In this chapter there are a few spoilers for the game, so if you haven't gotten this far in the game yet, you might want to wait until you have. I know, there are spoilers all throughout the story, but this is one of the bigger spoilers... Of course, if you don't care (or if you have a really bad memory), then go ahead and read, and I hope you enjoy it. Also, the chapter after this one (which will probably be up by tomorrow) has a few big spoilers as well.
Chapter 4
Treasure Hunting and Linebeck's Old Friend
"Boat ho!" Link's excited voice could be heard over the loud argument that was between Ciela, Leaf, and Neri.
"Would you three cut it out already!" Linebeck shouted as he turned his ship to meet the newly discovered boat that could just be seen in the distance. "You have been arguing for over two hours now, give it a rest!"
"What are they arguing about anyway?" Link asked.
"Let's see, it started when Leaf commented on Ciela's hair, and then it all went downhill from there. I didn't even know they had hair!" Linebeck said grumpily. "That's a funny looking boat," he said as they neared the boat. It had a single sail and its head was shaped to look like a dragon.
"Oh my gosh! It's Larry!" Link shouted. "Hide!"
"Who's Larry?" Ciela asked as she flew over to the two.
"He tried to kill me once! With a giant flood!" Link shouted as Linebeck's ship pulled alongside the small boat.
Linebeck and Ciela looked at each other, "The boat tried to kill you?" Ciela asked.
"Oh forget it! Oh hey look, there's a person on there! Everyone, let's capture the new boat!" Link shouted before leaping aboard the strange boat.
"I guess someone should go with him to keep him from hurting someone…" Ciela said. She sighed when Linebeck just nodded happily. "Oh fine, I'll go!" Ciela shouted, and she flew over to Link, who was talking to a man who was dressed in clothes that looked just like Link's. "Hm, say, I can't help but notice that you're wearing clothes that look just like mine!" the man said cheerfully.
"Yeah, whatever," Link said.
"Are you a fan of mine?"
"Definitely not!" Link shouted.
The man laughed happily, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all surprised to meet a fan! I travel the world on my Prince of Red Lions ship and-"
"Prince of Red Lions eh? I didn't Larry had a kid!" Link said happily.
"Like I was saying!" the man shouted to get Link's attention. "I try to save all things from evil! I'm a hero! And not just any kind of hero, the hero!"
"Say what!? I'm the hero you fool!"
"You want my autograph?"
"No way, but I'll bet you want mine!"
The two began to scribble madly on separate pieces of paper, glaring at each other every once in awhile to see how far they had gotten in writing out their name. "You're name has four letters in it, Link, how long could it possibly take!" Ciela shouted after ten minutes.
"I have a last name you know!" Link said.
"Really? What is it?" Ciela asked.
Link was about to show her when suddenly the man who looked like Link began to laugh madly, "I finished first!" he shouted.
"No, I did!" Link shouted, snatching his autograph back from Ciela before she could read his name.
The man stared at Link's autograph, "You're name is Link-"
"You're name is The Guy Who Looks Like Link?!" Link shouted, interrupting the man. "That's a stupid name!"
"How dare you! Just for that, you're my apprentice! You are now the apprentice of the hero!" the man shouted.
"Oh yeah? Well you're my apprentice!" Link shouted, crumpling up the man's autograph and throwing into the ocean. The man gasped and did the same with Link's autograph. "I can't be an apprentice of the hero's apprentice! Especially if I'm the hero!"
"That's not my problem!" Link said, crossing his arms smugly. "I'm the hero anyway!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
Ciela sighed when she realized that this was probably going to go on for awhile. She gave a short gasp when she saw the two begin to swing their swords around, trying to hit each other. She rolled her eyes when she saw that they weren't even looking at what they were doing; both of their eyes were shut tight and they weren't even facing the right way. Link was attacking the sail, and the man was attacking the boat's tiller, the evil psychotic fairy was also there, weaving between the two and easily dodging their attacks, shouting out the whole time, "Wheeee!" Ciela stared at the fairy, trying to remember why they had even let her stay with the team, when suddenly both Link and the guy who looked like Link stopped and collapsed to the ground, exhausted. "Truce?" the man panted.
