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Rejected

"Oooooooh my head" Sora whined, her voice distant and hazy. Link tried to pry his eyes open but found that he couldn't move, the marching band in his head wasn't a ton of help either.

"Brother, awaken!" That did it, at the sound of Darunia's voice, Link opened his eyes and scrambled up, looking around and fearing Goron hugs.

"I thank you on behalf of all Gorons for saving us from the dreaded dragon Volvagia." Darunia's voice boomed out again. The very sound made Link's head spin, where had this headache come from?

"I see you are still suffering the effects of our 'special crop'." Darunia chuckled. Link growled, his blurry vision unable to pick out more than an orange blob which he took to be the great boulder Darunia.

"Wha da hee ish gonna on?" Link questioned, or rather, thought he did. He had no idea what he just said, and his voice sounded so high pitched and unfamiliar, did he get kicked in the nuts again?

"Um... perhaps you would like to sit down?" Darunia suggested in a kind tone.

"No je ne pas sitta doywn, wfafgahs!" Link muttered, falling backwards on his ass. Darunia's chuckle only served to heighten his annoyance.

"Link..? Are you there...?" Sora's voice called out. Link 'hmph'ed back to her from where he lay.

"What the hell happened?" She asked, sounding hoarse and ill.

"Oi dunno.." He mumbled, rubbing his head. His vision was slowly clearing, and at an even slower rate; his head.

"Are you able to function properly yet?" the boulder asked, sounding impatient.

"Mebbie." Link replied, "wha happened?" His lips were dry and cracked - it hurt to speak. Link wondered why he hadn't noticed that until now.

"Well you managed to get through the Fire Temple, even defeated Volvagia - although I have no idea how you could go about doing this - especially with your condition." Darunia answered, Link looked up to see that the orange blob was somewhat more focussed now and was watching him with interest.

"What condition?" He asked, wondering if maybe he didn't want the answer.

"You have been under the effects of our 'special crop' for a good while. Perhaps I should've warned you not to fall asleep in the Fire Temple? The fumes start to get to your head when you're not moving about."

"Could you answer me more... straight..ly..er?" Link growled, finding it hard to collect proper vocabulary.

"Our special crop is marijuana, and it's been growing all over the Fire Temple. Basically, you are experiencing a 'high'." Darunia stated. The burst of laugher next to him caused Link's headache to reappear.

"Well that explains why everything was so crazy!" Sora said between fits of giggles. Link sat up again and looked at her, her back was to him as she lay on the ground - curled together into a little ball of laughter. He couldn't help but smile, despite the reminder that his lips were chapped.

"Where is everyone else?" Link questioned, looking about him anxiously.

"Raven is locked away, her powers are difficult to control when she is high. Harry is trying to barge into the chamber we set her in." Darunia stated with a shrug. Link rubbed the side of his head, trying to quiet the painful pounding. Sora's laugher had turned into even breathing as she had drifted off to sleep.

"Now brother - please accept this token of my gratitude!" Darunia held out a pack of marijuana.

"Uh, no thanks - can I just have the Fire Medallion please?" Link requested. Darunia shrugged again and held out the Fire Medallion.

"Good Luck with the rest of your quest - and be sure to visit for some more of our special crop!" A blue light engulfed both Link and the sleeping Sora, warping them out of the Sage's Realm and back out into the Death Mountain crater.

"Sora, wake up." Link muttered down at the ball of insanity at his feet as he looked about for Harry and Raven.

"Wajafagis!" Sora muttered right back at him.

"That's very nice Sora." Link rolled his eyes and picked her up, allowing her to continue her sleep in his arms.

"Where the hell are they..?" He murmured to himself, glancing about as he made his way up the bridge and out into Goron City. It was once again bustling with normality (or as normal as a Goron City could get anyways) since the Gorons had returned.

"Link?" He looked down to find Sora looking up at him.

"Yeah?"

"Why are you carrying me?"

"Cause you were asleep.." The reply from Sora came in the form of a giggle.

"Yeah I'm not too easily awoken." Sora murmured, snuggling up against him.

