[EDITING] The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Dungeon Chapter 51 - Lesson Plans

...as he turned the corner towards the two Wardens hanging from the ceiling. His companions perked up when they saw him again, but Link was too busy concentrating on getting this temple cleared to pay them much mind at the moment. He needed to get to Endeavor, and fast. Who knew how much longer they might have.

"Yore," Link called, startling the bird to attention. After a moment, the hawk turned to face him. "As soon as we cleanse this place, I want you go find the Princess and get her to meet me in Kakariko. We need to find Endeavor."

He had no idea if the bird understood him. He doubted even more that he could channel any kind of speech through Yore as Endeavor did. But he needed to do something, and a hawk could move much faster than Link ever could to deliver that kind of news. He just wished he had a better idea where they would be going. But if anyone had seen Endeavor recently, it would have been Zelda and Impa. Definitely Impa based on the news they had left with.

Determined, Link hurried up to the Warden to turn its eye. He quickly snapped out the Spirit Whip, latching on and pulling to point the construct towards the vines. The magic of the relic waking the statue up, Link sidestepped the ray that followed shortly after as he pulled his weapon back in.

The vines withdrew, shaking the whole building as they moved. But they didn't wither. Instead, they kept moving. Slowly, the vines tried working their way around the Greenhouse, looking for another place to lie down, but nowhere was safe. Everywhere the vines reached, a Warden activated and blasted them away.

And as long as the vines were moving, the entire Greenhouse kept shaking. Link braced on the Spirit Whip, the coil cold against his palm. He turned towards the forest dwellers as they struggled to guard the seed pod from falling debris. This needed to stop, or their Forest Sage was going to get hurt.

As the vine passed by again, Link hurried to the door. He waved the others on, pushing the now revealed door open. With Saruo shouting behind, the trio of smaller forest dwellers managed to hurry the seed through. Link yanked the door shut as the vines began to return. The group scattered over the floor once the slam echoed through the chamber they were now in.

"What was that?" Wudhi asked.

"What didn't is die like the other ones?" Saruo inquired, floating up to the vine and giving it a hard kick.

Link looked around, wondering what happened. "The vine has to rest somewhere apparently."

"Again, why isn't it just dying?" Saruo repeated, floating over to him. "It should be dying, like all the other ones."

"I don't know why it isn't. All we know is that it isn't and since it's not, we need to move it somewhere else," Link answered, walking back towards where they had come through. He stopped as he looked at the door they had just come through. "But we can't just move it randomly or the Greenhouse could reset in the wrong way."

"What does that matter?" Wudhi chimed in. "With all due respect, Link, if we have the key, we can get into the main chamber just fine."

Link shook his head, gesturing for his companions to join him. The four made their way over, all collectively finding a way to look at the door where the vine was trying to grow through. The way the vine leaned, Link didn't think this was the only door it was attempting that on. "It's trying to grow into the door," Mismawn stated. "Like it's going to eat it."

"Or merge with it," Saruo added. "Like that thing in the Lost Woods that took the seed pod."

"I think that's closer to it," Link replied. "If it consumes the magic of the temple though, things are going to go from bad to worse in a hurry. I've seen corrupted Sages. But the Greenhouse running seems to keep those vines from growing, keeping that plant from taking in all the magic here."