I think this chapter is a little shorter. I hope you can forgive me.

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Link entered the clearing and gasped. The Great Deku Tree was enormous. He took a deep breath and moved forward cautiously.

"So, you have returned, Navi. And you have the boy with you. Excellent." The voice was deep, booming, unlike anything Link had ever heard.

"Yep!" Navi said brightly.

"Good. Now, Link –of course I know your name- There is a terrible curse set upon me. A dark man of the desert did it. I know what he was after. I wouldn't give it to him. Free me of this curse."

His mouth opened wide, revealing a veritable labyrinthine structure behind it. Link walked in. He climbed up a ladder. He went a ways further, and found a door. He went in. There was a treasure chest on the other side. He scrambled over to it. He opened it, and inside was a slingshot. With it was a bag full of deku seeds. He left the room, and climbed up to the top level. He saw there wasn't anymore.

"Hey! Look down there. I bet you could break that spider web from up here!" Navi exclaimed.

"You mean jump?!?"

"What else?"

Link took a deep breath, and jumped off. He hit the very center of the web, and broke through, his fall broken by a rather large quantity of water. He climbed out. Through a door, he found a deku scrub. You either had to dodge the nuts they shot, or deflect them. Knowing it would hurt him quite a lot if it failed, Link held up his shield. It bounced off, and hit the scrub in the face. Link was surprised at the durability of the shield. The scrub was cowering in a corner. Link drew his sword, and walked towards it. "Spare me!" the frightened scrub squeaked. "I'll tell you a secret! To defeat my brothers, defeat them in the order "2, 3, 1" twenty three is number one! You doubt me?" Link thanked him and left.

As he went, deeper into the Deku Tree, he found three deku scrubs. He remembered what the lone scrub had told him, and assumed that these must be the ones he was talking about. He got rid of the second one first, then moved on to the third, then attacked the first.

The first one sounded quite perturbed, as he exclaimed loudly

"Damnit! How did you figure out how to beat us? Don't kill me! I'll tell you how to defeat Queen Gohma!"

He told Link the secret, and Link proceeded into a huge room, covered in spider webs. Link looked up, and saw the gargantuan spider on the ceiling, and it dropped down. It's eye was bright red, and link shot it with his slingshot. The eye turned green, and Link hacked away at it with his sword. The spider quickly retreated to the ceiling, and Link found himself bombarded by baby Gohmas. He disposed of them, and then proceded to repeat what he had done before. Gohma was dead in no time.

Link left the Deku Tree. He beamed at the Tree, and he smiled back warmly.

"Well done, Link. You did well, though, I am going to die anyway. Listen well." He proceded to tell Link of how the three goddesses shaped the earth, and gave it life and order, and how, when they left the world, the Triforce was created. Apparently, it was the Triforce that the desert man was after. But to get it, he would have to get the three spiritual stones. One of Forest, one of Fire, and one of Water. The forest one was the one in the possession of the Great Deku Tree, and he gave it to Link.

"The fate of the world lies in your hands, Link." That was the last thing the Great Deku Tree said before he was taken by the grey embrace of death.

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That's it. I wanted to get through with this, it wasn't something I particularly wanted to do, but I didn't want to skip over it either.