Chapter VI. Inside the Deku Tree

As Link stepped inside of the Deku Tree he was in awe of what he saw. It was an enormous chamber three stories high. Mossy wooden walls stood tall and strong with a casing of webs at the top. The tree itself was such a wondrous sight, yet for some reason there seemed to be an eerie, unnatural chill surrounding them as they stepped inside.

As Link wandered around on the ground floor, Navi went over to the center of the tree and hollered to Link, "Look! Look Link! You can see below this web!"

Link peered through a small hole in the web. It was a steep drop. Link could only make out some water and a faint glow from firelight. He tried to jump on the web to break it but it only bounced him. He then tried to cut it with his sword but it merely covered his sword in a sticky casing.

Suddenly Link heard a snapping sound to his right. He spun around just in time to move his head back a couple of inches before a deku Baba lunged at him with sharp thorns, a strong snapping jaw and fowl, green, poisonous breath.

Navi flew to his side. "Whoa! Good reflexes there!"

Link was seething. "Navi! Why didn't you tell me that it could attack me?!? I thought you said these things didn't move!"

She gave him a sheepish look. "Well there is that kind of deku Baba…and then there's this kind… You should hit it when it lunges at you."

Link gave a defiant stare at her. "Ya well I know that now! Jeez, Navi I thought that you were supposed to aid me! Or at least that's what the Deku Tree said you would do! But I guess even he can be wrong sometimes…"

Navi grew silent as Link chopped off the Baba's head. "I'm sorry…I should have watched your back and I promise that I will be of more help."

Link was stunned. This was the first time that Navi actually took something seriously. "Well…Ok then… I'm sorry for snapping at you like that…"

Navi smiled. "Hah that's funny…you snapped at me? Just like that Deku Baba!" He smiled back and rolled his eyes at her corny joke. He realized that this was the first time that he and Navi had really connected.

Navi glanced over and saw a small object where the Baba's head was originally. "Hey! Look! This Baba's head withered and turned into a Deku nut! Try throwing it! It will flash and stun an enemy!"

Link picked up the nut that was looked to be about the size of an orange, and found that it was unusually lightweight. He shook the hollow nut and heard something inside of it hitting against the shell, so he threw it against the wall. As it cracked open, there was a small bang and a flash of yellow came into link's eyes as orange powder covered the spot where he threw. Link smiled as he thought this would come in handy.

Navi giggled at him. "Ok ok, enough fooling around. We have to save the Great Deku Tree remember? Now he said that he was cursed so we have to find out what this curse is, where it is, and how to stop it!"

Link grimaced. It was very important to Link that he did not fail this. He had the Deku Tree's life in his hands. Suddenly this seemed to be a lot bigger and harder than Link had first realized. He would make sure that he wouldn't let everyone down.

Link observed all around him and spotted a handmade, wooden ladder hooked onto what seemed to be a growth in the tree. Link went over and started to climb it. He got to the top and saw in front of him several of the large, raised areas broken and spiraling up inside of the tree. They were spaced just enough so that Link could jump on each one with perfect ease. Link took in a deep breath and jumped from one of the natural platforms to the next until he reached a spot with tough, old ivy growing on the wall.

Navi flew over to examine it. "Look at this wall! The vines growing on it give it a rough surface. Maybe you can climb it Link!"

Link had his eye on a large, decrepit chest sitting in the middle of the vines that were hanging down. He went over to it and his fingers tingled as he saw the same golden aura from the chest that had contained his sword. He opened it up quickly, eager to see what was inside. Within the aged trunk was an even older scroll. Link took it and opened the scroll finding that it was a map of the Deku Tree. "Oh! I bet that this is the map the faeries use to get around in here!"

Link looked oddly at Navi. "Huh?"

Navi was exasperated. "Oh come on! You know, faeries like me before I got you! The Deku Tree has personal caretakers of him, and that map is here to help the faeries get around the place!"

Link just shook his head. "Hmm… Must be a fairy thing…"

Navi rolled her eyes for about the twentieth time. "Of course it's a fairy thing!"

Link went over and tugged on a vine. "Are these things sturdy?" he asked apprehensively.

Navi scrutinized the ivy. "Well the only things you have to watch out for are those Skullwalltulas. Just be careful not to touch it."

Link fixed his eyes on three large, ivory white spiders with skull imprints on their backside. He guessed that was a defense mechanism for scaring away large predators. His eyes widened when he saw their red glowing eyes. Even more daunting was the clear venom dripping slowly from their extended fangs. Their long, prickly yellow and black legs hooked onto the ivy. Link shuttered.

"This is not going to beeasy" he whispered to himself as he saw how high the ivy went. The spiders weren't going to make it any easier as they crept up and down the ivy. Link shook off the foreboding feeling and started to climb the ivy.

He only got up about four feet up when one of the Skullwalltulas shuffled its feet and noticed him. It started to hiss raucously and its eye sockets glowed menacingly. "Uhh…Should it be doing that?" Link asked Navi nervously.

Navi hid behind Links shoulder. "Well it might feel threatened." She said decidedly, looking up at it.

Link started to tremble. The Skullwalltula stopped for a moment and Link thought it was over. In the blink of an eye, the spider charged at him, sinking its teeth into Link's arm with such force that he got the wind knocked out of him and let go of the ivy. He let out a scream as he felt himself slam against the hardwood platform.

Navi zoomed around his head. "Link! Link! Are you ok??"

Link checked himself to make sure he had no broken bones and slowly got up. "I seem to be….except for my left arm…I've been bitten. But it's not that bad."

Navi wasn't convinced. "Are you sure?? I'm SO sorry! I honestly didn't know that would happen!"

Link took in a deep breath. "It's ok Navi…You didn't know."

She sighed with relief. "Well ok, good... We will find a way to get up there."

Link kept making his way up the spiral until he finally came across a door. He couldn't figure out why in Hyrule there would be a door inside of a tree but he was afraid that if he asked Navi she would roll her eyes and say it's a fairy thing.

As he went through the door, he saw a miniature bush in the middle of the room. The door closed behind him and cold, iron bars slammed in front of the door. Link panicked and tried to open the bars knowing he would fail. Navi remained calm. "Link! You can't open those strong iron bars with your hands!!!" Navi started to glow yellow without realizing it.

Link's heart skipped a beat when he heard a shuffle of leaves. He had the strong feeling that he and Navi weren't the only ones in the room. He side-jumped just in time to avoid a huge seed that had come hurtling toward him out of the corner of his eye.

Link turned to see what had just tried to hit him. "Link! It's a Deku Scrub! It will hide in the grass if you get too close to it. Bounce the nuts it spits back at it!" He barely had time to think. He kept dodging, one time nearly hitting his wounded arm. He finally got a break and stood up, taking out his shield, defending himself from the barrage of nuts. Link had to hold his shield with both hands from the spider bite. He groaned and tried to ignore the pain, aiming his shield at the scrub. Two large nuts shot forth from the bush's mouth and clanged against Link's shield, ricocheting at full force. The Deku Scrub shrieked in pain and hopped out of its hiding place and started to scurry around the room.

Link gawked at the silly creature. It was about as tall as him, yellow and russet foliage from top to bottom, with two green leaves on the crest of its head, gleaming, orange eyes and a circular mouth. As it ran, Link could make out small stubby twigs he assumed were legs. Link was now embarrassed that he was ever afraid of this odd-looking, cowardly creature. Holding out his sword, he boldly stepped up to the shrub.

The Deku Scrub stopped its running frenzy and froze, knowing its defeat. "Ow ow ow! Forgive me master! If I give you a clue will you let me go?"

Link stared straight into its beady orange eyes. "Ok but I warn you, you had better not attack me OR my fairy!" Link was surprised of his own authority in his voice.

"Eep! When you fall from a high place, make sure to roll when you hit the ground!" The scrub piped.

Well…At least I won't get hurt when I fall any more... Link thought, remembering his rolling techniques in the training grounds.

"I can't guarantee it will work though, if the cliff is really, really high, heh heh heh! Well try it if you are feeling bold! Hahahaha!" And with that the Deku Scrub hopped into its hiding place, burrowed deep into the ground, and the iron bars went up.

Link hurried through the next door making sure to keep his shield up ready for another attack. Instead he came to a large room with a small pit in the middle. On the other side of the pit was another large chest. In the middle of the small pit was a mysterious floating platform. Link did a double leap from it to the chest. Link landed harder then he expected to and pain seared through his bitten arm. Link tried to ignore it by opening the chest with the strange glow and inside was a miniature slingshot with a leather pouch. "How can I use this little thing? It won't even do any damage!" Link said irritably.

Navi eyed the small object and her eyes widened. "Hey! That's not just and slingshot! That's a fairy slingshot! It was magically made by the fairies so it's small and lightweight but it really packs a punch!"

