Disclaimer: The idea is mine, sorta-kinda-almost, but nothing else.
THANKIES SWEET!!! ^________^ (\/) And a big thank you to Mike, who's walkthrough I'm following for some of the action bits that I've forgotten about or haven't gotten to yet. His site has listed on it everything you ever wanted to know about Zelda, and a VERY thorough walkthrough. Here's the site:
: Game Walkthrough
Oh, and before I forget.
Gaki - A Japanese term meaning, "Brat" or "Young Punk."
Imouto - Little sister. Imouto-san is what you would use if you were referring to someone elses sister.
Iie - No.
Niisan - Big brother; Older brother.
Hai - Yes.
Nani - What.
Plus, since Saria's hair in the game is green, and Seto's hair in season one was green, I'm going to have little Seto have green hair, too. But the blue eyes remain! I'm pretty sure Saria's eyes are blue and so are Seto's in season two as we all well know.
And one last thing, if you don't have a decent imagination you probably shouldn't read this fic. It's designed for people like me who like to envision the story as they read it. I'll be going into detail, so for those who lack imagination, this will seem pretty boring. And, yes, that WAS a challenge. ^_~ Now, back to the fic!
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"Wow..." Mokube muttered as she entered the Deku tree. Yuvi just tugged her hair, "C'mon, enough with the staring in awe bit, let's get going!" She said impatiently and pointed to a ladder to the left of her, "Up there." She motioned and Mokube nodded, rushing over to climb it, but was stopped dead in her tracks by a giant flower head, however, this one was different. Bigger, and at the top of its flowery head, it opened to reveal an impressive set of teeth, drool sliding down the hungry creature's open mouth.
"Eep!" Mokube managed out before quickly moving out of the way before the plant beast managed to rid her of her arm or some other body part. Taking out her sword from its sheath and putting her shield in front of her, she sliced at the flower monster, managing only to piss the creature off further. It lunged at her and she hacked at it again, this time lopping off its deadly head. In its death spasms it 'coughed' up some large pod- like...things. Mokube looked at it, weirded out to say the least. Yuvi, however knew what to do, I mean, shouldn't she?! She's her guide after all, right?! ...Oh, right, gotta lay off the rambling...
"Keep those things with you, Mokube. I know what they are; they'll be useful later on. We faeries use them as sedations for the injured when they are in need of surgeries and there are no faeries around with healing powers. However, use it in its pure form and it serves as quite the nifty stunner." She explained, and Mokube picked them up, putting them in a small pouch on her belt. This being done, she started to climb the ladder once again.
Walking along the path, once or twice having to jump over a ledge or two, Mokube came across a decent sized treasure box. Opening it, she found a dusty piece of paper, blowing off the fragments of dead cells belonging to such things as human skin and hair, pollen, mold, particles of wood, and fibers, she looked at it, it was a map of the Deku tree's bowels. (*Hits self for making her stories educational* It's true though, look at some dust or lint under a microscope and you'll be surprised at how much nasty looking stuff you'll find. Anyways...)
"Cha-ching!" Mokube said exitedly, and Yuvi rolled her eyes, "Today, please...?" She said impatiently and Mokube nodded, continueing down the path she eventually came across a door.
"Well, might as well..." Mokube mumbled and went through to the next room.
"ACK-!" Mokube said and clumbsily dove out of the way, a ball of... hurt...¦ nutty... stuff narrowly missing her. Taking out her shield, she hunched in front of her attacker, a weird-looking plant beast that resembled a chestnut-turnip hybrid with facial features.
"By Farore, how much weirder can it get?!" Mokube said, looking at the creature like a deer caught in headlights before it shot another of it's nut-like balls 'o' hurt at her. Blocking it with her shield, it ricocheted off of it and hit the creature right in its repulsive face. Giving off a cocky smirk, Mokube walked over to the wounded creature and drew out her sword.
"Any last words? ...Heehee, I've always wanted to say that." Mokube asked, pointing her sword at the monster.
"No, please, Master! Spare me and I shall tell you a secret..." It pleaded, Mokube raised an eyebrow, intrigued.
"Go on." She said and it, not wanting to face her wrath, obeyed.
"If you jump off a cliff you will get hurt, obviously, but if you go palms first you can somersault when you hit the ground and you won't get hurt. But I won't garauntee it will work, if the ledge is really, really high. Heh, heh, heh..." It said, quickly disappearing into the ground.
"Oooooooooooh! Big secret!" Mokube said sarcastically, "I should've just killed him." And at that Yuvi, who, unbeknownst to Mokube, was seething with anger, replied, "Of course you should have just killed him!! What if he goes and tells his master we're here and then he, in turn, sicks all his strongest monsters on us at once?! Think before you act!!" Yuvi shouted, and immediately regretted doing so.
'Good going, Yuvi! Deku-kun can probably hear you, you know! If he hears you bad mouthing your pupil like that he'll probably take you off the mission and send that evil little whore of a faerie Phoebe to take your place! GRR-!'
"GO AHEAD AND TRY TO TAKE MY GIG, PHOEBE!! IT'S MY TURN TO SHINE IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND NOTHING, NOT EVEN A WHORE LIKE YOU, IS GONNA STOP ME!!" Yuvi shouted aloud, and Mokube raised an eyebrow.
"...I'm not even gonna ask..." Mokube said, shaking her head. Blushing, Yuvi simply replied, "...........Look! Another door, lets see what's inside!" And flew over. Not even wanting to know what that whole outburst was about, Mokube followed wordlessly.
Going into the next room, Mokube looked and saw a floating stone platform.
"Ooookaaaaay, that's something you don't see everyday..." She said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, well, hurry up and jump onto it and go over to the next ledge, I see a big box over there, there might be something useful in it!" Yuvi exclaimed.
"But... What if the platform falls? I could get hurt!" Mokube said skeptically.
"Oh, nonsense! This platform is as sturdy as the ground we walk on, now go on, jump onto the platform!" Yuvi said, dismissing the subject altogether.
"Well... Okay..." Mokube said and with a running jump she leaped onto the platform, but as soon as this was done, the platform began to shake and, not wanting to stay on the falling flat stone, she jumped off again and barely made in the the other ledge by her fingers. Climbing up, she finally made it to the top of the ledge.
"Sturdy as the ground we walk on, eh, Yuvi?!" She yelled, a little more than P.O.ed.
"Whoopsies!" Yuvi laughed nervously.
"Whoopsies?! You almost got me seriously hurt and all can say is 'Whoopsies'?! ...I don't know who this Phoebe person is, but I'm starting to wonder if she'd make a better faerie guide than you-!" Mokube started, but Yuvi got right into her face and with a snarl said, "Phoebe. Cannot. Do. ANY. Better. Than. Me!" Mokube snarled right back.
"Oh, really?! I can't help but wonder if it were Phoebe here instead of you if I would have even jumped on that ledge, for surely a COMPITENT faerie would have known that it was dangerous!!"
"JUST OPEN THE DAMN CHEST!!! .....Gaki..." Yuvi muttered and Mokube shot her an annoyed look.
"Whatever!" She shot back and lifted the lid to the chest. Inside, lain on worn unnamed fabric, was a slingshot. Nothing special, no gems emblazened in it or anything, but Mokube thought, 'Eh, a weapon's a weapon...' And reached down and took it.
"Now... How to get out of here..." Mokube mused and looking up saw a cluster of spiderwebs and shuddered involuntarily. However, on further inspection, she came across a ladder hanging off an old rope right on the other side of the room.
"Hmm..." Mokube mused then looked over to the left of her, there was a bush full of hard, pellet-like seeds. All of them about as big as someones eyeball. Then, one of those light bulb thingys popped up above Mokube's head, and she rushed over to pick the seeds off the bush. After filling her pouch full, she took one and aimed at the rope that held the ladder. After about five seconds of concentration, she let the seed go and just as she predicted it would, it hit the flimsy vine and it snapped, sending the ladder to the ground.
"Man, am I good." Mokube said with a cocky grin and Yuvi just rolled her eyes. "Quit stroking your ego and lets go already!" She snapped, sending Mokube out of her self praising ego massage. Sending her a dirty look, Mokube cautiously jumped off the legde and onto the floor, picked up the ladder and laid it against the side of the wall, and climbed it back to the other side. Once this was done, she exited the two rooms and was back in the main chamber.
"Now what...!?" Mokube asked and Yuvi just shrugged. "I suppose we retrace our steps. There was some vines and whatnot leading up to the roof, maybe there's another room up there? And with your new slingshot those spiders clinging onto them should be no problem!" Yuvi said, and looked back at her pupil, only to see her laying on the ground with her eyes rolled back into her head and her skin pale as the moon.
"Oh, brother..." Yuvi muttered, rolling her eyes, and flew over to her pupil, who was still unconcious, and started to pull her hair as hard as she could.
"Wake up!!" She screamed in her ear and Mokube shot up.
"Owie! Hey! Knock it off with the whole pulling my hair bit, will ya?" Mokube snapped, but Yuvi ignored her, "What the hell was that?" Mokube raised an eyebrow. "What?" Yuvi smacked her head, about a stones throw from pulling her own hair out.
"Have you forgotten what your mission is?! You can't go off feinting all the time, hell, you can't afford to feint at all! Especially for no reason whatsoever like you just did!" Yuvi yelled and Mokube rubbed the inside of her ears to try and stop the ringing.
"...It just so happens that I am deathly afraid of spiders! Is that a problem?" Mokube said, putting her hands on her hips.
"..." And Yuvi just stood there in complete shock and disbelief, mouth and eyes wide open.
"Yuvi...?"
"..."
"Yuvi!"
"..."
"YUVI!!!"
"...You have got to be kidding me..."
"Nope."
And promptly, Yuvi feinted herself.
"Oh, boy..." Mokube muttered, smacking her head in exasperation and letting out a long, well deserved, sigh.
"We're gonna die..." Yuvi muttered in her sleep.
One hour later...
"Okay! You ready, Mokube?" Yuvi said looking at the spider infested vines that led to the second floor, Mokube just whimpered.
"Ah, c'mon! Don't be a yellow-bellied wimp! Grab life by the horns and show some backbone!" Yuvi said, failing to encourage the shaking girl.
"Ah! I'd rather leave life's horns alone, thank you very much! ...Deku-sama asked me if I have the courage to help him, and I said yes. I don't like lying, but I'm not sure if I really do have what it takes-!" To which Yuvi quickly flew over and put a hand to Mokube lips.
"Listen here, Mokube! It isn't considered courageous to do something unless you're afraid! Do you really think it would be brave of someone to defend someone else if the person was unafraid of the attacker? No, it'd then be considered a chore. If you can get through this, even as afraid as you are, you will truly be courageous. And Deku-sama knows that you can do it, even though you are afraid! And if Deku-sama says you're brave, then there isn't a single person in this forest who'll say otherwise, including me. Now c'mon, you can do this!" Yuvi said, sounding a lot like a certain brunette at the moment, but since that has nothing to do with the story, we'll continue.
"...You're... You're right, Yuvi! I can do this!" Mokube shouted, triumphant over her own self-doubt, and loaded a seed into her slingshot.
"Ready..." Yuvi started.
"Aim..." Mokube continued.
"FIRE!!!" They shouted together as Mokube let the seed in her slingshot go and it hit the nearest spider right on the head.
