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I've been on Hiatus for awhile. ;; I've just had terrible writer's block. But I woke up this morning, and decided, 'Hey, I'm gonna write some more of my Zelda story!' xD

I'm going to try to update regularly now. I'm going to try really, really hard. xD

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Chapter 7-- Diving is murder and Zel has cooties.

"I'm sorry Deb, but I haven't seen Ruto around all day. She might be at Lake Hylia though, have you checked there?' Deb shook her head.

"No, I haven't, thanks for the advice!" Deb tugged on our hands again, and once again, we were off.

Lake Hylia, Princess Ruto, and Jabu whatever the hell that giant fish's name was, here we come.

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The three of us headed back down the ramp to the water, ready to head to Lake Hylia. But before we could reach the water, Deb stopped us, smacking herself in the head.

"Geez! I almost forgot! You guys need to get the Silver Scale before you can dive deep enough to get to Lake Hylia!" I stared at her, thinking that you only needed to do that in the game. Did I really need a scale to dive deep enough?

"You have to be kidding me!" I exclaimed, and then ran forward, diving into the water. Underwater, I saw the opening for the pathway to Lake Hylia. I tried to swim further and further under to reach the pathway, but I couldn't ever seem to reach it.

A few moments later, I rose back to the surface, panting heavily.

"That things so deep!" Deb was laughing at me from the ground, and Link looked as if he was going to burst out into laughter at any given moment.

"Oh come on! You really expected me to believe we needed a scale to reach that place? Geez, I can't have been the only person to have ever done that." I climbed out of the water, grumbling to myself about how stupid I could be.

"Well, let's go get that scale now, eh?" Deb had calmed down from her laughter now, and was leading us back up towards the King's chamber.

"So, what do we have to do to get the scale?" Link asked Deb, who smiled.

"It's simple, actually. All you have to do is dive down to the pool and gather all of the rupees in a certain amount of time." Link nodded, smiling, most likely thinking about how easy this would be. But both Link and my eyes widened as we stood over the edge of where we were supposed to dive.

"Welcome back Deb! I see you brought more victims for our little game." Omgaw. I was supposed to dive from THIS?! IT WAS FREAKING MURDER! IT LOOKED SO MUCH SMALLER IN THE GAME! ;-;

"Yep! This one over here already tried to dive without the scale." Deb pointed to me, giggling.

"Yah, yah. you be quiet." I half growled, half laughed at Deb. I was still embarrassed at my stupidity of that.

"Well, who's going to go first? The guy or the girl?"

"LINK. YOU'RE GOING FIRST." I screeched, pushing him off the edge, laughing as I heard him scream.

"Wow...you're cruel." Deb commented, but had started laughing like I was.

After about thirty seconds or so, Link finally resurfaced, holding all of the rupees in his hands and pockets.

"I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU NEKO." Link screeched, rushing it of the water, heading back towards us.

"Holy crap. Can I take my turn now?" I turned to the Zora, and he chuckled, nodding.

"Wheee!" I jumped off the edge, taking a diving form. A few seconds later I hit the water, and was then underwater, gazing at all the rupees that surrounded me.

"Wow..." I tried to say, but it just came out as a bunch of bubbles.

Wasting now more time, I began to collect the rupees, and once I had collected them all, I resurfaced.

"I got 'em!" I exclaimed proudly, holding the rupees up.

But I was happy for too long, for both Deb and Link had dived back down to me, Link strangling me and Deb laughing at my misfortune.

When Link was finally satisfied with his revenge, we all sat on a rock, Link smirking, myself rubbing my neck, and Deb handing us each a scale.

"Here you guys go! You earned these Silver Scales. Now we can go find Ruto!"

I cheered, and the Silver Scale went from my hand to inside my throat.

"Wow...that was weird." I touched my throat again, and then dived under water, seeing that I could dive much further now.

Coming back up, Deb nodded.

"Yep. That's what the Silver Scaled does. It allows you to swim better under water, and you hold your breath for a longer period of time. There's another scale you can get, the Golden Scale, but we won't worry about that for awhile. Now come on, let's go!" Link and I nodded, and the three of us dived under the water, heading towards Lake Hylia.

