That evening, after dinner, I checked on Abe and Jacob. They both made it home without any trouble, Abe supposed that traveling by car was like fast travel in a game, or that we would only be attacked when together, in either case more testing needed to be done.
While alone in my room, I tried using magic for the first time. At this point, Abe had already used it to heal both me and Jacob, and since we have the same amounts of Int and Wis I should be able to do the same thing. For the moment I generated an aura around my finders, the aura was like a partially coloured gas. It clung to my hands and after a while of just holding it there I looked around my room for something, anything to use it on.
I found a sock, discarded on the ground, and hovered my hands over it. I made the magical mist flow under the sock, them push it upwards.
[You have learned the skill, Telekinesis]
After holding up the sock for a couple seconds, I tried moving it while further away.
[You have used up 1MP, now at 71MP total]
Huh. Next I tried using Telekinesis on my bed, the whole thing was wrapped in an aura of magic that stemmed from my hands, after that much was done, I tried pushing upwards. I manage to lift my bed off of the floor when a message in the corner of my eyes catches my attention.
[You have used up 32MP, now at 39MP total]
Wow, that was a lot. I let the bed down carefully, and have a look at my stat menu. After maybe two seconds of holding my own bed I managed to use up almost half of my mana reserve.
With that I call it a night, I check up on Abe and Jacob one last time, Abe tells me he has something to show me tomorrow, we didn’t have school so he insisted on both me and Jacob coming to his house. Generally speaking we didn’t meet up any earlier than 10am and so Abe arranged a meeting at that exact time.
So that morning I asked for a lift to the park, since it was Saturday my dad was off work and made for a willing chauffeur. With that I was able to leave home without an incident and true to Abe and Jacob’s experience, I wasn’t bothered by any random encounters. Abe’s’ house is located at the end of a street, meaning that while I was arriving, I saw Jacobs mum, driving her own car, as she was leaving.
Realising that I wasn’t far behind him, Jacob waited by the side of the road, and we both walked over the front garden to Abe’s door. “Any Idea what he wanted to show us?” Jacob asked.
“I don’t know, nothing knew popped up in the party menu.” I replied.
As we came to the door, Abe opened it up, as if he had been watching from the window up until now. “Come in.” He said as hurried us along.
“That phasing.” Jacob joked in response.
Abe lead us into his house, however something didn’t seem quite right. There was no sign of his parents and as I walked inside, taking off my shoes at the front door, I noticed that Abe himself seemed off somehow. It was the way he insisted the night before, he’s never that stubborn, then there's the way he’s walking now. It seemed silly but his body would rise up in a way that lifted one leg off of the floor, then he’d land in a way that forced his leg to bend, it was almost like some kind of puppet.
But Jacob didn’t notice anything strange, he would have voiced the fact if he did, so I assumed that it was in my head and closed the door behind me. Abe lead us through the corridor and into his living room, closing the door after we both filed in.
“So,” I said, still not very comfortable, “What’s up?”
Jacob himself had already sat down on the couch while I remained standing. We had been to Abe’s house enough times but this still felt odd to me. Abe looked straight at me for the first time and I could see it, his eyes were dull as if he was asleep. “What’s going on?” I asked concerned, while stepping towards him.
That’s when my vision started to blur all while the space that made up the living room was visibly stretched out. Behind Abe was a strange, large man. His skin was green, he had a large strong nose and a mostly square head. This man wore black armour, the plates of which overlapped in a way that left no weak spots (except for his head). Behind this large man was a black cape that flowed down to the floor and while I could barely see it, on one of his hands was a shining triangle, that was divided into four smaller triangles, one of which shone more intensely then any other.
The man I was looking at was Ganondorf, more specifically, his iteration from the twilight princess. And, in much the same fashion that he manipulated Zelda in his boss battle, he had been manipulating a brain washed Abe right up until this point.
