A/N: Ok so the internet in my residence has been down for awhile and I dont have time to keep coming to the library to work on this story, not to mention the battery in my laptop sucks all so I really have limited time. I'll try to have the next chapter written this week if I dont have too much work past Monday(I have a test then) but my family and boyfriendis coming down for Easter so I wont have time to work on anything this weekend. I want to thank everone who went from my other story to this one, it means a lot you're sticking with it, and I know I'm having a lot of fun writing it, I hope you all enjoy reading it!
Link looked down at the little Deku Scrub that stood before the Clock Tower silently crying. She was so small but had such a great determination to help her people, just like Misty had to save Hyrule. Just thinking along those lines sent a need through his mind to help her, and why shouldn't he? He was still the Hero of Time after all, and Tatl did just finish saying that they should go to the Swamp anyway.
"Of course I'll help you, we can figure out what's poisoning the swamp together." He said in a gentle voice.
"Oh thank you Link." Mikado said, her eyes brightening again. "But before we do anything else, you should go see the Great Fairy here again, remember how she asked should you ever return to your normal form to go see her?"
"Yeah, but we went back in time, she'll be broken again." Tatl cut in.
"That's no problem, I can go pick up the piece of her that's in the Landry Pool." Miki said and hurried off.
"Do we really have to help her?" Tatl whined.
"She helped me all through those three days and never said anything about it, it's the least we can do. And besides, you just said we should go check that area out and what better way to explore the swamp then with someone who lives there?" Link reminded her.
"True, but she's so small and doesn't look much like a fighter."
"It doesn't matter what she looks like, appearance isn't everything. I've learned that people can always surprise with how much they are capable of doing, after all, she did come all the way here from the swamp on her own, that has to count for something."
"True…" Tatl finally said.
The two fell silent as they waited for Mikado, and when she finally came back with the fairy clamped between her hands, the three made their way to North Clock Town.
When they entered into the fairy's' cave Miki again let the fairy go and then stepped back to allow Link to talk to her.
"Oh, Tatl, and you, kind young one!" The Great Fairy started. "Thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. Oh kind young one. Scattered throughout the four temples of this land are broken stray fairies like me. Please find a way to save them and return them to their fountains. Surely, they will add to your strength. Allow me to grant you something good so that the stray fairies will not fear you." The Great Fairy handed Link a mask, which was fashioned to look exactly like the face and hair of the Great Fairy. "Come see me whenever your quest has made you weary." She finished and then disappeared.
"That must be why my own Great Fairy would not answer my calls, her body has been broken just as this one has." Miki said from behind Link.
"Don't worry," Link said turning around to face her. "We'll find all the Great Fairy pieces in the Temple at the swamp; you just need to lead us to the temple."
Miki looked slightly uncomfortable for a moment but then nodded her head. She turned around and moved out of the cave, Link following behind. They moved back through to South Clock Town and towards the gate that lead out of the town, but the Guard there stopped Link.
"Stop right there! Have you some errand in the swamp? It is dangerous outside the town walls, so I cannot allow a child like you to….A sword?" The guard asked, looking over Link's shoulder. "My apologies sir. It was wrong of me to treat you like a child. The Southern Swamp at Woodfall lies in this direction. Be careful."
"That was odd, why didn't he stop you too?" Link asked as they moved through the gate.
"Think about it Link, I'm a Deku Scrub, I live in the Swamp I know my way around there and how to avoid the dangers. I'm not a citizen of this town; he couldn't keep me there even if he had wanted to unless I had committed a crime." Miki commented as they stepped outside the walls.
They had stepped out onto a huge wooden platform that spanned out from the gate. Tall wooden posts stood in two lines leading from the platform to a tunnel that was also made from wood, and past that, a forest with a path leading into it. Bare trees spotted the grassy area here and there, the observatory to the far left, against a rock wall. As they moved towards the swamp, Link could see two of the other areas in the distance, one looking like a beach, the other devoted of any life at all with tall stone buildings.
