I may have been a wolf now, but I was still the same person. So the fact that Midna was treating me this way wasn't really my cup of tea... at least Epona... no... Epsie was there by my side. She also went with us into town and the people in town weren't suspicious of her at all.
I waited in the shadows as Epsie walked up to the door to get a shield, which was home to some people I helped yesterday in retrieving a cradle. "Hey. I'm lookin' to save some kids... Care to help out?" she asked Uli and Rusl, the two that were expecting a second child. "So... you're here to help us? Care to share your name?" Rusl asked. "Name's Epsie... though you probably remember me in this form better..." Epsie smiled.
She then clapped her hands together and her body completely morphed into that of her horse form, shocking the duo greatly. "W-WHOA! I-Is that... are my eyes right? Y-You're Link's horse?!" Rusl exclaimed in shock. "Yes. And I need that sword to help him rescue the others... long story short, he got turned into a wolf from some kinda magic, so I'm needing that sword until he's back to normal," Epsie said when she returned to her normal state. "O-Of course! In fact, I'll also alert the others to give you that sword! You can't have a shield without a sword, after all!" Rusl gawked as I stood there in awe. Epsie had just saved a lot of time by doing this.
"Well... that was certainly impressive. Now that they know we're on their side, we can get that sword and shield in a snap!" Midna smirked from my shadow. "Rgh..." I growled a bit, which spooked Rusl a bit as he handed the shield to Espie. "Don't be scared if you hear growling... It's only master Link," Epsie smirked as she looked over to where I was stationed... in the shadows behind the house. "Come on, master. They won't hurt ya," Epsie frowned. I guess it was my turn to play the animal sidekick for now.
I walked slowly out of the shadows and looked at Rusl and Uli with a small grin, both of them looking stunned by what I looked like. "Wait... what is that marking on his forehead? I know I've seen it somewhere before..." Uli frowned as she looked at something on my face that I hadn't seen yet. She then gasped and jumped back. "I-It's the Triforce! H-He's got a piece of the Triforce?! T-Then that means..." Uli gulped. "Means what?" Epsie asked. "It means that he is a descendant of the great heroes of old! And since he's a descendant of those heroes, it's gotta be the Triforce of Courage," Rusl gawked at it.
"Um... hate to interrupt, but we kind of need to get going. We have some friends to save, after all," Epsie frowned as she got the sword from the elder (who walked past me like it was no big deal) and we now had everything we needed. "We trust ya Link... Please... save the children of Ordon! Save all of them!" Uli begged me. I nodded my head and looked toward the open area. It was now time for me to head out to Twilight.
We then proceeded past the other houses, mine included, until we approached the pass that would lead to the bridge. "Wait..." said a voice as I entered the place. "D-Did you hear something?" Epsie asked me. "I... I think I did..." I gulped. "Come. To the spring..." the voice said once more, making shivers go down our spines.
We listened and made a beeline for the spring, seeing that it was covered in a shimmering light. And when I stepped in the water, something happened. I heard a strange noise come from the spring as a being began to take shape in front of me. It looked to be a giant wolf made of light with a large sphere of light inside a headset on it's forehead. "O Great Hero... I am Ordona... the keeper of this spring..." the voice said in our heads.
"Your world is on the brink of utter chaos... and only you and your courage can stop this world from destruction," Ordona said. "Peh. Course we will," Epsie frowned. She was definitely a sassy girl, that much was for sure. "In order to restore a section of land enveloped in Twilight... you will need to find the resident spirit of that land who's light was stolen away... find them and they will give you a vial like this..." Ordona said as the spirit materialized a vial in front of us. "I wish you the greatest of luck, o great hero," Ordona said before completely vanishing from the air.
"Well... so you are a 'great hero', huh? Well, let's see you put that girl's words into action! Let's get going to Twilight! I'll take ya there once we arrive," Midna said in my shadow with a giggle. "Okay. Let's do it," I said as I rushed forward out of the spring, made a hard right, and ran across the wooden bridge to the other side. And then I saw a giant wall of brownish-black light in my way. "Ah! The portal to Twilight! You want me to take you in?" Midna asked with a smirk. "How about I do it instead?" Epsie asked with a smirk as she picked me up like I were a young puppy and walked me right through the wall. She wasn't only good at speaking, she was also very strong in her own right.