The Twilight Princess 2: The Time Forgotten

Ten

"He's acting absolutely ridiculous," Zoey muttered to herself as she stood underneath the awning of a nearby building in town, keeping dry from the pouring rain. She sighed as she felt the back of her head collide with the outside brick wall. She let her body slide down the ground, wrapping her arms around her knees. "He may be gone, but now I'm all alone." She basked in the calmness of being the only thing in sight secluded from the rain.

Taking a moment of silence to herself for the first time in many weeks, Zoey let her breath be released into the air. She tilted her head back and stared up into the cloudy night sky as the raindrops shot back at her in the opposite direction. She counted how many hit the curb as she rested her arms and legs. For once, she wasn't going to run. She wasn't going to hide.

Instead of avoiding her problems, she decided to look them right in the eye until she gained enough courage to face them. The dry, quiet and quaint area around her represented what that could do, while the outside world crashed and burned. Chaos would always be present, but she had to let go of how she would have normally dealt with it. Instead, she decided to embrace the moment and let it in.

Instead of running off to find a new beginning, she decided to make her own. And when she did that, she felt the strongest. Then she realized that she didn't need anyone else to take on Ora Gloon; she was going to herself. She stood up, dusted herself off, forgave and forgot, and let the light back in. She took a stand and headed for the warehouse across the street once the rain cleared up.

She had discovered that this very warehouse contained something very valuable to Ora Gloon; her only weakness: her diary. Yet Zoey had kept this little discovery to herself rather than telling Kai. This was something she had to do on her own. As much as she liked him, the only way to take action against this deceiving bounty hunter was to focus and stay on track; something that he couldn't do.

The clouds were the only thing visible up in the sky that night, even the moon was covered by them, therefore giving her no light source. It proved very difficult to see where she was going in the complete darkness. The smell of a refreshing dampness filled the air, mixed with a little bit of the honeysuckle that had been growing in the Twilight Princess's garden before it was destroyed.

Despite it not actually being around anymore, she could still smell it. Now, she could've just been imaging it, but it felt far too real to just be in her mind. It was as if it was following her around, guiding her to her destiny. And that's when it hit her. She suddenly found herself standing outside the front door to the warehouse that had been mysteriously left open, almost as if it was waiting for her.

She stepped inside, her whole body shaking. She reached to feel around for the light, but there wasn't one. Then, the door started to close, trapping her inside. "No—....no no no no no. Oh no."

She tried to feel her way around as she searched for an escape. Who could have trapped her in here, and why? Perhaps it was Ora Gloon. If it was, there was certainly no time to waste. She had to reach the Twilight Princess before Ora could. With Aria and Kai gone, the princess was the only one left who could help her. If anyone knows anything about this bounty hunter the best, it would be her former master.

Zoey kneeled down as she felt her fingertips come into contact with the boxes stacked up all throughout the warehouse. She supposed that this was a warehouse for a local business in the kingdom, such as a bakery or boutique. But it was when she found a flashlight on the floor and shone it over the labels on the boxes that she realized it wasn't.

This was something much, much bigger. The labels read Weapons Concealed, Gloon Approved. It had a connection to Ora Gloon. It seemed as though this was her hideout. Zoey headed over to the other end of the warehouse, then stopped in her tracks halfway there. Part of the floor that she was standing on was shaped like a square and appeared to be loose. Curious, she opened it, revealing a staircase that led to a small, quaint room down below.