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Chapter 2: The Great Deku Tree

I looked up at the ominous tree. I got on one knee, showing my respect. The tree seemed to heave out a chuckle. "Rise, boy," it said, giving all it could of a smile. "Link, I require your blade, and your help," said the Deku Tree, "for you see, I have been given a most terrible curse. I need you to travel within me, and break the source of that dreadful curse. When you have found your way to my roots, you have found the source. This will not be easy, however, young one. Dost thou havith the courage to undertake this task?" I gave him a nod. I wouldn't let the Great Deku Tree down.

It gave another tree-smile. "Very well then," it said, opening it's 'mouth'. "Link," it continued, "travel within me. Listen to Navi's words of wisdom. And Navi, wherever Link should go, let him protect you, and let yourself guide his path with your wide knowledge." Navi fluttered. "Yes, Great Deku Tree," she chimed out.

I stepped inside the alrge tree's mouth. I was inside the Great Deku Tree! The realization hit me like a brick. I smiled.

As I continued onwards, I found myself confronting three large, snapping plants. I leaped back as one lunged for me. "Navi, what is that thing?" I asked unsurely, staying at a safe distance. She got in close. "It's a Deku Baba. They like to snap at you. Hit it right after it lunges and it's neck with go stiff!" she said in her tiny voice.

I nodded. I rolled in. As the Deku Baba lunged, I jumped to the side, slapping it's face with the blunt of the Kokiri Sword. It stood upright, paralized by the impact. I took the opportunity, slicing through it's head, and watching an odd purple juice spill out onto the floor. "Gross..." I said. I took the strange stick that had come from it's neck, and repeated the process with the second one, taking another stick.

I approached the third. "I'm getting pretty good at this," I said, sliding down into my newfound ready stance. I jumped at it, slashing with my blade at it's head. However, this time, it didn't become paralized. This time, it shook it's head, and lunged out again. I barely managed to block with the Deku Shield. I stabbed forward with my sword, catching it in the face. It recoiled in pain, and died.

I examined the web in the middle of the floor next. "Hmmm..." I said, "Navi, what is this?" The fairy shook her small shoulders, her light illuminating her movements."It looks kinda like you could break it. And look, there's an area below. Maybe if we go to the top level, you can jump off and snap it?" she offered. I nodded, and took off.

I found I could climb the vines with ease, and did so, traversing the wall up to the second floor. I found a treasure chest, and opened it to find a map. "The Deku Tree has a map?" I wondered aloud. The fairy knocked me on the head. "Focus!" she said irritably, "who cares? It's how things go. Let's go that way. You need something to take these thigns off the wall before you can climb."

I went past the chest, walking into a room with a plant in the middle. As I stepped forward, the plant shot up, and fired a Deku Nut at me. I managed to grab the nut in mid air. It fired another, and I reflected it with my shield, letting the nut hit the shrub right in the face. "I know what you are already," I said, "you're a Deku Shrub. I'll let you live, if you give me some valuable information." She shrub happily accepted. "Master!" it said, "if you jump from the top level to the web below, don't try to control your movements. Just let yourself fall to gain momentum, otherwise, it won't break." I nodded, letting the shrug go. "You've done well. I'll see to it that your Queen does not live to punish you. Go find a nice life for yourself, OK?" I smiled at it, and it gave me a smile back. "I shall," it said, dissappearing into the ground.

I continued into the next room. As I jumped upon the hovering stone, it began to shake violently. I yelped, and ran forward, jumping up and grabbing the edge of the uprising, pulling ymself up before I fell with it.

Curiously, I looked into the chest in front of me. It's contents consisted of only one thing. A slingshot. "L-Link.." said Navi, "that's a Fairy Slingshot. They're extremely rare, said to be built by the finest fairy crafters in the world. It's rumored that they never ware out... amazing..."

I looked oddly at the slingshot. I saw a ladder hanging, stucking by a piece of web to a wall above the engrovement I had entered from. "I trust you Navi," I said, sliding a piece of seed from the bag I had found with it. "Hit the mark..." I muttered softly, letting the seed fly. It flew perfectly, in a straight line, not straying one inch from where I had aimed. The seed hit the ladder, and knocked it down, allowing me a way out. I pocketed the seed bag and the slingshot in Saria's pouch, and left the room hurriedly.

I came once more to the place where the skull-like spiders hung on the walls. "Skullwalltula's," said Navi, "they'll only attack if you're on the wall. Take them out with your slingshot." I nodded, knocking the spiders off the wall. I found that they depended on the wall for not only support, but life. Once detatched, they immediately died from lack of food, their tiny bodies needing constant life support.

I climbed valiantly up the wall. As I reached the top, I made my way into a room. Immediately, the door shut intself behind me, and locked itself with bars. I growled. "Damn," I said, not really minding cursing in front of Navi.

I ventured forward, stepping onto a switch. Small platforms raised up, and I jumped across them, reaching the other side of the depression in the 'land'. I opened the chest, and found a compass. "This points to wherever you need to go next in the dungeon. Handy, hmm?" said Navi cheerfully, "you know, you're getting kind of fun to hang around."

