Hi guys, back for another chapter! Before this stars, I want to say a couple things. 1. Thanks to AMaeJay, I have another story to help for Story Support, "The King's Bride". Don't worry, it's a LoZ story and there isn't any shipping in it. But if you go looking for it, look carefully. There are other stories called "The King's Bride", so look for the one that has LoZ on it. 2. For that guest that keeps asking, Majora will not make an appearance in this story. I thought of another way that the heroes can stop the Fierce Deity without it! So, yeah, sorry bro. STORY TIME! (Also, the reason why this took so long is at the bottom)

Chapter 21: Kargaroks and Campfires

Logan's POV

Zant's blade was EXTREMELY close to my neck, WAY too close for comfort! But right as I heard a loud "SKIIIIAAAAAAAA", he took it away to see what was going on. I was still frozen, but not for long, because right then, coming through the tunnel to the light spirit's spring, was a giant Kargarok!

This was my plan, get someone to play the grass song for the Kargarok, it would come here, and we would fly up the river to the Zora's domain! We would work out dealing with Zant on the way. Right as the giant bird burst through, we could move again. It must be some sort of deal with focus, Zant's spell.

"What th"-

I didn't let him finish that, I kicked him in the back and into the light spirit's spring, letting him take a little swim. Now, here is where I messed up with my split second plan, nobody here knows how to fly a giant bird! I should've slapped myself for that, but there was no time! Looks like for now,

I just had to wing it. (YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH)

Everybody was freaking out, but I hoped that they wouldn't attack! If they did, the Kargarok would think of them as enemies, and would freak out if they saw them. But right now, it was facing the others. Thankfully, I knew a way that it would obey us, and not freak out, so I took out the Wind Waker.

Zant just splashed into the water, and was probably really mad right now. So, I did the command melody as quickly as I could.

Left Center Right Center

The giant bird stopped squawking, and just landed on the ground, ready to take orders. Buuut that took long enough for Zant to teleport out of the water and freeze all of us again. He teleported right in front of me and (again) put the blade to my throat.

"Now look what you did, YOU GOT MY ROBE WET! That is an insult and treason to a king, HOW DARE YOU?!" NOW we were stuck, I had to think of some way. Maybe I didn't have to say full words to tell the Kargarok what to do? Might as well try, so I mumbled through my teeth.

"Krgrrrk (Kargarok!)" it looked over and stared at me. It worked!

"What, what are you trying to say? Are you trying to plea for mercy? Well TOO BAD!" Zant was on his breaking point, and was going to kill me very soon!

"Grt, Zrnt! (Get Zant!)" The bird grabbed Zant from behind with its giant beak, and lifted him up. We were once again able to move, since Zant was caught off guard. Thinking and acting quickly, I said, "Throw him back into the spring!" And it did, with Zant yelling on the way down "OH COME ON!"

I climbed onto the back of the Kargarok as quickly as I could, struggling to grab hold of some of the feathers. "Climb on!" I yelled, as the bird slowly began to rise. Aden used Farore's Wind (how on earth does he know how to do that?!) to teleport onto the back, and Zelda did a giant leap onto the back. (Just how did she jump that high?)

I knew that Zant was going to get out of the water any second now, so I couldn't waste any more time waiting on her to get up, I hope she won't be mad!

"Grab Adri and let's get out of here!"

"Wait, whaooOOOOOAAAHH!" Call it a hunch, but Adri got lifted up by the Kargarok's talons, and can't move. Oh well, can't always be comfy while you're riding a giant bird while getting away from a psychopath. The Kargarok squeezed through the tunnel like how a Loftwing would dash, and we were up in the air. It would only be a matter of time before Zant caught back up to-

"HEY!"

I sighed, think o' the devil. I yelled, "QUICK, UP THE RIVER!" and the Kargarok took off. Then, I talked to the other guys.

"From what I've seen from Zant so far, is that he uses that freezing spell if he focuses enough, so whatever you do, don't stop attacking him! I'll focus on steering this giant bird!" Zelda and Aden nodded, and right as I turned around, some purple shots flew past us. One barely touched my head, and I could feel a bit of my hair getting hot.

