-Before you read the chapter I have a question: is anybody at all interested in the SGK Contest? If anybody is, did you read the rules? Did anybody read the opening words to find it? If anybody did, did they even bother to look at the information and rules? I just wanna know if I'm wasting my time, going to my mail box, waiting for ONE FREAKING email to say 'Give Me The COOKIES!'. I for one was looking forward to what ideas you had for SGKs.

And, its really hurting poor Knuckles. He wouldn't leave the SGK set, he was so depressed. We had to drag him out like an old drunkard at a bar, and he is not light. And he's still so sad that we have a guest to handle the SGK today. Can we please help Knuckles... -big puppy dog eyes- ...pwease?

Also, since no one emailed me back about their OC (except for chaogirl, thanks again and don't worry about not knowing it was me) I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume that all of you will be OK with how your OC will appear. If not... well... I'll just go ahead and get your daggers ready to throw.

By the way, this chapter has no Airie, Lite, C.K. or anybody. It focuses mainly on the Spirits. Don't hurt me just yet; let me explain. I'm having a major writer's block (due to focusing on my upcoming graduation), and couldn't think of anything for them. I also wanted to put up a chapter in my birthday at least once, so you guys are just gonna need to deal for this one.

Consider it a present from me to you on my b-day, thanking you for actually taking the time to read my fic. Without out you guys, I'm nothing.

Now, when you finish reading the chapter, go out and by me a present.

...What?

I'm just kidding! Geeze, somepeople can't take a joke...

Thanks, love ya peeps-

-The A.O.T.T Management

...We have a management? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!

The Management- Oh no! She's onto us! RUN!


-For some reason or another, Riku from Kingdom Hearts walks in, hands behind his back.-

Riku- -clears throat- I'm sure you all are wondering why I'm here. Sonic, shall we say, persuaded me to give this speech that he was oringinally supposed to...

-flashback-
Sonic- Ok Riku. 5000 Munny, just like I promised. Now go and give that speech! Heheheh... Like he'll really get a chance to spend it... Heheheh... Sucker...
-end flashback-

Riku- That was most likely because of his extreme cowardice towards a 13 to 14-year-old fanfiction authoress who can make him cry for his mom in 10 seconds flat.

Sonic- Traitor!

Riku- But you see, the number 14 is why I'm here. For 14 years ago, on this very day of June the 2, and in the year of 1992, a beautiful baby girl was born into a loving family of a mother, a father, a great-uncle war veteran, and an older sister (later to be expanded by a younger sister and two cats). This baby girl would no doubt bring joy and happiness to everyone she met, and would later on in her blissfull life become great leader in our world, bringing us to a great age of peace and prosperity. ...And, of course, three delivery rooms down from there, K.O. was born.

K.O.- -shoots down Riku- Ahh, I feel A LOT better now!

Airie- Y'know, if you listen really carefully, you can hear a thousand Riku-fangirls scream...

K.O.- Don't care. He deserved it. And now that that's out of the way, LET'S CHECK THE POLLS!

Sonic- For what?

K.O.-THIS FIC'S MAIN COUPLE PAIRING!

C.K.- OOH! I LOVE doing this this!

K.O.- Airie, if you'd do the honors!

Airie- Gladly! I wanna see what people OTHER than C.K. think about my love life!

C.K.- Hehe... wait, shouldn't we wait for my Knuxie?

K.O.- First off, he's not your Knuxie. If the story goes how I want it, he'll be Airie's. -KnuxAirie fans squeal in delight- And second, he's still sad because people aren't sending SGKs for the contest. But don't worry, I'll tell him the results later.

Airie- OK, let's see here -checks the hat-

Knuckles- 4 vote(s)
Sonic- 1 vote(s)

Sonic- ONE! -KnuxAirie fans continue to squeal-

K.O.- HA! KNUCKLES WINS!This NEARLY makes up for NO ONE submitting SGKs!

Airie- Wait, there's about ten more votes here for... Shadow?

Sonic- But he's not even an option!

C.K.- Why are all the votes for Shadow written in the same hand-writing?

Airie- That's Shadow's hand-writing!

Shadow- Umm... I plead not guilty?

Sonic, C.K., and Airie- DIE! -lunges at him-

Shadow- -girly scream-

K.O.- And THERE YOU HAVE IT! Riku's dead (YAY!) and Knuckles is winning against Sonic by an outstanding (but not very surprising, given that its Knuckles vs. Sonic, and I, the authoress, is a Knuckles-person) 4 to 1 count, and Shadow is a very sad, sad little hedgehog! Now that that's over, I have to go rig the ballots so Knuckles wins the whole thing while you guys read the reviews! Also, don't forget to submit those SGK's! SUBMIT OR DIE! -runs away-

Sariyu-chan- Glad you thought the chapter was funny. The plotting's going fine, thanks for asking. And don't forget the SGK contest so you can submit some of t3h funn13n3ss.

Shadowkiller27- My point exactly! How in the hell did DBZ catch on! Its a conspiracy, I tell y... wait a minute... HALF RIGHTS TO WATER TAILS! AS IN ONE OF TWO PIECES OF THE WHOLE! AIIIIIIIE! I CAN'T EXCEPT THAT! I'D SCREW HIM UP ENTIRELY AND- -smacked- ...thank you whoever did that, I needed it. Seriously though, you don't need to give me half rights to him, I might screw up his entire person. But, if you really want to, alright.

Also, I wouldn't worry about the self-insertion for your new fic. I'd have done it too! ...Of course,I would have taken Shadow's gun and shot him by the time he met me... Oh I'm just kidding! I wouldn't kill Shadow like that! Oh no... it'd be a lot worse!

Chaotix Extremist-YAY FOR BARK! I hardly even know the guy and he's cool. Also, remember that story I was writing for you? It might take longer than expected, just so you know.

Twilight-Link- Hehe, yep! Not too much longer now till Alastor and Gabe come in, and then all hell breaks loose! ...No seriously, you know what I mean by that. It is very unfortunate that Knuckles keeps getting squashed under something, but its a running gag (much like my friend who is afriad of my little doodle of Bill, the evil Pac-Man from hell, and the guy in my class that took my mechancial pencil, drew a face on the eraser, and claimed it was his son). Its just something that'll always make you laugh. Take as much time as you need on the 'items', but I will need the one with B-you-know-who in T-you-know-what kinda soon. And as a thank you, there is a special guest writing the SGK that I know you'll be happy for... but you might wanna hurt me for what happens to him...

Carolyn the Hedgehog- Like I said, Twilight-Link wrote the fight scene for me. I just filled in all that other non-important romantic/comedic crap. Oh, and you just WAIT till you see what happens to Carolyn! You'll laugh! You'll cry! Then you'll laugh! Some more! But really, you'll feel like crying, because- -smacked again-

Garra's Pyro RACCOON- Good to see me and kyofangirl668 aren't the only ones who favor that one pairing above the other. And, are you looking into the future of this fic? The quotation marks around that oneword were kinda suspicious... >: ) (If you get where I'm going with this don't say anything please!)

Dark Star- Heh, sorry 'bout the cliffhanger, but as I typed that chapter and this review, one of my cats is trying to push me out of the chair I'm sitting in and- -low growling noise can be heard in the background- Oh, excuse me... -grabs lion-tamer attire- BACK DEMON KITTY BACK!

Sonica-Foxie-Darki- OK, my bad. I should've gotten that, damn my small brain! I did send you some info about him, so lemme know when you pick a name.


RECAP:

Water Tails repeated the incantation and the coils of water released the exhausted Spirit, the water that had coiled around Shinwa's wrists and ankles entered Water Tails body and repaired the scar that he had in his abdomen. The Spirit of Lighting stood up and looked at Airie, who just stared back.

'You have proven yourself worthy of my power,' Airie heard her say, 'you have my bow and the speed of a lightning strike, use it well, Key of the Twilight.'


Darkness. A fog of darkness surrounded them; the Spirits. The eight of them, still bound to this hellish place, waited for the return of Shinwa and Water Tails. Although the two had been gone for so long, the remaining Spirits knew that they would return, not like they had any choice. Even though they could leave when summoned, they were trapped in this place. Perhaps their anxiety was caused by jealousy?

One of them, Gabriel, if you recall, was the most anxious for their arival. As the leader, it was kind of his job. He merely sat there, eyes closed and arms crossed across his chest. His ears twitched as he heard the 'swoosh' like sound that came in a few minutes, as well as Alastor's groan of , "It's about frikkin' time...".

Gabriel sighed and stood up, as his comrades echoing footsteps became louder. When they stopped, he turned to them and said, "You know, Shinwa, using your power to that extent wasn't really nesscary."

