Chapter 4
It had become night at Hyrule Castle, and the only ones still up were the night shift guards. Link and Mirren had quite a day, so they were very tired. They both went to their rooms and fell right asleep. Link was having pleasant dreams, but Mirren was having nightmares.
He tossed and turned in his bed sweating bullets. In his dreams he saw a huge galleon attacking Hyrule from the Sea, a giant beast assaulting Terlon Forest, and a gigantic Phoenix setting fire to the Mountains. Then he saw Ganondorf and Emralda, smiling wickedly at him.
"Kid, you defeated us once and killed us, preventing us a chance to get a piece of the Triforce" they said, "We never forget when someone does such a thing to us. These will be the punishments right now for what you've done. So unless you want Hyrule to be destroyed, I'd suggest you go and try and defeat them. And remember, this is only the first of our great plans to conquer Hyrule together and get revenge on you all those years ago. Goods luck!"
Mirren sprung up. He was scared out of his skin and was breathing heavily. Never had he ever had a dream like this one. He couldn't believe the beasts that attacked Hyrule! But the scariest thing was Ganondorf and Emralda. He felt he had seen them before. (Mirren didn't remember the battle when he was younger) He knew one thing though, Hyrule was definitely in some kind of danger, and he was determined to stop it.
The next morning Mirren told everyone about his dream. Surely enough too, Zelda had the dream also, only Ganondorf and Emralda had never appeared, just the beasts. Link found the dreams somewhat of a threat. And sure enough he was right. Kaepora Gaebora came by and told them of the creatures. He told Mirren and Link that they should go out and defeat the creatures to save Hyrule. They agreed and packed up their things. At about noon, they left, on yet another adventure. (At least for Link!)
Mirren called upon Goldfire and got on him, while Link called for Epona. They decided they'd first go to the Hyrule Sea. The Hyrule Sea was north- west of Hyrule Castle and north of Lake Hylia. It was actually said that the waterfall from Gerudo Valley came from the Hyrule Sea.
Link and Mirren traveled for a very long time before Mirren believed he was able to see it. He flew up a little higher and was then positive he had seen the Hyrule Sea.
"Yo Link!" he shouted, "we're not too far now! It's right up ahead!"
"Good spottin"!" Link yelled back, "Goldenfire is an excellent help for us!" Mirren smiled at his beautiful Golden Dragon and patted him on the head. Soon they traveled all the way over to the shore. Mirren landed perfectly and sent Goldenfire off, and Link sent Epona off. They instantly saw a huge pirate ship. They ducked in some bushes by a small glade and watched it.
"That's the ship Link" Mirren said, "The one I saw in my dream, I'm sure that's our target"
Link studied the galleon. He noticed that there were ogres on it, most definitely the pirates. "That's a start, but how do we get on it? There's no way we'll be able to swim out there and not be seen." Mirren knew Link was right, but quickly spotted a small boat on shore. It was filled with many bags of "booty" and had a flag with an ogre on it.
"We can hitch a ride on that" he said, "We can hide in one of the bags and get a one way ticket to that ship!"
"That's easy for you ta say!" snapped Link, "you're practically a midget, and you could fit in anything! There's no way I could fit in on of those bags!" Mirren glared at Link who did the same. He didn't like the whole "midget" comment but knew Link was saying what was true. He tried to think of a way Link could hide there. When he went over there to look, he found a way.
"Link, that ale barrel is huge. All we do is dump out the stuff, and you hide in there!"
Link didn't like the plan, but went along with it. It really was the only way onto the ship. As he poured the ale out, Mirren stuffed himself in a sack full of tunics.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" he said in comfort, "these clothes are comfortable." Link finally finished pouring out the ale. But as he did, he heard a couple of the pirates coming. He jumped in the boat and got in the barrel.
"Quiet now Mirren, I think the Ogre Pirates are comin' back!" he whispered. And so they were. There were two of them, big armor dressed ogres with two new prisoners. There was a Gerudo woman, and a Hyrulian Sailor. They had been captured and tied up not to mention muffled with a large cloth around their mouths. They were soon to be slaves on the Ogre Ship. The pirates threw them in the boat next to each other.
"Let's get back to the ship, I'm hungry!" said one of the Ogre Pirates. The other then pushed the boat out onto the water and began sailing back to ship. The waves were calm, so the ride wasn't that bad for Link or Mirren, but a little tight. Soon they reached the ship, and the two pirates began unloading the things on the boat. They first took the two prisoners and took them to the cells. Then they got the booty, including where Link and Mirren were hiding.
"Boy, these sacks and barrels are a lot heavier than usual!" said one of the Ogres.
"You just haven't been training enough, if you trained a little more, you wouldn't be so weak!" said the other.
"Hey! I've been trainin' a lot and workin' like a dog!" snapped the other ogre pirate, "I know when somethin's heavy!"
"Just quit ya bellyachin' and throw the stuff in the storage rooms!"
The ogre pirates then opened the doors to the storage rooms and just threw the sacks and barrels in. Everything crashed on the hard wood, including Link and Mirren. Link was able to break off the top to his barrel and get out.
"Man! Those Ogres were brutes! Ow!" he said rubbing his head. Mirren then came out from the bag of tunics he was in.
"Tell me about it, they should learn to treat their booty a little better!" he shouted. They both got up and got rid of the pains.
"Well, what do we do now?" asked Link.
"I was first thinking of an attack outside on the decks, but I think it'd be better if we'd rescue those two slaves" he answered.
"Great idea!" replied Link. They both then began searching the under parts of the ship for the cells. They had no idea where anything was, so it was quite hard. But after a good deal of looking, they found a room with the keys to the cells.
"Well, it's better than nothing" said Mirren. Link then grabbed Mirren's shoulder and held him back.
"Wait" he whispered, and pointed to two Ogre Pirates who were guarding the room.
"So what, we just attack 'em and it's over!" replied Mirren.
"No" snapped Link, "we can't let the other Ogre Pirates know we're here. We can't take 'em on all alone! But I've got an idea, come here." Mirren went over by Link as he whispered a plan into his ear.
"Are you crazy!?" exclaimed Mirren, "that'll be the biggest flop ever!"
"Come on bro" said Link with a grin, "it's bound to work. Not to mention I did your plan on the boat before!" Mirren glared at Link but soon stopped. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Why not, it really is the only plan that won't alert the others" he said, "fine." Link smiled.
"Believe me, it'll work."
The Ogre Pirates were bored. It was not a fun job to be a guard on the bottom of the ships. It was very moist, damp, smelly, and barely any light was shining in. They were soon becoming sleepy from the boredom, but when they saw a strange figure walking a little oddly into the room, they instantly became alerted and were no longer sleepy.
The fellow was about as tall as them, and wore a long brown robe. They couldn't see his face, for he was wearing a mask similar to the Skull Mask back in Hyrule.
"Hey, who are you!?" snapped one of the guards. The person paused before answering, and cleared his throat.
"I'm one of the new recruits" he answered, "The cap'n hired mi and mi men as mercenaries a couple o' days ago. He wanted mi ta get the keys for the cells."
The guards looked at the man strangely. He had a voice like theirs, but no Ogre Pirate wore a robe or a mask. Not to mention he was much thinner than them. But if he really was one of the recruits and was sent by the captain, they'd be smart to let him take the keys.
"Fine" said the one guard. The strange person nodded and walked over to the wall. He took every single key that was there off the hooks and stuffed them in his pockets. He then took out a sword and smacked one of the guards in the back of the head with the handle. He instantly was knocked out and crashed on the floor.
"Hey you!" shouted the other guard. But that was all he could get out before he too was knocked flat by the sword handle. He moaned in pain and finally fell to the floor. The strange person watched the two until he whipped off his robe and mask revealing nothing more than Link with Mirren on his shoulders. Both were smiling
"Well I'd say that went well" Link said, "and to think you actually doubted my plan."
"Come on bro, that wasn't the greatest plan ever so ya gotta cut me some slack on the whole doubting hoo ha." Mirren replied. Link looked at him strangely.
"What's- hoo ha?" he asked. Mirren scratched his head and thought for a few moments.
"Actually, I don't think it means anything, but I know I've heard it before!" he answered. Link laughed.
"Let's just forget that and get to the real task." Mirren nodded happily and jumped down.
"Okay, let's take the keys and get going, we'll do this together" Mirren explained. Link nodded and they ran off down the halls. Most cells were empty, so they kept on looking, but as they searched, they noticed that there were a few more guards around.
"Mirren, you go find the two prisoners and I'll sniper the guards off with my bow" Link whispered.
"No problem" Mirren whispered back. He then ran off down a hall where no guards were. Link silently pulled out an arrow and loaded it in his Fairy Bow. He aimed, and fired. It hit the guard in the back and killed him.
