Rem is at the entrance of the Maku Tree dungeon to test his medal he presumes. How did Rem get from getting lost in a forest to inside of a tree? Well... they are correlated to each other but that's besides the point. Rem must go through this dungeon to prove he's worthy of being hero of Termina. But hasn't Link claimed that title already? Why is he doing this, then? Something out there is destroying the land once again. But... what? Rem has no idea how he's figuring this stuff out by himself.

Rem looks around the dungeon while walking through it and says, "Yeah... I'm bad at puzzles. Ha ha." He fake laughs because there is a block puzzle where you have to turn it on the right side on the right spot. "And that will remove these vines." Rem tries this but when he got the block on the right spot, it was on the wrong side. He tries fixing this a couple times but it still doesn't work. He soon gets pretty frustrated with the puzzle. "Arrrgh! What does this have to do with being a hero?"

Then... he hears the maku tree's voice echo through the dungeon, "To test one's patience and to sharpen the mind." Rem replies, "Screw that! I'm picking this block up and rotating it!" Maku tree's voice get louder as she scolds him, "Rem! You must complete these tasks the right way, even if you did that, it still wouldn't work. I'm spectating to see if you are going through it right and approving your work."

Rem sighs, "Ok... I'll try again." Rem rubs his hands together and gives the block puzzle one more go. Rem pushes it up, up, right, down, right, down, left, up, left and that apparently got it in the center and he says, "What the heck? That was just a guess." The maku tree replies, "Sometimes you must have to believe in yourself and the outcome will go in your favor."

Rem shrugs, "Alright then." He goes through the passageway that was blocked by vines not to long ago. Looks like Rem needs to go up now, he goes towards the wall and climbs the vines and goes up in the dungeon. He reaches the top and sees nothing but a way towards vines on the bottom. Rem asks, "Ok... so what's the deal here, I climb up only to find nothing here."

The maku tree replies, "You have to fall on those vines." Rem gasps, "What?! But that would kill me!" The maku tree says, "If you are in a wicked tree. I am pure and won't let nothing bad happen to you. This is a test for trust." Rem looks over the pit and taps his foot, "Ok... so what if you were wicked and I'm stuck in this predicament, what would I do?" Maku tree says, "Trust your instincts." Rem nods, "I get you."

Rem jumps off the upper level and falls on the vines only to have them grab him. Rem's deku eyes widen from the fall and slowly calms down to see he's safe. Maku tree's voice giggles with an echo, "See? I wouldn't let anything happen to you." Rem sighs, "What now?" The vines drag him underneath them and brings him in a sub level area.

Rem notices that the level has even more puzzles, "Not more puzzles! Can't I have action instead?" The maku tree replies, "I dislike violence and I'm not having creatures inside me. Besides, you do get to fight soon." Rem says, "Promise?" Maku tree says with a happy tone, "Promise." Rem says, "Yay..."

Rem notices that this time there are deku flowers in this room now, "Ooh... time to use these now!" Rem burrow in one and bust out of it and he's airborne! Rem sees a vine pop out of the wall and tries to grab him. He keeps going and there's more popping out trying to reach him as he flies around near them. Rem replies, "A hidden maze?" Rem tries to control his flight but gets ambushed by a vine and it grabs him.

Rem says, "Please take me to victory." The vine throws him back where he started and he gets up, "Aw..." Rem goes in and tries again, he flies through the hidden vine maze again and gets the hang of things. Just as he thought he made it, another vine gets him by surprise and the vine maze drags him to the start. Rem couldn't believe what happened but wasn't angry by it either but speechless, "Ah, ju- ah, but... what?"

The maku tree comments, "Having fun, Rem?" Rem says, "Are you changing the maze on me?" Maku tree replies, "No... you are running into that one vine and messed yourself up." Rem burrows in the flower and comes out airborne again, "Well... I'll get it this time!" This puzzle is actually action based, too... it is pretty fun for Rem trying to get farther. Rem is having a good stretch this time but when a vine almost got Rem, he instictly shot it with a deku nut and it retracted. This actually got the maku tree to squeal a bit, "Owwee! Please don't do that! These vines are attached to me."

