Disclaimers: If I owned Zelda, you wouldn't be reading this, you'd be playing it.

==Act 1==

===Chapter 4===

====Scene 1====

Hundreds of Bulblins poured into the cavern. Link readied his sword, and instantly dispatched a few of the beasts, but it didn't scratch their offence. They flowed around Link and Ilia, and snatched a shrieking Romani, and started carrying her toward the door. Ilia dove toward her sister, stabbing the Bulblins carrying her. These monsters seemed weaker than the ones outside, but their strength laid in sheer numbers.

The Bulblins under Romani died instantly, dropping the poor girl to the ground. Link and Ilia stood on either side of her, slashing and swiping at the monsters. They fell in masses, but there didn't seem to be a change in numbers.

"We have to find where they're coming from!" shouted Ilia, over the grunts of Bulblins, the shriek of Romani, and the echoing of all these sounds.

"You guard Romani!" Link replied, and cleared a path for himself by hacking beasts down. Left and right, there seemed to be just more and more Bulblins.

On the other end of the room, Ilia was panicking. Romani had been grabbed again, and Ilia was in the process of saving her. When Romani was safe, Ilia leaped on a Bulblin and forced the club out of it's hand. She handed the weapon to Romani, who took it and swiped blindly at the Bulblins ahead of her.

Link noticed a soft humming sound ahead of him. He slashed madly ahead of him, and saw a glowing amber orb. Why would something like this be in here? he thought. A Bulblin charged at him, and he killed it. The humming swelled, and another Bulblin materialized from the crystal. Link, realizing why there were so many, slashed madly at the crystal. One hit, two, three, four, and the fifth hit shattered it. The humming stopped, and the Bulblins all dissolved.

Ilia was in the process of slashing a Bulblin when it disappeared before her eyes. The club Romani was holding dissolved too. The room was utterly empty except for the rocky mounds and amber glass in the corner. The silence was ominous.

"Now what?" asked Romani. Ilia let out a nervous laugh.

"I guess we go back..." said Link. Romani nodded. They left the large cavern and headed back down the dimly lit hall and into the mouse cavern. Romani stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked Ilia. Romani, trembling, pointed ahead of her. There was a Bulblin. Link jumped forward and cut it down, and went back to Romani.

"You okay?" he asked. The girl nodded.

---------Author's Note---------

The puzzle I'm imagining here is that, on your minimap, you see five or so red dots circling the dungeon. These dots are Bulblins, and if Romani is in the same room as one, she'll stop, and won't move again until the monster is killed. Then you have to go back to her and fetch her.

When you kill a Bulblin, a new one spawns in the miniboss room. You basically have to get out of the dungeon with Romani behind you.

----------End Author Note-------

They scaled the ladder and entered the bright room. Link noticed that the torch he had taken off the wall had been replaced.

They kept walking, and just after they entered the room with two torches, Ilia stopped.

"Where's Romani?" she asked. She turned and went back to the bright room, and saw another Bulblin advancing on Romani, who seemed to be paralysed with fear. Ilia dove at the monster, running it through and killing it.

"Th-thanks," the girl stuttered. Ilia just nodded and returned to Link with her sister in tow.

"We should get out of here soon," said Ilia, fearing for Romani's safety. Link nodded.

Just as they were leaving, a huge crash resounded through the room. Link turned to see a massive, armored, sickly green Bulblin with massive uneven horns holding a battle axe.

"Ilia, said Link, "Get her out of here."

"Be careful..." she said, and then turned and left the dungeon.

"The bulblin's king..." said Valee.

::. Boss Battle - Armoured Warlord: King Bulblin .::

The huge monster began to advance on Link, who moved backward equally as fast, making sure to always keep his gaze locked on the enemy. It swung it's axe at him, and he rolled to the side, narrowly escaping the blade.

The axe seemed to be jammed into the rock. Link took this opportunity to run up to the boss and slash at it, but his sword clanged ineffectively off the armour.

"Link!" shouted Valee, "There's an open spot down it's back!"

Link was about to run toward the back, but the axe suddenly pulled free, and almost caught his head if he hadn't ducked under the circular slash.

I can only attack it when it's axe is stuck Link thought. He ran to the other end of the room, the giant Bulblin lumbering toward him. Link hopped onto the torch platform and took one, still burning, and hurled it. Th torch hit the boss's armour with a hssss, and the plates of armour had melted slightly, hindering it's movement.

Link let it get closer now, hoping it would attempt to bring the axe down on him. It did, and Link rolled away again, and ran around to the other side of it. He saw the open spot, just as Valee had said, and slashed it once, twice, three times. With each slash, the beast roared in pain.

