Chapter 11

They turned down the alleyway into Telma's courtyard and down the stairs. Link reached the bottom of the stairs and was about to tell Seto and Pharaoh that they were almost at the bar when the door slammed open. Link watched a twelve-year-old girl from the bar sprint at full speed and leaped into Seto's chest. Link was surprised at the tall man's reflexes as he caught her and he returned the hug she gave. He smiled, it was nice to see that they were reunited, and that Seto had the ability to show affection.

"You're okay!" the brunette with blonde streaks exclaimed though it sounded like she was about to cry. He took notice that her white and blue jacket and skirt had blood stains on them. He looked up at the girl and noticed that she did look pale, but he didn't know if it was normal or a lack of blood. He narrowed his eyes as he saw that she had red on the tips a lot like Pharaoh had which made him question who she was really related to.

"Of course I am," Seto told her softer than Link thought possible. The girl removed her face from his chest and Link could see that her green eyes were holding back tears. "Why ever did you think I wasn't?"

"Oh I don't know, monsters, a bunch of powerful magic demon dudes running around," she started off softly listing them on her fingers before looking up furiously. "Or how about the fact that we traveled to a goddamn different dimension using shadow magic and I thought you were killed because you never use it!"

Link winced, she was a tiny child with a loud presence. He was happy he wasn't on the other end of her sharp tongue. Though as he thought about it, she looked a lot like Zelda in some of the pictures of her as a child that he had seen in the castle. The thought freaked him out.

"Takes a little more than that to kill me." Seto replied and Link gave him a look of disbelief. What the world did these people go through before showing up in Hyrule?

"Like what? A moon falling on your face?"

"Like a moon falling on my face, but even then."

"You are impossible! What the hell took you so long to get here?!"

"I'm glad that we found one of their companions." Zelda said softly next to him as Seto was explaining his absence.

Link nodded. "So am I. Unfortunately, they said companions, meaning there is at least one more missing. Hopefully, they aren't too far and still alive."

"Oh!" the girl exclaimed drawing in his attention. "Right!"

"Because you can just forget being shot…" Seto muttered.

"At this rate I might as well be 50 Cent," she replied rolling her eyes. "I'm fine, just a flesh wound… speaking of the witch, where is she so I can burn her?"

"That seems excessive… She's unconscious in the dungeon… what's wrong?"

The girl looked down and Seto lifted her head and tears fell. Link clenched his jaw for the worse. Seto didn't seem like one to worry, not that he could say much as he just met him, but for the tall man to say something was excessive…

"Yugi and Ryou aren't with you meaning they are still out there, or dead… and… and…"

"And what?"

The girl turned to Pharaoh. "I… I haven't been able to contact Nile since I arrived… I'm sorry. S-She's not in the puzzle!"

The girl broke down and the tall man stroked the girl's hair. "It's alright; I'm sure it's just the journey…"

"I would still be able to sense her! I'm sorry, Atem, I should have… I should have done something so we weren't here!"

"Regan…" Atem, Pharaoh, whatever his name was, started. Link didn't know who Nile was, but she seemed important to the shorter man. He heard him swallow. "None of this is your fault and I'm sure she's fine. I know it and so are Yugi and Bakura."

Was it for her sake, or for his own that he was saying that out loud… the girl nodded and let Seto go. She seemed to calm herself a little bit as she wiped her face. "I hope so too…"

There was silence between them and he shivered at the temperature dropping. "We should probably head inside; the temperature is starting to drop."

Regan snapped her head in their direction her eyes going from green to blue then back to green so fast he almost didn't catch it. He was suddenly very curious on what kind of magic she was using that changed her eye color, but it wasn't the time to ask. Though, he should have said something earlier about them existing, but he also didn't want to break up their reunion, as sad as it was.

"Is that…" the girl started and Link suddenly really felt like he was on the spot like when he came out of the STAR Game and girls were always waiting for him. It made him uneased at the thought. "Oh my…"

"Yes, that is Link and Zelda… Regan…" Seto started.

Regan cleared her throat and her demeanor changed entirely which made him question if she was a child at all. "My apologies for not noticing you earlier, it's been a long day. My name is Regan and I'm Seto's sister. I also apologize for my brother's exploding ego and rudeness. I appreciate you bringing him here with Atem, your highness, Link."

"You don't need to apologize you were worried for your brother." Link started as he felt embarrassed about the modesty he was given. This girl was strange going from a messy bundle of worry to a regal stance to fit her audience. How were Seto and her even related? They looked alike for the most part, but they couldn't have been more different.

"You can call me Zelda, Regan." Zelda told her. "As for your brother, he was not as bad as you would like to believe."

"Yes he was, she's just being nice." Atem, that was what he was going to call him instead of Pharaoh, muttered and Seto turned to what Link presumed to glare at the smaller man. "You don't scare me; no one here is scared of you."

"Seto..." Regan started but didn't finish. Whatever it was, he didn't catch what the warning was for.

"Whatever," Seto turned away from her and to Zelda and himself. "I appreciate the help finding her."

"I'm just glad that at least part of your group is reunited." Zelda stated before holding an arm out towards the bar entrance. "Inside perhaps? There is much to discuss."

"Of course." Atem stated and Link led the way.

"So," Link started to settle his confusion. "How many of your comrades are missing? I heard Yugi, Bakura, and now Ryou and Nile…?"

"Ryou Bakura is his full name." Regan answered which eased his worries. One less person to find. "Just some of us, Nile and I, prefer to call him Ryou while everyone else calls him Bakura, when you meet him you can decide on what you want to call him. As for Nile…" she didn't finish.

