Chapter 6

I shook off the spinning feeling within my head to find myself in the darkness of the twilight once again. To no surprise Midna was waiting impatiently lying there on Link's, or rather wolf Link's back. I groaned and was surprised to hear myself do so, however I was not so surprised when my armor promptly covered my mouth and right arm. I noticed however that the armor had made some minor "improvements." I now had a little more armor, about down to my waist, below the original chest plate, and two small strips had protruded upwards from the chunk encircling my head at jaw level. These strips came up in a line leading just up to either side of my nose. It then turned into a thick coating covering my entire nose and protruding up even farther, crossing the bridge of my nose and expanding out on my forehead. However about halfway up my forehead it took a sharp turn in and came to a point not but a few inches above my head, giving me a sort of horn from the armor now.

"Spiffy new armor, we really should get going though, people to help, worlds to save you know," Midna said almost sarcastically. I rolled my eyes and ran after Link who had barely waited for Midna to finish her sentence before dashing off. I slowly lost Link as he ran because, well lets face it, I just don't have the same stamina for running as a wolf would. I finally caught up with him as he had stopped to sniff something that, when I took a closer look, seemed just like his old wooden sword, which I then remembered he had passed to Talo earlier. Without a seconds hesitation he was off and running, I gave chase but we soon found ourselves stopped again this time by some shadow beasts which were easily dealt with but even so we could not proceed as the bridge crossing the gorge ahead was, well, gone. "Now how does a whole bridge just up and vanish," Midna asked seeming to direct the question at me, so I shrugged.

"Well I suppose this seems a good a time as any to tell you two idiots something useful. Whenever you kill those shadow beasts, have you noticed the strange things that pop up in the sky," corresponding to her mention of this fact Link and I both glanced upwards to see mentioned "thing." "Those... are portals, I can sue those to warp you to any spot you've created one, sometimes you can find useful things when warping that I can bring with us, things like I dunno, a bridge," she said. Apparently we had all been paying attention because Midna warped us to Faron Woods where we found the bridge, kind of in an open area, whoever hid it was slightly stupid. Regardless Midna teleported the bridge, Link, her and myself back to the gorge and we proceeded to cross. We came to a gate which Midna said was rather suspicious but really isn't anything sealing off your path rather "suspicious."

Link tunneled under the gate and made such quick work of the wimps on the other side that by the time I had found a decently safe spot to hop over they were done. We continued on down the path until we came upon Kakariko village, and to no surprise a group of shadow beasts that we once again finished quickly. The third of the light spirits called Link over to his spring and he went over to hear the same speech Faron had given us and receive another Vessel for the Tears of Light. Suddenly growing tired of all these endeavors I fell on my back and made a motion with my hand telling Link and Midna to search on their own. Midna after about five minutes of flustered arguing with a silent target finally screamed "You are so lazy" and "mushed" Link off to find the evil creatures that devoured the light.

As I layed there I began thinking back, to the strange creature that had appeared as Rikku back in Ordon, what was it, and why was it after me.I opened my eyes and to my utter befuddlement saw Midna floating there above me, but when I blinked it suddenly changed to Rikku and then back to Midna on another blink. Realizing it was another of those creatures I grabbed it and threw it to the ground holding it there until it showed its hideous true form. It's face, or the few remnants of a nose and eyes it had, were overshadowed vastly but its gaping mouth which I quickly discovered was for far more then show, it let out a howling screech that nearly deafened me and shook the very ground. Not wanting to put up with it any longer I drove my fist into its mouth causing it to vanish into a cluster of dark squares. Letting out a sigh of relief I suddenly heard a large BOOM from a distance. Turning on my heel I saw large pieces of stone flying through the air. What the hell did Midna do now,I thought as a small rock whizzed past my left ear. Then I saw something I didn't expect, a large chunk of rock bounced off the cliff nearby the house next to the spring. The rock fell to the ground harmlessly, however it had already done it's damage. I heard a large cracking noise and saw a large chunk of rock splitting away from the cliff.

