Chapter 14
The memories flashed rather quickly seeming to move slower at certain points, the first slowed memory was shortly after I had been captured and Link and Midna had defeated all the enemies, it showed her sobbing and angry, although I could no longer feel angered myself I could still identify it in others. Most of Midna's memory seemed to slow down from this point, only flashing by at unimportant walking. They left Midna still sad, but I could feel a twinge of something in the back of her mind at this point, something to do with Link I could feel. Again the memory flashed forward stopping briefly at mentions of the mirror of twilight and the desert. As they approached the dessert I felt that twinge in Midna's mind turn into more then a twinge and then a dream about Link that ended just short of him kissing her. My heart told me to stop but my brain continued craving more information.
In the dessert Midna put her hand ever so gently on Link's face, and I could feel strange thoughts running through her head. All of the memories flashing by I still knew what happened the slower ones just seemed to stick harder with me. The final memory that slowed seemed to be in a very familiar location, in fact I thought I had seen it while chasing that skull kid. Midna's only thought was "Maybe it's a good thing Chris disappeared for so long..." Catching up to the exact moment I had grabbed Midna's head I was suddenly thrown back from Midna and my head began burning.
"So, glad I was gone then, maybe I should just let you and Link be and maybe, just maybe you'll live happily ever after," I said sounding, to my complete surprise extremely angered. Without another word exchanged I left in a swarm of little black squares. I rematerialized near Castle Town. "DAMMIT" I yelled punching a rock that was right between my legs in front of me. The rock burst into several pieces and I stormed angrily into the town. I walked straight to Telma's Bar without even thinking and again without thinking ordered the strongest possible drink she could make. She put a mug down on the counter and before she could say anything or I could even observe the colour of the drink it was all down my throat. I sat there for a minute then suddenly everything felt as though it were shifting slightly.
"Um, I don't think you should have drank that so fast honey," Telma said worried.
"Bah... I'm fine," I said feeling more woozy by the second. "Gimme another," I said and again not but a second after the mug had landed on the surface of the counter I had swooped it up and chugged it down.
"I'm not giving you anymore," Telma said.
"Why the hell not," I said angrily almost falling out of my chair.
"Try and hit me," she said and I looked at her curiously. "Just do it," she raised her voice slightly and I took a swing and caught nothing but air. Caught in disbelief I squinted and tried again managing to miss with such a hard swing that I fell flat on my face on the floor. "Drinking won't drown misery boy, especially if your drinking alone." she said but I brushed off her comment and wobbled my way out of the bar. Trying to keep my composure in the streets of the town was hard considering that since it was dark every little shadow looked dangerous to me. Then I heard something behind, still wasted out of my mind I turned and bashed my fist into the ground pushing my own body back, causing me to fall flat on my ass now.
"Hehe guesh... guess I'm hearing... things," I said correcting my slur. I got to my feet and wobbled over to the fountain in the middle of the town square. "Ah, wa...water," I said kneeling over and cupping my hands to gather as much water as I could, drinking over and over. After I drank my fill I splashed my face with some of the water and shook it as dry as I could. After shaking my face dry I heard something, this time I was sure of it and I looked over to see one cowardly Hyrule guard standing there. I blinked twice to focus my vision and saw that he was shivering, as far as I could tell it was out of fear too. I decided to give him a wave and I yelled out, "Hey Mr. guard." He jumped and looked directly at me and for a moment looked relieved but then a look of fear swept over his face again. I walked towards him but as I did he looked ever the more frightened and held out his pathetic little spear. "What's up man, I'm not going to... hey are you listening," I yelled finally noticing he wasn't looking at me but instead behind me I looked over my left shoulder only to get a sharp jab in the now extremely exposed right side of my neck.
Choking I fell to my knee's and saw a hooded figure run off into the darkness. The guard ran over to me now and asked, "I'm sorry I couldn't stop that thing, are you okay!?"
Flustered by his complete inability to even give me a warning I was nearly ready to punch him but happy he was concerned I quickly remembered, "Tel... Telma's" is all I managed to rasp out before everything went black.
I woke up with a massive headache, which I doubted was a hangover due to the awful taste in my mouth. My neck didn't exactly feel like rainbows and lollipops either. I guessed the taste in my mouth was the two large mugs I had consumed, and anything else I had eaten recently. Trying to think of a way to rid my mouth of the taste I remembered the apples in my pouch and grabbed one eating it slowly, but as fast as my now upset stomach would allow me. I heard a door open but was unable to react at all anyways. Instead I just grumbled as Telma walked in and began to scold me, "I knew I shouldn't have let you leave here, now some weird thing stabbed you with a needle." I sighed realizing what it had obviously done, the strange thing however was that I now felt as though my emotions were more balanced. Not as balanced as when I had them all but generally a lot more balanced then after the first injection. "At least that soldier had the decency to bring you here before he ran off home like the coward he was," Telma said getting a small chuckle out of me. "Ah right, you've got a visitor, and no it's not Link, he doesn't even know you're here," Telma said calming me when my eyes bugged out as I had thought it was Link.
"Show em' in I guess," I said and stretched out my arms while I waited for my guest to arrive. Not but a few seconds later the door opened and to my surprise in walked Kris. "Hey Kris, how's..." I started but she cut me off angrily.
"Don't you Hey Kris me, what the hell is going on, several hours ago I suddenly broke into tears," she screamed at me and I remembered the needle and the fact me and Kris were kind of linked right now.
"Oh... um, well the thing is I got jabbed with a needle and I umm, kinda can't be happy or sad anymore I guess... but the weird thing is I actually felt angry for a while," I stated my case also recalling the anger I had felt earlier.
"I don't care, make this stop right now," Kris yelled lifting me up by the scruff of my neck.
"Honestly I see no reason for you to be flying off your rocker, every emotion I lose to you increases your power and decreases mine, you should be happy," I said and Kris began to shake me.
"Sure I'm stronger but I have mood swings like flipping crazy!"
"What the hell am I supposed to do about it?"
"I don't know! Just... just make it stop right now!"
"I'm wide open to suggestions!"
"Midna... Midna can fix this, she knows how to fix a lot of things."
"Okay, well where do I go exactly to find her," I asked ending the yelling contest between me and Kris.
"Last I saw them Link and Midna got shot out of a cannon at Lake Hylia," she said and walked out. Without another thought I got up and headed for the lake. The instant I stepped out the door however the guests in Telma's back room all tried to jump me. I dodged the girl I remembered was named Ashei and lifted Rusl and the other man whose name escaped me above my head.
"I'm leaving, and as you can see my condition is much better then it was so don't try and stop me," I said tossing Rusl and the other man back into some chairs. Telma stopped me at the door and I sighed, "didn't I just ask you guys not to stop me?"
"Yes you did but I wanted to give you this," she said handing me a bottle full of a clearing shining liquid. I looked at the bottle then Telma and then back at the bottle again. "When you're feeling tired just swig that back and you'll feel ten times stronger right away," she said flexing an arm and winking at me. I stored the bottle in a safe place and gave a small polite bow before heading out the door and warping over to the lake.
The cannon Kris had mentioned sat very near the location I had warped too, but it felt as though so did something else. I suddenly felt my knees get weak and I fell no longer able to stand. I looked over and saw Midna but the sound that drove me to my knees was not coming from this direction, I turned but as my vision scanned my surroundings, I found I was surrounded, by Midna. There were hundreds of the little imp princess all around me. The sound keeping me on my knees grew louder driving me closer and closer to falling unconscious. There was one of the Midna's that approached me and it seemed its drawing closer had more an effect on me then any of the others. I didn't think I would have to use this so quickly, I thought drawing out the bottle and gulping it all down.
Almost immediately I felt my strength return and suddenly I could see all the illusions for what they truly were, hideous creatures drawing closer, craving my soul. Using my new found strength I exterminated the nearest one, and the rest grew angry rushing me quickly now. I killed them all off as quickly as I could the last remaining few fleeing before I could catch them. Watching the final one vanish on the horizon I suddenly felt my whole body sway. I caught my balance but felt as thought I hadn't slept in a week. I heard someone screaming and saw a splash and then was unable to stay on my feet any longer and fell backwards dozing off.
I awoke with my head pounding once again, this time I was sure from the overuse of my energy. When my vision focused clearly I found myself to be lying on the ground looking up at Midna, who looked generally concerned. "I thought you'd be long gone before I woke up, after all, your into Mr. green tunic over there," I said failing to come up with a half decent insult for Link. It really sucks when a character your generally a fan of is trying to steal a girl from you...I thought glaring at them both.
"Okay, one, that was lame. Two, no matter what happens how I felt about you still hasn't changed." she said with a very honest look in her eyes.
"Even though I've changed so much?"
"Don't be stupid, you haven't changed any for the worse, every bad experience you've had has taught you something, only recently have you been acting in a very annoying way."
I grabbed Midna and hugged her, "I'm sorry it's something Zant has been doing to me, I've lost a lot of my emotions." Midna seemed shocked for a moment then I felt her put her rather short arms around me, or as far as they would go anyways.
"So what do you have left for emotions anyways?"
"Not sure, I know I've lost anger, any form of being calm, happiness, sadness... yet I've felt angry, happy and sad since..." I said scratching my head. Midna looked thoughtful for a minute then covered mouth a little bit trying to stop herself from giggling. "What," I said and she waved her hand trying to let me know it was nothing, but I persisted, "What's so damn funny?"
"It's nothing really," she almost burst out laughing.
"Don't give me that, tell me!"
"The reason you can still feel those emotions is because all you have left in hatred and love, those two emotions contain so many others without many people realising it at all," she said calming down as I looked slightly startled.
"But um, if I had only those two emotions left would I frantically attempt to um... I think your getting my drift so I'm gonna stop there," I said my face turning slightly red.
"Hehe, don't get lust confused with love," she said causing my face to turn even brighter red. "Well, Chris, I suppose now would be a pretty good time to tell you we've got all four pieces of the mirror of Twilight."
"Perfect, that means we can go after that bastard Zant now right," I asked and she nodded. "I'll destroy him, and then... then I'll go back to normal," I clenched my hand tightly into a fist and felt it heat up significantly.
"Well should we head off to the mirror chamber then," Midna asked as Link walked over. I nodded and got to my feet wobbling slightly from still being tired. "Or maybe we should take tonight off," Midna asked seeing me narrowly avoid falling on my rear.
"I'm fine, let's go," I said fragmenting into little black squares. We reformed and I felt my knees shake as gravity took hold of me again. Gotta stay strong, for Midna, I thought forcing myself to stand tall. We walked over to where the on shard of the mirror sat and suddenly the other three pieces reacted and reconnected with the one to reform the mirror of twilight. In reaction to this a giant stone slab which was held up by chains was suddenly dropped. Once the ground stopped shaking the mirror began to shine a light on the giant stone which seemed to not only make the entire thing glow but the middle where there were a large number of symbols seemed to cave in to create a sort of portal.
As this happened Midna began to speak, "Some call our realm a world of shadows, but that makes it sound unpleasant..." Midna paused seeming to think over her next sentence carefully. "The twilight there holds a serene beauty... You have seen it yourself as the sun sets on this world. Bathed in that light, all people were pure and gentle... But things changed once that foul power pervaded the world..." I stopped to think about the "foul power" she had mentioned and wondered where Zant could have found such a power.
Suddenly an almost ghostly voice piped up from behind us, "It was all our doing..." We all turned to see several figures standing there who I assumed were the sages although there were only six standing before us. "We overestimated our abilities as sages and attempted to put an end to Ganondorf's evil magic..." My eyes went wide, Ganondorf... I knew I was in a legend of Zelda game but am I going to have to face Ganondorf... I mean on a screen hes not that scary but I doubt he's better in person...
Midna looked over at me and poked me, "Are you all right," she whispered and I nodded slightly not wanting her to worry about me.
The sages continued, "I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive our carelessness... O Twilight Princess." Well the cat's outta the bag now...I thought looking over at Link and Midna with nothing but a smile on my face. Link looked utterly shocked and Midna looked slightly embarrassed.
