Thanks to the gomu gomu no mi given to Nika by the elder Bucha, she reached the woods temple in no time, but before actually getting to it, she saw the Goron again, standing next to some kind of cube.
"Now there's a face I know. Hey bud!" The Goron saluted, "Hey, uhh... We never actually introduced, I'm Nika." She introduced herself and the Goron replied in kind "Oh you're right, I'm Gorko."
Nika looked at the weird cube and asked "Did you make this?", Gorko looked at the cube and replied "No, this is actually my research, the designs on it are the same as the ones on the bird statues, they're obviously correlated somehow, hey, maybe you can do smething with this too."
Looking at it carefully, Nika noticed that the cube did have a similar design, when she got closer, the spirit of the sword spoke up "Master, the object you're looking at right now was created by Shiva Samba to aid the hero on their journey, you'll be able to activate it by making it vibrate."
"I think your sword just talked..." Gorok pointed out, "Oh you can hear it? I thought only I could, anyways, vibrate" Nika said, unsheating her sword and making it vibrate against the cube.
The vibration caused the cube to fall apart, revealing a piece of paper, "I didn't expect it to fall apart! But it's something! I need to write this down, oh and, you can keep the paper, your sword did say it's yours." Gorok told her before walking away to search for more cubes.
Nika picked up the paper and checked it, seeing that written on it was "I know one way or another you'll come across a fruit, if you eat it, remember that it's only limit is what you think it's limited to, but being able to stretch gives you freedom, don't undermine it."
"I wonder what this means" Nika thought as she headed to the temple, but the sword spoke before she could take a step in, "Master, before you go in, I must warn you that while this temple was made by the Goddess, various hostile creature made residence here, keep your guard up." It warned, but it didn't deter Nika from going in.
Behind her though, she didn't notice someone observing her, but he disappeared into nothingness when Nika went out of view.
Skyview Temple.
Inside, the temple was old, overtaken by vegetation and broken, stable, but the walls were missing pieces, "The temple were the old lady was is much cleaner..." Nika commented as she made her way down a staircase that brought to a room with some kind of eye on the wall.
She got close to the door that was right under the eye, but the eye opened to look at Nika and the door was blocked by bars, "I get close, the door seals... I should break the eye..." Nika muttered trying to figure out how to, "What di the paper say? Don't undermine the fruit?" She remembered, thinking of how she could use it, but then remembered something.
Flashback.
A little Nika was shown playing with rubber bands, when suddenly a little Zelda stretched a band making it fly against Nika's face, "Hey!" Nika exclaimed before doing the same to Zelda, who laughed in return.
Back to the present.
"That was quite the distance and speed... Maybe..." Nika whispered before stretching her arm back and then throwing it forward, making it stretch forward and hit the eye right in the middle, it turned red before exploding, seeing the eye explode like that made Nika laugh a lot "That's so stupid!" She managed to say between the laughs.
The door was now free for access and Nika went through it, but got extremely scare due to the fact she found herself on a four way stone bridge that kept her above a lot of water, "I suddendly regret eating that fruit..." Nika thought as she walked to the middle of the room where there was a blue version of the monsters she fought before.
Nika thought that it would be a walk in the park like the red one, but when she tried to slice it, it blocked the sword with it's own weapon, "What the-?" Nika stuttered before trying to hit it again, ending with the same result, "These are smarter than the other ones." Nika realized before getting an idea, she moved her arm like she did with the eye, taking the monster off guardas it couldn't believe that, "Savage Blow!" Nika exclaimed before pulling her arm, slamming her fist against the monster's face, she could hear a crack coming from it's head.
The monster went flying to the other side of the room because of the hit, "I should use names like this for all my techniques." Nika thought, she the focused back on the bridge, seeing that it was leading to three different rooms, the one that seemed to lead further in the temple was locked though.
"I don't have time for this... I could just break the door, I by slinging my fist I threw that guy across the room, it should work, but I probably need both hand here." Nika thought as she got to the door, she stretched both her arms back and exclaimed "Blaiser Impact!" She then let her arms sling forward, the impact didn't make the door break, but the lock did seem to snap, this allowed Nika to go through.
This room was bigger than any of the previous ones, it also seemed to have some kind of dome in the middle, the entrance was blocked by a gate, but Nika noticed a crystal above it, so she stretched her arm to hit it, this made it activate and the gate opened, "Shiva Samba was right, this fruit really is useful, but I should be careful not to get overreliant on it. "Nika thought as she entered the dome.
Inside it was a few bushes, vases, a pile of bones, "And this place was locked because?" Nika muttered before hearing the gate close behind her, she was about to do something, but the pile of bones in the room started to move, "It's alive!?" Nika exclaimed started, quickly getting her sword out.
The borns formed into a humanoid form, also bringing out two swords, Nika was quick to strike, but the skeleton blocked it with one of it's swords.
Keeping her distance now, Nika wondered how she could get through that, but she noticed something in the skeleton's movements, it was moving it's swords parallel to eachother, That it!" Nika exclaimed as she swinged her sword in the space that wasn't blocked, managing to get some damage in.
"Perfet!" Nika cheered as she did the same again a few times until the skeleton was brought down, "I won, but how do I get out?" Nika thought before noticing that the skeleton had something attached to it's wrist.
She picked it up and thought "A beetle?"
