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"Hello. So what exactly am I missing? Are you trying out for Roar? Pretty sure I haven't seen you around before."

"Roar... We have practice today."

"Yep," Lonnie said. "Had chad polishing the swords all morning. So you know, heads up, he's in a bad mood. Well, worse than just the reminder that his Captain is a woman usually puts him in, anyway."

Jay snorted. "Given how he follows her royal pinkness around you think he'd be used to it by now. Actually caught up in something for Mal and Ben at the moment."

She crossed her arms. "What is it with the lot of you. Anyone kidnapped this time?"

"We're not sure yet," Jay said with a shrug.

Lonnie sighed and shook her head. "Get to practice when you can. Bring the new kid."

“I’m actually trying to get home,” Link said apologetically.

"Oh?" Lonnie asked. "Where are you from?" She sheathed her sword.

“Hyrule.”

He didn’t expect anyone to recognize his homeland by this point.

“I was brought here accidentally.”

"Like you got on the wrong plane or something?"

“What’s a plane? I was just summoned here magically. By accident.”

"Summoned accidentally by magic?" Her glance flicked to the girl that was behind Jay.

"Not me!" Freddie said quickly. "I only do big things that get me in trouble when CJ is around. I'm just along for the ride."

"Mal?" Lonnie guessed.

“Something about a wish for a hero.....”

Link felt uncomfortable, and it showed on his face.

"A wish. Ah, Jordan then." She nodded and then frowned thoughtfully. "Wait, someone needs a hero? What's wrong this time?" her hand rested on the hilt of her sword.

"Besides this kid not being allowed to rip the king a new one?" Freddie asked, amused. "Seriously, that could have been fun." When the other tow glare dat her she shrugged. "What?"

“Apparently there’s a song about wishing for heroes?”

Freddie was rewarded with a small, quick, grin. “Look, those kinda laws would hurt a lot of people and spirits I know back home. So, I get a little defensive.”

"...oh. Let me guess," Lonnie said with a sigh. "Ally. Love her dearly, but that girl..."

"Doesn't have the sense that fell out of a prince's pockets?" Freddie suggested as an ending.

Lonnie shook her head. "I'm just glad she didn't try out for roar. The thought of her with a sword is terrifying. Speaking of, I can cancel try outs if you guys need my help," she offered.

Jay shook his head. "And give Chad more of a reason to chew on us when I'm not allowed to hit him? No thanks. Best you can help is keep Chad away from us till we can get blondie here home."

Lonnie nodded. "Okay, will do. But I'm keeping my cell on. Some big crisis happens you better call me. No more trying to run off and save people without me."

"I'm a VK, we don't save anyone." Jay said, sounding offended.

"Uh huh. I'll just go ahead and tell Uma and Ben that we didn't actually just dave the king from her and her pirates then?" She grinned then jogged off.

"That was different," Jay muttered.

“Could I borrow a sword?”

If he had been summoned from anyplace other than his bedroom, this wouldn’t have been a problem.

“Normally, I have my own. I’ll give it back before I leave—-oh! I could buy one! I have rupees, see?”

Link held out a handful of the gemlike currency.

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Jay eyed the rupees curiously, as did Freddie. Perhaps not the best people to have shown his money off to. "We'll see what I can do about that," Jay said with a casual smile. "For now, let's get onto the Tourney field."

Coming from a world where money was left in everything from grass to trees, Link didn’t see the harm.

“Alright....just long enough to get a sword. Then, I’m going to try a few more songs.”

"That is what we are going there for, your... music or whatever."

"Hey, things have a balance, if music brought him here, maybe it's not so odd that it might take him back. Tell ya what blondie, pay me enough and I'll do a reading to see if it'll work."

“Sure. Fifty seem fair?”

Link offered an assortment of red and blue rupees.

“I occasionally get dreams about the future, but, only super bad stuff.”

Having no clue the going rate, Freddie was non the less Freddie. "Call it seventy five and you've got a deal."

“Sixty.”

Ten more green stones.

"Sixty five." She held out her mini top hat like she expected him to put the gems into it. She was possibly wondering where she would actually keep them, though. She seemed to lack his hammer space.

“Okay. Deal.”

He swapped out green for blue and red only, pleased, because for a reading he’d have paid one hundred.

"Oh no, I want change made so I get all the colors," she said, scowling. He was that happy she clearly could have negotiated harder. Well, she'd find something else he wanted and sell that to him too.

Link tilted his head and added two green rupees.

“They’re only worth one.”

"Then that's fine. But I need them all..." yeah they're not going to fit in her hat. She swung her knapsack off and held it open. "Trick or trick," she said. Then she looked to Jay. "If even one goes missing I will spit you in your sleep."

“Nice try. I just gave you two extra than we agreed on,” Link laughed, unbothered.

She laughed. "I meant put them in the bag idiot. And that I wanted those two extra so I had all the colors. Unless there was a color I'm missing still?"