^^ I'm back again. Before I start, just let me tell you this even though you probably won't read it. I'm very glad I found a way to incorporate Spirit Tracks in my last chapter. ST was a very special game for me. I know a lot of people ignore it and claim that it wasn't up to par with a lot of the other games, but I can honestly say it was my absolute favorite. Not only was it interesting, it was also the game that first got me into the Zelda series. So I just wanted to get that off me.
Also, I would like to clear something up. I know from my reviews that a few of you have been trying to figure out what games the five OC's have landed in. I'll answer all your questions- don't waste your time with that. They haven't landed in a specific game at all. The world they're in is a combination of all the games. Everything exists at the same time in the same place so they aren't in a specific game. Like Kevin, he's in Kakariko Village from Twilight Princess but he's there because he was chased by the robots from Skyward Sword.
Disclaimer: If I owned Zelda I wouldn't be broke right now and I would go to Suncoast and do a great deal of damage to their anime section.
Chapter 20: Captain Failboat Arrives (Dakota's POV)
"Is she giving you a tough time?" someone asked.
I looked up and saw the Link of this world sitting on one of the nearby barrels.
I shrugged. "You better not have walked over that part of the deck I just cleaned."
"Don't worry," he answered, "I didn't. I've cleaned enough decks on this ship to know to be mindful of when other people are doing it," he shrugged, "Anyway, if she's being too hard on you I can talk to her."
"And that'll work?" I asked.
"Probably not," he replied.
"Well then, nope!" I said, "But thanks for the offer."
"Welcome," he nodded, "by the way, Tetra told me to send you over to Nico. He has your next job for you."
"Greeeeeat..." I rolled my eyes, "More work!"
"That's the way it works around here, " Link said.
I sighed. "Speaking of Nico, where is he anyway?"
"He should be waiting for you below deck."
"Seems legit," I huffed, heading for the hatch that would lead me below deck.
(Line break)
Nico seemed more happy and hyper than he was when I had first met him. I guessed without Captian Know It All up on deck around, he felt like he could actually relax.
"Hey there, Swabbie!" he chirped, "I have a job for you! Errr...?"
"Dakota," I told him, "And what's a swabbie?"
"Well Dakota, a swabbie is the lowest ranking member on the ship. We call it a swabbie because... well they usually wind up swabbing the deck."
"I noticed that..." I said, looking at the wet places all over the legs of my jeans from where I had splashed water on myself by accident.
"Now, Dakota!" he said, "About that job! Are you ready for this? It's gonna be hard!"
"Err... sure?" I asked, wondering what this super hard job he had for me was.
"Great!" he said, "Here's what you need to do!"
He grabbed a nearby rope and started swinging over the room, landing on the raised platforms scattered across the floor until he reached the other side.
"JUST DO WHAT I JUST DID!" he shouted from where he was standing on the other side of the room.
"Do that?" I asked, "That's easy!"
"Don't take the challenge lightly!" he called, "It's not as easy as it looks!"
"Yeah, yeah!" I shouted, grabbing one of the ropes, "Swing on ALL the ropes!" I shouted as I approached the first platform.
I was over it and about to put my feet down when the rope began to swing back. "Oi you!" I shouted, "I'm not ready yet!"
I put my feet down, barely landing on the platform on my toes and falling backwards onto the floor.
"Ow!" I complained.
"Nice try, Swabbie!" Nico laughed, "Climb back to the start and do it again!"
"Do I have to?" I groaned.
"Yes!" he shouted, "Yes! Yes you do!"
"Okaaaay," I said, grabbing the latter and starting to climb back up to the start, "So," I said, "would you care to tell me the point of all this?"
"Well," he smirked, "You get over here and I might tell you..."
I sighed. "Okay, fine! You win, I'll do it!"
"Atta girl!" he cheered.
I grabbed onto the rope again and began swinging across to the first platform again. When I reached it I didn't wait for the rope to swing back. As soon as I was over it I jumped off. This time I landed on the platform... on my back, which by the way wasn't a comfortable landing.
"Ow!" I complained again.
"There you go!" he shouted, "You got it!"
I sat up and realized that I had landed on the first platform. "Yessss!" I shouted, grinning and giving Nico the "thumbs up" sign.
I reached for the next rope, swinging across and starting to hum the tune to one of Avenged Sevenfold's songs. Don't judge me! I like metal!
I landed successfully on the next platform. "WOOT!" I shouted, jumping up in the air.I was about to reach for the third rope when Guess-Who showed up.
