// So, I noticed that other people have been putting disclaimers in their stories, so I guess I should do the same! Disclaimer: I don't own anything, it's all my brother's fault! (starts to cackle maniacally) There, now for the next chapter, and thank you all for the reviews! :-D Thanks also to The-Saiyan-From-Hyrule for giving me the name of the booger kid
Chapter 2
Windfall Island and the Bird People Tribe
"Ok Link, what's your plan?" Tetra asked through her now wetstone. It had taken Link five hours to fish the thing out of the water, he was soaking wet and freezing, and Tetra still insisted that he keep moving. "You need to take out those spotlights before you can even try to get up to where your sister is."
"Yeah, I'm not doing that. That's too much work." Link said as he sidled his way along the wall to avoid a spotlight.
"Then what are you going to do?" Tetra asked in an annoyed voice.
"Watch and learn my friend!" Link said happily as he neared the place where his sword was, without having been caught once (miraculously enough). "Ok, three…two…"
"Link, what are you doing?"
"One! Go go go!" Link shouted as he very slowly crept along the cliff edge.
"Oh yeah, you're going all right. Oh now look, they see you."
"No they don't."
"Yes, they do. Why else would all the spotlights be on you? And now they're shooting at you." Tetra said smugly. Link gave a high pitched scream and leaped across the remaining distance, just reaching the safety of the platform. "Here I am!" Link announced proudly, jumping up and down. But unfortunately there was a big guard, who looked suspiciously like a lizard, there. He had been sleeping, but Link's announcement had woken him up, and lizards don't really like to be woken up for anything. He pressed a button and spikes came from the floor and blocked the way back. Link gave another scream before he started to roll around, confusing the guard. "Uh, what are you doing?" Tetra asked.
"I'm trying to come up with a plan!" Link said, right before he rolled over something hard and very sharp. "Oh hey look, my sword!" Link said, waving it in the air to show it off."Well use it!" Tetra said as the lizard finally decided it was tired of watching Link roll around and that he would just kill him. Link covered his eyes with one arm and used his other one to swing his sword around wildly. After a while the lizard got tired of this as well and he decided that it just wasn't worth it. "Oh just go already!" The lizard shouted. He unbolted the door and went running off, much to the excitement of Link. "Ahha! I sure showed him!" Link said happily; Tetra just sighed. Without realizing that his sister was in the next room, Link pushed the large door open and slipped inside. He understood his mistake a few seconds later though, when the shrill voice of Aryll reached his ears. "There you are! What took you so long? I want to take over the world and the guy here won't even talk to me!" she shouted at him. Link sighed resignedly and walked over to the large prison. "Hey everyone! I'm Link, hero, and then future dominator, of the world!" Link said to the others in the room.
"Wait, are you the Link?" one girl asked.
Link, not realizing that his sister had told only made up stories of him, grinned. "Why yes! I am!" he was shocked a few seconds later when everyone else started to burst into laughter. "You were right about him Aryll!" one of them said.
"What? Oh whatever." Link said sadly. "How do I get you guys out of here?"
"Try the door." Aryll said crossly. Link grumbled to himself as he marched over to the door and began fiddling with the knob.
"It's not working." Link said matter-of-factly.
"He is stupid!" the other girl said (there were three of them, including Aryll).
"Yes, yes he is." Tetra said through her stone.
"Alright that's it! I'm leaving! And you can stay here too!" Link said, tossing the stone inside the jail. He began to walk back when suddenly the large bird that he had seen before came out of nowhere and landed on top of him. "Ow. Excuse me!" Link shouted, his voice slightly muffled from being under one of the large talons. The bird picked up its foot curiously; it hadn't noticed the strange little green guy before. It gave an angry screech, picked Link up, and went flying off. Aryll was shouting after them that she wanted to talk to the bird's leader, but her speech problems came back and all the bird heard was 'boy!' being shouted several times. Link, who had the unfortunate pleasure of being held in the giant bird's beak, continually tried to make the bird drop him by hitting it with his shiny sword. But the bird, hardly feeling anything, flew him up to see its leader. Which annoyed Aryll greatly; how did she know what was going on when she was stuck in jail? No one knows… Link, beginning to feel tired, paused in his efforts to escape just in time to see a large, dark man with red hair. He was about to say something to Link when a fly suddenly landed on his face. Of course, a person can't talk with an insect on his face, anyone listening would be distracted by it. So the man gave a short jerk of his head to get it off. The fly took off, but the bird misinterpreted his movement and, thinking that the man wanted him to get rid of the intruder, tossed Link into the ocean, much to the dismay of the man, who had had a speech all planned out and everything. Link, who was quite light, was flying through the air for quite awhile until he finally landed with a large splash into the deep ocean. Link was used to being thrown in the ocean though (his sister had done it quite often to him when they had been younger), and he instantly went into a floating position and fell asleep, thinking that the pirates would find him eventually (he had forgotten that he had thrown away the stone, so the only thing the pirates could see was Aryll scaring the other prisoners, and so they had no idea where he was). Fortunately there was someone else floating around in the water, and so Link was rescued after all.
