Author's Note: Ahoy there mateys! Now we will be going on me boat! All board, mates arr! Come on up and see me urchins! Aye now we set sail onto the sea! I'm a pirate! That I be! I sail my ship upon the sea! I stay up late-til half past three! And that's a peg below me knee!
Disclaimer: And that would be her, singing like a fail pirate…and talking like a fail pirate…
Me: *pouts* anyways: here's the site, if you wanna talk like a pirate, savvy? www . talk like a pirate junior pirates .html # kid stuff (without the spaces, that's where I had gotten the song. And, if you go to your left, the second tab on the column, it says' how to… talk like a pirate in English. You get to choose…
Chapter 25: Once upon a ship
We stared into the horizon, seeing nothing but water but it didn't fully replace the sand. We were currently on the boat while I tried to balance myself since the boat moved sideways a bit.
"My circuits spark to life in the salt air, vrrm! It feels good to take to the seas again after so long, but let's see if I can remember how to navigate, brrzrrt." it then told me how to control the boat which was a bit…sloppy…
Hey, it's my first time riding the boat!
It also told me how to fire the cannon. Awesome!
"There's a pier on the island where we can dock, brrzrrt! Right, let's go, vrrm!"
I put a bomb in the cannon and triggered it. The bomb exploded out of the cannon and into the water…
I had almost crashed into a nearby rock but I quickly turned the wheel at the right time. This reminds me of how I fly my bird! I've noticed that the water would spread out, replacing the sand. We arrived at the deck (once I had been scolded from the captain about how I had nearly hit the boat from a nearby rock), we got out of the boat.
In front of us, stood three pillar-like though one of them resembled an oddly shaped building with platforms in which we had to jump. On the top of the pillar-like, stood a building. Huh.
"We've arrived, vweep! My shack is at the very top, vrrm! The sea chart we need is in my shack, zrrt. But you're the one who will have to go get it, bzzt!"
"And how am I supposed to do that?"
"You will have to figure it out. Oh, there are more monsters about than before, so be careful, vweep! I can't wander far from the boat, so I'll just stay here, vrrm."
I destroyed the toad-like creature with the use of my Skyward Strike and ran across the sand. And then, I used my clawshot to grab onto the target once I saw it on a cliff; I groaned when I saw two deku babas which got demolished.
I latched myself onto a weird flying object before I shot myself towards the other target. Electric spumes popped out of the ground and I was sore all over when they had zapped me multiple of times. One time, it zapped me when it was latched on me.
Annoyed, I hastily defeated them with a few hits here and there. Once I destroyed the boulder that was attached to the wall, I entered inside. Medium size of electric spumes dropped from the ceiling.
No! I refuse! I-ARGH!
One of them managed to electrocute me when I wasn't paying attention. Oh for-
I did a spin attack to end them all after they had split themselves. I began to look around and when I found those floating objects, I used my clawshots so I can reach the target that was implanted on the wall.
I then used another of the flying object before I reached the last target. I gazed at the red brute that was guarding the bridge. Thinking, I used my bomb so I can destroy the shield. But the shield wasn't destroyed since I studied it closely and it had an iron shield.
Ugh, you stupid brute! Using the clawshots was futile so now I was stuck there, staring at it while I did a backflip to move out of the way. Fi told me that the Moblin has a sturdy iron shield.
"Only a few Moblins are capable of carrying a large, heavy shield of iron like this one. I calculate an 85% chance that you can climb over that large shield as if it were a wall."
"Climb?!"
"You have defeated 0 of this enemy type. I am unable to analyze your battle performance rating with this opponent due to insufficient data."
Huh.
I ran at it and just like Fi had said, I was able to climb the iron shield with ease and I was behind the brute. I took out my sword and slashed it away before it turned around. It then used its shield to ram against me, making me to fall off the bridge but I was just lucky enough to grab the edges of the bridge. I quickly moved sideways and climbed back on and I dodged the spear. I again walked on the shield, allowing me to be behind him so I can slash at him couple of times.
The fiend died as I rubbed my sore shoulder. Nonetheless, I resumed my mission. I defeated the Dragons or Dragon whenever I needed to so they won't bother me. I then walked towards a strange looking object which is round while at the top of it, has a hole while something was holding it.
I used my whip and it did some strange things like how a flower would close when winter arrives. It then dropped the weird-leaves down, resembling like a flower after. I was surprised to see the familiar flying object that was lifting itself up.
