The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Dungeon Chapter 46 - Deku Greenhouse

...to the Forest Temple that waited beyond. A wave of humidity hit him like a wall. Link shook his head, taken back by sudden increase in moisture. He felt like he was back in Port City for a moment, but when no breeze followed, Link knew he was out of luck on that reality.

Pushing the doors all the way open, Link helped pulled the seed pod inside with the others. The entrance to the greenhouse wasn't very big, at least not for Link. He was inches away from the ceiling. That would make fighting difficult if it remained the same. At least his companions were comfortable.

"Do any of you remember very much about this place?" Link asked as the door swung shut behind them. He was hoping for some clues, assuming it couldn't have been that long since they'd hatched themselves.

Hiding beneath his bush, Kephe shook in fear in place of an answer. The burst of excitement entering had been short lived it seemed. Wudhi answered first when no one else did, "I'd probably remember the least out of this lot. It's been near a century since I was here."

"Eighty is coming up for me," Saruo replied.

Mismawn hopped up onto the seed pod. "Sixty-seven years ago!"

Still shaking, Kephe managed, "I-I-I'm g-going to be half a century soon."

Link blinked and looked around at the group. Calling them forest children was starting to feel a little inaccurate. "Is there anything you can remember?"

"It didn't look like this before," Mismawn commented as he looked around.

Link rubbed his temples for a moment in frustration at the non-starter this had been. Saruo chuckled. "Like I said before, I don't know why you brought these shrubs."

"Do you know if anyone kept a map of the Greenhouse?" Link asked.

"Oh, yes, the Wardens had one," Wudhi answered. "For when folks would come to visit, there was a map kept in the storerooms to hand out, I believe. Wonder what happened to the Wardens though."

"Let's find one of those storerooms then," Link suggested, giving the seed pod a push. The doors seemed to be designed to be large enough for the pods, but not for taller visitors. Link started to wonder why Endeavor had elected to leave now, a different suspicion than then one they had given. Link bent down to push the door open, glad for once that he wasn't very tall.

Beyond the main entrance was a long hall. It forked at the far end into two more paths. At the middle of that intersection stood a huge, ornate door. Link look at the heavy lock hanging on the door frame. "I'm guessing that's where we need to take this pod then."

"As far as I remember," Wudhi replied in agreement.

Link looked the corridor up and down. "When did all this start? When you stopped coming here that is."

"Just shy of twenty years ago," Saruo stated. Link felt a pang of guilt, guessing that it was closer to eighteen years. He gave himself the benefit of the doubt. Ganondorf had become active around before then too. And he'd been targeting the temples long before Link had been born. Nor was Link the reason for it.

"What are these Wardens?" Link inquired, trying to get the conversation away from that guilty thought process.

Mismawn rattled as he bounced along with Link down the halls. "They were big things that protected the seeds."

"Big what though?" Link continued to the end of the hall, peering around the corner, but keeping to the shadows. At the end of the hall leading to the left was a dormant contraption. For a moment, Link thought it was an Armos, but there was something odd about it that differentiated this machine from an Armos. There were features on it that looked almost like the Sheikah tongue.