CHAPTER 4

We walked up to the still water that was our community pool. It was quiet; too quiet.

"We have to go to the water to find the Spiritual Stone of Water!" I said. Jordan nodded as though I said something that was exactly the same as his thoughts. "We have to get in then!" Jordan took off the regular cloths he was wearing, to reveal the swimtrunks underneath. I did the same to reveal the bikini I was wearing underneath. Jordan's nose bled suddenly. (jk)

"Into the pool!" I shouted, jumping off the side. Jordan followed. There was a mysterious tunnel in the wall. We swam through quickly and resurfaced immediately. I looked around.

"We're at Shlitter Bahn!" I shouted. Then a strange music started, and I walked out of the water, with Jordan on my heals, and saw several Zoras dancing.

"Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time!" pounded the radio. Jordan jumped up and started to dance along with them.

"Hey-umm-excuse me!" I said trying to get some of the Zoras' attention, but they wouldn't listen, "Excuse me…can you tell me…" My blood boiled, "STOP!" I screamed. The music stopped, and the Zoras stopped dancing. The only one still dancing was Jordan. I grabbed his shoulder and spun him around, "The party's over." I told him.

"Aww, man!" He grumbled.

"Where's King Zora?" I asked. They all pointed towards the Boogey Bahn. Jordan and I marched over to the place they said the King would be, and we found him there.

"King Zora?" I called.

"Yes?" answered a squeaky voice out of the large fish-person. My jaw dropped. I wasn't expecting something strange like that.

"We need the Spiritual Stone of Water." I said. He opened his mouth, but I interjected, "But we have to go save the Princess from Jabu-Jabu, right?"

"That's right, how did you know?" He asked, again in that freaky tiny voice. After a moment of getting the sound out of my ear I answered.

"Let's just say it's a lucky guess." I said.

"Okay, just let me scoot over so you can get to Jabu-Jabu." He said. God! I couldn't take any more of that creepy voice! After what seemed like forever, King Zora finished the scooting over. I stopped before I ran off.

"Why do you have that weird voice?" I asked rudely.

"Freak helium accident." He answered.

"Oh!" I said. Then I took off.

We found ourselves in a part of Shlitter Bahn I'd never been, in fact, probably no one but the Zoras had been here before. There was a large Fish in the middle of the lake or pool. I could feel its breathing as a strong wind.

"We have to give him a fish to open his mouth." I said. Jordan took out a fish from nowhere, and we were sucked in.

Weird pink walls surrounded us and behind us was a good set of teeth.

"What has Jabu-Jabu been eating?" Jordan asked, holding his nose. I rolled my eyes and walked forward. "NOOOOO! WAAAAIT!" Jordan said in slow motion.

"What are you doing?" I asked. Jordan was still running in slow motion.

"There're octoroks in there!" He warned. I looked at the pool of saliva in front of me. After a moment two octoroks arose from the saliva. They launched rocks at me from their mouths. I smirked, took out an AK47, and blasted their heads off. Then I shot the bubbles around us, all in less than ten seconds.

"I rock." I said. I looked around and saw a red dangly thing at the roof of Jabu-Jabu's mouth.

"That must be the uvula!" I said.

"Oh, so it's a girl fish…" Jordan said.

"WHAT?" I asked. (Okay, I admit, I stole that from a commercial of "Monster House") "We have to hit that to get to the thing open to get to the next room." I said, ignoring the weird thing he had said.

"What about that gun you had before?" Jordan asked. I shook my head.

"One: I'm out of bullets," I explained, "Two: DO YOU WANNA KILL JABU-JABU! THAT'LL BLOW A HOLE IN HIS MOUTH! And three: I shouldn't have brought that out in the first place, this is a kids' story."

"Then how do we hit it?" He asked.

"You've got a slingshot!" I said.

"Oh! Right! I knew that!" He proclaimed. He took out the slingshot and hit the uvula.

"HEY! YOU TWO!" Echoed through Jabu-Jabu's body, "WHILE YOU'RE DOWN THERE WOULD YOU MIND FINDING THAT EGGPLANT I ATE? I THINK I'M VIOLENTLLY ALERGIC!"

"Sure thing Jabu-Jabu!" Jordan called.

"Now follow me!" I said.

"Why follow you?" Jordan asked, "I'm the video game prodigy!"

"First: You always say that after you die in the game! Second: I'm the princess! Third: I've had lots of spare time, so I've been doing nothing but replaying all of my Zelda games, so I know it by heart!" I listed. He gave in and followed me.

We walked straight through the next room, ignoring that this was the elivator room, and went on to the one after that. In that room the floor was covered in holes, and filled with flying jellyfish.

"Hey, what's that?" I said, pointing to a place in the center of the room.

"Must be Ruto!" Jordan said. But I wasn't so sure. She looked like a human, not anything like a Zora. She was about the same age as Jordan and me; with short brown hair, and soft brown eyes. Jordan and I ran up to her, and she looked puzzled.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" She asked, "Shoo! Get out!" I crossed my arms, and stood my ground.

