Chapter 2: Confusion
"Japas Zygran" the teacher read the name on the attendance sheet. "Japas Zygran! Are you here?"
No Japas in the Music Composition class.
[Where is he?] Mikau thought with concern. [Japas should have come back already.]
"Mikau Loencraft"
"Here!" he quickly replied as he put the thoughts away.
"Right, that would be all the students except the ones who are not here. Welcome to the Music Composition class. Here, you will learn how to make outstanding songs and music scores. I expect nothing but respect here. I do not tolerate foolish acts, and rude comments. Do you understand?" the teacher swam slowly between rows of desks. "My name is Jecrest Ravin, you may call me Jecrest. I don't favor to be called like a stranger. We are going to be here together for the whole entire year, so I expect that we would get along just like a big family."
She was a young, female Zora. Her fins were pinkish colored with slight orange-red near the tips. She had the same short tail as Japas'. Her legs were long and slender, and so were her fingers. Her voice was like music, soft and delicate. She got beautiful breasts and rear by the way.
Mikau couldn't help but notice how stunning she was. And he was somewhat shy. Female Zoras didn't wear clothes unless they were from some other areas that required them to. So for a young teenage Zora, you could understand how hard Mikau had to fight with himself to gain some descent controls.
[Get a grip! She's a teacher! A teacher!] He angrily slapped his forehead.
Jecrest turned around and faced him. "Something wrong?"
"N...no. Nothing is wrong. Everything is fine and dandy here," Mikau smiled dumbly.
With one last look, she swam away from him.
A few Zoras giggled when they saw Mikau's face turned slightly red.
[God, that was dumb,] the Zoran Hero thought with discomfort.
Music Composition classroom was bigger than the Singing classroom. And might I remind you that in the Zora University, most of the classrooms had the same basic design: a half-mushroom-like place, with different layouts of desks and chairs for each different subject. And because of the size of the Music Composition room, more students could be fitted into the same class. About thirty Zoras were sitting in five straight rows. The chairs in this class however, were made from red reefs, which were very uncomfortable. The desks were nothing but giant rocks with flattened top for the students to write on. There were three windows around the circular wall behind the students. Outside, a few small fishes swam by silently.
Mikau's Skullfish guitar was leaned against his 'table' rock. Mikau kept on glancing at it whenever a Zora passed by. He couldn't risk damaging his instrument.
"Right, now we got everything settled, I got a few handouts for you. Take one and pass them back," Jecrest instructed as she handed out papers with a special coating so that they wouldn't get wet.
Mikau grabbed the sheets from the student in front of him. He left one on his table and turned around to pass the rest back. He froze. His gaze was fixed on the Zora behind him.
Another female Zora was sitting there. She was even more beautiful than Jecrest. Why, to Mikau, she was like a goddess. Her head was slightly flat on the top and bulged outward a little on both sides. Her eyes were black and shiny. She had short fins around her wrists and her back. She wore a simple dress made up of nearly transparent seaweeds.
"Um... can I have them please?" she asked with a sweet voice when Mikau held the papers in his hand for a long time, not moving at all.
"Oh... Oh! Sorry," he quickly recovered and handed them to her. "So what's your name?"
The female Zora passed the rest of the handouts back as she stared at him. "Lulu, but I rather not tell you my last name. It is kind of embarrassing for me."
Mikau continued looking at her. "Oh yea. That's fine. Nice to meet you Lulu. My name is Mikau."
"Nice to meet you too."
"Mikau Loencraft! Pay attention up front please!" Jecrest shouted out an order.
With a jerk of surprise that nearly made him fall over backward, Mikau instantly turned around and clear his throat. "Sorry."
As before, other Zoras laughed.
* * *
Japas slowly swam across the ocean. His could feel his leg now, and he could move it slightly. His tail wavered with the ocean current. The fins near his eyes and on the ankle of his legs controlled the direction swiftly and efficiently.
[Well, that's one good thing happening to me. At least I don't have to stagger so much.]