Link took a look inside his leather pouch and scattered out several tiny pallid seeds onto his palm.

Navi took a look over his shoulder. "Link! You got Deku seeds! Those are small hard seeds that you can use as bullets for your slingshot!"

Link had trouble aiming around with his hurt arm which he could tell was getting worse. He started to look for a way out of the room while Navi was studying some webs above the entrance. "Hey Look! Something is hanging up here! It looks like an old ladder!"

Link saw this as an obvious opportunity to get to the door. Apparently from what he could see the ladder was only hanging onto the webs by a few strings of thread. He took out his slingshot, loaded it, aimed it at his target and let the bullet fly. The ladder crashed down with a thunk.

Link started to head toward the ladder when a small cubical to the side on the room caught his eye. He tugged at the ivy and determined that he could climb up the 7 foot wall. He barely made it up there. Link gasped for air exasperated. He could feel the poison from the bite slowly seeping into his bloodstream. He knew he didn't have much time until he would pass out.

Inside the cubicle was a miniature version of the chest he had previously opened. Now curious on what was inside Link kicked open the box with his foot. As he did that he released a rose-tinted smoke swirling about him in a mystical manner. Link panicked and started to cough as his nostrils filled up with these fumes smelling strangely familiar. Briefly the smoke dissipated into the air. Navi tugged on his ear. "Heh….check it out! Look at your arm!"

Link stood dazed for a second not sure of what had just happened but obeyed Navi's instructions and checked out his arm. The bite wound had closed itself up without a scratch.

"What was that stuff?" Link asked, still trying to remember of that smell.

Navi shrugged. "Well…it's ….hmmm….ok there are all sorts of faeries….one of the more typical are health faeries. Well they like to bless people by putting small little health spells into jars and patches of grass and trunks like that one…..they don't cure a whole bunch…but there all over the place, and they come in handy when you are desperate! It's also the main ingredient for health tonics."

Link snapped his fingers. So THAT'S where I knew of that sent! It's made from the same stuff as that health potion I drank!

Link headed over and climbed up the ladder, feeling rather relieved to get out of that room. When Link came back over to the great wall with the many Skullwalltulas he again got that same sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that he did when he met all spiders. He carefully took out his pouch and placed a deku seed into the slingshot. Link aimed the best he could at the spider closest to him. He liked the sound of the pellet whizzing by his ear. The Skullwalltula hissed in a fury as the bullet embedded into one of its glowing red eyes. Link watched in horror as the creature writhed and hissed in pain, unclamped its legs to the ivy and fell onto the pavement with a cracking sound from its shell tearing. Link reached out to touch it and jumped back as one second later its shell suddenly caught on this random flame and the entire body disintegrated in a matter of moments. He looked to Navi for an explanation but got none seeing as Navi was in her own dreamland blushing at the thought of Link's good aim.

They killed all but the highest one, who apparently saw that the rest of its amigos had bit the dust reared up on its hind legs and jeered at him. Link smiled, amazed at his own natural talent for this, loaded his pellet, and shot the fiend straight in the mouth. When this one hit the floor and was reduced to ashes a small green rupee was left behind.

"Oh ya! Sometimes creatures leave behind items that they have collected!" said Navi shrewdly.

Link put the item in his pack and knew that he had come to a dead end….He could stall no longer. He had to climb up those vines. Link examined the twenty-five foot tall vines leading up to another bridge ring inside the radius of the Deku tree. He cracked his knuckles and with much courage he started up the vines. Navi, who obviously knew what a challenge this was for Link, cheered him on which did help him for about half of the way, but he soon became tired of her tiny voice ringing in his ear so he nicely told her to shut up.

Link eventually got to the top of the vines and dropped down onto the bridge. From the bridge hanging up all around was webs made of the same sticky substance. As he walked around the half moon bridge there was a cut in the web on a plank that lead to thin air. He ran off until he came to another door. Link prepared himself this time and went in.

This time he came to a large room with three large gravel cylinders low to the ground. On the other side of the room there was another chest. Link tried to jump across the stones but they were too low to get to the other side.

"Hey!" Navi fluttered up and down. "Ohh! A button! Let's push it Link!" She gestured toward the far right corner of the room.

Link took a long and hard look at the switch. Mechanics inside of a tree? Wow this is one Great Deku Tree… Link stepped on it cautiously. A grinding noise appeared inside of the walls and he jumped back. The cluster of stones began to rise up and a ticking noise appeared out of no where. Link bounded across those stones quickly as the ticking got faster telling him to go quicker.

