The Link to the Past bobbed in the wave as Link and Medli approached. Link thought sadly at the events of the past few minutes. Komali, his best friend, sacrificed himself for their successful escape. Link wiped the tears from the Medli's tired eyes.
"We need to be strong, Medli, he did this for us, we need to honor his memory."
Link bit his tongue to hold back his own salty tears, his strength at this moment, was for his beloved. As Link comforted the Rito girl, he began preparing the boat, raising its miniature anchor, hoisting Medli inside, and finally raising the sail after he was inside the boat himself. They were going to return to Dragon Roost Island to bring the news to the Rito people, Link wanted the chieftain to know, but at the same time was scared of his reaction, the man was going to hear the ultimate bad news, and Link sighed knowing he had to tell it.
They were traveling over the sea, that way the two had time to clear their heads. the trip would take about a day if they didn't stop, though Link figured he would stop to grab another pearl, even if it meant facing another Witch. Some things need to get done, it doesn't matter how sad I may be, I'm a hero. Link steered the boat east, passing through the Southern fairy Island side of the dangerous waters where Nayru's pearl had been stationed, taking Medli close to all those Seahats was not a great plan to him, so although the waters were rough, and there was barely any wind in the sails, they headed east.
"I own an island north of here," Link confessed to Medli "I'm sure the door would be happy to have us, wanna rest there for a while?"
"The door?" Medli looked at him quizzically
"The door is the butler, don't ask me, I just got the place from a rich schoolteacher" Link's reply answered one question, but raised so many others she just decided to ask the door himself when they arrived
"Let's go, I'll need to clear my head."
With that the hero turned northward, the wind filled the sail again, and shot the duo across the sector in no time. Link didn't see the swarm of seagulls until the beast had risen from the depths. The first thing he thought of was Medli.
"Medli, Get to the island, tell the door to accommodate you on my behalf, GO!"
"What about you?" Medli's worried voice was shown in her eyes, wide and fearful.
"I'll get there as soon as this thing dies," he leaned in and kissed Medli lightly
"now get moving!"
Medli flew off quickly toward the island while Link got ready for a long grueling battle, made more difficult by the fact that Link had no more arrows. Link got that grin that most heroes get when they're about to do something ridiculously stupid, but know they'll walk away, laughing. Link got out the cannon, and started shooting bombs, from the stash he kept on the boat, given he lost all his others.
The octo had Link half way around it's when the first bomb exploded in the squid's eye. Link smiled at the squish sound made by the eye as it exploded. This system was becoming ridiculously inefficient, there were seven eyes left. Link pulled out the boomerang, targeted and threw, it didn't work as well as his bow would have, and when it came down to the last lap around, the beast still had one eye to defeat.
The seagull came out of nowhere, flying low, Link pulled out a Hoyi Pear, feeding the seagull to take control of it. Link willed the bird to crash into the last eye, it did, and sunk the octo just before it swallowed Link's boat. Link was thankful for the second sacrifice of the last 24 hours.
"Brave bird." Link muttered quietly, sailing up to his island. He moored the boat and swiftly headed up to the cabana. The door stood as he remembered, though looked as if it had been repainted.
"Hello, Reginald." Link greeted the door. Opening him slowly.
"My name isn't Reginald, master." The door calmly responded. Link knew this game well, He continued to go back and forth with the door until he saw Medli, curled up and weeping, on the sofa.
"Medli, I'm here now, I'm going to make this better."
Medli looked up at him with big, sad eyes. "H-how, how do you plan on making this better?" Medli seemed angry now, but all Link could do was look down and sigh.
"I haven't the slightest idea, Medli, I'm awful at trying to comfort people, I'm sorry."
This made Medli smile. She managed to stand and embrace Link, holding on to him tightly. This made Link smile as he hugged back. Medli felt loved in his warm embrace. Link made her happy again, the tears dried up and the frown on Medli's face was replaced with one of her biggest smiles.
"Link, don't ever leave me."
"I won't, don't worry."
Medli slowly pulled out of Link's embrace, still feeling the love connection between them. She looked back at Link.
"We need to go, the Rito need to know about their fallen prince."
The boy nodded, walking out the door of his cabana, Medli following closely behind. With a quick launch, the boat was headed northward in the cloudless night. Link sailed through the night, and by the time morning came, they had arrived.
"How are we going to do this, Medli?"
"I have no idea."
