BAH! All that work just to get through one lousy dungeon! And one of the easiest too I might add! Good gosh, what happens when we hit the Water Temple?! O.O Heaven help us all.
Amber: What have you done to us? D=
Laura: Hope you enjoy this chapter! ^^
Phineas found his hands hitting rough vines and soon clung onto them, stopping his fall. He panted a bit from the fall as "Navi" caught up to him and carefully climbed down. Water met with his feet and after reaching shallow grounds, Phineas looked around the room.
"...Seriously, the whole tree is hollow?", Phineas asked the fairy.
"I suppose it is.", Perry nodded.
"And so this water just flows aimlessly from who knows where to keep it alive?"
"Well, he IS dieing right now."
"Cause of a curse. Yeah.", Phineas nodded. "But I mean.. Still.. This doesn't really add up. I'd think MY dreams would make a bit more sense then this."
"Aren't dreams to supposed NOT make sense?"
"Mine do. At least a bit.", Phineas shrugged. "Oh well. I'm tired anyway. Let's get out of this water and rest a bit."
Phineas found a ledge where an empty torch sat and rested. He heard a scratching sound and looked over to find another odd looking spider hanging on a few bar-like roots where the water came from. Killing it with his slingshot, he was surprised to find another token, floating there in the air, where the spider once sat, waiting for him. A small hop from the ledge ensured the treasure to be his and Phineas looked over it.
"It's just like the other.", he said, pulling out the first. "I wonder if these things have something to do with what's happening to Major Deku Tree?"
"Maybe.", the fairy shrugged before turning an angry red. "And that's GREAT Deku Tree to a kokiri!"
"Aw, come on Navi. That's so formal.", Phineas shrugged uncaringly. "Besides, he SAID his name was Major Deku Tree."
"Yes, but he IS the one that helps ensure that you and the rest of the kokiri are kept safe! You should be at least a little respectful.", the fairy buzzed around him.
"Alright. Alright!", Phineas waved him off. "Geez, I liked it better when you just went ack-ck-ck..."
"Like what?", the platy-fairy asked in confusion. "You're one strange kokiri, you know that? Come on! We gotta help the Great Deku Tree!"
The fairy flew off to where the torch was and Phineas sighed a bit. If Perry talked this much in his dream, he wondered how much of a chatter box the platypus would be in reality.
'Maybe it was a GOOD thing we never found out what he meant.', he thought to himself. 'But honestly, doesn't Perry know about the little chattering noise he always does? Ferb and I use it enough around him as it is. Maybe he doesn't remember our adventures in reality. And what about Ferb, anyway? I'm so used to having him around, I'm surprised he's not here helping me with this! I wonder where he is in this dream. If everyone has a role... who's Ferb? Or Isabella? In fact, if Perry's a fairy and Baljeet's a shrub... who could ANYONE be? Gretchen's, Saria.. Funny.. I'd think that would be Isabella. Isabella... I wonder where she is in this?'
He suddenly remembered the nightmare that began, the dark haired girl that ran by him on the white horse. The rider on the black. The mere thought of that man made Phineas shiver in slight fear for some odd reason. The young boy shook his head, splashed some of the cool water onto his face to bring him back to where he stood, and climbed back up and to look at the torch.
"Welp. We should probably find a fire for it.", Phineas was saying after examining it.
"How so? You don't have any fire on you or anything.", the fairy asked.
"Hmm...", Phineas pondered a moment before noticing the switch. "I wonder what this thing does?"
He stepped on top of it and soon a flame appeared in the torch behind them. Phineas smiled a bit and warmed up his hands first before looking around the damp chamber.
"Now that there's a fire, I wonder what we could use it for?", he asked.
He pulled out his map and used the light to get a good look.
"Well.. We should be here.", he said, pointing to the first floor in the basement. "So the map says that there's another room nearby."
"What's that?", the fairy asked, nudging the compass on his belt.
"Oh yeah! I wonder what this compass does.", he said, pulling it out.
The compass spun a bit before pointing into a direction. A small red dot suddenly appeared on the map, coming from the back of the compass. Surprised at this, Phineas ran the compass over the map a bit but the direction and the dot never changed.
