Okay, so this chap is pretty much Evi's POV. So...sorry for those of you that wanted more Linky.
Oh, and since every light spirit seemed male, or do they even have a gender, I'm not sure but I'm just going to go ahead and make Eldin a female spirit. 'Cuz the same just sounds strange for a male.
Evi's POV
Yeah, I flew away, far away, from Link and Midna and I was headed to the wonderful land of Kakariko. Only, I had no idea where the hell it was!
"Well, crap!" I breathed, turning my head in all directions.
I searched every plain for a small green village, but only found dirt, dirt, and oh look, dirt. This is impossible, Kakariko's probably not even in the area! Well it really wasn't like Link knew his way around this area anymore than I did, but at least he had a trail to follow...
I felt like a bat trying to find my cave on a bright summer morning.
I tightened the grip on the wooden sword in my hand as I looked several feet below me, my eyes landing on huge black forms roaming the area around a gap between lands. (Why was there a gorge in the middle of this place?) There were at least two on each side of land. Those damn Shadow Beasts, I hate them so much.
But that didn't change the fact that I once shared the same title...
I floated silently over them and continued forward, where a wooden sign over heavily locked iron gates greeted me. I looked at it for what seemed like ten minutes before I realized the weird and curvy carvings on its surface were Hylian letters. And her I was wondering if it was french. I looked past the sign and gates noticing a thin path behind them.
"Looks promising," I told my self and neared the sign.
I placed a nervous hand on the dark wood and ducked my head under and over it, facing ahead. I looked back once in hesitation, but moved forward anyway.
After floating for a while through the claustrophobia inducing path, I was at a desert/ed village. I sank to the ground and landed on my feet awkwardly, my legs a little stiff, and step forward.
"Could this be, Kakariko?" I question myself, placing a puzzled hand over my mouth.
A wasteland. There were homes, but most of their doors were nailed shut with wooden boards, some were even crashed in from the walls or roofs. So this is what happened to Kakariko in 100 years... Who took care of the place? And...where was everyone? There were no green orbs floating around....anywhere
"Do not fret, child.... Come...to my spring...," echoed a soft voice behind me.
I set my hands at my side and turned my head, only to be faced with a glittering body of water. A Spirit's Spring! I walked slowly towards it, and uneasily stepped in the water, inching closer. It felt like I was stepping on the spirit.
"You have come....for the children,....correct?" the soft voice asked, I nodded.
I began to notice a sparkling little ghostly light floating in front of a wide little hill dripping water into the main spring I was standing over. Who was this spirit again? I had the name at the tip of my tongue, how did I forget?!
"Don't strain yourself... My name is Eldin..."
That's right! "The light spirit of Kakariko? I though the spring would be somewhere outside," I spoke, trying to sound even somewhat polite.
"This is....my province either way... I'm sure it wouldn't matter...where my spring is located..."
I felt kinda stupid then. I could feel my cheeks burning slightly, "Yeah.. Anyway, you seem to know about the children. Are they here?"
I thought I heard a tiny, struggled laugh, but ignored the thought, "They are..."
I waited for a while, and a longer while, "Where exactly in this...village are they?" I almost blurted.
"In the sanctuary...behind you. They are in good hands...but perhaps you should wait... for your friend to arrive. Keep watch on them..."
I looked back at the 'sanctuary' but only saw a home. Come to think of it, I don't think I knew what a sanctuary really was. I nodded, not really sure if the spirit could see that, but walked over to the round shaped 'sanctuary' and to two barely, taller than me (I'm 5 feet tall), doors. I took hold of the doorknob and turned it, but it didn't open. I backed away from the building and walked around it.
A window on its right side was boarded shut, and the one on its left was two, but the boards were nailed crookedly, leaving a small triangle of open window. I closed up to it, squinted my eyes a bit, and made out a dim green glimmer floating on the other side of the window.
A person! There were people in here! Well...spirits to be exact..
