Sorry I didn't say this in the other chapter, but I am greatly sorry for not updating in a year. School is rough and to be honest, I was still interested in the story, but procrastination is a problem for me. Of course that's no excuse, and since with Covid-19, I have all the time on my hands. I'll try to push a chapter out every week. Once I finish Dylan Edition, I'll post a new story(I can't work on 2 at the same time, sorry).
And without further ado: Resume Game/Save file 1 chosen/ Press Start
Dylan and Adar's feet got stuck every time they took a step into the lair of Gohma. Eggs filled the walls and thick slime slithered like snakes onto the floor. Dylan unsheathed his sword as Adar scanned the room.
"So where is this overgrown arachnid?" Dylan asked. Adar shrugged quickly.
"If I knew, I would tell you. But this is giving me the shivers." Dylan nodded as they continued to patrol the area.
That's when skittering came from the ceiling.
"Sir? I think I found her."
"No! No! In every horror movie, people always die when they look up. It's probably just a bug."
"Oh, it's a bug alright." Against his better judgement, Dylan slowly looked up at the ceiling, and he sorrowfully regretted it.
Gohma peered at them with her cyclopean eye, clacking her claws. Faster then she should be allowed, the monster was in front of the boys in a second. She reared back on her strange suction-cup like foot and roared, sounding like a crab clacking mixed with the fierce growl of a bear. Adar and Dylan could only back away in fear as Gohma stood over them.
"It's…" Adar started.
"The Parasitic Armored Arachnid: Gohma." Dylan finished.
Gohma began the battle by swiping one of her claws at the duo. Adar easily dodged but Dylan wasn't so lucky.
"Oof!" He cried as the claw connected to his stomach, sending him into a wall. The air briefly got knocked out of him as he attempted to stand up. Adar was jumping and weaving as Gohma swiped at him. Her eye became red for a moment, raising all her appendages to strike. That was until Adar quickly fired a Deku seed. In an instant, gohma was on the floor, her eye rolling around like a cartoon. Adar attempted to attack by kicking her, but it was null and void. Gohma quickly got up and climbed one of the pillars around the room, attaching to the ceiling. Dylan returned next to Adar as Gohma began to shake.
"Is it just me, or does her pupil look like a Division symbol?" Adar quickly looked at him strangely.
"I'm just sayin'. Also, I saw what happened. When you hit her with seeds when her eye were normal, it didn't do anything. But when her eye was red, it-" His explanation was cut short as 3 eggs dropped from the ceiling and immediately burst to reveal baby Gohma's.
Dylan dashed forward and sliced one in half as Adar pummeled the other with seeds. The last one was quickly dealt with as Dylan punted it across the room.
"-stunned her!" Dylan finished. Adar nodded. Gohma came back crashing down, wasting no time hoping on her suction pad to provide room. Adar shot seeds as Dylan moved in. In one fell swing, Dylan cleaved her leg, making her topple on to the floor just as her eye flashed red. Adar fired a seed, stunning her, and Dylan slashed at her with his sword.
"It's just like in one of those strategy guides Terrance reads!" said Dylan. Gohma snapped back with her claws and rushed to the ceiling. She began to shake again, as her eye turned red.
"Not today." Dylan shouted, pulling out the slingshot. He loaded one of the Deku Seeds he found and fired.
Perhaps it was the adrenaline, or perhaps something else, but the years of missing every single basketball shot, baseball pitch, and late-night spray painting seemed to have paid off, as Dylan struck Gohma's eye at 60 ft. She fell to the floor, and like clockwork, Dylan rushed in to attack. Gohma, this time, finally grabbed Dylan and threw him across the room, like at the start of the fight, he slammed into a different wall.
"Dylan! Over here!" A voice called out. Dylan stopped from going back to the fight to look back.
"Navi?" he cried. She was stuck in a web and her wing struggled to flutter. Dylan used his sword to cut his companion out of the trap.
"Thanks. And it seems you guys have got it covered with Gohma." Navi proclaimed.
"Yeah, but we can't keep it going on forever. That's why I have a plan." Dylan said.
