Sorry I'm late… Anyway, onto the responses!

Dragon-Charmer16: First you are! Cookie for you! (give cookie) As for the website, it's almost done. I'll put the link in my profile as soon as I'm finished. Heh… Link could conquer the world if he really wanted to…

Zeldafreak123: Thank you.

CheesefromJupiter: Yeah, the well has a slight lead over the Shadow Temple. For one thing, you can get all the way through the well in about five minutes if you don't care about the lesser treasures. Thanks for reviewing and I loved you story, too!

He who STILL does not log in: It's all right. Just review whenever. Here's your update.

Jana+Anthony: Yeah it was short, no it wasn't that funny… This chapter is a little better. I'm thinking since they're both so short, I should have bunched them together into the same chapter… Whatever.

Lil-dragon-blue: Yes! Clap your hands! NOOOOO! Muahahahahaha! Chapter 9 is my very favorite! I'll try to cut down with the uber vocabulary, but since the whole thing's written… Yeah, well… I'll do my best! And you update soon, too! I can't wait!

Lil-dragon-blue: Yeah, the boat. I forgot about the boat. Once when I was playing that part I didn't beat the Stalfos in time, so they just sank with the boat. Some may call it cheating, but I call it creative problem sloving!

Okay! Now we move on to part one of the search for the Shadow Spirit: Link's Story! R, R, & E! That's read, review, and enjoy for all you slow folk…

Chapter 11: Link's Exploration of Shadow Temple

Link took out Din's Fire and struck it, lighting all the neatly arranged torches and knocking a few over. As for the ones that fell, a PA system somewhere said, "Cleanup on aisle seven. Cleanup on aisle seven." Then an underpaid, grumbling teenager with a summer job at the Shadow Temple came through with a broom and dustpan and began to reorganize his TorchNOW display for the twelfth time that day. Trouble is, no one ever even bought any of the spontaneous torch generator. So it was totally moot.

Link paused to read the cryptic language on the door. "Yo quiero beber su sangre," he read haltingly. "I guess that's old Hylian for 'Welcome'." Without a second thought to the strange tongue (cough, cough) inscribed upon the door, he entered the Temple and immediately began his search.

"Uh, this is Link the Hero of Time filling in for Lady Tadaka! Guardian Spirit of Shadow, if you're here, I'd like you to come out so I can rub it in Hieke's face!"

…Silence. Link called out again, but the only response he got was his own echo. Wait… echo! An idea came to him. When he fought himself in Water Temple, Dark Link always made the same moves he made. Like an echo! So, if he could move around in a fashion that would position him right in front of the source of the now-obvious Shadow Spirit, he'd have no troubles.

For hours upon hours he tried to move his echo around. Then a different idea came to him. Dark Link moved like a reflection… not an echo.

"Man, am I ever screwed," Link muttered as he made his way to the entrance, where he randomly knocked over a bunch of TorchNOW just for the heck of it. Then he thought to at least make it look good and ran back into the Temple.

He located the nearest ReDead and stood there waiting for it to spot him. He moved around and around it until he looked like a retarded chipmunk chasing its alter ego. "Yo! Mortal flesh here!" he demanded. The ReDead didn't as much as gurgle in that eerie voice that sounds like a bunch of guys having fun in a recording studio.

"Yo!" Link repeated. One of those anime snot-bubbles formed on the ReDead's nonexistent nose. The Hero of Time growled in frustration and smacked the zombie creature with his sword. "Wake up!" he shouted. The ReDead fell over and huddled into a fetal position, sucking its decomposing thumb. Link twitched a little, then left to find another ReDead.

He rounded the corner and caught the slightest glimpse of a white tail running down a neighboring corridor. Curious, Link followed after the creature. There were no monsters with white tails in the Shadow Temple… He ran down the hall, the walls drenched in blood, and strained his eyes to find the creature he spotted earlier.

For hours upon hours he followed his glimpses at the white tail. Eventually it ducked down a hallway that Link knew to have a dead end. With a victorious grin he sprinted down the hall before his prey had a chance to duck back out.

At the end of the corridor. pawing at the wall and looking for an exit, was a young white wolf. It turned to link with serene black eyes. "Who are you?" it asked fearfully. Link crouched in front of it and scratched its ear gently. The wolf titled its head in content.

"My name is Link," he said. "I'm looking for the Guardian Spirit of Shadow."

The wolf nodded. "You have halfway succeeded," it informed. "My name is Jaroku, one of the Shadow Spirits. My brother Jaruko is beneath the Kakariko Well. We are two halves of the same Spirit. Jaruko represents the darkness of Shadow and I represent the light that must be there for Shadow to exist."

Link petted Jaroku down his back. "What do you say we go and find my friend?" he suggested. "She's in the well right now, looking for Jaruko."

Jaroku nodded and led the way to the exit, his white fur shimmering in the torch light. Link followed and hoped that Hieke had been successful.

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"Yo quiero beber su sangre" means "I want to drink your blood." That part always makes me chuckle. Next chapter is Hieke's search of the Kakariko Well. Five reviews and a little patience if you wanna read it! This chapter was delayed because… well, I slept in until about eight, then I did some of my summer reading until ten, then I got up and took the dog outside, then I had breakfast, then I watched TV, then I helped my mother pay bills (she can only use one arm right now), then I wrote the responses, then I… updated. Yeah.