We entered the tree, which had an opening that had been covered in a giant spider web. Upon entering, we saw a monster harassing the monkey that we had brought through the fog. We made quick work of the monster, and the monkey quickly launched itself up on a platform that had a ladder and began calling us.

"I think she wants us to follow her," Zach said, and I couldn't help but agree.

We climbed the ladder and made our way up to the door that was on the platform. When we went through it, the monkey followed us, and we were able to see the expansive area before us. Another platform was raised in the middle of the area, and when we approached it, a huge spider dropped from the ceiling, and we tried to kill it, but it had some hard defenses that our swords couldn't penetrate.

We backed off, and the spider followed us, intent on attacking. When it raised its legs in the air, seemingly about to attack, I caught a glimpse of its unprotected underside and quickly struck with my sword, slicing open its stomach.

It fell to the ground and exploded in a puff of smoke. Seems that not all creatures of twilight just die into smoke then, but monsters in general? This could be potentially useful information. We stood on the platform, but we had no idea how to continue. There were four torch sconces on the platform, as well as two side paths that we couldn't take due to the fact that there were no bridges, only thin wires leading to the sides. Unlit fire sconces eh?

I took out my lantern and lit the sconces one by one, until all four were lit. As soon as they were, a bridge was lifted, allowing us to move forward. We found a chest off to the side which held a dungeon map. The areas that we had gone to already were filled in, while the rest of the areas were darkened.

We went through the doorway, and came across a bridge, where we saw another monkey, this one white, as well as bigger than the other one. It threw what looked to be a boomerang that cut through the ropes of the bridge, knocking them down. The monkey beside us started gesturing that we follow it. Back in the main hall, it brought us to one of the sides, and jumped on the rope above, hanging upside down and clapping its hands.

I grinned to myself, when in the woods, do as the monkeys do I guess, am I right? I ran at the edge of the platform and jumped towards the monkey, feeling it grab my hands for a moment and swing me towards the other side before letting go, allowing me to safely land. Just monkey business.

Zach followed almost immediately afterwards, and we headed to the next room. There was water at the bottom, and we made our way across, heading through the room until the monkey brought us to a locked door. We'd need the key. We searched and left the room until we found the key a few rooms over before coming back. In the locked room was another monkey in a cage, placed on top of a totem pole.

Zach and I shoved against the totem pole and knocked it over, freeing the monkey. Unfortunately a bunch of monsters jumped into the area, but our steel quickly bit into them and we made our way out. We went through the rest of the dungeon, freeing as many monkeys as possible. We even beat up some giant plant thing along the way, which was a pain due to its. Hopefully that's as large as it gets.

Once we had four, they led us back through the main hall to where the bridge had collapses, and they made a line to swing from one to the next. Zach and I got to the other side. Clearly some monkey smackdown was about to happen with the big white monkey and its boomerang.

The white monkey threw its boomerang through the air, cutting two plant monsters loose from the ceiling. Zach looked at me and I nodded, he would take care of the monkey, and I would take care of the plants that it cut from the ceiling. As I defended Zach, he continuously bowled into the pillars that the white monkey was on after it threw its boomerang, making it unable to catch the boomerang on its way back, due to the monkey's imbalance. After a couple of strikes, the monkey took off, the bug on its head falling off and dying. Maybe this bug was an agent of twilight and had taken over the monkey's mind?

That would explain what the monkey had said earlier about the boss going crazy. The bug from the twilight realm had infested the mind of the head monkey, and from there the woods was unprotected as the monsters came and took Faron's light power.

It had dropped its boomerang, and when we approached it, it lifted into the air by itself, creating a gust of wind.

"I am the Fairy of Winds who resides in this boomerang. You have freed me from evil, and I now have my true power back. Please, take it with you, use it to aid your quest, and may both my power and my blessing go with you. If you focus power in the boomerang before releasing it, it will unleash the power of the wind, aiding you in unforeseen ways.

It made its way over to Zach, who had technically been the one to best the monkey, so I wasn't too concerned by its choice. Plus I wasn't too sure that the fairy would be upset if we shared the boomerang as needed.

Upon leaving, we quickly found another monkey in a cage that we freed due to the boomerang. Midna popped out and said, "Well, I guess not all of the monkeys are free yet, maybe you should free the rest of them and see what happens!" and it went back in my shadow.

I was semi astounded. So far, Midna has been nothing but uncouth and rude, but that almost seemed like a genuine concern for the monkeys' well beings, at least at first. But she wasn't wrong. I would need all of the monkeys to be freed if they were going to be able to protect the woods again, like I theorized.

We ventured forth, using our new Gale Boomerang to summon mini tornados that helped us solve problems from before. Once we had finally progressed all the way as far as we could see, we backtracked, finding keys that unlocked doors and freeing a few more monkeys in the process. Spiders and other monsters stood in our way, but have two people work together to kill monsters is certainly easier than it would be if it was just me. I was glad I asked the lights to bring Zach into this world.

