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Chapter 10
New World
I took a step back away from the bullet as the room became silent for a second and dust fell from the sky. There was another call from the few remaining Bulblin and I turned to where the bullet had come from. My dad stood in front of a portal and three shots were fired from his gun. Three more Bulblins exploded to dust and a wind lifted them into the air just to fall like snow.
"Electra catch," Dad called out and threw a black L shaped object at me.
With experience from practice, I caught the spinning object with ease and pulled the trigger at the local Bulblin across the room. I moved my arm to the side and another bullet left my gun and two clouds of dust appeared with no effort. I took a look around and noticed there weren't any more monsters running around. I slightly lightened my stance and slowly looked around in a slow walk. There weren't any sounds other than the heels of my shoes clicking the floor and the light wind that came from the portal, sub-space wind if my sci-fi was correct. All urges to be somewhat of mature person left and I ran. I ran towards my father and ran into his chest. He barely moved as if he already braced for the impact and wrapped his safe warm arms around me. I didn't notice I was crying until something caught my eye in the blur. I must have been more stressed out then I thought. I quickly aimed my gun and Dean appeared in front of it.
"Move one muscle and you won't see tomorrow." I threated Dean. Dean smirked and I fired the gun at his shoulder. Blood fell, but then the wound healed again. "Next one's in the head or the heart; I haven't decided yet, maybe both."
Dad turned around letting me go and stood in front of me as he drew his gun. "Who is this guy?"
"His name is Dean; he isn't a good guy." I responded holding my gun out off to the side of Dad. I just got something familiar back again; I don't need to accidently shoot him. Dean disappeared and then I sensed something start to appear behind me. I turned around just as my dad did and when Dean appeared he had my dad's gun on his head and my gun at his heart, or at least that I thought it should be on a human. "I'm not sure if you used muscles to pull that off, so count yourself luck, if you have something to say before we take our shots, you may say it now."
"I must say you are very tuned into your senses of energy currents, I guess father like daughter." Dean said. "But I can't seem to get a hold of the scriptures I need in the castle. Its nicely locked up with all sorts of spells and trap, poor Bulblins every time one went off you had about 15 seconds before it would set itself up again but there was always another spell or trap to take out a thief that tried to follow the pattern."
"Sad story," Dad responded very bluntly without a care.
"Yes it is," Dean replied with the same tone. "Well, I must get going, your world has them without a doubt, all I have to do is find it."
"Like hell you are." I replied, but before I could pull the trigger, Dean pulled the vanishing act and reappeared next to the throne. I ran and fired my gun at the freak. Each of the bullets went in and then they dropped to the ground in front of him. He grinned and swiped his hand across like brushing away a cob web causing a rift of force stopping me from running and pushed me off balance slightly.
"When I have the scriptures, I'll be back for you Electra; hope you don't miss me too much while I'm gone." Dean stated and then walked into his own portal that formed behind him and it disappeared.
"So he likes to play huh," I somewhat chuckled to myself and looked away from where he disappeared and turned to the rest of the company in the great hall. "Is everyone alright?"
"I believe so," Zelda answered back to her regular self and everyone gathered from our scattered places. Zelda turned her attention to Dad. "So who might you be?"
Dad apparently lost his tongue sometime after Dean vanished as he didn't look like he could answer. I smiled at my father's presentation. "This is my father, Officer Don Ends."
"Yes," Dad replied suddenly, I guess he didn't lose it, and bowed. "Don Ends, your Highnesses."
"Well Mr. Ends, you certainly know how to make an entrance." Midna replied and one of the used bullets floated in front of her, "And how to kill."
"I tend to use my weapons as a way to control a situation, not to kill; though I tend to deal with people, not creatures."
"Most people call them monsters, yet you call them creatures, just for my own curiosity why?"
"You have people, you have creatures, but then you have monsters. Monsters are from both of these titles; I have seen my fair share of monsters. The monster that can be found in humanity itself is impeccable compare to these creatures that were in here."
"Those would be Bulblins," I told my dad.
"Yes well, I'm still adjusting to this place… speaking of which," Dad turned to me. "I am bringing you home this instant! Then you are staying in the house for a while."
I blinked in his random outburst. "How long is a while?"
"I was thinking until a zombie apocalypse."
"Dad, you can't do that there will never be a zombie outbreak."
