Hyrulian Nights

Hyrulian Nights

Scene 4: The Princess and the Pauper

(Cut to daytime on the street. Link and Navi are up to their capers again. They are on top of the awning of a fruit stand.)

LINK: Okay, Navi. Go!

(Navi dips over the edge and looks at the Salesman.)

SALESMAN: (To passing crowd) Try this, your taste buds will dance and sing. (Navi grabs a melon and hovers there, distracting his attention.) Hey, get your wings off that.

NAVI: Blah, blah, blah!

SALESMAN: Why, you! Get away from here, you filthy faerie!

(He grabs the melon away from Navi. But in the foreground, Link dips down and snatches another melon from the stand.)

NAVI: Bye-bye!

(She zings back up. The Salesman takes the melon to the front, where he places it on top of a stack. He looks confused, like he has just done this.)

LINK: Nice goin' Navi. Breakfast is served.

(Link and Navi on the roof break open the melon and eat. Zelda is walking through the street.)

SHOPKEEPER 1: Pretty lady, buy a pot. No finer pot in brass or silver.

SHOPKEEPER 2: Sugar dates, sugar dates and figs! Sugar dates and pistachios!

SHOPKEEPER 3: Would the lady like a necklace? A pretty necklace for a pretty lady.

(She is charmed by the action, but is startled by a fish thrust into her face.)

SHOPKEEPER 4: Fresh fish! We catch 'em, you buy 'em!

ZELDA: I don't think so. (She backs away, but bumps into a fire eater, who is startled into swallowing his fire.) Oh, excuse me. (He gulps, then belches fire from his mouth. Zelda is disgusted. He his pleased and taps his stomach. Link sees her, and a strange look comes over his face.) I'm really very sorry.

LINK: (obviously deeply in love with her) Wow!

(She pulls the hood of her cloak over her head. Navi sees him and jumps up on his shoulder, waving her hand in front of Link's face.)

NAVI: Uh oh. Hello? Hello?

(Zelda stops at the fruit stand and sees a young homeless child reaching for a piece of fruit. She picks one up and gives it to him.)

ZELDA: Oh, you must be hungry. Here you go. (The boy runs off.)

SALESMAN: You'd better be able to pay for that.

ZELDA: (Mystified) Pay?

SALESMAN: No one steals from my cart!

ZELDA: Oh, I'm sorry sir. I don't have any money.

SALESMAN: Thief!

ZELDA: Please, if you let me go to the castle, I can get some from the King.

SALESMAN: Do you know what the penalty is for stealing?

(He takes her hand and pins it down on the table, intending to chop it off.)

ZELDA: No, no please!

(The sword drops, but his hand is stopped by Link's.)

LINK: Thank you kind sir. I'm so glad you've found her. I've been looking all over for you.

ZELDA: (whispering) What are you doing?

LINK: (whispering back) Just play along.

SALESMAN: You know this girl?

LINK: Sadly, yes. She is my sister. She's a little crazy. (He circles his finger around his ear. She is shocked. The Salesman grabs him by the vest.)

ZELDA: She said she knows the King!

LINK: She thinks the faerie is the King.

(Navi is picking a pocket. She hears this, then straightens up. Zelda, playing along, kneels and bows to Navi.)

ZELDA: Oh, wise King. How may I serve you?

NAVI: Well, blah, blah, blah, blah.

LINK: Tragic, isn't it? (He leans forward, picking up another apple from the cart with his foot.) But, no harm done. (Walks over to Zelda.) Now come along, sis. Time to see the doctor.

ZELDA: (To a horse standing nearby) Oh, hello doctor. How are you?

LINK: No, no, no. Not that one. (To Navi, who's stolen some things) Come on, King.

(Navi bows to the crowd and everything she's stolen from the cart falls onto the ground.)

SALESMAN: Huh? What is it? (Navi picks up what she can carry, and the trio runs off.) Come back here, you little thieves!

(Cut to Ganondorf's lab. Kaepora is running on a gear in a bizarre contraption. At the top of the contraption is a storm brewing.)

KAEPORA: (huffing and puffing) With all due respect, you rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?

GANONDORF: Save your breath, Kaepora. Faster! (He places the King's pendant in the contraption.)

KAEPORA: Yes, oh mighty, evil one.

(Kaepora runs faster. A lightning bolt streaks through the pendant, passing into an hourglass below. The sands begin to swirl.)

GANONDORF: Ah, sands of time, reveal to me the one who can enter the realm. (The sand in top forms the Sacred Realm. It falls through into a storm, but it shows Link climbing a ladder, followed by Zelda who is covered in her cloak.) Yes, yes! There he is. My rupee in the rough!

KAEPORA: That's him?!?! That's the clown we've been waitin' for? (Kaepora loses his footing and is sucked into the gears.)

GANONDORF: Let's have the guards extend him an invitation to the palace, shall we?

(Kaepora goes flying past and slams into the wall upside down.)

KAEPORA: Swell.

(Ganondorf laughs hideously, and the camera zooms in on the sandstorm with Link in it. Finally, we dissolve into the real Link climbing to the top of the ladder, followed by Zelda.)