[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Within the well-known landmark formerly known as Hyrule, there exist many dungeons, but perhaps the most ominous one of them all was the one that resided in the graveyard of the now desolate village of Kakariko, home of the Sheikah Tribe that stood as servants to the Hyrule Royal Family, the Graveyard was pretty much the same as the village in the fact that the tombstones were utterly destroyed by the result of Li's formation

But beyond the graveyard, the entrance to the dreaded Shadow Temple lay, etched in a cave, and designed to act like a Mausoleum-type dungeon; and most of the monsters that were usually found within the temple itself were unfortunately corrupted by the Starvia Disease, How a Warlord managed to get as far into the dungeon without most of the required items was a mystery, though it was guarenteed that his use of dragons had been the result of his gaining entry.

The temple entrance had long been opened, as though a masive ball of flames had been used to light the braizers previously, now the temple stood open, the place just waiting to be explored.

{if you have played Ocarina of Time, then you should already know the layout of the dungeon.  But for those who didn't the Dungeon Map provided is key to exploring this nightmarish dungeon}

Ready...
GO!

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Wolf Link made his way towards the place of destination of which they were to meet up in order to save this warlord. It was supposedly in Hyrule, or what was left of it anyways, but this was no part of Hyrule he had ever seen. Was it perhaps from a different dimension or time-line? Perhaps. The tale which speaks of the Hero of Hyrule's quest against the Dark Lord, both of them having many incarnations and hence why the legend has stayed strong. Regardless, it was a temple they were at, and Link has faced his fair share of them so he should be just fine. The Hylian-turned-wolf then walked into the main entrance chamber and sat down.

It seemed that the main entrance was left wide open for them to enter, conveniently enough. The braizers were still lit and flickering with life in their flames while the wolf sat there and waited for his comrades to join him. Though he had taken down dungeons by himself before, if he's learnt anything about this new world, it's that this place isn't like home and is out to kill. So it'd be wiser to wait for his fellow dungeon crawlers as strength was found in numbers. Though Wolf Link found this slightly fascinating, being in a temple from a previous era of his land.

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Dark Link trudged towards the entrance of the Shadow Temple, wearing the cloak he usually wore to hide his appearance from those of the life sphere, using the Black Market as his base of operations. He did not require food luckily, he had been left without the need to acquire sustenance, a task that usually leaves one dieing of starvation should they be incapable of eating food. He could go without food or water, so he never had to leave the Black Market, and his stall was one infamous for only having a strange figure in it, seeming to never be selling anything, which was how he got away with it. No one cared.

But, he was not here to hide away from the world and pretend he doesn't exist like usual, he was there to put do the hero that he was made to fight, the hero who ran from his own darkness, the thing that hero's fear most. He smirked as he thought about the ways he would finish Link, right there in the Life Sphere, with thousands watching as a destined hero fell to the one thing he did not dare fight. He was shaken out of his day dreaming however, as he absentmindedly walked right into the wall that was just to the left of the entrance. Oops. He's hooked his head and entered, only to be stopped dead in his tracks, by the presence of the spirit of the hero.

Link, his light counter part. HERE. PREPOSTEROUS! And yet, he felt the spirit of the hero clear as day, in this very room, and he had been standing in one place to long, for if Wolf Link looked his way, he would see a dark face, which bore a striking resemblance to what he looked like before he had been changed into his current form. Dark Link began to scan the room, his eyes slowly moving from one side to another, until he landed on the source of the energy of the spirit of the hero. Wolf Link. Dark Link grew angry, he could tell that the spirit of the hero's energy was eminating from Wolf Link, and it showed on his face, as a look of killer range over took him.

"WHAT?! THE HERO'S SPIRIT EMENATING FROM A MANGY MUT?! THAT DAMN HERO WAS ABLE TO PAWN THE SPIRIT OFF ONTO A BEAST WITH LITTLE TO NO MIND OTHER THAN WHAT IT WANTS TO EAT?!" However, the look of killer rage drained from his face as he turned away from the wolf, in thought, there was something wrong here, but he could put his finger on it. He turned towards Wolf Link and quickly closed the gap in between the two, and promptly scooped the beast up, holding it by the neck as he looked the beast over. What was it? What was causing the hero's spirit to emanate from this beast?

