The girl Noel/Alek's drawing is me with my new haircut and freshly dyed hair.
"Din came to you? You mean the Goddess?" He looked at me with a confused look.
"No, I mean my dog. Of course I mean the Goddess! She gave me this necklace and told me that I have the power to control fire." I looked down, realizing how stupid that sounds.
"Noel… I think I should go on by myself." Link rested a hand on my shoulder. "You're not well."
I stood up and backed away from him. "I'm perfectly fine! I just…" I sat back down, looking at the ground. "I don't know. Maybe I should meet you at the boss' entrance." I sighed.
Link nodded once. "That sounds good to me." He offered a hand to help me up which I took.
"You'll need keys in order to get there, you know." I said as I stood back up with his help.
"I know." Link nodded briskly.
"Do you know where it is?" He asked, blinking once.
I nodded. "I'll meet you there." I rubbed the back of my head. "Try and clear my head while you're gone." I looked up at him for a moment before pushing the door open again and walking off, heading for the Boss' room. Or, how far I could get without any keys, or pick locking most of them.
I sat down and thought about what Din told me, how I'm the descendant of my own character. I remembered everything about Yvaine, and how she 'dies' at an early age. Well, she is based off of me. Wait, does that mean I'm gonna meet her? No. No! That's insanity! Yvaine is a fictional character.
I started to pace.
"Then again…" I muttered, crossing my arms behind my back. "I thought that Link and all of Hyrule was fictional… So then, if I were to meet Yvaine… That would be after Link—I kill Argorok… Aaargh!" I gripped my hair, shaking my head. "None of this makes sense!" I shouted.
I turned my head to the entrance and saw two torches. "Maybe Din's right…" I held my hand out toward the small flame, and concentrated.
A piece of the flame shot out towards me and I yelped, covering my ears.
The flame shot over my head and turned, heading back for me.
I stood up and thought of what to do without getting burned. I held my hand out and concentrated on making the flame stop.
The flame stopped right at my hand, and I could feel the heat coming from it. I held my hand in front of my chest, examining the fire. I thought about how Alek would be so impressed, and that just got me down.
I noticed that the fire died a little and turned blue.
"Ah?" I blinked twice in surprise, and the fire got bigger again, though stayed blue.
I then thrust my hand upward and the fire shot up before coming back down to me. I giggled, and then thought for a moment. I started drawing with the flame, burning small sketches into the ground.
One was a picture of Link and Navi, and one was of a girl with short hair, with her bangs covering her right eye. The bangs to her right were straight, and the bangs to her left were curly. She had one strand on her right side that was longer and curly. Her hair in the back of her head was spiked up, and she was wearing steam-punk clothes. She was looking at me with an 'Oh, you're here?' look. She had a sad look behind her expression, though.
I turned to the left and drew a cat lying on the floor next to her feet, and now the girl was holding the cat's collar.
"What's happening in the picture?" I heard Link ask behind me, which made me jump.
"N… Nothing." I waved my hand over the burned wood, and the ashes lifted off of it. "I miss my cat." I said, standing up. I saw the large group of monkeys make the large rope, then they started to swing.
I took a step back, but Link sighed.
"Come on, Alek." He said, running off of the ledge, the last monkey grabbing his wrist and swinging him safely to the other side. "I'll catch you!" He called to me.
I still hesitated, but I ran off as well, grabbing onto the monkey's wrists and waiting to fall off. I let go and missed the edge, falling into oblivion.
…
Nah, I'm too awesome.
But I almost missed.
Link ran to the edge and grabbed onto my wrist.
I held onto his arm with both hands, whimpering as he pulled me onto the stable land.
"I'm never doing that again." I panted, looking into the darkness that threatened to kill me.
I heard Link chuckle softly as he pulled me back onto my feet. "Help me with this lock." He said, pulling out the large key and sticking it into the lock.
The lock slid back and the outer layer slid out, then the spikes spun rapidly and the large lock fell, almost crushing my foot, and the chains fell off along with it.
Link started for the boss room, but I grabbed his wrist. "Where's your bottle?" He gave me a confused look, but he pulled it out from the Gods-know-where and handed it to me.
I ran over to one of the pots and smashed it, and then a small, glowing pink orb floated out from it. I ran over and caught it in the bottle, and looked inside.
