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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Twenty-Six: Ruto

When the blue sparkles and white light cleared, a puddle surrounded them. That's what the lake was, anyway. A puddle. At least, there was no way it could be called a lake.

"So…this is…Lake Hylia…" Tessa murmured, obviously unimpressed.

"It never used to be this shallow…" Link stated. "In any case, I'm going to dive down and see what I can find, you just stay here for a bit…" And so he dove. Navi waved and followed after him. Tessa sat down on the platform.

"I want my iPod…" Tessa sighed, and hugged her knees. Then, suddenly, she was surrounded entirely by black.

'Aw…not this again…'

'Aww…not you again…'

'Din! Be civil!'

'Do you remember what we told you last time?'

'Uh…kinda…no…'

'Idiot girl…'

'DIN!'

'We were talking about the counterparts in your world. Saria and Darunia are found to be sages, however, in order to have the power to seal away Ganondorf, the counterparts need to be found…'

'All of them…'

'A book can be found in your world, that will locate the sages.'

'Once again, times about run out. Try and remember what we've told you, next time.'

'DIN!'

'What?'

'You have to find these counterparts in your own world before the face off!'

'Please, do this!'

'Time to go.'

'We'll talk to you next time…please watch over Link, and find those counterparts…'
Tessa came to and shook her head. "Right…something about counterparts…"

Link chose that moment to pop up from the puddle. "I found the tunnel, but I kind of need to find a way in…come help."

Tessa shrugged, and dove down into the water. Tessa wasn't exactly a fast runner, and she wasn't strong, but she did excel at swimming to a point. That was what swim team did for her in her old home in New York.

She was amazed that she could breathe underwater, thanks to the tunic. It was really odd, for how simple the tunic was. Link led the way down to the entrance of the temple, which had been underneath her the whole time. He showed her the door, and then stayed in a swimming position. Tessa blinked at that, and then remembered what Sheik had told her in the ice cavern.

Tessa murmured the words, which were in a different language than her own, and both her and Link began to sink down to the bottom of the lake, and stood. Tessa blinked, and looked at her feet. "As it turns out, not only can we breathe underwater, we can talk too." Tessa said. Link picked up his foot with a bit of difficulty.

"Is this what Sheik told you?" Link stated. Tessa nodded, and continued to look at the door. It was elegant in design, but more like a gate, because it didn't open with a doorknob. The design pretty much said that the door would just rise up, like a gate. Above the gate protruded a bright blue jewel.

"Uh…what's the purpose of that?" Tessa asked, and pointed to the jewel. Even though it was pretty, it seemed a bit out of place, kind of like it had more a purpose than just show. Link shrugged, and took out his hookshot.

"Well…we could see if shooting it does anything…"

"You'll scratch it! You can't scratch such a pretty shiny jewel!" Tessa protested. Link just raised his eyebrow at the statement, and loosed the hook. It hit the jewel square on. The gate gave a lurch, and was open in no time. Link turned to face Tessa.

"Don't scratch the shiny jewel?"

"Shut up!" Tessa shouted, and undid the iron spell on their shoes, and swam into the entrance of the temple, with Link following close behind.

"I am going to catch hypothermia…" Tessa declared as she climbed up onto the front platform of the Water Temple. "Is this whole stupid temple underwater?"

Link rolled his eyes and Navi simply giggled. "We're above water now, aren't we?" Link asked. Tessa growled at the comment, and Link just shrugged. "Well, this is the water temple, are you really that surprised?"

"Yes." Tessa stated, but Link could tell that she was just being stubborn.

"Oh well. Let's try and figure out where to go." Link sighed. Tessa peeked over the ledge, and the tower that lay in front of them seemed to go down into the water a few stories.

"How about we work from bottom to top?" Tessa suggested, and Link looked down.

"That could work." Link agreed, and dove down for the bottom. Tessa followed after, and activated the iron spell again to help them get down faster. They reached the bottom, to hear something sharp being drawn.

"Eh?" Tessa looked around for the source of the noise, as did Link.

"Over there." Link pointed, and saw that two rolling balls of spiked metal were being drawn. Tessa twitched, and stood behind Link.

"You have fun with them." Tessa smiled sheepishly up at the hero, who rolled his eyes and took out his hook shot. He pinpointed one, and hit it. It retracted its spikes, and the hook shot drew it in. Link slashed it with his sword, and did the same with the other one.

"Now, where to?" Link asked, and looked around. Tessa looked at the tower.

