Claude, Petra, Ignatz, and Dorothea chose to enter the labyrinth with Link. "Well, if ya say ya don't need transportation back, I'll go," the ferryman who had brought them to the labyrinth said. "But how are ya gonna get back to land?"
"When we find the Sheikah Shrine in the labyrinth, we can teleport from there to the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab using this Sheikah Slate," Link showed him the Slate.
"By golly, what'll they think of next?" The ferryman asked.
As he left, the five adventurers entered the labyrinth.
Ignatz noticed the shattered remains of a statue. "I imagine this place was a wonder of the world when it was newly built. What I wouldn't have given to see it then!"
Claude observed the broken statue as well. "Now it's like a place from a horror story."
Petra pointed out an approaching band of Stalfos. "It is being a grave now. The dead are inhabiting it."
The Stalfos were easily dispatched. The skeletal foes were more of a nuisance now than a threat.
Once the Stalfos were all laid to rest, Dorothea nodded. "Do you think it was starvation that killed whoever lived here?"
"It's possible," Claude said. "I wouldn't want to be besieged here."
The four others looked at Claude awkwardly and didn't say anything. Claude sighed. "Do we have to talk about what happened?"
"It is being hard to ignore," Petra said.
"Look, I...I got scared," Claude admitted. "I shouldn't have killed that man. I was just worried that he would kill Marianne. I didn't want to kill him, but I thought it was my only option. We need Marianne."
"Is that what determines whether someone is worthy of being protected?" Link asked. "Whether we need them or not?"
Claude hung his head. "If I'm being honest...yes, that was my thought process. We have a problem we're trying to solve, and that problem is Calamity Ganon. Marianne is part of the solution. The man I killed...it wasn't his fault, but he was part of the problem."
"People are not problems to be solved," Dorothea chided him.
"I know," Claude said. "Maybe I'm the problem."
"Have we already gone this way?" Ignatz asked.
"I am not knowing," Petra answered.
"I think we did, actually," Link confirmed.
"Great. We're lost," Claude said.
After a while, they ran into a Guardian. "Oh no," Dorothea said.
She didn't let it stop her from striking first with a Thoron blast. The Guardian seemed stunned for a moment, but then tried to attack her with its legs.
She was fast enough to dodge out of the way and threw a Thunder blast. The others tried shooting arrows at its eye, but their aim was just slightly off.
Petra had an idea. "Link! Bomb!"
Link used the Sheikah Slate to summon a cubic Remote Bomb. Petra grabbed the bomb and slid beneath the Guardian, placing the bomb in the cavity in the base of the Guardian's main body, then quickly got out from underneath the Guardian. Once she was clear, Link set off the Remote Bomb, which destroyed the Guardian.
"Good work, Petra," Link told her.
"Guess that Sheikah training paid off," Claude noted.
After several hours of searching, in which they did admittedly find a few useful items within the labyrinth, the party finally reached the Shrine. "At last," Claude said.
They entered the Shrine to find a Shrine Monk. Seemingly, the labyrinth had been the trial.
"Link. That you made it to this point speaks to the promise of a hero," the monk told Link. "Petra MacNeary. You have strength and courage befitting of a queen. Do not lose hope. Ignatz Victor. Do not be ashamed of your sense of wonder. You have the heart of a true knight, and the soul of a great artist. The two are not incompatible. Dorothea Arnault. You seek worth from the wrong place. You must find your self-worth first. Only then will you find love.
"Claude von Riegan," the monk addressed Claude last. "Your soul stands on a knife's edge. The moment before you were taken from your home, two paths stood before you. One path led to success and greatness. The other was marked with successes at first, but ultimately you would have seen everything you built destroyed before your soul would have been condemned to the eternal flames."
Claude's mouth went dry. "Which one would I have chosen?"
"The choice would not have been yours," the monk told him. "Fate would have decided whether you would have met the one who would have saved your soul, or the one who would have followed you to your damnation."
"I see," Claude said. He wasn't sure he did.
"Yet, here in Hyrule a different path lies before you," the monk told him. "Your future is yet to be decided. I hope that when the time comes to choose your fate, you choose correctly."
"I'll try," Claude assured the monk.
"Hero," the monk addressed Link. "I have kept a memento of this labyrinth's builders here for you." He indicated a chest.
Link opened the chest to find clothing made of leather and bone. "Zonai battle armor."
"It may be of use to you, or perhaps someone you know," the monk said.
"I'm sure it will," Link said carefully. "But I was honestly expecting a miniature Sheikah Slate."
"The key," the monk said. "I am sorry to give you a further hardship, but to collect the key, you must brave one more trial. And this one you must face alone."
Link used his paraglider to safely land within the chamber below the labyrinth. He quickly hid behind a destroyed Guardian. There were many active Guardians in this chamber.
Looking at the far wall, there was what appeared to be a staircase that had been buried by a rock slide. Judging from the destroyed Guardians, someone had made a final stand here and ultimately lost.
He snuck through the chamber to where the chest was partially buried, and he opened it to find two items: a diamond tiara and a Mini-Slate. He took both.
However, as he got close to the vent that would provide an updraft strong enough to carry him out of the chamber, a Guardian sighted him and fired its deadly beam at him.
Acting on instinct, he held out his shield, and at just the right moment, he threw his weight against the beam. Somehow, this deflected the beam back at the Guardian, destroying it.
Noticing the destruction, several other Guardians began targeting Link. Realizing that he couldn't deflect all of the beams, he opened his paraglider within the updraft and returned to the chamber above that held the Shrine.
"I got it," he told the other four. With that, they activated the Shrine's teleportation pad and warped back to the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab.