Well here's the next chapter, only took me forever to get into it and now it's done I look at it and its sooooooo short. But it has content and that's all that matters. Enjoy!

Chapter 15

Shadows

I woke up to the ring of my alarm. I sighed as I turned off my alarm. I sat up and looked down at my hands. The shape on my right hand was dull and lifeless. One day had passed since we went to that underwater pyramid. Memories of that day passed before my eyes, but I didn't put much reaction towards them. I was used to seeing horrible things reoccurring in my memories, but I put them away so they could be accessed when I needed a good solution, or when I didn't want a bad situation. I looked across the room to see my bag. It was filled lightly with supplies that were required for the trip. Next to it, a Roman Gladius sword rested against the wall. Yesterday, Dad, Link and I went shopping for things Link suggested on bringing along.

We went to Ottawa for the things on the list, mostly because I apparently needed a real sword, one that wouldn't snap. So before we went anywhere, we looked up online for sword shops since our sword shop wasn't open yet, and came across Kutter's Knives and Accessories. So we drove to Nepean just to find a good sword. By the end of the shopping trip, we had four hundred bullets for my gun and a hundred of my emergency only ones. That in total only came to fourteen pounds of bullets. We went to look for a good bag, but Link said he would get a real bag for me when we got back to Hyrule. Apparently, Grand Theft Auto designer bag was not a real bag.

I got dressed into the clothes I set out the night before. It was my outfit that I usually wore for work and the same clothing I had worn on my birthday. I grabbed my temporary bag and headed down stairs. Everything was pretty quiet as I hit the landing. I was expecting at least the sounds of the TV being on, but they were all on mute. I peeked into the kitchen, but it was tidy with no life found inside. I looked in the other rooms of the house and yelled down into the basement. There was no way in hell that I was going down there again. Standing in the middle of the house, I was stumped on where Link and Dad had gone. Then a thought occurred to me, maybe they were outside. I put on my boots and walked out the door.

The garage door was opened and the beautiful truck looked ready to go, but there wasn't anybody there. I walked towards the barn and heard the voices of Dad and Link as they seemed to be chatting. I walked into the barn and saw the two of them competing in archery.

"So where are you think you are going to go first?" Dad asked as he aimed an arrow.

"I'm going to take Electra to Bones' and Ticket's house so we can look at the records they have." Link answered as they both released their arrow. The arrows flew into two target hay bales.

"That sounds like a pretty good idea."

"The only thing that I know won't be in the scripts is the burial place of Demise; I personally don't want to go all over Hyrule looking for it."

"I don't blame you; that would be a pain in the ass considering how much of Hyrule is underground.

Link split his arrow in half with another arrow. "Too much in my opinion."

"Hey guys," I called out to them as I made them aware of my presence. "What're you doing?"

"Just a bit of archery practice," Dad answered. "What about you? Are you ready to go on your adventure?"

"Hopefully it won't be too much of an adventure, just one where it tells how to get rid of the Leviathan and Dean." I answered as Dad passed me the bow.

"Take a shot; you haven't picked one up since fall."

I picked up an arrow. "Let's see how good my aim is on the bow and arrow."

I stepped out of the portal to find myself back in the Hyrule Castle. My whole body felt tingly as I took a few steps away from it towards Zelda and Midna. Link was already with them and I heard the portal close behind me. The two horses were already being walked outside by two knights. I walked to the two queens and Link. "So how is Hyrule? Anything being disturbed lately?"

"There has been only been one thing that has caught our attention." Midna said.

I watched Link's form straighten from the corner of my eye as I raised an eyebrow.

"There is a disturbance in Faron Woods, I had sent some of the knights to go see, but none of them have returned." Zelda stated.

"They could just be taking a break." I suggested remembering many of the Knights of Hyrule were cowards.

"They were sent two days ago. I thought that they had gone straight home after checking out the forest, but a wife of one of the knights had asked where they were."

"We'll go see what happened to them." Link said immediately.

"Just don't get into situations where you can't handle them." Midna said with a grin. "I'm not going to magically appeared and save your sorry butt."

Zelda shook her head and turned to me. "What's in the bag?"

