"Wow, it's been such a long time since I've been here," Akane said as she and her friends entered the Temple of Time.
"You've been here before?" Link asked her.
The Sheikah girl nodded. "Yeah, way back when I was a little kid, even before we met each other... it was when she was teaching Princess Zelda about the Sacred Realm, and the Triforce. She figured it'd be best if I learned about this stuff as well..."
"Your mother also was a teacher?" Ukyo asked. She was feeling more and more respect for Impa. "Is there anything she can't do?"
"Well, yeah, she can't hope to beat Bongo Bongo without the Lens of Truth, that's why we need to hurry," Akane said.
"Oh, right, I almost forgot..." Ukyo muttered.
They walked past the altar and through the open gate, into the room where they found the Master Sword.
"This room I've never seen before," Akane explained. "After all, the gate has always been closed before..."
"Before we opened it and allowed Ganondorf to enter the Sacred Realm, you mean?" Link murmured.
"Oh, I... Link, I didn't mean it like that," Akane hastily said.
"It's okay," Link sighed. "I guess I just can't forget that I could have prevented all of this if I hadn't pulled out the Master Sword..."
"You don't know that," Navi said. "All we know is that Ganondorf was after the Spiritual Stones, so maybe he would have opened it anyways if he got them."
"Maybe, I guess..." Link muttered. "Oh well, I guess we should try this time traveling thing..."
They all walked up to the pedestal. Akane looked at it, a bit of worry on her face.
"So... I know you haven't done this before, but... what do you think will happen? It just brings us to the past like that?"
"You know, I haven't got the slightest clue," Ukyo said. "All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and wish for the best." She nodded towards Link. "Do it, Hero of Time!"
"All right, here goes nothing..." Link muttered, drew his blade, held it up into the air with both hands... and plunged it down into the Pedestal of Time.
A corona of green light began to shine from the pedestal and engulfed them all. Akane barely had the time to gasp, before everything around them turned into a bright, white light...
...and then, the light vanished. Link blinked. The first thing he noticed was that they were still in the Temple of Time, and that his hands were still grasping the hilt of the Master Sword, which was now again resting in the stone.
"My hands!" he gasped. "They look... smaller again!" He turned to look at his friends... and gasped yet again. The two teenaged girls had lost their curvy figures and were a lot more smaller... as he was. "G-guys! Y-you too...?"
"What the heck?" Akane yelled. "Why are we little kids again? I mean, look at me... I haven't looked like this ever since..."
"Ever since that day we parted ways..." Ukyo murmured. "That must be it, travelling seven years back through time also brings your body back to the state it has been in seven years ago." She patted her once again flat chest. "Wow, in a way, I am actually relieved... I mean, it's just been a few days to me since we looked like this..."
"Well, not for me!" Akane complained. "I have become a true Sheikah warrior over the past seven years, and now I'm just a kid again! No one's gonna take me serious..."
"I believe that only your body regressed, not your actual skill level," Navi spoke up. "What I'm rather worried about is: Will we meet a second you, now that we're in the past?"
"What did you do after we entered Hyrule?" Link asked the regressed Sheikah.
"Well, that's easy, since that was a day I will probably never forget..." Akane said. "I ran after my family and the princess, managed to catch up with them before Ganondorf did and we... well, we had to hide from Ganondorf and his creatures for quite a while. Nabiki suggested going to Kakariko, but Mom knew that was a place he'd try to find us in, so over the following weeks, we just travelled across the Hylian Plains and made sure to avoid his patrols. We also found a few hidden caves we could hide in."
"So, basically, that means your other self must be running around on the plains right now," Tatl assumed. "I have heard that time travellers are supposed to avoid their past or future selves, to avoid time paradoxes..."
"Since when are you a specialist of time travel?" Ukyo frowned. "Although your words do make some sense."
"I guess we can still use the ocarina to teleport us to Kakariko's graveyard," Link said.
"Right now?" Ukyo asked. "I mean, Sheik told us that if we return to the present, we would..."
"Future," Navi said.
Ukyo blinked. "Excuse me?"
"From our current point of view, the time we just came from is the FUTURE, you know?" the blue fairy said. "The present is always the point of time a certain individual is living through. So, from our current point of view, this is the present, and the time we came from is the future."
"Stop talking like this, it's making my head hurt!" Ukyo grimaced. "All right then, what I meant to say is: Sheik said that if we go back to the FUTURE, we would get back to the same point of time in which we put the Master Sword back into the stone. What I'm trying to tell you guys is: We have all the time we need. So why not take a look at Hyrule first? To see if we're really in the same time."
"Um, you DO know that Ganondorf just conquered Hyrule Castle and that it's going to be pretty dangerous out there," Akane pointed out. "Still, Hyrule has been a ruin for years... it would be nice to see it in one piece again."
"And maybe we can take a short break," Tatl groaned. "We've been travelling non-stop ever since we became unofficial heroes. The last breaks we took only lasted one night, at Goron City, and Malon's ranch..."
"Wait... does that mean Malon's a little girl again as well?" Link wondered.
"Well, obviously," Ukyo shrugged. "Why do you ask?"
Link grinned. "Great, that means she won't act all weird, should we run into her..."
"What's his problem?" Akane whispered into Ukyo's ear.
Ukyo sighed. "His 'problem' is that he seems to be quite popular among other girls..."
Akane blinked in confusion. "Um, shouldn't he be HAPPY about this?"
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