Chapter 19

No argument was made afterwards and Dark Link noticed Roo frowning. Whatever it was, it probably wasn't a good thing. It had to do with the two girls that once shared the same body, but he didn't know them well enough to make any assumptions. Maybe he could consider what he did know, and find out from his past on something that could help. Ugh, there was that helping feeling again, in no time a migraine was going to form if these feelings were going to bombard his brain. He left his thoughts as the silence continued and a bit of tension rose before it was broken by one of its creators.

"So, progress going well?" Regan finally asked and her partner nodded. "Alright, then I guess that's all we can ask for."

Nile smiled. "I appreciate you trusting my judgment."

"Ya, but I will tell you, 'I told you so' when it backfires."

"I hope it doesn't come to that."

"Same..." Regan got up from the couch and walked over to her. "Now, I guess I touch this little guy and then you can go back to your training."

There wasn't any indication from the item that it did stabilize her other than a small light that came from the puzzle's eye before it faded just as quickly as it came as she placed a hand on it. Regan sighed and Dark Link noticed that the shrimp looked a lot more refreshed then she had a moment ago. Perhaps there was some evidence to this nonsense.

"Maybe I should take a backseat and you take the puzzle." Nile expressed concern for her partner, which he had to agree with. Maybe the babysitting job that everyone was stressing over was worth stressing over. He had fought the shrimp, and if she was as good as he had seen, any weakness was going to exploited by Kalysta if not Dean to use her. They had abilities that even he didn't know of. He turned his attention to Electra, if they did have mind controlling, or possession abilities, it was only a matter of time. "It's taking a toll on you when you don't have it."

Regan smiled as she shook her head. "I'm fine. I'm just tired because I'm not back home and worried about Mokuba, the company, and the school. Who knows what mischief could be happening without two of us there."

"I'm sure he's fine, both him and Alex can take care of things while incidents like this happen. It's not the first time and I doubt it will be the last."

"I know..."

"Are you sure you don't want the puzzle?"

"Yes." She reassured. "Go do your thing, I'll do mine."

"I will, but even a slight change in anything, you come take this item... Agreed?"

Regan rolled her eyes. "Agreed."

Dark Link watched Nile leave reluctantly with Zelda and Regan flopped onto the couch knocking over a pile of books as she did muttering a curse at her clumsiness. Dark Link couldn't help but wonder on how she had managed to hit the books on her way to the couch.

"Are you alright over there?" Electra asked and the shrimp nodded.

"It's like I have a mother hen, only this time she's no longer in my head and could physically restrain me like a smart person if I decided to jump headfirst into a pool of molten danger." Regan replied staring at the ceiling.

"She's just trying to keep you safe."

"She's paranoid."

"And you're not?" Roo piped up. "Because it looks to me she's not jumping headfirst into a pool of molten danger keeping everyone safe the fastest way possible without thinking first."

"Are you calling me paranoid?"

"I'm certainly not saying you're being rational about everything."

"I suppose I'm not." She agreed and Roo looked surprised. "But to be fair, she is being waaaay too rational about the decisions she's making."

The surprised look disappeared quickly.

"Hey, I got a question." Dark Link asked and she nodded without giving a remark. Like he needed her permission to ask his question, but it did have to do with her personally, so he guessed the approval helped. "Did you two always argue? Like I'm no expert, but I'm sure you two would be on the same page if you two were constantly in the same body."

"Well you can't be on the same page if you aren't on the same frequency."

She didn't need to be so rude about the answer, it was a simple question.

"You two need to relearn how to communicate then," Electra told her. "Someone might get killed if you don't."

"I think I heard the kettle calling me."

Dark Link took every ounce of restraint to hold back a laugh, he didn't know what mood Regan was in, but as long as it wasn't directed at him, it was wonderful.

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Girls..." Ryou interrupted sheepishly doing the opposite of what he wanted to happen and trying to tame the situation. "You both have friends that require you to communicate more and likewise back, it happens during times like this. But for now, let's focus on the topic at hand, there are little creatures out there that might be able to help save our worlds if we can find them."

"Roo has a point," Dark Link agreed, helping his case since it was better than creating more chaos, as much as he wanted it. "Book time now, female communication skills later when food is present."

"He wasn't just talking about Regan and I." Electra growled. "Your communication skills are about as good as a rock."

He turned to her with a sly grin. "Why would a rock need to communicate if it has no one to communicate to?"

"Asshole."

"Glad we got that covered."

"Guys..." Roo sighed for the millionth time. Apparently, the situation was not new to him. "The books aren't going to shout out our answers."

