"Ok! I'll admit that the idea was stupid, but we can't just sit on our butts and wait for an order that might take all day!" A female pirate argued with a superior, " Its already bad enough that we have to deal with patrols that night!" The two went back and forth with eachother loudly. But they were not the only ones fussing. The tossing words awoke half of the camp from their nightly slumber.
Link arrives from his routine material collecting to find that the pirates were arguing with superiors. "It must have to be a good reason if it's late at night. Don't cha agree kid?" Gascogne walks from behind a tree to Link's side to only view her unhappy comrades. "Times like this makes me ponder on why did I become a pirate... But, it was those around me needed me more than they needed their wits.", she pats Link on his back with a chuckle,"Like our lovely Barnette, Boy I can remember when she was too frightened to even load a gun, let alone touch a bullet or clip." A short lived smile appeared on the Hylian's face after Gascogne's memoir. He sits down on the grass to watch the overtired women fuss about all the details going on. With that, he lets out a sigh and eyes set upon the beautiful moons.
"Come on, Link, before they send a party to locate you." Gascogne walked towards the angry filled camp. Link picks the gathered materials and follows behind, only to be a bit upset at the fact he could not enjoy the scenery.
Barnette slams her hands on the table as her and Meia argue with B.C.
Barnette: That's too risky! It's obvious we don't have sufficient material to relocate, So why bother?!
B.C: After that black creature attacked you and your makeshift squad, we have to take safety measures. Not by water, forests, nor mountains. We will relocate to a plain and that's final.
Meia: But, we still haven't fully recovered from our injuries. Making it difficult to provide cover and firing support. If we improv...
Barnette: (Slams her fist again) Screw it! I'm not moving anywhere and refuse to do...
Meia: (Alerted) Are you ok?
Barnette: (Slowly breathing) Yea...my side is just hurting...
B.C: Show me where Barnett...
Barnette: Screw off...
Meia: I'll get Duelo (Hurrys out the tent)
Link and Gascogne organizes materials as needed within containers. The two carry the heavy containers aboard the Nirvana. Within minutes, they were done, then Gascogne tells Link to rest.
On his way inside the male tent, here hears slow, but painful breathing. He walks over to the next tent over to find Barnette's right side of her abdomen being viewed by Duelo. "She has a few damaged ribs and one broken one. My advice is to keep her in the infirmary where she will be treated and under watch." Barnette storms out, only to fall over and be caught by Link, who happened to be eavesdropping. She grunts as Link sets her back on her feet.
Barnette: (Holding her side) Well... if it isn't our little...magic friend.
Link pulls out a red potion for Barnette.
Barnette: You're doing too much Mr. Hero... Keep it.. There's nothing wrong with me..
Link insisted that she drink the potion by holding it out.
Barnette: Look.. I don't know what your game... is, but I don't want your damn help... AH!
Barnette accidentely presses against her broken rib and falls to her knees.
Barnette: (Looks behind her at the tent) I'm glad I walked far enough for them not to hear me.
Link kneels right beside her to help, but she refuses.
Barnette: Just... give me that drink... I've been dyin of thirst anyway...
She quickly snatches the potion from Link's hand and drinks only half. Barnette then grabs a hold of Link's arm as she feels her rib being mended by the potion. She squeezed and dug her head upon Link's belly. "Ow ow ow ow ow ooowwww, if I would've known this would have hurt this much..." Barnette falls fast asleep on Link. With a deep sigh, he carries her to her tent and tucks her in bed.
"What are you doing?!", Duelo raises his voice as he finds Link placing Barnette in bed. "Excuse me, but she has to be in the infirmary, due to her injuries. Now if you'll..." He stops and finds no scrapes and bruises on Barnette's right side of her abdomen. With this noticed, he nearly forgotten about the Link's red potion. With his head lower towards Link, Duelo lets out a quick apology and stated that he's been restless lately. Link smiles and nods his head, then leaves the tent.
"So this is your choice huh?" An eerie shadowy voice runs past Link's ear. Alerted, Link draws his sword and shield, raised for combat. "Helping the weak and uneducated about your people... That's not common for even a mage like me to do..." The figure appears hovering in the sky with his red eye locked upon Link; his outfit was purple and has lavender skin and hair. With his foe in sight, Link tightens the grip on his blade and holds it high, then let's out a downward slash releasing a slashing projectile. The mage uses his cape to deflect it, but it shreds to pieces. The slash returns back to Link at a high speed, he jumps to the side and releases three arrows towards the made. The mage raises his hands and uses wind to guide the arrows off course and scattter. "Foolish boy! It is I! The great Wind Mage Vaati! Behold!" Link is soon lifted into the air, with his equipment heading opposite directions, followed by an immediate turn upside down. He then sends Link Plummeting to the ground at high speed. As he has that split second before impact, Link's vision flashes.
"EUAAAHH!" Link hollers out as if he was in pain and quickly checks his surroundings. He was lying in bed the whole and realized it was just a nightmare.
