Chapter 21

My feet landed with a thud and Midna on my back after arriving through the portal. I looked up to see we were in the middle of a field, I could not even tell which part of the field as it was so vast. "If only I had some kind of landmark to tell me where exactly we are..." I said looking in all directions but still found myself unable to find any recognizable landmarks. Midna hopped off my back and began looking around as well.

"Odd..." she said sounding about as confused as I was.

"What's that?" I replied.

"Well normally, from anywhere in Hyrule field you could see the castle... but now, all I see is field, surrounded by mountains and cliffs... are you sure we're in Hyrule." she asked flustering me slightly.

"Am I sure?!!? Of course I'm sure!!! I never make mistakes... well there was that... but that was a forced mistake..." I mumbled the last bit.

"Well let's see that shard of the mirror can you make a portal to the castle and then we'll know if you really did bring us to the right place."

"I reached into my pocket to retrieve the shard but found it absent, "AAA, where did it... oh crap..." I said realizing my stupidity.

"What?"

"Um, well... I kinda forgot... to pick it up as we left so it's..."

"You left it stuck in the ground!?!? What are you an idiot!?"

"Hey, cool it... look the sun's over there right?" Midna looked where I was pointing and nodded. "Well all we have to do is wait a bit and we can figure out which was is west, east, north and south."

"Hm, that could take a bit but it looks like... did you hear something?"

"Like what?"

"Like the sound we made coming through that porta... ll" Midna's last word seemed dragged out as she gawked back at the sky slightly."

I looked over and was shocked to see a massive portal opened up in the sky and hundreds of shadow beasts were dropping from it. I turned about to see many locations had portals dropping shadow beasts but the two directly opposite each other seemed to be dropping the most. Suddenly to my shock the land was suddenly blotted out in a huge wave of twilight. "We should head that way," I said pointing to the nearer portal dropping more shadow beasts, "where ever that scum bag is dropping more troops is likely an important spot."

"Then what about that one, it looks like it's dropping the most!"

"Then that's our last destination, cause that's where he'll be hiding... how fast can you run?" Midna looked shocked. "Heh I was hopping we could get there fast, but if you want we can take our time." Midna looked confused now for a moment then seemed to go into a state of deep thought and finally nodded. "All right, we'll head that way, since we've been blotted outwith permanent dark Twilight we'll only rest when we have to." I soon regretted saying this as Midna may have moved slower but it seems she didn't need to sleep... ever. "Ah... huh, um hey Midna, do you think we could stop here for a little power nap?"

Midna turned around a fire in her eyes burning with an intensity the likes I'd never seen before. "Fine, two hours then we move again." I nodded slowly, slightly frightened. It did not take long to doze off, and it didn't feel like long before I was up again. However I awoke to an extremely frightened looking Midna. "It can't be... your... your, him but yet..." she stammered and I realized my hood was down.

Quickly throwing my hood back up I stoof up angered, "I thought I told you no one see's my face!" Midna simply stood there in shock still. "What do you mean by "your him"?"

"Your... your Chris..." she said the name barely rolling off her tongue as she almost choked on it.

"How do you know my name?"

"You... then who is he?"

"He? Meaning that bastard who stole my life? That's Ganon, turns out he didn't die... typical of the villain."

"That's impossible I saw him dead with the master sword through his chest!"

"Well guess what he survived in my mind, I created that clone to stay here in my absence and that bastard took over it." Midna muttered something I couldn't quite hear but when I questioned her she simply told me it was nothing and requested that we continue.

After about an hour we were finally near the destination and at this point Midna pipped up. "Um, Chris... I know your name because... well do you remember why you made that clone in the first place?"

"To keep order in the Twilight while I was gone."

"Your own memory is lying to you... you made it because you didn't want to leave me behind. You didn't want to leave the woman you loved undefended!" she shouted with an intense vibe of anger and sadness following the screaming voice.

"If that were true I would remember it." Midna nearly choked on her tongue again and tears welled up in her eyes. For some reason my chest felt like it was being jabbed hard with a drill and as Midna became sadder the drill spun, harder and faster. "Stop it!" I suddenly yelled at the top of my lungs. "If I, or this person you remember me as, is truly the man you love, then your love will bring him back, but if not then obviously I am not who you think I am, and perhaps then you will realize that living in the past is futile. The only thing to do is move forward, because if we don't there won't be anything left to move forward to!"

