Walkthrough: The Water Medallion

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[shadow=dimgray,left,300]THE WATER MEDALLION[/shadow]

The Ice Cavern
In order to get to the water temple, you're going to need the Zora Tunic and the Iron Boots. Go to Zora's Domain and pass the frozen King Zora to the area where Jabu-Jabu used to be. Cross over the series of unstable ice platforms to an entrance on the left side. Break the icicles on the floor and watch for falling ice above.

Kill the enemies in the room with the spinning spike to open the door ahead. Watch for falling icicles as you walk down the next hallway. In the room with the iceberg with two bladelike extensions, collect all the crystals to open the gate above the two small ledges.

Cross down the next hall, avoiding falling icicles and spikes. When the Freezzard spits its freezing breath at you, wait for it to stop and slice it up before it can recover. Go down the steps and watch out for the flying ice bats above. Climb the ledge on the right and kill the Freezzard on top. Get the hearts if you need them and jump over the ledge to the blue flame.

Capture the blue flame in a bottle to use on the 'red ice' covering various things in the level. The pot further down the way has a purple rupee in it and the treasure chest contains the map.

Have all of your bottles filled with the blue flame and go to the room with the spinning iceberg. To the room on the left is a hallway with a compass and a heart piece along with another blue flame to refill your bottles. Watch out for incoming bats, though.

Go back out and find the second wall covered with 'red ice.' Walk through this hallway to the room with the big block sitting on the floor. Kill all of the bats that are flying around first and then push the block so that it doesn't fall off the side. Make sure you have your bottles filled with the blue flame and push the block to the entrance on the left side where you just entered. Cross the hall and kill the two ice statues while dodging falling icicles. Once you get to the small red icebergs, pour the flame on them and enter the door.

Fight off the Ice Wolfos the same way you'd fight off a normal one. Get the Iron boots from the treasure chest and go through the hole behind the chest for a short exit to the level. Make sure you have one bottle of blue fire before leaving.

Pour the fire over King Zora and he will give you the Zora Tunic in return. Using the Serenade of Water melody that Sheika just taught you, warp to the Water Temple.

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Lake Hylia's Water Temple
From the get-go, drop into the water and swim along the right wall to a ledge. When you get there, equip your Iron Boots and drop down to the floor. Go to the tunnel lighted by the torches, and you'll see Ruto swimming upwards. Go to the spot where she started swimming upwards, and take off your boots.

Eventually, you'll see a triforce symbol on the wall, and that's your cue to play Zelda's Lullaby to force the water level lower. Go through the door and grab the Dungeon Map from this room. Go back and drop down and you'll be in a room with two unlit torches and a lit one. Light the other two torches with your magic or with arrows. Go through the now unblocked door, and kill the clams in there. Now go back into the main room.

Hug the wall to your left, bypass the tunnel and go to the next tunnel with a block in your way. Push the block forward until it drops, then jump down and go through the tunnel and on to the other side. Activate the little diamond switch, and use the geyser to boost yourself to the other side of the room (if you fall, use your hookshot to get back up). In this next room, you'll see a very large whirlpool. Put on your Iron Boots again, and stand on the pipe facing the stone head.

You'll see a gem switch in the large mouth, so use your hookshot to activate it. Then turn and aim your hookshot to the underwater tunnel. Go to that tunnel, take off your boots and go up to grab a key. Use your hookshot and equip your Iron Boots to allow yourself to get out of the tunnel, then take off your boots and get out of the pool. Now, get back to the main room.

Use your hookshot and get out of the hole, and make your way back to where the block you pushed is still on the floor. You can use your hookshot from here to get out.

Now go through the locked door that leads into the tower of the main room. Hookshot your way to the Triforce symbol, and play Zelda's Lullaby again to change the water level. Equip your Iron Boots, and now you'll see a block that was on the floor, now floating above a passageway.

Go through this tunnel and hit the switch you'll find in the room with a hookshot symbol. Be careful, as enemies start to fall from the ceiling. Kill them all to open another gate in the ceiling. Float to the surface by taking off your iron boots, then collect the key from the chest.