Many footsteps approach and enter the tent, followed with ammunition. "MR. ELF! WHAT'S WRONG!?", Dita and many others respond to Link's shouting only to finds him sweating and breathing heavily. Link shakes his head to let them know he was fine, but a medic continued to check his vitals signs for Duelo. "His vitals are returning back to normal, well it appears that way..."
Jura: Awww looks like our knight in shining armor had an awful nightmare. (Apporaches Link very flirtatiously)
Link pushes her away to stop her advance.
Jura: Hmph! Men.
Meia, Barnette, and B.C enter the tent.
Meia: Is everything all right?
Medic: His vitals appear to be normal, but I'm sure Duelo is gonna want another set done.
B.C: Then don't do it and Link, what is all the fuss about?
Link turns his head towards them to inform them about his nightmare.
Barnette: You say you once fought this man who... happened to be a wind mage? What in the heck is a mage?
B.C: It was just a dream, don't do any of that hollering again.
B.C and Meia exits the tent. Barnette notices Jura with a snobby look on her face, she soon signals her to exit the tent with her. As her and Jura stepped out, they dash to an isolated part of the camp. Barnette holds Jura tightly from behind, resulting in the snobby attitude to go away. "May I ask you why were you in there with him?", Barnette questions Jura, "One minute he's attacking us, then the next he's having nightmares." Jura releases Barnettes arms from around her waist and walks a few steps away. "You can clearly see he has no one to rely on. So I decided to do my best to comfort him." She turns towards Barnette with a silly smile on her face. Barnette reminds Jura to comfort her instead of Link, but the two has seemed to become indifferent towards each other.
Link leaves the tent with his equipment packed and ready to migrate to another location once the pirates are ready. He walks and watches the pirates pack store their supplies into crates, then transfer them into the Nirvana. All is still quiet until gunshots and roars were heard the other side of the encampment. Link dashes in the direction the shooting took place. He finds an unstable Merith fleeing from a large creature resembling an ape. Other pirates fire upon the beast, but it's fortitude keeps it from dying. "Fall back! Fall back!"
Link takes out his sword and charges head first to the beast. It swings it's club sized hand, but misses due to Link sliding. He slashes both it's kneecaps, then leaves a large cut upon it's back. This angered the beast and it jumped infront of Merith, snatching her away with one hand. "HELLPPP! PLEEAASSSE HEELLPP ME!" Merith cries as more pirates charge to her rescue. With the beast at a far distance, Link shoots his hookshot at the beast. It pierces and latches onto the beasts back, then Link zips at a high speed. But, the beast keeps moving fast, causing Link to swing around as if he was on a rope.
Meia fires upon the beastly apes hands to release Merith, but it keeps a firm grip on the unstable woman. "BARNETTE! WE NEED YOU TO FIRE ON THIS THING WITH YOUR RIFLE, IT'S SQUEEZING LIFE OUT OF MERITH!" Meia gives her orders boldly as she pursues the beast. She notices Link zipping by, but he's at a disadvantage due to him not getting drawn in fast enough. "LINK! HOLD ON! I'M GONNA TRY TO MAKE THE ANIMAL STOP!'
BANG! BANG! Barnette fires at the hand of the beast, it releases Merith. "AHH!" Merith crawls away to get behind a barricade. BANG! The third bullet pierces the beast knee, causing it to fall on three tents. Now at the advantage, Link, is reeled in by his hookshot, lands on the beast's back with a stomping impact. He then uses chain to wrap around the beast's neck; he chokes it with the best of his strength. But, the beast begins to pull the chain off it's neck slowly. With this happening, Meia grabs a part of the chain and aids Link in strangling the behemoth ape, but her strength is not enough. Link is strong enough to keep the beast from jerking or breaking free, but he begins to become strained due to the excess amount of strength he's using.
"HOLD ON KID, I'M COMING!" Gascogne comes with another chain and forces it into a lasso. With this, she manages to put the beast at disadvantage. As they choke, the beast begins fight by, jerking it's body. Gascogne jerks the chain, causing the beast to stagger, but it kicks her away. Now back at an advantage, the beast drags Link and Meia. "LINK! DO SOMETHING!" Meia shouts as she fires upon the beast with her laser ring.
The triforce begins to glow bright on the back of Link's hand. he quickly begins to use magic to wield the chain into a solid leash. He signals Meia to let go and take cover. As she retreated, Link summoned large amounts of strength and flips the beast onto it's head. Only within a matter of seconds, he jumps on the beast's chest with his sword in hand. As soon as the beast was about to snatch him away, Link cuts the creatures head off with a lightning fast slash.
Now amazed, the pirates surround Link with large eyes and surprised looks. Questions rose from left to right about the Hylian himself. "Just what the hell are you?", "How did you do that?", "That triangle, did you see it?" Embarrassed, Link hides the triforce with his right hand and runs in the other direction.
"Did he really just do that? Flip that ape?" Barnette questioned Meia as she lowered her rifle. "He sure did. We definitelt have to keep and eye on him. You were right about him being mysterious." Barnette watched Link as he ran into the forest and began to follow once Meia walked away.