Chapter 5: The Battle of the Deku

Author's note: Whoa, 5 chapters, that's like, half of ten. Finally, I have some original characters.

Thank you to magnum326 for submitting a character. This chapter won't be as much humor, but

more Action/Adventure. There's a little drama on Andy's part also. Oh yah, I wanted to mention, Dameon

isn't gone forever. He'll be back either next chapter or the one after. Also, to EAT ME, I'm not sure I'll be able to use

your character, Joe Hotdog. He's way to random and strange. And your hearing this from a

random guy. I actually did like your character and was grateful for the review but I think your

character would kinda throw off the somewhat seriousness of my story. I'm sorry. I still need a

Goron though, to all you reviewers (cricket chirps (I like that sound effect)).

On the Bridge of Light Leading to the Kokori Forest

"You know, Leon, we never stopped to rest." Andy pointed out.

"Oh, yah. Are you guys tired? We could sleep here." Leon asked.

"You actually think I would want to sleep on some mysterious bridge going over some

infinite void. It's kind of a frightening thought." Link yelled.

"Yah, I know, that's how I felt when they got rid of my plastic bed liner." Neo said

quietly. "It gets me all choked up when I think of it."

"Oookay." Link said inching away from Neo.

"So what's the plan for when we reach the forest?" Leon asked Link.

"Sleep."Andy shouted.

"Yes, first sleep. Then we'll have to try and find Saria. After we've found her, Leon will

play that song to free her. After that we'll return to the town and then plan on how to free the

next sage."

"Whoa, it's really that simple?" Navi said in awe.

"Well, actually, no."Link said. "In order to find Saria we have to travel through the

Forest Temple, navigate through dozens of rooms, find the boss key, and destroy the boss."

"I CALL HEART PIECE!" Andy shouted. Everyone stared blankly at him. Andy cleared

his throat, "sorry."

"How long do you think all that will take?" Navi asked.

"I dunno. Hey look there's the forest." Link pointed to the entrance of the forest coming

into veiw. The all ran to the rest of the way and stopped at the entrance.

"Can we just walk in?" Neo asked.

"No, there's an invisible kon-fu- fighting ape guarding it." Link said sarcastically.

"Was it obvious or something?" Neo asked. "So your saying that anyone could walk in-"

"Well......." Link interrupted

"Your saying it has no protection." Neo said starting to yell.

"No..." Link said getting a little upset.

"So, was it obvious, was it?" Neo shouted. The forest was actually guarded by its border,

requiring Leon to use his ocarina. By now everyone was inside the forest wondering what Neo was doing to poor Link.

Link said nothing.

"That's what I thought." Neo then left him there feeling selfishly good about himself.

Neo caught up with the others quickly.

"You just left him there." Leon said.

"How cold." Andy put in.

"I had to dis him, I hate it when people use sarcasm for something that's so unobvious."

Neo replied. Suddenly they heard a noise coming from deeper in the forest and they saw Link.

They ran toward him wondering how the hell he had passed them.

"How did you do that?" Navi asked in disbelief.

"We thought you were still on the bridge." Leon explained, noticing that Neo winked to

Link. Neo started laughing and Link caught on.

"What happened here that we are all missing?" Andy finally asked having to yell over

Neo and Link's laughter.

"Here, I'll explain." Neo said cutting Link off. "First of all, we had this planned for a

very long time. Just before, when I left Leon, I went to the fairy store and purchased many

things. One of the items was a potion allowing me to take any Hylian form I chose. Link gave

me a sample of his DNA, hair. What you saw was me being Link and a glowing ball that Link

controlled with his fishing hook. The voices were tape recorded."

"So you tricked us?" Navi asked.

"Yup." Neo replied.

After everyone got over the "joke", they continued forth. Leon, on the other hand told

Neo to hold on.

"You just made all that up didn't you." Leon said.

"Most of it." Neo replied.

"So Link really was crying...." the two suddenly exploded in laughter but Leon stopped

laughing suddenly. "Then how was he ahead of us?"

"Because we really did plan everything." Neo then flew away trying to catch up to the

others, while whistling a tune.

"But, but." Leon said not understanding what just happened. "Everything I know is a lie!" he yelled to the sky.

And now for a break

I highly doubt you understand what just happened so I will try to explain. Link had been totally

dissed and when he strangely reappeared from in front of them Neo explained that everything had

been a preplanned prank. Then Leon stopped him because he noticed that Link didn't seem to

know that Neo had planned this so called "prank" and asked him if he had just made it all up to

make Link not look like an idiot. Neo said that he had made it up. Leon then wondered how Link

had gotten ahead and Neo said that they really did plan the prank. So the choices are...

