Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda. Nintendo does. Your surprised?
Author's Note: Thanks for your reviews. I am going to do my best on keeping an anatomy on fish but I'm not very good on that. Also the way Link enters Jabu-Jabu may not be the same as the game but tell me what you think of it. And if you guys are Ruto haters, please keep it to yourself. I don't support her and Link but I think she is a decent character.
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Ocarina of Time: Rebirth
Chapter Twenty-One: Jabu-Jabu's Belly
After making a quick stop back by Camile's shop and buying that survival kit Link took off toward the palace. He soon arrived at the Zora Palace once again several watched as he shoved his way through the crowds that had not been permitted to see Lord Jabu-Jabu. Link soon reached the doors and the two guards requested once again he had over his weapons. Link wouldn't be able to survive without them so he did the only thing he could, he swiftly drew his sword and sliced both spears in half then pushed through. They gave chase on Link as he ran for the throne room. He reached it just as the two guards caught him by the shoulders.
The room was full of Zoras who wore robes apparently they were from the Water Temple and the Zora priest he had heard babble about while hanging around Zora's Domain. Ronto looked at him and then to the guards "Whats going on?" he demanded to know, the young Zora truly was worthy of his position dispit his age. The guards looked up "This outsider rushed through the gate without handing over his weapons." Link growled getting one arm free and digging into the Sacred Realm. He tossed the bottle that contained Ruto's Note at Ronto who caught it with lightning speed "Real cute Hylian." he said. Link growled "Read it you bonehead!" he shouted.
Ronto read over it and his eyes widened "Oh my Goddesses. Release him." he demanded. The guards without question released Link who retrieved his bottle, Ronto took the note to the King. The King as if by some miracle jumped up in surprise dispit his size "This is definitely my daughter's hand writing!" he shouted. He looked over it "Jabu-Jabu's Belly?! What the hell is this?!" he bellowed. Link crossed his arms "She was swallowed by Lord Jabu-Jabu your majesty." the King shook his head "He'd never do that!" he shouted. Suddenly a Zora who appeared to be a doctor spoke "Don't forget that he has been very sick as of late. Maybe he didn't mean to." he said.
The King rolled up the letter and placed it in the folds of his cape "Well we'd better organize a search party. But we're going to have to wait." Link gasped at this and stepped forward "What is there to wait?! She needs our help!" he shouted. The King looked at him "Watch the volume of your voice boy. We cannot enter the fountain until it has been purified of the foreign aura from the outsider." Link was about to demand what that was supposed to mean and Ronto spoke. He cleared his throat "The Gerudo King was hear earlier to request a favor from Jabu-Jabu. He wasn't supposed to even enter the fountain. Outsiders are forbidden to enter the sacred ground."
Link growled as this clinching his fist, Ronto looked at him "Ruto is tough, she will survive until we can get to her, but going into a guardian isn't an easy task." Link suddenly rushed up the ramp to the throne standing at the entrance where two soldiers held him back, he pulled out and tossed them to the ground with the power of the Goron Bracelet. Link glared at the room "You guys don't seem to understand! Gannondorf is responsible for all of this! He was involved in the death of the Deku Tree and will soon be after much more!" Link got even more serious "What if your princess dies?!" he growled.
The King was about the speak when the priest spoke up, the old customs had a strong grip on the royal family "The commandments must be obeyed!" he shouted, the guards approached Link. Link swiftly grabbed his staff and swung hard knocking them both away, he then turned down the hall looking back "Hurph! Stop speaking as if I care!" he shouted before running down the hall. The guards didn't follow as the priest shook his head, Ronto narrowed his eyes "You guys are really stupid." he said simply as he walked up. Ronto ran into the hall just as the gates shut tight. The priest looked narrowing his eyes "Get a group of soldiers ready. I want that outsider arrested and I have serious concerns on Captain Ronto's actions." he said. The King was simply depressed.
Link ran down the water filled passage way the water splashing up from each running step he made. He checked himself over as he ran, he now had three of those powerful bottles and two were filled with Red Potion. This placed him even with Garen at least as he had gotten one from his house when they were in Kakariko. Such well made bottles could probably even hold fire if it was needed. He tightened the straps on his backpack and made sure the compartment that held the spiritual stones was zipped up securely. If he died in here he would make sure they could be hard for Gannon to get to.
