Chapter 34
We met Basha at the gate of Kakariko, she said that Link and the others had all gone into the desert at Midna's request. "What is she thinking now," I said shaking my head and without hesitation began heading for the lake.
"Where are you off to?" Aidan asked and I stopped.
"Lake Hylia, there's a cannon there that, as far as I'm aware is currently the only method of travel to the desert." I said looking between the faces before me I saw no arguments. I started to turn then stopped, "Oh, that reminds me, Basha could you possibly do me a favor?"
"Um, sure, I guess." she said very confused.
"Oh, it's nothing difficult. I was just hoping you could watch over Kris here, though her cat body is immortal she can't do very much to help us out right now." Kris seemed shocked and angry with me.
"Hm, sure... sounds fun actually. A cat that can talk." Basha giggled as she picked up Kris who merely stared into space with her eyes bugged out.
"You two have fun now." I said walking off with Aidan and Lilith running to catch up.
"Is a cannon really a good idea?" Aidan asked stopping for a moment and telling Lilith to hop on his back so he could carry her.
"Despite what you may think it's a lot better a way to travel then scaling the mountains and such that block the path. Besides, if I aimed and calibrated right it could catch us up a long ways with the others."
"Why are you so determined to find them right away?" Lilith said finally hoping onto Aidan's back. "I mean it's not like we couldn't wait for them."
"Hm... well I dunno if you noticed it... but that group; is Adonia, Lana, Link and Midna."
"What's your point father?"
"My point is Link may be a hero of courage but that doesn't make him a saint." I growled.
"Uh... if you were so worried about him being with your wife and daughter then why didn't you bring them with you rather then us." Lilith asked in a very docile tone.
"Sometimes I wonder if you try and act even dumber just to seem cute... but regardless, in case you forgot Midna suggested Aidan come along, and as I said you can't leave his side, and I didn't feel like starting a fight with Midna."
"But why would mother want to be seperated from you again so soon?" Aidan asked.
"I don't know, I've found it's better to just listen to her and not question her methods, it usually works out best." I grumbled as we approached the gate to the winding path that lead to the lake.
"Wait the lake is so far below the bridge how are we..." Aidan started and I turned my head with a sly grin. "Wait... now way!"
"What?" Lilith asked completely oblivious to my previous endeavors with the bridge.
"What's wrong, scared of jumping off a bridge into a little bit of water?" I laughed and suddenly felt myself shot backwards and smelt the strong aroma of gunpowder. "What the hell?" I said looking for the source of the blast until I heard a loud bang. My eyes searched the direction, saw the projectile which was clearly off target but quickly following a reversal of it's trajectory I figured out where the shot had come from. "Over there, let's get out of here before we get hit!" I said and hopped up the rocky cliffs and along them until I saw what was taking the pot shots at us. "Daivat?! Where the hell did he get a portable... cannon, and why could I not figure that out, Ganon duh." I said and the big Twili suddenly turned toward me and knelt down. "What the... oh sh-" BAM the cannon's shot echoed through the air nearly deafening me and the heavy steel ball collided with my chest. I planted my feet and slid backwards clutching my chest which I had barely covered with a thin layer of crystal just before impact. The cannonball had shattered the crystal and it felt like it had cracked a rib or two as well. I attempted to stand and felt my legs give out. I fell down my legs on either side of me, my rear on the ground between them.
I coughed into my hand, the cough causing me quite a bit of pain. "Father! Are you alright?" Aidan moved closer, Lilith riding on his back, piggyback style.
"Yea... I think s- gah!" I grunted as I attempted to rise and my chest heaved hard.
"Lilith, look after him for me please?" he asked her letting her off his back. She nodded and he drew his sword as Lilith came over to make sure I was still alive.
"Aidan... I may have been gone a long time but I know one thing... that weapon is not suited for you." I coughed again now noticing blood on the hand I had coughed on twice.
"What do you... grah! What do you mean father?" Aidan who had been forced to pause to deflect a cannon ball using what little Twili magic he did have asked me.
"It wasn't until just recently I realized it but that blade is not meant for you... it... it's a family sword correct? Destined to be used by one of the royal blood?" I asked and he nodded. "Now as I said I was gone a long time but I sensed something off about that sword as you drew it just now... it pulsed, searching for something... an energy source. I believe that sword you have is a spell-blade, meant to be used by someone with strong magic." I coughed after my long speech.
