Sonic joined him as he entered the Arbiter's Grounds. He was glad for the company. Not that Midna wasn't good company, but Sonic was his best friend, he could hardly not like his company.

The first room of the grounds consisted of steps down to a sandy floor with various chunks of stone on and around. In the centre was a sink hole of sand, constantly being drawn down like a whirlpool. More sand seemed to just appear to replace what it took.

"Where do ya even begin in these places, Tails? It looked huge from the outside."

"Oh, I usually muddle through. The last place had a map to it, came in useful."

"I didn't see you looking at it," Midna commented from his shadow. Sonic glanced down at it, stepping back.

"Did your shadow..."

Tails grinned. "That's just Midna. Come on out, Midna, you two ought to know each other."

"You're sure I can trust him, wolf boy?"

"You trust me, don't you?"

"What's that got to do with it?"

"I trust him."

"Oh, alright then." Midna popped up almost right in front of Sonic, who almost fell over in surprise. "Gotcha!" she giggled.

"Midna's been helping me since not long after I got here. I'm helping her with some things too, so it's fair."

"Yeah... nice to meet ya, I guess..." Sonic still hadn't recovered from her surprise showing up. "You're helping Tails?"

"Yep, I help wolf boy. He'd never get anything done right without me, right, wolfy?"

"Oh, I don't know about that," Tails replied.

Sonic caught onto something. "Did you call him a wolf?"

Tails and Midna shared a look. She shrugged, making him sigh.

"It's a bit complicated. I'll explain another time."

He glanced around the room, and spotted a clawshot target on the east wall, using it to land him on a stone chunk beside the sand sinkhole. There were enough chunks from here to make it over the sinkhole, across to the other side of the room and ahead some way, then back again over another stone chunk. Unlike the rest, this one sank into the sand after he stepped on it.

Sonic was still by the stairs. He gave the sand between him and Tails a distrustful look, than ran over it instead.

They reached a door that was locked, with no keyhole.

"What now?" Sonic asked.

"Simple. Wait here a moment."

Tails moved around the nearby fence, where their lay a chain in the sand ahead. Given that he'd probably sink into the sand, he moved close enough to pull on it with the clawshot, and found skeletons jumping out of the sand at him. They were relatively fragile, and fell easily, allowing him to tug on the chain finally and open the way ahead to a small square chamber, with a recess with pots in to the left, a locked door opposite, and an area blocked off by pieces of wood. They were carved off easily.

There was some more sand, but nothing they couldn't handle, netting them a key from a chest, allowing them to continue onwards.

Darkness filled much of the next room. Tails handed Sonic his torch, while he made his way around the room with the lantern, lighting beacons and destroying more skeletons. When the two beacons on either side of the door opposite were lit, there was a click from the door, signifying it was now unlocked.

They found a large hall, with old, eroded statues in a line on either side leading to the base of some stairs, which had a large grate blocking the path. A large chandelier hung over the centre of the room. Along the way up the stairs were four pillars with torches atop them, each with an eerie blue flame burning, hovering just above it. Tails suspected he knew why.

"You're awful quiet," Sonic commented.

"Normally it's just me and Midna," he replied absently. "And we don't really say much. Except to tease each other. Midna, I think I'm going to need to change."

"You sure, wolf boy? I'm not sure there's anything worth seeing, and your friend doesn't know what you mean yet."

"I know, I'm sure there's something more here."

"Better explain first then."

"Explain what? Sonic demanded, feeling a little left out.

"It's simple. When in the Twilight, I got turned into a wolf. Now it's gone, the only way I can do it is through a shadow gem that Midna keeps safe."

"So that's why you call him a wolf all the time."

"It suits him much better," Midna agreed, pulling it out. "This is it. I touch this to him, and he becomes my little wolfy."

"Would you mind doing that?" Tails asked. "I'm really certain there's something there now."

"Stop nagging me," she replied, making him change. Sonic drew back in surprise at the wolf now beside him.

He saw instantly what he'd been missing. Three sickly-green ghostly figures with lanterns had the flames burning in their lanterns, instead of the torch. Upon realising he could see them, three of them fled, but the last of them swooped down on him. Midna was doing something, but he paid it no attention, lunging at the ghost, but passing right through.

Then it turned bright blue, like that of a Poe. Tails lunged again, grabbing hold of it and ripping and tearing away at it. A second lunge just after finished it like any other Poe.

