Chapter 6: Final Turmoil
"Lulu!" Mikau screamed as he raced toward her.
"Or'an!" Japas yelled as he dodged in and out of the debris caused by Morpha's wild movements.
The giant aquatic creature had gotten hold of Lulu and Or'an in its tendrils. Its gapping mouth was near the two young Zoras' head.
"Mikau! Shoot out your arm blades and try to cut them loose!" Japas cried as he dodged another flying boulder. He swam close and closer.
"I can't see with all these dusts floating around me!" the Zoran Hero bellowed with frustration. He tried to aim, but he couldn't see clearly.
"Make an educated guess!" Japas screamed at his friend.
"I can't! I can't risk hurting Lulu!" Mikau yelled back.
"Oh gee! Thanks for thinking of ME! Don't mind me if I am the one who got cut in half instead of Lulu!" Or'an scolded.
Morpha sucked in a huge quantity of water into its mouth. (Pause! I can manipulate the enemies in Zelda 64 in any way I want, since this IS a fictional story!)
Or'an furiously wiggled around, trying to free himself. Lulu punched the slimy arms around her waist, but they held fast.
Morpha sent out a straight line of water beam toward the advancing foes.
"Watch out!" Mikau yelled with alarm.
"Whoa!"
The attack slammed into Japas' chest like a battering ram, and the Zora was flung backward through the water. His body span end over end. Finally, he smashed into a pile of corals. More dusts sprung up.
"Japas!" the Zoran Hero gritted his teeth in anger. He turned and faced Morpha. "I will show you!"
Holding out both of his arms, the blades shot out like cannons, spinning and cutting through the ocean water. They circled around the monster once before heading toward its nucleus. (Now, I hope that you all had paid attention in your Science or Biology class. Because if you don't, you won't understand what the heck is a nucleus. Then again, you people might rebuke back saying: we hope that you have paid attention in YOUR English class! True. I never did. :D)
Seeing the attack, the purple cell sprouted another tendril. With one smooth swipe, it knocked the blades away from its center point.
Mikau swam upward, trying to retrieve his weapons.
"Mikau! Run! You can't help us!" Or'an roared as he pounded the purple tentacle with rage.
The Zoran Hero hovered in the water. He felt powerless. He couldn't do anything to help his friend. He could try an electric shock, but that would hurt his friends!
"Mikau! Use the electric shock!" Japas reappeared. Cuts and bruises were all over his body. Dark blue blood was mixing with the water around him. (Dark BLUE blood? Yes. Looking at the blood in Zelda 64, it is blue. So why not use blue blood here?)
Mikau shook his head. "The attack would hurt Or'an and Lulu!"
Japas grabbed Mikau's throat with one hand. His eyes were deranged and lack focus. With a growl, he stared into his friend's surprised face. "I said, use the electric shock attack!"
The Zoran Hero tried to fight free of Japas' grasp. "What's wrong with you! You might hurt them, or even worse, you might kill them!" he screamed.
"If you won't do it, I will! Morpha is going to kill us all! Don't you understand?"
Mikau punched Japas' in the face. With a grunt, the Zora let go of him. Japas floated back as he turned and glared at Mikau.
"Just because you hate that creature, but that doesn't mean you can sacrifice your friends like that!" Mikau said furiously. "Get a grip on yourself and think logically!"
Japas continued staring at his buddy. Finally, he shook his head as he sighed. "Sorry. I was - I couldn't think with anger in my head. Morpha had injured me beyond every possible thing that you can imagine. I almost had to start my life all over again. Do you know how much that hurts? Seeing your best friend yet you don't know him or her, or you don't even have any emotions toward him or her?"
"I understand. But you have to get with the reality here! Help them right now instead of feeling bad!" tossing these last words, Mikau rushed at Morpha again with a yell.
*They are so annoying...* Morpha thought with irritation. *Why couldn't they just leave me alone to let me enjoy my meal?*
Japas swam in circles around it while Mikau hacking away at its side.
*Pests... that's what you guys are...* using two tendrils, Morpha smacked one in Mikau's face while it used the other one to grab and throw Japas away from it.
