Hey guys, back for another update that hopefully won't be really late. There won't be that much action here. And hey, I just want to ask if there are any people that are here reading that came from my Tumblr story page, I want to know if that's doing anything. Well, might as well get started!

Chapter 27: Wavering Faith

Adri's POV

Man, you couldn't believe how happy I was now that Logan and Lora were back! It was like the whole gang was back together! Although I did get a little nervous when everyone almost attacked Lora when she went Agent 3, I'll have to thank Farore later for standing up for her!

When we started to go back into the village, I slowed down a little to get to Lora. I only got to see her squid form for a couple seconds, right before she switched right back and hid in her cloak. She almost looked like she was going to cry! There was no way I was going to let that stay!

She was pulling forward the hood of her cloak, to hide her face. I went a little slower to fall behind her, then I grabbed her in a surprise hug from behind, yelling out a friendly "RAWR!", which turned a couple heads back to us. Mainly some of the kids, Logan, and Aden.

"C'mon Lora, why're you so sad? Aren't you happy to see us?" I said while letting out a couple chuckles. I could feel my big grin on my face, stretching it out to the point where it felt like I had a rubber mouth! Lora turned back to me, her hood over to the side so I could see her face. I decided she was in that hood for long enough, and punched it with my fingers to take it down!

Her eyes were a little watery, but she was still smiling either way. Although, that didn't last long, she suddenly looked away and a frown replaced her smile. I put my head on her shoulder unhappily, like how a dog would when it was sad.

"Of course I am Adri! Why wouldn't I be? It's just…" She looked to the rest of the guys ahead, who were being greeted by some of the other villagers. They didn't seem to notice us talking. Logan stayed behind to check out our little talk though, but I didn't mind!

"The way they reacted when I turned Inkling, it just, scared me a little. I'm not sure they trust us 100% yet." I rose and let go of her as Logan walked over to us. Aden however kept walking ahead, following Link, Zelda, and Midna.

"Of course they wouldn't, if somebody just showed up randomly out of the blue and somehow knows you, would you trust them 100% right off the bat? Of course not! We just need to give it some time, then eventually they'll trust us." I smirked a little.

"Let me guess, you know from experience?" I decided to ask right as he was opening his mouth to finish. He closed it as I stopped, slowly raising his jaw back up. All he said in reply was a little "yeah". I leaned up on the wall doin' a little "cool guy" stance. Hands in my pockets, standing on one foot while the other's on the wall. That also seemed to lighten Lora's mood a little, because she put on a new smile for a little while.

"Well, I guess you're right Logan." She looked back to the others, who were all walking down to Impaz's house, but then they seemed to disappear in the river of people. "I hope they'll trust us, or this whole thing won't work."

"Don't worry Lora, we'll be able to get on their good side eventually. Now, we should probably get moving, they're probably waiting for us." Lora nodded, and they started to walk away, so I pushed myself off of the wall and followed behind them.

Walking out of the cave, I only now noticed how many people there was in the village now. They were all going back and forth between houses, some were even on the rooves, doing some renovations. They were probably trying to improve some of the houses, since they were staying in them. We walked past the food cart, which was now fully stocked, thanks to Aden. So as I walked by it, I grabbed some bread and took a bite out of it.

The bread was pretty good, surprisingly! It was fluffy and felt really good on my tongue. It didn't last long for me to stuff the whole thing into my mouth, my snacks all had to be eaten quickly, no matter where I was.

As I passed the food cart, I heard a small, child-like gasp. I looked to my right, to find, not a child, but Agitha! She didn't look too good though, her umbrella was gone, the dress had some brown spots from the dirt, and it looked like she had a couple cuts and scrapes with, something.

"Mr. Bahst!" she yelled out, then she jumped up and hugged Logan with all of her might! 'huh' I thought. I never really knew that Logan's last name was Bahst. I mean, I guess I never really got the time to ask. Either way, I was still a little confused, and I didn't even swallow the bread yet! But after a second or two, he smiled and hugged back.

I looked over to Lora, and she shrugged, she didn't know what was going on either. But she laughed a little when she saw my chipmunk mouth, and that made me laugh too! Agitha looked up at Logan (she was actually a little smaller than him) and gave off an amazed gaze, you could practically see her eyes sparkle!

"I can't believe you're here! How did you get here?" He took his hands off of her back and one on her shoulder.