"Exactly," Dad crossed his arms. "He said that he'll be back after he finds those scriptures, I'm keeping you away from him and from danger even if that requires me to stick you on the United States most guarded base in the middle of their country three hundred feet below the surface."
"Dean is playing hide and go seek and is looking for the documents on our world; which was the same reason he was in the castle. I need to go and find him and stop his plot." I protested getting slightly agitated.
"Yeah, cause you can do that by yourself. For all you know he could be in a completely different dimension and being eaten by something never to be seen again" Dad retorted making my agitation into anger.
"I can and I will, technically I'm the one who started this mess, so I'm going to finish it."
"May I-" Link started.
"No!" Both my father and I raised our voices at the same time interrupting his word all together.
"Electra, for the love of God, I almost lost you." Dad started to show a bit of sorrow and I took a step back down from the door of total rage. "I didn't know where you were, or what happened to you, or know if I would every see you again. When that Mickey guy opened that portal, I heard a battle, and I feared the worse."
I was stun to say the least. I took a breath and subsided all of my anger and agitation. "I understand Dad; it's the same for me every time you leave for work, I never know if you would come home especially after the incident. But this is my responsibility now, not just because he kidnapped me or because of some family ties we need to look up. But because he is after something that is in our world and there is no comic book super hero coming to save the day when everything goes to hell."
Dad smiled and placed his hands on my shoulders. "Alright, this is something that cannot be ignored, but once everything is said and done, we're going on vacation, are we clear?"
I nodded and there was a short sound of someone clearing their throat. I turned to the sound and remembered Link, Zelda and Midna were also in the room.
"Can I say something now?" Link asked.
"Uh, yes, Link right?" Dad answered obviously realizing we weren't the only ones in the room.
Link nodded before he started. "I would like-"
"Oh my God, this place is gorgeous!" A well-known female voice echoed really loudly interrupting the Twilight Hero. I turned around and saw Lucia walking from the portal. "Hello Electra, how was your little trip, mine was excellent. I stepped through the portal and it was like walking through a Stargate start at one end and end up in a completely different area all together. By the way nice dress; never thought I would see you in one."
"What are you doing here Lucia?" I asked. I didn't have a good relationship with her, neutral but not a good neutral.
"I wanted to help find the girl who decided to go for a dimension trip."
"You don't even like me, so are you here for a reward or are you actually here for your reason."
"For once I actually wanted to find you, I don't like being in debt with other people." Lucia explained walking up to us.
"Well here I am." I replied and turned back to Link. Damn the guy has patience worth more than gold. "Okay so you were saying."
"I would like to help find Dean." Link told us.
"You want to help find Dean," Dad stated and Link nodded again. "In a foreign land that is much more technically advanced, a much larger space than the country you know off and you can't carry any of your weapons in public. Are you sure you want to?"
"I can deal with it, by the sounds of your world you can carry some weapons in public, I'll just learn how to use those against Dean in front of people instead of my sword and bow."
"I think that it would be alright, he'll need some new clothes and taught how to use a handgun, but he should be alright." I told my dad. "It's not like we don't have room for him to stay, if you wanted to you could have ten guests over at a time."
"Well then, you've cleared customs on this end, not legally but whatever, it's only illegal if you get caught." Dad shrugged. "Not like they could prove it anyway."
Link turned to Zelda. "May I have your permission to leave the country, your Highness?"
"You do, Midna will be staying a while so we can take care of both the Twilight Realm and Hyrule while you are gone. Good luck Link, Don, Electra and be careful the path isn't going to be simple." Zelda answered.
"What am I, chopped liver?" Lucia asked with a rude tone. I almost ordered 'off with her head.'
"Well considering you just said that to a queen, yes." I responded. "Now go and see how much longer that portal is staying open for, I doubt it will be much longer."
Lucia rolled her eyes and walked towards the portal. "Yeah, yeah whatever, by the way you aren't getting the smexy without a fight."
"What are you talking about?"
"I will fight you for the smexy hot stuff." Lucia vowed and went through the portal.
"Can someone explain what was just said?" Link asked.
My attention was turned to the queens who were trying hard not to giggle.
"I believe that was girl talk," Dad started and I snapped for the second time that day. I started laughing at how oblivious my father was, I understood why Link wouldn't, he's a male teenager, but my dad isn't as hip, as my teachers call the here and now, as I thought. Zelda and Midna joined. "What is so funny?"
"Ah nothing," I sighed.
"Girl stuff," Zelda, Midna and I said at the same time.