"Maybe it's a treasure room or something.", Phineas shrugged. "Or an exit."
"We'll find out eventually.", the fairy said casually.
"Alrighty. So. First thing's first.", Phineas said, shoving the map back into his pocket. "We gotta find a way out of this room!"
"And how do you propose that?"
"Well there was a door right over there.", Phineas said pointing in the direction of the map. "But all I see is a deku baba stub and cobwebs."
"Navi" shrugged and Phineas left to deal with the plant anyways. Killing skulltullas and deku babas so far was a sinch to the young boy. It wasn't anything worse than squishing spiders and cutting hedges. But thinking back to that little shrub. His curly green hair and high-pitched Indian accented voice, it didn't seem right to Phineas to hurt the poor things. Maybe cause it actually TALKED. Maybe cause it looked like Baljeet. Either way, once the plant was gone and Phineas killed another token-giving spider, there didn't seem like anything else. Nothing but large quantities of cobwebs. But looking over the map, the cobweb right in front of him was a...
"There's the door!", Phineas smiled, seeing it through the dense webs. "But how to get to it..."
"Your sword can't cut it.", Perry said.
"Hmm... Can we burn it? Would that hurt the Great Deku Tree?"
"Not necessarily. The Great Deku Tree has ways of keeping himself safe for the most part.", the fairy noted.
"Alrighty. Then maybe...", Phineas looked back at the torch before it came to him.
He pulled out a deku stick and came up to the torch, being careful not to get close to the flame himself. After the stick caught on fire, he made his way back to the cobwebs, making sure to stay in shallow water so the flame wouldn't be extinguished. Once the webs burned, Phineas put out the flame on his stick and put it back.
"So far, this is a piece of cake!", Phineas smiled triumphantly.
In the next room was something that instantly put an end to Phineas' good mood. Another bush awaited them and underneath was another Baljeet/Deku Scrub. The deku nut came flying out at Phineas who quickly jumped aside to dodge it.
"No, Baljeet! I don't wanna hurt you!", Phineas said before the scrub hid under the ground again.
"Link, that thing's gonna do nothing BUT hurt you!", "Navi" protested. "And it's not a 'Baljeet', it's a deku scrub! Focus!"
Phineas sighed a bit, knowing what he had to do. But he still didn't like hurting his friends. He held up his sheild and bounced the nut back in his face. Again the little nerd danced around in pain, its snout hurt and no hands to hold it in. Phineas cornered it to apologize, but the scrub was faster at speaking.
"Ow! Please forgive me, master! I will never do it again! If you spare me, I will teach you something very helpful."
"But-", Phineas began before he felt the fairy nudge him harshly. "Oh.. Alright."
"You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is... 2, 3, 1. Twenty-three is number one! Do you think I'm a traitor?", the scrub ran away before Phineas had a chance to stop him and Phineas sighed a bit, seeing him burrow back underground.
Looking around the room there wasn't much else. A few pieces of grass that hid more nuts and bullets and a door with bars on it. Looking above the door, Phineas saw a diamond with an eye in it. It was odd, but obviously must've had something to do with the door.
"Think that eye has something to do with the door?", Phineas asked his floating companion.
"Navi" nodded and Phineas sat up his sling shot. With a careful aim, he was able to hit the diamond, but missed the eye.
"Shoot...", Phineas groaned. "This is a lot more tough than my automatic baseball-pitch."
"Keep trying.", Perry's only suggestion was.
A couple more attempts and Phineas soon got the idea and hit the eye, releasing them from the room. In the next room, things were a bit more complicated. There was a large shaft that spun with spikes on it. A platform that moved smoothly back and forth underneath it across the water that started from the ledge Phineas stood on to the ledge on the other side of the room where a skulltulla, a box, and the next door, awaited them.
Phineas looked over the place, finding the platform to be rather perilous considering that it ran RIGHT underneath the spikes. An easy death to await him. And jumping over the spikes would also be dangerous in fear of him cutting himself on the sword he carried or not jumping far enough and landing right on the spikes. But swimming, even if he could dive under the shaft, didn't mean that Phineas had the arm-strength to lift himself and his equipment up the ledge and on the other side.
'There's gotta be something..', Phineas thought to himself, peeking over the ledge at the water, half worried that there were enemies hiding in it.
