Chapter Four

Third Person's P.O.V.

'Ouch . . .' Link said as he awoke and he felt the pain from passing through the certain of Twilight, and that Midna decided to plop right onto his back hard. As he walked he noticed that she had the sword and shield out.

"So these are the weapons of your world?" She asked swinging it nearly talking Link's head with it.

'Watch it . . . oh right can't hear me.' Link said as he growled instead and unknown to them Artemis rage at the imp only grew ten-fold.

"Well I'll hold on to these for you." She said making the sword and shield disappear with a snap of her fingers.

"Come on go!" She said kicking his side making Link growl again but went anyway. Sadly they didn't get far as another barrier formed and not one, but three of those shadow beasts fell from the sky and surrounded Link.

'Oh goody, more of those nasty tasting things! Well at lease I have back up.' Link though until Midna said what he didn't want to hear

"Well you can handle this right, no problem." She said as she floated away

'TRAITOR!' Link yelled in his mind and went into battle, and it seemingly wasn't going to take long. As Link defeated the second one the third screech causing all to hold their ears as the other two got back up.

'WHAT NO FAIR!' Link screamed in his mind as they charged him and after Link went through this cycle about ten times Midna decided to finally help, and it wasn't like she felt fear where she was, no it was only Artemis trying to strangle her, but realizing the golden goddesses made it so that they couldn't touch the people now, much to Artemis anger.

"Why is it that I need to help you with everything? Gosh why are you so useless?" Midna said making Link roll his eyes.

'It's like the pot calling the kettle black.' Link mumbled in his head, even though none could hear.

"Ok when you are ready I'll form a shadow circle so you can take them all out at once, but know this, it only has a certain distance and I can't hold it forever." Midna said as the both went into battle and when Link motion her too form the circle they manage to get them all in it and Link felt a gigantic power boost and quickly killed them all in one hit, causing the portal to come under their control.

'Now that's more like it.' Link thought while he smiled but it soon ended as Midna kicked his side and ordered him to move, and soon enough they were in front of the second light spirit's spring. Though they only saw a yellowish cloud with some dime looking light floating around in it.

"Beast changed by the twilight . . . please collected my light taken by the insects of darkness . . ." A voice requested as Link nodded

"Thank you . . . I'll use the last of my power to mark them on your map . . ." It told them before fading.

"Well I knew snatching this from your house was a good thing." Midna said with a cheer.

'She went into my house?' Link questioned to himself as started following her directions and gathered the bugs, but they look too creepy just to be bugs. Not to mention the locations, they things really were evil, making him jump everywhere from tiny poles sticking form the ground, fog which was purple and smelled dangerous I think it might be poisonous gas, to up high were forgotten nets and what not was swinging around, and don't forget not to mention those stupid plants that somehow found their way up there. Though he was happy to save that monkey, though that might be his mother's half of him or maybe his father's, perhaps both. After gaining the all the light, the two were transported back to the spring were the Twilight now gone and Midna left to his in his shadow for the light spirit to come out.

"Thank you for restoring my light, I am Faron. The hero inside you is awaking, look at yourself." The Spirit started as Link looked all over himself and found himself in a green tunic.

"What's this tunic for?" Link asked Faron

"That is the garb of the chosen hero of the Goddesses, the heroes before you wore similar attire. Now it came to my attention that you seek dark power, but if you are to match the shadow king's power, you'll need it. It's in the temple deep in the forest." Faron explained to him as Link nodded and head off but not before stopping to ask a question.

"Who's the Shadow King?" He asked in curiosity.

"You'll know in due time, now go." The spirit told him as Link took off towards the temple.

"Your father would be proud, I know it." Faron stated to himself as the faded and went back to his slumber until called upon again.

Artemis's P.O.V.

We followed my child as he travelled to the temple, but my anger was only being contain by the fact that my son was still ok, or else that imp would of died the moment she abandon him when those shadow beast attack him, but luckily I manage to somehow convinced her to help, why the Golden Goddesses blocked me from annihilating her was beyond me, I mean he's also supposed to save their lands, from evil. Not curse to be with a crazy imp who treated him with no ounce of respect. Anyway we continued following and since I hadn't notice that we was already at the accursed fog, which I recognized to be another type of Olympian Poison, in fog form, and only way to make it go away so he could pass would be to use a source of light, like fire, since Hestia was the one to discover the drawl back of it since she was never affected since she is always around fire.

"Does Link have a lantern?" I asked Hestia who gave me a strange look.

"Yes, did you not see him gain one from the man selling them at the entrance to the Ordona Providence?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I guess not." I replied sheepishly

"She was probably ranting about Midna again and how she couldn't kill her." Athena stated glancing to the two other goddesses. As I blushed in embarrassment and the two laughed that was until a monkey came from behind us and snatched Link's lantern, which caused him to have an annoyed look on.

"Hey you idiot, while you were off in lala land that monkey stole your lantern!" Midna shoted at him which cause me to try and beat her, again.

