After entering the Castle's area, you will be confronted by Kaepora again. He explains to you that time flows normally only in the fields and the time stops in the towns and the Lon Lon Ranch. Then go to the tree where Kaepora was on. Roll to the tree and crash. A gold skulltula will come out. Kill it and take the token. Then go up the gate and talk to the guard. He will say you can't enter. What to do? Go back and look for some vines to climb up. Climb up and go to the top of the gate. Jump off the gate and maneuver Link through the blind spots of the guards. By the way, if you get caught, go back to the vines to find Malon, the Lon Lon's owner's daughter. She will ask you to find his father in the castle. For your trouble, she will give you a WEIRD EGG. Now, try again and avoid the guards. it's basically all trial and error.

Here's some tips on avoiding the guards. Use the slope to avoid the first guard then sneak past the two guards up ahead. Then go left, across the field. Don't take the road to the Castle! Go left and look for a rough surface on the wall. Climb up and jump off to the moat. Swim down the moat and climb up using the slope on the corner. Then go left and you're done!

You will see a guy in blue sleeping near the river. It's Talon, Malon's father! Yay! Now wake him up! You can't? Oh... I know! Wait until your egg hatches into a chicken, and when it does, equip it to one of your C button and use it when you're near Talon. Talon will wake up and say "What the tarnation?" ^_^ He will get mad and storm off.

Now, you have to do a little puzzle. You see the blocks? Push the nearest block to the end and push the block off the platform onto the water. Then do the same thing with the other block. The puzzle should finish up looking like a block onto another one. Then get on the top block and jump to the waterfall. Crawl through the hole.

You come upon the Castle Courtyard. You have to maneuver among the bushes to avoid the guards. This one is more difficult because if you miss, you'll start over in the beginning (where you found Talon, the father). My tip: be PATIENT! Take your time, don't rush anything. The first part has only one guard so you should have no problem getting past him. Then there's two guards... Just be patient and time your movements. After that part, you will see a guard with some vines and a walkway above him. Use the stairs to get on the walkway and walk over him. Easy said, easy done.

The next parts has several guards, but you know what to do. In the part with a big bushes that makes the area look like a hedge maze, wait until BOTH guards goes down the left side of the area. Then follow the guards and stop when they stop. When both of them goes right, go out of the area and enter the sacred fountain to encounter the holder of the title: Zelda.

Before you talk to Zelda, I suggest you to use your Slingshot to shoot Seeds at the windows (one at each side). The left one has a picture of Mario and Daisy! Shooting it will give you a red rupee! Then do the same thing to the other window and a old lady will get mad and throw a bomb at you! Hilarious! Now go talk to Zelda.

She will speak to you about... nah, I don't want to spoil it to you. After the lengthy cutscene, take the ZELDA'S LETTER and go talk to Impa. She will teach your first Song, the ZELDA'S LULLABY. Impa will tell you to go to Kakariko, the town between Hyrule Field and the Death Mountain. Go to Kakariko. Then go up the stairs to the left and talk to the guard. Show him the Zelda's Letter. He will let you pass through, but he asks you a favor: buy a mask for his son. You don't have to, but I suggest you do. Also, he gives you a tip: go to the Bazaar in the Market (Hyrule Castle) and buy a better shield. If you go there and tell the shop that the guard told you about this, you get a discount! It's up to you if you want to do this. Also, wait until nighttime to find a Golden Skulltula on the back of a house in the southwestern part of the town. Roll into the tree in the middle part to find a Golden Skulltula.

***NOTE*** This is the time to do the Side Quests... The Side-Quests I recommend you doing are: Collect the Seven Chickens (Kakariko), Learn the Saria's Song (Kokiri Forest-Lost Woods), Find the Super-Cocco (Lon Lon Ranch), Learn the Epona's Song (Lon Lon Ranch), and Grave-Digger Tour (Kakariko). Refer to the Side-Quests section if you want to know how to beat them. ***END-NOTE***

Back on the track, go up the path to the Death Mountain Trail. Ah, the classic Zelda enemy, the Teikite! You can kill them or just run from them. Doesn't matter. Follow the path until you enter the huge Goron City.

Talk to the Gorons around the City. They will tell you that the Spiritual Stone was taken away by the boss, Darunia. One of them also said that Darunia is waiting for the messenger of the Royal Family... that's you! The room Darunia is in is at the bottom of the city. All you have to do is stand on the mat and sing the Zelda's Lullaby. Then the door will open. Enter.

You meet Darunia... he's mad at you because you're just a little kid and he expected somebody more bigger. He wants you to sing him a tune that's from out of the mountain, something green, whatever that means. So you have to go back to the Kokiri Forest and look for Saria. She will teach you the Saria's Song. *sighs* Time to go back. Go back to the Death Mountain Trail, then to Kakariko, then to the Hyrule Field, and finally to the Kokiri Forest.

