Chapter 35
My vision slowly returned, everything was blurry and still dark but there was a lot going on around me, I couldn't make out what anyone was saying but after a few seconds I felt someone gently pour something into my mouth and my vision went black again. What felt like an instant later I shot upright and without thinking shot a huge ice blast out of my right hand. To my surprise it spread out around me like a fog and I suddenly found myself frozen in a block of ice. "I figured you'd wake up in a panic." I heard Basha's familiar voice say, "Kris told me that you had a tendency to do that sort of thing, and that your own spells are harmless to you right now." Kris jumped up onto her shoulder and I reabsorbed the ice back into my body.
"Well that's only partially true, if one of my crystals were reflected like that it would stab me, or explode... both painful." I said and felt a twinge on my arm.
"That's a nasty wound... mind telling me what gave it to you?" Basha asked.
"It was that sword wasn't it?" Kris asked.
"Yes... the earth elemental it brought forth managed to cut me... with that damned cursed blade." I said holding my left arm.
"You have to remember you're not in your old body anymore, your much more vulnerable." Kris scolded me.
"I've come to realize that rather quickly thanks... I don't need a cat telling me that." I growled at her and got to my feet.
"You really should rest some." Basha said.
"I don't have the time to sit around here all day, I've got work to do." I said making for the door.
"I must insist!" she yelled and her hand glowed with a ball of Twili magic.
"I'm afraid I must reject." I said raising my hand the magic fizzled out.
"What did you do?!" she said looking at her hands.
"Twili magic is a very dark magic, with a tiny bit of focused light it can fizzle out just like that." I said grabbing my sword by the door and walking out. Why do I feel... so dark all of a sudden, I thought as Aidan ran up to me.
"Father, are you sure you should be up so soon? Basha, Neiva and mother were up for days trying to heal that blackened wound of yours." he said and I looked down at the scar it had left.
"Speaking of which Aidan... where is your mother, I... need to speak with her." I said looking back up.
"Huh? Oh, a lot of the townspeople have returned, they're not frightened of us due to Basha living here for quite some time so mother is sleeping at the inn." he said and without another word I turned and walked off down the hill. The look on Aidan and Lilith's faces when I stood there holding that thunder pike after the battle... it was so full of fear... fear... of me, I thought coming to the door of the inn I opened it and walked straight in. There was not a familiar face in the whole downstairs bar, I sighed and walked over to the counter.
"Could you tell me what room my wife Midna is using right now?" I asked the man and he pointed to the stairs.
"Once you reach the top it's the third door on your left." he said and I nodded and walked off toward the stairs. Before I reached the stairs however someone put their hand on my shoulder and I stopped and turned around.
"You say Midna? As in the current queen of the Twilight?" a hooded figure asked, clearly a Twili.
"Yeah, what is this the home for banished Twili or something, I mean Basha's not that bad but-" I started to say and was surprised when the Twili's fist suddenly came up against my face. "Ah, you rotten little- I think you chipped a tooth." I said sticking my thumb up against a few to check but they were fine. "Mind telling me what that was for?" I said and stood at the ready this time.
"Midna is possibly the worst ruler in the history of the Twili, I just felt I should express my feelings to her husband." he said and started to walk away.
"Hold on a sec," I said and he stopped. I know people have started reverting from shadow beasts as we continue on, some we have to kill as Ganon broke their souls themselves but he hasn't used very many Twili soldiers, and I've sent most of them to that safe haven I created back in the Twili, so unless this guy avoided being turned in the first place... I thought and walked over to the Twili. "What's your name?" I asked and he didn't reply. "Abednago is it?" he chuckled and turned.
"What gave me away?"
"Could have been how weak your measly right hook was, could of have been the fact I've kept all the Twili we freed in a safe place until this is all over." I said and he shook his head.
"Still going on about freeing us? We're no ones slaves, I act on my own will." he said and I raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? What happened to obeying "Lord Chris?" Feeling tough or something?" I said and he shook his head.
"My no, I am far to inteligent to succumb to mind control, I admit what he has done is wrong, but I don't truly care, none of those people had to become shadow beasts, it's very simple to resist the change." he laughed and it was my turn to shake my head.
"Just, get out of here... I'd rather if when we fought we did it in a more open area, like not a bar." I said and he shrugged.
"As you wish, but you only have yourself to blame if those you cannot defend get injured." he said walking off.
"That seemed a bit out of context..." I said shaking my head and headed upstairs. I came to Midna's room and found her laying on the bed sleeping peacefully with one arm hanging off the edge of the bed. I walked over and got down on one knee beside the bed just watching her sleep peacefully for a moment. Finally I reached out and gently shook her, "Midna, come on lazy butt wake up."