As they came in line with one of the large trees next to the beginning of the path, Tatl stopped and flew over to the base of it.
"Oh! I remember this!" She said looking at a drawing of the Skull Kid and the two fairies. "Tael and I drew this with the Skull Kid when we first met him….He told us that he had been fighting with his friends and that they had left him all alone…" Tatl fell silent lost in memories for a moment before she spoke again in a quiet voice. "I'm sure it was because he was always playing tricks, so nobody wanted to play with him. But to do what he did just because of that…And once he got his power…" She fell silent and hid in Link's hat, which was the cue that they should move on.
They followed the path through the trees and it winded up into a larger area. Two other paths broke away from the one they were on, one with trees still lining it down to their left, the other defined by rock walls, leading ahead of them. There were a couple of small blob like monsters around here, and also a large black tree that looked dead, bad bats flying around the bare branches. The only other being in the area was a man dressed all in green with red shorts that hovered well above the ground by a large red balloon, and he seemed to be writing something on a piece of paper. Miki lead them down the path that was lined with the rock walls, and as Link passed the black tree, he looked up at it and shivered.
The path they had chosen went on for a couple moments before they turned a corner, and it opened up into a large area. The grass beneath their shoes ran for a couple more feet before it was swallowed by dark, cloudy looking water. The water was still all the way to the rock wall that stood a good couple feet from the grass, and then branched out to the left and right. To the left Link could see it trailed along and around another corner, strange plants and flowers surrounding the water, lily pads also floating calmly on top of the surface. To the right the water trailed through a cave in the rock, but the view was blocked by a giant octork. At the edge of the water was a wooden walkway that lead to a ladder, leading up to a wooden building, a Deku Scrub seller on the corner looking around with a board expression.
"Why don't we just hop down along the lily pads to get to the temple?" Link asked as they walked across the walkway.
"There's another octork that blocks the way we need to go, if we take the swamp boat tour though the boat will kill the octork and then we can continue on our way." Miki replied as she climbed up the ladder and entered the building.
The building itself was fairly simple, only a couple pictures decorated the walls. There was a large open counter to the very far left where a guy was standing, looking at a clock on the wall. In front of them was a more enclosed window, with a small note sitting on the counter.
"Old Koume's Boat Cruise Ticket office closed." Miki read. "Please inquire at the Magic Hags Potion shop near the edge of the swamp." Miki said as she sighed and looked to Link. "Apparently we will have to hop across some lily pads a short ways, the potion shop isn't that far from here, just around the first bend."
The two moved out of the building and back down the ladder, Miki moving to the first lily pad as she waited for Link to transform back into a scrub. Once he was ready they hoped one after another across a line of lily pads as they moved deeper into the swamp, though as she said, it wasn't far. Just after they passed a couple large plants, a sign on the edge of some solid ground declared that the potion shop was that way. Once they were on the ground they moved side by side down the path that twisted and turned a couple times and then entered into another large circular area. There was a small waterfall that fell to the far right of them, so that the center of the area was covered by a small pond. In the center of the pond was a large barge that surrounded the trunk of a tree that held another platform at its top which was the dry land for the house that seated on top, which, to Link, looked like a giant tea pot. Link changed back to a human on the advice of Miki and moved up the ladder and entered into the house.
The shop was moderately dark and clouds of smoke floated around the ceiling. There were assorted jars lining the walls of the small shop, some empty, and some holding other ingredients and even potions. At the far end there was a counter which also held three different kinds of potions. Sitting behind the counter was the twin witch, and it took Link a good moment to calm his jumpy nerves and to go over and talk to her, even though she looked exactly like one of the witches he and Misty had fought before.
"Are you by chance a boat cruise customer?" She asked and continued when he nodded. "How unfortunate Koume has gone into the woods out back looking for mushrooms…..Hmmm….Now that I think about it, she's a bit late coming back! Say, could you go find her for me?"
"Sure," Link said, "But I don't even know where to start looking for her in those woods."
"Hmmm, yes. It's easy getting lost in those woods. Ask the monkeys that live there."
