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Chapter 5: The Journal

Senko woke up early the next day. Of course she would get up early, her dad had a business meeting and she planned to sneak out and do something interesting. Once she'd read about 'entrances' that could be used to shrink humans down to Minish size. Unfortunately a certain spell was required so that had been ruled out before her dad could find a museum. But now she had a minish wind mage to help her.

3..2..1... Knock! Knock! Senko answered the door to her dad, who was wearing a black business suit and a dark blue tie. "I'm off to work honey, promise you won't leave the hotel?" Senko smiled,

"Promise dad. I love you!"

"Love ya too honey." Senko pecked her dad on the cheek and shut the door. Senko didn't really feel guilty about lying to her dad. That worried her a little, maybe Vaati was starting to rub off on her. Speaking of which...

Senko walked around the bed so she could see the wind mage sleeping on the floor. His long hair was sprawled around his head like a halo and his face looked so peacelul. "He looks just like an angel," Senko thought. She mentally kicked herself for thinking that. Time for a two-in-one. Wake Vaati up and get revenge for the hot sauce thing. She went to the kitchen and got a smalll bowl out and filled it with cold water and smirked. She checked to make sure Vaati was still asleep. Yep, this was going to be good.

"Wake up sleeping beauty!" Senko shouted, dumping ice cold water on Vaati's face.

"What the hell was that for!?!" Vaati screamed. Senko smiled playfully. "Sorry, but I had to wake you up. I have something planned for today." Vaati scowled.

"Does it involve drowning me?"

"Nope!" Vaati really didn't like that look in Senko's eyes.

"We're going to Minish Park to find some Minish!" Vaati was silent for a minute. Then he asked,

"What's Minish Park?" Senko looked confused for a second, then said,

"Oh, right! Minish Park is a National Park here. Back in your time it was Minish Woods." Vaati's face went white at this.

"Nuh-uh, no way, no!"

"Why not?" Senko asked. "After what happened yesterday! Why should I?"

"Um, are you talking about slamming the window on your fingers, shoving you in the pantry, or making you sleep on the floor?"

"Actually I'd forgotten about the window thing, so thanks for reminding me."

Then Senko pulled something Vaati really hated. She stood really close to him and looked at him from under her eyelashes. The puppy-dog look. "Please? Pretty-please? Will you please come with me?" Vaati began to blush. He didn't actually get what she was doing, but whatever it was, it was working. He put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her away from him and turned his face away from her. He just couldn't go to Minish Woods.

Senko stared at Vaati for a minute. What was his problem? Then it dawned on her. "You are afraid you will run into Ezlo!" Senko accused.

Vaati was dumbstruck "H-how did you know about my master?"

Senko picked up her backpack and pulled out the journal from before. "This was my ancestor's," she explained "he was probably my great-great-great-great grandfather or something, but I just left it at great grandfather." She flipped through the pages until she came to one entry. "I do not actually know his name, but my ancestor inspired me to research Hyrule's past." Senko handed Vaati the opened journal. Vaati read it and stood there shocked. It was the story of how he had taken the Minish Cap, exactly as Ezlo had told it to... the hero.

Senko smiled, "Do not worry, the last time you saw Ezlo was over a thousand years ago, right?" Vaati nodded.

"But-" Senko cut him off,

"No buts! Ezlo was already old then anyway, so there is no way you are going to run into him! Now we are going and there is nothing you can do about it!" Vaati sighed. The girl had a point, plus she would probably keep on arguing with him until she got her way. Might as well go.

"All right, we're going." Senko smiled and hugged him, then ran off to get ready. Vaati was completely immobilized. Senko.. hugged him? He didn't understand why, but he was suddenly thankful he had said yes.