"Fine..." Electra said dropping her death glare off of him to somewhere behind him. Her jaw dropped. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

"What is it Lightning Bug?" He asked rolling his eyes. Her hand placed them on the sides of his head and turned it violently to whatever the hell was so damn important. "Ow, you could have broken my..." He stopped his complaining when he noticed that the shrimp was missing from her throne. "Oh... Well I'll be... Never mind... I'm already am damned."

He caught sight of Ryou joining the club and he stood up quickly, knocking over his chair. "Regan!"

"There's no way she left. We would have heard the door." Electra stated firmly as she also stood up. "She's probably just in the library somewhere."

"She can get distracted easily if something interesting draws in her attention." He agreed. "Let's split up and look around. This library is big enough as it is, last thing we need is her toppling books and getting buried."

"Is that even possible?" Dark Link asked slightly confused. There were a lot of books but to be buried under a set? He highly doubted that.

Ryou made eye contact with Electra and the answer came from both of their mouths. "Yes."

He took a quick look around the room and noticed that the door of the library was slightly ajar by some books that Regan had knocked over. Clever girl. Dark Link shrugged keeping up the rouse that the girl was still in the library. "Alright, I'll start on this end and head east, you two head west and north respectively. Gods this library is huge when I have to give instructions that way."

He watched Electra and Ryou head out to his instructions and he smirked. That was easier than he thought it was going to be. He wandered over to the door and slipped through the tiny crack, barely. The last thing that he was doing was staying in that library while the stupid shrimp left him to die in that hell hole. He went to the closest exit and found himself to be on the walls. He doubted that she was up there, but at least with the view, he could get an idea if she had made it outside and where she was. He walked along the walls, ignoring the looks he got from the guard and saw his target walking towards the door that headed out to Castle Town. The girl was quicker than he gave her credit for. He ran around to the other side and jumped off over the side, causing a few of the guard to shout out in surprise. A grin formed on his face at the thrill of falling to the ground. He slowed his plummet as he scrapped the side of the wall, and grabbing a torch post for a moment before landing on the ground in front of an oblivious Regan. She screamed as she took a step back as he looked down at her, not impressed.

"Boo." He said emotionlessly, she really should have expected him to show up. Nobody left him behind… well, left him behind when he was up to date on what was happening around him.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Regan shouted apparently still not over him scaring her.

How was she still alive if she scared so easily? First hospitals and now environments, because she didn't pay attention. "Don't freak out at me, we had a deal remember?"

"I… Right." How could she forget? "I guess you could have called it that."

"That's exactly what you call it. Now, where are you going?"

"I don't know…"

He frowned as he saw through her lie. Maybe he should just leave her to her own tasks, unfortunately, he felt like that was the opposite he should do. Being an empty shell with a single purpose was so much easier than having a heart. But until the next life, this was what he had been dealt with. "You're pretty bad at lying."

"Hardly," She defended crossing her arms. "Considering I was telling the truth. I was literally just going to wander about and see what attracts my attention."

That threw him in a loop, if she wasn't lying, then he was going to have to figure out the smaller details to tell when she did. So, if she had no idea where she was going, what was she looking for? "You mean like diamonds and stuff?"

"Anomalies actually…" She didn't finish as she looked up at him tilting her head slightly.

"What's with the dramatic pause?"

"You…"

"What? Scared of me cause I'm the big scary shadow?" he laughed slightly. He was a walking anomaly, an anomaly with the lust to be violent. "Ya, not even surprised. Most people are for good reason."

She shook her head. "Nope."

"Nope?" What was this girl talking about? He knew he even scared Electra at some degree and yet Miss. Scaredy-Cat claims to not be scared. He was calling bullshit now.

"You don't scare me… Well you did when you first attacked me, but now, not at all."

"If you're insulting my ability-"

"That's not it. If I wasn't high on adrenaline, you could have taken me easily. I've never fought someone so skilled before." He relaxed slightly at the compliment. He had never received a compliment like it before, it was… nice. "Now I'm able to focus better and think clearly because I'm not bleeding to death or was recently shot before transporting to a different dimension-"

"That would probably fuck with anyone's ability to think."

"Exactly… But one of the anomalies I've found is you." He was about to open his mouth about the obvious on why he was an anomaly considering he was a shadow, but she didn't let him. "And no, its not because you look a lot like Link. Yes, I saw the sarcastic comment you were about to say. No, its your aura."

He went to ask how she knew what he was going to say, but let it go. He was told earlier that she was smart and if being able to stand Kaiba for more than a few minutes meant being able to read what wasn't being said and expecting to know exactly what the pompous tower was thinking, then one needed that talent that she presented. He could learn, he was going to have to so he wasn't getting insulted left and right. The man knew nothing of who he was anyway. He went to the single question that she hadn't answered in the silence. "What about my aura?"