Goddess Send

Act 1

From Nightmare to Reality

A/N: Alright, thankfully not much to change in this chapter. Got rid of those childish Tsukasa/Karen opening notes and ending notes (thank god) and adjusted Link's "Knowledge" of not killing a mother's newborn spiders... yeah. anyways. Enjoy all :)

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What a day… Link sighed silently. From being woken from a nightmare by an annoying fairy, he ended up walking into a true nightmare… A nightmare that bit, clawed, and shot deku nuts at his deku nuts.

But Link was strong… He had to be in order to stay alive. The only Kokiri that was ever nice to him was Saria. Everyone else? A bunch of hoodlums who picked on him night and day, to the point where he usually slept with a long, thick deku stick right next to his bed, just in case he got… Attacked, again. But this…. This was something on an entire different level! This was truly thrilling!

"Link!" the energetic fairy, Navi, pecked at him, "I think you've rested enough! We need to keep going!"

Link stretched his arms wide as he sat up. He had been trekking around the inside of the Great Deku Tree for several hours, yet all he had found was a little slingshot, though he knew better than to mock it, even in thought. It had actually saved him from a rather interesting trap: A stone block floated inside the room he found the slingshot. When he first entered, he managed to jump from an alcove onto it, then from it to a higher platform. What he didn't expect was the platform to nearly impede him from getting to the higher ledge by dropping beneath him, crumbling into potentially hazardous sharp and pointy rubble. He didn't understand how the stone platform was floating in the first place, but after it fell, Link realized that, without the high floating perch, he couldn't reach the exit.

He thanked the Deku gods that a ladder hung over the door, which he used the slingshot to knock down. Without it, he would have ended up stuck in the room forever. In fact, he wouldn't have noticed the ladder if it weren't for his fairy partner. But he had to agree with her. Enough rest; Time to work.

"We've been in here a while, Navi. How long does the Great Deku Tree have?" Link inquired. He was quickly growing concerned over the Deku Tree's health.

"I really don't know, Link. All we can do is hope we can destroy this curse in time to save him." Navi flew over to the door, Let's go"

He didn't have time to worry. He only had a little further to go, he could feel it. No, he knew it.

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"Navi, do you remember that riddle the deku scrub mentioned?" Link asked as he floated in a small pond of water, keeping watch on a trio of deku scrubs who were returning his gaze. It didn't take a genius to figure out these three were the ones who guarded "Quennie's " chamber.

"23 is number one" Navi replied before flying over to the first of the three Link should target. He loaded a seed into his slingshot band, then fired. The scrub screeched before standing straight up, whining a high pitch cry every few seconds.

"Well, that's annoying…" Link groaned before firing at the next scrub, who mimicked his brother. In the few seconds he had been shooting the deku scrubs, he already wanted to slice them into little pieces. "Really annoying…" he growled as he shot the final scrub, who shot up and began running around the room. Link flew to his feet and ran over to the deku's flower hole before he could return to it.

"Ah! Darn it!" the scrub whined before being cut off.

"Enough whining!" Link shouted, getting right in the scrub's wooden face, Navi floating away from him slowly.

"O… ok!" the deku scrub whimpered, "I guess I'll have to tell you Queen Gohma's weakness"

"Gee, aren't you the loyal one." Link muttered.

"…." The deku scrub stared at Link for a few moments.

"What?" Link tapped around his face with his right hand, checking if he had deku baba juice on it.

"Well, go see Queennie. Sorry for the trouble" The deku scrub then dove into his flower bed.

"…" Link stared at the flower for about ten seconds silently, trying to register in his mind what had just happened.

"Way to go, Link" Navi finally spoke.

"Ah, who needs tips. I can handle this Gohmon thing!" he cocked his head back and laughed heroically… or at least, he tried to sound heroic.

"Sure." Navi sighed, "Let's just get going"

Link nodded, then walked through the now opened door. Though he acted tough, he was truly scared. The rush of adrenaline he had when he first entered the giant tree had died, and he knew that the cuts and scratches he had from the smaller monsters were nothing. If these beasts called Gohma a queen, then she had to be strong.

The darkness of the room as well as the eerie mist didn't help the fright he held, "Where… do you think that Gohman thing is?" He asked, his voice shaky as he slowly stepped deeper in the room.

"What's the matter, Link? You scared?" Navi teased.

"N-no-" at that moment a barrier slammed down behind them, "Yeep!" Link cried out before regaining his composure, "No, I'm not scared. I'm fine!" Link then, with his chin held high, marched forward, glancing to his left or right every few moments. Where's Gohmin at? His eyes finally caught something odd on the ceiling: an orange eye. A grotesque churning sound hummed out as the eye rolled into it's owners head before rolling back out as it crawled along the ceiling. "Wha… What the… heck is that?"

