[EDITING] The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Dungeon Chapter 66 - To the Wings

...and back towards the central chamber of the Temple. Shortly into their progress, they reached the elevator Link had noted before, though now from the upper level. Hira stopped at it and turned back into his human form to untie the knot attaching it to the railing.

He pulled back his fingers, flexing them after a moment, as the knot reminded tied. He motioned to Link and then the knot. "You want to give it a go?"

Link drew the Master Sword, before flicking the blade briefly over the rope. The lift groaned as its weight shifted from being freed, before slamming down to the floor.

A few seconds later, there was a clattering inside one of the chambers beneath them. Insen came rushing out, a deep, brown glow wrapped around his hands in a poor defensive stance.

"Who's out there?" Insen demanded at the room beneath the rafters, before he turned to look up. "Hira! What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? We've got to help the others!" Hira called down. "Come on, we're going to find the twins."

Insen recoiled at this, magic winking out as he started to smooth his robes. Hira leaned further over the railing. "Insen, come on! We can't leave everyone out there, we're the elders here, we've got to look out for the kids."

This sent Insen's ears plastered to his head as he scowled up at Hira. "Elders, is it? Hira, the last I checked only one of us was ready to retire."

"It's our job to help, Insen," Hira insisted with a bit of warning.

"I concur, it would seem like a failure of duty as a Sage to leave this threat ignored and your other Sages unassisted," Endeavor called down.

Insen rolled his eyes and huffed in defeat. "Fiiine, fine, you're right." He half stomped to the lift, before pulling the lever to ride it up to the rafters with them. Smoothing his hair again, Insen said, "I'm here, your lives all just got better, shall we go?"

"Thanks for joining us," Hira replied, his own hesitance seemingly left behind in the previous room. Not that Link could blame them. Whatever had come through the Temple and Cleff was massive, and Link still wasn't sure how they would fight if, even if they might be able to reverse its effects now.

Hira turned back into his large, wolf-ish dark gray fox form, and Insen followed in a vibrant yellow gold flash. The two Keaton pressed on, with Link and Endeavor in tow.

The stage was still silent as they returned to the center of the Temple, and any commentary that might have been risked on the catwalks vanished in a breath when they reached the central chamber. The sunlight in the auditorium was gone, only small brief beams of it filtering passed the shadow monster as it blotted out the entrance.

The path ahead of them crossed the stage all the way to the other wing of the Caverns, but outside of the massive hollow stalagmites singing the Song of the Earth, there was no cover and there was only the one path ahead. And the stage certainly wasn't out of the shadow's search.

"What do we do now, Hira?" Insen asked in a soft hiss.

Hira sent a glare back over his shoulder, before looking back the shadow. His tails swept the catwalks slowly, before he backed up on the catwalks next to Link. "Alright, Insen, you're with Ms. Endeavor. Cross when Green here and I get halfway across."

"We're splitting up? Oh, that just sounds brilliant, Hira," Insen retorted, not hiding his sarcasm in the slightest.

"It will spot us more easily as a group," Endeavor whispered. "Hira's plan is sound."