Unfortunately, Link's rescuer liked to talk, and so Link didn't really get to sleep that much. He was awakened by someone with a deep voice, but when he looked around there was no one there. He was in a small red boat, and the boat was floating around in some sort of cove. "Awake yet?" said the voice, and suddenly the boat's head, which was shaped as a dragon's head, turned to face him. Link fell backwards in surprise and hit his head rather hard on the tiller. The boat laughed, "Surprised, I suppose you should be, there aren't very many talking boats around."
"No, the talking thing is fine, I've seen weirder, it's your horrible colors! They just clash! Who painted you?" Link said, suddenly wearing sunglasses and a ton of bling. The boat simply stared at him. "Anyway, where am I?" Link demanded, removing his shiny new apparel.
"I've taken you to a place called Windfall Island. Here you have to buy me a sail, because I don't have one apparently, and then I'm going to send you on a bunch of stupid missions to stop the evil Ganandorf guy. Got all that?" the boat said.
"Yeah, whatever. Hey wait a minute, how did you get here if you don't have a sail?" Link asked, pointing an accusing finger at the boat.
"Uh… don't talk to your elders that way!" the boat said quickly. Link crossed his arms and pouted before climbing out of the boat and into the shallow water underneath them. "Hey, wait a minute! I forgot to ask you if you would do anything to save your dear sister!" the boat said.
"No way! Why would I want to do that!?" Link asked.
"Well, don't forget the sail, and there's no time to play." the boat said.
"Who do you think I am? Some sort of five year old!? I'm here to make money! So long loser!" Link said and went running off. Not paying attention to where he was going, which was a common occurrence with Link, he slipped on a wet patch of grass and landed face first in a patch of flowers. "Hey, are you ok?" a little girl asked as he stood up and brushed himself off. "I'm fine! Go away!" Link snapped.
"Gee, you don't have to stare at us, I know we're cute and all but still…" the girl said.
"What are you talking about? I'm not-" Here Link looked up and stopped short. Standing in front of him were two small girls with wide eyes. "Oh no, you guys look just like the creepy little kid back on Outset! He was right! I can't hide from him!" Link shouted and went running off, screaming and waving his arms. "What a freak." said the other girl.Link ran across the bright green fields, nearly running over a small pig, who, if Link had taken a closer look at, he would've recognized it as one of the pigs he had thrown into the ocean back at Outset. Distracted by his attempts to avoid the little piggy, Link rammed right into a scary looking man, who appeared to have some sort of disease. His skin was a pasty yellow color, and he had weird spots on his face. "Hey hey, please listen to my story!" The man said, doing a weird bowing movement. "I have no money, and now my daughter has been kidnapped, and I got fired from my job because I was too bored and wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing, and then I saw a pretty pretty pony!"
"Stay away from me you diseased freak!" Link shouted, and ran into the town that was nearby.
Link would've kept running around in his mad panic had he not tripped over a pale looking man who was just sitting on a small flight of stairs. "No one ever understands me." the man said miserably.
"Oh! I do!" Link said happily.
"Really? Then prove it! Bring me a picture of something perfectly round and pale."
"But all the pictures are in black in white. I could take a picture of anything that's round and it would look pale!" Link protested.
"Does it look like I care? Just take the darn picture!"
"Alright fine! Um, actually I don't have a camera…"
"No one understands me."
