[center][h1][color=00aeef]Hyrule[/color] [color=darkgreen]Warriors[/color][/h1][/center]
    
    [center]Word Count: 2332 [/center]
    [center][color=00aeef][b]Level 5[/b] [/color] - (31/50) + 3[/center]

[center][color=darkgreen]Level 9 [/color] - (20/90) + 3[/center] 
    
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[h2][center][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/center][/h2]

[center]Location: The Edge of Blue ~ Luma Pools--->The Bottomless Sea[/center] 
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At the newcomer who would introduce himself as Mirage's answered Link let out a deep sigh of relief. The last thing they needed was the Yiga chasing after them, offended that someone had made off with their banana horde. Those peoples obsession with the yellow fruit was only matched by their devotion to Ganon and their grudge against him, none of which he could imagine would lose any of their potency over something as trivial as being thrown into another world. He stared out at the foliage where Mirage had come from one last time as he tossed a few of the bananas he'd grabbed into the helmet. Then again, it wasn't like you could spot them if they didn't want you to. "Well, if you ever meet someone that looks like me..." He reached up and emphatically gave his ears a flick with his finger. "...who really likes bananas, they're an assassin."

He just let that tidbit of info sit as he really started digging into the meal. The fish all had a weird taste to them, but he didn't care. He eagerly ate the entire things, not even bothering to pick the bones like Ms. Fortune. While he ate, Blazermate asked what the plan was and Peach replied that it was just to head for the bottomless sea. He couldn't help but feel the medabot had been probing for something more detailed, but nobody seemed to be in the mood for talking about the next battle just yet so he refrained as well. More importantly, the Cadet vocalized what it seemed like Mirage had been considering. Mirage jumped at the opportunity to join them on their quest, which wasn't something Link quite knew how to feel about. More hands were welcome and he figured anyone all the way out here with only a furry, long-armed, funny faced [i]thing[/i] as company might well know how to handle himself. He had the confidence, certainly, if he were coming out with them while knowing about the the bottomless sea. The problem was, Brinybeard had been confident when they had set out as well.

Speaking of Brineybeard, Link's train of thought derailed as Kamek appeared with good news. The Captain was alive and, if not exactly well, safe. A general cheer went up, the feeing welling up in Link hard enough to bring him to his feet to shout "Yes!" before his lack of balance couldn't compensate for the sudden movement and he fell on his back into the sand. From there he listened to Sakura give her short, faltering speech. He clapped anyway as he sat up, grabbing one of the piece of watermelon and chowing down as she said. Every bite sent an explosion of sweetness into his mouth. Goddess's above it tasted so sweet.

The next stretch of time was spend in story telling. The Abyssal with the strange accent, Bella, seemed incredibly interested in their lives and where they had come from. Ms. Fortune happily obliged her, describing where she had grown up and the people that had lived there. As she talked Link felt himself drawn to her description as much as Bella was. As she finished he couldn't help but chuckle nostalgically. "We've got our own version of Dragonian where I come from." He said. "In Hyrule they're called the Zora." He went on, describing the resident fish people of the kingdom, they're bravery, their speed and grace in the water, the expert craftfishship they put into their silver weapon and the magnificent Kingdom they had carved out for themselves in Zora's Domain. The high white pillars rising from the lake, the natural beauty that surrounded them, the literal water beds that they slept floating in, the cascading sound of waterfalls and the light mist those waterfalls caused to hang in the air. "They can swim right up them, that's how fast they are in the water. Even the little children can do it, though you can't judge their age by appearance. Some of those kids are as old as an adult Hylian, they're a long lived people. I first met their prince when he was a little guppy and 100 years on he was..." Link stopped and looked around the fire to get a good comparison. He pointed out the Cadet. "He was about the Cadet's age." He swiveled his finger, turning it on Geralt. "But he was as tall as Geralt. Maybe taller. One of the best people I've ever met, Prince Sidon. Brave. Always smiling."

Link could have sat there and talked about Hyrule for hours, but he didn't want to take up the entire conversation himself. Besides, even a well deserved rest eventually had to come to an end. They had a job to do. As everyone got ready to leave Link threw his remaining fish into the helmet he had set on the fire, watching intently as the odd fish jumped around in the pot before catching what was launched out. He managed to collect four sets of middling quality [url=https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/images/a/a1/Copious-fish-skewers.png]Copious Seafood Skewers[/url]. That would do for a little light healing in a pinch. He simmered one last batch of fruit and set one last set of banana's next to the fire. After blowing them out he awkwardly drunk-walked the resulting roasted bundle over the funny-faced thing. "Here you go." He said, handing them over to Lanky. "Thanks for the help. High tail it if you see anybody in red lurking around where these came from. Take care."

One last person needed something. He stumbled over to where Shippy had anchored herself. He climbed up the side of the ship and back over to the figurehead. Largely unknown to Link, his and the Cadet operated on extremely similar wavelengths. He pulled out the simmered fruit and offered it to her. When she told him she didn't require food, he shook his head and insisted. "You don't just eat because you need too." He said. "Sometimes it makes you feel better. Sometimes its to celebrate. You've got something to celebrate, right?"

He left it with her, climbing up the rest of the way. "If you can't swallow it, spit it in the water. But you should at least taste it."

