The Lair Beneath the Sea

Zeldman's PoV

The "little" (read: impossibly huge) scavenger hunt that Kivvi had us go on was not a complete success. However, given the circumstances... well, it's a miracle we got even this close. Most of the items on the list (where did she even get that list, that's what I'd like to know) I couldn't even pronounce, let alone track down. But, we all did our best, and, making the best of things, construction quickly began.

I had to marvel at Kivvi, though. Seriously, she should not be able to move that fast! I swear, she has transcended time and space altogether, becoming an amorphous blur darting from various areas on...whatever it was she was doing. Murray's involved, so I'm not sure I really want to know...

Zeldbro, Sheila, and Cremia showed up just as I got back from scrounging. Well, I suppose it would be more accurate to say that Zeldbro and Cremia showed up. Sheila, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much out of it. Lucky girl. I could go for a nap right about now...

"Alright!" Kivvi called from the next room. Damn, I was hoping to avoid that place for a bit longer...

I walked inside, and, honestly, I shouldn't have been as surprised as I was. I mean, what else could it be? There's a big something in the air, and we don't want it there anymore. So, logically, we're going to blow the damn thing up!

With a cannon...

Sighing, I walked closer to the mechanical monstrosity. Kivvi looked like she was about to speak. Great... I can;t wait to hear the explanation for this one...

Jack and Dadark flew into the Lair, Jack looked annoyed as he quickly grabbed every one's attention "now, why the hell would you run off without letting me join in the fun?" Everyone looked at him, the more serious members looked angry, Jack however had walked up behind Kivvi and looked over her shoulder as she typed furiously on a keyboard and tapping a mouse in a blur, complex signs and numbers all over the screen, Jack couldn't understand a word of it but he could understand the conclusion `Locked on, to be fired in 0:58:32` "HA! Finished with time to spare!" Kivvi called triumphantly to everyone in the room but Dadark shook his head, "What do you mean?" Kivvi asked curiously, Dadark smiled, pointed and waited for the reaction.

Kivvi yelled a curse word that only Foxy and Wolfy seemed to realise the true foulness of, in the corner a small battery showed but a third of the necessary strength the room was silent but Weldar stepped up two Pokeballs in hand, "ZAPDOS! RAIKOU!" He yelled the respective Pokemon popping out and following his orders into the power supply, Kivvi watched the small battery icon, rapidly the percentage rose, Weldar swung Marth's sword in a taunt that greatly annoyed Torch.

Link yawned. Despite how dire their situation was, all the waiting was getting kind of boring. Link looked up at the countdown with disdain. "20 more minutes", he announced, as if anyone really needed him to do that.

There was nothing he could really do at that moment. Almost everyone was waiting around, either watching the energy level rise, or finding something else to pass the time. They were getting anxious, and the overtly long wait was getting to them.

Sighing, Link sat down next to Wolfy, or Marcus. Link wasn't exactly sure how to address him. The truce they had with the Squad was tentative, so he decided to make the best of it.

"So...uh...Marcus...", Link began. the wolf made no indication that he had heard him. Link tried again,"Yo, Wolfy!"

With a distinct tone of gruffness in voice, Wolfy turned to the young Hylian. "Yeah? What d'ya want?!" He responded curtly.

"Oh, um...", Link tried to gather his thoughts quickly," Wh-Why, I mean, what do you, er..think about...Kivvi?" Link asked, choosing his words with hasty care. He wanted to know what the situation was regarding that.

"Who?" Wolfy said, uncertain. Link was taken aback. He thought for sure that he would recognize his own sister. Hesitant, he pointed to Kivvi, furiously trying to calibrate the cannon.

Wolfy shivered, before shutting his eyes. "I...no. I have never met her before...but..." He seemed greatly disturbed,"She called me...something. It's strange...yet..."

Suddenly, Wolfy became irate. "Hey, why am I telling this to you! Piss off!" Wolfy snarled, and gave Link an aggressive shove. "Your friend, Foxy," Wolfy spat his name out as if it were bile," He's lucky to be alive. If Kurz hadn't come and stopped me..." Wolfy trailed off, and Link thought it best to avoid him for now.