Miki and Link gave the old hag a small wave and then moved back outside, going down the ladder and sloshing their way through the water to get to the woods. As soon as they entered there was a small monkey there, and Link asked if it had seen a witch, though why he was talking to a monkey he didn't know.
"Hmmm, follow me." The monkey replied, and then hoped off towards the left through a small path.
Link didn't even have time to ask Miki if all the monkeys talked around here because she had run off after him. They followed the animal through the woods, which was very bland looking, only trees and a couple shrubs here and there. When they got deeper though, they ran into turtles which would sink into their shells and fly at them, spikes lining their shells. At one of those points Link picked Miki up and carried her on his back, not wanting the small little wooden girl to get caught by one of the spikes. Just when Link was starting to wonder if monkey fur could be worn, they came through one of the paths and the witch was laying facedown on the ground, two other monkeys next to her. When Link and Miki approached the Monkeys ran off, and the witch looked up at them.
"Ohh! Owow-ow! Help meeee! I was just busy minding my own business, picking mushrooms when….BAM! I got hit from behind! That pesky Skull Kid! Did he think an old hag wouldn't recognize him if he hid his face! Oh, ow! To think he's that powerful….and now I can't even move! You! Don't you have anything that gives you energy?" But both of them shook their heads no. "Ah! What is this!? You're no help…I say, you're not at all what you make yourself out to be!" She said and then allowed her head to fall back to the ground.
"Link we should go back and see her sister, it is a potion shop, I'm sure that she has something there to help her out." Miki, who was still on Link's back, whispered in his ear.
Link nodded his head in agreement and then looked around the forest, having no clue as to which way they had come in. Shrugging his shoulders, he guessed that these woods were exactly the same as the Lost Woods back home, chose a path, entered it, and ended back out in the main area with the potion shop. He walked over to the ladder and set Miki back on her feet and the two climbed up, entering into the potion shop and told the other witch the fate that had befallen her sister.
"EEEHH?" She shrieked. "What's that?!? The Skull Kid got to Koume??? That's ridiculous….If it's just the Skull Kid, then what harm could he possibly do?"
"He found a powerful mask and took it from a stranger which in return, gave him above normal powers, and he did after all sneak up behind her." Miki said.
"Oh!! Well, if that's true, then take this potion to her…This isn't good…" She handed Link a bottle which held a medium shade of red liquid. "Quick! Take that potion to her!"
The two left the potion shop and entered the woods again, and thankfully, the money was there waiting for them. Link didn't even bother to wait until they got deeper into the forest, he picked Miki up on his back right away, and she seemed to have fun, laughing all the way through as they followed the monkey, Tatl sitting on his head under his hat, taking a small snooze. When they came upon the hag again he let Miki down and the witch looked up at them again, sniffing in disdain.
"Ow-ow-yeow! Don't you feel obligated to help a sorry old hag when you see one?"
Link shook his head as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the bottle of red potion and held it out to her.
"Ah! That colour! That smell…That's defiantly Kotakes." She said as she sat up and grabbed the bottle from Link. She turned sideways to them and looked at the bottle, back up at them, and then finally drank the whole potion and handed the bottle back to Link. "Ooh! Feel the energy flow! Koume is revived!!!" There was a puff of smoke and when it cleared the witch was on her broom, hovering just above the ground. "You saved me! I'm the swamp tour guide. I run the boat cruise, so come by if you want a free ride." She gave a small cackle and then flew away on her broom, back to the boat cruise building.
"That….felt odd." Link said as Miki jumped back up on his back.
"Why?" She asked, gently swinging her feet back and forth as he walked.
"Because back where I'm from, there were two evil witches who looked exactly like them and myself and my friend had to kill them in order to revive the Spirit Sage."
"Ah, makes sense." Miki replied.
Link was just about to ask her if Termina had sages as they came out of the woods, when three monkeys jumped down and ran towards them, blocking their path.
