Chapter 13: Onward to More Adventure
After being teleported out of Dragon Roost Cavern, Link and company found themselves outside the entrance to the cavern where they saw the Rito chieftain along with Quill, Komali, Medli, and Makoto waving at them relieved to see the six heroes come out of the cavern alive.
"My friends, I must thank you for calming Valoo's rage!" called out the chieftain.
"Don't mention it, we're just glad we could help you with your plight," replied Link.
"What's also good is that those monsters finally stopped coming out of the cavern and attacking the people," added Komali.
"That's great news, I guess you guys can finally rest easy now," stated Zelda.
"And I can finally get off this place, although I am grateful for all you've done for me here," chimed in Makoto.
Valoo let out a loud roar and when everyone looked at the giant red scaled dragon, they could swear he was smiling.
"Valoo gives you his thanks for destroying the monsters in the cavern, he wishes you all well on your journey," piped up Medli.
"We shall be sure to exercise caution wherever we may go," said Ryu.
"The question is how we are going to get off the island now?" asked Makoto.
At that moment, a merchant ship sailed by and a lanky man with a brown bowl cut and blue shorts stepped out to catch some air.
"Oh, hey do any of you need some of my wares while I am here? I am heading off soon so make your purchases quick," said the merchant.
"That would be nice but can we also ask a favor of you sir?" replied Alex.
"Just call me Beedle. And please state your request as well," answered Beedle.
"Would we be able to ride with you to your next destination, we'll even fight off any sea creatures that may try attack you," offered Ken.
"We will buy stuff from you, don't worry about that," added Chun-Li.
"Well sure, I have no problem with that! Those seas can be tough after a while," exclaimed Beedle.
"Then what are we waiting for, let's move on quickly," suggested Zelda.
"Link, may you and your friends be safe on your journey, if you ever need us, we'll be glad to help," called out Quill.
"We appreciate that, you guys take care now," replied Link.
As the merchant sailed away from Dragon Roost Island, the entire Rito tribe came out to bid farewell to Link and company. Valoo let out another loud roar as his means of saying goodbye.
"So where are we off to now?" inquired Alex.
"Whatever land I may find next, I'm sure that will be fine with you," answered Beedle.
"That works for us," piped up Chun-Li.
"Don't forget to buy some stuff before you go though," chimed in Beedle.
"Speaking of which, what forms of currency will you accept?" asked Ken.
"All forms, I figure wherever I go in this fused world, I should be able to spend whatever money I get somewhere," answered Beedle.
"That's good to hear," stated Link.
"Hey there's something coming out of the water!" called out Ryu.
The others ran out to see what it was. A blue octopus creature emerged from the water and began spitting rocks at the Beedle's boat.
"It's an Octorok, these things are a really annoying," grumbled Link as he took out his bow and fired an arrow at the Octorok promptly dispatching of it.
"Octopi that spit rocks, how many crazy creatures did your world have?" asked Makoto.
"I've actually lost count, although I will admit deep fried Octorok does taste good," answered Link.
As Link finished his statement, two more Octorok's popped up from beneath the watery depths and wasted no time in hawking forth their rocks from their mouths.
"Hadoken!" shouted Ryu and Ken in unison firing their blue colored energy waves at the octopi sending them up in smoke.
"They may be annoying, but they go down easy," remarked Ken.
"That's for damn sure," added Alex.
"Hey, I'm losing control of the ship!" hollered Beedle from inside.
"Yeah, what's going on now?" inquired Chun-Li.
Just then a whirlpool began to form in their vicinity and giant purple Octorok with multiple eyes emerged from the depths of the sea intent on sucking the ship into its vortex.
"It's a Big Octo!" hollered Zelda.
"Just aim for the eyes!" yelled Link.
"It's gonna be tough to do so while we're being sucked towards it by this whirlpool," commented Alex as he tried to strike one of the eyes with the grappling hook.
"I am not looking forward to being lunch for some giant sea creature," groaned Chun-Li as she barely hitting an eye with her Kikoken.
"Here you guys use this!" hollered Beedle handing them a boomerang with wing shaped tips.
"Hey, thanks, this should be useful!" said Link as he aimed the boomerang at the Big Octo hitting all five of its eyes as it returned to Link's hand. Link waited until the boat spun back towards the face of the Big Octo and threw the boomerang yet again hitting all of its eyes once more.
"Let's keep up this momentum!" chimed in Makoto.
"You got it!' replied Link as he threw the boomerang once again when the timing was right and immediately, the Big Octo writhed in pain for a bit, let out a gurgling sound and disappeared in a large puff of smoke.
"Whew, I'm glad that boomerang I found on my travels helped out," gasped Beedle.
"This saved our skins, thanks man," commented Ken.
"From what I hear, it's called the Gale Boomerang; it also has the ability to conjure up a mini whirlwind for bringing faraway items close to you. You can have it, I'm sure it'll help you all out on your journey," said Beedle.
"We thank you for your generosity," said Ryu.
After a little bit longer of sailing, the merchant ship soon came across land making the others happy to finally see some dry land to set foot on.
"This will do, I'm sure we'll find our way from here," stated Zelda.
"But let's honor our promise to this merchant and purchase some of his wares," added Ryu.
Link and the others nodded in agreement and purchased some bombs and arrows from Beedle in addition to some red potion from him to refill one of their empty bottles.