"Oh forget it." Link said and went marching off. He went through a shiny red door and gave a gasp of amazement at what met his eyes. Everything in the room was sparkling, even the beautiful pots that lined the walls. "Money!" Link shouted and grabbed one of the pots before tossing it against the wall. "No money." Link said and then tried another pot. "No money in that one either!" He broke them all but didn't get anything from them. Disappointed, he made his way back to the door only to be stopped by an angry voice. "Stop right there, you can't just break my pots! Pay up!" said a fat man from the second floor of the house.
"Never!" Link shouted back and quickly ran out of the house before the man could stop him. Link walked dejectedly along the stone pathway until he came upon an open stall, which looked as if it were made for a store, but all that was there was a small man dressed in a blue coat, his hood covering most of his head. "Hello, I must tell you my story, yes? Then you will buy that which has survived. Survived what you ask? Well then, listen to my story and you will find out!" the man said.
"Do you have a sail?" Link asked in a bored voice.
"Um, maybe? Will you buy it for eighty rupees?"
"Eighty rupees!? No way! I'll just steal it, muhahahaha!" Link said. He jumped over the stall, grabbed the sail, and then ran off before the other man could even react. Deciding to celebrate his newfound sail, Link went into the town's café, which was actually just above the little man's stall, but for some reason the poor guy didn't try to follow Link or call the guards. "Hey there, need something?" asked the café's owner.
"I would like something to eat, because now that I think about it, I haven't had anything to eat for days!"
"Ok then, that'll be eighty rupees."
"Eighty rupees?! What is it with this place? I'll just steal the food too!"
…two hours later…
Link now had a very bad reputation at Windfall. He had stolen something from every single person in the town. A camera from the annoying camera guy, some joy pendants from the weird teacher, some potions from the scary alchemist, and those fun board things that the game guy had (you know, the ones with different faces painted on them and he just sticks his head in each one to be different people…). Link walked through town, proudly displaying his many newly acquired items, the town's people glaring at him from behind the safety of their windows. "Now all I have to do before I leave is write a letter to Grandmamma to tell her I'm all right!" he said as he marched into the bomb shop to steal some paper and a pen (even though he had these things already, he figured it was more fun to steal them). Stealing from the bomb shop guy was trickier, as he kept throwing bombs at poor Link, but eventually the boy succeeded in his mission and he ran over to the post box to write his letter:
Dear Grandmamma,
I have finally decided on what I want to be when I grow up!
I want to be a pirate and sail the ocean, making money and terrorizing people!
The End
-Link
After sending this letter, which would most likely do nothing to appease any worries the poor woman might be feeling, Link marched back across the lush grass and towards the cove where his new pirate boat was. "Did you get the sail?" the boat asked.
"Sure did, and a bunch of other stuff too!" Link said happily.
"Well, we only have room for the sail, so just dump the other stuff."
"Noooooo."
After a few hours of arguing, Link finally came upon an idea. He ran back into town, stole the little man in the blue coat's safe, changed the combination and stashed his stuff in it. He then tossed it into the ocean so no one else but him knew where to find it. "Ok! Now we go to the nearest island and steal more stuff!" Link said happily, jumping into his boat. "Actually, we are here to save the world from Ganandorf! How many times do I have to tell you?" The boat said in a frustrated tone. "Now, our first stop is to Dragon Roost Island, we need a pearl there that is very important. But I won't tell you why because, one: it's more exciting, and two: I like to be mysterious."
"Dragon Roost Island? That sounds scary…" Link said. "I'm not sure I want to go there."
"Well too bad, because that's the only place you can go right now!" The boat said. "The wind is going west and it's never going to change direction! Now get moving!"
"Fine." Link said, beginning to put the sail up.
"What are you doing!?" the boat asked suddenly.
"I'm putting the sail up, what does it look like I'm doing?"
"Not now you fool! You have to get us away from all those rocks first!" But it was too late, Link had finished with the sail and the two ran at full speed straight into a rock. "Now we're stuck here! I need repairs." The boat said as water began to leak into the boat, much to Link's dismay.
"We can't get repairs here!" Link whined.
"Why not?"
"Because everyone hates me!"
"Well, maybe you should've thought about that more first before you started stealing everything." the boat suggested grumpily.
