Chapter 12: Peaceful Life At Last!
Sun began to appear over the horizon on dry land. Its warm rays flashed across the ocean. The cool blue water, hence, filtered the beams making the underwater world extremely temperate and not overly heated. The fierce giant fireball continued to rise over the sky, as day began to drag on.
It was early in the morning when Mikau got woke up by his Alarm Fish. The balloon-like orange fish had sent out series of ultra sonic waves through the water, which had traveled up into Mikau's sensitive ears. Groggy, he threw aside the sheet of covering. The lily pads on the bed shifted slightly from the movement. The seaweeds on the second padding of the bed were tangled up with each other in a mess.
"One day, I am going to get an Alarm Fish that won't scream directly at me," Mikau muttered tiredly as he got out of the room.
Swimming across the hall, he went into another room, preparing to go to school. After a few moments of collecting his supplies, he went into the kitchen, where his mom was fixing breakfast for him. He sat down at the slab, rubbing his giant blue eyes. His fins were drooped down without energies.
"Oh, hi honey!" Lynisana smiled as she placed four plates of fresh Salmons onto the polished, dark blue reef table. Grimacing, she said, "You look tired."
"Who wouldn't be?"
The foods were still breathing, as they weakly wiggled around with their tails pinned onto the sponge plates. Mikau stared at them for a few seconds before he began to eat.
"So what classes will you be having today?" His mom asked as she began to concoct Mikau's lunch. The smell of cooking flowed through the water and up into Mikau's nose *(1).
Looking up with a Salmon halfway into his mouth, he mumbled something incoherent.
"What's that?"
"Oi shaid tha I um hafing litatour, shfinging, ort, und jiumph klasses ooday!"
Turning around, Lynisana frowned. "What?"
Gulping down the food, Mikau yelled, "I SAID I AM HAVING LITERATURE, SINGING, ART, AND GYM CLASSES TODAY!"
Squinting, she shook her head as she went back to her work. "Well, you don't have to shout. How can anyone understand you when you are mumbling about whatever that you are trying to say with a fish tail dangling out of your mouth?"
Shrugging, Mikau picked up a second Salmon. The fish jumped out of his hands when he was trying to bite its head off. It swam quickly through the water, trying to run away from its predator.
"Mom! The food is escaping!" he screamed as he launched himself from the granite chair, trying to catch the escapee. His body was now filled with fresh new energies.
"Oh sure. Like I will be falling for your usual jokes on your second day away from the incident that had occurred this week," Lynisana sighed, as she broke open an oyster and packed it into her son's lunch box. Her back was facing the scene the whole time.
Mikau threw out his arms, trying to grab the Salmon. It dodged to the left and went into the hallway. The Zoran Hero had almost crashed into the wall. A vase drifted onto the dirt floor and split in half with a soft crash.
"Mikau, if you want to fool around, do it outside. This is not a playground you know?"
Shooting down the corridor, he banked a fake left, then immediately turned right. By using that move, he was able to confuse the ocean creature long enough to pull up with it, side by side. Mikau swore that he had just seen the fish's eyes popping out with surprise. With a yell, he extended his right arm blade and sliced his food in half. Blood wafted everywhere.
"You finished your breakfast yet?" Mikau's mom asked while cleaning up the counter.
Sagging into the chair, Mikau stuffed the severed Salmon into his mouth. Chewing it a few times and swallowing it down his throat, he sighed a relief. "Yup."
Finally facing him, Lynisana stopped in her track. There was blood flowing everywhere. "What's going on here?"
Mikau flashed a "don't ask me" sign at his mom. Grabbing his second, smaller bubble that contained his lunch, he yelled a goodbye before rushing out of the house. His parent floated in the kitchen, dumbfounded.
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Termina City. A never-ending chaotic city with many different species of Zoras swimming around. Bottom-Feeder, Ocean-Strider, Intertidal-Hunter, and many more. But all of them shared a similar characteristic: a medium length tail that was similar with fish's tail protruding from the back of their head. Of course, all Zoras would deny the fact that they were, indeed, related to fish. After all, they saw themselves as a more intelligent species within the Ocean World. To distinguish from one Zora to another, often you look at the fins on their bodies, and the shape that their bodies had taken. Also take account of the color that they had.
