Chapter 7: Kiki, and the Blue Monkey

A/N: Yes, Kiki's back. I loved that foolish monkey, always asking for money. This chapter is a little off from the previous, well read and see for yourself.

D/C: Don't own, don't sue… you bastards.

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Link woke up with a rather large headache, he couldn't really tell from where it was from, but he puts on his dry clothes and heads out. He joins Marin who's already outside, enjoying the view. He puts his arms around her waist and rests his hands on her belly. She leans back on his chest and strokes his hair with her right hand.

"So, are you enjoying the seaside shore? I would think that you would've grown tired of it by now." She giggles.

"There really is nothing old about the shore, new things to be discovered appear everyday. Sometimes, you find shells, fascinating and dull. Other days, well, let's just say that you'll find things worth keeping." She turns around and kisses him.

"Ouch!" Link rubs the back of his head.

"What's wrong?"

"Something hit me in the back of the head. I think it was a rock."

"Kikikiki!" Link jumps and runs behind Marin. Her face becomes blank, as she looks on nervously.

"What the hell are you doing?" Marin whispers to Link, " I thought you were supposed to be the hero of time."

"I was, up until now." He trembles.

"Kikikiki!" Link jumps again, and instead of running, he sticks his head in the sand. Then, from behind a tree, off shore, Kiki the Monkey jumps in to view.

"Link, it's only Kiki." She pulls his head, and dusts off the sand in his face.

"Kikiki! Link, you're back! Kikiki!" Link stares in embarrassment. He gets up and dusts off the sand on his tunic.

"Oh, hello Kiki, I haven't seen you since that day at the eastern temple in the Dark World. What are you doing here?" Link walks closer to Kiki, Kiki jumps and sits on Link's shoulder. He gets closer to his ear and he starts to whisper.

"Do you have any spare ruppies?" Link grabs Kiki, and holds him in front.

"No, I lost all my ruppies gambling." He looks at Marin as she raises her eyebrow, tapping her feet on the sand. "This wasn't the first island I came across after leaving Hyrule." She gives him the whatever hand gesture and leaves. "Now, what do you want, Kiki?" Kiki's face becomes depressed. Link puts him down and he kneels to listen to what Kiki has to say.

"We need you Link, some new monkey came to the trees last night, we don't know where he came from, but he looked weak, so we took him in and we restored him to health, kikiki. Then earlier today, he woke up and he attacked everyone. He went mad and his eyes became fierce red. I fled the trees and I found you." Link became puzzled.

"Take me there." Link takes Kiki and he gives him a blue ruppie.

"Kikiki, thank you, kikiki. We can take the route passing the giant egg."

"What Egg?" Link stops, he looks at Kiki. "What giant egg? I hope that it isn't what I think it is. I don't want this place to disappear, not again." Kiki looks at Link.

"I am confused. What do you mean, you don't want this place to disappear again?"

"I will explain later, first take me to your home, and we'll handle things there, afterwards take me to the egg." They run through the lake trail, passing the Chomp-Chomp Village, they run across the labyrinth pond, and pass the egg. Link looks at it. "It looks different, I don't remember it being that big. Maybe it isn't what I thought it was."

"Kikiki! My home is drawing near, we must hurry. Kikiki!" They pick up the pace as they enter the Eastern Woods. Kiki stops at a tree, and Link looks up to face the monkey.

"So, where is he, Kiki?" Link takes a seat, and awaits the reply.

"I think he is in one of the tree houses, come on, let's go." Link grabs his grappling hook from his bag and he starts swinging with Kiki. They come across an unusual looking tree house, it has burning torches hanging from the wall, far enough to avoid fire, then the doorway has pieces of leaves hanging all the way around the archway. They enter.

"Kiki, where is this monkey, I don't see him." Kiki jumps in front of Link to protect Link from the stone that was flung from across the room.

"He doesn't like being called a monkey."

"Are you okay, Kiki?" Kiki faints from the fierce impact from the stone. Link stands up straight and starts to walk forward to the other end. It began to get darker and darker the closer he gets to the other end. Soon, Link starts to notice a small chair, and on the chair, he saw a blue monkey.

"Who dare approaches me, Riki, the Master of the monkeys?" Link takes a step forward and bows.

"I am Link, the Hero of Time, I have come here as a request from Kiki, he told me that you caused pain to the monkeys and made them your slave. Is this true?" Riki laughs, he smiles and nods.

"Yes, it is all true, I even had fun with a few monkeys myself, nothing goes better with bananas, than monkey flesh." His eyes became red as he looks on to Link.

"You're a cannibal?"

"If eating my own kind makes me a cannibal, then yes, I am, but if merely exercising my power to do whatever I wish, then no, I am not. So tell me, Hero, what are your intentions here on the island?" Before Link could respond, Riki continues. "Are you here for the reasons you think you are here? Or are you here because of something bigger?" Link refrains from moving. "You want to find love anywhere outside of the princess, but it seems that feelings still exist for her, so you run away. You wished for this island to be real so much, you became so foolishly blind into thinking that this is real. Wake up Link, this isn't real, the Egg seems bigger because the power to keep this real to you must be greater because you have grown since the last time you have been here!" Link looks up at the blue monkey.

"How do you know all this?" Link steps back a bit.

"Because, I am stuck here the same as you are, I have been stuck here the same way that you are. You need to play the song in front of the Egg, and set us free."

"Who are you, really?" Link squints.

"If you must know, the reason I do this because, I am, in reality, Nightmare. I am the same dark force that was trapped here, the last time you came here." The blue monkey begins to become more depressed as he continues. " I want to be free from this world, I have been defeated by you, and since I was set free, I never haunted anyone's dream before. So you must play the song and set us both free." Link shakes his head, he turns and runs back to the shore. He runs all the way back. He soon arrives back to Marin's house where she waits.

"Link, what happened?" Link runs to Marin and embraces her, he wraps his arms around her mid back, he lets the scent of her hair sink in, and the softness of her skin relax against his.

"There is something that must be said." She pulls away, she looks into his eyes, in confusion. " I saw him again." She shrugs.

"Who?" She smiles at him and turns around.

"Nightmare." She becomes completely still as she knows exactly must now be done.

"Are you telling me that, I am not real?" She starts to cry, her weeping tears ran quickly down her face as she covers them with her hands.

"Everything on this island, including the island is fake. I am only dreaming this again. We may have not been together for too long, but I must go there and play the song in front of the Egg, to wake up from this dream." She begins to sob, her face drowned in her hands, as she begins to shake her head vigorously.

"I just found you, now you're saying, that we must say good-bye?

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A/N: Oh yeah, I know, it is sad, but Link needs to grow up, because I have plans for him, and this little island paradise, isn't meant to be.

R&R please.

Peter