"Blah, let's see you cast a spell for hours on end and not be mentally and physically drained." she said swatting at my hand.
"Lazy butt." I snickered.
"Yeah, well my butt is entitled to be lazy now and then." she said poking me in the nose.
"Alright, that's a given... I was just checking up on you to see if you were alright." I said standing up again.
"Mmm, I'm not..." she groaned and I cocked my head sideways.
"How so?"
"I'm terribly lonely." she said and my eyes opened slightly wider.
"Wait... you mean...?" I glanced at the still open door and then back to her.
"Yup." she said and grabbed me by the pant leg.
"Up, bup door." I said and shaking free I ran back over to the door I quickly closed it and latched the lock a big giddy smile on my face.
"How long has it been now... nearly a decade... I bet your really...
Meanwhile...
"...horny little son of a bitch, stop staring at Lilith's boobs while she's sleeping!" Adonia shouted.
"I wasn't!" Aidan defended himself, "I am of royal blood I wouldn't stoop so low." he snorted crossing his arms.
"Yeah, well for a royal you sure don't act the part very well." she scoffed.
"Excuse me?! I should cut you down where you stand for that!" he growled.
"See what I mean, your so hot-headed, maybe it's a good thing your sister is supposed to be ruler." Adonia said and Aidan flinched. "Oh, right... sorry I forgot your still getting over the idiot who was supposed to watch the sword when you two were born was out to lunch and guessed when they asked him which kid set the thing off." Adonia slapped her hand over her mouth after saying this as Aidan slumped his head. "Hey, you know I think it's cool you're a royal but you're different... after all who likes a big snob anyways, and I mean your dad is always staring at your mom's-"
"I don't need to hear that thanks..." Lana cut her off. "Aidan and I are both only half-royal blood, our father was not a royal of the Twili and therefore most Twili consider us tainted." she said and Adonia stared.
"Well that's kina' harsh if you ask me." she said scratching the back of her head.
"Lana, you forget yourself, our father is not a royal but he is a very powerful man, my skill with a blade and your mastery of magic beyond that of Twili shows that!" Aidan retorted at his sister.
"Brother you always did defend him, even after he locked us both up, even if that wasn't him, you defended him... I envy you now as I've seen he is a wonderful man... but at the time I thought you were a fool." Lana sighed.
"All you royals are a bunch of narcissistic bastards if you ask me." Lilith said rising from her nap. "Mind you I probably wouldn't have said that if I hadn't just been woken up for the fifth time in six hours by you two bickering!" she growled and Aidan quickly moved over.
"I'm so sorry Lilith, we'll move away and speak quieter so you can rest up... you didn't have to go back for Link and Adonia alone though you know." he said and she shook her head.
"No, I did, your family and Basha were taking care of your father, you needed to stay near and watch over them all." Lilith smiled.
"Speaking of which where is father?" Lana said.
"He's at the inn, with your mother." a voice called out from the shadows.
"Who the hell are you?" Adonia roared at the figure standing in the shadows.
"Oh, I think you already know...
Back at the inn...
"Awe come on, tell me anyways," I said panting laying under the covers.
"Fine, it was fantastic." she said and huddled up close. Suddenly a large explosion shook the whole inn and without a second thought I was out of the bed and dressed in under ten seconds. "Wow, that's the fastest I've seen you do that." Midna giggled and snapped her fingers causing her robes to phase onto her and bounce slightly as they fell into place.
"Psh, says the girl who can change clothes with freaking magic." I laughed then paused. "Hey, why didn't you use that to put on that skin tight battle suit way back when." I said blinking.
"It's a newer thing I picked up after you... left." she said and I shook my head.
"Right explosion, we gotta move." I said unlocking the door as Midna sank into the shadows and under the door as I threw it open. She attached to my shadow as I leapt over the railing and down to the first floor, landing right on top of the bar counter. "Scuse' me, emergency, gotta go!" I said giving a brief one handed wave I leapt off the counter and ran out the door. I looked around and saw smoke billowing up from the hill where Basha's hut sat. I started to run and heard several smaller explosions from on top of the hill. I saw the shadow that was Midna go straight up the cliff and decided there was no time to take the path and leapt from stone to stone scaling the wall, slower then Midna but fast enough to come to the top as she began to emerge from the shadows.
"One more step and your precious little daughter loses her head in a burst of flames." Abednago's voice rang out.