...And after about three seconds the spider in question dropped off the vine it was on and landed on it's back. ...About five feet below where it was originally clinging, squirmed for about five seconds, and died.
"...Kinda anti-climactic, isn't it...?" Mokube sighed and Yuvi just smiled.
"Well, I suppose you're not afraid of spiders anymore, then?"
"Not unless they're ten times bigger than me, and c'mon, what kind of spider gets that big?"
Yuvi giggled, "I doubt you'll have to worry about that, Mokube! Now kill the last two spiders so we can get going!" Yuvi exclaimed and winked.
"Right!" Mokube exclaimed, and after shooting the last two, she cimbed up the vines to the second floor.
"Phew!" Mokube sighed, finally at the top. "I suppose now we just wander around until we find something?"
"Pretty much..."
"Yay, the fun we have..."
"Aw, don't be like that! See it as an adventure!"
Mokube just raised an eyebrow.
"...Just... Just keep walking!" Yuvi said shaking her head.
So Mokube did just that, and after a few steps a giant spider with practically no legs swung down from the ceiling, and Mokube screamed like a little boy.
"Ah, don't let them scare you, Mokube! They may be big, but in reality they're really wimps. Just keep walking, they're not gonna do anything to you, believe me!" Yuvi said, flying past the screaming Mokube.
"Aaaaaaa-! Huh? Oh, okay then..." Mokube said calmly, walking past the spider, who immediately started crying at Yuvi's harsh words.
"Okay, so I suppose this door is our next stop?" Mokube said to herself and opened it, going inside.
Inside, was a large room with outlines going around three platforms that were lowered into the ground, on the legde Mokube was standing on there was a lit torch, and to the side there were several monsters, including giant spiders and bulb-heads.
"Great, now they're tag-teaming..." Mokube sighed, "So? What now?"
"Wait, wait, I remember this! ...Oh, yeah! You press that button and the platforms will rise from the ground for ten seconds so you can jump to the other side and get whatever's in that chest!" Yuvi replied, point to the big, wooden chest on the other side.
"Okay..." Mokuba said, and stepped on the button that Yuvi pointed to with her opposite hand. As soon as this was done the three platforms rose from the ground and Mokube, not wasting any time, jumped to the nearest platfrom, onto the next and then to the opposing ledge.
"Okay, lets see whatcha got!" Mokube said, quickly opening the chest and taking the item out of it.
'A compass? Ack! No time to spare, gotta catch the platforms before they go back into the ground!' Mokube thought, then quickly jumped to the nearest platform again, and onto the next. But before she could reach the legde, the platform she was standing on fell to the ground. Losing her balance, Mokube fell back, not even seeing the bulb head as it came at her.
"AHH!!" Mokube screamed as the bulb-head sank it's thorn-like 'teeth' into Mokube's shoulder before she could move out of the way. Not letting panic overcome her, she unsheathed her sword and cut off the monsters head, which squirmed painfully, still attached to Mokube's shoulder, before falling to the ground and coughing up a few stunner seeds.
"God damnit!" Mokube gasped, holding her bleeding shoulder, and scrambling to the ledge on the vines that stood behind the dead bulb-head.
"Mokube, are you okay?!" Yuvi exclaimed, to which Mokube looked at her like she was the dumbest faerie alive.
"Oh, no, I'm fine! I just got bitten by a frickin' venus fly trap, is all! I'm just peachy!" Mokube said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Sorry!" Yuvi winced, realizing what a tupid question she had just asked.
"...Ah, crap!" Yuvi yelled, looking at the door.
Mokube groaned, "By Farore, what is it now?"
"There are bars covering the door..." Yuvi replied and Mokube groaned, "Well, we'll worry about that later, right now we gotta take a look at your wound..."
Yuvi flew over to look, but found that the light was too low to get a good look at it. Sighing, Yuvi flew over and murmured something whilst hovering over the unlit torch that was only a few feet away from them and immediately a spark emitted from the straws inside the torch and in caught on fire. (Yuvi is a fire faerie, remember?) As soon as this was done, she rushed over to Mokube.
"Okay, now let's take a look at-!"
"The door!" Mokube said, pointing at it.
"No, Mokube, I meant your arm." Yuvi said slowly, not getting it.
"No! I mean the door! The bars are gone!" Mokube said, still pointing.
"Wha-?" Yuvi said, turning around and looking at it, to see that the bars were, indeed, gone. "Oh! Well, what do ya know! How convienient! C'mon, lets go outside. It's safer there, and your wounds need to be tended to." Mokube nodded and with a grunt, rose to her feet and exited the room.
"So, I assume you're gonna cast some healing spell or something on me?"
"...Nope, sorry, but I can't cast healing spells."
"...WHAT?! Why not?!"
"...Listen, Mokube. I... I'm not a faerie of the Earth..."
"...What? You... You mean... What are you then...?" Mokube said, shocked.
"I'm a fire faerie, Mokube." Yuvi said with a sad smile, and Mokube gasped, but she continued, "Anyways, the best I can do is cauterize it so that it doesn't get infected."
Ignoring her last statement, Mokube replied, "But... But I thought fire faeries weren't allowed here! A good ninety percent of the faerie population are Earth faeries. The last ten percent is Water and Wind faeries, and they aren't even allowed to become faerie guides! How-!"
"Mokube, listen to me. You never mind why or how I'm here, you just focus on letting me help you and completing this task Deku-kun gave you, okay?"
'There's that kun again! Deku is a forgiving diety, but... Why would he let a fire faerie-!" Mokube's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden sharp pain in her left shoulder, and she let the thought vanish as her screams filled the air.
"Sorry Mokube, but it had to be done." Yuvi apologized, taking her flaming hands away from Mokube's shoulder, where several teeth shaped scabs now were, still smoking from the burn.
"...Don't worry about it, I'll live." Mokube said, wincing. After ten minutes of resting, Mokube rose to her feet. And walked over to the ladge, past the spiderwebs, and looked down.
Yuvi wistled, "Looks like a doozy, better take the long way down-!" Yuvi was once again interrupted as a giant spider swung down from behind them, screaming, "Booga-booga!" Mokube, who was not expecting it, let out a shriek and lost her balance, falling to the awaiting cobweb trampoline.
"YOOOOOOOOU JEEEERRRRRRRK!!!" Mokube yelled at the snickering giant spider as Yuvi sent a small fireball at it to get even and flew to her falling pupil. Mokube sighed in relief as she felt herself land on the cobweb but soon started screaming again as it broke and she began falling yet again.
"YOOOOOOOU REEEEEALLY SUUUUUUCK!!!" She yelled, but was silenced as she fell into the awaiting water. It was just deep enough to keep her from getting any serious injuries.
"Ooooowiiiiiie!!!" ...But it still hurt pretty bad. She rose out of the water and climbed to land. By her was a torch and a small chest.
"Interesting..." Mokube mused as she opened the small chest. A light, gentle wind rushed out of the chest and past Mokube. Then pain from her shoulder was lessened a little as this happened. (By the way, this is used to describe the pink-heart-in-chest-health- ......thingy. If you've ever played the game or seen someone else do it you'll know what I mean!)
Yuvi flew over to her side, "It seems you've discovered the trapped winds of relief..." Yuvi whispered.
"The what?" Mokube asked, puzzled.
"The trapped winds of relief. They are the souls of dead, heartbroken wind faeries. They used to be dangerous, so Deku-sama locked them away in special chests and scattered them across the land of Hyrule. Though they used to harm people, it is now said that they learned their lesson from being trapped for so long and if you set one free it will be so grateful that it will lessen the pain of your wounds, heal them, or give you energy. After you free them, they become the flowing wind, and if they see you again afterwards they will whisper their gratitude by continuing to heal you. When a being breathes these souls in, they are changed into a new air that the plants breath, then reincarnated from these plants as Earth faeries." Yuvi explained. (Spiffy tale on my part, no? ^_~)
"Wow..." Mokube said, looking at the chest, and giggled, "You're quite welcome, Ms. Wind Soul!" Yuvi smiled.
"Come now, Mokube, we still have much to do." And Mokube stood and nodded.
"Well, I suppose we look for the next-EEP!!"
Yuvi chuckled, "The next eep?"
"No, look! That spider... It's... It's gold?"
"Oh, so it is. Weird."
"Eww! I hate spiders!" Mokube shrieked in a higher voice than even a girl should have, and having said that she loaded a seed into her slingshot and fired it at the golden spider.
"Mokube, you've got some issues, you know that?" Yuvi mumbled shaking her head.
"Eww! What is it doing now?!" Mokube screamed pointing at the spider. Or at least, what was left of the spider. The flesh had begun to melt away and soon only a small golden token remained.
"What the hell-?!" Said Mokube as she looked at it. A bit uncertain at first, she shrugged it off and with a running jump she grabbed the token, which had been stuck on the bars the spider had been clinging to, and landed in the shallow water below her. Afterwards, she climbed back on to island where Yuvi was waiting.
"Well, what is it?" She asked and Yuvi shrugged.
"I dunno, I've never seen anything like it before. Keep it with you, you can ask Deku-sama later about it." Yuvi replied and Mokube nodded, putting it in her tunic's pocket.
Out of the corner of her eye, Mokube caught sight of something behind the mass of cobwebs across the room.
"Hey... Is that a door?"
Yuvi flew over to the cobwebs, "Yeah, I think it is! ...But... These cobwebs are too thick to cut through!"
"Heh, no problem, Yuvi. I knew these stems would come in handy! I'll just set one fire with that torch, jump over to the other side, and we'll burn through the cobwebs!"
"Ah, brilliant! I'm obviously rubbing off on you!" Yuvi grinned and Mokube facevaulted.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Mokube said, smacking her head. Yuvi just stuck out her tongue and winked, "Ah, don't take me seriously! I'm just as egotistical as you, is all!" Mokube laughed, "Well, back to the current situation!"
Mokube took out one of her deku sticks and put is in the flames until it caught on fire, then with a running jump she landed on the other side, just out of the way of a bulb-head, and put the burning stem to the cobwebs, which immediately caught on fire and burned away completely. Wasting now time, Mokube and Yuvi walked/flew on through the door and onto the next room.
And once again, Mokube found herself narrowly missing a nutty ball 'o' hurt. Mokube immediately took out her shield and the next nutty ball ricocheted off it and hit the bush monster head on.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Please, master, forgive me! If you do I'll tell you a secret!" The monster pleaded. Mokuber rolled her eyes.
"Uh-huh! Sure! Just like the oh-so helpful tip the last bush monster gave me? No way, you can just carry your lame secret to your grave!" Mokube said, pointing her sword at the creature.
"No, please, I swear it'll be worth your time! Please just give me a chance!" It begged and Mokube's heart soften, if just a bit.
Mokube sighed, "Fine, but you had better not be wasting my time!"
The creature let out a breath of relief, "Okay, here it is. You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is: 2...3...1. Twenty three is number one, get it?" And before Mokube could say another word, the creature popped back into the ground.
"Well, I'm sure that would helpful if I knew what it meant..." Mokube whispered to herself.
"Ah, don't worry about it. It at least sounded more helpful than the last bit of advice we got, right?" Yuvi replied.
"Yeah, I guess... Now how do we get out of here...?" Mokube said, noticing the bars on both doors.
"Damnit..." Yuvi said under her breath.
"Well... This whole place is like a puzzle, right? Maybe we just need to put together the right pieces..." (Oh! Score! 5 extra credit points for mentioning the puzzle, Yu-Gi-Oh reference, get it?)
