Alright, here it is!

By the way... I kinda have no idea where this story is going, so after this little story point, if some sort of all out war don't occur because of what happens here, I would greatly appreciate hearing what you people would like to see in the story.

Also, tell me if you can spot the reference to a particular god-creature from a particular moon-based game. It's not that hard to find, but you never know.

Oh, and just saying, I don't know about you, but you might want to think about eating anything about halfway through... It gets a little gross.


Chapter 3

Link woke a little before the servant Twili came to abruptly wake the princess. With nothing better to do, he took to wandering Midna's room. He found it was extremely simple, only a bed and some other things lying around here and there. He stopped his sniffing when he heard the door open.

Link spun around, growling automatically at the servant that was about to wake his friend. The Twili stopped and raised her hands to the air, startled. She backed away slowly, and closed the door, probably bolting as soon as she was out of Link's sight.

Link chuckled to himself at the poor girl's reaction. He hadn't meant to scare the living daylights out of her, but he hadn't wanted her to wake Midna at such an early time.

A couple minutes passed, and Link figured that the servant would try and get the princess up one way or another, so he decided to do the job himself. He hopped up onto the bed and gently licked her cheek. Slowly, she awoke, and when she saw what Link was doing, she pushed him away, unintentionally throwing him off the bed.

Link jumped back up, and found that Midna had fallen back asleep. He laughed. Apparently, she had gone back into the mindset that she had while Link was trying to save the two Realms. When Link went to sleep as the wolf, on the colder nights, Midna would lie on his stomach, staring up at the sky. The morning afterwards, she wouldn't wake for any reason unless she was dunked in water, so Link often had to find a river to drag her into. Midna would then yell at him in annoyance and use her hair-hand to drag him into the stream with her.

With no water around though, Link tried to find another way to get her up. He decided that pushing her off the bed was the next best bet. He shoved his nose under her, which she flinched slightly at the cold, and pushed her off the bed. A loud thunk could be heard, and Link looked over the edge. Unsurprisingly, she just rolled on her stomach and resumed sleeping.

Link sighed to himself, climbing down. He stared at the sleeping nuisance, and with no way of getting her up, left the room. After wandering the area for a bit, he found the servant girl talking to one of the men at the meeting from the other day (Night?) Judging from his voice, it was the one that had called him a beast (Not that such a name was a surprise) and instantly hated him because he was from the light world.

Link and the servant made eye contact, and then the wolf walked over to her, nudging her forward. The girl got the message and followed him, telling the man that she would talk to him later. Link walked to a door and tried to remember if it was the correct one. Regardless, he went to open it. The girl said, "Hang on a second, don't open that!"

The door opened before it could be stopped. Standing there was a young female Twili that seemed to have been in the middle of changing. Link instantly knew he had been incorrect and lowered his head to the ground in embarrassment. He heard a shriek that was so high pitched, he was sure he was the only one who heard it, and the servant mutter an apology and the door closed.

"What was that about?!" The girl scolded at him. "Can't you read?! That door clearly read, 'Don't enter unless you want my husband to kick your ass!'"

Link wasn't sure what happened. He glanced up briefly to find that there was indeed a symbol on the door. It was unreadable by Link's standards though, so he at least understood why he had disregarded it. If only he had been aware that the Twilight Realm's written language was so vastly different compared to Hyrule's.

Link avoided eye contact with the servant, merely making a motion that asked her to follow him. Reluctantly, she complied.

After getting lost for a while, Link finally arrived at the door that he hoped to the Goddesses that it was the correct one.

"You want me to wake the princess?" The servant asked. Link nodded pleadingly. "And you drove me off earlier. Look at what you got for it." She smiled playfully, "You'd better be grateful that I don't plan on informing her of your little mishap that happened on the way here." Link looked at her in a grateful manner, knowing that Midna would probably unleash Hell on him if she knew about that.

The two entered and the servant performed her duty, waking the princess in an instant. Link stared at her in amazement. Link himself couldn't even get her to open an eye without effort, but she could just simply yell and the princess would be up in an instant. Her job completed, the girl took her leave.

Midna grumbled to herself about firing that woman as she rubbed her eyes sleepily and sat up. Link rolled his eyes, as she herself was aware that she had a tendency to oversleep, and probably hired the girl for the sole reason of avoiding that.

