Here is the final chapter! Sorry it took me so long to get it up, I had it finished yesterday, but my computer refused to work that day :-(
But now I managed to get it to work, by promising to not water my plants while it is sitting next to them (guess it doesn't like water, go figure...)
Chapter 10
Clones and Link's Wallet and The End
"I…can't…take it anymore!!" Linebeck shouted, hitting his head against the ship's railing. Marin had stolen the blacksmith's record player, and she had been continually playing the 'if you're happy and you know it' song for over two days as they traveled back to Mercay Island. "Make it stop!" Link shouted as he ran around the ship frantically. The fairy had hidden her new music player, somewhere where no one could find it. "We'll just have to blow up the whole ship!" Link shouted finally, beginning to cackle maniacally.
"No, Link! Nooooooo!" Linebeck shouted, grabbing the bombs from the boy before he could throw them. "Violence isn't the answer! Besides we need the ship! …We'll have to kill the fairy!"
"I thought you said violence wasn't the answer!" Link shouted over Marin's clapping and cheering.
"Sometimes, you have to do things you don't want to do, in order to survive! Now let's get her!" Linebeck shouted. Suddenly the two had large pitchforks and torches in their hands, and they were soon chasing the little fairy around the ship.
"Running from angry villagers!" Marin shouted excitedly as she flew over the railing and hovered over the water. Link and Linebeck, who had been focused on the fairy and not on where they were going, followed Marin into the air and soon found themselves in the ocean. "Stupid fairy!" Link shouted as soon as the two had resurfaced. Marin just cackled happily before going back to the ship. "Hey, don't leave us here! There's no islands here!" Linebeck shouted as the ship started to move away. Marin gave a frustrated sigh, but then she swung the salvage arm around and picked them out of the water before dropping them onto the deck. "Ahha! Now we'll get her!" Link shouted as soon as they had landed.
Linebeck sighed and grabbed the boy before he could go running off, "We've arrived at Mercay. Let's forget the fairy for now," he said.
"Fine!" Link said, pouting.
"Well, get going! Good luck fighting Bellum, and all that. And don't forget your Phantom Dagger!" Linebeck said cheerfully.
"I hate you," Link said as he grabbed the large pole that had the dagger tied to it.
The boy shot another glare at Linebeck, who was smiling happily, before running towards the Temple of the Ocean King. Before he could make it there, though, Oshus jumped out of nowhere and landed in front of Link, who started to scream. "Would you stop that!" Oshus shouted after a minutes. Link quickly stopped his high-pitched screaming and glared at the old man, "What do you want anyway?" Link asked.
"I'm here to empower your new sword with the Sand of Hours! Meet me at my house!" Oshus said cheerfully.
"Why don't you just do it here?" Link asked, frowning.
"Don't question your elders, fool!" Oshus shouted, hitting Link with his staff. "Now go to my house!"
"Never!" Link shouted, but he followed the Ocean King towards the small house anyway.
Once they were inside, Oshus turned to face Link, "Now, Link. Give me the Phantom Sword and the Phantom Hourglass!"
"Ok…" Link said as he handed the requested items over.
"Now, with the sand inside the… What the heck is this!?" Oshus shouted, waving the small dagger around in the air.
"Um, that's the Phantom Dagger…" Link said hesitantly.
Oshus glared at the young boy.
"Zauz left it in the furnace thingy for too long…"
"You honestly think I'm going to believe that!?" Oshus shouted. "You honestly think that I'm going to believe that the most skillful blacksmith in the world, the one who crafted many a weapon for me a long time ago, made a mistake!?"
"Well, yeah!" Link said, crossing his arms. "It was his fault!"
"Well, I think it's yours! And now I can't do anything with this stupid thing!" Oshus shouted as he threw the dagger back at Link, who started to scream the minute he saw the small blade heading towards him. "I was going to empower the blade with more super powers, but nooooo! It won't be able to hold any more powers, with that size!"
"Super powers?" Link asked curiously after he had ran away from the dagger.
"No! No super powers for you!" Oshus shouted. "You'll just have to kill Bellum without the Sand of Hours on your sword!"
"Darn!" Link shouted. "Oh well. Can I at least have my Hourglass back? I kind of need it."
"No Hourglass for you! Muhahahahahahaha!" Oshus shouted, and he dumped all of the sand outside through his window.
"Noooooo!" Link shouted. "Now how am I supposed to get to Bellum!?"
