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.::Vio's P.O.V.::.

It's only been a day since I woke up. Want to hear something really awkward? Having to eat at the same table as Vaati. I put on the best act I could. Which… was not replying to anything he said.

I basically ate as formally as possible. I ate as if I was eating at the same table as the King of Hyrule himself.

It was way too awkward if you ask me. For starters it's like being insulted the whole time as you eat, and when you finally leave you're pushed out of the dining hall by a great gust of wind, or like last night when I basically got teleported by a tornado straight back to my room.

I can only stand the awkward for so long, and it's only been a day.

Another bad thing about all this is that I couldn't get any sleep. The good news about no sleep is I found out the guards times.

Guards as in Darknuts. There are two that stand by my door. I can only leave when I'm basically wanted by Shadow or Vaati. I only got to leave at least four times yesterday. Two being lunch and dinner, and the other two being Shadow. Although, I have to admit it was nice talking to someone I knew.

We… We basically avoided the whole remembering thing. I think he's waiting for a good time to bring that up… and that is definitely the last thing I want to talk about.

The whole betrayal thing? That wasn't as easy as it looked. I didn't mean to become friends with Shadow it just sort of happened. And I suppose you could say it's happening again except… this time I don't know if I'll be able to betray anyone…

It's not like I even got a choice last time…

I sigh.

Where was I again? Oh yeah. The two times Shadow got me out of my room, one was just to chit-chat. Plain old, how are you doing? Are you're injuries okay? And oh yeah he did get me a potion. A red one.

Apparently according to Vaati I had two broken ribs, a broken arm, and a few bruises.

The broken bones got healed by the potion itself though which is a good thing, or I wouldn't be walking around at all. Although, the bruises hurt like hell still.

I've also been getting frequent migraines and little headaches every now and then which isn't very fun either.

The second time Shadow got me out of my room was when he took me to the library. Good Goddesses I haven't seen so many books in my life.

They're stacked ceiling high, row by row. The books. So many of them. It was probably the best thing about being held captive. Shadow helped me pick out a few books, what's odd though is he knew what types of books I loved to read. Well… I guess it isn't that odd I mean we were friends back then too so…

I unknowingly turned my head to the pile of books on the desk in the corner. Most of them are history books, and a few of them are tell-tale books about the ancient heroes. Which… is still history itself.

I don't expect to really be able to read them though, I've got a really good escape plan and I plan to make way with it as soon as I can.

All I have to do is get a bow and some arrows… Which… the downfall of that is that I don't know where any would be kept possibly.

My thoughts pause as I hear the two Darknuts clank away from my door. It's only a minute or two before the next two Darknuts click-clack in their armor back to guarding my room to prevent me from escaping.

Hmm… I bet if I asked Shadow if he could get me some bow and arrows he would, but then again he might not… If Vaati doesn't trust me, then why would Shadow? I wasn't friends with Vaati, so I probably didn't hurt him as much…besides sealing him with the others of course.

I think it's bad that we keep having to seal him away. It'll only be another few centuries or so before he breaks out again… Maybe we should seal him away with the four jewel keys and break the Dark Mirror once more, and-

My thoughts are shattered for the second time in one week. I didn't even hear him enter.

Did he even enter through the door?

Shadow is just sitting down on the chair's armrest next to the window. He's watching me. Possibly wondering what I'm thinking? He has a smug look on his face, but turns his gaze to the books.

"Have you read any of them yet?" I shake my head.

"I plan to read them later."

"Obviously," He starts again, "What are you thinking about? Every time I enter this room you're always in deep thought."

I walk over to him and sit on the windowsill, "Honestly? I'm thinking it's been a long

time since I've been in the Dark World." A lie of course. I'm thinking of an escape plan, but there's no way in hell I could tell him that.

Shadow snorts, "Yeah, tell me about it. You get used to being in the dark like this after awhile, it's better than the light though." I quirk an eyebrow. He's the one that brought up this topic, but now I'm curious, is the light still bad for him?

"Shadow?" He looks at me, crossing his arms letting me know I've got his full attention, "Does the light still hurt you?"

Shadow hums as if that was the silliest question I could ever ask him.

In return I get a straight forward answer.

"No."

I blink. I blink again. No?

"It doesn't?"

"No, after what happened when helpin' you guys defeat Vaati and the Dark Mirror, yeah all that crap, with the damned light making me disappear into practically nothing I guess you could say I'm immune to it now?" He tilts his head in thought.

"I can't really explain somethin' I don't know, ya' know?"

