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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Spirit Temple

Tessa kicked the stair inside of the temple with frustration. She had waited for Link for what seemed like forever, even though it had only been about a day and a half. As always, Sheik had showed up with the warping spell after the two had already traveled the long distance, and said that Link had to go there in his childhood form to retrieve something from somebody. Since she couldn't go back in time, with or without the power of Din inside of her, Tessa had to stay where she was until Link came back.

At first Tessa was able to entertain herself by practicing her abilities awakened by Din's glass thing. As it turned out, she could manipulate heat and fire very well, although a lot of her work was a bit sloppy. It didn't take her long to polish it up, and after a while it just got boring. When was she ever going to use the ability anyway?

Tessa thought back to the time at the Shadow Temple. In order to open the door, Tessa had brought about fire from inside of herself to light up all of the torches, although at the time it seemed convenient that she thought about it at the same time as it happened. It didn't occur to her that it would be more than a coincidence. Also, when she manipulated her arrow to spring fire wasn't a coincidence as well, for she had purposely brought it back.

It made sense that she would be Din's reincarnate after all.

So, Tessa sat there. At first she tried to translate the rest of the book that her and Tom had worked so hard on, but in the end even the letters were completely different from Hylian or English letters. It was rather frustrating. In response to her frustration, Tessa had thrown down the book onto the ground and stomped on it with her boot and growled.

Later, she was able to settle down enough to find a quiet, dark corner to sleep in.

Now, she was up again, but this time she was pacing. Why was it taking Link this long to come back?

Then, he appeared. He seemed a bit worried, but as soon as he saw Tessa's form waiting for him rather impatiently he seemed more relaxed.

"Thank the goddesses, I thought you were dead!" Link gave a sigh of relief, and Tessa raised her eyebrow in confusion, while her lips pursed a bit from being so irritated.

"Why would you think I'm dead?" Tessa asked. "It's not like I've seen monsters or anything, just this one room in the temple. It's quite dull, really."

"Well, when I came here as a child, I met Nabooru." Link stated. "All she did was make me climb into this little hole that only a child could fit through, go through all these rooms to get a pair of silver gauntlets." Link then held out his arms to show Tessa, who just seemed confused. "Afterwards, I was at the front of the temple, but all I saw was Nabooru being sucked into a black and purple portal that these two witches made. I believe they were Koume and Kotake." Link then frowned. "I traveled to the Fortress before I warped here, and asked Korinu and Rhea about those two."

"What did they say?"

"Well, Rhea told me that they were the caretakers of Ganondorf when he was a Gerudo child, so they were basically his mothers. Korinu told me that they had taken over the Spirit Temple as their home, and that they had probably brainwashed her mother." Link then paused. "Korinu was upset, so I promised that I would help her mother. Rhea is taking good care of her."

"What about Shadow?" Tessa asked.

Link's eye twitched. "Oh, he's keeping an eye out for Korinu as well. I don't think he plans on being a true Gerudo, but something tells me he stays for Rhea mostly."

The two began to walk towards the next door of the temple. "What makes you say that?"

"Well…just the way he looks at her when she's not looking. It's not a look that most people would pick up, but since I'm him I notice these things." Link shrugged. "The bastard can do whatever he wants."

Tessa laughed at the comment, and punched Link lightly in the shoulder. "Oh, come on. I'm sure if you actually got the time to know him apart from your fight, he could actually be a somewhat decent, if very quiet, fellow." Tessa then thought out loud. "Well, quiet but sometimes very confrontational I suppose."

"Whatever." Link glowered. Tessa shrugged. Those two probably would never get along, so she didn't dwell on the matter.

The temple also appeared to be empty, but there was still a lot of sand. Light and mirrors were everywhere, and Tessa was getting a bit creeped out, but not enough to go into hyper mode. Either Koume and Kotake were very vain, or knew that some people were insecure in front of a lot of mirrors. Tessa hoped that the mirrors ended soon, no matter what reason.