"Oh…oops! I forgot about that!" Oshus said. "Oh well. You'll just have to kill Bellum without the Sand of Hours on your sword, and without the Hourglass protecting you!"
"Darn!" Link shouted.
"Well, good luck with that, then!" Oshus said, and he threw Link outside, along with the dagger, before quickly closing the door. "Muhahahahahahahaha!" Oshus shouted as soon as his door was locked.
"He's lost it," Link commented before casually making his way to the Temple. Before he could even get there, however, Linebeck jumped out from behind some bushes in an attempt to scare the boy. It worked; Link started screaming the minute Linebeck had shouted 'boo!'. "Link, it was just a joke!" Linebeck shouted over Link's screams.
"You're mean!" Link shouted back, finished screaming for the moment.
"Oh, it's you. What? There are times when I want to be alone too!" Linebeck said suddenly.
Link stared at him, "Ok… I'll just be going now…"
"But look at you, kid! You've got the Phantom Sword!"
"…No I don't, fool!" Link shouted.
"That means you can enter the Temple of the Ocean King and beat that beast!"
"I know what it means, fool!" Link shouted, but he was ignored as Linebeck went through his speech that he had been planning since he had met the boy.
"That's right! It's time to finally return Tetra back to normal and save the day!" Linebeck said cheerfully.
"And get my wallet!" Link reminded the man with a pout.
"Yeah, whatever. Just don't get yourself done in!"
"Done in!? What's that supposed to mean?!" Link shouted, starting to panic.
"It means die, fool! I think… Anyway, where was I?" Linebeck started to skim through the piece of paper he had with him. "Let's see, you have the Phantom Sword…don't get done in…yada yada…here we are! Yeah, that's right, all I do around here is mop decks!"
"Ok…"
"That's what you think? Kid, adventuring with you has given me a taste of what it's like to be a hero!"
"Really?" Link asked, frowning in surprise.
"Not really, but I wrote this speech before I actually got to know you. Now, stop interrupting me!"
"Oh fine!"
"But here we part. It's all up to you now! I'll just be here, mopping the deck!" Linebeck said, and he pulled a wet mop out of his pocket and started to clean the grass.
"Ok then, um… Are you done now, or what?" Link asked. "Because I kind of have to get going…"
"Oh! That's right! One more thing! Hey, Ciela!"
"Ciela isn't here fool!"
"Yeah, whatever. Take care of the kid! You look out for him, got it!?"
The two were silent for a few minutes. "Can I go now?" Link asked.
"Sure, see you!" Linebeck said, and he went skipping off, back to his ship.
"Everyone is going crazy around here!" Link shouted as he ran over to the temple. As soon as he had arrived, he was surprised to see both Oshus and Marin waiting there for him near the entrance. "'Hoy there small fry!" Marin shouted.
"What are you guys doing here?" Link asked.
"I'm here to dump Marin on you, loser!" Oshus shouted before cackling maniacally. "And besides, you need someone who can carry the hammer!"
"What are you talking about?! I can carry it!" Link whined. He pulled the large hammer our of his pocket and started to try and swing it around. He ended up falling to the floor as the hammer was too heavy for him. "Darn!" Link shouted.
"I'll do it!" Marin shouted, and she picked up the hammer with ease and threw it inside the temple before following it.
"Well, good luck in there, loser!" Oshus shouted, as if loser was Link's new name.
"Why can't you do something?" Link whined. "So far, you haven't done anything helpful, at all!"
"That's because I'm old! Old people don't have to do anything useful if they don't want to! Now get in there!" Oshus shouted, and he threw Link inside before running back to his house.
After Link had recovered from his hard landing, he stood up to see Marin hitting the talking skeletons with her hammer. "Marin, stop that!" Link shouted.
"Hey, thanks for saving us!" one of the skeletons said happily after Marin had stopped.
"Yeah, whatever," Link said.
"Hey, since you're so helpful, we'll help you!"
"Hooray!" both Link and Marin cheered.
"That's right! If you pay us, we'll give you hints!"
"How much?" Link asked curiously.
"Um, one hundred rupees?"
"Booooo!" both Link and Marin booed.
"Never mind, Marin, go get them!" Link said casually.
"Muhahahahahahaha"! Marin shouted as she started to continue hitting the skeletons with her hammer.
