"Sarah?" Jimmy looked horrible. His eyes were clouded over, as if blind, and his skin was pale and clammy. He shivered constantly and hallucinated. "My word, what's happened to him Sturgeon?"
"Not sure, but whatever it was it took hold of him not long after you left. Poor boy, his days are filled with worry, and his nights are filled with horrific dreams."
"Eds," Jimmy muttered, to no one in particular, "Don't leave, you'll die!"
"Jimmy, we're right here! Don't despair."
"Yeah, snap out of it!" Eddy shook Jimmy's shoulders with no avail.
"Heh, that won't work! I know, I've tried!" Sturgeon stepped forward with a map of the fairy forest, "but I do know something that might…"
"WHAT ARE THESE THINGS?" Eddy hit several satyr-like creatures with a boomerang while Ed slashed them with the sword. "They're called miniblins, and I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of them from here on out."
"Miniblin or not, I'm getting' sick of all these mother-
"Careful Eddy, we need to-"
"Monsters on the mother-"
"Maintain a T-"
"ISLAND!"
"Rating. Regardless, according to Sturgeon's instructions and what we saw the last time we we're here, we need to get close to the Kankers depression, blow up the rock on the fairy fountain, and bottle a fairy."
"Welcome to Singapore!"
"Whatever Ed, just cut this grass." Ed did as he was told, but as Eddy collected the rupees, he panicked, "THIS ONE WON'T FIT, DOUBLE D!" Double d looked at the wallet and sighed, "It's full Eddy. This wallet can only hold 200 rupees at one time; you'll need a bigger one if you want to hold more money."
"Full? 200? Bigger one? NO MORE MONEY!" Eddy curled up into a fetal position in the cut grass.
"Oh Dear. Eddy looks Deranged; Ed, help me carry him to the fountain.
"I'm almost there, Double d!"
"Umm, yes." This keeps going from bad to worse!
The two sane Eds finally got their friend to the rock. Ed placed a bomb near the rock, hid behind a log and plugged his ears with Double d. the fuse of the bomb ignited, the whole bomb glowing red-hot before blowing the rock to fragments. Where it sat a hole was revealed, "Thank goodness we had bombs. But just in case we might want to restock on them before going to Jabun."
"Don't worry your little sock, Double d," Ed pulled out another bomb, "'cause these little dickens pack a punch!" with that it exploded and knocked Ed's Eyebrow and Eyes to one side. They pushed Eddy into the hole and each dived in as well.
"My word." Was all Double d could see when he saw the fairy fountain's interior. Everything except the Night-sky background was bathed in a pale blue. "Look, Double d! It is Bobo!" Ed pointed to a giant clamshell on the wall. "I highly doubt Rolf's pet clam is part of the interior decoration, Ed. But look, a fairy!" the fairy floated over a pool of water before spiraling into it, causing an explosion for some reason. When the dust cleared a large woman was standing in the pool, causing Double d to be shocked. The woman had four-arms, dark-red skin and a white dress and hat of some odd sort, "Young waker of the winds, allow me to aid you in your quest." The Great fairy folded her lower hands into a praying position while the upper ones both made the "Ok" symbol. Suddenly her lower hands opened, revealing a lotus. She blew the petals onto the Eds, which caused a wallet to materialize and land on Eddy's face. Eddy sniffed the bag on him and sat up, "This holds money. A LOT OF MONEY!" he smiled, reading the inscription near the blue-rupee symbol "200/1000! WAHOO!" then he looked at the fairy, "Who's the dame?"
"This is a Great fairy, I've read about them."
"The fairies of this fountain will ease your Weariness, when you grow fatigued from your battles, come here to be refreshed." And with a laugh she disappeared, leaving several fairies behind. Ed bottled one and the three made their way back; Eddy taking every rupee he could find.
