A/n: Hey, so sorry it took FOREVER! But my sister fell in the hospital for a month (she's all better now! Yay!) and then we had exams…. EXAMS!!!! And then there was Christmas…. Luckily, us writers were able to collaborate just enough to get this written. We are really sorry it took so long, but more relieved that it got done. This should be amusing, and we hope you know a dramatic change occurring in Link that will not only be explained but also crucial to the plot in two or three chapters from now. (we have this thing laid out, and an ending planned. It gonna be good)
Hope you guys are still reading, and that you didn't give up hope. We are always gonna be here.
-So glad this story isn't getting too stupid or smutty…. Makes me happy….
LALALLA- OK I'm DONE stalling. It's been a long past three months.
During the torment that Naomi and Arian faced within the Great Bay temple, Amy was tormented with the much less grave problem of catching up to Link. The hero had traveled to the entrance of the mountains on his horse, who had returned to the Bay upon Amy playing Epona's song on the piano. Now Amy rode upon her and clumsily reached the blacksmith's house near the base of the path to Snowhead.
Amy looked around, noting the deep snow and realized how cold she was in her threadbare attire. It was a naturally long winter, so the snow was not the result of an evil curse as it had been when Link was last there.
Shivering, Amy dismounted and ran to the little house, seeking warmth. There was no way she was going to make it up the mountain as cold as she was. Amy crossed her arms around her chest as she realized she was in the presence of two strange looking men. One was large and grey looking, covered in wrought iron attire from head to toe. The other was small and shrewd in appearance. After a rather startling, long grunt from the grey man, the latter put on a charming expression upon seeing Amy.
"Ah, a customer. Gaboro, put on some coffee." The man said. Amy arched a brow.
"Umm… actually, I need a coat… and I have to get to Snow…head?" Amy wasn't sure of the name as she was recalling it from their conversation with Link. "Immediately if possible…" She ended in an awkward tone. There was a short silence, as there always was with Amy.
"Uh, well." the short man began. Gaboro grunted again. "You could borrow one of mine or one of Gaboro's… I'm afraid that's all we have." Gaboro grunted for a third time as he pulled out several coats.
Amy was grateful to see the woolen warmth until she noticed the gigantic stature of Gaboro and the tiny stature of the other man. She at first tried on the smaller jacket. It couldn't button around her bust and didn't cover her midriff.
"This will never do…" She sighed and just took the larger one. "Thank you! Uh, is that the way to Snowhead?" She asked, pointing to the well-worn path with the sign outside that said in very small letters 'Snowhead'. The small man nodded.
"Yes, you will find that it is much easier to travel now that the bridges have been put in place. The tourist attraction has also brought us more customers." He said. "Tell everyone where you got your jacket!" Amy smiled and left, and as she turned, she appeared to be nothing more than a walking jacket, the bottom of it trailing on the floor. The door closed on her woolen tail and she had to open the door again in time to hear one last thought from the small man.
"I wonder if we should go into the jacket business…" She grinned in amusement and mounted Epona again. The horse at first didn't recognize her, but when she realized that the new, larger size wasn't accompanied with much more weight, she relaxed.
"On to Snowhead Epona, it looks like this jacket will keep you warm too." Amy said, noting how it draped over the horse's sides. Epona whinnied and began the ascent.
Link reached Snowhead on foot, having dismounted Epona before entering into the Mountain village entrance, remembering how Epona hadn't been able to climb those slopes before. However, as he had been walking, he realized that Epona's now long legs would have easily taken him all the way up to Snowhead.
He shook his head and sighed. Frost came from his mouth with his big breath and Navi shivered and hung close to his head.
"L-L-Link?" Navi shivered. "Did we really have to walk?" Link smirked, he knew the honest answer, but to keep Navi silent he just nodded his head. She flew back and forth with him, trying to remain in the warmth trapped by his blonde hair. Unlike Link, she didn't deal well with cold for long, and it had been a very long hike up there. Not to mention the hike had kept him warm enough.