Bottom-Feeder, for example, were mostly brown colored, with some variations here and there. Call it an evolution genetic DNA disorder if you want. They also had a large belly, with skinny arms. A long, rectangular face, with two pointy little horns on the side of their heads facing upward. A pair of beady eyes... They loved to stick to the ocean floor, looking for clams to eat and star fish to chew. They did not like to exercise, nor did they like to talk. But, there were some exceptions. For instance, there was a boy that loved to talk. His name was...
Anyway. I am getting ahead of myself. Termina City was a huge city that everyone loved. Though occasionally there would be quarrels with one and other, but most of the Zoras lived peacefully together.
Many languages were spoken, too. Those that lived near the Hyrule area spoke Hylian Language. While some of the others were speaking Ira Language, learned from other places far away from Hyrule. The Ira Language was extremely confusing. While the Hylian Language had only six syllables maximum to pronounce per word, the Ira Language contained twelve, thus, making the Zoras who spoke that language looked as if they were on Yeli Drugs (speaking extremely fast). There were other languages existing also, such as Ditri, Lora, Lunitcent, Wrigtyr, and many more. But out of those languages, the Ira Language was being considered as a language only suited for the brutes, due to the fact that it just didn't sound as smooth and as placid as it should be. It sounded as if a Goron was screeching in agony.
Though out of these many races and many differences between them, Zoran Hero race was the coolest of them all. Not only were they superior than the rest of the Zora population, both in strength and in intellectual, but their movement, their shape of the fins, of the bodies were extremely elegant. Their colors were of silver or of light brown, with a gentle sensation of glowing to them. The Zoran Hero were considered as God centuries ago. Though due to the Cataclysm, almost all of them were wiped out. They sacrificed themselves for the future generations. All were gone, except for one boy, who grew up near the Chaotic Rim and later moved into the Termina City. The history of the Zoran Hero was blurry, for no one could record the past. And so, as time slipped on slowly, the Zoras began to forget about the bunch of strange breeds among themselves. Soon, new generations came out, who had no idea what a Zoran Hero was, who had no knowledge of what had happened to all of the Heroes. Their parents were too lazy to retell the story. Therefore, the existence of the Zoran Hero had disappeared without a trace, until Mikau came along.
"Hi there!" "How are you doing?" "Are you alright?"
Zoras in the streets asked him these three questions when they saw him. Mikau was mystified. Since when did those people start to treat him like a normal Zora? Bumping into one of the adults, he quickly apologized. Instead of cursing like before, the stranger only rubbed Mikau's head before he was on his way.
"Uh..."
"Yo! Mikau!" A voice ahead of him called out.
Japas was there on the street, leaning against a wall. His grin was wide. His elongated fines had dropped down onto his eyes again. Mikau went to his friend.
"I am sorry that I didn't-" he started with his head lowered onto his chest.
"No, no. It's fine. Really." Japas shook his head, stopping the boy in mid-sentence. "Since we've waited for you for at least an hour, Tobieas and I thought that we will go by ourselves. I mean, it's not like as if we will die without you. Well, it was kinda depressing knowing that you did not come. The trip's just not as fun without you."
Mikau didn't say anything. His bubbles containing school supplies and his lunch were floating beside him. Seeing his friend looking sad and disheartened, Japas bonked him on the head.
"Ow! That's that for?" Mikau yelled. His tail behind his head curled up instinctively.
"I need to know if you are still with me or not. After all, you can't hear what I am going to tell you if you zoned out on me."
Muttering, Mikau looked at his pal.
"Did you know that people on dry land saw us?"
"What?"
"They saw us by accident. There were four of them, and two of them are kids I guess. Older than us *(2). One of them saw Tobieas climbing out of the water near a large tree, and he pointed at us while yelling to his parents."
Mikau's eyes went wide with disbelieve. "No way."
Nodding, Japas continued, "Yea. Then the other kid came, and she was like, staring at us. Tobieas was looking at me, didn't what to do."
"Soooooo, what DID you do?"
Shrugging, Japas yawned. "I don't know. I just stared her back. We are a head taller than her. I am not scared of her. But then we jumped back into the water before the adults can catch us." Sighing, he brushed away the fins from his eyes. "And did you know what she had said before we disappeared under the water?"
