I would like to say right at the beginning, I thank this website for keeping track of our lives since… recorded history I suppose .com and this site for the historic weather in Miami: weather/history/FL/Miami/2012-03-12

Chapter 13

Pyramids

As the days past, the days that were left became smaller and it started to take a toll on me, not so much in the day, but at night the stress attacked me in my sleep with nightmares of failure. Over the last few days we have collected quite a bit of information of lost civilizations from all around the world with the help of documentaries, discoveries, Stargate due to its historical fact, or at least according to Dad, but also something that I don't really know what to place under called Ancient Aliens. With all of this information gathered between Link, Dad and I at home. My two uncles and aunt and possibly a few other help members that he trusts. And Zelda and Midna, we haven't found out where the location of the fourth piece: Justice could be hiding if it was even on Earth at all.

Even school wasn't helpful as I was stuck going back after the weekend. It wasn't as much as a nightmare of showing up to school after two incidents as I thought it would be, but it still was annoyed and energy consuming. I tried some of my teachers with a few 'curious questions' on some things, but they weren't very helpful. What I was asking for just didn't exist to twenty-first century society. What one of my teachers answered and that I completely agree to, is finding or making a time machine and go back to see what happened. Or as he put it, 'make sure you are a viewer not part of the event. I like my life as it is.' I really couldn't blame him for thinking of the butterfly effect.

Another thing that worried us all was the fact the Dean was nowhere to be found. Everything has been quiet since the Chimera attack. On the third there was a bombing near the town called Tame. On the fourth, the Russian President won the election with a sixty percent vote which lead to protest. On the fifth, two women set themselves on fire in protest and died. On the sixth, two mafia cops in New York were sentenced to life in prison. On the seventh, the cookie Oreo celebrated its one hundredth birthday was celebrated in over a hundred countries. On the eighth, Toyota recalled almost seven hundred thousand vehicles, again due to malfunctions. On the ninth, a woman found out her husband, in Washington, DC had been remarried before they finished their divorce through Facebook. On the tenth, Coke and Pepsi altered their formulas to avoid the cancer label. And finally on the eleventh, which happened to be a few hours ago, according to my clock that read three in the morning, an US soldier apparently went on a killing spree in Afghanistan, killing civilians. Completely quiet and peaceful world.

I sighed as I got out of bed and wandered down the stairs was surprised that the kitchen light was on. I walked to the room silently as I reached for the gun in the table drawer that sat outside the room. I peeked inside and my nerves settled down after the last few nights of nightmares, I was on more of the edge than what I usually stood. Link, decked out in his PJs and messy bed head, looked deep in thought as he sat at the table. I dropped my hand away from the emergency gun and walked into the room silently. As I grabbed the chair and moved it across the floor, I heard a sword drawn so fast when I went to look I found it just in front of my chest. I looked up from the blade with an eye brow rose as he had a startled look on his face. I moved the sword with the tip of my finger as I sat down and he put it away.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." I apologized.

"No, it's fine I just wasn't expecting anyone else up at this time." Link replied setting the sword on the table.

I looked at the Master Sword and all of its glory. This Link has placed it back in the stone after he used it to clear the Twilight Realm from the Realm of Light, but why was it with him now? I looked up at Link who was looking at the sword like it had answers. I looked back to the blade. It gleamed in the soft light seemingly like it had all the answers to every question ever asked. I felt like touching it, but at the same time I was frightened of its power, and its burden. Frightened by a blade, inanimate object and I feared it, not physically like my snake problem, but more on a subconscious level of it being harmful.

"Why did you pull the sword from the stone in the sacred forest again?"

"What?" Link asked like he didn't hear my question.

"The Master Sword, you placed it back when you defeated Ganondorf in the forest where the ruins of the Temple of Time stood. Why did you draw it again?"

"I grabbed it, with Zelda's permission, after I heard it call out to me a year ago."

"It called to you?"

"Yes, it's like it knew this was going to happen. It knew about this world and knew about Dean coming. I didn't know why it called but I can guess this was the reason. And if it knew all about this, I wish it could answer at least where the fourth piece was placed."

"Maybe, it doesn't need to answer." I sighed. "It probably knows that we'll find out sometime today, somehow."

