Hero's Helper

Ch. 2

As the three began their journey into the Great Deku Tree it wasn't until they were deep into him that the trio finally saw how big the Deku Tree really was. What ever had entered him began to carve out the inside of the forest guardian. Along the walls there appeared to be a track that spiralled up, and on the floor a smaller hole covered with some sort of web.

"Huh? What's this?" Mary-Eileen walked over to the webbing over the hole and tried to rip it open.

"What are you doing?! Can't you see what's been done to the Deku Tree?!" Mido yelled.

"Of course I can! But how do you propose we reverse it?" She turned and looked up at the top of the cavity now carved into the Tree.

"W-well... I..."

"There's no time for fighting you too." Link stepped in between Mido and Mary-Eileen, "We have to stop whatever did this before it spreads too far."

"Yeah... well fine." Mido began to sulk, "How do we stop it?"

"The Deku Tree mentioned a beast inside if himself. If we can stop it then we stop the damage. Simple."

"Simple? Simple?! What do you mean simple?!" Mido was really getting mad now.

"What I mean is its straight forward. To stop the damage, stop the source. I'm not sure how three kids will stop it, but if we want to help him then we have to." Mary-Eileen seemed surprisingly calm considering the situation at hand.

"...she's right. We have to stop the problem. Where is the monster Mary-Eileen?" Link looked at her with a great deal of determination in his eyes.

"I don't know."

"What?!! You say all that yet you have no idea where it is!!!" Mido was basically freaking out.

"I'm not a map. So how can I find it?" She looked at Mido with an unchanged expression on her face as she began to walk towards the lowest part of the spiral track up the inside of the Tree.

"Where are you going?" Link asked.

"To find the monster of course. Kinda hard to stop the monster without first finding it, don't you think." She began climbing on top on the track that lead up the Tree.

"She has a point. Let's follow her."

"Navi?" Link looked at his fairy.

"Hey! Come on! She's already half-way up the Tree!"

"Ok ok. Man you're pushy."

"HEY!"

"Mary-Eileen? How far up are we?"

"Why do you two keep thinking I know everything?"

"Because you're really smart." Link smiled at her.

"Whatever. Now how high up are we?" Mido was intent on not being at all nice to her at all.

"I dunno, why not jump off and tell us Mido?"

"Why you-"

"Look!" Navi began to fly around erratically.

"Huh?" The three looked ahead of them.

There was a huge spider with a skull on its back. It didn't attack however. It just hung there as it didn't even notice the three children.

"Whaaa!" Mido began to scream when he saw the giant spider.

"Whoa!" Link took a few steps back.

"...a... a giant spider, huh?" She began to walk up to it.

"M-Mary-Eileen... don't go any closer..." Link tried to ask her without actually going closer.

"A-are you crazy?" Mido was shaking like a leaf.

As she got closer the skulltula began to make a scratching sound and shake. She stopped just as it turned around exposing it's underbelly.

"...not too smart...Link! Hit its belly with your slingshot, that'll kill it."

"Wha? O-ok...hey Mido how dose she know that?" He pulled aimed and released a seed. It flew over to the skulltula, hitting its belly. This caused it to fall to the ground, shake it's legs around before dying and disappearing.

"How DID she know that?" Mido was just as perplexed as Link. Mary-Eileen began to walk forward to see just what the skulltula was guarding. I was a ledge. As they had reached the top there was no way to really go, so the ledge seemed to be the end of the path.

"..." She kneeled down and looked over the ledge.

"Great! Now what! There's no way that stupid spider could have done all this to the Great Deku Tree! We've wasted precious time! Time we could have used to cut open that web at the bottom with the Kokiri Sword! I'm heading back down." Mido was furious.

"Calm down Mido. But you're kinda right, this was a little pointless, but we had to make sure the monster wasn't up here, right guys?" Link tried to justify both Mido's claim and Mary-Eileen's actions.

"...you didn't have to follow me. Besides, that sword wouldn't have cut that web. And this wasn't pointless... that skulltula had to be here for a good reason..."

"...what are you talking abou-" Mido was cut off as both he and Link saw Mary-Eileen jump off the ledge.

"...!" Link and Mido both ran to the side and looked over to see Mary-Eileen fly back up to them and then fall back down. The web functioned as a trampoline, catching her and launching he back up only to catch her again.

"Whoa!" She fell back down and was launched again.

"This is no time to play around!" Mido was even madder now, if that was even possible.

