Chapter 8
Themis
Hello, here is another chapter for all who have waited. I would have updated sooner, but the school year began with a very big bang of homework and writer's block. Yay -_- anyhow onward, though I must thank my friend for giving our new comer a name and yes that is my friend's name.
I don't own Legend of Zelda only the OCs and I don't own my friend's name
The lips of the stranger were strange. They seemed like I never wanted to leave them, but there was something really wrong. It seemed like forever as I tried to struggle against the assault, but it was really only a matter of seconds. Time was slowing down in my head as it started to become clouded. I pushed away from the fiend and managed to gain my bounds again taking a few unstable steps backwards.
The man that stood in front of me seemed to match the voice that had called me that strange name, Themis. He was tall, six foot and well-built even for my standards. He had light brown almost a deep golden color hair and was pale toned. His sunset colored eyes showed mischief and a hint of amusement which sent an instinctual signal in my brain that I ignored barely, 'hide.'
My tongue didn't want to move as it felt violated as questions started in my head once more.
Luckily Link was on the ball and managed to get in front of the man. This slightly irritated me because in the process, Link moved me farther out of danger along with that he was protecting me when I didn't want his help. "Who are you?"
A small smile formed in the man's face as he turned his attention to the hero in green. "My name is Dean and I'm here to collect the girl that the Bulblins and Bokoblins are having a difficult time with, and now I see why."
"So your over friendly greeting was nothing more than a way to creep me out? I really didn't appreciate the dramatic performance."
"So are you saying you enjoyed it?"
"No not at all in fact; I found it very nauseous." I responded and then I heard a faint sigh from Link. Ignoring the hero who still stood in front of me I turn my attention back to Dean. "Who is Themis?"
"That would be you would it not?" Dean asked with a playing voice.
"Sorry the name's Electra Ends, no Themis anywhere in there."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure she knows her own identity, now explain, why do you want Electra?" Link questioned with anger.
"Do you know who the original Themis was?" Dean answered with a question.
"She was a titan and master of the Divine Law or the Law of Nature. She carries scales and uses them to complete justice; many protectors of the law know who she is. And before you say something, I'm a Pisces far from a Libra… Pisces is the fish in the horoscopes while the Libra is the scale and oh never mind. My point is I have nothing in common with the name except for my job now please get to the point of the question and answer it so we can move on?" I explained with a bit more detail then I really wanted to give.
"You the one doing all the talking," Dean stated with humor.
"You asked, I answered."
"What if I told you that the world that you are in and the world Electra came from where one in the same, divided long ago as the world was starting to begin."
"Then, I would say you are delusional and that the world is a giant piece of rock that was created with the gravity of the sun and the gravity of the particles that attracted each other four billion years ago to create a ball of rock in space." I spoke in annoyance. "Another added addition, another smaller rock or 'planet' if you will, collided with the earth created a large fusion of the rocks and leaving a chunk of the threat to orbit and form the moon. On top of that the collision according to scientists, this caused a spark of life."
"What the hell is a scientist?" Link asked as the tension seemed to grow between the three of us.
"Do you know what an alchemist is?"
"Yes,"
"That is pretty much what they are?"
"You're taking the fun out of this." Dean replied crossing his arms.
"Stop speaking ridiculous nonsense." I snapped.
He ignored my tone and continued with his speech. "Well rather your scientists realize it or not they were one in the same. Do you think it is coincidence that monsters were painted on the walls of ancient civilizations or the time line of this world is played as a game in your world? Why was it that this world and your world have enough in common that you can somehow translate each other language through genetic memory?"
"Genetic memory," Link and I asked at the same time.
"Yeah, the sense of knowing something that has passed down from the parents and their parents before. Both of you are speaking two different languages right now and neither of you realize it." Dean smirked. "It's actually rather amusing actually."
"There is no way that that would even be possible." Link replied.
"And yet this comes from a man who was turned into the Divine Beast just by going into the twilight realm while everyone else was just specks of light."
"Link's right, there would be no way for a genetic memory of each other's languages. My domain has changed so much with so many dead languages and new one's being born. The writing has changed and there are so many different types of people that a single memory would have not been possible to understand, even if Hyrule uses the same language as they did over in the past 15 000 years, which I seriously doubt, it wouldn't be possible for him to understand what I'm even saying because the English language has only been around for a couple of hundred years at max." I shook my head confused; the confusion was starting to form a headache.
"You really aren't going to allow to me to say anything without a full fledge explanation, are you?"
