Hey guys. Yes, this is an update. :)
Anyway, I'm just glad there are still people who are interested in this story. You guys are wonderful. :D
I haven't replied to reviews in forever. Hopefully my conversationalist skills are still up to notch. Or whatever. :/

A Loyal Fan - I still have a loyal fan? -tearful- Even...just...a fan? I'm stunned. And I'm on a scrap of paper of things you love? You shouldn't have. :D

llppoo33 - Thank you, your words of encouragement are infinitely helpful :) and trust me, it's summer, so I'll definitely be pumping out a lot of chapters.
Maybe (just maybe) we can get to chapter 100. :D

The-Jaron - Yes, you may put me in the same category as the ever shameful disclaimer. :D Really, I don't know what kept me away for so long...
lol, Harry Potter's coming out on the 21st, isn't it? Can't wait. :x

Bamber of Daggerspine - I'm pretty sure you can't see this response, since you've last reviewed on chapter 2, but anyway :D
yes, trees are fairly disturbing in this fanfic. :P

Arivoctix -Thank you:) I love comments like those. You read all of it in one sitting? -gives you a tub of ice cream as a reward-
Yes, we can do that, but I'm afraid if we let Navi lash out all her anger, there just won't be enough disclaimer in the future. :(

-Navi takes out 1/2 anger on disclaimer- (thanks, Arivoctix, you sadistic thing you)

"Navi," Link said nervously, scratching the back of his neck with pure discomfort. "Um, what the heck is that?"

There was a sea of lava stretching out as far as they could see, a lazy cloud of hot smoke drifting up to the ceiling in front of them. Link started coughing.

"How," he wheezed as he doubled over, "are we supposed to get across that?"

Navi frowned. "There's wire flooring. You're going to have to run. It doesn't look very sturdy."

Link started to laugh disbelievingly at his fairy. "Navi, you've got to be crazy if you think I'm willingly going across that…thing."

There were wire platforms hovering above the lava, barely a few inches from the sizzling heat. There were metal supports extending from the ceiling, but rust was evident in several spots.

"Okay," she said thoughtfully. "I'm going to go up ahead and see how far the wire stretches. There's probably a door somewhere."

Link waited for Navi to leave. Whistling guiltily, he pulled out a Deku stick and then jabbed it at the lava. It caught fire instantaneously and he started to giggle, waving it around.

"Navi thinks she's so smart," Link said to himself. "Imagine how she'd react if I pulled fire out of my pocket? Like one of those magicians! I'll keep this torch in my pouch and then I'll surprise her later with it."

Link had just about opened his pouch when Navi came flying back, panting. Surprised, he shoved the stick, flames and all into his pouch and then quickly closed it again.

"Okay," she said firmly. "The door's actually not that far. It's just the smoke that's obscuring our vision. Also, there's a break in the platform so you'll have to jump at some point."

Link mumbled his agreement and then skipped across the platform.

"Hey, did you hear that, Navi?" Link asked, frowning. "It sounded like a timer starting…or something."

Navi scowled. "Don't try to back out of this, Link, I'm sure it's nothing. Just keep going!"

She was still curious, though, and she turned back and made a strangling noise in her throat.

"What?" Link said, unconcerned as he walked along leisurely.

"Justkeepgoingnothingbackthere," Navi garbled edgily as she gave Link a little shove. "RUN!"

"Navi, what are you-" Link turned back and then gagged in astonishment.

A giant wall of flame was pursuing them, gaining by the second.

"HOLY-" Link's legs burst into action and his hat went flying backwards, just barely making it above the flames.

He turned back towards the fire, gaping with displeasure. "My hat!"

"You idiot!" Navi shrieked. "Keep going forward! DON'T RUN INTO THE FLAMES, YOU INSUFFERABLE FO-"

"It's okay, Navi!" Link called out above the roar of the inferno. "I won't go back, you will!"

"What…?!"

Link snatched the stunned Navi out of the air, wound his arm a few times in a circle and then threw her just slightly above the fire, and then he turned and kept running.

"I'll be waiting!" Link yelled cheerfully, skipping across the gap in platforms. "Don't take too long!"

Navi withheld her fury for the moment and dove for Link's hat, which lay crumpled in a heap on the wire. She barely managed to hold on to it in her hurry. The flames were coming back for her and she swerved to avoid them, spotting Link sitting on a ledge, his legs dangling. He waved cheerfully.

She opened her mouth to scold him but the words caught in her throat.

"Link," she said blankly. "Why does it smell like burning food, clothes, and plastic at the same time?"

"I may have farted," he answered vaguely, taking his hat back and placing it back on his head.

Navi grimaced in faint horror. "Hey Link, look. The door!"

"I've seen enough doors to last me a lifetime," he muttered under his breath as he struggled to get up. Unfortunately, his boot slipped and within seconds he was clinging to the ledge, squealing like a girl.

Navi stared down at her partner, only a few inches from a sizzling death, and then her gaze slowly wandered to his hat. No thoughts passed through her mind, just a very, very wonderful feeling.