As DL scanned the once hylian's body, he began to understand what was going on, as his blind rage had prevented him from feeling something odd, the fact that this room wasn't the only place he could feel the spirit of the hero. Dark Link dropped Wolf Link, chuckling as he finally realized what was truly going on here, what was truly occurring in this wolf's body. "I see how it is, you are not the Link for which I search, the Link I was made to do battle with, but in fact a different incarnation of the Hero, simply another sad pawn who had something go very, very wrong in your quest to defeat the evil named Ganon. Well, it's a shame, but you're not the one I hunt for. It'll be interesting seeing you try to fight in that body, so I'll let you live." Dark Link meant this, despite his murderous rage from earlier. Had any of the other mission goers seen that, he wouldn't care, if they reported back to the life sphere and they couldn't prove he existed, then there would not be any problems for him once this mission was done.

[Coolshaymin]

Outside the temple a breeze brought several flower petals and rocks as a wooden staff touched the ground. The holder of said staff was the Goddess of Nature herself. She was ready to get this adventure started. Nothing to get in her way. No distractions whatsoever. "So this is one of the places the Hero of Time went through to beat the Ganondorf of time. A graveyard is a weird place to put a temple though."

"Oh yeah, which reminds me, Viridi," Arceus Dammit... Dark Pit's voice pops in. "I have to correct you on a little mistake you made."

"What mistake could I have possibly made? I know all about Link's adventures."

"Well, it's about Ganondorf..."

"Now, Dark Pit, need I remind you I am the expert on Ganon Canon. What could you possibly correct me on."

"There is only one Ganondorf. Ganondorf is the only triforce wielder that is not revived."

"... HOW COULD I MAKE SUCH A SIMPLE MISTAKE?! I SPENT YEARS STUDYING GANON CANON!"

"Well, got to go and beat Arlon... HOW DID YOU WIPE OUT MY ENTIRE TEAM OF LEGENDARIES WITH A MAGIKARP?! I EVEN HAD MEGA RAYQUAZA!"

"Sorry, Lord Dark Pit, I must of forgot to restrain my skills."

"Ugh, round 2! NOW!"

"... I need to redo some research. Oh well, let's see this place, shall we." Viridi said walking into the Shadow Temple. She immediately came to Dark Link talking to some dog. "Hm? Oh look, the clone that is more unoriginal than Dark Pit and..." Viridi paused as she sensed the third of the triforce. "... The hero of Twilight?! Figures I get to finally meet the real Link in person in he is stuck in that wolf form. At least I don't have to see some human esque form, I guess. So, which Dark Link are you, anyway? Terrible 2D Sidescroller Dark Link? Overrated Zelda Game Dark Link? Oracles? Four Swords? Ooooo, maybe the copy of the Hero of Trains, I heard he was a good one. But maybe you prefer a Link Between Worlds?" Viridi questioned mockingly

[PolarStarQuote]

As the group had made there introductions..Well, introductions was too kind. More just the opening insults to make this mission a pain in the ass. In any case, the group would hear a distant sound. It wasn't the wily UFO, But, the sound of...Disco Funk? No doubt, it was some Funky groove, before suddenly, The Wily Machine Li dropped into the entrance, popping up to it's leg's as wily yelled "STOP! Wait a minute!" Wily called out, his radio inside the wily machine still playing music, A track made by his very own Mars Man, Weider of the Bruno Bomb.



"Grab my buster, put some weapon's on it!" Wily said, singing along with the radio as his machine shimmied into the dungeon, The old man was apparently feeling some variation of groove, and when you gotta dance, ya' just gotta dance. Wily then turned off the radio, gave his legendary mustache and eyebrows a good finger-combing, and looked onto his allies. "Well, i guess i can see who's more technologically Advanced here. I am the BRILLIANT Doctor Wily! Hold your applause, it can wait...Anyone got any idea what were doing here?" Wily asked, not exactly 100% sure what he was even supposed to do here.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

No sooner had all four gathered in the area, the sounds of something obviously ominous could be heard... though it was very faint, a roar from a powerful creature could be heard, it certainly seemed that the creature in question was definately property of their target but the party would not know which creature it was...

That is until a big ball of electricity proved to be the answer, which disipated to reveal something much less sinister than outright perplexing. Though the roar the party heard was deeper in the temple proper, this creature opened its mouth and let loose a roar that made the hair of everyone present in its vicinity stand on end!


