"Eee hee hee! Well? Do you understand where we are now?" Midna asked Link curiously. Well, if he didn't he was an idiot. "I guess a promise is a promise, so I'll let you go back to where you first stumbled into twilight. But... are you really sure you should be going back? Are you sure you aren't forgetting something important?"

Midna's eyes narrowed and she tapped her fingers on her cheek. She spun around and her form changed into a blonde boy's. It was Colin, then she spun around again, phasing into the form of Ilia. Even I had forgotten about them, but that was because my main focus was on Link. Link himself seemed shocked when Midna had turned into Ilia. I guess it made sense; they had been friends for a while.

"Eee hee! Do you want to save them? Well, in that case, little Midna would be happy to help you! But... Well, you'd have to be my servant... and like a servant, you'd have to do exactly as I say!" Midna laughed, resulting in a very confused Link. Oh gods. How am I supposed to work with him, or all people, especially now that he's turned into a wolf?

"Why don't you go back, take a little time, and give it some thought. Eee hee hee!" Midna laughed and Link began to slowly fade out into particles similar to the ones floating around in the twilight. I tilted my head and then Navi shouted into my head and told me to get a move on. I quickly closed my eyes and then Navi gave a little squeak.

I landed on the soft sand of a spring. The butterflies that were protecting me from the dark magic of the twilight fluttered off and formed a very familiar looking fairy. I smiled at her and she returned it. I was glad to have Navi around, also because she protected me from turning into something like Link's wolf form, which he was still in even though he had left the twilight.

Indeed. The sun was shining its big and beautiful rays across the familiar blue sky. I couldn't help but feel a slight longing for the dark colours associated with the twilight, but even I knew that the light world was the better place. Most of all, my longing was for earth, my own planet. This weird dimension was odd and extremely weird; I still don't understand any of it.

"Oh that's right, I forgot to mention one thing..." Midna's voice came through loud and clear. I frowned. She could still talk in the light world? Link snapped his head around and looked for her. He began to walk in circles, confused.

"Though you may have left the darkened realm, you haven't transformed back to your former self... and you won't anytime soon! Now why would that be? Eee hee hee! See you later!" Midna laughed and her voice cut off.

Link gave a woof and then headed out of the spring. I chased after him, something I was used too. I didn't know when I'd introduce myself to him, but it would be soon. Navi glittered around my head and I gave an abrupt stop when Link did so.

"So, um, what next?" Link's shadow flew up in front of him and he was a little shocked as the shadow turned into Midna's shape. The only thing that was in colour was her eye, which ever so slightly freaked me out. "Eee hee hee!" The imp girl giggled. (Goodness gracious, I accidently wrote giggrfd, well, I was going to keep it there to be funny, but I changed it to what it was supposed to be in the end.)

"Did you think I'd disappeared? Listen, there's another thing I forgot to tell you... Don't think you can just run off and save your friends, because you can't. Just beyond that bridge, the land is covered in twilight. Last time a shadow beast pulled you through the curtain of twilight... But if you want to go that way this time, you'll need the cooperation of someone from the twilight... Like me!" She grinned importantly and her eye flashed with a hidden menace. "So you really have no choice but to do as I say. Saving your friends and all that... Well, that'll depend on your actions... Because you can never trust words, you know."

I gave my usual frown, actions and words were really the same thing, but it depends on who you are talking to. With Link, he won't lie, which is one of his major flaws. Midna though, probably already knew this, but was trying to trick him into doing something again.

"Right now, I want a sword and a shield that'll suit me. You do understand me, don't you? Eee hee hee! So, what are you going to do? While you're here dawdling the twilight continues to expand. Come on! Hurry it up!" Gee, could she be less demanding? No? Alright, I'll deal with her when I get the chance to introduce myself. Well, she sunk beneath Link and his shadow returned to its original shape. With that encounter said and done, Link took off towards town. I couldn't teleport after him because I wasn't in the twilight and Navi was in her fairy form, fluttering around lazily until I placed her on my shoulder. I ran at a steady pace until I arrived at Link's own home by the town entrance. Link was talking to a squirrel above his ladder. I wasn't sure if it was a conversation but it did seem odd that the squirrel was giving body language. Or maybe all that time in the twilight has gotten to my head.

