A/N: Aiiee! O_O The waves of Link meets Link fanfics have begun to rise! ...must...fight...to be...ORIGINAL! And hope my own ideas aren't like those of others. x.x ...meh...I hope this fic isn't lost in the sea of other fics...oh, my I made a pun. Thankyou so much for your reviews!
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda and I'm making no money off of this fic. I'm also not trying to steal from Alfred Hitchcock!! Thankyou..
Ch. 2- The Birds
"Miss Tetra!" A small, ratty looking man leaned as far as he could out of the crow's nest of the Dragon's Shear, "MISS TEEETRAAA!"
"I'm not deaf Niko!" The girl captain rubbed her sensitive hylian ears, glancing up at him in the noon sun, "What's your problem?"
"I thought I saw something, Miss Tetra, on the horizon!" Niko, the omega in the pirate wolf-pack, positively glowed with the greatness of his achievment. This was certainly greater than what he had seen earlier, which had turned out to be an angry sperm whale. The boys had almost thrown him into the sea for his find, which he had thought to be mighty thunderous. And how was HE to have known it was a whale?
Tetra didn't notice Niko's exctiement, fully absorbed in consulting some indecipherable ancient sea chart, "What is it Niko? Do you plan on feeding us to some squid next? Or maybe a giant gyorg? No, actually, hold that thought. I almost hope it is squid, then we can have calamari for dinner....I'm sick of rations-"
"It's neither of those, Miss Tetra!" Tetra finally looked up at Niko, who was grinning like an idiot, or maybe a really happy one, a happy idiot that is.
Tetra sighed and rolled up the map, carefully placing it in the back pocket of her white shorts, "Well then, Niko, what is it?"
"It's SEAGULLS, Miss Tetra! Seagulls and pelicans!" Niko's eyes positively shone.
"WHAT?!"
***
Link was caught off guard when Mako, the knowledgeable little man with strange glasses, called out to him. Link was riding the bow wave from the Dragon's Shear using the agilility of the little Red Lion, and he was having the time of his life. The sun smacked lambent light against the powerful slope of rushing deep green water and he was soaked to the skin with spray. It gave him an adrenaline rush to see the bow of his ship cutting the smooth swell of the water in two. They were going at a good speed with the wild western wind to their backs.
Mako had to literally crawl out onto the ships gilded dragon figurehead to get Link's attention, and he nearly fell off too, "LINK!"
Mako's cry made Link jump a bit, and he swiftly altered his course to make sure he wasn't crushed by the much more massive Dragon's Shear. That was twice today that someone had surprised him..! Link grumbled a little and dropped back to the side of the pirates' boat while Mako shimmied down the dragonhead, holding onto his glasses with one hand, and ran to the rail.
"Hoy, Mako!" Link waved.
"Link, Miss Tetra needs to see you right away! It appears that Niko has seen something again," Mako said, clearly annoyed, "I don't understand why we still keep him on this ship...he brings bad luck. Or some such muck."
Link unwound his grapping hook and swung it easily up to Mako, who grabbed it and tied it to a greened metal ring attached to the rail. Link lowered the sail of his boat and scaled the rope, "Oh, he's not all that bad," Link said to Mako once he reached the top, climbing over the railing and hopping onto the main deck of the ship. The only reply he got from Mako was a disgruntled "Hmph," as he helped the rest of the crew bring down the sails.
Tetra called out to him from the sun beaten crow's nest and he joined her up top, doing his best not to slip on the ladder. They could see ocean for miles in every direction and the ever ceaseless, strangely warm wind whipped their clothes and hair about. Niko stood next to Tetra as she looked to the sorthwest with a leather spyglass the crew had made for her. She didn't take her eyes off of the horizon when she handed it to Link and said quietly, "Look there..." pointing to the same direction as her gaze. Link, with a look that was the perfect mixture of excitement and fear, carefully took the telescope in his hands and brought it to his eye. To the west he saw storm clouds, stacked and dangerous looking, bobbing up and down with the movements of the ship...
Link said slowly, "Tetra..."
"Well??" She said, biting her lip.
"...I don't see anything but storm clouds..."
Tetra's eye twitched. "...a little to the left!"
