Hello again! Time for the second chapter!

We arrived at the meadow where the Great Deku Tree lives a few minutes later. I was the first to get there, and right away I noticed that the Great Deku Tree was in trouble. "Great Deku Tree!" I cried. I stopped at his base and looked up at the face in the wood of the trunk. It was motionless.

"He's really cold," Mido pointed out, feeling his bark. "It's as if he's dead." Did I waste too much time fighting with Mido? What'll happen now? I placed my hand on a section of the bark and a huge, orange eye opened up above where my hand had touched. I cried out in surprise and jumped away from the bark. The eye belonged to a large, insect-like creature that was now jumping out of a hole in the Great Deku Tree's trunk.

"It's her!" Navi exclaimed. "She's the one who made the Deku Tree like this!"

"Stone…" the insect—which I knew was called Gohma—hissed. "Where is the stone? Give it to me!" She began digging furiously into the base of the Great Deku Tree's trunk, and a moment later, she had vanished, leaving behind a gaping hole large enough for me to enter.

"I'm going in," I said. I suddenly remembered that I had the slingshot, and I pulled it out. I looked back toward the trees and saw Saria standing there. Behind her was most of the Kokiri Tribe. Mido saw them, too.

"I'll go in, too," he declared, drawing the Kokiri Sword. We went inside the hole. It was pitch black, but once we were deep inside the Deku Tree, we saw light radiating from the wood surrounding us.

"At least we can see now," I said with a small shrug. Mido nodded. I saw a spider web and shuddered. I don't mind spiders, but their webs creep me out.

"There's a noise up ahead," Navi pointed out. I could hear it, too. It was some kind of scratching noise. We kept walking and we found ourselves in a large chamber. In the center of the room was Gohma. She was furiously digging into the floor, still muttering something about a stone. She means the Kokiri Emerald, of course, I thought. Just like in the manga. This shouldn't be too difficult.

Unfortunately, Gohma heard us enter the chamber. She stopped digging into the floor and reared up on her thick tail. "Should I curse you two, as well?" she asked herself aloud.

"How about not?" I replied, taking a few steps backwards, away from her eerie orange eye. "How about you just leave here and never come back?" She didn't like my idea.

"No," she hissed. I shrugged.

"Okay, then," I said calmly, loading a seed into my slingshot. "Have it your way." I shot it at her eye, but my aim was terrible and it bounced harmlessly off her armored body. I tried again, but missed. I suddenly wished I had practiced a bit with the slingshot before coming down here.

"Where is the stone?" she asked again, rushing toward me. Damn! I thought as I ran away from her.

"Link, Mido's not moving!" Navi said. I looked back and saw that Mido was still standing exactly where he was before. Gohma charged at him, and I ran back and tackled him, getting him out of the way just in time.

"Just let me do this myself!" I said to him. He shook his head. There was a loud crash and a chunk of wood fell on my head. "Ow!" I cried, rubbing where it had landed. "I'll get that overgrown termite!"

Gohma seemed to have a similar idea. She charged at me, and I fired shot after shot at her, hoping that I would hit her eye, but none of the shots came anywhere close to their intended target. Eventually, I had only one seed left. She continued to charge at me, and I tried to get out of the way, but I had accidentally backed into a large spider web while I was trying to shoot her.

"Damn it!" I shouted, fighting with the web. I looked up and saw that Gohma was only a few feet from me, about to strike. A rock suddenly came from out of nowhere and struck Gohma in the eye. She was stunned long enough for me to get free from the web. With her eye only a few feet away, I figured I wouldn't get a better target. I loaded the last seed and fired. This time, I nailed her right in the center of her eye. She screeched loudly and vanished. I had beaten the first boss, and I couldn't be happier.

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