Dylan and Navi searched all around the forest, asking the Kokiri if they've seen or heard of a sword. No such luck. Dylan was getting anxious.

"I say we just rush him, he relayed to Navi, smacking his fist for emphasis, "We can just kick him while he's down then go see the Deku Tree." Navi was resting on his shoulder. Tired from flying, she just nodded. As they peered over a small hill, Mido was still in his spot, sweeping the forest like a security camera. Dylan furrowed his brow and got into position.

The young Kokiri grunted as he sat down. He lay his hand across his forehead, as it felt like he was burning up under the sun of Hyrule.

"Kamikaze!" Dylan screeched, barreling towards Mido. The Kokiri's eys went wide and he dove out the way. Dylan leaped over his lying figure and continued to run along the path.

"Watch out for the Deku Babas, they like to come out early!" Right as she said that, Dylan skidded to a stop as a plant with a purple bud and a row of bark-like teeth burst from the ground and snapped at Dylan. He crawled away as the deadly plant crowed, summoning more of it's brethren from their earthy home. Dylan was frozen with fear as the mutated fly traps tried to unroot themselves to bite him. He crawled back and fell in a small hole. He looked to see a stick by his feet, about his height. Dylan smiled.

"Back you beasts!" He swung the Deku stick wildly, hitting the Babas with ease. When he got to the Great Deku Trees chamber, he could sense something was wrong. Multiple dead leaves littered the ground. No animals were prancing around. The Great Deku Trees trunk looked terrible with bark peeling off. It lifted off the atmosphere of despair and death.

"Great Deku Tree!" Navi said. She flew with Dylan following. With the patter of little feet, he glanced behind him to see the Kokiri entering the chamber, looking at their 'dad'.

"Dylan…come close." Dylan obeyed with shakey steps.

"A great evil has become to me," the tree said, "And I need your help." Sweat trickled down Dylan's brow, the Kokiri staring in shock.

"HIM!?" Mido shouted.

The Great Deku Tree's chamber began to shake. He was slowly opening his mouth, which sounded like a tree toppling. Although that would be fitting, seeing as how he was a gigantic tree.

"Enter me. And banish the evil." The Great Deku Tree finished as his mouth finally opened, showing the inside of the tree's mouth. Dylan stepped back. His mind was racing, the darkness inside the tree seeming to crawl.

"Dylan," a voice said behind him. He turned to see a Know-it-all brother with something in his hand. It was a brown scabbard with a strap. At the top was a hilt of a sword.

"Take this. I was keeping it from you because I didn't know what you needed it for. But here, use it wisely or something." Mido's ears were red hot and he grit his teeth so hard flakes of it started to fall.

"Take this too." Another Kokiri handed him something. It was a wooden shield with a red swirl in the he touched it, a tingle went through his fingers. He placed his hand through the hole and held it in front of him.

"Thank you." He said gingerly. He turned around as he felt arms wrapping around him. He swiveled to see Saria hugging him from behind.

"Please come back…" She whispered. Tears clung to her face. Dylan felt his heart shatter. Dylan looked over the crowed at all the Kokiri staring at him solemnly. He and Navi began to walk up to the Great Deku Tree. Each step Dylan took felt like a blow to his heart.

"I can't do this," he whispered to Navi, "he wants me to banish an ancient evil or something. They gave me a sword and everything!" His voice was shaky and his vision began to get blurry, like a 1950's movie.

Navi sighed as the boy began to tremble. He was being a macho man earlier but it seemed his act had vanished.

Still, she thought, I know what it feels like. I was having those same thoughts this very morning when I went to go meet him. Dylan took a slight step towards the darkness of the Great Deku Tree, holding the sword in his hands. Would this really protect him? Maybe a magic gun or something would be better, even against a supposed demon. Although he acted like a big man most of the time, Dylan had his weak moments, especially with his ADD.

"Dylan!" the boy jumped as his fairy shouted in his ear. Tear stains were evident on his face. "Are you okay?" Navi whispered.

