Chapter 2: The Next Day

Hey people this is Spirit Tracks Player with another chapter. Some of you might be surprised with the sub plot to this story and you have no idea how much I want people to read this. Well here it is!

Niko woke up to another day at the beautiful great seas. It was a magical feeling to get out of his cabin and fight against rival pirates. He quickly brushed his furry brown hair, putted on his precious blue cap, happily brushed his teeth till they shined like the bright moon and proceeded to head out of the cabin. Typically, Niko spotted his fellow swabbie Link sleeping on the deck.

"Morning, Swabbie!" Niko sang with a cheerful voice. Wearily, Link barely managed to raise his tired head.

"Good morning Niko." Link whispered politely but tiredly.

"Link!" Their tanned, blonde captain spotted the green garbed grump snoring on her ship.

Does this idiot ever stop sleeping?! She leaped down towards him and stared him down with her trademark, intimidating look. However, Link was never scared of that angry look Tetra showed most of the time. "Good morning Tet..." Link attempted to greet her but immediately found himself falling back to sleep. Niko tried his best not to laugh or even smile at the humorous scene of Tetra fuming at Link. The irritated captain poked the sleeping morons face, temporarily waking him.

"You're supposed to be mopping the deck you lazy dog!" Tetra roared.

"Ok, let me just get up and..." Link began snoring again. Niko was about to burst out with laughter on the spot, when he remembered what might happen to him if Tetra caught him laughing at her and Link's arguments.

"Get up, Hero!" Tetra yelled as she got a bucket and poured freazing water it on the poor heroes head. Link immediately replaced the sleep in his eyes with shock.

"Tetra!"

"Go and mop the deck!"

"Um, why couldn't Mako or Niko do it?" Moaned Link. Niko slowly backed away from the fight as the other pirates came to watch the scene.

"Questioning my lead as captain aye?"

"No I..."

"Well come on kid, draw your sword swabbie." Tetra mocked as she drew her knife.

"Ug, another sword fight." Link muttered to himself in irritation and he quickly drew his sword as they began fighting yet again. Niko was about to enjoy the morning entertainment when suddenly, he wasn't on Tetra's ship anymore, but was marooned in a small empty laundry basket.

"Hey! What's going on?!" Cried Niko in confusion and fear.

How on the great seas did he get here?

Where was he?

What happened to the crew?!

Then a enormous humongous giant clone of Gonzo made his way towards the small basket. "Gonzo! What is going on here? Why are you so huge?!" exclaimed Niko. The giant that appeared to be a huge version of Gonzo picked up a big box from behind.

"Have. my. pants!" Boomed Gonzo in an extremely low pitch voice.

"What?! No Gonzo! NOOOOO!" screamed Niko. He definitely did not want any part of Gonzo's dirty underpants. Especially the putrid stench.

"Take. this!" Giant Gonzo hollered as he tilted the box, pouring massive underwear onto Niko, delivering the dreaded payload of huge disgusting piles of yucky underpants, filled with Gonzo's deadly, disgusting, DNA. Niko was in shock as the painfully nauseating underwear began piling on top of him.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Niko cried with panic and disgust.

"AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG!" Shouted Niko causing birds to fly away at the petrifying cry. Niko woke up from which at first appeared to be a charming dream about one of his favourite memories of the great seas into a big, utter disastrous nightmare. This sudden hysterical yell startled little Link who began crying and crying because of the loud petrifying sound Niko produced. "Oh no!" Niko whispered to himself regretfully. Quickly, Niko limped over to Link and held him close as the startled baby continued to weep. "I'm so sorry Linky, I'm sorry!" Niko then felt Link's tummy rumble against this. So Niko quickly and sharply guessed that his sobbing meant that the baby was hungry. Niko then sung a reassuring song with his crooked and scruffed up voice. "Dear Dear Linky don't you weep. Niko's gonna get you grub to eat". Niko then gave his tearful child a warm, soft, furry teddy bear from one of the dirty piles of junk on the floor. With that done, Niko then cooked up some food for Link to snack on. But still, Link's belly was still not satisfied after 5 big portion filled plates of mashed potatoes and baked beans. "How could you still be this hungry?!" moaned the old man exhausted from feeding the munching infant.

Niko decided to go find the carrot garden he grew a few weeks back. Then a sudden thought hit him, what if a greedy bunny stole his carrots? The thought made him panic, he should of grown it near his house, but for some weird reason he put it in the middle of nowhere! "Can't talk gotta scram! Niko exited the cottage carrying a heavy weight outside the cottage only to throw out his back. "Ouch my dear old spleen!" Immediately and painfully, Niko dropped the huge metal weight outside the house, managed to fix his back problem and throw himself back in shape. Carefully and slowly, Niko closed the efficiently fixed door (fixed by Niko) and placed the heavy weight against it so no one could get in to harm Link.

Crash

Boom

POW

"What, what is that?!" yelled the yet again, panicking old man as the sudden noises caused the ground to shake like an earthquake.