She finally replied with, "What? So... you knew? As a ruler who fled her people, I'm hardly qualified to forgive you." I looked at her but she stopped any dirty looks by telling us all the story of how Zant turned her into an imp and she was forced to flee her people, having brought a fused shadow along which even now she wore on her head. Then her story took a turn that shocked even me, "In our world, we've long believed that the Hero would appear as a divine beast. That's why when I found you, I thought I could use you, Link." To my surprise she turned to me, "And you Chris, when I first saw you I had no idea what you were, to be honest I thought you were some mutant half breed of Twili and Light dweller and I had planned to use you as well." Despite the new expression on my face she continued, "And I only cared about returning our world to normal... I didn't care what happened to the world of light, not at all." I couldn't believe how selfish Midna had been but ocne again she continued, "But after witnessing the selfless lengths that Princess Zelda and you two have gone to... Your sacrifices... I now know, in the bottom of my heart, that I must save this world, too. There is no other way. If we can just defeat Zant, the curse on me will dissolve, and we may be able to revive Zelda. Let's go, Chris, Link! For Zelda! For all of this world!" With that she took refuge in Link's shadow once again.
I couldn't help but smile, and yet a thought crossed my mind, she had said Link Zelda and I all made sacrifices. Zelda and Link's were plain as day but I honestly could not think of a single sacrifice I had made to help out at all. I noticed Link had already walked up the glowing steps that appeared allowing him to enter the twilight. I quickly followed and was fragmented and pulled into the indent in the stone. I reformed in a very seemingly dark area, I could see a huge palace but what Midna had said about this world changing when the foul power had arrived was true. The beauty that she said was like the sunset of the world of light did not seem to remain. We walked forward slightly and Midna suddenly came out from Link's shadow once again. "Um, listen, Link... Can I ask you one last selfish favor? Regardless of what my reasons may have been, I once abandoned this world... I left behind the Twili. Those who had followed me... Who considered me their ruler... Even now, as they remain here, suffering, they believe that help will come for this world... But if they were to see that the only help for them was a hideous little imp... Don't you think they'd feel let down? It's only for a little bit longer... Do you mind if I continue to hide as your shadow while you're in human form? I'm sorry..."
She was just about to hide beneath Link again when I stopped her, "Midna." She stopped looking at me with her one glowing eye that stood out against the rest of her translucent body. "Can I have a quick word with you... alone," I asked giving Link a small hint to give us a private moment. After Link was out of ear shot I began to speak, "Midna, about your little speech earlier... I... I haven't sacrificed anything."
"Are you kidding me, look at you, Zant trying to steal away your emotions has distracted him from Link and me so much he barely stood in our way while we went to find the pieces of the mirror."
"But..."
"No buts I just told you, without you Link and I may have never made it here, so hush up and let's go." I nodded and Midna quickly floated over to Link hiding once again in his shadow. We went over to the only reachable door and entered. As we walked into the room I felt my head spin and I was forced to lie down, or rather fall over. "Chris," Midna yelled popping out of Link's shadow attempting to check me for any injuries.
"I'm fine just a little tired," I said pushing myself into a sitting position.
"I don't want you to get hurt, go back outside and take a nap," she said pointing to the door. I shook my head but she just crossed her arms. I got shakily to my feet and stumbled over to the door. "Are you going to be okay?"
"Yes I'll be fine, just worry about yourself, and Link... don't let anyone even so much as lay a finger on Midna," I said walking out the door, I managed to get back to the middle of the little yard where four half-transformed Twili were. They were not quite shadow beasts but neither were they aggressive. I laid there for a moment trying to get to sleep but found myself unable to.
"Come to me," a voice called out and I sat up thinking it had maybe been Link but he was nowhere in sight. "Maybe I do need a nap, I'm hearing things..." I said falling backwards and dozing off briefly. I was awakened when Link places a glowing ball in a small circle. "What's with the glowing ball?"
"Go back to sleep," Midna scolded me but I persisted regardless.
"Glowing ball?"
"Sleep."
"Glowing ball!?"
"It's a sol, its like the sun and gives life to this world, now sleep!" Midna said and they were off to where a new platform had appeared and entered another door.
"Ugh, it's so unfair, I want to be of help but I've weakened myself too much." I said about to lie back down again.
"Then come, to me... I will provide you with the route to power you could not even imagine," a voice rang through my head and I quickly turned my head looking for it. There was no one in sight however so I stood, "This way." AS it said this I felt an invisible force pull me towards the main structure of the castle and unsure of what I was thinking followed it. I jumped across what looked like a waterfall of literal shadow and then proceeded to the wall and bring out my claw and bow used them to scale the walls. I reached a very high point and felt the force pulling me inside now. I pulled back my bow and it began to spin, I drove it into the wall and it tunneled a hole big enough for me to enter the castle. I was in a room filled with those shadow crystals except one side of the room, the other side had a large door with a massive lock on it.
