Author's Note: Updates are going to be kinda slow now. I'm getting busy, and I'm not enjoying writing this as much (so quality may go down too). Besides, no one seems to be reading this anyway. So I'll still write this, just much slower. Heh, and to think I used to update this everyday.

Also, I haven't played the game in a while, so I forgot which things killed which beamos, and not everything's going to be exact, ok?

The sea was so far below him. Link stood outside near the top of the tower, sent there by the shimmering purple portal. He briefly gazed down at the sparkling water before his attention was focused upon a Kargaroc swooping at him.

Reflexes took over, and he shot an arrow point blank right at its head. One arrow was all it took to kill it, but Link regretted wasting even a single precious arrow on it. He could have just as easily killed it with his boomerang, but his bow was in hand. Well, too late, Link thought as he watched a golden feather plunge into the sea. He randomly wondered about why those feathers plummeted rather than floated down, the way normal feathers and healing hearts did. Perhaps there was actual gold that weighed it down? Now as he turned and ventured up the path, he wondered why healing hearts floated.

The pathway was longer than it looked. A beamos was mounted onto the edge of the path every few feet. As soon as Link stood even remotely close to one, its menacing eye would open and try to zap him with their light beams. Link couldn't exactly skirt over it this time, so he just ran through as fast as he could to avoid them.

He also encountered blue ones. Rather than chasing after him, the beam simply blocked off the way, its beam spreading across the path. He'd never seen those kinds before, so he managed to immediately deduce that they seemed weaker than their pink counterpart, since it didn't tail after him.

They suddenly looked so easy to destroy. Even though Link knew that they were indestructible, he chose to waste another one of his limited arrows on trying to kill one.

He shot. To his amazement, it actually did kill the lights with a shattering sound. It was harmless now. Link grinned. Blue ones had a weakness, after all.

The next one was pink. Link had the feeling these couldn't be extinguished, and confirmed it by shooting an arrow at it. He was promptly fried with an energy beam. Ow. So he simply snuck by pink beamoses and shot down blue ones as he carefully traveled on. The types of beamos alternated as he went up.

Finally, winded and slightly scorched, the colossal door was in sight. Two pink beamoses guarded the stairs to it. He easily rolled passed them and arrived at the door. He first shattered some pots nearby to collect the items. They contained arrows, which he happily scooped up, bombs (that was strange, he hadn't needed to use them in a while), healing hearts that soothed the burns on his body, and a fairy, which he captured in a spare bottle. He kept his bow at the ready and took out the boss key.

As usual, the moment Link inserted the key into the lock, the lock shrunk into oblivion and the chains retreated back. He hurried in.

The door slammed shut, echoing in the metal chamber he was now in. A few meters ahead, a round arena lay, though he couldn't really tell in the dim light. He was currently standing on a short walkway leading up to there. To his sides were small corridors that glowed blue and dangerous. They were below him, so should he fall... Link was mindful of them as cautiously walked on, waiting for whatever monstrosity was in store.

It wasn't until he was almost at the center of the circular floor when a eerie, robotic voice stopped him.

"You have done well to have come to this place."

Link was slightly baffled by this. Since when do bosses ever talk to their victims? Most of the ones he'd faced couldn't even talk. Was he going to fight a human? Well, one that sounded mechanical, maybe. As to the statement itself, he wasn't that surprised. He figured it was just boss sass, and the King of Red Lions had already mentioned that many people did not come back out alive.

He looked around, trying to determine where the voice was coming from. It echoed, and seemed to come from nowhere. Right in front of him on the wall, he noticed some metal casts of...something big. One large one in the center, and two smaller ones on the sides. They bulged out from the wall. Lines ran along them. Link had no idea what exactly they were, but it didn't take a genius to figure it was the boss. The walls blinked with blue specks of light. That, and the glowing corridors he passed by earlier was the only source of light.

"O, Chosen one..."

Oh, please. Talk about cliche. The "chosen one" had enough of stalling and thinking. He was eager to just end this already and continue his quest to find Aryll.

"Accept this final challenge."

Do I have a choice? Link thought sarcastically. Only then did Link notice a steel head. Compared to the bulge under it, it seemed small. It had a simple metal crown thing that seemed to be a part of its head. Its eyes were closed, as was its mouth. It had huge nostrils, Link thought.

