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"Oranges?" Trixi asked hopefully.

Trixi clapped her hands in excited anticipation.

After finishing his depression fit that he had by himself over the loss of Andy, he went into the shower to hopefully feel even better. Silently, he wished that his wife was with him, but at the same time, he felt that it was better that he was alone.

The water washed away most of his sorrows. He felt like he had a good soak after about 20 minutes. He thought about what his brother would want. Andy would want him to remain strong and perhaps slow down on the drinking of the booze.

This gave Terry an idea of what might help even more. He went upstairs into the bar after getting himself re-dressed into some clean clothes and sat at his usual spot. He sat there for a few minutes looking around at the nameless customers and then went through the secret way into the kitchen part and got himself a pepsi inside of a Hercule mug. The mug made him giggle a bit as he knew the idea behind the mug. He had to hand it to Dee to make so many friends in this animated world that they lived in.

Rock thoroughly enjoyed this. It was what he needed to complete the journey, which was only 3 days away. They had 3 more islands to visit and the last one was where Grandma windwaker was going to be able to give them some yummy soup and he could also ask the old lady if she could have her grandson whose name was Link send some soup over to Empress Dee's lounge aka The Bogard Bar. This way the computer could make the soup so long as Dee had the ingredients in stock.

As he was relaxing however, he let out some gas that was hiding. Rock blushed when it happened and said, "Excuse me for that one. That one must have been deep."

It was true that Rock didn't mean to let one go, it just happened. An hour went by in what seemed like minutes and it was time to continue. The gorons provided Rock with a better boat and one equipped with a weapon for any nasties that might pop up. After all, they were going to pass the Forsaken Fortress where evil spirits still linger. And that was the next island they had to pass before reaching Outset. Once they reached Outset, then its just a little more ways South from there and they would hit dry land again and they could go home. In fact, if Rock didn't know beter, he would think that the magical chair would be hiding somewhere south of Outset just waiting under water.

"So, you two just about ready to start sailing again? We get some excitement as it will be a 2 day trip to our next stop. And this boat has a motor that we can use when we are asleep. It can keep us moving in a straight line. The cannon we have is on auto fire and will target any bad guy we see out there. Plus, we have an auto loot function too. So any goods we get from the bad guys will automatically be stored on the boat in this little box here."

Pointing to the wooden box by the motor, the girls would be able to see that it was currently empty. The cannon was on the other side of the motor complete with a small box of bombs that would be sucked up and lit then sent flying. And the bombs were actually bomb flowers, so they re-grow.

Rock laughed at Trixi being funny, and then answered his wife by saying, "The system has a built in record of who is bad and who isn't. Like, certain things it will fire because if it doesn't we die. Say a cannon will shoot at us in the forsaken fortress, well, our cannon recognizes that and takes it out. There are certain cannons that we have to avoid during our journey because of where they are. There are certain eye reefs, which are only cannons and yes, pirate ships too equipped with cannons. Hopefully we will see what is going on before we are targeted in our sleep. We can also go loot hunting if we want to by using manual settings by using the string at the back here. Pull the string, it sucks up a cannonball and we watch that sucker fly and hit something. Oh! I almost forgot...I somehow managed to get these when I got that food from mom. Its bait for the fish. We can use it for information. And if we are lucky, we might see Link Windwaker with his talking boat on these waters. But we might also see Tetra's boat on here and then we might have to do a little negotiating if that happens. They are pirates and are meant to be on these waters. They are the good kind of pirate so don't worry, our lives won't be in any danger. They protect these waters in exchange for being able to roam them freely. In a way, we are good pirates too, except we don't steal."

"Well, if there is a faster way to get home wouldn't you rather use that than have to travel two more days at sea? And the fish talk, well these ones do."

Just as he said that, there was clearly a fish nearby. Rock used some bait and the fish told them that even though there wasn't a faster way home, there was a way to get more money from the items they are getting. The fish said to go to Harvest Gardens when the next full moon hits and you will rake in the cash, enough to get that beehive and more. He also said that in order to make the cannon more efficient, place a bag onto the switch before going to bed.

Rock had already thought of the bag idea, but not the type of bag the fish said. It was even better. So, putting the sail back up, the trio was on their way passed the forsaken fortress. Thankfully, Rock figured out a way to get to the dangerous part of the island during the day so the girls could see the action of the cannon and it was as the fish said once Rock put the proper bag on the switch. They made triple the amount of loot and they got to see countless bad pirates go to "Davy Jones locker".

Once they were in safe waters once more, Rock turned on the motor and set the cannons to auto fire, silent mode. He would check the treasure chest in the morning when they arrived on Outset Island.

The treasure chest just held today's treasures and no new ones were added. When they arrived on Outset Island, Link's granny was waiting there for them. She was definitely an elderly lady who looked as sweet as can be. She had her hands held out holding 2 large bottles of special soup. Rock was just waking up when he smelled the soup. His tummy growled, which the old lady laughed. "Somebody is hungry." She said as she passed Rock one of the bottles.

Wasting no time, Rock downed the soup and loved every minute of it. Then granny passed Rock the second bottle and said, "For your treasure chest. Be sure this gets to Dee. She saved this island once from horrible monsters set by Gannon when my grandson was away and I know that she has a restaurant. She could use the recipe found in this soup."

"Thank you. So, to get to land, all I have to do is travel South passed the eye reef and I should be there?"

Granny nodded.

"There are still monsters on this island, you know. Most of them reside in the forest on the hill. If we hear Trixi shriek, we know why and it will be up to us to rescue her. I could make a sword from bamboo on this island, but it would be better if I see the old man that has steel blades."

Granny then told Rock of the tragedy that the old man and his brother passed away of old age. The weapons were still there, though. And so were the books. Rock then led Jinxi to the place with the books. He said, "In this room there are instructions of all types for simple self defense techniques. Nothing like what I can do, but they can help in a tight spot. And they can be fun. Look at this one... this one here shows you how you can roll into a wall unhurt and then you get to break stuff on shelves and get the loot from them. A long time ago, the kid that used to live here Link Windwaker, he was an expert at this technique. He's richer than me when it comes to breaking pots. Trixi would love to do this."