Not long after setting out, the four ran into another strange sea denizen. Ed had started singing his gravy-song and Double D was staring at his new (Mostly empty) map when suddenly a voice called as if from nowhere:
"Hoy! Hold it right there, small fry!" the Eds followed the mysterious orders and stopped the boat
"It wasn't me!" Ed responded as if blamed.
"W-who's there?" Double d asked timidly.
"If it's Kevin, I swear-" Eddy began when a fish, the size of a salmon and navy blue all over, leapt from the ocean and far beyond their heads. It landed back in the water with a loud splash, turned around and amazingly began to speak.
"I don't know where you got your mitts on that sea-chart you got there-" the strange animal started before the Eds cut him off.
"Mutant fish man!" Ed shouted leaning to get a closer look and almost falling into the water too.
"A talking fish?" Double d asked, "But that's impossible!"
"Oh, but it ain't! Anyhow, looks like it's got nothing but seas drawn on it!"
"That would seem to be the case,"
"It's pathetic! In fact, it's almost an insult to call that thing a sea-chart, if you ask me!"
"What's it to ya?"
"Eddy, let the fish-man make his point."
"What's the matter, small-fry? I'm just trying to be nice here! I'm tellin' you you've got a problem, and you do."
Eddy grumbled out what sounded like "Don't call me small-fry." And with that the fish-man continued, "I'm here to teach you what I know about this island, so open up you're sea-chart and make it snappy!"
"Double d fumbled to pull it out of the wayfarer's guide and almost dropped it, but fish-man caught it and marked a square of it with an ink-laden brush. On the spot was an Arial-view tracing of Dragon-roost, complete with a caption. Fish-man began speaking yet again, "There's a very peculiar cave towards the backside of this island, but I doubt you'll ever get to it: unless you sprout wings and learn to fly."
"That's stupid." Eddy commented before hearing Double d scribbling on a blank page parallel to dragon roost.
"Learn…to…fly. Thank you fish-man!"
"As if we're ever coming back here again!" Eddy grumbled, remembering how he died.
"Are you gonna do that with the rest of the map?" Ed asked, pointing at all the blankness that covered the paper.
"Well, not me personally. But the rest of my school can, nice bunch of fish."
"What's the catch?" Eddy Asked distrustfully.
"No real catch, except for a little all-purpose bait, but for a reliable chart it's well-worth it! Don't say I never did nothing for you!" the fish man looked as if he was about to swim away, but instead turned to the king of red lions, who had been silent the whole time, "I've repaid my debt, you do the rest!" And with that final note swam away.
The rest of the journey was uneventful. Eddy and Double d occasionally asked the king of red lions what debt the fish-man owed him, but he never answered. "Take one down, pass it around, that's eleven bottles of gravy on the wall!"
"Ed, shut up!" Eddy shouted dog-piling him. Squeezing his mouth shut, he growled, " I don't want to hear another peep until we're there!"
"But Eddy," he whimpered standing back up and pointing, "We are here!" there on the horizon sat two similar islands, both shorter than dragon-roost. And even though night had begun, the Eds could see that the island was covered in foliage: tall grass, trees, and plants of all sorts. "This is where we must go," the king of red lions announced in all his grandeur, "Forest Haven."
"Looks like a giant tree." Eddy commented as the boat came to a stop. "Indeed, yet it is a sacred place. Inside it's grotto lives the spirit of the earth: The great Deku tree."
"And we can assume he has one of the pearls?" Double d predicted, stepping off the boat's deck. "Yes, Farore's pearl to be precise." The boat turn to them, concern showing on his carved face, "I fear that Ganon's vile hand may have already reached to this most sacred of sanctuaries."
"A monster hunters war is never built!" Ed announced, perhaps trying to sound smart, or brave (I'm not really sure.). "Go forward with caution, Eds."
"C'mon, c'mon! Move it or lose it Double d!" Eddy shouted from the top of several earthen platforms Double d was still trying to climb. "Just . . . a . . . moment . . . friends!" he panted, collapsing on the final platform.
"Ah, you're still weaker than a guppy!" Eddy started walking again, not looking where he was going, "The real world 'll chew you up and spit you out at this rate!"
