Chapter 9
Trapped in Paradise
After about 2 weeks being trapped on the tropical paradise Link and Zelda were walking on the beach. They noticed that it seemed a little shorter than usual, but they didn't think much of it. A little later that day they climbed up the mountain on the island to check on the signal fires.
"Link get over here now!" yelled Zelda.
"Why, what's wrong?" Link asked worriedly, he didn't like the tone of her voice.
"Just look at the beach! It's been flooded completely. Even the camp is under water!" Zelda pointed out.
"It must be what that old pirate told us. Remember he said that this island is only here once every ten years for about a month. We've been here for almost two weeks, it must be starting to disappear." Link figured.
They'd been looking for some way to escape for at least 2 hours when Link stumbled onto something. It was a wall that had been covered over with vines and moss.
"Hey Zelda check this out!" Link shouted. When she got there she seemed amazed.
"Link, this is writing used only by sorcerers and kings and very high ranking people, but I was raised by the wise people of my village before I wandered into Mt. Wisp. I can read what it says." she explained. "It says that there was once a traveler that wandered onto the island and it started to disappear. He had a special ocarina with him, so he began playing what he thought was his last song. What he didn't know was that a gigantic turtle heard the song and liked it so much it agreed to take him back to the mainland. So he hid the ocarina in case someone else got trapped."
It doesn't say exactly where he hid it, but it's our only hope. We have to find it. So they started looking around the island. They were looking all day finally around sunset Link stumbled onto a small stone box.
"Hey Zelda! take a look at this." Link shouted.
"No, Link you should take a look at this." Zelda replied.
So Link went to see what she was talking about. When he looked he saw the ocean had nearly sunk the whole island. There was only the top of the mountain left.
"So what did you want to show me?" asked Zelda. Link showed her the small box. "Then it's a good thing that I found this stone key. So Zelda unlocked the box. It folded out into a flat strip with music notes on it. The ocarina also fell out.
"Hurry Zelda! Play the song." Link said worriedly. She played the song over and over, but nothing happened. They climbed up the tallest tree to get away from the water. As they were sitting there they saw what seemed like another island coming toward them. When it came closer they saw that it was really a
gigantic turtle.
When it arrived it greeted us with a thunderous voice." Hello, are you the ones who played the song! I just love that song, I haven't heard it in about 400 years, if you play it just once more I'll grant you one request!" So Zelda played the ocarina to the turtle. "Ok, now what do you guys need!" asked the huge turtle.
"Well, we need to get as close to the Forbidden Mountains as possible." Link requested.
"Is that it! I thought you'd ask me for something hard! I'll have you there in three days!" said the turtle. So the two of them got on the huge turtle and settled into one of the trees on its shell.