Link sighed, but I wasn't sure if it was in relief or in annoyance. "What are you doing up anyway, I thought you have school from Monday to Friday?"

"Not this week, it's March Break and the first day just happened to be my birthday." I squeaked in the middle of my yawn. "I guess I would be more excited if there wasn't a world to save from itself."

"It's interesting how bad things come up during times that are supposed to be happy and productive times."

"Yeah I guess it is."

"What are you doing up?" Link asked again.

"I couldn't sleep." I answered. "What about you?"

"Too much to do in such a little time, I wasn't able to sleep with me running everything that I learnt about this place and connecting it to the fourth piece. So I came down here and did a bit of sword play for some extra practice to clear my head. So when you came down when I was done, I was still in that zone."

"You must miss it at home."

"Not really, a little bit but not entirely." He answered which took me by surprise.

"Why not, your world is amazing compare to here. I figured you would be bored."

"No not at all. Before I became this, hero; I was just a ranch boy with the dream to be mayor of my little village when it was time to be passed down. When the realms mixed, that was when this hero thing came into play. There aren't monsters ready to invade your city and kill everything in their path. There aren't super villains that have over a century of knowledge that come to try and take over your world. There isn't magic, strange species. Its peaceful compare to home."

"There are monsters; they are just in human form. They try to invade my city every day and want to kill anything they don't seem fit. There may not be super villains, but there are villains that have the ability to the connections to be more then super. They have millennia of knowledge at their disposal and over the years of history have tried to take over the world all the time. There is a type of magic that I think is one in the same being the world of science is probably even more destructive than magic and as for strange species, we can just make them. This world is far from peaceful; it's a destructive war zone waiting to be used. The difference I find here and your world. Is that you can do something about it. And if someone did something about it here, they would be killed before they can complete it, whether it's from governments, terrorists or themselves, they will never be able to change it on their own. While you, just one person made your kingdom safe from all the things that were in my opinion much too large for one person."

"I don't understand?"

"I'm saying, your people, your world accepts the acts of such courage, wisdom, power and justice while mine will squish it all in the name of their justice."

"Do you not see the beauty of your world through its faults?"

"I do, which is why I haven't committed suicide like the rest of my age group has been doing lately. I just don't like it being blocked by this way of society. This world was like yours, but now it isn't. At least not since the time of kings and queens ruling the land, the world use to honor people like you." I stated in shame. The sword in front of me seemed to gleam a little brighter in the corner of my eye. "Maybe I'm being a little harsh to this world. This is where I was born, I guess if I want to change it, I need to do something about it and not rant about it."

Link nodded with a smile. "But ranting doesn't hurt; it sets why this place seems wrong. What you need if you do decide to do something, is have a solution that everyone will be happy with. And of course, not allow yourself to be killed because of your beliefs."

"So killing everyone who doesn't agree would not be a good; that would be just like the people I chose to go against, hypocritical idea."

Link picked up his sword. "Maybe it's not you that needs to do the change, but people themselves. People can't change because you demand them too. Once they decide to see beyond themselves then their eyes are opened to other ways of life and if it a much better world, then they will change to make it true."

"Are you sure you don't have the Triforce of Wisdom?" I asked.

"Positive, these are just observations I have seen from your world and my own." He answered placing the sword on the table again.

"Can I- can I hold the sword?"

Link blinked. "I guess, it only repels evil and since you are this close I'm sure you aren't. Not that I ever doubted you to be, but just be careful. When the kids of the village tried to grab it, they could pick it up and hold it. Zelda's theory was because they weren't worthy to hold the sword."

"What is your theory?"

"I think it has a lot to do with the Triforce. The story behind the sword on how it was made was when the pieces of the Triforce were scattered as Sacred Flames and the hero transformed his sword by adding these flames to Goddess Sword."

I nodded as I looked back to the sword. I started to reach for it when suddenly the phone went off scaring the both of us as I whipped my hand away from the sword. I grabbed the phone and answered it before I looked at the call display. "Hello?"

~Good morning Electra, what are you doing up at such an early time?~ Uncle Matt asked on the other end.

I turned to the clock as it read almost six in the morning. "It's not that early, could be earlier."

"True, but I got today's paper from Florida, I think this is what you guys have been looking for, I'm sending it to you by email now."

I blocked off the mic. "Link, we may have something."