Link and Dad looked at each other in confusion and then shrugged.
Lucia came out of the portal. "Okay smart ass, the portal is only going to last fifteen more minutes so if you want the good old express route then it's time to go or you can wait two weeks for the system to recharge for the next portal."
"Thanks for the update." Dad replied and turned to Link and I. "I hope you have your things?"
Link and I looked at each other and he nodded.
"Yes we do, though there is one thing that I need to ask." I answered.
"What would that be?"
"Link has a horse and due to some strings being pulled I also have a horse, would it be okay to bring them along?"
"If it makes you feel better not to leave them behind then yes its fine, like you said we have room."
Link took out Epona's whistle and played it. I walked to the throne and placed my bag on my back. We walked to the portal when the two horses trotted into the room. I went up to Hero and rubbed his nose and turned to Dad. "This is Hero, he is an interesting horse, kinda like Epona, and I believe they think they're humans."
"Cool, one more male in the crew." Dad replied with some dullness and turned to Zelda and Midna. "We'll return Link safe and sound and hopefully without collateral damage if Dean somehow weasels his way out of our grip. I wish there was a way we can communicate back and for progress on both ends, Queen Zelda and Queen Midna."
"Well there is one way." Zelda replied as she turned to Midna and nodded.
I got curious at her words and was amazed at what popped out of thin air in front of the Twilight Queen. Five rectangular figures that looked very similar to video callers appeared and separated themselves among us; Dad, Link, Zelda, Midna and me. They seemed to be made from the Twilight Realm.
"These are communicators that allow one to talk to another in a different world as long as it is connected to the device you are trying to reach. So you can call from one dimension to another; or call from someone half a world away, but you can't reach someone from here and the moon." Midna explained.
"So these two dimensions and on planet talking, but not super long distance." I summed up.
"Exactly."
Just then the portal started to pulse.
"Time to go," Dad replied and the two horses walked through the portal.
"Bye Queen Zelda, bye Queen Midna, good luck." I told them and my dad pulled me and Link into the portal.
On the other side it was the same lighting as the castle, though it was much smaller especially with the two Belgium horses in the room. The portal vanished from behind me. Lucia and some freaky gamer crossed over with a mad scientist were trying to get the horses out of the room we were in. I stood back in humor as I watched the two people try to move the stubborn horses. After five minutes they managed to get them out and started to direct them to the outside world, or at least that was where I figured.
"Where are we?" Link asked.
"Good question." I replied looking around the odd room. There were several large computers that looked like they went out of business two decades ago. The room and the other rooms that I could see through the doors seemed too small for a house. The walls were not drywall, but rock, cement and metal.
"This is an underground bunker." Dad told us, "Out a ways from the city and not too far from home."
"So it will be possible to walk the horses back home then." I asked.
"Yes, it might be a bit cold in your outfit, but I don't seem the problem."
"My clothes are still wet and I left my jacket at Uli's house, but I'll be fine."
Lucia and Gamer walked into the room and they looked out of breath.
"Well that took some nagging at the stairs, but we got them outside." Gamer said with a sigh. "Now is everyone here and good?"
"Yes," Dad answered wrapping an arm around my shoulders. "And we have an extra hand to finding the one that started this mess."
"Oh, who is- wait do you mean?"
"He is a bit of an obsessive person." Lucia interrupted. "This is the one who built the dimension portal thingy, Mickey."
I nodded though I kept my distance from being to interactive. "Thank you for your help."
"No problem, always wanted to test it out anyway." Mickey replied and then pointed at the newest companion. "You!"
"Me?" Link pointed at himself and then Mickey appeared in front of him with a pen and paper.
"Please sign it?" Link gave the man a weird look and signed the sheet of paper. Mickey's face was bright and happy, like a mad scientist that was given the chance to blow up an entire country with his latest new invention. I found it rather strange. "Thank you."
"Mickey, I'm going to take these three and call it a night, I'll call you later to give you details on what's happening." Dad told the mad scientist.
"Alright, good luck."
Lucia, Dad, Link and I followed Mickey outside to find the cruiser and the two horses outside of the door.
"Electra, you should know where you are once you hit the main back road, which is just down that driveway." Dad told me pointing up the tree lines.
"You're bringing Lucia home right?" I asked.
"Yes he is." Lucia replied.
"Good, that means I don't have to deal with you."
"You have been in my presence for at the most five minutes."
