Let's skip ahead to spring, why don't we?

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"Ugh...my head..." Link opened his eyes slowly, and the room slowly became less distorted in his vision.

"W-Where am I?" He scanned the room and felt the cold metal table he was on in the center of it.

"This is just weird..." He got up and walked to the door, but it was locked.

"Locked, why wouldn't it be? I'm contained in a random room who know's where and nothing's going my way, even my weapons are missing..." Nearly slipping on the tiles, he opened a drawer and pulled out a paper clip, soon bending it into a crooked shape to unlock the door.

"Alright, now maybe I can get some knowledge of where I am, still dizzy though." Trudging up a dark hallway into what seems to be sunlight wasn't helping...Link looked around for anything else of use.

"Hallways and hallways of emptiness...what is this place?" A light flickered above him.

"It's freezing in here...wonder what this door goes to?" He twisted the nob slowly and peered in to see a staircase going upwards and started ascending it.

"Another door? It's made of steel." He knocked on it and a heard a buzzing noise from behind him coming from an intercom.

"Who is it?" A voice echoed from it, Link identified the noise and pushed the button.

"Nitori, unlock the door before I go balistic."

"You're alive!? Well that's a relief..." There was a slam and the door eased open.

"Why wouldn't I be alive?"

"Don't just stand there, sit down before anyone else gets out."

"You're going to need to explain to me what happened." Link sat on a stool and Nitori sighed.

"It started a week ago, I was trying to experiment on some new machines and one of them exploded, unleashing a blast that didn't destroy anything, it was just a wave, apparently it turned everyone against their allies and their enemies to become their allies, however others, like you had some strange changes, like your new ears and tail." Nitori finished explaining and Link looked behind him and felt his ears.

"Wait...I'm a wolf now?!"

"Yup, you were the first one that I found dangling from a tree, you were hurt bad so we took you downstairs in the basement to heal you."

"Wait...'we?'"

"Oh yeah, you haven't met Eirin yet have you?"

"Alright...but wait, who else is down there?"

"Currently Rumia and Momiji, they were knocked out but almost everyone else is awake and on the move." She pulled out a locater that showed the entities in the area.

"See, we are here, and the other two are there. At least you didn't open the other doors, you would have been scared."

"I'll take your word on it...Wait, Eirin, where is she?"

"She's down there too, just in another room checking supplies. This is pretty short range, it's still in its prototype stage."

"So everyone except the three of us fine?"

"Well, not you. You still look like that and I haven't seen any other effects on you...do you have any heightened senses?"

"Umm...not really, just my nose isn't as stuffy as it has been."

"Interesting...so yeah, you just sit around since you're still not completely healed." Nitori sealed the steel door shut and locked it.

"Where's all my stuff?" Link asked, realizing his hat's missign too.

"Oh, we couldn't find anything except a couple arrows in your quiver." She handed him the pouch.

"At least it's something." He shrugged and spun one in his hands.

"Now that you're awake, I need to know more effects on what happened to you."

"Umm...ok?"

"When did you wake up exactly?"

"10 minutes ago, and I'm still dizzy."

"Must be the pain killer, moving on...have you had any cravings for specific foods, specifically meats?"

"No, I'm just really hungry."

"Hmm...that's strange..." Nitori took notes on a sheet of paper on a clipboard.

"Have you had any erges to destroy anything?"

"Not recently...you sound like a therapist."

"Just trying to see if I can get you back to normal."

"It's going to take forever to find everything I lost..."

"Not exactly, we could find replacements."

"Yeah, for the easy stuff...but what about my hookshot? Can't make one of those could you."

"Oh, that's what it's called? Strange little device..." She held it up.

"Yeah, I need it. It's my only other weapon other then my arrows, and I don't want to go stabbing someone if with an arrow it's needed."

"Here's that, I'm going to go check on the other two and see how their recovery is going. Don't go anywhere or unbarricade the doors." She unlocked the hatch and descended the steps. She was right, the doors were barricaded with everything from furniture to scrap metal.

"At least I can fight now. Still a shame I can't use my elemental attacks." He got up but cringed in pain for a short moment and sat back down.

"Maybe I should sleep just for a moment..." He yawned and layed on the floor when he felt something fall over him gently.

"Must be a blanket...it's pretty soft..." Link thought to himself as he rolled over and started to drift into a deep slumber.

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A sudden clank awakened Link from the peace.

"Eat up, sorry it's all we have." Nitori looked at him and sighed.

