"Look behind the statue, guys. That's where the other entrance was." They began searching the wall for another door or passageway, but it was so covered in moss, nothing could be seen. Chelsey began pushing on it, looking for an old entranceway, when a large part of the moss pushed in with her.
"Hey, this part's bendy." she said. She took out her sword and sliced it away, revealing the entrance to a tunnel.

"Alright Chels, nice work." Link said. His warrior face flashed on as his instincts got a wiff of what was inside, but then he turned to face the kids and his dad face took over as quickly as it had left. "Alright, you kids have fun. But don't get seperated, Darrel's the only one with the key to our room. And be back before sunset for dinner! We'll re-group then."

"Uh, right."
"Sure Dad." they said. Link walked into the dark tunnel, the cieling dripping water and splashing on the floor. Chelsey and Darrel stayed at the entrance, watching him. He reached the door. On it was a symbol much like the one he found on Farore's door, only the artwork made the swirls look more like water than wisps of wind. He scraped away the moss that had grown on the floor, in order to find the symbol of the Triforce. It was there, though it was very, very faded.
"Do you think he'll be ok?" Chelsey whispered as she watched her dad.
"Of course he will be. You're dad's invincible." Darrel whispered back.
"See, that's the thing...he's really not." Chelsey replied. "He never told us what he did in that last temple, but he came out all beat up..."
"Yeah, but Chels, he's got a fairy now. So even if he dies he'll be fine."
"He's not going to die! Stop talking like that!"
"I'm not.."
Link turned to stare at them, anger in his eyes. They both shut up instantly.
"Hey Darrel, I think we should go explore."
"Yeah, let's go explore."
They both slowly backed away from the tunnel entrance, and walked out of the temple into the daylight.

Link sighed relived that his kids were out of the temple. He didn't know what was going to happen, and to have them out of harms way was the best thing for them. Link turned back to the door, then planted his feet down on the triforce's symbole. Then he took out his Ocarina and brought it to his lips. Slowley and softly he started playing Zelda's Lullabye, the notes floating gently around the stone room. Almost instantly thoughts of Zelda filled his mind. Before he knew it, he was finished and tears were in his eyes.

The great stone door began sliding down, revealing another dark tunnel sloping downward. Link started to follow it, but he only got a few steps when his foot splashed down into water. As he walked, the water became deeper, until the tunnel floor vanished beneath the salt water.

"Well, okaay." He said to the stone walls. He started to take off his tunic in order to get changed. Wow...good thing I brought my other tunics...He thought. When he had left Hyrule he didn't think he'd need his fire or water tunic, but had brought them just in case. He was glad he had. Link bundled up his green tunic and shoved it in with the rest of his stuff, then brought out his blue one. It had been a gift from King Zora, and it allowed Link to breathe underwater. He was never quite sure to as how it worked, but just assumed that it was magic. He pulled it on, then re-arranged all his gear on his back. Then he took out his iron boots and put those on as well. He never was much of a swimmer, and to walk on the bottom was always easier for him. Link put his sword away, then kept his hookshot easily at hand. It was the only weapon of his that worked underwater. Link then, finally, stepped down under the water. His first breath was always a weird one, it took a while to get used to water filling your lungs, but still being able to breathe. Link had practice supressing his gag reflex, but anyone else might have been choking for a full minute despite the fact that they could breathe.

The tunnel continued downward for awhile, and then it finally ended in a door. Link opened the door and stepped through, entering the next room.
He was standing on a small platform, with three stone bridges heading towards other platforms out in the room. The room was a maze of stone bridges, all winding their way around the room in a convoluted puzzle. One of the bridges eventually ended up at a door on the opposite side of the room. There were drowned Skulltulas and Stalfos laying all over the bridges, eerily unmoving. Fish swam playfully in and out of the crevices in the bridges, and coral had begun building little viliages on their railings.

Link looked around a bit, then to the door on the other side. He supposed it would have been much harder if the room weren't underwater, for then he'd have to find his way through the maze of bridges, but he had some luck, and this was one of those moments. Link took off his iron boots, then as he started to float upward he kicked his feet, swimming to the other side of the room. He swam underneath one bridge, then over another. The senery was both spookey and beautiful at the same time. Finally, he reached the other side, then opened the door, swimming through.

The state of this room was in worse condition than the last. Whatever had been there was gone, and the room was filled from top to bottom with coral. There was so much of it, and it grew so tightly together, that there was not enough room for Link to go anywhere. He could not even see the other side.

Link grumbled, wishing he could use his sword underwater to cut it away, but knew he would not be able to get enough force to do any good. He hoped his hookshot would work. He put on his metal boots and took it out and fired the metal head of the hookshot into the coral, hoping it would break away.

The hookshot grabbed the coral, pulling Link towards it. When he yanked the hook out, chunks of coral fell away, making a small dent in the arm of coral in front of him.

He sighed. It would take him forever to get through that way. He looked around wishing for someway to drain the water so he could use his fire spell, but there was nothing. He grumbled a second time, then started hookshotting the coral to death, working on one area.

It slowly began to chip away, but as he worked larger and larger chunks began to fall. The structure of the area Link was working on began to weaken, and the entire section started to collapse. The crumbling scared the fish away and filled the water with dust, until it became too cloudy to see. When the water cleared again, a large area of the coral was collapsed. Link jumped into the space he had just created and was about to begin working on the next section when something on the floor glinted and caught his eye. He worked his way around the coral, hookshoting a few pieces away, until he was able to reach the shining thing buried in the sand. He dug away the sand, revealing the skeleton of a dragon, a key in it's belly.

Woah.. Link thought. A dragon...only one I've ever seen was Volvagia in Death mountain. He reached out in between it's ribs and grabbed the key in it's middle, bringing it back out. It was spookey indeed, and Link wondered when this place had become emerged in water. It had obviously once been dry. He then stood up, looking around for anything else he may have missed.

Seeing nothing within his visual range, he began to work at the coral again, slowly moving across the room. He reached an area that was covered in a particularly heavy knot of coral, and as he worked on it he had to wait agian for the dust to settle before continuing. When it finally cleared, Link saw a yellow speckled oval, surrounded by two others, except they were broken...they were eggs. Giant eggs, the size of a full-grown cuckoo. And one of them was unbroken.

Link squinted at it, then stepped toward it slowley. He stood above it just staring for a few moments. He looked over to the dead skeleton of what must have been it's mother. The egg must have been there for a while, if the skeleton of it's mother were completely clean. There wasn't a scrap of meat left on it. Link was aware that dead matter decomposed quicker in water then in air, but it still took some time. He looked back over to the egg wondering what to do. His better sense told him to destroy it. All this land needed was a Volvagia flying around burning villages and eating live stock. Link knew from experience how much havok and pain a dragon could cause. But there was always that other voice of his that overruled logic. His instinct. Instead of destroying the egg, he bent down and picked it up. It was rather heavy, but not too heavy to be carried. Alright little fella...guess I'll be looking after you for awhile. Link thought. He hoisted the egg under his arm, then continued on with his coral digging.