I then used it so I can grab the target that was on the wall. Target after target, dragon after dragon and peahat after peahat, I was finally at the building and then I got stuck since I didn't know what to do. Until I had found the entrance to the building which I entered.
It was filled with sand but before I could use any of my items something latched on my head and I began to freak out. I used my arms but I was struggling a bit before the foe was finally released from my head and I destroyed it.
"We first need to find the sea chart." Fi told me. Ah, we're in the shack not a random building. Right. I started to blow the sand away by using the Gust Bellow and boy, did it take a while. I was about to give up until I saw a treasure chest that was buried under the sand.
Eagerly, I opened it to reveal the sea chart—correction: the Ancient Sea Chart. Finally, I can get out of this place!
"Master, I have determined that this is Skipper's sea chart. Let's take it back to him. Master, look over there."
I turned around and saw pictures, maps and notes on the wall.
"Hey that looks like the boat…and what's that?" I asked, examining a picture that was next to the boat picture.
One of them caught my interest. It was a huge ship with a lot of people in it and I figured that it was the pirates.
"That is the ship containing Nayru's Flame. There is a 90% chance that the synthetic life-forms assembled here are the crew. This image would indicate that the ship's captain spent many happy days among his many crew members."
After Fi disappeared, I started to read the letters.
Dear Dad,
Good luck at work, vrrm!
And then I read another one though this one seemed to be a diary.
First entry:
I've finally did it, vrrm! The boat is completed and I am ready to set sails for the sea, bzzt! My friends are excited since they could not wait. I am out to navigate the sea for the first time, vrrm! I have got to go…my friends are calling me.
Second entry:
Well, we are on the sea. I did not tell you this but we had heard stories about how there will be pirates roaming around the sea. But I did not believe it. Not a single word, bzzt! Those are just stories…they had never seen them. Also, I am protecting a sacred flame…something that is called Nayru's Flame and it is right here on my ship. I have to be extra careful!
Third entry:
Nothing happened out on the sea other than a storm would be coming in a few days…you could tell after being on the sea, endlessly. I am slightly getting bored but nevertheless, my crew is really enjoying it!
Fourth entry:
The day of the storm is coming, meaning that it will come today. I was steering the ship until one of my crews shouted that he spotted something…I stared ahead at the ship…it was slightly larger than mine but that didn't matter, vrrm! It was attacking my ship! The moment I turned my head…the ship was gone!
Fifth entry:
They're back again. And this time they had managed to capture my ship, bzzt! My ship! They're threatening me to walk the plank—
I frowned when I saw that the page was cut off but I knew what happened next…I placed the diary back where it belonged and started to get out of the shack. I reached the captain and he told me that we can finally navigate properly.
"Phweep! Let's go look for my ship! Shall we set sail, vrrt?"
"Set sail!"
"Anchors aweigh, zrrm!"
Once we got on the boat, he told me to open the sea chart.
"The Shipyard is at this location, vrrt. Let me mark it for you with an X, vweep. The Shipyard is where we used to build our ships, vrrt. My ship was built there too, vweep! If you go to the Shipyard, you might find some clues to the location of my ship, brrzrrt! Ok! Set sail, vrrm!"
However, there was this one section where he hadn't marked it so I was curious. So instead of going to the place in which he had marked it, I went to the one that does not have a mark. But there was nothing for now by the time I had arrived there so I made my way towards the island …
When we went to the place, we defeated some enemies by using the cannon which was fun though there was a barrel with a pirate sign on it. Getting out of the boat, we looked at the place where it had many tall structures, bridges and some odd machines.
Tracks were also there, circling around certain buildings. Something told me that we might end up riding on the tracks somehow…but it didn't look safe since some of the parts were broken.
"We've arrived, vrrm! This is the island where we used to make our ships, bzzt. You'll find the Shipyard here, as well as the town where the workers lived, vweep!" he then motioned me to look at the building that was in front of us. "That building is the construction bay, vrrm! But the entrance is closed, vrrrm. Looks like you can't get in. Each location on the island is linked to the others via a mine-cart track, vrrm! You might be able to get to the back door of the construction bay if you can get around to the other side of it using a mine cart, brrzrrt."
He then motioned me to look at another building in which he stated that it is the mine-cart station.
"You should head to the station first. I'll wait here, phoo-weep!"
