When we arrived on the roof Midna suddenly stops and turns around to face me: "Now that you have your answers you´ll do as I say!" Does she even realize what she´s asking from me? "I won´t jump into a bottomless pit just because you tell me to do so!" "Don´t be silly! You know what I mean! Or did you already forget what I told you?" is her irritated reply. I pause for a moment to mull over all the things she told me today. "If you´re talking about those objects I should find for you, I hope you have a clue where they are." "Of course, I wouldn´t mention it if I didn´t know where to find them" I couldn´t resist to probe further: "What do you plan on doing once I got those things for you?" She sighs. "How many times do I have to tell you that that's none of your busi-" "It is my business! I would really like to hear some good reasons why I should help you, instead of ending this rule of terror right here." I turn around and look at the main tower of the castle where this usurper probably sat on the throne. Her answer is hysterical laughter followed by another insult: "Listen, you idiot! Do you really think you can just walk up to him and drive a sword through his chest? You would be turned into a shadow-beast before you are anywhere near him!" she continues: "And even if you could somehow get close to him: He is the one who created all those portals. You couldn´t kill him because…"
I turn around to look at her, even as I finish her sentence: "… because he could simply teleport away." I look her in the eye: "But you could follow him, right?" She crosses her arms, a small grin tugs on the corners of her mouth: "Yes, but do I have to?" "Are those things really that important?!" "If you consider the future of your world as important, then yes." Almost as an afterthought she adds: "By the way it's called warping. Teleportation is something else." My world? Without noticing she just told me two things: She only observed me since today and she clearly wasn´t born in Hyrule. "I hope it has nothing to do with spiritual self-discovery or anything along those lines." She covers her face with a hand. "No," she starts to giggle "it's nothing along those lines." Knowing that it´s a physical object she is looking for, I tell her about my demands: "I will help you search. But only under three conditions." She hesitates for a moment, while glaring at me, before she speaks: "You are in no position to make demands." Before I can say anything in response she continues: "I will listen to them. But don´t expect too much from me, light dweller."
With her agreeing to hear me out I start: "First: You are able to defend yourself. I can´t protect you all the time." "It´s probably going to be the exact opposite" "Second: I will only look for this thing if we have a clue what it is." "I already told you, I will tell you what you need to know when the time is right." "Third: Whenever I need it you will carry my equipment and warp me to where I tell you to." "Forget it! Do I look like a mule?" "Of course, it would only be the things that are going to bother me during a fight." I lift my arm: "Like this book." "Why did you even take it if it's going to get in the way during a fight?" "I am not familiar with Hyrule. So before I get lost or end up running in circles, I much rather look up the maps in this book here." "Are you saying that you are unfamiliar with country you were born?" "This isn´t the country I was born." "Oh sure… Your interest in the wellbeing of this kingdom is a simple act of kindness, right?" she floats a bit upwards, to look down on me: "You can´t fool me! You lived your entire life in that little village and never set one foot out of it. That´s the reason you need that book. You were too scared to leave your village." Is she serious?!
"You should work on your deduction skills." "Excuse me?!" "It´s rather unlikely that a single farmer was able to kill a shadow beast, something an entire army failed to do. Even if my equipment is a rather odd mix: isn´t it strange that I´m the only one who wears it?" "That only means that you aren´t from that village," she interrupts me "but it doesn´t prove that you aren´t born in Hyrule! I´m sure there are other kingdoms! Why would you care what happens here in Hyrule?" "That´s true, but my code forces me to help." She raises an eyebrow: "You want to tell me that you are risking your life because of a code?" I was about to respond when I remembered that we still had things to do: "I would really like to continue this discussion, but I´m afraid we are losing focus of what we need to do. So do you accept my conditions or not?" She raises a hand to her chin and looks like she thinking about it. After a while she sighs followed by a "Give it to me" after that she rips the book out of my hand. That´s answer enough I suppose. "So, where do start with our search?" She only says: "By the spring of the Light Spirit of course." Light Spirit? Something like that exists…
...for real?! I stand in front of a spring, to be more specific in front of a giant glowing sphere. "Why so serious?" I look around trying to find the source of the voice, even if it sounded like it came from everywhere at once. "What are you doing?" I look towards Midna: "Didn´t you hear that voice?" She looks at me curiously: "What voice? What are you talking about?" "So you didn´t hear anything. Must have been my imagination." I look back towards the glowing sphere: "What is that sphere there anyway?" "Why don´t you try to connect the dots?" "That´s supposed to be a Light Spirit?!" She rolls her eye: "You really try hard to pretend you don´t know a thing." "Cut to the point already!" She points to the Sphere: "Do you see that hand? Destroy it! Once that is done you should be able to see the Light Spirit." Even while I start to wonder how she knows all this, I form the Dragonrider´s Halberd. Then I remember something important: "Those bandits that kidnapped the children: Do you know where they warped?" "We wouldn´t use those portals if everyone knew where we went to." "I see…" After I stabbed the fingers multiple times, without doing much damage, red lines appear on the hand. The lines start to glow intense while the hand lets go of the sphere on its own.