After another half hour's worth of work, Link finally was able to get to the door on the other side of the room. He didn't run across any other interesting artifacts, and stepped through into the next room.
On the other side of the door, Link was greeted by a winding staircase. As he followed it up, he reached the surface of the water. He took off his iron boots and when he reached the second floor, it was dry again. Link opened the door at the top of the staircase and found himself in a long, empty hallway.

He stopped for a moment to take a breather. Chopping through that coral took up more time then he had wanted, but it had also been hard work, especially carrying a 9 pound egg. Or at least Link estimated it to be about 9 pounds. He shifted the egg to his other arm, then started down the hall toward the door at it's end.

As Link walked, the floor creaked under him and broke away underneath his left foot.

"Eee...not good..." Link stopped wlaking and stood still. The place was so old, it seemd as if it were falling down around him. Link thought a moment, then pulled out his hover boots. Now one out of every four steps would be hazardous instead of every step. Link took the first three with no worries, then found a spot on the floor that looked relativly sturdy to place his fourth.

Link made it across to the door on the other side without any other hazards. When he touched the doorknob, the door crumbled away, revealing the next room. This room was made of stone, not wood, and was still intact. Although it looked like it had been flooded in the past, it was dry now. It was large and circular, with a two-foot wide ledge running around the outside to the right. This led to a door about a quarter of the way around the room, though there was another door on the opposite side without anything to stand on under it. Link looked down below, and saw still, black water far under him.

Link knew that the door without a ledge was probably where he wanted to end up going, but figure there was no harm in checking what was in the easy-to-access room first. He carefully put his back against the wall and startd to shimmy his way across to the easy-to-reach door.
"Link, that water doesn't look natural..." Navi said, suddenly coming out from under his hat. Link jumped when she spoke.
"Nav, where've you been hiding?"
"I can't talk under water dummy! So I just stayed under your hat where it was warm." She objected. Link sighed.
"Alright alright, you just startled me that's all. Let's keep going." Link reached the other door, then stepped through.

They entered a stone room that was filled with switch crystals. There were nine in all, layed in a perfect square, and a door with a lock on it on the other side.

Link raised an eyebrow. This was new to him.
"Hey Link, I bet if you hit these in the right order, you'll get a key!"
"We already have one"
"But we'll probably need another one later anyways."
"My thoughts exactly." Link put down the egg he was carrying in order to pick up his sword.
"Link...what IS that?" Navi questioned flying over to the egg.
"It's a dragon egg."
"A DRAGOON EGG! Are you NUTS! What if it hatches!?!"
"It'll just be a hatchling, why would it be a killer if no one teaches it to be so?"
"Instinct!"
"Well mine say's I'm keeping it for now, so shut up and help me!" Link barked. Navi grumbled, then flew back over to her old time partner. Link swung his sword back, hitting one of the crystals to see what it would do.

The crystal made a sound indicating it was the incorrect choice. Nothing else happened.

"Hmm..." Navi was quiet, she could see he was forming an idea. Before she could ask what he was thinking, he jumped into the middle of the square of crystals, and swung his sword backward, holding it there. It started to glow a soft blue, then a bright red. Navi flew out of the way and stayed with te egg as she watched. Link let go his spin attack, hitting all the crystals at once.

The sound that he'd made the incorrect choice occured nine times, almost simultaniously but not quite. Nothing else happened.

Link frowned.
"Well I hit everyone of em..."
"But it was in the wrong order!"
"Well do you know the right order?" Navi was silent. "Didn't think so." Both were quiet. Both stared. Link swung at a different random crystal.

It made the incorrect sound.

"This is stupid." Navi complained.
"Alright alright, we'll get back to it later." Link went back over, picked up the egg, and went to the locked door. He opened it up using his only key.

Inside the next room stood one lone crystal.

Link hit it with his sword.

It made the sound indicating he had unlocked a secret, and then one of the nine crystals in the other room began to glow red.

Navi flew around his face.
"See." Link didn't even care to argue, so he just walked back into the other room, then hit the one glowing crystal to see what it would do.

Nothing happened; no sound at all.

"....it's stupid." Link sighed.
"This time I must agree Navi." Link stared at the glowing crystal for a while. "Ok, let's do this the old fashioned way, try everything." Navi nodded in agreement as Link took out his arrows. First he hit it with a regular arrow, then an ice arrow, then a fire arrow.

It made the correct sound, and then another crystal began to glow blue.

A glint came to Link's eyes.
"Ahh...it does make sense." He fired an ice arrow into the blue one. The next crystal began to glow green. Link thought a moment. The only spell he knew that was green was Farore's wind. He casted it, losing his warp by the ancient stone. But it worked, and the next crystal glowed yellow. Link shot it with his light arrows. The next, silver. Link had to stop for this one. Silver? He didn't ahve a magic spell for silver...but he did have a sword. It wasn't silver, but it may work. He hit it with his sword. It clicked and worked. The sixth crystal began glowing dark blue. Link sighed. These crystals were wearing out his magic. At first he tried Naryu's love, a protection spell that glowed blue around his body, but it didn't work. He frowned. Wasted magic. He had to pause to think for a moment.
"Bombs, Link!" Navi said. Link snapped his fingers.
"Hey you're right Nav! Thanks!"
"Just helping out!" Link pulled out a bomb, then set it down next to the crystal lighting its fuse. It blew, and the seventh crystal glowed purple. Link had been confident up until that point. Navi and Link both stared.
"Purple?"
"Well...uh..."
"What do you have that's purple!?!" Link grumbled.
"Shh! I'm thinking!" purple....purple.....and as he thought about purple, Zelda suddenly managed to seep her way into his thoughts. He smiled. Purple's her favorite color. He thought. Navi suddenly flew in front of his face.
"Heloooo! Earth to Link! What are you thinking about?" She asked.
"Zelda." Link answered briefly. Then his eyes lit up with an idea. "Zelda! Ha! Zelda's lullabye!"
"What ARE you talking about?" But Link didn't answer, he simply took out his Ocarina and started playing the all farmiliar song. The crystal reacted, and the eighth crystal turned brown. Link whipped out his arrows and shot it. The ninth and final crystal was pink.
"Pink?"
"Pink?" The two looked at eachother.
"Well the only thing pink I have is the eye of truth and my fairy." Link said.
"Well....try the eye of truth first. It'd be a shame to waist a fairy on THIS!" Navi said. Link nodded, fully agreeing. He took out his eye of truth, then blinked again.
"Wait....do I....hit the crystal with it?" Navi groaned, then flew over to the crystal to have a closer look.
"Link there's a hole! Put the eye of truth stem in it, like you did with the purple rock!" Navi exclaimed. Link walked over, and did just that.

