Well sorry for not having updated as fast as I did at first, but don't worry, I will still be updating at least once a week I hope!

Anyway, we're now at the Forest Temple. I'll tell you right now that I won't be spending too much time in the dungeons. They're really tedious to write and I'm sure you guys won't enjoy reading about them.

I'm sticking to Ferngirl's idea, with having the more "important" times of the dungeon detailed. Like, the mini-boss battles, getting the item you're supposed to get, and the boss battle.

And by the way, this person that made the visual guide I downloaded of the game...skipped getting Ooccoo for some reason. And I don't remember the dialogue for it. So she'll be mentioned of course, just without the dialogue. DX

Anyway, on with the story!

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We came inside the Forest Temple, which I could see was what the big tree outside really was.

The monkey that had helped us get here was trapped in a cage in front of a wall of vines leading up to a ledge. I went in and used my sword to break the cage. The monkey cheered happily and effortlessly jumped up to the ledge, waving for us to follow her.

Later on, we ran into who I assumed was the monkey boss, too.

The monkey had led us outside to a gusty area of the temple, probably out back or something, and just as she was crossing the bridge, this bigger monkey that had a boomerang in its possession came out from the room on the other side of the bridge, and then to my surprise, he tossed the boomerang at the bridge, which cut the ropes, therefore collapsing it, with the poor girl monkey STILL on it.

With a laugh, the monkey turned around and tapped his large bottom and then retreated, still safely on the other side of the bridge.

I felt bad for the poor monkey, though. You couldn't see the bottom, so it was likely a long fall. Poor girl.

But why did the monkey boss do that to his own kind? I remember the monkey saying back when we were hunting for the bugs to clear the twilight that the monkey boss had gone funny in the head. So that could've meant the monkey boss was somehow being controlled to do this or something.

To my surprise, she climbed over the ledge where we were! The bridge was hanging from its posts, just cut in half. She must've grabbed on to it before she could fall. That's good, I didn't want to have to live to see the poor, innocent monkey not survive that attack.

The monkey was sighing in relief, and then went back to the door we came through, jumping up and down, beckoning for us to follow.

Midna popped out of the shadows then, apparently just as puzzled as I was.

"Oh! What's going on?! Has there been a monkey fight?!" She looked at the fallen bridge and groaned. "Oh no! Now we can't go any farther. We might as well go back. I don't know what's going on, but it seems like she wants to take you somewhere, so maybe you should just follow her."

Since we had no other option, I did just that and let the monkey help us out along the way through the temple.

Apparently, her monkey friends had been trapped in various places throughout the temple, and had needed my help rescuing them. Midna grumbled about this, saying it was slowing us down from finding the thing we were supposed to get, but I ignored her. I wanted to help these monkeys. It wouldn't be right to just leave them here imprisoned like that. Besides, if it hadn't been for the first monkey, we never would've gotten this far. She helped us get here, and it was only right to help her in return.

And even if she didn't help us get here, I would've helped her none the less.

Oh, and we also found this weird creature, who was stuck in a pot. She had chicken's body, and a human-like head. Her name was Ooccoo, and she said she could help us out if we needed it, by warping out of the temple and then coming right back to the same room we warped out of.

I was reluctant to take her with us, but as Midna mumbled, we needed all the allies we could get.

So along the way of saving the monkey girl's other monkey friends, solving puzzles and looking for keys, we came to the room where the monkey boss was.

It was a room with a few totem poles, and he would jump around from one to another, tossing the boomerang he had at us. How were we going to attack him? I didn't want to hurt him badly, but I had to retaliate somehow.

"Link! While he's throwing the windy thing, roll into the pole he's standing on!" Midna yelled from the shadows.

"How's that going to help!?" I shouted as I rolled out of the way to avoid being hit by the boomerang.

"Trust me on this! He'll fall down, and then you can attack him!"

I was skeptical, but I had no other option.

So I waited until the monkey tossed the boomerang toward us, and I dodged it, going toward the pole he was standing on. I rolled into it, and sure enough, the monkey boss was a bit startled, trying to regain his balance. His boomerang came flying back and whacked him in the head, causing him to fall down.

I took action and slashed at his behind with my sword, until he got up and back onto the totem pole, starting all over again.

After I repeated this process a couple of times, he yelled out in pain, grabbing his behind with his hands and hopped around in pain, then bashed into one of the poles. He fell onto his back, and this bug fell from his head. I understood then, it was that bug that was controlling him to behave badly! He really wasn't bad at all, just as I thought.

The monkey boss stood, looked at me, and then recoiled, hopping back along the totem poles and out an open section of the room. I guess he felt bad for attacking us earlier, and just now. Poor monkey. But at least he was okay now.

I looked over to my left and noticed the boomerang he had was laying on the ground. Hey, maybe it would come in handy! I went over to it, and it suddenly lifted up above the ground, spinning. A voice then spoke out from it.

"I am the Fairy of Winds who resides in this boomerang. You have freed me from evil and I now have my true power back. Please... Take it with you, use it to aid your quest and may both my power and my blessing go with you. If you focus power in your boomerang before releasing it, it will unleash the power of wind, aiding you in unforeseen ways."

Wow.

The boomerang flew around the room, and then came flying to me. I caught it with my hand and smiled. This would definitely come in handy, and I heard Midna mumble in agreement.

Well, onward.

We found the last of the monkeys trapped in the temple, along with a large, weird-looking black key. I didn't know what it was for, but then Midna answered me, saying it was likely to be the key to the boss chamber.

Later on, we came to this room where all the monkeys we'd freed were sitting on small ledges growing on the tree bark against the wall. There was a huge chasm, and a large door on the other side with a large padlock set with chains. I guessed that was the boss chamber.

