A/N:Yea, quick note this chapter won't... for a change, be in my own perspective, it will be written from the perspective of my secondary character, yes that's right Midna! Please enjoy, or if you don't enjoy the perspective change leave a review and let me know. (Not that this chapter will likely change due to it I just want to know if I should try and write from someone else's perspective again.) So please keep in mind I now refers to Midna not Chris.

Chapter 38

"I just don't know why he's acting so different lately." I said after Link returned me to normal using the now restored master sword, which he had returned with barely an hour after Chris had stormed out of town.

"Well at least you weren't stuck as a wolf staring at... I'll just stop there." Lana said cutting herself off as the last time she had told me she couldn't stop staring at Link the whole time I had scolded her about how angry her father would have been but the thought of him had drawn me to his anger earlier. "I'm so sorry mother... I'm sure he's fine, he's just worried about you, I mean in his eyes he nearly killed you."

"It's fine Lana... I just... sometimes I wish he wouldn't worry so much, I mean I didn't have him train me with a sword just so he could continue getting himself nearly killed every time I was attacked." I clenched my fist staring at the ground my heart feeling like it was torn.

"Mother... if... if father trained you with a sword why don't you carry a sword around?" Lana said and Midna paused thinking that over herself.

"Well I do now, your father made one for me when I was an imp, it seems to have grown along with me..." I said grabbing the thin sword from the place I had put it down as a dagger previously.

"See father even thought about you returning to normal when he made it, he wanted you to take care of yourself and just in case he wasn't around when you turned back to normal he made the sword so it would expand to your original size... more then I can say for this thing." Lana said holding her blade in front of her staring at it.

"You heard your father didn't you... he said that's a spell-blade, and as you know that sword is destined to be held by the one leader of the Twilight who will bring peace between the Twilight and the light." I reminded my daughter of the ancient words which she herself had studied many times.

"Yes mother... but... with the way things are I find it very hard to believe... and after all you still have many years to serve as queen." Lana reminded me and I nodded.

"You still must be ready." I told her getting to my feet I snapped my fingers and changed into the battle suit I had worn all those years ago when Chris trained me. "Hoo, this thing seems a bit tight... I think I need to work out some more." I said as I noticed the pressure the suit caused against my mid-section.

"Mother! I-" Lana stammered staring at her.

"What? This suit... it's nothing special really, I mean I really hoped against ever having to use it but it's much better then fighting in that tattered old dress of mine." I said stretching my arms out and picking up my sword.

"Uh... yes well... you know that Aidan and Lilith have been getting quite romantic lately?" Lana said trying to change the subject.

"Yes... but you're one to talk, you've been swooning at Link almost since the day you met him." I said as her face turned bright crimson. "It's quite alright, just don't move too fast, take things slow and make sure you know how you feel."

"Mother!" came Aidan's voice from outside and I quickly dashed out followed by Lana to see what was happening. "Look, up there, quickly!" he said as I approached and I looked in the direction he was pointing. "What is it?"

Midna looked up and saw a large shining object, that looked like a pair of giant keese wings. "I think... it couldn't be..." I said staring at the shining things that were so far away and finally disappeared into the clouds.

"What, what do you think it was mother?" Lana asked me and I shook my head.

"I thought... it could have been, your father... as far as I remember he's able to form wings of pure ice that actually work, but I would hope he'd be smarter then to try and fly so high with wings made of ice, I mean they'd just melt." I said looking down at the ground to think about this curious behaviour.

"You expect me to believe that your husband can just form wings made of ice and they actually work?" Basha said staring directly at me.

"I don't understand quite how it works either but it does..." I retorted defending Chris even though I don't remember seeing him do it myself.

"Wait mother, can't you speak with him through your thoughts like it said could be done between a Twili and their spouse?" Lana asked enthusiastically and I shook my head.

"There are limits to these things Lana... even if that was him he's too far away... and I doubt he would have heard me anyways." I felt tears well up in the corner of my eyes as I remembered chasing after Chris as he left, hoping he would hear my thoughts but it was obvious he hadn't. "I think he's blocking my thoughts as well as keeping his own thoughts to himself."

"He can do that?" Aidan asked and I nodded.