"Never!" Link shouted, and the two jumped up and started all over again, much to the excitement of the crazy evil fairy, who started flying around again as well. Finally Ciela decided that they had to be moving on, so she grabbed Link and flew him back to their ship. Link, who was oblivious to all this, opened his eyes after a few minutes to find himself in the engine room with the evil fairy, who was keeping herself entertained by hitting the engine with a balloon hammer that gave a squeak every time something hit it.
Link quickly sheathed his sword before running up the stairs to the deck. Linebeck was there, with large earplugs in his ears. The reason for this became clear a few minutes later when the three other fairies came flying out of nowhere. It appeared that they had given up on their arguments and that the only way to settle their differences was by fighting it out. "Where are we headed now?" Link shouted at Linebeck, but the sailor gave no sign that he had heard the boy. Link poked Linebeck with his sword, which startled the man and caused him to fall into the ocean, much to the delight of the crazy evil fairy. "We're exploring this sea!" Linebeck said as soon as Link had fished him out of the cold water. "Exploring, sweet! Maybe we'll find treasure!" Link said happily.
"That's what I was thinking! And Ciela is too busy with her…uh, friends… to stop us!" Linebeck said. "There's just one thing, I kind of promised the crazy psycho fairy that she could come along."
"Whatever, she can dig for us!" Link said.
"Oh yeah! We won't have to do anything! We're going to make a good team kid!" Linebeck said happily, right before they crashed into an uncharted island.
"Land ho!" Link shouted.
"No kidding," Ciela grumbled, right before jumping back into the fairy melee.
Linebeck and Link were disappointed a few hours later, though, when they had explored the whole island and all that they had found was a small house, and a chest that they couldn't even reach. The crazy evil fairy could get to it, but she couldn't open it, no matter how many times she hit it with her fake hammer. Eventually Link handed the fairy his shovel, and she went flying off to dig up the island. "Maybe we'll get lucky," Link said while the fairy sang her shovel song.
"Digging, digging, digging, with shovel! Digging with shovel!"
"Let's go check out that house while she's doing that!" Linebeck suggested. Link shrugged and then the two ran into the house.
"Ahha! Welcome to the wayfarer's house!" an old man shouted at them the minute they entered. "So, tell me, did you find…it?"
"It? What's it?" Link asked as Linebeck ran around and broke the old man's pots in his search for money.
"You know, the magical mermaid!" the old man said.
"You're looking for a mermaid?" Linebeck asked.
"Lame!" both he and Link shouted before running outside to find the whole island covered in deep holes.
"Wow, she's fast," Linebeck said.
"I dug with shovel!" the fairy shouted before throwing the heavy item at Link, who was promptly knocked out.
"Did you find anything?" Linebeck asked, not even noticing Link's sudden collapse.
"Found boring paper!" the fairy shouted.
"A paper eh? It could be a treasure chart! Hand it over!" Linebeck said.
"Can't!"
"Why not?"
"Ate it!"
"…You ate the treasure chart!?"
"It was yum!"
"Oh for crying out loud! We can't leave you alone for ten seconds!"
So in the end, the whole day had been wasted, and Link had a very bad headache the entire night. The large group finally made it back to Mercay Island; the native inhabitants of that island stared in shock as the ship pulled into the harbor. There were three fairies that were pretty much killing each other (lucky thing that fairies are immortal…), another fairy that was hitting the two humans with a squeaking balloon hammer, and the aforementioned two humans were sitting miserably in a corner. "We're here!" Linebeck said in a relieved tone.
"Finally!" Link shouted before hopping off of the boat and onto the wooden dock.
"Well, you should head to the Temple of the Ocean King to find the next clue!" Linebeck said.
"Why aren't you coming?" Ciela asked, she had managed to remove herself from the frantic battle and was now floating next to Link.
"Um, well, you were shooting that cannon so much, Link, that you burnt the barrels! I have to repair that!" Linebeck said, trying to act annoyed.
"Darn! Fine, but next time I'll fix the ship!" Link said.
"Fix ship!" a loud voice shouted from inside the engine room.
"Do me a favor will you, take that fairy with you?" Linebeck asked in a small voice.
"No way!" both Link and Ciela shouted before running off to the temple.
Linebeck sighed sadly before running into the engine room, only to find half of the room burnt, and the other half non-existent. "What…what happened?!" Linebeck shouted, pointing at the large hole in his ship. "Fixing ship!" the evil fairy shouted.
"No, bad fairy! Bad!"
