The Legend of Zelda: The Guardian of Sages

by Ravedrake

An ordinary high school girl gets teleported into her favourite video game. She finds out that she has to help save Hyrule alongside Link.

7. Chapter 6

The Legend of Zelda: The Guardian of Sages

Chapter Six: Obstacles

The room was almost square-like made from the finest ancient stone. In the center of the room was a square platform and on the right of it was another platform with a door. Below the platforms was just a stone floor with the platforms, pillars from the floor's view, blocking small space.

A thing came from the shadows of the ceilings, lunging itself at Carrie. As Carrie screamed, Link runs to her shouting, "Carrie!!"

As the thing went to grab her, Link tackled into Carrie to get her out of the way. They both fell off the platform they were on and land onto the bottom floor with a loud thud. The thing from the shadows lands on the platform, missing Carrie in the nick of time.

Carrie opens her eyes to see Link in front of her as they both laid on the ground. Link grunts in pain. He then looks at Carrie, "Are you......alright?"

Carrie takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. She then nods, "I....I think so....."

Link gently grabs Carrie's arm to help her up. They both sit up and look at the platfrom they fell from. The thing wasn't there. Link then stands up and puts his out to Carrie. She then grabs it and stands as well. Link then looks to the platform again, "Where did it go?"

Carrie sighs, "Back into the ceiling....."

Link looks to Carrie, surprised once again, "You know what it is?"

Carrie looks to the floor and nods. Link then looks to the platform one last time and then at Carrie. Link then says, "I can see why you were scared. I am sorry I did not listen before."

Carrie waves her hand, "Don't worry about it. We had to come in here sooner or later anyways."

Just then, a stirring sound was heard above once more. Carrie and Link's eyes widened. They both look up and see shadows expanding around the ceiling like before. Carrie gasps, "It's gonna attack again!!"

A thing then jumped out from the shadows. Carrie and Link both jump back, finally seeing what the creature looked like. It looked like a dark coloured claw with white stripes on it that looked like scratches were done to it. It had three clawed fingers and one clawed thumb. It was a giant hand more or less, nothing more. Navi jingles up and down, "Wallmasters!!!"

Link then instantly gets his sword out and jumps forward at the Wallmaster, "HA!!"

He then slices it and then stabs it and with another swing of the Master Sword, the Wallmaster was dead. Link then turns back to Carrie and Navi, putting his sword away, "Dead....."

Navi bounces up and down, "Alright, Link!!"

Carrie smiles, "Good."

Another stir was heard. Carrie looks up, "Huh?"

Navi shouts, "Watch out!!"

Another Wallmaster pops out from the ceiling, only this time, it grabs Carrie, pulling her back into the ceiling. Carrie screams holding her arm out, "LINK!!"

Link's eyes widened as he ran to grab her, "CARRIE!!"

He grabs her hand as Carrie was still being pulled into the shadows. Carrie tries to hold on tight as Link did as well. Navi then grabs the back of Link's collar and pulls, "Hang on, Guardian!!"

Carrie then grabs Link's hand with both of her hands, "D-don't let me go, Link....."

Link holds on tighter, pulling with all his might, "I-I won't!! Just hold on!! Don't let go!!!"

The Wallmaster then pulls Carrie with more force, causing Link the slide forward, almost lifting his feet from the ground. Carrie closes her eyes tight, terrified. Link then grabs Carrie's wrist with his other hand, "Carrie! Look at me! Carrie.....look at me!!"

Carrie opens her eyes and looks at Link. He then says, "Don't give up!!"

Carrie then grabs Link's wrist, trying to pull herself forward. The Wallmaster wouldn't let her budge. Finally, with one final pull, the Wallmaster then takes Carrie into the shadows, causing Link and Navi to fly forward onto the ground. Carrie's final scream is heard as the shadow closes, "LINK!!!!!"

Link holds his arm out, "CARRIE!!!!"

His eyes widened as soon as the shadow is closed. His arm is still held out. He then balled his held out hand into a fist. He grunts in anger, "N-no!! NO!! I failed her!! No!!! Not like this!!!"

Navi goes to Link, "You tried....."

Link yells at Navi, "Yeah....I did try!!!! Just not hard enough!!!!!!"

Link sits up on his knees, looking to the floor, still taking in the fact that Carrie was gone. He felt a great pain in his chest. He didn't know what it was, the closest he could think of was the feeling of loss for a friend that meant a great deal to him.

More stirring was heard in the ceiling. Link and Navi look up. Link then gets his sword out as he stands. He shouts, "GIVE HER BACK!!!!!"

An echo was then heard, "L-let go of me!!!"

Navi gasps, "Th-that's Carrie!!"

Link's eyes widened as he looks around the ceiling, "C-Carrie?"

The same echo was heard again, "I.....said.......LET GO OF ME!!!!"

Just then, another shadow opens, only this time, a Wallmaster was thrown out of it. It then lands into a wall. It then slides down to the ground, fading. Link's eyes widened even more when he saw what had happened to the Wallmaster. He then turns to the open shadow, "Carrie??"

Another shadow opens up. Link and Navi look to see Carrie walk out of it, with her Light Bracelet glowing brightly, and then fading as both shadows close. Navi jingles loudly, "Carrie!!! You are okay!!!"

Link then drops his sword and hugs her, "Carrie!!"

Carrie's eyes widened, "Hey. It's alright. I'm fine. Everything's alright now."

Link then quickly lets go, "H-how did you escape??"

Carrie smiles, "My Cloak of Darkness. It allowed me to stay inside the shadows without harm coming to me. It also allowed me to travel through them! It's great! Then my bracelet reacted when the Wallmaster wouldn't let go of me. So I got mad and it the bracelet's power reacted."