Link looked shocked as I practically ran to the computer in the other room with the phone to my ear. I opened the web and went to my email and there it was. I felt Link looking over my shoulder as I opened it.

"What is this?" He asked.

"What is this uncle?" I repeated the question into the phone and turned on the speaker phone.

~This a newspaper article that is being delivered throughout the state of Florida today.~

I looked at the newspaper article that seemed to be quite long, and it was missing the title. "Could you give the short form of this thing, there isn't a title either."

~Dammit Fred, why did you leave out the title of the article!~ Uncle Matt shouted away from the phone.

~Because they were supposed to read it, not look at the title.~ Uncle Fred's voice was faint in the background.

~Sorry about that. My brother's an idiot. Okay well in the article it says that they found two pyramids in the Bermuda Triangle near the coast of Miami two thousand feet below the surface, early this morning.~

"What are they doing being in the water at this time or even earlier? Do they know what comes out to play in the ocean at night?" I asked.

~They found it using sonar equipment.~

"Oh,"

~Can I finish now?~

"You may."

~Thank you, now they were conducting research around the triangle because of another triangle found in the waters of Japan where a lost and highly advanced civilization was found there underwater. I guess the research team went out probably about three this morning to do their scanning and found two glass-like pyramids much bigger than the ones found in Cheops, Egypt.~

"So there are two giant crystal pyramids at the bottom of the ocean, what does this have to do with what we are looking for?" Link asked.

~That's the thing, you guys were looking for things that may be connected to Atlantis as well and one of the pyramids is like a giant energy plant, that is creating a large vortex and there is mist on top of the ocean where the pyramid is located. They think its holy ground where sacrifices are tribute to the gods. Which may be why everything goes missing in the area.~

"This is exactly what we are looking for." I exclaimed. "But how are we going to get to Florida today?"

"Couldn't we drive there?" Link asked.

There was silence and then some laughter on the other end of the phone.

I sighed. "We could, but it's a twenty-four hour drive without stops. But since the nine eleven attack on the world trade center, you need a passport in order to get across the border of our neighboring country."

"Why do you need to go across the border?"

"Miami is in the state of Florida which is in the most south-eastern corner of the United States of America." I explained and brought a map up of North America with an outline around Florida on Google Maps and a line connecting Kingston to Miami.

"That is really far away."

~Yes it is, so do you want to hear my answer to your question?~ Uncle Matt asked on the other end of the phone.

"What is your answer, and why do I get the feeling it has a lot to do with the power of the military?" I replied slyly.

~Because it does, the trip is going to be about three hours so I suggest you guys get Don up and get ready. Once the helicopter is cleared for the flight plan it's going to be landing on your front lawn within the hour, so expect it there by, noon at the latest.~

"What's the earliest?"

~An hour and a half from now.~

"Earlier the better, there is two pyramids that we need to search."

~Alright, just because it's your birthday, I'll see what I can do.~ He replied and then the phone call ended.

There was silence for about a minute before Link broke it. "This might be it."

"I know; I just hope we get there before Dean catches on and finds out or what we are looking for isn't someplace else and we can't get to it." I sighed as I leaned back into the chair letting my head hang off the back. "What will happen if we do find the fourth piece?"

"What do you mean?"

"What will happen when we find it? Was there a reason for it to separate from the rest of the pieces, or was it just the course of nature? Maybe I'm thinking too much, but- do you ever feel like someone is playing games around your life?"

He raised his eyebrow.

"Yeah, bad question. Even if your life wasn't a video game, it's still toyed with by the goddesses in your realm."

"And every other person," Link smiled. "When we find Justice, and it is you who is its welder, you'll be okay."

"Who said anything about me being in the equation of what's going to happen?" I asked looking up at him into his blue eyes.

"Nothing was said, but you're body language and tone said what was on your mind. What you were talking about really had no relevance to you."

"It does so! I can't go down to Florida find out that when I unlock that sunken pyramid, the world ends or something."

"You are definitely your father's daughter, thinking about the worst case scenario. And the world isn't supposed to end when you find it, just if you don't."

"That makes everything so much better." I huffed as I went back to hanging my head again. "I've always wanted to have a life where this stuff was the normal, but now… there is a different view when you place the balance between life and death of everyone in just one action."