"Mikau!" Lulu yelled with horror when she saw blood drifting away from the Zoran Hero's face.
With a bawl, Japas swam back with electricity charged up. Mikau shook his head, trying to clear the stars in front of his eyes. His mouth went slack when he saw what Japas was planning to do.
"No! Don't do it!"
Japas didn't hear his friend pleading. He urged himself on as he pointed his hands toward the purple monster in front of him.
Without thinking, Mikau dashed toward his pal. Just as Japas was going to launch his electric attack, Mikau shot out his own charge first. Both electric shocks collided with a deep boom. Water currents waved wildly as energies were pushing against them in a violent way.
Or'an and Lulu closed their eyes as sharp painful light burned into their retina. Morpha threw out a sonorous groan as it felt aches around its body. The blast radius had reached the amoeba inexpertly, tearing away part of its flesh roughly. Luckily, none of it had reached the two captives hoisted high above.
The explosion had thrown Japas and Mikau off balance for a while. Once the shockwaves had subsided, Mikau sighed a relief. He had prevented a tragedy. "What do you think you are doing?" Japas screamed.
Turning around, the Zoran Hero glowered at him. "Preventing further life-losses."
Breathing heavily, Japas stared at Morpha. The water creature was enraged. Germinating ten more tentacles, it directed all of them toward the two pesky Zoras down blow.
Both of them evaded the attacks as they swam toward their enemy with incredible speed.
"I got an idea!" Japas said to his friend. "I will distract it, while you use your blades to cut off the arms that are holding onto Or'an and Lulu! You have to trust my judgement this time!"
Mikau nodded as he banked away swiftly, lining up the position. Japas stopped breathing as he curled up two fists. With concentration, he made the energies focused into one point. After charging up, he let loose another shock attack, this time, a weaker one and more well-aimed. Blue lightening flashed across the ocean floor and traveled up toward Morpha in an arc. It stuck the monster just below Or'an and Lulu.
"Now!"
Mikau rushed forward and hacked two tendrils away with ease. Or'an and Lulu were freed. They hurriedly swam away while Japas continued his assail.
"Japas is losing his strength!" Lulu observed from a distance. "The electric attack of his is draining him!"
Flashes of light and occasional blue stains of blood were all over the place.
"Then I will help him!" Or'an said bravely as he swam to aid his friend.
Lulu shrugged and followed.
"NO! You are not supposed to do that!" Mikau shriek in rage. "I just saved your asses... oh god!" Swearing in Zoran Language, he sprang after them. (Well, they WERE speaking English right? :D)
[I can't hold on much longer!] Japas gritted his teeth as he felt his strength flowing away rapidly.
Morpha was now focusing all its attention on him. Using one arm, it slashed across Japas' chest with a whap. Another arm came up and knocked the Zora from behind. Finally, with two more tendrils, Morpha gripped its prey in a death hold around the waist. The grip tightened and tightened.
Japas' vision dimmed as his fought to breathe. He couldn't last long... he knew it...
Suddenly, two yellow flashes burned through the tentacles that were holding onto him. Japas floated down slowly. He squinted his eyes as he gasped for air. Or'an and Lulu were not far away. Their hands were aimed at the beast towering above him.
With a grunt, Japas dragged himself up and slowly swam away from the battlefield. Mikau came up beside him and helped him swim.
"You okay?" the Zoran Hero asked softly.
Japas nodded. "Listen, we have to concentrate our attacks on the nucleus near the center of Morpha. It is the only way to destroy it!"
"Don't worry. Or'an and Lulu are doing it as we speak. You need rest."
Japas held onto Mikau's shoulder. "No. Let me fight!"
"But you can't even stay upright!"
"I can!"
Seeing the determination in Japas' eyes, Mikau sighed and nodded.
All four Zoras gather in front of the aquatic amoeba. Their body tensed up as they brought out their power with force. Yelling as one, all of them charged up themselves. With one final hesitation, all of them let loose a never-before-seen electric attack that penetrated Morpha's tough outer skin and through its heart (nucleus). A thick, straight white line shot through the back of the monster as Morpha screamed with agony. Pieces of flesh were ripped apart and were disintegrated. A giant ball of flame erupted with a bang (since the attack was so strong that even flames were able to survive in the cool water). It shined as bright as a sun.