With that, she held up her wrist, showing her bracelet. Navi gasps, "Wow!"

Link's eyes widened, "I'm glad you were fortunate enough to escape. What counts is that you are safe."

Carrie then looks at Link, "Sorry......sorry I worried you."

Link looks at Carrie, "Why are you sorry for that? It was the fault of the Wallmaster."

Carrie nods, "I know.....just.......just that I don't like worrying people."

Link smiles, "You gave me a scare there....I'll admit that. I am just glad you are alright."

Carrie smiles softly while Link scratches the back of his neck. Navi goes between them, bouncing up and down, "Why are we still standing here?! Let's rescue Saria!!!"

Carrie smiles brightly and nods, "Right!"

Link then picks his sword up and sheathes it. With that, Carrie and Link then climb up the platform they came from. Carrie then jumps across onto the other platform. Link jumps after her. Link then jumps first onto the last platform. Carrie follows. The door in front of them was locked. Link sighs, "Another locked door."

Carrie looks to Link, "You still have a key."

Link then digs in his pockets and takes it out, "I can't believe I almost forgot about it."

He then unlocks the door and they both go through it. On the otherside was a corridor made from stone, like the rest of the temple, with vines sprouting all over. There was a stone railing with stairs. Carrie runs ahead towards the stairs. Link was right behind her. As they went down the stairs, Carrie froze and gasped, being startled. Link stops, "What is it?"

Carrie points ahead. Link looks. His eyes widened. Before them was a big picture of a red poe holding a flaming torch. Navi then says, "That's one of the poes we've seen in the main room!!"

Carrie nods, "It is."

Link looks to Carrie, "What do we do?"

Carrie sighs, "We have no arrows to shoot it."

Link raises an eyebrow, "Arrows?"

Carrie nods, "Yeah. You'll find out later. For now.....we run passed it."

Link then says, "Okay. I'll take your word for it."

They then run passed the picture. The portrait then faded, followed by a shrieking laugh. They then turn, running down another set of stairs. Above the wall, the same picture appeared. They kept going, the picture fading, followed by another laugh. At the bottom of the stairs, a door was seen with a strange looking unlit torch standing beside it.

Carrie and Link then run through the door. It then closes behind them and seals itself with metal bars, trapping them inside. They both look back. They were in a circular room with a big circular hole in the middle of it. Carrie sighs, "Great......"

They then step forward. Just then, two Stalfo appear across the room, on the otherside of the hole. Carrie and Link then get their swords out at the same time. Link also gets out his shield. Both Stalfo jump across the room with their swords raised in the air, ready to swing. Link then jumps to the left as Carrie jumped to the right, both dodging the Stalfos attacks.

Link then raises his shield as one goes after him. Carrie jumps back as a Stalfo swung its sword at her. Carrie shouts, "Woah!!"

She then turns and runs. The Stalfo then jumps and lands in front of her. Carrie then raises her sword at the ready, crouching like Link taught her.

Link then flips back, dodging a Stalfo attack. He then rams his shield against the Stalfo's shield. They both pushed into each other's shield, causing them to shake from the force. The Stalfo then swings his sword. Link then blocks it with his sword, making a loud clinging sound as they collided. Link then shoves the Stalfo back and slices it, "HA!!"

Carrie then ducks into a spinning motion as she was dodging the Stalfo's sword. In the process, she was swinging her sword, causing it the spin as she spun. She then hit the Stalfo's feet. It then jumps back as Carrie drags her sword along the ground as she straightened herself up, causing her sword to make a large scratch mark into the floor. She then walks slowly towards the Stalfo as it did the same with her. Carrie swung her sword as the Stalfo blocked with its shield. A loud clunk was heard. Carrie then spins her sword in her hand, making it face straight on. She then clenches her teeth as she stabs it into its shield and pushes it back into the wall.

Link blocks his enemy's sword with his shield. Another loud clunk was heard. Link then swings his shield and then stabs his sword into the Stalfo. It jumps back, pacing back and forth. Link narrows his eyes, keeping sight of his opponent, studying each movement. As the Stalfo jumped forward, Link jumped to the side and stabbed his sword into the Stalfo, vanquishing it.

Carrie begins to slide back as the Stalfo began to push her back with its shield. Carrie then breaks her sword free and jumps back. The Stalfo then keeps pacing from side to side. Carrie follows its movements with her eyes. She then raises her sword up, turning to the side slightly. Carrie then says, "Time to learn my powers.....if I have any...."

Carrie then concentrates on her bracelet. It then glows with yellow light, the gem glowing the brightest. Carrie then concentrates from her bracelet to her sword. The light from the bracelet then transfers into her Dragon Sword. It too, began to glow with yellow light. As the Stalfo went to swing its sword, Carrie then spins, with one big swing of her sword. A big wave of light blasted from her sword with a big faded ring. After the light disappeared, Carrie was seen crouched down with her sword sticking out at her full arm's length. The Stalfo was nowhere in sight, for nothing of it was left.

Carrie stands and turns to see Link on the otherside of the room. He smiles and nods to her. Carrie smiles and does the same. Just then, a big circular platform fell from the ceiling, landing into the hole in the middle of the room with a loud booming sound. It was as if there was no hole in the room at all. Two more Stalfo appear. Link then gets his shield and sword at the ready. Carrie then sticks her sword out in front of her, getting ready as well.

The first thing Link did was quickly stab his sword into the ground, dig into his back pouch and throws a Deku Nut at one of them, paralyzing them temporarily. He then grabs his sword and jumps with his sword high, and slices the Stalfo, "GYAH!!"

The Stalfo falls a few steps back and straightens itself up, raising its shield. The Stalfo then jumps forward and swings its sword. Link jumps to the side and stabs his sword into its side.

