So I wrote most of this last night. Felt so proud eee! … anyway the other chapters are coming as I have them already written, might do a bit more to them I'm not sure, but in the mean time I'm going to write on my other stories Innocence and Yu-Gi-Oh! Soul. Also I did some artwork and threw them on Deviantart which is under the same name DJV-Trio-blast so if you want to check them out. Anyway I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 27
City in the Sky that isn't Heaven
Jason looked up at the giant canon on legs. "What kind of hell made one create such a monster? Seriously, why did someone make a giant ass canon to see if it they could reach a place that just shouldn't exist?"
"Why does one do anything?" Shad asked him. "To fill the curiosity of the mind."
"So how do we use this thing?" Delilah asked. "The canon is all the way up there and by the looks of this part here, we need a grappling hook or something to get up in it."
"That's why we have things called ladders." Someone interrupted behind them.
Jason turned around and inwardly wanted to puke, but he didn't say anything to the ugly man, he was polite after all. A sophisticated man with a lot of-.
"And what monster spawned did you come from." Delilah asked the man bluntly.
"Hey now that's mean." The man said with a frown.
"Sorry about her, she's not in the greatest mood. Not too long ago we were on a mountain sledding down it actually and now we have to go to this city that floats in the sky, in a canon." Jason apologized.
"Never had a canon trip?"
"Who the hell wants to take a canon trip? These things are insane and not reliable." Delilah exclaimed.
"You remind me of that girl from last night, had to trick her into getting into the canon to actually follow up with Link, stubborn one, though less rude."
"I bet she didn't climb a mountain."
"No, but something called the horses away this morning."
"The horses?"
"They left them up at the top of the bridge a few days ago, but they suddenly left this morning in a hurry of noises."
"What caused that?"
"Dunno, the horses were in a rush, I wouldn't be surprised if a monster was after them, too many these days."
"Have you seen Link and Electra since last night?"
"No, but I have a terrible feeling something happened. Link's horse would never go on her own and Link would have come back to Lake Hylia after heading to the desert. There is a teleportation system in the Arbiter's Grounds. It would have activated it and poof he would be here. But it has been easily twelve hours and no signs. They should have been back by now."
Shad looked towards what Jason presumed was where the Arbiter's Grounds were located.
"They are probably fine." Jason stated grabbing their attention.
"But with all the monsters and stuff, there are only two of them." Isaac said.
"Which both of them are trained to kill things and Electra's case, detain very horrible people that I bet Hyrule could only dream of. Taking over the world is bad sure, but the guys she goes after are people who turn my world into a chaotic mess if they were out and about out of prisons. They can handle themselves against whatever is keeping them delayed. For all we know they could have just called the horses because they got back a different way."
"Why would they do that if there is a portal?" the man asked him.
"Maybe it's broken or something, there are a hundred different reasons why they didn't come to Lake Hylia." There was an uneasy silence that followed and he sighed. "We have our own task to complete and we are far from prepared for attempting to cross a desert at almost noon. If they aren't at Kakariko Village by the time we get there; we'll go look for them."
The soldiers nodded and the man placed the ladder up. He sighed, he wasn't sure if he said that to reassure his team or himself. One by one they were launched into the sky. He eventually became the last person left on the ground and he wasn't too keen on trying out his daredevil career. He climbed the ladder and prayed that he wasn't doing something he would regret as the whole thing was a bad idea. He lost his thoughts as the canon moved and threw him into the air. He just kept going up, and up and up and then he felt like he was falling. He looked down as he decided to open his eyes and fell into a pool of water. The water was freezing and he quickly left the pool only to have a strong wind whip through his clothing and dry them instantly, it was also freezing cold.
A female laugh met his ears and he turned to it to see Delilah trying really hard not to laugh.
"What?"
"Your hair, oh wow it's a mess."
He fixed it up as best as he could against another gust a wind that threatened to pick him off his feet. "Did anyone die?"
"My stomach did, half way up I think. Some poor soul is not going to know what hit them." Cailean responded from the side of the wall crouched. "Please sir, can we use a minimum amount of canons."
"Minimum amount," he replied as he looked around. "So how do we get down from here?"
"Another canon will launch us right into Lake Hylia by the looks of it." Shad said from behind him.
Jason turned around and sighed. A similar canon was placed at the end of the floating island. "At least we can get to it without a ladder."
"So as fun and refreshing that trip was, I kinda want to get back to the main land. So, where would the next place be?" Delilah asked looking around. "There is a lot of stone here and no one around."
"This way," Shad said as he turned to the left bridge towards a building. "Be careful, the wind is strong up here so keep a hold on the walls."
Jason and the rest of them followed Shad. The wind was fine, until a hole in the wall appeared and nearly sent him off the edge. It died down just as his foot almost went over. "What the hell is wrong with your country?"