After a few minutes of doing this, the temple started to shake. "Now look at what you did!" Link scolded Marin as the room they were in started to suddenly fall. Both of them screamed, even though Marin wasn't as scared as she let on, seeing how she still managed to continue hitting the skeletons. The room finally stopped falling, and the two of them were thrown to the ground at the sudden drop in speed. "We underground now!" Marin said happily. She suddenly put on a large yellow helmet that had a small flashlight on it and put it on.
"You have a light bulb too!?" Link shouted. "How come everyone but me has one!?"
"Don't know!"
"Fine, let's just go," Link said miserably.
They left the room and found themselves in another, larger one. This one had a pool of water in it, and a small bridge crossed it and led towards a large, steep flight of stairs. Link shrugged and ran over the bridge. Marin followed, hitting the bridge as she went with her large hammer. Just as they made it across, the bridge collapsed, unable to stand the constant beating that the hammer was giving out. "Marin, now we can't get back!" Link whined.
"I can!" Marin shouted, flying back and forth very quickly in order to prove it.
"Fine, but I can't get back! And that's more important anyway!"
"I can get back!" Marin shouted.
"Oh forget it! It looks like there's only one way to go now!" Link said, and he grabbed Marin before running up the stairs, ignoring Marin's protests that they were leaving the hammer behind.
After they had climbed the stairs, they were inside an even larger room. This one had a small pool of water in the center of the floor, and stairs spiraled upwards to other floors. By this time, Link was very tired from the long climb, Marin was very angry over losing the hammer, and the large monster that was flying around was very embarrassed on being caught in the middle of his dance recital. Bellum, as that was the monster that was there, quickly stopped spinning around and turned to face the intruders. One of them, the green one, was pointing at it and screaming at the top of his lungs, and the fairy was flying in circles around the screaming boy, shouting about how she needed the hammer. "You must be Bellum!" Link shouted after a few minutes of just screaming. The monster just rolled its eyes at the boy. "Ahha! I knew it! Bring it! I need my wallet!" Link shouted. "Wallet!!" Link shouted, using this word as a battle cry as he started to charge the monster, his large pole with the dagger tied to it pointing right at Bellum. The monster dodged easily to the side, and Link went running right past him, unable to stop from his very fast pace.
"Stupid Bellum!" Link shouted as he tried to pull the dagger from the wall where it was currently stuck.
"I'm hungry! And you look yummy!" Bellum shouted. Link screamed and then quickly abandoned the dagger as he went running around the room.
"I'm not tasty at all!" Link shouted while Bellum just watched the boy with a confused expression.
"I eat the life force you fool!" Bellum shouted.
"Oh! Wait…does this mean I'll be a statue too!?"
"Um, probably."
"Noooooo! I need to get my wallet first! Here, take this instead!" Link said, and he threw Marin at the monster. Bellum gave a tired sigh when Marin started to hit the monster with her squeaking balloon hammer.
"I can't take it anymore!!" Bellum shouted, and he quickly jumped into the pool and disappeared, much to Marin's disappointment.
"Yes! I got it!" Link said happily.
"Got it! Got it!" Marin shouted, dancing around.
"Go me! I am Super Link, and soon I will have my wallet!" Link shouted. "Muhahahahahahahahahahaha!" Just as the boy had stopped his mad laughter, a large green light came flying towards him. "Nooooooo!" Link screamed.
The light stopped right in front of him, and a few minutes later it faded away, leaving behind three fairies whom Link recognized. "Link, you're such an idiot!" Ciela shouted.
"Noooooo! They're back!" Link shouted, shaking his fist angrily at the ceiling. "Whhhhhyyyyyyy!!"
"Link, stop being so dramatic!" Ciela shouted.
"Darn! Fine. Hey, why are you back anyway? You all died!"
"Well, me and Leaf just melted," Neri started to explain, "And then someone threw us into the ocean where Bellum could find us!" both Neri and Leaf glared at Marin, who began to cackle happily. "And apparently Ciela cloned herself a bunch of times."
"Yes, I like clones! Muhahahahahahahaha!" Ciela shouted as a bunch of fairies that looked just like her began to pour into the room, laughing just like Ciela. Link stared at all the fairies with wide eyes. "Be gone, stupid fairies!" Ciela shouted at her other clones. "One of you can take over if something happens to me!"
"Ok!" all the other Cielas said, and they left just as quickly as they had come.
"Hey, listen! Guess what!" Ciela said excitedly while Marin started to chase the other two Spirits around the room with her balloon hammer.
