Chapter 23

Awaking in the Twilight I found myself still wrapped in the blue green "hair-hand" of Lilith. Unable to do much but squirm I spoke up, "Hey, Lilith, mind letting me down?"

"Oh, sorry." Lilith said putting me down and then I noticed we were already at the light spirit's spring. I opened my mouth to speak but my question was answered before I could ask. "Midna and I decided it would be quicker for us to bring you here before you even woke up, strangely enough no enemies got in our way..." I was still in shock and merely nodded as Adonia awoke as well. I just now noticed it but I feel diffrent here... like... my power itself is diffrent... and yet not completely... what's going on?Midna looked angry with Lilith as she had almost from the moment we met her, my guess was she was jealous, well at least I know I would feel that way.

Again I opened my mouth to speak but this time I was interrupted a strange roar, turning quickly I was confronted by a strange shadow creature. Startled I raised my hands in defense and heard an even stranger noise and after a brief second I felt a cold breeze wash over me. I looked through my fingers and saw the strange beast had been frozen in a block of ice. Looking at my own hands I realized the my power had shifted from lightning to ice. "Remind me not to make him mad," Adonia said startled as much as I had been. I laughed and looked around trying to figure out why my power changed.

"Well now... I'm about as lost as the rest of you, I mean I know we need to free this world from the Twilight, but as I've said there is no way my power alone will match Ganon's new powers. So not only do I need to get stronger, it would be wise for the three of you to get stronger as well." I turned my head to the side thinking I heard something move in the bushes. I waited a second and heard movement again, "Show yourself!" The instant I made this demand a huge bolt of ice flew out from the bushes and froze my right hand in a block of ice.

"Haha, the key to victory is the element of surprise!" said a strange looking man as he came out form the bushes.

"And just who the hell are you?" I said looking at my hand.

"I am Abednago, master of all forms of magic!" he cackled at us.

"Uh huh, that's nice," I said clenching my fist and smashing the ice around it. "Care to try that again?" Angered by the ease with which I had shattered his previous attack he now shot a huge bolt of fire at me. With a deep breath in I let out a huge gust of freezing breath that extinguished the fire almost instantly. I looked towards the spring, searching for the crystal like at the last spring. Then I thought of something, "Wait! If you are a mage surely you, as most users of magic do, seek wisdom correct?"

"Well, yes, but you would have no worthy wisdom for me to hear!" he laughed and slammed the ground causing a huge wave of rocks and earth to move swiftly towards Midna. I sighed and drew one of my needles conjuring myself a massive hammer style weapon that felt to me as though it were no more then two pounds. With a mighty swing I slammed the hammer down on the front of the wave the back end of it welling up against my hammer and shattering itself.

"Are you quite done?"

"Never!" he grew angrier now and cast a spell that took me a second to figure out what he had done. It appeared he had sped himself up when in truth he had attempted to almost stop time around us four. He walked right up to me drew a dagger and held it right to my throat, as he drew it back slightly I began to smile. The dagger came forward, almost to fast for me to see, to bad as a mage he could not attack with more speed. There was a loud clink as the dagger seemed to scave right off my skin. Startled Abednago lost control of his spell and I quickly extended my arm smashing my palm into his face. "But... how?" he said holding his nose, which was likely broken or nearly so.

"Haha, you see you have control over all magic, but I have one ability that can protect me so quickly, well it almost wouldn't matter if time were holding still." I took my fist and slammed it into my neck and it merely stopped and made a sound like if you were to punch a rock. "Care to take a free shot?" now enraged Abednago stood and conjured up a huge sparking ball in his hands. I felt a strange sense of fear well up in the back of my mind and as he shot this huge bolt of lighting from his hand my arm shot out in pure instinctive reaction. Without even thinking there was now a shield made of this strange crystal substance that had coated my neck, but the shield looked as though a large force had hit it in the middle and as I pondered why the shield was shaped like this the bolt of lightning went into the middle of the shield and was stopped briefly then reflected back.

