Chapter 5

I stood there for a moment and couldn't help remembering that Farore had told me Link had found something only I could use. "So, find anything of use in this place," I asked, trying to sound purely curious due to the fact I had not been with them throughout the dungeon.

"Link got some fancy boomerang that creates a whirlwind," Midna stated and before I could ask to see it Link threw it across the room and I witnessed the spinning winds of the boomerang for myself. "We also found some useless dusty old cloak," Midna stated once Link's boomerang had returned. Link again almost immediately pulled out the previously mentioned item and showed me it. The odd thing was Midna had said it looked dusty but to me it seemed to be giving off a sort of aura.

"Um, would you mind if I tried that on," I asked and Midna gave me a slight look of disgust, Link handed it over though and after giving it a thorough shaking I swept it around my back and tied the thing on. I stood there for a second then suddenly I saw images flashing before my eyes and when it all stopped I had sudden knowledge of this cloak I now wore. I laughed slightly at its capabilities and Link and Midna both looked at me as if I had gone mad. I swept the cloak around myself as I spun on my heel so that it covered me from view for a moment and suddenly I appeared directly behind Link. They both gasped in astonishment not even noticing that I was now behind them, I tapped Link on the shoulder and he turned and jumped slightly when he saw me. I laughed again, "That's not all this thing can do either, wait a moment and I'll show you," I said and we did wait for about two minutes and then I suddenly grabbed the cloak crouched down and flipped it around myself. This time I had not moved but they both turned around half expecting me to be behind them again but I was still in the same spot, in fact I had stood back up. I was however still holding the cloak around myself so that only from my eyes up was uncovered.

"Okay, this isn't funny, where did you go," Midna asked sounding slightly frightened. I laughed heartily and suddenly threw the cloak off only having moved about two feet to my right.

"This cloak can give me the power of invisibility, if someone with an extremely sharp eye, or probably someone holding torch were to stand to close however they could most likely spot me right away, and it won't hide my footsteps either. The first power I showed you however discharges all the capes powers for about two minutes, the invisibility however will only stop me from turning invisible if I'm spotted, in which case I can still appear behind my foe... as soon as I put it on I knew all this, and that it is called the cloak of shadows," I said while Link and Midna stood and only half-listened to my explanation. "Now would you mind telling me, why exactly are we here again," I asked looking to Midna for an explanation.

"Well, to answer much more simply then you, we are here because I require the "dark power" hidden here to match the king of the twilight," she said pausing briefly, "and, I'm almost certain it's right through that door."

"Whoa, when did the "king" of the twilight come into this whole deal, I thought the princess of the twilight was the ruler right now..." I said suddenly losing track of the plot line.

Midna sighed, "Pay attention you moron, the princess was ruling, the king is a jerk who took over by force, duh," Midna said reminding me of Zelda's story. I stopped for a minute and connected the dots in my head and then nodded. "You ready to go then," Midna asked tilting her head at the huge locked door, I nodded again in reply. Link ran up to the door and jumped up pulling out and inserting a huge key into the lock, after turning it he dropped. The lock clicked, the outside rim spun, then suddenly it clicked again and fell along with the the four large chains holding it in place. Link grabbed the door and pulled it so it rolled open sideways and ran in, the door began to close and I was forced to jump through to get in before it shut. Through a small rather dark hall and then another door rolled open as we approached, after running in this door slammed shut behind us.

This room was only about half ground, the opposite half of the room was a rather deep looking pool of rather sickening purple water. Link took but a single step forward and suddenly the water very near the far end of the room started bubbling and two large plants rose out of the water, looking rather like a venus fly traps mouth. Now how am I supposed to attack, I haven't a single distance weapon,I thought but then noticed Link had quickly jumped into action. He had thrown his boomerang at such an angle that it picked up a bug-ish looking foe sitting inside a log, which promptly curled into a now pulsing ball, and brought it ever nearer to the plant on the right. The plant on the right looked as though it was preparing to attack Link when suddenly the boomerang brought the bug to its final destination and it suddenly exploded. My eyes went wide and I stared at Link who lept out of the way of a sudden attack from the left plant and then threw his boomerang once again catching a bug and bringing it to the plant.

Once hit both plants had promptly shriveled and fell into the water. Link looked overly proud when his boomerang came back after knocking out the second plant. "Come now Link, you don't think you went through all that hard work just to kill two measly plants for this "dark power" we need, do you," I asked, knocking Link's slight arrogance down a bit, "apparently whoever you ticked off scares those bomb bugs too." The two "bomb bugs" I had rather fittingly named them just at that moment had retreated into the logs in which they sat and the water began to bubble furiously. Suddenly the two plant heads popped back out followed closely by a larger plant that sat in the middle. This one however looked less plant like, it looked more like a thick root of some kind. Oddly enough when this new plant popped up and roared loudly, slathering me and Link in some kind of sticky sap/ saliva, I noticed that inside of it's "mouth" was an eye.

