Yay, I am finally done with translating this story from german into english.
I hope there aren't too many mistakes in here, since this story was a pain in the butt to translate!
The idea for this story is a pretty old idea which I first got somewhere in 2015.
But I didn't like my old story anymore and thus I have decided to re-write this story and this is the result.
For those who have interest in reading the old (and much shorter) version: The story calls "Helpless Hero" and can be found on my account here.
I just wanted to add much more details to this story and I think I did a pretty good job with that.
I love the Forest Temple so much (dat music!). One of my favorite Temples in OOT :).
And a little "warning", since this story contains tickling, so if you don't like this, you better not read it ;).
But like I have said it already in my foreword: I distance myself from fetish AND sexual content of any kind!
My tickle stories are clean, harmless, funny, fluffy stories that are meant to bring a smile to my reader's faces
(and of course to my own face, since it's so much fun for me to write these stories). I am still a bit shy to post my tickle stories though...
Anyway, I hope you like this one and as always I would be very happy about some feedback, since I want to know how you like this new version
(if you still know the old version from 2015).
Thank you :3.
Helpless in the Forest Temple
When Link saw the Forest Temple for the first time, his disappointment was big, for his image of a peaceful temple, hidden deep in an idyllic forest, had been destroyed when the first Wolfo had attacked him and when his razor sharp fangs had bit into his tunic and had just missed his arm that was hidden under the fabric.
He had been so surprised by the attack that he hadn't been able to react quickly enough and when he had managed to draw his sword, another Wolfo had attacked him, who had watched him out of the shadows. When the sharp fangs had drilled into his boot, Link had lost his balance and fell to the ground and the second Wolfo attacked him immediately. He escaped the beast's fangs just in time, which snapped at his face and he was only able to send this hideous monster back to hell, where it belonged to, with great difficulty. The other Wolfo, who was still biting into his boot, he killed only seconds afterwards with a single, targeted sword blow.
Navi had flown to him immediately, as Link sat up, looking at the holes in his right boot. Fortunately the Wolfo's fangs hadn't passed through the thick leather, but the boot still looked very tattered.
"Is everything all right?" she had asked, but Link had only murmured something, had stood up and had put his sword back into the sword scabbard which was attached to his back.
"I am fine, only my boot has suffered quite a lot."
"Be glad your boot has protected you. You couldn't have entered the Forest Temple with a broken foot."
Navi wasn't wrong with what she said, but Link would never admit this out loud...
Silently, he had continued his way and when he opened the entrance door to the Temple, the next surprise had already greeted him in the form of a giant Skulltula, which was coming from the ceiling and used one of her long legs to hit at him, but Link had quickly raised his shield upwards and thus parried the attack. The master sword sealed the fate of the Skulltula quite quickly and Link and Navi could continue their journey.
"If you continue to make such noises then the whole temple knows that we are here before you even enter the main hall!"
"I could also say the same about you Navi."
"What does that mean?"
"Meaning that you can stop talking and instruct me! I am not a little child anymore, if you haven't noticed it yet!"
"Oh no? You are not? Do you think just because you're grown up, you have also grown more mature at the same time? You're still as childish as you were seven years ago, so don't tell me to keep my mouth shut! Without me you would have been lost when you've entered the lost woods!"
"Tze, I would have done it without you!"
"You don't believe that yourself! What is going on with you Link? Why are you so angry at me?"
The young man sighed and ran his hand through his face to wipe the sweat off his skin and then paused briefly as he stood before another closed door which would lead him into the main hall of the temple.
He turned his head to his fairy and looked at her apologetically.
"Sorry Navi. It's nothing personal. I was even angry at Sheik just before we left to go to Kakariko. I have yet to get used to it that seven years have passed within a few moments, that I am now grown up and that I have to save the princess and a whole kingdom. And Saria has also disappeared all of a sudden and have you seen how the Kokiri forest looks like? All of this is pulling on my nerves. I'm sorry when I was mean to you. And also because of Sheik I have a guilty conscience. He only wanted to help us, and I was so mean to him..."
Navi flew to him, sat down on his shoulder and gently stroked his cheek.
"It's alright Link. I don't take it personally, but still: Try to pull yourself together. You can't let your fury guide you, because that will end badly. Just look at what Ganondorf has become. The darkness has completely devoured his soul and he has become the great master of evil. If you don't hold back the darkness in you, the same thing will happen to you one day. I know that you are angry and I can understand that, but don't let it lead you."
A small smile spread over Link's face and he gently stroked over her small wings.
