“Master Gourry don’t just go barging in there!” Amelia shrieked. “You could get surprised by a monster!”

Gourry was not listening. Gourry was too focused on the mission at hand that he just kept on going despite the possible danger. “Hey what are these?” Gourry wondered out loud.

Amelia flew to his shoulder and took a look around the first room of the dungeon. The floor was dark comprised of dirt, rocks and moss and the walls seemed to be made of wood. Vines hung from the ceiling and clung to the walls like ivy. Besides the light from the dungeon entrance the room was illuminated by little green balls of light that misted through the room. Rows of monster faced statues seemed to have grown from the earth and their eyes were all transfixed on Gourry and Amelia in penetrating glares.

Amelia unconsciously shivered. “This place is creepy.”

“What are these?” Gourry asked again taping one of the statues on the head with his sword.

“Master Gourry don’t do that! You never know if one of those is an armose.”

“What is an armose?”

“Armoses are monster knight statues that come to life if you touch them. They either move very fast or very slow but either way they can be hard to kill.”

“Oh.” Gourry scratched the back of his neck.

There was only one door in the room so they went to it.

“Is it locked?” Gourry wondered out loud touching the door with his hands. In response to his touch the door rose revealing the next room. He looked to Amelia for approval.

“Well let’s go in.”

The next room was much like the previous room, only instead of the statues there was a lone stone box like structure in the middle of the room. There was one door to the left side of the room and another on the right. The left door was locked with visible chains and the right was closed but appeared to be unlocked. Besides that the room appeared empty.

“There’s nothing here!” Gourry exclaimed disappointed. “I wanted to fight some monsters.” Gourry complained. “Maybe there’s some in there.” He went to the door on the right.

“Master Gourry watch out!” Amelia yelled.

Gourry turned just in time to get hit in the face and sent flying. “Owww! AHHH!!!!” He yelled as bones rose from the dirt forming skeleton monsters armed with swords and shields. “What the hell are these things?!” Gourry asked rolling to avoid an attack.

“They’re stalfos, skeletons of dead knights whose souls are tormented and controlled by evil. They are forever cursed to fight whomever disturbs them.”

“Can’t they fight someone else?” Gourry dodged another attack.

“Well it could be worse. They could be throwing those swords at you instead of trying to cut you up with them.”

“Not helping Amelia.” Gourry struck one of the stalfos from behind killing it. “One down and… one to go? Where’s the third one? Ahhh!” Gourry was whacked from behind.

“Master Gourry it’s going to attack you again!!”

Gourry sprung up slashing at the stalfos with his sword. “Last one!” Gourry stared down the remaining stalfos. “Hey what’s that in the skeleton man?”

“I don’t know.” Amelia tried to get closer look at the stalfos but the dead knight retaliated and tried to slice her in two. Thankfully she managed to fly away in time. “Ahhh! It tried to kill me!”

Even though Amelia was high in the air that didn’t stop the stalfos from trying to attack her. But no matter how high it jumped it couldn’t reach her.

“Man that thing is stupid.” Gourry commented.

“Just kill it! My wings are getting tired!”

“Okay!” Gourry sliced the stalfos from behind killing it. A small key fell to the ground in place of where the stalfos was. Magically a couple seconds worth of music played from unknown source.

“Hey a key! What is it for?” Gourry wondered picking the key from the ground dismissing the music that played.

“I betcha it’s for that door.” Amelia said pointing to the door with the chains and lock. As for the music she thought she was just hearing things.

“Oh. Well then let’s go!” Gourry happily walked off to the locked door.

“Master Gourry wait! What about the other door?”

“Oh yeah! I guess we should try that one first.” Gourry nervously laughed.

Amelia sweatdropped.

Gourry walked up to the other door and put his hands to it like he did with the other door. But unlike the first door this one refused to open. “Huh?” Gourry knocked on the door, it didn’t move. “Aww it’s broken. Maybe if I ram it!” Gourry ran back a fair distance.

“Master Gourry I don’t think that will-” Amelia started to say but he wasn’t listening.

Gourry crashed into the stone door, his bones making sickening crunching noises.

“-work.” Amelia finished.

“Owww…” Gourry fell to the ground moaning. Oh and it you’re wondering, the door remained shut.

“There must be a trick to opening the door somewhere in here.” Amelia mused flying around the room.

“But that stoney thing there in the middle of the room is the only thing in here.” Gourry whined getting up. Strangely even though he just hurt half his body by smashing up against a door he seemed to be absolutely fine.

“Hmmm….” Amelia flew over to the stone slab. There didn’t seem to be anything special to it.

“Let’s light it on fire.” Gourry brandished the blue candle and shot a ball of fire at the stone nearly lighting Amelia on fire at the same time.

“Master Gourry!!!” Amelia shrieked. “You can’t use that thing in here!!”

“Why not?”

