Chapter 5
Jasper, Mina, Sydonna, Tindu and Amane were atop one of the castle towers. They climbed up here after feeling a battle coming their way. They looked to the sky, waiting for something to break through the night sky. Below, their family and citizens mumble and stare along with them.
They knew something was coming, time felt slow and unmoving as they waited, when the ship broke through the sky. The ship was about the size of Hyrule itself, lights began to brighten the sky and shafts on the ship started opening as if letting something out.
" Is it releasing something?" Asked Sydonna. " Those somethings are many, we have to get everyone to safety," Jasper replied loudly as he started scaling down the tower.
People on the ground saw them running and started panicking. " Guards ready yourselves and get these people to safety," ordered Zelda.
Guards started flushing people towards the castle, grabbing stray children as they go. As the teens continued scaling down, metal objects bigger than them flew right past them and landing on the ground below. They stopped in their tracks as they watched the metal open and out came three large creatures. Each one had different features, one black and glowing red and the other three looked like trees out the ground.
The creatures started attacking the people and guards, Riju's guard and some other Gerudo soldiers followed her, fighting off the enemy. More of those metal containers landed to the ground and released creatures onto the people.
Sidon and Link were fighting some, Zelda was trying her best with some of the guards, Paka and Riju were working with Paya and some other sheikah to hold off the attackers.
" We have to get down there," said Amane, they all nodded and continued to rush down and join in the fight. A monster looked up to see them coming and threw something that looked like a disc their way, they didn't see it in time to fully dodge, " Watch out, get out the way!" Tindu screamed, they all jumped but the sudden object made them all loose their footing and tumble the rest of the way down, the disc came into contact with Amane and Tindu, throwing them a bit further.
Jasper tried to get up as he felt a pain shoot through his arm. It was in an awkward position at the shoulder, so he knew it got dislocated. Sydonna ran up to him and placed her hands over his shoulder and began healing.
She's never practiced on bigger wounds so this drained a bit of energy out of her. She tumbled down a bit to get rid of the fuzziness. Mina ran back to the stage where they performed and grabbed her bow and rifle heading into the fight. When Tindu and Amane got their bearings and watch Mina run into the fight, they did the same with Jasper and Sydonna to get their weapons.
The fight lasted for what felt like hours, when fifthteen other metal containers dropped to the ground and revealed their passengers. " Oh dear Hylia they're damn massive." Said Sydonna.
And they were, towering over Sidon by probably another five feet. Everyone stopped fighting and running as they watched the invaders walk towards the teens.
Jasper took a running start ready to attack the biggest he assumed was the leader, his weapon didn't even touch him when he was thrown backwards.
" Hashedar are these four the ones from you visions?" Asked the leader. " Yes Torlon, it is them. Pretty puny for someone the princess sent help to. Either way, with the power of those guards of hers they can pose a threat to us." Replied the one named Hashedar.
Torlon leaned down upon them, to get a closer look. He grabbed Sydonna by her hair and raised her off the ground. The others tried to grab for her, but another invader forced them down. Her father also tried to get to her, but one of the previous creatures threw disc like object at him.
" I can sense the presence of their souls on you. Tell me where are you hiding them?" He demanded. She spit on him and replied, " Like hell I'll tell someone like you."
He pulled his free arm back and landed a punch right in her stomach, clenching her fist into his arm and gasping from the contact. " Let my child go you bastard!" Yelled Kyra.
The one named Hashedar looked in Kyra's direction and raised her arm up, shooting a projectile her way. One of the guards jumped in front of her to take the hit and she fell clutching her chest until she went limp in Kyra's arms.
" Liza, can you create a wall between us and them, so we won't have no disturbances?" Asked Torlon.
" Yes sir," Liza responded and proceeded to create a wall made from trees.
" What do you want," Asked Amane. " I'm not here for you that's for sure. I came for these four. Now we can make this easy. I'll let all of your pitiful people free if you surrender and come with us. Or we can kill someone you love until you do."
They stiffened at his proposal, when they heard a voice from the other side of the wall scream, " Let our kids go you monsters!" The voice belonged to Link and they can also hear Sidon and Paka swing at the wall.
" What nuisances, Liza you remember the woman that one person protected, from what it looks like she's carrying child. Can you please retrieve her." Torlon commanded. And with a big smile on her face she opened part of the wall and created another branch to grab for Kyra, Sidon tried to grab her hand, but the wall closed in front of him. They can hear him crying loudly on the other side of the wall.
