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Chapter 17

Historia

I looked from Link's and Zelda's hands and imagined the coin in his hand. "The Light Medallion, where have I heard that before?" I tried to think of the item, but nothing was coming to me.

"This medallion was one of six collected during the Hero of Time Era." Zelda answered turning to me, "Just after the Hyrulean Civil War. A woman who escaped the war, injured, brought her child to forest called the Kokiri Forest. The child came to Hyrule and met one of my ancestors about his age after Ganondorf had poisoned the Deku Tree in the forest and showed that he had the spiritual stone of the Forest. The young princess told him about a man visiting the castle and his horrible plans. The princess told him to find the other two spiritual stones, Water and Fire. The man's name was Ganondorf of the Gerudo Tribe. When Ganondorf made his attack, just after the boy had collected the other two stones, he was given the Ocarina of Time as the princess escaped.

"Then after going to the Temple of Time, he placed the spiritual stones and played the song opening the Door of Time where the Master Sword was placed. That is when the Sage of Light Rauru, placed the child under a seven year sleep so he could face Ganondorf. In order for him to defeat him, the boy had to find the five sages to seal the power of Ganondorf away. Each sage had a medallion which each had their own type of power. Once the task was done the princess who was at the time disguised as a Shiekah; revealed herself to the hero of time and was the seventh sage that was needed to help defeat Ganondorf. Eventually, Ganondorf was defeated and the princess sent the hero back in time to gain the seven years that he had lost. This led to the events that happened to the Twilight Realm being brought to the world of light."

"What were the other medallions called?" I asked as I noticed Link had a distance look in his eyes.

"The Medallion of Light, Forest, Water, Fire, Spirit, and Shadow were the six of the Medallions found in each of their corresponding areas. Light was in the Temple of Time, Forest was found in the Kokiri's Forest Temple, Water in the Zora's Water Temple, Fire in the Goron's Fire Temple, Spirit was in the Gerudo Spirit Temple, and Shadow was in the Shadow Temple. What I don't understand is why the Light Medallion was found in the ancient Forest Temple that Forest Medallion was in."

I pondered for a moment. "Well the Sacred Grounds are there and the ruins of the Temple of Time are found in the area… the palace though I don't believe has moved, has it?"

"That area was called the Lost Woods at one time or at least one part of it an entrance was there and it led to another part of the woods on the other side of the county between Lake Hyllia and The Zora Domain, but the Kokiri Forest has vanished. The land has change much since then. The castle was rebuilt more towards the center as a new river flowed into Lake Hyllia and the country has expanded a bit since then." Zelda explained. "But why was there a medallion there in the first place?"

"The Shadow placed it in the temple." Link said so suddenly I almost didn't notice the harsh tone in his voice. "He used it to collect its power to become whole and as a tool, he made a monster to do it. He probably has collected them and using them by placing them in designated spots throughout Hyrule to make the job faster." Link turned his attention to the floor with a glare that I was glad the floor was the receiving end of. "But, this was probably what the point of bringing it to life was all about. To create a diversion until whatever Leviathan wanted to do to bring Demise back and then the world becomes dark and full of death all over again. And even if we don't go for the diversion, a lot more people will die or get hurt because it would only grow stronger; even now, it grows in the shadows."

"Then, you deal with the five other dungeons and I'll go play with the hell fish." I stated making Link turn to me.

"You can't defeat her alone; she almost killed you last time."

"And you!" I snapped. "I'll be fine, I'll on solid ground and not in the middle of the ocean on a forty foot shark snack."

"But you aren't strong enough to beat her. I doubt that you felt how much power she had; she wasn't even using a tenth of the amount when we fought her two days ago and that's because she just woke up after being in a slumber for ten thousand years. Do you think you can handle all of that with just a simple Gladius?"

"I have my own power." I insisted, but I saw his counter miles away.

"Yea and you used the Master Sword to use it, and then you passed out right after she left. What happens if you just happen to figure out how to use such a power that only the gods know about and you just happen to beat her? What are you going to do when you passed out in an ancient graveyard where monsters would probably lurk looking for an easy meal?"

I didn't have an answer as I looked away. All of those were complete long shots and I already knew none of them would happen between here and where ever the hell she would be, but I still didn't feel like losing an argument. "At least I would have time while I figured that out where she is."

"Figure out where who is?" Jason asked from above them.

