The Miracle

Tetra was correct; it was indeed a very long night. It started with Link crying out for his grandmother keeping all the other pirates awake. The only thing that got him to stop was for Tetra to sit on the bed and hold him gently in her arms. If she even tired to get up when she thought he fell asleep, he would start shouting again.

This kept him quiet till about halfway through the night, she was just dozing off when Link woke up from his uneasy sleep complaining about stomach aches. Luckily they weren't surprised when the boy started to vomit everything Tetra had managed to get him to eat, they were able to have a bucket ready for when it happened.

Link spent the remainder of the night dry heaving, and finally passed out just as the sun was coming up. The other pirates decided to go and sleep up on the deck, leaving Tetra and Link all alone below deck. Her eyes strayed toward the ceiling as she heard movement, this meant that the other pirates were getting up. After making sure that Link was indeed totally passed out, she quietly got out of the bed and snuck up to the deck.

Tetra was totally exhausted, she passed by her room on the way up and her limbs screamed at her to go lay down and sleep. She refused the urge and continued out the door, where the sun was shining brightly, "Good morning Miss Tetra, how's the kid doing?" Mako asked.

Tetra let out a sigh that sounded more like a groan, "He finally passed out," she announced.

"You look like you about to pass out yourself, maybe you should go and get some sleep," Gonzo suggested.

"No, no, I'm alright," Tetra reassured, this was followed by a yawn.

All the crew looked at each other like they didn't believe her, but wisely remained silent. The morning went by normally. Tetra stared out at the ocean, hoping by some miracle that she would see land off in the distance. The lack of sleep eventually got to her, Niko came over to ask her a question and she turned around to answer, but she never even saw his face before the darkness took her.

"Miss Tetra," Niko gasped as he saw the girl pass out right in front of him, he dropped to his knees and started to shake her, "Miss Tetra … wake up."

"Niko what did you do?" Senza demanded running over to where Tetra laid.

"I didn't do anything, she just collapsed," Niko defended himself, while Senza felt for a pulse.

"She must have fallen ill also; oh what are we going to do?" Niko cried.

"Don't be stupid, she only passed out from lack of sleep probably," Senza told the wailing Niko, "I'll go take her to bed," with that the large pirate easily lifted Tetra into his arms and went below deck.

When Tetra woke up again, she found herself on her bed in her room not remembering how she got there. She thought back to where she was last in her memory. Lets see, I was up with Link all night, then after he passed out I went out on deck, and then Niko was asking me a question and then … her mind went blank after that.

Realization slowly hit her, she must have passed out and one of her crew members carried her in here. A sudden noise that sounded like someone shivering made her look to her floor. She was surprised to see Link curled up on her floor, shivering violently, "Link!" Tetra shouted in alarm and quickly jumped off her bed and fell to her knees in front of the blonde boy, gently shaking him.

"Link … Link wake up," she called softly.

The hero of winds groaned softly and blearily opened his glassy blue eyes to look at the female pirate, "T-Te…tra," he muttered weakly before the horrible cough took his voice.

Tetra was surprised to actually hear him call her by her actual name, when every since he became ill, he'd think that she was his grandmother. She took this as a good sign and smiled, "Hey kid, nice to know you recognized me."

Link sat up slowly, still shivering and looked around the room looking lost and confused, this made Tetra start to worry again, "Where am I?" Link asked with his voice clearly cracking

"You're on the floor of my room," Tetra replied.

The ill hero gave a sharp shiver and wrapped his arms around himself, "I'm … c-cold," he complained and let out a few horrible sounding coughs.

"I'm not surprised," Tetra replied with a warm sympathetic smile, "You were sleeping on the cold floor of my room, and you're also very sick."

Link whimpered softly, leaning back against Tetra and she wrapped her arms around him comfort, "Come on," she spoke up, "Lets get you back to bed."

The blonde girl stood up and helped Link get to her feet, pulling his arm over her shoulder so that he could put most of his weight on her. Together they slowly made there way down the steps to where the his bed was. She helped him lie down and pulled the blankets over him, "Do you want anything to eat? Niko made some bone soup yesterday."

"I hate that stuff," Link replied.

"I know," Tetra agreed sympathetically, "But its good for you, and should make you feel better." Link groaned in a whining fashion but eventually agreed. Tetra was able to coax him into eating all of it and he eventually fell asleep.

