"Speed up." Ruto commanded.

"Yes Ma'am." Edd replied. This had been going on for the past 2 minutes since they agreed to take Ruto with them, with Edd carrying her piggyback. As they walked, Link, Ed, and Eddy took out any creatures that got too close.

"Stop shaking me when you walk!"

"Apologies."

"Slow down."

"Right Ma'am."

"Did you just move your hand?"

"WILL YOU GIVE IT A REST ALREADY?!" Eddy snapped, his patience with her at an end. "YOU HAVE BEEN NAGGING AND WHINING SINCE WE FOUND YOU! IS THAT ALL YOU KNOW HOW TO DO?!" Ruto and the rest of them just stared at Eddy in shock before she glared at him, an angry sneer on her face revealing her sharp teeth.

"Listen up, you little commoner," she growled as she pushed Edd's head down so she could lean over and get into Eddy's face. "I am the Princess of all Zoras, and I won't stand by and be spoken to like that!"

"Oh yeah?! What are you gonna do?" Eddy snapped as he and her were nose-to-nose.

"Alright, that's enough!" Link interrupted as he got between the two of them, his hands raised to gently push them apart. "Let's not forget why we're here."

"Why are we here again?" Ed asked stupidly.

"We're here to find Princess Ruto's...lost item, then find a way out of here." Link reminded them. "So please, let's try to get along, okay?" Ruto only turned her nose up with a huff while Eddy growled at her.

"Whatever." Eddy grunted as they walked on, making it past the room there first met Ruto before coming to a path that branched out into a few separate rooms.

"Which way should we take?" Link asked as they looked down each path after taking out the nearby Tailpasaran.

"I say that way!" said Ed before he laughed and ran down a path that was blocked by some sort of tentacle. He began screaming in pain the moment he touched it before his body was thrown back, sliding across the squishy insides of Jabu-Jabu right up to his friends feet. "Hurt."

"We can see that." said Eddy.

"Go that way." Ruto ordered. as she pointed to a path that lead to a locked door, a switch sticking out of the floor.

"Who put you in charge?" asked Eddy while glaring at her.

"Which one of us has explored inside Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly since they were young?" Ruto asked with a smirk, which only caused Eddy to angrily grind his teeth as they moved down the path she picked.

"Do you know which way we're going?" Edd asked.

"Like the back of my hand." she boasted while holding out her hand.

"Is there a map on it?" Ed asked as he took her hand and looked at it, only for Ruto to yank her hand away.

"Let us proceed!" she said in disgust as she wiped her hand on Edd's hat, making Edd cringe.

"Please watch the hat." said Edd as Link stepped on the switch, only for it to sink halfway.

"What gives?" Eddy asked as they looked at the switch.

"Maybe we need more weight?" Navi suggested as Link stepped off, letting the switch come back up.

"OH, OH! I KNOW!" said Ed in excitement before he lifted both Edd and Ruto off the ground before placing them on the switch, which had enough weight on it and unlocked the door.

"Bravo Ed!" Edd said with a smile, making Ed grin in happiness.

"Why'd you put both of them on? I bet the Princess here would've been enough." Eddy joked.

"Care to explain?" Ruto growled, her eyes narrowed at Eddy.

"Well we did see your father, and he's not exactly Mr. Muscle." Eddy snickered.

"Eddy, that's enough." said Link while Ruto glared at Eddy, fire burning in her eyes.

"Princess...please...loosen...your...grip!" Edd wheezed as Ruto tightly held onto his neck in anger. Ruto looked to see Edd was nearly as blue as her scales before she eased up, allowing the smart Ed to breathe once more.

"My bad." she said before they entered the room.

"Great sense of direction," Eddy said sarcastically. "It's a dead end! And there's nothing in here!"

"You're half right," Link said in a serious tone as he unsheated his sword. "It's a dead end full of Stingers!"

"Oh dear!" said Edd as he noticed the familiar red fin sticking out of the ground.

"First we beat these things! Then we try another path!" Link commanded as he lured a Stinger out before stabbing it, killing it. Eddy and Ed pulled out the slingshot and Deku Stick before helping Link kill the Stingers.

"Will you be alright if I set you down?" Edd asked Ruto over his shoulder.

"I will. Now go help them so we can get out of here faster!" she said. Edd nodded as he gently set her down and took out a Deku Stick to help in the fight.

"If one of them comes near you, shout!" said Edd as he moved towards a Stinger, causing it to jump out and glide for a moment before diving towards him. He waited for the perfect moment before swatting it away, making it splat against the wall of tissue and flesh. Ruto just watched these four boys fight these little creatures before Eddy finished the last one off with a shot to the gut.

"Glad that's over." said Navi before a treasure chest appeared out of thin air.

