A/N: By the way, I know the stray fairy is in East Clock Town at night. But the Laundry Pool was too fun to resist!
(looks around and pulls Ryo back) Okay yeah, so Ryo-chan, do your stuff!

Ryo: Yes ma'am!

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` East Clock Town :: The Second Day `

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As time passed by, it had started to rain. The citizens of Clock Town didn't seem to mind it though, going about their regular business. And Ines didn't seem to mind it either, using her jacket to shield herself from the water while she continued watching the boy-mauling.

But finally after a while the cucco got tired and ran off. Ines giggled at the half-dead boy in front of her. "Haha... that was funny."

The boy's black eye twitched.

Grinning, Ines stood and walked to where the Bomber kid was lying, prodding his side with the point of her boot. "Er. Hey... you alive?"

Another twitch.

"Oh crap, kid, are you alive?" Ines began to panic. What would it look like if someone caught her standing over a heavily-beaten kid?! Probably take it the wrong way, of course.

So Ines picked up the boy and ran to West Clock Town.

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` West Clock Town `

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"NICOOOOLE!" Ines panicked as she ran into the west section of town.

The Asian girl looked up from behind a plant, a blue umbrella in her hands.

Tatl got lazy and was sitting on the edge of where the bank-guy sat at. She was so lazy that she decided to turn her yellow light off, revealing a pair of golden knee-length pants and a yellow sleeveless shirt with a little floral decoration on the bottom, along with yellow slippers. Her hair and eyes were a cold yellow, and her blond hair was clipped up, a few bangs hanging down. Several yellow bangles hung on both of her wrists, and her long, sharp clear wings reminded one of a dragonfly's.

The bank-guy attempted conversation with her. "Hey."

Tatl looked up at him. "... Hello."

"What's your name, baby?"

The fairy stared at him. "Tatl. Yours?"

"Bank-guy."

She almost fell off the edge.

"Haven't seen you around here before," Bank-guy noted, switching from his beggar-type sit to a more relaxed position.

"That's nice."

"..."

She eyed some shiny leather in the corner. "What's that?"

Bank-guy looked at where she was looking, then grinned. "It's... something I do in my spare time."

Tatl raised an eyebrow at him. "Which is...?"

"... Why don't you come with me to my room and I'll show you..." he said, reaching over and picking up the shiny leather. It happened to be a whip. And now that the whip was out of the way, she could see more behind it, which was more leather, but it seemed to have been made into rather odd outfits...

Tatl eyed him, the whip, then hurriedly flitted away.

Bank-guy stared at her retreating figure. "Aw darn..."

–
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Meanwhile, with Ines and Nicole...

Nicole looked up, saw Ines, and waved. "Haaay!"

"HE'S DEAD!" the Hispanic girl yelled in alarm, nearing her.

"Who? And it's raining Inessy, don't wanna get sick!" Nicole handed the girl another umbrella.

Ines sweatdropped, taking it and opening it. "Thank you. But LOOK!" she gestured at the boy in her arms. "This kid!"

"Awesome, you caught one! Four more to go!"

Ines almost fell over. "JEEZ, GIRL!"

"Whaaat?" Suddenly she heard some movement nearby. Nicole stopped in her tracks.

Ines blinked. "Wha—"

"SHHHH!" Nicole shushed. Ines shut her mouth. Tiptoeing out of her current position, Nicole quietly made her way to where she heard the noise, which was somewhere behind another plant. She peeked behind it.

"I FOUND YOOUUUUUU!"

Ines stared, horrified, as she watched Nicole's body fly off behind the plant. She heard the terror-struck scream of a poor boy and the sound of mad scrambling. After a while, Nicole popped up from behind the stand, grinning as she walked out, dragging out a gagged and tied boy on a rope.

"I caught one," Nicole announced. "Two down, three to go!"

The tied little boy began to cry.

Ines sweatdropped and walked her direction. "Dude. Nic. Release the kid."

"Nevah!"

"Just do it!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"YES!"