We all turned to him and he was dressed in the same outfit like he didn't go swimming in a poisonous pond. He did three front flips off of the balcony and landed without a sound beside Zelda.

"Just a different quest that was sort of placed aside until we found the knights," I answered him.

"Who do you need to find?" He asked. "I heard that there was a split problem of one doing one thing while the other needed to do the other, but it seems, one is less experienced and can't do either on her own."

"I can make you feel pain in parts of your body you didn't even know that could feel pain, want to test it out?"

"All I'm saying is that apparently you have some freaky magic that you need help understanding before you go on a suicidal mission against a ten thousand year old creature."

"How long have you been listening?"

"Long enough that you need to go spend some time in a few dungeons before you can face your main quest objective." Jason eyed me and I felt a shiver crawl up my spine, though I wasn't sure why. "If you need someone to do some searching I'm the best back home and more than likely here as well."

"Jason, am I correct?" Zelda asked grabbing everyone's attention like Jason had only a few moments before.

"Yes, your highness." Jason said with a small bow changing his tone all together, like he faced a queen all the time. "Jason MacGowan."

"I heard quite a few excellent things about you and your talents." Zelda continued. "And was wondering if you wanted to be a knight?"

Jason blinked. "Out of the blue, but yes, yes your highness."

"The Hyrule Knights need a bit of a boost in their courage again and I think you have just what it takes to do it. But first, you must understand what is going on at the moment." Zelda started and then with the help of myself and Link we managed to explain the whole story while Jason stood their silently and expressionless until it was over.

"Look at all the trouble you cause Electra." Jason scolded. "If only you had me there to prevent it."

"Yea, 'cause you could deal with a sudden transportation to another dimension."

"Where do we start?" Jason asked ignoring my comment and looked towards Link and Zelda.

There was a moment of silence and then Link's eyes brightened. "I have an idea who might be able to help us."

"It's getting dark though and you need your rest before you go on any adventure." Zelda stated.

"We aren't going too far, just into town there are a couple of people there that I know who are there." Link told her. "We'll be back if you want us to for the night."

Zelda nodded and Link led us out to the castle into the town leaving Zelda in thrown room. The streets were quiet as I tried to think of who he was talking about. Not too many people were out except a few knights walking the streets. We passed them without a second thought and walked towards the southern part of the Castle Town. We walked down the south road and then turned into an alleyway.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Jason asked.

I nodded. "Now I know who we are seeing."

Link nodded as we travelled down the stairs. He opened the door and the three of us walked in. No sooner did the door close, someone flew from the tables and placed themselves around Jason and kissed him. I stood there beside Link in shock at the random… attack? The woman that was on Jason had white hair, classic Hylian ears and the sluttiest warrior outfit that I have ever seen. She wore a V shape hipped, super short black skirt that barely covered her with a pair of black leather thigh high boots. Her middle was bare and she had black leather fingerless gloves that went to her elbows. Only her chest had armor with a black leather chest top, but even than her breasts seemed to threaten to pop out at any moment as if the D plate was too small. Though I had to admit, she was a beautiful woman and would probably go far in either acting or modeling.

"Hey there handsome," The woman said finally separating their mouths and started crawling her fingers up his chest. "You have a great kiss."

"H-hi," Jason stuttered blushing.

The woman turned her silver eyes that seemed to be tinted with green over in Link's direction. "A hot looking guy and the Hero of Twilight in my presence at the same time, how lucky can I get."

She started walking to him, but I stepped in front of her who happened to be five foot six, the same height as me as we were eye to eye. "He has his eyes set for someone else."

She pouted. "And who would you be?"

"Just the person preventing sexually transmitted diseases."

"I'm not sure exactly what those are, but I figured it had to do with someone having sex a lot, which isn't very nice to say. Just because my attire says I go around like a prostitute doesn't mean I do. "

"So you use it to stun your male opponents?" I asked eying the long blade on her left hip.

"Can't a girl just show off her body?"

I shrugged. "Depends, do you go around kissing guys as soon as they walk through the door?"

"No," the woman sighed. "It just so happens that I'm slightly drunk after my boyfriend cheated on me in my own home with some chic. This is what happens when you get a flirt girl like me under the influence, be lucky it was just a kiss, I heard that I can get nasty when drunk."

I blinked in surprise. I've seen enough shit in my world to know how hard it is for a girl to walk in on that. I turned my tone down a few notches "Sorry to hear about that."

