Chapter 4
We get to the entrance of the Temple, an old hollowed out tree that's been made into a temple. A large spider web blocked the entrance.
"Why do I get the feeling that we're going to meet the spider that made that?" I said shaking... I hate spiders... more than I hate horror movies... Link lights his lantern and uses it to burn away the webs clearing our path and we head inside. The next room is full of overgrowth and on the far side of the room are two monsters and there guarding something in a wooden cage, inside is the same monkey that helped us get through the fog.
"That monkey!" Link also noticed,
"We gotta help her!" I said as we run over and I stun one of the monsters while Link fights the other and then he takes care of the other monster. I free the monkey and she jumps up and down before she climbs up the vines behind her and waves us to follow.
"Can you clear the spiders out of the way?" Link asked as I notice two palm sized spiders crawling on the vines and I use the slingshot to kill them, they fall to the ground and shrivel up. We climb up and follow the monkey to the next room. There were three doors in front of us, one on the back wall and the other two on opposite walls. We start to climb up the stairs when a massive spider the size of a small car lowered down from the ceiling and crawled towards us. It took all of my will power not to scream as Link strikes it back then uses the finishing blow to kill it.
"Nope... don't like this anymore." I said as Link laughs, he's a lot cuter when he smiles, I wish he wasn't so serious all the time. I look around the room at the doors and there's no path to them except a rope tied from above. Except across the path to the back door. On the platform we're standing on we're two unlit torches. Link also noticed the torches and he uses the lantern to light them, then I hear what sounds like gears as stairs pop up making a path to the back door.
"That was easy." Link said as we head to the door and walk through only to end up outside strange windblown bridges connect some doors and a long rope bridge in front of us connecting to another room. The little monkey began to walk across the bridge but on the other side of the bridge out of the room a baboon runs out and throws a boomerang at the bridge cutting the ropes and the monkey runs back before the bridge falls down.
"What's going on? Are the monkeys having a fight?" Midna said,
"Seems like it." Link said as the monkey waves us back to the other room.
"I don't know what she wants but maybe you should just follow her." Midna said,
"There was something off about that baboon..." I said,
"What do you mean?" Link asked,
"There was... something dark..." I said as the monkey hangs upside down from the rope hanging in between the middle platform and the door to the right, she holds out her hand towards us. Link jumps and the monkey grabs his hand and swings him over to the other side and I follow.
"I feel like a circus act." I laughed as Link looks at me confused, "Never mind..." we walk down to another room and the room was filled with water. We make it across some platforms to a room where there was another monkey in a cage on top of a pillar, we walk down towards it.
"How do we get the monkey down?" I asked,
"I have an idea," Link said as he runs at the pillar and rolls into it and the cage falls down and breaks freeing the monkey.
"How'd that feel?" I asked,
"Like a bad idea..." Link said holding his head as I help him up. The other monkey joins the monkey with the rose and they start to jump up and down.
"You at least made them happy." I said as both of them grab one of our hands and pull us along. We head back to the main room and swing to the other side where we find two more monkeys held captive. They're being guarded by monsters, Link fights them as I free the two monkeys. After Link beats the monsters the four monkeys lead us back to the first door we entered and they jump across the rope making a real life monkey bar.
"This, does not look safe..." link said,
"You only live once!" I said jumping out and the monkeys swing me to the other side and Link follows. We enter the room and there are several pillars and the baboon was standing on top of one staring us down. He holds up the boomerang and it glows with a black tint... darkness...
"That's it! It's darkness!" I said,
"How do we beat it?" Link asked pulling out his sword and shield.
"We need to get that weapon away from the baboon, perhaps then he will come to his senses." I said and right as the baboon was about to throw the boomerang I use the sling shot to knock the boomerang out of his hand and link knocks into the pillar he's standing on making him fall to our level. It tries to run but instead runs into one of the pillars and a tick like monster falls off the baboon's back and it dies. After a few moments the baboon stands back up and gets frightened when it sees us and jumps up to a window and flees.
"He was being controlled too" Link said, I look over at the boomerang which is no longer covered by dark energy, I walk towards it and it floats using a small whirlwind.
"I am the fairy of the winds who resides in this boomerang. You have freed me from evil, and now I have my true power back. Please take it with you, use it to aid your quest, and my power and my blessing go with you." the voice coming from the boomerang said as it lands in my hands.
"This will come in handy," I said handing Link the boomerang. We continue on using the boomerang to help us as we make it to a large room with a deep pit blocking our path to the other side. All of the monkeys we've saved climb up a dead tree on the side and make a long rope of monkeys and they swing us across to the other side. I could feel something very dark resided on the other side of this door.
"Be careful." Link said as I nod, we open the door and enter. It was a large room with water flowing from the ceiling, the water was purple and the room is full with a thick fog, similar to the fog we encountered in the forest.
"It's hard to breathe," I said covering my mouth,
"Try to bear with it," Link said as two huge plant monsters burst out from the purple water. Link uses the boomerang to stun them and they sink back into the water. It's calm for a moment as we see bubbles emerge from the surface when an even larger monster bursts forth from the depths. My vision was starting to blur, and I could tell so was Links. If only there was a way to get rid of this fog... to cleanse it... purify it...
"Can you really do something like that?" A girls voice rings in my head, I could feel the winds around me began to stir. Words pop into my head as I take a deep breath and concentrate on the wind,
"Purifying wind!" I called out as the wind around me begins to gust and become clean, in a matter of seconds all of the fog had been purified and both of us start to breathe easier.