The lantern it had carried shattered, and the flame floated up to one of the torches, relighting it. A purple cloud of scent was left. There were other trails too, but this one led to a door in the west wall.

"What was that thing?"

"Poe, I think," Midna replied. "Never seen one like that before. Hey, where are you going, wolfy?"

"Uh, Midna?"

"What?"

"What's all these purple clouds?"

"Oh, that's what wolf boy can smell. I made it so you and I can see what he can when he's like this, save us wondering."

"Useful."

"Through the door then, I guess," she added, making it open.

There was a circular room with a central pillar next.

Two scent trails were in here. The one they were following went right through to a locked door, while another seemed to come through one wall, into a small dip in the ground. There was nothing else, and nothing apparent they could do.

"Let's go back a room, wolfy. I think there might be something we missed. Or we can try another scent."

The 'other scent' she got them to follow let to a chain, which revealed another set of stairs leading to another door below the one they'd just used.

The room below resembled the one above, but down here, the pillar had a bit of rock sticking out. The trail here led up to the same place they'd seen the dip in the floor above.

"I got an idea," Sonic told them, and shoved on the rock. The walls moved as it turned the pillar, and revealing an alcove with a dessicated body, almost zombie-like that shambled toward them, dragging a large sword. Tails destroyed it, but was left with a horrible taste in his mouth, and it seemed to soak up damage.

A chest was behind, that like the previous one, had a small key in.

"Hey, look! There's a hole through to upstairs now you've moved the walls. We can follow the scent again."
Tails glanced back meaningfully at Midna, who understood, changing him back. He handed Sonic the clawshot.

"You use this to get up," he said. I'll fly up."

"Mind if I get you to go up first? In case there's anything else hiding up there?"

"There isn't going to be anything," he grumbled, but went on up. It was still clear. "I'm going to need to be a wolf again, Midna. We can't see the trail otherwise."

"What about Sonic?"

"Good point... do you think you could use this?" he asked his friend, handing him the Ordon sword.

"Never used one before, but I can give it a go."

"Oh, very good," Midna commented.

"What? Am I missing something?"

"Naturally. You're gonna borrow wolf boy's stuff and handle using it, so he doesn't have to keep changing to a wolf and back so much."

"Why don't I just use that sword?" he asked, pointing at the Master Sword still on Tails' back.

"I don't think you'd be allowed to wield it," Tails replied. "It's meant to be used by me, I think."

"Oh, right... I'll give it a try then."

They sorted out Tails' gear, with Midna keeping some of it so he wouldn't have to carry so much, then changed Tails back to a wolf, following the trail to a door that had been revealed to the north.

It let them to along a short corridor to a large round room, with many torches around it. One of the torches was held by another of the ghostly figures.

Like the previous one, the lantern shattered, sending it's flame back to the hall.

Sonic waited for them in the room with the dipped floor, while Tails jumped back down, turning the room back how it had been. He then returned to the hall, then back up to rejoin Sonic, unlocking the door to the west.

The next room had another sand sinkhole in the floor. Some of the sand on the floor was separated by small areas of stone floor. On the far side, there was a crate that looked more like a cage, and another chandelier, this one lower.

As they made their way over the areas of stone floor, their path was impeded by sharp stone spikes that shot out of the floor to bar their path. They were easily avoided, however, letting them reach the crate easily. They pushed it into an alcove out of the way, and went up the stairs it had been blocking the path off.

The chandelier blocked their path now, forcing them to jump to another nearby area, this time with a chain. Pulling on it raised the chandelier. Almost as soon as they let go, it looked ready to fall.

"You go on over, Tails," Sonic told him. "I can hold it up here until you're there, then run over and join you before it gets back down."

His plan worked easily, leading them to another set of stairs, with a statue at the top, and an alcove behind with another chest, containing the compass. Midna, as she had before, seized it.

"It'd be more useful with a map, but it'll help here too."

"It just points north. What good is that?"

"It's not a normal compass. Push on that stone in front of the statue."

"What for?"

"Because I said so."

He grumbled a bit, but did so. The walls shifted, revealing a locked door to the east, and chest to the west with another of the strange zombie-like things again. With Sonic's help, it fell easier, allowing them to get a small key from the chest.

