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The Hero of Time
Meets
The Protector of Time
Chapter 5
************************************In Hyrule************************************
"This place looks scary!" Usagi said as she looked around the room. What she didn't know was that a pesky Deku Scrub was trying to attack her. "Usagi! Look out!" Link said as he pushed Usagi out of the way of the Deku Scrubs attack. "Link, repel its attacks!" Navi advised. He then pulled out his shield and defeated the scrub using Navi's advice. "Usagi, are you okay?" Link asked Usagi as she got up and brushed herself off. "I'm fine, what about you?" Usagi asked. "I'm fine as well. Lets get going." Link said. "Hey, there's a spider web in the middle of this room!" Usagi said as she started walking towards it. "It looks like we would need to jump from a high place to penetrate the web." Navi said. "Well, lets see if we can find a high place then." Usagi said. "There's something over there." Link said as he pointed toward the northeast wall. "The vines look stable we should be able to climb up them." Usagi said as she started climbing. "Hey Link, there's a chest up here!" Usagi said as she got to the top. She opened it; it contained the Dungeon Map. "This will come in handy." Link said as he put the map away. "Well, there seems to be nothing else up here. So, we mind as well climb down."
Once they got down, they decided to see if there was anything up above where they just were, but they had to find a way to get there. Suddenly Link noticed that the walls were pretty rough. "These walls look rough enough to climb. Well, lets start climbing!" Link said as he started climbing the walls with Usagi right behind him. "Wait! We have to get down there are Skulltulas on the walls!" Link said as he started to climb down as fast as he could. Usagi did the same when she figured out what a Skulltula was when she saw a giant spider heading straight for her. "That was close, too close!" Usagi said panting. "Hold it! There's a door down there farther up the walkway! It was hidden in the shadows, you can't see it unless you look closely!" Usagi said as she started running for the door with Link close behind. Link caught up to Usagi and they opened the door together.
When they got inside the door was barricaded along with the door in front of them. They saw a Deku Scrub in the middle of the room preparing to attack. "Link, use the same tactics on this one!" Navi advised once again. Link made short work of the scrub. When it was defeated the doors were free to open. They go to the door and open it. There was a large chasm bridged by one floating platform that was quite far from the ground. "Well, I guess we have to jump across." Link said looking from the platform to the chasm. "Jump?!" Usagi asked anxiously. "Yes, we have to jump, if you want you can stay here." Link suggested. "No, I'm not going to let you take all the risks." Usagi said. Link walked to the edge and jumped. He landed softly on the platform. "See, I made it, and if you start to fall I'll catch you." Link said trying to comfort the scared Usagi. "Here goes nothing!" Usagi said as she jumped and landed safely on the platform. "Hey, I made it!" Usagi said happily. "Now we have to get to the other side." Link said as he jumped once more. But he slipped on the edge. "Link!" Usagi screamed. Fortunately he grabbed the edge and pulled himself up to safety. "Come on Usagi I'll catch you if you fall. "Okay, I'm coming!" Usagi said as she swallowed her fear and jumped. She landed safely on the other side. "We made it!" Usagi exclaimed. "Link, look there's a treasure chest over there." Usagi said as she pointed to a large treasure chest near them. Link went over to it and opened it.
It contained the Fairy Slingshot. "Hey Usagi, want a Fairy Slingshot! It uses Deku Seeds as projectiles." Link said as he tossed the weapon to Usagi. "Thanks Link." Usagi said as she put it away. "Well, lets get going." Link said as he walked toward a ladder that is hanging above a hole in the wall. "Usagi, try hitting that ladder up there." Link said as he pointed to the ladder. "Okay I'll try." Usagi said as she aimed the slingshot so it would hit the ladder and make it fall. "Here goes." Usagi said as she released the Deku Seed. The seed hit the ladder perfectly and it fell to the ground. "Good shot!" Link said as he started climbing up the ladder. Usagi followed close behind. It led back up to the trunk. "Hey now we can shoot down those Skulltulas so we can climb the walls!" Usagi said as she pulled out her slingshot. "That's a good idea!" Link exclaimed.
Usagi started to aim the Deku Seed so it would hit the first Skulltula. She released the seed; it hit right on target. "One down, more to go." Usagi said as she defeated the Skulltulas one by one. She finally had destroyed them all. "Well, now we can climb up." Usagi said as she started climbing up the wall. Link followed behind. After they got to the next level they noticed that there was a door and three platforms in the three openings in the spider web, which resembled something that you would jump off of. "Hey you two, look down. There is that huge spider web right below us. I think that if we jumped off we would break through the web. I see that there is a pool of water down below." Navi said. "Let's go through this door before we try jumping." Link said walking towards the door waiting for Usagi and Navi. Link opened the door. Once inside Link, Usagi, and Navi were locked in.
They looked around the room for a way to get out. "There's a treasure chest on the other side and another on that side, but there's no way to get over there and back." Link said pointing to the chest while looking for some way for them to get over there. "There's some sort of switch over there!" Usagi said pointing to the right side of the room. Usagi went over to the switch and stood on it. Several grassy platforms rose from the floor. "Usagi stay there, I'm going to cross, I'll be right back." Link said as he started to jump from platform to platform. When he reached the other side he opened the treasure chest, it contained the Compass. "We've got the Compass!" Link said as he held up the object. He jumped to the other chest when he got there though he wasn't greeted well. There was a Big Skulltula, which attacked Link. "Link!" Usagi screamed. He killed the Skulltula, even though he was injured. "I'm okay, Usagi." Link said as he limped toward the treasure chest and opened it. It contained a recovery heart. Link used it; it healed his wounds. "Just what I needed." Link said relieved.