"You're right! I should've done it under cover of darkness! And with a mask! We'll do the next island right!" Link said as he pushed the poor boat over to dry land. "Now be a good little boat and wait there while I find a repair guy!"
"I hate you." the boat grumbled as Link went skipping off. Link had no idea how he was going to get the boat fixed, but, before he could come up with anything, a man called him over. "Hey there, care to join me for a walk?" The man asked as he passed Link (the man had a walking problem and ever since he was three he couldn't stop walking no matter what he did). "Actually I was sort of-" Link began, but the man wouldn't hear of it.
"I won't hear of it! Let's go!" the man said, and dragged Link along with him. "Over there is the jail, and that's the walkway leading away from the jail." The man said, giving Link the a short tour of the town, much to Link's boredom as he had already been through the town. "Wait, did you say jail?" Link asked suddenly, an idea on how to get rid of this annoying man starting to form. "Why yes! Right over there." the man said.
"Let's go see inside!" Link said, a malicious grin forming on his face.
"Ok!" Once they were inside, Link shoved the man into one of the large pots that were there and then turned it upside down so the man couldn't get out. During all this, Link accidentally stepped on a large button that was set into the floor. "Uhoh." Link mumbled when he realized that this had caused the jail cell's door to open. "Ahha! I am free! The money thief and all around crazy guy!" said a weird looking man loudly as he jumped out of the cell. "I am Tingle! Tingle Tingle kooloo-limpah!" the man said and started to do a crazy dance. "Um, I'll just be going now…" Link said hesitantly.
"Tingle Tingle kooloo-limpah!"
"…"
"I must give you a reward for saving me! Here, it is Tingle's super-ultra chart translator! If you ever find a chart you can't read, just use this. That'll be ten thousand rupees!" Tingle said with a cackle. "What?! But you said it was a reward! You don't ask for money when you're handing out rewards!" Link said, starting to get annoyed at this strange guy; he was also wearing clothes that were even uglier than Link's, that was annoying to the boy too. "Tingle Tingle kooloo-limpah! No money, no reward! You can have this thing instead!" Tingle said and tossed a strange green box at him.
"What's this?"
"I think it's a little communicator thingy!"
"You think? You mean you don't know?!"
"I just found it, I don't know what it does! Kooloo-limpah!"
"Well… what is a communicator anyway?"
"I don't know, but they do!" Tingle said, his eyes shifting back and forth nervously.
"They? Who's they?"
"Who's them!"
"Yeah, whatever. I'm going now."
"No! You can't go! We need to do the Tingle dance!" Tingle shouted, but Link had already left. He was heading back to the town when suddenly Tingle's voice could be heard coming from Link's giant pocket. "Run Mr. Fairy run!" it said. "I accidentally dropped a bomb on the place where you're standing!"
"I don't see anything…" Link said as he pulled out the box Tingle had given him earlier.
"Run!" Tingle's voice insisted, more loudly this time since it wasn't muffled by being inside the pocket.
"Fine." Link said and took a few steps in another direction. Just as he did that there was a loud explosion right where he had been standing. Link gave out a scream before running back to his boat, shouting that the aliens wouldn't get him. "Heeeeeey." Tingle said suddenly in a forlorn voice.
"Oh what now?" Link shouted at the box, stopping in the middle of a flower patch.
"I'm bored. Let's play a game!"
"Never!" Link said and he mailed the box to the mutated freak back on Outset. "That'll teach him! Two birds with one stone! Muhahahaha!"
He marched back the rest of the way to his boat and stopped short when he saw the two creepy little girls. "Hey there! We fixed your boat for you!" one of them said, waving happily. "Really? Sweet! You'll never catch me now losers!" Link shouted as he jumped back onboard.
"Uh Link, what are you doing?" the boat asked nervously.
"Putting the sail up! How many times are you going to ask me that?!"
"You have to get us away from the rocks first you fool!"
"Nooooooo." Link shouted as, once again, they crashed into the sharp rocks at full speed.
"Way to go genius, now the boat has another hole in it!" the other girl said as Link pushed said boat back onto dry land.
"Can you fix it again?"
"No!"
"I'll give you two rupees!"
"Deal!" the two girls said happily. So they quickly fixed the boat, again, and then held out their hands for their reward.