"...Maybe you're right... Man, that is really creepy!"
"What?"
"That eye! Above the door. It's like it's staring right at your soul..." (Score! 5 extra credit points for soul reference! ...Okay, I'll shut up now...)
"Yeah, I guess so..." Mokube said, staring at it. Idly, she took out one of her deku seeds and began tossing it up and down in her hand. After a while of staring she began to get annoyed at the eye, staring at her, looking into her soul as Yuvi had put it. She threw the deku seed at the eye to ease her nerves a bit and was surprised when the bars on the door below it opened.
"...Heck, I ain't gonna complain!" Mokube smiled, as she and walked through the door.
"Better remember that eye trick, it'll probably come in handy later, Mokube." Yuvi said.
The next room was... Well, odd to say the least. There was a large area, about 25 feet long and 5 feet deep filled with water, and right in the middle was a rotating spiked log and a floating platform going back and forth across the room.
"This is where you come in, Yuvi. Do you remember anything about this room?"
"I think I do, but my memory is foggy. I... I remember a switch... Somewhere in the room is a switch, but I can't remember what it did..."
"It's probably under the water."
"How do you know?"
"Why else would there be a small pond in the middle of the room? I think whoever put the switch in this room wanted it hidden."
"Good point. Well, you're more than welcome to look for it!"
"Ah, c'mon! Don't be a wuss!"
"I'm not! It's just that water doesn't go too well with fire. Duh!"
"Oh, right. Well, okay, I'll be back in a minute." And with that, she dove into the water.
'Lets see... We've got some underwater plants, a pirate's hat, a few rupees... Aha! The switch!' Mokube though giving off a cocky grin and, taking the rupees too, she pressed the switch and emerged from the water.
"Okay, Mokube. The water has gone down enough so that you can get to the other side on the platform without coming into contact with the spiked platform, but if I remember correctly then we've got a time limit, so hurry it up!" Yuvi shouted and Mokube nodded, climbing onto the ledge and jumping onto the passing platform.
A few seconds later Mokube and Yuvi were on the opposite side of the room. A giant spider stood in front of the ledge that led out of the room.
"Oh, you're are just asking for it now, buster!!" Mokube yelled, giving the spider a warning glare. The spider just snickered and ignored Mokube's last comment. Mokube sighed, "Look, Buddy, I really don't have time for your crap. And I doubt you wanna die. So, why don't you move outta the way and we can both be happy, hmm?"
The spider actually looked like it was considering the idea, but a minute later it just stuck out it's tongue and held up its middle leg.
"GRR-! Fine!! Have it your way, you eight legged, suicidal bastard!!" Mokube screamed, coming after it with her sword. But the crazy spider quickly learned that Mokube just wasn't in a playful mood and moved up to the ceiling and out of the way of Mokube's sword.
"Coward!" Yuvi shouted at the wussy spider.
"Well, you may crazy and suicidal, but it looks like you know when not to stick around when you piss off a girl with a sword." Mokube mused and began to try and climb onto the ledge.
...And failed miserably.
"It's too hiiiigh!" Mokube whined and Yuvi smacked her head.
"Then push that block over there over here and climb on that to get to the top of the ledge. Even an infant could have figured that out!"
"...Well, I didn't see that, okay!" Mokube replied, embarassed, and got behind the block so she could push it. After a few seconds off pushing, pulling, cursing and vein-popping, Mokube finally pushed it under the ledge. She then climbed onto the block and then onto the legde and she and Yuvi went through the door and entered the next room.
The next room was pretty plain, it had one lit torch and two other unlit torches.
"Oh! I remember this, we have to light all the torches, right Yuvi?" Mokube asked and Yuvi nodded.
"I'll get the one on the left and you get the one on the right, okay?" Yuvi said and Mokube nodded.
So Mokube took another stem out and lit the right torch and Yuvi used her own magic to light the one on the left, the bars on the door vanished and they moved onto the next room.
The next room was a circular one with a lit torch and two exits, both covered with cobwebs.
"Obvious what we have to do here." Mokube said, taking the half burnt stem and lighting it on fire, she rushed over to the first cobweb covered exit. However, looking into it all she saw was a giant spider, so she ran onto the next exit where a small passageway could be seen.
"Okay!" Mokube yelled, holding the almost completely burned out torch to the cobwebs and burning them away. Once this was done she crawled into the passageway and onto the next room.
"Wait a minute! We've been here before! Damnit, have we just gone in one big circle?!" Mokube yelled, clenching her fists, looking at the room where she had previously collected the golden spider token and freed the wind soul.
"No, wait, Mokube. We're on the opposite side of the room. See? There's another hole covered in cobwebs, and another heavy looking block. I say we put two and two together!" Yuvi said.
"Oh! Right!" Mokube replied as she ran over, pushing the block over with difficulty, and taking out her last stem, she caught it on fire on the torch on the other side, ran back over to the block she climbed up and ran over to the cobwebs and lit them on fire as well just as the stick burned out. The cobwebs burned away from beneath her and Mokube fell into the water below, Yuvi flying after her.
"Oof!" Mokube... Well, oofed as she landed in the water just narrowly missing yet another nutty hurt ball. Knowing what the next enemy must be, she took out her shield and ran out of the water and onto land.
"Alright, turnip boy, get ready to die-WHOA! Triple trouble over here!" Mokube shouted and dodged the three oncoming nutty balls by cartwheeling out of the way.
'Okay, guess I might as well start with number one...' And with that thought Mokube put the shield out in front of the creature on the left and the hurty nut ricocheted off of it and hit the bush monster. But if simply laughed it off and shot another hurty nut at her.
"The hell-?!" Mokube said, and before she could get over her shock and out of the way the hurty ball hit her right in the stomach and sent her flying back into the water. Mokube stood there in the water for about ten seconds, trying to catch her breath from the shock of being hit by the hurty nut. Five seconds later she emerged from the water, gasping for air. 'Ooooowiiiiiie!! By Farore, that hurts! Why didn't it die when I hit it? ...Wait a minute...'
"Okay, here it is. You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is: 2...3...1. Twenty three is number one, get it?"
"I... I get it!" Mokube shouted, and ran to the land, shield out, and ran straight to the monster in the middle, it's nut ricocheted off her shield and hit him square in the face, he fell there, stunned, and Mokube ran to his brother on the right.
"Go ahead, make my millenium!" She shouted, the hurty nut bouncing off her shield and hitting the second one, stunning him.
"Two down, one to go!" She yelled and positioned herself in front of the first monster that had hit her only minutes ago. "TAKE YOUR MEDICINE LIKE A... uh... LIKE A WHATEVER YOU ARE!!" She shouted and the hurty nut it head on.
"EEP!" It shouted and lay stunned for a second before jumping up again, obviously pissed off.
"ARGH-! How did you know our secret?! How irritating! It's so annoying that I'm going to reveal the secret of Queen Gohma to you!" It shouted.
"Um... Okay, go right ahead." Mokube replied with a raised eyebrow.
"In order to administer the coupe de grace to Queen Gohma, you must strike her with your sword while she's stunned. Oh, Queenie! Sorry about that!" It cried and disappeared back into the ground.
"Well, I suppose that door is our next... And final step, one way or another." Mokube whispered and looked over at Yuvi, "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'm ever gonna be." She replied.
"Okay! Let's do this!" Mokube shouted and she and Yuvi ran through the door.
"So... What do you know about this Queen Gohma person?"
"Nothing. I've never heard of her in my life."
They entered the main room, green ectoplasm filled the room, indicating that many had died there, and their souls were trapped forever in the realm of Queen Gohma, whoever she was. The circular room had large pillars going around the entire room and the rest was totally empty, save for a few spider webs here and there. Looking around for any sign of life, Mokube found herself shivering. Not just from the cold, but from the stench of death that floated around her as normally as air would.
"See anything?" She asked Yuvi.
"Nope..."
A slight shuffling from above them caught their attention, Mokube looked up. Her heart seemed to have stopped, her gray eyes stared straight into the eye of a creature that shouldn't have even existed. They eye rolled around to the back of it's hidden head before it reappeared again on the other side of its eye socket.
"Y-Yuvi!" Mokube screamed as the creature shuffled a bit more before jumping to the ground, a mere fifteen feet from Mokube.
The creature was a spider, about ten times bigger than a full grown Hyrulian man. It's mouth, embellished with teeth, dripped with saliva almost like it was able to taste Mokube's fear.
"Well, I suppose you're not afraid of spiders anymore, then?"
"Not unless they're ten times bigger than me, and c'mon, what kind of spider gets that big?"
"I doubt you'll have to worry about that, Mokube!"
"Ah, crap! Why did I have to go and open my big mouth?!" Mokube whined, but quickly shut up when the giant spider roared, opening it's black mouth, poison dripping from it's lips.
'Ah! Okay, gotta focus! That bush monster said I'd have to slash her with my sword when she was stunned... That's it!'
"Keep those things with you, Mokube. I know what they are; they'll be useful later on. We faeries use them as sedations for the injured when they are in need of surgeries and there are no faeries around with healing powers. However, use it in its pure form and it serves as quite the nifty stunner."
"The deku nuts!" Mokube shouted, realization dawning on her. Taking one out of her pocket, she threw it at Gohma, who was now only five feet away from her and ready to attack. The nut exploded on contact with the ground at Gohma's feet, sending out a small amount of poison, but that was all it took to overcome Gohma sensitive spider senses. (Pun intended. ^_~)
Wasting no time, Mokube unsheathed her sword and ran towards the huge spider. She hacked off the spider's left leg before chopping at the abdomen. Gohma hurried and got up, kicking Mokube in the stomach with her right leg, and then proceeding to run up the walls and onto the ceiling.
"Come back here you coward!" Mokube yelled, jumping to her feet, but it was futile. She looked up at the huge spider, a four foot tube emerging from beneath a shell-like barrier from around her lower abdomen.
"Um, exactly what kind of 'queen' is Queen Gohma anyways?! I don't know much about spider anatomy, but that does not look feminine!" Mokube yelled, thoroughly appalled.
"By Farore... Queen Gohma is a hermaphrodite! And she can produce asexually! Mokube, watch out! I think Queenie here is about to sick her children on you!" Yuvi warned and Mokube nodded, her sword ready.
One egg fell from the ceiling, then two, then three. The squirming from inside could be heard with Mokube sensitive ears.
"Hurry, Mokube! Kill them before they hatch!" Yuvi coached.
"Got it!" She yelled in response and cracked the eggs open with her sword, the embryonic fluids seeping out of the premature eggs, a repulsive purple tint to the liquid that dripped down the side of the cracked egg sent a wave of nausea to Mokube. Gohma roared in outrage and jumped from the ceiling and raised her remaining seven legs in the air in a threatening manner.
"Bring it on, you asexual arachnid! I'm not afraid of you! ...Well, yes, I am! But I'm still going to beat you!" Mokube shouted and threw another deku nut at Gohma, stunning her, and slashed again, this time at her lower belly.
"Let's see you try and make little spiders after this!" She cried, swing her sword at Gohma stomach. But Gohma didn't stay down for long, she kicked Mokube again, and spit a small amount of poison at her, which landed on her upper right leg.
"Damnit!" Mokube cursed as the poison ate away at the top layer of skin, leaving what looked like a large scrape/burn in her leg and a small hole in her green tunic where the spit had landed. After wards, Gohma crawled up to the ceiling once again, preparing to lay her eggs.
