Chapter 5: Seized; a Clan Incensed by Rage
Search for the Deku Princess Arc
Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda, this is just a Fanfiction.
Featured Music: "File Select" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST. Chapter Briefing.
"Deku Palace" - Theophany (Time's End ~ Disc II). Scene 1 (Second Half) and 2 (First Half).
"Dungeon Appears" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST. Scene 3 (First Half).
In the Hero of Time's explosive expedition throughout Termina already he has saved the city of Clock Town from its otherwise grisly fate by quickly locating the means to recover princess Zelda's priceless artefact; the Ocarina of Time.
With it, he gains access to the same space and time-bending powers as the Timeshift Stones of the Pre-Hyrule Era; a near godlike power that allows Link, and those with him chosen by destiny, to essentially travel through time. Although it is merely as small amount as merely three days' worth at a time, it essentially gives the young Hero of Time all he needs. For it is in this almost endless cycle that Hyrule's greatest warrior will, eventually, find a way to end the childlike tyranny that his former companion Skull Kid has enacted upon the land of Termina.
Having learned of four leads by Tatl's younger brother, Tael, Link and his new partner Tatl utilise his hard-won clues by choosing to investigate their very first lead they have been given.
'Swamp'.
With his Hylian form having been recovered, thanks to the mysteriously-motivated Happy Mask Salesman's efforts, Link turns his attention to the south and with it the marshland that lies within; Southern Swamp and the land of Woodfall. Once used as a centre of worship for the Deku of this land and home to the woodland people it has essentially become a fiend-infested shambles. 'The Four' that Tael had once informed her big sister on are said to be four giant guardians that watch over each of the four great nations of Termina and, in this case as with the others, it would appear Woodfall's guardian has gone missing.
To make matters worse, even the once pristine water of the southern land has become naught but contaminated poison.
As a result of this the royal family of Woodfall have erupted into a panic-driven evacuation and, even now, bicker constantly with one another over possible courses of action not unlike that of the untrained government of Termina's Clock Town.
Having entered this land of disorganisation and chaos Link and Tatl learn very quickly that, to pass the dangerously polluted bog, they must first locate the swamp's tour guides. Although surprised that their identities are revealed to be the Terminian counterparts to Hyrule's Kotake and Koume, Link eventually settles his nerves and agrees to help them. He takes a glass bottle of Red Potion, gracefully provided by Kotake, and delivers it to the injured Koume hidden within the many twists and turns of the swamp's Woods of Mystery.
Grateful in his goodwill and service Koume agrees to ferry the young Hero of Time and his new guardian fairy companion; with this, the heroes manage to gain a suitable vessel in their quest to locate the missing Woodfall's guardian deity. And although keeps most of his motivations in his secret and personal journey to himself, Link hopes for more than just what the Sorcerer once divulged to him when he first played the Song of Time. He keeps his heart open for the Great Deku Tree's last trump card against the frightful Shinzui-et-Sanmiitai.
He keeps his hope alive... for Navi.
Scene 1
NIGHT OF THE FIRST DAY
-60 Hours Remain-
"Welcome to the Southern Swamp's fantastical boat cruise!"
Link rose a curious eyebrow up into his forehead as he placed a hand to rest on his hip, swinging his head around to look through his surroundings.
Just as he and his companion Tatl had previously intended they had taken the rejuvenated Koume's offer up; a free ride on the slow sailing tour guide that she had run so eloquently.
"Blame William for the name; he's often liked excessive and outrageous names for things like this."
The sound of Koume's voice, both contrastingly exaggerated and abashed respectively, gave the listening Link a different impression however. He found himself gaining a small wordless and knowing grin, exchanging it with the similarly silent Tatl hovering at his side.
"We here at Prima Travel Nation apologise for the Southern Swamp's current, ah...," the old woman's voice spoke again, amplified by what seemed to be some kind of device that surrounded the pair. "Unfortunate climate," she chuckled, seemingly nervously. "It's been fairly tough venturing into even the royal family's domain let alone the deeper parts of Woodfall."
I don't doubt that, the listening Link thought as he passed a few totem poles that surrounded the swamp he once crossed by before.
His own progress had been thwarted by a Big Octo of all things, even in his water-hopping Deku form.