He noticed a slope that lead into the water to his left and decided to ease himself into the water by that means. That way, if there was something dangerous, he was closer to shore and it would be easier for him to escape. He began to swim now, and found no threat. He also found how very easy it was to swim with his equipment. Looking at the surface, he couldn't find something to help with him getting to the next side. Phineas looked at the water he was swimming in, half wondering how dirty it may be for being in a some hundred year-old tree. But hoping for the best, he took a breath and dove underneath.
The water stung his eyes as he tried to keep them open and get adjusted to the surroundings, but one thing Phineas had to remark about it was not only how peaceful everything looked underwater, but also how clear it all was. After swimming a bit, Phineas found what he was looking for. A switch on the bottom. But he had to go back up to regain his breath.
He swam to the surface and gasped for air. After clearing the dizziness from his head from the rush of oxygen, Phineas swam to where he saw the switch and dove once more. Down to the bottom, he pressed hard against it, pushing it in and resurfaced to hear a draining sound. He looked about and soon saw that the water level was lowering as judging by the edge of the side he came in at.
He quickly came up to the slope and ran back up. When the platform came, he jumped onto it and rode it to the other side, happy to see his plan worked.
"Good thinking, Link.", "Navi" commented. "We should be low enough to get past."
Phineas gave a nod and smiled to himself as he rode along. He had to readjust his tool belt though before he heard another noise. Quickly looking about, he saw that the water was rising again. And they hadn't made it past the shaft with the spikes! Phineas quickly laid out across the platform, hoping that they might pass by before the spikes hit the board. He held his breath as they passed by, the spikes getting closer and closer to his body as he slipped by. By the time they reached his legs, he quickly pulled them back, underneath him and the spikes hit what he was riding on.
Phineas panted a bit and stood back up, watching him and Perry drift away from the shaft. The only other time he'd been that afraid was seeing Isabella being trampled on by giant chinchillas. When the platform reached his destination, "Link" jumped off and faced the large skullwalltulla on the wall in front of him.
When he took care of the enemy, he looked at the large wooden box nearby and sighed a bit. His spirits were starting to dwindle from the tension of nearly being killed and cold air that swept by him as he stood there in soaking wet clothes. Phineas looked up at the ledge he was supposedly supposed to get too and looked about, seeing no other exits.
With a sigh, the boy took off his hat and wrung it out. Whatever awaited him was probably more danger and the last thing he wanted to do was to fight with wet clothes that stuck to his body and agitated his skin.
"Link, this isn't time to dry off your hat!", the fairy scolded. "We gotta keep moving!"
Phineas looked, almost glared, back at the floating companion that continued to bark and scold mercilessly, floating at just mere inches away from his face. Half his mind was to just swat the thing between his hands like a fly. He was tired, lugging heavy metal and wood, and had just narrowly avoided dead. Can't he take a break? But Phineas kept his temper like he always did and restrained the urge to swat his friend. Nope. He just caught the platy-fairy in his hat instead.
"KRRR!", the fairy chirped in surprise. "HEY! Lemme out! HEY!"
The fairy's figure bulged against the hat as it tried to find an escape, but Phineas held the open end shut and tucked it safely underneath his foot. While the fairy cried out for help, Phineas took off his shirt and began to wring it out as well.
'It's a good thing there aren't any girls here...', Phineas noted to himself as he wrung dry the rest of his clothes. 'I'm probably gonna have to find some sort of fire to dry these out with later.'
"LINK! LEMME OUT OF HERE!", the fairy pleaded. "PLEASE! HEY! HEY!"
Phineas sighed a bit and got dressed again. He released the fairy who gasped for fresh air and then turned angrily on him.
"What were you trying to do?! Suffocate me?! We don't have time for these shenanigans! We gotta help the Great Deku Tree!"
"Oh yes. And let's not forget Miss Lady Cathrine de Bourgh.", Phineas added on with a teasing smile as he tried his best Mr. Collins impersonation.
He got to work on pushing and pulling the large box to underneath the ledge and then proceeded climbing onto it. He reached the ledge and found another door.
'Whoda thunk?', he raised an eyebrow with a small smile and went on inside.
