They floated down the water canal, when it left the castle it become a wild
river that flowed at the bottom of a cliff. Up there was Gerudo valley. He
could see the dead trees hang from side to side, allowing the rogues to
enter the rest of Hyrule. For a moment Narc wondered what they had fed the
trees to make them allow this. The next moment he laughed at this thought:
Gerudos didn't ask trees for the approval of their use, they would just use
them! Coming to think of it; he started doubting that the Gerudos, and the
Hylians for that matter, thought of trees as living things. The river
slowed down. "An' is goo' thin' i' does. I'm a sick o' ''is wil' wa'er!"
Said Rodon, who seemed to have read Narc's mind. Narc looked at him for a
few seconds. Rodon raised an eyebrow. That was when Narc decided not to say
anything. Astounded by the phenomenon though he stared out of his eyes
thinking of how this could exist. Doing so he drifted to the other side of
lake Hylia while all the other Schrubs had already "hit the beach." Rase
had already went of to find Beark, while the others were making there way
to the lost woods. Since it was morning, and people were coming out of bed,
and taking theier morning strole over Hyrule field, they would be spotted,
attacked, or spotted and reported and attacked by an army. And because lake
Hylia was a nice place, people who have taken the day of will probably come
by to spend it by the lake.
"Why 'on't we use the old tunnel thin' i's down the'e, an' i' lea's to Zora's Domain. From the'e we 'ould go to the other por'al tu''el thin' an' be rig't home." The voice Narc had heard before said. He looked at Rodon again, and waited until he started talking again.
"Ell, wha' 'o you thin' can you dive tha' 'eep?" Narc watched his fellow Schrub in utter amazement. Apart from the sound Rodon did nothing wrong! He spoke like this, and if you didn't hear him you'd swear he spoke normally! Narc looked at his fellow Schrubs, they all stared at Rodon. None seemed to feel anything for incurring another speech from Rodon.
Talip was the first to speak. "Yes, that's quite a good idea actually. The Zora's have their own cave not dependent on the sunlight so they don't have to sleep at night. And even so, silly creatures like us tend to just randomly run around places you won't expect them."
The forest began to move. Wading into the water, diving now and then to see where the portal thing was.
And through they went. The next thing they saw was the beautyfull sky-bleu cave of the Zora's. Narc would've liked to stay there but they shouldn't appear to intelligent to the Zora's, since they were very loyal to the Hylian king. As a matter of finishing touch he whispered to the others to hide their arms, since having thumbs is usually seen as a sign of being able to use tools or weapons. The Zora's quickly gathered on the higher levels of the domain to "look down at the mass of silly creatures moving from the sinkhole of their domain to the entrance of it, and out into the world." As Narc looked up he could read from their faces that some of the Zora's felt sorry for that world. "ell, I ain' re'ommendin' this place 'o any of my friends. Tou'ists the en'ertainers 'ere!"
Small barracks had been built in the lost woods. Sticks that formed half circles covered with earth. Also a huge stone oven was placed there. Around it were anvilles and tools for metalwork. In one of the larger structures there was a stack of thick skins.
"What happened?"
"We did dude!"
"Man!"
"I know!"
"Aw 'eezz, this i' grea' we ca' just star' smi'he'oonin'fig'' away!"
The lost wood fell still, everyone stared at Rodon.
"W'a' di' I do som'n? Wha'? Stop sta'in'!"
The Schrubs got a hold of themselves and went on with their business.
In the middle of the activities was Aak. Next to him was Hyac, he could have been Narc's little brother.
"Hyac! You eggboy, how have you been!"
"Don't call me that!"
"Sorry"
"It's been quite boring, Aak got to lead the expedition to the Gorons, and all I could do was help build the barracks."
"Wasn't that cool?"
"Well I wanted to go with the others."
"Were did the oven, and the tools, and the..... metal? You already have metal?"
Aak: "Just a little, the Gorons didn't have to many at the moment, and needed most for themselves. Even after we stopped the Dodongo invasion on the top floor of their city!"
"Really, who all went with you?"
"That group over there."
"Don't ask me, it's not like I was there to." Aak whispered.
"Hey you guys, I don't know you, but I'm Narc, and I want you to tell me all about how you stopped the Dodongo infestation in Goron City!"
"Well, it was under Aak's command, so you should ask him.
"True, but I'm more interested in the action, not in the diplomatic stuff."
Esas "...Right... there was a hole from Dodongo's cavern to Goron city."