Above him the counter continued to tick down. Soon, it would be all or nothing.

Nine minutes to go, nine miutes until do or die time, they locked Yellow and I away in the cupboard to make sure it wasn't going to be do AND die time, the Cannon was ready to fire and Kivvi had her finger over the button a steady hand was necessary, everyone was quiet and extremely still, all except one who's mind was torn and his thoughts, unstable...

Wolfy's PoV

The cannon Kivvi's not fire Foxy is save us must kill destroy must save us past ties but what if I could did the wrong stop torture me control forever must destroy it all!

3rd PoV

Wolfy walked up to the control panel then he walked back to his seat but turned around at the last second and walked back, Kivvi was getting sick of it "Please sit down, I can't concentrate if you keep pacing!" Wolfy stared at her, eyes wide and unblinking, the computer beeped only two minutes to go as Wolfy stared down at his only sister but Kivvi "M-Marcy?" Kivvi muttered leaning away and just in time, Wolfy swung a heavy claw-swipe at her and slammed right into the control panel which smashed apart and as Wolfy took his claws out he made it apparent that he was ripping up the cables, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE?" Kivvi and many of the others yelled,
"I've made my life a whole lot simpler!"

"Louie get us out of here!" Phobette called into the tubby sailor, Breathmint followed suit,
"If you can get out in thirty seconds be my guest and run away but those with any pride are staying right here!" Kivvi called stopping the three of them abruptly and instead they flocked up to Kurz who gave them a dark look and they cowered away but Breathmint accidentally flew backwards into a dart-board where someone had stuck a picture of Tingle and that gave Gangey inspiration.

Running up to the controls he grabbed the pole from the ground with his rubber glove, he could feel the static still running through, he just hoped Tingle was right, slamming it into the open panel Kivvi screamed as sparks flew but she then understood, the raw static electricity would fluxuate the controls and considering how many of the wires were the fire button the cannon would have a 73.4% chance of firing, the only problem being if it missed.

(tip <this word spelt backwards is the answer to if it misses, Link isn't the only one who has a mirror shield, also have Sheila and Creamia enjoy a nice fire work display)

The Cannon powered up and fired, but misshot.
There was a white blur that flashed in the sky. Pit positioned his mirror shield to face the monstrous object. The blast reflected and the thing blew up in a great fireball.

(Was I allowed to do that? Did I do it right? Will someone please post on the glossary now? I hope I did it right!)

(that is what I meant but sorry there was no where near enough detail and the A.D. cannon or not, never bursts things into flames especially if they're already on fire)

The cannon fired, several people cheered but Kivvi and Dadark were horror-struck, suddenly Phobette jumped into Kurz, "we've missed..." Was all she said as Kurz quickly thought some things back, grabbing Weldar he jumped into a portal and held him in the range of fire, Weldar yelled in fear before suddenly he lost control of his body, without meaning to he transformed into Pit and pulled out his Mirror Shield, the blast was absorbed by the shield, Phobette redirected the aim and fired.

Qoyul's PoV

I am so close, soon this world will be nought but rubble and all those who disobeyed, disrespected or destroyed will be dead! I was not thinking straight, I don't know why I'd kamikaze while so close to my goal but my anger got the better of me but suddenly I heard the voice of my computer "SIRE, half the ship has suddenly been destroyed!" I would have rolled my eyes if I were still myself so I simply yelled at it,
"We're going into a planet's atmosphere at a high speed, it's only natural that the ship breaks up a little!"
"Sire it's not like that, we seem to be being attacked!" It stated sounding a little worried, damn A.I.
"Impossible, we're light-years away from anywhere with proper space travel technology, the have little chance of acknowledging we exist and they don't have any means of self-defence!" I explained and waited for the reply, and waited, taking control of the ships camera's I tried to find the central computer room but found, A BIG FREAKING HOLE THAT WAS STILL GROWING AT AN ALARMING RATE!