Finally they reached the entrance into the temple. It was at the top of a large tower of ice that could only be reached by a long ramp that wrapped around the structure several times. Last time Link had been there, large Snowballs had been falling from the top and rolling down, and there had been no railings on the sides as there were now, so Link was relieved at how easy it was while Navi, who had never been there before, complained about the annoying length of the entrance ramp.
Another great difference befell his eyes upon entering the temple. Large glass walls contained the creatures that had once attacked him at his first entrance. They were little white balls of fuzz with bright red eyes. They were annoying little devils, that would certainly drain you of all the energy you had, but now they were a harmless spectacle. Goron inscriptions graced a plaque outside of their cage.
"This will certainly be a lot easier than it was last time." Link said, noting the soft, drumming music the Gorons had set up about the place to create the mood. In the next room there were three doors, one on each wall before him. This time there were plaques above each one, but they were still in the Goron writing.
"Navi, do you know what they mean?" Link asked the fairy, he had been uninterested in the first plaque, for he already had an idea of what it said, but these three signs could help him find the way to the top of the tower, depending on how the Gorons had renovated the place.
Navi hovered about the sign, her light blue color turning a lime green to indicate she was using the part of her brain she now so frequently shut off.
"This one says 'To Stone Pillar and Ice Sculptures'." She said at the door directly in front, she flew to the one on his left. "This says 'To Goron Hall of Fame and Ramps'," she flew to the one on his right, "This one says 'To Lava Pit and Grand Staircase'."
"Grand Staircase sounds promising." Link commented, heading to the door on his right. "I just wonder about the Lava Pit… I should probably change to my fire tunic, just in case." In an instant he had changed from his normal green to a deep red.
"How do you do that so fast?" Navi asked. She had blinked momentarily and had missed him changing. Link shrugged and walked on.
A flash of memory suddenly came back as Link walked into this room. There was a bridge strung across a fiery chasm, a neat sign was hung next to this wooden bridge stating 'caution, bridge may be icy' in multiple languages. It was at this moment that Link fully realized the physical paradox taking place within this temple. Snowhead was a volcano covered with ice inside and out that never seemed to melt despite the high temperatures. In this particular instance, the icy bridge was strung only 200 feet above a hot pit of lava, but the ice was present nevertheless.
Last time, as Link had remembered, there had been a gaping hole in the middle of the bridge. Luckily he had been able to turn into a Goron with a magical mask and was able to do a Goron roll off the slightly inclined end and made it to the other side. Now, however, it was once more a lot easier. There were railings on the sides that Link gripped onto and began walking across. The gaping hole was now also gone, another sign was posted on one of the rock walls beside him, telling of the history of Darmani and of the temple itself, since this was a rather general room. Link stopped to read it, to see if there was anything written about him. Navi set to work translating the Goron dialect.
The sign read as follows: "The great hero, Darmani overcame death and other perils to save our great and beautiful temple of Snowhead and also our homeland in the great, big mountains. He destroyed the great monster that had once lived in this great temple, which had set a great, great winter upon our great city—" Navi paused to comment.
"Why do they keep using 'great' so much? You know… it'd be GREAT if they could find some other adjectives!" Link shook his head with an incredulous expression on his face.
"Well, I guess it's just a bad translation…" He was cut off by somebody yelling his name.
Link turned to where he thought he heard the voice to see, much to his surprise, Amy running at him in an oversized coat, flailing at her sides.
"Link, I have your… your thing!" She waved the ocarina amid her run. Link, getting over the initial shock, realized that Amy was too consumed with the moment to read the sign about the ice on the bridge.
"Amy, wait!" Link yelled. "The bridge is—". Amy's surprised scream cut him off. She had indeed slipped and while flailing her arms she threw the ocarina. Link dove to catch it, and while he was on the ground he failed to notice that Amy had flipped over the railing and was now falling down into the lava pit.
