The Hyrulian Valhalla Saga
By Queenie Z

Everyone In The Audience Gets A Kinstone!

"Hey, Mini, there's something that's been bugging me."

Mini sucked the last of his lemonade through a straw and looked at Green inquisitively. "Huh? What?"

Green stood from his seat on Mini's couch and glanced over to the armoire that stood across the room from him. "What's in that wardrobe anyway? Unless you keep your clothes in your living room for some strange reason, I can't think of what could possibly be inside."

With a quick look at said wardrobe, Mini shrugged. "You can open it if you want to find out."

Taking his flippancy as a challenge, Green walked over and opened the armoire's doors. He yelped and stepped out of the way as a small avalanche of broken green, blue, and red-colored discs fell out onto the floor. He took a good look at them, picked up a blue piece, and cocked an eyebrow.

"Kinstones?" he asked, turning the piece over in his hand, "But... why?"

"They came with me when I died for some reason."

"Yeah, but how'd you get so many?"

"Your guess is as good as mine." Mini sat his empty glass down and turned in his seat so that his arms were resting on the back of the couch. "Even after I'd fused with everybody, I still kept finding them all over the place!"

"Wait," said Green in disbelief, "you're saying that you fused with everyone in Hyrule?"

Mini nodded.

"And you still found all these!?"

The elder Link laughed a little. "And that's why I had to put them somewhere where they wouldn't get in the way," he said.

Green thought for a moment. "But, then, since you have so many, you could just fuse the pieces you have together, right?"

"Try it yourself," Mini said, amused, "and you'll see why I can't."

Frowning, the younger Hero sifted through the pile of kinstones for a piece that might fit the one he held. He then noticed that it wouldn't work, since they were both left halves. He found another potential fit - another left half. He repeated this a few more times before grimacing at the pieces and tossing them back in the pile.

"You've gotta be kidding me," he said, "they're all left halves...!"

"I know, right?" laughed Mini, "It's the craziest thing!"

Green sighed and began stuffing all of the useless pieces back into the wardrobe. "Man, either the Minish were trying way too hard to help you out, or they were playing some cruel joke on you, Mini."

"Nah, they wouldn't do that!"

"You never know!" Green put the last of the pieces inside and struggled to shut and lock the doors. "They're crafty little things; you never know what they're capable of doing!"

At that, for a short moment, Mini entertained the thought that all of his extra kinstones may truly have been the work of some mischievous Minish. He decided that he'd have to ask Ezlo when he next visited.