[EDITING] The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Secrecy

Dungeon Chapter 4 - Leaks and Holes

...and further into the dungeon. Keeses flew foolishly close to the warriors, and were quickly cut down by a sword or grasped by Yore's talons once the hawk returned. With more pellets for Link as well. Any skulltulas Link had heard scrambled into the darkness as the lantern's flame drew nearer to them but remained out of sight.

Yore screeched and retreated back behind Link. Raising his lantern to see, the light revealed a massive spider web blocking the entire pathway.

Bruce brushed in front of Link. "I can handle this." Bruce's sharp iron blade cut through the silvery strings with faint snaps as the threads hung limp around the gash Bruce had made in the spiral weaving.

As Bruce went on to hack his way through the web, Link put the flame of his lantern up against the slender blockade. Orange flames danced across the white threads, before dying out and leaving the passage open to travel through. Link glanced at Bruce, who murmured, "That might be a better way to go about it."

The group proceeded down the tunnel once more. Other than a few Deku Babas and a handful of keeses, which were light work for the two now, nothing challenged their progression. Shortly after, the walls of the tunnel ended and revealed a much larger room.

This room made Link think of a temple to one of the Goddesses. Its walls were a pale gray stone, with high columns. Tree roots and vines still broke through the walls from years of waste, but there was a note of beauty among the limbs and wild greenery.

"What...what has happened here?"

Yore flew to the eastern side of the room, where a massive cave-in had occurred. The gray stone wall was hidden behind a wall of dirt that dripped with water. At one part in the muddy face, a large portion of the wall had collapsed completely. Water gushed out in a great torrent, bouncing off the bit of wall it had broken through, before covering part of the floor with murky water turned pure by the divinity of the building.

Link felt a connection with this building, and with the Goddess it honored. Glancing at the symbol on his hand, he figured that it suited. He looked around the room some more. There was another door that led deeper into the building, guarded by a few stray bokoblins and a set of iron bars.

Pulling his slingshot out, Link began to look for a crystal or some other kind of trigger for the iron bars. Before he could take little more than a step though, Bruce grabbed him by the arm and gestured towards the water.

Though there was purity in the building, the water spilling out from the dirt wall yet to reach that purification was filled with evil. A large amount of that collected together to become a slimy, green entity. Bruce said as the mass of goop made its want to solid ground, "Those are chus. Master Siria orders batches of potions for new cadets made from their remains."

"What's your point?" Link asked, a little skeptical. Monster parts? He knew potions came from somewhere, but from this creature?

"My point is," Bruce went on with irritation, "is we can use it. There are a lot of potion makers who wouldn't mind getting a little more of the stuff they leave behind."

Link pressed his lips together in concern. "You want to sell it? It's a monster."

"Well, if it's dead, it's not hurting anyone, is it?" Bruce asked. "There's no point in wasting it. Some of the potions Siria brings in can keep a knight on his feet all day, in full armor, even in the middle of summer. Considering what we've already been up against, something like that might not be too bad."

Link glanced at the chu for a moment, grimacing a little at the thought. "Of course," Bruce added, his tone growing suddenly more enthused as he talked, "you'd have to have something to collect it with, like a spare bottle. Though chu jelly isn't the only thing I've seen vendors look for. There are a lot of monster related items they're looking out for. More from stronger ones than these purple guys, but you might want to start looking out for these things, Link. A few extra rupees in your wallet might save you in a pinch later on."