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Chapter 9

Link followed closely beside him he was pretty sure they had good intentions, but just in case they weren't, he could easily deal with the extremely tall man.

The man looked slightly down on him. "So, we are on our way, start talking."

"This still isn't the best place…" he started. He was hoping to be on horses before he started his tale, but it was a good time to start nonetheless. "But, I did say I would. Look, I don't know who this Regan is to you, but there are certain parts of Hyrule right now that are a little dangerous."

"How dangerous? Like regular monsters or abundant boss ones."

"Both, and sometimes in hordes. If you said she was injured and she ended up alone; it's possible even with all the knowledge of this place she has won't help her." He didn't want to make it so blunt at the fact that she might be dead, but his sugar was out of his coating part to his filter.

"Places like where?"

"Any place that doesn't have a spring so, that eliminates here as one of the four spots. There are two more in Faron and Ordon Province respectively in the south and another in the west in Kakariko Village. If she landed someplace on Death Mountain, the Gorons may have helped her get to a hot spring, that is if she appeared where a Goron would be."

"What the hell is a hot spring going to do for a gunshot victim?"

"It's a magic spring, so a lot." Link explained. He was slowly losing his impatience with the man. They were now having a two-way conversation, not going down the wrong way on a one-way street. "If she landed in the Zora's Domain, they might have already sent her to Castle Town for treatment by a human doctor and in that case potions would be administered." Seto looked extremely concerned for a split second. "No, they won't kill her. They work very well."

"How well?" Seto was awfully uninformed about everything.

"Like being stabbed though the chest by a giant snake's tail and it mending bones, muscle and skin tissue well." He replied giving his best example he had with the horrible tasting drinks.

"Sounds like it hurt." Pharaoh stated apparently catching on the personal experience.

"My body went into shock at the time, so it hurt for a tiny but, lucky for me, I had a friend that gave me several potions. Which was great, until I was stabbed, again, apparently."

"Bad day?"

Link nodded. "Bad day."

"So the potions can deal with bullet wounds?"

"Yes, but if she landed in Snow Peak, Hyrule Field or Gerudo Desert, she's probably not going to make it unless someone finds her first." He stated adding a bit of warning into his tone, he apparently still had that function which was nice. "But even then, not everyone that could come across her are good."

"Who else would find her?"

"On to the second problem she's not aware of." He stated as they reached the top of the long climb to the horses. He looked at the horses to the number of passengers and he sighed silently, looked like they were going to have to share-

"Get on before I change my mind." Seto interrupted his thoughts. Link turned to the taller man and realized he wasn't talking to him. The messy haired man climbed up the dragon with the unconscious woman with ease once it lowered itself to the ground. Link was about to turn to get on Epona and realized she wasn't where she had been a few second before. He looked around and find her nose butting Seto's head. Link held back a laugh as the man turned around with surprise. Epona wasn't helping him keep himself together as she attempted to eat Seto's hair. His assumptions were right on the rupee, if Epona liked the brown hair brute, then he wasn't so much of a brute after all.

"You put on a brute act," Zelda said softly which Link thought he saw her trying to hold back a laugh as she climbed on her horse. "But Epona knows you're a good person deep down."

"That might be pushing it." The man responded rubbing Epona's nose and Link rubbed her side trying to get her to stop bugging. "Go away."

Epona snorted and left Link's side brushing against Seto and shoved him aside taking him off-balance.

"God damn horse…"

"Take it as a compliment." Link told him feeling proud of himself for not laughing at Epona's antics as he got on her back. "There are very few people she actually likes."

"And you just happen to be one of them," Pharaoh called from on top of the dragon.

"You can walk if you want!" Seto called back and the other man disappeared chuckling. Link watched Seto swiftly walk onto his dragon's clawed hand. The man was downright regal, but his mannerism said business, though, Link guessed there could have been some bastard lords out there, Ganondorf and Zant were good examples of that. Whatever the case was, both of the men were regal like, Pharaoh more so of the two since he was actually royalty of some sort. Whatever their past was, he was probably going to hear about it eventually if their paths were the same. "So, what are these other problems."

