Krista: Thancks for the reviews, people! By the way, duct tape was only on Patience's mouth, PsynergyMaster, lol; I'm not evil! It was just to show that she needed a little help to keep from talking.

Chapter Six: Lake Hylia: Part Four

After Link, Hope, and Faith caught up to a disgruntled Patience, they went onward to find another giant waterfall. Faith groaned to show how pleased she was. After looking around for a couple of minutes, Hope found three caves in the most obvious spot: behind the waterfall.

"I'll go search in the first one!" Patience yelled and, before anyone could say anything, ran in. The other three were deciding who should go in which of the last two caves when all of a sudden, BAM!

"Sorry, didn't know you guys were standing right there," Patience apologized for running into her now grounded sisters and a semi-conscious Link.

"Ow...What are you doing back out here?" Hope asked, rubbing her head. "Did you forget something?"

"Like your mind?" Faith mumbled. Her younger sister glared at her before answering.

"No, it's just that it's a dead end. There's nothing in there." Link sighed.

"Guess that solves our problem," he said. "Two of us will go in that one and the others go in the other one." He looked at the sisters. "Who wants to go with whom?" Patience, once again, spoke up.

"I call Hope, because she actually waits for me when I'm looking for force gems!" She grabbed her oldest sister's arm and pulled her into the farthest cave. Link just stared after them for a second.

"Um, okay. Guess I'm with you, Faith."

"Well, who else are you going to be with?" she asked, leading the way into the middle cave, "Tingle?" Link scowled, then caught up with her. Literally two seconds later, the two faced a huge hole.

"Hey, you guys!" They looked across the low wall next to them to see Hope smiling at them and Patience waving as if she hadn't seen them in years.

"You two need to come into this cave," Hope told them. "There are four switches that we each need to step on." Groaning slightly, Link and Faith went outside and into the last cave. Stepping on all the switches, they made a bridge appear over the hole. Link, Hope, and Patience went outside once again and into the middle cave. Faith was there, waiting for them in front of the bridge, smirking.

"What the...?" Link looked at her, puzzled. "Weren't you behind us?"

"Yeah, I was," she answered, "but I decided to leap over the low wall instead of walking around outside again."

"Man, you're lazy," Patience said. Faith pretended to be hurt.

"That's not very nice," she told her younger sister. "Say you're sorry, or I'll take the two treasure chests that are across the bridge."

"Treasure chests?" Patience looked eagerly across the bridge and started running towards it.

"Patience be...!" Hope started to call out. Her youngest sister ran across the bridge without a thought in the world. "...careful."

"YO!" The other three weren't sure if Patience was pleased or irked at what she found. They went across and found her staring at the treasure chests. She turned and glared at Faith.

"One of them is already opened!"

"Did I mention that I took the heart container?" Faith smiled innocently. Her sister continued to glare at her. "Relax! If I remember correctly, the other one should have 100 force gems." Patience's eyes lit up as she took the big green gem from the other chest.

"What do you mean 'remember correctly?'" Link asked. Hope answered.

"Forget about it, Link."

"But--"

"Look guys, another switch!" Hope stepped on it and a bridge formed across the next hole. However, when she stepped off it, the bridge disappeared. Too bad Link was trying to cross it. He fell all the way down into the darkness when, all of a sudden, he reappeared next to the girls, with his body blinking.

"So that's what happens when you fall down a hole," Faith said. Then she looked thoughtfully at Patience. The eleven-year-old's eyes widened.

"Eh, I'll hold the switch down so you three can cross," she offered, with a nervous laugh. So the other three crossed but, when Patience stepped off the switch, the bridge disappeared, leaving her stranded. "Hey, do the little warp thingy!"

"You can't warp if there are four players," Faith told her.

"Sure, now you tell me!" Patience threw her hands up in the air. Link looked totally confused at the words 'warp and 'players,' since they referred to the game. Hope looked worried for Patience.

"How is she going to get over here?" she asked.

"I could try running and jumping," Patience said thoughtfully, looking over the hole.

"DON'T. YOU. DARE!" her eldest sister yelled, startling the other three.

"You could try seeing if the fire rod will weigh the switch down," Link suggested.

"NO!" Patience screamed, causing the Hylian to fall on the ground. "I won't give up my fire rod! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"

"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!" Link yelled, so she could hear him. Then he sighed, wondering how the heck he was going to save Zelda and the maidens if he was stuck with these three.

"Give me the boomerang," Faith piped up suddenly. Everyone stared at her for a second, before Hope slowly handed it over. Faith got ready to throw it, right towards her little sister.

"What are you--AHHH!" Patience was now spinning above the hole, thanks to the boomerang. When she was safely on the other side, the boomerang let her go and flew back to Faith, who gave it back to Hope. "Whoa...!" Patience was walking around dizzily, and would have fallen in the hole if Link hadn't caught her.

"Can you do that in the game?" Hope asked in a whisper so Link wouldn't hear.

"Yeah," Faith whispered back, grinning. "I do it to Patience when she's trying to reach a treasure chest."

Then they went outside and did what would be Faith's favorite part of the whole adventure (not!). They had to jump down the huge waterfall then go swimming underwater and into another cave. There, Link found a big red force gem and Faith found a blue bracelet, which halves the damage a person takes. Going into the next little underground cave, Patience also got a big red force gem. After she collected it, a cool thing happened with the swords. They started glowing yellow and orange, much like the television's background when the girls got sucked into the game.

"Awesome," Patience said, while spinning her sword around. A beam of energy shot out of it and made a hole in the wall of the cave. "DOUBLE AWESOME!" The four made their way out of the cave and destroyed a bunch of soldiers on a bridge. All Link and the sisters did was swing their swords, and the little beams of energy did the rest. As they went west of the bridge, a fence popped up behind them, locking them in an area with a Chief Soldier and six regular soldiers.

"Alright, here's the plan," Patience said, surprising the others. "Hope and Faith take out the mini soldiers, and Link kills the big one."

"And what will you do?" Link asked suspiciously, raising an eyebrow.

"I will be hiding over there in that corner!" Patience started walking over to her 'corner,' when Hope did the boomerang trick and brought her back.

"You have to help!" Hope told her.

"I don't wanna!" the youngest whined.

"I don't know why you don't want to fight," Faith said, with a sly smile. "You have the fire rod." Patience's eyes lit up.

After planning and avoiding the soldiers for a few minutes, they set out to fight. Hope used her boomerang to stun the regular soldiers, then Patience burned them until they disappeared, leaving a few force gems behind. Faith and Link were taking turns attacking the Chief Soldier. One would distract him while the other hits from behind with his sword. In no time, all seven enemies were gone, and it rained force gems. They grabbed as many as they could and then, once again, they headed west where they found their first barrier of darkness. They each hit one sphere and watched their force gems turn into force fairies. Well...Link, Hope, and Faith watched. Patience whined about how her gems were leaving her. A bigger entrance was revealed and Link read the sign next to it.

"The 'Cave of No Return.' Hm...charming name."

Faith sighed and mumbled, "One level down...Twenty-three more to go."

Krista: YAYNESS! I'm done with Lake Hylia!!! Finally! Next is the Cave of No Return, obviously. That should only take about two chapters. Three at the most. Although I'm sure you people only care about me getting the chapters out on time. And for me to do that, I'll need to go work on the 7th chapter and get reviews. R&R, please!