The dragon looked at the group, hoping they were not going to attack it out of retaliation for it startling them, though if they did, the dragon would be ready to reciprocate in kind.

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Wolf Link yawned a bit as he sat at his spot in front of the temple for a short bit and was about to lay down before he saw a dark figure walking towards him. At first the hylian-turned-wolf thought that the figure was mearly shaded but then when it came into the light of the Braizers, he knew this wasn't any ordinary being. It looked almost like himself! Aside from the fact that the shadowy figure wore a cloak unlike the acutal link, this one seemed to have a very darker shade. Being an almost pitch-black shade when it came to clothes, skin, hair, everything. But the one thing that seemed to stand out most to Link, was the shadow's dark red eyes that pierced through the dark colour of the rest of it's body, and those very eyes seemed to try and pierce through one's soul too as they seemed filled with evil and hatred.

The wolf then stood up and got into a defensive position as he didn't like the looks of this shadowy person. No...... Shadowy clone of himself. There was barely anything unique about this person whom was standing in front of him. It was but a mere shadow of the hero. The dark side of him, something that he'll conquer and claim victorious over when the time came. But that time is not now, no. Unfortunately he had to let this impostor live for a while as he had to work with him on this mission in order to complete it and move on. But what made WL lose his temper was how that the shadow version of himself picked him up by the throat, leaving the Wolf kicking and growling as he was about to bite one of Dark Link's arms, but was then dropped immediately after he attempted to do so.

Link then moved back when he was dropped and got into an offensive stance as he growled intimidatingly as he could, or at least get the message across to Dark Link that he won't forget that. Like if DL made a bad choice on a TellTale Games.... game. Regardless, when he was told that the shadow version of himself was actually from another era, that didn't make him feel better one bit, and he wanted to hurt this cheap knock-off of himself. But he had to be the better man, er..... wolf, and not do so. Instead he waited for the others to arrive and just ignore Dark Link all together. Turning his head away from DL and walking away, the wolf went to a different spot as he waited for the others to come.

First, was what looked like a young blond girl that was clad in a red dress and seemed to be one with nature itself as flower petals and rocks swirled and were brought to the wooden staff which the girl held. She seemed to be talking to herself, a rather odd thing to do. But not unheard of, much like the other possibility of having a psychic connection with someone else or something of the sort and was talking with them. Viridi then walked up to the two Links and began talking, first giving a tease to DL, and then actually recognising who Wolf Link was without him saying or doing anything. She must have extensive knowledge of his world. Next the goddess began mocking Dark Link again, and again, and again..... and again. Apparently the other incarnations of the Hylian also had to deal with these shadow copies, and most of them sounded quite terrible in performance and quality. Apart from this 'Hero of Trains', whatever a 'Train' was. Regardless, the wolf grinned as the before rude and murder hungry shadow was mocked by what seemed like young girl as Dark Link's many incarnations were mocked as they had no originality.

Next up to arrive, and the last one at that, was an old man who came in riding in a metal machine of sorts that was playing music, and the doctor was singing a parody of the lyrics apparently. When the doctor opened his mouth, it was apparent that this old man had a few more screws loose than that machine of his. Doctor Wily was his name, and being obnoxious seemed to be his game. But the wolf just shook his head and walked up to the old man when Wily questioned what they were doing, Link then motioned his head in a way to tell the loud doctor that they were heading into this temple. That is before a roar was heard from inside and WL turned around quickly as he braced himself for what was coming.

It was a ball of electricity at first, but then afterwards, all of them could see the black dragon-like thing in front of them as it roared and made its presence known to the group. Wolf link got ready to retaliate, but then remembered something. On the mission note, it said that the target had the use of dragons in order to get into and throughout the dungeon. So obviously this black electrical dragon belonged to the target. So the hylian sat at a fair distance from this creature, not too far to say he was afraid, but not to close to threaten it or something of the sort. Instead he waited for it to do something else before he jumped to conclusions. As long as neither one of his comrades did something stupid or idiotic, then they wouldn't have to fight.

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The dark version of the hero couldn't help but laugh at one of the hero's incarnations, clearly thinking it stood a chance against him in it's beast form. As if. Dark Link had abilities he could not yet fathom. Like hell WL would be able to stand against Dark Link. He decided to leave the wolf be, as Viridi came up to him and... what the hell was she going on about? She talked like there not only had been multiple Dark Link's, but that she knew what each of them were. But then she threw in such nosensical terms, and spoke as if he was supposed to understand her prattling.