"Nothing that I can think of," Shad replied. "Why, is it strange compared to your world?"
"Well, we don't have floating islands in the sky for one."
"It's actually flying with giant turbines."
"We also don't have cities flying with giant turbines. And the numbers of intelligent species that can communicate with each other are limited to one, humans. Dolphins and apes communicate within their own species, but nothing like the Zoras or the Yeti."
"And we are about to meet another species." Shad said as he opened the door. Everyone quickly got in before the wind caught them. Once inside a strange music was playing and Jason gave a questionable look at the creatures that stood on the counter and in the seats along the walls.
"What in the world?"
"It's Cuccos with boobs!" Delilah exclaimed.
"Well that isn't very nice, what if we turned to you and said you were dressed like a skimp with the attitude of a Bulblin." The creature replied in a female voice on the counter with a head, Jason guessed, flying around the creature.
"Sorry, I tell 'em as I see 'em." Delilah shrugged. "And my attitude is just fine, nothing like a Bulblins."
"These are the Ooccoos." Shad explained with a sigh as he pulled out a tablet. "I don't mean to rush this, but have you seen anything like this up here. We kind of need it and we are in a bit of a rush."
"I can most certainly tell you where it is, on the matter of getting it is a bit of a different story." The Ooccoo replied.
"Where is it?" Jason asked.
"In the other building, the thing is, it's slightly destroyed and being the creatures we are; we haven't gone to go fix up the place."
"I don't think any of us are qualified to fix this place."
"Oh heavens no, I wouldn't trust any of you to do a decent job with the building aspects. We're intelligent, but wings only go so far. We'll eventually figure out a strategy to getting supplies and workers up here. It would be ironic if we couldn't since we know all of Hyrule's history before it ascended to the skies and returned back to the earth."
"Wise but no brawn."
Shad turned to them. "Um is it alright if I sit this one out? I have several questions and since they probably have all the answers that could help us with defeating Leviathan and gives a little bit of detail on the point of Dark Link besides to try and kill our Link…"
The sounds of the Ooccoos muttering about Leviathan and Dark Link and the word demise popped up every so often didn't give Jason much to think about.
"Say no more," he told Shad. "By the sounds of this building it's going to take a while and knowledge is a powerful tool. Maybe you can figure out Leviathan's plan before we go dive in headfirst."
"Thanks."
He turned to the rest of his team, "Let's go."
"Are you sure you want to go in there?" The Ooccoo asked him on more time.
"We need that piece, whether or not we want to go playing in some ruined building is not the issue."
"It should be in the second room you come across once you enter the building. I'm not sure where it is as it has moved several times, but it's always in that room."
"Thanks for the info." Delilah said and they left the small shop to the couple dozen strange chicken like creatures and Shad.
"Do you think those guys have the answers to Shad's questions?" Michael asked as soon as the door was closed.
"No idea, I guess we'll have to ask him after we get this final piece." Jason replied with a shrug.
Their walk was a very painful one back to the pool of water that broke their fall.
"I don't think those Ooccoos understand that we just got back from a mountain, nothing is more dangerous than a mountain in a snowstorm. What could be so dangerous about a bit of ruined buildings?"
"I've been in quite a few ruins back in my world, they say all of them are dangerous and they weren't when taking the right precautions. But I can't say it can be that bad. I mean sure we're hundreds of feet in the air, but it's just some ruined buildings, they haven't fallen back to the surface so they should be good enough to navigate to the second room of the building."
"The captain has a point, I know a little bit about how a building works and if the foundation of the building, the supporting walls, and the beams are all intact it should be a piece of cake." Isaac said.
A few minutes of silence went by as they fought against the wind to get to the door. Too bad they didn't bring up anything really heavy to wear. They could have walk it without any problems. Then a question dawned on him, how did Newfoundlanders get from one place to another during their windstorms of a hundred kilometers an hour or more winds? He shrugged as a single answer came to his head; it was a question for another day.
"What are you shrugging about?" Delilah asked him.
"Nothing that is important right now."
"Why's that?"
"Because the only answer I have to my shrug is a vehicle and you guys don't have cars."
"What's a car?"
"My point."
They finally reached the salvation of the door and went inside. Jason looked around and turned to Isaac. "Does your structure plans say anything about it being non-lethal if it doesn't have a floor?"
"It doesn't have a what?!" Isaac asked and looked to where he was pointing. "Oh for the love of the goddesses, what is wrong with this place?"
"How are we supposed to get to that door on the other side of the room when it's missing a damn floor?" Delilah shouted. Her voice echoed causing some armored looking monsters to look over at them.
Jason looked around. There were several of those Ooccoo creatures walking on the walls and on the floor like they had on the piece of the tablet. "Wasn't there something called the cucco competition that was on a poster in Castle Town?"
