Link
Link looked around Stone's house. It was gloomy just like his cell but they needed a place to hide. The only flaw in Stone's hiding place was the fact that Piper was at Regal Jakes house. Link had no idea what anyone was doing.
Link stared out his window at all the traffic going through the city. How is it that there are so many people in one street?! Link thought. Then he saw Regal holding a shiny object in one of her hands. Piper trailed closely behind both of them looking horrified.
Jake and Stone were holding hands tearing through the thick crowd. They all seemed to be running from one thing, but what? Link's question was answered immediately when both And and one of the people from the group yesterday came running after them.
Then it hit Link, Regal really did steal something. Link ran down the stairs towards the door of Stone's and just waited posted right by the door handle.
"Who are you?" A voice from behind Link asked.
Link had forgotten Stone had a sister and that was mostly who was standing behind him. "Hi Todd." Link said.
"Who the heck are you and what the heck are you doing in my house!" Todd shouted.
Link could hear Regal screaming from outside the door and without hesitation opened for all four people.
"Shut it!" Regal threw herself against the door locked it and kept running down a stairwell leaving Link standing there in a state of utter confusion.
"Link," Piper called, "follow us!"
Link heard yet again another scream coming from outside the door. He went after Regal quickly running down the steps into a twisted hallway, through a tiny cluttered crawl space, and finally into a dimly lit room where everyone stopped. They all looked at each other in pure exhaustion, except Link.
"What happened out there?!" Link said.
"And tried to steal the insignia back from us, we had to get you and Piper here to tell you about it!" Jake said.
Regal flipped the shiny insignia around in her hands then looked up at Link. "You know the story or the warriors right?" Regal asked.
Link shook his head. "All I know about is that there was only one woman who was one." Link replied.
"Here's how the story goes." Regal said. "A long time ago Hyrule lived in peace and harmony but then a war started. They need all the Chancess they could get. All of the men were dragged out but one woman had attempted to volunteer herself..."
Stone interrupted. "They wouldn't let her in so she went off on her own. She fought hard and actually saved Hyrule from devastation."
"They recognized what she had done and even though she was never a part of their army they call her one of their warriors." Jake finished.
"Then we did some more research. We found out something amazing..." Regal said. "That same warrior's name was Piper. She was also the most powerful of her time and so is Piper."
Piper's mouth was open, she had so many questions but none could get answered. Link was thinking the same thing.
"If I am from here than where are my parents?" Piper said worried out of her mind.
"I'm so sorry to say this but..." Jake said trailing off. "No one has seen them in months."
Tears began to fill Piper's eyes, she couldn't handle it. Link watched her cry for a while; no one dared say a word. The insignia said it all though. It was the insignia of the long lost family. The one Piper belonged to... The one no one knew much about...
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Everyone stood staring out the window for a while. It wasn't safe here and they knew it. Constantly they took turns keeping watch for And or anyone else. Link kept wondering if they'd ever leave or this would be their lives forever.
"Hey Link, it's your turn." Stone stepped away from the window to let Link take his post.
Far away Link could see someone standing by a railing who seemed to be talking to the crowd. "Is that your so called 'queen'?" Link asked.
"Queen Mailliw, yes." Stone replied.
"Do you think she has anything on the subject of you know what?" Link asked.
Piper looked down at the wood floor. "You mean break into her nice little palace, then break into her library?" Jake asked.
"If that's what we have to do! The only question is if they even have a library." Link said.
"That sounds awesome!" Stone said getting up off of his feet. "This time we're using our magic. After we get everything, look it over, and leave, I'm never coming back to this dump! Even if they are trying to save Hyrule!"
"I'm in too, this will be awesome!" Jake said putting her hand in the center of nothing. Everyone got it though; Link put his hand on top of hers, then Stone then Regal... Piper still sat there silent.
"Come on Piper!" Link Pleaded. She still sat there. Link took his hand away and crouched down next to Piper. He hugged her but still nothing. "Piper think about this for a second. I went missing for a year! You went missing for a year! Where are we now?" Piper finally looked up at him.
"You're right... I just don't like the fact that they've both gone missing..." Piper walked over to the pile of hands sticking hers at the very top. Link did the same.
"Hyrule on three!" Regal said. "One, two three!"
"Hyrule!" Everyone screamed and ran down the stairs where Todd was standing there looking mad.
"Where do you think you're going?" Todd said with her hands on her hips. "If you think you can keep your little lie from me any longer, think again." And walked into the room with a smile on his face.
