A New Enemy?

Link moaned, trapped in Gonzo's deathgrip.

"Ugh...let go...you...son of a bitch!" the boy managed to choke out.

It was sometime late at night, and everyone was asleep. Everyone except Link, that is...

He was exhausted, yet he could never get a chance to rest. During the day, he did more work than the other pirates, seeing as he was the swabbie, and at night, Gonzo cuddled him so tightly he could hardly breathe, and squeezed him into positions which one's body usually could not go in.

This Friday night was no exception. Link had gone to bed fatigued and hungry, but what else was new since he had been on the ship? Being part of the crew really sucked ass.

Tetra hadn't failed to be a bitch. She was a fucking SLAVEDRIVER, in Link's opinion.

The boy groaned and wiggled, trying to break free of Gonzo's grasp.

"Uuuuuugggghhhh! DAMMIT!" he growled. At last, Link broke free, and tumbled to the floor. "Ow..."

He lay on the floor, trying to sleep. It was useless, so, Link decided to go to the deck.

Once he was there, he got the feeling that he was not alone.

"Who's here?" he called.

No answer.

Link climbed on top of the crow's nest, and screamed! Tetra was there, masturbating with a dildo.

"AAAAAH! POODLE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP HERE?" she yelled, dropping the dildo, pulling her pants up, and jumping to her feet.

Link nearly fell out of the crow's nest.

"WOAH!"

Tetra grabbed him, steadied him, and then started glaring at the boy, studying his face.

"Ok, Poodle..." she said coldly. "Why are you up here?"

Link blinked.

"I...uh...couldn't sleep..."

"Why are you up here, is what I'm saying!"

"I don't know...'cause I felt like it. What I want to know is, why are you masturbating in your crow's nest? I mean, couldn't you do it in your bedroom?"

Tetra let go of Link, and sighed. Then she looked up at the sky and shrugged.

"'Cause... I, uh...like the atmosphere..."

"Atmosphere?"

"Yes. The sea, the moon, the stars...it's a big turn on for me."

"I didn't need to know that..." Link mumbled, looking away.

"Well, too bad, I told you anyway."

There was an awkward moment of silence (Hey, if you just caught someone masturbating/someone caught you masturbating, you'd feel pretty damn awkward, too!).

"Ok, why don't you just leave me be, and go back to bed!" Tetra said irritably.

Link smirked. "I can't rest easily knowing that you are up here...alone...with a dildo... It's too disturbing."

Tetra balled her hands into fists and stuck them on her hips. She leaned forward towards Link, narrowed her eyes, and glared straight into his.

"You know," she growled, her tone dark. "You have quite some nerve, mocking me...your captain! And it's especially gutsy of you to do it when you're the bottom rung of the pirate ladder!"

Link raised his eyebrows. Then he lowered them as he smirked once more.

"You're more bark than bite," he said.

"More bark, eh? Not enough bite for you? Well, then, how's THIS!"

And with that, Tetra yanked Link's arm forward, and bit him.

Link started screaming and trying to pull away, but Tetra wouldn't let go. He was no longer able to keep up his calm, cool attitude.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! DAMMIT! LET GO! LET GO! LET GOOOOOO! YOU'RE HURTING ME! STOP BITING MEEEEEEE!" he wailed.

Tetra stopped biting Link. Now, she was proceeding to pin his arms behind his back and shove him against the pole in the crow's nest.

"Now, apologize for all the rude, disrespectful things you said to me!" she commanded.

"No!"

Tetra pulled Link back, then shoved him into the pole, full force. Link yelped as the connection with the pole caused his nose to bleed.

"APOLOGIZE!" Tetra barked.

"NEVER!" Link declared.

Once again, Tetra did the same thing, except harder. This time, it was hard enough to make Link dizzy.

"Poodle, I'm on my last nerve! Apologize now, or suffer the consequences..."

"Uh..."

Tetra pulled Link back once more, and just as he was about to make contact with the pole again, there was an interruption.