"I doubt that." I growled and shot a chunk of ice towards him. To my surprise his eyes suddenly flashed black and the ice chunk turned black and shattered in mid-air. "What..." I stepped back.
"Fine, I'll handle you!" Midna growled and held up her hand a large ball of Twili magic forming in her hand and phasing out with a loud spark, reminding me of the same magic she used to free wolf Link so long ago. Abednago's eyes flashed black again and a large black bubble appeared around him and as the spell hit it the bubble seemed to grow larger and then receded into Abednago's chest.
"I said that I do not care for others, but Lord Chris empowered me, so for now I will aid him, he has supplied me with the one form of magic I could not reach, shadow." he cackled.
"What do you mean, Twili naturally have dark magic." Midna exclaimed moving her arm through the air dismissing his madness.
"No, Midna... the magic my old body held was much darker then that of the Twili, yours is one of a certain balance, despite the fact it is dark magic with a light touch I can infuse my light magic into it... no pun intended." I explained, "The magic he holds now is that of pure evil shadow and only opposes the light, never to work alongside it." I growled.
"My, my you are quite knowledgeable... since you know so much of this magic I'm sure you know the extent of the damage I could do to your precious little Lana with it." he said holding his hand next to her head as he kept his other arm locked around her neck a large dark ball of magic formed in his hand.
"Alright, what do want?" I said raising my hands in the air.
"Your surrendering?" he cackled.
"No... I know your a smart man, I can't be contained and if my family is truly in danger I would sacrifice myself to save them... if you tried to take us in you'd be dead the instant you dropped your guard... you know that, so you must have some intent in coming here." I smirked.
"Bravo, yes I came here to speak with Basha, your son and the light dweller female tried to stop me, they are not hurt... too badly, now just let me speak with Basha and I may let your daughter live." he said tightening his grip on her neck she coughed.
"Basha!" I yelled.
"Is he gone yet?" I heard her stammer from inside.
"He wants to talk to you." I said.
"Tell him I'm not home!"
"I heard that." Abednago said.
"He's holding my daughter hostage, please come just speak with him." I begged her.
"Alright, but only cause I like Lana." she said and the door to her home opened.
"Basha, it's been years... I must know, why, why wouldn't you let me come with you?!" he growled and tightened his grip on Lana again.
"Watch your grip!" I yelled angrily noticing Lana was grasping at his arm and he loosened it slightly and I let out a relieved sigh.
"We went over this Abednago, not only did I not want you labelled as a traitor for leaving with me but... I just don't think we would have worked out." Basha said looking down at the ground.
"Looks like they had a history together." Midna said and I nodded.
"This works to our advantage possibly." I said and Midna stared at me. "The dark magic I had was weakened by positive emotions, such as general happiness or love, if he actually loves Basha it will weaken his magic, however the way this conversation seems to be headed she might piss him off which might just kinda screw us all..." I sighed looking down at the ground.
"But... I don't understand why you think that, did I treat you badly... did I-" Abednago was simply looking for an explanation and I couldn't blame him.
"Look, it's kinda... embarassing." Basha said and I stared. No way... you mean she's... all the better for Kris I suppose, I couldn't help but let out a light chuckle.
"What's so funny?" Midna asked.
"Just wait for it." I said holding up my left finger to let her know it was coming.
"Look Basha, I still love you and whatever it is just... please, tell me." he said and I sighed.
"He's gonna snap." I said and got ready to intervene if I needed to.
"I can't... not in front of everyone..." Basha said her face turning red.
"If you don't tell him I'm sure Kris will be glad to." I said and laughed.
"Stop talking about yourself in the third person." Abednago yelled.
"Oh no, I wans't talking about me-"
"He was talking about me!" Kris hissed leaping from the ground behind Basha and latching onto Abednago's face.
"Me-ow" I said and Midna glared at me. "What it was too easy?!" I said and Midna shook her head and ran forward to grab Lana. "I really gotta stop with the lame puns." I sighed and moved forward as Midna grabbed Lana and Abednago managed to pry Kris from his face and toss her to the ground.
"Basha, if it's too embarrassing to tell everyone, just tell me!" Abednago yelled getting angry now. Cool it or you're gonna blow your... top, Ganon knew... that son of, I thought stopping.
"Abednago, calm down... or you'll destroy yourself, that magic is affected strongly by your emotions, if you feed it too much it's gonna overload and to put it simply you'll explode." I said trying to sound calm myself.