A) Neo really did plan everything with Link and it had all been acting when Link seemed

to not catch on when Neo was explaining the joke.

B) Neo hadn't had anything planned but was just trying to not make Link not look like a

crybaby ( which is doubtful), and Link had just amazingly caught up (which is also doubtful).

C) I have no freakin' idea and my head still hurts.

Choose one and submit it with review. Results will be posted in chapter 6. Bye the way, just because it never said Neo bought a Hylian drink in chap. 4 doesn't mean he didn't.

Back to the Story

Leon caught back up with the others after he got over the confusion and all that just happened was now a thing in the past. After some sleep they navigated through the forest with Link in the lead. They swerved through the trees swiftly wondering how Link managed to remember the way. They tried asking but he just replied with "because." After what seemed like an hour they took a rest.

"Are we there yet." Andy whined who hadn't said a word since.

"Maybe. I'm pretty sure we're at least half way. To tell the truth, I'm not exactly positive on the way there. I haven't been here in ages. " Link admitted.

"So, were lost." Andy said.

"Well, yah, pretty much." Link said.

A/N I'm using sound effects for this part.

SFX: whoosh

"What was that!" Leon jumped.

SFX: Snap (twig breaking)

"Something's there!" Link said this time.

"I didn't here anything." Navi said.

"Me neither."Neo put in.

"Or me." Andy said also.

"Oh, there's something out there.

SFX: Kaw, Kaw

SFX: Pitter Patter.

SFX: Krunch (of leaves)

"What is it?" Link wondered.

SFX: SCRATCH

"Look there!" Andy pointed to a tree. "No there. There"

SFX: Whoosh

Everyone suddenly closed in as dark shadows emerged from the trees. "Deja vu." Link whispered to Navi. The dark shadows got closer and closer until they formed a small circle surrounding the group. The deku scrubs were not alone though, deku babas started shooting out of the ground screaming in a high pitched voice.

"We can take them." Leon told everyone while pulling out his bow. Link unsheathed the master sword and Andy pulled out his sword.

The deku scrubs were the first to attack. The pelted them with hundreds of blinding deku nuts.

"Drop down and close your eyes!" Link shouted. They all listened and fell to the ground as the whole forest turned a blinding white color. The deku babas hadn't expected the light and were temporarily blinded. Leon jumped up and shot a fire arrow directly at one of the deku babas. It wailed blindly and flailed about as its head burned up. The flame died after it turned the stem to ash and by that time Leon had already shot an arrow at another. Two, three, four more were killed, Leon, by now, had developed a pattern of turning slightly, reaching back for an arrow, and shooting it.

Link went after the scrubs instead. He slashed away killing two right away. Three more surrounded him shooting deku seeds. Link deflected the first two with his shield and the last one bounced of his sword, backfiring it and hitting one of the scrubs squared in the head. It ran away in pain but Link gave it no mercy and swiftly pulled out his long shot. He aimed it at a tree, grappled and slammed into the poor defenseless scrub. The other two came running at Link hoping to avenge there friend's death, but Link pulled out the Master sword again and took a hard clean swing slicing both of their heads.

Andy sat in terror as his friends battled the deku scrubs and was to afraid to even pick up his sword. "So this is what it was like, war." Andy remembered his parents and the horrible thing they had done. He wouldn't let Ganon's forces kill another one of his friends. Still, he was scared. "What are you waiting for?" he asked him self. Summoning his courage, Andy stood up and lifted his sword. He charged after the deku scrubs at full speed and shut his eyes as he blindly hacked away. After about ten swings Andy opened his eyes, they lied there dead, about ten or twenty scrubs were motionless, sprawled on the ground. Andy noticed more coming at him, angrier then ever, and he continued fighting.

Navi thought they were defenseless, but she didn't know about Neo's newly purchased fairy weapons. "What do we do?" she asked.

"Here, catch." Neo tossed the yellow gem at Navi and she caught it. "It shoots lightning."

Navi aimed it at one of the deku babas and saw as a huge steak of lightning shot at the plant. Its hold body shook in a violent way as it experienced horrible shock. Suddenly its whole body was overcome by a spasm and it twitched and jerked madly. "Whoa, that's cool!" Navi continued torturing the scrubs with her gem.