'By Farore, this has to be the single most disgusting thing I have ever seen!' Mokube thought as her stomach churned in repulsion.
Though this time it took a while longer, once again, Gohma's eggs came falling from the ceiling and Mokube was quick to slash them into oblivion before they could hatch. Queen Gohma jumped to the floor and roared again, but Mokube stood her ground.
"Mokube, she's vulnerable when her eye turns red! Wait until her eye turns red, then attack her!" Yuvi yelled from the sidelines.
"Got it!" Mokube shouted and charged after Gohma. But Mokube, too eager to attack Gohma again, got too close and gave Gohma the perfect opportunity to strike Mokube first. An opportunity she did not intend to let escape her. Quick as lightning, she swung at Mokube with her front, right leg and sent Mokube flying into one of the room's large pillars. She softly slid down the pillar and landed on the ground with a delicate 'thud.' Yuvi flew over to her a fast as she could.
"Mokube! Mokube?! Are you alright? Mokube?!" Yuvi called, but the girl didn't answer. Her eyes were wide open and her breathing only slightly irregular, but still she didn't answer.
"Mokube! Listen to me, damnit! Think of what it is you're fighting for! Do think you're just fighting for Deku-kun? No! You're fighting for Seto-kun, too! And even Wido-kun! You're are fighting for all of the Kokiri children, whether they realize it or not, you're putting you flesh and blood into their well being! You're fighting for all of them! Don't let them down, Mokube!" Yuvi called, and Mokube stirred slightly. Gohma was approaching fast, so Yuvi sent off a ball of fire at Gohma to buy them some time.
"Hey, Mokube! Wanna come play with me?"
"No way, Seto! She's different from us!"
"I don't care if she's different! She's my best friend! No, she's more than my best friend! She's my imoto!"
'...S-Seto-kun?' Mokube stared at her vision of her best friend, '...Iie, he's not just my best friend... He's my niisan... He's protected me all my life, and now it's time I returned the favor!' Mokube's eyes narrowed as she jumped back onto her feet.
"I will not let you hurt my friends! Gohma! It's time to end this!" She glared, pointing her sword at the Queen spider, who had recovered from the fire ball and now only eight feet away from Mokube.
"This one goes out to you, Seto!" Mokube cried and she threw several deku nuts at Gohma's feet, rapidly overwhelming Gohma's senses. Mokube rushed over to her and jammed her sword into the arachnid's abdomen, until it reached the hilt. Gohma roared in pain, no longer able to get up, let alone fight. Mokube let out a sigh of relief and backed several feet away from the massive spider.
"I...¦ It's over." She sighed again and Yuvi flew over to her.
"Great job, Mokube."
The spider queen coughed violently, and to both Mokube and Yuvi surprise, she opened her mouth and spoke. (Remember those twists I said I was gonna add?)
"Know... T-that what w-we do... Is not our... Choice..."
"W-What?!" Mokube managed to choke out, but Gohma interrupted.
"I am cross that you... Managed to d-defeat m-me... But... I am also impressed..." Gohma wheezed, "I am glad... That it was by... Y-your hands... That I was slain... Please, accept this as a... Token of... M- myâE¦" But Gohma could not say anymore. With her last dying breaths, she took a strand of her thread and reaching into the back of her mouth she pulled out four of her smallest teeth. What was odd about them, though, was that each tooth was embellished with one gem each. A diamond, a sapphire, a ruby and an emerald. Gohma tied them together with the thread, put it on the ground and slid it over to Mokube's feet.
"Heh heh, I take g-great... P-pleasure in knowing t-that... This necklace w- will... Offer some... Protection against... The elements... But it will offer... Y-you no pro... protection against... The most... Dangerous... Element... Of them... All......" And with those last words, Queen Gohma slipped off into an eternal slumber.
Mokube picked up the strange article of jewelry, "Do... Do you think it's safe?" She asked.
Yuvi nodded, "A spider's webs hold no poison, to my knowledge. And the teeth are no longer connected to a poison gland, so they are perfectly safe as well."
"Okay..." Mokube replied, putting it on, "So, how does it look on me?" She giggled.
"It suits you perfectly, darling, but I think we ought to be going. Deku- sama is waiting for us." Yuvi smiled.
"Right." Mokube smiled and nodded, pulling her sword out of the stomach of the deceased Queen Gohma. Just behind her a blue glow emitted from the ground and turned into a circuler portal. Yuvi flew over to it.
"C'mon, Mokube." She said and Mokube nodded and walked into the blue light with Yuvi. They soon found themselves back in Deku-sama's realm, where Deku- sama had been patiently waiting for their return.
"Well done... Mokube..." He gasped, "Thou hast verily demonstrated thy courage... I knew thou wouldst be able to carry out my wishes... Now I yet more to tell ye, wouldst thou listen?"
"Hai, Deku-sama!" Mokube nodded.
"A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse upon me. He is a king, but do not let his sophisticated ways fool you. He uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Shadow Realm that is connected to Hyrule. For it is in the Sacred Shadow Realm that one will find the devine relic, the Millenium Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods... A long time ago, before life began, before the world had form, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaotic land of Hyrule. They were Bastet, the goddess of power, Maat, the goddess of wisdom, and Isis, the goddess of courage.
Bastet, with her stong flaming arms, cultivated the land and created the red Earth. Maat poured her wisdom onto the Earth to give the spirit of law to the world. And Farore, with her rich soul, created all life forms that would uphold the law.
These three great goddesses, their labors complete, departed for the heavens, leaving behind the golden sacred Millennium Triforce. Since then, the Millenium Triforce has become the basis for Hyrules providence. Where the Millennium Triforce stood became sacred land and the Temple of Time was built there.
Thou must never allow the desert man in black armor to lay his hands on the sacred millennium triforce. Never suffer that man, with his evil heart, to enter the Sacred Shadow Realm of legend. That evil man that cast the death curse upon me and sapped my powers... Because of that curse, my end is nigh... Though your valiant efforts to break the curse were successful, I was doomed before you started... Yes, I will pass away soon..." Deku-sama stopped to catch his breath. In the meanwhile Yuvi choked back the tears that threatrened to spill down her flushed cheeks. As if reading her mind, Deku-sama continued.
"But do not grieve for me... I have been able to tell you of these important matters..." Nodding to Mokube, Deku-sama coughed, "This is Hyrule final hope. Mokube, go now to Hyrule castle... There thou will surely meet the princess of destiny... Take this stone with you... The stone that man wanted so much that he cast this death curse upon me..." Deku-sama whispered
All of a sudden, a blinding flash of light emitted from nowhere and materialized into a beautiful green stone with a band of gold spiraling around it.
Yuvi gasped and whispered, "The Kokiri Emerald!"
Deku-sama continued, "The future depends upon thee, Mokube... Thou art courageous... Yuvi the faerie, help Mokube to carry out my will... I... Entreat... Ye... Yuvi... Good... Bye..." Deku-sama whispered, his bark going from a spirited chestnut to a lifeless sepia, and the withered leaves fell from his branches
to the ground.
'I... I can't let Mokube see me cry! It's just me and her from now on, and I have to be strong for her!' Yuvi thought, looking up with determination in her tear stained, burgundy eyes.
"Let's go to Hyrule castle, Mokube!" She called with stamina in her voice, hiding her tear stained face by emitting a brighter glow.
"Ri... R-Right..." Mokube stuttered, a bit startled by the whole experience. Mokube slowly turned around and started to walk down the path back to the village. When Mokube was out of sight, Yuvi quickly flew over to Deku-sama and planted a light kiss on his dead, wooden lips.
"Goodbye, Deku-kun..." She whispered, and flew after Mokube.
They walked in silence until meeting the entrance to the village, once again blocked by Wido. Mokube didn't say anything, just patiently waited for Wido to say what he wanted and then move out of her way.
Wido glared at her, "Hey, Mokube! What did you do?!" He shouted.
Mokube looked up in shock. 'What had I done?!' She thought with anger.
"Deku-sama... Did he... Die?" Wido whispered, suddenly very grim. Mokube loked down and nodded slightly.
"...How could you do a thing like that?!"
"NANI?!" Mokube and Yuvi both shouted in response, not sure if they had heard Wido right.
"It's all your fault! I, the great Wido, will never accept you as a Kokiri!" Wido shouted. Yuvi felt like burning the kid alive, but her focus was caught by Mokube, who broke into tears and ran through the village crying. Yuvi merely glared at Wido and then went flying after Mokube.
Mokube ran, thinking of Deku-sama's request, she headed straight for Kokiri Forest's exit, which led to Hyrule Field. No Kokiri had gone there before, believing that if a Kokiri left the forest that they would die.
Yuvi finally caught up with Mokube as she ran past the hollowed tree trunk that led to what was known as Finale Bridge. It was know as such because a long time ago, a heartbroken Kokiri girl has decided to commit suicide by leaving the forest. Back then, there was no bridge there, so when she climbed down the hollowed log she stopped halfway across the ravine to rethink her decision to commit suicide. She realized that she still had a lot to live for, so the first thing she did when she got back to the forest was gather the Kokiri children together to build a bridge there.
If you wanted to commit suicide, they said, then once you got halfway across try thinking of the things you have to live for. If you had none, then it was your own choice to kill yourself. And if you did, it was your own choice to come back. So it was known from then on as The Brigde of Final Decisions. Or for short, Finale Bridge. (Oh! Another spiffy tale for KK! ^_~)
Halfway across, a small, meek voice stopped Mokube and Yuvi.
"Oh. You're leaving..." Mokube turned around, knowing full well who was there.
Seto continued, "I knew... That you would leave the forest... Someday, Mokube... Because you are different from me and my friends..." Seto stopped and looked up at Mokube, fresh new tears erupting from her eyes at Seto's words.
"But..." He continued and Mokube looked up, "That's okay, because you'll be my little imoto forever, no matter what, won't you?" He asked, tears of his own running down his cheeks.
Mokube smiled and ran over to him, hugging him tightly, "Hai, niisan!" She replied.
Seto smiled and hugged her back for a few minutes before they let go. Seto pulled something out of his pocket, handing it to Mokube.
"I want you to have this ocarina, Mokube. I know it was your favorite out of my collection. Please take good care of it." He whispered and Mokube nodded, "When you play my ocarina, I hope you will think of me and come back to the forest to visit." He said, looking up hopefully at Mokube.
Mokube laughed, "Of course I'll come back to visit, Seto-niisan! But right now I have to go meet the princess of destiny, just as Deku-sama told me to do. Do you think you can wait until I return?" Seto nodded, "Okay then, Seto-niisan. I have to go now." She choked out, tears running freely down her face.
"Okay, Mokube..."
"Goodbye..." They both said in unison.
Mokube slowly took a step back, then another. Turning around, she ran out of the forest through the second hollowed log. Seto stared at Mokube as she left, but said nothing.
Mokube had to shield her eyes as she came out of the hollowed log and into the blinding of sunlight of Hyrule field. Into a new place, a new time, and the starting point of a brand new adventure...
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Lord almighty, that was one PAINFULLY LONG chapter! I think I'm getting a migraine over here... Oh, and by the way, all the goddesses I mentioned here are Egyptian goddesses, in case you hadn't noticed. ...Review! For the love of gravy, review! I don't want to have written all eight thousand nine hundred and fifty six words for nothing! R&R people!!!