"What?" Link asked tiredly.
"I got all of my memories back!"
"Now how do you know that? If you didn't get them all back, how would you be able to tell?! It's not like you can remember!"
"Be quiet! I got all my memories back! And guess what else!"
"What?"
"I'm the Spirit of Courage and Time!"
"You get two jobs!? That's not fair for the other Spirits!" Link said.
"Muhahahahahahahaha! I know! …I mean…uh… sure it is! It's much harder to do two jobs!"
"Yeah, I guess…" Link said uncertainly. Suddenly the room started to shake, throwing Link to the floor for the second time that day.
"What did you do!?" Ciela shouted as the other fairies came flying back down.
"It was Marin! It's her fault!" Leaf shouted quickly.
"Hammered ceiling!" Marin said happily.
"…You broke the ceiling with a balloon?" Ciela asked with a frown.
"Yes!" Marin said.
"Huh."
"Guys, I don't wanna die!" Link whined as chunks of large rock began to fall towards them. "What do we do?"
"Um… everybody upstairs!" Ciela shouted. Everyone ran, or flew, towards the staircase, but before they could start heading up, the stairs collapsed to the ground.
"Nooooo!" Link shouted. "Now what?" Everyone turned to look at Ciela.
"Um, everybody outside!"
They all ran out of the room, only to stop short when they saw Bellum sitting in a corner and sulking. "Everybody inside!" Ciela shouted before the monster spotted them. The group quickly went back into the room that was falling apart. "Your plans stink, Ciela!" Link shouted as he started to jump around, trying to avoid the ceiling pieces that were still coming down. He started to scream when a particularly large piece started to fall towards him.
Meanwhile, while Link was screaming and the fairies were conversing amongst themselves about what they would do once Link was gone, Linebeck was examining the statue of Tetra. "Hey, I think I found out how to get the wallet!" Linebeck said excitedly.
"No wallet for you! Gwahahahahahaha!" Oshus shouted from behind him.
"Hey! How did you get in my ship!?" Linebeck demanded.
"Um…I don't know."
"How could you not know?!"
"I don't know! One minute I was watching the Care Bear movie, and the next thing I know, I'm here, yelling at you!"
Linebeck stared at the Ocean King, "You got issues, old man." the sailor said finally before turning back to Tetra. "Hey, come look at this for a second, old man! Old man?" Linebeck turned around to see Oshus dancing.
"Nobody cares like a bear!" the old man started to sing in a strained voice.
"Oh boy," Linebeck said, slapping his forehead with a hand. Suddenly Link appeared above the sailor, and then fell on top of Linebeck, causing the man to collapse from the extra weight.
"Oh, look! It's Link! Hiya Link!" Oshus said happily. "Let's sing together!"
"Ok!" Link shouted, jumping up excitedly.
The two started to dance around the room and sing the song that Oshus had been singing before. Linebeck and the fairies just stared at the two with unbelieving expressions. "How did you guys even get here?" Linebeck asked Ciela after awhile.
"I stopped time with my super powers, and then we just walked here!" Ciela said, starting to cackle maniacally.
"…So how did Link end up falling from the air?"
"Oh, Marin was throwing him. She likes to throw things."
"Oh."
"Oh, look! Look at Tetra!" Ciela shouted suddenly. Linebeck and the other fairies quickly turned around, Oshus and Link kept dancing and singing.
"She's returning back to normal!" Neri said happily. This caught the other two's attention, and they quickly ran over to the group that was gathered around the now glowing statue.
"Yes, yes, I used my powers (which are returning) to save Tetra!" Oshus said cheerfully.
"No you didn't, fool!" Link shouted.
"Well fine, be that way!" Oshus said crossly.
The statue began to glow even brighter, but after a few seconds Link got bored, and he gave the statue a shove. Tetra fell to the ground, and the stone that was surrounding her shattered. The girl quickly got up and glared at Link, "Thanks a lot, idiot!" Tetra shouted.
"No problem! Guess what!"
Tetra sighed tiredly, "Now what?"
"I went on an adventure!"
"I know, I was able to watch you," Tetra said in a bored voice.
"You were? Darn!" Link shouted, upset that he wouldn't be able to lie about what had happened and make himself out to be a hero.
"Oh, phew! Looks like you're going to be ok!" Ciela said happily.
