Helllooooooo again people, it's time for another chapter. This one is what you could call a boss fight packed with action. I hope you all enjoy it!^^


Chapter 8

Burning Rage

And they thought the Goron Mines had been hot... this place was a raging inferno. Even with the barrier, the swordsman and the Princess could feel the heat that emanated from the lava, just few feet below them. After cross the Crater, Link and Midna had entered an ancient temple of some short. There were paved paths and walls and some totem-like statues, which most were in pieces, probably because of the natural quakes and changes that this place suffered because of the volcano it have right under it.

There weren't many obstacles along the way, just some annoying Fire Slugs and Dodongos, which Link quickly disposed of. Midna walked at the Hero's side, letting him take care of those "little annoyances who weren't worthy of wasting her time or power with".

After passing another hole in a wall they arrived in a great hall. High statues were in this room which waterfalls of lava fell from its mouths forming a river along the walls. An altar was at the final of the hall with another statue. This one, however, was different of the others: it looked like a woman covered just by veils and with a serene and at the same time concentrated expression on her face. The local seemed like a room for prayers.

Link looked around, absolutely fascinated by the architecture. He wondered if the Gorons built this, or another civilization that lived here much before them. Midna ignored the decorations. She looked around for an entrance to another level or some salience in the walls. Then she saw a shine coming from the left hand of the statue. Looking there, the Twili ruler saw some kind of metal at the open hand of the stone woman. Could that be the ore they were looking for?

The Twilight Princess tapped Link at the chest and pointed to the altar. He saw what she was staring at and thought about it: if that was really the ore, then this would be too easy.

Too much easy, that's the keyword here., Link thought. Considering his vast experience in mazes and temples, he knew when something you needed appeared right in your front, in a place of easy access, there was some kind of powerful guardian waiting for you to take the item and then appear and call for a fight.

"Ok. I'll take it and you watch the rear.", the Hero said to the female magician. Midna nodded.

The two slowly went to the altar, looking around for any trap or signal of something coming. Through all the way to the statue, they didn't see anything. Link then arrived at the front of the entity carved in stone and watched the surroundings, looking attentively even to the statue, thinking it could gain life and start to attack.

He then noticed how well sculpted the statue was. The artist should have a good eye to details, it really looked like it could gain life at any moment. When his eyes started to look below the face of the sculpture, Midna looked at him and, noticing where his eyes were wandering to, spoke:

"Are you liking the scenery?"

Link almost jumped at her voice, he had almost forgot Midna was there, such was his concentration on the surveying the hall. But what really startled the Hero was the tone his exotic-looking friend used.

"Just take that damn ore and then your mind can have as many perverted thoughts it wants for all that I care.", the otherworldly woman said, with a tinge of what seemed anger.

"Midna... are you angry?", Link asked. She shot a look to him that could stop even a Goron on his tracks.

Deciding to take that ore and fled before his life got more threatened than it already was, Link quickly grabbed the metal sphere on the left hand of the statue. The two waited, but nothing happened. The Hero then looked to the sphere and back to his companion, who shrugged. Maybe the guardian had left or was killed in some kind of eruption inside the temple.

The green clad swordsman smiled at that thought, but when he looked back to the metal at his hand, his smile immediately faded. The sphere, which seemed to have been recently processed, blackened, its shine fading and turning into a dirt brown, like it had returned to its brute state.

The sphere then started to float above Link's hand and shot to the middle of the hall. A quake started to shake the entire room. The entrance to the chamber collapsed, being completely blocked. The lava around the room started to get agitated, like the volcano had entered in activity. Then, contrary to any of the gravity laws, lava shot from the river along the walls and floated to the sphere the Hero and the Twilight Princess had just caught.

