Forest Temple (TP) [Devil-Steel & BP]

With the spiders taken care of, Silver landed and started to tug the remnants of the spider web off his shield. It was disgusting and he didn't want it there. Fortunately his claws were sharp, so cutting through the stuff was little trouble at all. Getting it to detach from his claws was another struggle altogether, though. When he finally had the foul stuff on the ground and looked towards Sandal, he saw the strangest thing he'd seen all day. It wasn't every day that you saw a Moblin dancing, after all. Even if Sandal didn't look much like a Moblin, Silver mentally added, with all that armour. He'd figured the thick layers of blubber were like natural armour for them.

Looking up, he saw why Sandal was dancing- he was playing with the captive monkey. Realising it couldn't come down on its own, he flapped his wings, flew up, and grabbed the cage in his strong claws. Strong as he was, though, the cage was heavy and when he moved it off of the pillar, he had to flap furiously to not crash into the ground immediately. Finally, to save himself from crashing, he had to let go of the cage about a foot and a half above the ground, smashing it to splinters on impact.

The monkey came rolling out, holding its head and wobbling a little, dizzy from its fall. It soon shook it, however, hopping over to Sandal and climbing onto his broad shoulders. This was new, Silver thought. Most animals instinctively shied away from both Aeralfos and Moblins. Maybe this one was more intelligent than its kin?

While Sandal had initially been worried about the little monkey as Silver dropped the cage, he would let out a sigh of relief as it got up and climbed onto his shoulders causing Sandal to resume dancing happily. The little monkey would wrap his tail around the moblins neck to stabilize himself before he started to clap along with Sandals dancing. After a few moments dancing Sandal would remember the large ape that had been dragging the little monkey and stop dancing as he turned towards the exit. "Monkey safe. We go."

Apparently the little monkey didn't quite agree with Sandal as he let out a screech and slapped the moblins helmet hard, which did nothing but hurt his own hand. Quickly the little monkey would climb off of Sandal and run towards the back of the room. He would point towards the back exit of the room as he jumped up and down in place screeching at Sandal and Silver. While it wasn't exactly clear what the monkey wanted them to do, it was clear he wasn't ready to leave yet. Maybe he wanted Silver and Sandal to help him stop the ape so it couldn't imprison any other monkeys after they had left.

As Sandal began to walk towards the little monkey, it had apparently took that as a sign of Sandal agreeing to go deeper in and started to run off. As the little monkey began to run Sandal would shift from a walking pace to a running pace to try and catch up to it, not that he would be able to, with his arm outstretched so that he would be able to grab hold of it. "N...no. Dangerous." Though Sandal had already lost sight of his little friend and would slow to a stop at the exit to the room as he looked back towards Silver.

Silver shrugged, opting to hurry after the monkey rather than discuss their options. They couldn't lose their charge so soon after having saved him. As they followed it through a tunnel, however, they ended up in a much larger, and much more impressive room. In the middle there were wooden steps leading up to a platform that dominated the room, although the altar that might have been on top of is was missing. Vines and ropes hung between the platform and the four sides of the room, leading to different tunnels.

The monkey, their guide, was busy hopping up the steps and Silver followed it, getting a better view of what he had thought to be the tunnel straight ahead. Instead, the path ahead of them led outside! The monkey pointed at it frantically, screeching what had to be requests at the Aeralfos and the Moblin. Silver turned around to look at Sandal, not sure what to do. He could fly over there, but the Moblin clearly couldn't fly. If he could have, he would have done so a long time ago.

Silver put a claw to his chin, thinking. "Need seed," he then said, looking the Moblin up and down. "Blue wind." It would get Sandal up there, he was sure of it. There was a ledge for him to land on. The problem was, he didn't know for sure the seed he would need was even here in the tree.

Sandal would arrive on the platform only a few seconds behind Silver and look across the gap at the little monkey that was frantically trying to lead them outside. The only problem was that there was no way for the Moblin to get across this gap or any of the other ones either for that matter. Even without his armor he wouldn't be able to jump far enough to land in the tunnel. As Silver mentioned a seed and blue wind the Moblin couldn't help but turn to face him. He was curious, or was he confused, as to what blue wind was. "Blue...wind?" While he knew what wind was, he had never known it to have any color. Was this mystery wind something similar to the blue fire he had encountered in that cave where he had met Lamont?

The Moblin would be pulled from his train of though by a loud thunk on his helmet. The little monkey had swung back across the gap and smacked his helmet with a decently solid stick he had picked up off the ground. At least the monkey was smart enough not to hurt its hand again. Quickly the monkey would climb down from Sandals shoulder and run over to the edge of the platform and grab hold of one of the vines hanging from the ceiling and start tugging on it before taking a few steps back, jumping and swinging forward on the vine, grabbing hold of the next one and then the next and landing on the other side. Perhaps the little monkey thought that the vines would be strong enough to hold Sandal?