He then kept going to take out the rest. He was able to find two in the armory and got them both by firing two arrows through some holes through the wall. Next Link checked a room where a table was full of food. Sure enough, a guard was there indulging himself with food and rum. Link was about to about to fire another arrow, but then noticed he was falling asleep. He closed his eyes, and conked out. Link instead then went over to him and wrapped some cloth around his ears so he couldn't wake up from any noise. Link left the room and came to the place where you could go up on deck. He put his bow away and was going to wait for Mirren. But soon, two Ogre Pirates ransacked him. He pulled out his Hylian Shield and Master Sword and tried to fight back. But the pirates he was fighting were bigger and tougher than the others, not to mention they already knocked him flat from the sneak attack. He could only hope Mirren would come by soon for help.
Mirren had searched well. He quickly found the male prisoner in a cell by another storage room. He noticed he was sleeping, so tried to wake him up as quietly as possible.
"Hey, wake up, I'm gonna free you!" Mirren whispered. The man slowly opened his eyes and then rubbed them.
"Hey, who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Mirren, and I'm here to stop the Ogre Pirates" Mirren answered, "but first I'm here to help you and that other Gerudo to escape." The man's face light up as he ran right over to the cell door.
"Thanks so much kid, you're a lifesaver!" he said. Mirren then began using every key he to try to open up the cell. After the seventh one, he was finally able to unlock the door and let the man be free. "Wow, thanks Mirren" he said, "my name is Acro. I'm a sailor 'ere in these parts. I have a small boat that I sail on through the waters." Mirren then looked at the man. He seemed to be in his thirties. He had a soft indigo color hair that reached down to the middle of his back. He was a little taller than Link and wore a turquoise tunic with white pants.
"Alright, I just gotta go get the other prisoner and then I can get back to my brother" Mirren explained.
"I'll show ya where that Gerudo is, they tossed 'er in before me" said Acro, "Follow me!" Acro then took his weapons from one of the walls and ran down the halls as Mirren followed. He used a grappling hook, and a nice cutlass. Soon they came to the Gerudo, who didn't seem happy.
"What are ya guys doin' here!?" she shouted. Mirren gulped in fear. She looked like one, tough Gerudo! She had a long ponytail that actually reached her back! She looked a lot like Nabooru, but wore a sleeveless blue vest with red stars on it.
"I'm tryin' ta free you" he whispered nervously, "that way, me, you, this guy, and my brother can defeat those stinky Ogre Pirates." The Gerudo woman grinned.
"Sounds like fun!" she said right back. Acro and Mirren then began taking key after key in hopes they'd find the key quicker. And they did. Acro found it and let the Gerudo out.
"Thanks a lot guys, my name is Mardera" she said, "when I heard Ganondorf and Emralda had sent out Captain Gorg and the Ogre Pirates in the sea, I'd thought it'd be better if I'd leave the Gerudo Fortress to see if I could stop them."
"You mean, you don't like Ganondorf or Emralda?" Acro asked with confusion. Mardera nodded.
"Yep" she answered, "most of the Gerudos now hate him, especially with this. I've heard those two have two more attacks ready on Hyrule somewhere, but we can discuss this later, I want those pirates dead!" She grabbed her two great scimitars from the wall and put them in their scabbards. The three then began running down the halls to find Link. But Mirren feared something. Not the Ogre Pirates or Mardera anymore. But instead Ganondorf and Emralda. For some reason now, he began to remember seeing them before, very long ago. But he soon forgot that when he saw Link a bloody mess with cuts and gashes weakly fighting two huge guards.
"Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!!!!!!!!!" shouted Mirren. He whipped out his sword and jumped at the guards. He smacked one in the face with his shoulder and knocked him down. The other came at him and slashed him with his cutlass. It caught him in the arm, but he attacked right back and stabbed him in the lung area. The Ogre Pirate grunted in pain, and died. The other roared and ran at him.
"Not so fast!" shouted Acro as he threw his grappling hook. It wrapped right around the guard's throat and choked him. Mardera then rushed in and kicked him square in the stomach. It knocked all the wind out of him and made his eyes bug out. But he soon closed them and fell down. Acro got his grappling hook back as Mirren helped his brother.
"You okay Link?" he asked sounding worried. Link's blood flowed down onto Mirren's right hand as he coughed.
"Not right now" he answered, "those guards attacked me from behind, so I had a little trouble." Link coughed up more blood as Mirren pulled out a Farie from his brother's knapsack. He took off the cork and let it fly into him. In only a few seconds, all of his cuts and wounds were healed and he was perfect.
"Man! Gotta love those Faries!" Link exclaimed. Mirren smiled and got up with his brother. Mardera and Acro then walked over to them.
"Alright, now the attack" said Mardera, "what's the plan guys?"
Link got up and began explaining. "We really didn't take the time to make a plan" he answered, "but I'm trying to think of some way that we could take out a lot of them without them knowing at first." Acro knew of a way and instantly stated it.
"There's an entire line of loaded crossbows between the two flagpoles" he said, "It's sort of like a cradle. There's a string attached to all the triggers of them so all they have to do is pull one end of the string and a whole load of arrows are fired. All we have ta do is go up there, aim them correctly, have someone get their attention, and fire 'em off!"
Everyone liked the plan, and agreed that it was good. They would sneak up on deck unnoticed, and get up on the cradle to commence the attack. And that's what exactly what they did. They opened the door and looked for any pirates around. They made it up on deck and stealthily made it over to one of the ladders. Mirren went up first to knock out all guards on there. Since he was small and could conceal himself easily, he decided it'd be best for him to do it. He got up and noticed two guards. He got under a large cover and sneaked over to the guards. He took out his sword and knocked them out knocked with the handle. Everyone else came up and helped him carry the Ogre Pirates to one of the crows nest to hide them.
As Acro then began aiming the crossbows perfectly, Mardera spotted Captain Gorg for Link. "That's probably him" she said pointing a large Ogre Pirate at the back of the boat sitting on a large chair with many others around him. He was much more muscular than the others and had an eye patch on his left eye. His steel helmet was round at the top and totally flat on the bottom. On top was a sharp spike, and a white turban surrounded the bottom of his helmet.
"Wow, I can see why he's captain!" exclaimed Mirren. Mardera nodded.
"Yes, he's also the most intelligent of them all, so he's an excellent choice for those fools" she said, "We must stop them!" Link grinned.
"Don't worry Mardera, we will" he reassured.
Acro just then finished setting all the crossbows correctly. "Alright, now let's get their attention and begin this" he said. Mardera looked over to a large amount of pirates and cleared her throat.
"Hey you!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. All the Ogre Pirates looked towards her. "Yeah, you ugly idiots!!" she shouted, "Looks like we got on deck and in the cradle without you guys even noticing!!" Captain Gorg flew up from his chair. He glared at his crew.
"You idiots!" he yelled, "you let them escape and even let two new ones on board! Get theeeeeeeeeeeeeem!!!!!" The guards pulled out their weapons and charged from both sides of the cradle.
"Now Acro!" yelled Link. Acro pulled the string and let twenty crossbow arrows fly. The barrage hit the mass of pirates from one side and took out fifteen pirates. The others then began climbing the ladders in hopes they'd get up there. But Link and Mardera chopped off the ladders and knocked them into the crowds.
As they did that, Acro was taking numerous barrels, boxes, crates, and crates and was dumping them onto the Ogres. They shattered on impact and took out a couple each. Mirren was right beside him using an awesome arrow technique. He loaded up four arrows (one arrow for each space between his fingers and thumb) and shot them. Each time a scream from at least three ogres rang out and they fell and died with an arrow still in them. In fact, not even Link could perform such a great bow and arrow technique!
This assault went on for a little while before they all jumped down and began fighting hand to hand. Acro attacked with his grappling hook and cutlass, Link fought with the Master Sword and his Hylian Shield, Mardera assaulted them with her twin scimitars, while Mirren battled with his nice broadsword. It may have been thirty Ogre Pirates against four warriors, but Mirren and company did just fine.
Captain Gorg watched everything from his chair and was absolutely disgusted with his crew. They were losing to only four warriors! He soon became just too angry and pulled out his awesome scimitar. It had a steel handle like a normal scimitar, but the blade was not a normal one. It was the tooth of a sea serpent that Captain Gorg had killed many years ago. He sharpened the sides so it made a perfect blade, and a terrifying one. He ran into the battle and attacked Mardera from behind. Mirren had noticed him, but not in time.
"Mardera, look out!" he yelled. She tried to turn around, but felt Captain Gorg's blade slice her left shoulder before. She screamed and was sent flying. She smacked against the ground as Acro, Link, and Mirren ran over to her.
"Mardera, are you all right?" Acro asked as Link knelt down behind her and held her. She didn't say anything, she just quietly moaned in pain. Link noticed the cut.
