Disclaimer: Still applies, and I DID NOT TRANSLATE THE MANGA!! Please see
any the default chapter for that info. Thank you.
Responses:
Anyone: I'm sorry to say that I don't speak Japanese, nor am I from Japan. I'm in high school and taking Latin, but I do *plan* to take Japanese in college.
Angelic-faluna: Thank you SOOOO much for reviewing *all* of my chapters!
I honestly didn't think this would attract this much attention! Thank you to all who review! I made you all cookies!! ::Passes out sugar cookies to everybody:: Yes, you will get one for every review you send, so don't delay!! Send a review today!!
*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter Five:
Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly
"The Kokiri Emerald, and the Goron Ruby," Link sighed as he sat at the base of a tree on Hyrule Field. "There's only one more left. I just have absolutely no idea where the Spiritual Stone of Water is..."
Impa had not told Link where the remaining Stone was located and now Link was a confused on where he should go next. He didn't want to go back to the Castle and cause even more trouble for Zelda and Impa; not to mention the guards. And not only that, it was very late at night; Link and the Gorons had partied all night long.
Link pulled his knees to his chest and sighed wearily, "I bet the Deku Tree would've known."
Then Link remembered the Deku Tree's last word to him, I believe in you, Link...
The boy was suddenly overcome with confidence. Link suddenly stood up and said bravely, "Let's go, Navi! We'll do our best to find it!"
Then, Link stopped.
"What is it?" Navi asked.
"I hear music," Link whispered. "But who would play one in the middle of the night?"
Link followed the tune all the way to the middle of Hyrule Field; right up to Lon Lon Ranch.
As Link walked quietly inside, he whispered, "But there's no one here."
He had walked into the corral.
"I bet it's a ghost!" Navi panicked.
Then, out of nowhere, the pony that helped Link, Epona, came up to Link, knocking him over on the soft grass
"Hey it's you from before," Link said as he stood up and nuzzled the pony's (he still didn't know her name) mane. "So you're one of the horses here, huh?"
"Who are you?" said a sweet voice.
Link spun around and saw a redheaded girl sitting on a wooden fence.
Her face lit up as she hopped down and cried happily, "Yay! A customer! It's been forever since someone came here!"
The girl led Link back down to the stables. As they walked she asked Link, "Where are you from?"
Link explained that he was from the forest.
"Oh, so you're a fairy boy from the forest," she replied. "My name's Maron; what's yours?"
"Link," he said. "Actually, we didn't come here for sight-seeing."
But Maron ignored him as she yanked Link into the stables. Inside, Link saw all the horses and cattle Lon Lon Ranch owned. There was also a man tending to the needs of the place. He was Hylian, like Maron, and he wore white overalls with a green shirt. He had a large mustache as well.
"We work all night, me and Mr. Ingo," Maron explained. "Except Dad, though..."
Link and Navi just noticed another man in the barn, sleeping on a pile of straw. He was a rather large man with a mustache like Ingo's. He wore blue overalls and red shirt.
"Hey," Navi said, "that's the man who gave you milk, Link."
"That's my father, Taron," Maron told Link as she walked up to her dad. "Wake up!" she shouted.
Taron woke up with a start. "I'm up, I'm up..." he said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
Maron turned to Link, and handing him a bottle of fresh Lon Lon milk, said sweetly, "Here you go!"
"Um," Link stuttered. "I'm kind of in a hurry... Oh, well. I'll drink it."
Link and Maron left the stables and walked out to the corral. Link sat on the fence and started to play his ocarina while Maron played with Epona, the pony.
"Epona just loves songs and music," Maron whispered.
"That's probably true," Navi said. "Seeing as how she followed your ocarina, Link."
Maron sighed. "I'm tired of doing nothing but work everyday."
"Maron," Link asked. "What happened to your mother?"
"She died when I was little," she answered. "But I'm okay now. Singing helps ease my pain."
"I understand," Link agreed. "My comfort is this ocarina."
"Fairy Boy," Maron said to Link. "Do you have a dream?"
"A dream...?" Link again remembered the Deku Tree's words. "My dream," he continued, "is to see the world."
