A/N: Well, hee we ae, inside the first dungeon. I had to alter it a bit since Mareep can't climb vines. I hope it's good enough.
Disclaimer: If I owned any of this, I wouldn't be struggling to pay the bills.
Chapter 4: Saving the Deku Tree! Link VS. Galvantula!
Link looked around him, noticing that the entire dungeon was made of wood. He saw that there was two ways to get further up, the ladder, and then there was several ledges that he could jump to get up. He walked over to the ledges and jumped onto the first one, Navi spouting something about using them to get higher. He jumped onto the next ledge before jumping onto the top, running over to the chest when he heard scratching.
"What's that noise?" He asked. Navi flew up to get a better look.
"It's Spinarak, a Spider Pokemon. These are relatively weak by themselves, but they can be pests when in a group. You'll need a better long-range attack to take care of them, Link." The fairy said
Link nodded and opened the chest, pulling out a map.
"That's a map of the dungeon! You can use it to see where you have and haven't been. The places you've been will be blue, and the places you haven't will be black. As you visit more rooms, the map will slowly fill up completely. However, it's useless by itself. To see where you are on the map, you'll need a Compass." Navi said.
Link nodded and continued further along the path, jumping the gap and coming to the door.
"Wait!"
Link stopped. "What Navi?" he asked.
"You should be careful when opening doors. You never know when there's a trap waiting behind them. Be ready to put up your Protect barrier at a moment's notice." Navi instructed.
Link nodded and pushed against the door, causing it to fly up. He dashed in and the door closed behind him, locking with a portcullis. In the middle of the room was a bed of leaves with some sticking up. Occasionally, an Oddish would emerge. The Grass Pokemon spotted Link and shot some seeds at Link, who dodged them and ran up close. The Oddish, spooked, dove back into the leaf bed before Link could attack.
"What do I do?" He asked Navi.
"As strange as this may sound, I think you're supposed to use Protect to deflect those seeds back at Oddish." She said. Link sighed and backed up and waited for Oddish to re-emerge. After it did and shot some seeds at him, Link erected the Protect barrier, and the seeds bounced back at Oddish somehow, hurting it enough to push it out of the bed. Link ran up and, after getting an idea, stood on the leaf bed. The Oddish ran around and eventually made a return trip to the leaf bed, only to be shocked that Link stood on it. After apologizing for attacking and giving some advice, it ran off. The doors unlocked and Link continued his trek through the tree.
In the next room, he saw a hovering platform that would allow him to get to the ledge on the other side. He jumped on the platform and felt it start to give way, so he dashed to the other side before it fell to pieces. Panting, he opened the chest and found a sling he could use with his tail. Along with it was a container of seeds.
"That's a Sling, Link! You can swing it with your tail to shoot those seeds at your foes. Those should be good enough to take out the Spinarak." Navi said. Link nodded and turned to leave, only to see that he had no way back.
"How do I get out of here? There's no path!" Link yelled. Navi sighed.
"Look again, hero! See that ladder somehow floating against the wall up there? You might be able to shoot it down with your Sling." Navi said.
Link nodded and loaded his Sling before swinging it with his tail. He took aim as he swung his tail faster before he shot the seed at the ladder, hitting it and knocking it to the ground.
"Good job, Link! Now you can cloimb that ladder and leave this room."
Link nodded and jumped down, climbing the ladder and leaving the room. He was soon back in the main room and ran to where the Spinarak were, jumping onto the first ledge before using the Sling to knock them out and continue up to the top level. Up there, he saw what looked like giant, purple spiders.
"Those are Ariados, the evolved form of Spinarak. Be careful, Link! They're much more powerful than their pre-evolved cousins. You're seeds won't take them out in one hit."
Link nodded before facing off against one, prepping his sling before shooting a seed at the spider, doing some damage and buying him enough time to re-load and shoot again, this one knocking it out. He looked over the edge and saw the golden spider web. He frowned in thought before an idea came to him.
"Link, you're not thinking of jumping onto that web, are you? You'll get fried!" Navi yelled.
"It's the only thing we can do!" Link countered before he jumped. He managed to hit the center and felt it push down before giving way, causing him to fall into the water below. He surfaced with a gasp.
"I'm alive!" Link yelled.
"Yeah, but not for much longer, because I'm going to kill you for that stunt!" Navi scolded. Link just laughed as he surfaced on the other side, where he saw a brazzier tangled in an electric net with a floor switch next to it.
"I wonder what this switch does?" Link asked. Navi looked at the brazzier, then at the anvil hanging precariously hanging over the switch.
"It must turn the brazzier on, allowing it to burn through the web. There's no way it'll cause that anvil hanging precariously overhead to fall." Navi said sarcastically. Link agreed with her and stepped on the switch, causing the brazzier to burn to life, burning the entire web away, and releasing the anvil to fall on Link in sillouette. Navi sighed. "Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn't it?"
"Anvil... hurts..." Link groaned from beneath the anvil, before he pulled himself out from under it. "Who hangs an anvil inside a tree, anyway?" He asked through a migraine.
"Probably the same person who spins webs that are coursing with lightning." Navi guessed. Link shrugged as he recovered.
