And if anyone is wondering about where I come up with the temperatures and when the sun comes up and such things like that, The Weather Network's history and the Time and Date website for moon phases and sun rises and all those things. So I give thanks to those two websites.
And to Heatblizzard: there is a book in here that is dedicated to you. I'm sure as soon as you read across it you will know exactly what I'm talking about. ;)
Hope you enjoy
Disclaimer: I don't own LOZ or its characters, just the storyline and my OCs.
Chapter 12
Discovery
"We are live at the Cataraqui Centre in Kingston where a Chimera was found dead after attacking the few people that were in the mall. The creature caused the most damage on the second floor where it breathed fire and threatened customers. On top of this incident, the water sprinklers were under maintains at the time of the attack. Ironically enough, it was killed by two fire extinguishers. As the malls surveillance cameras caught the footage, it seemed like three heroes were the ones to stop the creature from hurting any other people. Two of them are well known heroes of our city already, officer Don Ends and the girl who was taken on Wednesday night and according to the police was rescued last night, Electra Ends. The third hero on the other end is still unknown at this time." A news reporter reported as the screen split to show him and a news agent in the studio.
"Sounds like it has been a couple of rough days for the Ends," The studio reporter exclaimed.
"No kidding, but my question is who the third member of the Ends team is? He was seen leaving with them, but no one seems to know any details, or at least none that they wish to tell. Wow first the Bulblin and now a chimera; do you think that this is the start of the 2012 prophecy Sarah?"
"I couldn't tell you Jake, it sure seems like it. We'll talk to you later then."
"Alright, this is Jake Fills at the Cataraqui Centre mall."
I turned my attention away from the news on one of the TVs that was set up in the corner. We got back from our shopping trip with $5000 spent on TVs, security system and cameras, and a little bit of horse supplies.
"What is 2012 prophecy?" Link asked.
"It's not really a prophecy." I replied. "More like the end of an era in the Mayan calendar. Each era lasts five thousand years or something like that. Some people just get paranoid because it happens this year and think that the world will end."
"Electra, not just the end of the Mayan calendar, it is also the end of a lot of things. Nostradamus predicted a change December 21, 2012. The world will probably change as we know it." Dad replied as he continued looking at the computer screen.
"Yea, like the year 1000 when God was to place his wrath upon the world or the change to the century, back in the 1999 to 2000 when all technology wasn't going to adjust and blow up, the Millennium I believe it was called." I laughed. "Oh and would you look at that none of those things happened, who's to say that the 2012 will happen either."
"But Nostradamus predicted all sorts of other happenings, like the rise of Hitler and the JFK and RFK assassinations."
"The rise of what and assassinations of what?" Link asked.
I sighed. "I'm going to find you a giant encyclopaedia on anything and everything."
"There are two in the basement, along with those lonely dictionaries on the shelving unit." Dad replied still reading whatever was on the screen.
"Have you found anything that remotely relates to anything about the Triforce and forth piece?"
"None yet, what if Dean isn't telling the truth, he could have just made it up on the spot. Maybe there isn't a fourth piece to the Triforce, I remember Nintendo stating that there wasn't a fourth piece and it was just a fan based assumption."
"Unfortunately Nintendo doesn't really know about the fourth piece or if they did then they aren't speaking of it. It's not just fans that think it exists, Bones and Ticket know about the fourth Triforce and there are documents in Queen Zelda's care. The story he told isn't so farfetched to other stories that have been created throughout the millennia." I shrugged. "There are many more stories that are pretty much impossible."
"True and that chimera earlier showed that there might have been monsters, mythical creatures, gods and heroes in the past." Dad agreed.
"That or the chimera was created by some scientists and accidently got out. Or it could have been created by Dean, considering we hardly know anything about him."
"Can you pick a side you are sticking? Is Dean telling the truth or is he not and just wants to mess with us?"
"I'm just thinking of all the possible reasons, and yes I believe he is telling the truth."
"Since we are on the subject of finding the fourth Triforce before Dean does, why don't we check a map. Sacred places have a tendency of looking out of place." Link stated.
I looked back at Dad. "The atlases are in the basement aren't they?"