"Five minutes more than I can handle." I answered. "We may be on a neutral stance, but that doesn't mean that I don't know what your little parade does."
"You're funny."
"I didn't make a joke."
"Okay enough, god you two are like a bunch of school girls." Dad interrupted our fight.
I turned to him. "That's because we are."
"Right, forgot, use that term for newbies at the station."
"Well, have a safe trip I guess."
My dad gave me one last look and then he and Lucia climbed into the car "Electra,"
"Yea?"
"Take my coat; I don't need you to have hyperthermia or frostbite." He said as he tossed his coat at me and then he drove away. Mickey headed back to his bunker, "Have a good night and watch out for any moose, bear, fishers and coyotes."
"Yeah," I replied putting on my dad's coat and Mickey left back inside, "'Cause that is the worst possible scenario."
"We should probably get going before it gets much darker." Link stated as I got onto Hero's back.
"Good idea."
We walked up the driveway a good ways when we finally came to the back road. I was surprised that this bunker was anywhere near the route I took to school and home every day. We turned onto the main road and walked in silence in the middle of the road, side by side so if any cars came by they could see us. The area was silent other than the horses walking on the snow covered road, and it was pretty cold compare to Hyrulian weather. Fucking Canadian weather, its March and it was still was freezing. I took a side glance at my companion. He didn't seem bothered by the exchange in temperature.
"Are you cold?" I asked him because I really had no idea; the guy is like a statue half the time.
"I'm fine; I'm slightly surprised at all the snow though." He answered and looked around.
The moon was well into the sky and the sun was slowly departing. "Yeah, we are heading into spring, but it's still a cold little, erm large place."
"Are you cold?" He asked and I gave him a confused look. "You are wearing a short dress and heels."
"I'm fine, I'm use to this weather, and my dad's jacket is made for negative forty-five degrees Celsius. It's like minus three out."
"If you say so," Link said. "By the way, that vehicle that your dad was driving wasn't a van right."
"You're smart for someone in the medieval timeline." I responded and he passed me a dirty look. "It wasn't a van, but a car. Most people call that car though a cruiser because it's a police vehicle."
"Interesting."
"Not as interesting as being in one or driving it."
"You can drive it?" He asked in disbelief.
"Well I am old enough."
"There's a legal age to driving a car?"
I nodded, "Yup there is a legal age to drive anything with a motor. You have to be sixteen to get a driver's license which is the same from trucks and motorcycles. And the boating license has no minimum age for a license but there are a whole bunch of restrictions if you're under sixteen."
"There are a lot of restrictions in this place." Link concluded.
"Eh, sort of, most of it is common sense, but this country is quite fair compare to other places around the world."
The moon was up and the sun long gone by the time I could see my driveway. The snow sparkled in the light and it was quiet with no wilderness movements.
"Home sweet home." I sighed. The first thing I was going to do after settling the horses in was grabbing some soft PJs and hitting a hot shower. Dad pulled into the driveway behind us shortly after and followed us to the back of the house where a barn had been built before we had moved into our home. It was made for horses, but with our schedules, we never bothered to get any. When the auto light of the barn turned on, I noticed that there was a trailer full of hay piled behind Dad's car, I think by the size it was five bales high and eight bales long. I got off Hero and opened the barn. Dad walked into the barn with a heavy step to his walk. "Where did you get the horse food from?" I asked in wonder.
"Lucia's father gave it to me, Lucia said that we were having 'horse company' and her father loaded the bales and told me to take them."
"They have horses?"
"They do indeed, for someone who goes off to the city and outskirts for criminals, you don't seem to know your surroundings very well."
"I have been studying other places more than home." I told him as I brought the horse into the barn.
"Electra,"
"Yes Dad."
He came up to me and took the reins of the horse from my hand. "I'll take care of this little chore, you head inside and freshen yourself up."
"Are you saying I smell?"
"Not at all. But you are out here in a dress and my coat in below zero weather. And other thing you can't carry a bale of hay in heels."
"Right," I shivered involuntary. "Are you sure that you want to do it, I can stay here and help."
"It's alright; I can get Hero all settled in, you go ahead."
I nodded and started walking away. I turned back to Dad and Link. "Don't get into a fight or anything, I don't want to fix you up and then call for an ambulance."
"Yes, yes now go." Dad insisted and shooed me away.