Japas, Mikau, Or'an, and Lulu all got blasted away from the center of the explosion. Currents that only appeared in hurricanes rippled across the ocean. Dusts and rocks flew by like bullets, while plants and small marine animals that were in the blast zone got annihilated instantly.
When the searing brightness had disappeared, the four young Zoras got out from piles of sands and debris. All of them had wounds all over their body. All of them were covered with brown, dirty mud.
"You know, we can be the first group ever that had battled against the legendary Morpha and are still alive to talk about it. We can be famous!" Or'an forced a weak smile, as his eyes were half-closed from exhaustion.
"Yea? Well, we can be the first group that had the dirtiest body ever!" Lulu complained as she brushed herself off.
Mikau chuckled but groaned as pain shot through his chest and face. "I think I broke my ribs... AND my face..."
Japas heaved a sigh. "At least I got my memory back!"
All three of them glared at him.
"Wha - what... did I say something wrong?" Japas stammered.
"It is because of you we are in this condition," Or'an snarled.
"Yea, you should make amends to us you know?" Lulu grinned evilly. (Lulu could grin evilly? Gasp!)
"Absolutely. How about you repay the debts that you owe us by... say... clean out our rooms when we get back?" Mikau laughed a little as he choked in his own blood.
"Oh puh-leeze! You really think that I will follow your demands?" Japas brushed away the fins that had fell down in front of his eyes. Something that he used to do before he had lost his memory.
"Or'an, since you are as fat as King Zora, I think you can just order some people to clean out your jolly belly and your huge rear instead of your room. And whew! You sure smell! Lulu, since you are nice, AND beautiful... like... like... like I-don't-know-what, you can just wink your eyes and let male Zoras to help you clean out your room, and not me. Finally, Mikau. My dear friend. You should help me with my homework when we get back since I have your precious item in my possession right now. Yes, I am blackmailing you. Any questions ladies and gentlemen?" Japas folding his arms in front of his aching chest as he held up his head high with a grin.
All of them stared at him in silence. Finally, it was Lulu who broke the spell. "Tell me, Mikau. Does he always act like he is mighty and all when he was normal?"
Mikau shrugged. "I guess."
"How do you react when he is like this?" Or'an grumbled.
All three of them looked at each other. Then a crooked smile came over their face.
"Oh~~ Japas~! We would like to give you a 'nice massage'!" Mikau smirked with unfriendly eyes as they slowly turned around.
Eyes growing wide, Japas quickly swam away toward the University with three rampaged Zoras chasing closely behind.
"Get back here you little squirt! I will pound your face so hard that it will look like the mouth of a Like Like!" Or'an roared as he tried to grab the fleeing Zora.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
All of them slowly disappeared into the horizon of the underwater world, as daylight began to appear.
Who knows? Perhaps one day, they might encounter another adventure just as 'wild and as crazy and as odd' as this one (err... run-on? LOL). But until then, the only sounds that you guys could hear, are the screams and the yells of four frightened students when they were caught by their principal...
~The End~
Author's Note: The story has finally finished. After six chapters of agonizing writing, and gathering ideas (which will usually float away from my brain), I can finally rest just before the summer ends. In this chapter, there are not as many jokes as the previous chapters simply because this is more of a fighting chapter than a comedy one. The dialogues may not be as nice as the ones before and the ending might seem 'corny'. But what can I say? I am tired.
I am sad though. I mean, I want to keep on writing about Zoras, but... you know. No time and no inspirations. I might draw a comic about them... yea... YEA, I think I will do that!
I really hope you readers out there enjoy this little story. I am happy and I am satisfied. *Sigh*... yup.
Who knows? I might write another Zelda story someday with many jokes implanted in it. :D
Until then, Stormcat2002, signing out.
---Completed: 2002. 08. 21 4:10pm---
{Copyright 2002 Stormcat2002}
"Lulu!" Mikau screamed as he raced toward her.