"Yes they are, do you wish for me to-"
"No, it's fine." I interrupted. "What could go wrong?"
Before any of them could answer, I left and headed for the basement stairs. I walked to the basement door and grabbed the door handle. I turned it and walked down the stairs as I flicked the light switched on. All I needed was an atlas and an encyclopedia and both were on the same shelf from what I could remember, all the way in the farthest part of the basement. I got to the bottom and looked around my surroundings to make sure there wasn't an unwanted guest. The coast looked clear to me, so I continued my trek. There weren't any sounds and there was the smell of an almost musty basement smell, but with the scent of fresh air. I wandered back and found the book shelf and noticed it was much darker then it was two seconds before. I turned around and saw a good sized dock spider, about four inches in diameter, on the basement light bulb. I sighed and turned back around to see an unexpected guest. I screamed in surprise. Beside me was a giant rat looking at me like I tasted good. I didn't except the rat to be there and something like that should not be in my home.
"Electra!" Dad's voice rang as I could hear two sets of feet heading for the basement.
I quickly went for the two books I needed and nearly died as I went for the atlas. Sitting on the book was at least a four foot pit viper reading for a strike. I dropped the encyclopedia and ran just as the snake missed. I went past Link and Dad at the bottom of the stairs and yelled. "Fuck it, you grab them. I'm never coming down here again!" as I continued my strategic and manly retreat back upstairs. When I finally met my goal I huddled in the middle of the couch and had the cushions around me so was in a cube with nothing able to get in. I heard the sounds of someone walking up the stairs from the basement about two minutes later. Then, another set of feet joined the first as they were nearing the top. As soon as the last set of steps reached the top, I felt extremely childish, but didn't dare to come out of my sanctuary.
"Electra, we took care of them. You can come out now." Dad said softly in front of me.
I lifted the top pillow a bit to see him sitting on the coffee table. "I hate snakes, why do they show up when I go into that damn basement?"
"Because they love you?"
"More like they want me dead."
"Possibly, but we got rid of it. Plus, we got the two books, the one on the floor and the one that the snake was on." Link said.
"What happened to the rat and snake?"
"We gave the rat to the snake and then we threw the snake into a material bag so we can take it outside." Dad answered.
"Where is the bag?" I asked in suspicion.
"Right here," Dad replied holding up a squirming brown sack.
I jumped out of my sanctuary and over the back of the couch only to run into Link. I ran behind him and moved my human shield back towards the far end of the house next to the computer. "Get that thing away from me and out of this house!"
"For someone so capability of doing things on her own, you sure have a big weakness." Link stated.
"I'm only human; it's not my fault that I'm scared to death of snakes."
"Yes it is; it's your illusion." Dad laughed still holding the bag, though he looked like he was going to drop it.
"Then it's your fault that you're afraid of spiders, which by the way was the thing that was blacking out the light down stairs."
"You're afraid of spiders?" Link asked in disbelief. "And Electra is afraid of snakes, must be interesting."
"Anyways, let's look at the map shall we." I suggested trying to ignore the snake in my father's hand.
"Sure, why don't you come and get the book. It's right here." Dad said as he lifted the book.
I glared. "I will find and bring you a skulltula to meet face to face."
Dad paled. "Alright I'll behave. Until I can figure out what to do with this, why don't you download Google Earth while Link and I look at this Atlas?"
I sighed. "Just get rid of the snake while I get my laptop. I have Google Earth already, but do you have any idea on what to look for?"
"I'll let you know when you get back down stairs."
"Fine," I said as I left the room and headed up to my room. I walked into my sleeping quarters and found my laptop on my desk. I sat down on the chair and turned on my laptop. While it loaded up, I looked out my window. The sun was setting as the snow was dyed red. "Who are you Dean? What are you looking to find with the forth piece of the Triforce? What part of my bloodline that you pointed out that was so different from everyone else?"
I looked away and logged myself in. "How do you even know about this world or her people? Whatever the answers are, I guess I'll just do my job. I've got the name now all I need to do is find out where you are and place you under custody. But I don't think it's going to be a very pleasurable experience like the others under my order to find receives."