The flaming, molten rock started to circulate the round object and to merge with it, covering the metal in a sea of flames. The lava started to take form and flames erupted from all the structure of the being that materialized. It looked a lot like some kind of two stories tall demon made entirely of lava and fire, but with a dragon face and shinning, yellow, cruel eyes. Some kind of ornament sprouted from its back: it looked like an yellow-red halo with runes on it and two spikes sprouting to the sides below it and the top missing, like it had been cut out. With further observance, Link and Midna noticed the outlines of the creatures made it look like it was wearing some kind of armor.

The creature let out a powerful roar that shook the entire hall, making dust fell from the celling. Link had once thought Firus seemed intimidating, but this creature made the former look like a pussy. The fire monster then noticed the two standing near the altar, its yellow eyes flashed with what seemed blood lust.

"Ah, another ones. I haven't guests by quite sometime.", the creature said, in a grave, brass-like voice which remembered them the one of a demon, though the two friends never really saw one.

"Considering the local, it's no surprise.", Link inputted, but just for Midna to hear. He was sure that angering this dragon-faced giant wouldn't be wise.

"I heard that.", the fire behemoth said, making Link swear under his breath. Great. It had accurate senses too. The creature started another speech. "Stay here until a powerful warrior come and purify your soul, they said... your heart is too much revolted for you to receive the punishment that was addressed to your companions, they said... I have been here for as long as can I count...", the flaming giant started to walk to the princess and the swordsman. "Waiting and waiting... many came here before, seeking to challenge me and you know what? None of them was capable of overcome me. No single one...", the air around the monster started to heat up as his voice tone increased. "All of them... USELESS AND WEAK!!!"

By the roar and the sudden release of flames around it, Link and Midna could tell that creature wasn't any pleased to remember his previous battles. Hot wind rushed them and, if it wasn't for his Twili friend's spell around his face, the hero chosen by the goddesses was sure he would have been suffocated.

"I see you have some temper problems.", Midna talked, her tone normal, even considering the creature in front of her could easily squash her like a bug. "Ever thought in taking some anger management classes?"

"SILENCE!!!", the flaming giant roared, breathing fire at them. The Hero and the powerful magician jumped to the side, avoiding being roasted by the fierce flames, which Midna could felt had a slight touch of magic, adding more power to it. "You Hylians are all the same! It's your fault I'm here in first place. It's because of you I was transform into this... because of you I lost my humanity, little by little... and even so, you can't make a single decent warrior who can actually stand more than five seconds before me!"

"Ok, now, two things...", Midna started, not affected by the outburst of the monster and completely ignoring Link's pleading look for her to stop taunting the imposing giant at their front. "One: my friend here...", she pointed to Link, who gulped, feeling the monster had his eyes upon him. "Is a great hero, who defeated a powerful evil that threatened this entire land. Two: I'm not Hylian in the case you haven't noticed. I'm Twili."

Though the blond warrior felt praised by hearing his exotic looking companion complementing him that way, he really preferred she stayed quite, cause as soon Midna ended that line, the dragon-faced creature looked from her to him, with an analyzing gleam on its eyes. The monster spoke again, sounding angrier:

"WHAT?! Are you suggesting this tiny man is supposed to be a hero and you are his companion?! A Twili?! SIDING WITH AN HYLIAN?!?!?!"

"Hey! Wait just a minute!", Link said, now getting offended. He could stand people calling him from many things (Midna was the one which he heard the biggest variety of adjectives being referred to his person), but "little" or "tiny" was something he particularly couldn't stand. He knew he was shorter than many people, including the sarcastic Princess at his left, but that never meant he couldn't fight monsters bigger than any human. "I'm not tiny and yes, I'm a Hero!"

"SHUT UP!!!", the fire giant yelled, going into another fit of anger and pointing his palm to Link, from which came a jet of lava. The attack surprised the green clad warrior, but he achieved to avoid it. "And you...!", the flaming creature said, pointing to Midna. "You traitor... I'll tear you to shreds, burn your remains and throw your dust into the volcano! It's a promise from me, Tharse, the Burning Rage!"