"I'm not –Playing around! Jump off! – I'm too light! –Whoa!" She was too light; all that was happening was her being thrown up and down again and again. "Come on!"

"Link, she listens to you. Tell her to sto- Link!" Link had jumped off too as Mary-Eileen was just being launched up again.

"You too Mido!" Mary-Eileen said as she came up again.

"Come on Mido!" Link was flying up too.

As Mary-Eileen flew up again she grabbed the ledge, "Uggh... At this rate I'll be sick... Listen Mido, if we all jump at the same time then we can stress out the web and break it open. Now when Link comes up we jump ok?" All this time Link was going up and down and starting to become sick too.

"...hey! what make you think I'd listen to you?! I'm the Kokiri boss! I'll tell you what to-"

"Cuccoo."

"What?!!"

"You're a cuccoo. I can see why you won't jump now. Oh well, Link and my weight may just be enough to break the-"

"I'll show you who's a cuccoo!" Mido grabbed her and then as Link was bout to go down again he, with Mary-Eileen in tow, jumped off the ledge. The three then plummeted towards the web, but this time the strain from the three at once broke it and the three fell into a pool of water at the bottom. At the bottom there was a pool of water, a high ledge and a tunnel.

"Whoa..."

Link and Mido were speechless as the three climbed onto a dry area near the tunnel.

"S-see! I'm not a cuccoo!"

"Then why were you screaming and practically in tears as we fell?"

"I was not! I'll prove I'm not a cuccoo! I'll go and kill that monster all by my self!" Mido then pushed them both down and ran into the tunnel.

"Mido! Wait!" Mary-Eileen got up and ran after him leaving Link behind.

"Mido! Mary-Eileen!" He was about to run after them when he heard a low growl coming from the ledge, "What was that..." it took a while, but Link had managed to climb up on top of the ledge to find another tunnel covered in a web, a torch and a few sticks laying on the ground, "A web... I can use this stick and the fire to burn it!"

Once the webbing was gone he began to look around to see if Mido and Mary-Eileen were back and saw a small hole in the wall on the ledge. He walked over it and crawled in to it just to see Mido sitting on the ground and Mary-Eileen standing close to the center with he back to Mido and Link. Both were covered on scratches, the Kokiri Sword was lying about two feet from Mido and the remnants of a few shells covered the ground with the rest attached to the roof.

"Mido! Are you ok?" Link ran to help Mido up who had a dumbfounded look on his face, "Mido, is something wrong?"

"...uhhh...n-no, it's nothing..." Mido walked up and picked up the sword then looked over to that hole, "Is that where you came in?"

"Yeah..." Link looked over to Mary-Eileen who still had her back turned.

"Then let's go through that, come on!" Mido then walked over and began to crawl into it. Link followed Mido then noticed Mary-Eileen wasn't following. He looked back and saw her sitting on the ground fidgeting with some of the shell fragments.

"Mary-Eileen, is something wrong?"

"Oh! No, nothing, I'm coming just go, I'll be there is a second." She didn't even turn around to look at him.

"Okay." Link had already crawled thought the hole when she came through. Mido was looking down the hole.

"Wonder what's down there..." Mido asked.

"Probably the monster... where else could it be?" Link also looked down the hole; it was so dark that all you could see was a little bit of water, "Let's climb down those vines!"

"Hey! We're missing someone!" Mido and Link were half-way down when Navi reminded them about Mary-Eileen.

"What? Mary-Eileen! You coming?"

"..."

Link noticed Mido was looking down with a sad expression on his face, "Something wrong Mido?"

"W-well... when we were in that room... we were attacked. Three monsters fell down from the ceiling and... well... she stopped them... but one of them cut her hand, really deep too. So she probably doesn't want to climb..." Mido then climbed the rest of the way down with Link. When they got to the bottom there was a nice deep pool.

"Mary-Eileen! There's a pool of water here! You can jump down!"

"Okay..." She responded in an almost in-audable tone.

"Huh? Did you say something?" Mary-Eileen jumped down and landed with a splash that soaked Mido and Link, "You ok?"

"...yeah... look!" there was some dry ground but there was only a single doorway.

"Oh yeah, let's go in there. Maybe we'll find the monster in there." Link and Mido just jumped off the vines while the three swam to the ground.

"I hope its not too big..." Mido looked nervous.

"Well it doesn't matter how big it is! We have to help the Deku Tree!"

"..."