"Ok Jimmy, this'll fix you right up!" Eddy pulled at the stopper a bit with his hand to no avail, then tried harder before resorting to his teeth. "May I?" Double d twisted the cork a little and it popped right off. The fairy flew upward around Double d and down to Jimmy. The color came back to his skin, a twinkle returned to his eyes. If literal sparkles and rainbows were a part of everyday life, I could guarantee they'd be there. "Oh Eds! It's you, YOU'RE ALIVE!" Jimmy jumped up and gave a painless hug. "Easy there, fluffy!" Eddy warned limply.
"You're safe! That's wonderful!" he backed up and smiled, "You healed me, didn't you? The others were wrong about you, you are heroes!"
"The others had their doubts?"
"THEY ALL SAID YOU WE'RE GONNA DIE, but they were wrong! You and Sarah are trying to be so strong, and here I am getting sick."
"Then get a sword and help us!" Eddy offered, but that only scared Jimmy, "Who, me? But I'm just a poor soul, unable to fight anything! But I have been improving my culinary talents!" Jimmy pulled out a ladle of soup and poured it into the now-empty bottle humming as he did so, "There we go! This soup will bring back your energy and give you a touch of magic! It'll also make you twice as strong as ever!"
"Smells like home cookin'!" Ed commented, taking back the bottle.
"There's enough for two servings, so go out there and bash that bird!"
"Yes sir!" The Eds were about to leave when Jimmy called them back, "I also wanted to tell you: I named the little piggy Double d, after you! If you feed him, he's bound to give you something!"
"Pig treasure? What're we waitin' for?" the Eds left Jimmy's house, where a massive pig greeted them.
"Little piggy got big."
"Allright, while me and Ed try and get some rupees out of this porker, how 'bout fillin' up our bomb bag." Eddy handed the bag to Double d along with twenty rupees.
"But Eddy, what about our mission to save the world from Ganon? He could decide to drown all that we love in a moment's notice. We sang an entire song about it!"
"Relax Double d, we can't bring down Ganon without bombs." He held up his now-treasured 1000 rupee wallet, "Besides, I could go for some payment for my effort!"
Double d took the bomb bag and trotted away towards Beedle's shop ship, only looking back to see Eddy using Ed (And technically Double d) to get himself more rupees. He sighed, Edd, why must you be so self-centered?
"Yo-ho, yo-ho, A PIRATE'S LIFE'S FOR ME!" the chorus carried from inside the floating shipto the beach easily, even though the boat was at the end of the dock. Odd, Beedle almost never sings in public. "Beedle?" Double d stepped inside and found the place a wreck. empty bottles were lying everywhere, and Beedle's goods were all over the floor, the only thing on his shelves were bombs. Beedle looked even worse; his bowler cut was all askew, his whole face a light red (Mostly the nose and cheeks), he had no pants on. "GOOD LORD MAN, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Double d helped the stumbling man to his feet.
"Me? Never-ever-forever better."Beedle repled, falling over again, "So, here for the sale sack top - tock flap - clack cap."
"Sock hat?" Double d corrected.
"Don't you sass me, boy!"
"Beedle, I'm afraid to ask this, but are you perhaps drunk?"
"Who wouldn't be after the sale of the year! With these bombs I'll be able to retire, and it's all thanks to that Petra girl."
"I believe you mean Tetra, Beedle." Tetra's stimulating the economy? That's new for pirates . . . and very out of charecter considering the fact that Nayru's pearl is worth more fisically than all the bombs she could possibally sell. What's her motive for this, there's no rhyme or reason to it it's so . . . un-piratelike.
"You know her don't you, I can tell by your blushing."
"Wha- blushing?" Double d rubbed his face, making it only redder, "I really think you've had too much to drink, you're hallucinating!" Double d knew alcohol usually doesn't cause hallucinations, but what did Beedle know?
A lot, apparently, "Admit it, there's something there. She told me specifically to come here and sell you these bombs at half regular price should you or the other Reds come along. What kind of wierd name is the Reds anyway? You all wear Green!"
"That's cause we're called the Eds, not the Reds," Double d set down the twenty rupees and took about five bombs, "Besides, we hardly know each other! We've only spoken to each other a grand total of eight times and each time was benign and buisness orientated. All she knows about me is that I'm a pacifistic rescuer for my best friend's blood relation and otherwise a book worm and a coward. Bookworms and pirates aren't a good mix!"
