A/N: Now here it is the next chapter and first TRUE fight scene. The others were all just small skirmishes but this one is the real deal. Which is why this is a rated T. That among other things. And we are getting into the final arc of the first story so the chapters are going to be twice the size of the last ones, so you're welcome. Anyway here we go
Boomerang
"What the hell!?" A resounding crash soon followed as a metal chair hit the wall and broke. K stood near the doorway in a calm manner. Christopher went off as he stormed around the room, the recent report that Kody and the group evaded capture, again, pissed him off even more. "How does he keep doing this!? They are kids!" Christopher roared.
"Sir if I may." K said calmly.
"No!" Christopher yelled and walked over to the large windows and punched it. The window was safety glass and impossible to break by any normal circumstances. One punch and it cracked. He fired another punch and the entire window shattered and glass fell the forty stories to the ground. Wind flew in violently as the window broke. Christopher stood staring out at the dark city, heaving heavy breaths of frustration.
K sighed and grabbed his cellphone, making a quick call. "Yeah, we need another new window up here. Five minutes." And he hung up.
After doing so Christopher stood up straight and pushed his hair back, cleaning himself up. "You were saying?" His dark voice directed at his trusted subordinate.
"The girl has arrived here in the parking garage. Along with the Beast." K said simply.
Christopher smiled evilly at the news. At least a few things were going his way. "You should have mentioned that before the news of the boy escaping." He quickly crossed the room and headed for the elevator. K quickly followed and pressed the down indicator.
This was the only building that still had power. Actually in Christopher's master plan all of the power was directed towards Miyamoto tower, along with his other buildings, instead of the city. His base tower was like a single shining light in the middle of the darkened city. And so far no one was asking questions.
The elevator opened up and the two stepped inside with K pressing the garage button. "What is the next move?" K asked as the elevator started to descend.
"We send the Beast out. And then wait until tomorrow to move forward with the rest of the plans." Christopher said simply.
"Sir I still don't think it is wise sending the Beast out in such a high populated area. Especially without giving him a general direction." K spoke honestly.
"That is where you are wrong." Christopher said as the elevator doors opened and they stepped out into the garage area. "We have a target. I got word that the boy managed to swipe on of the cellphones that the men carry. We have easily tracked it down and have a location." Christopher pulled out a GPS from his pocket.
"You can't expect the Beast to follow that." K said in disbelief.
"Of course not." Christopher said as they came to a stop near the garage doors. The doors began to slowly open revealing a large van. "You are going to bring him to the boy." He said as the van drove in and stopped ten feet from them.
K turned to look up at the taller man. Since he had dark sunglasses on his expression was unreadable. But Christopher knew what he was thinking. He turned to look at him and glared. "That's not a problem is it?"
K cleared his throat and looked straight ahead. "Of course not sir. You know where my loyalties lie."
Christopher was not satisfied but looked back at the van anyway. "I would hope so. After thirteen years you have been very loyal to me and my family. Let's hope it was not all wasted on a change of conscience."
"I would never dream of it."
Christopher watched as two men got out of the front seat and pulled out their pistols. Two more men exited the back seat and reached inside. A few seconds later they pulled out Kayla, who started to fight and kick again. "Get off of me!" She yelled. The other two pointed their pistols at her head and she stopped her fighting.
Christopher stepped forward and raised his hand. His men lowered their weapons and he smirked at the young girl. "Princess, it's so good to see you again." He said with false enthusiasm. He stood directly over her then bent down to observe her closely. "So you let the wizard do his work? Fascinating yes?" He looked behind her back to see her left hand. "The Triforce is finally unlocked. I do know how painful the process must have been." He then looked back at her face and grabbed her chin, turning her head from side to side to look at her new pointed ears. "Before you I demanded him to try it on me to see if he could unlock the Triforce in only me. Of course it didn't work but it was painful." He turned her head straight again and looked directly in her eyes. "I never did know, or care, why you were the one. For some reason it had to be you." She glared at him and he chuckled, letting her head go.
"Now that you have what you need are you going to kill me?" She asked and he was surprised at how calm she was being. Apparently the Triforce gave her some confidence, or she was just no longer a small scared girl like before.
"No, I need you still. Without you how else can I lure the Hero to his death." Christopher revealed.
"I won't let that happen." She shot back at him.
He chuckled again and stood up straight. "You can't stop me dear." He turned to his men and gave them a nod. Two came up and grabbed her, dragging her down towards the elevator. Christopher turned his attention to the large metal trailer in the back. Six men came running out with large automatic weapons and aimed them at the trailer door. Christopher held up his hand and they all lowered their guns slightly.
Christopher walked over to the door and punched in a code to the door lock. A snap and then hiss followed before the door opened slightly. Two men came to the sides and grabbed the chains that stuck out of two small holes on the sides. They quickly held the chains firmly as the door flew open violently.
Out from the metal trailer came a towering figure that was no longer a man. The Beast stood nearly eight feet tall and had muscles that were not normal. His face was distorted on the left side, showing some skull and the inside of his jaw. His eyes were a sickly orange color and his teeth were sharp and pointed. He had many scars all over his body and only wore large blue pants. His arms were in shackles which were chained within the train and held by the two men. The Beast charged forward until he was near Christopher then was stopped by his shackled arms. The six held up their weapons and pointed it at the Beast.
