Ehehehe, thanks, Krystal Fox. My stories can't be that good. Or can they? (ego moves up a notch)
Disclaimer: Today, I have a special method. (scoops it up in bottle and tosses it out into Lake Hylia) Bye bye!
Navi was constantly sweating and fretting about Link, while Link was completely unaware anything had happened, and Ruto...well, she was just tagging along, irritating everybody.
The left and upper passageways were blocked by some weird wall that had extra thick bonds that Link couldn't hack to pieces.
The boomerang didn't have much effect-it simply bounced off and fell to the floor.
It had a sort of rubbery feel.
They left through the passage which they came from and went back to the vortex room.
"Link!" Navi cried out. "Since you killed that weird tentacle, we can drop down that vortex that was once blocked by it!"
Link frowned. "Killed what tentacle?"
"Oops." Navi had forgotten he didn't have any memories of what happened back then. "Let's just drop down."
Link shrugged. "Okay."
Navi jumped down first and waited impatiently as Ruto came bounding down.
"Ruto? Where's Link?"
"You mean the boy? He's too scared, he won't come down."
Navi sighed in exasperation and flew up to the vortex and tried to cram herself back in.
"Link! Come down here right now!"
Vortex Room-What happened BEFORE Ruto came flying down.
Link was about to jump down when Ruto shoved him out of the way and dived in.
Unfortunately, Link tottered over and fell into another vortex, with no clue where he was, fairyless, and confused.
"Navi?" Link whimpered. "Ruto?"
The Kokiri, without his fairy, was like...eh...peanut butter without jam?
"I'm scared." Link said aloud, to no one in particular.
(SAN: I'm using this a lot, aren't I? I don't own LOTR.)
"I know you are, Gollum." Link said back to himself.
"Smeagol! Smeagol! Smeagol is frightenened!" Link cried out.
"Calm yourself, woman. You must find the Preciiiousss..." Link said in a soothing voice.
Link's expression turned to one of glee. "Yessss, yesss...the Precciiiiousss..."
The Kokiri suddenly snapped out of it.
"Woo. I really need to stop hanging with weird people like Ruto."
Link stumbled through the darkness, having no idea he was being watched closely.
"Owwwwiiiieee!!!!"
Link had hit some spikes.
It skinned his hand horribly.
"Oooh, ooh, ooh, oohh...."
Link sucked his finger, even though that part wasn't injured. Then he kissed the skinned mark.
"It's okay," Link cooed. "Linky's here."
Hiiisss....
"I know, Skinny, you don't have to tell me..."
HISSSSSS.....
"Awww, Skinny want to go play?"
The lights suddenly flickered on.
A Big Octo came into view, thrashing violently.
Link took one look at the Big Octo, then at his red hand, and covered it, embarrased.
"Don't tell me you heard that." Link whimpered.
The Big Octo started to chase after him, it's eyes glowing with a menacing light.
"Eeeeeee!!!"
Link jumped onto the spikes by accident and kept on hopping up, reaching the platform in the center.
"Hey, cool!"
The platform started to move while the Big Octo stood indigantly, watching it.
Back where Navi and Ruto are
"Great!" Navi said, not trying to hide her disappointment. "We lost him!"
Ruto shrugged. "So what?"
"Waitaminute." Navi looked at Ruto with a piercing glare. "You...why, you didn't...you didn't...what really happened up there?"
Ruto shifted uncomfortably. "Nothing."
Navi's lie radar pulsed like mad.
"Tell me!" Navi demanded.
"No," Ruto said shakily.
"Oh, by the goddesses," Navi muttered. "Link..."
Ruto "harumphed", and sat down, crossing her legs and arms and pouting.
Navi ignored Ruto and started flying through the path that led straight to the room of the Big Octo.
Ruto immediately leapt to her feet and started following her.
"Leave me alone," Navi grumbled, not looking back.
"I'm the princess, don't you dare tell me what to do." Ruto snarled.
"Oh yeah?" Navi shot back. "We wouldn't have to be looking for him in the first place if you hadn't-"
The fairy suddenly stopped. "Hey, what did you do to him"
"Pushed him," Ruto muttered.
"What?" Navi said in an irritatingly sweet voice, although she heard perfectly.
"I pushed him, okay??? Sorry!"
Navi silently started to think what Link was doing as she dodged some bubbles.
He's probrably dead by now...Navi thought, swallowing hard.
The tunnel suddenly came to a sharp curve and then an end.
The Big Octo scented Navi and Ruto's presence and slowly turned around.
Ruto gulped.
Navi saw the edges of the platform on the ceiling, and then a-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Link's sharp and piercing cry rang through the chamber, echoing from the ceiling.
Navi charged in, determined and ready to die.
The Big Octo started moving, and the platform started to come down, with Link still on top of it, screaming at full blast.
Shrieking in pain, the Big Octo started to flail wildly, deafened by the sound.
It crashed straight into the spikes surrounding the platform.
Pop.
The platform started to move up, with the Big Octo defeated.
Ruto's eyes widened as she desperately made a jump.
"Hold your hand out!" Navi screamed.
Giddy with the defeat of the Big Octo, Link held out a sweaty, grimy hand over the spikes.
Ruto took one look at the dirt covered on some of the fingers, pretended to choke, and grabbed his hand.
Link repulsed back and nearly threw her over the other side in his desperation to get her off.
Ruto went twisting through the air and landed a few inches away from the edge.
The platform suddenly locked into place as Link, Navi, and Ruto scurried out of view and took a look around.
Navi looked straight into the middle of the room, and saw why Link screamed so shrilly.
There was a big, fat, Barinade right in the middle.