Shinwa only shrugged and gestured her hands a bit. Water Tails gave her a look as she picked at her own marking on her cheek like his. "Don't you say that." he said. "You didn't want to fight her like you didn't want to shoot me in the gut. Speaking of which..." He turned to one of the surrounding shadows. "Foxie, you mind? It didn't completely heal." he asked pointing a finger to the small hole in his abdomen.

"Huh, wha?" said the shadow's female voice. "Oh right! Sorry." She floated over and pressed a hand against his abdomen. A small, but radiant light came from her fingertips, and the tinyhole closed all by itself. "You're lucky my element's the healing one." she said.

"And the only one that really works here." Alastor mumbled. "Now, can everybody just shaddup? I wanna sleep..."

Another of the shadows, another girl by the looks, came over and whacked Alastor upside his head. "OW! What was that for, Crimson!"

"Because we can't just stay here and sleep!" the shadow, semminly known as Crimson, yelled. "And, it's not all about you, y'know!"

"Well, why not, Ice Queen?" Alastor said, throwing his hands up in the air. "We've only been sleeping for the past 3000 years!"

"Don't you call me that!" Crimson quietly screamed. "You know that Ice isn't my element!"

"It may as well be!" Alastor yelled back. "At least then you and Carolyn would get the elements you deserve!"

Another one of the shadows from the sideline, Carolyn if you remember, said, "Hey, leave me out of this."

"Sorry, Carrie." Alastor said. "Just trying to preach the truth."

Crimson glared at him. "And just what would you know about truth, huh!"

Alastor was truly angry now. "You had better not be saying what I think you're saying." (A/N: Yay for foreshadowing!)

"And if I am?"

"Then, I'd have to kill you."

Crimson huffed. "Can an immortal being really be killed?"

In a flash, Alastor whipped out a knife and held it to her neck. "There's always a possibilty..."

"Alastor! Crimson! That's enough out of you two!" Gabriel ordered. Both of them opened their mouths to try and blame the other.

"But he-!"

"She started it!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

Crimson crossed her arms trimphantly. "OK Alastor, you're right; I didn't start it, whatever you say!"

"You right I'm right about it!" Alastor said, putting his knife away. "I... wait a minute! Damn it, woman!"

Shinwa gave them both stern looks, although neither of them could see it under her hood. "Enough!" They froze mid-fight, both fingerspointing at one another, mouths open and ready to yell. "All of that was in the past. What's done is done, and pointless fighting won't change it."

"Shinwa is right." Gabriel said. "We need to focus on the dilema at hand and try and figure out who will be next to awaken."

"I wouldn't waste your breath." Water Tails said sitting down. "None of us know who's next. Its impossible to determine."

'That may just be, Water Tails, that may just be." Carolyn said. "But we can't just sit here and do nothing!"

"Why not?" Alastor joked, laying back on his arms. "I did practically nothing for my entire life."

Carolyn pressed her foot on his stomach. "Oh, shut up, you." You wouldn't be able to tell what Alastor said next, but it sounded something like , "Ouch... fwuu mudda fugga..." (A/N: Sorry Twilight-Link!)

"Serves you right, Allie." Foxie giggled, while Carolyn removed her foot. "But hey! Here's an idea; Since Shinwa and Water Tails can get out already, why don't we let BellBell and her sisters go with them? Maybe that'll make them the next to be awakened!" She pointed to the last three shadows, the smallest ones, who seemed to be sleeping.

Everyone stared.

"That's... actually a pretty good idea." Water Tails said in shock. "And it makes sense. Not like your other plans, Foxie."

"Hey! The one with the mutant pengiun army and the Sweedish breakdancing team was a good idea!"

"Suuure it was, Foxie." Crimson said. "Anyway, you're plan is a good one, but just one thing; how are BellBell and the others gonna get out of here? They haven't been awakened yet!"

"Um... Crimson, yes?"

"BellBell! You're all awake?"

The shadow BellBell nodded. "It was hard to sleep with all the yelling, yes."

"Oh... ...How much of that did you hear?

"Enough. And if we could make a suggestion, yes..."

"Go right ahead, BellBell." Gabriel said.

BellBell nodded again. "Thank you. Now, TinkTink, tell the others your plan, yes..."

The shadow TinkTink timidly walked up. "Well... everyone knows that my sisters and I are of an immortalrace that can freely travel from the spiritual plain to the land of mortals, yes?" Everyone nodded. "You see... there is a chance that, if we enter a place where Lighting, Water, and our element are all together at the same time, we might be able to stay there, yes!"