" Let my mother go, she's carrying my siblings! Please don't hurt her." Sydonna cried. " Oh I won't unless you surrender to me." Said Torlon.
" Sydonna baby, please don't do it. I know what you're thinking, but you don't know what he will do if you let him have his way." Kyra explained. With a tilt of Torlon's head, Liza let the branch squeeze harder around Kyra's body. She screamed in pain and Sidon's cries were louder on the other side as he pleaded for his wife to be let go.
" NO PLEASE!" Sydonna begged. " Please don't hurt my aunt," Mina said.
" Well what will it be then?" He said with smirky grin.
They all looked at each other in silence, everyone knowing the answer to that question. They looked to him and nodded their heads, Torlon ordered Liza to rid the wall and free the Kyra. Sidon ran to his wife, holding her tightly to him. He then looked at his daughter and niece and nephews with worry.
The attire they transformed to disappeared and they were back in their regular clothing. Sydonna ran to her parents and wrapped them in a hug without saying anything. Jasper and Mina did the same for their parents and Tindu did for his mother and grandmother. They walked back and they all turned to Amane, Jasper placed bother hands on either shoulder and spoke to him, " Amane, I know this may seem hard to comprehend right now. But there's something we need you to do." Amane's lip started to quiver and tears weld up in his eyes.
" We know some of them have done all of us wrong, but we need you to protect them at all costs. Can we trust you to do that?" Jasper asked. Amane looked to the crowd and back at them, " What will you do. Will you come back, please tell me you'll come back," Amane said with running eyes.
Without being able to conjure up words, Jasper put him into a hug along with everyone else. They finished their hug and turned to Torlon and looked up to him. " Will you please not hurt anyone?" Asked Tindu.
It was words they heard being spoken, the cries of their family being the last emotion shown and the faces of the people and their family around them showing everything that was making this even harder.
" Please wake up. Come on you guys, you have to." There was an unknown voice and the sound of beeping. Little feet clanking along the floor and sounds of stuff being shuffled around.
" Oh come on. What can I do? Tindu is the expert in all this." Tindu's eyes started to open and despite the blurriness, he can spot a hint of red and black. When the figure turned around, he saw a mask with the reversed sheikah eye and that immediately got his attention.
" Holy hell Tindu, you're awake!" Exclaimed the Amane. " Amane, what are you doing here and where is here?" Asked Tindu, he looked around the room he was in. It was heavily dark with a lot of red and green luminescent lights. To his right Sydonna, Mina and Jasper were sleeping in their own chambers.
He stepped out of his barely having any balance before Amane helped him steady him. " Amane, is this the ship from earlier?" He asked still a bit groggy.
" Maybe worry about that after you get some clothes on you." Amane replied as he blushed. Tindu looked down and saw he was only wearing loin cloth.
" Where are my clothes?"
" Don't ask me, I haven't been able to look everywhere. It's been probably a week and I still feel like I never even gotten half way." Said Amane.
" Wait, wait, wait. Did you just say a week?" Tindu was shocked about the statement. " Yeah, well according to the clock on my slate. Let me tell you being on here for that long was not easy, especially with food and drink. I rather not go into detail on what I survived on. But we have to get the others out."
Amane and Tindu worked through the foreign machines and systems, it took a lot of error codes and deactivating them before the system could alert anyone before they found a way to wake them. They were given a sedative through the machine that kept them asleep. " Well now I understand how I was able to get you up. There's a different machine for each of you." Said Amane.
" Ugh… why do I feel like I got a hangover?" Said Jasper. " You would know what a hangover felt like," replied Mina. " Shut up."
" The real question is, is where are we and why are we nearly naked?" Sydonna asked as she examined herself and her surroundings.
" At least we get more coverage than the guys," commented Mina. " Amane, what are you doing here. I believe I told you to stay in Hyrule." Jasper said as he was stumbling to get his bearings.
Amane and Tindu walked up to them, making sure they were doing alright. " You did, but I couldn't stay knowing you four could be in real trouble and plus your parents told me to board the ship," Amane checked everyone's vitals and pupils for any abnormalities. " At this moment we need to get out of here before the regular patrol comes in to find you missing."
" How long have we been asleep?" Asked Jasper and Tindu replied. " Apparently a week or from what Amane was able to get from his slate's clock. Were you able to get anything from back home?"
