What had happened to the last wolfos?
Suddenly, a noise behind me! I turned slowly, expecting to see the fourth wolfos. Instead, I was almost face to face with a moblin, ready to bring down his club. I jumped out of the way just in time, grimacing at the dent the club had made in the ground. That could have been me.
The moblin swung his club again, but I dodged and hit him with the hookshot, and he was down instantly. He disappeared in yet another cloud of smoke, leaving behind a bottle of potion. I grabbed it and stepped inside the front door.
