"Link, I must speak to Princess Zelda at once."
Link turned around, facing the one who was requesting Zelda.
"...Vaati?" He asked, confused.
Vaati nodded with a serious look in his eyes.
"Actually I must speak to you both. It's serious."
Link tilted his head.
"Yea, I know. It's about Hyrule's future or something like that." He said, wondering why Vaati came back to the hallways when he was just going to see Zelda. "You already told me that."
Vaati's serious expression changed to confused.
"What?"
"You and Twi came in through here and you requested to talk with Zelda about Hyrule's possible future...although, you seemed kinda different then...are you sick like Zelda?"
Vaati remained confused.
"You're saying that you saw me and Twi walk through here earlier?" He asked as Link nodded. "What are you talking about? That's not possible...unless..."
Vaati's expression suddenly changed to alarm.
"Twi and Zelda are in trouble!"
Twi and Vaati walked into Zelda's room, Zelda stood beside the window, looking out at her kingdom.
"Princess Zelda, I have bad news for Hyrule."
Zelda sighed and turned around, facing her friends.
"I understand that Hyrule is destined to be in bad shape soon..." She said in sadness.
"...Correct, Princess. An evil is rising to take revenge on Hyrule."
Zelda nodded.
"But who is this shadow?" She asked.
"...So you don't know my King, huh?"
Zelda and Twi both faced Vaati, confused.
"King?" Twi asked, "What King? Vaati you're not..."
Link and Vaati burst through the door of Zelda's room, startling both Twi and Zelda. The lighter toned Vaati glared at the darker toned Vaati.
"You."
The dark Vaati smiled with a glare as he recognized the regular Vaati. Quickly, he grabbed a hold of Twi, making sure she could not escape.
"Wh-What's going on?" Twi asked aloud. "Who are you?"
"...Dark Vaati." The normal Vaati said, continuing his glare.
"Hehehehe..." Dark Vaati laughed, matching Vaati's own laugh. "Correct. But it took you long enough to figure me out. Light creatures aren't so bright, ironically."
"Let her go. She has nothing to do with this."
"But that wouldn't be much fun, now would it? To just let someone go. We made that mistake last year, letting little Link go, even though he didn't seem to have anything to do with anything. Why should I just let her go? Many things could go wrong."
"Let. Her. Go." Vaati said again, his hatred building.
"Or what?" Dark Vaati taunted, showing an evil smirk that was once Vaati's.
Dark Vaati suddenly felt a cold blade on his neck. He looked back at the holder.
"Ah, Link. Long time no see?"
"Let her go, or you loose your head." Link said, his blue eyes glaring.
Dark Vaati smirked and dropped one of his arms, but keeping a hold on Twi with his other arm.
"It has been a while. You've forgotten that I have many tricks up my sleeves." On cue, he quickly lifted a blade that seemingly came from the darkness to Twi's neck. His smirk widened, showing his teeth and revealing one slightly longer pointed tooth. "Do you really want to keep your sword to me now?"
Link glared and slowly took his sword away from Dark Vaati's neck.
"What do you want with her, anyway?" Zelda asked, also glaring.
"Hmph. As I said before, Light creatures just aren't that bright." Dark Vaati said, shaking his head disappointedly. "But fine. I'll give you a chance to get the girl back." The blade he held vanished into the darkness from where it came.
"What's the catch?" Vaati asked, keeping his glare.
"How rude." Dark Vaati said as he took one hand off of Twi, using it to snap his fingers. As the sound of the snap ended, he and Twi faded into pixilated darkness then reappeared outside of Zelda's window. "Speaking of 'catches' Catch me if you can."
With that, Dark Vaati soared through the sky, Twi held captive.
"Damn it!" Link mumbled before running for the door, he turned to check to see if Vaati was following, but instead he jumped out Zelda's window and flew after Dark Vaati. Link stood staring at the empty window for a few moments before Zelda snapped him back to Hyrule by dragging him out the door to help.
Vaati sent a purple ball of energy at his dark self who swiftly avoided the attack. Twi looked over Dark Vaati's shoulder, watching Vaati come after. Link and Zelda could only see small dark dots flying across the field in the direction of Minish Woods when they reached outside. Link led the princess through the town and toward the two Vaati's who stopped in flight above Lon Lon Ranch. The cows ignored the battle in the sky and focused on eating.
"I'll tell you once more, let Twi go." Vaati said, glaring at his Dark self.
"And let you win? That was not my orders."
Vaati put both hands together on his left side. Once he swung one his arms toward his enemy, another purple energy ball was thrown at Dark Vaati, who again dodged the attack and flew off past Vaati and toward Minish Woods, Vaati following behind. Link and Zelda arrived at Lon Lon Ranch as soon as the Vaati's flew off. A girl with red hair looked at them curiously, in the middle of brushing a horse. Link looked over at the girl and ran up to her, pulling Zelda along.
"We need to borrow your horse."
Vaati and Dark Vaati were soon above Minish Woods, battling in the sky. Vaati threw most of the attacks, his dark self kept avoiding. Finally, in all of the frustration and hatred he had felt within the few minutes, Vaati threw one final ball of energy; electricity seemed to be forming around it. It exploded on impact, sending smoke into the air. Vaati quickly flew into the cloud of smoke, his control of wind blowing it away in front of him.
Nothing. He stood in the air, his visible red eye showed confusion.
What's going on? He thought, Where's Twi and-
Suddenly, he felt sharp pain flow through his back and to the rest of his body, like the lightning that struck him down when he was running from his fellow prisoners in the dark world. Slowly, the wind that held him up weakened, and he fell into Minish Woods below. His Dark self stood in the air right behind where Vaati stood, smirking in a glare as he watched himself fall. Twi lay unconscious in his arms from the impact of Vaati's last attack.
"...I win." He said before fading into darkness, his words seemed to echo.
Link watched as Vaati fell into the woods. He quickly kicked the horse to make her run, Zelda held on to Link as they ran off to help their fallen past enemy. Twilight fell as they searched, and no sign of Vaati appeared.
"Link we should go..." Zelda said softly, sitting on the borrowed horse as Link searched on foot.
"And just leave Vaati here? He's the only one who knows what's going on." Link said, checking in a bush.
"It's getting late, Link. And we still have to return Epona."
Link remained silent for a while before joining Zelda on Epona. He hated not being able to help someone, even if he was evil at one point. They rode off towards Lon Lon Ranch to return the horse they borrowed and also tell a mother of her daughter's disappearance due to a familiar boy.