"It's deep, and very bloody" he said. He then turned to Captain Gorg, who was actually smiling. Link's eyes narrowed. "You fool!" he exclaimed, "attacking a woman like that! You have no integrity whatsoever so stupid ogre!!!" Captain Gorg still smiled.
"Well, if you think I deserve a little punishment how 'bout a duel?" he asked, "you win; me and my crew'll leave Hyrule. But if I win, I get to keep you as my slaves!" Link's eyes were still narrow.
"Mirren, hold Mardera" he demanded. Mirren immediately ran over to Mardera and held her up. Link stood up and glared at Captain Gorg and pulled out the Master Sword and his shield.
"You're on" he said. Captain Gorg grinned and lunged at Link. Link did the same and soon they were in a great fight. All the Ogre Pirates cheered for Captain Gorg as he attacked Link with his serpent tooth scimitar.
"Mirren, stay with Mardera" said Acro, "In case something happens in that fight, I wanna be ready at all times ta jump in and help your brother." Mirren simply nodded. He looked at Mardera, who seemed to be in an extraordinary amount of pain. He then remembered the Lon Lon Milk he won at the ranch the other day!
He pulled out the bottle from his knapsack and helped Mardera drink half of it. She drank the fresh, delicious milk and soon opened her eyes fully. It was like she'd never been hurt at all. "Wow!' she exclaimed, "that milk was incredible! I feel perfect, thanks Mirren! Mirren smiled at her.
"What can I say?" he replied, "My motto has always been help my friends the best I can!" Mardera then smiled back at Mirren. She liked him a real lot. She thought he was nice, brave, and very mature for his age. He made her remember her young days, the best of her life. She now knew she had an ally, and a friend for life. Mirren helped her up as everyone watched the battle between Link and Captain Gorg.
It was very intense. Captain Gorg attacked like a beast, and Link fought back the same way. They screamed at each other and slashed with their mighty blades. And even though the battle was incredible, no one had gotten a single hit in yet. Every time Captain Gorg went for an attack, Link blocked it with one of his weapons. And whenever Link attacked, Captain Gorg found some way to block it. The stand off raged on for a few minutes before one of the fighters finally got a hit it. Captain Gorg went for an awesome downward slash. But Link blocked it and smacked his arm away for a minute to do an intense slice with the Master Sword to Gorg's unprotected left cheek. The blade cut right through and knocked Captain Gorg sideways. A glob of blood flew from Captain Gorg's face and landed by his crew, who were just shocked. Captain Gorg knelt there breathing heavily holding his bloody cheek. Link gritted his teeth and ran over to him for another attack. But Captain Gorg got up and kicked him square in the chest.
Link yelled in pain and flew all the way over to Acro. He landed against the floor and created a loud smack. Acro instantly helped him up and got him stabilized.
"Thanks Acro, I needed that" said Link rubbing the back of his head.
"No problem my friend" replied Acro," "just kill this fool for me" Link nodded and turned to Captain Gorg, who was waiting for a charge from Link. He did, and ran with the Master Sword and his shield in hand ready to fight. He jumped towards Captain Gorg ready for a jump slash. Captain Gorg had this planned and went for another downward slash. It was about to chop Link in half, but he fell right by Captain Gorg's outstretched legs and rolled under him. Captain Gorg couldn't believe the maneuver and tried to turn around to attack back. But Link drove his sword deep into his side before he could.
He roared in pain like no other thing Mirren or Link had ever heard. The sound of screaming echoed throughout the entire sea, freezing whoever it came by in fear. Link finally pulled out the Master Sword, revealing the bloodiest gash he had even seen. Mirren's jaw hung down in shock, while Mardera and Acro almost turned away in disgust. The blood streamed down his leg as he knelt on the ground still screaming in pain. But Link had no sympathy for him.
"Get up ya fool!" he shouted, "I thought you said you were so tough! You're pathetic!!!" Captain Gorg heard the insults and slowly got up. He grabbed his blade, and swung around in hopes he'd hit Link. But he did a back flip and pulled out the Fairy Bow. Link loaded up one arrow and fired it. It shot right into the bottom of Captain Gorg's unprotected right shoulder. He screamed again in pain as Link shot one more into the other shoulder. Gorg grabbed both shoulders and howled in agony. He fell to the ground gushing blood from four different places. Link's expression still showed no shock or sorrow. He put away the Fairy Bow and advanced over to Captain Gorg. He stood right over him as the pool of blood grew around Captain Gorg.
"You are in no position to fight any longer" Link said dominantly, "I'll let you leave now with your life. Make the decision; leave; or die." All the Ogre Pirates stood in shock waiting for their captain's response.
"Would he really surrender?" they all thought. Link still waited for an answer before Captain Gorg finally lifted his head up.
"Well?" asked Link demanding, "Leave, or die?" Gorg smiled wickedly.
"Neither" he answered. Captain Gorg then grabbed his scimitar and slammed it into Link's stomach. Link didn't even scream, he just gasped in agony and pain as his face went pale.
"Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Mirren at the top of his lungs. His eyes began filling with tears as Link fell to ground. But soon, they dried up, and rage literally enveloped him. He pulled out his sword and charged at Captain Gorg. He screamed like no other warrior and pulled his sword back ready for an attack. Gorg turned around and saw the kid. Everything was happening too fast for him, and he wasn't able to block Mirren's attack. He did a cut right across Captain Gorg's right leg and sliced it down to the bone.
Even with the hideous roar of pain from Captain Gorg, Mirren could hear his sword cut right through his bone, so in fact, it went deeper than thought. Captain Gorg instantly collapsed and crashed on the ground holding his leg and howling in pain. Mirren could see he injured Gorg enough, and ran over to help his brother. But the Ogre Pirates were angry with Mirren, and charged at him. Three of the pirates went in for an attack. But Mirren saw them coming and in three quick flashes of his sword, they laid dead. The other pirates gasped and back off as Mirren glared at them. He knelt down besides Link as Acro and Mardera came over to help.
"Here, I'll lift him up for you Mirren" said Acro. He got behind Link and lifted him slightly up.
"Mirren, use the rest of that Lon Lon Milk you used on me for my injury" explained Mardera. Mirren did as she said and took out the half full bottle. Acro lifted Link's head up as Mirren helped him drink the milk. After a moment, Link's eyes opened and he was on his feet alone.
"Phew! Thank God for that Lon Lon Milk!" Link exclaimed. Everyone stood up and watched as Captain Gorg began getting up. He was moving very slowly due the massive amount of pain he was feeling. Everyone glared at him as suddenly one of the look out's yelled out a message.
"Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea Serpeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnt!!!!!!!!!!!!" he shouted. Everyone gasped and went into complete panic. The entire crew of Ogre Pirates was running around yelling in fear. It was bad enough a serpent was coming, not to mention they were in no condition to defend the ship.
"Whata we do Link?" asked Mardera. Link tried to think of some plan, but with all the Ogre Pirates screaming and running around, he couldn't think of a plan. He had never really dealt with Sea Serpents before, so this wasn't really an easy situation for him. He then noticed a small rowboat that they could escape in.
"Guys, lets go in that boat and beat it!" he yelled pointing to it. Everyone then began running before a scimitar flew right by Mirren's face and almost sliced it. Everyone (besides Mirren who was literally frozen in shock) looked towards who threw it; it was Captain Gorg.
"My God!" exclaimed Acro, "You just don't know when the heck ta quit do you!!!???" Captain Gorg didn't grin at the anger of Acro; he was just about as angry himself, only worse.
"Because of you fools, my crew is gone, I'm gonna die of blood loss in about an hour, and my ship is gonna be destroyed by a stinkin' sea serpent!" he shouted back, "but I swear it by my own blood, I'm gonna kill at least one of ya before I die!!!" He waved his fist in anger as he spoke and suddenly realized the mist of water he was feeling and a large shadow growing around him. He saw Link and all the others faces of fear and shock as he felt a cold sensation shiver down his spine. He looked up and saw a huge dark orange sea serpent begin to come down for his kill. He screamed in terror as he lived his last seconds.
The serpent brought his mouth full of sharp, sword-like teeth down on the area where Captain Gorg stood and got a mouthful. When he knew Captain Gorg was dead inside his mouth, he lifted himself into the air and swallowed everything he had in its mouth, including Captain Gorg.
Link, Mardera, Acro, and Mirren still stood with bugged out eyes and faces of shock. Everyone couldn't believe what they had just seen, it was totally disturbing.