Swimming with one leg and two arms with irregular long fins were not the best idea to travel in a bare ocean. Japas didn't know how much distance he had covered. It could be hours since he had lost his memory.
[I can't remember anything!] He thought irately.
Just then, Japas noticed a hammerhead shark heading toward him.
[Oh great. While I lose my memory, a shark is going to make a sashimi out of me,] Japas groaned. What could he do? He didn't have any weapons near him.
The shark came closer and closer.
[Should I run?] Japas pondered as he watched the gray animal's rigid teeth. [Or should I just stay in the same spot?]
A salmon had fortuitously ventured in front of the cannibalistic marine life form. The giant killing machine opened its mouth wide and chomped down at the poor fish. Blood drifted out from the side of its mouth, staining the water red.
[Okay, I should run.]
Without a second thought, Japas turned right and swam as fast as he could with injuries. The hammerhead shark saw movements in front of it and it began to pick up speed. Japas glanced back and saw the bloody mouth behind him.
"Nooooo!"
He swam faster and faster, yet the shark was gaining on him.
*Foomph!* Something slammed against Japas' face. Something transparent... and soft. He anxiously brushed the weird aquatic animal away from his face with his left hand. Suddenly, he felt a stinging pain. His hand was numb and unresponsive all of a sudden.
[My hand!] Japas grabbed it as he tried to move its muscles. [What IS that thing?]
The translucence creature slowly pumped water from the end of its body as it drifted upward. Its shape was like a mushroom but with many tentacles.
Japas looked back. His eyes went wide. The shark was directly in front of him with its mouth wide open. The Zora closed his eyes as he prepared to be eaten alive.
Without warning, a dull thud came out from behind the giant fish. Japas opened one of his eyes. He saw the shark got cut in half. Huge quantities of dark, red blood spewed out from the severed body. The front section of the animal slowly dropped down to the base of the ocean, while the back section continued floating in the water.
[What happened?]
"Hey Japas!" a voice called him.
He looked up and there in the distance, a half human, half fish creature was swimming toward him. Well, it looked more like a fish than a human. But it had limbs like Japas'. In fact, it looked like Japas. But there were some significant differences, like longer fins, and one long and sharp blade on each arm... It also carried a guitar much like his.
Panic overcame surprise; Japas swam away from the weird animal that was heading toward him. He had one terrible encounter with death, and he had barely survived. He didn't need a second one.
"Hey... hey! Wait up!"
Japas grunted with effort as he tried to out race whatever that was behind him. But somehow it overtook his lead and stopped in front of him.
"Gotcha! Think you can out race me huh?" it grinned as it talked.
Time for a mini class here. Zoran Heros had blades on their arms. Those long sharp blades could cut through the water easily. Therefore, Zoran Heros were able to swim faster than the average Zoras, and they could manuver much more quicker and easier. In addition, those blades could be shot out like two boomerangs over a long distance. And that was how Mikau sliced the shark in half even though he was far away.
Japas stared at the creature in front of him. He gritted his teeth and clenched his right hand together to form a fist. He lashed out and tried to punch it.
"Whoa!" Mikau screamed with disbelief as he dodged harmlessly away from the assault. "You know Japas, just because I beat you in a race, that doesn't mean you have to take it seriously."
The injured Zora didn't reply. Who was Japas? He didn't know. All he knew was that he must get away to safety. With a yell, he charged forward toward the floating being.
"Hey! That's enough!" the marine creature said as it evaded the rush from Japas. It grabbed him around the waist when it got around to his back. Then using its legs, it locked him in place. "What's going on with you?"
With anger surfacing to his head, the young Zora tried to thrust his elbow backward. The human, or the fish, saw the attack and blocked it with its right hand. Seeing only one silver arm was holding onto his waist now, Japas twirled around trying to deliver a left hook punch. He stopped suddenly when a blade was on his throat. He was met with a strange-looking face. Two large blue eyes with no apparent pupils were staring at him. Some kind of paint or markings was on its forehead and chin. A tail, longer than his was, had extended from the back of its head, whipping around slowly.
