p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emHyrule Castle:/em/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rinda awoke that morning like it was any other day. She got up before the sun and went around the castle, making sure that things were ready for the day. While she was busy tidying up the dining room, she suddenly heard someone say behind her,/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Good morning, Rinda."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Eek!" she squeaked and spun around to see Rose. "Oh. You're real. I had kind of hoped last night was just a dream."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rose wilted. "Oh. Well, I can leave again. If you want."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Deedee appeared from behind Rose and glared at the Elvin girl. "Dee," he huffed, and thought to himself, emHow dare you treat my favorite peasant like that? I don't like her much, but I like her more than any of you others./em/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Good morning, Nightmare From Dreamland," she wrinkled her face up at the little guy. The two people seemed small, but this 'Dwee' was downright tiny./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emI'm not even from Dreamland, really,/em he thought at her, wishing she could hear. emI've spent my whole life in Nintendo City. In a castle far nicer than this one, I must point out./em/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rinda had already quit paying attention to him. "That's not what I meant, Rose. I just meant, I'm really worried about this non-hero thing. You take me along, someone's gonna end up hurt, and-" she knocked a vase off a fireplace mantle as she dusted without looking. "Oh, Lon Lon milk."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Giggling, Rose told her as she bent to help pick up the shattered porcelain pieces, "When I do something dumb, which is often, I always say 'daisies.'"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Oh, daisies," Rinda tried, putting on an exaggerated angry face. "Yeah, that does work well, doesn't it?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rose laughed again. Just then, Link and Zelda walked in. "Oh, Rinda. Again?" Zelda sighed, looking morosely at the poor vase, which was yet another of Rinda's inanimate victims./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Sorry," Rinda squeaked with an embarrassed blush. "I don't try to break things, really I don't. It just happens."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Sighing, Zelda replied, "I know, and that's why you haven't been fired yet. Rose, come. You, I, Ash, and Link are going to the library."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""What about Rinda? We'll need her there if she turns out to be the non-hero," Rose pointed out./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""She's not allowed in the library, like the other servants. There are things in there that are not to be taken lightly," Zelda warned. "If she is actually involved, we will bring the book to her."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Link nodded once in agreement. Now that he had Zelda to talk for him, he didn't really say anything at all anymore, Rose observed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Where is the lad, anyway?" Zelda asked with a frown./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Ash is probably still asleep. He's infamous for sleeping really late, and it's early for us right now," Rose told her. "He won't mind if we go without him, as long as it means he gets to sleep."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Nodding, Zelda turned around without another word and led them out. "I'm telling you," Rose whispered to Link and Rinda before she followed, "Zelda just really doesn't like me."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rinda and Link both shrugged apologetically, then he gestured that they should go and walked away. Frowning, Rose followed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"They entered the library minutes later. It didn't really look like a library to Rose, it looked more like some sort of magician's workshop, filled with cauldrons and such. There were a lot of books, but they only took up part of the room. "What's all this stuff for?" the Manga-Head questioned./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""The library is where new potions are discovered and brewed," Zelda explained with a shrug./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Where I come from, we only have one kind of Potion. We use it to heal our Pokémon if they get hurt," Rose told her. "What kind of potions do you guys make?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Well, there's Heart Potions to heal, and Love Potions, and all sorts," Zelda shrugged again. "You know, you seem to be fairly intelligent company, and you have fairly good manners. Why does your point call you a failure, as you claim?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Because I can't get any Pokémon of my own. The three I have, I borrowed from the Professor who sent me and Ash here. And on my point, the more Pokémon you have, the more successful you are," Rose sighed, crossing her arms./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That is ridiculous, judging someone's worth by how much they have of something," Zelda ranted. She hated injustice./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Link tapped her shoulder, then said quietly in what was quite a speech for him, "We do the same thing. We judge worth by how many monsters one has slayed, how many heroic deeds they have done."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"In surprise, Zelda realized he was sort of right. "That's not quite the same, Link," she disagreed anyway./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He shrugged, evidently done talking again./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rose, meanwhile, was pulling out books and skimming through them. "Well, this one's old enough to be written by the Ancients, but it's not it," she murmured, putting yet another one back on the shelf. Then, she bumped into one bound in a deep black leather. "Hmm..." she murmured, and pulled it out./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"There was no title, the cover was completely without decoration, except for a snaky scarlet-red design along the spine. Flipping it open to a random page, she read silently, "The girl grinned as she accepted the award. She had been the first Trainer ever to receive every badge from every region. 'Good job, Rose. We should have never called you a failure,' Oak praised her, just a tad bit sheepish."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rose gasped. How was a book that had her as a character in Hyrule?/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Rose, get out of that area. Those books are dangerous!" Zelda suddenly warned her, beckoning her over to where she and Link were now searching./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emDoes this book predict the future?/em Rose wondered. She knew she should probably put it back, but... It was like it wouldn't let her, like it had put some sort of field between itself and the shelf. After a moment, she slipped it into her knapsack, glancing up to make sure Zelda and Link didn't notice. It was just a book, after all. It couldn't really be all that dangerous./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Zelda suddenly exclaimed, "Eureka!" making Rose jump about four feet in the air. "Come here, Rose. I found it! I think, anyway."