Finally, the noise indicating that he had solved the puzzle echoed eerily throughout the room and larger room beyond. Link walked through the doorway into the larger room in time to see a stone bridge materialize out of the air, connecting his door to the previously inaccessable one on the far side.

::A smile spread across Link's face::
"Excellent!"
"Finally! Ugh! That was almost not worth the trouble!" ::Link bent down and picked up his yellow spotted dragon egg. He hoisted it under his right arm, keeping his left free incase he had to suddenly take out his sword, then placed a firm foot onto the stone bridge. He was woefully aware that he was VERY low on magic from their crystal excursions, and hated the idea that he'd be facing most likely another shadow boss at the end of this temple. Facing a boss without magic would be difficult, and most likely would cost him injuries. Link frowned. He didn't want to use one of his blue potions until absolutly nessisary. He had three left, and a fairy, but didn't know how long he'd be in this land. He wanted them to last. Finally he reached the door on th other side and put a gloved hand on it's knob.::

This door held together as Link opened it, though it made a horrendous creaking sound which echoed throughout the large room. Link stepped through the door and entered a room that was pitch black. From the sound of his echos, it did not seem to be a large room, but this could be misleading. Then a low, slow rumble filled the temple, shaking the floor slightly. Navi could hear loose stones from the room they'd just left splashing as they hit the water. The rumble lasted for about four seconds, and then stopped.


Meanwhile~

Darrel practically dragged Chelsey away from the temple entrance and out onto the sunny beach path.
"Come on, Chelse! Boats! HUGE boats! Bigger than anything I've ever seen on the lake! I want to know what they are! What's those white thingys on the top? Flags? Why are they all white? Come on!" Chelsey allowed Darrel to pull her along the path, though she wanted to stay. She had an uneasy feeling in her stomach and wanted to be near her father, if he needed help. She stared uninterested at Darrel's back, until she noticed weird movement by his equipment belt.
"Darrel, are those fairies?" she asked him. He stopped and looked at her, confused. She pointed to the myriad of bottles on his belt.
"Oh, yeah. I dumped all the water out and put fairies in every one of my bottles. I only had one green potion, and I drank it during the battle."
"How many fairies do you have?"
"Eight."
"Eight! And you didn't give any to my dad when he went into the Water Temple of Doom?" Darel then saw the look of worry on Chelsey's face, and finally realized how upset she was. His gleeful smile melted away.
"Oh. I"m sorry Chels. I didn't think of it..."
"Didn't think of it! Of course you wouldn't think of it! All you care about is those stupid boats, while my dad is fighting for his life to save the world all you want to do is play! What good are we if we can't even help him!"
Knowing Chelsey as well as he did, Darel understood that it was not him she was really mad at. The worry over her father, and family at home, and the fact that she could do nothing was becoming more than she could bear. Darrel could accept that there were times when he could do nothing. But Chelsey had her father's Hero gene, and not stopping evil when it was present went against every bone in her body.
"Hey," he said, putting his hands on her shoulders, "Chelse, your dad's going to be fine. He's defeated enemies a thousand times over. He's the most expirienced warrior there is. He knows what he's doing. And he has a fairy with him. And three blue potions. And even though he's stubborn and won't use them, Navi will make him drink it if he needs to." he said. Chelsey looked up into the face that she trusted most in the whole world, and saw truth in what Darrel said.
"But I have a funny feeling..."
"Alright. Then why don't we sit on the top of that hill, where we're near the temple but out of danger. Okay?" She nodded, liking this idea much better than running off to play on boats while her father fought evil monsters. They walked back up the hill and sat on the grass, the waves making a soothing noise as they gently rolled on the shore. Darrel stared out to sea, wondering about something. Chelsey stared at the temple door.

::Link planted his feet apart and bent his knees slightly in order to stay standing throughout the rumble. Finally after a few seconds it ceased. He blinked and looked over at Navi, right now she was all he could see for the room was so dark. Navi looked back at him.::
"What was that?" ::She asked. Link's eyes narrowed as he tried to survey the pitch black room.::
"I dunno, but it couldn't have been good." ::He tried to find at least a tourch he could light, but it was way to dark to make out a thing. He grumbled, he did NOT want to use any more magic, but knew he'd have to. Trying to conserve magic, he took out an arrow and closed his eyes lighting it. It took far less magic to use a fire arrow rather then his fire spell. With the tip of his arrow illuminated, he held it up treating it like a torch and started to have a look around.::

((And very cool post Diane.))

((Yay! Thank you!))

With the torch lit, Link could see that he was standing in a short, skinny hallway. After a few steps the room widened into a black pool of water about seven feet in diameter in the center of the room. It stretched from wall to wall, and looked like it had once been about six feet bigger but had dried up some. There was a hookshot-grabby thing in the ceiling, but it was crumbly and old. Across the black water there were two doors, one leading right and the other leading left. The left one had a boss lock on the door.

Meanwhile~

Zelda tossed and turned in her sleep, uncomfortable on the stone floor of the Temple of Time. She awoke and sat up, rubbing her tired eyes. Her stomach rumbled. She looked over at her children, sleeping soundly on the blankets Impa had brought them, and struggled not to cry. It was much worse than hiding from Gannon as a child. Back then, she had been afraid but had her faith that Impa would keep her safe. Undoubtedly, her children felt the same way about her. But Zelda did not feel like a protector at all; she felt like a scared little Princess clinging to her nanny's arm. Impa had begun teaching Zelda the ways of the Shiekah, to keep Zelda's mind off of scary things. Zelda realized now it was probably just as much to keep Impa's mind off of scary things. She looked over at Mika. She was too young. The little girl could barely talk. She sighed at looked up at the windows, the first rays of pink sun glimmering through. Every time the sun rose she breathed a sigh of releif. Horrible noises reached them inside the temple, and they had no idea what was going on outside. But as long as the sun still rose, Zelda told herself, things would be ok.
Hurry, Link she thought to herself.

::Link looked at the water. It would ahve been easy to simply swim across, but as Navi ahd pointed out earlier...the black water did not look natural. Link didn't trust it. There was obviously no way to walk around. He looked to the hookshot grapple on the otherside, but he didn't trust that either. He frowned. There was no other way across. He either had to swim, or try the hookshot, which looked like it might give way if he tried. He sighed. Link knew he wanted the dooront he right since he didn't have the boss key yet, but the meathod was the same.::
"Let's hope this water doesn't attack us like in the Water temple back home." ::Link said outloud.:: "Nav, light my way." ::He said, then snuffed out his tourch needing both hands for the hookshot. Navi obeyed and flew over the water and to the other side. She hovered right next to the hookshot grapple so Link could see it from where he was. Link withdrew his hookshot, then took aim. He released the lever and his hookshot flew strieght and true, he prayed this would work.::

The hookshot slammed into the grappler, and dust and crumbs of stone flew everywhere. However, it did get stuck inside and yanked Link towards it as it should. When he pulled his hookshot out of the rubble, what was left on the wall collapsed to the ground.
The rumbling that had occured before started again, this time lasting a little longer than before. Oddly, though the building was shaking, no ripples formed in the black pool of water.

