Majora: How It Really Happened
CHAPTER FIVE: A NEW FLIPPIN' JOURNEY
(Erik's POV)
"OCARINA?" we echoed.
"Yes, an Ocarina," the mask man said.
We stood in silence for a few seconds. Then, David lost it for possibly the first time since we had come to Termina.
He grabbed the mask man by the throat and shook him hard.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MEEEEE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MEEEEEE?" he screamed.
"AAAAYYY! AAAAAAY! LET GO!"
"Keep going David!" Kelli jeered. "Cut his flippin' head off!"
"You GUYYYYYYS! Calm down!" I said.
"CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN? I AM A FIIIISH!" David yelled.
"I AM A SHRUB!" Kelli screamed after him.
"And I'm a rock! I'm learning to live with it!" I said.
"What are we supposed to do now?" David asked, starting the calming down process.
Suddenly we heard a terrible noise. "AIR!"
David let the mask man go immediately. "Sorry."
The mask man coughed and straightened out his collar once again. "Well..."
"Hey, Link is back to normal! Does he have an Ocarina?" Kelli asked.
"He does."
"GREAT!" I cried. "We can find Link, have him play the Song of Healing for us, and we can be back to normal before the Carnival of Time starts in three days!"
"It may not be that easy!" the mask man warned.
"Why is that?" David queried.
"I just sent that child Link to go to the four temples and get the four who are there."
"The WHO?" Kelli said.
"I can't tell you now, it's a really long story. But I suspect he may be leaving town in a few hours, so you'd better get moving!" the mask man said.
"Gee, you're right!" I said.
We turned to leave, and Kelli waved goodbye. "Thanks for all your help, Mr. Mask Dude!"
"Help?" David grumbled. "What help?"
Outside the Clock Tower, I began to feel hungry for the first time.
"Oh man! I am starving!" I moaned.
"Not for a rock, right?" Kelli asked worriedly.
"No, for a steak."
"Good," David said. "Before we get something to eat, let's go ask around and see where Link may have gone."
We wandered around until we found a carpenter who was carrying wood to help build the moon watching tower.
"You got any idea where a small kid in a green suit may have gone?" I asked.
"Yuh, I saw him headed for the Stock Pot Inn a few seconds ago."
We thanked the carpenter and ran off to East Clock town to the Stock Pot Inn.
As soon as we arrived, I began to get shaky.
"What's wrong?" David asked me.
"I have a bad feeling... I mean, last time..."
"We won't stay in a room this time, Erik. We need to find out where Link went." Kelli assured me.
We walked inside and asked Anju if we could get some chow.
"Well... we aren't really a cafeteria anymore, but I suppose you could hang around until I fix lunch."
"Thanks. Hey, have you seen a little kid in a green suit with a yellow fairy come through here?" I asked.
"Yeah, he went upstairs to wait for lunch!" Anju said.
We thanked her and walked upstairs to find somewhere to wait. Also to look for you-know-who.
"I'm not going anywhere near that room!" I told the others.
"No problem. We'll just go inside this room next to it, and..." David said. He was interrupted by a strange music blaring from inside the room.
"I swear, I've heard that music before..." said Kelli.
David opened the door, and we all three shrieked in terror.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WINDMILL GUY!" Kelli screamed louder than us all. Then she passed out.
Standing at the other end of the room was a short bald man holding a street organ and playing a very weird song.
"What's-a wrong with-a her?" he asked.
"Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a brother who lives in Hyrule, would you?" I asked, a little shaky.
"No, why-a?"
"You look amazingly like someone who we know..." David said.
Kelli sat up quickly and raced out the door. "WELLTHAT'SVERYINTERESTING,GOTTAGOBYE!"
We followed her quickly, and once outside I yelled at her.
"What's wrong with you?" I yelled.
"I swear, that guy looks exactly like the one back home!" she said.
"So?" David said.
"I promise you, that guy is out of his mind!" she warned.
"Yeah, sure Kelli," we both said.
"I tell you, he came after me one day when I went to give him a fruit basket!"
"Why were you giving him a fruit basket?" I asked.
"It was Christmas, and my mom told me to!" she said. "My mom... I wonder if I'll ever see her again."
"If we don't get down to the kitchen, we WON'T!" David whined. "Listen, the lunch bell is ringing!"
We went downstairs to the kitchen of the Stock Pot Inn, which was a few rooms away from the room where I had crashed.
Inside, I barely stopped myself from screaming when we saw Link sitting at one of the two tables inside. Anju was stirring a pot of soup.
"Welcome, please sit down. Lunch will be ready momentarily," she said.
