Sheik stepped into the large field. A massive tree towered about the two, creating a shadow among most of the field.
"Great Deku Tree!" Navi squealed. "I'm back!" The fairy flew back to the tree.
"Oh... Navi... Thou hast returned... Link... Welcome..." said the tree. It's voice was surprisingly small, larger than Sheik's voice, but, still quieter.
"Erm, no... Great Deku Tree... I'm not Link," Sheik said.
"Please! Not that again! Will you just be quiet while the Great Deku Tree talks? Show some respect!" Navi snapped angrily. "Just listen to what he has to say! We'll deal with your identity later!"
Considering Navi was being serious, the boy nodded, and looked to the tree.
"Listen carefully to what I, the Deku Tree, am about to tell thee... Thy slumbers these past moons must have been restless, and full of nightmares... As the servants of evil gain strength, and vile climate pervades the land and causes nightmares to those sensitive to it... Verily, thou hast felt it...Link... The time has come to test thy courage... I have been cursed... I need you to break the curse with your wisdom and courage."
Now, if the tree had been talking to the real Link, many of you would be questioning Link's wisdom. But, since he is really, without knowing it, talking to Sheik, all is well, right?
"Dost thou have courage enough to undertake this task?"
"Whoa, wait, what!?" Sheik said frantically. "Curse?"
"Just say yes stupid!" Navi hissed.
Sheik frowned, but nodded. He had to get back to Zelda no matter what! "Yeah, sure," he mumbled bitterly.
"Then enter, brave Link, and thou too, Navi..." the tree said, a place lowering in his trunk. It looked like a door way, but, also like a mouth. Boy, this tree was creepy.
"Navi the fairy... Thou must aid Link," the tree went on.
"Please no!" Sheik blurted out helplessly. "Oh, please Great Deku Tree! Don't let her come with me!"
"I'm coming with you," Navi sighed. She knew she had to, the Great Deku Tree had pretty much told her she had to.
Sheik scowled. This was sure to be a pain. Followed around by that fairy while he faced all sorts of danger, being criticised endlessly, about not picking up sticks...
"And Link... When Navi speaks, listen well to her words of wisdom," the tree told him.
"Oh, right, I'll listen alright," Sheik muttered sarcastically.
The duo left from the tree's insides.
"Doesn't it freak you out that we're inside him? It's like he ate us or something!" Sheik mumbled.
"He'd never do something so absurd! You're such an idiot!" Navi snarled, and Sheik continued walking.
"Words of wisdom my shiny white a-" Sheik started.
"Link! Look!" Navi squeaked. Sheik, having become used to this utterly stupid name, looked around. "Down there!" the fairy muttered. Sheik looked down.
He wasn't on solid ground any longer. Instead, he was on white stringy material. "A spider web," Sheik shuddered. Below was a pool of water, and what looked like two edges to platforms. "How am I not breaking this? Aren't spider web's usually flimsy?" he asked, mostly to himself.
"Yeah," Navi replied, although the question wasn't even directed at her. "But... I guess you just standing on it isn't enough. Let's look for high ground, and see what we can do."
Sheik nodded. Coming to a wall covered in vines, he looked. "Maybe I could climb this," he said, reaching to grip a higher vine. He did this with both hands, and placed the toes of his boots on lower vines. He pulled himself up higher, and higher, until the top was reached. He pulled himself up, and looked around.
After wandering a bit more, they had gathered a compass, and map, and a sling shot, plus multiple amounts of rupees. Plus, they had managed to make it through the spider web.
"You know how to open doors right? Just-" Navi started.
"I know how to open a door," Sheik muttered, opening the door. "What do you think I am, a complete idiot? I mean... Two year olds know how to open doors. I'm twelve. Not one. I don't need to be lectured about opening a door. You already asked me that anyways!" He rolled his eyes.
When the got into the room, bars suddenly covered the door, and the door that was across from them. In the middle of the room, was a small patch of grass looking things. Sheik cautiously approached it. Out popped a small menacing looking creature.
"That's a Deku Shrub!" Navi said. "If you get too close to it, it will hide back in the grass! Reflect the Deku Nuts it spits at you with your shield!" Sheik nodded, taking the shield off of his back, and taking out his sword.
The small Deku Shrub spat a Deku nut at Sheik, as warned. Luckily, he covered himself in time. The Deku Nut shot back at the creature, and it hopped fully out of the patch of grass.
"Catch it! Quick, before it escapes back into the grass!" Navi ordered.
"Okay, okay!" Sheik muttered, running at the Deku Shrub.