"Well, that's a great way to treat the people who are trying to rescue you!" I said sarcastically. I saw a look a shock on Jordan's face as he stared at the girl.

"I-I don't need rescuing!" She lied, "I'm doing just fine, thank you!" She turned and began to walk away, when she suddenly fell through one of the holes. I had to laugh.

"Come on, Jordan." I said, "We have to save her." So we jumped through the hole to the room underneath. There she was sitting on the floor rubbing her head. I stuck out my hand to her.

"What?" She asked.

"Well, you're the only one who can help me and Jordan get through this fish." I said. Her eyes widened, and she pushed me aside. She walked right up to Jordan and smiled.

"Horndawg? From Maple Story online?" She asked him. He backed away and nodded.

"Yeah…" He said, "Hi, Amy." I smirked and stood up.

"So, this is the infamous AmyChan?" I asked, remembering him talking about her at lunch, about how she scares him.

"You've talked about me?" She asked, batting her eyes, "So you told her about us?"

"Um…sure…" Jordan answered backing away. I stifled a laugh.

"So, grrk, you're the Princess of the Zoras'?" I asked. She nodded.

"Yes! And one day I'll be queen." Amy gloated, moving closer to Jordan, "With a king beside me!"

"Well, Amy, we have to get you home." I said.

"NO!" She said, "I mean, I need my stone. The Zora's safire!"

"WHAT!" I asked, "Why would you bring a valuable item like the Spiritual Stone of Water into a fish's stomach?" I screamed. Amy just shrugged. Why did idiots surround me? "Well, we better go get it." I said. Jordan and I began to run off.

"Hey!" Amy shouted, "You're not gonna leave me here, are you?" She eyed me jealously, "You! Carry me!"

"Me?" I asked, "No, no. I'm too weak to carry you!" She jumped right on my shoulders, despite what I said. "ACK!" So we trudged forward.

We proceeded into the next room. It was pretty basic, a strange little "room" with a small trench in the middle. Inside the trench was a button, to flood the trench with water. I jumped into the trench, followed by Jordan, and I threw her to the platform on the other side. Jordan hit the switch to let the water come up. We swam to the other side where Amy was. She stared at me in an irritated manor, though I ignored it and (painfully) picked her up again. I hit the switch hanging in front of the next blocked door with AmyChan, and we proceeded to the next room.

This was the bottom of the elevator room we ignored earlier. So we waited for the elevator to come down, and went up with Princess Amy.

"So, who are you again?" Amy asked, knocking on my head, as though having more than my own weigh on my shoulders was not enough.

"I'm Jordan's best friend, and the only one capable of keeping him alive long enough to save the world." I sighed rolling my eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Amy asked.

"Look at him! He's hopeless without me here to stop him from killing him self!" I said, pointing to Jordan.

"Ooo! Jellyfish!" He said, grabbing at one of the flying jellyfish. Then he got ahold of it and--"AAAAA!YAYELECTRICITY!" He screamed. Then we were at the top. So we continued to the room where we first met Princess Amy...the one with holes in the ground.

"Have you ever noticed how Jabu-Jabu's stomach on the inside is disproportional to the out side? " I asked, as we avoided those holes and crossed the room to the door on the other side.

"Yeah! What's up with that?" Jordan asked. I shrugged, witch I noticed I did a lot.

There were three paths, and a slimy thing blocked the one in the middle.

"Okay, which way do we go?" I asked. Both Jordan and Amy pointed in opposite directions. I sighed. Then, I felt my heart sink as I heard a strange noise behind us. I slowly turned my head, and my heart skipped two beats as I saw the large electrical arm arising from the floor of the great fish's stomach. "New plan, we…RUUUUUUN!" I screamed, running to the left side of this hellish place, Jordan on my tail. We reached a point were the door was locked, so I did the only thing I could think of doing then, and set Amy down on the switch.

The door opened and I rushed in, Jordan, once again, following.

"HEY! DONT'T LEAVE ME OUT HERE!" Amy screamed in anger as we left her. I kindda felt bad about leaving her. "Kindda" being the word. I turned and stopped. I couldn't move, I was terrified.

"Whew." Jordan sighed, "It seemed like the door was locked!"

"I-it was locked." I said, "And for a good reason!" I pointed out the big slimy tentacle in the middle of the room.

"You know what really sucks?" Jordan asked, "I don't have a boomerang!"

"Do you still have that foam airplane?" I asked.

"Yeah," He answered, taking it out, "Why?"

"Gimme!" I said, grabbing it. I removed the body from the plane to reveal the wings were in the shape of a boomerang. "Use it!" I said. He threw it and the tentacle collapsed and was suddenly diced.

"Ooh! A chest!" We opened it together and were nearly blinded by the light.

"A map?" I asked, "Who needs that?" And I threw it away. We exited the room. There stood a very irritated Amy.

"Why did you leave me behind?" Amy asked.

"So we wouldn't get locked in!" I answered.

"Just don't do it again!" She said angrily.

" 'K, whatever." I said.

