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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Nineteen: The Fire Temple

"It's so warm in here…" Tessa wiped some sweat off her brow as she followed Link through the fiery passages of the Fire Temple. Link was ahead of both of them, and Navi was resting on top of Tessa's head, the heat seemed to affect Navi as well, but she didn't even need a tunic, her own magic seemed to protect her to where the heat was somewhat tolerable.

"How long have we been wandering around?" Navi asked, her voice higher so that Link could hear it. Link shrugged, but continued walking.

"Jeez, what a one-track mind." Tessa grumbled. Navi simply giggled in exchange.

"Tessa?" Navi whispered so that the two could have a private conversation. "Are you sure you're going to be fine if you have to go off on your own?" Tessa sighed, and shook her head lightly. "You're going to do it anyway, aren't you?" Tessa nodded in response this time.

"I just hope that I'm not needed at the battle. I know there's not much I could do, but I'm supposed to keep the Hero alive…" Tessa murmured as quietly as she could. "I just hope…he's able to make it out alive, and well."

"Don't worry, he's got me." Navi whispered. "The two of us have worked as a team before. I'll try to keep you updated on his status as well." Tessa quirked an eyebrow at what Navi said.

"How would you be able to do that?" Navi was silent for a moment. "You can't, can you?" Navi sighed in response.

"I'm sorry."

"It's the thought that counts, Navi." Tessa smiled. Navi still sighed. "I won't worry about it, I trust you and him." They both looked at Link. "I just wish he could…"

"I know what you mean." Navi murmured. Suddenly, a wall of flame shot up in front of Tessa, and she almost stumbled into it, if she hadn't fallen backwards first. A slight yelp came from her mouth, and Link finally whirled around to see what had happened. Navi flew around Tessa frantically.

"Go to him!" Tessa shouted at Navi, who complied and flew over the tall wall of fire to Link. The firewall just kept on burning, getting thicker, and higher.

"Tessa!" Link shouted.

"Just because there's a fire wall between us doesn't mean I can't hear you." Tessa said, at a tone slightly louder than her average talking tone. "Look, I think this is where we have to split up…"

"Why don't you just jump through the fire?" Link asked.

"I don't think the tunics will protect us if we're completely on fire. There's a difference between this and sticking your hand in a flame!" Tessa growled. "Look, there's got to be another way around, you concentrate on your half of the deal, and I'll be fine!"

Link, although unsure, nodded in agreement. It wasn't like either of them had any other choice. After one quick nod of goodbye, the two separated, and ran to try and finish their tasks.

A tall figure grinned slightly to herself from the shadows of the temple. "Phase One, complete." She stood up, and stretched. "It's about time I have something to do, it gets so boring in the castle."

The girl was rather tall, about 5'10 skin that was in a medium tan. Her eyes surveyed the crystal ball in front of her. "Stupid loaned powers…" She growled. The girl, Rhea, could only see through one of her eyes, the black one. Her other eye was completely blind, and grayish in color. Her other facial features were hidden by a scarf that wrapped around her head. Her clothes were a basic black shirt and black pants, with basic soft-soled shoes.

"Now, to figure out who Link's companion is, really." Rhea grinned, and slipped into the shadows.

Link and Navi hadn't gone too far before they reached rather large door. Without a second thought, Link pushed through the door and another wave of heat blasted him completely. Navi had to rest herself on Link's shoulder for a minute, just to bear the heat.

In front of them was a bridge, a rather long bridge over a boiling pool of lava. To their left and right, skulls were jumping in and out of the lava with glee. The burning sensation never seemed to occur to them. Fire-covered bats flew around them at random intervals. Across the bridge lay another door.

"Do you think it's a good idea to cross?" Navi murmured.

"It's the only option we have, I'll just keep guard. It can't be as simple as crossing the bridge." Link sighed. He tensed up, but then began to walk carefully across the bridge. He made it about a quarter of the way across, when he heard a very faint snapping sound. Link whirled around, and saw a fire bat burning one of the ropes at the end of the bridge he had just come from.

"Run!" Navi shouted, and Link started to make a mad dash for the other end of the bridge. He got about halfway when his right foot fell through the bridge, and he tripped and fell. Navi screeched as she watched one of the planks of wood cut deeply into Link's leg.

Then, one side of the bridge snapped. The fire bat had accomplished its goal of burning one of the edges of the bridge. Now it began on the parallel edge. The bridge was going to fall into the lava, with Link stuck to it. The bridge wasn't high enough for him to even consider that he could just cling onto the bridge, except at the very other end of the bridge.

