The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Maple

You will encounter Maple the witch each time you kill 40 enemies, or 20 while wearing Maple's Ring (#16).

Meeting Maple
You can tell when Maple is coming because her music will play and you will see her shadow winding over the landscape before she finally appears on the screen.

When she does, watch her path and move in her way so that she crashes into you. Both of you will drop some of your items. Link will only drop hearts, bombs, Rupees, and other replaceable items; Maple drops these as well but will also drop Gasha Seeds, Potions, and sometimes even Rings! After the crash, collect everything you can before Maple does. Head for Rings first and foremost (Maple can drop quite a few different Rings) and Gasha Seeds second, then gather up whatever else is left.

Maple cannot steal your Rings, Potions, or Gasha Seeds. Any you see on the ground dropped out of her, not you. This means even if you do badly the only consequence is losing some Seeds and Rupees, which are easily replaceable. If you allow Maple to take enough of your Rupees (the other items may also count towards this), she will eventually upgrade to a vacuum-cleaner. Now instead of sweeping up the dropped items she hoovers them up instead. She can also move and collect items significantly faster than before.
 * If you collect more items than Maple she'll say "grr... why you... I'll remember this!"
 * If you both collect an even amount she'll say "Hm, not bad... but that's all you're getting today."
 * If you collect less than Maple she'll say "Hahaha! Now I have more items than before! See ya!"

When you play a Linked Game she automatically levels up regardless of her success in previous encounters, so if she had a broom in the first game she has a vacuum in the second. If she already has her vacuum when you begin the second, she'll have a flying saucer instead! With her saucer she's super-fast, and very difficult to beat.