Hello everyone welcome back to another chapter of The Legend of Zelda Sleeping Streams. I really do hope you all enjoyed the last chapter.This time around I don't really have much to say but there was one thing I wanted to explain.

Last chapter I made it so Link was asked which tribe he wanted to help first. I thought I would give this story more of a open worldish but still somewhat linear type of story.

In this case I made it so Link helped the Zora's first because I personally like fire more as an element so when I played Breath of the Wild when it released I wanted to save the Gorons last as a "save the best for last" kind of thing. So the same applied here for this story but that doesn't mean he's going to save them just before the grand finale.

As I said before there is still some linear aspects too whether its a dungeon or a side quest of some sort. Chapter 1 and 2 are good examples of a linear part of the story. I only got the open worldish part from the fact Aonuma said "open world is here to stay for future zelda games."

So from a video game perspective if you were to control Link you could choose whichever tribe you want to help first between the two.

In this case you can either see this is how I would've gone through the story if it were a game or you can go full linear and see it as how the story really goes from beginning to finish.

By the way this chapter there will be special item in this chapter. Only hint I'm giving is that it's an unused scrapped item from the beta of one of Wind Waker. Like before dungeons will either be extremely limited or straight to the boss inside the dungeon.

Well thats enough of me, on to the story!

As always I don't own any of the Zelda series or any of it's original characters.

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The Legend of Zelda Sleeping Streams

Chapter 3 Zora's River and the Diamond Steppe

There it is Veli. Zora's River." Link said as he let his hair flow in the wind. The blonde and the purple leafed Korok were currently standing on one of the rocks of Starbelt Rocks.

"It looks pretty. The Zora's Domain" Veli said gaining a nod from the blonde while they looked at the flowing river. "I wonder what troubles they are going through right now?"

"We're about to find out soon. Let's see what's going on." Link said as he hopped off the rock as Veli followed him.

Link jumped off the cliff while pulling out his Kokiri leaf so that he could land on top of one of the green platforms around the river. He put the deku leaf and pressed on towards Zora River.

As soon as he got a closer look at the river, he had noticed that the water was purple instead of the normal blue color water has. Even the map shows that it had blue water and unless the person who made the map accidentally used the wrong color, but that was the least likely to be true at this point.

"You might wanna make sure you don't fall in the water as you make it to Zora's Domain." Veli said as the blonde nodded.

"Right, first climbing up Zora's River, then making it inside their domain." Link responded to his partneras he began to hop on ledges that led him closer to mountain that the water of Zora's River flowed down upon.

The climb up wasn't that bad for the blonde hero, but he did have a few close calls. At times he had almost fallen off having to hang onto the edge of the cliff where he was left either hanging over the purple water that was now affecting the Zora River or the ocean hanging below him.

Once he made it to the top of the river, he looked around to see the view. The mountain top that Zora's River lied upon was close to being as tall of death mountain which can usually be seen no matter where you are in Hyrule and the ring cloud it has had for centuries is a dead giveaway. Luckily for him the entrance to Zora's Domain was on the right and that's the side he happened to be at. He stuck close to the wall trying not to fall in and hopped onto another rock which was in front of the entrance of Zora's Domain.

"Are you ready Link?" The purple leafed korok asked as she floated in front of him.

"Yeah let's go." The blonde responded walking inside to see Zora's Domain.

Zora Domain

Zora's Domain on the inside was pretty big on the inside and had a beautiful light blue color to it too. The pathway from the entrance had continued down in a spiral formation and unlike outside, the water was a light blue like it should be. This gave the young hero a sigh of relief knowing whatever made the water outside purple was affecting the inside of the zora's home, at least yet which made him want to help the Zoras even more before it was too late. There were a lot of alternate pathways which must lead to the many different rooms in the Zora's Domain. Most likely those rooms were where the Zora would sleep at.

Halfway through the spiral pathway there was another path that led to the center of the current floor the blonde was on. He could see a giant throne, a little smaller one next to that one and a very small one compared to that one, but it was a little wider. The blonde went to inspect the current area, seeing how the thrones were empty.

'I'm guessing the king, the queen, and their child aren't here. I'm sure one of them knows why the water has turned purple.' While Link was thinking to himself, he failed to notice a huge shadow above him.

"Link move!!!!" Veli appeared out of his tunic yelling at him in a panicked tone. The tone of her voice brought him out of his thoughts as he backflipped far away from where he was standing. It was a good thing he did as a big red creature with multiple legs and a open mouth similar to a Deku Shrub landed where he was once standing.

"Holy Hylia!!! Thanks Veli." The blonde's expression turned to a serious one as he pulled out his sword and shield. 'How am I gonna take this huge thing on?' As Link analyzed the creature, he had to dodge a chunk of rock that it spit out from it's mouth.