"You have strange power, no?" The leader of the monkeys asked. "Me been watching you! Lately, this swamp, filled with poison water. Temple above waterfall strange….Brother go to temple. But brother no able to find temple entrance. Temple for Deku only. Brother captured by Deku. Now in palace. Help!" The monkeys gave a small cry and then ran off, heading towards the main area of the swamp again.
"Talking monkeys…that's pretty cool." Link laughed as he sloshed through the pond water, heading towards the main swamp also.
"We should go to the palace and see what the captured monkey has to say; maybe he can give us more information as to why the swamp has been poisoned, and about the temple." Miki said resting her head on his shoulder as he walked down the path.
"Alright, I would feel bad if we didn't anyway. If there's something I can do to help the poor guy out I will. So we have to take the boat cruise to get there right?"
"Yep." Miki said, and stepped down from his back once they had reached the water.
Link changed back into a Deku and the two hopped across the lily pads back to the boat cruise building, and once they were up the ladder, Link removed the mask again.
"You know, if I keep having to do that, I'm going to end up getting a headache." He joked as they walked into the building, Miki laughing at him.
The old hag greeted them and handed them a pictograph, saying that there was a special on about winning prizes for pictures of the swamp. Link just tucked it away as they got on the boat under the building and started the cruise, knowing that they wouldn't have time for such things once they got going. As they moved further into the swamp the water turned to a dangerous looking purple colour, and Link looked around at the surroundings. The plants and flowers looked very exotic, but they also looked sick from the poison. He could only imagine how beautiful the place was before the water had been poisoned, and he realized now why Miki was so upset, there was actually a lot of damage that had been done. They rounded a bend and killed an octork, and as they passed under a small cave, water splashed down on them.
"Argh." Link said looking down at his wet clothes. "I'm contagious now; I'm going to get sick from this water."
"Link, we live right next to the water, more of us have touched the water. As long as it's not the dark purple stuff you'll be fine." Miki said laughing.
They turned around another bend and a wall of colourful wood along the stone wall caught his eye. There was a small opening in the center, and a monkey was jumping around in front of it. The boat moved towards a dock that was connected to the land with the opening. The two got off, and Link again put on the mask so that he was a scrub. As they neared, the monkey ran inside, and the two followed and entered into the court of the Deku Palace.
The walls that protected the palace were just as colourful as the ones outside, mostly reds running through the whole walls. It was a square structure with the door across from them, two guards blocking the entrance. The palace was surrounded by a large moat of water, with long blocks of wood leading to the opening. Lily pads moved from the blocks around to both sides of the structure, and to their right was a small ledge just out of the water, with a flower that lead to a cave opening through the rock.
Link and Miki moved slowly across the blocks so as not make the guards think that they were up to something, and when they reached them Miki gave a small wave, but the guards stood upright and spoke with an authoritive voice.
"This is the palace of the Deku Kingdom. Only those on official business may enter!" The guard said. "…But you may enter to see the public humiliation of the foolish monkey who angered our king. Follow this hall straight to the Royal Chamber. Do not enter any other areas whatsoever!" He said and stepped aside.
"I don't like the sounds of the monkeys' fate." Miki commented as they walked down the hall. As they passed two other entrances she looked down the corridor to see that they lead into courtyards.
"Guess we'll have to find a way to rescue the poor guy." Link said as they entered into the Royal Chamber.
The chamber was a circular form, with a couple of decorations. Different leaves and other plants ran along the walls and along the floor. In the center was a pit, in which a large fire roared. To their left was an area that was raised and wooden bars ran around it, which was where the monkey in question was tied to a post. Right across the fire from them stood another raised platform. Palm fronds lined the wall behind it and large potted plants stood on the ends. This was also where the throne was, and the king seemed to be dancing on top of it.
Link snorted trying to keep his laughter in as they moved around the fire, which earned him an elbow in the ribs from Miki. He couldn't help it though, the king looked ridiculous. He was the roundest Deku he had ever seen, and he wore a hat that was the colours of a tree in fall on his head that was about the same size of him. He had a leafy moustache and beard, held a sceptre in one hand and had long vines hanging down from his arms. What really tickled Link's funny bone though, was that he had a leaf covering himself between his legs.