Slowly Sandal would walk towards the edge of the platform and grab hold of one of the vines and give it a strong pull. When the vine wasn't ripped from the roof even Sandal began to feel as if the vines might hold. Grabbing hold of the vine tightly Sandal would take a few steps back, before running forward off the edge of the platform. Once all of the Moblins weight was on the vine you could almost hear the vine cry out, but somehow the vine held! Maybe this really would work! With his size and weight the Moblin wouldn't need to use three vines like the little monkey, the next vine would be the last one he needed to use. Reaching out Sandal would grab hold of the next vine and the moment he released his grip on the first vine the second vine would give way under the weight of the Moblin. The result was Sandal sailing forward and down. He would land on the ground hard with a loud crash. All that could be heard from the Moblin as he laid upon the ground was groaning as he laid there. The fall had certainly hurt, but he would be fine after only a moment. Hopefully Silvers blue wind would work better, if he could find what he was looking for.

Being gifted with strong wings, Silver obviously didn't need anything like vines to cross to the other side of the room. He simply stepped off the platform, flapping as lazily as he could while still keeping his body afloat, hovering to the other side and landing much more controlledly and elegantly than Sandal had. He left the Moblin to get to his feet as he inspected the ivy growing on the walls in this part. He pulled the strands apart to get to the seeds they protected, looking at them closely.

Ember, Glow, Chill... there were lots of different seeds here, none of them pure enough to work with of course but good enough for everyday use, but not what he was looking for. "Bah." He turned around, seeing Sandal on his feet once more and the monkey pointing at the doorway in the wall frantically. Nodding his understanding, Silver grabbed his spear and his shield and flapped out front of the other two into the next room.

To his surprise, it had a tiled floor. However, what caught his attention more was the bush in the middle, which was chock full of exactly what he was looking for- seeds in the shape of little blue whirlwinds! He happily flew over to it, ready to pick a handful just in case he messed up the first one, but as he landed, he felt the tile under his feet rumble and finally spring up suddenly and forcefully, ejecting him into the air. Only his quick reflexes and boost in the other direction with his wings kept him from crashing into the ceiling, and he looked down to see the tile slowly lower itself back into the ground.

What the heck?

Sandal could do nothing but watch as the floor itself was now trying to kill Silver. The Moblin had no idea what just happened, but the little monkey that was standing beside him was screeching furiously as it hopped up and down while pointing at one of the tiles. While Sandal couldn't make out what it was that the monkey was pointing at, Silver might notice that the tile the monkey was pointing at was slightly raised up with two ominous eyes underneath it.

As Sandal absentmindedly stepped into the room the monkey would screech louder as it scampered up Sandals armor and onto his shoulder once more. Slapping the Moblins helmet he would once again point to the tile that was raised up only for it to be back to normal. The monkey knew what was about to happen and jumped off of Sandal's shoulders and onto the one of the vines on the wall before Sandal made it too far into the room. As the Moblin walked through the room he was looking up at Silver completely unaware of the danger that lurked just underneath the tile ahead of him. "You OK?"

As he posed his question to Silver, the little monkey on the wall would look away from the Moblin knowing it was about to have a similar experience to Silver. Suddenly the Moblin would feel a forceful impact on the bottom on his foot causing him to look down curiously. It seems that whatever attacked Silver wasn't strong enough to lift Sandal, let alone topple him.

Silver made an irritated noise, not only at whatever had flung him through the room but also at Sandal being completely unaffected by it. Apparently, he had to just keep flying, then. Well, at least that was something he was good at. He lowered himself to about Sandal's height, nodding. "Didn't crash," he said, pointing over his shoulder at the ceiling. "Careful," he added, gesturing that Sandal had to follow him. He flapped his wings slowly but powerfully, moving forward towards the bush with the seeds he'd been looking for. As he was about to reach it, however, the tile in front of him shot up much like the one he'd stood on had before. This one, however, stayed up, the large worm beneath it looking at him with beady, glowing eyes.

Silver shrieked in surprise, immediately inhaling and blowing a strong current towards it. It caught under the tile, sending it and the worm attached to it flying across the room until it hit the wall, cracking, and the boneless creature curled up with it, apparently deciding it wasn't worth bothering the Aeralfos. Now even more frustrated that he'd been flung away by something so weak, Silver snorted, little puffs of wind -remnants of his Wind Breath- coming out of his nostrils. But he shrugged it off quickly, flapping up to the bush and picking one of the seeds, showing it to Sandal. "Look!" he said, excited, "Wind seed! Lifts things!" Seeing another tile move, he threw the seed at it with all his might to demonstrate.

Upon impact, the worm came out, but the powerful gale started by the Gale Seed flung it up much as Silver's Wind Breath had done to the other one. "See? Can get you high up!" He turned around excitedly, picking another seed and storing it away carefully. "Come on, come on!" he said, gesturing excitedly as he started flying back through the room.