Chapter 28

I could feel practically all my energy being drained away as I continued to maintain, operate and direct my flight. I managed to make it up to Hylia bridge and decided that was far enough and relaxed. The wings quickly fell from my back shattered and melted and without even pausing I was off towards Castle Town. Enemies appeared left and right pursuing me for a short time but I continued on my path each foe losing interest as the distance between myself and them increased. I arrived at the gates to the town and turned firing off a blast of ice to dispose of any enemies still following me. I stood there a moment and thought back to my original journey and how Midna had seemed rather annoying and self-centered to me at first. "Hm, did she ever change... no time to be standing around here though." I said continuing on my way. The streets were bare, no little green flames signifying people's souls, no shadow beasts... nothing. I walked cautiously towards the castle, half expecting thousands of shadow beasts to suddenly leap out at me. To my surprise none did and I found myself able to walk right in the front door of the castle itself. "All right somethings up, this is all to easy. Clearly It's a trap and if that's true..."

"You walked right into it," A familiar voice finished my sentence for me. Abednago, Daivat and Miki all stood in the middle of the main hall clearly put there as a greeting party for me.

"What Lilith wasn't invited to the party of Twili traitors!?" I yelled at them.

"What nonsense. Us, traitors? I think not, it is you who is a traitor, claiming to be the lord of the Twilight and brainwashing poor lady Midna!" Abednago continued addressing me.

"Oh, I'm brainwashing people now am I!? My what people will believe from a fake ruler who feeds them power." I groaned shaking my head in disappointment.

"Silence fool! Daivat crush this insolent impostor!" he yelled at the behemoth of a Twili. Daivat has clearly become tougher, now sporting two maces the same size as his first. He brought them in on me in an attempt to crush me with a thunderous clap of his maces. Fighting fire with fire in this situation seemed like a bad idea so I quickly jumped on top of the right mace and frosted the ground all around me turning it into a skating rink. I took the second step to avoid Miki even engaging me as she could not get traction and therefore moved much slower on ice. Daivat also seemed to find it troublesome to move on the ice slipping and falling on his back. Suddenly I noticed Miki had just dragged Daivat off the rink and Abednago was MIA. I scanned the room looking for him but saw nothing. "Looking for someone?" I heard a voice come from behind me and turned to see him casting a fiery spell toward the ground. I jumped to avoid the wave of flame the swept beneath me and turned as I landed.

"Missed!" I scoffed at him.

"Not quite." he said as I felt something lock around my arms and behind my head pushing down hard enough that another inch could snap my neck and finish me. "Although I could let Miki finish you off right now Lord Chris requested we bring you in alive, and so revealed your weakness to us." But how... I thought... Lilith, damn that woman... wait of course, I remember now, back on Earth Lilith was the name of some woman who turned into a demon, or something in ancient stories, well now I feel stupid."As you know all too well water, which after melting your little ice rink you are now standing in, conducts electricity, which so happens to be your weakness in the Twilight!" Abednago laughed and smashed his fist into the water and I felt Miki suddenly vanish from her position holding me but could not move quick enough and felt a surge of searing pain course through my body. Unable to move I could not endure the immense shock for very long before I collapsed.

I awoke but found myself in an odd place like many times before now where it was clear I was not awake but in some strange dream world or state. "Oh this is ridiculous, every time I get knocked out or pass out, or fall asleep... or whatever I end up having to listen to some stupid thing in this place."

"Now why are you calling yourself stupid?" A voice from behind me asked.

I turned and to my surprise saw myself, but not quite me, something seemed off, "I didn't say I was stupid, I said this whole awake but asleep deal is stupid."

"This whole "deal" as you put it," another voice spoke up this time from my right, "is all in your head, a mind game if you will." I turned to this new voice and found another me but this one looked like me back from Earth, but slightly older then the last time I saw myself.

"What the hell is this crap!?" I yelled very confused now.

"Watch your tongue, or I'll cut it out!" a voice hissed from behind me and I quickly turned to see once again myself but this time in the form Ganon now had.

"All right cut it out, from what I can tell the first me that popped up is the current or rather past me... or what I was not too long ago."

"Aye," the mirror image i was referring to responded with a grin.

"Okay, that would make the second the me that would have, at least according to my mind have occurred had I never gotten into this whole mess... and the third..." I paused looking at him. I stared long and hard and thought as hard as I could, "I get it... that is what would have happened to me had I remained in my old body. The power and Ganon's evil would have eventually corrupted me to the point where I became more evil then him myself."