"Navi, you've got to help me," he pleaded. "Do something! I'm too young to die! I'm too beautiful to die! I've got too many fans! I've got too much to experience! Love! Heartbreak! Hunger cravings! Obesity, even!"

"You've already got obesity under your belt, buddy," Navi muttered. "And don't worry, any girl who falls in love with you will be the only one who should be experiencing the heartbreak."

Link looked heavily offended. "I'm not fat."

"You'd be surprised," she groaned. "Okay, okay, I'll save you. But first, you have to say sorry."

"For what?" Link said, seemingly confused. "If it was the time I placed my life in front of yours or insulted you, or whatever, you know I didn't mean it, Navi."

"So what if I had died," she snarled.

"But you didn't," he replied with a sappy grin the size of a banana, looking extremely pleased with himself. "I knew you wouldn't die."

"So that's why you always let me get in danger," Navi said, slightly appeased. "Because you trusted me not to die. If I was going to die and you knew it, then you wouldn't have let me go, would you?"

Link frowned. "If I said yes, would you still save me?"

Navi sighed. "I'd have to save you regardless. Stupid Deku tree, making me your dumb slave right when he dies."

Link looked immensely relieved. "Whew, cause you know, if I had to save you or me, then I'd-"

"Link, please just shut it." Navi instructed calmly. "Take your hookshot and aim for the wall-no, Link, not me. And then you're fine. Okay?"

Link slammed into the wall on the first try (since it was close to impossible to miss the wall) and oozed down a few seconds later, looking extremely disheartened.

"You didn't tell me about that," he said resentfully.

"It was either that or the lava," Navi quipped grimly. "Come on, let's go. It's always a good sign when you're pursued by a rolling wall of fire."

"If you've got a death wish."

"Yes, but it usually means we're getting closer to the boss."

"How is that a good thing?"

"We can get out of this stupid Temple. This has got to be my least favourite dungeon. I swear I've burned off a couple of layers of fairy skin."

"Navi's like an onion! NYAH NYAH NYAH, ONION GIRL!"

Navi swatted him angrily and then took a slow breath as they walked to the end of the passage. "Oh……Nayru."

She felt her partner slowly deflate beside her, like a balloon.

They were in a huge, hollowed cavern. The heat was almost unbearable, even with the special tunic. What appeared to be totem poles were spitting out fire, and the acrid smell of burning rock filled their nostrils. Those totem poles were positioned at almost every corner, and to boot, at random intervals, flame walls shot up in between every pair of totem poles, hissing. As if that wasn't enough, an enormous boulder was also rolling around, threatening to crush anyone that even hesitated for a second.

Navi turned to Link, and saw his eyes glued on a particular totem pole that was currently burning a pattern in the wall as it slowly rotated.

"Well," she said, her voice falsely coated with sugary anticipation. "Let's go, Link!"

He tore his gaze off the totem pole, sputtering as he pointed to the patterns that were glowing on the wall.

"Link," Navi said dangerously. "We have to get through this. We've come this far, we can't go back."

"Navi," he said seriously, pressing himself against the wall and slowly easing away in the opposite direction of the chamber, "you realize that we're pretty much dead if we go through that, right?"

"Naw," she said cheerfully. "We'll be fine. You've just got to avoid the flames, the boulder, and possibly a few monsters."

"Yes, that sounds easy, Navi, but I was planning to leave alive, not a blackened corpse."

"Link," she said. "I don't want to repeat myself."

Link's eyes had drifted over to the boulder now, and he watched with a quickly paling complexion as it crushed everything in its path.

"Oh come on," she said, exasperated. "You've been rolled over by a boulder...how many times?"

"Well, yeah," he admitted, "but it's still pretty bad. It's like, you know, eating mouldy pizza or something."

Navi didn't bother to try and even understand his comparison. "Come on, do I need to blindfold you or something?"

"They did that in Star Wars, didn't they? For Jedi training?" Link exclaimed excitedly.

"Yes," she replied with wonder on how he could think of Star Wars at a time like this. "So what do you think?"

"Well, I guess that's not so bad. If I get incinerated to ashes, Navi, you'll promise to bury me in a nice place?"

Navi figured it was better she didn't point out that if he got burned to bits, she'd pretty much leave without a second thought.

"Yes, Link," she said gravely. "I promise. The finest of graves."

"You'll bring me flowers?"

"Everyday." If there are some by the grave, sure.

"My favourite ones?"

"Yes." You should be lucky if they're not weeds.

"Manage my fan club for me?"

"Definitely." Non-existent fan club.

"You're inscribe my (marble) tombstone with Link, the Greatest Hero Who Ever Lived? And then below, Died With a Sizzle?"

"Of course." I was thinking more like a wooden stick as a marker, and Link sounds nice and simple.

"Well, if you put it that way, Navi," Link said happily, pulling out his shield, "I can't wait to get burned to bits!"

"I was joking about the blindfold thing, you know."

"Navi!" he said, aghast. "Without the blindfold, I'll die a coward's death!"

You'd die a coward anyway, Navi thought humorlessly.

"Okay," she agreed. "But you're going to have to follow my every direction, okay?"

"As a tribute to the Jedi." He said solemnly.