"Ah... Lana then?" I nodded. "I always kind of knew this sword wasn't mine... rumor had it when the sword found it's true owner they would just... know how to use it." Aidan sighed and tossed the blade back over his shoulder. It spun and impaled the ground near me.
"I do however... *hack* know a blade that would fit your fighting style perfectly." I said grabbing the hilt of my sword. I unsheathed the sword and tossed it underhand so it turned mid-air and the blade stuck in the ground. Aidan reached out and grabbed the hilt and drew it from the ground.
"Enough talk! Daivat smush you all like bugs!" he yelled and I took notice that he had two cannons on his back. Jeez, Ganon just decked this guy out, I thought and looked over at Aidan who was now staring at the sword.
"Aidan! Don't you let that sword corrupt you now. If your mother found out I was even letting you use the thing with what it does she'd kill me!" I said managing to stand now.
"Uh- what do you mean father?" Aidan asked managing to look away.
"Look Daivat won't stand there much longer, just keep in mind, whatever you do don't listen to the voice of that sword, it's cursed and will try and corrupt you." I shouted as another loud bang ran out Aidan jumped to the side just in time. There was a second shot and I noticed this one was coming directly for me. Lilith flinched in fear and Aidan was still recovering from his last dodge. I quickly smashed my fist to the ground and a large crystal spike erupted from the ground just in time to deflect the large iron ball. My ribs ached and I nearly fell over but I felt Lilith's arms reach under me and gently restore me to my crouching position. "Heh, thanks." I coughed lightly.
"I should be thanking you... that shot would have wiped us out had you not done that." she said sounding ashamed.
"Look, I can understand being afraid of something like that... I mean it's not like you get twenty pound iron balls hurtling toward you at a hundred miles an hour every day." I said and she chuckled. "What are you laughing... wait... twenty pound iron balls?" I said and she began laughing harder. "Gah, you kids are so immature." I said and was astonished at how old I felt saying that.
"Sorry, I couldn't help myself... is Aidan going to be alright?" Lilith asked looking towards him now. He was dodging Daivat's shots perfectly and getting in close where it was harder to hit him and he would be able to disarm him hopefully. I recognized the look in her eyes from somewhere, but I couldn't place it right now.
"Yes... I have faith in my son." I said a small smile crossing my face. "Now then, I should probably try and heal myself so I'm not such a useless lump here." I said reaching up and focusing on my light magic, using a bit at a time I felt the pain in my chest slowly relieve itself until it had gone completely. As I finished healing myself I heard two large clanks and looked up to see that Aidan had managed to remove the cannons from Daivat's back. "Perfect! Now subdue him." I said knowing though Daivat was not smart it didn't mean he was evil. I looked at the look in my son's eyes however and it DID look evil. "Aidan! Drop that sword NOW!" I said and I saw his entire body shake as he clearly struggled with the sword for control of his own body.
"You took away master's shiny gifts! Daivat will smash you!" the large Twili suddenly raised both his fists in the air and to my surprise a heavy coating of rock suddenly formed around them as he brought them down. I got to my feet but could not move in time to help Aidan. The blow drove him into the ground and the sword flew from his hands landing with it's blade stuck into the ground about a foot away from Lilith, much to her fright might I add. Daivat suddenly leaped backwards and his hands became coated in rock again as he picked something up off the ground. I watched as he turned to reveal a huge metal disc, looking much like a giant frisbee. This "frisbee" however was large enough to flatten three of me if I were able to stand next to myself. Suddenly Daivat began to spin, I wasn't sure how he was able to aim or hold on to the disc but after a moment he released it and it flew, spinning much like a frisbee as it hurtled toward the still injured Aidan.
My sudden realization that my son was in danger snapped me out of my trance and I quickly leapt forward. I landed slightly in front of where Aidan laid, bleeding quiet profusely, in a crater. "I will not allow you..." I paused putting my hands out in front of me as the disc came smashing into them, "...to kill... my son!" I yelled gripping down hard to try and stop the spinning as I felt the rather sharp edge of the disc begin to cut my hands. The disc quickly slowed and stopped and I flipped it over as I dropped it causing it to flop end over end as it moved down hill. I held up my hands and watched as my magic worked much quicker this time and the gashes in my hands turned into nothing more then blood stains. "Now then Daivat, I believe you and me have some... unfinished business!" I said rushing towards him as I saw him pick up three much smaller disks, still large enough to flatten me if he tried but small enough for him to throw exactly like a frisbee.