"Yes, and since he feels it dangerous for me to even be near him I would assume that's exactly what the idiot is doing!" I yelled staring up at the clouds where what I assumed was my idiot of a husband had flown.

"Actually it would make a lot of sense if that was him." came Kris' voice from the door of Basha's small home. "I mean he did say he would go after the ice and water elemental next and then move on to the air, think, what's the highest place in Hyrule?"

"You mean that floating city?" I asked and Kris nodded. "I so wanted to see it again..." I sighed remembering our conversation while climbing Death Mountain several days ago.

"The air elemental is the third strongest of them all... in fact, would you look at that." Kris said glancing over as what almost looked like a falling star shot through the sky.

"By the goddesses... Chris!" I shouted realizing the shine around whatever was falling was the same crystals that Chris was able to summon. We all watched in horror as the thing that was clearly my husband plummeted to the earth. "Where was that... where is he?!" I cried hysterically looking over at Basha, then Lana and finally falling to my knees and sobbing.

I sat there crying uncontroallably for what felt like days, later finding out it had been probably only around five or six minutes, when suddenly Aidan called out, "Mother... look."

I wiped my eyes and turned to see something soaring up into the air, getting closer but higher until it vanished through the clouds. "What was that?" Lilith asked finally trotting over in all the commotion.

"I think it was Chris and... something else..." Basha replied staring up like everyone else.

Midna... get everyone away form there now,Chris' voice echoed through my head and I tried to return the conversation but found myself unable to, suddenly I saw something descending toward us very quickly. "Everyone, get out of here now!" I yelled grabbing Lana by the wrist, and Aidan by the back of the collar on his coat, I dragged them quickly into the shadows and down the mountainside. I looked back up after reaching the bottom and surfacing form the shadows and saw the others quickly following. Just as Basha reached the bottom there was a loud crash that caused the ground to shake. "Oh no... Chris..." I said and rushed back up the sloping path to Basha's home hoping against all odds to find Chris alive and not a blood stain in the rocks. I came to the top Lana and Aidan having followed me yelling something about being careful but I had ignored their every word and was shocked to see what I did.

There as I had thought stood Chris, he was alive but by the looks of him not by much. He was standing looking up into the sky with a smile on his face but his smile seemed somehow twisted and frightening, that fact doubled by the blood that almost seemed to be flwoing down his face and arms. I took a step forward, "No... Midna... this... is my fight." he said and I stopped, feeling a well of rage flow up inside me.

"Stop being such a stubborn ass!" I yelled finally snapping. "I've had enough of you doing this all the time, you won't let me or anyone else help you, I understand you feel responsible for everything that's happened but even so you should let your friends and especially your wife help you!" he stared at me seeming shocked for a moment then closed his eyes and a small peaceful smile crossed his face.

"You know... your right, as usual your right and I feel like a dope for not realizing this sooner... But Midna, this time I really mean it... this fight can't be anyone else's, it's far too dangerous... and I'm on my last bit of hope here..." he said and I took another step forward but as I did it came to my attention that he had a tail and I realized he had been straining his voice to sound normal before.

"Chris... what's going on?" I asked him trying to sound calm.

"Well... long sstory short, I've released two sealss and lied to my newest... er... friend... about what releassess the third." his strength to restrain his change of voice left and he hissed a few of his words out.

"Which is?" I asked crossing my arms now.

"Pain." he coughed and stared at his hand.

"So what falling like that wasn't enough pain to break it?" I said astonished.

"Well believe it or not... no... Midna... please get back." he said and a serious look seemed to wash over his face.

"Let me help, in any way I can!" I shouted and he shook his head.

"I don't want you to get hurt because I wasn't quick enough to protect you... so please back off." he said sounding harsh. Suddenly it dawned on me that he knew he wouldn't be able to take any more physical pain and therefore he couldn't release the third seal.

"You can be such a hard-headed idiot sometimes you know that?! Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better off not meeting you!" I yelled.