"Muhahahahahahahahaha! You didn't actually think I'd pay you did you? Losers!" Link said, throwing the sail up again and ignoring the boat's arguing that he had to clear the rocks first.
…three hours later…
Link had continually made the same mistake over and over, but he finally learned his lesson. The girls had fixed the boat each time, and each time Link had avoided paying them. Now Link was ready to set off for real this time. However, since the boat could only go really really slow without its sail, the girls caught up to him easily when he tried to run away without paying again. So Link was forced to pay up the two rupees he owed them. "Stupid little girls." Link muttered as they ran back to shore, delighted over their shiny new rupees. "Now, where to?"
"I already told you! Dragon Roost Island!" The boat, who was now in a horrible mood, said.
"Aw, that's no fun." Link said. He was thoughtful for a few minutes as Windfall Island slowly faded in the distance, and then, "I say we go east!" he announced suddenly. He turned the boat in the other direction, and their good speed that they had had instantly turned to a near stop as they tried to go directly against the wind. "Come on stupid boat, move it!" Link said, hitting the side of the little red boat impatiently.
Eventually the boat managed to persuade Link to go to Dragon Roost Island, mainly by saying that there might be a way of making money there. "Money? I love money! I'll do it!" Link shouted and immediately turned the boat around again, only to be thrown against the wood in the back as their speed increased rather quickly the minute he had finished turning. Link screamed for awhile (that scream that he makes sometimes when you have him fall in a hole…), but he eventually calmed down long enough to notice an island set half way between their destination and their departure point. "Land ho!" Link shouted excitedly, and sharply turned the boat so that they would be able to dock. "Ok Link, pull the sail in…" the boat said as they neared the little island.
"But we aren't there yet!" Link whined.
"Just pull the sail in before we crash!" the boat shouted.
"Oh fine."
And with a pout Link quickly pulled the large piece of cloth down. Just in time too as they had nearly hit yet another rock. Link jumped out of the boat and climbed up the shore, only to be met by long waving grass and a weird dome thing. "There's nothing here!" Link said disappointedly. He marched back, ignoring the boats attempts to explain to him that there was a hole in the dome that he could crawl through. "I don't want to do that! I want to make money!" Was Link's response, and so they left the island unexplored. "Boat ho!" Link shouted suddenly, and sure enough there was a boat. Actually, it was a ship, a large ship. "It's the pirates!" Link said happily. "Yarrrrrr, avast matey!" Link shouted at the ship. His boat sighed tiredly.
"Link? It really is him! Full stop!" Tetra's voice could be heard from inside the ship.
"So long loser!" Link shouted at his boat as he got pulled aboard the pirate's ship via a long rope. Tetra walked over to him and slapped him on the face. "Because of you, we had to rescue those stupid girls just so that I could get my stone back, which you left there!" she said angrily.
Link paled suddenly, "You rescued Aryll? She's here!? What is wrong with you? She'll kill us all!" Link shouted at her.
"What are you talking about?"
Suddenly Aryll appeared from below deck. Link screamed and hid behind the pirate captain. "Ahhahahahahaha! I have complete control of the seagulls! All will bow before me! Oh hi Link."
"Hi Aryll." Link said miserably. Suddenly he brightened as he got an idea on how to get rid of his insane sister. "Hey Aryll, there's a boat down there just for you! He'll help you stop your arch-enemy!"
"What are you talking about? I don't have an arch-enemy!" Aryll said, crossing her arms.
Link, who was still partially hiding behind Tetra (the only thing that could be seen of him was his head peeking nervously out from above the pirate's shoulder), hesitated. "Sure you do! It's Ganandorf! He's the one who kidnapped you anyway."
"Ahha! I knew it! I must destroy this evil Ganandorf! And you! You're coming with me!" Aryll said, pointing a small finger at her older brother.
"Me? Why me?"
"Because I'm naturally lazy and I need you to do whatever I tell you! That's why! Now let's go!"
Aryll grabbed poor Link and shoved him back into the talking boat. "Now, you do whatever the boat says, and I'll meet you at the Forsaken Fortress!" Aryll said. She spread her arms out and her seagulls came swooping down and then lifted her up, carrying her in the direction of the Fortress. "Aw man." Link said sadly as he watched the pirate ship leave as well. "So, uh… Dragon Roost Island then?" All he received in response was an annoyed nod from the boat. "Onwards to victory!" Link shouted, and set the sail back up. The two arrived at the island just as the moon was beginning to rise. Link pulled in close to the shore and then splashed over to dry land. "Link, did you see the large dragon on top of the mountain here?" the boat asked.