Suddenly Midna piped up, "Now what are you going to do, you have no bombs to throw at it," however almost as if in answer to her question we heard a loud squawking noise and saw a large baboon suddenly slide across a rope.

"Fried of yours," I asked.

"Long story," replied Midna, as the baboon pulled out one of the odd bomb bugs and lept out onto the rope holding the bug in his feet. Link threw his boomerang and caught the bug sending it to the plant on the left, when it was hit however I thought I noticed something about the other two plants.

"Link, I need you to try something for me, throw your..." I started but was interrupted when the right plant head suddenly lunged at me. "Crap," I yelled grabbing its top jaw with my right hand and stopping the bottom jaw from pulling me inside with my metal clad feet. I heard Midna squeak in shock. Suddenly the plant's tongue began to slither out towards me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw link getting farther away and about to throw his boomerang.

"Wait Link, if you hit that plant head you'll probably hurt Chris," I heard Midna shout and saw Link almost fall over to stop himself from throwing his boomerang. I could feel the slimy tongue of this ugly vegetable slipping around my waist now.

"Link, use the bomb bug thing on the middle plant, if I'm right it should knock this one out too," I yelled and Link wasted no time in testing my idea. The tongue now pushed me out of the mouth to my utter surprise but it was only to attempt to pull me back in, but just as I was entering the plants mouth I heard a rather loud boom and the plant holding me let out a screech flailing its head and releasing its grip on me sending me flying towards Link who lept out of the way but only to attack the fallen middle plant. I slammed flat against the wall and fell backwards, but I wasted no time in getting up and turning around to see that the middle plant getting back up but writhing in pain. I jumped forward to be greeted by the motion of one of the plants again.

"Not this time," I said throwing my cloak around me and managing to reappear with my legs on either side of the plants stem. "Oh damn," I said feeling it heave it's head backwards, dragging me with it. After getting over the low blow I suddenly realized I had sunk below water level, acting quickly I grabbed hold of the plant stem and yanked it down hard. As I had hoped the plant was forced to drop it's head below the water. I quickly got above it and waited for it to rise back up, which it did quite quickly. Using my momentum I jumped up towards the middle plant as a bomb was heading straight for it. I managed to grab on lower with my claws just as the creature took it right in what I suppose you would call it's face. When it landed I quickly ran up it as I saw Link leap through the air with his sword poised to strike the creatures eye below him.

I got just close enough to jump off as the creature began to spasm. I hopped off and landed right next to Link as the creature withered hunched over and it's eye fell out. After a second I noticed something however, the eye hadn't "died," it was staring right at me, barely blinking. "Yeck, creepy eye, didn't your mother ever tell you it's rude to stare," I said swiping at it with my claw but it bounded away but a fraction of a second before I hit it. I growled and lept after the eye not even noticing the fact the boss had "dematerialized" into the "Dark Power" Midna had been seeking.

"Chris, stop playing around, we're getting out of here," Midna called after a few minutes of me chasing the eye. Finally however I let out a roar and impaled the eye with my right hand.

"Ha, got you, you little..." I started but suddenly the eye split into fragment of darkness that moved away as a heart container flew over and landed right next to Link. "Um," I started a new sentence but was interrupted again when the fragments of darkness suddenly conversed into my chest and I felt a sharp searing pain run through me. I fell to one knee just as the pain stopped and Link whom ad made a motion towards me was stopped by my hand. "I'm fine, let's go, that is if Midna got what she needed," I said looking at her as she pulled out what she stated was called a "Fused Shadow" and quickly put it away. She warped us to the spring just inside Faron Woods, and ever so conveniently the light spirit told Link he had to head for the Eldin province, to find the light spirit named Eldin. After he was done speaking Midna popped up simply to tell Link the same thing over.

I followed Link since he knew his way around this area better then me. Until we reached Hyrule field, which though it looked rather large, wasn't as large as it really looked. Looking at Link's map we headed for the Eldin province and were promptly greeted by the postman, who told us not to continue because a large "black wall" blocked the path ahead. The letter he handed to Link simply explained that the postman will rush you like a mad bull with a letter and not to flee. After maybe three seconds more of jogging we found the "black wall" as described by the postman.

Midna popped up and let out one of her now infamous giggles, "Looks like you two need me to let you into the Twilight?" I remembered before in Ordon when I had ran through the wall of twilight on my own, but before trying something stupid I quicly remembered that was caused by the blackened armor plating. "Just remember once we're in there you two have to do exactly as I say. I sighed but stood impatiently waiting for her to "let" us into the twilight. She floated through the wall and Link was suddenly dragged in by Midna's giant hand.

"Um, on second thought," I started to say but the giant hand returned, nearly crushing me as it encircled my body and yanked me through the black wall of the twilight.

I had to go back and edit this chapter a few times when I made a few mistakes here and there, should be about right now. Please review if you have something to say.