[center][h1][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/h1][/center]
    
    [center]Word Count: 680 [/center]
    [center][color=00aeef][b]Level 5[/b] [/color] - (58/50) + 1[/center]

[center]Location: The Bottomless Sea ~ The Maw[/center] 

[@Yankee][@Dark Cloud][@DracoLunaris]

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Link and the little monster had parted ways back when they had all stopped to catch their breath in the previous room, the thing looking quite pleased with itself for having discovered a cozy new territory despite not having done any of the work. It had almost dragged him down when he had leaped into Ms. Fortunes waiting fan, jumping up to grab his boot as it blew him toward freedom, and he was sure that it was only the kite on his back that had let them both glide up despite the extra weight. He was glad that it hadn't insisted on following them further.

The next room was, at least for now, free of monsters. That was the only thing batter about it. He was now all too acquainted with the idea of monsters rising unexpectedly from the depths, and he didn't even bother to try and guess what was lurking in this vast flooded room. It was lucky that they didn't have to make a swim for it. Peach had found a map and, after acting as a stepstool for the young princess, had laid out her new plan for Link and the others. It involved going for a short climb, provided by Mirage, and then a obstacle course along a series of hanging platforms. He watch the others start to go up, eagerly awaiting his own chance to explore the rafters above, at least before he noticed something.

First Mirage went up, then Sakura, but his worry started to flare up when only 2/3rds of the koopa troop and abyssal freind started their ascent. Even that might have been fine if the kid who had put the boots to the eyeball monster from the junk room hadn't followed after them. Link looked around. Not everybody was going to be headed up. He knew the turtle who looked like Kamek at least was hanging around, and looking at Glenn he couldn't imagine the boy had any intention to climb. 

"I'm gonna hang around here too." He decided, looking again at the water with his hand of the racket in his belt. "Just in case something, you know, comes up. Hey Cadet, you planning on going up?" He asked, taking the kite off his back and handing it to the redheaded boy. "Here, this will help."

He took a couple of steps away from the dart platforms and put himself in the doorway to stand guard against anything that might have a taste for amphibians. He turned back to look at Kamek, thought for a bit, and then lifted his tunic up and started biting at the bottom of it. Anyone looking might have though the supernatural hunger that had afflicted everyone had driven the boy prematurely mad, but he only did it long enough to get a little rip in the hem to start. After that he took it in his hands and began to tear until he had a good sized chunk of the fabric off the blue section, which he tied into a little bandanna. 

When he was done and wandered over to the koopa and presented it to him. "Here. It's just weird not seeing you in blue."

He looked over at the boy that had once been a frog that had once been a boy. He couldn't blame the boy for freaking out, as far as Glenn knew transformations like this were forever. It would probably be a good idea to get his mind off the current situation, and the hungry growling in their guts. Or maybe...

"Hey, Glenn? Kamek is a pretty powerful wizard. We all saw that during the abyssal battle earlier. Maybe, if you explained your situation to him, he'd be able to give you some insight." He didn't want to tell Glenn's story even if it was pretty obvious he hadn't originally been a frog by this point. He had promised, after all. He did wonder, though, if the frog knight had ever sought advice from another magic user. Especially one that worked for the self-proclaimed bad guys, that might know about curses like his.