Chapter 4

I was about half way up the path to the temple when I heard the strangest noise I'd ever heard, I turned to find the source but got a surprise when I was knocked back hard enough to send me flying over the edge of the small pathway. I grabbed onto what had just slammed into me and groaned, "Not you, I thought you were in the Twilight not here."

The girl with the same name as me but with a diffrent letter just grinned, "Not sure how it works but your friends can't see me, just you, so to them it looks like a ghost just knocked you off the path." Then it dawned on me, we were falling, and not just a few feet, I couldn't see the ground.

"Are you freakin' crazy," I said struggling to get out of the crazy girls grasp, "let go, I don't know about you but I'm not ready to die quite yet." Getting fed up with her I finally got an arm free and smacked her square in the forehead with my palm. She lost her grip and began to fall back slightly, I quickly pushed off her to a nearby tree and latched on with my right hand. Now that the rushing air had stopped I could actually think for a minute. My only problem is I have no other way to climb this tree other then my clawed glove... I mean if there were tree branches I could maybe jump from one to another on the way up, but no, its a ginormous tree with zero branches, is that possible?!

From behind me I heard a laugh and turned to see Kris just floating there. "Oh come on, how is that fair," I said being completely serious. She just laughed again and continued to float there watching me. I looked up and couldn't even see the path I had fallen from, well of course not, you fell for like half a minute, so that's like 4000 feet or something..."Midna, Link," I yelled hoping regardless of my distance they may hear me. I waited half a second and heard no response.

"The only way your going to get back up there is with my help, but I'll only help you if you agree to serve me for the rest of your life," Kris cackled still looming over me like a hungry vulture.

"Ha, that's laughable," I said following it with a plainly obvious fake laugh, "not only would I not want to be your slave but that agreement would conflict with a previously made one." She looked at me questioningly and I sighed, "I was imprisoned in Hyrule Castle, Midna promised to free me if I was her slave," I mumbled the last part and looked up the tree to figure out how to climb it. Kris looked thoughtful for a second and then simply vanished.

"Don't worry, we'll meet again," her voice echoed through the air and then it was deadly silent.

"That's the fact that has me worried, second time we meet she throws us both down a really long pit, what's going to happen next time, set me on fire," I asked a bug that had just landed on the tree next to me. I came up with an idea that would most likely take me a long while but it may be the only way. I looked for any bumps in the tree slightly below my waist level, scrunched my legs high enough to get a grip on the spot then quickly pulled out my clawed glove pushed straight up as hard as I could and waited for myself to slow before thrusting my hand back into the tree. "So, that's like, a hundred out of 4000 feet, this going to take a day, or ten..." I said completely exasperated. After about twenty times doing this same routine I could actually see the path, it was merely a spec in the sky above but it was there. My hand had barely gone into the tree this time, I had had to thrust it into solid wood to many times, my legs were becoming rubbery and each time I tried to push off I nearly slipped. Five more times and I could no longer bring myself any higher, I have to try though, I thought lifting myself to a small bump and setting my feet on it. I yanked my glove out and felt my feet slide right off the bump.

"Sh..." CLUNK, I had started to swear but my head smacked straight into the tree. I felt myself falling, for what felt like an eternity, then I saw the ground fast approaching. Well, I guess this is where my story ends,I thought closing my eyes and preparing for the worst. Oddly enough I felt no different, knowing I should have hit the ground I opened my eyes. To my complete and utter shock I had stopped with my nose half of a millimeter away from the ground. I opened my mouth to swear again but all that came out was a gargling gasp. Suddenly a loud voice boomed in my head THE GODDESSES WISH TO TEST YOU, DO YOU ACCEPT? Ouch, not so loud, make me go deaf why don't ya'? DO YOU ACCEPT? If it'll get you to stop breaking my ear drums then yes. Everything went completely white for a moment then suddenly shifted to a new scene.

THE GODDESSES DO NOT THINK YOU WORTHY OF TRAVELLING WITH THEIR HERO, SO IN ORDER TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE NOT THEY HAVE ISSUED THREE TESTS, WHICH YOU WILL FAIL AND THEN BE BANISHED FROM THIS REALM."Ouch, harsh much," I said completely depressed by the "Goddesses" cruelty. "So, um, Mr. big voice guy, what exactly do these "challenges" entail," I got no response but almost immediately after I finished I heard something behind me. I turned to see a shadowy figure standing there, as it drew it's sword and shield I got into a ready stance preparing myself for the worst. Just then I noticed it looked exactly like Link. Just as I noticed this however it appeared right in front of me and bashed me hard with it's shield hurling me backwards. "All right fine, if you wanna cheap shot me when I'm not paying attention," I said jumping to my feet only to be knocked high into the air. I caught a glimpse of my foe as he leapt up to slash me, I spun and grabbed his sword.

Suddenly everything went dark, "Oh, come on," I yelled in the pitch black only to have the light turn intensely bright. When my eyes refocused I saw the figure that was shaped by Link standing there, I got ready for him to attack but was caught off guard when another sword swung at me from my right, barely managing to duck in time I also shifted my gaze over in the direction of the attack. "Oh what the hell," I said completely flustered as now there was about three hundred of the strange evil Links all around me now. I kicked the one that just attacked me back and he vanished with a poof. There's a lot but they aren't too tough, do I seriously have to beat ALL of these guys, I thought preparing for maybe a few to run at me at the worst. Suddenly I saw something that horrified me, every single one of these new Link copies held their sword as if they were preparing to charge me.