Beneath the bright light radiating from the bottle, there was a small female figure, floating around merrily. "Huh…" I turned back to Link and gave him the bottle. "We'll probably need this." I said, pushing the door open.
When the doors slammed shut behind us, Link turned back to the door, and then turned his head back to look at his surroundings.
Half of the room was covered with this purple stained water, and a large tree in the middle of the water. Two logs stood by its side with the Bomblings standing on them, keeping their balance perfectly.
Link walked up to the water, looking at it with knit eyebrows.
"Link, back up." I said, looking around.
Link looked back at me. "But nothing's here." He said, shrugging.
"Just do as I say. Something's coming." I pointed to the water that started to bubble.
Link then turned and ran to my side. "Lock onto that Bombling, then lock onto the Deku Baba." I said, pointing to them in turn.
Link blinked once, but did as I told him to, wrinkling his nose when the Deku Baba swallowed the bug bomb, then exploded in its mouth. It then dramatically sank back into the water.
Link was already doing the same to the other D.B., and his shoulders slumped a little when nothing else happened.
"Wait." I said, looking down to my feet to feel the ground shaking (and my controller vibrating). The massive plant thing erupted out of the water and thrashed about for a few seconds, before roaring at Link and I.
Oh Gods, that breath was rank.
Link had his sword and shield out. "What do we do?" He asked as I took the Boomerang from him.
As if on cue, Ook appeared from one of the little caves and grabbed onto a vine, swinging to the other cave. He turned and clapped twice, and then when he turned around again, he had a Bombling by its legs. He grabbed onto the vine again and started to swing.
I took a few steps back and locked onto the Bombling, then onto the Deku Baba to the left of Diababa, but instead, it exploded in Diababa's face, making it thrash, and fall in front of Link.
Link started slicing at the eye that was hidden inside of its mouth, but after three slashes, Diababa lifted its head and ejected that acid blood at us, scorching my arm.
I let out a scream, but I didn't dare touch it. Thankfully it was my right arm, and since I'm left handed, its better that way. I heard Link shout my cousin's name but I ignored it, locking onto the Bombling and Diababa, making it thrash once again before falling.
Link did his finishing move, and Diababa thrashed dramatically again, splashing the water everywhere before rotting rapidly, its neck pulsing in every way before becoming still, the eyeball falling in front of Link. I was on my knees, panting heavily from the blood loss in my upper arm and shoulder.
The eyeball turned black before exploding, leaving a heart container behind.
Diababa's rotted body then exploded, and its remains formed the chest plate of the Fused Shadow, floating in front of Link. Link held his hands out in front of him, and Midna flew out.
She giggled. "Well done!" She exclaimed. "That's… what I was looking for." She continued. Her hair whipped out and snatched the metal piece. "That's a Fused Shadow. It's what the light spirit called dark power…" She looked down a second before looking back at the boy. "Do you remember about what the light spirit said? About how you had to match the power of the king of shadows?" She asked. "Could it really be so easy? Is this all there is to it?"
No.
She giggled, as if she heard my thought. "There's a total of three Fused Shadows. I think the other light spirits have the rest… If you want to know exactly what Fused Shadows are… Well, maybe I'll tell you if you find the other two."
When we find the other two.
"I guess you'd better do your best to find them, huh?" She giggled, and her hair went back to being a ponytail. "So let's not waste any more time here when we could be looking for the other two…" She floated away from us and pointed to the ground, a portal appearing. "I'll get you two out of here… You pick up that Heart Container that fell out of that thing." She floated over the portal, swaying her head playfully.
Link ran over and grabbed the Heart Container, and it dissolved in his hands instead of disappearing like it did in the games. The light that came from it went up his arms and faded into his chest.
I got up, ignoring the pain in my arm, and walked over to the portal.
Link pulled out the bottled fairy and examined my arm.
"Don't worry about it." I said, holding my left hand out, stopping him. "I can't feel the pain anymore, and it'll heal in the spring."
"Alek, don't be stupid." Link said seriously.
"No, Link. Who knows when we'll find another fairy? We'll need it for what's ahead." I pushed the bottle away.
"Are you two all done here? Can we go?" Midna asked impatiently.
