Disclaimer: With the exception of the characters found within the temples (Although some are based on Legend of Zelda villains), Legend of Zelda is owned by Nintendo.

Chapter 2: Reunion

The following morning Link wakes up early, but not because he wanted to. His shoulder was painful, most likely from when the Viper bit him. Rubbing his shoulder, he gets out of bed and heads for the wardrobe. He turns around, and sees that the bite marks went in deeper than he first thought. After getting dressed, Link calls to Zelda. When she arrives, fully dressed, Link turns to face her, pulls his shirt up to show his bite mark, and asked "How bad is it?". Zelda looks closely at the marks and replied "That looks pretty bad. I recommend you see the doctor about this". Link nodded, allowed his shirt to fall back down, then headed downstairs.

After a quick breakfast, Link heads outside. He meets one of the guards, who immediately asks "Going to try and find Midna again are we?"

"No. I need to get the bite marks on my back checked" Link replied. He then remembered something.

"Why don't you go and try to find Midna before any more of those Vipers do" Link said. The guard thought about this for a moment, then said "Alright. Where did you say you last saw her?"

Link thought back to the fight against the Vipers the night before, and he remembered where he had gone in pursuit of Midna.

"West road, 3rd side road on the right hand side, she should be down one of the dead-end streets" Link said. The guard nodded, and walked off towards the shopping district, Link right behind.

They parted ways at the centre of Hyrle Castle Town, with Link going to the east towards the Medical Centre, while the guard went to the west to try and find Midna. We will initially follow the guard, then change to Link.

The guard counted the side roads on the right-hand side, and when he found the third road, he started walking down it. He turned on a flash-light and walked down the alleyway.

When he reached the first side-street, he turned his flash-light towards it. But after shining the light around the dead-end street, he had to conclude that Midna wasn't there. He thought he saw Midna when he shined his flash-light down the second dead-end street, but it just turned out to be a white rat. When he arrived at the third dead-end street, his flash-light shone upon a small imp-like creature with white skin, but a lot of the skin covered in black, a yellow eye with red pupils, orange-gold hair, blue markings on her ears, arms and legs, the Fused Shadows on her head and a badly swollen foot. She hissed and put her hand up in front of her face to shield her eye from the light.

"Put that away" she said and the guard obliged. The guard then said "Are you Midna?"

"Yes" came Midna's reply.

"Are you OK?" The guard asked, but he knew the answer.

"What do you think" Midna replied, holding her shattered ankle. She then realised something.

"How do you know who I am?" Midna asked.

"Link described you to me, both princess and imp form, so I knew what to look for" the guard replied. Midna's eye lit up.

"Link? He's here?" Midna asked, trying to get herself up. The guard walked up to Midna, kneeled down in front of her, and said "Yes he's here. I can take you to him if you want" Midna gasped, then said "Yes please". She then tried to get up but her ankle gave way again. This time the guard caught her.

"We have to get your ankle checked out" he said, placing Midna into his arms.

"Is Link there?" Midna asked.

"Yes. He's getting some bite marks checked" the guard replied. He then carried Midna out of the dead-end street and back towards the medical centre.

"I found her Link, don't worry, you'll see Midna soon" The guard thought to himself.

Speaking of the Medical Centre

Just as Link entered the Medical Centre, he heard the doctor exclaim "I pride myself on being able to treat every race, but I haven't encountered a Twili, and it is so frustrating". Link walked up to the doctor and said "If you are open Nick, I need you to check something for me"

Doctor Nick turned around and said "Ah Link. Yes, I am open, come in, come in" and he led Link through the back door to his surgery.

"Alright, now what is it that you need?" Nick asked. Link pulled off his shirt and turned around to show the bite marks on his shoulder.

"Ah, you want treatment for those, I am guessing?" Nick asked. Link replied with "Yes. Here is the creature I was bitten by", and he passed the dead corpse of a Chaos Viper he had killed out of a bag on his back, and passed it to Nick.

"Ah, it's always great when my patients give me whatever bit them, it makes my job so much easier" Nick said as he analysed the teeth on the viper. He then gasped. "This has twili material in it, I think it has attacked someone else before it attacked you, a Twili" this revelation made Link jump.

"I wasn't going mad, Midna is here" he exclaimed, realising what this meant.

"Oh, is Midna any relation to that twili girl you have been talking about for the last six months?" Nick asked as he started looking at the marks on Link's back.

"Midna is the twili girl I have been talking about for the last six months Nick" was Link's reply. Nick, after checking the bite marks, took a sample from each of the marks to see if there was any venom in them. "Now I will be back, I'll just patch those marks and test for venom" Nick said, and after placing the patch on the bite marks, he left. Link put his shirt back on, and sat on the bed.

"Midna's here, that guard, hopefully, has found her" Link said. He didn't have to wait long before a chime sounded from the front of the Medical Centre. Nick came walking back to the front desk, and was soon talking to someone.

"Oooh, A Twili, this must be that Midna girl Link's been talking about" came Nick's voice from the front of the centre. Nick then came back and said "Link, I need the bed"

"Alright" Link replied and he climbed off of the bed and sat down in a nearby chair. Nick then rolled it out of the room. Link then heard a voice, this one he recognised immediately as Midna. "How many people has Link told about me?" she asked.

"Everyone in Hyrle probably knows about you by now Midna" came the guard's response. After a few moments, Midna's voice came through again.

