A boggy, peaty, slimy place with randomly crumbling areas wherein you might fall in and seriously... well, drown an earthy death. Loads and loads of herbs and plants grow here, as well as there being myriad wildlife of many, many different species.

::Link, astride Epona with Navi in tow (and unless I post differently, will always be with those two) trots into the forest and looks around.::

(There must be something around here.)

::He slips off Epona's back and goes to explore on foot, leaving her behind and heads to Mma. Zabobo's shack.::

::Epona bolts along with Trix and Link astride and, finally believing the dragon is gone, slows down to a trot, then a gentle pace.::

::Panting with anxiety, Link pulls on the reins to slow Epona more and gasps incredulously.::

"Is that thing a pet of yours??"

::Slightly out of breath from the bolt.::

"Well, not a pet exactly. A buddy, I suppose. There's no need to be scared of him. Gentle as a lamb."

::Making assumptions there. No doubt that'll come back to bite her on the ass.::

"Oh, I see. Just... last time I was up against a dragon, it was going to eat an entire civilisation of friendly mountain creatures called the gorons..."

::Link pauses throughtfully and steers Epona on.::

"Really I have no idea where to take you. I just assumed you wanted to go somewhere."

(Though the company is nice.)

::Nods::

"Right. Well, I've never seen this one do anything like that. I have nowhere in particular to go. Where were you going?"

(Ok, fine, he's be cute. Bad hair though. Curtains. Ew.)

"I uh..."

(Better ask the fairy.)

"Be warned. You're about to be very irritated. Navi?"

::Navi bursts out of Link's tunic with a squeal of

"Hey! Listen! Look!"

then she calms down and floats around.::

"How can I help?"

"Where're we headed next, Navi? This lady says... hm..."

::Letting go of Epona's reins with one hand, he lays it on her wrist.::

"Did you tell me your name before?"

"Er... no. I didn't. Helen."

::Holds out a hand.::

"What's yours?"

"Link, obviously not a very memorable name."

::He can't really shake her hand it being that he's sitting on Epona behind her, so just slides his fingers in between hers from behind and gives her a squeeze.::

"Anyway, yes, Navi... I don't know what to do."

"Sorry, I'm terrible with names."

::And remembering what's going on, apparently. The squeeze is nice though.::

::Noticing Link holding on to Trix's hand, Navi gets jealous and starts swooshing about for attention.::

(Little bitch.)

"I don't know. You were meant to go to the swamp and find something there but all you've found is rubbish."

::Navi floats into Trix's face and turns around disappears into Link's tunic.::

(Oooh, touchy. Just like in Peter Pan. With Tinkerbell. I could totally be Wendy.)

::She swats at the little bug... type... thing.::

::Link sighs as Trix misses Navi, who flew away into hiding.::

"Yeah she's... not very helpful. At all. Ever."

::He jostles Epona into a trot.::

"Well let's head back to the forest anyway."

::Off they go.::

::Flies in. Taking one look around her she flies off to the Cabin::

::Trudging through marshy terrain makes Tatum wince. Thinking it is a mistake to come to the swamp as she sinks 2 inches into the muddy ground, Tatum rushes for the nearby cabin.::

(Ewww... gross, gross, gross. This is soooo gross! Why did I ever come here?)

::Link runs into the swamp, heading towards the forest, pulling out his ocarina and playing Epona's Song.::

::With a neigh in the distance, hoofbeats get louder and closer as Epona appears and nuzzles into Link with affection.::

::Link swings up into the saddle.::

"Alright, we're going to go and find Helen."

::With a sharp cry, he kicks into the horse's sides and they set off, conveniently, towards CW Apartments.::

[Pih-tooey! Hey Kaden, enjoy swamping it up in the middle of the night!]

::Kaden is spat out into the swamp, falling into knee high mud and gunge. He grimmaces and attempts to extract himself from the goo.::

"Ok. Gross."

::Still dripping with thick lumps of... swamp stuff, he manages to find hard earth and avoid sinking.::

"Well, she was helpful, wasn't she..."

::He looks up at the dark sky and shrugs.::

(No time like the present)

::Not really knowing what to do, he raises his arms over his head and hopes, willing the weather to enhance in power or something. After a while of feeling highly idiotic, he lowers his arms to his sides.::

(How did I expect to enhance calmness exactly?)