"Miss Tetra! Miss Tetra!" a pirate in a purple shirt named Senza cried. "There is an intruder on the ship!"

Tetra dropped Link to the ground.

"What! Where!" she exclaimed.

"I'm not sure, Miss Tetra... Whoever it is is really fast...inhuman..."

"Inhuman?" Tetra questioned, half to herself, and half to Senza.

Senza nodded. "Yes, Miss..."

The captain stood up straighter.

"Senza, get the rest of the crew up. We're going to conduct a search of the ship! Tell them what's going on!" she commanded.

"Yes, ma'am!"

With a salute, Senza disappeared below decks to alert the rest of the crew.

Tetra began to descend from the crow's nest. When she was a little over halfway down, she called up to Link, who was laying at the bottom of the nest, squeezing his nose in an attempt to stop the bleeding as he moaned and whined about his aches and pains.

"POODLE! GET OFF YOUR FAT ASS AND START SEARCHING!"

"HEY!" Link yelled in reply. "I am NOT fat! How can I be fat! I've lost at LEAST ten pounds since I've been here!"

Tetra was silent for a moment.

"True..." she finally said. "But, that's not the point! Just get down here, and start looking for the intruder!"

Seeing as he didn't want his brains knocked out, stomped on, sawed into little tiny Link's-brain-bits, eaten, then set on fire, the boy decided to listen to his captain. And so, reluctantly, Link climbed to his feet, and jumped out of the crow's nest, which really hurt once his ass had made impact with the wooden deck.

"OW!" he yelped.

Tetra; who was already off of the crow's nest and standing nearby; looked at him.

"You know, you could've used the ladder..." she said.

Link stood up, brushed himself off, and glared at her.

"Tch! I knew that!"

"Well, then, why didn't you use the ladder?"

"Um..uuuuuumm...becaaauuuse..." Link thought for a moment. "Because I'm just too cool!"

Tetra shrugged her shoulders, rolled her eyes, and dashed off to find whoever had intruded.

Link looked around, wondering where to start searching, or even if he should search.

Deciding that helping with the search would probably be the most not painful option for him, he set off, scouting the deck.

Nothing. No one. No intruder.

Seeing as how that went so not successfully, Link went below decks. He looked into the room where he and the other pirates had been sleeping. All of the pirates, including Tetra, were merely looking around that one room as they paced in circles, seemingly examining the floor.

Link rolled his eyes, then turned to face the captain's quarters, AKA Tetra's bedroom... He knew that access to this room was forbidden by most, but decided to search it anyway.

Although he should've been prepared, seeing as that was probably one of the last possible places to look, he was still surprised to find that he was successful in capturing the culprit. Well, finding whoever it was, anyway. Link gasped for two reasons.

For one reason, the perpetrator had COMPLETELY turned Tetra's room upside down! Her things were strewn everywhere (Link couldn't help but notice all the sex toys and sexy lingerie thingies lying about the floor...), her bed was all fucked up, pictures had fallen, her desk was like, all snapped in half... You know, that sort of thing... And secondly, Link could see that Senza had made a point when he had used the word "inhuman". When Link heard him say that, he wasn't quite sure of what to expect, but now he knew.

Whatever it was was completely black, as if wrapped in shadow. The only things about it that were humanly were its outline and its eyes. It was human shaped-you could sort of make out the hair; which was held up in a curly-haired ponytail; the body, ect... Judging by the fact that there was some curve to it and it appeared to be wearing a simple dress as black as the rest of it, Link guessed that the creature was most likely female. And the other factor that was visible were the eyes... Although the rest of the creature was pitch black, she still had bright, round eyes.

The thing was rummaging through some drawers in Tetra's dresser, but quickly become aware of another's presence.

She quickly spun around to face Link, eyes wide with shock, maybe fear. But they narrowed with anger and hatred after a moment...

"Uuummm...I'm assuming you're the intruder...?" Link stated slowly, nervously...

The thing did not reply. It just kept its dark, angry gaze upon the boy. The eyes then focused on staring straight into Link's.