Kelli was getting antsy as she sat down, and only David stopped her from leaping up and asking Link for his help.
"Oh... I'm sorry... I didn't realize... will you be wanting any... special orders?" asked Anju worriedly.
"Huh? Oh, no." I told her reassuringly.
"Oh thank goodness! I've never really cooked for Gorons before, so I didn't know!" Anju smiled.
"Oh, you know. We like rocks, but we're flexible. We have a balanced diet, and that's all that's important," I said.
Anju raised an eyebrow and turned back to the soup.
"PSSST!" David hissed. "Come on, let's go talk to Link!"
"No way!" I said. "Look, he'll get suspicious if he sees us watching him."
"Let's just go NOW!" Kelli whined. "This may be our last chance!"
"I'm sure it won't be!" I said.
Anju ladled out three bowls of soup and set them in front of us. "It's Cucco soup. Are you all right with that?"
"It's fine, thanks," Kelli said.
Then, she poured two more bowls and handed them both to Link across the room.
"Um, excuse me? Why do I have two bowls?" Link asked confusedly.
"Oh, I thought... your fairy..."
"YOU IDIOT!" Tatl screamed. "I'm a FAIRY! Does it look like I can eat soup?"
"I-I'm sorry..." Anju said.
"Tatl, no need to be rude. I'm hungry anyway. I'll eat them both," Link assured her, throwing a look to Tatl.
The three of us stared in confusion at our spoons.
"Well... I suppose if I can... oops," Kelli said. She had attempted to pick up her spoon, but the finely polished silver made it very difficult for her wood fingers to do so. She had dropped the spoon on the floor.
"I'm sorry! Here, let me get you another one," Anju said. She handed Kelli a new spoon.
Kelli dropped that one too.
I didn't have too much trouble getting the spoon up and eating without problems, but David was another story.
He could hold the spoon, but every time he raised his hand to eat, his fin knocked me in the back of the head.
"Whoops, sorry," he said.
"Watch it!" I snapped.
"Oops," Kelli said from the other side of the table. She had dropped yet another spoon.
Finally, Kelli managed to lift the spoon and load it with broth. She was just about to eat the spoonful, when David -who had tried the spoon in his other hand to avoid hitting me- whacked her in the back of the head with his other fin.
She dropped the spoon in the soup bowl.
"Whoops, sorry." David said sheepishly.
Kelli grumbled and decided to try fishing the spoon out with her hands.
Anju sighed and walked away to tend to other matters.
Link was staring at us. When we turned to watch him, he quickly turned his attention back to eating.
"This is ridiculous!" Kelli said.
"I'm SO hungry!" David whined.
Kelli grumbled something under her breath and stood up. "Excuse me," she said.
She jumped away from the table and over to a corner of the kitchen where light blue dish towel was set on the counter. She picked up the towel and tore off a pair square on the edge. Then, Kelli took a knife from the counter and cut five small holes in each square. She slid her fingers through the holes and wrapped the ends of the square around her hands, creating a small "glove" that left the tops of her fingers exposed for each hand.
Then, she carefully used the knife and poked small holes in the ends of the gloves, and pulled her shoelaces out of her shoes. She wove the shoelaces through the holes, holding the gloves together and around her hands.
Kelli sat back down at the table and used the gloves to create friction, which helped her to recover the spoon.
"Ah, good soup," she said, as if nothing had happened.
David turned redder every time Kelli made a slurping noise, and finally he got frustrated too.
He walked over to the kitchen tool drawer and dug inside until he found a straw. He set it in the soup, and sucked up all of the broth.
"Yes, good soup," he said.
I sighed.
Anju walked back into the kitchen. "All done?"
"Yes, please!" we said all at once.
"Me too," Link replied. "That was good soup."
"Thank you," Anju said.
"I'd best be going now," Link said. "Thank you for lunch."
He dug in his pocket and set a red 20-Rupee piece on the table. Anju grinned and swept him a low bow.
"Thank you for choosing Stock Pot Inn, have a nice day!"
Link nodded and ran out the door.
"C'mon, let's go!" David said, leaping up from his seat.
"Ah, not so fast!" Anju said warningly. "That meal is going to cost you, y'know..."
"Huh? Lady, if we had the money we would give it to you, but we're broke!" I said.
"Well, let's think here..." Anju said, counting on her fingers as she talked. "Fresh Cucco like this one in the soup is at least a Rupee a pound, times three pounds is three Rupees. Water is at least 2 Rupees, and the vegetables..."
Kelli stifled a scream of anger and dug into her pocket. She pulled out a single blue 5-piece Rupee and slammed it on the table.