Rem loses his focus and apologizes, "Oh, sorry-" A vine grabs him and throws him back out but with a bit more force this time. Rem gets up and brushes himself off, "I guess I deserved that." He goes again and tries again, "I have messed around for too long! I'm getting it this time!" He goes in the maze again and remembered all the passages he went through that got him that far.

He goes to the one vine that messed him up and stop and turns the other side since it's a sharp turn. Rem actually made it this time! He jumps up and cheers, "Yeah! I did it!" He goes in the next room and sees a flowery hill. It's just a big pile of flowers. Rem sees a way that is closed and actually has the boss key lock, "Ooh, a boss? Can't wait!" Rem hops on the flower pile and says, I bet the key is in this pile." He searches through it and finds a wooden shield, "Cool! This will be handy for my human form!"

Maku tree comments, "That's the maku shield! It's made from my shed bark when I matured. I hope it provides you use in the future." Rem nods, "Thanks, Maku! I'll definitely be using it." He takes off his mask and puts the shield on his back, "Just my size, too!" Rem puts his mask back on and continue to dig in the flower pile. He finds some rupees and some more deku nuts.

He eventually finds the boss key and looks at the door which is more vines, "Hmm... it's a bit too high so I guess I should use a deku flower to get up there." He notice that there isn't a deku flower in the room. Rem goes on the top of the flower pile and burrows in it, turns out that it functions like a deku flower and he bursts out and flies towards the boss door, uses the key, the vines go away and he enters.

Rem looks around to see what the boss could be but then the maku tree speaks with him, "Well done, Rem! I knew you could go through my dungeon, but your final test will prove that you got the stuff to be my hus- err... I mean the hero!"

Rem scratches his head, "Ok..." Roots appear from every possible angle, "I'm the one who's going to be fighting you and I won't hold back this time!" Rem gasps, "Whoa! But I thought you didn't like violence." The maku tree replies, "This is only to unlock your potential! Are you ready?" Rem nods, "Yeah! Let's go!" Rem begins his fighting stance as the maku tree slams roots near him and Rem dodges out of the way.

Rem tries to spin at the roots but it only makes them grab him and all the roots wrap around him and constricts him. Rem couldn't even let air escape his deku mouth to shoot out a deku nut. Rem tries to have an arm free to try to pull of his mask. He eventually gets one free with much wriggling and he turns back to normal and pulls out his sword and stabs the roots which makes the maku tree squeal, "Oww! That hurts!"

Rem falls down and puts his sword away, "OK... what's your weakness?" Rem knows he could just slash the maku tree but he didn't want to hurt her too much so he says, "Come and attack me!" The maku tree says, "If you say so!"

She gets all her roots and attack Rem at once. Rem gets out his shield and blocks the roots as best as possible and throws a deku nut at them which stuns them. Rem puts on his mask and spins at them which actually causes damage to her without it being that deadly. This causes the maku tree to get even more violent as she has all her roots towards Rem getting ready to slam down at him.

Rem couldn't escape as there are no deku flowers and she would home in on Rem so he ducks and what he didn't know is that he created a deku shield when ducking. The roots hits it and they get vulnerable on the ground and Rem shoots a deku nut at them and stuns them and then he gets ready to spin at them and hurts them.

The maku tree squeals in pain again, "Ooowwweee! Ok! I give up! You passed!" Rem cheers, "Yeah!" All the root leave except for one lone one in the center, "Grab this root to get out of me." Rem nods and grabs on to it and the Maku tree pulls him out of her mouth. Rem eyes didn't adjust to the bright light and he shield his eyes, "Whoa! So bright."

Rem's eyes adjusts and he faces the maku tree, "Alright... so how did I do?" The maku tree smiles, "You did very good! I had fun making that dungeon for you and challenging you." Rem nods and replies, "Didn't Farore wanted to speak with me or something?" The maku tree seems to nod and opens a passageway on one side of her with a vine ladder leading up it. Rem walks up to it and climbs inside.