"Well you're awake now so start walking!" Link scoffed, setting her down. Sora let out a whine of disappointment, followed by another giggle.

"Are you still high?" He asked, knowing the answer.

"Hey where did Gothy and Scarehead go?" Sora questioned, taking a glance around for her friends.

"I have no idea. Darunia said that Raven wasn't able to control her powers while on their special crop and so they had to lock her up - Harry is with her." Link informed her quickly as he began to ascend the stairs up to the third floor.

"Hey, since it's just the two of us.." Sora began.

"Yes?" Link replied a little too quickly, heartbeat accelerating, he turned his head sharply to face her as he waited for the rest.

"Let's go get the Big Goron Sword!" Sora clapped her hands gleefully. Link just mourned.

"Come on, first we gotta go get a chicken." Sora rushed off down one of the hallways, dragging a sulking Link along with her.

"What's a chicken?"

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"Oh..a pocket egg..am I supposed to throw it at something or what? Pretty sucky sword if you ask me." Link muttered, it earned him a wack from Sora.

"It's not a sword ya dodo head, it's an egg."

"So why do I have to have this?"

"To get the sword, you need this." Sora sighed, sitting down at the base of the stairs leading up to death mountain. They were in Kakariko Village, and had just received a pocket egg from the Cucco lady.

"So now what do we do?" Link questioned, sitting down beside her.

"Well we could wait a few days for it to hatch..." Sora began, Link grinned, this could mean he might get some alone time with her...

"Or you could play the sun song and we wont have to wait!": D

" >:(" Link replied, but he took out his Ocarina and played the song anyways.

"Did it hatch yet?"

"No."

"Play it again."

da na na na sun song!

"How about now?"

"No."

da na na na sun song!

"Can you hear me now?"

"What..?"

"Just play the stupid song again."

da na na na sun song!

"OW! MOTHER F-"

"Link! Don't swear. Where did you learn that anyways?" Sora scolded him. She couldn't help but laugh out when he took out a Cucco from his back pocket.

"Raven." Link replied sourly, glaring at the softly clucking cucco in his hand.

"Why would Raven be saying these things..?" Sora wondered aloud as she walked up to one of the houses in the village, a very peeved Link following her. Inside they found a sleeping Talon, the Cucco immediately began crowing loudly. Talon almost fell off his bed in shock.

"Wazza? Where am I? Huh..?" He sat up quickly and looked around. Link and Sora had already left.

"Another cucco?" Link grimaced in both anger and fear and Sora turned around to face him. This time the cucco lady had given them a very odd looking cucco.

"Yes, now shut up." Sora retorted, climbing onto Sugar and waiting for Link to get on Epona.

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"Any idea where they are?" He asked.

"Nope." She replied. For the 12th time.

"Where do u want to go?"

"Nope."

"Can you please say something other than 'nope'?"

"Yep."

"Come on, let's just get out of here. It's boiling hot and I'm surprised we're not already burned to a crisp." Harry muttered, leading Raven out of the Crater. Sheik had helped them get across the broken bride, since Raven hadn't felt like doing anything. She followed behind Harry in a dead sort of way. She let him lead her wherever, not seeming to care at all as to what was happening.

"Raven..don't be like this, please?"

"Nope."

Harry sighed, putting a finger to his temple. They were inside Darunia's room now, but the great big boulder was no where in sight. Harry took another glance at Raven, who was staring at the top corner like it was the greatest thing in the world. He smirked, he DID have to get her out of this phase at all cost, right? Which gave himthe perfect excuse to snog her. Just as he brought his lips down to meet hers, she snapped out of it and slapped him.

"What are you doing Harry?"

"IT'S NOT FAIR!" He whined, poutingly crossing his arms and glaring at the top corner like it was the worst thing in the world. Poor corner.

"That's nice Harry. Now where is hyper and skirt-boy?" She questioned, looking around.

"I have no idea, once you stopped thrashing things with your powers, we were brought down into the Crater and Link and Sora weren't there." Harry explained.

