What it lead to was apparently a sewer, "Must be under the city or somethin'..." He paused upon seeing what looked like a small blue flame. He walked over and tilted his head at it "Huh... What's this?" He held out his hand to touch it.

"I wouldn't." Midna said, "That's a spirit."

Sora pulled his hand back, "A what?"

"What happens when ordinary people are exposed to twilight. They turn into spirits when drawn away from their precious light."

Sora frowned, "Oh..." He turned his head to Midna, still lounging in his hood, "But wait, why am I not a spirit?"

Midna shrugged, "How am I supposed to know? You were just kind of thrown in that cell with your corporeal form maintained somehow."

Sora stared at the spirit awhile, wondering why he wasn't the same. He then turned, seeing that the sewer was a little bigger than he thought. "Huh." He sloshed in the walkway only a second before something black skittered by his feet. He jumped back; he was weapon-less, so a monster wouldn't be a good thing to face right now.

"It was just vermin. Nothing to worry about you scaredy pants." Midna sighed.

Sora clasped his hands together, "I dunno, I'm kinda powerless here."

"Wow, I didn't think you'd be such a coward." Midna yawned a little and settled in Sora's hood. Sora glared at her, then looked around.

He walked through a gate, noting the chain hanging around, and the spikes down in one direction, " Okay, not that way..."

There was a chain- or at least he thought it was a chain this light strained his eyes and made shadows creep in his vision the farther and farther things were -down one way and possibly a gate of some kind.

He hopped down and walked over to the gate, then felt around, "Okay, okay then we can get out this way, but how." he began pulling from the bottom, "Do. I. Open it?!" He sighed and backed up, Midna's taunting giggles not helping the anger rushing to his head. He then noted something orange and cyan with a hand at the end above his head pointing to the chain. "Oh." He jumped up to the walkway and grabbed it, and the supposed route of escape was revealed to be a sluice.

Treading water was easy enough for him, but containing his annoyance wasn't. "Ugh! That was supposed to be our way out!" He whined as he splashed at the water. Shortly after he coughed, more blood coming up. He laid down, continuing to cough at a violent rate.

"Jeez, you okay kid?" Midna asked, "I didn't know you were such a wimp-"

"This normally doesn't happen to me!" Sora snapped at her. He turned over and threw up. Shortly after he washed up his hands, the apparent episode of sickness done, "I don't know what's going-" He took off his gloves, "...on..." He looked at his hands, specifically the veins and arteries at his wrists. They were darker, looking sickly and poisoned.

Midna cheekily prodded his neck, "Same deal up here, spiky."

Sora didn't snap back at her as he raised his hand to his neck. Whatever pulse he felt was syncopated and weak. He puffed up his bangs, unsure how to deal with this new development. He checked his bag, bringing out a potion, then uncorked it and drank up, feeling that maybe that would cure up whatever illness this was.

He was about to throw away the bottle like he always did before Midna said, "You probably wanna keep that."

Sora stood, noting Midna was now leaning on his shoulder, "Why."

"Keep the blood of your enemies, imprison fairies, and the like." She laughed at his disgusted expression, and plopped back into his hood.

Sora then noted the water was high enough to swim over the spikes, and sighed as he splashed in to continue on, "There's gotta be an out somewhere..."

He walked past a spirit, and flinched at a brief flash of fear: "What are these black things... Where are they coming from... And how do we get out of here?!" He stopped and held a hand to his head. He quietly tried ignoring the thought but it just kept coming back-

"Incoming!"

Sora's head snapped up just as one of the little "black things" chomped at his leg. He yelled in pain and shook it off, then kicked it back into the shadows. As he pulled out bandages for his leg- he wanted his stock of potions to last as long as it could, after all -he growled at Midna, "You want help from me you gotta pull more weight than that!"

Midna only yawned some more, "You only got a boo-boo."

Sora tied up his bandage, "I'll be lucky if that doesn't get mildly infected." He then noted a few bars separating what looked like a way back, "Well ther- HEY!"

Midna flew out of his hoodie and phased through the bars. She waved her ponytail at him, "Well, come on!"

Sora hopped around until he got as close as he could get, and noted dismally there was nothing but bars. Much better kept bars, "I can't get through this!"

"Then find a way!" Midna said unhelpfully.

Sora looked around again, "But I can't-" he stopped himself when he saw the crawlspace flooded by water. He turned around, "Gimme a sec." He grinned when he spotted the next sluice not too far away in the opposite direction. He made his way over to the chain dangling at the intersection, ignored the spirit huddling in the corner down the way, and pulled.

There was a creak, but the gate didn't open, "Hu- AGH!" Sora was attacked by another shadowy beast, but his size proved to be a better weapon when he threw it off and managed to crush it under his foot.

He coughed up blood again, which he really didn't need when there was now a gash in his shoulder. He took another potion and hoped he could find a place to get more whenever push came to shove. He then jumped over to the other chain, and sighed in relief when it opened the sluice instead of an ambush.

After that he hopped down and tromped over to the crawlspace in triumph and made his way in. He ran past the spirit and grinned triumphantly at Midna, "Ha! Nailed it!"

She grinned sardonically at him, "Oh, but that was such an adventure, wasn't it?" She jumped back into his hood, "Too bad we still have a long way to go."

Sora sighed. He then walked up to the stairs, and noted there was several chunks missing from them, "That's great." He readied himself for a jump, "Haven't you people ever heard of mainten-ANNNCEEE!" The jump went great, but the stairs refused to play along and crumbled under Sora's feet. He landed in the water below with a hard knock to his jaw from the beginning of the staircase.

"What are you doing?!" Midna asked.

Sora only stood back up and walked back to the jump, "I can't make this easily-"

Midna floated over, "Here, focus on me. I apparently have to do everything for you."

Sora was about to rebuke that statement, but instead he did as Midna said and jumped afterwards. To his surprise he made the jump and the one that followed after easily. Midna stretched in his hoodie, "There you go!"

Sora didn't want to thank her- not yet at least -for that since it was really the first thing she'd done for him without an ulterior motive. He merely went up the rest of the stairs, occasionally with Midna's help again or kicking off shadow beasts or shimmying across ropes. At the top the door to what was presumably outside was locked, but Sora craned his neck upwards.

"Didn't lock the top, I see." He muttered at the swinging door higher up. He could see a glow, and he presumed that it was outside even more since it was swinging around from wind. He jumped up with the help of Midna, and laughed in giddy relief that it was all over.

I wouldn't quite say it's over yet Sora ;p also OH HO HO THIS ISN'T DEAD