"Just about everything." I told her. "We were going to hit a few Castle Town shops before we left for the scriptures."

"No need," She said and the deep voice guard from the last time I was here came up to us with a belt full of pouches. "I thought ahead and figured that you don't have pouches like ours."

"I still don't get how those things hold so much, what are they magic?"

"Something like that," Midna stated. "Now, I must return home so I can prepare for anything that tries to come through my realm. If you get out alive let me know so we can have that celebration that we never had."

"Be safe." Zelda told her.

"I should be saying that to you, you have a Leviathan that is also human, a demon and possibly an evil hero. Good luck you three."

And then she was gone along with her little twilight portal. I took off my bag and started to load all of my articles into the never filling pockets. When I was down I put it on and somehow it wasn't as heavy as it had been in the backpack. I jumped up and down and noticed that there was actually no weight to it at all. "How does this even make sense?"

"Here's my answer. Just go with it, don't both finding out the physics behind it." Link stated.

"I officially banned you from all internet use; you will corrupt your mind."

"Like I can use the internet here."

"See like that, now you will never watch a goat and not think about that damn YouTube video you found."

Link started chuckling slightly and turned to Zelda. "If I could I would show you too, never have I seen a singing goat and I may never see one again, but I know my life as a ranch hand is complete."

"Link, let's just find those knights, I don't think Queen Zelda really cares about singing goats."

"Sounds interesting," Zelda said shocking me out of my mind. "Perhaps you show me it someday."

Link nodded and then turned to me. "Let's go for a ride to the Faron Woods."

We got off our horses Epona and Hero and walked into the entrance of the woods. "So you like her don't you?"

"Like who Electra?"

"It's not like there is anything wrong with it. She's probably only a year or two older than you or maybe the same age. You two were made for each other."

"Who are you talking about?" Link asked as he stopped in the middle of the dark tunnel.

"Well her name starts with a Z and-" I started and then Link started walked again.

"Queen Zelda, you think that I like her."

"It's a bit obvious." I stated, but I couldn't tell any of his expressions as he was facing away from me. "I bet she likes you too. Maybe after everything you can take her on a date."

"And if I take Zelda on this date, what are you going to do?"

"What do you mean, what will I do? That has nothing to do with me."

"Are you sure about that?" Link questioned.

I started to wonder what he meant, but then I disregarded him as him just messing around. We continued to walk in silence through the quiet forest when suddenly a whistle could be heard. It was a constant whistle and then Link tackled me to the ground, just before I was about to yell at him he pointed up. I looked in silence as I could hear blades smashing against each other and saw an arrow in the tree about the same height were my head was.

Link helped me up, pulled the arrow out of the tree and observed it. "This is a crossbow arrow."

I turned towards where the arrow came from which was also where the noise of the blades were coming from. "Why would someone be shooting a crossbow at someone else?"

Link took out his sword and walked ahead reminding me of the silent swordsman that he was. I followed him as I pulled out my Gladius. I doubt that he needed help, but it wouldn't hurt considering there were other creatures in the woods. When we came to the noise, I stopped dead in my tracks. There was a guy about my age, not much taller than my Uncle Matt, with black hair and blue eyes; he was wearing completely black clothing with two belts. One that went across his chest vest which held a crossbow and arrows and another around his pants that held two fourteen inched machete sheaths which the blades where now in his hand. He had black boots that went to just below the knee which he seemed to dance upon the ground as he defended against his opponent. I would have been surprised to see someone like that here, except, his opponent took the star light. I heard Link's breath catch in his throat. In the slightly lighted forest was a very graceful Dark Link grinning at his opponent. He was completely black like he was dipped in oil from hat to boot; the only thing that wasn't black was his red eyes that seemed to glow as the woods darkened with each swing of his blade.

"You son of a bitch!" The kid shouted in a light Irish accent as the shadow disarmed him. "You think that's all it's going to take? Think again little shadow!"

Dark Link went to strike without an answer. I started towards them, but Link held me back just as the Irish pulled out smaller knives out of his sleeves and blocked the attack.