"Look, I don't know what has gotten into you, but I just want you to know that you have skipped school. You missed the last two periods," Mikau said coldly as he used his arm blade to stop Japas from moving around.
"Sch... school?" he choked a little.
"Huh? Yes! School! Hello? Earth to Japas! You there? You skipped on the first day of the school, what do you think you are doing?" Mikau yelled in Japas' face.
"Is that my name...? Japas?"
"What? No, your name is Professor Urrica. Of course your name is Japas! Stop playing around, because I am very angry that you attacked me like that!"
Mikau let him go cautiously. The arm blades shrank. Japas wafted from them at a snail's pace. "Who are you?"
"Who am I? I am... geezes! Stop playing games with me! You know, I have to make up excuses for you when the teachers took attendance? You lied to me! You said you would come back as soon as you have caught one Shabom!"
"Who are you? Tell me!" Japas screamed with rage.
"I am Mikau! All right? Now tell me what is wrong with you!" Mikau noticed the wounds on his friend's body. "What happened to you?"
Japas looked at himself. "I... I don't know... What am I?" He looked into the Zoran Hero's eyes. "What am I? What happened to me?"
"What - what are you talking about? Huh?" Mikau folded his arms together in front of his chest. "Look, I don't know if your head got hit by a rock, or it is because the last trace of your brain was sucked out for some unknown reason, but I am warning you: don't. play. around. right. now!"
"I am not playing around," Japas said blankly. "I... I don't know what am I or... or what had happened to me."
Mikau stared at his friend sternly. He sighed and said, "alright, take off your guitar, and give me a quick tempo with various beats."
Japas grasped his Empress guitar and held it in his hands. Mikau growled.
"You know... you are holding the implement the wrong way?"
"I... I do?"
"Never mind, just give me a beat, say... the one we used to do when we are in the Zora Hall."
"I don't know how to do that. I told you that-"
"Just play!" Mikau ordered.
Reluctantly, Japas began to move his fingers up and down on the strings. After three seconds Mikau cringed and shouted: "STOP!"
Japas froze. He looked at Mikau's pain-filled face.
Panting, the Zoran Hero swam forward and floated right in front of Japas. "I believe you now. Your playing is like a bunch of Dinolfos trying to do a tap dance on top of a huge empty seashell."
"Is that good?"
"NO! It's freaking, horrifying, brain-crunching, ass-cooking, BAD!" Mikau rolled his eyes. Well, it was not like he could exactly 'roll' his eyes, but... close enough.
"Can you help me?" Japas asked as he brushed away the fins from his eyes.
"Like I can. Before you are totally crazy inside your little head, and now you are totally BLANK inside your brain! I don't know if I can help you or not," Mikau sighed.
"Are you being sarcastic?"
Mikau smiled. "No, but you are always sarcastic and funny... in a way."
"Funny? I am funny? Am I a clown?" Japas asked as he strapped the guitar onto his back. He saw a small filefish moving across his eyes. He quickly snatched up and ate it with a slurp.
"Not exactly, but you always ate like Jabu-Jabu that's for sure."
"So where do I go?"
"Let's get back to your room in the Zora University. That way, we can figure out a way to get your memory back with no more interruptions." Then Mikau added, "why do you HAVE TO lose your memory on the FIRST DAY of the school?"
"Do you know why? Because I don't," Japas grinned. He didn't know why he grinned. He just felt like he wanted to.
Mikau shook his head wearily. "Follow me. And DON"T play your guitar no matter what! It's horrible. Just plain horrible."
~End Chapter 2~
Author's Note: Well, here is the second chapter of Memory Loss. I don't really know much about the aquatic enemies in Zelda... and in real life, so I couldn't put in more actions that are in my mind. I am currently using a game guide (Ocarina of Time anyone?) as a reference on the enemy names. But... I don't know, it's hard to write something that you don't really understand much about. Bah, chapter 3 coming soon. Oh, and did you know that my computer room now feels like a furnace? *Screams in a high pitch tone*
"Japas Zygran" the teacher read the name on the attendance sheet. "Japas Zygran! Are you here?"
