Well this is going to be yet another long chapter based off the Spirit Temple. Thank you for the supportive reviews. Does anyone know Link's age as a child. I assume it's 13.

Chapter Eight

I slip the gloves on watching as they magically adapt to my thin arms and wrists. It's been seven years since I last saw someone. I wonder what the thieves are doing now. Maybe they thought we both got killed. It doesn't matter now. Now, I can move the large stone away from the entranceway to see what lies in the other side of the temple. I can no longer crawl through the other way because I'm too big now. Navi has been helping me survive by gathering anything she can find around this area. The creatures that I awaken taste nasty, but they have helped as well. I did manage to breed the fish and the water lasted being refreshed every so often by the rare ran storm. True I am thinner than I expect to be, but I figured once I get back to Hyrule, I should be able to nurse my way back to health.

My hair has grown a little even though I manage to cut some of it with my sword. My hat doesn't fit comfortably on anymore as well as my pants and shirt. My clothes are warn and dirty. I manage to patch up any holes that appeared with whatever cloth I can find around the temple. My days were spent training with the sword and breeding the fish. It's hard to believe that I am twenty now. I never expected that I would be twenty and trapped in an oasis. I've been having this recurring dream of finding Nabooru alive, which makes me believe that maybe she is alive just trapped somewhere in this temple. Seven years is a long time to be trapped in a dungeon with no hope of someone coming to get you. It's not as bad as being trapped in an oasis wondering if you would ever get back to civilization, or would you die here without anyone knowing what actually happened to you.

I stand up on the stone pillar in front of the temple. The long path allows me to steady by balance. I hold my sword out with one leg arched in front of the other. I move forward slightly and swing my sword around the back twirling around and repeat the same thing a few times. I backflip until I reach the end and then run forward slashing at my invisible target. The glowing setting sun reflects behind me as I close my eyes and sense where my body is and how it flows. I think I'm ready to enter into that temple. I manage to find control in these two gloves. Taking a running start, I front flip off the pillar and land in the sand. Running and slashing my way through the creatures in the sand, I reach the steps. Smiling, I enter into the temple (blocking the pottery of course). I've been coming and going through this entranceway enough to remember those bewitched pottery.

I walk up the stairs and push the stone. At first it was difficult to start pushing, but once I got started, the block moves easily. Eventually it drops into a hole with a huge crash almost knocking me off balance. Walking carefully into the next room, I spot a beam monster in the center. Carefully, I move along and place a bomb by him blasting the enemy. I look up and see the crystal hanging out of ceiling. I get a rock from my pouch and shoot the crystal using my sling shot. I repaired the sling shot several over the years. The two doors open just like the other side of the temple. I walk through the right door and into another room. Inside this room there are coins. Jumping around and moving, I manage to collect them all to unlock the door. Inside this room was only one chest containing an key.

Walking back through the two doors, I'm back at the beginning again. I ignore the locked door for the time being and walk into the left side door. As soon as I enter this place a Wolf appears. I easily defeat this thing considering that I've been training for several years. I walk over to the Triforce engraved on the ground. Reaching inside my pocket, I play Zelda's Lullaby as a chest appears. I use the handmade rope to swing across to the chest. This time instead of climbing halfway inside now, I can just lean down and reach. The chest contains a compass. I would need this along with a map to help me through the remainder of this temple. I walk back to the beginning and this time I go through the locked door. Inside this door is a monster that usually swallows me. I quickly sidestep him and run for the end of the path. I climb up the walk to the second floor just as the monster comes towards me.

At the top of the wall is this place. Sensing that another thing is in this room, I put up my shield seconds before something smacks my shield. I close my eyes and sense around for this enemy that appears to have no physical form. Striking seconds after he hits the shield, I manage to destroy the enemy long before it could do any damage to me. Also in this room is a snake mirror reflecting a light from the ceiling. On each side are handles, I push on one until the light reflects to the first sun dropping a small chest. I continue moving it around until it strikes the second sun also dropping a chest. The door still hasn't opened so I try another sun finding that this one worked on opening the door. I look at the map to see that there are only two treasure chest in this room. I'm guessing that the fourth sun would either shut the door or unleash a trap. I walk over to the first treasure chest to find some medicine to heal my wounds. I haven't received any yet so this was a bit useless. I move over to the next chest and unlock it as I feel this chilling air fill all around me. Shivering, I move out of the way and walk towards the now open door. I have to be careful about these treasures now.