"Shame I don't have the equipment from the alternate future; I could have easily ripped that Big Octo a new-"
"With all that said however, please enjoy the scenery to your heart's content!"
Koume's sudden exclaiming voice made the frowning Link rise his eyebrows out of his quiet and meditative thought, eliciting him to do just as she requested.
"Place looks fairly nice," Tatl spoke up as she hovered close by, able to easily keep up with the tour guide's simple boat. The roaring sound of a rushing waterfall began to echo toward them as they 'rounded a corner into a dark cave. "It's a shame it's infected like this."
"Yeah...," the frowning Link agreed with quietly, his eyes resting on the waterfall and the cloudy-shaded sea that rested below it. "Yeah, it is."
"Dead ahead you will see an obstacle blocking our pathway!"
The frowning Hero of Time swung his blonde-haired head 'round to the front and, as their vessel jutted out of the little cavern they had previously gone through, there it was waiting for them.
The scowling-faced Big Octo.
How in the name of the Sainted Three are we gonna get through here, the silent Link thought to himself, his frown very slowly upturning into a lightly-amused grin.
"This one's a repeat troublemaker and, as you can clearly see, the only way forward is through...," Koume trailed off, eliciting an amused-growing smirk from the listening Hylian. "So we'll be, ahem... nudging the big guy momentarily!" She claimed, her echoing voice making the listening pair exchange another look together. "So hold on to your britches!"
Here it comes, the silent Link thought, a hungry grin gracing his complexion.
You can't just eat a boat, can you?
SQUELCH-GROOOOWL...
All in all it was fairly anti-climactic.
Even with all the pent-up frustration Link had bore toward the Big Octo, when the boat merely poked its jutting and dangerously-spiked frontal end into its body, the fiend merely exclaimed once before turning its pain-filled head to the sky. It growled one final time before at last disappearing back into the infected water that it once thrived in.
Shame, the frowning Link thought as he looked over his shoulder at where it once floated in.
"I was kinda hopin' for somethin' more."
In the slow progress they made atop the modestly-sized vessel Link found his gaze wandering and, as it did, he double-took to the sky and narrowed his eyes back at the sight staring back down at him.
The gigantic moon that constantly threatened him, and the land with its inevitable destruction, hovered in place with its ghastly-faced scowl.
Odd, he thought.
I don't ever remember the moon in my own country quite having the same look.
Or even having a face at all.
"We have now arrived at Deku Palace!"
Koume's voice, so enthused and positive, could only wrench the wide-eyed Link straight out from under his moody brooding; he rose up his thin-straight eyebrows before swinging his head left and, just as she said, there it was.
The hardwood dock and, oddly enough, a monkey sat waiting for him. A similarly hardwood signpost stood next to the little mammal and behind him appeared to be the entrance into the palace itself.
"The water here is poisonous so, please, watch your step!" Koume called out a second time, an amiable smile in her soprano. "Will you be disembarking from us?"
Unsure on how to go about in responding to the old woman's voice, he winced very lightly as he turned his blonde-haired head skyward and opened his mouth.
"U-Uh y-yeah I'm gonna be-"
"We at Prima thank you for choosing us to plan your voyage and wish you only the greatest in your endeavours!" Koume shot in with. The listening Link shrank his head back and winced but only very lightly. The doubtful smile on his face very quickly zig-zagged; a look that truly said it all. "Have a Prima day!"
What a way to do it, the young Hylian thought as he turned to hop off of the humble little boat, grunting as he landed.
"You have strange powers... hnnn... no?"
His attention was garnered once again but, this time, by the small monkey that waited for him at the dock; he could only blink down at it, surprised.
"Me been watching you from forest!" It exclaimed, a similarly curious expression hidden behind its eye. "T-This swamp...," it began again, shaking its white-furred head as if in denunciation somehow. "It become... poison!"
Rather comically, Link found the neutral expression on his face intensify even as the floating Tatl exchanged her grin with his look of doubt and insecurity.
How is this monkey even talking to me, he wondered in silence.
"Me and pack think that temple in Woodfall is cause!"
At last the cause became apparent; Link's brow furrowed and he narrowed his eyes, now fully ingrained into the conversation.
"Temple?" He questioned.
"Mm!" The little simian exclaimed, leaping up into an acrobatic flip as if to announce its enthusiastic answer. "B-But we no find temple entrance!"
