Grovyle: once this cutscene is over, I swear I will work on blind sight!
Squirtle: Don't lie to us!
Eevee: I really don't feel like being forgotten...
Charmander: Barney is a dinosaur~
Grovyle: *Sighs* Coffee?
Squirtle and Eevee: *Nods* Coffee...
Toonie Sama: The eevee is adorable!
Squirtle: No he's a-dork-able...
Eevee: I have aaaaaaaall the star trek movies and final fantasy games!
Squirtle: See...
*The three kanto pokemon cause a riot in the authors note*
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Spirit tracks Derailed
Chapter seven: Music lessons
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"Oww... The unconsiousness..."
Link started to awaken. Where was he... Wait... this was his room in the castle! How on earth did he get there...
Maybe his whole three years of train training was just a dream, Russel was not the captain of the guards, the evil leprechaun had never existed, and there was no reason to-
Link sat up, checking his pockets. The letter his sister had given him was still there. Unopened, just like he left it.
"Awww turd nuggets..." Link realized. It wasn't a dream...
Zeldas personal unnamed butler walked in. "Thank goodness you're awake prince."
Link looked to his left, where Alfonzo was unconsious on a bed next to his.
"We feared for the worst when a new recruit thought she saw your ghost and another one..."
Link had a guess on who the new recruit he was referring to was...
"But thank goodness we found you and Alfonzo alive..."
Link turned to face the butler.
"Tell me, what happened?" He asked.
Link looked at his shoes, then back at the butler. "Nothing" He lied.
"The two of you were found passed out near a destroyed train. cucco feathers were everywhere, the spirit tracks are gone, and the princess is missing." The butler looked angry. "Don't you tell me it was nothing!"
Link scuffed his boots on the floor. "Well... actually... the chancellor was really a Evil Lightning Leprechaun Goat Demon and he was working with Tori, just as I foreshadowed... And she attacked my train while we were taking sis to the tower of spirits. Somewhere in there was a game of dead mans volley... and then our great great grandfathers ghost haunted us for a while... I got knocked out... and Zelda is probably, most certainly kidnapped..."
The butler started running around in panic. "I must inform the princess!"
He eventually ran into a wall and was knocked out.
Link left abruptly to speak with the previously mentioned new recruit.
He went to the hallway where Captain Russel dwelled.
He shivered, hearing the sound Live Action Role Play, but continued on.
"You're the new recruit I talked to yesterday, right?" The prince of Hyrule asked.
She nodded. "Hey, that's the girls style recruit uniforms!" She pointed. "Must have been out of the other ones, right?"
Link turned a shade of red. This was the girls recruit uniform... No one had told him until now... Link did think it was a little big in the front... (Seriously, it even looks like it in the cutscene where he gets it. either he isn't fed often, or it's a girls uniform)
"A-Anyway... I need to talk to you for a second..." The prince managed to say.
"If it's about all those things being off limits to train engineers, it was a joke Zelda told me to pull and please don't order me to be executed..." She laughed hesitantly.
Link shook his head. "No, no... It's about the ghosts you've seen... Tell me the whole story."
She nodded. "Yes, your highness."
Link sat on a purple cushion. "Story time!" He looked up intently, like a five year old.
"Okay... So there I was, on the outside night shift gaurd duty, around midnight. I was told to help one gaurd with a bad heart, when all of a sudden..."
She made a ghostly noise. "Two ghosts, one looked just like you, and the other had stayed in a blue ball of light... I screamed and they flew off..."
"Where did they go?" Link asked. "Tell me."
"I'll do you one better." She held out her hand. "I'll show you."
She lead link to the princesses room, where two ghosts were chatting.
"Does this mean I'm dead?!" A pirate dressed ghost sat in the air.
"It's not as bad as you think... Te- I mean Zelda..." A ghost who looked like link tried to calm the frantic princess ghost.
"If somethigh isn't done about this... Then... THEN LINK WILL RULE HYRULE!"
Zeldas ghost started hyperventilating in a ghost paper bag.
The other ghost took a moment to peice together what he knew about his decendant. "Oh my Cyclos, Hyrule is doomed..."
"See, SEE?!" The recruit pointed.
The unghostly link looked like he might have peed a little.
"S-sis?!"
The ghost of Zelda floated around. She had stopped hyperventilating.
"You can see me too?" She asked.
