What's up Sheik388 is back after a long absence glad to continue this story even further. I have some kickass chapters in plan for the Darkness Chapters. I still hate that I lost my phone at the landfill (I had to help my grandma), but still I have chapter 7 of my newer Fan Fic, New Awakenings out including this chapter. I hope you R&R for this chapter. Enjoy.

We left the oasis and walked into the desert leaving Kari behind.

"So where should we look for her first?" I said.

"I have no idea where to look, do you?" Link asked Saria. Saria thought hard for a moment and then raised her finger and said, "Let's try splitting up."

So we did, I went north Link went southeast and Saria went southwest. We were going meet up back at the oasis in two hours from now. So I started walking north, like I was told to search for Shadow Saria. I was walking for an hour, and the water I had was running out (I had another bottle filled, but that one is for Shadow Saria if I found her). Since I was supposed to be back in an hour I was going to turn around to meet up with the others to see if they've found her yet. When I turned around I tripped over something sticking out of the sand.

I reached down and dug it out it was a standard broad sword but darker. I recognized the design on the sheath and the dark blade, it was Shadow Saria's. I looked around the area for her until I heard a moan when I took a step in the sand. I looked down and started brushing away the sand and I found Shadow Saria underneath.

She was unconscious. I rolled her over and tried to wake her up, but she wouldn't wake up. I took the water that was reserved for her and put the bottle to her mouth she opened her eyes weakly.

"Br-Brandon?" she said with a crackly voice. She saw the bottle of water in my hand and took it and quickly drank it.

"I figured you'd do that that," I said.

"So where are the others right now?" she asked, her voice was sounding a little better.

"I don't know we're supposed to meet back at the oasis in about an hour so we should…" I started to say.

"An oasis?! Let's go!" she said as she got up, but she fell over again.

"Let me help you," I said smiling at her. She grabbed my hand and put her arm around my shoulder to support her weight, and we started to walk back to the oasis. I saw something black crawl across the sand out of the corner of my eye. I turned and looked in the direction, but I didn't see it anymore.

"What's wrong?" Saria said.

"Nothing, I think I was seeing things," I said. She gave me a worried look.

We continued walking. My legs started to burn after walking a long time while supporting another person's weight. It started to get windy so sand was thrown around. We'd have to get to the oasis fast in case of a sand storm. This morning Kari told us that during a sandstorm the oasis is the safest place, since there's a magical barrier around the one we were staying at to protect against sandstorms.

Shadow Saria started to become weaker and got a fever, too. I picked her up and picked up my pace too. It was hard to see with all the sand flying around. I looked ahead and saw the oasis with the others waiting. I started to run towards the oasis. Shadow Saria was asleep in my arms. When, I reached the oasis, the wind died instantly. Kari wasn't kidding.

The others saw me and ran to me, "you found her!" said Saria.

I set her down by the water and I started to feel lightheaded I almost fell down.

"Are you okay?" said Saria.

"Just a little lightheaded," after I said that she put her hands to our heads to compare.

"You're burning up," she said with concern, "just rest for now, okay?"

"Okay fine," I said.

She told me to lay down by the water. So I did what she told me to do and lied down next to Shadow Saria. Saria came over and put a wet piece of fabric on my forehead and did the same to Shadow Saria.

I found myself drifting to sleep.

I found myself in a familiar place. I looked around and saw that I was on an island in the sky. I heard a booming voice behind me, "welcome, Hero of Light."

"Rauru?!" I said surprised to see him.

"I see you've found the Desert of the Lost."

"Yeah," I replied, "but where's the temple?"

"That you must find for yourself," he said, "but, beware don't stay in the desert for too long."

"Why's that?"

"The desert has another name," he said, "it's also known as the Demon's Wasteland."

"How did it get that name?" I asked.

"Demons come out every night and prey on the inhabitants of the desert."

"That's kinda creepy."

"Soon as you find yourself in the darkness you will find even more troubles, like the Darklings," said another voice except this one was female.

I turned around and saw Princess Zelda, "what do you mean, what are the Darklings?" I asked.

"They are the former inhabitants of Hyrule who have been consumed by the Darkness," she said.

"Now, wake up your friends are in danger," said Rauru.

"What?!" I said.

"Farewell, hero" said Zelda.

The island started to fade and I fell off hurtling towards the earth below me, then everything went black.

My eyes shot open looking up at the starry night sky. I sat up and looked around. What did he mean 'your friends are in danger'? I didn't see any danger around, until I heard a scream. I stood up noticing I was no longer lightheaded. I looked around and saw Kari was missing. I looked around for her until I saw a trail like something was being dragged through the sand in the light of the full moon. I followed it until I saw something dragging Kari across the sand. I summoned the Master Sword which shined in the moonlight the creature saw the light and turn around. I saw its face in the light. It had glowing yellow eyes and was wrapped with red fabric. It wasn't a Gibdo or I'd be paralyzed right now from its glare (underneath their wrappings they're just Re-Dead), instead it lowered its stance and screamed (it sounded like an eagle cry). Something came up through the sand and grabbed my leg. It was an arm wrapped in red. Another one?! I thought. It tried pulling me under the sand. I cut the hand off using the Master Sword. The arm flailed around spurting black blood everywhere. The blood that got on me burned my skin.

"That's not normal," I said to myself.

I ran the other one to rescue Kari. It lowered its stance again and pointed at me with its free hand. I readied myself for its scream, but it didn't scream. Instead the wrappings extended at me and grabbed me and threw up upwards. As I fell back towards the ground I was swatted into a sand dune by the wrappings.