Link then noticed a curious looking spider on the back wall. Link easily killed it with two hits of his sword. In its place was a golden token, Link decided to pick it up and ask questions later. Link notices that there are two torches, on is lit and the other wasn't. Link, for some reason felt that he needed to light the other torch. So, he took out a Deku Stick that he had acquired from the Skulltula and set it on fire with the lit torch and lit the other torch. After that, Link jumped back to where Usagi was. "The door's unlocked!" Navi exclaimed. They walked out the door.
"We have to try to jump down and break the spider web." Navi explained. "She's right, I guess we have to try." Usagi said as she went over to the edge of the platform. "I'll be right behind you." Link said seriously. "Usagi, wait!" Link shouted as he pulled Usagi back. A Big Skulltula was guarding the opening. Link destroyed it with two hits of his sword. "Okay, see you down below." Usagi said as she jumped. She went right through the web. Link and Navi followed right behind. They landed with a splash. Navi was right, there was a pool of water. "This water's cold!" Usagi said as she tried to swim to the northeastern bank as fast as she could.
When they were ashore they looked at their surroundings. Link noticed that there were platforms all around the room. The ones to the east looked easy to access, and the northeastern platform had an unlit torch, but the southeastern one was covered in cobwebs. "Well, we know this is going to be a challenge." Link said grimly. "Link, there's a switch over here!" Usagi said pointing to a switch on the floor. "Stand on it, Usagi." Link said. Usagi did as told and stood on the switch. The torch on the northeastern platform lit. "I wonder if I lit one of my Deku Sticks on fire, if I could burn those cobwebs over there." Link said to himself. "Well, try it." Usagi said, still standing on the switch.
Link nodded and walked to the torch and pulled out a Deku Stick. He lit the stick and started walking quickly through the shallow water to the southeastern wall. When he got to the cobwebs he touched them with the Deku Stick. The cobwebs were then on fire, and after the fire died down, the cobwebs were gone, revealing a door. "Well, that worked, we'll have to remember that we can burn cobwebs." Navi commented. "Let's get going!" Link said as he walked towards the door. Usagi and Navi followed close behind him.
Once inside the doors were barred, and a Deku Scrub was waiting for them, but instead of trying to kill them he started to talk to them. "Wait! I don't want to hurt you, I want to help!" The Deku Scrub said as Link had started to pull out his sword. Link eyed the Scrub suspiciously. "How do we know we can trust you?" Link questioned. "Because, I have information I want to give you of my brothers." The Scrub replied. "Link, I believe he's telling the truth." Usagi said calmly. Link looked at Usagi and put his sword away. "Well, if you say so Usagi." Link said. "What information do you have for us?" Navi asked, sounding somewhat rudely demanding. "Well, I have information on how you can defeat my brothers below us. You can't defeat them if I don't tell you. So, do you want my help or not?" The Scrub asked ignoring Navi's tone. "Yes, please, we need all the help we can get." Usagi said intently pleased by the Scrub's offer of help.
The Scrub seemed to be intrigued by Usagi. "I've never met I child quite like you before, there's something so pure about you, something unique and different. But back to the information, there is an order in which you have to attack them. The order is 2, 3, and then 1. This means you must attack the second first, then the third, and finally the first. By doing this you should be able to defeat them." The Scrub provided. "Thank you for that information, but I have one question to ask, how do we get out of here so that we can defeat your brothers?" Usagi asked. "Look up above the door you need to pass through, there is a golden eye up there, you must shoot into the eye for the door to be unbarred." The Scrub answered. Link, Usagi, and Navi all looked up above the door, and sure enough there was the golden eye the Scrub told them would be there. "Thanks again!" Usagi said. "Don't mention it." The Scrub replied. "Usagi, do you think you can hit that?" Link asked already knowing the answer. "I think so." Usagi said as she took out her Fairy Slingshot and aimed at the eye.
She hit the eye perfectly in the middle. "Well, done child, with an aim like that you must be a warrior!" The Scrub said jokingly. "I was." Usagi said in a whisper so no one else could here and a single tear slid down her cheek Usagi wiped it away quickly. She thought no one noticed, but she was wrong, Navi heard her and saw the tear.
"Well, lets go through the door, now that it's open." Link said as he led Usagi to the door. The next room was filled with water and on the other side was a platform. There was also a raft and a spiked log. "How are we going to get across?" Usagi asked hopelessly. "I think I see something under the water!" Navi exclaimed. "Wait here, Usagi, I'm going to go see what it is." Link said as he walked to the edge of the platform and jumped in the water. He dived under until he saw a switch. He hit the switch and started swimming back to where Usagi and Navi were.
Once he had hit the switch, the water level went down and the raft started moving back and forth between where Usagi and Navi were and the other platform. "Well, it seems we know how to get over there now." Link said once he got back to shore. So, they got on to the raft and waited until it reached the other side and then got off. There was a ledge on that side that was about twelve feet above where they were standing; there was also a block with a crescent moon on it near the ledge. "What is this?" Usagi said as she went run over to the block. "Usagi, wait there might be something over there!" Link shouted, but it was too late. A Skulltula came down and attacked Usagi; she was knocked back several feet and went unconscious. "Usagi!" Link screamed, he ran over to the Skulltula with his sword drawn.
He destroyed the Skulltula easily. He walked over to Usagi and cradled her in his arms. "Usagi, wake up, please, wake up!" Link whispered urgently. When he pushed the bangs out of her eyes he noticed a golden, upturned crescent moon on her forehead. "Navi, what's this?" Link asked pointing to the crescent moon. "I don't know, but I feel like there's something more to that symbol than it seems." Navi replied bewildered.