"Yeah, whatever," Tetra said. While she and Ciela started to argue about nothing in particular, Link slowly started to sneak behind Tetra in an attempt to get his wallet. An attempt that failed, however, as Tetra had known what he was up to. She rolled her eyes before whirling around and hitting Link with the shovel that Marin had kindly lent her.
"Ow! Noooooo! My wallet!" Link shouted.
"I told you that you'd get it back after we found my gun!" Tetra shouted at the boy.
"No you didn't!" Link argued.
"Yes I- hmm, maybe I didn't. But anyway, I'm saying it now! I want my gun!"
"But there is no gun!" Link whined.
"What are you talking about?" Tetra snapped.
"The treasure was all made up, to trap people."
"Who told you that rubbish?" Tetra asked with a frown.
"Um, the Ocean King," Link said, pointing at the old man.
Oshus waved slowly, "Yeah… about that. Um, I might have exaggerated a little…"
"What!?" Linebeck shouted. "You mean there really is a treasure!?"
"Well of course there is!" Tetra shouted.
"Darn!" Link shouted.
"I wanted the treasure for myself, muhahahahahaha!" Oshus shouted.
"How could you!?" all three Spirits shouted.
"Got shovel!" Marin shouted.
"I wanted to be rich! Rich I tell you! Rich!" Oshus said, laughing madly.
"Where is it?! Where's the treasure?" Linebeck demanded.
"Um, I have it here…" Oshus said, rummaging around in his pocket.
"You brought it with you?" Link asked.
"Well, yeah! It's just so pretty!" The old man finally pulled out a small seashell.
Everyone stared at it with disappointed expressions. "That's it?" Linebeck asked after awhile.
"Yup! This is the treasure!" Oshus said, admiring the white coloring.
"How can you get rich off of that?!" Link asked, pouting.
"Um… well, like the Care Bears say, there are different kinds of riches!"
"Oh for crying out loud!" Tetra said. "Link, grab it! We might be able to sell it to some loser!"
"Why me?" Link whined.
"Because I'm still the captain, and I said so!" the girl shouted.
"Hey, I thought I was captain!" Linebeck shouted.
"You are! Of this pathetic ship anyway. My ship is much bigger and cooler looking! Now go get the stupid treasure!"
Oshus gave a high pitched scream when Link started to run towards him. "Noooo, it's mine!" Oshus shouted as Link tried to pry the shell from the old man's grasp. Oshus started to hit the boy with his staff, trying to get him to let go. "Ow! Ow! Ow!" Link shouted, every time the staff fell on his head. The others just watched with amused expressions. Finally Link managed to get it, and he quickly ran back to Tetra, leaving Oshus to sulk in a corner over having lost the tug-of-war game. "Here you go!" Link said, and he threw the shell at the pirate captain.
"Finally! The treasure is all mine!" Tetra shouted happily.
"Can I have my wallet back now?" Link whined.
"Sure, here you go," Tetra said. She grabbed the wallet from her pocket and slowly began to hand it to the boy.
"Come on, give it to me!" Link said impatiently.
"I'm building up the suspense!" Tetra said, still slowly stretching her hand out. Before Link could finally grab it, though, Bellum came out of nowhere and grabbed the girl, pulling her out of the engine room. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Link shouted.
"What was that!?" Linebeck shouted over Link's crying.
"Hey, everyone! Get outside!" Ciela shouted. The group quickly ran out of the engine room, Marin pulling a still sobbing Link along with her as she left.
Outside, Bellum was flying around with Tetra still in his grasp. "Look, it's the Ghost Ship!" Linebeck said, pointing to a large ship that was arriving. Bellum flew over to this ship and went inside of it. A few seconds later and a bunch of creepy eyes began to appear all over the ship's wooden surface. "Hey! Did he just posses that Ghost Ship!?" Linebeck shouted. "We have to chase after him! I'll take the wheel, prepare to man the cannon, Link! …Link?" Everyone turned to see Link slowly crawling back into the engine room, still crying over losing his wallet again. "Fine, old man, looks like you'll have to fire the cannon!" Linebeck said.
"Oh but, the Care Bears teach us to care, not hate!" Oshus protested.
"Fine! Ciela?"
"Can't, sorry. I already have two jobs, I can't handle three."
"Leaf?" Linebeck asked desperately.
Leaf gasped, "Are you crazy!? I'd break a nail handling that thing!"
"Neri?"
"What Leaf said," Neri said in a bored voice.