Veli was also analyzing the creature for Link, but she couldn't really find a weak spot on it or at least the normal weak spot, "Something is wrong Link, this is an Octorok. Normally they aren't this big and it seems that just hitting them won't work on this big one like the regular sized ones. The best we can do for now is try and reflect a rock back at it."

Link proceeded with Veli's advice, the octorok shot a rock at Link in which in return he bashed his shield against the rock to send it flying back to the octorok. The pain from the impact of the rock really angered the octorok. It began to charge at the blonde which caused him to dodge to stay out of it's path, but the octorok stopped midway and changed its direction towards the blonde and charged at him again.

Link had already analyzed the surroundings of the current floor he was on and he would use it to his advantage. He waited for the octorok to get close enough before he set his little plan into action. Surely enough it did and once that happened, he dodged once again, but this time he was able to trick the octorok. The octorok had ran into a pillar that Link was standing in front off which was what he was hoping for. The pillar had spikes made out of stone and those spikes were what he was hoping to make the octorok hit.

The octorok thrashed in pain making sounds similar to a Deku Scrub as it fell on it's side a little dazed from the pain. That's when Link saw it, the weakness to the octorok in front of him. On the underside of hit there was a purple spot that the legs of the creature surrounded, the blonde wasted no time to attack the octorok's weak spot which ended its life within a few slashes from his sword. Like his past enemies they disappeared in black puff of smoke, feeling that it was over, he continued to look around. Unknown to him there was a figure that was watching him from behind one of throne's before jumping further below the domain, around that time the boy had heard a voice from out of the blue.

"Amazing!!!" A mysterious voice came from out of no where causing Link to look around. Just a few seconds later a huge figure came from a floor even further below the current one he was on. This said figure came up from the waterfalls that flow down to floors even further down the Zora's Domain. The huge figure landed in front of the blonde with a smile.

The huge figure had light dark blue eyes and light blue skin. He was a little buff but also really chubby in the lower half of his body. He wore a crown with the Zora symbol on it while also wearing blue zora armor on his upper half.

"My name is Aton, or better known as King Aton. I'm the king of the Zora's that live in the land of Hyrule. Young boy I witnessed the fight you just had with that red creature and I'm amazed. I had been watching from just behind my throne over there once I saw you enter this floor." The zora king smiled and kneeled down in front of the young hero as he said this. "My apologies, I haven't even asked your name and you must have a reason for being here."

"My name is Link, it's nice to meet you King Aton. I came to here to find out why the Zora River's water has changed to a purple poisonous color." The blonde looked at the king of the zoras with confidence.

"It's nice to meet you too Link." The king of the zoras paused for a brief second before he continued. "There is a monster that is tainting the water that our tribe depends on. The name of this evil being is Arrghus, well that's what we call it anyways. Arrghus has already tainted Lake Hylia, I wouldnt be surprised if the lake surrounding Hyrule Castle has been infected as well since they are connected." The king back to walk back and forth as he explained some more. "To think this all happened over night. Some of the zoras who had touched the water were infected and their appearance had slightly changed. My wife Queen Rutaru is also a researcher and is working on a cure to help them. I'm worried for my people and also my son prince Nali who had gone missing this morning, honestly I'm not sure what I can do. Arrghus has probably come to hurt Jabun, he is a fish and a descendant of Lord Jabu-Jabu. Nali adores Jabun so much that he probably went out to find him." The Zora king had a look of defeat all over his face which the blonde showed empathy for the king.

"Then it looks like I'm headed off to Lake Hylia then." Hearing that got the kings' attention as he walked back up to the blonde and to hear what he has to say. "I'll go find Arrghus and defeat him." Link smiled towards the king to show everything would be okay.

"I'm not sure how I could ever repay you for wanting to help my people." The zora king smiled putting a hand on Link's shoulder as gently as possible. "If you want to find Arrghus then you must go to the Diamond Steppe. It's where all of the trouble began. It's a dungeon that Jabun inhabits which Arrghus currently has control of and only the Zora are really capable of getting through it, but after everything I saw, I believe you can get pass it all. If you defeat Arrghus I believe that the color and the poison of the lakes and river will return to normal. Before you go, you should see my wife. She is at the lab a further below the domain, she can help you get through the poisonous water."

"You can count on me!" Link's smile grew a little bigger after he had said that. "I'll be back in no time King Aton." Link waved his goodbye to the zora king before heading downstairs to the lab, but before he did he received a note to give his wife.

The duo stood in front of a big door with the Zora symbol on it, "This must be it Link. Ready to head inside?" Veli asked which Link responded with a nod.