Sheila was startled awake just in time; partly because of the loud cheer that went up as the blast connected, and partly due to the fact that the cannon fell to pieces right in front of her. the combination of those two was enough to wake the dead.

She struggled to her feet, but that quickly proved to be quite the challenge. Her feet were still incredibly sore, and the muscles in her leg were stiff. After stumbling around a bit, She was about to take a nasty spill on the floor. thankfully, she was caught by who else, other than Cremia.

"You're just in time," She said, wrapping Sheila's arm around her shoulder,"I was afraid you'd miss it.

Still half-asleep, The platinum-haired swordswoman could only manage ,"misswha...?" before failing to stifle an epic yawn.

Chuckling slightly, Cremia simply pointed to the sky. Rubbing her tired eyes like a newborn kitten, Sheila peered in the direction of her girlfriend's finger.

High overhead, the spherical monstrosity, which had only moments ago been a symbol of destruction for all, was burning up in a spectacular blaze in the atmosphere. A distinctive hole near the centre was clearly widening, and already large chunks were breaking off from the main body. The intense heat caused the metallic parts to glow bright red, and several explosions of varying size peppered the evening sky. If unaware of the events that preceded this, one may mistake this finale for a fireworks display.

As the final bits and pieces fizzled out of existence, Sheila rested her head on Cremia's shoulder, her eyes getting heavy again. Cremia stroked the back of her head affectionately, and whispered, "Come on, let's go home..."

Together, they headed toward the tunnel to Clock Tower, where the milk carriage was waiting. All the squad members had vanished completely, and the rest of the Chains were too tired to really notice. They hadn't slept for so long, and now they could finally rest. They had won the day.

(Well, I hope I ended that well. Perhaps some sort of epilogue/Qoyul-Lizer addendum needs to be done, but I don't know. Also, How about we set the next Saga at about a few weeks after this one ended. Fictional characters need time off too.)

(no can do, Ganondorf's return is only a few days away! While we wait for Zeld I'm going to write something short here)

As Link slept he had a funny dream, it was all blue and full of water but he couldn't move constantly trying he yelled but all that came out was... "I'll get you Link!" In a voice most familiar and at that Link woke up covered in sweat before yawning and falling asleep again, by the morning he'd forgotten all about it.

I tumbled on the ground. I sat up and rubbed my head.
"Owwwww." My eyes widened. "The Jegaxtii!" I looked around but nothing was there. I was in a wasteland. All that was left was a few crumbling buildings.
There was a rustle behind me. I spun around.
It was a child, an eight-year-old. He grinned. "Hi." I tried to return the grin in full. "Uh...hi." "I'm Fyn," he held out his hand, his grin widened. I frowned. "Fyn what is this?"

And then the kid blew my mind. "Don't you recognize it? It's Klyrenia!" He giggled, and then his smile turned to a serious frown. "Welcome home, Lizer."

(Don't spaz at me. I'm not writing anymore of it for a while. I just wanted anyone who reads but not the glossary to know what happened to Lizer. And, yes, Q-Lizer beat him there,... by about six months.

(Meh, that part needed to be wrapped up anyway. No loose ends and such like that. And is Zeld going to post something? or should we just go ahead? Either way, in the meantime, it's time for...)

Short Story Theatre: Milking isn't as fun as it looks!

'Twas a glorious new day on Romani Ranch. The birds sang their illustrious hymns. The trees swayed gracefully in the morning breeze. Most of the denizens of this fair patch of land were already up and about, taking care of their daily chores and the like. But not everyone, oh no. For you see, there was still one plucky young lad who was still abed, comfortable in the coziness of his borrowed bed. However, as with all good things, it was soon to come to an end.

"ZEEEELDBROOO!"

Yes, that would do nicely. His eyes twitching ever so slightly, the mage tried his darndest to block out the intruding noise. However, despite his best efforts, 'twas not be, as the voice's owner came nearer to his location.

