Here you go you lovely readers of mine. No super long author's note today so enjoy. :D

Chapter 28

Evil Bastards

Movement caught my eye in the darkness. I turned to it to see Link sit up groaning as he did. I sighed in relief and couldn't contain myself as I hugged him. I pulled away and sat on the bed beside him.

"Don't do that again." I told him sternly.

"Uh, are you okay Electra, you usually don't… do wake up hugs."

"I do when someone I care about almost dies."

"I did? When? What happened?" He looked around the room. "Where are we?"

"Kakariko Village."

Panic appeared on his face. "How long have I been out?"

"I don't really know; everything has just been mushed together. A sunrise, a sunset, and I think the sun might be rising again if it hasn't already; so a day I guess."

"Did you sleep?"

"I think, between monster attacks."

"Monster attacks?" Link's voice cracked.

"I'm surprised you don't remember at least half of it, though I guess it's probably for the best." I told him as I took the glass from the side table and handed it to him.

His throat was probably dry. He looked at it for a second before downing it.

There was silence for a moment before he turned to me with a serious look on his face. "Tell me everything that happened starting when you picked up the two medallions off the ground."

I swallowed, didn't want to relive it, but it wasn't hard to bring up details that were seared into my mind. "After I picked up the Medallions, a giant snake came from the ceiling and stabbed you…"

Flashback

Its golden-yellow eyes glared down at us as fear filled me. I was speechless and Link gave me a confused look. He turned around and took a step back just as the snake's tail came out of his back. The snake removed its tail as blood dripped from it and Link dropped to the floor.

"Link!" I screamed.

Why was there another one? Why was there another snake?! It just stabbed him. It just stabbed…

"Filthy mortal, killing is all you do with that blade." The snake hissed in rage. "How does it feel to be dealt a death dealing stab? I'm guessing not too thrilling."

Link growled before coughing. I heard blood hit the sand as I stood there. How did this happen? Why did it? Something dropped from my hand. I looked down and saw the two medallions. Two of them…

"Two of them? It was a tough battle, so I guess it's possible, but..."

Link's words repeated in my head. But, it's possible that there were two monsters instead of one. I looked up to see a golden yellow, orange and red snake tail slam into me sending me closer to the snake's face. I looked up from the sand hesitantly. Link's face was filled with pain as he looked over at me. Red was tinging his green tunic where he was holding.

"Get out of here." Link choked out before blood fell on the sand.

The sand soaked most of it up turning it a dark brown color. Memories of almost losing my father rushed through my head. I couldn't leave him. He was one of the only people I could call a friend; my partner. I shook my head; I felt tears starting to form.

"You can't save me!" Link shouted at me. He coughed blood up again. He sounded angry, but I couldn't tell if it was at me for my stubbornness or at himself. "I don't have any health potions left. I used them all while fighting Apophis."

Something snapped in my fear filled head as I reached for my pouch. Health potions, I stocked up on them before we left Castle Town and I didn't use any of them. Link glared at me, but it changed to a surprised look as I pulled out several bottles full the red liquid.

"Where did-"

"I thought something like this would happen when you were going to head into the Lakebed Temple, so I used up all my rupees to get these. But you didn't know and I forgot about them up until now. I still have three more if you need them. I don't know how they work against such a wound, but for the love of every deity use them!"

"Electra…"

"Don't. Drink as many as you can before you pass out, I have a fucker to kill."

"Wait, just leave."

"I'm not fucking leaving!" I shouted as I stood up. I was wobbly, but I was so mad I didn't care. "Nobody hurts the people I love without paying up."

"Where are the medallions?" Link asked suddenly.

I looked over and realized why the snake was awfully quiet above us. The snake had grown twice its size and was currently absorbing the rest of the Forest Medallion. I looked back down at Link. He had drank up a second bottle of the healing potions. I lightened up a bit as he was starting to look better, pale, but better. Still, there was a slight issue at hand. "He absorbed them."

"And as a creature of order, I, Ra, consumed Apophis the creature of Chaos." The snake cackled. "And it looks like you survived because of this golden-eyed girl. Lucky for me, I have always wondered what it was like to watch someone die twice in less than two minutes."