With another thunderous roar, the fire creature created a sword of fire and molten rock on his right hand, releasing more flames around him in the process. Link glared at Midna and spoke:

"Nice going, you angered the big guy."

"Hey, it's not my fault he's so hotheaded.", Link felt the urge to glare daggers at her for that pun, but his nice side decided against. "Besides...", Midna stretched her arm up, opening her palm, while square, dark matter started to swirl around it, forming a long, black sword with runes on its blade. She grasped the sword and brought it down. Link was utterly surprised that his spell caster friend had a sword, much less one that was even longer than the Master Sword. He never associated her to this type of weapon. "I was dying to show you what I have learned all this time."

A grin spread across Midna's lips, one that resembled much the sadistic ones she gave in her cursed form, which caused her to slightly twist her exotic features. Link also saw that her canine teeth was slightly bigger and looked sharper than the one of a human, but not at the point of resemble a fang like happened in her cursed form. But again, she wasn't human, so maybe it should be a common trait.

Tharse let out another fire breath at the couple, who jumped to the sides and ran, avoiding the flames. Link scanned his opponent, he knew his sword would do as good as throwing a nut at that monster would, so he tried to find another spot that could show a way to hit the flaming monster, however, he saw none.

The fire behemoth then launched a lava jet at the hero chosen by the goddesses, who had again to run to not be caught in the wave of molten rock. The attack suddenly stopped when a gust of frozen air hit the arm of the creature. The low temperatures solidified the molten rock, turning it into stone. The dragon-headed creature looked to his attacker and saw Midna: hands glowing with a white energy. He ran to her and tried to slice the Princess in two with his sword, but she easily floated above him and pointed her palm to the burning creature, letting loose a great gust of freezing wind.

Tharse completely turned into stone when Midna landed on the other side. However, the rock started to crack and flames were coming out of the fissures, like a volcano preparing to explode. With another roar, the demon-looking monster broke free of the stone, releasing a wave of hot air around him.

"Ok. That wasn't strong enough.", Midna thought aloud.

"You think so?", Link inputted, coming to her side while the monster looked to the two. "Can't you do something with my sword so I can hit that thing without having it melted?", the green clad warrior asked.

The Twilight Princess looked to his sword. It was the Ordon Sword they had obtained in the begging of their adventure. It was strong, but it surely wouldn't stand too much against a lava-made monster. She touched the blade and murmured some words in Twili. A white glow enveloped the metal, making it shine like it was new.

"With this it may not melt when you slash at that thing, but I cannot promise anything.", Midna said, enchanting her own blade, which runes shone by receiving the magic spell. Link nodded and the two went to the flaming giant, who threw another lava jet at the two.

The Hero rolled to the side, standing behind the left leg of Tharse, and slashed at it. The limb immediately solidified at the part Link's blade had connected, making the monster momentary lost of his equilibrium. This was enough to Midna float near the head and delivered some blows of her sword. The monster then tried to swat her away, but the powerful magician achieved to create a barrier in the last second, which absorbed the damage. However, the impact sent her away of the flaming monster, giving it time to recover, this is, until the swordsman at its feet slashed at the other leg, effectively making the gargantuan lost the equilibrium and fell.

The two friends ran to the head of the monster and started to slash, one after the other, in a synchronized pattern. The two then thrust their blades at the eyes of the fire giant, but soon discovered it wasn't a wise move. Tharse opened his mouth and breathed fire at the two. Link immediately brought his shield up and Midna created another protective barrier.

The ice in his eyes quickly melted and the flaming monster stood on his knees and pointed his hand to the Hero letting loose another lava jet. Link didn't have choice, but maintain his shield up to don't get burned to his bones by the stream of flaming liquid. However, as soon as the attack stopped, the green clad warrior had to detach the shield from his arm, which was starting to burn due the temperature of the heated metal. When he looked, the front of his faithful equipment was melted, the drawings and symbols disappeared, giving place to saliences in the metal, where the jet had hit. The Hylian Shield had been damaged beyond repair.