"Don't worry Navi, I'll never be like Ganondorf. There is no room in my heart for so much darkness."
"You do know that this sounded just incredibly kitschy?"
Link grinned.
"I thought you fairies would like kitschy things?"
"You people and your prejudices!"
A laugh broke from the hero's throat and he reached out for the door handle and opened the door.
His laughter died down as soon as he entered the main hall and when he saw the ghosts who were hovering further down in the middle of the room and who were looking up to him as soon as he entered the hall. Goosebumps overcame the hero and his fairy shuddered also at the sight.
"Ghosts? But Sheik didn't tell me about that!"
Now it was Navi who grinned.
"Looks like he didn't want to spoil your surprise."
"Navi! This is not a big help! What should I do against four ghosts at once?"
The moment these words left his mouth, there was something that looked like a sort of elevator that was down there. Slowly, the platform sank into the ground until it had completely disappeared and gradually the lights of the four torches, which stood around the platform, went out one by one. And the ghosts disappeared with the lights in each corner of the temple.
"See? Problem solved."
"Really Navi? Didn't you notice what happened when the torches went out? We have to kindle them again and I have the feeling that I have to find these ghosts to do that."
"Then we should hurry and...hey, why are you looking at me like that Link? Oh come on, don't tell me that you're afraid of some ghosts?"
"They are ghosts Navi. G-H-O-S-T-S."
"So what?"
"So what? Navi!"
"What? You've seen worse than ghosts."
"So? And what, for example?"
"You were in the belly of a huge whale and before we came here, you were in a grave and had a small race with the ghost of Dampé the grave digger. Isn't that enough?"
Link muttered something to himself that sounded like an "Okay, you won," and then he shouldered his shield and his sword and set off again.
His fairy followed him, still grinning.
"Don't take it so hard Link, maybe everything won't be as bad as you think?"
But even Navi's views on that should change soon...
It wasn't even half an hour later, before Navi had completely changed her mind about this temple.
Link was just leaning his back against the door, which he had just closed behind him and he ran his hands through his face.
"Have you seen this huge Deku Baba? He almost ate me with hair and skin!"
"That huge thing can be hardly overlooked Link. You were really lucky that it didn't kill you!"
"I know right? I'm glad when we get out of here! I hate this temple already!"
"Let's go somewhere else. And you better not touch this door ever again."
"I haven't planned to do that again Navi. Definitely not. I now know what is on the other side of it. But we have to go there anyway. Maybe we'll find another way into this room."
"Let's not waste any time then."
Link, had in fact found another way into the room, but he had found said way by accident...literally, because when he and Navi had entered the next room, Link had broken through the floor. Plant roots had broken the floor with the years and made it porous and Link had just stepped onto this one spot when he had entered the long corridor and the floor hadn't been able to withstand his weight and so he had broken through the floor.
He had been lucky in misfortune, for the many plant tendrils had intercepted his fall and he hadn't fallen into the infinite darkness which spread beneath him. But he was now hanging in the tendrils and could barely move, as the tendrils had wrapped around his legs, his arms and the rest of his body and they held him tightly. He tried desperately to free himself, tugged as hard as he could on the tendrils, but they didn't give him free and the more he tried to free himself, the more he wrapped himself up in all those tendrils. He couldn't reach his sword either, since he couldn't move his arms at all. His left hand was so close to his sword, as his arm hung over his head and his fingertips touched the sword handle, but that was it. He tried to free his legs instead, but all that happened was that he lost his right boot, the one which the Wolfo destroyed with his fangs, once he pulled a bit too hard on the tendrils and the boot then fell into the darkness. His foot was still not free though and to make his suffering worse, he now was in a not very pleasant position, because his leg was now bend up and he shuddered as his bare toes already touched the ice cold wall behind him.
But the situation had also a good thing, because when the boot landed on the floor only a few moments later, Link and Navi knew that he was not in danger, because the floor wasn't far away, but that was only a tiny light in so much darkness.
But Link had so or so to deal with completely different problems, because he tried desperately to keep his temper.
What had Navi said?
He had to keep his dark side at bay?
This was easier said than done; especially when there was already a volcano in his belly that was just about to break out. If the whole situation wouldn't change anytime soon, Navi would see his dark side quicker than she liked!
But he tried his best to calm himself down, breathed deeply in and out and told himself that everything would be all right, that he would soon be free and that he could continue his journey. He would find Saria, would break the curse that lay over this temple, bring peace back to the Kokiri Forest and he would be celebrated as the great hero, he was supposed to be.