"Hello?" Rem calls out. Farore comes out of nowhere, "Hello, Rem. Did you go through The maku tree's test?" Rem nods, "Yes. And thanks for turning me into a deku scrub." Farore smiles, "My pleasure. I'm glad that you believe in us after all this time avoiding us." Rem scratches his head, "Yeah... sorry about that." Farore nods, "It's alright. Good thing we need you now." Rem asks, "What for?" Farore replies, "You'll find out."

Rem says, "Is this where you live?" Farore walks out and says, "No, this is where you'll be living." Rem gasps, "What?! But I already have a home!" Farore shakes her head, "Not anymore! A boulder fell on it when you went partying. Shouldn't live too close to Death Mountain, you know!" Farore leaves and Rem comes back out.

The maku tree seems to be in a really good mood, "This is great! You'll get to live with me and after your adventure, we can get married!" Rem sheepishly says, "About that..." The maku tree says concerned, "About what?" Rem says, "... It's nothing." After a moment of silence Rem confesses, "I am only interested in someone of my own species. Not deku scrubs although this form is making me attracted to them a bit."

The maku tree frowns from hearing this, "Oh... I see. Even after you promised." Rem sighs, "I also didn't promise anything, you said that yourself." This makes the maku tree even sadder, "Oh..." Rem adds on, "After this adventure. I'm going back to Hyrule and get a new house. And..." The maku tree seems to cry and it starts raining. Rem notices, "I... err..." Rem feels back for what he said and says, "Being a hero is hard. Making sacrifices is even harder. Sacrifice something to make others feel happy."

Rem looks at the maku tree's crying face, "Maku tree... I'll stay." Maku tree brightens up hearing this, "Really?" Rem nods, I don't know what will happen after my adventure so anything is possible." The maku tree asks, "Even marriage?" Rem doesn't give an exact answer, "Not the right time because I got a land to save." The maku tree frowns a bit, "Oh. Well... I'll keep my hopes up! In the meantime, you go to Clocktown and find out what's going on there and I'll keep an eye on you and the forest."

Rem nods, "Got it!" He rushes back to Clocktown and notices some commotion from the townspeople, he goes close to hear. One of them says, "What's with the weather? It rained for a bit then it stops. Something's going on here." Another says, "It has something to do with that forest that came out of nowhere! I just know it!"

Rem takes off his mask and sighs, "Not looking so good." He butts in and says, "How's it going? It's a beautiful day, isn't it?" Carpenter number one says, "Beautiful day? Didn't you see the rain? It's some kind of bad omen!" Carpenter number two says, "Bad omen? Have you been drinking too much?" Carpenter number one replies, "Only a little. Can't stop thinking about that damn forest staring at us!"

Rem tries to help by saying, "Surely a forest is good, right? More oxygen and you can have a lovely night camping there chatting it up with buds." Carpenter number two replies, "More wood for construction!" Rem sighs again, "Of course, Why did I bring this up to carpenters?"

Rem leaves them chatting and he pays a visit to Anju once again. He enters the Stockpot inn and Anju greets him, "Welcome to the Stockpot inn! Would you like a reservation?" Of course she does recognize him in his human form and he replies, "I'm Rem. The deku you chatted with a few days ago."

She gasps lightly and says, "Rem! Wow! You sure look like Link a bit!" Rem looks at himself, "I don't, do I?" Anju replies, "That was when he was a kid and he had blonde hair and that green tunic but you could pass as his relative."

Rem looks at his shaggy brown hair, "I don't know... I'm just here to ask if there's any news around here that I should be aware of." Anju says, "Well... there is that forest that came out of nowhere but that's what I heard. I've been working here all day." Rem grumbles to himself, "I wish everybody stopped talking about that forest..." Anju asks, "You could check the mayor's office and see if he has covered something."

Rem nods, "Thanks for your time. I'll be going now." Anju nods back, "Thanks for checking up on me. If you see Kafei, tell him to visit every so often." Rem salutes, "Will do, ma'am." He leaves the inn and checks the mayor's office. The mayor seems to expect him, "Well... if it isn't that deku boy. I assume that you had something to do with the forest, right?" Rem nods, "It was an accident and it's for the better, that plains was really boring."

