With Din's pearl securely in his grasp, Link made way for Forest Haven. But first, a little detour was in order. Link directed the wind west, so he could sail to Windfall Island, stopping only to chart the island between Dragon Roost and Windfall.
Link distinctly remembered a song for the Wind Waker that changed the time of day. It was called the Song of Passing. Link remembered only ever using it for speeding up time for figurine spamming. Carlov always needed a full day to craft his figurines, so Link would play it so he could unload his pictos and see them transformed into figurines in the blink of an eye. Link always wondered how the song worked. Did he time travel twelve hours into the future? Was everyone affected by the song, or just Link? Either way, it made collecting figurines a lot easier for Link.
When he arrived, he let his fuzzy memory guide him. He found himself atop the cliff where a man danced in front of a gravestone. Creepy. The boy couldn't help but wonder if the man was stable. Nevertheless, Link decided to speak to the man.
The man pranced about in front of the grave, mumbling to himself, "That magical dance that changed night into day and day into night...oh I just wish I knew the rhythm!" He didn't notice Link at all, though he couldn't tell if it was because he was so absorbed in his dancing or if because it was nighttime.
Link sighed and stood in front of the man, holding the magic baton in his left hand. He started conducting. Not any particular song, just a few beats in three-four time. The man noticed Link and the baton and heard the rhythm.
"Uhm, uhm, cha! Uhm, uhm, cha!" The man repeated with it. "That's it! That's it!" Link took a step back just in case, but the man meant no harm. "That's the rhythm I've been waiting for! I can feel it, dude." With that, the man suddenly started dancing. Keeping the rhythm in mind, he extended his left arm to the left, then thrust his arm to the right, followed with three pirouettes, and then jabbed downwards toward ground with the same arm. All the while he was chanting "Yeah, yeah, (pause), WHOO!" along his moves.
It took Link a slow moment to realize that his moves were the notes of the song. Link, seeing four moves, switched to four-four time. ...Left...right...center...down...
Nothing happened. So Link stubbornly did it again. Nothing.
So he stopped and watched the man demonstrate it to him again. Then Link realized the song was in three-four time! Why else would he make such a big deal about three-four time? But there were four moves...that meant that one move was extraneous.
Link first tried left, right, center. When that didn't work, he became certain it was left, right, down. When he tried that, something deep within his Wind Waker seemed to resonate. Link jumped in jubilation at having learned the song. He left the cliff, hearing the man fume in the distance about why he couldn't do the song.
As he boarded his ship, he played the Wind's Requiem to change the direction to southeast. He again only stopped to chart any unknown islands.
However, Link wasn't paying much attention to where he was going, so he started drifting too much south. He didn't see anything on the horizon, with was rather strange. Whenever he was in an island's quadrant, he could usually see a silhouette of the island. But there was nothing here.
Suddenly, the King of Red Lions stopped. This was very unusual. He never stopped unless he was introducing Link to an important island. But there was no land here.
"Link, we must stop," he said. "It is too early for you to be here. Something ancient and powerful rests here. We must turn back."
With that, the boat turned back. Link tried to go and see what was so special, but the King of Red Lions refused. So Link had to steer the boat east and continued his journey to Forest Haven. However, Link couldn't help looking behind him and trying to solve the mystery of what was so important about that place. The sky began to light up and announce the arrival of daytime. It began to sing of dawn, and the waves began to churn their familiar bold tune.
When he got to a peculiar pair of islands called the Eastern Triangle Islands, Link stopped to boat and looked at the sea chart. From here, Link was supposed to go directly south. So commanding the winds to blow there, Link put up the sail and continued journeying on.
As night fell, Link was just passing through Bomb Island and resting his eyes when he felt the temperature sharply decline. The sea here behaved differently than usual, and the sky was especially dark. He knew it wasn't just from night, so then what was it? He opened his eyes and looked straight ahead to see a ship. Link's eyes widened as he realized that he ship was see-through, like a ghost. Blue balls of fire dotted the ship. Link wanted to run it through, just to see what would happen. But as he approached, it vanished into thin air. Strange.
Link was relieved when daylight came. He looked on and saw some...trees? In the ocean? As they drew closer, Link realized the islands just seemed like giant trees, with greenery covering them. Rather than docking at the bigger island, Link steered it a little westward and ignored the King of Red Lions's protests. When they got to a little isle, Link stopped the boat and began climbing up the tall golden ladder, which was already there for him.