Once again, there was staring and silence, which this time Crimson broke with, "I swear, these kids are geniuses!"

"But..." Carolyn started. "How would you three stay there? You'd need to come back, right?"

TinkTink was about to answer, but she was cut off by the final shadow. "We'd only need to come back once a day, to tell you what's going on in the Key's world. Water Tails and Shinwa wouldn't be able to come for us, but we can get back and forth on our own after we do it once."

"I dunno if that's such a good idea, RingRing." Alastor said. "If you do get out, you might not be able to come back, and if you don't... well..."

"Well what?" Water Tails asked.

"...They might be trapped in time." Alastor said. "They wouldn't live, but they wouldn't die either. They'd just stop exsisting, caught in the rift of time, and that goes for you and Shinwa, too."

Water Tails' ears drooped a bit at hearing this, and everyone remained silent. What were they to do they the five of them weren't able to return? It would surely be their demise and the Key would be leftdefenseless.

'It's too risky!' Gabriel thought. 'I can't endanger my comrades for this-'

"I'll go." Shinwa 'said'.

Everyone turned toward her. Gabriel was stunned. "But... but Shinwa-!"

"Protect or be protected, fight or be fought. Kill... or be killed... so I was once told. I would gladly risk it all."

Water Tails nodded. "Me too. Besides, we've all already seen death. We know what it's like. Disapearing wouldn't be any different, I mean, nobody even knows we exsisted in the first place."

Alastor faced Gabriel. "Well, Great Leader, it's your call. Do we let 'em go, or do we just lie around all day and sleep?"

Gabriel was now faced with a truly difficult descicion. It would be extremely hard to put them through that kind of danger. They were... they were his family now, he couldn't let them cease to exist. The thought of losing them, like everything and everyone else they all lost, truly frightened him. But he had to be strong, he had to be strong for his freinds. For his family.

"How long until the next thunder storm?" he said finally.

Water Tails closed his eyes in thought. "...In... about 3 hours."

"And how long will this take?"

"It should not take us anymore than thirty minutes."

Gabriel sighed, and then gave his approval.


The rain fell hard.

The thunder clashed in the sky.

The wind was strong.

In the forest of Station Square, Shinwa and Water Tails said goodbye to BellBell and her sisters, who disguised themselves as some animals so they could not be seen by the Key, or anyone else for that matter.

"Shinwa..." Water Tails said as their comrades flew away. "Do... Do you think they'll be alright?"

Shinwa lowered her head. "...I don't know, Water Tails. I... I sense something ominus approaching..."

"Me too... You think it has something to do with... him?"

Shinwa looked to the sky. "No, I don't think this is his doing. But... upon our next leave we should warn the Key to be prepared. If he is involved, she could be in great danger."

"Danger? In danger of what?"

Shinwa turned to him. "In danger of the past. I fear... I fear that BellBell and her sisters are the next to be awakened, and that... they will need to show the Key why she is what she is... they carry the events of the past upon their breath, you know... it is the very nature of their element, after all..."

Water Tails silently gasped, then turned his face to the ground. "But that... it might kill her if she sees that... what happened to them... and to her..." (A/N: Yay for even more foreshadowing!)

Shinwa put a hand on his shoulder. "I know, my friend, I know."


Back at the mansion (A/N: Hee hee, I lied!), Airie was playing a game with Lite, when her eyes opened wide and her head perked up, as though she had come to some realization.

"What's wrong, sis?" Lite asked cocking his head.

Airie didn't move. "There's that sense of impending doom again..."


Because absoultley NO ONE wanted to do one, we bring you the first Guest SGK, written by LoZ's Link!

READ AND THEN SUBMIT! IF LINK CAN DO IT SO CAN YOU DAMMIT! YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT! I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU!

-I'm not trying to nag, but I really wanted to do this, and I can't if none of you submit-

-GUEST Shirt Guy Knuckles 1-
The Return Of Ganondorf

-Written By And Featuring Link

Link- Hello my friends, I am Link. That's right! Link. The Hero Of Time, the wielder Of The Master Sword, The Keeper Of The Triforce Of Courage. Anyway... A few years back I helped lock Ganon, the Great King Of Evil, into the Sacred Realm. Oh, it was a fierce battle!

-cuts to the Hyrule Castle, where Ganondorf it being surrounded by happy little forest animals-

But just recently Ganondorf returned to Hyrule! He claimed he was a changed man, that he had seen the light and put his dark past behind him.