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"Once more, I dodged my way past the guards, and finally, finally, reached the garden of the two who I would always regret going to for help.

Jennifer, meet your doom"

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When I entered the courtyard, I saw Zelda staring through the window that went into the castle, like she always was. Being as quiet as I could possibly be, I tiptoed over too her, poking her in the back. I swear to god, I never knew someone could jump that high.

"Who are you?! What business have you here?!" Zelda exclaimed at me, and I could tell she was ready to call the guards. Damn. Maybe I shouldn't have surprised her like that. xD

"Princess Zelda, please, I'm here..." Crap, think up something, something...
"I'm a fortune teller, who has seen the future of this Hyrule. I'm here to guide you, to help you save Hyrule. If my vision was correct, you've had a vision yourself, and have been visited by a boy in green garbs, am I correct?" There. This was the biggest bunch of crap that I had ever spouted, but by the look on Zel's face, I had obviously amazed her.

"Y-yes! I thought no one else would ever believe my vision! This is wonderful!" She was excited, I could tell. She was sort of bouncing around like a little kid would do. xD

"I'm here to guide you, Princess Zelda. But in return, I'll need you to do a favor for myself." Zelda nodded excitedly, and I could tell that she probably wasn't even listening anymore, just off in her own little world.

"I'm looking for a certain person, and I'll travel for you as long as we take time to help find this person. That is all that I request." Zelda nodded once more, and smiled.

"That's fine. I'm just glad to have someone besides Link and Impa and myself to help along with this. I don't want...Ganondorf to take over. You can tell by his eyes, he's an evil man. We need to save Hyrule." I nodded, pretending like I cared. xD

"Ca-can you tell me anything about Link? Is he okay?" Damn. Damn. What was I supposed to say? Well, he was most likely getting the third spiritual stone by now...

"I can't tell you much, my vision's of him are hazy. But I do know that he is safe, and that he's currently acquiring the final spiritual stone. But that is all I know." Zelda sighed in relief, and hugged me tightly.

"Thank you..." Holy crap. She was hugging me. Not cool. Zelda cooties. D:

She let go of me, and then pointed behind me.
"Please, tell everything you know to Impa and myself." I turned around, seeing the creepy Impa standing before me.

"I don't like the looks of you, but if the Princess is to trust you, then I myself will trust you. Now tell us what you know." Well, here it went.

"I know not the details of things, but I do know that no matter what you do, the Door of Time will be opened by the Hero, and Ganondorf will acquire the Triforce of Power, but not Wisdom or Courage. That is all I know of now, and that for now, we must wait until the hero can save us all." Hopefully, I didn't give out too much information. -- I mean, come on, that would screw up everything if I told them too much! xD

Impa nodded, and placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Thank you. This knowledge will do us well. You will travel alongside the Princess for now, telling her everything you know and what you learn.
Well, my plan went well. And as soon as I found Neko, we could leave this place forever.

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Well, long story short, Ruto wasn't at Lake Hylia. Duh.

But of course, we had found the letter in a bottle that she had left and had brought it up to the King.

"My poor daughter! How could of this happened? Jabu Jabu has always been so kind...he's been acting up ever since that evil man came!" Evil man..well, obviously, Ganondork had been here already. But dammit! I didn't want to save Ruto! I didn't like her! ;-;

"Well, King, if we may, could we pass by to go save Ruto?" Link asked him, and I smacked my head. Dammit. Stupid Link and his...heroness. Whatever. We had to get that damn stone anyways...maybe I could 'accidentally' leave Ruto in the fish's stomach. D

"Thank you Link. We'll be in a great debt to you if you can save my daughter." He began to move, and after about five minutes and he only moving an inch, we realized this might take a while. I sat down on the ground, falling asleep.

About an hour later, Deb woke me, saying that the King had finally moved enough so that we could get to Jabu Jabu. I yawned, grumbling about how she had ruined my perfectly good nap. The three of us headed outside to the giant fish.

