Oh my! Being pulled away from his pedestal of victory was the last thing No-Point expected today! He tucked his arms in close, trying to see a way out of his current situation. He could blast through the roots, but the fall was high enough where even he would break his legs upon landing.

He could climb back up, but that would involve being dragged back down.

So he looked down. And right below him was the Deku Guardian.

"Clever," he mused, as he continued to be dragged down towards its maw. "But foolish."

(No-Point is not resisting. He is intending to be dragged down and inside the guardian.)

"The thing did its job." Boom remarked to itself as he watched as Mycellium was being devoured by the Deku Naga. During this time, Boom took out a few bombchus and began fiddling with them. Tearing off the cutesy mouse top compartment, he pulled at a variety of wires. The kokiri peered at the Deku Naga as it spat out the fungus deku in disgust. The distraction and sacrifice his comrade performed was most handy, as it gave Boom a good amount of time to up his explosives.

Boom grinned as he began laughing wildly. "WATCHESITBURN! WATCHESITBURN! WE WATCHES IT BURN!" He held both of his bombchus. Eying the tendril vines with a predatory precision, he plotted how to strike. As a kokiri, he easily strode out of the way he tossed the upgraded bombchu at the gnarled roots.

He took out the other three as he gave them a juggle for flair. With rapid succession Boom tossed all three bombchus directly at the maw of the Deku-Naga. "GWAHAHAHAHAHA! WATCHES YOU BUUUUUUUUURN! WE WATCHES YOU BURN! BURN!" Boom glared at the Oldwood as he gave a devilish grin.

A trio of explosions rattles the beast's innards, spraying vile fluids all over Boom.

The Deku Naga belches loudly, and begins making horrendous gagging sounds. A low noise, reminiscent of water rushing, can be heard.

Suddenly, a jet of neon-green fluid erupts from the top of the Deku Naga! A droplet of the vile fluid strikes the ground near Boom, leaving a hissing, smoking hole where it hit!

A humongous globule of the Deku Naga's acid finishes its ascending arch, and begins falling to the earth. It looks like it's going to strike Boom directly!


The tunnel of writhing roots brings No-Point ever downwards. From what little you can see of the area outside, you are only a half-dozen yards above the ground. A fall from this height would be less fatal, but no less painful.

Suddenly, three loud explosions cause the tunnel to begin shaking violently! Some distance below you, a jet of acrid-smelling green fluid rushes up towards you, but is luckily diverted by a small hole in the tunnel. You guess that, whatever's at the bottom of this shaft, it's going to be more of that fluid.

(Since you are lower to the ground, the difficulty of the roll has been dropped. Score to beat: 20.

"Soon," No-Point mused as he was dragged down further and further. "Very soon."

He remained tucked together and ramrod straight. Eighteen feet was a long fall. He knew he had to time it just right in order to get out of this trap. Of course, that was without getting sucked into the foul acid below.

(No-Point is not resisting again. He needs to be further down.)

Jumping up and down, Boom was clapping his hands excitedly. "Eheheheheh...Burns." He declared with a smile on his face. And then the fluids were sprayed upon Boom. Gagging and coughing, Boom was wiping at his face, which was drenched with a wide variety of icky fluids. "Blaaagh! Bleegh! Not good for Boom!" The creature declared, clearly upset by what had occurred to him. "Why no wear the goggles?" Boom remarked to himself before hissing, "Idiot! Why no wear!?"

He quickly finished wiping off his eyes, as he pulled out another Bombchu from his sack. He watched eagerly as the neon-green fluid flew. "Oooooooh!" Boom stared at it with a childish sense of wonder. And then it hit the ground, and left a sizzling hole. Boom blinked at it, before he glanced back at the injured Deku-Naga.

And that's when a large globule of the material flew towards Boom. Squeaking out in terror, with his hand shaking, Boom threw a bombchu at the globule.

The bombchu did a most wonderful thing! It flew straight through the globule as the acid struck against Boom's torso, and face. made a loud hissing sound, as it quickly dissolved through Boom's patchwork clothing and burned into his flesh. "EEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! PAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! IT HURTS! IT HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURTS USSSSSSS!"

