Ice: Sorry it's taken me so long to update this one. Almost forgot all about it.
A day had passed since our hero recovered from his fright at the Forest Temple with Saria. He knew the fairies were going to aggravate him again this morning. It was a risk he was willing to take when he hopped out of bed.
"Well, it's about time you got up. Geez. How could someone as lazy as you save Hyrule?" Tatl nagged.
"Tell me about it. I wondered this every day myself from the moment I had to slam into his head to wake him up. I still don't know how he managed it," agreed Navi.
"Yeah, yeah, keep talking about me as if I wasn't here. It's fine, no really, do go on."
Link ambled towards a chair to sit and think about what he should do today. There was so much he could be doing, more horseback training, more archery practice, sword practice, dates… Wait, no. Scratch that.
"You know, that Agitha girl was kinda cute. You should go talk to her today," tried Navi.
"Who…? OH! NO! NO WAY! Not that creepy bug chick…" Link whined.
"Bug chick? Now this I have to hear," Tatl settled in to hear the details.
"Well, news travels from the spirits and all that and I heard…"
"She's obsessed with bugs. Bottom line. Bug freak," Link interrupted.
"Wow, I could have told that so much better. Thanks, elf boy," Navi shot back.
"I just think that's a really bad idea… But if you insist… I guess it couldn't hurt…"
"Elf boy and bug freak. That's adorable right there," Tatl giggled like a school girl.
Link shot them evil glares as he walked out the door. He knew this was going to be trouble, but you can't explain that to a fairy. He continued on his way to Hyrule Castle Town and suddenly found himself at Agitha's doorstep.
I have a bad feeling about this…
He knocked on the door and when no one answered, he got worried and walked in. Immediately, a pot was thrown at his head.
"Haven't you ever heard of knocking? Were you raised in the woods or something? Oh… It's you… Of course you were raised in the woods…" Agitha said as she walked towards him from the back of the house.
"I hate you…" Link mumbled under his breath.
The self-proclaimed "princess", Agitha, had a habit of being annoying as if her bug collecting habit wasn't bad enough. Link tried to remember to be nice, but his patience were already running out.
"So what did you want?" she asked.
"I… Umm… Came to ask you out on a date… But actually, I have some errands to run…" He tried to change his mind and leave, but she caught on too quickly for the poor hero.
"Really? A date? Oh, wow! Can we go to the park? Pretty please? I love it there!" She clung to his arm begging. How could Link say no to that…
A few moments later, Link and Agitha were walking through the courtyard "park" outside the town. Link was still mortified looking at all of the spiders hanging in their webs when he had seen some that could eat the two of them in one bite. Agitha was thrilled and pointed out the different kinds to explain them to him.
"And that one right there is a garden spider! You can see its black markings on its yellow body. It writes in the web and draws bugs to it for dinner! Is that not so cool? And if anything gets too close to it, it swings back and forth to jump out! It's so exciting!" she went on.
"Yeah… Exciting…" Link was beginning to turn pale when he saw it thrashing about to pounce on Agitha. He instantly grabbed her and moved her back as it jumped. Unfortunately, it landed on him.
"Holy Goddesses! Get it off! Get it off! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed as he ran for the fountain and jumped in.
"But you'll kill it! Don't drown it! It was only protecting itself!" Agitha called to him.
"Yeah, well, I'm protecting me!" He yelled back as he thrashed around in the water.
When he was satisfied upon seeing it's dead body floating in the water, he climbed out vaguely aware of the stares around him. He grabbed Agitha by the arm and began to lead her back to town.
"I… I had a good time…" she said as they walked up to her door.
"Yeah…"
"I'll…see you later? Maybe?"
"Maybe…"
She closed the door, and Link, looking like a drowned rat, walked off to find Epona. He knew he was going to get an earful for this one, but he didn't care. The girl was a bug freak and he was a coward. He walked up to his home and sighed before opening the door. Navi and Tatl immediately flew up to him.
"How did it go?" Nave screeched.
"You…uhh… You don't look so good…" Tatl commented.
"I rolled around in a pond to drown a spider that jumped on me because of that bug freak girl!" Link yelled as he stormed off to bed.
"Wow… She must be something…" said Navi.
"Must be… Poor thing… Eh, he'll get over it and live. It's cool, right?" asked Tatl.
"Yeah, it's cool."
Ice: The way I have Hyrule imagined, everyone moved into one Hyrule from across the games. Cremia and Romani will be featured at some point as sisters of Malon probably. We'll see what I do about it. As always, read and review! ^_^