"No…"
"Well pay attention next time! Anyway, that is the great Valoo. You must go to him and ask him for the pearl. Goodluck!"
"Yeah, I'm not doing that."
"…Why not?!"
"Too much work. Why don't you do it?" Link asked with a hint of smugness.
"I'm a boat Link."
"So?"
"Would you just get moving!"
"Oh fine!" So Link went stomping off, only to be stopped by a large rock. "I'm stuck!" Link shouted towards the boat.
"Use the stupid bomb flowers!" the boat shouted back.
"Ooooo, that sounds exciting!" Link said as he pulled one of the bombs out of the ground. "What do I do with it now?"
"What do you think?" the boat said in a frustrated voice.
"I don't know…" Link said, but before he could come up with an idea the bomb exploded in his hands, throwing poor Link into the rock that was blocking his way. He hit it with such force, however, that the rock shattered, leaving behind a small yellow rupee. "Money!" Link shouted as he picked it up. "I figured out what to do with the bombs!" Link said happily.
"Good for you." the boat mumbled, but Link didn't hear him as he had already used another bomb to throw himself into another rock. "Link! You're supposed to put the bombs next to the rock!" The boat shouted.
"This way works too!" Link said, happily picking up another rupee.
It took a few hours, but Link finally cleared all the rocks. He was on his last heart, but that didn't really matter to the boy as he had already collected quite a few rupees. "I'm here!" Link announced to the first person he met. This person's back was turned to him, but when he looked around, startled, Link saw that it was the mail carrier from before. "Oh it's you."
"Link? Is that really you? I must say, you've traveled quite far for someone without wings." the mail man said.
"Well yeah! That's because I've got my own pirate boat!"
"Huh, that's nice." The bird said in a careless voice. "And your sister, is she…?"
Link was about to respond when he saw a small spider crawling up his leg. He looked down at it in fear, but the bird mistook this as a sign that Link's sister was still in the Fortress and that he just didn't want to talk about it. "I see, well, why don't you come up to the city place thing?"
"Because I don't want to that's why!" Link said, spider crisis finally solved.
"I'm sure my leader would be glad to help!" the bird said, ignoring Link. "I'll fly ahead and let them know you're here. You keep following this path." he said, and with that he flew off towards the city. "Yeah, whatever." Link said, and began to march up the path. He entered the well lit city just as the king bird guy was finishing a conversation with one of his scouts. "And what of the Great Valoo? Have you found out what is bothering him yet?" the king asked.
"Nope." said the scout in a voice that said he didn't really care anyway, before flying off.
"Here I am!" Link announced happily. "I'm Link!"
"Ah, you must be Link, Quill has told me so much about you." the king said cheerfully.
"Yeah, whatever."
"Well, even though you came all this way, and my messenger promised that I would assist you…" here the king paused long enough to shoot a glare at the mail man. "I'm sorry to say that I'm too busy to help, so you're on your own kid. See you loser!"
"Aw man!"
"Oh, wait, um. Could you deliver this letter to my son, because I'm a terrible father and don't really like talking to him, even though he really needs me right now, thanks!" the king said as he handed Link a large bag that was completely empty.
"There's nothing in here! Rip off!" Link shouted.
"Oh right… since I'm such a poor father, I didn't even write the silly letter, I had my assistant write it! Her name is Medli, she should be upstairs somewhere. See you around!"
"Ok…" Link said. He waited for the group to leave before he ran upstairs and into a large room where a smaller bird was waiting. "Well howdy-doo!" she shouted at him. "I've got a speech problem so I can only shout! Sorry!"
"I don't care! Just give me the darn letter!" Link shouted back.
"Ok!" Medli said and handed over the letter that she had written for the prince. "Goodluck, oh and could you do me a favor?" Medli asked uncertainly.
"Never!" Link said. He snatched the letter from her hand, stuffed it into his large delivery bag, and then went running off.
"Ok, thanks!" Medli shouted after him as he ran towards the stairs. He stopped short, however, when he spotted the mail sorting room. He walked over to the owner and looked up at him. "Money?" he asked.
