Chapter 27

"Wait a minute!" Midna said as we all moved to go gather supplies, stopping us in our tracks. "I'm not 100 percent certain but I think I could make this journey a lot faster... that is... as long as the portals that were here so long ago still exist." I nodded, "I'll need a moment to concentrate... to see if I can even teleport myself there... never mind all of us, Twili are easy to move but... Adonia and... they'll be harder to move then the rest of us." Midna went into a deep state of concentration so deep in fact that nothing seemed able to break it.

GREEEAAAAH! This odd noise seemed to echo through the air and my eyes opened wide in surprise. "What the hell was that!?" I said loudly looking to Lana and Aidan who both shrugged. The noise rang out again and I suddenly felt something smash into me sending me hurdling into the side of a large rock. I rolled off the rock adn turned to face my foe and was shocked to see what looked very similar to a redead but much more deteriorated and clearly more agile. "What the.."

"Graaaaah, me like... shiny!" the creature yelled and lunged at me again. I stopped it dead with my sword this tiem but it continued to push my back to the wall. I noticed as it was pushing me its attention was no longer even on me it was pushing me against the wall but it's head, or waht I assumed to be so, was turned almost backwards, looking straight at Midna. "Me... like..." it said slowly.

"Think she'd even wanna go out on a date with you, ya ugly spawn of sin!" The creatures head snapped back around at this insult and it let out a disgusting gurgly growl and began smashing at me with its decaying fists. "Get... off!" I yelled moving to the side of one of the blows and bashing it in the side of the head, it fell over and began flailing about wildly in an attempt to stand back up.

I ran over to the others as it flailed screaming and gurgling and bellowing out odd nises that were jsut plain in-human. "NYAAAH, GLAAA... GLAWRL!"It's odd noises and sudden aggresive attack on me had absolutely no effect on Midna's concentration.

"What is that thing!?" Aidan asked eyes as wide as mine.

"Haven't the foggiest, I wish you mother would hurry up though, that thing's one tough ass... zombie thing?" I attempted to decipher the creature but still hadn't the foggiest what it was. "Here's an idea, if she can't teleport us out of here how about we run like hell?" The others nodded and I stood right in front of Midna waiting for her to finish. "Come on! That thing is clumsy but it's gonna figure out how to stand sooner or later!" Just as I finished my sentence Midna's red eyes snapped open.

"I can do it, as I said though you and Adonia will take a moment to gather the energy to move, and the portal is dormant so it will take all the more energy to re-open it."

"I don't care! Hurry up and get us gone!" I yelled.

"What's the big hur..." Midna started but screamed loudly as the zombie thing tackled me again. "What the hell is that thing!?"

"He's my new buddy, I call him 'Mr. I like brains'! Seriously though get us the hell out of here!" I yelled and Midna calmed herself once again. "Okay fine I'll just have a nice conversation with the zombie while you take a nap!" I said as the zombie's tongue, or again what I assumed to be so, came out of his mouth and dribbled an awful smelling goo right next to my face. I almost gagged and the zombies head turned back to Midna.

"Mid..." the zombie seemed to start saying Midna's name but was cut off when Aidan stuck it in the back with his sword. "Nyaaaah! Shiny not nice!" it screeched and leapt at him. I kicked it in the side and it jumped back at me, I held it at arms length and rolled backwards slightly pushing it off with my foot it landed on its back a few meters away.

"All right.. I think I can get us there." Midna said just as I sprung back to my feet.

"Okay then, let's go go go!" I grabbed Aidan and dragged him over to his mother. As soon as we reached her she grabbed hold of my hand and I could almost feel my body separate into pieces and scatter off towards the sky. The feeling was almost familiar, yet despite that fact it still felt very uncomfortable. It was not long before I felt my body re-materialize and looking around I was amazed to see we were at the lake like Midna said. The twilight that engulfed the area however was not flattering on the scenery. I had never really noticed them before but those little black squares were floating about just drifting and spinning, I remembered the Twilight beasts fragmenting into these squares when killed and wondered if maybe parts of them were now floating around as well, always in sight, but never in reach. I heard a noise from behind me and turned to see Midna had fallen to her knees and was panting heavily. "Midna... are you alright?" I asked offering my hand to help her up but she pushed it away.

"I'm fine, just a little... worn out," she stopped mid-sentece to inhale deeply. I looked down towards the light spirit's spring and Midna spoke again, "Go, free the light spirit, I'll just... wait here. I'll be fine so go." she motioned for all of us to go and I just didn't feel right leaving her alone.

"Lana, I couldn't bear leaving her alone, will you please stay here and watch over her?" I asked and she nodded happily despite the reluctant look on Midna's face. So Lana and Midna stayed on the small island floating in a more shallow part of the lake, well it was really attached to the ground underneath so the island was stationary. Regardless Aidan, Adonia, Lilith and myself all moved on towards the light spirit's spring. I walked into the cave first and looked around for a crystal but could see nothing but the cave walls, roof, floor and the pool of water in the middle of the cave. I heard the others walk into the cave behind me and I stood there for a moment, in complete silence.