But how were we going to get across? Even if I'd been a wolf, there weren't enough ledges to get close!

Suddenly, all the monkeys climbed up the tree, and lowered themselves down the branch hanging over the chasm, between us and the door. The monkeys, holding the next monkey's ankles, had created a rope in order to swing us across safely! They'd done this along the way in the temple, and were doing it again!

So I jumped, grabbing the last monkey's hands, then safely landed on the other side.

I took out the key and unlocked the padlock. The chains and padlock fell away, and I opened the much larger door.

We came inside a large room with a pool of what looked to be poisonous purple water. If this was the boss chamber, and since it was empty, that meant it was in the water. A few bomblings, which were bugs that could turn into bombs on impact, were perched on the logs in the water.

The water then bubbled in two places, and before I could react, two large deku baba-like monsters rose up from the water. They were larger, apparently, longer, and had large, gaping mouths with rows of sharp teeth, and blue ooze dripping from them and their tongues.

"That's a Twilit Parasite, Diababa!" Midna told me from the shadows. "It's the monster set to guard the forbidden power. Quick, do something before they snap at you!"

I grumbled darkly, rolling out of the way as one of the heads lunged at me. And then realized something.

Those plants were tough, but I bet they couldn't ingest an explosive.

But how could I get the bomblings into their mouths without getting dangerously close?

"Link! Use your windy thing!" Midna shouted, apparently thinking the same thing I was.

I took out the Gale Boomerang and aimed it at one of the bomblings, and then for it in order to fly into one of the Diababa head's mouths. Sure enough, the head swallowed the bombling, which promptly exploded inside its mouth. It went limp and then sank into the water.

So I used that tactic on the other head. Sure enough, it went down into the water too.

That was it? Wow, that was pretty easy!

Then there was a rumbling sound, and it was coming from the water. Oh no, something told me that it wasn't dead yet.

Sure enough, it wasn't. The two heads re-merged, but this time, with a much larger and strangely shaped monster between them. It also had a strange mouth, with an eye attached to its...tongue?

We were out of luck since the bomblings had sunk under the water when this monster had emerged. Great! What do we do now?!

"Link, that weird eye in its mouth must be its weak point!" Midna said from the shadows.

"But how can we attack?!" I wanted to know, trying to now avoid three monstrous plants. "All the bomblings are gone!"

Suddenly, a familiar sound rang through the room. It was a monkey!

I looked to a small ledge on the right side, above the water, and out came the monkey boss from earlier! What was he doing here?

He swung across the room on a vine, managing to somehow avoid being caught by the monster plants. He then showed us something in his hand. A bombling! He swung across the room on the vine again, holding the bombling with his feet for us to catch. I guessed he wanted to make up for attacking us earlier and help us out.

It was pretty tricky, but it kept the larger monster plant of the three distracted as it followed the monkey's movements, but I managed to use the Gale Boomerang to snatch the bombling and had it explode right in the face of the larger plant monster. It yelled out and then fell over, its exposed eye in its mouth landing a few yards away from me.

I took a chance and ran over to it, slashing at the eye with my sword. Midna was right, it was definitely the monster's weak point.

I had to repeat this process a few times, but luckily the monkey boss kept coming back with a bombling for us to use, which was good because I used a couple to take care of the other two Diababa heads.

Finally, I slashed at the monster plant's eye once more before it thrashed about, wailing in agony. It then dried up, the eyeball fell from its place and onto the ground where it exploded into nothing.

I did the same dramatic pose in sheathing my sword, feeling pretty glad to have taken care of the monster that was plaguing the temple.

The dried up, dead monster plant suddenly exploded into Twilight squares, with the water clearing, and then formed into something. It rose above us and slowly came floating down. It was in the form of a strangely shaped stone piece. Was this the dark power the light spirit spoke about, and what Midna was after?

Midna popped out of the shadows as the artifact floated above my outstretched hands.

"Ee hee hee! Well done! That's what I was looking for." Her hair, in the shape of a hand, then reached out and took the stone piece. I was surprised that she could hold it, despite being just a shadow. "That's a Fused Shadow. It's what the light spirit called dark power..."

A Fused Shadow, so THAT'S what it was. The Fused Shadow was the dark power that Faron mentioned earlier, and this what could help us match the power of the king of of twilight. I could see Midna was trusting me little more than before, since she told me what this was.

"Do you remember what that spirit said?" Midna went on. "About how you had to match the power of the king of shadows? Could it really be so easy? Is this all there is to it? Ee hee hee! There's a total of three Fused Shadows, I think the other light spirits have the rest... If you want to know exactly what Fused Shadows are... Well, maybe I'll tell you if you find the other two. I guess you'd better do your best to find them, huh? Ee hee hee!"

That laugh of hers was really starting to get on my nerves. I did want to know what these Fused Shadows were and how they worked, but I guess Midna wanted to be sure that I would work to find the other two before she let me in on what they did. Either for trust reasons, or because she feared if I knew, I wouldn't want to get them for whatever reason.

Well I don't care, I'll get them if it means we can defeat the king of the shadows and finally go back to our old lives. I admit, I didn't mind Midna as much at this point, but I still was looking forward to when she'd be gone.

Midna lowered her hand hair, storing the Fused Shadow away. "So let's not waste any more time here when we could be looking for the other two..."

She floated over a few feet, pointed to the ground, and created one of those strange void things that we'd seen before after destroying those shadow beasts. I guessed it was so we could get out of here faster.

"I'll get you out of here..." Midna said before she hovered above the void, beckoning to me with her hand hair.

I looked around the room to make sure everything seemed to be all right, and couldn't seem to find the monkey boss. Oh well, he must've left. I'll thank him later.

Slowly I approached the strange void thing and stepped into it. My body dematerialized into those Twilight squares and we were out of there.