Boom continued shrieking out in pain as he held upon the left side of his face. Begging and pleading in terror, seemed like it would be a good idea soon. This creature was stronger than it appeared. Of course it was, after all it was the Guardian of the Sinkhole. But Boom was still stubborn, at least for now and would not beg for mercy. Right now, he wanted to see the Oldwood ally burn. Boom grabbed another Bombchu from his bag as he weakly flung it with his right hand.

All the while he kept a firm grip on his face while crying out in agony. "Pa-aaaaiiiin. Owwww-" He squeaked out with a sniffle.

The ball rolls to a stop, and detonates safely away from anyone who could be hurt by it.

The mighty Guardian of the Kokiri appears to have gotten over its critical acid reflux, and once more looks to Boom with a sadistic gleam in its total lack of an eye. With one fibrous vine, the creature hoists Boom up again, and proceeds to quarter him, one vine to a limb.

Deku Naga starts to slowly pull Boom apart with its powerful vines!


The ground is much closer now. You feel you could climb out and land, at the risk of shattering your legs on impact. However, the acidic stench of the Deku Naga's bile smells much closer now. Whatever it is you do, it better be before you reach the creature's mouth! Luckily, it appears the roots around here have suffered severe acid damage, and might be easier to break.

(Circumstances have changed, making escape easier. Score to beat: 14.)

Frustrated by her failure and concerned by Boom's imminent peril Raisa quickly got up from the ground and leapt into the air chopping one of the vines with her axe cutting heavily into one of the vines most likely severing her cloak flourishing behind her as she fell back to the ground readying herself to attack again.

Now!

With a mighty roar, No-Point burst through the damaged vines and into the air. He didn't fly very far, instead coming to land heavily some distance from where the Naga was tearing apart his Kokiri asset. In fact, it was an outright miracle he didn't land on his wounded leg.

This would not do, but with a gammy leg, No-Point would not be able to reach him quickly. There was no time like the present, so he tore a strip of cloth from one of the nearby fallen Kokiri and used it to wrap up the back of his knee. It would staunch the bleeding, but only long enough for him to get some proper healing.

Then, he began to limp towards the fight.

Keeping a grip on his burned face, Boom watched with anticipation as his bombchu did absolutely nothing. "N-nooooo. Too strong! Oldwood too strong." The Kokiri whimpered out in agony, knowing full well why this creature claimed the title Guardian of the Kokiri. This was not good at all, for Boom. However for his non-exiled and civilized kin, this was going to be a moment of celebration. Their guardian proved its mighty strength once more! The Kokiri Sinkhole would be protected from all dangers, as long as they stood boldly with their allies.

This could not be allowed. Boom couldn't fail here, he could not fail here. Not after all he did before. No, he had to brutally murder the savior of the Kokiri! "C-can't lose. Not here. Not now. M-m-must keep surviving!" Boom said to himself as he knew that losing here would be his end. Boom rather liked living, and wanted to continue doing so! He would destroy the Oldwood Protector of the Sinkhole! Boom would watch it burn and die from the flames. Boom would not lose!

With a renewed sense of vigor, he pulled out two bombchu from his bag. And that's when his limbs were captured in a series of vines. No longer could he hide the new acid-wound that heavily marred his left face.

His Gerudo 'ally' chopped at the vines! And the results were, not nearly enough to stop the Deku Naga's rampage upon his body; while in his pain, Boom was unable to even toss the Bombchu in his defense.

"WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?" Boom shrieked out in the upmost pain, as his body was literally being pulled apart. "Why not weak like Skull Face?! B-BOOM CAN'T DIES! CAN'T DIES IN SINKHOLE!" Cried out the 'poor' little Kokiri. Truly this would be joy for all the Kokiri who lived at the Sinkhole. Boom, could not allow them to be happy.

