Author's Note: I don't own Legend of Zelda or any of the characters, etc. and this is last time I'm doing a disclaimer as it's obvious I don't own them and I doubt much to that fact changing between chapters :P.

Chapter 2

I fell onto my back and layed there for half a second, mostly in shock, then I got a look at what had latched itself onto my face and was greeted by an extremely strange sight. "MMMM," I attempted to scream, it being muffled by the creature which immediately jumped up off my face and let out a similar scream. To my extreme shock a large hand rose up from behind it's head and slapped me square across the face. "Ow," I mumbled rubbing my cheek, "that smarts ya' know," I said hoping this creature actually could understand me.

"Well, maybe if you would watch where you are going awkward situations like that wouldn't occur," the creature which not only was I shocked could talk but I now had a pretty decent ground to say was female.

"Amazing, I didn't think any of you weird... things could talk, and your probably the most unique one I've seen so far, mind you the other six were all about the same," I said causing her to shoot me an angry look.

"EXCUSE ME, DID YOU JUST CALL ME WEIRD," she blared at me causing me to almost fall back onto my back again.

"I apologize, but you've gotta admit you aren't exactly a normal sight around here, hell I'm not exactly what you would call a 'normal' sight myself," I stated holding up my now blackened arm. "Heh, for a minute I thought you were one of them, but unlike them you have common sense, a much higher ability to think, different powers, and not to mention an actual clear gender and free will."

"Hmm, I can't tell if your trying to mock me or compliment me," she said floating down a bit. I now actually got a decent look at her, she had black and white skin, but it was in a pattern that appeared as though she was wearing clothes, a few strange markings on her legs, arms and hands that glowed bright blue. Her ears had similar markings, her odd head piece covered flaming red hair that ended in that large hand she had used to slap me earlier. Her face was odd however, though one eye was covered her other always seemed to clearly show her emotions, and whether she seemed happy or was secretly plotting my gruesome death she had this evil grin that nearly went straight across her face.

"Umm," I started but she became abruptly impatient without any real reason and interrupted me.

"What, out with it," she yelled glaring at me once again.

"Two thoughts, first of all, for a creature who looks... well... rather evil actually, your pretty cute," I said with a big stupid grin on my face, she just replied with another glare, I sighed, "second of all, your not the same as them, the pattern of your skin almost looks like clothing, I'm thinking you didn't always look like this?" She looked saddened suddenly. "Oh, hey, if you don't wanna talk about it I'm fine with that, but ya' know I'm a good listener so if you got something to say I'm all ears," I said as she looked up a bit more.

"Thanks, but all I'll tell you for the moment is that, my name is Midna, and I have a feeling you won't find much else out about me for a while at least," she said with a small smirk on her face.

"Oh, and why's that," I asked entirely clueless to her reasoning for this statement. She just giggled and pointed behind me. I turned my head and saw one of the shadow creatures from earlier. "Oh, what the hell, I thought I lost yooouuuu," I yelled, as it grabbed my leg, when I got up to run, and threw me over it's head toward the spring. As I flew I reached for something to grab and got a hold of Midna's leg somehow.

"Let go of me," she yelled using the big hand to pull herself quickly out of my grasp and over to a tree limb. I fell to the ground in the wide open area right in front of the spring, rolled a few times. Then I managed to plant one of my feet and did a spinning lift to my feet. Quickly taking in my surroundings I noticed only one thing, I was not being attacked yet. So a surprise attack is it, I thought still shifting my vision around the clearing. Suddenly I heard rustling on several sides at once, and as I suspected shadow creatures jumped out from each side ready to attack. They abruptly landed and all began striking me. They were far more aggressive this time around, they had practically turned me into a punching bag. Around and around I went until the hits became too painful and I blacked out.

To my utter shock I awoke, however slightly less shocking was the fact my hands were chained above my head and I was in a prison cell. I attempted to sigh but no sound came out of my mouth. As I could not see my face I looked down and noticed that my hand had spread darkness up my arm in swirling lines and it had reached my shoulder and neck, obviously it had covered my mouth with something disabling my speech. Hanging there alone I started thinking, I always regretted these moments later and I expected this thought process to be no exception but there was no stopping my brain once it started. I thought about my family, I had to admit even thought this all was kinda fun I did miss them a bit, my friends too. I do have one neat little thing to say outta this, I died twice, hehe I've died twice and I'm still here to whine about it, how's that for twisted, I finished my thought process when I heard a echo, "I found you!"

