I know my description of the forest isn't like in the game, but I figured I would alter the scenery slightly. Since the Kokiri Forest is supposed to be hidden deep in the woods, I figured it should look like a village hidden in the woods (duh), with little paths leading throughout the area. If this bugs you, I'm really sorry, but it just makes more sense this way for me.


The evil inside of the Great Deku Tree was intense. I could see and feel that it had taken up a great portion of his insides. Monsters roamed freely in his hollowed out trunk, and the stench of evil was worse than it had been out in the forest. Three monsters called Deku Babas (which looked like overgrown Venus Fly Traps gone carnivore) were eyeing me suspiciously, a strange goo leaking from their open mouths. Skullwalltulas (giant spiders with skull patterns on their backs) were crawling around freely on the walls, some even hanging from webs. There was a hole in the floor in front of me, a giant web covering it so no one could go down.

I spent only a few seconds eyeing my surroundings, but then took action. I reached behind me into my pack, that I had picked up just before coming inside, and pulled out a large bow. It was slightly big for me, but with my magic I was strong enough to nock and shoot arrows with ease. I used it to take down the three Deku Babas now snapping at me, and then ran toward the nearest wall. It was covered in thick vines, so I quickly started to pull myself up. Once at the top I followed a strange path, which looked like it had been forcefully added at some point, that followed the outside wall. I passed below the Skullwalltulas, ducking when one of them lunged at me, and continued to what looked like a door. I was just about to open it, when it opened of its own accord.

"Maple?"

"Link?"

Link was standing on the other side, clearly surprised to see me. In his hand was a small slingshot, and hooked to his belt was a small bag for bullets.

"What are you doing in here?" He asked.

"The Great Deku Tree asked me to come in here and help."

"But I don't need help."

"That doesn't matter. He asked, I answered. Now let's go!"

I grabbed his arm and led him to the wall where the Skullwalltullas were crawling. They all stopped and turned to look at us.

Link quickly put a couple of bullets in his slingshot and shot down the closest two before they knew what was going on. But, when the two were down, the third lunged down at us, clearly angry. Since Link was busy trying to grab another seed to shoot it down, I quickly shot an arrow and then turned to throw ourselves out of the way. It landed where we had been standing, dead, the arrow shot clean through its body.

I heard Link gag when I went over and pulled the arrow from its body. Green goop oozed out of the now gaping hole.

"You so sure you don't need my help anymore?"

Link eyed me for a second, before shaking his head. He then stood and wiped off some stray spider blood from his green garbs.

"This wall is climbable, so let's go. We need to hurry, before it's too late." Link nodded and climbed ahead of me.

At the top, we had to dodge a Big Skulltula (which was basically a larger version of the Skullwalltula that hung from the ceiling), and dived through a door around the corner. Once inside, the door locked behind us.

"Now what?" Link asked, looking around.

Navi flew over to an unlit torch. "Well, this torch looks like it was burning not too long ago. Maybe this is a piece of the puzzle to get out?"

Link quickly used a stick to transfer fire from a lit torch to the unlit one. The door opened in response.

Link was just about ready to walk back through the door, when I stopped him.

"Look over there! Across the room! There's a chest!"

"But it's on a ledge! I can't jump that far."

I sighed and walked over to a switch on the floor. I stepped on it and looked back at Link as three platforms rose from the floor, making it possible to get across.

"Now can you?"

Link nodded and quickly started jumping. Just as he reached the far ledge, I felt the switch jump up from under my feet, knocking me off, and sending the platforms back down into the ground. Link returned, using his sword to slash down a Deku Baba, and climbed up a short vine wall to get back to me.

"What is the deal with this place? How is it that all this is inside a tree?"

"Whoever cursed the Great Deku Tree placed all these puzzles in here to protect whatever monster is in here. If we solve all of the puzzles, then we can find this monster and break the curse."

Link nodded, although he looked confused, and then walked through the door he had unlocked earlier.

Back outside, we looked around.

"Now what?" He asked.

I used his map and newly found compass to see where we had left to go.

