AN: Alright I realize that I have taken a while to update, I have to thank the people who followed and reviewed this story. Because I honestly was not expecting it and it makes me want to finish it all the more. but I have been really busy. I mean between a model UN, mentally draining Christmas socials three of which I knew nobody but they tried to force me into their religion or political stance and just blatant class work I have had a lot on my plate. But I doubt people want to hear my complaining and excuses so roll the chapter.
I reformed in an ankle-deep pool of water. The weight on my back that I was starting to get used to was gone, but that was to be expected. "Hey, Midna, where is this village that you told me about?" I got no response. "Oh come on do you really expect me to believe you left me to my own devices? I don't buy it for a second." I said to an empty pond. "Fine, I'll find it myself, come out whenever you feel like it." I said walking out of the gates.
I turned and started walking. I entered a clearing with purple monsters (I could never remember their name). I decided that because I knew nothing about combat in my normal form, and was still getting used to being a wolf that I should try and either sneak around or stealthily kill one and take on the other. Based on their patrol path I was going to have to take the latter. I crouched as low as I could and moved into the grass. I waited for one to come by and pounced. I closed my jaws around his throat and tore it out.
I then was sent to the ground by a wild club swing from the other ugly. I got up and instead of going for the throat because it was ready to swing at me if I tried, I used my superior speed to run through its legs and bit one of the knees. It went down like an adventurer and I leapt for the throat. When it was smoke in the air I picked up what it had left, a single heart, it merged with my hand and I felt relatively better. Though I wondered where the Picori got them and instantly regretted it.
I was leaving the clearing when I heard a little voice say "Wait!" I turned around and stared at a chipmunk that was sitting on the porch of a tree house. "Thank you for killing those monsters. The villagers might give you trouble because of how you look but ask any animal you see and they can help you. Just tell them Alvin sent you." he told me cheerfully. "Thank you. I'll try not to cause too much trouble down there. If you ever need my help just tell me." I told him. I walked down the path towards town.
I entered the small village and stared for a second at how ramshackle everything looked. I knew I would need a weapon for when I turned back to human. I knew which houses housed the sword and shield, but I had to come up with a reason for how I knew. By that point I was already in Rusl's house and had the sword I next went to the location of the shield. Midna finally stopped hiding and came out saying something about the trip draining her. "So you never did answer what do we need to get in order to restore the princess?" I asked her though I knew the answer I was serious about no one finding out that I was from another realm.
"We need to collect the parts of an artifact what it is and does is on a need to know basis." she told me. "So the princess must trust you a lot if Zant cursed you too." she looked at me "I am tired of asking this so next time just tell me your reasoning so I don't have to ask you how you came to that conclusion!" she all but yelled at me.
"Well okay. I figured it out from when Zelda showed us the memory of Zant, and he looked to be around normal size for a Hylian so I assumed that if you ruler was a woman that all Twili women don't look like you because being that small doesn't convey power even though you have power, and reproduction would be a bit awkward, to say the least." I stated bluntly. She turned a bit red at that "Okay seriously do light dwellers have any decency at all?"
"It is most likely that at least one person here has decency." I said plainly "I was merely stating a fact that I found to be supportive of the statement, and did not let certain emotions or hormones change how I presented that fact." I tried to explain it as best I could without the use of words like mental disorder because that would probably go down just as well as telling her I was either in a dream or from another dimension.
"Wait… come to my spring."
"Well, that's not creepy or foreboding at all. It just occurred to me but if the princess was overthrown then Zant must have made an army before the coup, so does he have the support of the people or did he use magic to create an army, and what better way to make an army and get rid of any resistance than to use magic to turn the citizens into your army, by force if necessary?" her face was one of utter bloodlust "he turned his own people into those monsters. He uses powerful dark magic unknown to me, so I hope to combat it with the artifact we collect. I have tried everything on them nothing seems to work to break the curse. She dissolved back into shadow, she obviously didn't want to talk about it.
I walked into the spring from which I had materialized and stood in the pond. "You have been transformed by the power of shadow. Come to me" I walked closer to the small waterfall in the back when pillars fell to the ground in front of me. "Beware. A shadow being… It approaches." The portal that we came through reappeared with red swirls in it and a large black thing fell through.