The Beast roared and struggled but slowed his rage when he came face to face with his master. Christopher held his hand up to calm the Beast as he huffed out ragged breaths and growled. Finally Christopher laid his hand on the top of the Beast's head. "My precious pet, you are hungry for blood aren't you?"
"Hungry, want to fight." The words came out in growls but his master heard him.
"And you will. You will. I am sending you after a group." He gave his pet a small smack on the head. "Kill them all."
The Beast stood up tall and roared. Christopher could tell his pet was excited. He turned to his men and motioned to them. The two guided the Beast back into his cage and shut the door. Christopher turned back to K. "I want them all gone. Save for the young girl. She's just collateral. And she holds the family line of the Guardians of the Triforce. Bring her to me." Christopher turned and walked out from the garage.
Things were finally going his way.
"C'mon Kody, it's already ten!" Kari complained. They had been walking for nearly an hour to reach the other side of the city. "We are all tired and my feet are killing me."
"We are almost there stop complaining." Kody said before looking over at Richard. "Anything yet?"
"No they had cut off almost twenty minutes ago." Richard said looking at the cellphone. "They probably had a security alert for it if it was ever hacked. They probably cut off the communication to this one." He concluded.
"But we still have all the old information on it?" Kody asked.
Richard nodded. "Yes, I managed to sever it from the main server so we can only receive commands and the system storage was impregnable." He looked at the others. "Oh right, we still have everything that was on it from before."
"Why didn't you say that in the first place?" Kari rolled her eyes. She looked over her shoulder at Lucas and Mary who was fast asleep in her father's arms. "See even the kid is passed out!" She pointed out.
"She is only nine." Lucas mumbled.
"She can't keep up like this. I'm surprised she stayed up this late." Kody said. Micah stayed relatively quiet the entire time. His mind was on the fight back at Richard's house in which Kody really did dodge a bullet. It was cool and scary to think that he was really that strong with the Triforce thing.
"We're here." Kody said as they stood outside the locked gate of a storage locker site. The group looked up at the tall fences and were all quietly trying to decide what to do next. Kody looked at the gate with the number lock then at the fence. "We can climb it." He said as he made his way over to the fence.
"Kody." Richard said as no one else moved.
"Well most of us can get over. Some of you will have to stay until we get back." Kody said as he threw down Kayla's backpack and put his hands on the fence.
"Kody."
"It's not that hard I do it all the time. Just follow me." Kody said as he started to climb the tall fence.
"Kody!" Kari yelled at him.
He stopped in his climbing to turn and look at the group. "What?" He asked.
Richard was standing next to the locked gate and merely pushed it open. "Since the power is off the electronic locked gate is unlocked." He said as they all started walking inside. Kody frowned and jumped off from the fence and followed his friends.
Kari guided them with her flashlight as they walked down the rows of storage lockers. Surprisingly there was no one else there even though they had seen many people looting different stores on their way over.
"Which number is it?" Richard asked as they passed the rows. Kari kept flashing her light at the number signs as they passed them.
"Number 91. It should be right up here." Kody said pointing to the row of 90's. They stopped and headed down the row. They didn't have to go far as 91 was right there. The six stood in front of the large locker and stared at the number.
"Do we have a key?" Kari asked.
"Yes, Mary had it in her room we grabbed it before we left." Lucas said and took the key from his pocket. He handed it to Kody and he took it. Kody walked over to the locker door and unlocked the lock.
Kody took off the handle and threw the door open. The group stood in awe of what they saw. From bottom to top the locker was stacked with books and books. Most were very old looking and huge while some looked newer.
"Wow." Micah finally said.
"So this is what your mom hid?" Lucas asked.
Kody turned to him. "She never told you any of this? Not even about Mary?"
He shook his head. "No, she wanted me to protect Mary and always watch over her. She never said anything about all this."
Kody nodded and walked over to the stacks of books. He looked through the rows trying to look past them for something relating to a weapon or a container. He started to take stacks down and leave them on the ground. The others soon started helping while Lucas stayed back, holding his sleeping daughter.
After ten minutes they finally managed to clear a small path to the back of the storage container. Kody took the light from Kari as well as his backpack and made his way towards the back. The small path still had towers of books on both sides that seemed to be leaning towards him and wanting to fall at any minute. Kari, Micah, and Richard followed him inside.
"So is Kayla going to still be looking for information about the Triforce after this?" Kari asked sarcastically.
Kody rolled his eyes and Richard shook his head. Some things didn't change. They ignored her as they ventured to the very back. At the end of the passageway they came across a large wooden chest concealed in scrolls and other assorted papers.
"There it is." Kody said as he passed the light back to Kari. She took the light and he made his way to the large chest that came up to his waist. He pushed the papers aside to reveal the Triforce symbol on the front of the large container. "Now for the moment of truth." Kody unfastened the latch and began to lift the lid. After a great deal of struggle, and his friends just watching, he managed to lift the lid and reveal the contents. The other three came over to view what lay inside.
