Red

The room they stepped into made Red feel very nervous. It had that sort of evil feel to it, like something really bad had happened there. They were standing on a thick crescent of land. Deep, poisonous-looking, mucky water that's color matched Vio's tunic filled the rest of the floor except for two small islands. A large bundle of tree branches, leaves, and vines formed a canopy high over their heads, letting just enough sunlight through so they could see clearly. However, Red's attention was mostly on the water, which was now bubbling.

"I don't like this…" Blue's whisper trailed off into a gasp as a giant wave splashed and three, scarily large heads rose violently out of the violet water, spitting poisonous muck and water everywhere. Two of the giant heads looked like overgrown Deku Babas, but these ones had nasty teeth, and their skin looked like tree bark. The middle head looked like a lizard, but when it roared, the bottom half of its mouth split in two, making it look like an overgrown, gross plant with teeth and a long tongue with an… eyeball on it? Red didn't know what the creature was, but it scared him.

"Get out of the way!" Red was tackled to the side by Gray, just as one of the deku baba heads slammed down where he had been standing. Blue tried slicing through its head but his sword only glanced off, chipping the armor slightly.

Recovering quickly, Red shot a quick, "Thanks!" Gray's way before they dove to either side to avoid a splash of deep purple vomit the middle head shot at them. The substance hissed where it landed and all the grass touching it withered and died.

"Yaah!" Red shouted as he swung his sword at a head coming at him. He only managed to slice the very tip of a tooth off, but that was something, right?

The head in the middle roared again, this time so loud Red had to clamp his hands over his ears. Apparently, its distraction worked, because a head managed to slam down so close to Green that he flew into the air from the force, going until he slammed into the wall. Red didn't have time to find out the damage, having to dodge another spray of the acid-like water. When he glanced over again, Blue was kneeling next to Green, who was sitting up and holding his head. At least he was all right.

The next few minutes were a bit of a blur. Slash, dodge, roll, swing, cover ears and run. Well, it was a good workout. Then, he heard Vio shouting at him; "Red! Your fire rod!"

The fire rod! Maybe it would burn it. He only hoped it didn't set the rest of the room on fire too. Pulling it out, he pointed it at the nearest monster head, which happened to be the middle one, and clicked the switch. Unfortunately, head saw him coming and quenched the flames with its poison before swooping down on him. For a second, all Red saw was teeth, tongue, and flesh when he felt himself being jerked up from the ground. He was inside its mouth!

"Red!" he heard someone shout, before he himself yelled in pain when one of the teeth grazed his right arm. The cut burned like acid. Then the world blurred as he felt himself being shaken left and right, the jolting rattling his senses. Through the shaking, he lost hold of the rod. However, he still had his sword. Knowing exactly where he wanted to put it, he braced himself as best he could in the slippery, slimy mouth while being shaken like a dog's toy, and jabbed his weapon into the monster's eye.

It roared in pain and anger, flinging him across the room until his head slammed into the wall. Collapsing onto the ground, Red sat up, dizzy, rubbing his hand over the lump forming on the back of his head. It hurt. Well, he wasn't being shaken anymore, that was a good thing. Groaning, he searched for his sword as he heard Vio run up to him asking; "Red, are you alright?"

Red nodded as he heard Green shouting somewhere, "It always has to be the eye that's the weak point, doesn't it?"

"Now we need a way to hurt the other he- Aaah!" Gray was cut off as a spray of purple muck hit his left hand, causing him to drop his sword and shake his hand, water flying off of it.

"We're not going to get very far using swords, arrows will just bounce off too…" Vio's eyes widened, "Bombs! We can use bombs! Gray, can you throw?" He shouted the last sentence at the said person.

"Huh? I can, but what does that have to do with-"

"Bombs! We have bombs!" Vio yelled again, he and Red rolling towards him as they avoided another head-slam courtesy of the head on the right. Now that they were in proper speaking distance from Gray, Vio explained without having to raise his voice, "You have the better height and I'm assuming throwing range than us, because you're bigger. You'll have a better chance at throwing one of these," he pulled a bomb from his pouch, "into their mouths," he gestured at the three monsters.

