Chapter 31
"What exactly were you just doing?"
"Uh I... and you... I just... I... um..." the girl found herself unable to speak.
"Whoa! Calm down, take a deep breath," I paused and she inhaled heavily, "Now relax and explain what just happened, slowly." I added as she opened her mouth.
"All right, well it's not easy to explain but... many years ago, I was banished form the Twilight, by Midna's father." She said sounding very sad.
"And you wished to take vengance on him by stealing his daughter's husband?"
"No! That would be so terribly wrong of me... I could never dream of doing such a thing... I just... to be entirely honest I was jealous... Midna found love and I feel I may never..." she paused and almost broke into tears.
I sighed, why do Women always seem to cry when I ask questions? I walked over and put my left hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, someone like you should have no problem finding the right guy... it's just a matter of time." I said and she seemed to calm down slightly." Huzzah no crying!"Now if you don't mind I'm going to... arg" I fell to one knee and reached for my shoulder which suddenly started burning again.
"Oh dear, you must have opened your wound back up, don't move."
"Yea, sure, that sounds like a great idea, not like I have much choice." I said laughing despite my pain.
"Don't you sass me, I may look young but I'm older then your precious Midna by almost half a century." She said sticking her tongue out and turning around to her strange herbs and vials again. I looked at my shoulder and noticed the bandages covering my wound were soaked in blood. He couldn't have figured out... could he have?I reached for the wound and closed my eyes, I felt a dark pulse emanate from my shoulder.
"Bastard!" I said louder then I intended and the girl almost dropped several vials. She twirled around and growled at me. "Heh, sorry, I'm just in a bit of a predicament here... um... by the way, what's your name?" I said realizing just now we had not been properly introduced yet.
"Oh my name is Basha, and I don't think I caught yours?"
"Names Chris, and um... I'm about to do something that's probably gonna either make you sick, scare you witless or something to that effect but if I don't I'll end up dead." Basha looked at me completely puzzled. I took a deep breath in and without warning jabbed my left hand through the wound in my shoulder reaching for what I knew was there. Basha had a look of shock and horror plastered on her face and I started to grunt in pain. Just as my knuckles reached the wound I felt my fingers clasp on something solid. Oh thank god!I thought and made sure it wasn't merely a bone before acting further, it clearly was something of foreign origin. I clasped three fingers tightly on the object and pulled lightly at first and when the thing budged and caused a searing pain to course through my chest I decided it would be much better on me to do it quick like band-aid. "This is gonna hurt like a bitch." I groaned and yanked hard and for about a quarter of a second I thought, Hey that wasn't so bad, then as quickly as I had torn the thing from my shoulder, immense pain ran over my entire body. I opened my mouth to scream in pain but found my vocal cords muted and instead I collapsed.
I awoke again, completely unsure how long I had been out. I did however find my torso and entire right arm/ shoulder tied magically to the ground. Heh, guess tearing that thing out freaked her out a bit,I thought looking over at Basha's table of vials and such, there were now a couple of concauctions steaming on the table next to what I had assumed to be stuck in my shoulder. It was a dark crystal, like the one Zant had used to keep Link a wolf and me in full armor. Damn, glad I got it out though... the blasted thing would have just kept reopening my wound, larger and larger until it couldn't be closed and I would have bled to death.I heard muffled talking coming from outside. At first one voice, then another, a third, a fourth and finally a fifth. "Wait a sec... minus me my group is four... one of those voices is likely Basha... so... MIDNA!" I yelled regretting it as my shoulder pulsed with pain on each syllable. I squirmed my legs around trying to make the pain go away.
The talking drew near the door and the first person I heard was Basha as she opened the door, "I was hoping he would have been smart enough to NOT shout at the top of his lungs, but of course like most men he acts before thinking!" Basha scowled at me.
"Yea yea, me man, me stupid.... now where's Midna, I heard her voice, you can't hide her from me, let her in, NOW!" I said letting the anxiousness overtake the pain.
"Chris?" I heard her ask quietly barely peeking her head in. I opened my mouth and attempted to get up only to be held back and then shushed by Basha. "You're okay!" Midna said running over and practically crushing me with a pounce of a hug. My shoulder instantly burned with pain and I shivered violently as the pain flowed through me. "Oh... Sh," I put two fingers to her lips.
"It's.... fine," I forced the second word to as solid and tough as I could.
"Basha told me what you did," she said, "First off, eww! Secondly, how could you willingly cause yourself so much damage and pain!?" I stopped her again and pointed to the table. She scanned the whole thing and then noticed to what I was pointing. "That's...!?" she seemed stunned.
