Hail: Hello readers! It's, me Hail! The one and only! CrypticElf is well...
busy hanging around.
Sleet: Shut up! You're giving them too much information!
Hail: OH! Uh, anyway, CrypticElf is busy, and well, eerrrrrmmmmm....
Gust: You suck at explaining things!
I'm back!
Sleet/Hail/Gust: WHAT!?
Yep, that little tying me up trick doesn't bond well with my elfish powers. Heehee....
Sleet: You're an elf?
WHAT ARE THESE POINTY EARS NOT GETTING TO YOU! ONLY ELVES HAVE THE COOL POINTY EARS!
Sleet: But I've never noticed them before!
That's because elves must hide themselves in the human world, so that's why you haven't seen them before! Because I've been hiding them under this hat. Isn't it a cool hat? I found it on E-bay!
Gust: What's Commander Link going to do when he learns that we failed? Crap! We are sooooooo dead....
Ah, I see that you three need a hand.
Sleet: Stop teasing!
Why would I being teasing you? I'll help you all under one condition!
Gust/Sleet/Hail: What?
YOU NEED TO LET ME GET SOME SLEEP! IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO WRIGHT GOOD STORIES WHEN YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR FIVE... FREAKIN... MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!
Gust: Oh... I guess we could let you sleep... but how are you supposed to get us off the hook?
Go back to your masters, they will help you!
Hail: I do miss Mia....
Sleet: Me too....
Gust: Ivan....
See? You want to go back to them don't you?
Hail: Well, uh, yeah.
So go back! Back to the flat world of GoldenSun!
Gust: Home.... That's it! I'm going back!
Sleet/Hail: Me too!
(Muses get their luggage and then go out the door.)
FREEDOM! OK! Now that they're all gone, we can get going! By the way, this won't be like the Forest Temple that we know in the Ocarina of Time, but related to it. I don't own anything of Zelda and never will! Here's the chapter!
(Makes the chapter appear and then falls asleep while standing.)
Zzzzzzz.... Commander Link and that Kat Sage of whatever can't hurt me.... Yay.... I like bacon.... Zzzzzz....
Chapter Eleven: Forest Temple
Zelda walked through the entrance of the Forest Temple, and then looked around to see some type of garden that had long been abounded. It was almost pitch-black, but Navi's light let her see what was ahead. She walked around a little, looking at the grass, their was a path, but it was so destroyed that you could only see small pieces of marble between the grass and flowers. It seemed peaceful, but she knew better then to assume that it was safe. There was something here, but she just couldn't tell where. Link walked at her side, looking around as well.
"Is this the Temple?" He asked her quietly, taking his sword out of his sheath.
"It is, but this only the front of it; in other words, it's not the actual thing. We need to find the entrance of the true Forest Temple, Navi, do you see anything?"
Navi zipped around, looking for the entrance of the Forest Temple. She flew back to Zelda and Link and went side to side.
"No, are sure this isn't the Forest Temple?"
"I'm sure."
A sound came from somewhere around them, and both Link and Zelda got in ready battle positions. They both stood back to back, Link holding his sword and shield and Zelda with her hands forward ready to blast anything away. Nothing came, but neither of them relaxed. Navi kept watch of their blind spots, making sure not get in the Warrior's or Sorceress' way.
A Wolfos jumped at Zelda and she instantly began hurling silver balls of light at it, her eyes white. Another Wolfos attacked Link at the same time so he wouldn't be able to help Zelda. Link knocked the monster away, and then when it was on the ground he pointed his sword directly at its heart. Zelda kept on throwing her magic, but the beast kept on dodging them with ease. It jumped at her, its mouth open to bit her neck, Zelda threw a beam of magic at it, it hit it squarely in the mouth, it went through its mouth and then through its skull, frying its brain. Link sent his sword piercing through the Wolfos's flesh and it howled as it took its last breath, both if the monsters seemed to evaporate into a mist of green and then disappear into the air.
Both of them sighed and then looked at each other with smiles, it had been their first battle together as partners that hadn't been with each other. Torches off in corners came to life and lit up a door made out of wood that hadn't rotted at, in fact, it seemed like it was polished and there was nothing growing on it. Zelda and Link approached the door and then stopped at the entrance, with Navi flying around with anticipation.
"Ready?" asked Zelda as she put her hands the doorknob.
"I'm ready, how about you Navi?"
"Would you just open the door in Nayru's name!"
Zelda smiled at Navi and then opened the door, she went in first, and saw one female ghost in the middle of four torches. She couldn't see what she looked like, her form was like noodles. But Zelda saw that the ghost took each flame from the torches and then flew into the floor, crying. Link walked up to Zelda, and Navi went in front of them.
"Did you see that?" She asked Link in a normal toned voice.
"You mean that ghost? I saw it."
"Why do you think she took the lights?"
"Beats me. Come on, the faster we beat this place the faster we can save Saria and this whole balance thing under control."
Link walked ahead of Zelda with Navi trailing behind him.
'Saria's in trouble?' she thought as she followed behind Link.
The room was lit with torches on the walls, and there were two different stairs leading up to two different doors. One of the doors didn't have a stair way, and it was too high up to climb to. Link and Zelda looked at each other, knowing that if they wanted to get through this fast they would have to split up.
"So," said Link as he turned and looked at one of the stairs. "Do you want to split up? I'll this way."
"I think that we'll be OK by ourselves, Navi, who will you be going with?"
"The one without the magic!"