"I suppose not." I reply, and he gives me a look.

"Why are you asking, Vio?"

"Just curious is all."

"Is that really it?"

"Honest."

"Do you want to help me the next time I go out into the world of the light?" He's smirking now.

"That depends on what 'help' is."

"Oh nothing reallyyy…" Shadow stands up, "Just something Vaati wanted me to finish awhile ago."

"Shadow. Clarify that 'something.'" I sigh, where is he going with this?

"Well, he said he'd do it himself now, but I honestly really doubt that since he has to keep an eye on some things. He's actually really busy." And then a thought pops into my head, and I wonder why Shadow is actually helping Vaati again. This time I don't ask him why.

"Anyways, I'm trying to track down the shrine maidens."

I freeze. Why would they need the shrine maidens? To prevent them from sealing Vaati up again? I stop thinking about that and instead think about the logical side of this.

Think Vio, he's offering to take you out of the Shadow Realm. You'd be a fool to turn down this offer even if he's talking about kidnapping the shrine maidens…

"…Alright." He doesn't seem surprised by my agreement which doesn't bother me, "How're we even going to find them?"

"Well, I've gotten three of 'em already, all we need is the three others."

"Wait, why three others? Isn't the Princess a shrine maiden as well?"

"Yup, but we've already got that problem solved. We're trying to track the remaining three, but no luck with the exception of finding the whereabouts of one of 'em. I think they are hiding really well."

"They can't be just hiding. I'm sure they're looking for Green, Blue, and Red." He nods.

"This Vaati is sure of too, they might've already found them, but that doesn't really matter. What matters is that they're also searching for something else." I must give him a confused look because he explains even further.

"I'm pretty sure they're searching for something to help get to the three other maidens we've already gotten. Take a wild guess Vio."

Knowing Vaati I'd hide them in a place that would take a while to get to… a place that took us awhile to get to a long time ago… the Palace of Winds? Figures as much.

"Then they're looking for the four jewel keys aren't they?" He nods, snaps his fingers and there in the palm of his hand sits one of the four jewel keys. The blue one.

"I found it when I was searching near the ocean for the second maiden we captured. She actually had it herself, and I took it. I haven't told Vaati yet because he'll just rant about this."

That means there are three other jewel keys out there… The others could possibly already have one, and if not then the other maidens have the rest. Maybe the jewel keys are possibly hidden away someplace no one would ever look? Probably.

You silently sigh, and look Shadow in the eyes. What is it about him that makes you not want to even think of the word betrayal? What is it about him that makes you unable to deny helping him out even though you're still thinking of how to escape? …You might never know the answer.

Shadow stretches and grabs my arm.

"Well then I'd say it's about time to get this show on the road. I know where one of the maidens are. The Eastern Temple."

You're pretty sure you've only been to the Eastern Temple once before… and what're the odds that it was because of Shadow and Vaati again. What are the odds that it has almost everything to due with the other three. You can almost highly bet that they're all going to be searching for the maidens as well.

You're too busy getting lost in your own thoughts again to realize that Shadow has already teleported you out of your own room, out of wherever the hell they were keeping you. Out of the Dark World. At first you have to hold your hand in front of your eyes to block out the light a bit because it's such a drastic change in lighting that it just adds on to that small headache you could feel that was just coming on.

And then you hear a familiar pitter-patter against the ground and you feel the same pitter-patter on yourself. It's raining. This is something you aren't used to. It doesn't rain often in Kakariko because of the one-sided temperatures. It's either hot, or cold. Nothing in-between. It only rains a few times every year, but it has never stormed this badly. It's like all of Eastern Hyrule is experiencing tornado weather… then it hits you. All of Eastern Hyrule is probably experiencing tornado weather. Vaati. That is the only explanation you can think of for this. And you're just about done with thinking when you hear the crash of thunder and see the light of the lightning strike down a few miles away from where you are.

You do notice however that the eerie lighting of the lightning and the lighting the storm is making makes Shadow look a thousand times deadlier. Although, he still turns around and gives you the same old smug look.

"What're we just going to stand out here in the rain all day? Are we waiting for lightning to finally strike us down? Vio. There is a perfectly dry temple right over there with a very unwelcome guest searchin' for one of the four jewel keys. Who knows by the time you finally snap out of your train of though-"

"Shadow." I snap. I'm losing patience with his rambling. He rolls his eyes and walks towards the entrance of the Eastern Temple and soon after in it. Not even waiting for me to catch up he's still walking down the hall. And by the time we reach one of those temple puzzles where the floor is obviously missing he huffs and just grabs my hand and leads me across it with ease.