"Or'an!" Japas yelled as he dodged in and out of the debris caused by Morpha's wild movements.
The giant aquatic creature had gotten hold of Lulu and Or'an in its tendrils. Its gapping mouth was near the two young Zoras' head.
"Mikau! Shoot out your arm blades and try to cut them loose!" Japas cried as he dodged another flying boulder. He swam close and closer.
"I can't see with all these dusts floating around me!" the Zoran Hero bellowed with frustration. He tried to aim, but he couldn't see clearly.
"Make an educated guess!" Japas screamed at his friend.
"I can't! I can't risk hurting Lulu!" Mikau yelled back.
"Oh gee! Thanks for thinking of ME! Don't mind me if I am the one who got cut in half instead of Lulu!" Or'an scolded.
Morpha sucked in a huge quantity of water into its mouth. (Pause! I can manipulate the enemies in Zelda 64 in any way I want, since this IS a fictional story!)
Or'an furiously wiggled around, trying to free himself. Lulu punched the slimy arms around her waist, but they held fast.
Morpha sent out a straight line of water beam toward the advancing foes.
"Watch out!" Mikau yelled with alarm.
"Whoa!"
The attack slammed into Japas' chest like a battering ram, and the Zora was flung backward through the water. His body span end over end. Finally, he smashed into a pile of corals. More dusts sprung up.
"Japas!" the Zoran Hero gritted his teeth in anger. He turned and faced Morpha. "I will show you!"
Holding out both of his arms, the blades shot out like cannons, spinning and cutting through the ocean water. They circled around the monster once before heading toward its nucleus. (Now, I hope that you all had paid attention in your Science or Biology class. Because if you don't, you won't understand what the heck is a nucleus. Then again, you people might rebuke back saying: we hope that you have paid attention in YOUR English class! True. I never did. :D)
Seeing the attack, the purple cell sprouted another tendril. With one smooth swipe, it knocked the blades away from its center point.
Mikau swam upward, trying to retrieve his weapons.
"Mikau! Run! You can't help us!" Or'an roared as he pounded the purple tentacle with rage.
The Zoran Hero hovered in the water. He felt powerless. He couldn't do anything to help his friend. He could try an electric shock, but that would hurt his friends!
"Mikau! Use the electric shock!" Japas reappeared. Cuts and bruises were all over his body. Dark blue blood was mixing with the water around him. (Dark BLUE blood? Yes. Looking at the blood in Zelda 64, it is blue. So why not use blue blood here?)
Mikau shook his head. "The attack would hurt Or'an and Lulu!"
Japas grabbed Mikau's throat with one hand. His eyes were deranged and lack focus. With a growl, he stared into his friend's surprised face. "I said, use the electric shock attack!"
The Zoran Hero tried to fight free of Japas' grasp. "What's wrong with you! You might hurt them, or even worse, you might kill them!" he screamed.
"If you won't do it, I will! Morpha is going to kill us all! Don't you understand?"
Mikau punched Japas' in the face. With a grunt, the Zora let go of him. Japas floated back as he turned and glared at Mikau.
"Just because you hate that creature, but that doesn't mean you can sacrifice your friends like that!" Mikau said furiously. "Get a grip on yourself and think logically!"
Japas continued staring at his buddy. Finally, he shook his head as he sighed. "Sorry. I was - I couldn't think with anger in my head. Morpha had injured me beyond every possible thing that you can imagine. I almost had to start my life all over again. Do you know how much that hurts? Seeing your best friend yet you don't know him or her, or you don't even have any emotions toward him or her?"
"I understand. But you have to get with the reality here! Help them right now instead of feeling bad!" tossing these last words, Mikau rushed at Morpha again with a yell.
*They are so annoying...* Morpha thought with irritation. *Why couldn't they just leave me alone to let me enjoy my meal?*
Japas swam in circles around it while Mikau hacking away at its side.
*Pests... that's what you guys are...* using two tendrils, Morpha smacked one in Mikau's face while it used the other one to grab and throw Japas away from it.