((you might want to add dialogue here but I'll go ahead and describe the next room))

Through the door to the right there was just a small hallway, leading to a little square room. There were lit torches on the walls, and in the center of the room on a pedastal sat a very, very fat, old book with a dusty brown cover. There was an inscription written on the wooden base of the pedastal, and oddly, in a land so far from home, both the pedastal and book were written in Hylian.

The inscription read,
"To those who enter here to seek knowledge of the future, it is written in this book.
To those who enter here to ensure there is a future, it is written in this book."

The cover on the book bore the title, "Time"

((mischeivious smile forms on Diane's face.))

::Link stared at the book for a long while. "Time." He had done so much with time in the war against Ganon, that he didn't know if he wanted to fool around with it any more. But if it meant saving Hyrule, his wife, kids, and people, he'd do it all over again. Link's eyes narrowed and he siezed the book, then bravely flipped back the cover.::

The first page read:

Table of Contents

Past.......page 1
Present..page 1,000
Future....page 10,000

::Link looked at it and sighed.::
"We don't have time for this...." ::He grumbled unhappily. His cheeks turned slightly pink as he thought about how Hyrule was being desecrated and scarred this very moment, that his family was forced into hiding and that two of the five races left in Hyrule had all but been destroyed.::
"Navi! Fly around and see if you can't find me the master key, I'm going to flip through some of this quickly and see if I don't find anything useful. If you come back and I haven't found anything, I'm taking it with us." ::Link said.::
"Yes sir!" ::Navi said, then flew off to explore their newest room. Link put down the egg and flipped open the page marked "Past."::

The begining of the book was written in a language so ancient that Link could not read it. As he flipped through the pages, the language gradually evolved into what he recognized as Old Hylian. Finally, when the words became close enough to his own language for him to understand, it said

"And whence a son was born to King Hylia. He was calleth by the name of Drak, and ruleth for thirty years after. During his reign a strange people, called by the name of Sheikah, crossed over Mount Debrayf, many of which who died there. Hence forth, King Drak declared the place be deemed Mount Death, to remind peoples to never cross over it. They hast been chased there by an evil villiane by the name of Morkench, who weilded the shadows as his weapon. Because the barrier hast kept Hylia forever separate from the other worlds, this evil knowest not of the Triforce. Happily so, for if it should discover this great power..."

::Link became glued to what he was reading. All he was learning was extreamly relevent to what he was doing now.::
"Morkench..." ::He said outloud.:: "Weilded the shadows as his weapon...but he didn't know of the triforce back then..." ::Link spoke outloud to himself. It often helped him to think strieght.:: "...Morkench is older then the Shieka...." ::This worried Link greatly...for it meant that it was stronger then he had originally thought and much more powerful, but the last sentence of the page hooked him.::
"Happily so, for if it should discover this great power..."

::Link frantically turnd the page.::

"...it would cease at nothing to obtain it, and but little could stop it. The greatest defence of Triforce has be its secrecy. To guard this secret King Drak declared that as nothing beyond Hyrule may enter through the barrier, henceforth nothing inside Hyrule shall leave...for if thou dost know of the Triforce, thou cannot risk Morkench discovering of it and its power."

The story continued on with more things that King Drak did during his reign, nothing else relevant to Link's quest. But on the bottom of the page were a few lines, almost like a footnote:

Hero of Time- I am a monk of the Temple of Time. I had a dream telling me to write this note in this magic book, which has been forbidden me and I risk my life by writing this. Turn to page 568. This I am forbidden to read, since it is my future. But for you it is in the past they tell me, so read without fear, of page 568.

As Link was reading the book, the floor rumbled a third time, just as loud and just as long as the last rumble.

Meanwhile~

Chelsey sat on the hill, tense, high-strung, and worried. Darrel had lay down next to her, watching the clouds make shapes and laughing to himself as he imagined stupid boy things. She was mad at him for not being worried with her. The sun began to sink lower on the horizon, and Chelsey became even more antsy. She suddenly stood up.
"What is he doing in there, playing Chess with Navi?" she yelled. Darrel sat up.
"Chels..."
"I can't take this anymore! I can't take just sitting around, waiting for my dad to die! I'm going in after him!"
Darrel stood up a second before she said this, knowing from her tone of voice that she was going to say something like it. He grabbed her wrist just as she was about to take off.
"No you don't!" he said. "We promised your dad we wouldn't go in there!"
"Yeah, and we also promised him we'd stay in Hyrule, and look how that turned out! He needs our help! Let go of me!" In the past, out of anger, Darrel would have done just that. But this time, he could not let go.
"No! The reason your father let us come with him is because your mother had a prophecey dream! If we were supposed to go in there, there would be a sign from Farore! Her voice is no longer silenced, your dad freed her! You have to learn to trust the good sometimes. You have to learn to trust your dad."
Chelsey turned and stared at Darrel with a hard, angry face. But before she could say anything, the anger melted away and she became very sad.
"I'm not trusting him, am I?"
"No."
She then turned fully around and hung her head. A tear tried to leak out of her eye but she wouldn't let it.
"I just...I have this awful, horrible feeling. Like I've already lost everything except you and Dad...I can't bear to lose him..."
"Chelse," he said, lifting her chin with his free hand, "Your dad is the Guardian of Hyrule. He's the Hero of Time. He carries the Triforce of Courage with him! He is the strongest, most powerful force of good that is mortal. He wouldn't have been chosen if he didn't have what it takes to suceed." he told her. He knew how she felt; he worried about his mother night and day. But he had Chelsey with him, and she was safe, and that was enough to keep him from going nuts. And he had to keep her safe, or else he would go nuts.
"I guess the horrible feeling is from my family at home," she said."Which is just as bad..."
"We'll save them, Chelsey." he said, now fighting his own tears. Home....he suddenly let go of her wrist and hugged her tightly. She hugged him back, just like that time they'd hid from the Gerdus when they were children.
"We'll save them."