Once all the monkeys had been freed, we made our way to the chamber where they were gathering, and they formed a huge swing with their bodies, to bring Zach and I across the room without needing a bridge. Their teamwork was inspiring, and I was glad that Midna had suggested that we free all of them.

Once we were on the final platform, the monkeys stopped swinging, and stood at the ready in case we wanted to come back across. But this seemed to be the final room. I took out a key that we had gotten earlier for solving a puzzle with the Boomerang by throwing in in a z formation, and slid it into the lock on the giant door inside.

The lock spun, its golden hue shining in the light as it gave a click and slid off the door, its chains falling down. We entered the room.

A horrible stench permeated the atmosphere. Everywhere we could see was filled in the gaseous purple smog that had lain outside the temple. And rising from the gas? An even bigger plant monster; this one complete with two giant heads.

Zach and I had barely a moment to take all this in before we dove to the side; one of the heads had instantly thrown itself at us, trying to eat us tasty morsels.

It lingered for a few moments, so Zach and I took those moments to swing our weapons at it. It took barely any damage, these plant heads were hardened with years of experience and fighting. But what could we do?

Zach understood instantly what he needed to do, and pulled out his boomerang. He directed it to a bomb bug, and then at one of the heads, and the boomerang brought the bug straight to the plant monster's mouth. It exploded, and the head shrank into the smog. He repeated the process with the other head, and I could only watch in fascination as he took it down so flawlessly.

How'd you know what to do-" I began to ask him, only to be silenced as the heads rose once more from the gas, but this time with a third appendage in the middle, this one with an eye enclosed in a hardened mask. His eyes glinted.

We looked around for any more of the bomb bugs, but they all seemed to disappear once the plant boss came in full glory. After a minute of dodging the heads, we heard the cry of the white monkey. It swung passed the plant, and the plant didn't even pay it any attention. It landed at the other side, and pulled out a bomb bug. Perfect.

Zach threw the boomerang, this time aiming the bomb bug at the eye in the middle, because that was clearly where it's weak point was.

It exploded, knocking the eye to the ground in front of us. We hacked at it for about five second before the appendage picked itself back up. This thing could take a beating.

Zach brought the head down once more and when it still didn't die from us attacking it, we finally talked.

"This thing is really taking a long time to die! If only there was some way to kill it in one shot!" He shouted as he dodged one of the heads.

On shot huh? Wait a second… "Zach, bring the eye down again, but stay back!"

He nodded, "Gotcha."

There was something that we had just learned. When an opponent was downed, and it kept getting back up, there was only one thing to do…

The head exploded for a third time, the eye falling right in front of where I had positioned myself.

"Secret Technique!" I yelled, jumping into the air. "Ending Blow!" I stabbed the eye clean through, ripping it off of its stalk as it tried to rear its head back in pain. When the eye didn't follow, the plant shriveled up and broke, and the whole thing exploded into a million black pieces of shadow. They stood still in the air for a moment, before they fused together into a stone piece, one that didn't look dissimilar to the stone helmet that Midna wore.

Speaking of whom, the imp left my shadow. "Eee hee hee! Well done!" It said. "That's… What I've been looking for." It's hair reached out and grabbed the stone, and while I was a little surprised, Twilight creature must have all sorts of magic and qualities that I didn't know about.

"That's a Fused Shadow." It continued, "It's what the light spirit called dark power, remember what the spirits said? About matching the power of the king of shadows? Could it really be this easy? Is this all there is to it? There's actually a total of three Fused Shadows, so this makes one and there are two more. There are also two more light spirits, so they probably have the shadows hidden away. If you want to know exactly what the Fused Shadows are, well I'll tell you if you can find the other two."

And at that, Midna opened a teal green portal on the ground near us. "Let's get out of here."

Zach and I agreed, so we entered the portal and she teleported us out of the temple, to the spring.

"Heroes," Faron said to us as we approached. "Do not think that now Hyrule is saved from the spread of Twilight. Leave these woods and go to the east, where you will find the land protected by the spirit Eldin. There you will find the children you so seek. 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 will revert to your beast forms, so be prepared. Heroes chosen by the gods, go to the east, to the spirit of Eldin…" and the voice of Faron faded away, leaving us with nothing except Midna.

"Well, that gives us lots of room to roam the land! But I suppose you two want to go help the other light spirits, don't you? Well, don't worry, when you turn into beasts again, I'll take good care of you. The first thing you need to do is find the land covered in twilight. Once you do, I'll bring you across again. See you later!" and it fled back into my shadow.

I looked at Zach and noticed her was looking back towards the village.

"We ought to let them know that we're still alive." He said. "And we have to let them know that we've word of where their children might be located, but we can't tell them about the twilight and our beast forms, that would only make them mistrust us."

I nodded. "Yeah, plus we can't possibly make our way towards a village that's a day and a half away with these rations. Let's go back to town."

And so we walked back towards Ordon Village, eager to leave the woods behind for the day.