Chapter 30

"Two rules, first off, one-on-one only, if..." I paused drawing my sword and scrapping it hard against the ground I drew a rather large circle, "...if whoever is fighting me leaves this circle it's fair game for another of you to enter. Second rule, no attacks that consume the entirety of the ring and therefore are un-dodgeable."

"All right, we fight honorably then. I never was one for taking hostages and such." Abednago replied and leapt down from his balcony and his fall suddenly slowing as he drew near te ground until he touched down light as a feather. "So who goes first?"

"Oo memememememememe," Miki said so quickly Abednago barely finished his sentence.

"But Daivat wanted to go first!" the behemoth boomed.

Both Twili looked at me for a moment until I realized they wanted me to decide, "Whoa, leave me out of this, it's your guy's decision."

The two Twili looked at each other and nodded. "Rock" Miki started. Your kidding right?

"Paper!" Daivat continued.

"Scissors!" they both shouted and shot their hands out before them. Almost to be expected of Daivat he chose rock and clearly knowing the rock head so well Miki chose paper. "Why Daivat always lose?" Daivat continued his third person "speech imedement"

"Maybe if you picked something besides rock every time." Miki laughed and walked into the ring. I put my sword back into it's sheath and withdrew a few needles from the pouch on my belt. I formed them into a long bo staff and Miki began stretching out her legs. "Let's do this!" she suddenly shouted and rocketed towards me. To my surprise I could still see her, she was moving just as fast as she always did but I was still able to see her movement. I slammed my staff down with lightning speed and large wall of ice formed and just as it did I heard a loud THUD from the other side.

"That sounded painful." I chuckled walking around the wall I saw Miki laying on the ground twitching slightly. "Yup," I said picking her up by the scruff of her collar and tossing her out of the ring, "Next!"

"Raaaaaaaaaaaw" came a loud cry from Daivat who was already a few feet from me.

"I admire your resolve but..." I started my sentence dodging a swing from the mighty steel hammer he now wielded, "I think your being a tad rash don't you?" Daivat wound up and took a huge horizontal swing, I hopped into the air and landed right on the end of the hammer which was now behind Daivat. The giant now looked very confused and I quickly hopped off the hammer and up onto Daivat's sholders. "You know that saying, don't turn your back on the enemy... you really should follow it." I chuckled dodging an attempt to grab me. "Nighty night!" I yelled putting my hands at the base of his neck I formed a large thick bubble of ice around his head and jumped off his shoulders. Daivat stumbled about attempting to smash the block around his head but in his panic he used what little air the bubble had and fell over within seconds the force from his fall smashing the ice around his head.

I heard slow applause from behind me now, "Good show, good show but now you face me!" Abednago moved into the ring and I prepared myself. "Unlike them however, I have the key to beating you." He cackled a huge ball of lightning forming in his hands. Perfect, as I thought he's trying to use my strength and weakness polarity against me. With a loud roar Abednago unleashed a huge storm of lightning all focusing in on me. With one swift motion I put the bo staff I had created for myself in front of me and using both hands spun it as fast as I humanly could. The lightning hit the staff and as I had expected the thin coating of the crystal substance I had power over absorbed the energy from the magic blast. As the magic dissipated and I stopped spinning my staff I saw the look of utter shock on Abednago's face. "But how, that was my most powerful Lightning spell!"

"You forget, I have more then one power at my disposal!" I said holding my staff behind across my back in one hand and my other hand up in front I looked ready to fight.

"I've got a new trick up my sleeve as well!" Abednago laughed and to my surprise put his right thumb up to his mouth and did what looked like slicing his thumb with his canine tooth. Puzzled I couldn't bring myself to interrupt this strange action. Abednago backed out of the circle and chanted a few quiet other worldly words and drew an odd symbol on the ground with his thumb and then put both hands to it. With a bang and a huge cloud of smoke I found myself straining to see what had been done.

Then I heard a laugh that made my skin crawl, "Ganon!" I thought aloud. "You always did make my skin crawl." I snorted through the disipating smoke.

"Yes it's me, Abednago here learned how to summon people from anywhere, anytime. I figured you'd make some sad escape attempt, I doubt Midna and the others made it far." He cackled.

"Lord Chris I have done as you asked." Abednago seemed to have missed our entire conversation and was now kneeling before Ganon.

"Seems you have your servants thouroughly brainwashed, what ever happened with Lilith?" I said mockingly.

"Strangely enough the girl was immune to any of my powers, so instead I made the girl think I cared for her and her situation!" Ganon cackled at his utterly twisted mind.

"Man and you got these three nuts thinking I'M the monster, you simply disgust me!" I said changing my staff into a dagger which I popped the handle of into my mouth and drew my sword and then a handful of needles into my left hand forming a short sword for an off-hand weapon. This time I'm ready for him, I thought not moving my gaze from Ganon even in the slightest.