The days passed by slowly, Link continued to get worse. His fever raged endlessly, his cough got so bad he started coughing up tons of blood, and he would shiver uncontrollable taking away whatever strength he had left.

But something else was happening. Tetra would spend endless hours by Links bedside. When she got tired to looking out at endless ocean, she would stare at his pale face. While doing this she would think about the two of them; though she usually didn't feel like it, Tetra knew that she was a princess. And Link was a hero, they both held a part of the sacred triforce.

She unconsciously looked down at the back of her left hand, she couldn't see it; but nevertheless, she knew it was there. Her eyes strayed toward Links left hand, the symbol was also invisible. Tetra eyes went back to the pale boys face, "You got to pull through Link, you have to," she pleaded to his unconscious body.

Could she be falling in love with him?

"No," Tetra told herself out loud, "I can't be falling in love with him, its impossible."

A week had passed by since Link had fallen ill, and a sorrow had fallen upon the ship. Though none dared to admit it in front or there captain, they all knew that Link wouldn't make it back to the next island. Tetra especially knew this but refused to admit it, Link had gotten so sick that he could barely stay awake long enough to drink anything, and his fever had reached dangerous levels, if it got any higher then it was time to fear brain damage.

"Do you think we should bury him out at sea, or wait until we land," Niko suddenly spoke up. The ship had been dead silent for almost an hour.

"Shut up Niko, if Miss Tetra heard you say that, you would be the one buried out at sea," Gonzo shot at the rooky pirate.

Zuko was at his post on top of the crow's nest, looking through a telescope. He saw no point in doing this, because it was impossible for there to be land at this point. But then suddenly he thought he saw something off in the distance … Land? It couldn't be.

He zoomed in on the speck to get a better look, and sure enough it was an island coming up. Completely bewildered but at the same time ecstatic he yelled as loud as he could, "LAND HO!"

Gonzo looked up at the crows nest in shock, "Zuko, what are you talking about, you must be seeing things."

Tetra was down below deck, she also heard Zuko yell, Did he say land, that's impossible, I must have heard wrong. But then he heard it again, "LAND HO!"

That's it, she had to find out what was up. Placing a cold compress back on Links head, before gong back up on deck. "What's going on up here?" she asked.

"Miss, I've spotted land," Zuko yelled down to her.

"Zuko, you better not be playing a joke on us," Tetra threatened.

"Its true miss, come see for yourself."

A sigh escaped Tetra's lips as she started to climb up the ladder, "I swear if this is a joke to try and cheer me up, that you're a dead man," she muttered as she reached the top and snatched the telescope from Zuko and looked through.

She looked in the direction that Zuko was pointing and zoomed into the speck. That's not possible, "It is land," she cried out happily, "There's an island off in the distance," she yelled down to the rest of the crew.

Unbelieved looks passed all of the crews faces and they ran over to the side of the ship to see if they could see the land, even Gonzo left the wheel, "Where is it, I don't see anything?" Senza asked.

"I see it, I see it," Mako called out.

The entire ship rejoiced at the site of the island, there was still a chance for the hero. As they sailed closer, it was announced that the island was Dragon Roost Island. It took forty-five minutes to reach the island. Once they reached the island they were greeted by prince Komali.

They had docked the ship next to the small island and put the gangplank down, Senza already had Link in his arms bundled in a blanket by the time they reached the island.

"Hello Princess Tetra," Komali greeted as Tetra walked off the gangplank, the prince Rito didn't know much about what happened to her and Link but he did find out that Tetra was a princess, "It's nice to see you guys again."

"Sorry Komali, but there's no time for chat, Link is really sick and he needs help fast," Tetra explained urgently.

Komali's face etched with worry, "Oh no, come on up inside, I'll fly ahead and warn everyone," he said and flew off toward his home.

By the time Tetra and the pirates had made it inside, the other Rito's were ready for them, Prince Komali's father took Link from Gonzo's arms with word and headed off into another room, followed by several other Rito's. Tetra was the only one of the pirates that followed him also.

The Rito's seemed to know exactly what to do, Komali's father told Quill to go to Windfall Island and get potions. While they waited for him to get back, they gave Link a cold bath, in an attempt to bring his fever down. By the time they were finished with that, Quill had returned with the potions and somehow they managed to coax the hero of winds into drinking them.