The two went passed the door to see the lab and it was beautiful. There were multiple zoras tending to the ones who got had gotten injured from the poisonous water. At times the injured zoras who were awake acted sort of hostile towards the ones taking care of them which caused other zora to calm them down. Others were trying to figure how to return their fellow zora back to normal. That's when the young blonde laid his eyes on who thought was Queen Rutaru.

Link walked up her which broke her away from her studies and caused her to look at the blonde. "Oh hello." The female zora smiled at the blonde, she had a beautiful smile and overall looked very beautiful.

She was definitely the queen given her crown. Queen Rutaru had glasses, a pendent with the zora's trademark symbol on it, a white dress that reached her ankles, long fins with amazing designs, beautiful aqua blue eyes and some what of a green color to her skin.

"Who may you be young hylian?"

"It is a pleasure to meet you Queen Rutaru. My name is Link, King Aton wanted me to give you this note, I think he wats you to help me get into the Diamond Steppe." Link handed her the note after explaining his reason for seeing her.

"I see. So you're really going to take on Arrghus..." She paused for a moment, "You're going to need these so you don't get hurt by the poisonous water." She handed Link some boots that were designed were colored blue and white with their trademark symbol while also giving him back the note. "These are the Water Boots, we originally were going to scrap this design after creating the first model since we thought we wouldn't need it, but after Arrghus attacked we ended up keeping it. We managed to upgrade them just a little in due time. These boots have two modes, the first mode allows you to walk on water which will be very important so that you don't get hurt by the tainted water and the second mode will increase you swim speed." Queen Rutoru smiled and puts a hand on the young hero's shoulder. "We're all counting on you Link. For the record it would be best if you have your magic up while walking on the water."

Link smiled back to the queen zora, "I'll make sure Arrghus is taken care of so that the Zora's return back to normal and so that you and the other zoras can enjoy the waters you once enjoyed. Thank you for the help Queen Rutoru." The young boy waved goodbye and left the zoras domain to head off to the Diamond Steppe.

Zora's River

"Let's go Veli, the Zora are depending on us to save them." Veli flew around the blonde cheerfully showing that she was ready. Before they continued on their journey, Link put on his new water boots and stepped onto the water that the Zora Rivers' water had. It felt kinda weird at first but the blonde got use to the feel rather quickly. "Amazing so they really do let me walk on water. Well then let's head to the Diamond Steppe." Link walked off towards the direction of the Diamond Steppe ready to save the zoras.

Farore's Peak

The blonde was shocked once he had gotten to the Farore's Peak area of Hyrule. He was currently standing a little north from the mountain where he could see Hyrule Castle and the lake that was below it.

"It seems King Aton was right Link, the lake around Hyrule Castle has been tainted." Seeing and hearing what Veli said really worried the young blonde.

"I hope Princess Zelda, Impa and the king are doing okay."

"Don't worry Link, I'm sure they are safe. Right now we need to take care of Arrghus so everyone in Zora's Domain and those around Hyrule Castle are safe.

"Yeah you're right Veli. Let's go." Hearing what Veli said brought a smile on the boy's face and even more confidence than he had before. The boy pulled out his Deku Leaf and glided his way down onto the lake surrounding Hyrule Castle and ran his way down to Lake Hylia.

Lake Hylia

The young hero was amazed by how big Lake Hylia was, although the tainted water ruined the amazing landscape is lays on. He continued to walk onto the water where he walked up to a huge gate that led to the Diamond Steppe.

"Halt! The Diamond Steppe is off limits to everyone by the order of the king!" Two zoras said this in unison as they blocked Link from entering.

Link handed them the note the king made for his wife, they took it and began to read the note.

"I see. So the king has trusted you to defeat Arrghus." Link responded with a nod to the guard on the right.

"Our apologies for acting so hostile earlier young hylian. We'll keep your note and open the gates to the Diamond Steppe." Hearing that from the other guard on the left made the young hero smile.

The gates that separated the Diamond Steppe from Lake Hylia opened and once it stopped, the guards motioned the young hero to go on ahead. Before going through, he thanked the Zoras before walking towards the diamond steppe area.

Diamond Steppe

Link walked around the water trail until he stopped to see a giant rock and another Zora guard who was standing in front of the entrance. He was stopped by the guard and spoke in the same tone that the guards the blonde previously talked to had when he first came up to them.

"You! How did you get in here!? Did you jump from the cliff above?" Before the blonde hero could explain, one of the zora guards from earlier explained to the zora guard that was gaurding the entrance to the Diamond Steppe why Link was here. Afterwards the guard apologized to Link and let him pass in which he thanked him. His expression changed as he looked at the entrance, the stairs that led down the path were literally made out of diamonds as the shining glimmer they had shine in the boy's face. He looked back at the zora guards and smiled before heading down the steps of the Diamond Steppe.