Link's oceanic-eyed gaze wandered in silent rumination.
The Deku royal family probably have access to it, he thought.
How fortunate, he added, a low grin growing.
"Skull Kid... you may just have helped me in cursing me so early in this journey."
"T-Temple for Deku only!"
The small chimpanzee's exclamation caused him to reset his grin into a curious frown, swinging his head back down to eye it below him.
"Brother went to see Deku princess to find entrance to temple b-but it no go well!" The short primate proclaimed worriedly, a similarly anxious tone to its voice. "Deku blame brother! Now they make ready to sacrifice him!"
Link's aquatic eyes widened in alarm.
Finally it all made sense.
A noble house with great power and influence that, when pushed to the brink of near extinction, immediately turn and focus blame on the first possible thing they can get their hands on.
Yeah, that sounds about right, the young Hylian thought.
I've seen enough of stuff like this to ascertain potential causes and repercussions.
But what now?
How do I respond?
"B-Brother in palace!"
The monkey's voice, so troubled and so frantic, made the narrow-eyed Link swivel his thoughtful frown down to face him.
"He and swamp in big danger!" He exclaimed, leaping up to somersault one final time. "Please help!"
"Link..."
Tatl's voice made the frowning former Kokiri curve his head 'round to eye her carefully.
"They need our help...," she murmured out, a noticeable wince in her quiet whisper. "But I don't know where to-"
He shook his head and, like magic, a confident grin re-appeared on his face; Tatl, surprised, could only blink and watch as he turned back to face the monkey. As he bent his knee to reach its small level he placed his left hand softly on its white-furred shoulder. He leant his straw-shaded head to his similarly left-handed sight as he smirked back at the little chimpanzee's worried exterior with the secured confidence he began to become so well-known for.
"Don't worry," he merely answered him with, his eyes lightly narrowing as he finished his sentence. "I'm on it."
"Woah..."
In spite of his bold claim merely moments earlier the wide-eyed Link found himself almost completely bowled over by the impressive architecture that awaited his viewing; resting merely a stone's throw away was a great fortress of timber and forest. A long and sizeable moat of water that veered off to encircle the platform he stood on sat around it, similarly as comfortable as the lily-pads and three long hardwood platforms waiting before them.
Sitting at the end of the clearing appeared to be a gate of spiked wood, manned only by two Deku Scrubs.
Even so, the frowning Link began silently...
"These Deku are far better organised than the ones we have..."
Indeed, as if to compliment his venerated thoughts, the beautiful architecture before him seemed militaristic in nature, almost as if these once-thought weak people were now the pinnacle of military strength.
"But if they've taken a false prisoner on no evidence to back their claims... then they're hardly better organised, are they."
His astute observations, though restrained as they were, gave the spectating Link all he needed to know; as he stared over at the two noticeable patches of grass he reached back for the treasured gift that the Skull Kid, and the Happy Mask Salesman, had given him.
CLICK
"Link, what are you-?"
The eerie sound of rushing water and, the sensation of a breeze within the forest he stood in filled his senses.
It was oddly familiar.
As the mask's form began to endlessly twist and shape itself to fit its new host Link let loose a sudden scream that belied the second childhood that he inhabited.
"Link?!"
Although Tatl's oddly worried call bounced off his ears he, just as before, stood next to her only this time in a completely different form; just as when the Skull Kid once cursed him with Majora's Mask's malicious magic his new shape was one of familiarity and, indeed, one of suitability. He stood in the even smaller form of a Deku Scrub; his long green cap, lower-half tunic, gloves and boots were some of the only reminders of his original shape. As always, his messy-shaped spiky blonde hair hung over his half-shut amber-shaded eyes.
"Oh...," the floating Tatl murmured out, floating next to him in realisation. He folded his arms as he turned his grinning face 'round to eye her confidently. "I forgot you had that... thing."
"Hey," he shot over as he hopped across the three long hardwood bridges before him, a small grunt escaping his round and circular mouth. "That 'thing's gonna get us in here."
"Yeah? How's that; these people are insane," the little guardian fairy batted back, pointing out the tight-knitted defence of the palace before them. "They're not gonna listen to reason if they took one of those monkeys prisoner-"
"Tatl."
The little milk-shaded pixie, surprised, could only stop her advance briefly to swing around and face him. She blinked back behind the light her form offered as he shot her yet another of his many overconfident smirks.