::Link glared at that one sentance at the top of the page. He glared with more defiance then he ever knew he had. "...it would cease at nothing to obtain it, and but little could stop it."::
"I will stop it." ::His voice was quiet, but behind it lay such power that it frightened Navi as she fluttered back into the room. She hovered over his shoulder quietly not wanting to disrupt him. Link re-read the note left by the monk, then quickly flipped farther into the book coming to a stop at page 568. Link totally ignored the rumbelings which were becoming more and more violent. He HAD to read this.::
"Link take the book with us and let's finish freeing Nayru! Then we'll read it later!" ::Link looked over his shoulder at his old time partner.::
"I will take it with us to read through the rest later, but I ahve to read this page NOW! It's importaint, I feel it!" ::He objected, then turned back and started to read at the top of the page.::

The book continued, though now the handwriting was different and it was written in modern Hylian.
"I, King Mobri, have learned a fact of interesting but disturbing nature. Recently, Rojoro, the head of the Sheikah, has brought to me an interesting artifact...it is the broken piece of a strange stone, with markings on it that I cannot read. He says it is ancient, ancient Hylian, written before the mountains were raised to keep evil away from the Triforce. He says it is part of a great network of stones that exsist outside of Hyrule, and that these stones are signposts, telling the way to the three Goddess temples, and more disturbingly, to the Triforce. In a last ditch effort to keep Morkench from ever deciphering these, the Sheikah hurridly buried the stones and broke pieces off some of them. Only two of these pieces, according to Sheikah ledgened, made it into Hyrule. The rest are scattered throught the Outerland. He has brought me one piece, which I place in the Royal Treasury Vault. The whearabouts of the other is unknown...it has gone missing."

::Link's eyes widened as he read on. His heart beat a little faster. Malon... He thought frightened. But she was in the temple of light with Zelda and the kids....right? So where was the stone? Had she left it at the ranch? Link's eyes narrowed...he was sure that the two pieces in Hyrule would have been the stones stating the wereabouts of the Triforce. He blinked a moment as he thought. Then again...the Triforce's location had changed dramatically since the stones had been written. The Triforce, during the war with Ganon ahd split into three pieces. It was no longer in the sacred relm. Only the triforce piece of power, which Ganon still obtained was in the sacred relm. The other two were hidden within Link and....Zelda!
Link struggled not to panic. He was sure, that these stones were magical, and that their information on the whereabouts of the Triforce, changed apropriatly with time. If they did not change magically, then they'd be useless, and the old King of Hyrule would not have worried so. He would have simply moved the Triforce to a different location to make the tabletts wrong.
Link's deep blue eyes, clouded with worry and fear, came to dawn on an epiphany. Morkench would be after the stones...and ultimatly after the Triforce. There for, he'd be after Zelda. Link's face tensed horridly and Navi watched as new lines became etched into his face.::
"Those tabletts we've been running across...we have to destroy them! Before Morkench finds them!" ::Link said to Navi. Navi hovered over Link's shoulder reading the entie time. She understood perfectly why Link's was getting so worked up.:
"What are we going to do about the stones in Hyrule?" ::She questioned. Link controled his breathing in order to think clearly. He tried desperatly to think of someone who was a good fighter. Link did NOT want to ask anyone to risk their lives going out to the ranch and he royal treasury in order to get these tabletts....but if he didn't everyone would suffer. Finally he got an idea.::
"Tilly."
"Tilly? You're Geradu friend?"
"Yes....she'll help I know she will!"
"Yes...but, how in Nayru's name are you going to reach her?"
"Easy. Navi, connect me with Davi." ::Link ordered. Navi nodded, then sat down on his shoulder.::
"K, connected." ::Navi said.::
"Tell him I need to speak with Zelda." ::There was a pause.::
"K."
"Zelda? It's Link. I've found out some very importaint things that you need to know about!"


((Diane, don't post yet. I think we should do this convo in IM, then paste it in. Ok? I'll pop on every now and then to look for you.))

Davi suddenly flew up from his resting place on Mika's head. He fluttered for a few seconds, the equivilent of a fairy stretch, and then flew in front of Zelda's face. She was already awake.
"Zelda! It's Navi! She says Link has important information!"
Zelda immidiately sat up, her full attention focused. She struggeld to control herself.
"Link?!?! Link, oh Link! What is it? How are you? How are the children, are you all ok?" tears streamed down her eyes, and she turned her face so Mika could not see, shoudl she wake up.

::He heard the pain in her words, even is it was relayed in Navi's voice.:: "I'm ok Zelda. I'm fine. Chelsy and Darrel are ok too. They're ahving a day off exploring the town we're in right now. They needed a rest I think. Right now I'm in Goddess Nayru's temple attampting to free her. Listen Zelda, I ran across this really thick old book. The begining of it is written in really old Hylia, I cna't even read it, but I've been thumbing through the mid section here....."
"Is Malon there with you? You haen't ever ventured outside have you?" ::He asked trying not to sound worried::

Zelda could tell by Link's carefully calculated words that it was even more dangerous for them to be outside than she had thought. Luckily, this was a small comfort she could give Link.
"Yes, Malon is with us. She's sleeping. We haven't gone outside since a week after you left...the sages have been bringing us food through the Sacred Realm. Link, I'm afraid." she confessed, lowering her head.
Fre4ssb2: ((done))
::Navi noticed that Link looked pained, and she just knew that he was somehow finding a way to blame himself for his countries position. He wanted desperatly to tell his wife not to be afraid....but in all truth, he was frightened himself.::
"Zelda...I've read in this book, that someone named Morkench is weilding this army of shadows. It's his doing that Hyrule is so pained. I...I'm positive that he's learned of the Triforce, and that is why he's attacking Hyrule. But there's a good chance that he doesn't know where to find it yet..."
"Before I continue....do you know anything about this man....if it is a man I'm going to go fight?"

"Morkench?" Zelda desperately tried to remember her royal history lessons from childhood, but in her state her memory was not working. The name sounded slightly familar, and she had a negative connotation attached with it, but that was all. She shook her head, and then realized Link could not see.
"No." she said
then her eyes grew wide as she remembered where she'd heard it before.
"Wait! I know! That's part of Shiekah legdend! Link, I bet Impa would know something!"
as Zelda's mind began to get occupied with thoughts other than Hyrule's doom, another realization bubbled to the surface.
"Wait. Honey, did you say you read about this in a book?"

"Yes Zelda. It's thousands of pages long. It's extreamly old, the first half I can't even understand....is Impa there? If she isn;t don't leave the temple to find her!" ::He stressed again trying not to sound paniked.::
"No, she is not here. They have sealed us in." she said, trying to calm Link some.
"I will ask her when she comes to see us. She comes once a day, to make sure we're alright. Then I will tell Davi."
Zelda then pushed that subject aside as she wracked her brain for the information she needed.
"Link, what is the title of that book?" she asked, hoping that would help her remember.

::Link flipped back to the cover, careful to keep his place with his gloved palm.::
::He blinked at it then flipped back to his spot.:: "Time." ::He said.:: "That's it, just Time."
at hearing this, Zelda's eyes grew wide. "Oh! That's it! I don't believe this!" In her excitement, she stood up, and woke everyone else in the room.
"Link, you have no idea what you are holding!"
"That book is ancient, ancient old. They say as old as Time itself, though I don't really believe that. It's magical. It was kept by the royal family as a record of all that happened, but if no one wrote in it, it would write itself! If you can find the page of the Present, you can see it writing itself...
and they say that though the Future chapter looks blank to most of us, to a chosen few the ink is not invisible. They say to be able to read the future is a great power...Link, if you can read the future, be very careful with it." she said.