Talking squirrels, who would've thought they existed.

Link bounded into the village, I stayed behind for a moment and watched the squirrel. It didn't do anything un-squirrel-like, so I was sure it was okay. So I caught up with Mr. Wolf. Link looked lost, with no clue to how he should do Midna's task. I smiled to myself slightly, remembering some of the info I'd overheard on one of my outings. A sword and a shield were to be given to the royal court of Hyrule for the Hyrule festival, indeed, Link was supposed to do that deed himself, but seeing as he had no hands, it was a problem now and the monsters outside his house only meant one thing; the village had been attacked.

"Oh! About that shield..." A voice asked.

"Hey! Not so loud..." Another voice replied with urgency.

Link slowly approached the two people talking. I couldn't quite hear them because of their hushed voices, but I knew it was something important. With a small grimace, I stood behind Link. Navi clung to my hair like it was a tree in a tornado. I raised my eyebrows slightly and gave the tiniest chuckle.

One Link and I got close enough; the voices could finally be heard clearly. The two figures were revealed to be Jaggle and the mayor Bo himself. Both seemed to be serious and the discussion itself seemed urgent and attentive. I wondered if it had anything to do with the village being attacked... Well, it's not like they have night watches for everything... so something must've happened. A little flicker in the shadows behind me became apparent but I was too focused on listening in on the shield conversation, my mistake.

"...So, that shield is still in your house, right?" Mayor Bo asked curiously.

"Uh, yeah, it should be in our storage loft." Jaggle replied with a brief and quick nod f his head.

"Good! Go grab it, quick as you can! Rusl got wounded pretty bad, so he can't go search for the kids. I'll take over for him." The mayor ordered the villager forcefully.

"But Rusl had a sword, mayor! And he STILL got hurt! If you're unarmed, you're done for!" Jaggle complained with his worry streak ringing out clear.

"I'll be fine. The sword we were goin' to present to the royal family should still be at Rusl's house." The mayor protested, showing his own flaw of importance. I gritted my teeth tightly together and clicked my jaw slightly. I needed that.

"Oh yeah? All right, I understand, mayor. I'll hurry up and get that shield. You just wait here..." Jaggle began to say, but Link accidently raised himself up from the ground too fast and so Bo and Jaggle jolted and turned in his direction. Link too was frightened for a second before he calmed himself down. "No good! Run!" And so the two fully grown Hylians ran away from a little wimpy wolf. They were worse than the cowardly soldiers, but the birds were more threatening than little Link.

Midna appeared out of Link's shadows again, and that was still completely weird. She seemed to be pretty chuffed with herself, but if she was one of those impish creatures I'd read about in fairy tales, using odd magic wasn't hard for her.

"That's not a bad bit of information you heard, huh?" Did she really have to comment on everything? I mean, truly?

She looked up at the mill house, and gave a shake of her large helmeted head. "Ugh... Look at that open window. This village is full of idiots." Okay, that, I agree with. "So..." She took a quick look around and then her gaze fell on the watermill. "We should jump up there... But from where?"

When Midna vanished again, leaving his shadow to be like an actual one, Link gave a little grunting noise. A sudden temptation to pat his fur and tell him everything's gonna be fine came to me, but of course I couldn't do that. As he ran onto the nearest pumpkin patch, the light of a torch fell on him. Hanch had also grown a backbone. Guess life has changed ever since the journey into twilight and back.

"Mon-MONSTER! You've returned for more, haven't you?! My... My daughter... Return her! And TAKE THIS!" Hanch blew into one of the grasses he had in his hand. He held out his arm as a hawk gently landed on it. His eyes narrowed at the wolf below him. Beth had been taken? Oh yes, now that I remember, the mayor and Jaggle said the kids had been taken. So it wasn't just Colin and Ilia anymore.