"Well, this is where we part. Please, save Ruto for me." Deb smiled at Link and myself, as we stood near Jabu Jabu.

"We will. You can count on us." Link grinned back, patting Deb's head. She handed us a bottle with a fish in it, and I realized what it was for, though I think Link was a little slow to catch on.

"Be careful!" Deb exclaimed as she ran back towards the domain. Link stood confused, as I threw the fish near Jabu Jabu. A few moments later we were being sucked in.

"Ew..." I commented, the ground squishy. Everything was a lot different in the dungeon when you could feel it, and hear the noises...and ew, smell it.

"I have to say, I never went inside giant fishes in the forest." Link joked, as we began our adventure to save Ruto.

"Yeah, I don't think I ever want to do this again." I rolled my eyes, as we progressed through to the next room, killing a few enemies on the way. Link was about to stab one of the jellyfish things, but I stopped him.

"Those are electric, and I don't think you'd want to get shocked." I giggled, and the two of us ran past it into the next room.

"OMGAW IT'S A ZORA." I exclaimed as we entered the room, seeing a small Zora girl sitting on the ground.

"Who are you?" The Zora exclaimed, turning around, and we realized that this girl had to be Princess Ruto. Well, Link realized. I already knew it. xD

"I-I I'm Link, and you're father sent me here to save you." Hah. Link and his trying to be manly again. It made me laugh.

"No! I can't leave! I lost my stone, and I just can't leave without it! You two can just leave and tell my father that he'll have to wait until I can find my stone until I come out." Ruto screamed, and then began to pout. Rolling my eyes, I headed over to here, picking her up and throwing her over my shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. You'll come with us and we'll find your stone. Everyone will be happy."

"PUT ME DOWN. I DEMAND YOU PUT ME DOWN. HOW DARE YOU TREAT ME LIKE THIS!" Ruto screeched, but I just ignored her, and ignored the laughing Link behind me.

Heading through the door, we introduced ourselves, and Ruto was silent for a moment as we told her who we were. But as soon as we were done speaking, she had starting screaming again about how this was dangerous for her health or something like that. --

We began to progress through the dungeon, fighting off the various enemies in it. It was difficult, a lot more then I imagined. It seemed so easy in the game. -- But luckily, Ruto had stopped screaming and thrashing around after a bit so I didn't really have to worry about her. xD

Finally, finally, finally, we reached the room where her stone lay. But I groaned, knowing that this wasn't any time to be celebrating. A mini boss was coming, and then the real boss. But I couldn't tell Link or Ruto that. They looked so happy to see the stone! xD

But I could at least protect Ruto. I jumped on top of the stage like thing with her, knowing that at any minute, it was going to rise and the giant octopus thing was going to attack Link.

"Eeeek!" And here we went. Ruto clung to me, watching in horror as we rose from the ground and left Link behind.

"Wh-what's happening?!" She exclaimed, and to be truthful, I was a little scared too. Sure, I knew Link would come save us..but still, it was scary. ;-;

"Don't worry Ruto. Link will save us." I comforted her, the two of us sitting alone in the dark room. So this is where Ruto had waited for Link to save her in the game...no wonder the girl was so in love with him. xD

"Are you sure? He's just a kid. How can he save us?!" Ruto exclaimed, and I grinned.
"He's not just a kid, he's a hero. Don't worry. He'll save us." Ruto still looked unsure, but shut up about how we might be stuck here forever.

It was silent for a long time, at least an hour or so. Link was...going to come save us, right? This was like the game, right? What if we really were stuck here forever?!

"Neko! Something's happening!" I awoke from my thoughts, seeing what Ruto was talking about. A blue light had surrounded the two of us, and we were being transported from the room to the room where Link was. He had...he had really saved us!

Geez, what was I spouting? Of course he saved us. I couldn't believe myself that I had actually doubted him for a moment there.
"Did you guys miss me?" Link chuckled, heading over to the two of us, after collecting his prize from the boss.

"Link...are you okay?" I asked, my voice actually quivering a little. This was scary. This wasn't like anything at all in the game. Link was bleeding, his clothes were torn all over...I guess I never realized how hard he actually fought for Princess Zelda. It never seemed like much in the game, but seeing like this..he really was a hero.