"Wow. I guess there really is a first time for everything." Ignoring her remark, Dylan reached down and whispered the plan to Navi.
"...and then that's when I'll strike. Be sure to tell Adar." Navi nodded as she zoomed towards the Deku Scrub, and Dylan began to climb.
"Face it!" Gohma roared as she took a blow to Adar, the kid taking it. "You think you and the sword-bearing one can win, but those were just lucky strikes!"
"Adar," Navi screamed, rushing to him, "are you alright?"
"I'm fine. He said. He attempted to stand up but was brought back down.
Gohma chuckled. "And it seems the fairy has been freed. No matter, my children will feed on your corpses."
"Dylan has a plan, all we need to do is distract Gohma, all right?" Navi explained. Adar slowly nodded, finally standing.
"Now then, who wants to die first?" She clicked her claws together menacingly."
"Neither of us," Adar exclaimed, "And I have just one question for you." Gohma tapped her claws together before shrugging.
"I suppose your last words shall be fun I suppose. Ask away." Adar stepped forward, staring up at Gohma and straightly asked; "Why are you doing this?"
There were no words for a moment before Gohma creepily giggled.
"Why am I doing this? It's all for my master, of course. Because this degenerate tree would not hand over what he rightfully deserves." She said, her claws inching forward towards Navi and Adar.
"And who exactly is your master, and what belongs to him?" the fairy piped up. Gohma's giggle evolved into maniacal laughter.
"Ganondorf, the rightful ruler of Hyrule! The Spiritual Stone of the Forest, the Kokiri's Emerald was supposed to be given to him so he could set out his plan, and he tasked me to slowly kill the Great Deku Tree so he could take the stone. Ganondorf shall take the land as his own and all that oppose him shall die!" Gohma snatched up Adar and Navi, putting immense pressure on them. Her eye was now a blazing red, like an uncontained fire.
"Now then, I think you two should die for interfering. And one Ganondorf takes the Kokiri's Emerald, it would be no time before he takes the other's, and takes the Tri-"
"Hey, Mistress!" Dylan shouted from above. He let go of the webbed ceiling as he pulled back the slingshot and fired it. It struck true as Gohma released her hostages, roaring in pain. Dylan quickly pulled out his sword, holding it firmly as he performed a down thrust.
"Watch me Cy-drop yo' ass!" He yelled as the Kokiri Sword's eye implant glowed as it pierced Gohma's eye. She screamed in agony and dropped to the floor, squirming like a freshly cut worm. Dylan pulled back, the sword dislodging from the monster, but also taking the eye. Gohma's cries began to die out as she began to disintegrate, her body disappearing into the air. In a matter of minutes, it was as if the cruel creature was never alive to begin with, the only memento of her life the eyeball Dylan dropped into the Infinisack.
"I guess it's true," he said, "Beautie really is in the eye of the beholder." Navi groaned as Adar merely looked confused. Dylan smiled as he glanced down, seeing a strange large heart with pieces of metal attached. He picked it up, and as he held it, it broke down into transparent cubes and drifted to his heart. As they did, Dylan couldn't help but feel healthier, more than he ever did.
Then, all of a sudden, the 3 began to glow a piercing blue.
"We're being teleported out of here." Navi explained. Adar looked around at the chamber where he almost perished. The web and slime had dissipated, leaving greying pillars and hard floors.
"I guess we won." Dylan said as they slowly floated up, disappearing from sight.
Saria hugged her knees to her chest. She had stopped crying hours ago, since Dylan ventured into the Great Deku Tree. Around her, Dekus conversed around after fleeing from their home within her father. They had been scared out of their wits, saying something about 'mistress', whatever that is. Saria's main focus was Dylan. 2 hours had gone by and nothing had happened. Mido tried to sway everyone to his side, and to convince the Deku Tree to let him in, but they all shooed him away. He was currently picking dying grass from the field, muttering curses at Dylan. Saria sighed and pulled out her ocarina. Everybody loved her instrument, as it was the highlight of their parties, along with her own unique tune, which they simplified called 'Saria's Song'. She was about play, before a blinding light stopped her. 3 figures, one tall, the other short, and another tiny dropped before all the Kokiri and Deku. A the blue light withered away, the 3 figures could be seen.