The room was small, had a fire, three deku babas, and a barred door to his right. Phineas killed the enemies and went to pick up his sticks when he noticed that two out of the three, had dropped a large pistachio-like nut. Phineas picked on up curiously.
BA-DA DA-DUM!
He glanced about for the odd noise but kept most of his attention on the odd nut. It had a brown, firm, outer shell and something glittering inside...
"Oops!", Phineas exclaimed when he accidentally dropped the nut.
As the nut hit the floor, it shattered into a million pieces, each one flashing a bright light and momentarily blinding Phineas.
"OW! Ow, my eyes!", he cried out, rubbing them sorely. "Ow! What on earth was that?"
"Oww! A deku nut you silly!", Perry grumbled, shaking back and forth. "Why on earth did you use it?"
"I didn't mean to!", Phineas blinked, trying to regain vision and for the moment, the room was just a blur of purple and green colors.
When it finally cleared up, he shook his head a bit and rubbed his eyes one more time before being happy to see the room more clearly and possibly...a bit brighter. The young boy noticed another deku nut and was careful this time to put it safely in a small bag that was tied to the end of his belt. He then focused his attention on the rest of the room. There was three torches, two of which were out and only one burning. Phineas looked between the torches and then looked at the door and soon figured what to do.
"You know, one thing I don't understand..", he was saying as he pulled out a deku stick. "Is the physics of all this. Here's a locked door and all you have to do to get it open is to set all the torches on fire. How does that make any sense? Is it light sensitive? How is it that a fantasy-based genre can be able to produce that kind of technology and use it for something so simple? Or is it heat-sensitive and the question still remains the same. And why is a giant tree that can talk to us, talking about being cursed, when from the root-system to the top branches, he's completely hollow and capable of baring his own map, treasure chests, water, metal sewer pipes, and lock doors? It makes no sense."
He lit the torches and they watched as the bars slid up from the doors.
"See?"
"Link, you are possibly one of the most strangest boys I know.", "Navi" simply said. "Half of the things you like to talk about, doesn't make any sense whatsoever."
"It's not that hard to understand.", Phineas objected as they walked to the door and past it. "Or at least, it's not hard to question."
"Well ask me a question and I'll try to answer it as best as I could.", "Navi" bargained. "I know a lot about things in the world."
"Alright...", Phineas started before shooting down the large skullwalltulla hanging above them a bit ahead. "Why is the Great Deku Tree hollow?"
"Are you filled with skin from the outside, in?", the fairy replied.
"Touche.", Phineas nodded. "Why are there so many rooms though? Take out the enemies, what are these rooms for?"
"Inside the Great Deku Tree is where us fairies live before we are assigned a host-kokiri.", the fairy explained. "When that happens we- LOOK OUT!"
"Wha-?"
Before Phineas had the chance to ask, he found out what. A large red object dropped in front of him and cracked along the floor. A creature came from inside of it. It stood on hind legs and turned about, confused at first, before spotting Phineas.
"N-Navi? What is that thing?", he asked as he drew out his shield, backing away as the thing approached him.
"That's a gohma larva! Look out when it gets ready to pounce!", the fairy warned.
"Pounce?!", Phineas gaped, though a moment too late to ask.
The thing jumped at him and he thrusted his sword towards it. The knife ran through to the other side and the ghoma thrashed and cried in pain before falling limply under death's grip.
"...EEWWWW!", Phineas groaned, before pointing his sword to the ground to let it slide off.
It slid half way before falling the rest of the way off as Phineas shook his sword a bit.
"Ew... Oh man, that's just GROSS!", Phineas went on, looking at the blueish blood dripping down the sword.
The larva dissolved in blue flames that sprang to life about it. Phineas shivered and carefully looked up at the ceiling in the center of the room.
"How many more are up there?", Perry asked.
"Two.", Phineas cringed. "Do I have to kill MORE of them?"
"Unless you can find an easier way."
Phineas thought it over a moment. The thing that attacked him was a larva. Larvae hatched from eggs. Eggs are very easy to be killed. In fact...
"Wait... If they're that...then.. Hang on..", Phineas began to piece as he remembered the ghoma larva being about as tall as he was. "HOLY COW! Where's the MOM!?"
