"Give us back our friend, ya stupid octopus!" Eddy yelled as he and Ed pulled on Edd's legs, trying to get their friend out of it's mouth. The creature just thrashed it's head as it pulled, leaving both sides in a nasty game of tug-o-war.

"Navi! What is this thing?!" Link asked in panic.

"That's a Bigocto! It's weakness is it's behind!" Navi quickly informed him. Link looked at the creature before running around the platform, sword drawn, ready to strike at it from behind. He saw a giant green orb sticking out of it's butt before thrusting his sword in it. The creature shrieked in pain as it spat Edd out, a torrent of saliva covering the three Eds as it jumped over them.

"YUCK!" Eddy shouted as he wiped the thick saliva off himself. "I need a shower after all this is over."

"DOUBLE D?! DOUBLE D! SPEAK TO US!" Ed yelled as he looked around for Edd, who wasn't anywhere in sight.

"Double D! Where are you?!" Link yelled before a blob of saliva rose up between the three of them.

"A spit monster?!" Eddy exclaimed in disgust.

"Wait. That's not a monster!" said Navi as some of the saliva dripped off the object. "It's...Double D?!" The group looked as the saliva dripped off of Edd, who was trembling in place, a look of pure terror stretched acrossed his face.

"Double D! Say something!" said Link as they all gathered in front of him. He didn't say anything before his hand shot out, grabbed Link's hat, and placed it on his head.

"It...has...my hat!" Edd whispered before they all turned to the Bigocto, who was now glaring at them.

"Run." said Link before they all turned and ran from the creature, which was hot on their heels.

"If we could stun it, we could get some distance between us!" Navi shouted.

"I got this!" Eddy shouted before pulling out a Deku Nut and throwing it behind them, letting it flash and stun the creature. It shook it's body and blinked it's eyes to rid itself of the blinding light while the group ran all the way around and right up to it's butt, where the green orb was.

"BEGONE, ROTTEN SQUID THING!" Ed yelled as he ran up behind it. He then kicked it with enough force that the green orb was sent right through it's body and out it's mouth, where it splattered against the wall. Both parts of the creature slowly withered away into piles of goo as it died, leaving Ed to grin with his foot still in the air. "ED HAS SLAIN THE BEAST!"

"Nice kick, Monobrow!" Eddy snickered while Edd dug through the goop before pulling his hat out and placing it on his head. If not for the fact that he was inside a whale and was covered in saliva, the thought of his hat covered in guts would of caused the smart Ed to wash it before wearing it.

"Here you are Link." he said as he handed Link his hat back, which was still covered in saliva.

"Uh...you're welcome." Link replied deadpanned as he stuck it on his head.

"I'm just gonna float out here away from you guys for awhile." said Navi as she floated away from them.

"Forget all that!" Eddy blurted out. "She may be a pain, but we're short one person."

"He's right!" Link realized before looking to Edd. "Where's Ruto?"

"We were ambushed by that strange cephalopod and...and something else." Edd began. "It took Princess Ruto, leaving me to fight on my own before..."

"Before it tried to make you into a snack?" Eddy finished.

"Yes. Thank you for pointing that out." Edd groaned before looking up at the hole in the roof. "In any case, Princess Ruto's in trouble!"

"WE GOTTA SAVE HER!" Ed yelled.

"No, really?" Eddy asked sarcastically before Link jumped up to the platform in the middle of the room.

"Come on!" Link ordered as the platform began to rise. The Eds each jumped onto the platform before it ascended up to the next room. The room was small, with a small tunnel full of Biri standing in the way of the door. They were quickly defeated with a well calculated boomerang throw from Edd before the group entered the next room. Two giant red blocks were inside the room, making a path to the door on the other side of the room.

"Guess we gotta jump-" Eddy started before one of them began wiggling when Eddy got too close. "Whoa! It's alive!"

"Those are Red Jelly! We can't touch them while they're flailing about!" Navi warned. "We have to stun them!"

"Okay!" Ed said stupidly as he threw a Deku Nut at it, but did nothing to it.

"That won't work! It doesn't have eyes!" Navi shouted.

"Then how about this?" Edd asked before throwing his boomerang at it, causing it to change to a shade of purple and become still.

"It worked!" Link smiled before the color began to fade back to red.

"Not for very long." Edd stated as it began to wiggle around again. "We'll have to be fast. Everyone ready?"

"For what?" Ed asked.

"Just jump when we do." Eddy told him as he removed his hand from his face. They all waited until Edd threw the boomerang at the Red Jelly, stunning it once again.