"Y... you can use magic?" Links said surprised as he gasped for air. The large monster strikes at us but we dodge and begin our counter attack, I stun it with the slingshot then Link strikes and after a while the monster stops moving. It shrivels up like a dried out plant and the purple water clears up. Then the monster disperses into fragments of twilight then reform into a strange stone.
"Well done," Midna said, "That's ... what I was looking for."
"What is it?" I asked,
"It's a fused shadow. It's what the light spirit called dark power... do you remember what that spirit said? About how you had to match the power of the king of shadows?"
"Yeah," Link said,
"Could it really be so easy? It this all there is to it? ... There are two other fused shadows, the other light spirits should know where they are, do your best to find them." Midna said as she grabs the fused shadow and pulls it behind her making it disappear. Then we're warped to the spring in Faron woods.
"Heroic Link... Do not think that Hyrule is saved from the spread of twilight... Leave these woods and go to the west, where you will find the land protected by the spirit Eldin. There you will find those you seek..." Faron said "But know that these lands lie in twilight... if you set foot beyond the curtain of twilight you will revert to your beast form so be prepared."
"If that's what it takes to save the children, I don't care." Link said, he was so determined, these kids must be really important to him.
"That's easier. Now we have a heading." Midna said,
"Are you alright with this Pura?" Link asked, "We'll be entering the twilight again," he said,
"Faron told me to stick with you, so where you go, I go." I said with a smile and he smiles back. We head out and leave Faron woods. We get to a large field, the sky is clear enough where you can see the shroud of twilight in the distance. But I was starting to get tired, it's been almost two days since all of this started. Link looks at me with concern,
"We should find a place to rest for the night before you fall over," Link said as we find a rocky terrain where we could see the whole valley. Link makes a fire and sits next to me, "I'll keep watch, and you get some rest."
"Thanks," I said leaning back on the rocky wall and closing my eyes. The crackle of the fire was a soothing and the familiar sound reminded me of winter time, sitting next to the fireplace playing cards with my parents. The happy memory brought comforting dreams and I slept through the entire night.
I wake up the next morning feeling refreshed the fire Link made last night had completely died out except for a small spot that was still producing a bit of smoke. I look over next to me to see that Link had fallen asleep. He must have been exhausted, he's been working so hard helping others before he thinks about himself.
"I watched over while you two were asleep," Midna's shadow appeared, "I forgot that you light dwellers need a lot more rest than Me." she didn't sound apologetic but the fact that she watched over us proves that she isn't all bad.
"Thank you Midna." I said,
"I didn't do it for you!" she got defensive, "I need his aid, I can't do anything while I'm like this!" she said, but the fact that she got defensive tells me that there's more to her.
"I'm still allowed to say thank you." I said as she hides in the shadow, Link starts to move lightly opening his eyes then stretching his arms.
"Morning..." he said rubbing his eyes,
"Morning," I replied and he stands up,
"Let's find a river, we can catch some fish for food." Link said and we stomp out the rest of the fire and look around for a river. We find one and fish can be seen swimming around, Link pills out a collapsible fishing rod and throws the lure into the water.
"Have you done a lot of fishing?" I asked,
"Yeah, Ordon Village has a large river running straight through it, it's the easiest food to come by." he said, "Have you ever fished?" he asked,
"No, no place to fish where's I'm from." I said thinking about home,
"Where are you from, obviously from far away from the looks of your clothes." he said,
"I'm from Bright town... I'm pretty sure it's far from here." I said,
"Well once all of this is sorted out, I'll go with you to find it." Link said and a flash, like a memory of a younger link pops into my mind telling me something similar.
"Thanks... but a part of me feels like this was a one way trip." I said,
"Don't lose faith," he said as the lure gets pulled under and he pulls and a large fish was at the end of it. "And we get to eat." Link pulled out a small knife and started preparing the fish. I grab some fire wood and we cooked, it was really good. After we finished our food we continued west, we walk up to the curtain of twilight and Midna enters and pulls us inside, back into the twilight. Link transforms back into a wolf and Midna is now visible again. She circles around me staring intently,
"He turns into a beast yet you're perfectly fine, why is that?"
"I...I don't know..." I said as Link growls at Midna,
"So protective," she giggles, "Fine, I'll leave her alone, we'll find out who you really are once you get those memories back the light spirit mentioned." she said as we walk along until we come across a broken wooden sword in the middle of the road. "You should be able to track them using that." I was about to yell at Midna to not treat Link like a dog... but at the moment he is a dog so I keep my mouth shut. Link leads and we continue till we get to a spring right next to a ghost town, and we see the remains of a spirit.
"I am... a spirit... of light... hero... chosen by the goddesses... look for... my light..." A vessel of light appears. I take the vessel and we turn around to start our search for the sixteen pieces of light. "Be careful... the darkness...now searches for you." Link looks at me, and we begin looking for the light fragments.
"It seems like the shadows are searching for you." Midna said,
"I still don't get it, what's so special about me?" I said to myself,
"It must be something pretty incredible, for them to search for you." Midna added as we continue. We make it to the base of a volcano where we find the final light fragments and we head back to the spring.
We return to the spring and we return the now full vessel of light. And the twilight disappears and so does Midna. Link transforms back to normal and a large orb of light appears with an owl like creature made of the same light perched on top of it. Here we go again...