It was quite a flight before Kuran finally lands in Farod Forest. Looking around with Midna, she mused "Has been a while since we had been here. So. Now where would the Master Sword be?"
Kuran shrugged with his wings, as he had no clue either… but he moved to reach the temple. When in doubt, then simply go to a spot you had been before, and see what happens.
Midna looked at the Wyvern and raises an eye brow "As long you are stuck in this form, we have to think about a way to communicate. I have no idea why you are moving, if you have no clue either. Guess have to trust you on this one."
Rolling the eyes again, Kuran really asks himself how he managed to put up with her so long. Since he had nothing to tell… or rather he couldn't tell anything. Thought as they reach the allay before the forest temple, they heard the cries of a monkey and upon looking they saw the female monkey with the flower that helped them at the temple rushing down, she was suddenly surrounded by four puppet like creatures.
Kuran spread his wings and snarled at the puppets and rushes forward, shooting the first one before crashing into the second. The third tried to attack him, but Midna grabbed it with her hair and smashed it while took care of the last one.
Walking up to the monkey, she asks "Did… Did you save me?"
Well at least I understand animals, thought Kuran in his mind while she continues "Th-Thank you. Listen, since you're so nice, let me tell you something: there's a really pretty wooded area on the other side of the cliff! I climbed over there, but when I tried to get deeper into the woods, THOSE guys attacked me! What is in these woods anyway?"
Kuran turned to Midna and she muses "So there's another section of forest beyond this cliff. All right, Kuran, let's go!"
Agreeing he sped up, flaps with the wings and took off, flying to the cliff, following a likely route the monkey must have taken to get to the other side. Being able to fly has its charms. Even if he had to deal with flying creatures and heartless. As quite a group of them were trying to keep Kuran away from a cave entry, he knew he has to investigate. Moving in, he lands on the other side of the cave in a grove. Admiring the view he looks around, but jumped as he notices the cave he came from was gone.
"What the…? How is that possible?" asks Midna in shock. Shaking the head in disbelieve he tried to explore the place as suddenly a grey figure in blown and green clothes lands in front of them. It has a lantern in one hand, a sort of… trumpet in the other and red eyes that seems to pierce through his soul. It looked at the two for a moment before playing on the trumpet and new puppets appear, before it runs off, revealing a passage that was blocked before. The puppets were deal with quickly before he runs after that… thing? He really needs a name. But how is he supposed to know it's name is Skull Kid without breaking the fourth wa- oh? We just did it, didn't we?
Anyway, while chasing the Skull Kid, Kuran and Midna had to deal more and more of these Puppets, and while they were dealt with fairy quickly, it began to annoy them. After a while, he manages to catch him and tackle the Skull Kid, but it manages to get away and flee through another tunnel, leaving a set of puppets behind. Frustrated they rushed after him, still having loads and loads of Puppets to deal with... where the heck did they come from? Does this kid have too much time on his hands? Anyway, they followed him longer with his toys until they finally caught up to him once more but again, it manages to escape and even more puppets showed up. Kuran began to fly to move faster in this grove but the puppets grew in numbers and tried to herd on Kuran ad Midna.
Also Midna has quite enough and suggest "Let's try to combinate our powers! I create a dark field and then you attack. If it works like I hope, you get rid of them at once.
Landing on the ground she raised her hair hand and a dark field spread under her, covering the puppets and a brown electricity like power springs on the puppets. Concentrating, Kuran shoot his breath attack and his divides into several smaller shots, which in the end hit all of the puppets at once. Once the puppets were gone, Midna giggles "Looks like we have a team move now"
The two went at the direction they have seen the Skull Kid last. They passed through a stone gate, reaching ruins, where the Skull Kid was on top of a broken pillar. The Skull kid was stomping in anger and called more of the puppets. Midna was grinning and if Kuran could, he would grin as well.
The dark field extents under the Skull Kid, who looked in confusion before suddenly the puppets and itself were hit by the dark breath of Kuran. It lands on the ground. Then raised up and suddenly disappears while a voice laughed and called "Bye!" before another passage got revealed.
They followed it and they reach a front yard with two statues and a stone relief on the ground. The two looked in wonder thought as they touch the stone relief, everything went dark and the ground lit up in the form of the triforce. Then the light returns and the ground was gone expect for a series of platforms and of course the two statues.
Which began to glow blue I their outlines and stomped once down with their staffs. They jumped and one lands in front of Kuran and Midna and one behind them. And then started to speak "We are guardians of this land… Guide us to where we once stood. Only then can you enter the true Sacred Grove…" Kuran looked at the two statues and jumped to another platform. And the statues mirrored his moves. One moved like he did, while the other went to the opposite direction.
