The Legend of Zelda: Seven Years

Richard reached into his pocket for his last Deku nut and found it missing. He looked up and shielded his eyes, just as Rosalinde threw his deku nut onto the ground. When Richard lowered his arm from his eyes, he that she had managed to stun King Gohma, and was standing right next to him.

"See?" He said to Rosalinde, while retreveing his slingshot from his pocket. "This is why I can't trust you. You steal my stuff." Richard loosed one rock directly at King Gohma's eye, which simply bounced off at impact, however, Richard could tell that, by the way King Gohma was thrashing about, the rock had caused it a good deal of pain. "Allright," Richard said "It may take a bit of slicing, but it looks as if the eye is it's weak point."

"Figured it was only fair after you threw one at me," Rosalinde stated airily as she hurriedly sprinted away as the King charged after her, she ran partly up a wall and flung away right over the King, landing with a roll beside Richard.

"How are we even supposed to get close to that thing to attack its eye?" Rosalinde inquired as the King swiftly spun around and charged back for them. She half crouched in preparation to flee, wondering what Richard's plan was.

"You'll see" Richard said right before he lept aside, causing King Gohma to slam into the wall. King Gohma turned, slightly dazed, and looked directly at Richard, and charged again.

Richard Jumped to the side again, causing King Gohma to slam into the wall again, and ran directly at the Dazed creature's eye. Richard took one good slash at the eye, and Gohma reared up in agony, sending Richard flying into a nearby wall. Gohma settled back down again, it's damaged eye centered on Richard, whom was lying dazed on the floor next to the wall.

"Yeah... I was worried about that," Rosalinde said grimly as she saw Richard get thrown across the room with a vicious counter-attack. On the upside, Rosalinde worked a lot better when her target was ignoring her so at least the Hylian did that much.
She swiftly crossed the room and leaped over King Gohma, using her scimitars to push the claws out of the way and simply landed a heel into its eye, using it like a stepping stone and propelled herself over at the wall above Richard, the King flailed its claws about from the attack and reeled backwards, after which Rosalinde kicked off the wall and landed with a roll underneath the thing, pushing a foot against either of the King's legs and using her scimitars as leverage to push it face first into the ground, claws continued to flail about and nearly hitting Rosalinde more than once.
"I hate spiders," Rosalinde grumbled as she scampered away, vainly trying to deflect all the claws.

Leonidas got up off the ground, shook his head, and walked into the room with the others. He walked in just as the Deku Nut went off, and the flash made him fall over again. By the time he had recovered, Richard and Rosalinde were both fighting a huge creature, spiderlike, but huge and apparently armored, as their swords were bouncing off of it. They were trying to hit its eye, which seemed to be its weak spot. Rosalinde succeeded in knocking it over, and Leonidas used this as an opportunity to move in, readying the sharpened end of his ax, to use as a spear.

[Edit: Nevermind]

Richard rolled, standing next to Leonidas. "Nice of you to Join us." He said, rushing for Gohma again.

Richard climbed up Gohma's tail, dodging it's Crab-like claws, and positioning himself right above the creature's eye, and stabbed his sword deep into the eye. The creature thrashed more wildly than ever, throwing Richard off, into a wall.

When Richard got to his feet, he looked up to see King Gohma blindly looking around, Richard's sword still embeded deep in it's eye. "How much does it take to kill this blasted thing!"

Rosalinde weaved around its legs and claws as she hurriedly tried to evade the blind monster, scoring many hits on its armoured hide with little more than just a spark for her efforts.
It flailed back and forth as it heard Rosalinde's blades hit and various other sounds catching its attention.
She twirled away all of a sudden and poised her scimitars in a strange fashion, watching Gohma carefully and not making a sound as she prepared.
With a twist and a leap she spun through the air and landed both scimitars at one of its legs, knocking it off balance before retreating again.

"I'm running out of ideas, usually they don't have such ridiculous armour!" Rosalinde said, flat out running as Gohma quickly chased after her sounds.
She put her scimitars away and pulled out a pair of daggers, running up a pillar and sinking the daggers into the wall to keep herself there, Gohma simply crashed into the pillar space below her.