Midna stared at me for a moment then said rather glumly, "You're right... but there's no way you're him... just no way," at this she turned and continued. I didn't know if she was right or wrong, and frankly at this point I didn't much care for some guy that wasn't me and wasn't here to help out. For being in an area of Twilight in the light world it was shocking how few encounters with enemies we were experiencing.

"Midna, do you see that?" I said as we finally found an enemy, I was pointing directly at a group of four shadow beasts.

"Is there any way we can avoid killing them? Their..."

"Yea, I know their Twili." Midna looked shocked for a moment then turned her head away. "When I woke up I had some new weapons... and somehow the knowledge of what they do." I said opening a small pouch on the right side of my belt I pulled out a single silver needle. It was not much longer then my middle finger and sharp enough to stab a fair distance into a tree at low speed.

"What are you gonna do with that... pin them down," Midna put emphasis on the pin making a crude and not so funny pun.

"Oh, ahahahaha, your so funny." I said and focused and the needle let out a flash of light and when the spot in my vision cleared as I had thought up the needle was now a pistol. "Not as good as what I was thinking up but I guess their are limitations due to the technology of this world." With that I pulled the trigger four times and all four shadow beasts fell over and vanished. Midna let out a gasp but I put my hand on her shoulder to silence her. "This weapon and all the weapons I think up, I bring out with one special ability, and that is to transfer shadow beasts to Twili and "store" them in a hiding spot I made. On top of that it appears this gun is fueled with my energy not ammo like a normal gun." We continued on once again running into a few darkened monsters along the way, this time I drew my sword from it sheath on my left side, dispatching the monsters with ease. "This sword, does not make safe the Twili that have been consumed by shadow... unluckily for me it is also cursed."

"Cursed!?"

"Nothing major, at least I don't think, nothing to do with death at least I know that."

"Oh I feel so reassured. There are worse things then death you know!"

"Really?"

"Yes really, like... losing the man you love... or..." Midna sniffled.

"Okay, sorry... I actually recognize this area now."

"Me too."

"If I'm right we should be approaching a village any moment now." I said pushing through the last bit of brush growing out onto the path and into, as I expected a village. "Well not quite what I expected but it has been a long time now." I said staring at the very village I had chased Link around before finally meeting and befriending him. Just then I noticed we had some company though. "Looks like there's a few... hundred... thousand shadow beasts here." I said as they all turned and looked my way. Midna whimpered slightly and when I looked in the same direction she was I understood why, a large bees nest, much larger then any normal bees would make was buzzing rather loudly. My luck of course that the bee hive decides to all come out at once. Each of them was probably the size of my head, I was now in complete shock that the tree could even support their hive, never mind the buzzing army it contained. "Well, I only see one thing to do here..."

"And that is?"

"RUN LIKE HELL!!!" I said grabbing Midna's arm and fleeing through the middle of the large group of shadow beasts. An unexpected turn of events saved me a whole lot of trouble and possibly my life at this moment. As we fled the brigade of buzzing stingers followed us towards the massive horde of shadow beasts, and apparently they were no more friends then I was friends with Ganon. "Well, that worked out better then I thought even. Ah, it appears I spoke too soon." I said stopping short.

"What do you... oh." Midna began to ask but found her question answered quickly when she looked past me. In a small field there was a huge number of shadow beasts nearly double of what was in the entire village.

"Midna, go hide over there." I pointing to a small indent of a cave just slightly off the path leading into the field. Having no argument she quickly ran over and ducked inside, almost disappearing from view. I drew out two of my needles this time, turning the one in my right hand into a short sword with about a three foot blade and the other into a pistol, just like before with no ammo but fired pure energy. I made sure to modify both so they would not kill the shadow beasts, merely revert and remove them. With a loud battle cry I ran out into the middle of the large group and instantly executed a spin with the blade and gun straight out, I pulled the trigger on the pistol rapidly and it fired each time with a large burst and a loud noise that sounded closer to a huge static shock then a gunshot. When I finally stopped spinning I noticed a few of the shadow beasts at various ranges were completely unscathed, even ones that I was sure were hit numerous times with the blade of my sword. "All right, wanna play hard ball then?" I said running straight at one I leapt up above the beast's head doing a front flip and planting a foot firmly down on either shoulder of the beast. Acting quickly I aimed my gun at the beasts head and pulled the trigger, once, twice, three times and then felt something crack me over the back of the head. Spinning through the air I was able to see that the beast had swatted me like a fly.