Dylan whipped away the tears and nodded. "Just thinking about something. Let's go."

"But you didn't want to go in. I made this whole speech just so I could get you motivated and-"

"I'm already motivated by something. Thanks though for making me feel better…almost." Navi just giggled and shook her head.

"All right Dill, ready?"

"Yeah, sure…Navy?" Navi had to shut her mouth to keep from laughing. Dylan and his fairy walked(or in Navi's case, floated) into the Great Deku Tree liked they owned the place, ready to kick some great evil ass.

Mido stopped silking when he noticed Dylan and Navi stroll into the Great Deku Tree. His eyes bulged out as he shoved his Kokiri friends out the way.

"No. No, no NO!" he screamed. The Great Deku Tree's mouth began to close. Mido flung himself at it but it was too late. The mouth closed and Mido Got a face full of bark. He punched the Great Deku Tree as he tried to pry open his father's mouth.

"Let me in!" he cried as the hands of Kokiri pried him away. He continued to kick and scream as they dragged him away.

"You won't be able to do it because you're not me, ya' hear? You don't have the guts to do it! You're not like me. You're not like us!" Despite Mido's screaming, everybody still was worried about Dylan, especially Saria. She had her hands clasped together and stared at the Great Deku Tree.

"Please come back." She whispered. A single tear rolled down her face and fell to the grass.

Dylan thought the Great Deku Tree was small. It was just a hollowed out tree with gaps and pieces of bark sticking out of Random places. The only strange thing was a big spider web in the center of the room. The web was silky smooth and was pure white and thick.

"That looks like it was made not too long ago…" Dylan said. Navi agreed and flew over to inspect it herself. Dylan took this time to roam around the tree and try out his new sword. He noticed there was a symbol of an orange eye on the hilt of the sword. He didn't think much of it and just went back to waving it around. That was until he cut a patch of grass. The grass shook and out popped what seemed like a creature with a round extending mouth and a leaf cloak with surprisingly long legs. It's face was hidden in shadows and came to Dylan's chest.

"Whoa!" Dylan yelled as the thing jumped out. It shook it's leaves and looked around the room warily until it spotted Dylan. Then it started to spit what seemed like rocks at him. Dylan got smacked with a few before he pulled up his shield. Dylan noticed that the rocks were actually large nuts. He picked one up and decided to throw it at the monster. He rolled to the left and sprinted forward. He tossed the nut and it smacked the creature in the forehead. It squeaked and tears began to spring from it's eyes.

"Stop, stop," it cried, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you!" The voice was high-pitched and squeaky, sounding almost like a duck. Dylan hesitantly put down his shield.

"Tell me what?" He asked.

"About where the Mistress is."

"The Mistress? What's a Mistress? And what are you?"

The creature cringed but replied anyway. "I am Adar, but a lowly Deku Scrub. The Great Deku Tree allowed us to stay here. We were living harmoniously until the Mistress came. She slaughtered half our people until we surrendered to her. Now we just protect her and her children as soldiers." When Adar finished his story, Dylan heard a sharp scream. He looked over to see several spider-like creatures in the shape of a skull spinning up Navi in a web.

"Hey! Hands off my fairy!" The spider's web was behind some vines up from Dylan. He climbed the jutting bark and jumped between gaps. When he reached the web, he slashed at a spider close to him. Unfortunately, the spider was lightning quick and dodged the loose swings. Anger started to build up in Dylan as his swings became more erratic and crazy.

"The Skulltulas are known for their speed. Try to get it when it stops!" Navi shoted before the other Skulltulas wrapped her in more of their sticky web.

"I may have never used a sword before, but I'm still going to kill you!" Dylan cut the vines below the Skulltula and it dropped to the floor with it's back exposed. Dylan lifted the sword and plunged it into the Skulltula, killing it instantly.

"Looks like this just became the sword in the spider."

From below, Adar watched in amazement.