Link appeared over me and looked down on me. "Your life was like that before you came to Hyrule. You just didn't see it."

"Or I just wanted to escape." I said mostly to myself as I closed my eyes. That was really the answer. Just to leave and not come back to the world that I really knew, but I guess escaping reality never ends well when you are protecting people from evil. "Why do people like us want an escape route, when other look up at us, they want our lives?"

"I don't know," Link answered seemingly a lot closer than I remembered him being. "I guess it's because everyone wants what they don't have, when we should want what we have."

My heart jumped as I felt his breath on my cheek. And then the phone rang. I opened my eyes just as Link was grabbing the phone. He passed it to me and I answered it.

"This is the Ends house, where everything can come to an end with the pull of a trigger and given as food for the starving animals in the forest."

Link looked at me funny.

~Well I do have something that needs ending, and he happens to be standing beside you.~ Dad said on the phone.

"I'm not even going to ask what you are talking about."

~Good because I was just seeing your reaction. Now I was wondering why you and him are downstairs at a quarter after six in the morning.~

"Erm, doing nothing important, but I do have important news for you. We might have found where the fourth piece is and Uncle Matt and Uncle Fred as getting the helicopter ride ready to go as we speak."

~Wonderful, where are we going?~

"Florida."

There was silence on the other end for a moment. ~Why do I get the feeling it's for the devil's triangle and not the capital Tallahassee or the Miami beaches?"

"Because it needs to be in a sacred place, and the Bermuda Triangle is what you call sacred as it is well protected from outside visitors."

~Yes so protected that someone found something in there.~ Dad responded sarcastically.

"We still need to get to it first. That's the challenge, not using sonar to scan an area."

~Right, well whenever he calls, I'll answer, you just get in touch with Queen Zelda and Queen Midna about this and get ready and stuff, oh and check the weather down there and here, you don't want to be under or overdressed. Wow thank god it isn't hurricane season.~

"No kidding, I'm going to check the weather and then we'll call them. See you soon." I said and I hung up the phone.

I opened a tab and typed in the Weather Network and it came up nice and quick. I looked over the weather of Kingston. It was going to be a warm one for March; a total high of thirteen degrees with a low of minus one, which was the temperature outside. I typed in Miami Beach due to the districts of places named Miami in North America. The temperatures for Miami read 72.9 degrees for the morning and the high was 73.9 degrees for that afternoon with sunshine and no rain.

"Why are the temperatures so high there, from what I read in that book you gave me the temperatures around here in the summer are an average of twenty-five degrees not in the seventies? Wouldn't people burn up or something?"

"What- no, no, the United States have a different measuring system, we are on the metric and they are on the imperial system. Seventy-three degrees is just about room temperature. So in here it's probably about twenty degrees while seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit changes to about twenty-two degrees Celsius."

"Why can't you both have the same measuring tool?"

"I don't know, I guess that's what makes us different. And it's a pain in school when converting things I believe for both sides of the border." I said. "Well the temperature will be warm like it was back in Hyrule so wear what you feel comfortable. Also the laws in the state of Florida are different up here; you can wear the Master Sword on your back, as long as it's not covered by a sweater or something."

Link looked surprised, but I could feel he was downright happy about having his sword on his back again. He pulled out the holophone from his pocket. "We should call Zelda and tell her."

"Yea."

I looked out my window of the helicopter to see the waters of the Atlantic Ocean below lining up with the coast of Miami. I looked back into the cargo hold. Link sat beside me and was in his original clothing, minus his hat because of the headset, playing with his sword in front of him. I couldn't tell if he was comfortable about the flight or if he was begging for it to be over with. Dad was sitting across from me and flashed me a smile when he caught me looking in his direction. He was in between my two uncles chatting away. All three of them wore the same beige colored cargo pants and white t-shirts, like they were heading off to training camp. Though I wasn't far off from them, I wore my bathing suit underneath my black cargo pants that weren't baggy and a pair of steel-toed boots that went over my knees with titanium plated knee pads and a tight tank top with the torso plate that Uli gave me and gloves that went to just before my elbow plated in titanium. When the helicopter landed literally on my front lawn at eight in the morning, Uncle Matt asked if I was going on hunt for an underwater pyramid or on a raid just as I attached my two guns to my belt and magazines in my belt slots. Then I suddenly felt a bit like Batman.