It looked like a person that had their hands enlarged while their torso and legs shrunk. It was black and walked on all fours with a large circular stone mask on its face. I knew it as a twilight messenger or as it was more commonly known a shadow beast. I had an idea to break the curse, the problem was pulling it off. I moved toward the beast leading it to a side of the ring keeping us in. I circled around it until my back was facing the rest area. It took a swing at me I jumped back and used the opening to leap at its neck. I land and started biting and clawing while the beast thrashed. It managed to throw me off when a hand clipped me.
I backed off and ran to the other side of the ring. Ignoring the pain in my chest I sat down. "What are you doing stupid mutt you're going to die." Midna was out again. The beast was still recovering from my attack this was my opening. I lifted my head and I howled. It came out louder and more serene than I thought it would. The tune floated through the air and all around the region. It was a slow haunting melody that healed one's sorrows known as the song of healing.
When I finished I saw that the beast was changing. The hands shrunk as the torso grew and then it was covered in white light. When it faded I saw a Twili man in robes. He turned and bowed in my direction then disappeared into the portal. Most likely he went back to the twilight realm so as not to die from the light. I stood up slowly and moved to the grass close by. I cut it down and found a heart for my effort. I absorbed it and the pain went away.
It took about that long for the others to overcome their surprise. Midna was the first to speak. "What the hell was that? Since when do you know magic? You don't even have an aura of power around you!" she was already in the process of what people like her do when they see something they don't understand. The next phase is isolation from the subject they fear in this case me Before I could say anything Ordona decided to step in.
"I have not heard that song in a long time. If you would, would you tell me where you learned such a song." He, wait is it a he? It doesn't matter right now. It did not sound afraid, not that I expected it to be. It was curious more than anything else. "To be honest I first heard it come from a stone that whistled. I learned to play it from this strange man called the happy mask salesman. He told me it was a magic song that healed sorrows and regrets, and broke curses. I thought maybe that it could break the curse on the twili so that he didn't have to die because of something, not his fault. Since I was not sure whether it would work I weakened it first so that the magic might have more of an effect."
It wasn't false but it was half-truths. I first heard it from a howling stone in the game, and I was later taught how to play it in another game by the mask salesman. "So it's the song that's magic, not you? And you don't need magic to play it?" Midna questioned. "Yes the song itself is magic. I am not sure if I have magic or not, and I don't know, maybe it only requires a small amount of ambient magic? Or it's an insignificant amount that is taken from the player?" I was just guessing I wasn't even sure it would work in the first place.
"I am Ordona, one of four light spirits. The creature you fought was a being cursed by shadow. It came to steal my light. My brothers have already had their light stolen plunging Hyrule into a nether realm. It will not stop with Hyrule soon the world will be controlled by the king of shadows. Those transformed by twilight usually don't regain their lost form, if you were to restore light to one of my brothers then the strain on my power would be lessened and shared by both of us. This would allow my brother to return you to your other form"
While Ordona was speaking a ball of light erupted from the fountain. The ball then horns start to form around it, and a body formed until there was a giant golden goat in front of us. "I will go rescue your brothers, and restore Hyrule to normal, but I think you shouldn't insult another realm when a person who lives there is here. I mean that's pretty insensitive and rude don't you think?" I asked it."Yes, I suppose you are correct, it was a rather rude and unjustified comment." at least Ordona was understanding.
"We should go to Faron first. It's the closest province and just so happens to be where one of the artifacts is being kept. Get a move on mutt." she turned just solid enough for me to feel the kick in the sides. I reluctantly started walking. "Could you not kick me for a while? I got hit by that shadow beast right in the ribs." I asked trying to keep the pain out of my voice. "Fine, but only because you saved that guy. I hope you know doing things like that is just gonna get you killed." I guess she finally remembered that I was a supposed light dweller who she needs to hate because of something that people hundreds of years ago did.
I crossed a rope bridge and stopped at the veil of twilight."So how's this going to work? Am I going to be violently grabbed and pulled in?" I asked half-jokingly. I was immediately grabbed and squeezed by a giant hand made from Midna's hair, "Yes" she said as I was pulled through the veil and everything went black.
AN: I told you I wasn't abandoning it! It's finally done. By the way, I got a review that suggested I change my writing format, I didn't. I just would like to give a reason. The way you suggested feels more like a script than a story because the paragraphs in a book are actual paragraphs while a script changes when someone else speaks, I find it easier to read like this, but that's just me so sorry but this is how I like it but thanks for not being rude about it. Also, I know it seems like I am going for a snarky protag route, but I am basing him off me and I'm only snarky to people who are snarky to me first, I am usually very polite. (I know that makes me sound like I'm lying (to some people) but it's true)