WOAH! I haven't updated in… a very looooooooooooong time. So sorry! I'm not dead! Honest! Anyway, here is the next chapter and it's extra long just to make up for the fact. I already have thoughts down on chapter 12, which should be added in very soon. Also, if anyone wants to check out my other fanfics, those will also be updated this in the near future, assuming something crazy doesn't happen like the world ends and I fail to notice…

Special thanks to all of my reviewers and especially for those people who have decided to put me on their watch/favorites lists. You know who you are.

And now, on with the show!

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Moments ago Quatre, Link and Wufie had been lying on the ground, the last two laughing until their sides hurt. This concept is in itself extremely disturbing as Wufie generally has no business laughing at all, much less with such hysterical fervor. On the other hand, the previous situation had been so funny it was forgivable.

After leaving the temple, the group had run to the palace of the Deku King and demanded that he release the monkey at once. Of course this had only resulted in the guards coming after them and spending a good five or so minutes chasing the trio around the room. It was amazing that it hadn't taken more than thirty seconds as the room was actually very small compared to the humans and the elf, but all three were remarkably fast and thus were somehow able to avoid the guard's leafy clutches.

After all of this running, it dawned on one of them that they had the deku princess with them and that perhaps she could be considerably helpful in freeing the three from their current predicament. Link quickly removed the bottle from his tunic, pulled the cork and dumped it upside-down. Unfortunately he had been dashing across a beam that stretched across the ceiling and, as fate would have it, directly over the fire, a guard hot on his heels. Out came the princess and everyone in the room seemed to freeze and gasp as she slowly feel towards a very uncomfortable death.

Except Quatre would have none of it. Dashing across the room in what looked like slow motion, he leapt into the air and caught her, only to land on his bottom on the other side of the fire.

"You saved me!" the princess exclaimed.

"Are you okay?" The young pilot asked. She blushed.

"Fine. Are you?"

"Don't worry. I'm fine." Link and Wufie looked at each other, unable to believe their ears.

The king called off his guards- or rather, rabid talking bushes, as Wufie later called them- and congratulated the three on saving his daughter. This only happened after an amusing episode of the young princess knocking her father off the throne, jumping around on his stomach and fawning over the monkey. The monkey himself was an interesting fellow. He clearly had it bad for the princess, but that didn't change the fact that he was… well… a monkey. That gave Link and Wufie yet another thing to laugh about.

"Fighting over a talking tree with a monkey!" Wufie gasped for breath, still clutching his sides. "Winner, I never would have thought it possible. You disappoint me." Link had already laughed himself to tears, first over Quatre's rather heroic rescue, next over the monkey's incredible jealousy of the fact that he had received the Princess's heart and finally over the fact that Quatre had never had a chance to change nor shower before the whole ordeal. He looked like a wreck and upon their arrival the king had mistaken him for some sort of wild creature from deep inside the marsh. Even after they had been made a bit more at home, the king still couldn't be convinced that Quatre wasn't their pet and a distant relation of the monkey.

After some small talk that took all of five minutes, the group was allowed to leave. The Butler had mentioned something, but they were too busy trying to get Quatre out of the room to hear him. Once they had left Link made a profound discovery; there was a path above the marsh that humans could cross. Quatre smacked himself.

"Now you tell me!" Link grinned before leading them back where they had finally collapsed in a heap, eventually laughing too hard to stand up straight, Wufie commenting over Quatre's eventual engagement to a bush. Exasperated, the blonde looked up in an effort to roll his eyes; and promptly let out a shout. The moon was all but kissing Clock Town.

"Run!" The two jumped to their feet and moved to go back into the swamp.

"Wrong way!" Link went in the other direction, which immediately led to confusion. It was the martial artist who voiced it.

"What are you talking about? You're headed straight for the town."

"Exactly. We need to start time over again." Link looked at his fellow blonde. "Remember Quatre?"

"Um… no?" Link tripped over himself and landed in a puddle. A deep puddle previously occupied by goldfish, until Link's splash knocked them out of the water.

"Don't you remember when I played that song and we all went swoosh and ended up back at the dawn of the very first day?" Now Wufie looked confused.

"Is he sane?"

"Yes!"

"…Are you sure?"

"…"

"…so what's your point?"

"We need to get back to Clock town now!"

"To start time over?"

"Yes."

"… so in another three days that moon is gonna be smooching the top of that tower again?"

"Well um…"

"And I could be left back in the temple again and Quatre would have to break off his engagement to the talking bush?"

"I am NOT engaged!" The blonde interjected for the first time in the exchange.

"You just keep telling yourself that." Replied the martial artist. "Anyways, in a matter of justice-"

"Don't you dare go on that rant." Now it seemed the conversation had switched over to one between the two pilots, effectively excluding the elf. After another ten minutes of arguing- the entirety of which Link spent watching the moon grow ever closer to giving Clock Town a kiss that Hollywood could only dream of- the elf made an executive decision. Taking out a certain marble-blue instrument that had the power to teleport, wake things up, cause things go to sleep and make green-haired girls really happy, Link started to play.

"Hey, what's that sound?" Wufie never really got an answer. The next thing they knew, there was a really bright light- everywhere.

Quatre sighed. "I wish they'd be a bit more specific as to which direction heaven is… ouch!" He blinked and looked around. "Did we take a wrong turn?" Lo and behold some fat guy was shouting at his apprentice to stop spacing off and the moon had taken a backwards leap for the better.

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sigh okay, I'm seriously considering going back and just rewriting this entire fanfic, but if I don't it's all good. Please give me constructive criticism so that I know what to edit.