| The Sun And The Moon By Rebecca |
| Chapter 5 The Next, Third, and Final Day: Link got out of bed and found Anju sweeping the floors. She looked happier than usual. Before he could speak, she said, "Oh, don't worry. I've made my promise. I trust him. I will meet him." Link could tell she was speaking the truth, so he went to Kafei's hideout to watch for Sakon with him. But when he got to the back entrance, the door was locked. "You know what this means," he said to Tatl. "Yeah, it means Kafei is a coward like Anju's mom said, and he's left already!" she shouted, stomping her miniscule feet.. "No, stupid, it means he went to Ikana Valley to wait for Sakon." he explained. "You really think so?" asked the fairy. "Only one way to find out." * * * Link found Kafei in Ikana Valley, hiding behind two rocks. As Link suspected, Kafei had seen Sakon and was waiting for a chance to sneak into the hideout. The only time the door would open was when Sakon came back. "I know an easier way to get inside," Link told Kafei. "How?" "Wait here." Link felt along the boulder until he detected a crack in the smooth stone. He took a deep breath, rolled, and WHOOSH! seemed to disappear into the rock. Kafei stared at the crack, wondering if he should do the same, when he heard the faint sound of Link's voice. "Kafei! Push the rock as hard as you can!" he instructed. Kafei did so, and with Link helping, the door was soon halfway open so that Kafei could get in. They walked through the only door together, wondering what was next. They soon got their answer. "The sun's mask!" Kafei cried, running over to the platform. "Uh oh, nice job Kafei..." he said to himself. He'd accidentally triggered a switch that started a conveyer belt. The mask was slowly moving away from Link and Kafei to who knows where. Kafei ran over to the open door, but as soon as he stepped off the switch, the door slammed in his face. Kafei turned to look at Link and Tatl. "Stand on that switch," he ordered. "Excuse me? Are you telling me what to do? Who exactly gave you the authority to order us around?" piped up Tatl. Kafei's eyes pleaded with them. He'd made a promise. He could only keep it with their help. Tatl gave in. "Alright, fine, but I still don't like you!" Link stepped on the switch, and Kafei ran through the door. A maze of blocks and switches met him in the next room. He stepped on a blue switch and the door on the other side of the belt opened. "Link! Go through that door!" he called. So Link stepped off the switch and went through the door. He battled a few Deku Babas and, once they were killed, the door across from him opened, and Kafei proceeded through it. And so began a little relay race against time; Link battling enemies and Kafei finding switches, the mask drawing ever closer to the deep pit at the end of the belt. Link slaughtered two Wolfos and the last door opened. Kafei sprinted towards the center of the room and scooped up the mask just before it fell. "YESS!" Kafei shouted triumphantly. "Thanks, Link, I couldn't have done it without you, but I have to go to Clock Town now. Are you going to find refuge somewhere? You really should..." "No, I'll come with you to Clock Town," answered Link before Tatl could object. So the two ran through Ikana Valley and Termina Field to East Clock Town. Anju was waiting in her room. "I knew you would come," she said, smiling as she took down her own mask. They exchanged vows and masks, and then met each other in a warm embrae, even though Tatl commented that they looked more like mother and son than wife and husband. "Link, you are our only witness," Kafei said, "Take this mask as a symbol of our gratitude." Link sobbed. "Link, get a hold of yourself!" Tatl barked (or more like, yipped). "I always cry at happy endings," he said, wiping his eyes. "There's no way you two can be properly hitched if one of you is only seven years old. I'm going to see what I can do about this whole end-of-the-world thing," he announced once he'd regained his composure. "Link, be careful!" warned Anju. "Link, there's no TIME!" Tatl pointed out. "We only have an hour and a half left!" "Tatl, you know perfectly well we have all the time in the world." Link stated calmly. After all, he was never afraid. "Let's go." * * * "Yep, it was a strange adventure, going inside that moon. And you know what? It wasn't really that hard defeating Majora! Cuz, that's what the real evil was, not Skull Kid. Skull Kid was just a puppet for Majora to use. Anyhoo, there was this grassy plain that went on for like ever, there were no mountains or water or nothin, and there was this ONE TREE just in the middle of no where! And there where these kids just like, runnin around, they looked really weird, no actually they looked just like you, Mr.Salesman sir, but they were wearin these evil masks. Anyhoo I talk to one and he says, this is what he says, he says 'Gimme one mask and we'll play hide and go seek', so I'm like 'Sure, whatever' and I gives him the blast mask cuz I mean, I don't feel like blowin myself up anytime soon! So anyhoo there's this little mini dungeon where I have to fly around as a Deku, which is no prob, right cuz I been doin that for like, well, three days but still! So I flies across, gettin a heart piece on my way, and then I found the kid, and he said 'Give me one mask' so I gives him the Scent Mask...no, wait, maybe it was the Gibdo Mask...no it was the Scent mask, wait, well, it was a mask, and-" "Is anyone as bored as I am?" Zelda asked Malon. "Well, the Happy Mask guy looks somewhat interested...and that windmill man is still just playin that song over and over again..." Malon answered. "Maybe we should just give him the sedative now..." whispered Ingo. "Termina was a great place! Some of the people were nice to me, but other people were horrible! And you, and you, and you twice, and you were there, and, Oh Princess Zelda, there's no place like home!" Link finished. Meanwhile, back in Termina: Anju and Kafei, now fully restored, walked hand in hand along Great Bay Coast. Somehow, a long time ago, the sun and moon had crossed paths, and gone their own ways, but there was always that time where they faced each other, the sun in the west and the moon in the east. * * * P.S. So this kind of turned into a comedy, but the beginning was pretty romantic, right? Wasn't it? Hey, shut up, it's my first try! STOP LAUGHING AT ME! HEY! WHAT DID YOU CALL ME??? OH REALLY! I'LL SHOW YOU SWEET LITTLE GIRL TRYING OUT HER WINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME! YEAH! TAKE THAT! Hhmmph. What? You thought it was good? Oh. Ummm...thanks. Back |