A Whole Lot of Serious Therapy
Chapter 1: Unqualified Help
The huge beast reared up and roared. Navi identified him as Ganon. Link silently wished he was the Kakariko begger boy instead of the Hero of Time.
Link looked up into Ganon's hideous face. I'm going to need a whole lot of serious therapy when this is over, he thought.
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After Link defeated Ganon, Zelda returned Link to his original time. Link would rather have been a kid than an adult, but he consoled himself by thinking it would only be seven years before he'd be big again.
Seven years later, Link was big again. But he also suffered from insomnia, paranoia, and countless other things.
Link had lived with the Kokiri until he started getting older and they didn't. Then he moved in with Darunia, the Goron leader and his "brother". Darunia was worried about his "brother's" well-being, and decided to hire a therapist. After searching for somebody in Hyrule that could actually call themself a therapist, he came upon the strange old guy that lived in the Lake Hylia Laboratory.
After much argument, Link finally agreed to go see the strange old guy. He got on Epona (his horse which Malon had finally agreed to let him have a while back since going back seven years made Link lose everything he'd strived to collect in Hyrule) and rode to the Lake Hylia Laboratory.
The strange old guy was all too happy to see Link.
"Come in! Come in! I may seem a little excited, well I am! King Zora promised to send me some Eyeball Frogs for tonight and I just can't wait. What were you here for again? Oh yea! Therapy! Okay, let's go outside, it's kinda blue in here. Very sad."
Link had a slight suspicion that the old man needed therapy more than him. He also thought that the man could be one of Ganondorf's followers that had somehow eluded the suspicion of his fellow Hyrulians and was secretly planning to ambush Link in his sleep.
The strange old guy had no idea Link had these suspicions, of course, and just continued talking. "Call me Sog. It stands for strange old guy, that's what everyone seems to think I am for some reason. So it's sort of a nickname. I don't exactly remember my real name, I think those eyeball frogs mushed up my brain some."
They walked across the bridges and sat down by the tree on the island in the middle of the lake.
"So, Link, is it? Well, I'm Sog! And before we get started, I want to see how deep you can dive, so go on, show me."
Link, who used to be able to dive really far with the gold scale, had lost both gold and silver scales when traveling back in time and could dive no more than 3 feet. So, he used the oldest excuse in the book; "My dog...ate my...lungs? So I can't hold my breath."
Sog, who was very gullible, being half crazy himself, believed Link. "Well, that's no good. I don't know how to treat you if I don't know how deep you can dive. It helps me decide your treatment plan. So, I can't help you. I'm terribly sorry. So go on, go home."
Link thought that was the dumbest excuse he'd ever heard, but was glad for a reason to get away from Sog (since he was still very suspicious of Sog's motives) and quickly left Lake Hylia and returned to Goron's City.
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Darunia was outraged. "He won't help you because you can't dive?! That's crazy! Well, we'll just have to teach you to dive, won't we?"
"No, no. I don't want to go back to him. He scares me."
"Fine, I'll find someone else for the job."
Chapter 1: Unqualified Help
The huge beast reared up and roared. Navi identified him as Ganon. Link silently wished he was the Kakariko begger boy instead of the Hero of Time.
Link looked up into Ganon's hideous face. I'm going to need a whole lot of serious therapy when this is over, he thought.
---
After Link defeated Ganon, Zelda returned Link to his original time. Link would rather have been a kid than an adult, but he consoled himself by thinking it would only be seven years before he'd be big again.
Seven years later, Link was big again. But he also suffered from insomnia, paranoia, and countless other things.
Link had lived with the Kokiri until he started getting older and they didn't. Then he moved in with Darunia, the Goron leader and his "brother". Darunia was worried about his "brother's" well-being, and decided to hire a therapist. After searching for somebody in Hyrule that could actually call themself a therapist, he came upon the strange old guy that lived in the Lake Hylia Laboratory.
After much argument, Link finally agreed to go see the strange old guy. He got on Epona (his horse which Malon had finally agreed to let him have a while back since going back seven years made Link lose everything he'd strived to collect in Hyrule) and rode to the Lake Hylia Laboratory.
The strange old guy was all too happy to see Link.
"Come in! Come in! I may seem a little excited, well I am! King Zora promised to send me some Eyeball Frogs for tonight and I just can't wait. What were you here for again? Oh yea! Therapy! Okay, let's go outside, it's kinda blue in here. Very sad."
Link had a slight suspicion that the old man needed therapy more than him. He also thought that the man could be one of Ganondorf's followers that had somehow eluded the suspicion of his fellow Hyrulians and was secretly planning to ambush Link in his sleep.
The strange old guy had no idea Link had these suspicions, of course, and just continued talking. "Call me Sog. It stands for strange old guy, that's what everyone seems to think I am for some reason. So it's sort of a nickname. I don't exactly remember my real name, I think those eyeball frogs mushed up my brain some."
They walked across the bridges and sat down by the tree on the island in the middle of the lake.
"So, Link, is it? Well, I'm Sog! And before we get started, I want to see how deep you can dive, so go on, show me."
Link, who used to be able to dive really far with the gold scale, had lost both gold and silver scales when traveling back in time and could dive no more than 3 feet. So, he used the oldest excuse in the book; "My dog...ate my...lungs? So I can't hold my breath."
Sog, who was very gullible, being half crazy himself, believed Link. "Well, that's no good. I don't know how to treat you if I don't know how deep you can dive. It helps me decide your treatment plan. So, I can't help you. I'm terribly sorry. So go on, go home."
Link thought that was the dumbest excuse he'd ever heard, but was glad for a reason to get away from Sog (since he was still very suspicious of Sog's motives) and quickly left Lake Hylia and returned to Goron's City.
---
Darunia was outraged. "He won't help you because you can't dive?! That's crazy! Well, we'll just have to teach you to dive, won't we?"
"No, no. I don't want to go back to him. He scares me."
"Fine, I'll find someone else for the job."
