Ghosts Of The Abyss: Chapter 20

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Good news, everyone! After a long, insane trek, we are nearly finished with this horrible wank-fest! Just ten chapters left! Once again, I shall be playing Kate and Link, who can't seem to catch a break, will be playing Barbossa

Link: *examining himself in costume* Do you think the Props Department will notice if I stole this hat? It's really nice!

ZeldaQueen: Personally, I like your green one better

Link: That's because you never wore it when it was a really annoying and chatty wizard. The negative memory association, I'll tell you...

ZeldaQueen: Well, let's talk about that after this performance

THE CURTAINS RISE FOR...

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Chapter 20

Kate: Here we are, just two days away from Shipwreck Cove. I happen to know that Beckett is planning to invade, because I'm awesome like that. Fortunately, I'm armed with a dead herring and will begin to beat the readers with how the pirates will all surely fight to the death for their freedom and never, ever let Beckett win. Isn't this much better than Stephenie Meyer's writing? She wishes she had dead herrings like this! I mean, total dead herring envy!

Barbossa: My eyes are intent. Are you sure you want to go to Shipwreck Cove?

Kate: I don't see why not. I'm one of the nine pirate lords, after all, seeing as Gethesemane wrote out Elizabeth being named as Sao Feng's successor

Barbossa: Yeah, but are you really, really, sure?

Kate: Um, yeah. My public needs me, after all

Barbossa: I mean really, really, reeeeeeeeeeally -

Kate: What are you getting at? And why are you so nervous? I'm so bothered by how uncharacteristic it is, that I must spell "uncharacteristic" incorrectly

Barbossa: Well...it's just "that gypsy". You know, Calypso? Even though she's technically not  a gypsy and I'm not even sure that a pirate in the Caribbean waters in this time period would know the term "gypsy" -

Kate: Yeah, I know. She wants to kill me when she's released. I guess she wants the satisfaction of having the official title of "Sea Goddess", because it's really not explained why she doesn't just use her magic to kill me now, but whatever

Barbossa: That's it. I don't want you to join us at the meeting because we need all nine Lords to agree. I guess I just can't refuse to release her, since she's apparently weak enough in human form to be locked up and killed or whatever, but Gethesemane must remind her readers how I'm now whipped into only worrying about you

Kate: Oh, don't worry. There's no way I'd let a canon female dare to become more powerful than me. I'm going to just steal Elizabeth and Jack's idea and urge the Brethren Court to fight Beckett

Barbossa: Worthy cause, but you've got other reasons, right? I mean, it's not like you've done anything else in this fic purely out of altruism - erm, I mean, I have a feeling

Kate: Bluh what? No, no, certainly not! I have no ulterior motives, and it's certainly not because I am now in love with Davy Jones and want to free him from the dreadful bonds of canon, nope! There's nothing between us, nothing at all!

Barbossa: Whatever. You two totally have the hots for each other

Kate: Not at all! If I murder his canon love interest though, it'll...free him from his curse. Yeah. That's how Gethesemane's justifying it, anyway. So I'm going to do that. It really makes me look brave and heroic and certainly not like an insane yandere like Alex Forrest. Anyway, I've almost gone for the entire chapter without wangsting about my pregnancy, so I'll just do that now

Barbossa: Huh, I figured you were pregnant. Apparently was the only on. "At least we know it's Jack's", because after all, pirates are notorious for being faithful lovers

Kate: "At least I've done one thing right"

Barbossa: Allow me to brush aside your token acceptance of your mistakes to disagree. "You don't know how many lives you've saved, or how many you will save as a consequence of fighting for the freedom of every man who calls himself pirate. Your father would be proud of ye, that much is certain". Or, you know, I'm sure he would be if he wasn't busy being in At Stranger Tides. Anyway, I've pretty much replaced Will and Elizabeth entirely, so good on you *walks off, leaving the Sue alone with her thoughts, so quite alone*
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Comments

[carmyn]

*yawn* I'm bored. When will something interesting happen?

So...when do you think LOZ: Skyward Sword will be released? I know it's suppose to be after the 3DS version of Ocarina is going to be released but...I iz impatient! (Sorry, Link totally reminded me of it.)

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

Interesting things happen soon, but I'm not looking forward to it. -_- In Gethesemane's case, "interesting" goes hand-in-hand with "raping canon in the most infuriating ways possible".

Oh, I hope it comes out soon! :D I'm so looking forward to it. ^_^ I don't think there's been a Zelda game yet that's been a disappointment. I mean, they aren't perfect but they've all brought something fun up and I can't wait for this one! XD

(Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks that the LOZ hasn't been REALLY scary since the OOT/MM graphics? Maybe it's because of how vaguely-defined the graphics were, but I haven't been very scared since. I mean, when I saw the ReDeads in OOT, I darn near wet myself and it was years before I worked up the courage to do the Well the whole way through. In TP, I didn't even know that one thing in the Arbiture's Grounds was supposed to be a Redead until I saw Link shaking O_o)

[carmyn]

Blargh.


I wasn't a big fan of the cartoonish-style Zeldas. That's just me though. My sister and I can't wait for the new one, it's kind of the thing we do together :D.

(My sis and I called those the humping zombies. We HATED them...because they scared us half to death. Could be the graphics in OOT but I don't have many complaints about it for TP. I LOVED TP.)

