Chapter 26

For some odd reason I could never stay awake when passing through the wall of twilight but usually would not be out too long. I awoke in front of the next light spirit's spring and looked around for the crystal, or my opponent. I noticed, as expected Adonia was not a wolf any longer in the twilight, I was not sure why she had been to begin with but she awoke as I did and we all stood in silence waiting for something to happen. "So why are we just standing here?" Aidan asked breaking the silence. I looked at Midna who was already about to explain the situation anyways.

"We have to free the four light spirits of this world before we can even hope to fight against your father, he has captured their power in small crystals which it appears he has entrusted to Twili that he has either granted great powers to, or they had great power and he has fooled them into thinking he can be trusted." Aidan looked angry at this, and Midna now looked my way and I slowly turned my head away giving clear signs that I still did not wish to say anything of my being their father. Without a warning I was suddenly hit hard in the back and thrown to the ground, after which I heard a sound like someone running up to where I had just been pushed then the sound of something running away. I rolled forward and caught myself, ending up standing facing the direction I had been pushed from. "What are you doing?" Midna asked clearly confused by my sudden fall and recovery.

"Well at first I was pushed and decided to recover from my fall by rolling back onto my feet and turning around to see my attacker... however I both regret and am relieved by turning around." I said now staring at a giant massive black ball with thousands of small black spikes sticking out. As I finished my speech each of my comrades turned around and their jaws all dropped as they took in this massive whatever it could be called. Now the ball began to spin slowly at first but quickly picking up speed, but still not leaving its resting spot. "Oh hell." I said running forward towards the ball I stopped not but twenty feet from it planted my feet, rooted them more securely with crystals that I fused to the ground. I bent my knees slightly and put my arms out to my sides and forward hoping to catch this monstrosity of an attacker. The ball suddenly took off and smashed into me, its was quite a bit larger then I had even expected, probably coming in at around ten times my size or more. The sheer weight of the initial blow knocked me off balance but a continued push made me almost get crushed underneath the ball. Without any other option I began to breathe ice at the ball now attempting to crush me. The ball I soon found out was not a singular ball at all as a chunk of it fell off and unrolled itself into what looked very similar to a goron.

"It's... a bunch of Gorons?" Midna asked in confusion.

"Back off, something is up with these Goron, they should appear as spirits in the Twilight unless..." I said being interrupted by the ball of Gorons falling apart further.

"Unless they've been turned into some form of shadow beast!" I heard Midna shout startled by this revelation.

"Get to higher ground, now!" I yelled drawing two needles and changing them both into short swords that could return a shadow beast to their normal state and return their spirit to a safe place. The Gorons had not gained any speed from their darker forms as I quickly cut many of them, and they reverted to little green flames that I saw rather then a person's spirit and the spirit flew off into the distance. Hacking away as fast as I could the Gorons were many and drawing closer much quicker then I had anticipated. My swords lost speed with each slash and two Gorons replaced each I slashed and I soon found myself in a sea of blackened rock-men, hundreds of glowing red eyes glaring at me. I soon found out their size had slightly increased in their new shadow form but so had their strength, much more immensely then their size. A goron came up behind me as another in front grabbed hold of my blades as they had not been moving fast enough to lay harm to any of the Goron. The Goron in front stole the blades right out of my hands and tossed them aside and the one behind me slammed a fist into my head sending me tumbling forward and just as I thought I would leave the painful sea of rock men the last Goron on the outside of the circle grabbed hold of my leg twirled me around and tossed me up into the air.

"Chris!" I heard Lilith's voice yell out from somewhere in the now spinning world around me. I heard a loud crackling noise and a blast beneath me. I felt myself hit solid ground and pushed myself to my feet as quickly as I could and saw that many of the gorons had curled up into balls, another difference was clearly notable on their shadow form, their rocky exterior was covered with small spikes when they curled up. Without a second thought I grabbed hold of both swords, which thankfully were not too far from my landing spot, and began hacking away at the Gorons again, this time dispatching all of them. The others came back down off the roof they had made their way to when the attack had started and ran over to me, Lilith being the first to arrive. "Are you okay!?" she asked loudly into my ear and as I tried tor reply I fell to one knee exhausted from fighting an entire tribe of gorons.

"Mother... did I hear wrong or did Lilith..." Lana started to ask her mother quietly but I still over heard.

"Yes... that's right... my name is Chris. What of it?" I said forcing myself to stand upright again Lilith trying to help me the whole time.

"Then..." Lana closed her mouth realizing who I was but remembering her earlier promise not to tell her brother if she found out.

"What?" Aidan asked still clueless either because a name meant nothing to him or because he never even knew his own father's name, if I even was the same man that was his father. Lana shook her head and Aidan let out an exasperated sigh, "Jeez, I'll never understand women." he said shrugging.