"Well, it's kinda a long story, short version though, we came to get a friend back, and ended up trying to save Hyrule." I got to chewing up the entire loaf of bread in my mouth, which was harder than it sounds. But that sounded like the gist of what was going on (or really, a MAJORATY of Zelda games!) (Adri, just, no. Stop. Please.).

"Oh! Okay, I hope you find your friend!" She looked over to me and Lora, and did a friendly courtesy. "Oh, and this is Adri and Lora. They're some of my other friends!" She nodded, and said, "it's nice to meet both of you!"

She then started to look around, a little confused. "Is the nice witch not here this time?"

Logan's eyes widened, and he looked to the dirt. "No, she isn't." he sounded a little upset now, but only for a second. "She's off doing her really important job!" Agitha nodded, and gasped lightly, like she just figured something out.

"Maybe you could help my friend?" He raised an eyebrow, and looked over to me. I just shrugged, I did just finish my bread, so I could be ready for anything! Lora was just about the same. Agitha decided to get a head start then, she said "okay, follow me!" and ran off into the sea of people!

Instinctively, I followed right behind her, practically dancing through all of the people! It reminded me of when I was back in school, dodging everyone to get to my class. I could hear Lora yell behind me, "Hey, wait up!" I assumed that Logan was following me too.

We ran into one of the houses, and there were already a couple people in there. There was Telma, Agitha (obviously), and-

"Woah wait, what?" there was a creature lying on the ground, and I recognized it instantly! It was a Clayman, from MOTHER 3! It's antenna was gray though, which meant it was low on power. It's face also looked, droopy, the clay was coming apart! Soon, it would be nothing but a pile of clay!

'What the heck?!' I thought, how did a Clayman get here?! Was this the "friend" that Agitha was talking about?! No, it couldn't be!

Agitha went over to the big, droopy clayman, and sat down next to it. "He's been like this ever since he got here, and I'm really worried! So I've been coming here and keeping him company!" It was her "friend". I could hear Lora and Logan run in behind me, and skid to a stop. Logan let out an "eugh!" of disgust, but whatever Lora did, she did it quietly. Telma was quiet the whole time, but she was eyeing all three of us up and down.

"You knew a lot of things Mr. Buck, so I thought that you could help him get better!" she said, sounding a little nervous this time. The Clayman's, mouth(?), moved a little, and a little clay bubble formed, and popped! It scattered some clay across the room, some hitting me, and going into one of Agitha's pigtails!

"I wish I still had my umbrella." She said sadly, and began to try to scrape the clay out of her hair. I looked back to Logan, who was trying to swipe some clay off of his jeans. Lora must've gotten lucky, she got nothing at all! I was about to say something, but Telma finally decided to join in.

"Excuse me, but just who are you two exactly?" she asked. She walked next to Agitha, to, protect her I guess. I didn't know who she was talking about at first, so I said, "Which one of us are you talking about?"

She looked at me with a smile, like an old friend would. "I know who you are, Adri. You saved our lives back in Castle Town! It was quite a show, that battle between you and that, thing." Now I knew what she was talking about, it was when I was fighting Zant as a GIANT! It was only two days ago, but it felt more like almost half a year ago! Weird.

"Oh, yeah. Thanks!" I said, it felt nice for her to say that. I looked back to my two friends and introduced them to Telma. "Anyways, these are my friends, Logan and Lora. They're here to help too!"

She nodded, and said, "Well, we are in your debt Adri, so any friend of yours is a friend of mine." She put a hand and hovered it over her chest, where her heart would be, she was grateful, and I really felt proud! I turned back around to Logan.

"Alright, I know what to do Logan. I know about these things, they're Claymen. They're powered on shocks of electricity, so if you use your Wind Waker, it could be able to fix it up!" Logan nodded, and stepped forward while digging into his pocket. He got out his case, and took out the baton! Telma raised an eyebrow when she saw it, and Agitha decided that she should probably step away from her "friend".

"You two should probably step back." Lora warned. She's mostly been quiet for the whole time, but I didn't forget about her! Telma and Agitha agreed, and stepped back up to the wall behind them. Logan put the case back in his pocket, and held the baton delicately. He then took a deep breath, and closed his eyes.

At first, nothing happened. He just stood there with the Wind Waker raised. Then a tiny crackle of light orange lightning appeared, only for a second, around the baton. Then another one, and another, until the point where the Wind Waker was completely surrounded by orange lightning. He brought the baton to his side slowly, with the Lightning still crackling.

