Before this chapter starts, I want to apologize. Not for this taking so long, but me considering shutting this story down. A lot of things have been going on over here that I don't exactly feel comfortable talking about to you guys. I was really tired and angry, and I did, that. I'm going to try and finish this story, no matter what. I promise. Now here you go, the first of the major final fights to come!

Chapter 33: Complete Chaos

Midna's POV

As soon as that magic shattered, the entire village delved into chaos. The people scrambled around, frantically searching for a place to hide before the Twilit Beasts came. Some of the people ran behind the buildings, while others ran inside them to hide under the furniture. Not even a handful of them followed our plan and ran into the panic building like we said. When that barrier shattered, everyone thought the same exact thing. "Every man for himself". I could hear Zelda whisper "Oh, oh goddesses!"

Shad and Ashei shoved through the crowd to get to us, and they were both out of breath and Shad, sweaty from the run here, tried to talk to us through his gasps.

"We heard the *gasp* cracking and the dome thing *gasp* gone and"-

"What do you want us to do, make it quick!" Ashei gave a short version of Shad's mumblings. As Telma stepped forward to give them the orders, Agitha and Mr. Clayface stomped up behind them, Clayface carrying Agitha in his giant hands like a young baby.

"Ashei, you round up as many people as you can and get them into that building! Shad, Agitha, get back to work on boarding up those windows! And work quickly, who knows how much more time we have!" Ashei nodded and went right to work. Shad whined at the thought of having to push through the crowd again, but before he could start complaining, Agitha told Mr. Clayface to pick up Shad, and he carried both of them back to the panic building.

"I'll help Ashei!" Rusl yelled, and chased after her through the crowd. Lora followed right behind him.

"Princess, we need to get you to safety. Come along now!" Telma took Zelda's hand and brought her through the crowd to the panic building. Aden and I didn't know what to do. We had to help all the people into the panic building before the Twilit Beasts got here, but somebody might try and hurt Zelda on her way there. I looked over to Aden to ask what he was going to do, but he was already running through the crowd after Rusl! So I chased after him, pushing and shoving through the mass of people.

It was like swimming against a gigantic wave, every time I try to push forward, I get pushed back almost twice as far as I went forward! I grumbled, 'this isn't going anywhere' I thought. With not that many options, I dropped into the shadows and went to find Aden from there.

Running through the shadows was much easier than running through the crowd! All the people running created enough shadows for me to walk freely through! I ran around through the shadows, scanning the crowd above me to see if I could find Aden or Rusl. But one of the disadvantages of looking from down here was that you could mainly only see their feet. If there were fewer people running around, I might have been able to find those two easily.

I kept searching the crowd until I hit a wall, which didn't even make sense at first. 'There aren't any walls in the shadow space, so what hit me?' I thought while stumbling backwards. I looked, and it was a circle of light streaming in from overhead. All of the people separated from that one exact spot, but why? To get the answer, all I had to do was look up.

A Twilit Portal appeared right in the center of the village, and Twilit Beasts were pouring out of it non stop! For a couple seconds, I froze, horrified.

'But, I thought all of the portals were destroyed! How could one appear now?!'

None of the beasts even hit the ground yet, and four beasts had come out of the portal so far! I still wasn't sure where Aden OR Rusl were, so for the time being, it was just me and the rest of the monsters. A lump formed in my throat. 'This is going to get bad, fast!'

I leapt out of the shadows and right below one of the Twilit Beasts. All of the people went and hid in the buildings, so before it hit the ground, I used my hair to grab it and crush it until it died! Its remains shot up back into the portal, where still more beasts were pouring out! 'I've never faced this many monsters all by myself before,' I thought nervously. 'Where is everyone else?!'

Three beasts landed on the ground, and I rushed one of them from behind. But right when I was about to hit it, it sprinted away from me, and I had to catch myself before I fell. It was weird, the Twilit Beasts never ran away from somebody, so where was it going?

That question was grimly answered when it turned and ran into one of the buildings.

A horrifying realization came, and I looked back at the other two beasts that hit the ground. When I was rushing for the first beast, they were both looking right at me, but now? They were running for the other buildings too! 'The beasts aren't going for us.' I thought.

