Chapter 39: The one where there is blank chaos
The world was upside down. Right is left, in is out and everyone is screaming and running, trying not to get trampled. Escaping the free fall was the easiest. Fighting against the panicked masses to reach the portal and figure out where the screams and gunfire had originated from was the opposite of easy. When you had reached the portal, your numbers had been decimated to just Zelda, you, Twilight, Hyrule, Wild and Warriors.
Have you ever wondered what other beings than Hylians would turn into when they cross the universe? Now you know and it wasn't pretty.
Gunfire from the police added a tense rhythm, a strange kind of melody to the already mad situation as a horde of angry wild boars attacked the brave people still shooting, a bear picking up a car and tossing it. A crocodile laid dead on the ground, five others taking its place in this otherworldly take over.
Could this be Dark Link's monster army? Or at least what was left of it?
This…was suboptimal. Especially seeing as you all were pretty much weaponless, seeing as the heroes were unable to use their magically operated bags and thus had only to fall back on their swords.
Wild holds his Sheikah Slate like a lifeline and as the other present heroes started to also fight the too many enemies turned animals, trying to help you three weaponless ones, you quickly approached him, Zelda in tow. "Wild, time to see if that shop assistant really fixed the port!"
"How do I do that?" he voiced back, feeling helpless and hating that feeling.
"Zel, can we borrow your portable charger?" you called out to her over the sound of gunfire.
She looked like she wanted to ask a billion questions, but recognizing the direness of the situation she quickly handed it over. You swiftly inserted it in the loading port the shop assistant had freed…
…and watch fascinated as the device lights up as energy fueled it once more.
"How?" breathed Zelda out.
"It worked…" you whispered ecstatic.
Wild wasted no time assessing his weapons menu, dropping a large pile of weapons for all of you to take before swiftly arming himself. Time to fight against the horde of real world made monsters and let as few pass you by as possible…
0oOo0
Luck swiped the hammer he had borrowed from a ring-the-bell game at an incoming boar, managing to effectively keep it away from him. Malin next to him did the same with a pitchfork she had snatched out the pony riding attraction which before only had served ornamental purposes but now did a pretty good job as a weapon.
"Where are all the animals coming from?" he breathed out between pants, trying to dodge the panicked crowd coming their way.
"I don't know! But we lost Marina" Malin informed, fending a horde of crazy bats off.
"What?!" brings out her fiancé, knocking an elbow in a very angry wolf before quickly knocking the animal out.
"Don't worry, Sky went to go find her!"
"In the middle of a terrified crowd alone in modern times?! Now I am really worried!"
0oOo0
Marina ran. Having lost the rest of the group by the stampede, she had stumbled away only to find herself surrounded by oversized rats, which were intent on killing her. Determined not to go down this easy, the aspiring singer had swiftly climbed one of the stands, only to have the mutated mad animals follow her up.
Looking around, Marina quickly spotted a broken chair. Grabbing one of the metallic legs, she swiftly used it as a club to fend the rabid beings off…there were so many…
Why were these many wild animals here? Why was there gunfire?
It felt so unreal, more like a dream…Marina had many dreams…especially in her coma. And once she had woken, she had dreamed she was fighting a war.
But these were not dreams, these were cold reality and Marina did not posses any special powers to save her now.
Still, she was determined not to die, and so she did the only thing she could think of seeing as she was surrounded by animals intending on ending her so far admittingly very short life.
She fought back.
She fought back and got bitten and scratched and she fell a few times only to get up determined to continue fighting.
And then she heard someone calling her name: "Marina!"
Marina looked up and hope blossomed in her chest as a silver sword fought to fight through the enemy hordes to her: "Sky!"
"Are you alright?" he asked. She nodded, breathlessly, a silly moment wondering why she wasn't freaked out at all to have someone carrying a sword near her. Then her gaze fell to the rats around them, the gigantic spiders now also crawling closer, a horde of boars rushing near terrified humans and bears and crocodiles alike attacking people wildly.