Link and the new recruit nodded.
"I'm sorry for bringing you into this..." She sighed, looking to Link. She turned to the recruit. "And for startling you last night on your shift..."
"It's fine. Not your fault..." The recruit dismissed.
Link, however... was rolling around hyperventilating, seeing the ghost of Zeldas pet rat.
"Is... He okay over there...?" The ghost that looked like link asked.
Zeldas ghost facepalmed. "Give him a minute..."
One minute later...
Zelda was monologing again. She seemed to do this a lot...
Link had calmed down, but missed most of her speech. Should he start listening now? Nah, then he'd be totally lost.
Zelda had floated to the top of the room. It was a good thing she wasn't wearing that dress...
She was petting the ghost rats fur.
She sighed. "Recruit, fill him in on the way... I'll wait near the enterance to the path to the tower..." Zelda flew off in a ghostly blue mana ball
...
The recruit explained everything to the prince, while the ex King of new Hyrule went back to wherever he came from.
"You're going to need a sword..." She said, glancing at captain Russels dwelling.
Link shuddered. He didn't want to see Jimmy R. Russel... If he asked to use a sword, he'd get a long winded speech straight out of a live action role play. And who knows how long that'll take...
"'m kidding..." She handed him a sword with a sheath. "Take mine. I'll tell the Cap'n I broke it..."
Link held the smaller sword in his left hand it looked like it was made for him. Link didn't particularly care about that though, He was too busy staring at the beautiful stone on the edge of the handel.
"Shiny..." Link oogled.
"You know how to use a sword, right?" She asked.
Link nodded.
"Okay, just making sure..." She then lead the boy to the gates of hyrule castle.
Link looked confused. "Why are we here?" The prince asked.
"Zelda gave you a pan flute, correct?" She asked as if she wasn't there herself.
"Yes...?" Link answered, holding it up as it floated in the air and a strange tune played.
"She said you were in dire need of lessons." She paused. "Well... she actually said you sucked at playing any and all instruments, except the bagpipes, accordion, and banjo... She said those instruments sucked and said your only real music lesson experience was with a saxophone and even that sucked, She then ranted about you killing her pet rat, said how much that sucked... Aaaaaannnnd... you get the picture..."
Link nodded. "There are two music lesson shops in hyrule... and we can't go to the one in Papuchia, can we..."
Link shuddered, realizing that there was only one option... Kagu and Grovyle music...
The music store was run by two girls who seemed to defy all logic, reason, and laws of physics. They were probably two omniscient entitys who diguised themselves as hu- HYLIANS... For some reason or another. They really like trains, and when one of them expresses it, the other would say "Don't... Hyrule will fall if we use the summons..." They kept talking about who they shipped, whatever that means. That was beside the point. What Link was trying to say was that it was really creepy...
Link slowly walked through the door, hoping that they wouldn't notice him walk in...
The room was dark and eerie.
The girls must not be here... Link could just leave and maybe learn on the way like with his ancestor from the old hyrule that was flooded undersea and the ocarina.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't- Wait, where's Zelda?" The one with crazy hair hung upside down from who knows what. "Kagu, we rehearsed this... Zelda was supposed to come with him, I swear..."
The one the other called Kagu started playing a video game that starred the hero of trains. "I think we were looking at the wrong reality... The one where Link was the prince and Zelda was a normal train engineer... or the one where Link broke the phantom sword deflecting the evil energy ball and accidently sent it to Zelda..."
"Yeah... You're probably right..." The first one, probably Grovyle started playing with the fuse box and the lights came back on.
"So, umm... anyway, welcome to Kagu and Grovyle music... You need pan flute lessons?" The one called Kagu asked.
...Three Hours Later...
By the time the prince was done, three doves had dropped dead. Only three. This was an improvement. When he was banned from playing it, the bird death toll may have caused Tori to start attacking random places in hyrule...
"I... Think that was a slight improvement..." Grovyle stood, holding earmuffs behind her back
"Yeah..." Kagu had a matching pair of triforce earmuffs in her back pocket. "Our ears aren't bleeding at all and our eardrums aren't shattered..."
After Link and the unnamed recruit left... The two girls started a jam session with a saxophone and a normal flute. They were playing the Ancient Hero from Windwaker...
Zelda fangirl much?
...