Suddenly, from the bottom of the lines, a stream of light ran up it, traveling through the square spirals and awakening the things on the wall. They were... Hands. Giant metal ones with thick fingers that could easily pound Link into a pancake. In the center of each palm was a bright green and yellow eye.

They floated out from the wall with a loud crashing sound. They were curled up, he noticed.

But the worst was the head. As soon as the lines of light reached it, the bright crimson eyes snapped open. It levitated high above the ground, and bored its eyes on Link.

They all descended down until they were almost on the ground, in front of Link. They were ready.

And so was he.

He knew immediately to shoot the eyes with his bow and arrows. The eyes of the head were shut, but not the ones on its hands. Without hesitation, he aimed right for the left one, since it was closer. The point of the arrow followed the eye as the hand swayed back and forth. He released the bowstring.

He was surprised when it arrow hit the eye and knocked the whole hand back. He didn't think the arrow had that much impact. With it gone, he focused the arrow at the right hand's eye. He fired, and it connected with the desired target. It was also launched back, but the left hand loomed back behind Link.

Link turned and shot a second arrow at it. The hand stiffened as it was shot again, and then it drooped down, still aimlessly floating about but now shut down.

Link wasted no more time on it as he spun on his heel for the right hand. It moved a lot faster now, turning and twisting. Then, it floated very close to Link and started curling up its fingers into a fist. Link realized in horror what was about to happen, so he frantically loosed another arrow at the eye. It successfully shut it down.

The left hand must not have been shot down well enough, since it was revived and turned sideways. It came fast and nearly swept Link into the corridors below, where he was sure to be electrified. Link couldn't help but feel that he was on a wild goose chase, but nevertheless, he shot that down too.

Finally, both hands were down, and the eyes of the head opened. Link fired arrow after arrow at the right eye. Many of them didn't hit their marks, since it kept moving and Link wasn't exactly trying for accuracy and finesse. They clattered off the sides of the metal head, but some did embed themselves into the eye.

Suddenly, both eyes closed. Cheater. Immediately, the room darkened but for the immense ball of light building up in the open mouth. The head faced him as Link tried to run away from it.

Then, the barrage came. Many powerful balls of light shot out in very quick succession. It was all Link could do to avoid being walloped by them.

The smoke cleared out. Link finished off the right eye and started killing off the left one. This time, it was a lot easier, even though Link could feel his quiver lighten as less and less arrows remained. What do I do when I run out? Oh crap I'll figure that out later. Link rolled out of the way of the energy balls again, sustaining no damage.

Link wasn't sure what the exact number of arrows required was, but Link shot about five to the eye, which most of them made it. The eyes on the head definitely needed more to shut it down, but Link prevailed.

The head was upright as it slammed into the ground, disabled. Its mouth hung open. So Link drew his sword out. On the first slash the sword clanged against the metal, sending sparks into the air. But it seemed uninjured. That was weird. Link tried again, but the results were the same.

Link ran out of time. The head and the hand were revived again. The head's eyes were closed once again and the hands circled him, very much intact.

But Link didn't register that at first. He just didn't understand. He looked down at his sword like it had just fallen apart or something. Why didn't it do anything? Using my sword is like the universal weakness-no, the law-of killing bosses. Was I supposed to attack its hands? Or some other vulnerable place...?

No, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be its head. Link wanted to try it again, just in case the boss was malfunctioning at that moment, but he decided not to. He liked to think he was better than that bumbling fool in Dragon Roost who was nearly defeated by a mere Moblin. He knew by now that being stubborn sometimes was more harmful than helpful.

So he pressed on to cripple the hands again. This time, they was way more aggressive, trying to crush him under a fist while he was occupied with downing the other hand. One time, it even swept him into the corridors below. There, he could barely walk two steps before being zapped out of his skin. Spazzing, he pulled himself back onto the platform, where the bothersome hands waited.

Link's problem surfaced again. There were no pots or grass or even pillars this time. Where was he supposed to get more arrows. Moreover, where was he supposed to obtain healing hearts?

Like with the head, it was harder to shoot the eye every time; often, the arrows bounced off where he missed. It finally came to a point where he ran out of arrows.

To Link's absolute bemusement, the boss snorted out arrows. From its nose. Link was slightly disgusted but figured this was no time to be picky, and he dashed toward the projectiles; besides, he was more than delighted to see that he wasn't going to be defenseless.

