Chapter Seven
Third Perosn's P.O.V.
As the small group and the hunters entered the Forest Temple, they noticed that they could hear a tune playing which seemed to be coming from everywhere
"Nice we have music in a dark spooky temple." Logan deadpanned
"Well to me it makes it even scarier since we can't hear what's moving around the corners or on the other side of doors." Sheik said as she started walking towards the door in front of them but jumped back as a massive wolf creature fell down
"What is that?!" Sheik asked as Logan recognized it and Navi looked at it.
"That's a wolfos, it's a monster created from a wolf that was affected by dark magic, its only weakness is on its back, but only when it strikes, you can strike." Navi explained as more came and the Logan and Sheik went into battle with the three fairies above them watching their backs. There were a total of five of them, Logan took on two and Sheik took two, they both didn't realize that the lasted was sneaking around the group. Logan and Sheik managed to beat them, but not without injures. Sheik got cuts all over her body, but small ones, and a massive one on her left arm. While Logan also has cuts all over him and one major one on his back, but they all realized one thing:
"There was five right, so where's the last one?" Logan said voicing all their thoughts and the looked around, even the hunters didn't know where it went since they were too busy keeping their eyes on the fight. That was until it jumped down talked Logan and began trying to bite him, he was defenseless since his sword was thrown out of his hand and was also too busy holding the wolfos' jaws from his throat.
"Gah! Someone- Someone get this thing off me!" Logan growled as Sheik took action grabbing the Master Sword and slicing the wolfos' back making it turn to dust, not gold dust, just dust never to come back unless another one comes to take its place.
"Thank you . . ." Logan said as he was breathing heavily since his back was in pain.
"Here let me help you . . ." Sheik said as she pulled out a bottle of red potion and handed it to Logan who smiled graciously and drank it, as she too drank one. The hunters' eyes were bulging out of their sockets since not only did it heal them, but restored some of their stamina, and gave them a red glow.
"Finally that beeping is gone." Logan said making all but Sheik confused
"What do you mean? There isn't any beeping, nor was there before." Tattle said as she started at him in confusion.
"It's a spell that I was taught by Zelda, when I'm low on health I will hear a beeping, it's basically a warning that you almost dead and you need to get healed soon." Logan explained and all who didn't know nodded and the hunters were jealous a bit since they didn't have the warring.
"Now be careful, since we only have two bottles each and we just used once each and making it will take time, and if there are monsters all over, I don't think me or you can make it fast enough to defend ourselves if things get out of hand." Sheik told her group as Logan nodded, and assumed that the fairies understood since she couldn't see their heads.
"There are more dangerous monsters here; the wolfos were just the beginning." Navi told them and the group headed through the door that was in front of them and entered a big room with an elevator looking object with four different colored fires surrounding it, but as they approached it four ghosts appeared and snatched the fire away making the elevator go down and unsalable and took off into different directions.
"What was that about?" Logan asked as he faced the group
"Those monsters were called Poes, ghost that are made by the hatred that person they once were had. They are very easy to defeat. They are called the Poe Sisters, a group of ghost that are in the Forest Temple, but the thing is those Poes were defeated by your father already how are they back?" Navi said to her group as Logan nodded remembering them from the games.
"Demise probably brought them back or they are four entirely different Poes that came to take the place of the previous sisters." Sheik suggested and they nodded in agreement.
"So what now, the only way further is now blocked?" Logan asked as Tale glowed and got everyone's attention
"Why don't I look around?" He asked as the others nodded and Tale went to see another path anywhere nearby.
With the Hunters
The battle with the wolfos made the hunters nervous, and when the last wolfos jumped an attacked Logan made Artemis pale greatly.
"Milady what are we to do? There're supposed to be worse things here?" Thalia asked as Artemis thought it over.
"We can't interfere unless they are about to die, watching until then is all we can do." Artemis said making the hunters grit their teeth in frustration.
"Hey I've found a way!" The hunters heard the purple fairy say, Tale they remembered his name was.
Back with the Group
"Hey I've found a way!" Tale said flying towards the group.
"Where is it?" Tattle asked her brother
"It's this way, but there are a lot of monsters that way, they seem to be expecting you." Tale told the group as the group nodded and started following Tale in the directions that lead to a ladder.
"I thought that you said there were a lot of monsters?" Logan asked Tale who nodded
"There are, but they are up this ladder. Oh another thing, I recognize one of the monsters as a . . ." Tale started but stopped
"What was it Tale?" Navi asked
". . . It was an Iron Knuckle." Tale said making Navi and Tattle glow dim a lot, and Logan and Sheik to fall down pale.
"An I-I-I-iron Knu-knu-knuckle?" Logan asked since he knew it's destructive power.