"I need to change to my princess form so you can properly check my ankle" Midna said. After a few more moments, during which both the guard and Nick watched in awe as Midna changed, they wheeled her out into the X-Ray room.

After a few minutes Nick came back into Link's room and said "No venom. Which is not unusual for the type of Viper that attacked you, that particular type of Viper is usually non-venomous so just take it easy, here is some betadine so those wounds don't get infected and I'll see you later" Link nodded, and went to leave. As he did however, he decided to try and find Midna.

"Which room is Midna in?" Link asked Nick.

"Go 2 down from here and her room is to the right" was Nick's reply. Link smiled and headed for the ward.

Midna was laying on the bed in serious pain. Her X-Rays had just come back and found that there was damage to the tendons in her ankle, and a fracture in the fifth metatarsal, a major bone in Midna's foot. The nurse pulled on a special sock to support Midna's injured foot. The nurse left, and Link entered.

"Midna!" Link yelled, and Midna, sitting up on her bed, hugged Link. "Midna, you're here, and you're OK" Link said emotionally. Midna was crying, she was so happy to see Link again.

'Why are you crying?" Link asked. Midna gave a watery chuckle and said "I'm just really happy to see you again Link" Link looked down at Midna's ankle and said "How long before you are released?" Midna, wiping the tears from her eyes, said "Hopefully soon. I don't need crutches as I am going to float around". Link smiled. The nurse then entered back the room again.

"Hi Link" she said. Link replied with "Hi Eliza". Eliza then turned to Midna and said "So here is some pain killers so you can get some relief from your ankle" Midna nodded, then said "Can I go now?" to which Eliza nodded.

"Come on, I'll get you back to Hyrle castle" Link said, taking Midna's hand and leading her out of the medical centre. As they left, Nick then asked Eliza "How different are Twili to Hylians?" Eliza's response was "Besides the skin colour and Twili being slightly taller than Hylians, not much", but the remainder of the conversation was not heard by neither Link nor Midna.

As Link and Midna headed back towards the castle, Midna said "You can ask me what questions you want to ask me". Link thought about the questions he was going to ask Midna for a moment, then decided on "What are the vipers that attacked me?". Midna replied with "Those vipers are chaos beasts, I do not know what they are, but they seem to be able to survive in the Twilight Realm and the Realm of Light, which I thought only you, Zelda and I could do"

Link's next question was "How did you get into the Realm of Light?". Midna replied with "I had my guards develop a gun that would puncture the barrier between the Twilight Realm and the Realm of Light"

Link nodded, then, looking at Midna's injured ankle, said "How did you hurt your ankle?" Midna replied with "The vipers attacked, and one of my guards fired the gun to punch a hole in the barrier between the Twilight Realm and the Realm of Light. It succeeded, but when I jumped through the hole, I landed awkwardly and tore my ankle up". Link's next question came to him almost immediately "If you were hurt, why didn't you call out to me? I could have found you and helped you"

Midna also had an answer almost straight away. "I was too tired. I tired to call out but my voice wasn't working. I fought the viper into the dead-end, that was why you didn't find me" Link nodded, and he noticed that Midna's voice appeared to have only partially come back to her.

"Alright Midna, when Zelda finds us, I'll explain what you have said, you need to rest your voice" Link said as they continued walking towards the castle.

As they got to the gate, they heard "Link" from nearby and Zelda came running out, hugging Link.

"Look who else is here" Link said and Zelda, after letting go of Link, hugged Midna.

"Be careful, my ankle's wrecked. I can't put any weight on it" Midna said. Link explained everything Midna had told him to Zelda, and Zelda replied with "Alright. Link and Midna, you two need to rest. I'll do some research into anything that could help us get back to the Twilight Realm" Link nodded, and said "Midna, Zelda's given us an order, so I think we should follow it"

"Alright" Midna said and the three of them headed back to the castle.

Meanwhile in the fortress of darkness:

A zombie-like figure walked into the dark figure's room, a masked figure with silver armour over his chest and a bronze object running down his body. His black cape had green markings on it walking in behind. "Ah Zant, there you are" the creature in the fluid said. Zant replied with "I have the gun they used to get Midna into the Realm of Light"

"Alright, so why are you here Zant?" the creature in the fluid asked. Zant replied with "I wish to pursue, and capture, Midna. But to do that I need the ability to survive in the Realm of Light"

The creature in the fluid said "And will you be powerful enough to defeat Midna and the boy from the Realm of Light?" Zant replied with "Yes. I have managed to absorb much of Ganondorf's power, so I will be strong enough to thrash Link and Zelda, and capture Midna" The creature in the fluid then said "Just make sure she doesn't die" He then gave Zant the power to survive in the Realm of Light. Then, the cannon was set up and fired. However, because they hadn't charged the cannon, when Zant went through the portal, along with the zombie, a dragon and a bull, as well as their infantries, they found themselves in Termia, not Hyrle.

"Damn it! I didn't know that gun needed charging" Zant said. He then turned to the armies and said "Find a temple and take them over"

Each of them nodded, and headed for their target temples.

"I shall go to the Stone Tower Temple and break the Twilight Dial, that will stop anyone from going into the Twilight Realm from Termina, permanently shutting them out" Zant said before walking off towards the Stone Tower Temple.

*1 I injured the same part of my foot in 2014 in a similar way so I gave Midna a similar, but more serious ankle injury that what I had suffered. I only had a partial fracture in the fifth metatarsal, Midna has a full fracture