Yep, I am back and this time I will stay here!

If you people are still around, then Thank you for this and for putting up with me and my sometimes bitchy behavior.
The reason why I have been away for quite a while and why I quit for some time is this: Depression and thus lack of motivation to keep going.
It hit me really hard in the past weeks and sadly the lack of feedback took away all my motivation to keep going as well.
But I wanna change this now and I don't want to be the slave of my emotions any longer!
I still got some hope left that some day, more people will find these stories of mine and enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing them.
And maybe, just maybe these people will share their thoughts with me in the comment section, because feedback still is very much appreciated by me and it really means a lot to me. And by that way: Feedback is the main reason why I keep going, because it motivates me greatly. So please, don't be shy and share your thoughts with me. I am not going to bite you ;)

That aside, I am happy to be back and like I said: I will stay back this time.
Should I deal with another depression phase, I will just take a small break until I calmed down, so please don't wonder why I might not update any of mmy stories for a while.

And now sit back and please enjoy this little Twilight Princess One-Shot, which I have written a few months ago^^.

The Sacred Beast

He vaguely remembered what had happened.

He remembered how monsters had entered the forest.

Terrible monsters!

They had kidnapped Ilya.

And he couldn't have helped her, because he had been too weak to do that.

He had fainted when something had hit the back of his head.

When he had woken up later, there had been silence around him.

An almost eerie silence that had spread over the whole forest...

No animal was heard and the only thing he had heard was his own heartbeat.

After that everything had happened very fast.

He remembered what had happened to Ilya and the children and he immediately had gotten back to his feet to follow the monsters and save the ones he loved, but he hadn't come far, because he remembered a black wall in front of him, with strange looking signs on it that had blocked his way. And then there was this huge hand that had grabbed him and which had pulled him through the wall.

On the other side of the wall, he had faced a monster which had almost killed him, but it had let him go when a bright lightning flash had cut through the darkness.

And now he lay here, on the ground and he tried to get back to his feet, but he couldn't.

Something weakened him and there was this strange feeling in his body that grew stronger and stronger.

It had begun with a tingling sensation on his skin, which had quickly become a huge pain and the back of his right hand had started to burn all of a sudden. His vision became blurry and the pain ate itself through his body like a parasite, until he had the feeling to faint again, but he forced himself to remain conscious this time.

He didn't know what was happening to him, but whatever it was, it frightened him, because the pain became more and more intolerable and he felt as if his skin and muscles were ripping.

And then his body began to change...

A tormented moan escaped his throat when the pain became too much to bear.

His heart was pounding wildly in his chest and he was afraid his ribs would break under this load. He squeezed his eyes shut so tightly that tears rolled over his cheeks and he clenched his jaw so much that his teeth ached. His fingers clawed into the ground beneath him and a tremor went through his body as the pain almost rolled over him like an all-devouring tidal wave.

He could feel how his clothes tore and how his skin loosened from his body, how it tore and how fur grew instead.

His arms and legs changed, became paws with powerful claws on it.

But the worst thing was when his face changed.

He felt how his face was getting longer, how his teeth changed, which became longer and more curved and the pain was so strong now that he opened his mouth and screamed so loud that it had to echo through the whole kingdom.

And then, all of a sudden, it was all over.

The pain vanished as fast as it had come and his vision became black again, as the unconsciousness once again reached its cold hand out to him.

He fell to the ground and didn't move anymore.

But it was no longer a human who lay there on the dead ground of the shadow realm.

No.

Instead of a human there was now a black wolf lying on the cold ground.

His night black fur was interrupted by gray color here and there and in his face he bore unique patterns, which marked him as what he was:

The sacred beast.

But Link didn't know at this moment what he really was and what was going to happen to him soon.

No.

At that moment, he didn't know anything and he would be glad if he would survive all of this, for the shadow creature, that had attacked him earlier, had returned.

Carefully it approached him, careful not to be dazzled once again by this hideous light which had surrounded the boy.

When he noticed that Link was not conscious anymore, he grabbed one of his hind legs and dragged him away, unaware that he was observed for the whole time.

A grin spread across his observer's face.

A devilish grin…

Yes, this wolf was something special.

And Midna would do everything to get this wolf into her fingers and she would use him for her own purposes.

Even if it was the last thing she would do.

When it came to the well-being of the shadow kingdom, she was ready to do everything.

Even if she had to shed innocent blood for her goals...

The end