"Master Chris provide me with many new powers to smash you!" he said throwing them at me like they were nothing but as I dodged the first and it ricocheted off the ground and back into his hand I realized they were heavy enough to dig into the rock and still rebound. Guess I'll try out a new skill, I thought and halted for a moment to concentrate. "Awe, you not going to run any more? Daivat likes moving targets more but oh well!" he said hurling another disc at me.
"And I hate people who talk in the third person!" I said as the disc approached at an incredible speed. I stood there not even moving and the disc hit me as planned. However much to everyone's confusion but my own I was now standing about three feet to my own left as the me who got hit shattered into hundreds of crystals. "Looks like I've got that bit down." I said now walking towards Daivat calmly.
"Daivat will crush you!" he yelled and tossed another disc at me, which shattered another clone which induced another disc which shattered yet another clone.
"Come on now Daivat, I'm going easy on you, just give up and I won't have to use my full power." I sighed as he began to huff and puff.
"Never!" he yelled picking up a huge boulder which he threw at me as well. I sighed as the boulder made contact and my ability dropped a clone where I had been and pushed me quickly upward. I watched from quite a height as Daivat looked around and began dancing to celebrate his "victory" and then jumped down to lift the giant boulder. Ah, the best part of my "Crystal clones", I thought snapping my fingers causing all the crystals that had appeared with each clone smashed to glow and then explode violently. I landed on the ground shrouded in the dusty aftermath and waited for it to clear before letting my guard down. I was happy to see Daivat out cold on the ground. I moved forward hoping to remove the mind control Ganon had over him and maybe make a new friend but a strange noise stopped me in my tracks.
I looked up to see Ganon now standing on top of Daivat, his original body was now begining to show through my old body. His hair had changed slightly as well as his skin. He was applauding, "Well done, you felled the mighty Daivat once again, even after I lent him those weapons and control over the earth itself... I guess he was too much an idiot to know how to use it... he is not worthy of the power I lent him." Ganon said and without warning stuck him with on of his claws absorbing his body.
"Your a disgusting monster Ganon, you don't even care about your strongest lackies." I said clenching my fists.
"Bah, I don't need them... I need no one!" he said and as suddenly as he had appeared he vanished.
"That guy is really starting to tick me off... won't even fight me himself." I growled and suddenly remembered Aidan. I rushed back to see Lilith trying to rouse him. "Lilith, if he truly has the blood of my old body then the dark aspect of your Twili magic should heal him." I said and she stared at me for a moment then turned back to my injured son and began to channel some form of magic and after a brief moment Aidan shot upright. "Good to see your not dead yet... son." I said with a smile.
"I'm tougher then... wait... did you just-" Aidan started and I laughed.
"That's right, I called you son." I said patting him on the back as he grabbed the spell-blade from earlier.
"But I thought you said I had to be your equal in a fair fight to-" Aidan started to say and I cut him off again.
"I know what I said, I said you had to earn my respect, at the time I stated one way you could do so... I did not say however that that was the ONLY way." I said offering my hand to help him to his feet.
He took my hand and I pulled him up and I noticed a confused look on his face. "But what did I do to earn your respect father?" he asked.
"Come on now, you stood up to a man who clearly was much stronger then you... with a sword that tried to corrupt your mind-." I said.
"And nearly did father! I don't-." he cut me off now.
"Hey! Let me finish, that sword would corrupt any regular Twili in mere seconds, the fact you lasted over three minutes and still resisted when it told you to kill Daivat is incredible. Now then, you earned my respect because you stood up to Daivat to defend your injured father and... shall I say, frightened girlfriend?" I said and they both turned on me immediately.
"I was not scared!" Lilith yelled.
"She is not my girlfriend!" Aidan yelled simultaneously.
"Wait, then what am I?!" Lilith snorted suddenly turning on Aidan.
"Uh... I... you... um... Father help me... where did he-?" Aidan plleded for my help but I had already moved away to fetch my sword.
"Father!" I heard Aidan cry out followed by some odd struggling noises that I ignored for the most part as I stared at my sword, stuck perfectly into the rock.