"What the heck is this guy, a ninja?" I asked Link quietly as the two continued their fight, but apparently too loud as the other Link looked towards us. "Oops."

Dark Link jumped over the guy and was coming down on us with a raised sword. Link pushed me the second time that day to the ground and blocked the helm smash.

"What the hell are you doing-? Why are there two of you bastards?" The Irish asked.

"Electra, head towards the Forest Temple." Link ordered ignoring the man altogether as he took a swing at the counter part. "You should know where that is."

"And what about you, you can't just fight him like this? Only one of you will actually get tired and I'm talking to him."

"Come on, little girl he knows what he's doing." The Irish said dragging me along.

I glared as I ran ahead towards the temple. Surprising enough, the Irish guy was keeping up with my speed as we reached the stairs that led to the tunnel. I turned to look back at Link and stopped in my tracks. Shadow Link had got the upper hand as he disarmed Link and threw him to the ground. "Link!"

I reached for my gun, but then the Irish shot his crossbow and hit the shadow in the side throwing him into the tree before he could drive his sword down.

"Heh got ya bastard!" The Irish guy shouted at him.

Link got up again and grabbed his sword off the ground just as the Shadow Link ripped the arrow out of his side and threw it away. The shadow went to pick up his blade, but Link disarmed him and threw him to the ground the exact same way he was a minute before. Link swung his sword and it sliced right through the Dark Link's middle but nothing came from, no blood, no organ tissue, nothing; like it was made out of a shadow.

Dark Link started to laugh a laugh that I did not expect to come out of someone like Link. I could tell Link was angry as well as confused, I know I was because it was quite easy to see there was a line missing from his torso. "Not bad, but not good enough."

Then Dark Link disappeared leaving the area a quiet dark scene. I looked around and then my attention was grabbed from a shadow appearing behind Link. "Behind you!"

Link put up his shield, but didn't turn around fast enough as the counterpart smashed his sword into the shield. Suddenly, blades flew into the shadow's arms, side and leg. He turned towards the Irish guy and then another blade flew towards his face. Dark Link disappeared and the forest brightened giving me the feeling that he was gone for now.

I turned the Irish guy, "Were those throwing knives?"

He didn't say anything as we walked back to Link. The throwing knives that in in Dark Link were on the ground and the one that was directed at the shadow's face was in a tree. He started to pick them up and placed them in various places, like in his sleeve and belt. "So who was your killer twin?"

"He's not my twin." Link answered. "Just a shadow."

"Don't you love it when your shadow tries to kill you?" The Irish guy laughed.

Link placed the Master Sword in its sheath. "Have you seen any Hyrule Knights anywhere around here?"

"Nope, only came to the forest because I heard it had giant spiders, but I did hear someone shouting when your shadow appeared."

"What is an Irish guy doing hunting spiders?" I asked.

"You know about the Irish, you must have come from the other Earth." The Irish guy exclaimed.

"You know about that place?"

"Yea, I was born there, brought here by a guy named Mickey."

"You know Mickey?"

"Yes, I just told you that, I was going about my business and was asked to look at what a guy named Mickey was up to as he had set off my group's radar."

"What group?"

"God you interrupt too much!" He shouted. I leaned back and shrugged allowing him to continue. "Yes my group, I guess it doesn't really matter if I tell you or not because we are never leaving this place anyway. The Order of the Temple sent me to investigate Mickey and he thought I would be a good guinea pig for his little project and I was sent here."

"The Knights Templar, oh this just keeps getting better and better." I sighed in annoyance. "I feel sorry for you if the rules are still the same as they were in nine hundred years ago."

"Which they aren't, Electra Ends." I raised my eyebrow. "Yes I know who you are; someone who goes around placing demons in human form back in jail doesn't hide from us, especially when you have been doing it since you were young." He rolled his eyes. "So that's why I came here to start my life after trying to find a way back forever."

"In the forest?" Link asked.

"No, this is just practice, but you can get items from the woods to sell so you can get rupees and then eventually get a house." The Irish guy continued. "Maybe I'll be a knight for the Queen. From the knights I've seen, they are pretty wimpy."

