A/N: Gah, I know, I know. It's been waaaaay to long. I'll make this good though I promise. Please review and forgive any spelling and/or grammar mistakes. Wow, chapter 17 already, fun fun.

Disclaimer: … I don't own anything, Nintendo does. Blah, blah, blah.

Chapter 17: Light, Forest and Fire

Pushing open the heavy door, Link and Kaian observed their surroundings. The room they entered was empty excluding the large black and gold chest at the end of the room. The walls, ceiling and floor white and the light source illuminating the room was unknown. As they walked deeper into the silent room, Link noticed that the floor was now covered in tile and not solid like the floor by the doorway. He grabbed hold of Kaian's hand. "Stay close." He warned. Kaian only nodded; relieved that she now had support as she walked her wobbly steps. As they reached the chest they realized that it was locked. "Damn." Link cursed under his breath. "Any ideas?"

Kaian knelt down in front of the chest. She traced her fingers over the detailed carvings. By where the lock hung, a carving stood out among the rest. "Hey Link, does this mean anything to you?" She pointed to the carved symbol larger then the rest.

Link leaned down and glanced over her shoulder. "It's the symbol of light. How could I have missed that?" He shook his head slightly disappointed in himself.

"Light? Does that mean if I do this…" Kaian placed her hand over the lock and focused her energy in the palm of her hand. The light bead glowed fiercely as a golden light bathed her body. Sure enough, soft click was heard from beneath her hand. She removed her hand from the lock and slowly opened the chest. Reaching in, she pulled out a golden key. The key was slightly larger then a normal sized key and was embedded in diamonds. "Easy enough." She stood up and placed the key in a lower pocket of her jeans. "Lets get out of here."

Nodding in agreement, Link once again grabbed hold of her hand. "We have to be careful though." As they walked, the ground beneath them started to shake violently.

"What the hell?!" Kaian cried as she tried to keep her footing. Link, seeing no other choice pushed her towards the door. "Link!"

The tiles became transparent and formed a diamond shaped prison around his body. The prison hung in mid air in stillness. He banged on the invisible walls yelling loudly but his voice was muffled. He looked at Kaian helplessly as he felt his feet become wet. Looking down he noticed the prison filling with cold, clear, water. Drawing his sword, Link began striking hard at the invisible walls, but not even a scratch appeared on its surface. Cursing, he looked down again, the water level now sat at his waist. A wave of panic spread over his body as he fell back against the walls and closed his eye in an attempt to think of another opinion, he however had no luck.

Kaian looked around nervously biting her lower lip. She glanced up and her heart dropped. The water was rising quicker then before and it appeared the Link had given up on his situation. Sighing to herself she looked down at her hands. "If…Its the only way." Walking towards the edge she held out her arms and let the light beads power consume her body once. The word "Teleport" uttered from her lips as her body materialized and drifted past the walls that held Link captive. Her molecules forming her body once more, she opened her eyes only to see bright blue eyes looking back at her. Wrapping her arms around Link's neck gently and wrapping her legs around his waist she notice that neither of them could breathe, as the water was now eye level. Seeing that there was no time to waste, she tightened her grip on his body as again, light shrouded her body. "Escape!" She yelled under water as both of they molecules separated leaving the prison and reformed on the solid ground by the door. Kaian collapsed on the floor breathing heavily. A crack was heard above as Link grabbed hold of her, the prison shattered under the pressure of the water.

"Kai? Are you alright?"

Kaian looked up her gray eyes meeting with his blue ones. "I'm ok, are you ok? After all you are the who nearly drowned."

Link chuckled lightly kissing her gently, then releasing her from his hold. "Thank you."

Kaian looked down blushing slightly before standing to her feet. She looked towards the left seeing an ebony coloured door with a sliver doorknob. "That…wasn't there before." She carefully walked towards it, and grabbed the doorknob giving it a twist to the right. It opened slowly giving an eerie cracking sound. "Come Link, lets go."

He walked to her side and shook his head. "You certainly are a glutton for punishment." He remarked walking through the door.

"Hey! I am not!" She growled walking in. The room they entered replicated that of the Sacred Meadow. "Wait…I remember this place."

Link nodded seeing no sign of the black and gold chest that held the key. "Yes, this is the Sacred Meadow… Well the duplicate of it. Lets-" He stopped as he saw three small brushes pop out of the ground and run towards Kaian.

"Song lady! Song lady!" They laughed in unison. "Play us a song!"

Kaian laughed as she crouched down. "First, can you guys tell me if there is a large treasure chest around here?"

The baby deku scrubs looked at each and giggled. "Nope, nope nothing like that." The left one answered.

"But we have a prize if you play a good song." The right one challenged, jumping up and down.

Kaian blinked and looked towards Link, who in return shrugged. "Well, alright." She grabbed the flute from her sheath and placed the cold metal to her lips. Knowing that they probably didn't want to hear the same song, she played her Mother's lullaby, remembering it from when she read the stone in the dark forest. The baby deku scrubs seemed to dance around her as the music filled the room, bouncing off the walls. Kaian's eyes started tearing up as she played. Closing her eyes, she concentrated on holding back the feelings of regret and sorrow, wanting desperately the end song. Finally playing the last note, she lowered the instrument and placed it back into her sheath. Blinking her eyes rapidly she glanced at Link who was sitting against a tree, his head to knees. She looked back to the baby deku scrubs. "Well?"

The middle one sniffed. "Go-Good song!" It wailed mimicking the voice of a crying child. "Give her the prize! Give her the prize!"