"Hmmm let me see, you come here randomly and kiss me, then you say that you are responsible for why I'm here and now you are trying to take everything you say manipulate it into some really wacked out creation story and now you are saying that Link and I aren't speaking the same languages and we understand each other through genetic memory. See the issue of just believing you without question?"
"Yeah I see the point, now can you shut up and just listen and when the lesson is over then you can put up your hand and ask your questions and state your philosophy." Dean snapped showing a bit of his angry side which somewhat pleased me and I grinned slightly. "What are you grinning for?"
"Just curious to when you would snap." I shrugged and let Dean continue with his 'lesson'.
The older man sighed clearing his face of all anger that was shown. "There was a reason why the world split, the gods of the earth created the Triforce and realized how dangerous it was, which you two already know the legend of it. There was always one question that formed through my head as I waiting and watched time go by; every shape and every symbol has a reason to which its form is fixed, why does the Triforce itself three triangles forming a large triangle? Some say it is to show unity and balance of each Triforce piece. Others say it the gate key to a much larger realm of reality. But me the answered seemed to be both of these things, but it wasn't a complete answer, until that is when I realized there was a separate domain that lived side by side with my own. Each of the golden pieces showed unity, the universe of the gods, but it also shows the final piece that literally expands the Triforce's power into a different world. Earth, home too many nations and many countries literally has held on to one of its secrets right under the very life forms themselves."
"And what would this secret be?" Link asked extremely still with hardly any emotion in his posture and voice.
"The centre of the Triforce's power of course, Themis, the centre triangle forming that only a woman can possess through the direct family line it's no incident how there is only one child born to each generation each one being a male."
I raised my hand feeling my curiosity rising to a dangerous level as the eyes of the villagers of Ordon eyed at a safe distance away. Unfortunately Dean seemed to have done his homework about my family line, though I didn't think there was anything magical about it. There are lots of families that only have one type of gender with little glitches here and there when a different gender was born.
"Electra," Dean responded acknowledging my question.
"Yeah, why does the family have to wait for a female to enter, why couldn't Themis, the centre triangle just be male, consideration the lack of females on my father's side?"
"An upside down triangle is usually always means the womb with is found in a woman."
"Oh so now we are playing the Da Vinci Code now are we."
"Da what code?" Link asked in complete confusion, which was now starting to form a full class lesson on everything I had said in the conversation. Maybe it was a good idea to leave the characters in a video game as is a character in a video game, not some plagiarized version of the real thing.
"Really famous person that was extremely complicated."
"You mean their dead?"
"He is long gone, by what almost five hundred years I think to your time line erm, yeah about that give or take ten years." The lesson teacher replied.
"Four hundred ninety-three," I replied in a cough and continued. "Now that I have been enlightened by this experience and by the knowledge of the Triforce that lingers in the Ends family, I would like to go home now a shower wouldn't be so bad and having my gun back where it belongs on my hip would be highly appreciated."
"Ah, no sorry we have business to attend to."
"Yeah I figured as much,"
"Well we are on a tight schedule so time to go." Dean explained as he took a step forward. "Queen Zelda is silent waiting with a couple of my friends."
He was stop suddenly as Link's sword was pointed at his chest. Dean took a step back only to stop again and move back to where he was standing.
"I wouldn't try anything funny, Dean." a voice spoke behind him.
"Ah Rusl, I didn't know you still owned sharp objects at your age."
Rusl ignored the insult, "What have your friends done to the queen?"
"Nothing yet actually she is nice and safe in her room while the castle remains empty."
"More like it's been taking over by Bulblins, or at least the holding cells are." I corrected. "What do you want?"
"To place to two worlds together again for starters then reveal the true power of the Triforce and I already have one for sure and two standing in front of me and one more in the castle."
I didn't like where this was going or why he wanted to bring the two complete different worlds together; even if it was true that they were separated, there would have had to be a reason for them to be separated millennia ago. What was the reason is the question that only Dean would know and I doubted that he would tell anything about it until the final phase.
Link seemed to be thinking the same thing as his guard didn't drop if anything it became even more dangerous. "You are not going to proceed with your plans; if your story is true the two cultures from what I have understood are too separate for them to ever actually come together as one. There will be death, destruction and chaos and many people here alone would think the same thing and will not allow such a catastrophe to happen."
"You know, I like you in the video games, you don't speak all that much."
"How do you know so much about my world?" I asked Dean.
