Chapter 2: The Minish woods
“We must do something! We must repair the Picori Blade!” The king said now sitting in his throne room, with the stone Zelda to his right, and a line of guards in front of him. “Go! Go guards! Find that evil Vaati!” the king said.
“We’ll need the help of the Minish to forge the blade back to its former glory…” the king said in dismay
“I’m sorry sir, but ‘The Minish’? What are these ‘Minish’? Dash’s grandfather said.
ÓH! Well the Minish are the Picori as you townsfolk’s know them As.” the king answered.
“Picori? Bah! They are a myth! An old mare’s tale!” dash’s grandfather declared.
“No they are not. Their existence is known only in the royal family.” The king said looking at dash.
“I would send my guards to them in the Minish Woods and only children can see them…” the king said sighing in dismay.
The king stopped, his head shot upwards and looks at dash. A large grin spread across his face.
“DASH! You are but a mere child, you can see them!” the king loudly announced.
“Wha-? Me?! But sir! It is much too dangerous in the Minish woods!” dash muttered out.
“You must! Of The princess shall stay stone, And Vaati’s plan will come through! Please!” the king pleaded.
Dash looks at her grandfather, who was shaking his head in approval.
“…f-fine I’ll do it… For Twilight!” Dash cheered loudly, the king and her grandfather cheered.
“Great choice lad! Here take this Sword, and be on with your quest! Don’t look back, Don’t stop trying! The fate of Equestria is in you very talented hooves!” the king said as Dash walked away, with the sword on her back and terror in her face.
“W-well… here we are… Minish woods…” dash stuttered walking across a bridge that seemed to cove a bottomless pit that, across this bridge was Minish woods. As the thick fog cleared she could see the Minish woods reveal, tall dark trees with leaves as dark as the night sky. Grass that had the same texture of in the Southlands but was a dark green, tall grass covered ponds and swamps. The ground squished under the cyan colored ponies hooves. “ew… This place is disgusting…” as soon as those words left her mouth in front of her was a small red Octorok. Nothing Dash hadn’t seen before, bas as she grew closer she realized that I was shoot at something. Something green. “Ow! Hey stop that!” as a rock flew and hit the strange green object. As soon as it noticed Dash it called to her “Hey! You! Pony fellow! Help me out! I’m getting killed over here!”. Dash realized it was a green hat! How a hat was talking and able to feel pain confused Dash, being the hero that she is though saved the little green talking hat.
“Wow, hey thanks! Er.. I mean I had ‘em right where I wanted them but uh, thanks anyways… Hey what’s a little kid like you doing out here?” The hat asked.
“W-well I’m looking for the Minish to fix the Picori blade, you see the princess, Twilight had a curse on her from Vaati-“before she could finish the hat interrupted.
“Vaati you say? Well it seems we have a common enemy! That Witch turned me into a hat! Hi, my name is Elzo!” Elzo said. “I can also help you find these Minish that you seek! You see the Minish are so small we can’t even see them with are bare eyes! But with a little magic I can shrink you down to size, But only in certain places.” Elzo said to dash.
“wow! Really? That’s awesome!” Dash exclaimed.
“There is one problem… I have no legs… so…” Elzo said jumping on to Dash’s head. “Ah! Much better! Now, Onwards!” Elzo said.
Dash never noticed until now it looked like that hat had a beak at the time, it was very strange. They came across a stump, thinking nothing of it Dash continued walking.
“wow, wow, WOW! Do you know what this is Dash?” Elzo asked
“uh, a stump? It’s not that special…” Dash asked questioning the intelligence of Elzo.
“This is, well a portal in some sense! This is one of those ‘certain’ places I can transform you! Hop on!” Elzo said and Dash obeyed.
Elzo began chanting a strange language that Dash’s ears had never heard before. Dash felt queasy and strange as if she was growing weaker and smaller. All the sudden, Dash became the size of the Minish! She fell into the hole in the stump, bounced on mushrooms and had a safe landing. The tree stump that was once a place here she could sit upon became a monstrous mountain that would take forever to climb.
“T-this can’t be! This is too surreal!” Dash tried to reason with Elzo’s strange magical ability.
“Nope, it all real. You are the size of the Minish. Small puddles are now lakes; small enemies are monoliths of death; Lilly pads are a way of transportation. This is the world of the Minish!” Elzo exclaimed. “Now then! This way to Minish Village!” Elzo cheered.
Dash was still surprised about being the size of the Minish, After a seemingly easy lily pad ride to the entrance of the village Dash asked “so how can you do all of this? Like make me small?”
“It’s quite simple really” Ezlo began to explain but was interrupted by a tiny creature running up to Dash. “Picori pico?” it asked it a strange language. The creatures weren’t ponies, the look nothing like ponies, they were the Minish. “picor pico?” another Minish ran up to them. “Oh yes thank you!” Elzo said. Dash looked up at him confused. “Oh yes, you don’t speak Minish… frankly I don’t do well either.” Elzo said. “No matter! There must be somepony-er… someminish here who can speak equestrian!”