"What are you going on about, you annoying brat? And how is it that you know what I am?"

Before he could retrieve the answer to his question, an old man in a strange walking machine dancing to a very disturbing tune showed up, and Dark Link drew his sword. He was not going to put up with this, and he was ready to kill someone if he had to in order to make this nonsense stop. Good god, he didn't even fully understand what he was here to do. Dark Link knew what was going on, whether he liked it or not. He was simply here to take down the dungeon the Hero of Time defeated. Screw saving this War Lord.

But suddenly Dragon. That's how it appeared to Dark Link at least, and Dark Link immediately put his shield and got into a battle stand holding his shield out defensively in front of him, while pointing the Dark Master Sword in his possible enemy's direction, ready to jump into combat at any time and take the dragon out.

[Coolshaymin]

"I could tell you, but you're probably too dark minded to understand," Viridi retorted to Dark Link, quite glad Link was enjoying the show. It had to end though as their 4th Party Member arrived. "Technology? Don't make me laugh. Technology is for people that can't defend themselves and do not respect nature unless you are playing a good game or two. Besides, the Lunar Sanctum is more impressive than your bases. To answer your question, we are here to save some warlord guy. I am here to see the place the Hero of Time was through though," Viridi answered.

Then a good old legendary appeared. What was up with Viridi getting stuck with Pokémon? She had enough after that goat in the neverending mission... Which is pretty much all her mission. She noticed Dark Link was about to attack though and raised a tree in front of him to stop him from attacking. "Do not attack the drill tailed dragon you dark minded idiot. He is with the person we was sent to save. Okay, Fido, take us to master," Viridi explained before directing her speech to Zekrom.

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GOSH DARN MOTHA TRUCKIN' METROID SHOOTIN' ZELDA STABBIN' LIGHTNING DRAGONS. WHO, IN RA MOON'S NAME, CAME UP WITH THAT CONCEPT. AND WHERE CAN WILY GO TO MEET HIM?! Wily looked in awe of the roaring beast, that seemingly was waiting for them to make the first move. And sure, in any normal situation like this, wily would of taken the bait and opened up guns blazing...But it seems that would make the group mad, and being hated is not what wily wanted at the moment. Wily coughed, adjusting his tie, before opening his mouth.

"HEY...YOU...YEAH YOU, LIGHTNING DRAGON...STOP THAT!" Wily said, demanding Zekrom quit roaring and startling them.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

The Zekrom looked at all four of them, but out of respect to the nature girl, it lowered its fac to look at the group.

"I could, but I think it wise to see you guys explore the dungeon just like the polar opposite of that dark elf. Not to be rude to you or anything boy, but you would make a good tranee warlord amongst your shadowy kind, if not for the fact that you lack any good desires." it said, its telepathy easily serving as the voice in their minds.

{NOTE: what Zekrom said is what you must do, seeing as the Shadow Temple is linear.
{NOTE 2: Please make sure you look at the map(get a copy of it and use a line method to navigate through the dungeon as depicted in your subsequent posts.)}

[PSYCH]

A couple of stretches, a moment to catch her breath, and Daisy was ready to tackle the Shadow Temple. The announcement of a slot suddenly becoming available in the team had come through late so Daisy had hurried over to Hyrule Crater as quickly as she could without pulling a muscle - she didn't want to be the reason the team was slowed down any more than she could help.

As she took a couple of steps down the mausoleum steps into the darkness, an echoing roar rose up from the depths to meet her sending every nearby torchlit brazier into a momentary flicker. Daisy froze in midstep, a sudden rush of fear washing over her. Taking a deep breath, she punched the stone of the wall beside her with the side of her fist and broke into a run. Forward, not back, deeper into the Shadow Temple before another thought entered her head.

She only had to take a couple of bounding steps before she encountered the party, facing a big dragon. Geez, well, that didn't take long. He seemed... friendly enough, and his voice in her head resonated deep and rumbling like something from the bedrock of the earth.

"You got that right!" She called back to the dragon, her hands resting on her hips, "We're here to explore, and we're here to rescue your master! Hey guys."