Link soon came out of the cave into a large open area that appeared to be just a gigantic pond, but the creature that sat in the middle really caught Link's attention. It was some sort of a large fish, he believed that a book he read once that it was a whale, a fish that had to breath air. Link stepped forward "Woah." he said admiring the animal. Suddenly he heard the sound of metal against metal and looked back to see Ronto standing there "Please understand that I cannot allow you to continue. Ruto is my responsibility." he said. Link gripped his staff not wanting to kill anybody "Why don't we work together and get her out."
Ronto shook his head "I cannot. Defend yourself." he said. He then came at Link swinging his sword upwards. Link quickly brought up his staff and it was sent from his hands, it flew through the air and landed in a cave that was in the cliff. He then noticed a strange glow Ronto stopped for a second "You should treat that weapon with more care. The Ice Cavern has a way of sweeping precious weapons away." Link looked back as the glow faded then he remembered the elements "Ice Cavern?" Link smiled before turning and running toward the cavern along the ridge.
Ronto followed jumping past Lord Jabu-Jabu. Link jumped into the pond and started swimming soon reaching the caves edge, he managed to drive the Deku Knife into the soft rock wall and pull himself up. Ronto's superior agility and speed as a Zora made it easy for him to just jump out of the water and after Link. Link dashed down the cave and noticed why they called it the Ice Cavern, thick sheets of ice covered the wall. He then found the staff impaled halfway into a block of ice.
Ronto came running as Link grabbed the staff, he swung swiftly parrying his sword, Link then swiftly kicked him back. Link then brought up the staff a light blue glow coming around it "Winter's Cruelty!" he shouted swinging it. Ronto quickly raised his sword to block it, the staff smashed into his sword. Ronto was shocked as he was flung back all the way into Jabu-Jabu's pool, with the discharge of freezing energy and the added power of the Goron Bracelet it was more than enough. Link smiled with this he only had four skills left to collect.
Link ran back to Jabu-Jabu's altar, Ronto managed to follow and quickly busted off the large piece of ice on his chest. Link raised the staff "Ronto I don't want them to have to chip your corpse out of an ice block!" he shouted. Ronto growled "Bring it on!" he shouted. Link swung the staff again and a powerful gust of ice flew from the gem on the end. Ronto quickly moved out of the way and it struck Jabu-Jabu's nose. The mammoth whale shook it's head trying to brush off the sudden cold sensation, this involved opening it's mouth. Link saw his window and took it, he ran past Ronto knocking him over and dove inside just as the jaws slammed shut. Ronto growled as he knew that he had to do something.
Link got up brushing the saliva off his cloths, the ground he stood on then started moving "Whoa?!" he gasped as he jumped farther back as Jabu-Jabu felt around his mouth with his tongue. Link brushed off the horrible smell as he reached into his side back and struck one of the flares he had gotten from Camile still it wasn't as convenient as it could be "Navi. Why is it your not around when I can actually use you." Link soon came upon a wall that looked like it would open. He looked around then spotted what looked like very soft flesh, like winced as he reached out, almost as if tickling it. Amazingly this caused the wall to open.
Link walked through and found a large hole that obviously was part of his system, he made his way around the hole when suddenly he spotted something. Something that glowed blue suddenly flew at him, he ducked out of the way as a strange jellyfish struck the wall. He listened and heard Jabu-Jabu moan in pain. Link growled as he retracted his staff and ran the creature through with his sword, this turned out to be a very bad idea as the second he did this several volts of electricity were sent through his body.
"ARRRGGGGHHHH!!" Link screamed before falling back. The jellyfish died but left him in alot of pain. Link looked at his sword, he had learned that his sword was sharp enough to slice through quite a number of things, he sheathed it knowing that he would have to stick to his staff for now. The downside was that the more he used it's powers the weaker he got. He stood to his feet picking the flare up and walked through the next artery door.