The other Stalfo slowly approaches Carrie. With her sword at the ready, she began to slowly back up. She bumps into the wall with her back. Her eyes widened. The Stalfo then jumped at her with its sword aiming at her. She quickly moves out of the way, making the Stalfo stab the wall. With its sword stuck in the wall, Carrie then swings her sword and stabs into the Stalfo. It then pulls its sword out, after a hard time of doing so, and causes the wall to crack and scatter rubble across the room. The Stalfo then tries to stab Carrie once again. She then jumps and lands on top of its sword and back flips, kicking the Stalfo in the face. After landing on her feet, Carrie then runs and stabs her sword into the Stalfo's chest, defeating it. It then faded.

Link then jumps back, dodging another attack. The Stalfo then swings his sword at Link once again. Link then bashes the sword aside with his shield and begins to slice it every which way with vast speed. He then makes one final stab into its chest. It then fades, indicating it was destroyed.

Link then sheathes his sword and puts his shield away as Carrie sheathed her sword. After doing so, a big circle of light appeared with a big brown chest. Carrie and Link both smile as soon as it appeared. Link then walks over to it and opens it. As soon as he opens it, his face lit up with a smile. He then pulled out a bow and with a quiver of arrows. Navi flies around it, "The Fairy Bow!!"

Link smiles, "W-wow!!"

He then takes off his shield and sword and equips his quiver to his back. He then places his sword and shield back on. Another chest then appeared with a circle of light. Carrie's eyes widened, "Another chest?? That's odd. That's never happened before."

Link looks to Carrie after adjusting his equipment, "Open it. See what's inside."

Carrie nods, "Alright."

Carrie then walks over to it. She then begins to open it. After opening it, her eyes widened as she made a big gasp. Navi bounces up and down, "What is it???"

Carrie then pulls out a black leather necklace with a black claw attached to the end. Navi jingles, "It can't be!!"

Carrie looks at Navi, "What is it?"

Navi flies around the necklace, "It's the Wolf Claw!!"

Carrie's eyes widened, not having seen nor heard of this item, "What's that?"

Navi bounces up and down, "The Wolf Claw allows you to run fast and jump really high.....just like a Wolfo!! Legend says that whoever has it.......the Wolfos will respond upon their calling!!"

Carrie's eyes widened, "WOW!!! I LOVE this!!!!"

She then puts it on around her neck and looks down at it. She smiles, "I will make sure this gets put to good use...."

Carrie looks to Link, "On to the next thing now."

Link nods, "Agreed."

Navi then asks, "Which way?"

Carrie then runs back to the way they came, "This way."

They all go through the door, back to where the stairs were. As soon as they go to the foot of the stairs, Carrie stops and grabs Link's shoulder. He looks, "Why are we stopping?"

Carrie points to the top of the stairs. The picture of the red poe was there again. Link looks at it, "I now know what you meant about the arrows now."

He then gets his bow and pulls an arrow out from his quiver. He then lines the arrow with his bow and pulls it back, taking aim. He then holds it out and closes one eye, making sure he would get a good shot. He finally lets his arrow go. It shoots straight forward and hits the picture. A laugh was heard as the picture faded into flames. Carrie ran up the stairs with Link behind her. She turns towards the other set of stairs and points up. Link sees another picture of the red poe. He nods and then gets out another arrow. He then lines it with his bow once again and pulls it back, taking aim like before. He closes one eye, looking straight at the picture. He then lets go of the arrow and hits the picture. Again, laughing was heard as the picture faded into flames. Carrie then points to the wall above the stairs they stood next to, "And there."

Link then gets out another arrow and takes aim. He then shoots it and hits the picture. The picture faded into flames, only this time, the red poe from the picture appeared. It then disappeared into the floor. Link looks around, "Where did it go?"

Carrie runs down the stairs, "Down here."

Link follows Carrie down the stairs. As soon as they reach the bottom, they see the same red poe from the picture floating around. It had a red body, with a black arms and face with glowing yellow eyes. It had yellow straw-like hair with a green hair-tie to hold it up. It also carried with it, a fairly large torch with orange flame. Carrie walks slowly, "Joelle, the second oldest of the Poe Sisters."

Link looks to Carrie, "You know who the Poe Sisters are?"

Carrie smirks, "How can you not?"

Joelle then floated on the otherside of the room. Link then puts his bow away and gets his sword out. He then runs to it and as he went to swing at her, Carrie held her arm out, "Link! Don't!"

As soon as Joelle saw Link, she made a glare and began to spin around. She then hits Link with her torch before Link got a chance to hit her with his sword. Link screams and flies onto his back on the ground. Carrie sighs and shakes her head. Joelle then laughed and disappeared, with the torch still visable. Carrie's eyes widened. She could still see Joelle as if she never disappeared at all. She realized it was her Poe's Tunic.

Link then stood up. Carrie shouts, "Quick! Block with your shield!"

Link then gets his shield and does so. Joelle then spun her torch again, only this time, Link was able to block it. Joelle reappeared and Link sliced her. Carrie could have sworn she heard a scream, "OW!!"

Carrie's eyes widened. Joelle disappeared. Carrie heard a scratchy voice, "THAT HURT!! I'm gonna teach you a lesson, boy!!!"

Carrie turns to Navi, "D-did you hear a voice?"

Navi tilts a little, "A voice? What voice?"

Carrie's eyes widened, it seemed nobody else heard it. Carrie then remembered what the Poe Lady also told her about the Poe's Tunic. Carrie whispers, ".......I can hear what a poe says!! I might be able to talk to them!!"

Joelle spins herself again, swinging her torch at Link. He then blocks it again and hits her with his sword. Joelle screams, "OUCH!!"