"This time we're not running!" Regal yelled holding a ball of lightning in her hand.
"That's illegal; do you want to get executed?" And said.
"After we ransack the palace here we're leaving forever." Jake explained.
Regal threw her lightning at And and he jumped. The area of wood he had been standing on lit on fire and the house began to burn down. Regal grabbed everyone and hurry out the door into the street.
"You guys run ahead, I'll catch up later!" Regal called.
"What are you doing?" Stone called back.
"I'm holding them off! Sorry about your sister!" Regal yelled.
They all ran through the endless crowd towards the castle wondering what was going to happen. The fire would definitely spread to other houses and even from where they were they could tell the palace was made of wood.
"FIRE," someone screamed, "there are people trapped in that house!"
They kept running and running until the crowd became thinner and they were standing in front of the palace. There was a black metal gate cutting people off from entering. Stone placed his hand on it and melted it until it was big enough for them to get through.
"They should rethink teaching us stuff like this." Stone laughed.
"Come on guys hurry!" Regal said bumping into Link.
"You're incredibly fast!" Jake remarked.
"So is the fire, now hurry!" Regal ran through the hole.
Regal sealed the gate shut again once everyone got through. Todd had caught up to them but stopped, there was no way in or out for her. They were perfectly safe.
"I'm telling the queen what you've done!" Todd ran off in anger.
Link looked around at everything; the door to the palace was guarded heavily. There was no obvious place in but everyone else headed in another direction. How come they seem to know exactly where they're going yet I'm stuck? Link thought. He just began following them instead.
Sure enough they did know exactly where they were going; a small opening in the wall of the palace was straight to his right. Being the tallest of the group Link had to duck his head down when entering the crack. The crack had led into a small tunnel with torches lining the walls.
Stone turned around and stopped everyone in their tracks. "My dad used to take me to the library here when he was working. Just follow me." Stone started walking away and everyone followed him just as he said.
They walked for what felt like an hour with Link constantly asking the same obnoxious question, "are we there yet?" Piper would always ask "are we almost there" and she would always get an answer. They either don't like me or they're just simply annoyed. Finally Stone opened a huge door leading to what definitely was a library.
The shelves reached so high up you couldn't even read out the names. Sliding ladders, (I had always wanted to use one of those so one of the things we first did when she took us to the real world was visit a library. We were asked to leave...) were placed at each end of the colossal book cases.
"How would you find anything here?" Link said dumbfounded.
"There should be a scanner somewhere..." Stone said.
"Hey Stone, how much information do they have here?" Piper asked. "Anything out of the ordinary?"
"I once saw a book on this place where this thing called electricity is used." Stone said. I am amazed he just said that and a few minutes ago he also asked where the scanner was sounding like it was an everyday item. Piper thought.
"I'm from there, electricity is this... Huh it's actually really hard to explain... I hope this makes enough sense to you. We used electricity to power things much like a clock. It just works in a much more complicated way." Piper explained.
"I don't get it." Jake said.
"I found the scanner!" Stone yelled. Thank you Stone for finding that, I could not have made that any more clear without a scientist. Piper thought. "Regal, hand me the insignia. I just hope the alarm doesn't sound."
"Alarm?" Piper said.
"If you're looking up something they don't want you to the alarm sounds. If you get the good librarian she doesn't do anything." Stone said.
He dropped the insignia on a small platform, it glowed for a few seconds then the insignia was gone. A short woman came walking out of a small room holding it; she had a broad smile on her face. Good librarian, right?
"So you'd like to know about the Lence family?" The woman asked.
"Of course." Stone said.
"You're lucky you got me for this. The tale of the Lences is quite dark; they were very rebellious against how they had to follow Hyrule's laws and Chancess' laws at the same time. They hated how they weren't allowed to use their magic. You're here to read though not to listen to me talk about this." The woman said.
"My family is dark and rebellious?" Piper whispered to Link.
"It's over this way." Everyone followed the woman to a dusty part of the library where it looked like it hadn't been touched for years. She ripped away a ribbon tied to the bookcases that read forbidden.
"Everything you want should be in this book case over here. I can stay and help if you'd like." The woman said. "By the way my name's Grace."
"We definitely would need help with this. Anything you think would the most helpful?" Piper said staring up at the shelves.
"The top shelf to the right should have a very thick book on Piper Lence. She married a man named Ky Lence. I'm saying too much aren't I?" Grace said.
"You're perfectly fine." Piper said. "Link do you mind retrieving the book for me?" Link nodded.