I stretched as I felt the helicopter descend. "Where are we landing anyway?"

"We are landing near the docks where our lovely ship will be waiting for us with the coordinates and underwater gear." Uncle Fred answered in my head set. "How are you handling up over there Link, you look like you are ready to take a parachute right now."

"I'm fine, just not use to being so high in the sky in a machine that could be shot down by an anti-air gun at any moment." Link responded putting his sword away.

"How much did you read of that book?" I asked him.

"All of it, and then I went on the computer to learn more. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't too hard to understand especially the fighting technics and social life."

"You're a freaking genius, I still don't know half of the war technics and I work in it for a living." Uncle Fred exclaimed. "Are you sure you don't want to stay here and protect our little country from the outside world?"

"I'm positive; I have my own country to keep track of." He looked in my direction and I felt my checks grow warm and he looked away. "It's not the same system like it is in my world. I would probably go to prison faster than I can swing my sword for my way of dealing with enemies."

"Good point, too bad they didn't have the same system here; it would be a lot easier."

"Or you could just ask someone like Zelda to rule our country and get Harper off of the Prime Minister seat." Uncle Matt stated.

"That wouldn't do anything; he's just a voice for his party. You would have to take it all the way up to the queen to get anything moving, in which that wouldn't happen, so then you start a revolution and then things go from bad to worse, because then you have the United Nations on our asses." Dad said.

"I know."

~We are landing now. ~ The pilot told us over the intercom.

"Finally!" Dad shouted as we flinched at the loud noise that entered our headset.

Once the helicopter landed on the helipad, we all got out and stared at that little boat that was in front of us.

"Is that what we are going into the Bermuda Triangle? That tiny little thing that could be eaten by a shark, let alone a sea monster, in a single gulp?" I asked as we started to board as the crew, which consisted of three people, was still setting up.

It's not that small Electra; it's a forty foot boat with a second floor that has several rooms and a bathroom." Dad said pushing me forward. "And there shouldn't be any sea monsters."

"I believe the key word in that statement is: shouldn't." I complained and continued to walk onto the death trap.

The boat left the docks a few minutes later and we were off to the devils triangle. All I was glad for was that it wasn't the spring equinox, the less of those special days near this triangle the better. The boat was going fast, but it wasn't all that speedy as I looked over the side to see the water below and the land shrinking away. I looked back into the boat to see Link holding out a sandwich to me.

"Might as well eat lunch, apparently eating just before you go for a swim isn't good for you."

"I'm almost regretting giving you that book." I replied taking the sandwich from him.

"But I would have still figured out how to use Google and learned all sorts of things, just with a two day delay." He replied taking a bite out of his sandwich. "At the most."

I gave him a light laugh and then started to devour my lunch. When we finally stopped it was about twelve thirty and everyone was getting ready for our dive. There were two suits that looked like snowmen, but I knew way better than that to call them snowmen. They were ADS 2000s which allowed one diver in the navy to dive two thousand feet in California; which happened to be the depth of these pyramids where they hit the surface of the ocean floor.

"What in the world are these things?" Link asked as he looked at them.

"These are swim wear that allow people to go under the water at extreme depths." I told him. "I used these things before when I went on a mission to get some evidence. Took a while for the training, but it was worth it in the end."

Link looked at me. "I am not using one of those things."

"Then I guess you aren't going to go see if it's the fourth piece down there." Uncle Fred replied.

"Yes I am, just not with that thing."

"And how are you going to do that?"

Link grinned that made me think of Dark Link for a split second. "You'll see in a few moments." And then he headed below deck.

"Now look at what you did." I scolded my Uncle as I started to undress my over laying clothes. I placed on the suit that was in my opinion needed a new update on its size. And with some help, placed on the lift and the radio communication system running I was set and ready to go. I turned my head to look at the door that led underneath just in time to see Link in his Zora Armor. "Please tell me you have two of those."

Link looked in my direction as I guessed my voice came out kind of funny like in the headsets and looked like he was about to burst into laughter. "Sorry, I guess you are stuck in that."

"And how is that going to help you breath and not be crushed by the pressure?" Uncle Fred asked.

