Okay, before I begin, I have a few things to say. First of all, this has almost nothing to do with the real plot of Wind Waker. Secondly, I have brought in characters from other Zelda games example- Mido! Thirdly, this is Komali when he is little, like before he gives the pearl to link. Lastly, this story is very angsty, but I am not putting it in angst, at least not now. Yup… okay, onto the- oh and I don't own Zelda, but I will someday…- story.

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The Birdie Man

Chapter 2

First Day of the Rest of Your Life

"Prince Komali…" Lenzo's voice echoed through his head. "Prince Komali, wake up!" Komali opened his eyes, and saw Lenzo standing over him.

"Huh?" Komali mumbled. Light shone through the window, making it hard to see.

"It's time for school!" Komali pulled the blanket over his head.

"Go away…" He felt the blanket being pulled off him.

"Come on Komali, you have to go to school, it's what you came here for!" Komali didn't budge.

"Leave me alone…"

"If you don't, then your dad will be mad…" Komali opened his eyes again. He rubbed them, and sat up. He didn't want his dad will be mad at him. Lenzo smiled, and walked out of the room after telling Komali to get ready.

Komali didn't know what he had to bring to school, and so he just emptied his bag and put Din's Pearl inside. When he went downstairs, Lenzo was nowhere in sight. On the desk there was a bowl of hot cereal and a glass of milk. He sat down and started slowly eating, his hunger being drowned out by nervousness. Lenzo came in after a few minutes, holding a box of photos in his arms, ad he set them on the desk.

"You'd better hurry up and finish if you don't want to be late." Komali pushed the food away. He wasn't hungry. "Very well," replied Lenzo. "I'll take you there."

The town was already bustling with people when they went out. Once again Komali felt eyes boring into him, but he tried not to make eye contact with anything but the ground. Lenzo led him to Ms Marie's School of Joy, a small building with only one classroom in it. Lenzo said goodbye, and left Komali standing at the door.

"Well…" Komali looked up at the door and took a deep breath. "Here goes…" And with that he opened the door.

The instant he walked into the classroom, the class went quiet. There were nine or ten other kids there, and they were all looking at him. The started whispering as he made his way to one of the empty desks. He sat down, and put his bag on the floor. The teacher, Ms Marie, wasn't there yet.

When Ms Marie finally entered the room, Komali wished she hadn't. Ms Marie was a large woman, wearing an orange tunic, and a blue coat overtop. She was overloaded with jewelry, and wore way too much makeup. She smiled at the class, and Komali cringed.

"Good morning class!" she sang in a shill voice.

"Good morning Ms Marie…" mumbled the class. Ms Marie looked down at a piece of paper.

"Time for attendance!" She took out a pen. "Now… Arill!"

"Here!"

"Link!"

"Here!"

Zelda!"

"Here!"

Komali looked around at the class. Everyone was looking at him, waiting to see who this strange new kid was.

"Hmm…" Ms Marie looked closer at the paper. "It appears we have a new student in class!" Komali sunk down in his chair. "Prince Komali?" Komali slowly raised his Hand. Ms Marie looked up at him, and suddenly her smile faded. "Oh." She said. Komali gave a fake smile, that disappeared as Ms Marie sighed.

"Very well, come up here and tell us a bit about yourself…" She said, all enthusiasm gone from her voice. Komali rose from his desk and walked up to the front of the class.

"Uh…" Komali looked at everyone, glad that he had feathers so noone could see his face slowly going red. "Well… I'm Prince Komali… I'm a Rito…"

"Prince?" The girl named Zelda had her hand raised. "Is that your first name or are you really a prince?"

"I'm really a prince," Komali said. "I'm gonna be chief Rito when I'm older."

"What's a Rito?" That came form the boy named Kafei.

"Ritos are people like be who live on Dragon Roost Island-"

"You mean you're a birdie man?" Silence. Everyone was looking at him, even the teacher. Komali wanted to go back to his desk.

"Birdie man?" he asked. Kafei nodded.

"Yeah! You look like the mailman, and he's a birdie man too!"

"You mean a Rito?"

"Yeah you guys look like giant birds!" Komali looked down at the ground. The boy named Mido laughed.

"Have pity on the poor statues, prince." The class laughed. Even the teacher hid a smile. Komali looked around at all the laughing faces, wishing he had his wings so he could fly home.

"Hey Mr. Birdie Man," chirped the little blond girl named Arill. "Are you evil?" Komali looked up.

"What?"

"Are you evil?" She cocked her head

"Nooo… why?"

"Because you have red eyes!" she pointed at him. "My grandma tells me lots of stories, and everyone who is evil in them always has red eyes like yours!" The class laughed again. Ms Marie cleared her throat, and ushered Komali back to his seat.

"That's enough class," she said, trying to regain control over the laughing crowd. Komali sunk down in his seat, and closed his eyes.

The first lesson was about monsters. Dangerous monsters, friendly monsters, mythical monsters… You name it. During the last 15 minutes of class, Ms Marie told the class to pair up and write a paper on the different monsters they had learned about. Komali was the only one without a partner, and so he just sat there with a blank piece of paper on his desk until class ended. When Ms Marie picked up his paper and saw nothing written, she just sighed and muttered under her breath "Ritos…"

The next lesson was the classes daily 'Happiness Lesson'. Ms Marie spent half the class rambling about why it was important to love who you are, and that you are unique. Komali rolled his eyes. Yeah, he was different. Way different. But he didn't like it. Most of the class just chatted away, not listening to a word Ms Marie said.