VERY GOOD a new voice boomed out echoing through the area. Suddenly all three copies of me vanished and a new being appeared that seemed distinctly familiar and yet the blinding shine of it's armor nearly blinded me making it impossible to confirm the identity.

"I thought this was my head... if that's so you must either be an invader to my mind or a part of it?"

"You are so very wrong and yet so very right. I cannot tell you who I may or may not be, or even hint at this." The beings voice was much quieter and yet boomed very loudly into my ears. "The only way to fully understand ones self is to understand what you are now, and what you could have been had a different path been taken, but do not dwell on the path that seemed it could have been better or easier... instead move on and try and make the current path as good or better then another."

"Hunh?" I was almost completely lost in thought. "So you are and are not an invader to my mind and yet you claim you are and are not a part of it?"

"Correct."

"And I'm safe to assume all the advice you gave me will be directly linked to something bound to happen when i regain consciousness?"

"Yes."

"So... if I fully understand myself does that mean..." I started thinking out loud.

"You'll attain new powers you did not realize you had?" I nodded and the being nodded in return. "Now... you must awake, for the road ahead will be rough, but in the end you'll find it has the greatest and happiest end result you will hope for."

My eyes snapped open and I shot to a sitting position so quickly I knocked back someone guarding my lifeless body and nearly knocked myself out again doing so. "Ow..." I groaned and as I reached to rub my head I found both arms chained behind my back and then to the floor. I had lost feeling in both hands from laying on them and then noticed both my ankles were shackled to the floor. I pulled hard on my arms attempting to snap the chains holding them, but I quickly found myself regretting it as I felt a large cluster of muscles pull hard and begin burning indescribably. I cringed and squirmed with pain as my "guard" got to his feet and was suddenly upon me with lightning speed.

"Now now... calm down," I heard an all to familiar voice try and soothe me.

"You!" I growled looking up to make sure I found myself to be right, it was Lilith. "I thought I left you stuck back in that canyon."

"Come now, you really thought Lord Chris would send us in there without a way out?" I snorted at her mention of my impostor.

"You really think he's me don't you? That man has caused the suffering o f thousands and warped this world into something entirely evil and yet you still fight for him... why?" I asked Lilith in a very serious tone.

"You... someone like you... or Midna... no one... only he understands," her voice was barely audible but I made it out.

"Your kidding right? The things I've been through I could believe or attempt to understand any story at this point." I laughed but found my ribs were sore and it hurt too much to do so. It went silent for a moment and I could hear incredibly well, my own heartbeat seemed a beating drum in the deathly silence. I could hear Lilith's calm breath, my own slightly laboured breath. Oddly though I heard a third set of breaths, it sounded as though it was outside my cell but not too distant. The breathing sounded very heavy, tired and even scared. "Who's breathing do I hear?"

"No ones!" Lilith yelled much too loud and I heard the person breathing cough now. I widened my eyes at Lilith clearly stating "yea right". Lilith sighed, "It's just another prisoner," she stated and I sat and thought for half a moment.

"Well considering besides myself, you, those other three Twili and Ganon the only people who aren't big ol' shadow beasties are the beautiful queen Midna and my children, I'd say the person over there is a little more then 'just' another prisoner." Lilith looked very mad with me now.

"That man... as you called him earlier, aided me when no one else would, my family all died... I was alone in this world, my family's reputation however stuck with me and no one wished to even speak with me, forget be my friend. I felt... like I had fallen in love with him, but he said he could never be with anyone as long as you and Midna still lived. So I promised him I would destroy you... but oddly enough, when I met you... I came to realize what I felt for that man wasn't love." Lilith was staring at me with a look I had seen once before, I could not recall where I had seen it though.

The prisoner nearby coughed once again this time trying to force words to form, "C...C... Chr," the word trailed off into hacking coughs once again. I recognized the voice instantly and it tore my heart from my chest.

"Midna..." I uttered and gave a firm yank at my restraints but they did not give. I was about to try again when I heard heavy footsteps echoing through the dungeon, heavy metal footsteps.

Yay got em all done :D Now I should be off to bed, but I wanna write some more... but I'm tired, but not that tired... oh so many decisions. I'll figure it out and update sooner thist ime around, hopefully. :)