"So, what brings you to Telma's Bar?" The woman asked changing the subject.

"We are actually looking for the group." Link answered.

"Oh Link," Another woman called as she came from behind the bar. The woman had red dread locks pulled into a pony tail and darker colored skin and had Hyrulean ears, meaning she was Hyrulean. She was a bigger woman, not fat, bigger built and had some markings under her eyes. She wore a tavern dress that was opened down to her waist to show her chest top. And I recognized her as soon as I turned around. "Delilah, why didn't you tell me we had guests?"

"You didn't hear us Telma?" Delilah questioned sarcastically.

"No actually, I figured you were attacking one of the knights that come by with their wife." Telma replied and looked towards us. "Link, haven't seen you in a while, how are you?"

"Could be better, could we talk with the group?" Link repeated his question from earlier.

"We?" Telma asked and then looked at Jason and me as if she didn't realize we were there.

Link nodded. "This is Jason MacGowan and Electra Ends. Jason, Electra, this is Telma the owner of the bar is you didn't guess."

"Oh, nice to see Link has someone watching his back." She replied with a wink at me as if she knew something, like Uli, damn fortune teller. "This is my new assistant and current resident, Delilah. If she did, erm, attack you, she's sorry, she isn't herself tonight."

"I already told them, but I'm not apologizing." Delilah said as she turned to Jason whose face flushed redder than the Queen of Hearts. "I enjoyed it and just from my intuition, he enjoyed it too. First time kisser I think."

"I-um," Jason started and then he shook his head as if to gather his thoughts… or to throw others aside. "I am a knight of the Knights Templar and a Knight of Hyrule sent on a special quest, you throwing yourself upon me is abuse to my moral standards, woman."

"Sure it is." Delilah and I said flatly at the same time.

"Come, obviously there is something troubling you and you've come to talk about it right?" Telma interrupted talking to Link.

Once again Link nodded and we followed Telma with Delilah hooked on to Jason into the next room where the sounds of the other members of the group started to reach my ears. The rooms seemed warmer and brighter in the back as the lamps were lit and the fireplace was cooking.

"Link's alive." Telma stated. "Also this is Electra and this is Jason."

At the table sat Ashei, the warrior girl from the mountains in her white silver armor, grey top and red pants. Auru, an elderly warrior with his brown yellow and pinkish jumpsuit, or that's what I could guess was what he was wearing and a pair of heavy duty black gloves. Shad, a scholar with an upper class high collared, purple jacket and white dress shirt with a pink color vest and a book set on the table in front of him. And finally the last person who sat at the table a not so new member; Rusl, he was in armor with his helmet in front of him.

Rusl stood from his seat and looked directly at me. "I thought you went home?"

"I did," I stated defensively. "But then some things happened."

"Let me guess, because of Dean you did some research and then he screwed up and got into something he didn't know about and a little too big for him to handle."

I blinked in surprise for the second time that evening. What were Uli and her husband telling the future or reading the past, were their children like that too? "That's basically what happened."

Rusl sighed as he sat down again. "Well grab some chairs; I think we're all interested on exactly happened on your two week adventure."

I suddenly didn't feel too confident with the warriors around the table as I sat down. Except for Shad, I felt pretty confident that he barely carried a dagger. Not that I couldn't handle myself in the dangerous world compare to them, but their fighting skills were a lot older than mine. Though I suppose fighting against monsters and standing up against the cursed Twili and cursed human souls that were big, black killing machines would do that to someone. All I had experience in was killing common monsters, assisting and being a distraction to a boss and placing messed up people, if they were called that anymore, back in jail gave me a few points.

"Remember all that gibberish Dean was talking about?" I asked to start things off talking mostly to Rusl, since he had asked.

"Yes," Shad answered as he opened his book and started to go through the pages. "Which isn't actually gibberish."

"You told everyone at this table about my little misadventure here?"

"Yes, it is a bit important, plus, these guys are helpful in their own areas. Like Shad, he has all the history of Hyrule in his study." Rusl stated.

"Alright, saves time on my part."

"Here it is!" Shad shouted. "This is the part when the worlds were split. It was during a ceremony that took place each time a female was born within the bloodline of the goddess Themis. There was a set of female twins born during the era of the separation. One of the twins became involved not too long before the ceremony and then lost her position to get initiated. It says that the girl fell into the ocean, but didn't die from the freezing temperatures. Instead, she was saved by her lover's power and just by being with him made her immortal just as he was.