"Link! That's it! That must be what's destroying the Great Deku Tree!", "Navi" began to fly bounce about in excitement. "And ghomas love the dark so she must be deep down below the roots! Good thinking!"
"AAH! Navi? Um.. No offense but.. Well I mean like, I don't mind spiders enough, but COME ON! That thing was about as tall as I am!", Phineas cringed. "Their mother must've be HUGE!"
"She would have to be if she were to cause this sort of devastation to the Great Deku Tree!", the fairy agreed in enthusiasm.
"And I'M the one that has to kill her?!"
"Yup!"
Phineas sighed. He didn't mind spiders. Honestly. He normally just pick them up and sat them outside of the house when Candace freaked if she saw one. In fact to him, spiders, among many other things in life, are actually very incredible to him in the simple and yet still so questionable and interesting life that they lead. But if a spider was large enough to eat HIS blood like they did a fly, he wouldn't wanna be there to see it. But he was supposed to be the hero and sometimes, the hero has to do some pretty creepy stuff.
"Link" took another look up at the ghomas above his head and figured a way he could at least harm them so they wouldn't be full ready to attack. He aimed his slingshot up at the eggs on the ceiling, be careful not to miss. When the released nut hit the egg, the entire thing shattered and flakes and crumbles of it fell to the floor below. Nothing showed of the ghoma's existence except for the bits of shell on the floor. Phineas was obviously surprised, but if it meant that he didn't have to fight it, he did it again. This time, the egg dropped to the floor from his high aim but still, it crumpled. Poof. Gone. Now he could focus on the rest of the room.
The first to catch his attention was the deku baba on his left and that was more easy to defeat, being veiwed as just a plant and all. Phineas killed it and picked up the deku nuts he found afterwards. The only other things in the room was a torch and two cobwebs blocking pathways according to his map. Since the one further from him lead him to a smaller room as opposed to the one on his right which lead him back into a chamber he's previously been in, he chose the smaller room. Just to see if there was something important. He carefully sat the deku stick on fire and used the flame to set the cobweb on fire. While it burned away, he waved out the flame on his stick so he could repurpose it, and went up to find nothing but a wall.
"Wait..", Phineas paused before checking his map. "...there's supposed to be a room."
"I suppose you can't get to it yet.", the fairy shrugged.
"Well that's a shame.", Phineas pouted and put the map back before examining the wall. "If there's a room though... Maybe you have to use something to break the wall. A mallet or...or a bomb or something."
"Mm. Maybe.", Perry contemplated.
"Well if I can manage to find a bomb, or a way to make a bomb, you'll remind me of this, right?", Phineas double checked.
"Sure. Bomb. Deku Tree. Gotcha.", Perry nodded.
"Thanks.", Phineas smiled. "Well with that being said, let's go to the other room."
Phineas and "Navi" had found themselves in the room they started in when they fell from the cobweb at the first floor of the deku tree. Three deku babas awaited hungrily though vanquished by Phineas' sword. He collected the nuts and sticks and looked about the ledge he stood. There was a large box, four tall torches, and a cobweb in the middle of the floor.
"That must be the way to the ghoma!", "Navi" said, hovering over the web.
"Yeah but...", Phineas paused to look at the box nearby. "I just wanna do something right quick. Since we'll be coming back and all..."
Phineas pushed the box and with some effort and managed to get it off ledge and into the water.
"There. That way when we come back here, we can just hop on top of this thing and reach this side much faster.", Phineas explained.
"Smart.", the fairy nodded. "Now come on! We have to help the Great Deku Tree!"
Phineas nodded and took out a deku stick. He lit the cob web underneath him after he caught the stick on fire. The stick burned away and Phineas sat it on the ground before he and Perry gave each other a nod and jumped into the dark hole below them with a scream.
"Link" landed in a pool of water and swam up to the surface while the fairy floated over the water. Phineas panted a bit to catch his breath from the fall before swimming up to the shore. He looked back up at the hole they had fallen from and saw no vines to lead them out.
"...You know. I wonder how we'll get back up now that I think about it...", Phineas thought aloud.
"Hurry! We need to help the Great Deku Tree!", "Navi" urged on, pushing Phineas in the back.
