Chapter 1: Darkness in the Morn      Chapter 3: The Princess’s Premonition

Chapter 2: The Great Arachnid

The inside of the Great Deku Tree was horrifying for the forest-raised children. He was as hollow as a drum, and they stood within a great hollow cavity of rotting wood that reached up into darkness. Ragged spiderwebs stretched across huge spaces like decaying shrouds. Link was very glad he had a small glowing fairy following him.
After staring upwards for a while, the boy took a deep breath and squared his shoulders, his small sword and shield at the ready, and walked forward to a depression in the floor. Before he came to the centre of the chamber, he stopped short. The centre of the ground was actually a deep well, but covered over with a thick gooey spiderweb.
Rana came up behind him and saw it too. “Gosh, this place is freaky.”
An enormous spider, as long, with its legs extended, as Link, scurried across the bottom of the web, making it tremble violently. The spider glared at them with its eight black eyes.
Link shivered. “I agree.”
“Are the spiders poisoning the tree?” asked Rana.
“I think so,” Navi answered. “They’ve poisoned it, and then part dies, and then the ordinary bugs come in and eat. It’s horrible. Let’s get fighting.”
“Good idea,” Link said, adjusting his grip on his sword grimly and setting off in search of something evil he could hit with it. Continue reading →

Link’s classic adventure, with an original character sidekick.
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Chapter 2: The Great Arachnid

Chapter 1: Darkness in the Morn

The sun rose, normally, casting veils of light through the Kokiri Forest. Dust motes and the ancient spirits of fairies long gone transformed them to quivering theatres of radiance.
The enchanted children of the forest, the Kokiri, who could never grow old, woke up with the sun and ran out of their tree houses to play and run on the green grass. One, a brown haired girl with a round face, and another, a sweet-looking green haired girl, played together. The brown haired girl was trying time after time to accomplish a handstand, but never balanced properly, even when the other girl tried to help her. They looked often towards a small, dark house tucked away behind some trees.
“Navi.” A deep mahogany voice called, unheard or ignored by most of the laughing children. “Come here…”
A tiny ball of light bobbled back and forth a few times, and then flew to the speaker, floating just in front of his face.
“Have you not felt the darkness in the air? Once again, malevolent forces are mustering to attack our broad land of Hyrule… The Kokiri Forest, which has stood for ages as a wellspring of life, is faltering. Even my power is as nothing…”
“I am sick, Navi. I need your help. It is time for the child of destiny to begin his journey. Do you understand?”
“Right!” chirped the fairy. Continue reading →