Disclaimer: This is a test. Do not try this at home. I repeat, this is a test.
Day 1, Morning, Woodfall
After resetting time and playing the recently learned Song of Soaring, Link found himself being warped to the place he had in mind when he played the melody: Woodfall. Back at the entrance of the overgrown sink of poisonous water, our heroes cringed at the stench of foul substances polluting nature's tears.
Then again, tears are something Link can relate to.
The whole swamp was reeking of negative emotions, which followed him wherever he went. Anger, sorrow, tears of hate and angsty bursts of rage. Although Link always kept his negativity and pessimism contained as best he could, everyone who knew him could tell he was acting weird. As if he was being influenced by something…
"Boom! Roasted," Link said after slaughtering another Mad Scrub. This is way too easy. It's a bit scary, even.
"Well, onwards we go," Tatl said while Link was transforming into Deku Link to use the flower, left behind by the Mad Scrub.
"Um, Tatl?" Link asked, looking forward to the next log-bridge across from the flower, "What is that?"
"That is a Hiploop," Tatl answered, after seeing the back of a creature which was all yellow, four-legged and with a face shaped as if it was an open cocoon, with three "leaves" pointing left, up and right. "Hiploops are angry creatures that can only see forward and will charge violently at you, so my best bet would be striking it from the back."
"From the back, huh… okay, here goes," Link said, burrowing underground, then launched himself upwards and flew to the bridge, facing the Hiploop's back.
Maybe I'll give him a good taste of the Deku Spin Attack… ready… set… g-
As Link was planning on attacking the Hiploop, it reached the end of its forward march and turned back to the opposite direction, which means the monster, with its wide, yellow eyes, saw Link… and saw red. A couple of sharp, loud and hateful gargle from the creature and it was coming at our hero in a mad dash.
"W-WAAAAAAH!" Link yelled, releasing a bubble out of his nose out of panic reaction while stepping back.
Another cry from the beast and Link was running out of space to back up. Cornered, he could only think of one thing… striking back.
The bubble, this time carefully produced and aimed, hit the Hiploop right in the eye, one-hit-KOing it into submission. Out of annoyance, Link kicked it to the side, but he forgot that under them was a pool of poison.
"Ugh! Yuck! Dammit, Link!" Tatl complained after the intensified putrid odor made its way into her nostrils.
M-Maybe I should keep my lid on…
The path to the temple altar followed the same course of claiming Deku Flowers from Mad Scrubs and KOing Hiploops - this time, their corpses kept on the ground, because nostrils can only take so much - until they reached the final platform and stepped in its wooden surface. Aside from the carnavalesque decorations around the top, there was a line of four pots at the back, a Deku Flower at the front, and a circular platform at the center. But other than that, it was a very small and crammed altar.
"Link, there's something drawn in this platform here."
"Yeah, it says… 'D...e…' Wait. 'DeKuz SuCk'?"
"Not that! Here, in the middle!"
"Oh! Um… It's a Deku. And something written below it… 'Play the Sonata of Awakening'. Huh?"
"The Sonata of Awakening. Now that's something very ominous."
"Maybe it's the song that the monkey taught me? He did say it would lift the temple."
"Well, whip out your tubes then!"
I will spare you from the contempt of rushing me this time because "whip out your tubes" sounded awesome. "Alright, here goes..."
Link stepped in the platform and played the melody he learned from the monkey, and though he flubbed up the notes a couple of times, eventually he caught on and the song carried far, far away.
Soon enough, everything rumbled around our heroes and the water level started to rise dangerously, with a mysterious shape in the middle of the pool. Then, from within, a very majestic building, looking like a pyramid of sorts but with a square top, rose. The top had a two-branch tree with - figures - no leaves, and near the top section, a platform and a door, welcoming people to the temple.
Waiting for all the poisoned water to roll down the temple's structure, Link and Tatl stood in awe of what just happened.
"W-Wow..." Tatl managed to say under her breath, "This was seriously amazing."
"I even forgot about the smell for a minute there..." Link replied, amazed.
"So this is the cursed temple where the Deku princess is being kept."
"Yep. Supposedly taken over by a tall humanshape monster."
"It can only get better, huh..."
"Well," Link said, burrowing under the Deku Flower, "No use staring, let's search the temple."
Then, he blasted upwards and floated towards the temple's entrance, Tatl following suit, and landed safely. Turning around to give Woodfall another quick look, he took a deep breath and…
Well… I guess I can't pretend I have a sudden stomachache, huh…
Day 1, Morning, Woodfall Temple
What's with the drums?
