smashacademy | Exploration!

[Spring Break means Samus is not obligated to be on campus for any reason.

...Other than to pick up her previous paycheck. ~~She really should look into direct deposit one of these days.~~ With every intention of not staying any longer than need be, her boots take swift and determined strides down the hallways and towards the faculty mailboxes. Mission get in, get out; simple as that. No distractions. No... sudden curiosity at the smashing, crashing clattering sounds coming from one of the ceramic art rooms down the hall...

Yes, that appeared to be... Link? One of the Links. A Link.

Smashing pots. Making a big mess all over the floor.]

...What are you doing?

[Asked the blonde woman in casual attire standing behind him, one hand on her hip. Her tone carried somewhere between unamused, confused and disapproving all the same]

[Link paused with a pot held over his head and turned to look at the woman. She was really pretty, too. ~~So many pretty girls here!~~]

Looking for treasure.

[That out of the way, he threw the pot against the floor and watched it break apart.]

[Samus made no effort to stop him and simply raised a brow. His response seemed...]

Treasure?

[...really innocent. Still, careless destruction of personal property wasn't a good habit for one so young to get into. ~~Samus was speaking entirely from experience.~~]

You won't find treasure in there.

[Link looked up at Samus, then back down at the broken pot, then the expanse of other broken pots, then the handful of pots yet to be broken and finally back to her.]

I still haven't broken them all. I might find treasure in those ones!

[He was very optimistic about his chances.]

[Innocent or really dense, Samus couldn't quite decide. The woman seemed to ease from her intimidating stance, taking consideration of his words and approached what few pots remained. She shall humor him.]

Hn.

[Pot number one, she hefts up and turns upside down, giving it a shake or two for good measure. Nothing falls out!]

[What is this sorcery?

Link shook his head.]

No. You have to break it to get what it's hiding. Otherwise you can't get it out.

[He picked up a pot and promptly smashed it against the ground to demonstrate.

...oddly enough, a cartoonish, pink heart popped out and floated slowly down to the ground. Link grinned and pointed at it.]

See?

[...WHAT IS THIS SORCERY. Samus can safely say, in all her destructive space box shootings and space pirate disintegratings, she had never seen a delicate little pink heart float out of a broken pot.

Should she touch it...

Curiously, and with a hypocritical lack of remorse for the pots she was originally trying to save, she picks another one up and smashes it on the ground.

Behold in its shattered remains: a single green rupee.]

What is that?

[Link's face lit up like it was Christmas and he hurried over to the rupee to grab it before it disappeared on them.

((You got a Green Rupee! That's worth 1 Rupees! Don't spend it all in one place!))

Link held it out to her. She had destroyed the pot it had been hiding in, so it was technically hers ~~Even if he wanted to shove it in his wallet and never look back~~]

It's a rupee. You buy things with it.

So this is what you meant by treasure...

[She inspects the gem over in her hands, imagining it to be worth more than it actually was. She almost... wants to go smash some more pots to see what else is inside.]

I imagine you don't know how much it's worth in space credits, do you?

[Link shook his head.]

It's a green rupee so it's only worth one rupee. Blue rupees are worth five and red are worth twenty.

[~~Link took forty rupees. He took 40 rupees. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.~~

So it's at the bottom of the rung then, huh? She pockets the jewel and decides to keep it anyway.]

And you get all these from smashing pots...?

And cutting grass, too!

[The School's lawn had been pretty immaculately trimmed the last couple days.]

And cutting grass too.

[Just repeating that aloud because. That sounds as incredulous as breaking pots. And it actually working. ...Well. At the very least she can't argue with immaculate lawns.]

Is that all?

Well, sometimes when monsters die they drop hearts... but usually it's just the pots and grass... oh! But some rocks are like that, too. You can throw them against a wall or the ground and they'll break apart the way pots do. Sometimes they'll have treasures, too!

[ Furiae had decided to leave her room for a short walk- and she hadn't expected at all to hear that crash from the broom closet. Not that she knew it was a broom closet until she investigated the noise, opening the door to where the young Link could be found.