Zelda nodded at Navi and then advanced to the stairs.
"Be careful."
She looked back down at Link, who was looking at her with a smile. She smiled back and then nodded.
"I will. And you better be careful as well!"
Giving each other smiles they turned around and went their separate ways, Zelda got to the top of her stairs and then went through the door.
Link heard Zelda close the door, he turned around to see her one of her white boots disappear and then the door close behind her. Sighing, he went up the stairs as Navi stood next to his neck.
"You like her Link, I can tell!"
"What do you mean by that?"
"You have a crush on her!"
"I do not. What gave you that idea?"
"Fairies can tell these things, and if you don't like her then why did you sigh like that?"
Link stopped in front of the door and sighed again.
"It's just a sigh. And what can a sigh tell you if I have a crush on her?"
Navi just giggled as she jumped off of his shoulder and then opened the door for him. He walked in and Navi flew in with him before the door became too heavy for her to handle. This hallway had torches all along the sides of it, and nothing seemed to be dangerous looking. Link ran forward, and nothing seemed to come out to try and eat him. He got to the other side of the hallway safely and then opened the next door. This time it was a circular room, and a pile of bones sat in the center.
"I don't get it, there's nothing here Navi."
He and Navi advanced forward, both of them watching out for something that might try to pop out and attack them. Nothing came, but the chills running down Link's spine told him otherwise. He was on the other side of the room when he turned around to see that the pile of bones that had been in the middle of the room had disappeared. He looked at the spot with confusion and then walked over to it to examine it. His brows went together and then he turned around, a human skeleton right there behind him. He jumped back just before the skeleton tried to slash at Link with its sword. Link kept on going back to get himself some room to attack, the skeleton stayed where he was, and Navi flew over next to Link's ear.
"It's called a Stalfos!"
"How can I kill it?"
"You can't! It's already dead! You have to try and do something so that it can't try and pull itself together, but I don't know how you can do that!"
"Great...." He muttered under his breath as blocked another attack with his shield. "I hope Zelda's having a better time then I am!"
Zelda walked through the eerie hallway, glancing to make sure nothing tried to attack her. She looked at the door in front of her and then opened it, behind it was another courtyard, this one seemed to be in good condition. The plants weren't overgrowing over everything, and a fountain in the center was giving crystal clear water, the statue of it was a fairy holding a pot and was leaning over to let the water spill out. It was sunny, so it had obviously stopped raining. Zelda looked around and saw a well; she walked over to it and looked into it to meet a tunnel of black with a ladder going down it. It looked the most suspicious, so Zelda decided she should try her luck and began climbing down.
She went all the way down and found that the well was some type of entrance to another hall of the Temple. Zelda walked forward, and then went through a door to see her in a hall. Walking forward she felt like something was wrong. She turned around to see that the door that she had gone through was upside down, this hallway was twisted!
She swallowed and then turned around and then kept on going, and couldn't see but could feel the hall twist as she kept on walking forward. She got at the end of the hall, and she immediately opened the door to get out of the cursed hallway. Now she found that she was in another staircase, so she began walking down them. She noticed a picture of a young woman that had brown eyes to match her brunette hair holding a purple fire in her hand. Zelda stared at it for a while, and then noticed that the fire in the portrait was moving. The image disappeared, and Zelda ran down the stairs, hoping to get to the bottom of it soon. She did, but all that was waiting for her was another portrait of the same person and the same flame.
"Why are you haunting me? I mean no harm, only to fix what is wrong with this temple!" Zelda looked at those brunette eyes, and then the person in the picture turned her head and then climbed out of frame. She walked to Zelda, holding the purple fire in her hand.
"What," she asked Zelda in a sad, yet melodious voice. "Makes you happy?"
"Helping others." The words spilled out of Zelda's mouth before she even had time to think.
"Will you help me?"
"What is it you want me to do?"
"Let me take possession of your body, if you do this, then I can lead you to the evil that is within these walls. But you must help me sisters, for they have been captured in portraits. Only I have the power to leave the paintings. But to help my sisters I need someone of the living."
"Are you the spirit who took the fire from those torches?"
"Yes."
"Why did you take them?"
"To give one to each of my sisters, they say it can get cold and lonely, so I brought them fire to help them. I have three sisters, you must help me free each one, and then when we return the fire to the torches to where I was earlier, then a gateway to the evil of this temple shall appear. Please help me free them!"
Zelda thought for a moment, this could be a trap, but she felt no evil from this ghost, only sadness and sorrow. She had to help her, and Zelda knew that if even if the ghost didn't lead her to the evil here in this temple, she would have helped her anyway.
"Do what you have to do, but let me still have part control of my body."
"Thank you!"
The spirit walked into Zelda, and Zelda felt the spirit take half control of her body. It didn't hurt at all, and Zelda found that the presence of a spirit felt... nice.
'I shall lead you to their prisons.' The spirit called out from Zelda's mind.
"Alright, but what's your name? And you can use my mouth if you want to."
"Thank you," said the spirit, and Zelda found it seemed odd to have a different voice come out of her body and no-control of her lips. "My name is Kale, the youngest sister of all."
"Kale, it's a pleasure to help you, please, lead the way."
Kale took control over Zelda's legs and turned Zelda back up the stairs, running, hoping with all her heart that she could really do something to save her sisters.