"They're going to kill all the people."

A middle-aged man's scream knocked me out of my trance. It was coming from the house that the first beast ran into, so I wasted no time and ran to the source. The Twilit Beast was crushing the man who screamed with one hand. You could only see the man's head popping out of the beast's hand. All of the other people were huddling in a far corner, watching in horror as the man was having his life crushed out of him.

Relying solely on instinct, I ran up behind the beast, jumped up into the air, and slammed my hair fist down on the top of the beast! The Twilit Beast let go of the man and exploded into the Twilit particles, which shot up through the ceiling and back into the portal!

The beast was dead here, but I had to try and get to the others quick! I ran out of the house to try and get to the others, but four more beasts stood right outside of the house, and they were coming right for me! I backtracked and used my hair to create a giant wall between me and the monsters. They pounded against it, and I tried to get a firm grip on the ground to not let the wall fall! The people behind me let out little whimpers of fear.

Then the Twilit Beasts made some sort of pained cry, and the pounding stopped. I separated my middle and ring finger to peek through, and found no beasts in front of the building. 'Did they go to a different house?'

The thought quickly slipped my mind as I saw six more Beasts running for a house across from me filled with people! Knowing I wouldn't make it over there in time, I started to prepare a magic spell to hit them, letting the power flow to my fingertips. But then, a bolt of light skewered all six of the beasts, causing all of them to explode into Twilit Particles right as the light hit them! I looked for the source, and Zelda was out on the balcony of the panic building, with her Bow and Arrows of Light! As she notched another arrow, she aimed up towards the portal and let go. Four Beasts got shot in mid-air on their way down, their particles making a complete U-Turn back up to the portal! After that, she went back to shooting at the Beasts that were already on the ground.

But I realized too late that I was staring for too long. A Twilit Beast ran at me from the side and gave a gigantic blow to my body, causing me to get knocked back a couple feet, and into the alley space where Aden and I, talked, this morning. I could feel a couple of my ribs crack upon impact, and I don't think I need to specify how much it hurt. I tried to sit up, but trying to do that even a little bit caused the bones to scrape around in my insides! I was stuck there, completely vulnerable. I put my hand on my chest as if it would soothe the pain. The screams of the people rang all around me.

Then not long after I got crippled, two Twilit Beasts saw the opportunity to come up and finish me off. Both of them sprinted towards me, and leapt up into the air to slam their giant fists down on me, and end me. I started to make my hair into a hand to knock them out of the way, but something different happened first.

An explosion of some sort went off in the air, right between the two Twilit Beasts. Far enough away from me to not get any damage, but close enough so that I could feel the heat that came from the blast. It was about as hot as sitting about a foot away from a strong campfire, so thankfully, it didn't hurt me at all. However, I couldn't say the same for the Twilit Beasts! One of the beasts that were closer to the explosion got killed immediately, and exploded into Twilit Particles! The other one got blown away from me and slammed mask first onto the ground!

I heard something sprinting closer to me, and I assumed that it was another Twilit Beast. When I felt somebody put their hands on my sides, I instinctively started to turn and shove them away from me, but my bones scraped around even more, and I let out a little cry.

"Calm down Midna, please! Just, don't move!" I recognized the voice, but turned my head anyway. Breathing a sigh of relief, I thought 'Oh thank the goddesses, it's just Aden.' He used a Memory Orb on me and after a few seconds, the pain in my chest was gone. I sat up to look at Aden, he was kneeling down at me giving me a smile. Aden held out a hand for me to grab to get myself up, and I was going to accept it.

But another Twilit Beast started to run up behind Aden, getting ready to crush both Aden and me at the same time! I managed to yell "Aden look out!", and he turned around to see the Beast run right up to him.

Then get knocked out of the way by a big grey fist!

I got myself up to get ready and fight whatever that gray blur was, but it turns out it was just Mr. Clayface! He was running around fighting any Twilit Beast that tried to make a run for any of the houses, or people who were standing out in the open. 'Agitha must have told him to do this while she hides in the panic building.' I shook myself out of my daze before I could get another punch in the chest, and grabbed Aden so he could snap out of it too.