I was drawn to the door and the lock detached itself from the door and teh door flew open. "Come"the voice called out and my legs began walking without my brains permission. I walked inside and the door slammed shut behind me and I heard it relock. Suddenly I snapped to my senses and realized I had just walked though the boss door. I heard an all to familiar laugh and turned away from the door to see Zant sitting in Midna's throne. I could feel my hate burning with white hot intensity. I let out a roaring yell and leaped at him extending my claws towards his throat but he suddenly vanished and they simply impaled the back of the throne. I heard something behind me but was too slow and felt myself smashed to the ground.
I quickly drew my bow back and fired an arrow where Zant had been but a minute before but he was gone again, this time he appeared in front of me and before I could react had kicked me back wards into the wall. He drew out two swords and lunged at me with a bloodthirsty yell. Without any thought my body reacted, forming up all of my armor except the pieces that covered my eyes. Just as Zant was about to stab me with both blades I reached out, grabbed him around the wrists and flung him upward with my feet. The kick to the stomach knocked the wind out of him and I had time to leap upward and smash him downward on my knee stunning him briefly again. I then smashed him as hard as could over the back of the head sending hm sailing into the ground. "Ch... Chris, where... you?"I heard Midna's voice calling out in my head and stopped. Midna, I left without any notice of where I was going... I can barely hear her, is this room blocking my powers?I looked up to see Zant right in my face.
"Sur..." he said winding up.
"...Prise" I yelled moving quickly to duck and plant a hard right uppercut on his chin, or rather helmet. He still got back up seemingly pissed off now. He stomped his feet then jumped up and down stomping both feet in what looked like a temper tantrum. "Umm..." I said but suddenly he lunged flying straight at me, I punched straight forward but just before I hit him he leaped up and over me starting to spin and move straight towards my back. Dammit no time, I thought turning and crossing my arms. I heard the clang of his blades against my armor and felt it slowly pushing me back. I dug in the claws on my boots and hoped this would stop him but instead the first hit knocked me off balance and then he moved in again smashing me directly in the face and knocking me to the ground. I'm too worn out to fight him, this was a bad idea,I thought looking up to see Zant right above me holding a massive sword now. It was poised to strike my chest. I smashed my right foot against the ground causing me to slide upward but the blade still pierced my left leg. I couldn't help but yell as the blade had gone completely though my leg, I turned my head towards the door to see Link walk in.
Reacting possibly out of pure testosterone flow I grabbed the sword and yanked it from my leg throwing it at Zant whom simply vanished and reappeared back on the throne. I got to my feet but suddenly felt extremely dizzy. Link caught me and helped me back to my feet. Suddenly my body acted on its own and I walked right up to Zant. To my surprise he just sat there and even more to my surprise I suddenly said in a voice that sounded like your drunk friend, "Come here Zant, you need a hug!" Zant let out a squeak as I drew close and quickly vanished behind me. What's wrong with me... I thought Zant was my enemy and I'm trying to hug him... was that sword filled with more of whatever was removing my emotions?
"Why are you trying to hug me, go bug someone else, like Midna," Zant said as I drew close again.
For some reason the mention of Midna perked my interest, "Midna's here, where's Midna?" Zant pointed towards Link, "That's Link not Midna, but Link's cooler then Zant." I wandered over towards Link until Midna popped out of the ground.
"Zant what the hell did you do to him?"
"Midna!" I yelled.
"I just stabbed him with the last of the injections, he should have no more emotions left," Zant said.
Suddenly without warning I turned and quicker then I thought I could speak explained, "Incorrect, emotions removed by those injections only remove one half of the two emotions initially and then the second more slowly over time, the time it takes varies depending on the strength of the emotion." I blinked twice then seemed to return to my original state of mind without warning once again. "Midna, come here!" Midna looked frightened and flew up higher so I couldn't reach her. "Aww, come on Midna that's no fun," I said but she shook her head frantically, "Fine if you won't come down here I'll just come to you my love." Midna's face turned bright red.
"Your not yourself, stay back!"
"What are you talking about Midna, I'm exactly who I always am?"
"No your not, the normal you is much more reserved and definitely creeps me out a lot less."
"So you don't love me then?" I asked feeling myself become sad. Erg, what the hell is going on, I Can't even control what I'm saying any more.