"It was created by the Zora who are somewhat amphibious creatures that live underwater at incredible depths. Link needed to have the Zora Armor in order to get the Fused Shadow from the underwater temple at the bottom of Lake Hylia." Dad explained. "It also filters out the oxygen from the water with a face mask right?"

"Exactly." Link said and he walked over to where I was standing near the edge of the boat. "Hmm, I guess I should make sure my Iron Boots are on hand when I need them."

"If you ever come back here when you go back home, you have to bring all of us those infinite pockets." Uncle Matt demanded tossing Link a headset.

Link nodded as he put it on and then looked at me. "Ready?"

"As ready as one can be without the ability to fight evil sea creatures." I giggled as Link placed on his facemask and then we went in.

As the two of us went, I felt something in my chest and it spread throughout my limbs as the active pyramid came into view. Another thing that I noticed that didn't happen on my previous dive was the fact that the ocean around us seemed empty. There wasn't any fish that we passed; no dolphins, sharks or that odd sea creature that I thought came from space. There was nothing.

"The fourth piece is in there." Link said startling me in the silence.

"How do you know?" I asked as he swam over to me.

He lifted his right hand to show the Triforce glowing through his glove. "The Triforce senses it."

"Glad we don't have to go to the other pyramid then." I sighed.

Suddenly my vision pulsed as a headache appeared.

"Are you okay, we can stop descending?"

"No it's fine, that wasn't caused by the descent. These suits are made to go down and up fast without having to go for long periods of decompression, it can be done in a few minutes."

Link looked away and we continued. The pulsing didn't stop though as we went, but I kept quiet. It had nothing to do with the depths or the suit, and for some reason I was positive that is wasn't. When we final got to the pyramid, I was in awe by its size and how it didn't seemed to be touched by the elements of the water such as plants and creatures. Just like the ocean it was clean. And then I touched it. A shock ran through my body and I screamed in surprised as the pyramid turned gold.

"What the hell is this?!" I asked.

I thought Link was about to answer, but another jolt went through my body and I scream out in pain and doubled over as much as I could, being underwater.

"Electra!" Link shouted in the intercom.

Another pulse went through my body and then the pyramid's light pulsed and caused a beam of light to shoot for the surface. The pain secluded itself to my head and my right hand. A light appeared in the distance from the direction of the second pyramid as it also shot up towards the surface and a loud roar came from it.

"That did not sound good." I stated trying to sound at least not in pain. "We need to get to the surface, now."

Link didn't object as we ascended. When we got to the boat Dad was already in the water and ready to get me on the boat. The suit did weigh just over two hundred pounds. I was lifted out of the water while Link was helped out by the ladder sitting on the side. I was de-suited and was given a towel to dry off. Link had already come up dry and in his green outfit by the time I got out of the monstrous suit. I quickly dried off and placed on my cargo pants just as the light from the first pyramid's beam pulsed. The pulse matched up with the pulse in my head and dropped me to the ground. I grabbed my head and growled at the pain.

My dad and two uncles were about to come towards me, but Link told them to stay back.

"What is up with that pyramid?" Uncle Matt asked.

"It's not just a pyramid, that's the fourth piece of the Triforce, Justice." Link answered as I regained my bounds as the pulsing became less painful, but I still wanted to take a morphine pill. I placed on the rest of my clothing in a hurry.

"Nice job Themis, I'm glad you woke up." A voice that was way too much for me said just as I finished placing on my final glove.

I looked up shakily and took out my two guns at the voice. "Get off the boat Dean."

Dean grinned in my blurry vision, but then it dropped as the second beam of light pulsed and a figure appeared just as the two lights disappeared. I shifted my guns towards it just as Link drew his sword. Dad, Uncle Matt and Uncle Fred pulled out some hand guns and pointed them at Dean. The figure disappeared and then reappeared standing on a fountain of water equaling out to be face to face with us. The figure looked like a female with perfection. She had gold colored irises and hair with a slick blue dress with blue-green designs.

She smiled, but not one of greeting towards Link and I. "Hello hero of the goddess Farore, the Triforce of Courage and the hero of the goddess of Themis, the Triforce of Justice. I am the hero of Demise, the leviathan and I am going to kill you now."

Hope you enjoyed, lots of research went into this and as for the two pyramids, got it from an article, though I personally have no idea if they truly exist. Anyway review please.