Both the left and the right deku scrubs glided up to her and dropped the golden key embedded with emerald. "We lied, there was a treasure and since it was there, all open and stuff, we figured it was our job to take and keep it. But since you played prettily you can have it now."

Kaian bent down and picked up the key and smiled. "Aw, thank you, you guys."

The middle one winked. "We have to go, our parents don't know we're here so keep it hush-hush."

"You bet." Kaian laughed placing the key into her pocket with the other one.

"Bye song lady!" The three jumped back into greenery, disappearing and blending in with everything else.

Kaian walked towards Link's sitting form, putting her crimson hair into a low ponytail. "Linky-boy lets go." She touched his shoulder lightly and nodded to the new door that appeared.

Link got to his feet and nodded. "Alright." He stretched, and fixed his hat. "They were the ones that gave you the forest bead right?" He asked pulling open the door.

"Yeah, they're so cute."

"Heh. Troublemakers though."

They entered the next room, and wave a cold air hitting them. Shivering the surveyed the room. It was completely covered in ice. The walls glistened and sparkled, giant icicles hung from the ceiling dangerously and the floor, other then the platform they were standing on was ice. In the middle of the floor, at the very bottom laid the black and gold chest.

"I found it." Kaian stated in a monotone voice pointing towards the ground.

Link thought for a moment. "If you were to melt the ice I could swim down there and get the key."

"That won't work, it looks locked meaning I have to open it." She sighed and looked towards the ceiling and eyed the large pointed icicles. "Watch my back." Stepping onto the floor, she slid towards the middle and placed her hands on the floor. Taking a deep breath, her body glowed red and the black streak in her hair, and the fire bead around her neck began to glow. "Flare!" Fire crawled across the floor melting the layer of ice. Falling immediately in, she quickly got over the cold water shock and began her decent towards the bottom.

Link watched the icicles carefully as cracks appeared cross the top. Taking out his bow, he nocked the arrow and aimed directly in front of him, flames engulfing the arrow. As the first icicle fell, he released the arrow hitting the icicle directly, melting it just before it hit the surface. He quickly readied another one and released it into the next falling one, and so on. Glancing into the water, he noticed Kaian almost there. "Hurry up…" He muttered melting yet another icicle. His Hylian ears then picked up a crackling noise. He looked towards the edge, seeing the ice starting to reform. "Hurry Kai."

Kaian finally reached the bottom and grabbed hold of the chest. She placed her hand against the lock and focused her water beads power, nothing happened. She looked at it confused. 'This is a water room…why wouldn't it…' The thought finally dawned on her. 'Fire!' She placed her hand against the lock once again and focused the fire bead's energy. The lock on the chest softly clicked against her hand as she pried open the lid and grabbed the key. She placed her feet against the ground and push up giving herself a boost of speed. She looked towards the surface feeling her need the breathe become stronger. She swam faster finally noticing the ice reform. 'Damn.' She mentally cursed, clutching the key in her hand. She stopped herself near the surface her head dropping slightly, as she noticed the surface completely covered. Kaian placed the key in her mouth and banged against the ice hard noticing Link doing the same action with a lit arrow, icicles crashing around him. The gray-eyed girl started to panic her air depleting fast, her nails clawed helpless against the ice.

Link stood up and gathered his magic energy, knowing Kaian wouldn't last much longer. A heat bubble formed around him as he casted Din's flame. A hole appeared in the ice above Kaian. He reached in and grabbed her tightly around the arm and yanked her out. She fell onto him and shivered violently, clinging to his body for warmth. Link cradled her to his body, picked her up and walked back to the platform, where the black door stood next to a new bronze one. He held her closely, and removed the key from her blue lips. "Kai?"

Kaian let out a shaky breath as she nuzzled closer to him. "I-I'm okay. Ju-just a li-little co-cold."

Link smiled, and rubbed her arms gently. "That was a close one huh?" He laughed slightly and leaned against the bronze door, not aware that it was slightly open. He fell through and landed hard on the ground on the other side, Kaian landing on top of him.

"Th-this is the room we st-started in."

Link looked around and noticed she was right. It was the bronze coloured, majestic-like room they fought with Sheik in. "I think we should rest here for awhile or at least until you get your strength back."

Kaian nodded not letting go of him. "I'm sorry."

Link kissed the top of her head. "Don't worry about it, just rest." No sooner then he spoke his words, Kaian drifted into unwanted sleep.

"I hate the place!" Mara yelled as she stomped on the head of a Stalfo. Zelda, who was slightly behind her looked at her wide-eyed, unsure about the blonde. Mara removed the hair from her eyes and continued walking down the endless corridor. "Just how long is this place?"

"I'm not sure Miss Mara. But I'm confident we're almost there." Zelda replied, hold her sword at her side.

Mara sighed. "I just hope Link and Kaian are alright."

"I'm sure they are."

The girls continued they're walk along the winding corridor unsure of where it would end, or where it led to. They saw no other option, and so they both pushed the feeling of fear aside knowing they couldn't turn back even if they wanted too. Both girls came to a sudden stop as a group and Lizafos blocked their way.

"Are you ready Princess?" Mara asked raising her sword.

"I have no choice." Zelda replied, following Mara's example.

Mara smirked. "Then lets do this." They both charged head-on into the group of Lizafos.

A/n: Yes I'm done! –dances- I hope you enjoyed, and I'll try not to take like…a year to update. I really hope you review, I love feed back .

Until next chappy

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Kitty