Artisti "The Dodongo's blokked the stairways, so the Goron's couldn't blow up the entrance. And the larger Dodongo's"
Esas "were starting to come in. Aak suggested we bomb them, of coarse the Gorons had thought of that. It was just that they had built the city so most of the bombs would be there were the Dodongo's had overrun them.
Loin "So they would have to carry lit bombs all the way to the Dodongo's."
Esas "But even if that had went perfectly. It would probably only stop, or slow, the Dodongo's march, not drive them back.
They stood still and watched the flood of fire-breathing lizards close in slowly, filling every space with their body's, then stared at the Gorons doing everything then could to stop the Dodongo's, but their breath was to fiery for their stone skin. Suddenly Aak jumped up! Carry all the bombs here and blast those things, and bring us sticks, how are the bombflowers placed? Where are they placed? Do Dodongo's have flexible necks? The tree others looked at Aak is if he was meant certain death. They realised what Aak had in mind. But jumping over the creatures that "would come and burn them if they didn't finish their plates" wasn't their idea of diplomacy and business.
Goron "Sure man. Spread and clustered at important spots, by the walls, and in the middle of the corridors near staircases. They can hardly move their necks."
"Great!" Aak took the sticks, handed two to each of the other Schrubs, and kept one for himself. The others looked at him, not knowing what to tell him exactly.
"Aak..... we're wooden creatures...." Loin started.
"Shaddup, stupid! The Gorons will throw us over the first Dodongo's, yes you will, then you look at the ground for bomb flowers, you light your stick, and then you light the flowers. Simple no?"
"We... Are... Wood! WOOD!" Esas shouted.
"Respect my authority woody!" Aak commanded, and he walked towards one of the Gorons, "get me as far into the swarm of Dodongo's as possible."
And so he went. The Goron threw him with all his strength. When Aak felt he wasn't going up anymore he started to spin around, so his leaves would work like what we would call a helicopter. He landed on the back of a rather short Dodongo. The larger on behind him immediately took a deep breath, and Aak was already gone. He heard the short one scream as even for a Dodongo directly being hit by pressured fire hurts. He saw some bomb flowers right under the short one, who had pushed himself onto the Dodongo in front of him, as an impulse reaction to the heat. The Dodongo's had however resumed their invasion. As Aak was sitting on one of them he didn't exactly know what to do anymore. If he went to light one of those bombs he would get lit. "That way I will be absolutely no use to the revolution, instead of just a little," he thought. Then he looked at his mount, it was his size, it was slow and strong. It can turn fast, but if it does it swipes it's tail painfully. "Haha!" He jumped on the short one again. The larger one began take a deep breath. Aak jumped away, to its back, and shot a nut at it. The Dodongo turned, swiping al the surrounding Dodongo's. He took another breath, along with the swiped Dodongo's, and Aak jumped away again. He heard the hyperventilation of a Dodongo that is about to breath fire, and the next moment he was half blown away by the explosion of several bombflowers on the ground. The surrounding Dodongo's went through there knees, and died. Aak jumped on top of them to see if the flowers were re- growing already. Suddenly he trembled. Something was happening inside the Dodongo, he looked at the others, they were shaking to. In a flash he turned around and ran of, when the explosion of the Dead Dodongo's, together with that of the newgrown bombflowers, smashed him against the wall. The explosion had started a chain reaction of dying Dodongo's, exploding Dodongo's and, exploding bombflowers.
Loin, Esas, and Artisti picked up the sticks, and had the Gorons throw them into the crowd. They sped towards the larger bomb field, that was still clear, and full of newgrown bombs. The three Deku Schrubs were amazed at how the plants had survived the fire, and the explosions, but didn't waste time. They tried to pull the bombs loose, but they weren't strong enough. So they decided to light them, the Dodongo's that were still coming in would explode "along". But when they lit the bombs, they immediately let loose, and the Schrubs started to throw them at the Dodongo's coming their way.
Meanwhile Aak hanging from the wall with his dagger. He could hear the explosions, but couldn't turn around.
"Go boulderheads, we can climb the stairs now! Take those bomb gardens and stop the Dodongo's!"
Aak turned his head to the right, he saw the stream of Dodongo's coming in through the entrance decreasing.
"Actually their invasion was just all walking in together, and after a while Dodongo's cavern was just empty of adult Dodongo's." Loin said. "And as a repaiment the Gorons gave us this stuff. They even built us carriages to transport the load. And the Schrubs that wanted to become blacksmiths are getting forgery school as we speak.