"I don't care! Basha tell me now!" He growled and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck. Basha nodded and grabbed his head turning it sideways she moved her lips right next to his ear and whispered quietly the reason she left him behind. "W-what... but... so I never had a chance to begin with?" Abednago stammered dropping Basha and stumbling backwards. He's in shock, I gotta move now.Without a second thought I dashed at Abednago and he raised one hand as he spotted me but I was close enough to swat it away and did just that as he fired a bolt of darkness out of his hand that flew off into the air. I grabbed hold of that same arm and pulled it behind him then quickly grabbed his other arm and did the same, I forced his hands together so any magic he used would simply go back into the system.
"Alright Abednago, any magic use and I'll break both your arms, got it?" I said and he sighed.
"I'm... I'm sorry, honestly I only wanted all this power so I could win Basha back... but... I see that's not possible now." he sighed a heavy sigh and I let go of his arms.
"Chris?!" Midna yelled at me for letting go.
"It's fine... he's as harmless as a fly at this point." I said and patted him on the shoulder.
"I disagree!" a familiar voice came from behind me and as I tried to turn to see who it was something made contact with my face knocking me away form Abednago. I got to my feet quickly now standing next to Midna who was holding onto Lana still and I saw, not surprisingly Ganon, the only remnants of my old body was the armor he still wore, his voice had changed back completely as well. Ganon grabbed hold of Abednago's head with his clawed hand, "You think him harmless, but I foresaw something like this, Abednago was soft, so I made him a living bomb!" Ganon laughed evilly as I stared in shock.
"I thought you were evil before, now I'm just in awe of how low you can actually go." I growled.
"Like I care." Ganon smirked and poked a single claw partially into Abednago's skull and the Twili began to scream in pain. "Enjoy the present." Ganon cackled as he vanished from sight and Abednago fell to his knees screaming and grasping his head.
"Oh no, what did he do to him?" Basha screamed and started to run toward him.
"Basha, get back, he triggered every terrible emotion in his head at once, he's gonna overload!" I yelled but she ran to his side anyways. Lana tried to move to help her but I held my arm up seeing Kris get to her feet. "She'll be fine, as for my family, I need to protect them myself." I said grabbing hold of a nearby Aidan and Adonia I dragged them closer and turned to see Abednago literally seem to pulse. "Crap I've got less time then I thought... I hope Link's somewhere safe." I growled and put my hands together focusing hard I called forth almost all of my light magic. I heard a sound like air drawing in before an explosion and knew I had no time left. "Light protect us!" I yelled putting my hands out and forward a bubble of light appeared around us just as the land around us seemed to turn black entirely. I flinched under the sudden pressure and struggled to hold the shield up as the dark magic continued to devastate the land around us. The blast should have only lasted a couple seconds... Ganon did soemthing more to concentrate it... that bastard, I thought and felt my knees start to give out but felt Midna and Lana move in and hold me up.
I looked down in surprise, "Father we won't give up either!" Lana shouted over the devastation outside the bubble. I nodded and focused on keeping the shield up while Midna and Lana focused on keeping me on my feet. Suddenly I heard loud crack form behind me and noticed the pressure was even all around but I couldn't keep the back as secure. Damn it, Ganon put a reflective shield around the area so the magic would simply bounce around until he comes and absorbs it. I will not allow my host to die! My eyes shot wide open in shock as a strange hissing voice rang through my head. Wha- What was- I will save you... for now,the voice hissed interrupting my thought suddenly the bubble increased in size and a large dome of black crystals appeared around us and my shield shrank back inside I felt a wave of relief come as I managed to repair the crack in it as well. I saved your precious friends as a mere bonus to you, do not forget the next time I speak to you, the voice hissed then stopped as the crystals around my shield all shattered and the pressure returned but only briefly as the magic suddenly all vanished and I let go of my shield.
"What is this?!" I heard Ganon yell angrily. "You should have died... I even accounted for you being able to shield yourself!"
"There was a factor neither you or me could have accounted for." I groaned and he vanished as I fell to one knee. I panted for breath and heard a strange noise behind me.
"I'll deal with you all myself then!" I heard Ganon's voice yell and turned to see a large swirling black ball of magi coming straight at us. I won't allow it,the voice hissed and I felt strange, unable to move as well I watched as the ball hit the ground and exploded. "How... How do you keep resisting me?! I will discover how to kill you, and then I will defeat you boy!" he yelled and vanished again. I realized suddenly I was not able to breath and I struggled against whatever force was holding me, I couldn't move save for basically a fragment on an inch. I used this bit of space to go back and forth as fast as I possibly could until I heard a crack and then a shattering noise. Able to move again I fell to the ground gasping for breath. I got to my feet and felt my left arm throb, I looked and the scar on my arm had turned green, not a skin type green, like a bruise but literally a neon illuminated green. Unable to determine anything except that it hurt like hell I let my sleeve fall back over the scar and looked to my family who I remembered had been blasted and thought for certain they would be dead. I was relieved and yet shocked by what I saw.
