Ice: Yay an update!


The next morning Link woke up looking absolutely terrible from his previous ordeal with Agitha. He nearly drowned himself in a pond and still wasn't look his best after sleeping it off. He groaned as he was pulling a chair out to sit at the table.

Navi opened a window and Link groaned even louder as he tried to cover his face.

"Well, you look bad," Navi commented.

"Yeah, yeah, shut up," he whined back.

"Seriously, you need to do something today. You need to workout actually. You're too lazy and getting chubby."

"Definitely chubby from all the good food I eat…not."

"That's it. You're going out mister. You're going to go do some swimming at Lake Hylia and work off some of your laziness," Navi demanded as she pulled Link out of his house by the ear.

He gave up any thought of protesting, and did whatever Navi wanted just to shut her up. He rode Epona in silence to the lake all the while praying Navi didn't make him swim a thousand laps.

They strode up to the island where Navi demanded he get off, hop in the water, and swim twenty laps around the island.

"TWENTY? Are you trying to kill me?"

"Nope, trying to get you back in shape, hero. Now go on. Hop in."

"Why you…," he grumbled as he jumped in and began to swim around the island.

Two laps in, the hero was getting tired and slowing his pace to just barely treading water. He was doing his best to keep his head above the water while Navi just laughed at him.

"See? This is proof that you're out of shape. This'll be good for you," she laughed.

"Yeah, yeah…," he grumbled as he struggled to stay afloat.

He tried to continue his laps, but eventually decided it was not worth his life drowning. Suddenly he felt something brush by his leg.

"WHOA WHAT WAS THAT?" he yelled.

"A fish. You know, the things that live in the lake," Navi replied as she continued sunning herself on the island.

"That was way too big to be a fish…," he mumbled as he tried to search for the "fish" that bumped his leg.

He cautiously swam towards the island trying to assure himself that there were no sharks in the lake. He had a bad feeling about his fate the closer he got.

Please just let me make it to land… Please…, he thought.

"HI!"

"BLARLARLARLLARGHGHGH!" Link yelled as he started taking in water.

The Zora princess, Ruto, decided she earned a day of swimming all to herself and just happened to stumble upon the Hero of Time doing the same. Link was definitely ecstatic over it as he struggled even more to keep his head above water.

"Oh no, let me help you! I didn't mean to startle you!" Ruto cried as she dragged him to land.

He laid there spitting water out for several minutes while Ruto looked on horrified. Navi flew over to see what was going on and doubled over in laughter at Link for being frightened by a zora.

"You certainly are some hero. Just look at you! A zora now scares you! What happened to all those stalfos that used to scare you?" she laughed.

"Shut…up…"

"Link, I'm so sorry! I guess that's no way to treat my future husband. I shouldn't just appear out of nowhere to surprise you…"

"Oh, this is priceless! Oh, wow, it hurts!" Navi couldn't help, but crack up as the princess referred to Link as her "future husband". She couldn't count how many times in the past Link had talked about her being obsessive and scary. He did everything he could to stay as far away from her. This only made his case even stronger as he would certainly say she caused him to almost drown.

"Please be okay… I didn't meant to scare you… I'm so sorry…," Ruto continued to sob, "I'll just go back… I'm sorry…"

Link was still sputtering water as he watched her retreat back into the water heading for the secret warp that would take her back to Zora's Domain. He stayed silent for a moment making sure she was indeed gone.

"YOU SAW THAT RIGHT? THAT CRAZY PSYCHO ZORA TRIED TO KILL ME! AND SHE STILL THINKS I'M GOING TO MARRY HER!" he yelled as he lost his composure.

"Oh relax. She at least dragged you back to land before you sunk. You should have at least thanked her for saving your life."

"IF SHE HADN'T SCARED ME, I WOULDN'T HAVE ALMOST DROWNED!"

"Yeah, yeah, come on crybaby. Let's get you home. Honestly, I can't take you anywhere."

Link continued to mumble and whimper about the day's events as he road back to his home in the Kokiri Forest. He stumbled in and collapsed on his bed. Tatl had been sitting on the table eating some lunch after getting Navi's note about going to the lake. She looked at Link sound asleep on the bed and then at Navi who was grinning.

"Ruto?" Tatl asked.

"Ruto," confirmed Navi.

They broke out into laughter as Link groaned and hid his head under the pillow.



Ice: Not an actual date, but with Ruto… You know how it goes…