This was going to be a looooong ride.

Aden's POV

"Woah!" I said as I ducked under one of Zant's shots. That was close, too close! And it looked like Logan didn't exactly get clear of it either, it singed some of his hair off, leaving some parts on the top purple, weird. I turned back around to Zant, if Logan was right, then it seemed that I had to go rapid fire again on my attacks. This was going to hurt later.

From below us, Adri was doing some rapid fire attacking of her own, firing off her fireballs as fast as she could. Zant was flying towards us, but it was hard with Adri doing her attacks. He was attacking too though, it was just hard with Adri (again) since every shot she made was countered by a fireball, making a tiny red and purple explosion.

Just as I was charging up for my first attack, with one hand across my chest and the other holding on to the thing, it swerved down, and I had to hold on with both hands, missing Zant entirely, and the shot went up and hit the hanging stalactite, which crumbled and fell into the river.

"Logan, is there any chance that you could make this go a little slower or steadier?" I asked, and he didn't exactly like that.

"Well sorry for not knowing how to fly A GIANT BIRD WHILE BEING CHASED BY A PSYCOPATH!"

"Sorry! Sorry."

We steadied out, right as we went through a narrow hole in the wall. It was a couple feet from our heads, so we didn't worry. But in it, was some sort of wood, thing that was just there. Why was it there, I had no idea. But that gave me an idea, and Zant didn't pass through it yet. So charging up for just one second, I threw a shockwave at the wood thing.

Right as Zant passed through the hole, the shockwave hit the top of the wood thing and it fell down on top of him. Right as it did, he looked up, pulled out one of his blades, and spun around really really fast. Sideways. What the heck was he doing? But what really surprised me, was what happened next. As he spun sideways, all of the wood that was going to fall on him got either cut up, or knocked away. We managed to get some distance from him, doing his thing.

We kept flying up, up the river while all of us were hanging on to the bird's back. It wasn't exactly going that fast, but it was steep enough that we would fall off if we didn't hang on for long enough. Everyone was holding on for dear life, me, Zelda, and Logan! Adri was probably fine down there, since that she was in the claws down there. (Lucky)

Up, and up we went, holding onto the big bird for dear life. When suddenly, rain? I looked up, squinting my eyes at the light from it. Yeah, it was raining, drips of water fell on my face and clothes as I looked up. It began to get cloudier above the cavern, and they kept getting darker and darker. I could hear Logan gasp in front of us, was something wrong?

Logan looked behind him, and probably was going to say something, but then his eyes widened, and he swerved to the left. I kept my grip and closed my eyes, but when I opened them, I saw some more of Zant's shots fly by our right. 'That was close'

I hung on with one hand as tight as I could, and looked behind us. Zant was far behind, and was more persistent on attacking us than getting closer to us, weird. His shots flew past us, and just our luck, he did what we did! Above us were more wooden things (and I just realized that they were sort of bridges), and the shots went up and hit those as well!

I panicked, I didn't know how we would get past this! Time seemed to slow down, Logan and Zelda were looking up, both were wide eyed. I'm not sure what Adri was doing though. The rain was going down, slower? Wait a minute. I looked around, they WERE going slower! I could move myself normally, but everyone and everything else was going slower!

What was going on?

Then, I seemed to get an answer. A gray glow came from my left hand, my piece was going off again? "Sorry for doing this Aden!" Hey, that was the voice from my dream! No wait, she said, she was Hylia! But my thoughts were cut off, I rose up into the air, and my body moved by itself! Almost like I was, possessed by something. Or, someone. Was Hylia doing this?

It was like I came out of my own body, I could see myself! I was floating, but my BODY was still on the bird! Time sped back up, and it went back to normal. My body stood up ON the bird, but its hands out, and used Nayru's love, a GIANT ONE! As in, it enveloped the ENTIRE BIRD! Right as it appeared, the wood above us seemed to disappear out of thin air! This was really freaking me out!

I tried to move me me, since my body me was doing its own thing right now. I leaned downward, and I flew down too! I was moving with the bird and my body on my own though, didn't need to do anything about that. I went down far enough to find that my body, was actually hovering a small bit off of the bird. Weird.