Looking at Midna she tried to float up for an overview… only not being able to. She cursed to herself "Looks like we have to do it the old fashioned way…"
Which took quite a time. They spend a good part of the afternoon jumping on the different platforms until they finally managed to get both statues back on their original positions.
A door they didn't notice before opens and the statues spoke "Go now to the sacred place over, beast… We yield passage to the Sacred Grove…" and the ground was back like it was before.
Midna and Kuran looked at each other and shrugged before they move through the door and rushed up the stairs behind it. And they reach what must have used to be a very large room with a single object at the other side. A blade with a blue hilt. From his last adventure within a different Hyrule, he recognized the weapon as Master Sword. He moves towards it.
Midna gaped at the weapon as they moved towards it "The master sword … we found it." Then a grin came over her lips "now all we have is get you to touch it and you are back in your human shape!"
Suddenly a dark blast came out of nowhere sending Kuran crashing into a stone wall.
"Oh now this is just rich! I honestly never would have thought YOU would have ended up taking that elf's place." A voice spoke as a certain masked Heartless appeared.
Kuran shock the head and as he saw who it was, he snarled at him while spreading the wings.
"Uhg…" muttered Midna while shaking her head as well from the blast. As she saw him, she asks "Who are you?"
Null simply looked at Kuran. "Not that I care, but I seriously thought you'd be a wolf." He said before summoning his Keyblade.
"Wolf?" said Midna "One of the Divine beasts?"
Kuran spread the wings, narrowing the eyes, ready to take off and Midna got the hint that this guy isn't to be messed with.
Null made that thought true when he grabbed Kuran and slammed him into the ground before stabbing him in the shoulder.
He cried and shoots a dark blast at Nulls leg while Midnas hair grabbed the heartless, intending to threw him aside.
Null was quick to jump out of the way before grabbing Midna by the neck.
"I will admit this is interesting, who'd too thought that getting rid of the REAL hero wasn't enough to change things from happening...I'll have to make a mental note on that."
Midna gasped for air, while trying to figure out what he means, as Kuran jumped at Null and bites his neck hard.
Null gasped in pain before blasting the darkness user off. Crashing in the wall, Kuran lands on the ground, not moving. Thought the attack had served that Midna came free and she had slapped Null away with her hair, backing off, while coughing.
"Ok I've decided: Your dying first." Null said turning to the Twili. She looks at him with a fierce look, her hair making a large fist
Null was quick to pin the imp to a wall pointing his keyblade in her face.
"Zant sends his regards."
She stared at the tip of the blade and a song started to play in the background… while Midna was nowhere in the position to notice it, Null noticed it.
"Well….That's new…wait…" Null looked to see Kuran reaching for the Master sword.
"Ah, crap…"
The wyvern turned keybearer manages to land on the handle of the sword and the entire place were engulfed in a pillar of light, blinding both Null and Midna while the music in background played a solo with a guitar. As the light died down the lyrics of the Music video "Hero Of Our Time" by NateWantsToBattle began to be sung, Kuran standing there in his human form, in one hand his Keyblade while the other wielded the legendary Master Blade, the crest on the back of Kurans hand glowing brightly.
"...Okaaaay." Null mused dropping Midna.
"If this is how things are going to be can we at least NOT have any song and dance numbers? I'm vouching for Will when I say there freaking stupid."
"I wasn't planning a dance" stated Kuran with a shrug while the music stopped.
Null was quick to rush in and swing his Keyblade. But Kuran blocked it with his Keyblade and attacked with the Master Sword.
The Heartless yelled in intense pain as he stumbled back holding a streak of light where Kuran slashed him. "Can it be that this blade is your little weakness" mused Kuran while moving closer to attack more.
"Blade of evil's bane...heh heh. RAAAA!" Null shouted sending blast of Darkness at him.
Kuran dropped his Keyblade, hold his arm out and a wall of darkness appears, blocking Nulls attack.
Null took the opening to rush in. But Kuran were just waiting for him, ready to attack Null with the two blades. Either he blocks the keyblade, but gets stabbed by the Master Blade, or deflects the Master Blade but gets the head off.
Null quickly summoned his own sword and managed to block both weapons and got a kick between the legs by Kuran, followed by a punch from Midna.
"Damn it…" He growled as he stumbled to his feet. And Kuran moves in, slashing his arm with the blade of evil's bane.
This made him collapses in pain succumbing to the effects of the sword. And Kuran didn't waste any time, impaling the heartless with the blade.
Midna who got to Kuran side asks "Did you kill it?"
"Nope… he is immortal. I just rendered him unable to act… I hope." told Kuran, while being on edge, wanting to see if Null would jump them or not.
"U-Ugh…." Null moaned before chuckling a bit.