"How is it you always end up landing like that... and how did you stick so casually into rock." I said reaching out and grabbing hold of the hilt of the blade but as I did the hilt suddenly moved right out from my hand. I stood there wide-eyed as I noticed the blade had sunken straight into the rock. "I've heard of the earth swallowing people whole but this is ridiculous." I groaned as a large pile of rocks emerged form the ground with my sword embedded into what I could only guess was the thing's hand.
"I, the spirit of earth now challenge you, choose your weapon so that we may begin." it said pointing the cursed blade at me.
"I gladly accept your challenge but if I may spirit, I would like to ask a favor of you before we do battle." I said bowing my head slightly.
"I am an earth spirit not your personal servant." it said sounding angry. Stubborn as a rock, I thought and shook my head.
"Look, let me put it this way then, I refuse to do battle on a battlefield such as this one... I know a much more appropriate place and all I ask is you bring me and my two companions there." I said gesturing toward Aidan and Lilith.
"Alright, I will accept your conditions on the condition you immeadiately prepare yourself when we arrive at this "battlefield" of yours." it said and I motioned for Aidan to bring Lilith over. "Now tell me where is this battlefield of yours?" it said and a smile crossed my face.
"I think the ancient chamber of the mirror of the Twilight is just the place I'm looking for." I said crossing my arms as the spirit stood completely still for a moment.
"Very well then." it said and the rocks beneath Aidan, Lilith and myself swelled and swallowed us and I could feel my little rock "prison" rumbling making it clear it was less a prison and more a method of transportation. Unable to do much else I merely stood there as I shot through the ground like a torpedo until I suddenly felt the rumbling stop and it almost felt like I had been shot into the air until suddenly the rock shattered and I fell about ten feet landing right at the entrance to the chamber, three more rocks followed. The first broke and Aidan landed just beside me breathing a sigh of relief.
"You might wanna catch Lilith." I said looking up as her rock shattered and she appeared to have somehow come out upside down. Aidan quickly aligned himself with Lilith and caught her bridal style, they lingered for a moment before I coughed loudly and Aidan put her down carefully. The last rock didn't shatter instead it merely re-shaped into a humanoid form and landed facing me near the middle of the chamber.
"Come now, prepare your weapon of choice and charge me." it said and I stopped a half a moment to think. Okay, let's see he's made out of rock so ice would be the better choice wouldn't it? Then again assuming he has the strength to match the power of earth he could simply shatter any ice I throw at him... maybe I'd be better off trying out my lightning weapon, I sighed and decided lightning would be the better choice right at the moment. I concentrated hard on the power of lightning and somewhat to my surprise storm clouds formed overhead before lightning struck the ground right in front of me leaving something very bright behind. I knew it was my weapon so I moved forward and drew it out. It was clearly a pike, and seemed to have some physical form to it despite the fact it looked to be made of pure electricity. To my surprise I spun it around on either side of my body like I had used it all my life. "Hm, lightning against a foe made of rock? You are either very brave or very stupid." it said and slammed it's feet on the ground with it's arms wide open.
I charged forward stabbing at it's wide open chest, it suddenly ducked and stabbed upward at my chest with it's blade. I used my right leg to push myself up out of the way in a small side flip, bringing my pike around to strike it in the arm. It pulled a move right out of the matrix on me bending over backward so that my pike just skimmed it's head. It stood upright and slashed me across my exposed left arm, and I leapt back deciding to try a new plan. I swung the pike hard and it shot a huge bolt of lightning straight at it but it blocked with the sword which merely absorbed all the power. Okay, plan C, I thought and rushed him again and ducked as he slashed at my neck, then leapt up into the air as he followed with a stab directed at my chest. I had leapt higher then I thought which was fine for my plan. I held my pike in the air for a moment until suddenly a bolt of lightning stuck it. "Now, THUNDERSTIKE!" I yelled hurtling toward the ground pointing my pike directly at the rock-man who held his sword up just in time to block, as I had expected. With an almost deafening crack of thunder my pike let loose a shock wave that pushed me backwards and causing the stone-man to fall to pieces, literally. I began to walk forward to pick up my sword but I noticed the sand on the ground was shifting against the wind. I followed some of the grains of sand and noticed they were engulfing the stone-man.