I brought down my laptop as I opened Google Earth and found the snake and my Dad were M.I.A and Link studying a map on the coffee table. I sat down beside him and started to look at the seven wonders of the ancient world. I hoped for something that could have any connections to an upside down triangle or the right side up Triforce.
"The world is much bigger than what I expected." Link said in the quiet room.
"Yea it is, and yet we still don't know a whole lot about it."
"Like where, everywhere seems mapped out and discovered to me."
"Well the ocean for one. Three quarters of the planet is covered in water. We can only go so far before our equipment becomes damaged due to the pressure. There is one place called Mariana's Trench that we don't even know where the bottom is, if there is one."
"Anywhere else?"
"Yup, the Amazon Jungle and the Congo Jungle are both unexplored thoroughly. They are so grand and can be extremely dangerous to travel and no one has really got the real supplies to travel it. For all we know, dinosaurs or extinct animals could still be living in the depths of the oceans and seas or the mess of the jungle."
"Could the piece be in any of these places?"
"Maybe the water, over the last fifteen thousand years water levels have risen, but the jungles I seriously doubt. If it needed to be in a place where my family knew then it wouldn't be in the jungle. My bloodline doesn't come from any of these places."
"So what's your race?"
"Pardon?"
"Your race or bloodline, I'm Hyrulian. I'm sure there is more than one type since you just said that the jungles have different bloodlines living there."
"Oh, Irish I believe and Scottish and well since in from here, Canadian too." I laughed sheepishly.
"What's your father's side?"
"Irish pureblood; though Irish people usually have red hair, Dad's hair has turned brown over the years and as for the green or blue eyes, not sure what happened."
"That's probably what makes your family line different that Dean found. The eye color is passed down from one generation to the next so it only makes sense that it came from somewhere." Link responded as he continued to look at the world map. "So where do the Irish live?"
"Ireland, this little island here." I told him as I pointed out the country off the coast of England.
"Is there much of a back story to this country? Maybe some legends or something."
"There are many different legends, Celtic legends, Norse Mythology and some say Atlanteans, who survived the sinking, found themselves on Ireland."
"Atlanteans?"
I opened the giant encyclopedia to Atlantis. "They were the people of the amazing technologically advanced city named Atlantis. In a nut shell it is said that the people of Atlantis had pretty much conquered the known world and were stopped by Athens." I pointed to the city in Greece. "Athens managed to defeat them in which they retreated. Poseidon, the god of the sea had made a giant tsunami and sunk the city to the bottom of the ocean as the gods started to feel threatened by the rising power of the city. Though many say the people were just as grateful to the gods as the people in the rest of the world if not more so. Atlantis had a special stone or rock called orichalum or orichalcos in which it was a trading material that could only be found on Atlantis. Unfortunately when the city disappeared so did the stone."
"Does anyone know where the city is now, that could be where my world and your world separated."
"No know really knows, only theories of it were recorded that there was a great light that came from the city just before it went missing that even a priest in Egypt," I pointed out Egypt as I answered, "Could see it from the palace as it lit up the sky. For all we know, it could have ditched this place and went someplace else like in Stargate Atlantis or Poseidon moved it to a different location that the records wouldn't be able to write where it went."
"Sounds like a huge hole in the road." Link sighed. "Where was the last known location?"
"The Pillars of Hercules, just outside of the Mediterranean Sea and past the coast of Spain." I pointed to the ocean space. "But this hole isn't so bad if it has nothing to do with Atlantis. The city could have just been a figure of imagination."
"How many records of the city are there?"
"Well there's Plato, the Bible, that priest-"
"Then it's real." Link confirmed. "There are too many records for it not to be."
"Of course you would definitely know. What should I be looking for genius?"
"Well I suppose with your super map you could look in onto Ireland. I'm sure there is something there."
"Kay." I rolled my eyes and zoomed in on Ireland. There was nothing strange as I looked over the Irish land and nothing out of the ordinary other than a few Irish folk looking at the satellite camera raising their drinks into the air.
"So how's everything going?" Dad asked scaring me.
"Nothing so far. Do you know anything about your family line, the Irish one?" Link asked.