"We don't have any bombs to break its armor! How will we defeat it?" Sheik asked
"There is another way to defeat one, but . . ." Navi started
"What is it?" Logan and Sheik asked
"It requires you to go in and attack it, it's harder but not impossible, and that's the only way other way to beat an Iron Knuckle." Navi told them as Logan nodded in understanding, in the games he played he just threw bombs at it unit it's armor broke.
"That's not it; I believe a Dark Nut is also there, they seem to be guarding something besides the door." Tale informed again making the group pale more.
"Is there another way?" Tattle asked
"No, from what I saw, there is no other way, but I do know this, whatever they are guarding, they don't want us to have it, besides going further." Tale said as Logan steeled his nerves.
"Well there is only one thing we can do; Fight." Logan told his group as Sheik nodded mentally prepared. Soon they went up the latters and went into battle with wolfos, stalfos, and redeads, and skulltula. All in which Navi informed them about. The stalfos and redeads were once people who died trying to get out of the lost woods and the skulltula are giant spiders with a skull like body. They charged with Logan fighting all the skulltulas and some of the other ones and Sheik fight the rest and they fought until there was none left and as they were about to turn the corner until Tale stopped them.
"The Iron Knuckle and Dark Nut are up ahead; while you were fighting I also noticed something." Tale said
"What is it?" Sheik asked
"That the hallway is blue, like one of the poes, perhaps this is where one is. I did follow one of their paths and maybe before you go look for the other poes you should make some more red potion." Tale told them
"It's true, I may be able to heal you once you run out of red potion, but it takes energy and I can't use energy to heal you and revive you." Tattle informed them as they nodded and Logan and Sheik made eye contact and know what to do.
"I'll go in alone and faced them and once Sheik is finished she can join me." Logan said
"You're not going in alone!" Navi nearly shouted
"How about you and Tattle come and watch my back? Sheik is the one, who can make it fastest so it seems to me that she should be the one who stays and makes it while Tale watches out for monsters." Logan suggested as the fairies nodded and Logan and the two fairies followed to engage the armor wearing monsters.
With the Hunters
As of now the hunters were scared Logan wasn't one for begin scared and when he admits or shows he's scared then it's scary.
"Mother should we prepare for battle?" Zoe asked
"Maybe, but be ready if I tell you to." Artemis told them becuase she remembers when Link told her the times he fought with an Iron Knuckle, he told her that the monster is no laughing matter and is very dangerous and now there is a creature called a Dark Nut she hasn't heard much about it but it sounds similar to an Iron Knuckle, she only hopes that her son will be ok. So she decided to follow him and the fairies with him and watch from the shadows leaving her hunters and daughter behind to watch Sheik and Tale.
With Logan and Fairies
Logan approached the two monsters slowly to try and make them not notice him, it didn't work. They turned their head right to him and began charging at him.
"Logan, try to take one of them at a time, it will go smoother for you if you do." Navi told him as Logan swung his sword at the Iron Knuckle and manage to hit him which seemed to do little damage. The Iron Knuckle just hit him with the side of his axe and made him fly to the wall making a dent in it.
"Logan!" Both fairies shouted as they saw him cough up blood.
"Ouch, that hurt." He said holding his arm, he pretty sure he hurt it pretty bad, maybe broke it. He noticed that both monsters were gain on him and he couldn't move his whole left side was burning in pain.
"So much for being the chosen hero of the Golden Goddesses." Logan mumbled as he blacked out, but his body didn't. The power left behind by Farore didn't want to surrender and it didn't want Logan to ether, so it took action. It took control of Logan's body, making a greenish aura surround him like, and part of it swirled around his body, like the winds were healing his body which forced him to awake.
"What . . .?" He asked looking at the green wind continued to swirl and he heard Farore's voice speaking to him like she was still there.
"Young hero these monsters have gained a power boost from Demise, so I shall give you one, when you are in need of my power call upon my winds and they shall help you blow your enemies away, but be warned Raven's seal will get looser every time this power is used. Use it wisely for I can't come all the time it breaks." Farore's voice soon faded and Logan picked up the Master Sword which glowed green as well and charged the Iron Knuckle who was busy trying to stay standing against the wind while Logan slashed him until his armor fell off.
"Logan watch out behind you!" Logan heard Navi and Tattle yell as the Dark Nut came up from behind him and tried to attack him but ended up killing his fellow monster that flew across the hallway and broke a few trees that were growing in the hallway and disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.
"Just couldn't wait for your turn." Logan said as he charged the Dark Nut and broke its armor off as well making him throw his sword at him but the winds stopped it and threw it back at him which damaged him. Pulling out a smaller sword and started moving faster but the winds assisted him by pushing the monster around making it when it tried to jump it was pushed to the ground enabling Logan to effectively destroy it, clearing a way to the first Poe. After the battle was won the winds and green aura faded back to Logan's body until next use.
