Tasha and I sat on my bed, playing at least the ten billionth game of Mario Party in a lifetime. "Mario Party's getting so boring!" she said. "Let's play something else! Something that's not related to Mario!"
"The only other games I have that are not related to Mario are Harry Potter, Zelda Wind Waker, and Zelda Four Swords," I replied, also quite bored.
"Fine, let's start a new game of Zelda Wind Waker," said Tasha as she put the Wind Waker disk into the Game Cube. We played for a couple of hours, without stopping. Everything was fine until Link in the video game wouldn't avoid the sharks in the Great Sea, while on his way to the Forsaken Fortress to save his sister. "Kiki, there's something wrong with the game!"
"Just switch the controller Tasha!" I frantically searched for the other controller. "Aw crap! I left my other controller at Chellie's house! Just-"
"Kiki!" Tasha was pointing at the TV screen. It was flickering, but that wasn't what I was worried about. Link, in the game, had got his bombs out and was shooting accurately at the sharks and the battleships, which had just arrived. I was positive Tasha wasn't doing anything. As soon as the battleship was destroyed, what seemed to be purple smoke covered the flickering TV screen. It was normal for the battleship to burst into purple smoke, but smoke covering the whole screen?
"Mom?" I yelled, but I knew it was useless. My mom had stepped out to the grocery store. Tasha and I looked at the screen. I tapped it twice, hoping everything would become all right. Instead, somehow, the purple smoke escaped the TV. It burned my eyes and throat and I couldn't see Tasha. "Tasha!" I choked.
"Kiki!" she choked. Finally, I found Tasha's hand and grasped it tightly. Finally, the smoke disappeared, but I still wouldn't open my eyes. But something wasn't right. It felt like I was falling. I screamed helplessly, along with Tasha. We screamed at the top of our lungs, despite the fact that they were filled with smoke just about a minute ago, until we fell with a plop in water. The water was salty, like the ocean, but Tasha and I managed to pull ourselves over to a rock. Tasha and I helplessly coughed the water out of our lungs.
"Where are we?" Tasha asked after we were done coughing. There seemed to be nothing but water for miles and miles.
"Does it look like I know?" I replied. I looked out into the horizon. I could see a faint outline of a tall building, something like a fortress.
"Hey Kiki, look what I found!" Tasha handed me a red-orange telescope with seagulls painted on them. It looked somewhat familiar.
"Isn't that Link's sister's telescope?" I asked, weighing it in my hands.
"It was just floating in the water, right there," Tasha replied, pointing to a spot in the water. Someone's a little obsessed with Zelda. I looked at the spot Tasha was pointing to, as if expecting to see something else popping up. I noticed my long, straight brown hair seemed a little longer. Maybe it grew and I just didn't notice. But that wasn't what I was worried about. My ears were long and pointed.
"Tasha…" I said, worried. "My ears are pointed." Instead of looking at me, she looked at my reflection in the water.
"Oh my god!" Tasha exclaimed. "Mine are too! We're elves!" Tasha's ears were pointed too, but they weren't as long as mine.
"Yeah, we're elves, but in which land ARE we elves?"
"It doesn't look like Middle Earth." Tasha looked around and spotted the same "fortress". "Hey, look at that!" I took a step forward with Tasha to get a better view. As if I pulled some kind of trigger, dark clouds covered the sky. I took a step back with Tasha and they instantly disappeared.
"That's weird," I said, stepping forward and backward over and over again, only having the dark clouds appearing whenever I stepped forward and disappearing whenever I stepped back. I looked at the fortress through the telescope. I zoomed in until I had a good view. As if expecting to see something else, I saw the impossible. The fortress was huge, with searchlights moving, up, down, and all around the ocean surrounding it. My eyes widened in horror. It was none other than the Forsaken Fortress.
"Tasha," I said slowly. "Would you believe me if I told you the impossible?"
"It depends on how impossible it is," she answered. "Why?"
"Look at that fortress," I said handing her the telescope with one hand and pointing at the fortress with the other. Tasha looked at the Fortress through the telescope and her eyes widened in horror, just like mine.
"Kiki, it's the, it's the," Tasha stammered. "It's the Forsaken Fortress! We're in the Great Sea! We're Hylians!" I looked up at the sky. There weren't any white lines indicating the wind. Instead, I could feel it blowing west. Right on cue, the wind started blowing north, toward the Fortress. But that wasn't the only thing in the sky. A huge black bird with white spots on its body and yellow and green tail feathers was flying in the sky. It was huge, bigger than any airplane that I'd ever seen in my life. It was the Helmarock King.
"Hey Tasha, look!" I said, pointing to the giant bird. "It's the Helmarock King!"
"It's coming here!" said Tasha. "Must have seen a fish!"
"No," I said. "It's seen me! It's looking right at me!" The bird swooped down it came closer and closer. I closed my eyes. I didn't want to see it. Suddenly, I felt sharp claws squeezing my body. "TASHA!!!" I yelled.
"KIKI!!!" yelled Tasha. I opened my eyes and looked at her. Her image seemed to be getting smaller and smaller with every flap of the Helmarock King's wings. It wasn't long before I couldn't see Tasha at all.