The four of them walked through the entrance and into a large antechamber. It was at least 15 feet tall and big enough to fit about 50 people comfortably. The room was lit by torches placed evenly along the walls. The walls themselves were smooth, but they were not bare. Painted in vibrant colors on the walls, and even the floor and ceiling, was Hyrule. To their left was painted the Gerudo Fortress, the Haunted Wasteland, the Desert Colossus, and Lake Hylia. On their right was painted Death Mountain, Kakariko Village, Zora's River and Zora's Domain. Painted behind them was the Kokiri Forest, the Deku tree, and the Lost Woods.

The ceiling and floor were simple paintings. The ceiling was painted to resemble a bright sunny day, and the floor was painted to resemble the green grass of Hyrule Field. What they were really interested in though, was what was painted on the wall in front of them. Except for the door, the entire wall in front of them was painted to show Hyrule Market and Hyrule Castle as if someone were looking at it from a mountaintop. It was painted in such detail that they could count the windows on every house in Hyrule Market. Floating above the castle in the sky was painted the Triforce, all three golden triangles shining brightly.

Even though they all knew that this had to have been painted centuries ago, it looked as if it had just been painted yesterday. The door leading out of the antechamber was no less beautiful or magnificent. It was a beautifully crafted wooden door. Situated in the middle of it was a big Triforce made out of solid gold. It shined so brightly and was so perfect that they could see their reflections in it. After staring in amazement Link reached forward, grabbed the silver door handles, and opened the doors.

The antechamber opened up into a large room. This room was the center of the temple. In the middle of the room were several large tables with dozens of chairs each. At the end of the room were large stained glass panes. These panes extended all the way up the wall. The first row of stained glass were of all the Sages, Zelda included. They could only guess that the other panes had to be of former Sages who had passed on.

Extending off of this room were dozens of other rooms. They were connected to the main room by stone archways. Written above each archway in bright, gold letters were words such as Hylians, Sheikahs, Royal Family, and Hyrule. Since each room had something different written above it and they could see that each room contained hundreds upon hundreds of books, they figured that the words described what kinds of books were to be found in the different rooms.

This was not the only level to the temple. On either side of the door they had just walked through were stairs that led up to other levels. Each level was exactly the same as the first with all the different rooms full of books. Despite the utter lack of windows, the place was as bright as if they were outside. The only light sources in the room were torches located in-between each archway, but there weren't nearly enough of them to create this kind of light. The light seemed to be filtering in from somewhere above, but the source itself remained a mystery.

"Well let's get started," said Alexis after they all had examined their surroundings. "We have a lot of books to go through."

"What exactly is it that we're searching for?" asked Zelda as she just now realized that they hadn't been told what they were coming here for.

"To tell you the truth, I'm not entirely sure."

"What?" said Link in shock. "Can you explain to me why then we traveled all this way and went through all of that trouble when we have absolutely no idea what we're searching for? Do you know how many books there are? Just look around. It'll take us forever to go through all of these, and since we don't know what we're searching for we could accidently find it and not realize it."

"Somewhere in here is the key to stopping Lord Arcana and his army. If I knew what it was we wouldn't have had to travel here, but I don't. All I know is that it is located somewhere within these walls. You just have to trust me."

"I'm a god damn warrior, not a librarian," Gerik mumbled under his breath. "Hey! What's with that room over there?"

Everyone looked at the far wall where Gerik was pointing. Underneath all of the stained glass was another archway. This one was different though. It was the only archway that had a door preventing access to it, and it was a strong looking door. There wasn't even a handle on the door to open it with. Above the archway was written Triforce.

"Oh," said Alexis nonchalantly, "that room contains everything on the Triforce. What you all know about the Triforce is nothing compared to the secrets inside that room. Don't bother trying to get into that room; it's impossible. That door cannot be destroyed, and it will only allow access to those chosen to read the contents inside. As far as I know, only the Goddesses themselves can enter that room."

"Okay then," said Gerik to change the subject, "how about we get to reading?"