Mikau thought about it for a bit. "Uh, that you are cool? Neat? Awesome? Scary?"
Shaking his head, Japas gritted his teeth. "She said we smell like fish!"
The young Zoran Hero burst out laughing. He doubled over as he held his stomach. Japas looked annoyed *(3).
"Stop laughing! It's not funny!"
Mikau continued to guffaw. Japas used his tail to slap his friend on the arm, hard.
"O... Ow... hahaha... ow! Hahaha... He...hey.. Haha..."
Japas murmured with displease. It was a good thing that his fins had covered most of his facial expressions. Otherwise his face would look like a Deku.
Finally, catching his breath, Mikau regained his composures. "Sorry. Ahem. Heh, the name suits you pretty well."
"What? How could you-"
"I mean, come on, how long since you cleaned yourself?" Mikau made a snorting sound. "A year? Two?"
"Not! That long!" Japas defended. Then he said, "Maybe half a year?"
Making a disgusted face, Mikau gave a side-glance. "Blah! I will show you a place where it has fresh new currents for you to clean off those mud. I am not surprised that people called you a fish, since that you ARE smelling like a fish." Then with a lowered voice, "and acting like one, too. Hehe."
Before Japas could hammer him, Mikau evaded by swimming away at top speed. "I'll come by your house today afternoon! I gotta go now, school!"
* * *
There was still ten minutes left before the bell rang. Mikau thought that checking out the cafeteria would be a good idea. He was hungry now, even though he had ate his breakfast. But before that, he had to put his books away first. Swimming through the giant hole on the wall, he entered the institute. There were a few students talking by their lockers *(4). A few glanced at his direction, but nothing more. Mikau was struck speechless. Why was it that everyone today was treating as if... as if... as if he was one of them? That didn't make any sense at all!
Gliding through the long and big hallway, Mikau looked for his locker. Suddenly, a female Zora came to him. She was shorter than he was, and she had light purple fins on her neck and arms. Her legs were beautifully rendered. Her head was like stingray's head. Slightly flat, with a disc-like shape. Two giant eyes bulged from the topside of her bluish with slightly green head. Her main eyes were big, like Mikau's, almond-shaped. All Zoran eyes were like that, except Mikau had eyes that didn't have pupils. Her eyes were dark green colored. She had a small face, with a pointy nose. Her six, finned ears twitched with shyness. She wore a garment made by deep blue colored jellyfish skin *(5). A very expensive dress. It flapped a little with the push and the pull of the currents.
Mikau looked at her intently. She stopped right before him, and smiled. When she spoke, her voice was exquisite and clear.
"Hello."
Mikau waved at her dumbly. "Uh, hi."
Giggling, she stared at him for a long time.
What's up with her? Mikau thought with confusion. Opening his locker door, he popped his bubble. Gathering up the textbooks and the reed pens, he threw them inside the compartment and slammed the door shut.
Curling her tail slightly around her skinny neck, the female Zora blinked a few times before continuing her conversation. "So, how are you feeling?"
Extending the arm blades a little (a move that he liked to do when he was slightly nervous), the Zoran Hero shrugged. "I am feeling okay. Why? Something wrong with me?"
"No. Not at all. I think you are cool. You know..."
Blushing, Mikau cleared his throat. This conversation was getting a little-
"How about joining me and my friends for lunch today?" Breaking his thoughts, she offered. "I think you will find them pretty funny."
"Well... I don't exactly know your name."
A look of realization appeared on her face. "Oh! I am sorry. My name is Ruto." She shook the boy's hand. "Ruto Yeflian, and you are... Mikau right? Mikau Loencraft?"
"Uh huh. Nice to meet you."
"So you want to join me for lunch today with my friends?" Ruto pressed on. She drew closer to him.
Hesitating, Mikau didn't know if he should accept the invitation or not. Laughing, Ruto gave him a light tap on the shoulder.
"Come on! It'll be fun! All of my friends thought you are cool. You know, after we knew that you are just as normal as any of us can be."
"How did you-" Mikau was going to ask who had told her about him, but he was cut off from the bell.
