Chapter 6: Shake like a snake
Darunia decided to wait in his room at the bottom of Goron City. Sometimes, he couldn't resist humming Saria's Song. By the time he finished, he was dancing like a monkey.
Link and the others were heading a few miles West-to Zora's Domain. There they would find Ruto-Sage of Water. Link had been dreading this since they began looking for Darunia. Ruto always had a crush on him and it was just annoying. When they got there, she was nowhere to be seen. So they went to the king. HE was bound to know where she was off to.
"Excuse me, your majesty. Do you know where Ruto is?" Link asked. The twirled his catfish barbels in thought.
"Hmmm, Ruto? Last I saw her, she was off to Lake Hylia for a good swim. She said this place was a little too cramped." The King said in his rather deep tone as he rolled his eyes.
Link bowed and said, "Thank you, your majesty."
After that, he headed off.
Luckily for Saria and Zelda, Link knew just what to do. He located a small cave at the bottom of the small pond in the domain. So he took Zelda's hand and dove in through a small cave. Saria followed them. A few seconds later, they reached the lake. Link decided to swim around to relax, while Saria and Zelda searched the shores. Link was floating on the surface of the water, when all of a sudden he opened his eyes and saw a big pair of purple eyes looking down at him. Link screamed in surprise and plunged below the surface. After that, he surfaced and got a good lungful of air. He looked around and saw Ruto giggling at what he did.
"Hahahahahaha! Did I surprise you, Link?" She asked cheerfully.
Link caught his breath just when Ruto had a very dreamy look in her eyes. Link slowly began to back away, but Ruto followed him. Finally, Ruto said what Link had been dreadin.
"We're both nineteen. Will you marry me now?" The zora princess asked hopefully.
She then puckered her lips and Link swam like a maniac trying to get away from the zora princess' fish lips.
Saria tapped Zelda on the shoulder and they turned around to see Link out of the water, running for his life.
"Hey, Link…" Saria began, but Link ran past them before he said, "Talk later. RUN NOW!"
The two ladies stared at the Hylian running past them and then turned just in time for Ruto to screech to a stop.
"Oh, I see Link brought friends." Ruto said.
She then eyed Saria and cocked an eyebrow. She inspected her and finally asked, "Who are you?"
Saria almost lost her cool and answered, "I'm Saria. Do you know any other green-haired girls?"
Ruto fell backwards in surprise and asked, "Saria? I thought Kokiri couldn't age, but you sure sprouted. What happened?"
"I became mortal for seven years due to magic. Long story." Saria explained.
At this time, Link decided that Ruto stopped chasing him and came out of his hiding spot.
"Link, you know what to do." Zelda advised.
Link nodded, took the medallion out, and aimed its light at Ruto. The beam struck her in the forehead and she went into a trance.
She was in the same place Zelda, Saria, and Darunia went. "Huh? Am I dreaming?" Ruto asked.
"Ruto, you must pull out the Sword of Water if you're to stop the evil that looms over Hyrule." A bodiless voice told her.
"Why the water sword?" She asked.
With that, she went over to a different sword and tried pulling it out. However, it was like trying to lift two tons and she didn't get anything done. After trying over and over again, she finally sighed and said, " I guess the water sword is what I have to go with."
She seemed to grumble as she went to the blue sword. It wasn't bad looking either. It had egg-sized sapphires and a dolphin curled over the hilt. She put her hands on it and it felt light as a feather as she pulled it out. After she pulled it out, a blue light surrounded her and she was back in Lake Hylia with Link, Saria, and Zelda looking down at her.
"I don't need any explaining. I know I got the sword, look." She quickly said as she pulled the sword out of the scabbard.
Suddenly, the water started moving and it formed swells. Then a giant, multicolored, snakelike creature with spikes down its back reared itself out of the water and it had a false incarnation of Ganondorf/Majora hovering over the water.
"Allow me to introduce Majora's Serpent. Serpent, meet Link, and Link, meet your doom!" Ganondorf/Majora said evilly.
He then added, "I hope you enjoy Serpent being larger than life." Before he vanished.