On the top were many scrolls scribbled in Hylian and some in English. Kody grabbed a few and passed them on to Richard and Micah who examined them. Beneath that was an old book with a strange symbol on it, he passed that off to Kari who began to flip through it. Under that there were several glass bottles filled with different colored liquid. Kody grabbed two and looked at them. The two were red and blue, odd to keep inside a chest that was easily two thousand years old. He shrugged and placed them inside his backpack. Pushing aside the other papers and glass containers he found something at the bottom. It seemed to be a large portrait of some kind, covered in dust.
Kody reached far inside and grabbed the large painting and pulled it out. Behind him the others were still going through the other things he brought out.
"It seems to all be in that weird language only Mary and Kayla could read." Kari said as she flipped through the book. "But there are weird pictures and symbols in here too I can't make anything of it."
"Same here." Micah whispered.
"Whoa, this is huge." They heard Richard say. "It details the entire Hyrule kingdom lineage and heirs! Kayla, or Zelda is clearly detailed as well. She really is a Princess! Or was."
Kody ignored that for now and set the large painting on the ground. The others gathered around him as he knelt down and wiped his hand across the top of the dust covered picture. They all gasped when they saw the image underneath.
In the background was a large temple with trees circled around it. The temple bore the image of the Triforce at the top but their attention was focused on the middle of it. On the right was the image of Princess Zelda, dressed in a purple gown that was white trimmed and elegant in every way. She had a small crown on her cascading dirty blonde hair and her head was tilted downwards with her eyes focused on the ground. A sad look was written across her beautiful face in the picture. On the left, facing the opposite way was Link. In his right hand was a long sword pointed at the ground as his head was also lowered. A dirty green cap sat atop his long blonde hair as his eyes were also on the ground. He was dressed in green light armor with a small shield on his back. There was sadness on his face as well as he stood back to back with the princess.
As Kody wiped away the rest of the dirt their eyes drifted down to a new sight. Link's left hand and Zelda's right hand were interlocked with each other even though they stood back to back. But the sight of something else caused all of them to gasp. On Link's left hand, on the third finger, was a small golden circle. Everyone's eyes turned to Zelda's left hand, which was up at her chest, closed in a small fist. On her ring finger on her left hand was a matching golden circle.
Everyone stared for a few seconds before turning to look at Kody. He shot back up to his feet but kept staring. "I-I-I what?" He asked.
"So… you guys got married and didn't tell us?" Kari asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What? No! I mean I don't know." Kody reached up and scratched the back of his said. "The stories said that nothing was ever confirmed but…"
"Well this confirms something." Richard said.
"Yeah but what?" Kody asked.
"Well maybe there's a date on it." Kari offered as she knelt down and started erasing dust in the bottom right hand corner. "The artist always leaves a mark on their painting." And sure enough there was a mark of a name and a date and something else.
But it was all in Hylian.
"Great that doesn't help." Kody groaned.
"Let's take it with us." Micah finally said. "Grab as much stuff as we can and let's go. We can worry about the other stuff when we aren't on the run."
"Right." Kody said. Richard started shoving some papers into Kari's pack while she put the book she had in there too. Kody grabbed his backpack and helped Micah bring the painting out. They all came out of the dark shed and into the dark night.
"What did you find?" Lucas asked as they came out.
"A lot more cryptic things." Kari said gesturing to the painting. "And something far more interesting."
"What about the boomerang?" He asked.
"Oh right I forgot about that. Hang on." Kody gave the painting to Richard and took the light from Kari. He ventured back inside and went towards the chest again. He shined the light inside and looked for the boomerang. He went to push some items aside when he pushed a small backpack that jingled as he moved it. He stopped and reached for the brown leather pack. He pulled it up to him and undid the straps. He opened it up and looked inside the dusty pack. He reached inside and grabbed something cold and rough. It was metallic and cloth. He pulled it out to see a green set of armor that he knew to be Link's. Or his.
His thumbs brushed the fabric as he stood in awe of it. He knew it couldn't be the one Link wore to the final battle but it had to be a spare. It didn't matter, he found something that could very well be valuable in the future of this battle.
As he was examining it he heard Kari call after him. "Kody! You need to get out here!" He heard the alarm in her voice and turned to look out the entrance. All he could see was his friends walking backwards and lights indicating there was a large vehicle outside as well. Panic hit him as he turned to go and help but he looked back into the chest to see a blue boomerang at the bottom. He grabbed it and shoved it in the leather pack before running back outside.
Once he got out there he looked over at his friends. "What's going on?" The others simply pointed at the trailer behind the large truck with wide eyes. Kody looked for himself to see the back of the metal trailer slam open and a loud growl echo out. Chains rattled as the trailer shook from whatever was inside.
Finally a large hand grabbed onto the edge of the trailer followed by another hand. A large foot stepped out and the group all stood with mouths open. Kody was the only one to voice their thoughts.
"Oh…"
Finally the large Beast stepped out and stood tall before extending his arms out and roaring loud when he looked at the group.
"Shit."
"Sir the prisoner is set in her cell. She gave us a fight and is not cooperating."
Christopher laughed at hearing this. "You think she would? It is irrelevant. Once the Beast destroys Link I want her to witness the fall of her precious kingdom before sending her back to be experimented on by Agahnim."
"Sir I thought you wanted them both dead."
Christopher shrugged and looked out over the city, his future kingdom. "The boy yes. I can't afford to have him alive. But the girl, she could prove of more use alive then dead."
"How so?"