The bell was actually a huge golden-brown clam, which closed heavily and loudly when being touched by other creatures. A Zora was responsible for doing so. Since the clam was mostly empty, and the carapace was hard and smooth, the sound being produced was loud enough and clear enough to travel throughout the school in the water. The vibration could be carried out at a long distance in the ocean. An interesting tool, no?
"Oops! Bell rang! So I guess I will see you in the dining hall then, okay? Bye!" She hurriedly swam away to her classroom.
Mikau stood there fixed onto the spot, as he tried to digest what had just happened. Funny though. Even if she was acting extremely open to a student that she didn't know very well, which had made her looked pretty bad for a girl, but he found her rather... attracting... in a way that he could not comprehend clearly. And it was a good thing that she was wearing some kind of clothes that had covered the vital parts of her body. Otherwise he would faint right there and then.
"Darn it. I didn't go to the cafeteria." Speaking to himself, Mikau swam to his first class.
~End Chapter 12~
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:::[NOTE]::: (OMG! This is freaking LONG!)
(1) I know that this story takes place in the ocean. So you can't exactly 'cook' in there. But this IS a fictional story, so I thought: 'why limit myself by following the logic of the real world?? After all, if a story has limitations, then it would be hard to write, and thus, be more boring.
(2) Zoras tend to live longer than the people on the Dry World. This is the way life goes for animals on the planet (in the story anyway). I have set it like this to make it more interesting to think about. So if a child on dry land is ten years old, then a Zora with the same age would be seven years old. Cool, huh?
(3) As stated in the story: "Memory Loss" (by me), and "Ocean Eternal", by Eyes5, calling a Zora a fish is insulting. It is almost as the same as swearing F-words, yet not quite like that. Saying that a Zora smells like a fish, too, is an insult. Anyway, just don't relate Zoras to fishes. They don't like that.
(4) Schools in the Zoran World have lockers. Same as us. The only difference is that even the Elementary Schools for the Zoras have lockers, while for us, we don't. They have more materials to use than us. Sigh... Maybe because they don't need to use any money... wait... they do! (Rupees) *Laughs*
(5) In the story "Ocean Eternal", by Eyes5, the author had stated that certain Zoras from certain places wore clothes to cover their naked bodies, females especially. However, for this story, I have made it so that only the female Zoras from the new generations have to wear clothes, while the older generations, don't have to. So that is the reason why Lynisana and Ms. Crescent, didn't wear anything. And this is also the reason why Ruto was wearing something. You follow my drift? Basically, kids that are in the same age as Mikau have to wear clothes, and adults don't have to. However! (This is important) Male Zoras DON'T have to wear anything! So it doesn't really matter if they are from the new generations or from the old generations, males Zoras don't need to cover their muscular body. They are naked. (Hot Zoran Boys here for the female fans of the Zelda Series! Get them while they are hot!) :D
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Author's Note: Argh! The explanations for this chapter are so frustrating! I have to think 'logically' to explain certain portions of the story. If not, the readers might be confused... er, you are not still confused about my clarifications, are you? I hope that you guys can understand what I am talking about in Explanation 5 above. Because if you don't... *Shrug*
So what do you think of this chapter? Ha, the conversation from Ruto is sort of corny. She's a slut for god's sake! LOL. But I think this is more like it. This is getting close to what I have planned before, which, is good. Because after all, I did not intend to make this into 'horror, adventure' story. If I want to write one like that, I would just write another fan fic.
How's my writing anyway? Enough descriptions? Enough grammar mistakes? *Rolling on the floor laughing* Heh. I just got 71 percent on my Mathematic 12 test. Haha. I think I will put something like that in this story. (:-p)
I am ridiculing myself...
And finally, to answer one of my loyal fans' question about my ideas and information regarding to the Zoras and the Zelda Universe in general:
"Basically, most of the ideas are created from my brain. Yup. All I have done is describing the anatomy of the Zoras, and adding a few more variations to make them interesting. As for the underwater world, and the Termina City, all of the descriptions came from my imaginations. Sometimes, if I am not exactly sure about something, I would refer to Eyes5's "Ocean Eternal". Her story is completely different than mine though. In a way, her setting for her story is: Mikau and Japas finishing High School, and went into University. While mine, started from the day that Mikau was born, and continuing on from there. Eyes5's writing is one of the best, if not, THE best."
