The Legend of Zelda
Ti'ana's Story
__________by Ti'ana MYST
Chapter Five
"Great! Just great!" Ti'ana mumbled. "Now what? We can't get out!!"
Link shrugged. "You guys wait here. I'm gonna go find that Zora princess and come back here when I've got the Zora's Sapphire. At least.. I hope that's what I get!"
"Good luck, Link!" Ti'ana said.
"Let's go, Link!" Navi ordered. With that, the young boy in the green Kokiri tunic took off.
Taabu frowned. "What are we supposed to do now?"
The young girl beside him shrugged. "I.. I don't know. What if Link never finds a way out? What if Jabu Jabu decides to eat us? I'm scared!" Ti'ana almost started to cry, but being that she was not that type of sensitive person, she sobbed dryly.
"It'll be okay, 'Ana. I'm not gonna let any thing hurt you. I swear on my very own life." Taabu put his arm around Ti'ana, who threw her arms around his neck
***
Talon was furious. Taabu hadn't come to the ranch that day, and the sun had finally set. He concluded that Taabu's pay would be withheld for that day, and reduced for the next from 60 rupees to 40. It wasn't a lot, but he knew Taabu was only a kid, anyway.
Malon was also upset. Not because of Taabu, though. Because Ti'ana had not come that day, she could not give her the present. Malon sighed. She would have to wait until the next day, or deliver the gift herself. Then she realized that that was not a good idea, being that the present was her very own Flicka, and she should stay around her mother for a few more months.
Ingo was mad, though. Since Taabu had not shown up at Lon Lon Ranch, he had to do double the work he usually did. That Talon! If only he would do the work a ranch owner should, Ingo would not have to labor day in and day out, and wake up the next morning with no relief other than a terrible backache from the previous day's work. Grunting angrily as went to kick a cucco out of his way, he instead knocked over a bucket of water.
"Ah!" He screamed in frustration. "It's so tough being a working man!"
***
Hours had passed, and still there was no sign of Link. Ti'ana was terrified. What if Link had died, or was somewhere deep within the big fish gravely injured? She quickly shook the idea from her head. Link couldn't die!
Taabu still had his arm around Ti'ana. He was mad that Link had been so stupid as to not have warned them to move out of the way when he dropped the fish. Ti'ana was obviously frightened, and he didn't like seeing his friend like that.
He looked down at his friend. Ti'ana was beautiful, he had to admit. Long, flowing blonde hair down to her waist with two brown strands in the front. Emerald green eyes that always seemed to shine, even when Ti'ana was aghast or dismayed.
Ti'ana raised her eyes to Taabu's and smiled. He was pretty handsome, but at the meager age of 11, those feelings she had for him were written off as no more than a simple crush. If the two of them were ever parted, 'Ana knew she would never be happy again.
Suddenly, the gigantic mouth of Jabu Jabu opened, and there stood Link and Princess Ruto.
"Ti'ana!" Ruto shouted.
"Hey, Ruto!" Ti'ana stood and ran over to her friend. They hugged each other quickly. "What happened to you? Your father said that you were swallowed by Jabu Jabu!"
The Zora Princess shook her large white-and-blue head. "You know I always go into the Lord's belly. He's been letting me in there..."
"Since you were a kid. Yes, I know." Ti'ana turned to Link. "Did you get your stone?"
Link nodded happily. "This is my third one. I'm going to the castle now to meet up with Zelda again." He looked up to Navi, his guardian fairy, who was the only light source besides the gradually rising moon. "That's where we're headed, right?"
Navi bounced up and down. "Yep!"
Nuli, whom up to this point had been sleeping in Ti'ana's pocket, shot out from underneath her tunic. "Hey Navi!"
The two fairies chatted in high-pitched voices which none of the four could interpret what they were saying.
"Well guys, my dad's waiting for me!" said Ruto. "Bye, Link! Bye, 'Ana." She turned to Taabu and smiled slyly. "Bye Taaby!" She blew him a kiss and disappeared from Zora's Fountain.
Taabu tilted his head and shrugged.
Link squeezed some water from his tunic. "I should head on out now, too. Got a princess waiting for me!"
Ti'ana nodded. "We'd better head on out as well." She turned to Taabu. "Wanna head to Hyrule Castle Town? We should get there by morning." The sky was completely dark now.
Taabu shrugged. "Sure. Let's go!" With that, the trio left Zora's Fountain, said good-by to Ruto and began their way to Hyrule Castle.