The three of them ducked as a spray of acid sailed over their heads. Gray nodded as if he was warming up to the idea.

"Any chance one of you guys could make one mad so it roars at you?" He asked. Red raised his hand cheerfully.

"I can!" he exclaimed, taking out his slingshot, "Ready?" Gray nodded an affirmative.

"Hey you! Over here!" Red shouted, pelting the nearest head with small rocks. That had the desired effect. The monster roared, Vio screamed,

"Now!" and Gray threw the bomb. His aim was true. The explosive sailed into its mouth. The monster choked on it, struggling to swallow the unexpected food. Then the bomb exploded in its throat. The thing went completely limp, landing in the water with a loud splash! It didn't come back.

"One down!" Red cheered. He glanced over to where Blue and Green were goading the other deku baba head into opening its mouth. Green was using his boomerang. Red watched as the monster roared in anger as the stick hit it. Then, Blue threw his bomb down its slimy maw. It, too, choked, and went limp as the explosive did its work. Two down!

"Yes!" Green cheered, throwing a fist in the air in triumph before ducking as the remaining head spat liquid death at him.

The five of them grouped and worked together to goad the last head into opening its mouth. When it did, Gray did the honors of lobbing the bomb into its mouth. Unfortunately, that head had learned from the other's mistakes, and clamped its mouth shut before the bomb could reach it. It bounced off harmlessly and ricocheted right back at them. Everyone rolled aside to dodge the resulting explosion.

"We need a way to stun it!" Green yelled over the roars of a furious monster, "Any ideas?"

"Wait! I do!" Gray called back, reaching into his pouch and pulling out a boomerang of his own. This one was far fancier than Green's. Red hadn't seen it before, but he did remember Blue mentioning it in the other room. Something about dragging a windstorm along with it? That might be why the sides were shaped a little like feathers.

Gray threw it, and blue's words proved to be true. A mini tornado erupted around it as it spun towards the lizard-plant thing's head. Whether it got dizzy or because the stick collided with it's eye, Red didn't know. All he knew was that the creature roared and collapsed, its head landing in the withered grass, tongue out, and eye spinning comically.

Blue ran up and smashed the yellow eye as hard as he could with his hammer. The monster writhed, screeching and screaming as it waved its long neck around in the air, head splashing poisonous muck everywhere. Eventually, it froze up, skin blackening and withering until it finally exploded into dust. But, instead of falling to the ground like Red had expected, the dust- which he now realized was little black squares- hung in slow-motion in the air for a moment, temporarily suspended in time, before all angling towards the center of the cloud, which was right in front of the group, and zipping into it.

The squares in that instant, formed some sort of weird glowing black thing that to Red looked a little like the front half of the mask that Midna wore. Only this emanated dark power. It didn't seem all that pleasant.

Before any of them could touch it, however, Midna materialized in between them and the thing.

"Eee hee hee, well done!" She crowed, "That's… what I was looking for."

"That? What is it?" Blue asked.

"That is a Fused Shadow. It's what the light spirit called dark power. Do you remember what that light spirit said? About how you guys had to match the power of the king of shadows?" She grabbed it out of the air with her hair. It must be handy, being able to use her hair as an extra hand.

"Yes," Vio said. Red thought back. It seemed like so long ago. Yeah, there was something Faron had said about that.

"Could this really be so easy? Is this all there is to it? Eee hee hee!" Midna giggled, "There's a total of three Fused Shadows. I think the other light spirits have the rest…"

"What do they do? What are they?" Vio asked.

"If you want to know, well, maybe I'll tell you once we find the other two. I guess you'd better do your best to find them, huh? Eee hee hee!" She put the Fused Shadow away somewhere. Maybe her helmet doubled as a pouch.

"So, let's not waste any more time here when we could be looking for the other two," Midna floated over to a clear spot on the floor and Red realized with a shock that the room looked much better. None of the grass was withered anymore, and even the water had turned crystal clear. The room was very pretty and cheery now. That made Red happy. Midna created a portal on the floor.

"I'll get you out of here… come on," Midna gestured for them to stand by her. Red nodded, stepping into the green and black vortex and taking a last glance about the room before letting the darkness of twilight traveling take him away.