"Yes." I said, and we 'downloaded' away from the boss room, back into the spring.
"Heroic Link… Heroic Noel…" The spirit said. "Do not think that Hyrule is saved from the spread of twilight…" It warned. "Leave these woods and go to the east, where you will find the land protected by the spirit Eldin. There, you will find those you seek…"
I felt Link's body tense. He thought about his friends.
"But know that these lands lie in twilight… They are now a dark realm covered by the clouds of dusk. If you set foot beyond the curtain of twilight, you two will revert to your beast forms, so be prepared." It told us. "Hero's chosen by the Gods… Leave these woods and go to the east, to the land of Eldin." It didn't speak after that.
I collapsed into the water, making sure that I didn't hit my flesh wound.
Midna popped out again. "You'll be fine." She said to me. "That's better. Searching should be much easier now." She smiled evilly to Link. "But… Of course, you'll feel the need to go help the other light spirits, don't you?" She raised her visible eyebrow to Link. "Well, don't worry. When you turn into beasts again, I'll take good care of you two." She giggled. "The first thing you need to do is to find the land covered in twilight."
I stood up; my arm healed most of the way. I still had a scar, but that can be easily covered with my coat that somehow fixed itself.
"Once you do, I'll help you out." Midna continued. She giggled again and said farewell to us, then went back into Link's shadow.
"Are you sure you'll alright now?" Link asked, brushing my once flesh wound with his fingers.
"I'm fine." I said, taking his hand and setting it down. "It's just a flesh wound." I giggled, thinking of the Jeff Dunham puppet who always said that. "Come on, we need to head on." I walked past him and out of the Ordon village. "Can you believe it?" I asked, jumping happily after a few minutes of silent traveling.
"Believe what?" He asked.
"'Believe what', he says." I rolled my eyes and smiled. "You'll get to see the kids again!" I exclaimed, grabbing his hands. "Surely, you must be excited."
"I am." Link smiled lightly at me. "But it's hard to think of that when all of Hyrule is covered in darkness." He looked down.
I rolled my eyes again, and flicked his forehead.
"What the…?" He rubbed his forehead with the back of his right hand. "What was that for?" He asked.
"What did I tell you? Think of only-ONLY- the happy things. It'll get you through the worst of times, believe me." I put my hands on my hips, and we came to the opening, into Hyrule Field. "Welcome to Hyrule Field." I said with a grin, but it disappeared when I saw the wall of twilight. It was a beautiful sight, really. "Come on." I said, taking Link's wrist and pulling him in the direction of Kakiriko Village. I froze when I saw something.
"HEEEEEEY!" I heard his nasally voice, and my nose wrinkled.
The Bunny Man/Mailman was jogging towards us, his jaw sticking out to the side, and his short shorts revealing something I never wanted to see.
He stopped in front of us. "Go no further!" He exclaimed. "There is a black wall ahead that blocks the way! I thought I would deliver a few letters, but it seems impossible." He raised his arms and swung his hips, making me look away. So disgusting.
"I am the honorable and dependable letter carrier, known to some as… The postman."
Such a unique name… I thought, glancing at Link before looking to the Postman's face.
"Now that I have introduced myself, please!" He reached into his bag and pulled out a letter. "Take this letter and read it at your leisure!" He made that annoying sound. "Well, my business is concluded!" He saluted us. "Onward to mail!" He turned and jogged off, already panting.
"Well…" I looked down and gently kicked a nearby rock.
"That was unbelievably awkward." Link finished, folding his letter, not bothering to read it.
"Indeed." We kept walking to the wall, and when we got there, Midna popped out again.
"Hey, it was much closer than I thought…" She muttered. "You remember, right? You know what this is?"
"The wall of twilight." I said, crossing my arms.
"Right." She nodded at me. "If you set foot in there, you might be wolves again for quite some time. For at least as long as it takes for you to save the light of Eldin from the twilight, anyway." She shrugged. "So, shall we try to go see the light spirit of Eldin?" She asked.
We took a few steps forward after she went back into my shadow this time. "Want me to let you into the twilight?" She asked, coming out once again.
We nodded.
"Okay." She giggled, then turned and went into the curtain of twilight, and her orange hand made of her hair flew out, wiggled its fingers a little, and dragged us into the twilight.