Go left when you arrive the Kokiri Forest. Climb the vines, follow the path up to a tunnel. Enter the tunnel. Now you are in the Lost Forest, where Saria resides. The forest is a maze. If you enter the wrong tunnel, you go back to the beginning of the forest. You could do this by trial & error but I didn't. You could see if the tunnel is the right one by standing VERY CLOSELY to the tunnel, just before the dark part of the tunnel. If you can see the other side of the tunnel, it's the right one. If you can't it's the wrong one. Here's the directions: Right, Left, (meet Kaepora), Right, Left, Forward, Left, Right You will arrive at a Sacred Forest Meadow. Fight the wolfie (use the L-targeting and the shield. Wait until he attacks you and strike him with your sword. Make sure you have your Deku Sword up to stop the attack.) and enter the maze. There are Dekus around them, and I trust you know how to beat them. Go up the stairs at the end of the maze to find Saria. She will teach you the SARIA'S SONG. Leave the Meadow and talk to Kaepora. Then leave the Lost Woods. I suggest you go back to the Lost Woods and go left.

Get on the wood stump and play the Saria's Song. You will be awarded a Piece of Heart. Simple as that. Go back and take the right path. You should see a tree and a underlying floor. Jump down to the bottom floor. Get on the wood stump. You will be playing a mini-game. Just follow the buttons the guys gives you. If you get it for the first time, you get a green rupee. If you get it again for the second time, you get a blue rupee. Better yet, get it for the third time to get a... Piece of a Heart!

Then get back up to the higher platform. Aim your Slingshot at the middle of the piece of a wood hanging from a tree. If you hit 3 'bull-eye's in a row, you get a bigger bag for your seeds! (You know if you got a bull-eye if you see a '100' rising from the tree. After all that, go back to the Goron City.

When you finally arrive to the Goron City, immediately sing the Saria's Song. Then Darunia will go CRAZY!!! I wish I could dance like that Hahaha.. After some chit-chat, he will give you the GORON'S BRACELET. It allows you to pick up the bombs from the bomb flowers. Now, do not leave the Goron City. I suggest you get a Stick aflame from a torch inside the Darunia's room. The quickly get out of the room and light all 4 torches in the bottom level of the City. The large vase in the middle will spin. Go to the next floor. Take a bomb from a set of stairs and try to throw it into the spinning vase. If you're successful, pray. That's because when the vase stops spinning, the face of the vase shown is your treasure. If the face is flat or stoic, you get nothing. If the face's sad, you get 3 rupees. If the face's happy, you get a Piece of Heart and a red rupee and a blue Rupee. This may take you a few tries.

Now, go out to the Death Mountain Trail. Go right to see a Goron and a bomb flower. Take the flower and throw it over the fence. If you did it correctly, the rock blocking the Dodongo's Cavern breaks. Now you can access the second dungeon!

Use the bombs to blow up the wall. Now you are officially in the Dodongo's Cavern. Jump to the rising platform and to the center platform. L-target the bomb and while doing so, look to the right so you can see if the platform to the right is up. If it's up, quickly pick up the bomb and run to the platform and jump to the right platform. Then throw the bomb at the wall to your left. There's a chest with the DUNGEON MAP behind that wall.

Go back to the bomb flower. Take the bomb and jump off the platform you're on to the northeast. You should land on a flat surface with a large boulder. Drop the bomb next to the boulder and get away. The bomb will break the boulder. Step on the switch that appears. Then get on the platform that has been elevated by the switch.

When you get on the top, run to the bridge and go to the alcove at the end. Step on the switch. A fire will light up in one of the torches. Also, the door directly below you will open. Jump down immediately and enter the door.

There are two Beamos... just ignore them and pick up a bomb on the end of the line and drop it on the middle of the platform, where's there's no bomb. The bomb will explode, causing a chain reaction to occur. All of the bombs will explode, allowing the stairs to come down. Go up the stairs.

This part baffled me for so long.... Finally I figured it out. XD You have to collect all of the white rupees in the room (I think about 6) to open the door. One is under a Beamos, just walk up to it to get it, some are in crates, and one is on the vines. Don't forget the crate on the bottom floor. Enter the door.

Kill all of the Baby Dodongos with a Slingshot and the Seeds. Then a chest will come out, it contains the COMPASS. Then go out the room via the new door. Cross the bridge to the other side.

I think it's safe to say I was embarrassed when I finally figured the simplest puzzle in this room... All you have to do is to push the blocks under the 3 torches and light up a Deku Stick and light up all three torches and a door will open. Enter the door.

