The Twilight Princess 2: The Time Forgotten

Eighteen

Back in present day, Zoey was hard at work cracking the utterly most mysteriously case of renegade bounty hunter Ora Gloon. She followed a path deep into the forest, the same one that Ora herself had fled through just moments ago. She had to be careful, as Ora was extremely tricky and highly skilled. Anything could happen around her.

Zoey suddenly came to a stop as she heard something ruffle over in the bushes. "Hello?" She slowly and cautiously crept over to them. "Anybody there?" The ruffling had stopped. Perhaps it was just the wind. Zoey started to head back on the path, assuming that nothing was there, just as she heard the snapping of a branch behind her. She turned around alarmed, but yet again, nothing was there.

Maybe she was just hearing things. After all, she did feel a bit paranoid at the moment. She just had a lot on her mind. She hadn't seen Kai for three days now, and honestly, she really did miss his company. Perhaps she was too harsh on him. She wished she could go back and apologize, but at the moment, he was nowhere to be found.

The sound of footsteps creeping up from behind startled her. They sounded too real to be her imagination this time. Thinking quickly, Zoey ripped a branch off the oak tree next to her as she leaped to the other side and thrusted the branch out in front her, keeping her eyes closed, barely thinking, using her instincts.

She opened her eyes to surprisingly see Kai laying on the ground with the branch next to him. He looked irritated. "I decide to come back to help you just so you can shove a tree branch at my face? Who does that?"

Zoey rushed down to help him up, feeling bad. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Kai, I thought you were Ora!"

"It's alright," he said, placing his hand on his forehead. "But next time, be a bit more gentle, ok?"

She laughed. "Hey, what was I supposed to do? Suspicious noises freak me out."

"I can tell."

He dusted the dirt off his pants. "What's the plan?"

Zoey shrugged. "Not sure. Let's just find Ora and interrogate her. I need some answers."

"Answers? What kind of answers?"

Zoey caught him up to speed on what she found in Ora's hideout. "Her diary mentioned some kind of girl on a space station. And when she came to Earth she met a girl with magic. I wonder if it has anything to do the Twilight Princess. When I asked her about it, she acted all weird and refused to say anything. I wonder if those two have history."

Kai sighed. "Don't they all have history?"

"I don't know, but there has to be a reason as to why the Twilight Princess became so bitter. Because she wasn't always that way. There's gotta be an explanation. And I'm determined to find it." She paused, and then her face lit up, as if she was on to something. Kai sent her a look of curiosity.

"That's it," she gasped.

Kai cocked his head to the side, confused. "What is?"

"I'm starting to think that Ora is more than just the Twilight Princess's bounty hunter. What if there's so much more to the story that we don't know about?"

"I guess there's only one way to find out," Kai said. "Let's go find Ora."

The two started to head down the dirt rugged path, before Zoey stopped him and began to turn in the opposite direction. "Hold on," she said. "I have an idea."

She led Kai to Ora Gloon's hideout at the bottom of the abandoned warehouse. "Do you know how to work computers?" She asked him, smiling mischievously.