Amane had a look of concern on his face and they all knew it wasn't going to be something they would like. " I was able to steal everyone's slates before I boarded the ship and used it to contact your parents. But the connection was cut off before we left the planet. And you won't like this, I overheard the leader talk to his partners about trapping the lands. There were fourteen pods leaving along with three strange pillars. Before I knew it, the different parts of the countries were attacked," Amane snapped his fingers to explain how fast everything happened, " like that. It was crazy."
They all looked distraught by the news and, " We have to go now. Hylia knows what happened to our families and people." Said Jasper.
Without any protest they all left the room they awoken behind. Hoping to find their equipment and a way out. Amane has kept their slates in a closet like room he used as a hiding spot. Tindu used his to unlock a few doors that showed interest, unfortunately they didn't find their clothes, but something that would do. " What the hell is that?" Asked Sydonna.
Tindu walked to it and plugged his slate in to scan the system. " It seems to be a micro transaction station for suits. I guess we just stand in these pods and we get clothes."
" It's better than running around in this. Seriously I'm freezing my butt off in here, like what is the temperature in this place?" Commented Jasper. " How about you go in first, so I can figure out how to do it. And when you're done I get in and tell you how to work it for me."
They all agreed with him and stood in each pod. When he finally got the inner workings he turned it on. There were blue lights illuminating the room, until there was a hissing sound coming from the pods as it opened.
Sydonna, Mina and Jasper were now wearing tight full body suits, that had glowing red stripes along the sides, across the chest and the rest of the suit was a dark green. " And this does not feel good around my man bits, your turn Tin." Commanded Jasper. He walked into a pod and gave instructions to Amane on how to use it. He walked out of the pod trying to stretch out the part around his crotch area like Jasper. " You're right this is really uncomfortable. Now the next thing is to find those instruments."
" No worries, even though I haven't explored much. The one's who were carrying them I followed and retrieved them myself. It's the only thing that wasn't really guarded, I guess they didn't think you four would escape. Follow me, I'll show them where I left them." Amane ran out the room and headed right. The others followed him. There were a lot of patrol guards walking around and they nearly got caught from either not hiding in time or making a noise.
They came upon a door, that on their best luck was locked. " This wasn't locked before, I hope they were onto someone sneaking around." Amane thought out loud. " They maybe checked on the instruments and realized it than. So how are we going to get it opened?" Asked Mina.
Tindu looked around the room and spotted a switch higher up. He pointed to it, looked down to see there was no way of getting up. They thought about what they could do and it hit Amane, " Use your tower, it looks like you can get up there that way. Jasper and Sy can boost Mina and you up and Mina can help you reach the switch."
Jasper made a mental visual and he agreed, he walked up to the wall and crouched down. Motioning for Sydonna to climb him first, then Mina and then Tindu. Once everyone was situated on each other's shoulders, he stood up straight enough for Tindu to grab the ledge. Once he was up he helped Mina climb on and he piggy backed onto her to reach the switch.
The door opened as Tindu and Mina climbed down completely and they proceeded down the hall. They stopped at the end of the hall and Amane grabbed onto a latch that opened a vent system. In there were their instruments, Amane grabbed each one to hand to them.
Jasper's instrument that was holding the spirit of Klerin spoke to his holder, " I am so happy to see you all alive and well."
Minlakkae Tindu's guide spoke up next with a lot more worry and command, " We must get out of here. There's no time to waste, your homes are in danger and if we don't stop his followers and him soon, than it won't just be your planet. It'll be the whole galaxy."
" I'm worried about the princess. Her powers are draining quickly as we know it." Said Enmi Mina's guide. " We have to get to where she's being held, so she can send us back. She said she'll get us as close as she can, other than that we're on our own." Added Yuklan Sydonna's guide.
" But where could she be, I haven't been able to look around this place for a whole week." Said Amane.
" Well it may feel like a week to you, but it has been about a month. Here in space, it's been about four on your planet." Said Yuklan Sydonna's guide.
Sydonna, Mina, Jasper, Tindu and Amane looked at each other in surprise. If it's been about four months back at home, the thought of what could have happened in that time was scaring them.
Tindu in a panicked voice said, " We have to get back home fast. Something terrible could have happened to our families."
" He's right. My mom probably had my siblings and whatever dropped on each country could… oh my Hylia," Sydonna began to panick as well.