"Mother?!" Aidan and Lana both questioned me from their position behind me but their mouths hung open and so did mine as what I had guessed what Chris wanted. Chris' body had changed shape again, but much more drastically, he had literally tripled in size, and was unrecognizable as my husband now, he instead looked like some form of half-lizard, half-man creature holding a gigantic double-ended lightning pike he looked positively ferocious. I nearly fainted but Lana and Aidan held me up gawking at the shape that was once their father. He had four large clawed toes on his massive foot, and an extra claw sticking out the back. His knees seemed to be stuck in a slight bend, the thick white armor that had appeared along with this new body made me wonder whether it was heavy and he therefore could not support himself or if it was natural. The white armor that he had gained in some way seemed to just match perfectly with his new lizard scales that seemed to reflect the light that hit them creating small little illusions of rainbow coloured spots scattered around the somehow black looking scales. He had three fingers all clawed, along with an opposable thumb with a claw as well. He had several odd looking things hanging through the back of his armor, they looked to be more for decoration then having any real use. His new body was much more masculine then his old one, making his neck almost as thick as his head. His new lizard-like body gave him a sort of snout as well, a few of his very sharp fangs were visible through his growling mouth, his nostrils flared and his eyes glowed an eerie pure white. Two long horn-type protrusions came back from the top of his head matching his scales in their odd black reflective colour. The same colour also belonged to the protrusions from his back, and as I now noticed his face. Six of these strange "decorative" things were attached to Chris' face, three on either side, one not too far from either side of his horns, another set on either side of the middle of his face and one final pair down next to his chin. The odd things on his face were only about half as long as his horns and were slicked back permanently so they did not sway when he turned to look at us.

"Now will you leave this to me?" Chris said his voice much deeper and very intimidating. I stood up and walked away slightly just as Chris let forth a mighty roar and swung his pike at a large suit of armor that had just attacked him. It was hard to see the armor due to the swirling winds that shrouded it except for the fact it was darker then dark with incredibly bright spots and cracks on it as well. Chris matched this strange elemental blow for blow, block for block until they stopped with the elementals average sized blade locked against Chris' huge pike. "Getting tired yet... how about you just give up?" he growled and swung the second edge of his pike up in an attempt to cut it but it floated back then up over Chris' head.

"I'm not even close to done!" it shouted and before I realised what was happening I found myself trapped in a whirlling wind and felt several large chunks of armor latch onto me.

"Ah, Chris... help me!" I yelled finding myself unable to move of my own will. I felt the hilt of a blade slip into my right hand and I could no longer speak but yet my voice left my body. "Yes... come and save your precious wife, if you have the heart to hurt her in the process."

"You overestimate yourself." I heard Chris growl and as he approached I felt like screaming out in fear but I currently had no control over my body. Chris grabbed hold of the helm which had locked itself comfortably down upon my head. He then grabbed me around the waist and tried to pry the helm from my head, much to my dismay as it was quite painful. My mouth let out a loud painful scream but Chris didn't stop at the moment. "Chris, your going to tear me in two!" I yelled, or rather my body did, and I almost could have sworn his face turned bright red as he let go. Dammit Chris, your such a pervert! He's tricking you!

Midna? Wait he can't stop our mental conversations- arg! I heard Chris' voice in my head and tried to gasp in shock as my body moved and slashed his left arm in the same spot that still had that scar. So you mean you were fine just now? Chris continued our private conversation as he defended himself from my relentless attacks.

Well... honestly no it did hurt a lot, and it felt like you might have pulled a few muscles in my neck but I'm fine for now... wait can you knock off the balance of his power?

Say what now?

Think Chris, his body appears to be sharing a perfect balance of all three of the elementals, if you can knock off said balance he may have to either drop that element or resort to using just that one!

See that's why I love you, not because of your amazing figure but because of your amazing brain. I would have blushed had I the control over my own body to do so but instead there was a brief silence and Chris broke it after deflecting a few more of my attacks, but I gotta admit that your body is defiantely a bonus.

You perv, I laughed playfully though by thought only as I couldn't use my body, well if you want me back you better try out my plan and fast.Chris was clearly listening as he leapt back and swirled his lightning pike around and around, faster and faster until it was nearly nauseating to watch it spin, but it was creating a huge swirling wind that sparked loudly. The armor around me absorbed each spark and the wind stopped to swirl around the armor I was in until suddenly the wind all broke away.

It worked! I owe you big time after this Midna... anything you ask for...

Anything?

