"I still cannot belive that you remember me!"Zelda Hyrule replied. Her soft blue eyes shined with happiness. Both of them were sitting in the same clearing in which they first met.

Link just smiled and replied, "I can't belive it either." Link still stared at his mask. Ok, Oni Link. What's wrong?"

"Who's Oni Link?" Asked Zelda. Link jumped. "You're listening into...? Oh well, not that it matters. I found Oni Links mask in a place called..."

NO! came the thought, like a pericing sword. Link clutched his head in pain. I shall block her out.BUT TELL HER NOTHING!

"Yes Link?" asked Zelda.

"It's...It's nothing. Forget about Oni Link."

"Fierce Deity..." Zelda replied. "Do you think I don't know Hylian? And why does he have your namesake?"

"Why are you so interested?"

"Maybe I know what it is." She turned to the mask. "Isn't that right, Deity of Shadows?"

The resulting reply was peircing enough that even Link could hear it. Not all shadow is evil, not all light can be trusted Slathu!" (Author's note: Slathu is a made up insult in Hylian. Never mind it, just think of it as a swear word.)

Zelda froze. "Zel?" Link asked, waving a hand in front of her face. "You OK?" Finally she snapped to, she smiled. "Yeah, I'm ok. Nevermind about the mask. It's but a trifle."

Nice try Zelda. But you will find that he can be more of a threat to you than you ever knew...

**In Hyrule Castle**

Link couldn't sleep. Zelda managed to convince the king that Link was a good friend of her's and to let him stay the night. They had dinner and chatted some more and then he went to bed. But he couldn't sleep a wink. Finally he got up out of the bed, and went to his mask.

"So Oni, do you sleep or what?"

I sleep little. It is good that you are awake. What I am about to ask you is going to make you angry, but you will be needing the key to the Master Sword. I need you to sneak into the Royal Treasury and steal the Spirtual Stones, then sneak out of here, before Zelda figures out that you have them.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Whispered Link loudly. "I mean, come on, even if what you are saying is true, and that I need to quote 'find myself' and to do so I need the Spirtual Stones, how the hell am I going to seal the stones? The place's security is tighter than Gannondorf on speed!"

I shall take care of that.

Link sighed and gave up the fight. "All right. You win. But you'd better be right about this..." Link got quickly dressed and sheathed his longsword. He grimaced. He didn't want any blood being drawn. Still...something made Link believe the mask, despite the fact that it might be evil...Shaking his head Link quietly opened the door and snuck out...

**Meanwhile...**

Zelda also couldn't sleep. She knew it. Her past had come back to haunt her. The Deity of Shadows was back and trying to reincarnate itself into the most unlikely of people... Link. She growled. Her iron grip on Hyrule wasn't about to be shattered so easily. If Link knew about her past with the Deity of Shadows...Zelda shuddered. Everything, the kingdom, her, and everything she built up to keep her power would come crashing down around her. She had to get rid of the mask.

Zelda got up and got dressed herself. She snuck towards Links room, just down the hallway. She quietly opened the door...and no one was there. Link was gone and the mask with him. She gasped. Shit. thought Zelda. What did that mask tell him to do now? Zelda snuck back out. If she knew Oni Link, he would be trying to get Link to get the Spritual stones. Racing off, she ran down to the treasury.

**Treasury**

Link looked around from the corner. What now? asked Link mentally.

I shall take care of this. replied Oni Link. Suddenly the guards clutched their heads in what looked like painful agony, and collapsed. Link grimaced again.

"They going to be ok?" asked Link as he walked on by.

Yes. I only knocked them out. I understand how you hate the death of innocents. Link nodded and continued to walk on. Sitting on a pedastal were the three Spiritual Stones.

There is a trap there. Next to the pedastal is a crown. Step into the center of it. Oni Link commanded. Link did so and felt an invisable something dissapere. Link then walked to the pedastal and grabbed the Spirtual Stones. As he did, he heard a voice that chilled his blood.

"Link?" Zelda's voice spoke out.