"Mikau!" Lulu yelled with horror when she saw blood drifting away from the Zoran Hero's face.
With a bawl, Japas swam back with electricity charged up. Mikau shook his head, trying to clear the stars in front of his eyes. His mouth went slack when he saw what Japas was planning to do.
"No! Don't do it!"
Japas didn't hear his friend pleading. He urged himself on as he pointed his hands toward the purple monster in front of him.
Without thinking, Mikau dashed toward his pal. Just as Japas was going to launch his electric attack, Mikau shot out his own charge first. Both electric shocks collided with a deep boom. Water currents waved wildly as energies were pushing against them in a violent way.
Or'an and Lulu closed their eyes as sharp painful light burned into their retina. Morpha threw out a sonorous groan as it felt aches around its body. The blast radius had reached the amoeba inexpertly, tearing away part of its flesh roughly. Luckily, none of it had reached the two captives hoisted high above.
The explosion had thrown Japas and Mikau off balance for a while. Once the shockwaves had subsided, Mikau sighed a relief. He had prevented a tragedy. "What do you think you are doing?" Japas screamed.
Turning around, the Zoran Hero glowered at him. "Preventing further life-losses."
Breathing heavily, Japas stared at Morpha. The water creature was enraged. Germinating ten more tentacles, it directed all of them toward the two pesky Zoras down blow.
Both of them evaded the attacks as they swam toward their enemy with incredible speed.
"I got an idea!" Japas said to his friend. "I will distract it, while you use your blades to cut off the arms that are holding onto Or'an and Lulu! You have to trust my judgement this time!"
Mikau nodded as he banked away swiftly, lining up the position. Japas stopped breathing as he curled up two fists. With concentration, he made the energies focused into one point. After charging up, he let loose another shock attack, this time, a weaker one and more well-aimed. Blue lightening flashed across the ocean floor and traveled up toward Morpha in an arc. It stuck the monster just below Or'an and Lulu.
"Now!"
Mikau rushed forward and hacked two tendrils away with ease. Or'an and Lulu were freed. They hurriedly swam away while Japas continued his assail.
"Japas is losing his strength!" Lulu observed from a distance. "The electric attack of his is draining him!"
Flashes of light and occasional blue stains of blood were all over the place.
"Then I will help him!" Or'an said bravely as he swam to aid his friend.
Lulu shrugged and followed.
"NO! You are not supposed to do that!" Mikau shriek in rage. "I just saved your asses... oh god!" Swearing in Zoran Language, he sprang after them. (Well, they WERE speaking English right? :D)
[I can't hold on much longer!] Japas gritted his teeth as he felt his strength flowing away rapidly.
Morpha was now focusing all its attention on him. Using one arm, it slashed across Japas' chest with a whap. Another arm came up and knocked the Zora from behind. Finally, with two more tendrils, Morpha gripped its prey in a death hold around the waist. The grip tightened and tightened.
Japas' vision dimmed as his fought to breathe. He couldn't last long... he knew it...
Suddenly, two yellow flashes burned through the tentacles that were holding onto him. Japas floated down slowly. He squinted his eyes as he gasped for air. Or'an and Lulu were not far away. Their hands were aimed at the beast towering above him.
With a grunt, Japas dragged himself up and slowly swam away from the battlefield. Mikau came up beside him and helped him swim.
"You okay?" the Zoran Hero asked softly.
Japas nodded. "Listen, we have to concentrate our attacks on the nucleus near the center of Morpha. It is the only way to destroy it!"
"Don't worry. Or'an and Lulu are doing it as we speak. You need rest."
Japas held onto Mikau's shoulder. "No. Let me fight!"
"But you can't even stay upright!"
"I can!"
Seeing the determination in Japas' eyes, Mikau sighed and nodded.
All four Zoras gather in front of the aquatic amoeba. Their body tensed up as they brought out their power with force. Yelling as one, all of them charged up themselves. With one final hesitation, all of them let loose a never-before-seen electric attack that penetrated Morpha's tough outer skin and through its heart (nucleus). A thick, straight white line shot through the back of the monster as Morpha screamed with agony. Pieces of flesh were ripped apart and were disintegrated. A giant ball of flame erupted with a bang (since the attack was so strong that even flames were able to survive in the cool water). It shined as bright as a sun.