"Get used to it." I said gently pushing Lilith off me to let her know I could support myself. Suddenly without warning or even a conscious thought my entire body acted bringing my head back and down like I was trying to do the limbo and my right arm went forward and back around like I was attempting to hug something. It compressed and I actually felt something there, now acting of my own will I turned and threw whatever I had just grabbed to the ground. As I did a young woman, clearly of the Twili appeared in plain view.

"Well your no fun you big meanie!" she said rolling into a sitting position and pulling down her bottom right eyelid sticking her tongue out at the same time.

"...And just who the hell are you?" I asked not taking my eyes from the girl, her hair and markings were black unlike Midna's and Lilith's and her hair was a rugged bobcut, not long like Midna's or Lilith's.

"I'm Miki, say it wrong and I'll kick you in the face, spell it wrong and I'll break you wrists. You say it like Mee-kee, you spell it M-i-k-i. Get it? Got it? Good!" she said all rather quickly. "My lord, king of the Twilight ordered me to dispose of the traitorous queen, his impostor, and bring his children back!" she continued to speak in a very quick voice which I found myself having troubles keeping up with.

"Well... Miki... the strong man, and master of magic before you failed, wha tmake you think you'll fare diffrently?" I said drawing my cursed sword and a single needle changing it into a sword as well.

"Those two were wimps, are you seriously comparing them to me, they could never have done... this!" she shouted and without time to react I felt something hit me knocking me back slightly. After a moment the same place where I felt the impact that pushed me back began to seer with pain, I looked down and there was a large cut from my shoulder down just past my collar bone. I suddenly felt two more cuts open up on my back and slashed my swords randomly feeling one graze something I heard something fall to the ground. I whirled around to see another dark crystal but as I reached to grab it my hand was knocked away and the crystal vanished.

"I get it now... your a speed demon, you move so quickly you go beyond visible light, who knows how fast you could move..." I said holding my swords in a defensive stance, every now and then moving them according to how my instincts alone told me. "I do however see a major flaw in this power of yours," I said drawing in a deep breath I blew ice breath at the ground all around myself and stabbed the tips of both swords into the ground standing there. I allowed my instincts to act for me again and I ducked feeling something graze my head. I suddenly heard the sound of someone attempting to run on ice and swept my foot low. Miki tripped and could easily be seen again, without another thought I drew out my swords and jabbed the blades into the ground on either side of Miki's head and jammed my feet under her arms pushing the sharps of my swords against her shoulders, ensuring any motion made by her would cut her.

"Poo... and I was just starting to have fun!" she whined angrily.

"The crystal?" I said staring at her seriously. She did not react to or even seem to acknowledge my request. "Now!" I said pushing my swords so the blades pressed slightly more against her shoulders.

"All right fine... I'd rather not see where this is going anyways," she said and I moved one sword allowing her to hand over the crystal. I moved the other blade and she got to her feet. "You seemed to be enjoying that too much too!" she giggled and took off leaving me in an awkward situation with Midna once again. She cleared her throat loudly but not even paying her any mind I crushed the crystal. This land was also now restored to it's original state, but I had a strange feeling.

"Midna... am I the only one noticing or does this all seem..." I paused to see if she could figure it out.

"Way too easy? Yea, somethings up... there is no way it would all be this simple... right?" she asked but she already seemed to know the answer as I nodded.

"Not only that but besides the massive amount of shadow beasts guarding Adonia I've seen maybe two, not more then three since... I know there was a lot guarding her but assuming Ganon's turned both worlds except us and those three other Twili that serve him anyways into Shadow beasts there should be a whole army of the things..." I said looking around at the ghost town of Kakariko.

"Honestly my entire village wasn't even freed when you fought those beasts guarding me," Adonia said making my eyes grow wide. The village got a lot more populated... but where are all the shadow beasts? Where could Ganon hide such a massive army?

"Well I think we should go free the last light spirit, even if this is some kinda trap surely you can avoid it right?" Lilith said staring at me with big puppy dog eyes.

"How many times do I have to say puppy dog eyes do nothing to me?" I said and Lilith changed to a rather grumpy expression. "Anyways... your right we need to free the last light spirit, regardless if it's a trap or not."

"But," Lana started but i held up my hand to stop her.

"There's enough of us that even if a trap is sprung if we work together I'm sure we can get out of it." Lana had a strange look in her eyes, she was looking at me with a new light, I was sure she had figured out who I was. "It's a very long walk to the next light spirit's spring... don't suppose we got a horse and carriage? Well as it's ghost town here we can't exactly ask for one either... might as well stock up on supplies for the trip then."

Wow been a while since I updated... sorry :P. Anyways, there's a few chapters to post and more to come. Shockingly I have not played World of Warcraft in a week, and I'm not missing it in the least!