Link was about to answer when they got to the bridge and the dragon flew passed obviously not fitting on it. The dragon joined back with them only to have to fly above them due to the high cliff sides. Link was getting tired of waiting and he could tell Seto's patience, if the man had any, was gone.

"What other problems are there that a fanatic wouldn't know about?"

"A few extra characters," Link started finally able to make sure they weren't going to separate so he didn't have to repeat himself. "These… creatures are not in the history that she would know."

"Just say it and I'll let you know whether or not she would know."

He sighed, "I'm not sure how familiar you are with how the dimensions work, but this one is parallel to yours, and I'm going to presume several others. This world used to be the same as yours before the goddess Hylia with the help of a second goddess, Themis, separated them to save the world from utter destruction."

"She would be familiar with both goddesses, but I don't see where you going with this."

"The two worlds had an evil that together would take hold the Triforce, the power of the gods, to create a hellish world and possibly rule not only this world, but several others. Themis sacrificed her divinity to keeping your world safe by fusing with a mortal who was in line for becoming the Hero of Themis at the time. The creature that was brought back to your world was a human who fell in love with the demon king, Demise, and became known as Leviathan."

"That is conflicting considering a little over a year ago, I helped destroy Leviathan."

"It's possible that your world had a creature of its own that was named after her." Zelda told him. "Leviathan of this story was a mortal named, Kalysta. She was sealed inside a pyramid and used as an energy source for a city named Atlantis. Once the city was destroyed, it was a matter of time before Kalysta would regain her energy to be able to break out of her prison. Whatever creature it was you killed in your world was from your world alone, Kalysta is from both and probably a lot older and a lot stronger."

"Alright," Pharaoh started slightly scaring Link as he looked up to the voice and saw the man sitting on the dragon's shoulder. "So the Leviathan creature we killed, was not the original… is it possible it was a manifestation of Kalysta?"

"More than likely," She continued. "The city was a magically protected city of the gods, only something of equal or stronger than the gods of your world would have been able to destroy it when the city was at its weakest. Since Themis was waiting to be reborn again when the creature was born, she would have not been able to defend against it."

Seto looked up at Pharaoh and Link watched a silent conversation take place before he turned back to Zelda. "So this Kalysta, Leviathan, is running around? Where is she now so we can get rid of her."

Link was taken aback at his proposal. He wasn't expecting the two strangers to want to get their hands in Hyrule's affairs.

"It's not that simple."

"She's a giant serpent, a world eater; how can you not know where she is?"

"She has a Hylian form, a human form and a serpent form. She was able to open rifts between our two worlds and move about them. She could be anywhere at this point."

"Well isn't that lovely."

"The good news though is that she was spotted earlier today terrorizing a bar." Link decided to add, though he wasn't sure why Seto thought it would be so easy to find her. "So that means she is probably going into her plan."

"And this is good because?" Pharaoh asked.

"We have an idea on who she's looking for meaning she will hopefully be leaving your companions alone for the moment."

"Good, now what's the catch?"

They've obviously been playing the save the world game before. Link rolled his shoulders. "There's a demon running around trying to merge the two worlds together."

"Is he working for anyone?"

"Not that we are aware of… he's been here since the beginning, before the worlds were separated. Why do you ask?"

"We have a demon of our own." Seto decided to answer after a moment of silence. "One that I have a feeling will be coming to visit once he realizes his crush is missing."

"You guys have one of those too?" Link said flatly, he was getting real tired of just the one, but it turned out there were more like him. What happened to the old fashion sealed demons in graveyards were they were dead set on murdering him? "What is with demons these days?"

"What do you mean?" the spikey haired man questioned.

"The demon that has been pulling all the strings is an incubus, that according to your language, has leveled up."

"That doesn't sound good considering incubi and succubae are considered the weakest of demons in our world."

