IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMMMMMM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's chappie numero tres and it's all mine! Now excuse me while I go sue Nintendo and use the money to purchase ownership of Zelda!!! First Zelda then the world!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Blonde Elf: too bad she isn't capable of it....
Me: SHUTUP!
Blonde boy: Can we get on to the story now?
Me: NO! Not until I feel like it.
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Me: OK, we can get on to the story.
Sheikmuse: sweatdrop I didn't tell her to write that I swear.
Some random guy on the street: disclaimer
The Winner boy ended up spending the rest of the day snoozing. (He's such a winner! huggles Quatre dolly and stares at a comic book picture of Quatre looking really cute) When he rose once more (a rose is a rose, but what's a dandelion?) he spoke with the deku kid with whom he could now understand. The Deku introduced himself as Link and told Quatre that he was really an eleven and a half-year-old elfling trying to find a close friend of his. (Link... I wonder who that is???)
He explained to the boy how he had come to look as he did, that he really wasn't from this place either, but had walked right into a portal and ended up where he was and that his country was probably on the other side of the planet somewhere... Quatre was impressed that the Link didn't seem to think the earth was flat. In fact, Link was quite offended with the idea when Quatre brought it up.
The afternoon traveled rather quickly and soon it was night. Eventually the Gundam pilot decided he felt together enough to go for a walk, so the Deku offered to give him a tour of the town. On their way outside the inn they bumped into an interesting fellow, but it hadn't been the first time for Quatre. He was getting used to these encounters with more-than-your-average interesting individual, so he chose to ignore it. First they went to the milk bar and managed to get a good look around and talk with the bartender before it closed. Quatre tried to talk with the Troupe Leader but all the guy seemed interested in was some strong alcohol.
After that they went into the various game shops and back into South Clock Town. The duo moseyed around and talked to the carpenters but kept a watchful eye out for the notorious mutt that seemed to be out to get all deku scrubs. Even the business scrub refused to show his face when the barking abomination was close by. When they were done the two went into the corner containing the laundry pool. Sitting on the wooden bench was a guy playing a music box and lamenting about the past.
He was mostly bald and had a little beard. When he asked, Quatre and Link agreed to listen to him. The guy rambled on about how he used to be in a troupe with animals, how greed had consumed him and that he had stolen the one ring- I mean leaders mask- from a talking dog. In the end he felt better so he gave the two the mask. Seeing how Link couldn't exactly use it, Quatre chose to hold on to it for the time being.
The blonde duo then went on to East Clock town and spent some time admiring the twin dancers before they decided to turn in for the night.
"Hey, Quatre?" The human turned so he could see the scrub better.
"What is it?"
"Is it anything like this in your world?"
"Nope. Nothing at all. Why?"
"Just wondering..." The deku seemed lost in thought.
"How about your world?"
"Hm?" Link looked up, his sad orange eyes glowing in the dark.
"Is this anything like your world? You said you were an elf."
"Well... kinda."
"....?" Link sighed and drifted for a while. Quatre waited patiently for the scrub to continue. When he did, sorrow was obvious in his voice.
"There's a market... and a village. People come and go from time to time. Time.... It passed by differently there. And we have a princess instead of a mayor."
"We had a princess to. Then she became a queen." Quatre smiled at the thought of Relena Peacecraft. She had been preparing for the same meeting he had when he found himself here. New world, new people, even a new flow of time.
"Do you ride on horses in your world?" The scrub wanted to know. The thought tickled Quatre to the point where he couldn't breath. He managed to regain his composure enough to open the door to the Stock Pot Inn.
"H-horses??? No! There are cars and planes and buses and space ships-"
"What's a space ship?' The word tugged at Links mind as something that was definitely worth investigating. Quatre explained on their way up the stairs, but his explanation left the deku even more confused.
"What do you mean there's no air in space? What keeps the air down here? What do you mean the stars are bigger than the planet? How are they staying up there? How do you know which way is up???" Quatre started laughing again. There was no point in trying to go into rocket science. Instead, he tried to explain it in as simple a way as possible. That was a big mistake. The poor scrub had birds flying around his head before he got half way through.