Equip your Iron Boots, and go back to the Triforce symbol near the place you met Ruto. Use a bomb and open the crack that's on the wall to get another key. Now go back up the water level in the main room, and go through the next locked door. Here, you'll need to stand on a geyser and shoot another switch with your bow and arrow. Go through this door, and play Zelda's Lullaby again in front of the Triforce symbol you see in the next room.

Go into the water and go through the next locked room you see. Here, you'll want to hop down a couple of times and onto a moving block. Wait until you're pretty low on the block, and use your hookshot to aim for the targets you see as you make your way up the next side.

Hookshot the switch in the middle of this room to raise the water, then hookshot the statue close to you. Shoot the switch again, and the water level will change. Walk to the corner of this platform and hookshot the target on the wall to proceed to the next platform. You can just climb the statue, and shoot the switch again, raising the water level. Hookshot the next statue to move on, and hit the switch again, lowering the water. Get yourself on top of the statue, and hit the switch again to allow you to move on.

Killing various enemies, you're going to want to hookshot the target placed on the ceiling, and then you'll go through a door taking you to one of the more breathtaking scenes of the game. I don't think I should spoil this part of the game for you, because this is a great part of the level. The enemy you'll encounter is tough, though, and you'll need a combination of your hammer and sword for a stun/attack combo. If you get the chance, you should also try and unleash some Din's Fire.

When the enemy is defeated, you'll now see the illusion disappear, revealing a door that contains the Longshot. Equip your Ocarina now, and look behind the Longshot treasure chest. The Song of Time song should make that block evaporate, allowing you to drop down a hole. Now you're at a river. Equip your Iron Boots to get through the river, making sure not to get sucked in to the pool. On your left, you'll find another platform you can get on by shooting yourself up with the longshot. Equip your arrows, and shoot the switch you see on the other side of the room so you can access a treasure chest soon.

Hookshot the chest and open it to get a key. Go down the tunnel and you'll be able to get yourself back to the main room. Equip the Iron Boots again, and go back to the Triforce symbol near where you met Ruto to change the water level again using Zelda's Lullaby. Now, get yourself back to the main room.

Get into the tower and make your way to that particular Triforce symbol, and play Zelda's lullaby once again. Now get out of the tower, and make your way to the last side of the room you haven't been to yet. Hookshot your way over there after using an arrow on the eye switch. Go down the tunnel until you get to another mobile block. Push it forward and the key on your right. Now go the other way and Hookshot up the ceiling and go down the hall and into the main room again.

Equip the Iron Boots and go to the bottom level. Go to the section located on the top part of your map. Hookshot yourself over the spikes and unlock the door.

Here, kill the spiders using any means necessary, though I find the arrows work the best. Equip the Iron Boots to go to the other side of the room, and go through that door.

Go down to the ledge next to you, on your right, and use a bomb to blow up the crack in the wall. Before you go through the newly opened wall, you'll want to swim across to the left platform and blow up the off-color bricks. Go through this passage, and push the big block in front of you, and then pull the block by going to the other side of the passage. Go to the other side of the passage again, and push the block until it falls on a switch, which will rise the level of water. Swim up and go through the door with steps in front of it. Step on the switch, and geysers will pop up. Jump to each of these geysers to make your way onto the other side, though you can usually make the jump from the second geyser if you're running out of time.

Be careful for the boulder here and head against the current and drop down (using the Iron Boots) the small opening below where the boulder usually lands. Go through this tunnel, and, at the end, swim up and go through a locked door, which is where you'll get a Boss Key. There are two fairies in the pots behind the boss key treasure chest. Make your way back to the main room again.

Now, go through the door that has a red block in front of it. You'll now see a target to which you could use your Hookshot. Go through the door in the back, and you're close to the boss. Just try to make your way past a few moving spikes on an incline (time your run appropriate to the movement of the spikes, you'll get it soon). Go through the Boss Door.

Boss: Morpha
Morpha is the boss in this level, and it's not as tough as others you've already met. With this boss, just avoid the tentacle that will try to grab you by using your hookshot to get back to the outer edge of the room. When you do that, and when the tentacle is retreating, use your hookshot and target its heart (the red pulsing thing). When you do that, you'll be able to hack at it with your sword. Repeat the cycle, and you'll soon be done.

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