At the end of the class, just before lunch, Ms Marie tapped a ruler and the board and everyone went silent.

"Homework time!" The class groaned. Ms Marie grinned. "It's a project," More groans. "You all have to write a page on why you're unique, and if you're happy with yourself. Due in two weeks." She walked over to her desk, took a small bell, and rang it.

"Lunchtime!"

All lunch turned out to be was an hour where the kids got to eat the lunches they had brought with them, and talk to eachother. As if they didn't talk enough in class anyways. Komali hadn't brought a lunch, so he just sat in his desk and tried to get some more sleep.

Suddenly, three shadows appeared, and Komali looked up. Standing there was Mido, and standing behind him were Tetra and Ivan.

"Hey there, bird man!" Mido said mockingly. Ivan and Tetra smirked. "Seems you don't have a lunch. Why don't you go outside and dig up some worms."

"Go away…" Komali said quietly. Suddenly Mido grabbed his collar and yanked him up so his face was level with his.

"What did you say to me?" Mido said angrily. Komali cringed. The class went silent, everyone was looking at them.

"I said go away…" Mido dropped him back on his chair.

"There's something you gotta know about how this class works, bird man." He motioned for Tetra and Ivan to come up beside him. "You see, in this class, we rule. For example…" He leaned on the desk. "Say I want this desk because I want to sit beside Tetra… What do you do?" Komali stayed silent.

"You get out!" Tetra shouted, pushing Komali onto the floor. He knocked his bag over, sending din's Pearl rolling out onto the floor. The class gasped.

"He really is a prince!" shouted Arill. Komali looked up, rubbing his head, and reached for the pearl.

But Mido got to it first.

"What's this, prince?" he said. "Looks expensive!" Komali stood up.

"Don't touch that!" he yelled. "Don't you EVER touch that!"

"Or what, you'll peck me to death?" The three laughed. Komali looked around the room for support. Saria stepped forward.

"Mido, stop it!" she pleaded. "That's enough!" But Mido ignored her.

"Ivan, how much do you think this will fetch in the marketplace?" Ivan looked closely at it.

"I'd say at least 500 rupees! Maybe more!" chirped Ivan. Mido looked down at Komali.

"If I say I want this pearl to get rich, what do you do?"

Komali couldn't take it anymore. He clenched his fists, trying to stay calm. But as Mido started passing the pearl from hand to hand, threatening to drop it, he couldn't take it anymore.

"GIVE THAT BACK!" he yelled as the tackled Mido, sending them both flying to the floor. Mido yelled out of surprise, and dropped the pearl, sending it rolling across the floor. Arill ran and picked it up. Tetra and Ivan were trying to pull Komali off their leader, and most of the class ran over, and started chanting. "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Mido proved to be too strong for Komali, and he pushed him off. Tetra and Ivan pinned his arms down while Mido jumped on top of him and started punching him in the face. Soon Komali could feel blood on his feathers.

Suddenly, Ms Marie came into the room and saw the two boys fighting. She ran over, yelling at them to stop, until finally Kafei, Malon and Saria managed to pull Mido off Komali. Tetra and Ivan ran over to him, asking if he was okay. Komali sat up, his face stinging. He looked around to see everyone looking at him with worried faces.

"Mido! Why did you do that?" Ms Marie asked sternly. Mido pointed at Komali.

"He started it! He tackled me!" he shouted. Ms Marie looked at the rest of the class.

"Is this true?" she asked. Most of the class nodded. Ms Marie looked at Komali, who was standing there trying not to cry.

"Komali?" she asked. Komali looked up at her.

"What?"

"Maybe you should jus go home…" she sighed. "We'll try this again tomorrow." Komali didn't reply, he just grabbed his empty bag and stormed out of the class.

Arill quietly put Din's Pearl into her own bag.

"Now class, please calm down and we'll all get back to our lunches."

Komali ran back to the photo shop, not caring about the people looking at him. He couldn't even tell what they were looking at him for; him being a Rito or the blood all over his face. He burst into the shop, slammed the door and ran upstairs.

"Prince Komali?" Lenzo looked out from the back room.

Komali washed the blood off his face glad once again for the feathers that covered him, he couldn't see the cuts. Feathers were sure helpful.

Lenzo came upstairs.

"Prince Komali?" he asked. Komali looked at him. "Why are you home already, school doesn't end for three more hours!" Komali looked down.

"I got sent home…" Lenzo opened his mouth to say something, but stopped when he had the tears forming in Komali's eyes.

"Tell you what," Lenzo said, bending down by Komali. "You can stay home today, and I'll make us some cocoa and we can look at some of my pictures…" Komali wiped his eyes.

"Okay…"

Lenzo started showing him some of the pictures he had taken from Dragon Roost, when there was a knock at the door. Lenzo got up and went to go answer it.

"Prince Komali!" he yelled back.

"What?"

"One of your friends is at the door!"

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I'm finally finished that chapter! Can you guess who's at the door? It's pretty obvious, but I decided to have a cliffhanger instead of telling you. Anyways, I forgot to mention that I am putting Zelda and Tetra in as two different people, with two completely different personalities. Anyways, the next chappie will be up soon! Please review!