Chapter 12

Link turned to Regan as she sat down next to a pile of maps listening intently on what Shad had to quietly say.

"I'm going to sit for a while," Atem stated breaking the silence. "Then I'm heading out to find Yugi and Bakura."

"It's dangerous to go alone." Dark Link said stretching. "Especially at night."

Since when was he helpful?

"I'll be fine, it's not the first time I've gone alone against a bunch of monsters in the dark."

"Not that I care if you take this the wrong way, but you're a bit of a pipsqueak in flashy clothing. No weapon and from what I can tell, and no horse. You'll be dead once you step outside these walls."

"Also been told that before."

"Yes and died for it." Regan challenged from her spot. Atem had died before? Link looked at their guests. They were more confusing and complex than he wished they were. "Let's not make it a second time, eh?"

"Are you not feeling the least bit of concern about them being out in that?" Atem questioned.

"Of course I am!" the girl snapped. "But I also know the world better than you do and from I've learned its more than just one world, its many with many different types of enemies with many different ways string you along the walls. I'm trying to be smart about this. I wasn't affected by the journey meaning my magic was not used as much if at all. What does that say for you?"

"She has a point." Seto stated. "You look like you were already run over once and statistics say that out all of us, being seven, eight if you included Nile, travelled here and two of them not being affected, that means the six of us got the divided amount. Do you know what a hundred divided by six is, Pharaoh?"

"Less than twenty…"

"Sixteen point six percent."

"Your brother is a walking calculator…" Electra muttered.

Seto either didn't hear her or just ignored her remark as he continued his equations that Link had no intentions of following. "We don't know how much taxation of the trip actually took, but I'm going to place seventy percent of our output plus the extra sixteen point six, plus the compensation that you took because of your experience. Yugi doesn't have the connection to the magic as well and for Nile if her soul is still alive because I seriously doubt she gave much to the total. That is looking at about a hundred percent for you."

"But-"

"You can't help anyone if you're dead." He stated crossing his arms. "But hey, if you want to go, be my guest. Just don't look back when you realize you can't even summon your stupid fur ball to defend you."

"Nrg…"

Link felt like he should say something about finding their comrades for them but Seto's sister beat him to it.

"I was going to go out later once I deducted possible locations. If that means anything…" Regan said quietly, Link turned to her as she continued looking at a map. "I know the area like the back of my hand."

"Like hell you are." Seto objected.

"I agree with your brother," Zelda said softly beside him. He guessed she was getting to her breaking point of exhaustion if she wasn't saying anything up to this point. "It's dangerous at night and very difficult to find anything out there with no moon."

"I don't need to see to find them and I'll be finding enemies before they even spot me. I may not have the largest range, but I have range nonetheless."

"Regan, I'm not allowing you to go out there. You were shot a few hours ago." Her brother continued to insist.

"And that's the magic of a spirit spring, it fixes you up like you weren't even injured.

"Doesn't give you back the blood supply at full." Link explained, she wasn't naturally pale, she really had lost a lot of blood. Letting her go out there was a death sentence. "If you were in fact shot, you would have lost a lot of blood."

"And you were battling Dark afterwards." Electra agreed with him. "You need to rest."

"I have been resting." The girl retorted halfheartedly.

"For an hour." Dark Link said cleaning his nails with his dagger. "Alright, I'll go with you."

"No." Link stated at the same time Electra, Seto and Atem did. Zelda didn't say anything, but the answer was on her face. He looked over the shadow, there was something up with him. He never volunteered for helping people with no prize at the other end.

"What? She wants to go find her little boyfriend and her other friend." Dark Link objected. "I won't hurt her, believe it or not, I've found this human feeling to keep the shrimp safe."

Link looked at him suspiciously. He shouldn't have been able to develop the need to care about someone else. With Electra, it made sense that they were two very angry people with the same goal, but Regan didn't seem like the type that appealed to Dark Link. There was some link he was missing. Heh, he just said his name. He was going to bed as soon as he found their other companions.

"The answer is still no." Seto declared.

"Why not?" Regan questioned looking away from the maps. Seto looked surprised at her answer.

"How about because he's a psychopath?"

"Maybe disturbed… not quite whole… but I wouldn't say a psychopath."

"I think you hurt yourself on the way here and definitely need to rest."