The trail they were following led them to the locked door, so they continued through it. There was some sand here, moving faster than in other areas. More skeletons attacked, but they were still no match for the two as they went down the twisting corridors, destroying them as they went along. Yet another of the zombie-like things waited for them, then another just beyond it. Once defeated, they continued onward, finding an unlocked door – but ignored it. The trail led to a small patch of sand on the floor. Tails dug at the sand, and tugged on the chain, which made a door nearby retract, revealing the third of the ghosts.

Once it too had fallen, they went through the previously ignored door.

The room beyond was partially ruined. Aside from a locked door on the opposite side, and a chest with another small key, it was deserted.

They used the key on the door, heading east, which led them back into the hall, this time up beside the chandelier on the upper levels. They could see three of the torches lit.

"Midna?"

"Hm?"

"Why do these keys always break after one use?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's just some kind of magic to stop these places being too easy? The trail goes over to that eastern door."

They were now in a room that was similar to the one with the lowered chandelier. Another crate-cage pushed into position let them heave on another chain to raise this chandelier. This one took longer to raise, but once it was up, Sonic held it up for them to cross again. Directly underneath the centre of it was a slightly different patch. Looking up, there was a hole in the centre of the chandelier on that exact spot.

Tails motioned to Sonic to join him. When the chandelier fell down, they were able to use the eastern door. Another short corridor led them to a circular room again, with many alcoves. A large skeleton was laying by one wall. When they approached, it got up.

Neither of them seemed to be able to harm it, even together. Tails had Midna change him back, then stunned it with his shield, using the Helm Splitter skill Link had taught him earlier. The skeleton collapsed.

"Thanks Tails. I couldn't hurt it."

"It's nothing."

"Look out!" Midna told them, pointing. The skeleton was getting up again. Tails defeated it again, this time using a bomb to blow it's remains around the room.

"Let's see it get back up from that," he said, satisfied. Midna changed him back, and he confirmed the trail led to a door to the south.

Up a few stairs was a large room, with an idol opposite, and most of the floor covered in fast-moving sand. In front of the idol were six, unlit beacons, five in a row, and the sixth in front of the middle one.

Sonic lit the front one, then the first in the row. A barrier blocked their leaving again, and a mass of skeletons burst from the sandy floor.

They defeated the skeletons, then tried again, lighting the second torch instead of the first. Again, they fought skeletons, and again for the third and fourth torches. The last one made a wall retract instead, revealing the door the scent trail led to.

There was another large room with torches around the edge. One of them was held by the last ghost.

Unlike the other three, this one split into four identical ghosts.

"Only one of them is real," Midna told them. "But which one?"

The four ghosts circled him, then stopped.

"Behind you!" Sonic called. "It just turned blue!"

Tails turned sharply, lunging at it, then biting away at it. The other three ghosts faded.

When he was thrown off, the four returned again. Sonic watched them, then pointed out the real one the second time. This time, like all the others, the lantern broke, letting the final flame go free.

They left through a door to the north, leaving them in the room with the lower chandelier again.

"Maybe we should go back to the main room, and make sure all four torches are lit?" Midna suggested.

They did so – finding that the grate that had blocked their way up the stairs was now gone.

"Hold on," Midna said, examining the compass. "There's something in here. In the back, on the right."

Sonic ran over and had a look, returning with the map of the dungeon.

"See!" she exclaimed, taking it from him. "I told you the compass was useful. Now I can tell you where to go."

"How nice," Sonic muttered to himself. Clearly he had some trouble getting along with Midna sometimes too.

"Up the stairs, through the door," she told them after examining the map carefully.

It led them to another large circular room, with a large depression in the floor. Parts of the floor were missing, with gears showing, and a strange circular part in the middle, that looked like another gear was meant to go into it.

Opposite the way they came in was a wall, with the top missing, showing a part of the room beyond in a hazy green. To the west was an unlocked door, with an apparently useless clawshot target above it nearby.

To the east was a corridor leading to an ornate chest. Sonic ran to it immediately, but Midna grabbed him and stopped him.

"Look! There's a bit of floor missing there with another sinkhole. You can't see it from here."

"Thanks. I almost ran right into it. How are we going to get to it?"

Midna looked at Tails, changing him back.

"What do you make of these things in the floor, wolfy?"

He examined them, looking them over. "It's some kind of mechanism. I think this part in the middle controls it, but I don't have anything to use on it. Maybe there's something in this dungeon that'll help."

Sonic looked unconvinced. "Why would there be something like that?"

