Chapter 28

Ravens . . . Or Should it be Cuccos?

Lya – Okay Rista, what do I do?

Rista – Honestly, I don't know. I've never seen one of them bring someone back to life.

Lya – Great. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Midna – Try reciting something.

Lya – I don't think that will do anything, but we will try:

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door, "'tis some visitor," said I, "tapping at my chamber door, only this and nothing more."

Zelda – This doesn't have anything to do with this situation.

Malon – Actually, it does. "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe is very similar to this situation. Continue please Lya.

Lya – I don't remember all of it. Let me skip a few stanzas. Okay, here is the eighth stanza:

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Link's body begins to shake and glow. The lights in the room dim, and the glow covers Link entirely. A huge blast of light is soon followed by a loud banging noise. And then…

Link – cluck, cluck, cluck. Cock-a-doodle-doo! (the lights come back on and we see that Link is alive! But he's been transformed into a . . . . . . . CUCCO!)

Lya, Midna, Aryll, Zelda, Malon, and Rista –AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

Lya – What did I do?

Rista – That, that should have worked. I think, if you had said the whole thing, instead of just part of it, it might have worked. But I don't know.

Midna – I'm sorry Lya. This is my fault. I'm the one who told you to recite something.

Lya – No Midna! It's not your fault! If it's anyone's fault, it's mine. I didn't remember the whole poem. If I had remembered, it would have worked the way it was supposed to. (turning to stare at Link) You are still Link, right?

Link – (clucking and squawking; nods insistently)

Lya – Well at least he's alive now. That's an improvement.

Midna – I suppose so.