Gohma dropped down to the ground, crawling a little further before she stood, roaring in front of Link, "That…. Is a BIG spider…" Link whimpered, "Uh… Navi… I'm scared now…" Link then shook his head. Did I actually say that?! He drew his sword, Now's not the time to choke up! He charged forward, slashing at Gohma, only to have his sword bounce off of her skin, a creamy fluid reflecting the blows, "What the heck?"

"It looks like some sort of defensive membrane, like a shield!" Navi exclaimed, "You'll have to find a weakness!"

A weakness… a weakness, a weakness- "Gah!" Link rolled to the side as Gohma slammed one of her right legs to the ground, the impact shaking from the ground up Link's legs. Oh crud… Link gasped, his heart racing, This is insane… if that would have hit me… Gohma's glowing red eye and creepy growl snapped him back to attention as she slowly approached him. What kind of weakness could she ha- Despite the situation, Link couldn't help but slap himself in the face, which, besides letting himself know he was an idiot, also helped get him back in gear.

Her eye!

Link whipped out his slingshot just as Gohma began to rear back, preparing to strike Link, all the while her eye changed from yellow-orange to a blood red, "And… Fly!" he released the seed, nailing it right in Gohma's eye.

Gohma released a horrid shriek, then slammed to the ground, her shiny defensive coat oozing off of her to reveal her tender shell, "Link, now! Strike now!" Navi shouted.

"I kinda figured!" Link leaped forward, sword drawn, and pummeled Gohma with his blade, stabbing, swiping, anything he could as quickly as possible, "Die!" he shouted, the truth dawning on him that she was as tough as she looked, and she proved it as she shot back onto her legs, knocking Link onto his back.

Though it did hurt, with the shape of his sheath indenting his spine, Link quickly rose to his feet, looking around to notice Gohma was gone, though he could still hear her crawling.

Crawling…. His eyes flew to the ceiling, Where Gohma held herself, twitching violently, "What's she doing?" he asked, confused on her sudden cowardice of hiding on the ceiling.

"Don't let you're guard down, Link!"

"Well, isn't that obviously a bad thing to do, Navi? It's pretty clear to me that I should keep my wits high" he snapped at the fairy before grinning, though the grin was quickly wiped off as a pulsating clump of flesh landed in front of him, "Wait a sec..." He quickly realized what that, along with the other two, lumps were, "Eggs. She's can't fight her own battle!" he brought his sword up as the larva burst from their mobile wombs, then brought it down in a taunting fashion, his grin returning once more, "Come on!"

The Gohmi's, as Link personally named them, screeched loudly before, one by one, jumping towards Link. The first two fell in a single slash, but the third jumped much more quickly, slamming into Link.

His spine felt his sheath's shape once again as he slammed onto the floor, the Gohmi slashing at him with it's feet, "Gah, get- Off of me!" Link brought the butt of his sword to the side of the annoying little bug, knocking it off of him. It didn't give him much time to recover, immediately lunging at Link again, however, the attack didn't turn out as well as the first; "Die, you little!" Link thrust the Kokiri sword through the smaller monster's eye. "Heh" he chuckled to himself as he drew his blade from the Gohmi's oozing eye, "How's that, you big ugly-"

At that moment, with a nerve severing screech, Gohma slammed to the ground, her front left leg already in the air, "What the-" Link was cut off, and almost not just verbally, as Gohma's leg smashed into the young Kokiri's stomach, lifting him into the air and propelling him all the way across the room, ending with the pillar he slammed into shattering, and what felt like his bones, as he fell to the ground, "That…" he was frightened enough; the sight of his own blood appearing on the ground as he coughed hardly fazed him, "Hurt… a lot…"

"Link!" Navi bobbed over his head, "Come on! Get up! It'll hurt even worse if you don't fight back!"

Excellent argument, Link concluded as he rolled onto his stomach. Despite the striking pain in his right shoulder and the left side of his ribs, he still could move. Rather well, actually, and also realized that the blood was due to his biting his cheek when he impacted the pillar. He began to stand, thanking the Deku gods once again for allowing his hand to keep a tight grip on his sword. He thrust his blade into the ground to help himself balance, immediately feeling a ping of guilt as he realized he had actually just stabbed the Great Deku Tree.