No Japas in the Music Composition class.
[Where is he?] Mikau thought with concern. [Japas should have come back already.]
"Mikau Loencraft"
"Here!" he quickly replied as he put the thoughts away.
"Right, that would be all the students except the ones who are not here. Welcome to the Music Composition class. Here, you will learn how to make outstanding songs and music scores. I expect nothing but respect here. I do not tolerate foolish acts, and rude comments. Do you understand?" the teacher swam slowly between rows of desks. "My name is Jecrest Ravin, you may call me Jecrest. I don't favor to be called like a stranger. We are going to be here together for the whole entire year, so I expect that we would get along just like a big family."
She was a young, female Zora. Her fins were pinkish colored with slight orange-red near the tips. She had the same short tail as Japas'. Her legs were long and slender, and so were her fingers. Her voice was like music, soft and delicate. She got beautiful breasts and rear by the way.
Mikau couldn't help but notice how stunning she was. And he was somewhat shy. Female Zoras didn't wear clothes unless they were from some other areas that required them to. So for a young teenage Zora, you could understand how hard Mikau had to fight with himself to gain some descent controls.
[Get a grip! She's a teacher! A teacher!] He angrily slapped his forehead.
Jecrest turned around and faced him. "Something wrong?"
"N...no. Nothing is wrong. Everything is fine and dandy here," Mikau smiled dumbly.
With one last look, she swam away from him.
A few Zoras giggled when they saw Mikau's face turned slightly red.
[God, that was dumb,] the Zoran Hero thought with discomfort.
Music Composition classroom was bigger than the Singing classroom. And might I remind you that in the Zora University, most of the classrooms had the same basic design: a half-mushroom-like place, with different layouts of desks and chairs for each different subject. And because of the size of the Music Composition room, more students could be fitted into the same class. About thirty Zoras were sitting in five straight rows. The chairs in this class however, were made from red reefs, which were very uncomfortable. The desks were nothing but giant rocks with flattened top for the students to write on. There were three windows around the circular wall behind the students. Outside, a few small fishes swam by silently.
Mikau's Skullfish guitar was leaned against his 'table' rock. Mikau kept on glancing at it whenever a Zora passed by. He couldn't risk damaging his instrument.
"Right, now we got everything settled, I got a few handouts for you. Take one and pass them back," Jecrest instructed as she handed out papers with a special coating so that they wouldn't get wet.
Mikau grabbed the sheets from the student in front of him. He left one on his table and turned around to pass the rest back. He froze. His gaze was fixed on the Zora behind him.
Another female Zora was sitting there. She was even more beautiful than Jecrest. Why, to Mikau, she was like a goddess. Her head was slightly flat on the top and bulged outward a little on both sides. Her eyes were black and shiny. She had short fins around her wrists and her back. She wore a simple dress made up of nearly transparent seaweeds.
"Um... can I have them please?" she asked with a sweet voice when Mikau held the papers in his hand for a long time, not moving at all.
"Oh... Oh! Sorry," he quickly recovered and handed them to her. "So what's your name?"
The female Zora passed the rest of the handouts back as she stared at him. "Lulu, but I rather not tell you my last name. It is kind of embarrassing for me."
Mikau continued looking at her. "Oh yea. That's fine. Nice to meet you Lulu. My name is Mikau."
"Nice to meet you too."
"Mikau Loencraft! Pay attention up front please!" Jecrest shouted out an order.
With a jerk of surprise that nearly made him fall over backward, Mikau instantly turned around and clear his throat. "Sorry."
As before, other Zoras laughed.
* * *
Japas slowly swam across the ocean. His could feel his leg now, and he could move it slightly. His tail wavered with the ocean current. The fins near his eyes and on the ankle of his legs controlled the direction swiftly and efficiently.
[Well, that's one good thing happening to me. At least I don't have to stagger so much.]