"Watch out!", a voice woke Link from his temporary mourn as a big fireball was coming to him. Midna came behind and hugged the Hero with one arm, transforming herself into several sand-like, golden particles and him into black, square matter. A huge explosion came when the flaming sphere hit the ground, but fortunately the two had reappeared in another part of the hall. "Watch what you're doing! I almost don't get to save us in time!", the Twilight Princess scolded.

"Sorry, but I just lost my only protection against that thing.", Link tried to justify.

"Then stay back and let me take care of this if you don't feel like fighting now.", Midna stood in a battle stance.

The Hero was about to speak, when another fire breath came and forced the two to move aside and run, while the Tharse tried to hit them. Midna then transformed again into multiple golden particles and materialized near the altar, standing still and charging a spell. Their burning adversary saw that and prepared to the shot another fireball, but Link took the moment to approach and held his blade with his two hands, pointing it up.

The green clad warrior jumped in the air and brought his blade down, at the foot of the creature, creating shock waves when it sliced the foot and collided with the ground. Tharse let out a yell of pain and shot the fire ball at a random direction, completely missing his intended target. While the fire giant bent, holding his sliced limb, which slowly regenerated, Midna had ended the spell.

Several ice crystals of the size of the lava creature's knuckle formed around the Twili spell caster and shot to the flaming behemoth, which looked up at time to see the first hitting his body, making steam rise from the collision of two extreme opposite temperatures. The crystal pierced the body of the monster and exited from its back, making the inside of the monster solidify. The effect was the same with the other crystals.

Then one the icy projectiles hit the middle of Tharse's chest, but different of the others this one embedded itself on the body of the flaming giant, which widened its eyes and let out a roar of pain while clutched the icy projectile with his hand and tried to get it out.

Midna raised an eyebrow at this. She then remembered what was inside the monster that could possibly stop her Frost Arrow: the ore they came to catch, it probably should be its heart. Tharse finally achieved to melt the crystal embedded on his body and started to suck the air around him on his body. Link, who had given some space between himself and the flaming behemoth, when he saw his otherworldly cast that powerful magic attack, decided it would be best to put all the distance he could from that monster.

The Twilight Princess transformed again into multiple sand-like particles, right when Tharse released a huge explosion of fire, incinerating half of the hall. The magic power of the attack was so big that Midna was forced back into her original form when one of the particles was hit by the flames. She was hurled by the attack, getting some burns in the process, but thanks to her great magical resistance, it wasn't so serious.

Link saw his fallen friend and rushed to her, knelling at her side while she tried to stand. He asked if she was alright, but before she could answer or tell what she had discovered a golden-yellow shine came from behind her and she could feel a great concentration of magical energy. The two turned and saw Tharse had turned to them and the halo-like ornament at his back was the source of the shine. Midna saw the spikes below the halo were absorbing the magical energy of the environment and sending it to the ornament.

A sphere of energy started to form at the top of the halo, receiving the power stored by the flaming monster. Midna could feel the power emanating from that and knew not even her teleport would be able to save them from that. Trying to think fast, the powerful magician remembered she had a powerful magical repellent with her. She just hoped it would be powerful enough.

Link was struck at his place. He knew he could never run fast enough to avoid what was about to come, so he waited for the inevitable until he saw Midna stand and take out another equipment, this one hidden inside her robe: the Mirror Shield.

"What are you...?", the brave swordsman never achieved to end his question, for in that moment the sound of a powerful explosion interrupted him, indicating Tharse had unleashed the attack. The Hero positioned himself behind Midna, hoping whatever she was planning to do worked.

When the giant beam shot from the energy sphere hit the shield, the descendant of the Twili Founder-Kings was pushed back, but Link, seeing this, grabbed her by the waist, pushing against the force that was trying to blow them away. Midna would have stopped and considered if she should be enjoying her friend touching her like that or slap him by his impudence, but like she was busy trying to not get disintegrated by a mortal ray, she decided to leave that dilemma to another moment.