"I.... I think I'm blind!" said Mirren. As that happened, all the Ogre Pirates were jumping overboard in hopes they'd escape the sea serpent. But the serpent noticed them and dove under water. Link and the others all watched as the serpent gobbled up every single pirate one by one. After minutes of seeing it, the serpent had eaten every surviving Ogre Pirate. He rose once again from the water and looked at Link, Mirren, Mardera, and Acro. He was very intimidating. In fact, not one of them took the chance to notice his characteristics. He was a very long, dark orange serpent with ruby red eyes and three sharp, pointy horns coming from the back of head. They actually almost seemed like a protective shield or helmet for him, and his head and face somewhat resembled that of a monitor. But whatever he looked like, everyone pulled out their weapons and got in their battle stances. Sure they still scared, but they knew if they wanted to live, they'd have to kill the sea serpent.
"You guys ready?" asked Link. Everyone nodded.
"Alright, let's do this" he said. The serpent suddenly lunged at the ship and tore another chunk off. Everyone had luckily jumped away and evaded the attack. The serpent spit all the planks and splinters from his mouth and glared at them.
"Let's go bro" said Mirren. Link nodded and the two both charged at the serpent. It looked at the two charging fighters and once again lunged at them. Link and Mirren jumped away once again and they both did jumping slashes. Their swords tore through the serpent's skin and made him roar in pain. His tail whipped around the ship and destroyed the cradle. All the broken parts came crashing down as the serpent attacked Link with his tail.
It wrapped around his body and made him drop his weapons. It applied quite a lot of pressure and crushed the life out of him. Link screamed in pain and fought his hardest to escape. It crushed his stomach, and it made him hard to breathe. But after a few moments of it, he realized a Hylian could not overpower a serpent one bit. He began to lose consciousness before Mardera charged at him and jumped in the air. She came right by the end of the tail and sliced it off with one of her scimitars. Link fell to the ground as the remaining tail on him uncoiled. The serpent roared in pain then dove under the water. A trail of blood was left by him due to his bloody stump for an end of a tail. Everyone ran over to Link to make sure he was alright. He coughed a little a shook his head to get rid of the stars.
"Don't worry 'bout me guys, I'm fine! Worry about the serpent!" he said. Everyone sighed with relief as the serpent came crashing right through the ship. He erupted directly through it and lunged for the third time. This time he came very close to getting Link, but everyone managed to escape. The serpent crashed in the water and made a great mist. He rose right back up and roared at the four fighters.
Mirren pulled out his bow and arrow and loaded up three arrows at one. He aimed vertically and pulled the arrows back. "Ahhhh shut up ya annoying serpent!" he yelled and shot the three arrows. They rocketed through the air and struck the serpent in the upper body. He howled in rage and pain and created a huge wave that hit the ship and Mirren too. The huge amount of water struck him head on and carried him all the way over to the middle of the ship where some barrels were. He crashed right into it and lay there for a few moments before getting up.
"You stupid serpent!" he yelled waving his fist, "I didn't want a bath!!" The serpent roared at Mirren and the others as Acro began spinning his grappling hook in the air above his head.
"Try and roar with this on ya!!" he yelled and threw the grappling hook. It spiraled through the air and wrapped right around the mouth of the serpent. The hooks dug deep into his skin and made it even harder for him to get it off. Acro knew he'd soon be overpowered though by the serpent, so he ran over to one of the tall poles and wrapped it around that.
"There we go, he'll never be able ta pull the whole ship!" he said sounding triumphant. But Acro was wrong. The serpent pulled with all it's might and began rocking the ship back and fourth, sending everyone rolling around the ship.
"Acro, it's too strong! Untie the grappling hook now!" shouted Link. Acro quickly untied it and pulled with all of his strength. The hooks ripped through the serpent's skin and came off; leaving three bloody cuts. The beast was getting incredibly angry now. He charged at Acro and gave him a savage head butt that knocked him into the outside of one of the cabins. The force of both hits was greatly powerful, so Acro was knocked out cold.
The serpent stood over the body of Acro and was about to get his second meal. His blood dripped from the top of his mouth all the way down to Acro. The blood hit his tunic, and stained it red. The serpent was about to swallow him whole, before he heard a strange sound. The serpent turned around to see Mirren playing his ocarina. He looked at Mirren in a flabbergasted way for a few moments. Once Mirren finished, he grinned and a familiar roar was heard. There was a great golden shine in the sky, and soon Goldenfire flew down right by Mirren.
The huge golden dragon glared at the serpent as Mardera stood by Link with her mouth wide open. She couldn't believe it. "No way, is that dragon, his friend?" she asked sounding shocked. Link smiled and nodded.
"Yep" he answered, "quite a kid isn't he?" Goldenfire and the serpent still stared at each other before Mirren gave Goldenfire a command.
"Goldenfire, attack that serpent!" he yelled pointing to it. Goldenfire bellowed his roar and flew at the serpent. He lunged at it and grabbed him by the neck with his two huge claws as he stood on his hind legs. He choked the life out of the serpent for a few moments before the serpent began to coil around his body. Goldenfire only noticed this when it was too late. The serpent had wrapped itself around his body and tripped him. Goldenfire lost his grip and roared in rage. The serpent dove at him and bit onto his neck. Goldenfire roared in pain and tried to get him off. Unfortunately though, the serpent's grip was very tight, and was almost impossible to get off. As he still bit onto Goldenfire then, he began to apply immense pressure as he constricted about the dragon's body and squeezed away. Goldenfire began to cry out in agony, and struggled to escape. It seemed that he was coming to no avail though, as the serpent's grip was stronger than ever.
But Goldenfire was incredibly powerful, and instead grabbed him by the inside of his mouth and slowly pulled him off. With the serpent off his bloodied neck, Goldenfire then began wrenching the serpent's mouth open. He pushed and pushed with all his might, as Mirren and the others stood watching in confusion.
"What's he doing?" asked Mardera. Even Mirren had no clue. He watched and watched, and noticed blood beginning to come out from the serpent's mouth. It flowed out like a stream, and even tough he was feeling a little sick at that point, he finally knew what Goldenfire was doing.
"He's trying ta snap his jaw" he said. Everyone looked totally repulsed as more blood came out.
"Well, he's sure doin' a good job of it!" exclaimed Mardera. As the serpent slowly began dieing, he thrashed his tail around in hopes he'd escape.
"Look out!" shouted Link. The tail zoomed by as Link and Mirren jumped away, but Mardera wasn't so lucky. It hit her head on, and knocked her into the ocean.
"Marderaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" yelled Link. He saw her bobbing up and down in the water unconscious and knew he had to help her. "Mirren, stay on the ship and tell Goldenfire what ta do, I'm gonna go save Mardera!" he said. Mirren nodded.
"No problem bro!" he said. Link then dove into the water and swam as fast as he could. The waves smacked against him, but he kept on going. Soon he got to Mardera's body and got her. He then began swimming back.
Back on the ship Goldenfire stopped applying the pressure and let go of the serpent. The serpent staggered and didn't make a sound. His mouth was full of blood and was dripping onto the ship. Acro suddenly woke up and saw the serpent the way it was, not to mention Goldenfire.
"My God!" he yelled, "the serpent! It's practically dead! Hey Mirren, who's that dragon!?"
"It's one of my old buddies!" Mirren answered, "now get outta there, he's gonna finish it off!" Acro immediately ran over to Mirren. "Alright Goldenfire, use your fireball!" Goldenfire obeyed the command and shot out a golden fireball from his mouth. It struck the serpent right in the face and burnt him badly. The serpent let out one last roar and collapsed to the ground dead.
Mirren and Acro watched as the serpent lay dead with blood still coming from his burnt mouth and face. Goldenfire was now roaring in victory. His loud, deep roars echoed through the sea, showing he was the victor today. As they watched him, Link came up on the ship carrying Mardera, who was still unconscious.
"What in the world happened!?" exclaimed Acro. Link set her down and breathed heavily.
"The serpent one time hit her with his tail and knocked her into the ocean, so I had ta get her" he answered. Acro still looked at her.
"Will she be all right?" he asked again. Link nodded as he gave her a little CPR to get the water out of her throat and mouth.
"She should be, she really doesn't need much" he answered, "She'll be fine." Everyone sighed with relief as they felt the boat moving strangely. They all looked out to the sea and noticed it was sinking.
"Time to go!" said Mirren, "Goldenfire!" The golden dragon flew over to him as Mirren got on his back. "Come on guys, we can ride Goldenfire to the shore, I'll ride like this. Link and you Acro can hold onto his wings, and he'll carry Mardera." Link and Acro looked at each other for a moment and soon shrugged.
"What the heck!?" they said to each other. With that Link and Acro got on Goldenfire's wings and got a tight grip, while Goldenfire grabbed Mardera and held her in his huge claws. He then took flight into the air and began flying over the sea to the shore. Mirren looked back as the ship and the serpent finally submerged into the sea. He turned back and smiled.
"What an adventure!" he said to himself in his head.