Link- Yeah right! So I set off to spy on the theif.

-cuts to the lost woods, where Ganondorf is sitting on a stump, playing the Lost Woods' theme music for two dancing Skull Kids, and Link behind the stump with binoculars-

At first I didn't see anything too evil. He didn't go around maiming people or anything.

...The song was catchy though!

Doo doo DOOO! Doo doo DOOO! Doo do do do DOO do do doo do DOO!

Link- I knew he wouldn't do anything dastardly out in the open, so I snuck into his room at night using my awesome ninja skills.

-the flashback cuts to Link, dressed in black and on the ceiling, looking over a sleeping Ganondorf and his squeaky blue pig toy Ganny-

Ganondorf- -talking in sleep- No... No... Not the Master Sword... Curse you Link... Curse you... Zelda... No... NO... AHHHH! -wakes up- Oh... It was only a dream... Oh it makes me so angry... It makes me want to...

Link- -thinking- Yes?

Ganondorf- It makes me want to...!

Link- -thinking- Yeeeessss?

Ganondorf- Volunteer at the soup kitchen! COME GANNY! -Ganny squeaks- There's hungry mouths to feed! -Link falls on Ganondorf- What! Who is that! ...Oh Link! I'm glad you're here! -Link performs various ninja poses-I have something for you... Heh heh heh heh...

Link- -thinking- This is it! C'mon GanonDORK... bring it on! -blocks self-

Ganondorf- Now where is it...? I FOUND IT! I've been waiting a long time for this moment... -hold up a crudely drawn card with him and Link on it saying 'I'm sorry I made you sad!'- Can you ever forgive me?

Link- I... guess...

Ganondorf- Yes... That's wondrful... Now I must be off. Make yourself at home. Oh... AND HELP YOURSELF TO ANYTHING IN THE FRIDGE! -evil laughter-

-return from flashback-

Link- Well, I figured that Ganondorf didn't try to kill me there because he knew I would totally kick his butt.

RE-ENACTMENT
-An old-fashioned Link sprite wandered on and stabbed an old-fashioned giant ogre sqrite, instantly killing it. As the Linksprite held up a Triforce piece, an old-fashiond Zelda sprite came in and proclaimed "Make love to me Link!"-
END OF RE-ENACTMENT

Link- I remembered he was invited to Princess Zelda's slumber party! I knew he was up to something! Something... EVIL!

-cuts to Zelda's room, where Ganondorf is lying on her bed and the other girls are playing truth or dare-

Malon- So Zelda, tell the truth! Do YOU have a crush on Link?

Zelda- I'm NOT telling you.

Saria- C'mon, tell us!

Malon- Spill the beans, girl!

Zelda- -blushing- Yes... -Malon&Saria giggle- What? You all do!

Malon- -dreamily- Oh yeah...

Saria- Right! ...So what about you Ganondorf! Any seeeeeeeecreeeeeet crushes?

Ganondorf- Me and Nabooru used to be an item, but she turned tratious. I imprisoned her in a statue! Now she is nothing to me!

Oh, here we go! Pent up rage!

Ganondorf- Ahh... whenever I think about it I just... I-I just... -cries and sobs-

Ok... First the crying, THEN the rage!

Ganondorf- Oh whenever I'm upset I eat! -viciously munches on chocolate-

GET WITH THE RAGE ALREADY!

Ganondorf- I... I'm sorry. I lost control... Say... I have an idea that's to DIE FOR!

It's the rage! I know it is!

Ganondorf- LET'S DO THE CHICKEN DANCE!

DANCE TIME!
I don't wanna be a chicken, I don't wanna be a duck, so I shake my butt! -clapclapclapclap- I don't wanna be a chicken, I don't wanna be a duck, so I shake my butt! -clapclapclapclap-

Link- -awkward silence- ...And there you have it! Undeniable proof that Ganondorf will one day come and smite us all! Smite us I say! SMITE US GOOD!

-the crazy, spinny, windmill music starts to play-

Link- They... they just can't see it... Are they blind! Blind as a Keese if you ask me! Ohhh... They'll see it... I'll MAKE them see it! They'll call me crazy! But I'm not crazy! I'm the only one that's NOT crazy! -is slapped by Navi- Thanks Navi... I lost control... C'mon let's go fishing!

-as Navi flies away, Link pulls out his sword and shield-

You're next... BAIT!

Hahahahahahaha...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...END OF GUEST SGK 1...