"What are you doing?" Tetra demanded, "You're supposed to be working! And you, Nico! I left you to give her the next assignment and here you two are playing games!"
"I'm sorry," I said, deciding to use one of my favorite quotes, "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't heard a word you've just said."
Tetra glared at me. "I'm letting you stay on this ship under the condition that you do some work!" she snapped, "Now hop to it!"
"Don't order me around when I'm swinging on ropes and humming Avenged Sevenfold songs like a boss!" I snapped back.
"I don't care what you're doing!" she growled, "I am the captain on this ship! I give the orders! And I am telling you to get to work NOW!"
"Nag. nag, nag!" I said.
"Shut it, Swabbie!" she shouted.
"NAG, NAG, NAG!" I shouted back.
"You are IMPOSSIBLE!" she ranted, stomping back upstairs.
"Oh I'M impossible?" I grumbled after she was gone.
"Don't get upset, Dakota," Nico said, "She just gets like that sometimes, it's nothing personal."
"Oh no?" I asked, "I think it is!" I grabbed the last rope and swung over to where Nico was. "LIKE A BOSS!" I shouted.
"Very good!" he said, sounding a bit impressed, "Here's something for all your, err, work!"
Nico handed me a red gem looking thing. I took it and stared at it.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"Umm... twenty rupees," he said, "how do you not know what money is?" he asked.
"It's money?" I asked, still staring at the gem thing. I kind of wished Ruby was here, she could probably explain the way the money worked here.
"Er, yeah..." Nico said, "What? You don't use money? How do you DO anything then?"
"No,." I laughed, " I use money! I use this!" I a few dollars out of my pocket, which was all I had on me at the moment.
Nico took the pieces of paper from me and examined them curiously. "You pay for stuff with pieces of paper?" he asked, "That's really... weird."
"And I think your system of money is weird, so we're even," I said.
"Where are you from anyway?" he asked, "I've never heard of a country with money like this before."
"It's this great little place we like to call the," I took a breath, "U-S-AAAAA!" I shouted.
Nico jumped back a bit at my sudden outburst.
"Or the United States of America," I said, "take your pick."
"So I see..." he said, straightening his bandana.
"And we have great little things like this!" I said, searching around my pockets, I knew I had to have something modern on me somewhere, "Aha! Like I said, like THIS!" I held up my cell phone proudly.
Nico stared at the little thing in my hand. "What's that?" he asked.
"THIS my friend is one of the most awesome devices that you will ever set eyes on! This is the future of communication! This is a PHONE!" I ranted.
"Really now?" he asked, "And what can this "phone" do?"
"Well," I said, "You can take photos with it and message people through it and talk to people through it and record things with it and go online with it and- JUST SO MANY THINGS!" I continued to rant.
"Contact people how?" he asked.
"Okay so every person who has one of these little things has a number," I told him, "So you look up the number of the person you want to talk to and type it in with this," I pointed to the keypad, "Then their phone will make this little ringing sound and they'll know someone's trying to call them and they answer it and you can talk through it!"
He was staring at me with a blank look on his face. "That's complicated..." he said, sounding really confused.
"No it isn't!" I told him, "Look, I'll prove it to you! I'll just dial Ruby and-"
Then I mentally face desked. Why the heck hadn't I thought of calling Ruby earlier and asking her where she had landed? It was brilliant! BRILLIANT!
I quickly punched in Ruby's number and waited for it to ring, laughing as I imagined her expression as she walked around in her little fantasy world when her phone suddenly started blaring "Innocent Sorrow" from D Gray Man.
The phone didn't even ring. Was it dead? I pulled it away from my ear and looked at the screen. No, it wasn't dead, it was on and the screen had my background up and everything. Then I looked up in the top corner and learned something that probably would have been helpful to know earlier. There is no phone service in Hyrule.
(Line Break)
Nico and I arrived back upstairs. I was in a bit of a bad mood since I had thought I had finally come up with a way to get in touch with someone and then had all that go straight down the freakin' toilet.
"Hey," Link asked, "Did something happen?"
"Tired, hungry, when's dinner?" I asked, not really in much of a mood to talk.
"Dinner's in a few minutes," he told me, "What's wrong?"
"The most suckish thing in the history of sucking just happened to me," I mumbled then turned to him, "How long would it take to find a group of four people in this country?"
"In the entire COUNTRY?" he asked, "Quite a while I'd imagine!"
"That's so great," I said sarcastically.
"But you never know, it could take no time at all," he said, "especially if you know where to look."
"I have no idea where to look!" I ranted, "That's the thing! I don't have a map of this place! I don't know anything about this country! And I can't get any phone reception to call anyone!"
