As they left Eldin's spring, they were cut off and attacked by three more shadow beasts. They had become more of an inconvenience than a threat now that Midna held them so he could catch them at the same time.

"Another portal to add to the collection. Before long we'll be able to go anywhere in a few instants, so long as you're a wolf."
Before anything else, Tails used his wolf senses to find Talo's scent again, and followed it. It led to the first house in town.

He circled the house, looking for a way in, and found it on the north side, jumping up on top of the roof easily. The roof didn't easily support his weight, however, and he crashed down into the house.

Inside there was one spirit by a window, then a collection on one side. With his wolf senses, he could see that some of those in the collection where Talo, Malo, Beth and Colin, along with a young girl and a tall man he didn't recognise. He didn't recognise the man by the window either. He listened in to the one by the window.

"Those black brutes must have left. Probably hidin', waitin' for us to come out so they can feast!"

"Do not worry children," the tall man told them. "We are safe for as long as we remain in here."

"Oh yeah? I doubt them beasts agree with you. They sure didn't seem bothered about my bombs. How long d'ya think we can hold this place against that? Remember the old lady who ran the general store? One of those things attacked her, and a whole gang went to help. What happened? She was gone, and there were TWO of them waitin'! Connect the dots, you see what's gonna happen? Means if we get attacked, we'll be..."

"Barnes!" the tall man snapped sharply at him.

Cowed, Barnes seemed to try a different tack. "Look, Renado, I'm just saying, it's risky here too. Don't you got some other place we can hide, somewhere safer?"

"There is... a cellar."

"What? You've got a cellar? Well where's the entrance man, tell us!"

"It will open only when all of the candles are lit."

Barnes immediately reached for a stick, and lit it from a small pot with a fire in.

"I wouldn't do that," the young girl beside Renado said hesitantly. "I saw insects like the beasts outside when I closed it."

Barnes dropped the stick, and hurriedly backed away from it.

Tails turned at the sound of Beth sobbing into Renado's arm.

Colin put a comforting arm around her, "Don't worry Beth. Tails will come save us, I just know it."

Malo looked over, not believing this. "You barely know him."

"So? He saved Talo."

"Well isn't this interesting," Midna said. "These kids know you're coming to save them, but they can't even see you. You know, a lot of all this, no one will ever know about? All that hard work, and only we know. How sad that must be for you."

Tails turned sharply, almost making her fall off, and snarled.

"Easy, wolf boy. We do have things to do."

He picked up the stick in his mouth, re-lit it, and then lit each of the candles in turn. Renado noticed as the statue in the centre of the room shifted aside.

"What sorcery is this? The candles lit, the entrance opening, all of their own accord? Could the beasts have engineered this?"

Barnes heard. "I don't got a clue who this Tails is, but I ain't overly confident, I gotta tell you."

Colin glared at him, and he pulled down the mask he wore. Tails identified it easily, he'd worn one like it while doing welding.

He leaped down into the cellar. Sure enough, his wolf senses revealed three shadow bugs. Midna used her power to hold them still, and he caught them all easily. While Midna collected the light, he began jumping his way out using some scaffolding. Midna joined him at the top.

"Hm? This looks like a graveyard. You know, that's one custom I've never understood. The dead are dead, what's the point of this?"

He could smell a shadow bug, so followed his nose. It led him to a patch of ground. He dug, and reveal the bug, which tried to run, but got swatted by a paw before it got far enough.

He left the graveyard, heading back toward Renado's house. He'd have to start searching. At least, unlike Faron woods, they were all going to be in this town. That should make it easier.

Opposite Renado's house was a slope heading up beside a sign that read 'Warning: Dead end ahead'. He ignored it and went up anyway.

A shadow Kargarok attacked when he reached the top. He lunged at it and dug his claws in, preventing himself from being thrown off. The bird thrashed around as he tore away, but ultimately fell to the ground, beaten.

He'd landed beside the nearby building, and noticed a tunnel close to the ground. He squeezed through, and into the building.

Inside, judging by the produce around, this had been the general store. There was a bug up on one shelf. A quick dash before it could react got them it's light easily.

He left the same way he'd entered, and went up the slope, this time jumping over to the rooftops of the next building over, and entering by an open window.

The next bug was hiding above a fireplace. There was another pot with a small fire burning on it, and several sticks of firewood nearby, so he lit one, and threw it into the fireplace, intending to smoke the bug out.

It worked, and landed on it's back nearby, making it the easiest yet.

There was a sound from the next room. He stalked in quietly, and spotted to shadow Bokoblins facing away. They probably never realised what hit them.

Another one, at the top of the stairs, saw this, and pointed at him in alarm. He ran up the stairs after it, and finished it too. Then he went through to the room next door, and saw a bug on the wall.

He slammed into it hard, wincing briefly at the pain, but the bug fell off anyway. Unlike the others it flew around instead.

He waited until it made to swing at him, and lunged.

"You're getting good at fighting like this, aren't you?" Midna commented. "Sure you don't want to stay?"

There was no smell of any other shadow bugs around, so he left the same way he'd entered the building, and got hit by something.

When he got up, he saw another shadow Kargarok, which he wasted no time in attacking back. Due to it's thrashing around, he ended up just slightly north of Renado's house by the time it gave up and died.

He could smell more shadow bugs, so used a smaller building nearby to jump up onto the rooftop, then over to the next rooftop. Like Renado's roof, it gave way underneath him.

The house he landed in probably had been tidy until he'd done this. A startled shadow bug was already running around.

He eyed it, watching carefully for it to pause, then made a dash. He missed, slamming into the wall.
Midna sighed and held it still for him to hit.