Inside the Diamond Steppe

After much exploration inside the Diamond Steppe Link was standing in front of a giant door with a lock on it. Earlier he had gathered a big key which seemed to go to the lock that was wrapped around the giant door he was currently standing in front of.

"Hey Link, you've come really far inside this place and behind this door is definitely where Arrghus is. We wouldn't have come this far if it weren't for Queen Rutoru's Water Boots. Are you ready to take on Arrghus?" Hearing that the blonde hero smiled at Veli who had asked him the question and who was currently sitting on his shoulder.

The look on his face soon turned into a confident one, "Yeah we really have come a long way. I'm ready, with our combined teamwork, we'll be able to defeat Arrghus." After saying that Link put the big key in the lock watching his drop to ground as well as the chains. The door opened up and the young hero and his korok companion pressed on to face Arrghus.

As Link entered the room, he checked his surroundings. There were four platforms that were a few feet away from each other. The rest of the room had the infected water that Arrghus had tainted.

"Hey, who are you and how did you get here?" Hearing that caused Link to look forward to see a young zora boy holding a small fish which at the moment seemed to be sick.

The young Zora wore similar attire to King Aton while also having a crown, but the thing that stuck out the most was that the crown had a blue amulet or a blue stone of some kind on it. He had light blue eyes like the other zora and a unique purplish color along light blue his skin.

The fish had a deep dark blue almost close to black color to it. It had a small antenna that linked to a small lantern. Lastly it had orange eyes and aqua colors to its lips.

"My name is Link, King Aton allowed me to come here so that I can defeat Arrghus and return the water he infected back to normal. I also came here to find you as well. From the looks of it, you must be Prince Nali and that must be Jabun." The young zora boy's expression changed to a calm expression knowing that the blonde hero was a ally.

"I see, its nice to meet you Link." The young zora smiled at him. "You are correct, I am Prince Nali. Thanks to my mother I was able to get here passed all the infected water thanks to these new scales she developed awhile ago just in case for a situation like this and all the other zoras since the start of all this. I came here after seeing what had happened to the water of Zoras River and I wanted to check on Jabun. As you can see, Jabun isn't feeling well and Arrghus is no where to be seen." By the time Prince Nali was done speaking, the blonde had walked up to him to check on Jabun.

Before they could continue their discussion, they heard a noise which caused them to look around.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!" When Link heard that he turned around to see Prince Nali being held by a yellow tentacle.

"Prince Nali!!!" Link had a look of worry since he had no way of getting him

"Link here!!!! Defeat Arrghus with this!" The young zora prince threw an object towards the blonde which he caught.

"A boomerang?" He looked back at the tentacle to see it had rose back into a hole in the ceiling of the room. "Get ready Veli, Arrghus is finally showing himself."

Seconds later a big blue jelly fish with a big eye ascended from the hole. The eye widened a bit and without warning tried to hit the young hero with one of its tentacles, but luckly with his quick reactions he was able to evade from it's attack. Right afterwards multiple small jellyfish rose from under the water, once the small jellyfish covered the big jellyfishes' face as it closed its one big eye. Thanks to the little jellyfish, electricty surged all over Arrghus.

"Arrghus won't open that eye anytime soon. We'll have to take care of the Arrgi first with that boomerang of yours. It would deminish the electricity surging through them." Link nodded in response as he readied his new boomerang.

Link looked at a few of the jellyfish and once he was ready, he threw the boomerang towards the Arrgi and it hit a good few of them causing them to fall. The Bargi floated slowly tried to get back to Arrghus, but the ones that were hit by the boomerang were too dazed to get back to it. This gave the blonde a chance to take out the ones on the floor with one quick spin attack.

"Five more Link!" Link nodded from Veli's words and readied his boomerang once again. Once he locked on to the remaining five, he threw his boomerang to take care of the other five. Once Link used his blade on the remaining Bargi, Arrghus opened it's eye wide open and put it's tentacles into the water.

"Link get off the water!" Link nodded and wasted no time running to one of the platforms that were sticking a little above the water. It was a good thing he did as Arrghus began to electrocute the water, Link could see the yellow sparks emitting from the water. This caused him to look at the tentacles. Not all of them were in the water but it gave an idea. He gripped the boomerang again and aimed for the tentacles, but he was stopped by one of the tentacles as it grabbed him by the leg and lifted him into the air.

"Link!" Veli shouted in horror, worried what the giant jellyfish was going to do to the boy.