Looking left, we saw that the electric thing that was previously blocking the path was now gone. I picked up Amy and went into the room there.

"Bubbles?" I asked, "Eh, let's leave!" So we left that room, and went down another hall and into the door. Jordan defeated the tentacle thing hanging from the top. After killing him, one of those electric blocking things disappeared. So we went back to the room with the holes and dropped down the one closest to the door and we fell down on the highest platform in the room below.

We entered the door and...

"The third spiritual stone is there!" Jordan shouted.

"Throw me up there!" Amy said.

"Wait, if I throw you up there, something bad will-wait…okay, I'll throw you up there!" I said smirking. So I threw Amy up to get it (...but why Princess Amy?). The platform suddenly shot up.

"AGH! What is this! An octopus!" Amy screamed.

"I tried to warn her." I whispered. Then the platform came back down with a Big Octo on it. This wasn't the main boss of the dungeon but it was included in the boss section anyway.

"C'mon!" I shouted, grabbing Jordan's hand and dragging him onto the platform with out getting scratched by the thorns, (which is very difficult). "Okay, you throw the boomerang, I'll finish him!" I said, taking out my sword.

After killing Big Octo, we climbed up on the platform and it brought us up to the higher level. We freezed the electrified Jell-O things with the boomerang and crossed the room by jumping on the stunned jello things.

We were in a different room now; it was the higher level of the elevator room. I jumped onto the platform and it lowered down to the elevator room. I stepped on the switch and... What? It won't stay down?

"Jordan!" I shouted.

"I'm right here!" He shouted back from behind me.

"Oh, sorry." I said, " Could you be a big dear, and…" Jordan put his hands over his head like antlers, and stood on his tiptoes. "…Go to the other side of the room and bring the boxes back here?"

He handed me the box and I put the box down on the switch and entered the door. We climbed the vines at the side of the wall up to the top.

"See the switch behind the semi-transparent wall?" I asked. Jordan squinted, then he nodded. "Throw the boomerang at that!"

With really good aim, he threw the boomerang to the side of the wall in such a way that it moved to hit the switch as it came back to him.

We rushed through the door that just unlocked. In the room we saw a strange thing that looked like it didn't belong on this planet, much less in a fish's stomach. HUGE jellyfish surrounded it attached by electrical currents. I watched as they attached themselves to the creature.

" Barinade, the bioelectric anemone." I muttered. The final boss of Jabu Jabu's Belly. It raised a hooded tentacle that resembled a satellite dish. "RUN!" I yelled. I took off, hearing the zap of an electric bolt behind me. My heart sank. Was Jordan hit?

Then I heard Jordan's voice, "RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!" And I sighed of relief.

"Jordan! Use the force- I mean, the boomerang!" I said. Jordan skidded to a stop and threw the boomerang. It hit all of the appendages attaching it to the ceiling. I stopped as well, and watched as the jellyfish detached themselves from the anemone.

"Plan of action: divide and conquer!" I said. Jordan and I split up and attacked the jellyfish. With two of us, we got rid of them immediately, much faster than one person would. Then we took out the body. So, after Barinade burst into flames, I gave Jordan a high five.

Jordan grabbed the heart container, and a hole appeared in the floor; along with Amy.

"Well, this is our only exit, so-" I said.

"W-what took you guys so long?" Amy asked under her breath.

"Excuse us for not wanting to die!" I said sarcastically. So we jumped down the hole and slid through tubes like a water slide. Suddenly, the Magic School Bus passed by us.

"WHAT!" Jordan shouted, "WHERE'D THEY COME FROM?" THEN I HIT THE 'Caps Lock' key to turn the caps off. After that we went to…uh…I don't think you wanna know where we went after that. Anyway, we managed to get out, that's the point.

Wen we were on land again, I saw that Amy was uncomfortably close to Jordan. When Jordan noticed, He screamed and fell back into the water. Amy dove after him, and swam up to him, making those eyes at him.

"Wow, you look cooler in person than you do online!" She said. I almost burst out laughing. First of all, I didn't know what she meant by "look cool", because (normally I don't judge looks, but…) he had super messy hair that couldn't be tamed by a lion tamer, he had freckles all over his face (I'm not saying freckles are unattractive), his eyes were uneven, he…oh! Let's just get back to it! Second of all, on Maple Story, every one is a chibi, how could she tell how he looked!

"If there's anything I can do for you, just name it!" Amy said gleefully.

"Well, we could use that Spiritual Stone of Water." I said.

"I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU!" She spat.

"Well, we could use that Spiritual Stone of Water." said Jordan.

"Anything for you Jordan!" She flirted. She placed the blue, glowing stone in his hand. "Just don't forget me, 'k?" She whispered to him. Jordan's eyes widened.

"I will if you back away." Jordan said to her.

So she walked out to the place where her father sat. Jordan crawled back onto land, and saw me smirking. We both burst into laughter.

"Well, now all we need to do is get these stones to the Temple of Time!" I said. First we had to find the Temple of Time. But, come on! How hard could that be?