Chapter 38: Boney Pirates vs…Link's Crew…whatever they're called! (don't worry, I'll give them a name eventually:D )

Gladius jumped in front of Kasmir, blocking the giant mace's ball from smashing Link. "Dominus S. Gladius, I presume?" Kasmir questioned.

"Yep. What's it to you?"

"Your captain choices seemed to have changed quite drastically." Gladius got rather mad at this comment and used his swords to push away the mace. Kasmir stumbled back a little, but not by much. Gladius jumped up and sliced at his head, and to his surprise Kasmir didn't block. He sliced the skull, shattering it into several different pieces.

"This guy is a pirate? That's quite worthless." Link commented. He slowly regained his strength and stood up, wobbling over to Gladius. However, Kasmir's body still stood straight and didn't even fall down. Link stared, confused, but soon realized this horror. The shattered skull of Kasmir slowly floated up to its natural place on the shoulders of the body, and reformed. The skull became one again, almost like it had never been shattered.

"Silly kid." He shot his hand at Gladius, grasping his neck and pinning him to a wall. "Did you think that'd work?"

"LET HIM GO!" Link shouted with rage. He delivered his strongest kick, but being covered in water made it many times weaker. It shattered the spinal cord of the skeleton, but again the cord slowly reformed. Link gritted his teeth with rage. Kasmir laughed, and then soon chucked Gladius across the ship and into a few cannons on the opposite side of the ship, knocking him out.

"Looks like it's just you and me, Link." Kasmir chuckled.

Navi, Medli and Makar

Navi shot a light beam through about three bone-people, shattering all of their abdomen bones and causing them to collapse. Her light beam had managed to actually destroy fragments of the bone, and when they reformed they were missing parts of their body, making them weaker. Navi took the job upon herself to weaken the bone-people.

Medli and Makar were tag-teaming the bokoblin and miniblin. Medli was iron-winging the bokoblin, smashing their skulls in or making them unconscious. Makar tried his best to either distract the enemies or make them run into Medli, or blow them off the ship with his own Deku Leaf. He also had his hand as sharp as a dagger, stabbing the miniblin who tried to confront him or attack Medli. All three of them thought they were managing to weaken the crew, but one by one they kept pouring out from the lower decks.

Gladius lay amongst the cannons, completely out of it. "Geez…for a guy with no muscle mass he sure can throw far." Gladius whispered to himself as he stood up. Three bokoblin gathered around him, sabers drawn, waiting to attack. "What the crap do you three want?" They only grunted and raised their swords. "Oh, I see!" Gladius laughed. "A death wish."

He lunged forward, as though it was a leopard leaping for its prey, and sliced one bokoblin's head off. The other two nearly shrieked as they then attempted to stab him. He moved out of their way, and using the handle of his sword he hit one in the back of the neck, nearly cracking his neck. The last bokoblin frowned and began to shake wildly.

"Oh, I see. You're afraid of death." Gladius laughed. "I was too. But then I left home." The bokoblin stared confused, but Gladius quickly sliced his chest in a large x formation, and the bokoblin fell unconscious. When he was done, Gladius turned his attention down to the deck, where Navi, Medli and Makar were fighting off the never ending army of the Boney Pirates. He waiting a moment for himself to recover from the rest of the pain from the cannons, and then ran out to the deck.

Link…

"AHHHH!" Link shouted wildly as he made several quickly slices on Kasmir, cracking and breaking bones like nobody's business. "Die you freak!" Kasmir's body fell to the ground, a pile of cracked and cut up bones, but he slowly reformed and made his body whole again.

"It won't work like this." Kasmir laughed. "My body will just reform after you break it." Link put his sword back up, frowning. Raising his fists, he charged forward like an angry animal seeking vengeance.

"Something's gotta work!" Link shouted as he unleashed a horde of punches into Kasmir's body. Bone after bone cracked and shattered, becoming nothing but pure sparkles of dust. Link stood still, admiring the powdered bone meal that now lay before him. But surely, the dust recollected and reformed into a body.

"Silly, silly little Link. You just never learn do you?" Kasmir punched Link in the gut, sending him flying. As Link flew, before hitting a wall, he ripped off part of the pinky bone attempting to break the fist. Breaking the fist didn't work, and Link slammed into the wall. He slumped to the ground, his stomach in pain and his breath knocked out of him. The hand flew back to Kasmir, missing a pinky. "Hey, kid! Give that back!"

Link, with the pinky in hand, put his hand on the ground in a puddle of water from the broken barrels from earlier. He stood up, and expected the pinky to fly back. He didn't do anything to stop it, and deemed it as worthless. "Everyone has a weakness. What could his possibly be?" Link turned his head to the ground to think for a minute, but soon realized something. The pinky refused to float back.

Kasmir's face was blank and white. Being a skull, there was no real emotion that could be shown. However, the bone structure was strained, and there was obviously something wrong. Link stared longingly at the pinky, confused as to why it refused to return to its owner. Like a strong wave smashing onto a boat, ripping it to shreds, Link was hit with the sudden realization of his weakness.

"WATER!" Link shouted. The rest of the crew ceased their fighting and stared at Link and Kasmir. "Your weakness is water! When the bones are covered with water, they absorb it and grow denser. Due to the density, they cannot fly back to their owner!" Link smiled with pride. All those years of school with Sturgeon were finally paying off. Kasmir took a step back, his jaw fell, and he raised his hands.

"Crap! Men! He's found us out!" Kasmir turned to run, but Link soon jumped ahead and tackled him straight in the back. Link grabbed the bottom of Kasmir's overcoat and then the top. As they flew he took the coat and put the neck of it down near the bottom, getting a majority of the bones stuck inside the overcoat. With one hand Link held the coat shut, and with his other hand he grabbed the eye holes of Kasmir's face. They flew off the ship and slowly made their way down to the water.

"Link!" Navi and the crew shrieked.

"Just come swim for me!" Link shouted in response. Kasmir's jaw was moving up and down, attempting to utter out any sort of language but could find nothing. "I'll hold my breath as long as I can!" And with that, Link and Kasmir slammed into the icy water below, and slowly began to sink to the bottom.

"I got him!" Gladius shouted. He put away his swords and made a dash for the side of the ship, but was soon blocked by a few bokoblin.

"We won't let you pass!" One of them shouted. They raised their assorted weapons and charged after Gladius. With his weapons already put away, he was at a loss of options. But, a cry broke through his thinking.

"Prepare yourself!" Medli shouted, holding her wings back. She let them loose and unleashed a devilish gust of wind. Gladius was hit straight in the back with the gust, and he was thrown forward at a dangerous speed. The bokoblin dropped their weapons and attempted to run away, only to get blasted by the gust too. All of them were thrown out into the water, many of them frantically shouting for help and claiming they can't swim.

Gladius, being the different bokoblin he was, dove head first into the water and started to swim downward after Link. Bokoblin were usually incapable of swimming due to a certain belief that long ago, shortly after the Great Flood, a chief bokoblin had offended one of the gods. In return for this transgression, as opposed to being completely driven to extinction, the bokoblin pleaded for a less severe punishment. So, it is said that the gods scattered the bokoblin across the globe into different tribes and then took away their ability to swim.

However, it is only a myth and an excuse for bokoblin not to swim. In reality, they had just gotten so used to living on land before the Great Flood that once the flood hit, they couldn't swim because they hadn't in forever. Many bokoblin managed to escape and sail across the globe establishing their own countries, but still many of them do not know how to swim. Gladius, however, due to his intense training and his wild dream, went against the odds and learned how to swim. Therefore, he took it upon himself to go after his captain.

Gladius paddled with his arms and legs to go deeper. Link was nowhere to be found in the water. He looked around, hoping to see his signature green hat or suit, or maybe Kasmir's overcoat. He wanted some sign of Link. Finally, something shiny caught the attention of Gladius. He looked over and was hit with a small beam of light in the eye. After he shook it off, he swam toward it and found Link laying on the ocean floor, his cheeks filled up with air. He had his sword out, and in the small sunlight that was hitting the bottom of the sea he was able to reflect it at Gladius.

He quickly swam down to Link and threw his hand around Link's torso. He sprung up from the ground and started kicking his hardest, and slowly but steadily he rose to the surface. Finally they emerged above the water, and Link gasped for air wildly as did Gladius. "I'm glad I didn't kill you." Link huffed out.

"I'm glad you didn't either." Gladius replied. He kicked his way over to the side of the boat, and yelled up for Medli. Medli threw another five bokoblin off the deck and into the water, all of them screaming for mercy, and then flew down to pick up Link. She grabbed him and flew back up to the deck, while Gladius took his swords and started to scale the side of the ship by stabbing into the side and climbing.

Once Medli dropped Link onto the deck, she turned her attention to the remaining crew, now just doing her best to slowly overthrow them all. "If I get them all in the water, they're dead!" Medli shouted. But, the enemies were many, and they were heavily outnumbered. Quickly, she realized what she had to do.

"Be ready everyone!" She warned. She spun around quickly, arms wide open, and suddenly a small little tornado appeared. However, as she kept spinning the tornado grew larger. Link's crew managed to get a hold of something, but the Boney Pirates were all swooped up into the tornado.

"Tornado Flip-Up!" She shouted. All of the pirates-miniblin, bokoblin and bone people-were swooped up and scatted across the area, all of them landing in water. Not one of them remained. Link's crew had won the day.

To celebrate, they robbed and looted the Boney Pirates' ship and stole all of their food. Finding no treasure, they decided to burn the ship down. After all of the food was placed upon The Loyal Avenger, Navi shoot multiple fire beams and fire balls into the ship, causing major fires to start. She even shot one into the cannon room, exploding the middle half of the ship completely.

They laughed at the destruction of the Boney Pirates', a weird bunch who attempted to kill Link over a small myth that may not even be real! Link had a real laugh about it, as though it wasn't a big deal. They ate and drank and were merry. "Now, crew, onward! Back to the Great Sea!"

Sorry for the really late chapter. Just finished exams with all A's, so expect a good flow of chapters from here on out!