I ran up the path and turned to my right once I reached at the end of it while there were two enemies when I had turned right. It was those Lizalfos but one of them started to attack me as soon as it saw me. It did a twirl before attacking me with its tail. But I jumped out of the way, however, the tail nearly struck me. What I didn't expect was that one of them released fire out of its body but I got painfully smacked by the tail when I was too busy paying attention to the fire.
Groaning, I instantly got up. After the second lizalfo did a twirl of its tail, I started to hit it a couple of times before it started to block my attacks. It dodged one of my attacks but it then jumped while I heard my sword clanging at its shield when it jumped. When it jumped, it blew out fire at the same time and the fire had caught me so I quickly did a somersault to extinguish it.
Ugh, not again!
The stubborn thing kept on dodging my attacks while sometimes it was using its shield. Finally, I was able to strike it, ending him. Unfortunately, his friend came along hoping to strike me but I was ready since I rolled out of the way and quickly got up, striking him from behind.
He turned after releasing a growl of agony. With a quick swift, he dodged my attacks. I did a backflip when he was attacking. When he let out a growl, I took this chance to hit him which I did. They move so freakin fast! It's unreal! I mumbled angrily when I took another hit from its spinning tail.
Oh for—
Finally, I saw him lowering his guard which was a bad mistake to do and then I hacked away, defeating him at last.
I let out a sigh of relief before wiping the sweat away. I then climbed up the stairs to enter the mine-cart station. There I saw another Goron.
"This station here was used by folks heading into the old mines. People still ride the mine carts all over the place, though! I am probably supposed to tell you there is some "safety information" about using the carts posted on the wall over there. Cart riding can be, uh…dangerous at times, so I would suggest you give that stuff a quick read."
I went to read the instructions and the safety. It told me how to approach the cart and then how to lean my body to balance the weight of the cart as I approach a curve and how to slow down the cart and how to jump over the obstacles.
After reading that, I got on the cart and it started to move. I grinned goofily since I knew I was going to have fun with this. The cart rode up the tracks before it descended down, quickly. I felt a little wobbly when I had tilted the cart sideways but at the same time, I felt the breeze hitting my face.
The adrenaline rush came to me as I hollered with excitement.
"Whoo-hoo!" I shouted. My heart gave a bit of a leap when I wanted to make the cart go faster. Up and around, the cart went around the buildings. I nearly yelped when the cart was about to hit the edge of the building but I moved the cart out of the way since I was tilting it when that happened.
My ride stopped when I was in a tunnel. Nevertheless, I went to the next building to destroy some enemies before going to my right. There I saw the cart and like before, I rode on it.
However, the tracks got separated into two ways when I descended down. Without thinking, I went to my left since I didn't really saw the right path the first time. I realized that I was going around in circles, making me to be sick.
You're so smart, sometimes you know that?
Shush. I don't feel so good.
Well then. Get out of the circle and go to the right!
Doing just that, I leaned to the right which made the cart to do the same thing and this time I was on the right path. There were some narrow paths whenever the cart rode between the buildings but I got out of there.
However, I saw that there was a leap between the tracks and it made my heart to leap. Oh boy oh boy…
Gathering all my strength, I lifted the cart up when it had reached the end of the track and the next thing I knew, it was on the other side having sparks coming out. My heart was beating rapidly while I gulped as I had almost fallen off.
Sideway and sideway, the cart went. I gave a gasp as the cart titled sideways dangerously so I made it to go back to normal after my hands didn't grabbed the cart the first time. I didn't like this at all when the cart began to pick up speed…like it went incredibly fast but I was too late to slow down since I gave a shriek when it jumped the leap when I wasn't expecting it.
I was pleased to know that we had reached the end of the mine-cart ride. When I had got out of the cart, I felt wobbly and was extremely dizzy since I rushed out of the place and stared down at the quick sand.
I felt like I was going to throw up.
"Master are you alright?" Fi asked.
"I feel like I want to throw up." I answered as I made a vomit sound but I held it back in. Fi did an uneasy face expression when she heard that. After I got everything back in order, I went back to the tunnel. Mind you, I was still feeling dizzy since I tripped over my feet.
I then entered the door after lifting it up.
"Master, we have arrived at the Shipyard construction bay." There were symbols on some of the walls while chains were hanging from the ceilings. There was something underneath me, a pool of something but it looked like sand. The place gave an uneasy feeling and it was quite deserted having no noise at all. Sometimes, cold breezes would come by.