"OH SHADDAP!" Tatl yelled, going in between them. Nicole and Ines stood on either side of her, teeth bared at each other. "Calm down, will ya?!"

Nicole sighed and shook her head, clearing her throat. "Okay! I'm good now."

Ines took a deep breath and closed her eyes, counting to ten. Tatl eyed the two boys. "All right, so we have two. I'll go to North Clock Town and check how many kids there are, all right? Wait here!"

"Finally doing something useful for once, eh?" Ines said, a smug grin on her features. Tatl shot her a look before zipping off to the north.

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` North Clock Town + 4:25pm `

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"Brian! Brian! Hey! Why won't you wake up?!"

"Nnngghhh..."

"WAAAHH NNOOO, BRIAN'S DEAADD!" Hayarpi cried, bursting into tears and draping her arms across Brian's body.

It really was quite a dramatic scene: the unconscious guy with his girlfriend sobbing over him as rain drenched them and thunder roared in the background. Two of five Bombers sat on the sidelines under the protection of a tree, watching as they munched on popcorn. Free movie!

"What's wrong?!" Jim asked, running to Hayarpi in alarm. He was hiding behind the large slide when he heard Hayarpi's cry of agony (plus the fact that he heard something about Brian being dead), and so he had to go see for himself what was going on.

"Brian! He's dead! He won't wake up! He called me shnookums when out of nowhere he collapsed and I don't knnoooowww!" More sobbing.

Jim looked around in panic. "No Hayarpi, don't cry! He's alive!" He tried reassuring her, patting her back. "I think." Her sobs got louder. "JUST KIDDING, HE IS, HE IS!"

"GOTCHA!" Sitting up, Brian "came to" in a start and tackled the boy, Hayarpi blinking through her tears as she watched her boyfriend sit himself on the lad's back, grinning haughtily. "Caught one!" Then he smacked the kid over the head. "Jeezus kid, what the fudge were you doing for seven hours!? Christ! That was for taking so friggin' long to get your butt out here..."

"A TRICK!?" Jim cried, completely ignoring what Brian said. He clutched his pounding head. "NOOOOO!" Now he was the one sobbing.

"Oh Brian!" Hayarpi gushed, pulling him off Jim and embracing him. "I thought you had left me forever!"

"Forgive me, love..." Brian whispered, stroking her brown hair.

Hayarpi sighed, nuzzling her face into his chest. "I can't live without you... promise me you'll never leave me again..."

Brian nodded, tilting her chin up to gaze into her eyes. "I promise..."

Corny romantic music played in the background.

The two Bombers gagged. Jim sobbed and jumped off a cliff that had apparently popped up out of nowhere.

"What the heck are you two doing?!"

Hayarpi and Brian were snapped out of their lovey-dovey moment and looked to the source of the voice: Tatl. They blinked at her. "Uhh... talking?" Hayarpi tried.

The fairy rolled her eyes. "Right. And why are you drenched?! It's called an umbrella..." she looked at the two little boys who were trying to recover from the unspeakably corny love scene that just occurred. "Oh. Two?"

Brian abruptly tore away from Hayarpi, regaining his tough-guy attitude. Hayarpi sighed wistfully, silently reliving the romantic scene repeatedly in her mind, as she knew it wouldn't be happening again anytime soon. Anyway Brian nodded. "Yeah. Both from South Clock Town. Supposedly from Link and Gilbert. And right now I just caught Jim, but he went and jumped off a cliff somewhere."

"Uh... okay."

"Wazzaaaaap!"

Everyone looked to the direction of another new voice. There stood Nicole, rope in one hand with a terrified, gagged/tied boy on the other end. Ines stood beside her, a beat up and unconscious boy in her own arms.

"Hey, I thought I told you two to wait!" Tatl snapped.

"I heard from the unconscious Bomber boy (aka the guy Ines has) that everyone was caught already, so we headed over." Nicole explained.

"If he was unconscious, how'd he tell you?"

"He woke up, told us, then went out cold again."