He reached the chest and opened it up with the same tingling in his fingers he got when he became impatient. The strange glow went away and all he found was a small metal compass.

"That's it...that's all there is?" Link said dumbfounded.

"Do you even know what this item does?!?!?!" Navi jeered.

Link shook his head silently.

"THIS rare item was put by the fairies themselves! It was made specifically for the boundaries of this tree. You can find any item in this area that was put there!" Navi declared.

"Oh well I still think it's a waste of an item."

"Well that goes to show how much you know….this item comes in handy when you need something….."

Link gave up on the subject and saw that he had come to a dead end. He went back through the door to the central area with his spirits slightly low.

Link took out his cloth map and examined it. "Well the map says we need to go down……below the ground floor…..we are on the highest floor…..we've been in all of the doors in this place…did we miss something?"

Navi floated to the top of the deku tree's ceiling. "Hmm we need to think…..OH I REMEMBER!! Hey Link! Do you remember that huge web on the ground floor?"

"Ya but the web was too powerful to break……perhaps with enough force……" Link said as the stood on a plank overlooking how far up he was. All he saw was a speck of white representing the web on the ground floor.

Navi sat down on Link's head bouncing off ideas loudly on how to get through the web. "Well….we could burn the web but we have nothing to burn it with……We already tried cutting the web but evidently THAT didn't work….."

Navi went on rambling as Link sat down, drained of the thrill and starting to get bored.

Navi kept talking gibberish to herself until she finally thought of an idea that worked. We could…..hmmm should I? ….is it too risky? Nah…..it'll work…he will just have to make sure to aim right… She glanced over to Link slyly. "Uhh…..hey! Look Link! There's a tree down there!!! Just look! HEY! Just look!"

Link got up and craned his neck down trying to see what Navi was talking about. "I don't know what you're talking about Navi…." He stepped closer to the edge forgetting the elevation they were at for a moment. "I don't see any……Navi….were IN a tree..."

Saying that a little too late Link wobbled for a moment but panic took him and he slipped and fumbled through the opening in the web barely grabbing onto the edge. "AAHH!!! NAVI HELP ME!!!!"

"I AM if you would just cooperate!" Navi stepped lightly on his fingers pinching them just enough for him to lose his grip, falling downward into the cavernous tree. He let out a deafening scream, gripping on to every ephemeral memory in his mind. His cry rung up to the peak of the tree. He shut his eyes tight as he knew he was going to strike the earth soon.

Link felt himself slam against a mesh netting extending down and bouncing back up like a trampoline. Navi flittered in a downward spiral slowly descending upon him. Hearing a ripping sound come from the web Link resided there stunned and did not dare move. He was so disorientated he couldn't figure out why he hadn't gone splat like the Skullwalltulas.

Navi fluttered on his head with a hopeful smile on her face. "Heh….see? That didn't hurt a bit now did it?"

As Link's shock subdued itself away his temper and frustration toward Navi grew. She looked around and sighed. "Hmmm well it doesn't seem as if it even worked……lets go up and try again"

Link let his rage explode. "NAVI! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A THING?!? WHAT IF I GOT HURT?!?!? WHAT IF I MISSED THE WEB?! I COULD HAVE DIED!!!"

Navi perched on his head, examining the continuous ripping in the web. "Oh common! I know you were thinking the exact same thing I was! You were just too afraid to do it….I simply gave you a…a nudge."

Link caught his breath and held his tongue bitterly. He knew part of what she said was right .Link tried to bring his mind back to what he was doing as he tried to calm his heart rate down.

He heard a breaking noise and barely had time to realize that the web was firmly supporting him no longer. The last threads of the mesh snapped and Link clutched onto his hat with Navi as he fell farther into the roots of the large tree. Another scream let out was drowned out by darkness and a splashing noise. Link felt warm and murky water engulf his entire body. His head broke through the surface and gulped for air. He desperately got to some shallow water and sputtered with his head spinning.

"….I swear to the goddesses Navi…you've got some nerve to make me go through this…"

Navi tried to dry off her wings. "Well…I got you here didn't I? Link…sometimes it takes nerve in order to do things you don't want to do."

