Chapter Two

"No. This can't happen. We made sure that when we sent him to the Evil Realm, EVERYTHING of his was destroyed!!" Screamed Rayru.

"Apparently not because theres still havoc and chaos caused by his minions!" said an infuriated Impa.

They were in the Chamber Of Sages and were trying to figure out how some of Gannon's minions had gotten out of the Evil Realm when he himself couldn't get out.

"And now because of you're carelessness" continued Impa, who was getting more and more red in the face " Saria's dead!"

Rayru stared blankly at her and said just above a whisper

"A sage...dead? This cannot be. But no one could kill a sage. Only someone with a lot of power could kill one and even then they would have to actually find us and weaken the sage."

"Well she is Rayru. There's no one to protect the Forest Temple now and it's all you're fault." Said Impa with an exasperated sigh.

"Why is it all my fault? We all made that realm together didn't we?"

"WE!?"Shrieked Impa"WE!? THERE IS NO WE BECUASE YOU AND THE ANCIENT SAGES CREATED THE REALM.AFTER THEY WERE KILLED-AGAIN BECAUSE OF YOUR CARLESSNESS- IT WAS YOUR JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT THE EVIL REALM WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE OCCUPAINTS THAT WERE SENT THERE! NOW BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO HAVE FOUND A WAY OUT GANNONDORF WILL TURN HYRULE INTO A DESOLATE WASTELAND!"

Rayru cowered at her rage. The other sages were used to Impa yelling at him because it happened every day.Also since no one really liked Rayru they never stopped her from blaming him.

Rayru stood there and looked around at the other sages for help. They all stared back at him blankly. "Why are they always taking her side?" he thought. "She's not so great." he continued. "Why I bet if she didn't work out so often, they wouldn't always be on her side." He finished at last.

"Well I think..." started Darnutia

"Oh nobody gives a damn about what you think you rock eating scrub!" said Rayru suddenly. "It's amazing that you even think. Why did the goddesses put you on this earth if you do nothing but eat rocks? You're a disgrace to Hyrule! If you ask me we would all be better off without the likes of you crowding up our beutiful mountains!!"

Darnutia stared at him; his eyes turned into slits. His mouth thinned and his hands were balled into fists. The rest of them( even Impa ) backed away and wanted to see who would win the fight.

***

Link was crying over the loss of his friend; his only real friend in Kokiri who cared for him and played games with him. After crying for an hour he went to his house and grabbed his Fairy Orcarina - the one Saria had given him when he was starting out his adventure- and went to the sacared forest meadow. He walked slowly over to the tree stump and looked sadly at it. A few tears dropped onto the stump. He got down on his knees and started to dig a hole with his bare hands. He dug about three feet, put a hankercheif around the orcarina and placed it softly in the hole. Then with that he placed the dirt back in the hole and looked up to the forest temple. He sighed a deep sigh and what took him three days, he got enough lumber to fix the steps that led to the forest temple.

***

It was no match. Rayru stood there, drenched in cold sweat and trembling from head to toe. Darnutia, shaking in his anger was ready to begin. He raised his hands up high and a huge bolt of power hit Rayru. Rayru stumbled and couldn't belive that he was still alive. Danutia was getting ready for another power bolt when suddenly a green, pixely shadow of something very familar looking came gliding in. It melted in the background for it was so dark and began to get its next victim. Darnutia sent another but more powerful power beam at Rayru. Yet Rayru was still alive. The Shadow swept down upon Darnutia taking nearly all his life away. Done with his job the pixely Shadow now left with another Shadow. Only that the new one was red and pixely and had a familar shape to it. But none of the sages seemed to notice what kind of forms the Shadows seemed to have taken. They watched as Darnutia's body fell down with a thud that shook the entire room. All stood horror struck and with that Rayru said " Follow me."

They followed him not knowing what to expect. Even though they had let Rayru into their temples,he had never let anyone but himself into the Temple of Light.He opened the door and started telling them how the other sages had lost their lives.

"The ancient Sage of the Forest was a kokiri-like Saria only older- who was very, how should I put this, ummmm very depressed all the time. Talked a lot about suicide but never atempted it. This is not the first time this...Creature and been let out. We found her body deep within the forest temple in the boss's chamber inpaled upon her own sword , which is now the Kokiri sword that Link used."

He paused to take a breath and open up a door.

"At the time of the ancient sage/king Goron's death he had just defeated Volvagia. He too was killed with his own sword, which is now the Goron's special crop. The water sage was, heh, you're great-great grandmother Ruto. She too was found in the boss's chamber. When I told them all that this legendary was indeed real and it was out of the Evil realm she, rather then face it , killed herself."