"E-d-d-d-y!" Double d stuttered looking at his friend's path. "What?" Eddy looked ahead, but before he could do anything he was swallowed by what looked like a giant Venus flytrap. "Guys! Help me!" Eddy shouted as the plant chewed him up and spat him out again. "Now parish, beast of the depths!" Ed shouted, hacking away at the plant with his sword while Double d wiped the creature's spit off Eddy. "What the heck was that thing?" Eddy asked when he regained his composure. "A boko-baba. You really should watch where you're going Eddy, or you'll be killed long before I am."
"Geez, ya sound like my mother!"
"Hey guys!" Ed had killed the boko baba and was now wearing its head like a mask, "I'm just a mean green monster from outer space, and I'm bad!!!!"
"Ed, you maniac!" Eddy laughed in spite of himself and the dangers they faced, "Take that thing off, you look like a bad Broadway prop!"
"Broadway? Oh, and I found: one rupee!"
"Sweet! Gimme gimme gimme!" Eddy grabbed the rupee and stored it in his pocket.
"One boko stick!" Ed held out the stick and bent it a little. It snapped out of his hands and into the ocean, "Never mind. Oh and this thingy!" Ed held out a seed that looked a lot like the boko baba itself. "Interesting." Double d examined it with his magnifying glass, "I've heard of these seeds before, they're boiled in some places to make a 'magic' restoring potion."
"Too bad. Let's get going!" Eddy dragged them away from where they sat.
They fought several more boko babas and an octopus-like creature (an octorok, according to Double d) and swung across water-filled chasms before coming to the entrance of the forest haven. "Good lord." Double d and the others stopped in their tracks. The inside of the cave was covered in trees and tall grass; the only illumination came from the dancing fireflies. Cleaner water than they'd ever seen encircled the plants, and in the center of it all was a giant tree; taller than Valoo and thicker than a house. But the trunk was the most interesting part: It seemed to have a face. "I guess that's the Deku tree." Eddy started wading through the clean water to a set of lily pads larger than the king of red lions. "Oh, Mr. Deku tree!" Ed called when they got to the lily pad, but it gave no response. "Maybe it's asleep?"
"A tree that sleeps?" they almost thought of leaving when suddenly a red blob with a moronic face sprouted from the face-like trunk. "It is the curse of evil Tim!" Ed shouted in terror backing away. "Actually, that's a chu-chu. But what it's doing on the Deku tree is a mystery to me." Double d answered pulling out the grappling hook. "Hey, there's more of 'em!" Eddy was correct; several more red and green chu-chus appeared on the tree's trunk. The tree stirred and moaned in pain. "I will save you, living tree of Neverland!" Ed charged at the tree but tripped, smashing into the base of it. All the chu-chu's fell from their perch and gathered around the Eds. "Nice going, lumpy!" Eddy shouted, hacking away at a few with the hero's sword. Soon he and Double d had purged the clean water of their blobby pestilence.
No sooner had the last chu-chu fallen when the tree stirred again " "
"What?" Eddy asked when he heard the garbled words of the tree. 'It's speaking some sort of ancient language" Double d answered. It continued to speak its bizarre dialect and lifted the three boys into the air with its lily pads, which served as hands. "Hey, put me down ya crazy clapboard!" Eddy shouted at the living foliage.
"Eddy, pick your words wisely! This is a guardian spirit after all."
"Not to mention a duck!" The tree gave them a strange look, than spoke again in the Ed's native language, "I must apologize, I was in error. I saw your clothing, and suddenly felt a longing for an age gone by . . . that longing caused an ancient language to pass my lips." Double d gasped, "Does that mean you lived long enough ago to know the ancient hero?"
"Indeed. I am the guardian spirit of this forest haven- the Deku tree."
"Can I have your autograph?" Ed asked.
"He doesn't have hands stupid!" Eddy replied for him, the tree began again.
"I owe you thanks for your aid in ridding me of those foul creatures," Double d stepped forward,
"Not a problem, great spirit. We were already on our way here to ask you something."
"Ah, so you must be the three the king of red lions guided here."
"How do you know about our boat?" Eddy asked in slight shock. The tree seemed not to hear him. "So it is true. Then you have come here because you have need of the pearl of the goddess?"
"As soon as possible!" Double d begged carefully.
