Like Dragon Roost Cavern, the Forbidden Woods were poorly lit, Link noted. He wondered if all dungeons were like this. Link found that he preferred this one over the other, if only because of the lack of heat. What Link didn't like was having to be launched out of Boko Baba buds and flying about with the Deku Leaf. At first it were fun, but then Link learned the hard way about falling from great heights. His legs ached as he recollected those experiences.

Crossing the foliage, Link arrived at a door and entered. As soon as he walked in, he turned around when he heard some bars slamming down in front of the door. He was trapped in the room.

Nothing was ahead of him though. With a cautious expression on his face, Link took a few slow steps out the doorway. He didn't have to travel far for his expression to morph into confusion. Green glowing dust drifted down in front of him. Is this...pixie dust? He looked above to try to pinpoint the source of it. And he found it all right.

Its large, luminous wings were folded up against it. Its leaf antennas swayed with the wind. If there was wind in the room. That was all he could tell, though. It was alive and awake, Link concluded.

Then the thing quickly sped off the wall it was resting on and swooped down at Link before rushing forward, leaving behind a trail of destruction.

Without a second thought, Link drew out his sword. He quickly traded it for a pictobox when he saw how easy it would be to take a picto of it. It liked to fly high above Link and hover there for a brief moment. That's when he took the pictographs.

Now that he had three empty slots, he used them to his advantage. His first picto was slightly blurry, but good. It captured the entire body. The second one clipped off a small part of its right wing. Link examined them to see what he was fighting. It appeared to be...well a butterfly. A huge, mutant butterfly with green glowing wings.

That was all he had time to think though, since it suddenly dove down at Link. He had no time to dodge, so he got knocked down into the grass. Ugh, this is just like with the Moblin! To Link's amusement, the butterfly's attack also destroyed some grass. Rupees and healing hearts were revealed in the clearing where the grass once grew.

The butterfly once again fluttered high in the air. Link snapped a third picto of it. It a very sloppy picto, so he erased it and retook it. Better, Link amended when he saw the picto. But not by much.

The butterfly thing dive bombed him again. Link barely had time to raise his shield. But somehow, his shield held. Sure he slid back some, but he was unharmed. He had to figure out a way to defeat the thing, now that he was done with the pictos.

It fluttered in the air again. It was too high, even higher than the reach of his jump attack. So what could he do? How could he stop it?

The insect dove down again. Link rolled away just in time. Its leathery wings brushed against him. Hmmm... Those wings catch the wind well. But it's not like I can play the Wind's Requiem here. Maybe I can blow some wind in here somehow?

Link was about to dismiss the idea, but he realized, That's it! Incapacitate it by stopping its wings with the Deku Leaf! That's what it needs to fly and move, anyway.

The next time it did its dive attack, Link ran out of the way. He was beginning to think that it was the monster's only attack. As the monster soared up, Link took out his Deku Leaf and fanned it in the direction of the beast.

The gust of wind disturbed the butterfly's balance. It furiously flapped its wings, trying to find purchase in the air, but Link flapped the leaf again. It couldn't fight it off, so it slowly drifted to the ground on its back, its dead wings slowing down its plummet.

Link wasted no time dashing over and stabbing it with his sword. It screeched and picked itself up. Now it was furious. With renewed strength, the butterfly picked itself up and started flying again, right above Link.

Link was just about to send more wind to the monster, but it had some new tricks to use. Link was not expecting a barrage of morths to rain down on him. The annoying prickly things hopped onto Link and clung onto him. While they didn't hurt him, they considerably slowed him down. Link growled as he had to focus his attention on these things. He killed them with a spin attack, but his lapse in attention was enough for the monster to score a hit on Link with the dive bomb move. Then it hovered right in front of Link.

Link couldn't lift his leaf; the thing was at point blank. Its single eye glared at Link. Hm, maybe its eye is its weakness. Just like with all monsters. Should I try to attack it? The thought distracted him enough for the butterfly to snap its pincers down at Link. He twisted, but it still managed to nick his sword arm.

The beast was more troublesome than he'd thought. He thought the fight would be over already. Link had to kill it before it killed him.

Link went to collect some hearts in the destroyed grass to heal himself. Finally, the monster backed off, giving Link room to blow some wind at the monster. The thing was downed, so he mercilessly hacked at it. This time, its infernal wings came off, making it much less of a threat.

Not so tough now, huh? Link thought as he ran after the scuttling insect. In defense, it sprayed some morths at Link, but he brushed them off by rolling around on the grass. Link tackled it down with a jump attack, but before killing it, he threw out his grappling hook at it. It came back with a jar of magic. Huh. That's new. No spoils.

The beast tried to skitter away again, but Link sent some wind at the beast. The wind stunned it long enough for Link to kill it off with some slashes at its abdomen. Huh. That's also new. I didn't have to attack its eye.

With Link's last blow, the monster tumbled onto the ground and laid there before deteriorating into black dust and exploding in a cloud of purple. Like with the last mini boss, a gleaming black pearl rested where the monster died.

Link broke it to find plenty of rupees, hearts, and magic. He was at his maximum for all three already, so he just ignored the treasure and took a look at his pictographs. The first one was great compared to the second and third picto. The second one cut off part of its wing, and the third one was quite off center. The first one was blurry and kind of small, but it was distinguishable. He threw out the other ones and kept the first picto.

Now all he needed from this dungeon was the item the butterfly guarded, another heart container, and a picto of the boss.

Oh, and Makar. I didn't just forget about my main mission! Nope not at all! Hahaha...