"No that's not it... it's just," she said turning even brighter red.
"THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH OF THIS," Zant suddenly yelled and I laughed.
"Zant sounds angry," I said sounding like a complete drunk. My mind could no longer focus on Zant's speech and beyond Midna's observation as he spoke I drew closer and closer to her until Zant seemed to be finished and she finally noticed my face was right next to hers.
"Geh, what do you think your doing," she asked and without thinking my lips went right for hers. She let out a little scream and floated up over my head. I fell flat on my face about four feet away from Link and Midna and heard Zant, sounding very aggitated, making a noise that sounded like he was trying to use magic. I turned to see everyone had vanished. I fell to a sitting position, my head spinning, I grabbed it and tried to shake it off. I looked down to see my leg was still bleeding, my emotions being almost completely gone I was unsure of what to do. The strength of my emotion determines how long I will keep it, the strength of your love is not just how much you love a select few people, it's how many friends you have, it's the combined love of these friends and family that makes it stronger.I got back on my feet just as Link, Midna and Zant all reappeared. I felt like I finally had control over my last emotion at this point. I thought I heard Zant say something, and judging from the anger in Midna's eyes it had pissed her off.
Suddenly out of nowhere Midna's hair came out in large spikes that twisted around each other and then stabbed Zant right in the gut. He squirmed around screaming then suddenly inflated and just as I wondered how big he would get he popped like a balloon. "Well that was slightly morbid," I said doing a little spin in place and falling down. "It's like I'm freaking drunk or something," I laughed for no apparent reason. Without warning Midna grabbed me by the collar of the chain mail covering my entire body and dragged me over to the small portal she had made. When we were outside my now easily distracted mind noticed something and I let out a huge gasp.
"What," Midna asked looking scared.
"Midna we killed the Zant and your still a cute little imp!"
"Ugh, I'm getting tired of you, it turns out we need to go find Zant's "god" which I would assume is Ganondorf before I can return to normal... um what are you doing?"
"I'm glad I get to see cute imp Midna a bit longer," I gushed hugging her tightly.
"Would you let go!" Midna yelled her face bright crimson. "We need to go to Hyrule castle and save Zelda, so if you really like me that much let go and let's go!" At that I let go and stood up perfectly straight. Damn I keep losing controlI thought as we marched out of the twilight and Midna proceeded to teleport us to Castle town. It was not long until we were standing before the barrier that blocked us from entering the castle. Suddenly the fused shadows Midna had recovered from Zant reacted and began floating around her. Then without warning they attached themselves to the one already on her head and pulled her against the wall.
"Nooooooooooo," I said as she went flying over the wall I leapt up on top to give chase but saw a huge monster coming straight up from where Midna had fallen and decided to jump back down. The rush of air from the creature leaping up knocked me off balance and I fell flat on my face. The creature had leapt up on the large force field and now bashed it open with a huge spear. After the strange barrier's light had vanished I saw Midna in Link's arms and they locked eyes for a moment that seemed to last far too long for my liking. Although I felt jealous I could still feel no hatred towards Link as it had been removed. We walked forward into the courtyard of the castle and I was told to stay put. I sat in front of the locked front door grumbling with what little emotion I had left. "Link lucky bastard has the girls swooning over him and I bloody try forever and they just end up falling for him over me," I yelled when I was almost certain Link and Midna would not hear.
"Then come to me, I will put an end to them and you will have anything else you desire," a deep scary voice rang through my head. I looked around frantically unsure of where the voice was coming from. "Come now, it's obvious the chains on these doors are no obstacle for you, break them and then climb the tower, and break the chains holding you from all that you desire," I wasn't sure what part of me but deep down there was a part of me that loved what he was saying.