"Okay! Okay!", Phineas said, walking more into the room they were in.
There he found three deku shrubs, all awaiting him. Phineas sighed a bit, knowing where this was going. Three shrubs with curly green hair and dark brown bark popped up. Yup. They all looked like Baljeet. The deku nuts came flying at Phineas at different times and he stepped aside for one, used his shield to block another, and then back flipped to avoid the third.
Our hero paused for a moment before smiling widely to himself.
"Alright! That was like the coolest thing ever!", he smiled before a nut smacked him in the side of the head. "OW!"
The shrubs laughed and hid away again as Phineas backed out of range and into the water again.
'Look like Baljeet.. Don't sound like Baljeet.', Phineas noted to himself as he rubbed his head.
He thought it over. The door on the far end was barred. That meant that he had to do something to get it to open. Three shrubs...
"You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is... 2, 3, 1. Twenty-three is number one!"
'Are these his brothers though?', Phineas wondered before checking his map.
It was clear that the mother spider, the monster of this place, was behind the door. These are the last shrubs of the place.
'2, 3, and 1...', Phineas thought. 'What do those numbers have with these brothers?'
"...That's it!", Phineas exclaimed, slightly startling the shrubs and the fairy.
He drew out his shield and got ready. When he stepped into range, the nuts fired at him and bounced off his sheild. They first hit the middle deku shrub and he stood up straight, paralyzed as he whimpered in pain. The next fire from the other two, Phineas aimed the shield so they hit the one on the far right. And then the left. They all fell in defeat and the last one that was hit bounced about in fear. Phineas cornered him.
"Alright, Baljeet! Now open the door!", he ordered with a triumphant smirk.
"Ohh! How did you know our secret?! This is very irritating!"
"Well-", Phineas began before being cut off.
"It is so annoying that I am going to reveal the secret of Queen Gohma to you!", Baljeet went on, suddenly catching Phineas' attention. "In order to administer the coup de grace to Queen Gohma, strike with your sword while she is stunned."
"Stunned?", Phineas repeated, slightly bewildered, yet still trying to think of a solution at the same time.
"Oh, Queenie... Sorry about that!", the shrub cried before running away.
The bars on the door slid away and Phineas opened it. With a small gulp at the sight of the dark room before him, he carefully stepped inside.
"Link" and "Navi" walked into the room that held the ceiling up with four tall and large pillars.
"I sense a large evil here...", the fairy noted uneasily.
"You can sense evil?", Phineas asked, peering about. "It's so dark.. I can't see a thing except for this smog at our feet."
"It's really close..", Perry continued, starting to look around now. "It's... Link, above you!"
Phineas looked up and saw a bright green eye looking right back at him. Phineas drew his sword as the creature fell from the ceiling and stumbled back as Queen Ghoma stood to her full height.
"It's the parasitic armored arachnid: Queen Gohma!", Perry gasped.
"Uh yeah. Like I couldn't see that myself!", Phineas said, though more freaked than he was angry as he backed away.
The large spider only came closer as Phineas tried to keep the distance.
"Navi, is there ANY way to beat this thing?!"
"Well I'd probably get a large boot...", the fairy began.
"A WEAKNESS THANK YOU!", Phineas snapped back, now angry at the fairy's timing for a joke.
"Oh. Well it's one of the parasitic monsters inside the Deku Tree and...its eye is vulnerable when it's red!", the fairy bobbed.
"Alright, how do I make it red?", Phineas ducked as the monster swing a claw at him.
"Don't you remember the scrub? He said you needed to make her stunned!"
Phineas groaned as he continued to run from the spider. How do you stun something so big? He knew that a bright light would temporarily blind people. But how do you created a large enough flash for this thing?
"That's it!", Phineas smiled before digging into his pockets.
He pulled out a small deku nut and turned around and threw it against the ground with his eyes shut tight. The flash flew about the room and the creature stumbled and fell to its knees in a daze. When Phineas looked, its eye was red.
"She's weak!", Perry exclaimed. "Get her! Get her now!"
Phineas pulled out his sword and slashed the large eye. The large arachnid cried out in anguish in pain as it bled out onto the floor. Phineas backed away quickly as the blue blood pooled at his feet.