"That sounds like a good idea," replied Link. "Everyone split up and take a different room. We'll search the rooms that make the most sense first, and then move on down the line. We only have two and a half days left here. Let's make it quick."

Without another word the four of them split up. Alexis and Zelda headed up the stairs to the upper levels while Link and Gerik started looking on the ground floor. Link walked over to a room that was marked Wars. Since Alexis had said that Lord Arcana was this powerful and skilled warrior, he figured that his name would be mentioned in there somewhere. Gerik meanwhile headed to a room marked Gerudo. Even though Gerik wasn't enjoying the idea of reading about Lord Arcana's and the TwinRova Sisters' relationship, he no choice since it might hold the key to defeating Lord Arcana.

Alexis and Zelda picked rooms that they felt were important as well. Alexis saw a room marked Enemies of Hyrule and felt that a good place to start. As Zelda was searching for a room to look in, she saw one marked Sages. She convinced herself that if Lord Arcana was such a powerful person, then the Sages who were around at that time must have mentioned him. The real reason she wanted to go in there was to see if she could learn anything.

The four of them spent hour after hour reading through countless books and going from room to room. After all this time they had found nothing, and what they did find were just blurbs. Alexis had found a book all about Lord Arcana in her room, but it only told her what she already knew. It didn't mention any weakness whatsoever. Gerik had to suffer through Lord Arcana's and the TwinRova Sisters' relationship and the birth of their son, but after that nothing. Zelda found no mention of Lord Arcana at all, but did learn some interesting things about being a Sage.

Link wasn't having any better luck. While the others had all switched rooms several times already, he was still looking through books from the room marked Wars. He had to have read about every war in Hyrule's history, but never was there any mention of Lord Arcana. Apparently Lord Arcana had, up till now, never participated in a war either against or for Hyrule. It wasn't a total loss though. Link did get to read about the war Ganon launched against Hyrule when he was asleep for those seven years. Now that Link knew how Ganon had won, he could make sure that those weaknesses were corrected before Lord Arcana attacked.

"So how's it going?" asked Gerik as he walked over to the table Link was sitting at.

"Not so well," replied Link. "I've read about possibly every war Hyrule has ever participated in and there isn't even a mention of Lord Arcana. How about you?"

"A little better than you I guess. I've gone through three different rooms already and I've actually seen stuff about the guy, but nothing that Alexis didn't already tell us. I'm starting to think that this is just a wild goose chase."

"Maybe so. Wait! You've already been through three rooms? Damn, I've been going through only one room all this time. It's been pretty interesting reading though. Hyrule has been through some really dark times before. I thought things were bad when I first left the Kokiri Forest and entered Hyrule Field, but that was nothing compared to some of these."

"So how many wars has Hyrule actually gone through?"

"Way too many to count. Of course most of them involved the Triforce. You want to know something though? Out of all those wars, Hyrule only lost one of them, and that was the war against Ganon. Of course I then manipulated time, defeated Ganon, and made it so Ganon never launched his war against Hyrule, but he was still the only one to ever do it. He's also the only person in history to have actually touched the Triforce. Sure it broke apart because I was asleep and Zelda was missing, but he's the only one to have ever touched it and come closest to making a wish upon it."

"So basically Ganon's war was the most famous, right?"

"Wrong. There were plenty of other wars that were both deadlier and more disastrous than Ganon's war could ever hope to be. The worst one occurred about two centuries ago. I'm surprised you don't know about it. It was this war in which the Sheikah race was nearly annihilated. The Sheikahs were Hyrule's only defenders in those days. One day an army appeared searching for the Triforce. The Sheikahs wouldn't allow it and a war broke out. The war lasted about five years. In the end Hyrule won and all of the invaders were killed, but Hyrule suffered terribly. Nearly all of the Sheikahs were wiped out, all of Hyrule lied in ruin, and almost all hope had faded."

"So that's what happened to my people. I knew that we couldn't have just started to decline; that there had to be a reason for it. At least they all died a warrior's death."

"Yeah, and thanks to them the Triforce was kept safe and Hyrule lived to fight another day."