I looked back up to my body, and behind it, was Zelda and Logan staring back at me, jaws down to the back of the bird. "Guys? Guys what's going on up there?"

Nobody answered, but my attention went back to my body. It was staring at Zant, arm up and hand cupped up. A spark came out, it looked like she was going to use a Memory Orb, but why? It grew much faster than usual, and she thrust out my hand to send it at Zant at rapid speeds. Before Zant knew it, a Memory Orb was around him, and he seemed to be frozen in time. Then, she snapped my fingers, and the Memory Orb disappeared, with Zant still inside.

Did, she just kill Zant?!

Then, she knelt down to put both hands on the bird, and closed her eyes. A bright green light circled around all of us, including me me, and then we all passed out. She must have used Farore's Wind! We all woke up out of the cavern, probably and hopefully far away from Zant.

Hylia used her powers to get all of us off of the bird (and Adri out of the claws) and set us down. While that was going on, I took a little look around. It looked like we were at some sort of riverside vacation home. There was a log house that was built over a river, and opposite of that, was some sort of path that led somewhere else. I guessed that was where we had to go next to get up Snowpeak.

It was the afternoon, or evening, whichever it was, so the sky was a little more orange than usual. It looked pretty cool, but Hylia interrupted me.

"Zant will be back, I didn't kill him." Right as she said that first sentence, everyone gasped, and was wide eyed. That was how I was when Midna was like that back in Castle Town. There were some Twilit Beasts that came bursting out of the log house, but Hylia just blasted them down with a lightning bolt.

"Please, save my sister soon, I can feel her power beginning to fade." I was thrust back into my body, gravity taking back over again and I fell on the ground, off balance. I was sort of tired, and kinda sleepy. Thankfully I didn't pass out right then and there, I just fell down. But when I did, EVERYONE began to ask questions.

"What the heck happened?!"

"Are you okay Aden?"

"How the heck did you do that?!"

"Where did Zant go?!"

"Both of you, stop and let him speak please."

Most of those questions came from Logan and Adri, but that last part came from Zelda. Everything got quiet, except for the running water from the river. I got up onto my feet, pushing off of the ground with my hands. I got into a weird stance to balance myself, and I looked at the three.

"Long story, it's getting late, and we have a lot to talk about since Logan is here now. So maybe we could stop here for the night?"

Lora's POV

"Ugh, where are we? It feels like we've been walking for days!" Midna complained. I looked back to her.

"It's okay to feel like that Midna, because as far as I know, we probably have." I heard some rustling, and I turned that way, grasping my hand made spear. It was just the wind, but you could never be too prepared.

"What do ya mean Lora?" I relaxed myself, nothing was there. Without turning around again, I said "For as long as I've been here, I learned that time speeds up when you're in this forest. One minute can feel like an hour, and it actually is. I've even found a way to prove it."

Silence coming from the two.

"Look, it's getting late, and I'm guessing that you guys are hungry right now, right?" now turned around. They were looking at each other, and while Midna sort of looked away with her right hand on her arm, Link looked at me and nodded. I had a hunch that Midna didn't exactly trust me, but I was fine with that. Can't always trust someone you just met.

"Then let's stop here for the night. I'll go and gather up some food, can you two try to build a fire while I'm gone?" It looked like Midna was going to say something that would start an argument, but Link said, "We'll have one started right when you get back!" right before she could. This proved it, that Midna didn't trust me, but I was glad that Link was defending me. I nodded, and raced off deeper into the woods to look for some fruit.

I reached a wall with some vines, that stretched high up. The old me wouldn't even try to do this, but times have changed now, so with one hand holding my spear, I climbed up. Fully grasping the vines with one hand, and trying to hold on with a couple fingers with the one that had the spear. I climbed up, and up, and reached the top.

I remembered this spot, there were some trees with fruit around here. I looked up, and searched for some hanging fruit. There. Hanging up there were some oranges and apples, some of them not fully grown, but they were still edible. They were still high up, and Link's "technique" to get things down from trees wouldn't work here. So, I had to climb.