Carrie shouts, "Link! Stop!"

Link looks, "Huh? What? Why?"

Carrie goes up to Joelle, "Joelle? C-can you hear me?"

Joelle pauses and turns around, "D-did I hear right?? Did I just hear you speak to me?"

Carrie walks closer, "Uhh.....hi. I'm Carrie. I'm sorry. We must have got off on the wrong foot.......umm.....maybe we can talk things out?"

Joelle floats closer to Carrie, "Listen here, Girlie!! You and that boy were the ones who started bothering me!! Why should I talk things out!!!"

Link and Navi look at Carrie, confused. All they heard were small sounds coming from the poe, not what Carrie was hearing. Navi flickers her wings, "Remember what the Poe Lady said? Her tunic can make her talk to poes."

Link's eyes widened, "Oh! Wow!"

Carrie then says, "Listen......we need the elevator to be opened. So...we need your flame, Great Joelle."

Joelle began to laugh, "How flattering for one as young as you to acknowledge me! I cannot do that! I am under orders to keep it sealed! Why should I help the likes of you, Petty Girl!?! If you want my flame, you must defeat me!!"

Carrie's eyes narrowed when Joelle called her a Petty Girl. Carrie turns with an angry look, "Link?"

Link's eyes widened, "Y-yes?"

Carrie sighs in frustration, "Kick her ass!!"

Link raises an eyebrow, "W-what did she say?"

Carrie walks up to Link, "She says she won't let us use her flame for the elevator, unless we defeat her. Plus she called me a Petty Girl!!"

Carrie crosses her arms, "I am NOT a Petty Girl!!"

Navi flies to her, "It's okay. All Poes are usually mean anyways."

Link then walks to Joelle, "I won't go easy!"

Joelle laughs and disappears. Link then raises his shield and blocks her spinning torch attack. She reappears and laughs. Link then hits her with his sword. She disappears again and throws the same attack at Link. He then blocks and stabs her once again. Joelle screams and fades. Carrie heard her voice, "Fine! I'll help you and your pathetic friends!!"

A ring of orange fire then appears at the torch that stood by the door. It then lights with an orange flame, now burning. A chest then appears with a ring of light. Link then puts his sword and shield away and opens the chest. Another silver key was inside. Navi jingles with joy, "You did it!!"

Carrie still had her arms crossed. Link then pockets the key. He then walks up to Carrie and places a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, Carrie. I don't think you are a Petty Girl."

Carrie's eyes widened as she uncrosses her arms. She then smiles a little and says in an almost whisper, "Thanks, Link."

Link then nudges towards the door, "Come on."

Carrie smiles as she then follows along with Link. Carrie pauses as Link went to open to door, "Wait!"

Link pauses and looks at Carrie, "What?"

Carrie then says, "I got a way that can make us get through this a little faster."

Link then walks up to Carrie, "Alright. Let's hear it."

Navi flies beside Carrie, interested in what she was going to say. Carrie then said, "You know the door we came through that lead to the twisted corridor?"

Link nods, "Mhmm."

Carrie then says, "Did you notice the grey eye above that?"

Link nods, "I did."

Carrie then says, "You have the arrows now. You can shoot it."

Link thinks for a moment and then asks, "If I shoot it......what is to happen?"

Carrie smiles, "You'll see. Please trust me."

Link smiles, "I trusted you so far. I will not stop now."

Carrie smiles even more, "Thank you, Link!"

Navi then says, "Let's go!!"

Carrie and Link both nod to one another. They then run up the two sets if stairs and run through the door. They were now back to the room where they encountered the Wallmasters. Link was the first to jump over to the middle platform. Carrie then follows. They then jump over to the other platform to their left. They then run into the twisted corridor. They finally reach the door at the end and go through it, now back in the big area with the two Blue Bubbles. Carrie then puts her wrist out. A big beam of light came from her bracelet and blasted one of the Blue Bubbles. A big chiming sound was heard from the attack. The Blue Bubble was vanquished in one hit, leaving a big ring of light that soon faded. Carrie smiles, "W-wow...."

She then did the same to the other Blue Bubble. Again, the same result came from it. Carrie then looks to Link, "Now we have no interuptions when you shoot your arrow."

Link smiles and then turns and jumps out of the imprint in the floor they were in. Link then turns and gets his bow out along with a arrow. He looks up and sees the grey eye Carrie was talking about. The eye was open. He then takes aim. He closes one eye, making certain the shot would be final. He then lets the arrow go. It lands right into the center of the eye. The eye then closes, making a shift sound.

Just then, loud stirring was heard. The corridor then leads to the open room, flowing backwards as the corridor was now straight as any corridor should be.

Link then puts his bow away. Carrie was the first to run through the door. Link then follows behind. As soon as they go through, they saw the corridor was straight. Link's eyes widened a little, "This is new...."

Carrie nods, "Yeah. Come on."

They then run through the corridor to the open room. Link's eyes widened to see the room changed as well. The pillars that were platforms were sticking out on the left side of the room from off the wall. The room was now sideways compared to before. Link looks down and sees a large chest. It had a lot of gold and blue designs all over it. Link's eyes widened more, "Hey, a chest! I didn't notice that before on the way in."

He then jumps down and runs towards the chest. He then opens it. Inside was a large golden key with a red ruby in the middle of it. Carrie jumps down and goes to Link. He smiles at her, "I found another key! Only this one is different from the others."

Carrie then says, "It's called a Boss Key. But I like the name Master Key better."

Link then pockets the key, "Okay. Master Key it is."

Carrie then goes to a square hole in the middle of the room. Link then asks, "What's down there?"

Carrie smiles, "You'll soon find out."