This voice was followed shortly by a growl, I closed my eyes to listen in better. The voice replied, "Oooh, aren't you scary," the growling continued and the voice spoke on, "Eee hee! Are you sure you want to be doing that? Snarling and glaring at me?" I couldn't believe I was just recognizing it now, it was Midna. "Well that's too bad..." she said as the growling still continued, "I was planning on helping you... if you were nice." To no surprise the growling stopped and Midna giggled a bit, "That's much better! You humans are obedient to a fault, aren't you?" The growling started up again, who is she talking to, or what, I thought turning my head to make sure I could still hear. "Oops! But you AREN'T a human anymore, are you? You're a beast," she yelled giggling again. I heard a snapping sound and more growling, followed by a giggle and Midna spoke again, "There, there. You be a good boy and calm down. No need to bite," I heard a strange crackling noise followed by a snap and chains jingling, "You look kind of surprised!"

Midna giggled once again, did she ever stop? "So! I bet your wondering, where exactly are we?! Well, I'll make you a deal. If you can get over here, maybe I'll tell you!" she said giggling once more as she finally stopped chattering and gave a large yawn. I struggled against my restraints but to no avail. Then suddenly I heard a large thump and then what sounded like a dog digging through dirt. Then Midna's ever increasingly annoying giggle rang through the air. I then heard growling a snapping noises as Midna talked over them, "HMPH! I guess your not completely stupid after all!" "Listen, I like you, so I think I'll get you out of here. But in exchange for my help, you have to do EXACTLY as I say." Oh wait, what the hell am I doing I need to get out of here too, I thought turning my head to look up at the chains holding my hands above my head. I curled my shadowy hand and tried to reach the lock, hoping I could pick it with one of my claws. It was too far to reach however and I decided to just struggle some more.

Then after a moment of jingling my restraints I heard a voice outside my cell. "Well, well, look who we have here," I recognized the voice as Midna's right away. "I only thought they brought dog boy here, but looks like they just chucked you inside the nearest cell," she said coming through the bars into my cell. "What's the matter, cat got your tongue, or has my beauty left you speechless," she asked causing me to roll my eyes. She noticed and turned around, looking around my cozy little room, "Well, I WAS going to get you down but I can see your not going to be very nice either, so I guess we'll just pull that lever there and leave," she said gesturing toward the hanging lever inside my cell. Dammit if they leave I'm stuck here, but if I go with them I'm gonna end up in some kind of deal where I'm getting ripped off. I slumped over in defeat, Midna took notice and asked, "So your ready to listen to my deal then?" I nodded and giggled with absolute glee, "First off, no attacking me when I let you down," I nodded and she continued, "Second, you have to promise to come with me and dog boy over there and do exactly as I say, got it?" I sighed inwardly but nodded again.

"Goody, now I have two little pets," she giggled zapping the chains holding my hands above me. The wolf outside my cage growled a bit at this statement, expressing about my exact feelings too. Midna went toward the cell door to let the wolf in but I reached out and stopped her. She sighed, "It's fine he wasn't exactly always a wolf, the Twilight changed him into, a lot like your arm there." I tilted my head in a questioning manner. "He was some blonde guy, clothes looked rather shabby, I'm guessing he came from the village nearby," she answered my silent question. Whoa, Link, looks like this darkness, err "The Twilight" changes some people, Link's a wolf, he probably can jump higher and... well, do wolf stuff whereas I have a stronger right arm and can't talk because it covers my mouth. It was then I noticed my hands were still linked together, doing so I raised my hands to Midna who just giggled and said, "I can't do everything, you've gotta help yourself once and a while," at this I slumped my head and began pondering some method of ridding myself of these annoying restraints.

"All right, time to get out of here, one of you be a good boy and pull that lever," she said pointing to the same lever she pointed out earlier. I looked over at Link who already jumped up and bit onto the lever. Maybe Midna was right, well about Link anyways, doesn't even wait, just follows commands blindly. "All right let's get going," Minda commanded jumping onto Link's back. I'm not sure if that's just convenient or if Midna's lazy, I thought following them down the tunnel that had opened inside my cell. When we reached the end I saw some sort of floating flame. Midna poked Link, "That's a spirit, since your a beast you can hone your senses and listen in on what he has to say, who knows, might be something useful." We continued on, having to stomp the occasional black blob, until we reached a long section of tunnel covered in spikes. Link ran off to find some way over but I decided to just do something a little fancy if not dangerous. I backed up got a running start jumped and managed to get myself about half way across right next to the wall, which I then pushed off off and went soaring the remaining distance just in time for the water level to rise and Link soon swam over with Midna still sitting on his back.