"I agree," Dark Link agreed. "I'm pretty sure I'm classified as a psychopath. I did try to kill you a few hours ago."

"Then you didn't and then you threatened to kill me because I was being a bit mouthy and after spending a couple of hours with me you have developed a bit of fondness towards me. I wouldn't say you were a psychopath, just a bit insane." She argued. "Like Deadpool."

"Deadpool? Really?" Seto questioned and she looked back at him. "This guy is nothing like Deadpool."

"I'm going whether or not you approve, and Dark can come if he wants to. I personally would like a bloodlust being with me if things get messy. Not that I can't take care of myself, but the option is nice. There is no way you can stop me."

"Keep telling yourself that."

"I have a cellar you can stick her in." Telma offered. "I've used it before."

"Who did you lock down there?" Link asked her very confused and Telma just turned to look at Dark Link. "Why am I not surprised?"

"It was a test, in case more unwanted things came along, no need to have them all plan an escape. Least of all being down there with Vaati." Dark Link told him.

"What about your other two friends?" Atem asked.

"They aren't being captured, we have a weapon for one while Dean… well we hope to kill him on sight."

"So Vaati can't be killed?" Seto asked.

"You need a special sword to kill him with." Regan told him circling something on a map. Link was impressed with her knowledge of his world. It was more than Electra's from what he could tell that was for sure. Regan was becoming less and less of a child by the second and it unnerved him. "The Four Sword, a Minish made sword, that was a thing long before the Hero of Time and then found again sometime after the events of the Twili Invasion with a sealed Vaati inside from the Minish days."

"Who are the Minish?".

"A little group of people that are literally little and only children can see them."

"Children as like little little or under the age of eighteen?"

"That would be a Zelda question."

Seto turned to Zelda and she thought about it. Link didn't have the answer either, their research had only come so far and the majority was done by Zelda. "Sometime after the age of seventeen was when the children who saw the Minish could no longer see them, or at least that how the legend went."

"And since this kingdom seems like a good kingdom, you don't have children looking for them." Atem questioned and she nodded.

"I would not risk the lives of my people, especially children to look for the people who might know of the blade that has been lost for centuries. Even if they volunteered because they were orphaned, I would not allow them to do such a thing."

"So how were you going to solve Vaati?" Seto ventured.

"Beat him senseless with the Master Sword and hopefully it has some affect over time." Link said and he turned to him. "It was Electra's idea; the sword is evil's bane after all."

"You can't just substitute salt with baking soda because they are both a white substance…"

"Well it doesn't matter." Regan stated drawing Link's attention to her. "Because I have a solution to your problem."

"You do?" They all asked and she nodded.

"Since you won't allow children from your kingdom to do a children's job, you now have two of them able to find the Minish and the sword's location who aren't apart of your kingdom."

"Who exactly?" Seto asked, but Link had already guessed on who she was talking about.

"Ryou and I. We are both sixteen and our birthdays are still long off. If he is still alive, we can find the sword while we are here."

"No," Zelda disagreed which Link fully supported. "No, you have no need to go through that risk for this world."

"Well actually, from what I heard, this is affecting my world as well, which is probably why we even got here in once piece and minor problems. So yes, it is in my right to help and Ryou would say the same. You need that sword to defeat Vaati before he sweeps you up." Regan started taking her eyes off the map on the table to Zelda. "Yea, I figured out that little bit on my own. You are one of the most beautiful Hylians in Hyrule, if not the most, meaning you are his number one target."

Link stiffen, not only was this girl able to hold off Dark Link, know so much about his world, but she also had figured out that Vaati was after Zelda without being told anything in regard to it. Like a second Zelda. Link took a quick peek in the queen's direction. He couldn't bear the thought of that sorcerer taking her away. He prayed to any god that was listening in hope that she, or the rest of their group, weren't enemies.

"He isn't going to stay away forever," the child continued. "Sooner or later, he is going to attack. When he does, I think you would like to have a fire extinguisher to deal with your fire instead of gasoline."

"I don't like this idea any more than you do, Zelda." Electra said. "But if I know anything about Vaati, fire and fire extinguishers, we do not want gasoline on this. I know personally that a fire extinguisher can do a little more than put out fires. Vaati will continue to get stronger to the point where it won't matter if we catch him."

"How do you know that fire extinguishers can do more than put out fires?" Atem asked in confusion.