Link adjusted and she saw his jaw go slack, "...But that means..." He looked at her, and she nodded, grinning. He looked out again and Tetra was still nodding, not really able to believe it herself. Niko hopped from one foot to the other in anticipation.
***
The pirate crew of the Dragon's Shear crowded around the foot of the crow's nest, whispering doubtfully and casting glances upward.
Senza sniffed loudly and wiped his nose. "We should have thrown the little rat into the jaws of that fish when we had the chance!" The big, burly man was leaning against the main column of the crow's nest. The rest of the men; Gonzo, Nudge, Mako and Zuko, all made incoherent mutterings of agreement and shuffled their feet.
"Well..." Gonzo started caustiously, "...whaddya guys think he saw..?"
"Probably a piece of driftwood-with teeth!" said Nudge, shaking his fist in the air.
"Or a giant aqautic amoeba!!" added Mako, then more quietly, "...Nyaaaaa..."
"Or an iceberg!!!" Everyone stopped to look at Zuko. "..What?"
"Twit! It's too warm for icebergs!" Mako snapped.
"I ain't a twit! YOU'RE the twit! You land-lubbing SCALLY-WAG!"
"Who has the book here, hm?! Who's got the glasses from years of studious-studying?? HM?" the short man took a step forward, brandishing his book.
"Aww, c'mon boys, no need to be rowdy," said Gonzo, trying to be the peace-keeper. There was a minute or two of silence as the steam blew away and Nudge kept an eye on Mako's lethal book.
Zuko eyed a cloud. "Sorry, Mako."
Mako did the same. "Sorry, Zuko."
"Y'know, they've been up there for a while," Zuko said. All the pirates looked up at the crow's nest again. "Y'know....what if it's somethin' important? REALLY important?" The pirates of the Dragon's Shear mumbled, shuffled their feet again and sighed as one.
Tetra's cry cut throught he uncomfortable silence like a sword though a chu-chu, "HOY! Bring up the sails and break out the oars, were heading Southwest!"
"Southwest?!"
"WHY-?!"
"But the weather..."
"We'll be moving parallel to the storm!"
"WHY-?!"
Tetra broke through the chorus of voices, "There are birds to the Southwest, you numbskulls! Birds mean land," she let this sink in. "We have to take the chance!"
The pirates all looked at eachother with stunned faces, then threw their enthusiastic reply back up to Miss Tetra, "YES MA'AM!"
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda and I'm making no money off of this fic. I'm also not trying to steal from Alfred Hitchcock!! Thankyou..
Ch. 2- The Birds
"Miss Tetra!" A small, ratty looking man leaned as far as he could out of the crow's nest of the Dragon's Shear, "MISS TEEETRAAA!"
"I'm not deaf Niko!" The girl captain rubbed her sensitive hylian ears, glancing up at him in the noon sun, "What's your problem?"
"I thought I saw something, Miss Tetra, on the horizon!" Niko, the omega in the pirate wolf-pack, positively glowed with the greatness of his achievment. This was certainly greater than what he had seen earlier, which had turned out to be an angry sperm whale. The boys had almost thrown him into the sea for his find, which he had thought to be mighty thunderous. And how was HE to have known it was a whale?
Tetra didn't notice Niko's exctiement, fully absorbed in consulting some indecipherable ancient sea chart, "What is it Niko? Do you plan on feeding us to some squid next? Or maybe a giant gyorg? No, actually, hold that thought. I almost hope it is squid, then we can have calamari for dinner....I'm sick of rations-"
"It's neither of those, Miss Tetra!" Tetra finally looked up at Niko, who was grinning like an idiot, or maybe a really happy one, a happy idiot that is.
Tetra sighed and rolled up the map, carefully placing it in the back pocket of her white shorts, "Well then, Niko, what is it?"
"It's SEAGULLS, Miss Tetra! Seagulls and pelicans!" Niko's eyes positively shone.
"WHAT?!"
***
Link was caught off guard when Mako, the knowledgeable little man with strange glasses, called out to him. Link was riding the bow wave from the Dragon's Shear using the agilility of the little Red Lion, and he was having the time of his life. The sun smacked lambent light against the powerful slope of rushing deep green water and he was soaked to the skin with spray. It gave him an adrenaline rush to see the bow of his ship cutting the smooth swell of the water in two. They were going at a good speed with the wild western wind to their backs.