Suddenly I heard Lilith let out a quiet scream and heard her light footsteps rush towards me and I heard several noises like people getting clubbed over the head. I turned and was met by Lilith clinging onto my left arm and an all too familiar face. "Ganon," I said his name freely as he had knocked Aidan out by some means, "What the hell do you want now?" I said reaching for my sword.

Ganon made a disapproving sound as I reached for my sword and suddenly two shadow beats hobbled into the cave holding Midna and Lana in one arm and supporting themselves with the other. "One wrong move... and you'll never see one of them again, make any motion to attack and I'll kill all of them." I moved my arms down to my sides and Lilith looked up at me. I hadn't noticed it until just now but she was wearing a ring. It was on her right ring finger and looked as though it had a large diamond in it, but something was wrong with the diamond, it wasn't the right colour.

I grabbed Lilith's right wrist and inspected the gem closer, "You!" I said looking her straight in the eye and she looked utterly shocked, "Your... working with him too!?" I shouted angrily. I felt Lilith struggle against my grip and I loosened it but kept my hand close enough that as she moved backwards my fingers snagged the ring and slipped it off her finger. "Drop them Ganon! Or I smash this crystal and all your plans with it." I said holding the crystal completely certain it was the last one.

Ganon cackled and I couldn't stop wondering why, Was it his plan all along for me to smash these? Does he have something bigger planned? What's he scheming? My mind overflowed with questions, I grew frustrated and drew my sword. I took two steps towards Ganon and heard Lana groan in pain so I stopped. I imagine I looked rather strange holding a ring in one hand and a sword in the other. I heard a few noises from behind me then felt a sharp sting on the right side of my back, just below where my ribs attached to my spine. I gasped for breath almost in shock and turned my head to see that Lilith, sobbing now, had driven a dagger into my back. "Come on now... a dagger... really is that... the best you can do... Ganon," I could feel my breath becoming rather heavy and with each the next became more laboured.

"Not quite... How's, a poison tipped dagger?" he asked with an evil grin on his face.

"Pretty... good," I said stumbling back and forth attempting to stay standing now. I attempted to crush the crystal in my left hand but could not seem to close my hand tight enough. "You... you... bas... tard," I said falling forward with my left hand hitting the ground palm open and down I heard the crystal break into pieces and everything grew dark.

I could feel my conciousness return but my vision was still blurred, I could hear nothing but my own breathing, and it sounded very laboured. I laid there for a moment listening to my heavy breaths before my vision finally returned and I pushed myself up to attempt to get to my feet. "Ah, so you are still alive then," I heard a familiar voice nearly giggling from behind me. I turned quickly and regretted it as quickly as I had turned when a sharp pain shot up my back. "Oh, I didn't take that dagger out," I looked up and saw Lilith sitting there looking rather amused, "I figured the more poison in your system the faster it'll work."

"You..." I said feeling something well up inside me that brought me to my feet and allowed me to stand up straight despite my pain. "All of this, you... intended for it to all happen didn't you!?" I felt stronger now and heard a sound like something cracking and turned my head to see the dagger in my back had frozen and shattered to pieces.

"You let your guard down!" Lilith shouted hurling another dagger straight for my throat, to both her and my own amazement however the dagger shattered on contact with my skin.

Champion, I heard the light spirit's voice faintly in my head.You must not fight, your powers have waned significantly, and if you fight the poison in your blood will kill you much quicker. When you freed me I managed to increase your power and add the final seal, however you can only break these seals if you hit the absolute pinnacle of your current power. Regardless, the poison in your blood has been slowed dramatically by your powers in the darkness, the blood in your veins runs as cold as ice and as such you will survive much longer, if you burn too much of your power though you will merely die quicker. To be rid of this poison you must find a Twili medicne woman who lives near Kakariko. Not bothering to question why a Twili had moved into the world of light I looked for the cave exit and just as I bean to wonder where Midna was the Light spirit spoke again. The queen of the Twilight along with her children have been taken to Hyrule castle and this world has been engulfed once again by the Twilight as you may have guessed, but you must cure yourself of that poison before you find and save your beloved or you risk her losing you, quickly exit this cave and use your power to form yourself a pair of wings from the water, despite ice's brittle state you may bend it to your will and if done correctly you will be able to fly out of here towards Kakariko.

I ran out of the cave without even looking back to see what Lilith was doing. I closed my eyes and grabbed up as much water as I could tossing huge cupped handfuls into the air, I concentrated with all my will power and felt it solidifying and gathering onto my back. I put all of my focus on reshaping the ice into wings that at least seemed usable, I still didn't understand how they would give me any lift without smashing to bits from being too thin, but as they finally finished forming I gave them a huge flap and felt myself pushed from the ground and I instantly continued to move the wings up and down and began to fly off towards Hyrule castle. I knew the light spirit had told me to go to Kakariko but smashing the final crystal even though Ganon had returned the world to Twilight again I had my memories back, of Midna, of everything. I had to save Midna no matter what.

Wow doing on spell check on this chapter blew my mind I mispelled words that dumbfound me now... and for some odd reason it said every time the letter nd were next to each other it was an error, and yes that was before i wrote this little speal... it's done it several times now, odd. Anyways one more chapter to edit and add tonight :)