"Yeah, I'll be fine once I clean up. I'm just glad you two are okay." Ruto stared love struck at Link, and I laughed.

"Link...you're so manly!" Omgaw. This was too funny, to watch this. But the best part was yet to come.

The three of us entered the portal, and I bit my lip to hide my laughter from what was about to come. You know what I'm talking about. xD

"Link! Thank you so much for saving me and this stone! It means so much too me!" Ruto exclaimed once we had gotten back to the water outside of the domain. Link scratched the back of his head, blushing.
"Yeah, it was nothing. I'm glad you're both okay." Ruto smiled, moving closer to Link.

"You want this stone, right? Well...my mother told me that I'm supposed to give it to the man I'm supposed to marry one day, but I guess you'll do." Ruto told him, handing him the stone, and kissing his cheek before he could move away. Where was I? Oh, in the background, choking from laughter.

"Er..thanks?" Link told her, blushing an even brighter red then before.

"Come on Mister Popular, we need to get those stones to Zelda." I had finally stopped laughing, and was pulling Link from the water.
"Bye bye! Come see me soon, Link!" Ruto called to him, and I almost began to choke from laughter again. I was having such a great time, that I couldn't even remember the misfortune that was about to fall on us all...

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"You know..it's really nice to know that someone else is on my side." My head turned in surprise, seeing that Zel had spoken for hours.

After the intros, and crap like that, Impa had left Zel and myself to the courtyard. We had been laying on the grass for a long time, since all we could really do was wait for Link. But I nodded, deciding to talk back.

"It's always nice to know that someone is on your side, especially...with something like this. But be glad you had Link on your side. He's a true hero." I rolled over onto my stomach, now gazing at the flowers.

"Yeah...he is. He's going to save Hyrule, I know it. His eyes were those of a hero." Zelda smiled, and I almost laughed, seeing the little crush Zelda was developing on the Hero.

"You're worried about him, aren't you?" I asked her, and she nodded.
"Of course. Hyrule's fate rests on him, and if anything happened to him...hope would be lost." Wow. I had heard that line so many times told to Link in the video games, but sitting her next to Zel, actually in Hyrule...it really took impact. If anything happened to Link...there would be no more Hyrule. Ganondorf would take over..and as Zel had put it, all hope would be lost.

I was about to speak once more, but I was interrupted by the screams of Impa.

"Princess! Princess! We must hurry out of here! Ganondorf is attacking!" No! It wasn't happening already, was it? Crap! I should have warned them!

"Hurry, Zel! Follow Impa!" I exclaimed, jumping up from my spot, helping her up.

"But Link! He hasn't returned yet! We still have to give him the Ocarina!" Zelda exclaimed, practically in tears.

"Grab it! Just grab it! We'll get it to him somehow!" Crap! We had to get out of here!

Impa grabbed onto from behind, rushing us out of the courtyard and onto a white horse. I looked to the sky for a moment, seeing it turning vicious shades of black and red. This was...this was all Ganondorf's doing...he was going to kill us if we didn't get out of here! We had to hurry, or I'd never see Neko again!

"Impa! Zel! Go on without me! Link will be there when you ride out on the drawbridge! Zel, when you get to the drawbridge, throw the Ocarina into the moat! Now hurry!" I exclaimed to them, jumping off the horse, as Zel watched in horror, trying to grab onto me. But Impa held her back, and the two rode off.

"Now, now, what do we have her?" A frightening voice came from behind me, and I froze. No...that couldn't be...could it?!

"It seems you got left behind. But what to do with you? Should I kill you?" It was. It was Ganondorf. He was going to kill me. Dammit. He was going to kill me! I had to think of something!

"No...I won't kill you. You...will be mine." Ganondorf was in front of me now, on his horse, and he was smiling. That man...should never smile. It was hideous.

"Yes, you'll be mine, my queen when I conquer this pitiful Hyrule." Before I could protest, he grabbed me by the collar, throwing me on his horse.