"It's no use Artemis you can't beat her yet." Hestia told me with one of her hands on my shoulder.

"Just you watch out you little imp, I'll get you one of these days." I growled out in turn caused that imp to shudder.

"W-well let's get moving it seems that monkey wants to lead you somewhere." Midna said floating towards the monkey slightly pale, while Link scowled

"Like you did anything to stop it, you imp. Where's mom when you need her to beat some sense into someone, I would but it's not in my nature to do." I heard Link mumble which made me smile but also start yelling to the sky

"SEE! HE ALSO WANTS ME TO BEAT HER!" I shouted to the sky, but got no response.

"Is this how our kids feel when we don't answer them?" Athena asked and soon after that we followed Link and . . . that imp . . . who followed the monkey as it lead them all over the clearing in the forest, and when the monkey got scared she froze and Link had to fight off the monsters around. Though I would much rather see that monkey be his partner than that imp, at least she helped him a lot more than the imp did. The Monkey soon stopped when they reached a gate where the purplish fog wasn't reaching and dropped the lantern and Link picked it up.

"Awww, my oil is gone!" Link whined with a frown, which caused me to laugh much to the confusion to Hestia and Athena.

"His father was the same way about stuff like that, childish." I said with a smile as I remembered old memories, but it soon was broken by that dang imp.

"Stop your whining you big baby, it's just a lantern." Midna told with a frown and in turn made Link defend himself and my dislike for her was growing little every time she opened her big fat mouth.

"This is my first lantern! I wanted to use it more, before I had to buy oil!" He whined as the two started arguing about it, and soon it was about random things, in which I found and the other two, really comical, but that doesn't mean I'll forgive her for making me laugh.

"Let's just go to the temple." Link said with a big frown and his arms cross up to his upper chest and walked through the gate. Then it got a little weird, as we stared at a bridge just sitting against the wall of rock.

"WHAT IS THIS DOING HERE?" Link questioned loudly, making two monsters noticed him and charge at him.

"Fine, I leave it for another day." Link said pulling out his sword as he too charged at the monsters quickly taking them down.

"Hey! Thanks for getting rid of those baddies!" We heard a . . . bird say?

"You're a talking bird." Link said looking at the bird.

"Yeah, got a problem with talking birds?" The bird asked as Link shrugged

"No just wondering if you were not something else." He said as the bird fluttered his wings

"Like what?" It asked staring at Link with squinted eyes.

"Many things, that isn't important." Link shrugged again as the bird sighed, before flapping it wings again

"Well buy something!" the bird commanded.

"Ok . . ." Link said and started reading the signs

"You got lantern oil?" He asked as the bird nodded

"Yep, and cheap too, only twenty rupees and it'll get you a full lantern or bottle." The bird replied as Link bought some and left the stand, and paid for it, which got a thank you from the bird. Soon enough Link was continuing to the wooden bridge connecting the main land to a gigantic tree, but was stop as a golden wolf with one red eye stopped him, and growled and jumped and seemingly did nothing until Link fell down out cold.

"I see that he has found him." I heard Hades say appearing from the shadows.

"Hades, what are you doing here?" I asked looking at him

"Well someone had some regrets and I am helping young Link here by getting techniques taught to him by someone special." He said with a smile and soon disappeared back to where he came from. Luckily Link awoke only after a few minutes of being out cold, and stood as Link did a jump and stabbed the round which shook it and also us.

"That's pretty cool . . . and power full that warrior was right, the hidden skills will make me stronger, and with the strength that they'll provide they'll help me prove that I'm the next hero." Link said with a smile.

"What did the wolf-warrior thing teach him?" Hestia asked with a raised eyebrow

"Whatever was taught to him I want to know it the secret." Athena said with a look in her eye that only shown when she wanted to learn something right then.

"Well off to the temple." Link said happily as he ran over the bridge burned some spider webs that made Athena pale when she saw them, and enter the temple, and after a few minutes of persuasion we also entered the temple. We entered to see the same monkey that took his lantern, she was clapping like thanking him for something and then proceeded to do the same she did out in the fog area and lead him somewhere. We followed, naturally, but once we were at the stairs, Athena fainted . . . and we see a gigantic spider come down and attack Link, the monkey was scared, and after some figuring he defeated it, making me smile he was so much like me and his father. We didn't know what to do with an unconscious Athena, but Hestia decided to stay and watch her while I followed, he's my son after all. So I did, and when I saw that he was already across to a door a quickly went and joined him. I had to dodge a black glowing boomerang and to see a baboon catch it and smack his but in mock and ran back to a door and disappeared into it.

"Did that baboon do what I think he did?" Link asked irritated while Midna was laughing her little imp butt off.

"Yeah, you should see the look on your face . . . priceless!" She laughed making Link get annoyed and I'm beginning to really hate her now.

"But seriously was there a monkey fight?" She asked as soon disappeared into Link's shadow.

"No . . . I don't think so . . ." He thought out loud with a sigh and went inside, with me in tow. I didn't see Link anywhere but I did see a conscious Athena with Hestia.