Link dodged another attack, and then swung his sword at the Stalfos' neck, its head fell off and landed on the floor, and the rest of the skeleton walked around trying to find its head. Link had been doing this for at least fifteen minutes and he still hadn't found a weakness to destroy the monster. Navi flew over to his ear as the monster continued searching desperately for its head.
"Link, have you found a weakness yet?"
"What does it look like?" He asked just as the monster found its head.
"Sorry for asking!" She flew off before the Stalfos had enough time to try and attack her. The Stalfos wildly began slashing at Link, and it was getting harder and harder to dodge its attacks. Link kept his shield up, watching as he saw sparks fall to the floor. Link saw part of the leg of the skeleton shot underneath him, but didn't have enough time to try and move away. He tripped, and hit a statue behind him; the statue made a click noise before the middle of the floor collapsed and fell into darkness.
The Stalfos raised its sword over its head, and then brought it down; Navi flew into the sword and then began flying around its head. The Stalfos tried to swat her away and began to walk backwards, and before it could do anything it fell backwards into the pit. Navi flew back over to Link and hugged his cheek.
"Thanks Navi." Link told her as he got up off the ground with a grunt.
"No problem!"
The sound of moving stone was heard and Link saw part of the wall move to reveal a door. He stood up and put his sword in its sheath. Walking around the hole in the floor he went and opened the door, and found himself in another circular room, but this one had a number of doors. And there had to be at least ten different doors, he looked at them all, wondering which one to pick.
"Link, this is a riddle room, pick the wrong door and you will meet your death, so choose wisely!"
Link sighed and then went to the nearest door; he put his hand on the handle when he felt something move on his wrist. Taking his hand off the doorknob he looked at his wrist and found that it was the wooden bracelet that Zelda had given him. Why was it vibrating like that? Wait, hadn't she told him that it would tell him when evil was nearby? So if he used the bracelet, it could tell him which way was safe!
Link began to walk around the room with his hand reaching out to the doors, waiting until the bracelet stopped moving. He was a little past the middle of the room when its vibrating almost stopped, and so he went to the next door, but then the bracelet began vibrating even more. He went back to the other door, and the bracelet steadied. He went to the door that had been before that one and it began vibrating harder again. He went back to the door, and then realized that since the Temple had evil in it, the bracelet would still move when he came to the right door, just not as badly as it would to the others.
He went and opened the door, and then walked in, and saw a statue of a wolf in the center of it, with pots rimming the square room. The statue was one of a wolf sleeping, and it almost looked real. Link looked at it for a while longer and then went forward to try and see what it felt like; he reached out, and gently touched the surface of it. He froze when the rock under his fingers felt like fur, and then realized that it WAS in fact a sleeping wolf, its fur a stone gray. Link slowly took his hand back, and steadied his breathing, getting back up he walked as quietly as he could away from the wolf. He hit the door with his back and then cursed at his stupidity. What was he thinking? Now that he paid closer attention to the monster he could see it breathing, its chest going up and down.
Link went away from the door a little and then pulled out his bow, stringing it with an arrow he aimed at the wolf's head. Letting go, the arrow flew and pierced through its skull, killing it instantly. Link sighed in relief as part of the wall moved to reveal another door. Walking over to the wolf he saw a small bulge at its stomach, curiously he leaned over and checked for its gender, and found that it was a female. He felt a stab of guilt, feeling Navi stroke his neck with tiny hands.
"It's Ok Link, you didn't know."
Biting his lip he picked up the wolf and walked over to the door.
"Link, what are you doing?"
"I don't even know how she got pregnant, but she at least deserves to have her body put in better place then this room. Can you open the door for me?"
Navi went past him and opened the door, and Link walked out into the sunlight. He was in a garden, it was overgrown and a small stream trickled down the middle of it. A bridge led to the other side, and flowers grew everywhere. He walked over to a patch where the flowers seemed to stick out the most and laid the body of the dead wolf down.
"I'm sorry that I can't bury you, but I must get this temple back in order. Please forgive me." Link said this with truth, this wasn't a Stalfos or a Wolfos, it was an actual animal, and he had killed it along with its pups.
Standing up her looked around and saw another door; this one was covered in vines, and would obviously take time to open. He looked to the other side of the garden, and saw nothing but flowers. But something caught his eye on the stone wall on the other side, and he went to the bridge and over it to inspect it more. Navi flew ahead of him, and then stopped and waited for Link to come. Once he was there, both of them looked at the wall, and found that it was a picture; it was a child's picture, done with black. It was small, and whoever had done it must have been killed, because a red stain was next to the illustration.
Looking at he saw that there were four young stick adults, and a few stick children, the thing about this picture was that they were all on the ground, with black coming out of their bodies. And it must have been blood, because all of them had X's where their eyes should have been, tongues hanging out of their mouths. A figure stood towering over them, it seemed to be a tall man, holding a sword larger then he was with blood dripping off it. His cape blew in the wind, and he had a smile on his face, happy at what he had done. One child seemed to be still alive, and was holding up a stick, and was next to something that must have been a wall.
"In Nayru's name, what kind of a picture is this?" asked Navi in a frightened voice that quivered. Link pointed at the child that held the stick in the picture.
"That must have been the child who made this picture just before they died, and the man over the dead is the one who killed them. This is a story of how they died; I wonder where their bones lay...."
"Well I don't want to know!" Navi cried out as she went and sat down on Link's shoulder trying to keep herself from crying. "How sad...."
