Chp.3: Fight for the Sapphire of fire

Link has reached the entrance to the evil chamber, but there were monsters surrounding him, all kinds of them. A razor tried to cut Link again, this was the same razor that cut him earlier in the story, but Link was stronger now and wiser. He dodged the attack and chopped the razor's head off. A goblin came running and Link blocked his attack then stabbed him, killing it. Grailies, dark shadow spheres that feed on souls, tried to trick Link but didn't work. Link did the spin attack and the flames killed the grailies and injured some goblins. A gargoyle tried to do a surprise attack and succeeded, Link dropped to the ground. He drew his bow and shot an arrow, killing it. And finally Link was face-to-face with three goblins and he threw a deku nut and stunned them.

"Be ready, Nightcrawler!" He puts in a golden key, that he had obtained from a large chest, into a demonic lock and opened the door. He enters.

"Come out, Nightcrawler!" He looks around with hand on sword and shield ready.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, Nightcrawler comes out of a dark wall and shoots a dark blast at Link and hits him. Link yells and falls to the ground. He picks himself up and side jumps to his right and throws a deku nut under Nightcrawler's feet and its power stuns him. "Aahh!" He yells out

Link comes running towards him attempting to stab him, but somehow Nightcrawler regains control of his body and jumps out of the way.

"Dammit!" Link runs and tries to figure out the spawn's weakness, but the enemy was too fast to even be seen. Then the spawn comes around from behind Link and kicks him on the face knocking him down.

Nightcrawler grabs Link by the legs and spins him around tossing him unto a dark wall. Link was hurt and he tried to get off the floor to continue fighting, but the impact made his whole body feel numb.

"Ha! You thought you were going to kill me?" Nightcrawler starts to walk towards Link and draws his sword with increasing speed. Link tries to grab for his sword but it was too far from reach.

The dark wall started to glow and demonic, possessed masks came through laughing at Link who is in trouble. Nightcrawler raises his sword and lightning struck it and he started to chant words of an unknown language. Link looks around and sees the masks surrounding him, then he reached into his tunic and pulled out the bottle filled with lon lon milk and drinks it, he replenishes back to full health.

He gets back on his feet and draws his bow of the sage; he pulls out an arrow and aimed at Nightcrawler's heart. He shoots the arrow and hits the spawn in the chest. He screeches in rage and shoots a fury of dark blasts at Link. The Hero of Time runs dodging them, jumping over and crouching under the mighty blasts. Then he jumps unto the wall and kicks off shooting his forest arrows. They pierced Nightcrawler's body making him even angrier. Link lands on the ground and continues to run, this time towards the spawn, he jumps and kicks him in the gut. The spawn spits black blood all over the silver, tiled floor.

Link runs back for his sword and picks it up. Then he hears a loud bang and he falls into sparkling water. He swims back up and Nightcrawler grabs Link by the right arm. "Let go!" Link stabs the spawn in the thigh and gets dropped next to the water.

"No! The Great Fairy's water!" he screams as his body began to change.

Link gasps and looks back at the water; there was a young woman's reflection. She had red, fiery hair that was as long as Link's height. She smiled and laughed, then winks and disappears. "Thanks," Link looked back to see Nightcrawler but instead he saw a young man with at least a dozen arrows pierced into his body. Link went to the man and lifted his head, "you are now free from the spawn's curse, Elios."

Elios opens his eyes and blood started to pore down his chin. "No... he still lives... run and... get as far as..." with that he dies, these were the last words he had spoken on the land of Hyrule.

Suddenly a dark spawn, a dark spirit with the eyes of the devil, came down from the ceiling and charged towards Link. The hero dodges it and pulls out his bottle capturing the evil fiend. A blue aura surrounded Link and teleported him outside of the dungeon's entrance.

"Alright! Now all I got to do is get the sapphire from the swamp master."

Saltros opened his door and saw Link standing outside, "Link! You're alive!" He punched Link on the arm, "did you complete your mission?"

Link sighs and says with disappointment, "yeah, but I couldn't save your brother's life..."

Saltros nods and says, "that's okay, I knew he wasn't going to make it but thanks anyway for freeing him from his curse." He pulls out a pouch with a piece of rope that tied the top of it. "Here, this is the sapphire you wanted."

Link takes the pouch and opens it and finds a beautiful red sapphire lying within it. "Thanks, for everything that you have done for me and no thanks for trying to kill me."

They both laugh.

"Yeah," he nods and Link nods back. Saltros watched as Link left the swamp.

Later, Link finally got out of the swamp and got his ocarina. He played the sweet sound of Epona's melody. Epona came running and stopped to let his master hop on. He rides her and searched the skies for any signs that linked to a dragon. On his way to the forest he saw great valleys, huge mountains covered with snow on its tip, and finally he saw his destination. There were trees all around, there lived all sorts of animals, and he could hear the singing of birds and the sound of Saria's ocarina.

He reached a dark tunnel that led to the forest and he entered to search for the ocarina of time.