I was buried in the sand and I dug myself out and I heard a rumbling sound and looked towards it came from. The creature started to do a weird dance and a rock was coming out of the sand. I heard footsteps behind me, so with instincts I summoned my obsidian sword, turned and found my sword at the neck of Link. Saria and Shadow Saria were with him.

I dismissed my sword and said, "What are you guys doing here?"

"Heard noises, and why does your clothes have holes in them?" said Saria.

I looked down and saw that there were holes in my pants where the other creature bled on me.

"I'll explain later, but Kari is in trouble right now." The rumbling stopped and I turned and saw a cave.

"What's that thing with Kari?" said Link

"I don't know, just watch out for their wrappings and their screams summons others, let's go," I replied. We all ran to the cave. We entered the torch lit cave and found other caves inside. I saw the creature that was dragging Kari. I ran after it with the Master Sword, gripping it with both hands. It turned around and screamed, but I didn't stop as I stabbed it with my sword and jumped backwards before it bled on me when it fell down I grabbed Kari and turn to find a crowd of those things coming out of the small caves they pointed their arms at us.

"Guys, we should run right now!" I said. They acknowledged what I said and started to run. We went deeper into the cave, and ran into others that tried shooting their wrapping at us. We were able to avoid them, and ran deeper into the cave until we reached an area that was really dark that we couldn't see at all. I was out of breath from running around carrying Kari.

"Where are we now?" said Shadow Saria.

When I walked forward I heard a rumbling sound. I looked where it came from and saw moonlight shining in, the cave entrance behind us closed and torches around the area lit up. The room was big. We all ran for the exit but something shot out of the ground in front of me. I stumbled backwards. In the torch lit light I saw what it was that shot out of the ground. It was my Shadow.

"It's so great to be here in the Demon's Wasteland at night," he said.

I summoned my obsidian sword, "what do you want now?"

"The same as ever before," he said then melted into a shadow on the ground and reappeared behind mw with his sword at my neck, "your death."

I summoned my obsidian sword pushed his sword away from me and turned to attack. He jumped backwards and started to attack me the others were about to run to my aid and was intercepted by Shadow Link and a few of those creatures from before came out of the ground and attacked them. The creatures pinned Shadow Saria, Saria and Kari to the wall. Kari was still unconscious and Link was attacked by Shadow Link and two of his clones. I had to make this fight quick. My shadow attacked with his sword and blocked with my obsidian sword and countered. He blocked it and kicked me in my stomach I stumbled backwards holding my stomach. I was attacked again so I had to ignore the pain and defend myself. I sidestepped away from a vertical attack and countered with a horizontal slash and was blocked. I made a follow up attack with my obsidian sword by flipping it forwards and slashing at him catching him off guard, but he jumped back to avoid it and I jumped forward to attack again.

He kept on dodging my attacks which was pissing me off so I went in with a kick to his chest but he dismissed his swords to catch it. I jumped up and kicked him the face with my other foot. I got back up quickly and thrust my sword at him, stabbing him through the chest. He dissipated into a thick black smoke and disappeared I turned around and stabbed the creatures hold the others and they were released. I jumped back to avoid the blood. Link was having a little trouble with his shadow. So we all helped him out ending it fast.

The door that we originally come from opened again, welcoming a swarm of the creatures in to the room. I started to run, the others followed my example. As we ran out, we found a huge castle like structure in front of us. The door had the Gerudo emblem on it. I heard the creatures behind following us.

"Damn, they're annoying," I said as a pulled my ocarina out of my pocket and put to my mouth and started to play the composer's song.

Everything around me started to slow down and same went for the wrappings that shot out from their arms. I pointed my sword at them and started charging power into it (I had to play the song to do this so I have enough time). I charged it to the point where I had to use a key word. So, I had to concentrate to find the right word for this attack. Then the word showed up in my head.

In a trace I murmured, "firestorm," when I did, flames spouted from my sword torching all of the creatures with such force I was being pushed back. My song was disabled. After ten seconds the flames died down. I turned around and faced the others and saw that Kari was awake, and her jaw was dropped.

"Ho…holy cr…crap," she said surprised.

"I know sometimes he surprises us too," said Link.

"Like that time in the third Unknown Temple," said Saria.

I felt a little weak from using that magic. Saria saw my tired face and pulled a green potion out of her bag, "here, this helps with fatigue from draining magic."

"Thanks," I said as I took the potion and drank it. I immediately felt better.

"I got those knowing you'd do something like that," she said, "you always push yourself."

I ignored what she said and pointed at the castle-like place in front of us, "this must be the temple we were looking for," I said.

"Possibly," said Link.

The sun started to rise over the sand dunes. "Kari do you think you can get back to the oasis okay," I asked. She nodded her head and started walking. We wished her luck and she did the same.

I approached the door of the castle. It had three slots with some writing underneath it.

"Only the few with the powers of light can enter the path to darkness," read Link, "it is the temple."

"I'm guessing the powers of light mean the pendants," I said pulling my pendant off of my neck. I stepped to the slot and placed it in. Link and Saria did the same. A light filled the area, as a magic barrier appeared around the area then, five shadow beasts came out of the ground.

"About damn time," I said walking towards one summoning my obsidian sword to its forward position.

Shadow Saria, Saria and Link walked forward behind me. We attacked first. I jump attacked the one I was attacking and, the Shadow Beast swung its claws at me I ducked under the attack and jabbed at beast thus killing it. I went at another one, sneaking up behind it and stabbing it through the back.

Link and Saria killed the ones they were fighting and Shadow Saria summoned all her clones and overwhelmed the one she was fighting before it could screech.

The magic barrier dissipated and the emblem lit up on the door.

"We're getting better at this," I said as I started towards the door way entering the torch lit hallway.

We have entered the Road to Darkness.

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