Ok, I'm ALMOST done with the inside of Jabu Jabu. God this is taking forever! Heh, well, I hope you all like it!

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They both walked into a circular room. In the middle of the room was a wide round disc with spikes protruding from the edges. Set, ever-so-nicely in the middle of the disc was the Zora sapphire.

"Ah!!! There it is! There it is!!!" Gasped Rutu in surprise and she took off running to her stone.

"Uh, wait no Rutu! It could be a trap!!!" Buy it was too late and Rutu, the disc and the stone were all rocketed to the top of the room and onto the next floor. Very soon after the disc returned to the bottom and there was no Rutu or stone in sight.

"No RUTU!!!!! Where are you?!" But only now, Naomi had problems of her own to face. The door behind her quickly snapped shut and a soft rumbling caused her to look up at the disc.

"OH SHI-----"

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Link, still where we left him last, was finally recovering from his "slight" fatiguing. He sat, polishing his Kokiri sword. He could see Navi hovering just a ways above his head. He look up to watch her and noticed she was flying oddly.

"Hey Navi.....Whatcha doing?"

"What's taking them so long?!......I mean, look, the room's just over there!"

Link just sighed and rolled his eyes. "Geez Navi, I'm sure they couldn't have gotten lost or anything. Man, don't worry so much." he put his sword away and lay down on his back, looking up at the moving ceiling. *mumbling to himself* "Eww, that is SO gross! Can't wait to get out of here."

"Oh, LINK!!! FINE!! You just lay there, for all you know Naomi could be being attacked right in the next--"

"LIIIINNNNKKK!!!!"

Link snapped up. He whipped his head in the direction of Naomi's scream.

"NAOMI!!!!" He got to his feet as fast as he could and ran toward the room where Naomi and Rutu had disappeared to. He threw himself at the door with a sickening thud, but it wouldn't budge.

"NAOMI!!!" he screamed again as he pounded at the door, but still it would not open.

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"-----T!!!!"

Upon the disc was the biggest Octork she had ever seen. She pulled out her blades and prepared for action. The big octo jumped from the disc to the ground below, falling just a few feet short of where Naomi stud.

""I don't think I can do this on my own. I've never taken anything on this big without Link! I, I need him here with me!"" "LIIIIIINNNNKKKK!!!!!!"

The octo moved forward, ready to strike at Naomi with one of it's tentacles when a thud at the door distracted it.

"NAOMI?!!" *thud thud* "NAOMI?!!"

"Link I'm in here!!!! There's a huge octo here and AHHHH!!!"

The octo had stuck out at Naomi and the blow threw her to the wall.

"NAOMI!!!!!!" Link began franticly pounding at the door. "NAOMI!! I'll save you just hold on!!!" But only Link hadn't any idea how he was going to get inside. "Just fight Naomi!! Fight! I know you can do this! I'm going to find a way in there!"

Naomi used the wall to help her on her feet. "ALRIGHT!!!" The octo began to move towards her once again and this time Naomi was ready. She quickly dodged his attack and jumped onto it's head and landed on the ground right behind the octo. She blindly slashed behind her at the octo's unprotected hindquarters. The octo gave a shriek in protest and turned around just in time to see Naomi's second attack come flying in for another hit.

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""OH GODS, OH GODS!!! What the hell I'm I gonna do?!!! I've gotta find a way in there!"" Link's thought's raced and he ran through the corridors searching for another entrance to the very room Naomi was now doing battle in. ""Oh man! Why'd she have to take the map with her?! Ok, gotta remember! Umm, turn left here? Ah crap, which way to go?!!"

He ran for some time when he found what he was looking for. "Alright!"

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Her second hit landed perfectly right in the middle of the octo's big head, but then ricocheted off.

"WHAT?!" Naomi shock was short lived as she was distracted by the disc in the middle of the room. It slowly began to move back to the top of the room. ""Now why in the world would it do that? Unless another octo is on it's way here!!! Better get this one taken care of first!""

She decided to go with her first attack plan and found herself behind the octo once again. She cut again, but this time she did not let up so easily as she did before. With one last dying breath the octo turned and sucked Naomi into it's gigantic mouth and spit her out with such a force she hit the wall and was almost knocked out. She sat dazed, her back leaning against the wall. She was slowly slipping to sleep when she looked up at the now returning disc. Her vision was starting to blur, all she saw was a fuzzy green blob and a bright blue orb floating above her.

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..........................."Naomi?"...................................................

..... "Naomi, are you alright?".........................................................

.................. "Please, wake up.........It's all alright now.....Naomi."...

Naomi slowly opened her eyes, everything finally coming into focus. She could feel a cool hand on her cheek and moved her face into it. She saw a friendly face hovering over hers.

"Uhhh, L-Link?"

"YES!! Naomi, Naomi. I'm right here," he took her hand in his, "I'm right here."

"I-I think I killed it."

Link gave a small chuckle "Yeah, yeah you got him. Don't worry about that, ok?"

"Where's Rutu?"

"Well, that's what we need to find out, well, as soon as you feel well enough to move on."

"What happened?"

"Well, I think you got knocked around a bit, but Navi and I found a few hearts in the next room. We got them to you as soon as we could. I'm so glad you're alright. Um, can you stand?"

"Um, I think so." Link carefully helped Naomi to her feet. She almost fell once but Link was there to catch her.

"Thank you, thank you so much Link.....For everything! I think I'm alright now, let's go find Rutu.......I hope she's ok."

Link laughed more in relief than anything. "Yeah, I'm sure she's fine, but we'd better go find her!"

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hope you liked! I'll try to get the next one up as soon as I can! Thank you for all the comments.....kind of. I don't usually get much in the line of comments, just people e-mailing me complaining that I need to get the next chapter up. ^_^x Oh well, I know I'm making a few people happy with my story. So I hope all YOU people enjoy this.

~Kohaku-sama~

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