Twilight of Lylat

Chapter 1

The orange-flamed ship was only a few moments from impact, when Link and Midna figured out the problem. The ship was heading right for the deepest part of Lake Hylia, where the Water Temple lay. Link ran onto the edge of the rock where Lanayru slept, and looked up at the flaming machine. Midna slammed his head.

"Link! Link! Hurry, transform before it's too late! Someone might be in there!" she said while his body reanimated itself, changing back to his human side. He quickly put on his Zora Armour, and equipped his iron boots and clawshot. They had just finished the Temple of Time dungeon, so he hadn't gotten all of the items yet.

The ground shook violently while the ship smashed into the water. Water flew everywhere as it landed like an arrow, already submerged twenty feet under. Link dived and kicked as hard as he could after the ship. It was sinking quickly, and the part where Krystal was had been fogged from her body heat.

It was huge compared to him. The strange design reminded him of the Dominion Rod. Elecrtical pulses were emitting from the back or that thing, which he felt skimming his body. One hit him, and he cringed slightly. 'This is gonna be harder than I thought' he said to himself as another one missed him by a few inches.

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Krystal woke up, hearing rushing water and cracks every few moments or so. Opening her eyes slightly, she saw that she was in water, and sinking....fast. She moved, but the pain was too much. She looked out, and saw a beautiful, clean lake with the sunset shining a violet-orange. She sighed as she realised that she was up to her stomach in water.

"Is this how I am going to die? Crash land on such a beautiful planet and watch the sunset from under the water...then drown?" She closed her eyes for a moment, and a huge crack came from the hull of the ship, followed by a strange wavelength of sound. Much like a scream....She opened her eyes again and saw through the fog, a thing in blue, like a fish, but had human features. Long legs, flippers, arms, hands...and a shield?

By now, the water was up to her neck, then her mouth. The fish thing's eyes slammed shut for a moment as if in pain, then pulled a sword. The blade was glowing with the light from the sunset blindingly...she covered her eyes weakly. Finally, at the deepest point, the ship slammed into the ground, being submerged under a few feet of sand and dirt. It knocked the fish-boy off of the ship for a second, only to come back and slam him eyes shut again as he touched it.

The water passed her head, and she held her breath as long as she could. Not long enough...she passed out again.

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Link was in so much pain from the electric pulses that came from the strange thing. He had managed to Clawshot himself the rest of the way to the ship, but the electricity traveled through the item, causing him to scream in agony. He pulled out his sword soon after, not being able to see the blue vixen in the ship due to the fog on the window.

The ship had slammed into the ground...the currents pulling him back. He touched the machine again, and another strong pulse radiated throughout his body.

By that time, she had fallen unconcious, and he hit the glass protecting the poilet's cabin of the ship. It shattered, and a small amount of air bubbles came from it. He saw the girl, and tried to pull her out, but the buckles stopped him. He fumbled with them with his hands quickly and nervously, and gave up, slashing them with the blade. He pulled her out and swam as fast as he could to the top. She wasn't moving, her expression showed peace and tranquility.

His head broke the surface, being blanketed in the last light of the day. He lifted her onto the land with little force. "She's as light as a feather!" he said aloud when Midna came out of his shadow again. They looked at the girl. She looked like a fox mixed with a human. She had a blue skin-tight suit that was soaked. He changed back and felt her stomach. She wasn't breathing, and her body wasn't moving. He hesatated...

"You haven't had to do this before...haven't you?" Midna said, crossing her arms next to the girl. She pointed to the vixens chest. "You have to perform the C.P.R or whatever it's called....It's when you push their chest to the force of a heart beat in order for the person to realise they are dying and cough up all of the water!"

He did as Midna explained, blushing slightly. "How do you know this if you come from another place?"

"I had to wittness it when I first came here. A man fell into the water when I was traveling across Lake Hylia, and I noticed another person do the same thing....so I watched the man too see what he did just in case something happened to who I was looking for...which whom I found already..." she went quiet and watched Link continuing to try and make her breathe.

Five minutes had passed, and Link's arms were beginning to feel like rubber. He stopped and put his head on her stomach. "I-I an hear her heart beat...what do I do now Midna?" he said, looking back up at his companion.

"The man had also covered the other man's nose and breathe into the other man..." she snickered at him. "Kinda like a kiss." Link blushed again, turning his attention towards the motionless girl infront of him.

"So cover the nose, and breathe into the other person?!...Um..." he blushed as he leaned forward, pinching her nose and put his mouth over hers. Midna smiled as she could see his face turn beat red. Link breathed out and the girl's chest went up.

"Try that a couple of times nervous one...I think it's working!" he did as he was told, and the girl moved. Link stopped and sat back on his knees, while Midna went back into his shadow as the girl stirred.

Finally after a few long moments, the girl coughed a large amount of water and sat up quickly, spinning on spot. She came too and looked at Link who was still blushing slightly, but had a relieved look on his face. "I see your alive!"

She looked confused, and inspected the boy in front of her. "Ewam ku sas.....Kiwa eca cusanto mo." Link looked at her, puzzled.

"E-excuse me?"

"Ewam ku sas....Kiwa eca cusanto mo!" She stared at his eyes for a substantial amount of time. "Eeeee...Sho muno ve nesonke....Kem uni." she approached him slowly, still staring in his eyes.

A step at a time, she came closer to his face. The girl put her hand on his forehead, and she stopped not even inches from him. She was a lot shorter than a normal person would look like at her age looks. She pulled his head down, and she kissed him softly. He blushed and tried to pull back, but she kept him still.

After a while, she broke the kiss. "Ah, a new language! Such strange words."

He was still blushing, and looked down. "N-now what was that for?!? Why did you do that without telling me?!?"

"I did tell you!.....Eeeee...Sho muno ve nesonke.....Kem uni....That means Ahh, your mind is different....hold on! Why I so called 'kissed' you for was so I could learn your language. It would have just been for a language transfer...By the way...what is your name?"

He looked at the stars overhead and sighed. "My name's Link."

"Ah...Link. What a different name!" she smiled and stood up, looking around. Their was a long pause before the girl looked down at Link.

"My name's Krystal, since you probably wanted to know." he nodded and stood up. "...Where is this place?" Krystal's eyes went wide, and she whipped around. "Did you save my Arwing!!?"

"Y-your what?"

"The thing you saved me out of...." she groaned "No...you didn't...thanks for saving me anyways..." she walked around on the slab of rock, looking at some of the details. "So...where am I?"

"Your currently in Lake Hylia. And, how it sounds, it is the biggest lake of Hyrule...I can tell that you aren't from here..." She leaned on one of the snake statues and gave a sly smile.

"You're right. I'm not even from this planet...or this galaxy to be exact. The machine that I came from lets me travel amongst the stars freely as I wish...Of course..." she looked up. "I need feul from the Great Fox...the mothership. My friends are up there somewhere, probably trying to track me down. I guess now they can't now...I think it's because of your atmosphere...We tried to contact someone on the planet to see if it was safe to land on, but it the radios wouldn't work correctly. Their must be something that is blocking the reception." she paused, and looked back at him. "May I take a look around the area to see if I can find out the problem?" Link nodded, and she turned around and began to walk on the docks.

Midna appeared from his shadow. "I think it's because of Ganondorf that is making the atmosphere like this...You notice that the animals act strangely? It's because of the energy he is releasing into the light world to make it covered in twilight....That's what I think, anyways....I don't think she'll be able to contact whoever she's trying to until we defeat Ganon."

"So, what will we do with her until then? I think it'd be too dangerous for her to travel with us." Midna put her hands on her hips.

"I'm a girl, remember?"

"Yes, I know that Midna, it's just that you can dissapear into my shadow...She can't, that I know of." They heard footsteps, and Midna quickly dissapeared into his shadow. It was Krystal, frowning.

"I can't seem to find the problem!" she sighed and sank down to a sit.

"We...er I mean, I think I know what the problem is. It is because of what;s happening to Hyrule right now. A man is trying to take it over, and by that, he is covering our land with a dark magic." she looked up quickly.

"So, that means that I have to wait until somebody defeats this 'Ganondorf'?"

"I never told you who it was....How do you know?"

"I overheard you talking to that shadow being." she gave an annoyed look. Midna literally ripped out of his shadow.

"Shadow being??! I'll teach you what a shadow being is!! I am a part of a royal family, named the Twili!...." she realised what happened. "Um...nice to meet you, my name's Midna."

Krystal laughed silently. "Hello, Midna."

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Fox slammed his fists into the wall of the Great Fox II. His knuckles were bleeding, and his eyes dry of tears. "Damnit, damnit, Damnit!!!" he punched the wall again. "ROB..." a voice appeared over the intercom.

"You called for my assistance?" the voice said.

"Scan the planet again! Two times over...three if needed!"

Peppy's voice appeared. "Fox, we've checked the planet already! There are no signals from Krystal's gauntlet, nor the Arwing..."

"Then why don't we just go onto the planet?" his voice was scratchy and raised.

"We told you Fox, O'donnel put a one-way barrier around us. We can't move unless someone came from the outside and destroyed it. We actually could die from lack of oxygen if we stayed long enough!" he looked down and sighed.

"Yea, I guess your right Peppy...thanks anyways..." he layed down on the bed and closed his eyes as the sun left the path of the Great Fox II. 'I will find a way to get to you, Krystal. I hope your safe...'

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Krystal was leaning on the snake statue again after the three had talked about eachother for a while. It was about midnight now, and Link yawned. "You should get some sleep." Krystal said, looking at him. He shook his head.

"Haven't sleeped in a month now." he said, yawning again. "This is the first time I've been tired in ages...it's strange...really. .Maybe it is because the prophecy fortold that I was supposed to be the hero...I mean, either than saving you. All of Hyrule, to be exact."

"So, you're supposed the savoir of everybody by defeating this 'Ganondorf' guy? It'd seem easy enough!"

"Yea, that's what I thought...every item I've gotten so far I had to obtain from monsters that are protecting what I needed. Well, almost everything anyways. Both Midna and I hope that this traveling will be over soon, so nobody else will get hurt." they sat there for a while. "So what is this Great Fox thing you're talking about earlier?"

"The Great Fox is where I and my companions stay when we travel across the nebula's. My friends...my companions are probably looking for me somehow...Yes, Midna. There is someone missing my love." her ears drooped. Midna jumped out of her shadow with a shocked look on her face. Krystal laughed sheepishly. "Um...yea, I forgot...I'm telepathic."

"Well, that would explain everything about you finishing our-"

"Sentences." Krystal smiled, then yawned. She tapped the silver gauntlet on her wrist, and a hologram appeared. Both Link and Midna jumped back in surprise

"What is that thing?" Link said, breaking the silence besides the hum of the machine.

"It's my EHPG...or my electric hologram powered gauntlet. It can locate things, contact people, and tell me the time." she yawned again. "May I go to sleep? I'm exhausted, and my head still hurts." Midna disappeared into his shadow again.

"Go right ahead...I might just get some shut-eye myself." he put down his arm and turned over on the small amount of grass that they were on. Krystal did the same, and soon fell asleep.

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Vaskira: Like I said, this is originally Link McCloud's...But I have asked him if I could continue his work, since he had not continued when he published the proluge. I do own Legend of Zelda, nor StarFox...Nintendo does. Oh...the chapters might not be as long 'cause I can't write so much things as Link McCloud can! ^^ (sorry...not good at that D: )