Link looked below the bottom and saw that there was tree with lines for eyes and a fury mustache and eyebrows, he felt his blood freeze, that was the mark that all Korkori put on the bottom of an important message. The children had been Korkori, but then who were the four adults? And who could have killed them?
Link looked at the blood stain next to the picture and then looked down but saw no bones. He moved the grass around, there had to be bones here, where else would they be? He dug a little into the ground and then found a small skull; some pink hair was still attached to it. He felt his stomach roll and twist as he found the full body; it still had a green tunic on. He tightened his hands in fury, and felt tears began to burn behind his eyes. His knuckles turned white, but the tears wouldn't fall. He heard Navi whimper as she looked at the skeleton of a young Korkori, and could feel her tears go through his tunic.
He covered the body with dirt, and then stood up. This place was a graveyard, it wasn't the place where the balance of nature was controlled, it was a slaughterhouse for the innocent. He turned around almost fell backwards when he saw a Korkori girl with light pink hair and purple eyes with a green tunic standing behind him. Her hair was wavy, and went down to her waist; her eyes were sad, and full of murder. Link also noticed that he could see strait through her, and realized that it was a ghost.
"What do you want?" He demanded when he got his emotion back under control.
"What makes you happy?" she replied in a sorrowful voice.
"Being with my friends, and meeting people."
She cocked her head to the side and then lifted it again.
"How do you meet these new people?"
"Usually by helping them." He answered back as Navi shivered next to his neck.
"Will you help me?"
"Help you with what?"
"Free the other trapped spirits of the Korkori children who were murdered here long ago."
"How long have you been dead?"
"At least one hundred years. A little beyond that, but not that much."
"Who killed you?"
"A man with a large nose and red hair, he decapitated us all. Except for me, he stabbed me in the abdomen, and so I crawled over to that place and made that picture, and then he cut my head off."
Link looked at her and then to the spot where the bones lay, those bones were hers.... He turned back around and looked at her.
"Why do you want me to help you?"
"Because, I was watching when you took that wolf and set down to rest in the sunlight instead of the cold dungeon. And you respected her even though if she had been awake then she might have killed you."
"How did you."
"I can go in and out of this courtyard if I want, and I sensed a living human spirit and so I watched what you did."
"Where are of the other spirits that were killed?"
"We were all confined to portraits, but another ghost and I were able to escape. We don't see each other often, because we feel guilty that we both were able to escape and the others didn't. Even though that's what we think about most of the time."
"What do I have to do?"
"Follow me, and I shall lead you to them. I will be able to bring you to them, but you must figure out what to do."
"Ok, so what's your name?"
"Lale."
"Lale, how come I can see you?"
"The Temple's magic allows us to be shown at our will. "Alright, show me the way!"
"Thank you!"
She walked off to the door that Link had seen earlier and at her touch the vines disappeared. She went through the door and Link followed her, knowing he would do the best he could to help the Korkori spirits be free. He opened the door and saw Lale waiting for him in an upside-down room. There was a table with plates, glasses, and chairs on the ceiling, and even the torches burned upside-down. He went into the room and looked at everything, and then noticed that there was a hole next to the right of the table.
"Come." Link looked away and then followed Lale again, going through another door he saw that he was in an indoor garden. The plants had odd and poison-like colors, and some of the plants even looked like they were breathing.
"Mind not to wake the plants. If you do, they will probably kill you." Link looked at Lale with shock, how plants kill him? Seeing the confusion in his eyes, she explained to him a calm and quiet voice, "these aren't actual plants, they only take the form of them. They are monsters, but have been sleeping for a long time and have been waiting for some dinner to eat."
Link nodded and carefully stepped through the sleeping monsters, more then once he almost tripped on something that looked like a branch. He sighed when he reached the end and then opened and then closed a door. He was cut off when the ceiling came down, barley missing him by an inch; it came back up, and then came back down a few seconds later. He watched it fall for a second time and then saw that there were open spaces where the ceiling didn't fall on.
Taking in a deep breath, Link charged forward just as the ceiling began to go back up. The spot where he was going hadn't seemed that far away, but as he got closer, the ceiling began fall.
Ok, I know, I know, that chapter sucked, and the battle scenes stunk like a skunk as well. But I promise next chapter to make the battle scene better, it's just that I want to get these chapters up as soon as possible. And the Djinn still haven't come back from their little vacation; they sent me a card though. It has the three of them and they're with their masters, and they're all happy and whatever so forget about them! The fact is, is that I am FREE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT! And that's sleep. Heehaw. Oh, and I know that the names of the side characters in this story aren't that good, and that's because I make them all up. Before I began writing this story and read other fanfictions I would think, 'What kind of a crappy name is that?' And now, I see that names are actually hard to come up with, although when other writers write they're usually actual names. Zelda's an actual name, but what about Link? And Malon? And Ruto? And ouch! Someone just hit me with a tomato, who did that?
RandomGuy: HAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE SUCH A LOSER!
Oh, so you think that's funny do you? Well what about this!
(Black and a dark red aura surrounds CrypticElf, and then the Random Person begins to get the cheesy computer effect around them too.)
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! HACK COUGH COUGH HAHAHAH! Take this!
(Random Guy begins screaming like a valley girl as CrypticElf walks over and gives him a weagy, and then she pulls his underwear over his eyes.)
Let that be your lesson!
Random Girl: This isn't an adventure/action/romance fic, this IS A HORROR FICTION! EVERYBODY RUN!
(Everyone else begins running away; the Random Guy can't see where he's going and runs around in circles.)