Fear took me again as I looked back at it's golden-yellow eyes that reminded me of the same color that I saw every time I looked in a mirror. Suddenly, I felt something push me so hard I lost my breath before I skidded across the sandy. I sat up just to see Link with an apologetic look before being slammed into the ground with the serpent's tail inside him. Most of the tail was blocked by the shield on his back. The other five bottles of health potions shattered under the force. Link shouted in pain as he was picked up and shook around slightly as his blood flicked on the ground before being launched from the snake's tail into a wall. Link dropped to the floor without a sound and crashed just as silently. Something built in my chest as I stood up pulling out a health potion from my pouch. I knew I only had a few seconds. I didn't know how I knew, but I did. A flash of yellow and red caught the corner of my eye and I reacted. I sliced it away with my sword as I continued. The snake hissed in pain as I dropped beside Link and turned him on his back. Blood was everywhere and there wasn't much breathing action as a stab wound was through his chest, just missing the heart. He was trying to breath, but all there was were gasps for air. I opened the bottle quickly trying to ignore the fact that he was most likely done and opened his mouth. I poured a little down his mouth and he gaged on it waking him up slightly.

"Drink it you foolish boy." I whispered before my hand pulsed.

Link obliged and I tipped it again just as I pulled out my gun. I turned to it and shot the snake in each of its eyes as it was striking towards us. It reared upwards as I covered Link's body with my own and it crashed into the wall sending debris down on top of me. Something hit the side of my head, but I didn't wince as I felt blood drip down my face mixing it with Link's. The snake hissed in pain and what I guessed was anger as it pulled away to somewhere behind me. Link finished drinking the red liquid and I took the bottle back and pulled out another one.

"You can't just let me die in peace, can you?" He barely whispered meaning his lungs were being repaired.

"What can I say; I'm a bit of a shit disturber." I replied back with a small smile. "Can you use one of your arms?"

He nodded slightly before wincing in pain. I picked him up slightly and placed him against the wall. I gave him the bottle. He took it, but he looked like he was using a lot of energy just to try and stay awake. He took another drink before passing out entirely. I caught him and placed him down, placing the bottle of the remaining health potion next to his face so he could see it. I stood up and pulled out the Master Sword from his sheath. Ra seemed to have recovered as gold blood dripped from his eyes.

"Goddess girl, I would have liked to keep you alive for the day of Demise, but- arg!"

I didn't hear the rest of it as I shot it again with my gun in my other hand. "Shut up."

"You stupid mortal!" he raged glaring down at me. "You think you can beat a god?"

I glared back, and the snake seemed to move backwards slightly. I could feel his fear of me as it came in waves. I didn't say anything as I charged at him firing my gun. He hissed as I shot him in the eyes again. His tail came towards me and I flipped over it as I slashed the Master Sword across it. The howling rang through my ears as I felt my hand pulse again and pain seared through my hand, arm and head like before. My rage exploded as I ignored the pain that was threatening my vision. I fired at him again until the clicks of an empty gun entered my ears quietly under the howling, hissing and screaming of the snake. I threw it away and pulled out the other one and fired as I got closer. The snake's eye sight repaired and came at me with both his head and his tail. I chose the tail to be hit with which made me drop the Master Sword as I felt something break in my chest. I growled in pain and rage as I landed on my feet and skidded to a stop against something. I looked down at what my foot hit and saw Apophis's sword tail next to me. I glared even deeper as Ra's tail came at me for a stab. I dodged to the side with a roll and picked up the sword tail. I stabbed it into Ra's tail and it stuck into the wall. Ra hissed as he tried to release his tail. I charged shooting until I ran out of bullets and reloaded to fire some more. I grabbed the Master Sword just as Ra released his tail bringing part of the wall down with it. His tail came at me and I launched myself from it, sending me high into the air.

"You asked me if I could kill a god. My answer is; can you and the other evils in the world survive my wrath, the Wrath of Themis herself?" I asked viciously.

The serpent didn't have a chance to answer as I stabbed it in the head. A large gold beam of light exploded from the sword, splitting the serpent's head in two causing a shockwave across the room. I rolled my landing to a stand. The snake exploded taking Apophis' tail with it. The two medallions dropped into my hand from where the creature's head use to be.

"I'll take that as a no."

Both doors opened as I wandered back to Link, picking up my gun in the process. I reloaded both of my guns and cartages as I sized up how much effort was needed to pick him up and take him back to the main land to call the horses. I put the guns away and attempted to get Link to drink the rest of the red liquid down before picking him up. If I was back in my world, he wouldn't be so lucky to have magic potions. After a few minutes I put the empty bottle in my pouch along with the two medallions. While I was there, I grabbed a full bottle of the potion and chugged a bit of it without tasting it and put the three quartered filled bottle back in my pouch. My chest stopped hurting as I felt my breathing become less painful. I went to put the Master Sword into its sheath when I realized how much stronger the magic blade was compare to my ordinary Gladius. I sighed at the idea and decided to go with it as I unbuckled the sheath. Link wasn't going to be using it any time soon anyway. After some more minutes, I managed to get it adjusted. I put the sword away before setting Link on my back. As I stood up slowly, I tried to get the new sense of balance. Link was incredibly heavy compared to his size. I walked a few steps towards the door we had come through when a moan came from behind me. I turned to it glaring and found five spirits with symbols that matched the medallions on their cloaks.