Link struggled trying to break free but then yelled a bit in pain as the tentacle began to shock him. He managed to ignore the shock for a split and that's when Arrghus stopped. The jelly fish was about to throw him but Link used all of his might to perform a spin attack while being upside down which cut the tentacle that grabbed him. He managed to land back on one of the safe platforms and wasted no time use the boomerang to cut the rest of tentacles.

"Hey are you alright Link?" Veli asked in which Link returned with a smile and a nod.

"It hurts a little but not enough to take me out just yet." Link said waiting for Arrghus to begin it's next move.

Arghuss's eyeball went from white to green and it's eye color turned yellow. It began to charge a purple beam and Link didn't want to be there when it started shooting so he began running around the room which ruined Arrghus's aim. It began shooting causing the water to rise up from the impact of the beams as it missed it's target every time. When it stopped it's eyeball then turned purple with a red eye color and began to charge a orangish red beam at Link, but this time it decided to shoot in front of the blonde which shocked him it a great deal. Out of sheer desperation to not get hit by the beam, the blonde swung his shield forward and managed to reflect the beam back towards the eye of the jellyfish causing it to shriek in pain even turning from blue to red. He was surprised the beam didn't blow him up, but he realized that it shoots to different types of beam depending on the color of it's eye.

"Let's get him Link!" Veli shouted.

"Yeah!" Link nodded and gripped his sword tightly and ran towards Arrghus who's exposed eye was now easier to hit now that it was laying on it's side floating in the water. Link wasted no time slashing away as Arrgus's eye causing it to scream in pain once more.

Arrghus pushed away and screamed at the blonde hero. Little orange clouds formed around Arghuss as it surrounded itself with dome of purple water as a helmet while closing it's eyes again letting it's color change back to blue.

"What are those supposed to be?" Link asked unsure of what do against these new clouds like enemies.

"Well they look like little puff of clouds." Veli said getting a little bit closer to the group of clouds noticing the electrical surge was different from the Baris from earlier. She flew back to Link with a theory she wanted to try out. "Okay so I think those little clouds act like clouds during a lightning storm, but we'll call them Arrgis instead. I have a theory I want to try out Link." Veli said beginning to whisper her plan in his ear.

"Let's try it then." Link said as he saw the Arrgi's move away from Arrghus and began to charge electrcity within them. Now compared to the Bari earlier, there were a lot less Arrgi than there were Baris in the area. Just enough for Link to try out Veli's plan, the Arrgi started changing colors from orange to a grayish black and that's what the duo was waiting for. Link then threw his boomerang at the Arggis in a full circle direction in the room, each time an Arggi was hit by the boomerang it would disappear in a purplish black smoke while the boomerang seem to collect an electric charge. Once the final Arggi was hit the boomerang went and hit Arrghus destroying his shield and hurting him in the process. The electricity from the Arrgis disappeared from the impact given on Arrghus and returned to Link's hand.

"Veli how did you know that would work?" Link asked looking a little surprised that the plan worked.

"I analyzed the the electricity flowing through the Arggis and it just seemed different. I had a theory that maybe we could use their electricity to hurt Arrghus and it was all thanks to the boomerang Prince Nali gave you. Normally the boomerangs from the zora are made from wood and as you know Prince Nali's is made out of metal. So I thought maybe we can use the boomerang and the electricity from the Arrgis. In a way you can think of it as positive energy colliding with negative energy." Veli explained in a cheerful voice.

"Ah I see, you're really smart Veli." Link said giving her a cheerful smile. "Let's be happy that Prince Nali had a boomerang made from metal." Link said turning his direction back to Arrghus who screeched and fell onto the water floating with it's eye exposed again.

After a couple slashes Arrghus screeched in pain before sinking into the water from all the pain.

"We did it Link!" Veli floated around the boy in a cheerful manner.

"Yeah we did!" Link gave a little chuckle at the joyful purple leafed korok.

However their little celebration was cut short when a huge rocky orb came from out of water. Link's eyes widen seeing this huge rock in front of them.

"Hold on to that celebration Veli. Seems Arrghus has one last form up her sleeve." Link said pulling out his sword and shield.

What followed next after this new body Arrghus had displayed were several of little rocks and bubbles floating from beneath the water. Little eyeballs form inside the bubbles and stick in front of Arrghus like the Baris did and look at Link while the little rocks began spinning around Arrghus's new stone body. Arrghus began moving around with the eyeball bubbles and rocks following where it moved.

"Careful Link, those eyeball bubbles seem to be similar to the Arrgi so let's call them Arrghis. These Arrghis may try to attack you as well so be careful. The Stone Arrgi are the ones you want to take care of first." Veli readied herself to help Link in this last bout against Arrghus.

