Link's eyes opened and focused on my face. He sat up and shook his head lightly.

'Link? Answer me, Link.' I pleaded, holding his shoulder gently. He ignored me and looked around the spring, then to the gate. That's when his eyes opened even wider and he stumbled on to his feet, heading for the broken down gate.

I grabbed his arm, 'No, it's too dangerous, Link, don't.' I said, but he didn't listen. 'Stop!' I shouted, but he pushed me down on to the watery sand and shot me a silent deadly look and turned and ran. The sound of his frantic footsteps on the sand made me angry. I pushed myself up and chased after him, yelling all the while.

Over the rope bridge.

Into . . . Faron Woods? But it wasn't there. All that could be seen was a sheet of darkness stretched across the entrance, so dark that you couldn't see through. Link stood there, fixed to the spot from fear and shock. I ran up beside him and grabbed his arm, pulling and pulling.

'Link, we can't sta-ARGH!'

Link's arm slipped out of my hand as he was pulled through the darkness, screaming: a scream I knew all too well. I desperately ran through the darkness to save him, but it was too late. He was gone. I scrabbled at the dark wall but it wouldn't let me in, as if a magnetic force was pushing me away. I looked around, the sun was setting and the hour of twilight was upon the land. I kicked and punched, 'Come on!' I screamed impatiently. Then suddenly, out of the wall, I was grabbed around my waist and pulled through the darkness.

I felt a wave of coolness wash over me and, gradually, I lost my senses. My hearing numbed and everything around me was muffled and distorted. Everything was dark, save for areas that glowed with a green luminosity. The air was lukewarm and dead; there was not one breath of wind on my cheek.

'You're a feisty one, aren't you?' someone giggled from behind me. I tried to move, but I was in such a dreamlike state that I couldn't control my body. I desperately kicked and flailed but to no avail. The voice cackled again, 'You're a funny one, don't you know that you can't move in the twilight?' they giggled maliciously. I opened my mouth to speak, but that was no use either, 'Oh, and you can't talk either.'

Unexpectedly, I felt an ache form in the middle of my body. I tried my best to look down at my body: this time I managed. It was my body all right but, sticking out of my stomach, was a pulsing orange stem. It seemed to be pumping pain into my body, it spread through my body, choking me. I wanted to scream but I couldn't. I wanted to swear profusely, but all I could do was open my mouth dumbly.

'This will hurt a little, but you can take it, right?' the voice sneered confidently. I looked up and saw nothing but blackness. I wanted to follow the stem and choke the last breath out of whatever was doing this to me, but I couldn't. Soon enough, the pain engulfed my body until all I could see was white and suddenly I could scream. So I did; but it was unearthly and not my scream at all. I thought it may have been someone else's, but I felt it through my lungs and throat. It must have been mine.

I fell down on the cold ground, I could breathe again. I cracked my eyes open and looked up, and, to my disgust, floated an imp-like creature. I looked it up and down, and, after close inspection, decided that the imp was female. She had wide hips, breasts and a round stomach. She wore nothing, yet her body didn't need it; it was adorned with tattoos and markings of a bright turquoise blue on her grey skin. She wore a helm fused of what looked like stone, carved intricately and broken in places. Her eyes were big, red and unnerving, and one small tooth stuck out the side of her mouth when she grinned.

'What? Am I so beautiful you-'

'I have no words left?' I interrupted, somehow realising what she would say. I'd heard the phrase before. I pushed myself up off the ground and fell back down again at the sight of my body. It had not changed in shape, size or touch, but my skin was pale, luminescent and turquoise. It seemed to radiate, no shadow dared touch it, only rays of light.

'Is there any way to . . . I can't find a way to say this . . . But, maybe, extinguish myself?' I muttered incoherently. My body was so bright it seemed difficult to see what was around me: the ground sparkled like onyx but the creature glowed like I did.

'Don't look so hard, switch off your senses.' She advised, quite kindly to my surprise. And so I closed my eyes, 'No, you fool! Do you want to become blind?' she derided. My eyes shot open and suddenly I could see. My whole body relaxed and the world became clearer. It was ghastly. It was so dark and dead. Small black shards floated up toward the sky, as if the world were rotting away before my very eyes. It was Faron Woods, but not the one I had previously known.

'It's dead.' I said, devastated and shocked. The creature looked at me incredulously.

'What do you mean? You don't find the cloud of twilight mesmerising? Breathtaking?' she said in mock disbelief. I stared her down, reached for my weapon, but my hand simply hit my leg: I was unarmed. I stood back a little.

'Was it you? Who did this? Why?' I whispered shakily, had she been the one to abduct Ilia and Colin? Where was Link?

She scoffed at me, 'I wish,' I glared at her, 'well, I don't really wish. Taking over the light world and all that, it's not really my style. I was happy where I was.' I stayed silent, trying to make sense of the situation, but I didn't understand; what was she talking about?

'Where's Link?' I said, rasping, my temper was flaring.

'Who, the handsome one? I know where he is and, in fact, I intend to find him. He will help me.'

'With what?'

'Why, taking over the world,' to which I glared helplessly at her, 'you fool. I'm simply going to try and . . . save your world, of course.' I raised my gaze to her crimson eyes.

'Really?'

'Yes.'

I looked her up and down, 'I'm Penthiselea, but you can call me Lea. I'm going to come with you to find Link.'

She fell backward and floated on her back, groaning and moaning, 'Oh, but why! Let me do this myself.' She kicked her little legs and shook her fists in the air.

'I'm coming with you . . . Who are you?'

'I am Midna, and you are?'

'I told you my name already.' I snarled like a beast.

'Well, that's too bad. I've forgotten already.' Midna giggled.

I clenched my fists and stomped toward her, ready to land a punch into that round little belly of hers when she seemed to . . . disperse . . . around my hand.

'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' I whipped my head round and there she was, in full form, 'You'll need me to get to your dear, darling Link.' I growled in exasperation, Midna just giggled.

'How good are you with dogs?' and with a smile and a wink, the world around me fell away.

I was looking forward to bringing Midna in! Among many things that Nintendo do well, creating characters with spunk is one of them! Please review and comment, what do you think is going to happen?