He stood up to check for damages on the ocarina, when he noticed Amy was no longer running towards him. His eyes widened in terror and he ran over to the railing. All he could see at the bottom of the pit were the flames consuming the humongous jacket that Amy had been wearing. Link stared for a moment, feeling the adrenaline pumping through him start to wear off.
"Link! What happened? Is she okay?" Navi cried out. Link stood for a moment, not saying anything.
"I don't know." He said quietly, still in shock.
"OWW! DANGIT!" Something pushed the remains of the jacket away. Link jumped in surprise, his jaw hanging open.
Amy stood in the waist-deep lava pit, trying to pull the quickly hardening lava out of her hair. She look untouched by the flames, and her clothes were perfectly intact, unlike the coat that had burned so easily. Link's mouth remained agape for the duration of the time it took her to climb the obscenely long ladder that brought her back up to the bridge. He was still stunned when he saw her next to him, where he could see that her metal buckles were still glowing a bright red from the heat, but the glow was already waning as they cooled in the strangely cold air that blew across the bridge.
"Well that was… rousing." Amy said for lack of a better word or conversation starter. Link remained silent for a moment longer, once more bringing the awkward feeling that Amy was becoming accustomed to.
"You-you're not hurt?" He asked in a way that both made an obvious statement while inferring his true question, 'how?'. Amy caught the inference after a moment of staring at him.
"Oh, yeah…" She started, as usual. "Lava just doesn't hurt me… and my people make clothes that are impervious to lava." Amy shrugged while Link shook his head with a strange mixture of amazement and extreme annoyance.
"So lava doesn't hurt you?" He asked with a strangled voice. Amy shook her head.
"It only stings a little." She shrugged again. His face soon contorted into a strange sort of angry expression.
"You… I was so!… I…" Link uttered before he started growling.
"Link?" Amy asked worriedly as she noticed his face was now flushed. "Are you o--" Before Amy could finish her sentence, Link's gloved hand had shoved her back over the side, and she once more went plummeting into the pool.
"CURSE YOU LINK!!!" She screamed as she descended.
"What was that all about?" Navi asked, noting the strange scene. Link said nothing and they once more waited for the now angry Amy to return to them. Link gave her a goofy smile before turning to continue on his way. Amy was fuming, literally from the lava, and her expression showed her deep frustration with his last act, but he gave her no time to say anything. They both remained in an estranged silence as they started to ascend the Grand Staircase.
The Gorons had really altered the interior of the temple. Link remembered that there had been a very tall circular room that had become quite a pain the last time he had been there, for he had to continue to return to that room, and as a Goron, ramp across various gaps to other doors making a complicated trip to try to reach the top. Now, however, the Gorons had made a grand staircase of ice that spiraled around the outer wall, going all the way to the top.
Amy's ankle was hurting, for she had sprained it in the last fall. She limped rigidly and coldly passed Link, doing all she could to ignore the pain and ignore him. She started to pretend that it was just her and Navi there, getting the root for Naomi. That was the only thought that could calm her down at that moment. Her plan was working out great, and she had almost forgotten Link was even there until he made his presence known with an awkward gesture of kindness.
"Your hair." Link sighed as it had been something that had been bothering him since she limped ahead of him, but he had also tried to ignore it. However, his considerate nature had gotten the best of him. Now Amy turned with an icy look on her face upon hearing his comment, so Link continued, "It has rock in it."
"What?!" Amy's icy expression became that of shock as she began feeling her straight locks, back to the ponytail and down to the tips. Her hands finally brushed what he had been talking about. It was a chunk of now solid rock that had attached itself to several hairs near her scalp, above the ribbon that held her hair back.
She groaned and growled while her nails vainly dug into the hard rock. Link put out his rough hand and tried to pull on it as she pulled her hair free from the ribbon.
"Ow!" She pushed him away. "You are not pulling out another chunk of my hair." Link stared at her awkwardly while she let her other hairs fall away from the trapped ones. The encrusted hair swung to her right side in gawky fashion.