"I don't know why, but something tells me that this war is going to surpass every other war in every way. I think that this war will be the most disastrous to hit Hyrule ever and that a wish will actually be made on the Triforce this time."

"Let's just hope that you're wrong. Well looks like I'm finished with this room. I think I'll check out the room marked Hyrule now. I have a feeling that books pertaining to Hyrule's history will be in there. What about you?"

"I'm going to go check out the room marked Sheikah. Don't look at me like that. I've checked every other room that seemed important down here. Besides, maybe Lord Arcana had some dealings with the Sheikah in the past. We'll never know unless we check."

"Alright, good luck then."

Link closed the book he was reading while Gerik went into the Sheikah room. Link then got up from the table and headed to the room marked Hyrule. This was a rather large room with several long bookcases. There had to be at least a thousand books in there. Link just stood there staring in amazement. The other room hadn't been nearly as large or have as many books. Link just lowered his head and walked toward the bookshelves to begin his search.

Luckily for Link, he was able to knock out half of the bookshelves just by the dates in which the books were created. With those out of the way Link walked down a row of bookshelves that contained rather recent books. He looked at the titles, but only one caught his eye. He tried to forget about it, but his eyes just kept drifting back toward it. The book was titled "The Hero of Time." Convincing himself that maybe some mention of Lord Arcana would be in there since he was Ganon's father, Link took the book off the shelf and headed back into the main room. He pulled up a seat at one of the tables and opened the book.

Link was amazed by the book. It contained everything from when Navi was sent by the Great Deku Tree to fetch Link to when Zelda sent Link back in time after defeating Ganon and sealing him in the Evil Realm. Within the book were also illustrations. Most of the illustrations showed Link fighting Ganon or the various bosses of the temples. The words and illustrations just seemed to jump off the pages to Link as he flipped from page to page reliving his great adventure.

All Link could think of while looking through the book was that back then he was the legendary Hero of Time, and he singlehandedly took on Ganon. Now it was going to take an army to protect the Triforce. As Link flipped to the last page though, he realized that he was mistaken. On the page was a picture of him delivering the final blow to Ganon with the Master Sword, and there, floating by his head, was Navi. Throughout his entire adventure she had been by his side. Link's happy memories turned into depression as Link wondered where Navi was and why, in this dark hour, she wasn't there to help him.

"Hey, what are you doing?" asked Alexis in a happy voice from behind him.

"Oh, just looking at this book and reliving old memories," he replied in a somber tone.

"This is a picture of you defeating Ganon, isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is. I didn't do it alone though. See that fairy floating by my head? Her name was Navi. She was with me from the very beginning of my adventure. Without her I don't think I ever would've succeeded."

"It sounds like the two of you were really close."

"Yeah, we were. She was one of my best friends. It was a little slow in the beginning, but we became really good friends. That's what I thought anyway. After we were returned to the past Navi left without a word. I haven't seen her since. I do miss her."

"That's so sweet."

"Don't get too excited. Things weren't always great. Even though we were friends she got on my nerves. Oh boy did she get on my nerves. There were times when I wished she had a neck just so I could strangle her. But I guess all friendships have their ups and downs, right?"

"Hmpf!" was all Alexis replied as she turned around and walked away.

"What did I say?" asked Link confused.

"Those sons of bitches!" Gerik's voice rang throughout the temple all of a sudden.

Link quickly rose out of his chair and looked toward the room Gerik was in. Alexis turned to look as well and Zelda was running down the stairs to see what all the commotion was about. They all watched as Gerik emerged from the room shaking a book angrily in his right hand. His face was contorted with anger, but they could also see disbelief in his face. He was stumbling out of the room as he had just been shot in the chest with an arrow. He headed over to the nearest table and slammed the book down upon it. His face as he did so contorted as if he was trying to hold back tears.

"Gerik, what's wrong?" Zelda asked concernedly.

"Those bastards. . .those god damn bastards were traitors!" he yelled with a mix of anger and sorrow.

"Who Gerik?" asked Link. "Who were traitors?"

"My parents!" Gerik literally growled.