"No! You can chase me all across the Twilight Realm if you care, but you will never take her away from me!"

"Please be reasonable, Midnight! This is a peaceful raid, so just hand her over and we won't harm you!"

In the Twilight Realm, many stories are told of a legendary princess who would come to save the worlds of light and dark, so every time one is born with a suspected unusual power, it would be taken away to the forest and left there. If it made it's way back, it would be deemed the Twilight Princess, and this one is no exception. The baby's mother, Midnight, is running from the Royal Raiders, the guards of the Palace of Twilight, with her child for safety. She found a small cave up ahead that would house them for the moment, so she dashed toward the cave entrance and hid in the shadows. When the worried mother was sure she had lost the guards, she turned toward the baby in relief, although she knew that it wouldn't hide her for long. Those guards are so fast that it would only be a matter of time before they found her again and took the baby away. So she tried to make the naming as fast as she could make it. There originally was supposed to be a ceremony for naming the child, in which all the citizens of the realm were to come and celebrate the coming of another Twilit, but this time, it would most likely be in the cave they were in now. No company, just themselves.

"It's time to name you, isn't it? I think I should name you after the legendary princess of the Twilight Realm, who had once saved the universe from destruction. You know… I really think that you will be the next princess in line, but that doesn't mean that you should be taken away from me. I will name you, and it shall be the symbol of your power. I can see it in you, the power sacred to all the Twili. On the back of your hand is the symbol of the greatest power in the world, and I know that it will be used one day to save our world from destruction. I have decided your name. From now on, you will be known as…"

Just then, a guard burst into the cave and found her, huddled in the corner with the baby. When he saw her, he called out to the others, who were still desperately trying to find her.

"I found you! You can't run any farther, so just give it up! Now hand her over. It's to the Forest of Nayru with her!"

"No! You can't take her from me! No matter if she's a princess or not, she deserves a protective mother!"

By then the others had appeared at the mouth of the cave and did no more than stare at Midnight, the mysterious woman who was defending herself and her child against the most powerful soldiers in the Twilight Realm. Without a single glance at the other raiders, he continued on.

"You know the rules, ma'am. You must give her up now, she belongs in the Nayru Forest with the others. Just remember that your child may just return safely."

Despite his calming words and soothing voice, she did not budge.

"Fine. If that's how you want it, I'll take her by force." With that, as if on cue, the others ran in and held her back while her newborn was ripped from her grasp with little effort. Desperate to protect her baby, she broke free of the grip of the older Twili and dashed at the one who held the little one. She almost succeeded, but was instead kicked aside and held down.

That was when she gave up. Before they were out of sight, Midnight wept one shining tear, and it flew into the baby's hand, which disappeared. A mother's tear can hold special properties.

"May the goddess protect you, my child… My spirit will always be with you…"

This is but one of the legends of which the people speak

The Legend of Midna

Part One

"That mother was a bit overprotective of this helpless baby, don't you think?" The guard holding the child asked the others as they leisurely walked to the forest in the distance.

"You think that's how a mother should act, stupid? She wanted to save her baby! Of course she would fight back, no matter what!" The guard to his left exclaimed, sounding exasperated.

"Yeah, I know. But we've had to do this several times before, and all those times the mothers didn't put up a fight. Sure, they ran as anyone would do when faced with danger, but this one was overprotective. Maybe this is the one?"

"He does make a point," the guard to his right answered, "I have never seen a mother of any kind in my years of service defend like that. I think we finally found our Twilight Princess."

Later that night, the guards left the newborn in the center of Nayru Forest all alone. She was unconscious the whole way there, and for hours after that. The sound of birds chirping brought her to her senses, early in the morning. One look around and she knew it was the Nayru Forest. After finding her bearings, she started to wander aimlessly around, but soon realized she had gotten herself even more lost. She didn't know what to do, since she was only three hours old. She could already talk, however, due to the fast rate in which Twili grow. But that wasn't the most important thing. She had to find out how to get out of this place, for it had a mysterious feel to it.

After wandering more, she found that it was more or less like a maze of sorts. Her Twilit magic, the powers that all denizens of the Twilight Realm possess, had not come to her yet. That came after about five days. For now, she had to stick to her gut to tell her where to go. However, depression quickly followed in her footsteps. She had only been there for a short time, but to her it felt like an eternity and a day. That was when she decided to stop and think, think like a grownup would, she assumed. She already missed the warmth of her parent that she had seen for only a brief moment. She missed being cuddled. She missed...everything.

That was when she felt something.

She was drawn to something, something very peculiar. It seemed to beckon to her, the force that came from a place toward the heart of the forest. As she crawled toward the mysterious force, she slid down a cliffside into a large mass of white. Looking around, she saw what this white belonged to. These were bones. The bones of the past children who were left in the woods, but failed to return. It immediately chilled her to her own bones, seeing those of other Twili. She hoped she would never have to see anything like it again once she got out of there. The child was drawn to something else, though. She was drawn to a little glowing object in the center of all of the skeletons. Something was odd, though, because all of the boney hands seemed to reach towards it. The force the flame exerted must have been there for a reason, because why wouldn't she die when she came towards it? Those children may have been filled with a natural lust for power, but Nayru, the goddess the Twili looked up to, knew it, so she killed all of them as they tried to grab it. But what was it?

What could this thing be that was guarding itself?

Is it something of importance?

Or is it just a curse?