They drowned.

The End.

{Ok, I'm just kidding! this is how it really played out.}

"GOOD LORD, WE'RE GOING TO DROWN!"

"No we're not, sockhead. Didn't you read the last sentence up there?" they floated down a tube of light into the depths of the sea. "Hey guys, we can breathe underwater!" Ed shouted happily, imitating a fish. Eddy and Double d stared amazed and let out their breaths of air, surprisingly not drowning. They kept floating down to where the world seemingly lost its color, to what appeared to be an ornate castle under the sea. "Good lord."

"Who put the castle here?"

"We've got no troubles, life is the bubbles!" Ed sang stupidly as the boat landed in a small pool of water . . . underwater. "I really wish we still had logic." Double d sighed as they stepped out of the boat onto the castle steps. "Where are we anyway?" Eddy asked, looking around to what must be bays and hills beyond the castle.

"Unfortunately, there is no time for me to explain it to you now."

"Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this!"

"Once you are able to strike down Gannon with the item you claim in this castle, all will be made clear to you."

"And away we go" Eddy announced, heading into the castle with his friends close behind.

"This place has got to have rupees!" Eddy announced, stepping into a main chamber, "Whoa!" He barked as a moblin leaned over him, spear ready to strike.

"Stay back contemptible cretem!"

"Umm, it's cretin, Ed. And it would seem it is frozen in time."
"Frozen in time?" Eddy poked it on the snout a few times, to find that is was stone cold. "Guess it's time to have some fun!" he shouted, pulling out several markers and crayons. While the Ed and Eddy Drew Graffiti (Appropriate or otherwise) on the Moblins and Darknuts, Double D wandered the corridors and hallways of this place, staying far away from the moblins in case they came to life soon. He noted the statue of the hero of time, the same three-part triangle he saw almost everywhere recently that made him shiver, a painting of a kingly man with a beard, and one painting that caught his eye.

"Ed, Eddy, You're not going to believe this!" the other Eds reluctantly left their place from drawing faces on the moblins to where Double d was pointing. "What's my brother doin' on that thing?" Eddy asked, pointing at a painting on the wall. "Look, it's Mr. Niko!" Ed pointed to another part of the picture. "And Mako, and Gonzo, and Zuko and Nudge too! But what on earth does it mean, and who's the girl in the center?"

"Probably some modeling dame from LA. But still . . .weird."

"SANTA!" Ed shouted running to the other picture, on the other side of the hallway. He sat in front of it and started asking for random chicken and gravy-based things for Christmas. "Get over it Ed, its July! Besides we've got a job to do!" the Eds wandered to the center of the room, where several blocks sat around the triangle-image on the floor. The pirate charm began to shake on Double d, but instead of hearing Tetra's voice, he heard the king of red lions. "The item you seek is hidden somewhere in this castle. To find it, you must use the entrance to the basement."

"Ok, where's the basement?"

"It has been blocked by a mighty threshold, firmly sealed to prevent evil from gaining access."

"So how do we enter, your majesty?"

"The entrance is the same as the herald near where we arrived at the castle." And with that the stone went silent.

"Well THAT was helpful!" Eddy growled, looking around for a basement door. Double d pondered what the Boat had said, looking at the floor in front of him, and the three Triangle-shaped blocks near them. "Eddy, that's it! We need to form a triangle in the center of the floor using these blocks."

"Why didn't I think of that?"

"Because you can't triforce, Eddy!" Ed Teased, pushing one of the blocks to its place in the center of the floor, Eddy and Double d did the same with two more blocks into their place in the pattern. The blocks sank into the floor with a yellow light, which made the statue of the hero slide away, revealing as hole in the ground to the basement. "What would we do without you, Double d?"

"Scam for eternity?" Ed offered as the three entered the stairwell, but Double d stayed behind just a moment. Why do I see all these triangles these days? And why is there a picture of a weirdly dressed pirate crew on the wall? Why does the hero of time look so familiar, along with the picture of the bearded man on the wall?

"Hey Double d?" Eddy shouted from down stairs, "You coming, or what?"

"Nice basement." Ed announced seeing it for the first time. Though it too was in black and white, it had several giant stone guards in a circle around a platform, and several stain-glass windows along the side, depicting men, women, children, Zoras and Gorons alike. "What a discovery!" Double d wandered into the center of the room, "If only they were in color, the story they would tell!" he took black and white pictographs of the windows until he ran out of film. "Hey Double d, me and Ed have been thinking."