Around them, the beam had split into several others when it hit the shield. Tiles flew while the multiple beams dug inside the earth. They hoped it didn't cause some kind of reaction on Death Mountain Crater or they would have really big problems. The beam finally faded, but Midna knew a backslash of that power was about to come so she transformed her sword into twilight matter again to free her hand and use it to create another barrier when explosions came around them. Fortunately, the power of that side effect of the attack had also been divided when the beam split.

Tharse looked from his position at the work he had done, smiling. He was ready to retrieve when he saw the smoke dispersing and his jaw dropped at the sight of Midna and Link in one piece. Sweating and panting at the near-death situation, but in one piece.

"Wh...?! How...? Nothing ever survived my Solar Nova! How come you still alive?!", the demon blurted out, dumbstruck.

"Link... the metal sphere you caught before... it's inside his chest...", Midna said, panting due the tiredness the heat was causing. "That is his heart... we have to destroy it quickly."

"But... if we do that... what about fixing your shield?", the green clad swordsman asked, finally letting his friend go.

The female Twili pondered about that. If they destroyed the sphere, either they would have to come back here to search another, or she would be struck in the Light World forever, truly abandoning her people, yet another time. On other hand, if they didn't, they would surely be killed by that gargantuan. The dilemma distracted her enough for her to lower her shield.

Tharse, looking at the sudden confusion at his adversary's face, took the moment and charged fire on his mouth again, shooting another fire ball. Link looked to their adversary at time to see him releasing the flaming sphere from his mouth. Without a second thought, Link grabbed Midna by her shoulders and threw her to the side with all strength he could muster. Thankfully, she wasn't so heavy, so he achieved to threw her at a distance he was sure the explosion of the fire ball couldn't catch her. The Hero quickly turned and ran, the flaming projectile approaching him fast.

When the fire ball touched the ground, it released a wave of flames, which caught Link dead on, hurling him across the hall and on the rocks that blocked the entrance from where they came. Midna jolted her head up at the moment her friend started to run and saw the explosion catching him. She immediately stood and ran to him, kneeling at his side. He was laying with his side to the floor, showing his back, where the cloth had been completely destroyed and the protection of metal rings had snapped. Second and few third degree burns were visible on the Hylian's back, sides and even in his front.

"Ha. Serves this wretched Hylian right. Now it's time to eliminate the traitor.", came Tharse's voice.

The Twilight Princess could feel the ground tremble as the fire giant approached, but she didn't pay attention to it. She was murmuring an enchantment to reinforce the barrier that allowed her and Link stay in the Crater. Two tears ran from her eyes while she did so. When the powerful magician ended, she stood, still looking to him, but now another feeling came to her as she gripped her sword and transferred more power to it: vengeance.

"No...", Midna murmured, finally turning, her tears evaporating in the heat and her sword glowing white with all the power of ice she transferred to it. "You'll be eliminated, you bastard!"

Tharse wasn't affected at the little woman's statement, he simply let out a laugh and thrust his sword into the ground, clutching it while the Twilight Princess ran to him. Cracks appeared at the ground, in the front of the Twili spell caster and soon a lava geyser shot from the floor, but that didn't stop her. Using magic to empower the muscles of her legs, the powerful woman jumped to the side and continued to run at the flaming behemoth. The fire giant growled and clutched his blade's burning hilt again, making more lava geysers erupt, turning the entire hall in a raging inferno.

Even with molten rock erupting by all over the hall, the Twilight Princess didn't stop her advance. Rage was burning inside her, but not the kind that dull your mind to danger. It was the kind that gave you a new resolve to defeat your opponent and made adrenaline rush through your whole being, making you even more efficient in combat. Tharse, however, didn't realize that until Midna opened her free hand at her side and formed another great ice crystal on her palm.