"In every dungeon before here, there's been a useful weapon or tool that's been vital to continuing through it, or defeating the boss. It stands to reason this one would be the same, so maybe the item we get here will be what we need."

"It could be a trap."

"Could be, but it doesn't look right for it to me. We'll head west and see what we can find. We'll have to come back here anyway."

The western door led to another circular room, but the floor of this one was far below, and had many alcoves in the walls along the way down. There was a circular pillar with screw-like markings on it.

"I'll fly down again," he told them. "It looks like there's clawshot targets you can use to get down safely."

They met at the bottom with no issues. There was another rock sticking out of the pillar. Near the floor was a small sliver of a room visible.

They pushed on the rock, and the floor descended, revealing a locked door.

"We'll have to come back later. We don't have a key. Lets push the rock the other way, and head upwards instead."

A few levels up, they found a short corridor that led to a chest, and a key. The easy way had been blocked by spikes. It was decided to continue upward, before going back to the locked door. They found nothing else of note, however, and so returned back to the bottom.

Through the locked door was another large hall. Some parts were covered with sand, others had lines of black marks on the floor. Some of them shot spikes out of the ground as they approached. A few areas of sand also had spikes come from them.

In the far left corner, they met another of the zombie things, and in the far right, there was another chain on the ground, which pulled a wall out of the way of the central route. When they let go, it started to go back in again, so as with the chandeliers, Sonic held it back until they were safely past, then ran to join them, avoiding the spikes in the ground.

It led them to another corridor with sand on the ground. Running on rails in either wall were strange devices with spikes sticking out that went back and forth, making the route over the uncovered bits of sand dangerous.

Sonic ran on ahead to the far end, while Tails carefully flew over instead. There wasn't much at the other end of the room, except a door to the north.

"This place is almost worse than some of Eggman's places," Sonic said, watching what they saw beyond the door. A stump of stone was rotating in the middle of the floor, with two long arms reaching out that were covered in spikes.

They could see that to the west was a gate that was locked, and had no visible means of opening. East was an alcove, which they used to keep safe as they made their way beyond it to a large area.

There was two large skeletons here, like the single one they had had to blow up before.

They took one each, Sonic mimicking the tactics Tails had used on the earlier one, then blew both up. Towards the west side of the room, they found a third of them. When it was defeated, they heard a sound of something scraping against rock. It turned out to be the gate they'd seen, now open. It lead to a long corridor, parts of it stone floor, parts of it sand. The floor was inclined so the sand flowed toward them.

It was, of course, no real obstacle to them.

They were now on an area raised above where they'd fought the skeletons. There was another rail in a short bit of wall, but there was no spiked device using it as there had been the previous one.

There was a door to the north, which seemed to be the only way to go, so they took it.

The room beyond was huge. There was a large, dark sword buried in the ground, tethered down. When they cut some of the tethers, it glowed, and apparently raised itself into the air. Midna needed no prompting to change Tails to a wolf, whereupon they found a huge, horned, and rather ugly creature in a dark robe was wielding it. It also looked ghostly, like the figures earlier.

Without stopping to think, Tails jumped at it as soon as it turned the signature blue, which made it scream, and become solid, and visible to them without his wolf senses.

He then snapped at Midna until she got the idea and changed him back, while the figure floated around above them, just out of reach.

Sonic shot it with an arrow, making it scream again, then dash around the room to stop in from of Tails. With Sonic at his side, they both went to the attack, hacking away at it. It flew clear at one point, prompting Sonic to shoot it again, and they attacked again. They repeated once more, and the sword vanished. The creature exploded into a flock of tiny bats, which flew off.

It was only after a few moments they realised there was a route to the north which led them to a chest. Inside was a curious device. It was like a large spinning top, but with gear-like teeth around the edge.

Tails experimented with it, setting it on the ground, and stepping on. It emitted a hum, suddenly spinning, but slowly slowing down. He examined it some more, investigating it. Sonic watched for a few moments, then closed the chest, and sat on it with a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Midna asked him.

"We'll have to wait a bit. Whatever it is, it's got him fascinated."

"Got it," Tails announced. "I still don't quite know what it is, but I know what it can be used for." He looked around, and spotted two rails on the walls, one on either side. The gear teeth on the device slotted in perfectly. He stepped on, and the device, spinning underneath him, took him along the rail and back to the door. Sonic ran along the wall to rejoin them.