"The two raged a war to control the world, Demise the Demon Lord, and the unnamed involved sister that is only quoted as the Leviathan from here on. Demise dealt with Hyllia and the three goddesses while Leviathan went for Themis. Just when things seemed to be a losing fight against the two lovers, Themis' Hero came up with a way to deal with their power. 'Together they were immortal, separated, they were mortal.' Which is a quote apparently said by the hero. And then the goddess separated the two of them creating two different worlds where Leviathan was on Atlantis and Demise was what would be known as the Sealing Grounds where the two places were sealed to never be combined until Themis' return."

"Well that clears up everything that Dean had in mind. But I guess he didn't realize on the other end. Leviathan was still there as you don't have the history of my world… and neither does anybody else." I sighed leaning back in my chair. "No one could have predicted it ever happening."

"So, do you know where Demise's grave is?" Jason asked. "

"No," Shad sighed. "The landscape has changed so much over since the times of the sky people to Hyrule today. I would have to go through my books and go searching for it."

"I have been asked to find the grave while these two go collecting medallions."

"Medallions?" Rusl asked. "You mean the medallions of the Six Sages?"

Link nodded.

"That leads to problem number three." I commented. "Problem number one made problem number two which created the medallion problem. The Leviathan was released into my world which is also unsealed Themis' sealed Triforce piece."

"Can I see it?!" Shad asked suddenly star-eyed. "That is if you know who holds it."

'So this is how it feels like to be interrupted a million times, as much as its pissing me off, I may just continue doing it because it's annoying.' I took off my glove and handed him my right hand and hoped that he wouldn't interrupt until the end… I guessed it was a good idea to sit next to him. Shad grabbed my hand gently as I wondered what the other Resistance members were thinking and then started to go through pages in his book mumbling so soundless that I bet that Louise the Persian cat that was wandering around the bar couldn't hear.

"That's when the Leviathan was freed and attacked our death trap, erm, boat. It wasn't a pretty fight. She was beautiful for a ten thousand year old human with fishy powers, but even though she just awoke, she was still a bitch to defend against. Hell, I doubt modern day weapons would have done much on her, maybe a nuke though." I added thinking about home. "She got angry after she found out Demise was long dead and then-" I shook away the not too distant memory. "Then she started a ritual for the second half of the Triforce of Justice."

"Second half?" Ashei questioned darkly.

"Yes, when the twins were born, both were carriers of the Triforce of Justice, when one of the sisters fell off the initiation path, she split the Triforce in two: an evil half and a good half." Shad answered still matching designs in his book.

"Why don't you just say light and dark?"

"Because neither is applicable, light could be bad just as dark could be good. Neither is classified until a 'user' takes action on which they choose to use to complete their intentions, get it?"

"Yeah."

Shad nodded at me and I continued. "The ritual was stopped when my dad decided to smash a paddle across her face. But, it didn't stop the effects of the ritual that had been completed as we found out today."

"What does it look like? So if it comes around we can kill it." Delilah asked as she stepped away from Jason and showed off her fast reflexes with her blade that I didn't even see her take out.

I was still sensitive over the subject, it was just too much for something, I could handle going into dungeon after dungeon just to kill Leviathan, but a good friend's shadow that had been around since the time of Demise and had been part the future and through alternate timelines was running around gathering strength from the medallions and – I took my hand back from Shad, who looked like he just dropped something important into lava, and clenched it with my other hand.

"You can't kill him in his present form." Link told the table in a silently, deadly tone as he looked down at his birthmark that hid under his glove and the atmosphere suddenly felt thick, dark and cold even though it was bright and warm. I watched his jaw clench as if his words were blasphemy. "My shadow is the other half of justice; he is just that, a shadow. But, he isn't just something that can be found in the light, it-he, can attack and most certainly can kill without a second thought."

There was silence as if the words that stung the air were said in another language. Not that I could blame them, how could a shadow attack people, let alone a shadow of their hero?

"It took two of us to send him on his way." Jason continued. "That's how Electra and Link met me. I was in Faren Woods when Shadow Link appeared and attacked me. Though, I held my own ground, he was more interested in killing Link than any other person there, he almost did it too."

"The Shadow is looking to finally live after being in the shadows of eons and eons of time and space through the many timelines that this world has been split into, and one trip that Link's ancestor took to a parallel world of Hyrule, Termina." I turned to Link, "The same one who taught you the hidden abilities."