Linebeck sighed sadly, "Fine, Marin."
"Yes! Manning cannon!" Marin shouted, and she started to fire all of their bombs in random directions.
"You could at least wait until we get moving!" Linebeck shouted as he ran to the wheel.
As they chased the large Ghost Ship, Marin managed to hit some of the eyes a few times, cheering each time she did. After a few hours, Bellum got bored, and so he destroyed most of the Ghost Ship, leaving behind a few platforms here and there for people to walk on. "Haha! I think he had enough punishment from the S.S. Linebeck!" Linebeck shouted happily.
"You named the ship after yourself?" Ciela asked. "That's lame!"
"It is not!" Linebeck protested. "Now, let's climb aboard this thing!" Everyone except for Link (he was still in the engine room crying) was about to jump over to the remainder of the Ghost Ship when Linebeck suddenly stopped them, "But wait, it'll be dangerous over there! Maybe we should save first!" Everyone stared at him with confused expression. "Um…never mind. Let's go!" Linebeck said quickly, and they all jumped aboard.
"Look, there's Tetra!" Ciela said, pointing to the girl; she was sleeping on one of the floating platforms. Link came running over to them, "Finally! Now I'll get my wallet!" Link shouted. He was just about to jump over to the pirate when suddenly Bellum grabbed the girl again. "Nooooo!" Link shouted. At this moment, a large piece of wood from the ship fell on top of Linebeck's ship, causing it to sink into the ocean. "Grandpa!" both Link and Ciela shouted.
"My ship!" Linebeck shouted.
"Why did he have to die!?" Link shouted. "I never got to find out if he was as good a cook as Granny!" Link said. While Link was screaming about delicious soup, Bellum reached out and grabbed the boy in an attempt to get him to shut up. It didn't work, however, as Link started to scream even louder when he realized that he was being held by a giant monster.
"Take this!" Link shouted, and he threw his tiny dagger at the monster. Unfortunately, he threw it the wrong way, and it ended up hitting Linebeck. "Ow!" Linebeck shouted. "Man, this thing is pathetic, it didn't even kill me!" the man said as he picked up the dagger from the ground. Just as he had picked it up, Bellum had tried to grab Linebeck, so the dagger ended up poking the large monster, much to both the monster's and Linebeck's dismay. "Sorry! Don't kill me!" Linebeck shouted as he pulled the dagger out.
"You poked me! Now I will kill you!" Bellum shouted over Link's screaming.
"Run, Linebeck! Run! Go get Grandpa! He'll know what to do! Oh no, I forgot! Grandpa sank! Noooooo!"
"Shut up already!" Bellum shouted, and he threw Link away from him and grabbed Linebeck instead. As soon as Link fell on the hard, wooden floor, he realized how tired he was, and so he promptly fell asleep. Ciela woke him up a few minutes later, "Link, wake up already!" the fairy shouted at the boy.
"Fine! I'll sleep later!" Link shouted as he sat up. He screamed when he saw Linebeck being possessed by Bellum.
"Link, do something!" Linebeck shouted.
"Hey, you don't look so good!" Link said cheerfully as the sailor suddenly turned to a grayish color.
"Gwaaaaarg!" Linebeck shouted.
"Gwaaaarg? That's not a word, stupid Linebeck!" Link scolded.
Suddenly, a helmet came out of nowhere and landed on top of Linebeck's head. It was then that the man started to attack Link.
"Nooooooo! Linebeck is mean!" Link shouted as the possessed Linebeck started to chase Link all around the large platform.
"That's not Linebeck, you fool!" Ciela shouted. "That's Bellum!"
But Link ignored the fairy, "I'm ignoring you!" the boy shouted. He paused long enough to spit his tongue out at Ciela. Unfortunately, Bellum had been right behind Link, and so the short pause gave the monster enough time to catch up to the boy. "Nooooo!" Link shouted as Bellum picked him up and threw him. Link landed in back of the monster, and he quickly pulled out his dagger that had been retied to the long pole. He cautiously gave the monster a gentle poke. Bellum gave a loud scream, "You destroyed me! Darn!" it shouted, before blowing up into a large cloud of sand.
"More sand!" Link shouted, and he started to jump around with his Hourglass, trying to catch all of the fine particles. Meanwhile, Tetra had finally woken up, and she was waving at Link to try and get his attention. Distracted by all the sand, Link gave a quick wave back before resuming his jumping. It wasn't until after he had collected all the sand that he noticed Linebeck was still alive. "Ahha! You! You tried to kill me!" Link shouted, stuffing his Hourglass back into his pocket.