He has definitely done this before, or he wouldn't know what to expect. Although I have to admit the thought is very chilling knowing that I can't see the ground underneath me until we're across the platform.

And then I realize how silent it was before. The only noise being made is by Shadow and myself. But the silence is soon shattered by the moans, groans, and whines of Re-Dead. Or are they Gibdo? I don't know, but what I do know is that I hate them both. Worst monsters ever.

Not only do they barely listen to Shadow's commands, but I think the stupid monsters would go so far as to even ignoring Vaati's commands as well!

"Umm… Shadow." He stops and glances over his shoulder, but soon continues to walk, I walk up next to him and try to keep up with his pace.

"Don't you think it's a bad idea that I'm coming in here without a weapon. I mean, what was the reason for me to even come with you if you can just do this by yourself?" This time he does stop and stands there for a few seconds. He turns to face me and I can already tell he's grinning darkly.

"There's a shrine maiden here. I can already tell that much. What I do know is that if the shrine maiden with the other three, yes, there's a shrine maiden with the other three, did I forget to mention that? Oops. Well, carrying on the conversation on the right topic, if a shrine maiden senses another one in danger then they can easily find them. Do you guess which one is closest to us." I know he probably can't see it, but all the color has officially drained from my face.

I'm cold, soaked from the rain, and here he is only bringing me along to bait the others, and what else? I suppose he wants me to talk with the shrine maiden that's in this temple?

…As if reading my mind he then actually says what I just thought. Sometimes Shadow can be so annoying.

"Well, well, I am now going to quote from earlier, let's get the show. On. The. Road." He says each word at the end of his sentence with a pause between each. I send him a cold glare and that makes him shut up good for once.

For now we just continue to walk in silence, avoiding the re-dead by the way too. That's the last thing we both need. A bunch of re-dead not listening to orders and trying to gnaw our faces off. Can you guess how much fun that would be?

…And let me tell you how excited I am to meet this shrine maiden! …Not.

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((A/N: The X's basically mean same point of view except a time skip.))

Throughout the temple I've lost track of where Shadow is a few times. We'll take different paths to tell which ones are the right ones and then meet back up at the beginning of where the paths started.

That is actually happening again now. We're close to the final room now probably since it's taken us a long time to actually find the right paths. I'm now tapping my foot impatiently when he arrives again.

I'm told he's found another path, but it's the same as this one. I sigh. Same problem here.

Shadow taps his chin thoughtfully and then stops, I'm not paying attention when there's a bow and some arrows thrust into my arms. I'm completely caught by surprise.

"Here, you'll need this," He gives me a look and continues, "I have a feeling that you're going to be seeing doubles soon."

"Doubles?"

"It's the faulty dark magic here. I just get a feeling another version of myself is going to pop up soon. And trust me, the other me's aren't as nice as the original." He grins at the end of his sentence showing that he is indeed the original himself.

"Why would other versions of yourself suddenly pop up?"

"Well, I'm just takin' a hunch, but you are still a hero. Ya' know that right? This temple is encased with monsters, dark magic, and all that bad stuff. Now don't you think the temple would try to prevent a hero from going any further? Why do you think we've hit so many traps every now and then?"

I take the time to think about this. He may be right, but why wouldn't the other versions of himself like me? As if reading my mind again he answers my question.

"They still practically hate you and want to kill you on sight because you betrayed us so long ago." I groan.

"But that wasn't even me!"

"But it was. Don't deny it."

I have to rub my temples I'm getting such a headache now.

"Now look. I have another hunch that you're goin' to be the one to find the final room. If you do I want you to find this switch on the ground in there as fast as possible. It'll make the hidden passage open up. I'm positive the shrine maiden is down there trying to find the jewel stone." I nod.

This really makes me question if he does trust me still. He's given me a bow an arrows which means he could only be giving them to me for my own protection, but still. He does know that I could take an arrow and shoot him down now, but he knows that I won't.

It's not that I can't do it. It's just that I wouldn't do it.

We part, and head down two different ways. I take the right path. He takes the left. If anything I have a feeling the other versions of himself are going to fuck with my mind.

I take a right path again, then a left, then another right. I don't know if I'm heading the right ways or not, but I just get a gut feeling that I am.

Every path I take the hallway doesn't change which makes me feel a bit disoriented. Then there's three paths. All three paths lead to three doors.