"Besides we can drink until the cows come home and the fact that we're the fighting Irish. No why?"
"Dad what about any family records that may have been passed down to you?" I asked.
"Sorry lightning bug, if there were any, they were in your grandparents home when it burnt down during a forest fire."
"Damn."
"Maybe Zelda knows something." Link suggested. "It's been a full day and when she is looking for something, she finds is within a few hours if not less."
"Sounds like you know her well, you didn't even put 'Queen' in front of her name." Dad stated.
"Dad," I shook my head. "Don't start."
"Don't start what?" A female voice entered the room.
I looked towards the voice and found Zelda on our coffee table from the holophone.
"Speak of the queen and she shall appear," Dad chuckled. "Nothing important just going through some ideas that led off topic. How is it on your end of the spectrum?"
"Quiet," Zelda replied though I couldn't tell if she was glad or she was preparing for a storm. "What about your world?"
"Nothing unusual around the world, but our area had a blast from the past in a way."
"We had a chimera bust into the mall while we were shopping." I sighed at Dad's dramatics. "It was killed and nobody was serious injured or killed during or after the event."
"Sounds like danger followed you home." Zelda stated.
"It's only to be expected, I'm just waiting for the rebellion of the people."
"Electra, that's only in movies." Dad commented. I gave him a look of disbelief. "I'm sure it won't come to people thinking it was our fault even if more trouble comes around."
"I have looked through some of the records and came across something that caught my interest. It isn't much, but I figured its better than nothing at all and might help on your end." The queen said as she changed the subject. "There was a reason why Dean called you Themis when you first met."
"I hope there is a reason why he kissed me in there." I commented.
"I'm sure there is something in here when I find it." Zelda answered. "But for right now I only have this. The fourth piece in the Triforce is Justice and the goddess that created it was Themis. According to this when all four pieces are completed on the destined one, they will have the courage, power and wisdom to place justice to those who were wronged to create order or chaos to which they see fit."
"That doesn't sound very good for one person." Dad announced.
"No its not, which is why the Triforce has always been distributed in three destined people, with that, I believe that it may not be one person but a court of four."
"Like a king and his priests and knights."
"Exactly,"
"What about the name, Themis, what was the purpose for that?" Link asked.
"It just so happens that the Triforce of Justice is passed down from one generation to the next in a family that Themis created possible with another human to create a demigod. And in the family, the birth of a female which doesn't happen very often is thought to be a human host for the goddess or a reincarnate of some sort."
"Like the royal family of Hyrule has the blood of Hylia."
Zelda nodded. "And because of this when they are recognized as the holder of their piece, she is referred to as Themis, but."
"But what?" Dad and I asked at the same time.
"Not all the females in this family are recognized, they have to be pure and eighteen before any of the other requirements can even be determined."
"That's a problem." I answered.
"Are you not pure?" Zelda asked in astonishment.
"Pure, what- no, no I haven't bed anyone, so yes I'm pure. I'm just not eighteen yet."
"It's not that much of a problem then." Zelda physically sighed. "When is it?"
"March twelfth. Today is the second so it's in just over nine days."
"So we have nine days before the fourth Triforce can be found to do something with Dean or the qualifications of the fourth piece could be claimed by Electra, if this is the correct family." Dad stated in thought. "And we still need to find it before Dean does too, what happens if it is not claimed?"
"I'm not sure; the three other pieces appear when they appear and all at the same time. I'll have to find-" Zelda started and then she looked at whatever she was looking at.
"You're Majesty?" Link asked.
Zelda picked up a sheet and quickly read it and as she went she seemed to pale. "If the proper subject to the fourth piece does not claim and has recognized the existence of it, it will cause an imbalance to this world as well as the domain of the fourth piece and each will fall into the endless creatures of the night in utter darkness until the next heir can claim it."
"In other words if we don't find it and it is our family and there is no heir because of some mishap both of our worlds will be in chaos until the end of time, wonderful." Dad summarized. "I'm sure Dean doesn't want that to happen if he thinks Electra has the fourth piece."
"True or he really does want that to happen. By the way, there's nothing wrong with the dark." Midna's voice came from somewhere in the room.