I fell so much better now! Mmmm....
So until next time, CrypticElf....
Sleet: Shut up! You're giving them too much information!
Hail: OH! Uh, anyway, CrypticElf is busy, and well, eerrrrrmmmmm....
Gust: You suck at explaining things!
I'm back!
Sleet/Hail/Gust: WHAT!?
Yep, that little tying me up trick doesn't bond well with my elfish powers. Heehee....
Sleet: You're an elf?
WHAT ARE THESE POINTY EARS NOT GETTING TO YOU! ONLY ELVES HAVE THE COOL POINTY EARS!
Sleet: But I've never noticed them before!
That's because elves must hide themselves in the human world, so that's why you haven't seen them before! Because I've been hiding them under this hat. Isn't it a cool hat? I found it on E-bay!
Gust: What's Commander Link going to do when he learns that we failed? Crap! We are sooooooo dead....
Ah, I see that you three need a hand.
Sleet: Stop teasing!
Why would I being teasing you? I'll help you all under one condition!
Gust/Sleet/Hail: What?
YOU NEED TO LET ME GET SOME SLEEP! IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO WRIGHT GOOD STORIES WHEN YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR FIVE... FREAKIN... MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!
Gust: Oh... I guess we could let you sleep... but how are you supposed to get us off the hook?
Go back to your masters, they will help you!
Hail: I do miss Mia....
Sleet: Me too....
Gust: Ivan....
See? You want to go back to them don't you?
Hail: Well, uh, yeah.
So go back! Back to the flat world of GoldenSun!
Gust: Home.... That's it! I'm going back!
Sleet/Hail: Me too!
(Muses get their luggage and then go out the door.)
FREEDOM! OK! Now that they're all gone, we can get going! By the way, this won't be like the Forest Temple that we know in the Ocarina of Time, but related to it. I don't own anything of Zelda and never will! Here's the chapter!
(Makes the chapter appear and then falls asleep while standing.)
Zzzzzzz.... Commander Link and that Kat Sage of whatever can't hurt me.... Yay.... I like bacon.... Zzzzzz....
Chapter Eleven: Forest Temple
Zelda walked through the entrance of the Forest Temple, and then looked around to see some type of garden that had long been abounded. It was almost pitch-black, but Navi's light let her see what was ahead. She walked around a little, looking at the grass, their was a path, but it was so destroyed that you could only see small pieces of marble between the grass and flowers. It seemed peaceful, but she knew better then to assume that it was safe. There was something here, but she just couldn't tell where. Link walked at her side, looking around as well.
"Is this the Temple?" He asked her quietly, taking his sword out of his sheath.
"It is, but this only the front of it; in other words, it's not the actual thing. We need to find the entrance of the true Forest Temple, Navi, do you see anything?"
Navi zipped around, looking for the entrance of the Forest Temple. She flew back to Zelda and Link and went side to side.
"No, are sure this isn't the Forest Temple?"
"I'm sure."
A sound came from somewhere around them, and both Link and Zelda got in ready battle positions. They both stood back to back, Link holding his sword and shield and Zelda with her hands forward ready to blast anything away. Nothing came, but neither of them relaxed. Navi kept watch of their blind spots, making sure not get in the Warrior's or Sorceress' way.
A Wolfos jumped at Zelda and she instantly began hurling silver balls of light at it, her eyes white. Another Wolfos attacked Link at the same time so he wouldn't be able to help Zelda. Link knocked the monster away, and then when it was on the ground he pointed his sword directly at its heart. Zelda kept on throwing her magic, but the beast kept on dodging them with ease. It jumped at her, its mouth open to bit her neck, Zelda threw a beam of magic at it, it hit it squarely in the mouth, it went through its mouth and then through its skull, frying its brain. Link sent his sword piercing through the Wolfos's flesh and it howled as it took its last breath, both if the monsters seemed to evaporate into a mist of green and then disappear into the air.
Both of them sighed and then looked at each other with smiles, it had been their first battle together as partners that hadn't been with each other. Torches off in corners came to life and lit up a door made out of wood that hadn't rotted at, in fact, it seemed like it was polished and there was nothing growing on it. Zelda and Link approached the door and then stopped at the entrance, with Navi flying around with anticipation.
"Ready?" asked Zelda as she put her hands the doorknob.
"I'm ready, how about you Navi?"
"Would you just open the door in Nayru's name!"
Zelda smiled at Navi and then opened the door, she went in first, and saw one female ghost in the middle of four torches. She couldn't see what she looked like, her form was like noodles. But Zelda saw that the ghost took each flame from the torches and then flew into the floor, crying. Link walked up to Zelda, and Navi went in front of them.
"Did you see that?" She asked Link in a normal toned voice.
"You mean that ghost? I saw it."
"Why do you think she took the lights?"
"Beats me. Come on, the faster we beat this place the faster we can save Saria and this whole balance thing under control."
Link walked ahead of Zelda with Navi trailing behind him.
'Saria's in trouble?' she thought as she followed behind Link.
The room was lit with torches on the walls, and there were two different stairs leading up to two different doors. One of the doors didn't have a stair way, and it was too high up to climb to. Link and Zelda looked at each other, knowing that if they wanted to get through this fast they would have to split up.
"So," said Link as he turned and looked at one of the stairs. "Do you want to split up? I'll this way."
"I think that we'll be OK by ourselves, Navi, who will you be going with?"
"The one without the magic!"
Zelda nodded at Navi and then advanced to the stairs.
