Alright, so I forgot to make this note earlier for you readers (Well, I think I did, anyways) so here it is: I tend to be slow on updating, so please be patient with me. I tend to have gaps in updating that last months (even a year or so), but I'll get to updating eventually. These are stories that I'm really proud of, so I'll never forget them (or the fact that you want to read). Thanks, and enjoy :)

I immediately gagged on the evil pouring from the inside of the room. I had to force myself to take a deep breath and steady myself, so as not to worry Link, standing next to me. I then couldn't help but realize that the touch of this evil felt slightly familiar, although I didn't want to admit it. This evil; I had felt it before. It was an evil that I had felt caressing the very edges of Hyrule for the last few months, although I had been in denial the entire time. I now realized that I could no longer ignore it. Whatever evil lay in the room ahead of us, came from the evil now seeping into the land, slow but powerful.

I pondered all of this in the mere second that passed after the door closed behind us.

We were standing in a short tunnel that, as far as I could see, led to a large, round cave. The tunnel was extremely dark, but an eerie yellow light seemed to come from the ceiling in the cave in front of us.

I jumped slightly, when I felt Link grab my hand, which was wrapped tightly around his forearm. I hadn't even known I had grabbed his arm, and he didn't seem to notice that he had squeezed my hand in turn. Neither of us moved, and as I looked down at him, I felt an unbelievable sadness.

He was so much smaller than I was. Physically, we weren't that much different in age: only about three years. But, me being a woman and him a man, his growth was much slower than mine, making him several inches shorter. It was something I hadn't notice before, and it made me sad and suddenly scared for him. He was only nine! He was much too young to be put against an evil of this caliber! I was halfway between deciding whether or not to drag him out of the room, when I felt him take a deep breath and drag me along, my arm still entwined in his.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" I whispered, just before we walked through the end of the tunnel. I never got to know what he wanted, however, for a great stone slab dropped from the ceiling the moment we entered the cave, blocking our only means of escape. Link's hand squeezed mine even harder, slipping slightly as it was now sweaty from fear.

Within moments we realized that something was moving inside the cave. Whatever was in there with us now knew we were trapped, and was rustling around excitedly. It took only one breath to find it.

It was walking around the ceiling, clearly excited. Link realized when I had seen it, because of my stiffening body, and followed my gaze.

When both of us were looking at it, it seemed to realize that we were watching. It stopped and turned toward us, and suddenly the source of the yellow light flickering around the room was revealed.

It had one, giant yellow eye, whose pupil was a sick green. The eye was bright, almost like a spotlight, and I knew immediately that this was the creature's only weak point. As we gained eye contact, it blinked. It then made a noise, somewhere between a groan and a scream, and its eye rolled into the back of its head, leaving us with a view of a giant, completely yellow eye. And then, quickly as it had disappeared, it was looking at us again, examining us.

The ground shook as it dropped from the ceiling, landing with a sicking crunch. Part of me hoped that the land had injured it, but it showed no signs of injury as it stood.

It was sickening. It had five legs, and as it crawled toward us it used the two closer to its eye to move, hiding the others behind its strangely shaped body. At the end of every leg was a claw, not unlike those on crabs, but each was almost as big as Link. It moved toward us, menacing, closing the distance to us in just a few, short strides.

I had only a moment.

"ITS EYE!" I yelled, throwing my weight into Link. I felt a great crash near our feet, and knew that one of the great claws had come crashing down where we had stood.

Link, so smart for someone so young, understood immediately. Readying it faster than I had seen him do, he aimed his slingshot at the creature's eye, which was now glowing a bright, fear inducing red.

The change in the eye color stunned us for only a moment, but Link let out a roar as he shot a seed into the eye of the creature, which now stood over him. The creature screamed, clutching at its eye with two of its arms, and then fell to the floor, its eye now glowing green.

Link looked at me, just on the other side of the creature's collapsed body, a smile on his face. It took me a moment to realize that he thought it was dead.

