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Disclaimer: Zelda's not mine... dammit.
Chapter One
Four long years since I left home....
It was a calm morning out at sea, everything bathed in a pastel light, the water shimmering a cold blue-grey. A fearsome pirate ship sat rocking slightly in the water while in the crow's nest a female pirate stared solemnly at the rising sun, her arms folded. The wind began to pick up and the bright red bandana around her neck began to dance a slow, repetitive dance. She closed her eyes and lowered her head as a warm smile stretched across her face. The neon orange glow of the sun woke a tall blond boy in a far smaller one-man boat below. He sat up and stretched, rubbing his back.
"Link!" cried the pirate, waving.
Her voice filled Link's ears unpleasantly, he had wished to sleep far longer. He turned and looked up over his shoulder at the pirate, glaring.
"Don't you glare at me!" she said indignantly, and with that she threw a Hyoi pear at Link's head.
Link stumbled, trying to keep his balance, and he would have is not for the heavy weapons and accessories on his back. Link waved his arms desperately, but his efforts were in vain and he fell into the ocean with a loud kersploosh!.
"Direct hit!" the pirate said, smiling.
"Why do we even keep those up there...?" Link grumbled as he pulled himself back onto his boat.
"Because you were complaining that you didn't have enough room down there. You're lucky I even agreed to keep them on my ship in the first place!" the girl said. She put her hands on her hips and tilted her head, her bun of light yellow hair bouncing slightly.
"Tetra?"
The girl's eyebrow raised. "Hm?"
"Shut up."
This earned Link another pear in the face. Once again, he fell into the cold, salty water, losing his pointed hat. Tetra doubled over with laughter.
"Your face! That was priceless!"
Link surfaced, sputtering. He tried to swim back to his boat once more, but the weapons on his back and his soaked clothes were now much too heavy and he was hopelessly dragged under once more. Tetra only laughed harder. Link finally surfaced right next to his boat and clung to it. He floated there for a while and snatched up his grass-green hat from a swell that threatened to carry it away.
"Jerk." he said sourly, jamming it back onto his head.
"Link! Miss Tetra!" It was another pirate of Tetra's crew, Gonzo. Big, muscular, and often very clumsy, Gonzo was, strangely enough, one that Tetra held in high respect and one who protected her in danger. Well, when Link wasn't around anyway. He clambered up on deck and scurried to the ladder of the crow's nest, looking from Tetra up high to dripping Link down below him with fear in his eyes.
Tetra slid down the sides of the ladder and landed with a soft thump in from of Gonzo. "Yes, Gonzo?" she said, now only having to look up slightly to stare him straight in the eyes.
"Miss Tetra! Niko and I were awake when dawn was just breaking and we looked out the porthole and there was another pirate ship!" Gonzo gasped, pointing East.
"...Gonzo, it was probably just another ship, we'll do what pirates do best and rob that ship!"
"No, Miss Tetra, it was a real pirate ship! With a skull and crossbones flag and cannons and everything!" Gonzo said frantically, nearly jumping up and down with anticipation.
Tetra looked amazed. She smiled and her eyes lit up. "Really! A real pirate ship? Finally a challenge! Link!" she rushed to the side of the boat and turned her attention to the green-clad warrior below. Use the Wind Waker and turn the wind to the East, we're going to have some fun!"
Link happily began searching for the Wind Waker when...
"Stop! It's pointless!" Gonzo called, sticking his hand out towards Link, signaling him to stop his rummaging.
"And why might that be?" Tetra said, folding her arms once more. Link nearly laughed outright at the look she gave her underling. It was the look he remembered from years before when he and Tetra were setting off from Outset Island... when Link had asked to go along with Tetra and her pirates. Now Link was just as much a pirate as the rest, though he kept his old fashion sense, boat, and weapons. He was brought back to the real world at Gonzo's next words.
"At dawn... the ship... it disappeared." Tetra and Link looked up at him in fear, their eyes wide.
"Disappeared?" Link cried. "Like a Ghost Ship? I thought I got rid of that four years ago!"
"I was about to say that, Link! Are you sure it disappeared or was it the fog or what?" Tetra babbled in confusion.
"I'm serious! It completely disappeared!" Gonzo repeated, nearly crying in distress.
Tetra sighed and closed her eyes for a few seconds. She turned around and opened them, now staring at the glittering water once more. "I can't believe I'm hearing this...." she said. "Right. Link!" she called once more.
"Hm?" he replied, half listening, half in deep thought.
"Get the Wind Waker, we're heading East."
"But, Miss Tetra!" Gonzo began again.
"I don't want to hear it, Gonzo! We're heading after that ship! Feed the crew and lift the anchors, we're going now." Tetra said sternly.
Link snatched up the Wind Waker lying at his feet. Concentrating, he closed his eyes and felt the famliar power of the Wind rushing through him. He played the Wind's Requiem. He pointed the Wind Waker straight out to the East and the wind began to blow strongly.
The anchors were lifted as the crew obediantly scrabled up on deck and opened the sails. Link put up the sail on his boat as well, and he began to move rather quickly.
"Come on, everyone! We're going after an experience we haven't had in a long time." Link called back.
Tetra smiled slightly and the ship began to move forward, following Link's Kind of Red Lions into the fog of the East.