" Who's there?" A voice bellowed down the hall. " We must hurry, through this vent. I'll set a guide to where the princess is being kept. Get in quickly now." Said Minlakkae.
They all crawled into the vent one at a time and with the guide they maneuvered through the vent.
The tunnels were pretty dark with the little light coming from the rooms they passed up. " Looks like an infirmary." Mentioned Mina. " Well not exactly, I suggest you don't look down."
Even with warning they all looked as they passed it up and the sight was not something that should happen. There was a creature laying on a table with all his guts splayed out, surgical tools on a table and some other's cutting out whatever organs it had. " That thing's blood was an oozy blue… ew," Amane shuddered from his own comment.
" Hey can you walk up and get your butt out my face," yelled Jasper. Sydonna turned to him and commented back, " How about you get your face out my butt perv?" She turned back around to continue crawling.
" Why don't you two love birds wait til after we get out of here." Tindu said with a huff of agitation. " We're not lovers!" They both screamed and alerted the aliens below them. " And your big mouths just decreased our chances of getting out of here. Come on crawl faster." Mina said with a growl.
So much for being quiet, their hands and knees banged against the vent as they crawled. The guide ended at grate in the vent. There was a room right below them and with the right angle Mina could see the princess trapped in a chamber. " What's the hold up sis, it's getting hotter in here!"
" Jasper be careful it feels loose…."
" Aaaah!" They all screamed as they fell through the vent floor. " That hurt really bad. I told you to be careful." Mina said while rubbing her head.
" Sorry, it was just really hot in there."
Mina let out a sigh and turned her attention to the princess in the chamber. She stood up and walked towards her with Sydonna right behind. " She's pretty." Said Sydonna.
Tindu, Amane and Jasper joined them as they marveled at the sleeping woman in the chamber. They jumped back when her eyes shot opened and looked down on them. " You were able to bring them here. Job well done as expected from my best guards." She said.
" I don't have any words about this situation," Said Jasper. " Good because there's no time for me to explain even a little. You'll have to learn from my guards that I have transferred to their instruments. From what I was able to tell, you alerted the ship and they're probably coming this way." They looked towards the door behind them, in the distance there are footsteps. Turning back to see a concentrated look on the princess' face, she looked back down to them. " Quickly, everyone hold hands. My power is waning, so the closest I can take you is the country of Japo. I'm sorry I can't put you closer." The princess explained.
They all held hands the moment Torlon and some of his henchmen burst through the door trying to run for them. The princess used her powers and surrounded the group in light, " Emerald please hold on," Enmi said before they all were transported out the ship.
The group reappeared in the sky right above Japo falling at full speed. " Holy hell this is too high for comfort!" Screamed Sydonna. " Here's hope that the water we're above is an ocean and we get the deepest part of it." Pointed out Mina.
There indeed was a body of water below them. They prepared for the impact as the wind slapped them in their faces. A bug of some kind going right into Jasper's mouth too fast and he ends up swallowing it.
No one was able to hold back their lives from his misfortune. The surface of the ocean came too fast that neither of them were able to ready themselves in time. Sydonna being the one who had to pull all them up before they drowned.
They broke the to the surface of the water with long deep breaths and a few coughs. " That didn't go as planned." Coughed out Tindu.
" Woah, look at that thing, it's freaking tall!" Exclaimed Amane. The others looked towards the land and saw one of the pillars that Amane mentioned was dropped on the lands. Around it at great distance were lights going towards it. They looked up and around them was a barrier blocking the country in. " We should get to land and see what's going on here," said Mina. " How? All of us can't sit on Sy. And none of us can't swim that far or that long," explained Tindu.
" Maybe I can bring us all over there. I don't necessarily need my arms to swim. Amane and Tin can sit on my back and you two can each grab an arm." Sydonna explained. Mina was a bit worried by the idea when she asked, " You think that would work?"
Sydonna stared up at the sky thinking, " We'll just have to see. Better than leaving and coming back for everyone."
No one disagreed, they managed to get to land. Poor Sydonna did herself in with that idea. Swimming with four other people holding on was a lot more tiring than she thought.
" I don't know how, but we managed to make it." Jasper heavily breathed out. Is legs were hurting a bit from helping Sydonna and Mina kick them to shore. Some people ran from further on land, they were dressed in calf length pants and short sleeved shirts and covered in dirt.
Their voices were muffled as the group started losing consciousness.