"That's it?"

"I think there's more to it than that. I want to work on it a bit more. Do you think you can get out of here and back in again alright?"

"What for?"

"I want some of my tools from the workshop, so I can tweak this a bit."

"Let me see the map, Midna." He examined it for a few moments, tracing paths, then, "I can make it. You'll have to wait a bit for me to get there and back again. I might be fast, but this is a big place."

"I can wait, don't worry. We'll wait in here for you, it's a safe place."

"Back in a bit then," he said, grinning, then left them.

"What are you up to, wolf boy?"

"I think I can improve it a bit. And it looks pretty old, so it probably needs a few repairs too."

"You don't think we should just go back to getting through this place?"

"What, you don't think improving it to make things easier is a good idea?"

"I guess I can't argue with that."

Once Tails had finished tinkering with what they'd come to call the spinner, they left the room they'd battle the spectre in, using the spinner to reach a door to the east. The room beyond didn't have much in, but had plenty that allowed Tails to test the improved spinner.

It now no longer slowed down if not on a rail, spun slightly faster, and if he stamped his foot on a part of it, it would push off from the rail, and if there was another rail opposite, it would attach to that instead. It eventually led them to the ornate chest they'd seen earlier, earning them the big key. A rail on the wall allowed them to bypass the sinkhole in the floor.

"Now I see what this bit is for," Tails said. "This gear on the spinner matches with this part of the floor. So, all I have to do is put the spinner in, and activate it."

"And activate whatever trap is waiting for us," Sonic commented sourly. Being a hero with Tails wasn't suiting him.

"It's not a trap. I'm certain of that now."

He activated the spinner, making the gears under the floor turn, then eventually a part of the wall turn around. The previously useless clawshot target was now under the cracked bit of wall. There was a new path open to the north, that had an immense sand sinkhole in the floor, and a large central pillar. A spinner rail went around it's base, and along the wall.

He used the rail to get up high enough to land on top of the pillar, where there was another spinner hole in the floor. This one lit two torches, and brought up a spiral of stone around the pillar with another rail in it. It led upwards, to a door with an ornate lock.

"Finally. I thought we'd never get here."

"What's behind?"

"The dungeon's boss, of course."

"Oh, great."

"Stop complaining. You don't have to take part if you don't want to. Just try not to get hurt, I'll be busy fighting whatever we have to deal with."

"I'll help if I can," Sonic promised rather reluctantly.

"Then why don't we find out what we're up against?"

Beyond the doors lay a large, dusty and circular room. In the centre was a large depression with some sand in it, and the head and arm of a giant creature's skeleton. A rail ran around the top edge of the sand rim.

"Creepy," Sonic commented.

"There's something else here," Midna told them. "Be careful."

"But Midna, it's my job to do things and not be careful," Tails grinned back. "I'm meant to go into dangerous situations like this."

"I know," she sighed theatrically. "That makes it all the worse."

As they approached, a low, evil laugh filled the air. Then Zant appeared on top of the head.

"How interesting," he said. "You are still alive, 'hero', and you too Midna."

"That's right," Tails told him. "Now come down here and fight me – or are you too much of a coward to do that?"

"Watch your tongue, lest I remove it from you personally. Now face my power, and tremble. You will not live through this."

He caused a sword to appear in the air before him, glowing with red markings, then plunged it into the skull of the skeleton. Red lines coursed over it. Then Zant vanished.

The eyes of the skull glowed red, and slowly, shaking the entire room, it rose of out of the sand, bringing a second skeletal arm into view.

The spine was billowing dark smoke.

It leaned forward, staring at the three of them, then gave a roar.

"Oh, shut up!" Tails snapped at it. "Do all of you monsters have to have such bad breath?"

Tails took out the spinner, using the rail to pick up speed, then ramming into the back of the giant skeleton's spine hard.

The chunk shot out, crumbling to dust. Skeletons now rose from the sand, which was now moving rapidly down toward the giant skeleton.

The skeletons made it difficult to easily attack the spine.
Sonic joined the battle then, running past them at speed, then slamming into the next chunk of spine. It too crumbled.

Tails went on the attack again, but was blocked by several heavily armoured skeletons that burst out of the sand, wielding swords. Sonic dashed past, neatly disarming and distracting them, allowing Tails to slam into them from behind, destroying them.