That was Link's first thought as soon as he and Tatl stepped inside Woodfall Temple, tribal jungle sounds echoing into their ears. The entrance lobby was high up, with the floor below almost invisible due to the poor amount of sunlight going inside the temple, and a couple of trees stood tall in the room. Platforms were scattered throughout the room; some with Deku Flowers growing on them, while others were plain and empty. Most importantly to him, however, was the ledge at the end of the room which contained the door to the main chamber.
"Sounds like we have our work cut out for us, Link," Tatl said.
"Can't these temples be simple for once? Why are they so complex and full of traps and rooms and whatnot?"
"Don't ask me."
"I mean, the Temple of Time back at Hyrule? Now THAT was a temple. You enter, there's this long hallway, an altar at the end and a single room at the back. Boom. End of. Then you hear about 'a temple' anywhere else and they're all like this, fucking mazes and deathtraps and enemies and floors and fake rooms and keys and-"
"Hey, hey!" Tatl interrupted The Hero of Time's endless rant, "Three days! No time to complain!"
"Mmrph... " Link held back the rest of his rant and burrowed under a flower to launch himself to the nearest platform. He landed, then proceeded to burrow himself again for the next three platforms. When he was about to reach the last one, the one with the door… Well, guess what?
"Y-YEAAAAAARGHHHH!" Link yelled after being hit by a Skulltula, which was carefully hidden in the shadows above and lunged downwards at him when the opportunity arose.
"Seriously Link, it seems like no enemy will ever fight with you without bumping at you or surprising you first," Tatl stated, saying what Link himself had repeated countless times.
The hit made Link lose his balance and fall all the way down to the cold, hard floor at the bottom level, where he couldn't see too well due to how dark it was.
"Grrrr… t-that seriously hurt… I feel like my back is going to start crying anytime soon."
"C'mon, you're better than that. Here, I'll light the waa-a-a-aa-a…..."
"What, Tatl? Tatl? Why did you stop mid-sente-ee-e-e-e-e..."
Both Link and Tatl were surprised to see a pair of yellow eyes amidst the blackness, but surprise gave space to fear after these pairs appeared in more numbers, indicating either a mob of terrifying dark-lurking creatures… or a ferocious hundred-eyed monster.
"I-Is this the temple's monster?!" Link asked, panicking, his voice cracking at the end of the sentence.
"I don't- Oh." Tatl stopped mid-sentence after seeing one of the pair of eyes coming forth, revealing to be not a monster, nor a terrifying creature, but a small, black, round thing which now looked almost kind of cute. "It's just a Black Boe..." she finished, sighing, half out of relief and half out of the thrill leaving her blood.
"That's as close of a heart attack as I'll ever get! Damn these creatures! I'll kill you all!" Angry Deku Link yelled as he started to madly spin around, cutting down all Black Boes with his spin attack to make up for the scare they gave him.
"Link, you're taking this temple a little too personally", Tatl said, after her huffing and puffing partner finished his bloody, murderous tantrum.
"Whatever, just… light the way and help me find a way back up," Link said.
And Tatl did just that. Eventually Link found his way back into the entrance platform, and a most convenient ladder was stuck there - he probably wasn't the first to get Skulltula'd from above - for him to get back up. Then, all he had to do was redo the whole thing again, only stopping at the last platform before the offending one. Deep in thought, Link started to think of ways to surpass the Skulltulas - two, one left and one right from the door, he could see now - without being thrown away.
Is there any room for me to prepare a bubble…? Nah, I don't think so. The platform's too small. Maybe if I shoot 'em from here…? Hmmm, nope. Not a chance. They're too high up. Wait, I could… hmm… no…
"Link," Tatl said, snapping Link out of his fruitless trance, "I just thought of something!"
"Such as…?"
"What if you found some room to prepare a bubble?"
"..."
"Or! Or! You could shoot 'em from here instead!"
"..."
"Or maybe…. Um, Link? Are you listening?"
No. "It's times like these when I miss my bow."
"Oh yeah, you said you had one before, didn't you?"
"Well, sort of," Link said, conveniently hiding the fact that in his (earlier) child years he couldn't hold the bow properly and had to use a very un-heroic slingshot until he grew older, "And it helped me a lot in situations like these."
"Oh. Well, you'll have to figure something out yourself, because I highly doubt that they have a bow in the temple."