Behind Mr. Clayface, I saw Rusl and Ashei running to the panic building, right in front of a herd of people. He was leading them to the panic building, so they would be safer there. Looking at the panic building, it seemed that Agitha and Shad were almost finished boarding up the windows. However, the front of the building was still wide open, leaving the people wide open for an attack! Even if Zelda noticed the beasts going inside that house, it takes a bit for her to fire each Light Arrow, the house entrance was her blind spot!

Then almost like the Twilit Beasts read my mind, a giant group of them ran for the panic building right as Rusl got all the people inside! Zelda had just fired an arrow up at some of the falling Twilit Beasts, and it would take too long for her to create another one! And Mr. Clayface was dealing with a different group of Beasts who were trying to get into buildings near Impaz's house, so he was too far away to help too! All of the Beasts were either fighting against Mr. Clayface, or making a mad dash for the panic building. Aden and I were standing out in the open and none of them were coming for us! It was like they were all being ordered by something, or someone.

Aden grabbed my arm to snap me out of my trance so we could get to the building before it was too late! But right as one of the beasts made it inside, causing all of the people to scream, the first beast burst out of the building, knocking other ones away and through the crowd! What was really strange was that there was a weird green goo on the mask of the first Twilit Beast.

'Wait a minute, is that'-

A loud, gurgled yell came from the panic building, then the beasts in the front all exploded into particles! After all of them shot up into the portal, the view cleared to show, Lora! In her, other form. (I think it was called an Inkling?)

Lora was holding a large, wide, thing that was covered in the green goo. The handle was connected to one of the ends of it, and the part that was covered in the green goo spun when it hit one of the Twilit Beasts. I had no idea what it was. The thing looked extremely heavy, since it was almost twice Lora's size, but she held it like it weighed nothing! She swung the thing at the Twilit Beasts, trying to angle it so that it would avoid the stone masks and hit the bodies. She slammed the spinning thing on the ground, then pushed it under the masks of the Twilit Beasts to hit the bodies and cover it in the green goo! The spot where Lora hit the ground with the roller left behind some of the green goo on the ground.

The Twilit Beasts let out a pained yell as they exploded into particles, then shot up into the portal. After watching in disbelief for so long, we ran up behind the beasts to ambush them! Aden used his Pointed Shockwave and Din's Fire to kill the beasts, while I used my hair hand to smack, slam and crush as many of them as possible! We managed to kill almost half the group before they noticed us, and they all turned around to try and kill us. That gave Lora a good opportunity on her end, but not that much for us.

The Twilit Beasts swat at us, but I floated back and Aden teleported away with Farore's Wind. Almost all of the beasts chased after us, some stayed behind to fight Lora, and keep her away from us. The three front Twilit Beasts pounced at us, so I used my hair hand to slap them away from us, and over to Mr. Clayface, who was still dealing with his fare share of Twilit Beasts. He was dealing with a lot more beasts than we were, I hoped that he could keep pulling through.

A larger herd of Twilit Beasts rushed towards us, and Aden used Din's fire to cause the Twilit Beasts to fly in all directions! And while some did explode into Twilit Particles, some of them flew right towards us! Two of them used the explosion to their advantage, and in mid-flight, they adjusted themselves and were ready to slam their fists down on us! It happened too fast, and it would be less than a second before they hit us! I closed my eyes and braced for impact.

But right as they were about to hit us, the Twilit Beasts exploded into Twilit Particles! And also had some, weird, goo drop onto the ground? It was the same as Lora's goo, but it came from a Twilit Beast. What happened?

I heard something clank on the ground in the direction of the large herd of Twilit Beasts, then a strange ringing noise. The Twilit Beasts all screeched, but then they were cut off by their own death. In the middle of the herd, green goo exploded everywhere and got on all of the Twilit Beasts in the area. They all died simultaneously, and their particles shot up back into the portal like all the others.

I took a quick moment to just calm myself down. Thanks to Zelda and Clayface's help, the amount of Twilit Beasts coming out of the portal were starting to thin! Since Impaz's magic wore off, five Twilit Beasts were coming out of the portal every two seconds. But now, there was just one beast every second! Granted, it was still a lot to deal with, but it felt like all this chaos was almost done!