She then jumps down. Link sighs and then follows after her. They both land into a small square room with some stairs leading to a door. Two Blue Bubbles were in the room. Link then got his sword and shield out and rammed it with his shield. He then slices it with his sword, killing it. Carrie then blasts the other Blue Bubble with her bracelet and runs up the stairs. The door had metal bars on it. They then remove themselves from the door. Link then follows along. Carrie then goes through the door with Link right behind her.

On the otherside of the door, was the nature room they first went in. Only this time, they were on the otherside over the pool of water where there was no way to reach it before. Link looks around, "How is this a faster way?"

A Deku Baba then raises up in front of them. Link then slices it with his sword and stabs it. It then fades. He turns back to Carrie, "All this way is leading to is one big circle."

Carrie sighs, "Just follow my lead. You'll thank me later."

Carrie then runs ahead. Link sighs and follows her. Near the end of the passage way was two doors. One at the very end, and another on their right. Carrie then runs to the door on the right. Carrie and Link both go through it. On the otherside was another square room made from the purest stone. The door then sealed itself as soon as the two entered the room. They both look back and then turn to look ahead. In front of them, was what seemed like another Wallmaster. Link quickly gets his sword at the ready, "Wallmaster!"

Carrie then says, "Floormaster actually."

Link looks to Carrie, "What's the difference?"

Carrie sighs, "Wallmasters travel in the shadows of the ceiling. Floormasters just wander around freely and.......when you hit them, they mutilply into three mini versions of themselves. If they grab you, they drain your energy and grow to the same size as before, starting the whole process all over again."

Link grunts, "I guess we'll just have to defeat them fast then."

Carrie nods, "Exactly."

She then gets her Dragon Sword out. The Floormaster then jumped in the air, turning green. It then flies across the room, trying to ram into Link. Carrie then pushes him out of the way and gets hit instead. She then bumps into the wall, dropping her sword. The wind was knocked out of her. She closes her eyes tight, grunting in pain. Link's eyes widened, "Carrie!"

Link then grunts in anger and turns to the Floormaster. He then jumps forward and slices it, "GYAH!!"

The Floormaster falls backwards. It then turns into three minature hands. Link's eyes widened and slices one. He dodges one trying to jump on him. He then stabs it and destroys it. He looks around, not seeing the other one. The last one was right behind Link. It then lunges forward at Link. A blast was heard. Link's eyes widened and he turned around. He sees the last Floormaster was killed. He looks to see Carrie breathing heavily, with her wrist out and her bracelet having its light just fade out. Carrie then falls to one knee, "Gah!"

Link's eyes widened, "Carrie!"

He then runs to Carrie's side. He asks, his voice showing he was clearly concerned, "A-are you alright?"

Carrie gasps, "I-I'll live.....just need to rest.....ngh!"

Link drops his sword and shield and grabs Carrie's shoulders, "Carrie....!!"

Carrie sighs and chuckles a bit, "D-don't worry about me. Just that Floormaster got me good.....that's all. Plus I think.....the bracelet drains me a little everytime I use it...."

Link's eyes widened, "Carrie....hang on...."

Carrie sighs and takes another breath, "Link....I'm not dying.."

Link shakes his head, "No....not that."

He then digs into his back pouch. He then pulls out a bottle of blue potion, one of the bottles the Potion Lady gave to them just the other day. He then opens the lid, followed by a pop sound. He then places it up to Carrie's lips, "Drink that."

Carrie then puts her mouth to it. She closes her eyes as she began to drink the potion. It was very sweet and refreshing. Carrie drank down the whole bottle. Link then takes the empty bottle away and places it back into his pouch. He looks to Carrie, "You feel better?"

Carrie's eyes widened. She felt better than before. She literally felt recharged. She stood up and looked at her hands, "Y-yeah. Better than better!"

Link grabs his sword and shield and stands, "Good. I'll personally make sure this never happens to you again."

Carrie's eyes widened as she turns to face Link. He then says, "I promise.....from now on.....I'll protect you."

Carrie's eyes widened more, "Link....."

Just then, the door's metal bars removed themselves. Another chest appeared with a circle of light. Carrie smiles, "Another chest."

Link then puts his sword and shield away. He then walks to the chest and opens it. Inside was another silver key. Link then pockets it, "Okay.....we are done here?"

Carrie then picks up her sword and sheathes it. She nods, "Yes..."

They then go through the door, leaving the room. They then make a right and go to the other door. They open it and go inside. On the otherside was the room with the pillars where they had to move the blocks. Link's eyes widened, "We're back here?"

Carrie smiles, "Now we can proceed from here."

She then jumps down and runs to the ladder. Link follows. After moments of running and climbing, they were back to the room where Link shot the eye above the door. Carrie then says, "Shoot the eye again."

Link nods, "With pleasure."

He then gets his bow and arrow out and takes aim once more. He then shoots the eye again, making it open its eye. The same stirring was heard like before. Inside the corridor, it leads to the open room and then flows backwards, making the corridor twisted like before.

Carrie and Link then go through the door. They saw the corridor twisted once again. Carrie and Link run forward to the open room. They then jump from one platform to the other and run through the door, leading to the place where they found the red poe. They then ran down the stairs and then hit the bottom of the stairs. They then run through the door, to the round room where they fought the Stalfos. On the otherside was another door. The two then run to it and go through it. On the otherside was a room that looked the same as where they fought the red poe, only this time, a strange torch was on the otherside of the door instead, unlit.

In front of Carrie and Link, was another set of stairs. They then run up them. As soon as they got to the landing, Carrie pauses. Link turns to her, "What?"

Carrie then says, "There should be another poe in this room."

Carrie looks up the next set of stairs and points up, "There."