"Holy son of a..." I said as Midna began to stir.
"Ooh, what just happened?" she groaned reaching up to hold her head.
"I'd tell you but you're not gonna like it one bit..." I said still staring.
"What do you... wait..." Midna said looking down and seeing what I had saw right away. "No... no, nonono... I'm a bloody imp again!" Midna yelled.
"But wait... there's more!" I said and Midna glared at me I gestured to the rest of the merry little group of people that had been in the blast. "You know I just assumed a Twili who had their power drained would turn into an imp but looks like you're all a little different in that fact..." I said, it was almost clear who was who. "We've got Adonia with her arm coated in black... that shouldn't cause too much trouble... Link's stuck a wolf which leads me to believe the master sword got drained... then we've got another wolf and another imp here." I said sitting down with my legs crossed as they all began to rouse. "Wait how did Link get here... unless he was there the whole time?!" I blinked.
Link who was mostly awake barked at me and then looked surprised and examined himself. The second imp floated up and looked itself over, "What the hell is this crap?!" I heard Aidan's voice come out of the imp.
"Wait... Aidan's the imp? The that makes the other wolf..." I looked over to the wolf and realized that it was clearly my daughter, it only made sense with the glowing lines along her fur, and the barely visible ones on Aidan. Aidan's outfit seemed to affect the pattern of his "skin" as his long coat gave him weird looking coat tails and the variable red and black of his shirt and pants seemed to swirl about on the rest of him. While Lana had turned completely black save for her mane which remained her strange ever changing red and brown mix, and her right eye was still green adn her left red.
"What's up with my arm?" Adonia asked swinging it through the air I realized something.
"Adonia come here." I said and she got to her feet and walked over. "Kick me in the head."
"What?!"
"Just shut up and do it, and don't hold back." I said and closed my eyes.
"Okay, but don't blame me if I snap yer' ne- ow for the love of the goddesses!" she yelled as I felt her make contact with the back of my skull.
"It's as I thought, that dark magic is blocking the power of your triforce piece... your as weak as you would have been were you born without it... I'll admit that hurt a little more then I expected but it's decreased your strength substantially, you'll have to rely on your strength of will if you ever want to have that arm back to normal." I said getting to my feet.
"What about us father?" I heard Lana's vocie echo through the air.
I blinked a few times then smacked my forehead with my palm lightly and chuckled, "Why am I surprised, of course Lana would figure out a way to speak while she's a wolf." I said looking at her.
"It's not that tough, it requires a small amount of magic but it's quite simple really." I noticed her mouth didn't move and realized something.
"You know more then Twili magic don't you sweety?" I said and knelt down beside her as she looked away.
"Y-yes, it's shameful Twili are not supposed to-"
"Bah, shameful... in case you forgot that spell-blade Aidan had is meant for you, not just because you mastered Twili magic but because you know more. To put it simply, things change, maybe it's time the Twili started to learn more then what they have been." I said and scratched behind her ear and she began panting and I backed up. "One thing you need to learn is that wolves have dog-breath." I wheezed and waved my hand through the air.
She closed her mouth, "Sorry, father."
"That's all well and good but what about me?! I mean I'm an imp, and I've barely got enough magic to float, unlike mother!" Aidan yelled, "I'm a warrior that uses a sword not magic-user."
"Aidan, stop griping, if your gonna whine about your lack of magic use I'll tell you, just practice, you have my blood in you, not just as a warrior but as a user of magic. If you suck at using magic... practice, even if it doesn't get as strong as your sisters you can use it in combination with what you know of swordplay and... hm, I suppose I should try and do that more often myself..." I thought about how often I had just attacked violently with my weapons and shook my head. "Anyways, even if you are small, you can still use something small, like..." I said reaching into my pouch of needles and changing one, "...a dagger!" I handed it to him and it looked like he was holding a short sword. "Don't look so thrilled." I said sarcastically as his expression displayed great anguish in being so small.
"Aidan, being an imp sucks... trust me I know..." Midna grumbled, "But, the last time I got stuck this way it was quite humbling... I mean I did have the fused shadows to empower me but still, it made me realize not to rely so heavily on myself and my magic, to let others help me and be my friends." she said and I couldn't help but smile.
"Midna... could you do me a favor?" I said smiling she looked over at me.
"Maybe..." she said.