No! Boom knew that he must ruin their survival. He had to kill this guardian! He had to. Boom couldn't let it live. What with the vines in the way, he really didn't have much room for tossing his Bombchu, and settled for dropping it near the base of the Deku Naga

"Must survive. Must s-s-survive." Boom hissed out. He would kill the Deku Guardian. Someway, somehow, the Kokiri would burn it all.

The bomb explodes, taking a good chunk of the guardian's root base with it!

Since the cataclysm, the Deku Naga has felt fear only once. Now, it was feeling it again. However, feelings of hatred, spite, shame, and betrayal all overpowered it. The Deku Naga, seeing that it still held Boom in its clutches, decided to finish this once and for all.

The Deku Naga ceases pulling, and instead begins twisting! A chorus of terrifying pops and tearing noises rings out as the Deku Naga prepares to tear Boom apart, limb from limb!

It would not do for No-Point's primary asset to be de-limbed before even beginning his master plan. He moved with pace towards the roots constricting the Kokiri, doing much better now that his knee was bound up.

You know that greatsword? The big one on the warlord's back that he was never seen using? Yeah? His hand gripped the hilt and, in one mighty wrench, he slashed straight from the draw and down on to the roots that were tearing apart a key element of his plan.

Survival. It was the guiding principle of all Kokiri Society. It was the one tenet of proper society he wanted to continue to follow. How he was going to escape the de-limbing, Boom was not sure. The Guardian of the Kokiri was delivering the justice for all the misdeeds that Boom had committed.

Pop. The bones were popping, and Boom was quite sure that one of his arms was dislocated at this point. Beyond that, probably a few bones in the leg broke. Boom shrieked out in agony, "Kreeeeeeeee! PAAAIIIN IN THE LIMBSES! OLDWOOD!"

But fortunately his 'ally' the man with No Points came rushing to his aid. He hacked away at the roots of the plant, better than that Gerudo did earlier. And with the vines hacked away, Boom fell to the ground, as a vine slammed against his bag and sent one loose bombchu flying towards the other vines to secure an escape.

With a loud slam, Boom fell onto the hard ground below. He groaned in agony, as he weakly limped towards his sack where a few Bombchus were scattered out of the bag.

Boom stared at the Deku Naga as he slowly spoke, his voice wracked with pain which made it hard to be audible. "We will survive. I will not die."

Boom took a brief look at one scattered Bombchu, and kicked it towards the Deku Naga.

The Guardian's burning, corroded vines make a valiant but futile effort to deflect the scuttling Bombchu, and are unable to prevent it exploding in the last remnant of the Guardian's base.

Without anything to hold it up, the Guardian topples. Pillars of root and fiber collapse in on themselves, crushing Kokiri buildings and shattering Kokiri roads.

However, the head of the once-mighty Guardian of the Kokiris topples directly onto Boom. Its maw closes around Boom's shattered form, and makes a spirited effort to crush him with its tongue. There's little else it can do.

Boom stared awestruck that he succeeded in destroying the base with that bombchu. He, did it. He managed to destroy the base of the Guardian! He grinned, but resisted the temptation to act arrogant right now. That'd be saved for when gloating over the rest of his brethren for the success of destroying the Guardian. Well if he was in a state he could really gloat. After all, the battle cost much blood, sweat and tears. Boom did take much damage to make this dream come true.

The Kokiri Village was being plunged into a state of destruction, and Boom knew that he, and his pals, were the cause. Boom was happy. He kept a devilish grin on his face. All the damage, the acidic marred torso and face, the broken bones and some dislocated limbs. They were worth it. Boom watched as the head of the once mighty guardian was descending.

Acting quickly Boom limped over to kick another bombchu. It succeeded and exploded the tongue and some of the teeth so that he wouldn't be crushed to death.

However, he was now somewhat still engulfed. Not in a painful manner, but he was definitely trapped in it. But Boom had another bombchu. "Time to end it." Boom muttered out to himself. Spying the bombchu, he lifted it up with his teeth and tossed it upwards further in the head of the Guardian.