The axe became unstuck again, and Link hurled the other torch. It hit the armour, knocking some off. He dove forward, pointing the sword straight toward the gap in armour. It hooked under the remaining plates, and with a crack! They tore off. The beast roared in anger, and began to glow red.

Link cursed under his breath.

::. King Bulblin – Stage Two .::

All of it's movements seemed twice as fast in this rage. Link had barely enough time to dodge the attacks before a new one came his way.

Finally, after a few minutes of intense dodging, the boss swung it's axe. Link, knowing it would detach faster now, dashed around behind the hulking green mass and slashed the back once, twice, three times. The beast roared and fell over, seemingly dead. The puff of purple smoke confirmed this.

Link noticed the axe still remained. Before his eyes, it shrunk smaller and the dull rusty coating vanished to be replaced with a golden sheen. Panting, he picked it up.

.::. Item – Golden Axe .::.

Link staggered out of the cavern, and though he had only been inside the dungeon for forty-five minutes, it felt like forever since he'd seen the sun.

====Scene 2====

"Link!" came a shout. Link glanced around and saw Romani and Ilia on the peak of the other mountain. To his surprise, there was now a rope bridge leading to the other summit. He crossed it carefully, and soon came to the girls.

The top of the other mountain was flat and wide, covered with a small but dense forest.

"Since when was this here?" he panted.

"Since a few minutes ago," exclaimed Romani.

"Strange..." said Link thoughtfully.

"There's a fountain in the centre," said Ilia, "Want to see?"

"Sure."

The trio walked into the tree line to be confronted with a crystal clear spring. The 'forest' tuned out o be just a ring of trees closely packed together to hide this spring.

Link dipped his hands in it. It was cold, but a pleasant chill.

A humming sound stopped him. He glanced up to see a swirling emerald mist above the water.

"Link..." came a beautiful feminine voice. It seemed to be all around him. "You have cleansed the sacred shrine of Farore..."

From inside the mist, a figure formed. It was a woman, with shoulder length emerald hair, and a matching dress. In her hair laid two delicate pink flowers, and her eyes were a shade that could only be described as Emerald Fire. Between her hand floated a large grass-green orb.

"Link," said the woman. Her voice was young and clear, "I am the goddess Farore." Hearing this, Link, Ilia, and Romani kneeled to their goddess.

"You may rise," she said, a twinkle in her eyes, "Link, you are the chosen Hero of the Golden Age of Hyrule. You are the direct descendant of the famed Hero of Time, and are destined for greatness."

"Th-there has to be a mistake!" Link exclaimed, "I can't be a hero! I'm just a farm hand!"

"That's all you are now," said Farore, smiling, "But soon you shall realize your true potential. Take this gift, my friend, as a token from your ancestor."

The emerald mist surrounded Link. There was a flash, and when the brightness cleared, Link was wearing a green tunic, leather boots, and a long green hat.

"Wh-wha-?" he stuttered.

"These are the clothes that will identify your stautus on the journeys to come. Wear them with pride!"

"Well, I'm not wearing the hat!" he said, taking it off. Farore laughed.

"As you will, Hero of the Golden Age," she said, "But I suggest you travel northeast to your next adventure in the home of the Gorons. Do not worry about the Forest child yet."

With that, Farore disappeared, the light from her orb fading last. The trio stood in silence for a moment until Valee broke the silence.

"You!!" she cried in joy, "You must be the one I was sent to find! I remember it all now!!"

"Remember what??" asked Link.

"My master, the Kokiri Airas, was kidnapped by the Bulblins. She asked me to find you for help!"

"Well," said Ilia, "Farore said not to worry about the Kokiri yet. Could she mean Airas?"

"Most likely," Link replied.

"...We should go back to the farm," said Romani.

As they walked back down the mountain, they didn't notice a tall, blue-skinned girl watching them from the shadows.

====Scene 3====

Rmani put her finger to her lips as she tip-toed up to the barn where Talon and Cremia had been. She peered inside to see the two with their backs turned. She ran up and leapt on her father's back.

He yelled, then fell over laughing.

"Oh my god!" Cremia cried. She hugged Romani, sobbing.

"I'm okay!" she cried, "But guess who we saw!"

Link and Ilia came in; Cremia stared in curiosity at his new garments.

"We'll explain everything," Link laughed after catching Cremia's gaze, upon which she blushed and turned away.

For an hour, Romani told the exaggerated story of her valiant attle with the Bulblin's king, and how they were blessed by the goddesses for their bravery. The five of them laughed through the evening.

==End of Act 1==

Finished!!! The battle was fun to write, thinking up the attacks, moves, and weaknesses on the fly. BUT I'm not looking forward to the next dungeon! How do you think of my interperetation of Farore?