"All I ask is that you don't smile with your teeth, I remember last time you did that as an imp it nearly gave me a heart attack." I said smiling innocently.
"Oh really?" she said smirking one tiny fang popped out from her mouth.
"Midna..." I said and she opened her mouth wide with a fanged grin that made her look creepy. "Stop it!" I growled and whirled around but I felt soemthing rest on my head and Midna lowered her face down in front of me upside down. "Ahhhhh!" I yelled ducking and running around the area.
"What's wrong Chris, am I creeping you out?" Midna said through her teeth.
"Enough you two!" we stopped and looked to see Basha glaring at us angrily with Kris sitting on her shoulder.
"Hey, your normal, and alive! How the hell is that?" I blinked.
"I may be small but my powers are great!" Kris said raising her nose to the sky I noticed Lilith was still snoozing nearby them.
"Yeah, okay and my nose turns purple when you feed me carrots." I said flinging an ice cube at the overconfident cat she lost her balance and fell from Basha's shoulder.
"We need to figure out how to get everyone back to normal." Basha growled picking up Kris.
"Wait, what was it you told Abednago?" Midna asked and she shook her head.
"She'll tell us when she's ready I'm sure." I said. "I suppose however this would be a terrible time to tell you my initial plan..." I added yawning.
"What plan?" Midna said looking at me, I stared at her for a moment.
"You know... you look much cuter..." I said pulling out a needle I tossed it and it shifted into a replica of the fused shadow. "...like that." I said as it fell onto her head.
"Well thank you, but that's not gonna distract me, what plan?" she said crossing her arms.
"The one where I go- mrhmp." I mumbled the last bit inaudibly.
"Tell me or I swear when I get back to normal I'll cut you off." she said and I stared for a second.
"Wait, you don't mean no more-"
"That's right!"
"How can you be so cruel?!" I yelled falling to the ground.
"Stop being so over dramatic." Midna groaned.
"Sure ruin all my fun." I said getting up and dusting myself off. "Fine, I had been planning to go off and defeat the rest of these elementals... kinda... by... myself." I hesitated and suddenly found Midna right in my face.
"You said you weren't going to leave my side again, you lied to me!" she screamed right in my face.
"That's the thing, I was going to tell you about it and tell you I decided not too because I promised you that." I said putting my hands up.
There was a brief pause, "I'm still mad at you for even thinking about it..." she grumbled and turned around.
"You can't stay mad at me." I said lowering my arms.
"Yes I can." she said and turned as I moved to get into her view.
"Well then you leave me no choice." I said and grabbed her by the sides and began to tickle her.
"No... pfft, hey... stop it!" Midna said trying to push me away before bursting out laughing. I stopped as she lost concentration and stopped floating to grab her out of the air. "Fine, I'm not mad." she said and hopped out of my arms to stand on my head.
"You're standing on my head for revenge aren't you?" I said and heard her make a small affirmative noise. I sighed, "Okay, fine then... but Midna, I still need to go defeat all the elementals, and bringing everyone with me will slow my travel..." I said and felt her stomp my head.
"Your not leaving me." she said and sat on my head now.
"I thought you were gonna help Aidan with being an imp?" I said.
"Well then he comes too."
"What about our daughter?"
"Link can take care of her."
"Their both wolves."
"So?"
"So, I'll be honest Link's a hero but he's still a guy, and to boot he's a wolf who's to say he won't just-"
"Father! He would never do that!" Lana interrupted growling at me.
I sighed, "I-I'm sorry Lana you're right... it's jsut this is all very... stressful and I've felt like I can't trust anyone but my family."
"Tell you what when this is all over we'll take a family vacation." Midna said sounding happy.
"Hm, that... sounds nice." I said smiling. "Alright then, Midna, Aidan and myself are going to travel around and I shall defeat the remaining elemetnals, let me see here, I'll need to find, fire, water or ice, air, light and darkness... they seem to react in areas that are filled with their element... go figure."
"Wait, father... what about Lilith?" Aidan said and I looked over to see she had fallen back to sleep.
"She's regained my trust, I think she'll be fine here with Basha and Kris." I smiled.
"Oh fun, we get to look after sleeping beauty." both Basha and Kris said in unison then looked at each other and Basha's face turned red. Heh, if she wasn't a cat they'd be perfect for each other... too bad Kris won't return to normal till this is all over.
"Alright, as for Adonia, Lana and Link you three should search for a way to restore power to the master sword as it should restore everyone to their proper selves... see if you can find Zelda while you're at it... we kinda need her... I can't believe I forgot, I feel like an idiot... oh, and Link..." I paused making everyone nervous. "...You look after my daughter alright?" I said and he nodded.