Richard pulled out his slingshot, and reached for a rock, but found that he had none. However, he noticed some gold-colored seeds lying nearby. 'well, it's better than nothing' He scooped up the seeds, and fired one directly into Gohma's eye.

Gohma collapsed, screaching in agony as it's eye turned blood red. 'well, that's interesting...' he thought "Leonidas! Gerudo! I think now may be a good time to attack."

Rosalinde glanced back from her position on the pillar, crouching against the surface and flinging herself into the air above Gohma like a professional acrobat, switching to her scimitars once more and landing on Gohma's back, looping her swords around to force its claws out of the way and leaning back to rear its head.

"By all means, I'm not going to suffer a counter-attack," Rosalinde said, roughly controlling the beast.

Richard was knocked to the ground again. "But... It's the counter attacks... that make it fun." He grunted as he climbed back to his feet, readying his slingshot again. "Wish I had my sword right now."

Jon followed the stream to a small narrow area, a wooden bridge lay 20 feet above his head.

"By the Moon!! I have lost my way!"

Jon began climbing the tree next to him, attempting to each the bridge somehow.

"You Hylians-" Rosalinde began as Gohma started flailing about again after kicking Richard flying once more, "Have a strange sense of fun."

She was flung off, hitting the ground with a roll but half crashing into a wall on the way, knocking her off-balance as she came to her feet. Again Gohma followed the latest sounds which came from Rosalinde so it started careening headfirst right at the Gerudo once more, which was a bit of a mistake because Rosalinde was quite tired of flying.
She braced her back against the wall and flicked her legs up at the last minute, slamming her heels onto the handguards of Richard's sword embedded in its eye, half burying the weapon inside the creature, although its residual momentum half crushed Rosalinde against the wall, she crumpled to the ground with most of the creature on top of her.

Richard watched as Rosalinde impailed his sword deeper into Gohma's eye. "Thanks for that, nice to know I definately won't be getting my sword back now." He fired another seed into gohma's eye. Gohma's eye turned red as it fell to the ground stunned, yet still shrieking. "Guess I'll keep it down and you two can kill it."

Rosalinde staggered to her feet, limply holding her scimitars as she steadily approached Gohma once more.

"I thought you just said the counter-attacks make it fun? Now you don't want to attack it close range?" Rosalinde said, mildly confused, "Hylians truly make no sense."
She firmed her grip and moved in, reversing both scimitars and stabbing Gohma's eye with as much strength as she could muster right now, quickly pulling her scimitars free and rolling away as Gohma went into a final frenzy, flailing about on the spot shrieking madly.

((I'm going to assume that you killed it))

Richard looked at the King Gohma's corpse and back at Rosalinde. "Well." He started, but the Gohma suddenly ignited into blue flames, and seconds later it was gone, leaving Richard's sword lying on the ground where it died. Richard walked over and carefully picked up his sword, which seemed normal, so he returned it to it's scabbard. "Like I was about to say, If I had my sword, I would have been glad to fight it close range." Suddenly a blue light appeared near where Gohma had died. "Well... That's interesting..." Richard said as he cautiously approached the light.

After looking at the ring of light for a moment, Richard stepped in. The next thing he knew he was deep in a dark forest, Rosalinde and Leonidas were nowhere in sight. Then he saw it, the flower he came for.

He carefully plucked it from the ground and stashed it in his pocket. 'Now what?' he thought to himself as he examined the surrounding woods.

Rosalinde just sat down to regain her strength, a little tired from the battle. She watched Richard enter a ring of blue light and disappear all of a sudden.

"...Okay then..." Rosalinde said, eyeing the ring of light carefully for a moment before looking around, spotting another cluster of plants near the edge of the room, she felt she could use another healing boost.