Midna stood, looking down at her friend. "I have the day off today." She informed him. "Every couple days I can't help but call off the meetings. So we can just do whatever we want now! Come on, we have some business to take care of."

Although the wolf didn't have anything better to do, he still felt as though he was being unwillingly dragged along as the princess sat on his back and directed his movements. It wasn't much different from the start of the adventure, where Midna was, admittedly, a bit of a bitch.

Soon, they were at the room that contained the Sol. Link looked at the imp on his back, confused.

"Don't give me that look, Link. Everything I do has a purpose," Midna said, floating off him, advancing to the Twilight Realm's equivalent to the Light Realm's sun.

'Right…' Link rolled his eyes. 'What purpose did you have every time you left me to die when I fainted in the middle of battle?' Regardless, he approached the Sol, turning back into a Hylian upon touching it, the Shadow Crystal forcing itself out of Link's body.

Midna stared intensely at the Shadow Crystal that floated before them.

Link looked at her, asking, "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Midna asked him.

"Thinking," Link replied.

"What do you know, you're correct," Midna sighed.

Link figured he would only annoy the princess if he continued to talk, so he instead left her to her thinking and sat down on the floor. He closed his eyes and laid his head up against the wall as he savored the moment of peacefulness.

Midna snapped, and the sound of something teleporting reached Link's ears, but he choose to ignore the sounds, even when she started to play with the things she had summoned. Eventually, the noises ceased, and the calmness returned for a moment. And then the by now half-asleep Link felt cold hands snake their way around his neck.

Popping his eyes open, he found Midna, now back in her true form, crouched beside him, staring at him in slight surprise. "I thought you fell asleep." She had stopped whatever she had been doing.

"I almost did, but then your cold fingers touched my neck." Link said. "What were you doing?"

Midna looked down at her hands, and Link tilted his head down to follow her gaze. She was apparently holding the chain that was now around his neck. At the end of it was a small pouch.

Midna finished hooking the chain around his neck, and withdrew her hands. Link grabbed the chain and held it up, inspecting the pouch.

After a minute of just inspecting the outside of the pouch, Midna grew impatient. "Are you going to open it, or not?!"

Link laughed at her, but nevertheless opened said bag. Inside, the Shadow Crystal was stored. Link looked up at Midna. "Why?" He asked her.

Midna smiled. "So that you can transform if I'm not around, duh!" She answered. "Now be a good wolf-boy and transform for me."

Link growled playfully at her. No matter what, she would always call him a wolf-boy. Anyway, he obeyed, transforming into a wolf. He sat down to watch the princess with interest and confusion as she summoned some tools and began whacking the Sol.

Eventually, a chuck broke off, the shape amazingly not far off from the Shadow Crystal's. The Sol now looked like it possessed a decent sized dent. Next, she summoned some more materials and began messing around with them. Soon, she was holding a small metal-covered Sol. Only a tiny amount was exposed on one side, and on the other was a metal ring.

Midna crouched down again and grabbed Link's right paw, putting it on. Link watched her attach it so it was symmetrical to the shackle on his left paw. Quite a while ago, Midna had offered to remove the shackle, as then he might be less feared among the stupider people that could believe he's just a really big dog, but he had grown used to listening to it jingle as he ran, and the slight tightness that was present, so he refused. Also, very few people even noticed the chain; they could just tell from his looks that he was in no way a big dog.

Now Link had a metal cuff on both front paws. Deciding to see just how well her idea works, he reached with his left paw to touch the small exposed part of the Sol, transforming back into a Hylian, with the pouch that contained the Shadow Crystal closed, but upon opening it, Link found that it was still snuggly secured inside.

"Wow, correct on the first try," Link teased her, as on more than a couple occasions, her ideas had disastrous effects.

"Shut up," Midna snarled. "It worked, so just be glad that you didn't blow up, and let's move on."

Link chuckled lightly, and then noticed Midna had just about left the room, so he ran for a couple feet to catch up. "So what's the plan for the rest of the day?"

Midna turned her head to look at him, and then winked. "We have a festival to go to."

Link's face lit up. "A festival?!" He had heard a number of stories about festivals that had occurred while the Ordan villagers were off on business in Castle Town, but he had never been to one himself, the one that was planned having been canceled when the castle was engulfed by the barrier. Not that Midna would have allowed him to stop long enough to enjoy most of the festivities anyway.