The creature would die today. And the Kokiri Sinkhole would be in utter tragedy and devastation. For Boom knew, he would win this day.

The bomb explodes, taking most of the Guardian's head with it. Wet, foul-smelling plant matter rains down over Boom, christening his victory with a shower of viscera.




The town square is silent, except for the sound of burning wood and sizzling acid. It appears that the resident Kokiris have fled underground in the commotion, sealing themselves off from the surface. To attack the Kokiris underground would be suicide. Powerful magics and deadly tactics safeguard them from all attacks.

There doesn't appear to be anything salvageable here, beyond wood, cloth, and whatever discarded armaments the Kokiri dropped while evacuating. It doesn't seem like the houses can even be used as shelter, considering their current state.

Night is about to fall. Creatures born of fear and shadow rule the night, beaten back only by fire and sunlight. To stay in Kokiri Village and allow the Kokiri to return in force would be tantamount to suicide. To flee the village and brave the night would be even worse. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place, and stuck with a choice: to flee, or to hide?

The battle had been won, and though Mycellium had not escaped unscathed, things were still going quite well for the Fungus Deku. The beasts were all either dead or fleeing, and the grounds were mostly abandoned. Perfect conditions for the Tower Fungus. Almost as soon as the Kokiri had disappeared, Mycellium set to work spitting spores on every surface, in every crack, all over. This was to be an excellent addition to the spread of the fungus. He was so 'pleased', though he was not truly pleased, that he began to honk out the Melody of Darkness once more. Softer, so as not to bother his new "allies". It was strange that he cared for their safety or comfort, but for some reason, it mattered to him.

"Ahahaha!" Boom cackled out as his victory was secured by the foul-smelling plant matter covered his entire body. Luckily, this time it wasn't the plant's acid! He paused as he appreciated the beauty of the moment.

Life was wonderful. Sure Boom had suffered so much; but now he could watch the cultivated results. There were some bounty of loot to be had, fine materials for foraging. The fire grew and burned at the houses. The lifeblood of the Guardian was now destroying the land it held so dear.

Boom was happy. The devastation was wonderful. Boom peered at the Fungus Deku, as it was spreading the spores among the village. He cared not for the above village of the Sinkhole. His brethren could all perish in flames for all he cared. Sadly, they escaped to safety. At least the Champion and Guardian were dead.

Limping a bit he coughed out. "B-boom would suggests fleeing. Hide was good. Not now, it bad now. Flee best option." While they did have success, as of right now, Boom did not want to risk his survival against an reinvigorated Kokiri Military. The woods, while dangerous, would provide less things that would actively want to just torture Boom to death.

Glancing back at the rest of the Caravan, "What peopleses think? Also we're still in pain." He did owe them, slightly. Without them he wouldn't have been able to achieve his dream. And by acting as if he cared how they wanted to survive, they would continue to think Boom was a good team player.

No matter what option was taken, Boom was sure to prepare his machinations to fit his desires.

"If we leave the village, we need fire," No-Point declared. "Creatures of the night are repelled by light, but we must maintain it. Otherwise, we will meet a painful end."

He started scavenging up anything flammable he could find. It looked like his decision had been made. His gammy leg did little to slow him down. He'd suffered through worse.

"Small Kokiri, your aid will be required to illuminate the caravan. Not detonate."

Boom turned back towards No Point and grumbled a bit. "Not detonate? Detonate best." He glanced towards the side as he grumbled, "As long as we are not in way." He made his way over towards a few of his scattered Bombchus, and prodded it. "Yes, yes. We light parts. Gather and we light for escape."

Grumbling, Dingle knelt down next to the Deku Naga, holding her hands out.

"Could have just stayed back in the nice resistance camp with dad and Ingo. But no, I had to be a FAIRY. I had to claim my fucking DESTINY and now I'm trying to heal something that just tried to eat me. Mom was right, Destiny is such bullshit..."

She began humming a tune. If she wasn't good enough to heal the poor thing entirely yet, she could at least keep its condition from deteriorating.

Rolling for healing/stabilization