Link looked up at the moon. He felt a bit of nostalgia rise up from inside him. Link remembered the nights he'd spent with Saria, gazing up the stars and the other celestial beings. Then, Link saw something in front of the bright orb. As it was slowly growing larger, Link could see that it was an owl flying towards the ranch.
It swooped down and rested on the fence, next to Link, who quickly hopped down.
"You seem to have grown a lot, Link!" the humongous bird said: it was speaking!
"What are you?" Link demanded.
"My name is Kaebora Gaebora," the owl said. "You can just call me Kaebora. Believe it or not, Link, I've known you since you were a tiny baby. The Deku Tree and I are old, old friends. Link, the Spiritual Stone of Water is near Zora's Domain."
Link looked at Kaebora.
"If you hold on to my talons," he said. "I'll carry you there."
Link didn't know if he could trust Kaebora or not. But decided, that since he knew the Great Deku Tree, that he could trust him.
"All right," Link obliged. "Take me there!" Link was determined to find the Spiritual Stone.
The owl swooped down and picked Link up off the ground by the boy's shoulders. At first, Link was frightened of the height, but soon adjusted.
"Fairy Boy!" Maron yelled from the ground. "Come back! You better come back!"
And Link, with Kaebora Gaebora's help, soared off in the distance.
Link and Kaebora were flying high above the clouds now. Link was fascinated with the view; everything was gorgeous.
"'You better come back' she says," Kaebora Gaebora chuckled. "You're popular with the ladies, Link."
"Oh, hush!" retorted Link.
"So how's Hyrule from up here?" Kaebora asked.
"It's so pretty! And so big!" the boy gasped. "Everything looks like bugs!"
"And in someone as small as you," the owl said sagely, "lies the power to change the fate of Hyrule. But, actually, from the beginning, it was your destiny. Link, I know that you wished on your own to leave the forest."
"What?" Link said, confused.
Then, without so much as a warning, Kaebora Gaebora let Link fall to earth! Link screamed as he fell, speeding towards the ground. But, luckily, he landed safely in a large lake.
"Before long, Link," Kaebora Gaebora said nostalgically, "you will understand the meaning of those words..."
* * *
"Where am I?" Link groaned. He looked up and saw, sitting right in front of him, what looked like a giant squid. Link freaked out. This creature was very large in size and had flippers for swimming. He also wore a small gold crown on his head. To the right of this creature was a similar-looking one, except this one was much smaller.
"Insolence!" the smaller one yelled at Link. "You are in the presence of King Zora! Show some respect!"
"Is this Zora's Domain?" Link asked nervously.
"Greetings." King Zora addressed Link. "And you are...?"
"I'm Link. King Zora, please tell me where the Spiritual Stone of Water is," he replied. "I heard from Princess Zelda the legend that's passed down from the Royal Family."
"Messenger of the Royal Family," the king said to Link. "Regretfully, I am in no place to do so right now. Lord Jabu-Jabu has swallowed our lovely princess, Ruto.
Seeing Link's confusion, the King's assistant next to him said, "Lord Jabu-Jabu is our protector deity who lives in the lake behind this Domain."
Link looked puzzled. "Your protector swallowed your princess?"
King Zora nodded, saying, "Lately, Lord Jabu-Jabu's been acting strangely. It's probably because Ganondorf came here..."
"Ganondorf was here?" Link gasped. He knew that wasn't a good sign. "Then, what of the Princess?"
"She...is still in the stomach of Lord Jabu-Jabu," the King said somberly. "And here I had chosen the most handsome of all Zoras and was to celebrate their engagement tomorrow!"
"All right," Link smiled. He was about to strike a deal with the King of the Zoras. "How about if I go inside Jabu-Jabu and rescue Princess Ruto, you promise to give me the Spiritual Stone?"
"Oh, that's an easy trade!" King Zora said happily.
"Let's go, Navi!"
"Wait a minute," Ruto's fiancée stopped Link before he went outside. "Please take this." He handed Link a ruby-encrusted boomerang. "It should prove useful to you."
"Thanks," Link replied as he grabbed the weapon and ran off to Zora's Fountain.
When he arrived at the pond, Link saw how large Jabu-Jabu was: he was a full-size whale!
"So this is Lord Jabu-Jabu," Link said lightly.
"I don't see how he could swallow someone like Princess Ruto, though," Navi said.