And to see the sight of the young boy, the shattered pottery before him-- ]

Are you alright?!

[Link turned to look at the newcomer, blinking in confusion at her alarm.]

...

[He looked down at the pottery, then himself, patting his body to check for any scrapes or bruises he may have somehow missed before looking to her once more.]

yes?

[ She couldn't see why he would be in here in the first place, but his response did make her feel better. Some. ]

Did you become lost? Here- [ Furiae moved some from the door, allowing him some room to leave if he would. ] You shouldn't be inside this room. If you are in need of anything, an adult will help you.

I'm not lost.

[He shook his head and then frowned as she said he shouldn't be in there. He made no move to try and leave.]

But the door opened.

The door opened?

[ His words had her curious. What did he mean...? ]

I tried opening the door and it opened.

[Because doors he wasn't supposed to go into wouldn't open, duh.]

[ What is this amazing logic?! ]

Was there something that you needed?

[Link gave her a very confused look before pointing down at the broken crockery.]

I had to break that.

To break it? But why?

[ Still totally unsure of everything... ]

To see if it had any treasure inside.

[ Ah... ] If someone told you that, they were wrong. You will get into trouble if you are caught.

[Link frowned at her and gave her a look like she was stupid.]

No one told me that. I've found treasure before so I know I can. I just have to break it to find out.

[Ganondorf peers from his FCD TIMES newspaper in his class desk when he sees his garbage can has been split in two and all his papers are scattered everywhere. What in the three goddesses names...]

...what are you doing, kid.

[Had Link seen the face behind the paper before destroying the trash can - who throws out that much stuff in a can anyway? It doesn't go away if you do that! - he wouldn't have targeted the can at all. He would have done what he was now doing: Looking at the man with a slightly horrified but fascinated expression.

He knew that face! He'd seen it in his dreams. The man had been atop a dark four-legged creature, laughing at him before throwing some sort of magic to knock him back. The dream always ended there, with Link waking up shaken. Sometimes yelling. He didn't know who the man was, but he knew the man had to be a bad person.

All this was racing through his mind as he stared at Ganondorf, not saying a word, frozen in shock as he was.]

[The man. The terror. The terrible man that haunted his dreams, that could kill him if he wanted too at this age, opened his mouth and said....]

Pick up...the papers. I like my classroom clean.

[The man wasn't attacking him.

Link shook his head and rubbed his eyes for a moment as Navi flew from the other thing he'd ben looking at to destroy to the man at the desk. She floated around his head, glowing green and drawing Link's focus back to the man as he tried to figure out what was going on. She had nothing to say about him right then, but the fairy boy was still very wary.

The dreams had been haunting him for months, after all. Navi didn't know about them, or the details of them, anyway. But to Link, they were currently at the forefront of his mind.

And the man still wasn't standing up to attack him.

...

With a blossoming sense of embarrassment and more than a little uncertainty, Link knelt down to gather the scattered papers and then nervously offer them back to the man.]

[Good job! Now you have slightly less angered the Great King of Evil(tm) who does not look like he wants to do like your nightmares and hit you with a lightning bolt. You may also notice that unlike this dream guy of yours, this one seems to have a beard and weird...rolls of hair. Regardless, he's not exactly charming either but not quite like the prophetic dream.

He does, however, know what you are.]

I suppose Kokiri could survive outside of the Forest considering everything else I've seen in this school before. You look like a young version of Link, kid.

[Oh did I mention that the previous Link was someone Ganondorf enjoyed to tease, prank and relentlessly annoy? Consider your stars lucky that this is not happening and also that he's not quite as evil just yet.]

[He's eleven, Mister King of Evil. He doesn't know anything about you other than you have the same face as the bad guy from his dreams. ~~But now that he's going off more than surface looks, that nose is a heck of a lot different, wasn't it? Dreams are weird.~~

Of course, the words cause the fairy boy quite a bit of shock and worry. Since, well, his name was Link. And he didn't think anyone knew about the Kokiri. Because no one had seemed to know who they were up until now.]

You... you've met Kokiri before?

