Everyone felt terrible about Rinku being stolen. Niko felt like it was his fault as he had been watching Rinku at the time. Alfonzo felt he should have been there with Niko as he wasn't required to go to the festival. Link kept on pacing and Zelda sobbed on the bed. Both were thinking the same thing, the story Niko had told them about Tetra. How Tetra had her child too and how he had been killed. Link read the signature again Wakumaru… even the name was similar to the man who had stolen Tetra's son. They had all agreed that whatever they did, they would not rescue Rinku tonight. It was dark and they didn't know the hideout well. They would have to find Rinku in the morning.

"Why would they want your sword?" Zelda asked suddenly raising her tear stained face off the bed. Link hesitated before answering.

"I've been thinking of that a bit…and I think…they want to resurrect Ganondorf." Zelda's eyes grew wide.
"Wh-what makes you think that?" Zelda asked,

"Only reason they would go through with this trouble…they probably want to pull his soul out of the land and resurrect him…" a few tears formed in Link's eyes and he asked "Zelda…can we…really do this? We're king and queen and need to protect this land…is it OK for us to rescue Rinku?" Zelda gave a small gasp and more tears formed in her eyes. She hadn't thought of the risks to saving Rinku. Zelda didn't speak for a long time. After ten minutes of silence she said

"Link…we need to rescue Rinku…I-I could never live with myself if I didn't at least try!" Zelda said sobbing. Link put his arm around her.

"I know…me too. We can try to rescue him without giving them the sword; we know they're at the pirate's hideout. Whether Rinku is there too or not, I don't know…but I don't care if I have to torture the information out of them, I will do it!" Link said angrily. "Let's just go to sleep, Zelda…we'll do everything we can tomorrow." Link added gently, stroking Zelda's head and laying her down on the bed. Link lied down as well and Zelda clung on to him and buried her face into his chest and cried herself to sleep. Link however stayed up nearly all night. Rinku's safety and Ganondorf's return were only two of the three things that troubled him.

Meanwhile in the pirate's hideout…

"Bulbin…you have the child, I trust." a man with dark skin and black waist-length hair said. He had very bright shiny blue eyes that seemed to glow in the darkness of the hideout cave. King Bulbin grunted and one of his lackeys brought Rinku to the man. "I see…excellent. You have done your part, bulbin. Place the boy in this cage and rest for now." The man said indicating a cage held up by four ropes. King Bulbin nodded and the man handed Rinku back to the bulbin. Rinku was fast asleep right now, but stirred a bit as he was passed back and forth. He had been crying for a long time, missing his parents and the funny old man who showed him all the pretty pictures. "Make sure he is unharmed…and do not worry about his health. I have food and water for him. If the king and queen do not arrive, you may do as you wish with him…if the parents try anything, you may do as you like, as long as it doesn't interfere with the plan." With that the man left and entered a door.

The inside of this room looked a bit like a lab. The reason for this was because of the beakers filled with strange substances and fires all over the room, some of which the beakers were on. It looked a bit primitive as well though, being in a cave. The thing that completed the picture was another man with dark skin. He was old and had many wrinkles; his hair was very white and was shoulder length. He had a very long pointed nose and wore what looked like a white lab coat. The old man turned his eyes to face his visitor. Like the rest of him, his eyes were very old looking. They were a deep blue and gave the feeling this man was all-knowing and he could see your thoughts. He smiled and said

"I see, if it isn't Wakumaru…your plan goes well?"

"It does…" Wakumaru said. The old man smiled and went back to his work. He picked up two beakers, one was full of a gooey purple substance, and the other was full of a gooey white substance. He mixed them together with a small wooden stirrer and then drank some it and shuddered. "Zeri…why do you eat that?" Wakumaru asked. Zeri gave him a smile

"ChuChu is good for you. Eat the right ChuChu and enough, and you can grow up to be as old as me!"

"That has never been my desire…" Wakumaru said. "At any rate, I have been practicing that spell you taught me. It's very…consuming. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it when the time comes, especially with someone like Link."

