As the title suggests, this chapter is SERIOUS. Not funny, serious. Sorry about that. The next one should be back to normal :D

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Someone laughed sadistically behind Link. Link stood stone still.

"There's a vampire behind me, isn't there?" Midna floated out of Link's shadow and her tiny hands formed fists.

"Bella!" She growled.

"Bella? You mean... Bella Cullen?" Link stammered, turning around slowly. A female vampire was standing behind him, wrapped in a long black cloak. She smiled evilly, revealing a pair of long, sharp fangs.

"That's me." As if reacting to the sound of the vampire's voice, the light spirit erupted from the lake. Bella looked at it and smiled. She stretched out a hand, which began to sparkle. Link and Midna looked away, unable to keep watching the sparkles. The light spirit vanished and sank back into the lake, which was then covered in Twilight. Bella dropped her hand. Link growled as his body morphed into a wolf and leapt at Bella. Bella turned to him in an instant, creating a ball of sparkly energy and ramming it into Link's forehead. Link was thrown backwards and landed on the floor, unconscious. Midna watched in horror as a sparkly shard of energy sunk into Link's head.

Bella turned to her, still smirking.

"So what's this we have here?" The fused shadows Midna had been keeping floated away from her grasp. She gasped and tried to grab them back, but sparkles shot out from Bella's arm and tied her arms to her side before pulling her out and holding her suspended over the lake, well out of reach. Midna struggled and swore at Bella, who just laughed.

"You really think you could beat me with these?" She asked disdainfully, looking at the fused shadows. "Really Midna, I don't know why you bother. Why are you trying to help these light-dwellers anyway?"

"I'd rather help them than you!" Midna growled, still trying to escape her sparkly bonds. Bella shrugged.

"If you're sure. I'll return the light here then." The Twilight faded, and Midna looked around in astonishment.

"And then," Bella hissed. "Maybe I'll add a little light of my own." Her whole body began to glitter. Midna squirmed.

"No!" She moaned. Bella smiled.

"Yes!" The sparkles grew brighter and brighter. She stretched out her arm towards Midna, blasting her with sparkle power. Midna screamed in agony. A split second later, the light spirit rose from the lake once again. It created a ball of light around Link and Midna, which remained for a second before vanishing along with the pair.

Link opened his eyes. He was in Hyrule field, not too far from castle town. Then he noticed something else. Despite the fact there was no Twilight to be seen anywhere, he was still a wolf.

"Midna? What happened back there? Why am I still a wolf?" He asked. No reply. "Midna?" He looked around. "Midna!" Midna was lying on his back, unconscious. She looked strange and pale. "Midna! What's wrong?" Once again, no reply, although he had not been expecting one. Then Link heard the voice of the light spirit in his head. Go to Hyrule Castle and rescue Zelda. Zelda has the key. The voice faded.

"I need to get to Hyrule castle!" Link said. "Either that or... I'm going mad. Either way, I should get there now." He paused for a moment to get his bearings, then ran.

People screamed as Link ran past them.

"A wolf!"

"Kill it!"

"Shut up!" Link roared at them, flying past. He ran up to the castle gates. The guards gasped and pointed their spears at him.

"No, let me past, you don't understand!" Link groaned.

"Get away, beast!" One of the soldiers said. Link continued trying to get round them until he realised it was impossible. He slunk away, temporarily defeated.

Link ran gasping into the pub in castle town where he had found Ilia earlier.

"Guys, guys, I need your help here..."

"Argh! A monster!" Someone screamed.

"It talks!"

"Get it out!" A large goron walked up to Link, and before he could do anything, it slung him over its shoulder and threw him out of the door, slamming it shut in his face. Link sank to the ground.

"What'll I do...?" He moaned. There was a meow and a large white cat jumped down in front of him.

"You're Link, aren't you?" It asked. Link stared.

"A talking cat. Now I know I MUST be going mad."

"Hey! You're a talking wolf! How did you get to be a wolf anyway? Last time you came here you were human. But anyway, that doesn't matter. You look like you're in a spot of bother?"

"I need to get to the castle... but nobody wants to let me in anywhere."

"I'm not surprised, with you looking like that!" The cat snorted. "But I can help. Get into the pub through the window up there, and go through the other window and you'll find a waterway to the castle. It'll be a bit of a bumpy ride, but hey."

"Thank you so much!" Link leapt up through the window and entered the pub.

Link raced up the spiral stairs and ran into the room at the end.

"Zelda? Zelda!" He yelled. Midna groaned and fell off his back. Zelda came running.

"Midna? Link?" Midna stirred.

"Zelda... how do we undo... what happened to Link?" she asked groggily. Zelda pulled out a strange bleeping instrument and ran it over Link's body. The bleeps increased in frequency as they approached his forehead. Link read the label on the device. SparkleDetector 2000.

"This is different to the Twilight," Zelda said. "This is a curse, and there's only one thing that can get rid of it. You need to find an object so traditional to the world of Legend of Zelda that nothing from the Twilight can touch it. You need to find..."

"Never mind that, what's happened to Midna? She's dying..." Link said.

"... the master sword!" Zelda finished. "And as for Midna..."

"Zelda..." Midna murmured. "Just tell him... where to find the Twilight mirror..." Zelda smiled and grasped Midna's hands. The pair of them began to glow. The colour returned to Midna, and she gasped.

"No! Zelda!" Zelda faded away into nothingness and Link looked around, shocked.

"Where did she go?" Midna landed next to him, completely healed.

"I don't know. But we'll find her, we've got to. Come on, we need to go find the master sword and defeat Bella. Only once we've done that we'll be able to find Zelda. Link, we can't fail. We've got to get Zelda back." Link nodded.

"I know." He got to his feet and raced out of the castle.

As soon as Link exited castle town, there was an ominous humming noise. Link turned round and watched as a diamond-shaped barrier formed around the castle. Midna watched in silence.

"We should go," Link said eventually. Midna continued to say nothing as Link began the walk to find the master sword.