Chapter 8 -Twilighted Woods-
Okay I changed TP link to being left handed because of this mystery review… o.o who ever it was sounded kinda impolite but I dunno maybe that's just me…
well if I do change Oot's name what should I change it to? I have a scene in mind where I can do that but I need a suggestion… so if you want me to change his name then give me some idea's and if I like it I'll change it.
So anyway… hope this chapter is more to your liking :)
[Link's POV]
I was pulled into Twilight rather ungracefully, both times being grabbed by a dark creature.
The sky was dark and demeaning yet somewhat inviting to my wolf form. I am still not used to it and can't wait to get my human body back. I don't want to humiliate myself like I did in Ordon. It wasn't my fault the roof was slippery.
So infused with my thoughts I didn't even notice Midna on my back until she spoke.
"Hmm! So these are the weapons you use in your world?" I turned to look at the imp. She had the shield on her face and was caring the sword all wrong. I wanted to say something but she would probably snap back with one of her cunning remarks.
She swung it wildly over my head and the blade nearly lopped off the tip of my ear. I surprised a growl.
"You really think this thing can slay the creatures of twilight." I barred my teeth at her. How dare she. That sword she's holding was crafted by Rusl as a gift to the royal family. He spent long restless nights making that blade, I would know. I helped him make it.
Something fell over my face. My mouth opened in surprise.
"…Well, I won't use these, but I'll hang on to them for you!" Midna didn't even snap her fingers as the sword and shield dissipated into twilight bits.
"All right, a promise is a promise… I trust you enough to help." She was almost no help in Hyrule Castle.
She leaned in close to me ear gripping my fur uncomfortably.
"In exchange for my help, though, I need you to gather some things for me." I kept my teeth bared but let my gaze look forward. "Look, I can't tell you all the details now, but it'll be easy, trust me…"
"But enough about that." She said before I got the chance to speak. "Do you hear that noise? It's the lamination of the spirit that had its light stolen…" So she heard Ordona too. "Where in the world could it be? Eee Hee!" She taunted me and it took me everything I had to not to snap at her.
"Better get going, don't you think? Don't blame me for your world's fate if you don't hurry up and find that light!" She started humming casually. I hesitated. Oh yeah the whole worlds depending on me, not just my friends but the entire world.
"Come on! Snap to it!" It sounded as if she actually needed me to save this spirit but that's ridiculous. She's a twilight being so why would she need me to get rid of twilight? Then again she is helping me… I think.
I brushed off that thought and then ventured into the woods I used to know. The shackle on my left foot jingled as I ran. Midna yawned a few times, much to my irritation.
When we came to a clearing the red pillar fell again, surrounding us in a rune force field. A pink portal appeared above, just like at the springs in Ordon. The same kind of beasts came out, shadow beasts I think, except this time there were three of them.
No problem I can take them. I thought to myself, though something about them in a group… something feels a little different.
"Aww… We're penned in again!" Midna exclaimed rather late. "Pfft! Who do they think they're dealing with? No need to take these little pests on one at a time, right? You can take them all at once!"
Is that a comment? huh, Guess that'll be the closest I'll get to a comment from Midna. Still, she's right though. I can take them on all at once. Just need to figure out how.
"You can handle this by yourself, can't you?" yeah, maybe… "Good Luck, 'Bye" wait what!
It was too late to go after her the shadow beasts closed in on me. I shook them off with a spin attack and dove for the one in front of me. I bit hard into its neck and it soon fell to my feet. I hit the remaining two with a tackle and tried to get them both down with a spin attack. No need to take them one on one right?
It hit them but they didn't fall. Oh well. I sprang onto my second victim and tore the shadow being flesh with my teeth. Two down one to go. Or so I thought.
As soon as the second one hit the ground the last shadow beast let out a deafening roar. I cringed from the sound. It was like my ears were bleeding. I shook my head to clear my thoughts but when I opened my eyes I saw those fallen shadow beasts get up.
I had just bitten through their necks and torn their shadow flesh, they shouldn't be able to stand. And yet there they were standing as if those wounds didn't even harm them. Thankfully the marks of my bite were still showing so at least I know I did some damage but what am I supposed to do? Tear them completely apart from limb to limb?
I tried attacking them again. I downed the one that let out that shriek and then tackled the other two.
"What's the holdup?" Midna's on my back now. When did she get there? "If you leave the last one alive, it's just going to use that shriek to bring the others back."
Yeah, I kinda noticed...
"Listen, let me help you out here! Just move like I tell you!" She directed me on how to deal with them. "-and I'll expand an energy field. Enclose all of your enemies within it and attack."
An energy field to guide my rapid attacks…. hmm I have no other options so let's try it. I gave her the signal to make an energy field. It surrounded me and Midna in a yards radius and gave off pinkish lightning. Once I got the shadow beasts to touch it they had the lightning on them. I didn't wait any longer than that. I launched my attacks and it was a lot easier with the energy field.
It worked. The monsters disappeared like the last one and turned into twilight shards. They went into the sky and made a portal just like the one at the springs.
"See! what did I tell you." Midna grinned. 'Yeah, yeah… let's just go already.'
"I don't hear a thank you~." She teased. 'you're not going to get one.' I had actually planned on thanking her but I'll leave it for later.
I went further into the forest following the path to the spirit spring. There was this familiar feeling to the spring, once I got there. The same light was present like in Ordona's spring. However this one was much fainter and seemed to grow even more so as I approached it. I came to the center of the spring and saw a light glow
"…Please be careful… These woods… have changed…" It spoke to me through my mind. It wasn't as over whelming as Ordona but then again, this spirit's light had been stolen.
"The dark clouds of dusk cover this land…" It continued weakly. "This drape of shadows is called… twilight. In this twilight, those who live in the light… become as mere spirits… It is a place… where dark ones and evil creatures dwell…"
I could feel it's light dimming. If I'm going to save this spirit I have to do it fast. But what do I do?
"I… am a spirit of light.." It was hurting itself trying to tell me this. Like, I needed to know something else. 'Please just tell me what I need to do, you're dying.'
"…Blue-eyed beast… I am sorry I am too weak to tell you everything… Please… Look for my light… Retrieve the light stolen by the dark beasts… and keep it… in this vessel." I felt it gathering its remaining strength it materialized it before me.
"In the shadows of twilight… the dark insects are as invisible as… normal beings are here…" 'so in other words I'll have to use my animal senses' The was a slight ripple in the air that, if it was my guess, the spirits attempt at a nod.
"Let me use the last of my power to reveal the location of the dark insects… that consumed the light..."
The spirit entered my mind once more. The locations of where its light should be appeared in my mind.
"Find the insects of darkness… The dark insects… They are the form taken by evil… once it has latched on to… our scattered light." So they're in the forms of insects… I shuddered, ugh I hate bugs...
I gave Midna the vessel of light and headed off the closest two. I saw little shocks of light moving around the tunnel and let at them. I got shocked when is touched me.
"aha ha!" Midna laughed. I gave her a look and she returned it. "Hey, You heard the spirit. Get going." I rolled my eyes a little and switched to my senses. I could only see a few feet in front of me but it was enough for me to take down the bugs. The tears of light burst out from them and floated around me. I collected them and head off through the rest of the woods to find the rest.
'two' I counted in my head. 'three four… five' I took them down around the bugs around the lantern oil guy's house.
'seven… ten…twelve' Soon enough I had already filled the vessel of light and was somehow back in Faron's springs again. I let the vessel travel from my hand into his springs. It had restored his powers.
Midna hopped to the middle of the spring.
"Aww, but it was so nice here in the twilight… What so greet about a world of light, anyway." Folding her arms she laughed. "Eee Hee, see you later!" She disappeared a moment later.
Faron appeared after she had gone, the same way Faron did. Now he was in his true form of a monkey of some sort. Faron had similar markings as Ordona had and the same overpowering feeling.
"My name is Faron. I am one of the spirits of light who dwell in Hyrule. I use the life foresee of the gods to pretext this forest." It spoke in my mind. I heard a the sound of runching leaves behind me but i didn't dare turn away from the protector of the forest.
"O brave youth… In the land covered in twilight, where people roam as spirits, you were transformed into a blue-eyed beast… That was a sign."
'turing into a mutt was a sign?'
"It was a sign that the powers of the chosen rest within you… and that they are awakening."
He looked me straight in the eye before continuing.
"Look at your awakened form..."
I looked at myself. I had turned back into my human form when Faron dispersed the twilight. Strange how I didn't notice it with the difference in views from each forms.
I wasn't wearing my normal ranch clothes, no. I had on a green tunic with a layer of chainmail underneath, tan pants and a sleeves, brown leather boots and thick gauntlets. The sword and shield Midna had held onto for me were on my back. The sword was sheathed and it's hilt was hovering over my shoulder in an accessible position.
There were two pouches attached to my belt. I reached inside one of them and found the slingshot I had bought from Beth's mother. Though the slingshot was much bigger than the pouch itself it fit itself inside and seemed to make not the slightest difference in weight.
I must have looked silly, examining my clothing. It's a strange feeling waking up in an outfit you're not familiar with. I realized that Faron was speaking to me as i was inspecting myself. I didn't quite catch everything he was hearing.
'Did he say something about a hero? chosen by gods? So these clothes are his?'
"His power is yours. His is the true power that slept within you." I looked up at him. "Your name is Link"
A twig snapped behing me, ruining the epic scene.
"Brave link…" He continued on. "A dark power rests in the temple deep within these woods. It is a forbidden power. Long, long ago, I and the other spirits of light locked it away. Because of its nature, it is a power that should never be touched by any who dwell in the light."
The water has already soaked through my boots. 'How long have i been standing here?'
"But this world weeps beneath a mantle of shadows, and so there is no choose… You must match the power of the kind of shadows. If you would seek this forbidden power, then proceed to the temple in the forest depths."
He disappeared in particles of light. And i was left alone. Out of the spring Midna appeared from my shadow.
"Well, well… You're the chosen hero and all that, huh? So THAT'S why you turned into that beast! What a shame.. I mean maybe you'd rather just wander as a spirit like the rest of them, totally unaware of what was happening for all eternity… right?"
I cringed at Midna's words. As easy as that would have been, I'd much rather be able to do something than wait for someone to do it for me.
"Eee hee hee!" She noticed my reaction. "So.. What do you want to do? Do you want to head to that temple? Well isn't that convenient! I was about to head there myself."
'oh sure, you were…'
"Hey look… You want to help your friends, right?" That got my attention. "The way i see it, maybe they're in that temple waiting for you to rescue them…"
'highly unlikely but if there is a chance that they are…'
"Well, good luck Mr. Important Hero!" She disappeared on that note, back to being my shadow. I had to go to that temple and save my friends… If they were there of course. Then there's that whole matter of that dark power. With that said I started foreword only to trip over my own feet clothed in boots.
I heard Midna giggle from within my shadow. I stood back up and dusted myself off. These clothes were going to need a getting used to. There was already dirt embedded into the sleeves of the tunic. Whoever had this last sure was wreckless.
I paced a little around the little field readjusting to my human body. I sat down in the grass resting my eyes on a nearby horse grass to my left. I took the reed in my hand and blew the melody that Epona could hear from miles away. She had never failed to come to me, until now. A loneliness filled the air as seconds passed.
Where was she?
Unable to think about anything other than the welfare of my steed. I tested my sword against the two bokubaba's in the tunnel. Satisfied with my skills, I went through Faron woods to find the Forest temple. I reached the locked gate.
I could no longer dig under it so i went to Coro to see if he could help me. He looked at me somewhat confused but then greeted me after a second.
"So… it's the Ordonian!"
"Yeah it's me again." I replied.
"Yeah, you seemed familiar, but then your clothes seemed kinda different, so i got thrown off for a second!"
"yeah, some things happened, so now i have to wear this." I scratched my head. 'where did my clothes go anyway?'
"Listen…" He got serious, a strange thing for a guy so happy go lucky. I leaned in
"I'm listening"
"Things have been a little rough around here lately, so you should watch your step, OK, guy?"
"I've noticed…"
"There are so many monsters now… I got kinda scared and closed off the path to the temple."
"…" If he locked it and it hasn't been knocked down like Ordon's gates… Then my friends are probably not there.
"But… You, guy… You wanna get back there, huh?" I nodded.
"There's something i need to take care of." He understood what i meant and reached for something on his side.
"You sure do look geared up for it…" He gestured to my sword. "So here you go!"
Coro pressed a small key in my hand. It felt sturdy enough but looked as if it would break at any moment.
"Oh yeah, The woods on the other side of this cave are covered in really thick fog, so make sure your lantern is full!"
"Getting a little business while your at it… Fine I'll get it filled." I handed him my lantern and he filled it to the brim for 10 rupees.
"Oh hey! check this out! I have a special one-time offer of a bottle full of lantern oil for only 100 rupees! How 'bout it guy?what a bargain!"
…I already have a full lantern so i don't really see the need for more oil. But that bottle seems tempting. Rusl had a bottle before… we broke it.
"Okay i'll buy it." I fished out 100 rupees from my wallet and Curo gave me a bottle of oil in exchange.
"Thanks a lot guy! Here you go!"
"Thank you." I was about to leave when he said something else.
"And hey…" He sounded kinda nervous. "Keep using that lantern so you'll come back and buy more oil, OK, guy?"
I nodded and walked back to the gate. 'was i his only customer?' The key broke after unlocking the gate. I ran through the tunnel avoiding the keese. I can never get rid of those things so why bother.
When i exited the tunnel i could have sword I heard someone yell. Something along the lines of:
"Stupid keese!"
But might of been my voicing me own thoughts.
Ahh! so so sorry for the late review. My internet was down so I couldn't do my proper Zelda research for this chapter T^T. I am sincerely sorry.
though I am still to blame XD. Even after the internet got back on i didn't work on this chapter until recently... I was just out of that writing mood.
So yeah... i am very sorry! _
[edit] my internet went down yet again so i was unable to post this sooner… Again i'm sorry
[edit…] i hate my router… it's always crashing on me… This chapter was going to be longer but well i'm cutting it short. I'll tag along the lines of the gameplay for a while until i can really change up the story XD
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