"Thank you for destroying the serpents of Order and Chaos." One of the spirits said, but I couldn't tell which one was speaking as they all had masks on. "They would have continued their conquest passed these grounds."

"I would have loved to see them get through the door." I replied. My sarcasm knob was turned up. The last thing I wanted to do was stick around and talk while I needed to get Link some help.

"It's not a laughing matter Electra Ends."

"Who's laughing, certainly not me."

"We know you aren't laughing and we are grateful for your help, but there are more sinister creatures being born by the second." Another one spoke.

"Then why are you interrupting me sages?" I asked cruelly. The spirits flinched. "Ya, I know who you are and if you haven't noticed; I'm slightly busy."

"As a token of our gratitude," A third one continued ignoring my tone. "We will teleport you out of this tomb. We would teleport you straight to your horses at Lake Hylia with the portal, but we have been weakened significantly."

"We are counting on the both of you." The forth one said just before a wall of light appeared around me.

I shut my eyes for a moment at its brightness. When the light died I opened my eyes again and found that I was standing outside of the building with Link's still on my back. "It would have been more helpful if they just fixed you up." I grumbled to him. He didn't respond.

I sighed looking down the stairs and a grin started to form on my face. A Bullbo was standing there minding its own business as an idea formed in my head. I placed Link onto it flopped over the side. I got on thinking the idea wasn't the best, but certainly the quickest. A bright light caught my eye when I looked up from grabbing the reins. I turned to it and saw the sun was coming up. Definitely way better than walking. About an hour of bumpiness through the desert, the sun was burning down without mercy on my back as the underground ravine appeared with all its open cracks in the surface. I could feel the dehydration set forty minutes ago and was hoping to some god they weren't a mirage. Relief came to me when the cracks in the earth became larger meaning that we were closer to the rest of Hyrule. I started to wonder how the cracks in the earth had become so large even with fast paced water. I looked for a small opening to get the giant boar to jump across. I didn't know anything about the tectonics of the area, but I didn't think it was a giant fault zone where a rift was being created with the ravine. The ground could have been affected from the tension from centuries to millennia of magic battles.

I left my mind and stopped the Bullbo on some rocks so some graboids aka moldorms couldn't get to us. Link was going to wake up with a kink if he ever got up. I got off the Bullbo and clumsily pulled Link off the boar and set him against a rock. He was still very much out to lunch and needed to get out of the heat of the desert, but I wasn't stupid just to let him go without some more of the health potion. If he threw up later because of an overdose then so be it, but too much is better than not enough. I made him drink some more of the red liquid, which surprisingly he swallowed without choking on it. Was it normal for an unconscious body to do that? Probably not, but I left it be as I wasn't a doctor. I drank some of it as well in hope of recovering a little bit of energy. I gaged as I almost spat it out. Why and how could something be so disgusting, and how did I miss it the first time around? Not only was it disgusting, but how could Link drink the stuff? Maybe it was like an energy drink, nasty crap, but it had its ups so you ignored it. I put the nasty stuff away and stretched. After placing Link on the Bullbo and getting on, we continued looking for the path that the Bulblins managed to cross to get to Hyrule Field and back. Shortly afterwards, there was a small area where it was just wide enough where I may or may not be able to jump it with a pole, a large pole. I faced the Bullbo towards the smallest opening. It had to be the area that the Bulblins used. Suddenly without warning, the boar reared up causing me to grab the saddle and sending Link's unconscious body straight into my face. Luckily, he didn't fall off the stupid pig. I couldn't see what direction the Bullbo was going until it jumped without warning. A hard unexpected landing came afterwards throwing Link and me in different directions of the Bullbo. The boar reared again squealing and almost backed up on top of me. I rolled out of the way without noticing the edge until I was on it. I jabbed my sword into the ground. The Bullbo came down and backed up even more sending me over the edge clinging onto my sword that was impaled. I pulled myself over the edge to see the Bullbo running away from a group of Kargaroc.