Christopher chuckled darkly as he turned around. "If you read your history you would know. Everything is always connected to the girl. If I keep her alive maybe the Goddesses will descend their favors to me through her. She will be a pawn of something bigger."
"What are you saying sir?"
Christopher made his way to a large painting on the opposite wall. The picture showed a massive green skinned man wielding a large sword and standing on top of a mountain of bodies. Christopher smirked at the picture. "This is just the beginning. This was never the end game. It was merely the warm-up." His eyes glowed as they looked out at the large city. "I have very big things planned in the coming days and years."
"Run!" Kody yelled as everyone scattered. Richard followed Kody to the left as Lucas ran with Mary to the right and hid behind another storage container. Kari and Micah ran into each other and fell. They looked up at the massive creature running towards them and grabbed onto each other.
Kari screamed as the Beast ran at them with his fists held high. It almost reached them before gunshots were heard. Lucas came back out with his gun held out and fired several shots at the Beast. Unbelievably the bullets seemed to bounce off his armored skin.
Micah took this chance and grabbed Kari and ran away from the Beast's reach. The Beast turned to Lucas and roared. Lucas took a step back but still held firm and fired even more shots. He emptied the clip then looked at the gun. "Not good." He said looking back up at the giant monster running towards him.
Kody and Richard had hid behind a large storage container as well and Kody pulled out the pistol from his back. He checks the clip and then locks the receiver and peers out the corner with a determined look on his face.
"We have to get out of here! That thing is going to kill us!" Richard yelled and pulled at Kody's shoulder.
Kody rolled his eyes and pushed Richard against the container forcibly. "Shut up and lay low." Kody said through clenched teeth. "Our friends are out there and we have to save them." He took off his backpack and pushed it against Richard. "Figure out a way for ALL of us to escape and get back to me." Kody turned back to look at the monster. "In the meantime…" He trailed off as he saw the Beast go running for Lucas.
Kody reacted quickly and ran out of cover. Lucas quickly jumped to the side as the Beast swung a massive fist at him. Lucas reached into his pocket and pulled out another magazine and put it into his weapon before looking back up at the Beast. It was standing over him and grabbed the smaller man from the back and threw him into a closed storage shed. His gun went flying and Lucas fell onto the ground in pain after leaving a giant dent in the shed door. The Beast moved over to him and held its massive fists in the air.
Before it could smash Lucas gunshots echoed again as Kody began walking towards the monster, shooting off the entire clip. It emptied and it only angered the Beast. Kody quickly changed out the clip and reloaded the chamber. He held up the weapon, aiming at the Beast's head as Micah and Richard came to his side.
"Kari's safe, she's with Mary hiding back there." Micah said as he eyes the opponent.
"And I'm not one to sit on the sidelines. We get our asses kicked together remember?" Richard said as he held up Lucas' gun at the Beast.
"Let's just make sure we can keep getting our asses kicked after this." Kody said with a small smile.
"So how are we going to do this?" Micah asked.
As they looked at the eight foot tall monster, who was impervious to bullets, they all gulped. "Um… we'll wing it?" Kody offered.
At that moment the Beast began to run at them. Richard began firing off rounds that did nothing to the charging monster as Micah quickly jumped out of the way. Kody looked up at the light hanging over the storage sheds that the Beast was almost right under. Kody fired off two shots and it came crashing down on the Beast's head making him stumble in a daze and then fall over. Kody pushed Richard to the side as the Beast slid on the ground. He turned to see Micah grabbing the chains that were connected to the Beast's metal gauntlets on his wrists. Kody ran to quickly help as Richard pointed the gun at its head.
"Pull!" Micah shouted as they pulled the chains back, trying to bring them to the front winch of the car. They were almost there when Richard called out.
"Guys!" He said and shot at the Beast's head. "He's waking up!" He fired a few more shots but they did nothing.
"Hurry!" Kody yelled. He was almost at the car when the chain pulled back. Kody looked at his friend. "Uh oh." That was all he said before being yanked onto his back. His hat came flying off as he hit the ground. He couldn't even register the pain before he was pulled back across the ground.
Micah managed to get his chain locked into the car before the Beast moved his other hand.
Kody was pulled all the way back and finally came to a stop. He opened his eyes to look up at a very angry monster. The Beast looked down and saw Kody and growled. It raised its other hand to grab the hero but was stopped because of the chain. It looked at its wrist and Kody smirked, at least one thing was going right.
When the Beast looked back at Kody he realized something very quickly. 'I should have let go.' He thought as the Beast swung his right hand. Kody, still hanging on for some reason, was thrown in the air and hit the ground twelve feet away.
Kody finally let go of the chain and groaned. "Why… didn't I let go?" He rolled over and looked up to see the gun a few feet away.
Micah saw his friend go flying and quickly looked at his options. Richard was out of ammo and had ran over next to Micah, out of harm's way. Lucas was still unconscious and Kody was, well in trouble. Micah quickly grabbed the empty gun out of Richard's grip and threw it at the back of the Beast's head. The Beast turned and started coming after the two.
"What did you do?" Richard asked.
"I don't know, run!" Micah offered and the two scattered as the Beast came near. It swung its hand out trying to grab one of them but missed. Micah ran onto the other side of the car while Richard took off towards the storage shed. The Beast followed Micah and pounded its fist into the hood of the car, smashing the engine most likely. Micah got up and ran around the car, the Beast still chasing him.
