The royal ship of Hyrule sailed across the Great Sea.
"Ah! Nothing like the feeling of being out at sea! The wind blowing in your face!" Zelda expressed as she did a queen of the world.
"Where are we going again, Zelda and why?" Sora asked.
"We're going to Lorule to establish a new trading document between our two kingdoms! Princess Hilda and her personal servant, Ravio, should be waiting for us at the dock!" Zelda responded without turning her head. Sora continued to look at Zelda doing her queen of the world bit.
"You must really like that queen of the world bit!" Sora observed.
"Oh! I always do this when we go sailing! It's my favorite moment in the book!" Zelda said as she finally stepped down from the stern.
"I have yet to read the book," Sora said as they walked down the staircase into the large hall of the massive ship.
"Oh! You need to read it! Iceberg is my favorite book of all time!" Zelda said as she jumped onto her bed.
"What's it about, anyway?" Sora asked as he sat down next to her.
"It's about a massive ship that strikes an iceberg and sinks! It's sad, really. The two main characters are a girl named Sofia and a boy named Dyran who go on the ill-fated ship. A tragic story…" Zelda said. She was quiet for a few moments.
"The boy-"
"NO SPOILERS!" Sora said.
"Sorry…!" Zelda said. Suddenly, the door opened and a guard holding a platter walked in. It was full of what appeared to be succulent seafood, causing Sora's mouth to drool.
"For lunch, princess," the guard said, walking up to Zelda and Sora, "we have sushi, stuffed crab, fish skewers, and perfect calamari!"
"Oh…" Sora said, staring at the food, "that looks so juicy! Is that it…? Tell me it's not…!"
"No… there's a whole buffet of seafood in the dining-!"
"SEE YA!" Sora said, dashing out of the room faster than a cheetah.
"He must really like seafood…" the guard said.
"You think…?" Zelda said.
Sora came dashing into the dining room, a waterfall of saliva coming from his mouth.
"Oh my gosh! So much succulent seafood to select from here!" Sora said.
"The only thing that could go wrong right now are pirates attacking the ship!" Zelda said as she walked into the dining room.
"Let's not jinx ourselves, princess!" a guard said.
"Don't worry, Sir Cian," Zelda said, "there have NEVER been pirates in these waters!" Just then, they heard the lookout shout: "PIRATES OFF THE PORT BOW!"
"Nice…" Zelda said, "I jinxed us, didn't I?"
"Don't be so hard on yourself, Zelda," Sora said, "all we have to do is fend them off! You stay down here where it's safe. Lock all entrances! And use that ceramic knife as a weapon."
"Okay!" Zelda said. With that, Sora and the guards left to take on the pirates. Zelda picked up the ceramic knife and investigated it.
"Hm," Zelda said, as she had never held a real knife due to her father not allowing her to, "this is cool!" She began to feel around the knife and eventually touched the sharp end of the blade.
"Yikes," Zelda said, "that is sharp!" As she was moving her finger away from the knife, however, she felt a massive amount of pain. She looked down at her index finger and realized that she had cut it, causing it bleed like there was no tomorrow.
"Mother- mm!" Zelda said as she held her finger in pain.
Sora and the guards had been battling the pirates, when Sora saw one of the pirates run to the entrance to the dining room.
"No!" Sora said as he ran after the pirate. He caught up to the pirate and saw him banging on the door, trying to get in.
"Let me in, princess!" the pirate said.
"No!" Zelda responded. The pirate growled and brought out a bomb.
"You're nuts!" Sora said. Ignoring Sora, the pirate ignited the bomb and then attacked Sora. Sora immediately ducked under the pirate and jumped for the bomb, but the pirate grabbed his ankle and threw him across the hall.
"If you let that bomb blow," Sora said, "then you're gonna sink this ship!"
"It'll take more than just one bomb to sink a ship, boy!" the pirate said. Sora ran as fast as he could toward the pirate and cut his shin, giving Sora more time to remove the bomb. He picked it up and dashed outside. Just in time, Sora threw the bomb out of range of the ship. Sora then ran back to the dining room entrance and asked Zelda to open the door. She did so and the first thing Sora noticed was her bleeding finger.
"You didn't touch the sharp end of the knife, did you?" Sora asked suspiciously.
"I… well I- erm…" Zelda said, trying to come up with an excuse as to why she was bleeding, "I thought that the end was the dull end, but I realized too late that it was the sharp end!" Sora picked up the knife and felt both ends of the knife.
"Alright…" Sora said, not buying her claim.
"The pirates have been fended off!" a voice said.
"Let's patch that cut up," Sora said as he led Zelda away, "shall we?"
Take it from me, cutting your finger on a ceramic knife does NOT feel the best. Probably the WORST pain I've ever felt in my life. Yes, Zelda cutting her finger on a ceramic knife is based off of me cutting the tip of my middle finger on a ceramic knife. To put it simply: if you don't have a dishwasher or your dishwasher is broken and you have to do the dishes by hand, watch what you grab. :D