I pulled myself up on the ground and pulled my sword out of the ground. "Fucking boar," I growled getting a breather. Though I was grateful that the damn thing hadn't thrown Link anywhere it could have ran him over or thrown him over the cliff.

Flashback End

"And then after that, I called the horses with the horse grass you carry and the piccolo." I finished explaining. "There were several monster attacks from there to here, but I won't bore you with details that I'm sure you can figure out yourself. And now we're here, safe and sound with your clothes cleaned and fixed, not by me, and now not looking forward to the next place where I need to go."

"You need to go? Wait a minute-"

"I don't want to see almost die again!" I screamed, finally snapping. "Dammit, twice, TWICE I watched you get stabbed by something I can't stand! You aren't ready, you barely rested. To just jump on the bandwagon when you aren't healed a hundred percent is stupid."

"I'm good enough to jump into the spirit spring or even the hot spring to fix whatever else that isn't." he replied calmly obviously not offended from me screaming at him. He sighed looking away. "I'm sorry for scaring you; I'll be more alert next time."

I glared at him before asking quietly. "Promise?"

"I swear on my life, because if I'm not, I'm dead."

I grabbed his clothes from the chair and threw them in his face remembering that only a blanket was actually covering him. Renado had addressed to his wounds while I found a different place to rest while he did his thing. "Idiot." I growled and slammed the door as I left.

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About twenty minutes went by of me sitting on a chair with my head on the table using my arms as a pillow. I probably shouldn't have screamed at him; but him almost dying scared me as much if not more so than the snakes in Arbiter's Grounds and he just didn't seem to care. I didn't think he understood the reason why I worked by myself back on Earth was for the very reason of watching someone else get killed, that I cared about, was not something I could handle very well. I had strengths, but that was a main weakness of mine that I haven't been able to get over since I was a child. I turned my head and saw the sun, which blinded me as it was starting to rise. I turned back to where my head was even though I was starting to get sore in the same position. The sound of the door opening came to my ears. I turned to it trying hard to ignore the bright light and saw Renado walk in.

"Thank you," I told him as he started for the kitchen. "I should have told you that earlier, sorry."

"No need for the thanks or the apologies. I understand you were under a lot of stressed to say anything earlier. And you also were the one who ultimately saved his life, not me. You were the one who gave him the health potions. I and on behalf of a lot of people must thank you for that."

I shrugged, it didn't seem like that big of a deal since Link woke up under Renado's care. "I just did what I did. It may sound selfish, but I happened to have grown an attachment to him and couldn't let him die. I probably wouldn't have been able to handle losing someone I care about."

"Have you said this to him?"

"Said what?"

"You have feelings for him do you not?"

"As a friend and battle companion," I replied quickly placing most of my face in behind my arms. The subject bugged me. "Besides, Zelda and him have a thing, I'm not going to start up some triangle bullshit that a drama series has."

Renado sighed. "If that's what you wish."

"All I wish for is everyone who isn't trying to end the world or take over it to be happy."

Renado looked like he was going to say more but stopped when he looked towards the door. "Link's outside, I have already given him the Lens of Truth for the Shadow Temple."

I stood up from the table. "Like I said before, thanks for the help."

"Be careful, whatever is in there is more dangerous than anything you have faced before. The spirits in there are deceitful, violent and have had centuries or more of hate built to create pure evil."

"As long as there are no snakes, I can handle it. After all they are only a bunch of dead guys."

"They are pure evil and live in possibly in the most evil filled location of all Hyrule maybe even the entire world."

"Way ahead of you in that knowledge." I answered as I left the building. I closed the door behind me and almost ran into Link in the process. I narrowed my eyes. "How long have you been there?"

"Just got here, was going to tell you that we should hurry so we are finished before the others get here." Link answered nervously. "Why?"

"Doesn't matter." I waved it off. "So how do we get to the Shadow Temple anyway, if I remember correctly, Shad mentioned a song needed to be played to be teleported with the use of the Ocarina of time."

Link didn't say anything as he pulled out a blue instrument from his pouch.

"When did you-?"

"When we talked to Zelda, after you left Zelda gave me the ocarina along with several different songs."

"So you know how to use it?"

"She taught me."

"That's adorable."

"Adorable? Hugs and now adorable without a hint of sarcasm; are you feeling alright? Maybe you should stay."

"I'm feeling just fine." I said putting on a smile, though I didn't feel like smiling. "Are you ready for this?"

"No aches or pains, refilled on potions, arrows, and bombs…did you want to refill your jars?"

"Already did," I told him. "Yesterday before the store closed."

