"Huh, so this must be the Isle of Ember that Grandpa was talking about." Ciela said when we arrived. "Wow, I can't believe we're finally here!"
"A sterling example of my helmsmanship!" Linebeck bragged, a smug smile forming on his face and a proud gleam in his eyes. "So, what do you think? Are you impressed?"
"Yeah sure, it's kinda cool I guess. But to be completely honest, I've seen better." Midna said before anyone answered, causing him to gape like a fish and stare up at Midna with wide eyes.
We then left to Astrid's house while he was distracted. It took us awhile to find since they did not know which it was, but they eventually made it and inside they found no one but heard a noise from the basement so they headed down and found themselves locked in a room with Octoroks. I used Oshus's sword to destroy them while, Luna used the Master Sword to destroy them, Midna used the Darklight Mirror, Saria summoned plants to crush them, and Linkette used her shrinking magic to shrink them down and stomp on them, which was very funny to watch.
When it the monsters were gone the way back was opened and we headed to the magically locked door.
"Hey back there!" Ciela called.
"Who...who's there?" A voice responded.
"I'm Link." I said. "With me are my friends, Luna, Linkette, Saria, Midna, Ember, and Kone. As well as our annoyance, Navi."
"Hey!" Navi yelled in my ears "I'm not an annoyance!"
This was so loud it made me dizzy. When I recovered Midna had already used her own magic to override the magic of the door.
"...opening the door." A woman was saying. "I'm finally free to go outside again! You bested the monsters which guarded me, so you are no ordinary travelers. Now tell me, what brought you to our island?"
"Link is looking for his friend who was taken by the ghost ship." Ciela said. "The others are looking for a way to the Twilight Realm. Astrid we were hoping you might have some insights."
"I can't help you with the Twilight Realm." Astrid said. "But the ghost ship came to our island a few days ago. That's why I was hidden away. To escape it's ruinous reach. Speaking of which. I haven't seen Kayo since then. I'll go find him later. For now shall I tell your fortunes?"
"Yes please." We said.
"Please wait for me upstairs with anyone with you." Astrid said. "I shall make preparations."
Upstairs we waited while Navi fetched Linebeck, her having been chosen to give the rest of us some small peace.
"Confound it!" Linebeck said walking in and seeing Astrid is not there. "You'd think someone who sees the future would be on time! Where is Astrid? Let's get our fortunes told and be done with it!"
Luckily Astrid returned before any of us could respond.
"Greetings. Now if everyone is here...we can begin." she said as her crystal ball began to glow. "...Open my eyes...to the future...A sinister darkness...the mighty sea...and the voice of sacred light...I see it! I shall speak! Listen with your hearts! If you really want to find the ghost ship...You must be ready to clash with the very darkness itself! Knowing that do you still wish to rescue Tetra?"
"Yes." I said ignoring how she knows Tetra's name despite none of us saying it.
"Oh very nice." Astrid said. "The honesty in your eyes is crystal clear. Now make haste to the temple of fire on the summit of this island. There you must defeat the power of darkness that haunts that place. You will then find what you need to open the path that lies ahead of you...Your group has it within them to alter our doomed course of events...but the light that seeks your help is growing faint. Please Hurry."
With that we set out except for Linebeck who said he had to polish the ship's rudder. I personally think he was just scared but whatever. We made our way to the door on the east and through it, and around the mountain to another door where we had to blow out the candles which made the door open.
"Now we can enter the temple. We did it!" Ciela cheered.
"Good." Navi said. "Now let's hurry up and finish this quest."
With that we entered the temple of fire which like it's name was very hot.
"We better be careful." Linkette said pointing ahead. "There's fire everywhere."
We made our way through, past the flames and revolving fire and over the lava to a door that the others used the magical key to open, much to my jealousy. We the made our way through the room, with Midna going first so she could levitate if the floor drops. On the other side there were four crystals we hit at the same time to open the central door to floor two which we backtracked to and went up the floors.
Up there we hit a crystal switch to drop the red blocks and raise the blue ones so we could get to a room with Gels that we destroyed receiving the boomerang that I took and used to hit a nearby crystal switch to put out the flames so we could continue on. I then had to hit two more crystals so we could go down the stairs to floor 1.
There I had to hit a switch with the boomerang around a corner to lower the blue blocks below and then did the same in the room on the other side to reveal a way back to the start of the temple. We then continued down and after Midna blasted two red bubbles and climbed the staircase. In that room we avoided the fire and jumped to the other side where Linkette shrunk us down so we could walk between the blocks after seeing that they were right next to each other. We then used the magical key again, which I really needed to find a way to steal before they left, and went up the stairs.
We noticed another locked door and used the magical key to enter before finding a big lock.
"Whoa, what's this?" Ciela asked. "It looks so ominous."
"I think it is the lock that guards the boss room." Linkette said.
"Will the magical key work for it?" I asked.
"If not, we can just shrink down and Luna or Midna will float us over the top." Saria said noting that the lock does not reach the ceiling.
We never needed to float, since yep the Magical Key even works on the boss locks. We then went up the stairs and found two stone tablets, reading the left one made a portal back to the entrance, before we continued up and found Blaaz, master of fire, who split into three and we had to use the boomerang to reunite him in a specific order before me and Luna could attack with the swords.
After he was defeated the symbol of the Power Gem showed up and from it a red fairy came out.
"I am Leaf, spirit of Power." Leaf said. "I serve the ocean king. I owe you thanks for defeating that evil wizard. You broke the seal, so now I'm free!"
"This must be what Astrid was talking about." Saria noted.
"I was locked away with the ocean king years ago." Leaf said. "But now I can't feel the Ocean King's presence...I wonder what happened to him? If I come with you maybe I can find out. If you need it I will gladly lend a hand!"
With that I collected the heart container before we took the exit portal.
