A new day has approach the land of Termina and Rem wakes up from his sleep, he keeps having some strange dreams but he never know what they meant. He just ignores them for now. The Deku beds in the guest rooms aren't nearly as comfy as the ones in the Stockpot inn, but Rem respects the king's hospitality.
Rem looks down at his wooden hands and tries again to remove his face but it's still stuck. He eventually gives up trying and assumes he's stuck like this forever now. He feels like going on an adventure and trying to follow in the hero of time's footsteps as close as possible. He's nowhere near as cool or brave as Link is but he still tries to save the day.
What is he talking about?! Rem is no hero! He's just a lowly Deku scrub trying to do things way over his head just to get a good reputation and possibly rewards. Link never tries to do it because of that and only because of the kindness of his heart. But there might be some outside force that makes Link do the things he does for the rewards, but no one knows that.
Rem yawns and rubs his Deku eyes and steps into the bathroom and could actually see himself in the mirror without hopping on a stool. He still is displeased with his face. He washes his face and steps out the bathroom and outside the guest room.
He sees some Deku guards on both sides of the corridors, he continues to walk until he heads to the throne room and meets the Deku king, the king greets him, "Good morning, Rem! How was your sleep?" Rem scratches his wooden head, "Eh... ok, I suppose. I had a weird dream and that's about it."
The Deku king nods understandably, "I heard that the princess would like to go out with you." Rem's eyes goes wide, "What?" The Deku king points his staff at Rem, "I want you to guard my daughter with your life. Do you understand?" Just then the princess comes in and says, "I'll remind him, father. Are you ready, Rem?"
Rem just nods and turns around and heads to the entrance to the palace and makes sure that the Deku princess is following. He could tell if she's nearby him with the leaf rustling noises she makes. They eventually end up back at Termina field and Rem looks around to see where to go next.
He took quite a long while to decide his destination and the princess gets bored, "Make up your mind, Rem!" Rem cringes from the loudness of her voice as she shrieks those words, Rem replies, "I'm not familiar with this place so I have to analyze everything here." The Deku princess just sighs, "Could you analize faster? I'm not getting any younger."
Rem sighs as well, "Look... why not you pick where to go and I'll safely escort you good?" The princess nods, "Sounds good to me!" The deku princess looks around and pointed at an area, "There! At the beach!" Rem looks and nods, "Alright! Let's go!" Just before Rem could take off, the princess halted him, "Aren't you forgetting something?"
Rem scratches his head and then realized what she wanted... for her to be carried. Rem carries her again and she nods, "Much better. Now go!" Rem takes off to the beach area where all the zoras live...Great Bay. As they arrive, the deku princess points to where she wants to be dropped of and Rem puts her there.
She then sighs contently, "Isn't the waves beautiful, Rem?" Rem looks at them but doesn't say anything. She asks him something, "Am I being too hard on you?" Rem looks at her and scratches his head, "A little." The deku princess nods and replies, "Sorry, that's just how I was raised... I always order my servents like I order you."
Rem nods back, "Well... I do not wish to be treated like a servant. I kinda want to be treated like how Zelda treats Link." The deku princess looks at him confused, "Zelda?" Rem replies, "She's the princess of Hyrule... you could say that I am a servant to her." The princess asks, "What do you do to serve her?"
Rem sighs, "I'm just a citizen... she's just my people's princess." The deku princess nods, "Well... now that you are a deku scrub, I'm your princess now." Rem sighs a bit more sadly, "I guess..." The deku princess asks Rem concernedly, "What's wrong?" Rem replies, "It's nothing."
She doesn't approve of Rem not opening up and says, "I know it's not nothing! You better tell me!" Rem sort of angers up at her, "I said it was nothing! Geez, get off my back!" The princess angers up as well, "Don't talk to me with that tone!" Rem doesn't show any sign of calming, "Or what?!"
Neither does the princess, "Or else I'll tell my dad and you'll have a word with him!" Rem replies even more angry, "Tell him! I don't care!" With that Rem just runs off and leaving the princess behind which didn't make her happy one bit, "You're supposed to be protecting me! Get back here!"
The deku princess angrily chases after him in a pace that wasn't match for Rem and she charges into him. She then begins to jump on him crazily. Rem then shouts out, "Alright! You win! I'll tell you!" The deku princess continues to jump, "And?" Rem sighs, "I apologize for yelling at you." She still continues, "And?"
Rem pounds the ground with his wooden fist, "And you're my princess." She then gets off, "That's better. Now tell me what caused you to act like that?" Rem nods, "Ok... I just... don't like being a deku scrub." Her eyes widens, "W-why?" Rem continues, "No freedom, either you are a servant or a guard. If you are royalty, you are the king or his princess. You do not have any citizens that can have a choice in what they do?"