She stood up and went over to the plants, cutting several leaves free before removing her veil for a moment, crushing the leaves and letting the juices fall into her mouth.
Rosalinde blinked a few times as the healing effect surged through her, she stood up renewed and put her veil back on, and continued to look around.
The deku scrub was dead, so her path more or less ended here, not so sure she should follow Richard into the suspicious ring of light, he didn't know where this 'Link' was and neither did any of the Kokiri, her path truly did end here.

"Now what...?" Rosalinde wondered aloud, she didn't trust the ring of light so she decided on going out the long way, swiftly leaving the room and going back into the water to get to the vines.
She'd heard of the Great Fairies, it was possible they could guide her further but she'd need to locate one of their shrines.

Richard broke through a densely packed area of trees, only to find himself in a small clearing. He walked in the clearing, looking around, and then felt something hit him in the back of his head.

He turned his head in the direction and saw what seemed to be a child wearing a skull mask. Richard nelt down to the child's level. "Hello there." Richard said "You lost too?"

In responce the child fired a rock at richard from his flute. "OWW!" Richard said, taking a step toward the child. The child cackled and disappeared. "Let's play a game." Richard heard coming from an unidentifyable source. "I'll play this song I learned from a boy in green, and if you can find me, then I'll lead you out of the forest. Use your ears and be quick, because I won't stay in one spot for long, and you don't want to be lost. You don't want to become a Stalfos.

Richard looked to his right and heard the voice again, "Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost. Everybody will become a Stalfos. Find me, and you shall be free. Find me and you will not be a Stalfos." The child laughed.

Richard then heard a catchy tune, the child had started playing his flute, signaling the beginning of the game.

Rosalinde rapidly scaled the vines and left the Deku Tree, lost in her thoughts as she wandered out of the grove into the Kokiri village once more.
While the silver gauntlets were a formidable item, her intent on using them was purely to fight the witches, however their black magics would pose a serious threat with or without the gauntlets, she needed a different advantage.
There was little to nothing you could fight magic with, excepting magic itself, so perhaps her decision to find a Great Fairy was the correct one indeed.

She nearly stumbled over a Kokiri, obviously not seeing the boy, he was quick to retreat to one of the strange houses made from an enormous tree trunk, his fairy lingering behind him as if watching Rosalinde.
With a shrug, Rosalinde just continued, keeping note to watch where she walked as she made her way over to the tunnel she had first entered this place from, slowly stepping through and throwing a glance back at the village.
It was an interesting place, free and innocent, isolated from the Ganondorf's tyranny yet still feeling the effects, as evident from the Great Deku Tree's demise.

Rosalinde stepped onto the bridge between tunnels, the metaphoric gap between worlds, Hyrule and the forest, still lost in her thoughts as she hoped the Great Fairy could grant her something to fight the witches with.

Richard was going mad.

He had been at this search for the child about an hour now, and every time he got near him, the music would instantly stop, and start again somewhere else.

What was even more annoying was that the kid would occasionally stop playing the melody inorder to holler "Catch me. Catch me. Or a Stalfos you shall be." and then cackle maddeningly untill started to play that song again.

Were it not for him mentioning the boy in green again, Richard wouldn't even be wasting his time with the preposterous game.

He reached the area where the music was emminating from again and as soon as he moved the shrub out of the way, the kid disappeared again, and Richard heard the music coming from an areia behind him and to his right. Richard cursed the kid and started off in pursuit again.

((Hmm... was waiting for Exile...))

As Rosalinde stepped back into the Hyrule Fields a memory of when she first gazed upon it came back to her. She was 14 back then, and had never seen anything except for the stone fortress and the desert, seeing the lush green fields of Hyrule was quite mind-blowing at the time.

She had taken a side trip when heading to Castle Town, distracted by the moat surrounding the castle. Water wasn't exactly abundant in the desert, the concept of protecting your entire castle with an obstacle of water seemed absurd, she had gone to a place they called Zora's Domain instead to see more water.

Yes... it was around there somewhere she remembered something, a rumour by one of the Zoras about a hidden fountain in Jabu-Jabu's area that housed a Great Fairy.
She had her bearings, so she set off straight for Zora's Domain.