"Awe I'm so proud of you honey, you grew to trust Link, told ya so." Midna said hugging my head.
"Yeah, now you can listen to Aidan whine about not being around his girlfriend who I'm sure you totally trust." I snickered and Midna lingered on my head.
"I kill you." Midna said quitely into my ear.
"Love you too Midna." I said picking her up off my head. "Anyways, now that we've determined what we're doing I think-"
"Father... I'm sorry for interrupting but... may I speak to you and Aidan... alone?" Lana asked.
"Don't be sorry, it's fine by me." I said and Aidan was still moping. "Come on son, your sister wants to talk to us." I said him by the leg.
"Hey, let go." he thrashed and I popped him up onto my shoulder as we followed Lana a short ways away from the others.
"Alright this is far enough for now, I just wanted to say... I feel like, me and Aidan have missed out on so much, and this last while though we haven't been able to see you very much, it's... great and I feel like we haven't fully appreciated mother after she went through your "change" and then it turned out you'd just been gone for near a century." Lana said.
"So what's your point sis'?" Aidan asked yawning.
"My point is I think we should show her how much we care about her." Lana said and growled at Aidan.
"Hm, you kids just reminded me of an old tradition back home... we had a day actually we called mother's day, where however you chose to do it, you showed your appreciation for your mother... whether it was a gift, a card... something." I sighed.
"Sorry father, I didn't mean to make you home-sick." Lana whined.
"It's fine... I've gotten used to it by now. But... I do think you're idea is a good one, but how should we show her then?" I said and sat down.
"Well I don't have a clue what mother likes... the few short decades Ganon didn't have me locked up in the dungeon with Aidan I spent mostly reading... and there was this nice guard who brought me a book every day in my cell." she said her tail wagging.
"Wow, I'm sorry Ganon locked you two up, if I had known he was going to take over my clone I never would have tried it in the first place." I said and stared at the ground feeling like an idiot.
"Bah, whatever, gave me a reason to train my swordsmanship, no one could get that sword out of my hand and I spent every waking moment wanting to... er... kill you, but I guess Ganon is the guy I'm really after." Aidan sighed realizing he had really just made me feel worse.
"I'm just gonna stop here, we need to figure out a gift for mother, and your the only one who knows her well here father." Lana said poking my hand with her nose.
"You being a wolf is really weird... anyways," I said as Lana bit my hand softly, "Let me see, a gift... jeez, I dunno... she rules the Twilight so she basically got whatever she wanted all her life... she seemed happy just being with me I never thought to give her any materialistic gifts..." I scratched my head in frustration.
"Nothing, what about when you two got married, surely you got her a wedding ring?" Lana said and I felt my face drain of blood. "Father, you look pale, are you okay?"
"I... I never even got her a ring... we just... ugh." I slammed my head on a nearby rock. "Ow." I groaned wiping away a bit of blood and healing myself up with my light magic.
"Well she never complained about it father... maybe we're focusing too much on material... what if we showed her how much we love her." Lana said and I snickered remembering my time alone with Midna earlier. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, n-n-nothing, nothing you two wanna know about anyways." I said my face turning red.
"Ew... well all I got to show is I'm a puny little imp with a dagger." Aidan said.
"Don't you ew me, it's been nearly a century since me and your mother-"
"Ewwww, don't need to hear that!" Lana said covering her head with her paws.
"Oh, right... sorry, regardless I think I know how we can use some magic in the equation, but-" I started to say and then Neiva barked forgetting she could only speak telepathically.
"Woops, I meant to say I know how Aidan can help!" she said and I could have sworn there was an evil twinkle in her eye.
"I am not going to look like a pansy in front of everyone just to put on some kind of show for mother!" Aidan said.
"What?" I blinked.
"Well Aidan is a master swordsman, and some styles of swordplay he studied are practically dances, if he showed them off a bit more then their meant to be combined with a bit of magic here and there we would have the perfect little show for mother." Lana said and I smiled.
"Well sounds like a fantastic idea to me." I chuckled.
"Yeah, cause your not the guy that has to jump around with a dagger trying not to look like a pansy." Aidan growled.
"Hm... you know with the right beat you could avoid looking like a pansy, even if you are currently stuck as an imp, all it would take is a couple drums and a second dagger for ya" I said with a smirk. "Some ice drums might sound interesting, and I could combine the crystals I can summon with some electricity on your daggers, and Lana I know Twili magic has hundreds of uses that would make the show amazing."