Everyone in Papuchia Village and the Ocean Realm was extremely startled by the sudden ear torture that echoed throughout the whole realm. The noise also effectively affected the south west of Hyrule, the forest realm and especially castle town. Everybody was shouting and screaming in sheer horror as they raced around castle town. Even the green garbed powerful (but stupid) guards were put off focus by the powerful, artificial thunder which caused the world around them to shake.

"Captain Alfonzo! What should we do?!" cried one of the guards to there ever so powerful and incredible leader, whom had tons of guards clinging on him for dear life.

"Get off me!" yelled the mighty guard captain, frustrated with his guard's stupidity and cowardliness. "First of all, let's find out where the sound is coming from!" hollered their enraged but faithful leader. The tower of spirits seemed to be where the dangerous devastating sounds are originating.

Inside the tower, a huge battle was taking place on the main floor. 2 mighty warriors were facing off in what appeared to be a fight to the death. A tall, muscular, large man with a bandanna covering his mouth and his hair in a strange pony tail was losing to an old, short mysterious lady with long purple, pale pink hair, which appeared to be in a swirl on top of her head, and had a very pointy nose. The lady gave a swift kick into the tall guys gut. "Argh!" The tall pony-tailed man groaned in utter sharp pain.

"Calm down Byrne! Use your brain!" yelled the old lady. Angrily, the tall man, Byrne tried to punch her in the face, but she quickly dodged the attack and countered it with a deadly punch of her own.

"Gaaarrrhhh!" Byrne yelped and fell to the floor in pain and exhaustion. The old lady slowly approached him with disappointment in her eyes. She gave a big frustrated sigh.

"Byrne, do not falter. Wasn't it you who said you wanted to help us protect the land from Malladus?" the old lady asked in a soft, soothing tone.

"Yes, I was Anjean." replied the weakened Byrne.

"Then you have to control that temper of yours. You must keep your cool and focus in the battle. I advise you read history about the Hero of Winds." Enraged, Byrne growled in anger.

"Why do you keep bringing up the Hero of Winds?!" Byrne snarled through his bandanna.

"I'm giving you examples of warriors you should take notes from! Byrne, you must not let your anger take the best of you. You cannot just fight reklessly like a maniac. Now, you must get up". Wearily, the stubborn man managed to pull himself together and pushed himself of the floor, barley standing. "Ok now first, we have to work on your stamina. You seem to tire very easily. And second, we especially need to work on your flexibility. If we accomplish those 2 things and manage to calm your temper, you'll be fine". Byrne nodded although he was blocking a fuel of anger inside him waiting to burst. "And..." Anjean continued "... We also got to work on your counter ability so I will attack you as much as I please so you better keep your guard up whenever".

"Yes mistress." Byrne growled silently, but then his eyes widened with realization of Anjean's devious toothy grin and winking which could mean only one thing. "Oh! Wait just give me a sec..." Byrne panicked as he tried to bring his pleading guard up but was cut off when Anjean delivered a dreadful onslaught of bickering pain making its way through Byrne's weary body. Anjean gave another mischievous grin and gave a slightly evil chuckle.

"Oh thank the spirits! The evil sounds have disappeared!" cheered Niko relieved as the intolerable sounds have vanished causing him to rejoice. Niko was in the carrot field he grew a few weeks back, picking carrots for mashing to feed the hungry Link. Speaking of who, said baby was munching on the teddy bear's ear for a tasty morsel. Niko plucked the carrot from the mushy soil which was wet because of the shocking, cold rain last night. He then placed it in his basket, then before him a rabbit had spotted him. "Hey shoo. This is my carrot field not yours!" The bunny just hopped on top of Niko knocking him over, and grasped the basket handle in his mouth and hopped away. Recovering from the minor inconvenience, Niko chased of the surprisingly swift and nimble rabbit.

"COME BACK WITH MY CARROTS YOU SCURVY FUR BALL!" screamed the enraged old man. During the chase, Niko kept tripping in damp, sticky mud puddles and bumping into hard, painful trees. Immediately, Niko found himself moving from a minor inconvenience to a major one.

Eventually, Niko finally caught up with the hopping menace and swiped the basket from the rabbit's jaws. However, feeling pity Niko gave the rabbit a few carrots to eat.

Finally Niko reached back to his precious cottage and moved the heavy weight away from the door. He opened the door to see Link biting at the teddy bear's ear. He froze. Then he ran towards him and took away the bear. "Link! Niko junior is not for eating".

But immediately he regretted his action taking the bear away as his new pal began sobbing. "Ok, play with Niko Jr. while I prepare some grub" In a split sec, Link stopped crying as he again received the cuddly and not to mention, ear bite-able teddy bear while Niko began cleaning ripe carrots ready to be mashed for Link to enjoy. Unbeknowst to the duo, a huge parade of miniblins ventured passed the cottage and back to their spine-chilling hideout.

So what do you think of this chapter, because so far I'm proud of it, and it's my favourite chapter of this story so far. I wonder if you found out the surprise in this fan fiction. Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed typing it. Oh and just in case, please review me on what to improve on. Ok later guys bye!