"I see…so you need my help?"

"I think you once said there was a type of ChuChu that helped one with magic."

"Ah yes, you want a green one then." Zeri said picking up a beaker filled with green ChuChu. "Be grateful now, these ones are getting harder to find. Those and the purple ones as well. I don't think you can find them anywhere other than here, and even so I need to keep the light off or they turn to stone, and I don't want that while I eat them." Zeri said laughing.

"I suppose not…anyway, thanks." Wakumaru said taking the green chuchu beaker and raising it to his lips.

"Ahh, I wouldn't do that now, I would wait until tomorrow when you're using the spell." Zeri said

"Fine…" Wakumaru said putting the ChuChu into a bottle and corking it, then handing the beaker back to Zeri.

"I suggest you get some sleep now…you have a busy day coming soon." Zeri said.

Zelda woke up with a small yawn and wondered for a moment why she felt so bad. Then she remembered what had happened to Rinku and sighed sadly.

"I'll make breakfast." Link said already awake.

"Breakfast?" Zelda asked "What about Rinku?"

"I know how you feel, but if you want to rescue our son then we need our strength." Link said putting eggs into the pan and setting the table. Zelda sighed wondering how Link could stand just sitting there while their poor baby boy was captured. Yet on closer inspection, Zelda saw Link had dark shadows underneath his eyes, he clearly hadn't slept at all. Zelda gave Link a kiss on the cheek and wolfed down her eggs, Link did the same and the two got dressed. "Are you ready?" Link asked.

"Yeah…let's go." Zelda said taking the Bow of Light. Link nodded, he already had the Lokomo Sword in its sheath, and they headed to the train. The trip was pretty quiet, despite the monster infestation Link had to fight. When they arrived at the hideout the two went to the entrance, feeling suspicious about the lack of guards.

"Maybe they're not up…" Link suggested.

"I think they planned for us to enter." Zelda said. Link shrugged and the two entered. The outside had been empty but the inside was crawling with bulbins, miniblins, and humans they recognized as Areno Villagers. Zelda pulled out her bow and began shooting them all, doing much better than normal which was pretty good. Link too fought harder than he normally did and managed to slay a third of them with sword beams alone. When the opposition was dead or had fled, Link and Zelda crossed the room and examined the cells. They were all empty. There were two carts however. "We need to split up, Link!" Zelda said.

"No."

"Link, we have to!" Zelda said. Link considered for a moment, then sighed and nodded. Zelda took the cart on the right and Link took the left. They both went down a set of narrow passages and caves and stopped at a different ledge. Both of these also had a cave to enter. Link entered his and Zelda entered hers.

In Link's cave there were several miniblins. Link took them all out with a single great spin attack. When he recovered from the dizziness, he entered one of the doors and came across a weapon storage. There was only one bulbin here. It was clearly guarding, but it slept. Link wasn't normally a violent person and would often avoid killing even the enemy. But right now his son was captured and this creature was in the way. Link slowly approached the bulbin and when he was close enough, stabbed it in the heart. The bulbin's eyes snapped open and it tried to scream, but couldn't. It felt to its side, dead. Link picked up some of the bombs in this room and threw with the other weapons and left. Link heard a faint boom in the next room, which meant they had gone off. Here there were five bigblins, and there were also three more doors. How big is this place…!

Meanwhile Zelda entered her cave and came across a room empty of enemies but with a few rats. Zelda trembled quite a bit, but was far from the rats, not close enough to lose her head. She killed these creatures with some well aimed bow shots and went in the next room. This room was full of bulbins. Zelda took out her sword instead; she was better at the bow but wanted to save arrows. Zelda slashed at the creatures and ended it with a great spin attack. She wasn't as good as Link and just barely managed to beat them all. It also took her a full minute to recover from the dizziness. Zelda then headed into the next room.