Before he could start attacking Linebeck (who hadn't even noticed Link as he was still trying to figure out why he had said 'gwaaarg'), Link's dagger started to electrify him. "Ow! Stupid dagger!" Link shouted, and he threw the weapon into the ocean.
"Ow! Stupid dagger!" a loud voice shouted from under water. The source of this voice suddenly leaped out of the water, and landed with a large splash.
"Grandpa?" Ciela asked uncertainly.
"That's not Grandpa, stupid! That's a whale!" Link shouted at the fairy.
The large, white whale rolled its eyes at the boy, "Yes, it is I! The great and powerful Ocean King!"
Link gasped, "The whale talks! Kill it!" Link shouted, and he leaped onto the whale's back and started to attack it with his shield. Marin quickly joined him with her balloon hammer.
"What? Whoa, old man? Is that really you?" Linebeck asked.
"Yep!" the whale said happily, hardly feeling the two's attacks on his back.
"Well then, I want to make my wish!" Linebeck shouted.
"Um…wish? Sorry, I don't do wishes. Muhahahahahaha!"
"But you promised me a wish!" Linebeck said angrily.
Link paused in his attacks, "Technically, that was his clone." the boy said before starting his attacks again.
"The annoying green one is right!" the Ocean King said cheerfully while Linebeck started to pout. "My clone, wherever he is now, made that promise! Not me! So hah!"
"Fine," Linebeck grumbled crossly.
Suddenly Linebeck's ship started to rise from the waters, the Ocean King's clone was at the wheel, cackling maniacally. "I did it! I found Care-A-Lot! Mythical home of the Care Bears? I think not! It is real! Not mythical!" Oshus shouted.
"Ah, there you are!" the Ocean King said, staring at his clone.
"Oh, you. What do you want?" Oshus asked, scowling slightly at the whale.
"I am here to return these people back to their world!" the Ocean King said cheerfully.
"Our world? Then what world is this?" Tetra asked as she joined the group near the water.
"Ahha! Give me my wallet!" Link shouted, still attacking the whale.
Linebeck rolled his eyes, "Old man, clone thing…whatever you are… tell that stupid whale over there that he has to grant me my wish!"
"Never! I'm going back to Care-A-Lot!" Oshus shouted, and he quickly joined Link and Marin on the whale's back. The old man shoved the two off before kicking the whale and demanding that they go underwater.
Link and Marin pouted over having been kicked off, but they soon recovered as they started to attack Tetra instead. "Would you two stop it!?" Tetra shouted, grabbing the squeaking balloon hammer and the shield from them.
"Noooooo! Tetra's just so mean!" Link shouted, and he ran over to hide behind Linebeck, who was still arguing with the giant whale, who was still being kicked by Oshus, who was still demanding to be taken to Care-A-Lot. Neri flew out of Link's pocket at this moment, along with Leaf. "We are inhabitants of this world. We must return to the world of the Ocean King!" Neri said cheerfully.
"The door to your world will be opening soon," the giant whale said, ignoring his clone's attempts to go underwater. "Get ready!" Suddenly a thick fog came rolling in, and then a small door appeared in front of the group. "Oh hey look, a door!" Link said happily, and he went running through.
"Hey, you forgot to say goodbye!" Ciela shouted after him.
"So long loser!" Link's voice could just be heard through the glowing doorway.
"Good enough," Ciela grumbled.
…Epilogue…
"Hey, that Ghost Ship came back!" the big stupid pirate whose upper body was huge compared to his legs, said.
"Darn! We were supposed to look for them! Now we're going to get in trouble!" Niko said.
"I got an idea!" said a pirate who was wearing a pair of broken glasses.
"Shut up! We need a plan!" said the big stupid pirate.
"But I have an idea!"
"Alright, fine. What?"
"We pretend it's only been a few minutes!"
All the other pirates considered this for a few seconds before agreeing enthusiastically. "Alright, let's do this! Don't mess up, Niko!"
Niko gave an annoyed sigh before calling out to Link and Tetra, who were unconscious on the destroyed Ghost Ship. Tetra was the first to wake up, and she quickly woke Link up by tossing him into the ocean. "Noooooo!" Link shouted the minute he had resurfaced. "Tetra is just so mean!"
