Yes, I have a Wii U. My miiverse name is Opin if you want to friend or follow me. Also, you know that you have good teachers when the home ec teacher tries to hook up two of her students (one of them wanted to be hooked up with the other) and the english teacher uses the acronym 'wtf' while talking about a line from Shakespeare!... in the middle of class! XD The math teacher gets right to the point and doesn't harp on you if you forgot about your homework (oops) and the music teacher in my school let me play a five minute long zelda medley solo during our concert (the link to it will be in the author's note at the end of these three chapters if you want to check it out)! Now, I'll respond to the guest reviews! ^_^ First, to the Drone: Great minds think alike because before you even mentioned what Links would be best for each mask, I had already decided exactly what you had suggested. ;) And, yes, I put off giving them the masks for so long just so that they could be in the correct timeline! also, notice that I introduced the dekus in S Link's chapter and the zoras in F Link's chapter then gave them the respective masks! Oh, and my other constant guest reviewer, Kagu the Great, wants to say thanks for the idea! ;)
Now, to Kagu the Great: I thanked the Drone for you like you asked! ^o^ I'm a HUGE fan of Chuggaaconroy! What drew me in first was his shiny Koffing reaction! It's kind of obvious that the next dungeon is a sand one (what else would be in the Gerudo Desert?), but it doesn't use that kind of puzzle... however, I might alter it to fit a later dungeon if I can figure out how to do that. :/ Also, the item that they get is even more obscure than the ones that you mentioned (which are from Minish Cap, btw). As far as the pokemon battle goes, I'm even holding off with my irl friends in order to get an ultimate team built... I'm 2/3 done in the conception, but I haven't actually started collecting the needed pokemon and building their EVs yet... so I'll get back to you on that. I want to, but I'm not ready yet. :/
Anyway, now let's not waste any more time before the three longest and trippiest chapters that I have ever written for this story!
Chapter 31: Deku
There were trees surrounding me. Trees and other foliage. My head was spinning and it felt particularly heavy. After everything calmed down a little bit, I noticed that I was completely alone in this literal jungle. Although, I did feel as though if I walked around a little bit, then I would find someone. Hopefully, the other two Links. However, as I began to move, I felt kind of... odd.
I looked down at myself to find that my body was seemingly made of wood. I figured that I must've been dreaming or something, so I figured that if it was just a weird dream, then I would eventually wake up. After a while, though, I started pinching myself in order to wake myself up. However, that didn't seem to work. So, I decided to start looking around and I eventually found a very small lake.
Upon checking my reflection, I discovered that I had literally become a deku scrub! I was very scared and confused, but I reminded myself that it was only one really messed up dream. I then tried to remember what had happened before I fell asleep. The Happy Mask Salesman had told future Link, knight Link, and me that he had an item that would help the three of us. Afterwards, he gave us each masks that knocked us out when we put them on. The mask that I was given was the mask of... a... deku.
Oh, so that was it. I was dreaming that I was whatever my mask was of. I had absolutely no idea how this would help, but I went along with it anyways. I started walking around, hoping to at least find SOMETHING. Unfortunately, I found some of the things that knight Link had called 'octorocks' first and they didn't seem too happy. However, I knew that because it was just a dream, they couldn't hurt me.
Surprisingly, though, I discovered that they could hurt me. After I got away from them, I began to think. If they could actually hurt me, then it must've been more real than a simple dream. Which meant that I really was in the middle of nowhere, in a jungle, stuck as a deku scrub, without guidance, without my sword, shield, hookshot, or beetle... WHAT?!
I started totally freaking out. I just got so confused as to how, but something in my brain provided the answer of 'magic', so I was forced to dismiss the 'how'. However, this left me with the question of 'why'. I began asking myself why the Happy Mask Salesman would do something like this. Then again, I knew absolutely nothing about the guy, so I knew that I couldn't assume anything.
Wait, that was it! All that I had to do was get back to Hyrule Castle Town and get him to undo this curse or whatever it was. The thing was, though, I had no idea of which direction to go in order to get beck, so I was still effectively screwed. After I managed to calm down, I decided to head off in a random direction and just hope for the best.
I found that I was moving through the jungle pretty easily, considering that I wasn't used to being a deku. Thankfully, I came across another deku who seemed a lot bigger than me. For some reason, he called me a kid and began treating me like one. So, I just decided to play along and act lost. However, I made it seem like my 'parents' were in Hyrule Castle Town because I needed to go there. Thus, after I pulled a sap story that we were separated my monsters and they would be there, I finally managed to get this deku to take me to the town.
Along the way, I just did what he said and copied what he did (it wasn't very hard, all things considered). Thank goodness he thought that I was just a little kid, or else my screw-ups wouldn't have been excused. I learned how to fly (which was actually just a limited glide that used giant flowers), shoot bubbles of... snot, for lack of a better word, and I learned how to turn a ballerina spin into a stunning attack (yeah, dekus were weirder than I had ever imagined). Frankly, it took the other deku (who never told me his name) and me about three days to get back to town. Throughout that time, I got quite used to my new body and how to use it, even though I longed to be a hylian again. However, once we got there, something extremely weird happened.
Everyone, even the other deku disappeared! I was so convinced that this was reality by that point, that I got very confused. There was absolutely no one else in town at all, but I made sure that I at least tried to find the Happy Mask Salesman's booth. Unfortunately, the longer that I spent doing so, the more weird everything became. Buildings were becoming distorted, things were beginning to float in midair, and I began wondering if I had been drugged.
The weirder that things became, the more scared that I got. I eventually started thinking that I was dreaming the whole thing again. Thankfully, I found where the Happy Mask Salesman's booth was after a couple of hours, but, like everywhere else, it was deserted! I eventually decided to try looking around inside the booth. So, when I finally go to the back, behind the curtain that closed off most of the booth from the view of the public, I saw that it was completely dark. I was about to turn back before I actually heard some music.
I followed the sound of it, putting myself into complete darkness, to find a bunch of deku scrubs randomly appear right in front of me with spotlights pointing them out. There were four; one was absolutely huge (the biggest) and had some sort of crown made of a flower (?), like it was royalty, or something. Another appeared smaller, with a long hair-crown sort of thing that was definitely made of flowers, obviously female. The third appeared to look very proud, but with pom-pom leaf-hair and a very classy mustache.
The fourth, though he was the most visually plain, with nothing out of the ordinary, he looked pretty young. However, he was actually playing an instrument for the other three! It sounded like some sort of trumpet, but it had five different pipes, like an organ, and it was being held like a tuba. I listened to the song that he was playing, and as I did so, the other three deku disappeared one by one. First, the biggest one, followed by the female, and finally the mustached one. When it was just the last deku and me, a name (presumably for the song that he was playing) flashed through my mind: 'Sonata of Awakening'.
When he finished, he turned to look straight at me before my vision turned white. I then heard the young deku's squeaky voice say
"I-I'll help y-you... just... r-remove the m-mask" Understanding that he didn't feel as though he had any right to tell someone else what to do, I attempted to do as he said, just to help him to feel a little bit better and I was surprised to find that it actually came off! When my vision cleared, I found myself with the mask in my hands, in hylian form, and staring at the inside of it. Only one question entered my mind after that: 'What the hell just happened?'