Gasping, Hayarpi ran to them both, then stopped and looked puzzled as her gaze shifted back and forth, wondering which girl to scold and which boy to tend to first. Nicole ignored her and picked up her kid, throwing him at the other two Bombers, knocking them over like bowling pins. "STRIKE!" She started doing the cabbage patch.

Tatl watched, horrified at Nicole's actions. Hayarpi shrugged and took Ines's kid first. "AWW POOR CHILD!" She smacked Ines over the head. "How could you do this to him?!"

"Hey! I wasn't the one who beat him up!" the Hispanic girl countered.

Brian was watching in amusement as the other two Bombers freed and untied the boy Nicole threw. Hayarpi had gone into nurse-mode and was caring for the comatose one. Nicole was doing her jig. And Ines continued to scream, "It wasn't me! It was the cucco! It was the cucco, I tell you! THE CUCCO—"

"OWIES!"

Ines screamed as a small brown thing slammed into her from behind, knocking both of them over. Growling, she scrambled to her feet, picked up the brown thing and began yelling at it. "WHY YOU—"

"INES YOUR BOYFRIEND HARASSED MEEEEEE!" Link sobbed, latching onto her arm for dear life.

Ines blinked. "He what?"

"I DID NOT!" Gilbert yelled as he entered North Clock Town too. "It was merely a test! An experiment! For SCIENCE!"

"HARASSMEEEENT!"

Of course, anything that had to do with Link caught Nicole's attention. She looked up from her dancing, glaring at Gilbert. "How DAAARE you harass LINKY-POOOO! (tackle)"

"ACK, NOOOO!"

Sighing deeply, Brian massaged his forehead as he felt another headache coming on at all the things happening around him.

He looked around. Where was Jim? They'd caught all five of them, yet Jim just had to go and jump off a cliff somewhere while angsting about Hayarpi. "JIM!" Brian screamed. "GET YOUR LITTLE BOMBER BUTT OVER HERE!"

Nicole looked up, laughing. "BOMBER BUTT?"

Brian threw a rock at her head.

"OWCHIES!"

Dragging himself along, Jim sniffed as he held the tattered remains of his bandana in his hands. He went up to Brian, staring at the floor. "What...?"

The older boy raised an eyebrow at his also ripped clothing. "What the heck happened to you?"

"I jumped off a cliff, remember!?" the boy yelled. He dramatically pointed a finger at Hayarpi's boyfriend. "BECAUSE OF YOOUU!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's nice. But look around. We caught all your friends. Now what happens?"

Jim blinked. "Oh hey, you did! Well..." he eyed Link, who was still clasping to Ines's arm like a leech. "Well... since you guys have a scrub in your group, you can't join."

Brian stared at him. "... WHAT?"

Link gasped, looking at Jim, pointing with his wooden finger. "RACIST!"

"Uh... sorry?"

Eye twitching, Brian stalked off and grabbed Hayarpi, dragging her in front of Jim. "HOW 'BOUT THIS?"

Hayarpi smiled at him. "Hi."

The Bomber leader swooned. "Okay! I'll tell you the password for our hideout! So it's like you guys are members but not!" He blew his whistle. "BOMBERS!"

And the other four, despite whatever condition they were in, faithfully went to their leader and stood in a certain order, backs facing the group. Jim set himself in the middle of them. On the backs of each of their shirts was a number.

"41253. That's the code to our hideout, located in the east part of town," Jim said over his shoulder. He eyed Hayarpi, winking. "Don't forget it."

Hayarpi just looked away. Nicole scribbled down the number in her notepad. "Awesome! Let's go there now!" she said enthusiastically, facing the exit leading to East Clock Town. As she took her first step forward, Brian grabbed her arm, pulling her back.

"It's like 5pm and you just have too much energy. Sit down."

Grumbling, Nicole crossed her arms and just squatted down since she didn't want to sit on wet grass.

"Well yeah. That's it." Jim said. He looked at everyone. "Err. Good job on catching us."