"Alright, let's go to fight ghosts and find that last Medallion." Link said before placing the instrument up to his lips.

He played a creepy tune on the ocarina that made the horses uneasy. They moved away from us in response. When he took the instrument away from his face, a blue light came from the sky and within a blink we were standing above the graveyard a ways back. I turned to the opposite direction to see a small cave. We walked through it to see many, many torches with an eye on a giant stone door. I shivered. The place was worse than the Arbiter's Grounds, though it lack the chaos ripping my every particle apart, I still wasn't happy with it. Something bad or a lot of some things that were all bad happened inside the hidden building, probably, the perfect place to throw a medallion and get a lot of energy. Link took out his lantern and lit all the torches before I could mention anything that could go horribly wrong with this idea of going in there. When he lit the last one, the ground shook suddenly and the door opened to reveal a pitch black tunnel.

Link turned back at me. "Ladies first?"

"Insert 'You're an ass' here." I retorted and walked by him. "Come on wise guy, you have the lens of truth, I don't feel like dying because of courtesy."

"I never did say I was nice all the time."

"Yes, I'm aware." I muttered as I walked into the pitch black. He followed behind me, but it wasn't long until I got used to the dim lighting. I knew in the game, the Shadow Temple traumatized kids when they played it, but I have had seen pictures of the place through the internet and watching my dad play it and it wasn't that bad. Everything was invisible, which was horrible, and a few jump scares, but it didn't seem all that bad. The thought died instantly when I almost fell to my death. Link grabbed my hand just as I stepped off the platform. He pulled me up and I sat on the floor comfortable trying to figure out if I had indeed given myself a heart attack and was going to die within a few seconds. The seconds ticked by and my heartbeat returned to normal.

"Thanks."

"And here I was promising to be extra observed." Link commented helping me to my feet. "I would like a promise as well. Keep an eye out, with just this entrance alone, I don't know if we will be able to stick together without something happening. We might get separated."

"And I heard this place isn't the nicest place without the Lens of Truth." I muttered looking over at the plate where he could clawshot over. He shifted slightly and pulled out the very object I had mentioned.

"Take it, if we get separated; you don't have all the equipment that I do so you will need it more." Link said as he tried to place it in my hand.

I shook my head. "Let's just not get separated, I'm not taking this from you. If we do get separated then I'll leave little markers or something to where I'm going and if you find them, hopefully I would have done at least part of the temple by the time you find me."

He didn't look happy about it, but put it away. He pulled out two clawshots and gave one to me. "At least take this. I doubt I need two in here as I was told the last guy only used a single longshot."

I hesitantly took it. It weighed quite a bit, but not as much as I thought it would. He quickly showed me how to use it and then he used it himself to get to the other side of the platform with the creepy wall. He climbed up onto the ledge and stood up and looked at me expectably.

I wasn't too fond of testing it out on my own, considering the physics behind it says I should break the many bones my body had and possibly dislocation in my arm. I put it on and aimed for the plate. I got it in the first try, which surprisingly the kick it gave was little. It suddenly pulled me forward causing me to squeak and I stopped at the ledge. I pulled myself up and sighed. That was intense and we hadn't even really started the temple.

"It's funny when you squeak." Link laughed slightly and I rolled my eyes placing the clawshot in my pouch for easy access.

"Whatever, let's just try and get through this place without dying or better yet without using health potions."

"That would be nice."

We walked towards the wall which I guessed was one of the fake walls Shad was talking about when it suddenly spoke creeping me right out.

"Only the one with the Eye of Truth will survive this place that has been passed down through the generations in Kakariko Village." The wall spoke. Suddenly blood started to drip down it oozing through the lines within the stone.

"That's just gross; if you want people to die in here don't tell them how to navigate your domain." Link grumbled in disgust grabbing my hand. "Come on, it's fake anyway."

He pulled me through the wall, which turned out to be fake as I had predicted, to find a room with lots of skulls on posts. Blood was splatter all over the walls and floor, but instead of it looking old; it looked fresh. More and more blood seemed to be adding to the cause of making me being unsettled every minute we stood there wondering where to go. Something though still bugged me. My stomach turned as I looked around the room. Something didn't want me there. I looked up at Link, but he didn't seem too bothered about the room. I placed my urging mind and gut aside and looked for the next destination.

"There's another creepy skull wall over there, I'm placing all of my rupees that it's a hidden door." I stated.

"It's a start." Link nodded in approval pulling out the lens. "Not bad, you're right, let's hope our luck continues."