Link looks up and sees a picture of another poe. This one was blue and was holding a blue torch, clearly different than Joelle. Link then gets his bow and arrow out and takes aim. He then shoots it. Laughing was heard as the picture faded into blue flames. Carrie then looks around and looks at the wall above the bottom stairwell where they came. She points, "There."

Link then gets another arrow and shoots it. Again, laughing was heard as it faded into more blue flames. Carrie then turns around, "And behind you."

Link then turns with another arrow at the ready and shoots the last picture behind them. It then fades into flames as more laughing was heard, only this time, a blue poe appeared and faded into the floor. Carrie then runs down the stairs, "Down here."

Link then follows, getting his sword and shield out once more. A blue poe was seen floating in the room. This was was blue with black arms and face, with dimmer yellow eyes than Joelle. It had a blue thing on top of its head, Carrie was unsure what it was suppose to be. It also carried with it a torch with a blue flame. Carrie then says, "Beth, second youngest of the Poe Sisters."

Link then runs and hits her. Carrie's eyes widened, "Link! Why would you do that?"

Link then says, "Aren't Poes all the same?"

Carrie sighs, "Just wait a second."

Carrie then goes up to her as her back was turned away from everyone. Carrie sighs, "B-Beth? I'm sorry for that....just my friend--"

Carrie was interupted by a scratchy voice, "THAT HURT!!! OWW!!"

Carrie then scratches the back of her neck, "I'm sorry for that."

Beth then says, "Your friend is mean!!"

Link then asks, "What did she say?"

Carrie turns to Link, "She says you're mean."

Link's eyes widened, "Me? What did I do?"

Carrie chuckles, "First of all....you hit her with your sword."

Carrie then turns back to Beth, "Listen.....we just want to ask something of you."

Beth then says, "What do you want?"

Carrie then says, "We need your flame for the elevator in the main room. We already have Joelle's.......we also need yours."

Beth laughs, "You managed to get Joelle's flame?? She never gives in that easily! She always fights before hand."

Carrie then replies, "Uhh.....that's exactly what we did. We asked and then she wouldn't give up without fighting. So we defeated her for her flame."

Beth then says, "Well, well, well......that is something. I would have any other time.....but there's two things about your request."

Carrie then asks, "Which is?"

Beth chuckles, "I have orders to follow......AAAAND......I can't allow you to walk away with my flame, knowing you hurt one of my sisters!! What kind of a sister would I be if I did that without sticking up for my Sis?!"

With that, she disappeared and did a spinning attack. Carrie screams as she went flying back, getting hit by Beth's torch. Carrie then shakes her head to snap out of it. Link's eyes widened, "Carrie!!"

He then turns to Beth, who reappeared laughing. Link then jumps and hits her once again with his sword. She screams and disappears again. Link then blocks her attack with his shield. Carrie then stands and watches the fight. Navi flies to her, "Are you okay?"

Carrie nods, "Yeah. Just took me by surprise is all."

Link then slices Beth again as soon as she showed herself again. Link then blocks her next attack and stabs her as soon as she reappeared. Carrie smiles, "Yes! One more hit!"

Beth then tries to attack Link once more, but he then jumped to the side, dodging it. Link then hits her one more time. She screams and fades into blue flames. Carrie heard Beth's voice, "Fine, fine! I'll help!! No wonder Joelle lost!!"

Arrows then fall from the flame when it faded. A ring of blue flame was seen at the strange torch. It then lights up, burning with a blue flame. Link smiles as he grabbed the extra arrow. He then places them inside his quiver. A large brown chest appears with light beside the torch. Carrie then walks over to it and opens it. Inside was a fair sized blue compass. It had a big red and white arrow on the inside of it. Carrie then throws it to the side, "I don't think we'll need it."

Link's eyes widened, "Are you sure??"

Carrie laughs as she points a thumb to herself, "Link, I'M your compass! So don't worry."

Link chuckles, "Alright then."

Carrie then turns to the stairs, "We need two more Poes to open the elevator and then we can rescue Saria!"

Link smiles as he puts his sword and shield away, "Right."

Carrie then begins to run up the stairs. Link then follows her. They then run up the next set of stairs. At the top was more vines on the walls. They then run around the stair balcony and see a door that was locked. Carrie and Link then run to it. Link then gets out a key and unlocks it. They then go inside. On the otherside was a room similar to the other room with the Wallmasters. Ahead was what looked like a set of stairs and on the right was a platform with a ladder. Carrie and Link both jump down and begin to run to the platform with the ladder. Navi then shouts as they run, "Listen! Watch for the shadows of monsters that hang from the ceiling..."

Carrie calls back, "We know!!"

Carrie then begins to climb up the ladder, with Link right behind her. The climb onto the platform and see an opening leading to another corridor. It looked alot like the twisted corridor, only it was straight. There was two Green Bubbles guarding the door on the otherside. Carrie then blasts them both with her bracelet as she began to run through it. Link then follows, catching up to her. The door they went to was locked as well. Link then gets out another key and unlocks it. Carrie and Link then go through it. On the otherside was a fairly big room. In the middle was four platforms, moving slowly in one big circle at the same time. All circling another platform with a lit torch. On the bottom was a strange pink liquid substance. Carrie didn't want to pay attiention to it, all she was focused on was the moving platforms.

Carrie and Link then jump on one as it was going by. They look to see they were moving towards a platform on the side of the room, with an eye trapped in ice. They go by it, not moving from their platform. Carrie looks to Link as the platform kept on moving, "Listen. The torch in the middle.......you need to shoot through it with an arrow to unthaw the eye AND activate it. Can you do that?"

Link then says, "I can try...."

He then gets out his bow and arrow as they came closer to the torch. He then takes aim, finding it difficult to focus when the platform kept on moving. Carrie whispers, "I believe in you."