This guilt was quickly shrugged off as he saw Gohma storming towards him, her mission to finish the job clear in her eye. He brought his slingshot level with Gohma's eye, then traced it as she moved; she wasn't making it easy. She was obviously a little upset about her babies dying before her eye… but only a little. This anger made her move far faster, though she still took her time rearing back to strike, "And… Fly!" Link shouted, watching his seed follow his command and fly true right into Gohma's eye. With her defenses down, Link began another onslaught of slashes, "Die! Die! Die already!" Link shouted, the pain in his stomach growing in intensity with every single movement. Yet, despite his efforts, Gohma rose once again…

But stumbled slightly, giving Link a chance, "Link, now!" Navi screamed.

"Haaa-" Link hopped onto Gohma's extended front right leg then jumped up, bringing the Kokiri sword straight down into Gohma's eye, "HAAA!"

She didn't move. Even as Link's weight caused the sword to slowly slide through her flesh before finally slipping out as Link touched ground. He must have done it. She's dead… "Hah… Haha!" Link began laughing, then froze as Gohma lurched into the air, screeching her spider lungs out painfully, before finally falling to the ground one last time, groaning weakly, sputtering a growl… and then she was dead. Her body burned into blue flames then disintegrated, which Link figured meant that, being the source of it, the curse had been lifted.

"Let's hope that we finished in time…" Navi sighed.

"Ha hahahaha!" Link burst out laughing again before falling against one of the pillars in the room.

"Link!" Navi flew to his side, "Are you okay?"

"Heh… another dumb question, Navi" Link breathed a sigh of relief, "But yeah, I'm… intact." He shrugged his right shoulder slightly, "I think I knocked my shoulder out of position… Not the first time though. Dunno about my chest though." he laughed again, "Although, other Kokiri were tougher than that big ugly spider."

Navi's concerned stare snapped him out of his calm façade, "All right. I get it. I'm hurt. Sooner we get back to my house, the sooner I… can…" His eyes had caught an odd, heart shaped object floating where Gohma had burned away, "What's that thing?"

Navi flew to and hovered above the object, "I.. I dunno. It looks like one of those heart gummi's the enemies sometimes dropped…" Navi concluded.

Link was there holding the object in a heart beat, pulling at the sides of it, "There's a weird… film, over it."

"Maybe you're supposed to- Hey!" Navi cried out as Link took a bite out of the outer layer, then laughed as he spit it out.

"P-toah!" Link coughed, "That's horrible! It tastes like grass!" he shook his head with his tongue out before noticing the red fluid oozing out of a small hole his teeth had made through the plastic like cover. He didn't hesitate, holding the heart high- with his left arm, of course- and downing the liquid. As he swallowed each mouthful, he felt the pain in his arm and chest fade.

"Uh… Link?" Navi floated next to him as he took a breath and wiped the specks of red off of his lips.

"Tastes like… strawberries, kind of" he smiled, "My arm feels better. My chest too" he patted his shoulder, immediately flinching, "Ugh..!"

"Guess it only dulled the pain huh?" Navi ask, though she too flinched as she heard Links muscles groan.

"Just… a little…" his bone then snapped loudly, "There!" he patted his shoulder again, "Feels better already!"

"Link, what did you just do?" Navi floated closer to his arm.

"My shoulder wasn't broken, just out of place. I'm really glad that heart container numbed down the pain. I wouldn't have been able to snap it into it's slot if it had hurt as bad as it did before." He then spun his arm like a fan before thrusting it out, once again flinching, "It's still a little sore though."

"When did you learn how to push your bones back into position?"

"About 2 months ago. Gigu and Eri decided to ambush me at the Lost Woods entrance cliff. The dummies jumped on me and rode me right to the bottom. Knocked my left shoulder out of place. Took me a while to finally touch it without hurting up a storm, but I found out it felt… odd. So I continued to check it every day and found that I could move it. Took a while, but I finally just shoved it back into its slot!" Link brought both hands above his head, stretching with a load groan escaping his lips.

"That's… horrible…" Navi was appalled. How much had this kid gone through in his life? He had told her when they first entered the Great Deku tree that he was picked on a lot, but… wait…

"Ah, that's not that bad. Mido's done much, much worse." He laughed again, answering Navi's question just before she burst out.

"The Great Deku Tree!" she looked around frantically, "How do we get out of here? We have to go talk to him, tell him everything's all right!" She spotted a blue circle of light, "This! This might be a way out!"

"Navi!" Link shouted as he walked over, "Calm down!" he smirked as the blue fairy shot a glare at him, "He's probably fine. I'll bet he's laughing with the spirit of life flowing through him as we speak" he stepped into the light, feeling an odd fuzziness in his stomach as he floated up into the ceiling and out of the giant tree.

But he was wrong… Horribly wrong….

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A/N: Again, not very much change, thankfully. Seems this first chapter held it's weight over the years. Next chapter will probably have very little too, but who knows until I start editing!