Then, he quickly brought it back up and flicked the tip at the Clayman, and a stream of lightning came out, and right into the Clayman! The whole body shook and squirmed, as it's whole body started to glow with orange light! Agitha put her hands to her mouth, looking quite, shocked! (DANGIT ADRI WHY?!)

I heard a gasp behind me, so I turned around to see who it was. Some villagers were watching to see what was going on, and didn't know what to think right then. Afraid? Relieved? Who knows, I wasn't one of them. There wasn't anybody in particular in the crowd though that I knew…

Lora was reassuring everyone that everything was ok, but that didn't stop them from being weirded out. I knew that Lora could handle it, so I went back to Logan and the Clayman. After seven whole seconds of being zapped by lightning, Logan cut off the flow, and the Clayman stood still. Then, it began to shake a little, making Telma get in front of Agitha for safe keeping.

Then, all of the clay of the Clayman morphed into one big ball, including the antenna. It was perfectly smooth, and perfectly round. A moment later, it morphed again, back into a normal looking Clayman. The large, three fingered hand, the blank expression, and the antenna tip was back to being red, which meant that it was fully charged!

Almost everyone (including the villagers watching) was silent, but Agitha did exactly the opposite. She squealed with excitement, and hugged the giant Clayman! Or at least, tried to. Her tiny arms made it hard to grasp the sides of her "friend".

I expected the Clayman to stand there emotionless, just waiting for orders and doing nothing, but instead, the Clayman actually showed, some emotion! It looked down at Agitha, and smiled a little! Then with one of its big three fingered hands, it patted her back gently, trying not to squish the tiny princess, letting out a caring "mooouuun".

Agitha looked back to us after a loooong hug, with the biggest smile you could imagine! "Thank you, thank you so so much!" Logan walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder, after he put the Wind Waker back in his pocket. "Anytime Agitha."

Aden's POV

Logan zapped a giant bold of lightning right into the creature! I gasped loudly, and Adri turned around to see who it was. I quickly hid behind the outer wall of the house, and realized that other people followed me to see what was going on. They'll think that it was somebody else that gasped, so I took the opportunity and snuck away!

I was going to get Adri, Logan and Lora so we could all talk about what was going on, but after that, I got a little nervous. What were they doing to that thing? Killing it? I really hoped I was wrong. But either way, what Logan did with that baton, scared me a little. That little thing was stronger than it looked! I already knew from when I first saw him use it, but this time it really scared me! Since it was the "Wind Waker", I thought it could only control the wind. I may have been really wrong!

I snuck through the crowd and back to Impaz's house, where the others were waiting. I went in and closed the door behind me. "Sorry, but I don't think…" I stopped mid-sentence, I think I accidentally jumped in during a conversation. Renado was talking with Zelda and Link, and it looked important. They didn't stop talking when I came in though, so I just stayed quiet and listened in.

"She is not doing good, the medicine we try to give her does not seem to do anything. We do not know what is causing this sudden sickness, but from what we have been seeing the past few days, I do not think that there is anything we can do." Renado said all that with urgency in his voice. He was talking about Impaz, wasn't he? 'Oh, oh no.'

"I do not think that she has that much longer, this strange disease has been eating away at her health for some time. She can't get better, and it would seem that tomorrow is her final day. I'm sorry." He closed his eyes and put his hands together. Midna fell back into a chair nearby.

"So, that's it then. We're done. We only have tomorrow until that, THING comes and kills all of us!" Midna wasn't taking it well, and I won't lie, I wasn't either! I was panicking on the inside, there was no way we could do this, was there? Link though, tried to keep hope alive.

"Don' think like that Midna, there has to be a way t' make this work!" he reassured. Zelda seemed to stay calm the whole time too, but I could hear her say, "oh my.." quietly. I tried to think of something good to say, but I couldn't. What could you say? That was when Logan and the others came in, not exactly sure what was going on.

"Uh, did we miss something?" Logan asked. Midna quickly looked over to them, and her eyes widened. Link started to talk, "We, have a bit've a problem." But stopped when Midna said something really quietly. I think she said, "of course!"

She quickly stood up and pointed at Logan.

"Logan, we need a plan, and we need one quick. We only have one day to find the last two people we're looking for on Death Mountain. Got anything?"

He put his hands up defensively. "Woah woah woah woah woah, just because I'm good at making up plans, it doesn't mean that I can make some up right on the fly! Can you just, explain what's going on really quick?"

