Don't be afraid, take a wild guess as to who makes a little appearance at the end of the chapter. Go with your best instinct -- I didn't make him up, you know. Come on, it's not THAT hard! Minish Cap fans know who this guy is!

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All will be explained next chapter. I must say, though... I FOOLED YOU! THE BIG SECRET OF THE STORY WILL BE TALKED ABOUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, AND NONE OF FIGURED IT OUT, EVEN AFTER I DROPPED SO MANY CLUES! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! XP

Well...it really wasn't an easy secret to guess, so I guess I'm just being a bitch. :P

Her Blood Runs Black

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?

Leading you down into my core

Where I've become so numb

Without a soul

My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold

Until you find it there and lead it back home

Wake me up inside

Wake me up inside

Call my name and save me from the dark

Bid my blood to run

Before I come undone

Save me from the nothing I've become

Everyone watched as Bambi, seemingly unaware of her surroundings, shook violently, her body stiffening with each shudder, her eyes switching colors... Now the black blood was like a huge lake surrounding her, and it kept coming.

Everyone held their breath, because somehow, they all knew there was more to come...

The smoke billowed from the wound high into the air. It was deep black in color, and it circled the arena.

"That is...so...DISGUSTING..." Link said thicky, wincing from his wounds.

The eye mark on Bambi's hand began to glow brightly. She let out a squeak, and clutched it. Then suddenly, she began to scream, and everyone did so with her, for the blood began to spurt, and the smoke blew like storm winds, and now, these bodily wastes (and I don't mean shit, dammit!) were accompanied by a bright blast of light that erupted from the gash like a volcano. Bambi howled as if she were in labor; the light was so bright that everyone else had to shield their eyes.

A monsterous wind began to rip in circles around the room. Zelda held the dying Link to her, and watched in horror.

Then something strange happened...male laughter echoed through the room. It was adult male laughter, too...so who could be the source? Most certainly not anyone that was in sight at that moment...

Then Bambi stopped screaming. The bleeding stopped, the smoke stopped, and the light blast finished. The eye mark on Bambi's hand suddenly disappeared; her red eyes turned back to silver. She weakly stared up at the ceiling, and her body quavered. Then...her eyes shut, she fell forward, and laid limp in a puddle of her blood. Aryll screamed in shock.

Thunder boomed from completely out of nowhere, and everything darkened slightly. The smoke, which had been racing around the perimeter of the ceiling, gracefully drifted down by Bambi's seemingly lifeless body, and began to slowly take a form...

The smoke clumped together to form what looked like the figure of an adult male. Then the smoke slowly began to sift away and disappear, and there WAS an adult male standing there after it had cleared away...

Smirking around at everyone while trying to hide a look of anger in his eyes was a tall, handsome man, wearing a navy tunic and matching hat. His skin was a pale grayish color, he had red eyes like Bambi's used to be, and framing his face was a curtain of long, silky silver hair...

Zelda looked from the girl laying in the blood to the man standing ominously above her.

What did it all mean?