::Sweat suddenly formed on his brow.:: "I don't think we were menat for that Zelda. I don't feel the need to flip to the future....besides....I think I'm going to make our future!"
::His stomach felt tight.:: "Look Zelda, this is very importiant...Morkench...if he find out the whereabouts of the triforce pieces....I want you to find another hiding spot...because the first thing he's going to do is try to get into the sacred relm to obtain Ganon's piece since Ganon can't go anywhere and is an easy target....I don't want him catching you as well. Don't go anywhere yet though!"
"He doesn't know yet I'm sure..."

Zelda's brain was now working at top speed, and she was distracted by her own thoughts. "Yes, Link." she said. "That book went missing when my grandfather was king...I wonder how it got all the way to where you are?"
::At this news another lump formed in Link's gut as if he were hit. If the book had gotten outside of Hyrule while Zelda was a small girl....then that meant someone ahd left Hyrule with it. And didn't the book say that the only way for Morkench to find out about the Triforce was if someone from Hyrule left?::
"Zelda, listen closely....there are these stone tabletts with ancient Hylia on them, stating the wereabouts of the three temples I'm visiting now, and the Triforce. I belive Morkench is looking for them....and.....two of them are in Hyrule."
"One's in the royal treasury, and another at Malon's house. I found out from Darrel. It's very importaint that these are destroyed before Morkench can get his hands on them..."
"Would Tilly be able to get into the treasury without help from a royal family member?"

"Tilly?" Zelda had to struggle to yank her brain into another subject. "Oh, Tilly." she paused. "Link, I don't know what's out there. There are horrible sounds during the day...I don't even know if the Royal Treasury is even intact...but I'll tell Impa to tell Nabooru to tell Tilly to deystroy the tablet. All she needs to get in is to play my lulabye with an ocaraina." Mika and Malon had been listening quietly and intently to Zelda and Davi's conversation, but now Evin had woken
up and began to cry. Malon picked him up and tried to calm him, but he really needed to be fed.
"Link, Evin needs me. Is there anything else vitally important?"

::At the sound of his new born son's names Linl's eyes instantly brimmed with tears. It took him a second to manage to speak.::
"I was thinking of Sending Davi to get Tilly...but if you think Impa can get the message to Tilly the better. I rather stay connected to you and the kids...." ::His voice trailed off as he tried not to think of his kids.:: "Just get back to me the moment you know more of the Shieka ledgends, and any word on the stone tabletts."
"...and Zelda? Please for the love of the Goddess's be safe....I love you too much to lose you."

"Don't worry. You won't." she said, and then turned away from Davi as her tears fell in rivers. She picked up her son from Malon's arms and gently rocked him back and forth, singing the lulabye more ancient than even Link's book.

"Well things don't sound so bad." Navi said, trying to calm Link down. The end of her last word was drowned out by the rumbling again, which was growing lounder. The dragon egg rattled on the floor.
"Link, I was thinking. We shouldn't deystroy the stones until we find somone who can read them...we might need them to find the third temple, Din's."

::Link swallowed the lump n his throat and nodded as Navi tried to make it sound as if it weren't so aweful...but he knew the truth. Link knew that this was worse then anything Ganon had eve done. Link agreed with Navi on the tabletts...at least out here, but he still wanted the ones in Hyrule destroyed for that was where Morkench was trying to get to. Link stumbled a bit at the newest rumbeling. Something was going on. He lifted the dragon egg under his right arm, and the book under his left. He was aware he would be defensless if he were attacked out of no where...but there hadn't been a single demon the entire time he ahd been there. He looked back to Navi::
"Did you have any luck with the master key? I think we should free Nayru and get out of here as soon as possible. This place is luckly to come down upon us if we don't." ::Link said.::

When Link lifted the book off of the pedastal, the pedastal crumbled to dust. Navi stared for a moment.
"No, but I found a door that we missed." she said uncertainly. "It's in the last room, between the other two doors. It was covered by moss." she added. She flitted around Link's face in figure eights, and then led him out of the door.
When they entered the previous room, the black puddle had oddly grown five feet in size. It was now only three feet from the door Link stood near.

::Link stared at the puddle. There was definatly something wrong about it. He inched around it to his right toward where the boss door was. He stopped about misway to it, and turned to the moss that hung on the wall. It was very thick and could easily conceal a door. Link had to put down the book and the egg in order to pull the moss off and away so he'd be able to see the door. When his job was done, he picked both back up again, then walked through into the room beyond.::

There was a deep chasm running across the room, perpendicular to Link. About three feet down there was the black water, and now it was visilby, though very slowly, rising. It bubbled and gurgled here and there, though the bubbles left no ripples.
There were two posts stuck in the stone ground near Link, and two just like it on the other side. There had obviously once been a bridge here, but it was long gone. On the other side of the room was an arrangement of twenty switches on the floor. In the middle of them sat a five-inch high pedastal with nothing on it. The floor rumbled again.

Meanwhile~

Tilly looked down at the raging river below her and shivered. She was trained to do this, she knew. Yet it always made her nervous jumping into the river from the top of the canyon. She glanced up at the darkening sky and made her descision. She dove, landing perfetly in the water, barely making a splash.
The rushing waters covered her quickly, but she fought her way back to the surface. She timed her swimming with each waterfall, tumbling over them in a safe manner, until she finally reached the calm waters of Lake Hylia. It was freezing cold, and she shivered as she pulled herself onto the lake bank. She walked to the underwater tunnel that led to Zora's Fountain. D, the little Zora prince, popped his head out of the water.
"Did you get it?" she asked him. The little one was staying with the Kokiri, who were all hiding deep within the forest. The Deku Tree sprout's powerful good magic kept the evil monsters out of the forest, and all the children had been sent there. Tilly shoved the horrific thoughts from her mind. She had a mission.
The little zora boy nodded and reached into a pouch on his side. He pulled out a Fairy Ocaraina, carved by Saria herself.
"Here." he said, and then turned around quickly as he felt something odd in the water. He turned back to Tilly.
"Good luck." he said quietly, and dove back into the secret tunnel. Tilly squinted, looking out over the lake. She paused only a moment. She then shoved the ocaraina into her bag and ran towards the gate which led to Hyrule Field. She rounded the corner and was relieved to see Gannie standing there, holding two horses by the reigns.
"Oh, you made it!" Tilly said, landing on the other side of the fence. Gannie nodded.
"Here. It's our best horse." she said. She then hopped onto the other one.
"Are you sure you don't want someone to come with you?"
"Yes." Tilly said. "The key here is to sneak past the monsters, for they cannot be fought. I must remain unseen." she replied. Gannie nodded once.
"Good luck, Tilly." she then kicked her horse and rode quickly towards the desert entrance. Hyrule field had become a very dangerous place.
Tilly put her hand to her forehead and tried to see Death Mountain, or even the castle, or even Lon Lon Ranch from here. But all she saw was darkness, as if it were night. A dark, thick gray fog covered everything in the field. This would not stop her. She kicked her horse and sped in the direction of the castle. The King had sent her a mission. She would succeed.