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Link spent most of the voyage across the lake listening for the ping of the slate, but once they started moving much faster on the river he stopped paying as much attention. Even if they stumbled on another of those outcroppings it was unlikely that they would be over it for long, or be able to stop once the slate warned them. Either they would get sprayed or they wouldn't. Instead he gathered up all the spirts he'd left on the deck into one of his big hands so no one would accidentally step on them and set Shippy transforming again. As he did he watched as the first of their two new acquaintances demonstrated his abilities. Link felt the pangs of jealousy as Mirage showed off how he could produce a decoy of himself, and his jaw just about hit the floor when the man [i]turned invisible[/i]. It was for a short time, of course, but Link's mind reveled in the possibilities of going anywhere completely unseen. It was a power he desperately wanted.

The other guy, Mr. Green as Link had started thinking of him as, he wasn't so sure of. He had been on the cliff with them, so that meant he must have been strong, but the way he was acting was just too weird and the way the Princess and Koopa's were acting around him was even weirder. Did they really not know who that was? Was it rude to ask about it?

Thought on his new crewmates disappeared once the pink fronds of the trees gave way to black sand and the rotting carcasses of sea creatures. A storm raged out in the distance over the inky black water, stirring up the waves even here. The Bottomless Sea. It's gruesomeness certainly lived up to its reputation. The only thing that even seemed somewhat welcoming was the beam of light shooting into the sky a ways off that Ms. Fortune called out. Between them and it; who knews what in this black abyss? As he held himself against the railing on the front of the ship and picked at the Sheikah Slate, resetting what it was tracking from the crystalline outcroppings to the [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kancolle/images/c/ce/Light_Cruiser_He-Class_Full.png]single abyssal he had managed to get a picture of during the battle.[/url] Hopefully that would warn them if the things were on their way.

What they attracted first, though, was also called out by Ms. Fortune. Link wandered over to the side and saw the dark shapes she was talking about swimming around the ship. Fish. The biggest fish he had ever seen, in fact. Blue torpedos whose fins cut menacingly through the surface of the water. He took a picture of one as it turned, presenting its side to him and showing off a wide frown full of teeth that made him shutter. It was like seeing Sidon frowning at him. 

"They're not so bad." Link called down to her despite this. "At least these don't have cannons strapped to their heads." Compared to the Abyssal Fleet they had sailed through to get here, a few big fish were nothing.

It was the storm that worried him. He heard thunder off in the distance and where there was thunder there must surely be lightning. He looked around at his friends that had absorbed the shipgirls, and winced at the metal that they had strapped to them. If they didn't beat the storm those would be drawing lightning down, along with anything metal on this ship. He looked up at the Atomos as it hovered near them, spotting the door open and two little abyssal planes fly out toward the light. That whole ship was metal, if the wind didn't get it the lightning certainly would. Same went for Shippy, that coating of metal would be riling up the lightning something awful.

Mirage piped up, twirling something in his hand and offering to take care of the beasts (sharks, that's what they were called) surrounding them in one blow. An electric weapon, huh? He was right, that might hurt Shippy as well. He looked from Mirage to, who both seemed to know what the Sharks were. "If these things can damages the ship than we should take them out, but can't we use the cannons on the deck for that?"

"Additionally." He said, addressing specifically to Ms. Fortune. She lived in a seaside town, she should know a thing or two about ocean storms. "How positive are you that we can reach that light before the storm catches us? I'm not a sailor, I don't know." He turned to the group. "What I do know is that storms like that are bad enough on stable ground. If we're not sure we can make it we should go back up the river a ways, drop anchor, and wait for a better window of opportunity. We can afford to be patient if we need too. What we can't afford is to sink. I don't want to see us get battered again because we underestimated the challenge in front of us." 

A thought occurred. "Shippy?" He called. "You know yourself better than anyone. Do you think we can make it?"

Regardless, he raised up the hand with the spirits in it and offered it to the group. "Even if we're positive, and we go for it, I'm going to insist everyone who hasn't already got a quick way to move around in the water take one of these into their chest. Just as an extra precaution. We don't know what could blindside us out there." He looked over at Mirage, remembering he hadn't gotten the orientation yet. "You put one of these in your chest, and you'll get some of its traits. I could barely swim before I used one of these."

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[center][h2][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h2][/center]

[center][h3][color=red]Merge Rate: 30%[/color][/h3][/center] 

[center]Location: The Frozen Highlands - Snowdin ~ Morshu's Shop [/center]

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Linkle couldn't hide her disappointment on learning that the Lizalfo had just been stuck here and the circumstances were even sadder. Grandma had told her lizards all scattered away at wintertime because of how chilly it got. It shouldn't be any surprise that the same would be true of a Lizalfo, but she had never really thought of them as living creatures until she saw them reading books and bartering like people did. 

Still, her face suddenly lit up as Sal laid out his wares. The gun, the fist, the magic wand, any one of those she would have been interested in were it not for the sight of something oh so much more familiar. "Can I?" She asked, reaching forward and with his permission picking up one of the crossbows. Pure white, accented in gold. It weighed a little more than what she was used to, but the weight settled into her hand like a perfectly fitted glove. She plucked the string, and listened excitedly as it vibrated. When she depressed the trigger in a certain way she had done a thousand times before the front of the bow lit up a shining green. She pressed again and the tip gleamed red. 

She set it down. Her bows were simple, but these ones were...

"Beautiful." She breathed out. She had to have them, but the price was to much. She hadn't been left with enough spending money. She glanced down at her own crossbows, and held it up for him to see. "I don't have enough money for those, but these do all the same things. Watch." She demonstrated, pulling down the triggers. Green. Red. Green again. Red again. "If I give you these would that make up the difference? If not I have some other stuff you could look at."