I walked more around the building and found another pair of doors. Also locked. After about thirty seconds I mentally slapped myself for trying to find an entrance to the place, and simply sunk in through the shadows and out on the inside.
"I really depress myself sometimes," I whispered to myself as I looked around.
Everything was dark, so I couldn't really make anything out, but a small part of the room was lighted by six huddled lights of green. Altogether seven spirits, including the one lighting the window, floated in the room. So many in one place. Didn't only four children disappear?
I thought back on Eldin's words, those extra lights must be the 'good hands' they're in. I slowly stepped closer to them and the small, nearly forgotten, ocarina around my neck floated out from inside my tunic shirt and shone brightly against the spirits before me. What now?
"He'll definitively show up.." said one distorted voice.
"I know he'll save us...." said another voice.
The small instrument then floated back down and took its spot back in my shirt. Whatever was once a voice in my ears, distorted or otherwise, was now a bunch of moans in the air. Sad, scared, and lonely moans filled the room.
I felt a slight tug of the heart moment and floated to a step above them and sat down, keeping a close eye on them until Link arrived.
It seemed like an hour passed, but time always was slow, before a portion of the roof on the opposite side of the room caved in. I was a bit startled by the sudden noise but didn't move since I heard a very familiar voice boom right after.
"Ugh! You dolt! If you're going to bust in through the roof, you can at least do it right!" shouted Midna.
I didn't know there was a wrong way to bust in through a roof...
I heard the moans under me grow frantic for a bit. They must have seen the boards fall from above and freaked. I don't blame them.
"Over here, Link." I loudly whispered.
After grunting at Midna, he trotted over to us. Pfft...trot..
"Took you guys long enough, though finding the village wasn't such a picnic either."
Link seemed to snort under his little wolfy breath, "That trail I was following actually brought me here, so it wasn't so hard for me," gloated his distorted voice.
I had the sudden urge to punch him right then and there, but I took pity on him since he was a wolf, "Then I should have just stayed with you two," I said in a strained voice, holding my fists behind my back.
"Yeah, but where's the fun in that?" said Midna, smirking with her arms behind her head.
My urge to punch Link quickly turned into an urge to punch her.
Link shook his head, "Don't be angry, there were a lot of shadow beasts along the way,even some right outside this place, so it's a good thing you weren't there."
I relaxed a bit, and nodded. I guess that's a good thing, but I could have helped.
Link's attention turned to the many spirits below me, then back to me.
"That's them. They're really scared, they have no idea what's going on. But they seemed to know you would come for them," I said with a smile.
He looked back down at them, and watched as their spirit forms became clear to him, and only him. A plus side to animal senses. I was a bit jealous that he could see things in this twilight that I couldn't...
"Why is he looking at them like that?" I asked Midna, gesturing to Link's sudden blank stare
"He's listening to their conversation. He always gets like that. For a while..." she said, trying not to yawn.
"You can see them too, can't you?" I said, turning my attention back to the simple spirits in my eyes.
"Of course I can. They're in my world right now." she practically snorted.
I sighed and folded my arms on my knees, resting my head on them, "I see."
Sure I had these stupid powers and I could, in a way, fly....but there were still things that, they could do, and I could never hope to do. I'm nothing special compared to Link, Midna, Zelda. They were practically godly. And compared to the ordinary people, I was just a freak.
"How strange that you're not going to retort back." cut in Midna.
I looked up at her, surprised a bit, but just narrowed my eyes, "It's getting kinda old. If I'm gonna be stuck with you, I might as well learn to put up with you." I said dully.
The wolf riding imp seemed taken aback, probably curious as to why I hadn't cracked. But I honestly lost the urge to fight with her, and punch her. Anytime but now. When Link was done having his little eye seeing moment, he looked up at me.
"They're pretty scared, huh?" I asked him through my arms, hiding a slight snarl.
He nodded, "Have you already talked to Eldin?" I asked, he nodded again.