Link ran up to the whale and immediately began banging the butt of his sword on his mouth, in an attempt to get inside. But not so much as a crack opened.
"Link," Navi interjected, seeing how this was getting them no further. "He's a deity, so you should give him an offering."
"Oh, I see," Link said as he picked up a good-size fish. "Jabu-Jabu, please accept this morsel."
All of a sudden, the whale opened its mouth and sucked Link inside! Link quickly gathered himself together when he was inside and started calling out to Ruto.
"Princess Ruto!" he hollered, his voice echoing slightly. Then, he heard a high-pitched scream. "This way, Navi!" Link and Navi ran into the whale's actual stomach and stopped in his racks; there was a huge monster there...and Princess Ruto!
The monster was a huge electrified jellyfish known in Hyrule as Barinade.
To save Ruto from Barinade's wrath, Link ran in and grabbed her.
When they were safe, Link asked politely, "You're Princess Ruto, right? I'm glade you're okay."
Then, without warning, Ruto slapped Link across the face!
The boy still had stars in his eyes when Ruto hollered, "You are addressing, Ruto, Princess of the Zoras! Name yourself!"
"I'm Link and I promised your father that I would come and save you!"
"My father?" she raged. "I never agreed to that!"
It was in that instant the Link noticed how old Ruto looked; she looked no older than Link himself, ten years old. And her father had already arranged to have her married...!
Link decided not to point that out as he said, stunned, "What are you saying? Everyone's worried about you! Let's hurry and get you home!"
"No!" she said stubbornly. Ruto started running off when Link saw a jellyfish chasing her.
Link shouted, as he went in with his sword, "Watch out!" Link sliced with his sword. But since it was electric, Link was shocked! When the pain stopped and the jellyfish was dead, Link said desperately, "Come with me, please."
Ruto was silent for a moment, as though she were thinking. Finally, she said, "I will if you retrieve that Stone." She pointed under one of Barinade's tentacles; there, Link saw it: the Spiritual Stone! "I dropped it when I was swallowed."
"All right!" Link said, ready to take on Barinade.
Then, surprising both Ruto and Link, Link saw a tentacle wrap itself around Ruto's waist and lifted her high off the ground.
Link gripped his new Boomerang as he said, "Take this!" Link threw the Boomerang and it grabbed the Stone. "Got it!" Link cried happily as he caught the Stone in his hand.
Then, he threw the Boomerang again, aiming for Barinade's mainframe; when it hit, it stunned the beast, causing the electricity to stop flowing. Link unsheathed his sword and jumped up. When he was high, Link sliced Barinade in half, ultimately defeating it.
Link ran up to Ruto.
"What was with you forgetting about me?" she raged.
"Sorry, sorry," Link apologized, offering her a hand.
"I was a tad scared," Ruto confessed sheepishly as Link helped her stand up. "The truth is...I was hiding here."
Link was confused. "Wh-why?"
"My father went on and arranged a marriage without even telling me," she replied. "I do have my own feelings!"
Link sighed. "Being a Princess must be tough. But I'm envious of you. As for my parents, the Deku Tree told me they died, and I never got the chance to meet them. But since you have a worried father, let's get you home."
Link turned to go, expecting Ruto to follow; but he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Ruto.
"This is the Spiritual Stone of Water, Zora's Sapphire," she said. "It's also the engagement ring of the Zoras...and I'm giving it to you!"
Ruto handed the Stone over to Link as he held out his hands in awe! He had finally collected all three Spiritual Stones! Now, all he had to do was give them to Princess Zelda!
Link and Ruto ran outside of Jabu-Jabu's belly. After talking to King Zora, link was on his way to the Castle.
While he was walking on the plains, Link asked Navi, "What's an engagement ring?"
"I didn't know what the hell she was talking about, either, Link," Navi said.
Link shrugged as he walked on. He looked off in the distance and saw black smoke against a clear blue sky. Link stopped as he realized what was on fire: the Castle!
"Hyrule Castle..." he gasped, "is burning!"
Link broke off at a run, praying that Zelda was all right.
*~*~*~*~*
There ya go! Hey, there's only ONE MORE chapter in the child Child Chapters... I don't think I'm gonna separate them into two separate fics because that would just be stupid. I better get writing on those last two chapters from the manga!
