Link pulled himself out of the water, shaking his hair dry and scooping a sodden green hat out of the lake behind him.
"So where shall we start?" Harry asked, his face still red from laughing, and looking around at the waterfalls.
"I guess we should ask King Zora first." Link said, scratching his head.
Ruto very gladly led them to her father, King Zora, who was perched on a massive throne in a chamber at the top of the highest and most impressive waterfall.
The only resemblance between him and the rest of his tribe was that they were all blue-skinned. He was a big man, who looked like a puffer fish with legs and arms with a crown teetering precariously on his head.
"Ah, Link!" He boomed, smiling broadly, "Long time no see!"
The green hero nodded, laughing nervously.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" The King said jovially.
"Well, we heard that one of your people have a wand in their possession..." Link waited with bated breath.
"Ah, yes!" The Zora said and a smile crept up Link's face, "However, We traded it with the Gorons for some of their bomb flowers."
Link's face fell and he sighed, "But bomb flowers don't work underwater. Why would you need them?"
"They are a good decoration, as long as the youths don't touch them."
"You have got to be kidding me." He breathed to himself. "Right... Does Darunia have it, then?"
"I believe so, yes." But as Link and the others turned to leave, he said, "They have blocked off the way to their settlement with lava."
"What?" Link said hotly, losing his temper, "Who-Who in their right minds would do THAT?"
"We may have something which can freeze the lava flow, however." The King chuckled.
"Where?"
"At the bottom of Lord Jabu Jabu's lake."
"Can do..." Link said, pulling a blue tunic from his adventure pouch and smirking.
Naia's eyes grew to the size of walnuts (which is quite large for a fairy) at the sight of the king. And at his request. Naia lived in a spring , so she was used to water. She flew over to Link looking worried. "How can we possibly swim to the bottom of the lake..." Her eyes darted to the blue suit. "And what is THAT?!"
Hermione was fussing aswell. "Bubble head charm?" She asked quickly. "What if the enchantment wears off... We don't have any gillyweed and Professor McGonagall hasn't even MENTIONED human transfiguration yet..."
Soon, they had entered through the path behind the throne to Lord Jabu Jabu's lake. Link was now in the water tunic, which was blue.
"I'll go down, get it, and come back up." He saluted to the others, who made themselves comfy on the rocks beside the water.
He dived neatly into the lake, swimming as past as he could down to the bottom, where he immediately spotted a patch of light. He discovered that the closer he got to it, the colder he got.
After a while, he had grown close enough to see what it was. It was an entrance to an underwater cavern, which was somehow well lit.
He swam through the gap, emerging into a large, rectangular and deep chamber.
There was a pedestal in the middle, on which a long blue rod sat.
Link kicked out with his feet, triumph shining in his eyes, and reached out for the rod.
There was a loud rumble. The room shook.
"Uh oh." Link thought to himself, and sure enough, as he had foolishly brushed aside before, a shadow loomed above him. He scrunched up his eyes, betting with himself on what it would be. He spun around, bubbles flying from his mouth in shock.
A massive squid, almost as big as the room, flung a deadly big tentacle around, missing Link by inches as he ducked and swam away. He drew the Master Sword and had to recoil as another tentacle came down at breakneck speed and ripped through the water in front of him. At the same time, he lashed out with the sword and cut off the tentacle.
The monster was knocked out for a bit, so Link swam towards it's weak spot; the big glowing eye and hit it a few times.
He repeated the process when it awoke twice.
Finally, after getting battered a few times, the monster fell to the depths of the room, making sand rise from the bank and fading into smoke.
Link nodded to himself, smirking in success and whipped back around. He yelled in pain as he felt his arm twinge badly. His hand flew to clutch his shoulder. It was where the squid had hit him with a tentacle. He shook it off, swimming with one arm to the rod.
Picking it up, Link shot upwards, recoiling every now and then as his arm twinged, finally coming to the surface of the water. "Got it!" He bellowed.
Harry ran to the edge of the lake, smiling, "What is it?"
"It's an ice rod!" Link grinned, swimming to land, drawing himself up, still clutching his arm. He had a limp on, and he was wheezing; one of the blows had winded him.
"What happened?" Ron said, obviously noticing this.
"Gigantic... Squid..." He puffed, pushing a stitch on his side. "Ow... Those tentacles hurt..."
Harry helped him over to a rock, where he sat down, placing the sword and rod down beside him.
"Thanks, mate." Link nodded in thanks, looking at the ice rod. At least they could now get to the peak of Death Mountain. "They need to get pest control in here... I can't keep on decontaminating their lake for them." He chuckled.