Link stayed away from Arrghus as it moved around the room, at the same time he went threw his boomerang and a couple of rocks and despite them moving around Arrghus, he was still able to kill any rocks that came into contact with the boomerang. Soon after the eyeball bubbles launched forward so Link countering by blocking with his shield to stop the eyeball which was currently was fire from shooting itself towards the blonde. The rocks began shooting themselves at Link, but Link manged to block and dodge the ones that came his way. The ones he dodged broke from hitting the wall.

He managed to take care of the remaining rocks with his boomerang and all that was left were the Arrghis. Link threw his boomerang again to hit the remaining Arrghis and once they were hit, they started bouncing around after losing the water that protected them. One clean slash on each one ended being fatal for them and just like the others, they disappeared in quick puff of smoke.

"Last but not least." Link said as Arrghus finally revealed it's eye and just from the look she had he could tell that she was mad.

Arrghus began to act like a boulder that was floating and tried to ram into Link, but it was hard due to him having an opening each time and even crushing him didn't work either. Link at this point was sort of exhausted but his determined and serious look never left his face as he pulled out his Kokiri Bow. It's as if he knew what going to happen next. Arrghus charged a beam from it's eye with it's eyeball being purple and it's eye color being red.

"No not yet." Link said dodging the incoming beams that were being aimed at him.

Soon enough Arrghus's eye color changed red and her eyeball color turned green and began charging a purple colored beam.

"There we go." Link said waiting for the right moment and when the charging beam shined at it's brightest, that's when the young hero launched his bow just when Arrghus was about to shoot. As soon that it made contact, it was like a bomb being set off in front of someone very up close. Arrghus was dazed and that's when the blonde took and his blade and delivered the final strike.

Arrghus screeched and thrashed about the room hitting the walls of the room while getting a bit darker, even the stone on it's body falling off leaving just an eyeball which exploded in a puff of smoke.

The water that was once tainted was returning back to water showing the fresh blue water that the Diamond Steppe has always had. Link hopped in joy knowing the battle was finally over and now he had to find Prince Nali and Jabun. It didn't take long for a random figure to jump into the clean water.

After a few seconds a zora stood next to Link, it was Prince Nali and the look on his face really made Link happy.

"I can't thank you enough Link. You've saved Jabun's home and my people who depend on the fresh water of Hyrule." Prince Nali couldn't help but give his new friend a hug.

"I'm glad I could help Prince Nali and glad you're safe. Speaking of which where is Jabun? How is he?" Link was sure he wasn't still up in the hole in ceiling but he was no where to be seen.

"Just wait for it." Prince Nali just kept smiling.

Link just waited and soon enough the water began to rose and as Prince Nali expected, it was Jabun and he was a bigger than he was earlier, Prince Nali definitely couldn't carry him now.

"Thank you young boy in green. I surely would have perished if you hadn't come to save me and the zoras from Arrghus." Jabun had a cheery tone as he spoke but he ended up having a good laugh as he looked at the surprised look Link had since he wasn't expecting a fish to talk.

"I'm just glad you're all okay Jabun." Link said regaining his expression with a smile.

Everyone was smiling until Prince Nali's crown began to glow blue covering their vision. Unlike before with Skull Kid, everyone in the room noticed it this time and before they knew it, they were in a completely different place.

Link looked around the area they were in, similar to last time they were in a blue void, but this time there was blue flowing water with a soothing sound. Link, Veli, Prince Nali and Jabun were all sent to this blue void.

"Link where are we?" Prince Nali asked while swimming in the water.

"I'm not really sure."

"I can answer that." A mysterious voiced said causing everyone to look behind them.

A female zora appeared before them, she had a purple dress and near the bottom had a light blue stripe that went full circle around the dress with the symbol of zora and the full Triforce. She had dark blue diamond shaped earrings, a pearl necklace, golden braclet cuffs on her rist and near her shoulders and lastly a silver crown with sapphires on it.

Seeing the woman surprised Jabun immediately, "Y-You're Princess Ruto!" Jabun had never met her but he's knows about her well enough to recognize no problem. She was a well known person to the zora so it makes sense in a way.

"I'm actually seeing Princess Ruto right now!?" Prince Nali tried to bow in respect to the princess who in a way would be his queen from several centuries ago while forgetting in was in the water. Seeing what Prince Nali was trying to do, Link bowed too and he was actually able to since his Water Boots let him walk on water.

"Come now young ones, there is no need for that." She gave all of them a great smile. "Yes, I am one of the seven sages who sealed Ganondorf and once a sage of the water temple. Link I thank you for helping my people, you could've just said no but you accepted and even took on Arrghus without running away and leaving the zora to slowly perish. You've shown a lot of courage by doing this." Link gave a nod with a small nod in response. "Prince Nali do you trust Link?" Princess Ruto then looked at Prince Nali with the same calm expression.