"Dylan, Navi!" Saria and the Kokirir called, racing towards them. The human and Fairy shot up and were bombarded with hugs.
"Noble Little Oak!" the Deku cried as they dove to him, some hugging him with their feet. Dylan snickered.
"Little Oak?" Dylan asked.
"Adar is my second name. It's how we name our people. Dylan is a strange name." he debuted. Dylan could only chuckle as he stood up, Saria clinging to his torso. The Great Deku Tree laughed, mixed with deep coughing.
"So are you gonna' be ok Deku?" Dylan asked. The Deku Tree said nothing, followed by another cough.
"Oh yeah, the thing that was making you sick, Gohma, went on a rant about someone named Ganondorf I think, something about spirit stones, Hyrule, and domination, if i'm remembering correctly. Know anything about that?" He added, as the Deku Tree's expression grew stiffer.
"I have something important to tell you, since thou has demonstrated courage. Thou shall listen…" Suddenly, the scene around Dylan changed. He was now in a black space, fire erupting all around him.
"Now Listen carefully… A wicked man of the desert cast that creature upon me." Coming out of the flames, riding a dark horse, was the same man from Dylan's dream coming right for him. Instinctively, Dylan flinched, but the man passed right through him like a ghost. He watched as he rode further into the flames and disappeared.
"This evil man," the Great Deku Tree continued, "ceaselessly uses his sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is Connected to Hyrule…" Dylan felt himself perk up at those words. Sacred Realm? Evil guy? Sorcerous powers!? This was all making Dylan's head spin.
"For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods…"
Dylan looked around as the scene changed, as it now seemed like he was hurtling through space. Out of nowhere, three humanoid figures, whose head's looked like a Kokiri cap came falling from above. Dylan didn't have to do anything but stare as he kept pace with the beings.
"Before time began, before spirit's and life existed, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule…" The scene changed again as Dylan was high above what looked like a more endless space. The three goddesses came down beside him, looking over the star. Dylan felt himself float nearer to the one with a faint green aura.
"Din, the goddess of power…Nayru, the goddess of wisdom…Farore, the goddess of courage…"
The goddess with the red aura Dylan assumed was Din, suddenly engulfed her hands in flames and clapped, sending a burning shockwave. Before Dylan's eyes, he saw a planet suddenly form from the fire.
"Din…with her strong flaming arms, she cultivated the land and created the red earth…" Dylan then descended to the planet, fitting in between a canyon.
Nayru…she poured her knowledge and wisdom onto the earth and gave the spirit of law to this world…" Dylan looked above to see Nayru, the goddess with blue surrounding her, shot over his head, what looked like a language coming from her hands. A low rumbling alerted Dylan, as he looked behind himself to see a tidal wave coming straight for him, that was until two arms grasped him and pulled him up. Glancing, he saw Farore guide him to a small slab of land with rivers and streams around him.
"Farore…with her rich soil, produced all life forms that would uphold the law." Farore only had to dig her foot in the ground as massive trees and grass grew around them. He also spied creatures he had never seen before, a long octopus looking one, wolves with massive arms, and a bipedal Bulldog mixed with a pig, along with others. Dylan once again soared to space with the goddesses, looking back to see the planet. He saw that it looked alot like earth, but with varying differences. He stopped staring at the planet when he saw the goddesses soar further into space and disappear, as light barricaded them.
"The great goddesses, with their labors completed, departed for the heavens. And golden sacred triangles remained at the place they left." Dylan had to shield his eyes from the light, and when he opened them back up, he saw it. The Triforce. He heard the name before, and he knew this was it. It looked powerful, amazing, nothing like Dylan had ever seen. He could only wonder how such a simple looking thing could hold that much potential. Then he saw them disappear, leaving him alone in the void.
"Since then, the three sacred triangles have become the basis of our world's providence. And the resting place of the triangles have become the Sacred Realm." Dylan suddenly found himself standing at the point he was at, the Great Deku tree in front of him, along with the Kokiri's and Scrubs.