"Another chunk?" He asked. "I don't recall the first chunk."
"When we met." Amy sighed. She tried another approach at ridding herself of the solid lava, but it came to no avail and she went on with her story after another irked moan. "My hair got caught in your sword thing, and when you pulled it out, you also pulled out some of my hair." Her tone was not angry with Link, but frustrated with that stubborn obstruction in her hair. She started banging the piece of rock against the wall and ended up crushing one of her fingers. A shriek of pain followed by her sucking on her sore finger brought sympathy and amusement to Link.
"Here." He said and held out his hand as if he were about to do something, but he stopped, his eye's asking for permission. Amy was confused, but nodded her head and then turned it to expose the rock-encrusted side. Link rested his hand around the chunk, the red jewel of his gauntlet sparkled like the ice on the stairwell. He squeezed, and after a crunch, Amy could see small dusty fragments fall to her side. Link released her hair and allowed her to brush out the remains.
"Thank-you…" Amy uttered without a smile. Her eyes darted from him back to the staircase.
"You're welcome." Link tried to smile warmly. Navi got close to his ear.
"compliment her Link…" She whispered in a voice that was quieter than she had ever been. Link laughed at Navi's random notion, but humored her and took the advice.
"You look good with your hair down…" He said quickly and then started walking again, he didn't want to see her reaction. Amy was shocked, but thought it proper to repay the unexpected compliment.
"And you…um…" She started. "You look good in red." Link didn't look back. Amy continued to follow him as he responded to her compliment.
"Thanks… it keeps me from getting burned." It was all the response he could think; to explain the function of his tunic, but Amy took it in a different light.
"Naw, I'm still going to bitterly insult you…" She replied with a wry grin. Link's eyebrows wrinkled his forehead.
"No, I mean--" He looked back to see Amy's dumb smile. He laughed and started another thought. "Oh… you were kidding. Sometimes I forget that you have a sense of humor." Amy laughed in response.
"Yeah, and sometimes I forget that… that you… uh…" Amy paused for a moment. "Okay, that died." Link nodded in agreement. He grinned and shook his head. Surprisingly, this moment between them was not awkward, but accepting and the two came to a silent understanding.
The rest of the trip up the long steps was quite comfortable, though silent save for a comment or two from Navi.
"What is it with the Gorons and incessantly long pathways that circle around a tall freaking mountain?"
"They like their exercise…" Amy replied sarcastically. Navi bought it.
"Oh, well I was wondering when those round little buggers would go on a diet or something." She squeaked. Link and Amy exchanged a roguish grin as they reached the last of the steps. Despite the extreme cold, the two were sweating from the hike. Amy sat abruptly on the final step, making Link stop as well.
"Let's just rest a second." She said, to urge Link to take a break, but he was unused to stopping for anything. "Where are we going anyway? Do you know what room that is?"
"That was the boss' room. I'm sure there are probably windows in it now, I saw them from outside. So we can climb out one of those to the top of the temple and get that stupid plant." Link said as he sat next to her. Relief and soreness flooded his tired feet, he never realized how hard he had worked them until he finally let them rest, which is probably why he rarely rested them.
"So, you come here often?" Amy asked in a semi-serious manner. Link laughed.
"No, only once, about seven years ago, as I'm sure you've heard."
"You went to all these places then? What were you doing?"
"That's a long story, but the gist of it is that this mangy little skull kid stole a cursed mask, and I had to call the giant's spirits to stop him… there were a lot of stupid masks I had to collect too."
"Masks? I can't see you wearing a mask."
Link scratched his head, the amused smile still lit his face.
"Yeah, I was a kid then, but the masks of course had a use… I wasn't going to wear a mask unless I had a good reason."
"Suure…" Amy rolled her eyes. Link sent her a glaring smile.