Everyone nodded at him. "It was fun," Gilbert replied, giving him a thumbs up. Link whimpered.

"See ya guys, then." With that, the five Bombers split up. Jim, who usually stayed in North Clock Town, decided against it and went to West Clock Town to sulk.

Everyone went over to where Nicole was, the girl standing as they all stood in a circle. "So... now what?" Gilbert asked.

"I'd like to know..." Ines started, eyes narrowing dangerously as she eyed her boyfriend beside her. "What Link meant when he said you tried to harass him."

Nicole perked up, dark eyes also thinning. "Yeah... I'd like to know too."

Link whimpered again, sniffing. Hayarpi handed him a tissue. Brian stared at them in interest. Tatl was indifferent to everything.

"I didn't try to harass him!" Gilbert defended. "I told you, it was an experiment."

"Based on what?" Ines prodded further.

"If the town was close-minded or not!" He scratched his head as he continued, "So I made a few little gestures at Link..."

"And what were the results of this 'experiment,' huh? Huh? Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh?" Nicole repeated, poking Gilbert's shoulder.

Gilbert swatted her hand away. "Well, this crowd surrounded us and the boys were like 'wtf' and the girls were split between fangirly-ness and blah-ness. But my experiment was not accurate, because I don't know if they cared that we were different species..."

Nicole put a hand to her chin. "Hmm..."

Ines stared at him. "That's it?"

Gilbert grinned and nodded. "Yep!"

"That's it!?" Link yelled, waving his arms. "Whaddya mean, that's it!? Aren't you gonna go crazy and smack him and scold him for being suggestive towards me even though he's your boyfriend?!"

"Jeez dude, calm down." Ines sweatdropped. Link pouted and stopped waving his arms. "Two years can change people. Gilbert here is a lot more open-minded and loves seeing me panic over his sexuality and our relationship."

Gilbert sweatdropped. "Ahehehe."

"Really, you should've been there when he experimented with Bria—"

"LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT THAT," interrupted Brian, coughing violently. Gilbert laughed nervously.

Everyone else sweatdropped heavily. Ines laughed. "Yeah, and I know he'd never cheat on me. Much less on another guy," she added, eyeing Gilbert from the corner of her eye suspiciously. He grinned at her with his most adorable grin. "Right?"

"Of course, my one and only darling, love, I love you!" Gilbert said happily, crushing Ines in a hug.

"OWW..."

"EMBRACE ME TOO, DARLING!" Hayarpi yelled, latching onto her own devotee.

Brian only stood there. "..."

"Interesting couples, aren't they?" Nicole asked, grinning widely.

Link blew his nose. Gilbert looked up at him. "Uh... so... forgive me?" The scrub only stared. "... Please? I promise that I won't pull another stunt like that ever again, and if I do, I'll tell you in advance!"

Sighing, and being the kind and forgiving and good person that Link was, the Hylian-turned-Deku nodded, rolling his eyes. "Okay fine, I forgive you."

"And... you don't really hate me, right?"

"Of course not! That was just... an in-the-moment phrase."

"Oh. (pause) YAAAAAY! (hug)"

"NO TOUCHY FOR NOW THOUGH!"

"Oh, sorry! (release)"

Everyone else sweatdropped.

"Hey, you know what?" Gilbert said after a silence. Everyone looked at him. "We... didn't go looking for the Great Fairy's fountain today at all."

"Oyyyaaa..." Nicole said in a Gir-like voice.

Link looked around. "Let's look for her now!" He looked at everyone. "Uh. Do we still have time?"

Ines looked at the guard watching over the exit of North Clock Town. "Excuse me! Happen to have the time?"

The guard looked at his watch. "Around 6:30pm, miss."

"Thank you!"

"All right, we can spare an hour or whatever looking around North Clock Town," Brian said. "It's not as big as the other sections."

"Let's go, then!" Nicole agreed.