THANKIES SWEET!!! ^________^ (\/) And a big thank you to Mike, who's walkthrough I'm following for some of the action bits that I've forgotten about or haven't gotten to yet. His site has listed on it everything you ever wanted to know about Zelda, and a VERY thorough walkthrough. Here's the site:
: Game Walkthrough
Oh, and before I forget.
Gaki - A Japanese term meaning, "Brat" or "Young Punk."
Imouto - Little sister. Imouto-san is what you would use if you were referring to someone elses sister.
Iie - No.
Niisan - Big brother; Older brother.
Hai - Yes.
Nani - What.
Plus, since Saria's hair in the game is green, and Seto's hair in season one was green, I'm going to have little Seto have green hair, too. But the blue eyes remain! I'm pretty sure Saria's eyes are blue and so are Seto's in season two as we all well know.
And one last thing, if you don't have a decent imagination you probably shouldn't read this fic. It's designed for people like me who like to envision the story as they read it. I'll be going into detail, so for those who lack imagination, this will seem pretty boring. And, yes, that WAS a challenge. ^_~ Now, back to the fic!
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"Wow..." Mokube muttered as she entered the Deku tree. Yuvi just tugged her hair, "C'mon, enough with the staring in awe bit, let's get going!" She said impatiently and pointed to a ladder to the left of her, "Up there." She motioned and Mokube nodded, rushing over to climb it, but was stopped dead in her tracks by a giant flower head, however, this one was different. Bigger, and at the top of its flowery head, it opened to reveal an impressive set of teeth, drool sliding down the hungry creature's open mouth.
"Eep!" Mokube managed out before quickly moving out of the way before the plant beast managed to rid her of her arm or some other body part. Taking out her sword from its sheath and putting her shield in front of her, she sliced at the flower monster, managing only to piss the creature off further. It lunged at her and she hacked at it again, this time lopping off its deadly head. In its death spasms it 'coughed' up some large pod- like...things. Mokube looked at it, weirded out to say the least. Yuvi, however knew what to do, I mean, shouldn't she?! She's her guide after all, right?! ...Oh, right, gotta lay off the rambling...
"Keep those things with you, Mokube. I know what they are; they'll be useful later on. We faeries use them as sedations for the injured when they are in need of surgeries and there are no faeries around with healing powers. However, use it in its pure form and it serves as quite the nifty stunner." She explained, and Mokube picked them up, putting them in a small pouch on her belt. This being done, she started to climb the ladder once again.
Walking along the path, once or twice having to jump over a ledge or two, Mokube came across a decent sized treasure box. Opening it, she found a dusty piece of paper, blowing off the fragments of dead cells belonging to such things as human skin and hair, pollen, mold, particles of wood, and fibers, she looked at it, it was a map of the Deku tree's bowels. (*Hits self for making her stories educational* It's true though, look at some dust or lint under a microscope and you'll be surprised at how much nasty looking stuff you'll find. Anyways...)
"Cha-ching!" Mokube said exitedly, and Yuvi rolled her eyes, "Today, please...?" She said impatiently and Mokube nodded, continueing down the path she eventually came across a door.
"Well, might as well..." Mokube mumbled and went through to the next room.
"ACK-!" Mokube said and clumbsily dove out of the way, a ball of... hurt...¦ nutty... stuff narrowly missing her. Taking out her shield, she hunched in front of her attacker, a weird-looking plant beast that resembled a chestnut-turnip hybrid with facial features.
"By Farore, how much weirder can it get?!" Mokube said, looking at the creature like a deer caught in headlights before it shot another of it's nut-like balls 'o' hurt at her. Blocking it with her shield, it ricocheted off of it and hit the creature right in its repulsive face. Giving off a cocky smirk, Mokube walked over to the wounded creature and drew out her sword.
"Any last words? ...Heehee, I've always wanted to say that." Mokube asked, pointing her sword at the monster.
"No, please, Master! Spare me and I shall tell you a secret..." It pleaded, Mokube raised an eyebrow, intrigued.
"Go on." She said and it, not wanting to face her wrath, obeyed.
"If you jump off a cliff you will get hurt, obviously, but if you go palms first you can somersault when you hit the ground and you won't get hurt. But I won't garauntee it will work, if the ledge is really, really high. Heh, heh, heh..." It said, quickly disappearing into the ground.
"Oooooooooooh! Big secret!" Mokube said sarcastically, "I should've just killed him." And at that Yuvi, who, unbeknownst to Mokube, was seething with anger, replied, "Of course you should have just killed him!! What if he goes and tells his master we're here and then he, in turn, sicks all his strongest monsters on us at once?! Think before you act!!" Yuvi shouted, and immediately regretted doing so.
'Good going, Yuvi! Deku-kun can probably hear you, you know! If he hears you bad mouthing your pupil like that he'll probably take you off the mission and send that evil little whore of a faerie Phoebe to take your place! GRR-!'
"GO AHEAD AND TRY TO TAKE MY GIG, PHOEBE!! IT'S MY TURN TO SHINE IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND NOTHING, NOT EVEN A WHORE LIKE YOU, IS GONNA STOP ME!!" Yuvi shouted aloud, and Mokube raised an eyebrow.
"...I'm not even gonna ask..." Mokube said, shaking her head. Blushing, Yuvi simply replied, "...........Look! Another door, lets see what's inside!" And flew over. Not even wanting to know what that whole outburst was about, Mokube followed wordlessly.
Going into the next room, Mokube looked and saw a floating stone platform.
"Ooookaaaaay, that's something you don't see everyday..." She said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, well, hurry up and jump onto it and go over to the next ledge, I see a big box over there, there might be something useful in it!" Yuvi exclaimed.
"But... What if the platform falls? I could get hurt!" Mokube said skeptically.
"Oh, nonsense! This platform is as sturdy as the ground we walk on, now go on, jump onto the platform!" Yuvi said, dismissing the subject altogether.
"Well... Okay..." Mokube said and with a running jump she leaped onto the platform, but as soon as this was done, the platform began to shake and, not wanting to stay on the falling flat stone, she jumped off again and barely made in the the other ledge by her fingers. Climbing up, she finally made it to the top of the ledge.
"Sturdy as the ground we walk on, eh, Yuvi?!" She yelled, a little more than P.O.ed.
"Whoopsies!" Yuvi laughed nervously.
"Whoopsies?! You almost got me seriously hurt and all can say is 'Whoopsies'?! ...I don't know who this Phoebe person is, but I'm starting to wonder if she'd make a better faerie guide than you-!" Mokube started, but Yuvi got right into her face and with a snarl said, "Phoebe. Cannot. Do. ANY. Better. Than. Me!" Mokube snarled right back.
"Oh, really?! I can't help but wonder if it were Phoebe here instead of you if I would have even jumped on that ledge, for surely a COMPITENT faerie would have known that it was dangerous!!"
"JUST OPEN THE DAMN CHEST!!! .....Gaki..." Yuvi muttered and Mokube shot her an annoyed look.
"Whatever!" She shot back and lifted the lid to the chest. Inside, lain on worn unnamed fabric, was a slingshot. Nothing special, no gems emblazened in it or anything, but Mokube thought, 'Eh, a weapon's a weapon...' And reached down and took it.
"Now... How to get out of here..." Mokube mused and looking up saw a cluster of spiderwebs and shuddered involuntarily. However, on further inspection, she came across a ladder hanging off an old rope right on the other side of the room.
"Hmm..." Mokube mused then looked over to the left of her, there was a bush full of hard, pellet-like seeds. All of them about as big as someones eyeball. Then, one of those light bulb thingys popped up above Mokube's head, and she rushed over to pick the seeds off the bush. After filling her pouch full, she took one and aimed at the rope that held the ladder. After about five seconds of concentration, she let the seed go and just as she predicted it would, it hit the flimsy vine and it snapped, sending the ladder to the ground.
"Man, am I good." Mokube said with a cocky grin and Yuvi just rolled her eyes. "Quit stroking your ego and lets go already!" She snapped, sending Mokube out of her self praising ego massage. Sending her a dirty look, Mokube cautiously jumped off the legde and onto the floor, picked up the ladder and laid it against the side of the wall, and climbed it back to the other side. Once this was done, she exited the two rooms and was back in the main chamber.
"Now what...!?" Mokube asked and Yuvi just shrugged. "I suppose we retrace our steps. There was some vines and whatnot leading up to the roof, maybe there's another room up there? And with your new slingshot those spiders clinging onto them should be no problem!" Yuvi said, and looked back at her pupil, only to see her laying on the ground with her eyes rolled back into her head and her skin pale as the moon.
"Oh, brother..." Yuvi muttered, rolling her eyes, and flew over to her pupil, who was still unconcious, and started to pull her hair as hard as she could.
"Wake up!!" She screamed in her ear and Mokube shot up.
"Owie! Hey! Knock it off with the whole pulling my hair bit, will ya?" Mokube snapped, but Yuvi ignored her, "What the hell was that?" Mokube raised an eyebrow. "What?" Yuvi smacked her head, about a stones throw from pulling her own hair out.
"Have you forgotten what your mission is?! You can't go off feinting all the time, hell, you can't afford to feint at all! Especially for no reason whatsoever like you just did!" Yuvi yelled and Mokube rubbed the inside of her ears to try and stop the ringing.
"...It just so happens that I am deathly afraid of spiders! Is that a problem?" Mokube said, putting her hands on her hips.
"..." And Yuvi just stood there in complete shock and disbelief, mouth and eyes wide open.
"Yuvi...?"
"..."
"Yuvi!"
"..."
"YUVI!!!"
"...You have got to be kidding me..."
"Nope."
And promptly, Yuvi feinted herself.
"Oh, boy..." Mokube muttered, smacking her head in exasperation and letting out a long, well deserved, sigh.
"We're gonna die..." Yuvi muttered in her sleep.
One hour later...
"Okay! You ready, Mokube?" Yuvi said looking at the spider infested vines that led to the second floor, Mokube just whimpered.
"Ah, c'mon! Don't be a yellow-bellied wimp! Grab life by the horns and show some backbone!" Yuvi said, failing to encourage the shaking girl.
"Ah! I'd rather leave life's horns alone, thank you very much! ...Deku-sama asked me if I have the courage to help him, and I said yes. I don't like lying, but I'm not sure if I really do have what it takes-!" To which Yuvi quickly flew over and put a hand to Mokube lips.
"Listen here, Mokube! It isn't considered courageous to do something unless you're afraid! Do you really think it would be brave of someone to defend someone else if the person was unafraid of the attacker? No, it'd then be considered a chore. If you can get through this, even as afraid as you are, you will truly be courageous. And Deku-sama knows that you can do it, even though you are afraid! And if Deku-sama says you're brave, then there isn't a single person in this forest who'll say otherwise, including me. Now c'mon, you can do this!" Yuvi said, sounding a lot like a certain brunette at the moment, but since that has nothing to do with the story, we'll continue.
"...You're... You're right, Yuvi! I can do this!" Mokube shouted, triumphant over her own self-doubt, and loaded a seed into her slingshot.
"Ready..." Yuvi started.
"Aim..." Mokube continued.
"FIRE!!!" They shouted together as Mokube let the seed in her slingshot go and it hit the nearest spider right on the head.
...And after about three seconds the spider in question dropped off the vine it was on and landed on it's back. ...About five feet below where it was originally clinging, squirmed for about five seconds, and died.