Ah yes, he was an armed friend in a situation where they were surrounded by enemies. Of course it was a good thing to see him then like this.
"We gotta stop them before they can attack us or others further" she stated, shaking. Sky nodded, this much was clear.
"Let's bring the whole stand down on them. Just gotta cut the pillars. I will act as bait to distract them" she explained.
"No, that's too dangerous" he argued back. "I can do so alone."
"Don't be stupid" she chided. "You wanna play the hero, fine. But don't risk our lives for that. I will distract and you will cut the pillars supporting the roof of this stand. Or do you want me to cut them with your sword while you distract?"
"You can't" he immediately protested, gripping the handle of his sword tightly, conflict evident in his face.
"Then do as I told you" she stated, determination glittering in her brown eyes and then she was off. But…for some reason the animals now seemed more interested in attacking Sky than her. This ruined her half-plotted plan even further!
Marina couldn't let this stand.
And so she did the only thing she could think of to catch the attacker's attention. She started to sing.
A haunting melody popped from her lips, one she dreamed of so many times and these infuriating beings turned away from Sky to follow and attack her as she fought against them with her metallic chair leg.
Hack, hack, one pillar down.
Marina sung and fought and stumbled and sung…
Hack, hack, the second pillar was down, the main one in the middle groaning in protest.
And then a boar came running and she barely dodged it. So much force…
An idea rose as Sky started hacking at the last outer support.
Marina sung, and when the boar came next to attack her, she had swiftly climbed the main pillar. Wood splintered under the strength and she jumped, stumbled and the roof finally gave in, the little support breaking easily like a toothpick.
But she was out, panting, sitting by the carnage, crumbled and breathing and hysterically laughing even as the dust and adrenaline had yet to settle.
"Are you alright?" asked Sky unnecessarily, bowing down next to her kneeling form as she was still laughing like a madwoman. But before Marina could lie, screams cut through the air and Sky hurried away to help the two young men cornered by crocodiles, for the moment thinking her safe.
She wasn't, sadly, for when she turned her head from the dust cloud there appeared a bear, stomping and roaring upset.
"Oh duck" Marina breathed and tried to stand and run, only to find her ankle caught and tightly trapped in the wreckage as the beast closed in.
Oh god, no, no, no, she was stuck! Was this the end? Was she going to die?
"Sky! Sky!" she called out, wrenching, tugging, pulling, all for nothing.
He didn't come, too far away helping too many strangers.
"Help! Anyone! Help!"
Desperately she clawed at her ankle, frantically trying to get her foot loose.
The boar raised its paws over its head and Marina looked away, not ready to look Death in its eyes. Because her life had been so short.
She had still so many things to do and to see and she still wanted to win that talent-show…she still wanted her music to be spread all over the world to bring joy to people…she still wanted to travel to distant lands…she still wanted to find love…the one her dreams had shown her…
Oh god, oh god, this was the end…
Something blocked the bear's swing with a loud thud. Marina looked up horrified what might have happened now, only to gasp softly. For surrounded within the smokey cloud which once the bear was…
Her dream…
Her guardian angel…
He had descended to save her!
With a mighty swing of his golden sword he had decapitated the monster and Marina looked away blushing when she realized that he wasn't wearing trousers and from her angle on the ground she definitely had a good view on what lay beneath his kilt…
Her face burning, she buried it in her hands. What a perverted woman she was!
But well…her guardian angel truly didn't have anything to be ashamed of, truly.
The heavy supporting metal that held her foot in place suddenly lifted and Marina allowed herself to breathe and quickly pull her limb free.
And then a hand was held in her face and her kind angel asked her: "Are you alright? Can you stand?"
Marina finally dared to look up and was instantly drowned in a sea of blue. Like waves they pulled her under his spell, no escape. Her mouth opened softly, but no sound came out as she took in her savior.