"He has this thought in his head that he wants to get together with Electra, a girl from your world… his obsession brought forth other things like the awakening of Leviathan and now the two worlds slowly combining as well as the revival of Demise." He replied more aggressive than he would have liked.

Seto picked up on his tone. "You sounds pretty pissed, considering."

"Well, you probably would be too if an evil version of yourself was traveling around with your travel companion and a lustful sorcerer was trying to take your gi-" Link stopped himself to correctly say what he wanted to say. He felt embarrassed for his brain to even start saying girlfriend. It was Delilah's fault. If Zelda asked about it later, that was the story he was sticking to. "Your queen. The point is, Dean has done enough damage and so far we can't find any weaknesses to him. Electra has tried shooting him, he stopped the bullets in the air. He's been blown up, turned an innocent baby dragon into an adult monster and he can go between our worlds and transform into someone else. I don't know if he can actually shapeshift into other people though. If he could it wouldn't surprise me."

"This incubus sounds annoying, but have you not figure his shapeshifting techniques, he must have appeared in other places?"

"We've only witnessed one form, a geeky computer genius, very large. We only know of this form from a nightmare."

"A nightmare?"

"It was a projection of what Dark Link was watching." Zelda told them before Link could giving him a small breather. They were asking a lot more questions that Link thought they were going to.

"So… this Dark Link is your evil half?" Pharaoh asked like he was trying to understand the situation.

"He is his own person; he just has all the knowledge and experience of every lifetime I've had." Link explained, he could practically feel the bastard watching over his shoulder like a bug. His head started to hurt. "He was just a shadow, but until recently, that has changed."

"So he's mortal too." Seto concluded.

"Unfortunately, and as much as I would like to be rid of him as much as he wants me dead, Hyrule and Earth have a better chance of surviving with his cooperation." He almost stabbed himself for actually saying that out loud. But it was true nonetheless.

The tall man laughed like it was joke of the week. Apparently he had experience with dark halves before. "You think he's going to help you?"

"He's got someone to look after and has been doing so for a while, so yes when push comes to shove. He's not immune as he would like to think." Zelda stated. "He is a required sacrifice for Leviathan's plan for Demise's resurrection. I'm certain that his mortal being is allowing him to understand how people feel and not pure rage, pain and murder."

"What he is, is an idiot." Link growled. He very much disagreed on the subject. Dark Link might have been growing soft, but he seriously doubted that the shadow would ever understand how it felt to really feel anything other than rage and bloodlust. "And a murdering bastard that has no kind emotions left. He is a broken puppet with no puppeteer."

"And yet you are letting him take care of someone?" Pharaoh questioned and Link regretted not holding back his temper. "Someone that seems rather important to you."

"It wasn't my decision… She made it and…"

"You can't face her because of an incident."

"No, I can't. The one good thing about having someone follow up on you every three seconds is that they know about the guilt, and they can feel it."

"So you are influencing him to do what you can't?"

"Yes... I suppose… but I think it's of his own choice to do what he is doing. Something happened that night when he became mortal… definitely more of a … how do you say this… a bit of a bitch is what you would say." Link answered pleased that he found a word that they would understand without him going into detail. Though, until now he thought that Dark Link was really acting on his own. Now he wasn't so sure. Was Link really influencing his shadow so easily? "It doesn't matter, as soon as this is all over, he is going to try and kill me and I won't hesitate to finish him."

"So Dark Link is the lustful one?" Seto asked cautiously.

"No, the fourth player is. Vaati, he's the one that is lustful. Several girls have gone missing and found later on, but he's been going after mostly Hylian over human so you shouldn't be worried."

"I'm still worried, Regan has a certain… charm to her that draws in unwanted attention. So what are the odds of this Dean and Vaati finding her?"

"Extremely high if they know about her." Zelda replied. "But as of now, someone sent a monster to you so they know about your arrival, but I don't know if they were watching what your potential could be."

"Perfect…"

Whatever surprises that these two men had, it was long gone now most likely.