Midna nodded. "I heard you once say that you wanted to go to that canceled festival a while back. And, because we had a festival planned, until Zant showed up that is, we're having it now."

Link jumped up and down in excitement, like a dog that was expecting its owner to go throw it a Frisbee.

A couple minutes later, Link was dashing full speed through the palace to get to the marketplace the festival was being held at.

"Slow down, you dumb mutt!" Midna yelled behind him, desperately trying to keep up with him. It was too late, though, as Link burst through the gates and ran headfirst into the crowd, getting completely lost.

Link looked at the various stalls that lined the streets. There was so much that was offered, ranging from chest armor, to double helix swords, to masks that looked strangely like him. After a bit of wandering around, Midna caught up to him.

"Goddesses, you are so hard to keep track of." She complained.

Link didn't reply, instead picking up the double helix sword and twirling it around a little. The shopkeeper seemed impressed. "Not a whole lot of people care about swords these days. Other than that earlier invasion, which was resolved by a force that basically made normal soldiers obsolete, no one has any reason to learn how to wield one."

Link glanced at the shop owner, and then his selection of weapons. He didn't have a lot, which was understandable, as apparently they weren't in very high demand, and it was just a festival. "It's a little sad, when you think about it." Link sighed. "Though I guess in a way that's a good sign, but I still figured that people would want some."

"I know, right?" The shopkeeper agreed. "Well, if you ever need a sword, give me a shout, OK?" He handed Link a business card. "You know, I didn't ever think I would see a light dweller come over to this Realm. I heard rumors that the only link was broken when the princess returned."

"I found a way." Link told him. He looked around, and spotted Midna waiting by a wall, trying to not be noticed by the locals. He approached her. "What kind of currency do you have here?"

Midna raised an eyebrow. "I thought you would have figured that out a long time ago, whenever you smacked a pot and rupees came flying out."

"Oh, I was wondering about that. How come you use Hyrule's currency if your ancestors were banished such a long time ago? Wouldn't you have found some other resource that you would make into a new currency?"

"Actually, amazingly enough, the Twilight Realm holds a material that was close enough that rupees could stay the currency. I'm not sure how, but that's just some minor details that I'm not going to even attempt to figure out." Midna explained to him.

Link nodded. "Cool, I'm off to buy some stuff then." He ran off in excitement.

A minute later, the poor boy returned. "I don't have any of my things." He explained to the princess.

Midna couldn't help but laugh at him a little. She tossed him a couple hundred rupees. "Try not to go overboard now."

Link smiled and turned on his heel, running back into the crowd. He looked around, wondering what he should get. He had a couple hundred rupees, so money wasn't exactly a barrier.

The first thing he got was some delicious… edible something or other. He wasn't quite sure what it was, and he couldn't even begin to pronounce the word, but it was quite amazing.

Finding nothing else in that section, he returned to Midna, who was still leaning by the wall. "Not going to join in the fun?"

"No," Midna glanced at him, and gagged at the food in his hand. "Do you even realize what that is?"

Link looked at his food. "Not at all," he admitted. "Is it important?"

"I don't know, you tell me. Is an animal's brains something you enjoy snacking on?"

"Brains?" Link asked, suddenly lacking an appetite. Midna nodded. Link threw the foodstuff into a nearby trashcan. "Lovely, anyway, why aren't you going to join in?"

Midna shrugged, almost as though she wasn't entirely sure herself. Link grabbed her hand, pulling her along into the crowd.

At first, the princess was a bit uptight, but she loosed up a little when Link started to slurp down what he later found out was effectively flavored animal's vomit. After that event, the poor teen decided to not eat anything else.

After quite a while of wandering about the place, a young, strange, and kind of creepy (by Link's standards anyway) woman beckoned the two into a nearby tent. It was almost pitch-black inside, with only a small strip of light streaming in from an opening in the tent, and they had to rely on the woman's voice as she talked to navigate to wherever she wanted them to go to.

"It's not every day one sees the princess out and about." She spoke slowly, carefully, and softly. "Who's the young Light Dweller with you?"

"This is Link, the one who helped saved our Realm." Midna introduced him.

"'Helped?'" Link glanced at her silhouette.

"OK, he did the vast majority of the heavy lifting. Except for the real heavy lifting." Midna corrected herself.