"Who'd thought that YOU of all people would take his place and wield the master sword..heh he heh there's some irony in all of this wouldn't you agree?"
"Who is "he" and why do you consider it as irony?" demands Midna to the heartless in confusion.
"Do you have something to do with his accident?" asks Kuran at Null.
Null only laughed before turning to Midna.
"The fact that you don't know just makes this all the more entertaining.." He said before passing out.
"Curse you" muttered Kuran before cutting his head off. "Let's drop that in the chasm" he stated.
"Agree." Nodded Midna "The body will be quite busy to get the head back. And look what I found" she smirks while showing a dark crystal with orange markings "This thing is the embodiment of the evil magic that Zant cast on you. It's definitely different from our tribes shadow magic… and if you touch it, you'll turn back into a beast."
"Oh Really?" asks Kuran "Then we should thank Zant for such a useful tool. After all, now we can fly to everywhere we want."
Midna grinned more "Now that is a thinking I like."
Then she looks serious at Kuran "But who is the one that guy and you were talking about."
"His name is Null, and we spoke about the one who should be on the trip we are." Stated Kuran
"Ah yes… I recall now something along the lines with your conversation with the Light Spirits. Should have paid more attention" she shrugged.
Kuran nodded and put Master Sword on his back, using his darkness to create a scabbard around it which is tied on the darkness user through a belt made a of darkness. What he didn't notice is that the sign of the triforce formed on the one and of the scabbard.
Thought suddenly Kurans chest glowed, causing Midna and Kuran to stare. Three crystalline shards emerge from the boy and met together in midair, glowing brightly before a rabbit stood there. It looked like the Rabbits Kuran encountered before but now it was in black and yellow colors with cute green eyes. It jumped around on its large ears and Kuran asks "M-Mimi? Is that you?"
The rabbit jumped at the mention of the name and hops into Kurans arms. Midna chuckles "Looks like we have one more companion who can fight alongside us!"
Then Midna stated "Thought I and Mimi should keep a low profile, as people were properly very jumpy regarding the monsters, heartless and the events around the castle. Also I keep the stone by me to prevent you becoming a beast whenever you don't want to. And while being human, I will be in your shadow… thought… your Rabbit friend here.."
Mimi simply jumped and glowed before Kuran was suddenly holding a crystal in his hand where he saw Mimi jumping around in a sort of room with toys in it.
"Well… that explains it." Stated Kuran "So. How do we reach Zant now?"
"Remember what I asked Zelda?" wondered Midna while leaning on his shoulder. Kuran raised an eye and nods as she continues "The Mirror of Twilight is hidden somewhere in Hyrule and is the only connection we can still use to reach my home, where Zant will properly be."
"And you don't know where it is?"
"Nope… we have to find out."
"Given our luck, it must be somewhere we haven't been before. And we have properly to return to Hyrule Town in order to find clues."
"You got a point here" nodded Midna "So time to test our little new toy?"
"Let's do it" mused Kuran.
Short time later, Kuran was a Wyvern again and was flying his way out of this Place, having Nulls head in his claws. Once he flew over the chasm he dropped Nulls head and mused what he would say about his little… drop.
"Well, with some luck we managed to deal with Zant before we run into this guy again" stated Midna with a giggle as they keep on flying.
At the outskirts of the town, Kuran lands behind a tree and Midna transformed him back before hiding into his shadow.
Then Kuran moved to walk the rest of the way, only to be called to stop and upon turning he saw the postman running towards him. He hands him a letter and rushes off again.
Shrugging Kuran opens the letter and reads it, musing "Well… that is quite a surprise."
"What is it?" asks Midna who peeked out of his shadow.
"Telma is calling me to get to her bar… Looks like our luck is striking here."
"In this case we shouldn't let our luck wait for us, shouldn't we?"
"Indeed! Thought prepare to show yourself… in case we run into issues that might cause trouble." Warned Kuran
"Try to avoid that." Warned Midna "I don't want you having trouble because of me… well not more than necessary."
"Thanks for caring" nodded Kuran and he moves towards the town, straight to the Bar.
Once he was inside there, Telma greets him "Oh my… If it isn't Kuran! Did you manage to gather what you wanted to gather?"
Kuran nodded to her "Yes I did. Thought now I am looking for something new as result. I was hoping you guys could help me."
"Let me introduce you to the others and we could look where we might be able to help." Promised Telma "Want something to drink?"
"Happy Life?"
"Oh? Not many dare to take a sip of that. Quite a brave boy you are."
"I just think it has an interesting taste… still don't get why it is a big deal."
"You are an interesting kid" mused Telma while she took preparations to safely give Kuran the requested drink. Once he had a glass, he took some and told "So who are the others?"