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rose took the brown hardcover book from her and looked at the page it was open to. "Pokemonrando," she read the title at the top of the page, recognizing the swirly, fancy letters from the map. She had spent hours studying the map during their journey, committing the point's names to memory in both languages./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"The page had a picture of two Manga-Heads, a girl and a guy; and it also had several Pokémon on the page as well. She flipped the page. "There's the Dreamland page, and next is the Mushroom Kingdom," she murmured, flipping the page again, then going back to the Dreamland page. "I can't wait to go to this point. Star Warriors are just as cute as the Waddle Dee, and hopefully they're friendlier."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Focus. Which page did you see your name on?" Zelda questioned./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""The page for the Mushroom Kingdom, but that might have been coincidence," she replied. "Look, you guys' language. What's it say?" she inquired, pointing to a name written next to the drawing of the Star Warrior./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It says Rinda, after all," Zelda mused. "That's definitely Rinda's name written in Hylian. Let's take the book to her."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"They hurried to the room they had left Rinda in, Rose acutely aware of the black book she had put in her knapsack, because one of its corners was poking into her back through the cloth. emIt really can't be dangerous, it's just a book,/em she thought to herself, pushing her guilt at stealing it away from her. She really wanted to read the whole thing and see what it said about her./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"The book, meanwhile, laughed darkly to itself inside, the words 'Mwahahahahahaha!' appearing on one of the currently-blank pages for just a second. For it wasn't just a book. It was sentient, and it was evil. It didn't tell the future like Rose had guessed, it told a story where your fondest dreams came true. And if you read too far into it, the story captured you. You were stuck in a story world, a dream, forever; unable to ever find your way out. And, of course, after you got sucked in, the plotline took a dark turn, trapping you in a never-ending nightmare. Never-ending, of course, until you reached 'The End.' And that really was your emend/em./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"But back to the current events:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Rinda! You're the non-hero!" Rose shouted excitedly, shoving the book in the Elvin girl's face./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Groaning, Rinda accepted the book and flipped through the pages, looking at all the creatures. "Look, there's Dwee. And something sort of like him," she murmured, fascinated./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That's a Star Warrior. Isn't it adorable?" Rose pointed at the picture. "I wish we had Pokémon that cute."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I like this thing best, though," Rinda smiled, pointing to a mushroom with fangs on the Mushroom Kingdom page. "It looks like a mushroom version of a bulldog puppy."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I think that thing's called a... Goomra? Roomba? something like that," Rose shrugged. "I didn't really listen while Oak translated this page. Anyway, your name's on the Dreamland page. See?" She flipped the page back again and pointed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That's my name," Rinda sighed in agreement, a bit put out that she was the non-hero after all. She had sort of been hoping that there was a bigger failure than her somewhere in Hyrule. Then she frowned as she noticed something. "This text... I can read it, but it's not a language I understand..."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Read it aloud," Rose urged./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rinda gulped and nodded. "I am the non-hero from Hyrule. I hereby swear to protect Nintendo World, even if it means my life." Her eyes growing wide, she squeaked, "I'm not dying for anybody!"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Too late, you already swore to it," Ash yawned blearily from behind her. Everyone jumped, they hadn't noticed he was there until he spoke./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"The page changed to show another map, just like the one Rose had. Each point appeared, just like it had for Rose, and each name appeared too. And then, just like with Rose, a letter appeared:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'Nintendo World, Year 30. My dear Rinda,'" Rinda read, then shuddered. "How does this person know my name?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Just read it," Rose commanded, standing tiptoe on her sneakers and nearly tripping over her skirt as she tried to see what the page said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""All right, I guess. 'You are the second of the non-heroes. Your point has always ridiculed you, telling you that you would never amount to anything but a servant,'" Rinda read aloud./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""She's nicer to you than she was to me," Rose huffed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""She?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Read!"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rolling her eyes, Rinda grumped, "Well, quit interrupting. 'But you will amount to much more than that. You are going to help save our world from a great evil. I still cannot explain everything, just as it was with Rose. All will eventually be revealed. For now, you need to know that, just as Rose has probably told you already, your land was originally indeed part of the map seen above. But, as Rose has also probably already explained, the points were separated due to warfare between them./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'I still do not understand why they fought over who was superior. Each point's creatures are beautiful, whimsical, and wonderful products of beautiful, whimsical, and wonderful imaginations. As you read this, the points have completely forgotten about one another. But during what probably felt like an earthquake to you, which will have happened quite awhile before you will read this, all five points will have been rejoined./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'You have probably noticed the point named Forbidden... This point was to be another land, but the Ancients never got the chance to finish it. Even I do not know what is there, but no matter how badly any of you may be tempted, DO NOT GO THERE. It is off-limits to all, even myself./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'You must now travel to the Dreamland point and find the third non-hero there. The system of finding him that was used to find you, Rinda, will not work. There is indeed a book there, just like this one, but... Well. You will find out then./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'Be warned: even the hero you look up to the most will be helpless against the coming evil. Only the non-heroes will be able to stop it./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""'May your days be filled with Light, and may the Greatest One be with you. (See? I remember things about Hyrule. It's because I had a very good friend from there.) Yours truly, Princess Baika, ruler of Nintendo World," Rinda finished, a bit awed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""She was a lot wordier with you than she was with me," Rose pouted, feeling somewhat offended./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Well, um, so does this mean we need to go to Dreamland now?" Rinda questioned./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Link nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You, Link, and I will go," Zelda announced. "We'll take a ship. I'm sure we can convince one of the fishermen or someone else on the coast to let us have one, seeing as how it's for royal business."