Meanwhile outside Lord Jabu-Jabu...Ronto looked at Jabu-Jabu wondering how Link was doing in his search for Ruto. Now that the large deity was sleeping it would be impossible for them to enter. The doctor pulled away from Jabu-Jabu's gills he was worried "Jabu-Jabu is in alot of pain. He's been sick before. And I've treated all of the race's how should I put this....'active' guardians including the owl and before he passed the great dodongo." Ronto grabbed the Hylian doctor by the collar "Your lucky we're even letting you in here. Now out with it."
The professor was the younger brother of the one at the Lakeside Laboratory but didn't have his experience in aquatic life however he could tell when it was coming. "There is some sort of parasite in your guardian's system. If it isn't digested or killed within the next day or so Jabu-Jabu will die for sure." everybody gasped. The priest crossed his arms "This is all that child's fault." Ronto looked at the priest with a glare "Well if Link isn't back by tomorrow morning, I'm going in." he said before walking back into the domain.
Link quietly moved through the next passage of Jabu-Jabu's gigantic digestive system trying his best not to gag on the horrible smell invading his nostrils. He now found himself in another chamber only this one seemed alot more stable than the mouth or throat, he had just made his way down the esophagus nearly falling into Jabu-Jabu's lungs but he managed to get past. This chamber looked like one of the stomachs but it seemed that there were no acids of any kind around. Obviously sickness had dried it out, he then noticed a strange green tendril going down through one of the many holes in the fleshy floor.
Before Link could question this he noticed something else, a figure standing in the darkness. Link struck another one of his flares and walked closer, it turned out to be a young zora girl no older than himself. As with all her race she was basically but not nothing, private was exposed. She was a shade of light blue with some areas of darker blue on her back. Like all zoras fins struck out from her arms, legs and back but unlike Ronto they were still growing and could not be used in combat. She looked at Link raised a single hand to shield off the glare from the light. Her eyes were a beautiful indigo blue and dispite the fact she wasn't human Link had to admit she was fairer than the other zoras. Even beautiful if he had to say.
Link walked forward and spoke "The popular Princess Ruto I presume." he said and was about to introduce himself when she snapped "What are you doing here?! How did you get in to the fountain, outsider?!" Link stepped back from the feisty zora. He crossed his arms at her ill attitude "I found a message in a bottle requesting rescue." he announced. She stepped back "I have no idea what your talking about." she said turning her head away from him "Leave now before you get in trouble." she said.
Link suddenly noticed a sparkle off her left, fin-like ear. She looked back at him "What are you starring at?!" she demanded to know. Link suddenly stepped up and held up the earring that was in the bottle "No bottle? Funny, this was in it and I have yet to see any other zoras with piercing." Ruto was caught in a corner. She growled as she snatched the small sapphire placing it back on her right ear "Okay so maybe I did send something, but it could have been from a while ago. Probably from the first time this happened." she said hoping that he would buy it.
Link raised an eyebrow at the though that she had actually been here before and gotten used to this place. Ruto noticed the look he was giving her and quickly reacted "Stop stareing at me! I've been coming in here to find something important. But it doesn't concern you! Go away!" she shouted before turning and walking. Suddenly she slipped and fell, right through one of the many holes in the stomach. Link growled running to the edge, he looked to see her on the ground in the next artery.
Link took a breath jumping, he landed with a wet plop as he bounced on the flabbish intestines below. Groaning he quickly got to his feet and looked around. The Princess was nowhere to be seen. He looked around and saw that the tendril had pierced through the stomach and into the intestines. Link was feeling sympathetic "Jabu-Jabu. No wonder your in such pain. I've gotta find a way to destroy these things before they do anymore damage." picking up his staff he moved through the next artery wall.
Ruto sat in the next room on the floor holding her arm which was bleeding pretty badly. Another one of those Bari had attacked her and slashed her arm. It was now dead only because she managed to stab it with a small knife she had with her. She cried softly from the pain of the venom in her arm, it wasn't poison but burnt like acid. She hated this. Having to look for her mother's stone, she thought using it on Jabu-Jabu would help his condition but instead he ended up eating both of them.
Suddenly the artery wall opened again and Link walked in seeing her there, he noticed the dead Bari and the girl holding her arm. Link knelt next to her "Your injured. Let me help." he said. As he was about to examine her arm she pulled away "I'm fine! I don't need your help!" she shouted in vain tears welling in her eyes as she grasped her burning wound. Link looked at her sternly, tired of her attitude "Listen Princess. I'm just as trapped as you are and in a way it's your fault. If we don't cooperate I don't think we'll have a chance of getting out alive." she looked back at him, knowing she continue this pathetic lie.
