Well, this is the last chapter of this story. I would like to thank everyone who read and reviewed it. I hope you will enjoy this grand finale!
Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and its characters. Nintendo owns them.
Cucco Chaos
Part 4
Link was very excited. There was only one cucco left to find, and then his little side-quest would be over. He was pretty sure that Navi was getting angry at the amount of time that he was taking. They would need to hurry to Goron City so that they would complete their original mission of retrieving the Goron's Ruby. After all, Princess Zelda was counting on the young hero.
Still, Link had to find the final cucco before he left Kakariko Village. He was also looking forward to eating a quick lunch, too!
For several hours, he searched the entire village for the missing bird. He searched every alley, every house, every nook, and every cranny. He asked the various villagers if they had seen any cuccos. Unfortunately, he couldn't find any clues to the whereabouts of the missing cucco.
"Maybe it escaped the village and it's somewhere far away," suggested Navi. Link shook with horror at that thought. It was bad enough trying to search the village, but trying to search the entire land of Hyrule for one lost cucco seemed worse than trying to find a needle in a large hay stack. For that reason, Link seriously hoped his fairy friend was wrong.
After a few more hours, Link was about to give up when he heard strange noises coming from a wooden crate. He pressed his ear against the box smiled as he recognized the noise as the clucking of a cucco. Link found the situation strange since there didn't seem to be any holes or doors on the crate. How the heck did the cucco get inside the box in the first place?! Was it magic? Was it some sort of trap? Did someone somehow build the box around the cucco while it was sleeping?
After a few minutes of pondering this, Link decided it didn't matter and decided to focus on getting the poor bird its prison.
At first, Link was simply going to chop the box into a bunch of pieces with his sword. However, Navi warned, "That lady isn't going to be happy if you turn her cucco into a cucco shish kabob." Navi's words and the growling of his stomach caused Link to have sudden visions of crispy cucco tenders and buffalo cucco wings. It took a few minutes before Link could get over his thoughts of food and focus on freeing the bird.
Suddenly, an idea appeared in Link's head. Acting on impulse, Link recklessly rolled into the box hard enough to break it apart. Fortunately, the cucco was perfectly fine, with the exception of being stunned by the light after being stuck in that dark crate for who knows how long. Link, on the other hand, was covered in splinters. However, he was so focused on getting the final cucco back to its pin that he didn't notice (or didn't care) that he looked like he fought a wooden porcupine.
The final cucco was so stunned that it had little resistance as Link took it to the pin and tossed it in there. After that was done, the boy collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. A few minutes later, the Cucco Lady walked by the pen and noticed that all of her cuccos had been returned. She thanked Link for his hard work and went inside her house to get him something as a reward. Link's expression brightened as he began to wonder what sort of reward he would receive.
When the woman returned, Link was disappointed to find out that his reward was nothing more than a glass bottle. Navi whispered in his ear, "That lady ripped you off! You should have gotten more than that for all of the trouble that those blasted cuccos put you through!" Link was inclined to agree, but he ultimately accepted the bottle. After all, even a seemingly worthless bottle had its uses.
As he turned to leave, one of the cuccos suddenly crowed and caused Link to trip and drop the bottle. Link could only watch as the bottle that he worked so hard to earn fell to the ground and shattered into a million pieces. At first, he thought about finding the lady again and asking for another bottle, but he eventually decided to head towards Goron City. He wanted to get away from that lady and her evil cuccos. If he ever saw a cucco again, it would be too soon.
As Link left Kakariko and headed up Death Mountain, he remembered he egg that one of the cuccos laid on his head in which he had placed in his pocket. If there was anything good about his cucco misadventure, the egg would be it. Link was now very hungry, and even though the egg wasn't much, it would be enough to keep him from starving. He took the egg out of his pocket and he began to think of all of the delicious things he could make out of it.
Suddenly, a hawk swooped down and snatched the egg from his hands. Link stood in shock for a few seconds before trying to catch the renegade bird. Unfortunately, Link's lack of wings made the task of catching the hawk almost impossible. He tried to shoot it with is slingshot, but the hawk was soon out of range and out of sight.
Link let out a sigh of despair. His only source of food was now gone. Then he remembered that he was going to Goron City. 'Surely, they would have food there,' thought Link. With a new found resolve, Link ran towards Goron City as fast as he could.
Since Link seemed so enthusiastic about going, Navi didn't have the heart to tell him that the Gorons only ate rocks.
The End