"Not at all, I'm just scared of what's going to be in it."
"Thank you Queen Zelda and Queen Midna for the information," I told two queens on the other end. "When we come across something, we'll contact you; hopefully it won't take too long to find something."
"Same on this side, good luck." Zelda replied and then the hologram disappeared.
There was silence between the three of us as we decided on what should be done. I personally didn't know what to do. What happened if we couldn't find it and it was my duty to get the fourth piece? Would the world just destroy itself until we did? What if it was on a different planet like in Stargate Atlantis; how in the world would we get to it? What if it was underwater at depths that nothing could get to it? I took a deep breath. "We need to place the due date behind us right now and concentrate on where the fourth piece might be."
"And where should we look?" Link asked.
"We need to look at some history first. Dad, can you look up anything that based itself on what we know and heard about tonight. Triangles, the three pieces of the Triforce, heck try look up Themis herself, I'm sure there's a lot about her on the web."
"You got it, and while I'm at it, I'll see if Uncle Matt got back to me." Dad replied and went to the desktop.
"Link we need to know of any weird news problems that aren't wars or the odd murder. We need to see if there has been any weird weather lately and there may be some flashbacks of odd weather over the last couple of years or anniversaries anything on those should help on narrowing our search. I'm going to look up hot spots for paranormal stuff that might lead us to some relics or clues to where our little sacred grounds of the Triforce of Justice."
"Pretty simple, look at a whole bunch of TVs for news breaks," Link said as he went to the TV station.
I took my laptop and opened Google and typed in what I wanted: Hotspots for strange unexplained activity. The searching went on for a while until it was time to get the horses out for some exercise and cleaning. I followed Link out to the barn and he should me how to take care of Hero. When we were done with the brushing and the stall cleaning that made me wonder how a horse can go that much in one day, we went back up to the house and saw a jeep pull in. when the jeep was turned off a six foot, burgundy haired man with blue eyes came out of it wearing a deep green winter coat, a pair of jeans and a pair of boots.
"Electra…" Link started but I knew who it was as I ran over to him.
"Uncle Matt!" I shouted and gave him a hug that he didn't expect.
"Electra, nice to see you too," The man, Uncle Matt, returned the hug. "Who's your friend?"
"Observant as ever Uncle Matt, this is Link. Link this is my Uncle Matthew." I introduced the two of them. Uncle Matt seemed to over tower Link, but Link didn't seem to mind.
"Nice to meet you, you look a lot like from Link in the Legend of Zelda game Twilight Princess." Uncle Matt said and held out his hand.
"Yea, a lot of people seem to know that game." Link said awkwardly as he shook Uncle Matt's hand. "Pleasure to meet you too, sir."
"I guess Dad called you over?" I asked as I led the way to the door.
"He did in a way, he asked me to do some things and well we need to have a little chat before I do anything. So I decided to pop over so I can get the whole story of what is going on." Uncle Matt explained.
"He doesn't know you're here does he?"
"Not a clue," Uncle Matt grinned.
We walked into the house as Dad was reading something on the computer and Uncle Matt silently snuck up on him. Link and I watched from a far and then Uncle Matt made his strike. What he wasn't expected was Dad getting up from his chair at the same time and Uncle Matt was in the way of the chair as it ran over his toes. Several insults went into the air between Dad cursing at his brother in law for scaring him and my uncle at Dad for running over his toes. Once everything was settled down again, Dad and Uncle Matt sat on the couch and Link and I sat on the coffee table after removing the items on the table.
"So what brings you to our home?" Dad started.
"Just what you requested, for all the years I know you this is the strangest request." Uncle Matt stated.
"And you probably want a story as to why I asked you to put in a word to the military to find any weird things and report to us and get us a ride there."
Uncle matt nodded and Dad became serious as he explained the last few days. As he explained Link and I explained while he took a breather. Eventually, it turned into the news from Zelda about her findings. Uncle Matt didn't look like he was in disbelief as I thought he was going to be, but he still looked shocked.
"At least this time I'll be able to help out." Uncle Matt stated.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing, so you are really Link off of the game." He turned his attention to Link.
