After some back tracking with my four monkey friends, I arrive back at the front room.
"Are you sure this will work?" I ask, gulping nervously.
"Yeah! There are enough of us now that we can swing you over the gap like I told you on the way here! How many times must I tell you before you believe?" Luna asks.
"Okay... I guess... Let's do it then! For Ook!" I say.
Luna opens the door and we all pile out. The four monkeys go about their routine, placing themselves strategically on the ropes to swing me across.
"Come here, Epic! Trust us! We will not drop you!" Luna beckons.
"Are they going to drop me, Midna?" I ask.
She doesn't respond so I take a deep breath and make a leap of fate. Luna passes me to Moona, Moona passes me to Suna, and Suna passes me to Twinkle before I eventually hit the ground again.
"Oh! What a rush!" I exclaim.
The monkeys make their way to me one at a time until all four are around me again.
"Ook should be just beyond this door!" Luna says.
She opens the door for me and I go in. Before they can join me, the door shuts and iron bars cover it, startling me. Ook is standing on top of a pillar and lets out a screech, smacking his butt at me.
"Hey! I came here to talk to you, can you not be rude?!" I ask.
He tosses his boomerang and cuts some Baba Serpents off the ceiling. They drop down and head towards me.
"Ah! Playing dirty?! Okay, well, we'll see who wins this!" I say with a growl.
I fight off the hungry Baba Serpents before turning my attention back to Ook.
"Hey, Link, remember how you had to roll into that pillar to knock the monkey cage down? Well, this is similar... Knock into his pillar to confuse him!" Midna calls.
"Thanks for the tip!" I say.
I try to roll into his pillar, but he quickly starts leaping from pillar to pillar. I try to keep up, but he sure is fast! Eventually, he stops and tosses his boomerang again.
"Now, Link!" Midna calls out.
"Right!" I say.
I run and knock on the pillar, rattling Ook. Startled, he freezes in place and doesn't catch his boomerang. It knocks him over and he lands.
"Now you spank him! Let him know he's done something bad!" Midna cries out.
"Uh... This is awkward..." I say.
I do so anyways and that's pretty much how our whole battle goes aside from a few times when he succeeds at knocking Baba Serpents down and distracts me. Finally, the thing on his forehead cracks from him falling on it too many times.
"Oh... The pain... Wait... I can speak again! I'm cured!" Ook cries out.
He takes one look at me and freaks out, jumping and climbing out a small hole in the ceiling. However, he leaves behind his boomerang!
"Oh no! He forgot his boomerang..." I say to Midna.
"Oh, well, maybe he doesn't need it anymore. But did you think about that? No! You only thought about yourself!" Midna says.
"Uh... Actually I was concerned about him," I say, tilting my head in confusion.
I also just realized that there are still bars in front of the door meaning I cannot leave the room.
"So... Uh... How do we get out? I don't think that, even with your magic, I could leap out like Ook did," I say.
"Hmmm... Maybe this boomerang can help," Midna says.
I pick it up in my mouth.
"Not very handy for a wolf!" I mumble, muffled by the boomerang.
The boomerang glimmers a bit. That's when I realize it isn't just any boomerang, but a magical one. I tilt my head and fling the boomerang. The boomerang flies around the room and I catch it in my mouth again.
"Say, that thingy above the door looks like the things on the bridge that turned as the wind blew. Perhaps you could use your boomerang to spin it?" Midna suggests.
Midna then has to witness me fooling around and failing to aim correctly for the next ten minutes or so. She sighs and yawns, annoyed with me. Finally, I get just the right angle and the bars go back up a tiny bit.
"Progress!" I say.
"Not much, loser... Look, I don't have forever to wait..." Midna says.
"Oh yes, the world is at stake and I am trapped in here. Mmm... Steak... Delicious steak..." I say, drooling.
"LINK! THROW THE BOOMERANG!" Midna yells.
"Yeah, I'm on it... Did I ever tell you that I prefer the name Epic? Well, I do!" I say, throwing the boomerang.
The gate goes up even further.
"Almost there... One more strike..." I say.
I toss the boomerang again and the gate fully opens. Luna opens the door.
"Epic! I was afraid I'd never see you again!" Luna says, "Wait... Where's Ook?"
"HE ATE OOK!" Twinkle wails.
"I didn't!" I argue.
"Then why are you holding his boomerang?!" Twinkle asks.
"He left it so I took it," I say.
"Oh..." Twinkle says.
"Say... Epic... I hope you don't mind... I just found out four of my friends are also trapped somewhere in this temple... Could you help us find them?" Luna asks.
I stare at Luna, my mouth open in disbelief. Four more monkeys... Why?!