Tetra was just standing around with nothing to do, so eventually she excused herself and waited outside with the other pirates. They all just stood around, some pacing, some standing, and some sitting for one agonizing hour. Finally Komali's father came out to give them a progress report.

"Well, his fever is no longer at harmful levels," he announced, at this everyone of them gave a sigh of relief, "But it has not broken yet, he is still confused and is not sure where he is."

"Is he going to be ok," Niko interrupted.

"It is too soon to tell, his fever could go up again, we will just have to wait and see if he can pull through," the Rito King explained, and at the look on the pirates faces he added, "Do not be discouraged, he is doing much better then when he first arrived, and that is progress."

Later that night Tetra was looking over her sea charts, confusion laid on her facial features, "Hey Gonzo, come over here," she called to her larger crew member.

Gonzo walked over to where Tetra was sitting and looked down at the sea chart she was looking at.

"Look at this," Tetra started pointing to a small island on the map, "This is Mainful island, the last island that we saw. And from there, we had been sailing for almost a month, which would have us somewhere around here." Her finger moved over to point at some open ocean, "And we're now at Dragon Roost Island, which is way over here," she now pointed to an island on a completely different sea chart, "Even if we started at Mainful is would take us almost a year to get back to this island, yet we got here in a week, it's impossible to get here in a week."

"And yet here we are," Gonzo said.

"But it doesn't make sense, what did we do? Go through time? Get hit by a cyclos when we were all asleep?" Tetra asked.

"Miss Tetra, I know what this is called."

"What?"

"It's called a miracle."

Tetra shook her head no, "That's impossible, miracles only happen in fairytales, and this is realty."

"I don't know," Gonzo reasoned, "Because I think we just witnessed one," After saying that Gonzo walked away leaving Tetra to ponder on his words.

Three days after they arrived, Tetra was woken up by Niko. She had different sleeping quarters from the rest of the pirates, because she was a girl, "Miss, Miss Tetra wake up!" Niko cried happily shaking her awake.

"Niko, you better have a good reason for waking me up," Tetra said not happy about being woken up from her beauty sleep.

"There is Miss, his fever has broken," Niko explained with excitement.

At hearing those words Tetra was awake at once, "It has, really."

"Yes it's a sure sign that he's going to be ok, and he's awake and aware now, so you can go and seem him."

Tetra was out of bed in a second, she shooed Niko out of the room so that she could change. She threw on some close without really looking at them and dashed from the room. Once she reached Links room, relief beyond words she felt at the sight of Link sitting up in bed, still looking pretty out of it, but looking better than he had since he came down with the illness.

"Tetra!" Link cried out seeming just as happy to see her as she was to seem him.

The lady pirate without words, walked over to Links bed and gave him a tight hug, "You stupid kid, don't you ever scare me like that again."

"I'll try not to," Link replied returning the hug.

The pirates stayed at Dragon Roost Island for another week, so that Link could recover fully. Tetra spent most of her time in Links room, and that feeling of love didn't leave here, there were many times the two of them would blush and look away from each other for no apparent reason. They both seemed to be in denial about there feelings.

At the end of the week Link was finally about to leave his bed, and they started packing up to leave again. Quill was giving orders to Tetra about Links health, "Make sure he does not over work himself and he needs to drink lots of liquids, and his cough will linger for several weeks."

"Oh don't worry, he's going to barely lift a finger for awhile," Tetra explained.

"Oh come on Tetra, I'm not helpless," Link complained.

"You have no say in this, you almost died, I'm not about to let a relapse happen."

"ALL ABOARD!" Gonzo called meaning that they were ready to set sail.

"Come back and visit again," Komali said, "But make sure that your all healthy next time."

"I'll put that into consideration," Tetra joked as they boarded the ship.

They set the sails and the wind took them all, all the Rito waved to them as they sailed off. Link and Tetra waved back until the island was nothing but a speck, "I must have been out of it for a long time, for us to make it to Dragon Roost Island," Link commented.

Tetra only smirked, she didn't tell him about there miracle, there was no need to. "All right every one, we got a lot of ground to make up for … lets find out new home."

The End

Thanks for reading.

All right before you say it, I know that there was barely any romance in it. But I'm not a big fan of the love at first sight, I like the gradually falling in love. I'm considering a sequel but no promises. I might have rushed the ending a little, its just that I'm really bad at writing short stories, everything I write down wants to turn into a novel. Hope you enjoyed it, remember to leave reviews.

Until next time, God bless you all.