"...Kinda anti-climactic, isn't it...?" Mokube sighed and Yuvi just smiled.
"Well, I suppose you're not afraid of spiders anymore, then?"
"Not unless they're ten times bigger than me, and c'mon, what kind of spider gets that big?"
Yuvi giggled, "I doubt you'll have to worry about that, Mokube! Now kill the last two spiders so we can get going!" Yuvi exclaimed and winked.
"Right!" Mokube exclaimed, and after shooting the last two, she cimbed up the vines to the second floor.
"Phew!" Mokube sighed, finally at the top. "I suppose now we just wander around until we find something?"
"Pretty much..."
"Yay, the fun we have..."
"Aw, don't be like that! See it as an adventure!"
Mokube just raised an eyebrow.
"...Just... Just keep walking!" Yuvi said shaking her head.
So Mokube did just that, and after a few steps a giant spider with practically no legs swung down from the ceiling, and Mokube screamed like a little boy.
"Ah, don't let them scare you, Mokube! They may be big, but in reality they're really wimps. Just keep walking, they're not gonna do anything to you, believe me!" Yuvi said, flying past the screaming Mokube.
"Aaaaaaa-! Huh? Oh, okay then..." Mokube said calmly, walking past the spider, who immediately started crying at Yuvi's harsh words.
"Okay, so I suppose this door is our next stop?" Mokube said to herself and opened it, going inside.
Inside, was a large room with outlines going around three platforms that were lowered into the ground, on the legde Mokube was standing on there was a lit torch, and to the side there were several monsters, including giant spiders and bulb-heads.
"Great, now they're tag-teaming..." Mokube sighed, "So? What now?"
"Wait, wait, I remember this! ...Oh, yeah! You press that button and the platforms will rise from the ground for ten seconds so you can jump to the other side and get whatever's in that chest!" Yuvi replied, point to the big, wooden chest on the other side.
"Okay..." Mokuba said, and stepped on the button that Yuvi pointed to with her opposite hand. As soon as this was done the three platforms rose from the ground and Mokube, not wasting any time, jumped to the nearest platfrom, onto the next and then to the opposing ledge.
"Okay, lets see whatcha got!" Mokube said, quickly opening the chest and taking the item out of it.
'A compass? Ack! No time to spare, gotta catch the platforms before they go back into the ground!' Mokube thought, then quickly jumped to the nearest platform again, and onto the next. But before she could reach the legde, the platform she was standing on fell to the ground. Losing her balance, Mokube fell back, not even seeing the bulb head as it came at her.
"AHH!!" Mokube screamed as the bulb-head sank it's thorn-like 'teeth' into Mokube's shoulder before she could move out of the way. Not letting panic overcome her, she unsheathed her sword and cut off the monsters head, which squirmed painfully, still attached to Mokube's shoulder, before falling to the ground and coughing up a few stunner seeds.
"God damnit!" Mokube gasped, holding her bleeding shoulder, and scrambling to the ledge on the vines that stood behind the dead bulb-head.
"Mokube, are you okay?!" Yuvi exclaimed, to which Mokube looked at her like she was the dumbest faerie alive.
"Oh, no, I'm fine! I just got bitten by a frickin' venus fly trap, is all! I'm just peachy!" Mokube said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Sorry!" Yuvi winced, realizing what a tupid question she had just asked.
"...Ah, crap!" Yuvi yelled, looking at the door.
Mokube groaned, "By Farore, what is it now?"
"There are bars covering the door..." Yuvi replied and Mokube groaned, "Well, we'll worry about that later, right now we gotta take a look at your wound..."
Yuvi flew over to look, but found that the light was too low to get a good look at it. Sighing, Yuvi flew over and murmured something whilst hovering over the unlit torch that was only a few feet away from them and immediately a spark emitted from the straws inside the torch and in caught on fire. (Yuvi is a fire faerie, remember?) As soon as this was done, she rushed over to Mokube.
"Okay, now let's take a look at-!"
"The door!" Mokube said, pointing at it.
"No, Mokube, I meant your arm." Yuvi said slowly, not getting it.
"No! I mean the door! The bars are gone!" Mokube said, still pointing.
"Wha-?" Yuvi said, turning around and looking at it, to see that the bars were, indeed, gone. "Oh! Well, what do ya know! How convienient! C'mon, lets go outside. It's safer there, and your wounds need to be tended to." Mokube nodded and with a grunt, rose to her feet and exited the room.
"So, I assume you're gonna cast some healing spell or something on me?"
"...Nope, sorry, but I can't cast healing spells."
"...WHAT?! Why not?!"
"...Listen, Mokube. I... I'm not a faerie of the Earth..."
"...What? You... You mean... What are you then...?" Mokube said, shocked.
"I'm a fire faerie, Mokube." Yuvi said with a sad smile, and Mokube gasped, but she continued, "Anyways, the best I can do is cauterize it so that it doesn't get infected."
Ignoring her last statement, Mokube replied, "But... But I thought fire faeries weren't allowed here! A good ninety percent of the faerie population are Earth faeries. The last ten percent is Water and Wind faeries, and they aren't even allowed to become faerie guides! How-!"
"Mokube, listen to me. You never mind why or how I'm here, you just focus on letting me help you and completing this task Deku-kun gave you, okay?"
'There's that kun again! Deku is a forgiving diety, but... Why would he let a fire faerie-!" Mokube's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden sharp pain in her left shoulder, and she let the thought vanish as her screams filled the air.
"Sorry Mokube, but it had to be done." Yuvi apologized, taking her flaming hands away from Mokube's shoulder, where several teeth shaped scabs now were, still smoking from the burn.
"...Don't worry about it, I'll live." Mokube said, wincing. After ten minutes of resting, Mokube rose to her feet. And walked over to the ladge, past the spiderwebs, and looked down.
Yuvi wistled, "Looks like a doozy, better take the long way down-!" Yuvi was once again interrupted as a giant spider swung down from behind them, screaming, "Booga-booga!" Mokube, who was not expecting it, let out a shriek and lost her balance, falling to the awaiting cobweb trampoline.
"YOOOOOOOOU JEEEERRRRRRRK!!!" Mokube yelled at the snickering giant spider as Yuvi sent a small fireball at it to get even and flew to her falling pupil. Mokube sighed in relief as she felt herself land on the cobweb but soon started screaming again as it broke and she began falling yet again.
"YOOOOOOOU REEEEEALLY SUUUUUUCK!!!" She yelled, but was silenced as she fell into the awaiting water. It was just deep enough to keep her from getting any serious injuries.
"Ooooowiiiiiie!!!" ...But it still hurt pretty bad. She rose out of the water and climbed to land. By her was a torch and a small chest.
"Interesting..." Mokube mused as she opened the small chest. A light, gentle wind rushed out of the chest and past Mokube. Then pain from her shoulder was lessened a little as this happened. (By the way, this is used to describe the pink-heart-in-chest-health- ......thingy. If you've ever played the game or seen someone else do it you'll know what I mean!)
Yuvi flew over to her side, "It seems you've discovered the trapped winds of relief..." Yuvi whispered.
"The what?" Mokube asked, puzzled.
"The trapped winds of relief. They are the souls of dead, heartbroken wind faeries. They used to be dangerous, so Deku-sama locked them away in special chests and scattered them across the land of Hyrule. Though they used to harm people, it is now said that they learned their lesson from being trapped for so long and if you set one free it will be so grateful that it will lessen the pain of your wounds, heal them, or give you energy. After you free them, they become the flowing wind, and if they see you again afterwards they will whisper their gratitude by continuing to heal you. When a being breathes these souls in, they are changed into a new air that the plants breath, then reincarnated from these plants as Earth faeries." Yuvi explained. (Spiffy tale on my part, no? ^_~)
"Wow..." Mokube said, looking at the chest, and giggled, "You're quite welcome, Ms. Wind Soul!" Yuvi smiled.
"Come now, Mokube, we still have much to do." And Mokube stood and nodded.
"Well, I suppose we look for the next-EEP!!"
Yuvi chuckled, "The next eep?"
"No, look! That spider... It's... It's gold?"
"Oh, so it is. Weird."
"Eww! I hate spiders!" Mokube shrieked in a higher voice than even a girl should have, and having said that she loaded a seed into her slingshot and fired it at the golden spider.
"Mokube, you've got some issues, you know that?" Yuvi mumbled shaking her head.
"Eww! What is it doing now?!" Mokube screamed pointing at the spider. Or at least, what was left of the spider. The flesh had begun to melt away and soon only a small golden token remained.
"What the hell-?!" Said Mokube as she looked at it. A bit uncertain at first, she shrugged it off and with a running jump she grabbed the token, which had been stuck on the bars the spider had been clinging to, and landed in the shallow water below her. Afterwards, she climbed back on to island where Yuvi was waiting.
"Well, what is it?" She asked and Yuvi shrugged.
"I dunno, I've never seen anything like it before. Keep it with you, you can ask Deku-sama later about it." Yuvi replied and Mokube nodded, putting it in her tunic's pocket.
Out of the corner of her eye, Mokube caught sight of something behind the mass of cobwebs across the room.
"Hey... Is that a door?"
Yuvi flew over to the cobwebs, "Yeah, I think it is! ...But... These cobwebs are too thick to cut through!"
"Heh, no problem, Yuvi. I knew these stems would come in handy! I'll just set one fire with that torch, jump over to the other side, and we'll burn through the cobwebs!"
"Ah, brilliant! I'm obviously rubbing off on you!" Yuvi grinned and Mokube facevaulted.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Mokube said, smacking her head. Yuvi just stuck out her tongue and winked, "Ah, don't take me seriously! I'm just as egotistical as you, is all!" Mokube laughed, "Well, back to the current situation!"
Mokube took out one of her deku sticks and put is in the flames until it caught on fire, then with a running jump she landed on the other side, just out of the way of a bulb-head, and put the burning stem to the cobwebs, which immediately caught on fire and burned away completely. Wasting now time, Mokube and Yuvi walked/flew on through the door and onto the next room.
And once again, Mokube found herself narrowly missing a nutty ball 'o' hurt. Mokube immediately took out her shield and the next nutty ball ricocheted off it and hit the bush monster head on.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Please, master, forgive me! If you do I'll tell you a secret!" The monster pleaded. Mokuber rolled her eyes.
"Uh-huh! Sure! Just like the oh-so helpful tip the last bush monster gave me? No way, you can just carry your lame secret to your grave!" Mokube said, pointing her sword at the creature.
"No, please, I swear it'll be worth your time! Please just give me a chance!" It begged and Mokube's heart soften, if just a bit.
Mokube sighed, "Fine, but you had better not be wasting my time!"
The creature let out a breath of relief, "Okay, here it is. You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is: 2...3...1. Twenty three is number one, get it?" And before Mokube could say another word, the creature popped back into the ground.
"Well, I'm sure that would helpful if I knew what it meant..." Mokube whispered to herself.
"Ah, don't worry about it. It at least sounded more helpful than the last bit of advice we got, right?" Yuvi replied.
"Yeah, I guess... Now how do we get out of here...?" Mokube said, noticing the bars on both doors.
"Damnit..." Yuvi said under her breath.
"Well... This whole place is like a puzzle, right? Maybe we just need to put together the right pieces..." (Oh! Score! 5 extra credit points for mentioning the puzzle, Yu-Gi-Oh reference, get it?)