"Yes, yes I will, I've had enough of all of them, lying, stealing," I didn't even realize I had referred within my own mind to Midna and Link when I said both of those. I walked over to the door ad shifting my right hand into the giant claw easily crushed the lock dropping all the chains off. I smashed the door right off its hinges and once I entered the main hall I leapt up and smashed another door in. My mind fixated on the path ahead I ccontinued my zombified march smashing down any dor in the way. I payed no mind to any of the enemies along the way and strangely enough they let me pass. I reached the large door and the knight here did impede my path. The knight carefully with his shield up walked over in a battle stance. Losing my last emotion I merely stood there, he swung, I didn't move. The blade came closer, closer, closer until CLANG SNAP! Without any though my arm had gone up, I had grabbed the blade and then smashed it so hard it snapped in two. The knight looked both surprised and angry. He jumped back and threw his shield down, he let out a small burst that threw off all his armor and drew a smaller sword. I still made no motion to attack. He came at me with the blade intent on stabbing me. Again at the very last second my body reacted, I grabbed the blade pulled him closer then delivered a flying jump kick to the middle of his face sending him flying back into the wall.
"Chris!" I heard a voice call out from behind me. I turned to see Midna flying just ahead of Link. "I thought I told you to stay put."
"How did you catch up so fast?"
"Helps that you smashed out over half of the locked doors in the castle."
"Oh yea, I... I don't know what came over me," I said suddenly forgetting why I had come up here.
"Well, let's go, this is the final battle, all we..." her voice trailed off in my mind.
"I thought you said you wanted my power, to destroy those two liars, she lied to you saying she felt affection when really she only loves the man in green, and he, despite the fact he can clearly see the love you feel for her tried to steal her away, bring them up to me, and I will help you destroy them,"Midna was snapping her fingers in front of my face.
"Ah, sorry, I zoned out, let's go," I said pointing to the big door.
"You sure your okay, we can always take a short break," Midna said. I shook my head and Link unlocked the massive door and we entered. Rather we exited the inside of the castle to reach the outside of the very top. We went up the stairs and entered a huge hall and on the far end sitting on the ruined throne was none other then Ganondorf. I looked up above him and saw Zelda unmoving and seemingly dead. My mind was beginning to snap, I was torn between power and my love for Midna. I fell to my knees just outside the threshold of the room. "Chris!"
"I'm fine, I think I'll take a short breather, go on, I know you can beat him," I said gripping my head. I sat there wondering what I should do when suddenly I heard a grunt of pain and looked up to see Midna knocked down just before me. "Midna!" I yelled picking her up in my arms. She was okay besides being knocked back. Something my head glimmered and I realized what a fool I had been, I did not have to choose between power and love, my love for Midna was my power, or at least it had been while I could still feel it. After a few minutes Midna awoke startled to see my face I put my finger to her lips, "Midna, with what little emotion I have left I need to tell you something... no matter what happens, I will not... stop... loving you," I barely got the last of the words out before I felt my final emotion vanish and I blacked out.
I woke back up to find Midna gone again, my mind didn't much care though I stood up and turned to look into the room. I surveyed the situation, Beast Ganon was running circles around Link whom was in wolf form and Midna on his back. "Judging by the pure size of the large beast I come to the logical conclusion he is the evil creature and must be my target." I said drawing my bow and summoning a larger amount of energy then I thought was possible. "Running pattern calculated, taking aim, fire!" The arrow smashed through the barrier around the room and hurdled toward Ganon who did not take notice until was nearly about to hit him. He could not do anything and was knocked on his side by the intense blow. Link ran over and jumped onto a large scar on his underbelly and began biting it. Ganon writhed in pain and seemed to half-transform back to normal but he was still seeming to give off a large amount of energy. "Judging by energy patterns, foe had not been defeated, commencing preemptive strike before foe gathers energy."
My attack strategy had become entirely logical, no idea of surprise attacks on myself. I felt as though I was trapped within myself, this new being had taken control away from me, it did not matter to me at the moment though because this logical version of me had judged Ganon to be evil and was attacking him. Suddenly something happened that shocked me to the core. Ganon turned and I could see a huge evil grin on his face. Just then I remembered Zant saying something about his "god" wanting me to be injected with the stuff that had removed my emotions. Ganon suddenly turned into a huge batch of black squares and came straight at me. "Attack un-dodgeable, defense for attack unknown, control of motor functions lost," the robotic version of my voice droned out as I now felt even more trapped within myself.
I heard a loud laugh echo throughout my head and suddenly I was in a huge black space but through what looked like a window I could still see what my body could see. Suddenly a figure of Ganondorf appeared as well. "You were foolish boy, to think you thought I would give you power, I simply wanted yours to call my own, with it I can destroy this world and createmy own, where I will be the ruler. And since I have this body, your pathetic pest of a friend can't stop me, not without hurting you anyways."