"Be careful."
She looked back down at Link, who was looking at her with a smile. She smiled back and then nodded.
"I will. And you better be careful as well!"
Giving each other smiles they turned around and went their separate ways, Zelda got to the top of her stairs and then went through the door.
Link heard Zelda close the door, he turned around to see her one of her white boots disappear and then the door close behind her. Sighing, he went up the stairs as Navi stood next to his neck.
"You like her Link, I can tell!"
"What do you mean by that?"
"You have a crush on her!"
"I do not. What gave you that idea?"
"Fairies can tell these things, and if you don't like her then why did you sigh like that?"
Link stopped in front of the door and sighed again.
"It's just a sigh. And what can a sigh tell you if I have a crush on her?"
Navi just giggled as she jumped off of his shoulder and then opened the door for him. He walked in and Navi flew in with him before the door became too heavy for her to handle. This hallway had torches all along the sides of it, and nothing seemed to be dangerous looking. Link ran forward, and nothing seemed to come out to try and eat him. He got to the other side of the hallway safely and then opened the next door. This time it was a circular room, and a pile of bones sat in the center.
"I don't get it, there's nothing here Navi."
He and Navi advanced forward, both of them watching out for something that might try to pop out and attack them. Nothing came, but the chills running down Link's spine told him otherwise. He was on the other side of the room when he turned around to see that the pile of bones that had been in the middle of the room had disappeared. He looked at the spot with confusion and then walked over to it to examine it. His brows went together and then he turned around, a human skeleton right there behind him. He jumped back just before the skeleton tried to slash at Link with its sword. Link kept on going back to get himself some room to attack, the skeleton stayed where he was, and Navi flew over next to Link's ear.
"It's called a Stalfos!"
"How can I kill it?"
"You can't! It's already dead! You have to try and do something so that it can't try and pull itself together, but I don't know how you can do that!"
"Great...." He muttered under his breath as blocked another attack with his shield. "I hope Zelda's having a better time then I am!"
Zelda walked through the eerie hallway, glancing to make sure nothing tried to attack her. She looked at the door in front of her and then opened it, behind it was another courtyard, this one seemed to be in good condition. The plants weren't overgrowing over everything, and a fountain in the center was giving crystal clear water, the statue of it was a fairy holding a pot and was leaning over to let the water spill out. It was sunny, so it had obviously stopped raining. Zelda looked around and saw a well; she walked over to it and looked into it to meet a tunnel of black with a ladder going down it. It looked the most suspicious, so Zelda decided she should try her luck and began climbing down.
She went all the way down and found that the well was some type of entrance to another hall of the Temple. Zelda walked forward, and then went through a door to see her in a hall. Walking forward she felt like something was wrong. She turned around to see that the door that she had gone through was upside down, this hallway was twisted!
She swallowed and then turned around and then kept on going, and couldn't see but could feel the hall twist as she kept on walking forward. She got at the end of the hall, and she immediately opened the door to get out of the cursed hallway. Now she found that she was in another staircase, so she began walking down them. She noticed a picture of a young woman that had brown eyes to match her brunette hair holding a purple fire in her hand. Zelda stared at it for a while, and then noticed that the fire in the portrait was moving. The image disappeared, and Zelda ran down the stairs, hoping to get to the bottom of it soon. She did, but all that was waiting for her was another portrait of the same person and the same flame.
"Why are you haunting me? I mean no harm, only to fix what is wrong with this temple!" Zelda looked at those brunette eyes, and then the person in the picture turned her head and then climbed out of frame. She walked to Zelda, holding the purple fire in her hand.
"What," she asked Zelda in a sad, yet melodious voice. "Makes you happy?"
"Helping others." The words spilled out of Zelda's mouth before she even had time to think.
"Will you help me?"
"What is it you want me to do?"
"Let me take possession of your body, if you do this, then I can lead you to the evil that is within these walls. But you must help me sisters, for they have been captured in portraits. Only I have the power to leave the paintings. But to help my sisters I need someone of the living."
"Are you the spirit who took the fire from those torches?"
"Yes."
"Why did you take them?"
"To give one to each of my sisters, they say it can get cold and lonely, so I brought them fire to help them. I have three sisters, you must help me free each one, and then when we return the fire to the torches to where I was earlier, then a gateway to the evil of this temple shall appear. Please help me free them!"
Zelda thought for a moment, this could be a trap, but she felt no evil from this ghost, only sadness and sorrow. She had to help her, and Zelda knew that if even if the ghost didn't lead her to the evil here in this temple, she would have helped her anyway.
"Do what you have to do, but let me still have part control of my body."
"Thank you!"
The spirit walked into Zelda, and Zelda felt the spirit take half control of her body. It didn't hurt at all, and Zelda found that the presence of a spirit felt... nice.
'I shall lead you to their prisons.' The spirit called out from Zelda's mind.
"Alright, but what's your name? And you can use my mouth if you want to."
"Thank you," said the spirit, and Zelda found it seemed odd to have a different voice come out of her body and no-control of her lips. "My name is Kale, the youngest sister of all."
"Kale, it's a pleasure to help you, please, lead the way."
Kale took control over Zelda's legs and turned Zelda back up the stairs, running, hoping with all her heart that she could really do something to save her sisters.
Link dodged another attack, and then swung his sword at the Stalfos' neck, its head fell off and landed on the floor, and the rest of the skeleton walked around trying to find its head. Link had been doing this for at least fifteen minutes and he still hadn't found a weakness to destroy the monster. Navi flew over to his ear as the monster continued searching desperately for its head.
