Zach and I walked into Ordon Village with our heads hanging low. It was drawing close to night time and we were tired. As we passed through the streets, we came across one of the adults, Malo and Talo's father, and gruff man who went by the name Jaggle.

"Hey, I know you two!" Jaggle cried out, noticing us as we walked into town. "Come in, you guys look tired. I'll go see if Rusl can house you guys, I know you were friendly with him. He took us over to where Rusl was watching guard near the other entrance, this one to the south of town.

"Oi! Rusl I found these two walking into town."

Rusl turned around, and when he saw the two of us he ran forwards, almost half expectantly. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to come back to town without the children, but what were we going to do now that we were here?"

"The curtain of darkness, the monsters, they're all part of the same thing." I began. "Monsters are coming from the Twilight, and they are spreading eternal twilight across the land."

Rusl nodded. "That would explain the giant black wall that hovered on the entrance to Faron woods. Tell me, have you seen our kids at all?"

Zach and I shook our heads. "No, but we have heard that they were taken further into Hyrule by the monsters, for what ends we know not. Unfortunately it is impossible to enter the twilight unless you get dragged in, and nor can you leave. We found a way to restore light to Faron woods, so we were able to leave that area, but we don't know where we'll hit a wall next."

Rusl and Jaggle slumped on hearing the news. "So it's impossible." Jaggle said. "We'll never see our kids again."

Zach piped up. "Not necessarily, we have already freed one province, I'm sure that we Russell and I can enter the twilight once more, and free that again. We won't rest until we find your kids."

Rusl grinned. "Let me help you then," he tried to say before doubling over in pain.

Jaggle sighed. "Rusl you're in no shape to be leaving town. "These two young men have promised to find our kids, so let's leave it to them for now, at least until you're healed up."

Rusl sighed. "I suppose you're right. Come on, let's get the two of you inside, and you can tell me about what happened."

Rusl brought us back to his house before he noticed that we had our gear back. "Oh! I had found your swords and backpacks near the gate, but the monsters stole them away from me again. It's good to know that they're back in your hands."

We entered his house, where Uli fussed over Rusl for a moment, before she began to make dinner for all of us. While we ate, we explained how the spirits normally use their light powers to protect the land, but how the twilight monsters took the light from the spirits to enshroud the land in twilight. We then told them of how, once we got our weapons back (Since we weren't going to tell them we were animals) we killed the monsters that were holding the light hostage, and brought it back to the spirits.

"This is very interesting news" Uli said, rubbing her pregnant belly. "Hopefully this means we can push back the twilight and see the children again.

"Indeed, I'm going to see if I can contact any of my old friends from Castle Town, see if we can get something happening to push back the monsters."

We didn't have the heart to tell them that in the twilight, people were as spirits and wouldn't be able to respond if twilight enshrouded the town, but that was mostly because it would've invalidated our story of being able to fight the monsters in the twilight.

"You guys should get some rest," Uli told us. "Rusl told me that you'll be searching for Colin and the rest of the children, so I'll cook some more food so that you can go onwards."

We thanked her and went to sleep for them night.

The next morning, Uli had wrapped up some food for us in our backpacks, and we made our way out of the town, back towards the twilight. We travelled through the woods without any hindrance, passing by both of the springs and heading out towards Hyrule Field.

"The spirit said we had to head East, right? Towards the Eldin province?" Zach asked as I looked at my map.

"Yeah, that's what it looks like here." I said, holding the map in front of me. "We can either take the road, or just, run across straight this way."

"Let's just run across the field, I want to get this over with as soon as possible." Zach said to me.

I nodded, and we diverged from the road, just wandering over the hills, until we met back up with the road near the entrance to the Eldin province. A couple of monsters accosted us, but they were nothing that we couldn't handle, the monsters in this world were apparently really stupid, and just let us slice and dice them with our swords.

We approached the curtain of twilight once more, and Midna popped out of my shadow. "So, are you guys sure you're ready to reenter the twilight? The Spirit said that you'd return to your beast forms? Are you ok with that?"

Zach and I nodded, filled with conviction. It wasn't as if we had any super hard time controlling our beast bodies, plus it was kind of interesting that we could turn into animals, even if it felt like they were predetermined.

Midna shrugged. "Alright, just make sure you have everything you need before we go in, I'll hold your stuff for you guys once more while we're in the twilight."

I looked at Zach. "We're all set, right? Don't need anything else?"

He nodded, "Let's do this."

Midna gave a creepy grin, which I was able to somehow see despite her being a shadow. She entered the wall of twilight, and reached out and pulled the two of us in.

Once we were inside, we instantly turned back into animals, Zach once more a wolf and myself a snow leopard.

"Alright, now you need to listen to what I say from now on!" Midna said, giving a laugh. "Oh, look! How lovely, the black clouds of twilight are so fetching today… I feel so much more at ease here. And you two look so much better as beasts than in those dusty old clothes anyways! Eee hee! So let's get going."

We moved onwards, passing through the mountain path, before we came upon a broken wooden sword. Zach moved towards it, and sniffed it.

"I think I can track them, my wolf senses are telling me where to go to follow the scent."

"Nice!" I replied. We moved onwards, running into a bunch of black beasts, and the pillars of darkness descended around us. We easily dispatched the black beasts, know having a little more experience fighting them and using our animal bodies. The portal above turned teal.

We looked forwards, but there was just an open ravine where a bridge should be.

"Looks like there's no bridge here…" Midna said. "I wonder if this is the work of those shadow creatures… Ugh, what a pain! Here, take a look at your map!"

Midna materialize our maps for us, and we were astounded that it worked the same way as the wood temple map, in that the areas that we've been to were highlighted while places we've yet to go to are still darkened.

"On your map, see those little marks here and there?" Midna asked. "Well, those are the portals that you've created by destroying those shadow beasts. I can use my powers to take you to any of the portals you've opened, and I'm pretty sure that there was a giant bridge somewhere here in Faron."

The imp was right, as we had passed through the area near the bird salesman, we had encountered some shadow beasts, and off to the side was a huge wooden structure that leaned on the rocks.

I pointed at the location in question, and Midna used the powers of twilight to teleport us there. "See, I told you. We're here! You know, most people can't leave that twilight that easily, you'd better be grateful." We quickly found the wood structure. As I looked at it more, I easily saw how it was almost clearly the wooden bridge that had been taken.

"It's perfect," Zach said, "Let's take it back." Midna used magic to lift the bridge and teleport it away before we also teleported back into the twilight. It carefully dropped the bridge in the open area, making sure that it didn't break at all.

"Just as I expected!" The imp said. "Isn't the powers of twilight amazing? Call me if you ever need the power again. It should be able to help out, don't you think? Alright, let's keep going!"

We continued onwards, killing a couple of smaller monsters here and there before running into a huge gate, complete with spikes and a padlock.

"Huh, this is a pretty elaborate gate. What are they trying to keep in? Or out? I bet it'll be worth our time to dig in." Midna said to us, pointing at a hole under the gate. We squeezed underneath, one at a time, and I followed Zach as he led us onwards.