Kody finally reached the pistol and turned around to see the Beast playing cat and mouse with Micah around the truck. Kody quickly loaded the pistol and pulled himself to his feet. He started to hobble his way over towards the truck without a single plan in mind.
Micah quickly scrambled around the back and ran away from the Beast. He succeeded in getting the mindless monster to wrap his limited chain around the vehicle. But as he ran the Beast reach out and grabbed his legs. Micah fell onto the ground and was dragged back to the monster.
Kody held up his weapon and went to fire when two prongs hit the Beast in the chest and electrocuted it. Everyone was shocked to see Kari standing there holding up her stun gun after she had shot the Beast with it. The Beast roared and let go of Micah, stumbling backwards. It stopped and turned its eyes onto Kari who stood still with fear. Kody tried hobbling over towards her but he wouldn't make it. The Beast was already moving.
Micah had gotten up and climbed up the trailer before jumping onto the back of the Beast. He pulled out a small knife from his pocket, no one knew he had, and stabbed the monster in one of its eyes. The Beast roared in pain and went flailing its arms. Once it recovered it reached up and grabbed Micah and threw him like a rag doll. Micah went flying and hit the wall of a storage shed. He lay there motionless.
Kari and Richard ran over to help him while the Beast tried to recover. Kody saw this happening and he ran through his options. There weren't many and most came with him most likely dying. He reached into his pocket for another clip when his arm brushed against the leather pack he had on his back.
He didn't waste anymore time as he threw down the pack and pulled out the blue boomerang. Kody looked back up at the Beast, holding the boomerang in one hand and the pistol in the other. His hand began to burn in the familiar pain as he stared down his opponent. Kody pointed the gun up and fired a single shot at the back of the Beast's head. The giant monster turned to Kody and growled.
"Let's finish this you freak of nature." Kody said with hardened eyes trained at his target. The Beast snarled and stalked towards the young hero. He flipped the boomerang in his hand several times, getting a feel for it, before aiming at the bad eye of the Beast. Kody threw it and watched the blue blur fling itself at the monster. It hit its mark and the Beast actually recoiled in pain and was stunned for a second. The boomerang came back at Kody and he caught it without looking at it.
The Beast fell to one knee from the hit and reached up to cup its eye. Kody flipped the boomerang in his hand several more times before holding it back, at the ready. The Beast turned a hateful glare at the Hero and ran in a full sprint at Kody.
Kody looked at the truck and the chains before he got a plan. He turned and threw the boomerang behind him, away from the Beast, then turned and ran at his opponent. Kody dodged the first giant swing from the Beast and slid underneath its legs. The Beast turned around quickly but was hit in the back of the head by the boomerang that came back around.
Kody reached back and grabbed the boomerang from the sky without looking back. He sprinted towards the truck and shot off the chain attached to it. He grabbed it and went to tie it around the tire. While the Beast struggled to get back to its feet he turned to his friend. "Richard start the truck!" He yelled.
Richard had taken Kari and Micah to cover as he heard his friend. He looked at Kody and nodded. Richard sprinted out and jumped into the truck. "Put it in 4-wheel drive and don't let off the gas no matter what!" Kody yelled.
"What about you?" Richard asked.
"No matter what." Kody said again as he finished tying the chain around the axle. He turned back towards the Beast as it finally managed to get to its feet and was searching for him. Kody threw the chain over his shoulder and held up the gun along with the boomerang in his other hand.
The Beast roared and centered in on Kody. While Kody's eyes were centered on the collar around the Best's throat. Kody exhaled and looked at the back of his left hand. "Come on Kayla… Goddesses, don't let me down." He whispered before tightening his grip on the boomerang.
The Beast started coming after him and he threw the boomerang and grabbed onto the chain. He sprinted towards the hulking monster with the gun raised but waited for his shot. As he came closer the boomerang hit the Beast on the head, making it stumble a bit but it still swung at Kody. He felt the hand hit him before hitting the ground and rolling several feet. Not wasting time he jumped back to his feet and ran back at the Beast. The boomerang flew past Kody and hit the ground, lying there away from its owner.
Charging in Kody came in very close and was grabbed by his enemy. The Beast held him up to glare closely at the boy while Kody wiggled his arm free to aim the pistol at the last eye of the monster. "It's over." Kody fired the shot and succeeded in taking out its eye. The Beast dropped him and kept roaring in pain. Kody fell on the ground but jumped back up. He threw the pistol aside and grabbed onto the chain, running over to the Beast who had fallen to his knees. Going up to the collar Kody wrapped the chain around it and tied it in. "Richard!" He yelled as he finished.
"Right!" Richard then floored on the gas and the chain began to tighten around the Beast's neck. As this happened the Beast recovered and reached out wildly. Kody didn't react in time and was grabbed by the Beast. It squeezed Kody and he felt his bones crying out in pain. Kody yelled out but was reprieved when the chain was tightened enough to pull the Beast back. It released Kody and he fell back onto the ground. Kody coughed and turned onto his stomach. He crawled his way over to the boomerang that was on the ground just a short ways from him. He grabbed it and flipped onto his back. The Beast was roaring and struggling to rip the collar off his neck and Kody smirked.