"Yea, it was inside my chest, had I left it it would have re-opened the wound frequently enough to cause me to bleed out." I said suddenly deciding to dispel the magic restraints holding me down.
"What are you doing idiot, you shouldn't be moving!" Basha said clearly very frustrated with me.
"I'm... erg... fine," I said sitting up.
Basha's eyes grew wide, "How... you shouldn't be able to move without passing out from the pain and yet your able to sit up!"
"Your measuring me by the standards of a normal human... I'm obviously not "normal" now am I? Besides we need to go back and fix a little problem I left behind many years ago." I said now getting to my feet.
"Problem?" Midna questioned me as we walked out of Basha's house.
"Yes, problem, but solving this problem will get rid of a few others." Midna seemed to have no clue what I was tlaking about but followed me making sure I didn't push myself too hard. We took the narrow passage down the cliff to the actual village and came upon the zombie creature once again. "Ok, this is gonna take both you and me Midna."
"Wha-?"
"Just listen... I need you to focus on that thing, draw out all the dark energy you can, and when you feel you've got it all don't absorb it whatever you do, toss it aside if you can... I'm going to do the same but with all the light energy I can find."
"Wait since when can you mess with light?" Midna said becoming more puzzled.
"To my surprise ever since returning... I can do a lot with the small amount of light magic I do have, regardless, let's just do this." Midna nodded and put both her hands out and closed her eyes. "Remember, don't absorb any of the energy, this stuff is dangerous." I saw dark energy begin to leave the creatures body and took the same position as Midna right beside her. I focused on drawing out all the light I could sense, there was a lot more then I thought there would be. I had to work fast to avoid Midna finishing before me, just as I thought this however I could sense no more dark energy and was forced to pull all the light energy to myself at once, pushing me back. My shoulder burned from the sheer force of the energy. I opened my eyes and saw Midna toss the energy to the ground beside her where a small dark purple beetle appeared which she promptly screamed about and crushed. Good thing I won't need that thing again, now to deal with this energy. I pulled both arms up and over my head, wincing as my shoulder tingled slightly, with a slight grunt I hurled the ball of energy at the light spirit's spring. I fell to one knee and started panting.
"Chris! Are you okay?" Midna said rushing to my side.
"I'm fine... did it work?"
"What work?" Midna asked.
"Mother!" came a loud shout from back towards Basha's cliff. I turned my head to see Lana, Aidan, Lilith, and Basha rushing to where we were. I pushed myself to my feet and looked back towards the light spirit's spring. So far it seemed to be working as I planned, the water was absorbing the energy and bubbling violently. Come on... work! I continued staring at the water completely oblivious to anything else for the moment. Suddenly the bubbling stopped.
"Damn it!" I shouted hitting my forehead with my left palm. Suddenly without warning there was loud bang followed by a large splashing noise. I looked up, "It did work!" Everyone else looked upon this sight, very confused, all except Midna who's jaw had dropped.
"That's... that... but... he..." Midna could find no sentences in her shocked mind.
I laughed, "I suppose a proper introduction is in order. That my friends is-" I took a brief pause something feeling off and Midna finished my sentence for me.
"Link?!" her mouth hung agape.
"Yup, it's a long story but I knew there was a chance I would need him again, it all started wh-" my chest pounded heavily and I fell to my knees clutching my chest heaving every breath. Unable to stay awake I fell over and passed out.
When I awoke it was already morning and I was back in the small hut, strangely the morning was actually morning, not the always sameness of the Twilight. "Ah, you're awake, the others should be back soon, they figured out how to remove the Twilight from this spring, to be honest I'm happy about it too." Basha's voice came from behind me.
"What happened?" I asked remembering the crushing sensation that had overcome me.
"You just overexerted yourself, you'll be fine in a couple weeks."
"That's not soon enough." I growled at my own weakness.
"I figured you'd say that... that's why I took the liberty of whipping something up. I didn't give it to you though, if you take it you'll be better in twenty-four hours bu-"
"Then hand it over!" I said sticking my hand out.
"It's not that simple you dimwit! This potion has an adverse affect on men..." Basha paused for a long moment and then realized I was about to ask what. "Well... you see, it's not always the same but for about sixty percent of them it is... in all people it speeds their body's healing for forty-eight hours, most cases it only needs half that but it works afterwards too. I've treated a few women with this and they slept right through the whole time. The thing is, all the men wake up... and they all crave something, I'm almost certain this potion forces men to seek out that which they truly desire at the time they drink it."