Mako had to literally crawl out onto the ships gilded dragon figurehead to get Link's attention, and he nearly fell off too, "LINK!"
Mako's cry made Link jump a bit, and he swiftly altered his course to make sure he wasn't crushed by the much more massive Dragon's Shear. That was twice today that someone had surprised him..! Link grumbled a little and dropped back to the side of the pirates' boat while Mako shimmied down the dragonhead, holding onto his glasses with one hand, and ran to the rail.
"Hoy, Mako!" Link waved.
"Link, Miss Tetra needs to see you right away! It appears that Niko has seen something again," Mako said, clearly annoyed, "I don't understand why we still keep him on this ship...he brings bad luck. Or some such muck."
Link unwound his grapping hook and swung it easily up to Mako, who grabbed it and tied it to a greened metal ring attached to the rail. Link lowered the sail of his boat and scaled the rope, "Oh, he's not all that bad," Link said to Mako once he reached the top, climbing over the railing and hopping onto the main deck of the ship. The only reply he got from Mako was a disgruntled "Hmph," as he helped the rest of the crew bring down the sails.
Tetra called out to him from the sun beaten crow's nest and he joined her up top, doing his best not to slip on the ladder. They could see ocean for miles in every direction and the ever ceaseless, strangely warm wind whipped their clothes and hair about. Niko stood next to Tetra as she looked to the sorthwest with a leather spyglass the crew had made for her. She didn't take her eyes off of the horizon when she handed it to Link and said quietly, "Look there..." pointing to the same direction as her gaze. Link, with a look that was the perfect mixture of excitement and fear, carefully took the telescope in his hands and brought it to his eye. To the west he saw storm clouds, stacked and dangerous looking, bobbing up and down with the movements of the ship...
Link said slowly, "Tetra..."
"Well??" She said, biting her lip.
"...I don't see anything but storm clouds..."
Tetra's eye twitched. "...a little to the left!"
Link adjusted and she saw his jaw go slack, "...But that means..." He looked at her, and she nodded, grinning. He looked out again and Tetra was still nodding, not really able to believe it herself. Niko hopped from one foot to the other in anticipation.
***
The pirate crew of the Dragon's Shear crowded around the foot of the crow's nest, whispering doubtfully and casting glances upward.
Senza sniffed loudly and wiped his nose. "We should have thrown the little rat into the jaws of that fish when we had the chance!" The big, burly man was leaning against the main column of the crow's nest. The rest of the men; Gonzo, Nudge, Mako and Zuko, all made incoherent mutterings of agreement and shuffled their feet.
"Well..." Gonzo started caustiously, "...whaddya guys think he saw..?"
"Probably a piece of driftwood-with teeth!" said Nudge, shaking his fist in the air.
"Or a giant aqautic amoeba!!" added Mako, then more quietly, "...Nyaaaaa..."
"Or an iceberg!!!" Everyone stopped to look at Zuko. "..What?"
"Twit! It's too warm for icebergs!" Mako snapped.
"I ain't a twit! YOU'RE the twit! You land-lubbing SCALLY-WAG!"
"Who has the book here, hm?! Who's got the glasses from years of studious-studying?? HM?" the short man took a step forward, brandishing his book.
"Aww, c'mon boys, no need to be rowdy," said Gonzo, trying to be the peace-keeper. There was a minute or two of silence as the steam blew away and Nudge kept an eye on Mako's lethal book.
Zuko eyed a cloud. "Sorry, Mako."
Mako did the same. "Sorry, Zuko."
"Y'know, they've been up there for a while," Zuko said. All the pirates looked up at the crow's nest again. "Y'know....what if it's somethin' important? REALLY important?" The pirates of the Dragon's Shear mumbled, shuffled their feet again and sighed as one.
Tetra's cry cut throught he uncomfortable silence like a sword though a chu-chu, "HOY! Bring up the sails and break out the oars, were heading Southwest!"
"Southwest?!"
"WHY-?!"
"But the weather..."
"We'll be moving parallel to the storm!"
"WHY-?!"
Tetra broke through the chorus of voices, "There are birds to the Southwest, you numbskulls! Birds mean land," she let this sink in. "We have to take the chance!"
The pirates all looked at eachother with stunned faces, then threw their enthusiastic reply back up to Miss Tetra, "YES MA'AM!"