Lake Hylia (Stage)

Lake Hylia is a stage featured in. Part of Sheik and Impa's quest, it is separated into two halves: the northern half is Lake Hylia itself, and the southern half is the Water Temple. Pieces of Zora's Domain in its frozen state appears in the Lake Hylia portion of the stage.

After rescuing Princess Ruto atop the Death Mountain summit from an enchanted Darunia, Impa and Sheik learn that the Gate of Souls located inside the Water Temple is teeming with monsters being led Princess Zelda. The Hyrulean Forces, now joined by the Princess of Zoras and the Goron chieftain, venture to Lake Hylia to investigate Zelda's apparent change of heart.

The Water Temple
Upon arriving to Zora's Domain, Princess Zelda orders her minions to attack the Hyrulean Forces. The allies, however, use the domain's frozen waterfall to attack from the rear and surprise the Dark Forces, lowering their morale. They soon discover that Ruto is being attacked by a group of monsters, and they quickly rush to help her since she is the only one who knows how to gain entrance to the Water Temple, where Zelda and the Gate of Souls are. After rescuing the Zora Princess from a group of Lizalfos, she heads to the Lakeside Keep to open the floodgates and thus reveal the entrance to the Water Temple.

Using her position as the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda harshly and continually urges the Hyrulean soldiers to cease their attack and instead follow her "royal command". This causes conflicting thoughts within the army and lowers their morale, despite Impa's repeated warnings of not listening to the now obvious impersonator of the princess. In light of this, Ruto suggests that they use the Mirror of Truth, found within the Water Temple, to reveal the identity of the fake Zelda. While the Hyrulean Forces advance to the inside of the temple, the Zora Princess goes underwater to search for the relic. Ruto easily infiltrates the temple from underneath and finds the Mirror of Truth, but before she rejoins with her allies, Zelda closes the hall and imprisons her. Seeking help from the Hyrulean Forces, Ruto instructs them to open the floodgates inside the temple in order to free her. Pulling the two floodgate switches found in the Southeast and Southwest Room of the temple recedes the water from the Central Hall, allowing the allies to rescue the Zora Princess from within. She hands over the Mirror of Truth to Sheik before she retreats from the battlefield.

Using the newly acquired relic, the room where the impostor and the Gate of Souls are located is revealed, and the Hyrulean Forces quickly engage in combat with the impersonated princess. Angered, the fake ruler of Hyrule summons King Dodongo to the battlefield to use as a distraction, but Sheik and Impa defeat the impostor before any grave damage is done. Sheik then uses the Mirror of Truth to reveal the identity of the faker: Wizzro. Surprised as to how they managed to see through his disguise, the mysterious Sheikah reveals that the wizard could not have been Zelda, and afterwards reveals that Sheik is actually Zelda in disguise. Seeing Zelda appear from the disguise of the Sheikah, Impa is overjoyed at the sight of the princess alive, with Zelda apologizing for not having told her before. After Wizzro escapes from them, Zelda and Impa close the Gate of Souls together and stem the flow of monsters from the era of the Hero of Time.