Majora's Serpent hissed and spat as something bad happened. The water was disappearing from the lake as though the giant snake was absorbing it like a sponge. And then, right before their eyes, he grew to the height of a school bus and was as wide as a redwood tree. His eyes were as big as basketballs and his teeth were as long as a human arm. His massive body stretched from one side of the lake to the other. It emitted a large hiss that seemed to scream, "DIE" and began its assault.
It struck at Link only to miss by a mile and Link ended up in the mud hole that was Lake Hylia. The giant serpent began slithering all over the dried up lake at incredible speed in an attempt to wrap its crushing coils around Link. However, Link was too agile and was more than smart enough to stay away from the snake's body. It struck at Link again, but Link quickly rolled out of the way. The giant snake struck again, but Link met it with an upward strike from his sword. Blood gushed out of the cut on his mouth, but the serpent was only stunned. Link wound up for another strike, but a rainbow liquid squirted out of the snake's arm-length fangs and hit Link in the arm. The liquid burned like fire and made Link clutch his arm in agony. Link paused for too long and the serpent whipped him away with his tail. Just when the serpent was about to devour Link, it hissed in pain as something whistled past Link and hit it in the eye. Saria had used her bow and hit the massive snake in the eye. However, the bow had about as much effect as Link's sword. After the snake recovered, it gave Saria the same result that it gave Link. Saria ended up crashing into Link and Link ended up with the wind knocked out of him.
The serpent struck again and headed for Ruto this time. Ruto instinctively crossed her arms and a blue light appeared. Ruto then held up her sword and stuck it into the serpent's nose. Usually, it wouldn't have any effect, but this effect sure did. The snake didn't hiss, it screeched in pain when the sword cut his nose. The blue light had shocked the snake with electricity. Serpent was knocked back a bit, but it shook itself loose and struck again. Ruto gave the same result, but it didn't really harm it. Zelda tried a light blast, but it didn't prove effective on a creature of this size and it probably felt like a bee sting. The snake turned and wrapped its tail around Zelda rather than whipping her away with it. Link had gotten Saria off and rushed to Zelda's assistance. He took the Master Sword and stuck it right in the snake's back. The snake didn't drop Zelda, but did draw its attention away from Ruto so she could shock it again. That was enough to make the snake drop Zelda. However, she was over thirty feet from the ground and the impact would NOT be pretty. Link sprinted as fast as he could, sometimes rolling away from rainbow liquid to the thrashing tail. In a matter of seconds, he reached the front of Serpent. Just when the snake struck at Link, the hero leapt onto the snake's head and up toward Zelda. He caught her in midair, landed on his feet, and got Zelda to safety. Just when the snake tried its luck again, another arrow struck Serpent in the nose. Link realized that he would have to use his head to get the best of this monster.
Soon Link had an idea.
"Ruto! Fire water at his skin and then shock him!" Link shouted.
Ruto shot a look of confusion and asked, "Won't water make ugly here stronger?!"
Link just stared back and said, "NOW!"
Ruto shot water and drenched the snake without further hesitation. The water hit Serpent with the same force as a geyser. Before the massive snake could absorb it all, the zora princess sent electricity at the snake. Because water conducts electricity, the force of the electricity doubled in strength. The snake screeched at the top of its lungs as the electricity flowed through its body. It then fell to the ground and couldn't absorb any more water due to weakness. When the serpent wasn't moving away, Link moved in and forced his sword through the monster's forehead. The giant snake screamed in pain, shrunk to the size of an anaconda, regurgitated water into the lake like a blocked up waterfall, and skeletonized. Ruto smiled and hugged Link.
"We did it!" She shouted.
Before Link had time to escape, Ruto had landed a big, soggy kiss on his cheek.
"OH, MAN! I'm going to smell like fish for a week." Ruto released Link and Link did the best he could to wipe the zora smooch off. After trying for at least ten seconds, Link recollected himself and ordered, "C'mon! We gotta get Darunia and head for the Sage of Shadows."
They then hurried off to the next phase of their world savior mission.