They both joined the attack together to slam the third piece out of it's spine. This time, all the skeletons that had risen, now vanished, and the great skeleton, with another roar, reached up almost imploringly, then collapsed down onto it's back. The light in it's eyes vanished.

The sand began to drain now, leaving them on the floor. Only the head remained now.

The walls of the room, they now noticed, had rails on them, and in the exact centre of the room was another slot for the spinner.

Tails used it, uncertain of what would happen, but it seemed to be the only thing to do.

With rumbles and cracks, the central area rose out of the ground.

When if finished rising, the head seemed to reactivate, and shoved them both off and down onto the part of the floor still far below.

The outside of the central area also had rails on it. Unlike the ones around the outside which went around in rings, these ones went up in a spiral.

It was fairly clear to Tails what he had to do. He attached the spinner to the spiral rail, and went up until he caught up with the head.

When it began shooting fireballs at him, he jumped to the rail opposite, then back again, repeating until he was almost right beside the head. He then jumped and slammed straight into it, causing the head to drop to the ground.

"The sword!" Midna called. "Destroy the sword in it's head to defeat it!"

Sonic got there first, with Tails not far behind. The sword showed no signs of damage as they attacked it.

Then the head got up again, floating around again. Tails went after it straight away, while Sonic ran underneath, waiting for it to fall again so he could resume his attack.

Tails repeated his earlier tactic, slamming into it again.

This time, their concerted attack won out. The head exploded, sending the sword flying upwards, where it to exploded into nothing. A stone pathway went from a door opposite where they had come in, and extended over.

"Good fight," Tails commented.

"For you," Sonic breathed. "I don't think I want to try that again."

"You're just not used to it yet. C'mon, We better get to the top and have a look at where that leads."

Outside, they had to climb up a spiral staircase around the outside of the tower. It eventually lead to a large open area. In the centre was a standing idol with a spinner rail around it, and many chains going from other pillars around the edge, deep into the ground.

"Wait here," Tails told Sonic. "Take a rest."

"Thanks."

"No worries."

He moved ahead, giving a faint snarl when he realised that he'd been trapped, and five shadow beasts had dropped. Sonic was thankfully out of their reach.

"Midna? I need to be a wolf again. Give me a hand with these annoyances?"

"Of course."

The Shadow beasts were still easily defeated, even with five of them around. Once defeated, another portal formed in the air above them.
Tails then took out the spinner, and headed up the rail around the idol.

At the top was yet another slot for the spinner. It caused the idol to sink back into the ground, becoming level with the ground below, while the pillars with the chains rose up, hauling a giant stone slab into the air. Some of the sand parted, revealing a stone area, with a semi-circular frame, in which was the mirror of twilight.

Was not the mirror of twilight. There was only a small piece of it left. Midna looked on in horror for a few moments, then made an angry sound, and then finally sank down beside it. It wasn't exactly good news.

Tails became aware of several presences. They looked slightly human, but were completely white, in robes of white, and their faces seemed to be masks hovering just in front of their faces.

All but one of the pillars had a figure atop it.

"A dark entity lurks in the twilight," a voice came, seemingly from all of them. "It houses an evil power... you who are guided by fate... who possess the crest of the goddesses, hear what we have to say.

"At the command of the goddesses, we sages have guarded the Mirror of Twilight since ancient times. You have sought it, but it has already been fragmented by mighty magic. A magic that is a dark power, that only he possesses. His name... is Ganondorf.

"He was the leader of a band of thieves who invaded Hyrule in the hopes of dominating the Sacred Realm. A demon thief, an evil-magic wielder, renowned for his ruthlessness... but he was blind. In all of his fury and might, he was blind to any danger, and was exposed, subdued, and brought to justice.

"But by some divine prank, he too had been blessed with the chosen power of the gods. His abiding hatred and list for power now turned to purest malice. In some form... it has been passed on to Zant."

"You're only just now figuring out where Zant got his power?" Midna asked, a hint of contempt in her tone. "It's too late for that."

The sages ignored her, continuing on regardless. "Only the true leader of the Twili may destroy the Mirror of Twilight completely... so Zant could only break it into pieces. Once broken, the Mirror became fragments, which even now lie across Hyrule.

"One in the snowy mountain heights, one in an ancient grove, one in the heavens... you who have been sent by the goddesses, you should be able to gather these three pieces. But beware of them even as you were of the Fused Shadows, for a dangerous power resides in those fragments."