Link nods and then concentrates. He then faces the eye. As soon as the torch came into view, from the platform's nonstop motion, he lets the arrow go. Carrie's eyes widened. The arrow was set aflame and hit the eye. The eye unthawed and closed. Carrie smiles, "You did it!!"

A shift was heard. A loud stirring sound came from the door they came through. Inside the corridor, it lead to the open room and then flowed back, revealing it to be twisted.

Carrie smiles and pats Link's shoulder, "Good job."

Link nods with a smile, "Thank you."

The platform was starting to move towards the door they came through. Carrie then jumps and lands on it. Link does the same and lands beside her. Carrie then opens the door and goes through it as Link followed. On the otherside of the door, they see the corridor was twisted. Carrie and Link then run ahead, towards the open room. They look to see it turn sideways like it did in the other open room. They see a square hole at the right end of it. They both jump down and run to it. With no thought, they both jumped down into the hole.

They both landed on their feet. The room was big with a white and brown checkered floor. It reminded Carrie of a kitchen floor. They look around as Carrie said, "We need to be careful with this room."

Link looks to Carrie, "Why?"

Carrie runs forward as Link did. Navi stops them, "Listen! Link, watch out!! The ceiling is falling!"

Carrie points to Navi, "That's why."

They heard a giant shifting sound. They look above and see the ceiling fall in front of them with a big booming sound. Carrie points to the holes in the ceiling, "We can run to one of those and keep going."

Link's eyes widened, "Is this the only way through?"

Carrie nods, "Yes...."

The ceiling slowly goes back up. Carrie shouts, "Now!"

Her and Link run forward. A Skulltula pops down, but Carrie ran around it. There was a gold switch a few feet away from it. Carrie jumps on it. Link then runs beside her. They both see a door across the room unseal itself from metal bars. They both stand still as the ceiling fell once again. Carrie's heart began to pound. She takes a deep breath as the ceiling slowly went back up. Carrie points ahead, "There's a chest there. Let's run to it."

Link nods, "Okay."

They both then run across the floor. They make it to the chest in time as the ceiling fell again. Carrie gasps and grabs Link's arm by accident, being startled. Link pats her hand and opens the chest. Inside was more arrows. Link smiles as he puts them in his quiver. The ceiling goes up again. Carrie and Link then break for the door finally. They open it, leaving the room with the falling ceiling behind. On the otheriside was a big open room. On the right was a ledge and on the left......a gigantic picture of a green poe sat on the wall. The room looked it was made from mostly stone and dirt, at least that's what the ground had looked like. Carrie sighs, "Oh no..."

Link looks to Carrie, "What is it?"

Carrie closes her eyes and sighs, pointing up. Link looks up. Near the ceiling, was five giant blocks floating there. Link's eyes widened, "W-what is that?"

Carrie looks to Link, "A puzzle."

Link then raises an eyebrow, "A puzzle? Why?"

Carrie then says, "It's so we can face the poe in the picture."

Link nods, "I see.....how do we solve it?"

Carrie then points to the picture, "You have to shoot the picture first of all...."

Link then gets his bow and arrow out, "Okay....no problem."

He then takes aim at the giant picture hanging on the wall. He then lets the arrow go. It goes straight. As soon as it hit the picture, laughing was heard as it faded into green flames. A big shift in the air was heard. The blocks floating in the air then fall. As soon as they land on the ground, a big booming sound was heard. Link saw there were parts of a picture on each block. Carrie then runs to the closest one with a picture of one half of the poe's face. Carrie pushes it forward. She grunts, "Link....push the other half of the face into this one! We're on a time limit!!"

Link nods, "Okay!"

He then runs to the very end and sees it. He then goes to the left of it and pushes it down a little bit. Carrie then leaves her block where it was and then runs to Link's block. She then goes behind it as Link did the same. They both pushed it into the block Carrie moved, making a whole face. Carrie points to her right, "You take that one.....I'll take the other one."

Link nods, "Right!"

Carrie then runs to the block on the other end. Link then goes to the other block and pushes it down towards the others. Carrie did the same to the other block. Link then realized what Carrie was up to, so he pushed harder to get it to the other blocks as fast as possible. Carrie then puts her block together with the others with a light thud. Carrie then runs to Link as he puts his block with the others, only his was a few spaces apart from the top of the puzzle. So Carrie ran to the other side and pushed it. Link then helped her. They both close their eyes. A thud was heard and they both opened their eyes. The puzzle was solved.

All the blocks then sink into the floor, fading from sight. In the middle of the room, a green poe appeared. It had black arms and face with rounded eyes. At the top of its head was a red hair-tie with straw-like light green hair. It also held a torch with a green flame. Carrie then says, "Amy, the youngest of the Poe Sisters."

Link then gets his sword and shield out, "You want to try and talk to this one too?"

Carrie shakes her head as she gets out her sword, "No. Joelle and Beth were ignorant to me. So.....what makes me think this one will be any different? I say attack at first hand."

Link smiles, "Now you're talking."

Amy then sees them. She then disappears and spins her torch towards them. Link then blocks it with his shield. A big clinging noise was heard. As soon as Amy reappeared, Carrie then jumped towards her and stabbed her sword into her. She shrieks and disappears again. Carrie jumps back, dodging another spinning torch attack. She attacks again as Carrie dodged it by jumping to the side. Amy then reappeared. This time, Link then slices her from behind. She shrieks again and disappears. She then swings her torch at Link. He then blocks it with his shield again, a loud clunk being heard throughout the room.

Link then jumps back as Amy went for another attack, dodging it. She then appears once again. Carrie then jumps forward, swinging her sword down, "HYAH!!"