I smirked slightly; this was going to be a piece of cake if that's how the Temple was going to be showing off all of its secrets. We started walking towards the door when suddenly the only torch in the room went out creating a very dark with a dim glow on the walls. I subconsciously walked closer to Link as my danger meter went passed ten. Loud voices came from the walls, ceiling and floor.

"Join us, goddess girl." A voice broke through the jumble.

"You left us to die!" a female child screamed.

"They made me watch my entire family die in a sacrificial ritual to return you! And for nothing!" a male yelled.

"Killing both of you would be our pleasure!" Another voice and I couldn't tell if it was male or female shrieked with insanity. "But we only care for the girl of course."

"Die for your crimes of injustice!" Several voices chanted at once.

There were several incoherent shouts and screams. That terrified me. Why would it though, I never knew these people and I was positive none of them were ever good, sane people that they claimed to be. "Link, what the fuck is going on here?"

"Let's get out of this room, hopefully they will go away." Link answered me placing a hand on my shoulder. "Ignore them; they are just trying to get under your skin. They know who you are even if we don't have any idea on everything. And they know that."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"Yes, keep us in your mind while we torture your soul for eternity!" A woman cackled. "It's for the best, we want our old leader to return and for the goddess that condemned us to be sacrificed! A win-win, no?!"

"I hope you don't mind if I decide to burn this place to the ground by blowing it up with a bomb, a really, big, bomb." I whispered to Link.

"But don't forget about the other three sacrifices. Tee-hee." The same female child giggled. "All the blood will rain onto us, like rain from a storm. So much blood of heroes, I can't wait to TASTE IT!"

Sacrifices for what and who were the other sacrifices? Suddenly something latched onto my upper legs, almost like vines. I panicked and only managed to shout Link's name before I was tugged sending me to and along the floor. What kind of fucking dead people where this sick? I couldn't see Link anymore as he shouted my name from a distance. I felt the vines grab more of my legs, torso, and arms. I tried fighting back when I tried to grab it and shock ran through my mind. It wasn't vines, but human hair that had grabbed me. In my shock the hair started pulling me into the floor. I didn't recall that the room we were in of the temple had hidden floors. I pulled against the hair, but unfortunately human hair was a really strong material and I wasn't faring well against it. Suddenly, someone grabbed my hand that slipped and I felt the glove that I was familiar with. I looked up only to watch my relief disappear as I looked up at red eyes.

"Dammit, you just had to come right now!" Link's voice sounded out in a rage.

"Just finish the damn temple fairy boy." Dark Link shouted back in just as much rage. "The quicker you do that, the quicker we can get out of this little dead pool."

I wasn't about to ask him what the hell he meant when something entered my mouth as I opened it. I gagged and coughed trying to get the substance out. The taste that came to me was even more horrifying than the human hair trying to take me to whatever hell they had set up. I coughed some more as more blood entered my mouth and nose when I gagged or closed my mouth which led to more pouring in. I tried to move out of its source, but no matter where I placed my head; it followed trying to drown me. My strength stopped as my breathing was limited and I felt my hand let go of Dark Link's.

"Hey!" the shadow version yelled grabbing my arm.

"Electra!" Link shouted my name in frustration. "Leave her alone!"

"Finish this damn temple-!"

I couldn't hear anymore as the screams of delight at my suffering filled my ears. After what seemed like forever to trying get out of the mess; I passed out choking on blood. The darkness I was dragged into seemed to last forever until it disappeared as I found myself rolling over on a cold, white and grey stone floor gasping for air and coughing out was I guessed was the blood from before. It was too thick to be water. I can't say I had almost died to drowning before and I hoped that I never drown or almost drown again. I coughed again as I tried to get the disgusting taste out of my mouth, I definitely preferred the red health potion over blood any day. Now I just hoped I didn't have any open wounds that if any of the blood was contaminated with something I wouldn't want get it. I looked down at the mess and confirmed my suspicions that it was in fact blood. There was a lot of blood on the floor along with the surrounding area and I hoped none of it was mine.

"Feeling better?" A voice I recognized came to my ears. I was about to comment something sarcastic, but my tongue caught as black instead of green was worn by the person who knelt beside me. I backed up slightly before collapsing under my own weight. Dark Link shook his head like I was some stupid girl. "It took forever to revive you; did you notice that you're heart stopped? I guess not as here you are trying to move about like you are combat ready. It takes more than thirty seconds to get the blood pumping and oxygen back into your muscles."

"You- you did CPR on me?" I managed to say the second time.

He shrugged with a look of annoyance on his face, "Perhaps, what about it?"