"I'll tell ya what, why don't I explain it to you in the morning when I'm awake?" Link squeaked in agreement as he stumbled over to his bed where he curled up under the covers. Quatre sighed and stared at the fire burning in the hearth. It seemed to sigh with him, sending an extra burst of heat in his direction. With that he closed his sagging eyelids and drifted off into a pleasant slumber.
Link awoke to hear a rumbling like thunder right above his head. In an instant he was up and out of bed, years of being in the wild and always on the go finally kicking in. The human boy still wasn't awake. Those humans... they're so deaf to the world- hang on! The scrub went and checked Quatre's nightstand only to find that the boy had taken off the pendent.
Moron!
Oh well.... Best not to scare the willies out of him just yet... Link mentally smirked. As a get back for later on the other hand... Turning, the kid scooted out the door to go and find out just what was going on.
Anju stood at the desk looking worried. My dear Kafie... she thought sadly. Will I never see you again? Her thoughts were interrupted when high-pitched squeaking that vaguely resembled a fire alarm erupted in front of her. Peering over the desk she saw the deku scrub throwing a temper tantrum.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry sir. What can I do for you?"
/What the heck is goin' on???/
"You mean you don't know?"
/That's what the last person I asked said! Everyone before that couldn't understand Deku!!!/
"All that rumbling you mean?"
/No, all the rumbling I mean. / The little bush looked like it was going to explode and its eyes were starting to glow red besides... Now, when a deku's eyes glow red, what does that mean? Anju wished she could remember... Well, now wasn't the time to try and figure it out. Smoke was coming out of the mini tree's ears. Maybe they have some kind of internal fire that somehow doesn't burn them into ash, she mused. Well that was absolutely ridiculous.
"It seems the moon is going to fall from the sky tomorrow morning. Everyone but the most dedicated have left town to seek refuge." Or the most stupid, Link thought. "You should leave and seek refuge to. But from something that big... you should get as away from here as you can." Well she's not a total numb-nut. The deku thanked her and, to Anju's great surprise, went waddling back upstairs.
"SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Quatre sat up with a force that nearly sent Link flying headlong into the fireplace. When he realized that it was only the deku scrub and that he wasn't being abducted by aliens (I'm never eating potatoes for dinner again...) he calmed down- a little.
Immediately the kid went off on a wild tangent of squeaks and Quatre, not for the life of him, could tell the difference between one squeak to the next, much less make any sense of what the scrub was trying to tell him. Then it dawned on the blonde that he had removed the pendent from his neck the night before and put it on his dresser. When he turned to reach for it, it was gone.
Wait, gone? How could that be? It was on the night stand the night before... Panicked, the two searched the room for the magic talisman. It had been there, so where was it now? Did it fall?... What could have happened?
FLASHBACK
On his way down the stairs to see the innkeeper, a strange man came prancing by, nearly knocking Link off his little deku feet. The man had been talking with the innkeeper the previous evening when Quatre and Link had left the inn to go for their walk. Whatever it was that he had to do, it seemed he was in a hurry to get it done.
END FLASHBACK
Link stood perfectly still atop Quatre's bed, this new revelation taking root in his mind. The Pendent of Hearing had been stolen and they probably wouldn't get it back...
Narrator: The drama, the suspense-
Sheik: The annoyance...
Narrator: OH MY GODDESS, IT'S KILLING ME!!!
Blonde Elf: Good. Have a happy funeral.
Narrator: You're mean pouts
Blonde boy: Hey, what's this do?
Blonde Elf: DON'T TOUCH THAT!!!
Whatever Blonde boy was touching: (gets out and runs loose)
Blonde Elf: Aww man....
Narrator: Hey, here's an idea.
Blonde Elf/ Blonde boy: What?
Narrator: Try and guess what he set loose. The winner gets a plushy!!!
Blonde Elf: What was the point of that?
Narrator: To get people to review. I'll give ya'll a hint. The author mentions this in her bio.
Sheik: You practically gave it away...
Me: Yeah! (Glomps Sheik) If you all don't review, I'll send my sexy muse out to assassinate you all!! Got that Sheik?
Sheik: Yes ma'am.... --;