"Yes I do, he saved Jabun and I. Jabun is my best friend. He also saved our tribe when no one else could defeat Arrghus." Prince Nali gave the blonde hero a smile while he nodded back at him.

"Then can you trust him with the Zora's Sapphire." Her expression became a little more serious as she asked this, but it didn't really phase anyone.

Prince Nali thought for a second before looking back at Princess Ruto with a similar expression. "I do. You must have a reason for asking me about something as important as the Zora's Sapphire. I won't ask why, I know you have your reasons." As Prince Nali said this, he took off the Zora's Sapphire from his crown and handed it Link.

"Thank you." Link said as he put the Zora Sapphire is a safe place.

"We'll meet again for sure, the Gorons still need you Link, go to them." Those were the last things they heard from Prince Ruto before they were back in the room where the fight with Arrghus took place.

"We should probably head back to Zora's Domain. I don't want my father to worry any longer." Link nodded in agreement with Prince Nali.

Jabun opened his mouth a bit confusing Link, "Here go inside my mouth, there's a underwater passage that will take us right out to Lake Hylia. Don't worry I won't bite.

Link went inside and right after he closed his mouth and went underwater. Prince Nali followed right after them to Lake Hylia.

Lake Hylia

Once they were outside of the Diamond Steppe, Jabun swam to the little island that was in the middle of Lake Hylia. Once he got there he opened his mouth to let Link out. Once he walked on the green patches of grass on the little island he felt the nice breeze Lake Hylia had which was odd since it was there before. Prince Nali came up from behind to him to join him on the view.

"I'd like to come back here sometime." Link said letting his hair flow in the wind.

"Well Lake Hylia is always opened." Prince Nali looked as he saw the beautiful colors of Lake Hylia once again. It was definitely better seeing Lake Hylia with it's original blue colors instead of the purple infected color it once had.

"I'm heading back home to the Diamond Steppe. Link you can come back anytime." Jabun said giving his farewell as Link and Prince Nali wave goodbye. Jabun dove underwater and headed back to the secret entrance that lead to his home in the Diamond Steppe.

"I'll see you back at Zora's Domain." Prince Nali swam his way back using secret passsages that led to Zora's River.

"Alright let's head back to Zora's Domain." Veli said with Link replying with a nod and with that the two made their way back to Zora's Domain.

Zora's Domain

Link walked down the spiral pathway like he did the first time he came to the Zora's Domain. It felt very refreshing seeing the colorful blue features of the domain as he continued waling down. From the top he could see that there were a lot of zoras assembling in front of the three thrones in the room.

Once he got there, all the zoras turned to look at the young blonde with a smile on their face. From young zoras, to old zoras, they were just happy to see him. Seems that Prince Nali had told them everything that had happened since they met.

"There you are!" King Aton shouted as he walked up to the boy in a cheerful manner. Behind him was sitting Queen Rutaru in her throne and Prince Nali, except there was another zora next to him sitting on the throne next to him, this zora was a female. She wore a crown just similar to Nali's but smaller, her dress was similar to one Link saw Princess Ruto wearing, but her was a dark blue, with a light purple color to it. The light purple parts of the dress were in patterns containing the zora symbol, the triforce, and little waves to the symbolize the ocean's waves. She wore dark blue earrings and had purple eyes.

'So that's why his throne was wide. That must be Prince Nali's sister.'

"You have really done it boy. You managed to defeat Arrghus and return our water back to how it use to be!" King Aton grabbed on to Link's handed and shaked them which kind of lifted the boy up and down making him dizzy as he wobbled around when the king finished.

"Thank you Link. I'm pretty sure you've heard from others already but thank you so much for helping our tribe. Thanks to you the infections some of our people got due to Arrghus's infected water, has finally started to go away. They're happily recovering now thanks to you." Queen Rutaru said as she stood up walking towards Link and giving him a pat on the head.

Afterwards Prince Nali and the female zora stood next to King Aton and Queen Rutaru.

"Thank you for saving my brother and Jabun. My name is Nayla, or as I'm better known as around the domain, Princess Nayla." The female zora now known as Princess Nayla gave the blonde a hug which really surprised him. They did just meet and it was very unexpected, but regardless he hugged her back and once they stopped they gave each other a little chuckle.

"Hey Link, we thought about giving you a little celebration, since it's getting late we wanted share this with you. It's a special song written several years ago. My sister here is actually the lead singer." Prince Nali smiled hoping that he would stay.

"I would like that." Link smiled towards the two.

"Great, I'll get ready then." Princess Nayla left to get ready for the song.

