[EDITING] The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Dungeon Chapter 3 - Your Sword, My Shield

...he had come in by. The roots of the weedy Deku Babas had turned brown, blue beetles already eating through their leaves.

With Bruce behind him, Link returned to the previous room. The four bokoblins stood around guarding the pillar, still. It was hard to tell if they had even moved.

Bruce asked, "Is there a reason why you didn't handle those?"

Link gestured to the ledge the Deku Scrubs were sitting on. One of the bush-headed monsters peaked up for a moment, its yellow eyes glowing against its dark brown bark. It twisted back and forth in its perch before burying itself back into the ground again.

As they crossed the logs, Bruce murmured as he swung his shield off his back, "I guess I'm on defense then."

Like before, the moment Link set foot on the stone platform, the bokoblins were aware of him. The one he had injured earlier seemed to have pulled off an astonishing recovery in his absence.

Bruce raised his shield behind Link, preparing for the Deku Scrubs when they decided to attack. With Bruce guarding his back, Link drew his sword and rushed the closest bokoblin. His sword twisted around the club and flung it off into the water, before Link followed with a slash across the bokoblin's now defenseless front.

The wide slash on the first bokoblin carried on into a second, sending it tumbling into another. As the two monsters stumbled to their feet in an attempt to recovery, Link slammed his shield against the other's face, before sending his sword straight through.

While Link was moving towards the two tangled bokoblins, he heard the first THUD against Bruce's shield. The cadet was moving back slowly, flashing his sword to distract the plant monsters from Link's battle. So far it was working. The Deku Nuts bounced off harmlessly and splashed into the water.

Link cut the two bokoblins apart with a leaping slash, quick to get into and out of the air with Deku Nuts continuing to press Bruce back. His sword grazed them both, but the monsters managed to dodge out of the way before Link's attack could hit them. Link waited, an enemy on each side of him.

Disliking this attempt to flank, Link loaded and aimed his slingshot, quickly turning to fire it to his right. The light brown sphere smacked against the bokoblin's face, which it grabbed as it stumbled backwards. Link switched back to his sword, and berated the other monster until it fell before turning to its dazed partner as it began to come to.

The monster shook off its confusion only seconds too late. Link's sword sent it tumbling to the ground in defeat, before it blackened to ash and died.

With the closer problem handled, Link pulled his slingshot back out. He aimed a seed above him at the Deku Scrubs' snouts. The projectile landed in the monsters' mouths just as they were preparing to fire another round of Deku Nuts at Bruce. The small seed was enough to set off the tender shell of the Deku Nuts, and the golden filled objects exploded and killed their senders.

Bruce put away his weapons as Link lit the pillar. As the flame grew, he heard the little chime again in his head. Something rumbled on the other side of the fortress, back in the direction of the room Link had first found Bruce in.

The sunlight flickered for a moment as the creatures were dispelled, before concentrating on the platform by the door back into the fortress's hub. The outline of a chest formed, followed by a chest appearing beside the exit.

Crossing the room to the platform, Link opened the chest. The inside shimmered, but not as brightly as the one Link had gotten his slingshot from. From inside it, Link pulled out an age-worn map. There were two small blips on the map; one was green and the other was red.