Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda. Nintendo does. Your surprised?
Author's Note: Thanks for your reviews. In response to a few E-mails I have received consider this, Zoras do have lungs and can breath air. Though they can breath watch and siphon out the air while under water. So Ruto can perform CPR. And NO! This story is not going to become a Link/Ruto romance!
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Ocarina of Time: Rebirth
Chapter Twenty-Three: Heart of the Guardian
Link ran into the next room where Ruto and gone, she stood there looking up at the source of the light which sat on a platform. Ruto looked back at him knowing she had screwed up "Ruto are you crazy? What part of this sticking together don't you get?" Link asked a little annoyed. Ruto sighed "I know. I'm sorry. But look there it is. My mother's stone." she said running up onto the platform once again not waiting for him. Link followed walking behind her. Ruto stepped forward picking up the stone, essentially it was a jewelry piece with a golden center and three beautiful sapphires.
Link was happy that Ruto had gotten what she had lost but it also wasn't a good thing, how was he going to get out of this with the stone. He couldn't betray her. It wasn't in him, what the hell was he going to do now. Ruto lowered her hands which held the stone "What are you looking at Link?" she asked. Link shook it off, Ruto blushed slightly wondering what he thought of her but brushed it off. She shrugged "Well I've got the stone back so maybe now we can move on. I still don't understand, it should have healed Jabu Jabu of his sickness. It's presence is probably the only thing keeping him alive now."
Ruto started to stepped off when suddenly there was a rumble and the platform started up, Link quickly jumped forward but something grabbed his foot pulling him back as the platform vanished along with Ruto. Link looked back and saw a small tendril there holding him back, he swiftly went for his knife in his boot and cut it away but Ruto was long gone. "Damn it." he growled. Suddenly he heard her "AUGH!! What the?! An Octopus?!" she shouted. The platform began to lower, Link drew his sword knowing that this thing probably wouldn't be conducting electricity. It lowered, Link looked "Thats just sick."
Link had seen these things along the river, this thing was a large octorok only it was alot larger by at least ten times. It grunted as it looked at the Zora princess and swung a tendril, Ruto was swatted across the room along with the stone still in her grasp. She was alright but the breath was knocked out of her. Link looked back as the monster approached, but then he noticed there was alot of light in this room and it wasn't from Ruto's necklace or the stone. Link then heard a definite beating sound "Oh Goddesses. We're near the heart." he gasped.
The Bigocto rushed him trying to suck him in with it's circular mouth, Link dodged to the side and noticed a large green whelp on it's back which glowed. It pulsed and Link smiled it was some sort of vital exterior organ. Link moved at it but was swatted back as he did so, he hurled his boomerang as this happened but it only bounced off the Bigocto's rock hard hide. Link growled as it approached "There is no way I'm going out like this." he said as he got ready. Suddenly her heard something that sounded like metal against metal.
Suddenly a shadow fell from the hole in the ceiling wielding a sword above it's head, it raised it up as it fell behind Bigocto and struck hard. The green whelp burst and the Bigocto fell into a panic screeching in pain before falling to the ground dead, it shrunk into a normal bigocto then burst into evil flames. Link looked up "Your both brash and foolhardy you know." the figure spoke. Ruto got to her feet looking at the figure as the light from her pendant made the room even brighter "Ronto! Where the hell have you been?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Ronto shrugged as he sheathed his sword and looked at the princess "I've been trying to get in here after you and this guy. However those priest are more corrupt than a Gerudo attorney. They wouldn't let me through." Ruto groaned "So you've just put yourself in alot of trouble for us." Ronto shook his head. "It is my obligation to protect you Ruto. Link can obviously take care of himself. Despite how stupid he can be at times." Link narrowed his eyes at Ronto "Don't make me question my respect for you Captain." he said scornfully.
Ruto giggled at this before stepping on the platform "Let just go. We must be close by now." she said. Suddenly something happened, a large version of the Bari dropped down the hole grabbing Ruto. "AHH!!!" she screamed as she was pulled up high into the abyss. Ronto looked "Shit! Come on!" he shouted out to Link. Link jumped on the platform and both of them raced after the tendril as Ruto disappeared from view. Both of them drew their swords as they found themselves in another room. There was an artery wall there, they followed it to another large chamber where several, several veins and blood vessels came together going through the wall.
Link ran through the bloody pool killing off the octoroks as he went eventually coming to another artery door, Ronto spoke as he heard the beating and did the math "Through here is the heart chamber of Lord Jabu Jabu. Besides the brain this is the only place this threat could be hiding. It's my duty to help her, you sure you want to go." Link nodded as he gave the Kokiri blade a practice swing "If I didn't plan on going through alot I wouldn't have gone this far. Let's move." with this said they both moved through.