"Yeah, I know." Um… the ominous feeling is back.
Eventually Link decided to sneak from the side, behind the field of vision of the right-side Skulltula, and managed to bubble them down like he was used to. Going through the door, he and Tatl reached a huge room, which had to be the main room of the temple.
"This is probably the main room of the temple," Tatl said, repeating what I just said, "Look how wide it is."
"Indeed," Link replied, a bit too formally, "And look, more poisoned water."
They entered in a very high position, with a ramp to their left going down to ground level. At the bottom of the room, a pool of poisonous water featured a strange platform right in the middle, looking like a half-open flower with a torch in the very center. At the far right of the room, a platform - at the same level - with a staircase going up, another door, a wheel of flames on top of a treelog (how the f… nevermind) and, at ground level, another door. And, finally, still at ground level, a very irrelevant horde of vases.
"Lots of doors around here," Tatl said. "Where do we begin?"
"Well, let's drop down first," Link said, walking towards the ramp.
"Link, what are y-"
"WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Link screamed, sliding belly-down on the ramp, clearly enjoying the heck out of himself until he banged his head against a Deku Baba on the floor.
A-Again with the bumping! I will sue everyone!
After cutting down the offending plant, Link entered the next room through a(nother) door behind him. It was another poison-pool room, but with a confusing mess of wooden bridges running above the pool, a door to the left and a staircase to the upper level. Standing smack dab in the meeting point of the bridges, though, was a huge grey block with the Majora's Mask logo imprinted on it.
"That trickster…!" Tatl muttered, making the connection to the Skull Kid all too instantaneously, as if he had already done this sort of thing before.
"Is that the best you can come up with? 'Trickster'?"
"Stop picking on my vocabulary and start pushing that block!"
"Don't rush me!"
Link started pushing the block forwards like he was used to do - despite the block being at least twice as heavy as him - and, in so doing, he managed to take a right and proceed. After defeating another Skulltula, they both stopped in front of a lit torch with some insects flying over it.
"What are those, fire butterflies?" Link asked, staring at the small creatures.
"I guess... I've never seen something like that", Tatl replied, genuinely intrigued at them.
Well, so much for my floating encyclopedia. "Okay, never mind, let's just light this Deku Stick and-"
As soon as Link turned around with his Deku Stick lit (yeah yeah, chill out 4th graders, I meant the wooden stick), he felt three very severe bites on the back of his head and neck. Turns out, the insects were actually very protective of fire - and they would follow fire around and bite people, much like those flies that gather around lamps on summer.
There was only one way out of that mess.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Link screamed, while running towards a door in front of him - the one which was left from the entrance - and going through it.
"So brave of you, Hero of Time," Tatl teased.
"T-To hell with you!" Link snapped, then looked around the room. Two trees covered in vines, a couple of Deku Flowers strewn around and three Dragonflies decorated the place. Nothing too interesting, right?
"Dead end. Figures," Link said.
"Link! Watch out!"
As Tatl finished yelling, Link instinctively dodged to the side just in time to avoid one of the Dragonflies' electric tail whip.
"Motherf- come back here!" Link yelled, chasing after the Dragonfly, which put some distance between it and Link to prepare the next attack. Link burrowed under a nearby flower, waiting for the creature to lunge; and, luckily, another one of the Dragonflies decided to join its buddy and gang up on our hero.
The more the merrier, he thought before blasting upwards and killing off both insects in one fell swoop. The remaining Dragonfly, however, wasn't intimidated, and as soon as it noticed Link, it zoomed towards him. Another swift blow of the Deku Flower liftoff and one more on the count towards Dragonfly extinction.
Suddenly, as soon as the last creature's lifeless body hit the floor, a chest appeared.
"Hm, they're still using the old 'appearing chest'...?" Link mused.
"What, you think it's bad?"
"Of course! In this day and age we use Wi-Fi, duh! Why not set a hotspot here and have us download the item via Dropbox or s-"
Tatl opened the chest before Link could say any more and threw the item at his face, cutting his sentence short.
"OW! What was that f- hey," he paused, looking at the item - a round, blue object with a glass face, featuring an arrow pointing north, "What's this?"
"A compass," Tatl replied while Link fumbled around with it, "It lets us see the locations of chests and items on the map."
"And where's the map?"
"... Oh."
"Ha! Guess you're not that bright yourself, fairy."
A bump to Link's head and both fairy and boy went through the door, back to the poisoned pool.