"Link's back baby." He threw his boomerang and it struck the Beast in between the middle of the eyes. The Beast was sent onto his back and the chain kept pulling until Kody heard the satisfying crack.
Throwing himself back onto the ground he breathed out in relief. "Alright, finally." Kody laughed for a little while before struggling to get back up. Richard had gotten out of the car and ran over by his side.
"It's over." Richard said. "But just to be sure I left it on cruise control." Kody gave him a funny look. "Hey I don't want to take chances."
"Fair enough, now come on." Kody pulled himself to his feet and immediately stumbled backwards.
"You alright?" Richard asked.
"Yeah, just gonna wait until my ribs stop cracking." He held onto his chest and breathed deeply for a moment. A second later he reached up with one hand and grabbed the blue boomerang that came whirling back around.
Richard looked back and forth in confusion. "What, how did…?"
"I learn quick." Kody said as he tucked the boomerang in his back pocket and started walking with Richard. "How's Micah?" Kody asked as Richard picked up the discarded pistol on the ground and handed it to him. Kody held onto the weapon as they moved slowly.
"He's still knocked out, it doesn't look good." Richard said. "It was crazy what you both did, I'm surprised you weren't in as much pain. You took a massive beating." He acknowledged.
"I don't feel good if that's what you mean." Kody said. His body was hurting all over and he could feel at least two broken ribs. His cheek was cut and blood was flowing down from it. He was sure that he probably had a concussion. "We need to get out of here before the cops show up." Kody realized. They walked up to his pack and Kody grabbed it. He slung it over his shoulder and kept walking.
"We have nowhere to go." Richard said. The two reached where Kari was kneeling over an unconscious Micah. Mary was standing close by, next to her was her father who had woken up. He was sitting with his back against the storage shed.
Kody looked over the group. They had taken quite a loss. They were all hurt in some way. He looked at Kari who looked back up at him. He could see the drying tears on her cheeks. This was more than any of them asked for. "I know where we can go." Kody said as he knelt down. As he came down he grabbed onto his side and groaned in pain. He looked at Kari directly. "Why did you do that?" He asked in a whisper.
She looked down at Micah and she knew. She knew that she caused him that pain. Kody could see the regret on her face. "I wanted to help." She said quietly. "That thing was gonna kill him."
Kody nodded. "Maybe." He turned his gaze over to Mary and her father. "You okay?"
Lucas looked at him and smiled. "I'm fine. But I won't be any help for now." He admitted regretfully.
Mary went over and hugged Kody tightly. He groaned in pain from it but accepted her hug just as well. "Are you okay?" She whispered.
"I'll be fine. But we need your help." She let go and he put a hand on her shoulder. "Help your dad, we gotta get to a new place." Mary stared at him for a moment then nodded. Before she turned and helped her dad she pulled his hat from behind her and placed it on his head. Kody laughed and rubbed the top of her head. "Thanks Mary, now let's get going."
Kody stood back up and looked at Richard. "Think you can find a car?"
Richard nodded. "Yeah, hotwiring it will be no problem. But driving?"
"You can do it. Just… think of it like a game." Kody reasoned.
"Right. You guys gonna be okay?" He asked.
"Yeah were gonna get things ready, be quick."
Richard didn't need to be told twice and ran off into the darkness in search of a vehicle. Kody turned back to Micah and Kari. "We're going to have to lift him up."
"Yeah, we have to be careful though." Kari agreed.
Kody turned around and looked at the Beast's body. Motionless, dead. It really didn't occur to him that it was the first person, or thing, he had killed. The hulking monster proved to be quite the foe and had hurt his friends. Kody promised himself to do everything in his power to not let that happen again. He was the hero and he needed to start acting like it.
"One down."
Atop a building across the street stood K. He watched the entire fight through night vision binoculars. He finally put them down but held a firm smirk on his lips. Even though the boy had killed the Beast, and the boss would be pissed, he was still happy. Happy, for the boy. Learning to grow into a warrior. Becoming Ganondorf's mortal enemy.
"You're doing well my son. Soon you will prove your worth to master Ganondorf."
"Easy now!" Kari yelled. Kody and Richard both rolled their eyes. They were carrying Micah into the back of the SUV Richard managed to hotwire. Kari was standing there yelling orders at them while they did all the work.
"You wanna say that again." Richard said between clenched teeth as they managed to set their friend carefully in the back of the vehicle. The two stood for a moment and caught their breath. "Next time you're lifting him." Richard said to Kari as he walked to get into the driver seat.
"Say that to my face dork." She grumbled as she made her way into the vehicle as well. Kody shook his head and closed the back of the car. He made his way around to the passenger seat still gripping his chest. He stopped as he came close to the door and rested his back against it.
His chest was hurting him really bad now. From getting thrown over twenty feet and getting crushed in the Beast's grip, he was feeling all that pain now. Richard was right, he took the most punches but his body managed to push on. Now however, the pain was catching up to him quickly. He slowly lifted up his sweatshirt and shirt to see a giant reddish mark on his left side. "Not good." He said to himself. He wasn't a doctor but he could guess that something inside him was bleeding, and that couldn't possibly be good. He put his shirt back down and climbed into the SUV.
"Alright we ready to go?" Richard asked as he put the car into drive. In the back Lucas was strapped in with Mary next to him, checking on him every minute so that he didn't pass out. Kari had her arms crossed and stared out the window. Kody put on his seatbelt and nodded.