It had become night at Hyrule Castle, and the only ones still up were the night shift guards. Link and Mirren had quite a day, so they were very tired. They both went to their rooms and fell right asleep. Link was having pleasant dreams, but Mirren was having nightmares.
He tossed and turned in his bed sweating bullets. In his dreams he saw a huge galleon attacking Hyrule from the Sea, a giant beast assaulting Terlon Forest, and a gigantic Phoenix setting fire to the Mountains. Then he saw Ganondorf and Emralda, smiling wickedly at him.
"Kid, you defeated us once and killed us, preventing us a chance to get a piece of the Triforce" they said, "We never forget when someone does such a thing to us. These will be the punishments right now for what you've done. So unless you want Hyrule to be destroyed, I'd suggest you go and try and defeat them. And remember, this is only the first of our great plans to conquer Hyrule together and get revenge on you all those years ago. Goods luck!"
Mirren sprung up. He was scared out of his skin and was breathing heavily. Never had he ever had a dream like this one. He couldn't believe the beasts that attacked Hyrule! But the scariest thing was Ganondorf and Emralda. He felt he had seen them before. (Mirren didn't remember the battle when he was younger) He knew one thing though, Hyrule was definitely in some kind of danger, and he was determined to stop it.
The next morning Mirren told everyone about his dream. Surely enough too, Zelda had the dream also, only Ganondorf and Emralda had never appeared, just the beasts. Link found the dreams somewhat of a threat. And sure enough he was right. Kaepora Gaebora came by and told them of the creatures. He told Mirren and Link that they should go out and defeat the creatures to save Hyrule. They agreed and packed up their things. At about noon, they left, on yet another adventure. (At least for Link!)
Mirren called upon Goldfire and got on him, while Link called for Epona. They decided they'd first go to the Hyrule Sea. The Hyrule Sea was north- west of Hyrule Castle and north of Lake Hylia. It was actually said that the waterfall from Gerudo Valley came from the Hyrule Sea.
Link and Mirren traveled for a very long time before Mirren believed he was able to see it. He flew up a little higher and was then positive he had seen the Hyrule Sea.
"Yo Link!" he shouted, "we're not too far now! It's right up ahead!"
"Good spottin"!" Link yelled back, "Goldenfire is an excellent help for us!" Mirren smiled at his beautiful Golden Dragon and patted him on the head. Soon they traveled all the way over to the shore. Mirren landed perfectly and sent Goldenfire off, and Link sent Epona off. They instantly saw a huge pirate ship. They ducked in some bushes by a small glade and watched it.
"That's the ship Link" Mirren said, "The one I saw in my dream, I'm sure that's our target"
Link studied the galleon. He noticed that there were ogres on it, most definitely the pirates. "That's a start, but how do we get on it? There's no way we'll be able to swim out there and not be seen." Mirren knew Link was right, but quickly spotted a small boat on shore. It was filled with many bags of "booty" and had a flag with an ogre on it.
"We can hitch a ride on that" he said, "We can hide in one of the bags and get a one way ticket to that ship!"
"That's easy for you ta say!" snapped Link, "you're practically a midget, and you could fit in anything! There's no way I could fit in on of those bags!" Mirren glared at Link who did the same. He didn't like the whole "midget" comment but knew Link was saying what was true. He tried to think of a way Link could hide there. When he went over there to look, he found a way.
"Link, that ale barrel is huge. All we do is dump out the stuff, and you hide in there!"
Link didn't like the plan, but went along with it. It really was the only way onto the ship. As he poured the ale out, Mirren stuffed himself in a sack full of tunics.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" he said in comfort, "these clothes are comfortable." Link finally finished pouring out the ale. But as he did, he heard a couple of the pirates coming. He jumped in the boat and got in the barrel.
"Quiet now Mirren, I think the Ogre Pirates are comin' back!" he whispered. And so they were. There were two of them, big armor dressed ogres with two new prisoners. There was a Gerudo woman, and a Hyrulian Sailor. They had been captured and tied up not to mention muffled with a large cloth around their mouths. They were soon to be slaves on the Ogre Ship. The pirates threw them in the boat next to each other.
"Let's get back to the ship, I'm hungry!" said one of the Ogre Pirates. The other then pushed the boat out onto the water and began sailing back to ship. The waves were calm, so the ride wasn't that bad for Link or Mirren, but a little tight. Soon they reached the ship, and the two pirates began unloading the things on the boat. They first took the two prisoners and took them to the cells. Then they got the booty, including where Link and Mirren were hiding.
"Boy, these sacks and barrels are a lot heavier than usual!" said one of the Ogres.
"You just haven't been training enough, if you trained a little more, you wouldn't be so weak!" said the other.
"Hey! I've been trainin' a lot and workin' like a dog!" snapped the other ogre pirate, "I know when somethin's heavy!"
"Just quit ya bellyachin' and throw the stuff in the storage rooms!"
The ogre pirates then opened the doors to the storage rooms and just threw the sacks and barrels in. Everything crashed on the hard wood, including Link and Mirren. Link was able to break off the top to his barrel and get out.
"Man! Those Ogres were brutes! Ow!" he said rubbing his head. Mirren then came out from the bag of tunics he was in.
"Tell me about it, they should learn to treat their booty a little better!" he shouted. They both got up and got rid of the pains.
"Well, what do we do now?" asked Link.
"I was first thinking of an attack outside on the decks, but I think it'd be better if we'd rescue those two slaves" he answered.
"Great idea!" replied Link. They both then began searching the under parts of the ship for the cells. They had no idea where anything was, so it was quite hard. But after a good deal of looking, they found a room with the keys to the cells.
"Well, it's better than nothing" said Mirren. Link then grabbed Mirren's shoulder and held him back.
"Wait" he whispered, and pointed to two Ogre Pirates who were guarding the room.
"So what, we just attack 'em and it's over!" replied Mirren.
"No" snapped Link, "we can't let the other Ogre Pirates know we're here. We can't take 'em on all alone! But I've got an idea, come here." Mirren went over by Link as he whispered a plan into his ear.
"Are you crazy!?" exclaimed Mirren, "that'll be the biggest flop ever!"
"Come on bro" said Link with a grin, "it's bound to work. Not to mention I did your plan on the boat before!" Mirren glared at Link but soon stopped. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Why not, it really is the only plan that won't alert the others" he said, "fine." Link smiled.
"Believe me, it'll work."
The Ogre Pirates were bored. It was not a fun job to be a guard on the bottom of the ships. It was very moist, damp, smelly, and barely any light was shining in. They were soon becoming sleepy from the boredom, but when they saw a strange figure walking a little oddly into the room, they instantly became alerted and were no longer sleepy.
The fellow was about as tall as them, and wore a long brown robe. They couldn't see his face, for he was wearing a mask similar to the Skull Mask back in Hyrule.
"Hey, who are you!?" snapped one of the guards. The person paused before answering, and cleared his throat.
"I'm one of the new recruits" he answered, "The cap'n hired mi and mi men as mercenaries a couple o' days ago. He wanted mi ta get the keys for the cells."
The guards looked at the man strangely. He had a voice like theirs, but no Ogre Pirate wore a robe or a mask. Not to mention he was much thinner than them. But if he really was one of the recruits and was sent by the captain, they'd be smart to let him take the keys.
"Fine" said the one guard. The strange person nodded and walked over to the wall. He took every single key that was there off the hooks and stuffed them in his pockets. He then took out a sword and smacked one of the guards in the back of the head with the handle. He instantly was knocked out and crashed on the floor.
"Hey you!" shouted the other guard. But that was all he could get out before he too was knocked flat by the sword handle. He moaned in pain and finally fell to the floor. The strange person watched the two until he whipped off his robe and mask revealing nothing more than Link with Mirren on his shoulders. Both were smiling
"Well I'd say that went well" Link said, "and to think you actually doubted my plan."
"Come on bro, that wasn't the greatest plan ever so ya gotta cut me some slack on the whole doubting hoo ha." Mirren replied. Link looked at him strangely.
"What's- hoo ha?" he asked. Mirren scratched his head and thought for a few moments.
"Actually, I don't think it means anything, but I know I've heard it before!" he answered. Link laughed.
"Let's just forget that and get to the real task." Mirren nodded happily and jumped down.
"Okay, let's take the keys and get going, we'll do this together" Mirren explained. Link nodded and they ran off down the halls. Most cells were empty, so they kept on looking, but as they searched, they noticed that there were a few more guards around.
"Mirren, you go find the two prisoners and I'll sniper the guards off with my bow" Link whispered.
"No problem" Mirren whispered back. He then ran off down a hall where no guards were. Link silently pulled out an arrow and loaded it in his Fairy Bow. He aimed, and fired. It hit the guard in the back and killed him.
