Chapter 5: The Ocean
After the battle in Woodfall was won, Tingle took a faction of their forces and led them west. There, they found a beautiful ocean. However, this beautiful ocean was already under attack by monsters.
Speaking with one of the locals, Tingle discovered that there was a temple that rested across the ocean. He could only guess that that was where the next monster was. But he would have to find a way to cross. Tingle leaped into battle, hoping to find an answer to his question.
Tingle dashed out of the Allied Base, two buildings (one of them being the fisherman that Tingle spoke with) surrounded by fence, and towards the battling Stalchildren and soldiers fighting by the shoreline. In the water, he noticed a small island with palm trees growing on top of it. He blew a balloon up as big as it could until it popped, getting rid of the majority of the monsters.
"If we want to get to that temple, then we're gonna have to find a way across the water," a nearby Hylian Captain pointed out.
"The nice man told me that these Gerudo Pirates have boats," said Tingle.
"Then we're going to have to find a way inside," he realized.
Tingle ran along a path and over to a tall cliff. He knew that on the other side was the fortress, but he would have to find a way to get there.
Suddenly, he spotted an opening on the side of the cliff. He also noticed how rough the edging was. He whipped out his Hookshot, aimed at the top, and fired. Once the chain latched onto the top, it recoiled and pulled him up with it. He placed it back in his backpack filled with other goodies and hopped down into the fortress.
Unfortunately, none of his Allied Forces had made it inside yet. Hordes of pirates, all of them tanned, female, and red-haired, began charging at Tingle.
"Intruder! Intruder!" a Gerudo Pirate Captain yelled.
"Kill him!" shouted another voice from above. "I will have no intruders in my fortress!"
Obviously, this person speaking was in charge. If Tingle could get the chance to speak with her, then maybe he could convince her that they mean no harm and could loan them a ship. He would have to get an audience with her.
None of these women would listen. He began to fight them all off until none were left. He then hurried into the Central Keep and fought the pirates inside. Once the Keep Boss appeared, he defeated her, and claimed that keep as his own. Soldiers began to spawn inside.
"This is now Tingle's keep! Don't steal it!" he cheered.
He hurried outside, fighting off the incoming pirates, and spotted a shut gate with a switch in front of it. Knowing hat he would need some outside help, he ran over, whipped out a hammer, and slammed it down on the switch. The two gates opened up by themselves, allowing both his forces and the Enemy Forces to enter the fortress.
"How nice of that oddly-dressed man to open the gates for us!" Koume cackled from the closed Enemy Base.
"Yes indeed," Kotake agreed.
Tingle ran up a flight of stairs and down a hallway, entering the Western Room. He fought off the pirates inside, as well as a double-sword-wielding Gerudo Pirate Captain, which forced the Keep Boss to appear. He defeated her and claimed that keep.
"This keep belongs to Team Tingle!" he shouted.
He moved onwards through the fortress, finding some of the Twinrova's forces moving the same way. He quickly destroyed all of the Stalchildren and Stalfos and began to battle a Dinolfos.
The Dinolfos let out a fireball, which Tingle dodged. He countered with a few punches and kicks and eventually killed him.
He continued forwards until he eventually found the Rouge Keep, which the leader stayed in. however, this keep was shut tight.
"If you want in," she shouted from inside. "You're going to have to fight all of my forces!"
"Perhaps if we take more keeps in the fortress, then we can find the key to the keep," a nearby Hylian Captain suggested.
"Tingle likes your idea," he agreed.
He then moved on to take the rest of the fortress keeps. He found the Northern Room, which had already been taken by enemy forces. He fought off the Stalchildren inside until the Keep Boss appeared. He killed the Stalfos and took the keep, but no chest appeared.
He ran out of the keep and down the hall until he was outside again. He hurried across a rickety bridge, fighting any Stalchildren or pirates in his way, and entered the Eastern Room. He battled the monsters inside and claimed the keep, allowing a red and gold chest to appear.
He opened it up, peeked inside, and pulled out the Boss Key. He scurried all the way back to the Rouge Base, placed the key inside the doors, and watched as they all opened up. Inside, he found a lady that most certainly looked and acted like the leader of the fortress and the pirates.
She had a long red ponytail, with red baggy pants and a red bra. She held two swords with curved blades, one in each hand.
"There you are!" she exclaimed. "You're the intruder! I, Aveil, will not allow you to get away with this!"
"Please, Tingle doesn't want to fight," the innocent man pleaded. "He just wants to talk to you. Can Tingle borrow one of your boats?"
"Never!" she shouted.
