Navi caught up with him. "Hey! That was amazing! You were amazing! I was amazing! Heh. I gave you some good pointers there now didn’t I?"
Link just rolled his eyes and murmured “ya uh huh...right."
Navi fluttered around links head. "No really! I think we made a great team! And I can do better! I can help you out and give you information about Fiends! No one knows more about them then me! It’s kind of a hobby for me."
Link looked up at Navi. Hmm well maybe this partnership won’t be so bad he thought.
They walked on until they reached the Kokiri shop. As Link stepped up to the entrance he heard a voice from afar. "Hey Link! Up here!" the mysterious voice rang. He looked around but saw no one. Navi sighed and started to glow green. She Tapped links head “you dope she’s up here!" Navi stated in her know-it-all attitude. She then hovered beside one of the Kokiri twins sitting on the roof of the store.
"Oh Great! That’s how you use a fairy Link!" she said in a delightful tone of voice. When she turns green, that means a person wants to speak to you and when she goes yellow that means there’s danger around."
Gaining this new knowledge he said thank you, and walked inside of the store. He went up to the counter and saw many different items on shelves including big nuts, small seeds, and long sticks. All of these things Link was used to seeing scattered about in the forest.
Navi spoke to the merchant first. "Hey we need a shield! Do ya gots any?" the merchant stared at her and then at Link. Link glanced over at a small wooden shield with the Kokiri symbol inscribed with red pigment. It looked small, but sturdy.
"Ill take that one." Link said cheerfully.
The salesclerk glared at him. “You mean you’ll buy that one, and that one is the only one we have. It’s 40 Rupees.”
Link suddenly remembered that he had no money. He mumbled thank you and started to back away.
That wasn’t going to stop Navi. “Now look mister! We need that shield! We can pay you back later!”
The vendor lazily looked up at Navi. “Look normally I wouldn’t have any problem with letting you have the shield for free but Mido told me that I have to keep this shield here for him, but Ill give it to you if you have the money. I’m doing all I can for a merchant under Mido!”
Link stood by the door watching Navi and the merchant argue. Finally after Several Minutes Navi stormed off in a fury.
“I can't believe that Mido! He is purposefully sabotaging us! Well I guess we just have to earn the money on our own."
Navi looked around and saw several Kokiri Kids trying to jump across two slippery rocks that were spread out across the spring. Link went over to them.
"Hey Link!" one of them said after felling into the water. "We have a bet going on that whoever jumps across these rocks will win five rupees from each of us!”
Link smiled. He and Saria had done that countless of times. In fact Link's friends had considered Him quite the athletic. He could do Back flips on those stones, but He wasn’t going to let them know that.
Link got prepared to run and took off doing two back flips and a side jump across the pond. His friends cheered then groaned as they realized that they lost the bet. They each handed Link five Rupees. Link counted the money.
“Wow fifteen rupees!" link exclaimed. "Mm well that was easy." He said to Navi but she was paying attention to something else.
Navi was diving in and out some patches of tall grass. Link went over to see what was going on. Navi sprang from the grass and smiled.
"HEY! There’s some shiny stuff down here!" Link looked down and gathered up several green rupees. Link realized that people dropped money down in these tall patches of grass. So He went around in the grass picking up a few rupees here and there until they came up to the Kokiri Training grounds.
Link read several of the signs and did some lock eye training with Navi. He really learned a lot on how to keep his eyes focused with Navi when he’s fighting something. He was learning techniques on rolling and side jumping when he saw a small log in the wall that was hollowed out.
Navi tried to convince Link to go through the hole. Link hated confined spaces. “Oh go on Link! I’m sure there’s some money in there!" Navi said convincingly.
Link swallowed, got to his knees and went through the hole. Link got up and saw a very small walled area with one huge square of walls to walk around. “Navi! There are no rupees around here! Gezz why did I lesson to you? What good are you as a helper fairy anyway?"
As Link rambled on and on Navi saw that a giant Boulder was behind him and Link was just far enough in the square that he could get hurt. Apparently Link didn’t notice. "Uuhh Link?...Link listen!"
"I DID listen to you and look where it got me? Gezz!"
“No Link. No...Just...oh never mind..."
As Link kept arguing with her the boulder Bumped against Links back gently, but as it was a very large boulder it made Link go flying. "AAAGGGHHH!!!" Link landed a few feet away in some soft grass. Navi looked alarmed. “Link, are you ok?!"
Link nodded and sat up. "What was that?!?" Navi colored slightly.
“Oh...it was just a boulder...." she said lightly disregarding the fact that she didn’t tell him.