"You forget yourself, I am master of the earth, all things rock and sand are at my disposal." he said reforming now a mix of the two.
I smirked, "You forget yourself my friend, you see there are rarely thunderstorms in the desert but on a place like a beach where they do occur, man has found over the years that after a lightning storm you can search the beach and find..." I shot a huge bolt of lightning straight at his legs, "glass." I finished as his legs suddenly became very shiny, turning into glass as I had said. Acting quickly I spun my pike rapidly firing lightning at both the elemental and the sand around his feet until it was all glass and he could no longer move without shattering the "sand" he had absorbed onto his body. "Now then, I'll take my sword back." I said walking up and smashing it's hand to remove my blade.
"I... I underestimated you, please on my behalf, take this and free this world." it said as I removed my sword all the glass shattered and I held up my arms to protect my face from glass shards. To my surprise when the glass had all fallen and I moved my arm away, where the elemental stood there was now a decent sized fragment of the mirror of twilight.
"Well, how about that, rocky gave us a nice present." I said snatching it from the air.
"That shard belonged to both me and the wood elemental, he had forgotten to give it to you when you defeated him so he passed his on to me to give. All my brethren have a fragment, but yet we do not have the complete mirror together or else we would have restored it already for you." a voice form the earth said and then faded away.
"Um, father?" I heard Aidan say and turned to see them standing quite a distance away.
"What's up?" I said and noticed Lilith looked rather frightened. I stood there staring for a moment then realized I was still holding my lightning pike, I slammed the base of it on the ground and tossed it into the air and it vanished in a flash of lightning. "Well after such a great fight I'm feeling ec-static." I laughed at my lame little pun and Lilith smacked her forehead with her palm.
"Hm, I bet the fact you beat a rock with lightning is quite shocking to you." Aidan said and Lilith glared at him now.
"Oh, not you too." she groaned and we both laughed.
"Like father, like son I guess." I said a smile crossing my face and his. "Hm, speaking of family where's the rest of mine, I would have thought they'd be here by now." I said looking around "Actually come to think of it how did Midna, Lana and Adonia plan on following Link?" I said.
"Well Lana and Midna can jump into the shadows and Adonia is strong so I suppose she could keep up." Lilith said and I sighed.
"Well, I don't think strength would help Adonia here as she would still need the spinner to scale a lot of the walls in this place." I said remembering what Midna had told me about climbing to the top of this place. I heard a strange noise by the entrance and a few seconds later saw a hand come up over the edge of the prison and then another and suddenly Adonia's face popped up. "Holy freakin'... did she just scale that wall?!" I said shocked drawing her attention as I did.
"Damn right I did! That was probably the best work out I've gotten in years!" she said flexing her arm, which didn't look any bigger then before, not that it was any bigger then you'd expect an average woman's arm to be. I scratched my head as she walked over, "So where's Link, and Midna, and Link's little girlfriend." she said the last bit almost taunting me.
I felt my eye twitch and I thought I was going to snap right then and there but Aidan spoke up and stopped me. "They haven't arrived yet, did they take a different route?" Adonia nodded.
"Yeah, they said I was crazy and went through the inside, Link said something about hoping some dragon wasn't there." she said and my mind began to wander as I began to wonder why they were taking so long. The first image that passed through my head was the large fossil dragon Midna had told me about eating Link while Lana and Midna lay dead under his claws. I shook my head, No! Link's tougher then that, and besides if anything were to happen Midna and Lana could flee in the shadows, I sighed as another thought crossed through my head, this time I saw Link standing on the slain dragon Lana and Midna holding him and rubbing his chest. I felt my eye twitching and noticed everyone was staring at me. "You okay Chris? Your eye was just-" Adonia began to say pointing at my eye.
"I'm fine! Just... having... never mind, I'm gonna head downward and see what's taking them so long." I grumbled walking off toward the steps. To my surprise I heard a noise heading up the steps and I saw Link heading up on the spinner, but he had something over his shoulder. I stared through the small holes in the stairs until he came up into plain view and I saw that it was Midna he had over his shoulder. Enraged I was almost ready to hurl a bolt of lightning, except I knew that would harm Midna. At the thought of harming Midna I noticed that Link's tunic was stained red on the same shoulder he was carrying Midna on and my eyes shot wide open. "Midna!" I yelled rushing forward to take her from Link as he arrived at the top of the stairs. "Midna... are you..." I paused looking over the wound on her shoulder, "What the hell happened?!" I yelled turning on Link as Lana came up out of the shadows.
