InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Green-clothed Warrior ❯ Into The Forest Temple ( Chapter 7 )

The Green-clothed Warrior

An InuYasha/Legend of Zelda Crossover Fanfiction

By: Patriot1776

Chapter Six: Into the Forest Temple

"Strange Link, you seem to have entourage with you. Who are they?" The new stranger asked Link. InuYasha had his hand on the Tetsusaiga's hilt, ready to draw it if the stranger tried anything. Link turned to the others.

"Calm down. This person isn't dangerous to us. This is Sheik. He was waiting for me in the Temple of Time when I returned from the Sacred Realm." Link then said. InuYasha was still suspicious as the others walked over. He was still eyeing Sheik over suspiciously, as Link introduced them to Sheik, and he told him why they were accompanying Link.

"This is not good. The prophecy again came true, about a group of helpers coming to assist in Ganondorf's defeat, but it also means that Ganondorf must be more powerful than we first thought for the gods to have sent us help in this form." Sheik then surmised, looking at InuYasha and the gang. InuYasha was getting impatient.

"Well, enough with this talk. I wanna get in there and kill whatever it is we have to kill." he said, gesturing to the temple.

"Not just yet, silver-haired, dog-eared one. Alas, you will not be the one to accompany Link into the Forest Temple." Sheik then replied.

"What?! I'm the most powerful of our group! Why can't I accompany him?!"

"What are you saying?" Miroku then asked.

"I know far more than you think. The legends about the coming of the helpers state that only one of them may follow the Hero, Link, into each Temple at a time." Sheik then turned to Kagome. "The one carrying the bow, you Kagome, are who must accompany Link in the Forest Temple."

"Why me?" Kagome asked him.

"Your skills will be the most useful in it. Your bow will be needed inside the Temple." Sheik then motioned Link over to where Kagome was standing. "You two will face many dangers ahead in the Temple. Link, you must protect Kagome. Kagome, be ready to help Link at any time. Now, Link, I must teach you a song that will return you and your friends here safely should you need to leave and then return." He then got out a small harp. Link got out the Ocarina of Time. "This is the Minuet of Forest." He then played the tune twice, and Link followed along. When Link had finished, Sheik put the harp back up. "Link, I'll see you and your friends again." Sheik then backed away, and threw an object to the ground that went off like a flash-bang grenade. All of them shielded their eyes. When they looked up, Sheik was gone.

"I don't trust him, whomever he is. I say we just forget about what he said and let me accompany you, Link." InuYasha then said.

"I wouldn't advise that. It was Sheik who told me where the five temples are located, and about me having to get the Hookshot if I wanted to enter the Forest Temple. Kagome, are you ready?" Link then asked her.

"I think so." she replied.

"The rest of you stay here, and make sure nothing tries to enter the Temple after we've gone in." Link then said. He then got out the Hookshot and aimed at the tree limb above the platform. "Grab on Kagome." She put an arm around him, and Link fired the Hookshot. They were both pulled upwards onto the platform, Kagome shouting just a little bit from the suddenness of it. They then walked in through the entrance. InuYasha was growling and looking dejected as they entered.

"He better not try ANYTHING with Kagome while he's in there with her, nor let her get hurt in any way." he then said.

"I don't think he will. You know what he did when I tried to approach Malon and what he threatened to do if I didn't leave Sango alone. He definitely won't try anything." said Miroku.

"And seeing how he reflected your Wind Scar and how he was able to defeat you in that sword fight, I think her protection is in more than capable hands." Sango added.

"Feh." InuYasha sat down on the ground, his head hanging low. Shippo started to giggle some about Kagome going off with Link, but immediately stopped when InuYasha hit him on the head.

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Link and Kagome entered the Temple and proceeded to walk down a hall. There were several monsters that Link had to kill but they weren't very dangerous. They opened a door and came upon a particularly large room, with four torches encircling a strange looking contraption in the center. When they tried to approach the contraption, four ghosts suddenly appeared, one above each of the torches. They took the flames from the torches and left the room. The strange looking contraption then sank into the floor.

"What was that about?" Kagome then asked.

"I think we need those torches lit, so we need to find and vanquish those ghosts." Link replied. "That contraption looked like an elevator, so something critically important must be on the floor below this one." They then went on across the room, and found the only door that wasn't chained, locked, or barred shut. Entering it, they found themselves in a circular room, and a large, skeleton warrior brandishing a crooked sword and bone looking shield dropped down!

"Kagome, stay back! It's a Stalfos, and they're extremely dangerous! Let me handle it!" Link shouted to her as he unsheathed the Master Sword and his shield and took up a fighting position. Kagome dashed over to the other side of the room, far away from Link and the Stalfos, as the Stalfos swung its sword at Link. He easily dodged, and counter struck at it. It had its guard up and blocked the attack. They both circled each other, watching for the slightest opportunity to attack. The Stalfos swung when Link tried to attack, and nipped him on the arm!

"Link!" Kagome screamed.

"It's alright! Just stay back!" Link shouted out as he swung back and got the Stalfos in the ribs. It jumped back, and started trying to get behind him. Link wasn't having any of this and countered. When the Stalfos took two swings at him that missed, Link stabbed at it. Things stayed this way for a few minutes, neither of them able to get an advantage. Then the Stalfos jumped at Link while slashing. Link jumped to the side, out of the way, then brought the Master Sword down in a devastating downward slash that shattered the Stalfos.

A small treasure chest then magically appeared in the center of the room. Inside it was a key. After leaving the circular room and re-entering the room with the torches and contraption, they explored it some more. They spent the next half-hour exploring, finding more keys in the process, and running across some strange puzzles that Link had to solve before they could move forward. They came across a large room with two floating skull monsters that Link dispatched without any effort. Kagome then noticed something strange about the door in the back of the room. Above the door was a diamond with an eye painted in it.