While Linebeck was busy trying to keep the crazy fairy from destroying the rest of his ship, Link and Ciela were making their way through the temple. They were able to go even further inside the building this time, since they had the Spirit of Wisdom with them, and she was able to open yet another door that had previously blocked them. After avoiding the phantom guards, and a new monster that looked like an eyeball on a propeller, they finally made it to a large sign that had a map of the Southwestern Sea on it, and a funny looking symbol that was set in the middle of nowhere. "What do you think this means?" Ciela asked. Link, who was examining the map very closely, suddenly gave an exclamation of surprise. "Hey, this is a sticker!" Link said happily as he tore the symbol off of the map.
"Link! You can't just remove it! Now how are we supposed to know where to go?" Ciela scolded.
"Oh, um… there!" Link quickly placed the sticker on a randomly selected place on his own sea chart.
Ciela glared at him, "How do you know that's the right spot?"
"Because I am the Master Guesser! Muhahahahaha!"
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that…" Ciela said thoughtfully.
"Now then, onwards to victory!" Link shouted before running into the circle of blue light that seemed to be following them.
Once they had made it back to the harbor, Linebeck had already fixed his ship so it looked like nothing at all had happened. The evil fairy was also nowhere to be seen. "Well well, look at what the crab dragged in!" Linebeck said as soon as Link and Ciela reached him. The two turned around to where Linebeck was looking, and saw a little crab happily waving at them, a small pearl necklace on the ground next to him. "We can sell that for a lot of money!" Link shouted as he started to chase the crab, who instantly picked up his necklace and went scuttling off with it. While Link chased the small crustacean around the island, Ciela showed Linebeck where their next destination was. "This is out in the middle of the sea!" Linebeck said with a frown. "Is it under the water?"
"How should I know? I don't even know if that's the right spot! Link just guessed!" Ciela said crossly. "Hey, where did all the fairies go?"
"Um, well, Leaf and the other one, I forgot her name… anyway, they're off shopping."
"What about the crazy one?"
"She's...around…" Linebeck said mysteriously.
Ciela was about to question the captain further when suddenly Link came running up to them, cackling happily. "Muhahahaha, I got the pearls!" Link shouted, triumphantly showing them his necklace. "What are you going to do with that?" Ciela asked.
"Sell it of course!" Link said, rolling his eyes at the little fairy.
"Well you can't sell it now, we have to get going!" Linebeck said, pushing Ciela on the ship. "Preferably before the other two fairies get back…" Linebeck whispered to Link, who quickly nodded and jumped aboard as well. The ship was soon beginning to move, but, unfortunately, this fact was made known to the other two fairies when suddenly the foghorn went off. "Now look at what you did!" Linebeck and Link shouted at Ciela as the fairies quickly flew onboard.
"We can't just leave them behind, we need them!" Ciela defended herself.
"No, we need them for the Temple of the Ocean King! We don't need them all the time!" Link said.
"Yeah! What he said!" Linebeck shouted, nodding quickly. The two quickly fell silent when Ciela just glared at them. "I'm gonna go make sure we're on the right course…" Linebeck mumbled before running off.
"I better go help him!" Link said after a few minutes of awkward silence.
Ciela smiled smugly, but she was soon rolling her eyes when the two men started to argue about which way they were supposed to go. "Ciela!" She heard them both shout for her. "What?!" She snapped as she approached them.
"He can't navigate!" Linebeck accused Link.
"It's my map!" Link shouted back.
"Not again! Haven't you guys learned yet?" Ciela asked. She sighed when they just stared at her with wide eyes. "We're supposed to be learning something?" Link asked after awhile, sucking his thumb. "Never mind, I'll navigate!" Ciela said, grabbing the map. "Linebeck, you steer, and Link," Here Ciela paused as she desperately tried to think of something the boy could do. Link was staring at her, jumping up and down excitedly. "Um… go check on the engine!" Ciela said finally.
"Aw man! That's so boring!" Link said sadly as he trudged slowly down into the engine room.
After awhile they made it to exactly where the crest was, but there was nothing to be seen. "There's nothing here!" Linebeck shouted.
"You're ability to state the obvious never ceases to amaze me!" Link said sarcastically.
"I thought you were supposed to be watching the engine?" Linebeck snapped.
"I am!" Link protested.
"No you aren't! You're up here!" Linebeck argued.
"So?"
"So?! So, you can't watch the engine if you aren't in the engine room!"