"Shit." Link growled, gripping onto the edge of the bridge, he kicked his injured leg back, and forced it through the planks behind him, so that it was free. Then, he stood up, although the bridge was very wobbly since one of the ends was broken, he forced himself to adjust and he kept on running, stumbling from one end to the other.

SNAP!

He felt the bridge start to give out from under him, and gave his last effort to jump to the end of the bridge.

Tessa wiped her brow yet again. The heat was so intense, and it just seemed to get worse. She had been walking for only a few minutes, but she had already begun to think that she was just going to get stuck with nothing accomplished, when the floor disappeared from underneath her. The sensation was weird, at one point, she was standing up in thin air, and then she suddenly plummeted through the air, until she seemed to connect with some sort of slide. Her screams followed her all of the way down.

She didn't land on anything soft either. It felt like she landed full frontal into a boulder, before falling down ungracefully to the ground.

"Goro?" The word seemed to vibrate throughout the room, wherever she was. A headache suddenly sprung upon her, and she groaned. "Are you all right Goro?" A voice directly above her asked. Tessa cracked her eyes open, to come face-to-face with a Goron. She jumped back up to a standing position, to realize that Gorons surrounded her.

"Are you the Gorons that were taken from Goron City?" Tessa asked quickly, trying her hardest to forget her headache. They all nodded. "Where are we?" A sad look seemed to flash through all of the Gorons' features.

"In the holding chambers, before we get eaten. They hand-pick us one at a time…" The Goron closest to her said, he looked highly disturbed.

"It's a giant cage, all of the Gorons are here." The Goron next to that one followed. Tessa wasn't sure what to think of it all.

CLINK.

The Gorons screamed in unison, and rolled into shivering rocks of fear. Tessa was bewildered, until she saw the far-end of the cage that the doors had opened. What looked to be heavily armored knights had entered the cage, with a shadowy figure among them.

(break)

Link hoisted himself up with a lot of difficulty. By pure luck he had been able to grab the edge of the platform leading to the next door, but only by his fingertips. As soon as he had gotten himself up, he collapsed ungracefully onto the ground. He lay there for a moment as he struggled to get his breath before he stood up and looked at the floor in front of him.

"That's more bad news…how are we going to get back if we can't go the way we came?" Navi murmured, looking back towards the river of lava, and the broken bridge, which had now burst into flames. Then, he turned and walked through the door, only to be met by what looked like a passageway outlined by a thin, but definitely very hot wall of flames.

Tessa almost instinctively tried to make herself invisible, but realized that it would have been a sad attempt to curl up into a ball of cloth, while there were just a bunch of rocks around her. She also stuck out like a sore thumb, with her red tunic. It probably didn't help that she human, either.

The armored knights shoved through the Goron's, kicking their way through them, but realized that it was pointless to try, and eventually just ended up walking over them, and on them in some instances. Tessa's wide eyes turned to a glare. 'Those guys are a bunch of bastards!' Tessa growled inside of her mind. They stopped in front of her, though she wasn't too surprised. She was sure that humans weren't that common in a Goron cage.

"You are to come with us." One of the smaller knights ordered. Although he was a smaller knight, he was still considerably larger than Tessa. However, Tessa just kept on glaring, and crossed her arms, while applying her weight to one hip.

"What if I don't want to come?" Tessa asked, quirking an eyebrow, her glare still in place. Suddenly, a sword was at her throat, the tip of it poking just enough to hurt quite a bit, not hard enough to break skin. Tessa's glare dropped to fear, and she almost fell over backwards.

"All right, all right. I'll come with you assholes." Tessa grumbled, and waited for the sword to be removed from her neck. Once it was, she grinned, and suddenly dove between the crowd of Knights, sliding for a bit on the ground before she actually stood up and began to bolt. "Suckers!" Tessa laughed, and headed for the shadowy figure head-on. Although she was pretty sure the figure was an enemy, at least the enemy wasn't wearing armor, although the figure was about ten inches taller than herself. The figure wasn't bulky, however, which increased Tessa's chances by at least a tad.

That's what Tessa thought, anyway. She attempted to just slide past the figure too, and was surprised when something grabbed onto her semi-short hair, and forced her back with a painful, forceful tug. Tessa was thrown to the ground with a yelp, and she laid there in a slight daze for a moment. The moment was long enough for the figure to put a foot on her neck.