New chapters coming soon.
Sun began to appear over the horizon on dry land. Its warm rays flashed across the ocean. The cool blue water, hence, filtered the beams making the underwater world extremely temperate and not overly heated. The fierce giant fireball continued to rise over the sky, as day began to drag on.
It was early in the morning when Mikau got woke up by his Alarm Fish. The balloon-like orange fish had sent out series of ultra sonic waves through the water, which had traveled up into Mikau's sensitive ears. Groggy, he threw aside the sheet of covering. The lily pads on the bed shifted slightly from the movement. The seaweeds on the second padding of the bed were tangled up with each other in a mess.
"One day, I am going to get an Alarm Fish that won't scream directly at me," Mikau muttered tiredly as he got out of the room.
Swimming across the hall, he went into another room, preparing to go to school. After a few moments of collecting his supplies, he went into the kitchen, where his mom was fixing breakfast for him. He sat down at the slab, rubbing his giant blue eyes. His fins were drooped down without energies.
"Oh, hi honey!" Lynisana smiled as she placed four plates of fresh Salmons onto the polished, dark blue reef table. Grimacing, she said, "You look tired."
"Who wouldn't be?"
The foods were still breathing, as they weakly wiggled around with their tails pinned onto the sponge plates. Mikau stared at them for a few seconds before he began to eat.
"So what classes will you be having today?" His mom asked as she began to concoct Mikau's lunch. The smell of cooking flowed through the water and up into Mikau's nose *(1).
Looking up with a Salmon halfway into his mouth, he mumbled something incoherent.
"What's that?"
"Oi shaid tha I um hafing litatour, shfinging, ort, und jiumph klasses ooday!"
Turning around, Lynisana frowned. "What?"
Gulping down the food, Mikau yelled, "I SAID I AM HAVING LITERATURE, SINGING, ART, AND GYM CLASSES TODAY!"
Squinting, she shook her head as she went back to her work. "Well, you don't have to shout. How can anyone understand you when you are mumbling about whatever that you are trying to say with a fish tail dangling out of your mouth?"
Shrugging, Mikau picked up a second Salmon. The fish jumped out of his hands when he was trying to bite its head off. It swam quickly through the water, trying to run away from its predator.
"Mom! The food is escaping!" he screamed as he launched himself from the granite chair, trying to catch the escapee. His body was now filled with fresh new energies.
"Oh sure. Like I will be falling for your usual jokes on your second day away from the incident that had occurred this week," Lynisana sighed, as she broke open an oyster and packed it into her son's lunch box. Her back was facing the scene the whole time.
Mikau threw out his arms, trying to grab the Salmon. It dodged to the left and went into the hallway. The Zoran Hero had almost crashed into the wall. A vase drifted onto the dirt floor and split in half with a soft crash.
"Mikau, if you want to fool around, do it outside. This is not a playground you know?"
Shooting down the corridor, he banked a fake left, then immediately turned right. By using that move, he was able to confuse the ocean creature long enough to pull up with it, side by side. Mikau swore that he had just seen the fish's eyes popping out with surprise. With a yell, he extended his right arm blade and sliced his food in half. Blood wafted everywhere.
"You finished your breakfast yet?" Mikau's mom asked while cleaning up the counter.
Sagging into the chair, Mikau stuffed the severed Salmon into his mouth. Chewing it a few times and swallowing it down his throat, he sighed a relief. "Yup."
Finally facing him, Lynisana stopped in her track. There was blood flowing everywhere. "What's going on here?"
Mikau flashed a "don't ask me" sign at his mom. Grabbing his second, smaller bubble that contained his lunch, he yelled a goodbye before rushing out of the house. His parent floated in the kitchen, dumbfounded.
* * *
Termina City. A never-ending chaotic city with many different species of Zoras swimming around. Bottom-Feeder, Ocean-Strider, Intertidal-Hunter, and many more. But all of them shared a similar characteristic: a medium length tail that was similar with fish's tail protruding from the back of their head. Of course, all Zoras would deny the fact that they were, indeed, related to fish. After all, they saw themselves as a more intelligent species within the Ocean World. To distinguish from one Zora to another, often you look at the fins on their bodies, and the shape that their bodies had taken. Also take account of the color that they had.
