Michael had never run as quickly as he was now. He was out of breath and he didn't know if he could keep it up any longer. The trees were whistling as he went by, and he found it soothing. He then thought about what was going on.
"This is crazy. I must be dreaming. There is no way that any of this could be real and I am running alongside Mario," he thought.
They had been running a long while and Michael finally stopped. " Hey Mario I think we can stop now. I don't think they will find us." Mario shook his head, "No, nota yet, we have to go… heya who are you?" Mario looked over at a small kid in a mask. He seemed to have flute in his hand. "Oh me? My name is Robert, but everyone around here calls me Skull Kid. I saw what happened over at the castle. Bad stuff. I know you guys probably want a place to hide right? We can't stay here very long. Those guys from the castle are not very far away." The kid turned to go but then looked back, "Well? Are you coming or not?"
Mario and Michael both followed the young kid. Robert seemed to know his way around the forest. With every twist and turn, Michael was starting to get more and more confused. "Haven't we been here before?" he thought to himself. All of a sudden the kid stopped. In front of them stood the largest tree Michael had ever seen.
"I am the great Deku Tree. And you must be the child from the other world." If Michael had not played the Zelda games he would have been much more surprised by this talking tree.
"Great Deku tree I brought these guys with me so we could hide here," said Robert.
"Yes my child, I have already heard of the things that have happened at Hyrule Castle. Morgan is already taking over. Soon there will be no stopping him." He paused for a second. "Quick! Climb onto my branches." The giant tree brought the branches down to the ground and the three jumped on top of them. The Deku Tree raised them up with startling speed until, they were hidden by the branches above.
As soon as they were up, a group of dark creatures came into the clearing. "Mamamia…" whispered Mario. They looked like Heartless from a game Michael had played called Kingdom Hearts. They were bigger than how he remembered. Seemed to be searching for something. Held his breath and strained his ears to hear what they were saying.
"So we have to find that kid right?"
"Yeah, and when we do we are supposed to take him to Morgan. I don't know about you, but I could really use the praise we'd get if we found him. Morgan would probably promote us to captain or something for that brat."
Michael leaned in closer. He lost his footing on the branch and began to fall. Michael started to yell. The blood starting to rush to his head and he found himself wondering if he was going to die. He saw Mario and Robert reaching out for him but he was too far down. The creatures at the bottom looked upwards and saw him falling.
Then the Great Deku Tree brought it's branch down and caught Michael. It lowered it's leaves as Michael landed to soften the impact. The creatures had obviously seen him and were preparing to chop the Deku Tree apart to get to him. They came with axes and began to set fire to the tree's bottom. The large tree shook with pain, and dropped Michael who then plummeted to the ground.
The fall was not from that high up, but it did hurt Michael and he found it hard to get up to face the monsters in front of him. They started to surround him. Mario leapt from the top of the tree with a "Whu Hoo!" and landed on one of the Heartless. He pulled a large hammer seemingly out of nowhere and proceeded to smash the heads of the oncoming creatures.
Mario managed to fight some of them off but Michael knew they would soon overcome them. Mario jumped next to Michael and he had a look of distress on his face. He knew what was about to come. Michael looked up to see the Great Deku Tree on fire and writhing in pain. Michael couldn't bear to see it like this. The Deku Tree raised one of it's only branches that were not completely ablaze and brought Robert to the ground.
Robert started to cry. Michael couldn't blame him because he knew that there was no saving the Great Tree now.
Heartless came up from behind the others with bows aimed at the three companions. The leader who did not look like the rest then spoke up.
"Drop your weapons. Now, or we will shoot the both of you!"
))))) Finally finished chapter five The heartless will not be the main enemy of the story but they will play a part. I hope you are enjoying the story so far and even if you are not, tell me what you think! Thanks again!