Why can't I... wait, a long time ago that guy who owned the bomb store said something about a group of men going to save a woman from a shadow beast... and when they got there she was gone, no corpse, and there was another! That's it then, I have to make my weapons, send Twili to the Twilight safe area and these people who were turned to their homes as they were, spirits.With this thought my gun and my sword both flashed back to needles but then quickly returned to their weapon state. The shadow beasts had already re-grouped and had reinforcements with many a large bee stinger come in from town. "This time, I've got you!" I held up the gun and held the trigger down, instead of firing a small shot energy gathered at the end of the barrel crackling like a wild forest fire. The shadow beasts charged me like a herd of angry rhinos and just as the very lead one leapt and reached its hand forward to swat the large ball of energy I released the trigger and a huge blast of what I was sure was lighting surged forward chaining off each beast they all looked stunned for a minute then began to rise up again only for the electricity coursing through them to let out a crackle again, and again until they all collapsed and vanished. I collapsed down onto my knees my sword falling form my hand and tumbling off a few bumps down a slight slant. Suddenly the door of the small barn behind me opened and two large shadow beasts came running out, their forms demented and vicious. I heard two small whimpers from inside the barn but had no time to be concerned with it.

I wheeled around and aimed my gun at the head of one of the beasts and pulled the trigger only to hear a click and a long noise sounding much like a hiss or a squeak. "Oh, bugger." I said just as one of the shadow beasts swung it's arm knocking me at least thirty feet. the other lept over and decided my head looked like a spider as he began stomping on it.

"Get off of him!" I heard a voice shout and then heard the swish of a sword and then a sound like it cut through heavy hide and flesh and a screech like no other. The beast removed it's foot and quickly retreated. Midna helped me to my feet and I found her holding my sword stained slightly black from the nasty cut she just gave the beast. I looked over and saw two beasts still standing there.

"These two... they aren't Twili, nor are they human."

"What?"

"Ganon... made these, but yet... I sense from the beast's pain it did once have a soul... he's turned them into savage beasts with no hope of returning to normal. How can that man be so evil?! Does he have any limits or will he continue to just kill and torture people!?" I yelled unable to control my rage I leapt at the beasts putting my gun away as it turned back into a needle and I drew my cursed sword and forced it through the chest of the one beast. It howled in pain but collapsed and died like so many of the shadow beasts back before I knew what they were. The other beast did not take kindly to its comrade's death and attempted to smash me into the ground like a nail into a board. I quickly pointed the tip of my sword straight up and it impaled the hand of the beast ultimately slowing and causing it to retract its hand. Before it could recover I jumped into the air and with a full swing of my arm sliced the beast's head straight up and down and it popped, into little black squares just as the other had. "It... is done," I said falling flat on my face and blacking out.

With no dreams to occupy the blackness of my rest I awoke what felt like a mere second later on my back with a cold cloth on my head. I sat up and removed it and noticed it was as black as a moonless night, the same black Midna's dress was. I looked around and finally spotted her, sitting with her knees pulled right up to her and her head resting on her arms, which were crossed like a bridge on top of her knees. She turned as I spotted her and I noticed part of one of the hanging wispy parts of her dress was torn. "You're finally awake eh? There's been some noise coming from that barn since you passed out, I figured I'd be best to wait for you in case anything like before shows up."

"Yea I heard the noise earlier, however those two kind of stopped me from checking it out." I said. "I can't believe you ruined your dress just because you were concerned for me... such a nice dress too." I handed to piece of the dress back to Midna, "Just in case you wanna put a cold cloth on anyone's head and don't wanna tear your dress anymore." Before Midna even had a chance to retort I walked over to the barn and as soon as my feet made the slightest rustle at the door a voice pipped up from inside.

"Please, don't kill me. I just wanna go home," it sobbed in a clearly female voice. After this sob there was a low growl and the clinking of chains. I wandered inside with Midna hanging back at the door a moment then following quickly and closely.

"Hello? Whoever you are we don't want to hurt you, I have a sword, I will not use it unless I must defend myself or my companion."

"Companion?" Midna seemed slightly angered.

"Companion as in your in here with me and your not my enemy, now shut up!" I said and heard a quick rustling directly to my left. Shocked I stabbed my sword into the ground left of my feet and about an inch from the fingertips of a figure hiding in the shadows that hung low to the ground.

"Eeee, I thought you said you wouldn't use your sword unless you had to defend yourselves?!" the voice screamed.

"Well you rightly scared the living shit out of me so that's what you get you..." I paused as the figure stood and I found it to be a female Twili with hair that seemed to almost be a mix of green and blue, like the colour of the ocean on a clear day. Her skin was about the same color as Midna's but her eyes, seemed innocent and frightened. I found my mind wandering as well as my eyes, she giggled and I snapped my eyes back to hers. Hard to resist staring at a body like that, I thought just noticing now that Midna had noticed my perversion and was rather mad now.

"My... accomplice's perversion aside, we're very sorry. You did frighten us however, I'm Midna and this is," Midna began to introduce us.

"Chris, pleased to meet you," I said grabbing her hand and giving it a light kiss.

With another light giggle and a blush she retracted her hand lightly, "My name is Lilith, if you would kindly free me I would forever be in your debt." Lilith, why does that name seem so familiar? I thought reaching for the shackle holding her.

"Hang on! How do we know we can trust her?" Midna asked and I stopped briefly.

I let out a light chuckle and felt Lilith look down at my back, "Very simple, if she makes one false move her head will leave her shoulders, understood Lilith?" She gulped as I looked up with a very kind smile despite what I had just said and she nodded. As the shackle clicked open I heard a growl from behind me again. I turned and was shocked to see a wolf chained there, it took me a second to remember we were in the Twilight and then I realized two thing very quickly. "You," I said wheeling around to face Lilith, "Midna claims to be ex-queen of the Twilight which makes it sensible she could not be turned to a shadow beast, but why aren't,"

Lilith was quick to cut me off when she realized my question, "I don't know, that monster of a man chose not to turn me, I don't know why, but he had me brought here out of the dungeon and chained me up with those two huge shadow beasts and that foul smelling wolf," she said pointing across the small barn to where the wolf continued to growl at us.

"Well, the fact you think it's foul in smell is unfortunate, because we require it's aid to save this world." I said and the wolf stopped growling. "Ah, caught your interest have I?" I leaned over towards the wolf and it began growling again and let out a loud and strong bark. Caught off gaurd by the sudden noise and "lovely" smell of dog breath I fell backwards. "Just as feisty as Link was," I said and the wolf looked extremely curious now. I let out a hearty laugh, "Ah there we are, I knew the name would do me some good." I said standing and adjusting my hood. "Now if you promise to be a good doggie and follow us I think we can help you return to your normal state, and then maybe you can explain, well just who you are... and why this world is so different then it was nearly a century ago, then again that long is I suppose time for a lot of change." The wolf nodded and I bent down and fiddled with the lock on the clasp for a bit while the wolf whimpered. "Listen, I get that this isn't comfy but the more you move the longer its gonna..." SNAP. Suddenly the chain had broken and I looked back to see Midna had used some magic to break it. I sighed, "Fine, do it that way..." My head throbbed again and I remembered that Link had always had a chain around his one leg in wolf form too. I looked at Midna until she finally seemed weirded out and demanded to know why I was staring. I simply turned back around to have the wolf jump up and lick my face and push me back. I fell and my hood flew back and off and the necklace that I felt as though had been around my neck forever bounced up and out of the cloak, and into plain view.

Midna suddenly let out a loud gasp, "That necklace, how do you have it!?"

"This, I... as far as I remember it's just always hung around my neck."

"No. No, I gave that to... you, nearly eighty years ago I believe."

"Eighty?!"

"Yes, that's about how long this "clone" has been terrorizing the Twilight!"

"Wait a second!" Lilith suddenly interrupted us. "Eighty years? A clone? Midna... You two couldn't be... Lady Midna and... and Lord... um... Ch... Chris," she seemed frightened saying my name somehow.

"We don't have time for this right now, now that we have our hero we need to find the spring to free those stupid spirits of light." I said putting the necklace back under my shirt and putting my hood up. I walked out of the barn with Midna and Lilith both shouting inaudible babble at the tops of their lung's and the wolf occasionally barking. I walked along the path where the spring normally would be and tried my hardest to ignore the two women trying to interrogate me until finally we came to the spring but I Noticed something, "What the hell is that thing?" Both girls stopped and looked at the odd figure all curled up near the middle of the spring.

"I," the thing to my utter amazement spoke, "am no thing, I am the great Daivat. Lord Chris chose me to capture and defend this spring." Midna and Lilith stared at me.