"She's used one to kill something before." Link explained thinking back to his second day in Canada.

"You mean the incident in the mall with the fire breathing chimera." Seto questioned and he nodded.

"All the more reason you guys need Ryou and I to find the Four Sword. We can remove the fire starter before he creates the forest fire." Regan continued to press.

"The answer is still no," her brother growled. "Please do not make me think about the cellar idea."

"Sounds kinky." A familiar voice suddenly said. Link looked in the direction and saw Delilah and Jason coming through the door. Delilah didn't get far into the room as she looked over at Seto. "How many times a day do you work out?"

"He's not for grabs." Electra stated and the girl pouted. "Besides, I thought you and Jason had a thing?"

"It was a question… and who said anything about being a thing?"

"Hey…" Jason said sounding hurt. "That's my feelings."

"Seriously, what's up with the cellar and are we doing some decorating in it?"

"No, now get out of the doorway and close the door." Telma ordered, Link appreciated it since it was pretty cold out for the summer.

"Geez, you woke up on the- oh, I can now see why. Hi Dark Link." Delilah turned away from her deadpan look at the shadow to Zelda and suddenly got excited. "Zeeeeelllllllldddddaaaaa… you do the thing yet?"

"Is this really the time?" Dark Link growled.

"What thing?" Link whispered as Delilah shrugged. Zelda didn't say anything and it made him slightly concerned. What was she planning that she didn't want him to know about?

"Why is everyone here? Again?" Jason asked confused.

"A little bit of a speed bump." Electra stated nodded towards Seto and Atem.

The Templar looked at Regan first before turning to the two of them and almost fell over as he backed away. "What the hell is the CEO of Kaiba Corp, Regan Heartin and Atem Muto doing in Telma's Bar of all places… God above this sounds like a bloody fanfiction."

"You insulting my place?" Telma questioned.

"No, no, not at all just… someone needs to fill me in."

"Jason, do you have a sister named Melissa?" Electra asked him and his pale skin went paler than a sheet.

"What did she do...?"

"Your sister thought it would be a good idea to attack my sister to get to your sorry ass." Seto growled threateningly. "You have some explaining to do, Templar."

"Look, I don't like dealing with blood and stuff so please don't hurt me for my sister's instability." Jason started, Link would have got involved, but Jason gave him a quick look to not. "I was investigating a bunker and was sent here by Dean who at the time was a fat computer geek testing out his equipment. It was a mission and I guess my sister didn't take my disappearance well. She always did go off the deep end when I went on long missions. We only have each other so it makes sense…"

"That's no excuse for her actions to infiltrate my school and shoot Regan?!"

"Well if you were in her shoes, would you not have done the same thing?"

"No, I would have built a machine instead of getting the CEO of Kaiba Corp involved and threatening not only the lives of his students, but also his family because that is just a really stupid idea."

"Like I said she always seems to go off the deep end if something happened to me."

"No shit Sherlock, now we're stuck here with no way back because of your careless actions and that of your organization's! The least she could have done was ask and maybe, just maybe; I would have helped in creating a door instead of a one-way trip to a prehistoric Narnia!"

"You're just pissed because your world is boring and lame while ours is cool and action packed." Dark Link said and Seto threw the dagger he still had and it embedded itself into the chair the shadow sat in. Link looked up at Seto and back to the chair. He wasn't expecting that and apparently neither was Dark Link. "Alright, I'll stay out of it, but it's true."

"Maybe it was a good idea that she hadn't." Jason stated calmly and Seto turned back to him. "Not that I'm saying that this was a brilliant idea, because it's far from it. But her asking and you agreeing might have made the predicament between the two worlds worse causing them to merge faster."

"Seto, he has a point as much as I want to blame him." Atem stated. "But after hearing his side, I don't believe Jason is the one at fault for any of Melissa's actions."

Seto seemed to think about it before sighing. "Fine, but Melissa won't get off so easy."

"I'll deal with her myself when I get the chance, where is she?" the Templar replied, he seemed the more pissed of the two.

"In the dungeons."

"She won't get out of there that's for sure." Jason sighed. "What do you plan on doing with her?"

"I haven't thought of anything yet as I was too busy worrying about Regan."

"Speaking of… she's the little brunette girl right?" Delilah questioned and Seto nodded. "Well, she climbed up the beam onto the ropes above and went out the window while you guys were all busy."