Author's Note: Forgive me for my long overdue update, I had school and job to concentrate on and now I can re-join my story in progress. Thank you for your comments and support.

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Link edged his way closer to the captain's door and pressed his ear against to hear. Gonzo, Tetra's first mate, was talking first, "Miss Tetra, I do wish to leave as soon as we can but what about your little boyfriend?" The rest of the crew mumbled in agreement.

Tetra let out a sigh and took a while to respond, "Well if you must know…" there was another long pause. Link concentrated on her words the most out of anything in that moment. "…to be honest. We will most likely leave him here since he is done with our little adventure and he is home again... And if anyone calls him my little boyfriend again I will have you tied to the mast for a whole day."

There was a jostle of movement to be heard through the door, nobody wanted to mess with an angry Tetra. Link pushed away from the door then, letting his mind and heart sink with her words. But there was really no denying that he didn't need to be leaving home again since his quest was done. "All right men! Let's go and get this ship ready for sailing and out towards Windfall!"

All the pirates burst through crashing into Link just outside of the door. Tetra was most surprised when she saw him there, last she knew he was still asleep and figured he would still be when they left. "Link! Oh… well what a surprise. I thought we might not get a chance to say goodbye."

Link stared past his brow and pleaded with her, "Goodbye, you can't just leave after everything. All we, I mean all of us have had limited relaxation."

"Look," Tetra was getting a little more agitated as he began to put up his little puppy routine. "I understand that you as well as everyone else would love to just go on with our lives all happily ever after, but the reality is if we don't ship off today we will lose…" Tetra looked around at her men who were all staring back at her, "…We will lose our reputation as pirates! Right men?"

Niko was first to chime in, "Miss Tetra I think you might have a different reason for wanting to leave so soon." She shot him a dirty glare as he finished his retort.

"See, we just need to get back to our lifestyle and you to yours and your family that's all." Tetra smiled at him and walked past him toward the ship's wheel. She had to part ways with him, she just had to. There was that connection that was still there when they were alone that was hard to push him away.

Link swallowed her words and for all their logic, he just couldn't agree to be without her. Letting a heavy sigh out he chased after her and up to the wheel, "Ok fine, so you say we need to be getting back to out lives. Well adventure is now my new lifestyle; I can't just go back to a quite island life anymore so I will go with you and the crew." Link knew she couldn't deny him now. He was sure his family would understand, and besides coming home again was always better than staying home constantly.

Tetra bit her lip and reluctantly agreed, and after giving him a short list of duties they lifted their sails and were off. There was no going back on land to give goodbyes, they all just left. Tetra chose to do this to see how he reacted without saying anything or notifying any family at all. He took to it fairly well considering how little time he got to spend there and just went about keeping busy.

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Link was keeping watch in the crow's nest when the storm came on. There was hardly any forewarning as the clouds just opened up and dumped buckets. Being so high up from the water was far different from The King of the Red Lions. He had little to no control how the waves rolled the ship and since he was up the crow's nest it was worse. The smallest of waves felt as if it was a thirty foot wall they sailed up vertically. Hanging on so he wouldn't get thrown from that height to the deck or waves below, he watched the crew scramble and tie the sails down as well as most everything else. Tetra was still at the wheel, fighting the current and wind as she clung to.

Just when Link thought things wouldn't or couldn't get worse than the conditions he was bearing, the waves swirled around and began to form a rather large whirlpool and one they couldn't avoid. Forgetting his own safety from his perch, he was thrown to the side and shouted down below of the pending danger. What little good it did as the storm was washing out his voice. Returning his eyes to the sea, they had entered the outskirts of the pool and began to travel its path.

As they finished their first circle, two long and lanky arms came from below the waves trailing their way to the ship and encircling it in a tight grip. The arms clamped tight and Link knew what was in store just as he saw the Giant Squid's head ascend from the depths below.