"We'll be ready to free the Schrubs from the Gerudos in no time!" Artisti added.
"Come to think of it, after the Dodongo's attack the Gorons went searching for us, to find the Deku Scrubs the were said to live in the Dodongo's cavern." "They're over there, its just about twenty of them." Loin said.
"But Aak did all the work?" Narc asked.
"Not all of course, we were there to, but most yes." Loin awnsered.
"I had never thought he could do that, he never fought with someone or something."
"Yes I know, I think everyone just thought he was a wuss and leave it with that."
*All the Schrubs run of to the other side off the camp*
*Narc and the rest of the group followed.*
Last night was a good night for the revolution! Now we can forge our own swords, and defend ourselves, now we have a good business relationship with the Gorons, our numbers have grown, and will keep on growing! Soon we will....
"When 'o you su'puse they'll be ele'tin' the cow ri'ers?
...and then we will be ready to march to the wretched fortress of the....
Like, I's pose we'll ha'' cows, 'ecause we 'ont be usin any 'orses cause 'on't wan'a be'ome the 'ylians, an' I'll tell you 'his; I ain't ri'in' no goat o' pig. No' even a huge Cucko fo' tha' ma''er!
... We will free our people, scout are looking for a place to live as we speak. Yes I know the lost woods are good enough, but the surroundings are to haunting, your grandparents will agree with you. We will find a land that is not under the protection of weak creatures that depend on others mercy. Mercy is for the weak. You don't have to be weak to give it. But needing it is a shame. We will no longer be swordfood, nor shieldtesters! We will no longer be Deku nut factories! We will be great and we will be respected! They will leave us alone! The trees will thank us for the communications we will open between them and the woodcutters! We will help all who enter, but we will not be tricked into anything. We will not be dictated, even to those of our own kind! But to achieve this we must work hard and train hard, we are physically more fragile and weaker than the Hylians. If we armor ourselves we wont be able to move quickly, if we don't we will be vulnerable. Therefor, I ask you all to train, and work hard, and think of strategies to defeat the Hylians on open ground. I want you to design the equipment, the best will be used, so we will succeed even against those who appear stronger.
Beark stepped off the speech-block.
"Well, this will be fun." Deik said, he had just appeared behind Narc.
"Why?"
"We are frail, and maybe you me and Talip can take on a Hylian, but none of the others would stand a chance against an armed kid, let alone a soldier!"
"Aak could take one too you know".
"Haha, I'm serious man!"
"Me too!"
"Look, I'm gonna go train the others, see what weapon works for who and distribute them, so you can think of more weird one-liners."
* Unusually loud footsteps, for lost woods standards *
"Hey look a Goron!"
"Am glad they's 'ere, I can' wai' for the for'in' 'o begin!"
"It's just Rodon Deik, relax! It's not going to hurt us."
"Me neither, later on it would be better if we forge our own swords, best not let the Gorons know about everything we do.
"Why 'on't we use the old tunnel thin' i's down the'e, an' i' lea's to Zora's Domain. From the'e we 'ould go to the other por'al tu''el thin' an' be rig't home." The voice Narc had heard before said. He looked at Rodon again, and waited until he started talking again.
"Ell, wha' 'o you thin' can you dive tha' 'eep?" Narc watched his fellow Schrub in utter amazement. Apart from the sound Rodon did nothing wrong! He spoke like this, and if you didn't hear him you'd swear he spoke normally! Narc looked at his fellow Schrubs, they all stared at Rodon. None seemed to feel anything for incurring another speech from Rodon.
Talip was the first to speak. "Yes, that's quite a good idea actually. The Zora's have their own cave not dependent on the sunlight so they don't have to sleep at night. And even so, silly creatures like us tend to just randomly run around places you won't expect them."
The forest began to move. Wading into the water, diving now and then to see where the portal thing was.
And through they went. The next thing they saw was the beautyfull sky-bleu cave of the Zora's. Narc would've liked to stay there but they shouldn't appear to intelligent to the Zora's, since they were very loyal to the Hylian king. As a matter of finishing touch he whispered to the others to hide their arms, since having thumbs is usually seen as a sign of being able to use tools or weapons. The Zora's quickly gathered on the higher levels of the domain to "look down at the mass of silly creatures moving from the sinkhole of their domain to the entrance of it, and out into the world." As Narc looked up he could read from their faces that some of the Zora's felt sorry for that world. "ell, I ain' re'ommendin' this place 'o any of my friends. Tou'ists the en'ertainers 'ere!"