"Did you-"

"What kiss you as part of the procedure, because that's exactly how you see it? No, I couldn't actually get near your lips without that pain sensation thing… which is why it took a ridiculous amount of time to actually get some of the blood from those dead souls out of your lungs to get you breathing again. Any longer and you probably would have what the other one had read in that book called brain damage due to lack of oxygen."

I continued lying on the floor; I didn't have the will or much of a purpose at that moment to move. Sure Dark Link was kneeling right there with an egotistic smirk, but he didn't look like he wanted to try anything. There was quite a bit of blood on him.

"Did you slaughter something?"

"Of course not if I had, I wouldn't be in such a foul mood." He replied with a frown. "And as much as I love having the blood of my enemies on me, this came from the ghosts trying to drown you."

I took his word with the only reason of him having a point that he probably would have been too pleased to slaughter his lighter half than what he was right now. I sighed as I probably looked like I bathed in blood as well; erm, showered was probably the proper term. "What are you doing in the Shadow Temple anyway?"

"What? No thank you for the guy who just saved your life, again?"

"You are a bit of an ass so I'll think about it. Besides, I never asked for you to save me." I retorted. "And if you haven't forgotten, you did try to kill me not that long ago."

"As did you if I remember correctly; can't say I enjoyed being shot."

"Only people who enjoy pain like being shot." I remarked deciding to look around. "Where are we, where is Link?"

Dark Link seemed to snarl at the mention of the name. "He's running around in the upper realm of the temple, hopefully getting his ass in gear to complete it. We on the other hand are in a different realm of the same place." Confusion crossed my face. "You know, where these souls live, the ghostly realm."

"Yea I got the point, just how the fuck did that those ghosts drag us down here?"

"Well, isn't it obvious?" He replied and I gave him a raised eyebrow. "Gods you aren't that bright are you? They run this place, they can manifest this place as they wish, sending us into their realm that is always opened here I might add, without difficulty.

I glared, "So how do we get out of here without … those things attacking? They didn't seem all that happy with me and here I thought I was walking in on good terms."

"They were long term servants of Demise and his spirit afterwards, they despise you, because Themis fucked with the plan and Hylia managed to seal Demise away."

I gave him a funny look, it sounded weird to my ears to have that voice swear, almost amusing.

"Why are you looking at me funny, did I say something that came off as a joke?"

"I'm just not used to hearing any Hylian swear the same way as someone from my world would."

"Well get accustomed princess; I'm not the same guy that you know so well."

"So I've noticed; which brings me back to this question and maybe you can actually answer it. Why the hell are you here?"

"I originally… I was just asked to come here and then suddenly I was stuck in this god damn place. Heard you and tinky-winky upstairs shouting and screaming and decided to figure out what the crying was about."

"So you really have no idea why Leviathan actually sent you here?" I summed it up. I could read him like a book. He didn't answer as he stood up turning away from me. "A simple yes would have done the same thing. But, you just showed up and suddenly you were locked inside the temple. Can't you just teleport?"

"Without a question, until I came in here. Something is blocking that ability, but I have a feeling it has to do with those stupid souls that are so pissed at you."

"Yes because it's my fault that you can't teleport."

"Of course it is."

"So what were you going to do when you got stuck in here? I'm sure you didn't hear us right away considering we were in the temple before you and we didn't start crying until literally a few seconds before you arrived."

He didn't reply again turning to face me slightly. Gears where turning in his head, but I couldn't understand what he was trying to figure out. It was one of the only things that were similar between the two and I didn't like not knowing what they were thinking when they started thinking hard. I sighed as tried to stand on my own, but I faltered. Dark Link reacted quickly catching me, which sucked for the both of us as my Triforce piece touched him and his piece touched me. We both shouted in pain as we backed away from each other. I managed to get to a stand.

"For the love of the gods, what the hell is that about?!"

"About what?"

"That! That stinging sensation when the piece our hand has touches the other person! What is its purpose other than to be annoying?"

I shrugged that time. I didn't really have an idea besides the ideas that have flown by with the thought of the pieces trying to reconnect. I didn't bother mentioning it.

More wheels turned as a sneer appeared on his lips, but it disappeared just as quickly as he turned to me. "Let's get the fuck out of here before we become an eternal play toy for these things."

I looked around again; all I saw was a square, white and grey, stone room with no doors. "I don't even know how I got here. So, how do we do that genius?"

"Well you went through the floor sweetheart and I was dragged with you, but as you can see, there is no hole in the ceiling."