Bottom-Feeder, for example, were mostly brown colored, with some variations here and there. Call it an evolution genetic DNA disorder if you want. They also had a large belly, with skinny arms. A long, rectangular face, with two pointy little horns on the side of their heads facing upward. A pair of beady eyes... They loved to stick to the ocean floor, looking for clams to eat and star fish to chew. They did not like to exercise, nor did they like to talk. But, there were some exceptions. For instance, there was a boy that loved to talk. His name was...
Anyway. I am getting ahead of myself. Termina City was a huge city that everyone loved. Though occasionally there would be quarrels with one and other, but most of the Zoras lived peacefully together.
Many languages were spoken, too. Those that lived near the Hyrule area spoke Hylian Language. While some of the others were speaking Ira Language, learned from other places far away from Hyrule. The Ira Language was extremely confusing. While the Hylian Language had only six syllables maximum to pronounce per word, the Ira Language contained twelve, thus, making the Zoras who spoke that language looked as if they were on Yeli Drugs (speaking extremely fast). There were other languages existing also, such as Ditri, Lora, Lunitcent, Wrigtyr, and many more. But out of those languages, the Ira Language was being considered as a language only suited for the brutes, due to the fact that it just didn't sound as smooth and as placid as it should be. It sounded as if a Goron was screeching in agony.
Though out of these many races and many differences between them, Zoran Hero race was the coolest of them all. Not only were they superior than the rest of the Zora population, both in strength and in intellectual, but their movement, their shape of the fins, of the bodies were extremely elegant. Their colors were of silver or of light brown, with a gentle sensation of glowing to them. The Zoran Hero were considered as God centuries ago. Though due to the Cataclysm, almost all of them were wiped out. They sacrificed themselves for the future generations. All were gone, except for one boy, who grew up near the Chaotic Rim and later moved into the Termina City. The history of the Zoran Hero was blurry, for no one could record the past. And so, as time slipped on slowly, the Zoras began to forget about the bunch of strange breeds among themselves. Soon, new generations came out, who had no idea what a Zoran Hero was, who had no knowledge of what had happened to all of the Heroes. Their parents were too lazy to retell the story. Therefore, the existence of the Zoran Hero had disappeared without a trace, until Mikau came along.
"Hi there!" "How are you doing?" "Are you alright?"
Zoras in the streets asked him these three questions when they saw him. Mikau was mystified. Since when did those people start to treat him like a normal Zora? Bumping into one of the adults, he quickly apologized. Instead of cursing like before, the stranger only rubbed Mikau's head before he was on his way.
"Uh..."
"Yo! Mikau!" A voice ahead of him called out.
Japas was there on the street, leaning against a wall. His grin was wide. His elongated fines had dropped down onto his eyes again. Mikau went to his friend.
"I am sorry that I didn't-" he started with his head lowered onto his chest.
"No, no. It's fine. Really." Japas shook his head, stopping the boy in mid-sentence. "Since we've waited for you for at least an hour, Tobieas and I thought that we will go by ourselves. I mean, it's not like as if we will die without you. Well, it was kinda depressing knowing that you did not come. The trip's just not as fun without you."
Mikau didn't say anything. His bubbles containing school supplies and his lunch were floating beside him. Seeing his friend looking sad and disheartened, Japas bonked him on the head.
"Ow! That's that for?" Mikau yelled. His tail behind his head curled up instinctively.
"I need to know if you are still with me or not. After all, you can't hear what I am going to tell you if you zoned out on me."
Muttering, Mikau looked at his pal.
"Did you know that people on dry land saw us?"
"What?"
"They saw us by accident. There were four of them, and two of them are kids I guess. Older than us *(2). One of them saw Tobieas climbing out of the water near a large tree, and he pointed at us while yelling to his parents."
Mikau's eyes went wide with disbelieve. "No way."
Nodding, Japas continued, "Yea. Then the other kid came, and she was like, staring at us. Tobieas was looking at me, didn't what to do."
"Soooooo, what DID you do?"
Shrugging, Japas yawned. "I don't know. I just stared her back. We are a head taller than her. I am not scared of her. But then we jumped back into the water before the adults can catch us." Sighing, he brushed away the fins from his eyes. "And did you know what she had said before we disappeared under the water?"