"Shut up! Let's go to my ship!" Tetra shouted.
In just a few seconds the two were safely back onboard their ship, not even noticing the nervous expressions that were passed around amongst the rest of the crew. "What is wrong with you people?!" Tetra automatically started to yell at her crew while Link started to run around the deck for no apparent reason. "Did you guys even look for us!?"
"Um…it's only been a few minutes…" Niko said nervously.
"What are you talking about?!" Tetra snapped. "How many minutes?" she asked suddenly, suspecting them of their trick.
"Um…five!"
"Ten!"
"Six!"
"One hundred!"
Tetra glared at the crew, who were now glaring at each other for not picking out a time before their captain came aboard. "Well, which is it!?" Tetra shouted, moving slightly to one side as Link went running past her. She sighed tiredly when the crew pointed at each other, and then started to glare at one another again.
Finally Link stopped running around and joined Tetra, "Hey, look at what I found!" Link said, and he pulled the Phantom Hourglass out of his pocket.
The crew gasped, "Great, he has evidence that it wasn't a dream!" Niko whispered to another pirate, who nodded dumbly.
"Ahha! How do you lot explain this?" Tetra asked.
"Uh…" Niko said.
"Well?" Tetra demanded.
Niko suddenly grabbed the Hourglass and threw it into the ocean, "I say, what hourglass are you talking about, boss?" Niko said, laughing nervously.
"That's stupid! I remember it being there! I bet even Link remembers!" Tetra shouted at Niko.
"Remember what?" Link asked with a confused frown.
"The stupid Hourglass!" Tetra shouted.
"What hourglass? I don't see anything!" Link said, even more confused.
"Oh forget it!" Tetra shouted. "You all are so dumb! Get to work! You, get the ship ready! You, help him. You!" Tetra pointed at Link, who was starting to dance. "Keep working on my super-ultra laser gun!"
"Darn!" Link shouted. "Can I have my wallet now?" Link asked.
"Oh…that… um… I kind of gave it to Linebeck…" Tetra said hesitantly.
Link kept smiling at her as he slowly went into shock.
"He wanted it, you know. It was such a nice green color…"
Link's face was stuck in its smiling position as he started to fall towards the wooden deck.
"Link?" Tetra asked nervously. "Link, snap out of it!" the captain shouted, grabbing Link and slapping him in the face when she saw that he had forgotten how to breathe in his shock.
After being slapped a few times, Link quickly took in a deep breath and then let it out by screaming, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"Everyone covered their ears as Link started to scream about his wallet. Suddenly Link stopped, "Did you hear that?" he asked quickly.
"I don't think I'm ever going to hear anything ever again! You made me deaf! I hope you're happy!" Tetra shouted over the ringing in her ears. She was ignored, however, as Link pushed past her and climbed onto the ship's railing. He started to laugh like a mad man when he saw Linebeck's ship in the distance. "After him!" Link shouted, and he ran over to the wheel and shoved the pirate that was there out of the way.
So Link sort of took over Tetra's ship (much to everyone's surprise) as he continued his quest to get his wallet back.
Marin and Linebeck traveled together, constantly on the run from a strange ship that always seemed to be chasing them. Marin would sometimes fly over to this ship and visit everyone, but she always refused to tell Linebeck the truth, that the crew of the ship he was running from was, in fact, Link's. She liked the adventures that they found as they traveled as fast as they could through the ocean (which had returned to normal, much to Link's relief, as he could now feed the fish to fill in his sea chart. But, of course, he forgot to feed them anyway).
Oshus never did find Care-A-Lot again, though he forced both the Ocean King, and the Spirits, to search for it for the rest of their lives. Cloning was soon after banned from the Ocean King's world, as the clones were just too darn annoying. Ciela had to hide all of her clones in fear of getting into trouble with the Ocean King; and since she was the Spirit of Time, she ingeniously scattered them all throughout the different times; a particularly annoying one got stuck in the Hero of Time's time, and she went on many a fun adventure with the poor boy, who had just wanted to stay at home and sleep.
Well that's it for this story! I hope you all liked it! Thank you all so much for reading/reviewing/both! :-D
Oh, and I do not own the Care Bears, or their annoying songs. Thankfully! (...and if the person who does own the Care Bears is reading this... then I just LOVE the Care Bears and their cute little songs!)
Well, farewell! (But I'll be back, muhahahahahahahaha!!)