Chapter Nine
This is weird… It feels both strange and familiar…
I think it looked like this when I turned into a wolf…
What the…
Is… Is Midna wearing the shield… On her face?
I won't laugh… I won't laugh… I won't laugh…
Is not funny! Master not know human things!
"Hmm! So these are the weapons you use in your world?"
To a degree, but not the degree you're using.
Stop laugh at Master!
Whoa! Midna please be careful! You almost decapitated me!
Master not do that! Master nice!
"You really think this thing can slay the creatures of twilight?"
Probably, I don't know.
Agh! Why'd she throw the shield at my face?
"... Well, I won't use these, but I'll hang onto them for you!"
By throwing them at me?
Thank you Master! Master nice!
Whoa! The shield became a bunch of little green squares!
How does that even… You know what, never mind.
"All right, a promise is a promise… I trust you enough to help."
Master trust me? Happy!
Why do I feel so happy about that?
"In exchange for my help, though, I need you to gather some things for me."
Again? Were a sword and shield not enough?
I do anything for Master be happy!
"Look, I can't tell you all the details now, but it'll be easy, trust me…"
I'm torn between having a very uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach and-
Trust Master! Master nice, trust!
I don't much like the tone of Midna's voice… But I don't think I really have that many options, now do I?
"But enough about that. Do you hear that noise? It's the lamentation of the spirit that had its light stolen… Where in the world could it be? Eee hee!"
Master has pretty laugh…
Obviously it's in the spr- wait what? What was that?
Master has pretty laugh!
I… I'm just gonna pretend I didn't think that…
"Better get going, don't you think? Don't blame me for your world's fate if you don't hurry up and find that light!"
Be wolf is happy… But no save world no happy… But save world no be wolf… So save world no happy… But save world be happy...
My head hurts, cut it out.
"Come on! Snap to it!"
If we have to save the light spirits, that means we go to the spring, which is just up ahead.
Oh no… More of those red pole-things…
I can smell it. I can smell the shadow beast coming. The scent is making me sick.
But Master is shadow, and Master no yucky.
Come on out, shadow beast! I'm not gonna hurt you all that much!
Whoa! Three of 'em!
It's alright, I can take them!
"Aww… We're penned in again!"
You don't say…
"Pffft! Who do they think they're dealing with?"
I don't know, why don't you ask them?
No be mean to Master! Master nice!
"No need to take these little pests on one at a time, right? You can take them all at once!"
Got it. Wait, what do you mean? What are you going to be doing?
"So… You can handle this all by yourself, can't you?"
I guess, but why do I have to?
Master please no go! Need Master!
"Good luck! 'Bye!"
Got one down. Two to- AGH!
Loud! Much loud! No move!
Wha- How? The first one's back up again!
Two down this time. Maybe it was just that one monster?
AGH!
Loud! Loud! Loud!
"What's the holdup? If you leave the last one alive, it's just going to use that shriek to bring the others back."
You don't say…
Master! Master back!
"Listen, let me help you out here! Just move like I tell you!"
Thank you!
Did I just thank her… Ugh, the things I've gone through thus far…
Thank Master! Master nice! Master much nice!
"You just focus on the enemies and I'll expand an energy field. Enclose all your enemies within it!"
Worth a shot!
Master much smart! Thank Master much!
Okay… focus… Got it!
Whoa! I'm flying through the monsters!
Monster blood yummy!
Got 'em! And yeah, it really does… Weird…
What… What was that sound?
Never mind, I can't worry about that right now. I need to get to the spring.
That light ball must be the spirit… It looks so faint…
Spirit no have light. Light ball faint because no have light.
I guess that makes sense…
"... Please… be careful… These woods… have changed…"
No, really? I had no idea!
"The dark clouds of dusk cover this land… This drape of shadows is called… twilight."
So I gathered.
"In this twilight, those who live in the light… become as mere spirits… It is a place… where the dark ones and evil creatures dwell…"
Yes, thank you for telling me things I already know.