"Link let me fix you up your injuries from your battle with Arrghus." Queen Rutaru offered which Link nodded in response. With Link followed the queen of the zoras to patch up his wounds.

Later...

On the bottom floor of the domain, all the zoras including Link and Veli who was from his hat as she lifted it up a bit looked at the sight in front of them. There were seven zoras with different instruments. One held a bass guitar made out of bones while the other had a regular guitar which was also made out of bones. Another had a saxophone made with bones, but it had a certain leather and string mechanism to allow the player to press the keys smoothly and the other had a flute which was actually made out of wood. A taller zora had drums which had yellow puffer fish as the main tool for making sound with them, another zora who was the same height as the drummer stood behind a piano that had a entire bone structure of a frog in the front. Lastly was Princess Nayla who was looking ready to sing.

"Please remember this song..." Princess Nayla said and when she said that, Link had a feeling that was meant directly towards him. "This song is called the Ballad of Ruto."

Everyone in the room cheered as the band got ready to sing.

Prince Nayla took a deep breath and as soon as she did, she began singing a song that would stick to Link's brain for as long as he lived. Her voice was fluent and smooth, she definitely fit the roll as the lead singer. The song itself, made Link feel like he was in a completely different world. He could hear the ocean waves and the wind blowing, well it was just his imagination, but it shows how strong the song was, it truly was a powerful peace.

Before the blonde knew it, the song was over and everyone was cheering and clapping. The song was engraved in the boy's mind and he was definitely not going to forget it anytime soon.

A little while afterwards, Link stayed at the domain to rest for the day and get ready for tomorrow.

Dream Sequence...

Link found himself in Kakariko Village, waking up from the rain similar to his last dream. People were screaming and running away and others were bowing on their knees.

"Please Hero of Time! Come back to us! We need you to save Hyrule yet again!" An old man pleaded as huge knight looking characters walked around creating havoc to the village.

"We must run to somewhere safe! Come on Kumei!!!" A taller blonde haired man said as he was running while holding a blonde hair girl's hand. The blonde haired girl looked back to see Link as he looked around trying to figure out how this happened.

"Link!" Kumei shouted causing to look back at her, but as he did he was hit by a random barrel.

Link got back up from the ground and looked up to be standing where he had first met Princess Zelda with Impa. He heard a loud roar which made him look back towards the the grayish black tower across from the tower. He saw a flaming black and red boar look at him and before he could react, it roared a flew towards him in one quick motion, but like before he woke up in one quick motion before anything bad could happen to him.

Dream End...

"Uuuuumooooo..." a voice said as Link looked towards where he had his hat which was on top of a table in the room he was sleeping in. It was Veli who just woke up from Link's sudden reaction to his dream.

"Sorry did I wake you?" Link asked with a apologetic look on his face.

"Yeah but I don't mind. You sleep okay?" Veli asked as she floated towards him managing to carry his green hat with her.

"Yeah I did, thanks." the blonde said as he put his hat back on his head.

"You're welcome." she paused for a second, "We have a long day ahead of us, most likely it's gonna be intense from here on out." the purple leafed korok sat on his shoulder as she said this.

"Yeah you're right, but I want to keep my promise to Saria, so I won't give up. I'll find a way." Link smiled as he clenched his fist a little.

"That's the spirit! Well then we should probably head off then." Veli moved towards under Link's as he nodded in agreement. With that Link left the domain after bidding his farewells with the others.

Zora's River

Link was currently standing on the left side of Zora's River, he let the wind flow and it blew as it passed by. He had a seriously look as he looked at Death Mountain and Veli floated next to him to take on the sight. The volcano of Death Mountain was a lot higher than from where he was standing which was still on top of the mountain Zora's River layed on. There circle shaped cloud that surrounded Death Mountain as well which really made it look better than any regular volcano.

"It looks menacing doesn't Link?" Veli asked with a more serious tone which surprised the young blonde a bit.

"Yeah it doe, but we've made it this far. We'll help the Goron's no matter what." he then smiled, "Come on Veli, let's go."

Veli hid back on Link's hat as he pulled out his Deku Leaf and jumped off the mountain of Zora River and landed on the lower ground. From there he began his climb which will start the next chapter in his journey.

Chapter End

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I managed to make it longer than both Chapter 1 and 2. I wanted to give Princess Nayla lyrics for The Ballad of Ruto but I couldn't really think of anything to make the song appear in the story. I wouldn't actually mind any suggestions from you all on what the lyrics can be, I'll definitely give credit for anyone who helps and then later in the future I'll update this chapter.

I can't wait to post my new story either today or tomorrow. I hope you guys enjoy these new releases from this and my other SenranBound story, including my new story that you will see most likely today. I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.