Swimming with one leg and two arms with irregular long fins were not the best idea to travel in a bare ocean. Japas didn't know how much distance he had covered. It could be hours since he had lost his memory.
[I can't remember anything!] He thought irately.
Just then, Japas noticed a hammerhead shark heading toward him.
[Oh great. While I lose my memory, a shark is going to make a sashimi out of me,] Japas groaned. What could he do? He didn't have any weapons near him.
The shark came closer and closer.
[Should I run?] Japas pondered as he watched the gray animal's rigid teeth. [Or should I just stay in the same spot?]
A salmon had fortuitously ventured in front of the cannibalistic marine life form. The giant killing machine opened its mouth wide and chomped down at the poor fish. Blood drifted out from the side of its mouth, staining the water red.
[Okay, I should run.]
Without a second thought, Japas turned right and swam as fast as he could with injuries. The hammerhead shark saw movements in front of it and it began to pick up speed. Japas glanced back and saw the bloody mouth behind him.
"Nooooo!"
He swam faster and faster, yet the shark was gaining on him.
*Foomph!* Something slammed against Japas' face. Something transparent... and soft. He anxiously brushed the weird aquatic animal away from his face with his left hand. Suddenly, he felt a stinging pain. His hand was numb and unresponsive all of a sudden.
[My hand!] Japas grabbed it as he tried to move its muscles. [What IS that thing?]
The translucence creature slowly pumped water from the end of its body as it drifted upward. Its shape was like a mushroom but with many tentacles.
Japas looked back. His eyes went wide. The shark was directly in front of him with its mouth wide open. The Zora closed his eyes as he prepared to be eaten alive.
Without warning, a dull thud came out from behind the giant fish. Japas opened one of his eyes. He saw the shark got cut in half. Huge quantities of dark, red blood spewed out from the severed body. The front section of the animal slowly dropped down to the base of the ocean, while the back section continued floating in the water.
[What happened?]
"Hey Japas!" a voice called him.
He looked up and there in the distance, a half human, half fish creature was swimming toward him. Well, it looked more like a fish than a human. But it had limbs like Japas'. In fact, it looked like Japas. But there were some significant differences, like longer fins, and one long and sharp blade on each arm... It also carried a guitar much like his.
Panic overcame surprise; Japas swam away from the weird animal that was heading toward him. He had one terrible encounter with death, and he had barely survived. He didn't need a second one.
"Hey... hey! Wait up!"
Japas grunted with effort as he tried to out race whatever that was behind him. But somehow it overtook his lead and stopped in front of him.
"Gotcha! Think you can out race me huh?" it grinned as it talked.
Time for a mini class here. Zoran Heros had blades on their arms. Those long sharp blades could cut through the water easily. Therefore, Zoran Heros were able to swim faster than the average Zoras, and they could manuver much more quicker and easier. In addition, those blades could be shot out like two boomerangs over a long distance. And that was how Mikau sliced the shark in half even though he was far away.
Japas stared at the creature in front of him. He gritted his teeth and clenched his right hand together to form a fist. He lashed out and tried to punch it.
"Whoa!" Mikau screamed with disbelief as he dodged harmlessly away from the assault. "You know Japas, just because I beat you in a race, that doesn't mean you have to take it seriously."
The injured Zora didn't reply. Who was Japas? He didn't know. All he knew was that he must get away to safety. With a yell, he charged forward toward the floating being.
"Hey! That's enough!" the marine creature said as it evaded the rush from Japas. It grabbed him around the waist when it got around to his back. Then using its legs, it locked him in place. "What's going on with you?"
With anger surfacing to his head, the young Zora tried to thrust his elbow backward. The human, or the fish, saw the attack and blocked it with its right hand. Seeing only one silver arm was holding onto his waist now, Japas twirled around trying to deliver a left hook punch. He stopped suddenly when a blade was on his throat. He was met with a strange-looking face. Two large blue eyes with no apparent pupils were staring at him. Some kind of paint or markings was on its forehead and chin. A tail, longer than his was, had extended from the back of its head, whipping around slowly.