The tree sighed, "I knew there was a reason those monsters had found their way into my wood . . . Gannon has returned." Eddy and Double d gulped at the Deku tree's reaction, if even he feared the return of Gannon, how strong could he be? "In that case we must make haste." The tree sucked up a gust of air, almost sucking up the Ed's hats, and then called in a booming voice, "Koroks! Little children of the woods, these travelers are not your enemies. Let your hearts be at ease, and show yourselves!" several creatures stepped out of the cracks and crevices of the Deku tree's trunk. They appeared to be wooden dolls wearing leaf masks, and yet they were alive. "Intriguing!" Double d blurted out while the living saplings stared back at them with the same curiosity. They leapt into the air and took flight on leaf-like propellers. "Cool!" Ed stared as they descended gracefully, "Can I fly, too?"
"What do you call yourselves?" the forest-children asked.
"I'm Eddy, got any rupees?"
"What's a rupee?" the flying dolls asked.
"I'm Double d. How do you manage to stay aloft?"
"Magic."
"I am Ed, future monster hunter!"
"These are the Koroks," the Deku-tree told them, "They are the spirits of the forest. Once upon a time, long ago, the Koroks took on human form. But when they came to live on the sea, they took this form instead." As he explained the koroks landed in a circle around the Eds.
"These guys give me the creeps!" Eddy whispered.
"Now they fear people . . .but to me they will ever be my cherished children."
"See Eddy, they're more scared of you than you are of them!"
"As it happens, you have come just in time for a ceremony the Koroks hold but once a year. I will grant you the pearl when the ceremony is over. I must apologize for the delay, but if the ceremony is not completed soon, ill fate could befall us."
"Well, I suppose a short intermission and a taste of Korok culture couldn't hurt." Double d agreed.
"So let's get this show on the road!" Eddy demanded.
"Great Deku tree! We can't start the ceremony yet, Makar is in trouble!" Shouted a frightened and slightly obnoxious voice. "That sounds familiar!" Ed's smile gave way to thought, "Because- is sounds liiike . . ."
"Sounds like melonhead, Bonehead!" Eddy finished his thought. Suddenly another boy, dressed like the Eds, zip-lined down a vine holding onto a piece of wood. Near the end of the vine he let go of one end of the board and dove into the crowd of Koroks and Eds. The boy replaced his cap onto his large, baldhead and gave a toothy grin. "Nice landing, huh plank!" he asked the piece of wood he was carrying. "Johnny, Get off me." Eddy growled from under his feet. "Wowzers, the Eds!" Johnny replied, following Eddy's orders, "Small world, huh guys?"
"Johnny? I thought we'd never see you again! What on earth are you doing here?" Double d asked.
"This is plank's birthplace, I'm learnin' the ropes of being a Korok!" he laughed, "So what are you guys doing here? Scamming the flowers."
"I forget what we're doing." Ed answered with an idiotic grin on his face.
"Ed, we're rescuing you're sister."
"Sarah? SARAH!" Ed charged of the lily pad and the Koroks strained to carry his girth back. "Are you going to do that every time?" Eddy asked in frustration.
"What happened to Sarah?" Johnny asked when Ed was recovered.
"I don't know it this makes any sense, but a man named Gannon kidnapped her." No sooner had the word Gannon passed his lips than the Koroks took back to the air in panic. The Deku tree took a moment to calm them than re addressed Johnny, "What is wrong, you and Makar are always late."
"It's not that, Great Deku tree, worse!" Johnny's terror again returned, "Makar fell into the forbidden woods!"
"What?! The forbidden woods!" the tree's voice was loud with anger and concern. "I warned him not to go farther than plank and I could reach, didn't I plank? But when he flew over those thorn-covered woods- I'm fired aren't I?"
"No, you're not. Foolish little Makar . . ."
"Are we fired?" Ed asked, not knowing he was never hired at all. "Eds, you've heard all this, correct." Double d nodded while Eddy sighed. "The forbidden woods are right beside the hallowed island of our forest haven. Those woods, the whole region is a vile place that is home to evil beasts."
"You want us to go in there and find him, don't you?" Eddy asked exasperated. "I am sorry to ask this of you. But I assume your presence on this island is no mistake; the king of red lions expects great things of you and thus brought you here. Please rescue young Makar for us!"
There was a brief pause, but Ed broke the silence, "Monster hunters never back away!"
"Ed's right. It may be dangerous, but someone's gotta do it!"
"But Deku tree, people can't fly!" Johnny pointed out, perhaps remembering how different he was form other Koroks. "Ah, yes. Thank you, child. You are right. It is not possible to enter those woods from the sea, is it?"
"Nope!" Johnny answered cheerily despite the situation.
"Eds, I would guess by your size that you are much heavier than my Korok children . . ."