"Thanks for the ride friend," remarked Alex.
"No problem at all, be safe, I'll probably see you around somewhere," replied Beedle.
The six heroes along with Makoto waved goodbye to Beedle as he sailed off into the ocean once again looking for another spot to peddle his merchandise. Link and company then started their trek towards the nearest civilization.
"Thankfully I see no monsters in sight, we could all use a break from them," commented Chun-Li.
"True, but who knows what we'll find at the next town," added Ken.
"I'm hoping that it's a lead to where we'll find the next Secret Text," chimed in Link.
"I think we spoke too soon on the monster attacks though," piped up Makoto as she pointed towards a group of Dynalfos charging at Link's crew.
"More of these lousy lizards, just lovely," groaned Alex.
As the Dynalfos continued to charge, Link threw a Deku Nut forward stunning them momentarily and his crew proceeded to charge towards the lizard monsters while the lie stunned, Alex Power Bombed one into oblivion as Zelda set one ablaze with Din's Fire. Makoto delivered a quick martial arts combo into her Hayate rush punch sending another Dynalfos up in smoke and Chun-Li cleared out a good chunk with her Spinning Bird Kick. Ryu and Ken defeated some with their Shoryukens as Link took down the rest with a Spin Attack.
"That wasn't so bad," remarked Ryu.
Unbeknownst to them, another group of Dynalfos tried to sneak up on Link's group but before they could they could someone yell "Watch out behind you!"
Link and the others whirled around to see two men beat down the group of Dynalfos. One was a slim light skinned man with short blonde hair, a blonde mustache and he was wearing a white shirt with a red ascot underneath in addition to black pants and black loafers. He was carrying two Escrima sticks with him and drove them into the face of a lunging Dynalfos. The other was a darker skinned more muscular man with short black hair and a curly black mustache. He was wearing a white shirt with frills in addition to green suit pants and black dress shoes. His hands were also covered by a pair of blue boxing gloves and he knocked another Dynalfos into submission with a series of rapid fire punches he called the Machine Gun Blow.
"Hey, it's Dudley and Eagle!" exclaimed Ken.
"We must be near London then," said Chun-Li.
"No time for pondering that, let's help these two fine fellows out," ordered Zelda.
Without any more hesitance, Link and company ran towards the second legion of Dynalfos and assisted Eagle and Dudley in dispatching of the lizard legion.
"Well, if it isn't our old pals Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Alex, and Makoto. It's good to see you all again," chimed in Dudley.
"Agreed, thanks for looking out for us back there," replied Alex.
"Are these other two with you from that other world?" asked Eagle.
"Yes, I am Link, and this is Zelda, it's a pleasure to meet the both of you, "answered Link shaking both Eagle and Dudley's hands.
"So what brings you all out this way?" inquired Dudley.
"Well, me and Link recruited Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Alex to help us out in a journey to save this fused world from a great evil, we just came from another island aboard a merchant ship and are trying to find clues to where we need to go next," answered Zelda.
"They found me on that island we just came from and I decided to tag along until we reached the next civilization so I could find a way back to Kyoto," added Makoto.
"That's quite a story you tell, well we shouldn't be too far away from London," said Eagle.
"We can give you a lift into town if you want," added Dudley.
"That would be much appreciated," replied Ryu.
Dudley and Eagle escorted Link and company to their vehicles and when everyone was inside, they all drove towards civilization.
"Do you guys know of anything strange going on in your city since the worlds fused?" asked Link.
"Other than an abundance of friendly fish folk living near our region, no not really," answered Dudley.
"Hmm, so the Zora tribe has taken residence near you hometown, that's interesting," mused Link.
"You mean those fish people we ran across in San Francisco?" asked Alex.
"Yeah, the ones you thought were wearing makeup," answered Zelda.
"Maybe they would know something about where we should head to next," said Chun-Li.
"For all you know, you could be right," replied Eagle.
Within a few minutes, the group arrived in London and found that surprisingly, there were no major oddities occurring within the city.
"Hmm, everything seems normal here. I wonder where these Zoras stay at," remarked Ken.
"They usually are seen around the Thames River and other large bodies of water, I take it that you want to go and see them," responded Dudley.
"Yes, if you don't mind," answered Ryu.
"Not at all good fellows, we'll take you there," replied Eagle.
"Hold up, can I get off here, I think I should find a way to hop a plane back to Japan," said Makoto.
"Of course you may," answered Dudley.
"Hey, thanks for helping us out on the way here though," chimed in Alex.
"No sweat and thanks for taking me with you off of Dragon Roost. I wish you guys well on your journey," responded Makoto.
"We'll see you around hopefully," said Link.
As Makoto separated from the group, she waved goodbye to all of them as they drove off towards the nearest large body of water to find some Zoras thinking that they would possibly have some clues as to where the third Secret Text would lie.
"It's time to talk to some fishes," stated Ken.
"Hopefully we won't be sleeping with them though," replied Chun-Li as the heroes continued their ride through the streets of London.
Author's Note: Another chapter is in the can. Well I must say that Super Street Fighter IV is awesome, that's why I had to have Dudley make an appearance here. Anyways next chapter, our heroes meet up with the Zora tribe so I'm off to go plan that out so until then, please read and review.