"Ow- Ow- Ow!" The Deku Shrub squealed. "Forgive me, master! If I give you a clue, will you let me go?" Sheik crossed his arms over his chest, his sword and shield still in each had.
"What kind of clue?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"A very good one!" the Shrub squeaked nervously. Sheik nodded, to tell him to tell the clue. "Oh, thank you! Thank you!"
"Yeah, whatever, go on!" Sheik muttered, rolling his eyes.
"You will never beat my brothers up ahead unless you punish them in the right order. The order is... Two, three, one. Twenty-three is number one! I'm such a traitor!" The Deku Shrub ran away, squeaking as he went.
"Twenty three is number one? That is the lamest thing I've ever heard," Sheik said, chuckling. He walked to the next door.
Though, he had cleared the room of all of the creatures the bars had not gone. He sighed, looked around the doorway. Above the door was a silver eye, staring. At nothing in particular, unless you included the wall it was facing.
Sheik took out his slingshot, and aimed it up at the eye. His shut his left eye, since his right eye was dominant, and shot. Sheik, was, of course a deadly shot. He practiced with bows all of the time. Sling shots were much easier.
The bars came up quickly, and Sheik left through the door. In this next room, there was a spinning spiked bar, and a platform moving across a pool of water.
"You know, you can dive. Maybe you should try looking around at the bottom of this pool of water?" Navi suggested. Sheik nodded.
"It'll be easier to dive since I got rid of that stupid hat," he muttered, jumping into the pool of water.
"Oh my Nayru!" Sheik shouted. "It's freezing!" If Navi wasn't a shining ball with wings, she'd probably shrug.
"Too bad. Look around," she told him. Sheik sighed, shivering at the same time. Taking a deep breath in, he dove under water, kicking, with hope of making large splashes, as to hit Navi. He felt around the bottom, and found a slight hill. A button to be correct. He quickly swam back up for air.
Gasping for breath, the soaking wet blonde looked to Navi. She too, was wet, and was shaking off her wings. Somehow, she had managed to stay airborne. "Thanks," Navi snapped sarcastically. "You purposely got me wet!"
"Now, now Navi, those kind of accusations are bad! Don't be so quick to judge character!" Sheik replied, grinning. "Anyways, I found a button. I'm going to press it, and see what happens." Navi squeaked with approval, and he dived under once more. Locating the button again, he used both hands to push down. He, himself rose, but the button also went down.
The swim up was a considerable amount shorter than before, and he noticed the level of the water had lowered. Sheik grinned. "Perfect! We can get under that pole!" he said, swimming to the edge. He pulled himself back up, and waited for the platform to return. He jumped onto it, Navi floating behind him, and waited as the platform moved.
They were right, he just fit under the spinning pole of doom, and they made it to the other side. "Perfect!" They came up to a high ledge and a solid cube.
"Push that over to the edge," Navi said. "You push things by-"
"You aren't helping," Sheik muttered, cutting the fairy off. He went behind the block, and pushed. When it was under the ledge, he stopped. He clambered up the block, and made it to the ledge.
After a bit more of adventuring, killing things, getting treasure chests, Sheik came to a room he had already been in. "Oh! This is the room we came too when we broke through that spider web from above!" Navi stated.
On this ledge, there was another spider web that led down, a could of monsters. After slashing up the monsters, and taking what they left behind, such as rupees and Deku nuts and sticks. Looking around some more, he found another block, similar to the one from the room earlier.
Sheik pushed it into the water below, so he could always climb up and down the ledge when needed.
"How do we get through this spider web? There's no higher ledges to drop from..." Navi said, thinking.
"There!" Sheik said, pointing to a torch on the level below. "We can burn it, using a deku stick to carry the fire across!"
"Wow! Great idea!" Navi squeaked. Sheik's first ever complement from the fairy. He would have to write about this in his journal! Not that he had a journal... Of course not, he'd never keep a journal, keeping a journal was for girls!
Sheik took out a Deku stick, and jumped to the island below. He lit his stick with the fire from the torch, and ran back to he higher ledge, climbing he block on his way. He bent down to the spider web, and lit it on fire. He fell into the pool of water below.
Sheik made a loud smack, as he entered the pool, back first. "Owww," he moaned, as he came up. He treaded water, and looked at his surroundings. Is was a pretty empty room, except for the small piece of land. Heading for it, he sighed. This adventure had been really tiring. Why did he have to switch bodies with this Link? If he hadn't, he'd be doing all of this stuff, like he was supposed to.
