Chapter 2: Link's Adventure
Link played the Song of Gales with the Wind Waker to transport the King of Red Lions and himself to Forest Haven, ware they would go see the Grate Deku Tree. Acording to the King of Red Lions, he had some matterails that would create somesort of seal that would prevent Gannodorf from taking over Hyrule forever!
When they finnaly landed in front of Forest Haven, Link jumpped off his boat and onto land.
"So, what exacally do I need?" Link asked the King of Red Lions.
"You need the seed of a deku shrub, also known as a Duku nut, a forset firfly, a bottle of blue fire, a Zora fish, a poe, and a bottel of water from the Lost Woods. But, the Grate Deku Tree will most likly only have the Deku Nut But, he may also have the the blue fire; so ask for that as well. And catch a forest firfly as well."
"But, ware am I supposed to get the other things at? I've never heard of the Lost Woods before. And I really don't think I can cach a poe inside of a bottel. They're way to big!"
"Not in the past they aren't. Once you defeat a poe, it's sprit wil become small enough for you to cach." He then nodded off twords the island next to Forest Haven that had a huge amout of trees on it. "You see that, Link?" he said. "The place where you had to rescure the Kork from? In the past, that is called the Lost Woods. You can eighther go back in there right now and get some water from there, or, while you're in the past, you can go to the Lost woods and get some there. In which I recomend you do because, in the past, the Korki Forest- now known as Forest Haven- is inside of the Lost Woods. So you can just get it there. And you will have to be going to the Korki Forest anyway, so you might as well do that."
"Why will I be going to Korki Forest?"
"Because, Link, there is a sage that lives there that will help put the seal together for you. In order to put together a seal that powerful, you must have the right kind of magic to do so. And she is a very powerful sage."
"Ok, well, what's her name then? So I know who I'm looking for." Link asked.
"I will tell you that when before you leave. Right now, it is not important. For the time being, you must go see the Grate Deku Tree to get your supplies. But remember, be as polite as you possibly can."
Link nodded and then headed twords the entrance of Forest Haven.
When he got inside, he headed right twords the Grate Deku Tree, ignoring the Korks that were trying to greet him at the entrance. The forset itself wasn't too big, it was just really tall because the Grate Deku Tree was so large. Link swore he was at least the size of Outset island! Maybe even bigger!
"Grate Deku Tree!" Link said when in front of him." It's me, Link. I have a favor to ask you: do you by any chance have a Deku nut?"
"I am so sorry, Link, but I do not. Deku shubs have been extinct more than three hundred years ago."
'Oh grate! Just super!' Link thought to himself. 'How am supposed to get one now? Hey, wait a minute,... if I go to the past, I can get one there! I'm pretty sure I'll be going back about 1,000 years ago, maybe even more, so I'll be able to get it when I leave! Then I can go find the sage and somehow convince her to help me and then I can--'
"Is there anything else I can do for you, Link?"
"Huh? Wha?" Link realised that he had been standing there for about a minute, just thinking. He quickly stood up strait and began speaking again. "Oh, yeah. Do you buy any chance have blue fire?"
"... I beleive I don't. Ever since one Kork actsidently tiped a jar of it over, and almost set our forest on fire, I have baned it to protect us. I watted to make sure none was left so I told them to cast it into the ocean."
Link sighed. "Well, thanks anyway." He startted to go back and tell his boat the bad news, when the Grate Deku Tree abruptly stopped him.
"But I do have a Zora fish you can use."
"Huh? But... how did you know that I needed--"
"I know everything that goes on inside, or the outside of my forset, Link," He said while laughing. "I heard you talking to your boat right outside, and I know exacally what you need. And I know everything about you having to go back into the past to fix the fuchure. So, if you go over to that pond over there," he nodded of twords a small pond off to the right of him, "you will find one there, and also some forest fireflies."
"Thankyou soooo much! I apreicate your help! Is there anything that I can do to repay you? Anything at all?"
"Yes. There is one thing you can do for me: I have this key that I have had for awhile now, but I cannot find a keyhole that will alow it to fit though. One of the Korks found it high up in a tree, and then gave it to me. But I have no use for it.
" When you get to the past, I think this will come in handy. And, I'd apresheate it if you could take it off my hands."
There was a small thoud on the ground beneif Link's feet. He looked down to see a small brownish golden key. It was tarnished and rusty, most likely from old age. But it also looked like it was made from wood; a very hard wood. On the very top of the Key was a small desighn that looked like a six- well, at least to Link it did- and was outlined in red with a small green gewel in the middel of it.
In it's base, it was still brown but with two golen stripes going from the end to middel, ending out to a small Triforce. But what really made the key look extra special was that, at it's holder, there were four gewels, each bigger than the next. The biggest was the green, then the red and yellow one were about the same size, and the blue one was the smallest.