“We’re surrounded by wood and plants! Do you want to start a fire and burn us alive!?”

“Oh okay. Sorry.” Gourry rubbed the back of his neck. “Well then what should we do?”

Amelia circled the stone structure a couple times. “The moss has grown on it but it doesn’t reach all the way to the base. It’s almost like as if it was moved.” Amelia tried to push it but since she was so tiny it refused to budge.

“You mean like this?” Gourry gave it a little push and the stone block moved forward causing Amelia to crash into the ground.

“Owww…”

“Sorry Amelia.” Gourry apologized. Five successive notes rang throughout the room not all unlike the previous music they heard. The door that refused to open opened up on it’s own. “Hey it worked! You’re smart Amelia.” Gourry flashed her a goofy grin.

Amelia sweatdropped. “I’m not that smart. But where did that music come from?” Amelia wondered out loud.

This was lost on Gourry for he was already walking towards the newly opened door.

“Master Gourry! Wait for me!” Amelia zoomed over towards him trailing dirt in her wake.

“What are those things?” Gourry asked out loud looking up. Little bluish black things hung from the ceiling.

Amelia flew into the room and went to get a closer look at what Gourry was looking at. The things hanging from the ceiling appeared to look like little sleeping bats. Amelia flew down back to Gourry to report. “Those are keeses.” Amelia whispered. “Little bat monsters that fly into their enemies. They’re not that strong, but they can be annoying.”

“Why are you whispering?” Gourry asked rather loudly. This woke the keeses.

“Because I didn’t want to wake them.” Amelia pointed her thumb towards the now awake, angry and squawking keeses flying and ready to attack.

“Oh.”

Instead of targeting Gourry seeing that he woke them up the keeses decided to go after Amelia which was much more smaller then them.

“AHHHH!!!” Amelia screamed dodging numerous attacks from the keeses. Without looking she punched one of them on the nose. The keese recoiled and died.

“Huh? You killed that with one hit!”

“I-ah told- yooou eeek! They’re weeeak!” Amelia yelled out trying to fly away from the bats.

Gourry shrugged. He took his sword and hit two of the keeses like a baseball and they both died. ‘Damn the rest of them are too high up.’ He thought looking up. ‘I can’t hit them with my sword.’ Gourry looked around and spotted the rocks on the ground. He picked up a handful and started throwing them.

“AHHHHHHH!!!! MASTER GOURRY!! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!?!” Amelia screamed out loud as she now had rocks as well as keeses to worry about.

“Sorry Amelia. Just keep flying ahead of them.”

“Easier said then done!”

Gourry threw more rocks and killed most of them there was only one left and it was still chasing Amelia. “Amelia hit it!”

Amelia blindly kicked the last keese killing it. “Stupid keese messed up my hair.” Amelia mumbled feeling her hair which was standing on end in some places.

More music played, but this was shorter and high pitched then the door music. It was more like music they heard when they got the key. To the far right side of the room a little red compass appeared out of no where.

“What’s this?” Gourry picked up the compass.

“Looks like a compass but there isn’t a north marked on it.” Amelia answered hovering over his shoulder.

Suddenly the compass came to life and its’ needle started spinning around like crazy. It stopped in a direction of northeast from where they stood.

“Huh?” Gourry turned his head to the side to get a look at the underside of the compass.

Amelia touched the compass and felt a surge of energy flow through her. “It’s definitely got magical properties to it. It must be pointing to a strong source of magical power.”

“What could be in this place that’s magical like that?” Gourry scratched the back of his head in confusion.

“Umm… Master Gourry why exactly are we in this dungeon for?” Amelia asked narrowing her eyes are Gourry in slight disbelief. ‘He couldn’t have forgotten already, could he?’

“I don’t know. I guess I forgot!” Gourry laughed without a care in the world.

Amelia shook her head. “Master Gourry’s memory is really bad.” She muttered under her breath. “Umm… Master Gourry the first piece of the Triforce. We came here to collect them to save Princess Sylphiel.”

“Oh right!” Gourry grinned sheepishly. “So what’s the compass pointing at?”

Amelia shook her head.

“Well now it’s this interesting.” Xellos mused looking at one of his viewing orbs. “It seems my head that another lamb is ready for the slaughter. Xellos brought the orb over to captive, Princess Sylphiel, to see. “I wonder if this one will do better then the others.” Xellos cackled watching Gourry and Amelia through his orb.

“I wouldn’t be so cocky your dark highness. Soon one will manage to collect all the pieces of the Triforce and come to defeat you!” Princess Sylphiel hissed at the evil prince.

“Oh right you still believe in that stupid hero of time myth. Well soon enough you and your father will have no choice but to give the Triforce of Wisdom to me! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”

Princess Sylphiel closed her eyes and prayed. ‘Please Master Gourry hurry and save Hyrule.’