"ZEEEEEELDBROOOOOOO!!! IT'S TIME TO GET UP!!"

The boy in question still refused to acquiesce to this impatient request. Even through the closed door, the muffled voice was distinctly female, although, given the fact that Zeldbro was the proud owner of the only Y-chromosome in the entire household, such is to be expected. Ever resilient, he ducked his head under his pillow in a futile attempt to block out the sound.

Suddenly, the door swung open, making as much noise as possible, of course, and revealing a certain redhead in the hallway. My, my, she sure is determined, isn't she? Romani walked over to the bed, whistling as she strode, and yanked the pillow off of Zeldbro's head.

"Wakey, wakey, Sleepyhead!" She sang. She didn't appear to be all too annoyed at him, and that's what really scared him. With a mumbled apology, he, quite literally, jumped out of bed.

"Hurry up and get dressed, we have work to do," Romani flashed him an evil grin," Oh, and you'll need this..."

Quickly, she tossed a bucket into his hands and dashed downstairs, closing the door behind her. She had been holding this bucket all along, but I neglected to mention it until now. Anyway she had the bucket before, Zeldbro has it now, and realiztion came upon him like a freight train, albeit a rather slow freight train.

"Oh no..." he whispered under his breath,"Oh Goddesses, no..."

(Hurray for pointless filler!)

Zeld stumbled down the stairs.
"morning" said everyone.
"mrnngin" moaned back zeld.
Zeld suddenly pushed me off and jumped into my seat between romani and weldar. I looked around for the only spare seat and then i saw why zeld had ran to the other seat.
"Hey Gangey" said Murray "you can sit in between me and Yellow".
I sighed and slumbered over to the seat, sat down and reached for some C.R. (Chateu Romani)
"Ahem" coughed Yellow "Ive clearly marked my teritory on that seat" he continued.
"awwww" I moaned while moving my body around trying to wipe up the "liquid" on the seat thankful it was only a mixture of salt, vinegar and mold.
"We've got a big day ahead of uth everyone, chore day!" Kivvi announced to several annoyed faces, "Zeld you're going Thopping!"
"Well that's not so bad!" Zeld sighed happily.
"For our nektht twenty weekth of food!" Kivvi continued and Zeld got started by opening up their savings.
"Weldar you're cleaning the outside of the lair, Nemarca, wait where is Nemarca?"
Nemarca's seat was vacant, her plate in the sink and suddenly we heard loud noises from the living room.
"Nemarca stop playing Smash Bros. We've got work to do!" Weldar called to his wife.

A few chore commands later

Foxy and Murray were given the extremely difficult job of sorting out and stacking the remaining supplies in the industrial sized fridge.
Foxy glad to be a mammal, the fridge was freezing and Foxy knew Murray wouldn't notice.
Wait where was Murray, looking around Foxy yelled "MURRAY!" And from behind him he heard a bang and the turkey burst and Murray hopped out.
"I was in the turkey!" Murray Shouted.
"Th-that's not p-possible..." Foxy stuttered partly from the cold.
"Now Murray get to work, these boxes won't stack themselves!" Foxy ordered and Murray ran off.
Within seconds he had returned and reaching into his pocket he pulled out a forklift!
"Now Murray you be careful with tha--" But it was too late, crashing into the ceiling, water rushed in and soon they were immobile in a block of ice, Nice Foxy thought.

(Gangey's best work yet, all his work except for the turkey bit, he was finished when I asked him to put it in, also taking a leaf from his book I'm going to use full stops now, yipee!)

Weldar scrubbed the outside of the lair, the tiny Squirtle body wasn't helping but was unfortunately necessary.
Nemarca was inside and having transformed into the shape easiest for her task had already finished and was playing Smash Bros.
Link hated his chore, kivvi had ordered him to clean out his room and organise his equippment "ALL OF IT!" But he wasn't even sure where to start.
Yellow couldn't be happier about his task, being the smallest he had to fly around all the air ducts and make sure there were no holes or clogs and he loved the job so much his yells could be used to tell where he was.
Gangey was cleaning out the bathroom, and glad to have an ordinary job was smiling while he scrubbed the shower and polished the sink but he shuddered whenever he heard Yellow's screaming.
And Zeld who had just finished with the shopping thanks to his shadows sat down on the couch to play a game he had been putting off beating for far too long now got a shock to find Nemarca kicking some unfortunate losers butt online.