"Oh hell." Link said as he saw what awaited them, Ruto lay before the mammoth creature weak. She looked up and ran to them and looked back at the creature. It was tall and intimidating, it was no sort of shape but looked like a column of flesh, Bari seemed to latch themselves onto it acting as some sort of an armor. Link looked at there were several tendrils on it's head attached to...the heart itself. This think was sucking the very life force out of Jabu Jabu slowly but surely it was killing the water god. As they drew their swords the monster did something neither expected, it laughed a laugh of twisted evil.
Ruto growled as she stood taking the staff off of Link's back "This thing has been killing Jabu Jabu and it dare tells us to leave in such a way. I'll pull you to pieces bastard!!" she screamed running at the monster. The monster suddenly twisted and one of the Bari swung out attached to the monster by a thread of pure electricity. Ruto was struck and flew back right into Ronto who caught her, Ruto was out of it for the moment. The monster roared and Link felt it in his head "Barinade huh?" he said looking up.
Ruto coughed at this "Barin...bacteria organisms. They often multiply Jabu Jabu's fountain...Gannondorf must have done this...one could never get this big or this powerful." Link looked up as he drew his boomerang, the monster was taunting him in telepathy and it was getting under his skin. "Well news flash, your power source is about to expire!" he hurled the boomerang not at the monster's body but at the tendrils stuck to Jabu Jabu's heart. The boomerang glowed and sliced through one as if it was nothing. The monster roared as Link caught his weapon and smirked.
Suddenly something happened, the monster unwrapped two blue tendrils from the outside of its head they seemed like the others only they didn't stretch and they had a bowl like structure on the end. Link watched as the tip coming from the bowl suddenly sparked up with bright yellow light it spread over the bowl. Ronto gasped in horror as it was suddenly sent forward in a powerful stream of lightning, Link tried to moved but was struck hard being sent back into the fleshy wall screaming in agony.
Ronto growled as he looked at the monster and allowed the fins on his arms to grow out and to harden into their blade like structure. "You blood sucking freak!" he snarled before rushing forward, he then flipped up into the air off one hand and swung with both his fins slashing the tendrils breaking them. The monster roared in pain before blasting Ronto at point blank range sending him slamming into the ground, he slowly struggled to get up. The monster was loose and began spinning the Bari coming loose from their place attached by those threads of electricity.
The Bari slammed into both Link and Ronto sending them off, Barinade moved toward Ruto but was fought off by a powerful light. Link looked up "Ruto! Run away!" he shouted. Too late, the monster smacked Ruto to the side flying into the wall where she fell unconscious, Ronto moved toward her still in great pain from the electrical attacks where he picked Ruto up. Link picked up the stone dropping it in his backpack which he dropped to the floor "Ronto." he said seriously "If I don't live through this take the contents of that bag to Princess Zelda. The fate of Hyrule may rest upon her getting what is inside." he then hoisted the staff loose from the fleshy ground.
Ronto looked at him shocked "What the hell are you gonna do?" he demanded to know. Link didn't look back as he walked forward holding the staff "I'm going to pay this thing back." he said stepping forward. The monstrous parasite roared in a laughing tone before spinning again the Bari coming at him, Link went for his sword stabbing it right into the Bari a shock going through his system as it died. The blade was now coated in the blood of the Bari, Link breathed hoping that it would work and rushed forward at the monster. Ronto gasped "Masters what are you doing?!" he shouted.
Link lunged stabbing one of them but the blood from the first had made his blade invulnerable to electricity, he grinned chuckles as he then swung slashing two more. The monster turned its now unshielded side to Link but he simply jumped back and slashed two more, the monster fired another stream but just missed as Link sprinted and did a sudden 360 spin slashing as he went killing the last of them off. The monstrous parasite roared in rage as Link jumped back, started spinning digging itself out of the chamber and then came at Link spinning like a top.
Link growled as he sheathed his sword seeing the flash on the tendrils as they charged up, Ronto gasped if Link were to take a direct hit he would be more than finished, he'd go into complete molecular reversal. The monster lunged forward and fired sending a blazing blue beam of electricity at Link, Ronto turned away. Suddenly there was a sound but it wasn't screaming. Ronto looked to see the staff held in Link's hands glowing silver with the power of lightning. "Heh heh. You powerful but your own power is your fault." he said as he thrust the staff away which continued to pull the power from the monster who couldn't get himself free.
Link drew his sword and rushed forward screaming, he jumped into the air coming close to the heart then came down hard slashing. Link's body suddenly seemed to flash as he came down with the blade which buried itself into the monster's body but also sent a blade of pure energy right through Barinade bisecting the monster, but not harming Jabu Jabu. Link screamed in agony as all of the electricity was dispelled into his body which sent him flying across the room. Barinade convulsed as it suddenly began to break out in horrible whelps, Ruto awoke and watched as Barinade's own electricity ate away at it eventually causing it to explode into a steaming mess of flesh which slowly vanished.
Link struggled to stand up his sword still held in his hands, Ruto and Ronto walked to him. She was ecstatic "Link! You did it! Jabu Jabu is safe!" Link looked at them "Does that mean we can leave now?" he asked his skin charred from the electricity. Ronto nodded "Anything you wish Link you've saved not only us but our guardian." Link breathed heavily "Nice..." he then fainted, Ruto caught him in her arms. Ruto looked at Ronto as she picked up Link's fallen equipment and the backpack recovering the Zora Sapphire "Come on Ronto. Lets get outta here." she said and walked.
By the time they reached the throat Link was awake but still in alot of pain. Ronto helped him walk, but had to admit he was very impressed. Link winced in pain "Crap." he said as his legs refused to allow him to walk. Ronto patted his back "Oh don't take it so hard. You've been beaten, shocked and battered but at least it can't get any worse." Ruto chuckled as she tugged at the inside of Jabu Jabu's mouth causing it to open revealing afternoon day light they had been in there all day and night. Suddenly almost the instant they stepped out several Zora soldiers stepped out with their swords.
"What the hell is this?" Ronto demanded to know. The Priest spoke up "It doesn't concern you. The Hylian is to stand trial for his crimes." Link narrowed his eyes at the Priest. "You were wrong Ronto it got worse." several soldiers came up pulling Link from them and dragged him into Zora's Domain. The Priest looked at them crossing his arms "Guess we can finally carry out the punishment. Been to long." Ronto growled at him "Don't tell me your looking forward to this?!" he said placing his hand on his sword. The Priest chuckled "I'd much rather put you on trial captain. Now your presence is requested." he walked, they followed.
Next Chapter: Masters on Trial
Link Masters is brought before the Court of Zora's Domain in retaliation for his actions, the penalty if found guilty: Death. Though Ruto obviously doesn't want this she is going to have to choose between the respect for these laws or her friendship with Link.
Author's Note: Thanks for your reviews. In response to a few E-mails I have received consider this, Zoras do have lungs and can breath air. Though they can breath watch and siphon out the air while under water. So Ruto can perform CPR. And NO! This story is not going to become a Link/Ruto romance!
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Ocarina of Time: Rebirth
Chapter Twenty-Three: Heart of the Guardian
Link ran into the next room where Ruto and gone, she stood there looking up at the source of the light which sat on a platform. Ruto looked back at him knowing she had screwed up "Ruto are you crazy? What part of this sticking together don't you get?" Link asked a little annoyed. Ruto sighed "I know. I'm sorry. But look there it is. My mother's stone." she said running up onto the platform once again not waiting for him. Link followed walking behind her. Ruto stepped forward picking up the stone, essentially it was a jewelry piece with a golden center and three beautiful sapphires.
Link was happy that Ruto had gotten what she had lost but it also wasn't a good thing, how was he going to get out of this with the stone. He couldn't betray her. It wasn't in him, what the hell was he going to do now. Ruto lowered her hands which held the stone "What are you looking at Link?" she asked. Link shook it off, Ruto blushed slightly wondering what he thought of her but brushed it off. She shrugged "Well I've got the stone back so maybe now we can move on. I still don't understand, it should have healed Jabu Jabu of his sickness. It's presence is probably the only thing keeping him alive now."
Ruto started to stepped off when suddenly there was a rumble and the platform started up, Link quickly jumped forward but something grabbed his foot pulling him back as the platform vanished along with Ruto. Link looked back and saw a small tendril there holding him back, he swiftly went for his knife in his boot and cut it away but Ruto was long gone. "Damn it." he growled. Suddenly he heard her "AUGH!! What the?! An Octopus?!" she shouted. The platform began to lower, Link drew his sword knowing that this thing probably wouldn't be conducting electricity. It lowered, Link looked "Thats just sick."
Link had seen these things along the river, this thing was a large octorok only it was alot larger by at least ten times. It grunted as it looked at the Zora princess and swung a tendril, Ruto was swatted across the room along with the stone still in her grasp. She was alright but the breath was knocked out of her. Link looked back as the monster approached, but then he noticed there was alot of light in this room and it wasn't from Ruto's necklace or the stone. Link then heard a definite beating sound "Oh Goddesses. We're near the heart." he gasped.