"You know, it's truly terrible you had to lose all this power, not that you deserved any of it! However you will not have the time to learn your new power, or did you forget I poisoned you for real now? Not that it matters either, because now I'm going to kill you with my own two hands." With that Ganon lunged with a mighty roar, rocketing straight towards me. I drew up the sword in my left hand and blocked his mighty swing and ducked under a swing from my old left arm, the bow shape of the weapon had become distorted majorly. I was against finding out if it still shot arrows though. Ganon continued to hack and swing away at me and I continued blocking and dodging, the fight seemed like it would never end. Suddenly with another loud roar Ganon bashed the sword from my left hand and I saw an opening. In a flash I had moved behind Ganon, grabbed the dagger from my mouth and jabbed it hard into his spine just below where his neck met his shoulders. Both he and I stood there unmoving for what felt like an eternity and then, he laughed. I had just jabbed the sharpest most deadly dagger I could create into his spine and he was laughing. I withdrew the dagger called my needles from the sword that had been knocked from my hand back and put all my needles back in their pouch.

This is not good, I have a limited time with the first seal on my power broken, if it reseals I'll be to weak to fight, and I won't be able to use that new ability to escape, I looked at the ground and then at Ganon. "All right, plan B it is!" I shouted and shot a handful of crystals at Ganon who merely stepped aside and dodged them. I fired more and more, some shots it was almost obvious I wasn't aiming at him. Ganon began looking at me strangely. "Did you not pay attention to my powers Ganon?" I laughed and held out my hand, palm forward but my fingers closed. "When crystals I've shot are drained of their energy, they... explode!" I said suddenly opening my hand wide and all the crystals let off a faint glow for about a tenth of a second before exploding violently. Not even causing enough of a disturbance to create a smokescreen I could see Ganon was not phased by this attack, fortunately that was never my intention. Ganon was still laughing however and I quickly dashed towards Ganon hoping I could get behind him where my real plan could fully unfold.

"I hope you really didn't think you could beat me." he said as I approached and saw his fist drawn back. I ducked under the punch but to my surprsie felt his elbow dig sharply into my back knocking me down inches from my target and stunning me for a moment. I attempted to roll over hoping I could reach the spot but to no avail. Ganon turned and laughed as he raised his right hand up. "If I remember correct you always enjoyed doing something similar to... this." He hissed and the index finger claw of the glove extended rapidly toward me, I tried to slide or even wiggle out of the way but at this point was almost useless and the claw impaled me just below my right shoulder. It was now that Ganon noticed the floor was not the same. After releasing the first seal I realized I was able to create a different type of crystal now, after they exploded weakly these crystals would then shatter and melt into a pool of liquid that would solidify as shiny as a brand new mirror.

"Fortunately, I don't have to hang around here anymore, the new flooring is my ride out of here, Catch ya later ugly!" I grunted in pain as I put my right hand flat on the reflective floor and felt myself melt into it and found myself staring up at a very disgruntled Ganon who begand smashing at the floor. I floated a moment more then remembered I had to pick a destination before I got anywhere. All right, Kakariko Village spring sounds like my best bet, I thought and just as I finished the thought I felt my body zip away like I was being carried down a river, a very fast river at that. In a mere matter of seconds I found myself expelled from the strange "underwater" world and pushing myself to all fours in the Kakariko light spirit's spring. My right shoulder was burning like mad and a large area around it felt warm from the blood which continued to freely flow from the wound as I attempted to get to my feet. "I've... I've gotta... stop the bleeding." I thought aloud and I tore a piece of cloth from my cloak, just large enough to wrap around my left shoulder and under my right arm, sufficiently covering the wound for the time. It would not last long though, and I had more problems then my blood loss and the poison that continued to act on my now lessening blood supply.

"RAAAAAW, shiny blood!" came an all to famliar shout.

"Oh hell!" I said turning to see that strange zombie like creature from before. "Wait... I... I remember now, I did this... but, I cna't undo it, I need strong Twili magic to undo it!"

"Me kill, eat shiny blood... WRA." the disgusting creature made so many odd noises I could barely believe it was who I thought it was.

"You said you need strong Twili magic?" a strange almost hushed voice came from behind me. I turned and saw a very dark figure in an even darker cloak standing there.

"Who the hell are you?" I retorted unable to see or think straight.

"That is of no concern right now, you need medical aid, and I can't treat you until that thing is out of my way, so tell me why you need Twili magic and maybe I can stop this thing." the voice clearly female now interrogated me.

"You... you won't be able to do anything more then stun it. Only the magic of a member of the royals families of the Twili could undo this."

"Well then I'll just have to. What kind of of spell would stun it?" she asked and I tried to remember.