After the particles cleared out, Lora ran over to us, holding the large spinning thing behind her while doing so. The look on her face showed she was relieved that we were okay. She must've been responsible for the Twilit Beasts exploding right above us, but how did she do that from all the way over there? I felt relieved that she saved us, but I didn't let my guard down just yet. I still didn't forget about what Aden said that morning.

All of a sudden the sky got dark around us. I looked up instinctively, and saw two Twilit Beasts plummeting to the ground that was right under our feet! I started to get my own magic ready, but Aden reacted faster than I could. He fired off a shot of Din's Fire, blowing the beasts away from us and in seperate directions. The first one flew away to the front of the Panic Building, where it got hit with Rusl's cannon shot before it could even hit the ground! He gave a triumphant fist pump into the air.

The second flew right above Lora, and the beast switched targets. But Lora was unfazed, she took the spinning thing, spun it around to where the part covered in the goo was vertical, and swung back. Then when the beast got close enough to her, she swung it up and hit the falling beast square in the chest with the end of the end of her weapon! I could hear a CRACK, and then the beast exploded. Lora put her weapon down, and gave a relieved sigh.

But right behind her, another Twilit Beast shot out of the shadows and tackled Lora! Her weapon slipped out of her hand and flew away to one of the far buildings, near where Mr. Clayface was fighting. I managed to catch a glimpse of him, and it wasn't good. They dogpiled him, over fifteen Twilit Beasts laid on top of him, making it impossible for Clayface to move. The only place where you could see him was the shattered red ball on top of his head.

Back to Lora, the Twilit Beast swung Lora up and slammed her on the ground, back first! The container on her back shattered, and more of the green goo spread across the ground, going far enough to get right at our left side. The Twilit Beast crushed Lora against the ground, and Lora started to try and struggle free. But the more she struggled, the harder the Twilit Beast forced her against the ground. Then as one last ditch effort, the beast raised its arms high into the air, and tried to slam its giant fists right on top of Lora's head!

But right before Lora got killed, she disappeared into the green goo that was leaking out from right under her! We had no idea where she went she just, sank into the goo! Nothing was left of her except for shards of glass from the container on her back! When the Twilit Beast's fists slammed on the ground, it automatically took them back off and shrieked in pain! Aden and I looked at each other, seeing if either of us knew what happened, but his guess was as good as mine! The beast recovered and stopped yelling, looking at its hands. Then it stared at us, and I realized something about it I didn't see at first.

This beast had no stone mask.

"That one must be the leader" Lora said right next to me.

Aden and I jumped back, startled by Lora appearing out of nowhere. 'WHERE DID SHE EVEN COME FROM?!' I thought. She wasn't even in her other form anymore, her hair was back to normal, her ears were round again, and her clothes weren't green and glowing anymore. She was back to her original form! How did she even DO that?!

"Lora, how did you do"-

"Cover your ears!" Lora interrupted, and covered her ears. I was about to ask why, but then one of the loudest shrieks I ever heard in my entire life rang out, and I instantly understood why Lora said that. The maskless Twilit Beast used Lora's distraction to its advantage, and let out the shriek. It was so loud and shrill that I could feel it all over my body! I could feel rusty daggers dig into my ears, and I fell to my knees from the pain! It was one of the worst feelings I've ever had, including when Zant exposed me to the Holy Light two years ago!

After what seemed like an eternity, the shriek died down and stopped. My head was pounding so much, but I looked up and looked around anyways. I could feel my heart stopped for a quick second after seeing what I saw.

What must have been over a hundred Twilit Beasts completely surrounded us, we were right in the center of a giant circle of monsters. All of the beasts stared at us, with the maskless one in front. Its eyes were completely white, and its fangs were pointed so sharp that they looked like tips of newly forged swords! Lora was right, that one had to be the leader!

Lora was standing up, looking around in her regular form to see if she could do anything, maybe make a run for it somewhere. Aden gasped when he saw all of the beasts surrounding us. I looked up to where Zelda was, and she was lying on the balcony, hands on her head, shaking from the pain. Mr. Clayface wasn't moving from where he was lying, he wasn't moving at all! My head hurt so much that I couldn't focus at all, I couldn't channel any magic! There was nothing we could do!

"Midna."