"The only rooms left are down."

"But how do we get down?"

I didn't answer, and instead shot down the nearest Big Skulltula. When Link grabbed my shoulder to ask me what to do, I grabbed his arm.

"What the-? AAAAAARRRGGGHHH!"

Link screamed as I swung his arm around and threw him over the edge. I quickly jumped after him.

"POINT YOUR FEET!" I screamed, just in time. Link quickly pointed his feet, just as he collided with the giant web covering the hole in the floor, bursting threw it with a 'snap!' The cavern below us was dark, so when I heard a giant splash below, I quickly held my breath and hoped he had moved out of the way.

The water below was icy, and just deep enough that we didn't crash into the bottom.

Link was coughing and had managed to pull himself onto a shallow portion of the small pool. He reached in and pulled me out as well.

"That was fun," I said. He was still sputtering, so his answer was a simple scowl thrown in my direction.

"Wish you-cough-warned-cough-me!"

"But you have to admit, that was cool."

He didn't answer, and instead wrung out his green hat (which, despite the silly pointed shape, looked quite good on him). He then threw it back on his head and looked around.

Now that our eyes were slightly adjusted, we could see that there were a lot more webs covering the walls down here, and there was another unlit torch behind a web. On the other side of the room were some torches, but the ledge to get up there was too high to reach. There was also a door hidden behind a web on the other side of the pool.

Link pulled himself quickly onto dry land and helped me as well. He then stepped on a switch I hadn't noticed before, lighting the torch and sending the web ablaze.

"My guess is, we have to light the web over that door on fire, so we can keep going."

"Probably."

"Wait here."

I watched as he lit another stick and carried it over the water to the other web. He managed to dodge a hidden Deku Baba and lit the web on fire. He cut down the Deku Baba before signaling me to follow.

In the next room, Link quickly pulled out his shield and sent a flying Deku Nut back at a Deku Scrub that had been hidden in the floor. It squealed as it was hit in the face by its own ammunition, and then hopped out of the floor and began to run around the room.

Link ran up to it and raised his sword. Just as Link was about to finish it off, it spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice.

"Please, if you spare me, I'll tell you the secret to getting passed my brothers up ahead."

Link paused, and then looked back at me. I nodded.

"Okay scrub, speak up," I demanded.

"You will never get passed my brothers unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is 2, 3, 1. Twenty-three is number one!"

"Why do we have to punish them in that order?"

"The queen has put a spell on them making them invincible unless they are punished in the proper order. The order is-"

"Yes, we get that!" I said, cutting it off.

"Do you think I'm a traitor?" It squeaked. It then hopped back into its hole and disappeared completely.

Link sheathed his sword, and then gestured toward the next door. "It's still locked."

I sighed and shot an arrow through an eye hanging above the door. The eye shut and then the door opened.

"If we are going to do this, you need to be more observant," I said, putting my bow back in my pack. "Otherwise, you'll never learn how to do this alone."

"You weren't even supposed to be in here with me in the first place, you know. I would have figured it out."

"But by the time you would have figured it out, something would have snuck up behind you and killed you, just like that!" I made a motion with my thumb, dragging it across my throat. "And besides, our destinies are now intertwined. I am supposed to be in here with you."

"Why do you say that?"

I rolled my eyes and opened the door. "It's not something you would understand."

The next room was full of water, with a island floating in the middle of it. On the other side, just far enough away that we couldn't reach it, was the other door. A large pole was spinning above the island, spikes dragging across it.

"Okay, what do we do now, huh?" Link asked, clearly sour. I crossed my arms and sat down on the dirt floor.

"I don't know. You're the hero. You figure it out."

"You're not going to help me?"

"No."

"So, you don't know what to do to get across, then," He smiled.

"Of course I do. I saw it the moment I walked in here."

"Then what do we do?"

"I told you I'm not helping. And besides, you just said you didn't need my help, anyways."

Link frowned and then turned away. I heard him sigh, and then he dove into the water.