"...Maybe you're right... Man, that is really creepy!"
"What?"
"That eye! Above the door. It's like it's staring right at your soul..." (Score! 5 extra credit points for soul reference! ...Okay, I'll shut up now...)
"Yeah, I guess so..." Mokube said, staring at it. Idly, she took out one of her deku seeds and began tossing it up and down in her hand. After a while of staring she began to get annoyed at the eye, staring at her, looking into her soul as Yuvi had put it. She threw the deku seed at the eye to ease her nerves a bit and was surprised when the bars on the door below it opened.
"...Heck, I ain't gonna complain!" Mokube smiled, as she and walked through the door.
"Better remember that eye trick, it'll probably come in handy later, Mokube." Yuvi said.
The next room was... Well, odd to say the least. There was a large area, about 25 feet long and 5 feet deep filled with water, and right in the middle was a rotating spiked log and a floating platform going back and forth across the room.
"This is where you come in, Yuvi. Do you remember anything about this room?"
"I think I do, but my memory is foggy. I... I remember a switch... Somewhere in the room is a switch, but I can't remember what it did..."
"It's probably under the water."
"How do you know?"
"Why else would there be a small pond in the middle of the room? I think whoever put the switch in this room wanted it hidden."
"Good point. Well, you're more than welcome to look for it!"
"Ah, c'mon! Don't be a wuss!"
"I'm not! It's just that water doesn't go too well with fire. Duh!"
"Oh, right. Well, okay, I'll be back in a minute." And with that, she dove into the water.
'Lets see... We've got some underwater plants, a pirate's hat, a few rupees... Aha! The switch!' Mokube though giving off a cocky grin and, taking the rupees too, she pressed the switch and emerged from the water.
"Okay, Mokube. The water has gone down enough so that you can get to the other side on the platform without coming into contact with the spiked platform, but if I remember correctly then we've got a time limit, so hurry it up!" Yuvi shouted and Mokube nodded, climbing onto the ledge and jumping onto the passing platform.
A few seconds later Mokube and Yuvi were on the opposite side of the room. A giant spider stood in front of the ledge that led out of the room.
"Oh, you're are just asking for it now, buster!!" Mokube yelled, giving the spider a warning glare. The spider just snickered and ignored Mokube's last comment. Mokube sighed, "Look, Buddy, I really don't have time for your crap. And I doubt you wanna die. So, why don't you move outta the way and we can both be happy, hmm?"
The spider actually looked like it was considering the idea, but a minute later it just stuck out it's tongue and held up its middle leg.
"GRR-! Fine!! Have it your way, you eight legged, suicidal bastard!!" Mokube screamed, coming after it with her sword. But the crazy spider quickly learned that Mokube just wasn't in a playful mood and moved up to the ceiling and out of the way of Mokube's sword.
"Coward!" Yuvi shouted at the wussy spider.
"Well, you may crazy and suicidal, but it looks like you know when not to stick around when you piss off a girl with a sword." Mokube mused and began to try and climb onto the ledge.
...And failed miserably.
"It's too hiiiigh!" Mokube whined and Yuvi smacked her head.
"Then push that block over there over here and climb on that to get to the top of the ledge. Even an infant could have figured that out!"
"...Well, I didn't see that, okay!" Mokube replied, embarassed, and got behind the block so she could push it. After a few seconds off pushing, pulling, cursing and vein-popping, Mokube finally pushed it under the ledge. She then climbed onto the block and then onto the legde and she and Yuvi went through the door and entered the next room.
The next room was pretty plain, it had one lit torch and two other unlit torches.
"Oh! I remember this, we have to light all the torches, right Yuvi?" Mokube asked and Yuvi nodded.
"I'll get the one on the left and you get the one on the right, okay?" Yuvi said and Mokube nodded.
So Mokube took another stem out and lit the right torch and Yuvi used her own magic to light the one on the left, the bars on the door vanished and they moved onto the next room.
The next room was a circular one with a lit torch and two exits, both covered with cobwebs.
"Obvious what we have to do here." Mokube said, taking the half burnt stem and lighting it on fire, she rushed over to the first cobweb covered exit. However, looking into it all she saw was a giant spider, so she ran onto the next exit where a small passageway could be seen.
"Okay!" Mokube yelled, holding the almost completely burned out torch to the cobwebs and burning them away. Once this was done she crawled into the passageway and onto the next room.
"Wait a minute! We've been here before! Damnit, have we just gone in one big circle?!" Mokube yelled, clenching her fists, looking at the room where she had previously collected the golden spider token and freed the wind soul.
"No, wait, Mokube. We're on the opposite side of the room. See? There's another hole covered in cobwebs, and another heavy looking block. I say we put two and two together!" Yuvi said.
"Oh! Right!" Mokube replied as she ran over, pushing the block over with difficulty, and taking out her last stem, she caught it on fire on the torch on the other side, ran back over to the block she climbed up and ran over to the cobwebs and lit them on fire as well just as the stick burned out. The cobwebs burned away from beneath her and Mokube fell into the water below, Yuvi flying after her.
"Oof!" Mokube... Well, oofed as she landed in the water just narrowly missing yet another nutty hurt ball. Knowing what the next enemy must be, she took out her shield and ran out of the water and onto land.
"Alright, turnip boy, get ready to die-WHOA! Triple trouble over here!" Mokube shouted and dodged the three oncoming nutty balls by cartwheeling out of the way.
'Okay, guess I might as well start with number one...' And with that thought Mokube put the shield out in front of the creature on the left and the hurty nut ricocheted off of it and hit the bush monster. But if simply laughed it off and shot another hurty nut at her.
"The hell-?!" Mokube said, and before she could get over her shock and out of the way the hurty ball hit her right in the stomach and sent her flying back into the water. Mokube stood there in the water for about ten seconds, trying to catch her breath from the shock of being hit by the hurty nut. Five seconds later she emerged from the water, gasping for air. 'Ooooowiiiiiie!! By Farore, that hurts! Why didn't it die when I hit it? ...Wait a minute...'
"Okay, here it is. You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the proper order. The order is: 2...3...1. Twenty three is number one, get it?"
"I... I get it!" Mokube shouted, and ran to the land, shield out, and ran straight to the monster in the middle, it's nut ricocheted off her shield and hit him square in the face, he fell there, stunned, and Mokube ran to his brother on the right.
"Go ahead, make my millenium!" She shouted, the hurty nut bouncing off her shield and hitting the second one, stunning him.
"Two down, one to go!" She yelled and positioned herself in front of the first monster that had hit her only minutes ago. "TAKE YOUR MEDICINE LIKE A... uh... LIKE A WHATEVER YOU ARE!!" She shouted and the hurty nut it head on.
"EEP!" It shouted and lay stunned for a second before jumping up again, obviously pissed off.
"ARGH-! How did you know our secret?! How irritating! It's so annoying that I'm going to reveal the secret of Queen Gohma to you!" It shouted.
"Um... Okay, go right ahead." Mokube replied with a raised eyebrow.
"In order to administer the coupe de grace to Queen Gohma, you must strike her with your sword while she's stunned. Oh, Queenie! Sorry about that!" It cried and disappeared back into the ground.
"Well, I suppose that door is our next... And final step, one way or another." Mokube whispered and looked over at Yuvi, "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'm ever gonna be." She replied.
"Okay! Let's do this!" Mokube shouted and she and Yuvi ran through the door.
"So... What do you know about this Queen Gohma person?"
"Nothing. I've never heard of her in my life."
They entered the main room, green ectoplasm filled the room, indicating that many had died there, and their souls were trapped forever in the realm of Queen Gohma, whoever she was. The circular room had large pillars going around the entire room and the rest was totally empty, save for a few spider webs here and there. Looking around for any sign of life, Mokube found herself shivering. Not just from the cold, but from the stench of death that floated around her as normally as air would.
"See anything?" She asked Yuvi.
"Nope..."
A slight shuffling from above them caught their attention, Mokube looked up. Her heart seemed to have stopped, her gray eyes stared straight into the eye of a creature that shouldn't have even existed. They eye rolled around to the back of it's hidden head before it reappeared again on the other side of its eye socket.
"Y-Yuvi!" Mokube screamed as the creature shuffled a bit more before jumping to the ground, a mere fifteen feet from Mokube.
The creature was a spider, about ten times bigger than a full grown Hyrulian man. It's mouth, embellished with teeth, dripped with saliva almost like it was able to taste Mokube's fear.
"Well, I suppose you're not afraid of spiders anymore, then?"
"Not unless they're ten times bigger than me, and c'mon, what kind of spider gets that big?"
"I doubt you'll have to worry about that, Mokube!"
"Ah, crap! Why did I have to go and open my big mouth?!" Mokube whined, but quickly shut up when the giant spider roared, opening it's black mouth, poison dripping from it's lips.
'Ah! Okay, gotta focus! That bush monster said I'd have to slash her with my sword when she was stunned... That's it!'
"Keep those things with you, Mokube. I know what they are; they'll be useful later on. We faeries use them as sedations for the injured when they are in need of surgeries and there are no faeries around with healing powers. However, use it in its pure form and it serves as quite the nifty stunner."
"The deku nuts!" Mokube shouted, realization dawning on her. Taking one out of her pocket, she threw it at Gohma, who was now only five feet away from her and ready to attack. The nut exploded on contact with the ground at Gohma's feet, sending out a small amount of poison, but that was all it took to overcome Gohma sensitive spider senses. (Pun intended. ^_~)
Wasting no time, Mokube unsheathed her sword and ran towards the huge spider. She hacked off the spider's left leg before chopping at the abdomen. Gohma hurried and got up, kicking Mokube in the stomach with her right leg, and then proceeding to run up the walls and onto the ceiling.
"Come back here you coward!" Mokube yelled, jumping to her feet, but it was futile. She looked up at the huge spider, a four foot tube emerging from beneath a shell-like barrier from around her lower abdomen.
"Um, exactly what kind of 'queen' is Queen Gohma anyways?! I don't know much about spider anatomy, but that does not look feminine!" Mokube yelled, thoroughly appalled.
"By Farore... Queen Gohma is a hermaphrodite! And she can produce asexually! Mokube, watch out! I think Queenie here is about to sick her children on you!" Yuvi warned and Mokube nodded, her sword ready.
One egg fell from the ceiling, then two, then three. The squirming from inside could be heard with Mokube sensitive ears.
"Hurry, Mokube! Kill them before they hatch!" Yuvi coached.
"Got it!" She yelled in response and cracked the eggs open with her sword, the embryonic fluids seeping out of the premature eggs, a repulsive purple tint to the liquid that dripped down the side of the cracked egg sent a wave of nausea to Mokube. Gohma roared in outrage and jumped from the ceiling and raised her remaining seven legs in the air in a threatening manner.
"Bring it on, you asexual arachnid! I'm not afraid of you! ...Well, yes, I am! But I'm still going to beat you!" Mokube shouted and threw another deku nut at Gohma, stunning her, and slashed again, this time at her lower belly.
"Let's see you try and make little spiders after this!" She cried, swing her sword at Gohma stomach. But Gohma didn't stay down for long, she kicked Mokube again, and spit a small amount of poison at her, which landed on her upper right leg.
"Damnit!" Mokube cursed as the poison ate away at the top layer of skin, leaving what looked like a large scrape/burn in her leg and a small hole in her green tunic where the spit had landed. After wards, Gohma crawled up to the ceiling once again, preparing to lay her eggs.