Through this door is right where I was in my childhood. I could have traveled through this part of the temple years ago. That's okay I might need these gloves for something else. I walk up the stairs to the top floor where I look over the side to see a triforce on the statue's left hand. Usually this unlocks something. Considering that I can't go any further without a key, I take a few steps back and leap for the hand. Almost missing it, I hang on with my hands and pull myself up. My breath is faster but I manage to play Zelda's song. On the right hand to the statue sits a chest, I swing my hook over to it and swing over just barely gripping the hand and pulling myself up. To my delight, in this chest is the key required to enter into the chamber at the top of those stairs. Finally making my way over to that door, I unlock it and enter into the next door.

I stand completely still seeing that this room is lined with enemies. My first task was to kill the beam monster which was easy considering that my bomb could be throw at it. Once timed right, the bomb explodes on this monster killing it. The complicated matter are the three mummy like creatures floating around the room. I move to about the center of the room and unleash the energy inside the red crystal. Din's fire evaporates the mummies into dust and opens the gate to the right leaving the one on the left still sealed. Well I need a key to get into that door. Sighing I walk over to the only door I could open at this time.

Once in this room I realize that there are two ways to go. One way is through a sealed door that seems to open only by reflecting the sunlight to the sun on the wall. I have nothing to reflect that light so I guess I have to figure out how to open the other door. On the floor is a switch. Since it's gray I know that it won't stay down on it's own. I assume these statues move since they are a bronze color instead of a gray color if there isn't a spell cast upon their lifeless forms. Carefully walking up to one, I touch it gently watching it awaken to this world. I run around in a circle as he walks over to the switch. Just as I reach halfway to the door, he moves off the switch as the bars slide back down sealing the door shut. I take a deep breath and let it out slowly as I move around to the statues. Maybe if I have two going I could somehow lead them to step on the switch. After touching two I watch as they confusedly walk around the room in search of me. The one hits the switch as I stand by the door. Quickly opening the door, I manage to finally get through. I don't want to do that again. I don't have time to stand around. I have this feeling that I'm getting closer to finding the answer to the disappearance of Nabooru. I run up the stairs and into another room.

This room is similar to the room where I first fought an iron knight. I can't believe I have to defeat another one. I hope this is worth the trouble. I pull out the blue crystal and allow the loving light flow over my body protecting me before I walk up to this knight. It instantly comes to life as it starts striking my shielded body. Bracing each impact, I swing my sword through the shield hitting it. I dodge and strike several times before watching the heavy armor fall off this person. Not only can he receive more damage, but he can move faster than usual. I quicken my pace matching move by move until I watch the iron knight fall in defeat. Feeling quit proud of myself, the shield fades away as I walk in through the door and up the stairs to the outside. This is the giant chest that I saw from the other side. I wonder what is inside of the chest. Opening it up, I see a red and white shield lying at the base of the chest. The rising sun reflects brightly off the shield as I instantly know what it's used for. I can reflect the sunlight in that other room now.

I run down the one flight of stairs and through the chamber as I jump down the other stairs until I finally get back into the room with the four statues. I run pass them avoiding the spike sliding across the floor to get to the spot where the sunlight is shining through. I kneel down and use the shield to shine light on the sun plastered on the wall. This opens the door leading to a dead end chamber with a chest. Inside the chest is the key that I need for the other room. I quickly walk back through the room and into the other room where the next direction to go is straight across. I unlock this door and moan some more. This side of the temple seems longer than the other side. Maybe it just has a lot more running around than the other side.

Inside this room are two beam statues which I destroy first and a few spiders on the moving wall that I also kill. This wall is going to be difficult to climb up. As long as I take my time and plan my motions I can make it to the top. I stand back some watching the wall move in a similar pattern. In a few seconds I can climb up the wall and only have to stop once. Okay...now it's time to climb. Moving quickly, I only stop once halfway up before climbing to the top to see two more beam monsters. I run pass these since the door behind them is unlock. Opening this door, I stop to see a bared door in front of me with a triforce on the floor. I'm glad that I meant Zelda before falling in a chest and getting captured by the thieves. Playing the song, I watch as the bars rise and open the door to the next room.

Inside this door are monsters and obviously fake doors. I take my sword out and quickly strike down all the flaming monsters trying not to get burned myself. I mean it's bad enough that these are my only clothes left. I wish not to go back to civilization wearing absolutely nothing. There has to be something hidden behind one of these doors to help me put the flames down around the fancy looking chest. I've never seen a large chest look like that before. I pull out some of my last bombs and start on the left side of the room. I place a bomb and watch it explode revealing nothing until I get to the door on the side of the chest. This one reveals an eye that I know needs something stronger than a deku seed to strike it. Reaching for a stone, I strike the eye watching a path reveal itself up near the ceiling. That's when I notice the switch up there. I swing the rope around until I know for sure that the hook was going to reach the ceiling. Delighted, I climb on the rope until I can pull myself up on the ledge. I jump over to the other ledge and push the switch watching the flames vanish from around the chest. Curious on what this chest holds, I jump down and open it up to see a shining gold key that is too large to fit inside the small locks. I know that I'm going to need this for later. I tuck it into my belt before exiting this room.