"Link, what's that?" she asked, pointing at the strange diamond.

"I recognize that. It's an eye switch, you shoot at it, and it changes, but don't shoot it at the moment. I wanna see what's behind first." Link then opened the door, and both his and Kagome's eyes bugged out.

The hallway behind the door was twisted up! The end of the hallway was twisted 90 degrees clockwise from the beginning of it! They both stood speechless for a minute or two, then Kagome shook her head.

"That's not possible! It's an illusion." She then said, then entered the hallway, expecting it to disappear instantly. Strangely, it didn't and as she walked along the floor, Link saw her stick to the floor as it gradually became the wall! "What? How can this be? I don't remember much from physics class, but I do know that this shouldn`t be happening!"

"This is probably the Triforce's work." Link said, and then followed her, not the least bit fazed by the crazy hallway. The next room led to another room with a staircase leading down, and there were three paintings on the wall. One of the paintings was of one of the ghosts that they had seen when they first entered the temple. They suddenly heard a comical laugh and the ghost disappeared from the painting, and appeared in one of the others!

"What's going on?" Kagome asked after seeing the ghost's image vanish.

"That ghost is playing tricks on us." Link said as he then tried to walk up to the painting where the ghost had reappeared, but it disappeared again. "Kagome, try shooting at the painting it re-appeared in."

"Want me to augment my arrow with my magic?" she asked.

"No. Let's try a normal arrow first." Kagome then lined up her shot towards the painting, and fired a normal arrow. It easily hit its mark since the painting was large. The comical laugh returned and the painting burst into flames and burned away completely. The ghost reappeared in another one. "Again." Link ordered. She lined up and fired again. The painting burned away like the first one, leaving only one left. Link didn't have to tell Kagome to shoot a third time, and this time the ghost appeared and floated down the stairs into the room at the bottom, which strangely had a torch much like the ones they had seen in the first room of the temple.

Link followed the ghost, and Kagome stood back and watched, bow ready, as another battle ensued. The ghost first disappeared and tried to hit Link with the torch it carried, but Link kept his shield up until it reappeared. When it did, he jumped at it with a downward slash that hit home. He continued this method until he destroyed the ghost. The flame of the torch it had carried then appeared on the torch in the room.

"Link, could that lit torch mean the corresponding one in the first room is lit?" Kagome then asked.

"I think so. Come on." After opening the chest in the room and retrieving another key, they continued on. The next room was very similar to the earlier one where Link had fought the Stalfos. This time, two Stalfos dropped down, and one advanced toward Kagome!

"Link, one of `em is coming after me!" she shouted as she ran from it, and it followed her around the room.

"One's on me too! I'll be there as soon as I can!" Link shouted back as he parried blows from the one attacking him. Kagome decided to try shooting the Stalfos, and readied an arrow. She stopped, turned, and stared down the Stalfos advancing toward her, bow ready. Believing she didn't have enough time to charge her arrow with magic, she took aim, and fired. The arrow was aimed perfectly and made it past the skeleton's defenses, but instead of destroying it, the arrow only knocked it back and stunned it for a moment. Kagome resumed running as she got another arrow ready. By this time, Link had finished off his Stalfos and rushed over to help her.

"My arrows only stunned it!" Kagome shouted as Link started trading sword blows with the Stalfos. Link was mad now since one of these monsters had gone after Kagome, and he attacked the Stalfos with a ruthlessness he usually spared for stronger creatures. He finished it off in record time, and again another chest appeared in the room. Inside it were a bow and a set of arrows for Link!

"Neat. Now I can shoot too." Link said as he looked the bow over. It looked to be of far better quality than Kagome's, and was more fancy looking.

"Let me look at it for a sec." Kagome asked. Link handed it too her. To her utter surprise, she couldn't draw the bowstring on it back, no matter how hard she pulled and how loud she grunted!

"Figured that. It looks as if it was made for serious fighting. Yours looks as if it was made for just defending oneself, or for target practice." Link surmised, as he took his bow back from her.

"That's what I use it for mostly." she replied. They continued on. The found the next three ghosts over the next half-hour, and re-lit all the torches in the first room. The strange, elevator contraption had raised back into the room. There was only enough room on it for one person.

"I'll go down first and send it back up to you." Link said.

"OK, then." Kagome replied. Link then got on the tiny, rickety elevator and rode it down to the bottom of the temple. He sent it back up, and Kagome followed. The room they were now in led to a very large door with a huge lock and chain on it. Kagome was carrying a rather large, gold key that they had found in an ornate chest earlier. Link took the key from her and fitted it to the massive lock. It fit perfectly, and Link removed the huge lock and chain, and opened the door.

They were now in a large, six-walled room with paintings on each of the six walls. The paintings looked identical, strangely. The walls seemed to encircle an arena of some kind, with the crest of the Triforce in the center of the arena. On the outskirts of the arena was a low fence. Link and Kagome walked to the center of the arena and looked around.

"Where's Saria?" Link asked out loud.

"I think this room was simply meant to throw us off. There's nothing here, we might as well leave." Kagome said.

"Yeah, there is nothing here." Link agreed. They then started toward the room-and the arena's-exit when suddenly three spiked poles shot up from the floor, blocking the way out!

"What the..." Link started to say, when they both then heard the sounds of a horse standing behind them. They both turned around slowly, and gasped.

Behind them stood a large, black horse. On it was a brown skinned, red haired man in black armor. Link gasped a second time. He recognized the man on the horse as being Ganondorf!