I raised an eyebrow, a little freaked out now. "Maybe I'll pa- geh," I groaned as my chest pounded again. "Gimme that!" I said grabbing the bottle from her and chugging it back. I almost choked as the warm liquid rolled over my tongue. After drinking the entire bottle I tossed it back to her and shuddered, "That crap tastes awful!"
"Well nothing good for you ever tasted good right?" Basha laughed and my vision grew blurry.
"Whoa, I'm feelin' a tad... woozy," I swayed a moment then coughed the after-taste left in my mouth was even worse. "I think... I'll jsut take a nap for... a few... hours." With that I was out like a light once again.
I shot upright, jolted from my sleep for no clear reason, a strange sensation of relief filled my body. I've felt this before... but it's been a long while... what is this feeling?I shook my head and hopped out of bed. The instant I stood up I found out that the potion's effect had not yet worn off, my mind now shifting to perverted thoughts left and right. "Whoa! Self-control, cool it coll it cool it!" I shook my head trying to remove the thoughts but they would not leave. "All right, new tactic..." I said and tried to freeze myself in a block of ice but instead found my body electrically charged. "Doh, I'm out of the twilight, stupid me..."
Suddenly the door cracked open then flung wide open and I saw Midna standing there, or rather, wobbling there. "Yay, you're awake! I missed you, you... whoa..." Midna stumbled and fell forward. I lunged forward and caught her, noticing it was quite late.
"You've been drinking haven't you?" I said barely holding my earlier perverted thoughts back.
"You're shexy." Midna slurred her s as moved her hand up my thigh. Startled I almost bolted backwards into a wall.
"Midna, I think you need to go to bed..." I said thinking any thoughts that would have the opposite effect Midna's touch had just had on my lower regions. Dammit, contorl yourself, so you've laways been a little bit of a perv, honestly every guyhas some in him... or if he seems not to may be more perverted then everyone thinks... regardless... control, put her to bed... and get out now.
"Yay... *hic* bed! Mm, you should come to bed too." the grin on her face turning from drunken to sly in a split second my thoughts began to wander again. Lalalala I'm not listening... think... something... gross, ugly.... come on think! I recalled sticking my hand into my own shoulder and the thought of the pain drove my perverted thoughts back.
"I think that's not a good idea, now come on." I helped Midna to her feet and laid her in the cot I had been using. "Besides, I've been sleeping a long time... and I need to see what's happened."
"Hee... you've not been shleeping as long ash you think hot shtuff." Midna started snickering and without warning went silent and seemed to have passed out. I began to make my way to the door and stopped looking back at Midna. My mind starting up a conversation with another part of my mind at this point. You know, she's out cold, we could have a bit of fun and no one would know. Ew, that's disgusting, back off perverted mind! Never MUAHAHAHA. I am the logical part of the brain and what I say goes and I say no! Oh who listens to logic, and since when does this world follow logic on that note?Suddenly I heard a strange noise come from Midna that I don't think I'd ever heard. Without warning she leapt to her feet covered her mouth and shoved past me rushing outside. Cap'n shes gonna blow!With that I heard a sickening noise and it was clear Midna had overdone it. Suddenly I'm not in the mood at all any more.
I walked outside as Midna stumbled back inside her face dripping with water form washing herself off. "So sleeping beauty finally awakes." I heard Aidan's voice and turned to see them all sitting around a decent sized fire. Lana was laying behind a log she had clearly been sitting on a few minutes ago, snoring loudly. Aidan seemed very annoyed, possibly because his mother and sister had drunk themselves silly.
"Jeez, how many drinks did those two have?" I asked poking Lana with a stick.
"Well she had one and then keeled over, Midna got through about three before... well you saw what happened." Basha said her grin enormous, a mug in her hand. "I've gotten through six now... mind you I've been drinking the light dwellers drinks quite a while now... still haven't gotten used to em."
"Ah so it's like when I had the Twilight drinks then?"
"Oh you drank that stuff?!"
"Um, yeah?"
"Never much cared for it... but yea that shhh... stuff'll kill ya if you're not careful." Link sat there drinking whatever was in his own mug. Adonia had decided to sleep where she sat.
"Bah, I came out to find out what the plan was but everyone is out cold!" I began to grow frustrated.
"Hm... well, I could tell you the plan," Aidan started and took a good long pause, "...Father."