Within a certain limitation of course but to the best of my ability I shall fulfill your wish, I smiled inwardly and watched as a large ball of light formed on Chris' right hand. Suddenly I felt the armor begin to almost melt away towards the blade in my right hand.

"I've still got one last ace in the hole..." the voice now came from the sword rather then my body. "Try and stop me... now!" it said and to my shock my right arm jerked round and suddenly stabbed the blade into me, just below my ribs. I coughed in shock and watched as the remainder of armor receded into the blade and the blade suddenly seemed to pulse causing me to cough violently which in turn caused the blade to fall to the ground. "Haha, now that I am merely an element within your wife's body you cannot stop me without killing her!"

Chris rushed over and picked me up in his arms, "Midna are you okay?!" he asked rather loudly and I nodded faintly and I suddenly felt as though something was moving about inside of my wound and shook my head violently. "Get out of her body you rotten bastard!" Chris growled and peered into the wound.

"Not until I've absorbed every bit of dark energy within her, oh and don't bother trying to use your light power to destroy me either, you'll only harm Midna." Chris looked into my eyes and despite the fact he had lizard eyes I could have sworn he was almost in tears.

"Then I only have one more option." he growled and put his gigantic claws very near my wound. Midna... do you trust me?

What?

I said do you trust me, with your life?

...Of course I do, or else I wouldn't have married you.

Then I'm very sorry that I may have to cause you pain right now... please forgive me.

I understand, it's to save me in the end so go ahead,I smiled at him and to my surprise his claws did not move instead large chunks of crystal formed from the tips and lengthened, thinning down like an extension to his claws, quickly into my body through the wound and I winced as they did but heard a sound like the sharp crystal pierced something. Chris looked at me concerned and when I did not flinch he let out a sigh or relief.

"Alright you bastard, get out now or I'll make sure to focus a blast of pure light directly into you and only you!" Chris growled and I heard a laugh from the ground this time where the sword had fallen.

"You've no power over me, those elementals are feeding off of Midna, not me... and it will be only a matter of minutes before they devour her very soul." the voice cackled and I looked up at Chris.

"Chris... there's nothing you can do for me... just let me die, I've lived a fulfilling life, all thanks to you." I felt tears welling up in the corners of my eyes again.

"Midna... I'm not going to let you die... not here... not now." Chris said and I noticed the crystal claw extensions tighten their grip and suddenly he began to pull and I moaned loudly in pain and he stopped. "Midna... I'm sorry." he said looking scared, I shook my head and grabbed hold of the claw still sticking in me and nodded as I pushed lightly against it. "All the more reason I love you, you face pain with incredible courage." Chris said and I smiled and screamed loudly as he pulled hard. I pushed against the crystal as he continued to pull and with one final hard yank and loud scream from me Chris pulled forth a swirling mass of what almost looked like pure twilight. "Intriguing... a perfect balance of light and dark... created twilight." Chris muttered just loud enough so I could hear him. I gasped in a deep breath and he gently placed me in the arms of a nearby Lana who instantly went to work trying to heal me with Aidan rushing over to help. I ignored my children's pleas to listen to Chris and stand back next time as I watched him walk over to his sword that lay there on the ground and he picked it up with two claws and glared at it. I wasn't sure but it seemed as though he was conversing mentally with the blade as his expression seemed to grow angrier and he growled loudly a few times as his eyes flashed black. "Enough!" he suddenly yelled as my wound was finally fully healed and I got to my feet as he hurled the blade to the ground it stuck straight into the stone. He pressed his foot against the side of the sword and started pushing and it like any sword would started to bend. "I have had enough!"

"You can't do this, you need me... my power." the blade's voice echoed through the air and seemed to be mocking Chris.

"Your wrong... I needed your power, to draw out the elementals, now I have the last of them... your no longer... of any... USE!" Chris finished loudly and pushed hard causing the blade to snap in two, the hilt end of the sword bouncing off the ground as Chris roared loudly at first seeming to be triumphant then as it continued it turned into a roar of pain as he fell to his knees and his body suddenly reverted to normal. His breath sounded extremely laboured and raspy.