This room was filled with beakers, each with a strange substance. Zelda had no trouble in recognizing this substance as ChuChu. Zelda shuddered What creep collects this stuff? Zelda began searching for a door, but there was a lot of stuff in the room she had to move. And as she moved around in this room she had the uncomfortable feeling she was being watched. Zelda looked around her as she went, scared that someone would appear from the shadows and attack. Finally Zelda located the door and entered. In this room were three tables, three other doors, rope and three cages. In one of these cages was a small blond baby, fast asleep.
"Rinku!" Zelda said joyously rushing her to her son. There was a sudden slam and Zelda stopped. An ax had dropped in front of the cage, it was the largest ax Zelda has seen, and she had seen it before. It was the ax King Bulbin used. Zelda looked at the green arm holding the ax and saw red eyes glowing in the shadows. Rinku woke up and started bawling.

"Quiet…" King Bulbin grunted and stepped out of the shadows. Zelda growled viciously at the bulbin king and took out her bow. King Bulbin growled too and held his ax near the cage. Zelda lowered her weapon, she knew if she dared try anything, he would swing and it would kill her son.

"Wh-what do you want?" Zelda whimpered.

"We want the sword," a voice said from one of the doorways. Zelda turned and saw Wakumaru. "Normally I would ask if you had received our letter or not, but as you know your son is being held here, it's clear that you have…where's the sword?"

"Link has it. Now give me Rinku!" Zelda said

"Not until Link shows up and gives me the sword." Wakumaru said calmly.

"What will you do with it?"
"I am planning to make someone with more power appear, someone who can help me achieve my goals…"
"Ganondorf!" Zelda gasped.

"If you don't want your baby killed, then you will put down your weapon and lay on one of these tables. I will then tie you and we will wait for Link to show up, what happens next depends on Link's actions…now do it!" Wakumaru barked. Zelda gulped and dropped her bow and sat on one of the tables. Wakumaru took the rope and tied her so her body made an X formation on the table. Wakumaru then walked back to the door he came from and said

"Bulbin, you're in charge of her. Retrieve the sword from Link and you will release her and her son. Otherwise you may kill them. See to it that they are unharmed." King Bulbin nodded and Wakumaru left. Zelda waited and waited, wondering how long it would take for Link to show up. After ten minutes when Zelda thought she would go mad from the soreness and the itch she couldn't get to in this position, the king approached her.

"What are you doing?" Zelda asked. King Bulbin ignored her and eyed the door Wakumaru went in. He then turned back to Zelda with an evil grin on his face. Zelda spoke again "What are you do—" Zelda suddenly shrieked, for the bulbin's hands were now feeling her breasts. "Wh-what are you doing? GET OFF! GET OFF!" Zelda screamed. The bulbin grinned and squeezed her harder. Zelda screamed louder and Rinku began to cry. "P-p-please s-stop!" Zelda said, tears forming in her eyes. The bulbin continued feeling her breasts and squeezed as hard as he could. Zelda screamed and cried. I'm being molested in front of my baby son… Zelda squirmed and struggled, but this only seemed to delight King Bulbin. Zelda could see the creatures disgusting erection from its pants. King Bulbin began feeling her hair and sniffed it. "GET OFF OF ME YOU STUPID—" Zelda scream turned into a squeal of pain as the monster punched her in the stomach. Even as Zelda cried and heard her son cry, she thought of Link. It was strange to be thinking of him right now, when she was getting raped in front of her son, but Zelda felt like she had never truly appreciated how gentle Link was, how much he thought about her when he was involved sexually with her, and how much he loved her. Link always tried to make her feel happy, and he always made her feel beautiful and special. He was also fairly handsome. King Bulbin was the opposite. He was hideous, he had no love for her, he made her feel like a tool, and he seemed to get joy from being as brutal as he could to her.

The king began lifting her dress. "No…" Zelda whimpered. The bulbin smiled and began pulling down her panties, revealing her vagina. "No…please…please don't…at least get Rinku away, please…" Zelda begged. The bulbin completely ignored her and began feeling her, his erection getting bigger. Zelda knew what he was going to do and stared nervously at its size. Zelda felt guilty as he fingered her and she wet his fingers a bit. Zelda began crying loudly as the bulbin took off his belt and was readying to remove his trousers. She got slapped and was quiet. Rinku was still crying too, thankfully King Bulbin didn't hit him.