Link picked it up.
"Wow! It's so... pretty. Thankyou, Grate Deku Tree," he said with awe and amazement. He had never seen anything so nice before- well, at least on a key.
'It must open up something really important for it to be this nice,' he thought.
"Well, you're quite wellcome," the Grate Deku Tree said with a smile. " I hope it brings some use to you, Link. But, you better get going! I can already fell that something bad will happen if you do not go soon. You best be off."
Link nodded and headed off to the small pond to cach the Zora fish and the forset firely. Of course, there was only one Zora fish in whole pond, so it was difficult to cach since the pond was so big- it kept slipping away from him. But there were many forest firelies, so it didn't take long for Link to cach one of those.
When he finnialy got both of the items that he needed in his bottels- he always kept his bottels in his boat incase he needed them- he said goodbye to the Grate Deku Tree, also the Korks that crossed his path, and then headded off to his boat to go back to Outset island...
II-
Tetra was sitting at her desk, staring at a pice of paper with words scribbeled here and there over pictures of moutains and rivers she wasn't fimilair with. She had already discovered every tresure at sea, and on land- but only because she was able to find her way around with maps and charts that she had found long ago. So why couln't she desifier the one right in front of her? She had been at it for what seemed like an eternity! But she wasn't even close to being done.
She had told the crew about a week ago to stop at Windfall island for supplies, and a rest from the sea itself. But she had told the crew that they probally weren't going to leave the island for about another three days or so, so they weren't in any hurry and were taking there sweet time to load the ship up.
She sighed, stood up, and picked the old map up and put it back inside of her chest beside her bed- ware she only put her most valuable tresure in there.
Tetra didn't look much like a piraite, heck she was the only girl that was willing to live out at sea in seach for tresure that might not even exist! She had the clothes of a pirate: a blue vest, a white atire with a belt around the waist, boots, and a red bandanna around her neck. But as for her hair, when you're out at sea, if you let it down, it gets in the way, so she always put it in a bun on top of her head. She had the same bright blonde hair as Link and Aril did, and even the same beutiful blue eyes! But, most of the time, you really couln't see them becuse she was bossing everyone around- telling the crew what to do and how to do it- and they were to transfixed on her directions that they didn't have time to look at them.
But she didn't care. She liked bossing people around. It was her job as the captain of the ship to do so.
"Stupid map," she said to herself as she slammed the lid to the chest down as hard as she could. "I've been working on that map for over five years and I still can't figure out where it leads to or what it's for! This just isn't fair!"
She kicked the chest as hard as she could to let out all her anger. But it only made her foot hurt really bad! But she only whinced a littel bit at the pain. As a pirate, she had learned to deal with pain- and this was nothing she couln't handel. Sure it would hurt for a couple hours or so, but she'd felt worse.
Kock, Knock
"Hhm? Who is it? What do you want?" she asked the stranger at the door even though she knew it was just one of the crew members.
"Miss Tetra, ther's a visitor for you outside," came the muffeled voice behind the door.
"Tell him to go away. I don't want to see anyone right now."
"But he says he has an offer of a lifetime!"
"I'm not interseted! Now for the last time, tell him to go away!"
"But he said something about some tresure map that you have and he knows ware it leads to."
'What?' she thought. 'How could somebody know about my tresure map? I've never told anyone about it before! Not even my crew! So how could some... stranger know about my map? Unless it's...'
"Is it by any chance that brat Link, again? You know what he looks like, right? Dresses in green, blonde hair, short- about my hight-, long pointy hat..."
"No it's defintly not him, Miss Tetra. This guy's dressed all in black and insits on seeing you, and only you- no one else. Pretty suspishious if I may so myself, Miss Tetra."
"Not Link, eh? What's his name then?" She was starting to dubt him of his word. Link didn't always ware green. Sometimes he wore a blue shirt and some orange caprise. He came up to her one day dressed like that when she stopped at his island for supplies and almost didn't reconise him! So what was stopping him from waring all black?
"That's the thing, Miss Tetra, he won't tell me his name."
'All right, this is getting weird. Why would someone want to see me this early in the morning and not be Link? ...Could he have been right all along about somone finding out my secret about being Zelda? No. That couldn't be it. It must be something else...'
"All right. I'll go see him. Tell him I'll be right out." She stood up and walked twords the door, ready to go out.
"But Miss Tetra, we don't even know who this guy is! He won't even let us see his face! He could be--"
"I don't care who he is!" She opened her door to her room and slammed the door behind her, facing her crew mwmbr. "I don't care if he's the world's biggest murderer! I'm going to go see him, and there's nothing that can stop me from doing so!" She marched up the stairs and up twords the deck, passing the very frightened pirate that had tried to warn her.
