Chapter 9! (Holy crap, that was a long wait. Especially for the Zora place…o.o)
Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, 24, Google, brochures, Spongebob, Naruto Abridged or any other bizarre references I make. …Though I want to. T.T
Cherry-sama: Hey guys! It's been a while!
Link: O.o Holy crap, that was a long wait!
Cherry-sama: …And you nag me about being a broken record…
Navi: What happened to you?!?!
Cherry-sama: That doesn't have a simple answer. When I first started creating this chapter, I had a lot of technical difficulties. And thus I procrastinated working on this for a while. …Within that time, I moved to DA, A.K.A. deviantart. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before to my audience, however, for some reason all my Totally Whacked fans keep trying to contact me on Youtube. o.o
Tatl: Well, you did post that 'Majora's Mask is Weightless' video on Youtube.
Cherry-sama: True. However, recently, I been rising in popularity there, and I've been getting behind in simple little things. And plus, my talents lie in comic art, not writing.
Link: (ignores) So what happens to me in this chapter.
Cherry-sama: …Answering that question would take me a few pages.
Link: O.O
Cherry-sama: The following chapter is split up into four parts, however, they all were originally one large document. So, please read.
What would happen if Lulu guided a tour through the Water Temple?
WARNING:
The following chapter has very suggestive/blatent content, and material that would be generally offensive to some audiences. It is not be suitable for a K+ fanfic and so the following chapter should be Rated T. If you are fine with all of these factors, then feel free to proceed. However, those of you who are not, then it is recommended that you do not continue reading. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
(Previously on Totally Whacked.)
"Tell me how to stop the moon from falling!!!" Link screamed at Skull kid, who was looming over him in this flashback.
"We've only got 72 hours!" Navi screamed towards Skull kid.
11:59:55
11:59:56
11:59:57
"…Wait a minute…" Tatl paused, looking up at the sky, with a looming moon overhead.
12:00:02
12:00:03
"What?" Link asked, turning towards Tatl.
12:00:05
12:00:06
12:00:07
"Why do I feel like calling you Jack Bauer?" Tatl asked.
12:00:17
12:00:18
"I'm not sure, Mr. President." Jack—LINK shrugged, referring to Tatl.
"…This is supposedly a flashback, but I never actually recall this happening, do you Link—" Navi started.
"Shut up Nina." Link snapped, holding his sword like a gun, which made no sense since he'd rather draw this sword than shoot someone with it.
(The following takes place between 0:00 a.m. – 72:00 p.m.)
DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY
-72 Hours Remain-
(Link had just gone back in time under the suspicion of someone plotting against him; however, this was all in the future so he put it behind him. So now that was over with, Link wanted to go sunbathing, and the best place to do so was to exit through the West Clock Town Gate. Now, since you have read this fanfic up to chapter nine, you must realize that it wouldn't have been that easy, so of course, the Gate Guard decided to be a nuisance.)
"Stop right there! Have you an errand at the ocean?" the gate guard growled as he bore his fangs; the authoress wondered why she was describing him like a Wolfos.
"Oh please," Link sighed as he flopped into a slouch, "you've done this routine for the past three loops… Couldn't ya give it a rest, big guy?"
"But it is—" The guard stuttered, making up an excuse for Link to stay behind the walls.
"—Dangerous outside the town walls, so you, being the very dictator-like adult, cannot allow a 'child' like me to—" Link sighed.
"…Is that a sword…?" The guard asked, looking at the brand new, have-yet-to-be-made Fairy Sword.
"Yes, it's a sword." Tatl grumbled, putting her head in her hands.
"Judging by the size of that sword, I'd say—" the guard grinned, looking at the sword with unintentional glee.
"Yes, yes, Link is compensating for something, now will you please let us pass!" Navi snapped at the guard.
"My apologies, madame." The guard smirked.
"What?! Wait—" Link stammered, but Navi was pushing him from behind.
"At Great Bay, you can see clear to the ocean—" the guard began a lecture on the geography of Termina.
"YEAH, YEAH, WE KNOW!" Tatl yelled back at the guard; by this time, our heroes where rather far away from the post the guard stood.
"GO WRITE A BROCHURE!!!" Navi yelled back at the guy.
"…Navi, what's a brochure?" Link asked the fairy that was still pushing him forwards.