I looked at Aden, his face beaming with determination. He had something planned, I had no idea what it was.

"When I say duck, get down. Alright?"

I had no idea what to do or what to say, so I just nodded. Aden stood up, his hands open, and starting to glow with a golden light. His Triforce mark was starting to glow! Lora turned to Aden, and her face turned from confident to surprised. "Aden?"

The Maskless Beast snarled, and Aden shifted into a battle stance.

Aden bent his fingers in except for his middle and index fingers, and the Maskless Beast bent down, all the other beasts doing the same.

Aden brought one arm to his front and one arm to his back, and the Maskless started to growl.

Then as the maskless one let out one more shriek, Aden yelled "DUCK!", and all of the Twilit Beasts charged at us! Lora and I did as he said, we went down to the ground and put our heads down on the ground. I could hear and feel the Twilit Beasts rushing at us, every last one of them. But none of them managed to get close enough to us, and I kept hearing the sound of the Twilit Beasts exploding into particles. I knew without a doubt that it had to be because of Aden!

I decided to lift my head up a little and see what was going on. And I was right, Aden was fighting off every last Twilit Beast on his own! All around us the Twilit Beasts were rushing at us, trying to get close enough to finish us off. But Aden was doing as much as he could to make sure none of them got to us! He was spinning around in circles, using his Pointed Shockwave attack over and over to create a sort of barrier around us. Any of the Twilit Beasts that even touched Aden's attack in the slightest exploded into particles!

I was in awe, this was a part of Aden I had never seen before in my life. For all the time I had known him, he had shown to be shy, but protective. Easily frightened, but still manage to be strong. This was the first time I had ever seen him like this, pulling out all of the stops to make sure that neither I or Lora died! At that moment, he didn't care about his suspicions for Adri, Logan or Lora. He wanted to protect them either way. He was truly selfless.

Aden's Shockwave Cyclone hit every last Twilit Beast, and not a single one managed to get close enough to even touch us even in the slightest! Twilit Particles rose up into the air like a giant, dark cyclone! We could barely see anything through the storm of particles, it was completely black! I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face! All I could see was Aden's shockwaves glowing a bright white light as they hit the beasts.

Eventually, all of the Twilit Beasts died and exploded from Aden's attack, and after the dark cyclone cleared out, Aden stomped his feet on the ground and stopped spinning. He stumbled a little, but Lora and I managed to catch him before he fell. He was obviously dizzy after all of that spinning, he needed to sit down for a minute.

"Aden, that was AMAZING!" Lora yelled! Aden wasn't exactly in the best condition to accept that compliment, his face looked slightly pale after spinning like that for almost two minutes straight. Using up physical AND magical energy that much was not healthy for him. He just kept staring at the ground, sweating, looking like he would throw up any second. But Lora still gave him a good pat on the back. It wasn't the best idea.

The entire village was quiet now, so when we heard a hissing, Lora and I both looked up to see what it was.

The Maskless Beast was still there, still alive! It must've decided to stay back and let the rest of the Twilit Beasts handle us. But all of them were gone now, and the portal overhead had completely stopped pouring out more beasts! The Maskless one was the last Twilit Beast in the village, and it wanted to deal with us while Aden was down.

The Maskless Beast looked at us, and we could all see the rage in its eyes. We killed every last one of the beasts that tried to attack us, and we were still standing. Battered and slightly sick, but still standing. Some part of me felt like the attack was for us personally, to try and get our Triforce Pieces. But we knew for a fact that all of the attack, and all of the Twilit Beasts were being controlled by the Fierce Deity.

The Maskless one reared its head back, getting ready for one of the loudest shrieks it has ever done. It was going to put all of its effort into one last attack, and finally finish at least one of us off! I got my magic ready, waiting for it to scream, then attack it.

Then right when it started to scream, an umbrella got shoved through the Maskless Beast's chest, and it exploded, sending its particles back up into the portal.

All three of us (Aden had recovered slightly from his dizziness) went slack jawed in awe and disbelief, that the leader of all the Twilit Beasts, who killed masses of the people here just to try and kill us…

"Shoo! Shoo! That's what you get for being mean to Mr. Clayface!"
Was defeated by Agitha, the Bug Princess.