Kill all 5 Spiders and take the blue rupee from the chest. Break the right crates to uncover a Gold Skulltula. Then exit the room. Back in the torch room... The second fire is now lit. Go to the platform with the torch and quickly jump to the alcove behind it. Then run and light up the first torch ahead. Then push the C direction (whatever your Deku Stick is on) to kill the Skulltula. Then take another Stick and light it up again. Then light up the other torch. Whew! See that block blocking (no pun intended) your way? Ignore it. Go down and grab the block down there. Pull it all of the way to the next platform. Get up on the platform and kill the Skulltula.

Kill all of the monsters in the next hallway first. Then light up a Deku Stick and go up the bomb flower. The bomb should go down. Immediately grab the bomb and throw it to the wall on the end of the hall. Exit the door.

Kill both Lizaflos, use your L-targeting and shield. Wait until a Lizaflos attacks you (have shield ready) and then attack him. That way, you have no chance of getting hit. The door should unlock when you beat both of them. Enter the door.

Before doing anything, kill the bat and break all of the crates you see. Then get back on the original platform and use your Slingshot to trigger the yellow switch. Then jump to the next platform. Then go left and jump to the small alcove in the wall. Kill the bat and grab the bomb. Throw the bomb at the boulder at the northeastern corner. Then press the switch and go to the other switch (the light one) and attack t with your sword. Quickly go back to the original platform and jump over the platforms to the other end.

Now, go straight to the other hallway. (You can detour to the left for 10 rupees) And take the bomb and explode the boulders out. Take another bomb and jump down to 1F, to your left. Bomb the wall with a crack. Use the left white platform to get to the high platform with a bomb flower. use the bomb to take down to wall to the right if you want a Red Potion (for 40 rupees). If you don't need a Red Potion, then bomb the boulder. Grab the bomb beneath the boulder and throw it to the right, below the bombs on the walls. It will ignite a chain reaction and ends up uncovering an eye. Shoot the eye out with a Seed. The door will finally get unlocked. Enter the door.

After crossing the baby-Dodongo infested hallway, you enter a room with two Lizaflos. You know what to do, so kill them away. Go ahead to the next room. Do not bomb the bombs on the wall yet. It's not worth it. Just wait until you become an adult. Instead, go to the other bombs (the southern one) and cause a chain reaction. A door will open. GO through the door and you find the treasure chest! Finally.... What's inside? A bomb bag! Yay! Ride the platform up to 2F and drop a bomb into the skull's eye. Do the same thing for the other eye. Use the bridge's holes to do this. The mouth of the skull will open. Enter the mouth.

Use the left opening and walk down the hallway. Then go left and pull the gravestone. Kill the Lizaflos. Then pull the other two gravestones. Then throw a bomb over the flaming blocks to trigger a switch, which will turn off the flames. Go over the blocks. Pull the gravestones. Then go up to the hole to the right, before the statues. Defeat the ghost there and pull the gravestone. Take the blue rupee (if you don't have a Hylian shield, you will get it here- thanks to sjorgnsn@hotmail.com). Go back out and stay at the higher platform. Now, kill all of the statues by throwing the bombs at them and then do it again to destroy them. When you've done that, go through the opening. Then pull the gravestone at the end of the hallway to uncover a switch. Press the switch and enter the new door. In that room, put a bomb on the middle of the room. Then.... drop to the bottom level.......

Meh. I don't know why the dungeons were so challenging... yet the bosses are nothing.

Anyway, just throw a bomb into his mouth when his mouth is open (duh). When the bomb explodes inside him, he will collapse. Hit him once with your sword. Then stick to the wall. Dodongo will roll and miss you completely. When he went past you, follow him. He will crash into a wall. He'll turn toward you can open his mouth again. Throw another bomb into him. Slash. Stick to the wall. Repeat. I think 4 or 5 hits will do it. Pathetic, indeed.

Darunia comes out of nowhere and calls you his Sworn Brother. :P He also mentioned Ganondorf. That dorf! He also gives you the second Spiritual Stone: GORON'S RUBY. Darunia recommends you to go to the fairy at the top of the mountain. Go up the path and you should see three boulders to the left. Go up the path and run all of the way across the molten lava pit, and up the vines. Then you should see a false wall. Bomb that one away and you will be able to enter a hole. Enter the hole and play the Zelda's Lullaby on the Triforce. A fairy will come out and award you a Magic Power. Now you can do a Charged Attack! Try it out, it's pretty useful in the future! Then Kaepora will take you to the Kakariko Village...

When you finally arrive the Kakariko village, you will be on a rooftop. Now don't move! Go right and DROP, not JUMP from the roof to the another ceiling below (above the chicken pen) and enter the small doorway. While you're inside, you can take a HEART PIECE! Call Saria with the Saria's Song. She will tell you that the next Spiritual Stone is at Zora's Domain. So go there. Get out of the Kakariko Village and into the Hyrule Field. Go left and jump into the river. Swim all of the way to the next patch of grass. Then walk to the sign. Finally, you're in the Zora's River portion of the Zora's Domain!!!