"Link, I know much about your family. You born from a strange mix up in the hero blood line. Your father was the Hero of Time, there was a little time fault and your two sisters were born thousands of years ago, you were obviously born about fourteen years ago. Although I'm just ranting on again!" Grace said.
"It's fine, now I know." Why didn't mom tell me?
Link climbed up the tall ladder passing many books with different subjects depending on the shelf. The top shelf had all the biographies including one that had no date of death and two other's death's dating yesterday.
"How do these books get so much information so fast?!" Link yelled down.
"They're charmed, once new information comes it updates immediately." Grace explained.
Link scrolled across the shelf when he found one marked Piper. He opened it and began reading the last page:
Piper currently is trying to crack the case of who her family originally was, she has sent Link up to see if he can find the book on her great, great, great grandmother.
"These books are really up to date!" Link tossed it down and Piper caught it. "There's also one on Fall Lence and she doesn't have a date of death!" Link tossed that one down too. He grabbed the one he was looking for and went back down the long ladder.
"Do you mind if I go look up my family?" Link asked.
Regal looked at him, she didn't have anything to do either. Piper had the one on Fall, Stone had the one on the first Piper, and Jake was reading the one on Piper. The one on Piper was thicker than the rest.
"Do what you want Link, we're studying." Piper said.
"I can show both of you where the sections are." Grace said seeing how Regal seemed to want to too.
Grace led them a short distance away still in the forbidden section. This one was Regal's though. Grace then led Link far away from both of the other bookcases. She dropped Link of here near a towering one where every subject had two shelves.
Link climbed his way towards the top without a ladder sitting on the small space where there were no books. Link found Din's and opened it to the last page. This could help incredibly to know what they were up to.
Din has been following Fall to where Link and Piper are staying. (See Link book seventy nine for details on what he is doing.) Din is walking across Hyrule Field drawing closer to Link and Piper.
Link was shocked, he climbed up the book shelf to the top. He jumped across the tops of the book cases until he saw Piper. "Fall is leading Din straight to us!" Link yelled waving his book in the air...
Din
"Take a left over there!" Fall pointed over to a small cave where the entrance to the village of Chancess.
"They're hiding in a cave?" I said.
"That cave leads to the village they're hiding in." Fall explained. "I'll tell you who my daughter is once we enter."
I ran inside the tunnel Daniel and Ghirahim trailing behind me. I ran out to see a huge village crowded with people. "We're here! Are you going to tell me who she is?" I asked.
Fall hesitated. "Remember we shook on this! My daughter is..." Fall got cut off.
"Fall's back!" Someone screamed. "Finally she can die for what she's done!"
In my opinion this person was annoying; I threw up a wall of fire to cut them all off. "Continue..." I said.
Fall fell silent; she could barely get it out of her mouth. "My daughter's name is Piper, the one you're looking for..." Fall tried to run but was cut off by the flames.
"Clever, I would've never thought a peasant could be so brave." I said in shock just not showing it. "Why don't you die for what you've done?"
I threw the wall of fire down and shoved Fall away then put it back up again. "I did lead you to them though! They're in this village I swear!" Fall pleaded.
Again I let the fire wall down. I walked over to the crowd watching all their scared faces staring at me. This was perfect. Daniel and Ghirahim stood at either side of me and looked out.
"I will grant the one who finds Link and Piper a reward! Remember every reward comes with a price. I promise you, you will be rich beyond compare when this is over." My trick was simple; I promised them they'd be rich so I'll do that. What don't know is they'll die right afterward.
The crowd cheered and spread out until the streets weren't as crowded for people were searching their houses. Two people though stood in the road walking towards me. One of them had jet black hair and the other had light brown hair. It was like looking at opposites.
"Shouldn't you two be looking for them?" I asked.
"We know where they are, one of the people helping them is my brother Stone." The girl with jet black hair said. (Todd.)
"If you're lying to me be aware that the last hobby I was doing was watching people get executed." I pointed out. (Yes I have to say that.)
"We heard them talking about heading to the library in the palace. We even saw them open the gate. We kind of saw them melt it." Todd said. (Was she even listening?!)
"Ok stop saying we please!" I complained. "Where's the palace?"
The one with light brown hair (And) pointed toward the wooden palace. "It's over that way. Seeing that you're on fire, you might want to know the palace is wooden." And said. I smiled.
"Thanks for the tip." I laughed.
"You're going to burn down the palace?!" Daniel said reading my mind.
"Don't do that!" Todd pleaded. "Can't we make a deal?"
"I'm done with deals, they end horribly both ways." I pushed past them heading straight for the palace.