"Well if you help us find the missing knights, I'm sure Link will put in a good word for you." I told him. "So what's your name?"

"Jason MacGowan."

"How long have you been here?"

"Hmm, good question." Jason said as he looked like he was thinking. "I was sent out on my mission on Valentine's Day and found Mickey on Ash Wednesday so I guess that was the fifteen when I was sent here. It's probably been about a month I guess. God it's been a rough month."

"That was two weeks before you were abducted." Link stated towards me. "Doesn't it take two weeks for his system to recharge?"

"It does, but Dean said he was one that brought me here on top of that; I don't think Mickey's hand would be big enough to drag me through a portal. Plus, Dad and Lucia both used it two days after I was taken, so it couldn't have been Mickey."

"Well, he's obviously working with that Dean guy if he wanted to keep his little toy a secret if you ask me." Jason said. "Now, weren't we looking for some cowardly knights?"

Link nodded. "Which way did you hear the scream?"

"Somewhere beyond that tunnel."

"Great, I get to go see my first temple." I said and we walked to where the noise had been heard. I stayed side by side with Link as Jason walked ahead. "You were lucky today."

"How do you figure?" He asked me.

"Dark Link would have killed you if it wasn't for Jason."

"No he wouldn't have, I was about to strike when he threw his blades."

"Maybe, but he was just a shadow, meaning he wasn't whole or even alive. What if he got to the kni-"

"Don't say it." Link interrupted me as he glared at nothing. "I'm sure the monkeys were just messing around and drove them into the Forest Temple and now they're lost."

"If you believe hard enough, you might make it true." I muttered. "But I'm not taking it out of the possibilities. He was brought to life two days ago, the same time the knights had gone on their quest."

Link didn't say anything as he continued to glare at whatever he was thinking. When we finally exited the tunnel we came out into an open area with a tree root creating a walk way up to a building that looked like part of the tree. I looked to right and saw the talking bird that sold oil and red potion.

"So should we just go up and say hello or just look around here first?" Jason asked.

"I guess look around for now, I'm going to ask the bird." I told him while Link started to walk around.

"You are going to ask the bird?"

"Yup,"

I walked over to the blue bird, but didn't go inside his set up.

He turned his head to me. "And what can I do for you?"

"Just wondering if you had seen some Hyrule Knights around here; they seem to have gone missing."

The bird whistled. "I believe so, they came by here yesterday. The monkeys that live in the Temple were making a ruckus and sent them in, but haven't seen them since."

"Great, a trip into the temple. Thanks."

"Wait, there is also something else. There was a black version of my favorite friend went in there earlier today and there was screaming. I'm not sure if what he did in there."

"Thanks for the memo, if you ever see that guy again peck his eyes out; he just tried to kill Link."

The bird's beak dropped. "Oh no he didn't."

"He did."

"I'll peck his eyes out and then place his tongue, along with his eyes, as a trophy on my wall. Then I will make him my bitch."

I stared wide-eyed at the bird and then slowly backed away. I didn't remember him being psychotic in the game. I turned around and saw Link and Jason at the bottom of the path. "Do you want the good news or the bad news first?"

"Start with the bad news, the good news always makes it less bad." Jason stated.

"The shadow was in the temple before he met with you."

"And the good news?" Link asked.

"The monkeys chased them into the temple and are more likely lost in there probably trying to get away from whatever the other guy put in there."

"And you called that good news."

"You believe in your statement hard enough it came true." I winked. "Next believe that we will make it out with all the knights alive and the creature dead if there is one."

Link rolled his eyes and then led us up the path. When we got to the top there was a stone landing with nothing on it. I looked around and noticed there was something missing.

"Where did the Bokoblins that were here go?" Link asked for me.

"Obviously they didn't want to be around the Temple." Jason answered as he walked to the door. "Now Link, whoever saves Electra the most times wins the grand prize."

"You prick," I growled as I drew my sword and glared at him.

He looked panicked and opened the door. The three of us went inside and then the door shut behind us.

And the bird shall be named Raivyn! If you know who that is I'm sure you will understand. If you don't, you should send me a PM if you wish to know :P
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