"Link, have you found a weakness yet?"
"What does it look like?" He asked just as the monster found its head.
"Sorry for asking!" She flew off before the Stalfos had enough time to try and attack her. The Stalfos wildly began slashing at Link, and it was getting harder and harder to dodge its attacks. Link kept his shield up, watching as he saw sparks fall to the floor. Link saw part of the leg of the skeleton shot underneath him, but didn't have enough time to try and move away. He tripped, and hit a statue behind him; the statue made a click noise before the middle of the floor collapsed and fell into darkness.
The Stalfos raised its sword over its head, and then brought it down; Navi flew into the sword and then began flying around its head. The Stalfos tried to swat her away and began to walk backwards, and before it could do anything it fell backwards into the pit. Navi flew back over to Link and hugged his cheek.
"Thanks Navi." Link told her as he got up off the ground with a grunt.
"No problem!"
The sound of moving stone was heard and Link saw part of the wall move to reveal a door. He stood up and put his sword in its sheath. Walking around the hole in the floor he went and opened the door, and found himself in another circular room, but this one had a number of doors. And there had to be at least ten different doors, he looked at them all, wondering which one to pick.
"Link, this is a riddle room, pick the wrong door and you will meet your death, so choose wisely!"
Link sighed and then went to the nearest door; he put his hand on the handle when he felt something move on his wrist. Taking his hand off the doorknob he looked at his wrist and found that it was the wooden bracelet that Zelda had given him. Why was it vibrating like that? Wait, hadn't she told him that it would tell him when evil was nearby? So if he used the bracelet, it could tell him which way was safe!
Link began to walk around the room with his hand reaching out to the doors, waiting until the bracelet stopped moving. He was a little past the middle of the room when its vibrating almost stopped, and so he went to the next door, but then the bracelet began vibrating even more. He went back to the other door, and the bracelet steadied. He went to the door that had been before that one and it began vibrating harder again. He went back to the door, and then realized that since the Temple had evil in it, the bracelet would still move when he came to the right door, just not as badly as it would to the others.
He went and opened the door, and then walked in, and saw a statue of a wolf in the center of it, with pots rimming the square room. The statue was one of a wolf sleeping, and it almost looked real. Link looked at it for a while longer and then went forward to try and see what it felt like; he reached out, and gently touched the surface of it. He froze when the rock under his fingers felt like fur, and then realized that it WAS in fact a sleeping wolf, its fur a stone gray. Link slowly took his hand back, and steadied his breathing, getting back up he walked as quietly as he could away from the wolf. He hit the door with his back and then cursed at his stupidity. What was he thinking? Now that he paid closer attention to the monster he could see it breathing, its chest going up and down.
Link went away from the door a little and then pulled out his bow, stringing it with an arrow he aimed at the wolf's head. Letting go, the arrow flew and pierced through its skull, killing it instantly. Link sighed in relief as part of the wall moved to reveal another door. Walking over to the wolf he saw a small bulge at its stomach, curiously he leaned over and checked for its gender, and found that it was a female. He felt a stab of guilt, feeling Navi stroke his neck with tiny hands.
"It's Ok Link, you didn't know."
Biting his lip he picked up the wolf and walked over to the door.
"Link, what are you doing?"
"I don't even know how she got pregnant, but she at least deserves to have her body put in better place then this room. Can you open the door for me?"
Navi went past him and opened the door, and Link walked out into the sunlight. He was in a garden, it was overgrown and a small stream trickled down the middle of it. A bridge led to the other side, and flowers grew everywhere. He walked over to a patch where the flowers seemed to stick out the most and laid the body of the dead wolf down.
"I'm sorry that I can't bury you, but I must get this temple back in order. Please forgive me." Link said this with truth, this wasn't a Stalfos or a Wolfos, it was an actual animal, and he had killed it along with its pups.
Standing up her looked around and saw another door; this one was covered in vines, and would obviously take time to open. He looked to the other side of the garden, and saw nothing but flowers. But something caught his eye on the stone wall on the other side, and he went to the bridge and over it to inspect it more. Navi flew ahead of him, and then stopped and waited for Link to come. Once he was there, both of them looked at the wall, and found that it was a picture; it was a child's picture, done with black. It was small, and whoever had done it must have been killed, because a red stain was next to the illustration.
Looking at he saw that there were four young stick adults, and a few stick children, the thing about this picture was that they were all on the ground, with black coming out of their bodies. And it must have been blood, because all of them had X's where their eyes should have been, tongues hanging out of their mouths. A figure stood towering over them, it seemed to be a tall man, holding a sword larger then he was with blood dripping off it. His cape blew in the wind, and he had a smile on his face, happy at what he had done. One child seemed to be still alive, and was holding up a stick, and was next to something that must have been a wall.
"In Nayru's name, what kind of a picture is this?" asked Navi in a frightened voice that quivered. Link pointed at the child that held the stick in the picture.
"That must have been the child who made this picture just before they died, and the man over the dead is the one who killed them. This is a story of how they died; I wonder where their bones lay...."
"Well I don't want to know!" Navi cried out as she went and sat down on Link's shoulder trying to keep herself from crying. "How sad...."
Link looked below the bottom and saw that there was tree with lines for eyes and a fury mustache and eyebrows, he felt his blood freeze, that was the mark that all Korkori put on the bottom of an important message. The children had been Korkori, but then who were the four adults? And who could have killed them?