"Sure! I've got money, if you can sort these letters that is!"
"Money!" Link grabbed the pile and started to sort the letters before the bird could even finish his explanation on how to do it. Link's hands were blurs as he threw the letters into the boxes. Finally he finished, in record time too. "Money!" Link said happily.
"Ok, let's see how you did!" The bird said. "…You didn't put any of them in the right spot! You got an F!"
"Money?"
"No! No money!"
"MONEY!" Link shouted as he jumped over the counter. He grabbed the bird's money bag and then went running off, cackling manically.
He stopped when he reached the prince's door and then flipped the money bag upside down. All that came out, however, was a large pile of feathers. "Noooooo! Oh well, guess I'll just deliver that letter now!" He barged into the prince's room without even knocking. "I'm here!"
"Who are you?" the prince asked. "Hey, look at this, it's my special pearl. Isn't it nice? Hey, you can stare at it all you want but you can't have it!"
"…You aren't holding anything." Link said.
"Oh, well… the pearl is actually getting cleaned, but I like to pretend it's still here."
"Yeah, whatever. Here, this is for you!" Link said, and pulled out the letter with a flourish.
"What's this?" the prince asked.
"It's a letter!"
"A letter?"
"From your father!"
"From my father?"
"Well actually, it's from Medli, but who cares?" Link said, sitting down on the floor.
"He's telling me to be brave. That's easy for him to say."
"I don't really care…"
"You're in this too you know."
"Really?"
"Poking your nose into other people's business. You're nosy aren't you?"
"Let me see that!" Link said, grabbing the letter from the prince. "…It doesn't say anything! It's just a bunch of flower drawings!"
"Well… yeah. This way you can pretend the letter says whatever you want it to say! Fun right?" the prince said happily.
"Not really. So… where's this pearl of yours anyway?"
"It's with Valoo, he likes to clean things sometimes."
"Ok then! I'm off to see Valoo!"
"You can't do that! Valoo has gone psycho! He'll kill you!"
"He can't kill me! I'm indestructible! I got, like, ten bombs blown up in my face, and I'm still alive! Muhahahahaha! So long loser!" Link said, and he went running out of the room and outside. "Oh, it's too dusty here!" Link said as ash from the mountain/volcano came rushing down at him.
"Hey! You really came! I wasn't sure if you would!" Medli's voice came floating over to him.
"Darn! She's here too. She must want my pearl! You'll never get it before me! Never!" Link shouted. He grabbed a bottle from Medli's belt and used some of the water to save a dying bomb flower. Then he picked it up, waited a few minutes, and then went flying from the explosion, right into the rock that was blocking the well. "I can't swim!" Medli shouted as the dry lake began to fill up again.
"Me neither!" Link shouted back. The two finally managed to make it to dry land however, and then they started to throw bombs at each other to try and stop the other from getting the pearl first. Fortunately they were bad aims and they completely missed each other. Instead, the bombs landed inside a bunch of weird looking statues. As the bombs exploded, the statues fell, creating a bridge over the hot lava that had previously blocked their path. The two kids looked at each other before making a mad dash for this newly created bridge. Link, however, accidentally tripped, so he was behind Medli by a few seconds. This turned out to be a lucky thing for him though, as suddenly a bunch of monsters came out of nowhere and arrested Medli for ruining their pretty statues. Link pretended not to notice as she was carried off.
"Muhahaha! The pearl is all mine now!" Link said as he made his way in good spirits towards the entrance to the 'dungeon'. "This is all there is!?" Link asked disappointedly when he saw the room he was in. Aside from a few large blocks and some torches, the room was completely empty. "Oh boooo. I wanted the pearl!" Link said, leaning against one of the blocks. Then the block suddenly moved, causing Link to fall backwards. "Ahha! Now we are getting somewhere!" Link shouted as he pushed the blocks around. After he had made a smiley face with the blocks, he noticed a small hole leading deeper into the mountain. "Muhahahaha! The pearl will be mine after all!"
…five hours later…
Link had been fighting inside the dungeon for what felt like days (when I say fighting, I mean running away and screaming like a baby). But now he was finally back outside and enjoying the fresh air. "Link! What took you so long?" Link could just make out Medli's voice in the distance. He looked up from admiring his shiny sword just in time to see Medli behind bars and being guarded by two lizard monsters. "Well well, look who got caught. And look who didn't!" Link said tauntingly.
