Now's when he gets slightly less 'evil', but only slightly. Too bad these chapters are painfully short. Guess I got too much into the sense of hurry from the game. Oh, well. I still own nothing!

Stage 4: Termina Field

He reappeared in Termina Field, just behind a rock that was next to a Town Guard camp.

"You are fortunate, your wounds are not too severe," the voice said as he stirred. "Be careful, though, this regiment contains one Kafei. He is the greatest threat among them,"

A fake…I'm…the fake? Fragmented memories came back to him. Ganondorf shouting about his latest and greatest creation while he rose from a tank. Himself robbing and injuring citizens of Hyrule while pretending to be Link. He and Link fighting in the Palace of Winds, as it was when it was at the top of the Tower of Winds. Himself falling from the tower…

"Your wounds are recovering, thanks to the dark energy you have taken in by doing my bidding, but you cannot rest yet," the voice continued, ignoring his thoughts. "You must now go to-"

"No," Knil interrupted.

"What?" the voice said dangerously.

"I'm done with you, I'm going to collect the jewels to find my own answers," Knil rose, noticing that it was now nightfall of the second day. He had obviously been out a while. "And two of them are in this camp,"

"No! The jewels have no relevance to your revenge!" the voice argued heatedly.

"Revenge…what good will it be if I don't know the truth?" Knil replied, starting towards the camp. "Go away," The voice growled in annoyance.

"Very well, but you will get just retribution, traitor," it said before Knil could no longer feel it's presence.

I'll have to be careful. Knil thought as he ducked behind a tent, just as a patrol Guard passed by. These Guards may not be too aware of their surroundings, but Kafei knows stealth. He crept along, ducking behind tents and crates to avoid Guards, until he came to a grand tent, most likely the commander's. He heard talking inside, so he eavesdropped.

"We have the jewels but we're not home free, yet," a man said. "We must hasten to deliver these two to the Captain and seek out the other two,"

"The units in Snowhead and Ikana have reported no luck thus far," Kafei interjected in his quiet voice. "I can assume that the Ikana group will have the most trouble, as the King Ikana seems to have decided to play his hand in this war, as well, and won't brook enemy troops in his Kingdom,"

"Anyway, we'll leave at first light tomorrow, 05:00," the other man continued. "Double the patrols and keep the jewels safe,"

"I'll guard them," Kafei replied. "They should be safer that way,"

"Then I'll leave it to you, Mr. Kafei," the man said before, apparently, leaving.

So Kafei is guarding them, huh? Just great. Well, if I'm going to start a fight, it might as well be with the strongest fighter first, right? He sneered and pulled out his sword before slicing at the side of the tent.

"Who goes there?" Kafei demanded, swiping up the jewels and drawing his knives in a defensive position as Knil barged into the tent. "Knil? What do you want after slaughtering so many of the Town Guard?"

"I need those jewels, fork them over and no one has to get whacked," Knil demanded.

"Captain Viscen needs them, too. He thinks that we can stop Vaati with them," Kafei declined.

"Well, if you won't concede, then I'll use force," Knil raised his hand and fired off a salvo of energy blasts. The resulting explosions destroyed the tent and attracted the attention of the entire camp.

"Not bad, but you'll need to be faster," Kafei said from atop a nearby pole as he crouched there. Knil sneered at the challenge, firing a Shadow Flare and destroying the pole as Kafei jumped away from it, hurling a smoke bomb in Knil's direction. The alter ego easily back flipped to avoid the irritant powder as many guards rushed in. Knil glowed silver.

"Get back!" Kafei exclaimed, but Knil had already released his Kamikaze Blast and sent many a guard flying. "Get away from here and flee to Clock Town!" the thief commanded as Knil appeared in front of him, taking a series of fierce swipes. Kafei dodged them deftly, slowly walking backwards in the process, as he tried to think of a way out of this mess. Finally, he flipped backwards and jumped into the air, chucking several smoke bombs at Knil, before taking off for Clock Town. Knil jumped back to avoid the bombs and saw the thief nimbly jumping from rock to tree to ground as he hurried away.

"No escape, thief!" Knil shouted, holding out his hand. "Anti-Energy Cannon!" The iridescent beam rocketed from Knil's hand and sent debris flying as it cut across the field. Kafei looked back and saw it coming.

"Blast!" he tried to jump out of the way, but the beam moved more quickly than he anticipated and hit him head-on, sending his charred body rolling a ways before coming to a stop. Knil A-E Warped over to him and nudged him with a foot.