"The real heavy lifting?" The woman asked.

"I had to warp all sorts of giant things, like a cannon and a bridge, and a molten rock. Makes him look like a wimp, really."

"I bet you can't even lift your weight." Link complained. "That was all magic."

"Indeed, but with it, I can still lift plenty more than you."

"Anyway," the woman interrupted their bickering.

Link glanced over to her. "Oh yeah, what is it that you wanted?"

The woman laughed a little. "I'm a fortune-teller. I'm really curious as to what the princess's fate is."

"Everyone wants to know that," Midna pointed out. "And I guess I'm a little curious as well."

"Very well," Link imagined the lady was smiling. "Come forward now."

Midna complied. A small shiny something or other glinted in the small river of light before disappearing. Link wasn't sure what it was, but he decided that it wasn't important and waited for the fortune-teller's news.

She gasped, and it sounded a little fake. "I see…" Link could almost see her smile evilly as he got a horrible feeling of foreboding. "Your death."

Midna gasped as Link heard the oh-so-familiar sound of a sharp object slicing through flesh. Midna's silhouette collapsed, and Link jumped into action, changing into a wolf and sinking his fangs into the woman's shoulder. The lady let out a yelp of pain and flailed until Link was thrown off. He got up and changed back into a human as the lady moved to attack Midna again. He swiftly kicked the girl in face, sending her flying to the back of the tent. Link growled at her in hatred.

The woman growled back, and launched her weapon at Link, who couldn't see anything without his wolf eyes. The weapon, a kitchen knife from the size and weight of it, stabbed Link in the shoulder, though the chainmail under his tunic softened the blow dramatically. Link ripped the knife from his shoulder as the lady bowled into him, wrestling the knife from his hands.

Soon enough, the knife was digging into Link's stomach as it was pushed in more than hard enough to break right through the protective chainmail. Link screamed in pain when the woman brutally ripped it out, and watched to see if the boy would dare get back up. He did, but was kicked back down. The sudden pain caused him to cough up blood and immobilized him for the moment.

Satisfied, the woman moved back to Midna, who was struggling to get back. Link stared helplessly as she kicked the princess back down. Link pushed himself back up and grabbed the woman's wrist before she could plunge it into flesh. "Never count me out," he told her, taking the knife from her hand and pushing her to the ground. He stomped on one of her wrists and stabbed the knife through her hand, causing her to scream in distress and flail around, no longer having the strength, or the rational thinking, to remove the blade that pinned her to the spot.

The assaulter dealt with, Link moved to Midna's side. "Are you alright?"

Midna grunted in response. "I think I'll live."

Link smiled. "Good."

There were some noises from outside as people noticed the screams emitting from the woman. Guards entered the scene, asking, "What's going on in here?!"

Light flooded the area, and the first thing the guards noticed was their princess laying on the ground with a cut wound on her stomach.

Midna turned her head to look at the woman that attacked them, about to say something along the lines of 'arrest her.' The words caught in her throat, though, as she looked at the lady's face. Link turned to look as well, and found it was the same servant that was the only one that knew anything about getting the princess up in a timely manner. How they had missed that detail was a mystery.

Momentarily shaking off her confusion, Midna ordered the guards to arrest her with was done swiftly. Slowly, she sat up and waited a moment. All was silent, and there were no longer the noises of the festival outside, meaning that it was probably disrupted by the fight. "Well, that's one way to ruin a festival." Link laughed at her nonchalant-ness.

Midna glanced at Link, and then took the time to inspect his wounds. "You're getting out of practice." She commented. "Seriously, I think we're going to have to replace your tunic."

Link looked down at his outfit. "It's not that bad."

"Yes it is. If anything, we're going to have to dye it red, because your blood isn't coming out of that thing without a lot of effort."

Link waved it off. "We've gotten worse out of this thing."

"Not before dyeing the Spirit's Pond a lovely shade of red. Goddesses, was he pissed."

Link cringed at the memory. "That'll teach me to piss off Eldin." Slowly, he started to stand, but with the adrenaline no longer fueling him, he felt lightheaded and just ended up falling to the ground, slowly slipping out of consciousness. The last thing he heard was Midna desperately calling to one of the guards to get help…


Not bad, huh? Again, inform me if I make any mistakes, please. And please tell me if you have any ideas of where this story should go.