"I get moody when I'm on any type of drugs." Raven explained as she walked forward.

"You've been experimenting enough to know that?" He was somewhat shocked by her statement.

"Yeah well, you try being on the same team as Beast Boy." She replied with a smirk, "No Harry I don't smoke, this information was in the manual that came with my horrific powers."

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"Cant your horse go any faster!" Sora practically screamed in his ear.

"If you want to kill her maybe!" Link retorted gruffly as Epona dashed onwards, heading towards Hylia Lake.

"We'll never get the frog there on time at this rate!" Sora whined. They had received a frog from the King Zora to give to an old guy so he can make eye drops to give to the Big Goron so he can make them a sword.

"Ya know your whining isn't doing anything to make us go faster!"

"But I like to whine.."

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"So you saw them up there?" Harry asked the Goron.

"Yeah, they were giving this broken sword thing to the Big Goron." He replied.

"You think they might go back up there?" Raven wondered aloud.

"Maybe, it's a start isn't it? We'll have to go back through the Crater to get up there." Harry said as he led the way back down to Darunia's room.

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"Which way should we take to get up there?"

"Lost woods?"

"Wouldn't the village be faster?"

"No cause then we'd have to run up the mountain."

"But it's closer to the mountain from the village, we're going through the village."

"I'm a woman dammit so you gotta listen to me or you're gonna get screwed up! Take a left and go through the woods!"

"No, I think the village is faster!" Link argued with Sora as they tried to decide which route would get them to the Big Goron faster.

"OUCH!" Link yelled when Sora bit his ear.

"GO LEFT OR I'LL BITE IT OFF!" Sora screamed in his ear again. They were sharing the same horse cause it was faster to do so. Link decided he would have to teach her a lesson in messing with him as he turned Epona left in the direction of the Kokiri Forest.

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"They're not up here." Raven stated in a bored tone. A huge boulder was staring at them as they paced about, wondering where Link and Sora could have gone.

"I'm all out of ideas, where do you want to look?" Harry questioned her, sitting down near the ledge of the cliff that was on Death Mountain.

"Isn't that..?" Raven muttered as she walked up to him.

"Yeah I think so.." He replied.

"I told you didn't I? I told you through the crater would be faster but do you listen? Do you ever listen?"

"I said shut up! You're wasting your breath!"

"Don't tell me to shut up, woman! If you hadn't bit my ear again we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"That's it! You're going down!" Sora screamed, tackling Link to the ground. Something flew out of his hand and up towards Raven and Harry. Raven caught it with her powers and levitated it closer to them. It was some sort of liquid in a bottle.

"What do you think it is?" She asked Harry, they both gasped when the boulder extended a finger and plucked the small item from in front of them. It reached up to it's eyes and opened it, allowing the liquid to pour out drop by drop into each eye.

"Ah! That's much better! Now I can get started on that sword.." The Big Goron said, turning around and picking something up.

"It's your fault it fell! You tackled me!"

"Well you shouldn't have let go of it! Maybe it's still up here!" Sora yelled back down at Link as she pulled herself up from the ledge. She looked up to find Raven and Harry staring blankly at her.

"Oh..hello." She greeted them, grinning sheepishly.

"Would you have happened to see a small bottle fly up here?" Link asked as he too climbed up from the ledge. Raven pointed up at the Big Goron, who was now working on something.

"Oh okay, that works out well enough." Sora chirped happily, sitting down on the dusty ground.

"Now what?" Link asked, sitting down beside her near the ledge.

"Now we have to wait a few days for the sword to be finished." She replied.

"So ... can we spend some alone time together?" he whispered in her ear. Sora grinned... and shoved him off the ledge.

Harry and Raven leaned over to watch the descending form of Link, soon a loud 'thump' followed.

"Why me?" Link's muffled sob echoed down the mountain walls.

Huzzah - I updated :D

m'kay, on occasion, i may need reminders to update...cause i forget these things ya see. This chapter has been half done for like - a month... so yeah. Have a nice summer everybody! And please, dont try ANY of the above at home.

review 'cause Sora knows where you live.