"I have no clu—" Navi started to respond.
"Go look it up on Google." Tatl sighed, tired of their usual conversation.
(Link and Co. headed to the ocean, or as the Terminans knew it as, Great Bay. However, Link ran into the wall that someone, for some odd reason, had used to block off the beach. And Link, being the forgetful kid we all know and love, asked Navi to lift him over instead of just summoning Epona over to help him jump over this obstacle. As soon as he gazed upon the wide-open ocean, he saw to his horror—)
"DANG!" Link huffed, crossing his arms. "They ran out of ice-cream!"
"—What?" Navi asked with confusion until she saw the ice-cream stand nearby.
"Aw, man! This sucks!" Tatl whined.
"How do you know that they ran out?" Navi asked, "I don't see a sign".
"They told me that they donated it to some Zora guy who's drowning over there." Link grumbled, sitting down on the straw mats underneath a small umbrella.
"—WHAT?!" Navi shouted.
(No one was making any effort to help save the guy who was flopping around near shore, with ice cream dissolving into the water around him. Navi jumped into the water towards the drowning Zora, which in itself posed an odd question: How can a Zora drown? As Navi got closer, she saw that there were various knife wounds on the Zora man's body, which the dissolved ice cream floated into. This still didn't explain how the Zora was drowning. Of course, this was the part where Tatl got an ONA, making the situation oh so much better.)
"Hey, what do you think that is?" Tatl's ONA flung her forwards, making her fairy sunglasses fly off into the ocean.
"The drowning Zora man." Link answered, eying the ice cream stand longingly.
"Out there in the bay, beneath where the gulls are flying…" Tatl's ONA exclaimed, pointing towards the spot the Zora was drowning.
Link sighed, lying down on his straw mat. "That's just Navi, the Zora man, and some random seagulls."
"Can't you see it?" Tatl's ONA exclaimed, questioning Link's eyesight.
"No. I can't see it." Link retorted sarcastically, rolling over on his mat.
(It was fortunate for Link that Tatl didn't really have time to get angry, she was more concerned for her fairy sunglasses, and whizzed out to where she had flung them, hoping that they hadn't sunk to the bottom by now. Navi ignored Tatl as she flew by.)
"Unghhh… Somebody…" the dying Zora whimpered to Navi. "Unghh… Please…. G-gu-hu… Get me… …to shore…"
(It took Navi a split second for her to push the guy to shore; once she did, he made a strange sound that sounded like a redead. After all, the guy had almost drowned in salt water and ice cream. Link seemed oblivious—or disinterested—by the scene unfolding nearby. The Zora made a weird 'zombie-walk' (according to the scriptwriter) onto shore. He walked a sizeable distance—considering that he's almost dead—he lost all strength in his knees and fell over…onto Link.)
"AHHHHH!!! AHHHHHH!!! AHHHHH!!!" Link screamed, running around in circles with the Zora clinging to his back. "REDEADS! REDEADS! THEY'VE COME TO EAT ME!"
(Before Navi could warn Link 'relax, it's just a dying Zora who's severely injured and has, for some reason, flopped on you back', Link reflexively pulled out his sword and sliced a couple of deep wounds into the Zora's limbs.)
"LINK! RELAX! IT'S THE DYING ZORA!" Tatl and Navi yelled.
(Link turned around to see the face of the Zora, who had a couple larger sword wounds in addition to the ones he already had—courtesy of Link. The Zora man was more likely to die now than he was before.)
"…Oops…" Link chuckled.
(The Zora keeled over.)
"Uuungh…I am Mikau of the Zora People…" the Zora grumbled as he lay there, dying.
"…Guitarist in the Zora band?!" Tatl exclaimed, in a high fan girlish scream. "I actually met you! Hey, can I get your autograph?"
"…Why sure!" Mikau exclaimed, leaping upright in a lively fashion and signed Tatl's autograph book, which was, until a few second ago, under Link's hat. "To…my…good…friend…"
"Tatl. T-A-T-L." Tatl finished.
(Link and Navi stared, as critical-condition-Mikau stood signing Tatl's autograph book.)
"There!" Mikau exclaimed, putting a dot on the 'i' in Mikau; he then proceeded to flop down onto the ground again to retake his critical state.