"Father, she was injured by the dragon just downstairs." she said and I noticed a large amount of sand in the blood around the wound.
"Lana, did you try healing her?" I asked and she nodded.
"I tried but it didn't work" I saw tears welling up in her eyes.
"Alright, well let me try something, Lana come here." I said and she came over quickly. "Now take my hand, and focus any healing spell you know into me, I have an idea." I said and Lana closed her eyes and began chanting something in a tongue I couldn't understand. I put my hand gently on Midna's shoulder just beside the wound, her blood stained my hand, and I felt tears begin to well up in my eyes as well. No, don't... you have to be strong and focus now, I thought forcing a slight amount of light magic into my hand and redirecting Lana's healing spell into it I managed to combine the two and cast it on Midna. I checked the wound and it had healed, all that remained was a rather large blood stain. I let out a sigh of relief and felt Lana latch her arms around me. "It's alright, your mother is going to be just fine." I said putting my hand on her arm.
"You had me worried for a minute there father." Aidan said and I noticed his eyes were still glossy from obvious tears forming.
"I see that." I chuckled and turned back to Midna. I focused and cast an ice spell in my own hand and made the ice very susceptible to melting, which it did quickly as we were in the dessert. I let it drip over the blood stain and wash it away for a moment and noticed Midna stirring so I stopped for a moment. "Midna, are you awake?" I asked and she turned her head toward me and I helped her to sit up.
"W-wha- *cough*" Midna started hacking and coughing uncontrollably and I tossed the large block of ice over to Link who used it to try and wash away the blood stain on his tunic while I quickly focused and managed to make a glass out of permafrost and filled it with ice that was practically melted and promptly did in the desert heat. I handed it to Midna who took a big drink and then shuddered, likely from the extreme cold she had just swallowed.
"Brain freeze." I chuckled and she took a much smaller sip now and I took the glass from her as it was likely too cold to hold on to for very long.
"What happened? the last thing I remember I... the dragon!" Midna shouted and tried to jump up but I held her down.
"Relax Midna, you were injured and i'm pretty sure Link took care of the dragon." I said looking over at him and he nodded. "Lana wasn't able to heal you but using my own healing spell I managed to combine hers in and mend the wound, but you lost a lot of blood you're still too weak to even stand at this point."
Lana looked at me, "Father, did you just say you combined my spell with one of your light spells?" she asked.
"Yes, why?"
"That shouldn't be possible, in most cases light magic destroys Twili magic. I've never heard of anyone successfully even being able to know both." she said.
"True, that's because I don't know both, but Midna taught me enough about Twili magic that I figured out that with the perfect balance the two magics will not cancel each other out but instead combine to form a new spell stronger then either magic could have formed alone, on top of that this combined spell can heal someone of either world and if I'm correct is the only way to heal a Twili while under the extreme light from the noon hour sun." I said pointing straight upwards.
"Wait, you mean my spell couldn't heal mother because-?" she started.
"Yes, Twili magic does work in the light world but it is at it's weakest and may not even work when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky and for about an hour afterwards and before that point." I said "However, the opposite is also true, when the sun is gone or at it's lowest point in the sky Twili magic is just as strong as it would be in the Twilight." I smirked.
"How do you know so much about Twili magic?" Midna asked even she was astonished.
"Please Midna, do you think I would have spent so much time in the Twilight and not once picked up a few books to research your magic?" I said helping her to her feet now, refusing to leave her side when she motioned for me to. "So why did you guys come here in the first place?" I asked and Midna looked out towards the mirror chamber. "Ah, the mirror, I figured, so then I suppose none of you will be very happy to see, this." I said drawing the shard of the mirror I had been given out of my pocket Midna gasped.
"It's been broken again?! But how, Ganon isn't the ruler of the Twilight!" she yelled.
"True, but he didn't have to smash the mirror, in case you'd forgotten we did that but like a fool I snatched a piece of it before we left all those years ago and then left a wide open portal back into the light world for him to use, the honest truth of the matter is the mirror was in millions of pieces after you shattered it, no one would have been able to gather it but the elements themselves, and that's what they did." I said and everyone but Aidan and Lilith gave me a strange look. "Ah right, you guys weren't around for my encounters with those elementals." I said.