The Bigocto rushed him trying to suck him in with it's circular mouth, Link dodged to the side and noticed a large green whelp on it's back which glowed. It pulsed and Link smiled it was some sort of vital exterior organ. Link moved at it but was swatted back as he did so, he hurled his boomerang as this happened but it only bounced off the Bigocto's rock hard hide. Link growled as it approached "There is no way I'm going out like this." he said as he got ready. Suddenly her heard something that sounded like metal against metal.
Suddenly a shadow fell from the hole in the ceiling wielding a sword above it's head, it raised it up as it fell behind Bigocto and struck hard. The green whelp burst and the Bigocto fell into a panic screeching in pain before falling to the ground dead, it shrunk into a normal bigocto then burst into evil flames. Link looked up "Your both brash and foolhardy you know." the figure spoke. Ruto got to her feet looking at the figure as the light from her pendant made the room even brighter "Ronto! Where the hell have you been?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Ronto shrugged as he sheathed his sword and looked at the princess "I've been trying to get in here after you and this guy. However those priest are more corrupt than a Gerudo attorney. They wouldn't let me through." Ruto groaned "So you've just put yourself in alot of trouble for us." Ronto shook his head. "It is my obligation to protect you Ruto. Link can obviously take care of himself. Despite how stupid he can be at times." Link narrowed his eyes at Ronto "Don't make me question my respect for you Captain." he said scornfully.
Ruto giggled at this before stepping on the platform "Let just go. We must be close by now." she said. Suddenly something happened, a large version of the Bari dropped down the hole grabbing Ruto. "AHH!!!" she screamed as she was pulled up high into the abyss. Ronto looked "Shit! Come on!" he shouted out to Link. Link jumped on the platform and both of them raced after the tendril as Ruto disappeared from view. Both of them drew their swords as they found themselves in another room. There was an artery wall there, they followed it to another large chamber where several, several veins and blood vessels came together going through the wall.
Link ran through the bloody pool killing off the octoroks as he went eventually coming to another artery door, Ronto spoke as he heard the beating and did the math "Through here is the heart chamber of Lord Jabu Jabu. Besides the brain this is the only place this threat could be hiding. It's my duty to help her, you sure you want to go." Link nodded as he gave the Kokiri blade a practice swing "If I didn't plan on going through alot I wouldn't have gone this far. Let's move." with this said they both moved through.
"Oh hell." Link said as he saw what awaited them, Ruto lay before the mammoth creature weak. She looked up and ran to them and looked back at the creature. It was tall and intimidating, it was no sort of shape but looked like a column of flesh, Bari seemed to latch themselves onto it acting as some sort of an armor. Link looked at there were several tendrils on it's head attached to...the heart itself. This think was sucking the very life force out of Jabu Jabu slowly but surely it was killing the water god. As they drew their swords the monster did something neither expected, it laughed a laugh of twisted evil.
Ruto growled as she stood taking the staff off of Link's back "This thing has been killing Jabu Jabu and it dare tells us to leave in such a way. I'll pull you to pieces bastard!!" she screamed running at the monster. The monster suddenly twisted and one of the Bari swung out attached to the monster by a thread of pure electricity. Ruto was struck and flew back right into Ronto who caught her, Ruto was out of it for the moment. The monster roared and Link felt it in his head "Barinade huh?" he said looking up.
Ruto coughed at this "Barin...bacteria organisms. They often multiply Jabu Jabu's fountain...Gannondorf must have done this...one could never get this big or this powerful." Link looked up as he drew his boomerang, the monster was taunting him in telepathy and it was getting under his skin. "Well news flash, your power source is about to expire!" he hurled the boomerang not at the monster's body but at the tendrils stuck to Jabu Jabu's heart. The boomerang glowed and sliced through one as if it was nothing. The monster roared as Link caught his weapon and smirked.
Suddenly something happened, the monster unwrapped two blue tendrils from the outside of its head they seemed like the others only they didn't stretch and they had a bowl like structure on the end. Link watched as the tip coming from the bowl suddenly sparked up with bright yellow light it spread over the bowl. Ronto gasped in horror as it was suddenly sent forward in a powerful stream of lightning, Link tried to moved but was struck hard being sent back into the fleshy wall screaming in agony.
Ronto growled as he looked at the monster and allowed the fins on his arms to grow out and to harden into their blade like structure. "You blood sucking freak!" he snarled before rushing forward, he then flipped up into the air off one hand and swung with both his fins slashing the tendrils breaking them. The monster roared in pain before blasting Ronto at point blank range sending him slamming into the ground, he slowly struggled to get up. The monster was loose and began spinning the Bari coming loose from their place attached by those threads of electricity.