When she jumped to avoid another burning geyser, she hurled to icy projectile at the flaming demon, hitting and destroying his sword and piercing his belly. The monster backed up and Midna was already upon him. Using another enchantment, the magical swordswoman made the frozen aura around her sword extend until it reached three times the normal length of her blade.

Tharse just have time to look surprised before Midna started to fiercely slash at his chest him with her overlong blade, weakening the protection around his heart and causing him great pain. He released a wave of fire around him, which effectively pushed the angered princess away, and started to charge again his Solar Nova, decided to transform the spell caster into dust.

Midna didn't look scared at the sight of the flaming monster preparing to unleash his most powerful attack, in fact, she had a plan to counter it. A shining sphere formed above the fire halo of the demon-like creature, which was absorbing all magic energy it could.

The flaming giant then unleashed the infernal beam at the Twilight Princess, who simply put the Mirror Shield at her front, intercepting the attack with it. Instead of deflecting, she made the shield absorb the energy of the attack, charging and making the runes at the mirrored surface shine like fireworks. When she felt the beam diminishing, she unleashed the energy contained in the shield in a counter beam, which consumed the former one and shot to Tharse.

The Burning Rage was hit and pushed away by its own attack, which exploded on its face, temporary blinding him, but not really damaging the burning monster. When the smoke cleared, the monster gulped and, for the first time, its yellow eyes showed fear. Midna was hovering at the level of his chest, her overlarge blade was brought behind her. Before Tharse could react, the powerful magician thrust the sword, impaling his chest and making the tip exit by his back, making him stop dead on his tracks.

Silence fell over the entire hall. The aura that extended the reach of the female Twili's blade disappeared, showing the damage on the body of the fire monster at her front: a hole that passed through all his body, including a certain metal sphere that served as his heart. The gargantuan backed with heavy steps, energy started to come out of the behemoth's body in the form of sparks and light and flames started to lick around his silhouette, like his own body was consuming itself. With another thunderous roar, the so called Burning Rage burst into a swirl of lava and flames.

Midna then floated back to the ground and looked to what was left of Tharse: a scorch mark where he had been standing and solidified lava. When she saw the metal sphere on the ground, broken in pieces and blackened, indicating it had been consumed during the explosion, her heart gave a loop inside her chest. She heard a moan at her back and turned to see Link, trying to stand, but without success. Leaving behind those thoughts, the fiery red headed woman went to help her friend.

"Are you all right?", Midna asked with great concern in her voice, trying to get Link up without touch on any of his burns, what was a rather difficult since most of his upper body was burnt.

"I feel like I entered inside Firus and barely came out alive.", the Hero said in a groggy way. He then looked to a great pile of solid rock and saw a mount of what seemed to be broken metal. He soon realized what that probably was. "Midna... I'm sorry..."

"Don't worry... I rather lose that thing than lose you.", the Princess said in a gentle tone. "Besides, we can come back here another time to search for other.", Link caught a glimpse of pain in her voice, indicating she didn't have much hope of find another one.

Before the Hero could say anything to console his otherworldly friend, red, shiny points started to come out of the place where Tharse once stood. Midna gave out an angry groan, ready to blast the lights with all her power, when an humanoid figure of their height started to form. The Twilight Princess then stopped at seeing it wasn't the burning monster they had fought.

At the middle of the solidified rocks materialized the ghost of a red haired man, with ruby eyes and wearing gray chest plate with iron boots and gloves, which had symbols Midna identified as being ancient Twili writing. Beneath the armor he wore, there was a dark red tunic with an white shirt underneath and dark brown pants. He looked to be around his twenties. The figure smiled to the couple and spoke in a grave voice, which bore a slight resemblance to Tharse's one:

"Thank you both for freeing me...", the two friends approached the transparent figure, Midna helping Link to walk, since each step he took send jolts of pain through all his body. "And I'm sorry for all the pain I caused to you. I am Tharse. This is what I looked back when I was human. I was once a feared and powerful general of the people who dubbed themselves the Twili."