"Ewwww!", he groaned.
The creature continued to writhe and thrash in pain as it slowly burned away in bright blueish flames in a sudden combustion. Phineas had to shield his eyes for a moment before he saw that the creature was defeated and a small bright blue glow was in the middle of the room.
"What's that?", he asked, stepping towards it.
The glow was in the form of a ring and "Navi" circled the outside of it curiously.
"I think it's our way out!", the platyfairy called out.
"Sweet!", Phineas smiled and stepped into the middle.
Phineas felt the room spin about him as a flash of light overtook his vision and the next thing he knew, he was standing on the top of the hill in front of the Great Deku Tree once again.
"Well done, Link... Thou hast verily demonstrated thy courage...", Monogram sighed a bit as he felt his time coming. "I'm giving up on this speech thing. I'll give it to you blunt. I knew that you would be able to carry out the mission..."
"Mission?", Phineas asked himself.
"Now, I have more to tell you, if you'd care to listen...", the tree went on.
Phineas gave a nod and promptly sat on the grass to give his feet a break.
"Now...listen carefully... A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse upon me...", Monogram continued on. "This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule... For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the guardians..."
"Guardians?", Phineas asked.
"Yes. They're ever-lasting beings that have protected over this land far beyond our time.", Monogram said casually.
"Cool.", Phineas smiled.
"Before time began, before spirits and life existed... Three golden guardians descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule. Din, the guardian of power. Nayru, the guardian of wisdom. Farore, the guardian of courage. Din... With her strong flaming arms, she cultivated the land and created the red earth. Nayru... Poured her wisdom onto the earth and gave the spirit of law to the world. Farore... With her rich soul, produced all life forms who would uphold the law. The three great guardians, their labors completed, departed for the heavens. And golden sacred triangles remained at the point where the guardians left the world. Since then, the sacred triangles have become the basis for our world's providence. And, the resting place of the triangles has become the Sacred Realm. Thou must never allow the desert man in black armor to lay his hands on the sacred Triforce. You must never suffer that man, with his evil heart, to enter the Sacred Realm of legend. That evil man who cast the death curse upon me and sapped my power... Because of that curse, my end is nigh... Though your valiant efforts to break the curse were successful, I was doomed before you started..."
"Wait..", Phineas gasped. "Y-You mean you're going to..?"
"Great Deku Tree, no!", the platy-fairy cried.
"Yes, I will pass away soon... But do not grieve for me... I have been able to tell you of these important matters. This is Hyrule's final hope, Link... Go now to Hyrule Castle...There, you will surely meet the Princess of Destiny... Take this stone with you. The stone that man wanted to much, that he cast the curse on me.."
Phineas looked up as a green light fell over the meadow. A small green stone with gold outlining it came down to his outstretched hands.
"Link! You got the Kokiri's Emerald! This is the Spiritual Stone of the Forest. It's now entrusted to you by the Great Deku Tree.", the fairy informed.
"The future depends upon thee, Link... You are courageous...", "The Great Deku Tree" pressed on, hoping to get this last out before his last breath. "Navi the Fairy... Help Link to carry out his mission... I assign you...Navi... Good...bye..."
Phineas and Perry watched in dismay as the Great Deku Tree began to wither away. The leaves started to fall as his bark turned from mossy-green brown to a dark and cold gray. It seems like for a small moment, a sudden cold wind swept down over them as the tree slowly died away, his last breath fading. Phineas felt bad as he watched the tree die. Was there something he could've possibly done? Maybe if he got there sooner. But no. It was just meant to be. After a small moment of silence, "Navi" turned to "Link".
"Let's go to Hyrule Castle, Link!", Perry urged.
Phineas gave a nod and headed off, though Perry trailed behind, his emotions being allowed to show as he sadly looked back at the tree.
"Good-bye...Great Deku Tree...Sir.", the platyfairy last said before flying off to catch up to Link.
Laura: I know it's supposed to be "goddesses", but the problem is that Amber and I are Christians and whenever we're playing this game and reading it aloud for our little brother and sisters, we curve around it saying "guardians" instead. I'm sorry if this is offending true-blue Zelda fans, but this is just how we roll. Lol. We killed Major Monogram. XD