"Logan! How'd you do that?" Navi asked as she and Tattle flew up to him.
"Farore didn't want me to quit just yet." Logan said smiling as Sheik and Tale came to them.
"Did we miss anything?" The two asked making all laugh but them not getting it.
"Oh nothing but Logan knock the two metal head into next week!" Tattle said making Tale groan.
"I knew I was going to miss something awesome." He winded getting a smack from his sister.
"Too bad be a fairy and toughen up. Our predecessors went through worse." Tattle told her brother who pouted but none but the fairies could see it. As the group was talking a bright light filled the area and soon died down and reviled a green key.
"What's the key for?" Tale asked floating around it.
"Doesn't matter right now, what does is getting through this temple now let's go." Sheik told them as she grabbed the key and entered the door only to see a bunch of blank picture frames around the walls and doors on every wall.
"Hehehehehe, now you will face the two closes sisters." A voice echoed around the room
"We'll make you red and blue. Which one's the real one, and which door is the right door?" The choice is your children. Hehehehehehe." A second voice echoed as the blank picture frames became full with the blue and red Poe occupying every frame.
"What do we do? They all look the same!" Tale asked zooming around looking at all the pictures.
"Study them closely, they must be in one of these pictures, or else they couldn't tell us that." Sheik informed the grouped as they went around studying each one closely.
"Found one!" Logan shouted stabbing the picture in front of him making the blue Poe come out.
"Cleaver child but you'll never find my sister." The blue Poe snickered and going through a wall nearby as all of the blue Poes disappeared leaving only read ones. It took longer but eventually they found the red Poe who shrieked and started attacking them like normal Poes by swinging her lantern and fading leaving only the lantern to indicate where she is. After a while she was defeated making a chest appear.
"I call it!" Logan cheered and ran to it and opened it to reveal a bow.
"What's this?" He asked looking at it but soon a silver glow appeared in his other hand making a silver bow appear and knock the other bow away.
"I guess that means it's mine." Sheik said as she grabbed it as Logan frowned.
"I didn't know bows could get jealous of other bows." She continued as Logan rolled his eyes.
"Well this bow is better anyways." Logan said as he turned and started walking towards a door and opened it and went threw only to appear to be opening another door at the other end of the room.
"What . . .?" Logan asked as he stuck his hand through the door making it appear out a different door and soon pulled it back.
"Maybe it's some sort of puzzle?" Sheik suggested and walked to the door that was across from her and entered it to run right into Logan making him fall down.
"Why do I get the feeling that this was made to be like the maze?" Logan mumbled as he and Sheik got up.
"Well let's go back the way we came." Navi said as the fairies floated next to the door that they entered through and soon they walked through and it revealed a brand new area and not the old one that had tones of monsters in it.
"Why couldn't it be easy? Also when did it change?" Tale asked flying around
"Doesn't matter let's keep moving." Logan said and started walking as a wind sound emerged as Navi yelled.
"Logan watch out! A Wall Master is about to-" Navi started but failed to warn Logan in time as the monster grabbed Logan and dragged him up and soon Navi flew after it.
"Soooo, what do we do now?" Tale asked as they all looked at the spot their two friends were taken away from them.
With the Hunters
The hunters were currently out of the temple since Artemis was called to Olympus for a meeting, but not before she saw Logan get dragged away by that monster. As of now she was like a shell of her former self. She being the Goddess of Childbirth gives her the strongest bond between mother and child, but now that one of her two children's bonds with her is fading . . . she's lost, sad, scared, and most of all angry. She transported her hunters and her other child away to a safe place, so they wouldn't see her like this, not even the fates had control over her anymore, and unknown to her they were warning the other Olympians along with the Golden Goddesses about her rage. So during this meeting be very, very, very careful around the Goddess or they will die, and off to Olympus she went. Though little did she know that Logan was alive, but barely.
With Logan and Navi
Pain pulsed through his body and next to him he could see a small woman with wings, which he knew was Navi, and her glow was faded enough to see her body, not good.
"Na . . .Nav . . . Navi . . ." Logan manage to choke out making the fairy move and look at him
"You . . . ok?" He asked her and she nodded.
"You're in worse condition, look at yourself." She mumbled as he looked down and saw that he was drenched in blood, his own.
"What do we do now?" He asked as she shrugged
"I . . . I don't know, I'm no healing hands, and your too weak to make red potion. I'll heal over time, but you . . ." She drifted off and looked away.
"I'm dying right?" Logan asked not too sure.