"It's him…" he whispered to himself. Dylan turned around to see the remaining Skulltulas reading their fangs for a fairy snack.

"Oh no you don't!" he dove and rolled to the web, sticking his sword in the air and stabbing a Skulltula. Then he flung the carcass of the Skulltula at another one. It fell down and Dylan sliced it horizontally, splitting it in half.

"Jesus, I am a god with a sword. Ultra Instinct Shaggy who, me that's who!" Dylan shook his legs and began to do a jig before slashing the webbing that held Navi. She shook herself off and flew around Dylan's head.

"Yeesh, I never want to do that again. Let's get going." Navi said. Dylan nodded and began to traverse up the tree, batling more Skulltulas, some bat on fire Navi called Keese, until they reached the top.

Hidden behind vines and rocks were hundreds of eggs, many of them already opened with no trace of what came out of it. When Dylan sliced an egg, an embryo of a spider creature fell out and slowly dissolved into ash. Against Navi's wishes, Dylan booked it the heck outta' there. He continued running until they came across what seemed like a turf war.

The Skulltulas were hissing at a horde of one-eyed spiders that teetered on the edge of a web. The cyclop spiders hissed back and their eyes became bloodshot red before jumping and biting the Skulltulas. Blood was everywhere, spindly legs were falling, Dylan and Navi just stood there in confusion.

"Ooookay?" Dylan and Navi continued to advance up the tree. The Cyclops spiders continued to come at them but thanks to the Kokiri sword, it was easy work.

Then they came to a stop when a chest was at their feet. It was bigger than Dylan's body and it was unlocked.

"Let's crack this baby open and find out what's inside!" Dylan said. He kicked the chest and it opened immediately. He had to dive in the chest to get the treasure. Which to Dylan was a little disappointing.

It was a slingshot with a red pearl along the string with various markings along the base. Dylan tested it out with some rocks and it seemed to work great.

"Would have liked a spell book or somethin' but this'll do." When they continued, Dylan encountered various Deku scrubs. One taller than Dylan offered him a stick for 10 Rupees and another shorter one attacked Dylan immediately. By the time Dylan got to the top, he was totally exhausted. His clothes were bathers, he was tired, and was on the verge of barfing when a voice came behind him.

"It is really you." Adar stepped closer and walked past Dylan. He pulled back some vines with his legs to see a series of hieroglyphics along the wall. The hieroglyphics showed a person with a ball of light following it as a large one-eyed spider beamed down on them.

"Many years ago, when the Great Deku Tree was just a sprout, my great grandfather had a vision one night of a ferocious creature appearing and enslaving us deku. The village thought he was crazy but he wrote these pictures, just before he died to spread the truth. I come here everyday to read them, just in case.

"Then," he said as he glanced down, "she arrived."

8 hours ago…

Adar huffed as he finally got to the top. He took a moment to breath before he trailed his leaves along his great grandfather's markings. He had already seen them hundreds of times but he still came here to honor his long forgotten relative. He was wiping away some bugs from a part of the hieroglyphs when a tremendous sound came from beneath him. It was no time before he fell over. He banged his head and rolled off the ledge. He screamed a horrible scream as he fell towards the ground.

That was before thousands of creature's bursted from the ground, covering the inside of the Great Deku Tree in a microsecond.

"AHHH!" Adar screamed when a gigantic spider creature rose up from the ground and snatched him up in one of its claws.

Adar was horrified. One gigantic pupil, shaped like a division symbol stared down at him. The creature loomed over him, it's eyes scanning the room while making a CLICK sound.

CLICK. Wall. CLICK. The mayhem unfolding along the ground. CLICK. Looking straight at Adar.

"I…am Gohma." the creature growled through its mandibles. Judging by its voice, Adar deduced it was feminine.

CLICK. Her children swarming around. CLICK. Adar.

Adar struggled to back away but the monster named Gohma squeezed her claw, pinning Adar and shattering his wood skin.