"So what's the plan father?" Lana said and couldn't help but put my fingers together in a schemey looking manor, "Please stop doing that."
"It's fun!" I complained then dropped my hands, "Fine, let's get this together."
Later
I'm not even going to be able to see how well this goes... too much to concentrate on, like not zapping Aidan, not impaling him with the giant ice spikes and it was tough enough to rig those crystals to blow up right at the end, plus I gotta play the drums cause we want it to be mostly a surprise and between Lana and me I'm the only one with hands. I thought adjusting myself behind the rock that was to be my hiding spot. I tapped the thin layer of durable ice on top of my hollow ice drum and it sounded off. Add a bit here, take off a bit there, I tapped again and it sounded much better this time, now I just hope I can get that "tribal beat" I described to Aidan. "Now then," I heard Lana start to say, she was to introduce the show as she could speak to everyone, she also had plans to shield Aidan form a couple lightning bolts I was supposed to throw directly at him along with help him float higher in the air among other things. I can do this I can do this I can do this, I thought taking a deep breath in. "In honor of our wonderful mother Midna, we would like to perform a short little show for you... we didn't have time to come up with a name for it but we hope you enjoy.
I closed my eyes and timed out the rythm in my head and began hitting the drums, it sounded good so far, but I was only at the slow start, I had to get much faster in about twenty seconds. I managed to look over at Aidan continuing the beat, he was off to a very graceful start, and I now had to start using a bit of lightning, and by a bit I mean a few thick bolts of it. One stuck to Aidan's left, then another to his right and I stopped. Here... we... go!Two bolts struck, one on either side of Aidan and I started playing a much faster beat the cold drums being hard to hang on to as I had to make them slightly bigger to get the desired sound. About six minutes and about a hundred lightning bolts, ten ice spikes and coating my hands in crystal as they began to grow sore form millions of drum beats later our show was met with great applause, as it had attracted the attention of a bunch of villagers. With one final touch I cracked my crystal gloves off and hurled them up above the still floating Aidan and with a bit of timed control I managed to have them shatter then explode in about the best heart shape I could make with erratic explosions. Feeling quite giddy I did a little private air guitar solo while jumping around before the audience finished applauding and I calmed down. You know that felt good, I almost feel like the one who got the present here... hm... maybe I can find Midna a gift when we go off together... I hope.
As most of the town returned to their regular day Midna floated over and embraced Aidan and Lana, "You two are the nicest kids ever." she said beaming.
"Actually mother it was partially father's idea." Lana said and Midna glanced over at me.
"I have no idea what their talking about... I just helped out where they asked me to." I said looking away and shrugging.
How much did you help them?I heard Midna's mind in my own head and realized I could hear her thoughts like she could hear mine.
I just did the drums, the ice spikes, the lightning and the little exploding act... but let em' keep the glory, I was just glad to help them show their appreciation for you.I thought and Midna floated over to me and kissed me lightly on the cheek.
Well since their getting all the credit for this I'll have to give you a special reward once I'm back to normal, I heard Midna think and I felt myself blush bright red and realized everyone was staring at us.
"Ahem... yes anyways, I suppose Aidan, Midna and myself really should... be- I feel... tired." I felt my eyes get heavy and swayed back and forth. "Like... really... tired." I let out a huge yawn and fell flat on my face not even caring. "Night night." I said and faded into a half-asleep state but could still hear as I was not quite asleep.
"Is he okay Basha?" Midna asked sounding very concerned. I heard footsteps and felt light pressure on my neck.
"His heart is beating normally and he seems to be breathing fine so I'd say he really was just worn out... understandable after that fantastic display of magic, I'm sure Lana and Aidan must be tired too." Basha said.
"Well all I did was watch that show and I feel completely drained... I think we should all get a good night's sleep before we all deal with our assigned tasks tomorrow." Kris purred. I heard a few people agree and then some footsteps as everyone cleared away and I felt a light pressure on my back.
"Good night, my king..." I heard Midna's voice from my back, "...pleasant dreams." I felt Midna snuggle up close on my back and then a final thought floated either from her head to mine, or perhaps it was from before but the last thing I heard in my head before I dozed off was Midna's voice in my head saying, "I just hope... Chris never finds out... what I did." I had a strange feeling my sleep would not be very restful that night.
Hm, that's odd chapter got longer when I didn't mean to... oh well, hope you all enjoyed, I hadn't planned out that little "show" until about five mintues before I started writing it so sorry if my descriptivenes sucked on it, I just felt like adding a little "mother's day special event" and I'm adding this as Mother's day begins so happy Mother's day all :D