"She's a spirit in Regan's item, she isn't someone that needs to be found." Seto answered behind him.

Link nodded, he had someone living his in shadow and Po had parts of his soul scattered across Hyrule, why not a spirit in an item. Link opened the door to the bar. He barely had time to move to the side against wall as he pushed the door shut as a dagger flew by hitting it. He followed where the weapon had come from and glared at Dark Link who pouted sitting on a chair backwards. He pulled out a second dagger.

Seto came through the door looking rather pissed. "Who the hell threw that?"

"Wasn't for you, but I kinda wish it was." Dark Link sighed from his seat playing with his second dagger and turned to Link. "Why don't you ever just drop dead, you bastard?"

"How about you learn how to aim?" He growled back, he was not in the mood for his crap tonight. Not that he ever was, but this was more than usual. "You could have killed someone!"

"That was the point… unfortunately, you brought company. Company that seems to be in a great mood I might add."

"Like you're one to talk."

"I can demonstrate how to throw one if you'd like." Seto threatened interrupting them. "I can also confidently say that it won't hit anyone but you."

Dark Link grinned showing off rather distinct canines. "Let's see whose hits first."

"Throw a dagger in my bar again and you both will be cleaning my floor with your tongues." Telma called as she came from a back room with a crate. She set it on the counter as she turned to Seto. "Oh hello, you must be Regan's brother. I guessed from her looks that you'd look fantastic, but I didn't think it would be divine. I'll give you permission this one time to throw a dagger in Dark's head."

"Come on, Telma. You can't just give special treatments to good looking guys half your age." Dark Link sighed. "That would be hypocritical considering how great I look. I'm basically your best looking customer if not the best."

"You're one of the most pain in the ass ones that's for certain. And I'm thirty, you twit. I hear about any sort of death threats within my bar against any of my guests from you again; I'm sure I'll find something else that you broke that you can replace."

"Yes ma'am." Dark Link replied whiter than the sheet he already was. Link smirked, he loved it when his shadow was put in his place. "Won't happen again."

"Better not. The next time I won't be so kind and your next purchase besides your time with your tongue to my floor will be the wine cabinet you made into kindling. That was two thousand rupees to replace."

"Seto, Atem." Regan said grabbing the short silence and Link drew his attention to her. "Meet Dark Link aka Dark, he looks like Link, but isn't."

"I didn't notice." Seto replied sarcastically. "We were given details on him and a few other fellows on the way here."

The girl nodded before looking around the room. "Electra?"

"I'm here, I was looking at a map." Electra called from the meeting room. She came out from behind and put the blanket up for the world to see behind it, and Shad, who was also back there still looking at maps not even noticing their arrival. "This is your brother?"

"Ya!" the brunette answered happily turning back to her brother. "This is Electra; she was my neighbor's cousin. We hanged out a lot when she wasn't out on police duty."

Link raised an eyebrow in curiosity. Apparently the world was smaller than he thought it was if Regan and Electra knew each other.

"You're a cop?" Seto questioned.

"Yes, I was in a special unit to deal with special members in society… like him." His old companion stated placing a hand on Dark Link's shoulder. Link prepared himself for an assault, but felt silly afterwards knowing that the shadow wouldn't dare attack her. Zelda was right, Dark Link was loyal to a fault, but it was only a matter of time… "But now I'm here still helping people from monsters."

"Dark and Electra helped me get out of a horde of monsters in Faron Woods while I was injured." The other girl explained. "On the way here I tried locating you, but with the dense magic of Hyrule and baddies, my senses were very limited."

"Turns out she isn't that big of a big shot." Dark Link muttered.

"Still toss you around." Regan hissed that reminded him that of a cat. "And I was shot and bleeding all over the place."

"I was going easy on you since you're a girl and injured."

Link turned from Regan to Dark Link. What kind of child was she if she could take on his shadow in such a position and win? Maybe these guests weren't so helpless as he thought they were.

"Sure you were, your bloodlust blinded you from seeing that she was innocent." Electra said to the male in black in annoyance before turning to Seto. "I was a little worried that Regan had lost her mind when she said she had a brother let alone two, but I'm glad that she isn't nuts and that you are alive…"

"You've obviously been living under a rock if you haven't heard the news." Seto replied bluntly.

"Well between work and being pulled into this world at the end of February, ya, you can say I wasn't in the know of Earth news."

"Seto go easy." Regan suggested. "She doesn't need you to be hounding on her over this."

"Fine…" the man said without an argument.

"Thank you…"

"Interesting," Electra sang ever so slightly. Link hadn't her mock someone like that before. "You have the president of Kaiba Corporation around your finger, that's impressive."

"Electra!" the brunette exclaimed. "Alright, I get it. Everyone is in a bad mood because today has just been horrible for all of us, but let's just set that all aside and figure out what to do with everything. And I don't have my brother wrapped around my finger, if I did, I would have taken a trip to the moon by now."

"When have you ever wanted to go to the moon?" Seto asked her.

"Around the same time I wanted a T-Rex to ride on and reenact Jurassic Park: Lost World." She sighed. "I'm going to sit down before I fall down."

"Regan-"

"I'm not injured, just there is a lot of ancient auras in here, it's going to take time to get used to."

"I'm not ancient…" Link muttered. At least, he thought he wasn't old.

"That's not what she meant." Atem reassured him with a smile, but Link saw that it was forced. He was worried about the others.