[~~Try any of that and he'll kick your shins mister!~~]

[This is why he wears SHINGUARD(tm) protection. At that comment, he stands up and walks from his desk to him to tower of him properly before leaning down.]

No.

But it would be ill advised of the King of the Gerudos not to be learned about all of the neighboring kingdoms around his domain, would it not?

[Truthfully, he's thought about going there, but he has no reason too. At least not yet. Perhaps if the negotiations with the King of Hyrule continue to be going down the slipper slope they have already started out on...]

[...

Tall.]

[Link backed away by half a step, his feet sliding unconsciously into a better position to defend himself - or run - if he had to, but did not otherwise back down.]

How did you find out about the Kokiri?

[Link had never heard about the outside 'wide world' before leaving the forest and there had never been visitors to it as far as he knew. It stood to reason in his mind that if he didn't know about the outside, the outside shouldn't know about the Kokiri.

Shinguards! His only weakness! *shakes fist at sky*]

[Don't you worry your little self silly Link, Ganondorf isn't out for blood today.]

Knowledge is Power, boy. I learned about all of the different races that popular Hyrule, the information is readily available for those who would seek it out.

[Nya nya nya too bad you were stuck in a forest against your will.]

[That didn't answer his question... okay it kinda answered it. But he was sufficiently uneducated that he continued in a similar vein of questioning.]

How did you learn about it?

[He wasn't stuck! He just didn't know he could leave!]

[And from behind him, a woman with the WEIRDEST HAIR]

Hey hey! You're doing it all wrong!

[~~What are you talking about? He's totally doing it right!~~

Link paused and looked over at the woman with hair. A sudden urge to climb up an see if it was a giant bird's nest furiously repressed as blinked back in surprise.]

Doing what wrong?

[Skull Kid was in a tree, waiting for unsuspecting passersby to lob pebbles at, and getting more bored by the second. After what seemed like an eternity, he heard someone nearby! He reached for a pebble to throw, but stopped when he saw who it was.

No.

Way.

He looked the part. He had the hat. He was even chopping through grass willy-nilly. But there was no way he would be here, right? Maybe he should get a closer look...

Skull Kid slowly climbed out of the tree and slunk closer to Link. First, he just stared. Should he say hi? Maybe he should say hi.]

...Hi.

[Whoa. A skull kid. Talking. To him. This was all really, really new. Usually the skull kids kept to themselves, playing their flutes, away from the Kokiri.

Link blinked at the kid in more than a little shock before lifting his left hand and giving a small wave.]

Hi.

[Oh gosh he's talking to him! Skull Kid regrets not having some crayons on him, otherwise there would be an art party right here and now. It occurred to him he wasn't sure what to say next. Skull Kid was used to people leaving and never coming back. It happened to him everywhere he went, even here. He never really thought about what you say when you DO see someone again.]

Um... how have... you been?

[One step at a time.]

I've been okay.

[Was this one of the skull kids from the lost woods? Had this kid seen him when he was out foraging for the village perhaps?]

How have you been?

[HE REMEMBERS??]

I'm being good! I haven't done anything bad... well, um, nothing really bad, at least.

I left after you left, and I came here. Oh! did you ever go back? Sorry if I wasn't there.

[He left the forest after Link left? So he must have just arrived, too! ...wait, that would mean he followed Link out.]

...were you following me?

Nope! I was hiding up in that tree and I saw you walk by! If I was followin' you, you wouldn't know until it was too late! You out of anybody should know that!

[giggle giggle, good job missing the point, Skull Kid.]

[Would he? He'd never been stalked by a Skull Kid before... Maybe he wouldn't know until it was too late.]

Oh. Um... okay.

[All the unsure on this.]

Why were you hiding in the tree?

I was gonna jump out of it and surprise people!

[...then it occurs to him to add a disclaimer to that.]

B-but I wasn't gonna, you know, steal anything from them or anything.

That's good.

[Stealing is bad, mmmkay. ~~Unless it's Link doing the stealing~~]

Have you surprised anyone yet?

Exploration!

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

1/2

2/2

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject