Chapter One

Midna paces the throne room of the Twilight Palace as a prisoner in her own home. Contrary to her hopes, upon her return she finds war has broken out throughout the kingdom. The followers of Zant, who it seems wasn't dead just severely injured and weakened, were taking up arms against any and all loyal to the Princess of Twilight. Using her new powers she teleported her enemies far enough away to rally her allies. This reprieve wasn't to last long as the armies returned swiftly and in mass. Her next effort to thwart the Usurper King's forces failed, Midna and all Twili loyal to her trapped in the castle and partially rebuilt Twilight Capital City.

"My princess," calls a nervouse guard pulling Midna away from her thoughts, "All perimeter stations report no enemy activity." Midna considers this for a second before nodding him away. Once out of the room the guard wipes the sweat from his brow and breaths a sigh of relief.

"I hate when they do this!" Midna grumbles to herself. Led by Zant's chosen queen Amadahy, the enemy would be silent for a day or to as they pool their force for a focused assault on one or two fronts simultaneously. When not using the approach they continuously bombard her people day and night for days at a time before trying again. With so many to protect, so few guards left in any condition to fight, their resources running low Midna had doubts that her home, let alone all of Twilight would soon fall.

"My, My, m'lady why such a sour attitude?" Midna could feel her blood begin to boil and her fce tinge purple with anger at the sound of that ever malevolent voice. She spins around to stare flaming daggers from her crimson eyes at the throne where a ghostly image of Amadahy is sitting.

"OH MY! Such a face." the usurper queen states, feinting shock and despair then looks back at Midna with her normal malevolent sneer. "And here I came to accept you surrender." Midna simply scoffs at the very notion.

"Come now, think of your subjects. This is the only chance you'll get for them to be spared our wrath."

"Speaking of our, how is your king." Midna grin maliciously as the sting of her retort is clearly expressed on Amadahy's face.

"Very unwise princess, know that their suffering is by your hand!" the usurper queen rages and disappears. Midna turns and stares out the window allowing herself to calm. Thick clouds loom in the sky, a prelude to things to come. Lightning flashes in the distance momentarily illuminating the sky on this rainless night. As the booming thunder rattles the windows a small squeak of fear echoes in the room.

"You can come out now." Midna says evenly not looking away from the window. A section of the far wall recedes and splits open into a secret passage as a young child slowly emerges. Midna turns and walks over to kneel before the girl.

"Shiannah, I've told before not to play in the tunnels." She tells the child in a stern maternal voice. Having lost her parents in the initial attacks, Shiannah was brought to a refugee camp close to the palace. All the child ever did was sit huddled in a corner by herself staring out in a daze. Midna happened upon her during a visit to the camp to coordinated supply distribution. Much to everyone's shock the child responded to the princess. Midna decided to bring Shiannah back with her to the palace. She was surprised easily she took to the role of surrogate mother. Though the girl can be seen laughing and playing around the palace, she never actually speaks to anyone. Midna was truly sorry for Shiannah to have had to suffer such tragedy and at such a young age at that.

More thunder boomed out side causing Shiannah to huddle close to Midna. The princess however noted something odd, there was no lightning before that crash of thunder and it sounded like several crashes in quick unison. She could swear she'd heard it before. Just as Midna realized how she knew the sound, as the signature scream of a twilight messenger reviving fallen comrades echo thru out the city. The attack had begun.

Within seconds the city is consumed in chaos as twilight rats and twilight keese flood the streets with twilight kargorocs high above. Soldiers fight desperately to give civilians time to flee to the castle only to find T.messengers and cages waiting for them. Midina grabs Shiannah's hand preparing to make an escape when a couple of T.kargorocs shatter the windows with big rocks as the fly by. The main doors fly open as the Usurper Queen Amadahy walks in with a pair of T.messengers and a few T.keese. Midna feels her anger rising at seeing Amadahy's crown fashioned to look like the helm of fused shadows she herself had worn.

"It's time you gave up Midna!" Amadahy states in her usual malevolent tone, "As we speak all your people are being put in cages and cells. It's over, you've lost! And there is no one left to save you!"

As if on queue explosions ring out in the court yard and prisoners can be heard fighting for freedom. The sound of firecrackers ring out and the T.kargorocs in the windows fall dead. The T.messengers step over to the windows to investigate, the sound of two rather large firecrackers sound in quick succession and both monsters are killed within seconds of each other. Through the smoke wafting in the air from the open windows a thin red beam of light can be seen emanating from a roof top down in the city.

Angered and confused by this turn of events Amadahy stares at Midna with hate filled emerald eyes full of accusation. Just as she is about to voice her thoughts, shes, Midna, and Shiannah all cover their ears from the load bangs as the T.keese rapidly fall to the ground dead. With all her minions burting into puffs of black smoke dead around her Amadahy looks back at the door to see a dark figure standing there holding two strange weapons up, thin lines of smoke coming from the tips.

"Who are you?" Amadahy asks, rage showing in her tone. The figure doesn't answer, instead aims the weapons at her and fires twice.