"That's ok, I'm so hungry I could graze." He looked at the dish set in front of him and it was filled with rice.

"You already eat yet?" He munched on it with his bare hands.

"No. I was up all night too."

"Well you need food and sleep too." He gave her half of the rice.

"I'm alright, you were out cold for a week, you need your strength back up soon." She regected the bowl.

"So how are the others?"

"They're fine, Rumia's awake now, she's asleep most of the time though, like you. You slept for all of yesterday except those couple of minutes, and Momiji's still in the same knocked out stage."

"So there's a couple of stages? What are they?" Link ate another handful of rice, and Nitori wheeled over in a chair to a desk to pick up a note pad.

"The coma-like stage is the first one, then you were slowly waking up into the second stage of small intervals of waking up for small amounts of time then sleeping due to fatigue...That's all I have on that so far, nothing else happened."

"Well, I'm done...do you have anything to drink?" Link gave her the bowl.

"Yeah, we won't run out of water anytime soon that's for sure." Nitori filled a cup at a sink and Link drank it in one glug.

"I'm feeling better already!" He jumped up from his resting area and felt no pain.

"Calm down, don't go gung-ho randomly, you need to rest."

"I'm fine! Wait, what time is it?" He scratched his newly aquired ears.

"Around noon, Eirin's asleep in another room over, thank goodness we got that all set up from being destroyed."

"I thought you said the blast didn't destroy anything."

"Yeah, but like I said, allies have turned against each other and are with their enemies, as far as we know...there may be some mixed results with others though." Nitori wheeled back to another desk nearly falling asleep.

"Listen, you take a nap or something, I'll wake you up in an hour if you want, without sleep you can't think, and if anything happens I'll protect everyone." He walked over and set the blanket on her.

"20 minutes...that's all I need..." She closed her eyes shut and her breathing became slightly heavy.

"Twenty minutes? I won't wake let her sleep for that long, she needs her sleep, everyone does." He looked at one of the doors that previously had a barricade in front of it.

"Maybe I can get some sort of defense..." He looked at the scrap metal heap and picked out a thin sheet around the lenth of his forearm, he then cut a smaller strip off with his hookshot's tip and then wrapped a piece of cloth around it from a pillow he ripped up.

"Alright, kinda like a cleaver..." He looked at his reflection and saw his hair was slightly longer and a tad grey with most of his blond hair still the same.

An hour passed slowly with Link standing in a corner of the room, alert to any movement.

"I better wake her up or she'll be mad." He walked over and poked Nitori on the head.

"I'm up! I'm up!" She scrambled out of the chair.

"Great, so now what?"

"Well we're running low on food and I need to check on them to see if they improved."

"I can go scavenge around for anything."

"Oh no you're not, not in your state." Eirin yawned.

"But I'm fine, don't be so worried about me, I can handle myself."

"You were found dangling from a tree, and you had internal bleeding."

"Yeah yeah yeah, I know you're a doctor, I won't be gone for long." He strolled to the door and slowly removed it's barricade.

"Let him go, he says he's fine." Nitori went down to the basement.

"Plus the fresh air will be good for me."

"Don't go too far." Eirin swiftly closed the door when Link went outside.

"Like that'll happen, I'll get all we need. Where to start..." He paused for a second and heard a stream flowing.

"Fish? Why not..." A small stream though...he started to jab at the schools with an arrow but didn't get a thing.

"Darn fish!" Angered enough, he batted the water and pulled out a large one.

"Let's try that again..." He caugh another three that way.

"This is just freaky." He shrugged and walked away.

"Should I go home? Eirin said not to go far... I could just go down for a second..." He peered into the forest and then the sun.

"Midday, yeah I'm not going anywhere else for now..." He saw an apple tree and knocked a couple of them down.

"That's all I can carry...now I can get back." He quickly ran back and breathed heavily when he came in.

"Find anything?" Nitori asked looking at her notes.

"Fish and some apples that's all."

"At least it's better then nothing..." She said sighing.

"Well do we have anything that I can cook the fish with? It'll be nice to get a hot meal."

"Out of wood."

"How would you be out of wood?!"

"Never remembered to get any."

"I'll go get some. There's some weak trees out of this place." Link went outside and twisted some branchs off the tree and picked some twigs off the ground.

"Back, I'll get a fire going and then we'll eat." The wood was thrown into the stove and was set on fire with a couple attempts, the fish were cooked to perfection after they were gutted.

"What's cooking?" Rumia asked coming upstairs.