"Thou must not let the desert man in black armor lay his hands on the Triforce, for if he does, I fear it would spell the end for all." Dylan heard the others audibly gasp as he stepped forward. "I won't. Even though this is all new to me, and that I'm putting my life on the line, I would be angry if this happened to my world. So I'll do it."
The Deku Tree smiled as Dylan saw his bark turn an unsettling white. "Thou art courageous. Listen, you must seek out the princess of destiny, at Hyrule Castle, there your quest will begin." Dylan nodded.
"That this stone, with you. The one the desert man wanted so badly to lay that curse. You'll surely need it better than I." A bright light came from the Great Deku Tree's leaves. Coming down, Dylan could see it was an emerald wrapped in gold, looking like the imprint on his shield.
"That's the Kokiri's Emerald," Navi said, "The Spiritual Stone of the Forest. Gohma was talking about that." Dylan put it in his back carefully, before staring back up at the Great Deku Tree again, this time flinching. His bark was now snow white, his moss falling off and leaves withering. He could see the Kokiri rushing to him, hugging his base.
"I'm afraid the curse had already done it's damage, I was doomed before your mission started, but it was not in vain. Do not grieve for me children, for it shall be fine. Dylan! The future of Hyrule depends on you, thou must have courage. Navi! Help Dylan on his quest, he shall need it. I feel my strength failing. Now is time for me to go."
His peeling bark began to groan as he gasped his final breath. "Good…bye." And he was gone. A tear rolled down Dylan's eye, forcing himself to wipe. The Kokiri hugged their father, along with the fairy. Mido turned away from the husk and glared at Dylan.
"You." He stomped towards him, fist ready. "You could have stopped this and you didn't. I knew you were a phony, a fake, now this!" He stretched his hand out at the signs of life. There were none.
"We did what we could! We have to go. C'mon Dylan." Dylan could tell Navi had been crying from her voice but he stepped towards Mido.
"It should've been me," Mido growled, "I would have saved him, I would have done better than you. I would have-" he was stopped as Dylan jabbed his fist into Mido's face. The brash Kokiri sailed back and landed on the dirt, his nose bleeding a shining red.
"That was for my friend." He said as he turned away and walked, the Deku Babas were gone. He climbed into the tree house to gather his things, then turned towards the tunnel, out of Kokiri Forest.
"I'm going with you." A voice called out. Dylan turned to see Adar standing by Saria.
"Adar," Dylan began, "You can't-"
"I'm not asking, sir." Adar said walking towards them. "This is my home too, and whatever happens to it, I want to stop." Dylan stared down at the Scrub, for what seemed like an eternity, before smiling.
"Then welcome to the Heroes club." Adar seemed to be smiling too, as the three once again turned around.
"Wait!" Another voice called out. Dylan had forgotten Saria was there as well. He turned around to see her already in front of him.
"I can't go with you, we Kokiri can't leave the forest. But I want to help as well. I just wish I could have shown you the Lost Woods, introduced you to Skull Kid, and daybed the meadow.
"Well, what's to say I'm not going to come back." Dylan said. Saria smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, that's true. I just have to give you one last gift before you go." She reached around her back and held the gift infront of her. Dylan could see it was like a cracked flute, except larger with less holes. It seemed to be made of wood. "What is it?" He asked hesitantly.
"It's an ocarina, more specifically a Fairy Ocarina. I just thought it could help you in your adventure. There are certain songs that can do amazing things." Dylan took the ocarina in his hand and inspected it. ocarina had been in the title of the game, the game he was now currently in. He wondered if this was Ocarina of Time.
"Thanks Sar." He said, grinning like an idiot. Before he could put it away, Saria pulled out another ocarina and stopped him.
"Wait, I also have to teach you how to use it." Dylan nodded, not trying to pretend he already knew how.
"I'll teach you a song I made, which is-lazilly-called Saria's Song. Watch and then you try." Dylan watched in awe has Saria placed her lips on the instrument, covering some of the holes and blew into it. I made an amazing sound, even better when she continued it, her hands lightning quick with the ocarina.