"What happened to the other sages?" asked Nabooru.

"The other sages were mutilated, torn limb from limb. They like the others were found in the boss's chamber of their temple."

"So what you mean to tell me is that...were're all going to die?"

"Only if we don't take certain precautions." said Rayru grimly.

No one talked much after that. As they went deeper into the temple the elaborate decorating did not follow them. Deeper and deeper they went and every now and then they would see chains and blood on the vine covered walls. They were begining to become afraid but walked on. Coldness took over their bodies and took away their warmth. When they finally reached the last door Rayru opened it and lead them inside.

***

"OUCH! DAMN IT! SON OF A BITCH!" Link screamed into the night. Never having worked with nails and hammers before, natually it would hurt. He was cradling his left hand which he had hit with the hammer ( again ) and then began to work again. It had been about a week that he had been working on this project and he still hadn't given up hope. He was sweaty and tired and cried often because he hadn't been getting a good night's sleep lately. He was halfway done with the stairs. Of course he hadn't done it all by himself. Mido and the others helped out often. But being as inexperienced as he, they didn't get much farther. Link jumped down from the stairs and looked at them. It was pretty good he thought with a smile. He liked to think that he was doing the right thing and hoped that Saria would be happy.

"Five days 'till you're birthday Saria. Link Whispered to himself. "Just five more days." Then with that he walked back to Kokiri.

Yet again, he had another restless sleep. He couldn't stop thinking that he was at fault for Saria's death. It had been almost two weeks since her death. But yet he couldn't understand why he woke up to find so much blood around him on the bridge. Wouldn't he had heard the fighting? He remembered jumping off the bridge and crying himself to sleep but yet he woke up on the bridge. He had no trace of blood on him either.But feeling too sleepy to carry on he fell asleep almost imediatly.

***

"This is the boss's chamber of the temple of Light." exclaimed Rayru.

"I-THINK-I'M-GONNA-BE-SICK" Said Ruto with her hand over her mouth.

The room was a gorgeous golden color with different brillant colored decorations on the wall. But what took away some of the room was the fact that there were spikes on every wall with blood splatered around them, blood nearly covered the walls, there were chains that hung around still holding the victims from long ago, although they were long since dead and their blood had dried on the walls. Everybody was a greenish color but none of them were sick. Even the boss's of their temples weren't that evil.

"I'm guessing this is why you gave away you're medalion to Linkwithout him ever laying eye's on the temple." said Impa.

"Yes and no. You see the boss of the Temple Of Light was...monsterous. It let you see no mercy. It wanted every second you saw it to be filled with pain and agony. Brutal this monster was. Link wouldn't have lasted ten seconds in this room with this monster. The strongest have only lasted three minutes and 48 seconds. I watched waiting for them to awake me. I watched in despair hoping that one would at least wound the beast.Then one day I saw a person...someone with amazing strength that knocked out this monster and then sealed in the evil realm. There is where it had stayed. I re-awankened as a sage and gave him the medallion. He said something in another language although I remember every word: Mon lien de fils, il est cinq et un certain jour où il sera maniable avec une épée. Il vit dans la forêt de Kokiri et ne connaît rien de ses parents. Quand il est plus âgé et les débuts son voyage... s'assurent vous lui donner ce médaillon."

"What does it mean?" asked Nabooru

"He said:"My son Link , he is five and some day he will be handy with a sword. He lives in Kokiri Forest and knows nothing of his parents. When he is older and starts his journey...make sure you give him this medallion."

"So you see...it was Link's father who had re-awakened me and that is why I was the one to guide Link. After he said that he enthrusted the medallion into my possesion again and there he collasped. Only then did I relize that he was in such poor condition. His hair was like Link's but longer and put back into a ponytail. It was all knotted. His eyes were dialated and I noticed how messed up his face was. His face was burned and scarred from previous battles. I couldn't beleive how much this man had endured. When I got him back to his village - in the mountains- I talked to his sister. I found out that his wife had died and gave their only son to the Deku tree to look after him untill his time of destiny was called upon him.I found out that he was in many battles that were fought at that time.But he mostly went into the other temples for practice to keep up his skills.Link's father died a few days after he had defeated the monster inside the temple. He died on his son's birthday. Link dosen't know about this though.His father was one of the four soliders that protected the King/Queen. His name was also Link. It was a tradition to name you're son after the father's name- if the father was a swordsman."

With a deep breath Rayru lead the other sages to some sleeping quarters and then went to his own quarters where he spent the night wondering wether he should have told them the other half of the story.