And with that, everyone began to look around. It didn't take them long to find a big hole in the west wall, with its own mini dirt ramp leading up to it. "Uh... do you think that's it?" Nicole asked everyone else.

"It looks veeeeery suspicious..." Hayarpi muttered, thoughtfully putting a finger to her chin.

"Ah jeez, why not!" Ines said. She started up the ramp with everyone else following behind.

–
–

"Wha...? The Great Fairy...?"

Everyone stared with freaked out faces at the several orange things floating around in the fountain.

"What the...?" Gilbert uttered.

"What are these things?" asked Brian, backing up as one came flitting by his face.

"Dude, they're ugly!" Nicole yelled. Tatl smacked her across the head. "OWIE!"

"How dare you call them ugly!" the fairy scolded. "This is the Great Fairy here!"

"This? But what happened to that slutty-ish looking thing with leopard skin print and awful hair?" Ines asked.

"I thought this was K," Hayarpi said, leaning over to whisper to Gilbert. "Are we allowed to use the word 'slut'?"

"Probably not," he whispered back, grinning.

Tatl hit Ines too. "WATCH IT!" She sighed as she fluttered over to the center of the mass of orange flying things, calling out in a soft voice, "Great Fairy? What happened?"

"Young ones!" A voice that seemed to be coming from all the fairies said. "Please hear my plea! I have been broken and shattered to pieces by the masked Skull Kid..."

"Oooh, that Skull Kid! Once I get my hands on him...!" Tatl growled.

"Please find the one Stray Fairy lost in town, and bring her to this Fairy Fountain." And the fairies swirled around the group, healing whatever injuries they had.

"We'll find her, don't worry!" Tatl reassured.

Gilbert looked around. "Uh. But... do you have any idea where she could be?"

"I heard that a fairy was lurking somewhere around South or East Clock Town," the voice said. "But I'm not sure exactly..."

"That's all right!" Hayarpi said. "We'll be back!" Everyone nodded at the fairies and turned, exiting.

But Nicole stayed behind. She reached out, grabbing one of the flying carrot-y things and holding it by its ears, preventing it from escaping. It started squeaking in fear as Nicole held it to her face. "Wow. They're reeaally ugly, dude. It's kinda funny. Why do they look like this?"

"Don't touch it!" Brian snapped, popping up and throwing his shoe at her. Nicole whimpered in pain, then pouted as she released the pixie and was dragged outside.

–
–

"Let's go into groups again!"

Everyone groaned.

"I'M NOT WITH GILBERT! NONONONONO!" Link screamed, Deku body latching onto Hayarpi's arm for dear life. Gilbert sweatdropped.

Nicole almost fell over. "Okay okay, jeez. So me, Link and Ines will go to the South. Hayarpi, Brian, Gilbert and Tatl will go to the East."

Gilbert saluted. "Yes, boss lady!"

"ALL RIGHT! LET'S MOVE OUT! HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT!"

–

` South Clock Town `

–

Nicole skipped around this section of the town like an idiot. "Oh wheeeeere oh wheeere did that little fairy go! Oh WHEEERE oh where can it BE!"

"DON'T CALL IT AN IT!" Tatl screamed, smacking her.

"OWW!"

Realizing that Tatl was there, Ines looked up at her, glaring. "Hey, aren't you supposed to be in East Clock Town?"

"Oh yeah!"

"GET OUTTA HERE!"

"WHA—! YOU GET OUTTA HERE!"

Link and Nicole sighed. Ines and Tatl were at it again... and Tatl wasn't even supposed to be there!

Nicole stepped forward and used her arms to separate them. "Hey, hey! Shush and stop fighting!" She looked at Tatl and pointed East. "Why are you here? Go back to East Clock Town!"

Tatl began muttering obscenities under her breath before flittering away.

Nicole sighed. "Anyway! Okay, I'll go check out the places behind and next to the clock tower. Ines, you go look at the middle of the town, and Link go to the south of the south!" she said with a stupid grin.

Ines looked at her. "Fine, but why are we taking orders from you again?"