"I wouldn't try escaping, if I were you." The figure grinned sadistically.

'Oh…shit…'

Link had soon found out that the pathway was the starting point to a maze that broke out in many directions. Some paths joined other paths, while some lead to dead ends. He had, at first, been trying to do this in full-speed, to try and get to wherever the maze led to quickly, but found out that he would either burn himself if he lost control of his momentum, or he would lose himself. Navi had tried looking at the maze from above, but the wall was just as high as the one that had separated them from Tessa.

"Navi, do you think there is any way of going through this maze in quicker time?" Link asked, him mind racing for ideas. Navi surveyed the passages, and observed them. She looked from the ceiling, to the ground.

"Link…" Navi murmured, her eyes pinpointed on the flames towards the ground. Link looked at her quizzically, waiting for whatever Navi was going to say. "I think I have figured it out." She flew towards the bottoms of the flames, and that was when Link noticed that a very small part of the flames at the bottom, almost completely unnoticeable, were a light shade of purple at one passage, and there was no color towards the bottom at another passage.

"Do you think if we follow the color of the flames, we could find the end?" Link asked. Navi flew up and down.

"I hope so, but it's really our only clue, isn't it?" So, without further ado, the two followed the path of the purple flames.

Tessa glared at her captors back, as she walked side-by-side with a Goron. Both of them were in chains, one went around their necks, like a collar, and another chain around their wrists in front. Their necks had a chain that connected them, so they couldn't get much farther than a few feet away from each other.

"This sucks." Tessa grumbled, glaring at the shadowy figure's back. She knew by now that the figure was female, but she wished she at least knew her captors name. Instead of finding out, she turned to the Goron with a comforting smile. "What's your name, if you don't mind my asking?" The Goron seemed very startle, but regarded her with a very nervous glance.

"I'm Werdon." The Goron murmured. Tessa nodded, to show that she had heard him.

"I'm Tessa, it's nice to meet you. Now tell me, what's happening here?" Tessa semi-whispered. She knew that it didn't really matter if their guards could hear them, and they probably could, but Tessa didn't want to disturb them any more than her life could chance.

"I believe they're going to feed us to Volvogia." Werdon murmured, close to tears.

"Shut up, the both of you!" The figure ordered, and Tessa stuck her tongue out at her. Once they had been walking for about ten more minutes, she stopped, and turned around to face them, before walked up to Tessa, looking down at her with eyes that Tessa was surprised to find out were two colors. One was black, and the other was gray.

"I need to ask you a few questions, about this so-called Hero of Time." The figure said, although it seemed more like a command to Tessa. Tessa just grinned.

"Fat chance, psycho." Tessa then spat in the figure's face, earning hardly a reaction. The figure simply wiped the saliva away, and then suddenly backhanded Tessa across the cheek sending her flying, until the chain connecting her to Werdon snapped taught, the momentum snapping her forward, until the chain dug into her neck. She then brought herself up, and glared. "You still aren't getting anything from me."

The figure then started to laugh. "Don't you have an inflated head, little girl?" She mocked cruelly. Tessa felt her glare deepen and the figure only laughed harder. "The way I see it, you have either two choices. Either surrender what you know about the Hero of Time, or I send you to the dragon."

Link grinned slightly, finally at the end of the maze. He had gone through a door that led him to a spinning, flaming monster. It had attacked him in vain, as Link sliced through the monster, it shrieked and dissolved into a crisp, the monster's ashes laid on the floor.

Now, there was a platform, and Link wondered what it was for. "What are the chances that stepping on it will kill me?" Link asked Navi. She flew over to it, and inspected it for traps.

"Not very much that I can see…try it out." Navi murmured slowly. Link nodded, and stepped onto the platform. Link nodded, and stepped onto it, only to jump back when it moved down under his weight.

"Navi…I think we have found our way to cross the lava…I think…" Link murmured, stepping onto the platform with his full weight. It gave in slightly, but it seemed to have a lot of friction with the wall, keeping it up where it was. "I hope…"

End of Chappie

Well, I got it out a lot faster this time around. XD I really do have no life. Oh well. Oh, aren't I stinker, leaving it on a cliffie? Maybe I won't update it for a while…just to leave you guys hanging…

Then again, I'm going to get shot if I do so, so never mind. Review please! Oh, and Rhea (the shadowy figure) belongs to SouChan. I am simply borrowing her for the use of this fic. She gave me permission!