They climbed up the small ramp to stand in front of the Deku King, and he looked down at Link, seeming to ignore Miki, who stood behind Link. Being this close Link was able to see that the king wasn't dancing on his throne, he was hoping mad.
"I haven't seen your face around here before. Are you visiting?" The king asked, and Link nodded his head. "Usually I don't allow the likes of you in my Royal Chamber, but today is different! We're about to punish the foolish monkey who kidnapped the Deku Princess! He has insulted the Royal Family. I'll show him what happens when you do that! That foolish monkey is up in that cage. Take a good look at his face!"
Miki gave her apologies for the missing princess and shoved Link past the guards that stood near the king to the cage where the monkey was being kept. When the monkey saw the two Deku's staring at him, he began struggling against his bonds and yelled out at them.
"They keep saying that I kidnapped her. No matter how many times they say it, it's not going to bring the princess back! If they're not careful, the princess will fall victim to a monster! Please, believe my words…."
"We need to be able to speak with him more privately." Miki whispered to Link as a guard ushered them off the platform and back towards the hallway that lead out.
Before Link could respond to her though, they moved back out into the hall and the same monkey from before dropped down in front of them.
"Was my brother all right? Did you see entrance to cage? We know secret route there. Enter secret route from outer garden entrance. But entrance in tall place. No can reach it. Need bean from bean seller. Live beneath palace garden. Mmm….Understand my meaning?" Link smiled and nodded his head. "Oh! You smart. Plant bean in soft place by outer garden. You figure out rest. Hurry. Help brother." The monkey said and gave one last pleading look before he turned around and left.
"Which side would the outer garden entrance be on?" Link asked looking at Miki.
"Uh….it would be on our current left." She said pointing.
"Great, because that should be the side that the bean seller lives in the ground."
"How do you figure that?"
"I don't know, you would think that he would live on the same side as that soft patch sine he would know that someone would be looking for a bean to put there."
"That's……really dumb logic….and at the same time, really smart."
"I thought it was pretty good." Link said smiling and then moved towards the entrance to the garden.
"Uh Link, there's going to be a lot of guards in there." She reminded him as she followed.
"There were a lot of guards in the palace back home, never stopped me from making it into the main courtyard before." He said with a grin.
They entered into the gardens and came to a somewhat tall wooden wall. They moved around it and had to walk for a bit before they finally came to where the boards ended and Link peeked around the corner. There was a boulder in the center of the small opening and another set of boards to the left of it, meaning they would have to go down and then to the right. They waited until the guard moved around the boulder and then dashed down and to the left, around another boulder just as a guard passed by, up to where a large box was, and danced around it to avoid being seen by yet another guard. They moved into the second part of the garden and moved silently up the side of more boards. Around the corner was another boulder, and Link took the chance and ran, pulling Miki behind him. They moved downward and Miki caught a glimpse of the guard behind them before Link pulled her upwards, around another set of boards, and then down a hole in the ground.
The hole they had fallen into wasn't very big. Up ahead some ways was a small pond of fresh water, and to their left was a path that lead upwards. At the top they found the home of the bean seller. It really wasn't much; he had some pots on the opposite side of them lined against the wall, a fire that burned merrily in front of him and then the rug he sat on. The bean seller himself was also very simple. He was bald, over weight, wore no shirt, had a small tattoo on his left arm which just looked like lines, had purple pants and purple slippers on his feet, and the bag of beans that he was eating.
"Why are you eating the magic beans?" Miki asked in a way of a greeting.
"Well….chomp, chomp….You're the first customers I've had in a looooong time! Do you need any magic beans? They sprout leaves as soon as you water them. That they do, they do. Mmmm, I'll give you one free sample, so try planting it in some soft soil. You can always buy more." He gave them a magic bean and Link pocketed it. "You can plant 'em wherever you want, but if you don't water 'em, their leaves wont grow."
Miki thanked the bean seller for giving them a magic bean as Link walked back down the path and went to the pond. He bottled some of the fresh water and then turned back to meet Miki just outside the hole.