"Follow me kid!" chuckles Telma and leads the way for Kuran. The darkness user followed her to a table where three people are.
"Guys! This is Kuran! He is the heroic boy I am talking about."
"So this is the infamous Kuran" mused a young man with brown hair, dark purple jacked a large dark bow, brown pants with several bags on the belt. And on the writs were something he couldn't describe.
"Yes it is me" stated Kuran while he looked at the others. One was a man in armor, but the darkness user got the feeling he know this guy while a girl with blue shirt, red pants and armor on stomach, arms and legs.
"These are Shad, Ashei and-" told Telma but the third raised his hand and shock the head, indicating he doesn't want to reveal his name.
"Fine then… Shad is the guy for information and Ashei here grew up in the mountains honey. So don't take offence to her direct way and lack of courtesy."
"Hello" she stated
"Ok… do you have a room Telma? IT's late and I don't start travels today."
"No problem Honey! Oh and one is missing.. an elder man named Auru. He is investigating troubles in the dessert."
"Dessert?" asks Kuran and mused "Perhaps I should go there but first…" he looks at Shad "So you know stories?"
"Indeed. History and legends of Hyrule. If you need something, I'm your fellow."
"Then answer me… do you know about the Mirror of Twilight?"
"Why do you asking me this?"
"Simple: I know who is behind the troubles. But to get to him I need this mirror."
"While I cannot provide you with exact details about the Mirrors, all I can recall now is that is, it is cursed and somewhere in the dessert."
"Then tomorrow I go to meet the missing member and ask if he knows more… and get to the dessert self."
"You are really a formidable fellow if you want to risk this travel."
"Just crazy enough to do that willingly." He stated and finished his drink "And as I know that such a trip is a funny one, I go to bed now."
"Then night to you and good luck." Stated Shad
Telma nods in agreement "I have a healthy breakfast ready tomorrow."
"Thank you" stated Kuran and was guided to his room. Once there he close it up and put the crystal with Mimi on the table. The image of her looked at him and he told her "Watch out if anybody comes in and isn't a friend."
Mimi nodded and looks at the door while Midna appears and growls "Are you mad, telling somebody about the mirror, despite telling I want a low profile?"
"We need to know where it is and when I can ask a scholar, I do it. I took the most pragmatic way. Also I doubt he will tell around and if it comes down we can ask their help!"
"Oh really? If I have to remind you: Without the Master Sword they cannot even exit in the Twilight Realm."
"Look at the castle!" told Kuran "I have the bad feeling that whatever caused this barrier, will be inside it and that we have to face it! And I prefer to have a backup for that."
Sighing Midna floats to the chair and stated "You have a point."
Kuran nods and took off his clothes until only his underwear are on him.
"Sexy" chuckles Midna
"Thanks. Who is sleeping where?"
"Both of us in bed? I don't take much space and I prefer you in good shape."
"Thanks" he stated and went in. Tucking the Fused Shadow that were left from Zant (Why ever he left it to her) she climbs into the bed and the two shared the blanket.
Soon Kuran was asleep. Midna sat up and looks at the sleeping Keybearer.
"Kuran…" she muttered and began to think of their time they had together so far… and the events they shared. She turned her head upwards and thought for a while before she stated to herself "I don't know if it I a good idea… but…"
Shaking her head she laid down, and snuggles closer to him, closing her eyes. Sighing.
Sometime later a man wearing a black coat bearing the Nightmare sigil on its back was looking around the damaged ruins before seeing Null's headless body.
"Goes to show that you should never leave a Heartless to do a Nightmares job." He said before a small cat like nightmare wearing a small cape and a necklace bag around its neck appeared. "Immortality or no, not many dark beings can say that they survived the onslaught of the Master Sword." It said.
"What makes it so different from a Keyblade?" The man asked
"Keyblades are merely weapons that are manifested from one's heart the Master Sword was created for the sole purpose for expelling evil." The small Nightmare stated.
"The fact that they let the enemy get a hold of such a thing makes me questions their liability. How is it even possible for someone of the dark to even wild it?"
"Darkness being brought to light…"
"Do you think that would explain how he managed to turn one of ours into a Spirit?" The man asked
"Maybe...It is quite the anomaly; I suppose things like this are to be expected from time to time in regards to dealing with multiple timelines. Either way we need this just as much as they do. If we succeed we will finally be able to exist outside the mere realm of dreams. We will be "real."
"Do you think Queen Buzzerfly can do it?" The humanoid Nightmare.
"Only time will tell." Said the cat before disappearing in a puff of dark blue and purple smoke.
"A Nightmare turned into a Spirit...and not in the normal way either...I can see why he is a threat." The human like Nightmare pondered before vanishing himself.