"If you're done here, Maybe we should leave before you bash that head of yours on any more walls?"

He leapt up onto a cupboard, then back out onto the rooftop again.

He couldn't reach anywhere new from here, so leapt back onto the ground, and examined the building next door. A sign out front proclaimed it to be 'Barnes' bomb shop, the best in bombs, and all home-made'.

On it's north side, there was a window that looked like it had suffered the effects of his bombs too many times. Tails jumped up on a nearby shack, and made a dash through it, hoping he wouldn't get cut by any glass shards.

He thought he felt one just graze him slightly, but he figured he could probably smell blood, and since he couldn't smell anything he hadn't already, he reasoned he wasn't cut.

There was a clatter from above them. There was a metal grating floor, and they could see a cupboard wobbling slightly through it.

He made his way up the metal steps, and rammed it, revealing another shadow bug, which flew angrily at him, sparking. Probably not safe to touch while like that. When it stopped, he pounced on it, catching it with no trouble.

There was a window open nearby. He remembered seeing a building up above this one on his first glance at the town, so jumped out.

He was on top of Barnes' store. A shadow bug nearby saw him, and started running toward a building up here. Tails pursued, following it through the small tunnel into the building.

It had taken up residence above the fireplace. Well, he knew how to deal with that.

This time thought, the bug flew around the room on fire itself, setting light to all kinds of things. Two more shadow bugs appeared, also on fire, and made it words.

Midna looked around.

"Oh no. What did you do?" She shook her head. "Romantic as this is, I'm getting out of here."

Sound advice, Tails quickly burrowed out through the tunnel, and ran from the building. He turned at the sound of an explosion.

The building was gone but for a few ruins, and the light from the three bugs.

"I don't suppose there's any nicer way to get these bits of light, is there? Well, we had to sacrifice someone's building to get them, but I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles, huh?"

Tails waited for her to collect the light. "Just four more to go, wolf boy. Looks like we'll be done in no time."

The turned at a sparking sound. Another bug noticed them spot it, and ducked into the nearby building.

He tunneled in after it, finding it in a barrel.

"You know, I don't think there's any more here. I mean, we've been pretty much everywhere, right?"

Tails shook his head. "No? Well, if you think so..."

She landed on his back again, and he made his way back down to the ground, heading to the north of the village. There was a sign by a short cavern.

"'Death Mountain. Home of the Gorons'. I guess there could be some up there. It sounds dangerous."

He didn't mind that. The Forest Temple had been dangerous.

Up ahead was a low cliff – low, but high enough to be a problem. There was netting and a broken ladder that would have helped had he not been able to fly up in his normal form, but as a wolf, he couldn't do that.

Instead, he arranged some nearby boxes by shoving them, and leapt up to it from them. There was another spirit up here.

When he tuned in with his wolf senses, he saw his first Goron. "Why do I have to stand guard here?" it was complaining. "The ladder is broken, so no humans can get up here. And the elders? Why are we cutting off the humans, if they could help us?"

Midna examined the Goron. "Sounds like they don't have a good relationship with the humans right now. I wonder why? No time to wonder. Bugs to hunt."

He moved on up the gorge. Occasionally, geysers spurted superheated steam out, and he had to wait, or take a long way around, but they were only minor problems.

Further ahead, there were ledges that led up toward another small gorge. There were some crates near the top. He could smell a shadow bug, and found it was hiding, buried underneath the ground. It didn't take long to hunt down.

Also nearby was a strange stone tablet with a hole in the top that seemed to whistle with the wind.

The wolf that had taught him the Ending blow came to mind.

He listened carefully, then howled the same song it whistled.

His vision blurred white, then cleared. Midna had gone, as had the twilight. He was atop a cliff, which in turn hung over what seemed to be Hyrule Castle.

Opposite him, the grey wolf sat.

Now what? Maybe he'd have to howl the same song once more?

He did so, and the other wolf howled alongside. When it was over, he heard the voice of the stranger.

"Take sword in hand, and find me near the Ordonian Spring, Hero."

His vision blurred again, and he was back at the stone tablet, which had fallen silent.

"Hey!" Midna dropped down in front of him. "Daydreaming?"

He shook himself off. He'd apparently dozed off.

"Come on, no time for that, wolf boy." She jumped and landed on his back. Did she really have to land on him so hard?

There didn't seem to be any more shadow bugs around here, so he moved on through the second gorge, and into an area that dropped down before him. There were four shadow beasts this time, the stone pillars already in place.

One of them was apart from the others, so he headed for it. As he did so though, the barrier formed, and several of the posts seemed to cut it off, causing him to slam into them. The other shadow beasts noticed this and ran over.

He quickly recovered, and headed round through a small passage to the one by itself, and finished it. The other three watched, waiting.

They couldn't fit through the passage, but they didn't need to.

He made a dash at the nearest one as he left, but didn't hold on this time. As it drew back from the force of his impacting it, he let go and was flung behind it instead.

The other two quickly rounded on him, followed by the one he'd hit.

Midna caught them, and he finished them all without a trouble, giving them another warp portal.

One of the last two shadow bugs was hiding on a gate, which fell down in shock when he rammed into it.

There was no sign of the final one down here, so Midna showed him a safe way up to a higher point, and from there he made his way around until he found some hot springs. There were a bunch of the small shadow creatures he'd seen in the sewers, possibly rats, which rushed him as he got close, but a few swiped flicked them away easily.

The last bug was hiding near one wall, and he nearly missed it.

"Whew. That's the last of them. Time we head back, eh, wolf boy?"