Midna sat upright on Link's back and stared at me, but I kept my eyes on Link, "Well, go get those bugs. I'll stay here and watch the kids, and whoever the other people are."
He whined slightly, "How do you know there's more people than the children? Can you see them too?" rang his odd voice through my ears.
I shook my head, "There's more spirits than the count of the kids."
I lifted my head and looked around, as did Link, "Need help getting back up there?" I said pointing towards the ceiling.
"Isn't there another way?" asked Midna.
I laughed slightly and nodded, "There always is, but let me help, while I can still control them.."
Link nodded and stood under the hole on the roof, and I stretched my arm out to them and sighed. A small black, round platform covered in red markings appeared under them. Link tapped it slightly, a bit stunned but stood still over it after a few seconds.
"How did you make that?" Midna quickly asked, her face showing slightly restrained fear.
I frowned slightly.
Link's POV
Midna tapped me lightly and pointed a small finger towards the red markings covering the new platform Evi created under us.
"Look at those, they're just like the ones that show up when a shadow beast does." she whispered in my wolfish ear.
I growled slight, recounting a far away memory of a girl named Lota, a memory that felt like it was not mine. I looked back at Evi who only smiled at us, she seemed glad to be able to help...
"How did you make this...thing?" Midna asked, I could hear restrained fear in her voice.
Evi's smile drooped a bit, "I'm borrowing Link's shadow."
My shadow? I looked to the floor and lifted my paws and chased my tail, there was no shadow under them, nothing.
"You what?!" I barked, literally.
"Don't worry, it's obviously painless, and you'll have it back as soon as you reach the outside." she said reassuringly.
I wasn't so sure about this, it was kinda scary not having a shadow, but I trusted Evi. I nodded to show I was okay with it, as long as I got my shadow back.
Evi slowly raised her arm, and we began to lift from the ground and towards the lopsided ceiling hole. I whined slightly, but didn't mean anything of it, as she waved with her other arm. I barked just as we reached the top, but it was possibly muffled as when we reached the roof, my shadow took shape back under me, and the fallen wood that once covered the hole floated back up and seemed to glue itself in place, covering the hole once more.
"Didn't you say she was once under an Evil King's spell?" asked Midna, I felt her shiver slightly.
I shrugged, if possible, "I'm not sure. The memory just came to me, but I'm not sure it was my memory. Anyway, by what I believe, it couldn't have been her, though she and the girl in this memory looked identical, that was possibly over 100 years ago..."
Midna pat me slightly and I jumped off the roof, "I'll talk to her later. I have a few questions to ask."
Evi's POV
I felt ill. Sick, drowsy, nauseated, disgusted. You name it.
All I could do was shiver at the fact that I actually stole Link's shadow to create an elevator for him and Midna. I had no idea I could do such a thing. I had never really attempted it, and the thought to do so never came to me, so I was also scared at what came over me to do what I did.
This twilight was creepy, and these powers are corrupted. I would do anything to rid myself of them, but the fear of releasing a portion of Ganondorf's power into Hyrule kept me away from actually committing the act.
And I couldn't take it.
I could feel my humanity slip away from me every time we stepped into the twilight. I felt like I was becoming a shadow beast all over again, but I didn't know how to handle it, not like I did before, because I was really hoping I wouldn't have to again. I shivered slightly as the ice cold air of the twilight seeped in through the slightly open window on the other side of the room.
The only thing that gave me reassurance, and kept my sanity where it should be, was the light of the children and the few strangers with them.
I folded my arms back on my knees and hid my face within them, hiding a barely muffle yell.
End of the chapter...
I didn't update last week, I know. I should have, but I was reading the Maximum Ride series the whole time! (I blame AnimeMixDJ for making me read the books.) Then I started to feel ill and I had a while to work on it now, so I did. It's not the longest chapter so far, but it is a bit longer than past ones.
Mostly talks about Evi, I know, because I though I would make a chap where Midna started to get suspicious, you know, about where a human can even get powers like that. So....yeah...