"They were good reasons. There were three masks I had that could turn me into another race. One made me Zora, one made me a Goron, and one made me a Deku."
"You made that up." Amy retorted. Her nose wrinkled as she playfully kicked his foot. Link kicked her back.
"Why would I make something like that up? Have you ever known me for my creativity?" He replied. Navi nodded.
"He's right…" She agreed. "Link never has been the most creative person, and he's a really bad liar." Amy spent a moment, scrutinizing his character.
"Yeah, I guess he could be telling the truth." She finally said with squinted eyes. Link narrowed his eyes and patronized her stare.
"Are you rested yet?" He asked. "This talking is making me tired." Amy grinned and nodded her head.
"I should try talking you to sleep some time."
"You already have…" He joked while getting up, heading towards the door before Amy could retort. She came up behind him just as he creaked open the grand, steel doors.
Sunlight hit them as they found themselves looking out of very large, grand windows. A balcony stood just outside, encircling the temple, and several doors were set into the stone walls, allowing one to reach it in various places.
"See," Link started. "I told you this was going to be a lot easier…" His words fell on deaf ears. Amy felt something suspicious in the air, and remained focused on the mysterious surroundings rather than her companion. However, her attention was brought back to him as she noticed Link was now balanced on the balcony's edge, getting ready to jump.
"Wait!" Amy exclaimed, running to his side. "Don't you need a safety or something? To save you if you fall?" Link stared at her curiously.
"A what?"
"A safety…" Amy replied hesitantly. She then commenced in rummaging through the bag at her side, pulling out a rope. "You know, just in case it's slippery up there; there isn't lava at the bottom of this pit." She said, attempting a joke. Link laughed lightly and took the rope.
"Okay, are you going to hold the other end or something?" He asked, tying his end to his belt. Amy shook her head and tied the other end to the remaining rock between the carved out window and doorway.
"This ought to hold you… I might be tempted to drop you on purpose." Amy smirked.
"Then I guess it's good that I'm probably not going to fall. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." Link replied to her snide humor and jumped just high enough to grip onto the edge of the stone roof that overhung the balcony. Amy watched as he disappeared out of her sight, the rope following him up.
She stepped back, the nervous feeling crept back upon her and she worriedly scrutinized her surroundings. The sunlight began to dampen, the sky appeared grey before her, and now the temple's inner rooms became black as night.
"Link!" Amy called, a knot had formed in her stomach. "It's getting dark, have you found it yet?"
"What? What are you talking about?" She heard him call back. "I'll be down when I get it, it's just hard to see it."
Navi burst out after he finished.
"Link! Here it is!" She squeaked joyfully. Amy sighed with relief, but she couldn't help but feel nervous as the area around her got darker still. The sound of Link's voice was her only comfort.
"I have to dig it up, it shouldn't take much longer." He called down, completely oblivious to Amy's paranoia occurring below him, but her fear was not falsely derived, for Fear was present, having waited patiently for them.
It was now black as night through Amy's eyes, she could see nothing, but she knew that there was someone, or something out there. She drew her sword and held it before her, though she knew not what her enemy was.
Meanwhile, Link finished unburying the root. The white thistle leaves gave an awkward touch to the purple radish base. Link laughed and put it in one of his packs while he quite contently stood back up. He became aware of the danger below as Amy let out a scream. He stiffened and called her name, walking back to the edge of the roof only to be jerked by the rope strung around his belt. A wicked laughter filled the air while he slid through the snow and off the rocky roof.
He gripped the edge of the balcony just as Amy let out another scream. Now he knew something was wrong. Link used his safety rope to hoist him back onto the balcony landing, Navi lit the darkness that had settled there.
"Amy, Where are you?" Link called out. She didn't answer, but a small bit of the darkness subsided within the boss' room. Link's eyes met those of Sakon, the smiling thief, but now he was not smiling, and Link could tell that he was certainly not Sakon.