While the hand floats into the air, I imagine the Sacred Chime Hammer that was used by Velstadt, in preparation for an attack. "Are you serious?!" Midna calls out from behind me. The hand forms a fist before it drops onto me. I swing the hammer and hit the side of the fist sending it into one of the walls surrounding the spring. I use the chance to perform a jump attack and manage to crush a finger of my opponent. The hand manages to recover and launches a counterattack. As it tries to grab me I roll to the left. The hand, yet again curled into a fist, flies towards me. I make multiple steps to the side while I rotate around my own axis in preparation for my next attack. All the while my arm was extended so that the hammer would collide with the fist. Donggggg!
I can feel the pressure that travels through my arm from the collision of our attacks, but it was nothing compared to the forces I blocked or parried during my travels. My opponent wasn´t that robust and as a result broke apart into many pieces. The parts float towards the sphere; there they vaporize like drops of water on a hot stone. I wait for something to happen, but it looks like that nothing interesting would occur.
That's what I thought. Suddenly I hear a voice: "Stranger…" It´s not the same voice, as the one that I heard earlier. This voice comes from a step of the spring, were a small amount of weakly glowing, small spheres were hovering above the water. They were surrounding a sphere roughly as big as my head. "Come closer…" I walk cautiously towards the sphere. I suspect that this might be a Light Spirit, but I couldn´t be sure.
After I´m only an arm's length away the sphere continues talking: "Stranger, you and your companion have done great things… but the explanations have to wait. Bring me the light that you managed to save from the twilight." "Why don´t you tell me who you are first." "I am the Light Spirit, Faron. I was chosen by the three Goddesses to guard the province of Faron" "I´m Kane of Drangleic. Now concerning your request: How am I supposed to do that without suffering injury? The pieces of the hand were vaporized when they touched this ´Light´" "Raise your arm." I follow his instructions and raise my arm.
"It could sting a bit." Was the only warning I received before some of the smaller spheres float towards my arm and circle around it. Except for some little itching nothing seems amiss. Guessing what he wants me to do I walk towards the big sphere and raise my arm again. The spheres that circled around my arm stop moving as they connect themselves to the big one through some kind of lightning. Then they start moving towards the Light Spirit. Once they arrive the remaining spheres connect themselves in the same way to the big one. The big sphere starts to move towards the Light Spirit. After it arrived by the spirit both he and the sphere start to disappear into the spring. Just before the sphere completely vanishes into the water it flashes so bright that everything I can see is white.
Once the flash is over everything seems to be like always. The only difference: My artificial eye, which showed me everything that was hidden for the normal eye, saw everything like my normal eye did. "That's too bad." I hear Midna complaining behind me. When I turn my head to look what´s wrong I notice something at the edge of my vision. Guessing what happened I grab my head only to feel something metallic. I look down towards my arm and see that it too turned back to normal. I raise my arm before my face and move my fingers and turn my hand.
"Did you think the transformation was permanent?" I turn around completely and take off my mask. "I did consider it." Suddenly a shrill sound comes from the spring. I turn around to see what´s going on. The water in the spring glows in a golden light and the markings on the stones glow in a bright shade of turquoise. Suddenly a drop springs out of the water only to fall back in.
Slowly the Sphere I had to connect to the Light Spirit rises back out of the water. It floats ten meters into the air before it stops. Suddenly a silhouette appears, before it turns into a mix of different animals and latches onto the sphere. It has upwards pointing horns and its face reminds of a statue. Its body looks like that of a monkey. Its tail looks a bit like that of a squirrel, but at the end possesses a stinger like a scorpion. The tail is also longer than the main body. This causes the tip of the tail (which is vertically coiled around the spirit) to almost touch were it starts.
"So, Kane of Drangleic," it starts "what leads you to this world?"
Oh my god I screwed it up again. The stones glow turqoise and not golden.
Another thing I recognized is that both the amounts views and visitors are very high on the first chapter and decline rapidly for each chapter onwards. I cannot help but ask myself whether the reason for that is my story not being everyone´s taste or my first chapter being awful.
It could also be possible that my Dark Souls 2 - OC seems like a Gary Sue on first glance or that there is no tension because he simply curbstomps every enemy until now. I don´t really know how to change the first impression of my OC, but I assure you: he won´t become a Gary Sue. About the tension in the battles: I just can´t imagine a Dark Souls 2 - OC who managed to acquire all four crowns to have serious struggles against a shadow beast whose only big differences from the black monsters in No Man´s Wharf is the thick shield-like head and the lack of fear from light. I just don´t want to put some lame stuff like "Your magic doesn´t work in this world" or "You lost your memories and all your battle experience" just to create an equal power level. Of course, I could just send in a lowlvl character into Hyrule and be done with it, but then I could just as well make a LoZ-OC and make him an undead. As this is a "Person from world X lands in World Y" type of crossover, there will only be a few Characters from Dark Souls 2, so my OC has to take care for most of the fanservice.
But don´t worry: There will be some tension with the Triforce - which can be very powerful - and the replacements for the shadow bug hunts I will create.
Enough of that now, here is the next tip: About gods, moral and options.