He then kept going to take out the rest. He was able to find two in the armory and got them both by firing two arrows through some holes through the wall. Next Link checked a room where a table was full of food. Sure enough, a guard was there indulging himself with food and rum. Link was about to about to fire another arrow, but then noticed he was falling asleep. He closed his eyes, and conked out. Link instead then went over to him and wrapped some cloth around his ears so he couldn't wake up from any noise. Link left the room and came to the place where you could go up on deck. He put his bow away and was going to wait for Mirren. But soon, two Ogre Pirates ransacked him. He pulled out his Hylian Shield and Master Sword and tried to fight back. But the pirates he was fighting were bigger and tougher than the others, not to mention they already knocked him flat from the sneak attack. He could only hope Mirren would come by soon for help.
Mirren had searched well. He quickly found the male prisoner in a cell by another storage room. He noticed he was sleeping, so tried to wake him up as quietly as possible.
"Hey, wake up, I'm gonna free you!" Mirren whispered. The man slowly opened his eyes and then rubbed them.
"Hey, who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Mirren, and I'm here to stop the Ogre Pirates" Mirren answered, "but first I'm here to help you and that other Gerudo to escape." The man's face light up as he ran right over to the cell door.
"Thanks so much kid, you're a lifesaver!" he said. Mirren then began using every key he to try to open up the cell. After the seventh one, he was finally able to unlock the door and let the man be free. "Wow, thanks Mirren" he said, "my name is Acro. I'm a sailor 'ere in these parts. I have a small boat that I sail on through the waters." Mirren then looked at the man. He seemed to be in his thirties. He had a soft indigo color hair that reached down to the middle of his back. He was a little taller than Link and wore a turquoise tunic with white pants.
"Alright, I just gotta go get the other prisoner and then I can get back to my brother" Mirren explained.
"I'll show ya where that Gerudo is, they tossed 'er in before me" said Acro, "Follow me!" Acro then took his weapons from one of the walls and ran down the halls as Mirren followed. He used a grappling hook, and a nice cutlass. Soon they came to the Gerudo, who didn't seem happy.
"What are ya guys doin' here!?" she shouted. Mirren gulped in fear. She looked like one, tough Gerudo! She had a long ponytail that actually reached her back! She looked a lot like Nabooru, but wore a sleeveless blue vest with red stars on it.
"I'm tryin' ta free you" he whispered nervously, "that way, me, you, this guy, and my brother can defeat those stinky Ogre Pirates." The Gerudo woman grinned.
"Sounds like fun!" she said right back. Acro and Mirren then began taking key after key in hopes they'd find the key quicker. And they did. Acro found it and let the Gerudo out.
"Thanks a lot guys, my name is Mardera" she said, "when I heard Ganondorf and Emralda had sent out Captain Gorg and the Ogre Pirates in the sea, I'd thought it'd be better if I'd leave the Gerudo Fortress to see if I could stop them."
"You mean, you don't like Ganondorf or Emralda?" Acro asked with confusion. Mardera nodded.
"Yep" she answered, "most of the Gerudos now hate him, especially with this. I've heard those two have two more attacks ready on Hyrule somewhere, but we can discuss this later, I want those pirates dead!" She grabbed her two great scimitars from the wall and put them in their scabbards. The three then began running down the halls to find Link. But Mirren feared something. Not the Ogre Pirates or Mardera anymore. But instead Ganondorf and Emralda. For some reason now, he began to remember seeing them before, very long ago. But he soon forgot that when he saw Link a bloody mess with cuts and gashes weakly fighting two huge guards.
"Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!!!!!!!!!" shouted Mirren. He whipped out his sword and jumped at the guards. He smacked one in the face with his shoulder and knocked him down. The other came at him and slashed him with his cutlass. It caught him in the arm, but he attacked right back and stabbed him in the lung area. The Ogre Pirate grunted in pain, and died. The other roared and ran at him.
"Not so fast!" shouted Acro as he threw his grappling hook. It wrapped right around the guard's throat and choked him. Mardera then rushed in and kicked him square in the stomach. It knocked all the wind out of him and made his eyes bug out. But he soon closed them and fell down. Acro got his grappling hook back as Mirren helped his brother.
"You okay Link?" he asked sounding worried. Link's blood flowed down onto Mirren's right hand as he coughed.
"Not right now" he answered, "those guards attacked me from behind, so I had a little trouble." Link coughed up more blood as Mirren pulled out a Farie from his brother's knapsack. He took off the cork and let it fly into him. In only a few seconds, all of his cuts and wounds were healed and he was perfect.
"Man! Gotta love those Faries!" Link exclaimed. Mirren smiled and got up with his brother. Mardera and Acro then walked over to them.
"Alright, now the attack" said Mardera, "what's the plan guys?"
Link got up and began explaining. "We really didn't take the time to make a plan" he answered, "but I'm trying to think of some way that we could take out a lot of them without them knowing at first." Acro knew of a way and instantly stated it.
"There's an entire line of loaded crossbows between the two flagpoles" he said, "It's sort of like a cradle. There's a string attached to all the triggers of them so all they have to do is pull one end of the string and a whole load of arrows are fired. All we have ta do is go up there, aim them correctly, have someone get their attention, and fire 'em off!"
Everyone liked the plan, and agreed that it was good. They would sneak up on deck unnoticed, and get up on the cradle to commence the attack. And that's what exactly what they did. They opened the door and looked for any pirates around. They made it up on deck and stealthily made it over to one of the ladders. Mirren went up first to knock out all guards on there. Since he was small and could conceal himself easily, he decided it'd be best for him to do it. He got up and noticed two guards. He got under a large cover and sneaked over to the guards. He took out his sword and knocked them out knocked with the handle. Everyone else came up and helped him carry the Ogre Pirates to one of the crows nest to hide them.
As Acro then began aiming the crossbows perfectly, Mardera spotted Captain Gorg for Link. "That's probably him" she said pointing a large Ogre Pirate at the back of the boat sitting on a large chair with many others around him. He was much more muscular than the others and had an eye patch on his left eye. His steel helmet was round at the top and totally flat on the bottom. On top was a sharp spike, and a white turban surrounded the bottom of his helmet.
"Wow, I can see why he's captain!" exclaimed Mirren. Mardera nodded.
"Yes, he's also the most intelligent of them all, so he's an excellent choice for those fools" she said, "We must stop them!" Link grinned.
"Don't worry Mardera, we will" he reassured.
Acro just then finished setting all the crossbows correctly. "Alright, now let's get their attention and begin this" he said. Mardera looked over to a large amount of pirates and cleared her throat.
"Hey you!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. All the Ogre Pirates looked towards her. "Yeah, you ugly idiots!!" she shouted, "Looks like we got on deck and in the cradle without you guys even noticing!!" Captain Gorg flew up from his chair. He glared at his crew.
"You idiots!" he yelled, "you let them escape and even let two new ones on board! Get theeeeeeeeeeeeeem!!!!!" The guards pulled out their weapons and charged from both sides of the cradle.
"Now Acro!" yelled Link. Acro pulled the string and let twenty crossbow arrows fly. The barrage hit the mass of pirates from one side and took out fifteen pirates. The others then began climbing the ladders in hopes they'd get up there. But Link and Mardera chopped off the ladders and knocked them into the crowds.
As they did that, Acro was taking numerous barrels, boxes, crates, and crates and was dumping them onto the Ogres. They shattered on impact and took out a couple each. Mirren was right beside him using an awesome arrow technique. He loaded up four arrows (one arrow for each space between his fingers and thumb) and shot them. Each time a scream from at least three ogres rang out and they fell and died with an arrow still in them. In fact, not even Link could perform such a great bow and arrow technique!
This assault went on for a little while before they all jumped down and began fighting hand to hand. Acro attacked with his grappling hook and cutlass, Link fought with the Master Sword and his Hylian Shield, Mardera assaulted them with her twin scimitars, while Mirren battled with his nice broadsword. It may have been thirty Ogre Pirates against four warriors, but Mirren and company did just fine.
Captain Gorg watched everything from his chair and was absolutely disgusted with his crew. They were losing to only four warriors! He soon became just too angry and pulled out his awesome scimitar. It had a steel handle like a normal scimitar, but the blade was not a normal one. It was the tooth of a sea serpent that Captain Gorg had killed many years ago. He sharpened the sides so it made a perfect blade, and a terrifying one. He ran into the battle and attacked Mardera from behind. Mirren had noticed him, but not in time.
"Mardera, look out!" he yelled. She tried to turn around, but felt Captain Gorg's blade slice her left shoulder before. She screamed and was sent flying. She smacked against the ground as Acro, Link, and Mirren ran over to her.
"Mardera, are you all right?" Acro asked as Link knelt down behind her and held her. She didn't say anything, she just quietly moaned in pain. Link noticed the cut.