"It's you…" Link said automatically, the shock of seeing this character there fell upon him. "Sakon?" He asked, knowing that it wouldn't be. There was no way that such a thief could have made it all the way up there, or that Sakon would even want to go to Snowhead.
The thief didn't answer. Their conversation was interrupted by another outburst by Amy.
"Link! I'm over here!" She called from the darkness. Link momentarily looked away from This new Sakon, which was just enough time for him to disappear back into the shadows.
"Navi, find Amy!" Link ordered the fairy as he drew the Black Sword. The dark, shining blade reacted to the artificial night. The shadows crept away from it when he held it before him, as if it obeyed his very whim. Link quickly caught on to this new ability, lashing out at the night to watch the darkness fade away. The laughter resumed as Link saw a shadow dart out of the lighted pathway made by the sword.
"Skull kid…" Link said curiously. Now he knew what was going on, for he remembered seeing skull kid with the general back at Clock Tower, and Sakon had been present in the cave with the evil beings. He understood that the presence of these two had everything to do with this dark power the old man had spoken of.
"Amy, It's Sakon and Skull Kid!" Link called out a warning. "I think they were sent by the Dark Power." He hoped that his calls would bring the attacker's attention away from Amy.
"You think correctly, for the most part…" Came a dark and sinister voice from behind him, his plan was working. Link abruptly turned to face the form of Sakon. He pulled up his sword and shield in defense only to be hit by the skull kid in a sneak attack. Link fell forward, at Fear's feet, hearing his dark voice above him.
"I'll take care of the girl, you manage with him." He ordered the skull kid. Link quickly pulled himself from the ground, reaching for Fear's feet but the beast quickly disappeared into the darkness and Link felt himself being pulled back by the skull kid. Link twisted, slinging the blade towards his attacker in an irritated gesture. The skull kid quickly blocked with a laugh. The clanging of his hard arms and Link's sword echoed throughout the stone hall along with the skull kid's laughter.
Navi had found Amy. She had curled up in a corner, shaking with fear of the unseen attacker, but she greatly welcomed the familiar light.
"Navi." She sighed, "I lost my sword… I don't know what happened, Sakon just knocked me to the side and I dropped it."
"Well hurry, we have to find it." Navi squeaked. "Come on!"
Amy nodded in agreement and stood to her feet. Shaking off the dreadful feeling that Fear had provoked, she and Navi began their search for her sword.
"Hey, over here!" Navi called out, her light shining over the blade. Another item reacted to the light, sparking a shimmering red in Navi's radiance. Amy's breath fell short, it couldn't be…
"The stone!" Amy called out. She reached out into the darkness, gripping at it, however, something else caught her hand as well. Dark red eyes began to glow in the darkness. Fear crouched before her. He had expected her to lose her wits when she caught sight of the stone, but he had not anticipated his effect to wear on her within Navi's presence.
Amy, though temporarily taken aback, wielded her sword with her free hand, thrashing at him as Navi revealed him entirely with her fairy light. Fear pulled back into the safety of his darkness while Amy placed her island's stone in her side bag. She held her sword in the guard position, but that would not stop the beast. He forced her against the stone wall in one vicious attack from the side. Neither Navi nor Amy were fast enough to spot him before this attack and Amy once more dropped her sword. Link and the skull kid could still be heard fighting in the distance while Amy could barely get out a sound as Fear pressed his borrowed limbs against her neck.
"You are a failure to your people, and to your friends." Fear hissed, pulling out her most dreaded thoughts. Amy struggled against his grip. Her nostrils flared as anger rushed through her; he irritated her with his antics.
"It is no use trying any more, you will only fail again." A tear streamed down her face, but she refused to give in to his poison. Her hands gripped his, as she pressed her fingernails into his flesh she let an anger boil through her, burning through her veins. It was a feeling unlike anything she had ever felt, and as she felt her breath failing, it grew.
