Selfless Journey- Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Fanfic

Chapter 7- Never Get Used to This

My limbs twitched and kicked, as my subconscious heard growling, and felt an empty pain. With both eyes still closed, I slowly woke up and listened to my surrounding. Birds chirping and calling to their other friends and family, smaller rodents creeping in the ferns, squeaking occasionally. I listened to the morning bugs creek and the cicadas cry, forcing me to get up. Finally finding the energy to open my eyes, I looked around. Almost instantly I realized my sight was limited to my left side. My right eye felt heavy as I struggled to open it, and when it did, an itching pain shot through my face and eye. Instinctively I closed it and remembered what had happened.

With stiff legs I pushed myself up and curled my wet, bushy black tail over my paws. Sleeping in cold water is a horrible idea. I shivered from the water, deciding to get up I went over to the sandy outer space of the spring. The dry sand was a bit warmer, so I tried to lick my chest fur, but ended up gagging, tasting the blood and other dirt and grime caught in my pelt.

"Ugh, what are you doing?" Without warning a short, orange haired- Wait a minute, that's Midna! Where was she yesterday when I was getting my fur ripped off? I felt my ears flatten against my head and a low growl form in my throat.

"Hey, hey I know what your thinking!" She put out her hands in front of her like she was carrying something heavy. "I brought you a peace offering." Then as suddenly as she had appeared, a pie with a familiar sent appeared in her hands. It was an Ordon pumpkin pie, one of Beths favourites. "Some lady was about the throw it out because her daughter wasn't there to eat it." Midna set the food down on the sandy ground.

The smell invaded my thoughts and actions like a virus, making me savagely run over and, with out thinking, I buried my muzzle in the soft flaky crust of the pie and tried to use my tongue and teeth to grab and eat, since I didn't have fingers. I licked the dish till there was nothing left but saliva. Backing up a bit I look at Midna with a grateful expression, flicking my ears up and waging my tail, and tried to smile but ended up freaking her out.

"Uh no, stop that." She snapped her fingers and the plate disappeared and what did appear was the sword and shield I almost died for. "Yeah these things, can't use them. they're not suited for me. So I'll let you use them, since you'll be doing all the fighting." The equipment disappeared. "Also while you where sleeping you almost got killed by a twili monster, so I took care of it." A giant light yellow arm and hand came out from the back of her helmet. "So I apparently helped this guy." And used it to point to the ancient rocks.

The stones had grooves in them, that started to glow a light ocean color. I've never seen this happen before, so I looked at Midna for guidance, but she wasn't there. I just stood frozen in the spot I was in. I watched as every tree, rock, droplet of water, and grain of sand, was turned into a brilliant light golden yellow. An orb appeared, with the same grooves as the now golden stones behind it.

The ball of groovy light moved up a bit, and as it did, long horns appeared around it. They curved and stopped at a point curving outwards and had similar designs on it to the rocks. What stood before me on golden water was a giant, ghostly, golden Ordon goat.

"O great one, I am Ordona. Spirit and protector of Ordon." The goat spirit looked down at me with its beady white eyes. "As you may know, all of Faron woods is under twilight, the beings of twilight have trapped us like this. All of us spirits would never wish of misery upon our springs... Please save them... Do not let them have to watch suffering, like I have." And with that, Ordona was gone, and so was the golden glow.

Looking back at my side the shadowy form of Midna had came back. "Well what are you waiting for?" I nodded my head and stretched my back, digging my broken and bloody claws into the sand, right before replaying the events of that night.

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After Midna had pulled me into the twilight zoned Faron woods, almost the second we finished fighting off some more stone-plate-faced twilight monsters, the spirit of Faron called us to its spring. It did not appear, but it told us that to return the land to normal, we must collect its Tears, and return them to the spring. Faron gave us a oddly shaped pouch, and Midna and I set out.

It was a lot easier said then done.

Basically I was running around with Midna on my back again in her coloured form. She shouted in my ear and blurted out loudly when I tripped or fell in a hole. Not to mention I had no idea where I was going and no matter how many of those stupid Tears I found there was always more.

Then finally after suffering through that, I found the last Tear. It was by a small monkey with no tail and had a flower on her head. She had been called by another screech of a monkey and disappeared. The second I touched the last Tear my whole body glowed a light blue and everything turned white.

When I could see again the first thing I laid an eye on was a golden monkey spirit, who had a long tail that wrapped around it in a circle like manner. Who I was guessing was Faron, hugged a light grooved light orb similar to the one of Ordona.

"Great hero Kerina..." Woah, wasn't expecting that. "I am Faron, sent here by the Gods to protect Faron woods. As you may already know... Almost all of Hyrule is in a world of Twilight. You have saved only 2 of the many springs in Hyrule." Oh wow, how many more of these things are there? "You have the Triforce of courage, and with the help of it you have come this far."

He seemed to hug the ball tighter as he spoke next. "Deep within Faron woods is a Dark Evil... It's power was uncontainable, so I have hid it in a temple where the monkeys dwell..."

"Take a look at your clothing..."

For a second I was confused the I realized, I tiled my head down and saw not four, but two brown boot that came just below the knees. A pair of pale leggings and a green tunic. A pure surge of joy rose in me as I looked at my hands and arms. There was leather glove like protectors on my arms, a similar color to my boots. I felt a weight on my back as well, but this time it wasn't Midna, the owner of the weight was the sword and shield I had stolen from Ordon village. And on my head was a long green hat to cover most if my dirty blond hair, only my pointy ears and bangs where out of the hat, along with some  longer hair that draped down both sides of my face and covered my ears a bit.

I moved my hand to the right side of my face, feeling a smooth and jagged cut across my nose bridge and down over my closed right eye, down to my lower jaw. I still had the cut, but it was no longer covered in dry blood.

With my single eye I looked up at Faron. "Great, courageous hero, Kerina... The fate of Hyrule rests on you..." And like Ordona, he disappeared into the waters of his spring.