"Yes Eddy?"

"Since I have a bow and quiver, and since he has a hero's sword, we think you should have this 'power to vanquish evil', Just to make it fair."

"Well, if that's how you really feel. Where do you suppose it-"

He backed into something hard and metallic, and when he turned around, a sword was standing in a square stone."

"There, I think." Ed mumbled, before the king of red lions cleared it up further, "this blade is none other than the master sword, the blade of evil's bane." The Eds stared at the legendary sword before them, "It's the only sword that can banish Gannon from the world above." The pirate charm ceased its usefulness as Double d Stepped closer to the pedestal. "Well, if it will save the girls." Double d took the End of the sword and pulled on it with all his might, tugging it loose with a difficult effort, "Wait a go sockhead!" Eddy called as light streamed from the hole where it once sat. The several stone guardians lowered their swords to form a roof over Double d's head. From where the swords crossed a light shone into the room, causing all the color around them to return. "Yay, the rooms are painted!" Ed shouted, rolling on the floor. "Well, that was interesting." Double d whispered, looking around the room and seeing the now colored stain-glass windows and such in color. Double d then looked at his sword; from the large tip to the blue handle it showed excellent craftsmanship. He swung it to the side, stabbed the air before him and chopped the ground. "Yes, this shall do just fine. I couldn't think of a better weapon to fight Gannon with." He announced, raising the sword to the air. Thusly-Double d became the sole owner of the master sword.

"Wish I could say they died with dignity!" Eddy said, pulling an arrow out of the butt of a moblin who had a seagull scrawled across its face by Ed. They'd spent all night killing monsters in this castle and were still standing on pure excitement "What do we do now, what's next?"

"Well Eddy, now I believe it's time to save Sarah."

"Goin' to save my sister, Goin' to save my sister!" Ed chanted as the three stepped outside. Double d sighed happily, as they started to sail away. "What's with you?" Eddy asked as they almost entered the light. "Well, it's just this place reminds me of an age gone by, a happier time when the people were connected. We need places like this on our world."

"We also need Seagulls that make tasty Eggs as pets that make funny noises!" Ed laughed, flapping his elbows like a chicken "Buck-buck-BAGAW!"

"We need YOU two to stop acting crazy! It's time to give Gannon what-for!"

"Right, onward to The Forsaken Fortress!"

By the time the Eds made it to the fortress, it was nightfall yet again, but they slept most of the way. This time the Eds snuck no more! Ed open-fired on the door with the cannon with Devil-may-cry courage. "Lucy, I'm home!" Eddy shouted tauntingly to Gannon as the Eds climbed back onto his territory. "Gannon has likely been made aware of our little incursion already."

"Probably, but like it matters anymore." Double d said, shining the Master sword one more time after drawing it. "That sword shall shine in the darkness, casting back evil. With it in your hands, none can stop you from rescuing your family members."

"CARPE DIEM!" Ed shouted, pulling out the hero's sword, with a goofy smile.

"Shouldn't we be avoiding the searchlights?"

"Ta heck with the searchlights! Eddy shouted, running across the square, "I'm gonna fry that bird if it's the last thing I-"

"Muh-huh-huh-huh-huh" an evil laugh stopped the Eds before a door that led to the upper levels of the fortress. Behind them a man made of shadow materialized, holding a giant sword. "GANNON!" the three Eds shouted at once. He laughed again evilly before building a ball of light. "Double d, do something!" Eddy begged behind his friend.

"Use the force, Padawan!" Ed shouted, swinging his own sword randomly. Double d took out the Master sword and hit the electric ball, sending it flying back to shadow-Gannon. He hit it back to Double d, and such a volley continued until Gannon missed and it hit him, when Double d rushed in and hit the foul spirit with the sword. Afterwards he disappeared, and four more materialized around the Eds, when they dodged them one became real and Double d hit him again. This cycle continued until the Ghost of Evil disappeared, but not without a final laugh of malice.