"Ummm…" Navi paused. "…Are you okay?"
"… I think this is it for me…" Mikau spluttered as he lay still.
"Okay." Link said, and resumed sunbathing.
"My final message…" Mikau whispered; he coughed up blood onto the white sand, "…will you listen to it?"
(Both Navi and Tatl looked at Link with watery eyes.)
"OKAY, FINE!" Link hissed at Tatl and Navi, turning over grumpily from his straw mat. "I'll listen."
(Mikau slowly rose up from the soft and silky shore and pulled out a guitar out of nowhere (How do they do that?! ) strumming a few notes rather badly so it became a tune with no melody.)
"One! Two! Three!!!" Mikau hollered.
"Ooo! Ooo!" Tatl squealed in a fangirlish manner, flying up and down. "He's going to sing!!!"
"Oh, baby, baby, listen to me!
The carnival's beginning soon.
We're the ones they're waiting to see." Mikau sang, strumming the strings overenthusiastically.
"GAHHHH!!!!" Link screamed, falling over in an attempt to cover his ears.
"AIIIEEEE!!!!" Navi screeched.
"Oh YEAH!" Tatl shrieked, bobbing up and down to the beat.
"But that girl, our vocalist…
She laid some strange eggs.
And she's lost her voice.
You can't hear what she says." Mikau continued, as his eyes widened to give him a stoned expression on his face, playing so fast, that it was inhuman! —Wait…he wasn't human, in fact…none of them were.
"The guitar is bad enough, but does he have to sing?!" Link yelled to Navi, ignoring the sour-tune-loving Tatl.
"He's a lead guitarist, right?! Maybe this is why he's not the lead singer too!" Navi screamed.
"Whoa-oh! In Great Bay now
somethin' is a-happenin'," Mikau exclaimed into the empty void left behind by the silence that once was.
"Is it, now?" Navi asked, somewhat interested in what Mikau had to say—erm, sing.
"Nooooo!!!" Link screamed, keeling over into the sand and dragged his agony with him. "Navi has joined the dark side!"
"Oh! Baby, listen to me.
I don't wanna beg.
Gerudo Pirates!
They stole that girl's eggs." Mikau mourned.
"There! Problem solved!" Link exclaimed, patting Mikau on the back, surprisingly Mikau did not fall over even though gravity and his injures were against him.
"I went to stop the Gerudo Pirates,
then pow and bam!
I got knocked down,
and here I am!" Mikau sang even more.
"…'Pow' and 'Bam'?" Navi asked, examining Mikau from head to toe. "Are you sure that those are the right sound effects to use? Well, considering that you are covered in sword wounds… How about 'rip' and 'tear', instead?"
"Baby! If I die like this…
Even if I die…
It won't be in peace!
That's for suuure!" Mikau raged.
(Tatl danced wildly in small circles.)
"Somebody, please rescue her eggs
Before the pirates take their toll.
Oh, somebody, somebody,
please heal my soul." Mikau finished on an abrupt note.
(As soon as Mikau stopped strumming the strings on his guitar, it miraculously disappeared.)
"That's all…" Mikau sighed, wiping the sweat, blood, and possibly, ice cream off his forehead.
"…That was beautiful!" Tatl proclaimed, holding back tears. "Absolutely beautiful!"
(Mikau flopped over.)
"Thank you!" Mikau gasped.
"He is the most energetic dead person I've ever seen!" Link exclaimed.
"Almost dead person." Navi corrected.
"Not for long!" Link proclaimed triumphantly, whipping out the Ocarina.
(Before anyone else could comment, Link played Song of Healing. Meh, he probably did it just to get rid of the guy. Anyways…the camera zoomed in onto Mikau's body. Thanks to our wonderful special effects staff, Mikau floated in a completely black background. A Zora female, who resembled an older Ruto only with clothing (oh thank heavens), swam below him. The black world had a change of gravity so both of the Zoras stood upright. The girl looked at him, and he at her. Then, she shifted her gaze to a band in the distance. Mikau took out his guitar, joined hands with the female Zora and joined the rest of the band. (Sniff, even I'm getting choked up about it! Sniffle, sniff.).)