I take the left one first. If anything all of these doors are traps and Shadow took the right path to the final room. Not me, the room I enter is a dead end. It's completely dark and I hear the same moans and groans I heard earlier. This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. They won't think twice about trying to eat my face.

I slowly back to the door when a hand prevents me from leaving. I look down and make my eyes focus. I am about to jump out of my skin. But, they aren't trying to hurt me. I look up and see Shadow's face inches from mine. He's grinning and makes a signal that means to be quiet.

This is another version of himself. And I know he knows that I know that, but that doesn't make him do anything different. He leads me past two or three re-dead I can't tell until I trip over a pile of bones. The silence followed after tripping and cracking a bunch of those bones is pure torture.

Then I hear the shuffling of re-dead picking up their pace to head to the spot I'm at. 'Shadow' looks amused by the time I'm up and running down to the end of the room. He just walks over here with ease.

I hear the claws of the re-deads nails clawing at the floor. Picking up the bones, I hear a particular crunch that makes me flinch.

My heart is pounding right now.

My past life might've been through this, but never in my life would I think I would ever go through something like this. I didn't even know monsters still existed!

And then I freeze in my spot when a bone is thrown inches from my head and smashing into the wall behind me. Or so I thought it smashed into a wall, but it didn't? I quickly glance back and see the glint of a musty old treasure chest. I go up to it.

'Shadow' nods his head and I honestly don't see the bad view of things about opening a treasure chest so I do open it. And on the inside is a key. I grab it. And I don't even wait for him to tell me to duck because I know he wouldn't.

The re-deads are right behind me when a claw swipes at my forehead. My instant reflexes kick in and I've ducked and bolted away. Okay. How long has it been since I used this weapon? A few years? I can do this.

I took the bow in my hand and an arrow in another. I'm aiming precisely at the head of a re-dead. Or maybe I'm aiming at a rock. It's really too dark in this room. So, maybe I'm just wasting an arrow? Oh great.

Well, I know there's a few of them after me because I hear their hisses and the stink of rot is so disgusting I'm trying not to vomit here and now. I let an arrow fly and I hear a very very gross sound of an arrow meeting skin. Or… in this case rotting skin.

Then silence falls over the room once more and I am sprinting the way 'Shadow' lead me in this room until I smack my face against the same metal door I entered through. I'm going to have the worst migraine later.

I fumble around with the door handle and quickly get it open. The light from outside of the room makes me be able to see just in time. My eyes are the size of the moon when I am slamming the door shut on the face of a re-dead. I had no idea it was right behind me that entire time.

I don't think I'll be getting very much sleep for awhile, nor do I want to even enter the other two rooms. But, I slouch and rub my arms. I have the worst chills.

Behind the door I just slammed I hear a groan, maybe a hiss? Or was it a whine? I can't exactly tell at this point, but then I hear a few bangs at the door. And the door knob turns a little. Re-dead aren't smart. They will not be able to open that door. Will they? …I take a big breath of air getting a good smell of musky old temple. Ridding my throat of that film of rot. I hear scratching at the door behind me and quietly walk away from it to the path to the two other doors.

This is possibly the worst day of my life. Getting nearly killed by Vaati was better than a re-dead nearly about to chomp my head off. Next time I'm offered to go to a temple? I should just say no. I preferably like being alive.

I hear walking down one of the other paths which makes me think that that's the actual Shadow I know, or if it's a monster looking for me, or if it's just me hallucinating.

I don't wait for the answer to appear in my face. I run over to the far right, to the next door. This one is locked, and by the glimpse of the other door I saw, that was a huge lock on that one. I'm fumbling with the key and unlocking the door as fast as possible. I seriously am not waiting for either the re-dead to bust through that door back there, or for another monster to come down the hall and kill me.

I successfully unlock the door and rush in there. It's much more lighter in here than in the temple, or in that re-dead room. The light even makes me wince a little. It's like the sun decided to come out and party in this room itself. I don't see very much of anything in this room. And I realize the light is coming from a large window. The light isn't sunlight, it's moonlight.

I swear I hear something breathing, but I can't tell if it's just me, or if there's wind blowing. Which I know it's not the latter. But, my breath is so quick because of past events that I try to calm myself. You're fine. You're. Fine. Nothing is going to eat you. You're just in a temple filled to the brim with monsters trying to kill you is all. Why would you agree to help Shadow? That was stupid. Incredibly stupid. Too stupid for you to ever admit doing.