"You should have seen it mother, he was amazing!" Aidan cut me off and I felt myself blushing.
"It wasn't that amazing." I shrugged and felt my left arm throb. I reached up and grabbed hold, looking down I saw the cut from earlier.
"Chris are you alright?" Midna said moving to look at the cut which had turned completely black.
"That's not good..." I said trying to heal it with some light magic but instead it just started to sting.
"Is there anything I could do to heal you father?" Lana said moving closer.
"As my body rejects dark magic healing I would guess no but this looks to be some form of dark ailment, maybe you can cure it." I said and Midna put her hand on my face.
"I'll help too." she said and I moved her hand away.
"You shouldn't use your magic yet, like I said before your weak from losing so mcuh blood." I said still holding onto her hand.
She took her hand away now, "I'm not going to let that stop me, youused your magic despite that wound so now I'm going to help you!" she was growing angry.
My vision went black for a moment and when it returned Midna was holding me up, I had almost blacked out. "Okay, I... I don't have the time to argue this one." I said my head feeling like someone was inside pushing out. My vision faded again and when it returned I found myself lying on my back on the ground with my wife and daughter both trying to heal my arm. I suddenly found myself able to think straight again and sat up to look at the wound. The darkness had faded but still lingered, I looked up and saw Lana and Midna smiling at me and I noticed Midna wobblle slightly. I started to move and Midna began to fall, I quickly dashed over to her to catch her. "I said it was dangerous, but does anyone listen to me... of course not." I grumbled lifting Midna up with both arms. "Now how the heck are we supposed to get out of here?" I sighed
"Well, Chris, inc ase you'd forgotten, you've still got me your daughter and your son." Lilith said.
I turned to her, "No I didn't forget, Lana's probably beginning to feel drained after healing me and her mother, Aidan has some magic but even you have more, and I'm just curious if you have enough to teleport seven people to Kakariko village?" I said and shook my head. "Ah, I'm sorry Lilith, I'm just starting to feel stressed."
"No, it's okay, it makes sense... wait, what about your combined magic?!" she said looking at me.
"As far as I can tell the combination only works for magic with similar intent, and I have no knowledge of any warp type spells." I sighed.
"Well we could always just try it." she said and I looked around.
I nodded, "I don't see any other choice, just make sure you focus on getting Midna there above anyone else, I want Basha to make sure she's going to be alright." I said.
"Father! I understand your concerned about mother, I am too but you have to make it there as well, that wound will fester and begin to affect you if Basha can't treat it very soon." Lana shouted at me.
"Link and I can stay here overnight," Adonia said not even asking his opinion. "Midna was telling me earlier that it takes more energy to move anyone from the light world through teleportation."
"Alright then, let's do this." Lilith said and she, Lana and Aidan all joined hands around me and Midna. "We'll be back for you tomorrow morning." Lilith said looking over at Adonia and Link.
"Lilith focus on bringing my father with us, I can handle bringing mother, Aidan... just help out wherever you can." she said smiling at her brother. I felt myself start to go to pieces and suddenly my vision started to go black again. No, come on Chris, if you pass out now it'll be that much ahrder to move you, I thought focusing all my energy on just staying awake for a few seconds more.
I felt myself reforming in the dry but cooler air of Kakariko village and just as I did I collapsed to the ground my vision quickly clouding over with a black cloud. Damn it! I can't... I can't die here, not yet.
Alright, I'm leaving you with a cliffhanger yes, but you know what don't you complain, I spent all day trying to get this up, at first it wouldn't upload to the document manager for soem reason. That probelm resolved itself quickly and then I went to do a spellcheck and all my quotation marks turned into typing something to the effect of &quto8? Anyways this is also my longest chapter yet, not including this bit it still is at approx. 6,500 words, plus I couldn't tell it to ignore all on my name's so I said screw it and used the manager as a refrence point on my spelling errors, fixed them on the document itself and re-uploaded it and am adding this now... oh did I mention the extra hour I took to slowly look my chapter over a second time for grammer mistakes... *sigh* well this chapter's done... oh that's right I've updated my profile for those of you who haven't noticed, I'll be updating it now and again as well by the way so I can hopefully start making these after chapter sections a bit shorter.