'By Farore, this has to be the single most disgusting thing I have ever seen!' Mokube thought as her stomach churned in repulsion.
Though this time it took a while longer, once again, Gohma's eggs came falling from the ceiling and Mokube was quick to slash them into oblivion before they could hatch. Queen Gohma jumped to the floor and roared again, but Mokube stood her ground.
"Mokube, she's vulnerable when her eye turns red! Wait until her eye turns red, then attack her!" Yuvi yelled from the sidelines.
"Got it!" Mokube shouted and charged after Gohma. But Mokube, too eager to attack Gohma again, got too close and gave Gohma the perfect opportunity to strike Mokube first. An opportunity she did not intend to let escape her. Quick as lightning, she swung at Mokube with her front, right leg and sent Mokube flying into one of the room's large pillars. She softly slid down the pillar and landed on the ground with a delicate 'thud.' Yuvi flew over to her a fast as she could.
"Mokube! Mokube?! Are you alright? Mokube?!" Yuvi called, but the girl didn't answer. Her eyes were wide open and her breathing only slightly irregular, but still she didn't answer.
"Mokube! Listen to me, damnit! Think of what it is you're fighting for! Do think you're just fighting for Deku-kun? No! You're fighting for Seto-kun, too! And even Wido-kun! You're are fighting for all of the Kokiri children, whether they realize it or not, you're putting you flesh and blood into their well being! You're fighting for all of them! Don't let them down, Mokube!" Yuvi called, and Mokube stirred slightly. Gohma was approaching fast, so Yuvi sent off a ball of fire at Gohma to buy them some time.
"Hey, Mokube! Wanna come play with me?"
"No way, Seto! She's different from us!"
"I don't care if she's different! She's my best friend! No, she's more than my best friend! She's my imoto!"
'...S-Seto-kun?' Mokube stared at her vision of her best friend, '...Iie, he's not just my best friend... He's my niisan... He's protected me all my life, and now it's time I returned the favor!' Mokube's eyes narrowed as she jumped back onto her feet.
"I will not let you hurt my friends! Gohma! It's time to end this!" She glared, pointing her sword at the Queen spider, who had recovered from the fire ball and now only eight feet away from Mokube.
"This one goes out to you, Seto!" Mokube cried and she threw several deku nuts at Gohma's feet, rapidly overwhelming Gohma's senses. Mokube rushed over to her and jammed her sword into the arachnid's abdomen, until it reached the hilt. Gohma roared in pain, no longer able to get up, let alone fight. Mokube let out a sigh of relief and backed several feet away from the massive spider.
"I...¦ It's over." She sighed again and Yuvi flew over to her.
"Great job, Mokube."
The spider queen coughed violently, and to both Mokube and Yuvi surprise, she opened her mouth and spoke. (Remember those twists I said I was gonna add?)
"Know... T-that what w-we do... Is not our... Choice..."
"W-What?!" Mokube managed to choke out, but Gohma interrupted.
"I am cross that you... Managed to d-defeat m-me... But... I am also impressed..." Gohma wheezed, "I am glad... That it was by... Y-your hands... That I was slain... Please, accept this as a... Token of... M- myâE¦" But Gohma could not say anymore. With her last dying breaths, she took a strand of her thread and reaching into the back of her mouth she pulled out four of her smallest teeth. What was odd about them, though, was that each tooth was embellished with one gem each. A diamond, a sapphire, a ruby and an emerald. Gohma tied them together with the thread, put it on the ground and slid it over to Mokube's feet.
"Heh heh, I take g-great... P-pleasure in knowing t-that... This necklace w- will... Offer some... Protection against... The elements... But it will offer... Y-you no pro... protection against... The most... Dangerous... Element... Of them... All......" And with those last words, Queen Gohma slipped off into an eternal slumber.
Mokube picked up the strange article of jewelry, "Do... Do you think it's safe?" She asked.
Yuvi nodded, "A spider's webs hold no poison, to my knowledge. And the teeth are no longer connected to a poison gland, so they are perfectly safe as well."
"Okay..." Mokube replied, putting it on, "So, how does it look on me?" She giggled.
"It suits you perfectly, darling, but I think we ought to be going. Deku- sama is waiting for us." Yuvi smiled.
"Right." Mokube smiled and nodded, pulling her sword out of the stomach of the deceased Queen Gohma. Just behind her a blue glow emitted from the ground and turned into a circuler portal. Yuvi flew over to it.
"C'mon, Mokube." She said and Mokube nodded and walked into the blue light with Yuvi. They soon found themselves back in Deku-sama's realm, where Deku- sama had been patiently waiting for their return.
"Well done... Mokube..." He gasped, "Thou hast verily demonstrated thy courage... I knew thou wouldst be able to carry out my wishes... Now I yet more to tell ye, wouldst thou listen?"
"Hai, Deku-sama!" Mokube nodded.
"A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse upon me. He is a king, but do not let his sophisticated ways fool you. He uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Shadow Realm that is connected to Hyrule. For it is in the Sacred Shadow Realm that one will find the devine relic, the Millenium Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods... A long time ago, before life began, before the world had form, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaotic land of Hyrule. They were Bastet, the goddess of power, Maat, the goddess of wisdom, and Isis, the goddess of courage.
Bastet, with her stong flaming arms, cultivated the land and created the red Earth. Maat poured her wisdom onto the Earth to give the spirit of law to the world. And Farore, with her rich soul, created all life forms that would uphold the law.
These three great goddesses, their labors complete, departed for the heavens, leaving behind the golden sacred Millennium Triforce. Since then, the Millenium Triforce has become the basis for Hyrules providence. Where the Millennium Triforce stood became sacred land and the Temple of Time was built there.
Thou must never allow the desert man in black armor to lay his hands on the sacred millennium triforce. Never suffer that man, with his evil heart, to enter the Sacred Shadow Realm of legend. That evil man that cast the death curse upon me and sapped my powers... Because of that curse, my end is nigh... Though your valiant efforts to break the curse were successful, I was doomed before you started... Yes, I will pass away soon..." Deku-sama stopped to catch his breath. In the meanwhile Yuvi choked back the tears that threatrened to spill down her flushed cheeks. As if reading her mind, Deku-sama continued.
"But do not grieve for me... I have been able to tell you of these important matters..." Nodding to Mokube, Deku-sama coughed, "This is Hyrule final hope. Mokube, go now to Hyrule castle... There thou will surely meet the princess of destiny... Take this stone with you... The stone that man wanted so much that he cast this death curse upon me..." Deku-sama whispered
All of a sudden, a blinding flash of light emitted from nowhere and materialized into a beautiful green stone with a band of gold spiraling around it.
Yuvi gasped and whispered, "The Kokiri Emerald!"
Deku-sama continued, "The future depends upon thee, Mokube... Thou art courageous... Yuvi the faerie, help Mokube to carry out my will... I... Entreat... Ye... Yuvi... Good... Bye..." Deku-sama whispered, his bark going from a spirited chestnut to a lifeless sepia, and the withered leaves fell from his branches
to the ground.
'I... I can't let Mokube see me cry! It's just me and her from now on, and I have to be strong for her!' Yuvi thought, looking up with determination in her tear stained, burgundy eyes.
"Let's go to Hyrule castle, Mokube!" She called with stamina in her voice, hiding her tear stained face by emitting a brighter glow.
"Ri... R-Right..." Mokube stuttered, a bit startled by the whole experience. Mokube slowly turned around and started to walk down the path back to the village. When Mokube was out of sight, Yuvi quickly flew over to Deku-sama and planted a light kiss on his dead, wooden lips.
"Goodbye, Deku-kun..." She whispered, and flew after Mokube.
They walked in silence until meeting the entrance to the village, once again blocked by Wido. Mokube didn't say anything, just patiently waited for Wido to say what he wanted and then move out of her way.
Wido glared at her, "Hey, Mokube! What did you do?!" He shouted.
Mokube looked up in shock. 'What had I done?!' She thought with anger.
"Deku-sama... Did he... Die?" Wido whispered, suddenly very grim. Mokube loked down and nodded slightly.
"...How could you do a thing like that?!"
"NANI?!" Mokube and Yuvi both shouted in response, not sure if they had heard Wido right.
"It's all your fault! I, the great Wido, will never accept you as a Kokiri!" Wido shouted. Yuvi felt like burning the kid alive, but her focus was caught by Mokube, who broke into tears and ran through the village crying. Yuvi merely glared at Wido and then went flying after Mokube.
Mokube ran, thinking of Deku-sama's request, she headed straight for Kokiri Forest's exit, which led to Hyrule Field. No Kokiri had gone there before, believing that if a Kokiri left the forest that they would die.
Yuvi finally caught up with Mokube as she ran past the hollowed tree trunk that led to what was known as Finale Bridge. It was know as such because a long time ago, a heartbroken Kokiri girl has decided to commit suicide by leaving the forest. Back then, there was no bridge there, so when she climbed down the hollowed log she stopped halfway across the ravine to rethink her decision to commit suicide. She realized that she still had a lot to live for, so the first thing she did when she got back to the forest was gather the Kokiri children together to build a bridge there.
If you wanted to commit suicide, they said, then once you got halfway across try thinking of the things you have to live for. If you had none, then it was your own choice to kill yourself. And if you did, it was your own choice to come back. So it was known from then on as The Brigde of Final Decisions. Or for short, Finale Bridge. (Oh! Another spiffy tale for KK! ^_~)
Halfway across, a small, meek voice stopped Mokube and Yuvi.
"Oh. You're leaving..." Mokube turned around, knowing full well who was there.
Seto continued, "I knew... That you would leave the forest... Someday, Mokube... Because you are different from me and my friends..." Seto stopped and looked up at Mokube, fresh new tears erupting from her eyes at Seto's words.
"But..." He continued and Mokube looked up, "That's okay, because you'll be my little imoto forever, no matter what, won't you?" He asked, tears of his own running down his cheeks.
Mokube smiled and ran over to him, hugging him tightly, "Hai, niisan!" She replied.
Seto smiled and hugged her back for a few minutes before they let go. Seto pulled something out of his pocket, handing it to Mokube.
"I want you to have this ocarina, Mokube. I know it was your favorite out of my collection. Please take good care of it." He whispered and Mokube nodded, "When you play my ocarina, I hope you will think of me and come back to the forest to visit." He said, looking up hopefully at Mokube.
Mokube laughed, "Of course I'll come back to visit, Seto-niisan! But right now I have to go meet the princess of destiny, just as Deku-sama told me to do. Do you think you can wait until I return?" Seto nodded, "Okay then, Seto-niisan. I have to go now." She choked out, tears running freely down her face.
"Okay, Mokube..."
"Goodbye..." They both said in unison.
Mokube slowly took a step back, then another. Turning around, she ran out of the forest through the second hollowed log. Seto stared at Mokube as she left, but said nothing.
Mokube had to shield her eyes as she came out of the hollowed log and into the blinding of sunlight of Hyrule field. Into a new place, a new time, and the starting point of a brand new adventure...
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Lord almighty, that was one PAINFULLY LONG chapter! I think I'm getting a migraine over here... Oh, and by the way, all the goddesses I mentioned here are Egyptian goddesses, in case you hadn't noticed. ...Review! For the love of gravy, review! I don't want to have written all eight thousand nine hundred and fifty six words for nothing! R&R people!!!