The trees that had the fruits were very thick at the bottom, but slowly got thinner as it went up. There were also some branches here and there, that looked like they could hold my weight. But thankfully, this was the type of the tree that had two branching paths, that slowly went up and were slanted. 'perfect'.

I climbed into the part where the tree split apart, and went on the right side, up to where the fruit was. I wrapped my hands and feet around the trunk and slowly inched my way up to the top. I won't lie, it did hurt a little, and it was getting more and more difficult to climb as I went on, but I kept going.

Here was where the branches set in, I was getting closer to the top, and some branches decided to come in and either help me out, or try and stop me. It was actually helping me out, thankfully, as I could hold onto the branches as it got steeper while climbing. I was really high off of the ground now, and it looked like I was almost above the tree line. Up the branches I went, and I was finally at the fruit.

I knew that I couldn't go down holding the fruit, so I picked them off of the tree, and stabbed them into the spear. This would make it easier to get more. I picked a fruit off, and stabbed it. Picked, stabbed, pick, stab. I did that until I got three apples and four oranges, this would be enough.

I relaxed my arms and legs, and I slid down the trunk until I got to the bottom. Hop off of the tree, down from the upper cliff, and I retraced my steps back to where we were before. It was certainly getting late now, since the moonlight was right above us shining through the trees. Although, I'm pretty sure it was always night in these woods in the games. Oh well.

I got closer to our little "campsite", and I began to hear a little conversation between Link and Midna.

Midna: "But she's just some person we met out of the blue, why are you trusting her?"

Link: "Because, she knows h'r way around here, and I don't feel like either wand'ring 'round without knowin' where we're goin', or bein' chased by those, puppet things."

Midna: "I know that, but we could deal with those! We have before, twice!"

Link: "Alright, then let me ask you somethin', why don't you trust her?"

A pause from Midna.

Midna: "I did at first, but now it feels like we're going into a trap. Like she's going to stab us in the back sometime soon. And she didn't exactly give us a reason to trust her, did she?"

Now, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to break the 4th wall for a second here. For the people reading this, who thought I was either going to get mad and storm away or get depressed at them not trusting me? A couple people, huh? Sorry, but this story is not trying to get stuck in clichés, and when it does, it really doesn't like it. So screw you guys who thought I was going to be that stereotypical insecure girl!

I walked right in, and butted right into their conversation.

"If you want a reason, I'll give you one Midna." They both looked over at me, both being surprised with Midna being a slight angrier. They were able to get a fire going, and they were just sitting around the fire cross legged. So I did the same, showing the two my little fruit cabob.

I handed them one apple and one orange each, and I did the same. We could save the last orange for later. After I did that, I looked over to Midna, and showed her my left hand, the one that had my Triforce mark. "I have the other half of the Triforce of Courage. I don't exactly know how and why, but I have it."

The two just stared at me, dumbfounded, while I took a bite of my apple. A couple seconds went by, and still nothing happened.

"uuhh, okay then. Well at least you gave us a reason to trust ya', so we will. Right Midna?" Link gave her that look, that one that said, "See? I was right." Midna saw this, and wasn't exactly happy with this, but she knew that she had to say it. So she sighed, looked up at me, and said "I'm sorry. I should've trusted you more"

"Don't worry, it's okay. I mean, if I met someone in the woods like that and they just tagged along, I would be suspicious too." Took another bite from my apple.

"So I told you guys what I was doing here, what're you two doing here?"

"Well, it's a bit've a long story. Lora" Link said.

One unfinished story later

"So we're goin' to try to get the Master Sword, and we'll make sure to save that girl too." After that story, it was certainly late. I worked my way through my apple and orange, and so did the other two. I knew that this was big, but big enough to be this important! And I thought everything going on back home was crazy! (Sure hoped the others were okay)

"Thank goodness the others are okay too, especially Aden. We were so worried about him when we came here." A sigh of relief from me. I was going to say something, but they decided to interrupt me with their something.

"Lora, what did you mean by, come here?"

"Ah, yeah. Ugh, how am I going to say this." I looked up to the two. "This is going to be extremely hard to believe for you two, but, I'm not exactly from Hyrule."

"Well that's not that bad, but what do you really mean?" Midna said.

"I'm not from Hyrule, but I'm also not from this, world! This one, or the Twilight Realm."

