so i will admit now, i wont be posting another chapter for a while, just letting this story sit as it is, and hopefully see how people like it.
My eyes snapped open. Somehow, I had drifted to the edge of the spring, so I didn't drown. I sprang up, my eyes focusing on where Illia had fallen, but no one was there. Colin was gone too. The boar tracks led out of the spring and across the bridge, and I took off after them. Just across the bridge, a strange yellow and black barrier seemed to just appear out of nowhere. Confused, I slid to a stop, staring at the strange rectangular shapes and runes all across it. There was a circular symbol near the center of one of the upright rectangles, and I cautiously stepped closer to it. Suddenly, a massive black hand shot out of the circle and grabbed me around the chest, easily lifting me into the air and through the barrier. I stumbled to my feet on the other side, looking around. It was clearly the same woods I had always known, but everything now had a yellow tint to it, and the same strange rectangular runes I saw earlier were floating around the air around me. I was about to take a step forward when a shooting pain shot through my entire body, bringing me to my knees. The pain intensified until I collapsed, not even realizing how odd my body felt before I blacked out.
Midna floated outside the stone cell, staring lazily through the bars at the Wolf lying with in. he had white legs and paws with long grey streaks running along his flanks. His thighs, back and chest were all jet black, his head following the same pattern as his body. There was a strange pattern to the fur on his forehead, almost like an open center diamond, with a dot at the very center of the open space. She sighed as she waited, having watched the shadow beast's capture him near the edge of the twilight, and having seen him change from a human into the wolf now before her, unlike the rest of the humans in the twilight. The beast slowly stirred awake, groggily moving to stand until its eyes opened. Almost as if someone had poked it, the wolf jumped to its feet, freaking out. After a few seconds, it noticed the chain firmly attached to its leg and started biting and tearing at it.
"You'll never chew through that, ya know." The Wolf startled and glared at her, a low growl emanating from its throat. If she didn't know better, she'd say it was saying, watch me. Then again, it had once been a human, and might just be saying that.
"Well that's not very nice. Here I was, about to free you, but nope, not anymore!" the second she finished speaking, the wolf stood fully erect, it's head canting to one side and it's now erect ears mimicking the position. Even she had to admit, the expression was cute in a way. "Oh, well that's better!" she charged up a ball of energy, focusing on the chain connected to the wolf, then released it, blasting one of the links apart. It jumped slightly at the sudden blast, but didn't seem afraid of it.
"Tell ya what, you manage to get out of that cell on your own, and I'll help you find those friends of yours. Deal?" the Wolf nodded and looked around for a few seconds, not even noticing her phase through the iron bars. He latched his jaw on a shattered crate and yanked it aside, quickly digging a hole under the bars and into the hallway. She had risen up to the ceiling while he did so, suppressing a laugh as he looked around, bewildered. She suddenly dropped, landing just behind his shoulders and mounting him just as he would a horse. He let loose a vicious growl and started snapping at her and jumping, trying to shake her loose.
"Whoa there little wolfie, if you want my help, you gotta stop!" he did so and she continued "so you also gotta do exactly as I say, when I say it, you got that hun?" he nodded again, still snarling at her. "Good boy, now giddy up!" she dug her heels into his sides and he growled at her again.
The tiny creature dug her heels into my flanks and I snarled, glaring at her. You do that again and I am so eating you! The small, creature, for lack of another word, had enough of a feminine build and voice that I felt safe to assume that she was female. She was also very short, only about half my normal height, although comparison was a little difficult at the moment. She also seemed to be stark naked except for a strange forked and cracked helmet, bearing similar runes to on the ones on the rocks back in the spring, one eye being covered by the helmet, the other being bright yellow with a red iris. Although, she showed no signs of having any private parts. Her body was mismatched black and white, waving up her body until her chest region, were her arms were black and the white formed V-neck shape, all the way to her eyes, where the black resumed. Her arms had strange green runes hovering above them, like those I had seen on the barrier, covering like gauntlets. She had a shock of brilliant orange hair, spewing out the top of her helmet and tied back in a ponytail. I grudgingly started moving down the hall again. There was no way I was opening a locked door with my teeth, but the other cell was unlocked, and inside was a sewage grate. I trotted over to it and slipped my right paw through, noticing that my birth mark was still on it, almost as if three triangles had been burned into the skin, the third stacked on top of the other two's points. The grate pulled out and I slid down the shaft, startled by the ghostly green spirit on the platform below.
"You see him, don't you?" I nodded and she continued to speak. "Yes, he is as he looks, a spirit of a soldier, but he can't see you! I wonder what he's doing down here?" she laughed manically as I listened to what the soldier was saying.
"No..no….. What are these black… creatures! And why can't I hurt them!" I glanced down the dark passageway seeing a small creature, about as big as the giant rats I had seen back in Ordon, but it was a tadpole shape with at least a dozen tentacles sprouting from it, using these to skitter across the floor toward me. I instantly pounced, locking it in my mouth and biting down as hard as I could. I was surprised when there was no spurting of blood, instead, the creature burst into a black cloud. "Wh-what? It..s…s g-g-gone? Oh thank the goddesses!" the spirit slumped to the floor, his entire body shaking.