"Here, knock yourself out," she grunted.
Anju picked up the Rupee and eyed it, then gave a bow. "Thank you for choosing Stock Pot Inn, have a nice day!"
We raced out of the inn after Link, and as we ran David asked Kelli, "Where did you get that?"
"I found in lying on the ground in North Clock Town this morning!" she said.
We turned into South Clock Town just in time to see Link walk out the door to the city below a large sign with a strange green symbol carved on it. A single guard stood beneath the sign in front of the door.
"Where does this doorway go?" I asked.
"It goes to Termina field, in the direction of the Southern Swamp," the guard said crisply.
"Well, can we get by?" asked David.
"My orders are to not let anyone outside unless they are an adult or with an adult," he said.
"That kid wasn't an adult." Kelli pointed out.
"He had a sword."
I shook my head and put my arm around the guard's shoulder. "Buddy, buddy, buddy... I've spent a total of three days in this town, and every single one of them has SUCKED! So you either get out of our way and let us pass, or we'll make sure that you'll never be able to sit down again,"
The guard's eyes widened. "Oh, well then! I think that would be all right! Go on through, have a nice day, enjoy your visit to the Southern Swamp, home of the Deku Tribe!"
We walked past the guard, but Kelli stopped. "D-Deku tribe?"
"Yeah," said the guard. "They all live down there in the swamp. But uh, aren't you supposed to know that? I mean, being a scrub and all?"
"I'm from out of town..." she said, her voice a little shaky.
"Oh, Hyrule huh? Well don't worry, I'm sure that you'll have a nice time and get along with the king and his daughter."
"Yeah, really nice time..." she muttered.
"What's wrong?" asked David quietly.
"I'm not really a scrub! I don't want to go to the Deku tribe's palace!" she hissed.
"Why not?" I asked. "You could hop around on leaves, and hang out with all your scrubby friends."
"I just know they're going to get all weird on me, like telling me the latest style to wear your leaves in and the latest news on wood disease prevention! It'll be awkward, get it?" she explained.
"Well, there's no going back now," David said. "We got three days to turn back human, and there's no way out of it. We either turn back to normal... or we stay this way forever."
"Were you trying to be reassuring?" I said nervously.
"Yeah, I guess. Why?"
"Because you did a very, VERY bad job!"
CHAPTER FIVE: A NEW FLIPPIN' JOURNEY
(Erik's POV)
"OCARINA?" we echoed.
"Yes, an Ocarina," the mask man said.
We stood in silence for a few seconds. Then, David lost it for possibly the first time since we had come to Termina.
He grabbed the mask man by the throat and shook him hard.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MEEEEE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MEEEEEE?" he screamed.
"AAAAYYY! AAAAAAY! LET GO!"
"Keep going David!" Kelli jeered. "Cut his flippin' head off!"
"You GUYYYYYYS! Calm down!" I said.
"CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN? I AM A FIIIISH!" David yelled.
"I AM A SHRUB!" Kelli screamed after him.
"And I'm a rock! I'm learning to live with it!" I said.
"What are we supposed to do now?" David asked, starting the calming down process.
Suddenly we heard a terrible noise. "AIR!"
David let the mask man go immediately. "Sorry."
The mask man coughed and straightened out his collar once again. "Well..."
"Hey, Link is back to normal! Does he have an Ocarina?" Kelli asked.
"He does."
"GREAT!" I cried. "We can find Link, have him play the Song of Healing for us, and we can be back to normal before the Carnival of Time starts in three days!"
"It may not be that easy!" the mask man warned.
"Why is that?" David queried.
"I just sent that child Link to go to the four temples and get the four who are there."
"The WHO?" Kelli said.
"I can't tell you now, it's a really long story. But I suspect he may be leaving town in a few hours, so you'd better get moving!" the mask man said.
"Gee, you're right!" I said.
We turned to leave, and Kelli waved goodbye. "Thanks for all your help, Mr. Mask Dude!"
"Help?" David grumbled. "What help?"
Outside the Clock Tower, I began to feel hungry for the first time.
"Oh man! I am starving!" I moaned.
"Not for a rock, right?" Kelli asked worriedly.
"No, for a steak."
"Good," David said. "Before we get something to eat, let's go ask around and see where Link may have gone."
We wandered around until we found a carpenter who was carrying wood to help build the moon watching tower.
"You got any idea where a small kid in a green suit may have gone?" I asked.
"Yuh, I saw him headed for the Stock Pot Inn a few seconds ago."
We thanked the carpenter and ran off to East Clock town to the Stock Pot Inn.