Link looked at her his eyes soft and caring "Now let me see your arm." he said. Ruto sighed holding out her arm to him looking away from it. Link took her arm carefully, it was strange, her flesh wasn't cold, clammy or slimy like he expected. It was actually quite human, her skin was very smooth and soft, hairless like the rest of her body, she truly was a delicate creature. Link removed her first aid kit he had gotten from Lon Lon Ranch and the Survival kit from Camile's shop.
He removed a cloth and carefully whipped much of the blood away cleaning off her wound. He then removed a small vial of germ and pain killer and administered it. Ruto spoke "Bet you find this really funny. Me getting swallowed by my own guardian." Link didn't speak as he rubbed the medicine into the wound, Ruto shook slightly from the chilly feeling. Link then spoke "Actually I find it tragic. The kokiri's guardian just recently passed away and it wasn't from natural cause." he said as he placed a blue cloth over the wound and tying a knot to keep it in place.
Ruto looked at this, it was done quite well and with alot of care, Link stood and helped her u p. Ruto was a little embarrassed as she thanked him before looking around the chamber, she looked back to Link fully paying attention. "No problem. Listen we've gotta start working together. It is the only way we're gonna get out of here." Ruto looked at him "Fine. But you just remember your responcible for my well being. Just who the heck are you anyway?" she asked. Link placed the kits away and shrugged "Fine. You should know your way around pretty well. Also my name is Link." he said with a nod to her.
Ruto nodded in response to this "Pleased to meet you sir Link. Now first we should head back to the first stomach, it seems that alot of digestive fluids have weakened and drained so it should be safe." she walked forward Link right behind her.
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Next Chapter: The Beast in the Belly
Link and Ruto start taking out the threats to Jabu-Jabu's health while Ronto continues to wait. Zelda meanwhile reflects on what is about to happen and he most recent dreams. And just who is the strange shadow with crimson eyes in Link's dreams?
Author's Note: Thanks for your reviews. I am going to do my best on keeping an anatomy on fish but I'm not very good on that. Also the way Link enters Jabu-Jabu may not be the same as the game but tell me what you think of it. And if you guys are Ruto haters, please keep it to yourself. I don't support her and Link but I think she is a decent character.
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Ocarina of Time: Rebirth
Chapter Twenty-One: Jabu-Jabu's Belly
After making a quick stop back by Camile's shop and buying that survival kit Link took off toward the palace. He soon arrived at the Zora Palace once again several watched as he shoved his way through the crowds that had not been permitted to see Lord Jabu-Jabu. Link soon reached the doors and the two guards requested once again he had over his weapons. Link wouldn't be able to survive without them so he did the only thing he could, he swiftly drew his sword and sliced both spears in half then pushed through. They gave chase on Link as he ran for the throne room. He reached it just as the two guards caught him by the shoulders.
The room was full of Zoras who wore robes apparently they were from the Water Temple and the Zora priest he had heard babble about while hanging around Zora's Domain. Ronto looked at him and then to the guards "Whats going on?" he demanded to know, the young Zora truly was worthy of his position dispit his age. The guards looked up "This outsider rushed through the gate without handing over his weapons." Link growled getting one arm free and digging into the Sacred Realm. He tossed the bottle that contained Ruto's Note at Ronto who caught it with lightning speed "Real cute Hylian." he said. Link growled "Read it you bonehead!" he shouted.
Ronto read over it and his eyes widened "Oh my Goddesses. Release him." he demanded. The guards without question released Link who retrieved his bottle, Ronto took the note to the King. The King as if by some miracle jumped up in surprise dispit his size "This is definitely my daughter's hand writing!" he shouted. He looked over it "Jabu-Jabu's Belly?! What the hell is this?!" he bellowed. Link crossed his arms "She was swallowed by Lord Jabu-Jabu your majesty." the King shook his head "He'd never do that!" he shouted. Suddenly a Zora who appeared to be a doctor spoke "Don't forget that he has been very sick as of late. Maybe he didn't mean to." he said.
