Okay, chapter 22 is done and it's my longest chapter so far.
Chapter 22: Rising Waters
Link and Faith ran toward the middle of the main room. Link nodded toward a locked door as he pulled out a small key. He waited for Faith to reach the door before he unlocked it. "This door will take us to the spot where we can raise the water to the second level." Link put the key in the lock and opened the door. "Let's go."
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The room had blue tile walls and on the side they entered was a brown floating platform. Link pulled out his long shot. "We're going to have to go to the room below the water before we head up so do you want to wait here with your iron boots?" Link asked before aiming the long shot.
"I'll wait here. There's no need for both of us to go up," Faith agreed. With a small flash of light her boots were covered in iron. "Go on."
Link nodded and aimed his long shot at a target right above the area of where to change the water level. He pulled out the Ocarina of Time and played Zelda's Lullaby. The water level rose and Link swam so that he was right above the center isle. He looked down to make sure he wouldn't land on top of Faith then put on his iron boots. With a clink as his boots hit the floor, Link landed next to Faith. He nodded toward the hole in the floor and they both headed down. It looked empty except for a switch in the beck left corner. Link moved toward the center of the room. From there he could see the two gates that led up. Link pointed to the gate on the opposite side of the switch and motioned for Faith to go that way. She nodded and walked underneath the gate. When she looked up she saw that it was another path. When she saw Link standing on the other side of the room she was confused. However she simply stayed where she was and watched Link.
Link had out his long shot and aimed it at the switch. He was still a far enough distance that none of the creatures would try to attack him. When he hit the switch shell blades and spikes fell down from the gate above the switch. Link had a feeling that had they been where he could actually hear Faith she would have screamed. Link hit all the spikes first then moved in closer to draw one shell blade at a time out. He managed this task with extreme precision. When the last shell blade was beaten the gate above Faith opened. Link ran over to Faith and they both removed their iron boots. They floated up to another room. This room held a small chest. Faith was the first to get over to it and she pulled out another small key.
"There must be a lot of locked doors with how many of these things we've found," she said handing the key to Link.
"Well there are a few more keys to find still and we've only hit one locked door so far. So I guess we're on a roll with not finding the wrong rooms." Link put the small key with the rest of them. "Now come on we still have to get up to the second level."
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Link and Faith went back to the main room. Once they had gotten there Link dived into the water. When he noticed that Faith didn't jump in after him he looked at her. "Come on, there a room that we have to go underwater to get to. If you want you can wait here 'cause it'll only take a sec or you can come."
"I'll come," Faith said without hesitation. She jumped in the water after Link. They both put on their iron boots and sank to the bottom.
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After they had gotten the small key from the 2nd floor room where they had first lowered the water level, Link and Faith returned to the main room. "Okay where to now?" Faith asked as soon as they surfaced.
Link stayed in the water and simple swam in the direction they needed to go. "We're raising the water level to the highest again. It's this way." He swam to a floating platform that gave access to a locked door. "We have to go in here," Link said climbing on the platform. Once he was up he bent down to help Faith climb up.
"Thanks," Faith said taking his hand. Link opened the door as soon as Faith had gotten up.
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"Stay here for a sec; there is a tektite up there that I'm going to lure down," Link said putting his hand out to stop Faith from going to far.
"Be careful Link," Faith said stopping and standing beside a crystal switch. 'I'm just in his way,' Faith thought to herself as she watched Link stand beside a small jet of water to wait for the tektite.
Link pulled out his sword while he waited. When he saw it fall he stepped back. Just as it landed Link sliced the tektite in two. "Okay it's safe, come on," Link called to Faith. She ran over to him and stood by the jet of water. "Step on," Link said stepping onto the water. Reluctantly, Faith followed suit. Link pulled out his long shot and aimed for the crystal. Hitting the crystal caused the jet of water to rise and lift both Faith and Link. Once they had been lifted to the next Floor they jumped off and exited the room they had been brought to.
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The door led them to a small whole in the wall just above the third floor. Faith saw a tektite not too far from where they were. She pulled out her bow ad shot the tektite with two arrows in rapid succession. Link, in the mean time, pulled out his ocarina and played Zelda's Lullaby which raised the water level to the third floor. "Nice shot Faith," Link said when he saw the tektite was gone and that she had out her bow.