"Cool!" said Ed as he stared at the chest.

"Where on Earth did that appear from?" Edd asked.

"Bring me to that chest!" Ruto immediately commanded to Edd. "Now! Hurry!" she yelled. Edd ran over to her before she grabbed onto his neck while he hoisted her up on his back. "Now move! Go!" she yelled while trying to get him to move.

"Whoa! Please desist!" Edd begged as he began doing a funny dance to keep his balance while waddling over to the chest just as the others opened it. Ruto peeked over Edd's shoulder with a wide smile before it fell into a look of disappointment.

"Shoot! I thought it was something else." Ruto whined as Link picked up the item inside.

"What's this?" Link asked as he and Navi examined it.

"That's a boomerang. You throw it, and it'll come right back to you." Navi explained.

"Oh! Another boomerjigger!" said Ed with a smile.

"That's pretty cool." said Link before he noticed they were short a few people. "Guys?"

"Over here!" shouted Eddy. Link and Navi looked to see the other two Eds and Ruto all the way on the other side of the room, the Eds wearing smiles while sweating a bit.

"They moved the moment you picked that up!" Ruto shouted to Link before looking down at the two Eds. "Why are you two hugging the wall?"

"Oh...no reason." said Edd.

"Forgive me if I don't believe your lie." said Ruto as she just clung to his back.

"We had a boomerang once." said Eddy. "Every time we touched the stupid thing, we went crazy!"

"Really?" Link asked as he looked at it again.

"Can I try?" Ed asked as he grabbed the boomerang, causing Edd and Eddy to flinch and shut their eyes, waiting for Ed to twitch around before saying something smart.

"What are you two doing?" Ruto asked as she raised a non-existent eyebrow at them in confusion.

""Wait for it." Eddy answered as they didn't move. "He's gonna start spouting a bunch of science stuff at us."

"What he's doing is using it as a backscratcher." Ruto explained before reaching up to Edd's face and forcing his eyes open with her fingers. "See?" Edd's eyes were focused on Ed, watching as he scratched his back while twitching his leg like a dog.

"I don't think that's how you use it." said Link and he and Navi chuckled at Ed's antics.

"So...it's safe?" Eddy asked while cracking one eye open.

"Yes, it's safe. Now quit acting like it's going to eat us and let's go!" Ruto commanded.

"Yes Ma'am." said Edd as they walked back towards the others, but not before whispering to Eddy, "Should we start twitching and acting funny, burn that infernal piece of wood." Eddy nodded before they left the room and now had to choose another.

"Before we choose another path, I have a request." Ruto said all of a sudden.

"Oh, what now?" Eddy groaned.

"In the future, please try not to be too reckless while fighting inside Lord Jabu-Jabu." she said with a glare.

"Does he get gas?" Ed asked.

"That, and you may cause irrepairable damage to him. And might cause a bowel movement by accident." she muttered the last part.

"Oh dear." Edd muttered, not wanting for that to happen.

"As you command." Link agreed before they chose another door. This one had another switch before it, which Ed happily jumped onto, unlocking the door. They walked towards it, only for the button to push up and the door to lock again.

"Another switch requiring constant pressure." Edd surmised.

"Well what are we supposed to use? We don't have any statues or blocks to leave on it." Eddy ranted.

"It looks like one of us will have to stay out here to keep the door unlocked." said Link.

"But who?" Edd asked.

"Why not the Princess?" Eddy suggested.

"Out of the question. What I'm looking for might be in that room." she said. "Either the smelly one, or the loud one stays."

"I am not loud!" Eddy yelled.

"Maybe you're the smelly one." said Navi, causing everyone but Eddy to giggle.

"You know what? I'll stay out here!" Eddy decided as he sat on the switch. "Anything to get away from you!"

"That's fine with me." Ruto shrugged before the rest of them entered the room. It was another dead end, but with something huge dangling from the ceiling.

"It's one of those fleshy things in the back of your throat!" Ed yelled while they looked at it sway back and forth.

"That's not what it is! That's a Parasitic Tentacle!" Navi explained. "The thin part near the top is it's only weak spot!"

"Then we have a problem, because Eddy's the one with the slingshot." Link stated.

"Those seeds won't be enough to cut through that! You need something stronger!" Navi explained.

"What do you want me to do? Climb it and cut it myself?" Link asked.

"If it kills this monstrosity, yes!" Ruto stated.

"Alright." Link nodded with a sigh before they began walking towards it. It shocked them all when it suddenly pulled towards one side of them room before swatting Link and Ed away, sending both boys into the fleshy wall.

"ED! LINK!" Edd shouted as the tentacle wound up again to strike, this time at Edd. Ruto and Edd screamed as it came towards them before Edd jumped out of the way, dodging the tentacle before falling forward.