"Trust me." He put forward, bold and fearless.
Tatl could only let loose an escaping sigh, her eyes half-shutting in a comical deadpan as she did. "Oh joy."
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2
STOMPSTOMP-STOMPSTOMP-STOMPSTOMP
Even as the firmly-frowning Link and Tatl entered the Royal Chamber the heavy footfalls of the loyal Deku followers filled the room with a strange kind of oppressive air.
It almost felt like the second-hand air of Majora's Mask itself; as if somehow it had been here before.
"Link in what planet do you think this is a good idea...?!" The little Tatl hissed, her form whizzing lightly as she hovered around him.
He kept his narrowed eyes wandering in the direction of the large cage in the top-left of the chamber as he very slowly marched around the lit bonfire in the centre of the room, his steps directed toward the throne.
"Look what they've did to that poor animal...!"
Her tiny-voiced whisper, though true in fact and well-intentioned, did not go unnoticed; Link at last tore his amber-eyed gaze away from the heavily confined little monkey, seemingly having been roped and chained to a hardwood post.
"You think they won't do the same to you if you even talk to that monkey...?!" She continued on, her eyes widened behind her troubled form. "Link, seriously-"
He rose up one of his small Deku-shaped hands to silence her in a soft crescendo, turning his wooden head to merely grin back at her.
"I know what I'm doing," he threw over his shoulder, lowering his arm as he did. "Just trust me on it."
Although doubtful, and anxious enough to prove it, Tatl could only stifle her angered and impatient response, her will having been thrown in with her temporary partner's.
Even as the frowning Link reset his expression in his advance however, he stepped up to the hardwood podium and faced the dancing form that awaited him; a grand sight indeed, it appeared to be the one leading the festivities and, of course, their leader.
The proof of which came in the great oak crown on his head as well as the leafy sceptre in his grip. As Link found his gaze pulled toward it he narrowed his topaz-shaded eyes carefully, finding what appeared to be a Deku Nut lodged in the top end of it.
This was definitely the Deku King.
"A-Ah... Sire...?"
The unsure and doubtful voice to the frowning Hero of Time's right appeared to be the Deku monarch's right-hand; a kind of servant for the royal family and his outlook appeared indeed to suit him. He wore his pom-pom fashioned hair in two royal leaves upon his crown's two sides. The well-trimmed moustache that rested across his face appeared also to be two leaves.
Is it just me or are the Deku a bit better looking in Termina, the frowning Link thought silently.
"Hm...?"
The blinking rumble of the deep bass at last commanded the similarly-faced Link's attention; he swung his spiky-haired head in the king's direction and stared back, unflinching and unafraid.
"Huh...," the large king murmured, his likewise gold-shaded eyes looking the youth's small and unimpressive form up and down. "I've not seen your face around here before..."
The little Deku furrowed his brow as he watched the much older man's eyes for some form of weakness.
Is he being commanded to do this, he wondered.
"Or is all this just one hell of a misunderstanding?"
"Are you visiting?"
"Yeah," Link answered, his confident grin soon re-forming on his expression. "I come from..."
His mind very quickly worked on the spot for some kind of excuse.
"The Lost Woods."
The Deku King, surprised and sceptical, could only swing his large-crowned head to eye his butler; the thinner-formed Deku Scrub merely nodded his head, perhaps somehow in knowing.
It wasn't a lie, after all.
It's just not exactly where I'm from, he added in a sly little grin.
"Hmph!" The Deku King shot back, swivelling his head back 'round to narrow his eyes and point his large sceptre at the youth. "Normally I wouldn't allow the likes of you into these great halls!"
Oh is that right, the little Hero of Time ruminated on, a cheeky smirk growing as he placed a hand on his right hip.
"But today...," the large-crowned noble began lowly, his amber-eyed gaze narrowing as it 'rounded to his right. He pointed his royal rod directly at the prison they had fashioned for the poor little chimpanzee, fury and hatred within his eyes. "Is different!" His deep bass boomed, his hateful-gazed eyes widening with his words. "We're just about to punish this heathenous little primate!"
One of Link's eyebrows shot up, half in curiosity and the latter in light amusement.
"Heathenous ain't a word, oh wise king."
He had much better sense than to say this out loud however.
