What'll happen next? (pathetic summary, I know)

Anyway...


Piper seemed like the only one who couldn't sleep. She rolled over to her right, and there was the mountain called Junko, sleeping relatively soundly, and on her left, there was Radarr, snoring away. She slid out from under the covers to explore this new world that had appeared, literally under her. She walked towards the slow-moving river and stood under a tall green pillar with ivy curling up it. She started to sit when she heard a voice. A now almost familiar voice. And it was coming from on top of the pillar.

Piper climbed up the ivy to see Link sitting and looking up at the stars, and seeming to talk to himself.

"How long do you think the Storm Hawks will be here?"

A small voice started to reply, but then hissed, "Someone's here!"

"Mind if I join you?" Piper asked.

"No, not if you'll listen to me talk," he answered.

"Who were you talking to?" she asked, taking a place beside him.

"Midna," he answered simply, and a high pitched groan was heard. "She doesn't like anyone else to know about her because of her 'heritage', shall we say."

Then Midna appeared out of Link's shadow and started to lecture him. "Link, seriously! You can't just tell some wandering strangers I exist, let alone tell them about my history! Now, if you'll refrain from mentioning me further, I won't desert you to your fate. Ya got that?! If I were to leave you, then that would mean no more warping or becoming a wolf for you!" Piper frowned curiously, but just continued to listen as Link poured out his history to her:

"I don't remember a time when I wasn't with the people here in Ordon, but it was only lately that I found out there was a prophesy about me, that some people keep referring to, but I haven't been able to piece together yet, and after this, I found out I wasn't even human—"

"What?" Piper exclaimed, pulling away. She was almost expecting him to become some gelatinous beast, ready to swallow her up.

"No, no," he started to explain, "I'm Hylian, mostly human, but part something else. We were sent to watch over humans." Piper calmed down a bit and scooched back to her spot. "So, I've been on a quest to save all of Hyrule. First it was just banishing eternal Twilight from the land, but now I have to get to Twilight to save Princess Zelda. She's the only heir left to Hyrule, and to save Midna, she banished herself to Twilight."

"So, is Twilight, like, an alternate world?" Piper asked.

"Yes, ruled by Zant, who was trained by Ganondorf. Twilight was supposed to be a world completely separate from this one; only connected by a mirror so anything that was bad enough to be banished as far as possible, and couldn't be killed, could be sent there. Zant was originally part of Twilight, but when Ganondorf was imprisoned there, he taught Zant how to be strong enough to capture all of Hyrule. That's when Zant came to turn the whole of this world to Twilight so Ganondorf could follow, I gather. It was when some beasts from Twilight attacked this village that I got wrapped up in all this and found out my true heritage. When I'm in Twilight, the triforce I posses turns me to a wolf. On an accidental confrontation with Zant, he'd thrown some shadow crystal at Midna, but I was in the way and it flew into my forehead, which hurt a lot, and which would also keep me as a wolf. But, when I got the Master Sword, its power forced out the crystal and now I can turn into a wolf whenever I want by using the crystal. I was just killing the boss for the Temple of Time when you dropped in."

"You mean that huge spider?" she asked.

"Yep," he answered, and they both looked up at the stars for several more minutes, when Piper began to speak again.

"So, we're in Hyrule right now?"

"Technically, you're in Ordon Village, in Ordon Province, which is in Hyrule, yes," He said.

"Do you know how we got here?"

"Nope. But I've gotten used to things like this, so it didn't really phase me."

"You know, back in my world, we use crystals for everything from fuel to flying. See, like this one," she pulled out the small green one, "This is a _______ crystal. It can heal things, but now that I've tapped into its matrix, I can make it do almost anything." She held it out, studying it herself and watched it slight pulsing glow fade. Her eyes got big. "What?!" She jumped up and aimed it at some stones, saying as loud as she could without waking anyone, "Lift!" Nothing happened. The crystal was not only dim and looking like emerald, but was also dull rather than its usual glass-like sheen. Piper went pale. Link jumped up as well.

"Do you think it's because you're away from your world; where this belongs?" he asked.

"Let's hope so," Piper muttered.

After this, Piper climbed down, saying that she should at least try to get some sleep. The world around her was already starting to get a little lighter.

As she slid back under her covers, Radarr muttered in his sleep and Piper started, trying to be as quiet as possible. Sleep didn't claim her until about two hours before the sun was fully up.

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Aerrow, of course, was the first one awake. Radarr dreamed on Aerrow's right, having stopped snoring, and Finn babbled in his sleep to Aerrow's left. He slid out from under the covers and crept away from the others, just to look around, he told himself. The sun was almost up now, and he could see five houses in the steadily growing light: one on his right and left each; one around a corner of earth to his left; one across a bridge over the river; and one farther up the river, which had a slowly turning water wheel. Straight ahead down the dirt path and beyond the fourth house was huge, low wooden gate and on it hung a sign. Aerrow went to read it and could only barely make out the word 'ranch'. He almost went to investigate, but he heard Radarr sleepily wander up behind him, only to collapse with his arms around Aerrow's leg. Aerrow chuckled and lifted Radarr to his shoulder. The familiar weight comforted him in this foreign world.

"How are we going to get home?" he whispered to himself.