When she reached the deck, she saw that three pirates were suronding someone dressed all in black. This had to be the person the pirate was talking about.
"Alright," she said as she waved her hand for the pirates to move out. "He's no thret to us. Stop surronding him and give his some air! Now leave. I belive he asked to only see me. You seached him didn't you?"
"Yes, we did, Miss Tetra." said one of the pirate gaurds that had been surrounding him.
"Good. I have my sword with me anyway, so he can't hurt me."
She aproched the man in black after the gurds left and asked "Alright, who are you and what do you want? I'm very busy you know."
"Yes, very busy indeed," he said in a sly tone. "You're trying to desifer a map, aren't you, Tetra?"
"That's Miss Tetra to you! Now I'll ask you again, who are you? And how did you know what I was doing?"
"Oh how rude of me. Sorry, but you alredy know who I am. You know me very well, actually."
"What are you talking about? I have no idea who you are! Now, you either tell me who you are or I'll force you off my ship."
"Heh heh," he said while smiling. She couldn't see his face, but Tetra knew she heard that kind of laghing somewhere before. "You can just call me the King of the Groudo. And I know everything about you Miss Tetra. That is how I knew what you were doing.
"But enough about that. I have a deal to make with you: I'll tell you ware that map leads to if you follow Link tommrow."
"What do you mean 'follow Link tommrow'? Where's he going? What dose that have to do with anything?"
"I wil only explain everything to you if agree to my littel deal. Now, do we have an areement?"
She didn't know what to say. If she agreeded to this so-called deal, she didn't know what to expect. But if she disareed, she wouldn't know where her map lead to. And she woldn't know what Link was up to- if he was even up to something. But since she was a pirate, she was used to making agreements like these, so why not?
"Alright you so-called 'King', I agree. So what exacally do I have to do?"
He then gave an evil smile but, since she couldn't see his face, she didn't see it.
I-
Link had made it back to Outset Island by playing the song of Gales once again. He made his way to the dock and climed out.
"You know what you have to do, right?" asked the King of Red Lions.
"Yup. Shure do," Link answered. "Tommrow morning, I have to leave for Hyrule Castle and bring all my items with me, including food to last for about a good week or so. And I have to make sure I have enough magic with me to last for a loooong time."
"And?"
"And I have to make sure that no one knows where I'm going or what I'm doing."
"Good. As long as do that, you should be fine for tommrow. Now you should go get some rest. Tommrow will be a big day for you."
Link nodded. He was glad he was finnaly going to get some rest. He was up last night and he had woken up early. All that was on his mind right now was getting some sleep. He turned around to back home, and there, standing right behind him, was no other than Aril.
"Ack! What are you doing here!" Link said startteled. "I thought you were still asleep!"
"No way, Big Brother! Do you even know what time it is?"
Link, actually, had no idea what time it was. He looked at his wach and that it was already 8:30!
"See? Alredy 8:30. Now, where are you going tommrow? I wanna know!"
"Well, uh, you see I, uh, can't really, uh, tell you..."
"He's going to Hyrule Castel tommrow," said Link's boat.
"Huh! But I thought you said--"
"Oh you are! Cool! Can you bring me back a present? Please?"
"Of course he will," said Link's boat with much reasurence. "Why wouldn't he?"
"Alright! Thanks Big brother! I'm going to go home and tell Grandma!" She skipped away happily over to her house.
"No, wait a second! Aril! Come back here! Aril!" But, she didn't seem to hear him calling for her back. He then turned over to his boat.
"What is your problem!" Link yelled. "I thought you said that no one should know ware I'm going! No one!"
"Calm down, Link. Your family has the right to know ware you're going. And Aril is part of your family."
"Ok, then," Link said after he calmed down a little. "But, why did you tell her that I was going to get her a present?"
"Well I only assumed you would. After all, you are her brother."
"Fine, then. I'll get her something." He turned around and started walking home. "But don't trick me like that again, ok?" he called over his shoulder.
A/N: Yay! Chapter two is done! Normally, I would answer my reviewers with some sort of responce, But my hands are really sore right now and my eyes hurt from staring at the screen for too long. So I'll just tell you guys this:
For all of you who said something about my spelling, I'm sorry about that because #1, I'm a horrible speller; #2, I'm using Word pad to type all this and it dosn't have spell check.
For all of you said something about hurring up with the next chapter, just be pacientok? I don't type very fast and I have lots of homework to do now that it's getting closer to the end of the school year, so I don't really have time to type anymore. But after April's done with, I'll have lots of time to type- I hope!
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