"Now we have to go all through that again without the guards seeing us." She said a little dismayed.
"Not really." Link said.
Miki looked at him with a curious expression but he just smiled and walked back down the path they had travelled on. Miki followed him a short ways before she heard a cry go up, and she realized they had been discovered. Next thing she knew the guards had thrown them out of the palace, right onto the blocks of wood that served as a bridge.
"What was that about?" She asked Link as they picked themselves up.
"Well at least we didn't have to walk all the way back."
Miki laughed and shook her head as she began to hop along the lily pads towards the side of the palace, Link following behind her, grinning as best he could as a Deku, which just meant he had a mischievous light in his eyes. They found solid ground at the end of the line of lily pads, and looking up they could see the entrance the monkey had described. Finding the soft patch of dirt, Link planted the seed which sprouted small leaves right away. Pouring the water onto it, they watched as the leaves suddenly exploded up and out, making a hover plant with room enough for the two of them to stand on. They stepped off the plant and entered into a small wooden corridor, and after two turns, they moved out onto a platform over the gardens.
There was a platform with a deku flower moving back and forth in front of them, and then a little further was a sentry tower with a deku on it. Link looked at Miki who looked uncomfortable again, but she nodded her head and took the lead. She burrowed into the flower that had been in front of them, and shot out; carefully guiding the flowers she was using to hover over the moving platform. When she was sure that she was just above it, she pulled on the flower and they folded. Landing on the platform she stood to face the guard as she drew nearer to him. Just as he saw her and prepared to shoot a deku nut at her, she took a deep breath and shot a bubble, killing him. She burrowed into the flower and moved to the tower the deku had been on, dropping down. Once she was there Link followed after her, going through the first garden. They landed on another platform and then ran across a bridge that was suspended over the hallway they had been in before. Upon entering into the right garden, it was pretty much the same thing as before. Miki would have to take out the sentries and then move on ahead, Link following after her. The last platform in the final garden bore them up to another platform which lead into the monkeys room.
They dropped down silently onto the floor of the prison, watching the guards and king outside in case one of them looked over. When they reached the monkey, he was still yelling out at them every now and then.
"Why won't they believe what I say?...Fine! I get it! Then I shall say nothing more to you! Punish me or do whatever else you might!" He shouted out and then turned his head around and spotted the two scrubs.
"Oh! You…..How did you get in here?" He whispered.
"We found a secret path in." Link said.
"Shhh! If they see you, they'll capture you!" The monkey whispered back.
"You're brothers sent us to help you." Miki said quietly.
"What? My brothers asked for your help? Ugh….I'm terribly sorry….Just try to cut my rope, we'll talk after that!"
Both Link and Miki tried to jump and twirl around to cut the rope, but they weren't tall enough to reach, and before they could try using bubbles, the monkey started speaking again.
"Hmm….No good after all! Wait…You don't happen to have something that can make a lot of noise….like a loud instrument with sound that carries a long way? If you have one, show it to me!"
Link looked at Miki for a moment before he pulled out his pipes, which seemed to greatly please the monkey.
"Oh! You have them! You do! Just like the princess….Deku pipes! Those will work great!!! By the way….who are you?"
Link tipped over and fell to the ground, unable to keep his balance as he silently laughed at the pointless question. His pipes hit the ground causing a thud and the Deku King looked over towards the cage, and Link quickly got to his feet.
"Whoa! That's not important now…Just listen to me! I was trying to find out about the poison in the swamp, so I went to Woodfall Temple above the waterfall. But the temple had become a monsters lair, and the princess was captured by the monster…..since the Deku King thinks I kidnapped the princess, he wont listen to a word I say. Now the princess is in trouble, so I must somehow hurry to the temple and save her! Do you understand my plight?" Both Deku's nodded their heads and he continued. "So then, that means…..You will go in my place and save the princess!" This time only Miki nodded her head, Link simply groaned. "Ok, now I'll teach you the melody that opens the temple. The princess taught it to me! We can't let them hear us, so I'll sing it softly."