Silhouetted by the full moon, the hawk went talons-first towards Link. I jumped back so it wouldn't hit me. I couldn't risk having my mask torn off by a simple hawk. Everybody's heard of the phrase 'eyes like a hawk', they were very sharp birds. Link quickly got out of the way of the torchlight. Hanch growled under his breath as his prey was gone. Was that man truly no coward anymore?

I heard a soft 'mew' by my feet. Link the cat was rubbing its head on my leg. Cats were smarter than any other animal I could think of at this time. For it to sense me that easy, I wondered how Link didn't. I bent down and patted the cat's head. It mewed happily which caught Link's attention. I put my forefinger over my mouth, but the cat didn't understand the gesture, of course. Link approached the cat and I quickly backed off.

The two animals must have been conversing between each other, or the behaviour was unnaturally odd. Link gave a small bark of understanding to the cat as he ran off and around until he got to the building of Sera's sunrise.

"C'mon, let's get up on the roof from here and scare that guy! Look at him... posing like he's all important... Wait until he sees us! Eee hee hee!" Midna laughed playfully as she waited for Link to jump onto the over-roof of the entrance door. I yawned, it was getting so late now, and I hadn't slept in at least a day and a half or more... Jeez, the twilight really messed up my system.

Link bounded across the roof and leaped onto the first platform, but halted before jumping to the one which Hanch was placed at, hawk at the ready. I walked over to the platforms and stood beneath them as Link jumped out behind Hanch. The man turned in a flash, jolting his whole body as he spotted the wolf.

"WOAH!" The hawk flew off of the cowardly man's arm as he dived off the platform and ran for it. I chuckled slightly, once a coward- always a coward, unless something inspirational happens to the cowardly person of course...

Midna popped out to say hello again, but she seemed suddenly more urgent an demanding as she spoke this time. "Sounds like there should be a shield at the house with the water wheel, sneak in there and take it, will you?"

The look Link gave her was priceless; perhaps he was slightly 'touched' by Midna's mad orders that seem to lead him into odd situations. I guess he couldn't really run away from his shadow though. He hopped up onto the middle part of the water wheel and then onto the roof as he ran into the house through the open window. I waited for a few moments before Link returned out of another window, holding the shield tied to his back. Guess he couldn't really carry it any other way. He landed in the river and was paddling along near Rusl's house. I crept around in the shade for a bit near Rusl's place, but Link made an accidental large splash.

"What was that sound?! The children could not have returned... could they? I must go out and search one last time. You get inside the house. I have placed the sword that was to be our gift to Hyrule on the couch. If the mayor comes for it, please give it to him." Rusl told his wife, Uli. She didn't seem too happy with this, and her face fell into a chasm of worry.

"But, darling... Your injuries! You can't go now, please, stay and rest for a while!" She begged him, her eyes pleading with him. He did not even waver, so she began to get a little sad.

"I'll be fine, I promise." And then he turned and left, shining his torch light all around in search of the 'monster' that created the noise. I stood there awkwardly as Link snuck past Rusl and Uli to crawl into the side of their house. He came out in a matter of moments and accidently ran out straight in front of Rusl. The Hylian's eyes widened and his voice came in a loud boom.

"Beast! I have found you!" Rusl cried loudly, raising his sword at the ready to strike. Link barked once before running away.

"Lytie, stop spacing out and get a move on!" Navi whispered into my ear with a huff.

So the fiftieth chase had begun, how wonderful. Again, I saw something in the shadows flicker as I ran after Link, which meant it couldn't be anything good. In fact, positively and negatively, it wasn't anything good. Like a flickering flame igniting a bomb, something was going to explode sooner or later, but just what was going to happen was unbeknownst to me. Sometimes I wish I was a fortune teller.