"Yeah let's get out of here." He said. Richard began to drive the car down the empty streets. Despite the blackout many people found their way to their homes after the cops issued a curfew. Though the group knew that the curfew was so that it would be easier for the cops to find them. Surprisingly, Richard was a good driver. Seemed those video games paid off.
"What was that thing?" Kari finally asked. It was on all their minds but no one had managed to say something until now.
"It was the Beast." Lucas said. "It is Ganondorf's pet basically. Or was. That thing had killed dozens of people without much of a fight." He looked up at Kody. "Guess that proves any doubt I had in you being the Hero."
"I agree with you on that." Richard nodded. "I could have never guessed that we would have survived let alone kill that thing." His face immediately paled as he said that. "Oh, we actually killed a person. Or a thing."
They were all silenced by the comment. They knew it was true. They had killed that… thing. It may have been evil and tried to kill them but it was still a living thing and they killed it.
"We might have to kill more." Kody said after a few moments. "I mean me, not you guys." He added as an afterthought.
"Why do you say that?" Kari asked.
"Because I don't think that these guys are going to back down. In the war of good and evil some hard choices will have to be made." Kody looked down as he said this.
They were all silenced again. It was true things were changing before their eyes. They may have been young twelve year olds before, concerned with group projects and the hassles of puberty. But now they were running for their lives and having to learn that it's killed or be killed. When in the moment it didn't matter but now that they were sitting here thinking they realized how much it mattered. It was going to affect them greatly in the coming days.
"But what was that thing?" Kari asked, totally killing the dire mood that was created.
"The Beast? Didn't I just say that?" Lucas asked looking at Mary who nodded.
"No I mean how did it get to be like it was? You know, indestructible and horribly disfigured." Kari elaborated.
"Oh, I see what you're saying. Well he was once a man that was in a horrible accident. Christopher Raoh, or Ganondorf, took the man and did weird experiments on him. He's got all these factories with weird technologies and these vats of liquid. Some of the others said the liquid was magic. Or magic infused. After doing his experiments he threw the Beast into one of those magic liquid vats. After that the Beast was born."
"So… now we are dealing with actual magic?" Richard asked then sighed. "That's way out of my territory."
"Well magic did have to come up eventually. After all we are basically entering a fantasy world." Kari shrugged.
"We are in a fantasy world. It's just starting to break down the wall in between fantasy and real." Kody said.
"Okay back to the point. He has buildings with magic goop? Like actual stuff filled with magic?" Kari asked.
"Yes, but the stuff is unstable. Some people went into the liquid and died instantly. Most of them slowly degraded into bones."
"Like the Last Crusade?"
"Exactly. Some got turned into super men. Normal sized men with not-so-normal abilities. Not so freakish like the Beast but still super strong. One even got turned into monster. I don't know where they locked that one at. But the point is no one, not even Ganondorf, knew what a person could be turned into after being put into the liquid."
"Let's… try to avoid all that." Kody said as he adjusted in his seat. Kari stared at him and knew that something had to be wrong. He had been hobbling and wincing in pain the whole time. Now she could see how uncomfortable he was sitting in the chair. "We need to focus on finding Kayla first."
"How about we get to somewhere safe before that?" Lucas pointed out that was their first priority.
"Right, where are we going anyway?" Richard asked.
"Head downtown and for the supermarket and turn right. There's an abandoned apartment complex down there. We can hide out there for the night and rest up." Kody explained.
"An abandoned apartment? Are you kidding, that's probably the worst place to be in the city." Kari complained.
"It's perfectly safe. Kayla and I always hang out over there. We even got a room we had cleared out in there. It has food and stuff we need. And it is probably the only place they won't think to look for us. So unless you got a better idea we are going there." Kody had probably enough of Kari's complaining. She just wouldn't stop would she?
"Fine." She grumbled and slouched in her chair.
"So what was on all those papers we grabbed?" Richard asked.
"Oh I almost forgot. Mary can you read these?" Kody said reached back and handing off his backpack. As he did he groaned in pain and dropped the backpack before he could hand it to her. He reached up and grabbed onto his chest and leaned back, catching his breath.
"Kody!" Richard reached over to his friend.
"Focus on the road!" Richard turned back to driving and quickly avoided hitting a light post.
"Sorry."
"What's wrong Kody?" Mary asked. They were all staring at him now waiting to hear from him.
"I… I think I have internal bleeding." He said looking down at himself. "I thought I could take more pain than you guys but I guess I couldn't."
"Well you did take the biggest beating. And you lived." Richard pointed out.
"Yeah but still. I need to get to a hospital. And we can't do that unless we want to get caught."
"But you'll die if we don't." Kari said staring at him with concern.
"Hang on guys." Everyone was concerned with Kody that they didn't see Mary reading the scrolls from his backpack. "These papers are saying some stuff about magic. And magical… stuff." She flipped through another page and read through the next scroll. "It's just some stuff about making… po- posh- poshin… what's this word?" She said holding it up to Kari to read.
Kari looked at it then at Mary. "I can't read that language." She deadpanned.
"Spell it Mary." Kody said after rolling his eyes.
"P-o-t-i-o-n-s." She spelled.