"It's deep, and very bloody" he said. He then turned to Captain Gorg, who was actually smiling. Link's eyes narrowed. "You fool!" he exclaimed, "attacking a woman like that! You have no integrity whatsoever so stupid ogre!!!" Captain Gorg still smiled.
"Well, if you think I deserve a little punishment how 'bout a duel?" he asked, "you win; me and my crew'll leave Hyrule. But if I win, I get to keep you as my slaves!" Link's eyes were still narrow.
"Mirren, hold Mardera" he demanded. Mirren immediately ran over to Mardera and held her up. Link stood up and glared at Captain Gorg and pulled out the Master Sword and his shield.
"You're on" he said. Captain Gorg grinned and lunged at Link. Link did the same and soon they were in a great fight. All the Ogre Pirates cheered for Captain Gorg as he attacked Link with his serpent tooth scimitar.
"Mirren, stay with Mardera" said Acro, "In case something happens in that fight, I wanna be ready at all times ta jump in and help your brother." Mirren simply nodded. He looked at Mardera, who seemed to be in an extraordinary amount of pain. He then remembered the Lon Lon Milk he won at the ranch the other day!
He pulled out the bottle from his knapsack and helped Mardera drink half of it. She drank the fresh, delicious milk and soon opened her eyes fully. It was like she'd never been hurt at all. "Wow!' she exclaimed, "that milk was incredible! I feel perfect, thanks Mirren! Mirren smiled at her.
"What can I say?" he replied, "My motto has always been help my friends the best I can!" Mardera then smiled back at Mirren. She liked him a real lot. She thought he was nice, brave, and very mature for his age. He made her remember her young days, the best of her life. She now knew she had an ally, and a friend for life. Mirren helped her up as everyone watched the battle between Link and Captain Gorg.
It was very intense. Captain Gorg attacked like a beast, and Link fought back the same way. They screamed at each other and slashed with their mighty blades. And even though the battle was incredible, no one had gotten a single hit in yet. Every time Captain Gorg went for an attack, Link blocked it with one of his weapons. And whenever Link attacked, Captain Gorg found some way to block it. The stand off raged on for a few minutes before one of the fighters finally got a hit it. Captain Gorg went for an awesome downward slash. But Link blocked it and smacked his arm away for a minute to do an intense slice with the Master Sword to Gorg's unprotected left cheek. The blade cut right through and knocked Captain Gorg sideways. A glob of blood flew from Captain Gorg's face and landed by his crew, who were just shocked. Captain Gorg knelt there breathing heavily holding his bloody cheek. Link gritted his teeth and ran over to him for another attack. But Captain Gorg got up and kicked him square in the chest.
Link yelled in pain and flew all the way over to Acro. He landed against the floor and created a loud smack. Acro instantly helped him up and got him stabilized.
"Thanks Acro, I needed that" said Link rubbing the back of his head.
"No problem my friend" replied Acro," "just kill this fool for me" Link nodded and turned to Captain Gorg, who was waiting for a charge from Link. He did, and ran with the Master Sword and his shield in hand ready to fight. He jumped towards Captain Gorg ready for a jump slash. Captain Gorg had this planned and went for another downward slash. It was about to chop Link in half, but he fell right by Captain Gorg's outstretched legs and rolled under him. Captain Gorg couldn't believe the maneuver and tried to turn around to attack back. But Link drove his sword deep into his side before he could.
He roared in pain like no other thing Mirren or Link had ever heard. The sound of screaming echoed throughout the entire sea, freezing whoever it came by in fear. Link finally pulled out the Master Sword, revealing the bloodiest gash he had even seen. Mirren's jaw hung down in shock, while Mardera and Acro almost turned away in disgust. The blood streamed down his leg as he knelt on the ground still screaming in pain. But Link had no sympathy for him.
"Get up ya fool!" he shouted, "I thought you said you were so tough! You're pathetic!!!" Captain Gorg heard the insults and slowly got up. He grabbed his blade, and swung around in hopes he'd hit Link. But he did a back flip and pulled out the Fairy Bow. Link loaded up one arrow and fired it. It shot right into the bottom of Captain Gorg's unprotected right shoulder. He screamed again in pain as Link shot one more into the other shoulder. Gorg grabbed both shoulders and howled in agony. He fell to the ground gushing blood from four different places. Link's expression still showed no shock or sorrow. He put away the Fairy Bow and advanced over to Captain Gorg. He stood right over him as the pool of blood grew around Captain Gorg.
"You are in no position to fight any longer" Link said dominantly, "I'll let you leave now with your life. Make the decision; leave; or die." All the Ogre Pirates stood in shock waiting for their captain's response.
"Would he really surrender?" they all thought. Link still waited for an answer before Captain Gorg finally lifted his head up.
"Well?" asked Link demanding, "Leave, or die?" Gorg smiled wickedly.
"Neither" he answered. Captain Gorg then grabbed his scimitar and slammed it into Link's stomach. Link didn't even scream, he just gasped in agony and pain as his face went pale.
"Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Mirren at the top of his lungs. His eyes began filling with tears as Link fell to ground. But soon, they dried up, and rage literally enveloped him. He pulled out his sword and charged at Captain Gorg. He screamed like no other warrior and pulled his sword back ready for an attack. Gorg turned around and saw the kid. Everything was happening too fast for him, and he wasn't able to block Mirren's attack. He did a cut right across Captain Gorg's right leg and sliced it down to the bone.
Even with the hideous roar of pain from Captain Gorg, Mirren could hear his sword cut right through his bone, so in fact, it went deeper than thought. Captain Gorg instantly collapsed and crashed on the ground holding his leg and howling in pain. Mirren could see he injured Gorg enough, and ran over to help his brother. But the Ogre Pirates were angry with Mirren, and charged at him. Three of the pirates went in for an attack. But Mirren saw them coming and in three quick flashes of his sword, they laid dead. The other pirates gasped and back off as Mirren glared at them. He knelt down besides Link as Acro and Mardera came over to help.
"Here, I'll lift him up for you Mirren" said Acro. He got behind Link and lifted him slightly up.
"Mirren, use the rest of that Lon Lon Milk you used on me for my injury" explained Mardera. Mirren did as she said and took out the half full bottle. Acro lifted Link's head up as Mirren helped him drink the milk. After a moment, Link's eyes opened and he was on his feet alone.
"Phew! Thank God for that Lon Lon Milk!" Link exclaimed. Everyone stood up and watched as Captain Gorg began getting up. He was moving very slowly due the massive amount of pain he was feeling. Everyone glared at him as suddenly one of the look out's yelled out a message.
"Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea Serpeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnt!!!!!!!!!!!!" he shouted. Everyone gasped and went into complete panic. The entire crew of Ogre Pirates was running around yelling in fear. It was bad enough a serpent was coming, not to mention they were in no condition to defend the ship.
"Whata we do Link?" asked Mardera. Link tried to think of some plan, but with all the Ogre Pirates screaming and running around, he couldn't think of a plan. He had never really dealt with Sea Serpents before, so this wasn't really an easy situation for him. He then noticed a small rowboat that they could escape in.
"Guys, lets go in that boat and beat it!" he yelled pointing to it. Everyone then began running before a scimitar flew right by Mirren's face and almost sliced it. Everyone (besides Mirren who was literally frozen in shock) looked towards who threw it; it was Captain Gorg.
"My God!" exclaimed Acro, "You just don't know when the heck ta quit do you!!!???" Captain Gorg didn't grin at the anger of Acro; he was just about as angry himself, only worse.
"Because of you fools, my crew is gone, I'm gonna die of blood loss in about an hour, and my ship is gonna be destroyed by a stinkin' sea serpent!" he shouted back, "but I swear it by my own blood, I'm gonna kill at least one of ya before I die!!!" He waved his fist in anger as he spoke and suddenly realized the mist of water he was feeling and a large shadow growing around him. He saw Link and all the others faces of fear and shock as he felt a cold sensation shiver down his spine. He looked up and saw a huge dark orange sea serpent begin to come down for his kill. He screamed in terror as he lived his last seconds.
The serpent brought his mouth full of sharp, sword-like teeth down on the area where Captain Gorg stood and got a mouthful. When he knew Captain Gorg was dead inside his mouth, he lifted himself into the air and swallowed everything he had in its mouth, including Captain Gorg.
Link, Mardera, Acro, and Mirren still stood with bugged out eyes and faces of shock. Everyone couldn't believe what they had just seen, it was totally disturbing.