::Link knew that the rising water was a huge problem. He knew he'd have to accomplish his mission as soon as possible. He glanced at the things in his hands. He could only take one across with him, sinc ehe'd be needing his other hand for the hookshot. Then he got an idea. He put the book down at his feet, then took out his hookshot and aimed it at the pole on the otherside. He shot it, and zzomed over with his egg. Once on the other side, he aimed his hookshot back across the rising blakc water and at the book. He shot it, and the book flew over to Link. He caught it, then put both things down, happy they were on the same side of the black water with him. Link then looked to the switches. It was another puzzle, just like the crystals he was sure. He surveyed the room a little bit, then stared at the five inch high pedastle. It was the only thing out of place in the room. Link stared at it a little longer. He didn't know why...but he picked up the book, then walked over. He placed the book down on the pedastal, then waited to see if anything would happen.::

(( I feel so excluded. :( ))

((Umm....don't know how to tell ya this Fezzod but this rp is just for me and Diane, my sis. Everyone's excluded from this rp.))

When Link placed the book on the raised platform, the whole platform jiggled slightly, and then calmed down. Nothing else happened.

Meanwhile~

The sun had set, and it was now growing dark. Tiredness had finally convinced Chelsey to lay down, and she watched the stars appear with Darrel. They were a great comfort. Here, in this strange land, the sky was exactly the same as it was at home. Chelsey heard Darrel sigh.
"This 'sea' smells really good." he said."I wish we had one in Hyrule."
"I miss the lake." she answered. She missed everything. "I wonder how Evin is doing." she said.
"Probably driving your mom nuts, if he's anything like you." Darrel said. A small smile appeared on Chelsey's face. Finally.
"Yeah, we're some horrible kids to raise." she said. "If our parents knew half the things we did..."
"Are you kidding? If they knew a quarter of the things we did!" Chelsey laughed, the sound echoing strangely and then vanishing into the waves.
"Do you remember that time we dug a hole just outside Zora's Domain?" Darrel laughed as he remembered.
"Yeah, and the bottom got filled with water and you got buried in mud over your head?"
"Yeah, and Juro had to tunnel in from the bottom and pull me out through the water?"
Chelsey sat up, tears in her eyes from laughing.
"And then we spent the entire next week doing whatever he wanted of us, to keep him from telling Queen Ruto where the hole came from!"
The two of them giggled like eight-year olds again, and it was a few minutes before they calmed down enough to continue speaking.
"You know, I never said so, but I was really scared that day." Darrel admitted.
"When I saw all that mud falling down onto you, I didn't think it was going to stop." Chelsey turned to look at him, sincerity on her face.
"I didn't either. I really thought I was going to die." she said. "I remember your face, Dar. I'll never forget it. It was the last thing I saw before it all got dark, and it's burned in my memory forever, the face of my best friend, filled with absolute horror..."
"Chelsey." Darrel said, sitting up and facing her. She looked at him quizzically. There was something funny about how he said her name.
"What?" He looked down at the ground and started playing with a piece of grass. Chelsey was confused. She had never known Darrel to be unable to look her in the eyes.
"I...when I figured out that you were gonna go after your dad...over the mountains...I had the same feeling I had that day. Like I was never gonna see you again." Then he looked up at her, worry scrunched all over his face like she was actually in trouble. Chelsey was suprised by the strength of the emotion in his eyes.
"I couldn't bear to lose you. I couldn't stand being without you, even if you did live, and did come back, who knew how long it would take! I didn't come all the way out here to save the world, Chelsey. I came to be with you. I love you." he said, and Chelsey couldn't take it anymore. She reached over and hugged him as strongly as she could.
"I love you too, Darrel." she answered. He pulled back to look her in the eyes again. He looked so sad all of a sudden.
"No, Chels, you don't understand. I am in love with you."
Chelsey opened her mouth, but for the first time in her life she didn't know what to say to him. In love with her? Darrel? And he was dead serious, too.
"I..." she started. "Um...." She didn't want to hurt his feelings. She really did love the boy. But she also didn't want to lie to him, and say she was in love when she was not. Was she? How on earth did this happen?
"Don't worry about it, you don't have to say anything." he said. He sat back down and looked up at the stars again, his eyes still watering. Chelsey's heart ached. She didn't know what she was feeling.
"I wish we were eight again." she finally said. "Now everything is complicated." Darrel didn't answer. For a long time, all either of them did was watch the stars and listen to the constant rush of the waves on the shore below them. For once, Chelsey actually wanted her dad's advice. She hoped he would hurry up.

::Link frowned at the pedastal. He had one other idea. He picked the book off of it, then took out his old trusty megaton hammer. It helped him defeat an evil dragon once, and he loved it just as much as his other weapons. He raised it above his head, then slammed it down onto the pedastle hopping it would act like a button.::

The large pedastal sank into the floor, stopping five inches below it with a crash. The noise indicating Link had uncovered a secret resounded throughout the room, and a pattern of lighted dots appeared on the closest wall.

::Link looked around at the lights on the walls. It was like nothing he had ever done before in any previous temple or castle. It was strange, and looked almost like the spots on the forest floor that came in throught the leaves above. He didn't know what to do with the lights, so he did the next thing that came to mind. He stepped over to one of the nearest buttons and stepped on it, hoping it would do something he understood.::

The button he stepped on sank to the floor and slowly began to glow the color of the dots. One of the dots on the wall, near the middle, then faded away until it was gone.

::Link wasn't sure if there was some special order that he ahd to extinguish the lights in, but he figured he'd just do it and see what happens. Navi followed close behind as he went from button to button, stepping on each one until all had been pushed down. Link looked back tot eh wall, hoping that all the lights were out and that it would uncover a secrete. HOPEFULLY the master key.::

When Link stepped on a button, sometimes a light would go out, and other times it would not. But when he was finished all the lights were out. Then after a few seconds, the sound indicating incorrectness occured, all the buttons (including the first one) popped up again, and the lights all came back on.