Link got a weird feeling when their eyes met... A dark feeling. A cold feeling... A feeling that felt threatening...

"Um...could you leave now...?" Link squeaked in a voice hardly above a whisper.

The creature's eyes remained locked on his for a moment. Finally, she spoke...

"Funny. It really is quite funny. You are so scared...so very scared, for someone who has faced so much! You're nothing more than a pathetic coward. I taste much fear in your soul... And it pleasures me," the thing said. The voice was female, too, just like the shape. But it sounded fairly young and childish, giving Link the impression that whoever this was was about his age.

The boy felt a chill go up his spine. He wanted to cry out, but something stopped him.

"I'm...not scared! Not at all! Why would I be afraid of YOU! You're just a shadowy, magical...evilish thing... I am SO not scared!" he said in the most confident voice he could muster.

There was a moment of silence as the girl-thing stared Link down some more without blinking.

All of a sudden, Link screamed and turned to run away.

"MOMMY!" he wailed as he ran to the door.

The thing waved her hand, and the door shut right in Link's face, hitting him. The boy fell over backward as his nose began bleeding...again. He lay there, dazed.

The creature laughed.

"Stupid...I SO saw that coming!"

Link whimpered and pinched his nose with his right hand, propping himself back up into a sitting position with his left.

"That was mean..." he whined.

The thing rolled her eyes.

Finally snapping out of his daze, Link sprang to his feet, and attempted to pull open the door. Bad idea. For one, the door wouldn't budge. It was shut and locked tightly, sealed... And two, when Link touched the knob, his hand got shocked and burned.

"OW!" he yelped, quickly cradling the injured hand as his eyes watered from the sudden severe shock of pain.

"Saw that coming, too," the creature said.

Link spun around to face her.

"Jeez, what are you, physcic!" he spat.

"Yes."

"Oh. Ok, then."

"Well, ANYWAY, not only are you a coward, but you're also very dumb as well. That was foolish...to think I'd let you leave, just like that! HA! How stupid can one be?"

Link glared at what he now considered both a threat and an enemy.

"It was NOT stupid! Anyone would have done the same, exact thing!"

"Tell me, if you were being chased by a bear, would you run away?" the creature asked.

"Yes..." Link replied.

"NO!"

The sudden, loud, almost angry reply made Link jump.

"No...you wouldn't run. You would play DEAD! DUH!" the thing said.

Link frowned.

"What do bears and playing dead have to do with this?"

"Not much, really. But, you get my point. Ok, let's get back on subject..."

"What subject?" Link asked.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND JUST LISTEN TO ME!" the creature yelled.

Link jumped once more, then grew silent.

"I know you have the Triforce of Courage...I know Tetra has the Triforce of Wisdom... But do you know who posesses the Triforce of Power?" the girl asked as she began to walk forward towards Link.

Link tried to back away from her, but went too far and pressed himself up against the closed, sealed door.

"Yeah...Ganondorf did. But he's dead! I killed him!" Link paused for a moment. "Didn't I...?"

The creature nodded. She was about 8-10 feet away from Link now, and still kept walking towards him, ever so slowly...

"Yes. You did kill him. But you didn't destroy the Triforce of Power... In fact, you have been decieved. After Daphness Nohansen Hyrule made that wish with the Triforce, the three crests did not vanish forever."

There was a moment of silence as the distance between Link and the 'thing' grew smaller and smaller. When she was only about 3.5 to 4 feet away, something happened. Something unexpected.

The back of Link's right hand began to glow. He once again bore the mark of the Triforce on it, and strangely, the section of the picture with his own piece of the triangle began to glow...the Triforce of Courage.

The creature lifted up her own right hand, making sure that that its back was facing Link, and glowing brightly against the darkness of her skin, was a Triforce on the back of her hand...

Link gasped. The spot on it that was glowing the brightest was the spot of none other than the Triforce of Power!

"It's in...how you say, more capable hands now..." the creature said with a smirk.