As always, the first order of business is the reviewer responses!

Dragon-Charmer16: Kaze? Hieke? Hmm… I smell a colaborative OC fic! And the website is ready. I sent you a mail, and you can get to it by clicking "home page" in my profile.

Mxedcherub: When did I not say that my story rocks?

Mxedcherub: Well… it's comin', I suppose…

Mxedcherub: Funny, I don't remember being told that I'd get lots of reviews on my fanfiction. (smile)

Mxedcherub: Goin' places, goin' places… Ahem, please excuse me…

Mxedcherub: There's a little more humor in the future, but it more or less dies soon.

Mxedcherub: Actually, I saved myself the pain of writing about those terrible places and just put in the bare necessities. This chapter is a litte… less detailed than some of you may have become accustomed to seeing in my writing.

Mexedcherub: How could it have taken a while? I told you about that part time and time again before I even had my account active!

Jana+Anthony: I know they're short now, but they'll get longer. And thankies for viewing mah illustrations!

Samurai Snow: You're welcome, thank you, you're welcome again, they were very good, you can change it somewhere in your account settings (probably under reviews), and I hope to hear more from you, too! Thanks for reviewing!

EvilRobotZombieLoofaOverlord: Ingo! XD That's a good one! Man, I wish I had put that in there instead! XD

EvilRobotZombieLoofaOverlord: The funny thing is that I wasn't even thinking about the White Rabbit when I wrote about Kanika. But since it makes more sense that way, I think I'm going to revise her next appearance to be very Wonderland-esque. That's a good idea! XP You have better ideas than me…

EvilRobotZombieLoofaOverlord: Actually, I finished Spanish I with a perfect 100 point average… But that's just me. I believe I said once before what an incredible nerd I am… I can write quickly when I want to, but this story is not the result of writing quickly. This story is the result of my boredom during the three-day waiting period. It's totally finished; I'm just requesting a minimum of five reviews before I post each chapter… Thanks for reviewing! (bow)

Whoo! My reviews are really piling up nowadays! All righty, here's Chapter 12! Sorry, Jana, but it's another short one. XP

Chapter 12: Hieke's Trek Through the Well

At about the time the underpaid, grumbling teenager repaired his TorchNOW display for the first time around…

Hieke sighed and yelled for the fourteenth time since she entered the well for the person playing that Star Trek music to turn it off. The music came to an abrupt stop. "Thank you!" Hieke growled.

She had been exploring the well for at least an hour and was beginning to wonder if Link was having better luck. What was worse was that a great deal of the areas were inaccessible. Many doorways were on the other side of little tunnels that she could have crawled through seven years ago, but not now. "Link, are you having better luck than me?" she muttered to herself.

After about ten more minutes, Hieke was extremely bored and was attempting to come up with a way to entertain herself.

"Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I-lo!-rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I, Nona, live on. I do, O God!" she shouted. (Whoever guesses what kind of wordplay that statement is gets a cookie and honorable mention.) Many of the undead monsters hid in dark corners and waited for her to pass.

"Oh, look! Another small hole!" she cackled, losing her mind. "Let's blow it up!" A maniacal expression crossed her face and she took out one of the bombs she had stolen from Link when his back was turned. Hieke shoved the lit bomb as far down the tunnel as she could. "Thar she blows!" she called as the bomb exploded, blasting the wall away and eliminating the need for a tunnel.

"Mweeheehee! Oh, Shadow Spirit! Hey, Shadow Spirit! Princess Puffy Tuffy Tadaka would like to talk to you!" she sang with that psychotic flame still glowing in her eyes. A large poe appeared with a menacing laugh and started to fly around Hieke.

"Another poe! Would you like to hear me sing?" Hieke asked, remembering her experience with the purple poe in the Forest Temple. This poe shrieked like a young schoolgirl and exploded. An army of Gibdos marched out of the corners of the room, all them groaning with contempt. "You killed Posy!" one of them gurgled.

"Eh, she was such a poe-ser! Get it? It's like poser but…"

The Gibdos screamed in aggravation and charged at Hieke. She made haste in summoning her sword of light and began to fell walking mummies by the dozens. "La diddy da! Total massacre! Da lilly la! And ocean of rotting flesh! La diddy da! Slaying Gibdos! Da lilly la! I am the besh-t!" she warbled in her terrible singing voice. Many of the Gibdos just up and died from her song alone.

Then horrendous battle ended with Hieke standing triumphant atop a five-foot hill of Gibdo bodies piled on top of one another. A black wolf cautious strode out from the shadows. "L-lady Tadaka?" he stammered. Hieke jumped down from the mound of decomposing bodies and looked at the wolf.

"My name's Hieke," she informed, finally calm once again. The wolf nodded. "My name is Jaruko, the Shadow Spirit of Darkness," he introduced. "My brother is at the Shadow Temple. His name is Jaroku, and he is the Shadow Spirit of Light," he explained, his silver eyes affixed on Hieke's.

Hieke slowly nodded in understanding. "So there are two Guardian Spirits of Shadow… I suppose it makes sense. There can be no shadow without a light… That must mean that Jaroku is your older brother. Link is in the Shadow Temple right now, so we'll be fine." Jaruko grinned in relief. "There's a problem," he said. "Ganondorf's resurrection is imminent. You must hurry if you are to stop him."

"No problem," Hieke assured, waving off Jaruko's concern. "We only have one more Spirit left to locate." The dark-furred wolf barked to get the girl's attention. "No!" he protested. "You don't understand! After you gather all the Guardian Spirits together, which in itself will be difficult since we can't stand each other, you'll have to play the Song of the Celestials. Then we'll locate the Amulet of Epochs! You haven't forgotten the Amulet, have you?"

Hieke was pale, her amber eyes pale. "I forgot the Amulet!" she sobbed. "We'll never make it! What should we do?"

"You should hurry. That's what."

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Hieke... likes puns. I do not. Puns irritate me, especially the crappy kind that Hieke rolls off. This is the chapter that inspired the "rated for occasional morbidness" line in my summary... Well... eh heh... Okay. Five reviews and I'll update. I want an even sixty or more! ...definitely more! Since right now I have, like, at least 75 reviews… and it's only my fifth day of story-dom! W00t!

Okay, before we move on… I need your help. Desperately. As I've said before, this story is done. My problem now is that I really want to write, but I have a massive case of writer's block. Could you guys give me some suggestions for my next fic, please? I'm really, really desperate!

Also, I've got a website up. It has pictures that go to this fanfiction on it. It's www(dot)skell(dot)org(slash)spoonz(slash). You can also reach it by going to my profile and clicking "home page". I'm taking suggestions for illustrations of scenes from this story, but please, nothing too elaborate. I'm not very good with action poses or backgrounds. XP

Okay, that's all. Hope you R&E, now please R! (that's "hope your read and enjoyed, now please review)