Author's note:

Can you, like, go on your ship or something?

Chapter 15: Discovery! Coffee has caffeine!

"We're driven to insanity!"

"Dun dun, dun dun."

"Oh, to insanity!"

"Dun dun, dun dun."

"All sitting here..."

"Dun dun, dun dun."

"Singing to insanity!"

"Dun dun, dun dun."

"And dinner has gotten cold, because you've been singing about you being driven to insanity," Quill broke in, arms crossed, a smile on his face. "Kids, you missed breakfast, lunch, and now dinner, all in one day."

"Sorry, sorry, sorry! It was just the first time I had tried coffee, you know!" Natasha shot back. "I mean, about the singing part!"

"We missed breakfast?" Tetra said, puzzled, looking around her cabin for evidence. "But I'm so sure we had breakfast this morning."

"I'm sure we did."

"Tetra, Natasha, just have dinner. There's no use waiting for Link, he's been gone for only an hour and a half."

"But I didn't finish my coffee yet!"

"'Tasha, you're supposed to have coffee after dinner!" Tetra scolded the Rito girl, as she herself reached for a cup on her dresser.

"AHA! You didn't have dinner and you're having coffee!" she shouted, pointing at the cup in the pirate's hand.

"Girls! Calm down! You shouldn't have had coffee at all, the caffeine and sugar is making you hyper." Quill interrupted again.

"Well, that's only because this stuff tastes so foul that I added a little sugar!"

"A little? You put like, ten spoons in!"

"What about you? You put in twenty!"

"No, I used only two!"

Quill sighed and started rubbing his temples, when Aryll trotted in.

"Is Link back yet?"

"NO!" Natasha and Tetra hollered back, and Aryll grinned.

"He isn't!" she said, and walked back out. Natasha and Tetra looked at each other, and pointed at each other.

"She's even more insane than you!" they both said to each other.

"I guess it's time for me to go back," Link said as he and Lee watched the sunset, sitting cross-legged in the tall grass.

"Why can't you stay here?" Lee questioned, as he clasped his hands behind his head and leaned back against his rock. Link sighed and leaned against Lee's boulder.

"I have folks back... home... there..." he said lazily.

"Do you think we'll meet again?"

"I can't say for sure, but... maybe."

"Why do you say that?"

"I can't really answer that."

Lee sat up and pulled out his ocarina.

"If we're not going to meet again, then I guess we should say a final farewell, eh?" he said, and played a couple of notes on it. Link grinned and pulled out his own, and repeated the same notes. They played back and forth, the notes echoing throughout the fields, until the sky was nearly dark, and Link played the Song of Time with double notes. His form vanished into thin air, and Lee was left standing in the middle of the field, waving at where his friend used to stand.

He heard the clopping of hooves behind him, and he turned around to see one of the sorcerers from earlier, leading his horse to the general direction of Hyrule Castle.

"You come from the Lost Woods?" he asked, and Lee nodded. The man smiled.

"Well, don't go wandering around there too much, okay?"

"...okay."

There was a bang of displaced air as Link appeared back in the same cabin he had vanished in. He ran forward and tore the door open, hopping outside onto the deck of the ship and coming face-to-face with Tetra, who looked like she was about to open that very same door.

She stared at him, completely speechless, for a few seconds, until Link had to take her by the shoulders and shake her a little, yelling her name. Aryll heard the commotion and ran out, saw Link, and started crying as she hugged both him and Tetra. Natasha peeked out of her cabin, and actually dropped her cup of coffee on the deck, requiring her to help mop it up, after yelling at Link for not coming back in time for dinner.

The whole time, Tetra would not leave Link's side, until he said that he needed sleep, and also said that he would tell about his "mystery trip" in the morning.

Quill later informed Link that he had only been gone for about a hour and a half, and the girls drank coffee. Link laughed at this and told the girls to try drinking warm milk after the coffee. Surprisingly enough, they both did this, and they fell asleep before Link went to bed.

The next day, Link woke up and took a walk to the cafe, perhaps to get a cup of cocoa, when he saw Andrew walking down the path. Or was it Andrew?

"'Hoy Link," Andrew said under his breath as he walked toward him. He looked like he had an argument with someone recently. "Hey, can you, like, go on your ship or something?"

"Why?" Link asked, and Andrew paused.

"J-just do!" he said quickly, and entered the cafe, shutting the door behind him. Link sighed and walked back to Tetra's ship, when he started wondering what Andrew was up to. He remembered how the three sorcerers looked exactly like him, all having the same face.

Turning on his heel, Link ran back to the cafe and pulled the door open, seeing Andrew at the bar, a cup of coffee in his hand. He was focused on a book in front of him, until he heard the door creak open. Andrew looked up and seemed a little startled to see Link there, and quickly slammed the book shut.

"Do you know anything about the Goddess of Paths and Warping?" Link blurted out, and Andrew's eye twitched a little. After a few seconds passed, he lowered his cup.

"I know nothing," he said in an listless voice. "Where did you find out about this?"

"...Somewhere."

"And why are you asking me?"

"I was sure that you may know something about this," Link replied. Andrew certainly didn't seem to be like himself today...

Daniel watched Link finally leave, and then turned back to his book. Once again, the little window showing the gnat's point of view was in the pages, and this time, it was showing Link running back to the ship. He sighed; eventually, he would have to go back to his brothers, but he didn't want to yet. He feared for the safety of the overworld...

He finally decided to return to his brothers, so he picked up his book and walked out of the door. There was nothing else to do, except maybe side with Link's group-

"But that would be crazy," he muttered to himself, as he trudged up the cobblestone road, shivering in the cold. "They're already suspicious of us so they may think I'm up to something. He thinks we're all Andrew, thanks to Andrew..."

He walked up to the cabin door and held his hand over the knob, making the lock click open. The door swung open, and he was Mark and his brother look up from where they were both sitting on the bed. They watched in silence as Daniel hung his coat on the hook by the fire, and walked over to the sofa.

"Why did you come back?" Mark asked after a couple of minutes.

"There was no use being without a group," Daniel replied. "Besides, I was getting bored."

"But you still don't want us to raise Termina."

"That's not completely true. I do want Termina to be raised, but I don't like the thought of the destruction we'll cause."

Mark laughed and took Andrew's hand, then pressed it against Daniel's forehead.

"Tell me if he's sick, Andrew!" he joked. "Daniel's got a crazy mind there!"

"Will you tell this jerk to stop?" Daniel rolled his eyes, but Andrew was silent, his hand still on his brother's brow.

"Daniel, you feel unusually warm." Andrew dropped his hand, and the three stared at each other.

"Nah, I was just running," Daniel broke the silence. "You see, it's kinda cold outside, but I'm fine, don't worry-"

He bent over into a fit of coughing, as Mark and Andrew, worriedly, looked on.