The Hyrulian Valhalla Saga
By Queenie Z

Let's Talk About Sausages

Paradise wouldn't be paradise without a bountiful supply of delicious meat! Yes, the Heroes all loved their meat - in life, it gave them more than enough protein to build muscle and keep them going, and in death, well, it was just really, really tasty. Barbequed and grilled meat of all kinds - beef, pork, cucco, and everything in between - were a favorite meal of the Links. They loved to chow down on smoked ham and juicy steaks and anything else they could stuff in their mouths, and tonight was no different.

Engie stabbed a fork into a long chain of smoked sausage and held it up, his eyes alight with ravenous hunger. He pulled off one of them and took a big bite. However, as he watched his table mates Green and Mini dig into the same rope of sausage, a funny thought occurred to him. He swallowed his food and proceeded to snicker.

Mini cocked an eyebrow at him just as he was opening his mouth for another bite. "What's so funny?"

"Guys," giggled Engie. He held up the sausage rope again for everyone to say. "Look, sausage links."

"Yeah," said Green, confused, "sausage links. Your point?"

"Sausage Links," repeated Engie. "Get it?"

The other two stared in silence for a moment before they finally got the joke. Green couldn't help but snort a little. "...Okay, that is kinda funny."

"Yeah," said Mini, "and it kinda describes all of us, too. We're all, you know, linked together, like sausages."

"Exactly!" Engie snickered again at his own genius. "Who knew that these sausages could describe us so well?"

Mini took the rope away from Engie and pulled off the second one from the end. "In that case, this one should be my sausage."

"Why that one?" asked Green.

"'Cause it's the second one!" he held up the sausage that was first on the chain. "This one's Sky's sausage, 'cause it's the first."

"It's bigger than yours, though!"

"What do you expect? He's older!"

Engie held up the other end of the rope. "Mine'll be this one," he said, pulling off a sausage and biting into it. "It'sch not vurry big either, bud id shure tastesh good!"

"What about my sausage?" asked Green.

Mini took a sausage from the middle of the rope. Then, with his knife, he cut it into four pieces. "There you go, Green," he said, grinning, "there's your sausage."

"Hey!" cried Green, "You can't just cut up my sausage like that!"

"But now there's enough sausage for all of your gang!"

Engie burst into laughter, which caused the other two to laugh as well. Then, suddenly, as if the same thought hit all three Heroes simultaneously, they went silent.

"...I just realized that this whole sausage thing sounds really, really wrong," muttered Mini.

Engie turned a little pink at the realization. "Y-Yeah..."

"Dammit!" said Green, "And I was the one talking about Sky's big sausage, too...!"