The mayor nods, "Yes, it was. But it got some of my citizens suspicous, with it raining off and on." Rem raises his hand, "That was me as well. It won't happen again." The mayor asks, "Just what are you, boy?" Rem knows that the mayor is alot older than him so he doesn't mind being called boy here, "I'm the hero of Termina." This got the mayor to bust out laughing, "Wah ha ha! The four giants would never call upon a weird deku that can become one of us!"

Rem shows him his mask, "I'm human. I just have this mask that can turn me into a deku scrub. The goddesses turn me into it." The mayor gasps, "The goddesses of Hyrule? Here? There might be something going on but what?! You! I'll be watching you!" Rem nods, "Got it." He leaves his office as the mayor says, "I hope it isn't 'him' again."

Just as he leave he gets swirled around by a glowing light, it spoke to him, "Watch where you're going!" Another ball of light call to this one, "Tatl! Over here!" The ball of light who is named Tatl goes over to this purple light, "Sorry, just this jerk who got in the way." Rem says, "Jerk?" The balls of light head over to a skull kid which Rem suddenly feared, "Not another skull kid! What if this one hates adults?!"

The skull kid looks at Rem which Rem pretends to not notice him, "That mask..." The skull kid says. Tatl seems to notice, too, "It's the deku mask! But... what's it doing with this guy?" Rem notices that they are looking at him and he says, "What do you want? I don't want darts shot at me!"

The skull kid walks over to Rem, "You don't seem to be bad and you smell like the forest.. could it be?" Rem asks, "I'm not who you think I am!" Tatl asks him rudely, "Then why do you have the deku mask in your hands? Did you steal it?" Rem shakes his head, "I got cursed in the forest."

The skull kid believes him, "Oh! It wasn't me! I don't have the mask anymore." Rem asks, "What mask?" Tatl flies close to his face, "It's none of your business!" Rem says, "Does it have something to do with Link?" All of them gasps and Tatl says, "You know Link?" Rem shrugs, "Ehh... I've heard of him and apparently everyone does. But do you know something else?"

Tatl asks, "What?" Rem says, "Come with me and I'll show you." Rem walks over to where they can see the forest and the skull kid says, "That wasn't there before! It looks homey." Rem says, "I brought it here so that must mean something." Tatl asks, "I've heard of this forest being here centuries ago but something happened to it. How did it get back here?"

Rem replies, "Save its deity from pirates." The purple fairy says, "How did you do it?" Rem tells him, "With alot of rushing in and stupidity." Tatl says to Rem, "That's Link for you! Maybe you are the Terminian reincarnation of him. Rem scoffs, "Nah! I was born and raised in Hyrule!" Tatl replies, "Not the point. Since Link is the hero of Hyrule, you must be the hero of Termina, see?" Rem nods, "Yeah..."

Rem waves, "I have to go now, bye Tatl and Skull kid." Tatl shouts to Rem as he leaves, "Don't forget my brother Tael!" Rem snickers, "Now I get it..." Rem leaves and notices something cool, "Awesome! A dojo! I can sharpen my swordsman skills!" He enters the dojo and notices that it is empty, "Aw... it's closed. Why did they leave it open?"

Rem hits his head on the door when he closes it back up, "What do I do now?" Suddenly his stomach started growling and he holds it, "That's right... I didn't eat anything today. I'm pretty sure that Maku was supposed to feed me something. Oh well... I suppose I should grab a bite to eat somewhere." He goes around the town and notice the milk bar that they have and he suddenly got all ecstatic, "Yeah! A milk bar! I've longed for one here!"

He notices the menu on the outside, Chateau Romani. Rem hangs his mouth in awe, "The best milk ever people claimed. Right here in Clock Town. I gotta get me some of that!" He looks at the sign and yells, "Open at 10 pm?! No! Damn it! I wanted to get some Chateau Romani right now!" One of the citizens say, "If you really want it so bad, you could go to the Romani ranch and get some." Rem turns to him and says, "They make Chateau Romani in Termina? This place is paradise!"

Rem raises his arms in the air as people give him weird looks for his behavior. His stomach grumbles again, "I don't think I have the energy to run all the way to the ranch... I better head to the inn and eat there first."


The quest for Chateau Romani will begin for Rem! Will he get the most prized milk there ever is? Find out next time!