"Sea Salt" (Patreon)

Backer reward for BlueGanon! We were requested to write and draw some Pirate AU Ganondorf and we kinda got carried away, so we have more of this planned! Anyways, here's a little one-shot. (Junior also has made some character designs and will post them later!

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The wind was freeing. They pulled at the sails, moving the ship along the ocean. Creeks and songs filled the atmosphere as the waves crashed against wood.

Link breathed in the salty air, letting the wind to tussle with his blond hair as he propped his foot on the railing. He rested his elbow on his knee, leaning forward to get closer to the never-ending blue.

“Careful there. Don't want you to meet Davy Jones at this early age.”

Link turned around to see the captain of the ship smiling at the wheel. His red dreadlocks were pulled back by a headband, half of it in a high ponytail. Muscles rippled through his frame, visible through his open vest and was kept that way to intimidate (and sometimes seduce) his foes. Not that it did its job at the moment.

“Stop worrying, old man,” Link shrugged as he kicked off the railing and walked to large Gerudo. “I'm too talented to die.”

“Oh, please.”

The two men turned to their prisoner as she spoke, glaring at them face-on with both her hands tied to the ship’s flagpole.

“You guys are the most useless pirates I have ever seen. You guys kidnap me then what? You sail out to sea on this raft without leaving any type of note? How the hell is my father going to know where I am? This has to be the most under-planned strategy I have ever heard!”

“Wha-” Giving Link the wheel, Ganon stormed up to the tied up brunette, pointing an accusing finger at her. “Now listen here, you harlot!” He got right up to her face. “The Sand Spirit is NOT a RAFT. She's the finest ship in the seas!”

“Excuse me? How dare you compare me, a princess, to those whores you hang around!”

That was it. He snatched her by the collar of her blouse, growling, a scowl extenuating his glowing, golden eyes. He was going to beat the shit out of this royal wise-ass and he was going to enjoy every minute of it. He readied his hand, his nails slowly turning into claws-

“Woah there! Hey!” Link jumped in front of Ganon, hands up with a disarming smile. “No need to kill the annoying prisoner. We need her for money, right?” The look Link gave him had a different conversation to it; the one only the two ever share.

The glow in Ganon’s eyes faded as he relaxed his position. He let go of the brunette’s collar and stood up, looking down and sighing softly in shame. “Yeah… money.”

“Hey, idiots.”

Link turned sharply to their prisoner when she spoke. “And YOU! You are no better,” he pointed at her, “Who knew such a dainty princess could have such a foul mouth.”

The girl half closed her eyes cynically. “You really are stupid, aren't you?”

Both pirates lifted their eyebrow in confusion. “Huh?”

At first she didn't say anything, but her life was on the line. She looked to the blond. “If you are here… then who's driving the ship?”

Pause.

“OH SHIT!”

They scrambled over each other trying to get the the wheel that was now spinning out of control, but it was too late. A sudden lurch knocked over everyone in the ship, telling them they hit a massive rock.

“LINK, YOU FUCK! YOU HAD ONE JOB AND NOW THERE IS A HUGE HOLE IN MY SHIP! YOU ARE NEVER DRIVING AGAIN!”