"Chris!" I yelled running to his side just in time to catch him before he fell. His head landed in my lap and I turned his left arm carefully as it was farther from me to look at his wound. It was almost glowing black now and seeping a thick black ooze. I put my hands to his face which seemed to be losing colour and he smiled at me. "What are you smiling about?" I asked nearly sobbing.

"You... I just... yanked two elementals out of you not but two minutes ago and your already up and feeling fine." he said and winced as I noticed the black cut on his left arm let off a brighter glow. "Midna... this wound is going... to kill me... the sword was using... using it to corrupt me... but when I broke it... it simply became a deadly poison." Chris muttered so Aidan and Lana who had told the others to hurry up now drew close.

"No... no, I won't let you go dying on me... not yet." I whispered and pulled him in close never wanting to let go.

"Then... I can think of only one solution... a completely permanent one but risky all the same." he said and as I let go he pushed himself up into a sitting position and wrapped his right hand around the wound so very little of it was left uncovered.

"Chris what do you think you're doing?!" I heard Kris' all too familiar scolding call out from behind me.

"What does this matter... if I don't try I'll die." Chris retorted.

"There's always a chance it could just kill you anyways!" Kris said and I shot a look directly at Chris who was now looking away from me.

"Chris..." I said moving in front of his gaze, "...please tell me what your planning... maybe there's another way?" I begged and he shook his head.

"No... this wound is fatal, all the healing magic and potions in this world could not save me at this point... so I'm going to try this." he said and to my surprise his right hand started to glow almost brighter then the sun, I was forced to shield my eyes until I heard a sound like something had exploded followed by a thud. I looked up and saw Chris had slumped to the ground, completely unmoving and his gaze fixed into the sky.

"Chris?" I checked for any sign of life whatsoever but he did not reply and did not move when I nudged him. "Chris! Why'd you go and do that?! Why couldn't you have let us try something else!?" I yelled picking him up, noticing his eyes had a blank look in them as well, I held him close and sobbed. I sat there like that for nearly a solid minute before Aidan walked over and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Mother... I-" Aidan started to say.

"Would you mind letting go of my head... you smothering me." came a voice from in my arms. Shocked I moved back to see Chris was awake and fully aware of his surroundings.

"You... idiot!" I said and slapped him square in the face.

"Ow... what was that for?!" he retorted rubbing his face.

"Pretending to be dead you jerk!" I shouted and he laughed. "There is nothing funny about this!"

"Oh, no I'm not laughing about this... or you at all, I'm sorry I worried you... it's just that I wasn't pretending."

"What?" me and several others asked in unison.

"Well you see that ability of mine pushes my soul through my light magic reviving whosoever I choose, the cost under normal circumstances is my own life... however because I was reviving myself it appears my own life cannot be the cost... ah." Chris groaned and grasped his head with his left hand as he finished.

"Are you alright?" Lana asked before I could.

"Yeah as I was saying I can't sacrifice myself to revive myself so instead it's like casting a big ass healing spell, which actually does kill me for about two seconds... then it seems my body's functions slowly restore themselves, the last of which being speech... however I should probably avoid using that ever again as it does cause some minor damage to my mind..." Chris shook his head and let out a heavy sigh. "Sorry to have worried you all."

"You could have killed me!" Kris shouted suddenly and we all looked at the cat astonished.

"Wrong Kris... you and I were linked somehow before but I don't think that link is there at all really anymore... or did you die for two seconds as well?" Chris said smirking and Kris looked as shocked as we all had about her sudden burst of shouting.

"Wait... so you mean... we're not linked anymore?" Kris said.

"No... but wait I suppose in one way we are... you're still stuck in that body until I can fix this world... after all by my own doing I've become a being meant to preserve the natural order."

"Say huh now?" I looked at Chris astonished.

"Well I didn't find this out till I died but that blob of a thing I absorbed back when you and I first returned to the twilight, it turns out that thing was meant to preserve natural order and that's why it tried to bring me back to Spira where it thought I was meant to be... however now that I ahve it's power I must also take up it's duty... starting here." Chris explained and I mulled this over for a minute and then realized something.

"Wait... if that thing could move between worlds... I have two questions for you Chris..."

"Shoot."

"First off, why hasn't Ganon moved between worlds and started taking over other ones?" I asked and he smiled.