"Okay, Prince..." The recruit waved. "This is where I leave you... The tower is through a path by that tree..." She pointed. "Use a bomb flower to get rid of it. Got all that?"
Link nodded.
"Okay then, I'll get back doing my job. My shift starts in ten minutes. You go save hyrule..."
The recruit left, as Link blew up every part of the wall.
He... Eventually found it...
When he entered, Zelda was sipping ghost tea out of a ghost teacup. she no longer looked like an extremely pale Tetra. She was wearing a ghostly version of the dress, probably because it looked like it was blue, and her hair was down. She was wearing a fake mustache and a monacle, as well as a top hat. It looked quite comical.
Apparently she was having a tea party with the ghost link, the rat, the ghost of a sailor, Hinawa, Claus, and a certain pirate princess. They were all ghosts.
"Told you guys he'd be late..." The ghost of WW Link said in a sing-song voice. "You guys owe me rupees~"
Princess Zelda, Captain Linebeck the first, the rat, Hinawa, Claus, and Tetra rolled their eyes and forked over 50 rupees each.
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The Music Lessons...Alternitavely...
Link walked around aimlessly, as the unnamed recruit argued with the owners of Kagu and Grovyle music. They were closed, because apparently the one who calls herself Grovyle had caused a shipping war, and a mob of angry fangirls would attack the two the moment they show their faces in public.
Link had found a mask that looked like an eagle or something and put it on. To his surprise, he started marching, however, instead of playing the Spirit Flute, he sang because of his terrible music skill. He was a great singer though.
He wasn't paying attention to where he was marching and ran into a man who was feeding cuccos.
"Hello, prince." He said in monotone. "Care to help me feed the birds?"
That man was Byrne.
"Bryan?!" Link stepped back.
"HIS NAME IS BYRNE!" Kagu yelled from inside the music shop. She then bolted the door and windows before the angry mob of Zelda fangirls could get inside.
Byrne rolled his eyes. "Relax. I am not here to end you..."
"You killed my sister!" Link yelled, scaring a cucco away. He took off the mask.
"No... I AM your sister..." He said unmonotone for once since his arrival into this fic.
"Starwars fanboy, much?" Link commented. Link had forgotten why he was angry seconds ago.
"I-I'm sorry... we had a star wars marathon at Coles earlier..."
"It's fine." Link told him.
"Anyway, care to help feed the birds?" The warrior asked the engineer again.
Link, being the kind little child he is sometimes agreed, taking a bag of corn, emptying it out in a cucco coop.
Byrne noticed the little instrument on a string atatched to the princes belt.
"Isn't that the Spirit Flute?" Byrne asked. "I was taught to play pan flutes by my old master..."
He gazed at the clouds above.
(Inside the music shop)
"He's acting serious in a parody..." Grovyle said, staring into a magic bubble of some sort "We need to make it more random..."
"Hey, Look what I found in the back room!" Kagu came, holding a tiny toon-shaded deku baba in a flower pot.
"Feed me, Seymore..." The deku baba said.
(Outside again)
"Wait, You can't play the instrument?" Byrne looked shocked. "It's a friggin pan flute! A two year old could play it!"
A two year old was playing a pan flute in the distance, just to prove a point.
"Everyone learns the pan flute in second grade, for crying out loud!" Bryne threw his hands in the air.
"I... May have been sick that day..." Link looked a little embarressed.
Bryne sighed. "I-I'll teach you..."
He whipped out his pan flute.
About an hour passed filled with Byrnes instruction, But at last... Link had learned how to play the instrument without killing eardrums, or scaring birds away.
"Thanks Bryan!" Link smiled, running off to tell Zelda how he could play the Spirit Flute.
"Don't forget to practice whenever you can!" Byrne called.
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Grovyle: Okay, we've established that Hylians only have school from kindergarten to fourth grade.
Toonie Sama: It seems like it might make sense...
Prince Link: The rest of schooling is optional for Hylians.
Grovyle: What do Hylians teach in school, anyway...
Pirate princess: Why in the blazes do you care about Links schooling habits?
Grovyle: It's been bugging me for ages... Random things bug me, DON'T QUESTION MEEE!
Deku Baba: FEED ME, SEYMORE!
Princess Zelda: What is that a reference to?
Prince Link: *Plays the Little Shop Of Horrors on the Spirit Flute*
Aryll and Tori: *Clap clap* The seagulls like it!