Link looked at the blood stain next to the picture and then looked down but saw no bones. He moved the grass around, there had to be bones here, where else would they be? He dug a little into the ground and then found a small skull; some pink hair was still attached to it. He felt his stomach roll and twist as he found the full body; it still had a green tunic on. He tightened his hands in fury, and felt tears began to burn behind his eyes. His knuckles turned white, but the tears wouldn't fall. He heard Navi whimper as she looked at the skeleton of a young Korkori, and could feel her tears go through his tunic.
He covered the body with dirt, and then stood up. This place was a graveyard, it wasn't the place where the balance of nature was controlled, it was a slaughterhouse for the innocent. He turned around almost fell backwards when he saw a Korkori girl with light pink hair and purple eyes with a green tunic standing behind him. Her hair was wavy, and went down to her waist; her eyes were sad, and full of murder. Link also noticed that he could see strait through her, and realized that it was a ghost.
"What do you want?" He demanded when he got his emotion back under control.
"What makes you happy?" she replied in a sorrowful voice.
"Being with my friends, and meeting people."
She cocked her head to the side and then lifted it again.
"How do you meet these new people?"
"Usually by helping them." He answered back as Navi shivered next to his neck.
"Will you help me?"
"Help you with what?"
"Free the other trapped spirits of the Korkori children who were murdered here long ago."
"How long have you been dead?"
"At least one hundred years. A little beyond that, but not that much."
"Who killed you?"
"A man with a large nose and red hair, he decapitated us all. Except for me, he stabbed me in the abdomen, and so I crawled over to that place and made that picture, and then he cut my head off."
Link looked at her and then to the spot where the bones lay, those bones were hers.... He turned back around and looked at her.
"Why do you want me to help you?"
"Because, I was watching when you took that wolf and set down to rest in the sunlight instead of the cold dungeon. And you respected her even though if she had been awake then she might have killed you."
"How did you."
"I can go in and out of this courtyard if I want, and I sensed a living human spirit and so I watched what you did."
"Where are of the other spirits that were killed?"
"We were all confined to portraits, but another ghost and I were able to escape. We don't see each other often, because we feel guilty that we both were able to escape and the others didn't. Even though that's what we think about most of the time."
"What do I have to do?"
"Follow me, and I shall lead you to them. I will be able to bring you to them, but you must figure out what to do."
"Ok, so what's your name?"
"Lale."
"Lale, how come I can see you?"
"The Temple's magic allows us to be shown at our will. "Alright, show me the way!"
"Thank you!"
She walked off to the door that Link had seen earlier and at her touch the vines disappeared. She went through the door and Link followed her, knowing he would do the best he could to help the Korkori spirits be free. He opened the door and saw Lale waiting for him in an upside-down room. There was a table with plates, glasses, and chairs on the ceiling, and even the torches burned upside-down. He went into the room and looked at everything, and then noticed that there was a hole next to the right of the table.
"Come." Link looked away and then followed Lale again, going through another door he saw that he was in an indoor garden. The plants had odd and poison-like colors, and some of the plants even looked like they were breathing.
"Mind not to wake the plants. If you do, they will probably kill you." Link looked at Lale with shock, how plants kill him? Seeing the confusion in his eyes, she explained to him a calm and quiet voice, "these aren't actual plants, they only take the form of them. They are monsters, but have been sleeping for a long time and have been waiting for some dinner to eat."
Link nodded and carefully stepped through the sleeping monsters, more then once he almost tripped on something that looked like a branch. He sighed when he reached the end and then opened and then closed a door. He was cut off when the ceiling came down, barley missing him by an inch; it came back up, and then came back down a few seconds later. He watched it fall for a second time and then saw that there were open spaces where the ceiling didn't fall on.
Taking in a deep breath, Link charged forward just as the ceiling began to go back up. The spot where he was going hadn't seemed that far away, but as he got closer, the ceiling began fall.
Ok, I know, I know, that chapter sucked, and the battle scenes stunk like a skunk as well. But I promise next chapter to make the battle scene better, it's just that I want to get these chapters up as soon as possible. And the Djinn still haven't come back from their little vacation; they sent me a card though. It has the three of them and they're with their masters, and they're all happy and whatever so forget about them! The fact is, is that I am FREE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT! And that's sleep. Heehaw. Oh, and I know that the names of the side characters in this story aren't that good, and that's because I make them all up. Before I began writing this story and read other fanfictions I would think, 'What kind of a crappy name is that?' And now, I see that names are actually hard to come up with, although when other writers write they're usually actual names. Zelda's an actual name, but what about Link? And Malon? And Ruto? And ouch! Someone just hit me with a tomato, who did that?
RandomGuy: HAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE SUCH A LOSER!
Oh, so you think that's funny do you? Well what about this!
(Black and a dark red aura surrounds CrypticElf, and then the Random Person begins to get the cheesy computer effect around them too.)
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! HACK COUGH COUGH HAHAHAH! Take this!
(Random Guy begins screaming like a valley girl as CrypticElf walks over and gives him a weagy, and then she pulls his underwear over his eyes.)
Let that be your lesson!
Random Girl: This isn't an adventure/action/romance fic, this IS A HORROR FICTION! EVERYBODY RUN!
(Everyone else begins running away; the Random Guy can't see where he's going and runs around in circles.)
I fell so much better now! Mmmm....
So until next time, CrypticElf....