Mikau thought about it for a bit. "Uh, that you are cool? Neat? Awesome? Scary?"
Shaking his head, Japas gritted his teeth. "She said we smell like fish!"
The young Zoran Hero burst out laughing. He doubled over as he held his stomach. Japas looked annoyed *(3).
"Stop laughing! It's not funny!"
Mikau continued to guffaw. Japas used his tail to slap his friend on the arm, hard.
"O... Ow... hahaha... ow! Hahaha... He...hey.. Haha..."
Japas murmured with displease. It was a good thing that his fins had covered most of his facial expressions. Otherwise his face would look like a Deku.
Finally, catching his breath, Mikau regained his composures. "Sorry. Ahem. Heh, the name suits you pretty well."
"What? How could you-"
"I mean, come on, how long since you cleaned yourself?" Mikau made a snorting sound. "A year? Two?"
"Not! That long!" Japas defended. Then he said, "Maybe half a year?"
Making a disgusted face, Mikau gave a side-glance. "Blah! I will show you a place where it has fresh new currents for you to clean off those mud. I am not surprised that people called you a fish, since that you ARE smelling like a fish." Then with a lowered voice, "and acting like one, too. Hehe."
Before Japas could hammer him, Mikau evaded by swimming away at top speed. "I'll come by your house today afternoon! I gotta go now, school!"
* * *
There was still ten minutes left before the bell rang. Mikau thought that checking out the cafeteria would be a good idea. He was hungry now, even though he had ate his breakfast. But before that, he had to put his books away first. Swimming through the giant hole on the wall, he entered the institute. There were a few students talking by their lockers *(4). A few glanced at his direction, but nothing more. Mikau was struck speechless. Why was it that everyone today was treating as if... as if... as if he was one of them? That didn't make any sense at all!
Gliding through the long and big hallway, Mikau looked for his locker. Suddenly, a female Zora came to him. She was shorter than he was, and she had light purple fins on her neck and arms. Her legs were beautifully rendered. Her head was like stingray's head. Slightly flat, with a disc-like shape. Two giant eyes bulged from the topside of her bluish with slightly green head. Her main eyes were big, like Mikau's, almond-shaped. All Zoran eyes were like that, except Mikau had eyes that didn't have pupils. Her eyes were dark green colored. She had a small face, with a pointy nose. Her six, finned ears twitched with shyness. She wore a garment made by deep blue colored jellyfish skin *(5). A very expensive dress. It flapped a little with the push and the pull of the currents.
Mikau looked at her intently. She stopped right before him, and smiled. When she spoke, her voice was exquisite and clear.
"Hello."
Mikau waved at her dumbly. "Uh, hi."
Giggling, she stared at him for a long time.
What's up with her? Mikau thought with confusion. Opening his locker door, he popped his bubble. Gathering up the textbooks and the reed pens, he threw them inside the compartment and slammed the door shut.
Curling her tail slightly around her skinny neck, the female Zora blinked a few times before continuing her conversation. "So, how are you feeling?"
Extending the arm blades a little (a move that he liked to do when he was slightly nervous), the Zoran Hero shrugged. "I am feeling okay. Why? Something wrong with me?"
"No. Not at all. I think you are cool. You know..."
Blushing, Mikau cleared his throat. This conversation was getting a little-
"How about joining me and my friends for lunch today?" Breaking his thoughts, she offered. "I think you will find them pretty funny."
"Well... I don't exactly know your name."
A look of realization appeared on her face. "Oh! I am sorry. My name is Ruto." She shook the boy's hand. "Ruto Yeflian, and you are... Mikau right? Mikau Loencraft?"
"Uh huh. Nice to meet you."
"So you want to join me for lunch today with my friends?" Ruto pressed on. She drew closer to him.
Hesitating, Mikau didn't know if he should accept the invitation or not. Laughing, Ruto gave him a light tap on the shoulder.
"Come on! It'll be fun! All of my friends thought you are cool. You know, after we knew that you are just as normal as any of us can be."
"How did you-" Mikau was going to ask who had told her about him, but he was cut off from the bell.