"Well then what do you know about her?" Beedle took a big sip of a bottle lying on the floor next to him, "You must know something about her from those conversations."
"Only that she's impolite, bossy, especially towards men, impulsive, reasonable, somewhat selfless, mericful towards helpless idiots, stoic, fearless, helpful, clever, direct, terrifying, in a way, burdened with an embarassing middle name, tramatized by a horrible expieriance as a child, mericless to her crew, apparently generous to people in green tunics and pants and- no, wait, she didn't technically tell me about her tramatizing expiriance; I wound-up reading her diary once."
"Aaaaaaand the defence rests!" Beedle wailed with a flurry before passing out.
"But that doesn't mean I feel anything in particular for her or that we have anything good in common!" Double d barked at the snoring shopkeep before leaving the shop.
"Hey, Double d!" Held out a handful of treasures when he arrived, still shaken by the discourse, "We found tons of rupees, and magic bars, and even a buried Jawbreaker . . . but Eddy ate it already."
"That's nice Ed."
"What's with you?" Eddy asked as the walked back down to the dock.
"It's just Beedle. When I got to his shop he was compleately inebriated. I didn't even know videogame charecters could get intoxicated!"
"Well, if they could get away with it in the end credits of Ocarina of Time, they sure can here."
"Then he started raising some prattle about the pirates, mostly Tetra. He was raving, I tell you!"
"Really?" Eddy squinted at his friend, "What did he say exactly that got you so ticked off?"
"It doesn't matter now. Let us meet with Jabun at once." The Eds climbed into their talking boat and sailed to the western side of the island. "Your majesty, how will we know Jabun's whereabouts compared to the rest of the island?"
"It will have a giant whirlpool in front of It." the Eds stared at the boat before screaming, "That's it, I'm off!"
"This is really something you should've told us about before we started sailing."
"Pickles come from China Mr. Boat!" just then the dinghy was pulled roughly to one side, the Ed's held on tight as the vortex pulled them in slowly.
"Ed, do something!"
"KILL IT WITH BOMBS!" Ed pulled a cannon out of the floor (One Double d and Eddy did not know they had.) and started shooting the island. "Ed, I MEANT THE WHIRLPOOL!"
"Oops." But a hole was starting to form in the rock wall. "No Ed, keep shooting the rock!" Ed did as he was told, and shot the stone barrier until even the last rock fell away, moments before the Eds were sucked away. The whirlpool stopped just then, "Why'd the whirlpool stop?"
"Eddy, these days I have ceased asking questions about this weird world, I advise you to do the same." The Eds sailed into the cave, thankful to be alive and together.
"It's tiny in here." Ed laughed stupidly as the water rose before them, a ball of white light in the center of it, "Odd, where's Jabun?" suddenly the water broke, a giant black fish stared down at the boat curiously. Hanging from its hook was a lantern-like device. "" the Fish spoke in the same ancient language as Valoo and the Great Deku tree. While the Eds stared quietly, the king of Red lions spoke in a language both they and the fish could understand, "Well met indeed, Jabun. I am pleased to see that you are safe."
"Yes, there can be no other explanation for the destruction of your island except for Ganon. He has returned."
"Unfortunately, that is not so."
"These boys have no connection to the legendary one, and yet I sense great promise in the courage they posess."
"I Do. It is the only way."
" " the giant fish shook its lantern until a blue orb fell from it to Double d's hands.
"Finally, this quest is coming to a close." He sighed, polishing Nayru's pearl, the one representing wisdom.
"Sarah, big brother is almost there!"
"Let's go boys! Later Jaballo!"
"So that foul wind and rain and endless night were indeed elements of a curse from Gannon. He must intend to cast this land into darkness for all time."
" " the sentient boat thought a moment and then replied, "I think I already have."
" " the boat sailed away, leaving the Great fish to watch people do stupid things on Tru TV.