Nothing much to say......................except that the writing format got real messed up. I can't undo it, sorry, we'll see what happens later, on the next chapter. Oh, and sorry if I accidentally put "Tatl" instead of Navi...(takes out flaming, burning hot Majora's Mask out of N64 and puts in frozen, stone cold Ocarina of Time in.

Disclaimer: (backs off and fires unowned ice arrow at disclaimer)

Small note to SilentVamp: I beat the game!

Thanks, Inversion. :) But I bet someone else might of thought of that, too. :D

Ruto had given up a while after the fumes went a little bit up her head., dodged the smoke and cried out to Link to stop.

Navi was silently floating ahead, careful not to get caught in the gas.

Link, unaware Ruto surrendered, was still running swiftly, occasionally getting stunned by Biri, but almost immediately getting up and continued his run.

Finally, Ruto stopped and dropped to the ground, exhausted, unable to go any further.

Link, through some freaky way, heard Ruto fall to the ground and let out a famous, "Ha-HA!"

Navi almost swore she saw a small smile creep up Ruto's face, but it vanished almost instantly, replaced with fatigue.

Ruto slumped down, crying out, "You've won, you've won."

Link looked triumphantly at Navi, and jogged back to Ruto.

"Hah!" Link cried out proudly. "I knew girls won't last."

Ruto grinned and leapt at him, knocking him over into the water.

Link gaped in amazement at the smiling Zora princess.

Ruto was yawning, standing on the bridge and tapping her foot impatiently.

"C'mon," she whined. "I need my stone."

Link, who was still temporarily stunned, shook his head, clambered up the ladder and rubbed his eyes.

"You did that?" Link said in awe. "You pushed me over? You?"

"Yes, me! I needed to teach an ignorant, annoying, hopeless five-year old boy a lesson!"

"Actually, I'm ten." Link added.

Ruto ignored him and continued her tirade. "You act like five! I probrably overloaded your puny little brain-if you even have one-with information."

She clicked her tongue sternly. "You probrably don't even know what overloaded is, do you?"

Link scratched his head. "I think it means like....you...overload stuff."

"No, you dimwit, what does overloaded mean?"

"Uh, let's get going, why won't we?" Link muttered, starting to run ahead of her.

Ruto grinned and followed.

They were in a room with three passageways. One leading up, one leading left, and one leading right.

"All right," Link decided finally, "Ruto, you go up, Navi, go left, and I'll go right."

Before the two girls could protest, Link started running away.

"I better follow him, y'know, make sure he er...doesn't..lose..uh...me?"

Navi flew away, eager to leave Ruto.

Ruto looked down sadly. "I need a hug."

(SAN: From Shrek, if you haven't realized yet.)

Link was sighing in relief. "She's gone?"

Navi nodded. "Yes."

"Phew."

Navi noticed the vein running along the wall.

It led to a door...a door!

"Link! Over there!"

Navi flew excitedly over to the door, nearly slamming into it.

Link took in a deep breath just as the door closed behind them. A huge tentacle thingy was hanging from the ceiling.

"Eek! Monster!"

"Calm down, Link!" Navi squeaked. "Just conc-concentrate and kill it!"

But Link wasn't looking at it. He was pointing at a spider on the ground.

"Eeeeee! Kill it!"

"Look at the ceiling!" Navi cried out hotly.

Link glanced at the ceiling and shrugged.

"So what? Look at that!!!"

He again stabbed his finger at the spider.

"Oh, for CRYING OUT LOUD!!!"

Navi flew down and squashed the spider.

Link gaped in amazement.

"You killed it." he echoed.

"I killed it. Now you kill THAT!!!" Navi yelled irritatingly, flying up to the green tentacle.

"Sure!" Link said enthusiastically. "Now that you've cleared my fears entirely, I shall now dispose of this annoying creature!"

He raised his Kokiri sword, aimed, and threw with deadly accuracy.

The sword hit directly in the center.

Flailing, the tentacle dropped the ground and went up in smoke, leaving a treasure chest and Link's sword.

"How did-"

"Questions, questions, questions. Please," Link chuckled in a fancy British accent. "Now, I think we ought to leave and return to the rather irritating "princess"."

"Not again.." Navi moaned.

Link walked swankily to the treasure chest, kicked it open, and collected the jewel encrusted boomerang.

Navi gazed distastefully at Link.

"C'mon, let-"

Link raised a hand patiently and shook his head. "No need for your words, Navi. I think I can manage quite well without them."

Navi looked at Link, stunned and insulted. That was the first time Link had actually insulted her.

"Fine!" Navi spat. "Fine, mister smarty boy!"

"Actually...it's better if you said Mr. SmartyPants. It's much more insulting, and makes much more sense."

The remark stung.

Navi flew off in rage, listening in horror as Link laughed pompously.

I hate him! Navi thought angrily. How dare he!

Link caught up to Navi and Ruto a while later, and Ruto was quite astonished at how Navi was paying more attention to her while Link was much more polite.

"My fair princess, allow me to direct you to the next chamber of this fascinating creature."

Ruto was stunned.

Navi felt sick from all the talk.

"Oh, be quiet!" Navi screamed, unable to hold it in much longer.

Link looked up at Navi, half-way in a bow. "Why, my dearest? I see no need."

Navi wanted so badly to punch Link in the face. Instead, she mustered up every foul word she could think of.

"You insolent, crude, mean, horrible, ugly-"

Link's eyes suddenly started to roll in circles. His face moved left and right constantly, like someone was slapping him full force. Suddenly, he doubled over and started to choke.

All the anger and anxiety melted away as Navi immediately flew down to him and asked worriedly, "Are you all right???"

Link's mouth opened and gibberish spewed out.

"Link!" Navi screamed.

The Kokiri started shaking all over. It looked like he was going to explode!

"Slap him!" Navi said desperately to Ruto.

"My pleasure," Ruto replied in disgust. She swung her hand at Link's cheek.

Link let out a weird, "Mmff," noise and fell to the ground, silent and still.

"Link?" Navi squeaked in a small voice.

"Ohhhh....." Link moaned. "I don't feel too good...."

He got up shakily and touched his cheek.

"Who slapped me?"

Navi looked incredously at Link.

"You mean..." Navi said slowly, taking it in. "You didn't...you don't remember?"

"Remember what? All I saw was you killing this spider, and here I am now."

"He doesn't remember." Navi uttered softly.

Link's sapphire eyes were clouded with confusion. "What? Remember what?"

Navi just realized Ruto was listening.

"Nothing," Navi muttered. She would resolve it after she talked to the Great Fairy in this area.

Link's eyes didn't look at all like they did before.

They seemed to have lost their spark, and were a bit dull.

Navi fretted silently. What was going on?