As soon as we arrived, I began to get shaky.
"What's wrong?" David asked me.
"I have a bad feeling... I mean, last time..."
"We won't stay in a room this time, Erik. We need to find out where Link went." Kelli assured me.
We walked inside and asked Anju if we could get some chow.
"Well... we aren't really a cafeteria anymore, but I suppose you could hang around until I fix lunch."
"Thanks. Hey, have you seen a little kid in a green suit with a yellow fairy come through here?" I asked.
"Yeah, he went upstairs to wait for lunch!" Anju said.
We thanked her and walked upstairs to find somewhere to wait. Also to look for you-know-who.
"I'm not going anywhere near that room!" I told the others.
"No problem. We'll just go inside this room next to it, and..." David said. He was interrupted by a strange music blaring from inside the room.
"I swear, I've heard that music before..." said Kelli.
David opened the door, and we all three shrieked in terror.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WINDMILL GUY!" Kelli screamed louder than us all. Then she passed out.
Standing at the other end of the room was a short bald man holding a street organ and playing a very weird song.
"What's-a wrong with-a her?" he asked.
"Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a brother who lives in Hyrule, would you?" I asked, a little shaky.
"No, why-a?"
"You look amazingly like someone who we know..." David said.
Kelli sat up quickly and raced out the door. "WELLTHAT'SVERYINTERESTING,GOTTAGOBYE!"
We followed her quickly, and once outside I yelled at her.
"What's wrong with you?" I yelled.
"I swear, that guy looks exactly like the one back home!" she said.
"So?" David said.
"I promise you, that guy is out of his mind!" she warned.
"Yeah, sure Kelli," we both said.
"I tell you, he came after me one day when I went to give him a fruit basket!"
"Why were you giving him a fruit basket?" I asked.
"It was Christmas, and my mom told me to!" she said. "My mom... I wonder if I'll ever see her again."
"If we don't get down to the kitchen, we WON'T!" David whined. "Listen, the lunch bell is ringing!"
We went downstairs to the kitchen of the Stock Pot Inn, which was a few rooms away from the room where I had crashed.
Inside, I barely stopped myself from screaming when we saw Link sitting at one of the two tables inside. Anju was stirring a pot of soup.
"Welcome, please sit down. Lunch will be ready momentarily," she said.
Kelli was getting antsy as she sat down, and only David stopped her from leaping up and asking Link for his help.
"Oh... I'm sorry... I didn't realize... will you be wanting any... special orders?" asked Anju worriedly.
"Huh? Oh, no." I told her reassuringly.
"Oh thank goodness! I've never really cooked for Gorons before, so I didn't know!" Anju smiled.
"Oh, you know. We like rocks, but we're flexible. We have a balanced diet, and that's all that's important," I said.
Anju raised an eyebrow and turned back to the soup.
"PSSST!" David hissed. "Come on, let's go talk to Link!"
"No way!" I said. "Look, he'll get suspicious if he sees us watching him."
"Let's just go NOW!" Kelli whined. "This may be our last chance!"
"I'm sure it won't be!" I said.
Anju ladled out three bowls of soup and set them in front of us. "It's Cucco soup. Are you all right with that?"
"It's fine, thanks," Kelli said.
Then, she poured two more bowls and handed them both to Link across the room.
"Um, excuse me? Why do I have two bowls?" Link asked confusedly.
"Oh, I thought... your fairy..."
"YOU IDIOT!" Tatl screamed. "I'm a FAIRY! Does it look like I can eat soup?"
"I-I'm sorry..." Anju said.
"Tatl, no need to be rude. I'm hungry anyway. I'll eat them both," Link assured her, throwing a look to Tatl.
The three of us stared in confusion at our spoons.
"Well... I suppose if I can... oops," Kelli said. She had attempted to pick up her spoon, but the finely polished silver made it very difficult for her wood fingers to do so. She had dropped the spoon on the floor.
"I'm sorry! Here, let me get you another one," Anju said. She handed Kelli a new spoon.
Kelli dropped that one too.
I didn't have too much trouble getting the spoon up and eating without problems, but David was another story.
He could hold the spoon, but every time he raised his hand to eat, his fin knocked me in the back of the head.
"Whoops, sorry," he said.
"Watch it!" I snapped.
"Oops," Kelli said from the other side of the table. She had dropped yet another spoon.
Finally, Kelli managed to lift the spoon and load it with broth. She was just about to eat the spoonful, when David -who had tried the spoon in his other hand to avoid hitting me- whacked her in the back of the head with his other fin.
She dropped the spoon in the soup bowl.