"What does that have to do with anything?" Benedict asked.
"What's it about?"
"Well you grab a cucco and you jump off a platform and see how many rupees you can get and land on a platform for a treasure in a chest."
Cailean looked at the Ooccoos Jason was looking at. "I have an idea, but I don't know how it will work when we have to get to the third part of the floor."
"We can figure that out when we get there, what is your plan?" Delilah asked him.
"We glide to the next platform using the Ooccoos present."
There was silence as they thought about it.
"I was expecting a dumb idea, but that will probably work."
"We can't have a probably we need a certainty there is nothing to save any of us if we miss and I doubt the Ooccoo will have the energy to glide any of us back to the surface." Jason growled.
"It will certainly work." Michael stated. "I've done the cucco challenge before."
"I love how physics isn't a part of the natural language of this place. Sure why not, let's try it."
They each grabbed an Ooccoo and they started flipping shit. They weren't speaking their language, but Jason could tell they were not happy about being picked up. He looked over at the second ledge that had a tall part surrounded by blue floor tiles instead of grey. What made the floor tiles different? He jumped with the pissed off Ooccoo and they glided down to the next part of the floor that was still there. As soon as he landed the armored creature charged at him with anger and the sounds of a rodent came from it. He stepped to the side and it fell off the floor and into the sky below.
"Oops, I hope he doesn't land on anyone."
"I'm sure some hungry creature of the sky will get it before it even makes it to the surface." Esben said as he landed. The Ooccoos were even more enraged as they wiggled in their arms. "So now what?"
"The wall to the landing up there doesn't seem that high, we can probably boost each other and then pull the last one up, but."
"But what?"
"The blue tiles are bugging me."
"There was one up at the door." Michael said as he landed adding three pissed off birds to the list. "And there is one right here, I'll test it out."
"Michael-"
"I'll keep one foot on the solid one, don't worry."
Jason watched nervously as he walked over to it and the others landed behind him. Michael stepped on it and it started shaking. He took his foot off of it very quickly and it slowly started to sink. It eventually left the main flooring and fell into the sky along with the monster creature.
"Well that's comforting that we have fifteen seconds to stand on it before we fall to our deaths." Isaac commented sarcastic.
"Now but it does give us a rough idea on how we are going to get up there without dying. But we are going to have to be really fucking fast." Jason said as he looked at his team creating a strategy.
"I don't like this idea." Cailean told him.
"Neither do I, but it's the only way over there."
Michael and Isaac quickly got over to the blue tile and Delilah was right behind them. The tile started to move as they launched her with her Ooccoo onto the top landing. They managed to toss Cailean on the ledge before having to move to the next title. Benedict followed afterwards tossing his Ooccoo up on the landing before grabbing the ledge. Isaac wasn't too long afterwards before they had to move again. Jason was launched up perfectly with his own jumping ability and got ready to pull up Esben as Michael's hand grabbed the ledge with his Ooccoo almost falling off the ledge on the other side. Esben jumped and Jason caught his arm before almost falling on top of him. Cailean grabbed Jason before he could and Isaac grabbed Esben's other arm and they pulled him up.
"That was not fun." Benedict sighed in relief.
"No, but it went smoothly." Jason replied.
"Okay, so I have an idea," Cailean suggested. "You guys go head and Benedict and I are going to make things way more efficient on the way back so we don't have to go through that shit again."
"What are you two going to do?" Delilah asked with an eyebrow raised.
"We are going to create a rope that we can just climb across. We have rope as well all of these vines on this pillar."
Jason looked at the way they were going and how they were going to get back. "I don't think we are going to be able to get back the same way we got here that's for sure."
"Exactly, so you guys go. We'll take care of the rope. Give us like two hours or so, and when you guys get back there will be tested strong ropes of vine and regular rope waiting as bridges for you to return."
"Alright, I hope you are successful or else we better figure out how to climb on walls."
Benedict pulled out a rope from his pouch while Cailean started pulling on the vines on the pillar. Jason turned to the rest of them and they glided away on their very pissed off Ooccoos. They landed almost all at the same time as another armored monster raced towards them. Delilah threw her Ooccoo away, but Jason got to it first as he stabbed it through its armor with his blades. It squealed and went poof leaving behind its armored shell.
"That was my kill." She whined.
"First come first served." He told her without much emotion.
"You wanna start something?"
"Perhaps, but right now we have a tablet piece to find."
"Party pooper."
They walked over to the oversized steps and climbed up them with little difficulty. He opened the door and was introduced to a room the size of the throne room of Hyrule Castle. "Considered those two hours granted. This is going to take us all bloody day."
"Perhaps, but it should only take us several hours is we limit the space to the room that hasn't attempted to fall apart as the likely place that they placed the tablet." Delilah said as she looked around the room.