The King rolled up the letter and placed it in the folds of his cape "Well we'd better organize a search party. But we're going to have to wait." Link gasped at this and stepped forward "What is there to wait?! She needs our help!" he shouted. The King looked at him "Watch the volume of your voice boy. We cannot enter the fountain until it has been purified of the foreign aura from the outsider." Link was about to demand what that was supposed to mean and Ronto spoke. He cleared his throat "The Gerudo King was hear earlier to request a favor from Jabu-Jabu. He wasn't supposed to even enter the fountain. Outsiders are forbidden to enter the sacred ground."
Link growled as this clinching his fist, Ronto looked at him "Ruto is tough, she will survive until we can get to her, but going into a guardian isn't an easy task." Link suddenly rushed up the ramp to the throne standing at the entrance where two soldiers held him back, he pulled out and tossed them to the ground with the power of the Goron Bracelet. Link glared at the room "You guys don't seem to understand! Gannondorf is responsible for all of this! He was involved in the death of the Deku Tree and will soon be after much more!" Link got even more serious "What if your princess dies?!" he growled.
The King was about the speak when the priest spoke up, the old customs had a strong grip on the royal family "The commandments must be obeyed!" he shouted, the guards approached Link. Link swiftly grabbed his staff and swung hard knocking them both away, he then turned down the hall looking back "Hurph! Stop speaking as if I care!" he shouted before running down the hall. The guards didn't follow as the priest shook his head, Ronto narrowed his eyes "You guys are really stupid." he said simply as he walked up. Ronto ran into the hall just as the gates shut tight. The priest looked narrowing his eyes "Get a group of soldiers ready. I want that outsider arrested and I have serious concerns on Captain Ronto's actions." he said. The King was simply depressed.
Link ran down the water filled passage way the water splashing up from each running step he made. He checked himself over as he ran, he now had three of those powerful bottles and two were filled with Red Potion. This placed him even with Garen at least as he had gotten one from his house when they were in Kakariko. Such well made bottles could probably even hold fire if it was needed. He tightened the straps on his backpack and made sure the compartment that held the spiritual stones was zipped up securely. If he died in here he would make sure they could be hard for Gannon to get to.
Link soon came out of the cave into a large open area that appeared to be just a gigantic pond, but the creature that sat in the middle really caught Link's attention. It was some sort of a large fish, he believed that a book he read once that it was a whale, a fish that had to breath air. Link stepped forward "Woah." he said admiring the animal. Suddenly he heard the sound of metal against metal and looked back to see Ronto standing there "Please understand that I cannot allow you to continue. Ruto is my responsibility." he said. Link gripped his staff not wanting to kill anybody "Why don't we work together and get her out."
Ronto shook his head "I cannot. Defend yourself." he said. He then came at Link swinging his sword upwards. Link quickly brought up his staff and it was sent from his hands, it flew through the air and landed in a cave that was in the cliff. He then noticed a strange glow Ronto stopped for a second "You should treat that weapon with more care. The Ice Cavern has a way of sweeping precious weapons away." Link looked back as the glow faded then he remembered the elements "Ice Cavern?" Link smiled before turning and running toward the cavern along the ridge.
Ronto followed jumping past Lord Jabu-Jabu. Link jumped into the pond and started swimming soon reaching the caves edge, he managed to drive the Deku Knife into the soft rock wall and pull himself up. Ronto's superior agility and speed as a Zora made it easy for him to just jump out of the water and after Link. Link dashed down the cave and noticed why they called it the Ice Cavern, thick sheets of ice covered the wall. He then found the staff impaled halfway into a block of ice.
Ronto came running as Link grabbed the staff, he swung swiftly parrying his sword, Link then swiftly kicked him back. Link then brought up the staff a light blue glow coming around it "Winter's Cruelty!" he shouted swinging it. Ronto quickly raised his sword to block it, the staff smashed into his sword. Ronto was shocked as he was flung back all the way into Jabu-Jabu's pool, with the discharge of freezing energy and the added power of the Goron Bracelet it was more than enough. Link smiled with this he only had four skills left to collect.