"I have my sources." Dean answered and grinned looking behind Link and I. "Oh it took you long enough to show up, I was wondering if I had to do something drastic in this situation."
I turned around to see who he was speaking to and almost had a heart attack to see three Bulblins a little bit behind me but close enough to attack in an instant. "Where did they come from?"
"They have been here a while just waiting for me to tell them to come and clean up the situation sort of speech." Dean replied still at sword point of Link's and Rusl's blades.
There was silence as the three of us tried to decipher the code to our predicament. There was a psycho guy that has sources in two worlds, two swords man pointing their blades at the psycho, three Bulblins surrounding me and probably more hanging around and then me being stuck as the damsel in distress with no weapon. Everyone was annoyed and stressed by the early morning events and eventually someone was going to snap. Whoever it was to move first was then going to get the pieces of the checkers game started; someone or something was going to get killed.
"Maybe they should just separate and get onto their own side and take a break for now?" Colin's sister asked breaking the still moment.
"Kat, this isn't like a fight between us, this is a fight between that Dean guy taking Link and Electra with him or they stay and drive him and those monsters out of our village." Colin responded not looking away from the scene.
"So what's it going to be; you can stay and then I will use force or you can come with me quietly."
Link growled in frustration, but didn't move from his position when something thundered nearby.
"What is that noise?" I asked trying hard not to get the Bulblins attack command.
No one seemed to be able to answer or if out of the three in front of me knew the answer they didn't share.
Rusl sighed in defeat drawing Dean's eyes away from Link. Rusl sword was pulled away from its target and he took a step back. "Fine, if they chose they can go with you, but this town has already been through enough and they don't need to morn over anyone caught up in this dispute and I won't be part of the cause in this mess."
Link glanced at the warrior with understanding and then looked at me and I nodded in agreement. We couldn't let this get out of complete control and possible killing someone.
Link stepped away and lowered his sword away from Dean's chest. "Fine, we'll-" He didn't get to finish as the sound of the Bulblins behind us howl. Everyone turned their attention as a (colt) horse started to come down from the opening, behind it was Epona and the two horses came towards us. The Bulblins charged but didn't get too far as two were trampled and the third was tossed a side. Epona came flying by and Link hopped on, bringing Epona around with determination.
"Electra!" Rusl yelled.
I turned to look and saw his sword coming towards me. Just barely managing to catch it; I adjusted and blocked Dean's escape route. Dean looked at his situation like he knew that it wasn't going to turn out the way he wanted it to and had a playful glint in his eyes. Once again there were two swords pointed in his direction with one of them on a horse and the other next to him being me with little to no knowledge, but still extremely unpredictable. Another horse was off to the side playfully destroying his reinforcements with much enjoyment, which in my opinion was cool and slightly disturbing.
"Alright, you have won this round, but don't think the next meeting will be so easy." Dean shrugged and turned to the horse that seemed to be finished playing with its toys and viewing the scene next to it. "Yo, Stallion Belgium, you should be proud of yourself, you made my work a little bit interesting, so I give you the title of hero for today."
The horse snorted as if glad to hear the sarcasm in Dean's voice.
Link glared at the man in front of him. "And where do you plan on going?"
"Oh here and there; I have some things to do, so until we meet again I have to say it was nice meeting you and that Themis-"
"Electra, Electra is my name not Themis." I interrupted.
"As you wish, Electra you have wonderful lips that are very pleasurable to kiss. Make sure that you know what you are doing, it would be pitiful if you died before someone else got to take the experience."
"As tempting it is to not follow what you are saying; I like living."
"Good, good now I must go, I have an appointment." Dean replied and without a second glance he disappeared into the air.
Not knowing what else to do I lowered the sword and relaxed my tensed muscles. Link dismounted from Epona and placed his sword in its sheath. There was a slight huff from the horse scaring me as it head butt my shoulder.
"Hey there," I rubbed its nose with my hand. "I don't know much about horses, but I think Stallion means a male horse right?"
"Correct, he is the same breed as Epona only male." Rusl replied as if he was distracted by something.
I didn't both to look in his direction as Link and Epona walked up to beside the horse and me. The horse looked at my sweater I continued to rub him and when I noticed he had started to take the sleeves off.
"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked then mumbled under my breath replacing my sweater on. "Great the horse is starting to undress me, you pervert."
"I don't think he is broke which means he is not owned by anyone. I think he might have ventured in here by the piccolo you played, before this new mess occurred." Link stated looking at the horse as he tried to take off my sweater again.