"Cuz one, Link is not in the right frame of mind to lead at the moment, and two, because I am..." She raised her arms in victory, a cape that popped out of nowhere flying behind her and sparkles and colored stripes going crazy in the background. "BOSS LADY!"

Ines and Link stared. "..."

She put her arms down. "Err. Yeah. Just, uh... go."

And they all got to it.

–

` East Clock Town `

–

"Why is it this hard to find a stupid fairy? Isn't it glowing orange or something?! I'm tired of looking for stuff, agh, where is it..." Brian muttered, at the same time looking behind small crates and cracks in the wall. A burst of colorful language erupted from his mouth when he tripped over a rock, smacking into a wall.

Hayarpi, Gilbert and Tatl sweatdropped. "Wow. Brian has a nice vocabulary." Gilbert said, laughing a little.

"I know. Isn't it grand?" swooned Hayarpi, giggling and sighing while looking into the night sky.

Tatl smacked her out of her reverie. "Stop daydreaming and keep lookin', lady."

"(grumble)"

–

` South Clock Town `

–

Link gasped. "Oooohhh!"

Ines and Nicole looked up. When anybody 'ooh'-ed like that, that usually meant they found something. "What is it?" Ines yelled to him.

"There's an alley here!"

Nicole ran up to him, with Ines following close behind. "Alley?"

"Yeah! Let's go in; there's not much in South Clock Town anyway."

"ALL RIGHT LET'S GOOOO!" Nicole screamed, bolting down the small alleyway.

–

` Laundry Pool `

–

Soon she reached a small area with a few patches of grass, some flowers, a tree, a frog, and a small body of water with a bridge to the side of it. Flittering idly over the body of water was... "Oh hey, it's the ugly thinger-majig!"

Ines and Link popped up beside Nicole, then gasped as they also saw the hovering orange thingy. "There it is!"

"Wait... do you guys hear music?" Ines started. Nicole and Link blinked, and the three looked around...

... And saw a man sitting on a bench playing some music on his organ grinder. Nicole tilted her head. "He looks familiar."

"WINDMILL GUY!?" Ines and Link screeched.

"Oh yeeaaaah! Him!"

"Whoa, Windmill Guy!" Link ran up to him, waving his arms. "What are you doing here? I thought you stayed in Kakariko Village!"

"Windmill Guy?" the man blinked, pointing at himself. "But I am not in a windmill! My name is Guru-Guru."

"Guru-Guru?" Ines raised an eyebrow. "But you look just like him... and the windmill song, that can drain the water in the well..."

Guru-Guru stared at them blankly. "I don't know what you're talking about. But yes, isn't this a lovely song? Doo doo doo! Doo doo doo!" and he started humming along with his song, looking into the night sky.

Link and Ines just continued to watch him, baffled. Nicole went up to them. "Maybe they're cousins?"

Ines sweatdropped. "Maybe. But whatever, we'll interrogate him about his family later. For now..."

The three looked back to the fairy floating above the pool.

Link raised his hand. "I'll get it," he offered.

He backed up a bit before bolting for the fairy. When he reached the edge of the small pool, he jumped as high as he could, arms stretched out in front of him. Just as he was about to grasp the thingy, it flitted away and Link missed it completely, screaming as he felt the water beneath him. By instinct, he began to hop, and three hops later, Link was standing on the land opposite Nicole and Ines.

The two girls stared at him. "..."

Link blinked. "Awesome! I can hop on water!"

"Do it again!" Nicole cheered.

Nodding, Link jumped, and instinctively, he was pushed back up and hopped on the water four times before reaching where the girls were.

"Aww! He's like a kangaroo!" commented Ines. Nicole nodded cheerfully.

Link stared at them in confusion. "What's a kangapoo?"

Nicole burst out laughing and Ines only sweatdropped. "Nothing Link dear, nothing." The Hispanic girl sighed softly, and then looked up at the fairy. "Okay, I guess I'll try get—"

"I'LL GET IT!" Nicole screamed.