"That would be logical, "Double d replied, lifting one with two fingers. "And yet I believe we may still be able to solve this dilemma."
"We could build a plane!" Ed offered pantomiming flying a plane.
"Stop breakin' the fourth wall, stupid!" Eddy smacked Ed mid-panto-flight.
"You must use the item I bestow upon you." The tree grunted, than gave a mighty shout. Upon its highest branch a glistening leaf sprouted.
"Who stepped on a duck?" Ed asked, fanning the air with his hand. "Forgive me Eds, but could you climb to my crown and get that leaf?"
"Umm, certainly but how?" Double d peered up at the high branches, too high to reach by hand.
"Oh that's easy!" Johnny declared, grabbing Eddy by the hand, "Follow us, plank and I are experts at using baba buds." The board stayed silent as Johnny led the Eds along.
"Alright, first you find a nice purple bud, like this one!" Johnny quickly ran the perimeter of a bud, humming excitedly.
"Here's one guy I didn't need to meet again!" Eddy grumbled.
"Eddy, can't you say something nice for once?" Double d whispered nagging.
"The guy gives me a headache!'
"Is that all you can say about a fellow-"
"Hey?" Johnny looked at them accusingly, "Are you two paying attention?"
"Measure twice, cut once!" Ed bleated out.
"Whatever! Next you got to jump into it!" Johnny (Still holding plank, mind you) crouched, leapt and cannonballed into the bud, disappearing under the purple leaves.
"Johnny!" Double d shouted, running to the bud.
"Ah, it probably ate him!" Eddy leaned over the bud, which was now shaking furiously, "Go riddance to-aaaaaah!" the bud burst open and something gray and green shot Eddy screaming into the air. The thing seemed to be laughing, and when Eddy looked closer at it, "Johnny? What the?"
"That's the magic of baba buds, Eddy! Plank says they help you fly!"
"Fly-smy! Now get me down!"
"Ok, but it might sting!" Eddy looked down, they were nearly Ten feet in the air! Johnny opened his hat and used it as a parachute, but Eddy dropped like a rock to the ground.
"Granddad, Men really are meant to fly!" Eddy nonsensically spouted when his friends gathered around him. "Johnny, is it really safe to use those?" Double d asked when he and plank landed. "Nope. But I'd like to see you get there otherwise!" he laughed, "Oh, one more thing, by leaning in a certain direction, you can control the way the buds send you!"
"Well, that's convenient!"
"Oooh, Oooh!" Ed bellowed raising his hand, "I want to go first!"
"Why not? Eddy still looks out of it, and Double d, you look too scared to try!"
"I certainly am not!" Johnny didn't seem to hear this, he leapt into the bud again and it spat him forward, "C'mon, time's awaisting!"
"Wait for me!" Ed shouted, diving for the ground-level bud, "Allyup!" the two leapt from one bud to another, going higher and higher as the suspended buds carried them.
"Ooowww," Eddy groaned, regaining consciousness, "No good, tree huggin'!"
"Um, Eddy, We still have a job to do."
"Ah, let Ed and baldy handle it! I'm not getting killed again!"
"Eddy!"
"What? It's true."
"Hey!" Johnny and Ed were standing on top of a leafy Tree platform, "Hurry up, slowpokes!"
"You heard him, Eddy."
"Sheesh."
Double d stared down into the powerful bud, and carefully stepped inside. The leaves Wriggled and shook all around him as he leaned forward at the last crucial moment. "Not good, not good!" Double d shouted as he spun ahead into another bud. When he got to the next one, he leaned in the direction the next bud faced. Eddy also leapt into the next two buds, but missed the third and to start from the beginning again. But Soon all three Eds were on the same tree with Johnny. "Now you gotta swing to the next one!" Johnny announced, grabbing a vine and crossing a gap to the next bud sitting on a green pole. "Remember, don't look down!" The Eds peered over the Edge of the platform to see that they were indeed high up, defiantly high enough to kill them. "You go first, Ed!" Eddy handed Ed the grappling hook and pushed him across. "But Eddy, the grappling hook retracts after each swing!" Eddy thought about this a moment "Ed you lummox! Get back here!"
"I am Ed of the Jungle! Strong as he can be."
"Ed, Watch out for Eddy!" Sure enough Ed slammed in to Eddy and swung back across with Doubled hanging on feebly. The Eds swung past the baba bud and loomed over a green death "Ed, we've overshot our destination!"
"Reverse thrusters!" Ed shouted, pulling the rope back.