Entering the next section of tunnels Link turned left and I continued to follow as Midna had proclaimed herself my "master" until further notice. Midna upon noticing the bars that blocked our path ahead floated off Link's back and right through them much like she had done with the bars of my cell and I had guessed Link's as well. She gave him a similar speech to my earlier help yourself one and he ran off to find a path ahead. I wanted to ask Midna a lot of questions but again could not because of the accursed growth of my right hand over my face. I did however stare at Midna with a look that said I had questions, while trying to pick the lock on my left restraint, long enough that she eventually grew mad with me. "Why don't you go help out that kid instead of trying so hard to remove a weak piece of metal from your hand," she said almost yelling. I shook my head no and continued picking the lock, then she giggled drawing my attention to her, "Ah, I get it, your too stupid to be of any help!" I was enraged, I yanked my arms to the sides and felt a SNAP. Looking down I saw that the restraint had broken upon my forcive movement.

I raised my hands high in the air in celebration, but my glee was cut short by another giggle following the hitting of my own head by the now dangling cuff. Slightly angry I tried to curl my right hand over to pick the lock but the claws weren't quite long enough. Getting flustered I put the cuff on the ground stomped on it and pulled up hard and fast, snapping the chain about halfway up it. I stretched my arms happily, finally being able to move them again felt extremely good.

Suddenly the water level fell and again Link arrived shortly following the event which I was sure he caused. I hopped down and forced my way through a small hole he had crawled through, having to occasionally expand the hole by using my claw to dig. Catching up to Midna and Link I saw Link jump across a missing part of stairway only to have the piece he landed on break under him and get Midna frustrated. I simply got a running start and jumped across any of the gaps until there was almost an entire floor of stairs missing, at which point I was forced to test my balance with a tight rope walk. Again I got a bit of a run and jumped the rest of the way up, almost falling twice, and waiting near the top for about ten seconds for Link to catch up. Link ran into the next room, bringing down the shadow bats and then looking up to the door above us. "Any clue where we are yet, no, well I have a feeling when you reach the top you may figure it out," she said floating over to a spot where Link could jump to. I attempted to follow, doing good until the last jump when I lost my footing and almost fell.

I slipped backward and was facing the roof directly when I felt a rather large hand grab hold of my own outstretched hand. I looked up to see Midna's hair hand holding onto my own. "We don't have time for you to fall now come on," she said using Link's weight to pull me back up. Did I see a flicker of concern in Midna's eyes just there, nah, seeing things, I get the feeling she just wants us to help her for her own means then chuck us out like yesterday's news, I thought following them outside now. To my shock I actually did recognize this place now, or at least I was pretty sure I did. It was a castle, I saw a few Triforce symbols here and there, automatic instinct told me it was Hyrule Castle.

"There's someone I want you two too meet, but you have to get me over to that tower first," Midna said pointing rather far away but tracing backward from the tower I saw an easy path and jumped down to run ahead with a little salute, as if saying sarcastically, 'of course my master.' I ran along the path I had traced out jumping over a short wall, smacking down a few birds and trying to clear a large jump and almost missing the roof I needed to land on to climb into the tower. To my extreme luck there was a stone sticking out over the edge of the roof, which when I swung my hand the chain still attached to my wrist wrapped itself around. I pulled myself up the chain and clambered onto the roof. Running along it and smacking a few more birds out of my path I reached the tower but only half a minute before courageous Link and the ever demanding Midna caught up. "You just like to run ahead don't you, maybe I'll have to stick to you for now, to slow you down," she said as Link panted. Knowing her the way I do, so far, she probably made Link run twice as fast to try and catch up, I thought jogging now just to keep up with Link as we entered the tower and entered a room at the top.

As we entered the room we saw a cloaked figure on the other side of the room, due to my previous experience with cloaked figures I was on my guard, ready to attack, as was Link by the sounds of his growl. However when the figure turned and I got the feeling it was gentle and posed no real threat. Link approached the figure, obviously sensing the same thing I did, and for some reason beyond my understanding Midna rolled her eyes. I shrugged and followed them to the other side of the room. After a brief second the figure obviously recognized Midna, "...Midna!?"

