Chapter: 2

Link looked over himself as he sat high on the biggest tree in the area. What did the kikwis call it? The… Great Deku Tree, that's what it's called, and it certainly earned its name.

It was around midnight and Link decided it was safe to rest here for now after he had finished killing off the monsters that had settled here. Monsters had multiplied in the area to where their numbers rivaled the amount of bugs in the whole of Faron Woods. They seemed to know that he was there and strategically, probably under the guidance of that Ghirahim, put up barricades around bird statues and the exit leading to the Sealed Temple. Link was pretty much stuck here with nowhere to go. Not to mention his dwindling supplies. He had one more red potion and a half of a bottle full of stamina potion. Not the best to survive off of right now. He decided to not worry about the minor injuries since they all were shallow and there wasn't much chance of infection where he was and leaned against the side to rest.

"Master Link," his faithful sword spirit Fi called out from the purple hilt of the Master Sword, making it pulse in a brighter purple.

"Mmmm?" Link didn't bother to open his eyes since he knew that she would continue anyway.

"I suggest that you wake up at dawn to get a higher chance at sneaking past the monsters' barricades." Fi advised him. Now, don't get him wrong, the plan was genius, but it had one fatal flaw. How in Hylia's name was Link supposed to wake up at dawn? He can barely wake up at 10 o'clock to eat breakfast, which is why he always missed it, let alone dawn.

"Sounds like a plan." He sighed, opening his eyes in spite of himself. This is going to be one challenge that he was guaranteed to lose. "But Fi, could you, um, wake me up when it is time." he said as he rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"Of course, Master." She said and went silent.

"You know, you don't have to call me that."

Silence

"Your usual answer." He sighed, closed his eyes, and drifted off into his comma like sleep.

Link jolted awake to the sound that Fi made to get his attention, only 3x louder than usual. He opened his eyes to see Fi floating before him.

"Good morning Master, it is exactly 6:32 in the morning and I have successfully awakened you to start scouting." Fi reported.

"What, do you want some pumpkin pie or something?" Link yawned grumpily as he stood and stretched.

"No master. I lack the feeling of hunger or thirst, so the need food is not necessary for me to function."

"Rhetorical question, Fi, rhetorical question." Link deadpanned as he made his way to the edge of the surface he'd been sleeping on, Fi returning to the sword in a flourish. He fearlessly jumped of and took out his sail cloth to quietly drift down. Landing as soft as he could, he took a look at where he landed. He had landed in the area just in front of the viewing platform. Just as he expected, though the stairs where blocked of by fences. He spotted a hut here and there, a bokoblin resting in each.

'Perfect, they haven't gotten up yet. I'll just dispose of them and find a way past those fences.' Link thought as he pulled out his sacred bow and quiver. He notched an arrow, and with killer precision, shot the nearest bokoblin in the neck, effectively silencing it as it died and exploded into purple smoke and light. He proceeded with the other two and executed the same movement to rid the immediate area of monsters.

'That was fast. I should wake up early more often.' Although he inwardly shuddered at the thought, he pushed on to look around for any more enemies. Just beyond the giant tree root to his right he saw more bokoblins, but this time they were awake. Link silently thanked his better judgment of quietly killing the others and made his way to the platform. Link was no coward, far from it. But lately, the bokoblins would all ways seem to carry a monster horn around on their person, so running in and swinging wildly would be counted as suicide, so Link just stuck to sneaking around. As he scouted he noticed an oddly shaped cadge. As he made his way over, he realized there was something inside. A very familiar animal-plant-thing, in fact.

"Machi?" Link called softly to the sleeping Kikwi, as to not draw attention his way.

" Kewwwwww...?" Machi yawned. "OH HEY,GUY! THANK GOODNESS ITS YOU! NOW YOU CAN SAVE ME!"

As soon as Link moved to shush him, horns blared and battle cries could be heard.

"Just my luck."

A soft, but audible rumble made itself known at the sealed grounds as Groose worked on his marvelous creation.

"uh-oh it seems ugly's gettin' a bit grumpy and that pipsqueak ain't here to shut him up. Better go tell granny." he said as he ran past the stone slab doors of the temple.