"Such a charmer, aren't you." I rolled my eyes, "At least Dean isn't here. He'd probably get jealous at the thought of having someone else stuck with me in a realm of ghosts."

Dark Link flinched unexpectedly at my comment about Dean. I narrowed my eyes; he knew something that I didn't about the incubus. Maybe more about other things I meant to ask Zelda about.

"You wouldn't happen to have the Lens of Truth would you?" I continued my questions looking at myself. I was covered in blood. I wiped my hands on my pants. At least there was a part of me that wasn't covered in blood. After I got out of the temple, I was taking a shower in water.

"No, but I don't need it. This place is easy for me to navigate. But, I'm almost tempted to leave you here."

"What a waste of your time then, what would be the point of saving my life twice if you did that?"

"That's the reason why I'm not allowing you to stay; it would have been a waste of my time otherwise."

I smirked.

"You talk too much."

"Well that's just rude."

"Keep it up and I might be a little more than rude."

I rolled my eyes, he was such a child. "Alright Mr. Know-It-All, where do we go?"

He didn't answer as he walked away to the side of the room. I followed him and stopped in front of wall. He walked through it and I went afterwards. On the other side, there were skulls lining the walls with blood oozing from the eye sockets. My gut turned on itself. The spirits there really didn't like me. It was almost suffocating to walk through the dimmed hall when we finally reached a door. The guy in front of me didn't open it fast enough as we entered a larger, even more dimmed room.

"Give me your piccolo." He suddenly asked blocking me from moving any more forward.

"How do you know about it?" I asked suspiciously.

"Does it matter?"

"Why do you want it?"

"Do you want to live?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?"

"Then hand it over."

I sighed as I pulled it out, I didn't know what he had planned. "Just don't break it."

He swiped it out of my hand without a word and put it up to his lips. He played an octave as if he was trying to get the notes before he played an actual song. A bright light, that almost blinded me, came from the ceiling and cries of agony came from all over the room. The light died, but still left the room much brighter and four Redeads crunched over a few feet from us. The shadow destroyed them with the black version of the Master Sword with no issues.

"I don't know how many times I'm going to have to play the Sun Song to get the spirits off of us and destroy Redead and Gibdos, so if you don't have any issues, I'm just going to hold on to this." He said as he motioned to the piccolo.

I shrugged; I didn't even notice the Redeads standing there and I doubted he had the patience to try and teach me the song required to get rid of the undead creatures.

"Also, do me a favor and ignore the spirits, you're practically oozing fear and weakness like the blood coming from the walls and it's annoying the hell out of me."

"Sorry, I have never played as a ghost tracker. How come you didn't just state that at the beginning of the hall so I wouldn't be thinking of fifty million things that could go wrong? Human hair did grab me and sucked us both into a different realm after all."

"I thought you would be smart enough to figure it out that there wasn't another realm for them to go, but that was my mistake."

I looked up and saw something bright come from the ceiling and walked passed him. I took out my sword and killed the three Fire Keeses behind him that had flown down without mercy. He was starting to piss me off. Dark Link turned around watching them fall to the ground before exploding. "You're welcome." I growled at him sarcastically. "Now which way cause there are floors in this stupid place that aren't real and I don't feel like testing out my landing skills."

"Don't step to the right then." He sighed as he walked passed me on my left. "Seriously, you should have thought about that before attacking the Keese. Saving your life would have been all for nothing if you weren't lucky. There is no bottom to that pit."

"Anything else you would like to scold me for?"

"Ya, your attitude is atrocious."

"So is yours," I growled, everything about him was pissing me off, but I noticed something was very off about him. He wasn't the same person I had met in the graveyard and he was acting weird at the lakebed temple. The Dark Link I knew wouldn't give up the chance to kill Link to save someone. "What is your problem?"

"How is this an appropriate time to be asking that?" Dark Link asked like he was trying to humor me. "I don't have any problems."

"Oh I think you have a problem and this is a great time to start up a conversation. We're all alone down here in a realm of ghosts, I can't think of any other time or place that could beat right here and right now."

"I can think of a few."

"Really, where is there a place where someone won't walk in and give you an escape?" He didn't answer looking away. "You're afraid of something."

"You don't have a clue on what you're talking about! I'm not afraid of anything!" Dark Link snapped raising his voice. He looked intimidating as he got angry, but I didn't flinch, he wasn't that scary which only proved my point. I had seen Link look angry and he actually look intimidating and this wasn't doing it for me.

"I think I struck a nerve," I continued matched his presence. "What has got you so confused and scared that you can't even look at me in the eye?"

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