Ah great more long conversations, fun, I thought as Link looked back at Midna and she finally replied with another of her Eee Hee giggles, "You remembered my name? What an honor for me..."

"So, this is the one for whom you were searching..." the figure whom I had determined was another female said looking at Link as he returned the glance.

"He's not exactly what I had in mind, but... I guess he'll do," Midna replied with a bit of a nod. This new woman then looked over at me with her head tilted down slightly so all I could see was her chin.

"But, what of this other one, I thought you went seeking only that one, why did you return with two," the woman asked Midna looking back over to her when the sentence was finished, I think she had hoped I would do the same as she tried to peek around her hood to get a good look at my face but retracted her face as soon as she made eye contact.

"Well, I saw him get attacked as well, it took a few of the shadow beasts to bring him down," at this I quickly turned on my heel to face Midna with a look of 'WHAAAT' in my eyes. She rolled her eyes, "It took six beating him like a punching bag, happy now," she said looking over at me as I now looked content we continued the conversation. "I brought him here to test him too, I'm not entirely sure he can be trusted so far," to which I rolled my eyes and turned back to face the woman, whom quickly shifted her head again meaning, probably, that she had gotten a look at my face.

She bent down, noticed Link's chained leg and then turned her head toward me again, "...They were imprisoned?" Pausing for a moment, I got a feeling of sadness from her and then she continued, "I am sorry."

Midna cut in suddenly, "Poor things have no idea where this is or what's happened... So, don't you think you should explain to them what you've managed to do? You owe them that much..." The pause between this half of her sentence and the next seemed to last a long time, "... Twilight Princess! Eee Hee!" I almost choked hearing this, all I knew about this game was that it was going to be called Twilight Princess and that, I thought that Zelda was the Twilight princess and, oh duh, she was under that hood, I thought coming to the realization that I was talking to Princess Zelda.

The woman I presumed Zelda continued on telling Link and I that this land was once Hyrule and it had been transformed by the "king that rules the twilight." Would that be Ganondorf, but that would mean Zelda's his daughter?!?! Oh no, wait he could have usurped her, duh... I thought relieving myself of any strange plot twists. We were also informed of how Zelda lost her kingdom and the creatures who now rules shunned the light. I was shocked at how easily Zelda's guards were taken out by the shadow creatures, but then these were probably elites versus your average cowardly guard so down goes guard. She then told us how all the people had turned into spirits when the twilight covered them, but they hadn't the slightest clue. Then she confirmed my earlier presumption. "The kingdom succumbed to twilight, but I remain its princess..." as she removed her hood Link sat back almost causing Midna to fall off his back. "I am Zelda," she very simply stated.

"You don't have to look so sad," Midna proclaimed at her. "We actually find it to be quite livable! I mean, is perpetual twilight really all that bad," Midna asked almost causing me to choke on nothing again.

"Midna... this is no time for levity. The shadow beasts have been looking far and wide for you," Zelda said in an almost scolding manor. I turned toward her with a look on my face that asked the same question that Zelda stated next, "Why is this?" I wonder if that's why she was so desperate for me to let go of her in those woods earlier, she didn't want those shadow beasts to notice her, I thought as Midna floated up and turned aways from everyone.

"Why indeed? You tell me," she responded with a slightly longer giggle following, she's nervous, she always laughs longer when shes nervous, I thought noticing her far too obvious tell.

"Time has grown short. The guard will soon make his rounds. You must leave here, quickly," she said as Midna jumped back onto Link's back. We left the room but the guard came in as we were heading down the stairs so we ended up jumping through the same hole in the wall we came in. I walked slowly across the roof but saw Midna turn into Colin and another girl I had not seen. As I cam close Link suddenly turned into a bunch of black squares and flew off. My eyes wide I stood there until Midna popped up on my shoulder.

"Maybe I'll follow you around for a bit this time," she said, with what I think was a wink. I had no time to react however as I felt my body fall apart, it was as extremely odd feeling, like losing large chunks of yourself, but all at once and without any actual pain.

Well that's the end of chapter 2, man I'm so glad they added spell check on the site :D. I couldn't do it myself because my computer was stupid and came with Word"pad" its like a crappy version of Microsoft Word --. Any-who thanks for reading, leave a review if you want, all reviews are appreciated :)