Link shivered and stood up to take a look around. It was much dimmer in this area and the only source of light came from one torch on his side of the area and two others on a higher elevation in front of him. The smell of deep earth was older and much more pungent then when Link walked through the treetops. He stood in ankle-deep water that cut off in the middle and deeper water resided in the middle to left side. A bit of land on both corners on the lower side of this room stuck out from the water. Link walked up to the edge on the shallow end where Navi dried her wings by a torch and a tiny chest sat by it. Link saw that to the side of the low end there were giant Bars That Link assumed was a waterway leading to smaller connections of the roots. Clinging to the bars was a medium sized spider with a brilliant golden shell on its back that reflected the light. Link was taken aback that a spider could be beautiful, even in its own eeriness. He looked to Navi for information.

"oh um well…I don't think I've ever seen a spider quite like this one…might as well kill it though…no spider is a good one…."

Link killed it and waited for it to leave him a rupee or an item of some kind but instead left a shiny, gold, skull shaped token behind. Link picked it up and rubbed its smooth surface. "What's this?" he asked showing it to Navi.

Navi examined the small object. "Oh it's a coin of some kind…looks valuable…It must be proof of some kind showing you defeated it…"

Link tucked it into his pouch smiling, thinking about what his friends are gonna say when he shows them all his treasures. He stretched, already feeling his muscles beginning to become sore and peered onto the left side of the room. There was a large casing of webbing covering up a door. He wondered why there were so many webs in this tree, and why there seemed to be more the further down he got. Link kicked open the small chest by the fire and gained another deku stick.

"Another stick? We can use that to set fire to the web." Navi said, flying over the water. "Just be sure that you can jump from this shallow water to the land."

Link took the stick, struck it aflame, jumped down into the shallow water and courageously leapt onto the other side. His smooth actions stopped short because of a Deku Baba snapped at him out of nowhere. Link squeaked and backed up along the edge of the water, trying not to lose his balance.

"Gah! I'll never get used to these things!" He said as he quickly dodged a bite.

Link saw the fire getting low on the small branch he held and threw the flaming stick onto the web. Navi and Link watched the casing on the door ruin into ashes and the fire subsided from the moisture in the tree itself.

Link casually opened up the door and closed it back up quickly with an uneasy look on his face. "It's another one of those Deku Scrubs!"

Navi rolled her eyes. "Sheesh! Well go on then! Now you can be prepared on what's going to happen!"

Link nodded in agreement and held firmly onto his shield as he went through the door. Link covered his eyes with the shield and skidded back as a large seed bounced off his shield with a strong force. Link wasn't aiming properly. After several blows, a couple of direct hits to Link's head and leg, He eventually grew tired of holding up his shield. Link rolled to dodge a seed and drew out his slingshot. He planted his feet firmly into the ground and aimed straight at the creature. He hit the scrub in the nose with a quick bullet.

The deku scrub squeaked in pain and hopped away from him in defeat. "Oh forgive me master! I'll never do it again! If you spare me, I'll teach you something that's of use." The small bush shook from head to toe in fear and anguish. "You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order."

Link was surprised that he was finally going to get some good information this time. The Deku's eyes squinted at him and gulped before he revealed the information. "The order is…two, three, one, twenty-three is number one!"

Link didn't have time to focus on the riddle before the Deku Scrub squeaked again and gave a blank stare into Link's eyes. "Do you think I'm a trader?"

As the scrub hopped away Link pondered on the last thing the Deku Scrub had said to him. He never could have imagined that these cowardly creatures had any sort of emotion or feeling. He had given the Deku Scrub an ultimatum: give up its own life, or to betray its brothers, its own family.

Navi noticed Link's dismayed face and gently tugged on his hat to keep going. Link looked up at her and nodded but noticed that there were still bars on the door to the right.

Above the door was a silver piece of metal shaped like a diamond with a carving of an open eye. Link automatically figured out it was a button and let fly another Deku Seed. He hit the iris of the eye and the eyelid on the mechanism went down while the bars rose up.

Link quietly went through the entry to a large chamber. The ground Link stood upon all gave out a couple of feet in front of him and water filled up the very deep, outsized, center of the room. On the other side of this borough was more elevated land. There was a large, solid piece of earthy moss floating on the water that somehow created a platform moving back and forth across the water, reaching the two strips of land. Link looked up and about to his middle section was a rusty, metal bar in place turning, stretching from the left to the right side of the room. Link peered over the edge and saw lots of barred openings on the side walls. He figured judging by this that this was the central valve for transporting water to the different parts of the tree. He couldn't help but to wonder why there were so many mechanics inside the deku tree.