"Potions." They all said.
"Yeah, making potions. But then it says what each does. Like the red one heals you." She read more to herself and brought the scroll closer to her face. "Does anyone know where we can find fairy dust and a cup of crushed magical mushrooms?"
"Wait, red potions?" Kody reached back to look in his backpack but stopped when it hurt. He sat back in his seat and sighed. "Mary, look in there. There should be at least one bottle of red liquid." He told her.
Kari and Mary reached in and looked around his backpack before pulling out a small bottle of red liquid and holding it up. "Is… is this a healing potion?" Kari asked.
"It could be. Only one way to find out." Kody said as he reached back and took the potion from them, ignoring the pain that rocked him. He held the bottle up and popped of the cork. A small red mist came up from the bottle as it was opened.
"Hold on there Hero. You are going to drink something that had been sitting there for who knows how long? Just because a piece of paper says so?" Kari asked, not finding the logic in this.
"It's the only choice we have at this point." Kody said before bringing the glass to his lips and taking a gulp. He quickly set it down and thought about the taste. "Hmm… tastes like strawberries." He said liking his lips.
Not even a second passed and he felt the changes. His body started to feel better. It didn't hurt to just sit anymore and he lifted up his shirt to see his chest. He was shocked to see the dark red mark start to fade away from his body. He put down his shirt and reached up to the cut he had above his eye and was shocked to only feel crusted blood and nothing fresh. His wounds were healed! "Wow, this stuff works!" He said handing the stuff to Richard.
"Dude I'm driving." He said shaking his head.
"Alright fine, here try it." He said reaching back to hand it off to Lucas.
"You mean it really worked?" He asked as he took the potion.
"Yeah, I'm completely healed. We won't need to worry about going to the hospital." Kody said, excited about the magical formula.
Lucas looked at the others then at the potion. He shrugged then gulped the red liquid. He set it down and then blinked several times. Right after he sat up straight and started flexing his arm to check if he was better. To his surprise he was completely healed. "What is this stuff?" He asked, perplexed at the magical healing juice.
"I already said it's a healing potion dad." Mary said as she took it from him and held onto it. "Anyway the page goes on to say that there are varying degrees of the healing potion. Some can heal any wound with a few drops while some can completely heal the body if taken. Then it goes on about other things like magic potions and potions that do other things."
"Wow interesting stuff." Kari said as she grabbed the bottle. "To think that this stuff actually does what most doctors can't."
"Well it's magic. Did you expect doctors to learn magic?" Richard asked.
"True, speaking of magic Mary," Kari reached into her backpack and pulled out the large black book with the weird symbol on it. "Read this."
"Since when have I become the translator for all of you?" Mary mumbled as she grabbed the book and set it in her lap.
"Since you're the only one who can speak this language." Kody shot back.
Mary looked over the book and stared at the symbol of an eye for a while. Then she looked at the symbols around it and read the Hylian text to herself. Then she stopped and her eyes widened. "This is a bad book." Mary said, looking at the rest of them.
"What do you mean?" Kody asked.
"It's not of Princess Zelda or the Triforce. It's of something else. Darker. This book is the ways of magic and witchcraft." Mary said as she looked down and ran her fingers over the symbols. "Dangerous stuff. Whoever wrote this wanted to become a powerful witch."
"Okay? So what was it doing inside the chest?" Kari asked, now curious.
"Mary read the inside." Kody told her.
"I don't know if I want to." She whispered.
"It's alright I'm right here sweety." Her father said grabbing her shoulders and pulling her close.
"Okay…" Mary flipped open the book and dust flew from the pages. As did a small page. She grabbed the paper and held it up to read it. "This book was taken by Princess Zelda from the lair of Ganondorf several years before the final battle. In it she found the evil his wizards and mages used in their war. Princess Zelda realized these evils and took it upon herself to undo them. In this book you'll find her writing and messages of how to counter each spell or how to use the magic safely."
"Wait what?" Nearly everyone echoed.
Mary handed the paper to Kari, who couldn't read it, and turned back to the book. She flipped the page to see dark magic strewn across the pages. All around the symbols of dark magic were neatly written Hylian passages. The most beautiful handwriting signified the elegant touch of Princess Zelda and her messages. "Zelda's handwriting." Mary whispered as she ran her fingers over it.
"You mean Zelda actually wrote in that thing and that it was… hers?" Kody asked as he looked back at the book.
"Yes, this was Zelda's. She took it to make sure that she was prepared for any magic that she faced." Mary explained. She continued to read in her head.
"So, you think that Kayla knows any of this? I mean if you guys are becoming… well yourselves? You know Link and Zelda." Kari asked.
"Probably not. If I don't know anything, like reading Hylian, I'm sure she doesn't know spells or magic and stuff." Kody explained.
"Maybe we should give Micah the medicine before we kill him." Kari noted as their poor friend in the back had rolled to a new position.
"Oh crap I forgot about him!"
Fin.
A/N: Dun dun dun! So yeah twists and turns everywhere. Soon everything will be revealed but I do gotta say that Link's parents never really mattered in the games so I just took the liberty of making this version to have his parents be important. Obviously his mom was a keeper of the ancient ways and his father… well you'll find out.
Not bad for the first official battle huh? Did you guys keep up? Send a review and let me know what you think!