Task #5: Locate All 12 Twilit Parasites

Locating Twilit Parasites #1 and #2

Twilit Baba Taking the place of the Deku Baba in the ground where you previously encountered this plant is the Twilit Baba, with a dark serpentine stalk and strange red and black head.Fortunately, it attacks and is snipped in the same manner as the Deku Baba. As a wolf, simply leap and bite the plant twice, or spin attack. The shadow version of the Deku Baba is monstrous, but ineffectual at harming you as long as you bite and spin!

Twilit Parasite The Twilit Parasites hold the tears needed to rejuvenate the spirit of the spring, so look for purple sparks and shadows on the ground in the area where the white dots are marked on your map. Twelve of these insects roam the land, and they can hide inside walls, floors, the ground, or out of reach. Target these foes with the ZL button and then pounce with one attack. The insect explodes, and an orb of tears appears. Wait for it to float down, then run into it. Only small purple sparks of electricity can be seen, until you use your sense view. Then pounce and bite!

The first two Twilit Parasites are scuttling about the path next to the Twilit Baba. Just target and pounce on each of them and secure your first tears. Once they appear on your Vessel of Light, continue along the path. Dispatch two more Twilit Babas.

Twilit Parasites #3 and #4

Move to the Dark Tunnel entrance. The gate is locked again, so return here in a moment. For now, turn and visit the area where Coro resides. Head around and up the ramp, passing the scarecrow. At the end of the ramp, Midna appears to allow you to leap into Coro’s hut!

Leap down into the interior of the hut and use your sense view to make out the ghostly form of Coro. He’s freaking out about the bugs! Two of them appear, buzzing with electricity and scuttling about the floor. With your sense view on, leap at them; you can defeat both with one jump! After they explode, Coro is even more puzzled! Take the orbs of tears, then exit the way you came in, climbing up the furniture and out the window.

Twilit Parasite #5

Journey back to the entrance to the Dark Tunnel. If you inspect the gate, you’ll see it is firmly closed. However, there’s a dig spot just to the left of the gate, allowing you to tunnel under the gate. Crawl out, into the tunnel entrance, and target the Twilit Parasite maneuvering about in this area. Bite it, and collect that orb of tears!

Twilit Parasite #6

You can use the tunnel shortcut (see Missing Links), or run through the twilight version of the Dark Tunnel. The creatures (Deku Babas and Keese) have been replaced with twilit versions that are just as easy to defeat. Collect the Rupees from the usual places.

Emerge into Faron Woods, and you’ll see the lower area has been completely submerged in thick, evil, purple mist. Move to the northeastern side of the higher ground you’re standing on, and locate a Twilit Parasite on the rock wall. Now defeat it without accidentally leaping into the mist! Wait for each Twilit Parasite to descend if they start to fly.

Twilit Parasites #7 and #8

There must be some way to cross the mist-filled woods, and there is. Move to the flat stump at the northern part of the wood entrance, and Midna appears. She can transport you across to higher ground after a three-leap maneuver. Don’t forget to hold the ZL button to target her!

Run to the top of the overhang in this eastern part of the woods. Summon Midna, then leap three times to the inside of a giant tree in the middle of the woods. Two Twilit Parasites are in here. Don’t leave until you collect both orbs!

Twilit Parasites #9 and #10

Now for a giant series of leaps! Use Midna and hold down the ZL button to jump eight times across the tree branches to the top of the Faron Wood trees. Jump another four times, avoiding three Twilit Babas (if you’re too slow, you’ll be knocked off the branch and into the mist).

Move to the other end of the massive tree stump and use Midna again to leap across a large gap, after the swinging log has passed to one side. Make seven more leaps down some trunks and platforms to reach the southwest exit.

Here, you can spot two more Twilit Parasites, but they are traveling through the earth. You must target them, then run to where they are buried, and dig them up! Once they surface, attack them. When you collect both orbs, you can search for the final two Twilit Parasites!

Twilit Parasites #11 and #12

Step out of the tunnel and you’ll notice that the energy walls of the Twilit Messengers have appeared, and three of them are advancing on you! Target, leap, and grab the nearest one, and pummel him with teeth and tail until he falls. Then press and hold the B button for Midna’s energy attack, targeting the final two. Catch them both, and all three disappear.

The three Twilit Messengers form a portal in the sky, and you’re free to continue. Trill’s Shop is completely empty, but you’re a wolf and can’t steal anything! The Twilit Babas are in the same places that the Deku Babas were. Now head along the winding trail toward the entrance to the Forest Temple.

As you reach the entrance to the Forest Temple, you see a monkey spirit standing in fear on one of the short columns. Target the final two Twilit Parasites and bite them to complete your Vessel of Light collection. The monkey is astonished, and as a wolf, you can understand her! She is relieved, although “ever since the boss went funny in the head, there’s been scary monsters everywhere,” she says.

Missing Links

1. Going Underground

You can optionally find dig spots that house either a Rupee or a Heart in the following places:

• The winding path and long grass near the Dark Tunnel
• The sign to the Dark Tunnel
• Near the campfire around Coro’s house
• The north side of Coro’s house
• The tree opposite Coro’s house
• The south entrance to Faron Woods
• The eastern wall, near the overhang
• Behind the sign at the southwest exit to Faron Woods—a yellow Rupee (10)
• Next to the propped-up bridge near Twilit Parasites #11 and #12
• At the foot of the large tree opposite the propped-up bridge
• At the foot of the large tree opposite Trill’s Shop
• At the start of the winding trail to the Forest Temple (near the opened chest)
• On either side of the opened chest

2. Dark Tunnel Shortcut

There’s actually a shortcut that (in wolf form) allows you to ignore the entire Dark Tunnel area! Dig in the right wall behind the first unlit torch as you arrive in the tunnel.

You appear out of a dig hole in the left side of the wall by the north exit, or entrance if you’re traveling south. This is quicker than traipsing through the tunnel.