Fear recoiled, a burning sensation had clouded him, but Amy held onto the hands of Sakon. The beast tried to retreat, but Amy held him tight, allowing the power inside her to grow and follow its own accord. It swelled within her, an ancient feeling that had always been present but was just now free from any restraint.
The darkness all retreated as Fear shrank, feeling his borrowed form failing. The form of Sakon was now on his knees, and Link could now clearly see them. With the cloud covering gone, the skull kid and Link had stopped their struggle to see the extraordinary sight.
Amy placed her hands upon the face of Sakon, Fear could be seen trying to escape from the burning form, but a white fiery light had formed around the beast. Amy's eyes shown bright, a flame had ignited within her as her power grew around her.
The beast, Fear, let out a deafening shriek just before the white fire sent him into oblivion. Skull kid, rattling from a fearful shiver, stepped back, quickly escaping before Link or Amy could notice him, but neither would take any more notice to the wretched child anyway. Link's eye's were glued to Amy and Sakon, or what was left of him. The man, still kneeling before the now dimming radiance of Amy, fell to the ground, smoke rose from his remaining being.
Amy became herself again, the emotion had left her and now she stood before the body of the former thief. She stepped back, fearful of what had just happened. Navi quickly returned to Link while he came forward, inspecting the scene with mouth agape and heart racing. Amy was also breathing heavily. She was light headed from both the strange power that had sparked within her and the event that had just occurred.
Link ran to Sakon's side, he had witnessed the demise of many powerful beings, but none of Sakon's confused, but rather harmless breed.
"He's still alive." Link said, relaxing momentarily. The wretched thief was still breathing with a sort of gasp or wheeze. His squinted eyes stared up at Link and Amy, they could both see that he was just a pitiful man now.
Sakon tensed in Link's arms. His eyes closed tight and then opened full vigor and black fire poured forth from his facial features. Link stepped back away from him, dropping the quickly incinerating body to the ground. Once he was gone, he could only see Amy in the corner, a hint of anger still in her eyes, but from what he did not know.
A blue light appeared behind them, and a familiar voice kept them from speaking with each other to soothe the moment, for this moment was not meant to be soothed.
"Well, well, what brings you to the mountains?" The old man asked. He hunched on his cane in front of the portal. Link cringed, and stood up rigidly.
"We were helping Anju, but we were attacked." He suddenly remembered the skull kid and briefly looked around, but he figured he would be no where in sight.
The old man smiled warmly.
"I thought that was an old friend of yours." He laughed lightly, making both Amy and Link shudder, they didn't feel like laughter at a time like this. The old man quickly took a more serious tone.
"Do you know why Fear, the beast from your cave, had to remain in Sakon's body?"
Amy was the only one to shake her head, Link was barely listening.
"It is because Fear was unable to maintain a form outside of the caves where he was locked away, so, much like a parasite, he chose some unsuspecting victim to leech the life from. Oftentimes, we are just in the wrong place at the wrong time." He glanced at Amy, attempting to comfort her. She bowed her head. "And sometimes we're there, because we have done the wrong thing." She glanced up. "All in all, we deserve the fate we get in this world, whether it seems just or not for the time being."
Link had been somewhere else, his mind and heart in a race. He quickly looked back to the old man.
"What brings you here?" He asked irritably. The old man was silent, but not at all surprised. His expression went from the comforting smile he had given Amy to a stern and dignified visage.
"I wanted an exhilarating hike." His left eyebrow arched upon the last syllable, keeping a completely straight face through the whole statement. Link nodded stoically as Amy cracked a hesitant smile.
"Well, come now." The old man said, looking to the warp portal. "Time's a wasting, you had best go help poor Kafei." He stepped into the blue light. Link was surprised by his statement but followed him into the portal, staring at him curiously. Amy also followed and the three were able to leave the temple in a blue light; one with a lighter heart than the other, and the old man.
A/n: Please R&R, and tell us you're still with us… We feel so bad about leaving you guys hangin, it really means a lot that you all read it. THANK YOU!!!!