Valete, omnes! (Good bye, everyone in Latin)
Responses:
Anyone: I'm sorry to say that I don't speak Japanese, nor am I from Japan. I'm in high school and taking Latin, but I do *plan* to take Japanese in college.
Angelic-faluna: Thank you SOOOO much for reviewing *all* of my chapters!
I honestly didn't think this would attract this much attention! Thank you to all who review! I made you all cookies!! ::Passes out sugar cookies to everybody:: Yes, you will get one for every review you send, so don't delay!! Send a review today!!
*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter Five:
Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly
"The Kokiri Emerald, and the Goron Ruby," Link sighed as he sat at the base of a tree on Hyrule Field. "There's only one more left. I just have absolutely no idea where the Spiritual Stone of Water is..."
Impa had not told Link where the remaining Stone was located and now Link was a confused on where he should go next. He didn't want to go back to the Castle and cause even more trouble for Zelda and Impa; not to mention the guards. And not only that, it was very late at night; Link and the Gorons had partied all night long.
Link pulled his knees to his chest and sighed wearily, "I bet the Deku Tree would've known."
Then Link remembered the Deku Tree's last word to him, I believe in you, Link...
The boy was suddenly overcome with confidence. Link suddenly stood up and said bravely, "Let's go, Navi! We'll do our best to find it!"
Then, Link stopped.
"What is it?" Navi asked.
"I hear music," Link whispered. "But who would play one in the middle of the night?"
Link followed the tune all the way to the middle of Hyrule Field; right up to Lon Lon Ranch.
As Link walked quietly inside, he whispered, "But there's no one here."
He had walked into the corral.
"I bet it's a ghost!" Navi panicked.
Then, out of nowhere, the pony that helped Link, Epona, came up to Link, knocking him over on the soft grass
"Hey it's you from before," Link said as he stood up and nuzzled the pony's (he still didn't know her name) mane. "So you're one of the horses here, huh?"
"Who are you?" said a sweet voice.
Link spun around and saw a redheaded girl sitting on a wooden fence.
Her face lit up as she hopped down and cried happily, "Yay! A customer! It's been forever since someone came here!"
The girl led Link back down to the stables. As they walked she asked Link, "Where are you from?"
Link explained that he was from the forest.
"Oh, so you're a fairy boy from the forest," she replied. "My name's Maron; what's yours?"
"Link," he said. "Actually, we didn't come here for sight-seeing."
But Maron ignored him as she yanked Link into the stables. Inside, Link saw all the horses and cattle Lon Lon Ranch owned. There was also a man tending to the needs of the place. He was Hylian, like Maron, and he wore white overalls with a green shirt. He had a large mustache as well.
"We work all night, me and Mr. Ingo," Maron explained. "Except Dad, though..."
Link and Navi just noticed another man in the barn, sleeping on a pile of straw. He was a rather large man with a mustache like Ingo's. He wore blue overalls and red shirt.
"Hey," Navi said, "that's the man who gave you milk, Link."
"That's my father, Taron," Maron told Link as she walked up to her dad. "Wake up!" she shouted.
Taron woke up with a start. "I'm up, I'm up..." he said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
Maron turned to Link, and handing him a bottle of fresh Lon Lon milk, said sweetly, "Here you go!"
"Um," Link stuttered. "I'm kind of in a hurry... Oh, well. I'll drink it."
Link and Maron left the stables and walked out to the corral. Link sat on the fence and started to play his ocarina while Maron played with Epona, the pony.
"Epona just loves songs and music," Maron whispered.
"That's probably true," Navi said. "Seeing as how she followed your ocarina, Link."
Maron sighed. "I'm tired of doing nothing but work everyday."
"Maron," Link asked. "What happened to your mother?"
"She died when I was little," she answered. "But I'm okay now. Singing helps ease my pain."
"I understand," Link agreed. "My comfort is this ocarina."
"Fairy Boy," Maron said to Link. "Do you have a dream?"
"A dream...?" Link again remembered the Deku Tree's words. "My dream," he continued, "is to see the world."
Link looked up at the moon. He felt a bit of nostalgia rise up from inside him. Link remembered the nights he'd spent with Saria, gazing up the stars and the other celestial beings. Then, Link saw something in front of the bright orb. As it was slowly growing larger, Link could see that it was an owl flying towards the ranch.