"He has insulted this noble and royal blood!" The king continued, his angry scowl giving voice to his livid sentiments. "We'll show him what it means to cross the aristocratic family of warriors!"
The listening Link very quickly found his grin falling in favour of a much more careful frown; he tilted his similarly wooden head as he stared back at the larger man.
This guy was dangerous, he thought.
Put any normal whacko on a podium and he'll get maybe one, two people, tops.
Put a charismatic one on a podium and give him a little influence and power, however...
Completely different story; he had seen it time and again through his hardened quest in his homeland.
"That foolish little ape is languishing there in his cell!" The Deku King shot out with as he swung his Deku Nut sceptre 'round to point directly at the cage next to them. "Go and ridicule him!" He ordered; like magic, the hardwood's cage slowly creaked to life, and the frowning Link's narrow-eyed gaze found it enraptured by it.
It would appear that, though the Deku King carried a lot of sway with his name, he also had some strength of Aegir.
Best to just be respectful, he thought warily.
He bowed in a form of admiration, briefly shutting his amber-shaded eyes as he did.
"Thank you... your majesty."
"Okay, now what?"
Link elected to ignore the impatient and restless Tatl, frowning heavily as he focused his brow-furrowed gaze on the struggling and grunting little monkey. He exchanged a few quick glances with the ritual-like dance that the Deku King and his beguiled soldiers were operating with before wincing in his newly-gained scowl and shaking his blonde-haired head as he did.
It'd be impossible to break the monkey free, he thought.
So what can I do?
There has to be something I can do.
"Y-You over there!"
Link's brow-furrowed and narrow-eyed frown soon both widened as he swung his head back up to eye the grunting little chimpanzee, half-surprised at the words that it uttered.
"H-How did you get in here?!" He gasped out, seemingly shocked somehow.
Wordlessly Link cast his frown and one of his small fingers in the direction of the opened doorway that the Deku King had previously offered him.
"D-Did my brothers ask you for help...?!" The little simian gasped out, his eyes widening.
At least he's starting to work it out now, the frowning Deku thought. He nodded in silent acquiesce, his suspicious-eyed gaze rarely leaving the rambunctious wooden sultan.
His paranoid half niggled at his head continually about the unpredictable king.
He's a Powder Keg, essentially, the youth thought; liable to go off at anyone for anything.
"J-Just try to cut this rope somehow!" The small monkey gasped out, his form very quickly halting from its earlier flailing and struggling, presumably in an attempt to not draw any more attention. Soon realising his request seemed in futile however, given the little Deku's apparent lack of equipment. "Argh...! It's hopeless!" The nameless monkey gasped out, his form lowering, as if in despair. "Not even the princess' Deku Pipes can save me now..."
The listening Hero of Time's ears perked up and, at last, he tore his topaz-shaded eyesight away from the dancing Deku King in realisation.
If I can't free him, he began silently in thought.
"Then this'll be the next best thing!"
In a surprising flash indeed the large brass tubes of the Deku's people came out; his Deku's form of the holy Ocarina of Time. The little chimp widened his eyes in sheer shock and gasped as he began to struggle once more, his morale regained.
"Y-Yes...!" He hissed out, his eyebrows rising up in energy with the rest of his small form. "T-Those pipes! Incredible!" He exclaimed on before, very soon, settling down briefly as if to take in his new companion's form. "By the way...," he began, an appreciative look drawn across his white-furred face. "Just who are you...?"
In a mixture of impatience, bewilderment and even lack of awareness the monkey appeared to possess, Link found his form failing him and dropped to the ground in a comical grunt, the brass pipes he carried letting out a similarly amusing cry.
Unfortunately for the trio of heroes however the Deku King, in mid-dance, appeared to turn around to spy on them in a suspicious-eyed gaze indeed; whether it was the noise that escaped Link's Deku Pipes or the sheer movement that caused it was left to be seen.
"Yo...!"
Tatl's worried hiss made the pair of males swing their heads in her direction.
"Get moving...!" She whispered out, her nerves taking a hit from the growing dangerousness of their situation. "He's looking over here!"
"Oh no...!" The little monkey gasped out, eyes widened as they locked directly with the narrow-eyed Deku monarch's. He swung his head almost as quickly back 'round to speak once more however. "J-Just listen to me and don't speak; we don't have time!" The little nameless simian hissed out frantically, eyes widened. "I figured out that there was some kind of connection between the recent poison infestation within the swamp and the appearance of that weird kid with the mask!"