"What reception?" Link asked, giving me a strange look.
"Never mind!" I said.
"Look," he said, "I know you want to know what happened to your friends but you need to relax and think straight first. Come on! You're on a pirate ship for the goddess's sake! Relax a bit and have fun and then worry about your problem!" Link smiled.
Just then one of the crew members came out on deck. "DINNER'S READY!" he shouted.
I relaxed a bit. "WOOT! DINNER! SCREW LIKE A BOSS! I'M GONNA PARTY LIKE A PIRATE!"
Link laughed. "That's the spirit!"
(Line break)
I took my plate in my hands and sat at in a chair between Link and Nico. The latter was busy showing off the dollar bills, which I had let him keep because he seemed so fascinated by them. Besides, I highly doubted this video game world would have some dollar-to-rupee currency exchange system so if I needed money in an emergency, they weren't going to do me much good anyway.
"This money!" he ranted, "It's so weird! Oh and it smells funny too!" he sniffed one of the dollars.
"Excuse me, did I just see you SMELL that dollar?" I asked, laughing my butt off.
Nico smiled sheepishly. "Yeah!"
"Excuse me while I go underneath this table like a clam so nobody will witness me dying of laughter," I laughed, starting to slide to the floor under the table.
"But I'm telling you guys!" he continued, "Isn't this weird! I'm going to have to go to my room after dinner and record the story of the time I met this person from a far away land called Amer-i-ka!"
Some people laughed, others groaned. But in the end they all said the same thing, "NOT ANOTHER STORY, NICO!"
Nico pouted. "But why?" he asked, "A-and this money! It's amazing!"
The door creaked open and from underneath the table I was trying to get my laughing under control while starring at the bottom of the newcomer's brown boots.
"Who said money?" he asked, in sort of a high and mighty tone of voice that you might read a novel and think Yeah, that greedy merchant there. He'd have a voice exactly like that.
I peeked out from under the table. Oh great. Let me tell you something. I hadn't played the Wind Waker or Phantom Hourglass for a while because I didn't own them, I played them at Ruby's house while I was staying over. Out of the two games, I only remembered two characters. Link, because Ruby never shut up about him, and this guy right here, because he was an absolute moron and drove me crazy throughout the entire game.
"Linebeck!" Nico said, "Good to see you up!"
"Oh come on now!" Linebeck protested, "I wasn't asleep all that long!"
"ALL DAY!" everyone shouted.
"You lazy bum!" someone added, but out of the crew members I couldn't tell who it was.
"I certainly was not!" he sniffed, "Now what was all this talk about money? Eh, kid?" he slapped Link on the back, almost causing him to choke on his drink.
"Don't look at me, Linebeck," Link coughed, "I wasn't really paying attention."
Linebeck rolled his eyes. "Oh, very well then!" he sat down in the chair across from Link and played with his fork for a bit before he looked up and noticed me staring at him. "Why is there a child under the table?" he asked.
"That's Dakota," Nico told him.
"Sup bro?" I asked.
"Yes," he said, "But why is the kid under the table?"
I grinned, thinking it would be fun to confuse the guy. "I didn't hear the question, but the answer is aliens," I said matter-of-factly.
Linebeck looked at me oddly. "Aliens?" he asked.
"Yes!" I said.
"Okay then... now why are you REALLY under the table?" he asked.
"Fool!" I said, "I was just sitting here! The aliens built the table over me! Therefore I am not so much under the table as the table is over me!"
"Wait, what?" he asked.
"Do you not know?" I asked, "The aliens built EVERYTHING! Thus proving that mankind has no creative genius of their own and must rely on the aliens for help!"
"Now that is not true!" he told me.
I shrugged. "What do I know?" I asked, "I'm a clam." Then I slid back under the table.
"What a strange child..." I heard him say.
Author's Note:
If you don't know the meme "I didn't hear the question but the answer is aliens" I suggest you google it. It's a reference to a show on the History channel where this guy is always ranting about how the aliens had to do with the making of every famous structure in the world.
That's also a big part of Dakota's rant while she's trying to confuse Linebeck. Sometimes the real Dakota and I make fun of the show like that because we find it somewhat insulting that he's suggesting that humankind had to rely on aliens for everything and has no creative drive of their own.
Also, school starts back Monday so I probably won't be able to update as often or even come online as often, just a heads up so you don't think I'm totally dead. I'll come on and update when I can but I'll have a lot of homework to do so yeah.
Peace out til next time! ~Silver