"Yes! Thank you!" Christi told him with uncharacteristic enthusiasm.

"Only she is working, I assume?" The Goron asked, still looking bored.

Ariel nodded, "Yeah, both of us."

"We don't get that much business, so you go work in the back room." He ordered as he brought in a chair to watch her of them carefully, to be sure she wasn't going to rob him blind.

"Okay, talk to you later Christi."

"Wohoo, I get work experience for once I turn 16!" Christi said to her.

"Haha, I didn't think of that." Ariel replied. She walked out the store to try and find Link, a shield in hand.

After she left, Christi turned to the Goron and said, "What am I to do boss?"

"Go clean out the backroom I said! Its dusty and cluttered, so clean it good!"

Mentally Christi groaned, but did as she was told and walked into the backroom. It was filthy and cluttered just as the Goron said except worse!

"Well, I'm gonna be here a long time. I hope they'll be okay..."

Back over to Ariel and Link...

"Ariel!" called Link seeing his friend fast walking out of the hallway. She looked worried and anxious at the same time.

"Come on, we gotta hurry."

"Why? Where's Christi?"

"She's working, we gotta go without her. Hurry and talk to Darunia"

"If you say so.."Link trailed off.

"Yeah, I say so! You're the hero, have some common sense!"

"Hero?" He replied, wide eyed.

"Um.. yeah." Ariel coughed.

Link smiled, his ego was boosted, "Since when am I hero?"

"Well, you see..err..um...yeah.." Ariel trailed off uncomfortably, "Let's move on! We need to talk to Darunia! Well...YOU do, anyway."

Aren't you the eloquent, one? E.T sneered.

"SHUT UP!"
"Link, go see Darunia NOW!" said Ariel violently and clearly annoyed. One thing about Ariel she thought everyone needed to know was that she was not to be tampered with, and they were obviously pushing her buttons.

Link stepped back at her sudden outburst "Okay, okay. Wait for me outside."

Damn Ariel, don't scare the poor kid!" said E.T.

"E.T. you better quite while you're ahead." said Ariel coldly.

Back to our little shop cleaner...

"EWW! What the hell did THIS used to be?" said Christi holding up a little gray and green cloud looking puff of fur. She wasn't even halfway through and already the things she saw in the room disgusted her.

"I think it's a rat.."said the Goron chuckling.

"EEEEEIIEK! I touched it, I touched a dead rat!" she shrieked. "Damnit you guys, you better get back soon!"

The Goron glared at her like she was diseased, "Who are you talking to?"

"No one in particular." She answered, but it didn't stop the Goron's dirty glare. She sighed, and saw something move out of the corner of her eye. "Did that bowl just move!"

"Mmm..." He looked over at an old soup bowl that Christi pointed at. It wasn't moving. "I'm going to go check on any customers..." The Goron said, pulling something out of his pocket that looked like a carton of cigarettes.

"And now he thinks I'm insane." Christi grunted. "This is really effin' gross, you know that! When was the last time you cleaned this place you big, fat, pig!" She called after him, knowing very well that the Goron wouldn't hear her.

"Frickin' sicko." she muttered. She looked back at the bowl and noticed it had moved across one side of the room to the other.

"Oh shit"

Back to Ariel and the 'hero'

Ariel was sitting next to the door to Darunias room, humming Nickleback "Photograph".

Are you bored yet? Said E.T."

"Well, yes but you don't have to rub it in..."

Alright alright, say...how long does it take to ask a guy about a stupid monster and rock?

"The world may never know," said Ariel now craving a Tootsie Pop. She got up dusted off her blue tunic and started walking around, but stopped when she noticed a patch of bomb plants. She smiled evilly and walked towards them.

She unsheathed her sword that Christi had chosen out for her and took a swing at a bomb plant. "Haha, this is fun! No wonder my brother always used to do this." I wonder if I'm strong enough to pick it up... She thought about a second before she decided to put her plan into action. Reaching down to uproot the plant, she pulled it up with all of her strength.

"Hey hey hey, those things can explode any second!" E.T warned.

"You don't know much about timing do you?" Ariel asked, throwing the plant against a nearby wall about a second before it exploded.

"Show off."

"Smart-ass."

"A what now?" Link said, appearing seemingly out of nowhere.

"Don't sneak up like that!" Ariel told him, recovering from jumping up out of shock.

"Well, lets get going. I thought you said you were in--HEY!" said Link ducking not a minute too soon as a bomb came whirling toward him and exploding. "Next time warn me!"

Ariel just chuckled and trotted off. "You're too slow! Keep up your guard! You'll need to for the temple!"

Be nice, Ariel. Said E.T.

Back in the store...

"Whew! Half of this junk is cleaned up but I still got all that repulsive crap to go." She wiped a beat of sweat away from the side of her face.

"ARE YOU DONE YET!" yelled the Goron.

She resisted the urge to tell him off and kept cleaning. Everyone in a while glancing at the soup bowl that kept moving.