"Look, I don't know what has gotten into you, but I just want you to know that you have skipped school. You missed the last two periods," Mikau said coldly as he used his arm blade to stop Japas from moving around.
"Sch... school?" he choked a little.
"Huh? Yes! School! Hello? Earth to Japas! You there? You skipped on the first day of the school, what do you think you are doing?" Mikau yelled in Japas' face.
"Is that my name...? Japas?"
"What? No, your name is Professor Urrica. Of course your name is Japas! Stop playing around, because I am very angry that you attacked me like that!"
Mikau let him go cautiously. The arm blades shrank. Japas wafted from them at a snail's pace. "Who are you?"
"Who am I? I am... geezes! Stop playing games with me! You know, I have to make up excuses for you when the teachers took attendance? You lied to me! You said you would come back as soon as you have caught one Shabom!"
"Who are you? Tell me!" Japas screamed with rage.
"I am Mikau! All right? Now tell me what is wrong with you!" Mikau noticed the wounds on his friend's body. "What happened to you?"
Japas looked at himself. "I... I don't know... What am I?" He looked into the Zoran Hero's eyes. "What am I? What happened to me?"
"What - what are you talking about? Huh?" Mikau folded his arms together in front of his chest. "Look, I don't know if your head got hit by a rock, or it is because the last trace of your brain was sucked out for some unknown reason, but I am warning you: don't. play. around. right. now!"
"I am not playing around," Japas said blankly. "I... I don't know what am I or... or what had happened to me."
Mikau stared at his friend sternly. He sighed and said, "alright, take off your guitar, and give me a quick tempo with various beats."
Japas grasped his Empress guitar and held it in his hands. Mikau growled.
"You know... you are holding the implement the wrong way?"
"I... I do?"
"Never mind, just give me a beat, say... the one we used to do when we are in the Zora Hall."
"I don't know how to do that. I told you that-"
"Just play!" Mikau ordered.
Reluctantly, Japas began to move his fingers up and down on the strings. After three seconds Mikau cringed and shouted: "STOP!"
Japas froze. He looked at Mikau's pain-filled face.
Panting, the Zoran Hero swam forward and floated right in front of Japas. "I believe you now. Your playing is like a bunch of Dinolfos trying to do a tap dance on top of a huge empty seashell."
"Is that good?"
"NO! It's freaking, horrifying, brain-crunching, ass-cooking, BAD!" Mikau rolled his eyes. Well, it was not like he could exactly 'roll' his eyes, but... close enough.
"Can you help me?" Japas asked as he brushed away the fins from his eyes.
"Like I can. Before you are totally crazy inside your little head, and now you are totally BLANK inside your brain! I don't know if I can help you or not," Mikau sighed.
"Are you being sarcastic?"
Mikau smiled. "No, but you are always sarcastic and funny... in a way."
"Funny? I am funny? Am I a clown?" Japas asked as he strapped the guitar onto his back. He saw a small filefish moving across his eyes. He quickly snatched up and ate it with a slurp.
"Not exactly, but you always ate like Jabu-Jabu that's for sure."
"So where do I go?"
"Let's get back to your room in the Zora University. That way, we can figure out a way to get your memory back with no more interruptions." Then Mikau added, "why do you HAVE TO lose your memory on the FIRST DAY of the school?"
"Do you know why? Because I don't," Japas grinned. He didn't know why he grinned. He just felt like he wanted to.
Mikau shook his head wearily. "Follow me. And DON"T play your guitar no matter what! It's horrible. Just plain horrible."
~End Chapter 2~
Author's Note: Well, here is the second chapter of Memory Loss. I don't really know much about the aquatic enemies in Zelda... and in real life, so I couldn't put in more actions that are in my mind. I am currently using a game guide (Ocarina of Time anyone?) as a reference on the enemy names. But... I don't know, it's hard to write something that you don't really understand much about. Bah, chapter 3 coming soon. Oh, and did you know that my computer room now feels like a furnace? *Screams in a high pitch tone*