"Way to go, Double d!" Ed rushed to his friend when the fight was over, giving him a hug, thankfully after his sword was put back in its sheath. Than Ed noticed a chest near the center of the platform and opened it, "Look Eddy, a limited-time-only-zombie-killer-crusher-mallet! Like in the movie limited time only Zombie killer crusher mallet!" Ed said, hitting the ground with it with tremendous force. "Ed, stop pulverizing the-" Eddy shouted as Ed pulled up the mallet, revealing a crushed miniblin. Many now were surrounding them. While Double d sliced them and Eddy shot them with his bow and arrows, Ed cleared the path ahead with his skull-shaped mallet. In no time at all they were back in the room with Sarah and Ayrll.

"Here it is, the moment of truth." Double d Said, trying to open the big door. "SARAH!" Ed slammed the door open, sending Double d flying into the room. He looked around and listened, waiting for the Helmroc to come before assuming it was gone and moving towards the Cage. "Umm, Sarah, Aryll?" He called as Ed and Eddy came forward as well. "Sarah!" Ed shouted happily as his sister stood up within the wooden box, "Ed? You came back?"

"Of course he did, Sarah. Ed cares about you more than you could ever know." Double d said, trying to open the door. While staring into the cage, he saw the same Thirty-year old woman as before, sitting by the bars of the cage, but looking at them with curiosity. Sadly, Double d could not open the door this way. "The cell won't open that Easily!" a cheerful voice called behind the Eds. Behind them stood Tetra and her pirates, looking proud and strong as ever.

"There you go, acting before you think, as usual." She waved a hand forward and both Gonzo and Senza smashed open the door easily. "Geez, who asked you to come?" Eddy griped as the men pulled out young girls from the cage. "I swear! Do you even realize we had to draw that monster bird off you? It was about to come flying in here after you again."

"Umm . . .Thank-you-Tet-ra?" Double d managed, wondering why she would do something so dangerous for them.

"Yeah, yeah, I can walk!" Sarah shouted behind them, making the Eds turn. What Tetra saw on the Back of Double d almost stopped her heart in her chest. She recognized that sword as the Master sword, the blade of Evil's bane. "Oh you two always are arguing!" Double d turned around to the confused girl's gaze, "What?"

"That sword! Where'd you get that?!"

"Oh this?" Double d asked, pulling out the Master sword, "It's kind of a long story."

"Are you . . . is it even possible?" She shrugged her shoulders with a smirk, "How could it be . . ."

Meanwhile, when Sarah made her way out, "Sarah!" Ed shouted, hugging his sister tightly, "Uh yeah, thanks Ed. I better be getting home now." Eddy was shell shocked, "What? No reward, no accolades? Just a thank you and leave?"

"Pipe down frog face!" Sarah shouted back at him.

"After all we've done this is how WE'RE treated?"

"Oh you two always are arguing!" Double d sighed, turning around.

"Whatever, I don't need this!" Eddy stormed over to the other side of the cage.

"Anyways, thanks Ed. That was crazy and stupid of you, but I'm glad you did it!" Sarah smiled as she followed Senza to the pirate ship.

"I'd move heaven and Hell to save you, baby sister!" Ed called after her.

"Hm, but never mind about that. For now we'll just take these girls back to their fathers."

"Wait!" Double d put his sword back and cleared his throat, "There's someone I need to meet first." Double d entered the Cage and knelt down before the thirty-year old. "Are you by chance Aryll?" he said softly to her. Her eyes filled with life, and a smile she had been hiding for years emerged again from deep inside her. "Yes, my name is Aryll. Who are you?"

"My name is Eddward Marian Link, but my friends all call me Double D. And I do believe you are my long-lost aunt." The woman's smile grew, and she threw her arms around her nephew. "Oh Double D! My brother promised when he finally made it here fifteen years ago that he'd free me somehow, but how could I imagine it would be his son who would do this?"

"I know. It's wonderful."

"I'm so sorry to interrupt such a heartwarming reunion," Tetra entered the cage indifferently and pointed to the hole in the roof out into the sky, "but isn't there something that you need to take care of?"

"Oh right. Aunt Aryll, we really must catch up again sometime, but now I have a giant bird to kill."

"A GIANT BIRD TO KILL?" Aryll' s eyes widened, "Isn't that a little too dangerous or a boy your age?"

"Maybe, but there are three boys my age here!" Double d said next to Eddy and Ed.

"Besides, if you're worried about getting home, don't be! I promise I'll deliver you and Sarah back safely to your little island. Normally I'd expect a huge reward for something like this, but this time it's my treat!" She smiled at the Eds warmly, a real first.