(The image faded, and all that was left of Mikau's body was a Zora mask. …Eep! Creepy! Just like out of a horror film! Wait… Majora's Mask is as close as Legend of Zelda gets to a horror film… Anyways, Link received the Zora's Mask! The only thing that remained of the guitarist's body! …Epically Over-Dramatic Shudder!)
"Hey! Cool!" Link exclaimed, looking at the weird creepy thing.
"What the heck?" Navi asked, looking upwards. "What's with the description?"
Ummm…
"What the heck indeed!" Tatl exclaimed, looking at the sky as well. "What the heck is going on!? I swear I hear voices from the roof top!"
…The setting is on a beach in Termina. There is no ceiling.
"Noooooo!!!" Link wailed.
Hey! You know you love me.
"That's the narrator." Navi sighed. "She's a weird stalker who plans on adding herself into each Legend of Zelda chapter that has something to do with Water Temples."
"Ehhh? Really?" Tatl asked.
"Yep." Navi confirmed.
Hey! Who told you that?!
"I have my sources," Navi smirked.
(As the Narrator stared down upon Nintendo's characters, Mikau's ghost appeared before Link, succeeding to scare the bloody heck out of him.)
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Link screamed, almost jumping out of his skin. "I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!"
"Carve my farewell song on my grave…" Mikau told Link, trying his ghostly best to ignore Link's previous statement. "I'm depending on you to help that singer girl…"
(After short pause, the game designers made the audience assume that Link had just finished burying Mikau's body (which wasn't there, considering he just became a mask), for Link bowed before something that resembled a grave for Mikau.)
"…Well, he's dead now…" Navi paused.
"No he's not!" Link exclaimed.
"Oh? Then who or what did you just bury?" Navi sneered at Link's face.
The stunt double.
"…I hate it when Link is right about when people die…" Navi murmured to herself.
(Muffled and panicked screams came from the grave's general direction.)
"Whatever." Link sighed, pulling out his new mask. "I wanna try on my new mask!"
(Link shoved the Zora mask to his face, only to transform a Zora himself. He had well defined abs, a strikingly handsome face (for a Zora, that is), and the only remnant of his tunic was a green loincloth and his belt. Complete with Ocarina Guitar!)
"Cool!" Link exclaimed with his new and masculine voice. "I'm taller now!"
…Out of all the amazing things that've happened to your previously shrimpy body, that's the one difference you actually notice…
"Wait a minute!!!" Tatl shouted, gazing upon at Zora Link with newfound horror.
"MY HOUSE!!!" Navi screamed, floating over what used to be the household of both fairies.
(The one thing the Narrator had left out when describing Link's manliness was the fact that Link's hat had merged into the back of his head, thus becoming part of it! Now, Link had a pointy head.)
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Navi lamented, her wings drooping, landing on the soft sand. "I'm homeless!!! No where to go, nowhere to play Gamecube, and-and-and my Grandfairy CLOCK!!!"
"There, there, Navi." Fishy Link smiled, kneeling down to the little ball of light, patting her on the back with the tips of his finger. "Everything's gonna be okay… I-I'll even buy a new hat!"
Navi glanced up at her sidekick and her fragile wings perking up, "Y-you really mean that?"
"Hey," Link said, tapping the little Hero of Time atop the head with his index finger, "I promise."
"Awww," Navi sniffed, flying onto Link's arm and hugging it tightly. "LIINNKK, you're such a sweet kid!!!"
Link sighed, attempting to pry the little ball of light from his arm, "Navi you're just a little emotional right no—"
(Tatl subconsciously flew into Link's head.)
"Wait—! What the—!" Link gave out a startled yell, patting his hands all around his head/hat, feeling around to find somewhere Tatl could have flown into, but he came up empty handed.
"Hey Navi!" Tatl called from within Link's head/hat, thus giving Link a slight headache. "Come and take a look!"
"Love to! How do you get in?!" Navi asked, dislodging herself from Link's arm.
"Just fly in!" Tatl's voice called out again.
"..O…kay?" Navi replied uncertainly, questioning the logic of her little yellow roommate.
"—Hey, hold on a minute—!" Link protested, clenching the back of his hat-head as best as anyone with a pointed head could.
(Despite Link's protests, Navi attempted to fly in, and to Link's displeasure, she succeeded. Link started to panic.)