"Where did Link go?" I asked my fellow goddesses.

"Well he went that-a-way." They said together and soon enough here comes Link with two monkeys in tow.

"Well were next?" Link asked the female monkey as she pointed to the other side of the room and soon the monkeys formed a way over to said side, After sighing Link used the monkeys to get over there and enter the door, the monkeys didn't seem to want to follow so we did. We watched as Link used a plant looking thing that explodes to find a weird chicken-person-thing in a jar and it said that it'll help him out during his time in the temple. Also there seemed to be an evil plant problem her, I knew if Demeter saw this she would go mad, anyways he continued so save two more monkeys and leave the area back to the first room, and we saw that the monkeys wanted Link to follow them again.

"Shesh, your son is popular with the monkeys." I heard Athena say as we walked towards the door that he went in before.

"Yeah, but I'm a nature goddesses so it's to be expected." I replied to them walking.

"Sure, but still they seem way smarter than our monkeys in our world, I would love to study more of this world once this quest is done." Athena said smiling

"Don't forget about Link, with being Artemis's only child." Hestia said making me glare at them.

"She's right; he will be most likely be the only child you'll ever have." Athena told me making me glare harder.

"My son isn't so thing to experiment on!" I yelled at them making them laugh.

"Someone is being a little protective." Hestia said with a simile

"How would you know, you never had a child!" I snapped back

"Not true, I once actually met Link's father." She said with a smile

"When, he never told me." I asked confused.

"When he was exploring when he was young, I was travelling with him for a few years, acting like his mother until he met you, it's a shame, that I never saw him after those years. Zeus found out about it and forbidden me from meeting him again . . . Anyway, it seems Link is about to face something." Hestia said but one could clearly see the sadness in her eyes. We followed as Link went in to face the baboon, which was standing on a pole surrounded by other poles copped down some plant things that to proceeded to attack him.

"I hate these plants." Link muttered and proceeded to chop them down. He also showed no mercy to the baboon as he fought with it making it fall off the pole slicing its weak point . . . which happens to be his butt and soon makes it run right into a pole and makes one of those dark insects fall to the ground and die. The baboon gets up confused to why he's in the room, it seemed that the bug was in control of it, after realizing that Link was behind him he quickly runs away leaving its boomerang behind which moves on its own to my son and speaks with him.

"I am the Fairy of Winds, I inhabit this boomerang, called the Gale Boomerang, you have freed me form evil, and I'll sever you and allow you to use my true power." It told him and soon creates a swirling wind around itself with it at the top making a miniature tornado, and showing its power by going around the room and going to Link who catches it. Link then continues freeing monkeys throughout the temple, which proved to be useful as the monkeys formed a way over an abyss that separates him and a huge door with a huge lock on it. As he enters, Farore stops us form following.

"You three must choose who follows him into here, only one may enter with him." She told us making us go into thinking.

"Maybe you should go Artemis." Athena said making Hestia nod.

"You're his mother; you should be with him in his first major battle." She said making me smile.

"Thank you." I told them and entered the door way to see Link battling to gigantic plant monster, and he looks behind him to see me and his face is full of shock.

"Mother … what are you doing her." He asked making me get a shock fill expression.

"You think I'll, or any of your godly family is going to miss out on this, then you're dead wrong." I say making him have a great full smile on.

"Thank you, mom." He told me as I smiled

"I can't really help much but perhaps you should aim for those exploding plants over there and use them to attack the monsters." I tell him as he use the Gale Boomerang to do the job, making him think he's won.

"Good job, but be on your guard." I tell him as he nods and proceeds to be read and my hunch is correct as not two but three of those monsters appear and we both noticed that the middle is going to be a problem.

"What do I do now?" He asked subconsciously to himself as I send a signal to the baboon and tell him to help the one who saved him and soon enough the baboon appears form a place a pulls out one of those exploding plants and beings swing from side to side distracting the third head for us, and Link started to beat it unlit he finishes it with the new attack he learned and out of it came a heart looking thing, this world is very confusing.

"Should I take it?" Link asked looking at me as I shrugged and he walks over and it disappears into him and I noticed that he seemed to become able to take more damage before falling. Then the plant explodes into partials and forms into a black helmet looking piece that the imp takes.

"Thanks that was what I was looking . . . ACK!" She started until I tackled her to the ground and gave a smile that would sacred even the most braves immortal.

"Now I have you." I say dangerously as she panics, but I never get the chance to beat her since Farore starts taking me away again.

"Link!" I say as he faces me with confusion

"I'll always be watching over you, don't forget." I tell him as he smiles and then I turn to the imp.

"I'll get you . . ." I growl out making her pale, and with that I fade away back with Athena and Hestia.

"How did it go?" Hestia asked

"It went pretty well." I said smiling as I remembered the scared look on the imps face.

Thanks for reading and all that. If I made a mistake or something similar tell me. Bye, see you next time.