"I am, and you are a Colonel in the military." Link answered.
"How did you-"
"During your argument with Don, he said you were a colonel. I guess you serve your country well."
"And my wife and two kids even better."
"By the way how are my cousins and aunt?" I asked immediately, I haven't heard from them in a while.
"Well the older one is with the love of her life while the other has decided to be a travelling doctor. Your Aunt is right now is probably wondering where I ran off too."
"Love of her life, she's what seventeen soon, how is that possible to know that?"
"Trust me, I already approved, you'd probably be kicking yourself if you knew about what happened when you and your father went to that bust down in South America in the end of September."
"Remind me to keep in touch with the world when we go on vacation." Dad sighed. "So will you help us?"
"Yes I will help you, only if-"
"Only if what?" Link asked.
"I get to crack Dean in the jaw for kidnaping my niece, then Don you can do as you wish to the fool." Uncle Matt answered as he got up. "Not only the kidnapping but starting up something he shouldn't have. Well now if you excuse me, I must get home to get this operation going."
"Alright, tell everyone we said hi." Dad said as he led my uncle to the door.
"I will and good luck, our future's in your hands."
"When hasn't it?" I asked joking.
"Touché," Uncle Matt grinned and then left.
We went outside and waved him off as he drove away. We went back inside and compared information, which in the end was absolutely nothing from both Link and me. Then it was Dad's turn.
"What have you come up with?" I asked him.
"Well, just some information of Themis, that we already knew. But what did click in were triangles, so I looked those up." Dad answered.
"Triangles, what about triangles?" Link questioned.
"Well, the Bermuda triangle but there is a problem with those triangles."
"Like what, the Bermuda is a good start, strange stuff happens in there."
"Yeah that's what I thought, until I looked something and there is more than one triangle out there."
I sighed. "Are you serious?"
"Unfortunately I am."
"How many are there?" Link asked.
"Twelve of them, each equally spaced out across the globe." Dad explained as he opened the atlas and opened the page on my laptop. He grabbed a marker and started to place each triangle on the map. "The one that is really dangerous is the one just off the coast of Japan, deemed dangerous by Japanese government. Now I don't know about you two, but I don't feel like spending hours traveling on planes and in vehicles and money on going from one country to the next to find out that it's not the right triangle or suddenly meeting a sea monster or going dimension traveling."
"And here I thought you would give up the world to go to a new dimension." I stated in sarcasm.
"I would give up my old life to start again somewhere where I know where the hell I'm going, not to some weird place were bugs exist that are six times bigger than humans and trying to kill or eat me before I'm even dead. No thank you."
"So what are we going to do now?"
"Well, have some food, make sure the horses are fine, watch a movie maybe and then head to bed. We'll just have to make sure everything is in place before it gets dark."
"That would be right now then."
"Yes it would be." Dad answered as he got up from his seat. "Electra, please turn on the motion TV stations and Link and I are going to pose or something to each camera that I set up."
"Alright, have fun freezing your butts off." I called to them as they walked out the door. I went to where the desktop sat and turned on the eight mini TVs that were mounted on the wall. It reminded me a bit of an underground country monitoring system. I sat there and watched the two of them run around and did stuff to make sure it was working. By the looks from each TV all the cameras were working and the night vision on half of them that were away from the setting sun were working just as good. When they came in I gave a thumb's up. "Everything is working well and the visuals are clear."
"Excellent, now I'll be able to sleep better tonight." Dad commented and then sat down in front of the main TV and pulled out a flyer. "I think I'm going to order a nice pizza for supper and watch a nice movie, there is nothing any of us can do right now so I say we pick it up in the morning."
"Sure I suppose, but what's pizza?" Link asked.
"Heaven's great gift to earth," Dad stated as he passed the hero his encyclopedia. "It should be in there, but words do not display the taste and beauty of such a treasure."
"That only depends on what kind of food you like and what actually belongs on a pizza." I told them. "There are some things that belong on such a thing and some things that don't."
"That's a very good point, now what should we get?"
Chapter complete! Yippee it only took forever to figure out my mess of a brain.
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