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""No," Link disagreed softly. "You need to stay. You're Princess. Rinda and I will go."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Zelda glared at him, ready to argue, but then softened. "You're right. But hurry back, all right, Link?" she murmured, giving him a quick peck on the cheek, making him blush./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Ash gagged, while Rose went "Aaw..."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Rinda's reaction was to pout at the floor, and Deedee just rolled his eyes in disgust. emWhy in Nintendo City is she interested in a peasant when she's Princess?/em/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Well, we should go then. Rinda and Link, go pack some stuff. Bring the book with us, we might find someone who can translate the rest of it," Rose ordered./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Who put you in charge?" Rinda teasingly grumped as she went to go pack some clothes, food, and things./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Princess Baika, when she made me the first non-hero," Rose grinned in faux-sweetness./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""All right, all right," Rinda laughed, and left. She actually enjoyed the Pokémonlander's company, she could see the two of them becoming good friends on this adventure. It was nice to have someone who understood being looked down upon./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I think you will find having Rinda along to be a bother, but it's not her fault," Zelda sighed to Rose. "She's a real sweetheart, and a brilliant artist, and whatever she does, she throws her heart into it completely. She's just so clumsy, she's bound to end up hurting someone. Keep an eye on her, okay, Rose?" she requested, then added, "I am sorry if I have acted cold towards you during your time here. I just have had a lot going on lately, and it's hard to not take it out on those around me, especially when they're strangers."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Smiling, Rose assured her, "It's okay, your Highness. Maybe if I ever come back, we can chat some more or something."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Zelda grinned. "I'd like that, I think. You seem like a nice girl, Rose. Take care of yourself."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Take it easy, Princess," Rose gave a less-awkward curtsy than she had last night, and waved goodbye./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Following her out of the room, Ash asked, "Where are you going?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Out to wait for the other two, of course," Rose laughed at him, in a good mood./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Are you going to take that dress with you?" he asked in disbelief./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Pika-pi," Pikachu agreed dubiously./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yes, actually, I am. It makes me feel like a princess. Plus, it's warm," she shrugged./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emIf only she knew what's going to happen to all of them in the end,/em Deedee thought to himself as he air-hopped up and landed on her head. emOff we go to Dreamland, I guess. I hope I don't get mistaken as a slave there./em/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"They waited for about ten minutes, then were joined by Link and Rinda. "Well, let's go," Rinda said, a bit excited. After all, not every Elf got to see the places she had read about in the Ancients' book earlier./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"They walked for hours, and around nightfall, they arrived at a small village on the coast. Link gave a local shipbuilder a letter from the Princess requesting a fishing boat, and instead, the guy gave them a pretty-good sized Hylian warship./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I doubt you'll be needing to fight anybody, there's no one out on the ocean," the guy shrugged, "But this'll travel a lot faster than a fishing boat. Plus, it looks cool."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It does," Ash agreed as they boarded and the shipbuilder left. "I always wanted to be a pirate as a kid."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Ha, I guess that makes me and Rinda pirate princesses," Rose giggled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Argh!" Rinda agreed, making a pirate-y face, which made everyone but Link laugh. He just gave a thoughtful smile as he looked out at the sea; adventuring, quests, and other heroic stuff on the brain./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Come," he suddenly stated simply, heaving the anchor out of the water and getting Ash to help him raise the sails./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I'll drive," Rose said eagerly, letting her Pokémon out to stretch their legs as she dashed to the helm. Pachirisu ran happily up the mast, while Psyduck waddled down under deck and disappeared, and Lapras splashed happily around in the water next to the boat. Ash copied her, and let his Charmander, Blastoise, Bulbasaur, Pidgeotto, and Abra out to wander around the ship; while Pikachu maintained his place on his shoulder. Link and Rinda were amazed, and somewhat enchanted, by the Pokémon, which seemed to like them both in return./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"As they pulled away from the coast, Rose grinned. Standing here in a dress, sailing a ship, surrounded by Pokémon, and with Elves as their companions, it felt like a real adventure now. Just like one of her favorite stories as a kid, almost. It was exhilarating and magical./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emI will be your favorite story,/em the dark book thought to itself ominously, but of course she couldn't hear it./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""And off we go to Dreamland, mateys!" she shouted out with a laugh as the wind filled the sails and sent them off at a good clip./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Argh!" Ash and Rinda laughed in agreement, while Link just pointed his sword in the air in an excited fashion./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emAnd so the second non-hero was found. But their journey is still only just beginning.../em/p