On a cold fall night, Mipha was out picking up some food for dinner. Link had picked up food from the local Tex-Mex restaurant last time, and now it was her turn. Over six months in quarantine, and she felt like it was just her and Urbosa picking up all the food and doing all the shopping. Although it would seem stereotypical for a woman to do all the shopping during the shutdown, there was a legitimate reason behind why she did all the going out. Her respiratory system was different. She couldn't get COVID.
Even though she wasn't able to catch the novel coronavirus, she still followed safety precautions. There was always a chance that she could bring the deadly virus back home to her friends.
Unfourtnly, there was no parking near the restaurant she had ordered food from, so she parked next to a lamp skirt in the parking lot of an old sports bar. She didn't know when it closed or why, but it had that old reminiscent of it being there. The place felt strange. Not in a liminal way, but sort of like the kind of place where thugs would hang out at midnight.
As Mipha pulled into the parking space and pulled the parking brake, she noticed someone behind her on the backup camera. It was a man in a dark shirt.
When Mipha got out of her car, the man approached her.
"Where' ya goin'," he taunted.
She didn't respond.
The man asked again. "What are you doing? You know, it's unsafe in these late hours for a girl to be out on her own,"
Mipha still ignored him. She was going to pick up dinner, and this strange man didn't need to know that.
As she walked towards the restaurant she tied on her blue homemade cloth mask. Even though she didn't really need it, she still wore the mask. The CDC wasn't sure if she could transmit COVID, but she played it safe and wore a mask. It was her way of helping the community during the pandemic.
Suddenly, Mipha looked back and realized that the weird man was following her.
Again, he asked her where she was going, and as expected, he got no response.
A teenage girl parked her car and stepped out. Noticing the man that was following Mipha, the teen hastily slipped back into her car before getting out again.
The man noticed this and shot a gaze at the teen.
"Where are you going, young one?" He asked.
"Isn't it clear that I'm picking up dinner? Oh, well, I really shouldn't be talking to strangers," the teen replied.
While the man was busy pestering the teen, Mipha had already made her way into the restaurant to get the food that she had ordered.
The man turned around from the teen to see if she was still there, but his arguing with the teenage girl had just given Mipha a chance to get away from him. When he turned to face the girl again, she too had departed into the Tex-Mex restaurant. He thought it best to follow them into the building. He burst into the building and broke up the line to grab a bag of food that another customer was in the process of paying for. Shocked by this sudden attack, the teen who was standing near the middle of the line dropped the twenty dollar bill that she was going to buy her food with. Moe made a run for it, but not before snatching the girl's money.
"Hey! Get back here with my money!" She yelled.
Customers were screaming all over the building, save a dorky-looking middle school boy with brown hair and glasses. He just clapped and recorded a video of the commotion.
Mipha turned around from the counter and grabbed her food. She turned to the teen and offered to cover for her food, with the girl accepting.
An employee began to speak to her.
"That man who just ran through here," the worker said, "His name is Moe. Causes trouble around here on a regular basis,"
"Oh," Mipha said.
"He comes in on a routine, and it's quite hard to stop him. He always comes in here and steals other people's food and money. What he does next is beyond me. Perhaps you could stop him?" The employee explained. "He should be coming in again any minute now..."
The employee was nearly cut off by Moe suddenly busting into the building. "There he is now! Go, put an end to this! Leave your food here and you can come back for it!"
Moe grabbed another bag of food and ran outside with Mipha chasing him. She was able to follow him behind the sports bar where she had parked. Mipha ducked behind some bushes when she noticed Moe looking around to see if anybody was looking. He then threw the food at the windows of the empty sports bar in what looked like an attempt to break into the building.
Mipha walked out of the bush, holding her trident. She wasn't holding the weapon as if she was about to attack, but when Moe turned around to see her, he was shocked. He tried to defend himself but was no match to Mipha's confrontation.
"We don't like what your doing in the restaurant. If you may, they want you to pay for all the food you stole," Mipha said.
Moe couldn't try to manipulate her or try to speak against her, most likely due to the fact that she was holding a spear.
Not soon later, Moe paid up for all the food he'd stolen. Mipha pulled up to the restaurant to pick up her food. She then drove back home, not over nor under the speed limit.
After that, nobody saw or let alone heard about Moe in that area. Little evidence remained of the night when Moe was stopped. One-piece included a small container under a lampost near the sports bar.
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Take care when caching. This geocache is hidden in a lamp skirt surrounded by tall grass.