Yes, that would happen soon...
If there wasn't his naughty fairy, who couldn't stop laughing at his predicament!
Not even when he opened his eyes and gave her a look that would be able to freeze hell.
"Stop laughing Navi! This isn't funny at all," he growled and he squirmed around in his "bonds", but they still didn't release him.
Great, just great!
Luckily, nobody could see him like this, besides Navi.
He didn't want to imagine what would happen if Sheik would see him like that...or Saria...or even Princess Zelda...
Link's cheeks turned red of such thoughts and also in part of anger, since his fairy didn't want to stop laughing. She made fun of him instead of helping him.
The Deku tree had sent him a great companion there!
But as soon as this thought had come, Link regretted it quickly.
Navi was a good soul and a good friend for him.
She didn't deserve it that he thought about her like that and it was at this moment when the bad conscience caught up with him. The anger in his belly faded and he relaxed a bit. Navi had been right with her words, because if she hadn't led him through the lost woods...he didn't even want to imagine what would have happened to him then. The Kokiris had always been talking terrible stories about the lost woods for as long as he could think and what happened to those who entered the lost woods without a fairy that would guide them...
Nevertheless, a growl left his throat, for Navi still didn't want to stop laughing.
Well at least someone who had fun here...
"Instead of laughing yourself to death, you can make yourself useful and help me out of here," he growled.
The little fairy actually stopped laughing and she flew over to him, just to grin right into his face.
"And what if I don't want to?"
"Are you serious Navi? What if an enemy finds me here? That would be my sure death!"
"But there are no enemies here and no one will be able to find you here. Don't you worry about that."
"That's not very calming. Come on, get me out of here. I would like to leave this temple as soon as possible."
"But why? It's just so cozy here."
Oh yes, there were those moments in which Link wanted to send his companion to hell and such a moment was right now...
He opened his mouth and wanted to answer something fitting, but not a single word left his lips as he closed his mouth as fast as he had opened it. His lips twisted into a grotesque grin and he hid his face quickly into the crook of his arm to hide his reactions from his fairy, but she had already seen enough and now it was Navi who didn't understand anything anymore. Just a few seconds ago Link had been angry at her and had looked at her as if he wanted to send her to hell and now he grinned as if he had lost the last bit of his sanity.
To make the whole situation even weirder, Link began to giggle a few moments later and it was at this moment, in which Navi understood nothing at all.
"Uhhh Link? Is everything alright with you?" she asked, totally confused.
The young man shook his head and still giggled softly to himself.
She could see how he balled his hands into fists and how the muscles in his body tensed.
"Don't you want to share the joke with me?"
He shook his head again and his giggling grew louder and movement went into his body, for he now tugged more strongly at the tendrils than before and he began to squirm in his shackles. His giggling became louder and started to turn into real laughter.
"Seriously, what is wrong with you? What is so funny?"
"F-F-Foot!" was all he got out.
Navi didn't know what he meant and she gave him a look, as if he had completely lost his mind now. Still, she flew down to his foot to look at what he meant and when she saw the source for his spontaneous laughing fit, she had to laugh herself, because now she finally understood why he couldn't stop cackling like a cucco anymore.
"So much for "Down here your enemies will not find you". This little baby Deku baba has found you here and it looks like he likes you so much that he just wants to take a bite from you," she said, smirking and that made the whole situation all the worse for Link.
With her words, Navi described the little Deku baba, who grew out of the wall behind Link and who had been biting into his bare foot for the whole time, or at least it was trying to do so, but the little babies of these plants didn't have any dangerous fangs and thus their bites didn't harm their victims. This Deku baba had Link's big toe firmly in his grip and chewed on it with much pleasure, but instead of suffering from strong pain, the young hero was stuck in a laughing fit, because it tickled him terribly.
Why had he had to lose his damn boot that would have saved him from this embarrassment?
The gods really had to hate him...
His little companion didn't seem to see it that way, because she was highly amused by the whole situation and couldn't stop laughing herself anymore, now that she knew what was wrong with Link. And when she was honest, she enjoyed seeing Link laughing like that. This was something he hadn't done for a long, long time. And besides, it was good to know that he was still ticklish after such a long time.
Knowledge, which she could use against him later and when he needed some cheering up...
"Nahahavi p-please...m-mahahake him stohohohop!"