I made my way back to the other side by simply jumping down and climbing up at the other end. Once there, I pulled one of the wierd Deku Sticks I had aquired from the Deku Baba's earlier. I lit to the tip on fire, and lit a torch there. As I had thought, the bars sprung upward, and didn't come back down. I blew out the stick, and put it back in the pouch.

Once back outside, I took the time to stretch. "Wow, this is a nice workout. I think I may have built a bit of muscle, or at least I will have," I said jokingly. Navi giggled. "Lets.. let's just.. concentrate on the mission," she said between giggles.

I stepped forward, but found that a giant version of the Skullwalltula dropped in front of me. "Hurry, when it turns around, jump at it and cleave it in half," yipped Navi. I nodded, doing so as the thing got a little scared, and turned around. It fell in half, a green goo leaking from it's wound. I pulled some small lumps off it's back. "Wow... these look kinda like ammo for my Slingshot?" I said. I opened up the bag of ammo, and put in as many as I could before shutting it, and sliding it back in the bag.

As I prepared for my leap of faith, I remembered the scrubs words from earlier. I took a few steps back, and leaped forward, letting myself freefall. As I hit the web, it bend inward, and eventually snapped under my pressure. I fell down, coming into contact with water. I smiled, getting out, and killing the Deku Baba in front of my quickly. I ripped off it's head, and pulled out the nut inside. Those were Deku Nuts, I had remembered, and they let off a flash when tossed at the ground.

I jumped up onto an uprising in the room, and stepped on a switch in the ground. This time, instead of raising platforms, it lit a torch. I pulled out my used Deku Stick, and lit it. I dashed for the web across the room, and lit it on fire, burning it away.

I continued through the next room, learning that I had to defeat an upcoming trio of Deku Scrubs in a particular order. "Navi," I said as we entered the next room. "2, 3, 1. I know, Link," she said, "I'm only temporary, but I'm still your partner for now." I chuckled. "You're a cool fairy, know that?"

In the next room, I dived down and hit a switch to lower the water level of the room. I found that it lowered the platform crossing back and forth, and used the platform like a boat, crossing to the other side. Once there, I killed the Skulltula that was waiting for me, and pushed the block over. I leaped on top of it, and used it to jump up and grab a ledge to continue on.

In the next room, I shot a Skulltula out of it's waiting place with my slingshot, and killed it. Suddenly, Navi let out a loud, "Hey!" I lookd at her, and she pointed up with her tiny hand. I looked up, and noticed eggs on the ceiling. "Those are... Gohma's Eggs..." she said, a chill seeming to go down her spine. I used my hand to pull her close. "You can hide in my hat. I'll call you out if I need you. Plus, you can lift it up and look if you need to," I offered. She agreed, and flew up, into my hat, settling down on my head.

I aimed carefully. Three shots were let fly. "YES!" I shouted out, jumping up. "Navi, I got em. They didn't even hatch," I said. She peeked out, and flew out of my hat. "Alright," she said, "now.. light that torch and run for that hallway."

I did so, lighting the web on fire at the end of the hallway. I blew out my torch again, and put it back in the sac. I crawled into the hole, and on the other side, found myself on the previously unreachable section of the room I had fallen into. It had a web in the center, and it had a large block. I pushed the block along a path over the ledge, and used it as a stepping stone. I brought up the fire from the already lit torch, and lit the floor web on fire with my Deku Stick. The stick went out ont he fall down, and I sheathed it on the way. Once I hit the water, I picked up a small heart floating there, and squeezed it. With a pop, it broke, and I felt revitalized.

I looked up. Three Deku Scrubs. "2, 3, 1," I repeated quitely. They all shot up, shooting Deku Nuts at me. I reflected them all at the second one, and it became surrounded in a blue field, unable to move. I repeated the process with 3, then 1. I ran up to one, and it grumbled. "Knew our secret... grr... anyway... I suppose to thank you for sparing me, I'll tell you... how to defeat Queen Gohma... you will never administer the Coup De Grace unless you strike when her eye glows red... OH QUEENIE. I'M SORRY!" The shrug ran off, dissolved into tears. I walked forward, and found myself in another room...

Around me, rooms descended from the ceiling. "This is it..." I said, walking forward, and looking up at the ceiling. "Navi, you may want to hide," I said, looking at the glowing eyes as it stared back at me. "No," she said.

The thing blinked at me, and charged, landing directly in front of me. I pulled out the Kokiri Sword and Deku Shield, ready to fight it. Navi shot up by it's eye. "Parasitic Armored Arachnic, Queen Gohma," said Navi, "it's eye is the weak spot. Go!"

I threw a Deku Nut into the ground, and the large parasite became stunned. I jumped up, andcame down on it's eye, doing double the impact. It turned, and ran up the wall. I aimed steadily, and shot it's eye as it glowed red. Once I did that, it fell on it's head. I ran over, and slashed furiously with my blade. Finally, with a loud shriek, purple blood began to shoot out of it's eye. It fell to the ground, and slowly dissolved into a puddle of nothing. I turned from the beast, and walked into the shining blue light, sheathing my sword and shield as I felt myself being pulled up...

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