Chapter Two: The Hazards of a Shovel
Beginning Authors Note!- YAYISHNESS! I GOT FOUR WHOLE REVIEWS! Jumps up and down clapping hands with profound happiness! I want to thank you guys soooo much! And since I feel special when I get my name typed out, here's to all my reviewers. You guys made my night! So a huge thank-you to dashizznizz, CheeseFromJupiter, Lady Rittaker, and Alfonts! Now that my thanks are finished I will humbly continue with the second chapter. I hope everyone likes it!
Blinking her large white eyes to clear the spots, Meeka found the blonde haired youth doing, by the looks of it, a happy dance, and singing at the top of his lungs.
"YES! MORE BOMBS! I CAN BLOW UP THINGS! B-O-M-B-S and bom-bs was his nameo!" Then he ran out of the shop.
Meeka sat up looking after the boy then around her store in mild horror. Objects were strewn everywhere under a thick layer of soot. The granite surface of the desktops was, as characteristic to granite, undamaged. And at this point she was pretty damn happy to have paid extra for it.
Getting to her feet, Meeka began the long process of cleaning up. Needless to say, she wasn't too impressed with Link at the moment.
Meeka breathed a sigh of relief as she exited her shop for the night. It had taken hours of work but she'd finally scrubbed the entire building down.
Turning around from locking the heavy stone door caused her to gasp in shock.
"No…" she breathed. It seemed that Link had used the extremely profitable, but not so environmentally friendly, way of uncovering money. With a shovel. On her lawn.
The dirt was over turned in perfectly straight lines and piled neatly at the sides. She might have even found it interesting how uniform it was, if he hadn't completely destroyed her landscaping.
A rage built so high in the little Subrosian that it was extremely unfortunate that Link happened to sprint past the market, complete with his shovel in hand. Almost flying across the small little bridge and over the lava that flowed beneath it, Meeka snatched the shovel from his callused hands.
"YOU!" she bellowed emitting much more sound then Link possibly believed could come from that size of a person. The green clad boy jumped back in shock.
"Ye….Yes?" he asked worried.
"Don't take that tone with me!" she ranted raising the confiscated shovel. It would have been a threatening gesture from many other people, not however from her. In all sad fact it was rather humorous considering she was about half his height, and she held the object above her with her arms fully extended.
She began whacking him with it, bouncing it off his skin creating extraordinarily coloured bruises as she yelled "I can't believe you! First you blow up a bomb in my shop and that was after you dug up my lawn!"
"OW! I'm…… sorry?" Link offered. Meeka glared at him regaining herself.
"Oh, you will be," she stated shoving his shovel into his hands. "You are going to work until you fix my yard. You should get started," she advised.
Link stared at her in shock. "Hey, why isn't it back to normal? Usually when I come back to a place anything I dig up is back to its original state."
Meeka glared at him her eyes squinting in dislike. "You've done this before?"
Link gulped. "Uh…. Yeah…" he admitted wisely saying it guiltily.
"Get started."
"Yes, Ma'am!" he exclaimed ending it with a salute.
Over the next hour Meeka and Link got to know each other better. Well, after Meeka's temper cooled down a bit. She found out his name and what he was doing in Subrosia. Also about his past, his amnesia of the time before he arrived in Holodrum, the monsters he'd recently defeated, the weapons he preferred to use and his opinion on everything from the weather to Meeka's robe. It was obvious he liked to hear himself speak in that bubbly childish attention seeking way. Meeka couldn't exactly blame him, after hearing almost his entire life story. He did have to go around defeating monsters to get things for a reason she wasn't quite sure of. All under the age of twenty. So she listened patiently.
Link took her by surprise when he suddenly finished a random tangent about the difference in soil down in Subrosia compared to the stuff in upper Holodrum, by asking about her.
"What's your name?" he inquired in his adorable soprano voice.
"Meeka," she responded.
"I like it!" he declared. She blinked at him.
"Really?" she queried skeptically.
"Yep! So who exactly are you Subsorians?" he questioned, wiping his forehead with his sleeve as he worked.
Meeka tilted her head to the side before answering. "Do you want the official version?"
"There's an official version? Cool!"
"I'll take that as a yes. The Subrosians are a bizarre race that lives beneath the world of Holodrum. At the moment, they're in a panic because a strange building has fallen into their world. That's what Prima guides say anyways. In all reality we're an advanced humanoid species with black featureless faces, and big white eyes that walk around in different coloured robes, living off the lava and ore produced around here. We even have celebrities."
"Wow," was all Link had been able to manage as a comment.
Such were the hazards of a shovel. You might actually get to know another person. Who'd want that!
Dolphindreamer-Please remember that shovels are not to be used as Meeka used Link's. Unless of course it's toward a game character, then go ahead, it's a wonderful release of stress. (o)
Also I know it seems as if this has no plot line but there will be! Once I put together the details that is. Anyways I hoped you liked it. Oh and as in reference to Meeka's description of the Subrosians that is a little over half of the Prima guides description of them so that's my disclaimer to them. I do have the Nintendo description but I liked this one better. Well I hope that cleared up for anyone out there who hadn't played The Oracle of Seasons Zelda game what the Subrosians look like. See my previous chapter for my disclaimer to Nintendo. And as sad as Link's song was at the beginning is was supposed to be to the tune of the children's song Bingo. Don't know if you know it. One last thing I want to add is that I may not update for a little while as previously stated, solidify the plot. Keep smiling!