"But I am in the engine room!" Link shouted.
"..."
"What?"
"No you aren't! You're on the deck!" Linebeck shouted.
"What's your point?" Link asked in a confused voice.
"You aren't in the engine room!!"
"…Yes, I am!"
"I'll prove it to you!" Linebeck shouted, and he went marching down the stairs. He stopped and gaped when he saw Link staring intently at the engine. "How did… how…" Linebeck sputtered. Link waved cheerfully at the sailor before continuing his staring contest with the large machine.
Linebeck blinked a few times and then turned around and marched back to the deck, where Link was staring down into the ocean. "You know, I was thinking, what if the thing we're looking for is under the water?" Link said.
"But I just… You were…"
"Are you ok Linebeck?" Link asked.
"What's going on here?!" Linebeck shouted. "Are there two of you?!"
"Not that I know of, but that would be pretty awesome!" Link said happily.
"Yeah, awesome," Linebeck said faintly before he collapsed on the deck.
"What's wrong with him?" Ciela asked.
"I dunno, let's go to Cannon Island and see if Eddo built anything new!" Link said, happy to finally be the one to steer the ship.
"Ok, why not," Ciela said, landing happily on Linebeck, who was still unconscious.
When Linebeck finally woke up, he found the ship to be docked at Cannon Island, if docked was the right word. He gave a disgusted sigh when he saw how Link had landed the ship. It wasn't anywhere near the dock, the front half of the ship was on the beach, and the other half was all scratched up from the sharp rocks that were under the water. After Linebeck had docked his ship properly, he stopped to listen to the loud voices that were coming from Eddo's workshop. "Yes, I want the darn salvage arm, just give it to me already!" he could hear Link shouting.
"What was that? You call that a shout?" Eddo shouted back. "You know what, no sale for you! If you can't take my creations seriously, then I ain't selling them to you!"
"Give it to me!" Link shouted.
"Never!" Eddo shouted back.
"Then I'll just steal it, muhahahaha!"
Linebeck rolled his eyes when he heard this, and then again when Link and Ciela came bursting out of the workshop again, this time carrying the large salvage arm. Eddo and his apprentice were chasing after the two, shouting out different things. "Get back here you scoundrels!" Was what Eddo shouted, and "Whoa! You got the salvage arm eh? You know, you didn't really have to shout, you could've just snapped your fingers!" was what his apprentice said. Linebeck had the ship ready to go the minute Link and Ciela arrived, and they were soon on their way, leaving behind an even angrier Eddo then before, if that was even possible. "Now what boss?" Eddo's apprentice asked as the boat gave a loud horn sound before disappearing in the horizon. "Let's have some lunch!" Eddo said after a while.
"Yay!" Eddo's apprentice shouted happily, before running back into the workshop.
Meanwhile, Linebeck was busy installing their new equipment, and Link had been sent to keep an eye on the engine again. "Both of you watch it!" Linebeck had shouted at Link, but he just received some weird stares from the boy and the fairies. Linebeck was opening a box of tools when suddenly the crazy evil fairy came flying out, cackling gleefully. "How did you get here! I thought I mailed you to that old man!" Linebeck shouted, referring to Oshus.
"He mailed me back!" The evil fairy shouted. "He said that I was annoying!"
"No really? Why would he say that?" Linebeck asked.
"Don't know!" the fairy shouted, Linebeck's sarcasm lost on her. Linebeck sighed and started to install the salvage arm, the little fairy 'helping' him the whole time.
While Linebeck was doing that, Link and Ciela were arguing over which was the most important part of the engine. The main reason they were discussing this was because they had broken it. The whole thing had fallen apart after Link had thrown Ciela at it, claiming that he had to practice his tennis skills because you never knew when a crazy, tennis loving ghost would pop up. "This looks important," Ciela said, holding up a long screw.
"That's just for decoration, stupid Ciela!" Link shouted, grabbing it from her and tossing it into the garbage can. "This is obviously important!" Link said, randomly grabbing a piece from the large pile.
"Maybe you should just ask Linebeck," the Spirit of Wisdom suggested. She and Leaf were watching them from the other side of the room.
"Shut up Neri! We know what we're doing!" Ciela shouted at the blue fairy.
"Yeah, shut up Neri!" Link said cheerfully as he made a shape out of a few parts that resembled a puppy. "Cute doggie!" Link said cheerfully, pointing at his shape.