"Whoops, sorry." David said sheepishly.
Kelli grumbled and decided to try fishing the spoon out with her hands.
Anju sighed and walked away to tend to other matters.
Link was staring at us. When we turned to watch him, he quickly turned his attention back to eating.
"This is ridiculous!" Kelli said.
"I'm SO hungry!" David whined.
Kelli grumbled something under her breath and stood up. "Excuse me," she said.
She jumped away from the table and over to a corner of the kitchen where light blue dish towel was set on the counter. She picked up the towel and tore off a pair square on the edge. Then, Kelli took a knife from the counter and cut five small holes in each square. She slid her fingers through the holes and wrapped the ends of the square around her hands, creating a small "glove" that left the tops of her fingers exposed for each hand.
Then, she carefully used the knife and poked small holes in the ends of the gloves, and pulled her shoelaces out of her shoes. She wove the shoelaces through the holes, holding the gloves together and around her hands.
Kelli sat back down at the table and used the gloves to create friction, which helped her to recover the spoon.
"Ah, good soup," she said, as if nothing had happened.
David turned redder every time Kelli made a slurping noise, and finally he got frustrated too.
He walked over to the kitchen tool drawer and dug inside until he found a straw. He set it in the soup, and sucked up all of the broth.
"Yes, good soup," he said.
I sighed.
Anju walked back into the kitchen. "All done?"
"Yes, please!" we said all at once.
"Me too," Link replied. "That was good soup."
"Thank you," Anju said.
"I'd best be going now," Link said. "Thank you for lunch."
He dug in his pocket and set a red 20-Rupee piece on the table. Anju grinned and swept him a low bow.
"Thank you for choosing Stock Pot Inn, have a nice day!"
Link nodded and ran out the door.
"C'mon, let's go!" David said, leaping up from his seat.
"Ah, not so fast!" Anju said warningly. "That meal is going to cost you, y'know..."
"Huh? Lady, if we had the money we would give it to you, but we're broke!" I said.
"Well, let's think here..." Anju said, counting on her fingers as she talked. "Fresh Cucco like this one in the soup is at least a Rupee a pound, times three pounds is three Rupees. Water is at least 2 Rupees, and the vegetables..."
Kelli stifled a scream of anger and dug into her pocket. She pulled out a single blue 5-piece Rupee and slammed it on the table.
"Here, knock yourself out," she grunted.
Anju picked up the Rupee and eyed it, then gave a bow. "Thank you for choosing Stock Pot Inn, have a nice day!"
We raced out of the inn after Link, and as we ran David asked Kelli, "Where did you get that?"
"I found in lying on the ground in North Clock Town this morning!" she said.
We turned into South Clock Town just in time to see Link walk out the door to the city below a large sign with a strange green symbol carved on it. A single guard stood beneath the sign in front of the door.
"Where does this doorway go?" I asked.
"It goes to Termina field, in the direction of the Southern Swamp," the guard said crisply.
"Well, can we get by?" asked David.
"My orders are to not let anyone outside unless they are an adult or with an adult," he said.
"That kid wasn't an adult." Kelli pointed out.
"He had a sword."
I shook my head and put my arm around the guard's shoulder. "Buddy, buddy, buddy... I've spent a total of three days in this town, and every single one of them has SUCKED! So you either get out of our way and let us pass, or we'll make sure that you'll never be able to sit down again,"
The guard's eyes widened. "Oh, well then! I think that would be all right! Go on through, have a nice day, enjoy your visit to the Southern Swamp, home of the Deku Tribe!"
We walked past the guard, but Kelli stopped. "D-Deku tribe?"
"Yeah," said the guard. "They all live down there in the swamp. But uh, aren't you supposed to know that? I mean, being a scrub and all?"
"I'm from out of town..." she said, her voice a little shaky.
"Oh, Hyrule huh? Well don't worry, I'm sure that you'll have a nice time and get along with the king and his daughter."
"Yeah, really nice time..." she muttered.
"What's wrong?" asked David quietly.
"I'm not really a scrub! I don't want to go to the Deku tribe's palace!" she hissed.
"Why not?" I asked. "You could hop around on leaves, and hang out with all your scrubby friends."
"I just know they're going to get all weird on me, like telling me the latest style to wear your leaves in and the latest news on wood disease prevention! It'll be awkward, get it?" she explained.
"Well, there's no going back now," David said. "We got three days to turn back human, and there's no way out of it. We either turn back to normal... or we stay this way forever."
"Were you trying to be reassuring?" I said nervously.
"Yeah, I guess. Why?"
"Because you did a very, VERY bad job!"