"I.... I think I'm blind!" said Mirren. As that happened, all the Ogre Pirates were jumping overboard in hopes they'd escape the sea serpent. But the serpent noticed them and dove under water. Link and the others all watched as the serpent gobbled up every single pirate one by one. After minutes of seeing it, the serpent had eaten every surviving Ogre Pirate. He rose once again from the water and looked at Link, Mirren, Mardera, and Acro. He was very intimidating. In fact, not one of them took the chance to notice his characteristics. He was a very long, dark orange serpent with ruby red eyes and three sharp, pointy horns coming from the back of head. They actually almost seemed like a protective shield or helmet for him, and his head and face somewhat resembled that of a monitor. But whatever he looked like, everyone pulled out their weapons and got in their battle stances. Sure they still scared, but they knew if they wanted to live, they'd have to kill the sea serpent.
"You guys ready?" asked Link. Everyone nodded.
"Alright, let's do this" he said. The serpent suddenly lunged at the ship and tore another chunk off. Everyone had luckily jumped away and evaded the attack. The serpent spit all the planks and splinters from his mouth and glared at them.
"Let's go bro" said Mirren. Link nodded and the two both charged at the serpent. It looked at the two charging fighters and once again lunged at them. Link and Mirren jumped away once again and they both did jumping slashes. Their swords tore through the serpent's skin and made him roar in pain. His tail whipped around the ship and destroyed the cradle. All the broken parts came crashing down as the serpent attacked Link with his tail.
It wrapped around his body and made him drop his weapons. It applied quite a lot of pressure and crushed the life out of him. Link screamed in pain and fought his hardest to escape. It crushed his stomach, and it made him hard to breathe. But after a few moments of it, he realized a Hylian could not overpower a serpent one bit. He began to lose consciousness before Mardera charged at him and jumped in the air. She came right by the end of the tail and sliced it off with one of her scimitars. Link fell to the ground as the remaining tail on him uncoiled. The serpent roared in pain then dove under the water. A trail of blood was left by him due to his bloody stump for an end of a tail. Everyone ran over to Link to make sure he was alright. He coughed a little a shook his head to get rid of the stars.
"Don't worry 'bout me guys, I'm fine! Worry about the serpent!" he said. Everyone sighed with relief as the serpent came crashing right through the ship. He erupted directly through it and lunged for the third time. This time he came very close to getting Link, but everyone managed to escape. The serpent crashed in the water and made a great mist. He rose right back up and roared at the four fighters.
Mirren pulled out his bow and arrow and loaded up three arrows at one. He aimed vertically and pulled the arrows back. "Ahhhh shut up ya annoying serpent!" he yelled and shot the three arrows. They rocketed through the air and struck the serpent in the upper body. He howled in rage and pain and created a huge wave that hit the ship and Mirren too. The huge amount of water struck him head on and carried him all the way over to the middle of the ship where some barrels were. He crashed right into it and lay there for a few moments before getting up.
"You stupid serpent!" he yelled waving his fist, "I didn't want a bath!!" The serpent roared at Mirren and the others as Acro began spinning his grappling hook in the air above his head.
"Try and roar with this on ya!!" he yelled and threw the grappling hook. It spiraled through the air and wrapped right around the mouth of the serpent. The hooks dug deep into his skin and made it even harder for him to get it off. Acro knew he'd soon be overpowered though by the serpent, so he ran over to one of the tall poles and wrapped it around that.
"There we go, he'll never be able ta pull the whole ship!" he said sounding triumphant. But Acro was wrong. The serpent pulled with all it's might and began rocking the ship back and fourth, sending everyone rolling around the ship.
"Acro, it's too strong! Untie the grappling hook now!" shouted Link. Acro quickly untied it and pulled with all of his strength. The hooks ripped through the serpent's skin and came off; leaving three bloody cuts. The beast was getting incredibly angry now. He charged at Acro and gave him a savage head butt that knocked him into the outside of one of the cabins. The force of both hits was greatly powerful, so Acro was knocked out cold.
The serpent stood over the body of Acro and was about to get his second meal. His blood dripped from the top of his mouth all the way down to Acro. The blood hit his tunic, and stained it red. The serpent was about to swallow him whole, before he heard a strange sound. The serpent turned around to see Mirren playing his ocarina. He looked at Mirren in a flabbergasted way for a few moments. Once Mirren finished, he grinned and a familiar roar was heard. There was a great golden shine in the sky, and soon Goldenfire flew down right by Mirren.
The huge golden dragon glared at the serpent as Mardera stood by Link with her mouth wide open. She couldn't believe it. "No way, is that dragon, his friend?" she asked sounding shocked. Link smiled and nodded.
"Yep" he answered, "quite a kid isn't he?" Goldenfire and the serpent still stared at each other before Mirren gave Goldenfire a command.
"Goldenfire, attack that serpent!" he yelled pointing to it. Goldenfire bellowed his roar and flew at the serpent. He lunged at it and grabbed him by the neck with his two huge claws as he stood on his hind legs. He choked the life out of the serpent for a few moments before the serpent began to coil around his body. Goldenfire only noticed this when it was too late. The serpent had wrapped itself around his body and tripped him. Goldenfire lost his grip and roared in rage. The serpent dove at him and bit onto his neck. Goldenfire roared in pain and tried to get him off. Unfortunately though, the serpent's grip was very tight, and was almost impossible to get off. As he still bit onto Goldenfire then, he began to apply immense pressure as he constricted about the dragon's body and squeezed away. Goldenfire began to cry out in agony, and struggled to escape. It seemed that he was coming to no avail though, as the serpent's grip was stronger than ever.
But Goldenfire was incredibly powerful, and instead grabbed him by the inside of his mouth and slowly pulled him off. With the serpent off his bloodied neck, Goldenfire then began wrenching the serpent's mouth open. He pushed and pushed with all his might, as Mirren and the others stood watching in confusion.
"What's he doing?" asked Mardera. Even Mirren had no clue. He watched and watched, and noticed blood beginning to come out from the serpent's mouth. It flowed out like a stream, and even tough he was feeling a little sick at that point, he finally knew what Goldenfire was doing.
"He's trying ta snap his jaw" he said. Everyone looked totally repulsed as more blood came out.
"Well, he's sure doin' a good job of it!" exclaimed Mardera. As the serpent slowly began dieing, he thrashed his tail around in hopes he'd escape.
"Look out!" shouted Link. The tail zoomed by as Link and Mirren jumped away, but Mardera wasn't so lucky. It hit her head on, and knocked her into the ocean.
"Marderaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" yelled Link. He saw her bobbing up and down in the water unconscious and knew he had to help her. "Mirren, stay on the ship and tell Goldenfire what ta do, I'm gonna go save Mardera!" he said. Mirren nodded.
"No problem bro!" he said. Link then dove into the water and swam as fast as he could. The waves smacked against him, but he kept on going. Soon he got to Mardera's body and got her. He then began swimming back.
Back on the ship Goldenfire stopped applying the pressure and let go of the serpent. The serpent staggered and didn't make a sound. His mouth was full of blood and was dripping onto the ship. Acro suddenly woke up and saw the serpent the way it was, not to mention Goldenfire.
"My God!" he yelled, "the serpent! It's practically dead! Hey Mirren, who's that dragon!?"
"It's one of my old buddies!" Mirren answered, "now get outta there, he's gonna finish it off!" Acro immediately ran over to Mirren. "Alright Goldenfire, use your fireball!" Goldenfire obeyed the command and shot out a golden fireball from his mouth. It struck the serpent right in the face and burnt him badly. The serpent let out one last roar and collapsed to the ground dead.
Mirren and Acro watched as the serpent lay dead with blood still coming from his burnt mouth and face. Goldenfire was now roaring in victory. His loud, deep roars echoed through the sea, showing he was the victor today. As they watched him, Link came up on the ship carrying Mardera, who was still unconscious.
"What in the world happened!?" exclaimed Acro. Link set her down and breathed heavily.
"The serpent one time hit her with his tail and knocked her into the ocean, so I had ta get her" he answered. Acro still looked at her.
"Will she be all right?" he asked again. Link nodded as he gave her a little CPR to get the water out of her throat and mouth.
"She should be, she really doesn't need much" he answered, "She'll be fine." Everyone sighed with relief as they felt the boat moving strangely. They all looked out to the sea and noticed it was sinking.
"Time to go!" said Mirren, "Goldenfire!" The golden dragon flew over to him as Mirren got on his back. "Come on guys, we can ride Goldenfire to the shore, I'll ride like this. Link and you Acro can hold onto his wings, and he'll carry Mardera." Link and Acro looked at each other for a moment and soon shrugged.
"What the heck!?" they said to each other. With that Link and Acro got on Goldenfire's wings and got a tight grip, while Goldenfire grabbed Mardera and held her in his huge claws. He then took flight into the air and began flying over the sea to the shore. Mirren looked back as the ship and the serpent finally submerged into the sea. He turned back and smiled.
"What an adventure!" he said to himself in his head.