::He shrugs and heads off towards a light in the distance, toward the Swamp Cabin.::

::Angelo appears as if from no where, landing face first in the swampyness.::

::Angelo gets up, wipes the swamp crap from his face and examines his surroundings before heading somewhere else, eventually ending up in the cemetary.::

::Whoosh! Petunius appears through a portal, dragging Lirie along with him, landing gracelessly straight into the middle of the swamp. Cursing and muttering under his breath, he gets up and wipes off ten kinds of crap off of himself.::

"Well this bites. At least we got out of that hellhole."

::Looks around.::

"Where exactly are we?"

:: Lirie hauls herself up, slapping off her a random goo-creature along wither disgusting swampy thingies ::

"Umm... in the less prosper part of the forest, I'd guess... Yuck!"

:: She looks up from where they've arrived, trying to detect a falling Abe amidst the treetops ::

"Where's the n00b?"

:: A slimey swamp monster with lots of tendrils for arms slithers under the surface of the swamp water near Lirie and Petunius. It does the Jaws peak out of the water at its victims, then slithers forward still under the water. It reaches out and wraps a tendril around Lirie's ankle and attempts to drag her under the water. ::

::Petunius' eyes widen as a random tendril grabs Lirie and starts to suck her under. Acting quickly, he grabs onto one of her arms and attempts to keep her on the surface.::

"You do...realise... that us and the forces of evil... are probably the only ones up so damn late in the whole of San Francisco."

:: Lirie GAHs in terror, grabing onto Petunius arm tightly out of her 'damsel in distress' instinct. She tries to kick off the thing that s around her ankle, but is unsuccesful, continuing to scream ::

"Getmeoutgetmeoutgetmeout! I'm too cute to be eaten by a disgusting sea-monster!!!"

::Still holding onto Lirie's arm, Petunius groans under the strength of the monster pulling her under.::

"I dunno if I can keep you up here for long..."

::He scans the immediate area, searching for something that he could use as a weapon. Not finding anything, he fumbles into his pocket with his free hand, pulling out an acid potion, which he almost drops as the vial dances elusively through his slippery fingers. Luckily and conveniently, he manages to toss it at the monster's tendrils and waits for the effects to take place.::

"Don't you groan, Mister. I am not that heavy!"

:: She cringes away when Petunius tosses the potion, expecting pain, goo and other unmentionables ::

"Yeah, try telling me that when I don't have to haul your fat ass out of a demented monster's hungry teeth."

:: The Monster bats the potion away from itself with another one of its slimey tendrils. Growling under the water, which causes bubbles to rise to the surface, it tugs on Lirie's leg harder and hits at Petunius with another one of its tendrils. ::

"My ass is not faaAAA!!"

:: Lirie screams louder as the monster tugs her harder ::

"Pet, I'm not dying by the hands of slimy monster, you hear me! GAH!"

:: Releasing one of her hands, she digs into the insides of her jacket, grabs three random potion vials and hurls them at the monster ::

(Die, you bloody bastard, DIE!)

[The monster grows to three times its size, stretches up, then turns to stone. Vines from the third potion creep around it, sliding into its mouth, and all over its stony body, until it just looks like a big viney rock. Lirie's foot is still caught in one of the stone tendrils, but it's a loose grip.]

"Bahaha!"

:: Lirie guffaws triumphantly at the monster, trying to yank her foot out of its grip ::

(And all it took was for me to think in Brittish, heh...)

"Hey, Pet... a hand here?"

:: She wriggles her foot a bit, feeling that the grip was loose ::

::Petunius gets up from the spot to which he was smacked to by the monster. Grabbing Lirie's arm, he drags her free from the vines' grip.::

"We have to get the fuck out of here."

::He looks around, trying to determine which direction to go in and once he's decided, he grabs Lirie's arm and sets off on a loong walk towards the forest.::

[The crown floats in and gently moves over to a largish frog sitting near the swamp. It rests on its head. The frog doesn't move, but maybe sighs a little.]

::Phoebe and crew walk in. She stares at the crown.::

"Um..."