"With the passing of many years, this structure has filled with sand. I recommend looking in the sand for a clue that may direct you to the location of the ship."
Looking? But what if something was buried inside the sand?!
All the same, I began to jump off and landed on the sand. I seriously didn't like this place when I continued to dust the sand away by using the Gust item. It revealed scattered items but for a minute, it wasn't scattered. In fact, it looked like it was pieced together. Just then, the thing jumped out of the sand, giving me a heart attack while I did backflip.
It was the Moldarach.
The menacing creature clicked its pincers at me menacingly. Awful flashbacks would come and go, reminding me about the horrible battle I had before. I had barely made it alive. But, since I knew how to defeat the monster, this should be easy…
Right?
When I struck one of the eyes, it gave out a wail of pain and then it closed it for a minute while leaving the other one to be opened so I struck that one. Using the Skyward Strike proved to be very useful especially if I didn't want to die again. The monster came too close, much to my dislike so I did a backflip to avoid from being hit.
Two strikes, three strikes, four strikes… the battle seemed to be taking at a slow pace. Finally, the pincer got demolished which left me to have one left. When the eye turned red, I immediately started to attack which forced the red eye to turn back into blue. It gave out a shriek of pain when my sword collided with its eye. The last pincer vanished, leaving the enemy to be vulnerable for now. It shook itself before it brought out its dangerous tail.
Before I could attack it, it went beneath the sand, hoping that it would attack me unexpectedly. Once I used the Gust Bellow, I stabbed the eye. It retreated its tail back just in time. The process continued; the brute would try to attack me from hiding under the sand but it didn't work since I would get it out of the sand.
The fiend rammed its head into my shield when I saw that it wanted to attack.
Finally, at the last strike, it gave out a piercing wail of pain as it was thrashing around before it collapsed to the ground, leaving the body to rot.
"Master, it would appear that in the many years this factory went unused, monsters have moved in and built a nest. I now estimate that the chance of finding a clue in the sand here as to the ship's location is extremely low."
The door that was in front of me opened when the metal bars lifted itself up. I was back outside, feeling the calm breeze brushing past by me. I went back to the captain to report that I didn't found anything.
"So it wasn't there? Then there is only one place left for us to look for clues, vrrm. Brrzrrt. This could be scary, but…we have to head to the stronghold of the pirates who stole my ship, phweep!"
Lovely.
"So let's not waste any time, vrrm!"
"Let's go then."
"Anchors aweigh, zrrm!"
Once we got on the boat, he told me that this is pretty scary. Ha! I had beaten countless of huge menacing creatures. Pirates are nothing to compare to those!
"The pirate captain is a mechanical maniac, zrrt! He's got no shortage of evil underlings too, vrrm! I never wanted to lay eyes on him again, brrzrrt. But… If we want to take the ship back, then we have no choice, phoo-weep! The Pirate Stronghold is here!" he marked the map with an x that was at the end of the coast.
"Tighten up whatever you humans have instead of bolts, and let's get going, phoo-weep!"
I smirked. "Bring it on!"
We arrived at the Pirate Stronghold and it looked somewhat…threatening. With flags representing that this is the territory of the Pirates. Everything seemed to be quiet which gave me a sudden impression that maybe they were going to attack whenever I don't expect it.
"This is easily as scary as I thought it would be, vrrm… But if you think about it, they should all be dead, brrzrrt! The only reason I'm up and about like this is because of that Timeshift stone on the boat, phoo-weep!"
I eyed him since he knew about that…
"So I have nothing to worry about, vrrm! I feel better now, Link."
I froze when he said my name. How did he know that? I never told him.
"How did you know my name? I never told you!" I replied, narrowing my eyes.
He seemed to ignore it since he continued to speak. "And so it's time for you to go look for my ship, zrt! I'll wait here, of course, bzzt."
I began to feel uneasy about that captain. Like seriously, how did he know my name? I swear I didn't tell him… I went to my right to enter the door.
After I had descended down the stairs, Fi told me to take a look.
I eyed the device that was in the center of the circle.
"This device looks like it is meant to hold a Timeshift stone, but there is not one currently installed. There is a 95% chance that it is the same type of device as the ones we encountered in Lanayru Mine. Signs indicate that Timeshift stones were used in this facility as a kind of power source."
Interesting…
Nonetheless, I turned to my left to open up a door that revealed a long pathway with a few torches at the side of the wall. Unluckily, I was met up with the two Lizalfos but no sooner or later, they were finally dead.