And finally snapping out of my thoughts there I see something. Except it's really disoriented standing in the moonlight and when I reach out to touch it my hand goes straight through it. Then I realize it's a Darknut. I can tell by the armor it wears, but I know I really need a Moon Pearl because by the time I'm backing up I hear bars slam down blocking the way out of here.

I'm screwed. I'm screwed. I'm screwed. That is the only thought going through my head when I duck as it's sword slashes through air. I hear it fly over my head a few times, and luckily I'm fast enough to dodge, but I don't expect him to slice downwards so when I go to dodge that I get nicked by the blade on my leg. I really shouldn't have come to this temple.

I reach for my bow and grab it, and grab a arrow with my other hand. I'm aiming at it and in the rush of the moment a thought breaks through everything and I see my hand going through it again from a memory of just a minute ago. I. Am. So. Stupid.

I am running to the other side of the room as it walks. Moon Pearls are stupid. Darknuts are stupid. This whole temple is a death trap of stupid. Goddesses if I get out of this mess I am never going to another temple ever again. I look around seeing no moon pearl anywhere around in this room. Maybe I was supposed to get one along the way in here? Fuck.

I dodge from another swing and bolt to the moonlight. And then I see something glint, but I can't make it out in time before I actually hear a crunch under my foot, and then everything is extremely disoriented. I spin around on my heel and see the Darknut isn't as disoriented as before. Wait. Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Two Darknuts guard my door back in the Shadow Realm to prevent me from escaping, so why is this one trying to kill me? Is everything in this temple out to kill me? None of this really makes sense.

I curse under my breath as another swing nearly cuts off my arm. Just nicking it again. I think I have the advantage now that I am able to attack it and I can move quicker than it. Dodging it's attacks are easy enough for now.

I quickly roll around so that when it turns it's head I'm prepared and I let the arrow fly and it hit's the helmet right where the eyes see through and it drops its sword and quickly tries to get rid of the arrow. I waste no time in sprinting over there and grabbing that heavy crappy sword. I run around it and cut the part of the armor in the back so that the armor actually falls off it. I cut again and soon enough all of it's armor is gone and it's as defenseless as me. Except now it got the arrow out of the nick of the helmet and swings around knocking it's fist into my stomach. I'm thrown back a few feet, but I'm clutching the sword enough to not let go of it.

Next thing I now it's bolting over here, and I'm hit in the side and stomach a few more times. Eventually it manages to catch me off guard knocking me straight into a wall.

The next time it goes to attack I'm ready and I slide around it and slash a few times.

I've only ever used a sword twice in my life. I have never known how to ever fight with anything but a bow an arrows. This is just pure luck from the skill of my past life.

That I actually manage to defeat a Darknut. It hit's the ground with a clunk! and dissipates into nothing.

I am now standing there not believing that I had just managed to defeat it. I thought I was as good as dead. I can't help it when I chuckle and begin laughing a bit. I feel hysterical. Then I realize the chest that has appeared and I'm out of the disoriented Shadow Realm as soon as I was in it. I open this chest and get a larger key than before.

I am still chuckling by the time I leave the room. I really can't help laughing. I've been so close to death in this past hour that I just don't even know what to expect anymore. Then I see Shadow standing out there and he raises a brow at me. I ignore him because I don't know if it's really him, or another fake, but I hand him the key all the same.

"Why are you laughing? I am actually freaked out. I was about to enter that door over there," He points to the left to the door leading to the re-dead, "But then I heard them, and did you enter that room?" I nod now calm again.

"Yeah, I've been so close to dying this past hour that I don't know if I should just laugh at this all or freak out about it. In the end I started laughing." He rolls his eyes.

"Well, look. Have you seen any other versions of myself?" I nod slowly.

"Why does it matter? One actually helped me out a little… well almost. It also almost let me get my face gnawed off." I shrug. I'm alive now, so it doesn't really matter.

He shrugs as well, "Just wanted to say that I'm the original and I've got your back." He grins, and walks up to the door to the final room and unlocks it. I watch the gigantic lock on the door click-clack and clank on the ground.

We both enter except now I am exhausted from everything that just happened in the past hour or so.

"Okay," Shadow begins to whisper, "See those rocks?" I look around the room and good enough there are a bunch of boulders and rocks scattered about, "Stone Arrghus." That's enough to make my confidence slip away. If I have to fight that thing alone I'm screwed.