"Come on, Navi, I think I have some sticks I can use to burn away that other web." Link said as he searched his wool. Navi sighed.
"Remember what happened the last time you burned away a web?" Navi asked.
The memory of an anvil falling on Link coursed through his brain before shrugging. "There's no way they'd do the same thing twice." He said confidently.
-one burned web and another fallen anvil later-
"Ok, I'll admit, I had that coming to me." Link groaned while nursing another headache. He also felt the pain of mortality as he was running out of health. He pushed through the door and saw another leaf bed. After using Protect to send the Bullet Seed back at Oddish and chasing it out of its home in exchange for advice, he looked at the locked door, noticing the eye switch.
"I'm going to guess that by shooting the switch, I'll unlock the door and cause another anvil to fall on me." Link said. He stood beside the leaf bed and shot the switch, opening the door. he also heard the distinctive sound of a bomb whistle as his shadow suddenly grew bigger. His eyes got wide and he started scrambling around, the shadow following him. After a little while he shrugged and created a Protect barrier, the anvil bouncing off the dome harmlessly and hitting the ground.
"See? I learn." he said smugly as he dismissed the barrier, only to get struck by lightning.
"... How the hell can there be lightning inside a tree?" Link yelled as smoke came out of his mouth. Navi shrugged.
"Just one of those mysteries." She said. Link went through the door and saw something that made his eyes widen. A wide pool with a bunch of floating platforms and a rotating, spiked log in the middle.
"Ok, this is just &*$%# up!" He said. Navi bashed him on the head.
"Language, Link!" She scolded. Link looked around the scenario and saw a switch at the bottom of the pool. He looked at the right-side corner of what would be a scren and saw he had half of a heart left.
"Once I use up all my oxygen, I can stay under for another 4 seconds. Great." He sighed and jumped into the water. swimming over to where the switch was before submerging. He pushed the switch down and swam back to the surface, gasping for breath as he saw the water level was lower. He swam back to shore and ran to the edge at the top, jumping onto the first platform. He continued this Platforming until he made it across. He found a box he could push and walked up to it.
"Link, you can push this box by pressing the A Button and pushing the control stick forward. By pressing the control stick forward before pressing A, you can climb on top of the box." Navi said. LInk looked at Navi like she was crazy.
"What the hell's an A Button? For that matter, what the heck's a control stick?" He asked. Navi shrugged.
"I don't know. For some reason I felt compelled to say that." She said. Link shrugged and pushed the box until he couldn't push it anymore. After dispatching the Ariados blocking the way, he climbed up and went into the next room, where he saw a Bellsprout, a brazzier and two torches. After dispatching the Bellsprout, he lit a stick and lit the two torches, unlocking the way forward without causing an anvil to fall. In the next room, he dispatched the Ariados before noticing three eggs attached to the ceiling.
"Navi, what are those eggs?" he asked.
Navi frowned. "I think they're Joltik eggs. Be careful." She said. Link nodded. He knew all too well that he had a penchant for getting into accidents. He walked into the main room, causing the eggs to fall and hatch into Joltiks. He sighed and fought them off before lighting a stick and burning a web, this one also not holding a web in the air. He walked through and crawled through the hole, emerging back in the room that started it all.
"This looks familiar." Link said.
Navi sighed. "We've gone in a circle and are now on the higher ledge. You should push the box down so we can access the torch, Link." She said. Link nodded and did just that, lighting another stick and using it to burn away the webbing before he jumped down into the water. He surfaced and used the advice he got from the oddish (2 3 1, 23 is number 1.) to open the way to the bosses room, after getting a hint to her defeat. He opened the door and walked into the boss room.
After entering the room's central chamber, a slab of stone fell, covering the entrance and blocking all escape. The boss was moving about on the ceiling, and only after meeting her eyes with his own did she come down. She got onto her four hind legs and got into a very fierce fighting pose, showing off her pincers. After a second of this, she lowered herself and scurried closer before raising back onto her hind legs to try to poison Link. He was ahead of her and had gotten a seed ready, shooting it into her left eye, cusing her to be brought to the ground in pain so he could follow up with an Iron Tail that had little effect.
"What happened?" Link asked.
"Galvantula is part Electric! Iron Tail's power is cut in half against that, since Steel isn't strong against Electricity!" Navi explained. Link managed to get another hint in before she recovered, scurrying away and climbing the wall. She scurried along the ceiling before stopping within distance of Link's Sling. She got ready to lay eggs, so Link shot her in her right eye, knocking her down again as he charged in with an Iron Tail Combo that weakened her to near fainting. She recovered and climbed back up the wall to try to lay more eggs. After bringing her back down with another seed to the eyes, Link finished her off with one final Iron Tail. She gave a screech of pain as the curse placed on her dissolved, shrinking her down slightly and absolving her of any evil. The curse on the Deku Tree was also broken. Galvantula gave Link a Heart Container in thanks for releasing her from the spell placed on her, and opened a portal out of the dungeon. Link took the container and left the tree, vanishing in a flash of light.
To be Continued...
A/N: Whew! That's the longest chapter I've ever done! I hope you like the work I did to get you this. Please read and review.