Small barracks had been built in the lost woods. Sticks that formed half circles covered with earth. Also a huge stone oven was placed there. Around it were anvilles and tools for metalwork. In one of the larger structures there was a stack of thick skins.
"What happened?"
"We did dude!"
"Man!"
"I know!"
"Aw 'eezz, this i' grea' we ca' just star' smi'he'oonin'fig'' away!"
The lost wood fell still, everyone stared at Rodon.
"W'a' di' I do som'n? Wha'? Stop sta'in'!"
The Schrubs got a hold of themselves and went on with their business.
In the middle of the activities was Aak. Next to him was Hyac, he could have been Narc's little brother.
"Hyac! You eggboy, how have you been!"
"Don't call me that!"
"Sorry"
"It's been quite boring, Aak got to lead the expedition to the Gorons, and all I could do was help build the barracks."
"Wasn't that cool?"
"Well I wanted to go with the others."
"Were did the oven, and the tools, and the..... metal? You already have metal?"
Aak: "Just a little, the Gorons didn't have to many at the moment, and needed most for themselves. Even after we stopped the Dodongo invasion on the top floor of their city!"
"Really, who all went with you?"
"That group over there."
"Don't ask me, it's not like I was there to." Aak whispered.
"Hey you guys, I don't know you, but I'm Narc, and I want you to tell me all about how you stopped the Dodongo infestation in Goron City!"
"Well, it was under Aak's command, so you should ask him.
"True, but I'm more interested in the action, not in the diplomatic stuff."
Esas "...Right... there was a hole from Dodongo's cavern to Goron city."
Artisti "The Dodongo's blokked the stairways, so the Goron's couldn't blow up the entrance. And the larger Dodongo's"
Esas "were starting to come in. Aak suggested we bomb them, of coarse the Gorons had thought of that. It was just that they had built the city so most of the bombs would be there were the Dodongo's had overrun them.
Loin "So they would have to carry lit bombs all the way to the Dodongo's."
Esas "But even if that had went perfectly. It would probably only stop, or slow, the Dodongo's march, not drive them back.
They stood still and watched the flood of fire-breathing lizards close in slowly, filling every space with their body's, then stared at the Gorons doing everything then could to stop the Dodongo's, but their breath was to fiery for their stone skin. Suddenly Aak jumped up! Carry all the bombs here and blast those things, and bring us sticks, how are the bombflowers placed? Where are they placed? Do Dodongo's have flexible necks? The tree others looked at Aak is if he was meant certain death. They realised what Aak had in mind. But jumping over the creatures that "would come and burn them if they didn't finish their plates" wasn't their idea of diplomacy and business.
Goron "Sure man. Spread and clustered at important spots, by the walls, and in the middle of the corridors near staircases. They can hardly move their necks."
"Great!" Aak took the sticks, handed two to each of the other Schrubs, and kept one for himself. The others looked at him, not knowing what to tell him exactly.
"Aak..... we're wooden creatures...." Loin started.
"Shaddup, stupid! The Gorons will throw us over the first Dodongo's, yes you will, then you look at the ground for bomb flowers, you light your stick, and then you light the flowers. Simple no?"
"We... Are... Wood! WOOD!" Esas shouted.
"Respect my authority woody!" Aak commanded, and he walked towards one of the Gorons, "get me as far into the swarm of Dodongo's as possible."
And so he went. The Goron threw him with all his strength. When Aak felt he wasn't going up anymore he started to spin around, so his leaves would work like what we would call a helicopter. He landed on the back of a rather short Dodongo. The larger on behind him immediately took a deep breath, and Aak was already gone. He heard the short one scream as even for a Dodongo directly being hit by pressured fire hurts. He saw some bomb flowers right under the short one, who had pushed himself onto the Dodongo in front of him, as an impulse reaction to the heat. The Dodongo's had however resumed their invasion. As Aak was sitting on one of them he didn't exactly know what to do anymore. If he went to light one of those bombs he would get lit. "That way I will be absolutely no use to the revolution, instead of just a little," he thought. Then he looked at his mount, it was his size, it was slow and strong. It can turn fast, but if it does it swipes it's tail painfully. "Haha!" He jumped on the short one again. The larger one began take a deep breath. Aak jumped away, to its back, and shot a nut at it. The Dodongo turned, swiping al the surrounding Dodongo's. He took another breath, along with the swiped Dodongo's, and Aak jumped away again. He heard the hyperventilation of a Dodongo that is about to breath fire, and the next moment he was half blown away by the explosion of several bombflowers on the ground. The surrounding Dodongo's went through there knees, and died. Aak jumped on top of them to see if the flowers were re- growing already. Suddenly he trembled. Something was happening inside the Dodongo, he looked at the others, they were shaking to. In a flash he turned around and ran of, when the explosion of the Dead Dodongo's, together with that of the newgrown bombflowers, smashed him against the wall. The explosion had started a chain reaction of dying Dodongo's, exploding Dodongo's and, exploding bombflowers.