He meanwhile had a very different reaction. A gasp broke forth and he stumbled back as if he had been struck, a quick series of emotion ranging from shock and denial to joy and something Marina couldn't quite place before he softly breathed out: "Marin?"
0oOo0
Wind hated feeling helpless. He hated it when he saw that cursed bird carry his sister away and he hated it now as he was separated from the rest of his group, only an unreacting Four by his side, which he now also had to defend as he tugged through a maze of unknown things, rabid animals that behaved like monsters would after them.
Ducking under a wooden counter, the youngest hero pushed his friend to look at him, swearing at him, trying to wake him out his stupor.
But nothing, nothing he said or did showed any sign of snapping Four out of whatever he was in.
Wind felt tears of desperation prick in his eyes. And despair turned to anger. And anger lashed out: "You gotta wake up, Four! I really need your help!"
No answer, only glazed multicolored orbs looking past him.
And anger turned to indescribable fury. "Whatever you're thinking of, whatever you're looking at, it's not real! You gotta wake up!"
No reaction. Not even a blink.
Nothing.
And then Wind lashed out in teenage fury, the slap bringing them both back in the present.
"Wh-what?" stuttered the multicolor-clothed teen, eyes finally focused again. He stared wide eyed at Wind and then held his cheek, stinging and red from where a hand-shaped bruise started to form.
"Oh, goddesses, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but you wouldn't react and we're in great danger" Wind quickly brought out, guilt heavy like lead in his stomach, but he had to concentrate on the current situation.
If he was a bit less stressed and out of it, Wind might have noticed his friend's normally very colorful eyes, that tended to switch or even be multiple colors at the same time, had taken on a nice, simple singular aqua color. But alas at that moment he didn't.
"What…? Where…?" Wind's companion brought out, disoriented beyond compare until he looked around. "Why are we near a rollercoaster? How did I get here?"
A roar of a nearby monster turned animal made both teenagers jump up and turn on their heels, the colorful clad youth giving out a sound of horror: "What the actual…why are there wild animals running around? Was there a zoo breakout I wasn't informed about?!"
The incoming bear roared. Wind grabbed his friend's hand and quickly pulled him along in speed run.
"Where are we going? This way leads directly onto the rollercoaster!" the teen protested, eyes wide. "Less talking, more running" insisted Wind, ignoring the other's warning until they suddenly stood right in front of said coaster, the ways out barricaded by the bear and a crocodile.
The colorful teen narrowed his eyes before quickly pushing Wind into the car of the train, determined locking him in place. "What are you doing?" the younger hero immediately protested, trying and failing to get out.
"Hopefully saving your hide, kid" answered his friend, aqua eyes gleaming as a plan formed. And while Wind immediately protested at his choice of nicknaming him, the other ran to the manager's cabin. Pressing random buttons, he quickly found the right one to get the whole thing started, overriding the system quite efficiently, Wind squeaking in protest when suddenly the wagons started moving.
Meanwhile the colorful teen narrowly managed to pass the bear, quickly reaching the train just as it left station and climbing onto it, narrowly managing to wiggle between the lap-locked restrains.
"This doesn't seem very safe" muttered Wind, frowning at the other teen.
"It isn't" he shot back with a wry grin just as the train reached the hill it started to be slowly pulled up. "But it works on TV so I guess I'll take my chances."
Wind shot him a disbelieving look, inwardly wondering when the other had the time to watch that much on Babble's Zelda's strange device. But then he furrowed his brows in worry as he saw the blood dribbling down from a gash on his friend's arm, where the bear managed to get him.
"You okay, Four?" Wind asked, worried. The other looked at him, admittingly confused until his gaze found the gashes and stated simply: "Oh."
And then they reached the highest point of the climb up.
"I'd advise you to hold on" the colorful teen gave out with a looped grin, adrenaline pumping his veins.
And then they fell.