"I figured you'd ask and the reason is simple, although he stole most of my powers, most of said powers were already mine before I absorbed this thing he was unable to take this bit form me and when I returned something gave me a large amount of power, but it cost me my memory... and I still can't recall what it was that I had encountered when I arrived." Chris rubbed his forehead and then shook his head.

"Alright... that makes sense..." I muttered, "...but... my second question." I paused and looked at the ground. "If that thing could move between worlds... and preserved the natural order of them... then doesn't that mean that once you finish here, you'll have to leave?" I said and looked up to meet Chris' gaze.

"I... I've been thinking about that from the second I got up. I believe that yes I will have to leave... but I also think there may be a chance of leaving behind a part of myself." Chris said clenching his fist and staring at it as he did so.

"Father do you really think you should try that... again?" Lana said and looked at the ground and blushed as her father shot his gaze over to her.

"I know what happened last time, but this time it's different, last time it simply a clone, a copy of sorts I was planning to leave behind. I intend to quite literally rip a piece of myself out and leave it here." Chris said and I stared. "Okay not quite literally... but I mean every bit of me that belongs in this world will stay here with you, and it will act on it's own free will, making it as strong as me, both physically and mentally." Chris said and Lana looked back up now.

"Ah I see! By creating an actual second you it will have the willpower to overcome a complete mind takeover unlike your cloned body right?!" Lana said sounding like it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Precisely, however this me will only have a few seconds to remove...er, myself form this world before... well I'm not quite certain what will happen but it wouldn't be pretty... regardless... ah I see found Princess Zelda." Chris said and I turned to see Zelda who had been hiding away as Chris had predicted and Link found very quickly. "Nice to... meet you." Chris paused for a second apparently just recalling that this Zelda was in fact not the same Zelda that helped us all those years ago. "I assume you will not refuse help in returning your kingdom to normal then Princess?" Chris said and Zelda nodded as Chris extended his hand.

"Your son has told me of everything that happened, it is quite an interesting tale if true... but at the moment I seem to have no other option then to accept your help." she said and shook Chris' outstreched hand. "One of the locals was kind enough to let me stay with them as Midna claimed this house has seen it's share of danger."

"Ha yes quite, and I doubt many people would mind housing the princess of their kingdom for a short time. Excellent then we should depart for the castle-"

"Chris, are you forgetting something possibly?" I said rolling my eyes and he looked confused for a moment and I pointed to the glowing ball of pure twilight.

"Oh yes... what to do with this..." Chris said picking the ball up and examining it. "Don't touch it!" he said as I stood and drew near, "It was eating you alive from the inside before and I seem to be able to touch it harmlessly enough so I don't want to risk it hurting you okay?" he said and I smiled.

"Okay Chris, I'll let you hold on to it." I said and he smiled back.

"Midna, I'm sorry for being such a stubborn ass, and an idiot lately... I was just worried about you getting hurt and I... I forgot that you can, when you need to, take care of yourself." he said and was forced to quickly move the ball of twilight away as I lunged forward and wrapped my arms around him. I continued holding him until I heard Basha clear her throat loudly and I moved away blushing slightly.

"In case you'd forgotten there's also the issue of the air elemental still being here." Basha said gesturing to the swirling mass of wind and cloud that had indeed stuck around.

"Oh yeah, I believe we're owed a few shards of the mirror, the last of which Ganon apparently keeps himself in the castle." Chris said and I looked at him questioningly but he ignored my look and approached the air elemental. Without a moment's hesitation the elemental held out it's hand and a rather large shard of the mirror of twilight appeared.

"You brought much chaos to this world with a few foolish decisions, but you are only but a few steps away from fixing it all, continue on... and do not lose that ball of twilight... I believe it will help you in more ways then you can imagine... and if ever you lose your way trust the wind to guide you." the elemental said and with that swirled off in a giant whirlwind.

"I'd say it's about time to wrap things up, wouldn't you Midna?" Chris asked turning to me. I blinked a couple of times feeling like I had not since Chris had healed himself, then I smiled and nodded. Chris seemed to be back to his old rather cheerful self, back to the man I remembered marrying.

"Oh my," Basha said looking at Chris' left arm. "That healing spell you used was quite powerful... there's not even a scar or anything where you had been cut." she said and I let out a small relieved sigh.