"Dude, but you can't swim and we don't know how deep this pool is—"

"YIYIYIYIYIIIII!" Giving another Xena© yip, Nicole ran for the fairy, jumping at it with her arms out. It moved at the last second again and Nicole screamed as she fell into the small pool. She started shrieking. "AAAIIIEEEE! I CAN'T SWIM! SOMEONE HELP MEEE!"

Ines's eye twitched. "YOU'RE STANDING IN IT, MORON!"

Nicole stopped flailing her arms and looked down. Indeed, the water only went up to her chest. "... Oh." Then she grinned stupidly as she waddled over and pulled herself out, wringing the water out of her clothing.

Link, who had gotten distracted by his new talent of hopping over water, was currently doing so and (somehow) didn't see Nicole as he smacked into her back. "WAAHH!"

"WHAT THE— AAAIIIIEE! IT'S A BROWN WOODEN THING TRYING TO KILL ME! INES, HELP!"

The Hispanic girl stared at the scene before her. Link had somehow tripped on water and onto Nicole, and was now clinging onto the Asian girl's legs for dear life. Nicole was having trouble balancing with the extra weight on the back of her legs.

Flailing insanely, Nicole fell back and as that happened, her arms went out behind her at instinct and grabbed whatever she could to keep from falling...

... Which happened to be the fluttering orange fairy.

All three landed in the water again with a big splash.

Ines dragged both hands down her cheeks, muttering incoherently into her palms.

–

` North Clock Town `

–

"What in the name of the Goddesses happened to the stray fairy?"

The stray fairy itself floated in the middle of the fountain, dripping with water and sniffing lightly as the others patted it on the back sympathetically. Gilbert, Brian, Ines, Hayarpi and Tatl stood before them, silent. Link and Nicole were behind them, wringing out the water in their clothes.

"Well, they fell into a pool," Ines explained rather bluntly. The others sweatdropped.

They heard the Great Fairy give a small sigh. "Oh. Well... at least she's back with us. Thank you for returning her." And with that, the fairies began to fly around each other, whirling and eventually coming together to form a bright orange ball. With a high pitched laugh, the ball burst and there was the Great Fairy herself, carrot-colored hair and vines twirling around her as she spun around and posed.

Everybody shrieked in horror and covered their eyes.

Nicole looked up from squeezing her hair dry, then screamed and covered her eyes with her ebony locks. "OH DUDE, PUT ON SOME CLOTHES!"

The Great Fairy frowned. "I am wearing clothes."

"Death Mountain déjà vu," Brian grumbled. Everyone else nodded.

Tatl didn't know what they were talking about so she just looked to the Great Fairy, bowing slightly. "Please forgive them. They're stupid and dumb."

"Hey!"

"It's all right. Anyway, thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. I am the Great Fairy of Magic. For piecing me back together, I have a gift for all of you. Use it wisely!" And the Great Fairy spread her arms towards them, green sparkles flying from her fingertips and surrounding each party member, lifting them into the air briefly before setting them down again.

"Spiffy," Nicole grinned as the sparkles faded.

"Also if we may ask a question..." started Hayarpi. The Great Fairy nodded, gesturing to go ahead. "Can you tell us what's with the moon? Is it really falling?? And, does it have anything to do with Skull Kid?"

At that the Great Fairy sighed heavily. "Young one, you are correct. The Skull Kid came to this region of Termina with a powerful mask in hand. Wishing to wreak havoc, he put a curse upon the moon, making it fall out of orbit and planning to have it collide with our land..."

"Ugh, how morbid! I knew it!" Link growled. He looked up. "We're trying to stop him. Do you have any idea where the Skull Kid could be?"

"I'm not sure of the specifics, but he is in Clock Town."

"Oh okay..."

The Great Fairy nodded. "Yes, most likely near the clock tower. Oh, and the sparkles earlier—I have given you all magic power. Now, once the Deku Scrub regains his true form, please come back to me. I will give you something that will aid in your quest. Farewell, heroes and heroines, good luck!" With that, the Great Fairy laughed like a banshee and disappeared into her pool.