"See? Isn't this awesome!?" Tatl exclaimed enthusiastically, outstretching her arm to gesture that she was showing Navi the 'room'.
(Link felt the same kind of stinging pain he had back when he was a Deku Scrub. Horrible thoughts emerged of what the back/inside of his head would look like to the eyes of the common fairy…and what they would do with it.)
"COOL! We can see his brain!" Navi exclaimed, flying up and down; Link could tell because he could feel the airwaves shift about in what would normally be liquid.
"……What?!"
"Yeah! It's really neat! See, the T.V. is placed right in front of it, and the Gamecube is plugged in right beside it!" Tatl explained.
"…What about the rest of the furnishing?" Zora Link asked; he actually did not want to know the answer to that question himself.
"Oh, they just look gorgeous! They have all been transformed into seashells, and coral!" Tatl drooled at the dazzling furniture in front of her. "It's so beautiful!"
"They aren't on my brain too, are they?" Link fearfully paused, looking behind him as best as he could.
"Nope, a little close to your nerves, but besides that, no." Navi confirmed.
"Wait…What?" Link asked, not sure if he had heard Navi correctly.
(Before any of them could say anything more, there was more air movement (Link could tell, because it was his brain), and Link's left arm immediately extended itself out to the side.)
"Tatl!!! What are you doing?!" Navi hissed.
"I'm sorry! I tripped over one of Link's nerves!" Tatl explained, a little panicky; it sounded like Link's nerves were like important cables running across the floor.
"Is that why my arm lifted up like this?" Link asked the two fairies, pointing to his left arm with his right hand.
(Navi came outside to gaze upon Link's position. Sure enough, his arm was extended. Then she hurriedly whizzed back inside.)
"We can control Link's body movements!" Navi reported to Tatl enthusiastically. "Let's do it again!"
"Wait! No—!" Link gasped, desperately clawing at his head hat in an attempt to stop those crafty fairies.
"Lemme try!" Navi exclaimed, moving more air in Link's head, and giving Link another headache.
"No, I want to!" Tatl snapped back.
"No! You already got to do it! Now it's my turn!" Navi retorted, bobbing up and down, making Link's headache get worse.
(A fight broke out. Link eventually tuned out the angry sounds from inside his head, and also managed to ignore his headache. At this point, Link didn't care who won the argument. Midway through the fight, Link's leg extended straight forward. Link's balance changed; he fell over. Link could only imagine—with utter repulsion—what would have happened if Princess Ruto had this kind of power at her disposal.)
"EEWWW!" Tatl exclaimed so abruptly that it gave Link a migraine.
"Ow!!! What?!" Link asked in annoyance, shaking his head from the pain.
"The TV just turned on." Navi stated Link.
"And it's showing Lulu naked!" Tatl screamed with disgust, mentally scarred for she had now seen the lead singer of the Indigo-gos naked. "I know you're wearing the mask of Mikau, but—BUT—!"
"No dear, that's Ruto, and she's always naked." Navi corrected the disgusted Tatl.
"You know, I was just thinking about Ruto…" Link pondered, putting his hand on his moist and scaly chin.
(Link soon learned to regret that he told the fairies this.)
"Wait, does that mean we can read your thoughts with the TV?" Tatl asked thoughtfully.
Watch.
"Watch your thoughts with the TV?" Tatl corrected herself, glaring at the intercom.
Yep.
"Sweet!" both fairies exclaimed at the same time.
(Link decided it was best to ignore the fairies as he continued on his quest. Link's life never was that simple.)
"Hey, authoress…person…thingy!" Navi shouted towards the intercom, facing the ceiling of Link's skull. "You've been extremely quiet considering how you acted last time you were with us."
What? You want me to say something?
"OH GOOD GODDESSES, NO!" both Link and Navi screamed.
…Wow guys, real mature…
(After that brief interlude, Link thought it best to continue on his quest, and to fulfill Mikau's last dying wish—even though he really didn't want to. But as he continued down the beach, Link kept thinking about the strangest things. First there was this stupid guy with brown spiky hair, and his blonde and klutzy girlfriend. They had been taken to the Tower of Somethingation, and were explained about two worlds living intertwined: Silverant and Tetheralla…or something. And there was this serious man wearing purple, and a not so serious man with long red hair wearing pink. And there were other strange people too, but he couldn't stop thinking about the man in purple and the man in pink. Heck, he couldn't stop thinking any of this nonsen—)
"Zelos is so awesome!!!" Tatl cheered, button mashing the buttons on the Gamecube controller.