Giggling, she watched the little Deku baba as he let go of Link's big toe and instead took over the rest of the foot. As he licked the sole of his foot with his little tongue, it was all over for Link. As Lava that broke out of a volcano, his laughter broke out of him and it didn't take long before Navi's own stomach hurt from laughing too much herself. The whole situation was so ridiculous that she couldn't help but laugh along with him, even if she knew that this was quite mean and yes, probably Link would hate her for it, but it was totally worth it.
Still, she felt pity for him after a while and she pushed the little Deku baba away from his foot and to make sure that he didn't "attack" the foot again, she freed Link's leg from the tendrils so that his foot sank back down, where it would be out of reach of the small carnivorous plant.
Link's laughter died down as soon as the tickling sensation had stopped and the dark look was back on his face immediately, as Navi flew up to his head again and looked at him.
"What? Why are you giving me that look? I made sure that he stopped, right?"
"Yes, but only after I almost died here!"
"Oh come on Link, now you totally exaggerate it."
A growl rose from his throat, which only made his fairy grin.
"And stop snarling at me or are you turning into one of these Wolfos, huh? Besides, I have liked you much more just a few seconds ago."
"What does that mean?"
"Meaning that you should laugh more, since it looks good on you, you know?"
Barely noticeable Links cheeks turned red once again and he turned his face away from her, but Navi had seen enough, which she also immediately commented with an amused giggle.
"Ohhh, don't be ashamed of that Link. There is no reason for that."
"Of course there is a reason for it Navi. That was totally embarrassing and I hope it stays between us and that you won't tell anyone about what just happened here."
"What? That the great and mighty hero, who is supposed to save Hyrule, is so ticklish that he screams like a girl?"
And Link's face was looking like a tomato...
"Hey! What are you talking there Navi?! I don't scream like a girl!"
"No?"
"No! And now stop teasing me and get me out here!"
"Oh, but I like you like that, you know?"
"Navi!"
The little fairy grinned and flew slowly around him and she watched him as he squirmed around in the tendrils once again and tried to free himself and failed miserably at that.
"It would be a shame to free you now, especially since I would miss out on the only opportunity to finally teach you some manners."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that someone should teach you a bit of respect. You've been very mean towards me lately and I am sick of it that you treat me like that. It's time that I show you that you can't do anything you want with me and I think now is the perfect opportunity, don't you agree? And this cute little baby Deku baba has just shown me the perfect method to teach you a few proper manners. And who knows, maybe I'll tell Sheik about it the next time we meet him, so he can teach you some manners too..."
"W-what ? Come on Navi, you can't be serious!"
"And how serious I am with that. And since you are constantly pulling a face like seven days of rainy weather and looking as if the moon is about to crash down on the world, I should perhaps cheer you up a bit too. Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, didn't you know that?"
Link's eyes widened as he slowly got an idea of what his fairy was about to do to him. Once again, he began to twist in his bonds and tore at them, but they still didn't give in, so he had to watch helplessly as his little friend slowly flew over to him.
"N-no! Navi! Stay away from me!"
But Navi didn't listen to him.
"Don't you dare Navi, I mean it!"
The death glares he gave her missed their effect, because Navi wasn't bothered by that in the slightest.
"Navi! Don't do it! I'm warning you!"
She ignored his words and came closer and closer and closer and then...she disappeared into his green tunic and white undershirt.
A loud and quite unmanly squeal left the hero's throat, when the tickling began from anew and this time it happened with full intent, which made it much worse for him.
The little Deku baba had been bad, but Navi was downright brutal!
Oh yes, she still knew all of his weak spots which she had found seven years ago when she had wanted to know whether he was ticklish or not and apparently he was veeeeery ticklish…
"H-hey! Hey! Navi...S-Stohohohop it! N-no tihihihickling! This is...Ahh!...unfahahair! I-I hahahave had enough of thahahahat alreahahady…hahaha..s-stop ihihihit!" he managed to squeeze out between his laughing fit and he squirmed around in his bonds like a fish on a hook.
He heard his fairy giggle and he squealed again, louder this time, as he felt tiny little fingers tickling over his bare side and he twisted away from the fingers as best he could, but he couldn't escape them at all, since his little tormentor stuck inside his clothes and thus there was no escape for him at all.
"Stop? I don't think so. I won't stop tickling you until you stop being so mean to me and when a smile is glued to your grumpy face!"
"I-I'm nohohohot grumpy!"
"Oh yes, you are," the little fairy said with a sing-sang voice and she kept on tickling him cheerfully and giggled as she heard how his voice was getting higher and higher, as she had found an extra ticklish spot on his belly.