Suddenly one of the doors swung open and Zelda thought that it was Wakumaru. There was a loud inhuman growl and suddenly King Bulbin grunted and turned on the spot with a sword in his back…the Lokomo Sword. Zelda stared in shock; she couldn't believe it was Link who had made that noise. It sounded completely unlike him. Zelda knew it was Link, not only because of the sword, but he was still clinging on to the sword in the bulbin's back. Link roared again and swung forward while holding the sword, bringing his legs into a hard kick between the bulbins legs. The king fell and Link removed the sword and continued kicking him in the privates. "Link…" Zelda whispered as he did this. Link suddenly stopped and faced Zelda. For a moment, Zelda thought she saw scarlet eyes staring back at her. But as Link cut her ropes and she looked into his face, she was sure she had imagined it. His eyes were still a dark gentle blue and full of concern. She had never seen Link look as sad as he did now. Link helped her up and Zelda pulled her panties up and straightened herself, she was still sore and miserable from being treated like that in front of Rinku, but at least Link had prevented the worst.

"C'mere Rinku…" Link whispered as he brought his son out of the cage and kissed his head. Rinku gave his dad a hug and Link asked "Do you want to hold him?"

"I c-can't…" Zelda said, her voice shaking. Link understood, her whole body was shaking as well and she was clearly afraid of dropping him. "And…th-there's someone else here…he left me with the bulbin…and he wrote the letter."

"He must've left…" Link said

"He did."

"I'll look for him tomorrow. I want Rinku out of here…and I want you out of here too." Link said and backtracked from where he came. He was going to go to Aboda Village and tell everyone Rinku was OK, and then he was going to take Rinku to the castle. He wanted his son to be safe when he came here tomorrow.

However, as it turned out, Wakumaru wasn't far away. The room he had left did not contain a series of doors as they thought, but merely one room with a small white circle in the middle of it. Wakumaru was there with Zeri, muttering and placing his hand near the circle. Dark shadows were moving to the circle, creating a shape. King Bulbin limped in as he did this.

"Why couldn't we just do it the way it happened last time?" Wakumaru panted.

"It might not happen again, perhaps these children have better control than Tetra…anyway if you killed the son, you would likely face his wrath. I hope you understand that while he is here to help us…he is also our master now."

"I understand…I don't want absolute control. I just want to help my tribe." Wakumaru said.

"Ready…?" Bulbin grunted.

"Almost…" Zeri said his eyes twinkling at King Bulbin for some reason.

The shadows condensed and formed a shape. It was the shape of a young man. He looked like he was sixteen and had long, wavy, fluffy, very light blond hair, red eyes and bushy eyebrows. He was wearing brown boots, and a green recruit's uniform without a hat. He had darkish skin as well, but not as dark as the men with him. The two men and monster kneeled before this person. Suddenly the person pulled out a sword and slashed at King Bulbin. King Bulbin's head came off and rolled across the floor. Zeri chuckled. And Wakumaru stared in shock.

"It was to be expected, Wakumaru." Zeri said and the two rose before this boy. The boy pointed his blade at Wakumaru's throat.

"You knew he might have done that to her…you knew he would do something." The boy said to Wakumaru. Wakumaru gulped

"P-please…Z-zeri said it was necessary to create these high-level dark emotions from him to make you…" the boy continued glaring but put his sword back in the sheath.

"You live for now, but if you don't prove to be as usual as I hope, then I will kill you."

"Yes sir…" Wakumaru said.

"Good…I must set off to Hyrule Castle now. You two continue with the distraction you planned, tell them that you aim to resurrect Ganondorf."

"We will, sir." Zeri said.

"Then I'm off." The boy said and left the room.

"Jesus Christ! Ten chapters into this and you're just NOW getting to the plot?"
how many of you said that when you read this?