"But... how did you-"
"Mother tends to talk too much when she drinks." Aidan said almost glaring at me now.
"Oh goody drama, the night was starting to get boring!" Basha said taking another swig of her drink then falling over backwards.
"I'll never unserstand women." I grumbled staring at the three passed out around the fire.
"How could you just leave us with a faulty clone like that!?" Aidan blurted.
"You think I did that on purpose!? Look at my face, you see this scar? I got that trying to undo my clone, too bad Ganon took control of it, the cloning process drained away most of my energy as it was, then he went and sucked out any I had left. I loved your mother very much... there was nothing I could have done. I... I'm sorry Aidan... I can understand if you hate me." I said realizing I was yelling at him now.
"Hate you... I hate that fake... I hate Ganondorf, he stole my father from me... and made me think the real thing was a disgusting power hungry son of a-"
"And what about me?" Link suddenly pipped up. "You made me into that... thing, for so long."
"Ah... Link, I'm truly sorry... but when Ganon implanted part of his soul in my body I felt uneasy, so I left that dark bug here, it was "programmed" to not touch you for at least three years, despite what happened to me. After Ganon stole my body and took over though the bug would have been told as soon as the three year wait period was over to posses and immortalize you. Unfortunately part of the process removes most of your brain power, memories and general logic, and on top of that it could only be undone by someone wielding dark magic AND someone wielding light magic."
"Wait Midna had dark magic but who..."
"I used the light magic, since returning my powers changed entirely, I thought maybe when my memories were restored so would my powers be but it turns out I'm stuck with this set, I'm a lot more vulnerable then I was before too." I walked over and lifted Lana from the dirt, dusting her head carefully off I sat her next to Adonia who at that moment slumped over and ended up leaning against Lana, I used them to prop each other up and they both seemed to sleep on peacefully so I decided I was content with it. Then it dawned on me, "Where's Lilith Aidan?" I shot a look towards him and he seemed nervous. I went closer yet and asked growling this time, "Where is Lilith?"
"She... uh..." he refused to answer still.
"She went off to take a hot spring bath near the top of Death Mountain." a voice from nearby shadows exclaimed.
"Lilith?" Aidan asked the voice.
"No," I said, part of me recognized the voice, "It couldn't be her."
"Who do think of?" the voice rang out again.
"I think... it's Kris!" I said and heard the voice snicker.
"Well I suppose your right..." Kris said sounding slightly depressed all of a sudden. Suddenly a cat walked around the corner looking quite sad. My eyes went wide and I inched over slowly to look around the corner, and as I thought there was just the cat. I opened my mouth to speak but found no words for my complete shock. "Yes I'm a freaking cat! Get over it."
"But... but how? I would have thought you either dead or as far away from here as possible?"
"I told you once already, you and I are linked, there's nothing we can do about it. While you were living over in the Twilight I was doing just fine over here in the light world... well until... thiss crap." Kris hissed at her situation.
"That still doesn't answer how this happened..." I said scratching the back of my head.
"Like I know, if I knew don't you think I would have a clue of how to undo it? All I do know is I was minding my own business nearly a century ago and then out of freaking nowhere something smokes me in the back of the head, the last thing I remember seeing was this cat staring at me. I woke up again laying in front of my own body, in this cat's. I can't figure out how to reverse the process unfortunately." I walked over and picked up the cat that was my old alternate dimension copy, or whatever exactly it was she was. She found a comfy perch on my left shoulder and kept half her body curled behind my neck to avoid falling.
I walked back over to the campfire and Aidan pointed at the cat and opened his mouth, "Long story short it's an old friend that wasn't a cat but is now."
"I blame you for this." she hissed at me.
"Me? What the hell could I have done?" I growled at the cat sitting on my shoulder.
"Well I certainly did nothing to disturb natural order int his world enough to get me turned into a cat so you must have messed up something fierce in the Twilight." it was odd to hear a cat talking and on top of that see it make faces that seemed to have as much emotion as a human.
"I most certainly did no- Oh... well there was... I kinda... that's not important, the important thing is I have to figure out how to fix the mess I made!"
"Well I know something about your powers you most certainly do not yet, in order for you to learn though you need to be alone and have complete concentration."
"Hm, That'll have to be decided in the morning, right now as you can probably see most of the group is... er... incapacitated."
Kris noticed Midna was missing and that Lana and Adonia were out cold. "Ah... I... see, well I suppose it will just have to wait."
Yay spellcheck workin fine again :D Not much to say today, I'll update soon again hopefully.