"Slowly, but if someone comes and heals you, you will die." Navi said with tears in her tiny eyes.
"I . . . I won't die." Logan claimed as Navi smiled at him
"Just like Link, never giving up, but how are you going to do that?" She asked sadly
"I'll use some of Farore's power it should heal me, and you, just enough to get us moving." Logan told her as he started calling the winds to heal him and Navi, but while doing so made him bleed more, causing him to die faster, but the winds came and started healing him and Navi. Soon enough Navi had her glow back and Logan could move. While doing this he felt something evil wake inside him, which means Raven's cage is weakening more and more. He predicts that he can only use this once more before it breaks.
"It's about time you awaken, and I see that pathetic goddess gave you some of her power." A deep evil voice growled.
"Who said that?" Logan asked taking out the Master Sword and holding it ready.
"Well I did of course." The voice said again as the shadows were wiped away and reveled a man whose body was pure black and what looked like was made of scales, his hair was fire, and the sword he held was giving off an evil aura.
"I am Demise, and I presume that you're Logan, son of Artemis and the next hero." Demise said giving an evil smile to Logan.
"You don't look like any hero, but then again neither did the first hero, so better get rid of you now." Demise said as he slowly got up and charged at Logan.
With Sheik, Tattle, and Tale
"Maybe we should finish the temple." Tattle said as she looked Sheik who was sitting with her knees to her chest against a wall.
"I don't know, I was supposed to help him but when that Wall master came down . . . I . . . I froze" Sheik mumbled
"Don't worry, Logan still alive, but he needs to finish this alone." They heard a voice tell them as they looked around and spotted Saria in one of the many trees that make up the Forest Temple.
"What do you mean?" She asked
"Demise made himself at home in the Forest Temple, blocking most of my power, but once he's kick out by Logan, I will make sure he never returns." Saria said as she gestured towards a door way.
"This way, it will lead you out of the temple where we can wait for Logan; he needs to prove he has the courage to face this threat." Saria said as the three followed and left the temple.
Back to Logan and Navi
Clashing swords could be heard throughout the temple, and deeper into the temple screams could be heard
"Come on boy! You got to do better than that!" Demise taunted Logan as he continued to slash and hack at him.
'He's right, but what can I do? This guy has way too much strength from me.' Logan thought as he continued to defend himself.
'Why don't you use Farore's power? Surly that'll save you.' Logan heard Raven say as he blocked a fatal blow.
'No I can win on my own. I don't want to keep relying on someone else.' Logan responded
'But don't you know what will happen if you lose? Aren't you scared?' She asked again
'Yes I'm terrified, but I'm even more terrified of what will happen if lose that's why I won't give up!' Logan thought conveniently making his left hand glow golden.
"What, that's impossible! That power can't be awakening yet!" Demies screamed as the light blinded him. A golden triangle formed on Logan's left hand and the lower left one filed with the same golden color.
'The power of the Triforce of Courage has awoken now, Logan show him the power of the Chosen Hero!' Farore told Logan as he gain a serious power boost and went to start slashing Demise until he was knock Demise into a corner and knocking his sword out of his hand.
"Heh, well done kid, it seems to be true that you're really are the Chosen Hero, but I'm merely part of the original and only a forth of his power resides in me. The real battle between us is still yet to come, I look forward to it." The part of Demise told Logan as it faded away.
"Good job Logan!" Navi cheered as she flew around him and gave him a hug.
"It wasn't that great." Logan said being modest but he had a smile and then they heard clapping. They both turned to see Saria with a smile.
"Thank you for freeing the temple, I'm happy to give you this." Saria said handing Logan a green medallion.
"This is the Forest Medallion, it means I add my power to yours, and if you ever need the people of the forest we're there for you." She said with a smile as a blue rupee shape formed around him and Navi and they disappeared, and reappeared in front of the Olympians, fates and Golden Goddesses.
"Good job." Farore told him with a big smile while putting her hand on his head and ruffling his hair. He smiled but soon someone tackled him and looked to see his mother crying.
"I thought I lost you." Artemis sobbed as she held him tighter
"Your sister is going to kill you." She told him as all smiled at the two
"Thanks mom." Logan said as he went to hug her but fainted from the day's challenges, making Artemis panic.
"Don't worry he's merely worn out, let him rest. Sheik and the fairies with her are at you camp, I have transported them with the help of Forest Sage, do you mind keeping her with you until the next sage is found?" Farore said as Artemis nodded as she flashed out and put Logan in her tent and continued to hold him as he rested. Navi left to find the others to tell them what happen and what's going to happen until the next temple.
"Sleep well my son." Artemis whispered to Logan.
Well looks like another chapter's done, thanks for reading. Also please do review and all that good stuff. I hope you enjoyed it.