"You okay?" Ruto asked as she looked down at Edd, who was lying on his face under her.

"Been better." Edd mumbled as the tentacle went back to gently swaying around. "You?"

"I'm fine." she answered. Edd smiled before looking back at the strange creature in thought.

"It seems this tentacle sees us as a threat, causing it to lash out at us if we get to close." he analyzed.

"I wish we'd known that before it slapped us!" Link groaned as he and Ed struggled to their feet.

"What do we do?" asked Ed.

"We need to figure out how to kill it." Link stated. Everyone began to think at a safe distance while Edd's eyes wandered up to the thin weak point, his mind trying to come up with any solution to destroy it.

'We have to use a ranged weapon, for it will simply swat us away if we get too close again.' he thought before he looked at Ed sighing in relief while scratching his back with the boomerang again. He stared at the boomerang, then up at the tentacle before getting a crazy idea. "Try the boomerang!" They looked at him as he explained. "Every place we've explored, we had help from an item inside a treasure chest! First the slingshot, then a bag of bombs!"

"And now a boomerang!" Navi finished. "Plus, it's the only weapon we have that can reach it."

"Ed, use the boomerang!" said Edd to Ed, who stared at him. "Throw the boomerang the Parisitic Tentacle's weak spot! At the top!"

"Okay Double D!" he replied with a grin before throwing the boomerang at it, only for it to twirl around the tentacle and come back, striking Ed in the face. "I WIN!" he yelled, making Ruto facepalm.

"I'm surrounded by idiots!" she grumbled.

"You get used to it." Navi told her as Link tried, only to miss by a few feet and grabbing it when it returned.

"May I?" Edd asked.

"Well, neither Ed or I can get it, so go ahead." Link answered as he held the boomerang out towards him.

"Princess Ruto," Edd said while looking at Ruto.

"Alright." she said before Edd gently set her down next to the wall and took the boomerang.

"Let's see," he muttered while holding the boomerang up with one hand. "Distance to the target...factor in the rotation speed of the boomerang, as well as the-"

"Will you just throw it?" Ruto asked impatiently, her head leaning in her hand. Edd stuck his tongue out, aimed, and threw the boomerang with everything he had. They watched as the boomerang spun in the air towards the tentacle before hitting it, slicing through part of the thin area before returning to Edd.

"It worked!" Navi yelled in joy before the Parasitic Tentacle recoiled inside the ceiling, hiding it's weak spot from everyone.

"Well, that's a problem." Link stated as the tentacle stayed put high in the ceiling.

"Aww, gopher hide in hole?" asked Ed in a mocking tone.

"What?" Navi asked in deadpan confusion.

"Any of you got any bright ideas?" asked Ruto.

"It reacted when we got too close to it last time," Edd stared. "So if we get close again, it may come out to attack."

"I got it!" yelled Ed as he ran right under the tentacle, which lowered itself before swinging violently at him. Ed laughed as he jumped around, dodging it's attack. "It wants to play tag! It's it!"

"Is he crazy?" Ruto asked Link and Navi while Edd aimed and threw the boomerang at the tentacle again, hitting the weak spot.

"Yes." they answered in unison before they heard a loud collective thud. They turned to see Ed laughing while smothered in the guts of the Parasitic Tentacle while Edd just stared in repulsion.

"What do you know?" Ruto smirked after Edd gently carried Ruto on his back again. "Guess you've gots some guts in you after all."

"And I've got guts all over me!" Ed smiled in glee as another chest appeared, causing Ruto to gasp.

"Quick! Open that chest!" she ordered while beating on Edd's back to make him walk.

"Please refrain from hitting me!" Edd grunted as he walked to the chest as Link took out a map of the area.

"It's a map." he stated while Ruto growled in frustration.

"Where is it?!" she growled through gritted teeth.

"Where's what now?" asked Ed.

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Ruto snapped, making those who weren't holding her jump back. "Let's just get going! Now!" she commanded into Edd's ear, making the smart Ed wince in pain. The group then left the room, with an impatient Eddy still standing on the switch with his arms crossed across his chest and tapping his foot.

"Took you long enough!" he said in irritation. "What happened it there? I heard all of you yelling."

"Double D defeated the monster!" Ed yelled before laughing.

"What monster?" Eddy asked. The group then explained what had transpired in the room in detail.

"And then we found a map and came out here." Link finished.

"And you said you couldn't fight!" Eddy smirked at Edd, who couldn't help but feel proud of his accomplishment.

"Yes, very nice. Can we get going now?" Ruto asked.

"We're going! We're going!" Link replied before they went back to choose another path.

"What's with her?" Eddy whispered to Navi.

"Dunno, but she's starting to drive me crazy." Navi whispered back.

