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Link and Tetra sat together by a beautiful sandy beach, surprisingly enough the two were kissing.
The two break away from their recent kiss to gaze lovingly into each others eyes. Tetra into sparkling Emerald greens and Link into her deep sea blues. "You're beautiful…" was the Outsetter's soft spoken reply while the wind played with his Ponytail.
"How many times are you gonna say that" Tetra cooed teasingly. Link gave a lazy grin "As long as I keep gazing into your loveliness" Link then lightly plants a kiss on Tetra's forehead before finishing his sentence with an "I love you."
A strong blush over took the tanned girls features as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Link…I lov-"
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"Wake up Miss Tetra!" Nudge softly replied to the 15-year-old Pirate girl while he lightly shook her. "Miss we found uncharted territory! Were only a short 10 miles away!"
"Leave me alone when I'm with my Rinku-chan" Tetra mumbled. She was obviously still asleep since she was repeatedly kissing her pillow, (quite passionately I might add) calling it Link and constantly saying I love you.
Nudge sweat dropped at the sight. "Rinku-chan…?" He muttered before shuddering.
Chapter 2- Unwelcome visits
Tetra groggily stepped out on deck to only see Gonzo who was steering the ship, Senza working at his post and quite Zuko who remained at his post on the crows nest.
"Gonzo" Tetra called from afar "Where is the rest of the crew!" Gonzo pales for a moment. "Oh Miss!" He begins nervously "Well you see…Since gulp We were heading to land after being at sea for such a longtime…we decided to do something constructive with our time…"
Tetra raises an eyebrow. "Oh? And what's more constructive than doing there usual duties? Might I ask!"
Gonzo squeaks. 'Say something about cleaning! Say something about cleaning' Gonzo's brain screams at him. "They're in the kitchen cooking. D'oh!"
'You suck! Why am I even in here!?' Gonzo's brain bellows 'I'm gonna make you think so much that it'll put me out of my misery!'
Tetra eyes Gonzo while putting her right hand on her waist. "And what would they want to do in there?" Senza feels that for once he should play hero and calls out to Tetra. "'Hoy, Miss!"
"What, Senza?" Tetra growls. This makes the bearded man shudder a bit. "Well Zuko wants to show you his new little jig. Right Zuko?" Zuko rolls his eyes before putting away his telescope and climbing down the crows nest to do a dance {A/N: Similar to River Dance} for Tetra.
Tetra leaves an exasperated expression on her face as she walks by the dancing Zuko and goes to the cooking chamber. Something wasn't right. Her crew (or her for that matter) didn't know how to cook. In fact before Link came along they were used to eating Niko's charred cooking. None of them wanted to learn how to cook, thus Tetra stuck cooking as a swabbies job.
Tetra peered inside the room to see Link who wore an apron cooking while constantly shaking the frying pan so the green food could flip about. Niko, Nudge and Mako who all wore aprons themselves, watched in awe. "That's scientifically impossible for the items to fly up like that." Mako watched in disbelief at what he was seeing. Niko shook his head "No science, Just swabbie magic!." Nudge just rolled his eyes at his two cohorts "So Link" He begins "Once I roll this flat stuff then what?"
Link surveys the dough. "Hmm, still too many lumps…But what were gonna do with it once we flatten it is roll it up and then cut it. Thus we make bread."
Mako scratches his chin. "So THAT'S how bread is made! The Miss will surely be surprised." Link gives a playful toothed grin as he stealthily makes his way to the door and pulls it. Causing Tetra who was leaning on it to listen to the conversation to tumble in. "No." Link replied "She's right here."
"ah-I So," The proud Pirate girl begins as she dusts herself off. "What may I ask are all of you doing in here?" Tetra's glares were aimed at Link who was obviously the reason for this. (or did she just want to have an excuse to look at him)
Link gives one of the grins that Tetra despises so much before speaking up. "Well you see Tetra, We all finished our morning duties while you slept. Since I had a lot of free time I figured I could practice my cooking skills…Don't worry the ingredients all came out from my pocket." The boy reassures. "As for the guys…they just wanted to learn how to cook. Something about chicks digging guys who can make a dish…"
Tetra shrugged crossed armed. 'Good enough excuse' she thought 'Now if I can get him alone and talk to him about that letter…' Tetra continued to delve into her thoughts before Link asked "Wanna join?" Tetra gave Link a death glare. "Implying something slack-a-daily?"
Link puts up his hands defensively. "n-No! of course not! I just thought you want to try…Cooking looks fun but it can be quite fun as well as a stress-breaker." Tetra smirks "But Link, you're a stress bringer. And a menace to yourself and society." Link shrugs playfully "Only when your around Tetra."
What the Nudge noticed was that Link constantly kept ducking Tetra's gaze as she did his. Yup, Nudge and the boys all knew that Tetra held quite a torch for the boy as he held one for her. Of course, they never expected Tetra to jump into his arms and admit his feelings to her nor would they expect Link to have the guts to tell Tetra anything.
So being the Number 1. Tetra/Link shippers that they are. The Pirates all chose to try to bring the two together on many and I mean MANY occasions. All ultimately failing because the two are…well…themselves.
But the Pirates haven't given up in fact a lot of their plans almost did bring them together per-say: Ever since Nudge's plan Link and Tetra both couldn't face each other without blushing intensely, after Senza'a plan Tetra spends a lot of her time dreaming of kissing Link while Link just began to become more clumsy and nervous around her. So they haven't given up Yeah? But they're just taking a hiatus from their scheming right now for the big plan 'The best plan.' To stress on a more daunting topic. Miss Tetra's 16th Birthday which was a few days away.
