Three Headed Son of a Bitch

Tori's POV

We had pulled a door off the city to transport my dad to Shangri La. Jon had refused to leave mum in the hands of anyone other than himself. He stubbornly carried her in his arms all the way to our destination. The Yeti's were proving helpful from Lin as they were carrying my dad on the door, they were actually quite caring and loyal creatures from what I'd come to learn. I did the best I could to hold it together, Alex hadn't left my side, and both Evy and Lin were figuring out the best possible way to get to where we needed to be. We stopped for a break and Uncle Jon only set mum down beside him to play with one of her favorite knives, he'd let out yelps every now and then when he would cut himself from trying to do tricks with it. I was quiet and started to lose hope as I watched both my parents in their unconscious state. As we got up to move, Uncle Jon pocketed mums knife and scooped her up again, I tried to keep track of the blood they were losing which was proving even more difficult. We had make shifted tourniquets and did the best we could to keep things in for my dad. Mum was different, we had left the knife in where it was and Jon made sure not to move it a lot while walking. We had been hiking for around 3 hours and I was preparing myself for the worst. They were everything that had shaped me into the person I was. I couldn't even imagine them gone forever and never being able to talk to them or see them again. All because I wanted to be more like them, to live up to their legacy. My mother was the one I looked up to most, she was brave and resilient, smart and quite frankly a bad ass. She survived WWII, trained soldiers who went in to fight battles and even fought some herself through the Nazi invasion. Although she had promised she never would, both my dad and I knew she couldn't resist it, she was born for the adventure and wars.

"We made it!" Lin yelled to us slamming me out of my thoughts. I looked up and saw a hole in the side of the mountain. A tear slipped out of my eye as I realized we all might make it out of this alive.

"The pool!" Alex breathed out as we made it inside, he started running towards the thing and a woman made her move to stop him, coming out of the wood work. I yelled for him. Lin stopped her from slicing Alex to pieces as she held back tears and hugged the woman who was going to attack Alex.

"It's her mom." Aunt Evy told me. As we slid my dad off his door, Alex struck up a conversation with Lin's mother and we were welcomed with open arms.

"Come." The woman looked at me and smiled going to help us with both of my parents. We moved them near the pool that was surrounded by candles. She took a shell filling it with water and dripped it into my dads wounds first. He gasped and I smiled as Aunt Evy was next to his side.

"Where's Joe?" Dad asked her as he came back to conciousness. Evy's smile dropped as she nodded next to him where Uncle Jon had crouched down with mum. Dad looked to his left to see my mum lying there still in my uncles arms, breathing labored and still unconscious. Dad moved to touch her but Lins mother pushed him back down.

"He must rest." She said to Evy as she went back to the pool for more water for my mum. She set down the water next to her as she reached for the knife in mums ribs, Uncle Jon stopped her looking at her weary of the action. She nodded placing her spare hand on his shoulder in comfort. She grabbed hold of the handle and swiftly pulled it out and poured the water into her wounds. Mum's breathing changed but she didn't wake up.

"Thank you." Aunt Evy said as she brushed a hair from mums forehead.

"They will be okay. We'll take them to my chamber." Lins mom said a smile gracing her face as we prepared to move them. Uncle Jon moved up the steps following Lin's mother to her chamber, I knew it was hard for him to leave them there, but he knew we had done all that we could at that time. I stayed with them for a little bit then I walked downstairs to be with Jon, he was going to be the only one to keep my mind afloat. As I walked up behind him I heard him mutter some words.

"Well, it's not everyone that gets their brother in law and sister back from the dead. Yeah, I give me my first fore score year and 20 years ago anyday. Is this Shangri-La? I can live here, lots of opportunity... A casino!" Uncle Jon looked in awe off into the distance of the beautiful mountain peaks and valleys that were as green as you could imagine, with rivers and waterfalls cascading down the rock with no end. I smiled.

"Think they'll really be alright?" I asked him, clearly spooking him as he jumped about ten feet in the air. Alex was basically just my shadow the entire time, standing guard behind me.

