Chapter 12: Chess
The first time that we had been at future Link's house (which he preferred to call an 'apartment'), slave Link and I refused to poke around much. After all, it was his home and despite the three of us being one and the same, slave Link and I couldn't help but feel like we were guests, if anything. This time, however, curiosity got the better of me and I couldn't help but poke around a little bit. Honestly, he didn't actually have that much because he barely had any money. He supposedly had no money because he couldn't hold a job with employers that didn't know our story and he got what money that he did have from Zelda because she knew... and she was rich, what with being the princess and all. so, imagine my surprise when I discovered a chess board and a bunch of pieces sitting in one of his closets.
It took very little effort to get slave Link's attention, so I just presented it straight to future Link and slave Link paid attention. When I did, though, he looked mildly surprised and he simply stated that his parents had given it to him. When I asked if we could use it, he claimed that if I knew how to play, then it would be much simpler than watching a movie. At that, I immediately started setting it up only to find that there were missing pieces. Thus, the hunt was on!
Five hours of searching lead us to finally have all of the pieces in hand. All throughout the search, though, future Link sat in a single chair, staring at some sort of a glowing box that had seemed eerily familiar. It wasn't until much later that I realized that the glowing box looked a lot like the proverbial face of the 'robot' that the three of us had fought when we were trying to get the thread of courage way back when. I asked future Link about it and slave Link joined me in doing so. However, he told us that it was not a robot, but a 'computer' (whatever the heck that was).
After a sigh, he told both slave Link and me what a 'computer' basically was (which still blew my mind) and he downright ORDERED us not to touch it because it was supposedly very fragile. I almost wanted to call bullshit on the fragile part, but I didn't when I saw the glowing part change to reveal a whole bunch of convoluted crap that future Link dealt with like it was no problem whatsoever. It was at that point that I realized that he often tried to simplify a lot of the things that he understood and even then, it still confused slave Link and me. Honestly, I had no idea of what most of the stuff he actually understood was and I knew that I wasn't too keen on finding out. After that, I just figured that it was best to stick with the more simple things that I knew how to deal with, like playing chess.
Unfortunately, slave Link had no idea of how to do so and future Link had to step in to help me teach him. By the end of it, I could tell that he was very tired of explaining things. Frankly, though, I didn't blame him. However, there had been something nagging at the back of my mind for a while then and that was that fact that future Link seemed like he actually had a family, unlike slave Link and me. When I mentioned it to him and I asked why he wasn't with them, he looked at me and told me that there was no way that he could tell ANY of them about what was actually going on because they would try to help and get themselves killed in the process. I honestly didn't know how to respond to that, so all I did was agree and it seemed as though slave Link went through the exact same thought process as well.
Then again, it couldn't be that bad, could it?
Okay, yeah, these ones ARE short and they're kinda filler in order to make room for what happens next, so please don't hate me for it. *sweatdrop* However, I can absolutely promise you all that the next three are some of the best, so stay tuned for next week! :D