An idea popped into my head, I removed my hood, "No I did not," I said and Daivat suddenly uncurled and appeared to be the figure of a man who body builds... far too much.

"Ha, I may not have the biggest brain of all the Twili but you are not Lord Chris, you are the impostor he warned us of!"

"Excuse me, I am "Lord" Chris, though I hate the tittle lord, the man you speak of is Ganondorf, an evil man who wishes to rule both worlds."

"Lord Chris warned me you would attempt to fool me, further proof yet he also warned me the traitorous Lady Midna would be with you!"

"Traitorous!?!?" Midna yelled clearly angry.

"Cool it, Ganon is going to probably have turned some people against us, regardless this fool revealed his weakness, he's the strongest but not the brightest." Midna nodded. "I have a plan but it may require you to do something you really would rather not." Midna moved in closer so I could whisper my plan. "All I need you to do is deny being yourself to confuse him, if he even slightly believe you I want you to flirt with him a bit,"

"Absolutely not," Midna said quietly but firmly.

"Listen nothing major, and if I can move quick enough you won't have to resort to flirting, okay?"Midna reluctantly agreed.

"Enough talk, time for me to smash you!" Daivat shouted.

"Now please hold on Daivat," Midna stopped the angry beast of a man, "I am not sure who this "Lady Midna" you think I am is but that is most certainly not me."

"It... isn't?"

"No" Midna continued the ruse which to my amazement was actually confusing the big lug enough that I was able to begn sneaking around to his back.

"Oh... well then maybe, I don't need to smash you guys." Midna looked flustered that he was falling for it so easily.

"And... I," Midna sounded frightened but then Lilith cleared her throat rather loudly and Midna changed her tone to such a manner it actually got me a bit excited even though I knew it was an act, "I just looove big strong guys like you."

While the tone of her voice had excited me a bit it also made me nearly choke to avoid laughing. I had to stop myself as I was nearly directly behind the big brute now. Just then I noticed he was looking at her dress, "Wait a minute," he said snapping out of his loving trance, "only lady Midna had dresses like that, your a liar! I hate liars, I SMASH LIARS!"

Daivat raised his massive war hammer high behind his head and I saw the perfect opportunity. I jumped into the air and quickly figured out if swung his hammer he would try and bring down the actual "smashing" end of the hammer down right on Midna so if I cut it even a quarter of the way down he would simply smash a stick to the ground, which is exactly what he did. Enraged now Daivat spun around and nailed me right in the side of the head with what was left of his hammer, tossing it aside as I flew through the air. I looked over and saw Midna still standing there. "All of you get out of the water, NOW!" I yelled and Midna quickly ran out of the springs refreshing water and over to the dry blackened grass with the wolf and Lilith. I got to my feet with a smile nearly going from ear to ear. "Before you smash my face in let me ask you something."

"Go ahead, I might as well grant you a final request," Daivat sneered.

"How much do you know about electricity, and conductors?"

"Uhh," the brute stammered and I let out a light chuckle.

"Well, I'll teach you a little something, there are four possible things something can do with electricity. First, it can completely resist it, something that might do that is well something like a rock. Second, it can absorb it and become charged, an example would be any metal. Third it can resist it, hard to think of something that might besides, maybe a tree. Finally my friend, it can conduct it, which in most cases is very similar to absorbing it, except that after it's absorbed it... it has a place to come out."

"Ooo, all right enough talk now..."

"Well I mean you were such a good student I think you deserve a demonstration of conduction." I said building up a huge charge of electricity in my hand. "Enjoy!" I jammed my hand into the water and felt the shock backtrack through the water and flow into me as well as flow outwards. In a split second the giant was flailing about like a fish out of water. I could feel the current recharging me as I let out as much energy as I felt like. "I forgot to mention conductors have a tendency to duplicate the intensity of a charge!" I yelled as the behemoth finally managed to pull himself out of the water. Absorbing the last bit of charge out of the water I laughed as the large Twili found himself unable to move. "I regret having to do that but now if you'd kindly tell me how to restore the light spirit?" Daivat pointed to a black shard near the mouth of the cave where the water flowed out from. I walked over drew the crystal from its place and brought it over to where the wolf was, feeling the surging dark energy I knew I had to crush it, and I did so.

here you have it folks chapters 18-21 all up at once aren't I so nice? :P Anywho I'm off to write some of chapter 22 and then go to bed. Any review would be appreciated ^.^