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// Chapter 7 
// Story: The Legend Of Zelda: Equestrian Nightmare 
// by Violet Runner 
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As the door closed behind them, Link and Fluttershy observed their surroundings, noting that they were in a giant greenhouse. Cautiously, they walked to the center of the room where a small sapling lay wilting.

“Poor thing. It must have died do to the lack of sunlight.” Fluttershy said looking at the wilting tree.

“I don’t get it.” Link said looking around. Not noticing all the roots starting to move. “This is definitely the innermost sanctum and I can feel that all the evil in this temple is spawning from here. Yet all that’s here is-” he said looking up at the roof to see the moonlight shining in directly on the small tree. “Fluttershy Get Away From It!” Link yelled as the tree began to shake.

The small tree began to rapidly grow in size as giant roots spread out from it. Some of the limbs of the tree turned into Deku Babas as did the very top as it turned it to The Deku Master; Yggdrasil. It then let out a mighty roar as a bunch of seeds fell from it spawning Mad Scrubs and Deku Babas.

“What do we do now?” Fluttershy asked, as Link took out a group of Deku Baba in front of her and handed her the seeds.

“We have to find a way to get inside it. That’s most likely where its weak spot is.” Link said taking out a few Mad Scrubs.

“How? There doesn’t seem to be an opening.” she said.

“Hmm, I got an Idea!” he said noticing some of the branches on the tree were Deku Babas. “Can you use your Deku seeds to distract the monsters that are spawning?”

“Alright, I’ll try.” Fluttershy said throwing one at a Mad Scrub that came towards them. Link then proceeded to use his Crossbow to take out the Deku Baba heads on the branches.

“There!” Link said as a hole opened up at the base of the tree when he took out the last Deku Baba head. He quickly ran towards it only to be stopped by a White Wolfos which came out of the hole. It circled Link for a moment before stopping to take swipe at him not noticing a pink paw with sharp claws about to take a swipe at it. The White Wolfos howled in pain as it died in blue flames. “Flaumig?” Link said surprised to see the pink Treeger.

“I’ve come to help. Quick be for it closes. I’ll cover you.” Flaumig said as Link ran into the tree.

The inside of the tree was nothing like the Great Deku Tree. Dark veins of magic pulsated everywhere, all stemming from a large dark crystal. Link ran up to the crystal and began to hack at it with his sword causing large cracks to form on its surface. Before he could break it however he found himself being thrown out of the tree by a wave of dark energy. The hole in the tree closed as it grew new Deku Baba branches in greater numbers. It then let out a roar as more dark seeds fell from it causing a new batch of Mad Scrubs, Deku Babas and Giant Deku Babas to spawn where they fell.

“I think you made it mad.” Flaumig said taking out a Giant Deku Baba.

“No kidding.” Link said killing a Mad Scrub that Fluttershy had stunned with a Deku Seed. “Can you two cover me while I take out the Deku Baba heads on those branches?”

“No problem.” The Pink Treeger said taking out a Deku Baba.

“Great, thanks.” he said aiming his crossbow at the nearest branch. “I’m going in.” Link said when he had taken out all the Deku Baba heads again and the hole opened up.

“I’m right behind you.” Flaumig said following him. When they got to the hole though two White Wolfos ran out to meet them.

“Great now there’s two of them.” Link said blocking one of the Wolfos attacks as Flaumig took it out only to get hit by the other one. Before he could turn around to deal with it though it howled in pain as a yellow Treeger struck it from behind. “Thanks Bonitas.” He said seeing the yellow Treeger.

“Hurry it won’t stay open for long.” Bonitas said nodding to the hole in the tree.

“Right!” Link said running into the tree and began hacking at the crystal before being throw out again.

The tree once again roar as more dark seeds fell from it causing a new batch of Mad Scrubs, Deku Babas and Giant Deku Babas to spawn where they fell and grow new Deku Baba branches.

“One more hit oughta do it.” Link said taking out a Deku Baba.

“That’s good,” Fluttershy said stunning a Mad Scrub before Bonitas killed it.

“Don’t worry we know what to do.” Flaumig said as Link took out his crossbow and shot the Deku Baba heads. However instead of dying they fell to the ground and turned into Bio Deku Babas.