"Jump!" he yelled before they all jumped onto the frozen Red Jelly. The second one began to wiggle before Edd stunned it like the first one, which was about to start wiggling again. "Again!" Edd yelled before they all jumped to the next, then right to the door that lead out into the next room.

"Nice job." Link complimented as they walked on before they reached the end of the path, with a tiny cliff that lead to nowhere on the other end of the gap.

"According to this map, we're directly above the room next to the entrance." Edd stated as he looked at the map before looking at the other rooms, a dark blue arrow deep in one of them. "And if this arrow represents Ruto, she's in this room right here."

"So we gotta go all the way back?! That's stupid!" Eddy shouted.

"Maybe there's a hidden door?" said Ed before he jumped to the cliff, causing it slowly sink.

"Or we just jump on and go down." said Link before he and the others jumped on the cliff, causing it to descend until it connected to the path below them.

"This way." Edd stated as he held the map up, leading them to the door of the next room, which was blocked with another switch. They pressed it, but found that it was yet another constant weight switch. "Hmm." everyone hummed in thought before Edd noticed some boxes nearby. "Shall we try those?" Edd suggested while pointing at one of them. The others looked before Ed ran to them and picked them up, then brought them right back.

"What's in them?" Eddy asked before Ed tore the lid off one of them. "More fish?"

"Ruto did say that she was feeding Jabu-Jabu," Navi remembered. "I guess she gathered them in crates for easier handling."

"These should weigh enough to allow us passage." Edd said as he placed both boxes on the switch. The added weight was just enough to press the switch down, causing the blockade to vanish from the door. They all smiled before they entered the next room and were immediately hit with a horrid stench.

"Something smells good." Ed said with a smile.

"There's nothing good about this smell!" Link snapped, his fingers plugging his nose.

"I think it's coming from the walls." Edd stated as he felt the wall with his free hand before retracting it. "It doesn't feel as soft as the rest of Jabu-Jabu."

"Didn't King Zora say something about Jabu-Jabu being sick?" Navi asked them.

"Aw. Jabu-Jabu's got a tummy bug?" Ed asked, his face holding a sad frown.

"Either way, where's the next door?" Eddy asked, his shirt over his nose.

"I believe that it's right here, but it's inaccessable at the moment." Edd stated as he stood in front of a blocked door. "We may have to find the switch to enter."

"Let's hunt 'em down!" Eddy ordered before they split up. Edd easily took care of the nearby Biri and Golden Skulltula as they searched the lower part of the room.

"Find anything?" Link asked.

"Nothing." the Eds said in unison.

"Let's try up here." Navi suggested while fluttering around a rough part of flesh that looked climbable. The four of them slowly climb the fleshy wall until they got to the top, where a switch could be seen in the ceiling, a wall of glass keeping them from shooting at it directly.

"Why is there a wall of glass here?" Edd asked as he knocked his knuckle against it.

"Forget that. Hit the switch!" Eddy snapped.

"I got it!" Ed yelled as he ran at the switch, only to smack into the glass wall and run in place. "How come I'm not moving?"

"Is he getting dumber?" Link whispered to Eddy, who only shrugged back.

"Distance to the target..." Edd mumbled as he stood a few steps away from the glass wall, boomerang in his hand. The others looked just in time to see him throw the boomerang to the side, where it came back at an angle, hitting the switch in the process.

"Nice shot." Ed grinned before they all climbed down and ran towards the door.

"Get ready! Anything could be behind this door!" Link firmly stated, sword drawn. The Eds each took out their respective weapons, with Ed holding a Deku Stick, Edd and his Boomerang, and Eddy with his Slingshot, before they all entered the room. The room was much darker than the others, casting only silohuettes here and there.

"Creepy!" Ed chuckled.

"Kinda reminds me of that abandoned house." said Eddy.

"Shh." Link shushed them. They listened to hear an electric crackling sound coming from every direction. The room grew a little lighter as giant jellyfish began to spark with electricity.

"Those are Bari! Think of them as a big brother to the Biri." Navi explained as the Bari all collected towards the center, where a giant pink creature stood connected to the ceiling via three tentacles.

"That's it!" Edd yelled while wildly pointing at it. "That's the creature I was talking about!"

"That's the Bio-Electric Anemone! BARINADE!" Navi yelled as the creature seemed to have sensed their presence and let out a roar.

"Look!" Ed shouted as he pointed past the creature, where a large tentacle with a clear membrane near the middle stood connected from top to bottom.

"RUTO!" they all shouted when they saw Princess Ruto sitting inside the bubble, hugging the Zoras Sapphire to her chest.

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!" she yelled before the creature attacked them. Strange antenna at the top aimed at the group before blasting bolts of electricity towards them, causing them to scatter.