(Link should have known…)
Yes, he should have.
"No way! Kratos is WAY cooler!" Navi snapped back.
Link sighed, walking through a cave, "What are you two doing?"
"Link answer this question! Who do you like better? Kratos or Zelos?" Navi demanded from her little apprentice.
"Come on, Zelos is so much more cool!" Tatl exclaimed.
"…Who?" Link asked.
"Okay Link, here's how it is: Kratos is a guy who's awesome and wears purple. Zelos is a guy that looks like a woman wearing—" Navi explained quickly so Link could hurry up and decide which one was better.
"You mean the serious guy wearing purple and the guy wearing pink?" Link asked, rubbing his head.
"No—! Wait…Yeah…" Navi pondered.
"…Dude, we can control Link's thoughts with the Gamecube…" Tatl smirked looking at the TV.
(Or so they thought.)
"…What the heck? Wigijigiland?" Navi asked.
(Tales of Symphonia had shut itself down and now an adorable picture of the white wolfos.)
"Aw man! We hadn't saved our progress!" Tatl grumbled, throwing back her controller and tossing it against one of Link's nerves.
(Link let out a maniacal laugh. He laughed so hard that he didn't notice his right hand twitch.)
"LINK, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!?" Navi yelled loudly into Link's brain and giving him yet another headache which he chose to ignore.
"Nothing!" Link exclaimed triumphantly, as he continued to strut forwards.
"Okay! That's it!" Navi yelled within Link's skull, making the headache worse. "Tatl, come here!"
(Insert plotting here.)
"Tatl! Crack out the paint!"
(What scared Link the most about this statement was not the fact that he heard many clinking and clattering of paint buckets, but of how many sounds of many different paint buckets being dragged across the 'floor', there were. That's when Link lifted his arms in the air.)
"Okay, Tatl, go see what that did." Navi instructed Tatl.
(She flew outside.)
Tatl examined Link, she deduced that Link's arms being raised upright up in the air actually was odd behaviour for him; she called back to Navi "…he lifted his arms in the air!"
"Okay! So pink…is…for lifting…his arms in the…air!" Navi stated; Link assumed that she was writing for he could hear sounds of scribbling.
"What are you two doing?!" Link asked, traumatized.
"We're making a colour coding chart for your nerves." Navi explained, "Like people do for electrical wires."
"We are painting your nerves to see which one does which." Tatl explained before Link had a chance to ask Navi what electrical wires were and then burst into, "Okay, what's next?"
(That was when Link's left arm started spinning in small circles.)
"That one makes his left arm spin around in circles!" Tatl shouted.
"Okay! Blue…is…for…" Navi stated again as she continued to colour code Link's nerves.
"Dude… That isn't scientifically possible!" Link protested towards the roof of the cave.
…This is fanFICTION. I don't care if what they are doing can't possibly happen!
"…But aren't you the authoress who creates scientifically possible explanations for all of her OCs, and criticizes TV shows, movies, games, and basically any other media that don't have the level of scientifically plausible details you craft?" Link pointed out.
Yeah, but your not one of my OCs. Hence FANfiction.
(Link's Zora black eyeballs glared at the intercom.)
…And besides, I don't want to map out the parts out the parts of the brain, and how they affect the brainstem for the audience so it will be scientifically possible. It's cuter this way.
"Hypocrite." Zora Link muttered.
(With that Link's right arm impulsively started flailing.)
"Link's arm flailed around!" Tatl noted.
"'Kay!" Navi confirmed. "Red…makes Link…"
(This continued for quite a while—Navi would twang one of Link's nerves, Link would do a random motion with his arms or legs (if his legs, Link would usually fall over) and Tatl would tell Navi what Link did—until Link reached the his destination on autopilot. Which was, greatest of great, the…the…the place that the Scriptwriter's laziness leaves me without knowing the name of the area. Anyways, it was like Zora's Domain, in respect to the background music, the Zora inhabitants, etc, only more flamboyant, and filled with more coral and shells. In the center of the area a seashell stage, surrounded by water, had been set up and it occupied the majority of the room. However, behind the platform, there were several rooms built into the walls, each with a Zora standing guard in front of them. Off to the side there was a twisted pathway that weaved off to the side and forked off to a ledge for a small audience to watch whatever was performed on the stage. Along the twisted hallway, there was a large, open doorway that apparently led outside. After taking in this sight, Zora Link walked over to the first door behind the stage.)