Link didn’t go any further on the argument knowing that he didn’t listen to her. Link got up and watched the boulders movements until he got an opening to where he could follow the boulder. As He went in the square he saw an opening with a treasure chest on top of a rather large stump. Link Stepped up to the chest and slowly opened it up. A strange glow emitted from inside. He tried but couldn’t reach so he had to bend over half way and grabbed onto the Item.
Navi Gasped as she saw Link pull out the strange object. “Oh my gosh Link! You’ve found the Kokiri sword! You found it Link!!!"
Link had to hold onto the sword with both of his hands. Navi sighed. "You need to how to hold that thing or else you will never learn how to use it."
Link glared at her and examined the sword. It was a short stout blade with a sharp edge to serve its purpose. The hilt of the blade had a small red gem embedded into it. "One down and one to go" Link said rather happy that he had this nice sword to show off to Mido.
Link put the sword into its sheath and went back through the hole and stretched. In the distance he saw one of his friends over by Mido’s house trying to pick up some rather large stones. He seemed to be failing nicely. “Go to the stone and pick it up, go to the stone and pick it up." he chanted in a mimicking Mido’s whiney voice. He looked up at Link “That mean old Mido! He made ME pick up the rocks in HIS house!" Link helped out the poor guy by picking up the rocks and smashing them into tiny pieces against Mido’s stone and wood hut. “Thanks Link! Now I won’t have to do guard duty!"
Link shrugged and replied "No problem. Happy to help."
The Kokiri boy looked around to see if anyone was eavesdropping. "Hey Link. Go into Mido’s house and take that money Mido has in the chests I heard that Mido was saving up to buy Saria a shield! But I told him that you needed that shield and he said that he knew that already! Go on take it! Mido will never know."
Navi scowled. "Son of a Skulltula! That rotten boy has the nerve to...." Navi went into a tangent about the things she hated about Mido.
Link would have gladly joined in with her except for the fact that he was concentrating on whether or not to take the money. He looked around and slipped into Mido’s hut with Navi following alertly behind him.
As he stepped inside he felt something plush underneath his feet. He examined his surroundings and at that moment He and Navi both burst out in laughter. Link had stepped onto a red carpet with gold trim leading up to a large platform with stairs on both sides. Oh wow, is Mido really that deluded? Link thought as he climbed onto the platform.
"Ah your majesty!" Navi bowed mockingly.
Link got out his sword and lifted it. “The GREAT Mido wants food! Go clean Mido’s yard! The great Mido does not wait for simpletons! Chop chop!"
Navi did loops in the air in amusement but stopped and said “Oh come on now link you need to concentrate. The great deku tree is patent and kind but there’s a limit to everyone’s serenity so hurry!"
Link jumped down and opened all of the chests on the sides of the carpet. He hesitated taking the money for a moment. "What’s wrong?" Navi asked questioningly.
"Well... It’s just that I don't feel right about sneaking into other peoples houses, even if it IS Mido’s."
Navi smiled at Link. She liked his maturity. "Well link don't get me wrong. I like it as much as you do but we need this money. And besides if Mido bought the shield for saria she would have given it to you anyways, so this is just eliminating the middle man."
Link sighed. Well she has a point. He thought as he took all of the money and counted it. He got a total of 12 rupees from Mido and a total of 38 rupees that Link already had. He put the money back that he didn’t need into the chests and left the hut.
Link ran to the shop as fast as he could and laid his money across the counter. "Ill take the Kokiri shield...err Ill buy the Kokiri shield please." Link said with relief. As Link equipped the strong wooden Deku shield he felt it weigh upon him. "This is gonna take some getting used to" Link told Navi. He wasn’t used to carrying around heavy equipment.
Link and Navi left the shop and headed over toward the Deku tree's meadow with their heads held high. "I told you not to come back here without a sword and shield!" Mido said with distaste. Link held his shield up to Mido. "Oh you have a deku shield.... Mido eyebrows furrowed with frustration. "And what’s THAT?" Link proudly took his Kokiri sword out of its sheath with one hand, not showing signs of struggle. "Is that the Kokiri sword?!?” Mido was beside himself. “GOOD GRIEF!!" Mido quickly gathered himself up and started tapping his foot. “Well even with all that stuff, a wimp is still a wimp huh?"
Link held in his anger and stared into Mido’s eyes. “Let me pass please.” Link said gritting his teeth.
Mido stepped to the side and smirked. “I the great Mido will never accept you as one of us....you will never be one of us....."
Link was about to let Mido have it when Navi tugged on links ear and shook her head. Link agreed silently with her and walked on through keeping his mouth shut.
In the distance Link could head Mido grumble something. "Shoot...how did he get to be the favorite of Saria and the great Deku tree?" Link's frown suddenly curved into a smile and he walked on into the corridor.
 sorora · Sun Jun 18, 2006 @ 01:12am · 4 Comments |