Japas, Mikau, Or'an, and Lulu all got blasted away from the center of the explosion. Currents that only appeared in hurricanes rippled across the ocean. Dusts and rocks flew by like bullets, while plants and small marine animals that were in the blast zone got annihilated instantly.
When the searing brightness had disappeared, the four young Zoras got out from piles of sands and debris. All of them had wounds all over their body. All of them were covered with brown, dirty mud.
"You know, we can be the first group ever that had battled against the legendary Morpha and are still alive to talk about it. We can be famous!" Or'an forced a weak smile, as his eyes were half-closed from exhaustion.
"Yea? Well, we can be the first group that had the dirtiest body ever!" Lulu complained as she brushed herself off.
Mikau chuckled but groaned as pain shot through his chest and face. "I think I broke my ribs... AND my face..."
Japas heaved a sigh. "At least I got my memory back!"
All three of them glared at him.
"Wha - what... did I say something wrong?" Japas stammered.
"It is because of you we are in this condition," Or'an snarled.
"Yea, you should make amends to us you know?" Lulu grinned evilly. (Lulu could grin evilly? Gasp!)
"Absolutely. How about you repay the debts that you owe us by... say... clean out our rooms when we get back?" Mikau laughed a little as he choked in his own blood.
"Oh puh-leeze! You really think that I will follow your demands?" Japas brushed away the fins that had fell down in front of his eyes. Something that he used to do before he had lost his memory.
"Or'an, since you are as fat as King Zora, I think you can just order some people to clean out your jolly belly and your huge rear instead of your room. And whew! You sure smell! Lulu, since you are nice, AND beautiful... like... like... like I-don't-know-what, you can just wink your eyes and let male Zoras to help you clean out your room, and not me. Finally, Mikau. My dear friend. You should help me with my homework when we get back since I have your precious item in my possession right now. Yes, I am blackmailing you. Any questions ladies and gentlemen?" Japas folding his arms in front of his aching chest as he held up his head high with a grin.
All of them stared at him in silence. Finally, it was Lulu who broke the spell. "Tell me, Mikau. Does he always act like he is mighty and all when he was normal?"
Mikau shrugged. "I guess."
"How do you react when he is like this?" Or'an grumbled.
All three of them looked at each other. Then a crooked smile came over their face.
"Oh~~ Japas~! We would like to give you a 'nice massage'!" Mikau smirked with unfriendly eyes as they slowly turned around.
Eyes growing wide, Japas quickly swam away toward the University with three rampaged Zoras chasing closely behind.
"Get back here you little squirt! I will pound your face so hard that it will look like the mouth of a Like Like!" Or'an roared as he tried to grab the fleeing Zora.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
All of them slowly disappeared into the horizon of the underwater world, as daylight began to appear.
Who knows? Perhaps one day, they might encounter another adventure just as 'wild and as crazy and as odd' as this one (err... run-on? LOL). But until then, the only sounds that you guys could hear, are the screams and the yells of four frightened students when they were caught by their principal...
~The End~
Author's Note: The story has finally finished. After six chapters of agonizing writing, and gathering ideas (which will usually float away from my brain), I can finally rest just before the summer ends. In this chapter, there are not as many jokes as the previous chapters simply because this is more of a fighting chapter than a comedy one. The dialogues may not be as nice as the ones before and the ending might seem 'corny'. But what can I say? I am tired.
I am sad though. I mean, I want to keep on writing about Zoras, but... you know. No time and no inspirations. I might draw a comic about them... yea... YEA, I think I will do that!
I really hope you readers out there enjoy this little story. I am happy and I am satisfied. *Sigh*... yup.
Who knows? I might write another Zelda story someday with many jokes implanted in it. :D
Until then, Stormcat2002, signing out.
---Completed: 2002. 08. 21 4:10pm---
{Copyright 2002 Stormcat2002}