"Now you try." She chirped. Dylan got snapped out of his funk and quickly fumbled the ocarina into his hands. Even though he was barely paying attention, he was surprised when he realized he knew how to perfectly mimic it, down to the tempo. As he played the song, he felt himself grow light. He had never learned how to play an instrument and yet, he was here perfectly playing a tune on an instrument he had never heard of before.
When he finished, he saw flashes of light sparked off the ocarina, swirling around it before drifting back into the instrument.
"Alright! Way to go!" Saria cheered as she put away her ocarina. Dylan could only smile back.
"Whenever you need to talk to me, just play my song and I'll be there. Good luck on your quest. We're all cheering for you." Before he could ask how playing a song would call her, he was wrapped in a hug. He hugged back, his eyes just a tad foggy. Saria pulled back and nodded. "You should get going now. Gotta meet the princess after all."
"We'll be back soon, so don't worry." Navi replied. Dylan nodded as he stepped into the humongous log, leading to a short bridge to another tunnel.
"See ya later, Alligator." Dylan called. He could only catch a glimpse of Saria's confused face as he, his fairy, and wooden pal charged for the exit.
"Come back safe, um, Octorok!" she called back. Dylan could only laugh as the light of the sun grew closer.
He was ready for anything.
Dylan immediately was hit by the sunlight, spending a few days under the leaves and finally seeing sunlight became an experience. He could see Adar having the same problem, but Navi seemed to ignore it.
"Holy cow! I'm out of the forest, this is amazing!" She cried. Navi darted all around the canyon, where the entrance to Kokiri Forest was located. Adar too was glancing around since he had been in The Great Deku Tree since he was born. The Great Deku Tree…
"Do you think he's really dead?" Dylan muttered, loud enough for his companions to hear. Their faces instantly fell when they remembered his death.
"I mean," Dylan continued, "He's a magic talking tree. You'd think a giant spider would only do…" It was at that point Dylan realized how stupid he sounded.
"That dosen't matter right now. We have to go see the Princess of Destiny." Adar said. Navi and Dylan nodded.
"HOOT!" A big gust of wind pushed them back. Dylan and Adar were able to keep still, but Navi flew back behind them.
"Hey, look up here! Dylan!" Dylan looked up to see a gigantic bird, larger than those emu's he heard about. It had black eyes, strange markings on it's forehead, and hair growing out of it's nose-like beak.
"Glad you found me. Your adventure has begun!" Then, the giant owl's face flipped, with now realistic eyes, thick long eyebrows, and the eyes turned out to be black spots of fur.
"What is that. Or, actually who are you." Dylan asked.
"That's Kaepora Gaebora. He comes to the forest alot. He taught me about all the monsters outside the forest." Dylan shuddered at the thought of more monsters than the ones inside the forest.
"Right you are my fairy friend. I just came to point you in the right direction." He unfurled his wing and pointed it past the canyon walls.
"After you get out of here, just go straight and you'll see Castle Town in the distance. That's where the princess is."
"Um, thanks Kaepora. See ya later." Before he could move, he felt a small pouch hit his foot. He bent down and opened it, seeing it full of different colored gems.
"Those are rupees, the currency of this world. You'll need it. I'll see you around, hoot hoot!" The talking owl then spread his wings and took of, rotating his head all the way. Shrugging, Dylan, Adar, and Navi all walked along the walls of the canyon, till they emerged out.
A vast field spread out before them. To the north, he could see a farm, and past that the green landscape turned to yellow sand. East, he could only describe how Izzy from Digimon said to everything; prodigious. A sprawling castle and a bustling town, mixed into one amazing area. He could only hope the others felt the same.
"No time to waste," Adar excitedly said, "To the castle!"
"To the Princess of Destiny!" Dylan cheered.
"To stop Ganondorf!" Navi exclamied. The three once again bolted towards the long adventure to the castle, hoping that whatever came their way, they solve together.
Sorry there were alot of fakeouts in this chapter, wanted to get the word count higher than the last chapter. Hope you guys enjoyed it though!
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