He hoisted himself up. As he looked around, he thought, This place hasn't changed at all. Patches of grass littered the ground, and a few trees towered above him. A small wooden sign waited by the entrace, introducing the gallery to newcomers. Taking a long look around him, he jumped into the big hole where the entrance of the gallery was.
Link was so anxious that he didn't bother with pleasantries. He was all business. When he arrived, Link simply walked up to Carlov and silently handed him the picto of the bokoblin from the Forsaken Fortress. Link stood nervously, wondering if he'd take it or not. After analyzing the picto, Carlov accepted it and announced that he would craft it and put it on display tomorrow. Link nodded and smiled, and stepped into the exit. It was a portal that brought him back up to the top of the isle.
When he was back outside, Link jumped up and down and laughed, feeling very happy that he would finally see a figurine in the "Boss and Mini-Boss" room. No more having to hear stuff like "two rooms to the right...MY right of course". No more having to figure out where figurines where located.
Fishing out the Wind Waker, he played the Song of Passing. A moment later, the day turned dark and the moon reigned in the sky. He played it again, and soon the sun shone from high in the clouds.
Link hopped into the portal and practically barreled to Carlov's counter. The man told him that he was done and that "it was a jewel of a figurine", but Link was hardly paying attention. Then, Carlov said, "It's located..."
"Right across from you, I know, sir," Link said quickly as he turned and was about to sprint for that room. But then, Carlov started cracking up. Between laughs, he said, "Actually, it's three doors to the left...MY left of course!"
When Link heard that, he stood dead still. Then, "WHATTT?!"
Link ran back to Carlov's counter. "But that was a mini-boss! The first one ever, in fact!"
Carlov simply shook his head. "Those monsters are rather common, not to mention relatively easy to defeat, so they go in the common monsters room."
Link was furious upon hearing this. All his work had been for nothing. And what did Carlov know about fighting monsters, anyway? Growling and mumbling to himself, he took out the other pictos from the pictobox and was about to tear them into shreds. But then, he heard Carlov shout, "WAIT!"
"What?" Link answered, not even trying to hide the annoyance in his tone. The hand holding the pictos was clenched up and threatened to wrinkle and ruin them.
"If you want figurines for that room," Carlov gestured to the room across from them. "That one would be perfect!" Link looked down and saw the blurry picto of the scorpion boss. "Of course, I'd need the picto to craft it."
"Okay!" Link shouted as he slapped it down on his wooden counter, his brief tantrum forgotten. Then he hurled himself into the portal to go outside and speed up time. He barely heard Carlov yell, "Wait Link, don't you want to see the figurine of yesterday's picto?"
When it was the next morning, Link arrived and spoke to Carlov. The figurine man already knew what the boy wanted to ask, so he just said, "It's done. It's in the room across from-"
"YES!" Link hollered as he darted for the door. Inside, the eighteen stands were empty...except for one. Link dashed up to it and studied the figurine. Now that he wasn't surrounded by red-orange walls and magma, he could see that the boss's shell was actually silver. It didn't look nearly as intimidating now, since it was mini-size.
He read the description for it. Its name was Gohma. Link wondered how Carlov knew this. Maybe he just made it up.
At any rate, he continued to read the description. It described Gohma and gave tips on how to defeat it. "This enormous shelled insect dwells in areas of lava and magma. The only way to destroy its hard bio-armor would be to drop a sheet of bedrock on it."
Well, that was kinda useless, Link thought. I already know how to kill it. I wouldn't be here right now if I didn't. Well at least this was an impressive first figurine. For obvious reasons, Link didn't want to consider the bokoblin a figurine. He refused to see it.
Link went back to the main room, where Carlov was waiting. He handed him the picto of the Moblin, which he took and promised to make into a figurine by tomorrow. Link went back up the portal and into fresh air.
After conducting the Song of Passing twice, he returned to Carlov, who again told him that the figurine was located right across from him.
Link easily found the figurine; it was nearby Gohma. The statue looked much more like the ones at the Forsaken Fortress. It carried its usual spear and a lantern in the other hand. Its description read: "These powerful enemies swing their spears with great ease. They've knocked Link around with that attack many times."
Link agreed with that, recalling those times where he was knocked to the ground with that move. At least I figured out how to fight a Moblin now.
All in all, Link was very proud of his two figurines. He stayed there all day, looking at the figurines and reading the notes and comments until the sun finally set on its own.