"It... you need to... use," my vision was growing dark now, "a... splitting spell, to split one soul from another... if it's not strong enough it will simply stun the creature for several days." Just barely getting off the last couple words I heard the figure chanting some incantation as my head hit the ground and I lost consciousness completely.

I opened my eyes to a dark roof and attempted to sit up, an action I instantly regretted as a sharp pain shot through my whole body, I groaned in pain. "Oh good your up," the strange voice from early said from my right. I turned my head and saw her still fully cloaked concaucting some strange elixir. She turned and walked over, "Here, drink it."

"How the hell am I supposed to know I can trust you?"

"Your badly wounded and dying of a serious poison... you got a better plan?" she asked and after a moment's consideration I realized she was right, if she were only going to kill me she'd only be speeding up the process as she was the only person I'd seen upon arrival and I would undoubtedly die if she could not save me.

"Very well," I said allowing her to pour the surprisingly cold liquid inot my mouth and swallowing hard. I coughed, much to my wounds dismay. "Not too bad, I was expecting a worse taste from some crazy... potion... sleepy." I said my eyes suddenly heavy I found myself unable to keep my head up and fell back into a deep sleep.

My eyes opened slower then last time, my vision blurry I turned my head to look for my savior, or captor, whichever she was but there was no sign of her. I grabbed hold of the wall nearby with my left hand and pulled myself very slowly into a sitting position and leaned against the wall on the small cot I had been given. I noticed my "captor" had removed my shoddy attempt at a bandage and applied a much more efficient yet uncomfortable one. "Guess she can't be all bad." my voice was rather rasped, likely because I had not had much to drink after lights out. I sat there panting for several minutes until I heard movement outside and the door opened. Unable to do much at this point I merely watched the door open and my cloaked host return. "What you a shy one or soemthing?" I said causing her to almost jump in fright. I would have laughed had my throat not been so dry or if I did not fear causing myself pain again.

"You almost gave me a heart attack, and for your information I was out getting you some water, I figured you could use some after the last couple hours." she said and my mind instantly wandered to Midna.

"That wasn't what I meant, and... has anyone wandered into town lately?"

"No... why?"

"I'm... meeting," I coughed and winced as my shoulder burned. The cloaked figure handed me an entire bucket of water and I filled my mouth with water, holding it there a second then bit by bit swallowing it so as not to choke. When I finished the mouthful I let out a refreshed "Ah" and continued, "I'm meeting someone in Kakariko I was sure they would be here by now..."

"Where are they coming from?"

"Castle town." I said and gulped down about half the bucket holding it next to me after.

"Hm, they should arrive soon as long as the monsters don't delay them too much. Now what did you mean by I'm a shy one?"

"I mean your cloak, you've not once taken it off since I met you, and don't think I didn't see those markings on your arm when you gave me this bucket." I said holding it out as I referred to it and she snatched it away. "Hey!" I yelled and sat forward in an attempt to retrieve my bucket but winced and fell back as my shoulder forbade it. I sat back far to fast however and slammed my back on the wall. "...Ouch..." I curled my back in pain. "Any... anyways, you ma'am are a Twili, and a powerful magic user at that, not royalty due to the fact that monster is likely still a monster?" she nodded. "Still only the stronger magic users have such bright markings."

"How do you know so much of the Twili?" she growled at me. "You are not one of us, the people of Hyrule know next to nothing of our exsistance and you speak as though you know more then I do!"

"Hehe, my wife is a Twili, as are my twin children." I said, "Their the one's I'm waiting for."

"Fine yes I am a Twili, what of it?" she retorted.

"Well it was my impression all the Twili lived in the Twilight realm?"

"I... I was banished, many years ago..." her voice seemed very sad.

"Well I won't ask you why if you don't wanna talk about it, but listen could you do me a favor?" I asked and she looked up, the faint glow of her eyes still visible despite her hood. "As I'm slightly incapacitated could you check if the others have arrived here yet?" She left and shortly after she had I stretched out my limbs feeling all my muscles pull as I did so, except my right arm which I found was still unmovable without a large amount of pain. It was clear I hadn't moved much lately as when I stretched my right leg twitched up and down uncontrollably. I let forth a long yawn, "Wonder how long exactly I've been here... and what's keeping the others." I said to myself looking around this stranger's house. It was not a very good house at all, it looked like she was just trying to keep her basic needs in check, if that even. After a moment I stretched again groaning out of boredom. The girl came back in and shook her head still underneath the hood of her cloak. "Still too shy to even show me your face huh?" I said and she looked taken aback for a moment.

"It's not that... I just, no one's seen my face at all since... since," she was starting to get choked up.

"Ah... I'm sorry I brought it up. I think I'll catch a nap before the others show up." I said lowering myself back onto the cot carefully.

"All right, I'll go check again, I'll come check up on you now and then, don't want you accidentally opening that wound in your sleep and bleeding out now do we?"