"Listen to me," Gohma hissed, "My master wants this tree, and he wants me and my children to take over it, and he wants you disgusting creatures to help him. I won't kill you, and you'll get to live. Deal?"

"Never!" Gohma chuckled a small bit. "That's a shame." She clicked her mandibles together, the millions of tiny monsters stopping what they're doing. She swept her claws around the Deku cowering in fear.

With a clack of her mandibles once again, the brood of Gohma began to devour the Deku scrubs. Screams filled the air and were then drawn out as Gohma's children ate them mercilessly.

"Ohhhh." moaned Adar. He felt like he was going to throw up. And in fact he did, barfing on a scuffle between a Deku leg.

"Because I wasn't asking." Gohma finished. Adar slowly got up and shiveringly proclaimed to Gohma, "Fine! Yes, do whatever you want, just stop eating my friends."

Gohma smiled a wicked bunch, signalling the kids to stop. And with that, Gohma sulked away into the cave, laying more eggs to expand the nest.

Now…

"Wow. That was intense." Dylan murmerd. He glanced once again at the hieroglyph on the walls, spreading around walls. Adar nodded solemnly as Navi fluttered around angrily.

"That big bully! She can't get away with this. If we defeat her, the Deku will go free, and the Great Deku Tree will survive," she caustosly peered down from the ledge. "And all we have to do is get under that webbing.

"Whoa! Hold up." Dylan said. His voice cracked a tiny bit, but he didn't seem to care.

"He just said a Spider monster. A, I hate spiders. B, The spiders we already faced were smaller, and this one sounds about the size of a double decker bus! And C," He firmly held up the Kokiri Sword and stood over the ledge. "I. Just. Want. To. Go. Home!" Dylan loosend his fingers, letting the sword fall down, down, down, and straight through the webbing covering the hole in the middle.

"NO!" Navi screeched. She flew up to Dylan's face. "What is wrong you!? One second you're having a blast slicing monsters, then the next, you start whining about going home! You are such a wimp! I can't believe I got pinned with you!" The fairy then glided down past the webbings, dropping deeper into the hole. Adar and Dylan were left together, silence floating around them until the Deku Scrub piped up; "Sir, are you not courageous. Are you not brave?"

"Brave," he sputtered, "yeah of course I am." Adar shook himself.

"Then why do you act like a mighty hero one second, then be a cowering keese the next minute."

"Look, how would you feel if you were suddenly placed into a world that's not your own, a place magic and monsters are real, and you have to put up a act to not die."

"Hero-"

"Don't call me that."

"You may not know it yet but you are apart of something big."

"Who are you, Gandalf? I am 13 years old, most adventures feature a hero at least in high school…except Harry Potter. Damn it." He sat down at ledge, Adar next to him. "I just want to go home. My mom is possibly worried sick, I'm going to die to spider monsters, and this tree is going to be infested with bugs."

Adar hummed. "Then maybe we should change all of that." Dylan lazily got up as well. "You don't have to push me off. I gotta be brave."

"Good. Now then we need to get down there and face the mist-err…Gohma." Dylan slowly peered down. Adar seized his chance.

"Do not think less of me!" he screamed as he headbutted Dylan in the back like a sack of hammers, the two flew over the edge, dropping towards the web. The silkey strings clung to them only for a second before they snapped, sending them deeper into the damp undergrounds.

THWAP! Dylan only felt the cold water after he smelled it. Adar was only a few away from him, standing up while shaking off the water.

"I specifically said to not push me off." Dylan grumbled as he took shook himself off. The sword was near him and it was easy to pull it from the mud.

"Forgive me. It was the only way, and I did not think you would."

Dylan smiled as he sheathed the weapon. "I probably wouldn't, so thanks. First things first, though. Find Navi and then-is that a shutter?" It indeed was, a metal shutter like the ones at loading docks. Dylan only got a close eistance before it swung up, revealing a web ridden cavern. Adar quickly moved behind him, bristling his leaves.

"I believe we may not have to look far,