My fear was quickly realized as every one of them charged me, some of them jumping high up to attack me from the air. "I don't care how many of you there are, I'll defeat every last one," I yelled grabbing the nearest attacking Link and swirling hima round to bash about six more, I then tossed him into another large group. Swords came at me from every direction but I continued to parry, block, dodge and counter, until there was only one left. This last one however seemed reluctant to attack me, so I tried taunting it, "Oh, come on (pant) I'm all tired out from battling the first couple hundred and the last one is scared to fight me." Needless to say it stayed put however, "All right fine, if you won't attack me I'm coming yo get you!" I charged my foe with speed that surprised me due to my current exhaustion. Commonly as you get closer to something it appears to get bigger, (if you didn't know that, well, that's really too bad, now you know however XD) the problem with my situation is, regardless of the speed I was approaching my foe "appeared" to be getting larger much quicker then he should have been. Then when I gt right next to his foot I realized that he had been enlarging as I had gotten closer, quite literally, in fact he was probably now over two stories tall.

"Is it just me or does this fight seem to become a little more unfair every couple minutes..." I said aloud to no one in particular. The only answer I got was from this new giant evil Link, who tried to stomp me into the ground. "Fine, I'll just have to test the old saying 'the bigger they are, the harder they fall" I said leaping forward and jabbed my hand as deep into the evil Link's foot as I could. It was just enough to make him jump back. I leapt forward again and this time kicked him hard in the shin. He stumbled backwards this time. Coming at him one last time I bashed his knee cap hard and he fell onto his back with a massive KERBLAM. "Well that was a satisfyingly hard fall, was it enough to take him down though," I asked leaping up onto it's torso and walking up to it's head. Before I reached it however everything flashed white and I fell down a short distance hard on my butt. "Ow, now what," I said rubbing my butt and my eyes waiting for them to adjust after the flash.

"It would appear I've misjudged you brave adventurer," I heard a younger woman's voice ring out in the blinding light that was my vision. The voice did not sound like just any woman's voice however it seemed, almost uplifting, as though just her voice could fill you with the courage to take on a hundred raging warriors.

"Um," I started but the woman obviously foresaw my question.

"I am the goddess of courage, Farore," she said just as my eyes seemed to start adjusting to the earlier flash. I looked in the direction of the voice only to see extremely bright green light.

"What's with the whole light hiding your appearance from me thing," I asked and heard the goddess giggle, did I seriously just make a goddess giggle at me.

"Well we are goddesses and do not reveal ourselves to just anyone, you may be allowed the great privelage of gazing upon my beauty after you have completed all three of our challenges," she said giggling once more. "Now then, you have a choice to make, I'm restoring you back to Hyrule however, would you like me to put you back exactly where I took you from," at this I raised an eyebrow.

"You mean with my nose half a millimeter away from the ground about to splat on some forest floor, no thanks... wait a sec, your the goddess of courage, so you tested... my courage then," I asked feeling like it was a stupid yet valid question.

"Yes," she replied very simply and quietly.

"So how exactly did these three little test correspond with my courage," I asked slightly understanding the giant enemy.

"Well, for one the figure you fought was that of the rightful holder of the Triforce of courage," duh, knew that, I thought waiting for her to go on, "the first was actually much quicker however and stronger, the fact you had enough courage to grab hold of his blade proved your worth of that test, the hundreds of enemies is plainly obvious, the fact you fought on regardless of how many of these potentially strong enemies came at you proved you worthy once again, and I have a feeling you already understand the final challenge?" I nodded and she moved on, "Well, since you don't want to go "splat" on the forest floor I suppose that means you'd like me to place you inside the temple which our hero has entered."

"Uh, oh, you mean Link," I asked remembering Link was the "hero chosen by the goddesses."

"Yes," she replied again and I nodded, "then I shall place you one room ahead of him, he will enter shortly after you have re-entered Hyrule, in addition I have granted you a new power that you will realize shortly after entering the twilight once again. Oh, and I believe out hero has found you a little something he cannot use for himself." With that I saw a beautiful hand wave over my hand and suddenly I was in a dimly lit, damp room, facing a huge door with a big lock on it. Only a few seconds after I felt gravity set back in, making me guess I had been "restored" to Hyrule, I heard a door behind me open and I turned around to see Link watching something. I looked to see what he was watching and saw a large group of monkeys creating a chain of monkeys that looked rather similar to those old monkeys in a barrel toys where you had to make a long chain of plastic little monkeys. Not to long of standing there and I saw a translucent looking figure rise out of the ground next to Link and a familiar voice rang out.

"CHRIS," was the single word yelled so loud it sounded as if Midna had been standing right next to me yelling it in my ear. Midna floated across the gap as Link ran and grabbed onto the end of the chain of monkeys and used them to swing across to this huge door, which I now safely assumed was the boss door. "Where have YOU been," Midna asked looking upset that she had lost one of her "servants." I scratched the back of my head, "Hehe, well, I'm not sure you'd believe be even if I told you," I said recalling the last time they had seen me I had fallen off a huge cliff.

Sorry about how long it took me to update, I've been tryin to do too much at one time and it just doesn't work. Please review if you got the time, if not, oh well, I gotta go play Twilight Princess so I can remember how it goes XD.