The two looked at eachother, then back to me. "What do you mean Lora" Link said, obviously confused.

"I'm from a world, where people like you guys, just go through everyday life. But it's, different, where I come from. Everything where I come from is sort of like magic, but it's not. Back in my world, everything was chaotic, all over the world, and me and my friends would always help people out, and we understood everything that was going on, because we knew what was going on.

"In fact, I along with my other two friends that came here, Logan and Adri, knew about both of you before we even met! And before you ask why," and they were, considering their open mouths, "that's also kinda complicated. Not to mention, it's really late, so we should all get to sleep."

I yawned, and it was intentional, feeling like I actually did need to go to sleep. "Yeah, I guess we all need sleep right now," a yawn from Midna. "I'm pretty tired myself. Who knows what time it is now anyways."

I got up, and sort of stumbled to one of the closest walls, and sat back down on it with my back the wall. Midna did the same, but it looked like Link was fine just sleeping on the ground. I didn't question it, we all have our own ways of doing things.

"Night guys."

"Night!" "Goodnight!"

And so, I went to have a dreamless sleep.

Midna's POV

As soon as I went to sleep, I came back to where I was before. I was back watching my younger self go through torture, by almost losing her only friend. Why do I keep coming back here, why do these dreams come now?!

I was back in the castle, it was probably only a day after Aden got taken to the dungeon, to decide his punishment. My mom and dad decided to hold a big meeting to talk about Aden, and I knew for a FACT that it wouldn't end well! I had to get Aden out of there, as fast as I could.

To get into the dungeon was easy, I used another trick that I learned from my classes, "Shadow Merge". Its name was self-explanatory, and I still used that to this day. I merged with the shadows, going through the locked door, and into the dungeon itself.

I heard crying, a lone, boy's cry. That had to be Aden, I knew it! I ran through the shadows, it felt like I was stuck in some sort of narrow pane of glass. I kept going, until I reached Aden's cell. I could see him, he was wearing the same clothes from yesterday, and everything looked the same in terms of how he looked! But he was chained up, locked down to the floor to prevent him from escaping.

I broke out of the narrow pane, and into Aden's cell. He didn't notice I was there, until I reached out and touched his shoulder. Then, he freaked out and spun around, falling over in the process. But after his brief freak out and seeing who I was, he immediately ran towards me and hugged me.

"Midna, oh my god!" I could feel his tears fall off of his face and onto my back, he was certainly crying.

"Don't worry Aden, I'll get you out of here!" I stepped back, and used the same magic art that I used to get Link out of his imprisonment, and broke the chains off of each other. It was certainly loud, and some guards out there had to have heard that, I had to work fast!

He stood up, and hugged me again. I used that hug to get both of us into the narrow pane. There was a path above us, so we could go through there to get out of here! I let go of him, and before he could ask where he was, I said "No time, we need to get out of here!"

He stopped for a second, then nodded. I gave him a leg up to the top path, we were outside of the dungeons. All we had to do was get past the castle security, and we were home free. We walked through the narrow pane, but then we heard this.

"THE PRISSONER HAS ESCAPED, HE COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN FAR, FIND HIM!"

This would not be good! We went into an all-out sprint through the pane, to get out of the castle and escape my guards. We kept running, and running, until we were out of view of the castle and nobody could see us.

Aden turned to me. "Midna, thank you so, so much! What do I even say?!"

"You say thank you, and that's it. I'm not some sort of hero, just your friend."

"I… Thank you Midna. But where are you going to go now?"

This decision I made here, would be the one to start our adventure. It would be both my best, and worst mistake. My parents would hate me for doing this, but Aden was my friend, so friends should help out other friends. And when I said it, Aden couldn't believe it either. So, I just said it.

"I'll live with you."

OH MY GOD I FINALLY GOT THIS DONE! You will not believe how long it took me to do this, I just kept getting distracted by amazing things! 5 Nights at Freddy's 4, Life is Strange episode 4, math, piano, and oh god, I got a Tumblr RP blog now! I'm not joking! I'm just glad I got this done now! So then, make sure to R, R&S everyone! Byyeeee!