The bell was actually a huge golden-brown clam, which closed heavily and loudly when being touched by other creatures. A Zora was responsible for doing so. Since the clam was mostly empty, and the carapace was hard and smooth, the sound being produced was loud enough and clear enough to travel throughout the school in the water. The vibration could be carried out at a long distance in the ocean. An interesting tool, no?
"Oops! Bell rang! So I guess I will see you in the dining hall then, okay? Bye!" She hurriedly swam away to her classroom.
Mikau stood there fixed onto the spot, as he tried to digest what had just happened. Funny though. Even if she was acting extremely open to a student that she didn't know very well, which had made her looked pretty bad for a girl, but he found her rather... attracting... in a way that he could not comprehend clearly. And it was a good thing that she was wearing some kind of clothes that had covered the vital parts of her body. Otherwise he would faint right there and then.
"Darn it. I didn't go to the cafeteria." Speaking to himself, Mikau swam to his first class.
~End Chapter 12~
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:::[NOTE]::: (OMG! This is freaking LONG!)
(1) I know that this story takes place in the ocean. So you can't exactly 'cook' in there. But this IS a fictional story, so I thought: 'why limit myself by following the logic of the real world?? After all, if a story has limitations, then it would be hard to write, and thus, be more boring.
(2) Zoras tend to live longer than the people on the Dry World. This is the way life goes for animals on the planet (in the story anyway). I have set it like this to make it more interesting to think about. So if a child on dry land is ten years old, then a Zora with the same age would be seven years old. Cool, huh?
(3) As stated in the story: "Memory Loss" (by me), and "Ocean Eternal", by Eyes5, calling a Zora a fish is insulting. It is almost as the same as swearing F-words, yet not quite like that. Saying that a Zora smells like a fish, too, is an insult. Anyway, just don't relate Zoras to fishes. They don't like that.
(4) Schools in the Zoran World have lockers. Same as us. The only difference is that even the Elementary Schools for the Zoras have lockers, while for us, we don't. They have more materials to use than us. Sigh... Maybe because they don't need to use any money... wait... they do! (Rupees) *Laughs*
(5) In the story "Ocean Eternal", by Eyes5, the author had stated that certain Zoras from certain places wore clothes to cover their naked bodies, females especially. However, for this story, I have made it so that only the female Zoras from the new generations have to wear clothes, while the older generations, don't have to. So that is the reason why Lynisana and Ms. Crescent, didn't wear anything. And this is also the reason why Ruto was wearing something. You follow my drift? Basically, kids that are in the same age as Mikau have to wear clothes, and adults don't have to. However! (This is important) Male Zoras DON'T have to wear anything! So it doesn't really matter if they are from the new generations or from the old generations, males Zoras don't need to cover their muscular body. They are naked. (Hot Zoran Boys here for the female fans of the Zelda Series! Get them while they are hot!) :D
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Author's Note: Argh! The explanations for this chapter are so frustrating! I have to think 'logically' to explain certain portions of the story. If not, the readers might be confused... er, you are not still confused about my clarifications, are you? I hope that you guys can understand what I am talking about in Explanation 5 above. Because if you don't... *Shrug*
So what do you think of this chapter? Ha, the conversation from Ruto is sort of corny. She's a slut for god's sake! LOL. But I think this is more like it. This is getting close to what I have planned before, which, is good. Because after all, I did not intend to make this into 'horror, adventure' story. If I want to write one like that, I would just write another fan fic.
How's my writing anyway? Enough descriptions? Enough grammar mistakes? *Rolling on the floor laughing* Heh. I just got 71 percent on my Mathematic 12 test. Haha. I think I will put something like that in this story. (:-p)
I am ridiculing myself...
And finally, to answer one of my loyal fans' question about my ideas and information regarding to the Zoras and the Zelda Universe in general:
"Basically, most of the ideas are created from my brain. Yup. All I have done is describing the anatomy of the Zoras, and adding a few more variations to make them interesting. As for the underwater world, and the Termina City, all of the descriptions came from my imaginations. Sometimes, if I am not exactly sure about something, I would refer to Eyes5's "Ocean Eternal". Her story is completely different than mine though. In a way, her setting for her story is: Mikau and Japas finishing High School, and went into University. While mine, started from the day that Mikau was born, and continuing on from there. Eyes5's writing is one of the best, if not, THE best."
New chapters coming soon.