I turn to my right to see another door to go through as I just walk right into it. Wow this is a huge puzzle to solve. Well I need light to get to the large mirror and reflect I'm guessing downward since that's the direction the mirror is facing. Suddenly seeing pottery flying at me, I put my shield up and watch them smash to pieces. I walk over to the bars to see a crystal on the other side. That crystal must unlock this door. I reach my arm through and strike the crystal watching the bars rise yet again. I hope I'm almost done and that I can find my answer soon. I walk through this door to see a lizard creature pop out at me. Shaking my head feeling a bit fatigue, I carefully strike him three times before he falls to the ground. Inside this next area are skull creatures floating about. Using the slingshot, I easily defeated them. At the one side there is a rock that looks as if it was placed there quickly. I beat I can blast it open. Using one of the very few bombs I have left, I blast open the wall to see another area with another one of those snake mirrors. I look back at this previous snake mirror and turn it towards the other one. I get it we are going to keep reflecting until it gets to the large mirror. I turn this mirror until it goes through the bars and finally hits that large mirror. Triumphantly, I run back to the other room and jump down to the platform. After blocking the bewitched pottery once more, I notice that there is a sun on the wall. Using the same trick, I reflect the light over to it feeling the platform start to lower me to yet again to the room with the woman statue. This temple is nothing but a lot of back and forth.

I stare at the face for a little bit as I walk around. My mirror accidentally shines onto the face as I notice it starts to crumble. Maybe that is what I have to do. Using the sunlight, I watch as the face crumbles before my eyes revealing a door to go through along with something that I can hook onto. Doing so, I use the special key to unlock this room and enter into another. Not another iron knight! I don't know how much energy I have left inside of crystals. As soon as I walk a little further, I spot the two witches finishing whatever they were doing with the iron knight. They look at me and say something to themselves before vanishing in a puff of smoke and mist leaving me to fight this knight. Of course with the help of my new techniques that I've been practicing and my barrier, I manage to strike this knight down until the armor falls revealing Nabooru. She's alive! She's alive! I'm finally free of this place! She can help me out of here.

Before I can get two words out of my mouth, the two witches appear again. They both send a blast through right at Nabooru; however, before I can reach her I watch as it not only kills her but vaporizes her. Tears roll down my cheeks with them vanishing once more. How can they do that to someone? Nabooru is actually dead! She can't be dead! I'll never get home now. I angrily look at the final door to go through. They must be hiding behind there. I shall defeat them for Nabooru's sake! They will not get away with this...not this time. It took me seven years to make it through to here to get information on how to get out of this oasis...now my only chance of getting to Princess Zelda and home for that matter is gone!

I get up and walk through the door seeing a giant fighting area on top of the large stones. There is a middle platform and four smaller platforms around it. The witches circle around this middle platform as I notice that they are ice and fire. Each one of them has a weakness to the other. I hold my shield up as I know that I can reflect the beams of fire or ice that they are shooting at me towards the opposite sister. Of course in my angered state, this wasn't too hard to reflect the attacks. I hit each sister twice before they decide that I am a challenge to them. They merge into once person half fire half ice. Well now I know that I can win against them because the attacks will equal out. Just as I was about to reflect the fire attack, I notice my shield absorbs the first attack and starts to hum. Moving with the woman, I absorb yet another fire attack as the hum turns into beeps. I assume that the shield is building up the power. On the third fire absorption, the shield beeps out of control and blasts the fire back at the witch. She falls to one of the other platforms as I quickly run over to her drawing my sword and jumping at her. I strike her several times before she recovers and we start all over again. After shooting her with two ice blasts and one more fire blast on top of striking her several times with the sword, the two spit once again and turn into spirits. At first it seems like they didn't notice until a white light shines around them, they start arguing over something that I don't understand. The only thing I get out of it is one is older than the other when I thought they were twins. Once they vanish from the temple, I sit down in the middle of the platform that is scarred with the battle. I have no hope for getting home now.

yawns Wow I finally finished it. It's difficult finding time to work on this story. I think that's the longest chapter I would have. I'm not too sure I guess I'll find out when I write the rest. I hope you liked it. Please review!

Angel Dove