"ED, YOU IDIOT!" Eddy shouted before a chorus of screaming from the three started. It was cut short by pitch-black ooze. "Unclean! Eddy, is this what it feels like to be dead?" Double d asked the others, who were once again pressed against him. "Nah, it's airier and everything's blue. Where are we?" That was answered by a familiar rumbling; the Eds leaned towards where the other bud waited. "How'd we end up in the bud?" Eddy asked as they sailed to another one. "I'm not sure, could be luck?" the two smarter Eds pondered this while flying from one bud to another, but Ed on the other hand made a huge mistake while staring aimlessly about the forest, "I LOOKED DOWN, GUYS!"
He stopped in mid-air, and clenched the other two Eds. "ED NO STOP!" Double d shouted looking down, waiting to die. But underneath him something miraculous happened; the final bud slowly moved underneath them and caught them as they fell. "Ok, something's defiantly wrong here!" Eddy announced, as he had not seen what Double d had. "Eddy the baba bud saved us!"
"It is alive?" Ed asked when the bud spit them back into the air towards the Deku tree's crown. "It's almost as if it wants us to fight back . . ."
"NO MORE QUOTING THINGS FROM THE REAL WORLD!" Eddy shouted when they landed, "geez."
"Sparkly!" Ed shouted, picking up the Deku leaf, and showing it to the other Eds. "Is there a manual for this?" Eddy asked, feeling the thick veins between the papery margins. "All you three have to hold on to it and use your magic to help it glide."
"Magic? But I thought that wasn't real!" Double d announced, "Besides, we should be much too heavy to stay aloft with this."
"Double d, if there's one thing worth knowing about the great sea, it's that it's full of magic. As for the other concern, three times the hero means three times the magic! You can also use it to blast gusts of air like a fan."
"Cool" the Eds announced simultaneously.
"Hey guys!" The Eds looked down to a hole in the cave with a grassy platform underneath it. Johnny and Plank were standing right next to a grass arrow pointing outside "You coming or what?"
"We will be with you momentarily," Double d called back. It was still a long way down, and for a logical boy like Double d crossing the chasm with magic might as well be getting a haircut with a chainsaw. "On the count of three, we jump! All of us or none of us!"
"One!"
"Eddy, I'm having second thoughts!"
"Two!"
"There's no such thing as magic, we'll die!" Ed leaned over his scared friend and smiled, "Have faith Double d"
"Three!" and with that Eddy and Ed pushed themselves and their clever friend off the crown and into the air.
Double d didn't look until he heard a strange chiming noise above him. He saw that not only were they not plummeting to certain death, but also the leaf really was supporting all three of their weight. "What- How on earth?"
"That's the sound of depleting magic!" Johnny told them as they floated towards the platform, "See? The Deku tree told you magic was real!" Double d swallowed, "I suppose it is . . .But how do we get down?" They were over the platform now and were about to hit the cave wall. "Ya just let go!" The Eds followed Johnny's instructions, but perhaps too early, "Oh yeah, one more thing! You can open it again and use it like-" Loud screams and an even louder thud stopped Johnny's instructions, he leaned over three Ed-shaped holes in the dirt and finished, "a parachute."
When the Eds pulled themselves out of the dirt, Johnny led them to an outside natural balcony. Across the salty straight loomed another cave-like island, but this one was covered in thorny branches. "That's the Forbidden woods." Johnny pointed to the ominous island, "I gives me and plank the creeps!"
"Yes, well. We appreciate your help Johnny; why don't you go back inside and prepare for that ceremony." Double d stepped forward but was surprised by Johnny stepping ahead of them. "I wish I could, but the Great Deku tree told me that I needed to help you incase a monster tried to eat you, or if you get lost." Johnny started cutting grass around the balcony with a small knife, "There's magic in the grass, you'll need it in there." The Eds started cutting grass along with Johnny. "Great, now we're stuck with baldy!" Eddy growled, but Double d said nothing. The Eds looked up to the tower yet again, and Double d got a closer look with his telescope. "Wowzers, where'd you get the neat Telescope?" Johnny asked.
"Birthday present. Johnny, even with a magic leaf, it looks like the only platform inside is too high up to reach, how-"
"That's where we gotta use the updrafts!" Johnny pulled out another Deku leaf, this one slightly smaller and darker green, and jumped off the first platform.