The horse and I fought between keeping the sweater on or off and eventually I just gave it to him placing it his neck. "There you go; are you satisfied now, Hero?"
"Hero?" Link and Rusl asked in union.
"Yes, Dean sarcastically called him Hero because he destroyed his easy victory and what better way to get back at the fool for kissing me then to call the horse Hero. And besides I think it is fitting he did just saved two worlds for at least one more day."
"I guess that works, but what are you going to do now?" Rusl asked when he walked up to Hero.
Hero grunted bumping the side of my face. "Easy, I'm going to Hyrule Castle."
In the bunker 9:25 am Kingston, Ontario
"Okay, so what does this thing do?" Lucia asked looking at the closet in front of her. No more than two minutes ago the strange computer-scientist-geek that has a strange influence over Officer Don Ends told them about some sort of dimension jumper in the make shift living room.
"Well you jump through dimensions, and before you say that's great can we go? The answer is no we can't there is no definite place where it would be dropping us off or a stable doorway to get back with Electra." Mickey replied.
"Then why did you tell us it was done?"
"Because this part is down, the other part I was working on last night-"
"You mean this morning?"
"And this morning, is the contraption to make a portal anywhere to get back to this realm of existence."
"How long will it take for you to complete it?" Don asked in urgency.
"Hopefully I should have done by tomorrow morning and have several copies of the machine, but I don't know how long it would be for me to get a complete location. Speaking of which where do you want to set down on the vast landscape?"
Don and Lucia looked at each other and Don replied for them both. "We both don't really know where the best place is to um, drop in."
Mickey's face light up with astonishment and happiness. "Well why didn't you say something earlier, I have a map right here."
The two of them watched as Mickey walked to his desk on the far side of the room beside the desk. He came back and set the large map down on the floor for he didn't have a coffee table. The map was nothing that they had seen before. It had great detail like it was drawn out by someone that had lived in the area. Each part of the map had a province which was in the country known as Hyrule with a castle near the center of the map.
"These markings are almost familiar, what are they?" The Officer questioned in confusion.
"This is the language of the Hyrulians." Mickey responded.
"And you know this how?"
"Because I have played the game,"
"Okay well, I think we get our destination in or at the castle, we know that someone human or Hyrulian or whatever would be living there and might have gather some gossip about Electra's entrance there." Lucia put in with complete fact to her suggestion.
"Okay then Hyrule Castle it is, we should be departing between twenty-four to forty-eight hours." Mickey announced and got no reaction from his guests, groaning he added, "That means go home and get ready for the trip because seriously we are entering unknown territory. Hell, watch some videos on YouTube for any research on the land that way you have some sort of knowledge."
"Anything else we might need to pack?" She asked.
"Yes, weapons. Lots of small and hidden weapons, when and if we get there we don't need the guards and the court to think that we are some sort of threat to them, but we need enough power to last a good long while, so guns useful if you can hold lots of ammunition and maybe a dagger and because this is like going back to knighthood a sword might do nicely."
"And where in the world where are we going to get one of those?"
"That, Lucia I can handle getting." Don answered and turned the girl around heading towards the door, picking up her bag on the way.
The two of them walked outside in the cold air of March with the sun beating down on them making the weather seem bipolar.
"In like a Lamb," She started.
"And out like a Lion." Don finished with his eyes squinted in thought as the future for him and his 'comrades' was very unclear. The two of them walked to the vehicle and sat inside. In silence Don drove the patrol car down the road that was covered in officers and other emergency personal and vehicles the day before, but was clear that morning. He made a turn into the driveway and listened as Lucia climbed out of the cruiser.
Without much thought into what the house looked like or the scenery he drove away and continued to his house to pack his bag. He was so close to seeing his daughter that he could feel it in every inch of his body, but he knew that there was of time before the event of leaving his dimension to returning back for his daughter's birthday; the eighteenth one, the one that celebrates adulthood.
He felt a tear slip down his cheek. Wiping it away he placed a determined face on. As the engine hummed the fire in his soul grew, He was going to stay strong for Electra, himself and most importantly his wife. He made a promise and he was going to keep it. There was another part to that promise that only him and his wife knew about, it was a promise that he knew that he would regret keeping it the second he made it. That part was coming soon and just like time doesn't wait; he wasn't going to destroy either part of his promise.
What is the second part to the promise between Mrs. and Mr. Ends? You'll have to wait and see. :P
Anyway here is the chapter and I am sorry for the long wait. Review pretty please with a cherry on top. Thanks