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Link wiped his forehead and returned Din's Fire to his pocket.

"Link!"

Link looked up and smiled as a figure ran towards him with outstretched arms.

"Zelda!" Link shouted backed and waved.

Link wrapped her up in a hug as she cried on his shoulder. Zelda looked at Link and gave a weak smile as tears ran down her cheeks. Link lightly brushed a tear away and Zelda leaned into him.

"I thought for sure that you had died. You didn't send a message or anything," Zelda said in between sobs. Link started to chuckle and Zelda pulled away. "Hey, that isn't funny. You could have sent a letter or something!" Zelda said and put her hands on her hips.

"Zelda, I was only gone for a day," Link explained and Zelda dropped her head in embarrassment. "By the way, why did you take Sheik's form?"

"Well I couldn't just sneak out of the castle in a dress now could I?" Zelda said in a playful tone.

"No but that sure would be funny," Link said laughing.

Zelda glared at him and then heard rustling up above. She looked up to see Stefan and Blake looking across from the ledge.

"Link, you should probably address me by Sheik from now on," Zelda whispered as she looked at Stefan and Blake, who were arguing about something. "No one else needs to know that I'm out and about."

Link looked up at Stefan and Blake and sighed. He nodded towards "Sheik" and approached the ledge.

"Did you see that?!" Stefan exclaimed and yanked on Blake's sleeve.

"What?" Blake asked with no enthusiasm.

"Link just hugged that guy… girl….whatever!" Stefan said.

Blake covered Stefan's mouth and yanked him down. "If you talk too loud they'll hear you," Blake looked down and saw Link walking towards them. "Great… now look what you did!" Blake said and smacked Stefan behind his head.

"Ouch, hey that hurt Blake. Why did you have to go and do that?" Stefan said and rubbed his head.

Blake smacked his head in frustration and just sighed. Link brought out his hookshot and aimed it at the post on the other side. When he was launched across, Blake and Stefan rose to face him. Link returned his hookshot to his belt and addressed Blake and Stefan.

"Ok, if you two are done squabbling I'll take you across to the temple."

"Lead on," said Blake.

Stefan on the other hand tried to see around Link and get a look at Sheik, wondering if he was right about the whole gender thing. Blake yanked him toward Link and they patiently waited.

"All right you two grab my shoulders or you'll get left behind." Blake and Stefan obeyed, each on either shoulder.

Link pulled out his ocarina and began to play a tune. A glowing red light formed around them as Link finished and swept them off the ground. Stefan and Blake felt a warm tingling feeling as they flew through the air. The next thing they knew they were standing in the middle of a stone platform on the other side.

"Cool," remarked Stefan as he stood there in awe.

"That was amazing!" Blake exclaimed.

Link shook his head smiling and walked to Sheik. Stefan leaned over and whispered in Blake's ear.

"Now we'll see who's right," Stefan winked at Blake and walked towards Sheik with Blake following.

"Blake, Stefan, meet my good friend, Sheik," introduced Link.

Stefan wrapped Sheik up in a hug before she could say anything. "Hey Sheik, nice to meet ya." Stefan released her and Stepped back to whisper in Blake's ear. "She's a girl."

Realizing what Stefan had done Blake punched him in the side of the head and muttered, "Idiot."

"Link, you didn't tell me that your friends were this violent," Sheik giggled to herself and Blake blushed.

"Ah yeah, I guess I got so used to it that I never notice anymore," Link scratched his head and stood beside Sheik.

"Well I have to get going but I'll report back what I learn about Shadow." Sheik turned to Link, reached up and kissed him on the cheek. "I'll see you guys later." Sheik stepped back and in a flash vanished into a cloud of smoke.

Link watched as the smoke faded and smiled to himself.

"Are you guys ready to take care of this?" Links said facing Stefan and Blake who were glaring at him with their arms crossed.

"What?"

Stefan and Blake just shook their heads in disappointment and walked past Link towards the temple.

"Hey wait up! You don't know where we need to go!" Link called and ran to catch up.

The three adventurers entered the fire temple and looked down into the opening. It looked like a rock cave with lights flickering against the walls.

"I wonder what's down there," Stefan said and leaned over the opening.

"That my friends; would be the fire temple. Our destination," Link draped his arms on Stefan's and Blake's shoulders.

"So in other words you're going to drag us down there with you and have us help you do the dirty work," Blake said bluntly.

Link just stared at him with a blank stare and then started to laugh.

"Man Blake you sure are a jokester," Link whacked Blake on the back in laughter.

Blake started to fall forward when Link had hit him and yelped as he lost his balance. He grabbed for Stefan and caught his sleeve.

"Blake, no!!!" Stefan yelled as Blake pulled him down through the hole.

"Well I guess that's one way to get down," Link sighed, "Oh well." Link jumped down the hole after Blake and Stefan.

Blake hit the ground with a thud and quickly rolled out of the way as Stefan face planted next to him.

"Thanks a lot Blake," muttered Stefan as he struggled to get up when Link landed right on top of him.

"Owwwwww!"

"Whoops, sorry!"

Stefan just grumbled as he pushed Link off of him and stood up. Blake stood up, with difficultly, and looked into a room lit with torched and flying balls of flame.