"Link, cut it out!" Ciela said, swiping up the pieces and throwing them into the thing that had held the engine upright.
"You can't just throw them all in and hope they'll do something! You need to screw them all in!" Link shouted.
"What's going on down here!?" Linebeck shouted from behind them, startling Link and his fairy friend.
"Oh, hey Linebeck…" Ciela said hesitantly while Link just waved slowly at the sailor. "Uh, we're just making sure that the engine is all right! Well, everything looks good to me! What do you think Link?" Ciela asked, trying to ignore the glowering captain.
"What are you crazy?! The thing is a mess!" Link shouted. "Uh…I mean… Yep! Looks good to me!" Link and Ciela both laughed nervously before Linebeck picked them both up and threw them outside onto the deck. "Stay there and don't do anything else!" Linebeck shouted before slamming the door.
"I think he's mad at us," Link said.
"No, you think?" Ciela asked sarcastically.
"Not really!" Link said cheerfully; Ciela just sighed tiredly.
"Hey look, we've drifted to the spot we needed to get to!" Ciela said after a few minutes.
"Really? Sweet! Let's go treasure hunting!" Link shouted, and he swung the salvage arm around and dropped it into the water.
Meanwhile, in the engine room, Linebeck was having the worst troubles trying to find out how to build the engine again. And the fact that the crazy evil fairy was there trying to help didn't make matters easier either. "Where's the long screw for this piece?" Linebeck asked, waving a large metal plate in the air.
"Have it!" the fairy shouted happily.
"Well can I have it or are you going to keep it?" Linebeck asked impatiently.
"Ate it!"
"Would you stop eating everything! Fairies don't even need to eat!" Linebeck shouted.
"I like to eat! Yum!" the fairy shouted.
"That's great, why don't you go bother Link now?"
"You're funnier!"
"Lucky me…"
Finally Linebeck managed to fix the engine, and he was soon heading back up to the deck, only to find that Link had broken the salvage arm. "I didn't know there were mimes down there!" Link protested after Ciela had scolded him.
Linebeck rolled his eyes, "They're called mines, not mimes!" he shouted at the boy.
"Oh well excuse me!" Link shouted back.
"I'll get treasure!" the crazy fairy shouted suddenly, flying past Linebeck and going into the water with a small splash.
"Huh, I didn't know fairies could swim," Link said.
"They can't," Ciela said tiredly.
The group was silent for a few minutes before Linebeck finally cleared his throat, "Um, let's go get that salvage arm fixed then!" he said cheerfully. Everyone agreed enthusiastically, and they were soon on their way back to Mercay, since Linebeck was tired of fixing things.
…two hours later…
The group soon arrived back at the spot where the 'sun key' was supposed to be, after their salvage arm had been repaired. "Let's try this again," Linebeck said as he slowly lowered the salvage arm into the water.
"Faster Linebeck faster! Full speed!" Link shouted, beginning to cackle maniacally.
"We tried that last time, Link. It didn't go too well, remember?" Ciela snapped.
"Oh fine! Be boring then!" Link said and he went stomping down into the engine room. A few minutes later and Linebeck pulled the long rope back up, and at the very end of it was a large treasure chest. "Treasure!" Linebeck shouted as the chest fell to the deck.
"Treasure?" Link asked, poking his head out from the engine room. "I love treasure!" the boy shouted as he came running. "Move over!" Link shouted as he pushed Linebeck away from the chest, just as he was about to open it. Link quickly opened up the chest and reached in, while everyone else stared eagerly in anticipation. "It's just a stupid key!" Link said disappointedly as he pulled his hand out, showing off a large key that was shaped somewhat like a sun.
"Boring!" Linebeck said. Link nodded in agreement before tossing the key back into the water.
"No Link! Nooooo!" Ciela shouted as the key sunk back into the depths of the ocean. "We need that to find the Spirit of Courage you fool!" Ciela shouted.
"Oh oh oh! That's me!" Link said, jumping up and down excitedly. "I have the Triforce of Courage! No…wait… Larry took that. Never mind!"
"Yeah, whatever," Ciela said. She gasped when she realized that she had been copying the boy's favorite expression. "And we need the Spirit of Courage, not the Triforce!" Ciela said.
"Well we aren't getting either now," Linebeck said, pointing to where the key had sunk.