Navi sat on Link's shoulder peering into the algaecide water. "Hey! We really can't go anywhere at this point…you can't get to the other side without standing on something, the spikes on that bar are unavoidable, its too low to duck, and too big to jump over…our only choice is to go back or check out the water….After you get into the water, try diving and see if there is some interesting stuff down there!"

Link wadded into the water trying to find something down there without having to submerge his entire body. He grimaced by the clouded, filmy coating of moss and muck on top of the water. He would have to dive. Link sucked in his breath and dove head first into the water. He slowly opened his eyes and was surprised that the water was quite clean under the surface. He scanned the area for any sign of anything. Actually, he didn't know what to look for. He figured that whatever it was it would be fairly obvious. He started to become uncomfortable and rose back up to the surface to take in more air. "Navi… what am I supposed to find down there?"

Navi took a glance at him and covered her mouth trying to hide a snigger. Link sighed at her antics. "What is it now?"

Navi hovered on the water. "Well" She let out a gleeful giggle. "It's your head…you're covered in grime"

Link felt his head and took off a large glop of rotting moss. "Ohh Gezz! Common Navi help me out here."

Navi perched on his head and tapped her chin. "Well I believe that we would need to fine a hole to get through or a switch to get rid of that bar…otherwise we will have to turn back."

Link shook Navi off and dove back into the water. He didn't even want to think about leaving now, after they had come so far, and besides he wouldn't know what to say to the deku tree. He scanned the bottom of the watery depths and spotted a large square something sticking out of the ground to the left. He swam closer to it and his breath gave out just as he recognized it to be another button. He came back up and took in a deep gulp of air and dove deep only about a yard under, trying to press his weight against the metal floor button. Link's breath was giving away and he gave one last force and the button sank in. He came to the surface to see what had happened. The drainers on the sides of the room opened up and sucked in the water. Link quickly swam over to land and realized that the water level was low enough for him to duck under the spiked bar. He jumped onto the floating earth piece and pushed it across the room he ducked down as he went just barely under the rotating spikes. He reached up and grabbed onto the edges of the land

With much effort he pulled himself up onto the plateau. He dusted himself off and looked for a way out. The only things he saw was a dirt-like opening in the wall that was too high for Link to reach and a very large stone block in a grooved pathway that led and ended in front of the aperture. He advanced toward the block and stared at it, still trying to catch his breath.

Navi stood on top of the large stone. "Hey! Come on over and stand next to this stone! I bet you're strong enough to push or pull it! You can use it to get to the higher place!"

Link sighed and started to walk to Navi to protest but jerked back as a large, moss covered Skulltula dropped down from the ceiling. "Gah! I'll never get used to these things!" he said as he slashed at its underbelly.

He collected some rupees from the extinct spider and leaned against the bulge exasperated. "Navi I can't push this block! This thing is twice my size! Besides I'm too tired…."

Navi wouldn't hear of it. "HEY! Look! Let's just get through this door! We are almost there! We have been traveling for hours now.

Link gave up trying to convince her and squeezed out some water from his hat. He fastened it back on and attempted to move the block. Every inch of his muscles screamed to be let alone. He bit back the want of rest and let out the very last bit of strength to move the rock. He grunted and shifted his weight to create more movement. He nudged the rock just far enough to climb on top of it and go through the dirt tunnel and through the door.

Bars went down on the door behind him and the one to the right of him and Link's muscles tensed right back up as he drew his sword ready to fight. Navi looked around "There's no ambush." She said happily.

Link popped his sore shoulders. He had never had such a workout before. His arms were on fire from climbing and carrying the sword and shield so much, his legs ached from swimming and walking, his head throbbed from getting hit in the head with a deku nut and the rest of him hurt most likely from falling so much.

Link and Navi glanced around to make sure of no danger. It was a small, cozy room with one lit and one unlit torch in front of the left door. The only company that they had were a few Deku Babas in the left corner. Link was too tired to even care about them.

He huddled by the fire, shivering with hunger, cold and soreness. Navi buzzed around like a blue firefly. "HEY! We can't stop now! We have to save the deku tree!"

Link massaged his shoulders. "I know that, but if I'm going to do this right and efficiently then I'm going to need some rest."

Navi tapped her foot impatiently in the air but soon realized that her own energy was not as peaked as usual. He picked some soft grasses from the ground and used his pack as a pillow. He wrung out his hat and let it dry by the fire. He yawned and lay down, knowing that when he awoke night will have fallen.