Hero's Helper

Ch. 3

"What's in there?"

"How should I know Mido?'" Link looked over to Mary-Eileen, "Any guesses?"

"..."

"Mary-Eileen?" Link sounded concerned. She had not talked much since she and Mido were separated from Link. What's more, Mido wasn't talking about it much either.

"... monster probably..."

"M-monster... are you sure...?" Mido began to shake as he looked nervously towards the door, "H-hey! What are you doing!" Mary-Eileen walked up to the door and began pushing on it.

"... opening it..."

"Mary-Eileen... is something wrong? You're not yourself..." Now Link was worried. His friend was acting strangely. What's more, she didn't even seem to notice that her hand was bleeding quite a bit since beginning to push the door.

"... I'm fine..."

"But you're not acting like it! Plus you're bleeding!"

"... doesn't matter..."

"But-!"

Before he could continue to argue the door shifted and opened wide. As it opened Mary-Eileen ran into the newly opened room.

"Wait!"

When Link and Mido ran after her they made it into a fairly large room with pillars it was round with a high ceiling. As the three were all in the room the door slammed shut behind them.

"W-what? Now we're trapped! What do we do now!" Mido was freaking out.

"Look!" Link pointed up to the ceiling.

On the ceiling was a huge creature with a big glowing eye. From what seemed to be the top of his head legs were coming out. It dropped down from the ceiling in front of the children. It whole weight seemed to be supported by one leg as it stood tall. With one of its massive legs it swiped at the children, Mido was knocked back against the wall and out cold, Link had managed to dodge as well as Mary-Eileen, but she had tripped in the process.

"That's Queen Gohma! Watch out for her arms!" Navi was flying around like crazy trying to distract the armoured arachnid.

"How do we defeat it?" Link asked the fairy.

"I don't know! Look for its weak spot!"

"I don't know where it is!" Link yelled.

"Well I don't know either!" Navi yelled back.

Gohma continued to swing her arms around then turned her attention to Mary-Eileen who was trying to get away from the swinging arms.

"Look out!" Link had tried to warn her, but it was too late, Gohma had pinned her to the ground.

"..." She managed to turn her body so she was facing the monster.

"Mary-Eileen! Look out!" Navi was flitting around even faster now.

Link was about to take aim with his slingshot when he saw her lips moving. He couldn't make out what she was saying but as soon as she finished whatever she was saying, a small explosion appeared in front of Gohma and the force of the blast threw the monster back, freeing Mary-Eileen. She got up looked over at Link, who was looking at Gohma with shock.

"It's eye!" This sudden out burst from Mary-Eileen shocked Link back to reality.

"What?"

"It's eye-" Hearing it's weak point being revealed by Mary-Eileen, Gohma was determined to stop any more secrets from being revealed. Gohma had rushed her knocking her down again. It lifted a leg up and was about to slam it down upon her when a sudden pain shot through it's body. Link had shot the monster's eye. In theory this was to help Mary-Eileen to get away, but when it was hit, Gohma fell forward, almost crushing her. She had managed to get mostly out of the way, but Gohma's leg still hit her and pinned her again.

"Link! The Sword!" Navi was floating around the Kokiri Sword Mido had dropped when Gohma hit him.

"Right!" Link, having grabbed the sword ran over to the still stunned Gohma plunged the sword into the creature's eye. A loud, high-pitched almost unearthly sound then erupted from Gohma. Gohma started to flail its arms around knocking Link back into one of its webs that covered a proton of the wall.

"H-hey! I'm stuck! Mary-Eileen! Can you help me to get down?" Link looked over to the still flailing Gohma, Mary-Eileen hadn't moved since being pinned. Although Gohma's leg was now off she still didn't move at all, "Is she ok?"

""Listen!"

"Not now Navi. She might be badly hurt!"

"No, I mean listen, be quite."

Link, doing as Navi said, stopped talking and listened. He then heard Mary-Eileen's voice as she seemed to be singing. Oddly enough, there seemed to be music playing, "Music? How can this be? There are no instruments here..." The music was of a Celtic-like origin, but at the same time it wasn't. There was the faint sound of tambourines, drums, violins and a piano could be heard coming from her. Upon listening closer she was adding words to the music. Although not audible, the voice could be heard. It didn't belong to her though. It sounded older than the ten year old it was coming from, more mature and well controlled. The sound seemed to causing Gohma even more pain than the sword sticking out of its eye. Finally one of Gohma's legs hit a pillar that caused a piece of the ceiling to fall hard on the sword that was still sticking out, driving it in deeper and finally destroying the monster responsible for hurting the Deku Tree. With Gohma's destruction the music seemed to stop.

"What just happened?"

"What are you doing up their Link?"

"Huh?" Link looked over to see Mido finally waking up from being knocked out at the beginning of the fight, "Mido? You're awake!"

"Yeah... what happened to the monster?" He was clueless as to what just happened.

"I'll tell you later, just get me down ok?"

"Sure." Mido grabbed Link's leg and pulled him down from the sticky webbing that held him down. Once he was free to move around Link ran to Mary-Eileen to see if she was alright.

"Hey! Mary-Eileen! Are you ok?"

"..yeah..." She said as she got up and looked at her hand.

"Does it hurt?"

"Come on! Let's get out of here! Before more monsters come."

"Mido. She's hurt. Look at her hand." Link as he turned to Mido.

"What are you talking about?" Linked looked over to Mary-Eileen who was looking at Link with a perplexed look on her face.

"But you hand-"

"Is fine. Should there be something wrong with it?" She showed it to him. There was no cut or even blood.

Both Mido and Link were shocked.

"What's with you two?" She looked at them like there were insane. "I'm gonna get out of here, you two can come if you want to. I'd leave if I were you two." She turned to leave through the door she had opened to get to that room in the first place.

"Mido. What happened. I know just as well as you do that her hand was cut. What happened in that room!" Link turned to the self proclaimed leader of the Kokiri.

"...nothing!" Mido stormed out of the room leaving Link alone.

"That was weird." Navi floated around Link's head.

"Yeah. I'll ask her later. She's more talkative when Mido's not around anyway. Let's go!"

Once outside all the Kokiri were gathered around the Great Deku Tree as Mido, Link and Mary-Eileen ran out the hole in his side.

"Great Deku Tree! We defeated the monster that was hurting you! You'll be okay now!" Link yelled up to the giant tree.

"..." there was no reply.

"What's wrong? Why are acting cold Deku Tree?" Mary-Eileen looked up to him.

"... Link, what's wrong? What happened?" Saria walked up to the trio and looked at her friends with a hopeful yet worried look in her eyes.

"... Saria..." He began.

"Link, Navi, Mary-Eileen, Mido. I thank you. But your help has come too late. For the evil inside burrowing inside me had sealed my fate long before I was able to send for your help. Listen well. The man who cursed me wanted a precious object from me. My refusal to give it to him was the reason I was attacked. Link, take this to the princess within the castle across the field. It was what the man from the desert wanted."

With that, a green gem with gold trim that started with a pointed tip that ended in a spiral in front of the gem floated down from the tree's leaves down to Link.

"This is the Kokiri's Emerald. Take it, and a shield I want you to make form my remains and go to Princess Zelda in Hyrule Castle... as well Link, take Mary-Eileen with you. Her magic could be of use to you. Navi, please guide them there..."

"Remains! You can't leave!" Mary-Eileen yelled to the tree.

"Good... bye... everyone..."