"You have to cut from Jabu-Jabu!" Navi explained as she fluttered around in a panic as the Bari flew around Barinade, keeping them from getting too close.

"I've got it!" Edd yelled as he chucked the boomerang, cutting one of Barinade's tentacles. The creature screeched before aiming it's next attack at Edd, shooting more electricity at him. "NOT GOOD!" he yelled as he jumped out of the way.

"Keep it distracted so Edd can cut it!" Link shouted.

"Okay!" Ed yelled before he began waving his arms around. "LOOK AT ME! I AM ED!" he yelled before the creature shot at him, causing him to run around in circles. "MISSED ME! HAHAHAHA!" he laughed as Edd cut another tentacle before dodging another blast. He managed to cut the last one with a smile before the creature began to spin and move around the room.

"Oh great! It's mobile!" Eddy yelled in frustration as the Bari kept the group away from Barinade.

"Just...just run!" Link yelled as Barinade and the Baris moved around the room, zapping the group from time to time.

"How are we supposed to fight this?!" Eddy snapped, his skin starting to burn from the constant zapping.

"I'm thinking!" Link yelled as he ran.

"Double D's thinking. See?" Ed stated. The others looked to see Edd holding the boomerang, a look of deep thought on his face as he glared at Barinade.

'Distance of the Bari from Barinade...Speed of their rotational defense...Direction of Barinade's movements...' he thought before he eyes widened and he threw the boomerang at an angle. The others watched as the boomerang somehow managed to fly right past the Baris defense and strike Barinade, stunning the monster into submission.

"He hit it!" Ed yelled in joy.

"Now we're gonna hit it!" Link yelled before running at the creature. Ed followed with his Deku Stick and began attacking alongside Link while Eddy shot seeds at it, leaving Edd to take out some of the Bari with the boomerang before Barinade recovered and zapped them all away from it.

"Do that again!" Link shouted towards Edd after standing up, who nodded as he readied his boomerang.

-Ruto-

Ruto watched from her prison as the four of them worked to take on Barinade.

'Wow,' she thought. 'They're not half bad.' She couldn't help herself as her eyes drifted towards Edd and smiled. 'Didn't think that one had it in him.' she thought before the creature released a horrifyingly painful cry. She watched as the creature began to bloat and glow red all over it's body before the membrane she was in suddenly became covered in pink goop.

"That's disgusting." she said as the guts slid off the membrane, revealing that Barinade had exploded everywhere. She stiffled her laughter when she saw the Eds and Link all covered in goo as well. "I stand corrected. That's disgusting."

-Eds and Link-

The group stood victorious in the remains of Barinade, it's entrails and such sliding down their bodies.

"I'm going to have nightmares. I know it." Edd mumbled to himself while Ed licked his fingers.

"Mmm." he said as he kept licking his hands.

"That," Navi groaned as she stood up out of Barinade's remains and shook the goo from her wings. "Was disgusting!"

"Can we leave now? I've had it with this place!" Eddy growled as he wiped the gunk from his face.

"I'm with you. But let's get Ruto first." Link replied. The group then wandered towards the strange tentacle keeping Ruto prisoner before Edd threw the boomerang at the top, causing Ruto to fall on him.

"This is getting old." Eddy drolled as Ruto picked herself up.

"What took you guys so long?!" Ruto suddenly snapped. "Keeping a girl waiting! Aren't you men?! You're totally useless!" She then huffed and limped away before stopping and glaring over her shoulder. "Follow me if you want to leave, but I'm not stopping for you boneheads!" she said before limping again, the Zoras Sapphire in her hands.

"Easy Eddy." Link said in a calm voice when he saw Eddy aching to strangle Ruto. "Let's just follow her."

"Where exactly are you going?" Edd asked.

"You'll see~" she said with a toothy grin, unnerving the group. The boys all followed her into a small room filled with water, where they all tumbled in and began swimming.

"I thought you said this was an exit!" Eddy snapped at Ruto, who dove deeper into the water and swam for the bottom. The boys watched from the surface as Ruto rubbed the flesh at the bottom. Nothing happened at first before the entire room began to shrink around them. They began to panic as Ruto swam to the surface.

"Going up!" she cried out with a smile before the water erupted.

-Outside-

Jabu-Jabu was still near the altar before his eyes widened. He then made a sound that could be called a strained groan before a massive jet of water shot out of his blowhole, with the Eds, Navi, Link shouting in fear as they shot into the sky. The screams of terror continued until they all hit the water, sending a torrent into the air before splashing back down. The Eds and Link all swam back to the surface and began coughing and breathing, glad to be alive after that ordeal.