The Bari slammed into both Link and Ronto sending them off, Barinade moved toward Ruto but was fought off by a powerful light. Link looked up "Ruto! Run away!" he shouted. Too late, the monster smacked Ruto to the side flying into the wall where she fell unconscious, Ronto moved toward her still in great pain from the electrical attacks where he picked Ruto up. Link picked up the stone dropping it in his backpack which he dropped to the floor "Ronto." he said seriously "If I don't live through this take the contents of that bag to Princess Zelda. The fate of Hyrule may rest upon her getting what is inside." he then hoisted the staff loose from the fleshy ground.
Ronto looked at him shocked "What the hell are you gonna do?" he demanded to know. Link didn't look back as he walked forward holding the staff "I'm going to pay this thing back." he said stepping forward. The monstrous parasite roared in a laughing tone before spinning again the Bari coming at him, Link went for his sword stabbing it right into the Bari a shock going through his system as it died. The blade was now coated in the blood of the Bari, Link breathed hoping that it would work and rushed forward at the monster. Ronto gasped "Masters what are you doing?!" he shouted.
Link lunged stabbing one of them but the blood from the first had made his blade invulnerable to electricity, he grinned chuckles as he then swung slashing two more. The monster turned its now unshielded side to Link but he simply jumped back and slashed two more, the monster fired another stream but just missed as Link sprinted and did a sudden 360 spin slashing as he went killing the last of them off. The monstrous parasite roared in rage as Link jumped back, started spinning digging itself out of the chamber and then came at Link spinning like a top.
Link growled as he sheathed his sword seeing the flash on the tendrils as they charged up, Ronto gasped if Link were to take a direct hit he would be more than finished, he'd go into complete molecular reversal. The monster lunged forward and fired sending a blazing blue beam of electricity at Link, Ronto turned away. Suddenly there was a sound but it wasn't screaming. Ronto looked to see the staff held in Link's hands glowing silver with the power of lightning. "Heh heh. You powerful but your own power is your fault." he said as he thrust the staff away which continued to pull the power from the monster who couldn't get himself free.
Link drew his sword and rushed forward screaming, he jumped into the air coming close to the heart then came down hard slashing. Link's body suddenly seemed to flash as he came down with the blade which buried itself into the monster's body but also sent a blade of pure energy right through Barinade bisecting the monster, but not harming Jabu Jabu. Link screamed in agony as all of the electricity was dispelled into his body which sent him flying across the room. Barinade convulsed as it suddenly began to break out in horrible whelps, Ruto awoke and watched as Barinade's own electricity ate away at it eventually causing it to explode into a steaming mess of flesh which slowly vanished.
Link struggled to stand up his sword still held in his hands, Ruto and Ronto walked to him. She was ecstatic "Link! You did it! Jabu Jabu is safe!" Link looked at them "Does that mean we can leave now?" he asked his skin charred from the electricity. Ronto nodded "Anything you wish Link you've saved not only us but our guardian." Link breathed heavily "Nice..." he then fainted, Ruto caught him in her arms. Ruto looked at Ronto as she picked up Link's fallen equipment and the backpack recovering the Zora Sapphire "Come on Ronto. Lets get outta here." she said and walked.
By the time they reached the throat Link was awake but still in alot of pain. Ronto helped him walk, but had to admit he was very impressed. Link winced in pain "Crap." he said as his legs refused to allow him to walk. Ronto patted his back "Oh don't take it so hard. You've been beaten, shocked and battered but at least it can't get any worse." Ruto chuckled as she tugged at the inside of Jabu Jabu's mouth causing it to open revealing afternoon day light they had been in there all day and night. Suddenly almost the instant they stepped out several Zora soldiers stepped out with their swords.
"What the hell is this?" Ronto demanded to know. The Priest spoke up "It doesn't concern you. The Hylian is to stand trial for his crimes." Link narrowed his eyes at the Priest. "You were wrong Ronto it got worse." several soldiers came up pulling Link from them and dragged him into Zora's Domain. The Priest looked at them crossing his arms "Guess we can finally carry out the punishment. Been to long." Ronto growled at him "Don't tell me your looking forward to this?!" he said placing his hand on his sword. The Priest chuckled "I'd much rather put you on trial captain. Now your presence is requested." he walked, they followed.
Next Chapter: Masters on Trial
Link Masters is brought before the Court of Zora's Domain in retaliation for his actions, the penalty if found guilty: Death. Though Ruto obviously doesn't want this she is going to have to choose between the respect for these laws or her friendship with Link.