Midna arched an eyebrow while Link seemed surprised. They had been fighting another cursed Twili this entire time? It seemed like some kind of deja vĂș, but with the slight difference that this one had been transformed into a fierce, flaming, big demon with short fuse and anger management problems.

"I was transformed into the creature you just saw like punishment for having invaded the Sacred Lands, together with my brethren, and by all my past acts. In life, I killed anybody that stood in my path and treated my subordinates like cattle, even being reprimanded by my noble kings, all because I always had anger and revolt poisoning my heart. I lost my entire family to a group of bandits that raided our village while the militia that should protect us was called to the war, leaving our community completely defenseless."

"Let me guess, so you blamed the King of Hyrule and the Hylians by it and decided to join my ancestors hoping to have the chance to kill as many of them as you could.", Midna spoke, receiving a nod from the ancient Twili.

"Once I received my power, I showed a great domain over the element of fire, using it to get rid of all my enemies: burning them until nothing was left. By consequence, I received the ironic title of Burning Rage."

"Never would guess.", Midna inputted with sarcasm.

She never imagine there were Twili who had been imprisoned in other places across Hyrule as another punishment for her tribe to try to take over the Golden Power. Well, since they lost any contact with the Light World, it shouldn't be much of a surprise. Anyway, nothing of that mattered, since she lost what she came to search for.

"Ok, we freed you and you thanked us. Now if you don't mind, my friend here need urgent care, so I'll take my leave.", the Twilight Princess said, preparing to open a portal to Kakariko.

"Wait. Before you leave, there's something I must give you.", the exotic woman stopped and looked back to one of the elders of her people.

Tharse stretched his arms up and suddenly the lava in the river started to agitate and thin lines of it shot from the river, floating above the head of the Twili ghost and forming something. The lava then solidified and formed what seemed to be some kind of brute metal, which floated to the front of the Twilight Princess.

"This is the ore that was giving to our great King Orious as a token of friendship from the Gorons. If I'm not mistaken, he forged a shield with it. The Spirits left me here saying I should guard it until the day a powerful warrior would come to defeat me and purify my soul and that I should give it to him.", Tharse said, with another smile.

"But... when I... the heart...", Midna stuttered, completely shocked. The transparent figure understood what she was trying to say and answered in a light-hearted tone.

"That was a fake one. The real one is right in your front."

The Twilight Princess didn't know what to say, so she just transformed the ore into twilight matter, which disappeared and mixed with her magical aura. Link smiled at seeing an expression of happiness forming in the face of his friend. Midna then looked to the spirit of the ancient Twili and thanked him.

"Don't mention it. Now I can finally pass on. But before I go, I want to ask you a favor.", the two companions looks shifted from happiness to attention, like they were pondering about what was to come. "There were three other generals just like me, they also were ruthless in their lives and killed with passion. We worked together several times and we kinda developed a friendship due our common views about life. We were known as the Feral Generals, because our fierce behavior resembled the one of berserker beasts.

"They too were cursed just like me and locked away in isolated places of Hyrule. If you happen to cross with them, could you please fight them to soothe their spirits? I heard they are guarding rare items, such as this ore.", Tharse bowed to Midna and Link, to show this was important to him.

If those two were guarding the other materials, Link and Midna would eventually have to fight against them, so maybe that quest wouldn't deviate them of their journey. The two then accepted the ancient general's request, saying that when they encountered the other two cursed Twilis they would do their best to defeat them and save their souls.

"Thanks. I wish you two good luck, hero and descendant of the Great Veris...", before the words could sunk into Midna and she realize that this ghost probably knew who she was the entire time, a golden shine enveloped Tharse's transparent body.

In a swirl of golden dots, the ancient Twili's form dissipated in several crimson-red points, which disappeared in the air...