"There." Tessa looked at a door, and walked towards it. Link, who had more muscle, was able to walk faster in the boots than her, and was on the step before she even got there. He opened the door, and pulled her up.

"Are you having trouble?"

"Yes. Just keep going." Tessa snapped, and Link rolled his eyes and continued on the hallway. About two minutes later, he stopped cold, and Tessa followed him to the side. In front of the both of them was a Zora, a female Zora. She was actually pretty, for something that wasn't human.

"Link?" She asked, and walked closer to him. "Is that really you?"

Tessa watched the interaction with interest. She seemed like she had just seemed a ghost, and loved every minute of it.

"Where have you been for the past seven years?"

"Well…" Link shuffled his feet. "I've been…away…" He seemed to be uncomfortable, and uneasy. He even looked a bit guilty.

"What kind of fiancée are you?" The Zora shouted suddenly, and glared into Link's bright blue eyes.

"Uh…Ruto…" Link stammered a bit, and quickly looked over to Tessa, but Tessa didn't notice. Her eyes were wide, and her expression was shocked.

"Uh…did you just say fiancé?" Tessa asked. Ruto looked over to Tessa, as if she hadn't seen the girl there.

"Who are you?" Ruto snapped. Tessa glared.

"I'm Tessa, and I only asked a simple question. Are you his fiancée?" Tessa asked bluntly.

"Of course! He became my fiancé when he agreed to take the Zora's Sapphire! He knew that it was the engagement gift I was supposed to give to my fiancée, and he agreed! I might add he did it without an ounce of protest." Ruto smirked.

"Uh…Ruto…about that…" Link stammered, but both girls glared at him to shut up.

"How is a marriage going to work with you?" Tessa asked, her glare intensified towards Ruto. "I don't see how anybody could stand your attitude!"

"Oh, and you think you're better? You aren't even that pretty!" Ruto sneered. "And from what I can see already, you have an out-of-control temper!"

"Oh, really now?" Tessa raised her eyebrow, and marched closer to Ruto. It really wasn't intimidating, Ruto was pretty tall, and Tessa wasn't, at all. "If you want to see a temper, I'll show you a temper." Tessa's hand clenched into a fist and her eyes seemed to flash.

"Both of you stop being ridiculous!" Navi shouted, and flew into both of their heads to try and make them forget their quarrel. "We can discuss this later, but we need to free the Zora tribe, or have you forgotten."

Ruto looked sad for a moment, and swam up. "I'm going to head towards the evil that is inhabiting this temple. Since both of you aren't able to do that, I'll give you one tip. Use your Ocarina when you see the triforce." And she was up.

Link blinked, and then blinked again. Tessa was still glaring at Ruto's retreating form. Link carefully looked over at Tessa.

"I'm leaving." Tessa stated, and undid the spell on her own boots so that she could swim. "I just remembered something else I could be doing."

"Tessa!" Link protested, and Tessa turned around. She was a few feet away from him, and since she was swimming, she was a few feet above him too.

"What?"

"This thing with Ruto, it's not what you think…"

"Oh, it isn't?" Tessa raised her eyebrow. "Is it what Ruto thinks?"

"No!"

"Oh, just wondering. I'm not mad or anything, I'm happy for you!" Tessa smiled, but the smile sent shivers up Link's spine. "But I really do have something I have to do. Good luck with this temple, I know you can defeat the evil here on your own!" Tessa turned around, but then turned around again. "Oh, the spell for the iron boots…" She told it to him, and then swam off finally.

"Navi…is it me…or is it really cold in here?" Link asked. Navi sighed, and shook her head.

"Maybe you should have explained the entire situation to Tessa…"

"She said she was happy for me…even though it's not what she thinks." Link said.

"…Do you believe her?"

"…Uh…"

"All right, let's get going."

End of Chappie

I really wanted to get this chappie out, because I'll be updating not as often as I thought over this break. You see, I just got the Twilight Princess game (actually, it's my little sister's, but oh well…I play it more than her anyway) and yeah. I'm already AT the water temple in that game. - BRILLIANT game. I can't stop talking about it. It actually gave me an idea for a different plotline for this. Originally, this was going to be a trilogy, but nah…I've decided on something different. Now I need to rework the kinks out of the story again. XD I can't tell you one big change, because it is kind of a spoiler…because I'm going to work out how this will all come together. SO STAY TUNED!

I listened to "Cell Block Tango" during the whole Ruto scene. XD I figured it would help me…XD I'm still listening to it, it's a brilliant song.