A Distant Sea
Disclaimer: Based on characters and situations from the Legend of Zelda game and the TV show seaQuest DSV. I own nothing but my Nintendo DS. Don't sue me or I'll send my cat to shed on you. (Marine archaeologist Dr. Ungar created by Susan M. M. in the seaQuest DSV story "Staff Meeting" and used with her permission.)
by Spyro Nights
Legend of Zelda/seaQuest DSV
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"Ten dollars," Lt. Ben Krieg offered.
"No," Lucas Wolenczak repeated.
"Fifteen, and that's my final offer," Krieg told him. The lieutenant was a dark-haired, blue-eyed man in his early thirties.
"You have no respect for music," Lucas accused. At sixteen, he was half Krieg's age, and the youngest crew member on seaQuest Deep Submergence Vessel 4600.
"It's because I have respect for music that I want to get that piece of tin away from you," Krieg retorted.
"It's not tin," Lucas protested. "It's a silver ocarina, and Dr. Ungar said I could have it."
"Dr. Ungar didn't know how badly you would play it."
Lucas was a teenaged genius. He'd earned his M.S. from Stanford at the age of fifteen. A computer hacker extraordinaire, he spoke three languages, played two musical instruments, and assumed that he could learn a third instrument easily.
He'd been wrong.
His attempts to learn to play the ocarina were assaulting his shipmates' ears, and driving them crazy.
"Kid, you may be the smartest person on this boat," Krieg continued, "but you do not know how to play that thing. C'mon, give it to me, and I'll pay you cold, hard cash."
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Author's Note: The Legend of Zelda is a videogame, which has been around in several incarnations since 1986. It consists of Link having adventures and rescuing Zelda, Princess of Hyrule. *~* seaQuest was a TV show broadcast from September 12, 1993 to June 9, 1996. It was about a submarine, the seaQuest DSV 4600, sailing the oceans in the year 2018. seaQuest did scientific research, marine exploration, rescue missions, and kept the peace for the U. E. O. (United Earth Oceans Organization). The teenaged hacker was put on board the seaQuest by his father, physicist Lawrence Wolencazk, in the hopes of teaching the young genius some discipline.