"Link, would you just fight these guys and get me out of here!?" Medli shouted at him.
"Alright fine!"
So after a really long battle (with really cool music), Link finally managed to free the bird girl. "Thankyou, I give up on finding the pearl, it's just not worth it! Here, take this stupid thing, it didn't help me at all!" Medli said, and handed Link a long piece of rope with a claw on one end of it.
"What is it?" Link asked as he waved it around in the air to see what it was supposed to be meant for.
"It's a grappling hook, what does it look like!" Medli asked before she went flying off.
"Sweet." Link said. He stared at it for awhile and then shrugged. "I don't really like it." he said before tossing it on the ground and leaving it there. A few minutes later and he had to go back and get it, as he needed it to talk to Valoo. "I'm here!" he announced when he finally reached the very top of the mountain.
"Does it look like I care?" Valoo asked in a miserable voice. "I feel depressed! I want a milkshake, with chocolate icecream! Go get me one! Oh, and if you could take care of the giant, scary bug that's hurting my tail, that'd help too…"
"Never! I'm here to steal the pearl! Muhahahaha!" Link used the grappling hook to grab the pearl from the giant dragon's large pile of treasure. "So long loser!" he shouted, but before he could leave the dragon grabbed him with one powerful hand. "I said, I wanted a milkshake and I need someone to get rid of the giant bug!" he roared.
"Why don't you just pull your tail out of the mountain you stupid dragon!" Link asked casually.
"I… huh, I never thought of that one." the dragon said. He stood up and yanked his tail out, wrapping it around the mountain instead. "That's better. You can have the pearl, I'm done polishing it."
"Ahha! So long loser!" Link said after Valoo had placed him gently back on the ground.
As he exited the dungeon and returned to the bird people's city, Medli, the prince, and a bunch of other people came swarming out. "There he is! He's the one who stole my grappling hook!" Medli shouted.
"What are you talking about? You gave it to me!" Link said.
"And he's trying to steal my pearl!" The prince said. The other people gasped.
"Well, that one I am doing. So long losers!" Link shouted and went running off, batting people away with his shield. He made it safely back to his boat and was about to hop on when it stopped him. "Wait Link, there's something I have to give you!" the boat said.
"Yeah, now is not really the time for this, I've got an angry mob of birds right behind me!" Link said.
"Here, take this!" the boat said, suddenly having a sparkling conductor's stick in his mouth.
"Ooooo, sparkly! I want it! What is it?" Link asked as he admired it.
"That is the wind baton. Why don't you try it out?"
"Because I don't want to that's why!"
"Try playing in ¾ time."
"Ok!" Link started to wave it around in random directions, when suddenly the wind changed direction.
"You've learned the wind's requiem!" said a strange voice. Link turned around and saw a giant frog sitting on a cloud.
"Oh you're ugly!" Link said, disgusted.
"That's a mighty fine wind you got there. Use that song to change the direction of the wind anytime you want, and if you see my crazed brother… shoot him for me will you? Thanks!"
"Yeah, whatever." Link said, just as the frog disappeared. "Hey wait! I don't remember how to play the song! That was just random!"
The boat stared at him, "Well, maybe you'll figure it out later. Now, change the wind to south so we can get the next pearl." it said, just as a large cloud of angry bird people could be seen coming towards them. "Um, I can't change the wind… remember?" Link said as he leaped into the boat.
"Well you better do something because those birds don't look happy." the boat said.
"Ok, um… go boat go!" Link said, throwing the sail up. They moved at a slow pace, but they weren't going completely against the wind. "Ahhhh, this is nice." Link said, leaning back.
"He's stealing the wind baton too!" Medli shouted.
"Oh my gosh! They're coming!" Link shouted. He pulled out his wind baton and began to desperately wave it around. Somehow he managed to play the wind's requiem and they were soon sailing at full speed towards the southern islands.
//So how was this chapter? I'm nearly finished with the next one, so I'll probably have it up by tomorrow (hopefully). In the next one Link visits the Great Deku Tree and then goes back home to Outset! Yay! Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoyed it :-)