"Hey, Mikau… I haven't seen you in a while." The Zora standing guard smiled. "Where have you been?"
Link grinned, "Well I've—"
(Link's right leg jolted unexpectedly forward; he accidentally kicked the Zora guard in the gut with a force that caused the guy to be flung against the wall and get knocked unconscious.)
"That made him kick down a Zora." Tatl called to Navi.
"Ohh…" Link moped; he examined the out cold Zora guard, "I rather liked him…"
"Okay! That can be useful! Let's see… Dusky Tahiti Rose…makes him…kick…people…" Navi continued to scribble, "Hard!"
"…I wonder who's in here…" Link pondered, turning his attention away from the Zora.
(Link opened the door and wandered inside. He saw a flat Zora playing drums. Link seemed to think he resemble a Manta Ray. Or was that related to that Tales of Symphonies thing Tatl and Navi were going on about?)
"Mikau? Where've you been? Where've you been?" The Manta Ray Zora asked. "I was so worried."
"Well, uh… Yeah!" Link smiled. He was doing his best to try to impersonate Mikau; it was hard to get a grasp on someone's character after only knowing them for four pages. "I was…around!"
(A moment like this was probably the most inappropriate time for Link to hop on one foot.)
"Now he's hopping on one foot!" Tatl shouted.
"Good!" Navi called back to Tatl. "Twilight Mahogany…makes him…hop…on…one…foot…!"
"Uhhhh…" The Manta Ray Zora paused, "…The concert in town is coming up, but it seems like all the band members are in a funk. I betcha didn't know that, huh?"
(It was clear that the Manta Ray Zora was trying his Manta Ray-ly best to disregard what Mikau's body was doing.)
"Well, uh, thanks for informing me!" Link chuckled nervously; he really wished he would just stop hopping already.
"Especially Lulu." The Manta Ray Zora continued, "I haven't heard her voice in a long time. She's usually in good spirits, too. … Ooh! Ooh! O—"
"COFFEE BREAK!" Navi yelled over-enthusiastically from within 'Mikau's head.
Tatl whizzed into Link's head. "Oh goody!" was the only cry that could be heard as she zipped inside.
The Manta Ray Zora, who had been a good sport to Link's behaviour couldn't take it anymore, "…What are those voices I keep hearing?"
"Oh, umm… They're…gifts! Yes, gifts for…um…"
"Lulu?" the Manta Ray Zora asked.
"Yes! Exactly! Lulu!" Link exclaimed. "Anyways, don't mind me, carry on!"
"'Carry on'? Mikau, what has gotten into you?" the Manta Ray Zora questioned, attempting to cock its head to the side and flail about at the same time. "Well, whatever. You know how Lulu's all upset and stuff?"
"Yeeesssss…" Link dragged out this particular 'yes' in such a way that he, hoped that he, made it seem like he knew what was going on; which in reality, he didn't.
"I wonder if this is related to the ocean turning all weird…" the Manta Ray Zora pondered, "Actually… I know a little bit of Lulu's secret. Do you want to hear it?"
"I'd love to hear about my sweetheart." Zora Link smirked.
(After making this statement, Link could almost hear the harsh whisper of Navi nagging him not to over do it; but decided to ignore it.)
"Now THAT'S the Mikau we know and love!" the Manta Ray Zora exclaimed in relief.
(An awkward silence could be felt radiating off of the back of his head, from both fairies.)
"Anyway, there's a rumour that the ocean is getting weird 'cause there's trouble off shore at Great Bay Temple." The Manta Ray Zora whispered to Link. "And they say when that happens, something back will befall the Zora descendant who's been protecting the temple. Do you catch my drift?"
"Yeah, I'm getting' ya…" Link kept nodding and smiling; now he at least had a grasp of what the real Mikau was like when he wasn't dying from stab wounds.