Link ran back to Jabu-Jabu's altar, Ronto managed to follow and quickly busted off the large piece of ice on his chest. Link raised the staff "Ronto I don't want them to have to chip your corpse out of an ice block!" he shouted. Ronto growled "Bring it on!" he shouted. Link swung the staff again and a powerful gust of ice flew from the gem on the end. Ronto quickly moved out of the way and it struck Jabu-Jabu's nose. The mammoth whale shook it's head trying to brush off the sudden cold sensation, this involved opening it's mouth. Link saw his window and took it, he ran past Ronto knocking him over and dove inside just as the jaws slammed shut. Ronto growled as he knew that he had to do something.
Link got up brushing the saliva off his cloths, the ground he stood on then started moving "Whoa?!" he gasped as he jumped farther back as Jabu-Jabu felt around his mouth with his tongue. Link brushed off the horrible smell as he reached into his side back and struck one of the flares he had gotten from Camile still it wasn't as convenient as it could be "Navi. Why is it your not around when I can actually use you." Link soon came upon a wall that looked like it would open. He looked around then spotted what looked like very soft flesh, like winced as he reached out, almost as if tickling it. Amazingly this caused the wall to open.
Link walked through and found a large hole that obviously was part of his system, he made his way around the hole when suddenly he spotted something. Something that glowed blue suddenly flew at him, he ducked out of the way as a strange jellyfish struck the wall. He listened and heard Jabu-Jabu moan in pain. Link growled as he retracted his staff and ran the creature through with his sword, this turned out to be a very bad idea as the second he did this several volts of electricity were sent through his body.
"ARRRGGGGHHHH!!" Link screamed before falling back. The jellyfish died but left him in alot of pain. Link looked at his sword, he had learned that his sword was sharp enough to slice through quite a number of things, he sheathed it knowing that he would have to stick to his staff for now. The downside was that the more he used it's powers the weaker he got. He stood to his feet picking the flare up and walked through the next artery door.
Meanwhile outside Lord Jabu-Jabu...Ronto looked at Jabu-Jabu wondering how Link was doing in his search for Ruto. Now that the large deity was sleeping it would be impossible for them to enter. The doctor pulled away from Jabu-Jabu's gills he was worried "Jabu-Jabu is in alot of pain. He's been sick before. And I've treated all of the race's how should I put this....'active' guardians including the owl and before he passed the great dodongo." Ronto grabbed the Hylian doctor by the collar "Your lucky we're even letting you in here. Now out with it."
The professor was the younger brother of the one at the Lakeside Laboratory but didn't have his experience in aquatic life however he could tell when it was coming. "There is some sort of parasite in your guardian's system. If it isn't digested or killed within the next day or so Jabu-Jabu will die for sure." everybody gasped. The priest crossed his arms "This is all that child's fault." Ronto looked at the priest with a glare "Well if Link isn't back by tomorrow morning, I'm going in." he said before walking back into the domain.
Link quietly moved through the next passage of Jabu-Jabu's gigantic digestive system trying his best not to gag on the horrible smell invading his nostrils. He now found himself in another chamber only this one seemed alot more stable than the mouth or throat, he had just made his way down the esophagus nearly falling into Jabu-Jabu's lungs but he managed to get past. This chamber looked like one of the stomachs but it seemed that there were no acids of any kind around. Obviously sickness had dried it out, he then noticed a strange green tendril going down through one of the many holes in the fleshy floor.
Before Link could question this he noticed something else, a figure standing in the darkness. Link struck another one of his flares and walked closer, it turned out to be a young zora girl no older than himself. As with all her race she was basically but not nothing, private was exposed. She was a shade of light blue with some areas of darker blue on her back. Like all zoras fins struck out from her arms, legs and back but unlike Ronto they were still growing and could not be used in combat. She looked at Link raised a single hand to shield off the glare from the light. Her eyes were a beautiful indigo blue and dispite the fact she wasn't human Link had to admit she was fairer than the other zoras. Even beautiful if he had to say.
Link walked forward and spoke "The popular Princess Ruto I presume." he said and was about to introduce himself when she snapped "What are you doing here?! How did you get in to the fountain, outsider?!" Link stepped back from the feisty zora. He crossed his arms at her ill attitude "I found a message in a bottle requesting rescue." he announced. She stepped back "I have no idea what your talking about." she said turning her head away from him "Leave now before you get in trouble." she said.
