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Disaster

"So, why are we flying on our Loftwings," Leanne asked as they soared over deseret as far as the eye could see.

"Natalia said something about sensing the Hylia was in trouble," Skye said grouply. "And Gaepora insisted as well once one of us let slip she ewas in a dry area."

"I hope we find them soon," Natalia said. "The sun is murdering my skin."

Skye bit back a retort. "I'm roasting too. Keep your eyes peeled. They've got to be around here somewhere. We'll search until our water gives out."

(Zelda's POV)

The Ancient Robots guided us through the rest of the ship with Skipper leading the way. Level by level we retook the ship from the pirate robots and crew that had mutinied some many thousands of years ago. When we reached the deck the ship was magificant at least in the radius of the timeshift orbs.

The mast, rigging, and the forward bow were still in the present, worn and parched. Skipper, Karane, and I moved forward towards the wheel.

"Bzzt,..finally I.,,, beee….get my ship back..bzzt," Skipper said.

What happened next seemed to go down in just a few seconds. Blue streams erupted from the sides of the ship, separated the three of us from the rest of the crew. Something landed from the upper rigging and with a swipe of a sword threw Skipper in with the rest of the crew.

I pulled out my sword just in time for metal to rind against metal. An ugly robot looked back at me. I mean ugly! Built of ancient robot parts, this robot had the body of a man but was made of Ancient robot parts. He wore brown boots, had rags draping off everywhere, a metal hook on one hand, a giant club in the other, and a crooked hat atop its head.

"Fi, who is that?" I asked as Karane joined me in throwing the weird robot back.

"Scervo, a pirate robot that has haunted the Lanyaru sea since ancient times," she stated. "Somehow he has managed to survive until the present day."

Scervo walked towrads us.

"Hylia, an abomination returns," it growled.

You know me?" I said.

"Of course I knew you, I'm disappointed. The Goddess traded her powers for a worthless sack of flesh."

I glanced at Karane: her sword and wooden shield were in her hands and she was roaring to go at him. I tightened my grip on the Goddess Sword.

"Gimme the ship back and the flames," I told him.

"In return for what?"

"I'll have the Ancient Robots fix you up," I told him. (I needed something to bargain with).

"No Hylia, our fates are intertwined."

The decking I was standing on rose, leaving Karane behind. Scerva jumped on leaving just me and him.

"You'll have to defeat me first."

"Zelda," Karane yelled, alarmed. She tried to clamber up to the bow of the but she too was blocked by blue beams.

"Karane I'll be ok," I called back to her. "See what you can do."

"So brave," Scerva taunted as the planking landed just beyond where the outer radius of the timeshift stones ended. "To fall."

"No, you're going to fall," I said, trying to act like Link. "I'm taking this ship back and you're standing in my way."

I raised the Goddess Sword to the heavens and lights radiated into the blade and I hurled it at Scerva. He dodged and the light blasted a hole in the planking. Scerva swung his club at me and sword and ancient club clashed again with sword, the two grinding against each other.

Karane watched in alarm, her anxiety building.

"We got to do something," she said in a panic.

Something touched her leg.

"Knight Karane," Skipper said. "We bzzt. Have a beep catapult..bzzt down in the ship. We could bzzt use it."

"What are we waiting for, let's get it!" Karane said.

She chanced one more glance over her shoulder at the two figures duking it out near the wheel.

"Hold on Zelda."

Scerva was winning. Even after weeks of traveling on the Surface and fighting monsters, I was still no match for him in a one-on-one fight. It was all I could do to avoid his blow and strike one in return. Finally, an opening. Scerva thrust at my mid-section: I jumped out of the way and his sword lodged in the wooden wall of the ship.

"Now Her Grace," Fi's voice commanded. Without hesitation I jabbed, thrust the Goddess Sword into Scerva's ribs, trying to cut him in two.

"I will not fall!" Scerva shouted. He wrenched his blade at me; I noticed he was balancing precariously on the edge where the water/sand was lapping at the bottom of the ship.

I raised the Goddess Sword to the sky.

"Fi, help me time this please," I said to her.

"Noted my Mistress," Fi's voice said in my head.

Scerva walked toward me. I was exhausted, my arms and legs trembling with the effort of just standing.

"Some Goddess," Scerva mocked as I held the wall for support. I didn't dare use my powers: they took up my physical strength just as much as the sword fight had. "Can't even win a proper sword fight."

I slowly backed to where the edge of the ship just behind me.

"Prepare to meet your Sisters," Scerva said, thrust his blade at me.

"NOW HYLIA!" Fi's voice screamed in my head.

I dodged with the last bit of my strength, twirled around him and sent a blue wave of light at his feet.

The wood beneath his feet shattered, leaving Scerva trembling on the side of the ship. Suddenly Karane shot out of nowhere with a battle cry of her own, wielding only her shield. She slammed it with all her strength into the pirate: I grabbed her hand. As I pulled Karane back Scerva went overboard.

"AAHHHHHHH!" Scerva yelled until we heard a splash.

"Please tell me it's over," I said to Karane as I involuntarily sank to the floor.

She peeked over the side.

"It's over," she said as Fi popped out of the sword.

"My Mistress, it's astonishing to think he survived all those years and that the fight took place in the present."

"Thanks Fi," I said. "Let's get that….."

At that very moment a slimy something erupted from the side of the ship. It curled around me, lifting me up dozens of feet into the air. I heard Karane and the other Ancient Robots scream as it threw me against the rigging and I knew no more.

Karane raced to Zelda's side, feeling for a pulse.,

"No, don't die on me Zelda, Fi is she alive,"Karane muttered. All around her the Ancient Robot crew was panic stricken.