The Manta Ray Zora lowered his voice, "And lately, Lulu has been looking kind of weird. Maybe Lulu's the—"
"OKAY, TIME'S UP! Let's get going again!" Navi yelled like a foreman.
"No! Guys!" Link hissed to them. "Shh—!"
"Here, Tatl, help me by strumming Seaweed Aquamarine after I strum Hot Neon Pink, 'kay?" Navi instructed.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait—" Link stammered, very alarmed indeed; Hot Neon Pink…Seaweed Aquamarine?!
(Link's right leg extended, in which the Manta Ray Zora responded with a raised eyebrow, and was shortly followed his left leg. In order to not fall onto the ground, which Link had done numerous times before and probably had his body covered in scrapes and bruises, Link fought his reflexes and forced his right foot down on the ground again. When Link had succeeded with placing his left leg to the ground, his right leg popped up again. Thus resulting in him stepping a forward. Link looked nervously at the Manta Ray Zora, and Link hoped he hadn't ruined Mikau's reputation forever; but all Link got in return was a blank and stupefied stare. Before Link could make up an explanation, his left leg popped out again. Even after Link had been forced to walk out the door, this odd walking motion—produced by Navi and Tatl's combined efforts—he still met the eyes of any Zoras out in the rest of the flamboyant domain. Soon, he reached the guard Zora in front of the door to the right of the door he walked out of.)
"…Hi!" Link chuckled to the Zora guard, which was all he could really do when the fairies had control of his nerves.
"Mikau… Do you need to see Japas?" the Zora asked, chuckling slightly when he started to open the door for Link.
"Erm…uhh…" Link, unsure to respond.
The Zora guard held back a snort, "You're gonna have another jam session with him, aren't you?"
"I…uh…" Link stuttered.
"YES!" Navi yelled the response to the Zora's question, within Link's skull, but loud enough for the Zora to hear.
"I can't wait!" the Zora exclaimed, both oblivious to the fact that Link—who now suffered from a splitting headache—didn't say anything, and also unaware and unsympathetic towards the Zora who still lay unconscious beside the other door.
(Within a situation like this, Link had no choice but to enter that room and speak to this 'Japas' guy… When Link entered the room, there was a lone Zora standing in a spotlight in the middle of the room, who Link assumed to be Japas, and played a fish bone guitar scarily similar to Mikau's.)
"Mikau!!! Where've ya been?" Japas greeted.
"Um… Hey, Japas…" Link cracked a smile out of the corner of his mouth as he waved uncertainly.
"I'm all, like, 'Hey, where's Mikau? The concert's comin' up soon!' And now our band leader has pulled a vanishing act—Evan's all holed up in his room just writin' songs…" Japas ranted; he crossed his arms in disbelief.
"Really!" Link shouted in what he hoped to sound like disbelief, and glared off into an innocent corner. "That Evan! Honestly doesn't that guy ever do anything useful?!"
"Yeah! You're so, like, right!" Japas agreed, using the back of his hand to flip one of the fins on his head.
(Link knew that Navi was probably whispering 'who's Evan?' to him, and since the TV showed what he thought at the time, his response was 'I dunno'. In fact, Link had no idea how good (or what he thought was good) an actor he was.)
"And to top it off, Lulu just stands out back starin' at the sea. She doesn't even respond when ya talk to her." Japas sighed.
"Really?" Link asked.
(At this point, Link actually wished he knew what Lulu—apart from the fact that she was like Ruto, only with clothes—was like, and he also wondered if she was hot…)
"If you guys think its just 'cause Lulu's not interested in me, I'd understand, but I'm tellin' ya, it looks like somethin's really wrong. Is there somethin' you're trying to hide from me?" Japas eyed Link meaningfully.
"Well, uh…" Link stuttered, awkwardly looking off to the side.
"I'm not runnin' an inquiry or anything…" Japas sighed, "But, look… If we don't start rehearsin' real soon, we're not gonna be ready for the concert."
"Okay, I'll go see what's up with Evan." Link smiled feebly at Japas. "And maybe talk to him about all this."
No you won't.
Japas instantly turned to the ceiling, with a puzzled expression across his face, "Yo, man. Did, like, the roof just speak?"
"GAH!" Navi hissed. "I HATE running gags!