"Humph," Knil commented when he got no response. Kneeling down, he pulled the jewels out of the thief's satchel and admired the brilliant shine of green and blue for a moment before putting the jewels away. "I won't let the Town Guard have these jewels," He muttered, looking around at the scenery. It feels like my next destination is Snowhead. With any luck, those fools will already have obtained the jewel, so all I'll have to do is 'acquire' it. "Anti-Energy Warp!" He glowed blue and vanished in a blue flash.

"A-Anju…" Kafei groaned feebly.

Stage 5: Snowhead and Ikana Canyon

Knil appeared on a ridge above the path through the Snowhead Foothills. "Hmm…" he gazed down at the regiment of Town Guard soldiers. There's at least 50...hmph. He sneered. Too easy, really. Although… He could clearly spot Ashei among the soldiers, walking with the senior-officer-in-charge and fingering her bow as she conversed with him. She could complicate this, but I doubt that she'll be too much of an obstacle. He stood, drew his sword, and aimed his other hand at the unit below.

"Over there!" Ashei had, obviously, spotted him when he stood. "Take defensive positions!" Several arrows came flying at him, but he easily dodged them, even at this range.

So she wants to play, huh? Knil shot a volley of energy blasts at the rock face across from his location and caused a landslide that took out almost half of the unit, but had to quickly dodge when a light arrow flew at his head. It struck the wall behind him and caused an explosion. The alter ego launched himself into the air and fell with an aura around his blade. Upon landing, the impact of his sword caused a shockwave that sent many a soldier flying.

"Kindly hand over that jewel, woman," Knil demanded.

"Go to the Dark World!" Ashei retorted as she fired a volley of arrows. Knil dodged and deflected them.

"Have it your way!" he A-E Warped over and sent the senior officer-in-charge flying into a wall, with a crunch, with one round-house kick and then stabbed at the archer. She jumped up and landed on his blade, firing a bomb arrow into his face. The explosion caused him to reel as she flipped backwards, shooting more arrows at him in midair. Knil held up his blade and blocked the arrows, dodging the light arrow she fired when she landed. "Anti-Energy Cannon!" he blasted the beam at her, only to have her give a look of shock and roll out of the way at the last second and loose another light arrow as part of the mountain was blown away, damaging part of the Gerudo Pirate Fortress as well. The light arrow hit Knil in the face, causing him quite a bit of pain, and she fired another to follow up. "Anti-Energy Warp!" He reappeared behind her and sliced across her back before she could even react, causing her torso armor to burst asunder from being severed as she fell with a gash across her back. The red jewel fell out of her bag, bouncing across the ground for a short ways, before Knil picked it up.

"Curse you…" Ashei groaned, grimacing in pain and anger at him as she looked up from the ground as best she could.

"Don't blame me, you started it," Knil scoffed. "Anti-Energy Warp!"

"Blast…where's Shad…when I need him…yeah?" she muttered.

Knil appeared on the path to Ikana Canyon, directly in front of the division that was, he sensed, carrying back the last jewel.

"Out of the way! This is official Town Guard business!" the senior OIC shouted.

"I'm altering your orders," Knil replied, holding out his hand. "Give me the jewel!"

"We're delivering it to Captain Viscen! We won't hand it over to a rogue like you!" the senior OIC retaliated as the other guards readied their weapons.

"Hmph…have it your way," Knil sneered, vanishing and reappearing behind the group. "Anti-Energy Cannon!" The attack tore through the ranks, sending soldiers panicking and running. Knil charged into the chaos and engaged the soldiers with swift, decisive strikes.

"Blast! He's too strong!" a soldier commented before Knil impaled him and hurled him into the senior OIC, pinning him down. Knil walked over to the man and looked down at him as he struggled.

"Curse you!" the SOIC shouted. "The Town Guard won't abide this!"

"I'll take my chances," Knil ridiculed. "Most of your precious army is already dead," He pointed his hand at the man.

"Blast you, no!" His scream faded into the depths of the canyon as a bright light shined into the sky.

That makes all four…Knil examined the jewels' radiance in his hands before putting them away again. A rooster crowed in the distance as dawn broke on the final day. He leaned against a nearby wall, ignoring the stench of blood and death, and looked at the sun as it rose red. Tonight…I'll find Link…I know he's alive…and I'll be the last thing he sees…

I really need to start making these longer so I won't have to post chapters two at a time. Oh, well. Anyway, the usual messages about reviewing and voting remain in place.