Midna did. Short version, Adri was upset about Impaz, Logan began to make up a plan, and Lora tried to follow what she was saying.

"Okay, I think I know what we can do, but i'm going to need some more time to make up a good plan." He walked over to the table that was pushed out of the way for all of the chairs. "Hey, does anybody have a map of Hyrule with them?"

"I believe that Telma has one with her." Renado responded.

"Okay. Hey Lora, could you go run and get it for me?" he asked. She nodded and ran back off to Telma. "Perhaps I shall go with her." Renado added, and walked out the door behind her."

Logan started to talk as he took some stuff off of the table, like a cloth and lantern "Okay, so first off, we're going to need to split into two groups. One will go to Death Mountain and find those last two people, and the other will stay here and defend the people, just in case. I'm not sure how far Death Mountain is from here though. But it's going to take me a little while to think about who will go with who, so you guys can do whatever you want for now. If any luck, I can get a plan done in about an hour or so."

He, really seemed to be taking charge quick. Link, Zelda and I didn't know what to think of it, we were just kinda surprised about what he was doing. Lora ran back in with a map in her hand, rolled up. Renado didn't come back though, he must've been talking with Telma.

Adri was first to act, she walked up to Impaz in her bed, who was currently sleeping. She wasn't looking too hot, she was so pale, it looked like she was painted white! You could hear her wheezing like she was breathing into a bag. She got on her knees and just, stared at her. Midna came over and tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed to the door. She wanted to give her some space for now. I nodded, and followed her out, and so did the others (besides Logan).

When we closed the door behind us, we all went in different directions. Lora went back to the house where Agitha and that, thing, was. Link and Zelda both went to a house to probably get some rest, Midna followed them, and I, stayed back. I walked around to the back and sat down in the dirt. I wanted to be alone for a second and think. I didn't know why, but something, just didn't feel right.

The way Logan just suddenly took charge, seemed strange to me. When that came up, I realized that lots of stuff with them seemed to be strange, and not exactly the good kind. The way they act, like they knew some of the people, it was odd for me. How did they know each other? Did they meet before, then how?

Lora, that weird, Inkling form. Not a single person that lived here thought it was normal, even Link, who has seen probably everything there is in Hyrule didn't know what it was! So, what was it? It could've just been some gift from Farore, but she seemed, familiar with it. And what could she do with it? For Logan, he just showed us, but I had no idea what it was.

I then thought about Impaz. Her sickness, it seemed to come out of nowhere. When we first met her, she was just dying of age, but now a disease? How? I thought that maybe somebody from castle town brougt it with them, but I shook my head. This was a big one, and if someone from Castle Town brought it with them, then lots of people here would be sick! Plus, they said that it was unknown, so maybe it didn't come from Castle Town..?

Then it clicked. What if the disease came before any of us got here? I'm not sure why, but it felt like Impaz wasn't the type of person to travel. So if it didn't come from any of the villagers, who was here before us? The one person that she met before we all came.

Adri.

What if she poisoned her? She could've but something in some food she was eating, or cast some sort of curst, or something! But I somehow just knew it, it was her. I don't know why, but it had to be her, there was no other person it could've been! My mind had switched to "Worst case scenario" mode, thinking of all the worst things that could happen! So then it switched over to Logan.

What if Logan wanted to split us up for a reason? What if he wanted to slowly pick us off?! Maybe they were lying about being my friends the whole time! All the things he knew what to do, the times he reacted to save us. But why did he save us? That was the last gap of trust that I didn't want to lose, so I just tried to stop thinking.

I tried to stop thinking about all the bad things I was thinking about! I wanted to trust them, I would be really glad to be their friends, they all seemed like good people! But my fear, my paranoia was keeping me back! I didn't want to think of these things anymore, but my mind just kept on going.

Lora, she could be a monster that could kill us off in our sleep! Her shyness could be an act, a pose! Then she could kill us when she least expected it! How did they know who we were, not just me, but Link, Midna, Zelda, and a bunch of others?! They could be fooling the goddesses themselves!

"Stop it, sTOP IT!" I yelled at myself, pounding at my brain to calm down. It hurt, but I had to think of something else to stop myself. I-

I froze, there was a pound on the wall from the inside. I froze, because I thought that Logan heard me. I heard yelling, I really didn't want to, but my curiosity took over. I stood up, and pressed my ear to the wall.

"-really not stay with her? You let Midna stay with Aden, and yet I can't even stay with her?" It was Adri, it sounded like she was arguing with Logan.

