Sorry for the long delay on this chapter. This year was my first year of college, so I was trying to get on my feet. Summer just started, so I figured I would put up another chapter.

I'm not going to go into details about Maple and Link solving the temple mystery. I really don't feel like going into gruesome details, so their trip through will most likely be short.

It was strange, how I had so much power, yet was unable to do anything. Midna knew everything, and she would easily tell Link who, and what, I was. But I knew she wouldn't. I didn't have anything she needed right then. There was no doubt in my mind that she would use the knowledge against me someday.

"What's wrong?" Link asked when I continued to say nothing to him nor Midna.

"I just wasn't expecting...that."

"Neither was I," Link said after a few moments of silence. "I hadn't expected any of this to happen."

I nodded as I took one glance at Midna and walked passed the two of them. I heard an odd whooshing sound as Midna disappeared once again into Link's shadow without saying what she had come out to say. Clearly, she was just as surprised as I was, even though she knew she had things to use against me.

Link hadn't expected Maple to see Midna. As much as he knew, she could only be seen by himself...apparently he had been wrong.

Link watched for a few moments as Maple walked away from them, following the monkey they had saved up some stairs that led to the top of a strange island in the middle of the room. She was amazingly beautiful; he couldn't even describe her beauty. She had porcelain-white skin, midnight black hair, and eyes that were two different colors. One was a sky blue, the other a dark chocolate brown. She had a heart-shaped face that was absolutely blemish-less. Her eyes were a perfect almond-shape as well.

Her body was another story altogether. She was slender, but obviously muscular. Her dress was tight waist up, and he could clearly see all of her well-developed muscles in her upper-body. She had a perfect hourglass body.

Link blinked when Maple stopped walking and looked over her shoulder at him. "Are you coming?" Link had to clear his throat to even be able to nod. She then smiled and threw her hair over her other shoulder so she could see him easier. "Then get up here."

Link and Maple spent the next four hours wandering around the temple, all the while freeing trapped monkeys and gathering loot. Link was extremely excited when he managed to put the leader of the monkeys in its place, getting a boomerang that housed the fairy of winds as a reward. Whenever he threw it, a whirlwind would follow underneath it.

It was absolutely amazing what magic could do. Link had never before used it, so seeing and using it for the first time was amazing.

What was even more amazing was how talented Maple was when it came to magic. She kept Link in tip-top shape by easily and quickly healing all of his wounds. She could also use some powerful black magic as well, as Link discovered when she ran out of arrows for her bow. She started making monsters drop left and right, all without doing more than lifting a finger.

It actually scared him slightly. He began to wonder exactly where she had learned all that she knew when it came to magic. She had had some serious training, and he couldn't help but wonder where exactly she came from to learn all she knew. What was even weirder, was the fact that she almost always seemed to know where to go. Whenever Link would think that he had come to a dead-end, she would point him in the right direction, as though she knew where to go and was merely testing his wisdom.

Maple cleared her throat next to him, pulling him from his thoughts. Link jumped and turned to her. She merely smiled at him. "Are you okay? Is the gap too big for you?"

Link turned at looked at the fifty-foot gap ahead of them. The gap wasn't what scared him; it was the impossible line of hanging monkeys dangling from a branch above the gap. It was a chain of the monkeys they had saved throughout the temple, all of them holding the feet of the monkey below them so that they dangled like a rope in front of them. They were swinging back and forth, the bottom-most monkey holding out its arms to catch the first to jump.

"Would you like to go first?" Maple asked, pulling Link from his thoughts once again. Link couldn't help but laugh. Even he didn't have the courage to willingly jump into the arms of that monkey so they could swing him across the gap.

"Not really, but I'd rather go first, just in case I need to catch you." Maple smiled as she held out her arm in front of her, clearly telling him to go.

Link took a deep breath as he stepped forward, so that his feet were at the edge of the wooden walkway they were standing on. Link, despite what his insides were telling him, looked down into the black abyss below them.

He gulped.

"The monkey won't drop you," Maple said from just behind him. "I won't let you fall either. I can do much more than kill monsters, you know."

Link laughed. "Then why don't you just..."help" me across this gap. I'd rather you than the monkey..."

Link jumped when he felt Maple's breath across his ear. "It doesn't work like that."

Link hesitated as he watched the chain of monkeys slowly swing. Back and forth, back and forth. All he had to do was jump at the right time, and they would swing him across and throw him when they swung to the other side.

He wasn't ready for this.

Link took a deep breath when the monkeys slowly started swinging toward him. He crouched so that his hand touched the floor. Just as the monkeys reached where he was crouching, he jumped.

Link couldn't help but scream when the black abyss surrounded him. He flailed his feet and reached desperately for the hands somewhere above him. Finally, just when he was ready to believe that he was falling to his death, small hands wrapped around his wrists. He felt his body lurch as the strength of the monkeys pulled him forward. Just when he saw ground somewhere below his feet, he felt the monkey let go, throwing him the rest of the way. Link sighed out of relief when he felt his feet touch solid ground, and he had to stop himself from kissing it.

"Okay, my turn."

Link turned just in time to see Maple easily approach the edge of the walkway and let herself fall. She reached out her arm with a smile and the monkey easily grabbed hold. They swung her across the gap, and let go of her just as her feet passed over the walkway where Link was standing. He gasped as he held out his arms and caught her in mid-air.

She was as light as a feather.

"Thank you," She said as she straightened herself and brushed off her dress. "So, are you ready to continue?"

Link turned around and looked at the large, circular door in front of them. Its circumference was easily four times as tall has he was, and it was locked with a padlock that looked as if it easily weighed two-hundred pounds, excluding the weight of the chains it was connected to.

"Are you ready?" She repeated. Link turned to her and nodded.

"Can you help me unlock it? It's out of my reach, but I think you can reach it if you stand on my shoulders." Maple nodded as she bounded ahead of him, stopping in front of the massive door that made her seem smaller than an ant.

"Give me a boost."

Link walked over and knelt down beside her. She easily climbed onto his back, wrapping her legs around his neck. She steadied herself by holding the top of his head as he slowly stood up.

"Can you reach it?" He asked when he was fully upright.

"Yes. Can I have the key?" Link carefully reached into his pocket and handed her the twenty-pound key. She took it, and he heard the lock 'click' as she pushed the key into the hole and turned it.

The lock shook violently, and Link quickly stepped back as the lock fell to the ground with a giant 'thud.'

Maple jumped down from Link's shoulders and smiled at him.

"Let's go."

Yes, it's short, I know.