The monkey quietly sang out the notes to the song that he had been talking about, and then Link repeated the notes to the Sonata of Awakening, but unfortunately, his pipes were not quiet, and everyone in the room turned to face the cage.
"Everyone did you hear that?" The Deku King said, and that's when the three inside the cage realized they had been found out. "This melody, which only the Deku Royal Family knows…It proves the foolish monkey deceived the princess so he could enter the temple! Everyone! Let the monkey's punishment commence!"
The guards entered into the cage and divided themselves up into pairs. Two grabbed Link, two grabbed Miki, and then the other two grabbed the monkeys' pole. The monkey was pulled towards the king as the other two were pulled towards the door, and the monkey gave one last call.
"You'd better take the shortcut the Deku people use to get to Woodfall Temple. But you must hurry! If you don't, I will be punished by the Deku King!"
The two scrubs were again thrown out the door, having to pick themselves back up for the second time that morning. They weren't all that phased though, they had wanted to go outside anyway, this was just one way that they didn't have to walk. Miki turned around and moved across the lily pads, grabbing onto the small ledge that they had seen before, Link right on her heels. They burrowed into the flower that was there one after the other and then shot up to grab onto the ledge of the cave that lead through the cliff. Walking through it they found themselves back in the main area of the swamp, except this time they were on top of a giant orange coloured flower that was the same height as the top of the walls of the palace. There were other such flowers that lead to a large outcropping of stone that fell into the water, right next to it another flower, and from there another leading to the edge of the cliff of the water fall. Link moved to go burrow into the flower, but Miki grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Wow there, you should look a little more before you leap." She said and pointed up.
Link looked up and sure enough there were two oversized dragonflies buzzing around. They were teal in colour except for red stomachs, and it looked as if electricity coursed over their whole bodies. Link watched as Miki walked to the edge of the flower and waited until the Dragonfly came close enough to her, and then killed it by shooting out a bubble. She stood there and waited until the last dragonfly came over, and she took that one out also. She moved over to the flower and moved from flower to flower to the rock to the flower and then to the ledge that hugged the waterfall. Once Link was beside her she moved up the path and then into another flower, to hover over the large gap in the path, the poisonous water so many feet below. Once both of them were on the end of the path, they moved up it and entered through a tunnel that lead them to Woodfall.
The area was just a huge circle, a lake of the purple water. There were tall grasses and lily pads dotted over the surface, large tree stumps of all different sizes were placed around with bridges connecting some of them so that a complete circle of the lake was made. Directly across from them was a tall structure with some sort of small dais on it and a couple of pots. In the very center were two lone trees, somehow still living even in the poison. Monsters dotted the area here and there, mostly guarding the bridges so it would make passing a little annoying.
"Where the hell is the temple?" Link asked looking around.
"Do you really think that they're just going to leave it in the open if you need a song to open it?" Miki asked as she hoped to a lily pad and then to a stump.
"Well yeah, if you need a song to get into it then you shouldn't have to hide it." Link retorted as Miki killed a beetle looking monster by shooting a bubble at it, and then a Deku Scrub who was guarding the flower they needed.
They flew from that flower onto another stump, taking out the deku with a nut before they dropped down. There was another of the beetle like things and Link was the one who took care of it, and then another Deku. They took the flower that they had just gained access too and used it to get to the structure. When they landed on it they looked at the dais that was there, and Link smiled as he saw the picture of the Deku Scrub painted on it.
"Play the Sonata of Awakening on it." Miki said with a wink.
Link stood up on the platform and played the song that had caused so much trouble so far, and as the last of the notes echoed around the cliff surrounding the lake, the ground began to violently tremble. Link looked around in disbelief, and then ahead of him as the water began to rise upwards and washed out in all directions. The water came so high that their feet were soaked, but he grinned when he saw the stone building rise from the water. As the rest of the poison water ran off of it, the ground started to return to normal, and Miki looked to Link.
"This, is Woodfall Temple."