"SLASH IT!" I screamed, but too late. The creature recovered, and instead of attacking Link, who now had another seed ready but was still laying on the floor, it backed away, not taking its eye off of Link until it felt the wall behind it.

It turned as Link pulled me up, and started climbing the wall. We ran out to the middle of the room, hearts pounding, and watched it start to scurry around on the ceiling. We watched it, noticing that it was watching us again, and suddenly it stopped, right above us. For a split second, I thought it was going to drop on us like it had dropped earlier, but then its body seemed to extend, and a large tail dropped and hung above us. I then realized that the room glowed red, and tore my eyes from the dangling tail to see that its eye had turned red once more.

Before I could point this out to Link, something dropped from the ceiling.

It was a white and red speckled egg, identical to the ones we had crossed earlier. Link, who had apparently been looking at the creature's eye, hadn't seen the egg, and only noticed when it barely missed landing on him by inches. Link pulled out his sword, but a second and third dropped, right after the first. I watched as Link swung, destroying the last two, but the first had rolled out of reach.

With a sickening crack, a Gohma larvae had erupted from the last egg, and its mother dropped from the ceiling, almost knocking us to the floor from the tremor it had caused.

"GO!" I screamed at Link, turning my back to him and letting loose two quick arrows at the larvae. Both landed on target, and the creature fell, its legs swinging around in the air as it died. I felt and heard something drop behind me, and I turned in time to see Link lunge at the creature's eye, once again green.

It screamed again, but with more agony, and retreated for the wall again. Link ran over to me, grabbing my arm. I noticed there was a large cut on his cheek.

"It's only vulnerable when the eye is red," He said, ignoring the dead body at my feet. He then readied his slingshot again, and waited for the creature to stop above us. "I tried to hit it when it was yellow, and it just blinked and kept coming."

At that moment, the creature had stopped and the room glowed red as its eye changed color. Link was quick and his aim true. The creature screamed again and lost its grip on the ceiling. We dove out of the way as it landed, out of control. Its eye was green once again and Link lunged at it again with its sword.

The creature, now showing signs of weakness, stood up and didn't back away, as we had expected. It rose to its full height and threw two of its claws at us, one for each. Link managed to jump out of the way in time, but I had been too slow, too worried about him. Its claw scraped me across the head, leaving a gash that instantly gushed blood and left stars in my eyes. I fell, unable to see or hold my weight. I heard Link scream, and in reply the creature screamed back at him. I felt its footstep turn and leave. I tried my best to look through the haze filling my vision to see what was going on, but I could only see dark shapes.

Navi appeared out of Link's hat at that moment, giving him light and making me able to see. He was leading it away from me.

The room glowed red as Link stopped, and almost instantly, the creature fell. I heard Link's sword meet with something similar to flesh, and I heard it scream again. Although this time, the creature didn't stop screaming. It looked like it was flailing around, groping at its eye, now bright red again. Then, quite suddenly, I felt the ground shake as it fell.

The creature disolved.

It took a moment for Link to realize that he had beat it, but once he had, I saw him run toward me, the look of fear illuminated by the glow of Navi's body. He bent down next to me.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine."

"But, there's so much blood..."

I pushed myself onto my feet, but I swayed slightly. Link helped me stand straighter.

"Really, it's not that bad. Head wounds are the worst for bleeding. We just need to get out of here."

I then saw a strange, blue light form behind Link. I knew that this light was harmful. Whomever had cast it wasn't looking to harm us.

"That should take us back," I heard Navi mutter when she noticed the light, too. Link turned, nodded, and then pulled me to the light, which I now noticed was spread in a perfect ring, just big enough for two to enter.

"Come on, let's see if we broke the Great Deku Tree's curse," I heard Link say, just as I felt my feet leave the ground. The light caressed us both, making us feel light as air. And then, we were gone.