He flew across to another one and on to the Forbidden woods, using mini-cyclones to get across. The Eds followed suit, and it seemed flying wasn't so hard once you got the hang of it. The inside of the forbidden woods was much like forest haven, only the plats were cursed and evil instead of sacred and good. Man-eating plants like the boko-baba and giant Mothula plagued the heroes the whole way. But Johnny proved to be a priceless friend and helpful guide through the shadowy dungeon, such as he was in the battle of Mothula . . .
"Are we there yet?" Eddy asked again for the twelfth time while jumping out of a baba bud. Johnny giggled, "Nope." The Eds followed Johnny through a room infested with monsters, ignoring them, as they were too slow to affect them. "Are we there yet?"
"Nope!" They glided across a gap to a doorway all by itself; Johnny and Ed opened it together. "ARE WE THERE YET!" Johnny hysterically laughed at Eddy's impatience "NOPE!" after awhile he stopped laughing and caught sight of where they were, "Um guys, they're some things in this forest that are bad, I mean really bad . . ."
"Such as?" Double d asked, stopping in his tracks to listen.
"Such as Kalle Demos, the giant flower, and there's always the Mothula."
"Oh, oh, is it like Mothera?" Ed asked, giving a bad impersonation. Johnny leaned down to planks crayon-drawn mouth, "What's that Plank? Plank says to stop breaking the fourth wall or else . . ."
"So Johnny, tell us more about this Mothula." Johnny looked scared again, "well, it's big and it kinda sparkles,"
"Like those stupid teen vampires everybody's raving about?" Eddy said snidely, walking farther into the room they were in. "Exactly. By the way, Plank says you're a hypocrite."
"Tell him I said he was chopsticks. What else."
"It can fly . . ." Johnny looked horrified, and Double d was cautiously stepping forward "It eats people . . . and . . . And . . ."
"AND WHAT?"
"And it's right behind you!"
Eddy laughed. "Is that the best you can do? That joke's older than Sturgeon!" He stopped to brush some powdery and, almost sparkley, dust off his tunic, "Jeez, what's with this stuff? It makes me look like Jimmy." Eddy looked up to where it was falling, only to see a giant Moth with one eye and four wings staring down at him hungrily. "Oh, you were serious . . . AAAAH!" Eddy dove out of the way just as the giant insect mowed down Double d in his tracks. "We need Godzilla for this part!" Ed shouted running around in circles. "Don't worry Ed! All we need's a little gust of wind; and-" Johnny unfurled his Deku leaf, only to find the magic leaf bear. "I'M OUT OF MAGIC!" Double d got to his feet shakily pulled out their Deku leaf, still with some magic, and fanned a gust at the moth just as it prepared to knock him down again. When it fell, Ed hit it with the sword and it sprayed several static-clinging Mothula eggs, called Morths, onto the Eds. After knocking them off with the sword, Double d and Ed continued battling the creature until it fell. "Well, I guess that's that." Double d muttered, "Shall we proceed?"
"Uh guys," Johnny stood beside the door, bars fastening it closed, "We're kinda stuck." The three began to think of ways to get out, while Eddy started rifling through a treasure chest near-by. Instead of finding rupees, like he hoped, he found a yellow boomerang with a red pearl in the center of it. This gave him an idea.
"Maybe we could dig underneath it?" Johnny offered, but Double d turned that down too, "We'd need a shovel."
"We could eat the bars!" Ed started chewing in them, getting splinters on his tongue; "The indigestion would be excruciating!" Eddy stepped in front of him, a huge smile on his face. "And I suppose you have an idea?" Double d asked with a little hope. "Just a thought." He shifted his weight and tossed the boomerang at two crystals above the door. The bars slid up and the Eds and Johnny tumbled out laughing. "Then again," Johnny said standing up, "This place also has some good things." Before continuing onward to where Makar was, Eddy looked at the boomerang and whispered, "No foolin'."
"Here we are guys, Plank says Makar's on the other side of this room!" the Eds entered a dark chamber with poisonous-looking water all around it. Pots dotted the walls, which Ed started to smash for energy and rupees. "This was a very brave thing for you to do, Johnny. Thank-you!" Double d nodded as
Johnny made his way over to a large cauldron that would take him back to the entrance of the forest. "No problem, good luck g-" He started before staring at plank oddly, "You want me to what? Isn't that a little dangerous?" While Johnny seemed to argue with his piece of wood, Ed started to wail, "GET 'EM OFF GUYS, GET 'EM OFF!" he was covered in Morths from a pot he had smashed and had a hard time getting them off, even with his sword swing at them. "Spin attack Ed, Morths come off with a spin attack!" Double d instructed. Ed Spun in a fast circle, and while it almost scalped Eddy it got rid of the Morths and Ed smiled. "Thanks, guys."