As it turned out, just about all of the doorways couldn't be revealed by normal strength. The gauntlets were spelled to increase strength to the arms without increasing muscle mass, so Link was able to do all of this and more. At one point Tessa wondered if he could lift her with ease, but shook her head at the idea. That was just a silly thought, and it was not the appropriate time for such thoughts. Although, the vision seemed to be very nice in her mind…

Once or twice they came upon a mummy or two that would come up from the dead. It was very creepy, but they were apparently pretty easy to kill. Link didn't even have to run up to it. Instead, Tessa just made the arrow catch flame and shot it at the mummy, which was immediately engulfed in the flames and dead in seconds.

Tessa now wondered why Link never asked as to her fire ability. Maybe he was trying to figure it out himself. Well, good luck to that.

Then, they came upon this massive room. Tessa whistled at the sheer size of it, and then stared in awe at a giant Gerudo statue in the middle of the room. The statue was made of pure gold, and was sitting in a cross-legged position. It must have taken years to make that thing!

Tessa's jaw dropped when she saw the massive jewel in the center of its forehead.

"Well, the Gerudo never have to worry about going poor…" Tessa gasped. "They always seem to have things that could be used as back-up plans…"

Link nodded.

Then, Tessa looked around. She saw stairs to a platform. "Hey, Link, let's go up there. It seems to give you a better look of the room."

So, within about a minute they were up the stairs, and staring at the statue's awesome figure again.

"Umm…Link…do you notice anything…unusual about the statue?" Tessa asked. Her eyes were fixed on one spot, and Link looked closely at the spot as well.

"It seems hollowed out, and there's a door inside. A massive door…" Link's voice betrayed his confusion.

"Do you think…that's where…"

"Yeah."

So, Tessa and Link looked around. There really wasn't much to get them over there. Tessa looked down.

"I vote for not jumping!" Tessa's voice was a bit high pitched. "I believe our legs will break."

Link looked down. "…No, but you'd be a bit bruised…"

"Oh, so that makes it okay to risk jumping." Tessa's voice was now exasperated. Link shrugged.

"Well, we won't notice it until later, when our adrenaline isn't shot so high that we don't notice such things. Why not?"

"Men." Tessa sighed. Link then backed up and jumped. Tessa screeched and then screeched some more as he caught the ledge with just the tips of his fingers. However it seemed from that he was able to pull himself up. It must have been because of the silver gauntlets.

Tessa couldn't jump as far, so she stubbornly stayed where she was. Link motioned for her to jump, but Tessa shook her head in refusal.

"Come on, I'll catch your arms." Link tried to persuade Tessa to jump.

"No, I'm going to fall." Tessa growled.

"No, I'll catch you."

"No you won't."

"Yes I will."

"Just jump already!" Link growled. Tessa simply tried to look innocent.

"You know, I could just head outside and wait…" Tessa looked out of the corner of her eyes, and smile twitching a bit. Link simply looked horrified.

"Jump, now!" Link ordered. Tessa grumbled, and took a few steps back. Then, with a slight gulp, she ran and jumped. For some reason, she felt for a small bit as if she was floating, but floating very quickly, and then she landed with both feet on the edge of the platform. She looked behind her, gave a little squeak and ran towards the doorway. Link simply looked at her in a stunned manner.

"Tessa…how did you do that?" Link asked. Tessa blinked and looked back across the distance.

"Uhm…doing the long jump in track? I really don't know." Tessa shrugged. Link gave her an eyebrow quirk. "I really don't! I never even really did that good at all…all I could get was about 12 feet and that's not going to win me a competition!"

Link sighed, not entirely sure what she was talking about, and jogged to meet her at the door. Before they pushed it open, a twinkle went through their eyes and a small kiss was exchanged.

Then, they went through the door, not entirely sure what awaited them.

End of Chappie

I'm sorry, I've been trying to write but life's been very dramatic lately. I've found out I'm moving to Parker, Colorado and that I'm going to attend Ponderosa High School, a 5A school where I'm used to a 1A/2A setup…haha. Also, I found out my boyfriend is leaving for the Navy July 18th and that is 15 days after we've been going out for a year…and since I'm a junior now this means my senior year will SUCK. Haha, so if I update slower now I'm sorry…but life really has been tough. That, and prom is THIS SATURDAY!!! I'm going to do the decorations all this week so I'm really lucky I got to write…and umm…yeah. That's about it…