This body of me within my own mind did not move or respond, "Oh I'm sorry, I forgot your nothing but a rock now, all you can do is stand there and wonder why your body is killing your friends despite the fact you keep telling it to stop," Ganondorf let out a huge bellowing laugh at this. I struggled with all my might to move my leg, even just a little bit, but it was no use I was stuck in place, forced to watch as Ganondorf took complete control of my body.
Link and Midna had run over to me as I was standing up, I could not even warn them that Ganondorf had control of me. Thought I think that message was quickly conveyed when Ganondorf formed up my armor and took a swing at Link who narrowly blocked with his shield. He didn't just stop however he continued relentlessly attacking pushing Link back and back until there was a brief opening and he swung back. Ganondorf was already using my power very efficiently and dodged the attack easily. This went on for what seemed like hours, mind you it's quite boring to watch two people clash blades for several minutes so it could have been much shorter. Finally Ganondorf became about as bored with this fight as I had been for the past five minutes. "Fine," he said in a voice that sounded like a mix of mine and his much deeper distorted voice, "If I can't hit the Hero I'll simply hit his friends!" He turned to where Midna was floating and lunged, for a brief moment it looked like Midna would attack back but then she curled back in fear.
When I ralized Midna was not even going to move I became panicked, there got to be, move... move dammit move!Just as I thought the claw would hit her I closed my eyes and then heard a loud thump and felt massive pressure against my left hand, which I also noticed was now raised above my head and holding something. I opened my eyes to see I was standing right in front of Ganondorf clasping his right arm tightly in my left hand with my right hand in his gut. Shocked I froze up again, and Ganondorf smashed me in the right side of the head sending me sailing over to my left. I was now stuck lying on the ground. "Wha... what just happened," Midna said utterly shocked that I had stopped.
"I'll deal with you first then I'll take care of those two pests," Ganondorf said walking closer to me. Then an idea dawned on me.
"Link hit me, right now" I yelled at the top of my lungs and as I thought my body did the same. Shocked briefly both Link and Ganondorf paused. Link acted first leaping through the air with his blade poised to strike. Ganondorf attempted to leap out of the way but was too slow in acting and the master sword sliced down my left shoulder. Ganondorf yelled in pain and used some of his own powers causing my body to float now. He began firing arrows at Link, who could now do nothing but dodge. I felt bad, bu again found myself immobilized. Again Ganondorf fired away for what felt like forever and when he finally stopped it was merely to change targets once again. The arrow drawn I felt myself panicking again, I kept my eyes open this time. Suddenly without any thought at all my hand slammed the ground pushing me to my feet and I dashed over to Ganondorf, who was holding the same pose as my body. I kicked his hand high into the air causing him to fire an arrow directly into the roof. A large brick fell right on his head causing him to start falling, my body then brought my foot that had kicked his hand upward down on top of his head sending my body hurtling downward. "Quick hit me again before Ganon gets control again!"
Link leapt into action once again bringing his sword down several times on my back. Ganondorf did not enjoy this much however and reached out and grabbed the master sword. He quickly regretted that but this action was also much to my dismay as the sword sent an electrical shock through my entire body. Both me and Ganondorf were fired by this shock until he finally let go. "I've had enough of you stopping me," Ganondorf growled and picked me up by the neck. I swayed and squirmed but was unable to break his grasp. "I'll seal you up where I imprisoned the rest of your mind," he yelled throwing me backwards towards a strange door with a yellow glowing barrier over it. As I flew I realized I would not be able to help Midna if he attacked her again.
Acting quickly I forced out the piecesof my helmet that covered my eyes and put a lock word on them that only I would know, something that I knew Ganondorf could never say. Just before passing through the door I managed to yell out to Midna, "Don't make a sound and he can't find you!"
As I flew into the room the "window" that was my eyes went completely dark, not because the door blocked me from my sight but because my "eye shutters" had closed. "No matter I'll destroy them anyways," Ganondorf laughed closing another door that blocked my sight of anything in my mind.
"We'll see... We'll see," I said turning around to observe my current prison.
Well I managed to get one last chapter done before my camping trip with my class this weekend, I know I said that last one would be the last one until after finals but I know this one will be, I really gotta study. So my next update will be some time after the 26th probably, thanks for reading I miss reviews :(