It swooped down and rested on the fence, next to Link, who quickly hopped down.
"You seem to have grown a lot, Link!" the humongous bird said: it was speaking!
"What are you?" Link demanded.
"My name is Kaebora Gaebora," the owl said. "You can just call me Kaebora. Believe it or not, Link, I've known you since you were a tiny baby. The Deku Tree and I are old, old friends. Link, the Spiritual Stone of Water is near Zora's Domain."
Link looked at Kaebora.
"If you hold on to my talons," he said. "I'll carry you there."
Link didn't know if he could trust Kaebora or not. But decided, that since he knew the Great Deku Tree, that he could trust him.
"All right," Link obliged. "Take me there!" Link was determined to find the Spiritual Stone.
The owl swooped down and picked Link up off the ground by the boy's shoulders. At first, Link was frightened of the height, but soon adjusted.
"Fairy Boy!" Maron yelled from the ground. "Come back! You better come back!"
And Link, with Kaebora Gaebora's help, soared off in the distance.
Link and Kaebora were flying high above the clouds now. Link was fascinated with the view; everything was gorgeous.
"'You better come back' she says," Kaebora Gaebora chuckled. "You're popular with the ladies, Link."
"Oh, hush!" retorted Link.
"So how's Hyrule from up here?" Kaebora asked.
"It's so pretty! And so big!" the boy gasped. "Everything looks like bugs!"
"And in someone as small as you," the owl said sagely, "lies the power to change the fate of Hyrule. But, actually, from the beginning, it was your destiny. Link, I know that you wished on your own to leave the forest."
"What?" Link said, confused.
Then, without so much as a warning, Kaebora Gaebora let Link fall to earth! Link screamed as he fell, speeding towards the ground. But, luckily, he landed safely in a large lake.
"Before long, Link," Kaebora Gaebora said nostalgically, "you will understand the meaning of those words..."
* * *
"Where am I?" Link groaned. He looked up and saw, sitting right in front of him, what looked like a giant squid. Link freaked out. This creature was very large in size and had flippers for swimming. He also wore a small gold crown on his head. To the right of this creature was a similar-looking one, except this one was much smaller.
"Insolence!" the smaller one yelled at Link. "You are in the presence of King Zora! Show some respect!"
"Is this Zora's Domain?" Link asked nervously.
"Greetings." King Zora addressed Link. "And you are...?"
"I'm Link. King Zora, please tell me where the Spiritual Stone of Water is," he replied. "I heard from Princess Zelda the legend that's passed down from the Royal Family."
"Messenger of the Royal Family," the king said to Link. "Regretfully, I am in no place to do so right now. Lord Jabu-Jabu has swallowed our lovely princess, Ruto.
Seeing Link's confusion, the King's assistant next to him said, "Lord Jabu-Jabu is our protector deity who lives in the lake behind this Domain."
Link looked puzzled. "Your protector swallowed your princess?"
King Zora nodded, saying, "Lately, Lord Jabu-Jabu's been acting strangely. It's probably because Ganondorf came here..."
"Ganondorf was here?" Link gasped. He knew that wasn't a good sign. "Then, what of the Princess?"
"She...is still in the stomach of Lord Jabu-Jabu," the King said somberly. "And here I had chosen the most handsome of all Zoras and was to celebrate their engagement tomorrow!"
"All right," Link smiled. He was about to strike a deal with the King of the Zoras. "How about if I go inside Jabu-Jabu and rescue Princess Ruto, you promise to give me the Spiritual Stone?"
"Oh, that's an easy trade!" King Zora said happily.
"Let's go, Navi!"
"Wait a minute," Ruto's fiancée stopped Link before he went outside. "Please take this." He handed Link a ruby-encrusted boomerang. "It should prove useful to you."
"Thanks," Link replied as he grabbed the weapon and ran off to Zora's Fountain.
When he arrived at the pond, Link saw how large Jabu-Jabu was: he was a full-size whale!
"So this is Lord Jabu-Jabu," Link said lightly.
"I don't see how he could swallow someone like Princess Ruto, though," Navi said.
Link ran up to the whale and immediately began banging the butt of his sword on his mouth, in an attempt to get inside. But not so much as a crack opened.