"Confirmed Knight Karane," Fi told Karane. She popped out of the swore, causing many of the crew to jump. "My Mistress is alive, but unresponsive. Her energy levels are at 50% and dropping. I suggest you get her medical attention or a heart potion."

"Skipper, take Hylia below," Karane commanded. "She's just faced Demise in combat. She is very weak and must be protected."

Skipper barked out orders to his crew and they took Zelda and started down the stairway to the decks below.

"Skipper turn the ship around and head..."

The ship was lifted feet out of the sea and thrown violently about. It was all Karane and Skipper could do to prevent themselves from falling overboard. A purple monster rose from the depths as rain began to fall. Karane's jaw fell to the floor: she knew it was the monster that had nearly killed her best friend.

The monster raised it's tentacles, ready to strike again, but recoiled under a shower of knives that irritated it's eye. A particularly good shot lodged in the center eyeball, causing it to plunge back into the sea.

"It's eyes it's weakness," Karane observed.

Skye and Leanne landed behind her on the deck. Karane's mouth opened with millions of questions.

"Fight first questions later, Nyssa sensed something was wrong and sent us," Skye interrupted.

"The eye is it's weakness."

"OK," Skye said. "Leanne get up in the rigging and prepare to blast it. We have to drive it away, not kill it."

"What about turning off the Timshift Orb?" Leanne suggested, gazing up at the massive stone on the top of the rigging.

"Prefect," Karane said. "If we turn it off, if the monster is right where we want it to be, we could cut it in half."

"Ok, Leanne, get into the rigging, hit it's eye when you can and prepare to cut the power to that stone."

Skipper came up from below.

"Skipper, we need you at the wheel while we fight this thing, you're crew needs to keep us afloat."

"Bzzzt...yes Shiekah," Skipper said, taking the wheel.

Leanne began climbing the rigging as the monster emerged, slapping it's tentacle on the ship. Karane and Skye sank blades into every tentacle they could see, causing them to retreat back into the sea. It paused for a minute, giving the two fighters on the deck a breather.

"Come on, come on up," Skye muttered as the two waited with bated breath, scanning the sea around them.

Up in the rigging on the largest pole, Leanne was trying to concoct something together. Panicked, she glanced around. What I wouldn't wish for some help right now? A stick was floating in mid-air: Leanne blinked not believing what she was seeing. She looked to the right, the stick moved in that direction. To the left, the same thing happened. Slowly, under control of her mind a barrel came together in mid-air, under her complete control. Smiling, she put together three more of them and tied several ropes together to created a rope swing.

The purple octopus emerged again from the depths, its eye focused on Karane and Skye.

"Now Leanne," Skye yelled.

A barrel swooped down from the rigging and slammed into the eye of the monster. Screaming it began flailing it's tentacles about. The rain intensified, lashing the rigging, everyone and everything, drenching the ship in bucketful of water.

The monster reemerged from the depths ever more angry than before.

Skye pirouetted into the air and backflipped in a ninety degree arc over the next tentacle. The monster raked it's tentacles over the deck, snatching at anything it could feel. Skye, Skipper, and Karane both climbed the nearest poles to avoid the writhing mass below them. It was at this moment while everyone was hanging on that a hatch popped up and the Ancient Robot pirates, evidently freed from their cells by the commotion, burst out in a prison break.

A tentacle wrapped around one of the robots an tossed it overboard. Screaming the robots scattered: Skipper, Karane, Leanne, and Skye watched somewhat shocked at the pirates who were scooped up one after another and tossed into the maelstrom.

"Well, there goes the pirates," Karane said to Skipper, who was clutching to the pole next to her. "You won't need to worry about them again."

The writhing mass of tentacles grabbed the last pirate and plunged it into the sea and the eye reemerged. Leanne's barrel again meeting it head on. It plunged below the surface of the sea again, not emerging for a minute or two.

"Is that it?" Leanne asked.

Skipper began going off. "It's bzzt...coming back!"

"Me and my big mouth."

On cue, the massive monster popped back up again, angry. It began raking the decks of the ship, scouring for it's assailants. Tentacles wrapped around Skye, Karane, and Skipper, flailing them about in the air like rag dolls.

"Leanne do something!" Karane shouted when she spotted the Shiekah frozen in the rigging.

The monster was moving so quickly Leanne couldn't draw a bead on it with her last barrel.

"F*** it," Leanne swore, letting her barrel roll into the sea. She had to do something. "I'm totally crazy!"

She jumped on the rope swing and leapt, letting go and landing on the octopus's head. Distracted, it flailing about, throwing Skipper, Skye, and Karane back onto the deck. She saw Skye groan and roll over onto his back, hurt, and a pang of pain shot through Leanne's heart.

"YOU PIECE OF GARBAGE!" she screamed. She crawled on top of the monster's head, with was writhing about. She summoned all of the knives at her belt and sent them into the eye, leaping off of its head and onto the deck.

Behind her the massive kraken screamed and plunged back into the depths, leaving only a few bubbles to mark where it had once fought.

"Skye don't," she pleaded, rolling him over onto his side, tears joining the rain still pounding the ship. "Don't go."

"I'm...I'm fine...fine," he moaned in response. Leanne breathed a deep sigh of relief:

"Me too," Karane said, trying to rise, wincing in pain. "Zelda, is she okay?!"

Skipper quickly jumped back up as if nothing had happened.

"Skipper, check on Hylia!"

Skipper did as he was told. Several of his crew came on deck at his call.

"Hylia is bzzt... just fine, bzzt...asleep," one of them said.

Karane sank back to her knees, relieved. I'll never forgive myself if Zelda dies on this ridiculous mission.

"Skipper, head back to the dock," Leanne told him, tending to Skye. "We've got to get back home and get everyone healed up."