"I say we throw Link in to get it back!" Ciela shouted. Link gave a high pitched scream as Linebeck agreed. Before they could accomplish their plan, however, the crazy evil fairy came flying out of the ocean, spraying the whole ship with the salty water. "Got treasure!"
"She's got the key!" Linebeck shouted happily.
"Hooray!" the rest of the crew shouted, and they were soon on their way to Molida Island (they had no idea where they were supposed to go next, they just felt like going in that particular direction). Fortunately for them, that turned out to be where they had to go next anyway. Right before they could dock, though, a large, man-eating plant from under water, surfaced right next to them. "Abandon ship!" Leaf shouted, and all four fairies flew to the safety of the island.
"Well they're a lot of help!" Link said.
"We can't get the ship past that thing, we need to get rid of it before we can- oh," Linebeck said, blinking in surprise as the ship gently coasted past the monster and bumped gently into the dock. The monster seemed equally surprised, and it went back underwater with a huff. "That was easy…" Linebeck mumbled as Link jumped onto the island, shouting about how powerful he was.
"Right then, go find the next spirit!" Linebeck said after everyone had gathered near the ship. Ciela, Leaf, and Neri had hundreds of bags that were filled to the brim with stuff they had bought; when Link had asked them how they had managed to buy all that stuff in such a short amount of time, Ciela had just whacked him with one of her bags and said to not be so nosy. The crazy evil fairy was there as well, flying around in circles; everyone else did their best to ignore her. "Why can't you go this time?" Link whined at Linebeck, but Ciela was already dragging him along towards the next temple.
…three hours later…
"Here's the thing I don't get," Link said as they rested against a wall after running away from a weird bunny rabbit head that had been bouncing around.
"What now?" Ciela asked tiredly.
"How come I instantly have a map of all these temples in my pocket the minute we get there? I remember the good old days when I had to actually run around to find the map!" Link said.
"You're complaining about something that's been made easier!?" Ciela shouted.
"Not really complaining, more like just mentioning…" Link said with a pout. "Oh my gosh! It's the rabbit again!" Link shouted suddenly. Ciela turned to look, and sure enough, there was the large rabbit slowly hopping towards them. Ciela screamed before following Link in his mad dash to get away from the evil bunny. Eventually the two made it to a large room where a giant crab was sitting. "You stole my necklace! Now you will pay!" the crab shouted.
"You were that crab?!" Link shouted, fingering the rupees he had gotten from selling the crab's pearl necklace. "You got big!"
"Well that's nice!" the crab shouted sarcastically. "First you rob me, then you insult me! I've had just about enough of you!"
"Hey, you were the one who waited here, not me!" Link protested. "I'm just running around, doing my Super Link thing."
"Hmm, good point. Very well, I'm going home. Maybe Mommy will make me some soup!" the crab said happily before scuttling off.
"Stupid crab, get back here! I wanted to have a fight!" Link shouted.
"…You did?" Ciela asked unbelievingly.
"Nah."
"Then why did you…oh forget it! Just open the stupid chest!" Ciela shouted, pushing Link over to said chest.
"Well fine!" Link said, and he pulled the heavy lid off. As soon as he had done this, a small white fairy came floating out.
"Hey, you look just like me!" Ciela said. "Why isn't she saying anything?" Ciela asked after awhile.
"Maybe she's sleeping! Wake up fairy! Wake up!" Link shouted as he grabbed the fairy and started to shake her.
"Link stop that!" Ciela shouted. "Let's just go back to the ship."
"Ok!" Link said happily. He stuffed the fairy into his pocket and went running outside. Before he had made it back to the ship, however, the evil fairy came out of nowhere and dropped a large bow on top of Link's head. "Found treasure!" the fairy shouted.
"Stupid fairy, take this!" Link shouted, and he started to shoot his arrows at the fairy. The fairy just stood in one place, and Link missed every time he shot at her. Eventually he ran out of arrows and the three were soon on their way back to the ship.
Once they had arrived, they were surprised to see Oshus there, standing next to Linebeck, who was pouting about something or other. "Grandpa! What are you doing here?" Ciela asked happily.
"I came to tell you something very important!" Oshus said mysteriously.
"No you didn't! You just came here to sabotage my ship!" Linebeck shouted. "I caught him stealing some very important parts off of my engine!" the man said, pointing accusingly at Oshus.