Neo kept the red stone for himself knowing the deku scrubs were vulnerable to fire. He wasn't sure how it worked but from watching Navi use hers he figured it worked automatically. Neo aimed closely at one of the unsuspecting deku babas and a streak of fire shot out. The flame came out in a long stream devouring the enemy. He aimed it at a large group of them and watched as they helplessly burned.

Leon continued shooting deku babas, but more seemed to continue growing back. An idea came to mind just then. Leon first took out a water arrow and shot it at the ground making a puddle. After that he froze the puddle. Then he shot a psychic arrow at the ice making it slightly levitate under Leons control. He took a ground arrow and used it to make a path in the dirt going around the circle of babas. Finally he put away his bow, pulled out his dagger and hopped onto the levitating ice chunk. After gaining proper balance Leon steadied his blade and made the ice block shoot forward . It zoomed around the track as Leon held out his dagger. The sharp blade sliced each of the deku babas he passed. After going around only twice, they were all dead. Leon dragged his foot over the edge and slowed down to a stop. "I love messin' with the elements." he said to himself.

Link had done a great deal of damage to the deku army and was beginning to tire. He'd killed at least 20 but they kept sending in reinforcements. Links swing was slowing down and more scrubs were charging in. With his last ounce of energy, Link swung powerfully killing all of the 5 coming at him. The deku scrubs were almost depleted and Link noticed that Leon had done a great job at the babas when howls were heard. A wild pack of wolfos came rushing in at them with blood shot eyes. The largest one, probably the leader of the pack spotted Link and ran at him. Link tried to block the wolf that had come at him with his shield and was struggling for his dropped sword. It pounced on Links forcing him to the ground. Its snapped at him and tried to get past the shield. It scratched at Links arms, and then knocked his shield out of grip. Links right arm was terribly bleeding and needed treating. Link tried to get the hound off of him and was almost ready to pass out from exhaustion. For about only ten seconds Link was lying there defenseless as the wolf tore him to pieces but for him it seemed like eternity. Link thought he was a dead duck until he noticed that there was no extra weight on him anymore. He tried to get up to see what happened but a sudden shock of pain kept him on the ground. He, then, went unconscious.

Andy was fighting vigorously and hadn't tired out a bit. He noticed that a sudden pack of wolves appear out of the forest and ran to Leon. "Where did they come from?" He asked.

"I have no idea, they just rushed in."

"What should we do?"

"I'll shoot at them with my arrows and you go charge in with your sword."

"Okay!" Andy ran toward one of wolfos and raised his sword. The wolf tried to jump at him but Andy moved to the side quickly and managed to slice it in mid air. It yelped as blood gushed out of a huge gash in its side. Andy charged and tried to take another wack at it. Angry at him, the wolfos used its last bit of life to rip him to pieces. It wasn't going to let Andy live by any means possible. Andy dodged as it trashed about. First from his right, he dived back. Then from the front, he ducked. Finally from behind, the wolfos sprinted at full speed, its eyes glaring. It jumped at Andy's head, but he ducked quickly and raised his blade. The metal struck it directly in the nose, cutting its whole face. Instantly, the wolf died. Andy looked at the maimed hound and almost passed out. After taking two big breaths he looked around. "Oh no, Links in trouble!" Andy rushed over to the struggling Link and kicked the large wolf off of him. It fell to the ground surprised from the unsuspected attacker. No sooner had it seen Andy when it felt a sharp blade cut through its ribs. Andy pulled out his sword and watched as the wolf run away in pain and then 5 seconds later drop. He rushed over to Link who was now being treated by Neo.

Neo and Navi were still shooting at the dekus and keeping at a safe distance. As they continued to shoot their elemental beams, both of them noticed that the gems were getting dimmer. After about 20 shots each, both went pale and stopped working. "What gives?" Navi asked in disappointment.

"I guess they need time to recharge. Lets go see if we can help elsewhere." Neo replied. At that time they both noticed that Link was unconscious and that his right arm was injured. Neo and Navi rushed to him. "What happened?" Neo asked Link. (No response) "Well duh, he's asleep." Neo reached into his storage poach and took a pinch of recovery powder. He sprinkled it onto Links arm and then took the last few specs and tossed them into the air. The wound slowly closed and disappeared but Link still lay unconscious. Just then Andy ran over.

"What happened?" Andy asked.

"Well, Link had a huge gash on his right arm so I healed it with recovery powder I got from the fairy market." Neo replied.

"Let me see if I can help."