"Quit foolin' around!" Eddy ordered to the other Eds, "Don't you guys remember we have a pearl to collect?"
The Eds crossed the room to where the door was and for some reason, Plank was winning the argument against Johnny. "Um, guys . . . plank wants me to go with you!"
"What? No way! This is our sctick!"
"I concur, we'll be fine on our own. Why don't you return to the Deku tree and prepare for that ceremony."
"Well if you say so." Jonny Replied, but plank wouldn't hear of it. "I am not a sissy!" the two argued while the Eds continued onward.
"That guy was startin' to get on my nerves!"
"Eddy, without him we'd be lost it the forest for sure."
"Whatever, let's find the sprout an-"
Ed grabbed his friends with one arm and pointed with the other, "I spy with my little eye . . . Something that is green!" bouncing on a giant blue flower was a Korok, though smaller than any the Eds had seen before, "H-have you come to rescue me?" the little Korok panted. "Yes Makar. Stay there, in case something goes wrong." The Eds crossed the floor to where he was, "Aww, he's all little, like Eddy!" Ed noted.
"I AM NOT SHORT!" Eddy replied, before a Creature popped out of the flower behind Makar. It liked like a Boko-baba, only smaller and with different colors. "Ack! What's that?" Eddy asked retreating behind Ed. "What goes wrong, Aka Kalle Demos." Double d answered as it swallowed Makar whole and began to move the flower petals. "It ate our little buddy!" Ed sobbed, "We must vanquish it!" the flower closed around it and blue tentacles pulling it to the roof of the room. Sickle shaped tentacles came out of its bottom, and then sense flowed in to them. "Ok, what's the plan, Double d?"
"We need to cut it down from the ceiling and slice it up from there. For that I recommend the boomerang." Eddy took it out and started cutting the beast down. When the monster finally fell, Ed drew his sword, "PREPARE YORSELF, DARK SPORE FROM BEYOND THE-"
"Hit it, Ed!" the other Eds shouted from a distance.
"Oh, yeah!" Ed smacked the tiny plant inside until the large flower bud closed around him, mercilessly chewing on him.
"ED!" Double d and Eddy both shouted. "Let go of my friend, you dolt!" Eddy cut down ten tentacles before it spat Ed shouting into the air. "Hurt." He mumbled when he landed. "He gonna be ok, Double d?" Eddy asked, chopping off several more tentacles while the sickle-shaped set tried to tear him apart as well. "He'll be fine, as long as he gets some rest." Double d answered, pulling Ed to the unmoving entrance. "I'll take over for him."
Double d and Eddy did a credible job together. Unlike Ed, Double d would hit the plant three times and Eddy would take over from there with his boomerang. Without much effort the head came off and bounced across the room, landing on Ed's stomach. "I feel asleep."{Note: I spelled this wrong on purpose to make fun of another misspelled bit of dialogue from a Nintendo videogame and of Ed's stupidity.} Ed mumbled, feeling the plant head on his gut, "Aww, I MISSED IT!"
"Cheer up, Ed. We killed the monster!" Just as Double d said this the head painlessly exploded on Ed, releasing another heart container and Makar.
"Little buddy, you're alive!" Ed bound Makar in another deadly hug. "You- you rescued me!" The frightened Korok cried into Ed's green tunic, "You have my thanks! When all went dark around me, I thought my time on earth was over."
"There, there." Double d replied, kneeling down and giving Ed back the sword, "The Deku tree and the other Koroks are worried sick over you!"
"The Deku tree sent you?!?" Makar started bouncing frantically, "Oh right, today's the day of the annual ceremony; I'm in so much trouble, I shouldn't be here!"
"Yeah, leaving sounds good, I'm bored!"
"But Eddy, the door's locked!" Eddy and Double d puzzled over this a moment before Ed pointed again, "Guys, another swirly-whirly!" finding no better way out the Eds and Makar left via warp tunnel.