"Once again, thank you Tetra."

"You're really thankful about the little things, aren't you Double d?"

"Mrs. Tetra we need to hurry! That bird will be here any second!" Gonzo advised as he entered the room.

"Gonzo! Excellent, you're just in time! Take this one for me." She pointed at Aryll.

"Huh?! But she's . . ."

"She's fine, just do as you're told!" She ordered. Gonzo lifted the woman and carried her to the boat, "Double d!" she shouted one more time as Double d waved feebly. It's for the best. He thought as he saw Gonzo and his Aunt disappear beyond the Door. Tetra followed, but stopped at the door. She winked at Double d and said, "Eds, we'll be back, I swear it!"

"Bye Dazel!" Eddy called as the door just barely shut.

"Well someone's mister popular!" Eddy laughed as the door shut behind them. "Eddy, the bird is coming. We'll discuss this later." As the three ran for the ramp to the upper levels Eddy kept talking, "Aww admit it. That sword's a babe magnet for you!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about Eddy-"

"Guys, the floor is leaking." Ed pointed to a grate in the floor that spewed water onto the floor, covering it quickly. Just then the Helmroc king flew in, hovering over the Eds with a hungry glaze over its eyes.

"RUN AWAY!" the Eds climbed the ramp, ignoring both jars of money and monsters to get to a place where they'd have an advantage over the Bird. Finally they reached the top, and the Evil bird blocked their path. "No longer shall I run!" Ed shouted, taking out his skull hammer and smashing the bird's helmet. It screeched and fell into the water below while the Eds scurried out of the hole. "Why Ed, that was genius!" Double d smiled at his tall friend. "Oh come on Double d, everyone know that the bird is the word!"

"Whatever, let's go smash Gannon's face in for putting us through this!" but when they looked around themselves they found the walls and exits were blocked by spikes and that the floor was closing. "Well this stinks!" Eddy shouted, walking towards the northern spikes, "Ed, try and bust these open with your hammer!"

"You got it Eddy," Ed hammered away at the bars while Eddy and Double d watched. But before Ed did much Damage, the ground all around them began to shake, and the Eds nearly fell into what was left of the hole. The Helmroc king spiraled out of the hole and with a loud caw began to flap angrily over the Eds, feathers flying everywhere.

"Now what?" Eddy asked as the bird landed next to them. "SCATTER!" Double d shouted as he and Eddy dove away from the bird, but Ed stood there, "Hi birdie!" he smiled and stepped back a ways before the Helmroc king could peck him down into the stone. Ed took out his hammer and hit him on the helmet again, "DIE!" The bird cawed loudly and started flying again. Often the bird would after that blew a gust of wind at the Eds, knocking them into the spikes painfully. Other times it would dive-bomb them and cut through them with its talons. But whenever it landed and got its beak caught in the stone Ed would hit it with the hammer until its stone mask broke away, revealing the bird's purple face, orange crown feathers, and Red eyes. After that Double d would take Eds place, slashing the Bird's face every time the bird's beak got stuck. Meanwhile, Eddy circled around the parapet, shooting the Bokoblins running the watchtowers, causing the lights to stand still over the platform. "TAKE THIS!" Double d shouting, smacking the bird's face one more time before it cawed, thrashing wildly, and tried to fly into the air. It couldn't fly very high and got stuck in the light of the watchtowers Eddy modified. It cawed painfully and exploded in the lights, a new heart container was all that was left (Except for the feathers now scattering in the wind.)

"Well I suppose that's that." Double d announced, turning to the wrecked ship that housed the king of evil, the path now opened by the fallen spikes.

"Now to face the big guy himself!"

"And it works for him!"

SMASH! Ed's hammer crashed through the door, getting stuck on it, while the other part of the door fell over, revealing that Eddy had shot it with several arrows. "Can't you just open the door like normal human beings?" Double d asked, striding in with his sword unsheathed. "What? And ask Gannon for tea and biscuits?" Eddy laughed at this before the three stood deadly still. Standing there before them was the same man robed in darkness they saw before meeting the king of red lions, with his back turned to them. "It's been a while, boy." He said in a deep, scratchy voice, again the Eds got annoyed.

"THERE ARE THREE OF US, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Double d shouted, holding up his sword.

"Of course there are three of you, I was speaking to the one that really mattered. You 'three' have done well to sneak into my fortress and wriggle your way all the way up here."