A few minutes later we were all inside Basha's home, it was rather crowded, more so now that Aidan and myself were full sized again and we had one new arrival to cram in there as well. "So... we're all in here to discuss one thing, we've only one battle left to fight, and that is against the big man himself, Ganondorf." Chris said leaning against the wall. "Now as I'm more of a plan on the spot kinda guy myself I really think we should avoid me making an advanced plan, but I would gladly hear your ideas."

"Storm the place and kick his ass!" Aidan shouted and looked around nervously, "...well, I thought it was a great idea."

"You would." Lana snickered and Aidan shot her an angry glare.

"Enough you two." I said stopping the fight before it could start, "Personally I think we should back you up Chris, taking care of any shadow beasts or other lackeys that Ganon might have as it was your body only you really know what he might be capable of, that gives you an advantage of sorts, plus it's likely we all might just get in the way."

"Is that really how you feel or are you just saying that cause you heard me thinking it?" Chris asked and everyone looked at me now.

"It's the truth, while I'm not saying we shouldn't help you at all I am saying we should avoid putting ourselves in harm's way and distracting you."

"The truth of this matter is yes I feel you should stand back and help only if the opportunity presents itself, however I also know for a fact "harm's way" as you put it Midna is everywhere, there is always the chance of one of you getting hurt and I think Ganon wants less to kill me then he craves to make me suffer." Chris said ang got to his feet. "So... I want all of you with me, except Basha and Kris, you should likely go and find Kris'... er... human body?" Chris seemed hesitant saying human and we looked at Kris who nodded. "Well hell if I knew whether you were human or not... anyways I have a feeling that I'll need my full strength if I want to beat Ganon which will allow Kris to return to her body."

"Wait you want Aidan and Lana with you too, shouldn't you leave them here for safety?" I said concerned about my children.

"With the way Ganon is behaving lately they'd be safer with us, Kris can defend herself and Basha easily, as far as I can tell her abilities as a cat are all defense." Chris said and the cat nodded. It was now I remembered how I had been sick on and off for a while and debated whether or not I should tell Chris. "I tell ya' though the damage on my mind feels quite... painful, it actually feels like a large chunk of memory just kind of... vanished." I stared at the ground at this. What did he forget... was it something about me... what if... no it's obvious he still cares about Aidan, Lana and me so he's not likely forgotten anything about us.

Sounds like you've got something to tell me Midna, Chris' voice echoed through my head and I shot upright and looked at him shocked, the others were too busy to notice us staring at each other silently across the room.

What gives you that impression I was just worried about your little brain damage incident.

Hm, I like to try and read between the lines... and to me it sounded like you were worried about telling me something rather important... if you don't want to discuss it right now that's fine but I don't like there being secrets between us... and it's not brain damage... it destroyed a small piece of my mind... hopefully it won't affect more then just a small bit of memory.

Chris... I will tell you... soon, but not just yet and I'm glad you think that there should be no secrets... I want to ask you... when you leave that piece of yourself behind... will it keep all your memories of us as well? There was a long pause and I wasn't sure if Chris had heard me, Chris?

Yeah, sorry... I was just... thinking... but to answer your question, yes... I won't remember a thing about you, Aidan or Lana, I will simply remember being here and saving this world.

Good... I don't want thoughts of me haunting you forever... but it's going to be weird being stuck with a copy of you. There was another long pause and I was just about to check if he had heard me when his voice echoed through my head again.

It won't be any different then I myself would be here.

Still it will feel different.

Hm, I think you won't even notice after a while, trust me his personality and memories will be no different form my own.

If you say so... well shall we get going to the castle and finish this then?

Yes, let's Chris nodded at me and we stood and told everyone to prepare for what I thought and hoped would be the final battle.

Alright, I'm stuck for a few reasons, first of which being i'd like some opinions on how this chapter went, second of which being I'm currently out of the mood to write chapter 39, if I get a brain wave I'll be sure to update my profile but for now this is where I'm going to stop and take a breather, by the way I apoligize for the spelling errors that either I miss or that apaprently re-appear as I noticed one on a previous chapter that I know I fixed, the document manager seems to read my chapters as whatever the hell it feels like, oh well... I'm tired, sleep time.