"Let's go kill that Princess, shall we?" He laughed, as we rode out of the castle, onto the drawbridge. I was so afraid, that I had closed my eyes tight, but opened them again when the horse had stopped and I heard Ganondorf speaking.

"You, boy! Did you see a white horse go by?"

Boy? It had to be Link! Of course! I had almost forgotten about him!

Looking up from the horse, I gasped in surprise, seeing not only Link...but Neko!

"Neko!" I exclaimed, and she looked up from her terror at Ganondorf to me, her eyes widening.

"Jen!" Ganondorf chuckled, smirking.

"My my, it seems these two are having a nice reunion." I tried to jump off the horse to get to Neko, but Ganondorf hit me back with an attack.

"You stay." He growled, and I yelped in pain.

"You bastard!" Neko exclaimed, about to run towards Ganondorf, but Link stopped her, running to Ganon himself.

"Hah, a little boy like you, trying to save the Princess and these girls? It's a waste of time to kill you." Ganon sneered to Link, hitting him with an attack like he had to myself, and climbed back onto the horse.

"Be glad I spared your life boy!" He called to Link as we began to ride off. Tears welled in my eyes, watching Link and Neko grow farther and farther away, such as my hope was fading faster and faster. I was doomed.

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"J-Jen..." I murmured, falling to my knees, watching her being taken by Ganon. I was frozen for a few moments, before hearing the curses from Link.

"Link...are you okay?" I crawled over to him, brushing a strand of hair out of his eyes.

"I'm sorry Neko...I let him take your friend." I smiled, pulling him up from the ground.

"No, Link, it's not your fault. You did your best." Tears almost began to roll down my cheeks, but I wiped them away, staring off in the distance.

"She'll be okay. We'll save her. We'll kill that bastard Ganondorf...and we'll save her." I told Link sternly, and he gave me a weak smile.
"Yeah. We'll save her, and we'll find Zel. I'm...worried about her." I nodded. Poor Link. He was obviously in love with the Princess, and with the Princess gone like this...well, he had to be worried. We both were.

"Oh! Zelda threw something into the water, didn't she?" We had watched Zelda and Impa go by on their horse, and Link had apparently seen the Princess throw the Ocarina into the moat.

"Yeah, she did. Let's check it out." We headed to the moat, and I dived in, grabbing the Ocarina.
"Here Link. She threw this for you." I smiled, handing it to Link, watching as he went into a dream like state for a few moments.

"Zel...she's okay." Link grinned, holding the Ocarina tightly. Oh yeah. I had forgotten about that part, where the Princess taught him the Song of Time.

"What do we need to do, Link?"

"She told us to go to the Temple of Time, place the stones there, and play the Song of Time." I nodded, and stared up at the part of the Temple that I could see.

"Let's go."

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OMG LONG CHAPTER.

I had to get a lot done in this chapter. It would have been up earlier today, but I'm sick, so I slept most of the day. xD But I hope you enjoy it.

My writing's probably crap in this chapter, because I haven't written in awhile. But I hope it's still okay.

Once again.

PLEASE DON'T KILL ME FOR TAKING SO LONG.

Okay.

xD

I'm good now.
AND NOW FOR A RANDOM SCENE.

ZOMG It's a-It's a-It's a-

After searching for in the Town Market for Neko for, well, EVER, I, Jennifer, grew tired sat on a rock. Frustrated, I buried my face into my hands. That's when I heard it.

There were many grumbles and mumbles as two chubby dog looking men planted a bomb on a tree. I got up after they left and inspected it. Then, the old guy, the gay singing dude, and that one guy, the three of them from Fifth Element, came rushing towards it.

Old guy: "It's a- It's a- It's a-

BOMB!

Before we could run, the bomb went off, destroying everything in the world of Legend of Zelda except for Alli the Sheep who ran around a field of grass with a rainbow, a cloudless blue sky, a golden castle, and two unicorns prancing around in the background, in money and rupees and an endless supply of food.

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Wow. Okay. That was a scene that Jacksfangurl wanted me to put in. xD And it made me laugh.

So, I hope you enjoyed! x3