"I do, if anyone can pull through this it's both your mum and dad." Uncle Jon smiled and pulled me into his side. "They're strong as hell kiddo, you'll have your parents back in no time." He told me, brushing my hair out letting me go. I walked back towards the stairs that led up to Lin's mothers chambers, where my parents currently were. Alex split to go the other direction.

"They're resting. Thank you. How did you get involved in all this?" Alex asked from behind me as I was leaning up against the rocks watching as the mother and daughter interacted.

"The Emperor murdered the only man I've ever loved, Lin's father. I would have died too by his hand... If the Yeti's had not found me, and brought me to this pool." She looked lovingly at her daughter and took the knife out of her belt. Alex moved forwards inquisitive about the lady.

"Huh... Look... How this all happened is... Even before Christ?" He looked dumbfounded and completely awed. I kept my ground at the rock wall. "And how long have you guarded his tomb?" He asked again, curious about his girlfriends past now. I smiled softly, they could be good together.

"Over two thousand years." Zi Yuan replied to Alex as he laughed and looked at Lin's mother's serious face showing no emotion. Then stopped. Ope she's old as fuck.

"The Emperor must never be allowed to reach the pool. Or he'll have the power to raise his army. And once he becomes immortal, he can transform himself into the most hideous creatures ever seen. I will take the first watch at the entrance." Her mother said to Alex and swiftly moving with her gown towards the entrance of the cave within the mountain.

"Victoria!... Your parents are awake. Get up here!!" Jon shouted to me from above. I nodded, smoothed over my outfit and readied myself for the new meeting with my parents. As I made my way up the stairs I noticed Alex and Lin having a conversation about their relationship in the future. I rolled my eyes and sighed heavily before I reached the top of the stairs where I found both my mum and dad laying in bed, conscious this time. Dad made a move to get up from the bed and threw his jacket on.

"When I saw you lying there, Dad. I've... I've never been so scared in my life." I admitted as I walked up to his tall frame.

"Well, that makes two of us." He agreed with me.

"I mean... huh, you're not supposed to die. You're "Ricochet" O'Connell, right?" I continued the conversation awkwardly. I sighed and dropped the face I was putting on.

"Listen. I love you, you're one of the biggest role models I have in my life, along with mum over here. You get beat up and tossed around but you're not supposed to die. At least not yet. Not til I'm ready. Right?" I looked up into his blue eyes.

"Tori, the truth is I'm just trying to be a good husband, a good parent. The truth is, I've been dropping the ball lately and..."

"I don't think you have. You've both done an amazing job raising me and I am who I am because of you. I keep Alex out of trouble... Mostly. But I want you to know that I love you and I cannot lose you." I opened up.

"Come here." Mum said to both of us. I crawled up the bed towards her like I used to do when I was a little girl when I woke up from nightmares and wanted to sleep with both of them. She held out her arms for both of us and we hugged her.

"I just can't lose both of you at the same time." I smiled as a tear fell down my cheek.

"You won't love, we have you. And we're back." She told me, letting me go and brushed my cheek of the tear that had fallen. A fireball tore through the temple shaking the bed on which we were laying. I rushed to the lookout to see what was going on.

"His power has been fully restored." Mum said from next to me. As she rushed around finding her weapons and clothes rather quickly to prepare for battle.

"Time to go." Dad said, as I watched what was unfolding. Quickly realizing the emperor had turned into a 3 headed dragon and we had no chance.

"Hey! You three headed, shape shifting son of a bitch!" Jon yelled from where he was hiding. We made our way down the stairs to see what was going on.

"He is taking her back to his tomb to raise his army." Lin's mom said to us as we caught up to her. I guess Lin had been kidnapped.

"Is there a faster way to get down from here?" Alex asked as he got up from where he was thrown.

"The Yeti's can help. But he's already in the air, It'll be too late." She responded to him.

"Mad Dog can out fly a three headed lizard any day of the week. Let's go!" Dad said as we all rushed out of the secluded area to go help Lin and save the world.