I know the last chappy was mildly depressing, so I tried to combat that with sheer craziness and Link and the donut. When I was playing Melee last I took a bunch of crazy pics with my phone, and one involved Link holding a donut. I've made a slide called Cheese Productions which has Link holding a piece of cheese. Not that you guys actually care that I play around on moviemaker when I'm super mega bored. I had to replay this level twice because my dad was on the laptop and I couldn't 'jack it from him and I wound up forgetting most of the level. XD Enough of my pointless ramblings that hardly anyone reads, let alone pays attention to! Starrgrl24 is gonna love this chappy. Anti-Yoshi stilts…

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Chapter 7 Brown, Link, and the Anti-Yoshi Stilts

Eventually, Brown followed Link. Purple's information was useful, granted it was indeed valid. Purple had said that Link was slower, but seemed to have an affinity for attracting people's attention. Brown was certain he'd detected a suggestive tone in Purple's voice, recognizing it as jealousy mixed with bewilderment. Everyone knew that he was attracted to Yellow. No one had guessed what Purple had done to Yellow's previous male companions, but Brown had never really given much thought to the subject. Brown received some interesting perceptions by just watching Link. He could tell that the Hylian was special. There was something beneath the surface that even Link didn't know of. A hidden darkness that made Brown quite wary of him.

They ran across the yellow-gold grass of the field and suddenly came upon a Shy Guy, who was perched upon rather precarious looking stilts. Brown, more by instinct than actual experience, jumped on the Shy Guy's head.

"I've gotta get a refund for those things!" the Shy Guy yelled. Brown let him go, since he had six eggs and if he tried to lay any more, they wouldn't follow him for some reason. He thought it might be because if they were so far behind, they couldn't sense his presence to follow him. He wouldn't explain this to Link, because from the story that the other Yoshis relayed to him, Link would take it the wrong way.

"Nice," Link said. "But watch this!" Link found a duo of Shy Guys on their "Anti-Yoshi" stilts. He slashed through the wood of the stilts, causing the Shy Guys to fall to the ground.

"What was that for, foo'?!?!?" one of the Shy Guys asked.

"Huh?!?" Link asked, twisting his face in a confused expression.

"He thinks he's gansta. Don't pay him any mind. You owe me one now. Don't let the Yoshi eat me!"

"Whadda 'bout me? Can't you help yo brotha from anotha motha?" ("Can't you help your brother from another mother?" translation brought to you by I NO SPEAK GANGSTA Corporations)

"Um. You guys are insane! I can't promise anything for you based on the behavior of my companion. You know, I'm not responsible for his actions, blah, blah, blah, so I can't say one way or the other." Brown ran up and ate both the Shy Guys. "That went well."

"I was so sick of listening to them argue that I had to do something. That was the obvious solution."

"I'm not disagreeing with you. I personally was quite ready to cut them both in half. I hate it when people start begging for their lives. It makes me wanna smack 'em, especially when they talk like freaks," Link replied.

"Exactly."

Brown and Link came to a cave. A memory of a strange croaky voice echoed in Link's mind Remember your failure at the cave! Link had no clue what the voice in question meant. Maybe it was exactly like when the word "Jedi" leapt to his tongue. Somehow, they had to be connected, but he didn't care what the connection was. He just wished that the thoughts would stop coming.

"You comin'?" Brown asked from inside the cave.

"Yeah. I just… have a bad feeling about this," Link said.

"Aw, c'mon. It can't be that bad. It's just a cave. See?" Brown said. "There's no monster inside it.

"Whatever," Link replied. "I ain't afraid. I just don't trust it."

"Like I said, it's a cave. It can't hurt you."

"I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!" Link yelled.

"Okay. You don't hafta shout. Kamek, remember?"

Link shut up and walked ahead of Brown. "Stupid cave. Stupid Yoshi. Stupid Shy Guys," Link muttered under his breath as he continued on.

After an uneventful cave traversing lit with a strange light which followed them and was unexplainable (at least for Brown but Link blamed it on Kamek), the trio left via a floating platform.

"Um… this is… different."

"It's Kamek. Remember? You said the light was somehow connected with him, why not this thing?" Brown said. The platform reached the top of its arc.

"We'd best get off," Link suggested.

"Why?"

"It's gonna fall back down into the cave. I promise you, there's gotta be something bad in one of these caves."

"You're just claustrophobic because you have issues with tombs and stuff."

"How'd you know about the tombs?"

"You said something about it to one of the others and they relayed the info to me. See, relays are effective."

"For some purposes, but not others. When did I say they weren't?"

"When you were talking to Green."

"That was for the first leg of the journey, duh!"

"Whatever, man. Whatever."

They crossed the field without anyone or anything bothering them too much and found another entrance to another cave. This particular cave had a pipe, not a warp pipe, but a normal pipe sticking up in front of the entrance. Link somehow squeezed in between the pipe and the side of the cave, something Brown couldn't do without potentially scraping baby Mario to death, so he ground-pounded the pipe a few times in order to smash it low enough to gain access to the cave.

"Hey, good news!" Link slipped deeper into the shadows. "I don't have a funny feeling about this cave!" They wound up falling a little distance, and then Link noticed the light was following them again, but it wasn't as bright as before because the cave was closer to the surface and more light filtered through the entrance and exit holes. There were mushrooms all over the place. "Wow. 'Shrooms," Link added when he saw the huge fungi growing all over the place. He leapt to one and continued jumping across gaps using the naturally occurring mushrooms. Brown followed behind the Hylian and they came to a winged cloud, which Brown threw an egg at to grow a plane that would allow them access to an arrow ball so they could bounce out of the cave.

Once out of the darker regions, Brown and Link continued to find Pink standing near where they'd exited, giggling flirtatiously at the sight of Link. Brown gave him a look of sympathy to respond to the one Link shot him that clearly meant HELP ME!

"Hiya guys!" Pink said cheerfully. "Hey Link!" she put on the I-have-a-huge-crush-on-you-so-don't-make-me-sad-by-cringing-and-running-away look.

Link was very tempted to do just that.

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I couldn't resist the 'shroom thing, 'cauz I recently read that chapter of From Egg to Sword that was based on the trading session as adult Link in Ocarina of Time. It's just so funny! Go read it now! Sorry I took so long for this chappy, but I sadly think I'm losing my inspiration for this fic, seeing as I haven't heard from any of you with new fics that I need to read (or at least new chappies). *Sighs* I guess I'm going through a mini-depression. I'll hafta fix that by writing a insane fic about Link and pizza and what happened Friday night. You know how he's kinda been staying in the extra room because I'm writing the history of what happened with him, Indy, Sam, and Han? Well, we kinda got pizza last night and things get insane from there. Maybe that will improve my motivation. *sighs again* How'd you like the Anti-Yoshi stilts, Starrgrl24? XD