"Dinner's rea-" Link walked in with the fish and apples sliced and Rumia nearly died laughing.

"Yeah yeah yeah, get your laughter out now, get used to this because I'm stuck looking like a wolf for a while..."

"Wait until everyone sees you!"

"I don't care, just take something if you're hungry and knock it off!"

"Hmm...'easily enraged'." She wrote down on her note pad.

"That's it? Not much..." Rumia sniffed the plate.

"If you're hungry, you better take it, because you're not going outside for a while." Eirin sat down and held her head.

"Fine..." Rumia groaned taking a fish.

"So how's Momiji doing?" Link asked putting the tray down.

"She's fine, still overly tired." Nitori stated.

"Alright then...now I've got nothing to do." Link sprawled out on the floor watching the lights flicker a bit.

"So how was it outside?" Nitori asked.

"Same old thing, you'd think there'd be more destruction..."

"Did you check everywhere?"

"No, just near the village, nothing's different...I'm going to my house, I need to check if it's still standing and it's not occupied by anyone else." Link got up and was about to go out the hatch.

"You're not going anywhere, kid. You already went outside once, you could have been killed." Eirin stopped him at the entrance.

"Not likely, I can defend myself."

"Yeah, a couple arrows, a guantlet, and a piece of sharp metal, like that'll help you."

"You forgot something...how adorable I look now!"

"Your ego's just as big as Gensokyo."

"Courage, not ego. I'm going to leave and there's nothing you can do about it!"

"I'll lock the door if you do."

"I unlocked a couple doors without anyone's help, pretty easy." He looked at the lock on the steel door.

"Yeah, I can unlock that, lock it if you want, I'm still going." He went outside and the door slammed shut behind him.

"I should hurry up if I'm going to get back here by sundown." Link ran down hill a bit faster then usual and went home.

"Alright...somebody's watching me..." He stood in a clearing and pulled out his sharpened metal sheet, and looked to the left of him.

"They would have struck now, I guess I was wrong." He shrugged and walked away, when he was close to home he heard a rustle in the bushes, he picked up a stone and threw it in, hopefully flushing out whoever it was.

"...Tewi?" Link looked in the bushes at the cowering rabbit.

"Don't eat me!"

"I'm not going to eat you, it's just me, you pranked me a couple months ago..."

"I'd remember if I had pranked a tengu!"

"I'm not, I was a kokiri, then a week ago a machine blew up and yeah, changed a lot of stuff. Also, I was in disguise for something."

"You're not going to eat me?"

"I just said I'm not, crazy rabbit..."

"Hey!" Tewi put her hands on her hips.

"Did I strike a nerve?" Link chuckled.

"You're just dumb!"

"I'm not dumb, I just don't think before I do anything, a lot."

"So...what's going on exactly?"

"Oh, mainly everyone went against their allies, and with their enemies, however there are some with differences whether it be appearence, what you can do, or how you think...all three happened to me." He pointed to his new ears and tail.

"Well I don't think anything's wrong..."

"Me either...wait, didn't I find you faster then I did last time?"

"Yeah, your point?"

"You could be less stealthy. Maybe we should get you to Nitori to be studied." Link grabbed her arm and pulled her.

"Hey, let me go!" She dug her heels into the ground.

"Well, in case any effects have been put upon you, and if you want to be safer, then I suggest you cooperate." Link glared at her but his tone was soft.

"Umm..."

"I guess I could leave you out here, possibly anyone else would like to have you as a meal." Link grinned and walked away.

"Ok fine!" She ran up to him and stayed by his side, one false step later, Link nearly fell into a pitfall.

"...If I'm about to fall, warn me."

"H-How did you know that was there?!"

"A lucky guess." He shrugged and walked around it.

"How far until we get to the safe place?"

"Oh, Nitori's is just a couple yards away from here."

"Why are we going there?"

"You'll see, just help me make sure no one's going after us, that's all." They kept walking until they reached the building and went inside.

"I'm back!" Link said with a musical tone.

"Oh good...well who do we have here?" Rumia looked at Tewi.

"Where's Eirin?" Tewi asked them slightly worried.

"Downstairs, healing Momiji, I suggest you don't go down there." Link said sitting down.

"Ok..." She sighed and sat on the other side of the room.

"So, how's she doing?"

"Fine, she's up finally, and has the same symptoms you two had." Nitori yawned.

"Link? Is that you?" Momiji stared at Link.

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CLIFF HANGER~