Loin, Esas, and Artisti picked up the sticks, and had the Gorons throw them into the crowd. They sped towards the larger bomb field, that was still clear, and full of newgrown bombs. The three Deku Schrubs were amazed at how the plants had survived the fire, and the explosions, but didn't waste time. They tried to pull the bombs loose, but they weren't strong enough. So they decided to light them, the Dodongo's that were still coming in would explode "along". But when they lit the bombs, they immediately let loose, and the Schrubs started to throw them at the Dodongo's coming their way.
Meanwhile Aak hanging from the wall with his dagger. He could hear the explosions, but couldn't turn around.
"Go boulderheads, we can climb the stairs now! Take those bomb gardens and stop the Dodongo's!"
Aak turned his head to the right, he saw the stream of Dodongo's coming in through the entrance decreasing.
"Actually their invasion was just all walking in together, and after a while Dodongo's cavern was just empty of adult Dodongo's." Loin said. "And as a repaiment the Gorons gave us this stuff. They even built us carriages to transport the load. And the Schrubs that wanted to become blacksmiths are getting forgery school as we speak.
"We'll be ready to free the Schrubs from the Gerudos in no time!" Artisti added.
"Come to think of it, after the Dodongo's attack the Gorons went searching for us, to find the Deku Scrubs the were said to live in the Dodongo's cavern." "They're over there, its just about twenty of them." Loin said.
"But Aak did all the work?" Narc asked.
"Not all of course, we were there to, but most yes." Loin awnsered.
"I had never thought he could do that, he never fought with someone or something."
"Yes I know, I think everyone just thought he was a wuss and leave it with that."
*All the Schrubs run of to the other side off the camp*
*Narc and the rest of the group followed.*
Last night was a good night for the revolution! Now we can forge our own swords, and defend ourselves, now we have a good business relationship with the Gorons, our numbers have grown, and will keep on growing! Soon we will....
"When 'o you su'puse they'll be ele'tin' the cow ri'ers?
...and then we will be ready to march to the wretched fortress of the....
Like, I's pose we'll ha'' cows, 'ecause we 'ont be usin any 'orses cause 'on't wan'a be'ome the 'ylians, an' I'll tell you 'his; I ain't ri'in' no goat o' pig. No' even a huge Cucko fo' tha' ma''er!
... We will free our people, scout are looking for a place to live as we speak. Yes I know the lost woods are good enough, but the surroundings are to haunting, your grandparents will agree with you. We will find a land that is not under the protection of weak creatures that depend on others mercy. Mercy is for the weak. You don't have to be weak to give it. But needing it is a shame. We will no longer be swordfood, nor shieldtesters! We will no longer be Deku nut factories! We will be great and we will be respected! They will leave us alone! The trees will thank us for the communications we will open between them and the woodcutters! We will help all who enter, but we will not be tricked into anything. We will not be dictated, even to those of our own kind! But to achieve this we must work hard and train hard, we are physically more fragile and weaker than the Hylians. If we armor ourselves we wont be able to move quickly, if we don't we will be vulnerable. Therefor, I ask you all to train, and work hard, and think of strategies to defeat the Hylians on open ground. I want you to design the equipment, the best will be used, so we will succeed even against those who appear stronger.
Beark stepped off the speech-block.
"Well, this will be fun." Deik said, he had just appeared behind Narc.
"Why?"
"We are frail, and maybe you me and Talip can take on a Hylian, but none of the others would stand a chance against an armed kid, let alone a soldier!"
"Aak could take one too you know".
"Haha, I'm serious man!"
"Me too!"
"Look, I'm gonna go train the others, see what weapon works for who and distribute them, so you can think of more weird one-liners."
* Unusually loud footsteps, for lost woods standards *
"Hey look a Goron!"
"Am glad they's 'ere, I can' wai' for the for'in' 'o begin!"
"It's just Rodon Deik, relax! It's not going to hurt us."
"Me neither, later on it would be better if we forge our own swords, best not let the Gorons know about everything we do.