"B-By the gods! Nahahahavi! S-stohohohp thahahahat...hahahaha...no! Nohohot there! PLEAHAHAHASE!" he squealed in his despair, but he only earned more merry laughter from his fairy and he felt how she dug her tiny fingers deeper into this one little spot on the side of his belly.
"Awww but you are soooo cute when you're laughing. Tickle, tickle, tickle~."
"W-wahahait until I g-get out of hehehere Nahahavi! Th-then we'll see who w-will be lahahaughing!"
"Maybe, but for now it's you who is laughing~."
Oh yes, Navi knew that she would regret that later, but it was totally worth it!
Link desperately wriggled in his bonds, trying to kick his legs out, but this was hardly possible. His muscles were about to tear (at least it felt to him like this would happen); so much strength he used to try to free his arms, but the tendrils were too thick and didn't give in one bit. He had thrown his head back, had squeezed his eyes shut and here and there the first tears rolled down his red cheeks as he gave in to his loud laughter.
Memories of long past days were floating through his mind, as Navi kept on tickling him.
He saw himself lying on the floor, laughing loudly, above him Mido and his friends who held him down and tickled him until he was crying with laughter. Often he had fought against the older Kokiri and much too often he had lost against him and situations like these were almost on the agenda back then.
And Saria hadn't been any better when she had once figured out how ticklish he was...
All of this went through his mind in this moment and he almost felt as if he was back in these times. In times, where no monsters ruled over the Kokiri Forest. Times when Link was not a chosen hero, but a normal boy who loved to laugh and just be a child.
All what he couldn't be anymore...
Wouldn't there be his little fairy that made him laugh even in the darkest hours of his life...if not entirely voluntarily, as now. But the longer she tickled him, the longer he laughed, his ice-cold facade crumbled. The hero moved into the background and the little boy he once had been came back more and more. His laughter changed slightly, sounded no longer hysterical and tormented as in the beginning. No. This laughter was real and it came from the deepest depths of his heart.
And it was exactly this laughter, this Link, after Navi had been looking for so long...
"C-Come on, Nahahahahavi...P-please! Enough w-with the tihihickling!"
Again the fairy giggled.
"What's wrong? Don't tell me the mighty Hero of Hyrule can't stand being tickled?"
The teasing words made him laugh even harder.
No, actually it was the whole damn situation that made him laugh even harder.
The whole situation was so absurd and stupid...he could just laugh heartily at it.
And somehow it was also so much fun to fool around like that, even if Link would never admit this out loud. But his cheerful laughter said more than any word in this world could do it. It felt so damn good to let go and laugh like that, especially after all the dark days that lay behind him.
In this little moment he was no longer the Hero of Time.
No.
In this moment he was again the innocent little boy from the Kokiri Forest.
But no matter how much fun he had, even the Hero of the Time couldn't take it anymore after some time and Navi could feel this too.
Again she giggled as she teased his belly once again and a sugary sweet squeak interrupted his laughing fit and his whole body jumped hard at that.
"Well, you great hero? Are you giving up?"
Link tried to answer, but he barely got a word over his lips and he was already laughing so loud that he thought it would echo through the whole damn temple by now.
"Y-YES! DO YOU HEAR THAHAHAT NAHAHAVI? YEHEHES! I GIVE UHUHUP! YOU WIN! YOU WIHIHIN!" he pressed through his loud laughter before his laughter went silent and that was the point at which the little fairy stopped tickling him and flew out of his white undershirt and green tunic.
Again, Link felt her grin on his body, but this time he grinned back at her after he had stopped laughing like a maniac and he raised his head and looked at her. He was totally done with the world, his stomach ached, tears wetted his bright red cheeks, but he felt as good as he hadn't felt in a very long time.
"It's nice to see you smile again," Navi said and her voice was soft, her words honest and she sat down on his shoulder and gently stroked his cheek with her wing.
Link's grin faded from his face, made place for a warm smile and after a few more minutes his warm smile turned into a grin once again.
"What?" the little fairy wanted to know when he chuckled and again the amusement was audible in her voice.
"I think I deserved that..."
Now it was Navi who laughed loudly and it didn't take long until the young Hero was laughing along with her.
"Hey Navi?" he asked after he few moments of silence.
"Yes Link?"
"How about you help me out of here now?"
"Hmm I could do that."
"Nice, but please Navi...this time without tickling me."
Again she giggled and she brushed her wing teasingly over his ear, which made him scrunch his shoulders up and giggle.
"I can't promise anything that I can't hold, you hero..."
The End