"Meet you there." Ghirahim disappeared.
I looked back at everyone standing there staring at me. Some people are cruel and I'm one of them. "Fall, Daniel, stay here." I said.
"If you light the palace on fire Piper would die." Fall said.
Darn it, where did you go to school because you're really good at this. I glared at her. She definitely had a point. "Fine."
I began walking only to hear footsteps behind me. Turning around I saw Fall standing there innocently. "You really thought I'd fall for that?"
"Well your name is Fall... I thought with a bit of hope." I groaned. "Follow me!"
I walked towards the palace absolutely positively, (Don't make fun of me I've always wanted to say that!) annoyed by Fall. Never have I met someone as clever as I am. The only other person would be Ghirahim but I don't know if I should call him a person or a weapon. (Spoiler Alert, when Demise is resurrected a sword is pulled from Ghirahim's chest, then he just kind goes into the sword.)
Where has my cleverness gone? Why has she entered my life? Why can't she simply die? WAIT!
Pit
The rope is cutting off the blood flow to my hand. I'm not kidding! My hand is bright blue and purple, it's so numb. Viridi began screaming from the other room. Please let that be someone here to save me! She rounded a corner and stood right in front of me.
Viridi didn't say a word and began untying me without a reason. Her mouth fell open. "How did your hands get so discolored?!" She held up my hand which was purple. I couldn't move it at all. She dropped it and my hand hit the wall, my hand stung.
"Why exactly are you untying me?" I asked.
"No one knows what to do with you; we're holding a conference about it." Viridi explained tugging me along behind her.
We kept walking in silence until Dark Pit came face to face with me. I knew he was evil but I would've never expected he'd join the enemy. I stared at him for a moment; he must've gone completely mad if he was helping Viridi. Last I checked his AR Card said unaffiliated.
"Hey Dark Pit, I couldn't find the paper you were talking about." A girl entered the room and I swear Dark Pit blushed!
"I left it on the on the table..." Dark Pit said. "It's in the, the, the..." Dark Pit blanked... I've never seen him so happy... The only time he smiles is if someone gets hurt. Specifically me... (If you asked Emily why he was her friend before all of this she would reply, "I have absolutely no idea but in some ways he's nice!" Yeah some ways.)
"Dark Pit, where is the paper already!" The girl was beginning to get agitated.
"Sorry May, just blanked for a moment... It's on the table covered in books about plants, the only thing to read here." Dark Pit said leading May away.
I pointed in the direction they had just left with my mouth open then looked over at Viridi. "My best guess is Dark Pit has a crush on her." Viridi said. "Who knew someone as soul less as Dark Pit could fall in love..." Viridi held her hand to her cheek looking zoned out but still alert.
"I thought you were always cruel and mean but I guess you have a soft side towards love." I said.
"Where did you get the impression I was cruel and mean?" Viridi questioned.
"You threw giant Reset Bombs at the humans and waged war on the Underworld just because they were simply annoying." I pointed out. There were a lot more reasons it would just take too long to name all of them.
"We're almost at the conference room can't you just shut up so I don't have to hear you talk for bonus two minutes until you're gone?" Viridi said.
I stopped talking, she could go on forever if you yourself kept going. We walked silently through the halls of Viridi's palace. Each door we passed felt like a mile each, she was moving slowly, like she was trying to be cautious.
We entered the big room where, when Palutena had been possessed, I prepared for my numerous missions. (Really only about two.) Viridi stood at her doorway and looked down. Then it hit me, hard. "You're going to throw me off the edge aren't you?!" I yelled shocked. It was bad enough people taunted me all the time with the fact that I can't fly by myself, now that was the specific reason I would die... Great...
"We already had the conference, death by... Well Arlon said walking the plank but I don't know what to call it." Viridi said shoving me closer and closer to the edge.
"You're not really going to do this right? I mean we were friends right? RIGHT!" I screamed horrified.
"Yeah we were friends, duh!" With a final push Viridi shoved me off the end.
I was petrified... Everything was growing smaller and smaller the closer I came to hitting the ground... I expected something to save me, something... But this isn't a game anymore, it's life and life doesn't have to keep you alive because it planned it that way so the story could keep going. It ends whenever you end...
The ground came into view and like it was right in front of me I hit the ground... But I swear I could hear something, it wasn't a hallucination I saw something... It looked like a sword, then a necklace and then my crown... Piper's necklace... Finally I heard a quiet voice whisper something I couldn't hear. I really hope it wasn't important...