"SHE JUST HAD US EJECTED OUT OF THE WHALE'S BLOWHOLE!" Edd shouted.

"Well...look on the bright side," Link sighed, his breathing not fully under control just yet. "It cleaned the gunk off of us."

"I hate that little brat!" Eddy snapped in rage.

"LET'S DO IT AGAIN!" Ed laughed before Ruto appeared on the surface.

"Told ya I knew the way out!" she grinned.

"Come here you!" Eddy yelled as he swam towards her. Ruto only smiled before disappearing under the water away from him. "Where are you?!"

"What's going on out here?" The group turned to see a group of Zoras had come out from Zora's Domain, curious about the sudden loud eruption from Jabu-Jabu. They suddenly bowed when Ruto came to shore and limped towards them. "Princess Ruto! You're safe!"

"Take me to my father!" she ordered before turning to the group. "And bring them along as well."

-In King Zora's Throne Room-

A dozen Zoras surrounded Link and the Eds as the King and Princess of the Zoras conversed. Or rather, Ruto whispering into her father's ear, wherever it was, and him nodding his head.

"What do you think she's saying?" Navi whispered.

"Probably making up a bunch of lies about us." Eddy whispered back.

"I don't believe she'd do something like that." Edd replied.

"Ooooh. Standing up for your girlfriend?" Eddy chuckled, making Edd blush.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Edd harshly whispered back.

"Oh yeah. Marie Kanker is!" Eddy snickered.

"Eddy!" Edd snapped.

"Ahem!" King Zora cleared his throat to gain their attention.

"You need a cough drop?" Ed asked.

"Ed, be quiet." Link told him as they all looked up at King Zora, who looked down at them all.

"My daughter has explained everything." he said with a smile. "And if even half of what I've heard is true, then we Zoras are indebted to you four brave humans. For not only have you rid Lord Jabu-Jabu of the cause of his ailment, you have also found and safely returned my daughter to us all. HUZZAH!"

"HUZZAH!" the Zoras chanted over and over while the group looked around with smiles on their faces.

"At my daughter's request, we shall hold a banquet in your honor!" King Zora announced before clapping his hands, signaling the Zoras to start cooking.

"Oh boy! Food! Ed is hungry!" Ed yelled in joy.

"What about the Spiritual Stone?" Eddy whispered to Link.

"We'll talk to Ruto later. If we try and take it, we could literally end up as fish food." Link whispered back.

"While my people prepare the food, Princess Ruto would like to talk to you four alongside Lord Jabu-Jabu." King Zora informed them.

"I bet she's gonna nag at us or something." Eddy mumbled as they followed Ruto out towards Jabu-Jabu.

"Is something wrong?" Edd asked Ruto when they approached Jabu-Jabu. Ruto turned to them all with a genuine smile.

"I wanted to say thank you." she said before bowing her head to them. "For saving both of us."

"You're welcome!" Ed yelled with a grin.

"You asked us out here just to say that?" Eddy asked.

"No. I just didn't want my father to know about this." she said before she dove into the water. The four of them looked at each other in confusion before she reappeared, the Spiritual Stone of Water in her hands.

"The Spiritual Stone?" said Link. "You're giving it to us?"

"I am," she said before smirking. "On one condition."

"A catch. There's always a catch when a girl parts from jewelry." Eddy stated.

"Eddy!" Edd glared at Eddy before turning to Ruto with a smile. "And this condition is?"

"I made a promise with my late mother to only give the Zoras Sapphire to only one person in the world." she said.

"So, we have to find this guy?" Eddy asked.

"Oi vey." Navi groaned with a shake of her head while Ruto whispered something into Edd's ear. The boy's jaw dropped while his face turned as red as his shirt while Ruto stepped back.

"Well?" she asked. "Do you accept?"

"I-uh...um...hehehe...eerr..." Edd began to stutter badly, his whole body shaking.

"Whatever you said, yes." Link answered.

"We will complete the task!" Ed yelled determinely.

"Whatever." Eddy shrug.

"YAAAY!" Ruto yelled with a smile before hugging Edd, who hugged back in blind reflex before he was given the Spiritual Stone of Water. "Don't go breaking your promise, or else?" she warned before limping back inside Zora's Domain. The boys looked at Ruto before looking at Edd, who was a statue at the moment.

"Hey Sockhead! What'd she want us to do?" Eddy asked.

"She...uh...She...She says that...um..."

"Oh for the love of Din! She asked Double D to marry her!" Navi yelled. The boys all blinked before looking at Edd, who just stood there and whimpered with big eyes.