"Hey can I play Final fantasy?" Zeld asked.
"Hell no, this guy thinks he can beat me with a few high tier characters, forget it!" Nemarca snapped after 5-stocking her opponent with only 58%.
"But you play everyday!" Zeld argued.
"Okay, if you can beat me you can play!"
Fifteen minutes later Zeld was swetting having lost spectacularly all eight matches.
"Don't give up you took out one of my stock that time!" Nemarca encouraged.
"Only because a bomb-block appeared while you were setting me up with one of Whispy's apples!" Zeld retorted.
"Oh yeah, I remember now, you've got some pretty good luck, those star blocks kept saving yo--" But before she could finish a large crack and some water could be heard.
"MURRAY GO HOME!" Foxy yelled from several rooms away giving Zeld an idea.
"Can I play if Murray wins?" Zeld asked hopefully.
"No!" Nemarca asked, I (And Yellow) was the only one who could beat Nemarca despite the others considering me the worst player of the group.
"Okay plan B!" Zeld said opening a portal taking his Playstation with him.

Majora

Majora floated in the inaccessable void he called his domain, right now he was looking for inspiration amongst the waste of the greater gods known as videogames.
Most of these told stories about people that did exist and some made up stories that often made no sense and had meaningless goals which he realised as he crushed 'Animal Crossing' in one tentacle and continued looking, pulling out one he read the title.
'Final Fantasy VII' Oh this series is always good and often hard to beat and lo... ...ong... Majora thought the last part slowly as inspiration came to him...

The Pudding

Within seconds I was back home and sitting down in the shower, I started reading a novel Gangey through at my head.
Suddenly I heard a sound a long prolonged one and finally a ding before suddenly I heard music, videogame music.
Dashing out of the shower I aimed my A.D. at a stunned Zeld.
"Take it easy Muzz, I was just wondering if I could play Final Fantas--" Zeld's explanation was cut short as I fired but since I pressed the wrong button Zeld was only bombarded by the song 'We're whalers on the moon'.
"Look Nemarca won't share the TV and your not using yours so just calm down, maybe have some pudding or whatever else you eat."
"Glass candy!" I stated pulling one out and shrieking before drinking some lemonade to wash it all down.
"Here you have some!" I offered handing him a candy and a glass of lemonade and naturally he refused but I wouldn't take no for an answer.
Zeld dodged and ducked as I threw my candies at him but everyone he didn't avoid he blasted and everyone he didn't blast he avoided eventually I decided to tackle him.
Zeld openned a portal to escape into but he needn't as suddenly I slipped on one of the wrappers and skidded out of control before finally falling face first and dropping the lemonade on the Playstation.
"Don't worry I'll clean it!" I said causing Zeld to worry even more.
Pulling out my toothbrush I scrubbed the Playstation hard until eventually I stopped, bored.
Zeld saw the remains of the Playstation it was in ruins and a large hole had been made in it, the Playstation wasn't the only one they had thankfully but the game was ruined.
"Murray! You get back here and help me find another copy in the Tree!" Zeld yelled.
"UP YOURS!" I unexpectedly called back, within seconds Zeld was dragging me along by the leg.