Tatl huffed. "Well at least we know the troublemaker's around here somewhere..."

Everyone else exchanged glances. "... Now what?" Gilbert asked.

"Outside!" Link yelled, pointing to the exit. So they all shrugged and exited the fountain.

–

` East Clock Town + 9:18pm `

–

"Eck, I'm wiped," Ines said tiredly, sitting down and leaning against the wall. Since the rain from earlier in the day made their sleeping spot near North Clock Town's slide wet and icky, they had to find another place to sleep. They wandered into East Clock Town, seeing the straw umbrella-kind-of-thing next to the entrance of the Stock Pot Inn. It was the only relatively dry place so they settled there.

Brian sighed and sat down. "Jeez. So much happened today."

"Mmhmm..." everybody agreed.

They sat in silence for a while.

"Hey..." Tatl started. "... This is the night of the second day."

Gilbert blinked at her. "Yeah, so?"

"YOU HAVE ONE MORE DAY TO FIND THAT DUDE'S STUPID MASK AND STOP THE APOCALYPSE! NOW GET TO SLEEP SO WE CAN HAVE A HEAD START TOMORROW MORNING! SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP!"

"YES MOMMY!" And with that Nicole fell to the ground, dead to the world.

Everyone sweatdropped and followed her example. Tatl grumbled, preparing to watch over them for the night again.

A/N: PHEWWW! Jeez, dudes and duddettes! You guys have no idea how long it took me to finish THIS chapter. X.x;;;

Niagra: Let's see... a year?

A/N: SSHHH WHATTHEHELL SSHUTTTUUPP! (swats at Niagra)

Niagra: (shrieks and smacks into the wall) x.X;;;;;;;;

Link: WHAA? Seriously? This chapter took A YEAR?

A/N: Actually, a year and 2 months has passed since I posted this story up. :D;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Link/Niagra/Ryo: X.x;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

A/N: And I haven't written in the longest time, as you can see from my new style of writing. You can see more details. Kinda overdone, but... yanno. I mean I'm still trying to get used to it myself. O.o;;;;

Link/Niagra: (gAsP!)

Link: Wow... I never thought I'd see the day where naGami writes normally with this much detail. O.o

Niagra: (peels herself off wall) Yeah, usually she would just skip detail and have dialogue most of the time.

Ryo: I narrated a lot in this chapter. :D;;;;;;

(2009 revision note: i fixed it a little so the detail wouldn't be so annoying. :D)

A/N: (looks up this chapter's properties) Hmm... well, I created this on Thursday, June 24, 2004, 10:14:16 PM. And I finished it today, April 24, 2005, 3:17:58 AM. Wow it's late. o.O Anyway, and while I'm writing the ending comment-note-thingy to this chapter, I still don't have the internet up in my room. Hmm. So I wonder just when I'll get it and I can laugh at myself later when I finally post it. o.o;;;;;

Niagra: Okay, so it took you 11 months to finish this chapter.

Link: Yeeeeeees, 11 months. naGami could've gotten pregnant in the beginning of this chapter and had a baby when she finished it. :D

A/N/Niagra/Ryo: (stare at Link)

Link: What? It's true! 9 months can be squished in there somewhere...

A/N/Niagra/Ryo: (no comment) ...

Link: A year... and to think she finished WIHs in the same time span this thing has been on hiatus.

A/N: (standing right there) OH JUST SHUTTUP, LINK!

- naGami c.

May 4, 2005 -

THE INTERNET HAS FINALLY BEEN PUT UP IN MY ROOM!

Haaaaaaaaaalleluiah!

So yeah, hope you review after finishing this insanely long chappy. :DV

Oh and I deleted what I wrote here about thinking about discontinuing this. Cuz no way am I going to discontinue this story. I started it, and I will finish it, no matter how long it takes! (pumps fist in the air all determinedly and stuff)

R&R! :3