Link suddenly noticed a sparkle off her left, fin-like ear. She looked back at him "What are you starring at?!" she demanded to know. Link suddenly stepped up and held up the earring that was in the bottle "No bottle? Funny, this was in it and I have yet to see any other zoras with piercing." Ruto was caught in a corner. She growled as she snatched the small sapphire placing it back on her right ear "Okay so maybe I did send something, but it could have been from a while ago. Probably from the first time this happened." she said hoping that he would buy it.
Link raised an eyebrow at the though that she had actually been here before and gotten used to this place. Ruto noticed the look he was giving her and quickly reacted "Stop stareing at me! I've been coming in here to find something important. But it doesn't concern you! Go away!" she shouted before turning and walking. Suddenly she slipped and fell, right through one of the many holes in the stomach. Link growled running to the edge, he looked to see her on the ground in the next artery.
Link took a breath jumping, he landed with a wet plop as he bounced on the flabbish intestines below. Groaning he quickly got to his feet and looked around. The Princess was nowhere to be seen. He looked around and saw that the tendril had pierced through the stomach and into the intestines. Link was feeling sympathetic "Jabu-Jabu. No wonder your in such pain. I've gotta find a way to destroy these things before they do anymore damage." picking up his staff he moved through the next artery wall.
Ruto sat in the next room on the floor holding her arm which was bleeding pretty badly. Another one of those Bari had attacked her and slashed her arm. It was now dead only because she managed to stab it with a small knife she had with her. She cried softly from the pain of the venom in her arm, it wasn't poison but burnt like acid. She hated this. Having to look for her mother's stone, she thought using it on Jabu-Jabu would help his condition but instead he ended up eating both of them.
Suddenly the artery wall opened again and Link walked in seeing her there, he noticed the dead Bari and the girl holding her arm. Link knelt next to her "Your injured. Let me help." he said. As he was about to examine her arm she pulled away "I'm fine! I don't need your help!" she shouted in vain tears welling in her eyes as she grasped her burning wound. Link looked at her sternly, tired of her attitude "Listen Princess. I'm just as trapped as you are and in a way it's your fault. If we don't cooperate I don't think we'll have a chance of getting out alive." she looked back at him, knowing she continue this pathetic lie.
Link looked at her his eyes soft and caring "Now let me see your arm." he said. Ruto sighed holding out her arm to him looking away from it. Link took her arm carefully, it was strange, her flesh wasn't cold, clammy or slimy like he expected. It was actually quite human, her skin was very smooth and soft, hairless like the rest of her body, she truly was a delicate creature. Link removed her first aid kit he had gotten from Lon Lon Ranch and the Survival kit from Camile's shop.
He removed a cloth and carefully whipped much of the blood away cleaning off her wound. He then removed a small vial of germ and pain killer and administered it. Ruto spoke "Bet you find this really funny. Me getting swallowed by my own guardian." Link didn't speak as he rubbed the medicine into the wound, Ruto shook slightly from the chilly feeling. Link then spoke "Actually I find it tragic. The kokiri's guardian just recently passed away and it wasn't from natural cause." he said as he placed a blue cloth over the wound and tying a knot to keep it in place.
Ruto looked at this, it was done quite well and with alot of care, Link stood and helped her u p. Ruto was a little embarrassed as she thanked him before looking around the chamber, she looked back to Link fully paying attention. "No problem. Listen we've gotta start working together. It is the only way we're gonna get out of here." Ruto looked at him "Fine. But you just remember your responcible for my well being. Just who the heck are you anyway?" she asked. Link placed the kits away and shrugged "Fine. You should know your way around pretty well. Also my name is Link." he said with a nod to her.
Ruto nodded in response to this "Pleased to meet you sir Link. Now first we should head back to the first stomach, it seems that alot of digestive fluids have weakened and drained so it should be safe." she walked forward Link right behind her.
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Next Chapter: The Beast in the Belly
Link and Ruto start taking out the threats to Jabu-Jabu's health while Ronto continues to wait. Zelda meanwhile reflects on what is about to happen and he most recent dreams. And just who is the strange shadow with crimson eyes in Link's dreams?