Chapter 3: Wolves, Creatures, and Castles
"Timber! Timber! Wake up!" I hear a voice bark.
I slowly look up, my body still hurts from school and I may be bleeding again.
I ask, "Link?! Is that you?!"
I ask this soon after realizing that I'm looking at another wolf. This wolf is black with some white. He also has a triforce on his left paw.
"Timber...it is me, I have no idea what has happened," Link says.
I try to transform back into a human, but all I end up doing is looking constipated.
"I think I'm stuck like this," I tell him.
"It's going to be okay, Timber, I'm here," Link says, trying to comfort me.
"I guess I wasn't alone," I say, looking at Link.
"You were never alone," Link says.
I try to get closer to him, but then I realize that I have a shackle on one leg holding me in place.
"I need help," I say.
Link comes closer, but he is also shackled down.
"We are stuck," Link confirms.
I try as hard as I can to break the shackle, but it won't snap. I lie down and give up. Link tries to lick my forehead, but he's too far away. He gives up and lies down also. I whimper.
"We'll be okay," Link reassures me.
I can't help crying, those wounds from earlier were again bleeding and aching. This time I'm absolutely sure of it.
A strange creature appears not long later. It looks as though it only has one eye and it has orange hair tied into a ponytail. Link growls at it and I hid behind him.
"Ooh! Scary! Are you sure you want to be growling at me and all that?" the creature asks, looking bored.
Link continues to growl.
"Look, I promised to help you so long as you are nice, but...looks like I'll have to leave you here!" the creature says, laughing slightly.
Link calms down.
"Good boy, I'll free you, but I don't need the girl," the creature says.
"Then I won't come with you!" Link speaks.
"Oh! You can talk?!" the creature asks, surprised.
"I can too!" I say.
"I guess I have to at least remove those shackles!" the creature says.
She charges up a ball of electricity or something and shoots the shackles.
"There, now if you can get out by yourselves I can help you," the creature says.
Link runs over to the cage walls and barks loudly at the creature. Then he starts digging so I follow him. He digs a hole all the way to the other side of the bars. The creature leaps on top of him and he starts to run and try to knock her off.
"Timber! Help me! Get this disgusting creature off of me!" Link screams.
I run after him and grab the creature. I throw it and we run away. As Link and I run, we have to crawl through tunnels and open up doors by pulling levers. There are also lots of strange black creatures. Soon enough, we reach a broken staircase.
"I guess the only way out is up..." Link says, sniffing the stairs.
"Do you enjoy being a wolf?" I ask Link.
"It's way faster than being a human to be honest. Though I wouldn't want to be a wolf forever," Link says.
"We better hurry before that revolting creature comes back!" I warn him.
We quickly run up the stairs avoiding broken steps until we reach the roof.
"What is this place?!" I ask Link.
"I have no idea, it's very dark out here though," Link responds.
"There's a tall tower over there, maybe it's important?" I ask.
Link and I head towards the tallest tower. Suddenly, I hear a loud buzzing noise and a large black bird comes from the sky.
"What is that thing?!" I ask.
Link doesn't answer, but starts trying to attack the ugly dark bird.
"Link, what am I supposed to do?!" I ask.
"Attack the bird that's over there!" Link says with the first bird in his mouth.
I run over to attack the other large bird. Suddenly, my triforce shines very brightly and blinds the creature. I take that moment to jump into the air, grab the bird, and come back down. I shake it around until it dies.
"Woah! How did you get that to happen?" Link asks me while still struggling with his bird.
I run over and kill the bird for him. Link closes his eyes because my triforce is too bright. As soon as the birds are all gone, the scratchy buzzy noise stops. That creature appears.
"Well, looks like you were able to fight off those TwilitKargoracs without me. But guess what, you have to take me with you," the creature says.
I turn around and shine my light right into her one eye.
"Stop, stop! Too bright!" the creature cries.
I turn back around and make a break for it with Link right behind me. We leave the creature behind again, but I know it can't be the end of it.
"Timber, you have a glowing forehead, what are you going to do now?" Link asks me.
"Hey! You have a glowing hand don't you?!" I ask him.
"Yep, but you can cover a hand easily," Link says.
"Then you apparently don't have enough courage to show your courage," I say.
"At least I don't burn people's eyes with it," Link jokes.
"I saved you didn't I?" I ask him.
Link licks my forehead then jerks back, "You have a hot head!"
"That's not good..." I say.
Link has his tongue hanging out, "Remind me to never lick the triforce again!"
"Then don't lick your paw either," I say.
Link runs ahead of me to the window on the tallest tower. We enter through the window.
"So what are we doing here?" I ask Link.
"Trying to find someone who knows what has happened to the world," Link says.
"Alright," I say.
Link walks up to a door and pulls it open. Inside, there was a figure staring out the window wearing a dark robe.
"Excuse me, um, do you have any information about what has happens that you can tell us? We are kind of lost," Link asks.
"Is Midna not with you?" the person, who was a girl, asks.
"Who's Midna?" Link asks.
"The small creature wearing part of a mask," the girl says, "She has a ponytail,"
"Well...we kinda left her outside..." I say.
"That's a shame, oh well," the girl says.
"So you don't care what happens to her?" Link asks.
"I sort of do, she had an important mission to fulfill. If you guys could bring her back here I might tell you about what happened," the girl says.
Link rushes outside and hauls Midna into the room.
"Now, I may speak," the girl says.
She tells us all about how her kingdom was taken over by some guy named Zant and how she surrendered because she would still have a chance to save the kingdom. Then she lifts the hood of her robe, instead of seeing a princesses face, I see a white wolf with sad blue eyes.
"You're a wolf too?! How come?! That's not how the story goes!" Link screams.
"Shhh...You don't have to break the wall..." Zelda says.
"Wall?!" asks Link, "What wall?!"
"Just calm down, I'm not going to tell you about the wall, that'd just put a bigger crack in it," Zelda says.
"Do you have a triforce?" I ask, changing the subject.
"Yes, I have the triforce of wisdom," Zelda says.
"Cool, are you allowed to leave the castle?" I ask.
"I don't think so, if the guards found me missing, they'd find me and kill me," Zelda says,
"They wouldn't be able to find you if you went in disguise," I tell her.
"True, would you like to give me a makeover?" Zelda asks.
"Sure," I say and I go to work changing her appearance.
I grab some material I found in my adventure pouch and turn it into an outfit. Then I get some materials for a mask and hid her face behind it.
"There, now we need a fake name for you so if they hear us talking about you they won't realize it," I say.
"How about Sheik?" asks Zelda.
"Perfect," I say, "Now change your voice a little."
"Alright, let's go!" Sheik says in her new voice.
We all take off down the hallway and climb back through the window. Midna rests on Sheik's back.