He didn't say anything as he glared a hole into the table.

I turned back to the rest of the table. "He is the shadow of the Triforce of Justice; it took the form of Themis' hero closest friend at the time. Sweet justice at its finest and he just had to be the hero that originally was Hyllia's choice when she reincarnated into a human after sealing Demise. Just because the body is young, doesn't mean the soul isn't, and that's just what happened to Dark Link. Everything and anything that has been dealt with was placed into a manifestation of a shadow to remember everything. I'm guessing him being partially summoned from my world was the cause of this, my world already knows what happens in the other timelines and this one for the most part." I felt angry suddenly and really just wanted to flip the table, how could my world be so ignorant of their other half. "All shown through games, games that people in my world play as entertainment! And he is probably one really pissed off fucker because of it!"

I stopped, I didn't see that all this time there was another world and my ancestor just seemed to fuck everything over for the people in Hyrule. And the goddesses; did they just enjoy watching the same souls fighting constantly until the end of time? No, they must have become bored so they dragged in an unsuspected piece. Just the other world where everything was ignorance and materialistic and had left their stories at the bottom of the ocean for new gods to appear and lead the world. Or did they ever want something like reincarnation to fight the same evil over and over again?

"Do you remember all these games?" Rusl asked pulling me out of my inner thoughts.

I thought for a moment as I thought of the timeline that was printed in the Hyrule Historia. "There are sixteen games. Four original storyline and then during the Hero of Time era it is split into three time eras."

"Good, then when the time comes, use it to your advantage, in order to kill something you have to know its weakness. The weakness is somewhere in that timeline, something that a shadow couldn't have picked up after all of those times."

I didn't know of an answer. All of the games the infamous spirit of courage had reined through things that I even couldn't understand how it worked.

"It can't be from Hyrule's timeline." Jason stated. "It's either going to be Electra or me that is going to have to get rid of him, our tactics are beyond any timeline that is known."

"No," I said almost out of instinct. My hand pulsed. "In order to get rid of that other half, you got to kill it with an equal, equivalent exchange, either I'm going to get rid of it, or I'm going to get rid of it and I go down with it."

Link slammed the table with his closed fist shattering the room to silence. "That's not happening!"

I lifted my hand to show him the Celtic knot in the middle triangle not intimidated by his actions. "Unless you can figure out how to collect this piece, with all three pieces of the Triforce you are still unequal to him! You need the forth piece if you are even thinking about fighting him." I put my hand down touching his hidden piece. He winced slightly as if it hurt. "He is every single piece of the gods bane, if you want to out match him, figure out how to beat the odds, until then, I'm going to fight against him and then I going after Leviathan to stop her from summoning Demise."

"You don't have the three other pieces." He stated.

"I don't need them; I'm not from this world, remember. I have already proven my power, my wisdom and my courage many times over."

"Big words from such a small thing." Auru said after a pause reminding me of the Leviathan's exact wording.

"The last person who said that to me, just happened to be the Leviathan," I turned to him slightly glaring. "She had my bullets in her body and then a Master Sword to her skull. And they aren't big words, they are words that I will follow until I fix this shit hole that Dean started and I finished." I got up from the table placing on my glove. "Now, if there is nothing else that needs to be talked about, I'm going to go back to the castle where a bath, food, and a bed are so I don't waste any pain medication for this migraine."

I turned to leave when Rusl called me, "Electra."

I turned to him slightly. "What is it?"

"The fate of many people's lives is in yours and Link's hands while you collect the medallions, to stop this shadow from growing in strength. While you go out there and fight what inner and outer demons you encounter, don't forget your oath tonight."

"How could I forget it?" I questioned with a slight grin as Link and Jason stood up from their seats. "I got one looking for a long gone grave and a suicidal manic to keep out of death's path."

"I'm not-" Link turned to me with an agitated look on his face, but I interrupted him/

"Yea, and the shadow that is trying to kill you is really a teddy bear looking for a hug."

"A suffocating hug." Jason commented.

"Good night, Link, Jason, Electra." Rusl said. "Link, Electra, if we don't see you before you head off, good luck."

Link nodded and then led the two of us out the door leaving a band of warriors who would certainly be useful in any temple that we faced.

And so the journey begins for our heroes… actually no it doesn't, sleep awaits their arrival first. :P

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