"We have to stick to the plan Adri! I let Midna stay with Aden because she didn't need to come with us! We're taking Link, end of story." That was Logan, what did he mean by "coming with them"? I guessed that he meant to Death Mountain, so it was those two and Link going…

I kept listening. "But come on, we just got back together and now we're splitting up again! We're the heroes of destiny Logan, and that means we have to stick toge"-

Another hard pound, I could feel the wall shake, so he must've hit really hard. "you don't GET IT ADRI! I DIDN'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH THIS! Tell me, WHY did we COME HERE?"

"We came here to save Hyrule Logan, why else would"-

"No we DIDN'T!" another harsh pound on the wall. "We CAME HERE, to GET ADEN THEN GO! But since we can't leave without the whole Triforce, WE GOT STUCK WITH THIS!"

I jumped back from the wall quickly, fear once again taking its toll. 'They came here to "get me"?' I thought. I swallowed hard, that couldn't be good, at all. My mind started to go worst case scenario again, but I refused, and tried to hold on to the last bit of trust that I had. There had to be an explanation for this, there had to.

'Okay, just calm down, just calm down.' I took some long, deep breaths, one after another. I pressed fingers on my right hand to my chest, and slowly brought them down, breathing out one last time. Thank the goddess that worked, any longer and things might've gotten a little, complicated.

I started back to the house where I first slept, I needed to get some sleep, maybe that could calm my nerves. It was darker now, and you could see the tip of the moon above the cliffs from where I was. There were also less people now than there was before, so I didn't have to dodge a bunch of people this time. I did bump into a couple people though.

I got to the house, and some kids were already falling asleep, and Midna was there too! I thought that I should probably tell her about what I heard, she should know just in case. But on the other hand, she might not believe me. I couldn't believe myself from what I was thinking! So I decided that for now, I should just stay quiet.

She finally noticed me, and walked over. "Aden, there you are! Where were you, I was looking all over!" she said, she sounded like she was eager to say something.

"Oh, I was just, sitting for a bit. I needed to just have a little peace and quiet for a second, you know?" it was a half lie, I did need some time by myself, true, but the rest were all lies. Midna bought it, barely.

"Oh, okay. Well, I was thinking for a little. Ever since we split up, I was worried for you the whole time, wondering if you were okay. So I asked Logan if we could be together in a group, and she said it was okay!" Hearing that actually cheered me up a lot! The fear that I had quickly faded away when I heard that from her!

"Oh sweet! But, I don't think you had to ask him yourself, I would've came with you!"

"Well don't worry Aden, what's done is done. We should both go to sleep now though, Logan said that he's waking us all up early in the morning. At least he's giving us some time to rest instead of going right now." She said. Well, she was probably right about that. She talked about him like he was an old friend like me, so for now, maybe I should just keep quiet about what I heard.

"Alright then, I am getting a little tired right now too. So, good night I guess." I said, awkwardly. I looked away for a second, and then she hugged me. It felt, weird, but nice. I relaxed, and gave a gentle hug back, smiling. After a couple more seconds, she let go and started to walk to a different house, the one we were in was packing up with people (one was even sleeping on a table!).

"Good night Aden." She said, waving goodbye as she walked off. I could see her hair shine in the moonlight as she walked off. I watched her until she got into a less crowded house, then I sat down in a corner. I took off my cloak and used it as a pillow, and leaned up against it. It took a while, but I fell asleep. And for the first time ever since I got here, I went to sleep, happy. My eyelids became heavy, and I let them drop, as I drifted off into tomorrow.

Midna's POV

I was, back in the place I was before. This felt, much different though. I kept hearing this, noise. It sounded like some sort of crackling all around me. And I didn't see any sort of pictures, I could only listen. Voices faded in and out, on and off, so I listened in until I woke up.

"Are you KSSSHHHHH this Ad- KSSSSHHHH"

"Absolutely! I- KSSSSSSSSHHHH to work!"

"Oka- KSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH this!"

"Wait, wh- KSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH"

"KSSH –en! Hol- KSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH"

"Midna! H- KSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH"

"Aden! N- KSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH

HHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"-

I sat up quick, as the dream cut off.

'Oh god, what, what was that?'

AAAAAAAAAAAAND there you have it! Yup, took longer than usual again, sorry! I practically have middle school finals week coming up, and you know the drill! Well, I should get to sleep, thanks for reading guys, R,R&S! Later!