"I'm...engaged." he mumbled. Eddy just stared before his cheeks inflated.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he roared with laughter before he fell to his knees and began beating the ground with his fist. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?! YOU...AND THAT FISH GIRL...ARE...EN...ENG...HAHAHAHAHA!" Edd just glared at Eddy, red in both embarassment and anger while Eddy continued. "Do you Sockhead take this fish to be your wife? HAHAHAHAHA! Double D and Ruto, sitting by a pond~ Making out by the shore, all night long~ HAHAHAHA!"

"COULD YOU PLEASE KNOCK IT OFF EDDY?!" Edd yelled, to which Eddy laughed harder at him.

"It's not nice to laugh when a girl gives her heart away." said Navi as she got in Eddy's face.

"Who cares? The moment we stop Ganondork's plans, the three of us are heading home." Eddy answered.

"Indeed." Edd remarked after regaining his composure. "Eddy, Ed, and I must look for...where's Ed?" he asked when he noticed Ed was gone.

"He ran off screaming 'girl germs' a minute ago. Eddy's laugh drowned him out." Link told them.

"Oh dear. He could be anywhere!" said Edd in a panic.

"He ran towards the water." Navi informed them as she flew high into the air and looked around before spotting something. "This way!" she yelled before flying off. The trio jumped into the water and swam after her as she flew towards the other side of the lake before stopping in front of an Ed shaped hole in the rocky wall.

"That idiot cracks me up!" Eddy laughed as they stuck their faces up to the hole. "HEY ED! YOU IN HERE?!"

"ED! ANSWER US!" Link yelled.

"ARE YOU HURT?!" Edd yelled. They waited for an answer as they stared down the dark hole, only to feel a light breeze come from inside.

"He must've found a separate path." Link guessed before he, Navi, the two Eds, AND the wall were all blown into the water by a powerful gale, followed by Ed's joyful laughter.

"What was that?!" Eddy sputtered as they swam back towards the giant hole, with Ed running out and laughing before falling into the water.

"Ed!" they all shouted as they swam up to him.

"What happened?" Navi asked. Ed just stared at them for moment before smiling.

"Oh! Oh! I know! I remember as if it happened a moment ago!" Ed grinned.

-Flashback-

"GIRL GERMS!" Ed yelled as he ran towards the water, running straight across the bottom, then right through the wall on the other side. "Icky, yucky, mushy stuff!" he ranted before tripping over himself and falling on his face. He got up and looked around to find himself inside a Great Fairy's Fountain. "Huh?" he said as he stared at the water, seeing his reflection. "Hello! My name is Ed." he told his reflection before spotting the symbol of the Triforce in front of the water. "Uh..." he said as his tiny brain began to pulsate. "Tick...tick...tick...ding! I KNOW WHAT THIS IS!" he yelled before he began singing. "LAAAAAA LA LAAAAA! LAAAAA LA LAAAAAAA~" he sang with a laugh, which was soon joined by another laugh.

"HAAAAHAHAHAHA!" laughed the Great Fairy as she appeared from the water and floated before Ed. "Well now. Who have we here?" she asked with a smile.

"Hi Great Fairy!" Ed greeted with a wave.

"Ahh. You have great power within you." she grinned. "I can sense it."

"Where?" he asked as he turned his eyes around to look inside his empty skull. "It's dark in here!" he laughed. The Great Fairy laughed before blowing him a kiss, causing his body to float.

"I can fly!" he laughed as his body floated and spun in mid-air, followed by a massive wind flowing out of every part of him. The Great Fairy blocked her eyes with her arm before the wind died and she looked to see that Ed had fallen on his butt and laughed, looking back out the exit he came in from. She then looked down and blushed to see that her leaves had been blown off before summoning some more to cover herself before Ed turned to her. "Can Ed fly some more?"

"If you practice with your new powers, it may be possible." she said with a wink before disappearing into the fountain.

"ED CAN FLY!" Ed laughed as he ran out of the Great Fairy's Fountain.

-Present-

"So you've had powers within you as well?" Navi asked. "What next? Double D here has the power to move mountains with his mind deep within him?"

"HE DOES?!" Ed yelled excitedly.

"That'd be pretty sweet!" Eddy grinned.

"Hey!" came Ruto's voice from the other side of the lake. "What are you doing? The banquet's prepared! Come on!"

"You heard your wife! Let's go!" Eddy laughed as they swam towards Zora's Domain.

"Stop that!" Edd snapped.

"Double D and Ruto, sitting by the pond~"

"I'm ignoring you now!"

"Oh boy." Link sighed.

A/N: Sorry I was late updating. Christmas is close, and everything's crazy. But that's just me...I think.