Xire was strapped to a metal table. He was struggling to break free, but the straps were metallic. He wasn't going anywhere. They were both done for. Mattie was trapped in a cage, and Xire was strapped to a table. They were at Brad's mercy. And at that time, he had none to speak of. Mattie had one last option. She called to me for help. Telepathically of course.

I was in my house, not sure what to do. My mind couldn't stop thinking of Mattie and Xire. An echo started in the back of my mind. It grew louder and louder, until I heard a voice that was not my own, call out two words. "Help. Lab." My mind jumped at the thought of Bradley's lab. I had to get down there. So I drove in my car, my thoughts going into overdrive. Too fast for Bradley to even read. Working on adrenaline helped. No slowing down. I ran several stop signs, and eventually reached the lab. I ran inside, past the secretary, and opened random doors, trying to find Bradley's workspace. I finally opened the right one. Nate was the only one in the room. Another door in the room was closed.

"David?" Nate asked.

"I don't have time for this Nathan," I said with authority.

"No, you don't" Nate agreed "In fact, your time is up. They're gone. Brad took them somewhere else. He figured you'd try to be a hero." Gone? I was too late? The meaning of those words sunk in. It was too surreal.

"Nate! How could you let this happen?" I asked.

"You don't understand what happened to Brad," he said.

"No, You're the one who doesn't understand," I said "You let Brad do away with both of them? You're just as bad as he is."

"But he said-"

"To hell with what he said! How could you?!" I screamed. Nate sighed, and looked up in thought. He opened the closed door. He revealed a world of truth.

On the other side of the doorway were Brad, Mattie, and Xire. Brad was taken by surprise as the door opened.

"Nate? You weren't supposed to reveal I was here. You betrayed me!" Brad exclaimed.

"I won't let you harm them Brad," Nate declaired. I ran through the doorway, attemting to push Brad aside. A pair of hands grabbed my sleve, as a projectile zoomed past my head. Nate saved me.

"There's more where that came from" Brad smiled. He turned to face Xire. "Who is this Shiekah?"

"Shiekah!?" I exclaimed. "I'm not a shiekah."

"Yes you are. Don't be dumb. Your ears are a dead giveaway," Brad persisted.

"What about my ears?" I asked harshly. Brad threw a mirror in my direction. I looked into it, to see my ears. They were pointed. As sharp as Xire's. What was happening to me?

"Wait a minute," Brad said out loud. You didn't have pointed ears before… those are fake! Get over here." I walked over to the other room. He pointed some sort of ray gun at me.

"Any last requests?" Brad asked. I didn't know what happened to me, but I remembered some spells from the game.

"Yeah," I said. "Eat Din's Fire!" I thrust a palm into Brad's stomach. Fire erupted from my hand, and Brad slid into a filing cabinet. Brad's ray gun fired into the ceiling, knocking a panel loose. I took the panel, and used it as a shield to get to Xire and Mattie's restraints. Heavy fire fell onto the stucco panel. I succeeded in freeing them. I threw the panel at Brad, knocking the ray gun from his hand. I forced a hand onto Brad's forehead, threatening to use a spell.

"No more fighting. Let's talk," I said slowly, heart pounding.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked, talking down to me.

"No, why don't you tell me?" I mocked.

"I could get out of this if I wanted. You're no match for my intellect."

"Is that so?" I asked. "Try it," He didn't move.

"I thought so," I said. A moment of silence made the situation awkward.

"Alice and Xire cared about you Brad, they just couldn't show it."

"No they didn't" Brad denied, "They didn't care about me."

"Brad, we did care about you, but we couldn't show it," Xire said, "When Matilda was born, she had pointed ears, and her blood type wasn't that of any human. She was born in an earth hospital. The doctors were fascinated with a baby with those kinds of ears. He wanted to run tests on her. He kidnapped her, and brought her to a testing facility to experiment on her. They were going to kill her. So I infiltrated the lab. They were after me and Mattie. They came searching or us. They searched for years before they gave up. My time was taken. We had no intentions for hurting you. You seemed perfectly fine."

"But I wasn't fine. I was hurting inside. So I decided to hurt you on the outside." Brad sobbed.

"One question," I asked "Why are you so smart?"

"I don't know,"

"Tell me,"

"I said, I don't know"

"I said tell me!"

"Shut UP!"

"TELL ME!"

"NO!"

"TELL ME NOW!"

"BECAUSE I'M A SHIEKAH!" Brad screamed. He covered his mouth "I'm a shiekah?" he sounded like he didn't know.

"It's all coming back to me now," Brad said. Apparently, he didn't know.

"My father created a potion to round off my ears. That's why I'm so smart- I'm a Shiekah."

"Welcome to the club," I said. Everyone laughed. Even Brad.

So in the end, Brad forgave his parents, and they moved back into Alice's house. Mattie moved in with me, and soon we were married. Brad fixed the teleporter, and we were all free to roam between Hyrule, and Earth. Though I still felt as if something was still missing from the equation.

End