"I am… a spirit… of light…" the spirit said as we approached. "Heroes… chosen by the gods… look for… my light… gather the light stolen by the shadows… into this."
He then gave the three of us the vessel of light.
"…The insects of darkness… they are the form taken… by the evil that attached itself… to my scattered light… in this shadowy Twilight… the shadow insects are invisible, much as the people from the world of light are… with the last of my power… let me mark your maps… with the locations… of the tears that have turned into… shadow insects… but... be careful… the darkness… now hunts you…" the spirit said marking our maps.
"Do we split up to find the tears of light?" Saria asked.
"That would be faster," Linkette said, "But who goes where?"
"Why don't we swap stories of our past and adventures so far?" I suggested. "That way we can see if there are sections that one of us would do better in."
"Okay!" they agreed before we swapped stories. Much to my surprise at how they got the Zora Sapphire.
"Well…" Saria said. "I'm thinking Luna should take that building, while Linkette gets the ground area and I get the higher area."
"How come?" I asked.
"I'm better at climbing than Linkette," Saria explained. "And you wanted to find your friends, and the scent you said was from them that we followed here leads inside that building, which means that they are most likely there, you can check on them then come help us."
My eyes widened at that before I looked at the building. "Thank you."
"Your welcome," Saria said.
"Are you three done talking?" Midna asked not able to understand us. "Not that I care about getting rid of the Twilight. It is a lovely place afterall. But you need to remove it to figure out where the next piece of the fused shadows are, so you need to get a move on."
At that we sighed before separating.
"Oh," Midna said realizing we were figuring out how to split up to get them faster.
I couldn't get through the door, so I found a way to the roof where I fell through a hole and landed inside where I saw several spirits including four of the kids around two adults and a girl the same age as Colin that from their clothes were from Kakariko.
"Cripes! I don't see those black brutes anywhere…" the man by the window said. "They've gotta be hidin' somewhere, waitin' for their helpless little prey to come out! then they'll FEAST!"
"We are safe as long as we remain in here child. Be at ease," the man dressed like a shaman told the frightened kid next to him.
"Oh yeah!" the man by the window said, "I wonder if the mo stars out there agree with you. They sure didn't seem impressed by my bombs! How long do you think we can hold this sanctuary against beasts that strong, huh? Once they attack, its OVER! Remember the lady from the general store? Just one of thos things attacked her, and a whole gang from town went to save her! And what happened, she was already gone, and there were TWO monsters waitin'!… you connect' the dots? That means that if we get attacked by them, then we'll be…"
"BARNES!" the shaman interrupted, getting him to notice he had made the children cry, which made Barnes feel guilty.
"Look Renado…" Barnes sighed, "all I mean to say is that it's risky here too! Ain't you got some place we can hide?"
"There is… a cellar," Renado finally said.
"WHAAT?!" Barnes said getting close to Renado and the children. "You've got a CELLAR?! Where's the entrance, man?"
"The entrance to the cellar is designed to open when all of the candles have been lit…" Renado explained, causing Barnes to light a torch and begin lighting candles.
"… I… would not do that," the girl Colin's age stopped Barnes after he lit the central brazier. "When father instructed me to secure the cellar, I saw insects like the beasts outside."
This caused my ears to perk up while causing Barnes to drop the torch and scuttle back to the window.
"Don't cry Beth! It'll be okay!" Colin said to Beth. "Luna is coming to save us all… I can feel it."
"Easy for you to say!" Beth cried, "you and Ilia are the only ones that didn't tease and bully her. She'd save you, not the rest of us."
"Of course we did, she looks weird and she uses shadow magic. These are creatures of shadows, she's probably the one controlling them," Talon scoffed with Malo nodding.
"He really thinks that of me?" I whined, "I'd never do that, sure I don't like their teasing and bullying me, but I don't want this. I'm trying to stop it."
"She wouldn't do that!" Colin and Beth yelled.
"Beth?" I questioned knowing that Beth had joined in the bad treatment of me.
"You joined in too?" Malo reminded Beth.
"Not because I think she would do this," Beth said. "I did it because I was jealous. She's so beautiful and exotic, it made me feel ugly in comparison. And I took it out on her."
"I'm sure she doesn't hold it against you," Colin said. "She's said before that she wishes she could be friends with all of us. If she held it against you then she wouldn't want to be friends."
"Thanks," Beth told Colin in thanks.
"Unless she wants to be friends to stab us in the back," Talon said, only for Beth to jump him while I decided to leave before I could hear more of what Talon and Malo thought of me.
I lit the candles with the torch Barnes dropped, which caused the statue in the center of the room to move aside revealing the entrance to the cellar.
"What sorcery is this?!" Renado cried, "the entrance to the cellar opening up on its own… could those beasts have engineered even this?"
I couldn't hear anymore as I jumped down the cellar, where I destroyed the shadow insects, before jumping up the scaffolding and out a hole in the graveyard, where I headed back to the town itself and met up with Linkette who noticed I was sad.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"I'll tell you later when we meet back up with Saria. I don't want to repeat myself after all," I sighed, "anyway I got three shadow insects. How about you?"
"I got 2," Linkette said, before there was a loud explosion.
We went to check it out, having to go through the bomb shop to get up top, but ending up near a destroyed building and a soot covered Saria.
"What happened?" we asked.
"I got four tears of light," she said, "but the last three were in a bomb storage shed, and I accidentally set them off, destroying the building. But at least I got the three tears of light inside."
"Well at least you are safe, let's get the rest of the tears. That should be all of the ones in the village, and the rest are on death mountain," I said checking the map.
"Hey Luna?" Linkette said, "before we do, can you tell us why you were sad when we met up?"
I sighed but told them about what Talon had said, causing them to press close to me in the animal version of hugs, not knowing what to say.
We then continued up death mountain with long jump to climb pass the cliff on the way, and pass the Goron spirits.
"That reminds me of the Goron bracelet," Linkette said seeing them.
"The item you were given that gives you the strength of a goron right?" I asked getting a nod.
"Yeah, but first I had to get past their pride," Linkette said. "But I get the feeling it will be easier with my gorons than these."
With a sigh we continued on, past an area with steam vents and a weird stone that I got the urge to go howl too, but didn't want to seem childish in front of my predecessor and her love, and ignored it, continuing on after digging up a buried shadow insect.
We then continued on to where there was an area with four shadow beasts that I destroyed, Linkette and Saria still not having any attacks to take out multiple enemies at the same time when the two of them are not human. Afterwards we got another shadow insect from the wall, before climbing up, avoiding more steam vents, and falling rocks from the volcano and getting the last tear of light from a shadow insect in the hot springs. And thus with a flash we returned to the spirit spring in human form.