"If you minimized to a section that was the size of the locations that are separated from the rest of this room, it would have been a lot more helpful." Isaac sighed.
"Seriously, you took like, a fifth of the room out of the search. A fifth!" Michael exclaimed.
"And that's a fifth that we don't have to search, so let's get searching." Delilah retorted bitterly.
"I call the stairs." Jason said as he wandered towards them.
"Does that include the railing?" Esben asked.
"Yes, find your own damn spot."
He climbed to the top of the stairs and one by one he started to lift the tiles to see if there was anything beneath them with his machete. An hour and a half went by when he finally got to the bottom step. The tiles were stiff and he was getting annoyed at the constant motion of lift a tile and find disappointment staring back at him.
He rolled his shoulders and looked around to see the rest of his team that were in the room looking under tiles in the floor and in the walls. He turned back and saw Delilah lifting tiles on the landing above him. He sighed as he turned to the railings and started back at the top of the right railing. He stabbed his machete into the crack and pulled up the stone. Four and a half more hours went by as they met back in the middle of the room empty handed and slightly dirty with grit.
"We checked under every tile, every wall piece, even the paint and it's not here." Delilah sighed as she sat down. "Watch it be someplace so simplistic that we didn't notice it because we were thinking complicated."
"You mean like that broken pillar right behind you?" Isaac asked. "The super easy to get at pillar that no one went up to check."
Jason felt his eye twitch; there was no way it was just sitting there while they spent six hours of back breaking work looking for it. He gave it a running start and ran up a bit of the wall before grabbing the vines. He climbed them until he came to the top. He stood up and looked around. He could see the whole room from up there. He took a step and his foot moved slightly as something under it shifted. He looked down and a graveyard picture of the same shape they were looking for stared up at him mockingly. His eye twitched again.
"Isaac,"
"Yes captain."
"Next time you notice something so stupidly obvious, point it out!" he shouted down at him.
"I think he found the tablet." Michael whispered, but Jason heard it.
"Your damn right I did and guess what! We are leaving, now. These things are a real pain in the arse and just watch, murphy is going to come knocking as we put the pieces together and say 'Hey guys guess what, you're missing a piece.' Just watch."
"I think he's lost it." Delilah said as he jumped off the pillar. He landed beside her after a few front flips and shook his head.
"I haven't lost it, yet."
"Yet is a good word, captain." Esben told him. "Now let's hope our escape from this place is ready for our arrival."
They walked out of the room to see two ropes of green tied to the pillars and one anchored to the wall. Cailean and Benedict waved from the exit.
"Did you guys find it?" Benedict questioned.
"Did we give you enough time to get this ready?" Jason asked them instead of answering.
"Plenty of time, we even enhanced them to make sure they would stay for a long time." Cailean replied.
Jason stuck the tablet in the pouch and approached the vine and rope line. He grabbed a hold of it and swung under it grabbing it with his legs and scooted along the rope. When he got to the other side he climbed into the platform motioning the next one forward. One by one they made it across and Jason helped in the middle to get them off the rope and onto the platform. Eventually, they got to the main exit.
"After we get Shad and somehow get down with that canon, we should head to Castle Town and spend the night there. We'll head to Kakariko Village in the morning."
"A bath sounds wonderful right about now." Delilah commented with a smile on her face. "I'm dying for one; that and food."
They left and went back to the building they had left Shad in. They walked in and Jason placed the tablet on the counter.
"We got the stony bastard." Shad didn't say anything as he placed the other pieces on the counter and put them together and the Jason's mouth twitched. "Are you kidding me? There's a fifth piece to find!"
"Not find; I know where it is." Shad said solemnly as he put the pieces back into his pouch adding the newly acquired one. It's in the royal graveyard, shouldn't be difficult to point out."
"Oh, well in that case we can continue with the plan of taking a stop at Castle Town for the night."
"I suppose."
"What is it Shad?" Delilah asked him. "Why do you sound all bummed out. Did you not get the answers to your questions?"
"Oh I got them answered. Just the information is just… I'm overwhelmed by everything I learned and matched up with my notes."
"What did you learn?"
"That there is a giant ritual about to happen sacrificing every person who holds a piece of the Triforce to unite them. And after a blood sacrifice to bring back Demise, Leviathan then is going to present it to Demise."
"Well that's depressing, what else is there?" Jason asked having a feeling there was more.
"Oh just that Electra is actually the reincarnation of Leviathan's twin and the human form of Themis."
"Is that all?"
"Oh no it gets better, Leviathan plans on sacrificing her and Queen Zelda for the sacrifice to bring Demise back because of their divine blood."
"Any good news to this?"
"I don't think Electra has awakened her full powers of her piece of the Triforce so she can't be an offering."
"Great so who is the next candidate?"
"No one according to my research, all of Queen's relatives have passed and Electra's father is back on Earth."
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