"Yeah, and now we'll do even better by kicking your butt!" Eddy gloated, pulling out an arrow.

"I suppose the least I can do is commend you for your reckless courage."

"Say your toasts Gannon!" Ed shouted, raising his hammer.

"My name is Gannondorf." He announced proudly, turning around to face them. He had a red beard that encircled his head and an orange jewel on top of it. His eyes glowed with a red malice, "And I am the Master of the forsaken fortress!" Double d winced with the hatred in his eyes, but held up his sword, ready to strike. "By the way boy," he said, addressing Double d, "When you drew that sword of yours out of its pedestal, did you by chance notice how all the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again?"

"Well, yes, but I don't see why-"

"Do you understand precisely what that means? I highly doubt you do."

"Don't talk bad about Double d you jerk!" Eddy shouted, firing the arrow at his feet, "Double d's easily the smartest kid on the sea so-"

"HA! THE SMARTEST, YOU SAY? If he was really the smartest he be doing this alone, without you two idiots to slow him down!" he smiled again, "Foolish child, while that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time it has long played another role."

"Royal centerpiece?" Ed offered while Gannon continued,

"You see, it is also a sort of key . . . a most wretched little key that has kept the seal on me and my magic intact!"

"Oops." Eddy squeaked out, as Gannon's grin got bigger, "By withdrawing that blade, you have broken that seal."

"What have I done?" Double d whispered, staring at his sword. But then he remembered all the trouble he went through to get it, and he charged at Gannon screaming. There was a loud clang, and the other Eds covered their eyes.

Ed and Eddy peeked out from behind their fingers a few moments later. Double d was kneeling on the Ground, the Master sword stuck in the ground near Gannon's feet. Gannon was smiling triumphantly. "W-why?" Double d asked, looking up at Gannon. Gannon drew back one hand and smacked him across the floor. "DOUBLE D!" the other two Eds shouted, readying their Weapons, while Gannon pulled out his own large sword, "You cannot defeat me with a blade that does not sparkle with the power to repel evil. What you hold is useless." Double d gulped and closed his eyes, waiting for his fate, "You two, the worthless ones, Go back to the world below, and tell that to the pathetic fools who made this blade." The other two Eds backed away, knowing they were in too deep, "its power is gone, and its Edges are dull." Gannon raised his sword, ready to slice Double d in half, when a slight thump behind him made everyone look, even Double d.

Kneeling by an open window, Tetra smirked at the king of evil. "TETRA RUN!" Double d advised before she dashed at the fiend, landing one kick before being brushed off easily by Gannon. She landed next to Double d and shouted frantically, "Double d, get up!" Before Gannon caught her by the neck. "TETRA!" the three Eds shouted, Eddy even forgot his 'Dazel' joke. "Stop! Let . . . Let me go!" She choked out while Gannon smirked with sadistic glee, "You pathetic little sea rat!" as he reached out with his other hand to silence her forever, he noticed a piece of Gold, almost in the shape of a triangle, hanging from her neck. He also noticed that something on his hand, shaped like the same triangle-shape as in the castle, began to glow. This stopped him for a moment, "My triforce of power is resonating!"

"YOUR WHAT?" Double d asked, stumbling onto his feet before falling over again. "Ha! At long last I have found you . . . Princess Zelda!"

"PRINCESS?" at any other time Eddy would laugh at this, but he was too scared to utter more than this. "Wh-what?! What are you talking about? I don't know any Zelda . . ." Tetra thrashed some more, trying to get out of the Dark lord's grip. "Feigning ignorance will gain you nothing! Tell me, if you are not Zelda, then why do you have this fragment of the triforce."

"Pardon me, but I have no idea what's going on here." Double d tried to use his sword to stand but couldn't, "Silence boy!" Gannon shouted, shaking the room. But after his shout stopped, the room still shook. "It is an Earthquake!" Ed shouted, running for the doorframe, before he disappeared. "Ed?" Double d asked Before Tetra disappeared too. "Wait a sec, what's goin-" Eddy started before disappearing too, leaving Double d and Gannon. "Umm, yes! Fancy weather we're having." Double d started before being swept away by Prince Komali. Quill held Tetra and two other Ritos had the Eds. The four flew away from the cursed fortress Before Valoo Set fire to the Dark lord's Quarters, leaving only the stone intact.