"...I… am a spirit… of light…"
Again, telling me things I already know…
"...Blue-eyed beast."
I have a name, light ball.
"Look… for my light… Retrieve the light stolen by the dark beasts… and keep it… in this vessel."
Finally! New information!
Huh, it kinda looks like a bunch of grapes…
"In the shadows of twilight… the dark insects are as… invisible… as normal beings are here…"
Good to know. So how am I gonna catch them?
"...Find… the insects of darkness… The dark insects… They are the form taken by evil… once it has latched on to… our scattered light…"
Well that's kind of gross.
Wait… If they're invisible like "normal beings"... Can I see them by using my senses?
Those bugs must be the insects the light spirit was talking about. I guess they're glowing because of the fact that they stole the light spirit's light?
Is that… a glowing teardrop?
Spirit light.
That felt… weird…
Light in vessel.
What? No comments about Midna? No sill-
You no like Master. Me sad.
It's not that I don't like Midna, it's just that-
You like Master? Happy!
No, that's not what I meant.
No like Master?
That's not what I said… It's complicated…
"Hm… Looks like we can get in there!"
Looks like.
Oh hey, it's that guy who gave me the lantern.
"Wh-What's with these bugs? Those things aren't normal!"
Why do all the spirit-people talk to themselves? They can't see me, they can't see Midna… So why are they talking to thin air?
"They're so big… So weird… So creepy…"
People lonely. Bugs scare people. People scare mean people act weird things.
I guess that makes some sense.
"C'mon, get away, bugs… Shoo… Get out of here…"
Heh, never knew a guy like him would be afraid of some bugs.
Bugs be evil. Memory? People know bugs be evil?
I gue- oh hey speaking of.
"Wh-WHAAT? They just… died?"
Yep, courtesy of yours truly.
"Oh, boy, I have NO idea what's going on around here…"
You can say that again…
The gate's locked… Of course it is… Good thing there's a hole here.
Two more bugs down. Fantastic.
Bugs no taste good.
No, indeed they don't.
Why is the area here filled with pinkish-purple water?
Oh hey, two more bugs!
Bugs taste much yucky… No like…
It's like the taste of the bugs builds up… Maybe the taste of evil is just that potent?
Oh, okay no. We can't go through that water stuff. It smells almost as bad as the bugs taste.
"Hey… Think we can get across over here?"
If it means not going in the water, then I'm game.
Phew… I don't like being so close to the water…
Three more bugs… Guess they don't like the water either.
Bleh, I hope we're almost done bug-hunting… I'm starting to feel nauseous…
Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Those skinny sticks can't support me…
Whoa! That plant thing almost bit my tail off!
I think I smell a couple more of those bugs.
Bugs smell much yucky…
No kiddin'…
Oh goodie… More of those shadow beasts…
Taste much yummy!
Yes, I know. You've pointed that out plenty of times, I think I get it now.
You like blood too. You know taste much yummy.
I don't have time to focus on the taste of the shadow beasts' blood right now.
No yucky taste. Yucky gone.
Huh. I guess the bug taste got covered by the shadow beasts' blood. I don't feel nauseous any more…
Hey, this is where Talo was kept in that cage with the monkey!
And there's the monkey now!
Ugh, two more of those bugs… These had better be the last ones…
"Someone… Someone helped me?"
Oh… That's right, I forgot.
"Boy, lucky for me… Ever since the boss went funny in the head, there've been scary monsters everywhere…"
The monkey has a boss?
You know animals all no smart? Not nice. Not right. Animals smart.
No, I didn't say that.
"Those village kids got lead through the woods for some reason… The whole forest is so weird now… What's happened?"
Talo? Malo? Beth? Ilia? All of them… Kidnapped?
No… It's all my fault…
I… I should have been there… I should have protected them…
Get spirit light. Need light…
Yeah… I need to focus on getting rid of these bugs so I can find them.
Whoa… What's with the bright light?