After taking a hard hit from his own lightning bolt Abednago casted one final spell that made him vanish, I felt at ease so I assumed he had teleported himself to safety. I noticed as he had vanished he dropped something. I walked over and picked up another crystal. Without a second thought I cashed it and we were returned to the world of light. Well that's a lot easier then crushing those damn bugs...I thought remembering Link attempting to kill one of the bugs for far to long, as each time he lunged it would move. Suddenly I felt my head pulse and begin to ache. I winced as fragments of my memory flashed before my eyes, but each was different then what I remembered. Without warning it all suddenly stopped. "Midna," I said in an almost questioning tone.

"What?" she replied looking slightly concerned.

"Do you think... the Fused Shadows would still exist?" Midna seemed shocked at my recollection and inquiry of the objects.

"Well, it was said they were infallible magic objects but Gannondorf crushed the one I wore on my head when he nearly killed me. Actually I never found that... not even the pieces."

"We will need it, or something of equal power, in order to match Ganondorf."

So you have returned great champion!The familiar voice of one of the light spirits suddenly boomed out, as did the last spirit I have increased the maximum of your power, but was forced to seal a large portion away. The power you posses in the light realm would cause you pain in the darkness, however the opposite is also true. "Wha?" I said completely lost in that statement, You must learn to use your new powers quickly for much is likely to be drawn to you and the new hero. I must leave now, a very dark force draws near. Without another word or warning the light spirit was gone and there was a large shock wave behind us. "Damn it, what now?" I turned to see Ganon standing there, dark energy swirling around him in what appeared to be a shield.

He cackled, "I have a proposition for you."

"Who is that?!" Adonia said extremely taken aback by Ganon's sudden appearance.

"That's Ganondorf, he's the reason all this is happening." I said and Adonia had suddenly charged him. "No, don't!" I yelled but it was too late, she had swung her sword and it stopped dead on the dark energies surrounding Ganon and sent her flying back. I jumped in her flight path and caught her, putting her off to the side. "Your fight is with me!" Champion, you musn't release the seals on your power, it could cause you permanent harm, you are not yet ready to fight him! I know.

"I do not wish to fight you, as I said, I've come to make a deal with you."

"And you have what that would interest me?"

"Your children!" My eyes grew wide and I turned to Midna who was staring at the ground.

"Midna, we... we had children? I thought you said we only..." I began to ask but she held up her hand to stop me.

"We had two children, a boy and a girl, both born after you were gone, both born... on the same day."

"TWINS!?" I shouted unable to process all this. "Well what the hell do you want from us?" I said shouting at Ganon now.

"I want Midna," he said as two more figures in dark energy "shields" appeared. Midna let out a worried gasp to which Ganondorf replied, "Don't worry, their fine... now come along." Midna began to walk towards him but I grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"A private word with the lady if I may?" I said and Ganon looking flustered by my request made a motion with his hand telling me to go ahead. I picked pu Midna and jumped over into the thick brush. "Listen, I can't let you do this, for one thing we don't know if those are REALLY our kids, another is we have no idea what he might do to you, I have an idea but you have to trust me."

"Does this idea involve leaving behind my children?" I shook my head and Midna nodded in reply. I used the power I could feel both in the light and in the twilight to summon forth a Crystal shard, Midna looked confused but more so yet when I pricked her finger with it and the tiny cut oozed a droplet of blood. Suddenly the shard formed into a humanoid form and took shape into an exact duplicate of Midna. The copy was perfect except the shocked face, without a second word I grabbed the copy and jumped back into the clearing.

"Midna and I have agreed to your silly deal." I said and the copy walked forward. Suddenly both children were freed from their dark prisons and the energies surrounded the copy and both it and Ganon flew off as suddenly as he had appeared. I quickly grabbed the two Twili that Ganon claimed were my children and when I was sure Ganon was gone motioned for Midna to come out.

Wow it's been a while eh? :P I've actually had this chapter sitting here quite a while, forgot to put it up, been busy with a lot of things. Have chapter 24 done too, might need some rewrites before I put it up thought, it will be up soon though.