::Link literally growled. He was waisting time! People were dying! Trying to stiffel his frustration he stood still in order to try and think. There had to be a certain way to hit the buttons...Link looked from the buttons to the lights....then to the buttons...to the lights...Navi could almost hear his head working.::
"Maybe...if we hit only the buttons that don't effect the lights..." ::He wondered out loud. Link was able to remember a few of them from the last time he hit them down. He got four before he forgot the rest.::
"Nav, remember which one are right for me will ya?"
"Sure thing Link." ::Link tried another one and happened to get it right. It did not effect the lights on the wall. He tried one more and got it wrong. The buttons popped back up.::
"Ok....that one...that one...and those two over there." ::Navi said. Link did as told and pressed the ones Navi indicated. Then he got the fifth one, and had successfully gotten down all the buttons that didn't effect the lights. There was an iccorect sound and the buttons poped back up.::
"WHAT!?!" ::He shouted. I'm waisting time...he thought. Grumbeling some more he tried to think.::
"We could try everyother button..." ::Navi said. Link didn't think it would work, but he was out of ideas. He tried it any way, pressing down every other button. Some lights blinked out, and other buttons did nothing. When finished they all poped back up once more. Link snorted hot air out his nose and frowned. Again he tried to think. He looked from buttons to lights...buttons...lights. Then finally he realized that the lights on the wall, appeared to be in the same places as the switches on the ground, save for a few. Link then realized that those few who didn't match a dot were the buttons that did nothing. He grinned and snapped his fingures.::
"Got it!" ::And withthat he started stepping on only the buttons that put out a light. Skipping the ones that did nothing. He reached the end and waited for soemthing to happen.::

Finally, the correct sound sang throughout the room. Across the chasm, which was now nearly filled with black water, a treasure box materialized near the door Link had entered from. It was blue with gold trim.

::Link's heart did a small flip-flop in his chest. He was happy that the temple was finally coming to a close. And he was also sure that once Naryu was freed she'd tell him another big piece to this puzzel. Maybe even where Din's temple was hidden, or more about Morkench, the evil man he knew nothing about other then that he was the reason Hyrule was suffering. Link quickly hookshot over the black water, and hokshot his things over to himself. He marched over to the chest and opened it up, shielding his eyes from the brief light that shone within it. Link reached in, grabbed the key, then picked up both egg and book. He then marched out of the room and over tot eh mater door that was just to his right. He glanced at both book and egg, then to the rising water which was dangerously close to his feet. Link frowned, then decided it might be bes tto take the things in with him, then set them aside before fighting.::
"Nav when we get in there, guard the book and the egg, alright? Make ure they're out of the battle way." ::He said. Navi nodded, then he stuck the key in the lock, and turned it. The chains fell away.::

When Link entered the room, he was surrounded by darkness, just as before. He took a few steps in, and then heard a splashing sound as his foot hit the edge of a puddle. Then there was a loud rushing sound, like that of a great river, and as his eyes adjusted to the dim light let in from...somewhere, he saw a great, black waterfall...falling up? out of the ground. The water in the puddles outside drained quickly, and after much hubub, a giant, huge monster, made of black water, stood oozing in front of Link. It growled, and the entire floor of the dungeon shook. Loose stones fell from the weak ceiling, splashing into the monster and vanishing. The thing opened it's glowing green eyes and lowered it's enourmous head towards Link. It sniffed him, inhaling so strongly it made Link slide across the floor. It then snorted, spitting black water all over. A tiny bit splashed on to Link's boot. It then began to slither up his leg.

::Links' eyes widened at first at the sight of a monster made of black water....then at the piece of it crawling up his boot. His first instinct was to bat the water droplett off of him like it were an insect, but he was a bit brighter then that, and knew this would be foolish. However he was still creeped out and shook his leg trying to dislodge the thing. It clung on like glue. Quickly Link wenrt through a list of his weapons, but he couldn't think of any he could use without hurting himself!!! Then he had an idea. He whipped out his arrows, charging them with an ice spell from the Geradu training grounds. Instead of shooting himself in the foot, he held the staff of the arrow in his hand, then bend down touching the charged tip to the little blob, hoping to freeze it.::

The little water-worm shreiked and then froze, turning into ice, which cracked off of Link's leg when he moved. The larger monster opened it's mouth widely and reared it's head, ready to dive and chomp Link in half (or drown him in itself).

::Link looked up to see the monster preparing to dive at him. Knowing that his shield would be completely useless against this sort of monster Link quickly put it away so he could hold his sword with both hands if nessisary. The creature plummeted, and Link rolled to the right as quickly as he could. The creature splattered against the floor making a horrible sucking sound. As it started to re-form, Link whipped out his light arrows. He charged it up with magic, but as he did he suddenly felt how low his magic truely was. He knew he only could afford maybe three more arrows....Link prayed it worked against this shadow beast as it did against the others. Link aimed and let his arrow fly true. It sunk into the creature, and the light from the arrow spread out in an explosion of light. Link prayed it would work.::

The creature shrieked as the arrow flew towards it. It tried to move, but since it had been distracted the arrow struck. It thrashed about, splattering it's black liquid all over the place. It finished shreiking and opened it's green eyes at Link, snarling. As it prepared to dive again, it's little splashes all began crawling towards the mother-beast again. Some of them crawled towards Link's feet, ready to trap him to the floor.

Meanwhile~

Tilly crouched behind a boulder, holding her breath. She could see the outside wall of Hyrule Castle Town now. The creatures were more every day, but still she went undetected. She waited until the two near her had moved into the gray fog beyond her sight, and then quietly dashed for the drawbridge. She halted at the edge of the moat. It was up. No matter. She reached into her pouch and took out a grappling hook and rope. She tossed it up over the top of the drawbridge and gave it a good yank, to sink the teeth in. She then jumped, swung towards the drawbridge, and landed lightly on the side. She climbed up to the top and unhooked the grapple, putting it away. She then slipped over the other side.

The market was quiet. It wasn't deystroyed the way it had been when Gannon ruled. Everything was still exactly where it should be, except no one was there. It was quite eerie. The fog seemed to have stayed out of the marketplace. Perhaps the castle walls still offered some small protection, Tilly thought. She crept along the outside wall, passing the shield and weapons shop, the potion shop, and paused at the stairs which led to the Temple of Time. The Queen and Royal family were in there, Naroobu had told her. She took a note she had written and tied it to a rock. She took out her slingshot and expertly aimed at the high open window of the Temple of Time. She shot the rock, and heard no clatter, indicating it had gone inside. She then continued creeping towards the castle.

Zelda yelped as a high-velocity object flew in one of the upper windows, crashed into the opposite wall, and smashed onto the floor. It took her a moment to calm down, and while she was getting her bearings, Malon walked over and picked it up.

"It's a note." she said, untying the paper. She unrolled it and read aloud:
"Tilly suceeds thus far. Continuing mission. No worries, Queen Zelda." Malon's blue eyes met Zelda's and they both held their breaths.
"Okay, she got this far." Zelda said. She looked up at the gray sky, hoping all their efforts were not in vain.