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Raising his hand, a ball of light appeared, Ganondorf threw his hand down, launching the sphere at me, at that point Jacob grabbed me by my shirt and pulled me back as a result the orb shattered against the floor.
“Holy mother of fuck.” Jacob screamed as he whipped out a wrench. Abe was launched at us and we both made an attempt to catch him. Using him as a distraction, Ganondorf launched another ball of light, Jacob, grabbing Abe threw himself to one side while I leaped to the other.
Jacob stumbled while trying to hold Abe upright and ultimately the two of them lost their balance and fell to the ground. What made it worse was that Ganondorf now stood between us, seemingly amused at how pathetic attempts at survival. He raised a hand, creating a ball of light, and started to throw it at Jacob and Abe. What he didn’t count on was that I had magic of my own. In those last moments before casting the sphere at them, I used telekinesis to drag his hand inwards towards his chest. The sphere followed the path of his hand and shattered against his torso, arcs of white electricity ran rampant over Ganondorfs’ body as he spasmed out of control. To his credit he didn’t fall to the ground, merely standing in a spot. In that time Jacob got up, leaving Abe on the ground, and charged at the villain. He switched out the wrench for a sledge hammer and called out, “POWER STRIKE!” as he attacked Ganondorf. Then Jacob looked puzzled at his target, “Really, no effect?” He mumbled almost as soon as Ganondorf recovered from the stunning effect of his own spell. With a swiped of his hand, Ganondorf threw Jacob away, causing him to land awkwardly against the ground and knocking my friend unconscious. Abe wasn’t much better, ever since Ganondorf flung him at us Abe had been limp and cold to the touch, for all we knew he was dead.
What followed was a terrifying moment in which Ganondorf slowly walked towards me, “Its impressive,” he said, “that you would be able to hurt me, but its over.”
[You have learned the skill, Flight response]
I tried to run, but the moment I did, opaque ghosts rushed out from Ganondorf, in the final battle they had served as an attack that dismounted link, in this scenario they rushed at me from all directions and held me up in the air. That was when a new message appeared in my face.
[A new player has entered the battle]
And sure enough a girl seemingly appeared out of nowhere. In her hand was a long, glowing sword, with a purple hilt. She scanned the situation in an instant, seemingly understanding the predicament that me and my friends where in. She raised her free hand at me and called out, “Crackle,” with that word ice erupted from the ground below and completely encased the ghosts that had subdued me. The ice then shattered and the ghosts disappeared with it. Strangely enough I wasn’t affected by the spell, and I dropped to the ground unharmed.
Ganondorf however didn’t take this lying down, He launched himself at the stranger suddenly wielding a sword made of light, he tried to slash at her, but in the last second she avoided the attack. Bats erupt out from around her and the words “Witch time,” slithered from her lips. As of then, she seemed to move with at an unperceivable speed, positioning herself behind Ganondorf in an instant. She started hacking at his back with the master sword. Each strike cut through his armour and seemed to draw blood from the very being who had been invincible not too long ago.
At that point, an oval of darkness with a purple core, appeared in front of Ganondorf and he fled. The girl tried to go after him but the black oval disappeared before that could happen.
[The enemy has fled, each member of the party receives no EXP or money]
“Shit.” She whispered, before walked over to Abe and Jacob, “Healing hand,” She’d say and after a few seconds of treatment both of my friends were up again.
“What happened,” Abe said in a dazed state.
“You were mind controlled by Ganondorf man, fucking Ganondorf.” Jacob said, somehow excited by all of this.
“Come with me.” The stranger said as she walked out into Abe’s garden.
“Wait,” I called out, following her, with Abe and Jacob in tow, “Explain what’s going on.”
“No time, accept my invitation.” She said.
“Wha-” I began before a message interrupted me.
[You have been invited to Harriots party. Do you accept? Y/N]
After a second of thought, I accept. “Good,” She said, “Zoom.” She called out, soon after a blue energy engulfs her, me, Jacob and Abe before the four of us all rocket up into the air.