“Uh-oh!” Link said as one jumped at him and he quickly slashed it with his sword killing it. When all the Bio Deku Babas were destroyed the hole opened up once again and Link and the two Treegers ran towards it. This time being blocked by three White Wolfos. The first two went down without a problem both of them attacking Link at the same time, which link managed to block, allowing the Treegers to take them out. The third one however jumped out of the way of their attacks. Then right after it did a back flip to avoid Links sword it howled in pain and burst into blue flames and a blue Treeger stood where it was. “Onnellinen! I was wondering when you would show up.” Link said happy to see the blue Treeger.

“Hurry you’ve wasted too much time on that monster!” Onnellinen said hurriedly.

“Right!” Link said putting on the bunny hood and running into the tree. “Oh not good!” he said as he was thrown out before he could get to the crystal.

“Link are you alright!” Fluttershy asked as they regrouped well the evil tree regrew its Deku Baba branches.

“Yeah but I’m all out of arrows.” Link said as he took out a Mad Scrub.

“Here, take these ones.” Fluttershy said handing him some. “They fell out of the tree right before it spit you out.”

“Thanks Fluttershy.” He said knocking one. “Now let’s try this again.” He said as he began to shoot the Bio Deku Babas out of the tree well the three Treegers took them out when they hit the ground. When the hole opened Link quickly killed a Deku Baba and used the seed it dropped to stun all three of the Wolfos that came out at the same time. They were then killed by the Treegers as Link ran inside and began to hack at the crystal. With one final swing of his sword the crystal shattered and Link quickly ran out of the tree.

The tree swayed and roared as it slowly turned black before exploding and ring of blue light with something floating in it appeared in its place next to a big red heart.

“You did it!” Onnellinen said happily.

“Already I can feel the evil that plagued this temple retreating.” Bonitas said closing his eyes for a second.

“Don’t worry about us we should be able to keep the last of the evil in the temple at bay now that you have taken care of its root. No pun intended.” Flaumig said.

“Alright. You coming Fluttershy?” Link ask picking up the big heart and absorbing it.

“Coming, but what was that thing you picked up?” She asked tilting her head a little.

“It’s call a heart container. When an extremely strong monster is defeated all the evil energy used to create it is purified and concentrated into it. I can then absorb that energy and add it to my own.” He explained walking over to the ring of blue light. “This blue light is a magic exit. Come on I bet the others are starting to worry about us.”

“Alright,” Fluttershy said as they both walked into the magic exit and found the Element floating in it.

“You got the Element of Kindness! One of the Elements of Harmony needed to stop Nightmare Moon!”

Link and Fluttershy then began to float upwards as they were in cased in crystal before disappearing in a blinding flash of light.





When their vision returned they found themselves standing on top of a high pillar in the middle of a brightly light world full of clouds and what looked like perpetually flowing waterfalls.

“Where are we?” Fluttershy asked looking around.

“You know, I once asked the exact same question and never really got an answer.” Link said after thinking about it. “Wait what’s that?” He said pointing to another pillar similar to the one they were standing on. The other pillar had a lone, yellow Pegasus standing on it with a pink mane, wearing a cloak that resembled a bunch of green levees.

“Who are you?” Fluttershy asked, calling out other pony. The other pony just smiled before there was another bright light which blinded them.

“Thank you my child…” A voice whispered in Fluttershys’ ear.





“And that’s how Link and I saved the land of Termina.” Epona said finishing her story as a column of blue light appeared next to them and Link and Fluttershy came floating down.

“There you two are. We were beginning to worry about you.” Twilight said walking up to them.

“What took ya so long?” Applejack asked.

“We were solving puzzles and looking for keys. Then we had to fight a giant tree. And I got this cool crossbow.” Link said.

“What about the Element?” Twilight asked.

“It’s right here,” Fluttershy said opening her hooves and revealing the gray orb. “I even made new friends well we were in there.”

“Well I guess, we can move on now that we’ve got the Element of Kindness.” Rainbow Dash said taking to the air.

“Rainbow’s right the sooner we move onto getting the next element, the sooner we stop Nightmare Moon.” Twilight said as they began their walk back to the library.