"Silence!" Oshus shouted, hitting the ground impatiently with his staff. "Now, where was I… oh yes! Ciela, you are no ordinary fairy… you are a spirit!"
"No way!" both Leaf and Neri shouted. "No way! No way! No way no way no way!"
"Would you two stop that!" Oshus shouted. The two spirits gasped and then went into the ship to sulk. "Now, you are a special fairy!" Oshus continued.
"But I don't even have any special powers!" Ciela protested.
"Sure you do Ciela," Link said cheerfully. "You're the most annoying of the group! You don't let us do anything fun, at all!" the boy shouted while Linebeck nodded in agreement.
"You two, shut up as well!" Oshus shouted. Both Linebeck and Link crossed their arms and pouted. "Now then, you lost your memory somehow Ciela. The spirit that you freed holds the power that you lost! It is now time for you to return to your original form! Link, hand me the spirit, please."
"Never!" Link shouted.
"Link!"
"Oh fine!" Link said grumpily as he threw the fairy at Oshus. Oshus, who wasn't really watching what Link was doing, got hit in the head by the spirit, and was promptly knocked out.
"Now look at what you did!" Ciela shouted. "Now I'll never be a super hero!"
"That's my job anyway!" Link argued.
Linebeck sighed as the two started to argue yet again. Finally he grew tired of them and he grabbed Ciela and the spirit and slammed the two together. "Ow! Hey, watch it!" Ciela shouted. Suddenly she turned into a golden color, much to the amazement of the others. Just at this moment, Oshus awoke and stood up, grumbling to himself. "What happened?" he asked, right before he spotted Ciela. "Ha! How do you feel?" the old man asked, just as Linebeck was asking whether Ciela was still alive or if that was a different fairy all together. "I don't feel any different…" Ciela said. "But at the same time, everything is different!"
"Nope, it's the same fairy," Link said. "No one else would contradict themselves like that."
"I feel so alive!" Ciela shouted.
Suddenly Neri and Leaf came flying back; they surrounded Ciela, talking a mile a minute about all the shopping they were going to do. "Sweet!" Ciela said as soon as they were finished, and the three went flying off. "Hey wait! You're supposed to have a vision or something!" Oshus shouted after them. "Oh fine! You two!" Oshus turned suddenly and pointed sharply at Link and Linebeck, who were trying to sneak aboard their ship and make a getaway. "Don't move!" Oshus shouted, and he went stomping off to find the fairies. "He is such a boring old guy, isn't he?" Linebeck asked as they marched back to the island.
"Tell me about it, and what makes it worse is that I'm related to him!" Link shouted crossly. Linebeck shook his head sympathetically.
"Grandpa!" shouted the evil fairy, right in their ears.
"Here, go dig or something," Link said in a bored voice as he handed the fairy his shovel.
"Yay!" the fairy cheered before flying off.
A few minutes later and Oshus returned, three very angry fairies behind him. "He, like, totally interrupted our shopping spree!" Leaf shouted.
"Totally!" Neri shouted.
"Alright gang!" Oshus shouted happily.
"Gang?" Linebeck asked with a frown.
"Yeah, you know, it's cool… we're a gang!" Oshus said.
"Yeah, whatever," Link said.
"Anyway, you guys are now ready to find the ghost ship!" the old man said happily.
"Treasure!" the other two humans shouted excitedly.
"Don't forget to find your friend while you're there," Oshus said, rolling his eyes.
"Well of course I have to find her!" Link shouted. "She's still got my wallet!"
"Ok then, guess that settles that!" Oshus said. "Now, off you go!"
Everyone was about to go on their ship when suddenly Linebeck stopped and turned around, "Who are old man? Really?"
"That I will explain when the time is right, but for now you must find the ghost ship!" Oshus said.
"Alright fine, keep your secrets you old sea pickle!" Linebeck shouted, throwing a pickle into the ocean. Everyone else stared at him. "I'm just in this for the loot anyway!"
"Oh me too!" Link said happily, and they all ran onto the ship and sailed off, leaving Oshus behind to return the way he had come, by swimming. He had just recently learned how to swim (of course being thrown into the ocean had sped up his learning process immensely) and he found that he rather enjoyed it. So now he swam everywhere, much to the annoyance of the transport ships and ferries.
Meanwhile, Linebeck was complaining that he felt funny. "Do you feel different Link?" he asked.