He's talking about the Skull Kid, Link ruminated on wordlessly. He nodded obediently and furrowed his brow.
"The princess; I-I couldn't turn her away...!" He hissed out, shaking his furred head. "Sh-She was insistent! Wanted to investigate with me!"
Suddenly this is starting to make sense, the listening Hero of Time thought.
No doubt they got divided from each other somehow and, in his anger, he turned on the only remaining suspect.
"No matter how flimsy the evidence."
"W-We got separated!" He gasped out desperately, sweat forming on his brow as he spoke hurriedly. "He's not gonna listen to me! I need you to do this for me!"
Although he remained at the head of a Deku Pipe the listening Link grinned behind it and merely nodded back at him; a wordless assertion.
"Y-You're gonna need this melody to open the way to Woodfall!" The little nameless monkey called out, not even bothering to hide the volume of his voice anymore.
As a result, the entire force of the Deku military all stared back at them.
"U-Um... L-Link..."
Tatl's gulping and obviously anxious call was enough to make the frowning Link hurry the exchange along. He nodded, knowing full well a fight was rapidly approaching.
"Open your ears and listen hard!" The monkey exclaimed. "This... is the Sonata of Awakening!"
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3
DAWN OF THE SECOND DAY
-48 Hours Remain
"That was certainly intense."
Although he had run what felt like a country mile and was fit enough for it, the young Hero of Time gasped back.
But it was a gasp of victory.
"Hell yeah," he grinned over at her, still within his tiny Deku shape. "Next time... you wanna doubt me...?" He managed out mid-huff and gasp as he walked around Woodfall's many bridges and platforms. "I'll just bring... this up!"
The listening Tatl merely rolled her eyes as she usually did in following the blonde youth. "Yeah... whatever."
Taking her irked tone as some sense of silent victory, Link chuckled quietly to himself as he dove into one of the many small Deku Flowers to burst out and fly toward the final platform; a hardwood creation of great design. Indeed, even its front was given the same colours that seemed apparent across the royal palace and, to match, a single podium marked with the symbol of a Deku Scrub itself sat in the centre. As the young Hero of Time dropped onto the dais he narrowed his eyes forward at the great expanse of the infected swamp before him.
Strangely, a large pair of two trees jutted out from deep inside the contaminated poison of the bog beneath it merely some yards away from his position.
"I imagine that's probably it," Tatl at last spoke once more, giving voice to young Hylian's wordless thoughts. "Woodfall Temple."
"Not yet."
Surprised, Tatl swung her milk-shaded head 'round to raise a curious eyebrow.
"Remember what he said?" The little Deku reminded her, raising his own eyebrow as he did before soon swivelling back 'round to narrow his eyes forward. "There's only one way to wake it up."
"Ah!" She exclaimed, eyes widening in realisation. "The Sonata of Awakening!"
Sure enough the large brass pipes of the Deku shot up from inside of the youth's inventory and, with them, the sacred melody of the woodland royal family.
When the last low-toned whine echoed out from the instrument Link carried it didn't take very long at all for the mechanisms beneath them to begin their reaction.
RUMBLE-RUMBLE-RUMBLE...
"W-Woah!"
Although the wide-eyed Tatl found her hovering wavering enough that she had to lean on the resolute form of her partner, Link's stance remained adamant; he glared forward and waited with an uncharacteristic patience that seemed to surprise even the watching little guardian fairy.
At last, however, the huge temple that rested beneath the poisoned marshland began to rise up from below.
"T-There it is!"
Along with Tatl's excited call came the polluted water that it was no doubt infested with; as the building rose up, its full form had at last been revealed.
Woodfall Temple now stood before them.
"Okay..."
Link's, although quiet voice, managed to startle the bewildered little Tatl; she held back a gasp as she swivelled her form 'round to face him.
"The last time that monkey saw the Deku princess was in there," he claimed, his head held low as he nodded it forward, as if to point it out. She blinked back at him as he 'rounded his newfound grin on her, his overconfidence returning in spades. "You ready?"
In spite of her earlier shock she attempted to shake it off by pulling herself off of the little Deku's form. "Y-Yeah!" She exclaimed out. "Let's go!"