The second Timmy saw the inside of the Great Deku Tree, he turned and tried to run out. "Oh no you don't," Stella flew and pulled him back. "You need to be in here! The fate of the Great Deku Tree depends on you!" Timmy turned back toward the inside and took a cautious step forward. Then another. There were monstrous plants everywhere, Deku Babas if he remembered correctly. He tried to avoid them as much as he could. Seeing a patch of vines hanging, he decided it was in his best interest to climb them, away from those Kokiri-eating plants. He made it to the top, only to find tons of creepy spiders, called Skullwalltulas, crawling all over the walls. He screamed and tried to back away, but in the process, he fell off of the ledge and into the spiderweb at the center of the tree.
"Oh for Farore's sake," Stella groaned. "You have to be more careful, mister!" She flew up to the floor where he was just at. "There are so many things you missed up here!" Quickly opening a treasure chest, she pulled out a slingshot. "You are going to need this to fight!" She brought it down and shoved it in his pouch. "There, now get up!" He tried to sit up, but snapped back down. He was stuck on the spiderweb. "You have got to be joking," Stella glared at the fallen hero. "I'm only doing this once, you hear?" She flew back and zapped the web with her magic. It slowly disintegrated, and when it could no longer hold Timmy's weight, it dropped him to the level beneath.
He landed in a pool on the bottom of the next floor. Swimming up and gasping for air, Timmy emerged from the water. He swam over to the nearest land he could find and pulled himself up. There were many more spiderwebs in this room. He looked up and saw a torch above him. All he needed was something to burn. Looking around, he saw a withered Deku Baba. Taking a deep breath, he swung his sword through the stem of the plant. It fell apart, leaving a wooden stick behind. He took the stick and tried to light it on fire, but the torch was too high up. Taking off his hat, he shook it a few times to get his fairy friend out. "Hey, I wasn't done doing my nails!" He motioned at the tall torch. "You expect me to help you get that down? Fat chance. You should find fire somewhere else!" He did the next best thing. He threw the stick at the torch. It quickly lit and bounced off of the wall back to him. Grabbing on to the lit end, he threw it like a javelin over the water gap and into the spiderweb. The web burned and melted away, leaving an open hole for him to jump to. Grabbing Stella by her tiny waist, Timmy ran back to jump over the large gap. "Hey! Let me go! Why are you carrying me? This is so rude!" He leaped and wouldn't have made it on his own, but the extra boost from Stella's flying gave him enough height to grab onto the edge of the faraway island. Satisfied at his ingenuity, Timmy jumped through the hole, hoping the next puzzle would be as easy as this one.
There were only three Deku Scrubs in this room. Timmy could figure out by their firing pattern that he had to defeat them in a certain order, 2-3-1 to be exact, but actually defeating them was another story. He had spent the past fifteen minutes getting pelted with Deku nuts, and he had run out of recovery hearts to heal himself. "The shield has to face the one you're trying to kill! It's not hard!" Stella barked in Timmy's ear. Finally mustering enough strength to stand, he held his shield in front of his bespectacled face and ran towards the second Deku Scrub. The projectile bounced off of the shield and stunned it. He did the same for the third and first, and before he knew it, the defeated Deku Scrub was talking to him.
"Please don't hurt us! I'll tell you a secret, Queen Goma is in the next room, and her eye is her weak spot! Just don't kill me!"
"Well, that's useful information," Stella pondered. "Get lost plant weirdos!" The Deku Scrubs wasted no time retreating to the ground. "Come on, Timmy," Stella urged. "Queen Who's-her-face must be the one that is hurting the Great Deku Tree! We have to destroy her!" Timmy, fear plastering his face, walked inside the next room. The door shut behind him, and when he tried to open it, it wouldn't budge. Scared out of his mind, he looked around, until his gaze settled on what looked like an eyeball. It blinked, then fell from the ceiling in front of him. "That must be the Queen!" Stella yelled. Timmy looked up at the massive creepy parasite, and noted that the eye was too far away for him to hit with his sword. He pulled out the slingshot that Stella got for him and aimed at the eye. Taking into account the stronger gravity due to their underground position, he fired the projectile at just the right trajectory, and it landed in Goma's eye. She flopped to the floor, and Timmy hacked away at the eye with his sword. After a few hits, Goma got up and crawled to the ceiling, but Timmy shot her with the slingshot again. He slashed the eye once more, and it exploded in a mass of green goo. "Gross!" Stella yelled, trying to shake the guts off of her wings. The rest of the body vaporized, and Timmy fainted. "Seriously? You're supposed to be the hero! Not a scaredy-scrub!" Stella pulled Timmy towards the pillar of blue light, and both of them were transported outside the tree.
Timmy opened his eyes to see Stella hovering over him. "You're finally awake! The Great Deku Tree has to tell you something important! Even I don't know what it is!" He sat up and looked at the guardian tree of the forest.
"Timothy," he began, "thank ye for breaking the curse on me, but I see now that nothing you could have done would have stopped my downfall. The curse was too strong, and I will not survive. The man who hath put the curse on me, he was after a special stone, Kokiri's Emerald. I entrust it to ye. Take it to the princess in Hyrule Castle. She will know how to stop the terrible man from destroying the world. And Stella..."
"Yes, Great Deku Tree?"
"I want you to lead Timothy, and help him in any way you can. I am counting on you...Stella...Goodbye..."
Stella flew up to the Great Deku Tree, sobbing, "Wait! Don't go! I'm going to miss you! You're like my dad! Please! Stay with us! Don't die! Don't die!" She touched the tree trunk with her little hand. Sniffling, she quietly said, "Goodbye, Great Deku Tree."
A/N: This chapter was fun to write! I get to mess with the dungeons and play them as Timmy would play them! There will me much more dungeon mischief as the story progresses. I don't know if you noticed, but I added a cover to the story! It's actually part of a cover series that I'm doing, and it will change as the story progresses, so stay tuned with that! And don't forget to leave a review! Daisy out!