"Oh, thats a pleasant thought..." I said unable to shake the image for a moment.

"Sorry, oh by the way, what's your wife's name? Just curious, maybe I knew her?"

"My," I took a long pause while I yawned heavily, "My wife's name is... Midna." Not but a few seconds after saying this I was out like a light.

Meanwhile somewhere in Hyrule Field...

"How the hell are we lost in a damn field!?" Aidan blurted at his sister who was holding the map.

"We aren't! I just don't think this map is correct." she snorted back.

"Let me see it!" he ordered trying to grab the map.

"No!"

"Sis, just let me see!"

"I'm the one reading the map so no!"

Aidan continued trying to steal the map while his sister kept holding him out at arms length until finally Midna grew tired of it and snatched the map from her daughter. "Moooom!" they both groaned in unison.

"Oh grow up, both of you!" she yelled, both of them wincing at her harsh words. "First off you were reading the map wrong," Midna said after staring at it for a minute, "It's completely upside down..." Aidan snickered at his sister who looked rather sad. "Secondly, who grabbed this map?" Midna said looking at them.

"Uh... I did," Aidan said steppign forward slightly.

"This map is from an ancient fictional Twili book before the people knew Hyrule actually existed. The illustrator and author had no idea what this place actually looked like..." Midna groaned flustered.

"Well now what?" Aidan groaned as his sister snickered behind him.

Midna looked around briefly recognizing many landmarks, "We go this way." She said and without a moments hesitation was off.

"Uh... are you sure mother?" Aidan said hesitantly.

"More sure then I was of that map." she laughed, "Don't worry about it though Aidan, or you Lana, we all make mistakes."

Back in Kakariko... (Short PoV change, stranger)

"Well, how about that... I've got the husband of the daughter of the man who banished me from the Twilight sleeping in my house and now I'm making sure his family gets here... Not that I should hold a grudge against him... I mean he wasn't even around when I was banished, and I guess Midna was little more then a child... still I had just turned twenty-nine barely a year of being treated as an adult and I get kicked out of my own world..." she sighed and got to her feet. It's not like it was even her fault she got banished, if it weren't for her moron of a boyfriend she might still be there. She then noticed she was back at her house, not even realizing she had been moving towards it in the first place. "Guess I'll go back inside and check up on him..." she said and carefully opened the door and slipped inside, finally removing her hood as she did. She adjusted her shoulder length purple hair so it was not in her face or all over the place after the static attack from her hood. Her skin was a much blue-er shade then most Twili and her markings strangely enough always seemed to glow white, it was probably another reason such a stupid little thing got her banished. She looked different and in the Twili looking as different as she did was almost enough to get you killed. At least that's how it was during that man's rule.

She scoffed remembering how he had ordered his buttler of all people to throw her out. Looking down at her the "patient" she had picked up after he came flying out the spring he seemed very peaceful. The expression on his scarred face was almost calming. "I wonder where he got that scar," she thought aloud and moved to touch it but shook her head, wondering what was wrong with her. The man groaned and rolled onto his left side, facing the wall now. She gently grabbed his right shoulder and moved him so he was laying on his back again so she could see the wound on his shoulder. It seemed to be healing already, it was doubtful he was any regular human. If he's... then Midna and him... I wonder what makes him so attractive to her... he seems like a jerk to me... maybe it's... whoa now! Where's your mind going with this, first of all their married duh, secondly no man here has shown any feelings for you... and if they do what you truly are scares them off right away anyways... I wonder what it's like... to have a man so dedicated to you he would risk his very life... to be held by him... kissed... by... him.

(Well that's enough of that, back to my PoV why don't we? :P)

I woke up very abruptly but didn't open my eyes right away. Something felt off, it took a moment but I realized there was some kind of pressure on my lips, my mind instantly thought it must have been Midna, she had finally arrived and upon seeing me she couldn't wait. After half a second though I realzied it wasn't right, they were lips all right but not Midna's and I shot my eyes wide open to see a Twili, with purple hair and white markings rather then usual green of all the other Twili, locking lips with me. Shocked for half a second I didn't even move then it suddenly sank in. I backed up quickly and the girl jumped back startled opening her eyes. I felt myself falling backwards about to smash my head on the ground. I, by some feat of pure instinct and reflex, shifted my weight enough to fling my feet right past my head and land standing upright looking at the ground. I panted heavily my heart pounding in my chest. I stood upright the girl still in shock I caught my breath finally, "What the hell!?"

Ok well I apoligize for this being so late but Fanfiction's spellcheck went stupid on me... couldn't even ignore words without it locking up the net and forcing me to close it... anyways it's here I had to manually go through it... god that's dull. Wordpad sucks... I need Microsoft word so bad... have to read it slow cause supposedly if you read your own writing you'll graze over you own mistakes without noticing, oh well I fixed em, enjoy I'll try and update again soon :D