"For the fifth time, no!" Link shouted.
"Hmm, I feel funny."
"I don't care!" Link shouted back.
Suddenly a loud voice shouted over at them from a large ship, "Stop right there!"
"Oh no! It's her! Jolene! She's crazy!" Linebeck shouted. "We should always run away from Jolene, let's just head to a place that's away from her! Far away! She'll also shoot torpedoes at us, but we can just jump over those."
"Uh, Linebeck?" Link asked hesitantly.
"It all started when me and Jolene were kids, and there was this…oh never mind! It doesn't matter right now!"
"Linebeck!"
"What!?"
"We aren't moving!" Link shouted.
"Why not?!"
"You're incharge of the wheel this time…" Link said.
"Oh, right!" Linebeck quickly turned the engine on and started to turn the ship around. But before they could even get going, Jolene's ship crashed into theirs. "Darn! Ambush!" Linebeck shouted. "Everyone hide!"
There was a mad rush to the engine room. Linebeck hid inside one of the crates that was there, the three Spirits hid in a barrel, and the crazy evil fairy stood very still in the middle of the room, covering her eyes in the hopes that if she couldn't see anyone, then no one could see her. Link was just about to jump into another barrel to hide when Jolene came rushing down the stairs. "Oh darn! I'll just hide when Jolene leaves!" Link shouted, stomping his foot in his frustration.
"Ha! Fiend! It's been one hundred years since our paths last crossed, and I want my dog back! What? Oh, who are you?! You aren't Linebeck!" Jolene shouted at Link, who was grumbling to himself about finding a hiding spot. "You, little boy in green! Where is Linebeck?"
Link gasped, "I'm not little! I'm Super Link!"
"So, you won't tell me eh? Then you shall have to be punished! No candy for a week mister!" Jolene shouted, grabbing their candy jar before running off.
"Nooooo!" Link shouted after her, but the woman was already gone.
Linebeck quickly popped out of his crate at this moment, "Whew! Crouching in one of these things every now and then is great for your back!" the man said happily, but Link was too busy crying about his candy to even hear the captain. "Alright everyone, we're shipping out now!" Linebeck shouted. The three Spirits came flying out of their hiding spot and went outside, the crazy evil fairy still stayed in the middle of the room with her eyes covered, Link also stayed in the room and cried, and Linebeck started the engine before running outside as well. "Let's see, that ghost ship seems to stay in the fog, so let's head there!" Linebeck said cheerfully.
"What's with you and Jolene anyway?" Ciela asked curiously, trying to ignore Link's wailing as it got louder and louder.
"None of your business!" Linebeck shouted, swatting Ciela with a fly swatter. The two other spirits stared with wide-eyed expressions while the crazy fairy cackled gleefully (she had finally decided that she couldn't take Link's crying and had quickly flown back outside with the others). "You killed the Spirit of Courage!" Leaf shouted after a few minutes of silence. "Um, it's ok! I can fix this!" Linebeck shouted anxiously. "Um…um…Link, help!"
Before Linebeck could start screaming even more, the crazy evil fairy pulled out a large hammer and started to whack Ciela repeatedly. "Stop that! It's not helping!" Linebeck shouted, trying to grab the hammer from the dangerous fairy. "Fixing Spirit!" the fairy protested.
"No, not fixing Spirit, killing Spirit!" Linebeck said. "Oh forget it, I don't suppose you can kill her anymore than she already is…" the man said, and released the hammer back to the fairy.
"Cackle dee dee!" the fairy shouted (she had spent too much time with the guy who buys treasure at Mercay Island). Linebeck gave a tired sigh as the fairy kept hitting Ciela with the hammer. After awhile, they were all amazed to see the Spirit suddenly wake up. "I'm alive!" Ciela shouted.
"Hooray!" the other Spirits shouted.
"How…but…you…?" Linebeck sputtered.
"Cackle dee dee!" the crazy evil fairy shouted.
Suddenly Link came running back up, his face beaming. "Guy guys! I found more candy!"
"Yay!" everyone else shouted. But suddenly, out of nowhere, Jolene came sailing back and grabbed that bag of candy as well.
"I said no candy for a week!" she shouted as her boat disappeared into the horizon.
"Darn!" Link shouted, and he went marching back into the engine room to cry some more.
Well thank you for reading, hope you liked this chapter!