MEANWHILE, DURING LINK'S RECOVERY

Leon looked over and saw that everyone else was trying to help Link so he decide to try and finish off the rest of the wolfos. There were only two left now and Leon went after the smaller one. He reached back and felt an ice arrow. It was lined up and aimed. Leon let go and watched as it made contact will the wolf turning it into a wolf-sickle (I hate puns, don't you?). Leon looked for the last one but couldn't find it. He suddenly noticed it creeping up on Neo. "Neo, look out!" but by then the wolf had pounced on Neo. His storage poach flew out of his hand and all of his transformation vials fell out, one was the new one, and the others were previously purchased. The wolfos' empty stomach got distracted by the drinks and it jumped over to the magic potions. It drank all of them. The wolf started to under take a transformation. It first began to gain the Kokori body shape, then its armslegs began to look like a Goron's making it significantly larger. Fins then started to grow out of its back, legs and arms. Finally, a Hylian sword appeared in its hands.

"Nooooooooooooo, they cost me $56.95." Neo shouted.

Leon looked up at the growing mutant, and then at the others. Standing seemed like the only thing he could do. The mutant's sword was long, sharp, and thick. Added with the monsters strength, it was unstoppable. After changing form completely the monstrous wolfos was a little awkward, but as soon as he felt someone swing a sword at his left leg he looked down and recognized Leon. To him, and to all of the deku, Leon was the one who killed more than half of their army, allies, and friends. Knowing that his damage to the wolfos had woken it up Leon, smartly, ran. The giant sword was swung, but Leon was distant enough to not have to dodge it. Multiple attempts were made by the giant mutant but Leon was fast on his legs. Eventually, Leon was driven to a corner. His sword was useless and he didn't have time to shoot an arrow. The long Hylian blade was ready to avenge the deku deaths. Leon shut his eyes tightly trembling. Through his shut eyelids Leon saw a white flash and thought he was on the other side. Slowly he opened his eyes, but what he saw was much different that what he expected.

A small Kokori boy was running through the forest, happy as can be. His name was Jeffery and had lived in the forest all his life. Even though he wasn't the adventurous type, he still like to explore the forest. Sometimes he would bring a map that he made, and try to go farther than what he had charted so he could add what he discovered. Today he was just on a nice leisure walk though. He looked at his map and noticed where he was. After walking for a good amount of time he stopped next to a fairly large boulder and sat on it. He took a large breath and look around him. This was his favorite spot in the entire forest, and he would always come here for a rest. He relaxed and listened to the sounds of the forest.

SFX: chirp chirp, cricket cricket, tweet tweet, ROAR, SCREECH.

Jeffery jumped up from the loud noises and wondered what the heck was going on. He moved over to where the noise was coming from and cleared some shrubs. His map had shown a deku nest and when Jeffery looked at the clearing all he saw was the remains of one. There were dead deku bodies, a mutant wolfos attacking a young Hylian boy, and another boy and two fairies trying to revive a someone wearing a Kokori tunic. Jeffery had recently had no fun and from the lack of adventure now a days, the young Kokori took advantage of the battle now going on. Even though he was unarmed he picked up a deku nut and chucked it at the large wolfos/goron/kokori/zora/hylian. A light flashed and the creature backed away from the Hylian boy rubbing its eyes. Jeffery pulled out a deku stick and bravely ran toward the beast. The stick repeatedly whacked against the monster, and since Jeffery was smart, he knew that he shouldn't hit the rock solid goron legs, unlike Leon's attempt. He instead damaged the weaker kokori body, and did much more damage. Jeffery pulled out another deku nut from his pocket and backed away. The flash once again blinded the "thing" and it fell to the ground. The deku stick was broken now, from all of the damage, so Jeffery dropped it and started to shoot deku seeds with his slingshot. Sadly, the young Kokori had horrible aim. The deku nut affect had worn off and the mutant started to come at him. "Here," Leon shouted to Jeffery, "take this." Leon threw him a deku stick. "Jam it into it's body, I have an idea."

"Ok." Jeffrey replied feeling a little awkward about the violent approach of jamming the stick into the mutant. Jeffrey charged at it and right before it could swing at him his did what Leon had told him to do. No sooner had Jeffrey let go o the deku stick when Leon shot a geothermal arrow at the stick. The stick caught fire and burned down. The monsters insides were now burnt and it yelped in pain. Leon took his final geothermal arrow and shot this one at its head. As it howled in agony Leon amputated each of the limbs. 10 minutes later, nothing was left but a pile of blood and ash.

A/N: Yes, I know, it was a little sickening at the end. Oh well, I felt that the story needed some excitement. Finally I've typed 5 chapters, yah. R&R bluenintendo