"Once I open the hidden passage I want you to run down the stairs. It won't attack me, but judging on your fun time with fighting a Darknut." I know he's looking at the heavy sword I'm still carrying around. I suddenly let it clank to the floor. Oops. He rolls his eyes at that, "I know everything else in this temple is as willing to try and kill you too. So, I want you to go down there and speak with the maiden first. I'll be right behind you." With that said he walks to the middle of the room. Nothing happens even when he steps on the switch and the floor shakes revealing the hidden staircase leading down.

I walk forward slowly, cautiously, nothing is happening at first. But, then I hear the scrapes of rocks coming together and next thing you know I'm sprinting and I get shoved down the first few steps. I try to regain my balance, but that doesn't happen and I fall down the rest of the stairs. You know that migraine I was talking about earlier? I may be getting it sooner.

I feel the ground shake and soon enough it's pretty dark in here again as I look around. Shadow is at the top of the steps.

"Gods, I'm going to have to tell Vaati to appoint you a high rank or something. I don't need everything trying to kill you." He walks down some, but then decides to float down the rest and helps me stand up. I brush myself off.

"With all the noise we've made I'm sure she knows we're in here."

"Which is why I'm leaving the talking to you." He pats my shoulder, and soon disappears out of sight.

"I'm still here, but it would be better if she met one of the 'heroes' first." I can just see the smug look on his face when saying heroes.

I ignore Shadow and look around the room. I take a few steps forward looking for any signs of a shrine maiden when I see really yellow hair fling back. I'm being watched, observed by her, but she's crouching giddily behind a large boulder. It's pretty obvious the yellow hair and the yellow clothing really stick out.

When she spots me again she looks like she's about to run away, but suddenly realizes that I'm not a monster of any kind. And then she realizes even more probably with the help of magic that I'm one of the four of us with the Triforce of Courage.

She smiles gingerly at me and I have to force a small calm smile at her.

"Ahh… I didn't expect to find a hero here. Let alone one of the Triforce bearers. And let alone again the one that is missing. I'm sure if you and I go find the others they'll be more than glad enough to know that you're perfectly safe… well… almost perfectly safe." I put on a blank face. I tense already sensing the dark magic in the air. It's clear as day what Shadow is going to do once she gives me that red jewel key around her neck.

She must notice me eying it and her smile falls a little, but all the more it's still there. Except she's narrowing her eyes at me.

"Hmm… let's see your name was Vio, correct?"

"Correct. It's pleased to meet you. You are one of the shrine maidens I assume. And that around your neck is one of the four jewel keys. You found it here?" She nods grinning.

"It took me awhile to track down the information about it's whereabouts. These little jewel keys are much more harder to find than you'd actually think! I spent countless hours just asking around about it and reading in books to find out. Talk about a total pain. I suppose it was worth it though!" She looks at the jewel key around her neck then at me.

"Although, I think it would probably be in safer hands with you?" I hear the hint of question in her voice and I give her a calming smile. Shadow owes me one for this.

"You probably wouldn't be as hunted down by Vaati and the other monsters if I had something to distract them with as you and I escape." She nods taking off the necklace handing it to me. Only a few seconds after that a crystal shaped dark purple barrier surrounds her. I can't tell if this is Vaati's magic or Shadow's.

I do however hear Shadow chuckle and feel his hand on my shoulder. The shrine maiden bangs on the barrier and tries to yell something at us, but I don't hear it as she is soon teleported out of here.

"Ahahaha! Good work! Four down, two to go," He grins at me, and I give him a weak smile in return. I feel sick. I feel conflicted, and I feel exhausted. Shadow's eyes are looking into mine and I have to look away and hold out the necklace with the jewel key on it to him.

"Here take it." I say almost breathlessly, "I do not want it." He shrugs takes it and I soon then feel disoriented as we're almost immediately teleported back to the Dark World.

"Just wait 'til Vaati hears about this Vio. I'm sure he'll trust you again in no time. …I trust you, you know that right?" He's about ready to walk out of my door. He doesn't turn around, but he has stopped and the silence feels like it's strangling me.

I choke out a quiet Yeah, and he leaves the room to go tell Vaati the good news.

I feel absolutely sick to my stomach. I don't attend to dinner this night either because I'm just too exhausted to even get out of bed which I plopped down on as soon as Shadow left. I just lay there in hopes of forgetting today's past events of tricking a shrine maiden, nearly getting eaten by re-dead, killing a Darknut, and giving the enemy a jewel key.

Like I said earlier.

I probably won't be getting very much sleep these next couple of days…

One of the most fun chapters I've written yet x'D

R&R~