"Ok, this is where you keep up or get left behind," said Link as he looked at Stefan's and Blake's daggers. "You might want to keep those handy, just in case."

Stefan and Blake simultaneously patted their daggers and stared at Link with a worried look. Link took off toward the door with the thieves following.

"Oh yeah," said Link, turning his head to the two boys, "Watch for flame bats! They're sneaky!" He head up a flight of stairs.

"Flame bats?" Blake asked but Link was already at the door to the next room.

When Stefan and Blake reached the top of the stairs a hoard of bats on fire dived at them. Link urged them to hurry as they ducked and dodged the bats. They dove for the door and they all ran through to the room. It was filled with lava and a few platforms in the corner. On the far side was a huge door but it was too far to reach.

"Ah, dang it!" Link said and put his hands on his hips.

"What's wrong?" Blake asked.

Link pointed to the huge door and said, "That's where we need to be but the platform we need to use to get across is gone." Link looked up and sighed. "Shadow must have put it back where I found it so we couldn't get across."

"So now what?" questioned Stefan.

Link turned to face them and Said, "Now we have to go through the temple and force the platform down again."

Link walked back to the door and smiled at Stefan and Blake who had their jaws hanging open.

"Oh come on, it's not that bad," said Link and entered the door with Blake and Stefan trudging behind.

(AN: Due to the length of the temple we, the authors, will not bore you. Our three heroes' will visit key places to move the story along.)
They enter a room with platforms at different levels. There is lava underneath each of the platforms. One wrong move and they're toast. (Do you know what room they're in?)

"Ok, you guys need to be really quick here all right," Link tried to explain.

"Look whatever this is it can't be as bad as the shadows, believe me," Stefan said.

"Fine, when I count to three, jump and run for your life," Link said. Blake and Stefan readied themselves at the edge to the platform. "One…Two….THREE!!"

They all jumped but Blake tripped and face planted on the platform.

"Owwww," Blake said as he tried to get up. Stefan turned to help him but froze in his tracks. Link on the other hand was already far ahead.

"Run you two! Don't stall!" Link called back when he noticed them still at the first platform. He jumped to another one.

Stefan turned and ran at full speed jumping like a monkey from platform to platform.

Blake got up and rubbed the back of his head wondering why Stefan was running so fast. All of a sudden he felt very warm. He turned and gulped as a wall of flame crawled towards him.

"Aww, Crud!!!!" Blake yelled as he sprinted away with the fire on his heels.

All three now were jumping across gaps and running full speed as the flame followed them all the way to the other side. Link jumped up to the Last Platform and turned around to help Stefan up as Blake was running to them. Ignoring Link, he scrambled up as did Blake. They both hugged the wall as Link chuckled. The wall of fire disappeared at the edge of the last platform.

"You guys probably never will get the hang of this," Link said and began to walk towards the door.

"Well excuse us for not having experiences with fire walls of doom," Blake said sarcastically as they followed Link to the door.

A little time later……

Link lead the way into another room but stopped at the entrance. Stefan and Blake looked out and saw a tall wall blocking their view. Stefan peeked out and moaned when he saw what it really was.

"We have to go through a maze?" Stefan asked, grumbling.

"It's not that bad." Link smiled but a huge boulder rolled by in the maze's pathway. Stefan and Blake just glared a Link. "What? Just stay close and you won't become flat."

"Great," grumbled Blake as they followed Link into the maze.

Link lead them around dodging boulders all the way. It wasn't until after a while did Stefan and Blake wondered where Link was leading them.

"Hey Link, do you know where you are going?" asked Blake as they stopped for a boulder to pass.

"Uh, um… to tell you the truth…..I think were lost."

"What?!" exclaimed Stefan.

"Oh no," said Blake at the same time.

"Don't worry, this is the way." Link turned a corner but stopped and ran in the opposite direction past Stefan and Blake. "Wrong way!"

The two boys freaked when they saw a huge boulder rolling their way. They quickly followed Link through the maze.

"Enough of the Boulders!" yelled Blake remembering last time.

Link spotted a safe area with a door and turned in its direction. "Follow me guys. I found the way out!"

"Finally!" Stefan said as they stopped in the safe area.

"See I said it wasn't going to be that bad," said Link but the thieves just ignored him.

"Could we just keep going please?" Stefan pleaded and stepped through the door.

"Yeah." Blake followed.

"Sure no problem." Link watched them lead and then closed his eyes lost in his thoughts. 'What will they do when they discover why we're really here? Man I wish Zelda was here. She seemed to know how to deal with them.'

"Hey are you coming?" Blake and Stefan said together.

"Coming." Link put his thoughts to rest and entered the door to their next destination.

Firesage: Why tough times.

Ravengrl yawns and gets up.

Firesage: Had a good nap?

Ravengrl: Yeah. I stayed awake till 1 in the morning writing this chapter.

Firesage: Wow commitment. Well anyways we would like to thank our reviewers.

Ravengrl: Yes thank you to Rynada, Akata, SaSammi, Spiritual Stone, simbiot2.0, mr...no1?, Kalanie. We appreciate the support.

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Ravengrl: Oh by the way there might be only one more chapter. We are thinking of writing another story that adds on to this called Mazed and Confused. Please give us you input, we would really like to hear what you think.