Navi and Link headed up the stairs leading to Kakariko. Link was humming Saria's Song while Navi was trying to sort out her thoughts.
There were Cuccos everywhere, and workers running around in slow-motion. There was a tree with a large man leaning against it. He looked angry and his arms were crossed. Link jogged up to him.
"Hey mister, why are you angry?"
Navi was about to point out that that was rude, but the man looked like he was heaving a lot off his shoulders telling Link.
"You wanna know why I'm so angry?" the man challenged.
"Yeah," Link answered, looking unaffected by the man's glare.
"Fine. My lazy workers won't even work! They're as dim-witted as Stalchilds!"
Link flinched at the word, "Stalchilds".
"I can't get them to work! All they do is laze about and ask me to give them a raise in their salaries. Bah! They're worthless, ignorant pigs, I tell you!"
"Yeah, uh mister, can you tell us where Death Mountain Trail is?" Navi butted in.
"What the heck is that...thing?" the man said in wonder, pointing at Navi.
"You know what, I'm not really sure," Link admitted.
Navi fumed silently. "I'm a fairy, sir."
The man smiled. "A polite one, too. My name's Charles. Death Mountain Trail is located over there."
"Um...where?"
"I just pointed to it. There."
"Where?"
"There."
"Where???"
"THERE!" Charles answered loudly, pointing.
"Thanks, sir," Navi said quickly, floating over to the gate. Link followed. There was a worker who blocked their way on the steps.
"Can you please move, sir?" Navi asked politely.
The worker ignored Navi.
"Hey dude, surf's up!" Link exclaimed. "Gnarly wave!"
"Totally tubalar!!!" he responded, leaping off the steps, getting out a huge surfboard. "Lake Hylia, here I come!"
"Wow," said Navi, impressed, "-nice call, Link."
"What? Hey, what's he doing? I wanted to go too!" Link ran down the steps and tripped on the last one. Navi grunted and started floating over towards the gate. Link would catch up in a few moments.
Or so she thought. At night Link still hadn't shown up.
Where is Link? Navi thought, flying over to the steps. Then she heard a shout and looked up. There was Link, completely soaked, holding a surfboard with various Cucco designs.
"Link!" Navi gasped, flying over to him. "Where on Hyrule were you?"
Link grinned. "Lake Hylia, of course!"
"I didn't know that you would actually do it!" Navi said angrily, exasperated. "Oh no...it's starting to rain!"
Indeed, rain was falling lightly.
"We better go find some shelter, Link. C'mon."
Link saw the guard flee for some shelter too, leaving the gate unprotected.
"Hey Navi..." Link said, "...let's go into that house by the gate."
Navi, however, noticed the gate too. "Hey Link...let's climb up that gate."
Navi floated easily over the gate. Link looked strained. Link swung a hand and gripped one of the cold, wet bars firmly and bolstered himself up and got a grip on another bar with his other hand. Link's legs were dangling in the air.
"You can do it, Link!" Navi cheered.
Link fell down in a heap.
"Maybe not," Navi sighed. "C'mon, Link, we haven't got a lot of time! It'll stop raining soon, and the guard will come back!"
Link struggled, got up and started looking around.
"What?? Link, what are you doing?" Navi flew over to Link, confused.
"You'll see," Link said, grinning, squinting through the rain. There was a lookout tower and some rope.
"Yes!" Link whooped in joy and clambered up the ladder. Navi flew up to Link.
"What are we doing, Link?"
Link didn't respond, but slung the rope over his shoulder and went back down the ladder. He tied a knot firmly on the Kokiri sword's hilt, took the other end, tied it to his waist, and then threw the sword as hard as he possibly could over the gate.
Navi gaped. The sword embedded deeply into the rock over the gate, tugging Link. Link slammed into the gate.
"OW. That wasn't supposed happen..." Link groaned, getting up. Navi was still silent and amazed. It would also take someone with super strength to manage to throw the Kokiri sword so far and bury it so deeply into rock.
Link shook himself up and pulled himself up the gate. It was easier, seeing the fact that the rope was tugging him back. Navi cheered. How did Link figure that out? Link untied the rope on his waist and on the sword hilt.
"Uh oh...uh, Navi.."
"Yeah?"
"Um, the sword's stuck."
Navi rolled her eyes and floated over to it.
"1....2....3...PULL!"
Link obeyed, stuck his foot on the rock, gripped the Kokiri sword tightly by the hilt and pulled as hard as he could. Link went flying back and landed hard on the ground. He groaned.
"Ow...ow...ow...."
"Quickly, Link! Get up!" Navi buzzed around Link's eyes.
"Ahh...I see a bright light flashing before my eyes..." Link sighed, relaxed.
ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz....Link was snoring!
Navi couldn't hold it any longer.
"Wake up you useless, ignorant, fat lazy oaf of a boy!"
Link's eyes flickered, but he remained on the ground, motionless, with the rain hitting his face hard.
Navi wanted so much to leave Link, but she knew she couldn't. What would Link do without her? Probrably be dead after five minutes. Instead, she floated over to the sword.
"Well..I can't expect Link to pull this wonderful, legendary, only-a-really-brave-boy-can-pull-it-out-sword...hmm...I guess I'll just go back to Kokiri Forest and ask Mido to help..."
Navi glanced at Link. She could see his face turn a deep, furious red.
"Yeah...only Mido, the great big boss of the Kokiri, who none can defeat can pull it out...."
Link's hands were curling into fists and his snoring increased.
"I mean, he's so much better than Li-"
Link got up angrily, marched over to the rock, rubbed his hands together, gripped them firmly around the sword's hilt and pulled.
With ease, the sword slid out.
"Let's get going," grumbled Link, putting the sword back in it's scabbard.
Navi smiled.