Sheik stepped onto the island, shaking the water from him. He was soaking wet, cold, and completely miserable, and Link was probably in luxury at the castle! He really didn't want to be a hero, he'd rather be helping Zelda. The idiot probably couldn't even handle the thought it took to listen to what Zelda had to say, unlike himself.
Suddenly, three Deku Shrubs popped from the ground. "Hrm..." he thought, running out of their shot range. "That other Deku Shrubs said they needed to be punished in an order. Two Three, One, right? Twenty-Three is number one?"
"That's right," Navi said, giggling. "I guess that means you have to hit them with their own deku nuts in that order. The one in the middle, the one on the right, then the one on the left."
Sheik walked back up, and closer to the middle one. He aimed his shield for it, as it shot at him. When it stuck the Shrub, it instantly turned blue, and popped out, squeaking repeatedly. "Wow, that's annoying," he muttered. He hit the other two. The final one he shot, came out, and ran around. Sheik caught up to it right away. It squeaked, angered.
"How did you know our secret!? How irritating! It's so annoying that I'm going to reveal the secret of Queen Gohma to you! In order to administer the coup de grace to Queen Gohma, strike her with your sword while she's stunned. Oh Queenie! Sorry about that!" the Shrub said quickly, rushing off.
Sheik just stared in disbelief. "That was incredibly helpful," he said, not even kidding. "He told us there's something to kill up ahead, and how to kill it!" The door that had been barred, unlocked, and he went though it, Navi following.
Entering that dark, damp, and misty room, Sheik looked around. Behind him a massive door shut the entrance, and he heard movement from the roof. When he looked up, he saw a weird spider creature crawling on the roof. It had one glowing eye, that looked at him from above.
It didn't look pleased, as it jumped to the ground in front of him. It's eye turned red, and it gave a loud shriek. Sheik was struck with fear.
"Come on Link! This is Gohma! She's one of the parasite creatures inside the Deku Tree! Her eye is vulnerable when it's red!" Navi told him quickly, hoping to get him out of the fearful phase.
Sheik nodded, shaking his head. The spider like creature walked toward them, it's eye turning red. "Now Link!" Navi shrieked. Sheik took out his sling shot, aimed, and shot it directly in the eye. It was instantly stunned.
"Slash it with your sword!" Navi said, rushing the boy. Sheik nodded, running up to the creature, and hitting it continuously. After a while, it got up, and ran for the roof. Sheik followed it with his eyes. He waited for the eye to turn red. As soon as he did, he shot at it, but he missed. "No!" he snapped.
The eye turned back to its original colour, and Gohma sat there. Sheik stared puzzled. Since its eye wasn't red, there was nothing he could do. Eggs fell from the roof. Three of them. Out came miniature of Gohma. "Babies!" Navi shrieked.
Sheik ran up to the, hitting them with his sword, and one at a time killing them. Gohma fell from the roof again, and ran at Sheik. He jumped back, and held on tightly to his slingshot. He lifted it up, and loaded it with a deku nut. Gohma ran at him, and hit him this time.
Sheik fell back, giving a holler. Landing on the ground with a great thud, he moaned. "Get up!" Navi squeaked. "She's going back on the roof! It'll be your chance!" Sheik moaned again, and rolled onto his stomach.
He pushed himself up, and got to his feet. "Look! On the roof!" the fairy ordered. Sheik looked up, and the spider like creature was on the roof once more, it's eye red. He looked to his sling shot, expecting it to be loaded, when it wasn't he moaned. He took out a new deku nut, put it in the pouch. Instantly, he shut his left eye, and took a shot at Gohma's eye. Perfect!
Gohma gave a shriek, and fell onto the ground, stunned. Sheik ran for it. Drawing his sword once more, he started slashing, and stabbing at it. It gave a final shriek, and started to disintegrate. Sheik stepped back, and fell onto his butt, tired. "Never. Make. Me. Do. That. Again," he said panting heavily. He collapsed onto his back.
"Sit up!" Navi said quickly. Sheik groaned in protest, but after the fairy hitting him in the stomach, he had no choice. He looked around, to see a Heart Container in Queen Gohma's place, and a shining blue light between two pillars.
"Get the Heart Container," Navi ordered. Sheik got up, and collected the heart container. "Now, into the light!" Sheik rushed for the light, but stopped right outside of it.
"Have you never been told, 'Don't go into the light!'?" Sheik asked, looking to Navi. "It means you're going to die!"
"Not in your case," Navi muttered. "You're going to hell."
Me: Well, that's the third chapter for you! I have the fourth chapter as well, and that's going to be up later today... So, I hope you guys' enjoyed! Read and Review!