I had the strangest feeling deep inside my soul that if I allowed that rock to crush the house I would be crushing the hearts of a large group of people. Dammit, I thought running round to place myself between the house and the cliff. As the rock began to fall I braced myself and caught it stopping it from hitting the house. However as I anticipated about two second before the rock hit me it's weight was already becoming to great for me to support. Thinking quickly however I shifted the boulders weight to one side and gave it a good shove causing it to tip away from the house with a large thud. I fell back onto my backside letting out a mental sigh of relief. I guess Link had made quick work of those remaining bugs though because my body had begun to glow and a few seconds later I found myself blinded by the bright light of day and back with my normal body and nothing but a clawed glove as a weapon. After a few seconds I wandered out to find Link reunited with his friends.

"Who's this feller'," said a rather disturbing old man with a welding mask on his head.

"Consider yourself damn lucky I just tipped that boulder away from your little house there, it could have crushed at least half the thing," I said countering the man's tone of distrust. After taking a peak he shook my hand once and was off. The shaman told me of the trouble of the Gorons and the children would not leave because it troubled him. Link being the reckless fool he was ran off to try and climb the mountain. I caught up with him just in time to see a Goron knock his sorry butt off a small cliff and tell him he was weak. "Well, looks like courage isn't enough to climb this mountain," I said helping Link to his feet. "The shaman mumbled something about a way to climb the mountain, maybe he'll tell you if you go have a shat with him now that you got your reckless butt knocked down a cliff," I laughed at Link as he followed me back to town and was told the mayor of Ordon knew something about how to beat the Gorons. As Link began running back to his village I heard a strange noise coming around the corner.

"An earthquake," I asked myself since I was standing alone.

"Can't be, it's not strong enough," came a voice from behind and below me. I turned to see the translucent figure of Midna floating right in my face, causing me to jump a bit. I turned toward the sound however and saw Epona running into town with one of the little goblins that were following around the guy who blew that horn at the spring on her back. Worried about what the little goblin might do to Epona or anyone in town if I let it hang on I quickly lept up and kicked it in the head hard enough to knock it into the nearby cliff wall. To no surprise he vanished with a puff of smoke. I turned and saw Link pulling Epona under his control and Midna congratulating him and then hiding in the ground again as he rode off.

Deciding against following him as he now had Epona who could outrun me even if I could burn an entire weeks energy in one hour, I instead went to the roof of the highest building in the village to take a nap. Nothing good lasts very long however and my nap was soon disturbed by a translucent little imp being, well, impish of course.

"So," Midna said pausing, "you're not going to... tell anyone are you?"

"About what?" I replied.

"You know perfectly well what!"

"Haven't the foggiest what you're going on about," I yawned and layed back again. I closed my eyes but a few second later I had the feeling someone was burning holes in my forehead and to no surprise Midna was practically an inch from my face, staring me down. "What do you want," I asked finally fed up with her pestering me.

"You... to promise not to tell anyone about what you know about me," she said adding a pause after "you" that I found to be almost, awkward. I just gave her a thumbs up and rolled over to go back to sleep. However I quickly found it was not going to be anytime soon that I got any sleep. As the big goblin was back, and heading straight for Beth, but to my utter amazement Colin shoved her out of the way being taken instead.

"Dammit," I yelled jumping off the roof, aiming straight for the big goblin on his armored boar. Half way down to him I noticed Link riding into town on Epona, but about three quarters of the way down to him time itself froze once again. NOW,I thought just as, as I had predicted, the booming voice rang through my head again THE SECOND GODDESS CHALLENGES YOU, YOU MUST ACCEPT. As the voice stated I had no choice and was suddenly thrown from my fall into a white abyss again. Assuming I know these games, green forest had Farore the goddess of courage, so red mountain should have Din goddess of power.

I'm pretty sure this chapter is a bit shorter then my others but I pretty much just planned out the rest of this story in my head now, my story however does not end where Twilight Princess does, in fact I just recently came up with a decent length of storyline for afterward, well, if you want to find out what exactly I'm talkin' about I guess you'll just have to read on when I update ;P I miss the days when I actually got reviews but oh well, thanks for reading :D.