"He can't hurt the creatures of twilight because he is just a spirit. Just the same as him not being able to see you. You can only see him because of those heightened senses wolves have. I can see him because I am of the twilight. Just thought I'd tell you." I was watching her as she spoke, seeing her wink at the end. Unable to do so physically, I mentally shrugged, not really understanding her words. I sprinted off into the sewers navigating them until the creature on my back yanked on my ears. I growled and snapped at her, but she shrugged it off.
"See those bars over there?" I was about to nod when she suddenly flew through the air, forming into a group of bubbles to pass through the iron bars and reforming on the other side. "Find your way over to me, then I'll take you to someone I think you should meet." I groaned and trudged back down the corridor, knowing that I needed to drain the sewers to dig through. I don't know how I knew that would work, but I did. I quickly found a closed off drain with a pull chain to raise it. Problem was, I didn't have hands. I stared at the chain for a few seconds before launching into the air, biting down with my mouth. My body weight was enough to work the system and the water rushed out of the sewer. After a few seconds I let go, trotting back to the bars and dropping off into the sewer passage. My paws tore at the earth until I managed to squeeze through, popping up in an earthen room with a doorway leading right where I wanted to go. As soon as I passed through the door, she dropped back onto my back, sending a shooting pain from where it was somehow still bruised.
"Alright, up the tower little doggie!" I growled and complied running up the spiral stairs. A short way below where I started, the tower had flooded, too deep to know how far it was to the bottom. I shrugged and kept running. Suddenly, the stairs beneath me started to collapse away and I barely managed to leap in time to reach solid stairs. A few more sections along the stairs had crumbled away already, but all were easy to jump. I finally reached a chamber at the top that had crumbled chunks of masonry all over. I used one as a step stool to leap up to an open window, stepping outside and into a raging rainstorm.
"Ah, the twilight is so nice at this time, too bad it's raining like it is." I simply trotted off the window sill and dropped to the wet ramparts below. Another spirit was ahead of me, and I got close enough to listen.
"Oh no, what has happened to our beautiful castle!" my thoughts ran rampant, suddenly realizing where I was. Hyrule Castle.
"Well, that's not who I want you to meet. You need to work your way to the tower over there!" I followed the line of her pointing finger and nodded. The wet ramparts and roofs were tricky to move across, but after a few minutes, and more than a few gut wrenching jumps, I managed to work my way over to it, dropping from an open window and into another spiral staircase. At the top was a door, cracked open enough that I was able to push it open. Inside, was an almost unfurnished room with a massive fire on one side, a bed on the other, and a small raised area with a single chair and a massive window. Standing on this raised area, staring out the window, was a tall figure wearing a long black cloak. Unlike everyone else I had seen, whoever this was, wasn't in spirit form. I let out a low growl as the creature lifted off my back and floated toward the figure. The figure turned around at the sound of my growl, showing enough of her face to let me know she wasn't a threat.
"Midna, it's good to see you. Although, I am curious as to why you are here, when every shadow beast in the kingdom is searching for you." Midna smirked as I stared at the woman, confused as to her identity.
"Yeah, I like to have my fun." The girl smiled at Midna, so faintly that I almost thought it wasn't there. "Aw, I feel graced, I earned a smile form you, your highness." It suddenly clicked in my mind who she was.
"A little one, perhaps. Is this who you have been looking for?" Midna shrugged, twirling a rogue strand of hair around her finger before tucking it away in her ponytail.
"Not exactly, but he'll do. He has no idea where is though." She giggled, another maniacal grin spreading across her face as my thoughts screamed in protest.
I know exactly where I am! Hyrule castle, and if I would hazard a guess, you are princess Zelda. Although, I doubt either of you know that I know all of that! What I don't know, is what the hell is going on and why the hell I am a wolf! The woman smiled at me, winking.
"I think he knows more than you realize Midna. In answer to your question, a curse has been cast on this realm to place it in permeant Twilight, by an evil king from the twilight realm known as Zant. I was cursed so that I would remain myself, stuck as the ruler of a people doomed to roam the land as spirits. Unless light can be returned to this land, and Zant is defeated. I hate to ask this of you, young wolf, but I ask that you do your best to help Midna do this, who, although she has left them unspoken, has her own reason to hate Zant. I'm asking you to correct my mistake, as the ruler of this land." She dropped her hood as she said her final statement, revealing her long blonde hair and beautiful features. The crown resting on her head did nothing more than confirm my thoughts.
I will do my best, your highness. She smiled again, as if she could see my thoughts.
"I know you will, now, both of you must go! The guard will make his rounds again soon, and you need to be gone when he does, especially you, Midna." I nodded and was already headed for the door when Midna responded.
"See ya later, Twilight Princess!" I slipped back out the window, dropping to the roof below. "Aren't you forgetting something?" Midna had glided out to in front of me as she spoke. I canted my head at her, confused. She suddenly spun on the spot, and when she was facing me again, she no longer looked like herself, but like Illia, screaming in terror. I let out a vicious growl as she spun again, turning into Colin, and then back to herself, giggling.
"Well, if you're a good boy, I promise we will save your friends, and maybe your kingdom along the way!" I cut the growl, still angry with her. "Well, back home for you!" and she suddenly turned into the same rectangles I was seeing drifting through the air, just before shooting into the sky. A split second later, my own body felt like it was being rent apart.