Seconds later, the water level dropped, dropping the island a couple of feet so that we could now cross and use it to get to the other side. Link appeared then, and then jumped across. I followed closely behind, being careful to duck below the spikes, and then jumped to the other ledge. Despite his anger, Link turned around and helped me pull myself up.

"I didn't say that I didn't need your help, you know," He said as he wrung out his hat again.

"Yes, you did."

"No, I said that I could have figured it out on my own. I never said that I didn't need your help."

"Well, isn't that the same thing?"

"Kinda. But not really."

"Then how is it different?"

"I don't know. I'm really sorry, okay?"

I felt my heart sink. No matter the fact that I could still hear the anger and hurt in his voice, I could tell that he meant it when he had said he was sorry.

"I'm sorry, too. Let's just get this over with, okay?"

"Okay."

We had to work together to push a block up to the next door. The next room held three torches, one lit, two not. Link knew what to do and lit the other two, opening the next door.

A Skulltula dropped from the ceiling the moment we opened the door. I shot it with my arrow, causing it to spin and expose its belly. Link then finished it off by slashing open its belly, spilling more green goo everywhere.

"Gross," He moaned as he wiped off his sword. He walked forward, and just as he neared the center of the circular room, I noticed dirt falling from the ceiling.

"STOP!"

But I was too late.

A giant, white and red specked egg fell from the ceiling, bursting open and revealing a revolting monster inside. There was really no way to describe it. It had one giant eye and three legs, two of which were trying to slash at Link while the last abled it to walk.

"This way!" I yelled, noticing two more eggs on the ceiling. I didn't want him to get any closer, in case they dropped and hatched as well.

Link slashed his sword at the creature while he backed up toward the door we had just come through. I nocked a couple arrows and destroyed the eggs still hanging above us. When they shattered, killing the creatures inside, Link swung his sword and killed the creature left alive.

"That was close," He mumbled as he put away his sword and shield.

"Too close."

"What was that thing?"

"A Gohma Larve," Navi said, coming out from under Link's hat. "It was hatched from the monster that lives in here, now."

"So, the monster in here that's cursing the Deku Tree... laid those eggs?" Link asked. Navi bounced around in the air and then disappeared back in his hat.

"Good to know," I said, taking a stick from the ground and lighting it from a torch in the corner of the room.

"What are you doing?"

"Getting out of here."

I ran across the room, not wanting the stick to burn away before reaching the web. Just as the web caught fire, the stick burned down to my hands, causing me to drop it to the ground.

"Wow, those burn up fast," I said as Link came up behind me.

"Let's go."

I followed Link through the hole that had just been revealed.

We were back in the room we had fallen into, on the ledge we hadn't been able to reach before. In front of us was another webbed over hole, but nothing to jump from. I quickly helped Link push a block off the ledge so that we could jump below and have a way back up.

Link figured out how to get passed the web fairly quickly. He used the torch that had been lit earlier and lit a stick. As he climbed over the block with the flaming stick, he yelled at me to stand on the web. I did as he said, and then he stood next to me and bent down and lit the web on fire.

We fell like before, but not as far.

The water down here was even colder, and when we swam out, we realized there were three Deku Scrubs ahead of us.

"Remember; 2, 3, 1."

"I know," He replied.

It didn't take long, and when Link had reflected the last Deku Nut, the scrub told us that in order to beat Queen Gohma, we had to strike while she was stunned. It then squealed a sorry to the empty air and ran off.

There was a giant door waiting for us ahead.

"This is it," I said. I could feel the evil coming from the door. This was the source of the evil spreading through the Deku Tree and the forest. This is where the fight ended. "You ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be."

As he walked over to open the door, I spoke, causing him to stop and turn.

"You did say you didn't need my help, by the way."

"When?"

"When we first met up in here."

Link smiled. "Looks like I was wrong, then."

He opened the door.


Sorry it's a little long, but I wanted to try to see how writing about getting through a dungeon would go. I think it turned out good. Tell me if it turned out okay, because if not I won't go into such detail about dungeons again (for the sake of your boredom). :) Hope you enjoyed it