Chapter 7: Fate's Disastrous Present!

Link awoke from his nice long sleep under the stars. As he woke up, he stared at Navi, who was still asleep. It had been three days since they left the Southern Fairy Fountain, and they each had two meals a day. Now, with only one meal left, Link knew he wouldn't be able to eat for a while. "We better find land soon…"

He pulled out Aryll's telescope and began to scope out the area. "No land…" Link quietly whispered in an effort not to wake Navi. He put the telescope away and then looked at the map. Navi had drawn in the Fairy Fountain, and then had marked where they were ending yesterday. They were in the northern quadrant of the map, as far as Link could tell. "Could we have possibly sailed past the map's boundaries?" Link whispered. He pulled out the compass to find where they were going. "Southwest!?" He half screamed/half whispered to himself.

Navi awoke at the sound of this to find Link in a daze. "What's the matter Link?"

"We're sailing south west; the wind changed its course!"

"So? We didn't have a course to begin with either! You just decided to sail blindly north without a clue! A change isn't bad; we can look for land better this way."

"Hmph," was Link's response. As the day unfolded, Navi ate their last meal and Link tried to ignore it by looked straight ahead as they sailed. The day, like every other, was uneventful. Link and Navi made small talk, they sailed all day, and they took naps to kill time. It was all unfolding that way, until they sailed upon a small display of rocks. "Hey, this looks like some reefs or something."

Navi observed and agreed. They decided to stop sailing for the moment and take a rest under the rocks' safety. While they were resting, however, they were soon attacked. Not by man or by a pirate crew…by the ocean. The King of Red Lions was bumped and pushed, nearly knocking Link and Navi overboard. They clinged to the sides and held on for dear life.

Once Link got a foothold on the boat, he withdrew his sword and began to scope at the area, planning to find the attacker. He looked high into the rocks, not finding anyone. That's when his suspicion was proven; a shadowy figure in the sea swam toward the boat and attacked it. Once again, it knocked the boat up so much that Navi almost fell off, as did Link.

"We got a shark!" Link shouted. "Use your magic or something! Kill it!"

"Link! I can only do a certain number of things, none of which will hurt a water creature!" Navi yelled in response. Link grew angry at this. The water creature turned around and rammed the ship once more. "The ship's going to sing if that thing doesn't stop!"

Link stared at the creature's outline in the water. That's when an idea hit him. He took his sword and made a large cut across his hand. As he bled, he took his hand and threw it out into the water. It made a large spot of blood and water, and that's when the creature emerged. It was a shark! It emerged to the surface and took a bite of the blood, thinking there was a human there.

When the shark had emerged, Link threw off his hat and jumped out into the water and jabbed the shark in the head. "I killed it!" As Link yelled, however, the shark moved and dove under the water. Since Link's sword was still in the shark, it took Link under the water too.

"Oh no! Link!" Navi shrieked. She began to freak out, thinking that he had been taken down and swallowed whole. "I'm dead." Navi said. "He's gone, I'm not sure how to sail, I'm out of food…" She began to sob.

As she sobbed, the shark hopped out of the water, high into the air. Following the shark was Link, whose sword was still stuck in it. He gasped for air as he grabbed the shark's belly and the sword. As they fell, he withdrew the sword and jabbed it in even harder. They once again fell into the water, descending into the water deep.

"He's alive!" Navi thought with a grin. However, after another minute, Link did not rise again. The shark rose, however, and started to ram the ship again. "What?! LINK!" Navi shrieked. As doom slowly lurked closer and close, Navi accepted the end.

Link sprung from the water and jabbed the shark in the stomach. The shark made some gruesome sound, and then rolled over and died. Link hopped onto the shark and gasped for air. "LINK! How did you manage to survive that attack?!"

"Well, under the water he tried to bite me, but I used my shield to prevent him from biting me. I used my sword to the best of my ability to slice him. It wasn't much force but it was sharp enough to cut him very easily. The shark then let go of my shield and began to swim upward, probably to attack you. As he swam up I swam closer to the ship, so that I could jab at the right time…hahaha, looks like I did it right!" Link said as he chuckled.

Navi was shocked. Any other boy like Link would have been dead as soon as the shark knocked the boat the first time. And here Link stood! Chuckling and smiling none the less! "Looks like we got dinner!" Link dragged the shark onto the ship, causing it to slow down. They sailed out of the reefs to notice a small island in the distance. They sailed toward it to find that it contained a few trees bearing fruits! The island, although small, gave Link and Navi shelter and food, one of the greatest treasures the sea can offer.

Link gathered some fire wood and Navi used her staff to catch the wood on fire. Link cut open the shark and skinned it, as well as cut off the meat and fat. Navi used small leftovers from the food boxes (salts and other spices) to cook the shark, and Link cut down fruits from the tree. Link was skeptical of the fruit and whether they were poisonous or not, but Navi assured him that they were the safe kind.

That night they feasted. The ate about a half of the shark, and they drank the juices from the fruit as well as ate all of it. Things were finally going Link's way. He had a crew member, they had food (enough to have an abundance for their travels), he had a ship, and he has defeated all of his enemies.

That night, Navi and Link were observing the map and drawing the island on their map. "Navi! Guess what is directly north of this island?"

"Uh…I guess another island?"

"Yes! In fact, it's called Dragon Roost Island. Sturgeon told me that these people live there, and they can fly!"

"People fly? I thought only fairies and birds could do that…"

"But these people can! They're people but with bird like structures in their bodies. They have beaks on their faces and their arms are like mine, but they have some special wing structure on their arms that let them fly! IT'S SO COOL!" Link got very excited at the news of these people, and then shouted, "tomorrow, we set sail for Dragon Roost Island!"

Navi cheered at the news of this, for she was excited for the flying people. Link cheered along, and they rejoiced a long time that ran into the night. When the moon was a little past the center spot in the sky (for us, about 1 or 2 in the morning), Link and Navi put out the fire and went to bed.

That night, Link slept the best he had ever slept since he left Outset.

Sorry for the boring chapter... I wanted a filler chapter before we just hopped into the whole Dragon Roost Story. Chapter 8 hopefully will be more interesting than this! :)