She charged at him, and the two began to fight. She swung a sword, but he blocked it and punched her a few times. He managed to knock her down to the ground and slammed his feet onto her.
She quickly jumped back up and did a spin attack, which he dodged. Once she was weakened, he gave her everything he got until he had enough energy to do a strong attack.
He rolled a bunch of bombs out until they were lined up like bowling pins. Before he could do anything with them, a fairy popped out of his bag. He began chasing it until he leaped up and caught it. However, this caused him to ram into all of the bombs, tossing them onto Aveil and exploding them.
She didn't get back up. She was defeated. "I surrender!" she shouted. "I give up! Do your worst!"
"Tingle will do no such thing!" he told her. "He just wants a boat so he can get to the temple across the ocean!"
"Oh, you're going to the Great Bat Temple?" she asked. "You won't be able to use a boat in that case. Because of the Thunder Cloud that has appeared above it, we haven't been able to lead any ships through. However, I have heard stories of a great turtle that looks like an island. If you play a tune for him, he will awaken, and I'm sure he can take you there."
"Thank you very much!" tingle thanked her.
"Your welcome," she answered. "And good luck! Ladies, we now fight with tingle!"
And just like that, all of the pirates began fighting alongside the Allied Forces, rather than against them.
"We don't like those witches either," Aveil explained, her health fully restored again as she climbed to her feet. "They had their little crony, Skull Kid, tell us there was great treasure in that temple."
"Treasure?" asked Tingle, his eyes turning into the big rupees.
He dashed out of the entire fortress and onto the shoreline.
"A turtle that looks like an island, a turtle that looks like an island," he repated over and over. "Where could it be?"
That was when his eyes lay on the island with two palm trees in the water. Hoping it would work, he whipped out his ocarina he played random notes. Suddenly, a giant turtle head peeked up from above the water, along with two fins on either side.
He looked around until he spotted Tingle.
"Are you the one that awakened me?" he asked.
"I am," he answered. "Can you take us to the Great Bat Temple?"
"That is but a simple task," he replied. "Climb onto my back and I will take you there."
The turtle spun around to face the temple off in the distance. Noticing the two palm trees still growing on his shell, tingle whipped out his Hookshot and pulled himself on top. The turtle began to swim towards the temple.
It didn't take long for Tingle to reappear in the temple, where many of the Enemy Forces had already claimed keeps. Tingle dashed into one and, after a few minutes, stole it from them.
After taking another keep, Tingle then found an empty room. Intrigued, he went inside. It was as big as a keep, and the same shape, but only it wasn't a keep. In the center was a big hole. He walked over and peered inside, where he could see a room below. He jumped all the way down until he landed on a circular platform inside, with water surrounding it.
Suddenly, he noticed something in the water. It seemed to be a giant purple fish. Once it leaped out of the water and over Tingle's head was when he saw what it was: the Gargantuan Masked Fish, Gyorg.
It swam around in the water a bit until it rammed into the platform, knocking Tingle backwards a few steps. Since he couldn't swim, he knew he would have to bring Gyorg to him.
He looked through his items until he spotted his boomerang. He pulled it out, aimed at the fish, and threw it down into the water. Luckily, it kept working, attacking Gyorg and bringing him up to the platform.
While weakned, Tingle attacked it as quickly as possible. Right when he was going to use a strong attack on it was when the Twinrova fell from the ceiling and beat him to it by morphing together.
Once he had had enough, Gyorg flopped back into the water. The Twinrova smiled at Tingle.
"We couldn't let you have all the fun," Koume told him.
"So we decided to join in," Kotake added.
He knew that they would only be able to attack the creature when Tingle brought him up. However, there was no other way to do it.
He waited again until Gyorg rammed into the platform again. Once he was frozen was when Tingle threw the boomerang again. It pulled him back up, and he and the witches began to attack it.
Luckily, Tingle was able to land the final blow this time, and he hurried back into the water. The Twinrova began to fight Tingle, wanting to land the kill on Gyorg and get his remains. Tingle fought back, knowing that his new friends were counting on him and that he could not fail.
Once Gyorg had rammed into them a third time was when they stopped fighting each other. Tingle used the chance to bring him back up with the boomerang, and they all began to fight.
Tingle blew up a balloon as big as he could until it exploding. The impact was what killed Gyorg. The creature exploded into rupees, Tingle grabbing them all. The remains then appeared in his hands.
"Oh no, he won!" Koume worried.
"Let's get out of here!" Kotake worried also.
The two disappeared, along with the entirety of their forces.
"It looks like Tingle has won this battle!" he cheered.