Amy shrieks and begins to fade into green flames. Carrie heard her scratchy voice, "That hurt!!! Why did you attack me???"

Carrie then says, "We needed your flame for the elevator. Joelle and Beth didn't co-operate with us....so we assumed you wouldn't either."

Amy's voice was heard once again, "You wanted my flame?? Why didn't you just say so in the first place? I would've done it for you if you asked nicely.....sheesh...."

Amy's flame then disappeared. Carrie's eyes widened as her jaw dropped, "Whaaa---??"

She then sighs, "Figures! The one poe we didn't ask would've helped us with no trouble!"

Link chuckles, "I guess sometimes that's the way it goes."

Carrie chuckles too, "You got that right."

The green flame was seen lit on the otherside of the room on another strange looking torch on the ledge. There were bars on the door. They remove themselves as the torch stayed lit with a green flame. Carrie smiles, "Great. Let's go."

Her and Link then run to the ledge. They climb it and then go through the door. On the otherside was a small hallway. A Skulltula lingered there. Carrie then slices it with her sword, vanquishing it. Carrie and Link then kept on running forward. Carrie then stops in front of the door on the otherside. She then looks at Link, "I suggest you don't put your sword and shield away....at least not yet."

Link nods, "Alright."

Carrie smiles and then turns to open the door. They both go through. They ended up back in the main room on the stone balcony they saw earlier. Carrie smiles as she looks over the balcony, "Nearly there....one more poe now."

Link looks down to see the square with the sealed elevator. Three of the torches were lit. There was the red, blue, and green. One last one was needed. Carrie then stands on the balcony. Link did the same. Navi flies by them, "Hold on, Saria! We're almost there!!"

Link looks to Carrie, "Together?"

Carrie looks to Link and nods, "Together."

They both jump off the balcony at the same time. They then land on their feet with a faint thud. A purple poe was seen floating in the middle of the square. Carrie and Link both run into the square. The poe turns around and looks at them. This one a had both sides of the top of its head rounded, almost like buns in a woman's hair. A silver tiara was on its forehead with three rubies in it. It had black arms and a black face with narrow yellow eyes. It also carried a torch with a purple flame. Carrie smiles, "Meg, the oldest and most powerful of the Poe Sisters!"

Carrie heard Meg's scratchy, sinister voice, "How observant, Little Girl! I know what you did to my other sisters!! You will soon pay!!! Heh heh!!"

Meg began to laugh as three more of herself came from her and began to fade in and out. They all come into view and surround Carrie and Link. Meg laughs once more, "Let's see how good you REALLY ARE!! Hahahahaha!!!"

Carrie and Link then go back to back, looking at Meg and her clones surrounding them. Carrie then whispers to Link, "When one turns around.....that's the one you hit."

Link nods, "Got it."

One spins in front of Link. He then stabs it with his sword. Meg screams as all of her clones disappear along with her. A moment later, Meg reappears with three more of herself once again. One spins in front of Carrie. She then stabs it. Again, Meg screams and disappears with her clones. A moment later, Meg reappears with her clones. One spins in front of Link. He then slices it with his sword. Meg screams once more. She disappears and then reappears with her clones. One spins in front of Carrie. She then stabs her sword into her face. With one last shriek, Meg then disappears into purple flames. Carrie could hear her voice, "I can't believe I lost!!! How dispicable!! Arraghhh!!"

Meg then goes into a ring of purple flame. On the last torch in the square, a ring of purple fire appears and lights it up. Carrie and Link then take a step back, moving away from the sealed elevator. It then raises up from the floor. Link smiles, "We did it."

Carrie smiles back, "Yeah.....we did."

Link then steps onto the elevator. He then puts his shield away and holds his hand out to Carrie. She smiles and grabs it as he guided her onto the elevator. They both stand right in front of one another as the elevator began to go down. Carrie sighs, "I can't believe this is happening....."

Link looks into her eyes, "Why?"

Carrie then shakes her head, "I don't know.....things are happening too fast I guess."

Link smiles and nods, "I know what you mean."

The elevator then lands onto the bottom floor. It was a large room in the shape of a circle. The floor was pure marble with tan and blue and red areas, looking like minor paths. On the side was a fairly large platform and in various parts of the room, were small openings with either caged doors, or open access. Link then looks around as well. Carrie then points to the platform, "We push that until we get the right door."

Link then says, "Right door?"

Carrie nods, "Yes. Help me move it."

Link nods, "Alright."

Carrie then puts her sword away and goes over to the platform and places her hands on the walls of it. Link then goes over to Carrie as he put his sword away. He then places both of his hands on the wall. Carrie looks at him, "Ready?"

Link nods, "Ready."

They then push on the wall with all of their might. They finally let go. The platform then slides over to another part of the room, while the room was spinning with it. It finally stops with a booming sound. Carrie sighs as she runs to the platform again, "Okay, again...."

Link then runs to her and places his hands on the wall like she did. They then push into it again, making it slide to another area, making the room spin again. Another booming sound was heard. Carrie then runs to it, "Again!"

Carrie and Link then run to it and push on it once again. They both grunt as they push on it. It slides over once again, making the room spin. A booming sound was heard as the platform stopped in another area. Carrie then says, "One more time!"

Carrie and Link then run to the platform and push on it one last time. It then slides one last time, making the room spin. Carrie then turns around and runs into an opening with a switch. She then jumps on it. A caged door across the room opens up. Carrie smiles as she runs across the room, "Come on, Link!"

Link then runs with her. They run into the opening. It was a fancy looking corridor with a blue path leading to a giant door with a golden lock on it. Link then gets out the Master Key. He looks at it and then at the door. Link then places the key inside the lock. The lock disappears and Carrie and Link then run inside, with the door closing behind them.