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

Eh, I wasn't a huge fan of the cartoon graphics, but I did like the items and dungeons enough to overlook it. I am glad that the TP branch of the timeline kept the more serious graphics, though. ^^;

Oh lord, I didn't know what they were when I first ran into them! I really was an idiot. I was playing OOT, and I honestly had no idea how Zelda games worked. It was a rented game, and I fell down the Royal Family tomb in Kakariko Graveyard. I went into the second room and saw a humanoid figure. "Well," said I, "It must be a person! I shall go talk to them!" Cue two seconds later, as Link freezes, the most terrifying scream ever comes out, and I nearly die from shock. Also, because I was an idiot, I mistook the rape/strangling for it being some tormented person trying to get Link to help them. Yeah, I REALLY didn't know how Zelda games worked. Link died, of course, and I didn't go down that tomb again for months.

[carmyn]

I heard that 'Skyward Sword' was going to have a bit of the cartoonish graphics for the enemies but the people and everything else would be of the same branch of OOT/MM/TP, including the proportions. What I've heard of it, it's going to be amazing. Everything is a dungeon! Including Hyrule Field!

LOL. My sister and I first saw them getting that song in the grave (the one that freezes the little bastards!). We heard the groaning before seeing them and were all 'uh oh' and then one attacked me and Link died and I had to get my friend to go through for me. I still hate the humping zombies, I can't stand the moaning. The ones in WW were kind of creepy with the screaming. Actually, my sis and I never knew the names for any of the enemies (except bosses) so we made up new names for everything. Hence why we call the ReDead Humping Zombies (because they hump you to death!). :D. We are dorks. They are also the reason why my sister never played a Zelda game (except WW I think) she always hated the ReDead so I had to play >.<.

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! XD It looks fantastic! I actually asked my brother, and he predicts that the game will be out by Christmas of this year. If that's the case, I'm going to be one happy puppy! XD

Also, apparently Link's going to be about twenty in this. I predict a BIG spike in Mary Sues in Hyrule.

My brother and I both were terrified of ReDeads, so I'd play and we'd both kind of hover around, whimpering and going "Okay, go on in" "Are you sure it's alright?" "Yes, it's fine. There's none in OH SWEET JESUS THERE'S ONE!!!" AHH! WHERE?!?" "No, wait, that's an iron maiden" "Stupid graphics -_-" I was freaked out by the screaming of the WW ones, but the designs...meh. The gold hoop earrings kind of made me crack up. XD

[turtlecrackers.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn. I remember going down in the tomb and just hearing the ReDeads groaning... Just knowing that there was something down there made me go and play with the Cuckoos for a little while longer. XD then again, the character design was pretty creepy for a lot of the characters in OoT and MM. Like the boss of the builders. His mouth... I thought he was going to leap out of the screen and eat me.

Oh, I thought the Ooccas in TP were scary as hell. XD Creepy little bird-things...

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

I was playing Majora's Mask just a few minutes ago, and I was in the canyon level and had to run by the Gidos who were turning that guy into one of them. I got by just fine, but when I was on the boardwalk over them I got the bright idea to hit one with a fire arrow. He was set ablaze and turned into a ReDead and started ambling IN MY DIRECTION! I mean, I was well above him and he shouldn't have been able to see where I was at all, but he would look around like he was trying to find me! I killed his rotting ass deader than dead and got the Music Box house turned on, pronto! O_O

For some reason, the Ooccas never frightened me. I think it was because of element of companionship. One of the things about dungeons that freaks me out is that it's pretty much just you in there alone, so finding something that'll talk to you and not try to kill you is pleasant. That, and it was rather ridiculous. XD Although I did jump whenever I'd see her head peeking out of the various pots you found her in!

[turtlecrackers.livejournal.com]

o_o Holy crap, that's creepy!
... I really need to play Majora's Mask. I haven't played it in over a year now. I'm so glad I got it on the virtual console.

XD I thought the Ooccas were seriously creepy. The first time I saw Ooccoo, my first reaction was to drop the controller and back away from the TV.
I had a hard time going through the sky city and dungeon because they were everywhere! To the point where I started trying to knock them off the wall if they were in my way. XD "Nyaaah... Go away, you creepy, creepy things!"

[arynia.livejournal.com]

...Is something going to happen soon? Don't get me wrong, your sporking is hilarious, but...seeing as Gethsemane is determined to be rid of any of the awesomeness that comes with Calypso, Will and Elizabeth, is she actually intending to do anything to make up for it?

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, something is going to happen soon. Yes, Will and Elizabeth will not be present and Calypso will be hugely Scary. Thankfully the fic will be over not long after.

[greenerygripes.livejournal.com]

*snoring in boredom*
Zzz--jhfs huh? Oh, sorry, this is just so boring. (This fic, not the snark.)
My nitpick: "the official title of 'Sea Goddess?'" Uhm...what? The way that's worded, it sounds like "goddess of the sea" can be handed off to anyone. Oh God, please don't let it be so...

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

No, no, Kate's not becoming a goddess! ^^; Don't worry. All I meant was that even though Calypso's supposed to be in human form and whatnot right now, she apparently still has access to her various magic powers. So my point is that if she's so Scary, why not just kill Kate right now? Why go through some convoluted plan to become goddess again, instead of just doing it?

[katistrophe.livejournal.com]

Whuh? We're at Shipwreck Cove already?
...At least she didn't mangle Norrington's death scene. Then I might've destroyed my laptop.