Without any thought or second thought, the boy quickly drew steel, the Master Sword sparked to life invoked by the cry of battle. With the Shield poised before him, Link launched himself from the leafy platform to land between the invading stalfos and retreating Kokoros.

The living bones had already had enough time to assemble its many bones and stood towering over the boy hero. Three more appeared from the ground but Link stood unswayed by their numbers and size. It was a wonder how so many got into the Haven unnoticed. Link had thought for sure that the Deku Tree would have sensed such an intrusion and prevented them from ever entering. That's why none of the Deku Babas plants or Octorks could get in.

The Deku Tree himself was protecting this place.

Link's battle alarms went off as he saw the first Stalfos come at him heavy spiked mallet threatening to end his life in an instant.

"Master Sword, please guide me and keep me safe!" Link prayed, to the sword which in turn flashed a dangerous light. In that moment Link allowed his body to move launching himself high into the air just barely clearing the deadly swing. Instincts kicked in then and the boy immediately transformed his quick decent upon the Stalfose into a deadly spin, efficiently lopping off the bony head at the back of the neck. With its main control unit down, the bones collapsed into many scattered pieces.

But there was no time to celebrate his quick victory over the one as there were still two others taking its place. Link had just glanced behind him when he felt the Sword in his hands jolt with power. His heart skipped a beat as the boy quickly fell into a side roll as two heavy spiked mallets buried themselves into the very spot Link had just stood moments before. The big boned warriors with drew their weapons looking about for the small boy confused. Not a second had passed before both flew forward from a powerful force from behind.

The blades of grass and shrubbery flew as Link preformed a spinning attack. Both Stalfoses were upon the ground and Link didn't wait for them to recover. With speed and skill unbecoming of one so young the boy dispatched both quickly and fiercely putting forth his best combos. Link put forth all his anger into this fight, both disgusted and relieved that minions of Gannon had dared to invade such a sacred place. Link knew it wasn't in everyone's best interest to have enemies in here, but he was glad for the action his body so craved and the chance to vent out the frustration pent up in his mind for days. Link was already feeling a little better as the last Stalfos crumbled to the ground and dissipated. Link flipped backwards landing lightly upon his feet. He stood there a moment examining his handy work.

"And don't ever come back!!!" The boy shouted victoriously, feeling extremely pleased with himself. Three fully fledged Stalfoses against one lone swordsman. It wasn't at all easy of course feeling the heavy battering of the Stalfos's mallet against his sword and shield, but he managed the fight without even a scratch.

Link breathed in deeply as he forced his racing heart to slow. Too bad the fight had ended so quickly, he still had adrenaline pumping through his veins.

"Is everyone okay?" Link called after another moment passed. He had been so focused on the fight that he really didn't have time to check on the Kokoros. The forest children were nowhere in sight but Link had a pretty good idea where to find them. The boy circled around the Deku Tree's base until he could see the old Tree's face plainly.

"LINK! THANK THE GODDESSES YOU ARE SAFE! I COULDN'T SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING."

Link smiled upon the old tree's concern. "Don't worry; I got rid of them Deku Tree are you alright?"

"YOUR SKILLS AS A SWORDSMAN CONTINUE TO GROW LINK. I AM MOST PLEASED. WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT YOU WERE HERE TO DEFEND US FROM THE DARK MINIONS." It was then that the smile faded to be replaced by something of concern." I AM NOT SURE HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO ENTER THIS PLACE WITH OUT MY KNOWING AND STALFORES FOR THAT MATTER!"

Link had also wondered the same, was Gannon's power growing stronger? What if the whole Dream Walker was a ploy to divert his attention long enough to allow Gannon to gather more power? But the young boy couldn't allow his imagination to run wild, not at a time like this. He had to stick to what he believed.

"Deku Tree, is this place really still safe for you and the Kokoros? I mean, if Stalfoses can get through, then Gannon must be growing more powerful." But he couldn't continue. He wanted to protect them, but if Gannon really was growing stronger then he couldn't stay. The Deku Tree shook its face, eyes half-lidded.

"NO, THAT CAN'T BE POSSIBLE.EVEN GANNON DOES NOT HAVE THAT MUCH POWER! TO MASK THE EVIL PRESENCE OF THE STALFOS IS NOT THAT EASY. EVEN IF IT WERE, I WOULD OF NOTICED THEM THE MOMENT THEY ENTERED THIS HOLY SANCTUARY."

Link held his chin with a hand and pondered this peculiarity. He was sure there was something odd about this situation, Stalfoses able to enter a holy place? It was then that Deku Tree spoke saying what he felt inside but dared not believe.

"THIS MAY BE THE DREAM WALKER'S DOING." The Tree said solemnly.

"No!" Link fiercely protested. He wasn't going to believe that, even it could be true. .Even if deep down, he felt that it was true.

"I CAN EASILY RECOGNIZE GANNON'S POWER SIGNATURE.EVEN IF HE USED THEM FOR MEANS OF MASKING PRESENCE OF THIS NATURE, I CAN STILL PICK IT UP.BUT I SENSED NOTHING.NOT A SINGLE WHISPER OF DARKNESS."

"Well maybe you were too distracted by the song.Right? Maybe.you..were." Link's voice trailed off as he realized the extent of what he was saying.

The song!

Link remembered feeling the strange breeze, the feeling that something phenomenal had happened, and the Deku Tree mentioned that it did hold special properties.

The Deku Tree was apparently thinking the same then. "COULD IT BE? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE STALFOSES USED THE ANCIENT PASSAGEWAY OPENED BY THE MINUET OF THE FOREST?"

The boy raised a brow. "Passage way? That song can open a passage way?"

"IN ANCIENT TIMES OF HYRULE, THAT SONG ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS WAS USED TO GUIDE THE HERO SAFELY BACK TO CERTAIN PLACES WITH IN HYRULE. FOR INSTANCE, THE MINUET OF THE FOREST WOULD HAVE GUIDED ONE BACK TO THE SACRED FOREST IF PLAYED."

The Tree continued its explanation but Link was no longer listening. His eyes had grown dark and reflective. He stared ahead seeing and yet not seeing. Though he stood, he felt his mind flying through the days past, and every dream he ever had right from the start flashed before his eyes in broken sequences. They played, and replayed becoming faster, his own heart willing it so.

Something was forming in his mind, but it was so absurd!

But Link did not want to shake the thought away for fear of the possibilities. He kept thinking about it more, and he couldn't stop thinking about it. Before his eyes he saw pieces of the puzzle being snapped together, and it's meaning was becoming clear. It was so close now; it was practically in his hands! But he refused to believe it.

Link shook his head softly. "No.It can't be. That can't be it can it?" He asked to no one.

"LINK, BEHIND YOU!!!!" The Deku Tree's shout nearly did not reach Link in time. The boy snapped back to reality and before he realized what he was doing, he was already swinging the Master Sword as he turned around. Everything seemed to slow down till seconds passed like minuets and did not return to normal till a loud clang rang clear and the sudden and painful tremor that ran though the Master Sword. Link came back to reality then realizing he just parried an attack from behind. When he looked he found himself staring at the heavy spiked mallet of a Stalfos. Weapons were crossed between them; the mallet was a few inches away from his body.

The clash was ended abruptly when both sides jumped back quickly withdrawing their weapons until they were many steps apart.

He hadn't even heard it coming from behind him.If it hadn't been for the Deku Tree, he would of..

The Stalfos stood there seemingly quite surprised by his save. Link would of taken this opportune moment to attack and dispatch the walking undead, would have been all too happy to end it's miserable existence with a quick and clean slice, but something made him stop.

As Link stared longer, two more stalfos soldiers emerged from the ground to stand behind the first. Link's battle alarms were going off now, but the young hero dared not move.

What had he seen? Link found himself blinking a few more times trying to assure himself of what he was seeing.

The first stalfos, the one that had tired to attack him, stood in a moderate fighting stance, it's spiked club resting upon the ground. Even then, it did not appear that it was going to move. But instead, it locked it's eerie eyeless gaze with Link's. The glow from with in its empty eye sockets glowed a faint gold, but just for a second.

What was it trying to see in him?

Link shook his head. No, he had to stop this! He had to kill it! Now!

He had only taken a step forward ready to lunge into the group when the first let go of it's weapon. This profoundly confused Link for even as clumsy as Stalfoses were, they never let go of their mallets unless they were killed (again). Immediately the boy forced his body to stop, causing himself to stumble forward just a bit.

"LINK! WHAT IS WRONG?" He heard the Deku Tree say. But he couldn't respond couldn't move.

The Stalfos seemed to see this, and it straightened up, the other two behind it did the same. It was like they were no longer fearful of him. The two behind the first did not drop their weapons but shouldered them rather resolutely and right before his eyes all three began to sway.

In beat to some soundless song he couldn't hear, they swayed in time. Their eerie glares did not leave him, and soon their mouths began to speak, breathless, lipless words. Words he faintly understood and yet did not understand.

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo," They said in union, jaw bones moving carelessly imitating the movement of speech.

Link stood frozen in spot. His eyes were wide as they spoke.

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

They chanted the same passage over and over demanding.Condemning.

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

Link's heart began to beat faster as their chanting grew. Slowly his lips began to move softly at first, mouthing the chant.

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

The world around him began to fade away until only him and the Stalfoses stood facing each other. There was a sudden flash in his mind; it was a red flash that roared on the edges of his conciousness. But the more they chanted the more frequent it became. And then Link realized what he was seeing.

It was his dream, the very last dream he'd had where he'd seen the Dream Walker. More flashes of dreams in mono colors of black and red. Always in broken sequences, he could still faintly hear the chanting but it sounded different.

"Jkef Mo Jivvohadw, Odt Mo fuad. Hocoujo Mo!"

He saw the blood red light shine upon the Dream Walker's form, but thankfully it was just a brief flash, there was not time to hear the sounds.And yet he could still hear the chanting. The flashes like the previous ones became faster replaying the very same dream in mixed sequences, but they were now only focusing upon the parts where he had seen the Dream Walker, where he had finally confront him.

It was then that he realized the chanting was coming from his own mouth and more importantly he knew exactly what it meant, for he had shouted these words while he struggled upon the ground bound by the Kokoros.

"Stop My Suffering, End My Pain.Release Me!"

The Master Sword shook visibly in his grasp as he spoke.

The Stalfos seemed to slow, their voices fading and as they did the horrible dreams with in his minds began to cease their torment. Link didn't know how he knew, but he just knew that they understood him. Didn't know how, but that wasn't important. The world around them started to come back around them making Link wonder for a second just where the hell it had disappeared to.

They still stood there in the Forest Haven, facing each other, as if neither had ever moved.

Link's mind spun confused but he forced himself to forget about everything and focus. He was here, in the Forest Haven with the Great Deku Tree and the Kokoros.

Facing the Stalfos.

Who had an important message to give him.

A final clue..

Link didn't know how he knew this, it was as if some one had just dropped in into his mind while he wasn't looking.

The Stalfos were still now, the very first only daring to move while the others behind it spoke. They spoke together and yet apart, for while the two spoke in that strange dead dialect, the first spoke in a language that was very much alive.

"Take Me Back To The Land Where My Memories Were Born." "Kubo Mo Rusb Ko Kox Cudt Nxoho Mo Momehaos Noho Rend."

The first stalfos pointed a bony finger at Link accusingly as they continued speaking slowly and together.

"The Key To Open The Door Is In Your Hand..." "Kxo Boo Ke Efod Kox Teeh Aj Ad Oeih Xudt."

Link vaguely wondered what they were taking about.Key? What key? He looked upon himself briefly only to see the Master Sword and Shield. He was distracted with this thought that he almost missed the last part spoken before they began to dissipate like their fallen comrades before them.

"Now Take Me There." "Den Kubo Mo Kxoho."

It was then that the last puzzle fell into place.

Link didn't know how long he stood in that spot frozen, staring at the place where the mysterious stalfos three had last been seen before fading out of existence.

Link didn't know how long he stood in that spot frozen, before he could hear his name being called by the Great Deku Tree and the small Kokoros.

While Link still didn't know the identity of the Dream Walker, he did know that he couldn't stay in the Haven a moment longer, and even the Great Deku Tree couldn't keep him from leaving.

******

In the Temple that forever stood and crumbled away before the world unseen, a secretive air picked up, flowing in and down it's many dark corridors. With purpose unknown it traveled carelessly and with out guide.

It was a soft chilling air that was some how alive and nonexistent at the same time. Eventually it came upon a forgotten chamber shrouded in fog that was basked in the pale white light.

The soft air danced and flowed to caress face of the forever imprisoned demon that sat in a royal skeletal throne adorned with webs of ages past.

It played with his pale fringes that seemed to have once held color but was drained away over the centuries.

Kamo stirred softly, the chains moving ever so gently. His eyes opened slowly revealing a white pupiless gaze. He felt the wind, and not only that he knew what it said. His pale lips curl into a quiet smile, sharp incisors glinting dangerously.

He spoke then, his voice upon the edges of a growl, and yet it was distinctly human; "U Rulo Nuakot De Cedw..Link"

He knew what was to come, and was eager to see how things would unfold. The clues were solved, and his cries were heard, now he waited here waiting for his answers.

"U Rulo Nuakot De Cedw.Link"

****Next Chapter: Auguries of Destruction Are the Lullabies for Rebirth****
The Final Chapter to the Mystery?

Note: This chapter was inspired greatly by the music of HACK//SIGN. I was surprised by how fast this one wrote itself. I didn't think it would have been started and finished in one day. I hope I didn't go too fast and that you all understood what was happening.

The Next Chapter is going to take everything I've got and may take awhile as I have to work on my Soul Caliber Fic with the Hero of Time in it. So please be patient!