Double d coughed, "I don't think I'll ever get used to that." The three had landed on the Deku tree's Lily-hand, and Eddy caught Makar as he materialized, "One Korok, hold the mayo!" the Deku tree looked Elated, so did the other Koroks; even Johnny (Who returned not long after the Eds had left him in the separate chamber) had a look of security on his face. But Makar looked horrified, especially when the Deku tree spoke to him, "Makar, you have returned safely!" he leaped out of Eddy's hands and sobbed into his stick-like stubs "I'm sorry, Great Deku tree . . . I know you warned us many times, but still I did not listen . . ."
"Told ya, Makar!" Johnny whispered behind Plank. The Deku tree smiled, "Do not worry, Makar. You are safe now, just be careful from now on." The living tree turned to the young heroes, " You have done well, Ed, Double d, and Eddy. I must thank you for your brave deeds."
"I love being a hero," Eddy whispered to his friends, "It never gets old!"
"Here is what I have promised you. Please accept it." the Deku tree shook his tall branches and out fell a green Treasure, "Money! Ch-ching!" Eddy gloated; grabbing it, until he remembered it was a pearl, not money. "Oh well. I call Farore's pearl!" the Other Eds and Johnny laughed at Eddy's foolish greed while the Deku tree kept speaking " It is my hope that this pearl shall lead you to a fair destiny."
"You bet it will! 100 rupees and jawbreakers, here I come!" the Deku tree moved on to Makar, "All is well, Makar. Do not cry. Please, play your songs for me, as you always do." Makar looked up and bounced profusely, "Oh, that's right! We must begin our ceremony soon, before the day ends"
"But the sun's already risen." Doubled d pointed to a hole high above the Deku tree that showed the blue sky, but the others ignored him. "I'm sorry to keep you all waiting. Let the ceremony begin!" Makar bounced into the air one more time and pulled out a sky-blue violin and Red berry-lashed bow, both too large for him. He turned back to the Eds, "Oh, Great Eds . . . As my thanks to you, I shall play even harder than I normally do. I hope you enjoy it."
"It should be a real treat!" Double d agreed.
Makar did play well, with a lively Celtic tune that everyone in forest haven danced to, and to which the Koroks and Johnny hummed. Then, when the music reached its end, from its highest branches the Deku tree sprouted large seeds, almost as large as Eddy. "Cool." Ed hummed as they floated down to where several Koroks could grab them. "Great Deku tree, this year you have once again produced some splendid seeds." The Koroks praised the Mighty plant, "With these seeds we will continue to spread new forests across the great sea. Farewell, heroes." And with that the Koroks flew away on their own Deku leaves.
"Well that was a lovely break!" Eddy announced sarcastically as the three heroes left the sacred forest behind. As they neared The King of Red Lions, Ed ran over to a red mailbox shaking in the ground "Mr. Birdieman left us a prize!" Ed Stood in front of the mailbox, "Hello, Mr. Mailbox!"
"Ed, I can reason that maybe a fish can talk, and maybe even a tree," Double d laughed, "But never, by all that is logical, will there be a mailbox that ta-"
"Gooooooood moooorrrrrning!" the mailbox chimed.
"I'm speechless." Double d flatly replied.
"Who's complainin'!' Eddy added, "Got any mail for us?"
"Letters for the Eds? I've got 1 letter!" the red box spat out a piece of paper covered in small writing. It read:
Dear Eds,
If you are reading this letter, it can only mean you have peeked into one of our many postboxes. I am indebted to you. I am very sorry I let you leave without thanking you. Please accept my heartfelt apology along with my thanks. We cannot do much to help you, but we can at least do this: if we ever get any letters or parcels for you, we will deliver it to a postbox near you. If you see any wiggling postboxes, please look inside them. I suppose you have a long way to go before your perilous journey is done. I have included a gift for you with my letter in hope that it might help you. Please accept this small token. I look forward to the day we meet again.
May fortune fill your wings
From Komali's father
As soon as the Eds read the final line, a heart-shaped container fell from it. "Wahoo! Another heart container!" Eddy shouted picking it up. "Actually Eddy, that's only a piece of heart" Double d corrected.
"A piece?!?"
"Yes, but if you collect four more, a new heart container is formed."
"Man, the real world isn't as good as I thought it would be . . ."
"And it's only getting worse." The living boat replied, startling the Eds yet again, "This sacred place has been attacked by Gannon. Could it be that his power is returning?"
"Returning or not, I'm getting sick of him already!" Eddy grumbled.
"Eds, you must get the remaining pearl. It lies in a place northwest of here, we must set sail immediately!"
"You heard the mode of transportation! Let's get going!"