The princess shakes her head and her foilages rustles, "Not really... the deku butler's son is the only exception... he just hangs out with me and we have fun." She starts to tear up again as she is yet again reminded of the deku butler's son and the horrible tragedy. Rem scratches his head, "I could... um... err..." It was really hard for Rem to finish his sentence... but he did it anyway. "...take his place." The deku princess gasps and then blushes, "You want to take his place?" Rem replies unsure, "Yes?"
The deku princess just giggles, "I didn't know that you liked me that much... even if you do try to run off, maybe you are just shy." Rem haves this unsure yet slightly shocked expression in his eyes as that's the only part that can express his emotions, "Eh, what?"
She gets close to him, "I'll tell you what, if you can prove to me that you are worthy of that title, I might consider it." Rem shrugs, "Worth a try, I suppose." The princess nods, "That's the spirit!" Rem looks around, "Is your father ok with haviing you this far from the palace. It wasn't easy to get to, you know."
The deku princess replies, "What he doesn't know won't hurt and I know that you won't tell him right?" Rem nods, "Only if you don't either." Out of nowhere, something jump out from the water, some kind of fish.
Rem gets a shocked expression, "That's a huge fish!" The deku princess nods, "I believe that's the zora's guardian, Lord Jabu Jabu." Rem knows that name and says to himself, "But he was in Hyrule... did he move here after seven years?"
He ignores it and asks the princess, "I haven't gotten your name. What is it by any chance?" The deku princess just gives him a response, "If I told you, you would stop calling me princess." Rem shakes his head, "I'll call you princess followed by your name." The deku princess nods, "Only when you have my full trust."
Rem nods, "I suppose that's fair, princess. It just would be nice to know your real name." He says this while looking at the waves. He sees his own deku reflection again and shutters at it. The deku princess goes up to him and says, "You look much better as a deku scrub anyway."
Rem doesn't know if he should take that as a compliment or an insult due to the fact that he doesn't like how he looks currently. He just gives a sigh and replies, "I suppose." The deku princess hops up and down and says to Rem trying to cheer him up, "Don't be like that! Being a deku scrub is great! Maybe my deku pipes will calm you down." She pulls out her deku pipes and starts playing them.
Rem starts feeling a bit better and a bit more cheery, he gets up and starts marching in place with the tune, the deku princess seems to smile while playing her pipes. She eventually stops and says to Rem, "That was the Sonata of Awakening! That's a secret royal melody of the Deku Palace. I trust you enough to let you hear this."
Rem nods, "I like it. It made me feel like going out and adventuring." The deku princess giggles at that, "Maybe you will. I didn't really say we were doing that out here but we'll see. Father might not like that idea but you should be able to protect me."
Rem shrugs, "I don't know... even the best heroes could be distracted and get themselves or others into danger." The deku princess walks towards Rem and replies, "Well... you won't do that, right?" Rem isn't sure how to respond to that but nods anyways, "Right." The deku princess then says, "I had enough time at Great Bay, let's head back to the Deku Palace, Rem."
Rem seems to smile and replies, "Sure, I'll carry you there." The deku princess replies, "You don't have to do that." Rem insists and picks her up, "I want to, though." And rushes off back to the Deku Palace. For what it seems to be in forever, Rem feels pretty happy right now. He seems to be right at home with the Deku scrubs and their princess.
It seems like there is nothing wrong right now until a big bird wants to ruin the fun for them both and swoops down and hit the two of them. As Rem begins to get up, the bird already made a swoop for the princess and Rem begins to attack it. The bird pecks Rem as hard as it could and knocks Rem pretty far off and grabs the princess and flies off.
The deku princess cries out for help as Rem gets up and tries to catch up to it but he was too late, the bird already got her. Looks like Rem got his wish... to go out on an adventure... but this is not what he wanted. With nothing left to do but to rescue the princess he is off to the bird's nest.
And he obviously cannot return to the Deku palace without their princess, the king will have his head for sure or just boil him in water. Just before he takes off to track down the bird that swiped the princess, a thing hits him... it's the princess' deku pipes! He takes them and gets a strange vision.
He sees the princess again and she tells him, "Rem... use my pipes to play the song of healing... this will allow you to switch in and out of Deku form... you will need this to save me because your deku form can't do it alone. This bird isn't a ordinary one and it's dungeon isn't well suited for Deku scrubs. By the way... don't bother asking my father for help, he'll always be a worrywart but I know you can do it. I believe in you..."
The vision disappears and Rem tries playing the song of healing... only problem is that he doesn't know how it goes. He looks at the deku pipes and notices that the song is written on the pipes themselves. He plays it and he notices that his form is starting to leave him once again and it goes back into the mask. He picks up the mask and looks at the sky and says, "Don't worry, princess! I'll rescue you!"
Rem puts the mask on one side of his head and leaves it there so he can switch at any time rapidly and he dashes off to where the bird went.
With new aid of his Hylian form, he is much stronger and durable for this mission but how far will this get him? Find out next time!