"Link," Navi interjected, seeing how this was getting them no further. "He's a deity, so you should give him an offering."
"Oh, I see," Link said as he picked up a good-size fish. "Jabu-Jabu, please accept this morsel."
All of a sudden, the whale opened its mouth and sucked Link inside! Link quickly gathered himself together when he was inside and started calling out to Ruto.
"Princess Ruto!" he hollered, his voice echoing slightly. Then, he heard a high-pitched scream. "This way, Navi!" Link and Navi ran into the whale's actual stomach and stopped in his racks; there was a huge monster there...and Princess Ruto!
The monster was a huge electrified jellyfish known in Hyrule as Barinade.
To save Ruto from Barinade's wrath, Link ran in and grabbed her.
When they were safe, Link asked politely, "You're Princess Ruto, right? I'm glade you're okay."
Then, without warning, Ruto slapped Link across the face!
The boy still had stars in his eyes when Ruto hollered, "You are addressing, Ruto, Princess of the Zoras! Name yourself!"
"I'm Link and I promised your father that I would come and save you!"
"My father?" she raged. "I never agreed to that!"
It was in that instant the Link noticed how old Ruto looked; she looked no older than Link himself, ten years old. And her father had already arranged to have her married...!
Link decided not to point that out as he said, stunned, "What are you saying? Everyone's worried about you! Let's hurry and get you home!"
"No!" she said stubbornly. Ruto started running off when Link saw a jellyfish chasing her.
Link shouted, as he went in with his sword, "Watch out!" Link sliced with his sword. But since it was electric, Link was shocked! When the pain stopped and the jellyfish was dead, Link said desperately, "Come with me, please."
Ruto was silent for a moment, as though she were thinking. Finally, she said, "I will if you retrieve that Stone." She pointed under one of Barinade's tentacles; there, Link saw it: the Spiritual Stone! "I dropped it when I was swallowed."
"All right!" Link said, ready to take on Barinade.
Then, surprising both Ruto and Link, Link saw a tentacle wrap itself around Ruto's waist and lifted her high off the ground.
Link gripped his new Boomerang as he said, "Take this!" Link threw the Boomerang and it grabbed the Stone. "Got it!" Link cried happily as he caught the Stone in his hand.
Then, he threw the Boomerang again, aiming for Barinade's mainframe; when it hit, it stunned the beast, causing the electricity to stop flowing. Link unsheathed his sword and jumped up. When he was high, Link sliced Barinade in half, ultimately defeating it.
Link ran up to Ruto.
"What was with you forgetting about me?" she raged.
"Sorry, sorry," Link apologized, offering her a hand.
"I was a tad scared," Ruto confessed sheepishly as Link helped her stand up. "The truth is...I was hiding here."
Link was confused. "Wh-why?"
"My father went on and arranged a marriage without even telling me," she replied. "I do have my own feelings!"
Link sighed. "Being a Princess must be tough. But I'm envious of you. As for my parents, the Deku Tree told me they died, and I never got the chance to meet them. But since you have a worried father, let's get you home."
Link turned to go, expecting Ruto to follow; but he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Ruto.
"This is the Spiritual Stone of Water, Zora's Sapphire," she said. "It's also the engagement ring of the Zoras...and I'm giving it to you!"
Ruto handed the Stone over to Link as he held out his hands in awe! He had finally collected all three Spiritual Stones! Now, all he had to do was give them to Princess Zelda!
Link and Ruto ran outside of Jabu-Jabu's belly. After talking to King Zora, link was on his way to the Castle.
While he was walking on the plains, Link asked Navi, "What's an engagement ring?"
"I didn't know what the hell she was talking about, either, Link," Navi said.
Link shrugged as he walked on. He looked off in the distance and saw black smoke against a clear blue sky. Link stopped as he realized what was on fire: the Castle!
"Hyrule Castle..." he gasped, "is burning!"
Link broke off at a run, praying that Zelda was all right.
*~*~*~*~*
There ya go! Hey, there's only ONE MORE chapter in the child Child Chapters... I don't think I'm gonna separate them into two separate fics because that would just be stupid. I better get writing on those last two chapters from the manga!
Valete, omnes! (Good bye, everyone in Latin)