Bloody bastards.
But I came out of the battle with just a few scratches, burns and bruises. I was even more annoyed when I had to see the ugly toad-like brute. After killing it, I made a mad dash to run across the sand. Entering through another door revealed another hallway.
Kinda.
Something in front of me glowed but it seemed that it was stopped halfway.
"Master, please take a look. This object is called a Timeshift Orb. I conjecture that, unlike the Timeshift Stones we've seen, this device was designed to be carried around and installed in different locations."
Hmm…
I went towards the orb and picked it up. The blue color was now gone, resuming the place to its lifeless form. I went out of the spot and turned to my left to face a locked door but it got open when the orb made contact with it.
I still didn't see why the orb had to bring back the bokoblins…Yet, I still continued my path. I nearly got squashed when the cliffs rose from the ground but then I exited out of the room by going to the next room. I stared at the metal door before going to a path without the orb so that I can bring it through the metal door by pulling down the switch.
I exited that room and into the next one. In this room though, everywhere I go, more deku babas would come back to life and also those cliffs. But the deku babas were defeated nonetheless. However, when I left out of this room, three deku babas popped out of the ground; one Quadro Babas and two deku babas.
Great.
I decided to take out the deku babas first since they were rather easy. After all, only one strike was needed to end them. The Quadro baba took a while but it was dead, making me to resume my mission. Followed after them was a bokoblin that was easily demolished.
These deku babas were really starting to get on my nerves.
When I went into the next room, a Quadro baba appeared yet again though this one seemed to be more aggressive than the previous ones since it would always lunge at me who quickly dodged it. Once the defeat of the baba came, I went out of the room.
I pinched the bridge of my nose to keep me from screaming as another deku baba came again, followed by the bokoblin. The deku baba would sometimes ram into me, causing me to fall and then get zapped quickly after that. Growling like a beast, I struck the bokoblin with a couple of hits before the deku baba started to lunge at me.
I eyed the plant enemy and quickly did a backflip to avoid its head and then I swiftly did a spin attack, ending them both. Annoying pests. I groaned when the metal bars blocked my path but as soon as I turned to the left, the stupid toad-like creature and the bokoblin emerged out of the ground alive.
Seriously?!
With a jump attack, vertical, horizontal and a spin attack, the stupid bokoblin was finally dead. I entered through the door, activating the switch that was on the floor. It closed the door to where I am but it opened the door that had the spikes on them.
However, I took the orb out and placed it on the ground so that the door that once had an electric fence was now gone, allowing me to have access. I grunted when I pulled the heavy crate towards the switch. It took a lot of switches to open the freakin door but at last, the door was opened.
I went through another room that had the door opened and I exited out of the room since there wasn't anything in there so I picked up the orb and entered through another room after the door was revealed to us.
Unexpectedly, I got zapped by the Beamo that was beside the door. Shaking out of my zapping state, I head towards that one to destroy it.
Room after room, I was beginning to think when will this…place will come to an end.
Until your fresh and bones rot.
…Gee.
I exited out of the room after I had defeated the two-face enemy and then placed the orb into its proper place. Something began to tremor outside but since I was inside, I didn't know what got opened however, I had felt the shaking.
"A report, Master. The power of the Timeshift Orb appears to have caused a change in this structure. I recommend going outside to further assess the situation."
Hurriedly, I exited out of the place and went outside.
I stared out in the beyond when I was outside but I was disappointed with the results I had came out.
The ship wasn't here either. I was starting to suspect the captain…I just don't know why but I have a slightly bad feeling about him, maybe it's just me.
"I have information to report, Master. Please take a look."
I looked and there I saw broken parts that must've been the parts of the ship.
"There is a 60% probability that these masts and these sails are from the ship that protects Nayru's Flame."
So maybe I was wrong about him but that still doesn't explain how he knew my name.
"You can now set your dowsing ability to search for the ship that holds Nayru's Flame."
Finally!
After all of this, I had almost forgotten about the Nayru's Flames…
With that in mind, I used the dowsing process once again.
Author's Note: Alright kiddos, I have to end it here. Anyways, any guesses how the captain knows that he's Link? Yeah, if you look at the previous chapter, I deleted when Link introduced himself to the Captain since I thought it would have more suspense hanging…know what I'm saying? Maybe the Captain has some kind of name-sensing file thing or whatever the heck…You tell me.