(now they find Majora's trap game and somehow everyone's returned to be sucked in, sorry Zeld but you were taking a while)

This message was edited by Murray3 on Mar 30 2008.

tl;dr

so liek, neways, Zledman was REALY wants to play FF, and, liek, evry1's leik 'NO WAI! LOL', cuz they wnted 2 play SSBB (which iz SO TOTTALY AWSUM!!11!). So hes lik I'm gunna go Creama's cuz she iz nice an stuf.
So eh did, an', like ZOMG Shelly adn her wer TOTATLY MKAIN OWT!!one1! and Zledz liek wow, an' stuf, cuz lezbins r hawt!! amirite? NEWAYz, jus then, sumthin happen (I dun no wat 2 put heer ROFL!) ad Ezld hadt o leeve. Os, he lefted and tehn i see him and am liek Woha zeld? adn he's al liek Foxy adn im like nuh uh. he dunt unnerstand so i expain and thn he get its. so tehn he say letz B freinds, and I say YES (Cuz taht wuld be SO KOOL IRL!! Liek, OmG)
adn tehn Maorja (tha's HADR 2 SPEEL!) eated us aand were leik WTF.

(OH NOES! clifhagner!1!! i r teh greetesr, rite?)

(The King of modesty strikes again! April Fools, sigh)

Zeld and I climbed to the upper-most part of the tree, his portals didn't work properly between dimensions so he was forced to fly and carry me, who seemed to be thinking he was doing the flying as I was flapping my arms.
Zeld and I finally got to the piles of videogames that just kept coming, "Okay Murray I want you to look for Final, STOP EATING THOSE!" Zeld quickly grabbed my shirt and pulled me back I swalled whatever I had in my mouth and we started looking.
Minutes later Zeld had searched through an entire pile and not found a thing, "ZELD, ZELD!" I called.
"If it's not Final Fantasy then throw it away!" Zeld called back.
"Okay..." I said glumly throwing 'Super Smash Bros Diamond System' into my mouth and continuing to search.

One Hour Later (give or take an hour)

"Okay, it's safe to say Final Fantasy is... Cleaned out..." Zeld concluded, I was on top of a random pile dancing as Zeld shot me down and dragged me back home.
"IDON'TKNOWWHATWECAMEFORBUTITREALLYWASFUN, WESHOULDDOTHISAGAINSOMETIME, BUTNOTTOOSOONORTHENOVELTYWILLWEAROFF, ANDYOU'LLHAVETOBUYMEANEWONE!" I was saying as Zeld took absolutely no notice.
We were walking down a vine when suddenly a bright light shone from the side and Zeld had to cover his eyes, I however was attempting to run into the wall adjacent to it.
As suddenly as it had come the light vanished and Zeld saw within five feet, 'Final Fantasy VII' not even stopping to think for a second that this was a trap he grabbed the game and pulled me down the vine all the way home.

With the new copy of Final Fantasy in tow, the pair headed back the the Pudding. Zeld was growing increasingly impatient with Murray, who seemed quite content to walk not only slowly, but backwards as well.

"Must you do that?" Zeld asked, exhasperated. He was eager to get playing.

"Do what?" replied Murray, honestly confused by the question.

Zeldman opened his mouth as if to say something, but quickly caught himself. He knew better than to question Murray's logic. As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

"So, which game is that again?" Murray asked, which took Zeld comepletely off guard. Of course, that was less to do with the question itself, and more to do with the fact that Murray was now running in a circle around him, making cat noises.

"Uh...Final Fantasy..."

"Which one, mew?"

"Um...S-Seven..."

"Which one, Mrreow!" Murray pawed Zeldman's hat.

"the, or-original...hey, could you cut that out?" He was getting really annoyed.

"Yokai!" Murray gave a smart salute before returning to his march. Now he had taken to reciting the Bolivian national anthem, backwards, whilst juggling things that clearly were not there.

Ugh... We're almost there, Zeld thought to himself,I...think...?

Meanwhile, back on the Ranch...

"Wow, you guys have Final Fantasy Eight?" Zeldbro was filled with both surprise and excitement.

"We do?" Cremia was confused, "hmm, Romani must have picked it up, I guess." She shrugged and smiled. "Uh, enjoy yourself, then!"

Immediately, the young lad began setting everything up, as Cremia ascended the staircase. She needed to make sure...

(We haven't finalized all the charcters yet, have we? Oh, and yeah. Majora sent the games out)

This message was edited by foxyboxer on Apr 03 2008.