"You only say nice shot because you know I beat it. You didn't see how many arrows it took or if I missed."
"Well I also know that if I had been the one shooting the tektite would be right below us waiting for us to jump. Come on we still have a few rooms to go. And these next few aren't all that easy," Link said jumping from the ledge.
"Why does he just jump without waiting?" Faith asked to Rosa who was hovering by her ear. Faith didn't wait for an answer; instead she jumped and followed Link.
Link yet again ignored the walk way and swam to the floating platform they had used before. Yet again it was by a locked door. "This way, and have your bow ready there will be two keese waiting for us."
"Right," Faith pulled out her bow as Link opened the door. Passing through the door she pulled out an arrow. Link followed with his long shot in hand.
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Link shot his long shot just as Faith let her arrow fly. They had both aimed at different bat-like keese. "Now we have to cross the room."
Faith looked at the room. The side they were on had a hallway and hill with two platforms. The other side had a waterfall and moving platforms that went down farther than she could see. She had the feeling that the only way to cross was with the long shot. "So we cross with the long shot?"
"Yeah but it's not as bad as you think. We can get down to the bottom platform and wait until it gets high enough so that we can cross the room in one shot," Link said looking down at the two platforms.
"Will that really work?" Faith asked thinking that it was too simple.
"The first time I came here I had a shorter hook shot that I had to go up each individual platform on the other side."
"That is what I thought we were going to have to do."
"No, just hang on tight."
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After crossing the room they went through a locked door. The room they came to didn't seem much better to Faith. When she saw the tektite she pulled out her bow and shot arrows at the tektite before any of them had a chance to move. She also shot the arrows so that as soon as it jumped from the first on she hit them as they landed.
"Now that's some nice shooting. This room also isn't as bad as it seems. With the long shot we can cross to the end platform without having to go through all of the other platforms." Link shot the crystal in the middle of the room making the water rise as well as dragon statues with targets on the necks. He grabbed Faith and Aimed for the statue that had a platform above it. They were dragged across the room. Link then hit the crystal again causing the dragons to lower. He climbed up on top the offered his hand to Faith. "Come on, this is the only way to the next room." When Faith had climbed up on the statue Link once again shot the crystal in the middle of the room. There were spikes in the way of the door to the next room but there was also a target above the next room. Once again Link grabbed Faith and used the long shot to pull them over the spikes. "In this next room stay close, I'm not sure what's going to happen." Link swallowed hard as he opened the door. He may have been the one chosen to hold the Triforce of Courage but that didn't mean he was never afraid.
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I know I skipped the Like Like but you know what it was getting long and I was getting kicked off the computer when I finished it. Plus those things just creep me out. I said I would wait for at least 1 review and I got 2! Yay! The next chapter or two are going to be dealing with (dun duh dun) the "dark" room. I have way too many ideas for this so it may or may not take two chapter especially if I do what came to me earlier today. Okay time for Review Responses!
Katie: Yay! You read my fic! Glad you liked it! And thanks for the compliment that I'm a good writer!
The Lady Gemini: Oo…Wow that was one long review but since it was for the whole story at once I guess it make sense that it was that long. Thanks for saying that Faith is not a Mary-sue. I hate Mary-sues as well so I'm glad I did a good job to avoid that. And as for the dialog I'm working on my dialog. Sometimes when I try to make a character say something that develops their character I feel like it comes out strange so I end up changing it. Oh and I do have a reason for her having an ocarina, I just can't get to it yet. I just realized the reason I can never finish a story quick and have it be really good. I take my time with developing a character. I do this because that's how you learn about real people, slowly. And as for giving the plot at the beginning, I gave the info I did because I felt it necessary. Oh and the reason Ruto lived was because I felt like it. She did get really old looking though. I thought I described how she looked but by your response I get not. (Wrinkly, fat, and old looking) I didn't think I was being that obvious about things. Email me about the things I'm being too obvious about. (Although let me point out that in the game I saw a lot of things coming a mile away so if that's reflected in my story I'm sorry.) And as for Link's thoughts, this is why I usually don't write fan fictions. I can't usually think of what runs through the main characters head. When it comes to video games it's harder than with TV shows too because it's all in how the player thinks of the game. As for some things not changing, it's hard to think of how to completely change everything so I limit the changes. Okay I'll say more next chapter because yet again I'm running out of time. email me if you have more questions.