Chapter Three
“The Wind and the Shadow”


“Hey! Wake up, man!” Trever’s voice shouted. Kale groaned and rolled onto his back, he muttered, “Alright shut the hell up already. I’m awake.”

“Good,” Trever’s voice returned to its semi-professional state, “While you were out, I managed to scan the entire area around you via satellite.”

“You hacked the Royal Guard’s satellite system again, didn’t you?” Kale said slowly as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head.

“Oh, but of course.” Trever replied, “I’ve got a blueprint of where you are,” there was a pause, “It’s like a maze. The area you’re inside stretches on well below the sewers of the city. Hyrule’s grown pretty big, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had things built over old structures and such. It’s bizarre that they’d even consider expanding Hyrule over a place like this. Oh well, at least I’m not the one stuck in the catacombs, eh, Sparrow?”

Kale sighed, “Just shut up and lead me out. This place bugs the crap out of me.” He fumbled for his flashlight. After a few moments, he felt what felt like a flashlight and pulled it off the ground. The room he was in was suddenly illuminated by the bright beam of light originating from his flashlight. Kale scanned the ground for his handgun. He spots it in beside one of the coffins, “…if anything pops out at me, I swear…” Kale muttered.

He crept over to his weapon and quickly snatched it up, backing away from the coffins. “Alright…lead the way, Falcon.”

Trever smirked, “Alright, fairly simple. Theres only one hallway here, so take that hallway.”

Kale looked around, he spotted the hallway, he swallowed and stepped forward cautiously. Suddenly, he heard a scratch. He turned quickly. He took a deep breath and said, “If anyone of you undead bastards wants jump out at me…”

Trever sighed, “Why are you so worried? That’s only in the movies, theres no such thing as ‘the walking dead’ so chill out. You’re just stuck in a large burial chamber with nothing but a flashlight to light your way and are surrounded by millions of dead people. That’s all.”

“Do me a favor and stop trying to make me feel better.” Kale muttered angrily, “Because you suck at it.”

Trever went back to being professional, “Remember, go straight down the hall and turn left.”

Kale nods and runs down the hallway. As he nears the end of the hallway, something catches his eye in front of him and he skids to a stop. There was a slash mark on the wall. He looked down the hallway to his right, then at the slash mark.

“Alright, now go left.” Trever spoke.

Kale hesitated. After a few seconds, he turns right.

“Where the hell are you going? I said left!” Trever yelled. “Sorry,” Kale said, “Something’s telling me to go right.”

“I’m the one with the map, genius!” Trever shouted.

Suddenly, there was a large crash. A beam of light flowed through the entire hallway and blinded Kale momentarily. He stopped to avoid running into anything. “What was that?” Trever asked. Kale blinked and looked around, “…I don’t know.”

Meanwhile, near the end of the Shadow Temple, a figure stood up slowly. It was Vale. She looks down at the Ocarina of Time in her hands and replaces it back into her bag, she swings the bag over her shoulder and looks around, “That should keep them from coming out for another millennium or so.”

She looks down at the slain ReDeads below her feet. She was in a circular room, “…I wonder where I’m supposed to go next…Daphnes is probably already at Dragon Roost Island and I’m still here.” she sighs. She shakes her head, “When I find the moron who broke the bind spell…”

Suddenly, some small particles of sand and little pebbles began to fall down from the ceiling and onto her hat. She blinked, “…wha…?” she looked up and her eyes widened. Kale falls directly onto her, “Oof!”

Kale coughed and brushed the dirt off of him, “…what a fall,” he muttered. He then noticed he was sitting on something soft. Since it was too dark to see anything, he felt around with his hand.

He felt something extra soft and gave it a squeeze. “Ah!” came a shrill scream. He panicked at the sound and suddenly felt someone’s hand slap the side of his face, the force of it caused him to fall off.

He quickly bolted back to his feet and pointed the flashlight and handgun at the source of the slap. Vale stood up, holding her chest with one hand and pointing the staff at him with the other, “What the hell is wrong with you?! That hurt, you perverted little-”

Kale thought he recognized the face, “You!” he shouted. Vale blinked, confused, “Huh…?”

Kale pointed the gun at Vale’s face, mistaking her for her twin sister, Kiara. Vale’s eyes widened suddenly, “No, wait!” Kale pulled the trigger and fired.

The sun was shining and the waters were clear and blue. Link, the Wind Waker of Shadow Hyrule looked in awe at the island before him. He was riding inside a boat named the King of Red Lions. The boat spoke, “There! On the horizon! That is our destination, Link...Dragon Roost Island! High atop this island’s peak lives the spirit of the skies, a great dragon by the name of Valoo. You must go see this dragon and request from him a jewel called Din’s Pearl. Ask the people of the Rito tribe who inhabit this island about how to see the dragon.”

As the boat reached the island, Link jumped out and landed on the sandy shore. He stepped forward and looked up at the mountain before him in awe. He saw the dragon atop the island.

“Oh, I almost forgot!” the boat suddenly said, “Wait just a moment! This is the Wind Waker!” the boat reached back into it’s cargo hold and extracted a silver baton with his mouth, “It’s a baton of sorts that was used long ago when people played music in prayer of the gods. In those days, simply using it allowed one to borrow the power of the gods, but I don’t know if it still works. Even so, I thought it might be of some use to you. Perhaps you should try using it.”

Link takes the Wind Waker and examines it for a moment, “How does it work?” he asked.

The boat smiled, "I suppose I should give you some lessons."