A perfect bundle of ten arrows awaited him. As Link collected them and notched one on the bowstring, he randomly wondered about them. Were they ones that Link used already? Link never did see what had happened to the arrows that were in the eyes. And these arrows did feel familiar and comfortable in his fingers. Were they being reused? Or was there a huge stock of arrows in the nostril? Link almost laughed around at the thought of sending his grappling hook up its nostril. But the shadow of a hand directly above him caught his attention back.

Since they were both already weakened from earlier, Link was able to shut down the hands with only three arrows. Link was focusing more on accuracy now.

Link got to attacking the head. He managed to blind one eye before the head began making energy balls again. As it was preparing them, Link ran and rolled away, directly under it.

There was nothing of significance on the bottom of it, but Link did notice that as soon as he was under it, the head immediately stopped making the balls of light, and the room brightened again. Link quickly sorta caught his breath there, but the head moved again and he had to resume shooting its eyes out.

He was nearly out of arrows when the head was done for. It dropped onto the floor. The way its mouth was wide open vaguely reminded Link of something. He took the time to think about it.

An armos knight had hopped closer to him before it opened its mouth wide. It had no teeth. "Rwahhhh," it had bellowed. To silence it, he'd tossed a bomb in its gaping mouth.

Link's hand already reached for a bomb while he thought, YES THAT'S IT! Without wasting another moment, he chucked the bomb into its waiting mouth and stepped back.

The head expanded and jumped a little. A moment later, black smoke came pouring from its ears and nostrils. Oh snap, it's pissed now, Link thought.

The hands were animated again. Link was extremely exhausted-he'd never fought a boss this tricky-and didn't move out of the way in time when the fist came crashing down. Another one pushed him into the electric corridor. Twitching, he lifted himself back onto the platform.

Link was about to collapse. So the sight of the head snorting out a healing heart made him use up the last of his energy to barrel across the floor to gain it. He wasn't fully healed or recovered, but he wasn't dead either.

He also fired his last remaining arrow randomly somewhere. He knew that whenever he got more arrows from the boss, the tradeoff was that everything would revive, and he would be back to square one.

Anyway, since he ran out, a new bundle of arrows fell onto the floor. He darted through the hands' attacks to scoop them up.

The hands were really desperate; they were doing everything they could to deter Link. But they were no match for his arrows, and soon, they hung in the air, numbed.

The head tried multiple times to pulverize the boy with the balls of light, but as soon as Link ran under it, it was forced to stop. It was easy for him to incapacitate it now. As yet another bomb exploded in the boss's mouth, the boss jumped and came to again.

Link disposed of his few arrows and restocked. He wondered why the boss helped him. It's probably so that this stupid machine can test me, to see if I'm this "chosen one", Link thought bitterly. Then he wondered why he didn't think about all this when it first happened.

Link was more aware of how the hands acted and attacked, so this time he didn't get hurt even once. It was obvious that they were frantic. More frantic than he was to end this.

Link dispatched them with ease. The head gave a good fight, but it was only a matter of time until Link disabled it as well. It plopped onto the ground, and Link threw in a bomb for what he hoped was the last time. With most bosses, three was the magic number. But this boss obviously didn't follow canon.

The thing had enough. As the bomb exploded, the head spun while it jumped. Then it was very still.

"The path is now open," The voice said to no one in particular. Then, it addressed Link. "O, chosen one... What will now come to pass is tied to fate-the path you have chosen. Proceed with caution."

"Wait!" Link cried. "Why am I the chosen one? And chosen by whom? What path?"

No answer. The head returned to their place in the wall, defeated, and the poor hands followed suit. A beam of purple light from the top of the ceiling struck the ground at a frightening speed.

The heart container spouted from a nostril and bounced onto the floor next to Link. He picked it up, and walked into the light.

As he was spirited away, he realized he'd forgotten about getting the picto for the boss again. But he wasn't nearly as upset as before. Ever since he missed the plant boss's picto, it wasn't as big a deal for him to get every picto. He really only did it for fun now.

His collection would never be complete. So why bother?

Author's Note: Long, right? Anyway, sorry if this chapter got choppy. I didn't want to describe every detail of shutting down the head/hands three times. Thanks to anyone still reading this! :)