"That's interesting." Edd stated as he looked down one of the paths. "When we walked by, a strange red blockade was there."

"I saw that earlier too. It was the same color as the Parasitic Tentacle you just killed." Navi informed them.

"So because we destroyed the tentacle, the blockade is now gone as well?" Edd theorized.

"Beats me. All I know is that we can go down this path now." said Eddy before they all began walking down it.

"No switch. Guess we can all go in." Link stated. They all nodded and walked in to find another dead end room full of Shaboms.

"BUBBLES!" Ed yelled as he began running around the room while laughing.

"Those are Shaboms, you dolt!" Navi snapped.

"How dangerous are they again?" Edd asked while walking around to avoid them.

"Not very. If you poke them too hard, they expand before popping, knocking the attacker to the ground." Navi explained as Ed jumped on them, making them pop and shoot him up in the air before falling on another one.

"Well, Ed seems to be having fun." Edd smiled.

"IT'S LIKE FLOATING BUBBLE WRAP!" Ed laughed as another one burst, this one sending Ed right towards Edd and Ruto. They didn't have time to scream as Ed smacked right into them, sending the two into another Shabom.

"Nice shot, Ed!" Eddy laughed as Ed picked himself up.

"Thank you, Eddy!" Ed replied.

"Ed! Be careful! Princess Ruto's ankle may have sustained...we're inside the Shabom, aren't we?" he asked when he noticed that he and Ruto were off the ground. Link nodded, Eddy laughed harder, Ed stared like a little kid wanting to ride next, and Navi fluttered around the bubble.

"You two okay?" Navi asked.

"We're fine." Ruto answered as she tried to move away from Edd, only to slide around due to the Shabom's slick inside. Her body bumped into Edd's, sending the poor boy on top of her.

"Oh my!" he squeeked with a blush before he shot up off of her, causing his body to bounce against the Shabom and spin them a bit, stopping when she landed on top of him. They just stared and blushed a little at how close they were inside the floating bubble before they heard Eddy laugh.

"Look Ed! Don't those two look perfect together?!" he laughed, causing the two of them to shoot their eyes at the group below them.

"You know, I think I see what you mean." Navi added with a giggle.

"OH NO!" Ed yelled in horror. "DOUBLE D IS BEING INFECTED BY RUTO'S GIRL GERMS, JUST LIKE THE YUCKY KANKER SISTERS!"

"Whatever you just said, it's not what's happening!" Ruto denied, her blush spreading across her face.

"I concur!" Edd chimed in, his blush just as deep as hers. Even Link couldn't help but laugh at the two of them as they floated towards them. The group gently caught the bubble in their hands before looking at the two of them.

"Having fun you two?" Eddy asked with a cheeky grin, earning a glare from the two occupants.

"Peachy. Now please pop the Shabom." Edd calmly told them.

"No no no no! Wait! I gotta try something!" Eddy snickered before turning the bubble sideways, causing them to slowly spin inside.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Ruto asked, her eyes narrowed at Eddy in anger.

"You bet I am!" he said as he picked up speed.

"Alright Eddy. Knock it off." said Link. Eddy grunted at him before a wicked smile came to his face. "What are you up to?" Link asked before Eddy turned to Ed.

"Hey Ed! I heard that spinning them will get rid of girl germs!" Eddy said in mock panic. Ed's eyes shot open before he turned to the two in the bubble.

"Oh no." Edd whimpered before he and Ruto were sent violently spinning around the room after Ed grabbed the Shabom and spun them with everything he had. The two of them screamed in terror as they bounced around the room, the others watching in fear/laughter before the two slowed to a stop. Ruto was lying on top of Edd, with both of their eyes spinning.

"I knew there was a reason why I hated that midget." Ruto groaned while Link approached them.

"Hang on." he said before poking the Shabom with his sword, popping it and releasing the two inside with a plop. Ruto laid on top of Edd as they both groaned in motion sickness while Eddy laughed his ass off.

"Say," he suddenly said with a smile. "I bet we could make a killing sending the kids around giant bubbles like that!"

"And we can bounce around all day long!" Ed added with a laugh before another chest popped up.

"Is that a chest?" Ruto asked while trying to focus her vision from five points to one.

"I can't tell. The room's still spinning." Edd groaned under her while Link opened it and pulled out a compass.

"It's another compass." Link informed them, earning another groan from Ruto.

"Well, let's get going." said Eddy with a smile while Ruto moved herself off of Edd, her eyes still spinning as she laid next to Edd.

"I refuse to leave until my eyes stop spinning!" Edd yelled before groaning again.

"Good idea." Ruto added, sounding like she wanted to be sick. The others sighed as they sat down in the room, waiting for Edd and Ruto's dizziness to wear off.

A/N: If anyone thought it was too much, I apologize. I couldn't help myself.