I continued my journey from the barn back to the house. I followed the tire tracks for most of the way and then I had to go into the deep snow that suddenly decided to appear on the walk and went up to the middle of my shin. I resisted the urge to start cursing the frozen state of water in fear that the two gentlemen in the barn would think there was something wrong. I got out of the snow and walked to the door frame. I opened the door and walked in to be welcomed by the warm entry way. In a blur I wandered to my room gathered some soft, fuzzy, blue PJs, some undergarments and a nice pair of fuzzy socks that matched my PJs. The last thing I needed was either Dad or the videogame character seeing me in a towel on my way to my room. I stepped into the bathroom and locked the door behind me.
I wandered out of the bathroom and heard the sounds of silverware clattering and muffled voices chattering. The smell of the hall came from the stairs that led me to whatever it was. I walked down the stairs and continued straight to find the dining room/kitchen. Dad was emptying some fluffy coated toasty goodness onto a plate while Link sat at the island counter.
"Smells delicious as always Dad." I complimented Dad's French toast.
"Thank you, now take a seat and the food shall arrive." Dad replied happily dipping some bread into the egg and cinnamon batter.
Link seemed out of place sitting at the table. I almost wanted to laugh at the sight. The boy in green turned to me. "I tried to help with making food, but Don dismissed me saying he had the job under control.
"Yes, my father is as an excellent officer on the field, but he is also a master chief in the kitchen. Never try to get in the middle of him and his cooking; it's not a pretty sight."
"I'm not that bad Electra." Dad said over his shoulder. "I allow people to walk by and help."
"And when was the last time you didn't threaten to use cutlery as throwing stars?"
"The last time we had company."
"He threw a fork at me when I tried to touch an egg." Link replied.
"Dad!"
"It was payback for him throwing a bale of hay in my face." Dad explained.
"Link!"
"Only because he said he could catch it."
I was about to yell at my dad again when a thought appeared. "You two were dodging bales weren't you?"
"Possibly." Dad answered placing another piece of toast onto the plate.
"I won." Link answered smugly.
"You wish,"
"Is the food ready?" I asked trying to stop the fight or rivalry they seemed to have started.
"Yes it is," Dad said as he placed some plates onto the table. The food was served and eaten in silence that left almost immediately as Dad sat down at the island counter table. We talked about the last few days and exchanged what information we had. Dad got up and started to place the dishes in the dishwasher. "It sounds like you had an adventure."
"Yeah I guess you could call it that, I wasn't prepared for it though so it felt more like a disaster, completely up the creek without a paddle." I told him.
"So what is the plan tomorrow? You have school that needs to be attended to; rather you get the school work for the day you missed and tomorrows work and we leave to do other things or you stay the day is all up to you."
"Thanks Dad, school can wait for a bit until we have some sort of stand and a way to track any weird activity." I said as I pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen from the drawer in front of me. On the top I wrote: List of things to do, in no particular order.
We discussed on what needed to be done and by the time the three of us finished with coming up with ideas the list was a long one, but not too long.
-Get Link some modern day clothing
-Finish school work
-Set up a video surveillance system of the house
-Get some tools for the horses
-Get Electra some riding lessons
-Place a warning system in the house of all news activity around the world
-Learn about the history that was in Zelda care and match it with any 'earth' history records
-Teach Link how to use firearms
-Watch a movie
I stopped writing and turned to my father. "Watch a movie?"
"You also might want to place sleep on that list, sleep and having a break are important, when we aren't doing the long term events we can get very anxious and cause more damage to ourselves than when we are doing things." Dad replied as he read the Zombie Survival Guide.
I shook my head and put sleep on the list for the hell of it. I set the pen down and got up from my seat. "Well if you two have anything else to put down then you may do so, I'm going to bed. Dad please show Link where the guest room is and don't give him the couch like you did when Uncle Fred came over, as funny as it was, Link isn't Uncle Fred."
"Alright, we'll see you tomorrow, but before you go what time do you want to be up, if you want to catch the bus you'll have to turn on your alarm."
"Nah screw the van I couldn't care less about it, I'll just get up around nine or something all depends on how I feel in the morning though if I'm not up by eleven get me up, we don't have time to be wasting the day away."
"Yes ma'am." Dad teased and I rolled my eyes.
"Good night Dad, Link." I said and then wandered up the stairs and into my room. I collapsed onto my bed and threw the blankets over my head. And then the darkness of sleep came to me without a glitch.
Who doesn't like a nice sleep? I sure as hell do
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