Nudge gestures to Mako and Niko to sneak out while Link and Tetra try to talk to each other both fighting a losing battle to hold in their blush.
"And I could get some moral support" Link continued as he debated with Tetra "Right guys? Guys?" Link scratches the back of his head sheepishly while Tetra gives the smug little smirk he enjoys seeing.
"Well anyway…Link…" Tetra began while a strong flush took over her cheek as she rummaged through her pockets to find his letter. "I …wanted to speak with you about something…Nothing too important…but it just made me a bit curious…"
"Tetra?" The 15-year-old Waker of Winds asked a bit concerned. "Are you alright You look like your suffering from a fever." As Link reaches out his left hand to feel the forehead of his best friend and love of his life. Tetra, on impulse, slaps him on the left cheek. "…." Was the boys only reply.
Tetra's entire face was beet red as she stepped away from Link "Hmph! I'm fine! I don't need you mothering me!!" Link's emerald green eyes looked at Tetra quizzically and concerned. His face (aside from his sore cheek) also blushing a bit. The girl went into a deeper blush. Not saying anything further Tetra turns her back to march away from Link.
Link watches Tetra go for a moment before finally mustering the inner courage to speak again. "Sorry about that Tetra…If you're feeling better then maybe…maybe…" 'We could watch the sunset together' His mind finished for him as well as reminded him of what to say. Tetra turned to Link a bit confused but burning a bit with anticipation. 'Perhaps' She thought. 'He'd makes things easy for them both and be the one to open up first.'
However, both Tetra's anticipation and Link's thoughts were dashed as The Hero of Wind lost his nerve and quickly showed her the green food and picked up some of it with a fork. "…Would like to be the first to taste this?"
'Chicken' His inner voice scoffed.
"Oh, Uh sure…" The Pirate girl sighed dejectedly. Tetra tasted the vegetative dish. It was surprisingly sweet. "It's delicious like anything else you make Link." Tetra complemented. This made Link's heart do a little flip of joy but his exterior expression was a raised eyebrow from the praises she usually doesn't give him. Tetra notices Link's suspicious look and she defensively pulls at both his cheeks. "What?! I can't compliment every once in while? But seriously…You've done a lot for us…Link…and…I'm glad to have you…" Tetra quickly turns away not wanting to face Link any longer and further make a fool of herself.
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{Nearly 2 Hours later}
"LAND HO!"
The Pirate ship arrived at a very lush and tropical Island. The first noticeable thing about the Island was the giant Stone face statue that was carved into its inactive lava volcano.
As Tetra and her crew all step out of the ship (minus Link and Niko who had to stay behind) they were greeted by a not so friendly welcoming party. "Miss it looks as though the Natives here don't take kindly to us" Nudge whispered cautiously.
Tetra shrugs. "What else is new?" One of the Muscular Island men threw their spear at the ship. Now this annoyed Tetra and her crew to no end. "Hey! Do we go around messing with your stuff!" Gonzo snarled while gripping his sword. As if to respond to Gonzo's challenge the Island inhabitant smirks as he takes two spears from two of his colleagues and throws them both at the ship, one of them pierced itself in pretty deep.
Gonzo had enough. "Damn fool! Miss! Don't waste your time on this worthless piece of plankton! I'll show 'im we mean business!" Gonzo unsheathes his weapon and runs at the man while man pulled out a tiny dagger from the pouch around his waist and also rushes at his foe.
Before the two weapons could collide a third sword pushed itself in the center, reflecting Gonzo's attack while destroying the man's dagger. "Hey Link! What's with you?!" Gonzo yelled at the 15-year-old. "You saw what those bums did to the ship and what they were about to do to us! This ain't no time to play pacifist"
Link puts his sword back in his sheath before smiling kindly at his hot-tempered friend and the villagers. "No, both sides were at fault. We are intruding on this Island, their home as far as they are concerned…But that doesn't justify them the right to do what they did. We can't let every single thing get to us or we won't be at peace with anyone. But overall no harm done and a little patching up and the ship will be as good as new."
Tetra sighs in defeat "Fine. But he's right though, we don't mean any harm unless you cause it with us." Tetra walks forward to the villagers who all nervously stepped back from her. "What?" The girl asks a bit annoyed "I'm trying to make a peace offering and asking to see the head of this group to sort everything out."
The muscular man walks in front of Tetra with a hardened scowl on his face before booming with his deep voice. "You mean to tell me that YOU are this group of bandits leader? A female, a little girl!?" The Pirates growl at this comment and ready their weapons as the man continued to speak, and this time it was directed towards them. "Hmph, What kind of men are you? Do you have no pride?."
Tetra kept her cool. Last thing she needs right now is war against an entire Island. Aside from that reason she was actually quite used to males looking down on her…until it was too late. But that didn't stop her from scowling at the man.
"Link, You better go and start the patch work." Tetra simply ordered. Link nods.
This made the ignorant man give a belittling grin. "So you even have the warrior under your little thumb?" The man grabs Tetra's cheeks with two fingers. "Perhaps I should make you my wife."
Ok the man had made his death wish. Nearly ripping out her dagger from its protective (and expensive) sheath Tetra was ready to maim the man. Her crew also had it with these foolish people and their arrogant leader, pulled out their weapons and readied for a brawl.
All the mounting rage quickly disappeared when the usually laid back Outsetter pulled out his sword and yelled at the top of his lungs "CONTINUE TOUCHING HER LIKE THAT AND DON'T EXPECT YOUR OWN ANSCETORS TO RECOGNIZE YOUR SOON TO BE MUTILATED BODY!!!"
End Chapter 2